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THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE. 
Bow painfully pleasing. the fond recollection 
Of youthful emotions and innocent joy, 
When blest with parental advice and affection, 
Surrounded with mercies, with peace from on high! 
I still view the chair of Inv father and mother, 
The seats of their offspring as ranged on each hand, 
And that richest book which excels every other, 
The family Bible, which lay on the stand ; 
The old-fashioned Bible, the dear, blessed Bible, 
The family Bible, that lay on the stand. 
That Bible, the volume of Cod's inspiration, 
At morn and at even could yield us delight ; 
Tire prayer of our sire was a sweet invocation 
For mercy by day and for safety through night ; 
Our hymns of thanksgiving with harmony swelling, 
All warm from the hearts of a family band, 
Hain raised us front earth to that rapturous dwelling 
Described in the Bible that lay on the stand ; 
The old-fashioned Bible, the dear, blessed Bible, 
The family Bible, that lay on the stand. 
Ye scenes of tranquillity, long have we parted, 
My hopes ahnost gone, and my parents no more ; 
In sorrow and sadness r live broken-hearted, 
And wander unknown on a far distant shore, 
Yet, how can I doubt my Redeemer's protection, 
Forgetful of gifts from his bountiful hand ? 
O let me, with patience, receive his correction, 
And think of the Bible that lay on the stand ; 
The old-iithhioned Bible, the dear, blessed Bible, 
The family Bible, that lay on the stand. 
Genesis. 
FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continuded from our last.) 
CHAP. III. 
Vs. t, 5—" And the serpentsaid unto the woman, 
Ye shall not surely die. For God cloth know that in 
the day ye eat thereof, then your eyessliall be opened, 
and ye shall be as gods, (or, as God) knowing good 
and evil." 
The tempter immedia'ely catches up the 
words of the woman, in which she had spoken 
of death as being the penalty of eating. Pro-
fessing to act as her friend, he speaks as one 
attempting to undeceive her as to a mistake 
under which she was laboring. " You speak 
of the tree as dangerous to eat or even to touch ; 
nay, as involving the penalty of death to the 
eater. You have been quite deceived in this 
matter; there is no such deadly penalty ; it is 
a mere threat on the part of God to prevent you 
eating of a tree which he knows would open 
your eyes and make you as himself, knowing 
good and evil." 
Thus he proceeds with his design of calumni-
ating God and questioning his veracity as well 
as his goodness. He goes a step further than 
in his former suggestion. He openly denies 
the certainty of the threatened penalty ; he 
questions its reality, and casts suspicion on 
God's intention in announcing it. Nay, more 
than this, he goes on to affirm that God knew 
well that instead of a curse there would come 
a blessing from the tasting of the tree, and that 
it was because he was jealous of man—envious 
of the blessing thus to be reached—that he had 
shut him out from the tree. Thus he insinuates 
that God was a being of mere craft and false-
hood, bearing no kindly feeling towards man, 
standing between him and a treasure-house of 
boundless blessing. 
In this answer to the woman he speaks as 
one conscious that he was making way. 
He 
sees from her answer that he has made an im-
pression by his indirect suggestion ; and he 
now follows it up. by something bolder and 
more direct. " Ye shall not surely die !"—
God neither can nor will execute his threat.—
Do not be alarmed. Do not let a mere fancy 
hinder you reaching out after such blessings as 
lie before you. So says Satan to the sinner 
still. "There is no hell; the second death is 
a mere dream; eat, drink, and be merry; sin 
as you like and don't fear punishment." Thus 
he beguiles the soul, arid leads it onward to the 
second death, Strange that men should be-
lieve him,—that they should listen to his voice 
in preference to God's. They want to be per-
suaded, and so they are persuaded ; they want 
to be deceived, and so they are deceived ! Yet 
can all this deception quench the flame of the 
burning lake, or set aside death, or make the 
wrath of God less true or terrible ? Let him 
say there are no diseases, no pains, no sicknesses, 
now, would men believe him ? No. And will 
they believe him when he tells them, there is 
no death hereafter ? 
" Your eyes shall be opened." They shall 
be opened by that very act which you so much 
shrink from. It is God who is keeping them 
closed. He is drawing a curtain round you, ex-
cluding you from visions of brightness on every 
side. What a prospect spreads round you! 
A little boldness in disobedience, and all this 
fair region shall be yours as it is already mine. 
" Ye shall be as God, knowing good and 
evil." No lower level than that of God Him-
self shall you rise to. All his height of honor 
shall be yours. Nay more, all his knowledge. 
Ye shall know, and judge, and see, even as He 
knows, judges, arid sees. From all this wide 
circle of knowledge God is shutting you out. 
He wants the throne wholly to Himself; He 
cannot bear a rival. 
Thus Satan sowed the seeds of mistrust, un-
belief, atheism, hatred of God. Thus the 
" evil heart of unbelief" was produced, and 
separation front God was the immediate result. 
It is thus that he still keeps the sinner at a dis-
tance from God, and prevents his " submitting 
to the righteousness of God." He sows and 
waters the seed of dark distrust in the sinner's 
soul, by persuading him that God is not sincere. 
either in his wrath or in his grace. He leads 
the sinner to exalt, nay to deify himself, to 
think so highly of himself that he will not con-
sent to God's terms at all. And hence the first 
thing that the Spirit does to man is to make 
him stoop, by convincing him of sin, and bring-
ing him to forget all his ideas of self-deifica-
tion. Then he is glad of another's righteous-
ness, and takes it eagerly. But till then, he 
will not take even heaven itself on God's terms. 
He looks on God as his enemy ; or at least as 
not so entirely his friend that He will at once 
receive him and bless him as he is. Strange 
that it should be so now ! Whatever our first 
parents might plead in excuse we are inexcusa-
ble. God's gift of his Son,—the cross, the 
death, the grave of that Son,—have all unfolded 
in its fullest breath the love of God, proving 
that he is the sinner's true and real friend.—
Yet who believes this? How few take God's 
word concerning this and enter into peace and 
friendship! 
Nay, more than this, Satan tells us that sin 
is a blessing, not a curse ; that its consequences 
are good, not evil ; and under this aspect the 
sinner pursues it. He sees in the command 
not to sin, a restriction of his liberty, and he 
spurns it! He sees in sin itself the attainment 
of what is pleasant, and he pursues it. What 
is sweet in sin is present, what is bitter is fu-
ture, so he drinks the cup, and bids the future 
care for itself. Yet that future involves in it 
the favor of Jehovah Himself, and the joys of 
an eternal heaven. Is he prepared to say that 
that favor is a mere dream arid the loss of it a 
trifle ? Is he prepared to say that there is no 
heaven as well as no hell,—no joy as well as 
no sorrow for eternity? 
V. 6—" And when (nv/ten is not in the Hebrew) 
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and 
that it was pleasant to the eyes (lieb. a desire to the 
eyes), and a tree to be desired to make one wise 
(Ileb. to cause to understand), she took of the fruit 
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband 
with her, and he did eat." 
The tempter has thrown a new and peculiar 
interest round the tree. He has rivetted the 
woman's eye upon it, and what shall hinder 
her heart from following her eye ? She had 
stood still to reason with him. This was her 
first false step. She now stood still to gaze 
upon the object reasoned about, and to wonder 
why she should be shut off from it. He had 
thus succeeded in fixing her eye on the tree; 
he had succeeded in shaking her belief as to 
the penalty ; and now what remained but that 
she should wholly yield ? Nay, is she not al-
ready overcome? The fascination becomes 
stronger and stronger. She lets it carry her un-
resistingly:along. She consults neither her hus-
band nor her God. She hurries into the com-
mission of the sin. 
There were three things that wrought upon 
her. 
The tree was good for fool. A strong 
reason, had she been famishing, but none when 
surrounded with the plenty of the rich garden. 
Strange that she should have cared for it on 
such an account ! She is in no need for food, 
yet it is on this account that she covets it !—
She is without excuse in her sin. It was the 
lust of the flesh that was at work. (Eph. 2:3 ; 
1 John 2:16.) She saw in the tree the gratifi-
cation of that lust, and in God a hinderer of it. 
Thus she fell. 
it was a desire of the eyes. And had she 
no other objects of beauty to gaze upon ? Yes : 
thousands. Yet this forbidden one engrossed 
her, as if it had acquired new beauty by having 
been prohibited. Or can she not be satisfied 
with looking ? Must she covet ? 
Must she 
touch and taste ? It is plain that hers was no 
longer the natural and lawful admiration of a 
fair object, but an unlawful desire to possess 
what she admired. It was " the lust of the 
eye." Job understood this, and " made a cov-
enant with his eyes " (31:1) ; David knew it, 
and prayed. " Turn away mine eyes from be-
holdino. vanity." 
It was a tree to be desired for imparting 
wisdom. This was the crowning allurement. 
She must have wisdom, and she must have it 
at all risks, and she must have it without de-
lay. She made haste to be wise. She would 
not in faith wait for god's time and way of giv-
ing wisdom. So strong was the craving for 
knowledge, and so strangely did the divine pro-
hibition sharpen the appetite for it ! She could 
not but know that nothing would be withheld 
from her that was really good ; that she would 
get all knowledge in due time, and in God's 
own way; but her confidence in God had wa-
vered ; she could no longer trust Him for this; 
she was in haste to be wise; arid now that all 
wisdom was within her reach, she can no 
longer wait. Such was the desire (or lust) of 
the mind ! (Eph. 2:3.) 
These three reasons prevailed. She plucked 
the fruit, and did eat. Nay, more, she gave 
also to her husband, who was with her, and he 
did eat. She was not content to sin alone.—
Even the dearest on earth must be drawn into 
the same snare. 
Let us mark here such lessons as the follow-
ing :— 
'1. The danger of trifling with objects of 
temptation. To linger near them ; to hesitate 
about leaving them ; to think of them as harm-
less,—these are the sure forerunners of a fall. 
Beware of remaining within sight. Get be-
yond the circle of the spell. " Flee youthful 
lusts." " Look not on the wine when it is red." 
—Ploy. 23:31. Your only safety is in instant 
flight. if the tempter can get you to look, he 
has secured his victory. 
2. The three sources of temptation : the lust 
of the flesh, of the eye, of the mind. Strictly 
speaking, they are not in themselves sinful, but 
in their excess, or disorderly indulgence.— 
There is no sin in relishing food, nor in looking 
at a fair object, nor in desiring knowledge ; yet 
through these channels our temptations come. 
Things lawful in themselves are our most subtle 
seducers. There is nothing to taint the ear in 
" the concord of sweet sounds ;" and yet how 
often does music become our wiliest tempter ? 
There may be nothing to defile the eye in the 
fairest imitations of nature that art has ever 
flung upon her canvass ; yet has not painting 
but too frequently ensnared the soul, and drawn 
it away from the Creator to the creature ?—
What is there in the widest range of science 
that can be branded as evil ; yet do we not see 
it in the present day supplanting the knowledge 
of God himself, and used by Satan as his 
mightiest instrument for leading men captive 
at his will ? Is not pOetry the highest form of 
word and thought ; yet man has corrupted it 
into the utterance of his own wild passions, or 
the idle breathings of his fond affections. In 
the scenes of nature there is naught but what 
is good, and fair, and bright ; yet these has 
man made use of to shut out God, either saying, 
with the Atheist, " There is no God in nature ;" 
or maintaining, with the Pantheist, that nature 
itself is divine. 
The swift progress of temptation. She 
listened, looked, took, ate These were the 
steps. All linked together and swiftly follow-
ing each other. The beginning how small and 
simple; the end how terrible! " When lust 
(desire) bath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, 
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth 
death."—Jas. 1:15. And, therefore, adds the 
apostle, " Do not ERR, my beloved brethren ;" 
that is, do not turn aside one step out of the 
right way, as you know not where you may 
end. You begin with a look, you end in apos 
Lacy from God. You begin with a touch, you 
end in woe and shame. You begin with a 
thought, you end in the second death. Yet of 
all these steps God protests solemnly that he is 
riot the author. (Jas. 1:13.) It is man, that is 
his own ensnarer and destroyer. Even Satan 
cannot succeed unless seconded by man him-
self. 
The tendency of sin is to propagate itself. 
No sootier has the tempted one yielded than he 
seeks to draw others Into the snare. He must 
drag down his fellows with him. There seems 
an awful vitality about sin ; a fertility in repro-
duction, nay, a horrid necessity of nature for 
self-diffusion. It never lies dormant. It never 
loses its power of propagation. Let it be the 
smallest conceivable, it possesses the same ter-
rific diffusiveness. Like the invisible seeds 
that float through our atmosphere, it takes wing 
the moment it comes into being, flying abroad,' 
and striking root everywhere, and becoming the 
parent of ten thousand others. —(To be con-
tinued), 
Jerusalem as it Was. 
When the Hebrews, after their long exile in 
Egypt, arid their weary wanderings in the wil-
derness, at length reached the promised land, 
they found, just on the line where the assigned 
territories of Benjamin and Judah met, a strong 
fortress and important town. It was in posses-
sion of the Jehusites ; nor did the Israelites at 
first attempt to wrest it from them. Whether 
this city—Jerusalem—existed in the time of the 
Patriarchs, or had been built while the Israelites 
were in Egypt, is uncertain. It is commonly 
supposed to be the Salem over which Melchize-
dek reigned, but of this there is no conclusive 
evidence. 
In the course of time the children of Judah 
appear to have gained possession of the lower 
and unfortified parts of Jerusalem, and again to 
have lost it ; Mount Zion, with its citadel, all 
the while remaining in the hands of the Jebu-
sites. Three centuries and a half pass on, and 
Jerusalem is never mentioned in the sacred 
record. The Israelites had riot sufficient faith 
to attempt the taking of a fortress which ap-
peared impregnable. Its conquest was reserved 
for Israel's greatest king, David, who, on receiv-
ing the allegiance of all the tribes, resolved to 
remove his capital from Hebron to Jerusalem. 
The reduction of Zion was a bold and difficult 
undertaking; and David offered, as the reward 
of first mounting the ramparts, the chief com-
mand of all his forces, The feat was accom-
plished arid the guerdon gained by the daring 
and ambitious Joab. Henceforward Jerusalem 
is the chief city of Israel, and destined to be 
the scene of events which shall render it to all 
ages the most interesting spot in the whole 
world. 
Its situation is remarkable. Near the sum-
mit of a central mountain ridge, on a line drawn 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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from the north end of the Dead Sea towards the 
due west, lies a promontory or tongue of land, 
connected with the general table-land on the 
north, and on all other sides surrounded by 
deep ravines and valleys, which divided it from 
a girdle of surrounding hills beyond. On this 
promontory, which consists of several distinct 
hills, stands the Holy City, at an elevation of 
nearly 3000 feet above the level of the sea. Its 
walks, from the time of Solomon downwards, 
enclosed three hills : Zion, the farthest south 
and highest ; Acra, north of Zion ; and Moriah, 
east of Acra, the site of the Temple. The Ty- 
ropean or Valley of Cheesemongers, called in 
Scripture Millo, divides Zion from Acra ; and 
another valley, the town from the Temple, to 
which access was obtained by a bridge. In the 
time of the Macca bean princes, this valley was 
partly filled up, and the brow of Acra lowered, 
so as to raise the Temple above it. The tongue 
of land thus occupied measures nearly three 
quarters of a mile across from the valley on its 
eastern side to that on the west, and nearly a 
mile and a half from south to north. At one 
point on the north, where it runs into the gen-
eral table-land, it is not, of course, confined by 
any natural limits. Its geographical position is 
31 deg. 46 min. 43 sec. north latitude, and 35 
deg. 13 min. east longitude. 
On Zion, David built himself a palace, a 
house of cedar, and added to the fortifications 
of the strong position he had gained. In the 
next reign, Jerusalem, already the civil metrop-
olis, was made the ecclesiastical capital by the 
building of the Temple on Mount Moriah. 
This wonderful sanctuary, the glory of Solo-
mon's reign, was not, as is generally supposed, 
of great extent. Its dimensions are given as 
sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty high, 
with a porch, it is imagined, rising into a steeple 
one hundred and twenty cubits high. Two 
chambers—the Holy Place, into which the priest 
went twice a day to offer incense, and the Holy 
of Holies, where shone the Shechinah, and into 
which the High Priest alone entered once in the 
year—occupied the interior of the building. The 
substantial fabric of the Temple was built of 
stone, made ready before it was brought thither ; 
so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, any 
tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in 
building. 1 Kings 6:7. The object of this was 
doubtless to lessen the expense and labor of 
transporting the stone from the quarries; but 
the effect was remarkable :— 
" No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung ; 
Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung." 
The structure was, however, wainscoted with 
cedar wood, which was covered with thin plates 
of solid gold. The boards within the temple 
were ornamented with beautiful carvings, rep-
resenting cherubim, palm-trees, and flowers ; 
and being covered with the precious metal, 
must have had a truly rich effect. The ceiling 
of the Temple was supported by beams of cedar, 
and was wholly covered with gold. The parti-
tion which separated the Holy from the Holy of 
Holies consisted, probably, not of stone, but of 
beams and boards of cedar; and it would fur-
ther appear that the pannel consisted of a retic-
ulated work ; so that the incense which was 
daily offered in the outer chamber might diffuse 
itself freely into the inner sanctuary. See 1 
Kings 6:21. 
The floor of the Temple was throughout of 
cedar, but boarded over with fir. 1 Kings 6:15. 
The doors of the Holy of Holies were of olive 
wood ; but the door of the outer chamber had 
posts of olive wood and valves of fir. But these 
doors had folding-leaves, which, however, seem 
to have been usually kept open, the apertures 
being closed by a suspended curtain. 
Though the Temple itself was small, its courts 
and surrounding buildings were extensive, giv-
ing the whole an imposing appearance of grand-
eur and strength. Two courts surrounded the 
sanctuary, which stood near the western end of 
the inner one, the area in front of which con-
tained the great altar of burnt-offerings ; the 
brazen sea, supported upon twelve oxen made 
of the same material, and ten brazen lavers. 
Here the priests officiated in full view of the as-
sembled congregation, who occupied the outer 
court, which was separated from the inner only 
by a few steps. Large buildings for the service 
of the Temple stood in the courts, and the whole 
was surrounded by a light wall. A causeway 
from Zion to the Temple, traces of which re-
main to the present day, and the extension of 
the city walls so as to include Mount Moriah, 
followed. 
Nor were those the only architectural achieve-
ments of this munificent monarch. On Zion he 
built a palace for himself, which long existed as 
the residence of the Kings of Judah. It was 
supported on numerous pillars of cedar; hence, 
it is supposed, the name, " the house of the for-
est of Lebanon." Like all eastern palaces, it 
had a number of courts, each completing a pile 
of buildings in itself. The spacious buildings 
of the outer court were devoted to public pur-
poses. There the king gave audience to his 
subjects, administered justice, and attended to 
the concerns of his kingdom, after the fashion 
of his age and nation ; and there, no doubt, 
crowded the foreigners, who hastened to Jeru-
salem from all quarters, at this period, either to 
trade, to receive the corn and wine and oil with 
which this prosperous and well-cultivated land 
abounded, in exchange for their own commodi-
ties—for Solomon had greatly extended the for-
eign commerce of his people—or to hear the 
wise sayings, and see the great works, the mag-
nificent buildings, the fountains, the garden of 
spices, and groves of great trees, which had 
arisen under the direction of this famous king. 
Of the arrangement of the streets of Jerusa-
lem nothing is known. Jeremiah speaks of the 
Bakers' Street, and it is likely enough that per-
sons of the same trade lived near each other, 
and gave to their locality the name of their em-
ployment. The streets must have had a gloomy 
appearance from the custom of building the 
houses with nearly a dead wall to the street ; 
the low door with the kiosk or latticed window 
of the summer parlor, where lounged the mas-
ter of the mansion in the heat of the summer 
day, and one or two small latticed windows high 
up in the wall, forming the only break. On en-
tering, however, through a passage which slopes 
downwards, and turns a little to the side, a more 
pleasant scene greets the eye. Opposite is the 
great chamber, a spacious apartment, richly fit-
ted up and open in front, with sometimes a foun-
tain throwing up a jet of water before it. On 
the other side of the court stands the winter 
guest-chamber, as large an apartment as that 
used for the same purpose in summer, but dif-
ferent, in that it is shut in by a front of lattice-
work, filled, in late times at least, with colored 
glass. In front of these apartments runs a gal-
lery, with a pent-house roof, supported by pil-
lars. Another passage leads to the inner court, 
the home of the master and the constant resi-
dence of the ladies and children. It is similar 
i s its arrangements to the outer court, but more 
spacious and airy. In the centre of the court a 
place is left unpaved, in which are planted some 
shrubs and a very few trees. Sometimes the 
mansion contains three courts. 
Jacob's Victory. 
Gen. 32:28—" Thy name shall be called no 
more Jacob, but Israel ; for as a prince hast 
thou power with God and with men, and hast 
prevailed." 
The whole history of the patriarchs is full of 
interest and instruction. 
Here we see humanity in its simplicity, un-
obscured by artificial society. 
The text is selected from one of the most in-
teresting scenes in Jacob's eventful life. 
Jacob was returning from Padanaram, where 
he had sojourned for twenty-one years in exile 
from his brother's wrath. He learned that 
Esau was coming to meet him with four hun-
dred men, and he was alarmed. 
A night intervened between that hour and 
their meeting, and it was spent in prayer. 
There appeared an angel, with whom Jacob 
wrestled until the break of day. 
He is called a man, but he was more than a 
man. 
Jacob said, " I have seen God face to face." 
—v. 30. 
Hosea 12:4, 5—" Yea, he had power with 
the angel, and prevailed, he wept and made 
supplication to him ; he found him in Beth-el, 
and there he spake with us ; even the Lord 
God of hosts ; the Lord is his memorial." 
This man, this angel, called the Lord of 
hosts, was doubtless our Lord Jesus Christ, in 
his incarnate form. 
With him Jacob wrestled, and with him he 
prevailed and got the blessing. 
The subject naturally leads us to inquire :-
1. Into the nature of Jacob's struggle with 
the angel ; and 
II. Into the character of the victory he ob-
tained ; the blessing he received. 
I. The nature of Jacob's struggle with the 
angel. 
It was, beyond doubt, a literal struggle; a 
hand grapple. 
The whole narrative proves this point. 
" He perceived that he prevailed not against 
Jacob," implies a literal wrestling. 
He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, and 
it was out of joint. 
Jacob was lame after the struggle was over. 
But what was the object of the struggle ? 
The object of the angel was to escape from 
Jacob's grasp. 
Jacob's object was to hold him until he should 
bless him. 
The expression, " Let me go," implies this : 
The angel threw himself in Jacob's way, and 
Jacob seized and held him. 
He might have escaped by supernatural 
power, but would not. 
As a man he could not. Jacob probably had 
no superior as a man of strength. 
The struggle was mental, moral, and 
spiritual. 
" He wept and made supplication."—Hosea 
12:4, 5. 
It was an effort of earnestness and determined 
faith. 
The power of faith held the angel. 
11. The character of Jacob's victory, and the 
blessing he obtained. 
Jacob won a new name. His old name, 
Jacob, the supplanter, was annulled. 
His new name, Israel, signifies a prince of 
God. 
He was knighted upon the field of conflict. 
The name was in honor of his victory. 
With his new name he received a new 
character suited to it. 
It is said he blessed him there. 
This blessing roust have included the pardon 
of his sin, and the renewal of his heart. 
He was Jacob, the supplanter; now he is 
Israel, the prince of God. 
His new name was prophetic of his future 
success, and of the success of his posterity. 
He was successful with Esau. 
His posterity became great. 
His spiritual seed shall yet possess the world. 
REMARKS. 
In Jacob we see an'example of earnestness 
and perseverance in matters of religion. 
How few, like him, are willing to contend 
all night for a blessing? 
In Jacob we see an example of all-con-
quering faith. 
His faith shrunk not under weakness. 
It grew not weak at delay. 
It prevailed at the last moment, as the dawn-
ing of the day gleamed upon the world. 
True Wesleyan. 
Night. 
From lofty spire and mountain-top, the last 
lingering rays of the setting sun have departed ; 
the prolonged twilight, suggestive of meditation, 
has passed away. Now 'tis darkness all, save 
the glimmering-which emanates from the starry 
host, beautifying and bestudding the stately 
sky. 
" 'Tis silence all ; 
Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; 
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse 
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause." 
There is in night a grandeur, an impressive 
solemnity, as the soul, in calm reflection, medi-
tates upon God, nature's Author. 
Night and darkness are allied ; the existence 
of the first implies the last; and ere the al-
mighty fiat demanded, " Let there be light !" 
a dark night of gloom enshrouded the natural 
world in its yet formless void. Eternal Wis-
dom, in benevolent and merciful adaptation to 
man's need, " divided the light from the dark-
ness." " And God called the light Day, and 
the darkness he called Night." 
Night is appropriate to the rest we require 
after the labor and toil of day. We gladly 
compose ourselves, and weariedly invite the 
refreshing of 
" Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep." 
It is then that the cares of life are forgotten, and 
its anxieties and sorrows for the time thrown 
from us, while we gather strength and energy 
anew to continue the struggle. 
We lie down at night to sleep, emblemizing 
the night of death, and rise at the light of day, 
as we rise from the tomb to the glories of im-
mortality. 
The brute creation also, by natural instinct, 
settle down in quiet as the darkness of night 
closes about them. 
To the disappointed in ambition for wealth 
and honor, as in gloomy [disgust they regard 
life, it is night. 
To the honest poor in their deprivations and 
want, while no man befriends, and Heaven it-
self seems to frown, it is night. 
The sombre shades of affliction's night en-
velope us ; the hearse, the cemetery, the grave, 
and all the habiliments of death we are familiar 
with as every-day matters. 
The new-made widow and half orphaned 
ones sorrow by the bed of death. In the glow 
of health, and in the pursuit of pleasure, scores 
are launched as in a moment into eternity ; 
drowned in the deep water, or consumed in the 
furious fire, while fathers, mothers, husbands, 
wives, parents, and children, mourn in heart-
stricken grief. 'l'o such it is a dark and sor-
rowful night of affliction. 
It is intellectual night in that house of mad-
ness ; reason has fallen from her throne, leav-
ing but a broken wreck of the God-likened man. 
The vacant eye, the silly laugh, the soul-har-
rowing scream, tell the tale of woe that it is all 
midnight with that once noble mind. 
It is moral night in the drunkard's retreat, 
made vocal by impious merriment; in the gam-
bler's hell, amid blasphemous imprecations; 
and in the brothel of ruined virtue. 
It is spiritual night in heathen lands, where 
paganism is rampant in horrid cruelty, and 
the gospel's light ne'er broke its gloom. 
It is an eternal night of despair in the place 
of the lost, whence mercy has for ever departed, 
and hope Is never found 
It is related of those countries where there 
are months of one unbroken night, that as the 
time approaches when day may be looked for, 
lookers-out are stationed on prominent positions 
to watch for its coming ; and when the first 
streaks of light appear in the sky, indicative of 
morning, the joyful intelligence is communi-
cated from mouth to mouth, until the air re-
sounds with the cry of " Day, day !" 
As natural night precedes the coming day of 
beauty, be it ours, during our allotment of 
earthly night, to anticipate the dawn of that 
blessed morning which shall usher in an eternal 
day of glory. 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Fatal Illusions. 
The deceitful fascinations of sin and the 
powerful and fatal control which it obtains over 
the votaries of the honors and pleasures of 
the world, were strikingly depicted in a dis-
course once delivered by a clerical friend. The 
pictures as there drawn was substantially as 
follows 
If, said the preacher, you wish to know how 
this great change in the moral nature of man 
—genuine conversion—is effected, we cannot 
tell you. It is the work of Divinity, and 
therefore far beyond, the grasp of finite minds. 
The utmost we can do is to give you a descrip-
tion of what takes place in the soul when ar-
rested by the hand of God in the course of ini-
quity. And for this purpose, we may perhaps 
be allowed to draw an illustration from the 
strange and singular power of illusion and fas-
cination possessed by the reptile which was 
once chosen as his garb by the father of lies. 
It appears to be well authenticated by facts, 
that even young children have sometimes been 
completely subdued and entranced by this 
strange power of the serpent. Imagine to 
yourselves then, a little prattling child fixed by 
the fearful glare of the destroyer. You see it 
gaze for a while intently; and then begin to 
approach slowly the object of its regard. It 
sees not the poisonous reptile—to it there ap-
pears naught but what is beautiful and desira-
ble, a variety of the most brilliant colors, adorn-
ing the spot to which its vision is directed. It 
draws nearer and nearer; and now is even 
stretching out its little hands to grasp the deadly 
monster ! 
Shall it perish ? 
No ! The voice 
of its watchful parent has called off for a mo-
ment its attention, and the spell is broken, It 
looks back to behold with delight the loveliness 
that seemed so alluring—and lo ! a scaly ser-
pent, the very sight of which causes it to shrink 
with horror and loathing, and fly to the em-
braces of its parent : and even then, its trem-
bling, palpitating heart can scarcely be per-
suaded of its safety. 
Just so, said the speaker, it is with the 
sinner. All that is beautiful and desirable 
appears to his deluded and fascinated spirit, to 
be centered in the world and its enjoyments. 
These form the objects of his devoted pur-
suit, and in these, he imagines his happiness 
to be found. He is completely under tile spell 
of the " old serpent," But let the light of 
divine truth shine into his understanding, and 
the voice and Spirit of God arrest him in 
his career, and the whole appearance of things 
is changed. The startled sinner gazes with 
horror upon the illusion which had bound him 
and the danger which he has so narrowly 
escaped. He perceives that he had been rush-
ing on inevitable destruction ; and the golden 
fruit that seemed so bright and beautiful ex-
ternally, is discovered to consist of ashes and 
bitterness within. The object which has fas-
cinated and bewildered the mind, and led it 
forward eagerly and recklessly to its attain-
ment, is now seen to be a horrid reptile that 
entices only to destroy. " The pleasures of 
sin," as he once conceived them, have not 
merely vanished away, but have been found 
to be the hidden springs of death, whose 
poisoned waters sparkle and fascinate only 
to tempt the deluded victim onward, still on-
ward, until lie becomes involved in the vortex 
of destruction and sinks into the dark and 
gloomy caverns of endless torture, sorrow, and 
despair. Then it is he realizes, if never before, 
the wisdom of Moses' choice—" choosing rather 
to suffer affliction with the people of God, than 
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." 
Presbyterian Advocate. 
Horrid Blasphemy. 
Dr. Nast, of Cincinnati, has commenced the 
publication of a series of numbers in the West-
ern Christian Advocate, on the " German 
Work." From his first number I have clipped 
the following, that we may see in this part of 
the country what Germany is doing for us in 
increasing our population. What can be done 
to prevent the poison from spreading ? Prose-
cute with untiring effort our missionary work 
among the Germans, both in this country and 
in their fatherland. But to the paragraph : 
" Our brethren in Cincinnati do all they can 
to stem the torrent of overflowing wickedness. 
0 that the American citizens would do their 
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duty, and execute their Sabbath laws ! If there 
is no restraint laid upon the increasing desecra-
tion of the Lord's day by the German popula-
tion, every avenue of Gospel influence upon the 
masses will he closed, and Cincinnati will be 
another New Orleans. Only a very small 
number of the Germans attend Protestant 
Churches. Even the Rationalistic Churches 
are comparatively ernp,y. But Jackson Hill, 
Mt. Adams, Moor's Garden, the infidel Turner's 
Hall on Walnut street, a dozen other beer and 
wine resorts, and the German theatre hall, be-
sides numberless coffee-houses, are full the 
whole Sabbath day. A few Sabbaths ago, 
when I returned from an evening appointment 
in the Race street church, I heard on Vine 
street music and dancing. Do the American 
citizens not see with seeing eyes and hear with 
kearing ears ? It will not do to throw the 
whole blame of these abominations upon the 
German immigrants. They never were taught 
at home either by State or Church, by precept 
or example, that it was wrong to go to the beer-
house or theatre on the Sabbath day. I ought, 
however, to mention an instance of gross im-
position practiced upon the American public. 
For some months there are regular advertise-
ments of " sacred concerts " for Sunday even-
ings, but all the pieces of music are taken from 
the most irreligious operas. A few weeks ago, 
on the evening of the great Romish festival of 
Corpus Christi, there was played on the Ger-
man stage of this city, " the life of Jesus Christ 
from his baptism to his crucifixion !" And 
who dared to play the part of the Son of God ? 
The director of the theatre, a Mr. Aldersberg, 
who has been just now found guilty of murder 
in the third degree. The Rev. Mr. A. Gerwig, 
editor of the Protestantische Zeiterblaetter, and 
pastor of the German Protestant church corner 
of Race and Fifteenth streets, who seems to 
have been present, criticises the performance, 
and makes, among other remarks, the following: 
" At the holy supper the actors drank too 
quickly—they loved the wine—so that Mr. A. 
said, Slowly, you drink too quickly.' We did 
not know whether we should laugh or cry !" (!!) 
Here we have a Reverend Editor attending 
a theatre on the Sabbath, witnessing a blasphe-
mous performance, and not knowing whether to 
" laugh or cry !" Certainly all Christians know 
what to do—they should cry. " 0 that my 
head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of 
tears, that,I might weep day and night for the 
slain of the daughter of my people." 
Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. 
recantation, and blasphemous denial of his Sa-
viour, was required of the old disciple, upon 
pain of being whipped to death. The answer 
was, " Bress de Lord, massa ! I can't." 
Threats, oaths, entreaties, and noise were 
tried, but he fell on his kness, and holding up 
his hands plead, 
" Bress de Lord, massa, f can't! Jesus, he 
die for me ! Massa, please massa, I can't." 
The executioner summoned his aids, the old 
man was tied up, and the whipping commenced; 
but the shrieks for mercy were all intermingled 
with prayers and praises—prayers for his own 
soul and those of his murderers. When faint-
ing and revived, the terms of future freedom 
from punishment were offered again, and again 
he put them away with the continued exclama-
tion, " Jesus, he die for me ! Bress de Lord, 
massa ! I can't." 
The bet was to the full value of the property 
endangered. The men were flushed with wine, 
and the experimenter on " nigger religion " in-
sisted on " trying it out." Honor demanded he 
should have a fair chance to win his bet, and 
the old disciple died under the lash, blessing 
the Lord that Jesus had died for him ! 
The preacher gave his recital with many 
tears, and before he was done, we do not think 
there was a dry eye, except our own, in the 
house. Our pulses all stood still with horror, 
but the speaker did not appear to dream that 
his story had any bearing against the institu-
tion with which he was surrounded. 
We cannot remember how he said the par-
ticulars came to his knowledge, but think the 
martyr had been under his pastoral care, and 
that he got the minutia from slave witnesses 
in a " love feast." 
He gave us the story simply to show what a 
good thing religion was. Of those who heard 
it, and the many persons there to whom we re-
lated it, we found not one who appeared to 
doubt it. Any indignation felt and expressed 
was against the individual actors in the tragedy. 
This, and the account we once gave of the 
old man " born in Pennsylvania, and free when 
twenty-eight !" who told us his own story of his 
beautiful " Misses Jenny " and her bad hus-
band, who sold him South by treachery; of his 
telling his own story of being " born in Penn-
sylvania and free," and being subsequently sold 
and resold eight times ; of his seven good mas-
ters, and the cruel one who gave him the scars 
he exhibited to make him quit going to meet-
ing, and curse God and Jesus Christ ; of his 
present happiness in having found Misses Jenny, 
and the prospect of going with her " home to 
Virginny," these things convince us that there 
have been more Uncle Toms in these United 
States than we of the North have ever dreamed 
of in our philosophy. 
There are to-day, as there have been in all 
ages, thousands of wicked men, thousands of 
fanatics who would, if they had the power, 
punish with fine, imprisonment, stripes, fire and 
the rack, the heretic who differs from them in 
opinion. What then could be expected when 
one class holds irresponsible power over the 
lives of another? Just, that some of them will 
be very ready to use it. 
Pittsburgh Saturday Visitor. 
An Every-day Paradox ; 
OR, HOW A MAN LOST ALL HE WAS WORTH BY 
GETTING RICH. 
And soon he lost his common sense, 
Puffed up with most profound pretence, 
He hoped abroad to find 
Each better man in poorer case, 
Bow down unto the dust his face—
He was out of his mind. 
His peace of mind expired in glooms, 
He built a house of many rooms—
Of many and most grand ; 
But through them all he sought in vain ; 
He could not find his peace again, 
In all his house and land. 
Next memory wavered and withdrew, 
The more estate and body grew, 
Still grew his memory thinner; 
Until he could not even tell, 
Without a good resounding bell, 
His common hour for dinner. 
So on his house-top it was hung, 
And loudly, duly it was rung, 
To summon hint to dine ; 
As well, as that the poor might be, 
Assured, as they were drinking tea, 
That he was drinking wine. 
Alas, what mattered wine or food ? 
Oh ! but he was in different mood, 
By his own mother's door, 
With porringer of milk and bread,—
And now his appetite had fled ; 
Arid it returned no more. 
No ! not though the dishes did abound, 
Though busy lackeys stood around, 
In jackets quaintly dressed ; 
With scarlet collar and scarlet wrist, 
And buttons stamped with a great beast—
John's true armorial crest. 
This beast he on his trinkets wore ; 
On harness ; on his carriage door ; 
And on his sealed letters ; 
Upon his bed, upon his chair, 
This beast was figured everywhere, 
A beast in golden fetters. 
Lost eye and ear, lost heart and health, 
Good name, good conscience; save his wealth 
What loss could still befall ? 
Alas ! to crown the dismal whole, 
He died ! 'Tis feared he lost his soul—
The heaviest loss of all ! 
William Howitt. 
A " Crack Church " in New York. 
Knickerbocker's correspondent, Henry, thus 
describes what is meant by being a member of 
a " crack church " in Gotham :— 
"Those who can't pay eight hundred or a 
thousand dollars (for a pew) in a fashionable or 
crack church' are obliged to stay at home, 
unless they are humble enough to go to some 
of God's temples, where Christianity is not only 
preached, but practiced. We found our way 
into a crack church' last Sunday, in the upper 
part of the city. Casting our left eye as we en-
tered, on a magnificent prayer-book, we observed 
in gilt letters the name of a millionaire, with 
whose early history we were fully conversant. 
He started in life as a clam-boy, and the old 
clam-boat to which he belonged used to be sta-
tioned near Washington Market until all its 
cargo of clams were sold out. He first acquired 
a capital of a few dollars. This he invested in 
the !fish trade; he speculated in eels, porgies, 
and other fish ; made a large sum of money, 
and finally succeeded in cornering shad;' 
bought up all the stock of the season, both in 
and out of the water, and sold them afterwards 
at his own prices, and made 50,000 dollars.—
He cut his market associations, bought lots up 
town, now lives in the Fifth Avenue, and is 
a big dog.' As wealth increased, he found 
himself at the head of the cod-fish aristocracy,' 
to which of course he had access from his 
former business. Phalon the barber was sent 
for ; his daughters had their hair combed out 
and dressed for the first time ; teachers of 
music, drawing, Italian, French, etc., were 
hired ; old Mr. Porgie joined the Church and 
took a costly pew. We happened to get into 
it; but we no sooner discovered where we were. 
when we made up our minds to vacate. We 
were too late. Old Mr. Porgie came sailing up 
the aisle with his wife and daughters, dressed 
as though they had known " what was what " 
all their lives. To our astonishment instead of 
shutting the pew-door in our face, he asked us 
to keep our seats.' And didn't we have a 
nice time of it ! The mother looked at us—so 
did the daughters; and they snuffled, smelt their 
salts as though one of their father's shad was 
in the slip. We felt annoyed, provoked ; for-
got our prayers ; didn't hear a blessed word of 
the sermon, and came away disgusted with 
hypocritical upstarts, and with a determination 
next Sunday to go to a free church. Our ideas 
of pure, undefiled religion are drawn from the 
recorded life of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus 
Christ. He was a living example of humility, 
charity, love ; in fact all that was good and 
lovely ; some of his chosen disciples were very 
close imitators of their Lord and Master; and 
though they were by profession fish catchers 
(we are not aware that they were clam catchers 
or speculators) like Mr. Porgie, they were not 
above other men because of their success or 
money. We wonder whether there will be 
any upper places, best seats or private pews in 
the great temple above, where the souls of rich 
people may be at their ease, and where poor 
folks can't intrude ? Christian churches !— 
Christian rich men ! We will say nothing 
more, and then we shall have less idle words to 
answer for at the day of judgment. Our costly 
churches are filled with divers sort of people, 
and are no places for the poor Lazarus." 
The Crowned Skeleton. 
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, in Germany, derives its 
name front the tomb of Charlemagne. He gave 
instructions that when he died he should be 
buried in a royal position ; not prostrate as slum-
bering dust, but seated in the attitude of a rul-
ing monarch. He had the mausoleum erected 
after the model of the chapel which had been 
reared over the supposed sepulchre of our Sav-
iour at Jerusalem. In a tomb within this chapel 
he was placed upon a throne. The Gospels, 
which I suppose he had often read whilst he was 
living, he would appear determined to study 
thoroughly after he was dead ! he directed they 
should be laid upon his knees before him. By 
his side was his sword—his celebrated sword ; 
upon his head was an imperial crown, arid a 
royal mantle covered his lifeless shoulders. 
Thus was his body placed, and thus did his 
body remain for about one hundred and eighty 
years. 
One of his successors resolved he would see 
how Charlemagne looked, and what had become 
of the riches that adorned his tomb. Nearly a 
thousand years after Christ, the tomb was 
opened by the Emperor Otho. The skeleton 
form of the body was found there, dissolved and 
dismembered ; the various ornaments that I 
speak of were all there, too ; but the frame had 
sunk into fragments, the bones had fallen dis-
jointed and asunder, and there remained noth-
ing but the ghastly skull, wearing its crown 
still and nothing to signify royalty but this 
vain pageant of death in its most hideous form! 
The various relics were taken iip, and are now 
pr2served at Vienna:; and they have often since 
been employed in the coronation of the empe-
rors of Germany, in order to signify their great-
ness, and their being successors of Charlemagne. 
Dr. Massie's Summer Rainble..,1 
How striking a comment does the forty-ninth 
Psalm afford to this strange history ! What be-
came of the monarch's body ? It was again en-
tombed, though spoiled, till Frederick Barba. 
rossa in 1165 interrupted the silence of the 
gloomy palace. He removed the royal remains 
into a splendid receptacle he had prepared, and 
placed the marble throne in the church, where 
it is now exhibited to strangers. But the body 
itself is nowhere to be found ; its last resting-
place is empty. The limbs are dispersed in the 
form of relics. The skull and one arm-bone 
are preserved as relics in the cathedral. But 
though scattered be his limbs, Charlemagne 
shall yet hear the voice of the Kings of kings, 
and stand uncrowned in His presence who wears 
the crowns of the universe. 
The Tempters Within. 
The sinners that entice from within are the 
man's own thoughts and desires. There is 
quite an army of these in a young man's 
breast. Thoughts have wings. They pass 
and repass unobserved. They issue forth from 
their borne in the heart, expatiate over every 
forbidden field, and return like doves to their 
windows, through the air, leaving no track of 
their path. These thoughts become acquainted 
with sin. They are accustomed to visit the 
haunts of vice without detection. They revel 
unchecked in every unclean thing. They 
open up the way, and prepare a trodden path 
on which the man may follow. A gossamer 
thread is attached to an arrow, and shot 
through the air unseen, over an impassable 
chasm. Fixed on the other side, it is suffi-
cient to draw over a cord ; the cord draws 
over a rope; the rope draws over a bridge, 
by which a highway is opened for all corners. 
Thus is the gulf passed that lies between the 
goodly character of a youth fresh from his 
lather's family, and the daring heights of ini-
quity on which the veteran libertines stand. 
The sober youth stands on the solid platform 
of religious and moral worth. No one can 
think it possible that he should go over to 
the other side. But from the brink on this 
side he darts over a thought which makes 
itself fast to something in these forbidden re- 
gions. The form no one saw, as it sped 
through the air, but it has made a lodgment in 
that kingdom of darkness, and the deeds of 
wickedness will quickly follow when the way 
has been prepared. " Out of the heart," said 
he who knows it, (Matt. 15:19,) " proceed evil 
" Uncle Tom." 
In the many criticisms on Mrs. Stowe's 
great work, no objection is so common as that 
of exaggeration, or overdrawing in the finale 
of Uncle Tom's death. All who read the news-
papers agree that whippings to death do occur, 
but all will not or cannot believe that any one, 
for conscience' sake, has died by the lash here, 
in this glorious nineteenth century. Those 
" niggers " who are whipped to death are des-
perate characters—persons who have worn out 
the patience of overseers and masters by crime 
and laziness. 
Well, in the summer of 1839, we were in 
Louisville, Ky. As no great change has ever 
taken place in our opinion on this slavery ques-
tion, we were at some loss then for a place to 
go to preaching, and used on the Sabbath to 
walk out to a grave-yard, or into the fields, or 
up and down the streets in search of sermons. 
One forenoon, passing a little frame church on 
Walnut street, if we recollect rightly, we heard 
the voices of a congregation singing. Brother 
Samuel, who was with us,—it was further 
down street than would have been thought safe 
for a woman to walk alone at midday,—said it 
was a congregation of Methodists, and a mis-
sionary station, he thought, but assured us he 
had once dropped in and heard a sermon he 
liked. 
We went in and took a seat. A plain-look-
ing elderly man preached in the style usual for 
Methodists—preachers in country places—all 
about religion—it comforts in life and triumphs 
in death. Like Uncle Torn, he insisted, with 
great earnestness, that it was " a great thing to 
be a Christian." Religion—it made the weak 
strong,—and the meanest most honorable. To 
illustrate this grand truth, he told an anecdote 
as something coming within the range of his 
own knowledge, of an old slave who had " got 
religion." His master was kind, but irreligious 
and reckless, and was withal much impressed 
by the earnestness of his servant's prayers and 
exhortations. But one day, one evil day, on 
the Sabbath, too, this same kind master was 
drinking and playing cards with a visitor, when 
the conversation turned upon the religion of 
slaves. The visitor boasted that lie could 
" whip the religion out of any "nigger " in the 
State in half an hour." 
The master, proud of possessing a rare speci-
men, boasted that he had one out of whom 
religion could not be whipped. A bet was laid, 
and the martyr summoned. A fearful oath of 
There was a little village boy—
Oh ! but his heart was full of joy, 
Had he a stick to whittle on, 
A bag of marbles and a kite, 
Surely there never was delight 
Like that of Johnny Littlejohn. 
But time grew on—a boy no longer, 
Up he grew, taller, stouter, stronger, 
And then you would admire ; 
For he had made a splendid marriage, 
And he rode in a shining carriage— 
John Littlejohn, Esquire. 
No doubt you think this very grand, 
But 1 must make you understand—
A very different case ; 
Tho' shrewdest heads might not have found, 
Had they surveyed this great man round, 
Misfortune in his face. 
And yet he was most sad—for riches 
Have something in them that bewitches, 
And fills with large pretences, 
Whilst like a terrible disease, 
They rob us of true mirth and ease, 
Our faculties and senses. 
And this was now his case ; for he 
Had lost his sight ; he could not see 
Some things however nigh ; 
The friends and playmates of his youth—
He could not see them, though, in truth, 
Some stood full six feet high. 
And then his hearing went—Oh ! none 
Had ears so quick as little John 
For neighbors in their need ; 
But now it sorrow cries and roars, 
What hope to pierce a dozen doors, 
And ears most deaf indeed? 
 
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not reserved a blessing for me ?"-lb. 34-36. But he 
could not change his father's mind, for " ISAAC an-
swered and said unto Esne, Behold, I have made 
him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to 
him for servants : and with coin and wine have I 
sustained lino : and what shall I do unto thee now 
my son ? And ESAU said unto his father, Hast thou 
but one blessing, my father ? bless me, even me also, 
0 father ! And ESAU lifted up his voice, and wept. 
And ISAAC his father answered, and said unto him, 
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the 
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; and by 
thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother : 
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the 
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy 
neck."-/b. 37-40. ESAU did not seek for penitence 
on his own part, but he wished to induce his father 
to repent of having bestowed the blessing on JACOB, 
that it might be bestowed on himself; but lie sought 
in vain. 
18-21-" -For ye have not come to the mountain, which might 
he felt, and which was burning with fire, tier to blackness, and dark-
ness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, :tad the voice of 
words ; the hearers of which, intreated that the word should not be 
spoken to them any more ::for they could not endure the corn mond, 
And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall he stoned ; and so 
terrible was the sight, that Muses said, I fear and tremble.") 
When the law was to be given from mount Sinai, 
Moses was commanded to set bounds unto the peo-
ple round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, 
that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border 
of it : whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely 
put to death : there shall not a hand touch it, but 
he shall surely be stoned or shot through : whether 
it be the beast or man, it shall not live : when the 
trumpet sounded] long, they shall come up to the 
mount. ... And Moses brought forth the people out 
the camp to meet with GoD ; and they stood at the 
nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was al-
together on a smoke, because the LORD descended 
upon it in fire : and the smoke thereof ascended as 
the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked 
greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded 
long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, 
and GOD answered him by a voice. And the LORD 
came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the 
mount : and the LORD called Moses up to the top of 
the mount ; and MOSES went up. And the LORD said 
unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they 
break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of 
them perish."-Ex. 19:12, 13, 17-21. Thus ter-
rible were the tokens of justice, which the Jews had 
to behold ; but not to a mount like this do Christians 
have to approach. 
Vs. 32-24-" But ye have cotne to mount Zion, and to the city of 
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of 
angels, to the general assembly and congregation of the first-born, 
written in heaven, and to Gott the Judge of all, and to the spirits of 
the just made perfect, audio Jesus the Mediator of the new cove-
nant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better wings than 
A bet's." 
As the Jewish mount, was that from which the 
Mosaic law was given, so the mount Zion to which 
we conic, must be the source from whence we re- 
ceive the law of the new covenant. JOHN says : 
" And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount 
Sion, and with hint an hundred forty and four thousand, 
having his Father's name written in their foreheads." 
-Rev. 14:1. This text in Rev. doubtless has refer- 
ence to the new creation, when " out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from 
Jerusalem."-Isa. 2:3. We are come to this pros- 
pectively, as we also come to the other promised 
blessings. " Him that overcometh, will I make a 
pillar in the temple of my GOD, and he shall go no 
more out : and I will write upon him the name of my 
GOD, and the name of the city of my Gon, which is 
new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven 
from my GOD : and I will write upon him my new 
name."-Rev. 3:12. " And he carried me away in 
the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed 
me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending 
out of heaven from Gou."-Ib. 21:10. The an- 
gels are here put in comparison with those who were 
in connection with the giving of the law : " The 
chariots of GOD are twenty thousand, even thousands 
of angels : the LORD is among them, as in Sinai, in 
the holy place."-Psa. 68;17. 
The church of the first born, are thus described by 
JAMES : " Of his own will begat he us with the word 
of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of 
his creatures."-Jas. 1:18. And the SAVIOUR told 
his disciples to " rejoice because your names are 
written in heaven."-Luke 10:20. 
The Judge of all is CHRIST, " who shall judge 
the quick and the dead at his appearing and king-
dorn."-2 Tim. 4:1. 
The souls of just men are made perfect in the res-
urrection. " In a moment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we 
shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on 
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortali- 
ty. So when this corruptible shall have put on in- 
corruption, and this mortal shall have put on immor-
tality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that 
is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."-
1 Cor. 15:52-54. " Gun having provided some better 
thing for us, that they without us should not be made 
perfect."-Heb. 11:40. 
thoughts." 
Exactly that is what we expected ; 
but what come out next ? Murders, adulte• 
ries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphe-
mies." That is a horrible gang. How quickly 
they come on ! How closely they follow their 
leader! Murders arid adulteries march forth un-
blushing ; but they follow in the wake of evil 
thoughts. Oh, if the fountain were cleansed, 
the streams of life would be pure. So thought 
David, when, in agony of grief, despairing of 
his own efforts, he cried, " Create in me a clean 
heart, 0 God !" This is the root of the evil, 
and no cure will be thorough or lasting that 
does not reach and remove it. 
2buent letup. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM comETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it. God may he hon-
ored and his truth advanced; also, that it may lie conducted in 
faith mid love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the 
truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or 
sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
111.19-, 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
CHAPTER XII. 
(Continued from Herald of Aug. 14th,) 
Vs. 15, 16-" Looking carefully, lest any one fail of the grace of 
God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up, cause disturbance, 
and through it many he defiled ; lest there he any fornicator, or pro 
lane person, like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright." 
The apostle is exhorting them against apostacy to 
Judaism, and he quotes the sentiment in the Law : 
" Lest there should be among you man, woman, or 
family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day 
from the LORD our Gon, to go and serve the gods of 
these nations ; lest there should be among you a root 
that beareth gall and wormwood."-Deut. 29:18. 
PAUL had said in a former place : " Take heed, 
brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of 
unbelief, in departing from the living GOD. But ex-
hort one another daily, while it is called To-day ; lest 
any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of 
sin."-Heb. 3:12, 13. 
" But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covet-
ousness, let it not he once named among you, as be-
cometh saints."-Eph. 5:3. " What know ye not 
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost 
which is in you, which ye have of GoD, and ye are 
not your own For ye are bought with a price : 
therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your 
spirit, which are Goo's."-1 Cur 6:19, 20. " Mor-
tify therefore your members which are upon the 
earth ; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, 
evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idola- 
try for which things' sake the wrath of Goo cometh 
on the children of disobedience."-Col. 3:5, 6. 
ESAU is called a profane person because he regarded 
present enjoyment more than the blessing of his birth-
right. It was when " ESAU came from the field, 
and he was faint. And ESAU said to JACOB, Feed 
me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage ; for I 
am faint : therefore was his name Edorn. And JA-
con said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And ESAU 
said, Behold I am at the point to:die : and what prof-
it shall this birthright do to me ? And JACOB said, 
Swear to me this day ; and he swore unto him : and 
he sold his birthright unto JACOB. Then JACOB gave 
ESAU bread and pottage of lentiles ; and he did eat 
and drink, and rose up, and went his way : thus 
ESAU despised his birthright."-Gen. 25:29-34. Hav-
ing once parted with his right to it, it was not in his 
power again to regain it. 
V. 17-" For ye know that afterwards, when he wished to inherit 
the blessing, he was rejected for he found no place for a change of 
mind iu his father, though he sought it carefully with tears." 
The blessing which Esau would have inherited, 
was that which would have been transmitted to him 
by his father ISAAC, who supposed he was his first 
born, when he said to JACOB being thus moved by 
the Holy Spirit : " Therefore GOD give thee of the 
dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and 
plenty of corn and wine : let people serve thee, and 
nations bow down to thee ; be lord over thy brethren, 
and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed 
be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that 
blesseth thee."-Gen. 27:28, 29. When ESAU found 
that JACOB had received the blessing which his father 
intended for him, " he cried with a great arid ex-
ceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless 
me, even me also, 0 my father ! And he said, Thy 
brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy 
blessing. And he said, Is not he rightly named JA-
COBI for he bath supplanted me these two times : he 
took away my birthright ; and behold, now he hath 
taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou 
Jesus hath " obtained a more excellent ministry, 
by how much also he is the mediator of a better cove-
nant, which was established upon better promises." 
-Heb. 8:6. 
The blood of sprinkling has reference to the Le-
vitical rite when " MOSES took the blood, and sprin-
kled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of 
the covenant, which the LORD Lath made with you 
concerning all these words."-Ex. 24:8. " More-
over, he sprinkled likewise with blood both the taber-
nacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And al-
most all things are by the law purged with blood ; 
and without shedding of blood is no remission. It 
was therefore necessary that the patterns of things 
in the heavens should be purified with these ; but the 
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than 
these. For CHRIST IS not entered into the holy places 
made with hands, which are the figures of the true ; 
but into heaven itself, tiow to appear in the presence 
of GOD for us."-Heb. 9.21-24. 
" By faith ABEL offered unto GOD a more excel-
lent sacrifice than CAIN, by which he obtained wit-
ness that he was righteous, GOD testifying of his 
gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh."-Heb. 
11:4. But notwithstanding the blood offered by ABEL 
was thus accepted, the blood of CHRIST speaketh 
better things for us. " For by one offering he bath 
perfected fur ever them that are sanctified."-Heb. 
10:14. 
V. 25-" See that ye reject not him who speaketh. For if they es-
caped not who rejected him that spoke on earth, much less shall we 
escape, if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven." 
The apostle having completed his argument, again 
arrives at the proposition with which he started : that, 
Therefore we might to give the more earnest heed 
to the things which we have heard, lest at any time 
we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by 
angels was steadfast, and every transgression and 
disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; 
how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salva-
tion ; which at the first began to be spoken by the 
LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard 
him."-Heb. 2:1-3 
He who spoke on earth, was evidently MOSES ; for 
when " all the people savv;the thunderings, and the 
lightnings, and the noise of the ttumpet, and the 
mountain smoking : and when the people saw it, 
they removed and stood afar off. And they said unto 
Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but 
let nut Gun speak with us, lest we die."-Ex. 20: 
18, 19. Then " the people stood afar of, and Moses 
drew near unto the thick darkness where GOD was. 
And the LORD said unto MOSES, Thus thou shalt say 
unto the children of Israel ; Ye have seen that I have 
talked with you from heaven."-Ib. 21, 22. " And 
Moses carne and told the people all the words of the 
LORD, and all the judgments : and all the people an-
swered with one voice, and said, All the words which 
the LOltD bath said will we do."-lb. 24:3. 
Those who refused Moses and escaped not, were 
those " whose carcasses fell in the wilderness."-
Heb. 3:17. "He that despised MOSES' law, died with-
out mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much 
sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought 
worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of GOD, 
and bath counted the blood of the ,covenant, where-
with lie was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath 
done despite unto the Spirit of grace."-E. 10:28, 29. 
Therefore we cannot escape if we refuse to hear the 
words which CHRIST is now speaking-the words of 
the gospel-from heaven.-(To be continued.) ' 
THE RISE OF THE PAPACY. 
The power of the Papacy had been predicted in 
Daniel under the symbol of " a Little Horn," that 
came tip among the previous " ten horns," before 
whom " there were three of the first horns plucked 
up by the roots : and behold, in this horn were eyes 
like the eyes of man, arid a mouth speaking great 
things."-Dan. 7:8. These horns, were thus ex-
plained to DANIEL : " The fourth beast shall be the 
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse 
from all kingdoms, arid shall devour the whole earth, 
and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And 
the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that 
shall arise : and another shall arise after them ; and 
he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue 
three kings. And he shall speak great words against 
the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High, and think to change times and laws : and 
they shall be given into his hand until a time and 
times arid the dividing of time. But the judgment 
shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to 
consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the 
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to 
the people of the Most High, whose kingdom is an 
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve 
and obey hini."-lb. vs. 23-27. 
When PAUL spoke of the second coining of CHRIST, 
in his first epistle to the Thessalonians, they under-
stood that it was an event then imminent. The 
apostle, in his second epistle, corrects this impres-
sion, by referring to the foregoing prediction in Dan- 
iel, which must be previously fulfilled. He assures 
them that " the day of CHRIST" " shall not come, ex-
cept there be " an apostacy, or " a falling away first, 
and that Man of Sin," or the lawless one, " be re-
vealed, the son of perdition ; who opposeth and cx-
alteth himself above all that is called GOD, or that is 
worshipped ; so that he, as Gon, sitteth in the temple 
of GOD, showing himself that he is GOD. Remember 
ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you 
these things ? And now ye know what withholdeth 
that he might be revealed in his time. Fur the mys-
tery of iniquity doth already work : only he who now 
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the 
LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and 
shall destroy with the brightness of his coining."-
2 Thess. 2:3-8. 
The uniform application of these predictions to the 
Papacy, by Protestant writers, renders it unnecessary 
to argue this point. That power began early to be 
manifested, but its full development was " let," i.e., 
hindered, by the continuance of the Western Em- 
pire, which had to he taken out of its way. TERTUL-
LIAN, near the close of the second century, in ex- 
pounding those words, says : " ho can this be but 
the Roman state, the division of which into ten king-
doms will bring on Antichrist." And he gives as a 
reason why the Christians of this time prayed for the 
Roman empire: that the greatest calamity hanging over 
the world was retarded by the continuance of it. Cv- 
RIL of Jerusalem in the fourth century applied 
the passage in the same manner, and says : " Thus 
the predicted Antichrist will come when the times of 
the Roman empire shall be fulfilled, and the consum- 
mation of the world shall approach. Ten kings of 
the Romans shall arise together, in different places 
indeed, but they shall reign at the same time. Among 
these the eleventh is Antichrist, who by magical and 
wicked artifice shall seize the Roman power." A 
large number of the ancient fathers interpreted this 
text in the same manner. 
In 312, twelve hundred and sixty years before the 
Massacre of St. BARTHOL0MEW in 1572, CONSTAN-
TINE became emperor of Rome, embraced Christiani-
ty, and terminated the last and bloodiest of the Pagan 
persecutions-that of DloCLETIAN which had con-
tinued ten years. CONSTANTINE undertook to remodel 
the Church, in conformity to the government of the 
state, and the unhallowed union of the two resulted 
in the dignities of Patriarchs, exarchs, archbishops, 
canons, prebendaries, &c., which he endowed with 
wealth and worldly honors. 
In the ninth century a document was produced, 
which claimed to be a deed of gift from CONSTANTINE 
to the Pope, dated A. D. 324, ceding him the city of 
Rome and all Italy, with the crown, the mitre, &c. ; 
but the forgery of this has been fully exposed. With 
the removal of the Capital of the world to Constan-
tinople, the empire began to decline ; but the Church 
augmented as fast. A provisional synod at Sardica 
in A. D. 344, and a decree of the emperor VALEN-
TINIAN Ill. in 445, had acknowledged the Bishop of 
Rome as the Primate of the five Patriarchs, and as 
the last tribunal of appeal from the other bishops ; but 
the edicts of the Pope were often disregarded and op-
posed, and he continued subject to the civil power 
till the subversion of the Western empire by ODOA-
CER, king of the Heruli, in A. D. 476. 
Several kingdoms had been gradually rising on the 
ruins of the empire, as it was hastening to its de-
cline. The following have been regarded by Protest- 
ants writers, with great unanimity as the first ten, 
viz. 
The Huns in Hungary, from A. D. 356. 
The Ostrogoths in Mysia, from A. D. 377. They 
invaded and conquered the Herrin in 493. They were 
defeated in 538 by Justinian, when the Pope was 
placed in quiet possession of the capital of Rome. : 
The Visigoths in Pannonia, from A. D. 378 to 
408, when they removed to the south of France till 
589. They then removed to, and subjugated Spain. 
The Franks in France, from A. D. 407. 
The Vandals in Spain, from A. D. 407 till 427, 
when they removed to Africa and continued an inde-
pendent kingdom till subjugated by Justinian in 533. 
The Suevi arid Alans in Gascoigne and Spain, 
from 507, tilt 585. 
The Burgundians in Burgundy, from A. D. 407, 
till 524, when they became subject for a time to the 
Franks ; but afterwards they arose again to an inde-
pendent kiiigdoin. 
The Heruli, who advanced into Italy under At-
tila, arid in 476 terminated the imperial rule by the 
dethronement of Agustulus. They were in turn con-
quered by the Ostrugoths in A. D. 493. 
The Saxons and Angles in Britain, from about 
A. D. 450. Arid, 
10 The Lombards in Germany, from A. D. 483. 
Christianity, corrupted by Arianism had been em-
braced by nearly all the ten kingdoms which were es-
tablished on the ruins of the empire ; and the bar-
barians transferred to their Christian instructors, the 
profound submission and reverence which they were 
accustomed to yield to the teachers of Paganism,-
many of the rites and cerernorts of which had been 
incorporated into the Catholic service. Ecclesiastical 
courts were established, in which were tried all ques-
tions relating to character, office, or property of the 
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283 
clergy ; and thus they became nearly independent of 
the civil judges. 
The Heruli, which was the first of the ten horns 
plucked up, were conquered by the Ostrogoths in A. 
D. 493, when all Italy submitted to THEODORIC. He 
fixed his capital at Ravenna, which left the Pope the 
only Prince in Rome ; and the Romans, fur protec-
tion, were forced to pay more deference to him. 
About A. D. 500 two popes were simultaneously 
elected, when THEODORIC gave the Papal chair to 
SYMMACHUS. Gross crimes being alleged against 
him by the defeated party, the king summoned a 
council in A. D. 503 to investigate the charges ; and 
he was acquitted. The other party being dissatisfied, 
ENNODIUS bishop of Ticonum, drew tip an apology 
for the Pope and council, in which for the first time 
the Pope was styled a " Judge in the place of Gon, 
and Vicegerent of the Most High ;" and " subject 
to no earthly tribunal." Thus did the Lawless One, 
attempt " as God " to " sit in the temple of Goo." 
In A. D. 533 JUSTINIAN, emperor at Constantinople, 
being about to attack the Vandals in Africa, and 
wishing first to settle the religious disputes of his 
capital in which he felt a great interest, he submit-
ted the controversy to the Primate of Rome. To in-
duce a decision in his own favor, or to give force to 
it, he acknowledged the Bishop of Rome the Chief 
of the whole Ecclesiastical body of the empire ; and 
thus addressed him, in a letter sent by two distin- 
gished prelates. 
"Justinian, pious, fortunate, renowned, trium-
phant, emperor, consul, &c. to John the most holy 
Archbishop of our city of Rome, arid patriarch. 
" Rendering honor to the Apostolic chair, and to 
your Holiness, as has been always and is our wish, 
and honoring your blessedness as a father ; we have 
hastened to bring to the knowledge of your Holiness 
all matters relating to the state of the churches. it 
having been at all times our great desire to preserve 
the unity of your Apostolic chair, and the constitu-
tion of the holy churches of God which has obtained 
hitherto, and still obtains. 
"'Therefore we have made no delay in subjecting 
and uniting to your Holiness all the priests of the 
whole East, 
" For this reason we have thought fit to bring to 
your notice the present matters of disturbance ; though 
they are manifest and unquestionable, and always 
firmly held and declared by the whole priesthood ac-
cording to the doctrine of your Apostolic chair. For 
we cannot sufler that anything which relates to the 
state of the Church, however manifest and unques-
tionable, should be moved, without the knowledge of 
your Holiness, who are The Head of all the Holy 
Churches, for in all things, as we have already de-
clared, we are anxious to increase the honor and art 
thority of your Apostolic chair." 
Says Dr. CROLY : 
The Emperor's letter must have been sent before 
the 25th of March, 533. For, in his letter of that 
date to Epiphanius he speaks of its having been al-
ready dispatched, and repeats his decision, that all af-
fairs totichieg the Church shall be referred to the 
Pope, " Head of all Bishops, and the true and effec-
tive corrector of heretics." 
In the same month of the following year, 534, the 
Pope returned an answer repeating the language of 
the Emperor, applauding his homage to the see, and 
adopting the titles of the imperial mandate. He ob-
serves that, among the virtues of Justinian, " one 
shines as a star, his reverence for the Apostolic chair, 
to which he has subjected and united all the Churches, 
it, being truly the Head of all ; and was testified by 
the rules of the Fathers, the laws of Princes, and the 
declarations of the Emperor's piety." 
The authenticity of the title receives unanswerable 
proof from the edicts in the " Novella; " of the Jus-
tinian code. 
The preamble of the 9th states that " as the elder 
Rome was the founder of the laws ; so was it not to 
be questioned that in tier was the supremacy of the 
pontificate." 
The 131st, On the ecclesiastical titles and privi-
leges, chapter II. states : " We therefore decree that 
the most holy Pope of the elder Rome is the first of 
all the priesthood, and that the most blessed Arch-
bishop of Constantinople, the new Rome, shall hold 
the second rank after the holy Apostolic chair of the 
elder Rome." 
The supremacy of the Pope had by those mandates 
and edicts received the fullest sanction that could be 
give!' by the authority of the master of the Roman 
world. However worthless the motives, the act was 
done, authentic and unquestionab e, sanctioned by all 
the forms of state, and never abrogated,—the act of 
the first potentate of the world. If the supremacy 
over the Church of God had been for man to give, it 
might have been given by the unrivalled sovereignty 
of Justinian. 
From this xra the Church of Rome dates the 
earthly acknowledgment of her claim. Its heavenly 
authority is referred to the remoter source of the 
Apostles.—Apoc. pp. 14-16, 30, 31. 
The war against the Vandals was vigorously pros- 
ecuted by BELISARIUS, JUSTINIAN'S general, and re-
sulted in their conquest the same year. Thus was 
the second of the first ten divisions of the empire sub-
jugated : the second horn was plucked up. 
Rome was still in possession of an Arian monarch, 
who was a bitter enemy of the Catholic Church. 
Intelligence of the success of BELISARIUS in Africa 
reached the emperor, Dec. 16th, A. D. 533. " Im- 
patient to abolish the temporal and spiritual tyranny 
of the Vandals, he proceeded without delay to the 
full Establishment of the Catholic Church."—Gibbon, 
Harpers' Ed., v. 3., p. 67. BELISARIUS proceeded 
to the conquest of Italy, which he effected, and 
marched on to Rome. Only 4000 soldiers were sta- 
tinned for its defence ; and they could not oppose the 
wishes of the Romans who voluntarily submitted. 
Seized with a momentary enthusiasm, " they furiously 
exclaimed that the apostolic throne should no longer 
he profaned by the triumph or toleration of Arian-
ism ; that the tonihs of the CiusARs should no longer 
be trampled on by the savages of the north ; and with-
out reflecting that Italy must sink into a province of 
Constantinople, they fimdly hailed the restoration of 
a Roman emperor as a new era of freedom and pros-
perity. The deputies of the pope and clergy, of 
the senate and people, invited the lieutenant of Jus-
TINIAN to accept their voluntary allegiance, and to 
enter the city." Thus was " the city, after sixty 
Years' servitude, delivered from the yoke of the barba-
rians " Dec. 10, A.D. 536. And " the Catholics 
prepared to celebrate without a rival, the approach-
ing festival of the nativity of CHRIST."—Th. p. 80. 
In the winter the Ostrogoths made preparations, 
and besieged Rome with an army of 150,000 fighting 
men. Pope SYLVERIUS was suspected of treachery, 
and on proof that he had communicated with the 
enemy he was banished by BELISARIUS. At the em-
peror's command, the clergy of Rome proceeded to 
the choice of a new bishop, and elected " deacon 
VIGILIUS, who had purchased the papal throne by a 
bribe of two hundred pounds of gold."—.M. p. 85. 
As he had obtained the papal seat by fraud, it was 
claimed that he was not the lawful Pope ; but in 
A.D. 538, he was owned as such by the 5th General 
Council, and the whole Christian world.—See 
BOWER'S Hist. Popes, v. 2, p. 374. In March of this 
year, (538)—after " one year and nine days "—the 
Ostrogoths raised the siege of Rome, and burned 
their tents—one third of their number having perished 
under its walls. The arms of JUSTINIAN triumphed, 
and the Catholic hierarchy was established. The 
third horn had been plucked up by the fall of the 
third of the first ten divisions of Rome. 
The Bishop of Constantinople did not submit wil-
lingly to the Primacy of Rome. On the death of 
JUSTINIAN, the supremacy of the Pope was utterly 
denied ; and in A.D. 588, JOHN, Bishop of Constanti-
nople, himself assumed the coveted title of " Univer-
sal Bishop." The Roman Bishop, GREGORY the 
Great, indignant at this usurpation, denounced him 
as a " usurper, aiming at supremacy over the whole 
church," and declared that whoever claims such 
supremacy " has the pride and character of Anti-
christ." 
BONIFACE succeeded to the Roman See, and in the 
following year, A.D. 606, only two years after GREG-
ORY'S death, applied to PHOCAS,—who had ascended 
die throne of Constantinople by the murder of the 
emperor MAURITIUS,—for the same blasphemous 
title, with the privilege ',of continuing it to his suc- 
cessors. His request was granted, the eastern 
Bishop was forbidden its use, and the Primate of 
Rome was again acknowledged as " Universal 
Bishop," and the unrivalled " Head of all the 
Churches." This title has been worn by all the 
succeeding Popes ; " but the highest authority," 
says Dr. CROLY, " among the civilians and annalists 
of Rome, spurn the idea that PHOCAS was the found-
er of the supremacy of Rome. They ascend to 
JUSTINIAN as the only legitimate source, and rightly 
date the title from the memorable year 533."—Apoc. 
p 117. 
A.D. 730, Emperor LEO issued an edict for the 
destruction of all images used in religious worship. 
From that time the Pope scorned his authority, and 
acted in defiance of the emperor's will, who found 
himself unable to compel the Pope to obey the edict. 
The Papacy thus defied all human authority ; but 
did not as yet attempt the -exercise of temporal 
power. 
In A.D. 756, PEPIN, the usurper of Ithe crown of 
France, compelled the king of Lombardy to cede the 
exarchate of Ravenna to the Pope, " to be forever 
held and possessed by St. PETER and his lawful suc-
cessors in the See of Rome." The Pope had now 
become a temporal Prince, and one of the kings of 
the earth. In a.o. 774, CHARLEMAGNE, the successor 
of PEPIN, confirmed the former gift, and in addition, 
subjugated the Lombards, and annexed a large portion 
of their kingdom and the Duchy of Rome to the 
Roman See. In A.D. 817, Lours the Pious, granted 
" St. PETER'S patrimony " to the Pope and his suc-
cessors, " in their own right, principality, and domin-
ion, unto the end of the world." Hence, as a tem-
poral Prince, the Pope wears a triple crown. 
In A.D. 800, CHARLEMAGNE was solemnly crowned 
and proclaimed Emperor by the Pope, having re-
duced under his sway nearly the whole of Europe. 
From this time die popes claimed superiority to all 
kings and emperors, received homage from them, 
and exercised all the rights of sovereignty ; but they 
were nominally dependent on the emperors of the 
west till A.D. 1278, when the emperor RUDOLPH re-
leased the people of the Papal States from all alle-
giance they might still owe to the imperial crown. 
This act was confirmed by the electors and princes 
of the empire. The Popes, in the greatness of their 
power, crowned and uncrowned kings at their pleas- 
ure, absolved subjects from all allegiance to their 
rulers, excommunicated whoever they would, and 
compelled secular princes to put to death heretics. 
In A. D 1294 BONIFACE VIII. became Pope. From 
his accession, Hanes( dates the decline of the Papa-
cy which for " more than two centuries had been on 
the throne of the earth, and reigned Despot of the 
World."—Dowling. His bull of excommunication 
against PHILIP of France, being disregarded by that 
monarch, who adroitly made the Pope his prisoner, 
his rage brought on a fever which caused his death. 
Only a few succeeding Pontiffs claimed, and none at-
tempted to enforce the prerogatives exercised by the 
preceding Popes. For seventy years the successors 
of BoNiFaen resided at Avignon in France, and paid 
great deference to the monarch of that country. Af-
ter this was the Western schism, which divided the 
Church for forty years,—two rival Popes claiming 
the mitre, and thundering out their anathemas against 
each other. These events greatly weakened the Pa-
pacy. About this time appeared WICKLIFF and II uss, 
and JEROME of Prague ; and still later, in 1517, MAR-
TIN LUTHER, in opposition to the Papal pretensions. 
In A. D. 1572—twelve hundred and sixty years from 
the removal of CONSTANTINE from Rome to Constan-
tinople, occurred the bloody massacre of St. BAR-
THOLOMEW, when in one day 5000 Protestants were 
murdered in Paris, and in the same proportion in 
other parts of France. The persecutions of the Pa-
pists continued till near the close of the last century ; 
and as late as November 1781 a woman was burned 
alive by the Inquisition in Spain. 
In 1793, twelve hundred and sixty years from Jus-
TINIAN'S letter to the Pope in 533, the Papal Church, 
with all religion was entirely suppressed in France. 
And in 1798, which was the same length of time 
from the establishment of the Papacy, by the con-
quest of the Ostrogoths,—the plucking up of the last 
of the three horns in 538, Gen. BERTHIER entered 
Rome, compelled the Pope to flee and terminated the 
Papal government 
Such of the cardinals as had not fled from the 
city, assembled in council disposed to uphold the 
Pontiff; but finally, " with melancholy voice, they 
pronounced their absolute renunciation of the temporal 
government." 
A Republic was established in its 
stead ; and the Inquisition was destroyed in Rome. 
In 1808 it was destroyed in Spain. 
The temporal power was afterwards restored ; but 
in 1848, twelve hundred and sixty years from 588 
when Joust assumed the title of Universal Bishop, 
the Pope again fled from his throne. Two years sub-
sequently he was again restored. 
SPIRIT RAPPINGS. 
Mr. ORVILLE HATCH, Of Franklin, Conn., has be-
come insane, he having devoted considerable attention 
to the subject of Spirit Rappings. Mr. HATCH is a 
farmer, and has been instrumental in introducing 
many important improvements in agriculture into the 
town in which he resides. 
This is only one of many cases in which insanity 
has resulted from mental anxiety on this subject of 
Spirit Rappings. Of course this fact has strictly no 
bearing on the real character of these exhibitions. 
Insanity often results from excessive absorption, in 
religious topics, in politics, in business affairs, &c., 
&c. ; and yet these various themes lose none of their 
importance on that account. But it does seem de-
plorable that so serious c ilamities should attend upon 
a subject so paltry and pitiful in all its innocent re-
sults. 
If great benefits were conferred upon the world 
as an offset to these great misfortunes,—if new revela-
tions of its destiny and duty were made to the race in 
exchange for these occasional instances of mental 
wreck, we might lie content with the surplus of' ad-
vantages, and consider the attendant evils as only part 
of the price we must always pay for anything val-
uable. 
But we have no such consolations. Granting 
everything to be true which these spirit-rappers 
claim ; conceding even that these demonstrations are 
made by disembodied spirits, our respect for them is 
not sensibly augmented. Upsetting tables, rocking 
bureaus, deranging chairs, and hammering upon doors, 
is all small business for beings that have left the earth, 
and are supposed to be engaged in more important af-
fairs. Their answers to questions asked, however 
great the knowledge they display concerning secrets 
of the past, indicate no advance in intelligence since 
their departure from the body. Not one of them pre-
tends to have solved any of the mysteries of nature : 
to have revealed anything new concerning the future 
destiny of the ,soul ; to have elucidated any of the 
mysteries of the Universe : to have added anything 
whatever to the sum of human knowledge, or smoothed 
in the least the difficult path of human endeavor. 
The spirits (if spirits they are) have thus far acted in 
a way by no means adequate to their pretensions. 
Their conduct tends essentially to lessen our respect 
for their "cloth." If passing into the higher sphere 
of existence works no greater change than they have 
manifested, it is scarcely worth while to leave the 
flesh. We know quite as much already as they can 
tell us. Men can rap on tables, and even tip them 
over, without being disembodied ; and we don't see 
any special advantage in bringing persons from the 
other world to do what can be done equally well—if 
it were worth doing at all—by persons still in this. 
It seems to us, therefore, a great waste of time for 
intelligent people, who have duties to perform to their 
fellow-men here, to be puzzling their brains about 
these frivolous common-places. Suppose the rap-
pings are the work of spirits ;—who cares? What 
odds does it make ! What good do they do 1 And 
how can any man become wiser, or better, or able to 
do more good by listening to them—and trying to find 
out from them what he already knows from a much 
better source ? Suppose they can tell just when or 
where and how your great-great-grandmother died ; 
—is it any news to you ? When they will come with 
any message of consequence—with any revelation of 
new spiritual truths—any novel declaration of duty 
for our guidance in life, it may be worth while then 
to scrutinize their pretensions more closely. But no 
sensible man should waste his time, and puzzle his 
brain, upon such stupid inanities as have thus far 
formed the staple of all these exhibitions. Where 
they come from, we neither know nor care. If spir-
its are at the bottom of them, we think they might be 
in better business, 
N. Y. Trines. 
There is much common sense in the above com-
ments. The fact, that not a single principle in eth-
ics, or fact in science has been elicited by all this 
thumping and drumming on tubs and tables, should it-
self cause any sensible person to stop and inquire, what 
possible good can result from it? Yet the rapidity 
with which this is spreading, indicates that such con-
siderations weigh little with a multitude of minds. 
The infidelity, however, which it teaches, is an 
alarming feature of the times, and when too late the 
churches will see that they have failed to investigate, 
and to meet this advancing foe by exposing its might 
and tendency. 
The Storm; 
The severe rain storm which commenced on Saturday 
evening has continued up to the present writing with but lit-
tle cessation. It rained nearly all day yesterday as hard as 
at any time since the commencement of the storm, and last 
evening there were no signs of a clearing tip. The quantity 
of water which has fallen has been immense. It is all 
needed, however, and the earth will now put on her fall 
robes in all their beauty. 
In all the towns in the suburbs the effects of the storm 
have been felt severely. In Roxbury much rare and choice 
fruit, belonging to Mr. Dana, was destroyed. In Charles-
town, Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge, many valuable 
fruit trees which a few days since hung laden with beauti-
ful fruit, are now stripped, large branches broken, anti fruit 
and foliage scattered upon the ground. 
In Somerville a 
whole field of corn was levelled to the ground, and in Med-
ford and Woburn, peach, apricot, and plum trees were 
stripped of fruit, broken and destroyed. 
The Bangor papers state that a very heavy three days' 
rain came to a conclusion on Saturday afternoon. A large 
quantity of rain fell, which was much needed.. 
At Newburyport, the quantity of rain which fell from Sat-
urday night to Monday morning, at five o'clock, was three 
inches and 65-100ths. 
At New York the storm was severe on Saturday and Sun-
day. A slight accident happened on the Hudson River Rail-
road on Saturday evening, in consequence of the washing 
away of the road. In the city, two or three houses in pro-
cess of construction were blown down, but no person was in-
jured. In Brooklyn, also, considerable damage was done to 
trees, new buildings, &c. 
The steamer City of New York, Capt. Baxter, which left 
this port last Saturday afternoon on her regular trip to Phila-
delphia, is reported by Capt. Cleaveland, of sloop Escort, at 
New Bedford, to have been ashore on East Chop. Holmes's 
Hole, at 1 e. M. on Sunday, with a lighter alongside. Copt 
C. states she could not have been got off Sunday afternoon 
if the gale continued, as the tide was falling when the Escort 
passed her. The steamer Massachusetts not having arrived 
at New Bedford yesterday at the usual time, on account of 
the storm, we have no further information from the City of 
New York than is contained above. 
Our dispatches from the South give sad accounts of tre-
mendous storms at Mobile and vicinity, and at New Orleans. 
The loss at the former place is estimated at from one to two 
millions of dollars.—Boston Journal, Aug. 31st. 
A WHOPPER.—The last No. of the Spiritual Telegraph 
contains a letter purporting to have been dictated by the spi-
rit of Wm. Miller. From a somewhat familiar acquaintance 
with his style and manner, we are unable to perceive the 
slightest similarity to them in this communication. If dic• 
tated by a spirit, it must be by a lying one, who has stolen 
his name, and endeavored to speak for him. Wm. Miller 
would not speak in such a manner, he would not hold such 
sentiments, and he would not attempt to communicate with 
mortals in a forbidden manner, through those who acknow-
ledge they never saw of, heard him. We should like to in-
terrogate that spirit, as a gentleman did one who claimed to 
be his brother James. " Are you happy, James'!" said the 
gentleman. "Yes," responded James. " You lie," said 
the man ; " any one who lived as wicked as you did cannot 
be happy." "No," James said, " I am not happy."—
" What did you lie so then for 1" said the man. " Because," 
said James, " it is 01.41' business to deceive."—Not that Mr. 
Miller's spirit would give such answers ; but the one who 
pretends to speak in his name would. 
THE BERKLEY MEN.—Who are the Berkley men? 
is often asked by those who have read the Napoleon Dynasty, 
which purports to tie written by " the Bet kley men." If 
the work was not all written by one man, it gives evidence of 
being all planned anti arranged by one mind ; and the several 
parts have all received the impress of the same genius. 
There is so striking a similarity in the style of it, the man-
ner of arrangement, the commencement and close of subjects, 
and the formation of periods, to that of the Glory and Shame 
of England, and other works of C. EDWARDS LESTER, 
that we are very confident that he is the soul, if not the soul 
and body of "the BERKLEY MEN." 
"Speaking lies in hypocrisy," (1 Tim. 4:2).—The Pitts-
burgh Catholic, a Papist journal, has the following exquisite 
morsel. We wonder if the matt slept comfortably after writ-
ing ; or did he make arrangements for immediate absolution? 
" When Kossuth was here, aye, when he was here, 
Protestant preachers in their pulpits compared him to the 
Son of God, anti bade their hearers kneel and worship him ; 
and they obeyed." 
The N. Y. Express says—" Letters have been shown to 
us from high and reliable authority, which give the most 
positive assurance that the fishery question has been satisfac-
torily adjusted between the American Minister and the Brit-
ish Government, and that dispatches to that effect were trans-
[flitted by the Asia." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE KINGDOM DELIVERED UP TO GOD 
THE FATHER. 
BY J. W. BONHAM. 
" Then cometh the end, when he shall have deliv-
ered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when 
he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and 
power."-1 Cor. 15:24. 
The fact that much difference of opinion exists re-
lative to the nature of the kingdom, and the time of 
the accomplishment of the events contained in the 
above passage, will not justify a disregard of this im-
portant portion of God's word. It must, however, be 
contemplated in connection with those scriptures 
which belong to the same grand event and the period 
to which it refers. 
The chapter contains a summary of those great 
events that constitute the gospel preached by Paul, 
and leads our mind onwards from the death of Christ 
until the period of his second appearance, and refers 
to those grand events to accompany his return, viz., 
the resurrrection of his saints, their glorious change 
from mortal to immortality, and the swallowing up 
of death in victory. 
In verse 21, Paul shows that as death came through 
man—Adam— through man—the second Adam—
there will be a resurrection from that death : " For 
since by man came death, by man came also the res-
urrection from the dead."—See Rom. 5:12, 21. 
In verse 22, we learn that as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive. That natural 
as well as moral death entered the world in conse-
quence of the transgression of our first parents will 
not be questioned. With but few exceptions all 
men have died ; and all will yet die, except those 
referred to in vs. 51 and 52, who at the sound of the 
last trump shall be changed n a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye. As all have died through the 
sin of the first Adam, all will be raised through 
Christ the second Adam—through whom came the 
resurrection ; and " there shall be a resurrection of 
the dead, both of the just and of the unjust." 
Although the apostle in verse 22 refers to the broad 
truth that all men will be raised, lest any should 
imagine that the resurrection of both classes will be 
simultaneous, in verse 23 he calls attention to the 
order of the resurrection : " But every man in his 
own order, Christ the first fruits ; afterwards they 
that are Christ's at his coming." Therefore although 
the Scriptures teach that all will be raised, it does 
not necessarily follow that the righteous and the un-
righteous must be raised at the same time. 
Christ prospectively destroyed the power of the 
grave, and snapped asunder the claims of death eigh-
teen centuries since, in proof whereof he rose tri-
umphant from the tomb ; many bodies of the saints 
which slept arose also. " Christ the first fruits, after-
wards they that are Christ's at his coming." Several 
scriptures in the New Testament make a distinction 
relative to the rising of the just and unjust not occur-
ring atthe same time, without violating their mean- 
ing they may be interpreted tooharmonize with the 
truth brought to view in verse 23, that only those 
who are Christ's will be privileged to rise and bask 
in the glory to be manifested at the period of his re-
turn. Before noticing particularly the text it appears 
necessary to make a few remarks on the term 
" Then." It does not necessarily follow that the 
event referred to will take place in immediate connec-
tion with the event just before mentioned, or at that 
time ; and although the term " Then " is sometimes 
used to express coincidence, it is also used to sig-
nify consecutive order. In one instance we read 
" first the blade ; then the ear," &c. The blade 
springs into existence, and then the ear ; but the pe-
riod of their manifestation is not coincident—the one 
follows the other. Corresponding therewith in order, 
Paul mentions—" Christ the first fruits." This is 
retrospective and occurred 1800 years since. " Af-
terwards they that are Christ's at his coming." This 
is prospective, and will be accomplished at the sound 
of the last trump. " Then the end," i. e., the next 
great event in order. 
We proceed to notice-1. The end referred to. 2. 
The kingdom to be delivered up. 3. The duration 
of Christ's reign. 
1. " Then cometh the end." If we contemplate 
this clause in connection with those striking declara-
tions that refer to the same grand event, it must refer 
to the termination of the work, and power, and do-
minion of Satan in the territory of the kingdoms of the 
world, and the complete establishment of the kingdom 
of God. Satan has usurped the territory of Christ's 
dominion. He is spoken of as the god of this world, 
and the Prince of the power of the air. He ruleth 
in the hearts of the children of disobedience ; while 
his object has ever been to frustrate the designs of 
God, to fill the hearts of his creatures with enmity, 
excite them to rebel against him, violate his truth, 
and trample beneath his feet his holy laws. He will 
not, however, he permitted to exert his present power 
for ever. His dominion as the roaring lion seeking 
whom he may devour, with the work of the myriads 
of subjects who do his bidding, and as the king of 
terrors, will ere long reach its terminus. The mighty 
angel who hath the keys of hell and death, who 
openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth anti no 
man openeth, will descend, seize the great enemy of 
our race, bind him, cast him into the abyss, set a seal 
upon him ; and loose him no more until the period 
of the final gathering of his subjects, who, with him-
self, will be cast into the lake of fire prepared for the 
devil and his angels, and shall be tormented day and 
night for ever and ever. (Rev. 20:10.) Christ must 
reign until he shall have put all enemies under his 
feet. All things opposed to his spirit will be banished 
from his presence ; all who are opposed to his su-
preme and universal dominion will be brought beneath 
his feet ; those desirous to retain possession of his 
territory will be cast out, he will crush the power of 
death and bruise the serpent's head. We have sev-
eral plain declarations of holy writ showing that the 
nations of the earth will be destroyed when Christ 
shall take unto himself his great power, and reign as 
King of kings and Lord of lords. (See Psa. 2:8, 9 ; 
Dan. 2:36 ; Isa. 2:10, 22 ; Psa. 68:1-3 ; Matt. 13: 
49, 50 ; Luke 11:22 ; Rev. 10:11-21.) Thus the 
Scriptures teach that there will be a struggle between 
Christ and the nations ; but the language used : 
" Rule them with a rod of iron and dash them in 
pieces like a potter's vessel "—" The iron, clay, &c., 
broken to pieces together "—" Shall gather out of 
his kingdom all things that offend and east them into 
a furnace of fire "—" Destroy them that destroy the 
earth," conclusively teach that Christ will gain the 
victory, and rescue the dominion given to Adam from 
its great usurper. 
As several great events are predicted to occur at 
the coming of Christ it is sometimes difficult to deter-
mine the exact order of their fulfilment. But it is 
certain that in connection with the Saviour's return, 
and the great day of the Lord all will receive their 
complete accomplishment. He will first bind the 
strong man and then spoil his goods. 
" Yes mighty Jesus thou shalt reign, 
Till all thy haughty foes submit ; 
Till hell and all her trembling train, 
Become the footstool of thy feet. 
Then rescued souls shall bless thy power, 
Thy arm shall full salvation bring ; 
Thy saints in that illustrious hour, 
Shall conquer with their conquering King." 
2. The kingdom to be delivered up. 
Some entertain the opinion that the " Mediatorial 
Kingdom " * is referred to, that it will be left or 
given up to the Father at the period indicated ; others 
that it refers to the " Millennial Kingdom," or the 
kingdom of Christ ; and that the kingdom of God 
will succeed the kingdom of Christ. In the Scrip-
tures the kingdom of God, and of Christ, and of his 
saints, are identical, therefore we should not make 
distinctions where they do not exist ; neither must 
we allow any influences drawn from a single passage 
to contradict plain unequivocal declarations, and 
thereby destroy their harmony. 
Whatever change may take place in the adminis-
tration of the kingdom, when Christ shall have once 
taken possession of, and organized his kingdom, he 
will never leave it, therefore his reign will not ter-
minate with what has been termed the millennium. 
The kingdom which Christ will deliver up will 
be the kingdom he purchased with his own blood, the 
territory of which will be universal, and its happy 
subjects, the whole family of the redeemed—includ-
ing men of all nations, colors, and climes, who have 
been washed by faith in the blood of the Lamb. 
Satan usurped the dominion originally prepared 
for man in his state of innocence. Christ came to 
rescue it from the usurper. It was forfeited through 
the sin of the first Adam, but will be restored through 
the righteousness of Christ—the second Adam. At 
the times of restitution, which signifies the period 
for the recovery or bringing back what was lost, or 
subverted, the curse which introduced death, and 
caused happiness to flee, will be removed from the 
earth, and from men who have been born again.—
The Saviour's suffering life, and agonizing death 
paid the price, which constitute him the redeemer of 
* Christ's mediatorial office is no where in the Scrip-
tures called a kingdom, and much less is it, the king-
dom. The phrase, " mediatorial kingdom," is an ab-
surdity of itself. For, a kingdom is under the gov-
ernment of its king ; the exercise of the mediatorial 
office is not the exercise of kingly power, but it is 
mediating between two opposing parties, it is inter-
ceding for a party at the court of a superior. Such 
is Christ as an Advocate, interceding for us with the 
Father : as our great High Priest, who is passed 
into the heavens, making continual intercession for 
us ; but how does it become the office of a king to 
make intercessions for others ?—En. 
" the purchased possession." He has redeemed man's 
soul from the power of sin, his body from the power 
of the grave and second death, and the earth, his 
forfeited inheritance, from the dominion of Satan.—
The price was paid, justice was satisfied, and the 
law made honorable. Although men die, when the 
trumpet sounds they will rise again, and " this mor- 
tal put on immortality." Although the earth is 
cursed, and now defiled, at the times of restitution 
the curse will be removed, the earth will be purified 
from its defilement, a voice from the throne will pro-
claim, " Behold, I create all things new," it shall be 
done ; the new heavens and new earth will appear 
radiant with glory, " and there shall he no more 
curse." 
Christ will appear as the avenger of his saints, and 
as the destroyer of his and their enemies. He will 
gather out of the territory of his kingdom the sub-
jects of the usurper, and all things that offend. He 
will reign in judgment with his saints until he shall 
have fully accomplished the completion of the work 
of redemption. The saints, with Christ their head, 
shall judge the world. (Psa. 149:5-9 ; Rev. 20:4-6.) 
The heavy judgments threatened will doubtless 
take sonic time in being executed. True they could 
by the power of God be accomplished in an instant, 
but those scriptures that bring them to view imply 
time ; yet all may be contemplated as occurring in 
connection with his coming. All the events to occur 
from the period of his descent until the loosing of 
Satan are connected with his coming, and the object 
of his return. Different scriptures bring to view it, 
a variety of aspects the events to occur in connection 
therewith, and mention the period, as " at his appear-
ing," " at the last trump," he " shall judge the 
quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom." 
In this instance three great events are brought to 
view ; 1, the judgment of the quick and dead ; 2, 
his appearing ; 3, the establishment of his kingdom. 
When several important events are mentioned in the 
same connection, it,is sometimes difficult to determine 
the exact order of their fulfilment, and whether all 
will be accomplished at the same time, or consecu-
tively. Peter referring to the same period writes, 
" But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with 
a great noise," &e.-2 Pet. 3:10. From this pas-
sage we cannot determine how long or short the pe-
riod of time is to be occupied in cleansing this earth, 
or whether it will be instantaneous or gradual ; and 
from it alone we cannot limit the period of the melt-
ing of the earth to the commencement, or at the ter-
mination of the day of the Lord. The apostle simply 
brings to view three great truths, viz., that the day 
of the Lord will come when least expected ; 2, dur-
ing the same the heavens and the earth will be dis-
solved ; 3, that the present state of things will be 
succeeded by a " new heavens and a new earth 
vy herein dwelleth rig hteousness."— ( To be continued.) 
" The Servant is not Above his Master." 
BY MISS H. M. JOHNSON. 
Lonely pilgrim, art thou sinking 
'Neath the weight of grief and care, 
Bitter dregs of sorrow drinking, 
From the cup of dark despair? 
Mourn not : for thy Master's footsteps 
The same gloomy paths have trod ; 
He has drained the cup of sorrow,--
He the mighty Son of God. 
Does gaunt poverty surround thee, 
With its pale and meagre train ?—
Fling its hitter arms around thee, 
Fraught with sufferings and pain ? 
Faint not : for the chilly dew-drops 
Fell upon thy Master's bed : 
Faint not, for the Prince of glory 
Had not where to lay his head. 
Are thy kindred lowly lying, 
In the cold and silent tomb, 
Heedless of thy bitter sighing, 
Heedless of thy grief and gloom ? 
Know thy Master's tears descended 
Where a dearly loved one slept ; 
He knows well thy weight of anguish, 
Then grieve not : for Jesus wept. 
Do the friends that once caressed thee 
Pass thee by with frowning brow ? 
Has the friendship that once blessed thee, 
Changed to bitter hatred now ? 
Weep not : for thy Master's brethren 
In his sorrow turned aside, 
Scorned to own that once they loved him,— 
Weep not : Jesus was denied. 
Does a scoffing world deride thee ? 
Gaze on thee in proud disdain? 
Do thy foes rise up beside thee, 
Biast thy character and name ? 
Know thy Master was derided 
Scorned iu Pilate's judgment hall ; 
Mourn not : Christ the great Messiah 
Was despised and loathed by all. 
Art thou rent with grief and anguish, 
Racked with many a burning pain ? 
Does thy weary body languish, 
Bitter pangs torment thy brain ? 
Grieve not : for from Calvary's mountain 
List thy Master's dying groan, 
Grieve not : for thy great Redeemer 
Gave his life to save thine own. 
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yr 
Does the monster death look dreary 
Fill thy mind with fears and gloom? 
Does thy spirit faint and weary 
Shrink in terror from the tomb ? 
Know thy Master's gone before thee, 
Crossed the dark and narrow tide : 
Disarmed death of all his terrors, 
Then fear not : thy Saviour died. 
Yes lie died : the Prince of glory 
Died upon the cursed tree : 
Pilgrim, spread the joyful story, 
Jesus died and died for thee. 
And he rose : he rose triumphant, 
Burst the bands of death in twain ; 
Lonely pilgrim, that same Jesus 
Shall return to earth again. 
See the first faint beams of morning, 
Chasing night and clouds away, 
All the glorious sky adorning,— 
Pilgrim, it is break of day ! 
Pilgrim, rouse thee, weep no longer, 
Let thy glad hosanna ring, 
Jesus comes in power and glory, 
Hail thy Master and thy King. 
Note from R. Paul. 
BRO. HIMES: —Having recently arrived in this 
city from London at the expiration of about six years 
since I met you there, I have been happy to learnt of 
your continued labors and comparative prosperity in 
the cause of Christ. 
Amid abounding iniquity, both in this country and 
Europe, 1 do not wonder that the love of many has 
waxed cold. The power of evil example and the in-
fluence of repeated discouragements are so great that 
only those can be expected to stand whose minds are 
divinely illuminated with the knowledge of the glori-
ous gospel of the kingdom, and whose hearts are 
deeply impressed with the Saviour's love. 
During the past six years I have been quietly do-
ing what I could in London and in Sussex to ad-
vance the glory of our common Lord, and I doubt riot 
but the bread of life cast as it were upon the waters, 
shall be found after many days. 1 have also visited 
Dublin, Plymouth, Exmouth, and Bristol, where I 
felt it more especially my duty to endeavor to re-
sist the encroachments of Rome by presenting a faith-
ful view of the immorality of her teaching and the 
unscriptural character of her worship. I rejoice that 
England is honored and blest with the labors of Dr. 
Cumming—to use his own language—" an humble 
Scotchman, with the Bible in his hand and the grace 
of God in his heart," who is ready at any time fear-
lessly to meet the greatest of Rome's defenders, well 
persuaded that the cause he has espoused is the cause 
of truth, and however learned and eloquent the advo-
cates of that Apsotolic Church are that it never can 
be successfully defended. 
Such, dear sir, is the unitedness of design and ac-
tion—the " cunning "—the " deceivableness of un-
righteousness "—the " fair show in the flesh " that 
characterizes that system of iniquity that, if it were 
possible, it would deceive even the very elect—it is 
Satan's master-piece—it is the most perfect counter-
feit ever attempted of the Church of Christ. It is 
our duty to resist to the very utmost all this. I am 
convinced it will yet be permitted to achieve greater 
things than it has yet ever achieved. But when it 
attains the summit of its power its triumph will be 
short, for He who heard the groanings of his ancient 
Israel in Egypt and came down to deliver them, will 
come again—will come without sin unto salvation—
and " as when He fought in the day of battle will 
fight against those nations who shall worship the 
image of the beast and have his mark in their fore-
heads or in their hands." 
Then shall our long cherished hopes be realized—
the Lord shall reign over all the earth—one King 
shall be king to us all—Ephraint shall not envy Ju-
dah nor Judah vex Ephraim—mutual weaknesses and 
errors—the causes of many unpleasantnesses now—
shall exist DO more, and unitedly we shall sing unto 
Hun who hath loved us and washed us front our sins 
in his own blood—unto him be glory for ever and 
ever. Amen. I am yours affectionately in Christ. 
Philadelphia, Aug. 16th, 1852. 
We are happy to hear from Bro. P., shall be glad 
to hear often. 
Letter from P. Livingston. 
BRO. HIMES :—I want you to notice in your obitu-
ary the death of my departed wife, Mary Archbald 
Livingston, who departed this life on the 5th inst., iu 
the 66th year of her age. You of course knew little 
of her worth, but Bro. anti sister Mansfield can testi-
fy that few women excelled her in piety, singleness 
of heart, and benevolence, in short she was a follower 
of the meek and holy Jesus, and made him as far as' 
she knew how her example. She was very retired 
and few knew her worth, I do not myself sufficiently 
appreciate it. 
None rejoiced more than I did that God gave you 
the victory over your enemies. 1 never doubted 
what the result would be for I have confidence in 
my heavenly Father that he will never forsake his 
little ones, though he may put them in the fiery fur-
nace, only to bring them out like gold purified. I 
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BARBARITY ON BOARD A SHIP. 
A late English paper contains a lengthy statement 
of a series of the most atrocious acts of barbarity prac-
ticed on board the English merchant ship Lady Mon-
tague, Captain Wells, which left Southampton in the 
month of April, 1848, hound for Aden, on the coast 
of Arabia, at the entrance of the Red Sea. The 
Montague was freighted with coal, to be left at Aden 
for the use of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam 
Packet Company. The crew consisted of thirty-six 
persons, including five apprentice boys. The vessel 
was regarded as short handed, and had no surgeon on 
board. When six weeks out the Captain died, where-
upon the chief mate, whose name was Smith, took 
the command ; hut, long before arriving at the des-
tined port, he proved to be a miserable drunkard, as 
well as a heartless tyrant. After discharging the 
cargo at Aden, the vessel sailed to Bombay, where 
she took in a cargo of cotton for Whampoa, on the 
Chinese coast. Here she engaged in the coasting 
trade, and continued in it for many mouths, contrary 
to the stipulations under which the seamen shipped, 
and long after the time had expired during which she 
was to be absent from England. The wretch who 
commanded the vessel then entered into an agree-
ment with a Spaniard to carry a load of Chinese 
emigrants to Callao, in Peru, to be employed in load-
ing ships with guano on the islands near the coast. 
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were inveigled on board the ship, on pretence of 
going to the gold diggings of California. As the 
Captain was to receive a stipulated stun per day dur-
ing the passage, it was for his interest to make it as 
long as possible ; and consequently he took a circular 
route, around South Australia. 
The distress on board this ship was not exceeded 
by the worst horrors of a slaver in the middle pas-
sage. Out of the five hundred beings huddled to-
gether like cattle in the shambles, near three hundred 
perished. The brutal Captain in his fits of drunken 
insanity would stalk the deck with a drawn sword, 
threatening death to all who opposed him. He 
flogged two of the Lascar women severely for some 
minor offence, compelling one of the apprentices of 
the ship to hold a candle while he performed the 
flagellation with his own hand. Several of the Chi-
nese destroyed themselves by leaping overboard into 
the sea. When the vessel 4rrived at Calla() she was 
psi in quarantine, and the emigrants sent on shore at 
the island of Lorenzo, where they suffered much in-
dignity at the hands of some British man-of-war men, 
who cut off their long queues, which the Chinese 
cherish with much veneration. 
The barbarities practiced upon the poor Chinese, 
lured from their homes under false pretences, and the 
sufferings which they endured on board that charnel 
ship, are too shocking to be detailed here. The ship 
returned again to Hong Kong, where Captain Smith 
was superceded by one Le Shaw, sent out from Eng-
land for that purpose. Two of the apprentices, after 
suffering innumerable hardships, had previously died, 
and a third one had deserted at Callao. Captain Le 
Shaw proved but little superior to his predecessor, 
but after four years' absence brought the vessel to 
England, where the whole affair will undergo a legal 
investigation. 
What man can read such a catalogue of wrong and 
outrage without being moved with feelings of the 
deepest indignation ? The wretch who could lend 
his aid to an act little better than piracy, in bringing 
the survivors of five hundred free Chinese into a state 
of servitude worse than slavery, should be treated as 
an enemy to the human race. Yet we fear that this 
is not a solitary case of deception. We hope for the 
vindication of the cause of humanity, that Captain 
Smith will meet with his just deserts: 
Boston Journal. 
JUVENILE CRIME. 
In the late report of the Grand Jury, we find some 
very pertinent remarks upon this subject ; and we 
are glad to see that they earnestly recommend the 
establishment of a State Reform School for females. 
We trust the suggestion will meet with the attention 
it demands. The following are their remarks upon 
the subject : 
" The Grand .lury have been, like their predeces-
sors remarkably impressed with the increase of Ju-
venile crime in our community. To the philanthro-
pist who can develop its causes and point out the 
means of its prevention, society would owe much. The 
steps which have already been taken to introduce re-
formatory measures into our system, rather than dis-
ciplinary and ignominious forms of punishment, meet 
with great success, and with the entire approbation 
of the Grand Jury. By the courtesy of the Directors 
of the Worcester Railroad, the Grand Jury have been 
conveyed to Westboro', and have had an opportunity 
of making themselves acquainted with the Reform 
School there located. The details of its operations 
and its successful and gratifying results, now tested 
by several years of experience, belong more proper-
ly to the annual reports of the institution. The 
visit was not made from any belief that the in-
stitution needed any supervision (though no public 
institution can be injured by judicious scrutiny,) nor 
was it dictated by idle curiosity, but with a view of 
satisfying themselves by personal inspection of the 
feasibility of a similar institution for females.--
Temptations to vice and profligacy, in and among 
the sufferiug poor, are as strong, if not stronger, to 
the female than to the male. The one cannot find 
relief from immediate want in the sale of his per-
son ; the other can. But a fall before this tempta-
tion is, to the female, irremediable, and the downward 
progress is rapid. Under the present arrangements 
of our criminal system, a female convicted of any of-
fence is liable, though it be a trivial offence, to a sen- 
tence to hard labor in an ignominious place of pun-
ishment, where, surrounded by the profligate and 
abandoned, she becomes disspirited and reckless. The 
recuperative spark is entirely extinguished, and she 
conies out, not reformed, hut ripe for further evil. 
The plan of private reformatory female institutions, 
within the walls of some city building, has not been 
successful ; for the mind which is to be restored to 
healthy action needs a healthy body, invigorated by 
free air, exercise, and that constant contact with Na-
ture's beauties which mysteriously leads to a love of 
Nature's God. This is not the time or place to pre-
sent a detailed description of what such a reformatory 
farm for females should be; but the Grand Jury have 
been, at every step, so fully convinced of its utility, 
if not absolute necessity, that they most earnestly re-
commend the scheme to the profound thought of 
philanthropists, and the immediate action of our 
State and city authorities." Prisoner's Friend. 
Salaries of the British Clergy. 
The Archbishop of Canterbury receives an annual 
stipend of £15,000 ($72,600) ; the Archbishop of 
York receives annually £10,000 ; while seventeen 
Bishops receive also salaries varying from £4,500 
to £8,000 each—making the enormous aggregate 
paid by the State to nineteen members of the very 
reverned clergy of £107,000, or in round numbers 
federal currency, over $500,000. 
If these salaries are the legitimate fruits of Chris-
tianity, it seems the declaration of Paul to the Corin-
thians—viz., " The Saviour became poor that they 
through his poverty might be rich "—would apply 
much more literally to the principal members of' the 
English clergy than was intended by the apostle.—
No member of any American religious society doubts 
at the present day the wisdom of suppressing an es-
tablished church, and leaving, the support of the 
clergy to the voluntary contributions of the people. 
Leaving out of the account the injustice of compel-
ling,. an individual to support a particular sect, whose 
doctrines he cannot sanction, in addition to the volun-
tary donations which he makes to the church of 
which he is a member, or to which he is attached, 
nothing tends more to build up a caste of soulless 
teachers of divinity than to quarter them upon the 
treasury of the nation. For sinecures are productive 
of fat incumbents, who are at the same time fat incu-
buses upon the advancement of the cause they profess 
to serve. 
While these chiefs of the English clergy are re-
ceiving such large salaries and occupying seats in the 
House of Lords, hundreds of poor curates throughout 
the realm, equally well educated and far more deeply 
imbued with the spirit of their divine Master, per-
term the active duties of the Church on a wretched 
pittance, insufficient to afford a decent living ; arid 
which they are compelled to increase by serving in 
the capacity of tutors to the sons of noblemen and 
gentlemen living in the vicinity. The clergy in this 
country are in general poorly enough paid, it is 
true ; but our churches do not present the spectacle 
of incumbents holding their places against the will 
and wishes of their supporters. nor the disgraceful 
contrast exhibited between the superabundant stipends 
of the higher, and the absolute necessities of the 
lower orders of the English clergy. 
Boston Journal. 
Proposed Catholic League Against our Free 
Schools. 
The Freeman's Journal is attempting to drum up 
a Convention of the Catholics of this State, for the 
purpose of forming a league against the present 
school law. " What we want," he says," is a meet-
ing of the good men and true of this State, to consult 
for a day or two as to the measures to take to carry 
out the recommendations of our Bishops in the late 
Council. There are two measures that we have had 
in our mind especially. One is a petition from all 
parts of the State to the next Legislature. The other 
is a league to test the constitutionality of the present 
School law. It is the opinion of eminent lawyers 
that the law is invalid. We would like to have it 
tested by a suit, and, for securing the greater inter-
est in the measure, we would like to have a league 
formed to bean the expenses by contributions which 
would be trifling in amount to each person." 
The editor says that the Pope has called upon all 
Bishops to see to it, that the children are educated 
in schools, where all are in all things Catholic ; and 
that the late National Convention has called upon all 
people, as well as pastors, to do the same. He com-
plains that the law sustaining free schools oppresses 
half a million of Catholics in New York ; arid that 
the State, in requiring the children to he educated, 
has struck a deadly blow to liberty. And he says, 
the question when this system of impiety is to fall, is 
only a question of time ; and he calls on Catholics to 
arouse and organize fur effort. 
It is no wonder that the priests are alarmed at the 
influence of the Free School system, in removing 
the shackles of superstition front the minds of their 
deluded followers. A missionary laboring in Albany 
states it, as " the result of as good an examination 
of the subject as he has been able to give it, that the 
male children of Romish parentage, who have collie 
to the years of manhood, neither assist nor trouble 
the Romish churches or clergy. It is only in the 
daughters, educated by nuns, and the emigrants from 
Papal Europe, that they have any reason to hope for 
continued attachment to their faith for length of days 
in this atmosphere, so destructive to it." 
N. Y. Observer. 
Church Unity. 
There seems to be, says the Episcopal Recorder, no 
small dissension just now among the high advocates 
of " unity " in the Church. We gave our readers 
an article from the Calendar, respecting its New 
York contemporary, and we to-day offer them an op-
portunity of noticing the manner in which that com-
munication has been received. The Churchman (par 
excellence) excommunicates for" unscrupulous men-
dacity " its Hartford fellow laborer in the great work 
of promoting high churchism in this country. 
The following is the concluding paragraph of the 
Churchman's article, entitled, " An Act of Disci- 
pline." We have seen nothing equal to it in viru-
lence in the political press of the day." 
" Though these wretched fictions pass by us as 
the idle wind, it would not be consistent with our of-
fice and dignity to leave them unpunished, and we 
wish the punishment to be prompt and effectual. We 
therefore give notice that we have stricken the Cal-
endar from our exchange list for its unscrupulous 
mendacity. It may rail as it will ; we are, according 
to the usages of civilized society, entirely exonerated 
from noticing it. We shall treat its shoutings and 
contortions with the same contempt that we would 
the gander's hiss, the ass's bray, or the bellowing of 
a Cleveland ox." 
In remarking upon this dissension between two 
high church periodicals, the Recorder well observes : 
" One conclusion, which we think may be fairly 
drawn from this dissension is, the utter impractica-
bility of producing unity ' of spirit or opinion, by 
the pressure of that mere outward ecclesiastical uni-
formity' to which our high church brethren attach 
so high a value." 
The Churchman, however, in the same arrogant 
kyle in which he treats his brother of the Calendar, 
advises the editor of the Recorder to follow the ex-
ample of Dr. Aydelott, and Mr. Shitneall, and " take 
himself off" to Presbyterianism. 
The Calendar takes its " excision " with becom- 
ing coolness. 
N . Y. Observer. 
Bull Fights in Spain. 
The Madrid Herald says : " The Toreador Xime-
nez, known under the name of Cano, died last night 
from the effect of the wounds he had received in the 
last bull fight. This is the third human victim, who, 
in the space of three months, was sacrificed in the 
arena of the most popular spectacle in Spain, a spec-
tacle in which every part is equally dangerous, since 
the three unfortunate men who have succumbed, 
were—one a banderillo, the other a picador, and the 
third an espada. The presence of these deplorable 
facts, we ask men of good faith if such a spectacle is 
compatible with Christianity ; if, when we tolerate 
such doings, we can without blushing, proclaim our 
right to he considered an eminently religious nation ; 
if, finally, instead of being a Christian and civilized 
people, we do not rather belong to that period of the 
decline of the Roman Empire, when the people took 
the greatest pleasure inn seeing men torn to pieces by 
wild beasts, and gladiators combating with skill, and 
dying with grace, in presence of an idolatrous popu-
tion addicted to sensual pleasures." 
TRUE repentance is a very severe magistrate, and 
will strip off all that shelter and covering which would 
make the stripes to be less sensibly felt, and reckons 
shame an essential part of the punishment. It is a 
rough physician, that draws out the blood that in-
flames, and purges out the humors which corrupt or 
annoy the vitals; leaves no phlegm to cherish envy, 
nor no choler and melancholy to engender pride ; and 
will rather reduce the body to a skeleton, than suffer 
those humors to have a source, from whence they 
may abound again to infest the body or the mind. 
Clarendon. 
OBITUARY. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he Will LIVE and whoever liveth 
and believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
DIED, in Fairfield, Vt., August 15th, 1852, of 
(tanker rash, Miss TERENTIA R1SDON, aged 19, eldest 
daughter of Bro. and sister Risdon, of that town. 
This was a sudden and very afflictive providence.—
The deceased was in the bloom and vigor of youth, 
amiable in disposition, the beloved of a large circle 
of kindred and friends. ADDISON MERRILL. 
DIED, in Corinna, Maine, on Wednesday, the 11th 
ult., Bro. NATHAN DEARBORN, aged 44 years. He 
lived a Christian and died in hope, he professed re-
ligion when young and the Advent doctrine when 
it was first preached in this section. His sickness 
was long and he suffered much while in the body, but 
it was borne with Christian patience. I visited him 
a short time before he died and found him all ready 
to depart and be with Christ. He has left a compan-
ion two children, father, mother, brothers, and sisters 
to mourn his absence, but they mourn in hope. 
SAMUEL W. NASON. 
DIED, in Montgomery, Vt., August 16th, 1852, af-
ter a long illness, sister LURANY I. TARBLE, aged 
44, wife of Bro. John H. Tarble. She made a pro-
fession of religion when only seventeen years of age, 
but it was not till about ten years since,—when she 
became impressed with the solemn and glorious truths 
of the second coming of Christ,—truths she ever af-
ter loved,—that she sought much to be " sanctified 
wholly and preserved blameless." An attentive friend 
to the sick—even more than her health would per-
mit ; a ready and useful witness for Christ in the 
public congregation ; and a lover of the meeting for 
prayer; her loss is deeply felt. Shortly before her 
death, she expressed a love for the appearing of 
Christ, and although afterwards during the last five 
or six days of her life, she had not the use of her rea-
son, yet as she breathed her last, her countenance 
was lit up with a flash of joy, as if her spirit had 
found rest in the bosom of her Saviour. 
" Peace to thy dust, till death destroyed 
O'er thee shall have no power; 
Ye moments swifter fly and bring 
The looked-for longed-for hour." 
, ADDISON7MERR1LL. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most high, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from tine wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected seminary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
Its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen. 
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" "The sec-
ond woe Is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Goo is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures r 
Let them tweak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciation. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y.—W. Nicholls, 185 Morrisville, Pa—Santl. G. Allen. 
 
Lydius-street. 
New Bedford, Mass—H.V. Davis. 
Auburn, N. Y.—H. L. Smith. Newburyport, " Dea. J. Pear- 
Buffalo, " John Powell. son, sr., Water-street. 
Cincinnati, 0.—Joseph Vl ilson. New York City.—W. Tracy, 246 
Clinton, Mass.—Dea. J. Burdett. Broome-street. 
Danville, C. E.—G. Bangs. Norfolk, N.Y.—Elder B. Webb. 
Dunham, " D. W. Soritherger. Philadelphia, Pa.—J. Litch, 70i 
Durham, " J. M. Orrock North Ilth street. 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. 
Portland, Me—Wm. Pettingill. 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong. Providence, R. I—A. Pierce. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. 
Rochester, N. Y.—Wm. Busby, 
Farnham, C. E.—M. L. Dudley. 215 Exchange-street. 
Hallowell, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. Salem, Mass.—L. Osier. 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. Toronto, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
Homer, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. — R. 
Lockport, N. Y.—H. Robbins. Hutchinson. 
Lowell, Mass.—.I. C. Downing. Worcester, Mass—J. J. Bigelow. 
L. Hampton, N.Y—D. Bosworth 
As they passed the pier, the danger became more evident. 
The wind was blowing fresh from the south—so fresh that 
white caps were formed, and the waves were running quite 
high. The ferryman seemed to appreciate the danger, as he 
headed his boat partly down the river, so as to keep the boat 
partially out of the trough of the waves. 
They had proceeded nearly half the distance from the pier 
to the railroad dock, when the water dashed over the north 
side of the boat. This produced some alarm, and several of 
the passengers, ignorant of the danger of so doing, threw 
their weight in the opposite direction. The result was, that 
the boat was instantly upset, and the entire number on board 
were thrown into the river. 
Among them were men, women, and children, very few of 
whom, it seems, could swim. The disaster was witnessed 
by a few persons on the shipping at the pier, and as soon as 
possible several boats proceeded to the rescue of the unfor-
tunate beings who were seen struggling in the water. They 
succeeded in saving five or six, and one or two others swam 
to the shore. Among those saved was one of the two women 
on board. She was thrown beyond the mass of her fellow-
passengers, and succeeded in swimming toward the pier, 
when she was rescued. But others were less fortunate. Fall-
big into the water in an almost compact !sass, each dragged 
down the other, rendering the skill of many of those who 
could swim of no avail. The result was that in five minutes 
at least twelve of the eighteen or twenty on board, had sunk 
into a watery grave. Among them was the ferryman, who 
was, unquestionably, the chief cause of the disaster.—Albany 
Evening Journal. 
Startling Scene in a Church. 
Last Sunday afternoon, in the First Congregational Church 
in North Chelsea, during the singing of the second hymn, a 
rabid dog, of enormous size, rushed up a side aisle, and com-
menced an attack upon the pew of Mr. Jonathan Harrington. 
Failing to eflect an entrance, he sprang with a spasmodic 
leap to the pulpit, beating furiously against the doors, until 
he fell upon the head stair exhausted, and frothing with im-
potent rage. The audience were instantly thrown into a 
great confusion, and a general, and perhaps fatal, rush for 
the door seemed somewhat to ensue. They were somewhat 
re-assured, however, br a caution from the pastor, Rev. N. 
Damon, " to be composed, and remain in their seats, as the 
surest means of safety." 
At this crisis, Mr. Ephraim Pierce, a youth of eighteen, 
and a son of Captain John Pierce, stepped from his place, 
and seized the animal by the hack of the neck, and notwith-
standing several attempts to bite, succeeded in dragging him 
from the house unharmed. The doors were closed, and the 
dog fled to the adjoining grave-yard, where he was subse-
quently shot. 
After quiet was restored, the choir finished their hymn, 
and Mr. Damon pronounced a sermon on death. A member 
of the congregatioa had died during the previous week. Mr. 
D. took occasion to illustrate one of his points—the instinc-
tive fear in man of death, and of dangers tending to death—
by the occurrence of the hour. He also cautioned his audi-
ence against panic in sudden supposed or real dangers, in-
stancing the school disaster in New York, anti the destruc-
tion of emigrants on board the Atlantic. lie spoke of the 
necessity of self-possession to the exercise of sound discre-
tion and the prompt selection of available means of safety or 
remedy. He concluded with a well-merited compliment to 
young Pierce, " to whose heroisn:," he said, "too much 
praise could not be awarded," and by a reference to "the 
great source of deliverance and preservation in all times of 
danger."—Boston Journal. 
perhaps greater than ever. There is a far greater number of 
women and children in the train than at any previous season. 
The effect of thus immense throng, all armed to the teeth,' 
is disastrous in every point of view. It unsettles everything 
that comes within its range. Alen become dissatisfied with 
the sober realities of life, and are eager to enter on one of 
adventure. In such a state of things, all public improve-
ments, such as churches, schools, houses, roads, bridges, 
&c., are abandoned. The Sabbath, for the time being, is 
unknown and disregarded. Our town and vicinity has the 
appearance of some great military encampment. The ser-
vice of Mammon is complete." 
A Startling Predicament.—On Saturday one of our citizens 
was on a visit to Canada, and about the time the storm of 
that evening was coming on, started in a carriage to return to 
the American side. When about mid-way of the suspension 
bridge, the storm struck them with appalling filly. The 
wind blew a perfect tornado, while the air was densely filled 
with driving hail and rain, and so potent was the wind, that 
the bridge swayed laterally to and fro ten or a dozen feet, 
making one giddy with its vibrations. So appalling was the 
commotion that the horses stopped, and filially tell on their 
sides on the bridge, while the driver, in the extremity of his 
terror, seemed incapable of making the least effort to move 
from the perilous spot. The inmates of the carriage could 
with difficulty keep their seats, and for a short time expected 
nothing else but to be precipitated into the surging waters 
below.—Rochester Advertiser. 
_Railroad Train Thrown Down an Embankment.—A fright-
ful accident occurred yesterday morning, Aug. 24th, on the 
Ramapo and Patterson branch of the Erie Railroad. While 
the express train from New Yoik was passing a short curve 
at a rapid rate, the flange of a wheel on the forward track of 
the engine, broke, and the engine, tender, and two passenger 
cars were rolled down an embankment twenty feet, into a 
rocky meadow. Win. G. Jeffrey, fireman, was killed, and 
two or three other firemen and brakemen severely injured. 
Many of the passengers were badly bruised and mangled. 
Stone bones were broken, though it is hoped none were dan-
gerously wounded.—Boston Journal. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, SEPT. 4, 1 8 5 2. 
NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c.: A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft, and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed front the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God A l-
mighty.'"—Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single—
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. fur each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
This is the title of a pamphlet published at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following—ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.—Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-S ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
'The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Via 1.-16 ;17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17;1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of liabylort.-18 :9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial—
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits—that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief cononon to Pa-
ganism, Romanistn and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decent-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,—that demon-
worship is common to those three religions—that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship—that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Deut. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon—that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God—that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible—and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
Note from N. Southard. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I wish to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of five dollars, being part of a collection sent me by 
Bro. L. D. Mansfield, of New York. 1 would also express 
my obligation for a cheering private letter from Bro. Chap-
man, of Illinois. It %vas especially acceptable, for I had just 
been greatly refreshed by one of his published letters in the 
Herald. May the Lord continue to bless hint abundantly, 
and all the other laborers permitted to remain in the vine-
yard, while I sink to my rest. 
I remain yours in hope of a glorious immortality. 
Lyme, Aug. 27, 1852. 
CHARDON-STREET CHAPEL.—Elder J. Pearson will 
preach in Chardon-street Chapel Sunday, Sept. 12th ; A. 
Sherwin, Sunday, 19th ; C. R. Griggs, Sundays, 26th, and 
Oct. 3d. 
NOTE.—Many who send fur books to he sent by mail, for-
get to send the postage which we have to pre-pay. 
The chapel recently erected by the Advent society at 
Peacedale, R. I., will be dedicate(' to the worship of Al-
mighty God Sabbath, Sept. 5t11, 1852. 
THE WESTFORD CAMP-MEETING was attended with a 
great blessing. We had truly a refreshing time. Notice 
next week. 
Bro. Hines will preach in Sugar Hill, N. II., Sept. 9th, 
(on his way to Canada,) as Bro. Shipman shall appoint. 
Bro. Rimes will preach at Truro on Sunday, Sept. 5th. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Cunard steamship Asia arrived at New York on the 
25th ult., with dates from Liverpool to the 14th. 
England. 
The English papers are almost wholly barren of interest. 
The London Sun says—" It is reported in American cir-
cles that Mr. Thomas Baring, of Baring Brothers & Co., is 
about to proceed to the United States, charged with a spe-
cial mission front our Government to endeavor to arrange the 
fishery dispute. It is certain that this gentleman has re-
cently had several interviews with Mr. Lawrence." The 
Standard mentions the same rumor. It is stated, however, 
that the steamer takes out orders to dispose of considerable 
quantities of United States stocks. 
A special meeting of the Leeds' Chamber of Commerce is 
called, to take into consideration the present state of British 
relations with the United States. It is understood that the 
meeting has been called at the request of eight members, who 
are dissatisfied with the proceedings of the British Govern-
ment in the fishery affair. 
A public meeting of merchants, bankers, and others, was 
held in London on Wednesday, to take measures for the re- 
 
lief of the sufferers by the great fire at Montreal. Lord 
Mayor presided. 
France. 
, 
The adjourned municipal elections have acquired no new 
interest, the most noticeable feature being the complete apa-
thy of the electors. In the greater number of places the 
Government candidates were elected without opposition, but 
St. Etienne, Lyons, and Lisle, have each returned a Red 
Republican. 
The Moniteur gives a contradiction to rumors which it sass 
have prevailed, that the Government intends to make fur-
ther changes in the Ministry. 
Louis Napoleon's marriage with the Princess De Vasa is 
deferred, but the public are not acquainted with the reasons. 
The Sun and other papers say it never will take place. 
Negotiations with Holland for a commercial treaty have 
been renewed, M. Sonsbeck, the Dutch Foreign Minister, 
having resigned. 
Considerable uneasiness is felt by the Government because 
of the circumstance that large numbers of French refugees 
are assembling at Jersey and the other channel islands. 
The Union says that the organization of secret societies in 
France is again extensive, and that this is unknown to the 
Government. 
Portugal. 
Correspondence from Lisbon, of the 8th, says that Sa-
manga and his colleagues are using their dictatorial power 
wisely. By one of their measures, the lea trade, hitherto 
virtually monopolized by a few wealthy merchants, is thrown 
open to the vessels of all nations, provided the tea be brought 
direct from the country where it is produced. The duty will 
be the same in foreign as in Portuguese vessels. 
Another decree destroys the long existing monopoly of salt 
at St. Ubes. No distinction will be made henceffirth be-
tween the natives and foreigners. Permission has also been 
granted to issue wines of all the first and second quality with-
out any distinction at Porto and Villa Nova. 
Great Storm in Calcutta. 
On tine 16th of May, Calcutta was visited by a most ter-
rific storm of wind and rain. The sky assumed a threaten-
ing appearance during the day, and the Harbor Master was 
sent to warn the shipping of an approaching gale. During 
the evening the wind blew in heavy squalls from the east-
ward, and increased during the night till it became a fearful 
tornado. It changed from east by north to northwest, and 
at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 17th, it blew its strongest 
from that point. The typhoon was accompanied by floods of 
rain, which quite inundated the lower part of the town, and 
converted the plains into a succession of large lakes. There 
was no thunder or lightning. On the Hoogley, the destruc-
tion of life and property was immense. The bank all along 
the front of the town, from Cooley Bazar to the Calcutta 
Mint, a distance of three or four miles, was covered with a 
tangled mass of wrecks, the ruins of boats and their cargoes. 
To add to the terrors of the storm, a large number of boats 
took fire at the Custom-house ghat, and burnt to the water's 
edge. The ships on the river were tossed about like cockle-
shells, and some were driven ashore from their moorings, 
and many dragged their anchors. An Arab ship caught fire 
and burned in the height of the gale, and some four or five 
hundred boats, laden with saltpetre, sugar, and linseed, were 
lost ; fifteen boats, laden with opium, were lost, and the 
stand is covered with bales of merchandize, articles of fur-
niture, and temporary tents fnt the accommodation of the 
boatmen. The scene in the outskirts of Calcutta is deplora-
ble ; whole villages are literally blown away or razed to the 
earth, and the people lamenting over the ruins of their houses. 
The damage done to the shipping outside is considerable.—
Con Newburyport Herald. 
Another Fatal Calamity. 
About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Aug. 22d, eighteen 
or twenty persons crowded themselves into a small ferry-boat 
running from the foot of Maiden-lane to the Boston Railroad 
landing. One or two who were in the boat got out before it 
started, because it was overloaded ; and others, who were 
in, protested against so many remaining, but raised to re-
move themselves. The ferryman (who is said to have been 
intoxicated) insisted there was no danger, and swore that he 
would " take them over if it killed him." 
Before the boat had passed outside the cut, it became fear-
fully evident that it was overloaded, and the danger immi-
nent. Some of the passengers begged the ferrytnau to let 
them get out on the pier, but he refused to do so, and pushed 
out into the river, although the water was within three or 
four inches of the upper edge of the sides of the boat. 
A Relic of the North-west.—A large silver medal was re-
cently found on the banks of the Mississippi, in Alamakee 
county, in the north-eastern part of Iowa. Its weight is up-
wards of five ounces. It has on one side the likeness of 
John Quincy Adams, with the words—" John Quincy Ad-
ams, President of the United States-1825," on the rim ; 
and the other the words, " Peace and Friendship," with the 
Tomahawk and Pipe of Peace crossed, and the clasped 
hands. It is considerably worn. Mr. Adams' likeness is 
capital, and looks very much as we saw him in 1828. This 
medal was found about six weeks since by Mr. Churchill, in 
Columbus, Iowa, some four or five feet under the surface, 
who struck upon the skull of an Indian with the first cut of 
the spade in digging a cellar. Pursuing the discovery, he 
found the whole skeleton, and beside it the remains of a dog, 
a gun, a box in which there were thirty-six silver dollars, 
and the medal above described. There was no indication on 
the surface that anything lay deposited beneath, not even a 
rise of earth to mark the grave of one who was, no doubt, 
an Indian chief, who had been buried there with all his trap-
pings and possessiOns. None of the present inhabitants of 
that part of Iowa can give any satisfactory account of the 
burial of, no doubt, a prominent actor in the scenes occurring 
in the North-west as recent as twenty years ago.—N. Y. 
Daily Times. 
Post Office Literature.—A letter passed through the Post 
Office a few days since, directed to the " Orderte-r's Office, 
Washington." Another, about the same time, started in 
pursuit of " Jerrey Mire Jacobs," somewhere down in Con-
necticut. Anti still another for a man resident in the State 
of " New Gearsey." We are also authorized to request a 
lady in Wisconsin to look out for a letter, as there was one 
directed to her several days ago. No town having been spe-
cified, she is presumed to be a citizen at large in that small 
State. The following is, however, the richest specimen of 
an address that we have ever seen—" This wants too go too 
Pat 0 Neal he usid too lyve in Weastleld but heese after be-
ing guru too Sotithwic now but he oil ba in weastfeld nex 
weke for after a Job an hee will Pay for itt.—Springfield Re-
publican. 
Influence of the Spirit of Emigration. — Rev. Thompson 
Bird, writing to the Home Missionary Society, from Fort 
Des Moines, Iowa, says—" Since the middle of March, our 
town has been thronged with emigrants to California and 
Oregon. This is the most northern crossing-place on the 
Des Moines River. The emigration this season is immense ; 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Sept. number (No. 5, Vol 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
little monthly paper is now out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 5.) The Enemy Within. 
Guard against Vulgarity. A Knowing Thrush. 
Kossuth and Lola Monies. For Disobedient Children. 
A Fight with a Lion.' Perseverance Rewarded. 
The Notorious Glutton. The Art of Swimming. 
Home influence. W bat at Lie will Do. 
.Truthful and Untruthful Habits. A Tribute of Affection to Boys. 
Wareing to Boys. For the Curious. 
Charlie on the Bridge. Enigmas, &c. &c. 
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Appointments, 
Lawrenceville, Tuesday, 21st, at 4 o'clock. 
Sheford, tent-meeting at Waterloo, Wednesday, 22d, and over 
the Sabbath. 
West Sh eford, Tuesday, 28th, at 4 o'clock. 
East Farnham, in the chapel at HurIburt's Corner, Wednesday, 
29th, at 10 o'clock, and continue two dais. 
Stan bridge, in the Baptist house, Si anbridge Ridge, Friday, 1st 
Oct. at 10 o'clock, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Bro. Orrock will accompany Bro. Ilinies, and do part of the 
preaching. 
Bro. B. S Reynolds desires us to recall the meeting advertised to 
be held at North Danville Oct. 6111. Due notice will be given of a 
meeting to be held at a different place. 
I will be at Mount Holly Sabbath, Sept. 5th-will some brother 
meet me at the depot on 'Thursday previous, that if it should inter-
fere with Bro. Bosworth's day I :nay pass on to Shrewsbury, and 
return to Mutant Holly time next Sabbath, and then to Clarendon the 
third Sabbath, if the Lord will, and then pass onward home. 
. AMOS 
Providence permitting, I will meet with the brethren at Dens-
more hill, Woodstock, Sept. ltith, and remain in that section a 
week. 
S. B. MuNN. 
The friends in Kennebunk, Me., are hereby informed that I will be 
with them on the first, third, and fourth Sabbaths in October, but 
cannot remain during the week time. 
The friends is Peacedale, R. I., are informed that I will visit them 
on the second Sabbath iu October, and remain two or three dais. 
EDWIN BIJRNIIANI. 
I will preach at Richford, Vt., Sept. 10th, anti remain over the 
Sabbath ; Montgomery, 14th-two meetings ; Morrisville, the Itith, 
where brethren limy appoint Waterbury, 17th ; Burlington, Sab-
bath, 19th. It is hoped that the meetiugs maybe fully attended. 
A. BILLINGS. 
There will be a four days' meeting held in the grove near the Un-
ion Hall in Harwich, commencing Thursday, Sept. 9th, at 10 A. M. 
-ELKANAII NICKERSON. 
Elder C. R. Griggs will preach in Holden, Mass., Sunday, Sept. 
12th. 
The Post-oflice address of Elder I. E. JONES is, for the present, 
Bristol, Vt. 
Bro. J. W. Bonuses address is Newton Centre, Mass. 
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Derby Line, Wednesday, Sept. 8th, at 10 o'clock, and continue 
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