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" press his suit." He was greatly distressed, 
—the world was all going wrong, and he had 
been called to hear a large share in the work of 
its reformation. But his brethren did not think 
him qualified ! Strange stupidity, thought he, 
but it must be overcome—they must be enlight-
ened in the matter—hence he-asked for an op-
portunity to preach, that they might hear and 
judge for themselves. The request was granted 
—the appointment made—and at length the 
day, 
" Big with the fate of Caesar and of Rome," 
arrived, when he was to preach his first sermon. 
My God! My God ! 
The congregation assembled, and the preacher 
(that was to be) ascended the pulpit. He went 
through the preliminary services—took his text 
—uttered some half dozen sentences—and—
and—stopped short off. There he stood—and 
there sat the congregation. • He looked implor-
ingly at them, and they looked quizzically at 
him. He turned his eyes toward the ceiling, 
but saw no relief. He scratched his head—but 
caught no idea. Then having nothing else to 
" poke out," he poked out his tongue, but this 
did not relieve him. The suspense was becom-
ing painful—he saw it, aye and felt it also ; at 
INRI 
lastin a most lugubrious tone he drawled out—
" Bruthren, of enny ov you thinks it's an easy 
matter to preach, jest come up here an try." 
Reader, make the application. Just such an 
one as suits your own notions, and we will be 
satisfied with it. 
Nature has her best mode for doing every-
thing, and has somewhere told it. Use has 
made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen 
learns to take his counsel. You must expect 
seed of the same kind you sow. 
vers of my tears, 
A Curious Piece of Antiquity, on the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the Two Thieves. 
"BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON." 
PSALM CXXXVI I . 
BY FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 
We sat us down and wept, 
Where Babel's waters slept, 
And we thought of home and Zion as a long-gone, happy dream; 
We hung our harps in air 
On the willow boughs, which there 
Gloomy as round a sepulchre. were drooping o'er the stream. 
The foes, whose chain we wore, 
Were with us on that shore, 
Exulting in our tears, that told the bitterness of woe ; 
"Sing us," they cried aloud, 
"Ye, once so high and proud, 
The songs ye sang in Zion ere we laid her glory low." 
And shall the harp of heaven 
To Judah's monarch given 
Be touched by captive fingers, or grace a fettered hand ? 
No! sooner be my tongue, 
Mute, powerless, unstrung, 
Than its words of holy music make glad a stranger land. 
May this right hand, whose skill 
Can wake the harp at will, 
And bid the listener's joys or griefs in light or darkness come, 
Forget its godlike power, 
If for one brief, dark hour, 
My heart forgets Jerusalem, fallen city of my home! 
Daughter of Babylon ! 
Blessed be that chosen one, 
• Whom God shall send to smite thee when there is none to savei: 
He from the mother's breast 
Shall pluck the babe at rest, 
And lay it in the sleep of death beside its father's grave. 
Too Good to Lose. 
Our worthy neighbor, the editor of the " St. 
Louis Christian Advocate," relates the follow-
ing anecdote, which will fit in more latitudes 
than one : 
Editing a Paper.—Did you ever know a sub-
scriber to a public paper who did not think he, 
or she, as the case might be, could improve said 
paper a little—just a little ? In their estima-
tion it would be an excellent paper if a little 
more of this, or a little less of that were in it 
For the benefit of all persons who may be dis-
posed to think that we might do a little better 
than what we do—as, no doubt, we might in 
some cases at least, we beg leave to relate the 
following anecdote : 
Some years ago it fell to our lot to travel a 
district, part of which lay in South Carolina, 
contiguous to a district in the South Carolina 
Conference, of which Dr. Wightman, the pres-
ent editor of the " Southern Christian Advo-
cate," had charge. It so happened that on Bro. 
Wightman's side of the line ther ewas a zealous 
sort of brother, who had a wonderful "taking on" 
about preaching, not doubting that he was 
called to the work, and was fully competent to 
its performance. His brethren, however, did 
not happen to coincide with his views. This 
was rather a damper—but satisfied that the mis-
take was in them, not himself, he continued to 
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The middle cross represents our Saviour ; those on either side the two Thieves. On the left of the top and down the cross, are 
our Saviour's expressions, My God! My God ! why hast thou forsaken me ? And on the top of the cross is the following Latin 
inscription: INRI—JesusNazarerms, Rex Judeorum, i. e., Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Upon the cross on the right hand, 
is the prayer of one of the Thieves, Lord ! remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. On the left hand cross, is the say-
ing or reproach of the other, If thou beest the Christ, save thyself and us. The whole comprised together, makes an excellent piece 
of poetry, which is to be read across all the columns, and make as many lines as there are letters in the alphabet. It is perhaps one 
of the most curious pieces of composition to be found on record. 
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EXPLANATION. 
 
 
258 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
(Por the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No XXVIL—ROME TO FLORENCE. 
Tuesday the 2d of July, at about 6 r. 
we took, our place in the Malle Poste for Flor-
ence, which was standing in the carriage-house 
in the rear of the Post Office. The baggage 
and mail had been previously deposited ; the 
horses were then attached, we were dragged 
out and commenced our journey. The Malle 
Poste is a stout-built carriage with only one 
apartment for passengers, which resembles the 
coupe of a diligence, having but one seat facing 
the horses and with glass windows in front and 
at the sides. Outside in front is a seat for the 
conductor. The team of four horses with bells 
attached is managed by a postilion in uniform 
mounted on the rear leader, who improves ev-
ery opportunity to magnify his office. The 
whole establishment when in motion, presents 
quite an animating spectacle—the horses dash-
ing off at full speed, bells jingling merrily, the 
postilion in his gay costume with a feather in 
his hat, bobbing up and down, flourishing his 
whip, and vociferating at the horses. As there 
is room for only three passengers inside, an 
early application is necessary to secure a seat. 
We had secured ours a week before-hand by 
registering our names and paying half the fare. 
. We stopped at the " Porta del Popolo," to 
have our papers examined by the officer of the 
guard, and an additional impression of the mi-
tre and keys stamped upon them, and after trav-
elling some distance upon a straight and dusty 
road, shut in by the high walls of villas and 
gardens on each side, we at length came out 
into the more open country. We cross the 
Tiber (which separated Etruria from Latium) 
by the Ponte Molle a modern bridge, built on 
the foundation of the Pons Milvins. Here it 
was that Cicero arrested the ambassadors of 
the Allobroges at the dead of night, on their 
way to Cataline with letters concerning the con-
spiracy. Here was fought the celebrated bat-
tle between Constantine and Maxentius, which 
Raphael has represented on the walls of the 
Vatican. Here while addressing his troops be-
fore the battle, Constantine saw the cross in the 
heavens, with the inspiring motto " In hoc signo 
winces." 
From the parapet of this bridge the 
body of Maxentius was precipitated into the Ti-
ber. Then the air resounded with the shrill 
clangor of trumpets, the clashing of steel, the 
shouts and yells of combatants, the frequent 
splash of horse and rider falling heavily into the 
stream below, till the " yellow Tiber" was red 
with blood. Now, how calm and peaceful the 
scene ! 
The shades of evening gather around us, as 
we wind over the undulating surface of the 
Campagna, from one elevation after another, 
taking our farewell view of the towers and cu-
polas of Rome. A feeling of unutterable sad-
ness spreads over my soul as I think of the de-
parted glory of the " Eternal City," the " mis-
tress of the world ;" and involuntarily I repeat 
the plaintive strains of the " Roman girl's song." 
" Rome,! Rome ! thou art no more 
As thou hast been ! 
On thy seven hills of yore, 
Thou satst a queen. 
Thou hadst thy triumphs then, 
Purpling the street ; 
Leaders and sceptered men 
Bowed at thy feet. 
They that thy mantle wore 
As gods were seen— 
Rome ! Rome! thou art no more 
As thou bast been ! 
Rome ! thine imperial brow 
Never more shall rise. 
What hast thou left thee now? 
Thou bast thy skies ! 
Blue, deeply blue, they are, 
Gloriously bright! 
Veiling thy wastes afar, 
With colored light. 
Thou hast the sunset's glow, 
Rome, for thy dower, 
Flushing tall cypress bough, 
Temple and tower. 
Yet wears thy Tiber's shore 
A mournful mien :— 
Rome! Rome! thou art no more 
As thou bast been." 
We pass through La Storta, and enter upon 
a country which bears marks of volcanic action. 
An extinct crater in the vicinity of Baccano con-
tains a sulphurous pool, which sends forth ex-
halations that impregnate the whole atmosphere. 
The night air is heavy with pestilential vapors. 
We close the windows and muse in silence 
upon the dire malaria that infests this region. 
At Moriterosi we leave the Camarca (or prov-
ince) of Rome, and enter upon the Delegation 
of Viterbo. From the next post, Ronciglione, 
we begin to ascend the steep volcanic hill 
of Monte Cimino, the classical Ciminus, whose 
dense forests served as a barrier to Etruria 
against Rome for so many ages. The road 
skirts the eastern margin of the Lago di Vico, 
or Lacus Cimini, of which Virgil speaks, 
" Et Cimini cum monte lacum "— 
The lake is about three miles in circumference, 
and has all the appearance of a crater Ancient 
writers say that it was caused by a sudden sink- 
ing, during which a city called Succinium was 
swallowed up, and that when the water was 
clear, the ruins of this city might be seen at the 
bottom of the lake. We reach the summit of 
the mountain at L' Imposta and then descend 
to Viterbo, which we enter about daylight. We 
read in our hand-books that " it is called by the 
old Italian writers the city of handsome fountains 
and beautiful women." 
So we strain our eyes, 
as we pass within the frowning battlements and 
roll through the narrow and dirty streets, to see 
if we can discover anything to justify the ap- 
pellation. At some of the corners groups of 
sleepy-looking dolphins or dragons appear, la- 
zily spouting streams of water, but the " beau-
tiful women " are no where to be seen. We 
take a cup of coffee with our conductor at the 
Post Office, and fall back upon the historical 
associations of the place for our interest. 
VITERBO is the capital of one of the most ex-
tensive delegations of the Papal states, the seat 
of a bishopric and the residence of the delegate. 
Its population is about 13,000. It is surrounded 
by walls and towers built chiefly by the Lom- 
bard kings. It is supposed to occupy tne site 
of the ancient Farnum Voltumme, where the 
Etruscan cities held their general assemblies. 
In the 13th century it was the residence of sev-
eral Popes and the scene of numerous conclaves 
of the Sacred College. Six Popes were elected 
here. 
The CATHEDRAL dedicated to San Lorenzo is 
a Gothic edifice, built, as supposed, on the site 
of a temple of Hercules. It was at the high 
altar of this Cathedral that Prince Henry of 
England was murdered by Guy de Montfort in 
revenge for the death of his father Simon de 
'Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who was killed in 
1265 at the battle of Evesham fighting against 
Henry 111. At Evesham the body of the Earl 
was dragged in the dust by the royalists. His 
son Guy de Montfort was present, and vowed 
vengeance against the king and his family for 
this outrage. No opportunity occurred for sev-
eral years ; but at length an accidental visit to 
this city, threw one of the young Princes of 
England in his way, on his return from the 
crusades. While the young Prince was kneel-
ing at the altar during the celebration of mass, 
Guy de Montfort rushed upon him and ran him 
through with his sword. The Prince instantly 
expired, and the murderer walked out of the 
church unmolested. He said to his attendants 
at the door, " I have been avenged." " How?" 
said one of them, " was not. your father dragged 
in the dust ?" At these words he returned to 
the altar, seized the body of the Prince by the 
hair and dragged it into the public square. He 
then fled and took refuge in the Maremma. 
The Cathedral is also memorable for another 
historical incident. It was in its piazza (or 
square) that Adrian IV., the only Englishman 
that ever wore the tiara, compelled Frederick 
Barbarossa, Emperor of Germany, to humble 
himself in the presence of the papal and impe-
rial courts, by holding his stirrup while he dis-
mounted from his mule. 
Another post through a dreary and uninter-
esting country brings us to Montefiascone,—sit-
uated on an isolated hill, crowned by an old cas-
tle of the middle ages,—an episcopal town of 
4800 inhabitants, on the site of an ancient 
Etruscan city. The Cathedral with its octago-
nal cupola has an imposing air. The church 
of San Flaviano near the gate has a singular 
monument in its subterranean chapel, in memo-
ry of Bishop Johann Fugger of Augsburg. The 
bishop is represented lying on his tomb with 
two goblets on each side of his mitre and un-
der his arms. The following is his epitaph 
written by his valet : " Est, est, est. Propter 
ni2nium est, Joannes de Foucris, Dominus meus. 
mortuus est." It seems the bishop, while trav-
elling, was accustomed to send on his valet in 
advance, to ascertain whether the wines of the 
place were good, in which case he wrote on the 
walls the word " est " (itis, i. e., it is good.) At 
Montefiascone he was so well pleased with its 
sweet wines, that he wrote the word est three 
times—Est, est, est. The luxurious prelate 
drank so freely of the wine as to occasion his 
death. The best wine still bears the name of 
the fatal treble est. 
Leaving Montefiascone, we descend the hills 
of Bolsena through a wood, abounding in ma-
jestic oaks, formerly notorious for banditti. At 
frequent intervals we have exquisite views of 
the Lake of Bolsena, a beautiful expanse of wa-
ter about twenty-six miles in circumference. 
The surrounding country slopes gradually to 
the water and is in a high state of cultivation. 
But not a single human habitation meets the 
eye of the traveller. Not a single sail ruffles 
the placid surface of the lake. He wonders at 
the universal solitude that reigns, until he learns 
that the treacherous beauty of the lake conceals 
malaria in its most fatal forms. The laborers 
dare not sleep for a single night in the plains 
where they work by day. 
Two small islands in the lake are visible 
from the road, the largest called Bisentina, and 
the smallest Martana. The latter is memora- 
ble as the scene of the imprisonment and mur-
der of Amalasontha, Queen of the Goths, the 
only daughter of Theodoric, and the niece of 
Clovis. She was strangled in her bath A. D. 
535, by the order of her cousin Theodatus, 
whom she had raised to a share in the kingdom. 
Some steps in the rock are shown as the stairs 
which led to her prison. Pliny gives a descrip-
tion of this lake under the name of the Tar-
quinian lake, and an account of two floating 
islands on it. 
Bolsena is a small town on the margin of the 
lake, occupying the site of the Etruscan city of 
Volsinium. It is celebrated in the history of 
the Roman church, as the scene of the miracle 
of the wafer, which Raphael has immortalized 
by his representation on the walls of the Vati-
can. It is said to have taken place in the 
church of Santa Cristina in the year 1263. A 
Bohemian priest who doubted the doctrine of 
transubstantiation, was convinced by blood flow-
ing from the Host he was consecrating. 
Soon after leaving Bolsena we pass the ruined 
town of San Lorenzo Rovinato, ii. e., San Lo-
renzo ruined, surmounted by an old tower cov-
ered with ivy, a most romantic-looking ruin. 
The old town was abandoned on account of the 
malaria, and a new town, San Lorenzo Nuovo, 
i. e., San Lorenzo New, built on the brow of the 
hill by Pope Pius VI. at his own cost. This hill 
commands a fine view of the Lake of Bolsena, 
with its picturesque shores. 
Acquapendente, i. e., hanging water, so called 
from the number of cascades that dash over 
the precipitous mass of rock on which the town 
is situated, into the ravine below, is the last 
town in the Papal States. Our passports are 
again examined and sealed. We change car-
riages and couriers, and feel constrained to 
keep a vigilant watch over on our baggage dnring 
the operation, such a ruffian-looking set are 
standing around. The inn can furnish us noth-
ing better than coffee and eggs, on which we 
make a late breakfast. Our new courier en-
tertains us with stories of robberies recently 
committed in this neighborhood. Our Swedish 
companion examines his pistols, and is very 
much surprised to find that we have no arms 
with us. A long and winding descent amidst 
fine old oaks and terraces covered with vegeta-
tion, brings us to the river Paglia which we 
cross by the Ponte Gregoriano, and next arrive 
at Ponte Centino, the Papal frontier station and 
custom-house, where our passports and baggage 
are again examined. We cross the Elvella 
which separates the Papal States from Tus-
cany, and commence the long and tedious as-
cent of the mountain of Radicofani. We have 
now seven horses attached to our carriage, with 
two postilions to guide them. The sides of 
the mountain are covered with enormous frag-
ments of volcanic matter, and the whole aspect 
of the surrounding region is wild and dreary in 
the extreme. Far up the mountain is the vil-
lage surrounded by strong walls, and higher 
still upon the very summit of the cone, which 
is said to be 2,4'70 feet above the sea, is the 
ruined castle of Ghino di Tacco, the robber-
knight. 
At the Dogana by the road-side our baggage 
is again examined, our passports receive the 
endorsement " Visto buono per Firenze," i. e., 
"seen good for Florence," and the stamp Radi-
cofani, and over the whole to our admiring eyes 
the inscription " Gratis," showing most unmis-
takeably that we are in a new country, and im-
pressing us most deeply with a sense of the ex-
traordinary clemency and boundless generosity 
of his Excellency the Grand Duke of Tuscany. 
From Radicofani, a wild and dreary ride 
down the mountain to Ricorsi. Thence over 
bare and desolate clay hills to Poderina on the 
river Orcia. Next San Quirico with its Gothic 
church, the Chigi palace and an old square 
tower, of Roman origin. Thence over the hills, 
crossing the Asso and the Tuoma, to Torrinieri. 
Thence a continuous descent, crossing the Pe-
reta and the Serlate to Buonconvento situated 
near the junction of the Arbia and the Orn-
brone. The ancient castle here is infamous in 
Italian history as the scene of the death of the 
Emperor Henry VII. The Emperor was on 
his march toward Rome, in order to give battle 
to the Guelph party under Robert of Naples, 
when he stopped here to celebrate the feast of 
St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1313. He re-
ceived the communion from the hands of a Do-
minican monk and expired in a few hours, as 
is supposed from the effects of poison mixed in 
the consecrated cup. Night overtakes us still 
among these wild and dreary hills, till we enter 
the gate of Siena, and after threading its steep, 
narrow and irregular streets, find entertainment 
at the Aquila Nera, i. e., Black Eagle, at 10 
o'clock. 
SIENA is the ancient Sena Julia. In its re-
publican days it was the great rival of Florence, 
and could send an hundred thousand armed 
men out of its thirty-nine gates. Its commerce 
was extensive, the arts were encouraged, and it 
became the seat of a school of painting charac- 
terized by deep religious feeling and a peculiar 
beauty and tenderness of expression. It is still 
the chief city of one of the five Compartimenti 
of Tuscany, the seat of an Archbishop, a mili-
tary Governor, of a criminal tribunal and a civil 
Ruota. But only eight of its thirty-nine gates 
are now open. Its population has been reduced 
to 18,000, and in somequarters of the city grass 
is growing on the pavements. 
From Siena through C'astiglioncello, down 
the valley of the Staggia, through Poggibonsi, 
a manufacturing town with a palace belonging 
to the Grand Duke, through Tavernelle, San 
Casciano (in the neighborhood of which is the 
villa of Machiavelli) through a more pleasing 
country, the olive grounds and vineyards, and 
gardens becoming more numerous as we pro-
ceed, till the Arno greets our eyes, and after 
riding along its banks for a short distance we 
arrive at Florence, " Firenze la Bella," at 6 
o'clock in the morning of the 4th of July. 
S. J. DI. M. 
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Reformers Before the Reformation. 
GREET GROETE OF HOLLAND. 
We often look at the great Reformation of 
the sixteenth century, with which the name of 
Luther in the first moving and leading influ-
ence is connected, as an insulated event, with-
out tracing back events and agencies which 
preceded it, and contributed largely to its pro-
duction and results. In preceding centuries 
men appeared, of evangelical faith and devoted 
labors, amid toils and sufferings, who deserve 
to be held in everlasting remembrance. These 
have been termed " Reformers before the Re-
formation." 
Such were Wicliffe, termed the 
Morning Star of the Reformation in England ; 
John Huss, in Bohemia; Savonarola, in Italy, 
&c. In connection with the Reformation in the 
seven provinces of Holland, and in Western 
Germany, there were previous agencies, leav-
ing important and extensive effects which en-
tered as elements in the Reformation from 
Popery, to which but slight reference is found 
in our current ecclesiastical histories. A brief 
view of one of these is given in this paper, con-
densed from large details in works in the Dutch 
language. The labors of others, whose names 
are given near the close, and their bearing on 
the Reformation, may hereafter be furnished. 
An important association, bearing an unusual 
salutary influence upon the cause of popular 
education, as well as evangelical truth, in the 
Netherlands and Germany, was instituted in 
the fourteenth century, of a wholly philan-
thropic character, imbued will the pious spirit 
of its precursor and founder, the immortal Geert 
Groete (often termed Gerhardus Magnus) of 
Deventer. This association was termed " The 
Brethren of the Common Life " (Fratres com-
munis vita.) Geert or Gerhard Groete, was 
born at Deventer, in Holland, in 1340. Early 
cherishing the love of learning, he went to Paris, 
where he spent three years at the Sorbonne, re-
ceiving instructions from Peter D'Ailli and his 
celebrated pupil John Gerson, and evidencing a 
pious, devout spirit, exercised in the freeness 
and diligence of independent investigation, On 
his return he preached, as Tauler had done 
before him in Germany, in the mother vernac-
ular tongue. The concourse which resorted to 
him in Gelderland, Friesland, Utrecht, and 
Holland, was very great. No one who duly 
contemplates will fail to observe the influence 
connected with the extension of free popular in-
struction and the revival of literature in the 
Netherlands. The influence of the truths of 
Christianity on the minds of the people greatly 
increased, for which perhaps the translation of 
the Bible by Van Maerlant had in a measure 
prepared them. Groete translated several reli-
gious books from Latin into the Dutch for pop-
ular use. This excited the enmity and opposi-
tion of the mendicant friars and others, who ob-
tained an ecclesiastical edict against this. He 
was then led seriously to consider whether 
some other means could not be adopted for im-
proving the condition of the people, and also the 
ecclesiastics. The schools'which had in for 
mer generations been instituted had become 
useless by reason of the utter negligence and 
incapacity of the teachers. Groete, bewailing 
with deep sorrow the lamentably fallen state of 
the Chapter school at Deventer, felt himself ex-
cited to seek the revival and improvement of it, 
and diligently to labor for the successful ac-
complishment of it. His plans being maturely 
considered, and adequate means being obtained, 
he soon effected the desired end. Byb his great 
and increasing influence this school obtained 
such celebrity that it became the most distin-
guished, not only in the Netherlands, but in all 
Germany, whence youth of all ranks in large 
numbers resorted to it. It was conducted on 
such rules of order, adapted to the circurn-
stances of the times, as promised the happiest 
results if persevered in. That they were so 
observed, the onward history of this institution 
testifies. No school sent forth such eminent 
men in Church and State in succession as that 
of Deventer, particularly in the latter part of 
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the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth victuals whose names have just been stated may 
centuries, when one of her own pupils under be adverted to in another communication. A 
Groete, named Alexander Hegius, was called distinguished writer of the Church of Holland, 
to succeed him and preside over it. He con- in allusion to Groete and his successor, ob-
tinned for a length of years to give instruction serves : 
to hundreds and thousands by himself, and able " The great light of extended and revived 
persons associated with him. Among these pu- learning, especially as connected with popular 
pits were some who afterwards were distin- education, without which, humanly speaking, 
guished theologians of evangelical sentiments, the Reformation would not have taken place, 
and who may be fitly termed precussors of the was kindled by the little spark of fire which, 
Reformation ; Wessel Gansevoort at Gronin- elicited in the obscure place of Deventer, ap-
gen, Rudolph Agricola at Heidelberg, Nicholas peared to have little importance. The learned 
Delcusa, &c. 
Groete gained imperishable honor with pos- 
To the establishment and diffusion of this terity, greater honors than he could have gained 
system of school instruction, the religious soci- in any other relation and pursuit of life, for he 
ety before referred to of " the Brethren of the was the first restorer from their decayed state 
Common Life," formed by Geert Groete with of literature and true Christianity among us." 
the co-operation of his fellow citizen and friend, 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Florens Rodewyn, greatly contributed. This 
asssociation, renouncing the ordinay monastic 
vows, had some regulations peculiar to itself. 
They held a community of interests and goods 
It is a very great mistake (says the " Star in 
in a prescribed mode, whence they derived the 
name of the brethren "commuitis vitae." 
Old the West,") to suppose that the Bible has been 
 
and young of all ranks and conditions, ecclesi- mutilated by the hands of designing men. The 
astics and laity, who desired to live in pious 
and moral courses, and cultivate knowledge, 
were introduced into it. Houses for the ac-
commodation of males and females w re erect-
ed —frater-Isszysest and szater-huysen houses for 
the brethren and sisters. All were required to 
engage in active industry, dividing their time 
between the exercises of devotion, agricultural, 
mechanical, and household employments, and 
the cultivation of knowledge; and every one 
in his sphere was to bear a part in the great 
work of reviving science and practical piety. 
They were busily employed in the period just 
preceding the invention of printing, in multi-
plying manuscripts of translated works in the 
mother-tongue, or those newly prepared, and 
diffusing them among the people ; and after the 
invention of printing, promoting their publica-
tion and circulation. Their views in relation 
to the general circulation of the Bible, and the 
private perusal of it by the people, appear from 
the following short extract from one of their 
documents, wherein light shines amid the dark-
ness of prevailing Popery in that age : 
" We declare that the truth must be sought 
alone in and from the Holy Scriptures. They 
must be read with the same spirit in which 
they were written. We should for ourselves 
search in the Scriptures for that which will 
make us wise unto salvation, rather than for the 
entertainment of subtle reasoning. Men are 
fallible and perishing, but the truth of God en-
dures forever, and God speaks to us therefrom 
personally in various ways. Our vain curiosity 
is often a hindrance in the reading of Holy 
Scripture, as we aim fully to penetrate and 
comprehend what is beyond our reach, and 
which we should receive on the authority of 
God's Word alone. Do you desire to read the 
Word of God profitably ? read it for yourself 
with humility of spirit, simplicity of mind, and 
fidelity of application." 
The intolerant hatred of the monks and ec-
clesiastics was directed against this institution, 
attaching to it epithets of contempt, and oppos-
ing it vigorously. At last a public accusation 
was brought against the excellent Groete and 
this association before Pope Gregory XI. who, 
after an able and eloquent defence by his friend 
John Gerson, instead of condemning, yielded 
his approbation. This imparted new influence, 
and opened new avenues for the operations of 
this institution, which extended not only in the 
Netherlands, but in a considerable portion of 
Germany. Wherever they went they organ-
ized educational schools which obtained a high 
reputation, and from which proceeded those who 
were prominent in the succeeding revival of 
learning. Numerous such schools were spread, 
not only through the Netherlands, but through 
Westphalia, Saxony, &c. Groete died at the 
early age of forty-four, in 1384, succeeded in 
the school at Deventer, and at the head of the 
institution, by his friend Rodewyn. The school 
most famous next to that of Deventer was at 
Zuolle, in Holland. The celebrated Thomas a 
Kernpis, the author of the excellent work " On 
the Imitation of Christ," educated at Deventer, 
first officiated in the school there, and was 
called afterwards to preside over that of Zuolle. 
Under his instructions, and more particularly 
that of Alexander Hegius, his pupil and suc-
cessor at Deventer, were reared \Vessel Ganse-
voort, (often known as John Wesselius,) Pro-
fessor at Groningen, and Rudolph Agricola, 
Professor at Heidelberg, both of whom taught 
and explained the distinguishing evangelical 
doctrines, and sowed seed which bore fruit in 
the first impulse given to the Reformation by 
Luther. The celebrated Desiderius Erasmus, 
well known as an accomplished scholar, exert-
ing a powerful influence on the revival and 
promotion of literature, and in many ways, 
particularly by exposing the corruptions of the 
Church of Rome, proving an efficient pioneer 
in the great work of the Reformation in the six-
teenth century, was also a pupil of Hegius. 
The character and influence of the three indi- 
and effect only points of secondary importance, I day," Mr. Coan says, " we gained a more ele-
such as the insertion or omission of an article vated ridge, from which we could overlook a 
or a conjunction, the position of an adjective portion of the surrounding country ; arid to our 
before or after a substantive, or the greater or surprise we saw that the lava current had al-
less exactness of a grammatical construction.'" ready swept half through the forest towards 
Hilo, and was now exactly opposite to us on the 
left,, distant about six miles. The fiery flood 
Mauna Loa in Action, was rolling steadily onward, sweeping the trees 
before it, and sending up volume after volume 
of lurid smoke. Like an immense serpent it 
moved relentlessly along its sinuous way, over-
coming all obstacles, arid devouring all forms 
of life in its track." At this point Dr. Wet-
more determined to return to the station ; but 
Mr. Coan went forward. At the close of the 
next day he encamped on a hill, from which he 
had a noble view of Mauna Kea, robed in its 
hoary mantle, and Mauna Loa, vomiting out 
floods of liquid fire. " All night," he says, 
" we watched the fantastic play of these fires, 
and listened to their unearthly sounds, with the 
exception of occasional dozings, which nature 
would have." At noon of the following day 
Mr. Coan came to a tract of scoria, " intolera-
bly sharp and jagged ;" and the remainder of 
his route lay over fields of lava of indescribable 
roughness, and through awful ravines or pits, 
&c. ; so that it was not till half past three 
o'clock in the afternoon that he came to the cra-
ter, and "stood alone in the light of its fires." 
A NEAR VIEW OF THE CRATER. 
" It was a moment of unutterable interest. 
I seemed to be before the burning throne of the 
Eternal ; and I felt that, while every other 
sound was hushed, he alone spake. I was ten 
thousand feet above the sea, in a vast solitude 
untrodden by the foot of man or beast, and amid 
a silence unbroken by the voice of any created 
being. Here I stood, almost blinded by the in-
sufferable brightness, almost deafened by the 
clangor of this fearful trumpet, and almost pet-
rified by the terrific scene. The heat was so 
intense that the crater could not be approached 
within forty or fifty yards from the windward 
side ; and probably it would not. have been safe 
to go within two miles of it from the leeward. 
" The eruption, as before stated, commenced 
on the very summit of the mountain ; but the 
central pressure became so great as to force it- 
self through a depression in the side, cracking 
and rending the mighty mass all the way from 
the summit to the point where it burst forth. 
The mountain seemed to be siphunculated, the 
fountain for fusion being elevated some three 
thousand feet above this lateral crater; and be-
ing pressed down an inclined subterranean tube, 
the lava was ejected with such power as to 
throw it from one hundred to five hundred feet 
in the air. 
" I approached as near as I could bear the 
heat, and stood amidst the ashes, cinders, sco- 
ria, and pumice, which were scattered widely 
and wildly around. There had been already 
formed a rim of from one hundred to two hun- 
dred feet in height, surrounding the orifice in the 
form of a truncated hollow cone, perhaps half a 
mile in circumference at its base, and three 
hundred feet in diameter at the top. From 
this horrid throat vast and continuous columns 
of red-hot and white-hot matter were ejected, 
with a voice which was almost deafening, and 
a force which threatened to rend the rocky ribs 
of old Mauna Loa. The sounds often seemed 
deep, subterranean, and infernal ; first a rum- 
bling, muttering, hissing, with deep and pre-
monitory surging; and then an awful explosion, 
like the roar of broad-sides in a battle at sea, 
or the quick discharge of park after park of ar-
tillery on the field of carnage. Sometimes the 
sound resembled that of ten thousand furnaces 
in full blast ; sometimes it was like the rattling 
fire of a regiment of small arms ; some'imes 
like the roar of the ocean along a rock-bound 
shore ; and sometimes like the booming of dis-
tant thunder. 
" The eruptions were not intermittent, but 
continuous , and the force by which the columns 
were expelled, shivered them into millions of 
fragments of multiform size, some rising, some 
falling back in vertical lines into the mouth of 
the crater. Every particle shone with the brill- 
iancy of Sirius ; and the creation and breaking 
up of every kind of geometrical figure was con- 
stantly going on. No tongue, no pen, no pen-
cil can portray the beauty, the grandeur, and 
the terrible sublimity of the scene. It was 
something to be felt, not described. 
" Night corning on, we retired about a mile 
from the crater, having still a perfect view of 
the whole ; and here we took our station for the 
night ; not, indeed, to sleep, for that was im-
possible ; but to listen to the awful roar of this 
great furnace of Jehovah. During the night 
the scene surpassed all my powers of descrip-
tion. Vast columns of lava, fused to a white 
heat, were going up continually in the form of 
pillars, pyramids, cones, towers, turrets, spires, 
scimitars, &c.; while the descending showers 
poured a constant cataract of fire upon the rim 
of the crater and the surrounding area, each 
containing matter enough to force the proudest 
ship far down into the ocean's depths. 
" A large fissure, through the lower side of 
Remarkable Preservation 
Bible. 
of the 
providence of God has been over it at all times ; 
and the existence of the various sects and doc-
trines in religion, has provided a strong barrier 
against corruptions—no changes could be made 
in the sacred text which would not at once be 
detected. Besides, the wonderful multiplica-
tion of copies in the different languages, at a 
very early day, made it impossible that exclu-
sive claims in reference to particular copies, 
could be set up. The learned Gaussen has 
some excellent remarks on this general subject, 
in his work on " Plenary Inspiration." 
" When we reflect that the Bible has been 
copied during three thousand years, as no book 
of human composition has ever been, nor ever 
will be ; that it has undergone all the catastro-
phes and all the captivities of Israel ; that it 
has been transported for seventy years into 
Babylon ; that it has seen itself so often perse-
cuted, or forgotten, or interdicted, or burned, 
from the days of the Philistines to those of the 
Seleucidw; when we recollect, that since the 
days of our Saviour, it has had to traverse the 
first three centuries of imperial persecutions; 
when they threw to the wild beasts the men 
that were convicted of possessing the sacred 
books ; then the seventh, eighth, and ninth cen-
turies, when false books, false legends, and false 
decretals, were everywhere multiplied ; the 
tenth century, when so few men could read, 
even among the princes ; the twelfth, thirteenth, 
and fourteenth centuries when the use of the 
Scriptures in the language of the people was 
punished with death ; when they mutilated the 
books of the old fathers ; when they retrenched 
and falsified so many ancient traditions, and 
the very acts of emperors and those of councils; 
—then, we understand how necessary it ;has 
been that the providence of God should always 
have held its powerful hand outstretched for 
the preservation of all these writings in their 
purity. 
" A constant and almost miraculous guar-
dianship was needed to hinder, on the one side, 
the Jewish church from impairing the integrity 
of that word which recounts their revolts, which 
predicts their ruin, which describesJesus Christ ; 
and, on the other, to secure transmission to us, 
in all their purity, by the Christian churches, 
(the most powerful sects of which, and espe-
cially the Romans, have prohibited to the peo-
ple the reading of the Scriptures, and have in 
so many ways substituted the traditions of the 
middle ages for the word of God,) of those 
Scriptures which condemn all their traditions, 
their images, their dead languages, their abso-
lutions, their celibacy, which say of Rome, that 
she shall be the seat of a frightful apostacy, 
where shall be seen the man of sin sitting as 
God in the temple of God, making war on the 
Saints, forbidding to marry, and commanding 
to abstain from meats which God has made ; 
which say of images, 'thou shalt riot use them;' 
of the cup, 'drink ye all of it;' of the Virgin, 
woman, what have I to do with thee ?' and of 
marriage, it is honorable in all.' 
"Now, although all the libraries containing 
ancient copies of the sacred books have been 
called to testify ; although the elucidations 
given by the Fathers of all ages, have been 
studied; although the Arabic, Syriac, Latin, 
American, and Ethiopic versions have been col-
lated ; although all the manuscripts of all coun-
tries and ages, from the third to the sixteenth 
century have been collated and examined a 
thousand times, by innumerable critics, who 
sought with ardor, and as the recompense and 
glory of their fatiguing vigils, some new text ; 
although the learned men, not satisfied with the 
libraries of the West, have visited those of 
Russia, and carried their researches even to the 
convents of Mount Athos, of Asiatic Turkey, 
and of Egypt, to search there for new copies of 
the sacred text, they have discovered nothing,' 
says a learned writer already quoted, not even 
a solitary reading, which could cast doubt upon 
any passage before considered certain. All the 
variations, almost without exception, leave un-
touched the essential thoughts of each phrase, 
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The following is from a letter written by Mr. 
Coan, a missionary of the American Board, 
dated March 3d, 1852. 
The island of Hawaii, on which Mr. Coan is 
laboring, is widely known for its remarkable 
volcanic phenomena. Several of its eruptions 
have been reported in the " Herald " in past 
years ; and now our missionary brother at Hilo 
has given us an account of another. After read-
ing his description of the scenes which, in the 
providence of God, he was permitted to behold, 
the sublime language of the Psalmist naturally 
occurs to us, as the appropriate expression of 
our feelings : " He looketh on the earth, arid it 
trembleth ; he toucheth the hills, and they 
smoke." " The hills melted like wax at the 
presence of the Lord, at the presence of the 
Lord of the whole earth." " Marvelous are thy 
works ; and that my soul knoweth rightwell." 
" At half past three, on the morning of Feb-
ruary 17, a small beacon light was discovered 
on the summit of Mauna Loa. At first it ap-
peared like a solitary star resting on the apex. 
In a few minutes its light increased and shone 
like the rising moon. Seamen, keeping watch 
in our harbor, exclaimed, What is that ? The 
moon is rising in the west!' In fifteen minutes 
the problem was solved. A flood of fire burst 
out of the mountain ; and soon it began to flow 
in a brilliant current down its northern slope, in 
the line of the great eruption which I visited in 
18pia a 
short time immense columns of burn-
ing matter were thrown heavenward, appar-
ently three or four hundred feet, flooding the 
summit of the mountain with light, and gilding 
the firmament with its radiance. Streams of 
light came pouring down, flashing through our 
windows, and lighting up our apartments ; so 
that we could almost see to read fine print. 
When we first awoke, so dazzling was the glare 
on our windows, that we supposed some build-
ing near us must be on fire ; but as the light 
shone directly into our dormitory and upon our 
couch, we soon perceived that it proceeded from 
a volcanic eruption. At the end of two hours 
the molten stream had rolled down the side of 
the mountain, as we supposed, about fifteen 
miles, The eruption was one of terrible activity 
and surpassing splendor ; but it was short. In 
about twenty-four hours all traces of it seemed 
extinguished. 
"At daybreak, February 20, we were again 
startled by another eruption bursting out later-
ally, about half way down the mountain, and 
exactly facing Hilo; so that we could again see 
it through the windows of our dormitory. This 
crater seemed as active as the one on the sum-
mit; and in a short time we perceived the molt-
en current flowing directly towards Hilo. 
" The action became more and more fierce, 
from hour to our; floods of lava were poured 
out ; and the burning river soon reached the 
wood at its base, a distance of some twenty 
miles. Clouds of smoke ascended, and hung 
like a vast canopy over the mountain, or rolled 
off upon the wings of the wind. They were 
murky, blue, white, purple, scarlet, as they were 
more or less illuminated from the fiery abyss 
below. At times they assumed the figure and 
the hue of a burning mountain inverted, with 
its apex pointing to the orifice over which it 
hung ; and at times, after shooting up several 
degrees vertically, the illumined pillar made a 
graceful curve, and swept off', like the tail of a 
comet, farther than the eye could reach. The 
whole atmosphere of Hilo assumed a lurid ap-
pearance ; and the sun's rays fell upon us with 
a yellow and sickly light. Clouds of smoke 
careered over the ocean, carrying with them 
ashes, cinders, &c., which fell upon the decks 
of ships approaching our coast. Filamentous 
vitrifactions, called e Pele's hair," fell thick in 
our streets and upon the roofs of our houses ; 
and while I write, the atmosphere is in the 
same sallow and dingy state ; and every object 
looks pale and sickly. Showers of vitrified fil-
aments are falling around us ; and our children 
and the natives are gathering them up." 
VISIT TO THE ERUPTION. 
Mr. Coan arid Dr. Wetmore resolved to visit 
the crater ; and they set out accordingly, Feb-
ruary 23, accompanied by four natives. Their 
way led through a dense forest, thirty miles in 
breadth, and " so completely intertangled with 
ferns, vines, brambles, &c., that no animal but 
man had ever attempted to penetrate it ;" and 
they could only advance at the rate of about 
one mile an hour. They were charmed with 
the variety and luxuriance of vegetable life in 
those wild regions. Many of the trees were of 
gigantic size ; and the shrubs and plants were 
correspondingly large. One fern measured nine 
feet in circumlerence. " At noon of the second 
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the rim of the crater, allowed the molten flood 
to flow constantly down the mountain in a broad 
channel, at the rate, probably, of ten miles an 
hour. This fiery stream we could trace all the 
way for twenty or thirty miles, until it was lost 
from the eye by reason of its own windings in 
the wood lying between us and Hilo." . 
Missionary Herald. 
tie 1hent Pera14. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be hon-
ored and his truth advanced; also, that it may 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 XI. 
tContinued from our last.) 
V. 20—" By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things 
to come." 
His blessing to JACOB was : " GOD give thee of 
the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and 
plenty of corn and wine : let people serve thee, and 
nations bow down to thee ; he lord over thy brethren ; 
and let thy mother's son bow down to thee : cursed 
be every one that curseth thee, and blessed he he that 
blesseth thee."—Gen. 27:28, 29. That to Esau was : 
" Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the 
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; and by 
thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother : 
and it shall come to pass, when thou shalt have the 
dominion, that thou shalt break thy yoke from off thy 
neck."—M. vs. 39, 40. 
' The words in which these blessings were uttered, 
seem to have been given to ISAAC by the Holy Spirit ; 
and though in the former instance he knew not whom 
he was blessing, yet in each instance he uttered 
what he had faith to believe, was inspired by the 
Spirit. The blessings given, were, in a measure 
subsequently fulfilled in the history of JACOB and 
ESAU. But JACOB'S, doubtless will have a more full 
realization in the eternal state. 
Of the future of Israel, Mom thus predicted : 
" There is none like unto the GOD of Jeshurun, who 
rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excel-
lency on the sky. The eternal GOD is thy refuge, 
and underneath are the everlasting arms : and he 
shall thrust out thy enemy from before thee ; and 
shall say, Destroy them. Israel then shall dwell 
in safety alone ; the fountain of JACOB shall be upon 
a land of corn and wine ; also his heavens shall drop 
down dew. Happy art thou, 0 Israel : who is like 
unto thee, 0 people saved by the LORD, the shield of 
thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! 
and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; 
and thou shalt tread upon their high places."—Deut. 
33:26-29. 
Israel was led into a land flowing with milk and 
honey, which Moses thus describes : " The land, 
whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land 
of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou 
sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as 
a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to 
possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh 
water of the rain of heaven ; a land which the LORD 
thy Goo careth for : the eyes of the LORD thy GOD are 
always upon it, from the beginning of the year even 
unto the end of the year. And it shall come to pass, 
if you shall hearken diligently unto my command-
ments which I command you this day, to love the LORD 
your GOD, and to serve him with all your heart, and 
with all your soul, that 1 will give you the rain of your 
land in his due season, the first rain and the latter 
rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy 
wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy 
fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full." 
—Dent. 11:10-15. 
The dew of heaven, by its profuseness, was a sub-
stitute for rain, when that was withheld ; and thus 
was the earth refreshed. The greatness of ISRAEL 
was conditional on their faithfulness ; yet the predic-
tion that people should serve them, was fulfilled in 
the days of DAVID, when the Moabites, Ammonites, 
Syrians, Philistines, and Edomites, were subdued 
under them. 
The blessing on ESAU, is rendered by some, " Thy 
dwelling shall be without the fatness of earth, and the 
dew from above ; but by thy sword shalt thou live," 
&c., i. e., that he should inhabit a poor country and 
maintain himself by the sword.—Patrick. 
The descendants of ESAU gained forcible possession 
of mount Seir, south-east of the Dead Sea, and ex-
pelled the Horites, the former inhabitants. It is now 
a barren country ; but in former times may have been 
a fertile one ; for when MOSES requested permission 
to pass through he said : " We will not pass through 
the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we 
drink of the water of the wells, we will go by the 
king's high-way."—Num. 20:17. They are sup-
posed at this time to have been an opulent and pow-
erful people. The following information respecting 
them is from the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowl-
ed g,e : 
Edom ; a province of Arabia, which derives its 
name from Edom or Esau, who there settled in the 
mountains of Seir, in the land of the Horites, south 
east of the Dead Sea. His descendants afterwards 
extended themselves throughout Arabia Petrwa, and 
south of Palestine, between the Dead Sea and the 
Mediterranean. During the Babylonish captivity, 
and when Judea was almost deserted, they seized the 
south of Judah, and advanced to Hebron. Hence 
that tract of Judea, which they inhabited, retained 
the name of Idumea in the time of our Saviour, 
(Mark 3:8). Under Moses and Joshua, and even tin-
der the kings of Judah, the Idumeans were confined 
to the east and south of the Dead Sea, in the land of 
Seir ; but afterwards they extended their territories 
more to the south of Judah. The capital of East 
Edom was Bozrah ; and that of South Edom, Petra 
or Jectael. 
The prophecies respecting Edom are numerous 
and striking ; and the present state of the country, 
as described by modern travellers, has given so re-
markable an attestation to the accuracy of their ful-
filment, that a few extracts from Mr. Keith's work, 
in which this is pointed out, may be fitly introduced. 
That the Idurneans were a populous and powerful 
nation long posterior to the delivery of the prophe-
cies : that they possessed a tolerably good govern-
ment, even in the estimation of Volney ; that Idumea 
contained many cities ; that these cities are now ab-
solutely deserted ; and that their ruins swarm with 
enormous scorpions ; that it was a commercial na-
tion, and possessed highly frequented marts ; that it 
forms a shorter route than the ordinary ooe to India ; 
and yet that it had not been visited by any traveller ; 
are facts all recorded, and proved by Volney himself 
—in his " Travels "—able but unconscious commen-
tator ! 
A greater contrast cannot be imagined than the 
ancient at.d present state of Idumea. It was a king-
dom previous to Israel, having been governed first by 
dukes or princes, afterwards by eight successive 
kings, and again by dukes, before there reigned any 
king over the children of Israel, (Gen. 36:31, &c.) 
Its fertility and early cultivation are implied not only 
in the blessings of Esau, whose dwelling was to be 
the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven 
from above ; but also in the condition proposed by 
Moses to the Edomites, when he solicited a passage 
for the Israelites through their borders, that " they 
would not pass through the fields nor through the 
vineyards ;" and also in the great wealth, especially 
in the multitudes of flocks and herds, recorded as 
possessed by an individual inhabitant of that country, 
at a period, in all probability even more remote. 
Gen. 27:39 ; Num. 20:17 ; Job. 42:12. The Idu-
means were, without doubt, both an opulent and a 
powerful people. They often contended with the Is-
raelites, and entered into a league with their other 
enemies against them. In the reign of David, they 
were indeed subdued and greatly oppressed, and many 
of them even dispersed throughout the neighboring 
countries, patticularly Plicenicia and Egypt. But 
during the decline of the kingdom of Judah, and for 
many years previous to its extinction, thL y encroached 
upon the territories of the Jews, and extended their 
dominion over the south-western part of Judea. 
There is a prediction which, being peculiarly 
remarkable as applicable to Idumea, and bearing ref-
erence to a circumstance explanatory of the difficulty 
of access to any knowledge respecting it, is entitled, 
in the first instance, to notice : " None shall pass 
through it forever and ever. I will cut off from 
mount Seir him that passeth out, and him th at re-
turneth."—Isa. 34:10 ; Ezek. 35:7. The ancient 
greatness of Idumea must, in no small degree, have 
resulted from its commerce. Bordering with Arabia 
on the east, and Egypt on the south-west, and form-
ing north to south the most direct and most commo-
dious channel of communication between Jerusalem 
and her dependencies on the Red Sea, as well as be-
tween Syria and India, through the continuous val-
leys of El Ghor, and El Araba, which terminated on 
the one extremity at the borders of Judea, and on the 
other at Elath and Ezion Geber on the Elanitic gulf 
of the Red Sea, Idumea may be said to have formed 
the emporium of the commerce of the East. A Roman 
road passed directly through Idumea, from Jerusalem 
to Akaba, arid another from Akaba to Moab ; and 
when these roads were made, at a time long posterior 
to the date of the predictions, the conception could not 
have been formed, or held credible by man, that the 
period would ever arrive when none would pass 
through it. Above seven hundred years after the 
date of the prophecy, Strai) relates that many Ro-
mans and other foreigners were found at Petra by 
his friend Athenodorus, the philosopher, who visited 
it. The prediction is yet more surprising when 
viewed in conjunction with another, which implies 
that travellers would " pass by " Idumea : " Every 
one that goeth by shall be astonished." And lie 
Hadja routes (routes of the pilgrims) from Damas- 
cus and from Cairo to Mecca, the one on the east and 
the other towards the south of Idumea, along the 
whole of its extent, go by it, or touch partially on 
its borders, without passing through it. The truth of 
the prophecy, though hemmed in thus by apparent 
impossibilities and contradictions, and with extreme 
probability of its fallacy in every view that couid 
have been visible to rnan, may yet be tried. 
Let the reader now turn to Isaiah 34:5, 10-17 ; 
Jer. 49:13-18 ; and Mal. 1:3, 4, and he will find other 
predictions no less circumstantially fulfilled. " Edom 
shall be a desolation. Front generation to genera-
tion it shall lie waste," &c. Judea, Ammon, and 
BRYANT ON MILLENARIANISM. 
A new work has been published by M. W. Dodd, 
from the pen of the Rev. Alfred Bryant, of Michi-
gan, in which the modern theory of the Second Ad-
vent is maintained with candor and earnestness. The 
objections to the views of the Literalists are examined, 
and an appeal is made to the defenders of the faith as 
held by the Christian Church at large, to give a fair 
hearing to the propagators of the modern millenarian 
theories. We have rarely read a book, (the doctrine 
of which we do not believe,) with more pleasure 
than this of Mr Bryant. It is so deeply imbued 
with the Christian spirit, that we cannot withhold 
our sympathy from the writer, while his desires are 
so strong to hold last to his former view of truth and 
duty, together with his new views of Adventism, that 
we are inclined to think him only about half persua-
ded to adopt the literal system of Biblical interpre-
tation. He deprecates being misrepresented and ridi-
culed, as all good men do, and bespeaks a fair hear-
ing before he is condemned. But the terms on which 
he is willing to be tried are too hard : he says : 
" If we are in error we desire to be convinced ; but 
then those who would eflectually convince us of our 
sin, must first be sure that they understand our views, 
(2) must view and state them as we do, and then (3) 
must kindly and charitably meet our atguntents as 
presented." 
Here are three conditions, with only the last of 
which it is possible fir an opponent to comply. 1. 
No one can be sure that he understands your views ; 
for let him state them with ever so much candor and 
clearness, you will insist, and with entire sincerity, 
that he does not understand yin. Because (2) you 
say he must " view your views as you view them," 
and state them as you do. How can any man who 
rejects your views as unscriptural, carnal, judatcal, 
and anti-Christian, view them as you do. You pro-
pose an Impossibility and an absurdity, and if (3) 
your arguments are not to be met until your terms 
are complied with, you are safe as if your book had 
not been written. Still, the very simplicity with 
which Mr. Bryant states the terms on which he is 
willing to be judged, commends hint to a candid 
hearing. 
N • Y. Observer. 
The above is a very fair notice, for a Post-millen-
nial paper to give of a Pre-millennial work. The 
notice however suggests two thoughts. 
The editor of the Observer evidently considers 
that Mr. BRYANT'S new views respecting the Advent 
must necessarily conflict with his former views of 
truth and duty ; and expresses surprise that in em-
bracing the one, he adheres firmly to the other.—
This opinion of the Observer, is in accordance with 
the oft repeated declaration of post-millennial papers, 
that the belief of the nearness of the advent is " para-
lyzing to all Christian effort " for the conversion of 
souls. Believing this, we are nut surprised that the 
Observer should arrive at its conclusion. We have 
however always been surprised that any such opinion 
should have been expressed. For the shorter the 
time in which to labor, the more active, devoted, and 
energetic, we should naturally suppose, would be the 
faithful servant of the LORD, ill the performance of 
the work enjoined on him. Instead of paralzying, it 
is regarded by all who embrace it intelligently and 
conscientiously, as the greatest incentive to effort. 
Instead therefore of causing hint to abandon, we 
should have been surprised had Mr. BRYANT found 
himself any the less disposed to adhere to his former 
views of truth and duty. 
The Observer evidently misapprehends the re-
mark quoted from Mr. BRYANT, that those who 
would convince Millennialists of error, must " be 
sure that they understand our views—must view and 
state them as we do." The Observer comments on 
this as it would if understanding Mr. BRYANT to have 
said, that, " to disprove our views they must believe 
and state them as we do." Mr. B. could have in-
tended nothing of the kind. It would have been absurd. 
What he claims, is that those who would disprove 
our views, must first be sure that they have a cor-
rect view of and apprehend what it is that we be-
lieve. He is in this connection complaining of the 
misapprehensions, the misstatements, and misrepre-
sentations respecting our views, put forth by Dr. 
SPRING arid others who have attempted the work of 
refutation. The Observer should have been more 
sure that it fully apprehended Mr. BRYANT, before 
indulging in the remarks of the closing paragraph, 
which present clear evidence of misapprehension. 
SPIRITUAL CONVENTION. 
A convention of believers in spiritual manifesta-
tions in their various forms, was commenced yester-
day morning at Washingtonian Hall, Brumfield-street. 
About one hundred and fifty persons were present, 
who are mostly mediums, or those who are earnestly 
desirous of being convinced as to the truth of the doc-
trine promulgated. This gathering is held in answer 
to a call for a State Convention to establish a State 
Association of Spiritualists for the development and 
extension of spiritual truths. 
Rev. Adin Ballou was chosen President. A com-
mittee to prepare business was appointed. 
The male mediums were ranged on one side of the 
platform, and the female mediums on the other. The 
spirits acted upon a large, brawny looking man, whose 
name we did not learn, and lie being in a spiritual 
trance, or being operated upon by the spirits, took 
the platform, and with his eyes closed, his features 
distorted, and his arms swinging, commenced what 
was termed by the initiated to be bringing the male 
and female mediums into harmony. After sawing 
the air with his arms for some time, he went to Mr. 
John M. Spear, who was seated on the platform, and 
taking him by the hand, led him to Andrew Jackson 
Davis, whom he also took by the hand, and led them 
both to the desk, and placing Mr. Spear's hand on 
the top of Mr. Davis's head, he left them in that po-
sition, and continued his operations for invoking the 
aid of the spirits. 
Presently Mr. Spear opened his mouth and spoke, 
he appearing to be under some magnetic influence, 
and consecrated and dedicated Mr. Davis to the har-
monial work, by everything that is noble, glorious, 
and much to be desired. The two gentlemen then 
sat down. 
The member who first took the floor, with his eyes 
still closed, spoke, and said that the spiritual and the 
natural world were now about to be brought together, 
and that everything was working harmoniously ; that 
the spirits were present. He predicted in a general 
way that the " good time " was certainly " coining." 
The gentleman then took his seat, and shortly came 
out of the trance. 
A lady from Dedham then took the platform, and 
produced a large ledger-like book, from which she 
proceeded to read several letters dictated by departed 
spirits arid recorded by her in the volume. This lady 
is one of the most favored of mediums, arid seems to 
possess a large circle of correspondents in the other 
world, and among them the Baron Swedenborg.—
She appears to be deeply affected by the communica-
tions she receives, and to order her life and conversa-
tion by the teachings of the spirits. The gist of the 
letters read by her, was that a judgment had been 
recorded, by which the spirits who were in the lower 
spheres—for it will be remembered that spirits in the 
other world, according to the mediums, are classified 
in seven spheres—had been raised, and that these 
lower, or as they are termed undeveloped spirits, 
will no more molest the believers. The letter from 
Moab, exhibit so abundantly the remains and the 
means of an exuberant fertility, that the wonder 
arises in the reflecting mind, how the barbarity of 
man could have so effectually counteracted for so 
many generations the prodigality of nature. But 
such is Edom's desolation, that the first sentiment 
of astonishment on the contemplation of it is, how a 
wide extended region, now diversified by the strong-
est features of desert wildness, could ever have been 
adorned with cities, or tenanted for ages by a power-
ful and opulent people. Its present aspect would be-
lie its ancient history, were not that history corrobo-
rated by " the many vestiges of former cultivation," 
by the remains of walls and paved roads, and by the 
ruins of cities still existing in this ruined country. 
The total cessation of its commerce ; the artificial ir-
rigation of its valleys wholly neglected ; the destruc-
tion of all the cities, and the continued spoliation of 
the country by the Arabs, while aught remained that 
they could destroy ; the permanent exposure, for ages, 
of the soil unsheltered by its ancient groves, and un-
protected by any covering from the scorching rays of 
the sun ; the unobstructed encroachments of the des-
ert, and of the drifted sands from the borders of the 
Red Sea ; the consequent absorption of the water of 
the springs and streamlets during summer,— are 
causes which have all combined their baneful opera-
tion in rendering Edorn " most desolate, the desola-
tion of desolations." 
From the borders of Edom, Captains Irby and 
Mangles also beheld a boundless extent of desert 
view, which they had hardly ever seen equalled for 
singularity and grandeur. And the following ex-
tract, descriptive of what Burckhardt actually wit-
nessed in the different parts of Edom, cannot be 
more graphically abbreviated than in the words of 
the prophet. Of its eastern boundary, and of the ad-
joining part of Arabia Petrwa, strictly so called, 
Burckhardt writes ; " It might, with truth, be called 
Petreea, not only on account of its rocky mountains, 
but also of the elevated plain already described, 
which is so much covered with stones, especially 
flints, that it may with great propriety be called a 
stony desert, although susceptible of culture : in 
many places it is overgrown with wild herbs, and 
must once have been thickly inhabited ; for the traces 
of many towns and villages are met with on both 
sides of the Hadj road, between Maan and Akaba, as 
well as between Maan and the plains of the Hauran, 
in which direction are also many springs. At present 
all this country is a desert, and Maan (Teman) is 
the only inhabited place in it I will stretch out my 
hand against thee, 0 mount Seir, and will make thee 
most desolate. I will stretch out my hand upon 
Edom, and will make it desolate from 'Fenian.'" In 
the interior of Idumea, where the ruins of some of its 
ancient cities are still visible, and in the extensive 
valley which reaches front the Red to the Dead Sea, 
the appearance of which must now be totally and 
sadly changed from what it was," the whole plain," 
says Burckhardt, " presented to the view an expanse 
of shifting sands, whose surface was broken by in-
numerable undulations and low hills. The sand ap-
pears to have been brought from the shores of the 
Red Sea, by the southern winds ; and the Arabs told 
me that the valleys continue to present the same ap-
pearance beyond the latitude of Wady Monsa. In 
some parts of the valley the sand is very deep, and 
there is not the slightest appearance of a road, or of 
any work of human art. A few trees grow among 
the sand hills, but the depth of sand precludes all-
vegetation or herbage." " If grape-gatherers come 
to thee, would not they leave some gleaning grapes it 
If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have 
enough ; but I have made Esau bare. Edorn shall 
be a desolate wilderness." " On ascending the west-
ern plain," continues Mr. Burckhardt, " on a higher 
level than that of Arabia, we had before us an im-
mense expanse of dreary country, entirely covered with 
black flints, with here and there sonic hilly chain ris-
ing from the plain." " I will stretch out upon Idumea 
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." 
Such is the present desolate aspect of one of the most 
fertile countries of ancient times ! So visibly even 
now does the withering curse of an offended God rest 
upon it ! And its fate, like that of the children of 
Israel, remains a monument of the divine inspiration 
of the Scriptures, at which infidelity may well turn 
pale.— Watson. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
1- 
the spirit world went on to state that this had been 
done through the direct intercession of the spirits of 
the third, fourth, and fifth spheres. 
The lady stated that the good spirits had informed 
her that they were going to a prayer-meeting to be 
held in one of the upper spheres, and that they should 
be absent three days. When they returned, they in-
formed her that they had effected the object. 
The lady also said that she had received evil or 
false communications from the lower or undeveloped 
spirits, and that they afterwards, to the number of 
twenty-nine or thirty, had implored her to pray to 
God that they might be removed into higher spheres. 
She complied with the request, and was afterwards 
informed by them, and other spirits, that through 
her prayers the lower spirits had been received into 
favor. 
The letters from the spirit land also said that the 
millennium was close at hand, when " nothing shall 
hurt or destroy in all the Lord's holy mountain."—
Whether this referred to the believers or to the " rest 
of mankind," was not distinctly stated. 
This doctrine of the new judgment, (which it was 
said went into effect on the .22d day of July, 18520 
the prayer meeting in the seventh sphere, as well as 
other points mentioned above, were confirmed by 
other mediums present, as having been communicated 
to them by the spirits. 
Boston Journal. 
In addition to Hon. J. W. EDMONDS of the Su-
preme Court of New York, we learn that Chief Jus- 
tice WELLS of this State has given his assent to the 
Rapping Spirits, and has become a medium. The 
rapidity with which these principles are extending, 
and the evident sincerity with which those who em-
brace it are pursuing it, make it a prominent sign of 
the times, and render it necessary for all, who would 
be preserved from " giving heed to seducing spirits 
and doctrines of demons," to acquaint themselves 
with the Scriptural testimony of the nature, origin, 
and tendency, of this phenomenon, and the apoch at 
which it was to be manifested. See our new tract on 
this subject. 
ARE YOU REGENERATE, 
Church, i make no question. That a wide door is 
set open before his soul which is not set before the 
poor heathen, I can most clearly see. But I do not 
see that the Bible ever calls this Regeneration. And 
cannot find a single text in Scripture which warrants 
the assumption that it is so. It is very important in 
theology to distinguish things that differ. Church 
privileges are one thing. Regeneration is another. 
I, for one, dare not confound them. 
I am quite aware that great and good men have 
clung to that low view of Regeneration to which I 
have adverted. But when a doctrine of the everlast-
ing Gospel is at stake, I can call no man master. 
The words of the old philosopher are never to be 
forgotten, " I love PLATO, I love SOCRATES, but I 
love truth better than either." I say unhesitatingly, 
that those who hold the view that there are two Re- 
generations, can bring forward no plain text in proof 
of it. 1 firmly believe that no plain reader of the 
Bible only would ever find this view there for him- 
self, and that goes very far to make me suspect it is 
an idea of man's invention. The only Regeneration 
that I can see in Scripture is, not a change of state, 
but a change of heart. That is the view, I once more 
assert, which the Church Catechism takes when it 
speaks of the " death unto sin and new birth unto 
righteousness," and on that view I take my stand. 
Reader, the doctrine before you is one of vital im-
portance. This is no matter of names, and words, 
and forms, about which I am writing, and you are 
reading. It is a thing that you and I must feel and 
know by experience, each for himself, if we are to 
be saved. Try, I beseech you, to become acquainted 
with it. Let not the din and smoke of controversy 
draw off your attention from your own heart. is 
that heart changed ? Alas ! it is poor work to wran-
gle, and argue, and dispute about Regeneration, if 
after all we know nothing about it within. 
Reader, Regeneration, or new birth, is the distin-
guishing mark of every true Christian. Now just 
consider what I say. Are you Regenerate, or are you 
not ? 
II. Let me show you, in the second place, the ne-
cessity there is for our being Regenerate, or born again. • 
That there is such a necessity is most plain from 
our Lord JESUS CHRIST'S words in the third chapter 
of St. JOHN'S Gospel. Nothing can be more clear 
and positive than his language to Nicol:tuns, " Ex-
cept a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom 
of GOD." " Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye 
must be born again."—John 3:3, 7. 
The reason of this necessity is the exceeding sin-
fulness and corruption of our natural hearts. Thu 
words of St. PAUL to the Corinthians are literally 
acurate, " The natural man receiveth not the things 
of the Spirit of Goo, for they are foolishness unto 
him."-1 Con 2.14. Just as rivers flow downward, 
and sparks fly upward, and stones fall to the ground, 
so does a man's heart naturally incline to what is 
evil. We love our soul's enemies, we dislike our 
soul's friends. We call good evil, and we call evil 
good. We take pleasure in ungodliness, we take no 
pleasure in CHRIST. We not only commit sin, but 
we also love sin. We not only need to be cleansed 
from the guilt of sin, but we also need to be deliv- 
ered from its power. The natural tone, bias, arid 
current of one minds must be completely altered. 
The image of GoD, which sin has blotted out, must 
be restered. The disorder and confusion which 
reigns within us must be put down. The first things 
must no longer be last, and the last first. The Spirit 
must let in the light on our hearts, put everything 
in its right place, and create all things new. 
It ought always to be remembered that there are 
two distinct things which the Lord JESUS CsraisT 
does fur every sinner whom he undertakes to save. 
He washes him from his sins in his own blood, and 
gives him a free pardon :—this is his justification. 
He puts the Holy Spirit into his heart, and makes 
him an entire new man :—this is his Regeneration. 
The two things are both absolutely necessary to sal-
vation. The change of heart is as necessary as the 
pardon; and the pardon is as necessary as the change. 
Without the pardon we have no right or title to 
heaven. Without the change we should not be 
meet and ready to enjoy heaven, even if we got there. 
The two things are never separate. They are 
never found apart. Every justified man is also a re-
generate man, and every regenerate man is also a 
justified man. When the Lord JESUS CHRIST gives a 
man remission of sins, he also grants power to be-
come a son of Goo. There are two oreat standing 
maxims of the glorious Gospel, which ought never 
to be forgotten. One is, " He that believeth not 
shall be damned."—Mark 16:16. The other is, " If 
any man have not the Spirit of CHRIST, he is none of 
his."—Rom. 8:9.—(To be continued.) 
The $30,000 demanded by the British Charge at 
Constantinople, for outrages committed on a party of 
passengers from a steamer, will be paid by the Turks 
ash Government, but, in the meantime, the matter is 
complicated by two Ionians under British protection, 
having been bastinadoed. The Consul has demanded 
compensation for that also. 
Mr. Barnard, at Berlin, has succeeded in procur-
ing the release of some Prussians who had been nat-
uralized in the United States, but were arrested on 
their return to Prussia, on a charge of evading the 
THE PROPHECY OF NAHUM. 
TRANSLATED FOR THE HERALD BY N. N. WHITING. 
(Concluded from the Herald of July 31st ) 
CHAPTER 
1 The Desolator hath come up against thee ! Guard 
the fortress, watch the way, gird the loins, 
2 strengthen the force greatly ! For Jehovah hath 
turned away the haughtiness of Jacob, like the 
haughtiness of Israel ; for the spoilers have 
spoiled them, and destroyed their vine-branches. 
3 The bucklers of his mighty men are dyed red, the 
men of his army are clothed in crimson, the cha-
riots flash with steel in the day of his prepara- 
4 tion, and the lances quiver. The chariots are 
wildly driven through the streets, they rush to 
and fro in the broad-ways; their appearance is 
5 like torches ; they run like lightnings. He will 
number his chiefs, but they stumble as they go, 
they will hasten to the wall, and the matitelet is 
6 prepared. The gates of the river ate ripened, and 
7 the palace sinks down. And it is determined !—
she is led away captive, she shall be brought up, 
and her maidens mourning like the voices of doves, 
8 —beating on their hearts. Now Nineveh hath 
been for a long time like a pool of water—but they 
flee ; " Stand ! stand !''—but no one looketh back. 
9 " Plunder silver! plunder gold !"—there is no end 
to the costly stores, or to the abundance of desiia- 
10 ble furniture. She is entirely empty and wasted, 
and the heart bath melted, and the knees tottered, 
and there are pangs in all loins, and all faces be- 
ll came pale. Where is the dwelling of the lions, 
and the feeding place of the young lions, where 
the lion walked and the lion's whelp, there 
12 being no one to terrify them? The lion tore 
in pieces enough fur his whelps, and stran-
gled for his lionesses, and filled his dens with 
13 prey, and his dwellings with spoils. Behold 
I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, arid 
I will burn her chariots amidst the smoke, and 
the sword shall devour thy young lions, and 
I will cut off the spoil from the earth, and the 
shout of thy messengers shall be heard nu more. 
[CHAPTER III.] 
1 Woe to the city of blood ! It is entirely filled 
with treachery and violence; the spoil ceaseth 
2 not. The noise of the whip, and the noise of rat-
tling wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of 
3 bounding war-chariots. The horseman raiseth 
the fiery sword and the flashing spear ! A mul-
titude of the slain ! A pile of corpses ! There 
is no end to the dead bodies ; they stumble over 
4 the dead bodies. It is for the numerous fornica-
tions of the beautiful harlot, the sorceress, that 
selleth nations by her fornication, and families by 
5 her sorceries. Behold, I am against thee, saith 
Jehovah of hosts, and 1 will raise thy skirts above 
thy face, and show the nations thy nakedness, and 
6 the kingdoms thy shame, and 1 will cast abomi-
nations on thee, and disgrace thee, and make thee 
7 a spectacle. It will come to pass, that every one 
who seeth thee, will flee and say, " Nineveh is 
laid waste! Who will bemoan her? Whence 
8 shall I seek comforters for thee?" Dust thou ex-
cel No-Ammon, that sat amidst the rivers, and 
the waters were around her, whose trench was the 
9 sea, and whose wall arose out of the sea ? Ethio-
pia and Egypt were her force, and it was bound- 
10 less ; Put and the Libyans were thy help ! Yet 
she became a captive, she went into captivity, 
her children were dashed in pieces at the head of 
all the streets, they cast lots for her honorable 
men ; her great men were bound in chains. 
11 Thou shalt drink deeply also, thou shalt be hid-
den, thou shalt seek a fortress on account of the 
12 enemy. All thy strong-places shall be like fig-
trees, with early-ripened figs, if they are shaken, 
13 they fall into the mouth of the eater. Behold 
thy people within thee shall become like wo-
men, the gates of thy land shall be opened to 
thine enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars. 
14 Draw thyself water for the siege, fortify thy 
strong-places, go into the clay, tread the mor- 
15 tar, rebuild the brick-kiln. There the fire shall 
devour thee, the sword shall cut thee down, it 
shall devour thee like the locusts. Multiply thy-
self like the locusts, multiply thyself like the 
16 great-locusts. Thou hast made thy merchants 
more numerous than the stars of the heavens ; 
17 the locusts spread themselves and fly away. Thy 
princes are like great-locusts, and thy chiefs like 
multitudes of locusts, which encamp among the 
hedges in the cold day; the sun ariseth, they 
wander away, and the place where they were is 
18 not known. 0 king of Assyria! thy shepherds 
slumber, thy nobles lie down to rest, thy people 
are scattered on the mountains, and no one gather- 
19 eth them. There is no relief for thy wound, thy 
bruise is deadly, all who hear the report respect-
ing thee, will clap their hands at 'thee, for on 
whom bath not thy wickedness flowed continually? 
NOTES. 
CHAP. II. V. 5—" The mantelet is prepared." The 
word sokek, from the verb sakak, (to cover, or protect,) is 
the name of a military machine made of timber and planks, 
which the besiegers moved to the walls of a fortified place, 
and under the protection of which they could undermine 
them. By the Romans it was named vinea. 
CHAP. III. V. 8—" No-Ammon." This was the cele-
brated Thebes of antiquity, the capital of Upper Egypt. It 
is mentioned by Homer (II. 9:383) with the epithet of " hun-
dred-gated." Its name signifies " the portion of Ammon," 
that is, of Jupiter Ammon. In the Septuagint, it is termed 
Diospolis, or the city of Jupiter. In the line of Nahum, it 
was in ruins, having been destroyed by the Assyrians. 
V. 9.—" Put (or Phut) and the Libyans," (Heb. Luhim,) 
were African nations. In Gen. 10:6 Phut is named as a son 
of Hain. 
V. 11—" Shalt be hidden." In other words, so tho-
roughly destroyed, as to be seen no more. 
V. 15—"Like the locusts." The common translation of 
yelek by "canker-worm" is incorrect. The word uniformly 
signifies locust. It is probable a poetic name for the insect. 
"Great-locust "—Heb. arbeh. The kind of locust desig-
nated by this word, is the common migratory one—the gryl-
lus gregarius. 
V. 18—'. Shepherds." In the Old Testament, t oe word 
shepherds, in a metaphorical sense, applies in almost all cases, 
to rulers. The New Testament usage is different. 
iEngland. 
The British Parliamentary-elections are over, with 
the exception of five seats yet to be returned. The 
London Times gives an estimate of the new House, 
which among the conflicting accounts, is probably 
the nearest approaching accuracy of any. It seems 
the number of seats secured are' 626, of which 325 
are Ministerial, and 301 Opposition. The Ministe-
rial papers, however, claim a majority of 40 to 50, 
which they aver is amply sufficient to carry on the 
business of Government. 
There have been desperate election riots in the 
South and West of Ireland. At Six Mile Bridge, 
near Limerick, the mob attacked a company of sol-
diers, who were escorting voters, when the soldiers 
becoming irritated, filed a volley into the crowd, 
killing eight, and seriously injuring several others. 
The soldiers fired in self-defence, and it is said, with-
out orders. The affair has excited much feeling in 
the community. 
On Saturday last, the submarine telegraph was 
laid successfully beneath the channel between Donag-
hadee and Port Patrick, Scotland, hut it is not yet 
opened to the public. 
It is again rumored that changes are about to be 
made in the Cabinet, by the appointment of Lord 
Malmesbury as Ambassador to Paris, Lord Cowley 
going to the East, and the Portfolio of Foreign Af-
fairs to he bestowed on Lord Stratford, better known 
as Sir StratfOrd Canning. 
The American built yacht Truant, belonging to 
Mr. Grinnell, came in from the Liverpool yacht race 
on Saturday, and gained her owner a piece of plate. 
Numerous frauds by Australian emigration com-
panies have been exposed in London within the past 
few days. 
The two large screw steamers building at Dum-
barton, for the Messrs. Burns, and intending to run 
between Chagres and New York, are to be called the 
" Alps" and the " Andes." 
The only Roman Catholic of Parliament who has 
been elected in the whole of England, Scotland, and 
Wales, is Lord E. Howard, the husband of the late 
Miss Talbot. He will represent the borough of 
Arundel. 
France. 
The French papers are full of the ceremonies 
which attended the President's return from Stras-
burg. Similar preparations are making to receive 
him on his journey South, in September. 
There are again loud whispers, that the fete on the 
15th of Aug., Napoleon's birth-day, will not pass 
over without some attempt at a coup d'etat. 
The approaching marriage of the President, is 
now spoken of as a fixed fact. The lady is not the 
princess Devasa, hut another Baden princess, grand-
daughter of Eugene Beauharnois. She is a Protest-
ant, but will make profession of the Roman Catholic 
faith prior to her union. 
Some political arrests were made in Strasburg 
during the President's visit. 
M. Lemoine, formerly Consul at Alexandria, 
Egypt, is appointed Charge d'Affairs of France at 
Buenos Ayres. 
Another batch of the ingot of gold lottery emi-
grants sailed from Havre on Saturday, in the ship 
Magellen, for California. 
Accounts from the department describe the rav-
ages occasioned by the recent storms in the Aisne 
particularly. Great damage was done. 
Spain. 
The Madrid Gazette officially contradicts the story 
that another fillibustering expedition was fitting out 
in the United States against Cuba. 
It is stated that Count Lavrado, the Spanish Minister 
in London, is to be sent on a mission to Don Miguel, 
to negotipte for a renunciation of the claims of the 
latter to the crown of Portugal. 
A French gentleman named Barber, who proposes 
to establish a line of steamers between Nantes and a 
port of the United States, calling at Lisbon, has pe-
titioned the Government to except his ships from mari-
time dues. The petition is under consideration. 
Miscellaneous. 
The National Zeitung of Berlin, has a leader on 
the late commercial treaty between Switzerland and 
the United States. It says that the unjust protocol 
of London respecting Neufchatel has hastened the 
day when the United States shall begin to interfere 
in European politics. 
Several Poles were lately arrested in the duchy of 
Posen, on the charge of conspiracy against the Em-
peror Nicholas. 
The King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria 
are to have an interview in the end of September. 
The finances of Austria show a deficiency of 55,-
000,000 of florins. 
In the Cantons of Argovia, Thurgovia, Lucerne, 
Basle, and Vaud, considerable damage has recently 
been done to the crops by storms. 
The Turin Gazette contradicts as absurd the rumor 
that the Island of Sardinia is to be sold to England. 
The Tuscan Ministry have been compelled to re-
sign, in consequence of not having pursued a course 
sufficiently subservient to the Court of Rome. 
A difficulty has arisen between M. Amizai, the 
Papal Governor of Ancovia, and Mr. Moore, the 
British Consul there, respecting the lauding of a pas-
senger without a vise, or his passport. 
Christaphoro, the insane monk, who has been stir-
ring up an insurrection in Greece, has been arrested. 
BY J. C. RYLE, OF ENG. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Reader, I lay before you the foregoing account of 
Regeneration. I say it is that change of heart which 
is the distinguishing mark of a true Christian man,—
the invariable companion of a justifying faith in 
CHRIST,—the inseparable consequence of vital union 
with him,—and the root and beginning of inward 
sanctification. I ask you to ponder it well before you 
go any further. It is of the utmost importance that 
your views should be clear upon this point,—what 
Regeneration really is. 
I know well that many will not allow that Regen-
eration is what I have described it to be. They will 
think the statement I have made, by way of defini-
tion, much too strong. Some hold that Regenera-
tion only means admission into a state of ecclesiasti-
cal privileges,—being made a member of the Church, 
—but does not mean a change of heart. Some tell us 
that a regenerate man has a certain power within 
him which enables him to repent and believe if he 
thinks fit, but that he still needs a further change in 
order to make him a true Christian. Some say 
there is a difference between Regeneration and being 
born agian. Others say there is a difference between 
being born again and conversion. 
To all this I have one simple reply, and that is, 
I can find no such Regeneration spoken of anywhere in 
the Bible. A Regeneration which only means admis-
sion into a state of ecclesiastical privilege may be an-
cient and primitive for anything I know. But some-
thing more than this is wanted. A few plain texts 
of Scripture are needed ; and these texts have yet to 
be found. 
Such a notion of Regeneration is utterly inconsis-
tent with that which St. JOHN gives us in his first 
Epistle. It renders it necessary to invent the awk-
ward theory that there are two Regenerations, and is 
thus eminently calculated to confuse the minds of 
unlearned people, and introduce false doctrine. It is 
a notion which seems not to answer to the solemnity 
with whch our LORD introduces the subject to Nico-
DEMUS. When he said, " Verily, verily, except a 
man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 
Goo," did he only mean, except a man be admitted 
to a state of ecclesiastical privilege? Surely he 
meant more than this. Such a Regeneration a man 
might have, like SIMON MAGUS, and yet never be 
saved. Such a Regeneration he might never have, 
like the penitent thief, and yet see the kingdom of 
Got). Surely he must have meant a change of heart. 
As to the notion that there is any distinction between 
Regenerate and being born again, it is one which will 
not bear examination. It is the general opinion of 
all who know Greek, that the two expressions mean 
one and the same thing. 
To me indeed there seems to be much confusion of 
ideas, and indistinctness of apprehension in men's 
minds on this simple point, what Regeneration really 
is,—and all arising from not simply adhering to the 
word of Gun. That a man is admitted into a state 
of great privilege when he is made a member of a 
pure church of CHRIST, I do not for an instant deny. 
That he is in a far better and more advantageous po-
sition for his soul, than if he did not belong to the requirements of the military conscription. 
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be fulfilled." This generation began with the first 
celestial phenomenon which was to indicate the ap-
proach of that day according esthe Scriptures—" The 
sun shall be darkened, the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven," &c.—
each of which has been witnessed in this generation, 
the first as far hack as 1780. Added to this we have 
witnessed the terrestrial signs betokening the ap-
proach of that day—" Upon the earth distress of na-
tions, with perplexity ; . . . . men's hearts failing 
them for fear, and for looking after those things 
which are coming on the earth."—Luke 21:25, 26. 
Besides this you have heard the warning, " Fear 
God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judg-
ment is come."—Rev. 14:7. And you have or may 
soon hear the cry, " Behold the bridegroom comet'', 
go ye out to meet him."—Matt. 25:6. Judgment, 
the judgment day, with all its predicted scenes, is just 
at hand ! Not twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty years in 
the future, but may take place before another year, 
another week, or another day, may roll around ! 
" Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour 
as ye think not, the Son of man cometh."—Matt. 
24:44. In view of this fact, " What is your life?" 
we can say in answer, " It is even a vapor, that ap-
peareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." 
IMPROVEMENT. 
We learn the importance of improving our 
time. If life is so brief, so short, so transient, and 
uncertain, how ought we to strive to improve every 
moment as it flies—its precious hours should not be 
let to pass away in idleness and pleasure, but all em-
ployed in doing and getting good—in securing and 
laying hold on eternal life. " To those who by pa-
tient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, and 
honor, and immortality, eternal life " is the reward. 
Let us not look back upon misspent and unemployed 
time when the judgment takes place, and say then it 
we had only improved those golden moments in the 
day of our probation, we should not have been lost, 
but now they are gone, and gone forever ! 
We see the importance of heeding the instruc- 
tion of our Lord—" Lay not up for yourselves treas-
ures on earth, where moth arid worm doth corrupt, 
and where thieves break through and steal, but lay 
up for yourselves treasures in heaven," &c. 
Should we amass the riches of this world, gain its 
honors and renown, what will it avail us in a little 
time?—" We brought nothing into this world, and it 
is tertain we can carry nothing out." How many 
spend all their days, and toil day and night to gain 
the riches and honors of this world, and when they 
have succeeded it has afforded them no real joy, and 
they are compelled to leave it all in the midst of their 
days. Our life should not be spent in gaining an 
earthly inheritance—but that which is " incorrupti-
ble, undefiled, and that fadeth riot away." Not a 
mansion and palace here, but " a building of God, an 
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 
The Lord " so teach us to number our days, that 
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." 
And finally, we inquire—How (lo you desire to 
spend the remainder of your life—your days in the 
future ? How do you, my brethren ? 1)o you mean 
to be more active, more employed in doing good and 
in making efforts to save yourselves and others? If 
this is your purpose, the Lord aid you in the resolu-
tion. We have no time to sleep, no time to slum-
ber, no time to while away. 
" Why sleep ye, my brother? come let us arise : 
0, why should we slumber in sight of the prize? 
Salvation is nearer ; our day is far spent ; 
0, let us be active ; awake and repent !" 
And how do you, sinner, design to spend your 
life in the future—your brief day of existence? In 
folly and pleasure ? In unbelief and sin ? 0, sinner, 
think of the sorrow that shall environ that soul that 
shall finally take up the sad lamentation, " The har-
vest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not 
saved." 
" To-day the Saviour calls ! 
For, refuge fly ; 
The storm of vengeance falls, 
Ruin is nigh. 
" The Spirit calls to-day ! 
Yield to his power ; 
Oh, grieve hint not away ; 
'Tis mercy's hour." 
LETTER FROM J. PEARSON Jr. 
BRO. BLISS :—I read with pleasure Prof. Whiting's 
introduction' to an exposition of the prophecy of Na-
hum. I feel assured that he will give us a critical 
and safe exposition of that very interesting prophecy, 
and whatever of a fanciful interpretation may be en-
tertained by any of us respecting any portion of it, 
he will readily and clearly correct. As it regards 
the history of that once populous, rich, and powerful 
city, like almost all those ancient cities and empires, 
much of it is exceedingly obscure, and without doubt 
fabulous. We have, however, enough to satisfy the 
diligent Bible student that the word of God was 
wonderfully accomplished in its fearful overthrow, 
and utter desolation. 
BY 0. It• FASSETT. 
" For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that 
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." 
—James 4:14. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
Present the proof of the declaration of our text, 
as given in our own circle of acquaintances and 
friends. 
Look back in your history to the days of your 
childhood and youth, and consider how many of those 
associates still survive the dead. Alas ! how many 
are gone ! Our whole history has been one of sorrow 
and sadness, because we have, from time to time, had 
to witness one after another of our friends and asso-
ciates in life, Stricken down by our side, and follow 
them to the grave. Those families too in which we 
were reared. Our father's family is broken up. 
Once our parents were living, and our brothers and 
sisters, without an absent one perhaps, all sit around 
the table together, bowed around the family altar, 
and went to the house of God together. But long 
since, this family has been broken up—time on its 
hasty wing has dispersed the quiet and lovely group 
That father and mother who watched us in our in-
fancy, and instructed us in childhood—and put their 
hands on our heads in secret, and invoked God's 
blessing upon us, their children, and often warned 
us of evil, and told us to love and serve the Lord, 
are gone ! long since have they moulded to dust ! 
Those brothers and sisters, many of them, if not all, 
too, are numbered with the dead, and yet our hearts 
were entwined around them, and we thought we never 
could he separated ; but death has done his work, and 
they lie silent in the grave. In our own families 
there are missing ones. A husband is gone, or a 
wife, or children, and in this sad and afflictive way 
we have been taught the lesson of our frailty, and 
that life is but a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, 
and then vanisheth away ! 
Present the proof of the text as shown in our 
own persons. 
We are constantly exposed to a thousand accidents, 
any one of which is liable to sever the brittle thread 
of life—to diseases innumerable ; the heart may in a 
moment cease to beat, and the pulse be gone at the 
wrist ! The function of respiration cease ! The brain 
may become suffused with blood, and produce the most 
fearful results. Every tissue in the body is exposed 
to mortal diseases, which may soon destroy our life, 
and we go the way of all the earth. How many hair-
breadth escapes have we already passed ! Oft it may 
be we have been at death's gate by accident or dis- 
ease. Mortality is written on every countenance, 
whether old or young, it is seen in every look—it is 
felt in every act, and soon our friends may he called 
to bid us adieu, to take us by the hand already cold, 
and say to us, farewell ! and then close our eyes in 
death—wrap us in our winding sheet and shroud— 
place us in the coffin and shut its lid upon us, and 
call in our friends to aid them in burying their dead 
out of their sight, and we then he conveyed to the 
grave and deposited there, and we unconscious of it 
all. Such we are, such is our life ; and youth, nor 
health, nor any circumstance whatever, can shield 
us from such a fate. It may be yours to experience 
this who think it the least likely to occur ! 
If our Lord delay, this is the fate of us all. We 
hope, and desire, and pray for him to come and des-
troy death, and deliver those already under his domin-
ion, as well as save us from his power. 
When shall the tedious night begone! 
When will our Lord appear? 
Our fond desires would pray him down, 
Our love embrace hint here." 
How true the text in view of the hastening judg-
ment. 
You might count on ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and 
even fifty or more years, and think that it was the 
more likely that you might with care to your health, 
&c., live this length of time. You look at your pa-
rents and see that they lived to an old age—that your 
own constitution is still firm and but little broken—
your health unimpaired, and hence you are ready to 
say, my time is not yet—I shall live a few years at 
least longer—and thus relapse into a state of indiffer-
ence as to a preparation for a future judgment and 
eternity. But, dear hearer, you cannot count on years 
in the future, though according to the laws of na-
ture you might calculate on years of health and pros-
perity yet. We are now living in the judgment age—
in the last generation of man on earth—and this gen-
eration is nearly passed, and it is written, " This 
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generation shall not pass away till all these things 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
There is a uniform agreement among profane his-
torians as to the character of the founder of Nineveh, 
which is in harmony with the account to which he 
Iras referred Gen. 10:10, 11, and, as to the identi-
cal person but little variance. The Bible informs 
us that it was Nimrod ;—Ctesias and Diodorous say 
his name was Ninus takes a very strong 
and reasonable ground that Nimrod is " the same 
with Belus, who was afterward worshipped as a God, 
under that appellation," and whose statue was in the 
famous temple at Babylon. Rollin thinks that Ninus 
was a son of Nimrod, or Belus, and that Nimrod 
named Nineveh in honor of that son. In addition to 
the good reasons given by Rollin to rove that Nim-
rod and Belus are identical, certainly the fact that 
Belus was worshipped as a God in Babylon proves 
that he was the most honored and noted warrior and 
king of their own tradition. There is a remarkable 
agreement between the sacred and profane historians 
as to the nature and character of its founder, and but 
an inconsiderable dispute as to the identical person ; 
whether Belus or his sun Ninus. 
Babylon existed perhaps as an independent city 
until Sardanapalus annexed it to the Assyrian em-
pire, and it remained tributary to that powerful gov-
ernment up to the days of Nabopolassar, the father of 
Nebuchadnezzar. He was a general in the Assyrian 
army, and whilst stationed at Babylon, raised the 
standard of rebellion against his king, and succeeded 
in retaining the government of that city and adjacent 
territory. As you have stated, he formed an alliance 
with Cyaxares king of Media. andaccomplished th e 
reduction of Nineveh. Before this, the political 
power and governing influence of the East rested on 
the eastern banks of the Tigris. 
Its location. There has been considerable contro-
versy as to the precise situation of this once proud 
city ; it was so completely destroyed. Time con-
verted its conspicuous monuments into a desert 
waste, and says a writer, " Even the wild vegetation 
that usually veils the ruins of fallen greatness has dis-
appeared, and desolation has spread over the entire 
landscape." 
Prof. W. corrected the account of its location as given 
in the account by Diodorus, placing Nineveh upon the 
banks of the Euphrates, and not on the Tigris; the er-
ror belongs, undoubtedly, to the transcriber, and is 
not chargeable to the historian. The late excavations 
made by A. H. Layard, Esq., has most satisfactorily 
settled the long uncertainty as to where Nineveh 
stood. It was " the disentonnbing of temple palaces 
from the sepulchre of ages, the recovery of the me-
tropolis of a powerful nation from time long night of 
oblivion." Nineveh, the great city " of three days' 
journey," that was " laid waste, and there was none 
to bemoan her," whose greatness sank when that of 
Rome had just begun to rise, now stands forth again 
to testify to her own splendor, and to the civilization, 
and power, and magnificence, of the Assyrian em-
pire. He was, doubtless, directed by God's overruling 
and special providence to undertake the removal of 
that " stern, shapeless mound, rising like a hill from 
the scorched plain "—the " accumulated rubbish and 
wreck of ages "—in order to reveal to the infidel gaze 
of the bold scoffer of our day, the visible ruin of that 
once powerful, rich, yet wicked city, as a demonstra-
tion of God's faithfulness in the execution of his 
word. 
Its size, 4-c. Historians differ in some points as to 
the height of its walls. Prof. W. has, with his charac-
teristic lack of credulity, rejected the extravagant and 
absurd statement that its walls were 200 feet high. 
All agree that its fifteen hundred towers were ex-
tended one hundred feet above the walls, and if the 
walls were two hundred feet, the towers would stand 
300 feet from the ground ! Such immense height 
would entirely defeat the object designed. 
It is generally agreed that its circumference meas-
ured about the same as Babylon, 480 furlongs, some-
thing over sixty miles. Although their circumfer-
ence was about the same, still Babylon contained the 
most within its walls, owing to the difference in the 
shape of the two cities. The plan of Nineveh was 
in the form of a parallelogram—Babylon was built 
in the form of an exact square. Prof. W. gives as 
quoted from Diodorus, the longer sides of Nineveh, 
one hundred and fifty stadia ; the shorter, ninety. 
Each of the four sides of Babylon measured one hun-
dred and twenty stadia, or furlongs. Now by multi-
plying the sides of Nineveh thus-150X90, we have 
within the walls of Nineveh 13,500 furlongs. By mul-
tiplying the sides of Babylon 120X120, it gives us 
14,400 furlongs, which makes 900 more furlongs with-
in the walls of Babylon than in Nineveh. 
The prophet Jonah speaks of its size : "Now Nine-
veh was an exceeding great city of three days' jour-
ney." The universal and common computation for 
a journey on foot is twenty miles a day, which agrees 
with the dimensions of Nineveh as given by Diodorus. 
Date of its overthrow. All unite in saying that 
this city was taken by the united forces of the Medes 
and Babylonians, but historians differ some years as 
to the time of its reduction. It is now generally ad-
mitted to be B. c. 606. Dr. Robinson names this 
date without any qualification whatever. He says, 
Nineveh was destroyed 606 before Christ." Layard 
says, " The date of the conquest of Nineveh by Cy-
axares is well ascertained as 606 before Christ."—
Clinton has very carefully collected the evidence to 
the point front sacred and profane history, which to 
my mind is conclusive. It is as follows : 
" The overthrow of Nineveh did not happen before 
the death ofJosiah king of Judah in B. c. 609, because 
a king of Assyria is mentioned at that period ; and 
Zephaniah, in the prophecy delivered in the reign of 
Josiah, predicts the destruction of Nineveh as a fu-
ture event. The sum of the argument is this. From 
the age of Tobit it appears that Nineveh was stand-
ing, in B. C. 601. For he became blind inn the year 
710, and survived that accident one hundred years ; 
and yet he died before the fall of Nineveh. Bunt a 
prophecy of Jeremiah, written in the first year of the 
captivity, B. c. 605, seems to imply that the city was 
then destroyed ; for in the particular enumeration of 
all the kings of the North far and near, and all the 
kingdoms of the world, &c., Assyria and Nineveh 
are not named. The testimony of Scripture, then, 
decides that the city was captured, and the Assyrian 
monarchy destroyed, certainly after B. C. 609, and 
probably B. c. 605. Herodotus brings the date to a 
narrower point. Cyaxares prepared to revenge his 
father's death upon the Assyrians, but was inter-
rupted by the Scythians, who held Asia for twenty-
eight years. After their expulsion, Cyaxares con-
quered the Assyrians. But as the Scythians were 
not expelled till B. c. 607, the capture of Nineveh 
could not occur till 606 ; and this date, obtained from 
Herodotus, is remarkably consistent with the accounts 
of Scripture." 
Thus it is very clear that Nineveh was destroyed 
in the year B. c. 606. A few years' difference in the 
precise date of its destruction would be to us of com-
paratively little consequence, were it not for the lat-
ter sentiment of Clinton, '' remarkably consistent 
with the accounts of Scripture." This to the humble, 
implicit believer in the exact truthfulness of the 
Bible, invests the fixing of the time of the fulfilment 
of a prophecy with some importance. 
I must stop writing, for I am already imposing 
upon your good nature and friendly feelings, and fool-
ishly taxing your patience. Taking a deep and per-
haps a little enthusiastic interest in such kind of 
matter, and being too unwell to study, I have hastily 
penned down these spontaneous reflections caused by 
reading the condensed " Introduction " to " The 
Prophecy of Nahum." I anticipate considerable plea-
sure in reading Prof. W.'s prophetic and historic 
criticisms, and also in carefully reading and compar-
ing his translation of that book. 
Newburyport (Mass.), July 300t, 1852. 
LETTER FROM G. W. CLEMENT. 
BRO. HIKES :—It has been a long time since it has 
seemed convenient for me to write you ; but it has 
not been owing to any diminution of interest in my 
feelings for the prosperity of the precious cause which 
you, in conjunction with others, are so devotedly en-
deavoring to advance, that has caused this seeming 
remissness. No ; the doctrines connected with our 
blessed hope, are still precious to me. The present 
state of things, as connected with the moral, politi-
cal, and religious world, agree with. the economy of 
God in the past; and as God is unchangeable in his 
character and purposes, the conclusion is inevitably 
certain, that the Advent people, as to doctrine, are 
right. Why then should any despair? or why should 
any strive to divert us from so important a position, 
as we occupy in relation to the coming of the Lord ? 
It is to be feared, that such as would thus do, are 
wanting in love to Jesus, and in real love to their 
fellows. There is a principle in human nature that 
is prone to seek its own emolument and present hap-
piness, even at the expense of the happinness of 
others. Self is too apt to predominate in the heart 
of man ; and unless it is subdued by the power of 
God's grace, it will not be an easy task to yield obe-
dience to that command, that requires us to " love 
our neighbor as ourselves." Without a change of 
heart, there will ever be found a disposition to make 
the best of ourselves, of our party, and of our pecu-
liar theological ()pinions ; and at the same time, while 
we are under the influence of motives which we con-
ceive to be friendly to the interests of self, we are 
forever finding fault with others, undervaluing the 
good they do, and speaking slightly of their senti-
ments. All these hard sayings, uncharitable, bitter, 
bigoted, and self-willed as they are, spring not from 
the spirit of religion, hut from hearts unsanctified by 
its influence, and entirely devoid of its nature or ef-
fects, while in the exercise of harsh denunciation 
against their brethren. The truth of this assertion I 
have proved by observing the effects produced on cer-
tain individuals at different times. When they are all 
broken down in spirit—are filled with the love of 
God, they are never known to indulge a habit of 
slander and denouncing of others. But when in a 
backslidden state, their constant theme is in that di-
rection. 
True religion produces such a thorough change in 
the hearts of those who experience its renovating 
power, that all old things pass away, and all things 
become new. Their old prejudices and bigoted no- 
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tions die away, and they feel nothing in their hearts 
hut love—true love to God and man. It is enough 
for them to know that an individual loves God and is 
striving to serve him, to entitle such to their Chris-
tian fellowship. It is enough for them to know that 
he bears the image of their Master ; and that he lives 
and walks according to the gospel. They will speak 
of them in their absence in the language of kindness 
and brotherly affection, and always on all occasions, 
treat them with true Christian respect. They love 
not only in word and in tongue, but in deed and in 
truth. In this way they show that they have the 
true distinctive mark of such as sincerely love God ; 
and by cultivating this disposition towards each 
other, they constrain even the infidel himself to take 
knowledge of them that they have been with Jesus. 
Their whole lives go to prove the truth of this doc-
trine—that those who love God, will love the breth-
ren also. That there are many who profess religion, 
who are of a very different character, is too apparent 
to be denied. And who are those professors ? Are 
they the deeply pious and devoted portion of those 
professing to be followers of Christ ? Are they those 
who love religion as well as talk about it? No ; 
surely those who thus live are not the ones who are 
wanting in Christian charity and brotherly love, for 
they have it in full and perfect exercise. Those who 
are destitute of the vital principle of religion are of a 
very different character. They are the ones who find 
but little else to do than to look on, and find fault 
with such as are endeavoring to serve God and bene-
fit their race. They are the ones who attach more 
consequence to their opinions than they do to the re-
ligion of the heart and life ; consequently they are 
forever contending and disputing about small differ-
ences of opinion, while they almost, if not entirely 
neglect the great essentials of the gospel. This is to 
be deplored, but that such spirits do exist in nearly 
every place, too many of us are the true, though un-
willing witnesses. 
Permit me to say, that I feel thankful to God, that 
you are again free from the annoyance of your per-
secutors, so far as the suit is concerned. The fact 
has again been demonstrated, that no man who is 
honestly engaged in a good cause, ever suffers any 
loss in the end from investigation. May the Lord 
sustain you in your arduous labors to do good, is my 
humble prayer. Yours fraternally. 
Landaff (N. IL), July 30th, 1852. 
PENCILINGS OF A JOURNEY. 
MY DEAR FATHER compliance with your re- 
quest, I have written the following pencilings of my 
journey. 
I left home on Monday morning, July 19th, and 
went to Worcester. This very thriving, pleasant, ru-
ral city, is surrounded by picturesque scenery. 
The Advent Church in this place remain steadfast. 
Bro. J. W. Bonham, who has labored with them for 
eight months past to good acceptance, is about clos-
ing his labors, on account of failing health. 
I left Worcester on the 20th for Albany, N. Y. 
The ride was very pleasant, though the weather was 
quite warm, and travelling wearisome. The scenery 
along the road was beautiful, all nature being clothed 
in green, and beautiful fields, majestic mountains, 
shielding deep ravines, sparkling, pellucid streams, 
tidy towns and villages, continually bursting into 
view. 
Albany is a city of considerable size, and the ear-
liest incorporated one in the Union—having been in-
corpated in 1686. Its Indian was Scagh-negh-ta-da, 
" the end of the pine woods." The Dutch named it 
Beaverwyck, i. e., Beavertown, and afterwards Wil-
lemstadt. Its position necessarily makes it a great 
thoroughfare. The railroads and canals, which ter-
minate in that vicinity, make it the entrepot for a 
great proportion of the goods destined for the New 
York market. To accommodate this trade, a basin 
has been constructed on the river, in which all the 
Northern and Western canal boats are received. It 
consists of a part of the river included between the 
shore and a pier eighty feet wide, and four thousand 
three hundred feet long. The pier contains eight 
acres, and the basin thirty-two acres. The principal 
buildings are the City and State Halls, and the Capi-
tol. The State Geological and Agricultural Rooms 
contain many objects of interest. Among those in 
the former I noticed Indian arrows, buttons, worn by 
some of Burgoyne's army, a piece of a blanket, sil-
ver coin, &c., which were found on the battle-ground 
of Saratoga not long since. I also noticed a piece 
of a plank, on which Gen. Frazer, a British officer, 
died. The story of his death well illustrates the 
cold-blooded atrocity of war. In the midst of the san-
guinary battle of Saratoga, which took place Oct. 7, 
1777, Col. Morgan, of the American army, took a 
few of his choice riflemen aside, and said : " That 
gallant officer is Gen. Frazer. 
I admire and respect 
him ; but it is necessary that he should die. Take your 
stations in the wood, and do your duty." Within a 
few moments, Gen. F. fell, mortally wounded ! He 
was supported by two officers, till he reached his 
tent. He said he saw the man who shot him ; that 
it was a:rifleman, posted in a tree. He died the 
next day, on the plank referred to above. I also saw 
a musket, and a shot-rack, which were recently re-
covered from the sunken wreck of the British frigate 
Huzzar. These engines of war were much rusted 
by the action of the water. This frigate was loaded 
with ammunition and men, for the British, and sank, 
in consequence of striking a rock, in Hell-gate, Dec. 
1st, 1780. The crew and troops having scarcely time 
to escape to the shore, were unable to rescue seventy 
American prisoners, who were enchained between 
decks, and went down with the ship. 
A Catholic cathedral is now erecting here. It will 
be, when completed, a splendid building, as the tem-
ples of the Man of Sin usually are. 
The Advent Church in this place still hold on their 
way, and maintain the gospel in its purity. 
Leaving A,lbatry Oil the 23d, I went to Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. The country between these placee, as 
viewed from the cars, does not present a great deal of 
vafegated scenery, except in a few instances. Its ap-
pearance indicates fertility, and plenty of materials 
for making hoards and shingles The great Erie Ca-
nal appears and re-appears along the route. Since the 
completion of this canal, in 1826, and the introduc-
tion of railroads, towns and cities along this route 
have sprung up, and grown very rapidly, in popula-
tion, business, and wealth. 
Seneca Falls is a village of about 3000 inhabitants. 
It has some manufactures, being situated on Seneca 
River, or outlet to Seneca Lake, where the water 
has a fall of fifty-nine feet in a mile. Its staple 
manufacture is pumps. The country around, espe-
cially on the banks of Cayuga Lake, is very fertile. 
The waving fields of grain, and the green meadows 
and pastures, with their rich carpeting of verdure, 
were beautiful to behold. Lake Cayuga is a fine 
sheet of water, extending forty miles north and south. 
There is but one island in its waters, and that a very 
insignificant one. The Cayuga Bridge, which crosses 
this lake at the town of Cayuga, on the great west-
ern turnpike, is one mile in length. It was first 
built in 1800, and erected for the third time in 1833. 
The Adventists of Seneca Falls, whose meetings 
I attended on Sabbath, July 25th, remain steadfast, 
waiting for the advent of Christ. 
Leaving Seneca Falls on the 26th, I went to Roch-
ester, N. Y. On the spot where this very consid-
erable and growing city now stands, there was not a 
single house in the year 1810. It is one of the most 
remarkable instances of the rapid and vigorous growth 
of a city in the country. The Erie Canal, and the 
railroad, passing through the city, make it a great 
thoroughfare between the seaboard and the inland 
waters. The staple produce of the valley of the 
Genesee is wheat ; and by means of the great wa-
ter-power at the falls of Genesee, Rochester has be-
come celebrated for the manufacture of flour.—
These falls, somewhat celebrated for the leap of Sam 
Patch, on account of the diversion of a large body 
of the waters on each side, for the use of the mills, 
have but a slight fall of water at this season of the 
year, though in spring a large quantity passes over. 
One might walk very near the verge of the precipice 
at this time, without danger of being washed over. 
From the " pinnacle " of Mount Hope Cemetery, 
may be had a very fine view of the city, the valley 
of the Genesee, and Lake Ontario, eight miles dis-
tant. I was much delighted by a visit to the shore 
of this lake, whose deep blue waters bound the hori-
zon for miles, and present a scene for contemplation. 
There is quite a number of Adventists in this place, 
who, though in a scattered condition, would gladly 
rally to the support of the gospel, if a faithful la-
borer could be obtained to break to them the bread of 
life.—(To be continued.) 
A MINISTER'S HEARERS. 
BY MI&S".2taso .
dow447 , 
Reader, attend while I rehearse, 
In unadorned and simple verse, 
What I heard stated not long since, 
When friends were met. It may evince 
The utter folly of the man 
Who would please all—lie never can. 
A—thought a minister should feel 
Uninterrupted, active zeal; 
A " reformation spirit," he 
Would always in a preacher see. 
B—said that knowledge should obtain 
The chief place in a preacher's brain, 
For zeal is useless in a cause 
If uncontrolled by wisdom's laws. 
C—thought loviever should prevail, 
For when all other graces fail 
It will endure. In heaven above 
The element of all is love. 
D—said he could not quite agree 
With what was said by brother C, 
For while love is to be desired, 
One who can reason is required, 
And none should he as preachers sent 
Who use not powerful argument. 
E—would make sympathy the grace 
Which in all preachers should have place ; 
The following verses were inadvertently omitted 
in last week's Herald. They are the conclusion of 
the piece headed, " The World," on p. 254. 
I love it, but I would not take 
My plenal portion here ; 
I am not strong with death to make 
A compact without fear : 
But let that robe be settled once around my shrinking 
soul, 
And I could dare to set my foot Where death's dark 
waters roll. 
Weak, erring, as this life has been, 
Its light oft dimmed with tears, 
It is no poet's dream, once in 
The land exempt from fears, 
My highest gratitude I know, in song will then be 
given, 
For having had in such a world a robing room for 
heaven. 
MARGRIJETTE MCNARY. 
The Public Men of California. 
It is sickening to contemplate the graphic picture 
below. If God interpose not by his spirit and provi-
dence, it is clear that " the land of gold " will soon 
become like the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in 
filthiness if not in exterminating judgments. The 
editor of " the Pacific " deserves well of his country 
for his fidelity to his high trust, though if he escapes 
lynching it will be because he has the protection of 
the same power that saved Paul from the forty Jews 
banded for his destruction, by an oath to kill him, be-
fore they either ate or drank. May he long be spared 
to sigh and cry over the abominations of the land of 
adoption, and expose the prurient wickedness of 
high places to united indignation and contempt. 
Congregationalist. 
" Our public men, as a body, are sadly wanting in 
moral and religious character. For the most part they 
are profane and infidel. Their example is on the 
whole hostile to good morals. They violate the Sab-
bath. They discountenance churches. Thus they 
strike at two of the most valuable of social institu-
tions. Many of them are grossly intemperate. Not 
a few live in open and shameless adultery. Some 
are well known gamblers. Some are bullies, ready 
alike for a fisticuff or a duel. Few, comparatively, 
are pure-minded and honorable men. Even some 
prominent among us—formerly ado-tired for their high 
moral character as political men, have sunk to the 
companionship of harlots. if the cover of midnight 
could be lifted suddenly, many a public servant 
throughout the State would seek some other conceal-
ment for his shame. But we trace and expose them 
no further. We have alluded to the character of 
such, only to deprecate it. We have no faith in 
wisdom inspired by brandy. We have no confidence 
in men given to strong drink ' and r strange wo-
men.' We must expect to be victims of men over 
us who are victims of their lusts. For a high moral 
character is essential to strict integrity." 
The Famine in Germany. 
The famine in the mountain districts of Southern 
Germany is yet unabated, and provisions scarce and 
prices exorbitant. A letter to the New York Ex-
press, dated at Prague, .June 3d, says : " Families, 
formerly in easy circumstances, are reduced to beg-
gary and to severe sufferings from hunger. Bakers 
sell bread of rye and oat bran at high prices ; people 
gather common grass along the public roads, and 
moss in the woods, cook and eat it to appease their 
hunger and prevent starvation. Such are few of the 
many glaring features of the great famine, not in 
the least exaggerated, but authenticated by official 
reports of local authorities to their respective Govern-
ments." 
OBITUARY. 
" I am the. RESURRECTION and the Lue ; he who believeth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he will LIVE: and whoever liveth 
and believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
Diets, at Worcester, Mass., July 14th, 1852, of in-
flammation, SARAH MARIA A., daughter of WILLIAM 
C. and MARIA. HALL, late of Manchester. Our be-
loved brother and sister have been bereaved of their 
only daughter, who was suddenly taken away by the 
relentless hand of death. They mourn, but not as 
those without hope. At the return of the Saviour 
they will meet their beloved child again. Those who 
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. This 
" blessed hope wipes the tear from the eye, and 
soothes the sorrow of the aching heart. " Thus saith 
the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine 
ears from tears : for thy work shall be rewarded, saith 
the Lord ; and they shall come again from the land 
of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith 
the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their 
own border."—Jer. 31:16, 17. J. W. B. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
Hines, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all men a Michell and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to collie. 
The course we have mirked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
lliA Judgment of the Quick mid 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 chants of darkness till tire Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nimn, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular etc cr 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 tire angel "QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly "—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the eiture. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Gon is at hand, it becometlt all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It hecometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures S 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciatiotut. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
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Much more was said, but I forbear 
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An angel from the reals on high 
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The Second Vial.-16:3. 
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of the wicked from the earth. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The Great Camp Meeting. 
A Camp-meeting will be held in the town of WESTFORD, 
Mass., commencing on Monday, August 23d, and confirming 
through the week. The churches in Worcester, Lynn, Low-
ell, Salem, Westford, Westboro', Fitchburg, Neu buryport, 
Haverhill, Lawrence, Nashua, Providence, R. I., Hope, and 
other places, are expected to participate in the meeting. 
We hope a comrrtrttee from each church will unite with us 
in arranging the details of the meeting, so that all things 
shall be conducted in " decency anti order." 
The prime object of this meeting will be to arouse the 
churches and ministry to the great work of bringing sinners 
to Christ. We need a revival among ourselves in this great 
work. 
Directions to the Ground.-The ground is located on the 
line of the Stony Brook Railroad, a short distance from the 
Westford depot, on the land of Abijah Fletcher, eight miles 
from Groton Junction, and the same distance from Lowell. 
Fare from the junction and from Lowell, 25 cts. Those com-
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will pass over the Worcester and Nashua Railroad toGroton 
Junction, and take the Stony Brook cars to the ground. 
Those coming from Lawrence, Haverhill, Newburyport, 
Salem, Lynn, and Boston, will go to Lowell, and take the 
Stony Brook train. 
It is designed that each church shall bring a tent, or pro-
vide for themselves in any other where room may be had. 
When not impracticable, it would be better for each church 
to provide a tent for themselves. There will be a boarding 
tent on the ground, where those who wish can provide for 
themselves. Horse-keeping near the ground. 
J. V. HIMES. 
The Westford Meeting. 
It was late last week before the location for the great 
Camp-meeting was decided on. Westboro' is the only other 
place that has been suggested at which to hold the meeting' 
rind that was named at too late an hour. We think, how-
ever, after looking over the whole region, that Westffird is 
the best location aim could be selected. 
Brethren, let is now make one united anti strong rally for 
the cause of God. Bring with you your unconverted chil-
dren and neighbors, and make special efforts for their conver-
sion to God. Let each pastor, and the members of his 
church and congregation that go with him, have an object in 
view, and let all be determined to labor in unison to accom-
plish it. Let everything approaching to selfishness, and all 
unprofitable questions, be laid aside, and let us all engage in 
the work of God with the whole heart. If this course be 
pursued, [natty perishing sinners, we doubt not, will be led to 
embrace the truth. Let those who think of attending the 
meeting, as well as those who remain at home, make it a 
subject of earnest prayer to God, that he would visit and 
bless its. May we forget the things that are behind, and be-
gin anew in our good anti glorious work. 
The great question of Christ's speedy coming is settled-
on this we have no doubts or perplexity. Whatever of la-
bors and sufferings there may be yet in store for us, we wish 
to perform and endure them as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, 
fur the eternal welfare of our race. If Adventists will rally, 
and come to this meeting with the feelings we have indicated, 
God will be with us and bless us. May each pastor so pre-
pare himself, as to be able to feed the flock of God, with 
such instruction-from his holy word as will give health and 
strength to all. 
J. V. H. 
Letter from D. T. Taylor. 
Bao. HIM ES am, in company with Mrs. T., visiting 
my wid met, mother and relatives at this my native place. 
Have preached here twice, but my Sundays are mostly spent 
at Waterbury, with the company of steadfast believers there, 
with whom we soon expect to reside and labor for some 
months to come. We had an excellent meeting last Lord's 
day. God was with us to bless and melt our souls in Chris-
tian love and harmony, as we sat together around the table 
of our Lord, and communed on his dying and living love so 
profusely lavished upon us all. Our prospects are good, and 
we have, it would seem, every ground of encouragement for 
soccessfol labor. 
The memory of the uninterrupted harmony existing be-
tween us in our associate capacity and "labor of love" dur-
ing the past year-the union and blessed spirit in all our so-
cial meetings-the kindly feelings pervading our ranks-the 
conversion of souls-the reclamation of the backslidden-
the dispersion of the black clouds that for a while seemed to 
lower over your path, together with a thousand unmentioned 
kindnesses, are all pleasant to think of, and we, though ab-
sent from you, still desire and pray for the prosperity of the 
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for binding, contains several hundred Engravings, over four 
hundred pages of printed matter, and a copious index.-
Nearly all the valuable Patents which issue weekly from thc, 
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Awe making the paper a perfect Mechanical Encyclopedia for 
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Exorcising an Evil Spirit.-A missionary of the American 
and Foreign Christian Union, laboring in Troy, gives an ac-
count of the ceremony of casting out a devil, which was per-
formed in that place last winter, and furnishes documents to 
substantiate his statements. The person who it was pre-
tended was possessed with an evil spirit, was a well educated 
and intellectual woman, acting as an upper servant in a Prot-
estant family, whom he takes to be a female Jesuit in dis-
guise. The person witnessing it was an Irish servant in the 
same family. The pretended devil answered the priest's 
questions audibly, and accused their master of having sent 
him in to the gir 1 . -N. Y. Observer. 
Sad Effects of Delusion.-Mr. M. Hawley, of Carlisle, is 
now confined in the jail in this village, a raving maniac, oc-
casioned by the excitement produced in investigating the pre-
tended spiritual phenomena, of which there has been so 
much said and written. He has heretofore been esteemed 
as a man of sound judgment, arid a good citizen, and his nu-
merous friends will deeply deplore the circumstances which 
have bereft him of reason, and rendered his confinement ne-
cessary . -Lora in Argus. 
We are requested by the oflicers of the Advent Conference 
in Canada East to say, that the address of Elder John Por-
ter is Danville, Shipton, Canada East. They add : "'The 
object in thus giving his address, is that those who were ap-
pointed by the Conference to receive subscriptions in aid of 
that deeply afflicted brother, may know where to send. Also 
that others of the Lord's stewards may have an opportunity 
of helping a brother in tribulation." 
The Pathfinder Railway Guide for August, is published by 
Geo. K. Snow, No. 5 Washington-street, and sold by per i 
odical dealers anti newsmen. No one should think of trav-
elling without one of these Guides. 
Weymouth Camp-meeting: 
There is a small society of Adventists in Abington and South 
Weymouth, under the pastoral charge of Elder Chase Taylor. 
They are enterprizing and faithful in the cause. Though few in 
lumber, they determined to hold a canto-meeting, in order that the 
community might hear the important points of our faith, and be 
prepared to meet the Lord. The object sought was in a good de-
gree attained. A large number were in at tendauce in the course of 
the meeting, and listened to discourses from Elders E. Burnham, 
J. Pearson, W. Burnham, Bentley, Hastings, (tunes, and others. 
Much satisfaction was expressed by many, who never heard our 
views presented before. Some of the brethren and sisters were re-
vived and encouraged, and we can but hope that some of the uncon-
verted present were deeply and savingly impressed. 
The meeting closed Sabbath, Aug. 8th. The day was fine, and a 
large congregation were in attendance. Some of the citizens of-
fered to subscribe to have the meeting continued another week• But 
this was not practicable. 
Bro. Taylor and his society, as well as the Adventists in attend-
ance, wish to express their [hooks to the citizens generally for their 
kindness and hospitality. 
Letter from D. I. Robinson. 
Boo. Hines:-My address will he for the future Worcester, 
Mass., as I have concluded to take the pastoral charge of the church 
in this place. 
My tour to Morrisville and Philadelphia was pleasant, but not 
good for my health. My labors with the chiu•clies in Newark and 
Bridgeport have been agreeable and profitable,1hope, to both them 
and myself, the past year. But the locations or those places were 
not so favorable to my recovery. Slay the good Shepherd provide 
for those churches one who will better feed them with the bread of 
life, and under whose labors they will be bettor prospered. 
We begin small and in weakness in Worcester, but hope to he 
blessed with increase. This place is considered a hard one for the 
cause, but the little number are united and resolute, and hope, by 
new efforts, sacrifices, and labors, to do good., and sustain the cause. 
We hope to be remembered in thy prayers of the brethren that we 
may have grace, health, and prosperity. 
We hope to see a general rally of the New England churches at 
the Camp-meeting to be held at Westford. May we all wake up 
in regard to the truth of the coining kingdom, and go to the meeting 
with the expectation of having a glorious time. 
My health, I tun glad to say, is improving. 
Worcester, Aug. 9th, 1852. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Aug. number (No. 4, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
little monthly paper is LOW out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 4.) The Little Ragged Boy. 
Interesting Anecdote. Teaching Children to tell False 
An Extraordinary Stomach Load 
The Slother.hoods. 
Parental Ditties. 
The Seasons in Iceland. 
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to send on their dues. We hope that all such will not neglect this 
opportunity, as there is a necessity that their arrearages should be 
paid. We hope, also, that efforts will be made to procure new 
subscribers for the Herald, not only that the truth may he more 
widely spread, but that those subscribers whom our enemies have 
succeeded in cutting off, and others that they will yet induce to stop 
their papers, may be made good. The enemy is active, and it will 
require great vigilance on the part of the friends of truth to rotifer 
his efforts innocuous. 
Elder EDWIN BURNHAM spent the last three Sabbaths in July 
with the Chardon-street Church, much to their edification ; and 
Elder J. PEARSON gave theca two excellent discourses last Sabbath. 
We are indebted to the Hon. Charles Sumner and the lion. 
Wm. H. SeWard, for late public documents. 
The address of MOSES CHANDLER is Waupaca,VVaupaca county, 
Wisconsin. 
church and society at Chardon-street, as we hope to be re-
membered by them when they worship the great Redeemer. 
My health is better than formerly. Let me add, too, that 
the " Voice of the Church ; or History of the Millennium," is 
nearly completed. Love to all. Yours, &c. 
Rouses Point (N. Y.), Aug. 3d, 1852. 
We are happy to hear from our true-hearted fellow-laborer. 
May every blessing attend him.-.1. v. H. 
New Work. 
• 
" The Napoleon Dynasty: or the History of the Bonaparte 
Family. 
An entirely new work. By the Berkeley Men. 
With twenty authentic Portraits. New York : Cornish, 
Lamport & Co., Publishers, No. 8 Park Place. 1852." 
We are indebted to the courtesy of the publishers for a 
copy of this superb work. It contains 624 pages, of fault-
less typography, on splendid paper, with twenty-two elegant 
engravings, fur the price of $2 50. 
" In this work we have the Bonaparte dynasty brought to-
gether ip a family group. Seventeen distinct and well-exe-
cuted biographies are clustered around the main figure in the 
picture. The ffither and mother of Napoleon ; his uncle, 
Cardinal Fesch ; the lovely Josephine, whom all the meld 
love and admire ; the detested and infamous Maria Louisa ; 
his brothers, Joseph, King of Naples and Spain, for several 
years a much-loved resident of Bordentown, N. J. ; Lucien, 
Prince of Canino, the poet ; Louis, King of Holland; 
 the 
fattier of Louis Napoleon, President of France.; 'Queen 
Hortense, the daughter of Josephine, and the wile of Louis; 
Jerome, the youngest brother, King.,ef Westphalia, who 
sought his wile amidst the lovely,datighters of America, and 
whose grandson now wears ire uniform of the Army of the 
United States ; the Si-Sters of Napoleon, Eliza, Grand Duch-
ess of Tuscany;' the beautiful Pauline, and Caroline, Queer) 
of Naples; and her husband, the magnificent and dazzling 
aturat ; Eugene, the son of Josephine ; the son of Napo-
leon, the Duke of Reichstadt ; and, lastly, Louis Napoleon, 
the grandson of Josephine, a President by name, but in re-
ality a King. These are the illustrious personages whose 
memoirs, with excellent portraits, here surround the life of 
him on whom the fame and fortune of all mainly depended. 
" A strange and wonderful life, indeed, is that central one 
-the earthly career of the greatest military genius of the 
world, which, in the period of fifty-two years, wrought such 
changes and revolutions in the nations, and consigned so 
many tens of thousands of mortals to a bloody grave. Born 
in an island of the Mediterranean ; educated at the public 
expense ; his hand twice rejected in marriage ; at times so 
poor that accident saved him from throwing himself into the 
Seine ; at the first opportunity presentment, displaying, at Tou-
lon, the most consummate skill and military science ; then 
imprisoned and stricken from the rolls of the French army ; 
then saving, in a moment of overwhelming peril and despair, 
the Government of France, by pouring his murderous broad-
sides through the crowded streets of Paris ; elevated to the 
post of General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior ; 
united in wedlock with the beautiful Josephine ; defeating 
the Austrian army at Monte-Notte ; thus fairly launched in 
his victorious course, carrying his resistless eagles over 
slaughtered armies and captured countries ; treading empires 
tinder his feet ; dispensing crowns ; dying, at last, impris-
oned on a distant and solitary isle, where, after sleeping fur 
a quarter of a century, his undecayed form revisits the coun-
try of his adoption, to repose forever on the soil from which, 
in life and in death, he had so long been exiled. 
"'The work before us is nut a mere compilation of materi-
als generally known. Many interesting incidents and details 
are Divert, nut known, we presutne, to the most industrious 
reader of the annals of the period. The design of the book 
-a most felicitous one-is carried out with great skill ; the 
style is *ate but glowing ; the typography of the highest or-
der, and the portraits, from original sources-some of them 
new to us-executed with care and truthfulness. We do not 
see how it can fail to acquire a popularity and circulation sel-
dom equalled by any biographical production."-New York 
Daily Times. 
The Steamer Henry Clay. 
The coroner's jury, after a long and rigid investigation of 
the circumstances attending the burning of this ill-fated boat, 
have returned the following verdict : 
That on the 28th July, A. D. 1852, while the persons de-
scribed as having been found dead by the coroner and jury at 
Yonkers, were passengers on hoard of the Henry Clay, she 
took fire and was run upon the shore, and there consumed. 
That John K. Simons, one of the passengers, was burned to 
death, and that all the other persons, either by reason of the 
shuck, occasioned by the collision of the boat on the land, 
were thrown overboard, or that, in order to save themselves 
from being drowned, they cast themselves overboard, then 
arid there suffocated and drowned in the Hudson River, of 
which drowning and suffocation they died ; that on this day, 
about 7 o'clock A. M., the Henry Clay left Albany, to convey 
passengers on the Hudson River ; that John' F. Tallman was 
Captain, and one of the owners ; that 'Thomas Collyer was 
also one of the owners, and that James L. Jessup was Clerk. 
That Edward Hubbard was pilot, and James Elmendorf was 
assistant pilot. That John Germaine was engineer. That 
Charles Merritt was assistant engineer ; and that a certain 
young man whose name is unknown to the jury, but who was 
employed to attend the bar on said steamboat, and that they 
were all on board, and had each of them part commie(' of 
the steamer Henry Clay, and that after leaving Albany on 
that day, and while the steamer was navigating the Hudson 
River, and while engaged in conveying passengers, the par-
ties, for the purpose of excelling in speed another steamboat 
called the Armenia, or for the purpose of increasing the 
speed of the said steamer Henry Clay, did create, or allow 
to be created, an undue quantity of steam, and in 80 doing 
did make, or allow to be made, excessive fires, and did not 
use ordinary prudence in the management of said fires ; and 
although often remonstrated with, did continue the excessive 
fires ; and, in consequence thereof, and through their culpa-
ble negligence and criminal recklessness, the Henry Clay did, 
at about fifteen minutes past 3 P. at., take fire, rind all the 
deaths ensued as aforesaid, and so the jurors say, that the 
deaths of all the said persons, and each of them, was the re- 
sult of an act perpetrated by the said John F. Tallman, 
Thomas Collyer, James L. Jessup, James Elmendorf, Ed- 
ward Hubbard,' John Germaine, Charles Merritt, and the 
said barkeeper, which act was imminently dangerous to oth-
ers, and evinced a depraved mind, regardless of human life, 
although it was perpetrated without any premeditated design 
to eflect the death of any particular individual. 
" The Musical World and the New York Musical Times." 
The Musical World and the Musical Times have been united, 
and are now published under the above title, by Oliver Dyer 
and Richard S. Willis. We have several times before spoken 
in terms of warm commendation of the Musical World, and 
need only to say, that it merits all the flattering notices that 
the press everywhere bestows upon it. Mr. Willis is an ac-
complished Musical scholar and critic, and will add much to 
the value of the paper. On and after Sept. 4th, the World 
and Tinies will be published weekly, instead of semi-monthly, 
as at present, at $3 a year ; two copies for ; five copies 
for $10, payable in advance. Among its numerous and tal-
ented correspondents is Lowell Mason, who is now in Europe. 
This gentleman's letters on musical matters in Europe, one 
of which appears in almost every number, are very interest. 
ing and instructive. The office of the World and Times is at 
No. 257 Broadway, New York. 
Appointments, &c. 
NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments must he received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they cannot he inserted mini the Killowing week. 
Providence permitting, I will be in Warrenville, Ill., about Aug. 
25th, and spend some tints in that vicinity, us Bro. Langdon Miller 
shall arrange. 
Brethren in the north part of Illinois, or south part of Wisconsin, 
wino wish me to preach to them, will write me immediately at 
Warrenville, Ill., care of Bro. Lan gdon Miller.-D. Boswoirrn. 
I will preach at Claremont, N. H., Sabbath, Aug. 15th ; Hartland, 
Densmore Hill, Vt., 17th-will some brother call for meat Hartland 
depot on the arrival of the first train from Bellows Falls ? Sugar 
Hill, N. H., Aug. 19th, and will labor for a time in the destitute 
churches in that vicinity, as Elder Shipman may appoint.-N. BIL-
LINGS. 
I will preach at Coburg Aug. 17th, '7 P M ; Perry's Cornets, 18th 
do ; l'earse, 19th do ; Toronto, 20th do ; Griggs, 21st do • Trusdell, 
22,1, 11 s M ; Nelson, 22d, 5 P m ; father Campbell's, 23,1, 7 e m; Bur-
rows, 24th do ; Deacon !toward's, 25th do ; Gray, 211th do ; Cliff, 
27th do Burdan, 29th, 11 A m, and at I'inegal 4 P M ; Ireland, 301h, 
7 P M.-D. CAMPBELL. 
There will he a Conference at North Danville, commencing Oct. 
6th, and continuing over the Sabbath. All ministering brethren and 
delegates front every church in this section, are requested to be 
present on Thursday, Oct. 7th, as the Conferent•e will be opened 
for business.-B. S. REYNOLDS, S. W. THURBER, 0. DAVIS. 
A Conference will he held in Vershire, Vt., commencing Thurs-
day, Aug. 26th, and continuing over the Sabbath. B. S. Reynolds 
and Henry Eastman will be protein. 
Bro. S. Heath will preach at Fitchburg, (in the Union Hall, near 
the Mansion House,) Sabbath, Aug. 15th -ISAAC NEWTON. 
Bro I). W. Sornberger will preach at Eaton, C. E., Aug. 25th 
and 26th,at5PM. 
 
Bro. P. Hawker will preach in Lynn (Dye-house), Sunday, 22d. 
Camp-Meetings, &c. 
A Camp-meeting will be held in Vernon, Vt., on land owned by 
1'. F. Burroughs, inn a beautiful grove about one hundred rods from 
the North Vernon depot, and four miles south of Brattleboro', to 
commence Aug. 2401, and continue over the following Sabbath. 
e hope there will be a general rally for a large meeting. W e 
think the prospects are, that more good might be accomplished here 
than south, where there have been niftily meetings of this kind, 
while 'tinily in this region have heard but little preaching Olt the 
speedy coining of Christ, and some none at all. We hope that all 
who can Will come with tents and provisions, prepared to Stay mitt 
the ground. There will he a tent for the RECOIllthodittium of those 
wino wish to provide fur themselves. Arrangements have also been 
made with Mr. Burroughs for all who may desire board, ,Ah.orSsceo-kTeT.e 
T 
p- 
ing, &c., on reasonable terms. Elders 
• M Preble and Edwin 
Burnham are earnestly invited to attend. (For the brethren.) 
The Lord willing, a camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, com-
mencing Aug. 301.11, to continue one week or more, upon the save 
ground occupied last year. The camp ground is about two miles 
from the depot at the terminus of the Naugatuck Railroad ; amid 
those coining by cars or stages will be accommodated with cheap 
conveyance to and from the meeting. 
We invite every friend of Jesus, and all who are willing to seek 
eternal ate through him, to meet with us in the tented grove, to 
worship the God of heaven. 
Board and horse keeping on reasonable terms, with an invitation 
to the poor pilgrims to come and eat, without money and without 
price. S. G. MATHEWSON, HIRAM MONGER, A. D. SMITH, MILES 
GRANT, COIIItllll tee. 
A Camp-meeting will be held on the ground owned by Mr. Steel 
and others, five miles front Bellefonte, and three miles from Miles-
burg, Pa., to commence Aug. 26111, and continue over the following 
Sabbath. They unite inn soliciting all to draw near unto flint who 
is the Muntani of living waters, with devout and importunate pray-
ers, that a pen tecostal shower of divine grace may descend upon 
the »annul servants of God, that they may be instrumental in guid-
ing saint and sinner to the Lamb of God. Elders J. Litch, I. R. 
Gates, J. T. bailing, and J. D. Boyer will be present. (13y order of 
the committee.) J. T. LANING, JOSEPH EZKLEY, ROBT. MCMUL-
LEN, JACOB SHEARER, J. D. BUYER. 
A Camp-meeting will be held in South China, Me., on land owned 
by William Pullen, to commence Aug. 24th, and hold ever the Sab-
bath. It has been our Mtn in selecting a place, to accommodate the 
brethren in Maine, and hence we have chosen South China, as the 
most central and convenient place between the Kennebec and Pe-
nobscot. W e invite all who love the Lord to come. Let the breth-
ren be on the ground at an early hour with their tents. Let there 
be a general rally. Bro. Couch nod ahem will be there to aid in 
the services of the meeting. (For the brethren.) F. H. BERICK. 
There will he a Camp-meeting in /I aytienville the 17th of August, 
to continue over the Sabbath. Come brethren, one and all, and 
bring your tents. Let there be a rally of the faithful. Friends 
coming in the cars will stop at the Northampton depot, where car-
riages will be in readiness to convey them to the camp-ground. 
CHESTER SHELDEN, H. MUNGER, HORATIO BASSETT, COM. 
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E. Holbrook, 443-$2 75 due; G. W. Dingley, 560, and books, 
sent ; Wm. Pettengill, jr., on acc't-each $3. J• Blair, 1064-$5. 
.1 Jenne, 580- 75 cts. Dr. G. 0. Somers, 637-$1 20. S.Wadswith, 
513-$3 25. Z. Handing, 570-63 eta.