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LIFE. 
Life is onward- nse it 
With a forward aim : 
'roil is heavenly-choose it, 
And its warfare claim. 
Look not to another 
To perform your will ; 
Let not your own brother 
Keep your strong hand still. 
Life is onward-never 
Look upon the past ; 
It would hold you ever 
In its clutches fast. 
Now is your dominion-
Ilse it as you please: 
Bind not the sours pinion 
To a bed of ease. 
Life is onward-try it 
Ere the day he lost ; 
It bath virtue-buy it 
At whatever cost. 
If the world should offer 
Every precious gent, 
Look not at the scoffer, 
Change it not for them. 
Life is onward-heed it 
In each varied dress ; 
'Your own act cats speed It 
On to happiness; 
His bright pinion o'er you 
Time waves not in vain, 
If Hope chants before you 
Her prophetic strain, 
Life is onward-prize it 
In sunshine and in storm ; 
Oh, do not despise it, 
In its humblest form. 
Hope and Joy together, 
Standing at the goal, 
Through Lite's darkest weather, 
Beckon on the soul. 
Advent. 
" Tell ye the Daughter of Sion, Behold, thy 
King cometh to thee." 
It was when her youth, 
and her strength, and her beauty, and her glory, 
had passed away, that her King came to her. 
The mark of death was already upon her. The 
foot of the conqueror was already on tier neck. 
In like manner, though Advent is the begin-
ning of the Christian year, it is very far, as you 
all know, after the beginning of the natural 
year. For why ? could the Christian year and 
the natural year run on together ? could they 
be one and the same ? Surely not, so long as 
the world continues under the dominion of sin, 
and draws men away from Christ and from 
God. Nor does the Christian year begin while 
the natural year is in its glory. It begitas, as you 
see this day, when the nataral year is droop-
ing under the weight of its days, and fast wan-
ing to its close. Alas, so perverse, godless and 
Christless is man, even when he is born under 
the light of Christ's gospel, and brought up in 
the bosom of Christ's church, that this is a type 
of what happens far too often. Often, dismally 
often, does it happen that the spring, and the 
summer, and the autumn of life, pass away al-
together without Christ : and among those who 
have lived thus Christless and goodless, one is 
now and then found, in whose heart Christ is 
born just as winter is closing around him. This 
happens now and then : it happens far too of-
ten, far oftener than it ought to happen among 
those who have been baptized into his name in 
their infancy, and catechised in his word during 
their childhood. Beware, however, lest any of 
you be deluded thereby into fancying that so it 
will happen in your case. There have been 
those, it is true, to whom Christ has come in 
their old age. There have been those who have 
not been called, or at least have not heeded the 
voice calling them into the vineyard, until the 
eleventh hour, and who yet have given ear to it 
then. There have indeed, through God's ex-
ceeding long-stiffering and mercy, been such 
persons ; but how few, compared with the mul-
titude of those who have perished in their Christ-
lessness and godlessness 
How was it with the Daughter of Sion ? Her 
King came to her, but she did not receive him. 
So from that time forward she saw him no 
more. She knew not the time of her visitation, 
and therefore destruction fell upon her. Al-
though she had grown old, she had learnt no 
wisdom from her years. They had only hard-
ened her in her folly. 
Were we other than we are in two main 
points,—could we make sure of living to be old, 
and could we make sure that, when we grow 
old, we shall be able to shape and mould our 
hearts as we will, and to make them care and 
wish for what they have never wished or eared 
for before,—there might then he some sense in 
putting off the season of Christ's Advent, until 
winter begins to shed its snow upon our heads : 
or at least there would not be the same stark 
folly and madness in such conduct. But we 
must all know full well, if we will only take 
thought, and look about us, and consider what 
happens to our neighbors, that on neither of these 
points can we have the slightest certainty, that, 
on the :contrary, the chances on both are many 
to one against us. The chances are many to 
one against our living to grow old : and assured-
ly they are as a hundred, not to say a thou-
sand, to one against our having the power of 
turning our hearts to God in old age, when they 
have Leen entirely estranged from him during 
youth and manhood. Will a tree, which has 
borne no fruit in its prime, suddenly change its 
nature and bear fruit, when it begins to decay, 
and has scarcely strength enough to put forth a 
few leaves wherewith to cover its nakedness ? 
Would any of you spare a tree that had always 
been barren, from thinking that it might do so ? 
If the tree could speak, and were to beg you not 
to cut it down, but to wait and see whether it 
may not bear fruit years hence, would you listen 
to it ? Or is a man, who has been stooping all 
his life, until he has grown quite double, likely 
to lift up his head and walk uprightly when 
age is crippling his nerves and sinews ? Or, to 
go on with the image of the tree, you all know 
the one you pass by as you come down the hill 
on your way to church : you know how it has 
been driven away by the winds, how year after 
year it has vainly tried to shoot up straight, 
and has only become more and more crooked, 
and is now so stiff with age, that it would defy 
all the men and all the horses in England to 
straighten it. Yet scarcely less difficult is it 
by any human means to straighten a soul in old 
age, which has been driven away all its life by 
the blasts of sin. Or, again, are eyes, which 
have been blear from youth upward, likely to 
fill with light when the dimness of years is add-
ed to that of disease ? God may, indeed, work 
such a miracle in us. He has done so, and 
may do it again. So, too, may He feed us as 
He fed the children of Israel, with quails and 
manna from heaven. But would any man in 
his senses neglect to provide himself with food, 
on the chance that God will reward his sloth, 
by working a miracle to feed him ? nor is he 
likely to work a miracle for the saving of a soul 
which has spent its whole life in breaking his 
commandments. Tarry not therefore in your 
darkness, my brethren, when God summons you 
to come forth from it. Bend not your heads to 
the ground, when he calls on you to lift them 
up. Wait not till the hinges of your hearts be- 
come so rusty, that you cannot open the gates 
to receive the King of Glory. 
This, then, is not the lesson we are to draw 
from finding that the Christian year does not be-
gin till near the close of the autumnal year. 
We are not to look on this as an encourage-
ment to fancy that, if we give ourselves up to 
the world, and lie lazily basking in its sunshine 
during our youth and manhood, Christ will 
come to us when we grow old, and cheer us 
when all around is dreary and cheerless. But 
another lesson we may draw, and that a true 
and profitable one. We may learn from hence 
that Christ is not wont to come to those who are 
living in the broad garnish sunshine of the world. 
He is not wont to come to thoso who are in the 
summer of prosperity. He is wont to come to 
those who are laden with the leaves and blos- 
soms and fruits of the earth. He is not wont 
to come to them : or at least their leaves and 
flowers and fruit encumber them so much, and 
so cover them in, that, though He comes to 
them, they are not aware of His coming. It is 
in the winter, in the winter of heaviness and af-
fliction, when all around is bare and dreary, 
that He vouchsafes to be born. It is when the 
leaves of earthly happiness are falling from us, 
that we are the readiest to welcome and rejoice 
in His Advent. It is in pain and sorrow that 
man is born, riot only into this mortal life, but 
also into that spiritual life ; which is the begin-
ning of the life immortal : and even they who 
have already entered into that spiritual life, can-
not pass into perfect immortality, except through 
the pains of death. The lusts of the flesh must 
have dropt off from us : the lusts of the eye 
must have dropt off from us : the pride of life 
must have been stript off from us : our appetites 
must be mortified : our natural affections must 
be curbed and subdued : we must have learnt to 
feel our own nakedness : and then we may look 
forward with glad yearnings to the Advent of 
Christ our Saviour. Therefore, when any af-
fliction strikes you, and tears off your earthly 
joys, do not repine or murmur, or fancy that it 
is a mere chance, the working of some natural 
cause, of the wind that bloweth where it listeth. 
Believe that it is the working of the Spirit of 
God. preparing you to rejoice in the Advent of 
Christ. Believe that God is only drawing you 
forth from among the leaves, behind which you 
have been hiding yonrselves from him. Be- 
lieve that it is so ; and it will be so. For this 
is one of the miracles, which Faith, if it be but 
strong, never fails to work. 
" Tell ye the Daughter of Sion, Behold, thy 
King cometh to thee !" What a glad sound is 
this to the afflicted, broken hearted mourner, if 
he can be brought to listen to it, and to believe 
it ! If he can be brought to believe that the 
Prince of this world, whom he has hitherto 
served, is a usurper, and not the rightful king 
of Sion ; if he can he brought to believe, that, 
even though the Prince of this world should 
seem to belong to the house of Judah, even 
though there may seem to be something like 
religion mixed up with his natural life, and 
holding a kind of a sway over him, still this is 
only a puppet set up by the world, as Herod 
was by the Romans, who, the lords of the earth, 
were the real masters of the land. Let a man 
be brought to acknowledge this, and further to 
acknowledge, that the Sadducees and Pharisees, 
—the worldly thoughts, and the thoughts of a 
formal outward religion, of a religion of acts arid 
observances,—between which his heart is divid-
ed, are both of them sheer hypocrites and de-
ceivers, that feed him with chaff instead of bread, 
and with squr wine instead of good wine ; let a 
man be brought to acknowledge this ; and he 
will indeed rejoice to hear that his King is com-
ing to him. His heart and soul will cry, " Ho-
sanna to the Son of David ! Blessed is he that 
cometh in the name of the Lord ! Hosanna in 
the highest !" The world which he had hither-
to deemed the only-world, and the best and most 
precious of all possible worlds, will split before 
his sight and fade away : and in its place will 
come forth a new world, like the new heavens 
and the new earth seen in the apocalyptic vis-
ion. And this new world will not need the 
light of the sun, nor the light of the moon. He 
will no longer worship the powers of nature ; 
he will no longer give up his heart to them ; he 
will no longer feel any need of earthly joys to 
turn his darkness into light. For the glory of 
God will lighten him ; and the Lamb will be 
his light. 
Julius Charles Hare. 
Sunday Schools. 
The beneficial influence which has been ex-
erted on society, through the establishment of 
Sunday Schools, is universally admitted. Rob-
ert Raikes, Esq., of Gloucester, in England, was 
the person who conceived the design of estab-
lishing these insitutions ; and the following let-
ter from Mr. Raikes to a friend, written soon 
after he had tested the practicability and value 
of Sunday Schools as a means of giving a cer-
tain class of children a proper sense of the great 
obligations of religion and virtue, and contain-
ing a particular account of the first introduction 
of the plan, and of its success in Gloucester, 
will be read with interest by many 
" Gloucester, June 5th, 1784. 
"DEAR SIR :—I have not had leisure to give 
you an earlier account of my little plan for at-
tempting a reform of the rising generation of 
the lower class of people, by establishing schools, 
where poor children may be received upon the 
Sunday, and there engaged in learning to read, 
and to repeat their catechism, or anything else 
that may be deemed proper to open their minds 
to a knowledge of their duty to God, their neigh-
bor, and themselves, 
The utility of an establishment of this sort 
was first suggested to my mind by a group of 
little miserable wretches, whom I observed one 
day at play in the street, where many people 
employed in the pin manufactory reside. I was 
expressing my concern to an inhabitant, at their 
forlorn, neglected state, and was told that if I 
were to pass through that street on Sundays, 
it would shock me indeed, to see the crowds of 
children who were spending that sacred day in 
noise and riot, and in cursing and swearing to 
the extreme annoyance of all sober, decent peo-
ple who reside there, or had occasion to pass 
that way. I immediately determined to make 
some little effort by way of trial, to prove wheth-
er it were possible to remedy the evil. Having 
found four persons of respectable character who 
had been accustomed to instruct children in 
reading, I engaged to pay the sum they required 
for receiving and instructing such children as I 
should send to them every Sunday. The chil-
dren were to come soon after ten in the morn-
ing, and stay till twelve; they were then to go 
home to dinner arid return at one ; and after 
reading a lesson, they were to be employed in 
repeating the catechism till half after five, and 
then to be dismissed, with an injunction to re-
turn home without making a noise ; and by no 
means to play in the street. This was the gen-
eral outline of the regulation. 
" With regard to the parents, I went round 
to remonstrate with them on the melancholy 
consequences that must ensue from so fatal a 
neglect of their children's morals. They al-
leged that their poverty rendered them incapa-
ble of cleaning and clothing their children fit to 
appear either at school or at church ; but this 
objection was obviated by a remark, that if they 
were clad in a garb fit to appear in the streets, 
I should not think it improper for a school cal-
culated to admit the poorest and most neglected; 
all that I required were clean faces, clean hands, 
and their hair combed. In other respects they 
were to come as their circumstances would ad-
mit. In a little time the people perceived the 
advantage that was likely to arise. Many chil-
dren began to show talents for learning, and a 
desire to be taught. Little rewards were dis-
tributed among the most diligent. This excited 
an emulation. One or two worthy clergymen 
kindly lent their countenance and assistance, by 
going round to the schools on a Sunday after-
noon to hear the children say their catechism. 
This was of great consequence. Another cler-
gyman hears them repeat their chatecism once 
a quarter publicly in the church, and rewards 
their good behavior with some little gratuity, 
They are frequently admonished to refrain from 
swearing; and certain boys, who are dietin 
guished by their decent behavior, are appointed 
to superintend the conduct of the rest, and make 
report of those that swear, call names, or inter-
rupt the comfort of the other boys in their neigh- - 
borhood. When quarrels have arisen, the ag-
gressor is compelled to ask pardon, and the of--
fended is enjoined to forgive. The happiness 
that must arise to all from a kind, good-natured 
behavior, is often inculcated. This mode of 
treatment has produced a wonderful change in 
the manners of these little savages. 
" From this little sketch of the reformation 
which has taker, place among the poor children 
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arid glass wares, go out of the window to the 
ground, with a shivering crash. The conserva-
tive discriminates, even in that time of agitation 
and confusion. The beds and clothing he throws 
out of the window ; the glass and crockery he 
takes in his hands, and descends with it to the 
ground and deposits it in a place of safety. Now 
the latter has not handled so many pieces of the 
brittle ware as the former ; but what he has 
touched is safe and sound ; while all that the 
other removed is brolth to fragments. So in 
applying the water--athe man " up the times" 
will perhaps discharge two buckets to the oth- 
On Conservatism. er's one. He will make the water fly, though 
not a pint in a barrel should do execution. The 
No man is to be blamed for seeing and la- conservative, with more self-possession, a juster 
mewing from his inmost soul the moral evils estimate of his strength, and a surer aim, makes 
which prevail in the world. Indeed, he is hi- every bucketful he throws do its part in ex. 
human and unchristian who does not. But for tinguishing the flame. 
these there is only one remedy. We may try There is something strikingly analogous to 
others, till our strength is exhausted ; but they this in the movements and measures taken to 
will not avail. If we are ever successful, we remove moral evils ; but for the present we 
.must come back to that which infinite wisdom leave the application to our readers. 
and goodness has prescribed. We may feel im- 
Christian Mirror. 
patient, to be tied down to the divinely author-
ized remedy, and the divinely prescribed meth-
ods of applying it. We may fret ourselves, 
that it operates so slowly, and does not effect an 
instant cure. But shall we set up our own 
plans, and our own wisdom in opposition to 
those of our Maker ? Can it he, that he who 
made man has mistaken the right means for re- 
forming him, or for training him so as best to 
fulfil his destiny ? The suggestion is dishonora-
ble to our Creator. Besides, his method is a 
sure, unfailing one. Neither is it so inefficient 
and slow as many imagine. He works unseen, 
as well as visibly. His remedy is always 
operating. It is the " leaven hid in the meal." 
It is acting powerfully, before men see its full 
result, and may be thus acting on thousands of 
minds, while those who instrumentally apply it 
are perhaps lamenting that they " labor in vain, 
and spend their strength for naught." The most 
essential and valuable part of the operation is 
that which works unseen—that reformation 
which begins in the depths of the soul ; for un-
less the change for the better begins with the 
" word hid in the heart," it will not be per-
manent in outward action ; but " endure only 
for a while." With the heart, man believeth 
unto righteousness. It was an appropriate ques-
tion, though put by a vile and treacherous char-
acter, " How canst thou say, I love thee, when 
thy heart is not with ine ?" 
Nothing is of greater importance, in a re-
former, than unswerving confidence in the pow-
er and sufficiency of God's truth. This, " rightly 
divided," will do the work, if it is ever done. 
Our business is to ply this truth in its purity 
and point, its length and breadth, its depth and 
height, its force and pathos, in its leading pro-
positions, and minute details, as adapted to the 
grand divisions of character, arid to different 
shades and aspects of character in the same di. 
vision. It is only by the light of truth poured 
in upon the mind, that man sees his speculative 
errors, and practical transgressions. The truth 
of God does that for man, which no human in-
vention or contrivance can possibly effect. " The 
gospel is the power of God unto salvation to 
every one that believeth." Thus it was eighteen 
hundred years ago ; thus it is now. This is, 
and must continue to be, the great conservative 
persuasion of the church, if she is yet to live 
and increase and draw within her pale the mill-
ions who are estranged from God and far from 
righteousness. With the fullest reliance on the 
efficacy of truth, let us gird ourselves for the 
work—valuing it none the less for its antiquity, 
as time and experience have so fully demon-
strated what it can do for men, when that infal-
lible Spirit, who dictated it to prophets and 
apostles, works with it. 
Conservatism is essential to real progress.—
Stability is essential to growth. " Hold that 
fast which thou hast," is a direction equally im-
perative with " grow in grace, and in the knowl-
edge of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ." 
The same apostle, who urges Christians to go 
on unto perfection, most solemnly and affection-
ately warns them, " not to be carried about by 
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men or 
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to 
deceive." This " sleight of men " is still used 
with crafty ingenuity ; and in forms suited to 
deceive, if it were possible, even the very elect. 
To escape unhurt by its influence, we must 
daily refresh and strengthen our spirits at the 
fountain of God's truth. 
Considerable pains have been taken to spread 
an impression, that the staid conservatives are 
a very inefficient and useless class of beings. 
But this is an unfortunate misapprehension, 
an injurious mistake. If they have less the show 
of energy than the radicals, they have more of 
the reality ; they are, at least, more energetic 
for good. We will try to illustrate the differ- 
ence. A house is on fire. All classes rush ta 
the spot and go to work in their different ways 
to extinguish the flames. Some of them go up 
into an .upper chamber. One af these,:as quickly 
and rapidly as he can, seizes whatever his hand 
can lay hold of, and furniture, mirrors, crockery, 
coiled in your path. You were frightened— 
Tribes of Mount Lebanon. 
throwsh every fibre of your body. Very proba- 
The Maronites occupy the central valleys of bly the snake was as hartnless as it was beauti- 
the vast mountain chain extending from Beirut ful. Spring as high, be as utterly frightened 
to Tripoli. Through their indefatigable industry as possible, when you just avoid stepping upon 
these barren hills have been made to blossom as a tarantula, however. Filth'y, loathsome abotni-
the rose. Their country is one perfect garden, liable and poisonous—crush it to atoms before 
intersected by a thousand streams and mountain you leave it ! If you have not seen it—know 
torrents, and producing, in great abundance, henceforth that it is an enormous spider ; con-
silk, oil, wheat, and barley. They take their centrating in itself all the venom and spite and 
name from the hermit Marron, who lived 400 ugliness of all other spiders living. Its body is 
years after Christ. Their government, like that some two inches long, black and bloated. It 
of the Druzes, bears a strong feudal cast. Each enjoys the possession of eight long, strong legs, 
village has its sheikh, and though an appeal a red mouth, and an abundance of stiff, brown 
may be carried up to the Turkish Governor, hair all over itself. When standing, it covers 
still between the Governor there is no ecclesi- an area of a saucer. Attack it with a stick, 
astical authority, there is a continual conflict of and it rears on its hind legs, gnashes at the 
jurisdiction. This ecclesiastical authority is stick, and fights like a fiend. It even jumps 
composed of a patriarch, who is elected by the forward a foot or two in its rage, and if it bite 
bishops,but who must be confirmed by the Pope ; into a vein, the bite is death. I have been told 
of a legate from Rome ; of the bishops, priests, of the battle fought by one on board a steam-
and heads of the monasteries. Their rites and boat. Discovered at the lawer end of the sa-
tenets are those of the Romish Church, entire, loon, it came hopping up the saloon, driving the 
with the exception of the celibacy of the priest. whole body of the passengers before it, and al-
To this the Pope could never bring the sound most drove the whole company, crew and all, 
sense of the Maronite clergy to consent. Nearly overboard. 
every village appears to rue to have its monas- The first I saw was at the house of a friend. 
tery, and the monks may be numbered in thou- I spied it crawling slowly over the wall, medi-
sands. Each town has its church, in the cere- ming murder upon the children playine. in the 
monies of which, instead of the Latin, the old room. Excessively prudent in regard' to my 
Syriac tongue,now almost extinct,is exclusively fingers, 1 at last, however, had it safely impris- 
used. 
oned in a glass jar unhurt, There was a flaw 
Next come the Metonalis, a heterodox race in the glass as well as a hole through the cork 
of Moslems, of the Persian sect of Ali, who by which it could breathe, but in ten minutes it 
curse the Caliph Omar, despise the divine right was dead from rage ! Soon after, I killed three 
of tbe Sultan, and feel no scruples in waging upon my place, crawling about ground trodden 
war against all the followers of the Prophet every day by the bare feet of my little boy. A 
who differ in creed from themselves. They in- month after, I killed a whole nest of them. 
habit the broad tract of country lying directly They had formed their family circle under a 
east from Tyre. 
door-step, upon which the aforesaid little fellow 
The Ansarias live about Latakia. They are played daily. Had he seen one of them, he 
said to be idolaters. Like the Druzes, their wor- would, of course, have picked it up as a re-
ship and belief is mystery. Burckhardt thought markably promising toy ; and I would have been 
them an exiled tribe from Hindoostan. They childless. 
are the weakest of all the mountain tribes, and I was sitting one day:upon a log in the woods, 
are fast going to decay. 
when I saw one slowly crawl out to enjoy the 
All these tribes together are said to number evening air and the sunset scenery. He was 
some three hundred thousand souls. With each the largest, most bloated one I ever saw. As I 
other they are continually at war, weakening was about to kill him, I was struck with the 
themselves by their intestine feuds, and thus condact of a chance wasp. It, too, had seen 
exposing themselves to the power of the Porte, the tarantula, and was flying slowly around it. 
which, united, they might almost annihilate The tarantula recognized it as a foe ; and, 
through their stubborn bravery. There is among throwing itself upon its hind legs, breathed de-
them no law more sacred than that of hospitali- fiance. For some time the wasp flew around 
ty. Upon a journey they never think of spend- it, and then, like a flash flew right against it, 
ing a single para for their eating, drinking, or and stung it under its bloated b-elly. The ta-
lodging. If they have no acquaintance in the rantula gnashed its red and venoisted jaws, and 
village, who is bound to show them hospitality, threw its long hairy legs about in impotent 
they ride up to any man's door, dismount, tie rage, while the wasp flew around and around 
sheir horse, and therri lighting their chibouque, it, watching for another opportunity. Again 
sit down and smoke. The inmates fully under- and again did it dash its sting into the reptile, 
stand this gentle hint. The door flies open and and escape. After the sixth stab, the tarantula 
the stranger-guest is welcomed to the best of aztually fell over on its back dead ; and the 
their basket and their store. 
wasp, after making. iself sure of the fact, and 
inflicting a last sting to make matters sure, flew 
off, happy in having done a duty assigned it in 
creation. In an hour more, a colony of ants 
had carried it down piecemeal, and deposited it 
This Texas of ours is an astonishingly prolific in their catecombs. 
country. Every field stands luxuriant, crowded, But deadliest and most abhorrent of all other 
so that it can scarce wave under the breeze, reptiles in Texas, is the centipede. This is a 
with corn or sugar, or wheat or cotton. Every kind of worm, from three to six inches long, ex-
cabin is full and overflowing, through all its actly like an enormous caterpillar. It is green, 
doors and windows, with white-haired children: or brown, or yellow—some being found of each 
Every prairie abounds in deer, prairie-hens and of these colors. As its name denotes, it has 
cattle. Every river and creek is alive with fish. along each side a row of feet, horny claws 
The whole land is electric with lizards perpetu- rather. Imagine that you walk some night 
ally darting among the grass like flashes of across your chamber floor with naked feet ; you 
green lightning. We have too much prairie put your foot down upon a soft something, and 
and too little forest for a great variety of birds. instantly it coils around your foot in a ring. 
But in horned-frogs, scorpions, tarantulas and sticking every claw up to the body in your foot. 
centipedes, we beat the universe. Everybody The poison flows through each claw, and in two 
.has seen horned-frogs. You see them in jars minutes you will have fainted with agony ; in 
in the windows of apothecaries. You are en. a few more and you will be dead. The deadly 
treated to purchase them by loafing boys on thing cannot be torn away. It has to be cut 
the levee, at New Orleans. They have been off, and claw by claw plucked out. Even if it 
neatly soldered up in soda boxes, and mailed crawls over the naked hody of a sleeping per-
by young men in Texas, to fair ones in the old son, without sticking in its claws, the place will 
States. The fair ones receive the neat package pain the person for years after—at least, so I 
from the post-office, are delighted at the pros- have been told. 
pect of a daguerreotype—perhaps jewelry—open I have seen these things—in which nature 
the package eagerly, and faint, as the frog hops corks up her deadly poisons—often ; yet I have 
out, in excellent health, upon them. A horned heard of few cases in which they have bitten or 
frog is, simply, a very harmless frog, with very killed any one. The kind Being who makes 
portentous horns. It has horns because every- the butterflies to be abundant, in the same lov-
thing in its region—trees, shrubs, grass even, ing kindness, makes all deadly creatures to be 
Arthur's Home Gazette. 
has thorns—and nature makes it in keeping scarce. 
with all around it. A menagerie of them would 
not be expensive. They are content to live 
upon air—and can, if desired, live, I am told, 
for months, without even that. 
The scorpions are precisely like those of Ara-
bia—in the shape of a lobster, exactly, only not 
more than some three inches long. You are 
very apt to put one upon your face in the towel 
which you apply thereto after washing. If you 
do, you will find the sting about equal to that 
of a wasp—nothing worse. They are far less 
poisonous than. the scorpion of the East—in 
fact, none except new comers dread them at all. 
But the tarantula ! You remetnber the as-
tonishing elasticity with which you sprang into 
the air that time you were just on the point of 
putting your raised foot down upon a snake 
general establishment of Sunday Schools, sup-
ported by the attention of a few active individu-
als, would in time make some change in the 
morals of the lower class,—at least, it might 
in some measure prevent them from growing 
worse, which at present seems but too apparent. 
" fear I have trespassed too far upon your 
patience in this recital, but I could not well 
comprise in narrower limits the information you 
required. I am, dear sir, your obedient humble 
servant, 
R. RA1KES." 
In the first place, watch and pray, as you 
value your souls, against a spirit of carelessness 
and indifference in religion. Remember that 
the life of a Christian is a life of self-denial. It 
is a race, a pilgrimage, a wariare ; its exercises 
are described by wrestling, striving, watching, 
and the like. And of all the drones in the world, 
drones in God's hive are the least deserving the 
approbation of the church, and the most under 
the frown of heaven. The Scriptures probably 
contain no expression of displeasure more im-
pressive than that which is addressed to the 
Laodiceans on this very subject : " So then, be-
cause thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor 
hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Yet it 
is astonishing how soon we may be beguiled 
into such a frame of mind. The commonness 
of religious exercises, the attractions of the 
world, and, above all, the corruption of depraved 
nature, have a constant influence to produce 
this awful indifference. And few greater evi-
dences can be afforded of it than the neglecting 
the worship of God in his sanctuary, or care-
lessly trifling with the morning of a Lord's day. 
Secondly. Rise early. Your enjoyment of 
the Sabbath, and your attendance upon the wor-
ship of God in the morning of it, greatly de-
pend upon this. If you have much to do before 
you can unite with God's people in his house, 
the time of your rising must be arranged ac-
cordingly. A lazy, sluggish professor, who can 
satisfy himself with consuming the best part of 
the morning in bed, is but ill-prepared for the 
service of his Maker in the course of it. And 
scandalous it certainly is to any one who names 
the name of Christ that a man who would rise 
for a sixpence at almost any hour on any other 
day in the week, should shut his ears on the 
morning of a Sabbath, when God is calling to 
him from heaven, and be lulled by the devil to 
sleep. The conduct of the wicked, who can 
rise at any time to unite in a party of pleasure ; 
the conduct of heathens, who are waiting the 
rising of the sun, in order to pay the earliest 
adorations to him as soon as he makes his ap-
pearance ; in a word, the conduct even of Satan 
himself, who is always on the alert to destroy, 
if possible, the comforts and souls of men, is a 
sufficient reproof to such individuals. 
Thirdly. Endeavor to enjoy a good Satur-
day evening. It was a custom with the Jews 
to have a season of preparation previous to the 
duties of the Sabbath. Their Sabbath began 
at six in the evening, and at three in the after-
noon began the preparation. God grant us that 
anxiety for the enjoyment of the Sabhath which 
will lead to a preparation for it as far as we are 
able ; and a good frame of mind on a Saturday 
evening will seldom lull a person to sleep, or 
make him indifferent about the worship of God 
on a Sabbath morning. 
Fourthly and lastly. Think of the rapid ap-
proach of death, and endeavor to realize to your-
selves the views and feelings you will then have 
of what you have been, and what you have 
done, and what you have left undone, when you 
are just going to give in your account unto God. 
It is a lamentable fact, there are not a few in 
our churches or congregations who are all their 
life long planting thorns in that pillow upon 
which at last they must lie down and die ; and 
none are doing this more effectually than the 
careless and the slothful. " Ah," says one on a 
death-bed, " that I had been more actively en-
gaged in the service of God !" " Oh," cries 
another in the anguish of his soul, " that I could 
but live my time over again ! What a different 
person would I be ! Oh, the sins I have com-
mitted, the duties I have neglected, the Sab-
baths I have murdered !" But it is in vain ! He 
is just on the borders of eternity ;. and all the 
wealth of worlds can neither purchase him a 
respite from death, nor afford him art opportu-
nity of retrieving his condition forever ! " Oh 
that they,were wise, that they understood this, 
that they would consider their latter end !" 
From an old Periodical. 
Rules for a Profitable Sabbath. 
Texas Reptiles. 
Notes of the Douay Bible. 
— 
It is well known in English history that the 
Pope excommunicated Henry VIll. and Edward 
VI. of England, in consequence of their defec-
tion from Popery ; but the heaviest curse was 
reserved for Elizabeth.. She was excommuni-
cated, her subjects absolved from their oath of 
allegiance, and the throne of England was giv-
en to the King of Spain. In order to prepare 
the way for this, the notes on the Douay Bible 
were penned. The great Spanish Armada was 
to take possession or England. The notes of 
the Douay taught rebellion to the English, and 
thus these notes were intended to prepare the 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ant falls another will take his place, and ano-
ther, and another, as though the only object of 
their assault was to exhaust the fire of their en-
emies, and then overpower them by sheer num-
bers. We can scarcely think, if Commodore 
Perry should decide to advance into the interior 
with the small force at his disposal, that the first 
attempt will end in favor of the expedition. The 
army of Japan consists, by the last accounts, of 
300,000 foot soldiers and 50,000 cavalry. In 
artillery they of course are miserably deficient, 
and their powder is of a most inferior quality. 
Still they have at their disposal an enormous 
population, proud of their traditions and of their 
native land, and determined, we should imagine, 
to defend it to the last drop of their blood against 
the invaders from beyond the dark sea." 
Of the wrong inflicted by the Japanese on the 
civilized world, by keeping their country a sealed 
book to the other nations of the earth, the writer 
holds the following strong language, in which 
he adopts similar opinions to those expressed 
several years since by John Quincy Adams, and 
of the strict justice of which a reasonable doubt 
may well be entertained : 
" The moment is rapidly drawing near when 
those who have anxiously looked for the open-
ing of this sealed book may hope to hear more 
of the strange customs and fashions of Japan. 
But it is not from purely literary or fantastic 
considerations of this kind that we regard with 
satisfaction the speedy restoration of Japan to 
the comity of nations. The compulsory seclu-
sion of the Japanese is a wrong not only to them-
selves, but to the civilized world. Every one is 
so far master at home, that the Law of Nations 
has been hitherto very tender of authorizing a 
country to force its commerce or its society upon 
another. But the rights of independent sover-
eignty must be so construed as to be reconcila-
ble with the great principle upon which all titles 
of property or jurisdiction ultimately depend. It 
is difficult to entertain a doubt that, after so long 
and so patient a delay, other nations are justi-
fied in demanding intercourse with Japan, as a 
right of which they are unjustly deprived. The 
Japanese undoubtedly have an exclusive right 
to the possession of their territory ; but they must 
not abuse that right to the extent of debarring 
all other nations from a participation in its riches 
and virtues. The only secure title to property, 
whether it be in a hovel or an empire, is, that the 
exclusive possession of one is for the benefit of all." 
The Curse of Infidelity. 
A biographical sketch has lately appeared in 
England which depicts a brilliant dawn and a 
darkened midday. W. S. Walker, when eigh-
teen months old, could repeat all the currrent 
nursery songs. He learned to read after one 
lesson ; when two years old he could read the 
history of England, and in his fifth year he had 
read history extensively, and poetry still more 
devotedly. In his tenth year he translated a 
Greek poet into English verse as a private 
amusement, and wrote an epic poem soon after, 
which was published. He had every line of 
Homer by heart, and could compose Greek verses 
himself perhaps much faster than Homer could. 
Being introduced to Sir James Mackintosh, it 
was stated that the young poet could turn any-
thing into Greek verse. " Indeed," said the 
baronet, " what do you think of a page of the 
Court Guide ?" The proposal was accepted, 
and the said page was turned into Greek hex-
ameters ! At Eton he wrote poetical satires, 
prologues, and epigrams. At Eton and Cam-
bridge, he obtained his full share of prizes and 
scholarships, becoming at last a fellow of Trinity 
College. He lived twenty-six years afterwards, 
the last sixteen of which he ate the bread of 
poverty in obscure lodgings in London, wasting 
his life in writing verses and essays for obscure 
periodicals. He then dropped, broken in con-
stitution and a wreck in mind, into a premature 
grave. What blighted the prospect and prom-
ise of his life ? 
Infidelity ! 
"The Pillar and Ground of the Truth." 
The punctuation of the Scriptures, like the 
division into chapters and verses, was the work 
of moderns. Griesbach, a very able editor of 
the Greek New Testament, and time most exten-
sive collater of ancient manuscript copies, has, 
in several instances, proved that the punctuation 
usually followed is injurious to the sense. 
According to the common punctuation, " the 
pillar and ground of the truth " is generally un-
derstood to refer to " the Church of the living 
God," the words immediately preceding. But 
according to the punctuation adopted by Gries-
bach, the entire passage in which the phrase oc-
curs reads thus : " These things write I unto 
thee that thou mayest know how to behave thy-
self in the house of God, which is the Church 
of the living God, The pillar and ground of 
the truth (and without controversy great is the 
mystery of godliness) is God manifested in the 
flesh, seen of angels," &c. The pillar and 
ground of the truth is thus the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The leading idea of the passage, viewed as a 
Privileges of the Sabbath. 
The Sabbath is the day when you may sit 
down to the Bible without fear of disturbance. 
It is the day when, with our sinless progenitors, 
you may take the tour of Paradise, and listen to 
the anthems of a newly-created world. It is 
the day when, along side of Enoch, you may 
feed the flame of devotion, and try to divine the 
wonder, and imbibe the ardor of a walk with 
God. It is the day when, according to your 
various mood, you may mourn with Abraham 
at Macpelah, or meditate with Isaac, in the 
fields of Mamre, or go down into Egypt to view 
Joseph in all his glory. It is the day when 
you may bid Jacob's star twinkle anew, and 
Zechariah's fountain flow amain. It is the day 
when you may fill your ear with draughts of 
melody from David's sounding lyre, or let your 
spirit ride aloft on Ezekiel's flying wheels. It 
is the day when you may take a pleasant walk 
to Bethany or Emmaus, or, a fourth disciple, as-
cend Tabor with Peter and James and John. 
.It is the day when, with Mary, you may clasp 
that cross which quivers no longer, and look up 
to those pale, and painless lips, which need never 
Japan. 
The last number of the Edinburgh Review 
contains an able and interesting article on the 
subject of Japan, the character of its inhabitants, 
and its resources. This article was evidently 
written in consequence of the long talked of ex-
pedition to that country from the United States. 
The reviewer is disposed to regard the expedi-
tion with a favorable eye, and expresses aston-
ishment that vigorous attemps have not hereto-
fore been made by some European power to 
bring about commercial intercourse with Japan 
—a powerful and intelligent nation which has 
remained a mistery for two centuries. He says: 
" The governments of the world have for so long 
a time respected a mystery which they had at 
any moment a right to dispel ; but the reason of 
this forbearance must be attributed rather to any 
cause than an acquiescence in the churlish sys-
tem." Again he says : 
" It is impossible to believe that the system 
could have been maintained many years longer, 
even had not the government of Washington de- 
termined to despatch a powerful expedition, un-
der the command of Commodore Perry, to de-
mand satisfaction of the authorities at Jeddo, for 
various acts of outrage and inhumanity per-
petrated by the Japanese, on the crews of 
United States ships engaged in the whale fish-
ery. The sailing of that exhibition has been 
for a short time deferred, in consequence of the 
recent singular misunderstanding between the 
cabinets of Washington and St. James, but 
whether that particular armament is deferred, 
or even abandoned, matters but little. Now 
the question has once been mooted, the blow is 
not the less certainly about to fall upon the Ja-
panese Council of State." 
Of the difficulties in the way of compelling 
the Japanese to establish friendly commercial 
relations with this government, the reviewer 
says: 
" It is not for us to predict the exact results that 
may follow from the particular expedition which 
has been announced as about to sail from the 
ports of the United States against the shores of 
Japan. Before doing this we should require to 
know a little more of the condition of the at-
tacking armament, as well as of the actual 
means of resistance at the command of the Zio-
goon's ministers. It would be madness to affect 
a doubt as to the result if the warlike skill and 
discipline of Europe or the United States are 
once fairly pitted against the resources of any 
Asiatic power. The military genius and hardy 
frames of the mountain tribes of Upper India 
could not save them from defeat when opposed 
to the serried ranks and powerful artillery of the 
British army. The same thing may happen in 
the case of Japan. All human presumptions 
would seem to indicate that if Commodore Per-
ry's expedition is conducted in the same spirit 
of prudence and courage which has heretofore 
presided over the warlike operations of the 
United States Government, the hours of Japan-
ese seclusion are already numbered. We have, 
however, the authority of English officers who 
have served with great distinction in those dis-
tant waters for stating, that they place a wide 
difference between an attack upon Japan arid 
any similar operations which has been carried 
out either in China or in any other district of 
the Indian Seas. The Japanese are a proud 
and warlike race. They are .careless of dan 
ger and indifferent to life; where one combat- 
whole, seems to be this : that the great doctrines 
of the divinity of Christ, his incarnation, atone-
ment, exaltatron, intercession, &c., were the 
foundation on which the whole fabric of divine 
truth rested, and in the keeping and declaration 
of which the evident reality and vitality of a 
professedly Christian Church were found. So 
also the rock (petron) on which Christ declares 
(Matt. 14th) that he would build his Church, 
is evidently the truth just professed by Peter: 
" Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living 
God." This is the foundation on which the 
Church is built; and without this truth, the 
great mystery of godliness, God manifest in the 
flesh, the Church cannot stand. 
Milton's! Resignation. 
" I do not regard," says Milton, " my lot ei-
ther with weariness or compunction, [referring 
to his sight.] I continue in the same sentiment, 
fixed and unmovable. On the contrary, I thank-
fully acknowledge His paternal clemency and 
benignity towards me in everything that is of the 
greatest moment ; specially in this, that He him-
self consoling and encouraging my spirits, 1 ac-
quiesce without a murmur in his sacred dispen-
sations. It is through his grace I find my friends 
even more than before kind and officious to-
wards me, that they are my consolers, visitors, 
assistants. Those who are of the highest con-
sideration in the republic, finding that the light 
of my eyes departed from me, not being sloth-
ful and inactive, but whilel with constancy and 
resolution placing myself in the foremost post of 
danger for the defence of sacred liberty, do not 
on their part forsake me. Nor is it an occasion 
of anguish to me, though you count it misera-
ble, that 1 am fallen, in vulgar estimation, into 
the class of the blind, the unfortunate, the 
wretched, and the helpless, since my hope is 
that I am thus brought nearer to the mercy and 
protection of the Universal Father. There is a 
path, as the apostle teacheth me, through weak-
ness to a more consummate strength. Let me 
therefore be helpless, so that in my debility the 
better and immortal vigor of our human nature 
may be inure effectually displayed, so that amidst 
my darkness the light of the Divine counte-
nance may shine forth more bright. Then shall 
I be at once helpless, and yet of giant strength ; 
blind, yet of vision most penetrating. Thus 
may I, in this helplessness, be carried on to ful-
ness of joy, and in this darkness surrounded 
with the light of eternal day." 
Hindrance to Prayer. 
So have I seen a lark rising from his bed of 
grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, 
and hoping to get to heaven and climb above 
the skies ; but the poor bird was beaten back 
with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and 
his motions made irregular and inconstant, de-
scending more at every breath of the tempest 
than it could recover by the libration and fre-
quent weighing of its wings, till the little crea-
ture was made to sit down and pant, and stay 
till the storm was over ; and then it did make a 
prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as though 
it had learned music and motion from an angel 
as he passed sometimes through the air on his 
ministries here below. So is the prayer of a 
good man. When his affairs have required 
business, and his business was matter of disci• 
pline, and his discipline was to pass upon a sin-
ning person, or had a design of charity, his duty 
met with the infirmities of a man, and anger 
was its instrument ; and the instrument became 
stronger than the prime agent, and raised a tem-
pest, and overruled the man ; and then his prayer 
was broken and his thoughts were troubled, 
and his words went up towards a cloud, and his 
thoughts pulled them back again and made them 
without interruption. And the good man sighs 
for his infirmity, but must be content to love the 
prayer ; and he must recover it when his anger 
is removed and his spirit is becalmed, made even 
as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart 
of God ; and then it ascends to heaven upon the 
wings of the Holy Dove, and dwells with God, 
till it returns, like the useful bee, laden with a 
blessing and the dew of heaven. 
Jeremy Taylor. 
A Letter Answered. 
In one of the eastern counties of New York was a 
Universalist preacher who was in the habit of writing 
letters to evangelical ministers of all denominations, 
that he might publish the replies with comments of 
his own in a Universalist paper. At one time there 
was a revival in an adjoining congregation where a 
worthy minister was settled as pastor. To him the 
Universalist wrote proposing a public discussion of 
their differences. The pastor replied briefly that he 
was doing a great work, and could not come down, 
(Neh. 6:3) ; adding, that a discussion would probably 
do no good, inasmuch as it is said of some, that " God 
shall send them strong delusion, that they should be-
lieve a lie, that they might be damned."-2 Thess. 
2: 11, 12. The Universalist never phlished this let-
ter. This pastor had a correct idea of his high and 
repsonsible calling—doing a great work. Let every 
minister remember that he is called to do a great 
work, and let him not be weary in it nor desert it, 
but keep doing. 
minds of the English for this transfer, and' repeat " It is finished," and gaze on that coun-
hence to massacre, as aforetime, if necessary, tenance, in death so divine, and beneath its 
in order to carry out this scheme. When the thorny crown so blissful and benign, till it says 
notes were re-published in 1816, a similar end to you, " Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiv-
was in view. But the British press assailed en." It is the day when in the upper cham- 
the rebellious and murderous notes with such her, you may listen to a sermon of Paul, or, a 
force, that the very prelates who authorized pilgrim to Patmos along with the beloved dis-
them were compelled, by the force of public ciple, see Jesus again. And it is the day for 
opinion, to deny what they had done, and retire prayer—the Sabbath itself one closet, and your 
from their work. But as the doctrines of Rome quiet chamber another--a closet within a closet, 
will not allow of change, the same doctrines when you may surely shut out the world, and 
contained in these notes are still their doctrines, get very near to God ; the day for looking back 
though they may deny them or cease to own for confession, for eyeing the Lamb that was 
them formally. We will here give some speci- slain ; the day for looking forward, for selfaiedi- 
mens of these notes. 
cation, for holy resolutions, for obedience begun 
" Confess your sins one to another."—James anew. And it is the day of public worship, 
5:16. Upon this the note says : " That is, to when the glad bells say," Go ye up to the house 
the priests of the church, whom he had ordered of the Lord," and the willing worshipper an- 
to be called for, and brought to the sick." savers, " Thy face, Lord, will I seek." And it 
On Matthew 10:41, the note reads: " He that is the day for Christian converse ; when, corn-
receiveth a heretic into his house, and a false ing from the house of God in company, pious 
preacher, doth communicate with his wicked friends take counsel one with another; arid when 
works." 
under the quiet roof. they read, or go over the 
On Galatians 1:8, the Douay note reads : sermons, or commune together. And it is the 
" Hierome useth this place, wherein the apos- day for family instruction, when the hymns are 
tie giveth the curse or anathema to all false pid, and the chapters read, and the truth in Je-
teachers, not once, but twice, to prove that the sus expounded ; and when the father affection-
zeal of Catholic men ought to be so great toward ately strives to leave the lessons of heavenly 
all heretics and their doctrines, that they should wisdom imbedded in filial love. It is the day 
give them the anathema, though they were never for the Sabbath School, arid the prayer-meeting, 
so dear to them; in which case, saith this holy and the visit of mercy. It is the day when, so 
doctor, I would not spare my own parents." that you do not exhaust yourself or overtask 
Thus the notes teach that Catholics should not others, you may give every moment to the one 
spare their own parents if heretics. 
thing needful ; the day which is the best em- 
On Hebrews 5:7, the annotators,'speaking of ployed when the soul gets all, and heaven gets 
the translators of the Protestant English Bible, all, and God gets all. Dr. James Hamilton. 
say : " But if the good reader knew for what 
point of dottrine they have thus framed their 
translation, they would abhor them to the depths 
of hell." 
On Revelation 17:6, drunken of blood, the 
Douay note says : " The Protestants foolishly 
expound it of Rome, for that there they put the 
heretics to death, and allow of their punishment 
in other countries ; but their blood is not called 
the bood of saints, no more than the blood of 
thieves, man-killers, and other malefactors ; for 
the shedding of which, by the order of justice, 
no commonwealth shall answer." 
On 2 Corinthians 9:6, the note says : " You 
may see. hereby that the spiritual power of bish-
ops is not only in preaching the gospel, and so 
by persuasion and exhortation only, as some 
heretics hold, to remit or retain sins, but that it 
hath authority to punish, judge, and condemn 
heretics, and other like rebels.". " They " [the 
heretics] " would gladly draw this power from 
the lawful successors of the apostles to them-
selves, their ministers, and consistories, which 
are nothing else but the shops and councils of 
sedition and all the conspiracies of this time 
against the lawful princes of the world." 
On John 20:23, speaking of penance or abso-
lution, the note of the Douay says : " It follow-
eth necessarily that we be bound to submit our-
selves to their judgment for release of our 
sins. For this wonderful power were given 
them in vain, if none were bound to seek abso-
lution at their hands. All which God's ordi-
nance, whosoever condemneth, or contemneth, 
as heretics do, or neglecteth, as some careless 
Catholics do, let them be assured they cannot 
be saved." 
On John 21:17, " Feed my sheep," the note 
says : " Peter is actually made the general pas-
tor and governor of all Christ's sheep ; for though 
the other ten had authority to bind and loose, 
to remit and retain, to preach, baptize, and such 
like, as well as he, yet in these things and all 
other government, Christ would have him to be 
their head, and they to depend on him as head 
of their college, and consequently of the flock 
of Christ. No apostle nor no prince on earth, 
if he acknowledge himself to be a sheep of 
Christ, is exempted from his charge." 
Western Christian Advocate. 
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chargeable on the land the rural districts soon be- enemies. The regulars in their immediate front re-
came deserted. Nor was this all. It led to a uni- doted in number, the Persians the Moors, the Sax-
versa] system of bribing the tax assessors and the of- ons, all renewed their attacks against an unarmed 
ficers of each census. 
It is easy to see how this must have acted on 
Christianity. No Christian villager could live un-
der the hostility of the elders of his district, all of 
whom were members of the mysteries. He was thus 
forced to seek shelter in the towns, where numbers 
might afford mutual protection. But even here a 
combination for mutual support was necessarily a 
secret one. The great object of the Christians was, 
as now in Turkey, to become licensed communities. 
This appears to have been tacitly allowed under 
ALEXANDER SEVERU5. But, then, who was to fix 
the amount each individual should bear of his con-
gregational assessment ? Who so fit as his pastor ? 
But to assess fairly it became necessary that this pas-
tor should be at liberty to inquire into everything. 
Thus a modified confessional was introduced, and 
thus the Episcopns became a civil officer. His post 
was a perilous one, for, if the tribute were not made 
up, he was the hostage and the martyr. Hence it 
was also an honorable and influential one. He he" 
came the Treasurer of the Church. But it was es-
sential thaethe Treasurer of the Church should have 
no temptation to spend its treasures on his own fam-
ily. Hence the desire to have for bishops strangers 
and unmarried men. As head of the congregation 
the Episcopus had to stand between it and Roman 
exactions. Thus the talents of the rhetorician and 
the lawyer were called into play, and thus the whole 
character of the office was changed. The extreme 
Anti-State church man who maintains that the chief 
pastors of the Church did not at a very early period 
assume civil powers, and the High Episcopalian who 
asserts that they did so by direction of the apostles, 
appear to us alike grievously to err. The real truth 
is, that circumstances may have forced good men to 
perform these duties for the protection of their peo-
ple, but that when these duties ceased to be dangerous, 
and became profitable, they were eagerly claimed by 
unconverted and ambitious men as rights annexed in-
separably to their office. Hence,. however, a fresh 
impulse was given to the confessional. Thence again 
the inclination for an unmarried clergy was rapidly 
increased amongst the people, who dreaded lest their 
funds should be employed by the bishops to aggran-
dize their own families. Now we must also observe 
that the Church being a growing community, there 
was every inducement for the Basilidialis to join its 
ranks, as by so doing they diminished very consid-
erably the amount of their income tax. Thus, the 
bishops again, anxious to relieve their flocks, re-
ceived everybody who came as outer-court worship-
pers, and thus the jealousies must have increased be-
tween them and the diminishing bodies of Isis-wor-
shippers and pure Gnostics, who felt that every con-
vert, real or apparent, to Christianity, left his burden 
to be borne by those who remained faithful to the 
mysteries. 
Such is the state of the Greek Empire still, and 
to this system may be attributed the moral paralysis 
under which it now labors. To this rather than to 
the Turkish tyranny she owes her fall. To it the 
Sultan may ascribe his moral impotence. 
2hent Cyralb. 
"BEHOLD' THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
'BOSTON. SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1852. 
All readers of the lignAt,n are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he lion., 
ored and his ttuth adSanded I also, that it may be cOnthicied in 
faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the 
truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or 
sharp, uubrotherly disputation. 
RALPH ERSKINE'S SWORD SERMON: 
" Awake, 0 sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man 
that is my fellow, saith the Lord of liosts."-Zech.13:7. 
This text, sirs, is a very wonderful one, as ever a 
poor mortal man preached upon ; for in it there is a 
cloud, a black cloud, a cloud of divine wrath and ven-
geance, a bloody cloud, thecloud of CHRIST'S bloody 
passion which we are to celebrate the memorials of 
this day ; hut, like the cloud that led Israel in the 
wilderness, though it had a black side towards CHRIST, 
yet it has a bright and light side towards all the Is-
rael of Goo ; for this cloud of blood distils in a sweet 
shower of blessings upon :poor sinners : there is a 
light in this cloud wherin we may see GOD, in CHRIST, 
reconciling the world to himself. 
The preacher then calls attention to the summons, 
Awake, 0 Sword,—the party against whom the sword 
is raised, the Shepherd,—and who gives the summons, 
the Lord of Hosts. After rapidly developing the 
truths here embodied, he divides his discourse into 
appropriate heads, and follows their discussion with 
several inferences. The whole sermon occupies more 
than seventy-five pages, and must have occupied three 
or four hours in the delivery. In those days (1720) 
the people loved to hear more of Gon's word than 
they do now, in one sermon. But when the preacher 
had finished the discussion of the text, he leaves the 
pulpit, and comes down to the tables, which are set 
out in the aisles across the church, in front of the 
desk, and standing there he calls upon the people of 
the living Gou, the sheep of this smitten Shepherd, 
to come to the table and celebrate his dying love. 
" Is there any here, who, under a sense of their 
unworthiness, are fearing and trembling to approach 
to the LORD'S table, and yet would give all the world 
for a share of the saving and healing virtue of this 
glorious sacrifice, and see nothing in the wide world 
so fit for them as CHRIST ? I invite them to the LORD'S 
table. Are there any here lamenting the LORD'S an-
ger and absence at this day ? lamenting that things 
are so far wrong in the house of GOD, and that there 
is so little power and glory of GOD seen in the sanc-
tuary, and panting after communion and fellowship 
with him, crying, 0 that I knew where I might find 
him. 0 that it were with me as in times past ! 0 
for an heart to love CHRIST ! 0 for a sealed interest 
in CHRIST ! 0 for the healing balsam of the blood 
of the Lamb to cure the sad plagues of my heart, 
which I see to be as black as hell ! 0 come and 
take a drink, poor soul, at the Loge's table, even a 
fall draught of the blood of CHRIST, which cleanses 
from all sin ! Is there any here, any poor creature, 
that sees and laments his own weakness, and the 
power of sin and corruption in him, pained to the 
heart with his numberless backslidings from the Lord 
JESUS ? I would gladly have a knot cast between 
CHRIST and his soul, that may never loose ; such 
strength and grace communicate, as that he may 
never go back from GOD: I invite you to come for-
ward to the LORD'S table, and get a strengthening 
meal. 
" Perhaps there is sore e trembling, weak believer 
here, that is doubting whether he has grace or not ; 
whether he be a believer or not ; 0 cry to the Spirit 
of Goo to be sent to clear you, by showing to you 
the things that are freely given you of GOD. I shall 
only ask you, who are fearing you have no interest 
in him, no portion in the son of JESSE, the man that 
is GOD'S Fellow ; tell me, will you quit your part of 
him ? Could you freely choose to take the world, 
and your lusts, and let others take CHRIST who 
please ? would you find in your beart to 'rest contented 
with other things, and give any body your part of 
CHRIST ? What say you to that, poor doubting soul ? 
Is your heart now melting, and relenting within you, 
and saying, 0 minister ! what is it that you are say-
ing ? that wounds me to the bottorn,of my soul ! quit 
all my part of CHRIST ! 0 no, no, no ! If I were sure 
of my interest in him, I would not quit my part in 
him for ten thousand, thousand, thousand worlds ; 
and even as it is, though I dare not assert that I have 
an interest in him, yet I would not say that I would 
quit my part in him ; no, for all that lies within the 
bosom of the universe. Is that the language of your 
heart? Well, CHRIST hears that, and he will mind 
it as a token of some heart-kindness to him. Can 
you say, that GOD will be just and righteous though 
he send you to the bottom of hell, instead of allowing 
you to sit at this table ; and if such a dog as you, get 
a crumb from him, it will be a miracle of mercy ? 
Can you say, that though doubts and darkness, and 
innumerable evils be now surrounding you, yet, for 
what you know, it was a day of power you met with 
at such a time, in which a saving work, as you 
ahought, was begun, and now you would willingly 
have it cleared tip to you ? Can you say, that though 
you have a thousand objections against yourself, and 
your own heart and frame, yet you have no objections 
against CHRIST ? at least if any reasonings and high 
imaginations against him be risen and raging in your 
heart, you would gladly take hold on him, that he may 
cast all down, and take and keep the throne himself? 
Do you see the way of salvation, through free grace, 
and through his perfect righteousness, to be an excel-
lent way, worthy of GOD and suitable to man, becom-
ing the wisdom and glory of God, and that you are 
well pleased with this way? Can you finally say, that 
you are one of the poorest creatures in all the world ; 
poor and needy, destitute of all good, of all grace, 
of all faith, love, repentance, holiness, and any other 
spiritual quality in yourself; but that you see an in-
finite fulness in CHRIST, that can supply you, and out 
of which you desire to be supplied with all that you 
need ? and can appeal to heaven, that in him only 
you desire to be found, who is all in all? Can you 
say, Yea and Amen to these things? Then, poor 
soul, I charge and command you, in the name of the 
LORD of hosts, to venture forward to this table, as 
you would riot displease him and grieve his Holy 
Spirit by staying away, when he calls you, and com-
mands you to do this in remembrance of him, and of 
his kindness to you. You know not if ever you will 
get another opportunity, poor straying% wandering 
sheep ; though you be such a weak creature, as that 
you think, if you be among the flock of CHRIST at 
all, you are the worst among them all for sin ; and 
the least among them all for grace ; and straying so 
far behind ail the rest of the flock, that you will never 
get up among the -est, unless the great Shepherd 
take you tip in hi arms, and carry you ; I charge 
you in his name, ti some forward, and see the glori-
ous Shepherd smitten with the sword of justice in 
your room." 
N. Y. Observer. 
IS ROME BABYLON, AND WHY! 
FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continued from our last.) 
When DIOCLESIAN, elected by the army as Em-
peror, and by the Senate as Pontiff, ascended the 
Capitol, and declared himself the Viceroy of GOD 
upon earth, all things betokened the approach of some 
fearful catastrophe. Men's minds were perturbed by 
presages of thick coming danger. Hitherto the 
wars of Rome, dictated by necessity, had for long 
been limited to wars of reprisal against aggressive 
barbarians, and she, therefore, biding her time, had 
avoided engaging at the same moment in different 
contests beyond her own frontiers. Thus her entire 
might could be brought to bear on any point of dan-
ger, and the legionary quartered at Caerleon might, 
equally with the Pretorian cohorts at Rome, or the 
long battalions that lined the Tigris, be ordered at 
any moment to march toJerusalem, or concentrate at 
Vienna. Thus, too, each enemy, attacked in turn, 
had yielded to her ponderous force. The times, how-
ever, had changed. The system of taxation and of 
exclusively paid military service, introduced by Au-
GUSTUS, and carried into effect's when CYRENIUS was 
made Governor of Syria," had now worked its des-
tined results. Apparently just, it was of all measures 
most fatal. By it the uncontrolled will of the Em-
peror decided the expenses of the Empire, and his 
ministers had only to apportion those expenses 
amongst the different communities according to their 
reported wealth at the last census ; leaving each com-
munity to raise the money at which it was assessed 
how it pleased, by its own elected r. presentatives. 
Hence arose three great evils : first, that every man 
endeavoring to underrate his wealth, the most un-
scrupulous escaped the most lightly ; secondly, that 
in every community where a difference of opinion or 
party existed the minority were taxed at discretion of 
the majority, and thus the weight was thrown upon 
shoulders least able to bear it ; and thirdly, that as 
the tax was levied upon long-past estimates of the 
wealth of each community,—a community, which 
had fallen off to few members, paid the same as when 
numerous, whilst one which had trebled its wealth and 
population paid no more. In other words, according 
to this admirable system Liverpool and Glasgow 
would pay less than Old Sarum or Caerleon. The 
result of this was to destroy the agricultural popula-
tion of the less fertile districts, since wherever they 
temporarily suffered by wars or pestilence the pres-
sure of taxation became too great for the survivors 
to endure, and tt e arrears of taxes always continuing 
The result of these measures had been the escheat 
of unoccupied estates to Government, and their con-
version into Imperial domains or re-grant to Imperial 
favorites, who cultivated them by slave labor. This 
of course had destroyed the agricultural class. In 
the great towns again the people were rigidly dis-
armed and excluded from military exercises. Thus 
it had become impossible to raise a native army, and 
the Emperors were compelled to recruit their forces 
either from the mountain tribes, who owned a doubt-
ful and uncertain allegiance, or with Gauls, Britons, 
Germans, Sclavonians, and Moors, who were inter-
changed so as to watch opposite races, but who had 
no sympathies with the Greek or Roman people, and 
could rarely converse in their tongues. 
At this period, however, the tide of war seemed to 
set in on four different frontiers at the samestime. 
The rising of the coast of Siberia had turned the 
course of the rivers that run into Lake Aral, and 
compelled millions of mounted inhabitants to seek 
elsewhere water for their flocks and food for them-
selves. These men, however, were of two kinds, the 
Tartar, a race apparently half Japhetic, half Hamit-
ic, distinguished by the ferocity of its passions, the 
strength of its will, its iron hardihood, and the 
Gothic or Scandinavian tribes, who had retired north-
wards tinder ODIN, before the arms of Lucue-
Les. - These mounted warriors coasting round the 
Black Sea poured down into Germany, driving before 
them the less warlike inhabitants headlong upon the 
Roman lines, whilst the must warlike of all sought 
the coasts of the Baltic and the mountains of Scan-
dinavia. To meet them required the whole power 
of Rome, and the Emperor was called therefore to 
head his own Dalmatian and Albanian countrymen 
on the Dacian frontier. 
But this very movement gave confidence to other 
people, and it was soon found that to contend against 
opponents so different, required different systems, dif-
ferent tactics, and different arms. We have ourselves 
seen how little the square formations and bright bayo-
nets that triumphed at Waterloo and Aliwal have done 
against the naked Kaffir, and as little would the ap-
pointments and manoeuvres for Kaffir war avail 
against the Frenchman's cannon or the Seik's scimi-
tar. Hence it became necessary to have four distinct 
armies, each having its own separate staff and com-
rnander-in-chief, or in other words, Imperator, and 
its own peculiar organization and system of recruit-
ment. Thus also GALERIUS, having no longer the 
north to draw upon for his soldiery, must have re-
cruited with Koordish mountaineers, the only men in 
his dominions fit for war, but who have always, true 
to their old demon worship, manifested a deadly ha-
tred to the name of CHRIST. 
The time for a complete change in the administra-
tion of the Roman and Greek Empires had therefore 
now arrived. Hitherto the military command of the 
whole, jointly with the Pontificate of the West, had 
been vested in one Emperor, but the civil administra-
tion had been carried on by the four distinct Vice-
roys, with their respective Cabinets. Now, it be-
came necessary that each province should have its 
own military centre, and its own army, adapted to 
the peculiar duties it was required to perform. The 
necessity was complied with, and the Roman Em-
pire now had four four heads, DIOCLESIAN, GALERIUS, 
MAXIMIN, and CONSTANTIUS, all—pardon the expres-
sion—connected by the Pontificate of DIOCLESIAN, as 
by a great spinal process, with the Senate arid people 
of Rome. 
No sooner had this been carried through than the 
eligious state of E mpire req u r tit. to )1. 
mere military chief (might sanction unlimited tolera-
tion, since his will was law, and he could enforce it 
at any moment, but the only means by which three 
co-equal Emperors could be in union with the fourth 
was by the national religion. DIOCLESIAN as Pontiff 
was their master and their priest. He alone was sa-
cred and inviolable. He had the veto on all laws, for 
he alone could offer the sacrifices at which was pro-
nounced the will of the Supreme. On him depended 
the awful fiat of the gods. Thus, he had now a di-
rect interest in maintaining the old Roman creed, and 
in compelling all to worship the old Roman deities. 
He was by blood what ethnologists call a Schypetar, 
an individual of the same race as MEHEMET Act, Ars 
PASHA, SCANDERBERG, and others, a race singularly 
indifferent to all religions except as means to an end, 
and who with great energy, considerable talent, and 
much valor, are mainly remarkable for intense sel-
fishness, indifference to other men's suffering, and 
indomitable will. They have also been marked as 
chiefs without chivalry, merchants without munifi-
cence, and mountaineers without patriotism. Hence 
this man was quite ready to tolerate or todestroy the 
Church as it suited him best. 
Now, at this very time Egypt, for long divided be-
tween the Moudeman worshippers of Isis, the Chris-
tians, and the Hamitic followers of SERAPI5, or the 
male principle, and a multitude who mixed op all 
three creeds without understanding any, was liter-
ally scourged into rebellion by excessive demands for 
support of the slaves and sycophants of Rome. Very 
sternly was their rebellion suppressed. In it the 
worshippers of Isis had led the way. DIOCLESIAN 
murdered their priests, destroyed their writings, an-
nihilated their sacred literature, and appears to have 
left them no refuge for escape except amongst the 
Vitrian monks of the desert. Here, then, was ano-
ther front of contact between Isis worship and Chris-
tianity. Can we believe that these skilful mesmerists 
and magicians of the Memphitic temples would not 
work on the minds of ignorant and weak-minded as-
cetics, excited by fasting into mental delirium, and 
on the look out for miracles. However this may he, 
the necessity of suppressing the Egyptian revolt 
placed DIOCLESIAN'S government in exact opposition 
to the worshippers of Isis everywhere. The secret 
mysteries of CYBELE, Of which DIOCLESIAN was 
chief, do not appear to conic under the same ban of 
the Pontiff.
ButtItere was another faith spreading,—a faith 
more natural, yet more dangerous in a country in-
habited only by the very rich and the very poor. It 
was neither more nor less than modern Socialism in 
its foulest shape. It had first taken its rise in Persia. 
The followers of BASILIDES, driven across the Ti-
gris, appear to have carried out their universal cus-
tom, to combine the popular creed with their own. 
In Persia they found a vast Semetic population, who 
had been conquered but not enslaved by the tribes of 
the North. 
The state of this population was entirely antago-
nistic to that of Rome. Its first layer, we have al-
ready observed, consisted, towards the west, of the 
conquered descendants of Ouse, who still clung to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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their old worship of the Power of Evil, andlmost of 
whom appear afterwards to have fled to India. To 
the south, of the children of ARPHAXAD, the modern 
Persians, who we know, for the most part are prac-
tical Boodists, assuming the name of Moslems, but 
in truth doubting all things, and thoroughly Panthe-
ists. Both these were ruled by the mailed votaries of 
MITHRA .the war-god. Now, the conquerors, aware 
how much the intellect of men depends on their moth-
ers, and that the effect of an intermarriage with a dif-
ferent type of mankind remains in the family for at 
least ten generations, constituted themselves as much 
an aristocracy of race as the American planters now, 
or as the French aristocracy did up to 1789. They 
allowed the conquered to form guilds and municipali-
ties, to hold all civil offices, to grow as rich as they 
pleased ; even to organize their own militia ; but 
they excluded them from regular military command ; 
and the poorest Circassian then, as now, looked with 
intense contempt on the richest merchant. On the 
other hand, the Government seems to have been tol-
erably equitable. Yet the merchant revelling in 
wealth, naturally envied the haughty bearing and 
lordly look of the ruling caste, as they passed him 
bristling with arms, whilst the poor and perhaps dis-
solute members of the aristocracy scowled on the 
wealthy merchant, and longed to share his wealth.—
(To be continued.) 
DR. ROBINSON'S LATE TOUR. 
At the last meeting of the N. Y. Historical Socie-
ty, the Rev. EDWARD ROBINSON, D. D., read a paper 
of considerable length, on his recent journey in Pal-
estine. The paper, says the Times, contained a 
mass of laborious and interesting investigation into 
the topography of different places of interest in the 
Holy Land, and learned disquisition on the theories 
of modern writers ; but was so replete with Syriac 
and Hebrew names, and so dependent on the frequent 
reference to maps, that no idea could be satisfactorily 
comprised within the limits of a report. The paper 
was one he said, which he had prepared for the Ori-
ental Society, and was much too lengthy and de-
tailed for this occasion. Ever since the publication 
of his work on Palestine, lie had a desire to re-visit 
those scenes, to renew his investigations. Accord-
ingly, in March, 1852, he reached Beyrout, and, in 
company with Rev. ELY SMITH, proceeded on a tour 
through the Holy Land. It was a singular fact, that 
no regular survey had yet been made of the Syrian 
coast ; and it was gratifying to learn that such a sur-
vey would be made next year, by the British Gov-
ernment. The learned Doctor made interesting men-
tion of the numerous sarcophaga met on the route, 
and the remains of fortresses, which hare traces of 
repairs once made by the Crusaders. 
In the Rama of Ashur, there were several sarco-
phagi. From this high point they could trace the 
course of the rivers and valleys, from the south. 
All the remains of edifices would tend to show a de-
gree of civilization and comfort among the Jews 
which we had no conception they enjoyed. The Ra-
ma of Napthali was a plain, rich with beautiful fields 
of grain. They visited a ruin which might he rec-
ognized as the Gabara of JosEpues, which showed 
ruins of houses and a strong fortress, giving evidence 
that it was once a place of considerable strength. 
The ruins of Galilee were visited by them. It 
seemed to have been once a large village. The 
Zebulon of Bethlehem was now a miserable village, 
having no evidence of antiquity save its name. At 
Habea they found an ancient wine-press, in the rock, 
which was in condition for use, had there been grapes 
there to press; but the country was desolate ; on the 
south side of the Jerusalem road were several for-
tresses. They visited Zora, where they met twelve 
women toiling up a high mountain, with pitchers, 
from a fountain, and thought that there the mother 
of Sampson had once carried her pitcher from the 
well. They reached Jerusalem three weeks after 
leaving Beyrout, where they spent twelve days in 
examining its topography and ruins. This was not 
a time to enter on the vexed question of topography, 
of Jerusalem, but he would mention a few matters in 
which all received plans of the Holy City seemed at 
fault. Dr. RosiNsoN here went into an interesting 
description of the city, illustrating it on Catherwood's 
Map. He did not, he said, find the hypothesis of 
recent writers supported by the appearance of the 
city. 
In going northward from Jerusalem, their object 
was to keep as close as possible to the eastern brow 
of the mountains of Galilee. In the valley of the 
Jordan, the river appeared crowded. The vegetation 
here was very rich. The grass came up to the horses' 
heads. Here they bargained with two young Sheiks 
to carry them across the Jordan. Having got safely 
over, they approached a mountain, and were sur-
rounded by twenty or thirty armed men, who mis-
took them for officers to levy conscription ; but being 
acquainted with their guides, they treated them hos-
pitably. 
At Telhorm they met an interesting Jewish struc- 
tore ; and thence proceeded to visit the sources of 
the Jordan, as laid down by JOSEPHUS. 
The Doctor, in the history of his travels, connected 
the localities he visited with the Sacred writings, 
many passages in which were beautifully explained 
by the situation and condition of the country. He 
visited the Sabbatical river, of which it was related 
by JOSEPHUS that it stopped flowing on the Jewish 
Sabbath. He returned to Beyrout on the 19th of 
June. This, the account of his second visit to the 
Holy Land was, he said but Historical Topography 
of the country, in relation to the Holy Scriptures, 
and secondly to the writings of JOSEPHUS. 
N. Y. Observer. 
St. Jago De Clin. 
The following paragraph, from the Havana cor-
respondence of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, 
gives in a brief space a summary of the disasters 
which have visited St. Jago de Cuba, during the 
present season : 
" Our accounts from St. Jago de Cuba represent 
a most deplorable condition of the people in that fated 
city, brought to the climax of wretchedness by ano-
ther shock of earthquake, which took place the 26th 
of November. But three months since, a similar 
visitation destroyed property estimated by millions. 
Disease has also been taking off the first-born of the 
land—every house has been a dwelling of sorrow, 
and in some none are left to weep. Cholera, small-
pox, and fever, have been most fatal, in consequence 
probably of the want of the usual comforts of which 
they were deprived in August last. With this ac-
cumulation of misery, to receive the chastening rod 
again, leaves nothing to hope for with that people,—
they cannot be built up. The suffering, I am in-
formed by reliable letters, cannot be appreciated by 
those who cannot witness it. There have been none 
to bury their dead out of their sight,—and the bodies 
are exposed upon the surface of the burying ground, 
—while hunger wastes away the strong man, and 
the loveliness of the land in its perished daughters." 
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS.— An account from 
Washington states that a Mr. CARROWAN, a citizen 
of Hyde county, of some fifty years of age, and many 
years a Baptist preacher, lately, on some frivolous 
pretext, knocked his wife down with a chair, and 
beat her with it till the chair broke in pieces, and 
then seized a large stick and continued to beat her, 
until a man named LASSITER, who hoarded in the 
house, prevented further violence, and then made his 
escape from the house. A few days afterwards, say 
on the 15th of last month, LASSITER chanced to go by 
the house, which stood near the public road, when 
CARROWAN seeing, him pass, took his gun and ran 
through his field to cut him off, and overtook him in 
the savannah, and shot him dead ; then took up his 
victim and carried him some half a mile into the 
swamp, and threw him face down into the mud, and 
stamped him below the surface, and covered him 
over with brush, and then made his escape, and is 
supposed to have gone to California. He had been a 
hard working man, and accumulated some $5,000 or 
$6,000 worth of property. He had been married 
three times, and has children by each marriage ; and 
horrible to tell, circumstances have now come out 
that both his deceased wives came to their deaths by 
his hands ! Mr. LASSITER was an educated man, a 
school teacher, and very much of a gentleman. 
THE FRENCH AT SONORA.—By arrivals at New 
Orleans we have some additional intelligence from 
the operations of the French at Sonora : 
" On the 17th of October the Governor of Sonora 
called out the National Guard, placing them under 
the command of MANUEL GANDARA. The permanent 
occupation of the State has given an obvious impulse 
to the disposition of the people to resist the invaders. 
RAOUSSET DE BUI,B0N, the French commander, in a 
letter of the 15th Oct., addressed to MARIANO PARE-
DES, assures him that with him alone will he hold 
verbal communication. 
PAREDES had declined to 
wait upon the Count, and referred the letter to the 
Government. 
RAOUSSET wrote to GANDARA that he 
contended not against Sonora, but against General 
BLANCO ; and that he was willing to arrange an ac-
commodation. Nothing is heard from Gen. BLANCO." 
 
ANOTHER MIRACLE.—A late Havana paper relates 
the following :—" Yesterday, Sunday, at nine o'clock 
in the morning, the house of DONNA SERAPHINA Go-
MEZ, situated in the Campo de la Maloga, was in-
vaded by an extraordinary concourse of people, in 
consequence of the report' that (a picture of) SAN 
FRANCISCO de PAULA was discovered sweating. Im-
mediately several priests hurried to the spot, to as-
certain .the truth of the matter, and they were of 
opinion that the sweat was produced by the gum bf 
the frame where the saint stood. The significations 
which are given to this miracle are various. Some 
believe that they see in it the end of our misfortunes, 
and others, on the contrary, predict enormous ca-
lamities." 
To Correspondents. 
B. DIMMICK.—We do not know that Scripture 
throws any light on that question, except that in tak-
ing upon himself our nature, that nature must have 
been mortal like onrs. But He who was before ABRA-
HAM, must certainly have possessed another nature 
that was never mortal. 
Blees.—Subscribers owing for past or previous 
volumes of the Herald, will find enclosed hills of 
their indebtedness. They are earnestly desired to 
forward us the sums without delay, as we wish to use 
the money in settling new year's bills, and meeting 
necessary expenses of the office. 
Our thanks are due to those of our subscribers, 
who seeing our previous notices, have responded to 
our claims against them. 
" RAPPING SPIRITS."—We are now entirely out 
of this tract, and shall not publish any more unless 
we receive orders sufficient to warrant it. The rea-
son is, that it is included in the new work on the 
Apocalypse,—now nearly complete, so that those 
wishing for single copies can supply themselves with 
it by purchasing that,—many preferring so to do. 
As our paper was going to press, a telegraphic dis-
patch from Dr. N. SMITH informed us that Bro. HimEs 
was sick at Hollowell, and wished his appointments 
to be re-called until-further notice. 
Bro. E. BURNHAM will commence his labors with 
the Chardon-street church next Sunday, the 26th, as 
assistant pastor, fur a season. 
FOREIGN' NEWS. 
FRANCE.—Accounts from Paris say that negotiations be-
tween France and England are so far advanced that a modi-
fication of the tariffs of the two countries will be made public 
within a few weeks. 
The official vote of the Empire had not reached us. To-
day, 1st, the whole of the Legislative corps will proceed to 
St. Cloud to make known the result to the Emperor elect, 
and to-morrow the Empire will be formally proclaimed. In 
the evening Paris will be illuminated, and the next day the 
Senate will be convoked to settle the civil list of the Empe-
ror and the salaries of the members of the Imperial family. 
Some few legitimists have resigned in the departments, in 
compliance with the EIENRY V. manifesto. 
The Emancipator publishes a confirmation of the report 
that HENRY insists on issuing a new manifesto addressed to 
all the princes of Europe against the usurpation of the Bona-
partes. 
The Municipal Councilor Strasburg has voted unanimous-
ly to present in gift to the Emperor, the castle of that city as 
an imperial residence. The castle was in like manner be-
stowed on NAPOLEON 1st. 
The Customs receipt in France, in the ten months ending 
1st Nov., 1852, exceed by £17,171,812 the receipts of the 
corresponding period of the previous year. 
PORTUGAL—The U. S. brig Dolphin was in the Tagus 
on the 20th Nov. 
The Portuguese governtnent has taken offence at the Bra-
zilian Minister, and resolved to suspend all official relations 
with him. 
AUSTRIA.—Two violent shocks of an earthquake were 
felt in the north of Hungary on the 15th of October. 
GERMANY.—The correspondent of the Daily News states 
that preparations are being made jnst now at Hamburg fur 
the emigration of several hundred persons to Salt Lake City. 
TURKEY.—The Turkish campaign against the insurgents, 
in Central Syria had totally failed, and operations were sus-
pended till the spring. 
ITALY.—The Pope has resolved to send an apostolic dele-
gate to the Haytien government. 
The Pope has received a letter from the King of Siam, 
promising that during his reign there shall be no persecution 
of the Christians within his doininions. 
PUTTING DOWN THE BIBLE IN ROME.—The Roman 
correspondent of the Londnn Daily News writes as follows : 
"The vigorous searches of the Roman authorities after Bi-
bles within the limits of the eternal city have now extended 
beyond the pale of Christianity, and the Jewish quarter has 
beep subjected to a strict perquisition by the police agents. 
One would imagine that with respect to the Old Testament, 
at any rate, the Jews might be allowed to judge whether the 
translation of Diodati was sufficiently correct for their peru-
sal ; but it appears that the cardinal vicar, under whose es-
pecial surveillance the Hebrew community are placed, knows 
better than their own rabbi what is fit fur them to read, and 
has, therefore, confiscated the forbidden books, together with 
many of their own editions—which, upon their complaining 
of the loss, they have been advised to go and ask for again 
at the police office. It is really astonishing that, in the so-
called centre of Christianity, the dissemination of the Bible 
should be looked upon by the ecclesiastical authorities with 
as much horror as the circulation of the most atheistical pro-
ductions." 
DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA.—Ina late num-
ber of the Pekin Gazette, there appears an account of a terri-
ble earthquake that occurred a few months ago in the prov-
ince of Kan-sub, in the northwest of China. The governor 
of the province Shookingah states in a memorial to the Em-
peror, that the shocks commenced in the city of Chung-wei 
and its neighborhood on the 26th of May last, and were re-
peated many times during a space of fifteen days from that 
date. The devastation and loss of' life caused was frightful. 
Upwards of 300 persons were killed ; more than 400 serious-
ly hurt, and several thousand houses destroyed. The public 
offices, granaries, prisons, and also the ramparts of the city 
were thrown down. Theses calamities having reduced the 
people to a state of the utmost want and distress, the Empe-
ror has ordered immediate assistance to be rendered to the 
sufferers, and their payment of the land tax for the present 
year to be remitted, 
THE POPE AND LOUIS NAPOLEON.—It is stated that 
the Pope is unwilling to accept the invitation to proceed to 
Paris to consecrate the new Emperor. The proceedings of 
Pius VII., at the coronation of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 
having been urged as a precedent, the Pope is said to have 
replied : 6' Plus VII. consecrated the founder of a dynasty ; 
that was entirely an exceptional case ; the moment the new 
emperor is to Ire denominated NAPOLEON III.' and reigns 
by right of succession, a favor cannot be demanded for him 
which might with equal right be demanded by all the Catho• 
lic sovereigns of Europe ; and in such a case the whole of a 
pope's life would be spent in travelling." Fresh negotiations 
have been commenced to induce his Holiness to change his 
purpose. 
THE MADAL—The latest accounts from Florence state 
that the hopes which have recently been entertained of a 
speedy release of FRANCESCO and ROSA MADA1, (impris-
oned for reading the Scriptures) are likely to prove delusive. 
FRANCESCO has been withdrawn from the charge of the 
regular chaplain of the jail, and placed tinder the surveillance 
of a guard of Capuchin friars, whose instructions are to em-
ploy all the available resources of the church, including both 
exhortations and discipline, to bring him back to the Rotnish 
faith. To prevent any interference with this process of con-
version, the permission given to his friends to see him is now, 
restricted to once a month. 
ROSA has been promised her 
liberty on condition of abjuring her faith. 
BLOODY AFFRAY AT SOUTH BOSTON.— Wednesday 
night about 11, three Irishmen, after drinking rather deeply, 
waylaid a brother Irishman near the corner of Second and J 
street, South Boston. They fell upon him as he was pro-
ceeding hotne from his work in the rolling mill, knocked him 
down, trampled upon him, and inflicted serious wounds (upon 
his head with a 'wife or some other sharp instrument. A 
watchman hearing the outcry hastened to the place, when the 
ruffians fled, leaving their victim prostrate in the street, near-
ly senseless, stripped of every article of clothing save his 
pants, and bleeding profusely. 
The watehtnan assisted him up, wrapped his cloak around 
him, and with the help of a gentleman who was passing at 
the time took him to his house on Bolton street. The man 
was perfectly sober, gave the names of his assailants, and 
the reasons of his assault. From his account it appears that 
about six weeks since the ringleader, whose name is MUR-
PHY, was discharged from one " gang " in the Iron Works 
for drunkenness and disorderly behavior, and that he was 
hired in his place, and that MURPHY has held a grudge 
against him ever since. MURPHY has since been at work 
in another "gang," and that night with two others of the 
satne gang, perpetrated this most dastardly act. 
Boston Journal. 
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—The heaviest robbery that has 
occurred in this city for many years, was perpetrated Tues-
day evening, on board the steamboat Editor, lying at the 
wharf, on her way from Pittsburgh to St. Louis. Whilst the 
passengers were at supper, about five o'clock, the state-room 
of Mr. ROBERT BUTCHER was pried open with a chisel—
the burglar forcing open the outside door—and $5321 ab-
stracted from a valise in the room. Mr. BUTCHER was for-
merly a resident of Cambria comity, Pennsylvania, near 
Johnstown, and was on his way to the West to seek a new 
home, accompanied by his wife and children. The money 
was all he possessed in the world, and the shock of the loss 
was so great upon his wife that it was found necessary to use 
force to prevent her from throwing herself into the river. 
Cincinnati Gazette, Dec. 9. 
It was stated in an act of Parliament passed in the third 
year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, that the number of pris-
oners in the kingdom, confined for debts and crimes, amounted 
to more than sixty thousand. One writer asserts that during 
the same reign of thirty-eight years, seventy•two thousand 
persons were executed for thefts and robbery—amounting to 
nearly two thousand a year ! It thus appears that either 
rogues are not so numerous in " these degenerate days " as 
formerly, or that a vast number escape unwhipped and un-
hanged, who richly deserve it. 
A late English paper, speaking of the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, says :—" A new plagiarism of Mr. Disraeli's has 
been just discovered by a writer in the Morning Chronicle. 
It is in the character of Lord Cadurcis, in his Venetia,' pub-
lished in 1837, which is copied in many passages word for 
word front Macatilay's Essay on Lord Byron, published in 
the Edinburg Review in 1830. It appears now beyond doubt, 
that Lord Derby's brilliant calleague hair long possessed the 
faculty of sacking' by wholesale the riches of other men's 
brains in literature and politics." • 
On the let of January, 1853. the sale of lottery tickets will 
be forever prohibited in Virginia. 
Some idea of the motley character of the San Antonio popu-
lation may he formed from the circumstance, that at a great 
land sale lately, the auctioneer and his associates [mule their 
offers to conduct the sales in four different tongues, the Eng-
lish, the Spanish, German and French. 
The first Catholic Church in Albany was completed in De-
cember, 1798. It occupied the site of St. Mary's Church, 
corner of Pine and Chapel street. There are now five Cath-
olic Churches aad the Cathedral in that city. 
Death from Poison—Tuesday afternoon, Eliza Jane, two 
Years old, and daughter of Thos. Skelly, who resides at 10 Ad-
ams street, obtained possession of a bottle containing poison, 
of which she drank. The mother soon discovered her child 
in convulsions, and the little stiffener pointed to the fatal bot-
tle. Medical aid was immediately called, but proved of no 
avail, as the child died that evening. 
CENSUS RETURNS. 
The recent report of the Superientendent of the 
United States census returns contains many import-
ant facts, sonic of the most interesting of which we 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
lay before our readers. It appears from the report til after four in the afternoon that they were finally to the condolence of her friends with a bitterness and , 
that the number of houses in the United States occu- dispersed. One Parsee boy, we hear, who was de- scorn almost demoniacal. 
pied by free persons at the time of the taking of the coyed by some Mohammedans into a stable, was so The father and daughter removed to a spa for 
last census amounted to 3,363,427. The annual num- severely beaten as to endanger his life ; and we un- change of scene. On the night of their arrival the 
bar of deaths throughout the country have been to the derstand on good authority that so infuriated were hotel was in flames ; but this time the fire began in 
number of living in the ratio of 1 to 73 ; being in the the ruffians that they sent for a doctor of their own her apartment, for from her window were the sparks 
North Western States 1 to 80, and in New England community to see if the boy would bear any more first seen to issue, and again was she found dressed, 
1 to 64. The reason why the rate of deaths in the beating ! During the day numerous isolated assaults seated, and in a reverie. The hotel was the property 
North Western States are so much lower than in took place, chiefly by Mohammedans. The Parsees of the sovereign of the little state in which the spa 
New England, lies in the youthful population of the have indeed behaved remarkably well throughout was situated. An investigation took place ; she was 
new States, and the comparative absence of aged per- these scenes—so much so that on Sunday not a per- arrested, and at once confessed that on each of the 
sons. Of the free inhabitants of the United States, son of that sect was taken into custody. Of the Mo- three occasions she had been the culprit ; that she 
2,210,828 were found to have been born in foreign hammedans a hundred were made prisoners." could not tell wherefore, except that she had an irre- 
countries—forming 11.06 per cent. of the entire free On the succeeding Tuesday night, a cowardly out- sistible longing to set houses on fire. Each time 
population. Of these Ireland has contributed 961,719, rage was committed by a party of mussulmen on the she had striven against it as long as she could, but 
and Germany 573,225. 
cemetery of a recently deceased respected citizen. was unable to stand the temptation. This longing 
The number of white mutes in the United States They wrenched the lock from the door, entered the first supervened a few weeks after she had been 
amounts to 9091, and the colored to 632, of whom cemetery, dragged down the netting of hrasswork seized with a sudden depression of spirits ; that she 
489 are slaves. Among the white population there which protected several bodies, desecrated the place, felt a hatred to all the world, but had strength to re-
is one deaf mute to every 2151 persons ; of the free and then decamped. This was considered the most frain from oaths arid curses against it. She is at this 
colored, one to every 3005 ; and among the slaves wanton and savage act of barbarity that could be of- time in a mad-house, where she was at first allowed 
one to every 6552. The number of persons destitute lured to the Parsee people, and those who committed some liberty ; but after an exhibition of homicidal 
of sight is 9702, of whom 7997 are white, and 1705 it, the paper says, drew down upon themselves the monomania towards a child, of a ferocity most ap- 
colored—of which latter 1211- are slaves—being merited contempt of men of all persuasions. palling, it was found necessary to apply the severest 
among the white population in proportion of one to It was expected that on the succeeding Friday the restraint. She still possesses memory, her reason- 
every 2445 persons ; among the free colored one to riots would be renewed by the Mussulmen, and am- ing powers, her petulant wit, and observes the most 
each 870 ; and among the slaves one to each 2645. pie police arrangements were made to suppress them. scrupulous delicacy. 
The number of insane persons is given at 15,768, of The day, however, passed off quietly. In the after-
whom 15,156 are whites, 321 free colored, and 291 noon, a meeting of the leading Parsees and Moham-
slaves. The number of idiots returned is 15,706, dis- medans was held, at which conciliatory speeches were 
tributed as follows : Whites, 14,230 ; free colored, made, and the editor of the paper who published the Dr. Kane, of the United States navy, in his lee- 
436 ; slaves, 1040. Total insane and idiotic, 31,474. obnoxious translation sent in an apology, stating that ture before the Geographical and Statistical Society 
From these returns it appears that among the white he meant no disrespect to the Mohammedans, and did in New York, delivered Tuesday evening, advocated 
population in the United States there exists one in- not intend to hurt their- feelings. The Mohamme- the theory of an open Polar Sea, and cited as facts 
sane person for every 1290 individuals, and one idiot dans present accepted the apology. The Parsees and to sustain the theory, among other things, that the 
to every 1374 persons ; among the free colored, one Mohammedans then entered their carriages, and rode estuaries of Baffin's and Hudson's bays and Biter-
insane person to every 1338, and one idiot to each through the city, to give ocular demonstration to the ing's strait, indicate the existence of a Polar basin, 
985 ; of the slaves, one out of every 11,010 is insane, people that at last peace reigned between the two having an active supply and discharge, as well as 
and one out of every 3080 is an idiot. 
communities. Since then peace has prevailed in an internal circulation ; the intercommunication of 
With regard to education, it is stated that near Bombay. Numbers of Mussulmen have been fined, whales between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as 
4,000,000 youth were receiving instruction in the va- and three are in custody for causing the death of a shown by Maury ; the increase of watmth in many 
rious institutions of the country on the 1st of June, Parsee who died from injuries received during the places in very high latitudes ; the migration of ani- 
1850 ; or at the rate of one in every five free persons. riot. 
mats, and the flight of birds of passage, some of which 
 
The teachers number more than 115,000, and the 
• 
incubate in regions of unknown northness ; the phe- 
 
colleges and schools near 100,000. Speaking of pau- 
Awful Catastrophe. 
roomena of the Polar drift, which indicates that the 
 
perism, the report says that the whole number of 
 Tuesday 
, thaw commences on the northern and not on the 
On 
 morning, about a quarter to twelve 
 
persons who have received the benefit of the public 
southern side. 
o'clock, the four story new brick building, fifty feet 
 
funds of the different States for the relief of indigent 
Henry Grinnell has placed at the disposal of Dr. 
front by forty-four feet deep, located on the block be- 
 
, Kane the explornig vessel Advance, and the Secre- 
persons, amounts to 134,972. Of this number, 68,538 tween Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets and 
 
were of foreign birth, and 66,434 Americans ; while 
tart' of the Navy has assigned to
e, 
him as a special 
Third and Lexington Avenues, suddenly fell, with a 
 
on the first day of June, 1850, there were 36,916 
duty the control of an expedition in search of Sir 
tremendous crash, burying beneath the ruins six men, 
 
natives, and 13,437 foreigners—making a total of 
John Franklin. Dr. Kane proposes to proceed along 
named Join Dorsey, George Dougherty, David 
 
50,353 persons. Of those termed Americans many 
the west coast of Greenland, and north upon the me- 
Weaver, James Byad, John Byad, and Adam Bend- ridian of Smith's Sound, for the following reasons, 
are free persons of color. The entire cost of time helm, all of whom were at the time at work on the as stated by him 
support of these individuals during the year has 
 
Premises. 
amounted to $2,954,806. From the criminal statistics 
" 1. Terra firma as the basis of our operations, 
The policemen, with a number of laborers who 
 
we learn that the whole number of persons convicted 
obviates the accidents characteristic of ice travel. 
were specially employed, hastily set to work to re- 
 
of crime in the United States for the year ending 1st 
" 2. A due northern line, which throwing aside 
move the mass of fallen brick, timbers and rubbish. 
 
of June 1850, was about 27,000, including 13,000 
the influences of terrestrial radiation, would lead 
The agonizing groans of the men beneath the ruins 
 
native, and 14,000 foreign born. The whole num- 
soonest to the open sea, should such exist. 
were at intervals audibly heard, and stimulated those 
 
bur in prison on the 1st day of June, was about 6700, 
" 3. The benefit of the fan-like abutment of land 
at work in removing the ruins. After about an on the north face of Greenland, to check the ice in 
of whom 4,300 were native, and 2,400 foreign. 
The assessed valuation of real and personal estate hour's labor the dead bodies of John Dorsey and the course of its southern or equatorial drift ; thus 
George Dougherty, masons, who were at work on obviating the drawback of Parry in his attempts.to 
in the United
' 
 States 'on the 1st of June, 1850, the upper walls, when the structure fell, were taken 
 
amounted to $6,010,207,309. The true value is es- 
reach the Pole by the Spitzbergen Sea. 
out from beneath a pile of bricks and rubbish. The 
 
timated at $7,133,369,725. It is stated that the true 
" 4. Animal life to sustain traveling parties. 
dead body of another man recognized asDavid Weav- 
" 5. The co-operation of the Esquimaux, settle- 
value in Massachusetts alone amounts to $573,342,- er, boss framer, was shortly after extricated from be- 
 
286, being only exceeded by that of New York and 
ments of Greenlanders having been found as high as 
neath several heavy timbers, which lay across his Whale Sound, and probably extending still further 
Pennsylvania. 
head and chest. Time bodies of the three men pre along 
 the returns it appears that there are 36,011 
along the coast. The point I would endeavor to at 
By 
 a shocking spectacle, being greatly mutilated, 
 
churches in the United States, and 210 in the Dis 
tain, would be the highest attainable point of Baffiin's 
trict of Columbia and the Territories—or one church and mashed almost to a jelly. 
bay from, if possible, pursuing the Sound known as 
At the expiration of half an hour or more, Adam 
, 
' 
for every 646 of the entire population. The total Hendheim was extricated from beneath several Smith s Sound, advocated by Baron Wrangell as the 
 
value of church property is $86,410,639, of which one
most eligible site for reaching the North Pole." 
half is owned in New York, Massachusetts, and beams, between two of which he was so wedged as to 
Pennsylvania. The average number of people which be unable to move, but fainted on being brought out. 
 
the churches will accommodate is 384, and their , 
in a little time thereafter, the two brothers, James 
average value $2400. Churches are more numerous, and John Byad, were taken out alive but insensible. 
in proportion to the population, in Indiana, Florida, By the timely application of restoratives they par 
 
Delaware, and Ohio, and less numerous in California, Bally recovered, when it was found that the former 
 had received several contusions about the head and 
Louisiana, and Iowa. Those in Massachusetts are 
the largest, and have the greatest average value. 
Boston Journal. 
tmlicre building which fell was owned by Mr. Henry 
Bitter, and was intended to have been used by him 
as a morocco dressing factory. It was being erected 
WASHINGTON IRVING CREATING A RIOT 
IN BOMBAY. 
under the superintendence of Robert D. Fielder, boss 
mason, and J. W. Fielder, boss carpenter. 
The carpenter and mason who superintended the 
construction ,of the builtling, state that the mortar, and 
other materials used in it, were of good quality, and 
that proper care had. been taken to erect it firmly, and 
further, that the cause of its fallen was the piling up 
of a large quantity of rafters upon the wall and end-
N. Y. paper. 
ers. 
Moral Insanity. 
Some thirty years ago, a young lady, the only 
daughter of a noble house in the north of Germany, 
from having been one of the most cheerful girls, be-
came subject to fits of the deepest melancholy. All 
the entreaties of her parents were insufficient to draw 
from her the reason of it. To their affection she was 
cold, to their caresses rude ; and though society failed 
to enlighten her, she bore her part in it with a pow-
er and venom of sarcasm that were as strange to her 
former character as they were unbecoming her sex 
and youth. The parents contrived, during her tem-
porary absentee from home, to investigate the con-
tents of her writing-desk, hut no indications of a con-
cealed or disappointed passion were to be found, and 
it was equally clear that no papers had been re-
moved. 
The first news they heard of her was, that the 
house in which she was visiting had been burned to 
the ground ; that she had been saved with difficulty, 
though her room was not in that part of the building 
where the fire had commenced ; that her escape had 
at first been taken for granted, and that when her 
door was burst open, she was found still dressed and 
seated in her usual melancholy attitude, with her 
eyes fixed on the ground. She returned home neither 
altered in manner nor changed in demeanor, and as 
painfully brilliant in conversation when forced into 
it. Within two months of her return, the house was 
burnt to the ground, and her mother perished in the 
flames. She was again found in the same state as 
on the former occasion, suffered herself to he led 
away without eagerness or resistance, did not alter 
her deportment upon bearing the fate of her mother, 
made no attempt to console her fattier, a`nd replied 
An extensive and alarming riot raged for several 
days in November, 1851, in Bombay, between the. 
Mohammedans and the Parsees. We do not remem- 
ber seeing any account of it in our American papers 
at that time. The riot was caused by the publica- 
tion, in a Bombay newspaper, of an editorial transla- 
tion of portions of the life of Mohammed by our dis-
tinguished countryman, Washington Irving. The 
most aggravating feature, however, in the provoca- 
tion given to the Mussulmen, was a defective likeness 
of their prophet. The Bombay paper from which 
we make the following extract, calls the print, a 
" smeared and smudgy lithograph of Mohammed," 
taken from Simoa Ockby's history of the Saracens. 
In speaking of the riots of Saturday and Sunday, 
Nov. 22d and 23d, the paper says : 
" The riot of Sunday was in particular a most out-
rageous one. As might be expected, it was alto-
gether on the part of the Mohammedans, who early 
in the morning broke into a Parsee fire temple in the 
native town, and committed the most wanton depre-
dation in that sacred place—pulling down railings, 
breaking the furniture and lamps, and pulling up the 
trees that surround the edifice; and it was only the 
arrival of the police that prevented the desecration of 
the sacred fire itself. In this affair the Parsees had 
no part whatever, none of them appearing in the dis-
turbed quarters. Some hours afterwards the Mo-
hammedans in large masses again assembled, many 
of them armed with clubs, evidently meditating an 
attack upon the Parsee quarter. The chief and sec-
ond magistrates, and the inspector of police, with de-
tachments of police and a few lancers, were on the 
spot, and upon them the rioters opened a shower of 
stones'and other missiles. Upon this Mr. Spens, the 
senior magistrate, with his force, charged among 
them, and after putting a number of them hors de 
combat, succeeded in restoring order, a number of the 
rioters seeking refuge in a mosque. In the affray 
both Messrs Spens and Conybeare (second magis-
trate) received contusions, and notwithstanding their 
check by the police, the rioters kept assembling in 
large bodies for several hours sso that it was not on 
Theory of an Open Polar Sea. 
of Christ, and consequently the end of the world. 
But how are we to limit this generation ? We are 
not to fix upon any different time for its beginning, 
and consequently cannot fix definitely its end. 
In Luke 11:50, here the expression this " genera- 
tion" occurs, clearly pointing out the generation of 
Jews. It was to experience severe judgments be-
cause of their ungodly deeds. These are brought to 
view in Luke 19:43, 44—" For the days shall come 
upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench 
about thee, and compass thee around, and keep thee 
in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the 
ground, and thy children within thee : and they shall 
not leave in thee one stone upon another : because 
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." Our 
Lord associates an awful judgment, with the rejec-
tion of the (to that generation) greatest of mercies. 
The prophets had foretold the coming of their Mes-
siah to visit them. But now he has come to bless 
them with the light of salvation, they " would not 
come to the light." They would not " come to him 
that they [night have life." They rejected both him 
and his doctrine. 
It is evident that the generation rejecting him is 
the generation to experience the judgment. " All 
these things shall come upon this generation," is the 
express language of the Saviour. There was a gen-
eration then because of age just stepping off the stage 
of life, and another fast filling their places. Included 
in this now retreating generation were the men upon 
whom devolved the business affairs of the nation, 
men from fifty to seventy years of age. This class did 
not form the bulk of the nation upon whom our Lord 
and his apostles after him expended their labors. 
Jerusalem was destroyed A. D. 70—thirty-seven 
years from the death of Christ. The mass of the 
people were from fifteen to forty years of age. Thirty- 
From China. 
seven years gives them the influence and power of 
A Fuchchau (China) correspondent of the " N. the nation, and the predicted judgment overtakes 
Y. Commercial," under date of August 26th, says it them. 
is rumored that matters are in a sad state at Pekin, How could it in justice fall upon any other genera- 
owing to the dissipation of the young Emperor. Va- tion ? Were not they accountable to God as no gen-
Timm local insurrections have broken out (as has fie erasion before them had been and as no generation of 
quently before been noticed.) The writer says : 
" Were these incidents to occur to Western na- that people after them could be ? Had they not seen 
tions, we should predict their speedy downfall. But and heard what no generation before or after them 
China is an anomalous country. Rebellions and pi- could see or hear? And were they not guilty of a 
ratical fleets have annoyed the nation since the pres- crime no generation of the Jews could before or after 
ent dynasty ascended the throne, and yet the Gov- 
ernment has stood, and in the absence of constraining them be guily of? 
extraneous influences, may continue for a long time." That generation did not pass away till all the 
On the 10th of August, a typhoon occurred at things predicted of it had been fulfilled. So we see, 
Fuchchau, which caused a flood on the 12th. The the expression " this generation," as to time, though 
water flowed into many of the houses, and carried 
away a large part of the verandah of the house occu- it may have no definite limits, yet nevertheless it is 
pied by the Rev. Mr. Peet. Two of his little dang,h- limited, there is a circle of time within which the 
ters were standing on the verandah, and very nar- predicted events must occur. 
rowly escaped, just getting into the house as the ve- 
In the case under consideration the events must 
randah fell. 
Su, formerly Lieutenant Governor of the Province, have come, before a sufficient length of time had 
who was degraded from (office, has been restored to elapsed to permit a succeeding generation to take the 
imperial favor, and sent this year as High Literary place and power of that generation which formed the 
Chancellor to superintend the examination in one of 
the Provinces. The present Governor General has mass of the nation at the death of Christ. 
again petitioned the the Emperor for permission to Now why may riot the same expression occurring 
retire from an office the duties and responsibilities of in our text have a like meaning ? Our Lord expressly 
which are too much for his nervous temperament. declares " this generation shall not pass till all these 
things be fulfilled." What generation ? 
Popery in Peru. 
1 answer, not that in power, when this last tries- 
A correspondent of the" London Christian Times " sage of mercy—the news of the coming kingdom of 
Christ at hand—broke in upon us with its accompany 
saYsA: worthy priest in Lima, the capital of Peru, ing signs. But who formed the mass of mankind. 
about a year ago, published an extensive work in that 
city, commendatory of the Pope's usurpations and This generation who have succeeded to the place 
 
aggressions, on the civil and on the ecclesiastical au- and power of our fathers. Ere a sufficient length of 
thorities. The nail was hit on the head. The Pope time shall elapse for another generation to take their 
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published by the priest in Li 
When a generation has so far gone as to give place 
Lima, in which he related 
all the grounds which the Pope had alledged for coon- in time main to others, it, as a body, has passed away, 
demning the work. This pamphlet was circulated though individuals of it may live. 
extensively, as it was easier of access and sooner 
Thus it was in the days of our Lord's first advent. 
read, than the work about which it treated. This 
again brought the work into notice. A second and And thus, we have reason to believe it may be at his 
an abridged edition was then published, and to this second advent. Look at the reasonableness of this 
the Government of Peru openly subscribed, in the conclusion. At the coming of Christ fearful judg--
face of the Pope's prohibition. The subject is being menu will be executed upon the wicked. It is " the 
taken np with interest in that country, both in a re- great day of God's wrath." It is the time when he 
ligious and civil point of view." 
" THIS GENERATION." 
" This generation shall not pass till all these things 
be fulfilled."—Matt. 24:34. 
To what generation does our Lord refer? And 
how are we to limit that generation as to time ? 
It is evident that " the things" here referred to, 
did not take place during the existence of the genera-
tion who listened to the Saviour ; therefore he must 
have referred to some other generation—to those liv-
ing on the earth when certain signs were to indicate 
the coming of the Son of man—ere that generation 
should pass away " all these things shall be ful-
filled." The last event in the series, is the coming 
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its Eden beauty. 
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The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
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shall root out of his kingdom all that offend and all 
that do iniquity. He shall 't break the kingdoms of 
this world, then given into his hand, and dash them in 
pieces like a potter's vessel," &c., and great must be 
the accountability of a generation, to merit at the 
hand of a just God such punishment. They must be 
favored with more divine light than any preceding 
generation. And is not this generation occupying this 
position Has not God hushed the nations of the 
world into peace, that war might not disturb our 
listening to the last message of mercy to a fallen 
world ? Have not our eyes seen and our ears heard 
that marked in the word of God and brought out 
therefrom, that no generation before us have ever 
seen or heard, and which no generation after us can 
see and hear, unless God rolls the wheel of time 
back and all these signs of his coming are acted over 
again ? 
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justice to fall? On the most guilty. Who are the 
most guilty ? Those who sin against the greatest fa-
vors and the greatest light. Who are thus sinning ? 
This generation. How can they in justice pass ? 
They shall not pass," are the words of the Sa-
viour. How awfully solemn is this conclusion. We 
have no time in reaching after earth's treasures and 
sensual enjoyments. We have something more im-
portant to engross our attention than the schemes of 
this money-loving generation for worldly aggrandize-
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Stop, I entreat you, and save your souls, and be-
come an instrument in the hands of God of saving 
your children and neighbors. Awake, awake, my 
brethren, the judgment is at the door. Let no heart 
be faint—let no soldier of the cross tire. Gird up the 
loins of your mind, ye children of the Most High, 
and hope to the end for the grace that shall be 
brought unto you at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
W. H. EASTMAN. 
Whitefield, Dec. 8th, 1852. 
NOTE.—The argument in the above is simply this: 
As the judgments to be inflicted on the generation 
that rejected Christ, were inflicted nearly forty years 
subsequently, when the younger portion of it had suc-
ceeded to the position then occupied by their elders, 
therefore the things to be fulfilled before the passing 
away of the generation brought to view in Matt. 
24th, must have a corresponding fulfilment in time. 
There can be no question respecting fact, that 
such would be a fulfilment on that generation. But 
we do not perceive that the consideration relieves the 
point at issue from difficulty—those now in active life 
not being the younger portion of the generation which 
witnessed the darkening of the sun in 1780. There 
is therefore no relevancy in the illustration. 
2. The hearing of the proclamation of the coming 
kingdom was not what was to transpire during the 
generation that should not pass away ; the things pre-
dicted were the ones to be witnessed by it. 
We regard the whole question as very simple. 
The " things " predicted were events—a long series 
of them—commencing with the destruction of Jeru-
salem, and extending to the end of the world. When 
certain signs should be manifested, Christians might 
he assured that Christ's coming was at the ',door. 
That would he their termination. Now for their 
commencement. The generation then living was not 
to pass away till the events should he ful filling. Thus 
Prof. Bush, and many English critics, render the 
word fulfilled, i. e, the whole series of events was 
to begin to come to pass, by the destruction of Jeru-
salem, before the generation then living should dis-
appear from the stage of active life. 
That being when the events were in a process of 
fulfilment, the appearing of the signs would show 
their near termination. 
A parallel case occurs in Rev. 1:3—the time being 
at hand when the events of the Apocalypse were to 
begin to transpire. 
Sectarianism. 
Nothing is more common than the inquiry : " What 
church (sect) do you belong to ?" Among all the 
sects in this world God records but TWO ! They 
however have various names : as, " the righteous 
and the wicked," " holy and profane," " good and 
bad," " saints and and sinners," " just and unjust," 
" children of the kingdom and children of the wicked 
one," &c. Reader, you belong to one or other of 
these sects. God keeps but two" church registers " 
—" the books," and" the book of life." The names 
of all are in them. Probably every family, every 
church has some of each of these sects in it. Christ 
will not inquire of you whether you were an Ad-
ventist, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, but wheth-
er you really turned from sin to holiness. " There 
shall be a resurrection both of the just and the un-
just," To one of these sects you now belong, and 
in one of them you will then appear. " The pure 
in heart " alone " shall see God." 1. E. 3. 
the careful perusal of the Herald, and am indebted 
to its interesting columns for many of my present 
views of Bible truth. 
While Bro. Rimes was passing through the late 
trial I was not able to discover anything as published 
in the Herald in relation to his adversaries discour-
teous, unmanly, or unchristian, and I frequently 
thought he might use the words of good old Job, in 
the 23d chap. and 10th verse. 
Bro. D. CAMPBELL writes from West Falmboro,' 
C. W., Dec. 4th, 1852 :—I recently held a meeting 
of two weeks in Bro. Sovereign's neighborhood. A 
number of souls were converted, and others were re-
vived in their minds. I also baptized three persons. 
The people in the neighborhood were favorably and 
deeply impressed. I intend to follow up the work, 
that our labors may not be lost. Brn. Truesdell and 
Shipman rendered us much aid in the work. Bro. 
Sovereign has our thanks for his hospitality. 
I met with a Methodist brother here, who thought 
the world might stand 360,000 years yet, and who 
denies the personal reign. I gave him the tract of a 
" Layman," in reply to Dr. Raffles, as an antidote 
for his unscriptural notions. 
I also held a meeting of five days in Bro. Bur-
rows' neighborhood. The Lord favored us with his 
smiles. Some were quickened. I intend to follow 
up the work here also. 
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ciated. We hope yet to have help in this Province. 
Bro. Am ANDREWS writes from Bridgeport, Conn., 
Nov. 13th, 1852 :—It gives me pleasure to be able 
to inform you that the Lord is working most blessed-
ly with the Advent church in this city, a few of us 
have been holding on to the truth for years—in 
hopes that we might see some souls receive it in the 
love of it, and at last the favored time has come and 
our hearts are made glad. Our little company are 
happy in the love of God, looking for that blessed 
hope. 
Brn. Grant and Mathewson have been laboring 
with them with some success. 
Bro. J. D. BOYER writes from Elk county, Pa., 
November 1852 :—The Lord is still owning and bless-
ing his truth to the conviction and conversion of sin-
ners ; and the comforting and strengthening of be-
lievers in the " blessed hope." Pray for us that the 
wor kof the Lord may continue. 
"I CLEAVE TO HIM AS THE LIMPETS TO 
THE ROCKS.” 
" A poor girl, who resided on the sea-coast of 
England, was asked, when dying, by a clergyman, 
what she thought ofJesus ; her reply was beautiful 
and sublime,—' Jesus,' said she, I cleave to him as 
the limpets to the rocks.' " 
0 Jesus ! how precious thy name must ever be 
To those who are sailing over life's raging sea, 
When storms of temptations would all my efforts 
mock, 
I still cleave to thee as the limpets to the rock. 
When in Doubting-castle, in wretchedness I lay, 
The Giant often threatened to take life away, 
But thy key of promise did ev'ry bolt unlock, 
And I cleave to thee as the limpets to the rock. 
How often, when I purposed that 1 would not trans-
gress, 
But keep thy commandments and walk in holiness, 
Has Satan attempted my righteous plans to balk ! 
But I cleave to thee as the limpets to the rock. 
He oft has suggested that I was very 
And ne'er could be favored with God's peculiar smile; 
I knew he was a foe, more cunning than a fox, 
So I slave to thee as the limpets to the rocks. 
He often has told me that such has been my guilt, 
I never can enter the city thou hast built ; 
But I heard thee say, " I'll admit him who knocks." 
And I slave to thee as the limpets to the rocks. 
Now while I am dying, about for help 1 cry, 
Thou hearest when I call arid sendest a supply ; 
At the treasures of grace I can increase my stock, 
And I'll cleave to thee as the limpets to the rock. 
J. M. Ottuocx. 
DIED, at Liberty, Pa., ABIGAIL, the wife of Bro. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
36, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76, 84, 92, 
100, 108, 116, 124, 132, 156, 
164, 172, 180, 188, 196, 204, 
228, 244, 252, 260, 276, 284, 
300, 308, 324, 332, 340. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
. 
. 181 
. 182 
. 187 
. 235 
. 250 
. 250 
. 282 
Dr. Spring on the Millennium 108 
Definite Time . . 
. 316 
Death of Daniel Webster . 348 
Date of the Apocalypse 
. 364 
Funeral of Daniel Webster 356 
Gods of the Spiritual Rappers 325 
Ilarmonical Philosoph. Logic 324 
Inquiry 
. . . 72 
Lead Mining in Southampton 333 
New Year, The 
. . 
4 
Not to be Reasoned with . 276 
New Paper-Liquor Law . 277 
Offence of the Cross . 
. 292 
Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, 28, 
Phenomena of the Rappings 148 
Return of Israel . . . 93 
Rise of the Papacy . . 284 
Salander and the Dragon . 20 
Suit, 'Ile . 
. . 
64 
Six Days of Moses, The . 69 
Sabbath, The . 
. 212, 220 
Spiritual Manifestations . 308 
Sin of the World . 
. 
. 388 
Trial, The-the Result . 189 
Talkers with the Dead 
. 380 
Visit to Canada East, &c. 349 
" 
New Hampshire . 405 
What shall be Done in the 
 
Present Emergency 7 
. 204 
Who embraced the Rappings? 340 
Zechatia VIII. . . . 4 
Advent Cause in N. Y. city 38 
An Explanation . 
. 
. 381 
Burning Day . . 
. 332 
Bro. C. B. Turner's Case 
344 
Conference at Worcester, . 6, 14 
Church Discipline . . 62 
Coming Conflict, The . 
70 
Coronation Day, The . . 78 
Coming of the Lord . 110 
Christian Experience . 
110 
Counsel for Bro. B. . . 224 
Christian Sabbath 
. 
. 278 
Cause in Pennsylvania 
• 302 
Consumption 
. . 
. 326 
Curse ye Meroz . 342, 350 
Co-operation of the Brethren 
Church Discipline . 
. 356 
Day of the Lord . 
. 22 
Day of Preparation . . 
31 
 
in 'Vermont . . 
. 383 
Declaration of Christ's Sonship 142 
Devil, The . 
. 190, 198, 206 
Drawing Near to God . 
. 347 
Envy . . 
62 
Facts . 
. . 
. 
Family Prayer . 
. . 
78 
God Answers Prayer . 
. 126 
Growth in Grace . . 174 
Hope thou in God 
. . 31 
Harvest, The . 
. . 
94 
Harvest Laborers, The 
. 110 
Israel and the Promises relat- 
 
ing to them . . . 
28 
Inquiries . . . . 70 
Improve the Present . 174 
Instrumentalities for spread of 
Truth . 
. 
. 223, 230 
Judge Not . . . 
6 
Judge Not . . 
. 
. 3,8 
Law of the Sabbath 
. 18, 42 
Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy 54 
Leaf from Memory, A . 
. 119 
My Record is on High . 238 
Mourning at the Crucifixion, 
382, 390. 
New Earth, The . . . 63 
Outline of a Sermon 
. 38, 46 
Opened Fountain, The 398, 406 
On the Recent Definite Times 404 
Pencilings of a Journey 263, 271 
Proximate Work of God 
. 310 
Praise to God . . 
. 348 
Reign of Christ 
. 
. 
30 
Return and Conversion of Lit- 
 
eral Israel . 
. . 
94 
Revivals . 
. 
. 
. 374 
Sketches of Travel, 1, 9, 17, 34, 
41, 49, 57, 66, 75, 82, 90, 98, 
106, 114, 122, 130, 138, 146, 
154, 163, 170, 178, 185, 195, 
202, 218, 226, 234, 242, 258. 
Sketch of a Sermon . . 62 
Sermons (two) 
. 
. 150 
Sermon by J. Litch . 
• 214 
Shall Literal Israel be restor'd 236 
Sermon by 0. R. Fassett 254, 262 
Shaking of the Heavens and 
 
the Earth 
. . 
. 318 
Sin of the World . 
. 390 
Two Covenants, The 
91, 102 
Truth Unwelcome 
. 
. 230 
 
Vision of the World . 366 
What was the Name of Christ 55 
Watch . . . . 70 
Winstead Camp-meeting 302, 318 
LETTERS FROM 
S. Chapman-7, 118, 238, 334. 
Osier (to Dr. Lyman Beecher) 
14, 22. Lawson Long-38. T. 
Prehle-39, 142, 214, 342. J. 
Merriam-46. C. B. Turner-
48, 86, 134, 192, 208. N. South-
ard-54, 224. T. Smith-54, 71, 
126. C. Wiltberger-55. D. I. 
Robinson-63, 86, 261. England 
-70, 86, 174, 206. B. Mathew-
son-78. J. W. Bonham-79, 271. 
L. D. Mansfield-86. W. G. Rug-
gles-95. W. J. Watkins-103. 
G. Bunger-110. S. Judson-110, 
358. Levi Dudley-110. W. M. 
Crowned Skeleton . 
. 283 
Catholic League against Free 
Schools . . . 287 
Church Unity . 
• 
. 287 
Catholic Schools . . 303 
Changes of Time 
. 
. 303 
Cautions to Communicants 307 
Climate and &c. of Thibet 307 
Consumption . 
. 
. 307 
Christianity in the 3d century 315 
Crucfiixion . . . 
. 320 
Commentaries . . . 335 
Congregational Singing 
. 339 
Change from 0. S. to N. S. 343 
Catholic Prisons . . 344 
Conference at Waterbury . 351 
Cardinal Wiseman . . 353 
Christian Missions 
• 
. 367 
Complaining Christians . 379 
China 
. . . 
. 395 
Collect for the First Sunday 
 
in Advent 
. . 
402 
Census Returns 
. . 413 
Day of our Lord's Nativity 
27 
Deserving of Rebuke 
32 
Defences of England . . 40 
Dancing . . 
. . 
43 
Despotism in France . . 53 
Douay Bible . . 
59, 315 
Decision of Character in the 
 
choice of Ruth . . 
98 
Dignified . 
. . 
. 109 
Doing Penance 
. . 109 
Deception of the Countenance 147 
Dr. Cox in Charleston . 152 
Death of the Q. Of Madagascar 157 
Doctrines Offensive to None 235 
Disciple that Jesus Loved . 203 
Decline of Humanism . 243 
Do You Pray 1 . . 
. 274 
Desperate Fellow, A . 205" 
Destructive Conflagration . 229 
Despotism . . . 306 
Divine Authority of the Scrip. 322 
Downfall of the Papacy 
. 323 
Definition of Bible Names 
325 
Dark Day of May 1780 
. 325 
Deceivableness of Unrighess 335 
Difficulty of Unlearning 
. 339 
Death and Burial of Luther 367 
Death . 
. 
. 
. 
. 370 
Dying as a Christian, &c. 
371 
Disastrous flood in Chamounix 373 
Duties of Religious Editors 379 
Daily Walk with God . 387 
Dr. Robinson's Tour . 
. 394 
Death of English Kings . 395 
Europe's Sickness and Cure 19 
Expository Preaching . 
43 
Evangelical Alliance, The . 50 
Early and. Modern Church 
95 
English Journalism . 
. 183 
Every-day Mysteries 
. 217 
Examples of Bible Reading 299 
Earth's Gloom-God's Glory 291 
English Bible, The . 
. 330 
Evil Spirits . 
. . 338 
Epistles of the N. Testament 338 
Envy, Slander ,&c . 
. 338 
Effects of Heat 
. . 346 
End of the Backslider . 
. 355 
Fulness of Christ . . 
18 
Fugitive Slave Law, The . 45 
Foreboding . . . 102 
Figurative Language of Scrip. 154 
Faith and Public Opinion . 159 
Fundamental Heresy and Ba- 
 
sis of Popery . 
. 170 
Flight of Time . 
Fall of Rosas . . 
Freedom of Editors . 
Future of Nations . 
Forms of Salutation . 
Faith Triumphant . 
Fatal Illusions . • 
False Reliances 
. 
. 299 
Francis Abbot, the Recluse 302 
Facts about Romanism . 315 
Family Prayer in a Palace . 322 
Family Devotion 
. . 346 
First Resurrection, The 
. 353 
Fatal Mistake . 
. . 395 
INDEX. 
POETRY. 
All Things Made New . 190 
Address to Wealth Gatherers 241 
An Every-day Paradox . 283 
Better World, The . . 46 
Blessed are They that Mourn 57 
13alaatn . . 
. 
. 161 
By the Rivers of Babylon . 257 
Book of Inspiration . 
. 353 
Celestial Railroad . 
• 
15 
Christ's Coming . . 
. 134 
Christian Soldier . . 
153 
Chide Mildly the Erring 
. 193 
Contentment . . 
233 
Cradle and Coffin . 
. 297 
Carolena (with music) 
371 
Cheer Up . 
. 
• 
. 377 
Deride not Weeping . 
14 
Delight in God only 
• 
. 105 
Death . 
. . 183 
Day at Hand, The . 
. 310 
Dare to Stand Alone . 289 
Every One his own Hobby . 351 
Elisha at Dothan . . 354 
Firm Bank, The . . . 11 
God and Our Neighbor . 
25 
Go Forward 
. . 
. 335 
He Giveth his Beloved Sleep 131 
He Loved us . . . 174 
How Long . . . 
. 274 
Heart and Tongue , . 307 
Hope of Dawn . . 
. 369 
Inheritance of the Meek . 
55 
]f a Man Die, shall he Live 
 
again ? . 
. . 
. 161 
In this World ye shall have 
 
Tribulation . 
. . 391 
1 cleave to Him as the Lim- 
 
pets to the Rocks . . 415 
Jeplithah's Daughter 
. 129 
Joy coineth in the Morning 177 
Knell of Time . . . 17 
Looking Forward . . • 6 
Longing for Christ's Return 9 
Love of Christ 
. 
. 126 
Lonely and Weary (music) 163 
Lines . . 
. 
. 302 
Lines by Charles Wesley . 311 
Lift the Heart and Pray . 327 
Lost Sheep, The . . 
. 385 
Light of Prophecy . . 399 
Lie . . 
. 
. 409 
Morning Star . 39 
Memory . . 
. 166 
Mediator, The . . . 209 
Minister's Hearers, A . 
. 263 
Meeting of Christian Friends 359 
New Year . . 
. . 23 
Orphan's Dream of Christmas 91 
0 I long to be there . . 121 
Our One Life . 
. 145 
0 Press on 
. 
. . 158 
Old Family Bible 
. 284 
Old Winter . . . 393 
Prospect of the Resarrection 33 
Prayer, The . . . 
63 
Press Onward . . . 65 
Prophet's Hymn, The . 
81 
Passing Bell . . 
. 273 
Peace of Europe , 
. 
97 
Precious Seed . 
305 
Psalm XXIX. . . 
▪ 401 
Questions of Life 
251 
Resurrection Morn . 
• 
1 
Refuge, The 
. . 
. 113 
Rest of the People of God 239 
Speak Gently . 
. 
. 137 
Something More to Love . 151 
Stranger Here, A 
• 
Saints' Reward, The 
Sabbath, The . . 
Simile, A 
. 
. 
Sabbath Bell. . 
State of Man . 
• . 
Thy Kingdom come . 
Trust in God . 
. 
The Lord is my Portion 
Time. 
• 
• 
• 
Twelve Mystical Gems . 
Two Houses, The . 
. 249 
The Servant not Above his 
. 286 
. 313 
. 323 
. 337 
The Harvest is Past . 383 
Vision of Immortality . 
. 147 
What is a Year? . . 
49 
Watchman, what of the Night 87 
Willow of Babylon . . 
89 
Work Away • . 
. 
. 139 
Weeping may endure, &c. 169 
Wan Reapers, The . 
. 185 
Walking . 
. 
. . 195 
World Harvest, The . 
. 201 
Watchman, what of the Night 223 
Watcher,•The . . 
. 243 
World, The . . 
Win and Wear it 
Wake with Nature . 
Wait . 
. 
• 
• 
What is a Puseyite ? 
. 343 
Warning and Anticipation . 361 
EDITORIAL. 
Approaching Crisis . . 28 
Angels of Rev. 14:6-12, 125, 132, 
141. 
Anti-Popery in Great Britain 200 
Allocution of the Pope . 388 
Blindness of Madness . 
. 208 
Bro. N. Southard . 
. 301 
City Church Extension 
. 348 
Criticism on Acts 1:11 . 372 
Dr. Spring on Millenarianism, 
68, 76, 84, 92, 100. 
Osborn-119. T. P. Hedrick-
126. S. A. Chaplin-134. I. E. 
Jones-134, 391. G. Burnham-
134. D. T. Taylor-134, 264. I. 
C. Wellcome-143. Aaron Clapp 
-143. W. M. Ingham-143, 358. 
0. R. Fassett-143. M. Mont-
gomery-149, 198. A Sister-
166. 0. D. Eastman-166. E. 
Walker-174. Laban C. Bates-
176. N. Billings-190. George 
Bangs-206. 1. H. Shipman-
206, 358, 375, 398. Mary Wink-
ley-206. H. Robbins-215. J. 
P. Mallory and S. R. Glenn-215. 
M. Fall-215. P. Powell-215. 
P. B. Morgan-223, 272, 398. H. 
Weeks-231. A Friend-231. L. 
Osler-231, 302. A. Sherwin-
246. J. Litch-247, 335. J. Pearson 
-262. G. W. Clement-262. J. 
W. Daniels-278. Illinois-278. 
R. Paul--286. P. Livingston-
286. Luther Edwards-319. J. 
T. Laning-326. D. Bosworth-
334. Columbus Green-342. C. 
E. Boyer-350. D. Campbell-
351. J. Cummings-358. E. R. 
Pinney-375. Samuel Walker-
375. J. D. Boyer-375. L. Scott 
-375. L. M. Richmond-398. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Arctic Regions . . . 37 
Austria and the United States 56 
Audacity of Error . . 
117 
Appeal for Prayer . 
. 134 
Anticipation and Contrast, 209, 
217, 225. 
And He Brought Him to Je- 
sus . . 
. . 
. 218 
Act 
. . 
. . 227 
An Eruption of the Geiser . 275 
A Man of War, or a Man of 
Peace . . 
. 
. 275 
Alarming Increase of Roman- 
. ists among us . . 189 
Arago, M. . . . 
. 191 
An Impressive Affair . 200 
Are you Regenerate, 252, 261, 
277, 292, 300. 
Achilli versus Newman 
. 255 
Aerial Voyage . . 255 
An Old British Poet . 
. 303 
Accident on the Concord and 
Montreal Railroad . 
. 336 
Awful Fruit of Delusion . 337 
Armenian Intolerance . 
339 
A Priest's Curse . . 339 
Attempt to Assassinate Louis 
Napoleon 
. 
. 341 
Aerial Navigation . . 341 
An Elevated Road . 
. 343 
Artificial Stone 
. . 353 
A Strange Playmate . 
. 344 
A Man Mighty in Prayer . 346 
A Good Man in a Bad Place 363 
Affectionate Preaching . 379 
Abstinence from things hurtful 386 
Australian Exodus . 
. 387 
Arctic Searching Expedition 397 
Answer him not . . 
. 403 
Abdel Kader . 
. 405 
Advent . . 
. 409 
A w fu I Catastrophe . . 414 
Bunyan's Characters . . 25 
Bible Order . . . 
32 
Beauty of the Heavens . 35 
Baxter, Richard . . 147 
Bp. Butler on Talkativeness 164 
Bible Burning in Ireland . 168 
Bunyan's Experience 
. 178 
hear with one another . 
. 181 
Burning of the Henry Clay, 
253, 264. 
Bryant on Millenarianism . 260 
Barbarity on Board a Ship '287 
Bunyan's One Book . . 291 
Bible, The . 
. . 
. 307 
Burial. Places of Nineveh . 314 
I3astile, The 
. 
. 
. 354 
Bread on the Waters 
. 359 
Believer's Rest in Christ . 363 
 
Blot on the Hand, A . 393 
Bold Literary Theft . 
. 390 
Beautiful Effect of Pain . 397 
Congressional Banquet to Kos- • 
suth 
. 
. . . 24 
Character of Paul . . 
19 
Chronology of Principal Events 
 
in 1851 . 29, 37, 45, 53, 61 
Connections in which the Name 
" Jehovah " occurs . 
42 
Christian Association . . 53 
 
Catholic Institute . . 
64 
Communication and Diffusion 
of Christian Knowledge . 81 
Convention of Spirit Rappers 83 
 
Coming Crisis, The . . 85 
Christ's Second Advent . 
90 
Church's Pole-star, 105, 114, 123 
Contents of the Scriptures . 127 
 
Chinese Jews . 
. . 127 
Cause of the Destruction of 
 
the Nations . . . 140 
Crime 
. . . 
. 144 
Confucian Tract, A . . 167 
Contributions towards the book 
 
of Genesis 
. 
. 
. 181 
Cheating Ministers and People 181 
Character in Public Instruction 195 
Climate of Countries . 
. 235 
Child is Dead, The . . 242 
Creeds. . . 
. 
. 249 
Confidence and Trust in God, 
214, 222. 
Curse of France . . 
. 221 
Curious Piece of Antiquity 257 
" Crack Church " in N. Y. 283 
I'm too Busy . . 
. 227 
Immortality . 
. . 243 
Identity of Anti-Christian Spi- 
rits . . 
. 
• 
. 343 
Innovation and Progress . 354 
Issue in Europe . 
. 
. 363 
Is Rome Babylon? 372, 380, 389, 
396, 404, 412. 
Impending Fall of the Turkish 
Empire . . . 379 
Indurating Effect of Fiction 389 
It is Politic to be Candid . 389 
Illustrations of Fanaticism 402 
Jerusalem, Palestine, Syria 67 
Jeroboam, King of Israel . 162 
Jerusalem as it was . . 281 
Jacob's Victory . . 
. 282 
Jael and Sisera . 
297, 305 
Japan . . 
. 
. 
. 410 
Kossuth's Views on the Con- 
 
dition of Europe . . 40 
Kidd the Pirate . 
• 
75 
Lost ! Lost ! 
• . . 19 
Louis Napoleon . . 
43 
Liberality of the Age . 
. 125 
Lake Tiberias and Dead Sea 145 
Leprosy, The . . . 167 
Late Trial-Williams versus 
Hirnes . 
. . 
. 265 
Loss of the Atlantic . 314 
Lingerer, The . 
. 
. 315 
Louis Napoleon and the Pope 369 
Mosaic Account of Creation 10 
Manasseh King of Judah . 58 
Motive to Christian Duties 
65 
M'Neile, Dr. . 
. 86 
Millennial Sign 
. 
. 133 
Modern Phalaris, The . 135 
Missionary Intelligence 
. 158 
Maelstrom Whirlpool . 175 
Mauna Loa in Action . 
. 259 
More Excellent Name, 313, 321 
Mount Tabor . 
. 
. 339 
Mercy of Mercies . . 339 
Mental Devotion . . 
. 354 
Massacre of the Mamelulies 371 
Massacre of the Vaudois 
. 387 
Milton's Resignation 
. 411 
Moral Insanity . . 
. 414 
New Heavens and Earth 
1, 9 
Napoleon's Views of Christ 35 
New French System . 112 
Necromancy 
. . 
. 115 
New Style of Polemics . 133 
National Contrasts . 
. 194 
New Antagonism, The . 241 
Never be Triflingly Employed 378 
 
Not yet-Not yet 
. 
. 395 
Narrow Escape of a United 
States Sloop-of-war . 
. 397 
Notes of the Douay Bible 410 
Ottoman Empire, The . . 12 
One Cause of Dull Meetings 173 
 
Origin of Idolatry 
. 
. 219 
Our Prayers . . . 250 
Omnipotence of Faith . 
. 298 
Origin of the Apostles' Creed 345 
Opinions on the Empire 
. 388 
 
On Conservatism . . 410 
Religion of Christ and that of 
the Nineteenth century . 222 
Remarkable Providence . 291 
Religion of the Age . 
. 307 
Ralph Erskine's Sword Ser- 
Roman Catholicism in France 387 
mon 
• . 
• 
. 412 
Signs of the Times . . 
2 
Short Memory, A 
. . 11 
Standard American Edition 
of the English Bible . 31 
Silenced Skeptic . . 
51 
Stand Fast . . 
. . 59 
Spiritual Privileges of Chris- 
tians . . . . 73 
Seed Time for the Future 89, 97 
Small Debts . 
. . 
99 
Signs of Christ's Second Ad- 
vent 
. 
. 
. 101, 109 
Specions influence of Error 131 
Strange Fanaticism . 
. 133 
Scientific Credulity . . 157 
 
Special Providence, A . 
. 157 
Secret of Good Writing . 165 
 
Successful Ministry, The . 179 
Starvation of a Party of 
sionaries . 
. 
. 
. 181 
Seem as you are, or as you 
would be . . 
. 211 
Signs of a Dying or Decay- 
ing Christian 
. . 235 
Safe Experiment . 
. 
. 235 
Signs of the Times . 246, 254 
 
Spiritual Convention . 
. 260 
Spirit Rappings 
. . 285 
Salaries of English Clergy 287 
Story with a Moral . 
. 229 
Satanic Literature . 
. 303 
 
Sure Word of Prophecy . 290 
Society as it is . . 290 
 
Standards of Orthodoxy 
. 291 
Scintillations of Truth . 295 
Seriousness 
. 
. 
. 306 
Search me, 0 God . 
. 321 
Superstition 
• 
. 329, 337 
Satanic Advice-A Hint for 
Tempted Believers . 330 
Specimen of Biblical Criti- 
cism 
. 
. 
. 
. 331 
Storing Liquor in Churches 243 
Superstitions at Rome . 346 
Slaughter of the Covenanters 359 
Second Advent, The . 362 
Sinaitic Inscriptions . 362, 370 
Solemn and Eventful Question 371 
 
Sabbath Day's Journey 
. 372 
Slave Case in New Yolk . 374 
Style of Isaiah . 
. 
. 378 
Spirit Rappers . . 
• 380 
 
Star in the East, The . 
. 388 
Syrens, The . 
. 
394 
 
Sight to the Blind 
. 
. 397 
Suggestion to Christians . 403 
 
Sunday Schools . 
. 
. 409 
" That Day " . 
. 
. 
3 
Theological and Lit. Jour. 21, 116 
 
Thoughts . . 
. . 27 
 
Turkish Empire, The . 
59 
 
Translation of Elijah . . 66 
Terrible Catastrophe . 120 
 
Teaching all Nations . 
. 157 
The Bible 
. . . 210 
 
The Doomed Laud 
. 
. 211 
The Papacy, or the State of 
Europe . 
. . 
. 211 
The influence of Man over 
Man . . . . 219 
The Successors to the Apos. 219 
The " Jerks " . . 
. 225 
The Decisive Act . . 226 
The Strait Gate and the Nar- 
 
row Way 
. . 227 
Temptations of Satan . 
. 227 
Tempters Within . . 243 
Terms of Salvation . 
. 250 
Terrible Retribution 
. 275 
Thrilling Incident 
. 
. 192 
Terrible Steamboat Casualty 280 
The Kingdom delivered up to 
 
God the Father 
. 286, 294 
Two Kinds of Riches . 299 
The Way with some People 299 
The Prince Paradox . 
. 303 
Tragic Affair in Charlestown 293 
Thomas Newton . . 295 
To all whom it may concern 348 
Transitoriness of Great Men 355 
Truly Religious Man, The 365 
Testimony of Judas to the 
 
Character of Christ . . 373 
Three Wishes, The . 
. 379 
Terrible Steamboat Explosion 381 
Tact 
. 
• 
• 
• :366 
Tribute to the Clergy . 
. 393 
Tribes of Mouht Lebanon 411 
Texas ReptileS 
. . 410 
Theory of an Open Polar Sea 414 
Unforgiven Man, The . 
. 115 
Uncle Tom . 
. . 283 
Ungrateful Wretch, An 
. 403 
Views of Adventists respect-
ing the Teachings of Proph- 
ecy . . 
121, 129,137 
Volcano at the Sand. Islands 157 
Ventilated Cars 
. . 255 
Vandalism . . 
. 
. 311 
Wise Fool, The 
. . 
19 
Wickliffe . . . . 35 
Worship among the Moslems 40 
World's Fair and its Lessons 59 
Waiting God, A . 
• . 83 
World Makers 
. 
. 
98 
Winter's Tour in Central Pa. 102 
Wheat or Chaff? 156, 164, 173 
'What shall I do? 
. 
178 
Watch 
180, 188, 197, 205, 213 
Well of Rebecca, The . 
. 183 
"Words . . . 
210 
Waldenses, The . . 
. 250 
. 187 
206 
. 217 
278 
. 345 
374 
. 31 
41 
. 73 
225 
. 233 
Master . 
. 
Trifles 
 
The Iron Cross . 
Thoughts . . . 
. 251 
. 295 
. 321 
. 329 
Prediction of the First Eclipse 3 
Perversions of the Doctrine of 
Providence . . . 11 
Protestant Alliance, 
17, 25, 33 
Progress of the Ilarmonial Phi- 
losophy . . . . 27 
 
Prophecy of Napoleon . 
35 
 
Paul Behind the Age . 
. 85 
Possible Adhesion of Russia 
to the Papacy 
. 
. 
99 
Present Dispensation - Its 
Course 
. 
105, 113, 122 
 
Papal Bull disregarded 
. 127 
Present Dispensation-Its End 131, 
138, 159. 
Praying; for Show 
. 
. 107 
Protestantism-Its Progress 107 
Protestant Persecuting Prot. 144 
Perfectionism and Polygamy 175 
Persecution of Protestants 211 
 
Pulpit Advertising, &e. 
. 250 
 
Parable of the Crocodile . 251 
 
Popery in Great Britain 
. 274 
Great Day of Atonement 65, 74, 81 'rove all things 221, 228, 237, 244 
Gems from the Rabbis . 
91 Prophecy of Nahum . 245, 261 
Genesis, 145, 153, 161, 169, 178, Politician's 'View of Heaven 299 
' 185, 193, 201, 273, 281, 289, Pretended Letter ,from the 
 
361, 369, 377, 385. Spirit of William Miller 300 
Giving, is it a Gift or a Graee 171 Pastor's Joy and Crown 
. 289 
Gracious Design, The . 172 Providence of God . . 315 
Gems of Thought . 
. 179 Purpose of the R. C. Church 322 
Geological Theorizers . 210 Pearl of Great Price 
• 330 
Give me something to harden 
Proverbs of Solomon . 
. 331 
my heart . . . 
. 227 Personal Sermons . . 331 
Great Exhibition, 234, 241, 249 Popery 
. 
• 
. 358 
Good Deed, A . . 
. 243 Proffered Gift . . 
. 378 
Genesis Before Geology . 274 Political Massacre by the Pope 395 
Ghostly Delusion, A . 
. 275 Prayer Meeting, The . 395 
Grand Motive to Miss. Effort 309 Proofs of Love to Men . 
. 402 
Gibbon on the Apocalypse . 331 Pillar and ground of the truth 411 
Genuine Hymns 
. 
. 359 Questionable Sermonizing . 11 
History of the Prot. in France 26 Questions for Liquor Dealers 387 
Human Trial . . 
. 90 Resolutions concerning Debts 46 
How do you Calculate . 159 Redeemed Inheritance and its 
Hungary in 1851, . 
193, 202 Rightful Owner . 
50, 57 
Horrid Blasphemy 
. 
. 282 Roman Catholic Proselytism 67 
Heathen Origin of Purgatory 315 Riband Conspiracy in Ireland 75 
Higher Law, The . 
. 333 Reign of Terror in France . 91 
Human Creeds 
. 
. 359 Religious Newspaper, The 
91 
Hope of Eternal Life . 
. 359 Rich Poor Man, A . . 109 
Hold Fast . . . 394 Rev. Jonas King Condemned 126 
History . . . 
. 401 Reasons for Attending Church 
Image of God . . . 
10 on Stormy Sundays . 
. 147 
1 have been Slandered . 
. 10 Resolutions of a Man of God 171 
Isaiah the Prophet . . 
43 Riveted to Christ 
. 
. 187 
Influence of Transcendentalism 50 Religion . 
. . . 218 
Italian Independence 
. 107 Reformers before the Refor- 
Insanity of the Cresars . 
. 115 'nation . . . 258, 290 
Is the Church of Rome the 
Remarkable Preservation of 
Mystery of Iniquity, 179, 186 the Bible . . . 259