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TRUST THY SOUL TO GOD. 
Be true unto thy soul's conviction, 
lu and out of season ;— 
Through high success or low affliction 
Never bend to treason. 
The cloud that low'rs this instant o'er thee 
Soon may burst in splendor .; 
'rhea quail not ! Truth's bright star's before thee— 
God is thy defender 
!leaven reliant. 
World defiant, 
Onward, brother, to the gnat ;— 
Sneers may meet thee, 
Cheers may greet thee— 
Iiteding neither—trust thy soul. 
Ne'er through weak pride, or Weaker terror, 
Swint in wrong persistent, 
If conscience tells thee thou'rt in error, 
Scorn not to he consistent. 
. That man's a slave who'd basely barter 
Mind for the world's opinion ; 
Far better die to truth a martyr, 
Than live, and be falsehood's minion. 
Heaven reliant, 
World defiant, 
On, then, brother, to the goal ; 
Sneers may weer thee, 
Cheers may_ greet thee, 
Heeding neither—Trust tin soul. 
 .111=121111ZEIZZIMI4 
Travels in the East. 
BV DR• J. V. C. SMITH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
CONSTANTINOPLE—VISIT TO THE SERAGLIO—ST. 
SOPHIA—THE MINT, &C. 
After my former letters from Constantinople 
were written, a firman was procured from one 
of the Cabinet ministers, at the solicitation of 
the acting Ambassador of the United States, Mr. 
Marsh being absent, which gave myself, and a 
party formed tor the purpose, an entranee into 
various places held to be exceedingly sacred by 
the Turks. 
The first was the Seraglio—the oldest and 
most extensive royal residence in Constantinople, 
famed in the history of this turbulent, ignorant 
race of men, as the scene of momentous events. 
Then the Armory, St. Sophia, the Mint, the 
Mosque of Ahmed, the Mausoleum of Sultan 
Mahmoud, and some other famed enclosures.—
It is so difficult to gain access to the interior of 
these places, that some have resided many years 
here, without having seen them. The Rev. Mr. 
Holmes and the Rev. Mr. Goodale, American 
missionaries, were particularly attentive to us. 
The cost of the document of admittance was 
rising of thirty dollars. 
The Seraglio is a cluster of buildings, of va-
rious dimensions, grouped together according to 
the taste of the different sovereigns who have 
occupied it. Some of the apartments are ex-
ceedingly spacious, and gilded in the richest 
designs. Marble enters largely into the finish 
of them all. Still, there is a kind of barbaric 
air of magnificence about them. Voluptuousness 
is the point to be attained—and the success 
seems to have been complete. Such bath-rooms, 
such fountains in the centre of apartments, with 
all imaginable affixes for the ease of the occu-
pants, can nowhere else be found. The picture 
gallery has one single long row of French en-
gravings, illustrative of Napoleon's successes, 
with a few ships, and some trifling drawings.—
One bedstead, only, was seen in the chain of 
palaces—and that was about ten feet wide, 
by fifteen long ! The royal book cases, two in 
number, one being for transportation from room 
to room, had but few books. The largest case 
may have contained sixty copies of the Koran, 
of various sizes, and in various bindings. The 
small one had as many more books, small and 
thin, but glittering with gold, and were poems 
of the most frivolous description, said the guide, 
who could read the titles. In the yard there is 
a small square building, standing alone, called 
the royal library, in which there may be a thou- 
sand volumes—nearly all Korans, and all writ-
ten with a pen. In the upper division of the 
Seraglio grounds, are the old palaces of the first 
Sultans, Fantastic-looking things they are, 
with latticed windows, and wide projecting eaves 
—all covered over with devices in pearl, stone, 
and precious woods, inlaid in indescribable con-
fusion. One of them is approached through a 
succession of lofty gates—the last being the 
Sublime Porte, which gives a name to the Court. 
Within a small apartment, strongly guarded by 
barred windows, is the throne, something in the 
form of a high-post bedstead. It is not far from 
ten feet square—occupying one corner of the 
room. The posts and tester are covered with 
gems of various kinds, presumed to be of incal- 
culable value. On the platform are thrown 
cushions. No taste was perceived in the gar-
dens ; the walks were stiff, narrow, and unin-
viting. No rare plants were discoverable; the 
hot-house contained mostly orange and lemon 
trees in pots. Equally devoid of taste were the 
fountains. 
St. Sophia, in many of its aspects and style 
of finish, mosaics, gildings, &c., reminded me 
of St. Mark at Venice. Some of the columns 
—lour certainly—are of porphyry, hooped with 
iron to keep the fractured bits together. A lit-
tle forest of serpentine pillars, and of other ma-
terials brought from the ruins of various temples 
when this was commenced, look rather out of 
place. The arches are amazingly irregular—
no two being of the same curve. The dome is 
certainly settling on one side, giving it the ap-
pearance of being flattened. Tne galleries, with 
their wide, long marble slabs for flooring, the 
massiveness of the outer walls, and the singu-
larity of the architecture, combine to make one 
say he is glad to have seen this boasted temple, 
the pride of Turkey. I heard a discourse in St. 
Sophia—the preacher being in a squatting posi-
tion on a cushion in the pulpit, and the audience 
were squatting in front of him on the floor. As 
soon as he finished the discourse, he came down 
and sat upon the floor himself, spread a pocket-
handkerchief and received the contributions of 
those who were disposed to give him something. 
The floor was covered with Turkey carpets, 
laid askew—to direct the pious towards Mecca. 
Numerous chandeliers were suspended by iron 
rods from the dome. In all the metropolitan 
mosques I have visited, there are invariably two 
monster candles, opposite the entrance. In St. 
Sophia they are over a foot in diameter, and 
twelve feet high. To light them the servant 
ascends a ladder placed against the wall. 
The Mosque of Ahmed is, in my estimation, 
altogether superior to St. Sophia. It is unique. 
Its immense dome is upheld by four gigantic 
marble columns, eighteen feet in diameter. The 
Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed contained the 
sarcophagi of three sultans, twenty princes, and 
some few females of their households. Over 
the head of each box was the turban of each in-
dividual. To understand the magnificence of 
these royal cemeteries, one must see them. In 
a cupboard there were the girdles worn by each, 
in his life time, covered with jewels of surpass-
ing brilliancy. They are the State jewels, like 
those of the English sovereigns in the Tower of 
London and Edinburgh Castle. Of all these 
cemeteries, however, that of the late Sultan, al-
ready referred to, is the ne plus ultra of splen-
dor. His grave is covered by a box shaped like 
the roof of a house, rather elevated at the head, 
covered. by the costliest kinds of Cashmere 
shawls, thrown over it carelessly. The turban 
has a waving plume, with a perfect gush of 
diamonds in front, and the whole defended by 
a railing elaborately ornamented with pearl.—
Exterior to that, are colossal gilt candlesticks 
and candles, braced to a perpendicular by chaced 
silver chains made fast to pillars. Two of his 
daughters and some others of his family are ly-
ing near. All the graves of Sultans, even of a 
remote period, are indicated by similar sarcopha-
gi, over which are plumed turbans of elegant 
patterns, and splendidly ornamented with gems 
of great price. In one of the galleries of the 
Mosque of Ahmed, there were as many as two 
cartloads of boxes, chests, and trunks of all sizes 
and patterns, the property of individuals, and 
filled with their treasures. They are regarded 
as such sacred deposits, that however long they 
may remain, no depredations are ever known to 
be made upon them. The owners go and add 
to the contents, or take away, ab libitum. In 
two hundred years a lock would not be disturbed 
by any one but the lawful owner, or representa-
tive of the one who placed it there. There is 
no parallel to the honesty of these people in 
some respects, or their dishonesty in others.—
They will cheat each other in trade, by false 
entries, alterations of records, and by frauds 
on government, but starve in a gutter before 
they would abstract a para from a trunk laid on 
the floor of a mosque, if it contained millions, 
and the theft could never he known. 
Answers to Prayer. 
In the government of the world, God is the 
Judge of what is rightNin itself. He is the 
Judge of what is proper for us. He does not 
delegate to man the.power of controlling the af-
fairs of the universe. What man wishes—
what man strives to do, is not necessarily ac-
complished. And in those few instances in 
which the designs of man are fulfilled, God 
overrules them, makes them subserve His own 
purposes, and even out of evil brings good.—
The betrayal and crucifixion of our Divine Lord 
is a case which illustrates this principle. 
Inasmuch as we are not the sovereigns of the 
universe—are not the infallible judges of what 
is right—are not gifted with the power of fore-
seeing what shall be the result in all its bear-
ings of events which we wish to see accom-
plished, it were folly to suppose that God would 
grant to us every desire. of our hearts. Expe-
rience is constantly teaching us the lesson of 
our short-sightedness. What to beings of our 
capacities would seem the greatest wisdom, is 
often in the end proved to be the height of folly. 
In short, that God should grant every request 
we might see fit to make, would be to surren-
der the ordering of all things in earth and 
heaven to weak and frail mortals, who, where 
true wisdom is concerned, scarce know the right 
hand from the left. It is a blessing that God 
will hear and answer our prayers. It is a bless-
ing equally great that He does not give an 
unconditional promise to grant whatever we 
desire. 
There are, there must be, certain conditions 
to the promise to answer our prayers—condi-
tions arising from the very nature of the rela-
tionship which we sustain to God. Thus, to 
guaranty to any and every person an answer 
to whatever petition he might choose to offer, 
would be to grant to the ungodly, a Divine com-
mission to accomplish his unholy designs.—
Hence one condition to the promise—the an-
swering of prayer is limited to faith. But then 
were the promise to answer the prayer of faith 
unconditional, what confusion must arise !—
What would seem desirable to one would be 
the aversion of another; and conflicting prayers 
could not be answered. And inasmuch as God 
fully knows and understands the nature of our 
wants and the way to relieve them—as we are 
best cared for when God cares for us—as often-
times to grant the desires of our hearts would 
bring upon us the sorest trials, this condition is 
annexed to answering the prayer of faith—that 
it be in accordance with God's will. "This 
is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask 
anything according to His will, He heareth us." 
The skeptic often sneeringly asks if we in• 
deed believe that our prayers can avail any-
thing with God—that the simple expression of 
a desire, however fervent, can change aught in 
the purposes of the Immutable One—that be 
ings so far removed from the Almighty in the 
scale of existence, can cause Him to order one 
event differently from what His providence long 
ago decreed ? Or he appeals to our own expe-
rience, and asks if we can be assured that any 
benefits received, any calamity escaped, has been 
in answer to prayer ; and shows us how the 
unjust man, equally with the righteous, is pros-
pered without recourse to petitioning the throne 
of grace. 
Now such objections are readily answered. 
God does not set aside any determined purpose 
He may have, to answer prayer, for one deter-
mined purpose of His, is to make certain bene-
fits dependent upon asking. That He is so far 
above us is no argument that He will not hear, 
for even they who deny the truth of the Bible, 
acknowledge a Creator and Governor of all 
things—and if He condescends to bring into 
being and sustain the tiny insect, surely it is 
not derogatory to his greatness to minister to 
the wants of the noblest work of His hands. 
And that they who never pray are prospered. is 
because He has not made the favors they receive 
exclusively dependent upon asking theta ; but 
makes them then only blessings when sent in 
answer to prayer. That many prayers are of-
fered which meet with no return, is because 
they ask such things as are not in accordance 
with the will of Him who knows what is right 
and for our good, so that to answer them would 
be to punish the suppliant, perhaps to inflict an 
injury upon the race. 
Here then is the indispensable condition to 
the hearing and answering of prayer—that we 
ask such things as shall be in accordance with 
God's will ; for unless it be for the purpose of 
inflicting punishment, it is not to be supposed 
that God will grant what would be to our hurt, 
or to the injury of our fellow men, however 
fervently we, in our short-sightedness, might 
desire it. 
But from certain examples and promises con-
tained in Scripture, one might suppose that no 
regard was had to this condition. We read of 
wonderful things, even miracles, wrought in an-
swer to prayer But then those prayers, one 
and all, submitted the object of the petition 
wholly to the will of God, and only because 
they were in accordance with the Divine will 
were they answered. Inspired men did not ob-
tain every petition they asked. David, in an-
swer to whose prayers God often sent a blessing, 
prayed in vain for the life of his child, though 
he besought with fasting and tears. 
But Christ gave to His disciples a promise, 
" whatsoever ye shall ask in my name believing 
ye shall receive—and if ye shall say unto this 
mountain, be thou plucked up and cast into the 
yea, it shall he done unto you." Any acting 
upon this assurance, we read that miracles were 
wrought in answer to their prayers. But then 
another fact deserves attention—we find thmt 
those very ones in answer to whose prayers the 
sick were healed, were themselves exposed to 
disease, and no miracles were wrought to heal 
them. No miracle was wrought to save Paul 
and Priscilla, and Aquilla from laboring to earn 
their daily bread, though to do so they must 
employ time which otherwise might have been 
spent in preaching the Gospel. Now there is 
something to be learned from these two facts. 
If nothing is done upon earth but by the Divine 
pertnissioo, if no prayer is answered which does 
not ask that which is in accordance with the 
Divine will, then it was on account of some 
special purpose in the order of Divine Provi-
dence, that miracles were wrought in the one 
case, because of some design to us unknown 
that they were not wrought in the other. True, 
in the cases where miracles were not wrought, 
prayers were not offered. 
But it must be re-
membered that they who were thus made the 
instruments of the wonderful exhibition of the 
power of the Almighty were inspired men—on 
them the Holy Spirit poured out extraordinary 
gifts and graces—not unfrequently were they 
enabled to foretell future events. Is it unrea-
sonable to suppose that to them was also given 
to some extent an insight into the counsels of 
the Divine will? On this supposition alone 
can we account for the fact, that in every. case 
in which a miracle was prayed for it was grant-
ed, that in many cases, where to all human ap-
pearance a miracle was desirable, if not neces-
sary, no supernatural interference was granted, 
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it be thought a thing incredible that he should to return light and peace, civilization and Chris- fully bow. With his government they are sat- 
raise the dead ? 
tianity on the eighty millions of African tribes. isfied. In his laws they delight. But they 
Look again at some dark, soft, smutty piece How great a matter a little fire kindleth! stand related to God, not only as subjects to 
of charcoal. and then at some beautiful, polished " Another instance. In August, 1799, a their chosen king, but as children to the best 
diamond. How unlike are the two. The one French artillery officer, named Bouchard, when of Fathers. God may say to his prophets, " Corn-
is perfectly dark and opaque, the other perfectly digging near Rosetta, in Egypt, for the founda- fort ye my people, for my people are my own 
transparent. The one is so soft that you can tion of a military work, came upon a huge block begetting ; therefore speak ye comfortably un-
crumble it in Your fingers; the other is the of Basalt, marked with various strange charac- to them." 
hardest substance known. Can you select two ters and hieroglyphics. These characters were 2. By the assurance that all things are 
things more unlike than the charcoal and the found to exhibit three inscriptions, in three dif- working for their spiritual and eternal good.. 
diamond ? Yet the two are exactly the same ferent characters, one of which proved to be Prosperity and adversity, sickness and health, 
substance; the only difference is, their particles Greek. This was the celebrated Rosetta stone, mercies and afflictions, riches and poverty, 
are differently arranged. The one could be now in the British Museum, which has been the storms and calms, clouds and sunshine, all, all 
transformed into the other if we only knew how subject of diligent investigation by learned anti- are means to promote their purification from 
to do it. Why may not God then, who knows quarians of every nation in Europe ; and this sin, and to render them fit to be partakers of 
how to do all things, change our vile bodies, stone, under the ingenious labors of Young and the glorious employments and bliss of the up-
that they may be like Christ's glorious body ? Champollion, yielded by a comparison of the per world. Even in those providential events, 
Will the change he apparently greater than that characters found in the different instructions, a which seem to be very much against them, it 
of the smutty substance you find on the hearth, key to unlock the treasures of ancient wisdom, is their blessed privilege to know that 
into the brilliant gem that adorns your person ? shut up for so many centuries, under the hiero- " Behind a frowning providence 
These analogies might be extended much far- glyphics of Egypt. 
God hides a smiling face." 
ther, but this is enough: Chemical science pre- The discovery of a small obelisk on the isle 
cents us with a thousand changes quite as of Philoe, in the Nile, in 1816, by Cailaud, the They may remember that " whom the Lord 
strange and unlooked for, till experiments taught French traveller, on which was a Greek inscrip- loveth he chasteneth," and that he does it " for 
the facts, as the transforming of our diseased, tion containing the names of Ptolemy and Cleo- our profit, that we may be partakers of his holi-
crumbling bodies into a spiritual, glorious, and patra, greatly aided Champollion in unraveling ness." They are permitted to say, " For our 
incorruptible form. If materials of the perish- the mystery. Thus, as the result of the seem-- light afflictions, which are but for a moment, 
ing charcoal will make the imperishable dia- ingly trivial event of finding an old broken stone work out for us a far more exceeding and eter-
mond, by only a new arrangement of particles, at Rosetta, and a little obelisk, years afterwards, nal weight of glory." How comforting for God's 
by which the dark opacity of the one shall give at Philoe, the industry of antiquarians was set ,
universal government, and that He " 
people
work- 
to know that their Father is at the helm 
place to the brilliant transparency of the other; to work, and that industry has been crowned of 
if the particles of the dark, offensive substance with astonishing success. 
eth all things after the counsel of his own will." 
in the soil, make the beautiful and fragrant The inscriptions found on the decaying monu- 3. By the assurance " that he who hath begun 
flower, only by a change of relation to each merits, and on the frail papyri of Egypt, are a good work in them, will perform it until the 
 
" 
other, why may not the same atoms which form now quite intelligible ; the ancient records of day of Jesus Christ. Though Satan may be 
 
our present bodies, form our spiritual ones, by Egyptian dynasties are rapidly opening to the permitted for their good and God's glory, to 
some similar change in position, so that there inspection of all men. Thence, the infidel is vex and worry them, yet they know full well 
revail against them. They hear 
" Why should it be thought a thing incredible shall be literally a resurrection, which implies drawing largely his material for renewed assault that he cannot p 
with you, that God should raise the dead."—Acts
their Shepherd say, " My sheep hear my voice, 
the rising of the same body, and not a new crew- on the records of revelation ; and the Christian 
26:8.
and I know them, and they follow me ; and I 
tion ? However this may be, these facts, and is patiently awaiting the issue of a finished dis- 
The doctrine that the human body will, at 
give unto them eternal life, and they shall never 
others of a similar nature, plainly show, that to covert/ among these old monuments, perfectly 
some future time after its decomposition in the 
perish." They hear him addressing the Father 
one who observes the operations of God's hand confident that the truth of human records, once 
grave or elsewhere, be restored to life, occupiedin nature, it is not a thing incredible, or without fully made out, will fall naturally and inevitably thus, " Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also 
again by the soul that left it, a doctrine so fully analogy, that God should raise the dead. into the train of the handmaids and supporters may glorify thee : as thou hast given him power 
taught in the Bible, is thought by many to be 
Puritan Recorder. of revelation. 
overall flesh, that he should give eternal life to 
a thing incredible. And the incredibility of 
" Little did the French artillery officer dream, as many as thou hast given him." And again 
it arises, at least in the minds of many, from its 
when the men, working under his direction, first they hear him saying,—" All that the Father 
marvellous nature. It seems to them impossi- Importance of Little Things. heaved up that dark and mutilated block near giveth me, shall come to me ; and him that 
ble that a change so wonderful should take "It was a mere trifle th,at prevented Oliver Rosetta—that around that old stone, and over cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."— 
place, as the collection of the scattered materi- Cromwell and several others who afterwards dis- its mutilated inscriptions, the friends and ene- God's people may be persuaded that nothing 
als of the body, and the changing of them, so tinguished themselves as his associates, from mies of the ancient Jewish Scriptures would " shall be able to separate them front the love 
that they shall compose a spiritual and an in- 
 
 
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." 
emigrating to the colonies of the new world rally for a long and arduous, and possibly a 
corruptible body. But why should the doctrine sometime before the first steps were taken in that final conflict, as to the truth of revealed religion. How comforting is such a well-grounded assur- 
be doubted ? Is it a thing impossible? Can- 
 
 
How great a matter a little fire kindleth. ance of being kept by the power of God, through 
revolution which cost the monarch of England 
not. God find and collect and change those parti- 
 
 
" And often it is seen that some unlooked faith, unto salvation." 
his head, expatriated his family, and elevated 
sins as he pleases,and as he has said he will ? 
 
 
4. By the anticipation of being perfectly 
Cromwell to the seat of highest authority in the for, and seemingly trivial event, baffles the fore- 
If I mistake not, the great Maker of our boll- 
holy and happy in the future world. In looking 
nation. Cromwell and his friends had engaged sight of men, frustrates their plans, and defeats 
ins exhibits to us something in his natural works 
forward to the time of their departure from this 
their passage to America, and were only await- their most important enterprises. A sudden world, they often sing 
strikingly analogous to the resurrection of the ing the signal to embark, when by some caprice tempest will sometimes scatter and destroy a 
body, and illustrative of it ; and thereby shows
" 0 Glorious hour! 0 blest abode ! 
of the court, they were prohibited from leaving numerous and well-appointed fleet. The fate 
that it is not a thing incredible that he should
I shall be near and like my God ; 
the country. Had any accident occurred to de- of a battle on which are hanging the destinies 
lay the order of the court, until after they should of empires, will sometimes bedecided by a thick 
The sacred pleasures of the soul." 
raise the dead. Look at some grub, or cater-
And flesh and sin no more control 
pillar, as it creeps upon the earth. Who would have commenced their voyage to the American mist, a driving storm, or by a random shot 
suspect, had he not seen or heard of the fact,
They are ready to say, " We know that if our 
colonies, who can tell how different might have which cuts down an experienced leader, and 
that that crawling insect would at length go in-earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, 
proved the course of events, and how different spreads a resistless panic through the whole 
to a state strongly resembling death, and thenmight have been the aspect of affairs over all army. 
we have a building of God, a house riot made 
Europe at the present 
at a given time come forth a beautiful, gorgeous 
hour. It is far from im- 
" In private life, also, results of great magnt . with hands, eternal in the heavens." In the 
butterfly ? You see nothing in that worm, in
body they groan, being burdened with sin. On 
probable that the destiny of the English nation tulle follow from causes apparently insignificant. 
its nature or formation, that indicates a change
this account they would not wish to live here 
and of Europe, hung upon that single event, The flight of a bird, the fall of an acorn from 
into so beautiful a winged animal ; yet it is
always ; but they anticipate infinite satisfaction 
the arrival or non-arrival of the court courier the tree, the course taken by a flash of lightning, 
thus changed. For a while it creeps upon the
in being free from sin, and in uniting with all 
before the change of wind to favor Cromwell's or the singing of a teakettle over a fire, may give 
earth, lives in the dust, a loathsome thing, at
the redeemed, in celebrating the praises of God 
embarkation. The life of a monarch and the birth to a train of thought in the mind of some 
whose touch you shudder ; it then is shrouded destinies of a proud nation hung upon the speed quiet observer, that shall lead to conclusions and the Lamb forever and ever. 
in its silken winding sheet, in an apparent state of a horse. 
little anticipated, elicit new discoveries in science, Thus we see that God's people need not be 
 
of death, without food and without motion.— 
 
 
comfortless. Their springs of comfort are inex- 
" Another striking illustration of the influence and open the way for improvements in art. 
But at the appointed time, it bursts open its
haustible. No wonder an inspired apostle di- 
of little things is found in the history of the " Again, the accidental meeting of two entire 
coffin lids, comes forth into new life, spreads its
rects them to "rejoice in the Lord always."— 
negro race. The celebrated Bartholomew de strangers, may lead to an acquaintanceship that 
veriegated wings, and mounts upwards as it 
 
 
Cheer up, then, Christian pilgrim; and pre,s on- 
las Casts, a Spanish prelate, who accompanied shall ripen into friendship strong and enduring 
mav please. How different is the latter state 
ward towards the mark of your high calling. 
Columbus in his second voyage to Hispaniola, —throw an entirely new aspect over the erno- 
of that insect from the former. Then it was and on the conquest of Cuba settled there, tions, the sentiments, the pursuits and character " Haste thee on from graee to glory, 
 
confined to the earth; now it soars as it may moved by compassion for the suffering of the of both, and send its influence, healthful or Armed by faith, and winged by prayer; 
 
choose. Then it fed on dust ; now it sips the
Heaven's eternal days' before thee, 
native Indians, who were worked as slaves in cheering or the reverse, over the whole life ; aye, 
nectar from the smiling flowers of the field.— the mines by the Spaniards, conceived the idea and over the immortal interests of both—possi- God's own hand shall guide thee there." 
Then it was an object you would loathe ; now of sparing this feeble race, that were fast pass- bly, even of others with them. Many a well- 
N. Y. Evangelist• 
you delight in viewing its various tints, and ing away, by substituting negroes, a much more disposed youth has been led, by the influence of 
seeing with what freedom it floats in the breeze. athletic race, and that they were to be obtained a cherished companion, into scenes of gaity and Feeling after God. 
 
Could we well have presented to us anythingfrom the Portuguse settlements on the coast of pleasure, of dissipation and vice. His mind has 
— 
 
more nearly resembling the death of the human Africa. After petitioning to the Spani,h gov. been poisoned, his principles perverted, his char- The following relation of a heathen's experi- 
body, its lying for a season in the grave, and ernment successively under Fardinand the re- acter degraded, while others, by the kind coup- ence before he came to the knowledge of the 
then coming forth a new and glorious form, nogent Cardinal Ximenes, and then Charles V cil, the cheering influence, and the gentle force truth, not only presents the darkness of a hea- 
. 
longer confined to the surface of the earth, but he succeeded. In 1503 a few negro slaves had of consistent example in a faithful friend, have then mind in an affecting light, but it shows 
 
gliding away in the ethereal regions to rejoicebeen sent into St. Domingo, and afterward Fer- 
 
man's
been strengthened in virtue, habituated to what 
 absolute need of a revelation. It was ad- 
in the glories of God. If the Creator is so con-dinand allowed the importation of large num- is good and honorable, and humbled even to dressed by Sekesa, a Bechuana, to a missionary 
stantly working these changes before our view,
The 
hers.labor of one negro was found equal seek to obtain the pearl of great price. ' He that from whom he had been hearing the Gospel. 
to that of four Indians. Xirnertes discouraged 
why should it be thought a thing incredible with 
walketh with the wise men shall be wise, but a "Your views, 0 white man, are just what I 
us that he should raise the dead ?
the traffic ; Charles V. revived it, and conferred companion of fools shall be destroyed.' And it wanted and sought for before I knew you.— 
Look at some offensive decaying mass as itas a monopoly, 
privilege, 
the 
 
is often the merest accident, apparently, which Twelve years ago, I went, in a cloudy season, 
vorite, 
lies in the field. You see nothing in that coy- 
on a Flemish fa- 
merest
determines whether a youth shall be the corn- to feed my flock along the 'Poise, among the 
oese merchants, who reduced 
rapt matter that resembles the beautiful flower. 1518, the right was sold to some Gen- 
the traffic to a re- 
m 
pinion of wise en or fools—whether he shall Malutis. Seated upon a rock, in sight of my 
Who, from its form, or its odors, or its colors, 
 
 
be honorable and good, or base and worthless— sheep, I asked myself sad questions—yes, sad, 
gular system. The French obtained it next, and 
would predict the shape, and the fragrance, and 
 
 
because I could not answer them. The stars, 
retained it till it had yielded them a revenue of whether he shall be saved or lost forever." 
the tints of the rose and the lily ? Is there a 
.,® 
 said I—who touched them with his hand ? on 
t springs ? Are they not as unlike as two 
Comfort ye my People. weary 
Comm. 
weary ; they run without ceasing, at night and 
two hundred and four millions of dollars. In 
thing in the plant resembling that from which 
— 
 
what pillars do they rest ? The waters are not 
1'713, the English secured it for thirty years.— 
For the last four of these years years, Spain per- 
 can be ? and yet are they not composed chased the English right for $500,000. 
morning alike ; but where do they stop? or 
of nearly the same materials, the one remod- 
God's people may be comforted :-1. By a 
 
" Thus, through the mistaken benevolence of 
who makes them run thus? The clouds also 
eled into the other? It is true, a part of the 
consideration of their relationship to God.— 
a Spanish priest, a measure was set on foot, 
go, return, and fall in water to the earth.— 
plant comes from the atmosphere; yet that part
They are his people. The great adversary 
which the cupidity of Christian Europe turned 
Whence do they arise ? Who sends them ? It 
into a system of fearful cruelty, a system, by the 
his : but he does not surely is not the Barokas (rain-makers,) who 
can be obtained from the unseemly mass; and 
claims all the world as 
we know not what other substance may be 
claim Christians. He knows that they belong 
operation of which the commerce of the world, 
gave us the rain,. for how could they make it ? 
combined with our present bodies when they 
to another sovereign—that they have come 
and the aspect of all civilized society has been 
The wind—what is it ? Who brings it, or takes 
shall be changed into glorious ones. If then,. 
likely, in God's out from the world, and renounced the authori- 
affected, A system which seems ikely, 
it away, makes it blow, and roar, and frighten 
God so often changes the loathsome mass into
ty of its prince. Christians are the subjects ,is ? Do I know how the corn grows ? Yes- 
the beautiful nectariferous flower, why should overruling providence, to convulse one of the ' of God's kingdom. To his commands they cheer-terday, there was not a blade to be seen in my 
mightiest nations on the globe, and eventually 
cause they knew when and under what circum-
stances it would be pleasing to God to have the 
course of nature set aside. 
Were we inspired, were we enabled to dis-
cern what, under any circumstances, would be 
pleasing to God, then might we be assured that 
whatever we asked we should most certainly 
obtain. But now, as we are not inspired, as we 
know not what shall in all cases be according 
to the Divine will, we cart only pray, and pray 
in faith, and our confidence is this, that what 
we ask will be granted, provided it be according 
to God's will. And who is he that trusts in 
God—who that believes that God knows what 
is good in itself and proper for us—would wish 
to have any prayer answered which was not in 
accordance with the Divine will ? And if a 
prayer were to be answered which asked that 
which is contrary to God's will, this would be 
placing man higher than his Maker. But we 
may rest assured of this—in no case does God 
surrender His sovereignty into the hands of 
men. In no case is aught in earth or heaven 
to be accomplished which He does not permit. 
The privilege of offering prayer is not given 
with the design of making man the judge of 
what is right and expedient. Nay, here is a 
principle which runs through the whole of re-
ligion—submission to the will of God. The 
desire that His will may be accomplished in 
preference to our own, is the indispensable con-
dition to acceptable prayer. 
Gospel Mess. and Church Rec. 
Analogy of Nature and the Resur- 
rection, 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
187 
field. To-day, I return and find something.—
It is very small ; I can scarcely see it, but it 
will grow up like to a young man. Who can 
have given the ground wisdom and power to 
produce it ? 
Then I buried my forehead in my 
hands. 
Again, I thought within myself, and 
said, we all depart, but this country remains, it 
alone remains, for we all go away. But whith-
er do we go ? My heart answered, perhaps 
other men live besides us, and we shall go to 
them. A second time it said, perhaps those 
men live under the earth, and we shall go to 
them. But another thought arose against it, 
and said, those men under the earth—whence 
come they ? 
Then my heart did not know what 
more to think. It wandered. Then my heart 
rose and spoke to me, saying, all men do much 
evil, and thou, thou also hast done much evil. 
Woe to thee. I recalled many wrongs which 
I had done to others, and because of them my 
conscience gnawed me in secret, as I sat alone 
on the rock. I say, I was afraid, I got up, and 
ran after my sheep, trying to enliven myself ; 
buil trembled much !" 
N. Y. Observer. 
The Trial of Antichrist. 
(Continued from our taut ) 
The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held 
at the Sessions House of Truth ; in order to 
the Trial of Antichrist, for High Treason 
against His Most Sacred Majesty, King of 
Heaven and Earth. 
Calvin cross-examined by Counsellor Quibble. 
Q.—Do you think that the prisoner acted 
wrong when he put those to death who would 
not acknowledge his religion. 
A.—I certainly do. 
Q.—Did you not take an active part in the 
persecution of Servetus, and was you not acces-
sory to his death ? 
A.—I confess I did ; and I then attempted 
to justify the act. This was one of the awful 
effects of being educated under the prisoner. I 
learnt this doctrine at Rome, and it made too 
deep an impression upon my mind, which was 
too much beclouded with Popish error. I knew 
not what spirit I was of.— It was too much the 
prevailing opinion of all parties at that time, 
that incorrigible heretics ought not to live ; and 
I was led astray. Servetus was certainly a 
violent enemy to the doctrines of the Trinity, 
and of the Deity and Atonement of Jesus 
Christ. His positions were singularly daring, 
and his language grossly indecent on the sub-
jects. I therefore thought that it might lead 
some to conclude that I gave encouragement to 
rebellion, though I rejected the usurped autho-
rity of the Pope of Rome, if I did riot give my 
sanction to his punishment.—But I was evi-
dently wrong. 
Peter Martyr of Naples, sworn. 
Q.—Did not the prisoner at the bar endeavor 
to introduce his office of Inquisition into the city 
of Naples ? 
A.—He did. After the Reformation began 
by Luther, it pleased the Lord to enable me and 
one Bernard Ochino to testify publicly against 
the enormity of the reigning superstition and 
the Papal yoke. A number of all ranks and 
orders now began to express their aversion to 
the prisoner's treasonable conduct ; and he, to 
put a stop to the progress of the Reformation, 
let loose upon these pretended heretics his 
bloody Inquisitors, who spread the mark of their 
usual barbarity through the greatest part of 
Italy. But the terrors of the Inquisition could 
never penetrate into the kingdom of Naples.—
Nor could either the authority or entreaties of 
the Roman Pontiff engage the Neapolitans to 
admit within their territories either a court of 
Inquisition, or even visiting Inquisitors. 
Augustine Casal, Preacher to Charles V., sworn. 
Q.—Did not you, and several others that 
were once connected with the prisoner at the 
bar, as priests, attend the Emperor Charles V.? 
A.—I did.. I was brought by Charles V. into 
Germany, to combat the pretended heresy of 
Luther; but I propagated on my return the very 
doctrines 1 set out to oppose. Several others 
also, who accompanied the Emperor, did the 
same, Constantine Pontius, his confessor, the 
' learned Egedius, whom: he had nominated to 
the bishopric of Tortosa, Bartholomew de Ca-
ranza, a Dominican, who had been confessor to 
King Philip, and cruel Queen Mary, with above 
twenty more. After this, Charles V. abdicated 
the throne, and retreated to spend the remain-
der of his days in retirement, in the year 1557. 
He evidently saw the folly of vindicating the 
prisoner's authority, and after he had withdrawn 
from the busy scenes of public life about two 
years he died, as was supposed, a Protestant. 
No sooner was the breath of this monarch gone, 
but I and the persons before noticed were put 
into the Inquisition, and all committed to the 
flames, or delivered over to death in other forms 
equally terrible to nature. 
Dennis Renix, Martyr in France, sworn. 
This witness said that he had lived at Melde, 
in France, for several years.—That he knew the 
prisoner well.—That he saw a number of Pro-
testants burnt and tortured. That one Jo de 
Roma, a monk, who was commissioned to ex-
amine Lutherans, among, other horrible means 
to torment them, he used to take the most plea-
sure in filling boots with boiling grease, aridput-
ting them on their legs, and tying them on the 
back on forms with their legs hanging over a 
small fire while he examined them. That among 
the multitudes that were burnt, was a bookseller 
for selling a Bible. That upon a complaint 
made to the council, that the judges suffered 
heretics to have their tongues, a decree was 
made that all who were burnt should have their 
tongues cut off unless they recanted at the fire ; 
which was afterwards strictly observed. That 
being himself a great enemy to the prisoner and 
his government, and having publicly testified 
against his mass, ne was taken by his orders in 
the year 1558, and chained to a stake to be burnt 
by a slow fire. And that the prisoner, then 
known by the name of Pope Paul IV., did sup-
pose that he was burnt to death. 
And deponent further said, that one John 
Clark, having written on paper that the prisoner 
was Antichrist, and his pardons treasonable, and 
having broken some images to pieces, was first 
whipt three days and burnt in the forehead.—
That afterwards at Mentz he was taken to the 
place of execution, where he was tortured in 
the most cruel manner. That his right hand 
was first cut off, then his nose was torn from 
his face with sharp pincers, and further dismem-
bered, while he stood at the stake to be burnt 
by order of the prisoner. 
Admiral Gasper de Coligny, who suffered in the 
Massacre of Paris, sworn. 
Q.—Was you at Paris on the eve of the 24th 
day of August, or St, Bartholomew's day, 1572? 
A.—I was. 
Q.—Was there not a dreadful massacre at 
Paris that night of many thousand Protestants, 
by order of the prisoner ? 
A.—There was. It is an event well known 
in history, and perhaps the blackest upon record. 
Q.—Will you relate to the court what took 
place on that night? 
A.—The Almighty having been pleased to 
cause the proclamation of his Gospel to be made 
in France, many were led to discover the 
usurped authority of the prisoner and acknowl-
edged our Sovereign Lord the King. When 
the prisoner, according to the tyrannical laws of 
his kingdom, caused a general slaughter to take 
place ; and almost in every town arid village 
were fires kindled, gibbets erected, and tortures 
prepared for such as presumed to call in question 
his being the Vicar of Christ and Prince of the 
Apostles. Previous to the reign of Charles IX. 
the prisoner had employed as hiscommon exe-
cutioners three kings of France; Francis I., 
Henry II., and Francis II., who were very active 
at this awful work. Charles was early trained 
to this shocking employment, and for cruelty, 
hypocrisy, bigotry, and every savage property, 
could scarcely be equalled by any of the inhabi-
tants of the infernal mansions. He was one of 
the prisoner's pets. 
In his reign, in addition to all the dreadful 
decrees against his peaceable Protestant sub-
jects, an edict was published in July, 1562, de-
claring it lawful to kill all the Huguenots wher-
ever any could be found. This decree was read 
publicly in every parish on every Lord's day, 
and innumerable multitudes were slain. 
Three civil wars succeeded each other. At 
last the court pretended to grant the Protestants 
a very advantageous peace in the year 1570, 
and a match was concluded between Henry, 
(afterwards the celebrated Henry IV.), the 
young King of Navarre, a Protestant, and the 
French king's sister. The heads of the Pro-
testants were invited to celebrate the nuptials 
at Paris, with the infernal view of butchering 
them all if possible in one night. The Queen 
of Navarre, who had visited Paris in order to 
be present at her son's marriage, was taken ill 
and died, as it was afterwards suspected, by 
being poisoned, she being supposed a heretic.—
A few days after I was wounded by a musket 
ball whilst walking the streets ; but such were 
the profession then made of the union and affec-
tion, that none suspected the design. Charles 
immediately visited me, and wept when he saw 
how I was wounded ; he expressed the greatest 
sorrow on my account; and vowed the greatest 
vengeance on the assassin. He offered me a 
part of his own guards, who, under the pretext 
of protecting me, were to admit at midnight the 
remainder into my chamber to murder me. 
Exactly at midnight on the eve of St. Bar-
tholomew, (so called) 1572, the alarm bell was 
rung in the Palais Royale, as the signal of 
death. About five hundred Protestant barons, 
knights, and gentlemen, who had come from all 
parts to honor the wedding, were among the 
rest barbarously butchered in their beds. The 
gentlemen, officers of the chamber, governors, 
tutors, and household servants of the King of 
Navarre, and Prince of Conde, were driven out 
of their chambers where they slept in the Lou-
vre, and being in the court, were massacred in 
the king's presence. The slaughter was now 
general throughout the city, and Thuanus 
writes, " that the very channels ran down with 
blood into the river " This was, however mag-
nified as a glorious action, and the king, who 
was one of the most active murderers, boasted 
that he had put 70,000 heretics to death. 
It is scarcely possible that it can even be 
supposed, that I can describe the horrors of that 
Sunday night. I might quote the words of a 
French author who wrote the history of France, 
from the reign of Henry II. to Henry IV., and 
say, " How strange and horrible a thing it was, 
in a great town to see at least 60,000 men with 
pistols, pikes, cutlasses, poniards, knives, and 
other bloody instruments, run swearing and 
blaspheming the sacred Majesty of God, through 
the streets and into houses, where most cruelly 
they massacred all whomsoever they met, with-
out regard of estate, condition, sex, or age.—
The streets paved with bodies, cut and hewed to 
pieces ; the gates and entries of houses, palaces, 
and public places dyed with blood. Shouting 
and hallooings of the murderers, mixed with 
continual noise of pistols and calivers dis-
charged ; the pitiful cries and shrieks of those 
that were being murdered. Slain bodies cast 
out of the windows upon the stones and drawn 
through the dirt. Strange noises of whistlings, 
breaking of doors and windows with bills and 
stones. The spoiling and sacking of houses.—
Carts, some carrying away the spoils, and 
others the dead bodies, which were thrown into 
the river Seine, all' now red with blood, which 
ran out of the town and from the king's palace." 
While the horrid scene was transacting many 
priests ran about the city with crucifixes in one 
hand and daggers in the other, to encourage the 
slaughter. 
A band of ruffians soon rushed into my cham-
ber, while 1 was upon my knees supplicating 
my King. Immediately they (did what they 
called) dispatched me, while the young Duke of 
Guise waited at the door in expectation of re-
ceiving my head to present it to the inhuman 
king and his brutal mother. To those who are 
unacquainted with the power of our King, my 
testimony may appear incredible when I affirm, 
that my head was really severed from my body, 
and after being presented to the king and his 
mother, she sent it embalmed to Rome, as a 
present to the prisoner and the Cardinal of Lor-
rain. Not satisfied with what they had done 
to me, they proceeded to deprive me of some of 
the members of my body, alter which 1 was 
dragged through the streets of the city for 
three days, and then hung up by my feet to a 
gibbet at Montfaucon. The general opinion now 
in France was that I was dead, and I am cer-
tain the prisoner had no idea of seeing me alive 
again. 
He now gave Charles IX. public thanks for 
his infernal work. He ordered the most solemn 
rejoicings at Rome. He sung Te Deum, and 
presumed to give the Almighty public thanks 
for this victory. He also issued forth a bull 
for a Jubilee to be observed throughout the 
kingdom of France on the 7th day of December, 
1572, as a peculiar day of great and unusual 
joy for what he called the happy success of the 
French king against his heretic or Protestant 
subjects. He also exhorted Charles to pursue 
this salutary and blessed enterprise, and fall 
upon them who called in question his usurped 
supremacy. This cruel slaughter brought on a 
fourth civil war. A fresh peace was concluded 
in the year 1573 with the Protestants ; yet a 
fifth war broke out on the next year, when 
Charles IX., stained with the blood of thousands 
of his subjects, which called for vengeance, was 
seized by order of our Sovereign, by one of his 
officers, named Mr. Death, and from that time 
has been detained a prisoner in the fiery cell 
under the charge of the keeper of the black gulf. 
He left no issue on earth. 
Cross-examined by Counsellor Quibble. 
Q.—You are the first man I ever heard speak 
after he lost his head ! 
A.—Although 1 may be the first man that 
you have heard speak after his head has been 
severed from his body ; I am not the first that 
has appeared a witness after being slain. John 
the beloved servant of our King declares, and 
this court knows it to be a fact, that those who 
were slain for the Word of God, and the tes-
timony which they held," not only spoke after, 
but spake with a loud voice, and applied to our 
Lord for judgment against their murderers, 
arid were graciously heard.—See Rev. 6 : 9-11. 
And he also testifies, that he saw on thrones 
such as were like me, really beheaded for the 
witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and 
which had not worshipped the beast, Antichrist, 
or his image (Rev. 20 : 4) ; and that they 
lived and reigned afterwards with our Sovereign 
King. For my own part I declare, that I have 
enjoyed more real life from the day I was be-
headed than ever I did before. 
Father Paul, sworn. 
Q.—As you wrote the history of the Council 
of Trent, will you relate to the court what you 
know of the prisoner, and some of the proceed-
ings of that rebellious assembly ? 
A.—The Council of Trent was first sum- 
moned by the prisoner under the name of Paul 
III. It first met on the 13th of December, 1545, 
and continued about eighteen years. Previous 
to the opening of it, the prisoner proclaimed a 
jubilee at Rome, promising pardon of all sins, 
to all who prayed for the Council, confessed 
their sins, went in procession, and fasted three 
days. The Council was opened by the Legate 
Monte, who sung the mass of the Holy Ghost. 
Previous to the meeting of this Council, the 
prisoner, by his base conduct, had caused many 
in Germany and other parts of Europe to reject 
his authority. By the name of Urban II., about 
the year 1100, he first set up the money-mak-
ing trade of vending indulgences, and by the 
name of Leo X. in 1517, he acquired immense 
sums from all Europe: Leo, however, divided 
the profits with his sister Magdalene, the wife 
of Cibo, bastard of Innocent VIII., by reason of 
which Leo was made a 'cardinal when he was 
only fourteen years old. Leo gave his sister 
all the profit arising from indulgences in Saxo-
ny and a part of Germany, and she set them up 
to sale to the highest bidder. The pardon-mon-
gers collected immense sums Irons every nation 
they were sent to, as appears by one Friar Sarn-
som, who collected 120,000 crowns among the 
Swiss only. 
The prisoner having changed his name to 
Adrian VI., in the year 1522, and to that of 
Clement VII., in 1524, and to Paul III., in 1534, 
he created his illegitimate son, Peter Aloisius, 
Duke of Parma and Placentia, and a son of his, 
a cardinal, at the age of fourteen. A son of his 
illegitimate daughter Constanza was also made 
another ; and his conduct was such that he was 
detested by every honest man. His bastard 
Peter was assassinated in his own palace two 
years after. In the year 1549 he gave up the 
name of Paul III. in a violent fit of passion, and 
assumed that of Julius III., when he sent Car-
dinal Pole as his Legate into England, to res-
tore Great Britain to his authority, bloody Queen 
Mary having ascended the throne. This dar-
ling of the prisoner within one year burnt 176 
persons of quality, and others who rejected his 
authority. To please him, she also dug up bod-
ies out of their graves after being buried four 
years. Many also were burnt in France, by 
the prisoner's orders. He commissioned the 
king to grant to Diana Valentina, his mistress, 
all the goods confiscated for heresy ; this cove-
tous harlot required the death of multitudes to 
support her in her abominations as a true 
daughter of the Church.—(To be continued.) 
watchfulness. 
Keep all the day as diligent a watch as thou 
canst over all thy thoughts, words, and actions, 
which thou mayst easily do, by craving the as-
sistance of God's Holy Spirit. Be careful to 
suppress every sin in the first instance; dash 
Babylon's children, whilst they are young, 
against the stones ; tread betimes a cockatrice's 
egg, lest it break out into a serpent; let sin be 
to thy heart a stranger, not a home-dweller; 
take heed of falling oft into the same sin, lest 
the custom of sinning take away the conscience 
of sin, and then shalt thorn wax so impudently 
wicked, that thou wilt neither fear God nor rev-
erence man ... Think of the world's vanity, 
to condemn it; of death, to expect it; of judg-
ment, to avoid it; of hell, to escape it; and of 
heaven, to desire it. Desire not to fulfil thy 
mind in all things; but learn to deny thyself 
those desires, though never so pleasing to thy 
nature, which being attained, will bring either 
scandal on thy religion, or hatred to thy person. 
Consider in every thing the end, before attempt-
ing the action. Labor daily more and more to 
see thine own misery through unbelief, self-love, 
and wilful breaches of God's law, and the ne-
cessity of God's mercy through the merits of 
Christ's passion.... If thou wast asked what 
thou esteemest to be the most precious thing in 
the world, answer, " One drop of Christ's 
blood to wash away my sins." As thou tender-
est the salvation of thy soul, live not in any 
wilful sin.. .. Count Christ thy chiefest
Lllle
ayjory., 
and sin thy greatest grief. 
GOD'S JUDGMENT AND MAN'S JUDGMENT.— 
Comparing ourselves with others, we may have 
kept our places inn all the proprieties of life, and 
neither in act or intention given any legitimate 
ground for reproach to be cast upon us. In the 
eye of man we may be blameless and praise-
worthy; but what shall we think of that ordeal, 
when our secret sins are placed in the light of 
God's countenance ; and how shall we be pre-
pared to meet it, but by examining our spiritual 
condition, not by the fitful glare of man's opin-
ion, but by the enduring light of God's most ho- 
ly word. 
Brown. 
A Father's Prayer. 
The following is a touching incident :—A 
pious young man told a clergyman that he had 
once disobeyed his father, on which the good 
man retired into his room and shut the door.—
Curiosity led the boy to look through the key-
hole,and he saw his father on his knees at prayer. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
188 
would be also to present insuperable difficulties. Of 
the first of these he says : 
`` Granting, for argument's sake, that the apostle 
really intended to be understood as referring to more 
classes than one, an insuperable difficulty still attends 
the literal view of the passages—for they evidently 
refer (in the literal sense) to those who had passed 
through death. But the rest of the dead lived not 
again till the thousand years were finished.' There-
fore those who shall he permitted to reign with Christ 
must be those who shall he raised from their graves ; 
indeed, the expression, This is the first resurrec- 
tion,' (if the term is to be literally understood,) places 
the matter beyond the reach of cavil. For there 
could he no literal resurrection without literal death. 
What then, we ask, will become of those who shall 
he alive and remain ' at the appearing of Christ, 
of whom the apostle Paul writes, if only those who 
are to he raised from the (lead are to be free from the 
dominion of the second death? ' We are by no 
means singular in our conclusions ; for, says the 
learned Scott, ' on the supposition of a literal resur-
rection before the Millennium, the expression would 
imply that none except those who were partakers of 
it would be free from the dread and danger of the 
second death.' " 
We admit that all who have part in the first resur-
rection will he " free front the dread and danger of 
the second death." Those saints who are alive at 
CHRIST'S coming, who are changed in the twinkling 
of an eye, are caught up to meet the Lou) in the air, 
and are thenceforth to be ever with the LoRn, will 
no more he subject to the second death, than will those 
be who are raised from the dead at that epoch, and 
participate in the same honors. 
But says " PHILALETHES," only those who are 
literally dead,.can be literally raised ; and therefore 
literally, they alone are the subjects of this resurrec-
tion. They only can be literally raised ; but the 
blessing promised is not alone to those who are actu-
ally raised ; it is to all who have a part in this resur-
rection. Surely it cannot be denied that those who 
are changed from corruptible to incorruptible, from 
mortal to immortal—who are made equal to the an-
gels, who are caught up together with the risen dead, 
and with them dwell forever with the LORD,—It cannot 
be denied that they have a part in the resurrection 
which then transpires, at which epoch •they are ad-
mitted to immortal honors. No intimation is given 
that the living will be raised to any less honorable 
station than that of the raised dead. There seems 
to have been a fear that the dead would in some way 
fall behind the living. Therefore PAUL exhorts the 
Thessalonians, not to sorrow for the dead, as for those 
who have no hope ; anti then lie assures them by 
the word of the LORD that " we who are alive and 
remain shall not precede those who are asleep," that 
they are to be raised, and then both classes are to be 
caught up together to the LORD'S presence. To the 
Corinthians he also declares that while we shall not 
all sleep," we shall all be changed, at the last trump..' 
Participating in the change which restores the saints 
to the honors forfeited by the sin of ADAM, the 
changed living do have a part in the resurrection, and 
are therefore also subjects of its blessings. He next 
objects that : 
" The literal construction restricts the reign of the 
saints to a thousand literal years : They shall reign 
with him a THOUSAND YEARS.' 
If Christ is to reign 
literally for a thousand years with his saints on the 
earth, it follows that at the expiration of that period 
his reign shall cease—and what is to be expected 
afterwards? On the other hand, if he is to reign on 
the earth forever, the thousand years cannot be taken 
in a literal sense. And whether the term thousand 
years,' as applied by the literalists to the reign of the 
saints on the earth, means a finite or infinite period, 
difficulties equally insurmountable start up betbre the 
mind ; for if it has a finite signification, there will be 
an end to the reign of Christ with his saints; if an 
infinite, there will be no resurrection of the wicked ; 
for their resurrection cannot take place (so say the 
literalists) till after that period." 
The boy listened and heard his father praying 
for him. This struck the youth to the heart : 
he Went away and prayed for himself ; his 
prayer, and the prayer of his parent, were heard ; 
the young man sought mercy through the Lamb 
of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, 
and he became a Christian indeed. Behold the 
happy effects of a pious father's prayers. 
1)e 26uent !)emit. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 26,,I851. 
An readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may he conducted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
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THE RESURRECTION. 
" An investigation of the Doctrine of Two Literal Resurrections 
a thousand years apart."—An article in the New York Christian 
Advocate :tad Journal, of June 25, tail, by YHILALETHES." 
This is an article of five closely printed columns, 
to be followed by other articles relative to the same 
general subject. 
This anonymous writer, does not controvert the 
doctrine of the resurrection as a whole ; but takes it 
for granted that all the readers of the Journal be-
lieve with St. PAUL in relation to the resurrection 
of the body, and proceeds directly with his reasons 
for denying that the resurrection of the righteous 
precedes that of the wicked by 1000 years. 
His first reason is that " the only place in the 
whole Bible that intimates anything like a literal 
resurrection prior to the 1000 years " is the 20th 
of Rev. 
If it is distinctly asserted in this passage, it may be 
no less worthy of credence than if it were found 
repeated in other places—if the passage is not spuri-
ous. It is not a sufficient reason for disbelieving 
GOD on any point, that He has but once declared it. 
Truth is not dependent on the number of texts which 
may be brought for or against it. It may with equal 
propriety be argued, that the 1000 years are an im-
aginary number—they being mentioned only in this 
one chapter. 
It is not, however, true that a resurrection of the 
righteous, prior to that of the wicked, is no where 
else intimated. The separate resurrection of the 
former, is so clearly in accordance with the Hebrew 
scriptures, that many of the Jews argued therefrom 
that the righteous only would be raised. Prof. BUSH, 
who denies any resurrection of the body, and there-
fore cannot be accused of mistranslating scripture for 
the purpose of favoring a first resurrection, gives as 
the literal reading of Dan. 12:2 the following : 
erally or figuratively, we have the admission of one 
of the most finished Hebrew scholars in the land,—
one who does not admit a first resurrection—that so 
far as the letter of Scripture is concerned, a literal 
resurrection is here expressed respecting a portion of 
the race, while another portion is left sleeping in the 
dust of the ground. Thus, although the time that the 
remaining class will he left sleeping in the dust, is 
not there announced, it is proved that the 20th of 
Rev. is not the only place in the Scriptures where a 
resurrection of the righteous prior to that of the 
wicked is declared. And yet strange to say, this is 
one of the texts relied on to prove a simultaneous res-
urrection of both classes ; and it will doubtless be 
quoted by " PHILALETHES," for that purpose, in his 
succeeding articles ! 
There are other texts equally explicit respecting 
two resurrections, the one prior to the other. Thus 
ISAIAH says of a portion of the race : " They are dead, 
they shall not live: they are deceased, they shall riot 
rise."—lsa. 26:14. Then turning to ZION, the same 
prophet exclaims (v 19), " Thy dead men shall live, 
together with my dead body shall they arise." 
As 
those of whom it is here said, they shall live, cannot 
be those of whom it is said in the same connection, 
they shall not live ; and as the resurrection here pre-
dicted is to include the dead body of the prophet, 
there is a resurrection of the righteous here declared 
to be prior to that of the wicked. 
PAUL declares that the subjects of the resurrection 
will come up in " orders " or bands, and that every 
man will come up in his own order or band—
" CHRIST the first fruits ; afterward they who are 
CHRIST'S at his coming."-1 Cor. 15:23. If both 
classes are then to be raised, it is singular that refer-
ence is here made only to those who are CHRIST'S. 
In 1 Thess. 3:16, they are " the dead in Christ" 
who are said to rise first, before the righteous liv-
ing are changed. If all are then to be raised, why 
are those only specified? When PAUL desired that 
" if by any' means " he might attain unto the res-
urrection of [lit. out from among] the dead "—Phil. 
3:10—he could not certainly have referred to a simul-
taneous resurrection of both classes. For to such a 
resurrection any one migh attain. The 20th of Rev. 
is therefore far from being the only place where the 
resurrection of the righteous prior to that of the 
wicked, is expressed. And with this view there is 
no text which conflicts ; while none of those allluded 
to can be harmonized with a simultaneous resurrec-
tion of both classes. 
" PHILALETHES " denies that the following pas-
sage teaches a literal resurrection :—" And I saw 
thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was 
given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that 
were beheaded for the witness of JESUS, and for the 
word of Goo, anti which had not worshipped the 
beast, neither his image, neither had received his 
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and 
they lived and reigned with CHRIST a thousand years. 
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the 
thousand years were finished. This is the first resur-
rection."—Rev. 20: 4, 5. 
He thus remarks respecting it : 
" Those words are understood by the advocates of 
two literal resurrections in a literal sense; and this is 
the reason why so many absurd and contradictory 
theories, in relation to the resurrection, have, in 
every age since the apostolic day, been promulgated 
in the Christian Church. Why the above passages 
should be taken literally, involving thereby innu-
merable contradictions, is more than we can divine ; 
for it certainly requires a much larger amount of 
faith or something else, to gulp down the doctrine of 
two literal resurrections, with all the absurdities and 
contradictions which surround it, than to believe that 
the apostle's word sare to be taken in a FIGURATIVE 
SENSE—the sense in which his apocalyptical writings 
genera'ly are to be understood. On this point, Dr. 
ULARKE well remarks : We should be very cau- 
tious how we make a figurative expression, used in 
the most figurative book in the Bible, the foundation 
of a very important literal system, that is to occupy 
a measure of the faith, and no small portion of the 
hope of Christians. The strange conjectures formed 
on this very uncertain basis have not been very cred-
itable either TO REASON OR RELIGION.' " 
"PHILALETHES " would have made himself more 
intelligible if he had defined what he means by a 
" figurative sense." 
We are aware that a general 
impression exists that if a passage can be shown to 
be figurative," that it has then no definite meaning, 
and may be made to signify almost anything that the 
fancy of the interpreter may suggest. Thus if it 
can be proved that a passage is highly figurative, or 
poetical, it is supposed that its testimony in support 
of any given point, is effectually set aside. This un-
derstanding of the figurative sense displays a remark-
able want of information, and the great ignorance 
that exists respecting the use of figures. " If PHILALE-
THES " is not one of those ignorant of the office and 
laws of the vat ious figurTs, he is aware that a figura-
tive expression is no more equivocal, than a literal 
one; and that when he classifies it as figurative, his 
next business is to define what the figure is used ; for 
a passage cannot be figurative without some figure is 
employed—one or more ; and if figures are used, 
their names can certainly be given by one who is suf- 
ficiently familiar with their laws and office, to decide 
whether language is, or is not figurative. As one 
who talks so learnedly, as does " PHILALETHES," can-
not be supposed to he ignorant of the laws and of-
fices of the several figures, he must have been sen-
sible when he pronounced the language figurative, 
and neglected to point out the figure used, that he was 
guilty of a neglect as inconsistent with fair ar-
gument, as to call any given word a part of speech, 
without classifying it as a noun, or verb, &c., would 
he inconsistent with the office of a grammarian. 
We therefore inquire of him the name of the fig-
ure or figures employed in this text, which require 
that it should be understood " in a figurative sense? " 
Does it contain a single metaphor—a simile, or me-
tonymy of any kind ? If so, they can be pointed 
out. And surely this writer from the New York 
Methodist Book Room, will not claim that there 
are figures for which the English language has no 
names or figures, the names of which he is igno- 
rant of! The time has come when those interpreters 
who talk about figures in the Scriptures, must show 
their familiarity with the laws and offices of figures. 
The figures of this text are symbols ; and while 
other figures are illustrative, these are representa-
tive. Symbols, as Mr. LORD, of the New York 
Literary and Theological Journal, has abundantly 
shown in his able articles on the laws of figures, are 
objects used to represent analogous objects. JOHN 
saw in vision, thrones, the judges seated thereon, 
" and the souls of them who had been beheaded for 
the testimony of Imes, and for the word of GoD, 
and whoever had not worshipped the wild beast, nor 
its image." 
As it is a law of symbols that agents represent 
agents, and the acts of symbols represent the acts of 
the agents symbolized, the symbolic souls which lived 
and reigned must symbolize persons to be restored 
to life at the epoch symbolized. The declaration 
that the souls lived, can only assert the restoration 
of the souls to life, and which could only be by are-un-
ion with the body ; and a re-union of the soul and body 
can only symbolize a like re-union at the resurrec- 
tion. There would be no congruity in symbolizing 
persons who had never died, by the living again of 
the souls of those who had. There would be no anal- 
ogy between the symbol, and the thing symbolized. 
If, therefore, there had been no explanation of the 
symbol,—unless we entirely disregard the principle 
on whir.th all symbols are used in the Bible, as GoD 
has explained to us—the only conclusion we could 
arrive at, from the mere symbol itself, would be that 
the resurrection of all the righteous, and their in-
vestiture to be kings with CHRIST is here shown. 
We are not however limited respecting the mean-
ing of this Scripture by the mere symbol. We have 
an inspired exposition of its significance, and that 
should be the termination of all controversy : " This 
is the first resurrection," is the declaration of the 
elucidator of the symbol ; i. e., the living again of 
the souls of the martyrs, their reigning with CHRIST, 
and the living not again of the rest of the dead, sym-
bolize the first resurrection. 
Here we have both the symbol, and its signifi-
cance. But these are strangely confounded by " PHI- 
LALETHES," who attempts to show by a long argu- 
ment, that the symbols are not to be understood literal- 
ly. Of course they are not ; they are to be understood 
symbolically, but in accordance with the laws of 
symbols. That which is to be understood literally 
is their inspired exposition. He contends that only 
the souls of the martyrs are brought to view in the 
text ; and that consequently the rest of the righteous 
have no part in the first resurrection—if taken lit- 
erally ; but he forgets that he should also show that 
there would be no congruity in their symbolizing all 
the pious dead ; which he cannot do. And there- 
fore, if only the souls of the martyrs were brought 
to view, the divine declaration that their living again 
symbolizes the first resurrection, is declarative that 
they symbolize all who have part in the first resur- 
rection ; so that we should only have to go back and 
inquire what subjects other scriptures embrace in it. 
Turning to 1st Corinthians, 1st Thessalonians, and 
DANIEL, we find as before shown, that they who are 
CHRIST'S are raised at his coming, that the dead in 
CHRIST are raised first, and that those who awake 
not are reserved to shame and everlasting contempt ; 
and that consequently the first resurrection must in- 
clude all of the righteous. In addition to this we 
have the further declaration that those who have part 
in this first resurrection, are those who are to be blest 
and holy, and on whom the second death is to have 
no power. Therefore we are under no necessity of 
showing that more than the martyrs are presented 
in the symbol. Its reference however to those who 
had not worshipped the beast or his image, or re-
ceived their mark in any way, shows that the symbol 
is not thus restricted, as it might have been, and 
still been adapted to what is affirmed of its signifi-
cance. So much for the symbol. 
We now come to the explanation of the symbol, 
which he denies is to he understood literally ; he also 
claims that to understand the explanation literally 
The literalists do not say that the resurrection of 
the wicked cannot be till the end of the reign of 
CHRIST with the saints ; and it does riot follow that 
if they are to reign with CHRIST one thousand years, 
that they are to reign with hint no longer. The 
period of time is not given to show the duration of 
the reign of CHRIST, but of the time that the rest of 
the dead are not to be raised. As so long a time is 
announced to intervene between the resurrection of 
the just and of the unjust, the subject would be left 
incomplete if no allusion was made to the condition 
of the former during th;.t. period. It is therefore an-
nounced that they shall reign with CHRIST a thousand 
years. There is no intimation that that reign will 
ever terminate. On the contrary, other scriptures 
teach its eternity. Therefore no difficulty to the 
literal sense exists in this expression. 
" PHILALETHES " next argues that souls are not 
literally persons, and finds therein another difficulty 
to the literal view. As he thus confounds the symbol 
with the thing symbolized, it is not necessary to fol-
low him.—it having been shown that souls, living 
again, and distinguished from the rest of the dead, can 
only symbolize a resurrection of persons. 
Various other objections are presented ; but the 
symbol and its explanation being continually confound-
ed with each other, their absurdity is self-evident. 
Because a symbol in another place, does not repre-
sent something of the same class, he argues that that 
" And many of the sleepers of the dust of the 
earth shall awake ; these (the awakened) (shall be) 
to everlasting life; and those (the unawakened) 
(shall be) to shame and everlasting contempt."—An-
astasis, p. 334. 
This view of the passage, he says, is the same 
that is suggested by some of the Jewish school, and 
is undoubtedly very ancient. 
ABEN EZRA renders it 
" Those who awake shall be (appointed) to everlast-
ing life, and those who awake not, shall be (doomed) 
to shame and everlasting contempt.' The words of 
GAON himself, are, that' this is the resurrection of 
the dead of Israel, whose lot is to eternal life, and 
those who shall not awake, are the forsakers of 
JEHOVAH.' " He admits that, "so far then the words 
of the prophet may be construed as having respect 
to a literal resurrection," but he metaphorizes them 
into" a mere outward and sensible adumbration of 
a far more glorious work of moral quickening."—
Now, whether this language is to be understood lit- 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
189 
was not taken literally, and that therefore this is nut 
a literal resurrection ! Wonderful logic ! Because 
the symbol is not literal, therefore the explanation of 
the thing symbolized is not literal. DANIEL saw 
four great beasts rise out of the sea ; but beasts were 
not the subjects of the prophecy. They are explained 
to signify four kingdoms ; and no one will claim that 
the explanation is metaphorical. Yet without pre-
senting, a single instance where the explanation of a 
symbtil was given in metaphorical language, he as-
sumes that the first resurrection is a mere metaphor 
—having the following meaning : 
" The saints of God who shall live on the earth 
during the period of Satan's imprisonment will not 
have to contend with the malignant power of hell ; 
hut those who shall live after that period, when Satan 
shall he loosed, will be assailed by the arch enemy 
arid his hosts with all their subtle and deadly in-
fluence. By taking the passages under discussion in 
a metaphorical sense, the whole of the context har-
monizes, and developes the same truths as inculcated 
by other portions of the sacred volume. All difficulty 
and contradiction vanishes—a positive evidence in 
favor of the figurative, and against the literal scheme." 
mother words, to use the language of Prof. BUSH : 
" Submitting these clear predictions to his exegetical 
alembic, it so effectually subtilizes and evaporates 
their meaning that nothing remains to answer to the 
splendid annunciation, but a mere interior and invisi-
ble work of the Spirit upon men's hearts "—thus in-
troducing ":r millennium of sonic kind, occurring at 
some time, introduced in some way, and brought to 
an end from some cause . . but as to the what, the 
when, the how, the why—on these points they rest 
content in knowing nothing, because of the impres-
sion taken up that nothing is to be known." 
" All difficulties " thus vanish, only because the 
eye is closed against them. 'lie laws of language; 
parallel texts, the general burden of prophecy,—
none of these things present any obstacles to him, 
who is disposed to drive his exegetical plough di-
rectly through them. 
One declaratit n of " PHILALETHES " in our first 
extract from him, is worthy of notice. He says that 
taking the words of this text in a literal sense is " the 
reason why so many absurd and contradictory theories 
in relation to the resurrection, have, in every age 
since the apostolic day, been promulgated in the 
Christian church." 
To this it may be sufficient to reply, that while 
the literal sense was admitted, only one theory was 
taught respecting the resurrection—that for which we 
argue. When its literal sense was denied, then ab-
surd and contradictory theories were first promulgated 
—some of these new theorizers denying the first res-
urrection, and others denying any resurrection of the 
body. This objection is not therefore against its be-
ing understood literally, but against its being taken 
metaphorically. 
" PHILALETHES promises in another letter to 
show that " the Scriptures teach clearly and unequi-
vocally the doctrine of one general resurrection." If 
the brother who has furnished us with a copy of 
this, will do us the same favor respecting that, we 
may notice it also. 
CANDID NOTICE. 
The Erskine Miscellany, published at Due West, 
S. C., has the following candid notice of the Herald: 
" THE ADVENT HERALD.—This is a religious pa-
per, published in Boston, by J. V. HimEs. From the 
following extract may be seen the object of the paper 
and the principles it undertakes to defend. 
Our prospectus is here given in full ; and the fol-
lowing remarks added: 
" We have been receiving the paper at the office 
of the Miscellany ' for more than a year, and have 
read it with some care and curiosity, and viewing 
things in it with pleasure. 
" it advocates Millerism, or the principles of Wm. 
Miller, on the subject of the Second Advent ; and 
bating some extravagant notions on that point, the 
paper is well conducted—the selections are good and 
orthodox. 
•• • Millerism,' as it is called, is often classed with 
the evil isms that prevail ;—thus we hear men speak 
of Millerism, Mormonism, Universalism, &c., but if 
the Advent Herald is a correct exponent of the prin-
ciples of • Millerism,' we protest against classing it 
with that monstrous, fanatical, tyrannical, hypocriti-
cal, thievish, adulterous superstition, called Mormon-
ism ; or with that piebald Christianity, called Univer-
salism. The Herald urges strongly the doctrine of 
Christ's atonement, the necessity of the Spirit's 
influence, the importance of the means of grace, the 
importance of the Sabbath. It is strongly opposed 
to Popery, and unless the conduct, the works of the 
Millerites, of which we know nothing, are yen), bad, 
it is sheer injustice to class them with the Mormons, 
and others whose principles and practice are anything 
but Christian. One of the great errors of Miller and 
his followers, was in setting the day for Christ to 
come ! Their calculations about this matter have failed 
several times, and by adhering to it, they brought 
down the ridicule and contempt, both of the right-
eous and wicked on their heads. 
" We see it stated in the papers, that one of the 
` Adventists' has demonstrated that Christ's second 
advent will take place on a certain day in July next! 
Now this is absurd, and as long as they continue to 
publish these .nice calculations,—set the day and be 
disappointed, as they will be,,—they will be ridiculed 
and classed with fanatics. 
" Some will object to the doctrine of Christ corn- 
ing quickly, or in a short time: such a coming does 
not suit their calculations, their schemes and charac-
ter. But we see no objection to the Herald proving, 
if it can by fair and scriptural argument, that the sec-
ond advent is near, that the prOphecies and signs of 
the times indicate it ; but it is downright folly in short-
sighted, erring man to set the day. 
" The second advent is an event that is certain 
to take place, and it is not to be deprecated and put off 
as a sad, unwelcome event ; but the Christian should 
be found anxiously waiting for,—/tasting to the com-
ing of Christ, (as the Apostle has it,) as the most 
glorious, joyous, and brilliant event that ever took 
place, or is to take place in our world. 
" Instead of the Christian being anxious to postpone 
the second coming of Christ, his prayer should be, 
" Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." No one how-
ever, in his zeal on this subject, should undertake to 
force the second coming ; it will take place at the ap-
pointed hour. If, from the Scripture, certain events 
are to take place before the second advent, let us not 
attempt to force it past them or over them, hut let us 
patiently abide God's time. 
" We think it would not be.hard to show from the 
Bible that various important events must transpire 
before the advent takes place; so that although it 
may come comparatively it will not come 
as quick as the followers of Miller calculate." 
We thank the Miscellany for doing us the favor of 
publishing our prospectus. Few of the religious pa-
pers of this country have done anything to undeceive 
their readers respecting the views and objects of 
Adventists ; while the slang issued from most presses 
respecting us, has extended die belief that we were 
justly classed with impostors and irreligionists. 
We can assure the Miscellany that the Herald is a 
correct exponent of the doctrines held by Mr. MILLER : 
and that, the works of those who hold these doctrines 
are in accordance therewith. It is fair, however, to 
state, that as in the days of MARTIN LUTHER, vari-
ous classes of fanatics arose and brought obloquy on 
the reformation ; so now, members or persons in va-
rious places, claiming to sail on the sea of Mr. MIL-
LER'S popularity, and yet professing doctrines, and 
holding views which he repudiated, have brought 
odium on his name, by being classed in the columns of 
respectable prints with those who occupy no such po-
sition ; when the same prints had the means of know- . 
ing that no affinity existed between us and them. 
It is generally estimated, by our cotemporaries, 
to have been a great wrong in Mr. MILLER to name 
any time when the second advent might be expect- 
ed. It is true that he was mistaken in the time 
looked for ; but the question is, whether, he above 
all other men is culpable in that respect ; or whether 
he would have been guiltless, with evidence strong 
to his own mind of the reasonableness of such anex-
pectation, at a given time, had he remained silent res-
pecting that evidence—without showing his reasons to 
others, or asking them contradictory evidence ? It 
should be remembered that his expectation was based 
on no mere surmise, but rested on the supposed connec-
tion of the 2300 days of Dan. 8th, and the 70 weeks of 
the 9th chapter. To disprove that connection no man 
ventured a valid argument ; and the only one we 
remember having been offered, was by a Doctor of 
Divinity, in New York city, who denied that the 
" the," in the phrase, " the vision," in Dan. 9:24, 
was in the original ( ? )—Mr. MILLER having argued 
that the direction to " consider the vision," in v. 
23d, had reference to that of the Sth chapter, and 
that therefore the 9th was explanatory of it—and 
nailing his argument by requesting Mr. MILLER 10 
" ask some one who understands Latin, the wean-
ing of " Ne sutor ultra crepidam ! " 
In fact, all the 
arguments advanced against his views, were of the 
most puerile and unsatisfactory kind—often insult-
ingly addressed to him as in the above. instead of 
meeting him in a manly mariner, a sneer was all 
that some deigned to bestow on him,—like Prof. 
STUART, who suggested (flints, vol. 2) that the 1st 
of April would be a fit day to fix on for the LORD'S 
coming. Others advanced the most puerile reason-
ing—that the West was not yet all settled, that we 
were making too great advancement in inventions and 
discoveries for such an event to transpire, &c. Some 
argued that the world was getting too wise and 
good ; and others, that it must first he made better. 
Some disproved his conclusions by showing that the 
events had long since taken place, and others that 
they were a long way in the future. Some denied 
his dates, and some the events. And when asked to 
give a better interpretation of particular prophecies 
when rejecting that of Mr. MILLER'S, one did not 
hesitate to say : I do not consider myself bound to 
furnish any." Some admitted the correctness of 
one of his positions, and some of the others, and 
among his reviewers, there was not a point he ad-
vanced, but was admitted by one or more of them ; 
and thus among them, his whole theory. Said one : 
" I am happy to express my general concurrence 
with Mr. MILLER in the application of these pas-
sages, [Dan. 7:25 ; 12:7 ; Rev. 11:2, 3 ; 12:6, 14 ; 
and 13 : 5] to the Papal Antichrist."—Dr. Dowling. 
Another in denying one of Mr. MILLER'S inferences 
—an interregnum of 11 years in the kingdom of Ju-
dah—and then, on reading Dr. HALES' chronology, 
seeing the correctness of that inference—confessed 
that he had " censured Mr. MILLER in too unnlea- 
suied terms."—Dr. Jarvis. Said another : " I freely 
admit that in his general outline of interpretation, 
(excluding his dates,) following as he does much 
abler men who have gone before him, MILLER is cor-
rect."—Dr. Hamilton. And another wrote to him, 
" I do not conceive your errors on the subject of 
chronology to be at all of a serious nature, or in fact 
to be very wide of the truth. In taking a day as the 
prophetical time for a year, I believe you are sus-
tained by the soundest exegesis, as well as fortified 
by the high names of MEDE, Sir I. NEWTON, Bishop 
NEWTON, FABER, SCOTT, KEITH, and a host of 
others who have long since come to substantially 
your conclusions on this head. They all, agree that 
the leading periods mentioned by DANIEL and JOHN 
do actually expire about this age of the world; and 
it would be strange logic that would convict you of 
heresy for holding in effect the same views which 
stand forth so prominently in the notices of those 
eminent divine. Your results in this field of inquiry, 
do not strike me as so far out of the way as to ef-
fect any of the great interests of truth or duty."—
Prof. Bush. Of the connection of the weeks and 
days referred to in DANIEL, Dr. HALES pronounced it 
" the most ingenious of its class,"—in fixing the com-
mencement of the 2300 days. Not a point did Mr. 
MILLER advance, that was original with himself, 
or that was not in accordance with teachings of dis-
tinguished Protestant commentators. And when his 
arguments were treated with contempt ; or when 
met, the established opinions of Protestant writers 
were departed from, and no others substituted, it is 
not strange that the weakness of his opponents, 
should have made his position seem incontrovertible. 
Then, believing as he did, was he riot justified in 
his course? Said the Rev. W. J. HAMILTON, D. D 
of Mobile, Ala., " The man who, believing this to be 
true, would . . . at the very threshold of the great 
catastrophe, shrink from avowing his convictions, and 
fail to urge his people to awake at once, and disre-
gard every thing that might hinder or retard the 
great business of immediate and thorough prepara-
tion for it, must be a heartless villain or a consum-
mate fool." And Dr, DowLiNu, then of Providence, 
R. I., said, " Were the doctrine of Mr. MILLER es-
tablished upon evidence satisfactory to my own 
mind, 1 would not rest, till I had published in the 
streets and proclaimed in the ears of my fellow-
townsmen, and especially of my beloved flock, The 
day of the LORD is at hand ' for in three 
short years this earth shall be burned up, and CHRIST 
shall come," &c. 
Mr. MILLER then, believing as he did, could not 
have done otherwise than he did. The result how-
ever proved his error—proved that he had placed too 
great reliance on the dates of chronologers, and the 
opinions of commentators ; and that by their aid we 
cannot fix on times for the fulfilment of predicted 
events with any accuracy,—although we may be 
guided to periods within which we may look with in-
terest. 
Mr. MILLER having failed in the precise time of 
his calculations, frankly confessed the, same to the 
world, and did not continually fix on mere dates as 
the press have given him credit for doing. Individ-
uals have done so, and have as often failed. But nei-
ther Mr. MILLER, nor those wino were with him, gave 
any countenance to. such calculations—regarding it as 
evidence of a weak mind, not to be instructed by 
past experience. 
And he to whom the Miscellany 
alludes, is not recognized as an Adventist, nor was 
the convention referred to in other papers, at which he 
announced his new date, composed of those with 
whom we have any theological association. Those 
who should on such evidence attempt to set the day of 
the advent, would be regarded by us, as foolish as 
they can be by the Miscellany. 
If our coternpmary supposes events can be shown 
from the Bible to precede the advent, which have 
not been fulfilled, we shall be willing to be in-
structed on those points ; or to give our reasons in 
reply for different conclusions. 
THE FUTURE BODY. 
The supposition can scarcely be deemed an extra-
ordinary one, although there had not been a single 
hint thrown out upon the subject by airy of the sacred 
writers, that whatever changes its internal economy 
shall undergo, the future body will be similar in 
structure and form to the present one. The original 
symmetry and visible contour of the human frame 
which was made in the Garden of Eden, will be pre-
served in the immortal body, with which the right-
eous shall be invested in the next stage of their ex-
istence. GOD made man at first in his own image, 
and conferred upon him, in Paradise, high and pecu-
liar honors. The beauty and majesty of his outward 
form, as well as the qualities of his mind, contribut-
ed to render him the chief of all the Creator's works, 
and to make him stand forth as tLe noblest example 
of creative wisdom which is to be found amongst the 
productions of the first six days of the history of our 
world. That form, the outlines of which were 
drawn by a Divine hand, was faultless in the eyes of 
the Almighty maker, and pronounced by Him to be 
" very good." And if it was so originally, at its 
formation, when it was evidently fitted for inmortal-
ity, what reason have we to suppose that it will ex-
hibit a different conformation when it shall be re-
stored at the resurrection to the honors which it had 
lost by sin? There is, at least, nothing revealed to 
warrant such a supposition. The circumstances of 
the case, on the other hand, not only suggest—they 
seem strongly to favor—the opposite one. 
Besides, the Son of GOD, when he came from 
heaven to deliver men from the effects of sin, as-
sumed a body like to that which we now wear ; and 
by that wonderful act of condescension, put an honor 
upon the very outward form of humanity, which 
leads us to believe, that it will be carried forward to 
that more elevated state of being for which his mys-
terious incarnation was designed to prepare the hu-
man race. After he returned from the mansions of 
the dead, his external appearance, although he had 
lain three days in the grave, was unchanged ; and 
although his body underwent a complete transfor-
mation on his resurrection, it still retains, amid all 
the splendors which invest it, the visible form which 
it exhibited while lie dwelt upon etrth. To be 
convinced that such is the case, we have but to 
read the description of his appearance which the 
apostle JOHN gives in the first chapter of the book, 
of the Revelation: : " f was in the Spirit on the 
Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of 
a trumpet. And I turned to see the voice that spake 
with me. And being turned, I saw seven gold can-
dlesticks; and in the midst of the seven gold candle-
sticks, one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a 
garment dowr(to the feet, and girt about the breasts 
with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were 
white like wool, as white as snow ; and his eyes were 
as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, 
as if they burned in a furnace ; and his voice as the 
sound of many waters. And he had in his tight 
hand seven stars ; and out of his mouth went a 
sharp two-edged sword ; and his countenance was as 
the sun shineth in his strength." There are as many 
particulars enumerated in this description, as to ena-
ble any one to perceive at once, that the external 
form of the Saviour's glorified humanity, as it is now 
displayed on the throne of the universe, is not ma-
terially. if at all, different from what it was previous 
to the change which was effected upon it. This fact 
appears to us greatly to strengthen our supposition ; 
because it is expressly intimated that the future bodies 
of the righteous are to exhibit a comformation simi-
lar to his ; that his, indeed, is the pattern accord-
ing to which they are to be fashioned : " As we 
have borne the image of the earthy, so we shall also 
bear the image of the heavenly." " For our con-
versation is in heaven, from whence also we look for 
the Saviour, the Lord JESUS CHRIST, Who shall 
change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like 
unto His glorious body, according to the working 
whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto 
himself." Now, if the material structure, which 
the Divine Redeemer has carried with him to the 
right hand of the Majesty on high, resemble, in its 
exterior conformation, the body in which he suffered 
—and his appearance in the isle of Patmos indicated 
that it does so—does not the affirmation amount to 
something more than " mere conjecture," that the 
mould in which the human frame was originally cast, 
will be used again on the morning of the resurrec-
tion ; and that the materials of the present organiza-
tion, which will be collected at the great day by Om- 
nipotence, shall assume an external conformation 
similar to that of the corruptible bodies which we 
now wear? 
P otestant Churchman. 
To Correspondents. 
Those writing on any given subject, should first 
always name their subject, and then adhere to it, 
carefully punctuating, &c. To send an article with-
out a caption to a printer, is like sending a child out 
into the world without a name. Beginners, by first 
selecting their subject, will find that they can adhere 
to it more closely than when writing at random, with-
out, apparently, knowing the point they wish to 
illustrate. 
C. MARSTON.—Your article on the Apocalypse 
evinces a want of acquaintance with the laws of sym-
bols, the difference between them and figures, and the 
agreement between prophetic and ordinary language. 
The word day sometimes means epoch, as it does in 
the case you comment on, and not a mere literal day, 
or year. 
I. ADRIAN.—We do n't understand you. 
All your 
appointments have been given to the printer, to be 
given as long as needed, and Ire says he has done so, 
except the notice for a Camp-meeting, of wnich you 
omitted to name the place. 
NOTICES.—Several notices have been received for 
Tent-meetings and Camp-meetings, over signatures 
of those indentified with the opposition, and engaged 
in distracting the cause. We cannot of course give 
the notices of such, or of those in suspicious company. 
The last Conference requested that such notices should 
not appear in the Herald. 
with a stranger towards Emmaus. I say he might 
have added this, because his mind was infinite in 
wisdom as well as goodness, and to him future as 
well as past events were known. 
Of what benefit will it he to us to hold spiritual 
communion with Christ.? Are we not all sinners?—
Who of us can claim exemption from the imperfec-
tions of this life ? So long as we are left to ourselves, 
with no guide but the teachings of our unsancti-
fied hearts, we shall thus remain. Sin has dark-
ened our minds and so debased our hearts, that 
we are incapable of teaching ourselves, and need 
one that is able to guide us into the path of know- 
ledge and of duty. As the child is incapable 
of learning astronomy, or discovering the laws of 
matter and motion, or of solving some difficult 
problem in the science of mathematics withcut 
the aid of a teacher arid of books, so the unregene-
rate man without Christ as his teacher, arid the Bible 
as his book, is equally incapable of learning about 
heaven and his duty as a being accountable to God. 
In the Saviour we discover a quality of character 
unlike that in man. It his care for others, even to 
a disregard of his own temporal welfare, and then his 
peculiar regard for the spiritual welfare of those who 
follow him in the new regeneration principle. He 
knew they had had many seasons of happiness in his 
his society, and that while he was in their remem-
brance they could never cease to exert an influence 
among their fellow-men for good ; but as long as they 
continued him in remembrance, their minds would be 
conversant with all the scenes in his life, from his 
humiliation to his ascension, and there with him 
they rested upon the unfading glories that awaited 
them in his heavenly kingdom ; that when the trials 
of earth were over, they would in the upper 
house of their Lord commune, no more to be parted, 
forever. 
Did you ever witness a communion in the chant. 
her of the dying? (I speak not here of the outward 
elements of bread and wine, but of a soul purified 
by Jesus' blood, as holding a spiritual communion, 
when the living bread is broken and eaten, and the 
fruit of the wine, almost fresh from the table on high, 
is the elemental wine.) Did you ever witness such 
a communion as this? If so, then you have seen a 
countenance lit up with the radiance that was not of 
earth, and while the lustre of the eye was dimming 
in death, and the cheek paled all over, you felt the 
king of terrors was not there, and if such was death, 
it were blessed to die and go home. 0 ! no, death 
was not there. The Saviour was, and for the last 
time on earth the dying was partaking of those pre-
cious memorials of a Saviour's love which are only 
typified in the outward elements of bread and wine. 
Soon all was still, and the dying had gone to fulfil 
the truthful declaration of Jesus, " Until ye drink of 
the fruit of the vine anew in my Father's kingdom." 
Better far, my brethren, that we have the inward 
communing with our Master ; and if we are to be 
bereft of one, let it be the symbols of his broken 
body, and his shed blood. We may eat and drink of 
the material substance, and unless vitalized by the 
Holy Spirit, it will he of no avail to us, and we may 
sink without any redeeming qualifications, to he de-
barred forever the society of the pure and the good. 
But said Jesus, " If any man eat of the bread of hea-
ven he shall never be hungry ; if any man drink of the 
water I shall give him he shall never thirst." Here 
is the true arid living food ; the other is only emble-
matical food, and to be received not as any power to 
save us front sin, but only in remembrance of him. 
Spiritual communion, then, is something that saves 
the soul while it imparts to it a blessed and holy 
condition, and the fitting requisite to an entrance into 
the temple most holy, on high. My brethren, we 
have soon to stand in the presence of " the Judge of 
quick and dead." One and another in our midst 
are stricken down, not alone in old age, but often in 
the prime of life, and it is a premonition to us all to 
be ready, for he will ere long call for us. We cannot 
tell how soon, but the word of God has written, " All 
flesh is as the flower of the grass, and all the glory 
of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, 
and the flower thereof falleth away." Shall not 
then these blessed services we, from Sunday to Sun-
day, hold in His temple be the means of bringing 
our hearts into a state of preparation for that com-
munion we desire so much to partake of in the house 
above? Could we unroll the record the saints de-
parted in all ages have left us, yea, could we for one 
moment be permitted to gaze upon that holy com-
pany of the redeemed who are rendering up their 
ascriptions of praise, we should have such a view as 
the eye of faith has not yet looked upon, and we 
should feel like nerving up our poor and erring souls 
to a more arduous task, that they may at least win an 
entrance there, and help to sing the " Holy, holy, 
holy, Lord God Omnipotent." My brethren, heaven 
is before us all—we have still to labor and to toil on, 
till that glorious world, with all its pleasure 
scenes, shall break in upon our unclouded vision. 
Before us in life are the many temptations which 
beset us on every hand,and would press us downward. 
If we go from this place determined to carry with us 
the spirit that comes to inspire us to communion 
throughout the days of the week upon which we 
have just entered, we shall have a barrier with 
which to wield off sin and temptation, and our hearts 
will be ripening for that heaven we hope to be ad-
mitted into hereafter. Come, Spirit of our Master, 
and talk with us as thou didst to the disciples journey-
ing to Emmaus. We are journeying towards our hea-
venly Emmaus, and we sorrow and are perplexed be-
cause strange and perplexing things have entered into 
our hearts, and have caused us from want of faith, to 
grow cold and lag in thy service. Once we felt this 
kindly Spirit to be with us, and did not our hearts 
burn within us as they talked with us by the way, 
and opened to us the scriptures of truth? Come, 
Spirit of our Master, and talk with us again. We 
would have thee for our companion always in life, 
and by thy counsel abide, so that we may not err 
as we strangely do, when left to follow our own in-
clinations. 
THE SABBATH QUESTION. 
BRO. HIMES :—I was forcibly struck while read-
ing several tracts with which 1 met while on my 
passage from New York to Hartford, with the ap. 
 
parent disingenuousness of the writer. One argu-
ment on which he seemed to lay great stress in sup-
port of the seventh-day Sabbath, was this,—that 
Sabbath means rest,—that the seventh day is called 
a Sabbath in the New Testament,—the first day is 
not so called, but is always designated the first day 
of the week. 
The truth is,—and Sabbatarians either do or ought 
to know it,—the evangelists never in the language 
in which the gospels are found, (the Greek,) called 
the first day of the week anything else but Sabbath. 
For the information of those who are shaken in their 
minds on this subject, I will transcribe the Greek 
text in Italics, containing the words rendered by our 
translators first day of the week, and also the word 
rendered by them Sabbath, meaning the seventh day. 
Matt. 28 : 1—English translation : " In the lend 
of the Sabbath, as it begins to dawn toward the 
first day of the week." 
Greek— Opse de sabbatoon, 
to epiphooskuse eis mian sabbatoon. There the identi-
cal word in the same case, genitive plural, rendered 
Sabbath when referring to the seventh day, is ren-
dered first day of the week in the very next clause 
of the verse. A literal rendering would be, if we 
adopt the principle of our translators of Anglicising 
instead of translating the word,—" Amid in the end 
of Sabbaths, as it began to davvii toward one of 
Sabbath." 
Does not this indicate that one series of Sabbaths 
there ended, so far as obligation to observe it was 
concerned, arid a new series was introduced ? At 
any rate, the first is as positively called Sabbath as 
the seventh day. And all four of the evangelists de-
signate it by the same word. Mark. 16 : 2—Kai 
lian proof lees rnias sabbatoon—"And very early the one 
of Sabbaths," &c. Luke 24:1—Te de mia Loon sabba-
toon—" And the one of the Sabbaths," &c. John 
20:1—Te de mia loon sabbatoon—" And in the one 
of the Sabbaths," &c. Thus the four evangelists 
do agree in calling the first by the same name they 
do the seventh day of the week, and that word as 
certainly signifies rest in the one case as in the 
other. Let no one, therefore, hereafter contend that 
the writers of the New Testament never call the 
first day, Sabbath, or rest, for no New Testament 
writer has called it anything else, except John (Rev. 
1:10), where it is called the " Lord's day." 
J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia July 16th, 1851. 
REMARKS.— Lest any should gather from the above, 
that the word Sabbath is represented by the phrase 
" first day of the week," we add that Sabbath 
is simply translated week in those texts— other 
words indicating the day of the week. The word 
Sabbath is originally a Hebrew word, and sig-
nifies rest ; but occurring at regular intervals, by a 
metonymy it became significant of the periods separ-
ated by these rests. So that we have the seventh (lay 
of the rest, and the first of the rest, week, or Sab-
bath.—ED. 
LETTER FROM A. CLAPP. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Of late the Advent cause 
seems to be spreading and going forward. I am 
heartily glad that I went to the Conference at Salem, 
which was a most heavenly and profitable meeting ; 
and also at the annual Conference at Boston, where 
I was permitted to meet with such a large number 
of brethren and sisters from the States, Canada, and 
Nova Scotia, who all sat together in truly an heav-
enly place in Christ Jesus, and were of one mind, 
acting for God and his cause, with prayers and tears, 
and assisted by the Holy Ghost. I was overwhelmed 
with joy to witness those four valuable servants of 
God consecrating themselves anew to the service of 
God in the gospel ministry, by receiving the ordina-
iion and laying oil of lianas from the faithful. Oh, 
it seemed to me that angels looked down upon the 
pleasing scence with delight. My prayer is that 
those brethren may move faithful to the end, and 
that God would raise up and send more faithful la-
borers into the field, for the harvest is great, and 
laborers are few. I believe that a good influence 
will go out from the Boston Conference, which 
will tell for God and his glory, and the cause will be 
greatly strengthened. 
We in Hartlbrd since the first of April, have been 
greatly prosperous. We have most excellent meet-
ings and good congregations, which are constantly 
increasing in interest and numbers. We are all 
happy and well united, and have the Spirit of Jesus 
with us, which greatly comforts our hearts. We 
also have been blest with excellent preaching, for 
which we do praise the Lord. We have had 
one very interesting case of conversion, over which 
we do rejoice with angels around the throne of God ; 
and some others are inquiring after truth and right-
eousness. Our prayer is, that they may be led to 
Jesus, and receive a full blessing in their own souls. 
We have unanimously invited Bro. 0. R. Fassett 
to remove among us, and labor with us, and provi-
dence permitting, he will come about the middle of 
August. May he come in the fullness of the bless-
ing of the gospel of peace. We feel greatly en-
couraged, arid we do resolve to go forward in the 
strength of Israel's God, and do every known duty, 
and all we can that will glorify God ; and we are cer-
tainly sure of a blessed reward. 
Affectionately yours. 
LETTER FROM J. LITCH. 
BRO. HIMES :—As it may be of some interest to 
the friends abroad, I sit down to give a brief sketch 
of my recent journey. 
June 16th, being my first Sabbath from home, I 
spent in Brooklyn and New York, and found the 
churches holding fast their confidence and determined 
to endure to the end. 
June 23d was spent in Hartford. The church in 
H., as many at least of your readers are 
has passed through a series of trials, which has re-
sulted in the withdrawal of a part of the body 
to another place, leavings, the remainder of the 
church to worship in the old Fourth Church. And I 
SERMON 
Preached before the Second Advent Conference, held in Boston, 
Wednesday evening, June 9th, 1851. 
EY ELDER D. I. ROBINSON. 
TEXT.-" And, behold, I come quickly ; and my 
reward is with me, to give every man according as 
his work shall be."—Rev. .22:12. 
The Personality of Christ.—Almost all admit that 
Christ was a person. He is first introduced as "the 
seed of the woman ; second, as the seed of Abraham ; 
third, as the son of David ; fourth, a prophet like 
unto Moses. In all these, our Saviour is represented 
with the attributes of humanity. As such, he was 
born of a woman—worshipped by shepherds and wise 
men—grew up to manhood—was baptized of John in 
Jordan,—and preaching the glad tidings of the king- 
A SERMON. 
dom, — as such arrested, crucified, buried, arose 
again,—as such manifested himself to his disciples; 
he said, " Behold my hands and my feet, that it is 1 
myself;"—as such he ascended to heaven, and by 
Stephen was seen standing at the right hand of God, 
and by John on the Isle of Patmos. We say with 
confidence, that Christ was a person, and is still a " On the first day of the week, the same day on 
person. 
which our Lord arose from the dead, two of his dis- 
His coming must be a personal and visible corn- ciples were journeying to Emmaus, a village about 
ing.—Accordingly, at the time of His ascension, the seven miles distant from Jerusalem. As they were 
" two men " who " stood by " " in white apparel " on their way, talking earnestly and in wondering 
said : " Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up perplexity of the mournful events of the past week, 
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken from and the exciting reports which they had heard that 
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye morning, a stranger drew near and walked on with 
have seen him go into heaven." So that the man- them. They did not recognize in him their Master, 
ner is as much a subject of revelation as the fact of for they had no expectation of meeting him at the 
his coming. 
time, and moreover it was not the intention of Jesus 
Again : In proof of the personality and visibility to make himself immediately known to them. Their 
of his corning, the apostle Paul declares to the Thes- eyes were holden, that they should not know hint 
salonians—" The Lord himself shall descend from He inquired on joining them, what it was which 
heaven," and Christ says in the language of our text, formed the burthen of their conversation, and which 
" Behold, /come." 
seemed to be of so engrossing and saddening a char- 
The object of His coming.—Not to exhibit acter. The disciples expressed their surprise at his 
merely personal splendor, to make a show of himself, appearing to be ignorant of the late transactions at 
like the visit of a President, or some distinguished Jerusalem, proceeded to inform him of the appre-
personage ; but his coming in his glory is amatter of hension and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, " a 
stupendous importance to all the world. He says : prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all 
" Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with the people," whom they themselves had followed as 
me, to give every man according as his word shall the promised Messiah, " believing that it had been 
be." It is the great crowning act of this world's he who should have redeemed Israel." It was now, 
history,—it is the time of reckoning, for reward or they added, " the third day since these things were 
punishment, with "every man, according as his done," and they had just been astonished, by the as-
work shall be ;"—to reward with everlasting life the severations of several of their company, who declared 
righteous, and with an everlasting destruction punish that the body of their Master was not to be found 
the wicked. 
in the sepulchre where lie had been laid, and that 
The question may arise, In what way shall we be they had been told by angels " that he was alive." 
rewarded according to our works? Not on the ground When they had concluded their account, in which 
of merit. It will he, (tst,) according to the quality they exposed the conflict which was going within 
of those works ; (2d,) according to the quantity, or them between their grief and their wonder, their dis-
measure. These comprehend our whole moral char- appointment and their surprise, and also manifested 
acter. 
their inability to reconcile the sufferings and shame- 
4. In what sense did Christ say, " I come quick. ful death of their Master with the conceptions which 
ly."?—The word quickly sometimes means sudden- they had, as Jews, formed of his dignity and glory, 
ly. He will come suddenly, like a thief,—like the as the Messiah of Israel, still unrevealed to them, 
lightning,— like the flood that destroyed the old rebuked them as " slow of heart to believe all that 
world. Here it means soon, immediately, &c. Some the prophets have spoken," and asked them whether 
say that the Apostles said eighteen hundred years it was not in conformity with the prophetical writ-
since, that Christ would come quickly,—that he was ings, properly interpreted, that the Messiah should 
nigh,—that the end of all things was at hand, and so have suffered thus, as an entrance into his true glory. 
we may say. and the event may riot take place for " Ought not," he said, " Christ to have suffered these 
eighteen hundred years more. By this principle, we things, and to enter into his glory? " And then di-
may put the Advent far away, and these words resting their attention to the real character of the 
would have no fbrce or meaning. This language is Messiah, and reconciling humiliation and suffering 
used in a comparative sense,—that the time interven- with success and glory, " he expounded unto them 
ing between the period when spoken and the conning in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." 
of Christ, was comparatively short. Paul says :— While he was thus unfolding to them these things, 
"'['he night is far spent, and the day is at hand." It their hearts confessed to a wonted power, and 
was the faith of the Apostolic church, that six thou- strangely burned within them, with the glow of 
sand years would be the age of the world ;—the type awakened sensations and memories. 
of the Sabbath indicates this, and when the Apostle Eighteen 'centuries have passed since Jesus of 
wrote, that expression, more than four thousand years Nazareth dwelt among men, still his presence has 
had passed away, and it was comparatively true that not been drawn from the pure and loving disciples. 
the day was then at hand. 
He came to establish a spiritual kingdom among men 
Again : The prophets, when passing down the and in that to dwell, so that all his followers might 
great chain of events they predict, and come to a hold communion with him while sojourning in this 
certain epoch, could say, " Behold, I come quickly," strange land. Wherever a soul is fbund to whom 
as though they were standing at the time of this the forgiveness of the Infinite has been made known, 
 
world's history when the Saviour was about to re- there dwells Jesus, and there he wears the crown of 
turn to the earth. 
his kingdom. Near the close of a life of sorrow, 
yet, a life filled with good for dying man, and 
which bore the marks of one nobler than this, in the 
blissful consummation of which the redeemed shall 
eventually and forever walk, it was that he gathered 
his disciples around him and talked with them of his 
crucifixion, and of his final triumph over the power 
of death, and of his glorious ascension. He also 
forewarned them of the trials that would beset them 
in life, and how by false brethren they would be 
treated, but they would be consoled in part if they 
but remembered him in all his sufferings, and that it 
was for them he suffered. 
What a beautiful picture is presented in that last 
supper of his, just before he was nailed to the cross. 
Twelve disciples, who had suffered with him, for 
three long years, travelling over the hills of Pales-
tine, and through its valleys, are now sitting around 
a table—in the midst of them is the Saviour. Before 
them is spread the bread and the wine, and as he 
lifts upward his eyes, he commands a blessing to 
rest upon these emblems of his body and blood, 
and bids them to often break and eat, and to pour 
! out and drink of the mystical wine in remembrance 
We shall now proceed to show from a few signs 
and prophecies, that Christ is now emphatically near 
at hand. 
In proof of this, I would call your attention to the 
following :-1. In Dan. 2d is brought to view the 
rise and fall of four successive universal kingdoms—
the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman. 
The last kingdom has been broken, as represented by 
the feet and toes of the image, and at this time ex-
hibits the best form of that empire. TI e history of 
these monarchies comprises the general transactions of 
mankind, from the day of Nebuchadnezzar to the es-
tablishment of God's 'everlasting kingdom. We are 
living in the days of the division of the Roman em-
pire, represented by the toes, and the prophecy de-
clares that " in the day of these kings shall the God 
of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be de-
stroyed." This is the next great event for which we 
are to look, and standing as we do in such immediate 
nearness to the kingdom of God, we feel the force 
and meaning of the words of our text, " Behold, I 
come quickly." 
.2 In Dan. 7th we have a more particular and 
expressive argument to this point. We are then I of him. In other words it may be rendered :—" As 
brought down to the time when the judgment will now in my bodily presence ye do hold commun-
be given to the saints or. the Most High, and " the 1 ion with me, by partaking of these emblems of my 
time come when the saints possess the kingdom." broken body and shed blood, so when my body isnot 
The last item nientioned previous to this is now hay- with you, and I have ascended on high, do ye. Ye 
ing a remarkable fulfilment : " The same horn made shall not then see me as ye now do, but 1 will send 
war with the saints, and prevailed against them."— the Holy Spirit which shall teach you, through 
This refers to the Papacy, and it is in such a won- which you may hold the same communion with me as! 
derful manner prevailing against the saints, as to even ye do now." And he might have added, some of you! 
arouse at last the cold Protestants, and causing alarm. will experience the kindling of its mighty work-
We can read this prophecy, look abroad and witness ings when, after my resurrection, ye shall journey! 
190 
COMLIELTOMMITM. 
its fulfilment, and give heed to the words of our Sa-
viour, " Behold, I come quickly." 
I will not detain you with the signs given by 
Christ, but close by referring to the Trumpets. The 
first four trumpets relate to the gradual but complete 
subversion of western Rome. The 5th and 6th pre-
dict. the rise of the Saracens and Turks, and the spread 
of the Mohammedan religion, as the smoke of a 
great furnace. Under the scourge of the 5th trumpet, 
the eastern portion of the Roman empire was rav-
aged and constantly harassed and gradually weak-
ened, but under the 6th trumpet it was subverted.—
All admit that but one trumpet remains, the 7th, and 
when that sounds, " the mystery of God will be fin-
ished," the dead be raised, the living changed, the 
righteous rewarded, and the wicked destroyed. The 
Saviour was standing prophetically between the 6th 
arid 7th trumpets when he said, " Behold, the third 
woe cometh quickly." 
[Bro. Robinson closed his discourse with an earnest 
and affecting appeal to the brethren to arouse them-
selves to the work of God, and prepare for that day, 
near at hand, when every man would be rewarded 
according as his work shall be.] 
BY REV. C. H. CANFIELD. 
TEXT.—" Amid they said one to another, Did not 
our hearts burn within us while lie talked with us 
by the way, and while he opened to us the scrip-
tures? "—Luke 24:32. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The London Athenaeum makes some comments 
upon the extraordinary growth of this country, 
which, though true, would have possessed much less 
interest had they appeared in any American journal : 
" Men in the habit of reading daily newspapers 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
am constrained to say my visit to Hartford was truly 
a pleasant, and I trust a profitable one, at least to 
myself. The perfect harmony which was manifest-
ed among the brethren who remain in the old church, 
together with the interest and spirituality which 
characterize their meetings, constitute an encourag-
ing indication of a revival of the work of God 
among them. I rejoice to learn that Bro. Fassett 
has accepted a call to become their pastor. 
The same remarks will hold good with respect to 
the church in Providence, where I spent Sabbath, 
June 30th, and found a very encouraging state of 
things existing. They have only to hold fast, and 
continue united in the work of the Lord, and they 
may expect to witness the outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit. 
From Providence, I made my way to the Tent 
meeting at Truro, Mass. But as you have already 
given an account of that meeting, I need not enlarge 
in reference to it. Suffice it to say, that it was to 
me a season of encouragement and satisfaction. The 
scenes which were there witnessed, of weeping peni-
tents seeking mercy through the blood of the Lamb, 
will long be remembered. May the great Shepherd 
of the sheep keep them to the day of Christ. 
Wednes.day, July 9th, I spent the night with Bro. 
Osler in Salem, Mass., had an interesting meeting in 
the evening at a private house in Danvers. The 
cause in Salim arid vicinity is in a prosperous con-
dition, and bids fair still to advance. 
Saturday, 12th, arrived home, and found all well, 
and the friends highly gratified with the labors of 
Bro. Osier and Luling, who supplied my place dur- 
ing my absence. 
J. L1TCH. 
Philadelphia, July 16th, 1851. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. C. A THORP writes from Hunslet, near Leeds 
(Eng ), July 4th, 1851: 
DEAR BROTHER :—I am glad to find that you are 
generally in the field, laboring for the good of the 
cause. It is gratifying also to learn that the Church 
worshipping in the Chardon-street Chapel is prosper-
ing. Severe trials, when borne with patience and 
fortitude, tend to refiue and invigorate our faith and 
zeal. 
I should have esteemed it a blessed privilege to 
have been permitted to attend the New York Confer-
ence, and seen and felt the happy influences of peace, 
and love, and unity. I have been reading the report, 
and my heart telt in in full union with the general 
sentiment of the meeting. I shall be glad to peruse 
the report of the Boston Conference. I hope it has 
been a happy, joyful, instructive, and edifying one.—
It is quite tune the brethren and churches fully knew 
and understood each other. And I hope that in the 
future,—until the Master comes, who will set all 
things in full order, and place every man in his prop-
er position,—we shall see uninterrupted harmony of 
effort, and oneness of action and motive, hi prociam-
ing the " hour of his judgment come," that guilty 
sinners may be saved, and a slumbering church ar-
roused to this hour of peril. 0 that all who believe 
the Lord is at hand could realize, continually, the 
dangers by which they are surrounded, and the bless-
ed hope they profess to cherish. May the Lord pu-
rify us, and sanctify us ; and at last, when he shall 
look into our hearts, find no longer any hidden de-
pravity, which now remains lurking iii every corner 
of our souls, but may behold only the image of Jesus, 
indelibly stamped thereon. yours truly, in the 
" blessed hope." 
Bro. I. C. WELLCOME writes from Hallowell, 
(Me.), July 7th, 1851: 
BRO. BLISS :—Our recent meeting at Whitefield 
was one of interest and profit. Although it is but 
a short time since the proclamation of the coming 
Bridegroom took effect among them, there are many 
who are now anxious to hear the glorious truths of 
the advent of Christ and his kingdom, and some 
have returned to the Lord from a backslidden state, 
while the young people of the place are serious and 
very attentive to the word, and seem desirous to be-
come heirs of the kingdom to come. May the Lord 
lead them from sin to himself, and make them par-
takers of his grace, which will fit them to receive 
him joyfully at his coining. New doors are con-
stantly opening for meetings to hear our message of 
the coming King, which cannot lie supplied fur 
lack of laborers. 0 that God may raise up and 
thrust out more laborers into his vineyard, who will 
not shun to declare the whole counsel of God. 
Yours in the love of God, waiting for redemp-
tion. 
Bro. H. L. SMITH writes from Auburn (N. Y.), 
July 14th, 1851 : 
Bao. Himes very interesting revival is now 
in progress in this city. In the Baptist Church, 
twenty-six persons obeyed the Lord in the ordinance 
of baptism the first Lord's day in this month, and it 
is thought as many more will follow next commun-
ion day. I have to praise the Lord that those 
near to me by the ties of consanguinity are among 
the number. Sinners are learning their duty to God, 
and obeying from the heart. ln this I will rejoice. 
Some persons among us say they cannot rejoice be-
cause they are not taught the gospel as they under-
stand it, with reference to what Christ has promised 
to do for them; but I still rejoice, and I know you 
will rejoice with ine, that sinners are learning their 
duty, and obeying the Lord so far as they learn it.—
Yours in that same blessed hope. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The American Census Abroad. 
may sometimes observe, in small type carefully packed 
away in spare corners of the broad sheet, queer 
looking paragraphs one half names, and the other 
half figures. Often enough these paragraphs are 
the result of much labor and skilful arrangement; 
but too frequently the reader hurries past them to 
the more exciting police reports or foreign corres- 
pondence. Yet some of them are well worth 
pondering. In one, for example, we have just read 
a few returns of the new American census, of such 
unusual significance, that we doubt whether far-see-
ing men will not regard them as more interesting 
than the firmest revolution abroad, or the foulest mur-
der at home. 
" The American census is not yet complete ; but 
the returns already received point to conclusions far 
beyond hope or expectation. Look at New York, 
fur instance. In 1820, it had a population of 123,-
000 ; 1830, 203,000 ; in 1840,312,000. This rate of 
increase was unparalleled in the history of statistics. 
But the population is now said to have risen to the 
astonishing number of 750,000. — [This includes 
New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, &c., &c.]—
There are but two larger cities in Europe ; in ten 
years more, at the same rate of progress, it will be 
larger than Paris. In thirty years from this date 
New York will, on the same terms, be larger than 
London. 
" And it must be considered that the capital of 
America is not red, like our Manchester and Liver-
pool, at the expense of the country; its advance is 
the type of that of an entire continent. In 1810 
the population of St. Louis was 1,600 ; in 1830, 
6,000 ; in 1840; 16,400: in 1850 it numbered 90,000 ! 
So far as the general nature of the returns can be 
inferred from the date at hand, the population of the 
Union will be about 25,000,000. From the year 
1800, when the number was a little more than 5,000,-
000, to 1840, when it had advanced to 17,000,000, 
the decennial rate of increase was about 33 per 
cent. This rate would have given for 1850 a popula-
tion of 22,000,000 only. 
" Material power has been developed equally with 
population. Great Britain alone excepted, no state 
in Europe could now maintain equal armaments in 
the field for any length of time. This marvellous 
growth is,deranging all the old tradition of balances 
of power.' America is not only a first class state—
in a few years, if no internal disorder shall occur, 
she will, be the greatest of all. Should the 1840-50 
rate of increase be maintained for fifty years, the 
population will then amount to 190,000,000—nearly 
equal to that of the whole of continental Europe ! 
Were it possible to conceive the same ratio main-
tained for another fifty years, the census of 1850 
would give the astounding number of 1,696,000,000 ! 
German wars and French revolutions sink into com-
plete insignificance by the side of considerations like 
these. 
" With such a comment, how well we may under-
stand the roars of laughter' with which the Ameri-
can Senate recently received the menaces of Aus-
tria ! When the United States shook off the yoke 
of England, their people numbered no more than 
3,000,000 ; when they were last measured against a 
European power, they were not more than 8,000,000. 
Ten years hence they will be equal to France or 
Austria. There hardly seems to be a limit to their 
growth. The valley of the Mississippi would alone 
support the whole population of Europe. In its 
vast basin, nations are now growing up as if at the 
bidding of enchantment." 
Satan's Soliloquy on Prayer. 
Ah, there's a good man for me. There's a man 
after my own heart, at least as far as any profession 
of religion is. 1 like that man well. Wish there 
were more such in every church than there are there, 
though they are by no means rare. Let me see ; 
that good soul has not been to a prayer meeting thr 
more than a year, and there is no family altar in his 
house. Alm, he is my man. He has already convinced, 
by his life, three different persons, who were begin-
ning to be quite serous, that there is nothing in reli-
gion, and I think 1 shall secure them as my lawful 
prey. I cannot help laughing to myself when I look 
upon such men, calling themselves pious, members 
in good standing in the churches, and yet doing so 
much by their daily conduct to harden men in sin, 
and to help along my cause arid glory. 1 didn't use 
to think I should get so much help out of the church 
as I do, fur some of my most efficient laborers are 
church members. 
watchman and Reflector. 
A Counter-Blast. 
One of the kings of England once wrote " a coun-
ter-blast to tobacco," in which he inveighed ear-
nestly against the growing use of that weed.—
Another anti-tobacco movement has been started at 
a meeting in Boston, at which Rev. Mr. Trask urged 
several objections against the use of tobacco; al-
though a member of the Orthodox church, he felt 
himself called on to use his endeavors in behalf of 
humanity. " All drunkards use this weed. In all 
his lecturing in fifty towns, he had but found three 
drunkards who did not use tobacco. The town of 
Milford uses 80 tons of plug tobacco in a year. The 
city of New York pays $10,000 a day thr cigars, 
and only $8,500 a day for bread. It is computed 
that 20,000 persons every year, in America, get into 
the grave trout the use of tobacco. The effects of 
this weed upon young students were portrayed. 
His lecturing on the subject was welcomed by 
many classes. Storekeepers said they had more 
silks and satins ruined by tobacco than any other 
way. 100,000 slaves are employed in its cuitiva-
lion, so that the abolition principle had an interest 
in the case." 
Judicial Integrity. 
Judge Sewall, of Massachusetts, who died in 1760, 
went one day into a hatter's shop, in order to purchase 
a pair of second-hand brushes fir cleaning his shoes. 
The master of the shop presented him with a couple. 
What is the price!" said the judge. " If they an-
swer your purposes," replied the other, " you may 
have them and welcome." The judge upon hearing 
this laid them down, and bowing„ was leaving the 
shop, upon which the latter said to him, " Pray sir, 
your honor has forgotten the principal object of your, 
visit." " By no means," answered the judge ; " if 
you please to set a price, I am ready to purchase ; 
but ever since it has fallen to my lot to occupy a seat 
on the bench, I have studiously avoided receiving the 
value of a single copper, lest at some future period of 
my life, it might have some kind of influence in de-
termining my judgment." 
Slander. 
" The first slanderer that ever was in the world 
was a false accuser, and that was the devil, who as 
he began betimes, for he was a liar from the begin-
ning, so lie began aloft, for the first false report that 
he raised was of the Most High, unjustly accusing 
God, unto our mother Eve, of no fewer than three 
great crimes at once, falsehood, tyranny, and envy. 
He was then a slanderous accuser of his Maker, and 
he haul continued ever since a malicious accuser 
of his brethren, and in most languages he hath his 
name from it. Slanderers, and backbiters, and false 
accusers may hence learn to take knowledge of the 
rock whence they are hewn ; here they may behold 
the top of their pedigree. We may not deny them 
the antiquity of their descent, though they have lit-
tle reason to boast of it, semen serpentis, the spawn of 
the old serpent, children of their father the devil. 
And they do not shame the stock they come of, for 
the works of their father they readily do. That 
hellish aphorism they so faithfully practice is one 
of his principles ; it was he that first instilled it into 
them, calumniare fortiter, aliquid adlicerebit ; ' smile 
with the tongue, and to be sure to smite home, and 
then be sure either the grief or the blemish of the 
stroke will stick to it." 
Nicotine. 
Experiments upon the effects of nicotine, the new 
poison brought into notice by the trial of' the Count 
de I3ocarme, are being made in various cities of the 
continent. A day or two ago it was tried on dogs, 
cats, and hens, at Brussels, with most decisive 
results. Two drops caused the speedy death of a 
hen, and the instantaneous death of a cock. Sev-
eral drops mixed with ether, arid given to a small 
dog, caused sudden contractions of the limbs and 
copious salivation. A dose of vinegar caused him to 
revive, momentarily, but he died soon after. A hull 
dog, who was forced to swallow ten drops of nico-
tine, struggled against its effects for a full quarter of 
an hour. A cat that had swallowed four drops, ran 
four times around the room, and then jumped out of 
the window. The physicians, who performed these 
experiments, were to hold a post-mortem examination 
of the animals dead from the effects of nicotine. This 
poison has the appearance of Madeira wine and the 
smell of ammoniac. 
Nicotine is an alkaloid obtained from tobacco, and 
is one of its active principles. It has long been 
known that a constituent part of the tobacco plant 
is one of the most active and deadly poisons. Simi-
lar experiments to those above noticed were long ago 
made with the essential oil of tobacco, and with 
similar results. Death has been produced by this 
oil, sucked by a child from an old pipe stem. These 
facts have long been before the public ; but they 
seem to produce no dirninuition in the popular use 
of the posion. It would seem, on the contrary, to 
be growing in favor with the young. 
A Word to Idlers. 
A person once called and introduced himself by 
saying that " lie was come to spend an idle hour with 
Mr. Benson." " Be assured," said that eminent 
man. "that Mr. Benson has no idle hours. From 
seventeen to eighteen hours he spends every day 
either in reading, or praying, or preaching. Besides, 
he is going to preach this evening ; and lie mostly 
spends an hour upon his knees before he goes into 
the pulpit." With some degree of confusion the 
person withdrew ; and it was humped that he learned, 
by the mode of his reception, never again to disturb 
ministers when they are preparing to preach, or to 
imagine that they have idle hours to spend with idle 
people, who are not conscious of the value of time. 
Misquotation.-" He who Runs may Read." 
No such passage exists in the Scriptures, though 
it is constantly quoted as from them. It is usually 
the accompaniment of expressions relative to the 
clearness of meaning or direction, the suppositious 
allusion being to an inscription written in very large 
characters. The text in the prophet Habakkuk is 
the following :—" Write the vision and make it 
plain upon tables, that he may run who readeth it.' 
Ch. 2:2. Here, plainly the meaning is, that every one 
reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should 
turn and fly, from the impending calamity ; and 
although this involves the notion of legibility and 
clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the 
primary one, as those persons make it who misquote 
it in the manner stated above. Notes and Queries. 
Three Onlies. 
The sole authority of the Bible as a rule of faith ; 
in opposition to the decrees, traditions, and command-
ments of men. 
The sufficiency of Christ's atonement ; in oppo-
sition to human merits and ceremonies. 
The'renewal and sanctification of the soul, by the 
power of the Holy Spirit, through the truth ; in op-
position to the efficacy of sacraments and penance. 
Population of the Principal Towns in Maine. 
Portland, 20,819 ; Bangor, 14,432 ; Augusta, 8,227 ; 
Bath, 8,020 ; Gardiner, 6,486 ; 13iddetbrd, 6,095 ; 
Saco, 5,794 ; Belfast, 5,052; Rockland, 5,032 ; 
Brunswick, 4,976 ; Westbrook, 4,852 ; Hallowell, 
4,769; Calais, 4,750; Frankthrt, 4,233 ; Waldobo-
tough, 4,199 ; Eastport, 4,125 ; Ellsworth, 4,009 ; 
Camden!, 4,005. 
Sir Philip Sidney says, " The true valiant dare do 
every thh.g, but do any body an injury." 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
- In Alexandria, Va., a lawyer named Andrews slapped 
his slave boy on the mouth with the back of his hand ; one 
of the teeth wounded the hand between two of the knuckles, 
front the effects of which Andrews died in a few days. 
- A doctor in Cincinnati was lately called upon to per-
form an operation upon the head of a young lady of that city. 
It appeared that she had been in the habit of twisting and 
tying her hair so tightly, that the scalp had become parted 
from the skull, and it was found necessary to open the scalp 
to remove the matter which had accumulated beneath. 
- A drunken row occurred among some Irishmen, wino 
formed a part of a Catholic pic-nic party to Cochituate Grove, 
on the 17th, in which one of the actors was stabbed in the 
hand. 
-- The Pictou (N. S.) Chronicle mentions the death of 
Mr. John Chisholm, of East River, of dropsy. He had 
been tapped 228 times, by which operations 358 gallons of 
water had been taken from his body. 
- In New York, a man 74 years old, and worth half a 
million of dollars, was recently bitten by a mad dog, and 
died within five hours after the attack. 
- Gen. 'I'alcott, has been convicted by a court-martin, 
of illegally contracting for a large quantity of cannon ballsf 
at the sante time being in collusion with the contractor, o 
disregarding the orders of the Secretary of War, of false-
hood, &c., and dismissed from the service. 
- Some girls in Winchester, Preble county, 0., got 
into a quarrel about a swing, as hen one of them struck ano-
ther so severely with a club, as, to cause her death in a few 
days.' The girl who struck the blow was arrested, but after-
wards discharged. 
- Mr. Thompson, a wealthy planter of Mississippi, re-
cently took with him to Cincinnati fourteen slaves, whom he 
intended to set free, and place on a farm which he had pur-
chased for them in Mercer county, 0. 
- The Plainfield Gazette says, that the clergymen of 
that place have resolved that they will not officiate at the fu-
neral of any member of the order of Odd Fellows, or any 
other secret society, where the ceremonies of such societies 
are performed. 
- A slave trader in New Orleans named Creswell, re-
cently died, liberating by will all his slaves, ninety-one in 
number. The will was contested by his executors, but was 
confirmed by the court. 
- Simeon Souther, a wealthy citizen of Hanover Co., 
Va., has been sentenced to the penitentiary for five years fur 
whipping one of his slaves to death. 
- During fifteen days in June, nearly one million bas-
kets of strawberries were brought into the city of New York 
from one locality in New Jersey. 
- During the week ending on the 12th, says the Inde-
pendent, 321 children died in the city of New York, princi-
pally caused by the use of milk from cows fed on distillery 
slops. 
On the 15th of March, we discontinued the Herald to 182 
persons, each owing $4 or over, to whom we had sent bills 
amounting to $734, and from whom we had heard nothing. 
And also to 218 free persons, to each of whom we had sent 
from four to seventeen volumes of the Herald, without hear-
ing from them whether it was a welcome visitor, and whose 
accounts, if charged, would amount to $1811-making 400 
stoppages, to whom the paper has been sent to the amount of 
$2,535 without pay. There are still large numbers to whom 
we must discontinue the Herald, unless we learn whether it is 
sufficiently prized by them to make it advisable to subject the 
office to the expense of sending it. 
TO AGENTS AND FRIENDS.-We feel indebted to our 
faithful agents and friends everywhere for their kindness to-
wards us, and interest in the support of the Herald. Efffirts 
have been and still are being made, to diminish the number 
of our subscribers ; we hope, therefore, that corresponding 
exertions will be made to keep our present number good. It 
can be very easily done, if friends will only make the effort. 
Big Tent Meetings. 
Hartford, Ct., July 30th, to continue a week or more. 
Clinton, Mass., August 9th, to 16th or 17th. 
Richmond village, Me., August 20th to 27th. 
New Haven, Vt., August 30th to Sept. 7th. 
Champlain, N. Y., Sept. 11th to 21st. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 28th and onward. 
Full particulars will be given hereafter. 
CORRECTION.-Bro. L. CooN, of Auburn, who was 
published as stopping his paper when there was 
something due on it, was so published by an error of 
his Postmaster. He told him to stop another paper 
of a similar name, but opposite principles, and the 
P. M. mistook and stopped the Herald. Bro. C. has 
re-subscribed, and pays promptly. 
THE Tent-meeting in Providence commenced on 
Tuesday evening last, on the East side of the river, 
near the " Tocwatton House." Services at 10, 3, 
and 7 1-2 o'clock-to continue over the Sabbath. 
Elders EDWIN BURNHAM, SHIPMAN, and FASSETT 
will attend. 
HARTFORD, CT.-A. Big Tent-meeting will com-
mence on Wednesday, July 30th, to continue a week 
or more. Friends in the vicinity are requested to co-
operate in the objects of the meeting-the advance-
ment of doctrine of the Advent near. 
We had a good meeting at Phoenix, R. I. 
Its 
close was particularly so. 
Lynch Law in San Francisco. 
broad daylight. As soon as the sentence was passed, the 
bell on the California engine house, near by, commenced ring-
ing the prisoner's funeral knell. Capt. Ray, of the Police 
force, applied at the door of the Committee Room, and de-
manded the prisoner, but was refused several times, and al-
though others of the police force were on the ground, they 
saw it was of no use to attempt a rescue. 
About 1 o'clock Mr. Samuel Brannan came out, and as-
cending the bank opposite, announced the result of the Com-
mittee's deliberations, stating that he hail been fairly tried, 
convicted upon the strongest testimony, and offered no de-
fence except a denial of the robbery. He gave the name of 
John Jenkins, and professed to be a native of London. Mr. 
B. stated that he hail been allowed another hour to prepare 
himself for death, and that Rev. Mr. Mines had been sent 
for to visit him. The crowd present promptly approved of 
the action of the Committee. Front that time the excitement 
began to increase, and the twitter was freely discussed by 
knots of citizens at the various street corners, around the 
Committee-room, and in the square. A very large majority 
were evidently in favor of the execution. 
The prisoner was perfectly composed during this time, and 
indulged in a cigar. The clergyman promptly responded to 
the request to pray with the prisoner, and remained with him 
for nearly an hour. If we are correctly inffirrned, his pres-
ence had no particular effect upon the condemned man, who 
doubtless confidently anticipated a rescue by the police. 
About 2 o'clock the doors of the Committee-room were 
opened, and the condemned was for the first time presented 
to the populace. He was a tall man of very great muscular 
developments and with rather a forbidding countenance.- 
He was smoking a cigar, and appeared rather pale, but com-
posed. His arms were pinioned, and his hands tied behind 
him, while he was surrounded by a rope thickly manned by 
armed men, many others closing on them, determined to pre-
vent his escape. In this manner, followed by a large crowd, 
he was conducted to the public square. His arrival was an-
nounced with a shout and every description of vociferation-
the wildest scene of confusion and excitement prevailing we 
have witnessed for a long time. The moon, obscured by 
clouds, shed no light, and the picture presented was wild 
and awful in the extreme. 
Some person climbed the liberty-pole to rig a block for the 
execution, but a loud shout of "Don't hang him on the lib-
erty-pole !" arose. Voices screamed out, " To the Old 
Adobe !" and a rush was wade for that edifice, upon the cor-
ner of the square, formerly occupied as the Custom House. 
A rush was at once made for the end of the building, a block 
rigged and a long rope run through it. In the meantime a 
number of the police, who were on the ground, made several 
attempts to obtain possession of the prisoner, but they were 
roughly handled and prevented. Had they persisted, they 
would have been riddled with balls. Several citizens de-
nounced the execution, and sought to aid the police. 
The prisoner by this time was nearly dead with fear and 
rough handling, when a rush was made toward him, a noose 
thrown over his head, the rope manned by twenty ready 
hands, and the heavy form of the convicted felon swept 
through the air and dangled from the block. A few fearful 
struggles, a quiver of the hempen cord, a few nervous 
twitches, and the crowd gazed upon the lifeless corpse of 
him upon whom such speedy and terrible vengeance had been 
executed by an outraged people. As he swung to and Ito, 
and turned round and round, a feeling of awe appeared to 
spread through the crowd, who could not be otherwise than 
impressed by the terrible occurrence. Slowly they dispersed. 
bunt when day broke, there were still many gazing upon the 
swollen, purple features of the doomed man. 
At 6 o'clock the Marshal repaired to the spot, cut down 
the body and consigned it to the dead-house. Thus ended 
the first execution which ever took place in San Francisco, 
where more crime has been committed within the past year 
than in any other city of the same population in the Union, 
without one single instance of adequate punishment. Of the 
guilt of Jenkins there was no doubt. tie has been known to 
the police for months as a desperate character from the penal 
colonies, where lie had passed many years as a transported 
convict. 
The Vigilance Committee, the Alta California says, is 
composed of some or the most respectable citizens of San 
Francisco, numbering about two hundred, who avow their 
willingness to be responsible for what they do. In conse- 
quence of the frequent crimes, and the failure to convict or 
punish the perpetrators, the Committee have declared their 
determination to suffer no criminal, when apprehended, to 
escape punishment, until the city is rid of the rogues who 
have so Zang infested it. They have established a " People's 
Court " for the trial of crimes, and have pledged themselves, 
in a series of resolutions, to support each other to the extent 
of their lives. They say that property and life are insecure' 
anti that the authorities fail to afford the honest and orderly 
any protection ; therefore further forbearance would cease to 
be a virtue. They have resolved to have the people deter-
mine by vote, whether robbery, &c., shall be visited by hang-
ing, or some other punishment ; but whatever mode may be 
adopted, they pledge themselves that no criminal, after a fair 
trial, shall escape punishment. 
SUMMARY. 
- On Saturday night, the 12th, a train of passenger 
cars was thrown off the railroad near Schuylkill, by obstruc-
tions placed on the track. Benjamin McDaniel, of Phila-
delphia, was fatally injured. A man has been arrested on 
suspicion. 
- The " Sunbury American " of the 12th inst. says 
that a severe rain anti hail storm passed over that place on 
the 3d. The wind was very high, and the rain and hail fell 
in torrents. Along the Limestone Ridge in Lower Augusta, 
the grain was badly cut, and the leaves of the young corn 
completely stripped ftom the stalk. As late as ten o'clock 
the next day, hailstones were found as large as hen's eggs. 
- At Taunton a few days ago, a young man named 
Smythe was engaged in painting the outside of an attic win-
dow of the brick mill, when th rope which held the plank 
on which he stood broke, and he fell a distance of fifty or 
sixty feet. He lived but about fifteen minutes after his tall. 
- Dr. Wright, of Knoxville, Tenn., while engaged in 
flogging one of his slaves, received several mortal stabs from 
the latter with a knife. lie succeeded in killing the slave. 
- Mr. J. H. Alexander has observed, that the third 
day before the new moon governs the quarter-day of that lu-
nation, and fortifies his own general observations by more 
strict ones at the Girard College, in which from three-fourths 
to four-fifths of the quarter-days turned out according to his 
rule. 
- Mr. Saltzentein, a merchant of Athens, Ill., received 
one or two boxes of goods from Europe. Five persons, who 
were present when they were opened, took sick and died.-
The disease soon spread among those who attended them, 
and among others. In one family six persons died. A panic 
at once ensued, when about halt the inhabitants left the place. 
With one exception, the deaths have been among adults. 
A large number have fallen victims. 
- While the house of a merchant in San Francisco, 
containing all that he possessed, was in flames during the last 
conflagration there, coolly invited his wife to walk out and 
see the fire ; when they had passed into the street he sud-
denly drew a revolver and shot her through the head, and 
then shot himself. He had lust everything he possessed at 
each of the two previous fires. 
- A letter from Paris states, that one of the royal 
family of Spain lately eloped with the cook of the palace, to 
the great scandal of the court. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
Total delinquencies since Jan. 1st, 1831 ' 143 33 
To SEND HERALD TO POOR. 
S. Stone 
 1 10 
To AID Tins TENT OPERATIONS-C. Iloughton 10 00 
APPOINTMENTS, &c. 
Bro. D. Campbell will preach at Colhourne Aug. 1st, 6 P at; CO-
burg, 3d, 11 A M and 5 P M; Bro. Pearce's, 5th, ti P M ; Toronto, 6th 
do; Bro. Griggs's, 7111 do ; Nelson, 8th to ; Father Campbell's, 9th 
do ; Bro. Burroughs', 10th, 3 P M ; Bro. Navers', 11th, 6 P m; Dea- 
con Howard's, 12th do; Bro. Truman Wilcox's, Norwich, 13th do; 
Mr. Gray's, Itith. I will explain to the friends, when I see them, 
why I did not fulfil my last appointments. 
D. C. 
There will he a Conference in Conway, Mass.,in the vicinity of 
Bro. Pulsifees, A itg. 1St, to continue over the Sabbath. 
I am now at liberty to visit and labor as the Church shall call. 
Letters may be directed toitiridgeport, Ct. 
I A 
Bro. F. H. Berick will preach in Lowell, (Masonic IIIMI,)DthAN
ethmt 
Sabbath in August. 
Bro. A. Sherwin will preach at South Newbury, Vt., Sabbath, 
Aug. 10th, and at North Danville Sabbath, 17th. 
Bro. A. Merrill will preach at Bristol, Ct., Sabbath, July 27th ; 
New Hartford, 28th, 5 P M ; Winsted, 29th, 2 e m; Granville, Mass., 
30th, 5 P m Springfield, 31st, 71 P m ; Brimfield, August 1st, 5 P 
Holden, Sabbath, 3d. 
Bro. I. C. Wellcome Will preach, Providence permitting, in the 
Partridge school-house, Whitefield, Me., Sunday, July 27t11, at 
which time it is expected that a number will be baptized, and the 
Lord's supper administered. 
I will preach. at Morrisville, Pa., July 31st; Yardleyville Aug. 1st; 
Philadelphia, Oil ; Baltimore, Md., from the 6th to the 10t11 ; Centre 
County, Pa., 14th and onward. 
Bro. Hawkes will preach in Hartford the fourth Sabbath in July 
and the first hi August, and Bro. Edwin Burnham the second. 
Bro. F. McWilliams will preach at Lockport N. Y., Sunday, 
July 27th. 
Bro. F. H. Beech will preach in Nashua, N. H., Sabbath, July 27 . 
There will he a Camp-meeting at Fingal, on the old ground near 
widow Burdine's, commencing Aug. 16th, at 3 P m, and continue 
over the seental Sabbath. Friends are requested to have their tents 
up on the Friday previous to the meeting, Provisions will be made 
for horses on the most reasonable terms. Elder H. Robinson, 
of New York, and several others, will be present. Collections 
will be taken up to defray the expenses of the meeting. In behalf 
of the brethren, Lewis B. Payson, A. Weldon, D. Campbell.. 
A Camp-meeting will be held near Bro. Burroughs', commencing 
Aug. 26th, at 3 P an, Mal continue five days. Friends will please to 
erect their tents previous to the day of meeting. Provision will be 
made for horses. It is hoped that a good number of friends will he 
present, as a consultation will he held at the close of the meeting, 
touching the best way of forwarding the cause. A collection will 
be taken up to defray the expenses of the ii leering. In behalf of the 
brethren, J. Burroughs, W. Willard, W. Cornwell, D. Campbell.. 
A meeting will be held at Coburg, commencing* Sept. 7, at 11 A at, 
and continue several days. Also one at Ass Spencer's, Sept. 11th, 
at 3 P m. Friends are invited to attend. 
A Camp-meeting will commence in the Powley neighborhood 
Sept. 13th, at 3 P m, and centilitre a week or more, as duty may re-
quire. Friends will bring their tents. A collection will be taken 
up to defray the expenses of the meeting. As we want to circulate 
gratuitously a number of excellent tracts at all of the above meet-
ings, let all the friends of the Advent cause remember their respon-
sibility to spread the light communed to them, and of which they 
will have to give an account. Brim. J. Powley, Peter J. Camp-
bell, of Huron, Peirce, and Truest:late, are invited. In behalf of the 
brethren, C. l'owley, W. Jac. son, D. Cambell. 
(Monitor & Messenger please copy the above.) 
There will be a Camp-meeting at Northfield Farms, near the resi-
dence of Bro. A. Gage, commencing Aug. 261h, and continue over 
the Sabbath. We cordially invite all to this feast of tabernacles, 
for we believe the Lord will be with us, according to his promise. 
Brethren who can are requested to brill tents and provisions ; ar-
rangements will be made at Bro. Gage's for all others u-the poor 
shall he led, and have the gospel preached to them. Horses kept at 
Bro. Gage's. liro. T. M. Feeble and others will be in attendance 
to divide the word of truth. ANSON GAGE, S. W. BISHOP, S. W. 
SLATE, E. G. SCOTT, Committee. 
There will he a Camp-meeting at Winstead, two miles from the 
depot, commencing Sept. 2d, and continuing probably over the 161-
lowing Sabbath. We invite all the lovers of Jesus, and those who 
wish to become his followers, to come in the 'tame of the Lord, tor 
we expect the good Lord will meet with his people, and forgive 
sinners. We hope those who can will bring their tents and provi-
sions. Board and horse keeping on reasonable tern's, with a free 
tattle for God's poor. These coining by public conveyance will stop 
at the depot, or hotels in the place, where they can procure a cheap 
CODVeyaliCe Is the camp-ground. M. GRANT, S. G. MATHEWSON. 
H. MUNGER, Committee. 
A Tent-meeting will be held in Charleston, IL I., to commence 
on Friday, Aug. 1st, to cominue over the following Sabbath. The 
ground is within a mile and a half of the Caroline Mills, a little 
south of the rail-road. Elders Edwin Belabour and k 
are expected to be present. 
J. NOCAEE. 
Bro. J. Cummings will commence a Tent-meeting at Loudon vil-
lage, N• H., Aug. 5th, to emanate over the Sabbath. Bro. 
BENTLEY.
H.1.H 
 
Shipman is requested to attend. 
H. L. 
Providence permittieg., Bro. J. Cummings will commence a Tent 
meeiiiig at East Weare village, N. H., Wednesday, i. and 
continue over the Sabbath. 
 M. PRERLE. 
Second Advent Big Tent Meetings. 
A Second Advent Big Tent-meeting will commence at Richmond 
village, Me., Aug. 20th, to continue one week. As this may be the 
only great gathering of Adventists in this State this season, it is 
!loped that our brethren in all this region will take an active interest 
in it, and cone prepared to labor fbr the salvation of sinners. Breth-
ren who can do so, wit!' see the propriety of bringing tents with 
them, in which to board and lodge themselves and friends, and thus 
avoid the necessity of speculating shanties. w e can, war,. riffle 
effort, make sufficient provlsion for ourselves in mommy places, and 
also tor those who come from a distance, amid who cannot bring 
tents, but who will be ready to pay for such accommodatiotts as they 
need. Brethren wilt do all they can to accommodate brethren from 
abroad. The location is easy of access, being within one Irmalred 
rods of the river, where steamboats pass each way from Bath and 
Waterville several times a day, and bat a few rods from the railroad 
depot, so that those coming in the cars from Boston, Lowell, Port-
land, t'aris, Poland, Lewiston, or auy intervening towns, will arrive 
at IP m. Ben. banes, E. Burnham, amid F. H. Berick, are expected, 
and we hope our preachers in Maine will also come, that we may 
put forth a netted effort to save a portion of this perishing genera-
tion, by sounding the proclamation of the soon coming judgment. 
WM. C. HALL, D. ROBINSON, L. CURTIS, J. 1/MBERMND, COM-
mittee ; N. SMITH, I. C. WELLCOME, assistants. 
Big Tent and Carup-meetieg- in New Haven; Vt., commencing 
Aug. 30th, and continue a week,• or longer. It is hoped this will be 
a general meeting of Adventists throughout this region, and that 
the cause of spieading the great truth of our soon coming Lord 
may here receive a new impetus. Let brethren come with faith and 
earliest prayer, that God may, revive his wank. Those coming from 
the north or south, can come by- way of the 13urlingtee and Rut-
land Railroad, and probably stop milli', fifty rods of the plted. 
All necessary arrangements for the accommodation of those who 
nary come will be made, the particulars of which will be given 
hereafter. 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
Buffalo, June 18th., 1851. 
DEAR BRO. DIMES WWI you would put in your paper the 
following note, caused by lookieg through your " Defence," which 
luau just been received. Insert it as au advertisement,ifyou please, 
fnr two months, and charge me accordingly. H. TANNER. 
To the Readers of the Advent Harbinger 
DEAR BRETHREN ; - It wilt he recollected by you, that Elder 
Marsh, iti his paper some time, I think,. in January last, after read-
ing toy certificate in " Supplement " No. 2 of the " Herald," pub-
lished a contradiction mute matter therein coutained, claiming to 
take the same from my own proposition, which in my certificate 
was alluded to, amid width was dated Sept. 4M, 1650. In the man-
ner in which he published that, I charged him with wilfully, and for 
effect, misrepresenting me, and suppressing the truth, amid labored 
long with biro to have the same corrected, but without effect. I 
have caused Inv letters, propositions, and all, so far as 1 have cop-
ies, (for Elder M. has suppressed a part of my papers, and refuses to 
give them up,) to be published in a book called " 
imes's Delence;" 
they are cotitaiti
ed 
 between up: .42 tom 233 of that work. Sty of ject 
in this notice is to call your attention to those letters, and ask tor 
them a woeful perusal, aid that ml Elder M. is right in the coarse he 
Las pursued, he should be freed from blame, and If wrong, that sou 
should honestly hold him responsible ler the wrung. I am willing 
to submit myself to the same rule. Allow mime also to speak for this 
whole " Defence " a careful and prayerful perusal, that you may 
judge correctly as to this warfare upon brethren. It will not hurt 
you no know the troth. May God guide you by his Spirit amid love 
LO judge righteous judgment. Yours in love, IL TANNER. 
Receipts from July 15th to the 22d. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. 41 the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. at the Herald, the sender will see how far ke is in 
advance, or how far in arrears. 
H. L. Smith, 534; L. F. Allen, 560 ; C. K. Farnsworth, 534 ; E. 
Tompkins, 560 ; Elder U. M. Richmond, 560 ; A. Clerk (was rec'd)„ 
690; Elder Edwards, 530; J. C. &Kinney, 586 ; H. Bradley, 534; L . 
Dorsey, 560 L. N. Watkins,. 560; R. R. Watkins, 560 • H. Beebe, 
265; H. N. Thompson, 534 ; t.. Coon, 560 ; His. B. R. Norton, 534 ; 
F. W. Waltoli,.534; E. Oogley, 550 ; S. Holuff, 542; E. Lee, 2d, 534; 
Libber, 634; Z. W. Hoyt. 50s; C. Marshall (and books), 543; Miss 
L. Weld, 534; A. C. Abell, 534: M. Daggett, 560; J. Watley, 560; IL 
Moore, 660 ; Mrs. H. D. Chapin (two copiest, 547 ; S. B. Rollins, 
534; 11. Denia
ls, 560 ; L. Darbee, 534 ; U. N. Ford, 456 ; D. Smeych, 
561; A. Luther, 560 ; E. Williams, 566 ; A. A. Rathbone, 560 ; G. 
Greene, 560; A. Mace, 660-each 81 
; 
D. New, 534 ; E. Barry, 642 ; J. W hitmore, 560 C. S. French, 50a; 
W. Mead, 508; H. Grannie, 560; J. D. Reinhard, 534; II. Bishop, 566; 
II. Emerson, 534 ; B. S. Reynolds (on acc't) • J. Bartlett, 586 E. 
- 
D. Goodenough, 5litt ; d. Very. 560 ; J. Campbell, 560; C. Babcock, 
 
612 ; R. Round, 560 ; H. C. 1 lopkins, 560 ; S. D. Hopkins, 5a6 
Du Bois, mini; J. Lyon, 586; A. Sherwin, on acc't: Elder J. Tucker, 
560-each $2. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 28, 1851. 
we send out weekly without pay. 
Indebtedness to the "Herald." 
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No. of persons owing for vol. 6 at 
end of the volume, to whom bills 
were not sent, S95, amounting to . 
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Making 1672 persons to be heard 
from ; and due the office for " Her 
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$3341 00 
Since paid by those to whom bills 
were sent, 277 persons . . . $617 00 
Since paid on last vol., to whom 
bills were not sent, 267 persons . 267 00 
No. of those who have announced 
their inability to pay, and whose ac- 
counts have been cancelled, 116 . 419 00 
1303 00 
Still to be heard from, 1012 per- 
sons, owing . . . . . 
$2038 00 
The Alta California of June 14th contains the following 
particulars of a case of lynch law iii San Francisco. 
Our city, on the night of the 10th inst., was the scene of 
one of the most appalling tragedies that has ever been trans-
acted within its limits. The circumstances connected with 
the affair are these : 
Owing to the vast amount of crime which has been perpe-
trated for a length of time, and the impossibility by due pro-
cess of law of procuring the conviction of the guilty, bestow-
ing adequate punishment when convicted, or even keeping 
them in safe custody, a number of citizens resolved to take 
the law into their own hands. They accordingly organized 
themselves into a detective and protective force, with a fixed 
determination to punish those whom they should find guilty 
of the commission of any felonious act. They accordingly 
procured quarters in a building on the corner of Sansome and 
Bush streets. The numerous robberies, burglaries, and acts 
of incendiarisin, induced them to form their determination. 
About 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, a man carrying a bag 
containing something apparently quite heavy, attracted the 
attention of the Whitehall boatmen- at their station on Cen-
tral Wharf. He jumped into a boat with his bag, and pulled 
out toward the end of the wharf. But a few moments had 
elapsed before Mr. Virgin, a gentleman who keeps a ship-
ping-office on the wharf, came down to the boat stand in pur-
suit of a person who had just robbed his office of a small 
iron safe, containing a considarable sum of money. The man 
with the bag was at once suspected, and a number of boat-
men started immediately in pursuit. After a sharp pull they 
overhauled him, when he threw his booty overboard. After 
a very severe struggle, one party of boatmen succeeded in 
capturing him, while another fished up the bag, which proved 
to contain the stolen safe. 
He was conveyed on shore and at once taken possession 
of by some of the Vigilant Committee, who conducted him 
promptly to their headquarters, where he was tried in pres- 
ence of about eighty metnbers of the conclave, sitting with 
closed doors, by them convicted, and sentenced to be hung 
in the Portsmouth Square that very night. The precise 
mode of trial was of course a secret. During the time of its 
progress, the citizens had accumulated in large numbers about 
the building and in Portsmouth Square. The bell on the 
engine house at the latter locality having rung a signal to ap-
prise the citizens of the proceedings going on. The popu-
lace were very much excited, but more orderly than we recol-
lect ever to have seen such a numerous assemblage on .any 
similar occasion. 
Some disapprobation was manifested at the secrecy of the 
Committee's proceedings, but when the result was known, 
there was a very general approval manifested, although then 
were many who deemed the punishment of death too severe 
for the offence, and others thought he should be executed in 
Foreign News. 
The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill passed the English House 
of Commons on the 4th by a vote of 263 to 46. The bill 
contained an tumnendinent, which was strongly opposed by 
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, extending the penalty of £100 to the 
procuring, publishing, and putting in use of bulls, rescripts, 
&c., from the Pope, and authorizing private parties to prose-
cute, with the consent of the Attorney General. The result 
was received with loud cheers by the House. Previous to 
the vote, the Irish members withdrew ; had they not done 
so, the amendment could nut have passed. 
The census returns from Ireland disclose the fact, that the 
population of that country is only. 6.500,000 ! • In 1821 the 
population was 6,801,827 ; in 1831, 7,767,401, and in 1841, 
8,175,124, so that the population is less now than in 1821 ! 
Public attention in Paris was absorbed by the anticipated 
report of the committee on the subject of revising the Con-
stitution. The committee were to report on the 9th, the day 
the steamer sailed. 
The Giornale di Roma of the 17th May publishes a sen-
tence of the Supreme Tribunal of the Sacred Consulta, con-
demning Pi Ent.° Ettcom, aged 34, to the galleys for twenty 
years for attempting to prevent an individual from lighting a 
segar he wanted to smoke 
The executions in Rome still continue. Two individuals 
were shot on the 10th ult. 
The Romani Catholic Bishops of Wirtemberg, Baden, the 
Electorate and Duchy of Hesse, Nassau, Hamburg, and 
Frankfort, have demanded the repeal of all religious conces-
sions made since March, 1848, together with a list of no 
less than sixteen other claims, all of the most aggressive 
character, and aiming at rendering the church paramount to 
every other authority. 
The war between the English and the Kaffir tribes contin-
ues with fury. It bids fair to be one of extermination. 
The Russians have suffered another severe defeat from the 
Circassians, who are again in the field with increased num-
bers and resources. The Russians lost 5000 men. 
It is said that the Turkish Government will set KOSSUTH 
and the rest of his companions at liberty in September. 
Children's Advent Herald.
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. The July No. of this paper is out. The contents are-The Child's 
Petition-Magnanimity-Little Graves-The Little Shovel-Have a 
Trade-A Kiod Act-The Child and the Benet fly-A.otliiiig is Lost 
-Disinterested Believolence-Houses fn Thibet-Faneuil Hall, with 
a large etigravirsWhat the Good Child Loves-Violence and 
Death-Vanity of the World-Exhibition of the Deaf amid Dumb-
Bad Temper-A May Walk-Scripture Questions on Forgiveness-
laterestiag Facts-Puzzies, &c. &c. 
The Children's Herald is published monthly at 25 cents per year. 
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end of present vol. 
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sent another bundle the 15th by express. 
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see from the published prices in the Herald, iocludieg the postage 
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the balance we credit you on Herald to 534. 
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