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THOUGHTS 
ON RECEIVING A COPY OF "THE WOMEN OF THE OLD AND NEW 
TESTAMENTS." 
There are moments when into the heart and the soul 
A thrill of deep pleasure will suddenly roll ; 
And thus to my spirit deep thoughtfulness flowed 
As I looked at the token so kindly bestowed. 
I dreamed as 1 gazed, and in dreaming grew bold, 
'fill I communed in fancy with women of old 
And sweet were the visions I found on each page, 
As my thoughts travelled backward o'er age upon age 
As I turn o'er the pages, Zipporah I see, 
Whose large, speaking eyes beam forth kindly on me ; 
I mark the warm blood 100051 in floods to her cheek, 
As of Moses her husband with pride she cloth speak. 
Down, down Time's dark vista I'm passing again, 
Till I stand by a bier with the widow of Nain, 
Mid any heart beats with hers as I hear a sweet voice 
Bid the young mall arise, and the mother rejoice. 
'Mark'! harks tears are 'falling; fern softly this leaf! 
'Tis Mary the weeper, and wild is her grief: 
At the first dawn of day, amid darkness and gloom, 
She has come to her Lord, but 'found vacant the tionib. 
Dry, mourner, thy tears, thy loved Saviour to see 
Blest Woman! that he should appear unto thee) 
But faith was thy beacon, and may it be mine, 
To guide and to guard me, till life I resign.! 
Oh! beautiful gill, would I might but unroll 
The fancies thy presence bath brought to my soul, 
Or paint the emotions so holy 'and deep, 
As with Sarah and Miriam, and Martha I speak ! 
Ott! may-each example thy pages impart 
Be written and stamped on the folds of my heart; 
And when Death shall come, and life's nimffiers are told, 
inlay I juin in the songs DI ,the women of old. 
Christian Intellmencer. 
Superstition. 
In Essay read before the Alumni of the General Theological 
Seminary, by Rev. A. Li• VINTON, D. D., June, 1852 
(Concluded.) 
And now, thirdly, what are the tendencies 
and effects of superstition, religious, moral, men-
tal and social ? 
The mischievous results of superstition upon 
the religious character and consciousness are be-
trayed, first, in the barring out of all commun• 
ion with God. The awful distance at which 
the superstitious mind regards its Maker is fa-
tal to the sweet intercourse of prayer and filial 
trust which is the first and last joy of the soul. 
There can be no spiritual longings venting 
themselves in burning words, "as the heart 
panteth after the water-brooks, so longeth my 
soul after thee, 0 God." There can be no at-
traction in the thought of heaven as the home of 
the soul and the presence and vision of God, 
and no beauty in the divine character itself. 
Accordingly, since fear is its predominating ele-
ment, superstition can never reach to the height 
of that divine love which is shed abroad by the 
Holy Ghost ; which is the fulfilling of the law ; 
which casteth out fear. It may be impressed 
with a sort of reverential awe which prostrates 
without renewing the soul, and so mimics some 
of the moods of devotion. And this feeling of 
reverence may subsidize the powers of imagina-
tion and produce some images of religious gran- 
deur in poetry, painting and architecture. Still 
its religion will be only a sentiment, not a ge- 
nial affection. It will be the sense of God's dis- 
tance after all. The great Almighty Jehovah 
is neither in the mind nor on the lips. The 
familiar feelings of superstition reach no farther 
than its self-appointed mediators, its priests, 
penances, sacraments or dead saints. It is at 
home only with them. Its conversation is with 
them. This exclusive communion with inferior 
beings dwarfs the whole spiritual frame. So 
that at the very best its religion is semi-sensual 
and degenerates into idolatry. Its vital prin-
ciple is the fear of retribution, and moulded into 
system it can never go beyond that. It needs 
conversion, regeneration, a new heart still. 
2d. The moral effects of superstition are no 
more desirable than its religious. Relying up-
on means and agencies which are supposed to 
have influence with God and which are not 
themselves God, these agencies cannot react 
upon the worshipper with any divine benefit. 
His religion, made up of fear, must be essential 
selfishness. It is error seizing on the passions 
and intensifying them to the most fierce degree. 
It curbs no passion, destroys no lust, because it 
is itself the offspring of passion, The supersti-
tious man can be just as worldly-minded as ever. 
While he has his confessional, his priests, his 
sacraments, he can purge away his dissipations 
by an absolution, and begin a new revel with a 
clean soul. In a word, since superstition is 
grounded in the misconception of God's moral 
attributes, it can never have an enlightened 
conscience, nor a true and divine standard of 
morality. Superstition is riot moral, it is ritual, 
sacramental, formal, mechanical. No virtues 
were ever begotten of it. But it can slander, it 
can falsify, it can even commit theft and mur-
der for religion. Our reason suggests that it 
may be so, the Inquisition owns that it has been. 
idly. And the mental effects of superstition 
are still bad and blasting. Dealing only with 
the means of grace, never daring to rise up to 
gaze on that distant Jehovah whom it fears, not 
loves, it forfeits the mental benefit of grappling 
with the noblest themes of thought. The di-
vine character, the divine government, divine 
redemption, large, deep, high as they are, are 
held out to us for exploration and knowledge. 
When these thoughts enter into us, they enlarge 
the mind's capacities and develope, it to its tall-
est growth. It catches their spirit of compre-
hensivenecs and becomes world wide. This re-
sult is often seen in the mental vigor which con-
version inspires in the ignorant. While, on 
the other .hand, superstition, refusing these high 
themes and 'busying itself with rites, ceremonies, 
arrangements, operates both positively and neg-
atively, to emasculate the mind and condemn 
it to hopeless littleness. I know of nothing 
Which betrays this debilitating effect upon the 
intellect more flagrantly than the peculiar style 
of argument which is employed to defend the 
Romish doctrine of the Virgin Mary. The ad-
vocates of that doctrine are accustomed to say 
that it is more congenial to the mind and feel-
ings of a sinner to make his appeal to the ten-
der qualities of the female character rather than 
to the stronger attributes of the other sex. Our 
sin will be more easily overlooked by a woman's 
fondness and our lot commiserated more ten-
derly by female sensibilities, than by the severer 
masculine nature. Now, not to speak of the 
moral quality of such an argument, betraying as 
it does a soft sentimentalism instead of a vigor-
ous and honest conscientiousness, not to expose 
the moral weakness which can rest its hopes on 
the facility of female feelings, the readiness with 
which they can be managed, or the one-sided 
selfishness which craves only to escape deserved 
punishment without aspiring to the divine height 
of a holy character, I refer to the argument as 
showing the effeminacy of intellect which can 
employ such reasoning. For such reasoning 
can be based only on a totally inadequate esti-
mate of a divine moral government, and of the 
moral dignity of the divine character. It is not 
only wanting in the clear view of the plan of 
salvation, but it fails even to perceive the ab-
surdity ce supposing that a creature can have a 
most desirable excellence which the Creator can-
not have. Whatever graceful accomplishments 
may belong to the superstitious intellect that 
employs this argument, it evidently has not 
reached a manly growth, if it be not totally un-
cultivated : it is the delicate, fastidious mind of 
taste and sentiment and refined self-indulgence. 
Its baby fingers can only daily with the fringes 
of a subject, but it never draws aside the veil of 
the sanctuary and stands face to face with a 
great truth. 
It is not in the nature of things 
that the human intellect can attain its full stat-
ure under such practice. It will inevitably sub-
stitute ingenuity for strength, sophistry for rea-
soning, sentiment for thought, credulity for faith. 
4thly. This threefold tendency of supersti-
tion to cripple the religious, moral and mental 
nature, of which there might be adduced many 
individual examples, becomes formidable enough 
when it spreads through a community, and 
grows into an accredited power of society. Then 
the examples are to be multiplied by thousands, 
and their degeneracy is precipitated by a sort of 
geometrical progression. Wielding the weight 
of religion, the most influential of all social in- 
fluences, superstition presses its despotism on 
the general character more debasingly than 
anything else that ever wore religious disguise, 
more than enthusiasm of the wildest sort. En-
thusiasm rarely engrosses a large community. 
It is more an individual weakness or the vice of 
cliques and sects, who think and feel together 
by certain spontaneous affinities and complete 
the electric circle among themselves. It finds 
therefore its own natural limits. But supersti-
tion, pleading authority, may embrace a com-
munity of any extent, domestic, national or uni-
versal, and bear them all down. Enthusiasm 
cannot perpetuate itself. Its very excess is 
exhaustion. It has no system, and hence no 
educational power. But it is the very nature 
of superstition that it grows inveterate by time. 
For although it sprang out of religious fear, yet 
it may grow when the fear has subsided. 
Though the passion caused the blindness, the 
blindness may be propagated without the pas-
sion. The false doctrines created and shaped by 
morbid feeling become, in their turn, the mould 
to shape the feelings of others. So that super-
stition has an educational power, and may not 
only spread through communities, but extend 
through generations. Enthusiasm moreover is 
generally the product of truth, though it be truth 
seen one-sided. It shows an activity of our 
spiritual faculties sometimes to a sublime de-
gree. It arouses the intellect, the affections or 
the conscience, one or the other, if not all at 
once, and arouses them by some truth worthy 
of such excitement. Yet educated superstition, 
superstition in its i)opular form, is spiritual stag-
nation. It never sees the troth. It sleeps at 
midday. Arid so desperate is the blindness it 
produces, that when in the cycles of society the 
time of revolution comes, the change is destruc-
tive. The reaction from superstition is almost 
necessarily to total atheism. I will not say, as 
some have said, that atheism on a community 
is preferable to superstition ; but I will say, that 
if we compare their capacity for wickedness, 
there can be little to choose between the reign 
of terror and the massacre of St. Bartholomew's. 
That is a black darkness which is relieved only 
by the flashes of lightning, arid that is a dis-
couraging form of religion which cannot be made 
worse by atheism. 
And now can superstition, with its palsy of 
mind and conscience, ever prevail in this gene-
ration and among us ? Give it an opportunity ; 
give it a right to assert its infallibility ; give it 
a right to educate, and then see. But, as Chris-
tians we must not wait to see. We must pre-
vent it. We must show a more excellent way. 
We must circulate the truth as it is in Jesus, 
saving truth. We must know the Bible and 
teach the Bible. We must refute the supersti-
tious beginnings of this huge lie. We must 
suspect everything in religion that claims a me-
diating power, everything that works mechani-
cally instead of morally, whether it be a priest-
hood performing our religion for us, or a sacra-
ment or an absolution, made efficacious by 
priestly power alone. We must ascend up to 
be familiar with the great God himself. ‘. In 
his light we shall see light." We must have 
that felt union with God which none but a di-
vine mediatorship ever imparted, a moral union, 
a union of affection, of mind, of will, which 
brings him to dwell in us and us in him. This 
is the antidote to superstition of every form, a 
converted heart enlightened by Christ. This is 
the light for that blindness, the strength for that 
weakness, and the life for that death. There is 
none other like it. 
Evangelical Catholic. 
Awful Fruit of Delusion. 
In giving publicity to the following distress-
ing story of domestic ruin and wretchedness re-
sulting from a belief in Spirit Rappings, we take 
occasion to say that we have long been meditat- 
ing a thorough exposure of this worst of mod-
ern impostures and delusions. But we have 
been inclined to suppose, until very lately, that 
the class of minds which our paper reaches, is 
riot likely to be reached by so stupid and trans-
parent an imposition as this. We find, how-
ever, that the folly is spreading among respecta-
ble and religious people 
true they are generally 
of the weaker sort, of credulous, visionary and 
unsettled minds, but it is important that they 
should if possible be reached and saved. The 
following dreadful case, which comes to us, duly 
attested, and published by the friends of the vic-
tims, only under a deep sense of religious duty, 
will be read with strong emotion. 
MESSRS. EDITORS.—Though personally a 
stranger to you, I am not altogether unac-
quainted with the high moral ground taken by 
you, as Editors of a popular religious journal, 
in exposing what you believe to be error and de-
lusion in all of its forms. 
For peculiar reasons that will be obvious to 
the reader, I feel it a duty to make public some-
thing of my own experience and observations on 
the worst of modern delusions known as " Spirit 
Ra ppings." 
Presumina that you will be so kind ,as to fa-
vor my article with an insertion in your paper, 
I will proceed to give a brief and condensed 
sketch of a case in point, which comes home 
with a most painfully thrilling effect upon my 
own feelings. 
For mote than a year I was confined to a bed 
of suffering and disease, which during the past 
winter assumed a form that seemed to baffle 
medical skill, and death alone seemed to prom-
ise a certain and speedy relief to my suffering. 
While in this precarious state, the wife of a 
dear brother who is absent in California, came 
from a distant part of the State to make us a 
visit She claimed to be a writing medium, 
and professed to be in constant communication 
with the Spirit World—claimed that spirits of 
departed friends dictated communications, and 
moved her hand to write them out, without any 
physical or mental effort on her part. We pit-
ied what we believed to be in her at that time 
an honest and rather harmless delusion. She 
tarried a week and returned. At that time to 
all human appearance, a very few days at most 
would terminate my earthly existence, and to 
satisfy my husband of the genuineness of her 
mediumship, she agreed to find out by the spir-
its, and write and inform him of the precise 
time of my decease. Accordingly, after the 
lapse of about two weeks, he receives through 
the post-office a long letter in her hand-writing, 
dated " Spirit World," arid purporting to have 
been written through her to him, by my spirit, 
containing the most absurd infidel doctrine, 
sanctioning falsehood and deception, and other 
anti-Christian sentiments, at which my very soul 
revolts. The next we hear from this misguided 
sister is, that she had been instructed by the 
spirits, (i. e. they used her hand to write it out,) 
that she must take a certain young man named 
, for her spiritual husband, and they (the 
spirits) would marry them, and strange and in-
credible as it may seem, the simple youth was 
seduced into the ludicrous farce of a " Spiritual 
Marriage " with another man's lawful wife. A 
friend of hers at whose house she then found a 
welcome home, charitably supposed that such 
strange conduct was induced by a fit of partial 
and temporary insanity, and earnestly, though 
ineffectually endeavored to save her from the 
disgrace consequent upon a public exposure, and 
when it was found that he would give no sanc-
tion to the transaction by recognizing such a 
marriage, (performed, as was pretended by the 
parties, by the spirit of her mother, talking off 
through another medium the marriage ceremo-
ny,) and feeling no disposition, (as he expressed 
it,) to turn his house into a spirit brothel for 
their accommodation, they were instructed as 
they claimed by the spirits, to leave,and directed 
where to go, to " escape such bondage and op- 
pression." They obeyed, and found a cordial 
welcome in a family of believers, (who we will 
charitably presume were about as insane or de-
luded as herself,) where they were permitted 'to 
spend their " spirit honey moon " unmolested. 
Now, whether this misguided woman became 
partially insane in consequence of an honest faith 
in this absurd doctrine, or whether she was 
merely writing out her own desires, under pre-
tense of spiritual influences, and availing her-
self of other people's honest belief in the doc-
trine to play off a deep game of deception, to 
subserve her own selfish ends and carnal desires, 
is a point on which her friends are not fully 
agreed, and which the Searcher of all hearts 
alone can settle. When she first became re-
lated to me by marriage with a dear absent, 
though much injured brother, she was a pro-
fessed disciple and follower of our Lord and 
Master, and daily knelt at the family altar from 
whence ascended the grateful incense of prayer 
and praise. Then I could love and respect her 
as a sister. But eleven years have since passed 
away, and now I can only look upon the wreck 
of this once virtuous and lovely sister with grief 
and shame, as the willing, voluntary victim to 
one of the worst delusions that ever cheated 
souls of happiness here and hereafter. Not 
long since, I made a visit to friends in a distant 
part of this State, in the neighborhood where 
she now resides, and I found the reality to be 
much worse than I had ever imagined from any 
previous information concerning this unhappy 
and disgraceful transaction. 
As that once dear sister and still lawful wife 
of a wronged and absent brother, was passing 
from church, her spiritual paramour was pointed 
out to me as one of the group of mediums, be-
lievers, &c., that formed her company, and what 
aggravated the case still worse, was the fact 
that they both found a welcome home in a family 
of believers in the spirit rappings, &c., but from 
whom a Christian community had a right to ex-
pect a better example of moral purity, than such 
a flagrant outrage upon common decency and a 
lawful husband's injured rights. Though for 
the credit of humanity, and the community, I 
would say that the number who appeared to 
sustain her in her course of guilt and shame, 
were few, and it was a relief to my feelings to 
know that there were pious and bleeding hearts 
who wept and prayed over her downfall, com-
mending her to the mercy of that compassionate 
Saviour, who once in regard to a case not alto-
gether dissimilar, bade the erring sister " Go 
and sin no more." That he will now so speak 
to this sister as to be heard and heeded, is the 
prayer of one who feels that she has a peculiar 
right and duty to speak out plainly on this sub- 
J2ct. 
N.Y. Observer. 
Evil Spirits.—(Matt. 8:29.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
throbbings of a noble and yearning heart, the 
same masses of thought, luminous and many-
tinted, like the cloud which glows under the re-
flected splendors of the setting sun, the same 
vigorous mental grasp which, amid numerous 
digressions, "is ever tracing truths up to first 
principles—all these the results of a master-
mind, into which nature and grace had poured 
in royal profusion their rarest and richest en-
dowments. 
Similar in character are the other and catho 
lic epistles of the New Testament—the epistle 
of James, so severe, lofty, and individualizing 
in its tone, so like the personal teaching of Jesus, 
as seen in the Sermon on the Mount—the two 
epistles of Peter, the very image of himself in 
warm impulse and aspiration, and so full of 
Jewish allusion and associations, quite in keep-
ing with the spirit of him who was " the Apostle 
of the Circumcision "—the three epistiles of 
John, so redolent of love, "the bond of perfect-
ness," and ever recurring to the necessity of a 
holy life as the true accompaniment and reali-
zation of an orthodox creed, and lastly, the brief 
chapter of Jude, a volcanic denunciation of Anti-
nomian licentiousness and fruitless formalism. 
In the Epistles what specimens have we not 
of almost every form of composition—descrip-
tion, narrative, argument, oratory—bold invec-
tive and sudden apostrophe—antithesis and cli-
max—the brief words of anger--the sad regrets 
of disappointed hope—the soft breathings of af-
fection—the vehement out-burst of self-vindica-
tion—the long and effective argument, often 
ending in an anthem—logic swelled into lyrics—
the terse deliverance of ethical maxims, and the 
cordial greeting and kind remembrance of for-
mer friends. No wonder that Longinus adds 
Paul of Tarsus to a list of names, " which were 
the crown of all eloquence and Grecian genius." 
There are some passages in the Epistles to the 
Corinthians which have all the vehement and 
thrilling penetration of Demosthenes, and other 
sections in the same books, in elevation, im-
agery, and music, have no parallel, even in the 
Platonic dialogues. North British Review. 
" Now, first, we may learn from this account, 
that evil spirits are real persons. There is a 
notion got abroad that it is only a figure of 
speech to talk of evil spirits, that all the Bible 
means by them are certain bad habits, or had 
qualities, or diseases. There are many who 
will say when they read this story, " This poor 
man was only a madman. It was the fashion 
of the old Jews when a man was mad, to say 
that he was possessed by evil spirits. All they 
meant was that the man's own spirit was in an 
evil diseased state, or that his brain and mind 
were out of order. 
" When I hear such language—and it is very 
common—I cannot help thinking how pleased 
the devil must be to hear people talk in such a 
way. How can people help him better than by 
saying that there is no devil ? A thief would 
be very glad to hear you say, " There are no 
such things as thieves ; it is all an old super-
stition, so I may leave my house open at night 
without danger ;" and 1 believe, my friends, 
from the very bottom of my heart, that this new-
fangled disbelief in evil spirits is put into men's 
hearts by the evil spirits themselves. As it was 
once said," The devil has tried every plan to catch 
men's souls, and now, as the last and most cun-
ning trick of all, he is shamming dead.' These 
may seem homely words, but the homeliest words 
are very often the deepest. I advise you all to 
think seriously on them. 
" But it is impossible surely to read this story 
without seeing that the Bible considers evil 
spirits as distinct persons, just as much as each 
one of us is a person, and that our Lord spoke to 
them and treated them as persons. What 
have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of 
God ? Art thou come hither to torment us be-
fore the time ?' And again, If thou cast us 
out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.' 
What can show more plainly that there were 
persons in that poor man, besides himself, his 
own spirit, his own person ? and that he knew 
it, and Jesus knew it too ? and that he spoke 
to these spirits, these persons, who possessed 
that man, and not to the man himself? No 
doubt there was a terrible confusion in the poor 
madman's mind about these evil spirits, who 
were tormenting him, making him miserable, 
foul, and savage, in mind and body—a terrible 
confusion ! We find, when Jesus asked him 
his name, he answers Legion,' that is an army, 
a multiude,' for we are many,' he says.. Again, 
one gospel tells us that he says, What have I 
to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God ? 
While in another Gospel we are told that he 
said, What have we to do with thee ?' He 
seems not to have been able to distinguish be-
tween his own spirit, and these spirits who pos-
sessed him. They put the furious and despair-
ing thoughts into his heart; they spoke through 
his mouth ; they made a slave and a puppet of 
him. But though he could riot distinguish be-
tween his own soul and the devils who were in 
it, Christ could and Christ did. 
" The man says to Him, or rather the devils 
make the man say to Him, If thou cast us 
out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine, and 
drive us not out into the deep.' What did 
Christ answer him ? Christ did not answer 
him as our so-called wise men in these days 
would, My good man, this is all a delusion and 
a fancy of your own, about your having evil 
spirits in you—more persons than one in you—
for you are wrong in saying we of yourself. 
You ought to say " I," as every one else does ; 
and as for spirits going out of you, or going in-
to a herd of swine, or anything else, that is all 
a superstition and a fancy. There is nothing 
to come out of you, there is nothing in you ex-
cept yourself. All the evil in you is your own, 
the disease of your own brain, and the violent 
passions of your own heart. Your own brain 
must be cured by medicine, and your violent 
passions tamed down by care and kindness, and 
then you will get rid of this foolish notion that 
you have evil spirits in you, and calling your-
self a multitude, as if you had other persons in 
you beside yourself.' 
Any one who spoke in this manner now-a-days 
would be thought very reasonable and very 
kind. Why did not our Lord speak so to this 
man, for there was no outward difference between 
this man's conduct and that of many violent 
mad people whom we see continually in Eng-
land ? We read, that this man possessed with 
devils would wear no clothes ; that he had ex- 
traordinary strength ; that he would not keep 
company with other men, but abode day and 
night in the tombs, exceeding fierce, crying and 
cutting himself with stones, trying in blind rage 
which he could not explain to himself, to hurt 
himself and all who came near him. And, 
above all, he had this notion, that evil spirits 
had got possession of him. Now every one of 
these habits and fancies you may see in many 
raging maniacs at this day. 
" But did our Lord treat this man as we treat 
such maniacs in these days ? He took the man 
at his word, and more ; the man could not dis-
tinguish clearly between himself and the evil 
spirits, but our Lord did. When the devils be-
sought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer 
us to go into the herd of swine ?' our Lord an-
swers, Go ;' and when they were cast out 
they went into the herd of swine ; and, behold, 
the whole herd of swine ran violently down a 
steep place into the sea, and perished in the wa-
ters.' 
" It was as if our Lord had meant to say to 
the bystanders,—ay, and to us, and to all peo- 
ple in all times and in all countries, This poor 
possessed maniac's notion was a true one.—
There were other persons in him besides him-
self, tormenting him, body and soul : and, be-
hold, I can drive these out of him and send 
them into something else, and leave the man 
uninjured, himself, and only himself, again in 
an instant, without any need of long education 
to cure him of his had habits.' It will be but 
reasonable, then, for us to take this story of the 
man possessed by devils, as written for our ex-
ample, as an instance of what might, and per-
haps would, happen to any one of us, were it not 
for God's mercy 
" St. Peter tells us to be sober and watchful, 
because the devil goes about as a roaring lion, 
seeking whom he may devour ;' and when we 
look at the world around, we may surely see 
that that stands as true now as it did in St. 
Peter's time. Why, again, did St. James tell 
us to resist the devil if the devil be not near us 
to resist ? Why did St. Paul take for granted, 
as he did, that Christian men were, of course, 
not ignorant of Satan's devices, if it be quite 
a proof of enlightenment and superior knowl-
edge to be ignorant of his devices,—if any dread, 
any thought even, about evil spirits, be beneath 
the attention of reasonable men ? My friends, 
I say fairly, once for all, that that common no-
tion that there are no men now possessed by evil 
spirits, and that all those stories of the devil's 
power over men are only old, worn-out super-
stitions has come from this, that men do not like 
to retain God in their knowledge, and therefore, 
as a necessary consequence, do not like to re-
tain the devil in their knowledge ; because they 
would be very glad to believe in nothing but 
what they can see, and taste, and handle ;. and, 
therefore, the thought of unseen evil spirits, or 
good spirits either, is a painful thing to them. 
First, they do not really believe inangels—min-
istering spirits sent out to minister to the heirs 
of salvation ; then they begin riot to believe in 
evil spirits. The Bible plainly describes their 
vast numbers; but the people are wiser than 
the Bible,, and only talk of one—of the devil, as 
if there were not, as the text tells us, legions 
and armies of devils. Then they get rid of that 
one devil in their real desire to believe in as 
few spirits as possible. I am afraid many of 
them have gone on to the next step, and got rid 
of the one God out of their thoughts and their 
belief. I said I am afraid, I ought to have said 
I know that they have done so, and that thou. 
sands in this day who began by saying evil spir-
its only mean certain diseases and bad habits in 
men, have ended by saying, God only means 
certain good 'habits in man. God is no more a 
person than the evil spirits are persons.' 
" 1 warn you of all this, my friends, because if 
you go to live in large towns, as many of you 
will, you will hear talk enough of this sort be-
fore your hairs are grey, put cleverly and elo-
quently enough ; for, as a wise man said, The 
devil does not send fools on his errands.' I 
pray God, that if you ever do hear doctrines of 
that kind, some of my words may rise in your 
mind and help to show to you the evil path 
down which they lead." 
Kingsley. 
The Epistles of the New Testament. 
That so large a portion of the New Testa-
ment should consist of epistolary correspond-
ence is a striking phenomenon ; still it was nat- 
ural and necessary in the circumstances. The 
early churches often needed counsel, warning, 
and instruction. They had no written oracles 
to appeal to, and therefore the apostles, as the 
living depositories of inspired truth, were obliged 
to communicate with them in the form of " doc-
trine, reproof, correction, and instruction in 
righteousness." These letters are, therefore, 
the fervent outpouring of pastoral zeal and at-
tachment. They are not abstract impersonal 
treatises—mere systems of theology. Like other 
letters, they have their peculiar charm. They 
are written without reserve, and in unaffected 
simplicity. Sentiments come warm from the 
heart without the shaping, pruning, and punc• 
tilious arrangement of a formal discourse. There 
is such a fresh and familiar transcription of 
feeling, so frequent an introduction of colloquial 
idioms, and so much of conversational frankness 
and vivacity, that the reader associates the im-
age of the writer with every paragraph, and his 
ear seems to catch and recognize the very tones 
of living address. These impressions must 
have been often deepened by the thought that 
the letter came from " such an one as " Paul, 
always a sufferer, and often a prisoner. If he 
could not speak, he wrote ; if he could not see 
them in person, he dispatched to them those si-
lent messengers of love. 
We have alluded to Paul as the principal let-
ter-writer in the New Testament. When that 
change which passed over him with the shock 
of a spiritual earthquake, had subsided into res-
olute. attachment to the new religion, what ar-
dor and heroism were seen to be united in him 
—what a rare combination of intellect and heart, 
of enthusiasm and perseverance ! Still with 
him there was no stoical abnegation of human-
ity ; while he lived for the world, he lived in 
the world. He shrunk from the scourge, and 
declared himself a citizen of Rome, and the 
shuddering expectation of a Roman dungeon 
suggested the warmth and comfort of a " cloak." 
The culture of the schools was in him " bap-
tized with the Holy Ghost and with fire." 
Words are often unable to convey his thoughts; 
they reel and stagger beneath the weight and 
power of his conceptions. And whether we 
turn to his alarmed appeal to the people of Ly-
caonia, where he was taken for the god of elo-
quence, to his oration before the critics and 
judges of the Areopagus, or to his pleading at 
the bar of Felix and Agrippa—or where they 
survey his letter to the Church in Rome, in its 
fullness, profundity, and compacted system—or 
his Epistles to Corinth, so varied and magnifi-
cent in argument, so earnest and so persuasive 
in remonstrance and vindication—or the missive 
sent to Galatia, so vivid and startling in its sur-
prise, indignation, or sorrow—or that to Ephe-
sus, so opulent in thought, and exalted in senti-
ment, as if to compensate for the costly books of 
magic which had been given to the flames—or 
that to Philippi, so warm and exuberant in its 
congratulations to the first European city where 
the Gospel had been proclaimed—or that to Co-
losse, exposing the insiduous assaults of a spe-
cious philosophy, which corrupted the purity 
and marred the simplicity of the Gospel—or his 
twin communications to Thessalonica, calm, 
affectionate, and consolatory—or those to Tim-
othy and Titus, replete with the sage and cor-
dial advices of paternal kindness, and long and 
varied experience—or the brief note to Phile-
mon concerning a dishonest and fugitive slave, 
who had been unexpectedly brought to " the 
knowledge of the truth "—or, the epistolary trac-
tate addressed to the Hebrews, with its powerful 
demonstration of the superior glory and the un-
changing permanence and spirituality of the 
New Dispensation—to whichever of these com-
positions we turn, we are struck with the same 
lofty genius and fervid eloquence, the same ele-
vated and self-denying temperance, the same 
Envy, Slander, Social Detraction. 
It was said by.a French writer, that, " if any 
person actually knew all that is thought and said 
about him, he would be ashamed to walk the 
streets in open day ;" and uncomfortable as this 
reflection may be, it must appear to every one 
conversant with promiscuous society, partly true ; 
much as has been said against Envy, and its 
concomitants, Slander and Detraction ; still it 
is a monster that can never be subdued, and 
should be continually lashed from the pulpit, 
from the press, and every pen should he pointed 
against it to the end of time. Chesterfield says, 
" Envy is certainly one of the meanest, and 
most tormenting of all passions, since there is 
hardly anybody that has not something for an 
envious man to envy ;" and it is almost as uni-
versal as it is malignant ; no one is safe from 
it who has any good quality, as, in the words 
of Helvetius, " There is but one man who can 
believe himself free from envy ; it is he who 
has never examined his own heart ;" or of Au-
bert, " All men are vain, all men are detrac-
tory." Our narrow self-love is piqued, our vani-
ty is wounded by finding others in possession 
of what we cannot hope to have. Byron says, 
" We commonly slander more through vanity 
than malice. The same pride which makes us 
comdemn the faults we imagine ourselvesexempt 
from, inclines us to despise the good qualities we 
are not possessed of." 
Few men will take the trouble to talk against 
those that are their inferiors, and from whom 
they have nothing to fear;" it is not the humble 
dwelling of the poor man, it is the palace of the 
rich that overshadows their own, that meets 
their eyes at every turn. It is riot the man that 
sits silent in their company, it is the man of su-
periority of intellect, that annoys them ; and 
alas, too often no greater cause than the honest 
prosperity, the moral and intellectual worth of 
others gives birth to slander,— 
" Whose edge is sharper time the stvoid ; whose 
tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ;. whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
All corners of the world : kings-, queens, and states,. 
This viperous slander enters." 
Yet though riding on the winds, slander in 
its deadliest form may not be boisterous like 
them ; its march may be silent ; a word, a look, 
a toss of the head, filches not his purse, this 
might not make him poor,—but his " good 
name," which makes him " poor indeed ;" it 
wounds not his flesh, it plunges not a dagger in 
his side, it pours not poison through his vitals, 
—from all these he might recover; but it more 
than murders him, if the maxim of an ancient 
Stoic be true, who said, " Death is preferable 
to the loss of honor." And " living down " a 
slanderous report is not so practicable as com-
monly thought either, for it is already assumed 
that good report is the strongest incentive to 
slander at any time, and men will be more like-
ly to revive an old slander, than to be at the 
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339 
appear together. There is wisdom in the say-
ing of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept 
in order by discord, and that vicissitude main-
tains the world. Many evils bring many bless-
ings. Manna drops in the wilderness— corn 
grows in Canaan. Rarely two afflictions, or 
two trials, console or trouble us at the same 
time. Human life is the prophet's declaration 
drawn out into examples : " God stayeth his 
rough wind in the day of his east wind." 
And one curious and beautiful feature of the 
Divine scheme of compensation is seen in its 
changing our sorrows into instruments and chan-
nels of joy and comfort. The curtained cham-
ber of sickness sows the barren field with flow-
ers. A sick man seated in his garden, or totter-
ing down a green lane for a few minutes, might 
suppose himself transported into the morning 
and sunlight of creation : 
The common air, the earth, the skies, 
To him are opening Paradise. 
trouble to start a new one, when some one they 
must have. as we see the story of Shakspeare's 
being arrested for sheep stealing, is the most 
universally known of anything that occured in 
his life, and in the minds of thousands consti-
tutes their whole knowledge of his early his-
tory. No man ever lived down a slander; the 
aspersions cast upon the character •of Plato, Ci-
cero, and Seneca, three of the most exemplary 
men that ever existed, are alive at this day, 
and as fresh as when first uttered, and will run 
parallel with their names to the end of time ; 
and the crimes ascribed to them or almost any 
other model philosopher of an antiquity that 
could be selected, would be sufficient to insure 
a man a residence for the best part of his life-
time, in a modern penitentiary, if not a certain 
very speedy and dishonorable termination of it. 
" First walks true merit in a humble garb, 
With modest look, and eyes uplift to heaven ; 
While envy looks out from her lurking haunt, 
And marks his path, the way of honest truth. 
Her visage wan ; with liver all distort 
She rings the summons of her ministers : 
They flocking come, from dark infectious dews, 
And hollow caves, where shines no light of day ; 
Black falsehood with his dark averted eyes ; 
Report with trumpet tongues in his command ; 
Thick swarms of Lies, swift winged that hover round, 
And wait command t'encompass earth and sea, 
And with their poisoned stings wage war with truth, 
With hideous buzzing on the tongues of men. 
Last in this hell gorged train comes slander foul, 
In serpent form, with slow and deadly pace ; 
With tainted breath commands the envious hand, 
And fastens on the heel with hitter fang." 
South Boston Gazette. 
Armenian Intolerance. 
The following scene, which exhibits the true 
spirit of religious intolerance, is described in a 
letter from Rev. Mr. Hamlin, missionary at 
Constantinople, to one of the Armenian converts 
now in this country : 
" An event has just occurred which will inter-
est you and which will also illustrate the civili- 
zation of Constantinopolitan Armenians. The 
brother of one of my scholars lately died in 
Samotia. His parents being Armenians re-
quested the patriarch and priests to bury the 
deceased youth although he was a Protestant. 
They replied' he was a heretic, we will not bury 
him.' fhe Protestants then of course assem-
bled to bury their departed brother. The whole 
neighborhood, old and young, turned out to 
prevent the funeral, or rather to abuse both the 
living arid the dead. Our brethren, frightened 
at the vast concourse, dared not come out of 
their houses, and they could get no canvasses. 
Many of the Protestants, and all the Arme-
nians not Protestant, who had assembled at the 
house, made their escape through a back way 
from a garden, but this was discovered and the 
house invested on that side also. At length 
about ten persons decided to take up the corpse 
and with their pastor and two or three cavasses 
who had providentially arrived, they hoped to 
be able to reach the scola with the dead.—
But the assembled multitude fell upon them 
with such fury that they were soon dispersed. 
The corpse was left in the streets in the crowd, 
heavy stones having been hurled at and fallen 
upon it. 'The Protestant mooktar was seized, 
his coat entirely torn from him, his feg also, his 
other clothes torn, and himself beaten till he 
could hardly walk. While all were seeking to 
escape, a body of soldiery arrived and began to 
disperse the crowd. With difficulty they formed 
a hollow square into which they collected a few 
of the brethren, and thus taking the corpse 
with them they drove furiously through the im-
mense crowd. As they started a priest put his 
head out of a window and began to spit down 
upon the Protestants and the corpse. The street 
narrow, the houses compact as possible, full of 
windows, and the windows all being crowded 
with men, women, and children, there began a 
mode of attack which few would like to meet. 
An uninterrupted rain of spittle, beginning with 
the priest, and mixed with all manner of impre-
cations and curses, fell upon them. The cloth 
covering the corpse was entirely covered and 
drenched with this vile pollution, as also the 
heads and shoulders of those near it. The sol-
diers often shared in the same fate, and became 
furious, striking with their muskets at the crowd 
since they could not reach the windows. 
The procession at length reached the boats 
and escaped. Now this was a fwneral. And 
the mob was not composed of the ckapgores of 
Pora, nor of toeloombagis, but of the entire popu- 
lation, men, women, and children, of a respect-
able quarter, with the clergy at their head. Two 
priests were known to mingle directly in the 
mob, and others were exciting them." 
411•MMik. 
 
The Difficulty of Un-Learning. 
Faith embraceth and wrappeth in itself Christ 
Jesus, the Son of God, delivered to death for 
us, who, being apprehended by faith, giveth us 
righteousness and life. Christ is no Moses, no 
exactor, no giver of law, but a giver of grace, a 
Congregational Singing. 
Lowell Mason, now in Europe, in a recent 
lever to the " New York Musical World," 
speaks warmly in favor of congregational sing-
ing. He says : 
" I am a great lover of music, I delight to lis-
ten to an orchestral performance, and never in-
tend to omit an opportunity of hearing a good 
concert. But on the Sabbath day, when one 
wishes to turn his thoughts upward, and bring 
himself into converse with his Father above, I 
love the great vocal chorus, plain and unpre-
tending though it be; and laying no claim to 
either science or art, yet it grapples with the 
spirit of worship, draws it out, and bears it with 
certainty and rapidity towards the object of its 
search, and penitence, and thanksgiving, and 
adoration, fill the soul. Oh, that those who 
love the worship of God in our happy land, 
knew the power of song to their aid ; and knew 
too, that form of song so well adapted to their 
ends. I love the choir; I would spend days 
and nights in its trainings, and labor without 
being weary in attempts to bring it to perfec-
tion ; I would listen to it on the Sabbath, be 
made sorrowful by its tones of penitence, strong 
in faith and confidence by its full, and scientific 
wrought harmonies, jubilant by its hosannas 
and hallelujahs; but even this is not enough. 
In addition to all that a choir can do, I want 
the plain song of the people, above art, above 
everything save Him in whose presence it has-
tens one, and before whose throne it fills one 
with the spirit of them who sing without ceas-
ing, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to 
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and 
strength, and honor, and blessing.' I heard 
the congregation singing hymns of praise to-
day ; the loud organ led them on, binding all 
together, so that the voices were as the voice of 
one man ; the grand chorus filled the house of 
the Lord, it seemed to say, Holy, holy, holy, is 
the Lora of hosts ! let the whole earth be filled 
with his glory : and I came away, wishing the 
people of New England could hear it too, until 
they should know what we mean when we speak 
of congregational singing, become sensible of 
its immense importance to their worshipping 
assemblies, and hasten to take the appropriate 
preparatory measures for its introduction." 
Mount Tabor. 
Mount Tabor stands a little in advance of the 
hill country, with which it is connected only 
by a low spur or shoulder, its basis being the 
Plain of Esdraelon. This is the reason why it 
has been fixed upon as the place of Transfigura-
tion, though it is not mentioned by name in the 
New Testament. The words are : " an high 
mountain apart," which some suppose to refer to 
the position of the mountain, and not of the re-
moteness of Christ and the three disciples from 
men. The sides of the mountain are covered with 
clumps of oak, hawthorn, and other trees, in 
many places overrun with the white honey-
suckle, its fingers dropping with odor of nut- 
megs and cloves. The ascent, by a steep and 
winding path, occupied an hour. The summit 
is nearly level, and resembles some overgrown 
American field, or " oak-opening." The grass 
is more than knee-deep ; the trees grow high 
and strong, and there are tangled thickets and 
bowers of vines without end. The eastern and 
highest end of the mountain is covered with the 
remains of an old fortress-convent, once a place 
of great strength, front the thickness of its 
walls. 
The day was hazy and sultry, but the pano-
ramic view from Mount Tabor was very fine. 
The great Plain of Esdraelon lay under us like 
a vast mosaic of green and brown—jasper and 
verd antique. On the west, Mount Carmel 
lifted its head above the blue horizon line of 
the Mediterranean. Turning to the other side, 
a strip of the Sea of Galilee glimmered deep 
down among the hills, and Ghor, or the Val-
ley of the Jordan, stretched like a broad gash 
through them. Beyond them, the country of 
Djebel Adjloun, the ancient Decapolis, which 
still holds the walls of Gadura, and the temples 
and theatres of Djerash, faded away into vapor. 
Mount Hermon is visible when the atmosphere 
is clear, but we were not able to see it. 
B. Taylor. 
A Priest's Curse. 
But a short time since, a monk was convicted 
before the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, for 
publicly burning a copy of the Bible; and the 
following is a specimen of the cursing and blas-
phemy which now finds its echo wide and far 
over the diocese of John of Tuam. It is a 
" priest's curse," delivered from the altar of the 
chapel of Kilhaha, at the chapel of Cross, in the 
county of Clare. The priest having quenched 
the candles, and rung the bell, proceeded as 
follows : • 
" I pray God to pour down all vengeance 
on those who sent their children to Kiltrellig 
school last week, particularly on two. May 
the devil be their guide, on the right hand, and 
on the left, lying and rising, in bed, and out of 
bed, sitting and standing, within and without. 
May all misfortunes attend their families and 
labors. And any person sending their children 
to this school, henceforth may they be struck 
blind and deaf so as never to see their own chil-
dren again ; and may the children sent to this 
school go wild [mad.] May they never leave 
the world until they be such examples as that 
the marrow may come out of their shinbones; 
and may they be in such a state that the dogs 
could not bear coining near their carcasses when 
they are dead. I pray to God that every child 
who goes to the school, that, for every day he 
spends in it, his life may be curtailed a twelve-
month, and that they never enjoy the years of 
maturity ; and that those people who send their 
children to the school, that their crops and their 
goods may be taken away by the devil ; and 
may all the misfortunes attend any person tak-
ing their posterity in marriage, thirty years 
hence. I pray the Almighty to hear this prayer 
as the minister of God ; and I strictly command 
the congregation to kneel down and pray God 
to grant me this prayer !" Clare Journal. 
The Mercy of Mercies. 
The good Flavel has a sermon—Luke 1:27 
—in which he exhibits Christ as the mercy of 
mercies to lost man. In this sermon the fol-
lowing beautiful comparisons' occur : 
" Jesus Christ is an incomparable and match-
less mercy ; as the apple tree among the trees 
of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons,' 
says the enamored spouse, (Cant. 2:3.) Draw 
the comparison how you will between Christ 
and all the enjoyments, you will find none in 
heaven nor on earth to equal him. He is more 
than all externals, as the light of the sun is more 
than that of a candle. 
Nay, even the worst of 
Christ is better than the best of the world ; his 
reproaches are better than the world's pleasures. 
(Heb. 11:22.) He is better than all spirituals, 
as the fountain is more than the stream. He 
is more than justification, as the cause; more 
than sanctification, as the person himself is more 
than all peace, all comfort, all joy, as the tree 
is more than the fruit. Nay, draw the comparison 
betwixt Christ and things eternal, and you will 
find him better than they ; for what is heaven 
without Christ ? (Psa. 73.) Whom have I in 
heaven but thee ?' If Christ should say to the 
saints : Take heaven among you, but as for me, 
I will withdraw myself from you ; the saints 
would weep, even in heaven itself, and say, 
Lord, heaven will be no more heaven to us, ex-
cept thou be there, who art by far the better 
half of heaven." 
The Bible is a History of Compensation. 
The prophecies of the New Covenant were 
uttered in seasons of depression—at the fall of 
Adam, the separation of Abraham, the bondage 
of Israel, and the giving of the law by Moses, 
the captivity of Babylon. Cloud and rainbow 
Saviour, and one that is full of mercy : briefly, 
he is nothing else but infinite mercy and good-
ness, freely given, and bountifully giving to us. 
Thus shall you paint Christ in his right colors. 
If you suffer him any otherwise to be painted 
out unto you, when temptation and trouble com-
eth, you shall soon be overthrown. Now, as it 
is the greatest knowledge and cunning that 
Christians can have, thus to define Christ, so of 
all things it is the hardest. For I myself, even 
in this great light of the gospel, wherein I have 
been so long exercised, have much ado to hold 
this definition of Christ which Paul here giveth 
(Gal. 2:20), so deeply bath the doctrine and 
pestilent opinion that Christ is a lawgiver en-
tered even as it were all into my bones. Ye 
young men, therefore, are in this case much 
more happy than we that are old. For ye are 
not affected with these pernicious errors, where-
in I have been so misled and so drowned even 
from my youth, that at the very name of Christ 
my heart bath trembled and quaked for fear : 
for I was persuaded that he was a severe judge. 
Where it is to me a double trouble and travail 
to correct and reform this evil : first to forget, 
to condemn, and to resist this old grounded er-
ror, that Christ is a lawgiver and a judge ; for 
it always returneth and plucketh me back : then 
to plant in my heart a new and true persuasion 
of Christ that he is a justifier and a Saviour. 
Let us learn, therefore, to put a difference be-
tween Christ and a lawgiver, not only in word, 
but also in deed, and in practice, that when the 
devil shall come under the shadow of Christ, 
arid shall go about to trouble us under his name, 
we may know him not to be Christ, but a very 
fiend indeed. For Christ when he cometh is 
nothing else but joy and sweetness to a trem-
bling and broken heart, as Paul here witnesseth, 
who setteth him out with this most sweet and 
comfortable title, when he saith, " Which loved 
me, and gave himself for me." 
Luther on the Galatians 
God Reconciled in Christ. 
When you look through a red glass, the 
whole heavens seem bloody ; but through pure 
uncolored glass, you receive the clear light that 
is so refreshing and comfortable to behold. 
When sin unpardoned is between, and we look 
on God through that, we can perceive nothing 
but anger and enmity. in his countenance ; but 
make Christ once the medium, our pure Re-
deemer, and through him, as clear and trans-
parent glass, the beams of God's favorable coun-
tenance shine in upon the soul. The father 
cannot look upon his well beloved son, but gra-
ciously and pleasingly. God looks on us out 
of Christ, sees us rebels, and fit to be con-
demned ; we look on God as just and powerful 
to punish us, but when Christ is between, God 
looks on us in him as justified, and we look on 
God in him as pacified, and see the smiles of 
his favorable countenance. Take Christ out, 
all is terrible; interpose him, all is full of peace 
Leighton. 
Time. 
It waits for no man—its travels onward with 
an even, uninterrupted, inexorable step, without 
accommodating itself to the delays of mortals. 
The restless hours pursue their course ; mo-
ments press after moments ; day treads upon 
day ; year rolls after year. Does man loiter ? 
procrastinate ? Is he listless or indolent ? Be-
hold the days, and months, and years, unmind-
ful of his delay are never sluggish, but march 
forward in silent and solemn procession. Our 
labors and toils, our ideas and feelings may be 
suspended by sleep, darkness, and silence ; and 
death may reign around us, but Time rests not, 
slumbers never, but presses along and knows no 
stoppages. We may dam up mighty rivers ; 
stop them in journeying to the ocean ; press 
Not Many Things Worse than War. 
I think there are not many things worse than 
war; and in looking to the history of early Chris-
tians, I am confirmed in this opinion. Celsus 
charged them with cowardice, as many now 
charge the members of the Peace Society ; but 
Origen said, " No, it is not cowardice ; we are 
not afraid of doing anything except offending 
Christ." 
When Maximilian was told, " You must 
fight," he replied, " I can't." 
" You shall." 
" I won't." 
That is true bravery ; and many a man who 
will not fight, will submit to imprisonment, and 
undergo hardships in foreign lands, which re-
quire more heroism than the mere display of 
brute force on a battle-field. War, under all 
circumstances, offensive or defensive—no mat-
ter what its accompaniments—in every con-
ceivable respect in which the mind can look at 
it—is in direct antagonism to that Gospel, the 
annunciation of which to man was, " Glory to 
God in the highest, and on earth peace and good 
will toward men." A speaker in Exeter Ball. 
Rnmselling a Felony. 
The " Expositor " is shocked at the thought 
that the Temperance men mean to make rum-
selling a States Prison offence, and asks if a 
rumseller shall be punished like a man who 
steals sheep, passes counterfeit money, commits 
highway robbery, burns a house down, or com-
mits murder ? Well, let us see : suppose we 
take the " Expositor " man himself as an illus-
tration ; there he goes, look at him—see how he 
walks--see what manner of man he is. Now 
ask his wife whether she should choose, that 
his sheep, horse, or cow, if he had one, should 
be stolen—that he should be knocked down and 
robbed—that he should have counterfeit money 
passed upon him—should be turned out of house 
and home, if he had one, by an incendiary, and 
that he should be murdered even, rather than 
he should be a drunkard always and die a sot 
under the influence of grog shops ? We are 
willing to leave the question with the wife and 
friends of any man, and abide by the answer. 
Watchman. 
26uent *raRI. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
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them back to their source ; but the arrest of 
Time is heyond the power of any human being, 
besides Omnipotence. The dock may cease to 
strike, the bell to toll ; the sun may cease to 
shine, the moon stand still, the stars withdraw 
their light ; but the busy boars pass on. The 
months and years must move on, ever forward. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he hon-
ored and his truth advanced; also, that it unity he conducted in 
faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the 
truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or 
sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
(Concluded.) 
Vs. 20, 21-" Now the God of peace, who brought hack front the 
dead our Lord Jesus, (that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the 
blood of the everlasting covenant,) make you perfect in every good 
work, to do his will, working in you what is well-pleasing in his 
Jeans 
sight, through 
 Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever ! 
Amen !" 
GOD IS often thus called the GOD of peace. " Now 
the GOD of peace be with you all."-Rom. 15:33. 
" Arid the very GOD of peace sanctify you wholly ; 
and I pray GOD your whole spirit, and soul, and body, 
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 
JESUS CHRIST."-1 Thess. 5:23. 
" That brought again from the dead our Lord JE-
SUS." The resurrection of CHRIST was an admitted 
fact, that no one questioned. After " he rose again 
the third day according to the Scriptures," " he was 
seen of CEPHAS, then of the twelve : after that, he was 
seen of above five hundred brethren at once ; of whom 
the greater part remain unto this present, but some 
are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of JAMES ; 
then of all the apostles. And last of all, he was seen 
of me also, as of one born out of due time."-1 Cor. 
15:5-8. 
The resurrection of CHRIST, PAUL affirms, is his 
being begotten of the Father : " The promise which 
was made unto the fathers, Goo bath fulfilled the 
same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up 
JESUS again ; as it is also written in the second 
psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten 
thee."-Acts 13:31, 32. And in another place he 
adds : " And declared to be the Son of GOD with 
power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the 
resurrection from the dead."-Rom. 1:4. 
By raising up CHRIST from the dead, Goo demon-
strated that the SAVIOUR was no impostor,-that he 
was just what he claimed to he. Him " Goo hath 
raised up, having loosed the pains of death : because 
it was not possible that he should he holden of it ... 
This JESUS bath GOD raised up, whereof we all are 
witnesses."-Acts 2:24, 32. " We believe on him 
that raised up JESUS our Lord from the dead."-
Rom. 4:24. " If the Spirit of him that raised up 
JESUS from the dead dwell in you, lie that raised up 
CHRIST from the dead shall also quicken your mor-
tal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.-Ib 8: 
11. " And GoD bath both raised up the LORD, and 
will also raise up us by his own power."-1 Cor. 6: 
11. " We have testified of GOD that he raised up 
CHRIST : whom he raised not up, if so be that the 
dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, thee is not 
CHRIST raised : and if CHRIST be not raised, your 
faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins. Then they 
also which are fallen asleep in CHRIST are perished. 
If in this life only, we have hope in CHRIST, we are 
of all men most miserable. But now is CHRIST risen 
from the dead, and become the first fruits of them 
that slept."-Ib. 15:15-20. " We believe, and there-
fore speak ; knowing, that he which raised up the 
Lord JESUS, shall raise op us also by JESUS, and 
shall present us with you."--,2 Cur. 4:13, 14. " Ye 
turned to GOD from idols, to serve the living and true 
GoD ; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom 
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered 
us from the wrath to come."-1 Thess. 1:9, 10. 
" Who by him do believe in GOD, that raised him up 
from the dead, and gave him glory ; that your faith 
and hope might be in GOD."-1 Pet. 1:21. 
" That Great Shepherd of the sheep," is one of 
the titles given to the Lord JESUS by the prophets. 
" Behold the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, 
and his arm shall rule for him : behold, his reward 
is with him, and his work before him. He shall 
feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall gather the 
lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, 
and shall gently lead those that are with young."- 
Isa. 40:10, 11. " And I will set up one Shepherd 
over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant 
DAVID ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their 
shepherd."-Ezek. 34: 23. " And DAVID my ser-
vant shall be king over them ; and they all shall have 
one Shepherd : they shall also walk in my judgments, 
and observe my statutes, and do them. And they 
shall dwell in the land that 1 have given unto JACOB 
my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt, and 
they shall dwell therein, even they and their chil-
dren, and their children's children for ever : and my 
servant Davin shall be their prince for ever."-lb. 
37:21, 25. " Awake, 0 sword, against my Shep-
herd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith 
the LORD of hosts : smite the Shepherd, and the 
sheep shall be scattered ; and I will turn mine hand 
upon the little ones."-Zech. 13:7. " I am the good 
Shepherd : the good Shepherd giveth his life for the 
sheep. . . . I am the good Shepherd, and know my 
sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father know-
eth me, even so know I the Father : and I lay down 
my life for the sheep."-John 10:11, 14, 15. " For 
ye were as sheep going astray ; but are now returned 
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls."-1 
Pet. 2:25. " And when the chief Shepherd shall 
appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth 
not away."-Ib. 5:4. 
" Through (ot with) the blood of the everlasting 
covenant," we are sanctified. " As for thee also, 
by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy 
prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water."-Zech. 
9:11. " Of how much sorer punishment, suppose 
ye, shall he be thought worthy, who bath trodden 
under foot the Son of GOD, and hath counted the 
blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, 
an unholy thing, and bath done despite unto the 
Spirit of grace ?"-fleb. 10:29. It is the blood of 
the everlasting covenant, the new covenant which 
was to be made after those days, (8:8) and to con-
tinue through the everlasting age. By this GOD 
perfects his saints in good works. " Now our Lord 
JESUS CHRIST himself, and GOD, even our Father, 
which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting 
consolation and good hope through grace, comfort 
your hearts, and stablish you in every good word 
and work."-2 Thiess. 2:16, 17. " For it is GOD 
which worketh in you both to and to do of his 
good pleasure."-Phil. 2:13. 
As Gon works only through CHRIST, glory is to 
be ascribed to Goo the Father, and to his Son JESUS 
CHRIST, " Who gave himself for our sins, that he 
might deliver us from this present evil world, accord-
ing to the will of GOD and our Father ; to whom be 
glory forever and ever. Amen."-Gal. 1:4, 5. " And 
the LORD shall deliver me trout every evil work, and 
preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom ; to whom 
be glory for ever and ever."-2 Tim. 4:18. " Unto 
him that loved us, and washed its from our sins in 
his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests 
unto GOD and his Father ; to him be glory and do-
minion for ever and ever."-Rev. 1:5, 6. 
Now I beseech you, brethren, hear with the word of ex-
hortation for I have written a letter to you in sew word.." 
PAUL'S courteousness is as manifest as his fidelity 
to the truth. Having demonstrated the entire in-
sufficiency of the law to which many of those ad-
dressed were much attached, to take away sins, and 
demonstrated its entire abrogation, he kindly and 
courteously asks them to bear with hint in this letter 
of exhortation which he sends them. He then apolo-
gizes for the briefness of his writing,-admitting 
that much more might be said profitably respecting 
the abrogation of the old covenant. Thus PETER 
said : " I suppose, 1 have written briefly, exhorting, 
and testifying that this is the true grace of GOD 
wherein ye stand."-1 Pet. 5;12. 
Know ye, that our brother Timothy is set at liberty ; 
with whom, if he come soon, I shall see you." 
It is not certain that TIMOTHY had been imprisoned. 
It seems that PAUL was expecting him to arrive from 
some other place where he might have been sent by 
PAUL. In the epistle to the Philippians which PAUL 
wrote from Rome, he says ; " I trust in the Lord 
JESUS to send TIMOTHEUS shortly unto you, that I 
also may be of good comfort, when I know your 
state. For I hare no man like-minded, who will nat-
urally care for your state. For all seek their own, 
not the things which are JESUS CHRIST'S. But ye 
know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, 
he bath served with me in the gospel. Him there-
fore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see 
how it will go with me. But I trust in the LORD that 
I also myself shall come shortly."-Phil. 2:19-24. 
lie might now have supposed that TIMOTHY would 
come soon and be at liberty to be sent to Judea, as he 
had before sent him to other places. " Wherefore, 
when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good 
to be left at Athens alone ; anti sent TIMOTHEUS, our 
brother, and minister of GoD, and our fellow-laborer 
in the gospel of CHRIST, to establish you, and to com-
fort you concerning your faith."-1 Thess. 3:1, 2. 
" Vs. 24, 25-Salute all your leaders, and r.11 the saints. Those of 
Italy salute you. Grace be with you all. Amen." 
PAUL wrote to those only who had charge of the 
flock, but addressed his letters to all the members. 
He closes his letter, as was his custom with kind 
wishes, and words of remembrance to all. " All that 
are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us 
in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen."-Tit. 
3:15 
" Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy." 
When or by whom this was appended is not known. 
It is not however probable that TIMOTHY was PAUL'S 
amanuensis ; for in v. 23d PAUL speaks of his corn-
ing shortly ; from which it was evident that he was 
not in Rome when PAUL wrote. But that it was 
written front Italy is shown by v. 24th, " They of Italy 
salute you." 
Thus endeth one of the most profitable and in-
structive of PAULS epistles. 
WHO EMBRACE THE RAPPINGS I 
It is instructive to notice the class of minds who 
embrace any new question, in deciding respecting its 
nature and tendency. 
Those who embraced the doctrine of the Second 
Advent were usually of a devotional class. The re- 
mark was often made, by friends and others, that 
they constituted the most devotional part, and were 
the best members in the churcheS. That fact alone 
was significant of the origin of the doctrine. Are 
those who embrace the Spiritual Rappings, of the 
same class.? 
This question will be very easily answered by 
those who are at all familiar with this new movement. 
Its advocates are usually those on whom the doctrine 
of the Advent made no impression whatever,-except 
to elitait their opposition. On inquiring into their 
history, it is found that the great body of them, have 
usually been very loose in their religious principles. 
Many of the leading ones were Universalists, and 
many were downright infidels. Of the latter class 
was Judge EDMONDS. He is a most exemplary man 
in his private life and character, but the fact that he 
was an infidel, does not claim to have been converted 
to Goo but to the spirits, and that the most of its ad-
vocates had been more or less sceptical, should he an 
additional reason for causing the Christian to pause, 
and ponder well its tendency, before he sets aside the 
GOD of the Bible, for the unreliable teachings of pre-
tended spirits. 
The Shekinah, a quarterly, devoted entirely to this 
doctrine, contains the following account of Judge ED-
moNDs' experience. It may be interesting, inasmuch 
as it shows the manner in which men of intelligence 
and high legal attainments may be beguiled into it. 
The experience of Judge Edmonds as a seer is of 
recent origin, dating no further back than the early 
part of 1851. Up to that time, he had no idea that 
there was, or could be, any such thing as intercourse 
with the spirits of the departed. Indeed, he had 
doubts whether there was any existence after the life on 
earth, and if there was, he had no very definite or well-
settled notions of the nature and mode of that existence. 
From the teachings that he had heard in the pulpit, 
and read in theological works, his notions of the na-
ture of the future existence were vague, shadowy, and 
uncertain. Of the true state of things, as it has since 
been revealed to him, he had no conception whatever, 
and he was as ready as any one to scoff at the spiritu-
al intercourse which is now so manifest to many, and 
may yet be proved to the satisfaction of all. 
His first experience of the kind was some time in 
the month of December, 1850. In the early part of 
November his wife had died. He was warmly attached 
to her, and they had lived together for more than thirty 
years. Her death affected him very much. He was 
living at the tune at a small place in the country, a 
short distance from the city of New York. His mar-
ried-daughters returned to town, to the care of their 
families, and his youngest to her boarding-school, and 
for a month or two he occupied his house alone, hav-
ing no one about him but his servants, so that when 
lie returned daily from his duties in town, he was 
alone, until lie again, the next day, resumed his du-
ties in court. He slept very little during the time, it 
frequently occurring that he would not retire to bed 
at all during the night. 
During this time his mind was very much occupied 
with the inquiries concerning the nature of death, and 
the condition after death. He read and reflected a 
great deal on the subject. He was in the habit of 
throwing himself on his bed, or of reclining on a so-
fa, and continuing his reading. On one such occasion, 
after the family had all retired, and about midnight, 
as he lay reading, he distinctly heard the voice of his 
wife, speaking a sentence to him. As he has himself 
described the incident to tis, he started as if he had 
been shot. He sat up and looked around him. His 
lamp was still lighted, and the fire burning cheerful-
ly in the grate, and he could see nothing unusual. 
He lay down again, persuading himself that it was a 
delusion of his imagination, produced by his grief 
and sleeplessness. But reason upon it as he would, 
the impression on his mind that it had been a reality 
continued and grew in strength daily. He, however, 
sturdily resisted that impression, and for many days 
studied and analyzed the operations of his own mind, 
to ascertain. if he could, why it was that this im-
pression of reality continued so vigorously against the 
oft-repeated conclusions of his reason that it was a 
mere delusion. 
In the latter part of December, he took tip his resi-
dence in the city for the winter, and he endeavored, 
by change of scene and occupation, to dispel this im-
pression. 
In the month of January ensuing, a lady, who had 
been a warm friend of his wife, invited him to come 
to her house to witness the Spiritual manifestations. 
That lady said she had been impressed for several 
days to do so, and during that time had felt the con- 
tinned presence of Mrs. Edmonds in a remarkable 
manner-whatever she might he doing, the idea of 
her departed friend being ever uppermost in her 
thoughts. The Judge, to while away a tedious hour, 
and having scarcely any curiosity, and certainly no 
interest in the subject, accepted the invitation. At 
the appointed time he attended, and no one was pres-
ent but that lady, her daughter, and a rapping me-
dium. The Interview was a brief one, but several 
things occurred which at once riveted his attention. 
He ascertained, from his examinations, that the 
sounds which he heard were not, and could not he, 
produced by the persons present. He saw there was 
intelligence in them. His questions were answered 
with good sense, and entire sentences spelled Out, ex-
pressing sentiments characteristic of the spirit who 
professed to speak, and his thoughts were read and 
spoken to, and mental questions answered, when the 
persons present could not even know that he asked a 
question, much less knew what it was. He made a 
memorandum of what occurred, and he was told to 
correct an error he had made in his writing-an er-
ror which those present did not know anything about, 
but which seemed to be known to the intelligence that 
was distinguishing the sounds. These things at-
tracted his attention and excited his curiosity, and he 
resolved to investigate the subject, and detect the im-
posture, if it was one. 
From that time, for three or four months, he gave 
to the matter all the leisure time lie had, seeing dif-
ferent mediums at different places, arid in the com-
pany of different persons, and guarding, as far as his 
ingenuity could suggest, against the possibility of de-
ception. During the ensuing summer, living in the 
country, where there was no medium, he was able to 
witness the phenomena only once a week. 
He was very slow to yield his belief, arid it was 
not until June following, after having investigated 
the matter for six months, and having had nearly one 
hundred interviews-not two of which were alike-
did he finally abandon his unbelief, anti admit that it 
must he spiritual. 
He kept very full and careful records of all he had 
witnessed arid perused them, once and again, to com-
pare the proceedings of one day with others, that lie 
might detect inconsistencies or contradictions. He 
sought for different mediums, thus precluding the 
possibility of concert of action. He associated with 
different circles, for the same purpose, and finally 
yielded his belief when no sane mind could withhold 
it any longer. 
From the above, it will be seen that Judge ED-
MONDS only inquired respecting the reality, of the su-
pernatural sounds. When he became satisfied that 
there was a supernatural intelligence present, he 
yields to it his belief and confidence, without inquir-
ing whether it may, or may not, be the operation of 
an unclean, or demoniacal spirit-such as the SA-
VIOUR cast out, and PAUL dispossessed of the Pythonic 
damsel And all who yield their assent, seem to 
have done so independent of the question whether the 
Bible sanctions the seeking " for the living to the 
dead." On the contrary, large timbers of them 
unite in pronouncing the Bible ". the paper and ink 
relics "of a" supernatural monotheistic conception." 
They avoid the Scriptures, they set them entirely 
aside, and substitute for the Goo who made them,. 
the ghosts of the departed-virtually exclaiming : 
" These are our gods, 0 Israel." 
Judge WELLs of the Court of Common Pleas of 
this State, is the most. distinguished legal gentleman 
in Massachusetts, who has embraced this false doc-
trine. What his previous habits of thought were we 
have not learned. Will riot the Shekinah give us his 
experience I 
IMPORTANT FROM CUBA.. 
The passengers by the Black Warrior report that 
it was rumored at. Havana that should Capt. PORTER 
persist in landing, the Crescent City- would be fired 
into. The greatest excitement prevailed in conse-
quence. Should a shot be fired, Lieut. PORTER has 
orders to surrender his vessel. 
'['he ship Elizabeth Jane, Capt. BROOKS, is said to 
have been outraged by the Havana police, who 
searched her cabin and examined all the captain's pri-
vate papers on suspicion that he had fiillbiuster cor-
respondence concealed on board. 
Further conspiracies have been discovered in Ma-
tanzas, Pinas del Rio, and other places. The situa-
tion of the patriots is every day more and more com-
promised. Imprisonments continue, and denuncia-
tions multiply. A conspiracy has been discovered 
at Matanzas, and a section of the military dispatched 
thither to inquire into the accusations and commence 
the trials. 
The Captain General is very uneasy about the 
Crescent City business, and he has had a very serious 
misunderstanding with his secretary, MARTIN GALo-
Irmo, who has been his counsellor and guide in the 
transaction. GALOANDO wished to resign his secre-
t3ryship. CsszeDo, however, has not accepted it, 
but on the contrary, told him that as he had led him 
into a bad scrape he should see him out and stand by 
tl,e consequences of his conduct. The community 
have suffered much in consequence of the arbitrary 
conduct of General CANEDO, and he will be recalled 
by his Government. 
A number of persons who have become obnoxious 
to the Government, but are safe from its vengeance 
because in the United States, are requested to return 
to stand trial and take their chance. 
Among the passengers by the Warrior are several 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
341 
shape of a fish, and is 140 feet long by 40 wide in hours after the vessel struck, the weather moderated 
the middle, and tapering towards each end. Twenty and at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning two schooners 
feet beneath the balloon is suspended the car contain- hove in sight, arid immediately bore down to the 
wreck. One of them, bound to Glasoow, took off 
Creoles of large means, who have come here with 
their families and design becoming citizens of the 
United States, as they declare it impossible for any 
person who has the least self-respect to live longer at 
Havana, or indeed on the Island of Cuba. We learn 
from these passengers that the brother-in-law of Gen-
eral NARCtSSA LOPEZ is still in prison. He is con-
fined in the most loathsome dungeon in the castle. 
All his property, which was very large, has been 
confiscated to the Government, and it was rumored 
that the Count himself would be garroted, together 
with his brother, Don JOSE FRIAS, who was arrested 
at the same time. 
The trial of numerous prisoners was pending. 
Domiciliary visits were more numerous than ever. 
They are now made by day as well as by night, and 
bands of soldiers may be seen at all hours conducting 
some unhappy prisoner to the castles. There was 
no sort of security for either life or property, and all 
those Creoles who were able were preparing to emi-
grate to the United States until the issue of the pres-
ent difficulties shall be apparent. 
The conduct of Capt. PORTER on his arrival at 
Havana from this port, had elicited the universal ad-
miration of the Creoles, and had been the subject of 
comment in the newspapers. 
DRAKE, Brothers & Co. received their letters by 
the Crescent City, though no other house in Havana 
was so favored. 
The news of the New Orleans meeting had given 
the conspirators much joy. The Spaniards seem 
much exasperated against Don DOMINGO DE GYCOURA, 
and lay the whole burden of what has occurred upon 
his shoulders. 
The Spanish war and mail steamer Velasco left on 
the 4th inst., having among her passengers six Cre-
oles sentenced to banishment for connection with the 
publication of the Voice of the People. 
The usual number of personal summonses against 
the supposed accomplices of THASIOLA filled the of-
ficial Gazette. Eight additional prisoners have been 
sent to Havana from Pinas del Rio. A grand mili-
tary parade took place in Havana on Sunday, the 
16th inst. TI e troops were reviewed by the Cap-
tain-General, in the presence of an immense number 
of spectators. 
A. few days since three carriages belonging to 
wealthy persons arrived from the country, guarded 
by troops. Several ladies were observed to alight, 
some being put into the public prison, and others into 
the Punta Fort. 
The official paper publishes what it calls a fair 
statement of the Crescent City outrage, but it is writ-
ten in a manner that does little credit to the under-
standing of the writer, containing, as it does, much 
silly abuse against the people of the United States. 
The article was very generally copied into all the 
Havana papers. 
The correspondent of the Journal of Commerce 
says : " We do not find any reasonable men here, 
Spanish or other nations, that approve of the late 
high handed measures towards the Crescent City. It 
has been intended as a covert insult to the flag. It 
was well understood by the interested advisers of the 
great chief that Mr. SMITH, the purser, was acting 
as mail agent of the United States, and could not be 
at all amenable to the Government of Cuba ; besides 
which he had done nothing to justify even unpleas-
ant feelings towards him." 
The cholera has almost subsided. About 3500 
persons have died during the last three months; in 
September upwards of 1300 were buried in the pub-
lic cemetery, besides those interred in those of Regla 
el Cerro, Jesus del Monte, &c. At the time the dis-
ease was at its height, the soldiers were buried in 
trenches in the Cassa Bianca side of the harbor. The 
arrival of the Crescent City at New York is looked for 
with the greatest anxiety. 
A committee of our citizens propose to wait on 
Lieut. PoRTER, on his return, and compliment him 
for his dignified and manly conduct toward the Cuban 
authorities. 
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LOUIS NAPO-
LEON. 
A large space is devoted in all the French journals 
to the tour of Lours NApoLeoN, and the plot for the de-
struction of the would-be Emperor and all his attend-
ants. The London Times argues, and with much 
plausibility, that the machine was concocted by the 
minions of the Prince President, and seized just at 
that juncture to give eclat to his visit. It is a signifi-
cant fact, in this connection, that no names are given 
of those arrested. The Moniteur of Sept. 26 has the 
following details of the affair : 
The Minister General of Police has for some time 
past been on the trace of a secret society, of which 
the object became every day more manifest. The 
members had resolved to make an attempt on the life 
of the President. The city of Marseilles had been 
chosen for the execution of the plot. 
The construction of an infernal machine having 
been resolved on, several of the members set to work, 
and the machine was quickly completed. It is com- 
posed of 250 gun barrels, four large blunderbuss 
barrels, the entire divided into 28 compartments. 
These twenty-eight pieces were for greater precau-
tion deposited in twenty-eight different places until 
the moment a suitable place could be found to fix and 
put the machine together. 
The conspirators then occupied themselves with the 
choice of a situation which should naturally be situ-
ate on the passage of the Prince President. They first 
fixed their choice on a first story in a house in the Rue 
d'Aix, where they were to remove and raise the ma-
chine on the night previous to that in which the Presi-
dent was to arrive at Marseilles. Some suspicions 
which were excited in the minds of the conspirators 
caused them to change their idea, and a second local-
ity was chosen. 
Like the first it was situate on the passage of the 
President, being on the high road from Aix. An en-
tire house was hired. It is a small house, composed 
of two stories, with windows in front. The infernal 
machine was to have been placed on the first floor. 
It was seized on that spot. At the same moment one 
of the conspirators was in the house in which the in-
fernal machine was friend. The others were in their 
houses, or in the different places where the police 
were assured of their presence. 
The Paris Patrie gives a brief history of the use of 
these instruments in France : 
" The infernal machine of Marseilles is the third 
attempt during sixty years, to realize that dreadful 
thought which is not stopped by any consideration of 
the number of victims, in the hope to kill a particular 
person. The first infernal machine was that of the 
Rue St. Nicaise against the life of the First Consul. 
The following is the notice of the attempt given in the 
Moniteur of the 4th Nivose and IX., and which much 
undervalued the number of the victims : Last even-
ing, at 8 o'clock, the First Consul was proceeding to 
the opera with his usual escort, when, as his carriage, 
reached the Rue St. Nicaise, an old cart was placee 
in such a way as to impede the passage. 
" The coachman, although going exceedingly quick 
had the address to avoid it, and in a second or two af-
ter, a terrible explosion took place, which broke the 
glasses of the carriage, wounded the last man of the 
escort, broke all the windows in the neighborhood, 
and killed three women, a grocer, and a child. The 
number of persons wounded, as far as is yet known, 
is fifteen. They were persons passing, and the pro-
prietors of neighboring houses. About fifteen houses 
were considerably damaged. It appears that the cart 
contained a sort of infernal machine. The report 
was heard over all Paris.' 
" The second infernal machine, that of FIESCHI, 
was directed on July 28, 1835, against Louis PHIL-
IPPE. The following account of the matter is given 
in the Moniteur of the next day: 
"'The fifth anniversary of the revolution of July 
was yesterday marked by one of the most horrible at-
tempts that history can give an example of. The 
King had reached the Boulevard du Temple, and was 
passing in front of the 8th Legion, when all of a surd, 
den a detonation took place similar to an irregular 
platoon discharge. This report was followed by a 
frightful disorder. It was an infernal machine that 
had vomited forth a shower of balls and grape on the 
group surrounding the King and his family ! One of 
our oldest glories, the venerable Duke de Trevise, the 
model of civil and military virtue, fell bathed in Lis 
blood, and expired without uttering, a word. 
" ' General DE LACHASSE DE VERIGNY was mortally 
wounded in the forehead : a lieutenant-colonel of the 
National Guard, an aide-de-camp, a woman, and sev-
eral national guards, also expired in the midst of ter-
rified horses and of an indignant crowd, whom noth-
ing could restrain at the aspect of this frightful assas-
sination.' Such is the effect of infernal machines, 
sparing neither age nor sex ; and such would have 
been that of the Marseilles plot if a vigilant and firm 
hand had not had time to arrest its being carried into 
effect at the time when it was about to cover France 
with bloodshed and mourning." 
The receptions and festivities consequent upon 
Lours NAPOLEON'S visit to Marseilles, however, were 
not interrupted, and if the reports are to be relied upon, 
even more than the usual enthusiasm prevailed. 
The public mind appears to be made up in favor of 
the immediate proclamation of the Empire. It is 
even said that Lours NAPOLEON will return to Paris 
as Emperor, and that the proclamation will be made 
at Tours, the ancient capital of Tourienne, on the 
14th inst. His reception at Toulon, Avignon, and 
Marseilles, was enthusiastic. He was met and con-
gratulated by the envoys of Piedmont, Naples, and 
the Pope. 
On laying the foundation of the new Bourse at Mar-
seilles, Lours NAPOLEON said he hoped that the pros- 
perity of the port would contribute towards the reali-
zation of the Emperor's grand idea, " that the Medi- 
terranean shall be a French lake." The idea is not 
disconnected, in public rumors, from the hint recently 
thrown out in a Government paper, that when a few 
more steamers are launched, England will be called 
to show by what title she holds Gibraltar and the 
Ionian Isles. 
The Government nominees are elected in room of 
CAVAIGNAC and CA RNOT, resigned. 
AERIAL NAVIGATION. 
The Paris correspondent of the Neu) York Express 
gives an account of an experiment in aerostation, by 
which Mr. HENRI GIFFARD is reported to have suc-
ceeded in navigating a balloon propelled by steam. 
The machine is described as having something the 
ing a steam engine of six horse power, for the pro-
pulsion of the apparatus through the air. The pro-
peller is a screw, which is made to revolve 110 times 
a minute, and the balloon, inflated with common illu-
minating gas, bore up a weight of 3120 pounds, and 
was driven through the air by her machinery at the 
rate of five miles an hour. This rate of motion is of 
course no desideratum, but it settles the question of 
practicability in regard to steering an aerial barque, 
a result which has generally been regarded as impos-
sible. 
A vessel navigating the water, a medium of differ-
ent density from the propelling power, is very easily 
moved in any required direction by the resultant of 
two forces ; but the principle is inapplicable to aeros-
nation, and hence the great difficulties which Mr. 
GIFFARD is said to have surmounted. 
The exhausted steam, smoke, &c., are discharged 
downward beneath the car, so as to remove them 
from the danger of contact with the balloon ; and 
these results are pronounced such as to render it se-
cure. If a spark should come in contact with the 
contents of the gas chamber, the navigator might find 
himself very suddenly blown out of the air instead of 
into it, and would need to have his apparatus en-
veloped in a Davy netting instead of one of hemp. 
Mr. GIFFARD (continues the Express correspond-
ent) announces a second trial of the balloon, the le-
cult of which is looked forward to with much inter-
est. We have no account of this in our foreign pa- 
pers. 
Boston Journal. 
THE ERUPTION AT MOUNT ETNA.—On the 16th 
September, the lava was reported to be taking ano-
ther direction, towards Milo, the inhabitants cutting 
down their forests and making themselves secure. A 
coasting vessel laying at anchor near Catania, has 
been covered with salammoniac, the issue from the 
mountain. The mountain sent it forth in vast clouds. 
The following graphic account of the lava is con-
tained in a letter dated Catania, Aug. 30th : 
" Yesterday after breakfast, we reached Zeffarana 
from the last house in the village ; we saw the lava 
at gunshot distance, and at that distance the heat was 
very great. 
" The manner in which the extraordinary and 
frightful torrent advanced is not to he described—it 
must be seen. It moves slowly and uninterruptedly ; 
the first waves, if 1 may so express myself, rise and 
fall at the least obstacle they encounter ; then send 
forth streamlets here and there, recede, extend them-
selves, and again advance. Now it is heard as a con-
tinued sound of glass breaking in the fire—nothing 
more—and now immense damage succeeds. Every 
now and then it is arrested, denoting the presence of 
greater obstacles, or of water. 
" By day all this grand mass presents an appear-
ance between red and yellow—sometimes dull, some-
times brighter. I can ill describe the spectacle by 
night—that dull stream of fire—those clouds of ashes 
and sulphurous vapors—are beyond description and 
sublimely horrible. 
" The streams of lava are much higher than the 
surrounding land, for as the former beds have be-
come solid the new lava flows over them. 
" In truth, nothing. could bun more picturesque ; 
could we divest ourselves of the feeling of misery and 
grief which pervades this hapless region. 
" The lava flows over the richest and most culti-
vated part of the country, destroying vineyards, all 
sorts of fruit trees, and some houses. Conceive the 
misery that has fallen on many proprietors and colo-
nists. 
" Since writing the above, we have accounts from 
Catania to the 24th September, up to which date the 
eruption continued, but without having destroyed any 
village, though rich vineyards, woods, &c., have been 
devastated." 
Loss OF THE AMERICAN ,SHIP MOBILE.—A dis 
patch from New York reports the loss of the Ameri-
can ship Mobile, 1000 tons, nearly new, Capt. TAR- 
BOX, from Liverpool for New Orleans, on the Ark-
low Banks, on the night of 27th ult. She had 60 
passengers and twenty-three crew—all lost but nine, 
including the captain. The particulars are thus re- 
lated : 
" The Mobile sailed Tuesday morning, with a fair 
wind, and made good progress throughout the day. 
At midnight, the captain went below, leaving the sec-
ond mate in ch irge, with orders to steer west-south-
west, and to call him (the captain) at 2 o'clock, or 
sooner, if the weather became threatening. At mid-
night, the wind was blowing a fresh breeze at east-
north-east, with a heavy sea, which soon increased to 
a violent gale. On the captain coming on deck, at 2 
o'clock, he found the ship on a lee shore, from which 
it was impossible to extricate her, the second mate 
having, it is said, mistaken his orders, and kept the 
ship on a west-north-west course. 
At half-past two she struck, heaving on Arklow 
hank, and shortly afterwardscommenced to break up. 
Efforts were made to launch the boats, but in conse-
quence of the high sea they were fruitless. A few 
four sailors and the only surviving passenger ; and 
the other took off the remaining four sailors, and 
landed them at Wexford, whence they have been for-
warded to Liverpool. 
Capt. Tarbox and all hands exerted themselves to 
the utmost to save the ship, until one after another 
they were washed away arid perished. 17 
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— Ga/igna-
ni relates an extraordinary circumstance which oc-
curred a few days ago on the Northern Railway at 
Montataire, near Creil. A carter arrived with a ve-
hicle containing an enormous block of stone, weigh-
ing not less than six tons, drawn by three horses, and 
asked if he would have time to cross the line before 
the arrival of a train. The wife of the keeper of the 
crossing answered in the affirmative, and he went on 
the line ; but there being a sort of ascent, his horses 
were not able to drag the vehicle the whole way 
across. While they were still endeavoring to get 
across, a train was heard approaching. The carter, 
fearing a shock, cut the traces of the two leading 
horses, arid removed them out of danger. The keep-
er's wife ran towards the train, and made signs to 
stop. It was an express train, drawn by one of 
CRASIPTON'S powerful locomotives, and was proceed-
ing at a fearful rate. The driver reversed his steam, 
and made a signal to have the breaks put on ; but 
seeing at the same moment that it was impossible to 
stop in time, he, with admirable sang froid, put on 
all the power of the locomotive, and drove right into 
the cart. The tremendous force of the shock shiv-
ered, as he had hoped, the cart and the block of stone 
into a thousand pieces, without throwing the locomo-
tive off the line, or even causing any perceptible de-
rangement of [the train. He was able to proceed to 
the station at Creil, where he found that his locomo-
tive was a good deal damaged. 
MEXICO—PROBABILITY OF SANTA ANNA'S RETURN. 
—By the Black Warrior, we are in receipt of dates 
from the city of Mexico to the 30th ult., and from Vera 
Cruz to the 5th inst. The pronunciamento at Guadal-
lajara still occupies general attention. DAVILLA had 
retained his p )st but a few days when a revolution 
occurred ; and of course a fresh plan was at once an-
nounced, in which the federal doctrine was re-asserted, 
and SANTA ANNA invoked to assume supreme au-
thority. By this document JOSE MARIA BLACHARTE 
was placed in command of the troops. Geri. ARISTA, 
since this edict appeared, has suspended communica-
tions with Jalisco, and ordered the army to advance 
upon the refractory State. 
Rumors had been circulating at the capital, that, 
sustained by General UREGA, the President, ARISTA, 
was about to assume the dictatorship. There was 
no confidence placed in the story. 
A decree has been issued by the Government for 
the reassembling of Congress on the 20th inst. The 
liberty of the press has been much restricted. A large 
body of the National Guards had surrendered at Cerro 
Gordo to the insurgents after a brief engagement. 
The disaffection at Mazatlan is unappeased. 
The authorities of Verra Cruz have been super-
seded. 
An express from Orizaba states that a body of 
troops leaving Perote for that city, on the 16th ult., 
were attacked by the insurgents, and disarmed after 
a short conflict. Three of the number were killed, 
and several wounded. 
BRo. IilanEs :—As I once wrote you a few lines in 
relation to the Spirit Manifestations, and you had the 
kindness to give me some advice on the subject, I 
will simply say, that on the 26th of March last, a cer-
tain spirit told roe to throw away my tobacco, and she 
would aid tne to leave off the bad habit, which I did, 
and now have no desire for the filthy weed, although 
I had used three papers per week for twenty-four 
years previously. Can bad spirits give such good 
counsel? 
H. R. 
REMARKS.—World the Pythonic spirit that PAUL 
rebuked, have called him a servant of the Most High? 
or would the legion of demons cast out by the SA-
VIOUR, have called him the Son of Goo, on your 
principle ? 
The Japan Expedition, 
The N. Y. Tribune has an interesting article on the Japan 
expedition and naval matters. We copy the concluding para-
graph :—" The Mississippi takes out a variety of articles as 
presents to the Emperor of Japan—to conciliate him, aston-
ish the natives, and prepare the way for the desired negotia-
tion. A locomotive and a quantity of railroad iron will be 
taken along, with which to show him the operations of a 
railroad. Telegraphic apparatus and wire will also be taken, 
with which to demonstrate how the lightnings have been 
converted to the use of civilization. Two of the ship's en-
gineers are learning the use of the apparatus, in order to ex-
plain it to the Emperor. An apparatus. for taking daguerreo-
types will also be used and explained tor tine information of 
his Majesty, by Lieut. Budd. A beautiful barge is on board 
to he presented to him. Also, boxes of domestic goods, com-
prising a great variety of manufactured articles, which are to 
give the Emperor an idea of the industrial pursuits of this 
country, and perhaps awaken a desire on his part for an ex-
change of commodities between Japan and the United States. 
The Mississippi will take ten boats for her use. There are 
four beautiful brass nine-pounders, mounted on carriages, 
which are to be used, if necessary, by parties of engineers 
engaged in surveying. They can be fitted in the bows of 
boats, which may be employed in surveying the coast. If 
this expedition shall succeed, and establish commercial rela-
tions between the United States and that extensive and se-
cluded nation, it will richly repay the risk and expenditure 
incurred." 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
thize with me in my peculiar sufferings, that I should 
often sigh for an interview with one who more than 
twelve years ago pledged me his sympathetic aid, 
and whose occasional letters for a few years past 
have been cordials to my soul, I refer to Bro. Nimes. 
He has often promised to visit this place, but cir-
cumstances have directed his steps elsewhere, until 
the last week, when accompanied by Bro. Orrock, he 
came among us, to cheer our hearts and enlighten our 
minds, by lucid exhibitions of heavenly truth. It 
was very gratifying to welcome them to my dwelling, 
to enjoy a free and mutual interchange of thought 
with our long tried and faithful brother—to commune 
with that heart which seems to be a fountain of sym-
pathetic—generous—great and noble feelings. Bro. 
Orrock, like the youthful shepherd of Israel, had 
some well selected stones from the brook which he 
slung to good effect. Their labors among us were 
very interesting and profitable. Their words of ex-
hortation and comfort to the untiring soidiers of the 
cross—to the tried—tempted—discomfited and way-
worn pilgrims, were like " apples of gold in pictures 
of silver,"—" they were meat in due season," a 
" present help in time of need." Their efforts were 
not of that character that may be compared to the 
sudden flash of lightning at midnight, which for a 
moment startles you with its glare, and then leaves 
you, making the surrounding darknes more visible ; 
but they were like the beacon light on the coast of 
the ocean, that shrines through all the darkness of 
the night, and thus serves to guide the anxious marri-
ner safely to port. 
Our meetings were well attended, and a most salu-
tary influence was exerted upon our brethren and sis-
ters, and we fondly hope that if time continues they 
will come again. 
At the present time we enjoy the labors of Bro. 
Addison Merrill. He has been with us nearly one 
year. His untiring efforts to do good in his Master's 
service, are attended by the blessing of God. We. 
expect him to continue with us. 
Montgomery Centre (Vt.), Oct. 11th, 1852. 
ish, but that all should come to repentance ! God 
is unchangeable in his nature—the same yesterday, 
to-day, and for ever ; without variableness or the 
shadow of turning ;—in view of which we dare not 
charge the non-conversion of sinners, or the church's 
deadness to God, nor assert that He is not still will-
ing and mighty to save. 
Therefore, the cause of the present state of apathy, 
and lukewarmness, and religious dearth must be at-
tributed to the injudicious efforts of the class before 
referred 10,—in connection with the spiritual dead-
nesss, indolence, lukewarmness, and neglect of oth-
ers ; many of whom by their conduct " shut heaven 
that it rain not." 
2. The Lord's cause langnisheth in consequence 
of the conduct of those ministers and members, who 
believe and preach unscriptural doctrines—doctrines 
calculated to lull the wicked to sleep, and fill their 
souls with thoughts of comparative peace, while they 
are standing on the verge of everlasting ruin ; and 
with those may be classified those professed shep-
herds who care not to gather the lost, or even feed 
the sheep already in the fold ; but who labor to close 
the door against those who are without, and lay in 
wait to tear in pieces the flock already within its sa-
cred enclosure ! 
There is a natural tendency in the human mind to 
run into extremes on all points, but more especially 
on matters connected with religion ; and hence while 
one class believe arid teach, and use means for the 
conversion of every individual on the face of the 
earth,—another class believe that they may spend 
their time in idleness, believe that none will be saved 
but those already converted ;- and therefore they re-
fuse to use the appointed means to bring sinners to a 
knowledge of the truth, and labor to impede the pro-
gress, and block up the way of those who do. 
Christ commanded iris disciples to " go into all 
the world and preach the gospel to every creature," 
and promised to be with them until the end of the 
world ; until which period we must preach the gos-
pel ; and while we continue to preach the gospel, we 
have a right to expect blessed results, and realize 
that it is still the power of God unto salvation, &c. 
If people will not come to us to hear the gospel, we 
must go to them ! Christ commissioned not his disci-
ples to spend all their time in Jerusalem and invite the 
people there to hear the gospel, but commanded them 
to " go into all the world and preach to every crea-
ture." Had they spent all their time in one place, 
those in other places would not have heard. 
The Lord's work is impeded by those who 
fight his battles in their own strength, and in an un-
scriptural manner labor to enforce the doctrines of 
the Bible. Now, as in the early days of Christianity, 
some preach Christ for contention, and have selected 
the church of Christ as a sphere in which to move, 
and exhaust the superfluous energy of their morbid 
combativeness. Soule cannot live without time being 
preached to them, or they have the privilege of 
preaching it themselves ; others cannot exist if they 
are denied the privilege of contending, and of being 
as they term it, the Lord's free men, forgetting that 
it is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of 
God alone that good can be accomplished ! No class 
of men can accomplish permanent good unless their 
efforts are blessed by the Lord and are in accordance 
with his will. 
The presentation of doctrines unsuitable to the 
wants of the people, and the times in which we live, 
may be referred to as another hinderance. We need 
the hope of the church as well as tire faith of the 
church, and the faith as well as the hope ; and the 
practical as well as the theoretical. 
We live in" perilous times," and in days of apos-
tasy. Many in the church are slumbering, and the 
hands of the wicked are being strengthened. We 
require men who can sustain the faithful, arouse the 
slumberers, and alarm the ungodly ! But where are 
they ? Where are the men who dare in the face of all 
opposition, preach the keen, cutting, heart-searching 
practical doctrines of the Bible, without subjecting 
themselves to the charge of being personal ? Where 
are the men who dare use the appointed means to 
alarm the ungodly, and knowing the terrors of the 
Lord persuade men, and in Christ's stead beseech 
them to be reconciled ? Where are the rnen who dare 
preach to the ungodly the awful doom of the sinner, 
if they forsake not their sins and submit to Christ? 
True, some may do it after a fashion if they will not 
be harsh, and comfort the impenitent when they do 
so by telling them that for ever does not mean for 
ever ; that hell only signifies a place outside Jerusa-
lem. Should they do otherwise, they would be con- 
sidered harsh towards the poor sinner, and merit the 
displeasure of many of those who possess to be more 
merciful than God ! 
And from a similar fear of offending man, how 
many ministers are afraid to call the attention of their 
hearers to the truth of the Saviour's speedy return ! 
How many smite their fellow servants, and eat and 
drink with the drunken. 
At the present time, by many congregations, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
"CURSE YE MEROZ." 
BY J. W. BONHAM. 
" Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord : 
curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof ; because 
they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of 
the Lord against the mighty."—Judges 5:23. 
In the sacred Scriptures, by a figure of speech, 
cities are frequently referred to while the inhabitants 
of the city mentioned are more particularly intended. 
The language of our Saviour addressed to Jerusa-
lem : " 0, Jerusalem," &c.—evidently refers to the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem. in the epistle of Jude, the 
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are spoken of, while 
the inhabitants of those cities are doubtless intended. 
The same principle may be justly applied to the 
place mentioned in the text against which a curse is 
pronounced, " Curse ye Meroz," &c. The precise 
locality of Meroz is not definitely known, but it is 
supposed to have been a place near the brook Kishon. 
Meroz was evidently a city or province, the inhabi-
tants of which came riot to the help of the Lord. The 
name of the place mentioned signifies " secret, or 
leanness." 
Under the old dispensation all who professed to be 
the Lord's people were expected to go forth to aid 
in fighting the battles of the Lord ; .and also to per-
form every other work He commanded to be done. 
Physical, or literal wars were then sanctioned, and 
his people were justified in using the sword in order 
to overcome the Lord's and their enemies. Those 
who went forth to fight against His enemies, and 
those who refused to go, or failed to perform or aid 
in any other work, are specially noticed. In Neh. 3: 
4, 5, mention is made of those who went to build the 
wall of Jerusalem ; but in v. 5 we read : " And next 
unto them the Tekoites repaired ; but their nobles 
put not their necks to the work of the Lord." See 
also 1 Sam. 18:17. 
Again, 1 Sam. 25:28—" I pray thee forgive the 
trespass of thine handmaid : for the Lord will cer-
tainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord 
fighteth the battles of the Lord, anti evil bath not 
been found in thee all thy days." 
From the heavy curse pronounced against Meroz, 
it is evident that those who failed to perform their 
duty in this particular, were exposed to the bitter, 
withering curse of Almighty God, " Curse ye," &c. 
But although physical wars and violence were 
sanctioned under the old dispensation, and justifiable 
among the people of God, they were riot under the 
present dispensation. 
Striking declarations in different parts of the New 
Testament prove this ; and by a careful perusal of 
Matt. 26:52 ; 2 Cor. 10:4 ; Eph. 6:12, you may be 
convinced that the gospel dispensation is superior 
to the old ; and that those who now go forth to the 
help of the Lord against the mighty, fight not with 
metallic, or carnal weapons of warfare, hut with one 
more effectual, and mighty to the pulling down of 
strong holds, viz., the sword of the Spirit, which is 
the word of God ! 
That the Lord's cause is now in a languishing 
state, and that those glorious effects which in days 
past resulted front a preached gospel are seldom seen, 
no careful observer of the spiritual death which now 
afflicts Christendom, will deny ! And that the cause 
of this declension is attributable to the wrongly di-
rected efforts of Christians on the one hand, and their 
inactivity and negligence on the other, is, we think, 
susceptible of demonstration. In consideration of 
these matters we have introduced the words of the 
text, in order to pave the way for certain remarks 
which have suggested themselves respecting the ex-
pectation and conduct of certain professors of religion, 
and the consequences of the same. To spend time 
in proving that the Lord's cause is in a languishing 
state, and that but little good is accomplished by the 
use of the ordinary gospel instrumentalities, will be 
unnecessary ; in view of which we shall have more 
time to point out what we consider some of the causes 
of this religious paralysis. 
1. The injudicious movements of sincere Chris-
tians, constituting what may be considered wrongly 
directed efforts, have done much towards strengthen• 
ing the hands of the wicked, and thereby affected the 
prosperity of Zion ! That many Christians, whose 
hearts are right, have not judgment equal to their 
zeal, and are therefore unfitted to dictate in matters 
belonging to the church, cannot be denied. 
We shall take it for granted that you believe God 
is willing, and anxious that souls should be saved ; 
that He delighteth not in the death of the sinner ;—
is long suffering and not willing that any should per- 
too much is left to and expected of the minister, whom 
some expect to be a prophet, apostle, pastor, evan-
gelist, and teacher, all combined, and who it is ex-
pected must be the principal of doing all the good 
that can be done. But this is not the case, and such 
results should riot be expected. 
The success of the Lord's cause does not always 
rest with the minister. The private or lay members 
of the church are his fellow Christian soldiers in the 
army ; and to accomplish permanent good the mem-
bers of the church must unite with him in his efforts, 
and thereby enable him to labor with them in peace 
and harmony. What would you think of an army or 
regiment of earthly soldiers, who should expect to 
conquer the enemy and gain a triumphant victory by 
leaving the conflict to their leaders and officers, and 
doing nothing themselves but simply looking on, find-
ing fault, and muttering that this ought to be done 
this way, and that in another manner t When was 
there a battle won when none but the officers fought? 
Did Washington gain American independence by his 
own power simply, and without the aid of soldiers? 
In churches ministers and members must he co-work-
ers together ; each must feel his responsibility, and 
that all have something to do in helping forward the 
car of the gospel, and in fi,;hting the " battles of the 
Lord." 
A cold, formal, prayerless, and dissatisfied church 
have no right to expect the accomplishment of the 
great end of preaching in their portion of the 
Lord's vineyard ; because such a state of things 
would paralyze the efforts of an angel ; and the moral 
atmosphere and temperature arising therefrom must 
debilitate, and ultimately exhaust, the best energies 
of the preacher. Ministers of the gospel can easily 
perceive the difference between a lukewarm and a 
prayerful congregation. The one elevates his soul, 
inspires him to speak words of wisdom, and com-
fort, and power ; the other depresses his spirits, and 
makes his words fall powerless to the ground ! 
Congregations with whom the Lord's work pros-
pers not frequently attribute the cause thereof to the 
ministers, and in some cases desire a change ; and 
yet the fault is in themselves. The minister proba-
bly may have lost much of his zeal and former vigor, 
inasmuch as a prayerless, lifeless people will affect 
his mental vigor and crush his energy. But let the 
people arouse, shake off their drowsy slumbers, and 
pray for him as much as they have been in tire habit 
of finding fault, and then the minister would be 
aroused—they could labor together and accomplish 
much good ! The work would prosper, and sinners 
be converted ! 
It frequently occurs that while the members of a 
church do but little to help a preacher forward, that 
they do much to embarrass and impede his progress. 
In these " last days " many attend church, not to 
hear and profit by what they hear, but to seek de-
fects, cavil, and find fault with nearly all that may 
be advanced. They perform the functions of a self-
appointed committee, a committee of criticism, and 
pass judgment upon the preacher, either severe or le-
nient, according to the depth of their prejudice, and 
variableness of their fancy. To surmount, or press 
through such a state of things is no easy task, and 
would be almost a master-piece for the angel Ga-
briel ! while the minister's chance of success would 
be tenfold in a heathen land, or were he to preach to 
the giddy multitude who traverse the streets. Under 
such circumstances tire word would reach the hearts 
of some, as there would not be such an intermediate 
barrier to impede its progress, and make its cutting 
arrows powerless !—(To be continued.) 
LETTER FROM C. GREENE. 
BRO. BLISS :—The Lord is always better to his 
people than they fear. It is true that he often suffers 
their fondest earthly hopes to be blighted, and brings 
distress and anguish upon them when they least ex-
pect it ; often causes them to endure privations, and 
to pass through scenes of suffering, when the reason 
of his mysterious dealings are hidden from them ; 
and it is also true, that he smiles behind the storm-
cloud, and ofttimes when it settles in dense masses 
around their tempest-tossed barks, and they, sad-
dened and disconsolate, become weary of life, and 
pray in the language of the discouraged prophet, " 0 
Lord, take away my life," that he says to the angry 
waves, " Peace, he still." He lulls the storm to 
repose, and for a time gives them a smooth sea, and 
a gentle breeze to fill their sails, and makes them by 
his Spirit to feel that the frowning cloud, and howl-
ing storm, as well as the unruffled ocean and pleasant 
wind, have served to waft them homeward. 
The seven past years of my life have been years of 
suffering. I have not only been deprived of the privi-
lege of proclaiming the truths of God's word, but 
such has been my state of health for much of the 
time, that I could not attend the ministrations of oth-
ers without an injury. 
It will not be thought strange, if while but very 
few around me had learned by experience to sympa- 
Letter from T. M. Preble. 
BRO. TIDIES :—As my former letter, containing a 
notice of the Vernon Camp-meeting—and death of 
Bro. Prescott's child—was mislaid, I will now — 
though late—send you another short sketch. 
The meeting commenced Tuesday, August 24th, 
and continued over the Sabbath. On account of the 
heavy rain, the meeting was not so fully attended ; 
but it proved one of deep interest to those who did 
attend. Several ministering brethren were present, 
hut their names I do not now recollect. Bro. E. 
Burnham was with us till Sabbath morning, when 
he had to leave to fill another appointment. The 
unusual love and union, which prevailed among the 
saints, was frequently spoken of during the meeting. 
In relation to the " rabble," we were free from 
them, we had no disturbance from them whatever. 
Inn this respect, I never attended such a camp-meeting 
before. 
Great credit for this, however, must be given to 
T. F. Burroughs, Esq., on whose land the meeting 
was holden ; and also for many other favors we en-
joyed at his hand. The results of the erecting can-
not be otherwise than good. Saints were revived—
backsliders reclaimed —and many appeared to be 
moved to a preparation for the speedy coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. 
East Weare, (N. H.), Oct. 9th, 1852. 
" I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE : he who believed' ill 
ME, 00110 he should die, yet he wilt LIVE: and whoever liveth 
and believed' in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
DIED, at Rye Beach, Sept. 3d, after eight weeks' 
painful sickness, LEWIS MoRR1LL, infant and only 
son of James L. and Harriet M. Prescott, of Epsom, 
N. H., aged five months and eight days. 
" Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, 
When what we now deplore 
Shall rise in full immortal prime, 
And bloom to fade no more." 
T. M. PREBLE. 
DIED, in Westboro', Mass., Oct. 8th, 1852, of 
consumption, sister SARAH S. WHIPPLE, aged 30 
years, wife of Bro. Charles Whipple, and daughter 
of Charles and Sally Daniels. Sister Whipple em-
braced the Advent faith in the winter of 1852. At 
that time she was a stranger to Jesus and his holy 
religion, arid felt herself unprepared for a coming. 
judgment. She sought the Lord and found him pre-
cious to her soul. Then she could rejoice in his 
coming, and has ever since been a faithful friend of 
the cause she then espoused. Bro. Whipple deeply 
feels his loss, yet sorrows not as those who have no 
hope. His heart is sad, nevertheless he is joyful in 
hope, believing that those who sleep in Jesus, God 
will bring with him. Sister Daniels also has the 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
joyful hope to cheer her in the hour of grief ; and 
amid her afflictions, feels like casting her cares and 
sorrows upon a sympathizing " High Priest," glad-
dened by the thought., that soon she shall meet the 
'loved ones in that world where death shall no more 
divide. A father, unreconciled to God, we hope by 
this afflictive stroke may he brought to feel his need 
of Christ, repent of sin, be converted to God, and 
made ready for an exchange of worlds, that he may 
meet his children (three in number), who are resting 
in hope at God's right hand, in the peaceful king-
dom to come. The Church of which sister W. was 
a member feel that they have lost a constant friend, 
and a true Christian ; but she rests with Jesus. 
There we leave her till the resurrection morn, when 
in immortal youth and beauty, she shall live again 
to suffer and die no more. The funeral services took 
place Sunday Oct. 10th, in the morning at 10 o'clock, 
when the writer addressed a large circle of friends 
and neighbors from Rev. 14:13. In the afternoon 
the afflicted family with the Church came around the 
table of the Lord. It was one of the most solemn 
seasons I ever witnessed. The day will long be re-
membered by this Church who are waiting for salva- 
tion. 
C. R. GRIGGS. 
IDENTITY OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN SPIRITS. 
There is scarcely a medium for Spiritual Commu-
nications in the United States of long experience who 
is confident that the spirits who communicate are the 
individuals whom they purport to be. Notwithstand-
ing this fact, media for spiritual communications for 
the most part place implicit confidence in the general 
system of Naturalistic, Anti-Biblical Philosophy and 
Religion which they receive front the Interior world. 
The fact is important, and should be thoroughly 
considered both as to its cause and tendency. It is a 
fact unparalleled in history or experience. It is a 
striking commentary on human weakness. It indi-
cates of itself a condition of mind extremely if not 
ruinously diseased. Were the evidences of the iden-
tity of spirits who thus communicate unimpeachable, 
and did all spirits who thus assert persist in a har-
monious movement in their anti-Christian theory of 
Creation and Immortality, and were their procedure 
characterized by the invariable appearance of truth, 
candor, judgment, discrimination, profound insight 
and strict fidelity to acknowledged principle, even 
then, inasmuch as their teachings are in direct, pal-
pable antagonism to the Spiritual Disclosures re-
corded in the Ancient Scriptures, and especially in 
opposition to those related or connected with the life 
of Christ. it would be dangerous in the extreme to 
receive them as truthful and reliable. 
Even though a brilliancy of intellect, a vastness of 
information and a thoroughness of statement beyond 
all present human capacity were discoverable in these 
communications from the Spirit World, it would 
still be perilous to build a theory of life morals and 
religion upon them ; for to do this we must first deny 
facts inwrought into the internal and the historical 
consciousness of the Race. 
It is no trivial affair, this abandonment of the Re-
ligion of Self-sacrifice ; this Antique Faith that is 
liable to but one criticism—its Exaltation above all 
possible attainments of the natural man. Whoso 
does it, does it at his peril. 
But when men abandon the Religion of the Cross 
for the Religion of Instinct at the beck of spirits who 
are unable to produce confidence in their own iden-
tity, touch less in their integrity, what shall be said ? 
Does it not betoken an internal proclivity toward a 
religions system from which the Divine element is 
obliterated, and wherein the blind instincts of fallen 
nature bear an undivided sway ? Is it not a new 
demonstration of the great truth which the Scriptures 
everywhere assert, and which anti-Christian Spirits 
everywhere deny, even the truth of the fallen condi-
tion of man, his tendency to mental and moral error, 
his enmity to that Holy Influence which alone is ade-
quate to save? 
The above is from the Mountain Cove Journal, a 
paper devoted to the Spiritual Philosophy. If it is 
not an admission that those manifestations are all 
evil, it is a strong squinting that way. 
The Change from 0. S. to N. S. 
A writer in " To-Day," says that he has in his 
possession an almanac entitled " Poor Job, 1752. 
By Job Shepherd, philom. Newport. Printed by 
James Franklin, at the Printing-office under the 
Town School-house." In this almanac the month of 
September has, in the margin, the figures of the suc-
cessive days, commencing 1, 2; and, after leaving 
blank a space for eleven days, re-commencing with 
14, and continuing to the 30th. The following ad-
dress to the patrons of the almanac is happily con-
ceived : 
" Kind reader, you have now such a year as you 
never saw before, nor will see hereafter. The King 
and Parliament of Great Britain, having thought 
proper to enact that the month of September, 1752, 
shall contain but nineteen days, which will shorten 
this year eleven days, and have extended the same 
throughout the British dominions; so that we are 
not to have two beginnings to our years, but the first 
of January is to be the first day and the first month 
of the year 1752 ; eleven days are taken from Sep-
tember, and begin 1, 2, 14, 15, &c. Be not aston-
ished, nor look with concern, dear reader, at such a 
deduction of days, nor regret as for the loss of so 
much time ; but take this for your consolation, that 
your expenses will perhaps appear lighter, and your 
mind be more at ease. And what an indulgence is 
here for those who love their pillows, to lie down in 
peace on the second of this month, and not perhaps 
awake or be disturbed till the fourteenth, in the morn-
ing. And, reader, this is not to hasten the payment 
of coining debts, freedom of apprentices or servants, 
or the coming to age of minors; but the number of 
natural days in all agreements are to be fulfilled. All 
Church holidays and Courts are to be on the same 
nominal (lays they were before ; but fairs, after the 
second of September, alter the nominal days, and so 
seemed to be held eleven days later. Now, reader, 
since 'tis likely you may never have such another 
year nor such another almanac, I would advise you 
to improve the one for your own sake, and I recom-
mend the other for the sake of your friend, 
POOR JOB." 
James Franklin, brother to Dr. Franklin, was a 
printer in Boston and Newport, where he died in 
1735. His son James commenced printing, accord-
ing to Mr. Thomas, about 1754, which is two years 
subsequent to the date of this almanac. 
WHAT IS A PUSEYITE I 
Dedicated, without permission, to the Right Bon. the 
Lord Justice Knight Bruce. 
" Lord Justice Knight Bruce asked if any of the 
learned counsel would define h Puseyites1' but no one 
attempted a definition." (See Law Report in the 
Morning Herald, Nov. 12th.) 
" Pray tell me what's a Puseyite ?" 'Tis puzzling 
to describe 
This ecclesiastic Janus, of a pious hybrid tribe ; 
At Lambeth and the Vatican, he's equally at home, 
Although 'tis said he's wont to give the preference 
to Rome. 
Voracious as a book-worm is his antiquarian maw, 
The '' Fathers " is his text-book, the " Canons " is 
his law ; 
He's'' mighty " in the " Rubrics," and " well up " 
in the " Creeds," 
But he only quotes the " Articles," just as they serve 
his needs. 
The Bible is to him almost a sealed book, 
Reserve is on his lips, and mystery in his look ; 
The " sacramental system " is the lamp t' illume his 
night, 
He loves the earthly candlestick more than the heav-
enly light. 
He is great in puerilities, when he bows, and when 
he stands. 
In the cutting of his surplice, and the hemming of 
his bands ; 
Each saint upon the calendar he knows by heart at 
least, 
He always dates his letters on a vigil or a feast. 
He talketh much of discipline, but when the shoe 
doth pinch, 
This most obedient duteous son will not give way an 
inch ; 
Pliant and obstinate by turns whate'er may be the 
whim, 
He's only for the bishop when the bishop is for him. 
But hark! with what a nasal twang, between a whine 
and groan, 
He doth our noble Liturgy most murderously intone. 
Cold are his prayers and praises, his preaching colder 
still, 
Inanimate and passionless, his very look cloth chill. 
Others as weak, but more sincere, who rather feel 
than think, 
Encouraging he onward leads to Popery's dizzy brink ; 
And when they take the fatal plunge, he walks back, 
quite content, 
To his own snug berth at --oh, and wonders why 
they went.1 
Such, and much more, and worse, if I had time to 
write, 
Is a slight sketch, your worship, of a thorough Pu-
seyite, 
Whom even Rome repudiates, as she laughs within 
her sleeve 
At the sacerdotal mimic, a solemn " make-believe." 
Oh ! it were well for England if her Church were 
rid of those 
Half Papist, and half Protestant, who are less her 
friends than foes ; 
Give me the open enemy, and not the hollow friend, 
With God and with our Bible we need not fear the end. 
London Morning, Herald. 
The King of Siam. 
We have mentioned the death of the King of Siam, 
and the coronation of his son. Soon after the event 
great preparations were made for the burning of the 
body of the old King, which was carried into effect 
in the following manner : 
" A quadrangular range of buildings, 400 feet each 
side of the square, was erected. In the centre of 
that, a spacious temple, 186 feet in diameter, towered 
up with its nine-storied spire to a height of at least 
217 feet. Four immense pillars of the wood-oil tree, 
each a sen (130 feet) long, were planted in the cen-
tre to sustain this spire. Between these rose a les-
ser structure of four pillars, sustaining a lesser spire, 
frill one hundred feet, however. Between the four 
pillars of this inner structure rose the platform and 
throne, on which were deposited the remains of his 
Majesty in a gold urn. This throne, twenty feet 
square at the base, and rising twenty-two feet in a 
stotied pyramidal form, was entirely overlaid with 
the rich red gold of the country, in weight four piculs, 
its value $153,600. The richness of its appearance 
was beyond description, and all was in exquisite taste. 
At each corner of the great quadrangle and mid-
way on its sides, were lesser temples, fac similes of 
the centre one, their spires but 100 feet high. The 
roofs and walls and spires of all were covered with 
an imitation of gilding made by rubbing gamboge and 
oil over thin sheets of an alloy of tin and lead. The 
gorgeousness of the coloring, the number and beauty 
of the spires and storied roofs, the profuse ornaments, 
hosts of poles for the fire-trees, the nine and twelve 
storied, gilded and painted chats, made the whole 
look like a scene of enchantment. Eight hundred 
priests were fed daily in the colonnade around the 
main edifice. The exercises were kept up for a fort-
night. For twelve days gold and silver coins were 
thrown away every evening from eight lime-trees, 
at the rate of two catties or more to a tree,—his Maj-
esty also distributing limes and lottery tickets to his 
court and what Europeans might be present. Fire-
works on a prodigal scale were kept up, and rope 
dancing, tumbling, wrestling, and theatricals, were 
constant amusements." 
An Elevated Road. 
The Stelvie road, which is the highest in Europe 
practicable for carriages, being 7272 feet above the 
sea level, and 2300 feet, or nearly half a mile per-
pendicular, above the Simplon, and 100 feet above 
the great St. Bernard, was completed in 1824. 
It is so constructed by means of zigzag terraces, 
that a coach can trot up one side and down the 
other with only one wheel locked. The road is on 
an average eighteen feet wide, with an ascending 
grade 5 1-2 per cent. From Prad, the village on the 
Tyrolese side, to the summit, the road is nearly fif-
teen miles long, and from the summit to Bormio 12 
and 2-3 miles long. 
The elevation of the highest point above the Prad 
is nearly 6000 feet—above Bormio 5000 feet. The 
horizontal distance between Prad and Bormio, pro-
jected on a plane which is about twenty-eight miles 
by the road, is about fifteen miles. When you reach 
the highest point where the road begins to descend, you 
are 800 feet above the line of perpetual snow ; but 
upon each side of you the mountains are towering 
high above you, presenting one dazzling field of ice 
and snow projecting into the very sky. The Orteles 
peak on your left is 14,000 feet above the sea level ; 
and consequently a mile higher than the carriage 
road. The glacier by the side of which you ascend 
nearly 3000 feet, keeps on its way 5000 higher up 
above the region of eternal ice. 
Mount Washington is 6000 feet high ; place it on 
the top of the Catskill, and its summit will be one 
mile below that of Orteles. After you have ascended 
the Stelvio toad till your patience has been exhausted 
several times over, you can see it creeping along on 
the side of the precipices above you, leaping over 
a ragged torrent under a ledge of rocks. winding 
round the other side the mountain, appearing again 
over your head, rising and winding, winding anti ris-
ing, higher, till you see it miles above you ; and fi-
nally, after it was wound, screw-like about fifty ter-
tances above the point where you stand, it disappears 
in the cloud, like Jacob's ladder going up to heaven. 
This road is now frequently travelled by carriages. 
Congregational. 
Artificial Stone. 
Owen Williams, of England, has just taken out a 
patent for the manufacture of Artificial Stone. The 
following ingredients are used in preparing it : 180 
lbs. pitch, 4 1-2 gals. dead oil or creosote, 18 lbs. 
rosin, 15 lbs. sulphur, 44 lbs. fine powdered lime, 
180 lbs. gypsum, 25 cubic feet of sand, breeze, scoria, 
bricks, stone, or other hard materials broken to 
pieces, and passed through a half inch sieve. The 
sulphur is first melted with about 30 lbs. of the pitch, 
after which the rosin is added and then the remainder 
of the pitch with the lime and gypsum, which are 
introduced by degrees and well stirred, and the mix-
ture brought to boil. The sand, or broken earthy or 
stony material is then added, and the whole mass 
well stirred, after which the dead oil is in a fit state 
to be moulded into blocks. In order to consolidate 
the blocks, pressure is applied to them in the moulds. 
The patentee gives also the proportions of the above 
materials to be used as a composition for laying pave-
ments, as a cement for uniting to each other blocks 
of the first named composition when used for build-
ing purposes, and as a coating for bridges, the roofs 
of buildings, &c. The Artificial Stone hardens in 
about a week, when it becomes as stubborn as gran-
ite. The composition is not only very durable, but 
a:very cheap one, it costing less to erect buildings 
out of this material than from the commonest kind of 
brick. A roadway, plastered with this material, be-
comes a smooth solid flooring of rock in about ten 
days. 
Tradition and Scripture. 
The talented author of '' Caution for the Times," 
illustrates the uncertainty of tradition compared with 
Scripture, by putting this familiar case : " A foot-
man brings you a letter from a friend upon whose 
word yon can perfectly rely, giving an account of 
something that has happened to himself, and the ex-
act account of which you are greatly concerned to 
know. While you are reading and answering the 
letter, the footman goes into the kitchen and there 
gives your cook an account of the same thing, which 
he says he heard the tipper servants at home talking 
over, as related by the valet, who said he had it from 
your friend's son's own lips. The cook retails the 
story to your groom, and he, in turn, tells you. 
Would you judge of that story by the letter." The 
Bible shows how rapidly tradition becomes untruth-
ful, from that passage in St. John where Jesus Christ 
said to Peter, in answer to his question, what John 
should do (21:22), " If I will that he tarry till I 
come, what is that to thee Then went this saying 
abroad among the brethren " (oral tradition), " that 
that disciple should not die." Christ also says, 
" Thus have ye made the commandment of God of 
none effect by your traditions." Prot. Epis• 
Never get Angry. 
It does no good. Some sins have a seeming com-
pensation or apology, a present gratification of some 
sort ; but auger has none. A man feels no better for 
it. It is really a torment ; and when the storm of 
passion has cleared away, it leaves one to see that he 
has been a fool ; and has made himself a fool in the 
eyes of others, too. Who thinks well of an ill-na-
tured man, whit has to be approached in the most 
guarded and cautious way 1 Who wishes biro for a 
neighbor, or a partner in business I He keeps all 
about him in the same state of mind as if they were 
living next to a hornet's nest or a rabid animal. 
And as to prosperity in business, one gets along no 
better for geting angry. What if business is perplex-
ing, and everything " goes by contraries." will a fit of 
passion make the winds more propitious, the grounds 
more productive, the markets more favorable I Will 
a bad temper draw customers, pay notes, and make 
creditors better natured ? An angry man adds noth-
ing to the welfare of society. Since, then, anger 
is useless, necdiess, disgraceful, without the least 
apology, and found only " in the bosom of fools," 
why should it be indulged at all ? 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since Mardi, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its More 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and au exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live-The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; iu which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all men a thitliful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the liens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
front the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, front the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. V., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief- 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" "The sec-
ond woe Is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly "-Rev 
11:14-the time in which we may look for tine crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
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tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
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every man's conscience in the sight of Goo. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re- 
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures 
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Ric"ford, V t -S. Ii. Goff. 
Providence, R. I-A. Pierce. 
Rochester, N. Y.—Wm. Busby, 
Philadelphia, Pa.-J. Litch, 704 
Portland, Me-Wm. Pettingill. 
Salem, Klass.-L. Oster. 
Toronto, C. W.-D. Campbell. 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. - R. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, OCT. 23, 1852. 
NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, : A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.'"-Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single-
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. for each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
This is the title Ufa pamphlet published at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following-ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Vial.-16:17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17:1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylon.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial-
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decem-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon-
worship is common to those three religions-that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Deut. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon-that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God-that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
New Works to be out the 1st of Jan. 
lot. MILLER'S LIFE-in one volume. 
2d. AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE-in one vol. 
These are now in preparation fur the press, and will be 
snore particularly noticed hereafter. 
The Life of Mr. MILLER was commenced two years since, 
and would have been completed then, "but Satan hindered 
us."-1 These. 2:18. We hope now to be able to complete 
it without interruption. Those who sent in money for it then, 
which has not since been appropriated by them, to other ob-
jects, and received the first number, will be entitled to the 
entire volume, the same as if the first number had not been 
sent. Its price cannot be now determined. It will probably 
be somewhere'from $1 to $1,25. 
The Exposition of the Apocalypse will contain about 400 
pages. Price, 50 cts. This is nearly through the press. 
Orders May be sent in for both of the above works. 
 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
To Correspondents. 
G. Arthur-Some one has misinformed you. We have 
never refused to give the appointments of brethren laboring 
with us in the Advent cause. On the contrary, we have, 
time and again, given those of persons who employed the in-
fluence we thus gave them by joining with opposers, to de-
stroy the Herald, and disaffect the brethren. No money was 
ever received for the insertion of appointments, or offered, to 
our recollection. The epithets of " popery," "yokes," " op-
t- ression," &c., &c., that certain persons are industriously 
using, will be understood and appreciated by our friends. 
Those who deal in such phrases,are generally the most wor-
thy of them. "None of these things move us." They only 
afford us an opportunity for the exercise of patience, and to 
glorify God in the "furnace." They cannot heat it hotter 
than God pleases. We desire to exercise none but Christian 
feelings towards those who so cruelly assail, and attempt to 
destroy our usefulness. 
J. v. H. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE.-At length the door is open for me 
to visit New Hampshire a few weeks. I shall begin at Lake 
Village, as Bro. Franklin and Elder Smith may arrange. I 
hope to see a full representation of the brethren and sisters, 
as well as the public. 
Other notices hereafter. I shall be glad to hear from any 
and all who wish my labors, especially the destitute and poor. 
Address me at Boston, or Lake Village, N. H., after the 
25th inst. 
M A IN E.-I shall hold three conferences in Maine as soon 
as I have finished my tour in New Hampshire, at which I 
hope to see a general rally of the friends of the cause. 
I shall not forget the West, or the North. Be patient, 
brethren. 
J. v. H. 
OUR Tot, R .-We returned home on Monday last in good 
health. This tour has been one of our best visits among the 
brethren. Our -reception was more cordial, if possible, than 
at any former time. The brethren and friends will please 
accept our hearty thanks for their liberality. Notice of the 
tour next week. 
J. V. H. 
ADVENT BOOKS.-The Advent Harp, Hymn Books, the 
American Vocalist, &c., may be obtained at the store of \V. 
WOOD & CO., Rock Island, C. E. 
Advent books can also be obtained of Dr. R. HUTCHIN-
SON, at Watei loo, C. E. 
Bro. C. B. Turner's Case. 
It will be gratifying to the friends of Bro. Turner, to hear 
that his health is a little improved-that after having his lips 
sealed for nearly a year, he is now able to converse in a low 
tone. His lunge are evidently much improved, and his 
strength considerably increased. I called upon him at Brook-
lyn on his return from Newport, and found him anxious to get 
to a more genial climate as soon as possible. He wishes to 
go to the south of Europe, or to a dry and warm climate in 
our own country. He found the winter in Savannah, Ga., 
too damp, and thinks his lungs did not improve till the win-
ter was past ; he would therefore prefer Tennessee, or the 
south of Europe. If Bro. Turner could be helped to go at 
once, there is much reason to believe that his life might be 
prolonged for years ; but if he is compelled to struggle 
against the cold, moist, changeable climate of our winters, 
there is little hope of him. 
Will not our brethren and sisters, and readers of the Her-
ald, contribute at once to aid Bro. Turner 1 "All things 
whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even 
so to them." " I was sick, and ye ministered unto me." 
Whatever is done, should be done promptly as possible, 
and may all act in view of Christ's words just quoted. Re-
mittances should be sent directly to Elder C. B. Turner, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., or to the Herald office, if more convenient. 
L. D. MANSFIELD, 
Oct. nth. 
199 West 15th street, N. Y. 
PS. I would remind the churches which have omitted the 
quarterly contributions for disabled ministers, that this case 
furnishes the opportunity to begin the good work. I should 
not omit to say, that Bro. Turner feels profoundly grateful for 
the kindness and liberality of the brethren heretofore. 
[Bro. C. B. Turner's case is- well known, and requires 
nothing additional to be said ; yet if anything we might say 
would be of any service in prompting the liberality of the 
friends, it should be promptly added.-EDs.] 
Emigration from Ireland. 
The Clare Journal thus mourns over the exodus of the Ir-
ish :--‘, All parties among us are seemingly turning their 
faces to the West-the home beyond the deep. Old, middle-
aged, and young, are on the move, leaving the old country, 
where there seems to be no hope, for the young, where hope 
is building with the certainty, in their imagination, of bear-
ing good fruit. It is really distressing to contemplate the 
changes that a few years will effect in old Ireland if the de-
sire for leaving that now agitates the people shall continue. 
Before this period of the year until the present, all idea of 
leaving for America was deferred until ' spring returned 
again.' The season for emigration closed at the beginning 
of our harvest, and the people never thought of facing the 
wintry blast before the coming spring ; but now, spring, 
moonier, and autumn, are alike. The streets are daily 
crowded by families on the move. It seems to them as if 
they had only to travel a hundred miles, instead of thousands. 
And why is this 1 There is now one great inducement in 
addition to that which before induced them, and that is, their 
people are there before them. The old-remembered faces 
that disappeared a few months since are waiting, with the 
blush of hope, to assist them to leap ashore on the land of 
their adoption, and to sleep once more under the same roof 
with son, or daughter, that they never hoped to see on this 
side the grave. This is now a great cause for the long-con-
tinned stream of emigration. Yesterday, nearly the entire 
day, the street was crowded with cars, waiting for families 
to complete their arrangements with the emigration agent. 
They are gone, and the numbers are sufficient to leave a 
blank in the parish where they resided, that will not be ea-
sily filled." 
A Strange Playmate. 
A few days since a lady of our town narrated to us the fol-
lowing curious incident, which she derived from a near rela-
tive, the mother of a bright little boy not a year old. The 
child was one day seated near the edge of a porch, a table-
spoon with which to amuse itself being placed in its hand. 
Alter a short time the mother happened to look toward the 
babe, and perceived that it was leaning over the porch, and 
cautiously extending the spoon toward the ground, and then 
suddenly withdrawing it, with a hearty laugh each time that 
it drew its hand back. This manoeuvre the infant repeated 
frequently ; its mother, supposing it to be playing with a kit-
ten, paid no particular attention to it for the moment. At 
length, the child's frequent burst of laughter, and its pro-
longed enjoyment of the sport in which it was engaged, in-
duced her to approach and look over its shoulders to see what 
it was that excited its glee so much. Great was herastonish-
ment and horror on observing that the playmate of her little 
boy during all this time, had been a large and dangerous 
snake, which, with mouth gaped widely open, and protruding 
tongue, was coiled up in the attitude peculiar to that reptile 
when about to strike, and had been darting at the spoon (it 
is supposed in play) each time when extended toward it. 
The mirth of the infant was created by success in baffling 
the attempt of the reptile to reach its plaything. The 
alarmed mother, not daring to leave the spot, hurriedly called 
her husband, who succeeded in approaching the serpent and 
dispatching it with an axe.-Madison County (Mo.) Record. 
Catholic Prisons. 
A writ of habeas corpus was recently obtained by the bro-
ther of a young girl in the " House of the Good Shepherd," 
a Catholic institution for female penitents in St. Louis, on 
the ground that she was detained there against her will ; and 
she was brought before Judge Colvin ;111,1 discharged. Ac-
cording to the girl's testimony, she was hired by a lady 
dressed in black to sew and take care of a child ; and that 
she was taken to the convent, where she was detained a 
year or more against her will. The brother states that he 
made search for her, supposing she was dead. He called 
several times at the convent, and its inmates denied that the 
girl was there. It appears, then, that compulsory imprison-
ment in convents is practised in this country ; but we are 
thankful that the writ of habeas corpus is secured to us by the 
Constitution. The " lady in black " ought to be prosecuted 
for kidnapping and false imprisonment.-N. Y. Observer. 
THE THIRD CUBAN EXPEDITION.-According to the 
following dispatch in the N. V. Express, the third Cuban ex-
pedition already has an existence. The Government is in-
formed that there are enrolled in New York 20,000 men and 
boys for a new foray upon Cuba, whose haunts and places of 
rendezvous are well known, and of whose movements and 
intentions the Government is well informed. Dispatches 
have gone from Washington to the officers of the Govern-
ment in New York, for a complete and effectual execution of 
the neutrality laws, and for obedience to all our treaty obliga-
tions, and to the law of nations. The Collector of the Port 
and the United States District Attorney must have such dis-
patches by to-morrow morning (the 16th). The movements 
of the U. S. ship of war in New York have reference to the 
execution of our own law, as well as the enforcement of trea-
ties with Cuba. The President will do his duty, and his 
whole duty, without fear or favor. The U. S. army and 
navy forces in New York will probably be put under the or-
der of the U. S. District Attorney, if they are deemed neces-
sary for the enforcement of our laws. 
SUMMARY. 
- The deaths by yellow fever at Charleston, for the 
week ending the 9th instant, were thirty-eight. There were 
seven deaths on Monday, and five on Tuesday. 
- A boy, ten years of age, was caught between a 
steamboat and a wharf at Sag Harbor 011 the 12th, and com-
pletely jammed to pieces, so that there was not a whole bone 
left in him. 
- On the 9th inst. a lad eight years of age, son of Mr. 
Armstrong, while holding his ear to one of the rails of the 
Old Colony track, in Washington Village, (it is supposed to 
hear the rumbling of distant trains,) was struck in the head 
and instantly killed. 
- A welsh paper relates, that some time since a swarm 
of bees entered the brew-house of an inn at Llandaff, and the 
queen bee got into the vat, which had jest been filled with 
boiling liquor. The other bees followed their queen, and not 
one of the swarm escaped destruction. 
- At Lynnfield, on the 12th, Mr. Charles Doherty, of 
Lynn, while engaged in sinking a well, fell from the top to 
the bottom, head foremost. When taken out he was alive, 
though seriously injured, and was conveyed to his home. Al-
though a pile of stones fell previously, a nun who was at the 
bottom, stoning the well, escaped with but very slight injury. 
- The weather was freezing cold on Saturday last, the 
thermometer indicating a temperature of 32, with a sharp 
wind. There was a smart slimy-storm in New Hampshire 
on Friday. The Concord Patriot of last evening says :-
" We learn that six inches of snow fell at Nashua on Friday 
morning. The first up train of cars were completely covered 
when they arrived in Concord, though no snow fell here." 
- A day or two since, a horse in the neighborhood of 
" Hard Dig " was grazing beside a wall, over which was 
hanging a sharp scythe, and, unfortunately, on raising his 
head, he came in contact with it, asd before lie could clear 
himself a gash was opened in his neck of some eighteen 
inches in length. He was so badly cut, that he lived but a 
short time after the accident.-New Bedford Standard. 
- A tailor by the natne of Stevens, residing :it Ballard 
Vale, was instantly killed about 7 o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, while attempting to cross .the track of the Boston and 
Maine Railroad, near the station-house at Ballard Vale, by 
the outward express train. Mr. Stevens evidently supposed 
that he had time to cross the track by running, but was 
struck by the engine, and was picked up after the train had 
passed, in a horribly mutilated condition. 
- On Saturday night last, a man named Lincoln, was 
bitten in a frightful manner by a watch dog kept in the jew-
ellery store of Messrs. Harding & Co., Court-square. Mr. 
Lincoln, supposing that he was at the door of Gibbs' Hotel, 
raised the latch of Messrs. Harding & Co.'s shop-door, 
which happened to be unlocked-some persons being at work 
in the store. The moment he opened the door, the dog 
sprung upon him, seized his leg, and actually bit a mouthful 
from his left calf. The wound was an awful one, and the 
suffering mats was conveyed to the watch-house, where doc-
tors were called to attend him. 
- A most singular and fatal accident occurred to a 
child of Mr. Washington F. Robinson, of this city, on the 
11th. Mr. Robinson had drawn out the child, a little rising 
one year old, in a baby-wagon, to the bridge over the railroad 
track in the neighborhood of Hale's Mills, where lie resided, 
and left it for a moment to converse with a friend. It is 
supposed the wind started the carriage to near the edge of 
the bridge, whop one wheel fell into a hole between the 
planking, pitching the child over the edge on to the ground 
below, breaking its neck, and instantly killing it.-Lowell 
News. 
We learn, says the Meredith Bridge (N. H.) Demo-
crat, that the body of Mr. George McDuffie, of Alton. who 
had been missing for several days, was found in Rand's Cove, 
about forty rods from the depot at Alton Bay, on the 11th 
inst. Mr. McDuffie had come of that place to visit the Fair. 
He left home on Wednesday night, and had not been heard 
from. Search was made on Sunday and Monday, when he 
was found as above stated. The body was lying in water 
six or eight feet in depth, and some ten or twelve rods from 
shore. His pocket-book was lying on shore within a foot of 
the water, with money in it. There was a scar over the left 
eye. Mr. McD. was about fifty years of age, 
- A correspondent of the Traveller gives the follow-
ing additional particulars in regard to the late bloody tragedy 
at Natick. While several young men were engaged in pick-
ing chestnuts on Monday, near the spot where Casey, the 
supposed murderer of the Taylors, was arrested, they dis-
covered in a hollow tree a bloody shirt, which doubtless be-
longs to him. This, I believe, is the only thing in addition 
to the evidence already before the public, that has come to 
light, which seems to have any bearing on the case. The 
house where the murder was committed is now unoccupied ; 
the ffirniture has been all removed ; and the flaw orphan 
children are living with their grandf4ther in Sherburne. 
They have been left entirely destitute, and are most truly ob-. 
jeers of commiseration and charity. 
- The Austin Southwestern (Texas) American of the 
20th tilt., has the official account of Capt. Owen Shaw, of 
the Texas Rangers, directed to the Governor of Texas, of a 
severe fight between his command and a party of Indians. 
The dispatch is dated " Camp Bee, fifteen miles above Lt-
redo, Sept. 22d." The fight took place on the 17th. The 
Indians numbered nineteen men and two women ; of this 
number but one certainly escaped. Nine were killed on the 
ground, and the remainder were desperately wounded. Among 
the articles captured, were twenty-three horses and mules, 
with saddles, Mexican blankets, arms, &c. The rout of the 
enemy was complete and disastrous. One horse wounded 
was the only damage to Capt. Shaw's command. 
- A remarkable number of accidents, says the Cincin-
nati Gazette, have taken place within a district seine six or 
eight miles square, lying in the north-east corner of Hamilton 
comity, 0., in the last few months. Among the number are 
the following more serious ones :-A man named Hopkins, 
iving on a farm near Sharonville, cut his knee with a scythe, 
and died from the effects of the wound. A young man named 
Beeler, residing near the same place, was sawing wood with 
The Post-office address of Elder J. HOWELL is 1 lymouth Hollow, 
C01111. 
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a machine, when the saw bursted, and mangled him severely. 
A man named Logan Most his arm by having it caught in a 
threshing-machine. His brother-in-law bad a large portion 
of flesh torn from an arm :about the same time by a similar 
accident. David Rosa, living near Montgomery, teas chop-
ping in the woods, when a limb fell from a tree, and so se-s 
verely injured him that he died the next morning. Truly, 
we know not what a day may bring forth. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Oct. number (No. 6, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
little nionthly paper is now out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chaps. 6, 7.) Whaling Adventures. 
A Child's Influence. A Painful Story. 
A Drop. 
The Snake and the Crocodile. 
Drowning the Squirrel. The Human Voice. 
For Parents. 
Safe to Do Right. 
Large Plates of Glass. A Metrical Grammar of the Eng- 
Tricks of Animals. 
fish Language. 
Work hard. 
Engaging Manners, &c. 
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NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes 
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they cannot be inserted until the lifIlowing week. 
I will preach at South Berwick, Me., Tuesday evening, Oct. 26 ; 
New Durham Ridge, 27th arid 28th ; Portsmouth, 29th ; Rye Beach, 
Sabbath, 31st-will some brother call or send for me at the Green-
land depot, on the arrival of the second train of cars front Ports-
mouth, Oct. 30th ? Abington, Mass., Sabbath, Nov. 7th.-N. BIL-
LINGS. 
Bro. Edwin Bomb um will preach in Hopeville, R. I •, the first 
two Sabbaths in November, 1). V. 
Bro. Orrock will preach in Melbourne Nov. 13th, evening, and 
Sunday, 19th. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Hampton, Sunday, Oct. 24th ; 
Concord, Sunday, 31st; Claremont, Nov. 2d, evening. 
L. D. THOMCSCN. 
I will preach at Cabot, Vt., evening of Oct. 20th, rind continue 
over the Sabbath.-J. 51. ORROCK. 
If the Lord will, there will be a conference in the brick meeting-
house in Bowdoinhani Ridge, Me., to commence Thursday even-
ing, Oct. 28th, and hold over the Sabbath. Brn. Berick and Couch 
are expected to attend.-GEo. W