J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY 
DEVISED 
FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. 8 Charilon-strcet 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. 
VOLUME XIY. NO. 13 
The Waymarks. 
BY REV. A. C. THOMPSON. 
" When once we close our eyes in death, 
And flesh and spirit sever ; 
When earth, and fatherland, and home, 
With all their beauty, sink in gloom, 
Say, will it be forever 1 
Shall we in heaven no more review 
Those sceneo from which we sever? 
Or, will our recollection leap 
O'er death's dark gulf, at times, to keep 
With earth acquaintance ever ? 
The child's included in the man, 
And part of him forever ;— 
The Past still in the Future lives, 
And basis to its being gives, 
Not it, but of it ever." 
For what is earth so. valuable as for a memen-
to of something better ? 
What use shall stran-
gers and pilgrims make of it, save as a volume 
from which to get the alphabet of celestial sci-
ence ; save as a rude wharf, from which they em 
bark ; a tottering bridge, over which th«y pass to 
the Better Land ? 
For all who will see them, 
there are waymarks along the road, pointing 
toward Canaan. 
God permits us to gaze on 
mountain and plain, river and waterfall, not to 
satisfy us, but to furnish occasion for praise, and 
to quicken our desires for more satisfyingscenes 
Each spot on earth made attractive to 
the 
Christian, every view that has impressed him 
enter in among the fruitful seeds of things which 
are togrowthroughoutourimmortality. 
Viewed 
in a spirit of adoring love to the great Creator 
and Redeemer, each new scene becomes a fresh 
element of spiritual expansion, to be carried 
with him as a memorial, the occasion of a new 
song to Him who is seated on the throne. 
. 
The mountains are remembrances. 
In all 
directions they lift their dark or hoary heads 
singly, or in groups, holding many a reservoir 
to feed the pure perennial springs, that like liv 
ing hearts send forth the very life-blood of the 
land, and embosoming many a lake wothy to 
be called "The Smile of the Great Spirit.' 
They look like sentinals which the Lord of hosts 
has set on duty; their deep gorges avenues to 
the palace of the Great King. 
When the morn 
ing shines, what a wealth of glory is poured over 
their lofty ridges, and down their sides ! 
When 
evening shadows settle over them, you may see 
the white clouds hovering around and below 
their summits, as if in search of a quiet lodging-
place ; just as you have seen doves nestle a lit-
tle this way and that, ruffling their wings, and 
carefully adjusting themselves for a night's re 
pose. 
• 
Solemn, majestic remembrancers! ye call to 
mind Mount Moriah and Sinai, Carmel and Le 
banou, Tabor and Calvary, and the fastnesses 
amidst which Waldenses and Covenanters sang 
praises to the God of their salvation. 
Most com 
fortable are the thoughts ye awaken. 
Ye lift 
our thoughts away from earth. 
We think how 
the everlasting arm is underneath the feeblest 
saint of the Most High : yea, that He who 
weigheth the mountains in scales is in covenant 
with his people. 
" As the mountains are round 
about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his 
people from henceforth, even forever." 
The soul of men needs a stronghold whose 
foundations are elsewhere than on this quaking 
planet. 
When these mountains shall be scat 
tered, and these hills boW, we shall find that the 
Rock of Ages alone can serve for a hiding-place 
" I will say of the Lord—the Lord my right 
eousness—he is my rock, my fortress, my deliv 
erer ; in him will I trust." 
In certain districts of Switzerland, where 
primitive simplicity still lingers, a peasant sta-
tions himself on the loftiest peak, and, as soon 
as the sun sets, pours from his Alpine horn the 
notes of the Psalm, " Praise God the Lord. 
The same notes are repeated from neighboring 
summits, and all within hearing, with uncovered 
head and bended knee, join in their evening wor 
ship. 
Every hill-top and mountain-peak that 
our eyes rests upon has its herald, sounding forth 
summons,—and at day-break, too, yea the 
livelong day,—"Praise ye the Lord! 
"0, 
come, let us sing unto the Lord; let u makes 
joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation." 
Yes, those towering summits are waymarks, 
carrying the mind of the pilgrim upward to his 
soul's everlasting Munition of rocks—to Him 
who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. 
No one less veneraole than the Ancient of days, 
less mighty than the Creator, less compassionate 
than the Lamb that was slain, less condescend-
ing and august than God manifest in the flesh, 
will suffice for our guilty, helpless souls. 
Praise, 
everlasting praise to Christ the rock of our sal-
vation ! 
The plain too is suggestive. 
You may have 
traversed the wilderness of the West, and the 
Grand Prairie, stretching beyond it a thousand 
miles to the Rocky Mountains, impressive be-
yond anything of mountain or ocean scenery that 
you ever gazed upon before. 
Only the glorious 
firmament 
above surpasses it. 
The vistas of 
boundless extent, often unbroken by a tree or 
other object; and then the same, varied by gen-
tle undulations, rising at times almost insensi-
bly into mountains; now an outcropping ledge 
of sandstone stretching for miles, a cyclopean 
wall; and now a water-course, marked by a 
belt of the freshest green, and varied only by 
parks of lovely wild flowers thousands of acres 
in extent, perfuming the whole atmosphere as 
you pass. 
0, it is enchantment! 
It is a new 
world. 
It is ffs if you had been translated to 
another planet, where the Creator displays a 
peculiar type of his power and wisdom. 
Jour-
neying alone day after day in that region, meet-
ing scarcely a human being or habitation, you 
do not feel lonely. 
There is a solemnity which 
renders human intercourse well-nigh an annoy-
ance. 
" The earth is the Lord's," but emimently 
that vast region, where man's bustling industry 
or even his sinful presence is hardly known. 
Uninterrupted sabbath reigns. 
It is a magnifi-
cent area which the hand of the Almighty has 
prepared for a broad camping-ground, a stupen-
dous temple, where angels, ten thousand times 
ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, might 
congregate, with ample space for all heavenly 
occupations. 
What reverent minds, amid such 
scenes, would not ascend to heaven ? 
Recalled to the half unpleasant reality that 
it is a part of our common earth, you find it dif-
ficult to break the illusion that this open country 
is under cultivation,—that it is the royal domain 
of some great emperor,—that these are his lim-
itless parks,—that those sloping hill-sides and 
wide intervals between.the wooded tracts are 
kept for regal amusement or display. 
You are 
expeeting to see troops of laborers, aud pres-
ently to come in sight of a crowded and wealthy 
metropolis on the plains. 
It seems as if the sun, 
for the last hour of his course, lingered on his 
way, loath to close his eye upon so glorious a 
scene. 
But, " "thou makest darkness, and it is night, 
wherein all the beasts of the forests do creep 
forth ; " there is no shelter, no sanctuary there ; 
and your heart, surcharged with thoughts of the 
eternity and boundless resources of Jehovah, 
dilates on the green fields, delectable groves, 
and river of life above, and the mild radiance 
thrown over the whole prompts the cry, 
"0, 
send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead 
me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill! " 
There is no night there. 
So glorious is that 
landscape God will never suffer it to be darkened. 
Saints never get bewildered or lost in glory. 
" No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast 
go up thereon ; it shall not be found there ; but 
the redeemed shall walk there." 
The cavern also has its lesson. 
The tourist 
enters one of the most extraordinary of those 
subterranean regions. 
He gropes from room to 
room, now stooping low through a narrow pas-
sage, now emerging into a vast hall with lofty 
arching roof. 
On all sides wreaths of crystal, 
ample folds of richest drapery, statues and col-
umns; here a sounding-board, there an organ, 
and, beyond, the dim arches of an interminable 
cathedral. 
It would seem to be the old Laby 
rinth, or the Pantheon ; it is Herculaneum ; it 
is a mediaeval closter, an oriental temple. Reach-
ing a point thousands of feet from the entrance, 
with a roof two hundred feet in thickness over-
head, he sits down amidst the silent solemnities 
of the place, the darkness slightly relieved by a 
torchlight, and the strangely profound silence 
unbroken save by here and there a drop of wa-
ter trickling from the cleavages of rocks above. 
Calcareous matter, in particles almost infinitely 
small, is thus deposited. 
Months, years pass 
away, and only a small acumulation has taken 
place; yet, thus it is, by that slow drop, drop, 
drop, those numberless stalactites, crystalline 
sheets and pillows, have been formed. 
The 
thought occurs, so is it in the secret chambers of 
the soul; the dews of divine grace distil gently, 
and in those silent and once dreary recesses there 
come into being forms of heavenly grace and 
beauty—all the garniture of a temple on high. 
Earth is but a cavern ; yet are the Lord's hid-
den ones in process of preparation for their use 
in the New Jerusalem, and they will be found 
unto praise, and honor, and glory at the appear-
ing of Je-us Christ. 
Light is needed, not only to render excellence 
apparent, but to complete the full measure of 
its development. 
In the dark gorges of the 
Alps, whei£ the direct rays of the sun never 
reach, there is among the Swiss a fearful amount 
of idiocy. 
Many of the inhabitants are dumb, 
or blind, or deaf, and not a few labor under all 
these calamities combined, while nearly all are 
misshapen in some part of their body. 
But 
amidst Mount Zion and the high hills of Heaven 
are no deep defiles, or caverns wher6 light never 
penetrates. 
Pervading every spot equally, is an 
atmosphere perfectly attempered, and a light in-
finitely benign, under whose influence the fullest 
and most harmonious developement will take 
place. 
The waterfall has a voice for us. 
We 
find our way down circuitously to the base of 
Montmorenci. 
By leaping and climbing, we 
approach the very edge of the roaring sheet and 
there stand entranced by the flood of moving 
beauty and grandeur. 
On come the waters, and 
over the cliffs, plunging and foaming, laughing 
in wildest glee, filling the air with scattered 
drops, which float and gleam like diamonds in 
the morning light. 
The sun seems to gaze with 
us in wonder at the seene. 
Look round upon 
the dark, frowning walls of rock, and lofty 
banks, fringed with evergreen trees,—silent sen 
tinels, that keep watch over the .stupendous 
chasm. 
Gaze at the streaming rainbows, whose liquid 
colors seem to issue from the living fount of 
beauty itself. 
Cast your eye on the projecting 
bed of earth, which the rush of waters has spared, 
that its grass-plot of brilliant green may smile, 
the summer long, so gladsomely, in the face of 
Montmorenci, this queen of cascades. 
There 
she stands, in peerless beauty, with bridal robe 
and wreath, and heaven's own kiss, on that fore-
head changeless and serene. 
It is a place for the soul to dilate, to soar on 
high, lost to what is visible in the vision of that 
which is unseen, brighter and more lovely than 
those things which are seen. 
" After this I looked, and behold, a door was 
opened in heaven; and the first voice which 
heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with 
me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show 
thee things which must be hereafter. 
And 
immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a 
throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the 
throne. 
And he that sat was, to look upon, like 
a jasper and a sardine stone; and there was a 
rainbow round about the throne, in sight like 
unto an emerald. 
And before the throne there 
was a sea of glass like unto crystal. 
And the 
!our and twenty elders fall down before him 
that sat on the throne, and worship him that 
liveth forever and ever, and cast their crowns be-
for3 the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, 
0 
Lord, to received glory, and honor, and power ; 
for thou hast created all things, and for thy 
pleasure they are and were created." 
Yea, enthroned Redeemer, this waterfall is 
thine! this globe is thine : thine is this soul of 
mine, with all its powers, to all eternity! 
Be 
every thought, every desire, centred in thee, now 
and for evermore! 
0, height of divine love! 
0, depth of Im-
manuePs fathomless love! 
0, 
mystery un-
speakable of the altar whereon the Lamb of God 
made expiation for sin, and whence the smoke of 
that all-satisfying sacrifice went up acceptably 
before the throne 1 
(To be continued.) 
The Ottoman Empire. 
As tbe East is now attracting universal atten-
tion, and btecomes the theatre of most important 
events, I have promised in a preceding letter to 
give you some more extended details upon the 
Ottoman 
Empire. 
The destiny of the Turks or Ottomans is a re- . 
markable one ; and although it may be difficult 
to discern what mission God has given them to 
fulfill, we cannot doubt that their long domin-
ion must serve to realize the designs of Provi-
dence. 
They were, for centuries, the terror of 
the Christian world. 
Then, after having threat-
ened to invade all western Europe, they began 
rapidly to decline, without being able to arrest 
their fatal progress; and now their empire sub-
sists only because of the policy and protection of 
England, France and Austria. 
The Turks, 
however, still retain»a nominal dominion over a 
great part of the countries which were the cradle 
of the religion and civilization of the human race; 
Palestine, 
for example, whence came christianty: 
Egypt 
and Arabia, 
where arts and sciences were 
born ; a considerable portion of Greece, the land 
of literature and philosophy. 
It is indeed an 
astonishing fact, that a barbarous race has sub-
ject to its laws the most celebrated regions of 
Europe, Asia and Africa ! 
What, then, are the circumstances, the causes 
which have, in turn, produced the greatness 
and 
fall of the Ottoman Empire? 
To this historical 
question I will in this letter make a brief reply. 
The Turks, 
of Whom the Ottomans compose 
the principal branch, belong to the Caucasian 
race. 
They appear to have established, at the 
remotest period of their history, upon the north-
ern boundaries of China, where they led a wan-
dering life, continually at war with the Chinese, 
Being often defeated and repulsed, they began 
to emigrate towards the west. 
A few of their 
tribes renounced the enervating doctrines of 
Buddhism, and ardently embraced the religion 
of Mahomet. 
This change of belief opened to 
them the path of conquest 
Gifted with manly 
energy, and animated with zealous proselytism 
because they expected sensual rewards beyond 
the tomb, the Turks advanced, sword in hand, 
across the vast plains of Asia. 
Their chief, 
Osmon or Othoman 
1., planted his victorious 
standards in Asia Minor toward the close of the 
thirteenth century, and seized one province after 
another from the degenerated Greeks of the 
Lower Empire. 
Brousa, 
Nice, Nicomedia, 
the 
strongest fortresses of the East, fell into their 
possession; and an emperor of Constantinople, 
John Cantacuzene, was reduced to the humiliat-
ing necessity of giving his daughter in marriage, 
in 1339, to Orkhan, the chief of these barbarians. 
More than one hundred years later, in 1453, 
Constantinople itself was conquered by Mahomet 
II., and the Ottomans occupied the seat of the 
last of the Cfesars. 
This Mahomet II. possessed 
the genius of a conqueror, and the skill of a 
statesman. 
He loved the sciences and letters, 
but he was cruel, fanatical, perfidious, and all 
means were considered lawful for the attainment 
of his ends. 
The Turks, elated with their victor-
ies, attacked Servia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Greece, 
and even Hungary and the shores of the Adriat-
ic. 
They everywhere met with brilliant suc-
cess. 
Their faith was ardent, their courage in-
vincible. 
They possessed that juvenile, fiery 
enthusiasm which characterizes the people of that 
heroic period. The German Empire and the Ven-
etian Republic were often obliged to conclude 
burdensome treaties with them. 
The popes trem-
bled in their palace:of the Vati 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
ardently against these infidels, promising to 
those who would take up arms the absolution of 
all their sins. 
These appeals of popery were not sufijcient to 
check the progress of the Ottomans. 
A prince 
of high capacity, Soliman 77., who reigned from 
1520 to 1566, was fortunate alike In the East 
and in the West. 
He strenghened his dominion 
over Egypt and Syria ; besieged the city of Buda, 
in Hungary, and even reached the gates of Vienna. 
His fleets spread terror along the borders of the 
Mediterranean, and his army subdued Persia, 
conquered Georgia, and reduced Bessarabia and 
Transylvania to Turkish provinces. The reign of 
Soliman II. marks the apogee of Ottoman great-
ness. 
His empire was, undoubtedly, the most 
powerful in Europe. 
Many causes contributed 
to this prodigious elevation. 
The Christian 
world was divided by the contest of Protestantism 
against Romanism. 
The popes forgot the Ma-
hommedans, preferring to crush, if possible, the 
disciples of Luther and Calvin. 
Moreover, the 
king Francis I., listening only to the interests 
of his rivalry against the emperor Charles V. of 
Austria, had formed an alliance with the Turks; 
so that by a strange anomaly a French monarch 
surnamed the eldest son of the church, supported 
the Mussulmans in attacks against Christianity. 
If other princes as eminent as Soliman II. 
had ascended the throne of Constantinople, who 
can say how far their conquests would have ex-
tended ? But the' series of great 
sultans 
was 
closed. 
The successors of Soliman, immersed 
in the abject pleasures of the seraglio, rarely ap-
peared at the head of their armies, and often 
abandoned the reins of' government to those 
wholly unfit to rule. 
Intrigues and assasinations 
at court replaced the tradition of the conquest. 
The Mussulman fanaticism, after losing its power 
over the ememies without, directing its cruelty 
against the Christian subjects within, and thus 
the resources of the empire were weakened. 
A 
just punishment for these fierce followers of Ma-
homet ! 
They believed, by mercilessly oppress-
ing the members of another religion, that they 
only struck their adversaries, but the issue shows 
that they were wounding themselves, 
The exe-
cutioners are always exposed to share the fate of 
their victims. 
There were vices in the military organization 
of Turkey which contributed to undermine its 
power. 
The militia of the janissaries, 
brave 
upon the battle field, were a source of continual 
disorder in the interior of the empire. 
These 
janissaries were more anxious to maintain their 
own priviledges than the public weal. 
They had 
a spirit of caste and license which urged them to 
revolt, so soon as they discovered in it some ad-
vantage for themselves ; and when they were 
excited by the voice of the ulemas or priests, they 
deposed, imprisoned and assassinated the Sultans 
without scruple. 
Nevertheless the Turks were still formidable. 
They continued to levy annual taxes upon Au-
stria and other Christian countries. 
The island 
of Cyprus fell into their hands. 
Alarmed by 
their new successes, the Pope, the King of Spain 
and the Republic of Venice signed, in 1571, a 
convention to resist, by every means, the inva-
sions of the Mahometans. 
A formidable fleet, 
composed of two hundred and fifty vessels of 
different sizes, Was entrusted to Bon Juan 
of 
Austria,who 
having attacked the Ottoman squad 
ron on the 7th of October, 1571, gained over 
them the famous battle of jLepanto. 
The car-
nage was great on both sides. 
The Christians 
lost fifteen ships of war and eight thousand men; 
but the Turkish fleet with its equipments, was 
destroyed, except forty galleys which succeeded 
in escaping. 
The political and moral effect of the victory of 
Lepanto was very striking. 
From this date Eu-
rope ceased to tremble under the, incessant threats 
-of a new invasion of barbarians. 
The prestige 
and fascination which surrounded the name of the 
Turks were dispelled, and the young Don Juan 
was proclaimed the saviour of Christendom. 
The Ottomans, however, did not acknowledge 
the supremacy of the Western powers until 
after a long and obstinate resistance. 
We find 
them in the seventeenth century, in the plains of 
Germany, led by the Grand Vizier Ahmed 
Koe-
prili, 
who seemed to have inherited the manly 
genius of Mahomet II. 
and of Soliman 11. 
They extended their ravages into Poland, Mora-
via, and Silesia; and seconded by the odious 
treason of a few Hungarian chiefs, they again 
arrived with an army of two hundred thousand 
men in 1683, before the walls of Vienna.. 
The 
emperor 
Leopold I. raised a cry of distress 
which was heard throughout Europe; and the 
great John Sobieski, king of Poland, hastened to 
deliver the capital of Austria. 
The Tuks, after 
a horrible massacre, fled from the battle-field. 
When John Sobieski made his entrance into 
Vienna, the inhabitants came with tears of joy 
to meet him, and to kiss his feet and the hem 
of his garments. 
The Poles had restored the 
independence of the Germans. 
Alas! heroic 
and unfortunate Poles ! Alas! that Austria, 
whom they had saved at the price of their blood, 
should ally herself to Russia to deprive them of 
their nationality ! 
History is often the witness 
of the blackest ingratitude! 
We return to the Turks. 
They were again 
defeated in 1697, by the prince Eugene, 
who 
having met the Mussulman army at Zentha, 
in 
Hungary, achieved the most brilliant triumphs 
over it. 
More than thirty thousand Ottomans 
perished in the engagement; the artillery and 
other equipments of the Sultan were taken; 
twenty-seven pashas and grand viziers fell upon 
the battle-field. 
The victory of Zentha was fol-
lowed by the treaty of peace, which imposed 
hard conditions upon the conquered. 
This treaty 
marks a new period of decline in the Ottoman 
empire. 
Not only did the neighboring States 
cease to fear it, but they began to seek the 
means of aggrandizing themselves at its expense. 
About the same epoch a new adversary ap-
peared against Turkey,—the most formidable 
and obstinate of all,—Russia. 
The Czar, Peter 
the Great, after introducing a few germs of Wes-
tern civilization into his vast possessions, turned 
his attention toward Constantinople. 
He began 
the policy of conquest and invasion which was 
adopted by all his successors. 
Peter I., had 
not time to accomplish the plans he had formed, 
and contented himself with assuming a threaten-
ing attitude toward Turkey. 
It was especially 
the Empress Catherine II., called the great by 
her flatterers, and indeed uniting eminent quali-
ties with the most abominable vices, who gave 
the rudest blows to the empire of the Sultan. 
She destroyed his fleet in 1770. 
The Russian 
troops crossed the Danube, surrounded the Grand 
Vizier at Shumla, and dictated to him the peace 
of Kainardji, 
which has served as the basis of 
all the ulterior treaties of the Russians with the 
Turks. 
The rich province of Crimea was annexed to 
the States of the Czar, and the protectorate of 
St. Petersburg extended itself over the princi-
palities ot the Danube. 
What did the other 
powers of Europe in the face of these encroach-
ments of Russia ? 
Nothing. 
England was en-
gaged in her war against the insurgents of Amer-
ica, and France seemed plunged in lethargy. 
Moreover Catherine had the art of gaining the 
affections of the philosophers who at that time 
swayed the opinions of the day. 
Irritated by their losses, the Turks recom-
menced the war against Russia in41787; but 
they wer,e again conquered; and the treaty of 
Jassy, signed in 1792, marked the mouth of the 
Pruth as the boundary between the two empires. 
Each treaty gave something more to the Czars, 
and consequently left less to the Sultans. 
Selim III., who reigned from 1789 till 1807. 
was a wise and intelligent prince. 
Perceiving 
that great abuses paralyzed the strength of his 
government, he tried to introduce salutary, re-
forms. 
But the day for these changes was not 
yet come. 
The war without and the spirit of re-
bellion within, rendered his good intentions use-
less. 
He had first to contend against the French 
troops, who, in 1798, under the command of 
General Bonaparte, 
had invaded Egypt, and on 
this occasion—how strange are the vicissitudes 
of human affairs!—the Russians united with the 
Turks to fight the French. 
A few years after-
ward Selim III. was deposed, and then executed 
by the janissaries, who reproached him with 
having introduced regular troops into his serv 
ice. 
The crown fell to Mahmoud II. in 1808, and 
he reigned until 1839. 
His life was marked by 
numerous reverses. 
He was not wanting either 
in capacity or forethought; but circumstances 
were almost always stronger than his will. 
He 
fluctuated 
between Russia and France, in the 
great war of Napoleon against the Czar Alexan-
der. 
His attention was particularly directed to-
ward the suppression of the janissaries. 
How 
was he to destroy this undisciplined 
militia 
which had killed so many sovereigns ? 
Mah-
moud employed artifice. 
He secretly gained 
over the ulemas ; and, assured of their support, 
he commanded a general massacre of the janis-
saries in 1826. 
A bloody and horrible execu-
tion, which cannot be excused before the tribu-
nal of a Christian conscience, but which the 
general interests of the empire seemed to de-
mand ! 
I shall not relate in detail the cotemporane-
ous facts, which are sufficiently well known. 
Mahmoud II. was surrounded by civil and for-
eign enemies. 
The ferocious Ali, pasha of Ja-
nina, raised the standard of rebellion, and was 
only vanquished over a heap of corpses. 
The 
Greeks declared their independence, and had on 
their side the voices of religion, civilization and 
sympathy. 
The European monarchs interfered 
in their favor, and the battle of Navarino, 
in 
1827, secured the establishment of the kingdom 
of Greece, 
This question settled, another came 
up. 
The pasha of Egypt, Mehemet-Ali, 
aspir-
ing to create for himself and his family an inde-
pendent sovereignty, obtained the two victories 
of Koniah 
and Nezib against the troops of the 
Sultan ; a new cause of ruin for Turkey. 
The 
cabinet of St. Petersburg profited by these events 
to increase its power and influence. 
It waged 
war against the Ottomans in 1829, and the treaty 
of "Unkiar lskelessi, 
concluded in 1853, stipu-
lated considerable advantages for Russia. 
Thus, by defeat upon defeat, and disorder up-
on disorder, this empire, formerly so prosper-
ous, has reached the lowest degree of decline 
and feebleness. 
After hating made all Europe 
tremble, it has become incapable of defending 
its own existence. 
It has successively lost its 
richest and finest possessions J a memorable ex-
ample of the miseries which a false religion and 
bad government must necessarily produce. 
I shall describe in my next letter the internal 
condition of the Ottoman empire. 
N. Y. Observer. 
(To be continued.1 
The Days of Noah like those of the 
Son of Man-
THE history of Noah bears a strong resem-
blance to the day of Christ. 
For " As it was in 
the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the 
Son of Man be." 
Matt. 24:37. 
The earth at 
that time became so defiled with sin, that God 
thought fit to wash it by the waters of a flood; 
and the seed of the serpent became so perverse, 
that the Judge of all the earth pronounces upon 
them the sentence of death. 
Previous, how-
ever, to the execution of the vengeance written, 
God sends a warning voice by Noah, and con-
trives at the same time for the preservation of 
the chosen few. 
By God's command, " Noah 
prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by 
which he condemned the world, and became heir 
of the righteousness which is by faith." Heb. 2:-
17. 
He preached, warned, builded, and fin-
ished. 
" The world of the ungodly," intent up-
on their pursuits, neglect the warning voice, 
and turn a deaf ear to the report of impending 
judgments; or, if they had observed the labors 
of the patriarch and prophet, it was with the 
smile of derision, at the undertakings of the 
fanatic. 
" They were eating and drinking mar-
rying and giving in marriage, until the day that 
Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until 
the flood came, and took them all away : so 
shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 
Mat.. 24:38, 39. 
The Son of man, too, has 
prepared an ark of refuge, to the saving of his 
church; and, during his labor of love, 
"was 
despised and rejected of men." 
He has sent 
out the invitation to sinners to fly to him, and 
be saved from the wrath to come. 
With his 
gospel sent into all nations, as a witness, unto 
all, he hath sent out the warnirlg voice—" But 
the heavens and the earth which are now, by the 
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire 
against the day of judgment, and perdition ef 
ungodly men." 
2 Pet.. 3:6, 7. 
Though warned 
by judgments, signs and witnesses, the world 
shall be found as in the days of Noah. 
" Nev-
ertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he 
find faith on the earth ?" 
Luke 18:8. 
When the appointed hour came, and all the 
guests were entered into the ark, the Lord shut 
them in. 
Then were the windows of heaven 
opened, and the fountains of the great deep 
broken up. 
The inhabitants of the earth per 
ished; but Noah, in the ark, rode safely and se-
curely on the top of the waves. 
So also, when 
the chosen people of God, whom he hath deliv-
ered from the wrath to come, are brought unto 
Christ, during the present dispensation, the Lord 
shall shut them in, and make a display of his 
protecting and preserving power : for thus saith 
the Lord, " Come, my people, enter thou into 
thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: 
hide thyself for a little moment, until the indig-
nation be overpast. 
For, behold, the Lord 
cometh out of his place, to punish the inhabit-
ants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth 
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more 
cover her slain." 
Isa. 26:20, 21. 
" Behold, 
the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven ; and 
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, 
shall be as stubble: and the day that cometh 
shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, 
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 
But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun 
of Righteousness arise, with healing in his 
wings." 
Mai. 4:1, 2. 
To meet their coming 
Lord, shall all the church of God be caught up 
both they who fell asleep from the beginning 
and all who are alive and remain unto that day ; 
and, under the shadow of his redeeming wings 
they shall be preserved from the fiery deluge 
which shall consume and sweep away all the 
earth's inhabitants. 
1 Thes. 4:15—17; 
Isa 
30:29, 30. 
makes a feast, and this day invites thee to par-
fate. 
"Come for all things are now ready." 
My house is open to receive thee, and my ser-
vants are standing and proclaiming, " Ho, every 
one that thirsteth come ye." 
And what a pre-
cious gift is the Sabbath ! and how wonderful, 
that when man was driven out of Eden, he did 
not forfeit the blessing! 
Truly is it " The Poor 
Man's Bay." 
And oh ! my toil-worn brother, 
if thou art blessed with health, thou surely wilt 
not cheat thyself into the belief that thou canst 
find aught that deserves the name of rest any-
where but in the house of God. 
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 
Oh ! be persuaded, in breaking the commands of 
a holy God there can be no rest. 
The destroyer 
of thy soul may tell thee that sleep is sweet, 
even when suspended over the pit of destruction; 
and endlcse are the excuses he would have thee 
make for neglecting the house of God. 
But 
Satan knows full well the value of a well spent 
Sabbath. 
Since " sin entered into the world, 
and death by sin," his ears have been familiar 
with the poor Sabbath breaker's groan ; and he 
who knows the portion of such in that place 
' where hope never comes," could tell thee what 
a ray of light would dart into the darkness of 
hell, if ages of suffering could purchase for one 
of its wretched inmates but one of thy opportu-
nities of mercy. 
Wilt thou not, then, " escape for thy life," and 
be found this morning listening to the prcacher's 
voice? 
I say this morning; 
for who has told 
thee that thou shalt not be in eternity 
before the 
dawn of another Sabbath-day! 
The Poor Man's Day. 
MY poor laboring brother, thy week of toil is 
over, and the light of a Sabbath sun has risen 
upon thee. 
How wilt thou spend this day ? 
I 
am weary, sayest thou, and 1 mean to rest, 
This is what a God of love appoints for thee 
" The Sabbath was made for man." 
To-day 
not only shall thy body rest from labor, but 
there is provision also made for thy soul. 
Truly 
God is love—not only love but goodness. 
He 
The Fever in Savannah. 
THE subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by 
the yellow fever at Savannah, are proceeding in 
a satisfactory manner at New York and Phila-
delphia. 
The news from the scene of suffering 
continues of a melancholy character, and there 
are co symptoms of a speedy abatement of the 
disease. 
The inhabitants of Savannah have been 
obliged to procure their bread from Macon, as 
no bakers are left in the city to supply them. 
The city government has also ordered, it is said, 
fifty coffins, daily, from Macon. 
The following 
private letter from a resident of the city to a 
Philadelphia gentleman affords an idea of the 
terrible condition of things there: 
" I have but a moment to write to let you 
know that 
and myself arejdive, every man 
in the store having deserted us in consequence 
of the epidemic. 
We are determined to stay 
and take our chances, to see the city out of it. 
I enclose our report of interments yesterday (51) 
out of a population of not over 3500 white peo- • 
pie. 
Interments for the week 210. 
Every-
thing is in an awful state, and death and destruc-
tion stare us in the face 'everywhere. 
The gale 
was enough to have ruined us at most times, 
and now all that is required to fill our cup is a 
fire. 
We work night and day, and spend our 
money as if it was public property, for the bene-
fit of the sick and destitute, and you cannot be-
gin to imagine what distress prevails here. 
We 
cannot procure coffins enough to bury the dead, 
and to-day all the house carpenters in town 
have quit everything else and gone to making 
them. 
Our own citizens have to take the spade 
and dig graves. -It is really awful ? 
Be satis-
fied that we are all doing our duty, and hope 
God will help us to do good." 
Among the numerous victims of the disease 
was Dr. H. P. Wildman, one of the most skilful 
physicians of the South. 
He fell a nbble sacri-
fice to his efforts to relieve the sick. 
The Sa-
vannah 
Republican 
says that " he went night 
and day, in sunshine and.storm, sleeping oftener 
in his carriage than in his bed, and paying 
sometimes as many as eighty and one hundred 
visits during a single night." 
He overtasked 
his powers of physical endurance, and the spe-
cifics with which he had relieved many others, 
failed to relieve himself. 
Other 
physicians 
who were attacked were doing well at last ac-
counts. 
Mayor Ward was also convalescent. 
The Corn Crops. 
A 
CINCINNATI correspondent of the 
Jmirnal 
of Commerce, 
after travelling over most of the 
Western States, has come to the conclusion that 
considering the increased breadth of land plant-
ed, there will be a full average crop of corn. 
He believes that Wisconsin and Iowa will pio-
duce fifty per cent, more than an average crop. 
Illinqis will have, taking the State through, an 
average yield. 
The product of corn in Missouri 
will equal three-fourths of the usual product. 
Indiana and Ohio will fall a very little short of 
the average. 
In Kentucky there will be from 
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two-thirds to three-fourths of an average crop. 
The crop of Tennessee, the great corn State, 
will fully equal the average, and in Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Alabama, ani Georgia, there is a 
large excess over any former year. 
The writer 
believes that there will be no difficulty in re-
gard to the fattening of hogs, even in Kentucky. 
The census of Kentucky and Indiana shows a 
surplus of 800,000 hogs over the number of last 
year, and therefore no one need starve for want 
of corn and pork. 
Foreign News. 
THE dates by the Atlantic, 
at New York, are 
to the 6th inst. 
The Liverpool Mercury of the 
5th, says of the crops : 
" Under the influence of the splendid weather 
which has uninterruptedly prevailed for the last 
twelve days, the harvest has progressed to such 
an extent as to warrant the assertion that the pe-
riod of danger is nearly over. 
Within the last 
week immense tracts of land, upon which abun-
dant crops had grown, have been cleared, and it 
is impossible that corn could have been placed 
in the barn or stacked in better condition. 
In 
the neighborhood of Liverpool all the corn has 
been cut, and very little remains in the fields. 
In many instances it has been cut and carted 
without a single shower of rain having fallen be-
tween the one operation and the other. 
The 
same thing has happened, no doubt, in other 
parts of England and Scotland, for the weather 
has been uniformly fine over the whole kingdom. 
Throughout Ireland the temperature has been 
higher during the last eight days than it has 
been at any former period within the last twenty 
years, and there has not been for many years so 
fine a prospect of plenty. 
A great portion of 
the crops in Ireland is already safe, reaping 
having gone on as rapidly as the unusual scar-
city of laborers would permit. 
There is no doubt that the great fall in the 
price of new wheat which occurred in Mark-lane 
yesterday week, and which has gone further 
since, was fully justified by the appearance of 
the crops and the state of the weather. 
It is a 
common remark that even the worst farmers 
have fair crops of wheat this year, and that af-
ter the drawback which must in many cases bo 
made for blight, they will still have a good 
yield. 
The French corn market reports show a 
steady decline as the new produce comes to 
market. 
From the accounts from Holland and 
Germany it appears that the weather there lately 
had not been so favorable, nor have the corn 
markets there, particularly Germany, fallen so 
much as here. 
We have hitherto spoken only 
of the wheat crops and the markets for wheat. 
There is reason to believe, however, that the 
e ops of barley will be equal to or still better, 
than the wheat, and oats are very generally 
though not so universally, abundant." 
THE NEGOTIATIONS.—Russia has 
declined 
to 
commence negotiations for peace on the basis of 
the propositions of the Western Powers, 
This 
determination 
was 
communicated 
simultane-
ously to the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin. 
The 
Czar assured Austria, however, that the Princi-
palities shall be evacuated, but declares, also, 
that he will remain on the defensive. 
The 
Morning 
Chronicle, which publishes the des-
patches alluded to, says: 
" This decision will considerably simplify the 
relations of the leading States of Europe, both 
with the Cabinet of St. Petersburg and with 
each other. 
In particular, the policy of the 
Court of Vienna must henceforth be identified 
with that of England and France*; for, in the 
note of the 8th ultimo. Count Buol declared 
that his Government would not treat except up-
on the basis of the four demands which Prince 
Gortschakoff has now announced that his mas-
ter unconditionally rejects. 
It was, on all ac-
count, most desirable for Austria to preserve 
peace ; but, having fruitlessly exhausted every 
efforf for that purpose, she has now no safe or 
honorable alternative but to compel by arms the 
adoption of those principles which -she has in 
vain solicited Russia peacefully to accept." 
Another Austrian note has been published. 
| 
It is addressed by the Austrian foreign minister 
to the Austrian ambassador at St. Petersburg, 
! 
and is dated August. 10 
After recapitulating 
the views of the Western Powers on the subject 
of negotiations for peace, it says : 
" On our urgent representations, these powers 
j have, however, consented to make known at 
I present, under the reserve of such modifications 
as circumstances may render necessary, the 
guarantees which appear to them indispensable to 
found solid bases for the re-establishment of 
peace, and the maintainance of the balance of 
power in Europe, and they leave to us the liberty, 
if we think proper, of declaring our opinion on 
the subject in our own name to Russia. 
These 
guarantees are pointed out in the identical note,of 
which the copy is subjoined, and which the rep-
resentatives ot France and England have ad-
: 
dressed to the imperial cabinet; and, as they 
\ 
agree with the principles laid down in the pro-
tocol ofthe 9th of April, they are consequently 
in conformity with our own views, 
The imperi-
al cabinet, which sees no other practical means 
of entering on the path of negotiations than the 
acceptance of them by the cabinet of St.. Peters-
burg, warmly recommends them to the serious 
attention of that cabinet." 
FROM THE BALTIC.—A despatch states that on 
the 26th ult. Sir Charles Napier and General 
Baraguay d'Hilliers went up to inspect Hango, 
and that in their sight the Russians blew up 
the fortifications, and retreated to Abo, where 
15,000 troops are assembled. 
It was also an-
nounced that the Odin, 
Gorgon, 
Driver, 
and 
Lightning 
engaged 18 Russian gunboats, carry-
ing about 50 men each, and four steamers, at 
Abo, on the 18th of August, without loss. 
Sub-
sequent accounts state that the allied fleets an-
chored at Ledsund on the 30th, and that Admir-
al Parseval-Descheoes, Marshal Baraguay d'Hil-
liers, and General Jones have made areconnois-
sance of the fortresses of Helsingfors and Swea-
borg. 
The passage to Abo is found to be ex-
tremely narrow, and it is probable that that port 
will not be attacked. 
Admiral Martin, with a 
small squadron, has gone up the Gulf of Both-
nia, to make observations. 
ABO, Aug. 31. Four of the allied men-of-war 
have cast anchor nfcar Dersela, one league from 
Abo, and are bombarding the batteries and gun-
boats. 
It is feared that a landing may be effected 
to-morrow, near Nadendal. 
A letter from Dantzic of the 1st of September 
gives the following: 
The Edinburgh, 
with all the commanders, went 
up to Bomarsund to try artillery experiments 
upon the granite walls of that place, devoted to 
destruction and dismantling. 
The official despatches to the French govern-
ment relative to the operations of the forces and 
fleets at the taking of the Aland Isles, have been 
published. 
They state that the result of the re-
cent attack on the fortifications of Bomarsund 
has shown that the granite fortifications of the 
Russians are unable to resist the fire of French 
and English artillery. 
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR ON THE DANUBE.—The 
preparations for the expedition to Sebastopol 
were still going forward actively. 
According to 
accounts from Constantinople of the 25th of Au-
gust, the artillery had embarked at Varna, and 
the troops were to embark on the 25th. 
The Spitfire 
and Sidon had destroyed the 
barricades raised by the Russians to impede the 
navigation of the Danube at Sulina. 
A letter from Bucharest of the 22d ult., in the 
Moniteur, 
says: 
" Almost the whole of the Ottoman army has 
entered into Wallachia. 
Threetcamps have been 
established at Negoechti, Obilechti, and Colent-
ina. 
There is every reason to believe that the 
Turks will, in a short time, continue their march 
towards Moldavia and follow up the Russians in 
their retrograde movement." 
The Austrian commander, Baron Hess, has is-
sued a proclamation to the inhabitants of Molda-
via and Wallachia, in which he says the Austrian 
troops enter th.e principalities in accordance 
with a convention with the Porte, and that " they 
will remove from you the blessings of peace." 
He says 
"the privileges granted to you by 
the Sublime Porte will remain in full force, 
but I expect from the authorities all possible 
assistance 
in providing proper quarters and 
provisions, for the troops, for whose necessities 
indemnification will always be made." 
All the 
authorities are instructed to apply in all matters 
to F. M. L. Count Coronini, who has been ap-
pointed by his majesty to the command under 
direction of Baron Hess, of all the troops in 
in the two Danubian principalities, or to the 
military organs by him nominated. 
SPAIN. 
Accounts from Spain state that the de-
parture of Christina caused a great sensation. 
It 
is confirmed that barricades were made, and for 
a moment a new revolutionary crisis was appre-
hended. 
Fortunately the agitation was appeased 
without bloodbhed, but it is feared that Espar-
tero's influence over the democratic party has 
received a rude shock. 
Letters from Madrid of 
the 30th ult. describe that capital as perfectly 
tranquil. 
It was reported in Madrid that Mr. Soule was 
likely to resign. 
It was thought that his in-
trigues with respect to Cuba had gratuitously 
compromised his government, and that his down-
fall had become a political necessity. . 
FURTHER EOREIGN NEWS. 
. 
The news by the Africa, which reached New 
York on the 22d, is scanty and unimportant. 
Some extracts from English papers are given 
below: 
Kuischid Pasha, (Gen. Guyon) is at length 
appointed, on the representations of Lord Strat-
rord de Radcliffe. to the chief command in Asia 
in room of Mustapha Pasha. 
Guyon would 
long ere this have been appointed to command, 
but he refused, and still refuses to apostatize 
from the Christian form of religion. 
lshmael 
Pasha, a Turkish officer who greatly distin-
guished himself in the defence of Kalafat, is al-
The Minister of the United States would be 
greatly mistaken : and once for all we declare, 
in the name of this loyal and honorable people, 
jealous in the highest degree of the national de-
corum, that if Mr. Soule should desire to put 
by the Kilia mouth, with the view of keeping 
the navigation open. 
The Russians are making preparations to burn 
the cities of Odessa, Reni, Brailow, Galatz and 
Ismail, should they be forced to abandon them. 
They have prepared combustibles, and have cut 
off the supply of water, and burned the fire en-
gines. 
Orders are issued that wherever the ene-
my appears in superier strength, towns and vil-
lages are to be reduced to ashes. 
Unceasing 
preparations are being made in Sebastopol for 
defence. 
All criminal prisoners are liberated 
and enrolled in companies to work the port bat-
teries. 
A gang of 200 of the worst convicts are 
still in irons, to be employed in carrying amu-
nition. 
The Governor of Sebastopol, taking advantage 
of the inefficiency of the blockade, took the masts 
out of some steamers to render them less easily 
discovered, and has been sending them to and 
from Nicolaieff, at the mouth of the river Bug, 
whence they have brought considerable quanti-
ties of stores, amunition, artillery, and even 
troops. 
One of the new inner forts of Sebasto-
pol is mounted with guns conveyed in this m anner. 
The bashi-bazouks, including those in the pay 
of the allies, have been abandoned, by a general 
order from Omar Pasha—the rascals being quite 
incorrigible. 
The destruction and evacuation of Bomarsund, 
with the return of the British and French admi-
rals, is commented upon by the British press 
with great carefulnesss, the papers before us, in 
fact, contenting themselves with mentioning the 
facts. 
It is evident that the British public ex-
pected other things of Sir Charles Napier 
The 
London correspondent of the New York 
Tribune 
says: 
" We get strange tidings from the Baltic. 
Bomarsund has been blown up and burnt down 
by the Anglo-French division. 
It is therefore 
beyond doubt that Sweden has rejected the alli-
ance of the Western powers, backed as it was by 
the offer of the Aland Island. 
King Oscar has 
not the nerve to face the Russians, well aware 
that the Western powers are not in earnest, and 
do not wish either to inflict a severe lesson upon 
the Czar, or to cripple his power. 
The misera-
ble resistance of Bomarsund seem to have made 
a great impression on the Czar, who believed 
his fortifications, built of pentagonal granite 
blocks, to be impregnable. 
The Fort of Gus-
tavsvarn, therefore, on the Island of Hango Udd, 
has been evacuated by the Russians, and blown 
up at the approach of the allied 
fleet. 
But 
though the capture of Bomarsund has clearly 
shown that the granite fortressess of Russia, all 
built in the same style of pentagonal granite 
blocks, are less able to withstand the attack of 
a fleet than works of brick, we are surprised at 
the announcement that the French division un-
der Baraguay d'Hilliers is immediately to go 
back to France, and that Sir Charles Napier be-
lieving he has done enough for immortality, is 
likewise soon to return to England with his fleet. 
We cannot believe in so ridiculous a result of 
so much bragging, and still expect an attack 
upon Revel before winter sets in. 
An attack on 
Riga would be, of course, more important, on 
account of the neighborhood of Poland, but it is 
not credible that Lord Aberdeen could ever ap-
prove of such a policy, which would indeed 
strike Russia at the heart, and threaten Austria." 
SPAIN.—The departure of Mr. Soule from Mad-
rid for France, has given ground for unpleasant 
surmises in regard to his connection with the af-
fairs of August 28th. 
It is alleged that Mr. 
Soule instigated that affair, and furnishes money 
to the insurgents at the barricades. 
It is even 
asserted by some that he has resigned his post, 
but this is not generally believed. 
TheDiario 
of Madrid has an article on the subject, the cut-
ting irony and sarcasm of which would be unen-
durable by any one except a confirmed fillibuster. 
The Diario, after mentioning the rumors given 
above, comments as follows : 
It appears, in effect, that by this time an 
expedition of Fillibusteros, organized and pre-
pared with the knowledge and before the eyes of 
the Federal Government, will have left the 
American territory to invade Cuba, notwith-
standing the efficacious measures adopted by the 
President in his proclamations. 
But, although 
this expedition may have been realized, although 
within a few days we may learn that the United 
States have poured into Cuba fresh bands of in-
cendiaries and freebooters, we do not know why 
Mr. Soule should abandon his post. 
Does the 
Minister of the United States perchance harbor 
the slightest doubt of his safety, let whatever 
may occur beyond the Atla.ntic? 
Has it by 
chance occurred to him that the escutcheon and 
flag of the United States had net here the respect 
and consideration which in 1851 was denied to 
the flag of Spain in that city of the American 
Union which Mr. Soule, when he renounced his 
own country, adopted as his new one ? 
so appointed to a high command in the army of 
Asia. 
On the 31st of August a strong force of Eng-
lish and French gunboats entered the Sulina 
channel of the Danube, and another is to enter 
forward, as the pretext of his journey, the slight-
est doubt of his safety here, that doubt would 
be completely fictitious, unfounded and calum-
nious. 
Although Mr. Soule should have been wanting 
in the respect due from him to our nation, and 
have used every kind of means to favor projects 
tending to separate from Spain the most import-
ant colony she yet retrains: although it were 
certain that he sought to take advantage of the 
degradation of the government now fortunately 
past, seeking to avail himself of the insatiable vo-
racity of high and low influences; although it were 
certain that he had striven to profane the san-
city of our revolution, to sow disunion among our 
people, seducing the unwary, and distributing, 
by the medium of the evil arts of a base intrigue, 
money and promises of arms to destroy the 
power of the honorable 
and patriotic men 
who now direct the destinies of the country; 
although he had succeeded id winning over a few 
deluded persons, who failed to discover in his 
sweet and flattering words, the latent idea of 
keeping up agitation and disorder in the Penin-
sular with a view to deprive Cuba of assistance 
from the mother country ; although the people 
of Madrid know that he had sought to profit by a 
moment of effervescence treacherously to excite 
its indignation, and to draw iton to some tumults 
with which to crown a certain catalogue of sup-
posed insults : even if all this was certain, the 
Spanish people have enough sense, prudence 
and manliness to despise such stratagems and 
miserable schemes : and Mr. Soule might remain 
in Madrid completely unmolested, if her Majes-
ty's government did not think proper to send him 
his passports. 
The people of Madrid have done nothing and 
will do nothing to excite the least uneasiness 
with respect to the safety of the foreign minis-
ters. 
They have done nothing against the rep-
resentative of the United States, because they 
are interested that each day should be greater 
andiinore honorable for them—the contrast that 
naturally appears between nations who kuow 
how to maintain their rights, respecting at the 
same time those of others, and those other na-
tions which pretend to mould their own and for-
eign rights to their own convenience, to their 
will, and even according to the caprice of a few 
of their influential men, for which right and 
peace between nations are converted into a game 
of popularity and of personal aggrandizement." 
The Ministers of France and England have 
complimented the Spanish Government on the 
firm attitude maintained by it during the recent 
disturbance, and have assured it of the sympathy 
of their respective courts. 
Disturbances have broken out at Salamanca 
and Valencia. 
The War-
AFFAIRS in the East appear to be approaching 
a crisis. 
Notwithstanding the haze which rests 
on that region, there is light enough shinning on 
many parts to give some idea of what is contem-
plated. 
The Russians have evacuated the Prin-
cipalities, and the Austrians have taken their 
place. 
This is to be viewed as a step of great 
importance. 
It is upon a large scale,—an ex-
pression of Austrian opinion, which will not 
be without its weight both on Prussia, and upon 
the Czar, to say nothing of its cheering effect 
upon the Cabinets of England and France, and 
above all, on the Turkish forces, and the Anglo-
French Army. 
It is now certain that the minds of the Com-
manders are made up to something decisive; 
and notwithstanding the secrecy which properly 
rests on the movement, from the nature of things 
the destination of the Troops must be either to 
Odessa or to'Sebastopol. 
What with the cour-
age and the numbers, and what with the past 
and splendid success of the Turkish Troops, un-
der the command of Omer Pasha, and what 
with the vast Anglo-French Force, both by sea 
and land, so far as human probabilities are con-
cerned, there is everything to hope, and nothing 
to fear. 
The cholera, however, from the terrific 
violence with which it has set in, and the awful 
havoc it has committed upon the forces, and the 
debility which has extensively resulted even 
where life has been spared, will render it no lon-
ger humane or safe to make the usual demands 
upon the troops until health, in some degree, be 
restored. 
The Fleets are in a far better plight 
for actual warfare than the Troops, forasmuch 
as the scourge appears but lightly to have af-
fected them. 
Adding the Fleets to the Armies, 
therefore, according to the balancing of proba-
bilities, there is an immense preponderance of 
moral and military weight on the side ol the Al-
lies. 
Should the Force be concentrated on Se-
bastopol, there is reason to think that, attacked 
both by sea and land, it cannot long withstand 
the combined Powers. 
It is probable, that even 
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a single day might terminate the struggle, and 
dispi ssess Nicholas at once both of his Navy and 
h is 1 ortress. 
British Banner of A ugust 30. 
v-MJ 
®I)C ^iroent QcralJr. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give ii 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced 
also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XLIX. 
Behold, these shall come from far: 
And, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from 
the lan i i f Sinim.—v-12 
The trophies of redeeming grace will be gathered 
from all lands. 
Thus we read in 43:5, 6,—" 1 
will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee 
from the west ; I will say to the north, Give up ; 
and to the south, Keep not back : bring my sons 
from far, and my daughters from the ends of the 
earth." 
John beheld the resurrected saints, when, 
(Rev. 7:9,) " a great multitude, which no man 
could number, ot all nations, and kindreds, and 
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and 
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and 
palms in their hands." 
" The land of Sinim " is no where else mentioned 
in the Bible, and there have been many unsatis-
factory conjectures respecting the country thus in-
dicated. 
Jerome understands it of the south in 
general, and it is rendered by the Latin Vulgate 
" the south country." 
The north and west being 
expressly mentioned, Grotius understands " from 
afar " to refer to the distant east, and " Sinim," 
to the south—which is a conclusion as satisfactory 
as any arrived at. 
In the regeneration, all will 
worship Jehovah ; Isa. 66:22, 23,—" For as the 
new heavens and the new earth, which 1 will make, 
shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall 
your seed and your name remain. 
And it shall 
come to pass, that from one new moon to another, 
and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh 
come to worship before me, saith the Lord." 
Sing, 0 IIeaven3; and be joyful, 0 Earth ; 
And break forth into singing, 0 mountains: 
For the Lord hath comforted his people, 
And will have mercy upon his afflicted—v. 13. 
By personification, the address to inanimate ob-
jects, calling on them to give utterance to expres-
sions of joy, illustrates the general joy which will 
attend the termination of the tribulation of God's 
people. 
Rev. 7;14, 15,—" These are they which 
came out of great tribulation, and have washed 
their robes, and made them white in the blood ol 
the Lamb. 
Therefore are they before the throne 
of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : 
and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among 
them." 
them as a man spareth his own son that serveth 
him." 
Matt. 7:11,—" If ye then, being evil, 
know how to give good gifts unto your children, 
how much more shall your Father in heaven give 
good things to them that ask him." 
Strong, however, as is the love of parents for 
their offspring, they sometimes do forget them. 
Mothers have burned their children in the fire to 
Moloch, and have given them to the crocodile of 
the Ganges, so that God's love for Zion infinitely 
surpasses theirs, and He illustrates it by a still 
stronger figure : 
* 
Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; 
Thy walls are continually before me—v. 16. 
Being graven on the palms is put by substitution 
for the unfailing regard which God has for Zion. 
An indellible mark on the hand or arm, made by 
punctures in the skin and stained, cannot be erased 
during life ; and it is supposed that the Jews were 
accustomed to such marks on the skin. 
When 
they were instructed to keep any ceremony in con-
stant remembrance, the direction was, as in Ex. 
12:9, —" It shall be for a 6ign unto thee upon thine 
hand and for a memorial between thine eyes, that 
the Lord's law may be in thy mouth." 
Some have supposed the figure to be taken from 
the design of an architect who draws a plan of the 
building which he designs to produce, which is 
constantly consulted by the builder during the pro-
gress of the worE. 
It would then be the plan of 
the city which is represented as being thus en-
graven ; and if so, the " walls," by a metonymy, 
are put for the pattern after which they are to be 
modeled in the restoration of the city,—when (Psa. 
2:6,) the King will sit " upon Zion, the hill of my 
holiness." 
Psa. 48:12, 1-3—" Walk about Zion, 
and go round about her : tell the towers thereof. 
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces." 
lb. 87:1-3—" His foundation is in the holy moun-
tains. 
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more 
than all the dwellings of Jacob. 
Glorious things 
are spoken of thee, 0 city of God." 
lb. 102:16, 
—" When the Lord shall build up Zion. he shall 
appear in his glory." 
lb. 132:13, 14—" For the 
Lord hath chosen Zion ; he hath desired it for his 
habitation. 
This is my rest forever : here will I 
dwell; for I have desired it." 
Isa. 35:10—" And 
the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to 
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their 
heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sor-
row and sighing shall flee away." 
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers 
And they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.—v. It. 
When Zion is to be restored, its desolators are 
to be destroyed ; for, (Isa. 2:27, 28,) " Zion shall 
be redeemed with judgment, and her converts 
(mar.: they that return of her) with righteousness. 
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the 
sinners shall be together." 
This must be at the 
expiration of the period during which Jerusalem 
was to be trodden down of the Gentiles. 
But Zk» said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath for-
gotten me.—v. 14. 
"Zion " was the city of David in Jerusalem, 
and the name was sometimes applied to the whole 
city. 
It was predicted (Mich. 3:12,) that Zion 
should be " ploughed as a field," and Jerusalem 
" become heaps ;" which was accompanied with 
the promise of a subsequent restoration, 4:2, when 
" the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of 
the Lord from Jerusalem." 
The former of these 
was fulfilled when the Romans destroyed Jerusa-
lem and Hadrian drove the plough-share over its 
ruins. 
See Note on chap. 2:2. 
The latter can-
not be fulfilled till the end of the Gentile dispen-
sation ; for (Luke 21.24,) " Jerusalem shall be 
trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled." Previous to its restoration 
and to illustrate its desolation, Zion is put by a 
metonymy for those who have an interest there, 
who are represented as bemoaning its forsaken con-
dition. But God would not forget His promises, and 
gives the assurance of His regard for it: 
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold : 
All these gather themselves together, and come to thee. 
As I live, saith the Lord, 
Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, 
And bind them on thee, as a bride doeth—v. 18. 
The address as indicated by the 21st verse is evi-
dently to the church, once there located but now 
removed, which is addressed as a mother, whose 
greatest pride is in her children ; who are to be 
restored again to Zion. 
By a metaphor, Zion is 
said to be clothed with them, to illustrate that she 
will be no longer desolate; and by similees, they 
are compared to the jewels with which a bride or-
naments herself; for (Prov. 17:6,) "Children's 
children are the crown of old men; and the glory 
of children are their father's." 
Can a woman forget her sucking child, 
Th it she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? 
Yea, they may forget,yet will I not forget thee—v. 15. 
The regard of parents for their children is pro-
verbially strong—particularly the attachment of a 
mother to her child. 
This is, therefore, an appro-
priate illustration of God's love. 
(Psa. 103:13.) 
" Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord 
pitieth them that fear him. 
Mai. 3:17,—" And 
they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that 
diy when 1 make up my jewels ; and I will s par 
ment at the great additions to the children of Zion, 
while the church was banished from that locality 
and in bondage among the nations, with no perma-
nent resting place. 
The cause of this wonderful 
accession of believers is next explained : 
Thus saith the Lord God, 
Behold I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, 
And set up my standard to the people: 
And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, 
And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 
—u. 22. 
Lifting up the hand to the Gentiles—to beckon 
them to come to Zion ; and to set up a standard to 
the people—an ensign around which to rally, are 
put by substitution for the extension of the preach-
ing of the Gospel to the Gentiles, and the provi-
dences which should cause them to turn to Jehovah. 
And their bringing her sons in their arms, and her 
daughters on their shoulders, is the same trope for 
the efforts which the Gentiles should themselves 
make to extend a knowledge of the Gospel to the 
heathen. 
The figure is taken from the manner in 
which children were and still are carried in th 
east, as will be seen by the following: 
" It is a custom in many parts of the East, to 
carry their children astride upon the hip, with the 
arm around the body. 
In the kingdom of Algiers, 
where the slaves take the children out, the boys ride 
upon their shoulders; and in aveligious procession, 
which Symes had an opportunity of seeing at Ava, 
the capital of the Burinan empire, the first person-
ages of rank that passed by were three children 
borne astride, on men's shoulders. 
It is evident, 
from these facts, that the Oriental children are 
carried sometimes the one way, sometimes the 
other. 
Nor was the custom, in reality, different 
in Judea, though the prophet expresses himself in 
these terms : ' They shalt bring thy sons in their 
arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon 
their shoulders ;' for according to Dr. Russel, the 
children able to support themselves are usually 
carried astride on the shoulders ; but in infancy 
they are carried in the arms, or awkwardly on one 
haunch. 
Dandini tells us that, on horseback, the 
Asiatics ' carry their young children upon their 
shoulders with great dexterity. 
These children 
hold by the head of him who carries them, whether 
he be on horseback or on foot, and do not hinder 
him from walking, nor doing what he pleases.' 
This augments the import of the passage in Isaiah, 
who speaks of the Gentiles bringing children thus; 
so that distance is no objection to this mode of 
conveyance, since they may thus be brought on 
horseback from among the people, however re-
mote."—Paxton. 
" Children of both sexes are carried on the 
shoulders. 
Thus may be seen the father carrying 
his son, the little fellow being astride on the 
shoulder, having, with his hands, hold of his fa-
ther's head. 
Girls, however, sit on their shoulder, 
as if on a chair, their legs hanging in front, while 
they also, with their hands, lay hold of the head. 
In going to, or returning from heathen festivals, 
thousands of paifents and their children may be 
thus seen marching along with joy. 
In this way 
shall the Gentiles bring their sons and their daugh-
ters to Jehovah ; kings shall then be ' nursing fa-
thers,' and queens 4 nursing mothers.' "—Roberts. 
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruc-
tion, 
Shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, 
And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, 
Shall say again in thine ears, The place is too straight for me : 
Give place to me that 1 may dwell—vs. 19, 20. 
This teaches that in the regeneration, the land 
of Palestine, which formerly was amply sufficient 
for all who went up to Zion to worship, will not be 
capacious enough—although there will be an en-
tire absence of the oppressors of Zion, who by a 
metaphor, are said to have swallowed her up, to 
illustrate the destruction they had wrought. 
Keeping up the figure of a mother, Zion is rep-
resented as having lost her former children,-—the 
worshippers who thionged there when Israel of-
fered acceptable sacrifices to Jehovah—as being 
again so thronged with worshippers, the children of 
her widowhood, that they have to extend beyond 
her former borders. 
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me tlrese t 
Seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, 
And removing to and fro ? and who hath brought up these ? 
Behold, I was left alone ; these, where had they been J 
. 
— v. 21. 
By a metonymy" heart " is put for the mind,— 
saying in the heart being expressive of astonish-
SPEAKING THINGS NOT UNDERSTOOD. 
WE have been repeatedly impressed with the 
want of acquaintance with the things of which 
they speak, which is manifested in the conversation 
and writings ot those who contend for specific 
points of time. 
As a case in point, we conversed 
lately with one who is justly reckoned by the tim-
ists as one of, if not their most intelligent and re-
spectable preacher, who was contending for the 
commencement of the 70 weeks B.C. 446,'when said, 
We: Commencing the 70 weeks so late as that, 
where do you reckon the epoch of the crucifixion ? 
He. In A.D. 37. 
We. Have you authority of any kind for assign-
ing so late a date for that event 1 
He. Dr. Jarvis gives that as the date of the cru-
cifixion. 
We. Does he 1 You are mistaken ; for he gives 
A.D. 28 as the date of that event! 
He. Dr. Jarvis states that Christ was in his 
tlyrty-seventh year when he was crucified. 
We. Did you understand me to enquire what 
was the age of Christ at his crucifixion 1 If so, 
you did not apprehend my question, wThich was, 
not the year of his age, but the year of our vulgar 
era in which it occurred. 
Does Dr. Jarvis afford 
you any authority for placing it in A.D. 37 ! 
He. If he says he was crucified in the 37th year 
of his age, is not that authority? 
We. You dont mean that you are aware of no 
difference between the year of his age, and the 
year of our era in which Christ suffered I 
He. I know that you make a distinction that is 
not very perceptible to the common people. 
We. The difference has been plainly shown in 
the Herald too often for any intelligent reader to 
be left confused on that point. 
[" Yes," said a third person present, whom we 
had never before seen, but who we understand is 
limitedly known by the sobriquet of the " learned 
blacksmith " ; " and every time you write on it, 
you leave it darker than it was before." 
" That," 
said we, " depends on the intelligence of those who 
read." 
Resuming, we continued, as before the 
interruption,] 
You will not say that you are not aware of the 
justice of that distinction ? 
He. " A.D." means the year of our Lord ; and if 
it dont mean the year of his age, then you give a 
different meaning to it than the common one. 
We. No ; I attach to it the common meaning 
and that only. 
No chronologer uses it differently, 
nor does any person who understands its import. 
Our common A.D. is called the " Vulgar Era," be-
cause reckoned, not from the actual birth of Christ, 
but from the place in the Julian Period where his 
birth was- at first incorrectly placed—at the end of 
A.J.P. 4713. 
And when any chronologer, or any in-
telligent person,speaks of an event in any given year 
A.D.,he reckons not from the actual birth of the 
Saviour, but from the commencement of our com-
mon era. The question is whether Dr. Jarvis gives 
you any authority for giving A.D. 37 as the date of 
the crucifixion ? And he does not; for he places it 
in A.D. 28. Therefore are you justified in giving him 
as authority for A.D-. 37 to those who, hearing you 
from the pulpit, take it for granted that you are 
profoundly familiar with the whole question 1 
He. I don't tell them that Dr. Jarvis places the 
crucifixion in A.D. 37 ; but I quote his words, that 
Christ was crucified in his 37th year. 
We. But is it just to your hearers to quote that 
from Dr. Jarvis, for the purpose of proving to them 
that A.D. 37 was the year of the crucifixion, with-
out also informing them that the Doctor places 
that event nine years before the date to which you 
assign it ? 
Have you any right to quote him re-
specting the Saviour's age, without also showing 
to the uninformed the difference which the Doctor 
makes between the birth of Christ and the Vulgar 
Era ? placing, it six years before the commence-
ment of that era 1 You are aware, I suppose, that 
he gives B.C. 6, as the date of Christ's birth ? 
He. I know that he says something about six 
years ; but does he say B. G. 6. ? Does not E.C. mean 
before Christ's birth ? 
We. It means before the Vulgar Era of his birth. 
B.C. ends with the year 4713 of the Julian Period ; 
And A.D. begins with 4714. 
Dr. Jarvis reckons 
the birth of Christ six years before that epoch. 
And therefore when you quote him for the age of 
Christ at his crucifixion, does not justice demand 
that you show where he places Christ's birth, that 
it may be apparent where he dates his death ] 
He. It would be proper to explain that. . 
We. But you are also mistaken when you quote 
him as to the age of Christ. 
For as Dr. Jarvis 
places Christ's birth B.C. 6, and his death in A.D. 
28, he makes the latter in his 34th and not in his 
37th year. 
He. I am very confident that he says 37, for I 
copied it from his work, and I have the page among 
my papers. 
We. Will you show the place of this statmpnt 
in his writings? for here are all his chronological 
works. (laying them before him ). 
This he was unable to do ; and we showed him,' 
p475 of his 1st. vol. of" Church of the Redeemed," 
when speaking of the pass-over at which Christ 
suffered, that Dr. Jarvis says " The Passover, in 
the thirty-fourth year of our Lord's life, began on 
Thursday, the. 25th of March," &c. Then said 
We. Thus you have no authority whatever, from 
Dr. Jarvis, either for placing the crucifixion in 
A.D. 37, or for giving that as his age when cruci-
fied ! Have you any other authority for placing 
the crucifixion in A.D. 37 ? 
He. Yes, there was a passover full moon on Fri-
day in that year, the same as in A.D. 33. 
We. So has there been a Paschal full moon on 
Friday in many other years, without affording any 
evidence that the crucifixion was in either of those 
years. 
The dispute respecting that event does not 
extent beyond the years A.D. 28—to A.D. 34. 
The 
event must-be found within that disputed period ; 
for no writer ancient or modern places it this side 
of A.D. 34. 
He. Do not some of the ancient writers place it 
in A.D. 40 1 
We. Some ancient writers surmised that the 
Saviour might be 40 or 50 years of age ; but none 
of them placed his crucifixion in their chronologi-
cal reckonings, this side of the year that synchro-
nizes with our A.D. 35. 
And it was impossible for 
them to ; for in A.D. 36 Caligula succeeded Tiberius 
in the empire : and it was in the reign of Tiberius 
that the crucifixion occurred. 
Therefore a paschal 
full moon on Friday in A.D, 37, would be no evi-
dence of the crucifixion in that year,—lacking as 
it would other elements neccess&ry to its demon-
stration. 
But in this case as in the other, you are 
mistaken; for no Paschal full moon occurred on 
Friday in that year, as any one can see who is able 
to calculate the time of its full. 
And therefore 
lhat could not be the year of the crucifixion. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
309 1 
He. Well, I rest more on the 20th of Artaxerxes 
for the commencement of the 70 weeks, and that I 
am satisfied was in B.C. 4-46. 
IVc. You cannot commence the 70 weeks so late 
as that, unless the date of the crucifixion will har-
monise with it in its appropriate place in the last 
week. 
Commencing there, the last week does not 
begin till several years after the crucifixion must 
have taken place, which fact alone makes it impos-
sible for the 70 weeks to have commenced at so 
late a date. 
Besides, no chronologer who reckons 
them from the 20 th of Artaxerxes, places that year 
in B.C. 446, or later than the year 4260 of the 
Julian Period, which corresponds with our B.C. 
454. 
Usher and all who reckon from the 20th, 
place the crucifixion in A.D. 33, and end the 
70 weeks in A.D. 37—where yoij end the 69 ! Thus 
you inconsistantly refuse to follow any of those 
you quote as authority. 
Yet the manner in 
which you refer to them would convey the idea to 
your hearers that they sustain you in the com-
mencement of the 70 weeks. 
And thus your hear-
ers are deceived by your not showing wherein you 
depart from the teachings of those you quote. 
He. Well, if our time should fail, we have all 
your arguments to fall back upon to prove that 
the Lord is near. 
We. No you have not; for in telling the people 
what is not true respecting the year of the cruci-
fixion, quoting authorities whom you do not follow, 
representing them as sustaining you on points 
wherein they contradict you, drawing inferences 
from history which do violence to the common 
sense and general intelligence of the community, 
and making repeated failures in the setting of 
times ; the public will necessarily lose confidence 
in you as sober and competent teachers, and will 
regard you as unsafe expositors. 
When the boy 
cried " Wolf!" those who heard, ran to deliver 
the sheep from its fangs,—but found no wolf there 
When he again cried "Wolf!" they again ran, 
and were again misled. 
When he cried" Wolf!" 
the third time, those who heard concluded that if 
they ran for the protection of the sheep they would 
only run in vain—having lost con fidence in the boy 
—and so they paid no attention to his loud vocif-
erations while the wolf came and devoured him 
and the sheep. 
In like manner, every time you 
preach a definite time as that of the second advent, 
and fail, you weaken your moral hold on the com 
munity and incapacitate yourselves for exherting 
a beneficial influence on the public. 
He. Well, I think people dont cry Wolf when 
they aught to. 
We. But when they do cry wolf, they should 
know whereof they affirm. When God sets a time, 
there is never any delay or disappointment in the 
fulfilment of the event. 
THE PASCHAL MOO\T. 
THE Jews began their year with the first appear 
ance of the new moon nearest to the ripening of 
their barley harvest—which ripens in Jerusalem 
sometime in the month of our April. 
And (rti the 
14th day from the appearance of the new, which 
corresponds to our full of the moon, they kept the 
Passover,—the barley harvest having then begun 
to ripen. 
As the Saviour was crucified on Friday, 
which is universally admitted by every person of 
any pretension to an acquaintance with the Hebrew 
and Greek idioms, and ao- it was on the day of the 
Jewish passover, the crucifixion must have oc-
curred in some year when the Paschal full moon 
fell on Friday. 
It is boldly affirmed by those who, 
contrary to all history and chronology, claim that 
the crucifixion was in A.D. 37, for the purpose of 
harmonizing with their "specific time ;" that the 
Paschal moon and Friday synchronized in that 
year,and brother Pinney, in the Crisis of Sept. 13th, 
says: " The same authority (Ferguson) that gave 
us a full moon passover on Friday in A.D. 33, gives 
us also one in A.D 37." 
Bro. P. adds; "If there is any error I will 
thank any brother to show it." 
Believing him 
to be sincere, we will show him his error ; for we 
never take any trouble to convince those of their 
error, who are disposed to persist in^it when shown. 
The simple fact is that Ferguson does not gives us 
a paschal full moon in A.D. 37. 
He says: 
" I find by calculation, the only passover full 
moon that fell on Friday, for several years before 
or after the disputed year of the Crucifixion, was 
on the 3d day of April, in the 4746th year of the 
Julian period, which was the 490th year after Ezra 
received the above mentioned commission from Ar-
taxerxes 
Longimeanus, according to Ptolomy's 
Canon, and the year in which the Messiah was to 
be cut off, according to the Prophecy, reckoning 
from the going forth of that commission or com-
mandment 
and this 490th year was the 33d year 
of our Saviour's age, reckoning from the vulgar 
era of his birth ; but the 37th, reckoning from the 
true era thereof."—Astron. p. 338. 
Ferguson says nothing about any full moon in 
and brother Pinney has probably con-
founded A.D. 37, with what Ferguson says of the 
37th year of Christ's age, reckoning from the true 
era thereof. But this he did not place in A.D. 37, 
which is expressly affirmed by Ferguson when he 
says it was in the 33d year of the vulgar era, and 
the 4746th year of the Julian period, which was 
our A.D. 33. 
Ferguson does not give the full moons in A.D. 37 ; 
but he gives " Lunar Tables " by which it is very 
easy to calculate the time of any full moon in 
any past year. 
And to show that there was no 
paschal full moon on Friday in that year, we will 
make the calculation ; and any one unable to 
comprehend its simplification as we give it, can 
verify its accuracy by handing it for examina-
tion to any astronomical friend. 
To calculate the time of any full moon in any 
year previous to the 18th century, 
1st. Consider what year in the 18th century cor-
responds in number with the year in the given cen-
tury respecting which the calculation is to be made; 
and which in the present instance is A.D. 1737, 
2d. We enter Table 
[(Astron. p. 298) and 
find the time of the mean new moon in March Old 
Style for 1737, which is 19 days, 16 hours, 26 min-
utes, 42 seconds. 
3d. To this we add (copied from the foot of Ta-
ble III, p. 301) one half of a mean lunation, 14 d., 
18 h.,22 m.,2 a., : and it gives April, 3 d. 10 h., 
48 m., 44 s., as the time of the next paschal mean 
full moon. 
4th. We then enter Table VI. p 304, and noting 
that seventeen complete centuries taken from A.D. 
1737 will answer to A.D. 37, we take out from 
against 1700 the first mean new moon which is 
14d., 17 h., 36 m., 42s. 
This subtracted from the 
result in the 3d paragraph, we have 19 d., 17 h., 
12 m., and 2 s., as the mean date of the full moon 
in March A.D. 37. 
This would also be the true time, were there no 
irregularitis in the motions of the earth 
and 
moon in the different parts of their orbits. 
There 
being such, to change the mean to true time, 
5th. We enter table I and take the sun's mean 
anomaly at the mean new moon in March 1737 
which is 9 signs, 14 minutes, and 34 seconds. 
To 
this add its variation, given at the foot of table III, 
for one half of a mean lunation, 14 degrees, 33 in., 
10 s.; and the sum is 9 S.,14 d., 47 m., 44 s. From 
this take 11 S., 28 d., 46 m., the mean distance 
from Node after seventeen centuries, given in ta-
ble VI., and it leaves 9S., 16d., lm., 44g.,_a 
circle of 12 signs being added for the purpose of 
subtraction. 
With these signs and degrees, 9 
and 16, we enter table VII. p. 306, and take out 
the annual or first equation f>r reducing the mean 
Syzygy to the true, which is 3 hours, 59 m., 49 s. 
This added to the mean time in paragraph 4th., 
makes 19 days, 21 h., 11 m., 51 s., for the time 
once equated. 
6th. We again enter table I and take the moon's 
mean anomaly for March 1737, which is 11 signs, 
26 degrees, 35 minutes, 55 seconds. 
Adding to 
this, from the foot of table III, for one half of a 
mean lunation, 6 signs, 12 d., 54 m., 30 s., and 
the sum is 6 S., 9 d., 30 m., 25 s.,—discarding 12 
signs, which constituting a whole circle become 
superfluous. Taking from this 10 S., 29 d., 36 m., 
—the moon's mean anomaly, next after 17 com-
plete centuries, as given in table VI, and it leaves 
7 S., 9 d., 54 m., 25 s.,—her mean anomaly. 
With these signs and degrees, which because of 
the fractions we call 7 and 10, we enter table VIII, 
p. 307, and find the equation of the moon's mean 
anomaly, 1 d., 2 m., 1 s.; which added to her mean 
anomaly make 7 S., 10 d., 56 m., 26 s., which re-
sult is her equated anomaly. 
With this we enter 
table IX. p. 308 and take out 6 hours, 3 m., 16 s., 
which is the second equation for reducing the 
mean to the true time. 
Subtracting this from the 
time once equated in paragraph 5th, and we have 
19 days 15 h., 8 m., 35., which is the time twice 
equated. 
7th. From 9 Signs, 16 d., 1 m., 44 s.—the sun's 
mean anomaly as found in paragraph 5th—we 
subtract 7 S., 10 d., 56 m., 26 s., the moon's 
equated anomaly as shown in paragraph 6th, and 
the result is, 2 S., 5 d., 5 m., 18 a. 
With this 
remainder we enter table X. p. 309, and take out 
4 m., 27 s.—the third equation—which subtracted 
from the time twice equated, leaves 19 days, 15 h., 
4 m., 8 s.—which is the time thrice equated. 
8th. We again enter table I. and take the sun's 
mean distance from the Node, in March 1737, 
which is 6 signs, 21 d., 37 m., 29 s. 
To this we 
add from the foot of table III. for one half of a 
mean lunation, 15 degrees, 20 m., 7 s., and we 
have 7 S., 6 d., 57 m., 36 s. 
From this we take, 
as given in table VI. 4 S., 29 m., 23 s.—the sun's 
mean distance from the ascending Node next after 
seventeen complete centuries, and it leaves 2 S., 
d., 34 m., 36 s,—the sun's mean distance from 
the ascending Node in Mar. A.D. 37. 
With this 
we enter table XI.; and take out the equation an-
swering to that argument, 1 m., 9 s., which added 
to the third equated time, makes 19 days, 15 h., 5 
m., 17 s.—which is the true time of the full of the 
moon in March A.D. 37. 
9th. As the difference in time between London 
and Jerusalem is 2 h., 34 m., 32 s., this added to 
the last result gives 19 d., 17 h., 39 m., and 48 
s. 
But as the time in the Lunar Tables is calcu 
lated from noon of the first day, the time here found 
is 5 hours 39 m. and 48 s. past midnight of the 20th 
of March ; which is the time of the Paschal full 
moon in A.D. 37, according to the Rabbinical 
reckoning. 
10th. To find the day of the week on which this 
fell, we get the dominical letter for that year by 
adding to 37 its fourth part, rejecting fractions, 
and 5 to that sum,—making 51, which divided by 
7 has a remainder of 2 and shows that F. is the 
letter sought for. 
Consequently January of that 
year came in on Tuesday and March on Friday, 
and the 20th, the day of the full moon in March, 
fell on Wednesday. 
As this is the Rabbinical reckoning, and it is 
doubtful whether the barley harvest was ripe so 
early as the 20th of March, we will find the time of 
the next full moon. 
And, 
11th. To the mean full moon of March A.D. 37, 
to the mean anomalies of the sun and moon, and 
to the sun's mean distance from the Node, as shown 
in paragraphs 4 to 8. we add from table III. one 
lunation and its anomalies, &c., and we find the 
mean time to be April 18th, 5 h., 56 m., 5 8 
Equating this, we find the sun's mean anomaly— 
10 signs, 15 d., 8 m., 3 s. ; the moon's mean 
anomaly, 8 signs, 5 d., 43 m., 25 s. ; and the sun's 
distance from the Node, 3 signs, 8 d., 14 m., 50 
8.; and with these arguments we enter the respec-
tive tables as in paragraphs 5 to 8, and find the 
several equations to be respectively 2 h., 54 m., 
48 s'.; 8 h., 46 m.; 4 m., 34 s. ; and 26 s.—the 
first of which is to be added and the rest sub-
tracted, and we find that the moon was full at Lon-
don in April A.D. 37 on the 17th day, 23 hours 59 
m. 53 s.—or 7 seconds before noon of the 18th, then 
making allowance for the difference, the time at 
Jerusalem was 2 hours, 34 m. and 25 8, past mid-
day April 18th ; which, that year fell on Thursday, 
when the paschal lamb was killed according to the 
Caraite which is doubtless the true reckoning. 
In view of the thanks which brother Pinney of-
fers for a demonstration of his error, we have thus 
gone through with this complicated calculation,and 
shown that there was no passover full moon on 
Friday A.D. 37, and consequently that the cruci-
fixion did not occur in that year. 
We shall look 
with interest for the promised acknowledgement 
unless brother P. should discover some error in our 
calculation, in which case he shall have our thanks. 
FARTHER INQUIRIES. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—'When I addressed you the 9th 
inst., I did not intend to trouble you again. 
I 
have no cherished theory of my own to sustain, but 
I am desirous to understand the teaching of the 
Word of truth ; and I pray for divine wisdom and 
grace, which will enable me to walk in the truth, at 
the cost of all things. 
I hope it may not be an 
intrusion, if I propose a few inquiries more. 
Am I to understand that the " tribulation on the 
the Church " terminated in 1688? 
And is it your 
opinion that Rev. 12:6. 14, also 13:5, refer to the 
same persecution of the people of God, as Matt. 
24:29. 
And is not Dan. 7:25 a parallel text with 
the above ? 
If the Reformation had a "general 
triumph 
oyer Popery and the papal arms " in 1682, when 
did " the tribulation " commence on the Church, 
if that period of trouble be a " thousand two hun-
dred and threescore days?" 
Must it not have had a commencement, before 
the rise of all of the " ten horns or kingdoms " 
(three, at least, according to accredited dates). 
Daniel is instructed by the angel that, " the ten 
horns are ten kings that shall arise : and another 
shall rise after them " 
If I understand correctly, 
this power, or " Little horn " into whose hand the 
saints were to be given,' " until a time and times 
and the dividing of time," arose subsequently to the 
arising of the ten kingdoms. 
Please make this point more lucid, and pardon 
me for again soliciting instruction. 
Yours, 
ALICE BURNHAM. 
Newburyport, Mass.*, 
16th, 1854. 
Being absent from Boston last week, I ,was un-
able to reply to these inquirees till the present 
number. 
The " tribulation " 
referred to in Matthew 
24:29, 1 understand to be the same that is re-
ferred to in the 21st of the same chapter, and 
in Luke 21:22-24, which is shown in those places 
to commence with the destruction of Jerusalem. 
Mr. Miller was always of the opinion that it had 
reference only to the tribulation connected with 
that destruction; but I have supposed it had a 
more general bearing and that we are justified 
in including under it those bitter days of cru-
elty which were covered by the Pagan, and af-
terwards by the Papal persecutions. 
I do not and 
have never understood that the Saviour had any 
reference to* the prophetic periods given in the 
other Scriptures that you refer to, when he spoke of 
the "tribulation of those days," but that he referred 
to the days during which Jerusalem should be trod 
den down of the Gentiles. 
And when he says that 
for the elect's sake those days should be shortened, 
I understand him to promise not that the persecu-
tions to which his people were to be subjected 
should be ended, but mitigated, so that their 
severity would not be continued till the end of the 
times of the Gentiles ; and that they should bo so 
relieved from them, as to enjoy a season of com 
parative prosperity. 
This relief, or shortening of 
the tribulation, I suppose was effected by the 
Reformation, which gained its triumph over the 
Papal arms in 1688. 
I do not know that the trib-
ulation was shortened in that year ; for it was 
not a sudden but a gradual result; but in that 
year, I understand that Protestantism so triumphed 
over the Papacy that there has never since been a 
general, but only local Papal persecutions, one of 
which has been so severe within the last ten years 
at the Madaria islands, that some hundreds have 
fled from there, reaching this country in destitute 
circumstances, and have been relieved by the lib-
erality of Christians here. 
I suppose it would be 
no more possible to give the year in which the tri-
bulation was " shortened " than it would to name 
the day in which a boy becomes as large as his 
father—both being gradual events. 
It will be seen from the foregoing, that I under-
stand that Rev. 12.6, 14 ; 13:5, and Dan. 7:25, are 
not parallel with 
Matt. 24:29 ; but, that the 
weight of the tribulation of the former is included 
in the latter, which covers much more than they 
do, being expressly commenced by the Saviour 
with the compassing of Jerusalem with armies at 
its destruction. I have never found any more proba-
ble period for the prophetic numbers in the texts 
that you instance, than that given by Mr. Miller, 
Dr. Croly, and others—from 538 to 1798—after 
the rise of the ten kingdoms. 
The intensity of its 
persecutions did not continue to the end of that 
period but were mitigated by the shortening of the 
whole series, of persecutions referred to by our 
Saviour ; nor have they now entirely ceased, as the 
imprisonment of the Madai two years since bears 
witness. 
In a more limited manner, the same horn 
was to war with the saints and prevail against 
them till the Ancient of days came and the saints 
possessed the kingdom. 
The 2300 days of Dan. 8:14,1 do not understand 
to mark the length of the tribulation of that chap-
ter, but of the whole period in which should be ful-
filled all the events symbolized in that vision. 
If I have not made myself understood «n any 
point, additional questions will not be regarded as 
obtrusive, and I 6hall be happy to add further; 
but if the prophecy is still in a measure obscure, it 
may be attributed to my not professing to be able 
to solve all its intricaces—being able to give only 
my own understanding of them. 
GENERAL 
CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS 
IN 
MAINE. 
—There is a desire for a general gathering of Ad-
ventists in Me., on the part of many of the early, 
steadfast, and faithful friends of the cause. 
It is 
proposed, therefore, to hold a conference of this 
kind, in the course of next month. 
Notice of time 
soon. 
Some of the objects of this meeting will be to 
form a better acquaintance with each other—to 
learn each other's views, and also to hear reports 
of the state of the cause within the bounds of the 
State, and to provide for the destitute, &c. 
The 
meeting will be held in Richmond. 
Brethren will 
be provided for, and it is hoped that there will be 
a general gathering, from all parts of the State. 
The " reasons of our hope," and the evidence, of 
the speedy coming of Christ, will be fully given. 
J. 
V. 
HIMES. 
Nctlccs. 
NOTICE.—The subscribers to the chapel, who 
have not paid the enstalment due on their.shares, 
are requested to remember us as early as conveni-
ent. 
We now have special need of all due. 
I wish also to say to any of our friends who may 
have funds on hand which they could loan on good 
security, with interest, that I wish to obtain a few . 
hundred dollars for six months, or more, as it may 
best suit them. 
Will any such write to me, with-
out delay? 
I am in special need at this juncture. 
. 
J. V. 
HIKES. 
WE would call attention to the Motice of the 
American Bible Union," in another column 
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Herald. 
IIONLEINESS—COMMUNION. 
IT is frequently the case that we hear persons 
complain of being lonely, of finding but little to 
cheer and comfort them, but small privileges, and 
few associations, that they are deprived of the so-
ciety of the good and virtuous, &c. 
Perhaps it is 
the fact that some persons are so constituted as to 
require more personal intercourse with friends 
than others, to keep them from melancholy and 
dejection, this is doubtless true. 
And again, it is 
true that God has created us social beings, that 
we may be company for each other, and mutually 
aid each other with words of comfort, instruction 
and reproof, and deeds of mercy and kindness. 
But the excuses above alluded to, which are often 
brought as reasons for the delinquency of intellect-
ual, moral and religious improvement, when well 
considered, do not merit all the sympathy they of-
ten receive. 
While it is true that we need a cer-
tain amount of association with our fellows whose 
minds are in some degree congenial with our own, 
it is also true that we may find something to occu-
py our minds and improve the heart more perma-
nently than all of our earthly associations can do. 
A source from which we may draw such treasures 
as the human mind needs more than all things else, 
God who has created us, is the fountain of all wis-
dom and knowledge, of love and goodness. 
He 
has made us rational intelligences, has endowed us 
with the power of thought, and of communicating 
our thoughts to him, and to each other. 
We find 
ourselves in want, we are dependant on him, and 
he knows all that is in our hearts, and we know 
but little of him, He is to become our study. 
We 
want " to know him, the only true God." 
He has 
told us to ask wisdom of him and promised to im-
part it. 
He has planted the ear and he can hear: 
he has formed the eye, and he can see;" he arranged 
the passions of the human soul, and he knows all 
its sensibilities. 
We find ourselves a fallen race, 
in moraf darkness, prone to rebellion, under the 
sentence of death, and in the practice of sin, with 
perverted passions. 
Enough to make us lonely in-
deed, when we add to this, the groaning of crea-
tion, and ourselves with them, in guilt, in sorrow, 
in pain, wasting by disease, suffering the loss of 
our friends, and many other ills. 
But we are not 
left here, He who has subjected us to vanity be-
cause of sin, has "subjected us in hope," and 
while we need mercy and pardon, He has promised 
it. 
We need light, and " the Lord giveth light." 
In our stupidity we need to feel our necessity of 
his care and blessings. 
The Holy Spirit has prom-
ised to do this. 
We lack wisdom and can " ask of 
God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraid 
eth not." 
We know God is tar above all created 
beings, and we wish to know his character, " even 
his eternal power and Godhead." 
Then we must 
" understand by the tilings that are made, for the 
invisible things of him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen." 
" The heavens declare 
the glory of God, and the firmament showeth hjs 
handiwork." 
" Day and night uttereth speech 
and showeth knowledge." 
Here is something in 
the book of nature to occupy our attention, and to 
improve the mind, to cultivate the heart—to feed 
the intellect. 
But this is only the beginning. 
Says the Psalmist, " Through thy precepts I get 
understanding, therefore I hate every false way." 
" Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my 
path." 
" It.is my meditation all the day." 
Is 
there not enough here to occupy the mind ? 
But 
it requires " faith in God," to be interested thus, 
and he who humbles himself before God, " his de-
light is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth 
he meditate day and night. 
And he shall be like 
a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth 
forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not 
wither, and whatsoever lie doeth shall prosper.' 
Here is something to cheer the heart of the ser-
vant of God, and to encourage him to persevere. 
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the 
soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making 
wise the simple; the statutes of the Lord are right, 
rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord 
is pure, enlightening the eyes." 
Surely this con-
tains sentiment that should cause the heart of the 
penitent sinner, in darkness and in ignorance, to 
be enlisted for " conversion of soul," " rejoicing 
of heart," and light for the mind. 
The gloom of 
loneliness—of melancholy will flee before such doc-
trine as this, like darkness before the morning sun. 
But afflictions weigh down the heart in sorrow. 
Well what then, hear, " Unlesss thy law had been 
my delight, I should then have perished in mine 
affliction." 
Again, " Before I was afflicted I went 
astray, but now have I kept thy word, I thought 
in my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testa-
monies, I made tiaste, and delayed not to keep thy 
commandments." 
In this there is an example, 
and comfort. 
But again, " Then though thy com-
mandemnts hast made me wiser than mine enemies, 
for they are ever with me, I understand more than 
the ancients, because I keep thy precepts." 
Great 
opportunity here for improvement and meditation, 
and all this time the soul is in conversation with 
the great God. 
And is not this profitable associa-
tion. 
In the law or doctrine of the Lord, we have 
a transcript of the mind—the will of the God of 
the universe. 
How important a study is the Divine 
mind. 
Says Paul, " The Holy Scriptures are able 
to make you wise unto salvation, through faith 
which is in Christ." 
Not only have Ave the mind 
of God, as given in the Old Testament, but Christ 
has " revealed the Father " to us, by his manifes-
tation in the flesh, a faithful record of which has 
been given. 
Also the Holy Spirit has been given 
to guide us into all truth and to comfort the saints 
of God. 
The mind contemplates the machinery of 
this vast world, and its inhabitants. 
We wish to 
know how it came into being, and how we came to 
be its inhabitants ; the Scripture is full on the 
point. 
We wish for the history of man, and we 
have it, for the cause of death and it is given, for 
the final result of sin and here it is. 
We find our-
selves possessed of a desire to live eternally, the 
sceptre mercy—of pardon, is here extended to us, 
and the conditions of eternal life plainly inscribed. 
The idea of having life given to the dead, looks 
impossible. 
But we here read that " all things 
are possible with God." 
A resurrection from the 
grave to " immortality and eternal life " is prom-
ised, and " what God has promised he is able also 
to perform." 
Who should not have his attention 
enlisted, and his affections drawn away from this 
groaning earth, sinking under the curse of sin, and 
" placed on things above where Jesus "—the days 
man, the Mediator—" sits on the right hand of 
God." 
Is there not enough in all this and in the 
history of that Saviour who purchased life for us 
by the shedding of his own blood, to occupy our 
thoughts? 
We see that the earth is producing 
much that annoys man—is infested with much 
that is evil, and the mind seeks a better home than 
this. 
Here again the great treasure-house affords 
the prophetic history of a " NEW 
EARTH " with all 
its beauty, " filled with the glory of God," free 
from the curse, its inhabitants'exempt from sor-
row and from death. 
Is there nothing here to gain 
our admiration ? 
We read of the good men of old 
and wish to be acquainted with them. 
Turn to 
God's book, and we have their biography, the his-
tory of their faith, their hopes, their trials and 
victories, and their devoted lives. 
Paul brings 
them up in Heb. 11, to give us an illustration of 
their faith and hope, can we in the study of their 
lives, not only see an example for us to follow, but 
also feel ourselves associated with them, in the 
same pursuits, with the same faith, the same hope, 
getting wisdom from the same God, strength from 
the same scource. 
It is all " BY FAITH " it is true, 
but " faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen." 
All these things 
are stern realities, and faith should cause them to 
be ever with us, our every day companions, our 
constant associates. 
If this is not the case with 
the generality of persons, it is because they are 
wanting in that divine union that exists between 
God and the souls of his trusting, faithful children. 
We should be strangers in this world, but not to 
God. 
The command, " Acquaint now thyself with 
God, and be at peace. . . receive the law of his 
mouth and lay up his words in thine heart," is 
profitable for us. 
" Enoch walked " as a compan-
ion " with God three hundred years." 
David 
says, " I am a stranger with thee, as all my fathers 
were.". God is a stranger in the world, and so 
are his people, but they are known of God, and 
have his "seal." 
Besides the word of God and 
the spirit of God, which dwells in the hearts of all 
his children, by which they commune with him, 
our minds can be benefited by the study of our-
selves, an important study too, one without which 
we can make no progress. 
And we should study 
the human mind as developed in others, in their 
lives and their writings. 
Who can feel alone in 
these days of books and papers ; we meet the ideas 
of good and bad men every day. 
If we wish a 
history of the mighty empires of old, Babylon, 
Media, Persia, Greece and Rome, and of the their 
rulers, they are at our elbow. 
Do we wish the 
history of other and minor kingdoms, they are at 
our service ; for the history of the greatest enemies 
of God and his church, we ean have them, and 
converse freely with those who have collected facts 
in abundance. 
When we wish to know how the 
truth has affected great and good men, and the 
multitude of excellent thoughts they have put forth 
by the light of revelation, we are surrounded by 
the writings of holy men too numerous to mention. 
When I am asked if I am not lonely, I can only 
answer, " No, I have much more company in my 
room, and good company too, than time to con-
verse with them." 
When surrounded by good 
books, and the love of God in the heart, and the 
hope of soon seeing him as he is, face to face, and 
all the saints from all lands to dwell with, in an 
immortal kingdom, I am not lonely, yet I sigh for 
home. 
I. C. 
WELLCOME. 
Hallowell, Sept. 1st, 1854. 
we see prophecy fulfilling around us. 
Infidelity 
cannot allege that the predictions respecting these 
persons, places and events are yet unwritten. 
The 
prophecies stand on the pages of the Bible, and the 
fulfillment ia before our eyes. 
Despise not there-
fore the prophetic word. 
Let its voice be heard 
and it will serve to sustain thy soul amid the perils 
of the last days. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT SERMONS ON SHORT TEXTS. 
NO. 
VI. 
" Despise not prophesyings."—1 Thess. 5:20. 
To prophesy 
is thus defined by Webster :—1 
" To utter predictions ; to make declaration of 
events to come. 
2.. To preach ; to instruct in re-
ligious doctrines ; to interpret or explain Scripture 
or religious subjects; to exhort." The word "proph-
esyings " is doubtless used in our text in the 
secondary sense, but as there is a disposition mani-
fested by many in these days, to despise prophesy-
ings in every sense of the term, it may be well to 
consider the claim which prophesy has upon the at-
tention of those especially who profess Christianity. 
1. Prophesy, or a " declaration of events te 
come," as contained in the Bible is an argument in 
favor of the truthfulness and inspiration of the 
Scriptures. 
As there is no being but God who is 
fully acquainted with the future, there is no one 
but he, or those inspired by him, who ean deliver 
a real prophecy. 
And as the Bible contains sev-
eral hundred prophecies, the literal and exact ful-
fillment of these must be a powerful evidence of its 
inspiration, or divine origin. 
While it may be 
true that some of its predictions are " hard to be 
understood," yet it is equally true that there are 
others so obviously fulfilled and fulfilling that we 
have only to open our eyes and behold the picture 
on the one side and the ^reality on the other,—to 
look at prophecy there, and history here. 
The 
Bible is not an invention of yesterday; it has existed 
for many ages as all must admit. 
It is an unwea-
ried traveller that has been journeying for centu-
ries. 
It has found its way to the palace of the 
king, and visited the cottage of the peasant. 
It 
has enlightened and cheered the prisoner in his 
cell, and comforted the widow in her sorrow. 
It 
has stood by the bed-side of the dying and pointed 
him to a land where there shall be no more death. 
It has wiped away the tears from the eyes of the 
penitent, and bade him look at a Saviour in Jesus 
such as he needed. 
Its influence has been felt 
everywhere, and on no soil has it refused to tread. 
The old Testament Scriptures are the same in 
the hand of an unbelieving Jew, that they are in 
the hand of a believing Gentile. 
The Bible is the 
oldest Book in the world and yet the most inter-
esting. 
While it may be argued that some of its 
predictions (so called) were written after the events 
took place to which they relate, this cannot be said 
of them all. 
We behold in the prophecies, con-
cerning Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, 
the history of what has befallen those kingdoms 
till the present day. 
In the wandering Arab of 
the desert, we are reminded of the prediction of 
Moses respecting Ishmael. 
" He will be a wild 
man; his hand will be against every man, and 
every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell 
in the presence of all his brethren." 
Genesis, 
16:11. 
When we gaze on the " tribes of the weary 
foot " as they are found in every land, we remem-
ber that God said,—" Ye shall leave your name 
for a curse unto my chosen," " And thou shalt be-
come an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, 
among all nations whither the Lord shall lead 
thee." 
In the wonderous Arab,—in the weary 
Jew,—in the ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Tyre, and 
other cities of great renown in ages past,—in the 
divided state of the Roman empire,—in the blas-
phemous assumptions of Popery,—in the wide-
spread errors of Mahommedanism,—in Jerusalem 
changing masters eight or ten times since Jesus ut-
tered his celebrated prophecy on Olivet's brow, 
and yet trodden down by the Gentiles,—in the 
demoniacal influences which are misleading many, 
—in the spread of the gospel,—in the debasement 
and oppression of the children of Ham,—in the 
numbers and vast territory of the descendants of 
Japheth,—in the unparallelled increase of knowl-
edge in every department of science and art,—in 
all these and other things which might be named, 
MAN'S TRANSGRESSIONS. 
THE Almighty Architect had created the world, 
adorned and beautified it by his loving hand, 
when Adam and Eve were introduced into the de-
lightful haunts of Paradise. 
They were beautiful 
and perfect in forqj, innocent in their nature, with 
capacities suited to enjoy the felicity and bliss 
which everywhere surrounded them. 
No corrod-
ing fears marred their happiness, no dreaded dan-
ger lurked in the path, as they wandered over the 
elysian fields of their Eden home, happy in each 
others love, for guilt, as yet, had not stained their 
angelic purity. 
All around was radiant with the 
smiles of innocence and love, peace and harmony 
reigned over all. 
H.)w long they continued in this 
state of bliss, we are unable to determine, but in-
fer that it was of comparitively short duration. 
For by transgressing the law of their Creator, by 
partaking of the forbidden fruit, they forfeited all 
claim to their blissful abode, as well as to life and 
happiness. 
Thus in the bright morn of their exist-
ence, was their azure sky of joy overspread with 
gloom and bitter sorrow. 
Let us wander back in imagination, through the 
lapse of circling ages, and contemplate the scene 
of that eventful morn, which brought sin and its 
attendant evils into the world. 
The gentle shades of night had disappeared be-
fore the rosy light of glorious morn. 
The bright 
orb of day had risen above the gentle slopes of the 
eastern hills, and was shedding his golden radience 
upon the enchanting vales of Eden. 
All around 
was joy and gladness, the groves were vocal with 
the sweet hymnings of gay plumaged songsters, 
and the.beasts of the forest, innocent and harmless 
were roving together in their quiet retreats with-
out fear. 
Gorgeous flowers were distilling their 
fragrance on the balmy zephers, and 
delicious 
fruits were bending in tempting clusters on everi-
side. 
Every object was full of beauty and lovely 
ness, shadowing forth the tender love and goodness 
of the Creator. 
As the bright beams of the morning sun danced 
o'er the boughs of the garden, the human pair 
came forth from their bower of sweet repose, to 
regale amid the spicy groves of ambrosial fruit, or 
mingle their voices of love in praise to their Maker. 
With joyous hearts they engaged in their morning 
avocations, for no irksome task, or disagreeable 
toil was theirs. 
On that lovely morn, as Eve with 
her modest beauty and innocence, wandered from 
bower to bower, training the creeping vines and 
opening flowers, she little dreamed that an enem y 
was concealed in those shades who sought her 
ruin ; yet so it was even in Paradise, and has ever 
been in this world of sorrow, the tempter is lurking 
in the path of the innocent, ever seeking to allure 
them into the path of vice by his fascinating prom-
ises. 
Thus it was with Eve, for when at length 
she stood beneath the wide spreading branches of 
the prohibited tree, she presented a fit opportunity 
for the tempter to accomplish his evil designs, by 
placing herself within the range of temptation. 
At first he caused her to doubt the certainty of the 
execution of the penalty attached to the command, 
then by creating a desire in the mind of Eve for 
the fruit, he so operated on her mind, that in an 
unguarded moment she ate of the forbidden fruit 
and being pleased with its taste she persuaded her 
husband, who also partook with her. 
Thus the 
command of Jehovah was broken and the first sin 
committed which brought death and its multiplied 
woes into the world. 
Ah ! methinks angels shed 
tears of sorrow, if ever they weep o'er the folles of 
sinful man, when they beheld that sad scene which 
deprived man of his innocence and sent him forth 
a lone exile from the bliss haunted bowers of Para-
dise. 
When our first parents had become guilty by 
disobedience, their eyes were opened and they saw 
their deplorable 
condition, so that when they 
heard the voice of God in the garden, they shrunk 
from his presence fearful of the result that would 
follow. 
Each vainly endeavored to hide their sin 
by the faults of another, but the law of God was 
imperative and no reprieve could be granted. 
Ah ! 
how sadly fell'the sentence of condemnation from 
the lips of the Supreme Judge,, that was to deprive 
man of the pleasures which he enjoyed and doom 
him to a life of toil and care. 
" Because thou 
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and 
hast eaten of the tree, of which I-commanded thee 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 103 1 
saying. Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the 
ground for thy sakes, in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles 
shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat of 
the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shait 
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; 
for out of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou art 
and into dust thou shalt return." 
Sad sentence ! 
and sad too, were their emotions as they prepared 
to bid adieu forever to Paradise and its joys. 
"Well might Eve, in the sublime language of Mil-
ton, thus exclaim : 
" 0 unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! 
Must I leave thee Paradise ? thus leave 
Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, 
Fit haunts of gods? where I had hope to spend, 
Quiet though sad, the respite of that day 
That must be mortal to us both. 
0 
flower, 
That never will in other climate grow, 
My early visitation, and my last 
At ev'n, which I bred up with tender hand, 
From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, 
Who now shalt rear you to the sun, or rank 
Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount; 
Thee lastly nuptial bow'r, by me adorn'd 
With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee 
How shall I part, and whither wander down 
Into a lower world, to this obscure 
And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air 
Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?" 
With sorrowing hearts and lingering footsteps 
they bent their course into the untrod' solitudes 
which stretched out before them ; long and wish-
fully they gazed upon the delightful scenes which 
they were never more to behold again, till at 
length they stood without the bounds of Paradise, 
then turning back again, they beheld the 
flaming 
cherubim guarding the entrance to the tree of life, 
forever precluding their return to taste of its im-
mortal fruit. 
A great change had now passed over man's 
moral nature, he had descended from his high po-
sition to a transgressor, which resulted in produc-
ing a still greater change in the physical world. 
The seeds of decay, though imperceptable at first, 
were sown amid the beauties of the young world, 
which, in the shades of coming centuries would 
spread gloom and desolation amid the fairest scenes 
of earth. 
Noxious plants began to appear, requir-
ing the patient labor of man to expiate them. 
The 
beasts of the field began to grow fierce and untam-
able, the stronger overpowering the weak, subject-
ing man to constant fear and dread. 
Thus sad 
and mournful changes were introduced into the 
physical world, and death and suffering entailed 
upon man on account of sin. 
And now after the 
revolution of nearly sixty centuries in their untir-
ing course, scarce a vestige remains of the beauties 
that man beheld when he first awoke to life amid 
the vine-wreathed bowers of Paradise. 
But still the earth is destined to bloom again 
with more than its primeval loveliness, notwith-
standing the mighty changes that have passed over 
it. 
It will be created anew by the same hand that 
first brought it into existance, and made a fit abode 
for His people to inhabit, who then will no longer 
be subject to the scenes of wo and distress that now 
spread sadness and mourning on every side. 
For 
then every tear will be wiped away, and the un-
clouded sunshine of joy will shed its sweet radience 
over all, without a shadow of gloom to obscure 
its briliancy. 
" 0 Eden, fair Eden ! where now is thy bloom ? 
And where are the pure ones that wept o'er thy 
doom ? 
Their plumes never lighten our shadowy skies, 
Their voices no more on earth's breezes arise. 
But joy for the faith that is strong in its powers, 
A fairer and better land yet shall be ours; 
When sin shall be vanquished, and death yield his 
prey, 
And earth with her nations Jehovah obey. 
Then, nobler than Adam,—more charming than 
Eve, 
The Son of the Highest his palace shall leave, 
AVhile the saints who adored Him arise from the 
tomb, 
At the triumph-strain, telling 
1 His Kingdom is 
come!' " 
Windham, 
Vt. 
ORRIN P. 
ALLEN. 
We have been greatly edified here by the very ac-
ceptable labors of Elder J. Litch, of Philadelphia-
It was truly a feast to my soul, and the interview 
that I enjoyed with him I trust I shall never for-
get. 
God blessed his labors of love here among 
us, and I hope soon to meet him and you' in the 
kingdom of our Lord. 
Amen." 
BRO. HIMES :—I like the course of the Herald in 
general and I hope it will continue to hold up the 
light of God's truth in meekness of wisdom, which 
will induce the children of God to holy living, 
brotherly love, and unity of the spirit. 
M. 
D. 'RICHARDSON. 
Leominster, Aug. 19th, 1854. 
Extract of a letter from E. P. Burdett. 
BRO. 
BURDETT, writing from St. Albans, 111., 
August 30th, 1854, says :—" BRO. HIMES :—Your 
paper (the Herald), continues to interest me very 
much, although it has been laid, aside here, by 
some who have been turned away from the truth. 
Yet I hope that all true Adventists will act as they 
are directed by the spirit of Christ, and that they 
will uphold the Herald, and its worthy proprietor. 
THE DEATHLESS CITY. 
" AND 1 John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as 
a bride adorned for her husband. 
And I heard a 
great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the 
tabernacle of God is with men .... 
and 
there 
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor cry-
ing, neither shall there be any more pain ; for the 
former things are passed away."—Rev. 21:2-4. 
There is a city, glorious to behold. 
With jasper walls and street of shining gold ; 
God is it3 maker, there he holds his throne, 
And everlasting ages are its own. 
The ransomed ones of every age shall come 
And in it find their long-sought, peaceful home,— 
A home where weary ones shall ever rest, 
No more by doubts and gloomy fears oppressed. 
Though mortal man can ne'er conceive the bliss 
Prepared for those whom God shall own as his, 
We know that death shall not invade that land 
And all the saints are an immortal band. 
The " bread of life " is there ; this heavenly food 
\Sl ill be pronounced by all as " very good ;" 
No bread on earth can with it be compared, 
'Tis by the King of king himself prepared,— 
Made for the royal banquet which he gives, 
Whoever eats thereof forever lives. 
'Tis " hidden manna " suited to the taste 
Of all invited to the nuptial feast. 
The " crown of life " is there ; it ne'er will fade 
Like laurel crowns that are for victors made ; 
Its brightness ne'er grows dim through lapse of 
years, 
, 
No thief* can steal it, and no rust appears 
To mar its beauty, hence all must allow 
, 
A brighter crown ne'er decked a monarch's brow. 
Each suffering saiijt will^soon this crown obtain 
And in the everlasting kingdom reign. 
The*" stream of life " is there ; it gently flows, 
And all who drink thereof are freed from woes. 
This river rises at the throne of God 
And flows forever through the saints abode ; 
Whoever drinks from cisterns made by men 
Is sure to find his thirst return again, 
But he who drinks at life's pure, chrystal stream 
Feels health and joy at once spring up in him. 
The " tree of life" is there ; a beauteous tree ! 
Twelve kinds of fruit upon its boughs we see ; 
Its leaves are useful as they " help " the saved 
Who through the blood of Christ all dangers 
braved. 
It once stood in the ancient Paradise, 
But in " the city " now we see it rise, 
And through the second Adam, men have right to 
eat 
, 
Of life's fair tree, and find their joys complete. 
The " book of life" is there ; its leaves contain 
The names of those, who, washed from every stain 
Daily pursued the straight, and narrow way 
Which leads from death to realms of endless day. 
Oh ! happy they, whose names are found therein, 
Who loved the truth and feared to walk in sin, 
They shall not be condemned when God shall come 
To judge the world and take his people home. 
The " Prince of life " is there, enthroned in light 
While ransomed myriads worship in his sight; 
They feel no sickness, and fear no pain, 
For death has lost his power o'er them to reign; 
No bosom there can heave with pent-up grief, 
No sorrowing heart can vainly seek relief, 
No eyes are dimmed with tears, for God's own 
hand 
Has banished sorrow from the blood-washed band. 
No funerals there, nur graveyards shall be seen, 
No dying child shall on a parent lean, 
No heart shall dread the future, for all know 
That only bliss is their's where'er they go, 
And thus through endless years they sing and 
shine, 
For He who saved them is a Priuce divine. 
J. 
M. 
ORROCK. 
' I am the resurrection and the life -. he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoeverliveth,and 
believeth in me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 25.26. 
MRS. CATHARINE CORNELL. 
TnE subject of this brief memoir furnishes one of 
those interesting exemplifications of the Christian 
character which it is profitable to study, and use-
ful to record for the encouragement and instruc-
tion of others. 
Her religious experience com-
menced sometime about the year 1840, under the 
ministerial labors of Rev. S. D. Ferguson, then 
stationed at Greene-street M. E. Church ; of which 
she became a member, and ever after remained a 
bright and shining ornament. 
In 1843 she was 
united in marriage to her now deeply bereaved and 
disconsolate husband, J. B. Cornell. 
At the time 
of their marriage they were both poor in this 
world's goods, having little but brave and loving 
hearts to smile upon their union, and a mutual 
faith in that unseen, but Almighty Friend, who is 
the hope of all the good. 
Those who knew the de-
ceased at that period speak of her as a most amia-
ble and lovely spirit. 
They subsequently became 
greatly prospered ; and for several years previous 
to her death she had Within her reach, and at her 
command, whatever wealth could procure. 
It may 
now be said, greatly to her praige, and to the hon-
or of grace, that prosperity but increased her 
Christian loveliness. 
Mistress of many thousands, 
she remained, amid surrounding opulence, the 
same simple-hearted, kind, generous and humble 
follower of the meek and lowly Jesus. 
Her hus-
band has been well and widely known, for a series 
of years, as one of the most noble and liberal con-
tributors to every good cause in connexion with his 
own Church, and more general charities in New 
York city ; and in the deceased he had a consort 
who fully and heartily seconded all his magnan-
imity. 
Like a Christian mother she presided over her 
household, making it a home of cheer and comfort 
to every member of the loved group of which she 
was the dear and cherished centre. 
The writer knew her well, and, with the mar.y of 
her intimate friends, will bear the memory of her 
loveliness, as a precious recollection, to the grave. 
She will long live in the hearts of those who knew 
her best. 
Her religious experience had nothing in it un-
common. 
She was an humble, sincere Christian— 
never forward, never over-confident, but 
always 
hopeful, and trusting, and consistent. 
Her last 
sickness was the most painful and severe I ever 
witnessed. 
For thirteen days her reason wan-
dered, not affording more than a transient glimpse 
of returning consciousness at intervals. 
It was 
sad to see a spirit so gentle in the wild frenzy of 
delirium ; yet it was an interesting faci that even 
then there were bright, strange dreams of heaven 
and angels, whom she seemed at times to behold, 
When frantic, the singing of a familiar hymn 
would tranquilize her, and she would join the cho-
rus to the last. 
The last lucid hour was spent in conversation 
with her husband on the subject of her departure : 
then, and repeatedly before, she expressed the con-
fidence of faith ; and, while she had an ardent de-
sire to remain with her family, she was ready and 
willing to go and be with Christ. 
She died on 
March 26, 1854, aged 34. 
In a quiet, beautiful spot, beneath the boughs of 
the dogwood, in Greenwood Cemetery, her body 
sleeps until the resurrection morning, while her 
spirit doubtless mingles with the bright and glori-
ous before the throne, waiting the arrival of the 
loved ones she left behind. 
Ours is the loss ; hers 
the gain. 
But it is only for a time. 
We shall 
soon see her again. 
May the hand that hath smit-
ten bind up the hearts made desolate by the sad 
event. 
R'; S. 
FOSTER. 
We cheerfully give our testimony to the truth-
fulness of the above notice ; and add, that our be-
loved sister, cherished the " blessed hope," ot the 
Saviour's soon return, and his personal and blessed 
reign with hissaints on the " New Earth." 
Our 
afflicted brother C., has been consoled by the same 
blessed hope. 
BRO. 
SILAS 
GOODNOW is no more. 
He has left 
us, and this world of sorrow behind. 
He died on 
the 24th of August, with a cancer, after an illness 
of five months, in his seventy-fifth year. 
He died 
leaning on Jesus for salvation and redemption. 
Feltonv/lle, Mass. 
E. J. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Waymarks 
305 
' The Ottoman Empire 
305 
The Days of Noah like those 
of the Son of Man 
306 
The Poor Man's Day 
306 
Foreign News 
307 
The War 
307 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
308 
Speaking the Things They 
Understand Not 
308 
Letter from A. Burnham.... 309 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Lonliness—Communion 
310 
Short Sermons on Short Texts 310 
Man's Transgressions 
310 
The Deathless City 
311 
OBITUARY. 
Mrs. C. Cornell 
311 
Silas Goodnow 
311 
Anniversary of the Am. Bible 
Unoin 
309 
Cause tn Boston 
309 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON. SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. 
Chardon-Strect Chapel. Cause in Boston. 
I SPENT the lastSabbath at Chardon-Street, with 
the faithful flock. "We had a blessed day, and were 
very much encouraged. 
The Lord is reviving his 
work among us. 
Five persons desired prayers in 
the evening. 
May the work go on. 
Having finished my Summer campaign, I shall 
be obliged to remain in and about Boston, for the 
present. 
Our Chapel is nearing its completion, 
and new duties in connexion with it are pressing 
upon me. 
The cause in this city that has suffered 
so much is about to rise again, and prove as it for-
merly did, a blessing to the community. 
We ask 
the prayers of all in our behalf. 
It will be difficult for me to be confined long at 
home,—I trust God will provide us a faithful Pas-
tor that I may 
continue my missionary work 
abroad. 
His will be done. 
But, if I am kept in 
the field I shall need more aid than I have received 
for the past season. 
I have done more work, and 
seen greater results for the cause than in any for-
mer season, and yet I was never more poorly sus-
tained. 
I must have help from the wealthy and 
liberal or continue to be embarrassed. 
I need aid 
in my own particular mission and work. 
The office, also, is suffering, delinquents multiply, 
and adverse influences multiply against us, which 
together with the high price of labor and other 
tilings will very soon place us in the severest trials-
Well, we will still trust in " Jehovah 
Jireh."—The 
Lord will provide. 
My late sermon at Salem, 
on the " faith of 
Noah, and its results," has been represented as be-
ing disrespectful, to the timists. 
The report was 
given by a Baptist clergyman, who had no partic-
ular sympathy for either us, or the timists. 
He 
has done me great injustice (I trust not intention-
ally). 
I learn that those who seek to make capi-
tal for themselves out of such kind of gossip are 
publishing it both in print, and in public meetings, 
to injure my influence and reputation. 
I trust 
that all candid persons will do me the justice to 
reject that report. 
Its coloring is not truthful. 
I 
will report myself in due time truly. 
It has been 
my endeavor through all tbe exciting and opposing 
influences of the few months past, to treat my op-
ponents and those who differ from us with Christian 
regard. 
If I have failed to do so, as a Christian 
I ask 
their forgiveness. 
For if I do not be-
lieve all that is going unjustly under the name of 
Adventism, I do believe the Bible, and shall en 
deavor to walk by its precepts towards friends and 
enemies. 
THE CARSON LEAGUE.—We have received a copy 
of this paper, a temperance journal published in 
New York city—by which we learn that Elder L. 
D. Mansfield has become one of its editors—having 
resigned the pastoral care of the Forsyth-street 
church for that purpose. 
The paper is a good-
sized and well printed one, and 
we 
trust will 
do good execution in a good cause. 
We shall feel 
the absence of brother M. from his former post of 
labor, when there are so few to step into his 
place. 
Our best wishes, however, will follow him 
in his new field of duty, where there is much to be 
said and done for the cause of truth. 
Anniversary of the American Bible Union. 
THE ensuing Anniversary of the American Bible 
Union will be held in the Meeting-house of the 
First Baptist Church, 350 
Broome-street, New 
York, commencing on Thursday, the 5th of Octo-
ber. 
A meeting for business, including the elec-
tion of officers and managers, will be held at 9 o' 
clock, A M., and the public exercises will commence 
at 10 o'clock. 
It is expected that the meetings 
will be continued, morning, afternoon, and even-
ing, through two days, and, perhaps, longer. 
Speakers of the first character are expected. 
Among them are : 
Rev. S. H. Cone, ».D., Pt. of the American Bible 
Union. 
Rev. C. C. Conner, late Pt. of tbe West Tennes-
see Bible Society. 
Elder D. S. Burnet, Pt. of the Am. Christian 
Bible Society. 
Rev. James M. Pendleton, Bowling Green, Ky 
Rev. Samuel Baker D.D., of Williamsburg, N. Y. 
Charles T. Bryant, Esq., Pt. of the Cincinnati 
Bible Uuion. 
Rev. H. J. Eddy, New York City. 
Persons attending the Anniversary, are requested 
to call at the Rooms of the American Bible Union, 
350 Broome-street, third door from the Bowery, 
in the right hand tower of the church, where they 
will find the Committee on Hospitalities ready to 
assign them their places of accommodation. 
We wish the occasion to resmble those that have 
preceded it as one of unalloyed 
pleasure and 
thanksgiving. 
And we earnestly invite all friends 
of pure Versions to be present and participate in 
the holy joy of the season. 
Prepare for it with 
humble and earnest supplications, that God, for 
Christ's sake, may bless the meetings, and their 
results, and that He may guide the Bible Union in 
all its endeavors to do good. 
WM. 
H. 
WYCKOFF, 
Cor. 
Sec. 
New York. 
Sept. 1, 1854 
The First English Martyr. 
AMONG tbe furious zealots of tbe times, none 
were more conspicuous than Archbishop Arundel, 
by whose efforts and influence, in the year 1400, 
an act of Parliament was passed, authorizing all 
such unhappy persons as the clergy should deem 
guilty of heresy, to be burnt to death. 
The fol-
lowing account of tbe proceedings against Rev. Sir 
William Sawtre, the first who was burnt at tbe 
stake in England for bis religious opinions, is 
given by an English writer : 
The Archbishop, impatient to put his cruel 
law in execution, even during the session of Parli-
ament that made it, brought Sir William Sawtre, 
rector of Oswyth, London, to take his trial for 
heresy before the convocation of the province of 
Canterbury at St. Paul's. 
The chief heresies of 
which he was accused were these two, that he re-
fused to worship the cross, and that he denied the 
doctrine of transubstantiation. 
The unhappy man, 
in order to avoid the painful death with which he 
was threatened, endeavored to explain away his 
heresy as much as possible. 
He consented to pay 
an inferior kind of worship to the cross, on account 
of Him who died upon it. 
But that'gave no satis-
faction. 
He acknowledged the real presence of 
Christ in the sacrament; and that, after the words 
of consecration were pronounced, the bread became 
the true spiritual bread of life. 
He underwent an 
examinat.ro I of no less than three hours on that 
suhject, February 10, A.D. 1401 ; but when the 
Archbishop urged him to profess his belief, that 
after consecration the substance of the bread and 
wine no longer remained, but was converted into 
the substances of the body and blood of Christ, 
which were as really and truly in their proper sub-
stance and nature in the sacrament, as they hung 
upon the cross, as they lay in the grave, and as 
they now resided in heaven, he stood aghast, and 
after some hesitation, declared, ' That whatever 
might be tbe consequence, he could neither under-
stand nor believe that 
doctrine.' 
.On this the 
Archbishop pronounced him an obstinate heretic, 
degraded him from all the clerical orders with 
which be had been invested, and delivered him to 
the Mayor and Sheriff of London, with this hypo-
critical request, that they would use him kindly ; 
he well knew that all the kindness they dared to 
show him was to burn him to ashes. 
He was ac-
cordingly burnt in Smithfield, and had the honor 
of being the first person in England who suffered 
this painful kind of death, for maintaining those 
doctrines which are now maintained by all Protest-
ant Churches." 
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I WILL preach at 
Morristown, Vt., Oct. 6th. 
Waterbury, Sabbath, 8th j Rochester, 10th. 
Woodstock, (Dinsmore Hill) 12th. 
Windham, (or where brother Bemis may appoint) Sabbath, 
15th. 
Week-day appointments at early candle-light. 
ADDISON 
MERRILL. 
BRO. HIMES :—My Cash acct's August 19,1854, was ... $66.22. 
Sept. 22d, J854, ree'd from Providence Church 
20,00. 
In Hand 
$86,22. 
Very Truly Yours, 
Worcester, 
Sept. 
lid, 
1854. 
CHARLES WOOD, 
Treasurer. 
I WILL preach at 
Waterbury, Vt., Sunday, Oct., 2d. 
Burlington, Vt., Oct., 3d, 7 P.M. 
Clarenceville, Sunday, 8th. 
Odletown, Sunday, 15th, at the stone school hoti9e. 
C. P. Dow. 
Appointments, &c. 
Providence permitting, I will preach at 
Back part, Sabbath, October 1st, as brother M. Clark may appoint. 
Danville, Thursday the 5th, and over the Sabbath, as brother S 
Davis may appoint. 
Compton, the 10th, at theHarvy school-house ; will brother Lemuel 
Ilarvy call for me on the arrival of the first train from Richmond ? 
At Hatley, 12th and 13th, and over the Sabbath as Elder Warren 
may appoint. 
Barnston, 17th, 18th and 19th, as Elder Thurber may arrange ; by 
request, I will deliver an address on the nature, importance, and 
benefits of Sacred Music, at the last meeting. 
A fulf attendance 
is desired. No meetings on Mondays or Saturdays. 
Week-day 
meetings at 7 o'clock, or otherwise as brothers in charge may 
think best 
The above appointments are made by the kind direc-
tion of brothers Clark and Eliot. 
Outlet, C. E., Sabbath, Oct. 22d ; Head of the Bay, 24th and 25th ; 
Portland, Me., Sabbath, 29th ; Essex, Mass., Sabbath, Nov. 5th. 
N. 
BILLINGS. 
I WILL preach, the Lord will, at 
Outlet, C. E., Oct. 12th and 13th. 
Waterloo 14th and Sunday, 15th. 
Stanbrbriilge, Stone Settlement, 17th. 
Brother Burden's neighborhood, ISth. 
Clarenceville, 19th and over the Sabbath. 
Week evening appointments at 7 o'clock. 
BENJ. WEBB. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will commence a meeting at South Ver-
shire, Oct. 12, and continue over the Sabbath. 
East Haverhill, Wednesday, 18th, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Brother Sornberger is requested to attend. 
B S. REYNOLDS. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Nashua, N. II., Sabbath, Sept. 
24th ; at Westford, Mass., 26th and 27th ; at Westboro', 28th ; at 
Lake Village, N. H., Sabbath, Oct. 1st. 
L D. THOMPSON. 
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