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Conspire to lift thy glories high, And speak thine endless praise. 
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THE LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD. 
THERE is a cedar tree growing in the moun-
tains of Calaveras county, California, about 
twenty miles north-east of Murphy's, which is 
said to be the largest tree in the world: A cor-
respondent of the Sonora Herald, who recently 
made an excursion to see it, thus describes it : 
" At the ground its circumference was 92 
feet; four feet above that it was 88 ; and ten 
feet above that it was 61 feet in circumference ; 
and after that the tapering of the shaft was very 
gradual. Its height, as measured by Capt..11., 
is 300 feet, but we make it but 285. This tree 
is by no means a deformity, as most trees with 
large trunks are. It is throughout one of per-
fect symmetry, while its enormous proportions 
inspire the beholder with emotions of awe and 
sublimity. Elegance and beauty are inseparable 
concomitants of its grandeur. 
." I have said that this is the largest tree yet dis-
covered in the world. It is so. The celebrated 
tree of Fremont would have to grow many cen-
turies before it could pretend to be called any-
thing but a younger brother. It was said that a 
tree was once found in Senegal, in Africa, whose 
trunk measured 90 feet in circumference. But 
no one has ever been able to find it since its dis-
covery. It is called by the natives Baobab; by 
botanists, Adansonia Digitata. But it is ad-
mitted that none can now be found with a cir-
cumference greater than 81 feet. There is a tree 
in Mexico called the Taxodium, which is said to 
be 117 feet in circumference, but some have said 
that it is formed by the union of several trees. 
The height of all these foreign trees is not more, 
in any case, than 70 feet ; and none of the trunks 
are more than ten feet. 
The age of this mammoth cedar of Califor-
nia, if each zone may be reckoned one year, is 
about 2520 years. A section of the wood which 
I brought home with me, exclusive of the sap, 
which is but little more than one inch thick, 
numbers about 14 zones or grains to the inch. 
At that rate, if it were permitted to grow, it 
would increase its diameter one seventh of an 
inch every year. In 84 years its diameter would 
be increased one foot; in 840 years 10 feet—
so that it would then be 40 feet in diameter, and 
120 in circumference. 
" This giant of the woods and of the world is to 
be flayed literally. The patriotic process has al- 
ready commenced. We understand that the bark, 
which at the base is about 14 inches thick, is to 
be taken off in sections to the height of 50 feet, 
and sent to the World's Fair in the city of New 
York." 
THE TECTONIC EXODUS. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times, writ-
ing from Berlin, describes the causes of the ex-
cessive emigration which is now taking place 
from the southern parts of Germany. Though 
troubles of a social and political nature contri-
bute to fill the cup of bitterness to overflowing, 
the exodus is mainly attributable to the great en-
hancement in the price of provisions. In Bo-
hemia and Moravia hundreds of families are con-
strained to subsist on grass and roots. In the 
Palatinate of Rheinhessen, formerly remarkable 
for cheap living, complaints of dear provisions 
have become general. Potatoes cost six times, 
hay five times as much as they did thirty years 
ago. Even in Prussia the price of corn (rye) has 
more than doubled within a few years, and there 
seems to be no prospect of remedying the evil. 
According to some authorities this diminution, 
or want of extension in the supply of provisions, 
is attributed to the increased cultivation of to-
bacco ; in some parts of the south of Germany 
two-thirds of the land that formerly produced 
wheat and potatoes, now bears tobacco. In Sile-
sia alone there are more than four thousand acres 
devoted to the growth of this plant, which offers 
this great attraction,—that its conversion into 
cigars supplies labor for a number of hands dur-
ing the winter. Another cause for the insufficient 
production of corn may be found in the enor-
mously increased cultivation of beet-root for su-
gar purposes. But whatever may be the cause, 
there can be no doubt, that severe suffering and 
want, owing to the scarcity of breadstuff's, and 
other provisions, is rapidly thinning the popula-
tion of Germany. 
THE HOUSEHOLD CLOCK. 
THE household clock, with dial dim, 
Still marks the flight of time ; 
Speaks with a silvery voice each hour, 
And rings a merry chime. 
More than a hundred years have passed 
Since first its race began ; 
Yet still it moves with measured step, 
A monitor to man. 
How many forms that sleep in dust 
Have viewed with thoughtless gaze, 
Those circling honrs in their swift course 
That measured out their days ! 
The bright eyed boy, the aged sire, 
The maid, the matron gray, 
Alike have looked upon its face, 
And then have passed away. 
A thousand memories thrill my soul, 
As on my ravished ear 
Rings the gay chime, in early years 
I loved so much to hear. 
A father, mother, sisters dear, 
And joyous brothers, too, 
All smiled around me in those days 
When life and hopes were new. 
But they have passed away from earth ; 
Their voices greet no more ; 
No more their smile and fond embrace 
Shall welcome as of yore ; 
Yet there, unchanged by fleeting time, 
Unmoved by grief or joy, 
Still ticks the clock as soberly 
As when I was a boy. 
And still its circling hands shall move, 
The passing hour shall sound, 
When those who daily view it now 
Are slumbering in the ground. 
For other eyes, for other ears, 
'Twill note the flight of time : 
Midst scenes of gladness and of tears 
It merrily shall chime. 
Swift as a mighty river's tide 
Our days and years sweep by, 
And time with us will soon be lost 
In cast eternity. 
Oh ! then that we might hear aright 
The voices of the hours ! 
Improve to-day, while yet it lasts ! 
To-morrow is not ours. 
REMEDY AGAINST COVETOUSNESS. 
LET every one consider that the mind of man 
is no more satisfied with much than it is with lit-
tle ; and therefore the desire of having brings 
the mind to a perpetual agitation. 
1. That covetousness is the root of all evil, 
(1 Tim. 6:10) ; from hence come wars, hatred, 
enmity, seditions, and innumerable evils, which 
turn away the mind from spiritual things, and 
from God. 
That he consider the shortness of his life, 
and that no man's life consisteth in the abun-
dance of his riches, as our Saviour admonisheth. 
(Luke 12:15.) 
That he trust in God, who feedeth the spar-
rows and the young ravens. 
That he is a steward, and not a lord of 
temporal riches. 
That he set before his eyes the example of 
Christ, and all holy men, who despised earthly 
riches, to be richer in God. 
That he remember it was spoken by our 
Saviour, " It is a blessed thing to give rather 
than to receive." (Acts 20:35.) 
That the best riches are treasures in heaven. 
(Matt. 6:20.) 
Sutton. 
THE WORD "SELAH." 
THE translators of the Bible have left the He-
brew word Selah, which occurs so often in the 
Psalms, as they found it, and of course the Eng-
lish reader often asks his minister or some learned 
friend what it means. And the minister or friend 
has most often been obliged to confess ignorance, 
because it is a matter in regard to which the 
most learned have by no means been of one mind. 
The Targums and most of the Jewish commen-
tators give the word meaning, eternally, for-
ever. Rabbi Kinchi regards it as a sign to ele-
vate the voice. The authors of the Septuagint 
translation appear to have regarded it as a musi-
cal sign, equivalent perhaps to the word repeat. 
According to Luther and others it means silence. 
Gesenius explains it to mean, let the instruments 
play and the singers stop. Wochem regards it 
as equivalent to sursem corda—up my soul ! 
Summer, after examining all the seventy-four 
passages in which the word occurs, recognizes in 
every case " an actual appeal or summons to Je-
hovah." They are calls and prayers to be heard, 
expressed either with entire directness, or if not, 
the imperative, " Here, Jehovah," or Awake, 
Jehovah !" and the like still earnest addresses to 
God that he would remember and hear, &c. The 
word itself he regards as indicating a blast of 
trumpets by the priests. Selah itself he thinks 
an abridged expression, used for Higgaion Se-
lab — Higgaion indicating the sound of the 
stringed instruments, and Selah a vigorous blast 
of trumpets. 
Bibliotheca Sacra. 
218 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
On the other hand the Liverpool correspond-
ent of the New York Associated Press, gives the 
following summary of the news : 
It is certain that the Eastern question pre-
sents a more cheering aspect than before, and 
that the alarm excited by the hostile prepara-
tions of both powers had considerably diminished. 
That there exists some cause for such a change 
there is little doubt, whether that cause is to be 
found in the attitude assumed by the two great 
Western powers of Europe, or to the good sense 
of the Emperor Nicholas himself. It is stated 
that despatches have been received in Paris con-
taining assurances of the Czar's unwillingness to 
do anything to disturb the peace of Europe, and 
of his anxiety that the difference between him 
and the Porte, shall be settled without an ap-
peal to arms. The Emperor appears still to be 
of opinion that the question is entirely a reli-
gious one, and is personal between him and the 
Sultan, and that, at the same time, that he him-
self would be the last to violate the laws of na-
tions. It is even said that the delay already 
granted of eight days has been extended to fif-
teen, in order to afford sufficient time for nego-
tiations, and that even the occupation of the 
Danubian provinces would not necessarily be fol-
lowed by war. Under such circumstances as the 
present, there is no doubt that the slightest ru-
mor, of an adverse or a favorable nature, is has-
tily caught up, and exaggerated out of all pro-
portion; but the eager manner in which those of 
a pacific tendency have been received shows at 
all events the tendency of the public mind. The 
language of M. de Kisseleff, the Russian repre-
sentative at Paris, is also described as being de-
cidedly pacific, and perhaps more sincerely so 
than for some time past. The papers continue 
to announce the frequent passing to and fro of 
Russian cabinet messengers, and of attaches of 
Embassy. Assurances of a similarly pacific 
nature are said to have been addressed to the 
English Government on behalf of the Emperor 
of Russia. Meanwhile advises from Trieste of 
the 6th ult., state that the French, English, and 
Prussian officers in the Turkish army are active-
ly employed in taking measures of defence. One 
snch a compromise will be made; but it is evi-
dently a mistake to assert that a mediation has 
been accepted at the very time when an ultima, 
 
tum has been presented, to which the Russians, 
of course, prefer to expect that the Porte will 
submit. 
On these grounds, although the door is cer-
tainly not closed against negotiation in any form 
consistent with the independence of the Christian 
subjects of Turkey from Russian domination, the 
Western powers are quietly, but prudently pre- 
paring to support their line of policy against any 
contingency that may arise. Already our naval 
intelligence has recorded that a squadron of line- 
of-battle ships, fitted with screw-propellers, is 
being formed at Spithead, and may soon be ex-
pected to proceed to the Downs or to Yarmouth 
Roads. We may add that this squadron will pro- 
bably be reinforced within a few days by the re-
turn of Admiral Corry from his cruise ; for the 
despatches sent out by the Banshee in search of 
that officer were not, as was generally believed, 
that he should join Admiral Dundas, but, on the 
contrary, to order his immediate return to Eng- 
land. The strength of the English and French 
fleets in the Mediterranean is already more than 
equal to any service they could be required to 
perform ; but if, unfortunately, maritime opera-
tions should be required, it is of course neces- 
sary that the British Admiralty should be in a 
condition to watch the Russian fleet in the Bal-
tic, which is not inferior in force to the fleet in 
the Black Sea, and we ought also, in case of 
need, to be prepared to close that outlet of the 
Russian Empire. These precautions are not more 
than sufficient to provide against the emergency 
which has been produced by the attitude assumed 
by Russia, and, until we learn that the Cabinet 
of St. Petersburg has desisted from the inadmis- 
sible part of its demands, we shall see no reason 
to relax the vigilance with which it is necessary 
to watch its proceedings. Russian Ministers and 
emissaries have been sent in all directions to 
give a favorable version of their case at the dif-
ferent Courts of Europe, to throw the blame of 
Prince Menschikoff 's proceedings on Lord Strat-
ford de Redcliffe, and sow division between the 
British Government and its allies abroad. But, 
as the effect they are seeking to produce is not 
accompanied by any practical modification of 
the pretensions of Russia, we have yet to learn 
on what the altered state of public opinion is 
founded ; and the intelligence we shall eventu-
ally receive from Constantinople can alone war-
rant any certain conclusion. In the meantime, 
Russia has succeeded to a certain extent in fa- 
miliarizing the public mind of Europe with the 
occupation of the Danubian Principalities, be-
cause the consequences of that measure to Aus- 
tria and Turkey would be rather indirect than 
immediate. But even that step is one of ex-
treme importance, and though it may not be 
made an immediate ground of war, it is an event 
which will long continue unfavorably to affect 
the pacific relations of several states of Europe." 
I REACHED here last evening in the U. S. 
steam frigate Susquehanna, and avail myself of 
a chance which offers to-day of despatching a 
letter to Hong Kong, in time for the next mail 
thence to England. 
All the rumors which I mentioned in my last 
letter from Hong Kong are confirmed. The reb-
els have advanced upon Nanking, as was antici-
pated, and that capital is in all probability in 
their hands at this moment. It is quite impos-
sible to obtain a reliable account of their pro-
gress, as the Chinese proclamations invariably 
disguise the truth. The actions of the authori-
ties are so thoroughly at variance with their pub-
lic declarations that we are compelled to reject 
the latter entirely. On the other hand, the ru-
mors afloat change with every hour. I can only 
give you what is said on both sides, without 
vouching for the correctness of any statement, 
except that of Nanking being besieged and sorely 
pressed, if not already taken. 
The authorities of this place at first denied 
that the rebels had advanced upon the Imperial 
city. Afterward they admitted that a rebel army 
of 6,000 men was encamped before the walls. 
Then they announced a victory of the Imperial 
troops, in which nine thousand of the enemy 
were slain. Then a second victory, in which 
twelve thousand were slain, and, finally, a third 
victory, with a slaughter of twenty thousand 
rebels. They now privately admit that the rebel 
forces amount to 60,000 ; but the popular ru-
mor is that they are '200,000 strong. The Taou-
Ty of Shanghai has purchased in all haste an 
English schooner to send provisions to the be-
leaguered Imperialists, and an American bark, 
the Science, has been chartered, by San-qua, a 
native merchant, to carry stores to Chin-Keang-
foo, near Nanking, which is supposed to be still 
in possession of the Government troops. The 
English Consul—acting, as is supposed, under 
the advice of Sir George Bonham—refused to 
permit the schooner to be sold to the Chinese 
authorities : a palpable blunder, which was over-
come by selling her to an American merchant, 
who immediately re-sold her to San-qua. The 
American representative intends to preserve the 
strictest neutrality in the matter, but the Eng-
lish seem inclined to overstep the mark, and in- 
directly encourage the Revolution. Neverthe-
less, the last British mail steamer from Hong 
Kong, the Ganges, brought up 100 cannon, 
which were immediately purchased by the Taou-
Ty or his agents. The sympathies of the foreign 
merchants here appear to be with the insurgents, 
who are everywhere popular among the natives. 
This popularity no doubt gives rather too fa-
vorable a color to the rumors which reach us. 
It has been reported several times that Nanking 
has already fallen. One account states that the 
besiegers undermined the walls in seven places 
and effected an entrance into the city. The Im- 
perial Viceroy committed suicide in despair, and 
all the troops fell into the hands of the victors. 
Another report is, that the Imperial troops, 
sorely pressed, shut up in the city, without suffi-
cient provisions, had themselves broken out into 
open rebellion, while the entire fleet of transports 
and war-junks on the Yang-tse-Kiang, convey-
ing supplies and re-inforcements, had been cap-
tured by the rebels. We are in hourly expecta-
tion of hearing that the great City of Soo-Chow, 
on the Imperial Canal—the capital of the silk-
growing district, has been invested. Soo-Chow 
is only fifty miles from this place, and the con-
sequences of its capture would probably be a 
march hitherward. The inhabitants of the city 
are in the greatest alarm, and all business, ex-
cept the mere local commerce in the necessaries 
of life, is at an end. The principal merchants 
have removed and secreted their money and 
stores, and the province, which is very populous, 
will soon feel keenly the cessation of trade, on 
which depends the very existence of thousands 
of the laboring poor. 
However, the course of the rebels, wherever 
they have been victorious, has hitherto been most 
politic and humane. The people have not been 
disturbed in their employments, private property 
Turkey—Will there be War ? 
Tilt following leading article from the Lon-
don Times, of June 15th, SUMS up the latest as-
pects of this question as viewed by that journal : 
"The oscillations of suspense are much more 
strongly felt by our neighbors, the French, than 
by ourselves, and accordingly we were prepared 
for the violent alternations of hope and appre-
hension on the Eastern question which are con-
veyed to us from day to day by the telegraph 
from Paris, But, in reality, we have already 
shown that it is extremely improbable that any 
important occurrence should take place, or any 
material change be announced in the present 
course of events, until we have had time to learn 
the result of the message conveyed by the last 
Russian courier to Constantinople; and, as the 
period assigned to his commission will not ex-
pire till about the 16th, it is impossible we should 
know the consequences of his communication 
much before the end of the present month. In 
the meantime, as the Russian Government has 
distinctly intimated to all Europe that it is re-
solved to adhere to its demands, and that, in the 
event of failure, it will seek for redress by the 
occupation of. the Principalities, it is absurd to 
suppose that any other course of proceeding will 
be simultaneously pursued, and that negotiations 
can be opened with any effect elsewhere than 
at Constantinople and St. Petersburg. From the 
latter capital each successive statement strength-
ens the belief that Prince Menschikoff correctly 
represented the intentions and instructions of his 
Government, that he has been fully approved, 
and that there is now no intention of reverting 
into a less dangerous path. With these facts be-
fore us, which seems to be the only facts that 
can at this instant be known with precision, we 
see nothing to explain or justify the favorable 
turn which has been given to public opinion in 
Paris ; except that, as the danger of war had 
been somewhat exaggerated on one day, it was 
rather too easily dispelled on the next, the truth 
being that the state of affairs remains wholly 
unchanged. We therefore attribute these at-
tempts to obtain credence for more favorable in-
telligence to the strong desire of certain parties, 
and probably of the French Government, to 
counteract the heavy fall on the Bourse at Paris; 
or, at any rate, to carry on, with additional 
chances, the enormous speculations which these 
events have occasioned. The agents of the Rus-
sian Government, too, have, of course, contri-
buted, by their language and assurances, to les-
sen the apprehensions, and to suspend the prep-
arations of the States opposed to the designs of 
the Emperor Nicholas ; and probably the mis-
sion of Count Panin to Paris has no other object. 
" It was already known in this country, and we 
ourselves had publicly stated, that in the same 
despatch in which the Emperor of Russia com 
municated to the other Courts of Europe his in-
tention of sending back the proposal of Prince 
Menschikoff by a common courier, and of occu-
pying the Principalities in the event of a further 
refusal, he disclaimed any further intention of 
overthrowing the Ottoman Empire, or even of 
making war upon it. But, after the occurrences 
of the last few weeks, we cannet regard such a 
declaration as anything more than one of those 
artifices of diplomatic language in which it is 
customary to give a mild and qualified expres-
sion to very unwelcome facts. The occupation 
of the Danubian principalities may not amount 
to a positive and necessary casus belli. We have 
expressed an opinion that it is politic, under the 
present aspect of affairs, not to regard it as such, 
but to concentrate the defensive forces of Turkey 
behind the Danube Whatever may be the prep-
arations of the Russian army, the passage of that 
great river is, both in a military and political 
sense, a difficult and critical operation ; and, be-
fore it is accomplished, we have little doubt that 
further negotiations will take place. But the oc-
cupation of the Principalities is a measure which 
would prove indecisive, precisely because it is, 
comparatively speaking, safe and easy. The un-
fortunate inhabitants of those provinces have re-
peatedly endured the hardship of being overrun 
by Russian armies ; and scarcely two years have 
elapsed since the Russian troops were withdrawn, 
after having exhausted the country, and then ex-
acted a military contribution of £600,000 for 
their maintenance. But the occupation would 
have no positive effect on the obligations or the 
interests of Turkey, and, though it may give the 
Emperor of Russia a territorial gratification to 
hold the provinces for a certain period, it would 
not bring him a step nearer to the concession 
which he instructed Prince Menschikoff to de-
mand. If the Court of Russia intends, as it has 
announced, to persist in endeavoring to impose 
on Turkey the terms which it has put forward 
in reference to the Eastern Church, it is evident 
that, even after the occupation of the Principali-
ties has taken place, the same imperious sum-
mons will be repeated, and that the next step 
will lead to a more serious rupture, unless some 
expedient or compromise be assented to in the 
meantime. We do not pretend to affirm that such 
a compromise is impossible ; we hope and believe 
has been respected, and the internal commerce 
interfered With as little as possible. Only against 
the Tartu+ mandarins and their defenders have 
the insurgents adopted a sanguinary course.- It 
is rumored that, if successful, they will observe 
a Most liberal policy toward foreigners, but this 
can hardly be more than surmise. Another re, 
 
port says that the leader, Ting-Tuk-Wharag, has 
some knowledge of English. It is not doubted 
but that two of his Generals must have been pu-
pils of the late missionary Gutzlaff—as is evi-
dent from certain expressions used in their " Ree 
ligious Proclamation," in which they openly 
avow the doctrines of Christianity. 
In, some quarters the rebels are accused of 
murdering the Priests, and destroying the ances-
tral tombs and temples of the Chinese, This is 
believed to be incorrect, except in one or two 
instances, where they have done so in retaliation 
for similar outrages on the part of the Imperial 
commanders. It is certain, however, that they 
destroy all the Buddhist temples in their march, 
and they are said to have annihilated a college 
of 200 Priests in a city in the vicinity of Nan-
king. 
I do not remember whether I have already 
stated that the leader of the Revolution, Ting-
Tuk, is a descendant of one of the branches 
of the ancient Chinese, or Ming dynasty, and 
that his avowed object is to overthrow the pres-
ent Ting, or Tartar dynasty. In fact, he is pro-
claimed as Emperor on the bulletins of his army, 
so that his cause has already risen above the dig-
nity of a rebellion and assumes the aspect of a 
national war. It is Chinese against Tartar, and 
the people are not indifferent to the issue. Any 
change can hardly be for the worse : any kind 
of agitation is better than the dead stagnation of 
Chinese life. Viewed in all its aspects, this 
Revolution is one of the most remarkable of this 
Revolutionary age. 
Shanghai already feels most sensibly the ef-
fects of the paralyzation of trade and industry 
in the interior. Business has totally ceased. 
The native merchants have buried their silver, 
and the foreign residents have barely enough to 
pay for their household expenses. Four or five 
thousand junks lie in the river, but scarcely a 
pound of tea or a yard of silk is brought in, 
The English war-steamers Hermes and Salaman 
der, and the brig Lily are here, and the French 
war-steamer Cassini. Sir George Bonham is on 
board the Hermes, and the report to-day is, that 
he will leave immediately for Ning-po. The 
movements of the Susquehanna are uncertain, but 
it is rumored that she will convey Col. Marshall 
up the Yang-tse-Kiang as far as the Imperial 
camp, in order to confer with Seu, the Imperial 
Commissioner. She excites great astonishment 
among the natives, being much the largest steam 
er that ever ascended the Woo-sung, and the 
American residents rejoice to see their country 
so formidably represented. 
The mail is about to close. I will omit no 
opportunity of keeping you informed of the pro-
gress in this part of the Chinese Empire. 
Shanghai, (China,) March 28th, 1853. 
Editorial Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. 
The Bible and the Dark Ages. 
FROM the tenth to the sixteenth century, pro-
gressive " darkness covered the earth, and gross 
darkness the people." And here a question of 
vast moment arises with regard to the use of the 
Bible, whether in monasteries, in churches, or 
by individuals ; and that is, — " Did all the 
hearers or readers understand the Latin language, 
then the speech of the Church through all the 
world ?' " 
The cases were few, scarcely any, indeed, in 
which the Bible was allowed to be read in the 
vernacular tongue. Only one exception has oc-
curred to me in the course of my inquiries. 
L' Enfant relates, upon the authority of Sponda-
nus, that Pope Innocent IV. allowed the Bohe-
mians, about the middle of the thirteenth centu-
ry, to perform divine service in the national 
language. The Latin Vulgate, however, which 
had received the Papal sanction so early as the 
sixth century, was almost the only edition of the 
sacred volume in use at that time in Europe ; 
and the languages generally spoken, the French 
and others, however mixed with the Latin, were 
for practical uses separate and distinct. It shows 
the general negligence (or something worse) of 
the clergy in those ages, that no provision was 
made for this exigency ; though we do not find 
that, as yet, there existed any penal law to for-
bid the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar 
tongue. The word of God had nevertheless, 
been fearfully supplanted in practice by the 
Homilies of the Fathers, and the Lives of the 
Saints. 
And here we may remark, that no such neg-
ligence as we have referred to was shown by the 
priests in the case of the writings substituted for 
the Bible. The different religious orders had 
the craft to " ordain, that if any one be igno 
rant of Latin, he shall have the rules of his Order 
in the vulgar tongue, carry them about him, 
and commit them to memory; and in their re- 
of them, Capt. Jungmann, is placing the citadel 
of the Bosphorus in a state of defence. M. Petit 
has been sent to the ports of the Danube ;. Ads 
miral Slade is engaged in organizing the fleet; 
he has not, however, as yet, been appointed to 
any command. The Egyptian General, Solyman 
Pacha, had sailed for Constantinople on a epee 
vial mission ; previous to his embarkation he 
had a long interview with the English Consul 
General. The Russian fleet at Sebastopol, cone 
sisted of thirteen ships of the line, eight frigates; 
 
six corvettes, and twelve smaller vessels, all well 
manned and equipped, but the fleet was deficient 
in steamers. 
" The latest letters from Constantinople of 
May 30th, report an entire stagnation of the ex-
port trade, owing to the utter want of shipping. 
There appeared to be no great panic in the come 
mercial world, the chief anxiety being for news 
from Europe." 
The Chinese Rebellion. 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
spective chapters their rules shall be frequently 
explained to them." Thus also the Council of 
Trent ordains, that Bishops shall take care to 
have the Catechism of the Sacraments "faith-
fully translated into the vernacular tongue, and 
expounded to the people by all pastors." 
But matters could not remain in this state 
much longer. Corruptions had multiplied, and 
were bolstered up in vain appeals to tradition, 
the opinions of doctors, and the decisions of 
Councils. The Waldenses had only to push their 
reforms by the testimony of Scripture, and their 
iccess was assured. A fallen church necessa-
rily writhes under the reproofs of the Bible, and 
resents them as a wrong. Affairs, therefore, 
soon came to a crisis. The Council of Toulouse, 
in the thirteenth century, published the first 
canon which forbad the use of the Scriptures to 
the laity. That was a fearful epoch for the 
spiritual interests of Europe. King James of 
Aragon quickly followed the wretched example, 
and passed a similar law against the authors of 
certain Spanish versions of the Scriptures. The 
same intolerant spirit next legalized the burning 
of Bibles in vernacular translations; and not 
satisfied with that, it then stated its thirst of 
blood in the burning of those who possessed 
them. So little removed was the Papal from 
the Pagan spirit, when, during the persecution 
of Diocletian in this country, as Gildas tells us, 
the Holy Scriptures were burned in the streets, 
and the pastors of our Lord's flock, with the in-
nocent sheep, murdered! In short, both the 
Greek and Latin churches interdicted the trans-
lation of the Scriptures into any vernacular 
tongue ! When Wycliffe translated the Bible into 
English, the Bishops in a body summoned him 
to answer for the offence at St. Paul's. And a 
certain Canon of Leicester, in a furious assault 
on that eminent Reformer, speaks of the trans-
lation of the gospel out of Latin into English, 
as " of the gospel pearl cast abroad and trodden 
under foot of swine,"—he thus uncourteously 
designating the " laity " and " women !" Nor 
has the progress of knowledge and civilization 
in Europe in the nineteenth century abated 
Rome's anti-scriptural policy, as her Papal Bulls 
against the Bible Society, and her repeated Bi-
ble-burnings clearly prove. Tuscany also, and 
the touching case of the Madiai, attest the same 
fact. 
Wesleyan Magazine. 
The Prayer of the Thibetans• 
TILE prayer which is recited to the rosary, is 
always the same, and is only composed of six 
syllables—" Om mani padme holm." 
This for-
mula, called briefly the mani, is not only heard 
from every mouth, but is everywhere written in 
the streets, in the interior of the houses, on every 
flag and streamer floating over the buildings, 
printed in the Landza, Tartar, and Thibetan 
characters. Certain rich and zealous Buddhists 
even entertain, at their own expense, companies 
of Lamas for the propagation of the mani; and 
these strange missionaries, chisel and hammer 
in hand, traverse field, mountain, and desert, to 
engrave the sacred formula on the stones and 
rocks they encounter in their path. 
According to the celebrated orientalist, Klap-
roth, it is nothing but a Thibetan transcription 
of a Sanscript formula introduced into Thibet 
from India, and which has, in that language, a 
complete and indubitable sense not to be found 
iu the idiom of Thibet. Om is, with the Hin-
dus, the mystic name of the divinity with which 
all prayers commence. This mystic particle is 
also equivalent to the interjection Oh, and ex-
presses a profound religious conviction ; it is, 
in some sort, the formula of an act of faith. 
Mani, signifies jewel, precious thing; padma, 
the lotus, (padme is the vocative case of that 
word ; ) houm is equivalent to Amen. The literal 
sense of this phrase is then : " 0 ! the jewel in 
the lotus ! Amen ! 
The Lamas assert that the doctrine contained 
in these marvelous words, is immense, and that 
the whole life of man is insufficient to measure 
its depth and extent. We were curious to know 
what the Regent thought on this subject. This 
was his explanation : Animated beings are di-
vided into six classes—angels, demons, men, 
quadrupeds, flying creatures and reptiles. These 
six classes correspond to the syllables of the 
formula. All animated beings revolve by con-
tinual transmigration, and according to their 
merits or demerits, in these six classes, until 
they have attained the height of perfection, when 
they are absorbed and lost in the grand essence 
of Buddha—that is to say, in the eternal and 
universal soul whence emanate all other souls, 
after their temporary evolutions, will re-unite 
and become one. Animated beings have, ac-
cording to the class they belong to, particular 
means of sanctification for ascending to a supe-
rior class, obtaining perfection, and of final ab-
sorption in the divine essence. Men who recite 
the formula very often and very devoutly, avoid 
falling, after death, into any other of the six 
classes, and are immediately absorbed in the 
soul of the Buddha. The jewel being the em-
blem of perfection, and the lotus, that of Bud- 
dha, these words may, perhaps, be taken to ex-
press the desire of acquiring perfection, in order 
to be re-united to Buddha ; and the symbolic 
formula may be paraphrased, " 0 that I may 
attain perfection, and be absorbed in Buddha ! 
Amen !" According to the explanation of the 
Regent, the mani may be the resume of a vast 
Pantheism, the base of all Buddhist belief. 
Spiritual Mediums. 
THE following texts will show what the Bible 
teach6 in regard to spiritual mediums. 
In Ex. 22:18, God says : " Thou shalt not 
suffer a witch to live." 
In Lev. 20:6, it is written : " The soul that 
turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and 
wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even 
set my face against that soul, and I will cut 
him off from among his people." 
In Dent. 18:9-12, the Lord says : " When 
thou art come into the land which the Lord thy 
God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do af-
ter the abominations of those nations. There 
shall not be found among you any one that 
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through 
the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer 
of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a 
charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or 
a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do 
these things are an abomination unto the Lord; 
and because of these abominations, the Lord thy 
God doth drive them out from before thee." 
These passages show the fact that a class of 
persons such as are named, have existed. 
Witches were persons who professed that they 
had familiar spirits of the invisible world, with 
whom they were in communication, and through 
whom they were able to exercise supernatural 
knowledge and power. 
There are nine different kinds of divination 
mentioned in Scripture. One of these is, by 
consulting spirits to foretell future events. It 
is known by the name Python. They were all, 
however, condemned as involving an idolatrous 
departure from the true God. 
Necromancy means divining by means of the 
dead. They professed the art of raising up the 
ghosts of deceased persons, to get information 
from them. Those who practised the art were, 
by the law of God, to be put to death. (See 
Lev. 20:27.) 
The Scriptures teach us that God is the only 
true God ; that the revelation of invisible and 
future things in his word is worthy of all honor; 
and that those who profess, by means of familiar 
spirits, or by calling up the departed spirits of 
men, to gain information, and those who seek 
them as mediums of such knowledge, are an 
abomination to the Lord, and are seduced from 
their allegiance to the only true God, and from 
suitable veneration for his word. 
It makes no difference whether the profession 
is justified by the facts or not. It makes no dif-
ference whether it be done professedly, by means 
of a league with the powers of darkness, or by 
science, the whole is unlawful and abomination 
in the sight of God. 
He has placed a barrier betweeen us and the 
spirit world, which, even if we could, we attempt 
to pass at our peril. Under the Levitical dis-
pensation, it was punishable with death. Under 
the present dispensation, it will receive its ap-
propriate punishment, not by legal statute, but 
by the hand of God, through the physical laws 
that govern the universe. No man can violate 
the laws of heaven, physical or moral, with im- 
punity. 
Dr. Lynd. 
(For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No. XLIII. 
OXFORD TO BIRMINGHAM, THE " LAKE COUNTRY," 
STIRLING. 
AT Oxford I took a place in the outside of 
the coach for Birmingham, sixty-two and a half 
miles distant. We had a fine coach, four noble 
horses, a very obliging and communicative coach-
man, and no rain, so that I enjoyed the ride ex-
ceedingly. A few miles out we passed on the left 
Blenheim, the magnificent seat erected by vote 
of Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne, for 
the celebrated Duke of Marlborough. The park 
contains 2700 acres. We rode through a rich 
and beautiful country, under high cultivation, 
the ripe grain evidently suffering for want of 
reapers, which it was very difficult to obtain. 
One of the company, with whom I had some con-
versation, was surprised to learn from me that 
the Americans talked English. He supposed we 
used the Spanish language, and were obliged to 
study English just as they did French, in order 
to speak it. He asked me if I should not in-
finitely prefer England to the United States as 
a place of residence, and seemed very much as-
tonished at my reply. 
We passed through Stratford-on-Avon, where 
it was market-day, and the streets were filled 
with cattle and stupid-looking rustics. A staring 
sign upon a very old and mean-looking house in 
the main street, bore the inscription : '' This is 
the house in which the immortal Shakspeare was 
born." 
Both he and his wife were buried in the 
parish church, where there is a monument to his 
memory. 
BIRMINGHAM. 
up my trip to the Lochs; but the sky lighting 
up somewhat after breakfast, I took my carpet= 
bag in hand and walked down to the steam-boat 
on the Clyde. The plank was laid from the dock 
to the top of the wheel-house, from which steps led 
down to the deck. The passengers came flocking 
aboard in great numbers. Just after we had cast 
off, an elderly gentleman with his family arrived 
at the dock and beseechingly entreated the cap-
tain to stop and take him aboard, exclaiming 
in a most pathetic tone, " My luggage is all 
aboard !" but it was of no avail ; he was " too 
late." 
The Clyde was originally a small stream. 
Twenty years ago vessels of fifty tons only could 
come up, now it is navigable for vessels of the 
largest size. This improvement has been effected 
by dredging machines, at an enormous expense, 
which has been borne entirely by the citizens of 
Glasgow. We passed many large steamers and 
other vessels. Passed Yoker Lodge, farther 
down. Near Bowling Inn, saw the mouth of the 
Great Junction Canal, which unites the east and 
west coasts of Scotland by means of the Firths 
of Forth and Clyde. At Bowling took the new 
railway to Ballock, had a fine view of Dumbar-
ton Rock and Castle by the way. At Ballock 
took the little steamer Prince Albert on Loch 
Lomond. The scenery on, the Lake was beautis 
ful and grand. Ben Lomond with his head 
capped with snow made a fine appearance. But 
the rain commencing again drove us all down 
into the cabin. 
Landed at Inversnaid, and after toiling up a 
steep hill reached the top just in time to secure 
a seat in the last wagon for Loch Katrine, 
What those did who came afterwards, I cannot 
tell. It was raining hard, and there was no shel-
ter near but a miserable old shanty for cattle, 
and every one was left to pick his own way as he 
could. There were twelve of us in the wagon 
crowded together, and such a ride as we had 
for about five miles over what is called the 
" Macgregor country," over hills of every form 
and size, without a tree in sight, but covered 
with the purple heather in full bloom. There 
seemed to be many varieties of the heather—the 
bells varying in size and color, from deep purple 
to white. I picked a bunch of them for a keep-
sake. 
Still rain, rain, rain,—but our party seemed 
in no wise depressed by the weather, but talked 
and laughed as it were all sunshine. A melan-
choly sight were the ruins of the fortress of In-
versnaid, which we passed in a wild savage-look-
ing region. This fortress was built in 1715, for 
a garrison of soldiers stationed here to keep the 
lawless Macgregors in check. A few trees that 
had been set out around it, were still standing 
like mourners over the adjoining grave-yards, 
where nearly all the garrison laid their bones. 
We passed a beautiful little lake called Loch 
Arklet, in the lap of the hills, and as we caught 
a view of Loch Katrine the sun broke out for a 
few minutes, and more than one of the party in-
voluntarily recurred to the description in Sir 
Walter Scott's " Lady of the Lake :" 
" And thus an airy point he won, 
Where gleaming with the setting sun 
One burnished sheet of living gold, 
Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, 
In all her length far winding lay 
With promontory, creek and bay, 
And islands that empurpled bright, 
Floated amid the livelier light, 
And mountains that like giants stand 
To sentinel enchanted land." 
We went on board a little mite of a steamer—
the " Rob-roy," with poor accommodations—the 
sides of the saloon being enclosed with sail-
cloth, so that we had to choose between the ex-
clusion of the prospect and the admission of the 
rain. There was a Scotch piper aboard, who 
went through with a series of most excruciating 
performances upon the bag-pipe, and then took 
up a collection. Just before landing at the Tro-
sachs, we passed Ellen's Isle, a most romantic 
spot. 
The term Trosachs, signifies the rough or bris-
tled territory, and well describes the district to 
which it is applied. Scott has given a striking 
description of it. " the dark ravines below 
Where twined the path in shadow hid, 
Round many a rocky pyramid, 
Shooting abruptly from the dell 
Its thunder-shatter'd pinnacle ; 
Round many an insulated mass 
The native bulwarks of the pass. 
* * * * * * 
The rocky summits split and rent 
Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, 
Or seem'd fantastically set 
With cupola or minaret, 
* * * * * * 
Boon nature scatter'd free and wild, 
Each plant and flower, the mountain's child. 
* * * * * * * 
Aloft the ash and warrior oak 
Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; 
And higher yet the pine-tree hung 
His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung 
When seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, 
His bows athwart the narrow'd sky. 
Two rival coaches were in waiting to take us 
We arrived at Birmingham about 7 P. M., 
where I found excellent accommodations at the 
Hen and Chickens Family Hotel." The next 
day I spent the morning in exploring the city, 
visited a Papier Mache Manufactory, and saw 
the whole process, from the plain slabs of pressed 
paper down to the most splendid centre-tables, 
five hundred and one thousand dollars a-piece ; 
went over an Electro-plating establishment, and 
saw some beautiful specimens of the art, visited 
the great Town Hall, capable of seating four 
thousand, at 12 . 45 took the train for Wolver-
hampton. Passed through a wild and desolate 
region of coal-heaps, and factories, and tall chim- 
neys. At Wolverhampton I took the Shrews-
bury and Chester Railway to Chester, and thence 
by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to Bir-
kenhead, and across the ferry to Liverpool, where 
I was glad to regain my old quarters in Duke-
street. 
After spending a few days at Liverpool, I set 
out on an excursion into the north of England, 
the '' Lake district," as it is called, passing 
through Wigan, Preston, Kendal, Windermere, 
thence by the steam-yacht " Lady of the Lake," 
to Ambleside, and thence by coach to Keswick. 
This last ride was delightful. I had a seat along-
side of the coachman, who was very ready to an- 
swer all inquiries, and pointed out the various 
objects of interest by the way. Saw Ulm Crag, 
Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth lived, Lake 
Helvellyn, Lake Keswick, and as we descended 
toward Keswick, Mount Skiddaw. 
After what an Englishman would call a nice 
tea, at the snug little inn of the " King's 
Arms," I walked out to the old church to see 
Southey's monument. It represents the poet, the 
size of life, in a dressing gown, lying on a couch, 
with one hand on his heart. The features are 
said to be a good likeness, copied from a cast of 
his face, but the general air of the representa- 
tion is affected and constrained. My guide said 
he knew Southey very well; he was reserved in 
his manners, but very kind, not so stout a man 
as Wordsworth. The church is six hundred years 
old, and has some curious old monuments—one 
of the Earl of Derwentwater, and Alice his 
wife, 1527, a large slab supported by marble 
statues underneath, and on the top a brass plate 
engraved with a full length figure of the de- 
ceased as large as life. In the adjoining yard 
saw where lie the bodies of Southey and of 
"Edith," his wife. Walked alongside of the river 
Greta, and passed " Greta Hall," Southey's late 
residence. Went to see the " new church " at 
the other end of the village. It is of stone, in 
the Gothic style, and taking into the account the 
situation and prospect of the lake and mountains, 
appeared to me the most beautiful country church 
I had ever seen. 
The next morning I took a seat on the outside 
of the " Jenny Lind Coach," for Penreith. We 
started at half past eight in a pouring rain, which 
however did not continue long. The ride through 
the vale of St. John was very fine—affording suc- 
cessive views of great beauty and sublimity. The 
mountains are bare of all trees, except where 
plantations have been made. Rode for a long 
distance over a barren common, a most desolate 
tract, through Troutbeck. Got out at a steep 
hill and turned off to the right to see " Aircy 
Force," a fine water-fall of about eighty feet. 
Had a beautiful ride along by Ullswater lake, 
passed through Watermillock, Pooley's. Bridge, 
and reached Penreith at half past 12 o'clock. 
At Penreith I took the rail to Carlisle, and 
thence to Glasgow, through Gretna, Lockerbie, 
Beattock, Abington, Lanark, Carluke, Mother- 
well, arriving a little after eight in the evening. 
For the last twenty miles, the air was full of 
smoke from the numerous furnaces, and as it 
grew dark the fires blazing out from the tops of 
the chimneys, cast a lurid light over the whole 
region. The hotels were all full, and I found some 
difficulty in obtaining quarters, but finally suc-
ceeded at the Queen's Hotel, opposite St. George's 
Square. The weather had grown cold very fast, 
and being without an overcoat, I was very un-
comfortable, but a good fire blazing in the grate 
and a cup of tea wrought a great change in my 
feelings, so that I accepted an invitation on the 
part of a gentleman in the room and walked out 
with him to take a look at the city. 
It was bright moonlight, and the buildings ap-
peared to fine advantage. Some of the public 
buildings are noble edifices—such as the Ex- 
change, in front of which is a colossal statue of 
the Duke of Wellington, the National Bank, 
Clydesdale Bank, British Linen Co.'s Bank, 
&c. We walked through Queen-street, Argyle- 
street, Buchanan-street, alongside of the Clyde, 
saw the light of the distant furnaces over the 
tops of the buildings opposite, like a great fire, 
crossed the great common, and went through the 
Salt Market. 
It rained hard in the night and the next morn-
ing, so that I thought I should be obliged to give 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
through the Trosachs. 1 patronized the " Rob-
toy "—the red one. Further on we passed an 
Ittn of recent construction, built of stone, in the 
style of a castle, with two lofty towers, which 
make the rooms small and inconvenient. We 
passed Loch Achray, Loch Vennachar, saw 
" Coilantogle, Ford," in the river Teith, marked 
by two trees, the scene of the contest between 
King James and Roderick Dhu. Passed through 
Calletider,--a dirty-looking place, where the 
men, women, and children came running to the 
doors to see the coach pass—through Doune, 
crossed the Teith by a fine old bridge, from which 
we had a view of the ruins of Doune Castle on 
the right—through a fertile and well cultivated 
region, till the immense Rock of Stirling Castle 
loomed up before us, completely hiding the town 
from our view. We rode round. the Rock and 
entered the town just at evening. s. J. M. M. 
2buent 
BOSTON, JULY 9, 1853. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
beautiful ornament of the body. Says Homer, as 
translated by Pope, 
"The rites of woe 
Are all, alas ! the living can bestow ; 
O'er the congenial dust enjoined to shear 
The graceful curl, and drop the tender tear." 
It is often mentioned in Scripture in connection 
with mourning. When Job was afflicted by Satan, 
he " rent his mantle, and shaved his head." (Job 
1:20.) Ise. 22:12—" And in that day did the LORD 
GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, 
and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth." 
Jer. 7:29—" Cut off thine hair, 0 Jerusalem, and 
cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high 
places ; for the LORD bath rejected and forsaken the 
generation of his wrath." lb. 41:5—" There came 
certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Sa-
maria, even fourscore men, having their beards 
shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut 
themselves, with offerings and incense in their 
hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD." 
Jeremiah predicted the same thing of Moab (48 : 
37)—" For every head shall be bald, and every 
beard clipped : upon all the hands shall be cut-
tings, and upon the loins sackcloth." 
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth 
On the tops of their houses, and in their streets, 
Every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.-v. 3. 
The wearing of sackcloth was another emblem 
of grief. When Jacob's sons brought him the coat 
of Joseph, (Gen. 37:34,) he " rent his clothes, and 
put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his 
son many days." When Abner was slain, (2 Sam. 
3:31,) " David said to Joab and to all the people 
that were with him, Rend your clothes and gird 
you with sackcloth." And Job said, (16:15,) " I 
have sewed sackcloth upon my skin." 
Their house tops were flat, and were places of 
resort for private devotions. These, and the pub-
lic streets, would alike witness their mourning and 
lamentation. On occasions of severe distress, it 
was customary in those times to cry aloud, with 
unnatural and long continued shrieks or howls. 
And Ileshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: 
Their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz 
Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out ; 
His life shall be grievous unto him.-v. 4. 
" Heshbon " was situated on a hill in the north 
of Moab, and about twenty miles east from the 
Jordan, and is called by Jeremiah (48 : 2) " the 
pride of Moab." " Elealeh " was a town in Reu-
ben, on the summit of a hill, about a mile from 
the former place. By the metonymy, these places 
are put for their inhabitants. 
" Jahaz " was several miles north of Elealeh. 
The bowling of the Moabites over their calamities, 
is represented as so intense that it would be heard 
even to Jahaz. The soldiers of Moab, also, would 
lose their courage, and unite in the consternation 
of the people. So oppressed with their sorrows 
would they be, that life would be a burden to them. 
My heart shall cry out for Moab ; 
His fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old ; 
For by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up ; 
For in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruc- 
tion.-v. 5. 
" Heart," by the synecdoche, is put for the per-
son of the prophet. Jeremiah also says (48 : 86), 
" My heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and 
my heart shall sound for the men of Kir-heres, be-
cause the riches that he hath gotten are perished." 
Even the prophets in predicting the doom of Moab, 
could not restrain the anguish, which a sense of 
her calamities excited in them. The LXX., in ren-
dering this, make it the heart of Moab that should 
cry out in her pangs. 
His fugitives " are the Moabites who will at-
tempt to flee from their calamities. " Zoar " was 
a small town near the southern extremity of the 
Dead Sea to which Lot fled from Sodom. Thither 
should the inhabitants of Moab flee. 
By a metaphor, they are called " an heifer of 
three years old ;" the reason of which is seen in 
the parallel prophecy of Jeremiah, who, by a 
simile, compares their cry to the cry of an heifer. 
Jer 48:34—" They uttered their voice from Zoar 
even unto Horonaim, as a heifer of three years 
old." They were to be spared three years (16:14). 
At that age, the heifer, which before was unbroken, 
was subdued to the yoke and made a beast of bur-
den. It was a process accompanied by some ter-
ror to the animal, which is more noisy than the 
bullock, and its bellowings, when frightened, are 
pitiful. Its cry is therefore illustrative of the ter-
ror of the Moabites. 
Jeremiah said (48:5)—" In the going up of Lu-
hith continued weeping shall go up ; for in the go-
ing down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a 
cry of destruction." Where these were situated 
is not known. The former was probably an emi-
nence, and the latter a city on its declivity, which 
were passed by the Moabites when they fled to the 
south of their country. A cry of destruction, is 
a cry caused by the destruction that should come 
upon them. 
For the waters of Nimrim slrallibe desolate : 
For the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green 
thing.-v. 6. 
" Nimrim " was on the north of Moab, and sig-
nified " limpid waters." It was probably famous 
for its streams and pasturage. In Num. 33:3, 36, 
it is mentioned as one of the cities of Reuben. 
The desolation of its waters and the failure of 
its grass, is given as a reason for the flight of the 
Moabites to Zoar. The dearth and desolation in 
the north of their country, causes them to flee to 
the cities of the south. This, the destruction of 
their principal cities in a single night, the conster-
nation of the soldiers, the howling of the people, 
and their resort to their high places and the houses 
of their gods, makes it probable that they were 
overwhelmed by an earthquake, which dried their 
fountains and desolated their land. 
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, 
And that which they have laid up, 
Shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.-v. 7. 
Jeremiah says, in the parallel text, (48:36,) that 
" the riches that he bath gotten are perished;'' and 
Dr. Clarke thinks that the reading here should ac-
cord with that. What they should carry with 
them in their flight, would be only the remnant of 
their wealth. 
" The brook of the willows," is in the margin, 
" the valley of the Arabians." It was probably 
the small stream, the Wady-el-Asha—that enters 
the Dead Sea at its southern extremity, and forms 
the boundary between Moab and Arabia Petrea. 
It was the utmost extremity of their country. 
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab ; 
The howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto 
Beer-elim.-v. 8. 
" Eglaim " and " Beer-elim " were cities of 
Moab. The wail of lamentation was to be heard 
in all its borders. 
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood for I will bring more 
upon Dimon, 
Lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the 
land.-v. 9. 
" Dimon " is supposed to be the same as " Di-
bon " in the 2d verse. St. Jerome, says that the 
town was called by both names—the letters m and 
b, being often interchanged in oriental dialects. 
The discoloration of its waters by blood, indi-
cated an extensive slaughter there. There may be 
a reference here to 2 Kings 3 : 22-24, where the 
Moabites saw " the water on the other side as red 
as blood : and they said, This is blood : the kings 
are surely slain, and they have smitten one ano-
ther : now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. And 
when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israel-
ites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they 
fled before them," &c. A similar appearance of 
the waters now, might indicate the approach of a 
corresponding calamity. 
Dibon, it will be remembered, was one of the 
high places where the Moabites went up to weep 
and to pray to their idols for succor. While thus 
employed, they are overtaken by still more direful 
calamities : the idol worshippers are devoured by 
lions,—wild beasts being one of the judgments 
which GOD sometimes sent upon the nations. When 
the people, which were placed in the cities of Sa-
maria, in the place of the ten tribes, knew not 
GOD (2 Kings 17:26), he " sent lions among them." 
The next chapter, however shows that this was not 
immediately to follow. 
Some suppose that the lions are substituted for 
the greater evils which should overtake them. Amos 
5 : 19—" As if a man did flee from a lion, and a 
bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned 
his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." The 
parallel prophecy in Jeremiah seems to favor this 
idea. (See Jer.48:42-46) 
"THE THEOLOGICA2 AND LITERARY JOURNAL. Edited by David 
N. Lord. No. XXI. July, 1853. New York: Published by Frank-
lin Knight, 140 Nassau-street." 
THE July No. of this Journal is filled with inter-
esting articles, as may be judged by its table of 
contents. The first article in particular, is a valu-
able addition to the preceding ones on the Geo- 
logical question. The conclusions in the third ar-
ticle we should dissent from in some particulars. 
We prepared an article on the same subject a few 
months since, but have not yet found room for it 
in our columns. 
Art. I.—Dr. J. P. Smith on the Geological 
Theory. 
Art. II.—The Rev. Albert Barnes's Notes on 
Rev. 20:4-6. By the Rev. H. Carleton. 
Art. III.—The Princeton Review on Millenarian-
ism—The writer misrepresents the principles of in-
terpretation on which Millenarians proceeds—He 
omits to state what his own theory of interpreta-
tion is—His theory of symbols stated for him—His 
theory of language stated for him—He falsely rep-
resents it as a doctrine of Millenarians that Christ 
is not now a King, and that his intercessions are 
to cease at his second coming—He falls into sev-
eral errors in his statements respecting the means 
by which the millenarian is to be introduced—
He runs into a still greater number in his state-
ments respecting the state of things during the mil-
lennium—His mistakes in respect to the first resur- 
rectioni-Points that may be considered as settled 
by this and the previous article on the subject in 
the Repertory. 
Art. IV. _-.-The Distastefulness of Christianity. 
By the Rev. E. b. Smith, D. D., 
Art. V.—English Universities. By the Rev. W. 
C. Fowler. 
Art. VI.--Dr. Nevin's Pantheistic and Develop-
ment Theories. 
Art. VII.—Literary and Critical Notices—Bliss's 
Commentary on the Apocalypse—Dr. Pott's Ad-
dress—Mr. E. Lord's Messiah in Moses and the 
Prophets—Bliss's Memoir's of W. Miller—Rog-
ers:s Reason and Faith—Dr. Cannon's Lectures on 
Pastoral Theology—Dr. Turner's Commentary on 
the Epistle to the Hebrews—Dr. Merle's History 
of the Reformation. 
" QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION."—Attention is so-
licited to a letter with this heading, in another col-
umn, from brother Litch. It is expected that a 
discussion, of the nature proposed, will elicit con-
siderable interest, and give activity to some pens 
now long idle. Truth is elicited by a conflict of 
opinion. If any wish to write over assumed signa-
tures, they will communicate their names to the 
editor, who will preserve the incog. of those who 
wish it. Any one is at liberty to answer the ques-
tion of brother Litch. We suppose he waits for 
an answer, before proceding farther. Perhaps he, 
and others will answer it ; and then from the di-
versity, or the unanimity of the answers, shape and 
direction may be given to the discussion. Will not 
some of the clergy who receive the Herald, whether 
agreeing with, or differing from its teachings, bend 
their minds to it, and send us the result of their 
cogitations l 
RUSSIA AND TURKEY. 
THE relative positions of these two countries, as 
revealed by the latest intelligence, is about the 
same as that of previous arrivals. The London pa-
pers are confident that peace will be preserved. 
Their means of gaining correct information are of 
course better than ours ; but it must be conceded 
that affairs are in a very critical condition, the 
equilibrium of which might be disturbed by a slight 
movement. The Boston Journal takes the follow-
ing view of the question : 
" The state of affairs is critical, and it is evident 
that a single move—a breath, almost—will precipi-
tate the two countries into a war which will in-
volve the whole of Europe. It is stated that the 
Czar has approved the proceedings of Prince Men-
sAikoff at Constantinople, and has forwarded a 
formal summons or ultimatum to the Porte, de-: 
manding a formal reply within fifteen days. In 
the meantime very extensive military preparations 
are going forward, and travellers state that the 
greatest activity prevailed from St. Petersburg to 
the frontier of Poland. Since 1849 no such move-
ment has been witnessed. Three battalions of the 
reserve of sappers have been directed towards the 
Pruth.' One account says that pending the con-
clusions of the negotiations, the Czar has deter-
mined that his army should cross the Pruth, which 
divides Russia from the Danubian principalities, 
and occupy that portion of the Sultan's territories. 
This step it was said would take place on the 16th 
June, when fifteen days would transpire, which 
were the terms assigned for a categorical answer 
as to whether the demands of the Czar would be 
complied with. 
" The occupation of the Turkish principalities is 
clearly a violation of treaty stipulations, but whe-
ther it will be considered a casus belli remains to be 
seen. By the treaty of Balta Liman, April 19th, 
1849, a joint protectorate is established over these 
principalities, and after providing for their tempo-
rary occupation, until order is restored, ' the com-
pletion of the work of organic improvement, and 
the consolidation of internal repose in the two 
provinces,' it is decreed that ' the troops of the two 
powers shall then completely evacuate the princi-
palities, but shall remain sufficiently near to re-
enter immediately in case pave circumstances aris-
ing in the principalities, should require the adoption 
of that measure.' The only contingency, it will 
thus be seen, which would give Russia a shadow of 
right to send an army across the Pruth, is that of 
grave circumstances arising in the principalities. 
It can hardly be contended that such circumstances 
have arisen. The prineipalitics are tranquil, and 
the only inference which could be drawn from the 
threatened movement is that Russia is willing to 
risk a war. 
" In the meantime the fleets of France and Eng-
land are drawing nearer to the Dardanelles, and 
are concentrating in the Bay of Besika. This is 
obviously a measure of intimidation, but if the 
Russians cross the Pruth, the act would abrogate 
existing treaties, and would justify the fleets in 
passing the Dardanelles. This would be, in effect, 
a declaration of war, or rather a declaration that 
war existed by the act of Russia. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER xv. 
THE BURDEN OF MOAB. 
BECAUSE in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence ; 
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to si-
lence.-v. 1. 
MOAB was a country on the east of the Dead Sea, 
inhabited by the descendants of Lot's eldest daugh-
ter. Its destruction is predicted, without any in-
dication of the agents by which its ruin was to be 
produced. Ar, was its capital ; and Kir, was at 
important city about twelve miles south. 
Not only the principal cities, but the entire land 
of Moab was to be desolated. This is made more 
apparent by the parallel prophecy in the 48th 
chapter of Jeremiah. Jer. 48 : 8, 9—" And the 
spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city 
shall escape : the valleys also shall perish, and the 
plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken. 
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get 
away : for the cities thereof shall be desolate, with-
out any to dwell therein." 
The sin of Moab, for which it was to be pun-
ished, consisted in its pride, idolatry, and oppo-
sition of the Jewish nation. 
There was ever an antipathy between Israel and 
Moab. GOD said to Moses (Deut. 23 : 3,4) : "An 
Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the con-
gregation of the LORD ; even to their tenth genera-
tion shall they not enter into the congregation of 
the LORD for ever : because they met you not with 
bread and with water in the way, when ye came 
forth out of Egypt ; and because they hired against 
thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Meso-
potamia, to curse thee." .Eglon king of Moab was 
the second one who oppressed Israel after the death 
of Joshua. (Judges 3 : 12.) David made Moab 
and Ammon tributary to him. (2 Sam. 8 : 2-12 ; 
3:20.) Subsequent to this, they seem to have 
warred against the Jews, and to have rejoiced in 
their calamities. 
He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep : 
Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: 
 
On all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.-v. 2. 
" Bajith," signifies the nousx, and was probably 
a temple devoted to idolatrous worship. " Dibon " 
was the name of a tower where was an idolatrous 
temple. These were the high places to which 
Moab,—the country, by a metonymy, being used 
for its inhabitants,—had fled to weep and to pray 
to their idols for protection from their calamities, 
when their cities were desolated. 
"Nebo " . was a high mountain on the east of 
Jordan, near the Dead Sea, and from which an ex-
tended view could be had of the land of Canaan. 
It was doubtless one of the high places where 
the Moabites worshipped. 
" Medeba " was their most northern city, and was 
conquered by them from the Reubenites. Burck-
hardt describes it as " built upon a round hill." 
It must also have been one of their places of re-
sort for the worship of their gods. 
To cut off the hair, was expressive of mourning, 
and to lose their beard was a great calamity. It 
was so regarded, according to Herodotus, by all an-
cient nations except the Egyptians. In cutting off 
their hair, they divested themselves of the most 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
221 
" On the side of peace we have a report that 
Austria had offered to mediate, and that the offer 
had been accepted by the Czar. She has interests 
in the settlement of this quarrel adverse to those of 
Russia, and it is thought the acceptance of Aus-
trian mediation betrays a desire on the part of the 
Emperor Nicholas to settle the quarrel without an 
appeal to the last resort. However this may be, it 
is obvious that with the Czar now rests the ques-
tion of peace or war. He keeps his own counsel, 
is responsible.to no authority, and his plans are 
generally matured before they are made public. 
What will be his course can only be a matter of 
conjecture, and the data upon which to base an 
opinion are vague and unsatisfactory. 
"There is some plausibility in the following 
comments of the Loudon correspondent of the N. 
Y. Commerical: 
" ' Austria, however suicidal such a policy would 
prove, must yield to the wishes of the Czar, not-
withstanding any professions she might make to 
the contrary. Prussia, although in a less servile 
way, will fall into the same course, since all the 
German powers see in Russia the only protector 
against the double danger that constantly haunts 
them, of a rising on the part of their own subjects, 
and a territorial aggression by Louis Napoleon. 
" Under such circumstances, the astuteness of 
all the proceedings of the Czar, and the advantages 
of his position, are rendered at the same time sin-
gularly apparent. He saw that France was in-
volved in a speculative madness upon the success-
ful maintenance of which, at all events for a cer-
tain period, the existence of the Emperor is univer-
sally considered to depend ; that England was in a 
state of unexampled trading prosperity, and en-
gaged in enormous undertakings of the most valu-
able kind, both socially and economically, so as to 
render even the prospect of a political convulsion 
in which she would have to take part, the most de-
plorable contingency that could be presented to her 
government and people ; that Austria who is the 
party most really interested in the question, was 
bound to him hand and foot, in the most pitiable 
degradation ; and finally, that Turkey herself was 
in a condition of feeble terror, greater than at any 
other period, owing to the arrival of the day which 
had been prophecied for four hundred years, when 
her power in Europe was to pass away forever. 
With such a combination in her favor, there was 
hardly any step that Russia need fear to venture 
upon. She might advance up to the last point of 
declaring war, certain that the first blow would 
never willingly be struck on the other side, and 
could always just draw back the pace or two ne-
cessary to prevent an irremediable conflict—still, 
however, maintaining her pretensions, and waiting 
finally to be bought off by concessions that will 
ultimately enable her to get in a quiet way every-
thing for which she has been plotting.' " 
To Correspondents. 
" MR. EDITOR :—We read in Hebrews 4:15, Christ 
was tempted in all points like as we are, yet with-
out sin ? How could he be tempted like as we are, 
when he knew no sin ? Is not a great portion of 
our sufferings made up and occasioned by our re-
maining corruption and indwelling sin? There 
is a dark spot in my mind. Do if you please, set 
me right, by a word or two. Your sister in Christ. 
" SUSAN M. WHITNEY. 
" Wrentham, June 30th, 1853." 
We take it that the apostle was speaking of 
CHRIST'S having taken on himself our nature, and 
thus being liable to all its weaknesses and infirmi-
ties. He suffered hunger, thirst, fatigue, pain, &c., 
as we did, and therefore knows how to feel for his 
suffering children. All these are temptations to 
sin, CHRIST endured them as well as we, but gave 
way to no sin on account of them. 
We doubtless suffer because of our sins in a man-
ner that he did not ; but our temptations to sin are 
such as he resisted ; and if we look to him when 
tempted, he will succor us, and enable us to resist 
temptation. 
D. I. ROBINSON—You did not give the name of 
the person whose obituary you left here. A Syriac 
Testament with your name in it, we find at our 
office. 
JARED SPAULDING—Our view of the Sabbath you 
will find in full, in the Herald of July 3d and 10th, 
1852. It is a very clear case to our mind that the 
first of the week is sustained by apostolic example. 
" THE ORPHAN'S ADVOCATE AND SOCIAL MONITOR." 
We have noticed this paper before, and again com-
ply with its request to repeat the notice. It is pub-
lished monthly at 282 Tremont-street, Boston, by 
Misses A. & E. C. Fellows, who are engaged in the 
laudable work of providing orphans with homes. 
Any person wishing to adopt little homeless boys 
or girls, by applying to them could make a selec-
tion from quite a number of any desired age ; and 
those wishing to assist them in their gratuitous la-
bors of love, would be conferring a favor that would 
not be unmerited. 
NOTE.—tip' e have been sending the Herald for six 
months, at the order of some brother, to the Rev. 
J. M. Clark, Moscow P. 0., Luzerne county, Pa. 
Last week, it was sent back with the information 
that there is no such Post-office in Pennsylvania. 
What order will the sender take respecting it ? 
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME. 
MATT. 24:36-40—" But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, 
not the angels of heaven, V neither the Son '—Mark,) but my rather 
only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the 
Son of man be for as in the days that were before the flood, they 
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until 
the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood 
came and took theni all away : likeWise also as it was in the days 
of Lot : they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they 
planted, they bailded ; but the same day that Lot went out of 
Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed 
them all'—Luke 1715] so shall also the coming of the Son of man 
be. V I tell you, in that night thete shall be two in one bed ; the 
one shall he taken, and the other shall be left'—Luke 17th] ; then 
shall two he in the field : the one shall be taken, and the other left : 
two women shall be grinding at the mill: the one shall be taken, and 
the other left." 
In the foregoing, is described the suddenness of 
CHRIST'S second coming, which will be unlooked 
for by the world at large ; and also, the obscurity 
in which the time of the event was shrouded when 
this prophecy was uttered. Some argue from this 
that we can know nothing of the time of CHRIST'S 
coming, and that it will come unexpectedly to 
Christians. But nothing can be more contrary to 
the general tenor of Scripture. 
The knowledge of the time was then only within 
the power of the Father. Thus when the disciples 
asked CHRIST if he would at that time restore the 
kingdom to Israel, he said to them, Acts 1:7, 8—
" It is not for you to know the times or the sea-
sons which the Father bath put in his own power. 
But ye shall receive power after that the Holy 
Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses 
unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and 
in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the 
earth." Here is a clear indication that what was 
then in the Father's own power, was to be after-
wards given to the apostles, and by them commu-
nicated to the Church. Thus we hear Paul testi-
fying that " that day shall not come except there 
come a falling away first and that man of sin be 
revealed." (2 Thess. 2:3.) And the closing book 
of the inspired volume is " The revelation of JESUS 
CHRIST, which GOD gave unto him, to show unto 
his servants things which must shortly come to 
pass ; and he sent and signified it by his angel 
unto his servant John." (Rev. 1:1.) It is there-
fore no longer limited to the power of the Father. 
Therefore when Paul asserts that " the day of the 
LORD so cometh as a thief in the night " upon the 
ungodly, he immediately adds : " But ye, breth-
ren, are not in darkness, that that day should over-
take you as a thief. Ye are all the children of 
light, and the children of the day : we are not of 
the night, nor of darkness." (1 Thess. 5:4, 5 ) 
The SAVIOUR teaches that his second coming is 
to be as unexpected, as the flood was to the old 
world, or the fire to Sodom. In each of those in-
stances the righteous foreknew it, and the wicked 
were abundantly warned. Noah was given the 
time that should elapse previous to the event. 
When GOD was about to destroy the cities of the 
plain, he said, " Shall I hide from Abraham that 
thing which I do ?'' (Gen. 18:17 ;) and angels 
were sent to Lot that he might say to his children 
" Up, get ye out of this place ; for the LoRD will 
destroy this city." (lb. 19:14.) " Surely the LORD 
GOD doeth nothing, but he revealeth his secret 
unto his servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7.) The 
LORD has been pleased to bestow on his Church 
" a more sure word of prophecy : whereunto ye do 
well that ye give heed, as unto a light that shineth 
in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day 
star arise in your hearts." (2 Pet. 1:19.) " Unto 
them that look for him shall he appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation." (Heb. 9:28.) 
As that day is to come on the world unexpected-
ly, but is to be anticipated by GoD's children, 
therefore they are admonished to 
THE DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS. 
Luke 21:34-36—" Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of 
this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare 
shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 
Watch ye therefore, and pray always; that ye may be accounted 
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to 
stand before the Son of man ;" "for ye know not when the time is." 
—Mark. Matt. 24 : 42 11 " Watch therefore ; for ye know not 
what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good 
man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, 
lie would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to 
be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as 
ye think not, the Son of man cometh." "For the Son of man is as 
a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority 
to his servants, and to every man his work ; and commanded the 
porter to watch."—Mark. Matt. 21 : 45-51—" Who then is a faith-
ful and wise servant, whom his lord bath made ruler over his house-
hold, to give them meat in due season ? Blessed is that servant, 
whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily, I say 
unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and 
if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his conk-
ing ; and shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and 
drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a 
day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not 
aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion 
with the hypocrites j' unbelievers'—Luke] : there shall be weeping 
and gnashing of teeth." Mark 13 : 35-37—" Watch ye therefore: 
 
for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, at 
midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning : lest coming 
suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you, I say 
unto all, Watch." 
The duty of watchfulness in view of the LORD'S 
coming, is thus imperatively enjoined on all. 
CHRIST speaks not to one,—not to those who may 
live at some particular time, but to all Christians 
in all times. And the time of his coming was left 
measurably obscure, that they might at all times 
live in constant readiness for the event. 
To cultivate the necessary degree of watchful-
ness, the evidence of CHRIST'S coming has been 
only gradually unfolded, as it was needed by the 
Church. At first, its era was in the power of the 
Father only. At a subsequent period, to the apos- 
tle was given to announce that a great falling 
away must precede it. Afterwards, the revela- 
tion of JESUS CHRIST which GOD gave to him, was 
unfolded by an angel to his servant John, showing 
him a series of events which were shortly to com- 
mence, and which were to fill up the intermediate 
time to the consummation. The duration of the 
several successive links, in the prophetic chain, 
was not so marked, but, that, before their fulfil- 
ment, the event might be regarded as compara-
tively near. Had they realized the great length 
of the dark night which was to elapse previous to 
the rising of the Sun of righteousness, they might 
have tired and fallen into a profound slumber ; 
but by its indefiniteness, the Church was led to 
hope for the coming of her LORD even in the even-
ing of that night, and was not discouraged, though 
compelled to wait till past midnight, for the cock-
crowing and the morning. Early heresies, gave 
probability to the supposition that the apostacy 
and the lawless one had come, and that nothing 
then could delay the advent. The fulfilment of 
events enabled them to realize more clearly the 
duration of prophetic times, the commencement 
of prophetic periods, and the succession of events. 
Sometimes deceived by false lights, the faithful 
followers of the LORD were thereby, only induced 
to give more earnest heed to the more sure word 
of Prophecy. And when misled by false hopes, 
they turned more eagerly to the blessed hope and 
the glorious appearing of the great GOD, even our 
SAVIOUR CHRIST JESUS. In these last days the signs 
have greatly thickened. The heavens have been 
shrouded in sackcloth, and meteoric stars have 
fallen like snow flakes. The seals of the great 
book of prophecy have been loosened ; and the 
Church has been enabled to see the foot-prints of 
her LORD'S approach, and to admire his stately 
steppings. In the fulfilment of prophecies and the 
succession of periods, she has been enabled to 
mark the removal of obstacles to his coming. And 
now, in response to His declarations, " Surely I 
come quickly !" how affectionately and earnestly 
should the Church reply, " Even so : Come, Lord 
JESUS." 
" Lest coming suddenly, He find you sleeping," 
said the SAVIOUR. They that sleep, sleep in the 
night ; but the Church claims not to be of the night 
and therefore should not indulge in slumber. Is 
there no indifference on the part of those who call 
themselves the " children of the day," respecting 
the dawning of that day I It is to be feared that 
to many, should the LORD suddenly come, it would 
be a most unexpected event. Can such be said to 
be watching Many have substituted death, when 
we go to the LORD, for the LORD'S coming to us : are 
such watching for the LORD'S coming? They say 
with the Psalmist, (79:4,) " We see not our signs : 
there is no more any prophet : neither is there 
among us any that knoweth how long." They can 
predict fair weather on the morrow, should the sky 
in the evening be red ; and foul weather, should 
the morning be red and lowering : but they cannot 
discern the signs of the times 1 " The stork in the 
heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle 
and the crane and the swallow observe the time of 
their coming, but my people," saith GOD, (Jer. 
8:7,) " know not the judgment of the LoRD." 
Not only are the majority of Christians profess-
edly ignorant of the era of the LORD'S coming, 
but they confess to no indications by which they 
may ever know of it. Notwithstanding GOD indi-
cated to Noah, Lot and Abraham, the approach-
ing doom of the old world and of Sodom, and has 
pointed to those events as examples of the day of 
his coming ; notwithstanding he has told them to 
learn from the budding fig-tree, and from all the 
trees that harbinger approaching summer ; not-
withstanding he has thickly studded the heavens 
with the signs of his coming, and has assured them 
that the Church will not be in darkness, and that 
that day should not overtake them as a thief, but 
only the wicked; yet they only exclaim, The day of 
the LORD cometh as a thief in the night ! 
What will arouse them ? Is not his near com-
ing a motive for the cultivation of all the Chris- 
tian graces It is an inducement to repentance. 
Said Peter to the unbelieving Jews : Acts 3:19, 20 
—" Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that 
your sins may be blotted out, when the times of 
refreshing shall come from the presence of the 
LORD ; and he shall send JESUS CHRIST, which was 
before preached unto you." It begets brotherly 
love : Said Paul to the Thessalonians, 1 Thess. 
3:12, 13—" And the LORD make you to increase 
and abound in love one toward another, and toward 
all men, even as we do toward you : to the end he 
may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness 
before GOD, even our Father, at the coming of our 
Lord JESUS CHRIST with all his saints." By look- 
ENVELOPED LETTERS.—When letters are enclosed 
in an envelope, the address should be inscribed on 
the letter as well as on the envelope ; otherwise the 
loss of the envelope may cause grave mistakes and 
serious confusion—or may leave the letter for an 
anonymous claimant. We heard a deceased Chan-
cellor say that he knew an important law case 
which came very near being lost to the party, ul-
timately successful, by the loss of an envelope, 
leaving it uncertain to whom the missive had been 
addressed. Recently, too, we learn from an ex-
change paper, that a stolen mail had been recov-
ered with all the envelopes torn off the letters, and 
the Postmaster knew not where to send many of 
them. 
Charleston Courier. 
LEFT by some one at this office, a silver pencil 
case, with a gold pen. The owner &c. &c. 
ing for the coming of CHRIST we learn to mortify 
earthly lusts : Col. 3:4, 5—" When CHRIST, who is 
our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear 
with him in glory. Mortify therefore your mem-
bers which are upon the earth ; fornication, un-
cleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, 
and covetousness, which is idolatry." Titus 2:11-
13—" For the grace of GOD that bringeth salva-
tion bath appeared to all men, teaching us, that 
denying ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should 
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present 
world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glo-
rious appearing of the great GOD and our SAVIOUR 
JESUS CHRIST." It begets a desire to be Christ-
like : 1 John 3:2, 3—" We know that when he 
shall appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall 
see him as he is. And every man that bath this 
hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." 
lb. 2:28—" And now, little children, abide in him ; 
that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, 
and not be ashamed before him at his coming." 
Matt. 16:27—" For the Son of man shall come in 
the glory of his Father, with his angels ; and then 
he shall reward every man according to his works." 
Rev. 22:12—" And behold, I come quickly ; and my 
reward is with me, to give every man according as 
his work shall be. It will withdraw our affections 
from earth : Phil. 3:20—" For our conversation is 
in heaven ; from whence also we look for the SA-
VIOUR, the Lord JESUS CHRIST." It conduces to 
patience in the Christian walk : Heb. 10:36, 37—
" For we have wed of patience, that, after ye have 
done the will of GOD, ye might receive the promise. 
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will 
come, and will not tarry." James 5:7, 8—" Be 
patient therefore, brethren, unto the coining of th e 
LORD. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the 
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience 
for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 
Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for the 
coming of the LORD draweth nigh." 2 Thess. 1:7, 
8—" And to you, who are troubled, rest with us, 
when the Lord JESUS shall be revealed from heaven 
with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking ven-
geance on them that know not GOD, and obey not 
the gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST." It checks 
all censorious judgment : " Therefore judge noth-
ing before the time, until the LORD come." (1 
Cor. 4:5.) It encourages moderation and sobriety : 
" Let your moderation be known unto all men : 
the LORD is at hand." (Phil. 4:5.) " Gird up 
the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the 
end for the grace that is to be brought unto you 
at the revelation of JESUS CHRIST." (1 Pet. 1:13.) 
Finally, it prompts to ministerial fidelity and dili- 
gence : Said Paul to Timothy : " I give thee charge 
in the sight of GOD, who quickeneth all things, 
before CHRIST JESUS, who before Pontius Pilate 
witnessed a good confession ; that thou keep this 
commandment without spot, unrebukable, until 
the appearing of our Lord JESUS CHRIST." (1 Tim. 
6:13, 14.) " I charge thee before GoD and the 
Lord JESUS CHRIST, who shall judge the quick and 
the dead at his appearing and kingdom ; preach 
the word ; be instant in season, out of season ; re- 
prove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and 
doctrine " (2 Tim. 4:1, 2.) And Peter said : 
" The elders which are among you I exhort, who 
am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings 
of CHRIST, and a partaker of the glory that shall 
be revealed : feed the flock of GOD which is among 
you, taking the oversight thereof, not by con- 
straint, but willingly ; not by filthy lucre, but of 
a ready mind . . . And when the chief Shepherd 
shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that 
fadeth not away." (1 Pet. 5:1, 2, 4.) Thus is 
the faithful pastor encouraged to look beyond the 
present state for his reward : " For what is our 
hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even 
ye in the presence of our Lord JESUS CHRIST at his 
coming ?" (1 Thess. 2:19.) " Blessed is that ser-
vant, whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find so 
doing." (Matt. 24:46.) " Blessed are those ser-
vants whom the LORD when he cometh, shall find 
watching." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, 
that those who should be in Judea should flee to 
the mountain ? 
I think we shall find, if we adhere to this ques-
tion and thoroughly discuss it, that it is the key 
to prophecy. And let it be decided on its merits, 
that is, the obvious import of the language of the 
text and context, and not by any preconceived opin-
ion. The question is not, What is the reason ? 
but, What reason did Christ assign, as recorded 
by Matthew ? 
J. LITCH. 
REMARKS. 
We shall be pleased to make the _Herald a vehi-
cle for such a discussion. We have at present no 
rules to designate, except that communications 
shall not be personal, that they shall be to the 
point under consideration, shall be as short and 
pithy as practicable, and shall be biblical and logi-
cal, and without unnecessary repetition of the same 
idea. Will brother Litch open the debate ?—En. 
CANADA EAST AND VERMONT CONFER- 
ENCE. 
AGREEABLE to notice the Annual Second Advent 
Conference for Canada East and Northern Ver-
mont, was held at the Outlet, Magog, C. E. Meet-
ing commenced Thursday, June 9th, at ten and a 
half A. B., by singing, " Come let us anew our 
journey pursue," &c. As but few ministering 
brethren had arrived, it was thought best to spend 
the forenoon in the devotional exercises, of prayer, 
relation of experience, &c. A goodly number of 
brethren and sisters were present, and the season 
was an interesting and profitable one. 
AFTERNOON. 
Discourse by B. S. Reynolds, founded on 1 Cor. 6: 
19, 20. 
The Bible gives us an account of man and of the 
earth. Consider- 
Man's original condition. He was created a 
holy, happy, and intelligent being. 
Man's fall, and redemption through Christ. 
Since the transgression of our first parents we 
read of man by nature, that " the imagination of 
his heart is evil, and that continually,"—" his 
throat is an open sepulchre,"—" there is none 
righteous, no not one." But Jesus died for our 
sins. His righteousness covers the Adamic trans- 
gression, and if men are lost it is because of actual 
disobedience. We are saved through the merits of 
the Son of God. By faith in him, our body becomes 
a temple of the Holy Ghost. We are cleansed 
through the word and Spirit of God, and thus se-
cure a resurrection to everlasting life. 
Elder J. Blake made some appropriate remarks 
relative to the consummation of our hope at the 
coming of our Lord, and the dawn of the resurrec-
tion morn, after which the meeting terminated by 
singing and prayer. 
Those who were interested in the business of the 
Conference, remained for a short season after the 
congregation was dismissed. S. W. Thurber was 
chosen President, and J. M. Orrock Secretary. A 
business committe was then appointed to draft 
resolutions, to bring before the general Conference. 
EVENING. 
Discourse by Elder Isaac Blake. (2 Tim. 4:6-8.) 
These words were spoken by the great apostle of 
the Gentiles near the close of his earthly career. 
The last words of a person are considered import-
ant. 
The retrospective view which the apostle took, 
—v. 7. His trials were numerous and severe. (See 
2 Cor. 11:23-28.) The people of God have been in 
every age a tried people. A view of our trials 
should not discourage us, for God has promised 
that as our day is, so shall our strength be. The 
Christian can meet death with composure. He can 
have victory in death, but will triumph over death 
when Jesus appears to be glorified in his saints. 
The prospective view which Paul had,—v. 8. 
He looked for a crown at the appearing of the 
righteous Judge ;—a crown of glory which shall 
never fade away. He did not expect his crown and 
kingdom at death. The coronation day is near, and 
when the apostle is crowned, all the saints will be, 
and enjoy immortality where sorrow and separa-
tion shall be forever unknown. 
Brother Himes followed with some remarks, 
showing that many of the great men of the earth 
have turned their attention to the subject of reli-
gion in their last days. But the humble believer 
who in the time of health and strength walks with 
God, shows more wisdom than the noble and great 
do ; for if they are saved, they must so far humble 
themselves as to occupy that position which the 
Christian has occupied for many years. 
SECOND DAY—FRIDAY MORNING. 
Conference opened about ten A. M. It was ar-
ranged that the forenoon should be spent in hear-
ing from the churches in different places. 
VERMONT. 
North Danville. Elder Reynolds :—W e came into, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the Herald. 
SUPPORT OF THE " ADVENT HERALD." 
BY J. LITCII. 
Why the Advent Herald should be supported. 
I might speak of the value of such a paper 
in a family of children, when compared with the 
vast amount of trashy and demoralizing matter supports of the cause in his field of labor to have 
with which the newspaper press of the day is teem- the weekly influence of the Herald backing up his 
ing. Its influence can be but good in training up efforts to do good. And they must have observed 
a family for usefulness and the kingdom of heaven. that, as a general thing, those who are the most 
And every family of Advent believers should take under the influence of the paper are the most ac-
it, if for no other reason than to put it in the way tive and interested Christians. Where, then, my 
of their children. But, 
brethren, does our interest lie?—In encouraging 
It as due the Publisher that it should be sustained. its circulation, or leaving it to languish and die ? 
This, although last introduced, is not the least of Again. It is said—" The Herald is a money 
the reasons why the paper should receive a liberal making concern, and the Publisher is becoming 
support. It was commenced when friends were rich from its profits." To this I reply :—This is 
few, and there was no cause to sustain it ; and it a grand mistake. I have, in connection with Elder 
was commenced on his individual responsibility. Osler, within a few weeks visited the Herald office, 
That he contracted with Dow & Jackson to publish and gone critically over with the books, from 1842 
it for the proceeds for one year, does not alter the to the present time, and have thus the means of 
fact. The care and labor of obtaining subscribers, knowing what I say. The Herald at the present 
and conducting the paper, were his. It has grown time has but a little more than enough income 
up, matured, and pursued its course of usefulness, from 4 subscription list to meet its weekly ex-
under his influence and efforts. In sustaining it, penses, even if all its paying (?) subscribers were 
he has had foes without and fears within. He has such, and paid up their dues. But, of bills sent 
had to travel, and labor night and day, in cold and out last December, for the volume which then 
heat ; has had all manner of reproach and obloquy closed over seven hundred have not yet been heard 
heaped upon him from abroad, and by false breth- from ! This leaves the office embarrassed and crip-
ren. The most vile slanders and false charges, pled in its energies and resources. And it is for 
charges of cupidity, and of deception with respect its friends to say that this shall not be so. And I 
to the wants of the paper and of his pressing ne- wish to say both in behalf of myself and brother 
cessities, have been put in circulation, and every Osler, that we rose up from our review of the 
means used to destroy public confidence in his in- books of the office, under a more deep conviction 
tegrity as a man and Christian. All these charges than we ever before had, of the perfect integrity 
he has met over and over, and whenever they have and faithfulness with which the business of the es-
assumed anything like a specific and tangible form, tablishment has been conducted, to promote the 
has been able to disprove them as positively as interest of the Advent cause, and not to enrich the 
they have been made. Such a man, after thus bat- proprietor. No committee or agent of the cause 
thing and sustaining the fire of all his assailants could have done more. And we left the office more 
for thirteen years in support of this great cause, firmly resolved than ever before, to give it our most 
is, if any man can be, worthy of support in his hearty and cordial support, so long as it is con-
work. He always has, and still does, avow his en- ducted on the same principle as has heretofore gov-
tire readiness to meet all his accusers before any erned its proceedings. And we can but urge on 
proper tribunal, to meet whatever charges they all lovers and friends of the cause, to go and do 
may have to make against him. But it is said— likewise. 
He will crush every one who attempts to expose 
him." I reply, that depends entirely on the cir- A QUESTION FOR CONSIDERATION. 
cumstances ! If anybody has reason to believe he 
is guilty of the great wrongs charged upon him, 
and will go to him as a Christian or a man, and 
frankly state his difficulties, and ground of his 
fears or belief, I will hold myself responsible in 
saying, he will meet with nothing but the most 
candid and gentlemanly treatment, and as full an 
explanation and satisfaction as any reasonable man 
traction of that wrong. No more than this can 
be asked of any one. 
can require ; or if wrong is found to exist, a re- 
On the other hand, if some one surmises that all ject, and endeavor to get out some general views in 
opinions in the world as to the import of the 24th 
chapter of Matthew, and a variety even among the 
Adventists, will it not be well to discuss the sub-
which all can harmonize? I know many think I 
am a heretic on that chapter, and on some other 
points ; but of this I am certain, I do not differ 
any more widely from others than they do from 
me. And if I can tolerate them and their opin-
ions, I do not know why the toleration should not 
MR. EDITOR :—As there are a great diversity of 
be reciprocal. It appears to me that a patient and 
is not right, and seizes on and distorts facts and deliberate examination of the subject will throw 
words, and goes around or writes and reports them, more light on prophecy than any other topic we 
thus stabbing him in the dark, and steadfastly re- 
 can discuss. It is certain that where there are so 
fusing to go to him alone and talk over the matter, many opinions, all cannot be correct. If we can 
or to submit it to the investigation of an impartial investigate for the purpose of obtaining light, in- 
tribunal even, what can the man do but defend 
stead of striving for the mastery, we shall be likely 
himself as best he can? Now this I believe to be 
to be benefited. Let us keep to one point till it is 
precisely the case with the Publisher of the Advent 
exhausted, or settled as far as may be, before we 
Herald. 
But it is said—" He should give up the paper leave it for another. And I hope, Mr. Editor, you 
into other hands, and thus rid himself of so many will, while encouraging a free expression of opin-
attacks !" But into whose hands should he make ion, adhere rigidly to the rule to admit nothing 
the surrender ? To those who are thus assailing into the discussion of a personal character, but 
him, and would use it as a weapon to crush him? confine all to the question, on its own merits. And 
or to those who would pervert it to some other ob- another point will be important, and that is, that 
ject beside that far which it wc.s begun and has what each one has to say at a time shall be short 
been sustained ? This he can never da. To others I would suggest that no communication should be 
he has always expressed his readiness to make the more than half a column, and as much shorter as 
surrender. His language has been ever since there the writer can conveniently make it. I merely 
has been an Advent causer both in public and pri- throw out these suggestions, and if you think fa-
vate, " If the friends of the cause desire a change vorably and are disposed to introduce such an in 
in the conducting of the paper, and responsible vestigation, I trust you will present us some rules 
men will guarantee its support, and that it shall which shall be absolute, and if I violate them, en-
not be perverted to any other use than that for force them rigidly, and exclude my communication, 
which it was started, I am ready to transfer the and do the same with all others. 
whole concern to them." What more can any 
QUESTION. 
friend of the cause ask / But has any such propo- Matt. 24:15, 16—What reason did Christ assign, 
sition ever been made by the friends of the cause ? as recorded by Matthew, why, when his people 
Never ! Nor do I know of or believe there exists should see the abomination of desolation spoken of 
what we considered, gospel order, about three years 
ago. The church numbers about thirty members. 
There is a Sabbath-school, sustained by four differ-
ent denominations. General prosperity. 
Montgomery. Brother Janes :—The church liv-
ing in unison and gospel order. There have been 
about fifty converted and eighteen backsliders re-
claimed within a few months. Elder A. Merrill is 
pastor. Elder C. Green lives here, and exerts a 
good influence. Have a meeting house and Sab-
bath-school. 
West Derby. Brother Reynolds :L-There was a 
revival last fall, and a number were hopefully con-
verted and reclaimed. There are some living mem-
bers, and if proper means were used quite a com-
pany might be raised up. I preach to them half of 
the time. 
Fairfield. Brother Sherman :—There is a terri-
tory here and places adjacent which might truly 
be called missionary ground. We have had some 
prosperity within three years past, but now the 
cause is low and brethren are scattered. IIelp is 
wanted, for we are destitute of the stated preach-
ing of the gospel of the kingdom. We have no Sab-
bath-school at present. 
Richford. Elder A. Merrill labors one quarter 
of his time with the church here. The cause of 
Christ is in rather a low state, yet there are some 
faithful souls. 
Cabot. Brother Thurber :—We have had a re-
vival last fall, and are prospering. Have just com-
menced a Sabbath-school, and are trying to have 
preaching half of the time. 
CANADA EAST. 
Stanstead. Brother D. H. Merrill :—On Brown's 
Hill and vicinity there are a goodly number of Ad-
vent believers. They have preaching one quarter 
of the time, or more. 
Brother Adams :—In the vicinity of Foster's 
1 
Mills there was a revival last fall, under the labors 
of brother Thurber and others. We are coming 
into gospel order, and about to commence a Sab-
bath-school. For some time past we have had 
preaching half of the time, from brother Lee and 
others. 
Elder Isaac Blake :—I was formerly connected 
with the New Connection Methodists, but suppose 
my name was dropped from their list of preachers 
some time since, and I have been more or less as-
sociated with the Adventists for two years past. 
We have had a little revival in the Tisus' neighbor-
hood, and are somewhat prosperous. 
Brother Thurber :—I am considerably acquaint-
ed with the state of things in Stanstead, and be-
lieve the cause of God to be in a prosperous con-
dition. We have had two preachers ordained there 
within a year. 
Halley. Brother Woren :—The church is pros-
pering. Brother Himes made us a visit last fall, 
which was interesting and profitable to us. A few 
days ago brother Thurber baptized in the east and 
west villages about twenty persons. I was chosen 
by the church as their pastor, and we are in favor 
of gospel order. We have meetings every Lord's 
day, and have commenced a Sabbath-school. I 
think there never was a better prospect of doing 
good than at the present time. 
Melbourne. J. M. Orrock :—Including the Ad-
ventists who reside in Durham and Brompton, the 
church probably numbers fifty members, who are 
waiting for the kingdom of God. Have no meet-
ing house, but recently purchased a piece of land 
and are preparing to build one. Being without a 
chapel we have no Sabbath-school. Have meetings 
twice on the Lord's day, and once during the week. 
The tent meeting held by brother Himes last fall 
had a healthful influence. I preached to the church 
about quarter of the time for a year past, and they 
have had preaching occasionally from others. 
Danville. A letter from Elder J. Porter, who is 
pastor of the church, was read, and as it was also 
read at a subsequent stage of the meeting, it will 
be inserted in another place. 
Waterloo. Brother R. Hutchinson :—We came 
into order about two years ago. The following is 
our church agreement : 
" We, believers in Christ, looking for his speedy 
appearing and kingdom, known as Adventists,' do 
agree to watch over one another in love, according 
to the teachings of the Holy Scriptures, which we 
receive as the sufficient and only rule of our faith 
and duty, as well as discipline. We are willing 
and anxious when we stray from that rule in word 
or deed, to be corrected, reproved, and instructed 
by each other, according to God's holy word. And 
we cordially receive all as brethren, who are will-
ing to walk by the same rule." 
The church numbers sixty or seventy members. 
Have two meetings on the Sabbath, and one dur-
ing the week. We have preaching from brother 
Orrock about a quarter of the time, and I preach 
when I am able. Have a Sabbath-school. The 
number of scholars ranges from fifteen to forty. 
The school has a salutary influence. 
Stanbridg.e. Brother Sornberger :—The church 
any such body of men, firm and reliable friends of 
the cause, that would come under such responsi-
bilities. Why, then, should any one go about to 
strike down the Publisher in order to get hold of 
it? It can never be effected in that way. What 
man, that is a man, or a Christian, would be driven 
from his post of duty, where God's providence has 
placed him, by any such weapons? None but cow-
ards would do it. If he would, there are those who 
would not consent for the present Publisher to 
abandon it, until such pledges for its continued 
publication and integrity in support of the cause 
shall be given. We know it has been well con-
ducted. While, therefore, there seem no alterna-
tive but for the present Publisher to go forward 
with his work, or the paper, and with it the cause, 
to languish and die out, we are bound to sustain 
him in his work, and give the paper the widest pos-
sible circulation and influence. Every minister 
among us must know that it is one of the great 
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is scattered over considerable ground and numbers 
about twenty members. The cause is rather low. 
Brethren limes and Orrock visited us last fall. I 
understand that two were converted, and are de-
cided Adventists. 
Staten. Brother West :—Since our geberal meet-
ing last summer, the good infl.aence has been ris-
ing above opposition. Elder Sornberger, brother 
Jane, and myself labor part of the time in this re-
gion. About twenty persons have 'been baptized 
within a few months. Some time ago we did some-
thing toward coming into church order, and since 
then have had more of a revival influence among 
us. Have no Sabbath-school. We own one sixth 
part of an unfinished meeting-house, but generally 
hold our meetings in school-houses. In Broome I 
recently baptized a dozen or fifteen persons. 
Outlet. Brother Willie :—We have had some 
revival within a year past, and some additions to 
the church. Are divided in opinion, as to church 
order. Have preac"ing part of the time from 
brother Orrock and others. We have commenced 
our Sabbath-school again, and I think on the whole 
the cause is prospering. 
Barnston. Brother Thurber :—There is a goodly 
company of Adventists here. I preached to them 
about quarter of the time for two years past. 
Brother Lee and others have also labored among 
them, but they want more preaching. 
Eaton. Brother Sornberger :—I went there about 
two years ago, and began my labors among the 
people. Found much opposition existing against 
the Advent doctrine, because of the excesses into 
which some had run, who called themselves Ad-
ventists. But prejudice gradually gave way. Breth-
ren Orrock, West, and myself held a general meet-
ing there last week. Some were hopefully con-
verted and reclaimed, and four baptized. 
Conference adjourned till Saturday, at 10 o'clock 
A. M. 
AFTERNOON. 
Discourse by Elder J. V. Himes. (Num 14:24.) 
The spirit which Caleb manifested is placed in 
contra-distinction to the spirit which some of those 
manifested who were his companions in searching 
the promised land. The ten spies who brought up 
an evil report of the goodly land should have had 
faith :—because God promised the children of Is-
rael the land of Canaan, and he knew all about the 
difficulties, which would attend an entrance into it. 
The unbeliever sees many difflulties arise in his 
path, but the child of faith says : " We are well 
able to go up and possess the land." 
The circumstances connected with our text are 
referred to in the New Testament, and applied to 
us. (See Heb. 3:16 to last ; 4:1, &c.) 
I. What is it to follow the Lord, at all? 
The spies followed him till they went into the 
promised land, saw it, and returned. They did 
well while with the multitude, but when they were 
alone difficulties arose. Men may follow the Lord 
in outward duties and yet be lost. 
Lot's wife followed him for a season, but when 
she got away from under the cloud of fire and brim-
stone and began to feel safe, she looked behind her, 
and fell under the displeasure of the Almighty. 
When the conscience of the sinner is awakened, he 
prays and talks, but when he ceases to be alarmed, 
like Lot's wife, he forsakes the Lord. 
Those mentioned in John's gospel, chap. 6th, 
followed Christ for the loaves and fishes, but when 
he began to apply the truth with power to their 
consciences, there was a scattering among them. 
And so it is now. 
Some follow the Lord like the Galatians. They 
were once happy in the love of God, so that the 
apostle inquires : " Where is the blessedness ye 
spake of They had a new heart and a new spirit. 
But some Judaizing teachers came among them, 
who had a bewitching influence over them, and 
drove them back to the law, or ministration of 
death. 
II. What is it to follow the Lord fully ? 
It is to love the Lord with the whole heart, and 
soul, and mind, and strength. How many of us 
do this l If our whole strength is laid out in the 
Lord's service, we have evidence of our acceptance 
with him. 
III. Sonie follow the Lord fully for a season, and 
then depart from him. There is a decay, as in the 
case of Solomon, and the Ephesian church. (See 
Rev. 2:2-4.) Our safety lies in following the Lord 
fully. 
The above is but a meagre outline of a discourse 
which was listened to, with interest by many, who, 
we hope, will be benefitted by it. 
( To be continued.) 
CONFERENCE AT BUFFALO. 
SECOND DAY, JUNE 3. 
BRETHREN W. M. Palmer, Fredonia, Chataugua 
county, N. Y., Jacob Shipman, Hamilton, C. W., 
H. Stevens, Pelham, C. W., each spoke on the 
state of the cause in their different sections. 
After hearing reports from brethren on the state 
of the cause, the following resolutions were of-
fered : 
Resolved, That we deem it expedient and dutiful, 
for those persons and churches represented in this 
Conference, and all others who may hereafter be 
connected with them, to create a fund of $1000, 
for the purpose of assisting competent ministers of 
the gospel in this Western part of the country for 
the current year ; commencing May 1st, 1853, and 
ending May 1st, 1854 ; and that the said fund shall 
be under the control of a committee, who shall dis-
burse the same as they shall consider proper. 
Brethren Tanner, limes, Smith, and Campbell 
spoke on the above resolution, after which it was 
unanimously adopted. 
Resolved, That the committee to whom shall be 
given the charge of this fund, be instructed by this 
Conference to employ such missionaries as will 
conform to and sustain gospel order wherever they 
may labor, and the same may be practicable, and 
that said committee give to all missionaries so em-
ployed such instruction. 
This resolution, after being spoken to by breth-
ren Tanner, Himes, Burnham, and others, was 
adopted unanimously. 
On motion, H. Tanner, E. M. Smith, and C. Dut-
ton, were appointed to constitute the above com-
mittee. 
Resolved, That we hail with joy the disposition 
manifested by the friends of the cause in various 
parts of the land, to conform to the order and dis-
cipline of the New Testament in their several ec-
clesiastical relations. 
This resolution was adopted without debate, and 
the meeting then adjourned, to meet after the af-
ternoon's service. 
After the afternoon's service, the Conference met 
again, and attended to the following business : 
Resolved, That we consider it in the light of 
Christian duty, for our brethren in the ministry 
who can do so, to make special and extended efforts 
for the help of the cause in this Western field, 
which has, we think, to an unhappy extent been 
neglected. 
This resolution was adopted without debate. 
Whereas many urgent calls from the far West 
have been made to the Adventists in the East for 
ministerial help ; and whereas the calls for preach-
ers in the East have been so urgent, that most or 
all the faithful ministers are, and have been, fully 
occupied, we deeply regret that we have not been 
able to respond to their requests only in part, but 
will endeavor to do so as soon as we have the means. 
Whereas the late General Conference of Advent-
ists in Salem, Mass., in view of the destitution of 
laborers in the field at this time, passed a resolu-
tion recommending a day to be set apart for fast-
ing and prayer, that the Lord of the harvest would 
raise up more laborers to enter his harvest ; there-
fore 
Resolved, That we fully sympathize with this re-
commendation, and will endeavor to carry it out 
in the churches with which we are connected. 
Adopted without debate. 
Meeting adjourned until to-morrow morning at 
nine o'clock. 
THIRD DAY, SATURDAY. 
Conference met at 9 A. x., and was opened by 
singing and prayer. 
The minutes of the previous day were then read, 
after which the following resolutions were adopted. 
Resolved, That we deem the attempt of some per-
sons, claiming to be Adventists, to prove an age to 
come, in which God will be particularly gracious 
to the carnal Jews, as a nation, and will extend 
probation for salvation to a portion of the Gentile 
world, after the Redeemer shall have translated 
his saints ; as tending to pervert the word of God, 
and undermine the whole foundation of the doc-
trine of grace and salvation, through faith in Je-
sus Christ, and repentance toward God. 
This resolution, after being spoken to by breth-
ren Tanner, Busby, J. J. Porter, Boone, Himes, 
Burnham, and Hasbury, was adopted unanimously. 
Whereas the reports of brethren in this Western 
field show a lamentable deficiency of ministerial 
labor here ; and whereas there is on the part of 
some of the churches a settled purpose to main-
tain faithful pastors and evangelists with them ; 
therefore 
Resolved, That it is the settled conviction of this 
Conference, that to those of our brethren in the 
ministry who shall be called to this field of labor, 
and who can possibly do so, it becomes an impera-
tive duty to comply with said call ; and more es-
pecially so as the cause is one, East and West, and 
the field appears ripe for labor, and promising a 
rich reward to God's glory. 
Resolved, That we sympathize and will co-ope-
rate with our brethren at the East in all that per-
tains to the integrity and success of the Advent 
cause ; and in all orderly and gospel efforts put 
forth to maintain the pureness of the blessed hope, 
we pledge our most faithful and efficient aid ; and 
in turn, solicit from them the Christian sympathy 
we so much need in our present state. 
'Whereas the Advent cause, from its commence-
ment, has received especial aid from the publica-
tion of books, periodicals, &c. ; and whereas the 
Advent Herald, as it is generally conducted, has 
the approbation of this Conference ; therefore 
Resolved, That we will use our influence in its 
more general circulation among the churches and 
brethren within the bounds of this Conference par-
ticularly, and in the community at large. 
On motion, a council of elders was appointed to 
attend to the ordination of brother J. Shipman, of 
Hamilton, C. W. 
On motion, a committee of five were chosen to 
make arrangements and appoint the next annual 
Conference. 
Dr. A. Decker, of Buffalo, N. Y., Elder Wm. 
Busby, Rochester, N. Y., E. M. Smith, Batavia, 
N. Y., Elder J. Shipman, Hamilton, C. W., and 
W. M: Palmer, Fredonia, N. Y., were appointed 
as the committee. 
The Conference then adjourned. 
In respect to the Conference ; the attendance was 
not large during the first part of the meeting, but 
continued to increase in numbers and interest, and 
on Sunday the congregation was large the who!e 
of the day. Each afternoon was occupied by 
prayer and conference, and preaching in the ev( n 
ing, except Saturday evening, when the sacrament 
of the Lord's supper was attended to, and the or-
dination of Elder Jacob Shipman. 
The whole of the meetings were exceedingly in-
teresting. We shall long remember with pleasing 
reflection the interesting seasons we enjoyed dur-
ing the Conference. 
The following were the members of the Confer-
ence :—Elders.-E. Burnham, J. V. limes, Boston, 
Mass., J. J. Porter, N. Y., F. McWilliams, Buf-
falo
' 
 N. Y., M. Chandler, Wis., W. Busby, Roch-
ter, N. Y., D. Campbell, C. W., and J. Shipman, 
C. W. ; brethren, H. Tanner, A. Decker, L. Hing-
ston, W. H. Bennett, J. E. Capron, E. La Marsh, 
W. C. Peck, Wm. Hynes, John Powel, R. Hum-
phrey, Thos. Prewshaw, L. Lewis, J. Ruddell, of 
Buffalo, Wm. M. Palmer, Fredonia, E. M. Smith, 
Batavia, Deacon J. L. Clapp, Homer, John Ostran-
der, jr., Hamburgh, H. Stevens and J. McClellan, 
Pelham, C. W., Wm. Griffith, Fort Robinson, C. 
W., Thos. Sayles, Lansinburgh, N. Y., Thos. Has-
bury, Lockport, D. Boon, Norwalk, 0., J. N. Sny-
der, Mansfield, 0., and G. G. Freeman, 0. 
Wit. BUSBY, Secretary. 
Letter from Rouses Point, N. Y. 
BRO. RIMES :—Bro. Gates has been again spend-
ing a few weeks in this region, preaching and hold-
ing meetings with good success. Our grove meet-
ing, just closed, winds up his labors among us for 
the present, preparatory for his departure to Penn-
sylvania. This meeting was indeed a pleasant and 
withal a profitable one. Nearly a thousand orderly 
persons listened with profound interest to the dis-
courses on Sunday. Two precious souls were con-
verted to Christ, and others are penitent and ask-
ing salvation. Some twenty or more have been 
immersed in Champlain and Odletown by Elder 
Gates during his visit here. A few years since, 
and the little church in Odletown numbered only 
eight souls, and now, principally through the in-
strumentality of brother G., there are four or five 
times that number, and very many of the most in-
fluential and respectable citizens of 0.—and among 
them members of other churches—have thought it 
no dishonor to be buried beneath the liquid wave, 
and to look for the great and coming King. Jesus 
is on the mercy seat, and may God speed the truth. 
Our congregations in Waterbury are very good, 
and seemingly on the increase, though we all still 
need the spirit of revival. One soul who was con-
verted during the winter was immersed on Sunday, 
the 19th. This was cheering. We are hoping 
that God will send you to us as a cloud filled with 
water. Yours, D. T. TAYLOR, 
June 28th, 1853. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
BY the arrival of the steamer Africa at New York 
on the 30th ult., we have Liverpool dates of the 
18th ult. 
The Turkish question occupies public attention 
to the exclusion of nearly everything else. The 
latest phase of the question is, that the interven-
tion of Austria had been accepted at St. Peters-
burg. This is strongly doubted. We find the 
following in Willmer 4- Smith's European Times, 
in regard to the Eastern difficulty : 
" Constantinople accounts of the 2d ult. an-
nounce that the population was tranquil, and that 
the hope of a continuation of peace gained ground. 
The greatest exertions continue to be made by 
Government in the War Department, but there 
was an utter want of money, and recourse is had 
to all kinds of swifts and expedients in consequence. 
" On the 31st of May the Sultan held a grand 
review on the plain north of Pera, when about 
10,000 men, consisting of infantry, cavalry, and 
artillery, went through their evolutions. With 
the exception of the artillery, which is really in a 
very efficient state, it was quite evident to even an 
inexperienced eye that the evolutions of these troops 
will not bear a comparison with those of a well-
drilled European army, but the materiel is decidedly 
good. The men are strong, healthy, and well fed 
and clothed ; the horses small, but well made and 
active, though much too fat for active service. 
The awkward appearance of the officers is an in-
dex of their real inefficiency. The greatest zeal 
prevails, and confidence is expressed by the Turks 
as to the result of the future contest. The bold 
line taken by the Ministry at this important crisis 
has given great satisfaction to the Mussulman 
population. 
At present all is apparently in active prepara-
tion ; but on looking behind the scenes we find an 
utter want of money, and recourse is had to all 
kinds of shifts and expedients in consequence of a 
ruined Exchequer. The end of these military 
preparations, whether they result in war or peace, 
will be something approaching to a national bank-
ruptcy. 
" Accounts from Constantinople of the 6th say : 
''lhe Divan has just despatched an Envoy Extra-
ordinary on a special mission to Bucharest and 
Jassy. The armaments continue. It was said 
that the last Russian ultimatum. had been rejected 
by the Porte. The Moldavo-Wallachian Charge 
d'Affairs has left Constantinople for Vienna.' " 
The European Times argues that the occupation 
of the Danubian provinces by Russia would be a 
clear casus belli, and says : 
" If the Russians pass the Pruth, of which in 
spite of the assurances we have had of that alleged 
fact during the last week, there is in truth no au-
thentic confirmation whatever, at the hour we 
write, then the English fleet will enter the Baltic, 
and we really dread that France may take some 
alarming step as a compensation for the Russian 
aggression. The crossing of the Pruth by the first 
Russian soldier would be an hostile act, an une-
quivocal declaration of war on the part of the Czar, 
and would be so considered by the Cabinets of 
France and England. It is of no use for journal-
ists to blink that question, as we really believe 
that France in such an eventuality would refuse 
'to negotiate until the Russians had withdrawn 
their forces into their own territory. 
" In fact, Wallachia or Moldavia no more belongs 
to Russia than Belgium belongs to France or Eng-
land ; and this unpleasant comparison, which is 
in every statesman's thoughts, is suggestive of se-
rious results, if the Czar proves refractory and 
pugnacious. If the Russians should pass the Pruth, 
we shall be quite prepared to learn that the French 
and English fleets have orders to blockade the Bal-
tic and Black Seas ; and if the Russians persist in 
their hostile demands and refuse to evacuate the 
Principalities, they had better keep a look out at 
Sebastopol, since assuredly the French and English 
allied fleets would not hesitate to bombard that 
Russian arsenal, and destroy the whole of the Rus-
sian naval forces in that quarter." 
Several Polish officers in Paris have signified to 
the French Government their desire to proceed to 
Constantinople, but have received no encourage-
ment. 
The Standard and Sun state that if the news of 
Russia accepting Austrian mediation be correct, 
no doubt a pacific termination will be the result, 
and large speculative purchases have been made. 
The Paris correspondent of the Globe says the 
French Government's answer to the Russian Gov-
ernment, sent to the Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 
distinctly and positively denies the right of the 
Emperor of Russia to occupy the principalities un-
der existing circumstances. 
It is asserted that the Russian Ambassadors at 
Vienna and Berlin insist on Austria and Prussia 
discontinuing that passive part which they have 
up to the present played in the Oriental question. 
The money article of the Times of the 18th, says : 
" The opinions on 'Change to-day were decidedly 
of a pacific nature. Money is plentiful for discount 
purposes, though the very heavy amount paid into 
the customs since the reduction of the tea duties 
has made it scarce with those who have to make 
the heavy advances, and so far has interfered with 
the daily business as to cause a postponement of 
the public sales until Tuesday next." 
FRANCE.—The following is an editorial para-
graph in the Times : 
" The statement we made last week, upon very 
good grounds, that beneath the surface of society 
in France there lurked a vast amount of discon-
tent, has been speedily verified by the discovery of 
one or more plots against the life of the Emperor, 
which have led to arrests of more than three hun-
dred persons. It is said that sixty conspirators 
were to attack and assassinate the Emperor at the 
Hippodrome ; other parties were to have set fire 
to the Palace of St. Cloud, and also to the hotels 
of the Ministers of Police and War. As no pub-
lic examination of the parties implicated takes 
place, all is vague rumor respecting the actual 
guilt of the accused; we only know that one avo-
cat, two or three medical men, an ex-player, and di-
vers, editors and compositors, are said to be ar-
rested. 
" The refugees of London and Brussels are as 
usual charged with getting up the plot, which must 
have had extensive ramifications, as the arrests 
have been made in all quarters of Paris, compris-
ing Orleanists and Legitimists. The chief conspira-
tor, a cash-keeper in a leading mercantile house, 
has made his escape to England. There is a great 
deal of excitement at Paris and elsewhere among 
the refugees, as the moment the troops are with-
drawn from Paris and Lyons, it is universally be-
lieved that fresh domestic troubles will ensue. 
" At all the arsenals of France great efforts are 
being made to collect seamen, and equip vessels of 
war, destined either for the Mediterranean or Bal-
tic service. We are inundated by reports con-
veyed through the telegraphs of diplomatic and 
hostile proceedings in all quarters, but we forbear 
giving currency to statements which have evidently 
no authority but the imagination of the writers. 
In spite of the recent plot, the Emperor and Em-
press appear in public without any military escort, 
and the Empress is said to be looking remarkably 
well." 
RUSSIA.—The Emperor of Russia, by a recent 
ukase has ordered the construction of an electric 
telegraph between Odessa and St. Petersburg, and 
the reorganization of the mail communication 
along that road. The same ukase adds that the es-
tablishment of a railroad in that direction was con-
sidered indispensable, and would be the object of a 
subsequent decree. 
The Lloyd says that on returning to Montenegro, 
Prince Daniel distributed two hundred medals with 
the Russian arms among the troops, and that he 
has announced to them that they would soon have 
an occasion again to prove their valor—not, in-
deed, in defence of their own land, but for the pur-
pose of re-conquering from the Turks the territory 
of which the latter had deprived them. 
EXCITEMENT IN MILAN.—News has reached us via 
Switzerland of a violent agitation in Milan, in con-
sequence of another appeal by Mazzini to the army 
having appeared, to be prepared for what may 
happen. The Austrian Government has ordered 
the concentration of a large force at Gallarate, 
between Milan and Arona, not far from the Pied-
montese frontier. Numerous arrests and seizures 
of arms had been made. 
THE CASE OF DR. MM.—Mr. Marsh's request for 
the payment of the indemnity to Dr. King, for his 
ground seized at Athens, has been granted, but the 
Greek Government refuses to reverse the sentence 
of punishment. 
SWITZERLAND.—The Grand Council of Switzer-
land had resolved to resist at any cost, the unjust 
demands of foreign powers. 
Radetsky is confidently stated to be empowered 
to adjust the differences, between Austria and 
Switzerland. 
METHODIST TABERNACLE IN NEW ORLEANS.—A cor-
respondent of the Christian Advocate, writing from 
the South, mentions a plan entertained by " Harry 
Hill," a well known wealthy cotton merchant, and 
a liberal hearted Methodist, for building a Metho-
dist Tabernacle in that city, in an eligible position, 
at a cost of $150,000. The writer says : 
" It is capable of seating three thousand per-
sons, and occupied for preaching alone. He pro-
poses to deed it to the bishops, placing it under 
their control and that of the General Conference. 
Once in four years a programme is to be made out, 
setting forth the appointments to this grand arena, 
on this plan ; the greatest men of each Conference 
are to be detailed for one, two, or three months ser-
vice. The strangers, thronging our hotels and 
boarding houses by thousands in the winter, will 
have an opportunity to hear the great guns' of 
the Church." 
Christians, in comparing their able ministers to 
" guns," seem to estimate them as they do guns, 
by the noise they make. What a pity it is that so 
many of these " big guns " burst ! He is the great-
est minister who preaches the gospel in its simplici-
ty—whose audiences go away thinking of CHRIST, 
and not of the mere ambassador. When the minister 
only is thought of, it is very evident that he has 
presented himself, and not HIM whose ambassador 
he professes to be. 
THE MEETING IN NEW YORK.—The Conference in 
this city in connection with the dedication of the 
chapel, will not occur so early as was anticipated, 
as the chapel will not be completed as soon as was 
expected. The time however will be duly published 
in the Herald. 
L. D. MANSFIELD. 
DR. M. P. 'WALLACE is our agent in Cabot (Lower 
Branch), Vt., and has a full supply of all our pub-
lications. 
NOTICE TO BRETHREN IN WESTERN NEW YORK.—
If the LORD will, I shall visit them in August. All 
wishing for lectures, can address me immediately. 
I will preach at Albany the first Sabbath in Au-
gust, 7th ; at Auburn, Tuesday evening, 9th ; Se-
neca Falls, Thursday evening, 11th ; and at Roches-
ter Sabbath, August 14th, as brethren Busby and 
Dutton may arrange. 
Let all meet us for consultation who can. All 
wishing for lectures after that, can address me 
there. 
D. I. ROBINSON. 
CAMP MEETINGS, Re. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, a Camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, 
(on the old ground,) commencing Monday, Sept. 12th, and continu-
ing over the Sabbath. Those coining in the cars or stage will be ac-
commodated with cheap conveyance to the encampment. Accom-
modations for horses on reasonable terms, and a good boarding tent, 
where the poor will not be excluded for want of money. We invite 
all to come who are interested in the preparation for eternal life, and 
the time of the return of our Saviour. Brethren, sisters, and friends, 
we wish to see you together once more at this feast of tabernacles in 
the tented grove, where the pilgrims, weary and worn, may be 
cheered again by the sweet songs of Zion. Those who wish to lodge 
on the camp-ground, are requested to brinAg.tphe.irs.
ovviTmii,bedding. 
S. A. HITCHCOCK, 
M. GRANT, 
0. JONES, 
S. G. MATHEWSON, 
Committee. 
A CAMP-MEETING will be held in Elk county, on land owned by 
Mr. John Coleman, near the junction of Bennett's and Driftwood 
branches, to commence on Thursday, 18th of August, and continue 
a week or more. Elders J. V. Mimes, J. T. Darling, J. Litch, and 
others, will be present, for the presentation of God's word. We af-
fectionately invite all in this and adjoining counties to attend, and 
as many as can to bring tents with them. Let there be a general 
gathering of the faithful.. We would further request that the meet-
ing be made a subject of prayer, so that' the word of God may be 
owned and blessed to the conviction and conversion of sinners, and 
to the strengthening of believers. 
C. F. Luce, W. P. Woodworth, J. Lewis, W. Lane, D. Winslow, 
P. Smith, W. R. Stamp, J. D. Boyer, Committee of Arrangements. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a Camp-meeting in Vernon, 
to commence Aug. 15th, and continue over the following Sun-
day. Particulars hereafter. (In behalf of the brethren.)—E. G. 
SCOTT. 
IN Melbourne, C. E., commencing July 13th, at 2 P. m., and continue 
over the Sabbath.—S. W. THURBER, J. 31. ORROCK. 
Appointments, fie. 
D. T. TAYLOR will preach in Champlain Sunday, July 10th, A. lf., in 
the stone school-house in Odelltown at 2:1 P. M., and near brother 
Robinson's in the evening. 
H. H. GROSS will preach in Middle Grove, Saratoga county, N. Y., 
Sabbath, July 10th ; Albany, Sabbath, 17th ; Winsted, Ct., Sab-
bath, 24th. 
Br request of the brethren in Auburn, I will be with them on the 
opening and dedication of their chapel, the 17th inst.-0. R. Fes-
SETT. 
W. SUTHERLAND will preach at Northfield Farms Sunday, July 17th ; 
Woodstock, Vt. (where the brethren may appoint), Sunday, 24th ; 
Caldwell's Manor, Sunday, 31st. 
L. D. THOMPSON will preach at Westford, Mass., Sabbath, July 10th ; 
Orrington, Me., Sabbath, 17th ; Camden, 21st, evening ; South 
Reading, Mass., Sabbath, 24th. 
E CROWELL Will preach in the Chardon-street chapel Sunday, July 
10th, II. Plummer, Sunday, 17th ; J. P. Farrar, Sunday, 24th; A. 
Sherwin, Sunday, 31st. 
B. S. REYNOLDS Will preach in Sutton, C. E., beginning July 14th, 
and continue over the Sabbath, as brother West may arrange. 
N. BILLINcs will preach, Providence permitting, in Berlin, Sabbath, 
July 10th—will be at the depot in Feltonville on the arrival of 
the last train of cars from Boston, Saturday, 9th ; Nashua, N. II., 
13th ; Manchester, 14th; Lake Village, 15th, and remain over the 
Sabbath ; Meredith Neck, 20th, at 5 P. at ; in the tabernacle at 
Holderness, Sabbath, 24thwill some brother call for me at the 
depot in Plymouth, on the arrival.of the noon train from Concord, 
on Friday, 22d ? North Haverhill, 26th. Front thence I will go 
to Sugar Hill and labor one week, as Elder Shipman may appoint. 
Will some brother call for me at Lisbon village on the arrival of 
the stage from Wells River, Wednesday, 27th ? 
BENJ. WEBB will preach in Pomfret, Vt. (in the Christian meeting-
house), Sunday, July 10th ; North Danville, (where brother B. S. 
Reynolds may appoint,) Sunday, 17th ; Derby Line, 19th ;: Dun-
ham, C. E., (where brother Sornberger may appoint,) 20th ; Stan-
bridge, (where brother Joel Spears may appoint,) 21st; Clarence-
ville, (where brother Colton ntay appoint,) 22d, and over the fol-
lowing Sunday ; Champlain, N. Y., Sunday, 31st, at 10: A. is., 
Odelltown school-house at 2 P. M., and in Mastin school-house at 
5 P. M. Week-day appointments at 5 P. M. 
D. CAMPBELL will preach in brother Lawrence's neighborhood Sun-
day, July 17th, at 102 A. M., and at Dumage at 4 P. M. ; David 
Burdane, 19th, 6 P. at. ; James Crooker, 20th, 8 do ; Chas. Pow-
ley, 21st, 6 do ; brother Burrows, 224, 8 do ; brother James Camp-
bell, 24th, 10 A. St, brother William Campbell, 2 P. M., bro. David 
Karnes, 6 P. M. ; Toronto, 26th, 8 do ; Coburg, 27th, do ; brother 
W. Jackson, Kingston, 29th, do, and over the Sabbath—brother 
W. Pease to meet me at Kingston ; brother Bronson, Aug. 24,8 P. 
M. j brother Beddel, 3d, do ; A. Spencer, 7th, 11 A. M. D. G. 
J. G. SMITH will be at Allenstown Sabbath, July 17th, and at Fish-
ersville Sabbath. 24th. 
POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES. 
ELDER J. D. BOYER—Second Fork, Elk county, Pa. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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turn the books by some brother. 
J. Stoughton, $1,10—Sent books. 
Dr. M. P. Wallace—Sent books July 1st. 
S. Reynolds—Sent books the 1st by Cheney & Co. Have none 
of brother Mill's work on hand. Ordered some some time since, 
but they have not yet been received. 
J. Wilson, $5—Have credited you the money, and charged the pa-
pers to you, credit to the parties to No. 658—Jan. next. This 
leaves a balance of $11 due. We will draw off and forward your 
account. The paper sent to Rev. D. S. was returned by the Post 
master some months since. Have charged you to the time stopped, 
and do not send it again without you so direct. 
H. H. Gross—It was sent to Delhi—have changed to Delphi. 
Received $10 in a letter from Westboro', without any signature. 
Have credited it to G. H. Childs, which leaves $2,68 due, and 
agrees with his statement. 
To SEND THE HERALD TO THE POOR.—C. B. Knight, $1 ; G. 
$3. 
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Connection (music) 217 
Largest Tree in the World 
 
The Teutonic Exodus. 46 
The Household Clock 44 
Remedy ag'nst Covetousness " 
The Word " Selah " 
Turkey—Will there be War ? 218 
The Chinese Rebellion 
The Bible and the Dark Ages " 
The Prayer of the Thibetans 219 
Spiritual Mediums 44 
Sketches of Travel 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 920 
The Theological and Literary 
Journal 
 
Russia and Turkey 
To Correspondents 
Knowledge of the Time 
Support of the Advent Her- 
ald 
 222 
A Question for Consideration " 
Canada East and Vermont 
Conference 
Conference at Buffalo 223 
Letter from Rouses Point " 
Obituary of Wm. M'Dernsott " 
Foreign News 224 
Methodist Tabernacle in New 
Orleans 
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