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WHOLE NO. 705, 
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Extemporaneous Preaching. 
How shall we account for the comparatively 
slight moral power and popular interest of mod-
ern preaching? 
Few things, we believe, de-
tract more from the pulpit, in these respects, 
than the almost general substitution of reading 
for preaching—for they are not identical, any 
more than the letters of the one work spell the 
other. 
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church, some lew years ago, contended by a 
strong vote for extemporaneous preaching—the 
best writers on homiletics have contended"for it 
—even a Unitarian theological professof (the 
younger Ware, of Harvard) has written an en-
tire book, and the best one we have, on the sub-
ject—the most successful ministry of our land 
has been almost exclusively made up of extem-
porizers—the arguments and authorities for it are, 
in fine, altogether preponderating, and yet how 
predominant is the clerical proclivity for manu-
scripts. 
Even Methodist brethren, whose fathers 
filled the land with the thunders and triumphs 
of their powerful and natural eloquence, are be-
ginning to ape the primness of academic readers 
• to turn their once resounding pulpit batteries 
into " desks " for manuscript prelections. Alas! 
who would have supposed it of them ? It is 
like the reed of the shepherd by the mountain 
road, after the trumpet-blast of the careering 
herald, while yet the lingering echoes ring 
among the crages and heights. 
We cannot con-
ceive of the old effective Methodist preaching 
as other than extemporaneous, and all sister 
Churches should cry out against the charge as 
a common calamity.( 
Row those heroic men 
could have gone thundering through the land, 
-shaking the multitudes or melting them to tears, 
by the reading of manuscipts, is a problem 
which certainly no experiment ever solved, and 
no logic can show. "It is, in fact, quite clear, 
a priori, that they would have been an entirely 
different class of men, and Methodism a quite 
different affair, if they had been readers instead 
of what they pre-eminently were—preachers. 
Not only is extemporaneous preaching adapted 
to the themes, the style, and the effectiveness 
which we have demanded for the pulpit, but we 
contend that it is consistant with the best style 
of public discourse—with just thought and a 
sufficiently accurate verbal style. 
These later 
excellencies, of course, depend largely upon 
previous training, and the preparation of the dis-
course ; but it must be remembered also, that 
this is the case in regard to written sermons,—a 
speaker, without previous education, and imme-
diate study of the discourse in hand, would hardly 
succeed better in reciting it, than in delivering 
it extempore. 
He that would be a successful extemporizer 
should have a well-stored mind, and should 
thoroughly meditate his subjects, so thoroughly, 
indeed, that the whole perspective of the main 
ideas of his discourse, from the exordium to the 
peroration, shall be clearly open before his men-
tal vision when be rises in the pulpit. 
This is 
requisite, for two -reasons: first, that he may 
have something to say; and secondly, that he 
may have the confidence which will enable him 
to say it with self-possession and force Self-
possession, based upon a sufficient preparation, 
is the whole secret of success in extemporaneous 
speaking. 
A speaker thus sustained can hardly 
fail to have, spontaneously, the right language 
and due emotion; he has incomparably more 
facilities for them than the manuscript preacher. 
We say right language; and that is right which 
is Appropriate to the occasion. 
Perhaps it 
will not be quite as precise as the pen would 
afford—but ought it always to be so ? Would 
it be desirable, that the free, irregular but idio-
matic facility of ordinary conversation should 
be superseded at our hearths by the finical pre-
cision and literary nicety of book-makers? There 
is a style for books, a style for conversation, and 
a style for the rostrum or pulpit. 
He who 
rises in the latter, with his mind fraught with 
the ideas of his subjects, and his heart inspired 
with its spirit, will, in most .cases, spontaneously 
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VOLUME XIV. NO. 20 
utter himself aright. 
If he is occasionally dif-
fuse or repetitious, yet it may be legitimate to 
the occasion or the subject that be should be so. 
If his style may not read as well as it was heard, 
yet even this may be because of its peculiar 
adaption to be heard rather than read. 
_ We affirm further, that both the design and 
history of preaching are in favor of extempore 
delivery. 
The earnestness and directness for 
which we have contended may consist, as we 
have shown, with all varieties of talents and 
topics, but it is hardly compatible with pulpit 
reading. 
Very rarely indeed does a powerful rea-
der, like Chalmers, appear in the pulpit. 
We 
know not another case like his in the history of 
the Christian ministry. 
Chalmers tried the ex-
periment of extemporizing in his country parish, 
but prematurely abandoned it; yet when in his 
full splendor at Glasgow, his biographer says, 
that his occasional extempore discourses, in the 
private houses of his poor parishioners, teemed 
with more glorious eloquence than ever dazzled 
the crowded congregation of the Tron kirk. 
The two greatest preachers of modern times, 
Whitefield and Robert Hall, were extemporizers 
—their written sermons were composed after de-
livery, 
Such a thing as a manuscript sermon is 
never seen in the pulpits of the continent of Eu-
rope, except, when American or English clergy-
men happen to ascend them. 
If the European 
clergy, Catholic or Protestant, write their dis-
courses, they have, nevertheless, the good sense 
to deliver them memoriter, and thereby save 
them from the dullness of reading". 
In like 
manner did the old and unrivaled pulpit orators 
of France—Massillon, Bossuet, 
Bnnrdalo"0. 
Fletcher, Fenelbn—efschew the manuscript. 
The latter, in his " Dialogues on Eloquence," 
contends for extempore speaking; he argues 
that even the classic orators were mostly extem-
porizers. 
There is much to be said on both 
sides of this question. 
The most probable sup-
position is, that the classic orators wrote their 
discourses, memorizing their substance, and de-
livering them without much regard to the written 
language. 
(See Fenelon.) 
Ware says, " Chat-
ham's speeches were not written, nor those of 
Fox, nor that of Ames on the "British treaty. 
There were, so far as regards their language and 
ornaments, the effusions of the moment, and de-
rived from their freshness a power which no 
study could impart. 
Among the orations of 
Oicero, which are said to have made the greatest 
impression, and to have best accomplished the 
orator's design, are those delivered on unex-
pected emergencies, which precluded the possi-
bility of previous preparation. 
Such were his 
first invective against Cataline, and the speech 
which stilled the disturbances at the theatre. 
It is often said that extemporaneous speaking 
is the distinction of modern eloquence. 
But 
the whole language of Cicero's rhetorical.works, 
as well as particular terms in common use, and 
anecdotes recorded of different speakers, prove 
the contrary, not to mention Quinctilian's ex-
press instructions on . the subj'ect. Hume, also, 
tells us. from Suidas, that the writing of speeches 
was unknown until the lime of Pericles." 
The Anglo-Saxon pulpit, against all the pre-
dilections of that race, is, in fine, the only place 
where reading is tolerated, as a mode of popular 
address. 
The member of parliment, or of con-
gress, who should attempt to read his speech, 
would almost inevitably break down. 
The ad-
vocate at the bar, contending for the life of his 
client, would be considered recreant to all the 
urgency of the occasion were he to stand up be-
fore the jury to read his plea. 
The popular or-
ator who should attempt to read the masses into 
enthusiasm, on some high occasion of national 
exigency, would be dubbed a jackass. 
Why 
can manly and powerful eloquence be successful 
everywhere else but in the pulpit ? The pulpit 
is its most legitimate arena. 
The themes and 
aims of the pulpit are all adapted to it. 
The 
religious congregation is the true popular as-
sembly ; and there, if anywhere, ought eloquence 
to appear in all its liberties and powers. 
So almost intuitive is our perception of the 
inappropriateness of manuscript preaching to the 
popular religious assembly, that we cannot con-
ceive of Christ reading his discourses to the 
multitudes of Judea; or Peter, on the day of 
Pentecost, or Paul on Mars' Hill, preaching 
from a scroll. 
We know this could not have-been, 
not from any historical testimony, but from the 
manifest absurdity of the supposition. 
For the 
same reason we cannot associate it 'with any 
really popular and demonstrative preaching. 
Be assured, that he who can preach at all, 
can preach extemporaneously, if he will but 
persevere in the experiment. 
The young man or 
good education, who, from his academic habits 
or natural diffidence, or any other cause, is now 
addicting himself to pulpit reading, is putting 
his whole professional life under a servile re-
straint, which will not only consume unnecessa-
rily large amounts of his time, but trammel the 
development of all his pulpit powers. 
Let him 
study thoroughly his subjects; but let him de-
vote to the storing of his mind the time now 
spent in mere verbal preparation for the desk ; 
let him resolutely stumble along through what-
ever embarassments till he acquires the confi-
dence which habit will surely produce ; let him 
understand well that what he wants for the pul-
pit is thought and sentiment, and that these se-
cured, direct unpretending utterance, right home 
to the souls of the people, is the only true style 
for him—the noblest eloquence. 
If,- in the ex-
periment. he sometimes falls below the tame 
mediocrity of his former manuscript efforts, yet 
will he oftener rise transcendently above it, in 
the exulting freedom of an inspired and untram-
meled mind. 
* 
One fact let him be assured of, namely, that, 
whatever uniform and respectable character his 
manuscript preaching may have, the maximum 
power of preaching can never be attained by the 
sermon reader. 
He saerifices all hope of this ; 
and no young man should ever make that sacri-
fice. With God's commission upon, him, with 
the Holy Spirit within him, with all the assist-
ance of books and nature about him, with the 
solemnities of eternity before him, let him throw 
himself with all directness and energy into his 
work, speakiiig to the people in their own strong 
and simple speech, seeking not to ape the rhet-
orician, but to save souls, " pulling them out of 
the fire:" he will then speak from his heart 
with infinitely more eloquence than he could ut-
ter from his manuscript. 
We are earnest but not whimsical on this sub-
ject; there are doubtless occasions when a man-
uscript may be desirable in the pulpit, but they 
are rare—they should form tfie exception, not 
the rule. 
Why in the name of all good sense 
should the pulpit alone, of all places of popular 
discourse, be subjected to this stupid inconveni-
ence ? 
. 
fhe primness, the cold hollow dignity—so 
contrary to all spontaneous and popular sympa-
thy and hearty religious feeling—which now 
characterize the pulpit, are, we repeat, attribut-
able more tp this cause and to the technical 
homiletic form of the sermon, than to any other. 
It is not preaching—it 
is an intolerable per-
version of the idea; it is academic lecturing; 
it is an intellectual task, a dry literary exhibi-
tion in the wrong place, to wrong spectators, 
and performed in subjection to most servile 
usages and intolerable mannerisms. 
Clergymen should banish it—throw it to the 
winds—not only for the good of the people, but 
for their own relief.* 
It was unknown in the 
primitive Church for one hundred and fifty 
years; it is uncommon if. not unknown now in 
*YVare in his preface says, " There is at least 
one consequence likely to result from the study of 
this art (extemporaneous preaching) and the at-
tempt to practice it, which would alone be a suffi-
cient reason for urging it earnestly. 
I mean, its 
probable effect in breaking up the constrained, 
formal, scholastic mode of address, Avhich'follows 
the student from his college duties, and keeps him 
from immediate contact with the hearts of his fel-
low men. 
This would be effected by his learning 
to speak from his feelings rather than from the 
critical rules ot a book. 
Ilis- address would be 
more natural, and consequently batter adapted to 
effective preaching." 
ministries which sway the masses, as the Roman 
Catholic, the Baptist, the Methodist; it is un-
known on almost all other occasions where a 
practical end, and not a mere literary exhibition 
is designed—the political assembly, the legisla-
tive hall, the court-room. 
If you would have 
the pulpit invested with its legitimate freedom 
and power, break down its factitious restraints, 
banish its technicalities, and cast away its scrolls. 
Nay, if the reader would not suppose us too 
radical, we would say. tear down the pulpit it-
self. " A lawyer,"said Daniel Webster, " could 
never hope to gain his cause if he had to plead 
it boxed up in a pulpit." 
Jesus Christ and his 
apostles never saw a pulpit, unless the reading 
platform of the synagogue could be called one. 
They never took a text, trying their thoughts 
with a thread of bare verbalisms; Christ read 
the prophet, and sat down and talked to the peo-
ple. 
They knew nothing about " firstly," " sec-
ondly," and " thirdly;" they were too intent on 
their practical design to trifle with such dialec-
tic nonsense. 
They expounded, to be sure, but 
not with these scholastic trammels—they talked, 
they exhorted, they thundered; and the awak-
ened multitudes, consenting or scorning, were 
not concerned about how they preached, but 
what they preached. 
The manner could not but 
be right, and powerfully right, when spontane-
ous to the design. 
We would have the people 
come to church, then, not expecting to hear, gr 
rather sleep, under these intellectual prelections; 
but to hear fervent, practical,home-directed ad-
dresses respecting their duties, expositions, ar-
aii^ — 'O warnings 
OUBIIAJ 
common wants, to current events—to the indi-
vidual, to the community, to the times—ad-
dresses, thoughtful but not technical; too di-
rect and urgent for factious mannerisms, deliv-
ered, if you please, sometimes from the pulpit, 
and sometimes, as with the Papal priests from 
the altar, down before the people; sometimes 
from a text, sometimes from the whole lesson, 
sometimes without reference to either ; now on 
an abstract subject, now on a personal-one, and 
now on a public question—uging men to their 
personal salvation, and meanwhile, and for this 
purpose, refuting all sanctioned lies, assailing 
all the corruptions of the day, whether in high 
places or in low places, and pleading all genuiue 
reforms, 
Amazing radicalism this; 
Yes, good reader, 
just such, both in spirit and method, as that be-
fore which the priesthoods, the philosophical 
school, the senates, and the thrones of the classic 
heathenism fell. 
Such a restoration of primitive 
preaching would again " turn the world upside 
down,", till it turned it right side up. 
National Magazine. 
, Character vs. Wealth. 
ONE of the most important lessons to be im-
pressed upon business men, and especially upon 
young men who are seeking their fortunes amid 
the intense competition of city life, is a sober 
estimate of the value of character above wealth. 
It is natural to men to create factitious distinc-
tions in society. 
In every form of political 
society, except the republic, such distinctions 
exist by birth, or in permanent civil and ecclesi-
astical orders. 
Pride is nurtured, and vanity-
gratified by blood, or family, or title, or in-
herited rank. 
But such distinctions are pre-
cluded in a republic by its very construction. 
Hence there remains but one basis of social dis-
tinctions, namely, wealth. 
In limited circles, 
indeed, there may be an aristocracy of talent, of 
education and refinement, of literature or science; 
but in society at large, gradations of social posi-
tion are measured by stock-certificates, rent-
rolls, and bank-accounts. 'In the old world a 
patent of nobility holds good, though there be 
no income adequate to sustain it; and a penni-
less count stands higher in, the social scale than 
the untitled millionaire. 
Here the appearance 
of wealth is a passport from circle to circle. 
Office is uncertain, and does not always dignify 
the holder. 
It can not be retained, for life, 
much less transmitted to descendants. 
Hence 
362 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Wealth has gained an importance far beyond that 
which belongs to it where it used only to keep 
up«n estate, to display rafik, to enjoy life, to 
procure the advantages of education and of 
travel. 
Here it creates rank; it gives social 
position, even without antecedent respectability 
or correct education} and hence pride and vani-
tyj that in oth^r countries have so many and va-
rious outlets, here crowd into this one channel, 
and either fill it to its utmost level or agitate it 
with eddies and contentious waves. 
In this city, 
especially, the feeling is universal that to be 
anybody, or to do anything, one must have 
wealth. 
New York is as full of idols as Athens 
was when it was easier to find a god there than 
a man; nor do the objects worshipped in the 
two cities differ except in form. 
For what do 
men here worship if it be not stocks and stones ? 
With wealth in view as the one great object in 
life, upon which everything else depends, it is 
not strange that many grasp at the prize without 
any scruple as to the means. 
In the upper circles of fashionable life no 
questions are asked how one came by his money, 
if he only shows that he has money, or appears 
*Gurn-r-A religious teacher. 
tShastra—The Hindoo Sacred Book. 
says so: and what the Shastra says must be 
true." 
Your Gurn has taught you a different 
theory from that which my Gurn taught me in 
Scotland. 
Would you like to hear it, and com-
pare the two together. 
"Nothing would delight 
us more," reply several voices. 
In boiling your 
rice, what rises from the vessel. 
"Smoke— 
vapor." 
When a dry lid is held over it, what 
effect is produced. 
"It gets wet." 
What 
makes it wet. 
" The smoke or vapor." 
True ; 
and when it gets very, very wet, does all the 
vapor continue to stick to it. 
" No; it falls in 
drops." 
Very good.' What, then would you 
say of the vapor itself. 
Is it dry or wet. 
" Wet sure enough." 
Whence then does the 
wet vapor proceed. 
" It can only be from the 
water in the vessel." 
Is the vapor a different 
kind of substancet from the water. 
"No!" 
Why do you think so. " Because when it gathers 
on the lid, it turns to water again." 
So you 
conclude that .the vapor is just a part of the wa-
ter in the vessel. 
"Yes." 
What drives it, off, 
then, from the rest, and makes it fly into the air. 
"It is nature to do so." 
Think a moment; 
when you hold a cup of cold water in your hand 
do you see the vapor arising from it. 
" No." 
What,•then, makes the difference between the 
drinking water in your cup, and the water that 
boils the rice. 
"The one is cold the other is 
warm." 
What makes it warm. -" The fire." 
So it is from water warmed by the fire that you 
see the vapor ascend, and not from the coal. 
What must you infer from this. 
"That it is the 
fire which, in making the water warm, makes it 
go into vapor." 
After a heavy fall of rain on 
the heated ground, when the sun shines out 
strongly in the morning, what do you see. 
" Great vapors of mist." 
Where do they go to. 
"Up to the sky." 
Is it warm or cold up in the 
sky. 
"Very cold high up, so that the fakirs 
say the waters grow hard in the Himaylay at 
the source of Ganga." 
When the vapors from 
the wet ground rise up to this cold place, in the 
sky, what will become of them. 
" Perhaps they 
will form into drops as the vapors from the boil-
ing rice do upon the lid of the vessel." 
When 
a great many drops gather together, will they 
stay up in the sky always. 
"No; they will 
fall down." 
And when a great many drops 
of water fall down from the sky, what is it. 
" Rain, to be sure." 
Well, that is the theory 
of the origin of rain which I once learned from 
my Gurn in Scotland. 
"How 
natural!"— 
"How like the truth!" 
"Surely it is true." 
"Ah! Ah! what have 1 been thinking. 
If 
your account be the true one, what becomes of 
nnr 
What becomes of our Shastra ? 
If your account be the true one, the* Mir Shas. 
tra must be false. 
Our Shastra must either be 
not from God, or God must have written lies. 
But this is impossible. 
The Shastra is true; 
Brahma is true ; so your Gurn's account must 
be false; and yet it .looks so very like the 
truth:1 
Now, here was the commencement or first 
germ of mental struggle which only terminated, 
in the case of some, with the entire overthrow 
of Hindooism. 
Up to that moment the very no-
tions that it was possible for any thing in the ho-
ly Shastras to be false; had never been conceived 
even as the creation of a fitful dream. 
Even to 
hesitate on a point so sacred and fundamental, 
must pre-suppose a degree of mental effort which 
those who have been nursed in the lap of truth 
and freedom in a Christian land, can scarcely 
conceive. 
And, yet, here was now the sudden 
injection of a doubt where all doubt was be-
lieved to be impo'ssible—the sudden starting of 
a suspicion, where suspicion was believed to be 
an insult to the memory of an immortal ances-
try—ap impious contempt for the authority of 
the gods., Yet so palpable were the facts, so 
natural the inference, and so like the truth, that 
in spite of such an array of antecedent antipathy, 
the mind strove in vain to shake itself loose 
from a dreaded and hated, but struggling and 
clearing conviction. 
Duff on India Miss. 
The Priest's Curse-
TIIE " Irish Society," like all our Irish Socie-
ties, speaks of the "persecution" which they 
suffer who countenance preachers or Scripture 
readers, who patronize Scriptural schools or sup-
port missionaries. 
From the altar often has the 
priest denounced all these in term!; that few 
would believe,—only that impartial reporters 
have borne witness, and the witness has been 
corroborated by the violent doings of the mobs 
instigated by these harangues. 
The following is a specimen of what a priest 
can do in the " cursing " line,—and this not an 
Irish priest, a Maynooth alumnus, located in 
some remote, uncivilized region; but an Oxford-
bred clergyman,—in 
Islington,—who having 
gone over to Rome, has imbibed a portion of the 
spirit she inspires. 
It appears that reports to 
his disadvantage, had been spread abroad: and 
therefore Mr. Oakley gives, under his own hand, 
the genuine article. 
When this is done in the metropolis of Britian 
by an English convert to Romanism, I leave 
you to conjecture what an Irish priest could do 
in Ballysaggartmore or Clonakitty. 
EPHOROS. 
Copy of a declaration read in St. John the 
Evaiigalisfs 
church, Islington, on the morn-
ing of Sunday, Jan. 29, and Sunday, Feb. 5. 
1854. 
" t In the name of the Father, and of the 
Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen ! 
" We, Frederick Oakley and William Dolan, 
priests of St. John the Evangelist's Church, hav-
ing duly considered the heavy obligations under 
which the canons and constitutions of tho Holy 
Catholic Church require all pastors of congrega-
tions to denounce heresy, and warn the flocks 
committed to their charge against peril of it, do 
publicly give notice, in the face of this congre-
gation— 
•M* 
-M, 
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Tv- 
*7r 
vv" 
^ 
vf* 
"That in the presence of God, and in the face 
of this congregation, we solemnly declare and 
pronounce all such schools to be places utterly 
unfit for the education of Catholic children—to 
wit (here seven schools are named, and others 
included under a general designation). 
" That we warn all Catholic parents of the 
grievous mortal sin they commit in suffering 
their children to attend these and the like 
schools. 
"That we solemnly declare our deliberate 
purpose of refusing the 'sacraments of the Church, 
even in the hour of death, to all parents who 
aie known to be guilty of such a sin, and shall 
not have made public amends by removing their 
children from the aforesaid schools. 
" That we will suffer no such parents to be 
buried in the cemetery attached to this church, 
nor read the burial office over them at their own 
dwellings, nor admit them to be churched, nor 
to stand sponsers at any baptism. 
And, finally, 
that we shall make it our duty to learn the oames 
and dwelling places of all Catholic parents who 
so offend against. the law of God and of the 
Church. 
"To the end that all Catholic parents may 
take warning and avoid these greivous penalties, 
and that eternal damnation, of which mortal sin, 
unrepented of and unrepaired, is the sure fore-
runner, we have adopted, as the-true course of 
Christian charity, this public method of ac-
quainting them with their duty in the aforesaid 
regard, and with the dreadful consequences of 
disobedience. 
FREDERICK 
OAKLEY. 
WILLIAM 
DOLAN. 
"St. John's Church, 4th Sunday after the 
Epiphany. 
1854. 
(Read at all the masses, 
a«d again on the 5th Sunday after the Eoiphanj, 
FVh. 5.") 
This paper, be it remembered, is published by 
Priest Oakley himself, in order to set himself 
right. 
It is his vindication ! 
Cor. N. Y. Observer. 
The Dilemma of Mohammedanism. 
THE Turkish Empire has two heads. 
The 
spiritual and temporal powers are not, as for-
merly vested in the same person. 
The Sultan is 
the head of the secular power; but the spiritual 
is held by the Ulemah, a body of lawyers, with 
a Mufti, or High Priest, for their head. 
These 
conform their decisions to the Koran, as an in-
spired and infallible standard; and the law of 
the Koran comprises so muph of the laws of the 
State, that this spiritual authority secures to the 
Ulemah a great share of the legislative and ju-
dicial functions, leaving to the Sultan little 
more than executive powers. 
The Ulemah is 
considered divine and inviolable and not subject 
to the Sultan. 
_ This Civil Constitution presents a serious bar-
rier to those reforms which the English and 
French have comanded, as the condition of their 
interference to save the Empire from destruction. 
They demand, in general, that Christians shall 
be put on equal footing with Mohammedans. 
The Sultan, on his part, is willing to have it so. 
But this comes in direct conflict with the Koran; 
and to grant it, would be to abolish the Koran. 
For this potent reason the Ulemah has refused 
to consent to the reforms; and, without such 
consent, the act of the Sultan would be illegal. 
It would indeed amount to a radical revolution 
ofthe Government. Here, then, arises the dilem-
ma. 
It is impossible to see how this consent of 
the priesthood can be either given or withheld. 
The priesthood cannot declare that to be con-
sistent with the Koran which goes plainly to its 
annihilation. 
But then, on the pther hand, how 
can it be withheld ? France and England have 
demanded it; at least in part; and the part 
would be as much a violation of Mohammedan 
law as the wholts. 
Now if it is refused, the de-
mand will be backed by the power of France and 
England, and by the Christian population ofthe 
Empire. 
So, if the priesthood 
yield, they 
abolish the rule of the Koran, 
If they refuse, 
it is to be abolished by civil power. 
At any 
rate, therefore, the present year gives date to 
the death of the Mohammedan rule in Turkey. 
If any are sympathizing with Russia, and 
hoping that she may conquer, in order that she 
may destroy the Mohammedan - power, their 
prayers in this direction are superfluous. 
The 
thing which they desire is already done. 
The 
Mohammedan system in Turkey has come to a 
dead lock. 
The present Sultan may hold his 
place, and the affairs of the Empire may go on 
without any further revolution. 
Yet it will be 
true that the Mohammedan Empire has ceased. 
It is not needful that the present officials should 
be displaced: that some foreign power should 
come in with the sweep of conquest, or that a 
Greek Empire should be substituted for the 
present. 
Without any of these things, the 31o-
hammedan rule is dead. 
And if there are any 
prophecies of Scripture which were to have been 
accomplished in its dissolution, those are now 
accomplished. 
Puritan Recorder. 
"As thy Day, so shall thy Strength 
be." 
WHEN brightly shines the morning ray, 
And countless toils await the day ; 
When much thou fear'st thy strength too small 
To meet—aye, more, to conquer all;— 
Press on ! it is God's own decree 
That, " as thy day, thy strength shall be 1" 
When fainting 'neath the blaze of noon, 
The slightest aid were richest boon ; 
While all around, temptations stand, 
To lure with whispers great and bland, 
Yield not! 'tis written that for thee, 
Just, " as thy day, thy strength shall be! " 
When night falls deep and clouds arise,— 
And alHhy hope, like starlight, dies ; 
While winds sweep cold along the plain, 
And sad, thou look'st for friends in vain; 
'Tis almost o'er ; thy haven see,— 
Rest! " as thy day, thy strength shall be !" 
A hand unseen completes the toil, 
From which thy weary hands recoil; 
The same hand tempers heat and cold; 
Guides the young limbs—supports the old;— 
Through shades of night by Him we see 
Thus, " as our day, our strength shall be ! " 
Who would not in the conflict fail ? 
Who would not cower before the gale ? 
Who would not shrink, and veil his eyes, 
When some dread bolt toward him flies, 
Were not this promise plain to see,— 
Lo ! " as thy day, thy strength shall be ! " 
Father ! for all I reckon mine, 
I claim that promise, so divine! 
Whate'er our mortal steps befall, 
Content on Thee alone to call! 
Why covet ought, from ought why flee— 
While " as our day, our strength shall be ? " 
Churchman. i. 
An Interesting Letter. 
• THE following curious specimen of- Chinese 
composition is said to have been forwarded from 
the Chinese rebel Chief to the English, French, 
American and other foreigners, resident at Hong 
Kong: 
"I, Hug-Seu-Tsene, by the grace of Heaven 
bestowed in the course of time, reviving, after 
an interval of ages, the Prince of Peace (Ta-
Ping-Wang), recognized by Heaven as Emperor 
(Kwangto) of a new dynasty, the Ming restored, 
a great (or stout) Chinese, signify my pleasure, 
to you, barbarian slaves and foreign devils, say-
ing : ' You, ye foreign slaves, are but as fowls, 
apes, or dogs, by kind. 
You are ignorant of the 
five relations ; you are not susceptible of civili-
zation. 
It was solely because the rulers of the 
South—faithless to China and coveting their 
money—fostered the men from afar, and invited 
you, ye slaves, to bring tribute and to trade, 
that you obtained authority to build houses and 
trade in Chusan and Ningpo, in the provinces of 
Fokien and Chekeang—that you were suffered 
to anchor at Macao and Whampoa, in Canton, 
and carry on your commerce. 
For years you 
brought tribute and came as.guests—you were 
obedient to our laws—you submitted to the in-
fluence of our people's feelings. 
You had been 
as women for 200 years, when you gradually 
(or secretly) became pretentious, and the imbe-
cile Governors of the eighteen provinces were 
hand-tied, as far as coping with you went. 
" In 1838, when Lin burnt your opium, and 
Admiral Kwan died gloriously in action with 
you, Jeshen aud Lungwan sold themselves like 
traitors. 
Keshen and Keying sold you Hong 
Kong and lied to the Emperor—a matter of 
ghashing of teeth. 
You usurped territory, plun-
dered the people, defiled their women, took their 
houses, desecrated their graves, ruined their 
fields, burnt their temples, &c., with the heart 
of the fox, affecting the fierceness of the tiger. 
"1 Ayya! Is not your worthlessness low even 
to ridicule ? But you looked not for it that the 
wisdom of Heaven would give its clue to the 
virtue of man, and that the hearts of the people 
would resume their allegiance to China. 
'"I, the king, have spoken, pf war, and have 
talked of the movements,of .troops. 
We have 
to have it. 
If he lives in a fine house, keeps a 
good carriage, gives splendid parties, no ques-
tions are asked as to whether all this is honestly 
paid for. 
With such a standard before them, 
it is not surprising that aspiring men, who feel 
themselves in other respects the equals if not the 
superiors of their wealthy neighbors, should find 
some short road to wealth. 
The passion for 
riches, the idea that success in life depends 
mainly upon wealth, is fruitful in temptations to 
dishonesty. 
" For they that will be rich fall 
into temptaion and a snare, and into many fool-
ish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in des-
truction and perdition. 
For the love of money 
is the root of all-evil: which while some coveted 
after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced 
themselves through with many sorrows." 
This is the maelstrom of character in our city. 
Men will be rich, they must be rich : they put 
forth on the sea of speculation, they reach after 
every floating straw of prosperity, they give 
themselves to the giddy passion of money:getting, 
and are whirled every whither by its power. 
Smoothly they ride at first on the giddy out-
skirts of dishonesty, till, infatuated with the 
pursuit, they dive deeper and deeper, and are 
sucked into the mighty vortex—a wreck of 
character, fortune, hope, and life. 
The only 
safeguard is to hug the shore of honesty. 
Make 
character supreme. 
So strong is the infatuation of wealth among 
llK-.Bi'fVi >V>p orlfire, nf TOoolth ahoVC ehal","('or 
such the imputed disgrace of poverty, that even 
feminine delicacy will come out from the retire-
ment of private life to resent the imputation of 
poverty before marriage as a greater grief than 
a husband's fraud} and the newspapers must 
publish to the world that, whatever robberies a 
man may be charged with, his wife was never 
guilty of the stupendous crime—of being " a 
poor girl." 
We transgress no rule of propriety 
in thus adverting to what, is matter of public 
advertisment, 
We offer no censure upon indi-
viduals. 
But is it not pitiable to see from such 
volunteer exposures of high life, how wealth and 
character stand respectively in the estimation of 
many who make our society ? The influence of 
such false pride is baleful in the extreme. 
Is it 
not worth to any woman more than gold to say, 
" However poor 1 or my family may have been, 
my husband is an honest man ?•" 
independent. 
A Visit to Dr. Duff's English School 
in Calcutta. 
RAIN? 
« R-a-i-n," spells one of the boys. 
What is rain? 
" Water from the sky." 
Has 
it been produced by the sky itself? 
"No!" 
How has it been formed! 
''Oh!" says one, 
with the characteristic smartness of the Hindoo 
youth, " Do you not know yourself?" 
I think 
I do; but my present object is to find out 
whether you know it, 
'' Well," replies another, 
with an air of evident satisfaction, " I'll tell 
you—it is squirted from the trunk of India's 
elephant 1" 
Indeed: that is a new theory of 
the origin of rain, which I did not know before; 
and I should now like to know on what evidence 
it is founded. 
" All I can say. about it is, my 
Gurn * told me so," 
But your Gurn must have 
some reason for telling you so. 
Did he ever see 
the elephant himself? 
" Oh. no ! the elephant 
is wrapped up in a cloud, as in a covering, and 
no one can see it with his own eyes." 
How, 
then, came the Gurn to know that the elephant 
was there at all? 
"To be sure, because the 
Shastra t says so." 
Now I understand the mat-
ter. 
You say the rain comes from the trunk of 
an elephant, simply because the Gurn has told 
you that this account is contained in the Shastra. 
" Certainly; for though I have never seen it 
with my own eyes, yet I believe it is there, be-
cause the Gurn has told me that the Shastra 
363 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
many thousand guns of divine power, weighing 
millions of pounds. 
We have many myriad ves-
sels one hundred chang in length, which with-
out wind can convey themselves hence to the 
three Kiang provinces. 
On a lucky day, which 
we shall select, we shall descend straight on the 
province of Canton, and in autumn shall send 
you a challenge to fight. Our clustering stand-
ards will shade the nine heavens, and with num-
berless swords and spears we shall enclose the 
seas. 
Our divine fire shall consume your ships, 
our troops your dwellings ; our divine weapons 
shall flash to the pole, and our divine youths and 
maidens shall be as thunder shaking the skies. 
" ' Now, I hereby signify to you my pleasure 
that you immediately.release such of our people 
as are in your prisons, and treat Chinese gentle-
men with respect. 
If our houses and wealth are 
restored and your foreign guns and devil ships 
given up to us, we will secure to you your miser-
able existance. 
Bat, if you will persist in your 
blindness, and adhere to your former courses— 
enormously vicious and violent, when the soldiers 
of Heaven shall come, and the winged sword 
shall haVe eyes to see, do not charge me, the 
King, with a want of humanity. 
" ' Let every one tremble and obey this de-
cree, which is tendered for the information of 
the foreign slaves and hairy devils.' 
" Nanking. 
This letter is forwarded by VANG 
SEU TSIN®, Elder of the Left Wing, King by 
the Grace of Heaven, Minister-in-Chief of War 
at Home and Abroad, King of the State of 
Peace, &c." 
Disaster on the Great Western 
Railway. 
FROM the Detroit papers we gather particulars 
relative to the recent collision on the Great 
Western Railway, in Canada, which resulted in 
so awful a sacrifice of human life—more than -
fifty of the wounded have died and as many 
more being seriously wounded. 
The collision 
occurred at about four o'clock in the morning, 
at an hour when a dense fog rendered the dark-
ness so intense that no object could he seen a 
few feet distant from the train. 
A St. Louis 
gentleman who was in one Of the cars, but suf-
fered no injury from the shock, first discovered 
that the accident had been a serious one, by 
stumbling over a corpsc. 
He next heard some 
one cry for assistance, and by feeling discovered 
a man's head protruding from a pile of rubish. 
There are different rumors concerning the 
cause of this catastrophe. 
One report is that 
the watchman fell asleep on his post, and on 
waking informed the engineer of the gravel train 
that the passenger train had passed by. 
Anoth-
er rumor is, that the contractor ordered the en-
gineer of the gravel train to go on, much against 
his (the engineer's) wishes; that he expostulated 
against it, and almost refused to go, but the con-
tractor ordered him, in a peremptory manner, 
to go on, and told bim that he would bear the 
blame. 
The Detroit Advertiser contains the follow-
ing incidents of the collision : 
" The appearance of the wreck—the mingled 
mass of broken cars and crushed bodies—is de-
clared by eye witnesses, to have been perfectly 
indescribable. 
The engineer of the gravel train, 
which had caused the destruction, frightened al-
most out of his senses at the ruin, fled as fast as 
possible from the scene. 
The darkness of the 
night was intense, but by stripping boards from 
a neighboring fence, and taking fragments of 
the cars, fires were kindled which threw a lurid 
glare over the scene, revealing and adding to its 
horrors. 
Axes were procured as speedily as 
possible, and the work of rescuing the dead and 
wounded commenced. 
But at the very sight of 
the writhing mass, almost all the uninjured 
passengers sickened aud grew faint. 
It required 
far more than ordinary nerve to sustain one in 
the task of removing the crushed, mangled and 
bleeding bodies. 
Some, however, there were 
—can we believe it ?—who at the very first mo-
ment of assured safety for themselves, began 
anxiously inquiring and searching among the 
rubbish for carpet bags and trunks which they 
had lost! 
" A few, applied themselves to the work of de-
liverance, and toiled for five hours, before assist-
ance came. 
The patriot Meagher was distin-
guished for his zeal in the work. 
His escape 
was one of the narrowest. 
The sole of one shoe 
was taken off completely, and his coat torn from 
his back, yet he was scarcely perceptibly bruised. 
His hat and shawl he afterwards gave to some 
of the wounded, and when he arrived with what-
ever substitute for his lost garments he could 
procure, covered with blood and clay, he looked 
as though he had come from a well-fought fiejd. 
" The dead, as fast as extricated, were lain to-
gether, and covered with canvas. 
Their lot 
seemed happy compared with the wounded, who 
were yet- waiting death in agony. 
Boards were 
laid upon the top of the car seats, and the cush-
ions placed upon them for the wounded. 
Thith-
er they were conveyed, as easily as possible. 
Some who were so mangled as not to hope, and 
hardly to desire life, resolutely stifled any ex-
pression of pain, and sought to give their deliv-
erers their thanks and gratitude, while others 
scarcely perceptibly injured,'were both loud in 
their complaints and difficult to please. 
" A young man from the East, whose leg was 
terribly broken, never uttered a sigh while wait-
ing his turn, and moaned but once when being 
removed. ' Must I lose it!' said he, in a sub-
dued voice, as he gazed on the shattered limb; 
and that was all. 
An elderly lady of great size, 
crushed beyond hope of recovery, wished not to 
be taken into the cars, but calmly await death 
where she was. 
' Gentlemen,' said she expostu-
lating mildly, ' you will find it very difficult; I 
weigh two hundred and forty pounds.' 
Her per-
fect coolness in such an awful moment was not 
surpassed on the field of Alma nor the deck of 
the Arctic. 
Her Jremoval was indeed difficult, 
but it was accomplished. 
" The conductor, an old and hitherto fortunate 
railroad employee, declared that' this was the 
last of his railroading.' 
He had done. 
"The ill-starred train being off its time, an 
other was expected from each way every moment. 
Signal men were sent each way ; but the terror, 
or some other cause, so influenced them that 
they could not be kept at their posts. 
" Through all difficulties, however, the few 
whose nerve equalled the task toiled on until 
what human aid could do, was done. 
The 
friendly offices demanded by our common hu-
manity are well discharged, the dead are com-
mitted to their mother earth by friendly, though 
stranger hands." 
Another Fearful Railroad Calamity. 
" CHICAGO, 
NOV 
3.—The passenger train for 
Bock Island, which left Chicago at 11 o'clock 
on Wednesday night, met with a most frightful 
accident, caused by the breaking of an axletree 
of the engine, when near theMinoka station, the 
result it is said, of running over a horse on the 
track. 
The engine and a portion of all the cars 
were thrown with great violence from the track, 
breaking the ribs of the engineer, and killing or 
wounding and scalding from thirty to forty first 
class passengers. 
The citizens of Joliet promptly 
rendered all the assistance in their, power to the 
wounded. 
Physicians who were present say 
that at least ten or twelve of those scalded will 
die within twenty four hours. 
At the latest ac-
counts all the suffierers had been removed to a 
large stone building on Scott street, in the vil-
lage of Joliet, and the employees of the Rail-
road Company, as well as the citizens of the vil-
lage, were usping every effort to alleviate their 
sufferings. 
" It appears that when the engine was thrown 
off the track the two forward passenger cars 
were hurled on top of it, and the steam escaping 
was driven with tremendous force through the 
dense mass of human beings packed closely among 
the wreck of the cars. 
The engineer G. W. 
Brown, was fearfully scalded. 
His brother, act-
ing as fireman, had both his legs broken. 
A 
gentleman named Carpenter, from Poughkeep-
sie, N. V., was terribly burned and scalded: J. 
W. Albion of Morger county, Ohio, was also 
severely injured ; [several names not clearly 
ascertained follow, then] Mrs. Cox of Washing-
ton co., Iowa, seriously injured; Margaret Laugh-
lin of Gettysburg, Pa., seriously if not fatally 
injured. 
We have been unable to learn the 
names of the other sufferers, but are assured, on 
what we have reasons to believe to be respectable 
authority, that the whole number of passengers 
who were seriously wounded is not under forty. 
We shall endeavor to get more full details with-
out delay. 
The conductor of the train, Mr. Van 
Burket, escaped with very slight injury. 
When 
our messenger left the scene of the disaster,'at 10 
o'clock yesterday forenoon, several of those who 
were scalded remained insensible, and others 
were writhing in their last agonies." 
Excuses for not Attending- Church: 
OF THOSE WHO 
ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE. 
No other time for myself. 
Mean to have a walk into the country. 
No fresh air but on Sundays. 
Caught cold last night at a party, intend nurs-
ing myself to-duy. 
Don't like a Liturgy—always praying for the 
same thing. 
Don't like extempore prayer—don't know 
what is coming. 
Don't like an organ—it's too noisy. 
Don't like singing without music; makes one 
sad. 
Can't bear an extempore sermon—too frothy. 
Dislike a written sermon—too prosing. 
Nobody to-day but our own minister. 
A stranger to-day—don't like strangers, al-
ways so much to say. 
Can't keep awake when at Church—snored 
aloud last time 1 was there—shan't risk it again. 
Four Questions. 
A SINNER out of Christ is all on the side of sin; 
he is dead while he lives, and is apt to say, 
" Peace, Peace," while God says " there is no 
peace." 
Ask these short questions, whereby to 
know whether your heart be truly changed:— 
Hath thine heart been turned into sorrow for 
sin ? 
s 
Hath thine sorrow \>een turned into prayer? 
Hath thine prayer been turned into faith ? 
Hath thy faith issued universal tenderness and 
obedience ? 
Missionary Kilmany. 
Foreign News. 
HALIFAX, 
NOV. 9..—The steamship America, 
Capt. Leitch, from Liverpool at 11 o'clock on 
the morning of the 28th ult., has just arrived at 
this port en route for Boston. 
The America passed Oct. 29, offTuskar, the 
steamer Chadian, bound in; Nov. 3, 11 A.M., 
lat 49 54, Ion 31 07, ship America, from Mon-
treal, bound East. 
The America sailed from Halifax", about half-
past 9 P.M., for Boston. 
The steamship Atlantic arrived off Holyhead 
at noon on Wednesday, 25th, but could not en-
ter the Mersey until three o'clock next morning. 
Our eorrespondent says that no one had the en-
terprise, during those fifteen hours to send off a 
boat to inquire further after the news respecting 
the loss of the steamship Arctic. 
The steamship St. Louis sailed from South-
ampton on the 25th for New York. 
The propel-
ler Alps, from New York, arrived at Kingstown, 
Ireland, on the 23d, via Halifax, with troops, 
and at Liverpool on the 25th. 
Ship Triton, from Glasgow for Boston, was 
abandoned at sea, Oct. 11. 
Crew saved and 
taken to Havre by the North 
Wind. 
The London Times says-—" We are informed 
that Mr. Soule, the American Minister at Mad-
rid, was on Tuesday, the 24th, refused permis-
sion to pass through France, on his return from 
England to Spain." 
The London Post, in announcing offieialally 
the acquisition by the United States of Samana, 
says :—" It amounts virtually, if not absolutely, 
to an annexation of St. Domingo. 
The acquisi-
tion by the United States of so important a posi-
tion in the West Indies—a position threatening 
on either hand the Spanish Islands of Cuba 
and Porto Rico, and so directly affecting the 
British West Indian possessions, cannot be re-
ceived with indifference." 
The clipper ship Vision had arrived at Liver-
pool in 103 days from Hong Kong, with the 
first cargo of new teas. 
THE WAR NEWS.—There is nothing important 
via St. Petersburg. 
We learn from Sebastopol, 
21st, that the operations of the besiegers con-
tinue, and that their fire is effectually answered. 
The fortifications of Sebastopol are said to be 
but little damaged. 
TREBIZOND, Oct. 9.—The Abasia chiefs have 
refused to receive Schamyl'senvoy. Hafiz Pasha 
has consequently cut of all communication with 
the coast of Abasia. 
PARIS.—There is yet no confirmation that the 
Russians had entered the Dobrudscha. 
The 
movement is therefore doubted. 
Sir John Bur-
goyne had on the 11th fixed sites for batteries, 
which, when completed, would command the 
shipping, and was expected to destroy them. 
They are to be mounted with four, eight, and 
ten inch guns, and are about 1000 yards from 
the vessels. 
A Russian war steamer has been captured by 
the fleet. 
The Moniteur contains an account of a vic-
tory over the Russians near Gumeral. 
They 
lost thirty guns and all their baggage. 
A Rus-
sian General was killed. 
The Turks began to 
besiege the citadel of Gumri, when the Russian 
corps, the same which had defeated the Turks at 
Bayazid, advanced from Erivan to its rescue. 
They were, however, repulsed, and shut up in a 
defile, where they suffered a considerable loss. 
DETAILS 
OF NEWS 
FROM 
SEBASTOPOL.—Sebas-
topol is not yet taken. 
The latest accounts show 
that 20 days had elapsed between the departure 
of the troops from Balaklava and the opening 
of their fire upon Sebastopol. 
Both French and 
English had their batteries ready on the 15th, 
and on the 17th the fire was opened on the place, 
both from land and sea, and the bombardment 
continued until night. 
The Russians lost five 
hundred in killed and wounded. 
The Russian 
Admiral Kooniloff was killed. 
The Russian for-
tifications are said to have suffered very little. 
Next day, the 18th, the bombardment was re-
sumed from the land batteries only. 
Russian accounts say that the garrison made 
frequent sorties. 
When thejmail left Constantinople on the 16th, 
five steamers had arrived from Balakava, with 
men wounded in repelling a sortie of twenty 
thousand Russians from Sebastopol. 
Generals Raglan and Canrobert, had formally 
summoned Sebastopol to surrender, requiring 
the women, children and sick to be sent away, 
and flags to be hoisted on hospitals. 
SO far as is known, the Russian army is con* 
centrated on the upper Belbec> and already 
numbers 45,000 men. 
The allied armies are divided into a sei^e 
army and an army of observation. 
The latter is 
posted on the extensive table land which sep* 
arates Balakava from Sebastopol* accessible 
only from two points, the ravine of Tchernaya 
on the northwest and the pass of Balaklava on 
the southeast. 
This position is defended by six* 
teen redoubts. 
,The Russians are hovering on the outside of 
the positions of the allies. 
On the 7tli they 
made a strong demonstration on the northwest 
extremity of the camp, but they were kept in 
check by the artillery, and retired without giv-
ing battle. 
On the 2d, 5th and 11th, the garrison of 
Sebastopol made sorties, and destroyed some 
small works. 
On the evening of the 5th, a con-
voy of 4000 Russians succeded in entering Se-
bastopol. 
The city does not appear to be sur-
rounded yet, but only menaced on two sides. 
The allies now number 110,000, and 8000 
French were ready to embark from Marseilles 
on the 21st; 8000 Turks were ready to leave 
Varna for the Crimea. 
Letters of the 12th say that the nature of the 
ground around Sebastopol—hard rock covered 
with about a foot of earth—renders scientific 
approaches impossible; that the allies have, 
however, three hundred guns on battery, and af-
ter a few days bombardment will attempt to 
storm the fortress. 
The garrison of Sebastopol is estimated at 
40,000 men who have plenty of ammunition and 
supplies. 
It is supposed that, even if the allies 
should carry the town, the Russians could make 
a protracted resistance in Forte Constantine, 
It is true that the Russians have sunk eight 
ships across the channel, seven hundred yards 
wide, and that a line of battle ships is anchored 
close to the shore completing a strong barricade. 
Altogether, the prospect of a speedy fall of Se-
bastopol is not so favorable to the allies, not-
withstanding the intelligence of the victory is 
hourly expected by the people of England and 
France. 
Admiral Nachimoff, who commanded at Sin-
ope, is commandant of Sebastopol. 
He has is-
sued ar. address to the garrison, saying that he 
will defend the place to the last, and any one is 
welcome to shoot him if he don't. 
Advices from Constantinople to the 14th, say 
that the Russians had retaken Eupatoria, and 
that the English garrison ot five hundred men 
had retired with the loss of one gun. 
The report 
is df"1'*"! in the Ened^ pnpora 
An allied force under Gen. Bosquet and Ach-
met Pasha, had been sent to Perekop to prevent 
the advance of the Russians. 
Heavy rains had 
retarded their march, but the weather was again 
fine. 
A rumor became current in.the allied camp 
on the 11th, that the Russian army from Sim-
pherepol, would attack Balaklava, and that the 
Greeks would simultaneously fire the town. 
The 
Greeks were accordingly expelled. 
THE DANUBE.—There is no doubt that the 
Russians have entered the Dobrudscha in force, 
but the details are wanting. 
AUSTRIA.—Affairs look black between Russia 
and Austria. 
A great council of war had been 
held in Vienna, at which the Emperor presided. 
Baron Hess was present. 
It is reported that 
Austria summons Russia to withdraw from the 
frontier of G allicia. 
The whole Austrian army is to be put upon a 
war footiifg, and the garrison of Vienna has or-
ders to be ready for marching at forty-eight 
hours' notice. 
Russia, in the meanwhile, con-
tinues to menace the frontiers of Austria. 
Austria has just concluded an immense finan-
cial operation, by which she has transferred to a 
company of capitalists, represented bj Messrs. 
Andre, of Paris, and Sina & Estreles, of Vien-
na, railroads constructed and worked by Govern-
ment in Hungary and Bohemia. 
The company 
pays 200,000,000 francs, on which the Govern-
ment guarantees five per cent. 
RUSSIA.—The Czar has gone to Warsaw. 
His 
eldest son takes command of the Royal Guards. 
General Rudiger commands the Grenadiers.— 
Prince Paskiewitch is commander-in-chief of the 
army of the West. All are concentrating on the 
Austrian frontier. 
Little doubt is entertained 
at Vienna that ere long actual hostilities will 
take place. 
PRUSSIA.—Austria has returned an answer to 
the last despatch of the Prussian government, 
repeating that Austria will tdhere inflexibly to 
her policy expressed in the note of 30th Sept. 
The action which Prussia would take was looked 
for with anxiety. 
The Prince of Prussia has accepted the com-
mand of the federal fortress of Mayence. 
THE BALTIC.—On the 10th, Admiral Napier's 
fleet in the Baltic fired a salute of twenty-one 
guns in celebration of the victory of the allies 
at Alma. 
The Russian fleet in Revel also fired 
a salute, they likewise claiming the victory. 
The British fleet is to leave the Baltic at the 
364 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
end of November, returning in squadrons to 
Portsmouth, Sheerness, Plymouth and Cork. 
•Five floating batteries and twenty gun boats 
drawing four feet of Water, ate building in Eng-
land for spring operations. 
\jgi\C. 
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JJcralb. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 18, 1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
oom in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
lis truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
ove, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
lothing carried away into error, of hasty speech, or shafp, unbroth-
irly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER 
JAI. 
lireak forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem 
For the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusa-
lem.— v. 9. 
By a personification, the very ground, till then 
desolate and waste, is called on to rejoice over'the 
restoration of God's people.—Read (Isa. 51:3.) 
To " break forth " into joy, is a metaphor express-
ive of the utterance of sudden and irrepressabl e 
exclamations of joy. 
shall be caught Up together with them in the 
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall 
we ever be with the Lord." 
The figure is drawn from the departure of Israel 
from Egypt, when (Ex. 14:19, 20,) " the angel of 
God which went hefore the camp of Israel, re-
moved, and went behind them ; and the pillar of 
the cloud went from before their face, and stood 
behind them : and it came between the camp of 
the Eyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was 
a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by 
night to these : so that the one came not near the 
other all the night." 
" Will be your rereward," is in the margin, will 
" gather you up." 
Behold, mjKservant shall de'l prudently, 
He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.—r. 13. 
This passage, and to the end of the next chap-
ter, has been very uniformly applied, by Jews be-
fore the birtjj of Christ and ever after, and by all 
evangelical Christians, to the Messiah. 
Shall 
" deal prudently," is in the margin, " shall pros-
per," " Exalted " and be very " high,"eIevatioDs 
in space, are by substitution illustrative of the re-
gard which shall be extended to him and the posi-
tion he should occupy in the government of the uni-
verse. 
Phil. 2:9-11—" Wherefore God also hath 
highly exalted him, and given him a name which 
is aboye every name : that at the name of Jesus 
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and 
things in earth, and things under the earth ; and 
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ 
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." 
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations-. 
And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 
—v. 10. 
To make bare the arm, is put by substitution 
for the visible manifestation of the means by which 
God would rescue his people. 
The figure is taken 
from the act of the warrior, when dressed after the 
Oriental manner :—see the following from Gowett's 
" Christian Researches." 
" The loose sleeve of the Arab shirt, as well as 
that ofthe outer garment, leaveR the arm so com-
pletely free, that in an instant, the left hand pass-
ing up the right arm makes it bare ; and this is 
done when a person, a soldier for example, about 
to strike with the sword, intends to give the arm 
full play. 
The image represents JEHOVAH as sud-
denly prepared to inflict some tremendous, yet 
righteous judgment, so effectual' that all the ends 
of the earth shall see the salvation of God.' " 
The " eyes " of the nations, are put by metony-
my ior tneir sigm. 
By, a metaphor, the most distant nations are de-
nominated the " ends " of the earth ; and by a 
metonymy, " salvation " is put for the manner in 
which it is effected. It is described by John in 
Rev. 19:11-20 ; and in 2 Thess. 1:7-10. 
This 
will be visible to all ; for John said, (Rev. 1:7,) 
" Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye 
Bhall see him, and they also which pierced him: 
and all kindreds of the earth shall" wail because of 
him." 
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence. 
Touch no unclean thing ; go ye out of the midst of her , 
Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.—v. 11. 
This is an apostrophe to the subjects of this sal-
vation, and is put by substitution for a disenthrall-
meirt from the defilements of the world on the part 
of those who receive or preach the gospel. 
Said 
Paul (2 Cor. 6:17, 18.) 
Come out from among 
them, and be ye seperate, saith the "Lord, and 
touch not the unclean thing ; and I will receive 
you ; and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall 
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al-
mighy." 
The illustration is drawn from the departure of 
Israel from Egypt, when the holy things were 
borne by the priests. 
For ye shall not g» out with haste, nor go by flight : 
For the Lord will go before you 
aud the God of Israel will be your 
rereward—u. 12. 
When Israel left Egypt, they fled in haste. 
Ex 
1^:33, 34, 39. 
" The Egyptians were urgent upon 
the people, that they might send them out ofthe 
land in haste ; for they said, We be all dead men 
And the people took .their dough before it was 
leavened, their kneading houghs being bound up 
in their clothes upon their shoulders. 
And they 
baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they 
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened : 
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could 
not tarry, neither had they prepared for them-
selves any victuals." 
Unlike that departure, the saints will be protected 
by Jehovah in their final deliverance, for whjch the 
Lord,s going before and being their rereward are 
put by substitution. 1 Thess. 4:16, 17.—" For the 
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a 
Bhout, with the voice of the archangel, and with 
the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall 
rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 
As many were astonished at thee ; 
His visage was so marred more than any man, 
And his form more than the sons of men : 
So shall he sprinkle many nations ; 
The kings shall shut their mouths at him : 
For that which had not been told them shall they see ; 
And that which they had not heard shall they consider. 
—vs. 14,15, 
In proportion to the astonishment described in 
v. 14, so were the results to be as in v. 15. 
The 
mere fact of astonishment, does not indicate wheth-
er it is through admiration or abhorrence : but 
what follows in the next chapter, shows that it is 
the latter. 
Wm. Lowth supposes, and perhaps 
not incorrectly, that Christ's outward appearance, 
as here described , was that exhibited on the cross 
when he was borne down with the griefs and sor 
rows of the world. 
Then all manner of ignominy 
was heaped on him, (Matt. 27:39^2,) " And they 
that passed by, reviled him, wagging their heads, 
and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and 
uuiiUest jt in three days, save thyself. 
If thou be 
the Son of God, come down from the cross. 
Like 
wise also the chief priests mocking him, with the 
scribes and elders, said, 
He saved others ; him-
self he cannot save. 
If he be the King of Israel, 
let him now come down from the cross, and we 
will believe him." 
They Were astonished that one in such condi-
tion, should have laid claim to be the Son of God. 
To " sprinkle many nations" is a substitution 
of the atonement which his death should effect for 
them and the results that should follow. 
The fig 
ure is taken from acts of purification in use in the 
Levitical ceremonies. 
Heb. 9:13, 14—" For if 
the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of 
an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the 
purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the 
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit 
offered himself without spot to God, purge your 
conscience from dead works to servo the living 
God." 
For'the kings to " shut their mouths at him," 
is put by substitution for their silence when they 
should recognize the fulfillment of tho predictions 
respecting him. 
They would have no arguments 
to offer in opposition to his claims. 
Job 29:8-10 
—" The young men saw me, and hid themselves : 
and the aged arose, and stood up. 
The princes 
refrained talking, and laid their hand on their 
mouth. 
The nobles held their peace, and their 
tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth." 
CHAPTER 
IIII. 
Who hath believed our report ? 
And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ? 
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, 
And as a root out of a dry ground- 
he hath no form nor corneli 
ness ; 
And when we shall see him. there is no beauty that we should de-
sire him.—vs. 1, 2. 
our " doctrine " as it is in the margin of (Isa. 53: 
M 
By an eliptical metaphor, Christ is denominated 
the " arm of the Lord "—he being the instrument-
ality by which the mercy of Jehovah is manifested 
in the conversion of sinners. His being " reviled" 
is his being recognized as the Christ, which can 
be done only by the revelation of the Spirit. 
1 Cor. 
12:3—" No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, 
but by the Holy Ghost." 
Matt. 16:16, 17—" Si-
mon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, 
the Son of the living God. 
And Jesus answered 
and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-
ona : for flesh and blood hath not revealed! it unto 
thee, but my Father which is in heaven." 
1 John 
5:1" Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, 
is born of God." 
| 
The unprepossessing appearence of the Saviour is 
illustrated by similees, in his comparison to " a ten-
der plant," and to a" root out of a dry ground," 
—" root," being put by a synecdoche for the en-
tire plant, which growing in a barren soil looks 
withered and gives little promise of life or fruit. 
The Saviour is elswhere described (Isa. 11:1,) as 
" a rod of the stem of Jessa, and a Branch out of 
his roots,"—which illustrated his coming from a 
family that had sunk into comparative obscurity ; 
but the figures here, in connection with what fol-
lows, evidently have reference to his personal ap-
pearance—to th6 outward circumstances 
with 
which he was surrounded. 
There was nothing 
about him to indicate that he was the King of 
kings, and the Saviour ofthe world. 
Phil. 2:6-8. 
—He " being in the form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God : but made himself 
of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a 
servant, and was made in the likeness of men : 
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the cross." 
It is remarkable that the New Testament makes 
no referance to the personal appearance of Christ. 
We know nothing respecting the size and height 
of his person, or the color of his complexion, eyes 
or hair, so that all attempts to poitray him on. 
canvas or in marble are entirely fanciful. 
The 
only pretended ancient description of him, is the 
following, which was first heard of more than 1500 
years after his death, and has been abundantly 
proved to be spurious. 
It purports to have been 
written by " Publius Lentulus," (of whom history 
makes no mention, to Tiberius Cesar; but it is evi-
dently the fabrication of a Papist. 
" There has a man appeared here, who is still 
living, named Jesus Christ, whose power is ex-
traordinary. 
He has tho title given to him of the 
great prophet; his disciples call him the Son of God. 
He raises the dead, and heals all sorts of diseases. 
He is a tall, well proportioned m^n ; there is an 
air of serenity in his countenance, which attracts 
at once the love and reverence of thoso who see him. 
His hair is of the color of new wine ; from the 
roots to his ears, and from thence to his shoul 
ders, it is curled, and falls down to the lowest part 
of them. 
Upon the forehead it parts in two, after 
the manner of the Nazarenes. 
His forehead is 
flat and fair, his face without any defect, and 
adorned with a very graceful vermillion ; his air 
is majestic and agreeable. 
His nose and his mouth 
are very well proportioned, and his beard is thick 
and forked, of the color of his hair; his eyes 
are gray and extremely lively ; in his reproofs he 
is terrible, but in his exhortations aud ihstructions 
amiable and courteous: there is something won-
derfully charming in his face, with a mixture of 
gravity. 
He is never seen to laugh, but he has 
been observed to weep. 
He is very straight in 
statue; his hands are large and spreading, and 
his arms very beautiful. 
He talks little, but with 
great gravity, and is the handsomest man in the 
world." 
Bible Repos. Vol. 2. p. 368. 
The interrogations in v. 1, imply that few would 
believe, or recognize the fulfillment of this predic-
tion in the corresponding event. 
It is quoted by 
the inspired Evangelist as fulfilled in the rejection 
of Christ by the Jews : John 12:37, 38.—" But 
though he had dono so many miracles before them, 
yet they believed not on him : that the saying of 
Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he 
spake, Lord, who hath believed our report ? and 
to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed ?" 
The apoetle also refers to it when he says (Rom. 
10:16,) " But they have not all obeyed the gospel. 
For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our re-
port ; i. e., our " preaching," as in the margin ; or 
THE ABRAHAMIC INHERITANCE. 
" THE PRESENT, JEWS NOT THE LAWFUL HEIRS OF 
TNE 
ABRAHAMIC WILL : Letters to a Millenarian. 
By Rev. A. VV illiamson, Pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church of Chester, N. J. 
New York : Published 
by M. W. Dodd, corner of Park Row and City 
Hall Square. 
1853." 
A REVIEW OF THE ABOVE. 
By David N. Lord— 
Art. VI. in the January number of the Theological 
and Literary Journal. 
1853. 
The following article was written more than a 
yeyr since, but its publication was defered. 
We commenced the perusal of Mr. Williamson's 
" Letters," anticipating a clear and forcible argu 
ment in defence of the Scriptural application of 
the promise cf Abraham ; but our expectations 
were not fully realized. 
While the author has a 
perception of truth, he seems not to have defended 
his views in the most logical manner, por to have 
expressed himself in the most happy terms. 
Mr. Lord in his review, in some particulars re-
plies to the " Letters " in a very just and conclu-
sive manner ; but on other points he assumes posi-
tions that appear as irreconcilable with Scripture 
as does the position of Mr. Williamson. 
The word " covenant " expresses very clearly 
the Abrahamic promise ; and Mr. W., very unhap-
pily, as it strikes us, substitutes the word " will " 
for it. 
If the things promised were a legacy be-
queathed by Abraham, the term would not be in-
appropriate ; but the promise to Abraham, and to 
his " seed " made by the ever living God is not 
elucidated by the word "will" which is of no 
force while the testator liveth. 
Its use was proba-
bly suggested by the unhappy rendering in Heb. 
9:15-18, where "testament" is substituted for 
covenant, and which is there spoken of as requir-
ing the death of the testator :" but the sense of 
that passage, as shown by Drs. Clark, Macknight, 
and others, is that where there is a covenant, to 
make it binding, the death of the victim by which 
they covenant, is necessary—Christ being the vic-
tim which gives efficacy to the new covenant, as 
the divided animals, between the pieces of which 
were passed a " smoking furnace and .a burning 
lamp," (Gen. 15:9-18,) gave efficacy to the oath 
by which God confirmed his promise to Abraham. 
Treating the promise as a " will," supposes the 
death ofthe Testator: but as a " covenant," only 
supposes the death of the covenanting victim. 
To carry out his idea of a will, Mr. Williamson 
goes into a consideration ofthe descent of proper-
ty, and the conditions by which the transmission 
of estates may be diverted fro*a direct to collateral 
issue, or may be limited to a portion of the natural 
heirs. 
As the Abrahamic inheritance is to be 
bestowed in accordance with Scriptural declara-
tions, such a confparison is not analagous to the 
subject, and does not make more simple the point 
at issue, vhs.: " Who are, at present, the recog-
nized seed of Abraham to whom the promises be-
long?" 
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee 
out of thy father's house, unto a land that I will 
shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, 
and I will bless thee and make thy name great; 
and thou shalt be a blessing: and 1 will bless them 
that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee ; 
and in thee shall all families ofthe earth be blessed. 
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto 
him, and Lot went with him: and Abram was 
seventy aud five years old when he departed out of 
Haran. 
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot 
his brother's son, and all their substance that they 
had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten 
in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land 
of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they 
came. 
And Abram passed through the land into 
the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. 
And the Canaanite was then in the land. 
And the 
Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy 
seed will I give this land : and there builded he an 
altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him;"— 
Gen. 12:1-7. 
Here it is specified, 1st, That Abraham was to be 
blessed personally, without its being paiticularly 
specified in what respect, except that he was to 
have a great name, to be a blessing to those who 
blessed him, and to bo the father of a great nation, 
—all of which has been fulfilled. 
2d. All the families of the earth were to be 
blossed in him, without its being specified how, or 
to what extent. 
But Paul says of it. (Gal. 3:8,) 
" The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify 
the heathen, through faith, preached before the 
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all 
nations be blessed." 
This will have had its fulfill-
ment, when they shall come from the east, west, 
north, and south, and sit down with Abraham in 
the kingdom of heaven. 
Matt. 8:11. 
3d. The plain of Moreh was promised to Abra-
ham's seed. 
" And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot 
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, 
and look from the place where thou art, northward, 
and southward, and eastward, and westward : for 
all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give 
it, and to thy seed for eyer. 
And I will make thy 
seed as dust of the earth; so that if a man can 
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed 
bo numbered. 
Arise, walk through the land ijvthe 
length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will 
give it unto thee."—Gen. 13:14-17. 
1. There had now been no limits assigned to the 
land promised to Abraham's seed and it extended, 
apparently, in each direction as far as Abraham 
might be pleased to journey. 
It is not impossible 
that Paul refers to the unlimited extent of this 
grant when lie speaks of Abraham as the heir of 
the world : " For the promise that he should be 
the heir of the world or to his seed was not to him 
through the law, but through the righteousness ot 
faith."—Rom. 4:13. 
2. The possession of the promised land, is here 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
365 
declared to be eternal. 
The promise, therefore is 
not fulfilled by any temporary residence, however 
long that may have been, for the rightful inherit-
will possess it forever. 
3. Its possession is declared to be eternal to 
Abraham, as well as to his seed. 
It is no more 
eternal to the one than to the other; and as it 
cannot be fulfilled to Abraham without his resur-
rection from the dead, the same event is necessary 
for its fulfillment to the dead of his " seed." 
" After these things the word of the Lord came 
unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: 
I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 
. . . And he brought him forth aboard, and said, 
Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if 
thou be able to number them : and he said unto 
him, So shall thy seed be. 
And he believed in the 
Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought 
thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this 
land to inherit it. 
And he said, Lord God, where-
by shall I know that I shall inherit it? 
And he 
said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, 
and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of 
three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young 
pigeon. 
And he took unto him all these, and di-
vided them in the midst, and laid each piece one 
against another: but the birds divided he not. 
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, 
Abram drove them away. 
And when the sun was 
going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram ; and 
lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 
And 
he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy 
seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, 
and shall serve them ; and they shall afflict them 
four hundred years ; and also that nation which 
they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall 
they come out with great substance. And thou shalt 
go to thy fathers in peace ; thou shalt be buried 
in a good old age. 
But in the fourth generation 
they shall come hither again : for the iniquity of 
the Amorites is not yet full. 
And it came to pass, 
that when the sun went down, and it was dark, 
behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp 
that passed between those pieces. 
In that same 
day the Lord md,de a covenant with Abram, saying, 
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the 
river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates."— 
Gen. 15:1, 5-18. 
We here learn 1st, that Abraham's seed is de-
clared to be an innumerable multitude. 
If this 
has respect merely to his natural descendants, it 
has been fulfilled according to the words of Paul: 
" Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as 
good as dead, so many as the stars in the^sky in 
multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-
shore innumerable."—Ileb. 11:12. 
2. That when the Lord made known the number 
of his seed, Abraham was not at all incredulous : 
44 he believed the Lord ; and He counted it to him 
for righteousness." 
But when God says I will 
" give thee this land to inherit it," Abraham de-
manded a pledge of the promise, "And he said, Lord 
God, whereby shall I know that 1 shall inherit it ?" 
He needed that God should confirm his gracious 
promise with an oath. 
On this point we have the testimony of an in-
spired commentator. 
" For when God made prom-
ise to Abraham, because he could swear by no 
greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely bless-
ing, 1 will bless thee and multiplying I will multi-
ply thee. 
And so after he had patiently endured, 
he obtained the promise. 
For men verily swear 
by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to 
them an end of all strife. 
Wherein God, willing 
more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise 
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an 
oath : that by two immutable things, in which it 
was impossible for God to lie, we might have a 
strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay 
hold upon the hope set before us."—Heb. 6:13-18. 
So God ordered the slaying of the victims, and 
hffirmed his promise with an oath. 
3. There is here given the additional intimation 
that Abraham should die previous to his inherit-
ance of the land ; and that the seed of Abraham 
should be strangers in a land not theirs, and 
:J 
should be afflicted 400 years, and should return in 
the fourth generation to that land—all ot which 
have been literally fulfilled. 
On this point, Mr. Williamson attempts to 
found an argument against the literal fulfillment of 
Scripture, by the fact that Jacob's seed were in 
Egypt but 215 years, and that Moses says they 
went out of Egypt at the end of 430 years. 
But 
j 
Paul (Gal. 3:17,) shows, that the last date was 
. 
reckoned from the promise ; and'the affliction evi-
dently did not begin with Jacob's going to Egypt, 
but with the persecution of Isaac 30 years after 
the promise—leaving no point to Mr. Williamson's 
inferance. 
" And when Abram was ninety years old and 
nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto 
him, 1 am the Almighty God; walk before me, 
and be thou perfect. 
And I will make my coven-
ant between me and thee, and will multiply thee 
exceedingly. 
And Abram fell on his face: and 
God talked with him, saying, As for me behold, my 
covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father 
of many nations. 
Neither shall thy name any 
more be called Abram ; but thy name shall be 
Abraham; for a father of many nations have I 
made thee : and kings shall come out of thee. 
And 
T will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will 
make nations of thee; and kings shall come out of 
thee. 
And I will establish my covenant between 
me and thee, in their generations, for an everlast-
ing covenant; to be a God unto thee, and to thy 
seed after thee. 
And I will give unto thee, and to 
thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a 
stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlast-
ing possession ; and I will be their God. 
And God 
said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant 
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their 
generations. 
This is my covenant, which ye shall 
keep, between me and you, and thy seed after thee; 
Every man-child among you shall be circumcised." 
—Gen. 17:1-10. 
Here the previous promises are confirmed; but 
there stand out the conditions on which the coven-
ant is based : " Walk before me and be thou per-
fect, and 1 will make my covenant between me and 
thee," vs. 1,2; " Thou shalt keep my covenant, 
therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their gen-
erations." 
The questions now to be settled are— 
1. What is it to inherit the land forever ? 
2. Who are entitled to its possession ? 
1. Thus to inherit it, is to enjoy no temporary 
residence in that land ; for Abraham dwelt there 
but had no inheritance in it. 
Stephen said to the 
Jews that God removed Abraham " into this land 
wherein you dwell. 
And he gave him none inher-
itance in it, no not so much as to set his foot on : 
vet he promised that he would give it to him for a 
possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet 
he had no child."—Acts 7:4, 5. 
CHRONOLOGY OP THE JUDGES; 
&.N article by Eld. Crowel, in another column, 
dissents from the idea of an error of 100 years, in 1 
Kings 6:1. 
But if there is none, then there must 
be admitted an error of 100 years in Paul's state-
ment of the time of the Judges; and there is 
the same defference due to the Greek of the New 
Testament that there is to the Hebrew of the Old. 
It gives the sceptic no advantage to admit the mis-
take of a transcriber. 
We read in 2 Kings 8:24-
26, that Ahaziah was " two and twenty years old " 
when he began to reign ; but in 2 Chron. 22:2, 
that he was " forty and two years old." 
Dr Clark 
says, " I a«n satisfied the reading in 2 Chron. 22:2, 
is a mistake ;" and Calvert adds: " Which is most 
dangerous to acknowledge, that transcribers have 
made some mistakes in copying the sacred books, 
or to acknowledge that there are contradictions in 
them, and then to have recourse to solutions that 
can yield no satisfaction to any 
unprejudiced 
mind." 
In this discrepancy between the text of Kings 
and Chronicles, the admission of a mistake is nec-
essary, whether painful.or otherwise : and it can 
be no more so in 1 Kings 6:1, than in 2 Chron. 22: 
2. 
Nor is it any more painful to admit such a 
mistake respecting the Old Testament, than it is 
Respecting the- New ; but according to our corres-
pondent, Paul was in error not only in respect to 
the 450 years of the Judges, but of 20 years in as-
cribing 40 to the period from the time of Samuel 
»to the death of Saul. 
The great question however, here at issue is, 
whether the periods of the several captivities may 
be considered as included in those of the Judges. 
It is said of Samson, that he " judged Israel in 
the days of the Philistines twenty years ;" but of 
the other judges this is not said. 
On the con-
tray the phraselogy of the texts as much represents 
them and the captivities as successive, as it does 
Samson and the Philistines contemporary. 
And 
therefore the synchronisim of the latter is no argu-
ment for that of the former. 
To show that they are successive, we have only 
to read : 
" The children of Israel did evil in the sight of 
(the Lord 
Therefore the angfr of the Lord 
was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the 
hand of the king of Mesopotamia." 
Jud. 3:7,8. 
The children of Israel served Chushan-rishath-
aim eight years 
" And when the children 
of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up 
a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered 
them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz." 
Jud. 3: 
8,9. 
" And the land had rest forty years. .. . lAnd 
the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of 
the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon, king of 
Moab, against Israel." 
vs. 11, 12. 
" So the children of Israel served Eglon the king 
of Moab eighteen years. 
But when the children 
of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised 
them up a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera." 
vs 
14,15. 
" So the land had rest eighty years 
And 
the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of 
the Lord, when Ehud was dead. 
And the Lord 
sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan.'^ 
Jud. 3:30, and 4:1, 2. 
" Twenty 
years he 
mightily 
oppressed the 
children of Israel 
And Deborah, a proph-
etess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at 
that time 
. . .And Deborah said unto Barak, 
Up ; for this is the day in which the Lord hath 
delivered Sisera into thine hand. . . .So'God sub-
dued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan." 
vs. 
3-23. 
44 The land had rest forty years 
And the 
children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord : 
and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Mid-
ian seven years." 
Jud. 5:31; 6:1, 
" The Lord looked upon Gideon, and said,'Go, 
in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from 
the hand of,the Midianites." 
6:14. 
" Thus was 
Midian subdued before the children of Israel." 
Jud. 8:28. 
" The country was in quietness forty years in 
the days of Gideon. . . . And it came to pass, as 
soon as Gideon faas dead, that the children of 
Israel turned again, and went a whoring after 
Baalim." 8:28, 33. 
"And all the men of Shechem 
gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and 
went and made Abimelech king." 
Jud. 9:6. 
When Abimelech had reigned three years over 
Israel, then God sent an evil spirit between Abim-
elech and the men ot Shechem. . . .And he died." 
Jud. 10:1,2. 
" After Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, 
Tola. . . .And he judged Israel twenty and three 
years, and died." 
Jud. 10: 1, 2. 
" After him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged 
Israel twenty and two years. . . .And Jair died." 
vs. 3, 5. 
"The children of Israel did. evil again in the 
sight of the Lord, . . . And he sold them into the 
hands of the Philistines 
They vexed and 
oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years." 
vs. 6, 8. 
Here the Lord raised up Jephthah, who, heing 
demanded by the children of Ammon that he should 
restore the land to them that Israel took from them 
when they came out of Egypt, replied : " While 
Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and Aroer 
and her towns, and in all the cities that be along 
by the coast of Arnon, three hundred years, why 
therefore did yc not recover them within that 
time?"—Jud. 11:26. 
To the beginning of the 
captivity, of which they were just delivered, from 
the elders and anarchy, was three hundred and one 
years, according to this chronology. 
" So Jephthah passed over unto the children of 
Ammon to fight against them ; and the Lord de-
livered them into his hand.—Jud. 11:32. 
" Jeph-
thah judged Israel six years," 12:7. 
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. . . 
And he judged Israel seven years."—Jud. 12:8, 9. 
After him,Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel ten 
years."—v. 11. 
After him Abdon . . . judged Israel, . . . and he 
judged Israel eight years."—vs. 13, 14. 
".The children of Israel did evil again in the 
sight of the Lord ; and the Lord delivered them 
into the hands of the Philistines forty years."— 
Jud. 13:1. 
During the bondage of forty years, Samson 
"judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twen-
ty years."—19:20. 
The above language gives a chronology precisely 
harmonizing with that of Paul; and as the excess 
is just 100 years over the text in Kings, the most 
simple way we have to harmonize it, is that given 
by the learned Dr. Hales and others, of admitting 
that transcribers have made the mistake of a sin-
gle Hebrew letter for another, a n for "j by which 
it reads the 480th instead of 580th year. 
If our brother has any more light on the subject, 
we shall be happy to be put in possession of it. 
A TOUCH OF THE SUBLIME. 
— 
f 
A NEW paper has been started in New York, 
called the Christian Spiritualist, 
It is devoted to 
the spirit rapping cause,—As a specimen of the 
profundity, sublimity, and clearness of th) writers 
of this paper we give the following from an article 
on 44 Spiritual Manifestations, explaining creations, 
subversions, redemptions and harmonies, and their 
relations to each other. 
With copious illustra 
tions. 
Part 1.—Reasons and Religion: or the 
Bible Advocated : " 
" Principles diverge as radii from centres or firsts? 
toward circumferences or secondaries, in every as-
pect, whether religious, moral, intellectual, politi-
cal, social or scientific. 
One and only one order, 
prevails in all the economies of the one infinite, as 
respects the universe, as a whole, and which pre-
vails in the infinitesimal images, of which the Uni-
verse consists, as part of that whole. 
Near the 
centres, primaries, or most important parts of each 
and every thing, principles proximate, and are in 
greator harmony then nearer the circumference, 
and of course he who dwells in, or has his plane 
of thought and life, near the primary 
centre, 
or most important part, is in most principles, 
and in the best harmonies ; while he whd runs off 
upon one or two of the radii, or spokes of the 
wheel, removes from the centre or primary and 
from harmony. 
To do this, religiously, is sectar-
ianism ; morally, is fanaticism ;. philosphically, is 
dogmatism; scientifically are extremes. 
All ex-
tremes, even in the best principles, are destructive 
of harmony, and should in every case be carefully 
avoided, as all means between the extremes are 
nearer to the primaries, the sources of life and 
usefulness. 
A man throws himself out of the 
harmony, by running out upon one or two princi-
ples, to the neglect of others, even if it bo upon 
the divine principle of harmony itself." 
The transcendently sublime principles 
above 
laid down, are made, if possible, more clear by the 
following illustration : 
44 No. 7, h. 
A man may see two inharmonious 
men fighting, and if, in order to restore harmony, 
he commences to fight one or both, he put himself 
out of harmony." 
After this let no one presume to say that the 
spiritualists talk nonsense.' 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
NEW YORK, NOV. 12.—The Collins steamship At-
lantic, Capt West, from Liverpool, arrived here at 
2 o'clock this afternoon. 
She left Liverpool on 
Wednesday morning, Nov. 1. 
The Cunard steam-
ship Canada arrived at Livorpool ou the morning 
of the 30th. 
The Atlantic brings no news whatever relative 
to the missing passengers of the Arctic. 
The siege of Sebastopol was progressing very fa-
vorably for the allied forces. 
Two of the outer 
forts o£ the place had been taken, and a breach 
had been effected in the walls of Sebastopol itself, 
but the breach was not sufficiently practicable for 
the fortress to be stormed. 
Prussia had sent a note to the Emperor of Rus-
sia on the 23d of October, in which the Czar in 
urgently requested to accept the last proposition 
laid down by the four powers. 
FROM THE CRIMEA.—The intelligence of the com-
mencement of acti ve operations against Seba8topo^ 
which was first received through a Russian chan-
nel, has now been confirmed on unquestionable au-
thority. 
The fire was opened simultaneously up-
on the whole length of the French and English 
lines soon after midnight on the 17th ult,—just 
one month after landing at Old Fort. 
PARIS, Oct. 30.—TJie Moniteur says that intelli-
gence has been received at Varna, brought by a 
French steamer, which left the Crimea on the 
21st, confimatory of the news that the two outer 
forts had been destroyed, and that the batteries 
had effected a breach. 
The allied armies were 
watching the opening of a second breach in order 
to commence an assault. 
A despatch was published at St. Petersburg, on 
the 29th inst., to the effect that the bombardment 
of Sebastopol continued on the 23d. 
The Russian 
loss was trifling. 
In a night sortie (the date ot 
which is not given) 16 of the French guns weje 
spiked. 
Lord Dnnkellin, son of the Marquis ot 
Clanricarde, was taken prisoner. 
FROM 
THE DANUBE.—It is stated that all the 
Turkish troops who are stationed at Tschernowada 
are withdrawing to Trajan's Wall, in order to pre-
vent the advance of the Russians, who had entered 
the Dobrudscha. 
FROM THE SEAT 
OF WAR 
IN ASIA.—The Turks 
have had a victory in Asia. 
The Mushir of Van 
had attacked the Russian corps which covered 
Gumri, and completely dispersed it, with the los 
of its tents, baggage, and ammunition, aud 30 guns 
A Russian general was killed. 
The Turks had be-
gan to besiege the citadel, when the Russian corps 
which had formerly beaten the Turks at Bayazid 
advanced to the rescue from Erivan. 
It was, how-
ever, completely repulsed and shut up in a defile, 
where it suffered considerable loss. 
THE Dedication of the Second Advent Chapel at 
Mount Holly, is on Thursday, Dec. 14th—the meet 
ings to continue over the following Sabbath. 
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cftRONOLOGY OP THE JUDGES. 
BRO. HIMES :—For some time pacst I have had a 
special interest in the history of the Church of 
God as developed in the book of Judges. 
The 
chronology of this book, I know, has long been a 
subject of controversy among the learned, and 1 
believe is still an open question. 
Brother Bliss's 
little work on Sacrcd Chronology, I have studied 
with much pleasure and profit. 
But I have ever 
felt a chill of dread come over me, when I have 
thought of admitting an error ot one hundred 
years in the transcribing of 1 Kings 0:1, in order 
to harmonize the Old Testament with itself, and 
with the statement in Acts 13th.* 
It is possible 
that such an error may exist; but I am reluctant 
to give the unbelieving caviler this advantage 
over the authenticity or reliability of the Old Tes-
tament. 
I love the holy book of God, and believe 
the " Kings English " as rendered from the Hebrew 
version will be found essentially correct in all 
things, not excepting chronology. 
According to 
your summing up of the time of the Judges, you 
conclude there must be an error of an hundred 
years in 1 Kings 6:1, where it is said the temple 
was built (the foundation laid) in the 480th year 
after the children of Israel were come out of Egypt. 
This was the opinion of M. Vossiusand some other 
learned men before you. 
This position is taken 
to harmonize the sum, of the reigns of the various 
Judges, and the several captivities, with the time 
given in 1 Kings 6:1; viz., 479 years from the 
exodus to the building of the temple. 
Now, I am 
constrained to believe, that there is no such error 
here. 
I think the account given of the Judges 
will be found to be in perfect harmony with the 
account in kings. 
The reckoning of the time of the captivities, in 
connection with the reign of the several Judges, is 
to my mind a manifest error. 
And it seems to me 
that any one that will bestow a sober second look 
at the subject, will see it so. 
It is evident that 
the Judges reigned during those captivities. 
In 
deed, you admit this, in the case of Samson's 
judgship. 
Let any one look at the history of Sam 
son, and they will see that Israel was in captivity 
of this subject, as I was informed by the learned 
Jewish Rabbi, Dr. Wise, of Albany, N. Y. 
Now let us look at the table given in Bliss's 
Chronology, p. 74, leaving out the six captivities, 
and see what the sum will be. 
We have 
From the distribution of the land to the death 
from Egypt to the building of the temple in the 
4th year of Solomon, 480th from the exodus. 
But, 
you ask, why give only twenty years to Saul when 
Paul gives him forty. 
I answer, that no person 
that reads the history of Samuel, Saul and David, 
carefully, can by any possible means give Saul so 
much as twenty years sole reign. 
And, as the 
Jewish chronology gives him only seven years, 
(and that seems as long as the history will allow,) 
I think it is dealing fairly with the subject to give 
him twenty in connection with Samuel. 
But you 
would ask again, how I would harmonize this ac-
count with the 
Baying of Jephthah in Judges 
11:26. 
That Israel had possessed the land of the 
children of Ammon three huudred years in his day. 
Let us see : Jephthah's reign began 285years from 
the entrance of Israel into the land, reckoning 
exclusive of the captivities. 
Now we learn from 
Num. 21#: 21-25, that Israel " smote Sihon, King 
of Heshbon with the sword, and possessed his land 
from Arnon unto Jabbok. . And Israel took all 
these cities : and Israel dwelt in all the cities of 
the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages 
thereof." 
This was done in Moses' day, some 
time before they passed over Jordan. 
And as we 
do not know how long before, and fifteen years is 
all that is wanting to make up the three hundred 
of Jephthah, it is fair to presume that it was as 
much as that. 
This objection falls then, and the old Testament 
is seen to be in harmony with itself without ad-
mitting an error in either account. 
The word of 
the Lord is a tried word; and I believe the old 
Hebrew version will stand the fire of the severest 
criticisms, and come out of it shining brighter 
and brighter. 
Now as the Old Testament accounts of this pe-
riod is shown to be in harmony with themselves, 
there being nothing in the Old Testament to con-
flict with the statement in 1 Kings 6:1, that the 
temple was began in the 480th year after the exo-
dus, we may fairly conclude that if there is er-
ror any where, we must look for it in some other 
place than this. 
At another time we will exam-
ine Paul's account of the period. 
Yours, 
E. CROWELL, 
"JUST LIKE THE OLD CHURCH." 
THE adversary never made use of a taunt that 
better answered his ends than the above. 
Every-
thing practised by the Protestant Church must be 
studiously avoided to escape the above named cen-
sure. But there are some that are learning not to 
be thus turned from righteousness by taunts ; and 
it could have no effect upon any but from the fact, 
that to a very great extent, the idea has been ob-
tained, that the Protestant Church is rejected of 
God, and that all her works are corrupt, and that 
she cannot do a good act. 
We have no plea to 
[. make for the faults of Christians of any order, 
neither would I be found magnifying the faults of 
during his entire reign of twenty years ; and, if any. 
It would be folly to say that any church 
they had a judge during one captivity, why not in was faultless, and more foolish still to say that 
all their captivities ? There is good internal evi- the whole Church in all Christendom for three 
dence, that some of the other judges also ruled hundred years had learned nothing good, 
during the captivities. 
I believe there is no evi- 
Now I advise all concerned to see if they can 
dence that Israel was ever without a lawgiver or see any good thing in any of them ; and as far as 
civil ruler, till their final dispersion by the Ro- they follow Christ, follow their example. 
A very 
mans. 
This is the view the Jews themselves take good rule in this matter is to inquire, 1, does such 
and such a policy work well for them to build them 
up, and to bring men under the influence of the 
gospel? 
2. Does the word of God forbid it? 
I 
think that on these points we may judge with a 
little observation and study, so as not to be de-
ceived, and by choosing the good, and refusing the 
evil, we may be benefited by the wisdom and toil 
of the Church in her endeavors to do good. 
Un-
doubtedly they have wrong views on many subjects, 
and it leads in some cases, to bad results ; yet be-
ing well engrafted into their systems of policy are 
not easily renounced. 
But we are a free people 
and now is the time for us to make an improve 
ment over and above all that others have done 
If we cannot excel, let us not take a position dis 
astrous to ourselves. 
The Church in her organi 
zation and discipline, undoubtedly, might better 
her case; for instance, let her throw away her 
voluminous creeds, and make the Bible alone the 
standard, and true piety a test of fellowship, and 
then, instead of trying to increase her numbers 
with so little regard to purity, as in many cases 
is too evident; let her see that Bible discipline i, 
enforced, and although it would lessen her num 
bers, yet it would increase her moral power and 
strength, and in the end she would have more real 
dependence from her members than now, and 
would not be as disastrous as many imagine ; for 
many only live as they do because the church al-
low it. 
But as soon as discipline was enforced, 
many of the now careless would immediately take 
their place among the better portion, confess their 
negligence, and perform duty as Christians, and 
of Joshua, estimated at 
From his death to Othniel the 
first Judge, 
Reign of Othniel, 
" 
Ohud and Shamgar, 
" 
Deborah and Barak, 
" 
Gideon, 
" 
Abimelech, 
" 
Tola 23, and Jair 22, 
" 
Jephthah, 
" 
Ibzan 7, Elon 10, Abdon 8, 
" 
Samson, 
And we have the sum of 
Now add 40 years for Eli, for he 
judged Israel all the days of his life, 
From the entrance of the land to 
the distribution, (see Bliss's Chro-
nology, p, 64,) 
From the exodus to the entrance 
to the land, 
Saul and Samuel, time ait given in 
the Old Testament. 
David 40, Solomon 3, 
and we have the mm of 
Saul and Samuel 
19 years. 
11 
" 
40 
" 
80 
" 
40 
" 
40 
" 
3 
" 
45 
" 
6 " 
25 
" 
20 
" 
329 
40 
40 
43 
459 
20 
L A 
And here we have the 
479 " 
exact number of years 
converts would be multiplied, far exceeding the 
present ratio. 
And if this is true in their case, 
then is it not best for us to take a stand on a scrip-
tural organization with our members, known, not 
only to ourselves, but to the world ; and our offi-
cars as the Scriptures name them, in their places 
as need requires, and urge our pastors to duty, 
and our membership to faithfulness. I would also 
direct the attention of our brethren to the import-
ance of direct effort for revivals of religion. 
I am 
convinced that this is due to ourselves, and the 
world around us, and now is a favorable time of 
the year; churches should arrange and carry for-
ward a revival effort for days, and in many cases, 
for weeks, and in those efforts see that the great 
practical duties of members of the church are im-
pressed on converts, and then they will be endur-
ing, and of service to themselves and others. 
The various branches of the Church will soon 
begin this work among them, and shall we not he 
as active as they for the salvation of perishing 
sinners. 
They will swell their numbers by their 
efforts, and it is right they should ; and if we are 
Christians we shall rejoice to see souls converted 
and gathered into the church to be cared for, and 
saved from ruin. 
A word to the wise is sufficient. 
I. II. SHIPMAN. 
New York, Nov. 6th, 1854. 
Letter from W. H. Eastman. 
BRO. HIMES :—I have finally concluded to com-
ply with the request of the brethren in Cabot, Vt., 
and become their pastor for a season. 
In leaving 
Whitefield and vicinity, where I have lived and la-
bored for nearly three years past, I have left breth-
ren and friends for whose prosperity and eternal 
salvation, I ever hope to cherish the warmest de-
sires. 
We have enjoyed many precious seasons with 
them, in administering the word, and the ordi 
nances of the Church,—in meeting for social wor-
ship at the weekly prayer meetings, and at their 
domestic altars. 
And although our prosperity 
was not so great as we had desired, yet I trust 
there are souls who will be saved in the day of the 
Lord Jesus, as the fruits of our labors among 
them. 
We enter upon our new field of labor, we are 
glad to say, with encouraging prospects. 
Our 
meetings are becoming more interesting, and are 
attended with a good degree of conviction. 
The 
brethren are buckling on their armor anew, being 
resolved on victory. 
At our last prayer meeting, 
two resolved to leave the world and follow Christ. 
We are expecting a visit from you, at your earli-
est convenience. 
We desire the prayers of our brethren abroad, 
that our labors may be blest to the edification of 
the church, and the salvation of many souls. 
With our hearts united in "the love of Christ, as a 
church, with the word of God on our side, and 
aided by the prayers of the faithful, what pre-
sumptuous mortal shall pretend to set bounds to 
our prosperity. 
May God speed the right. 
W. II. EASTMAN. 
Cabot, Vt., Nov. 7th, 1854. 
DENNIS AND THE PRIEST. 
A DIALOGUE. 
" GOOD morning ! Dennis." 
" Good morning ! your Reverence." 
" What is this they say of you, Dennis ? I am 
told you have been to hear the preaching of the 
soupers." 
" You have been told the truth, your Rever* 
ence." 
" And how could you dare to listen to heretics ?" 
" Please your Reverence, God is not a heretic ; 
and it is the Word of God, the Bible, that they" 
read." 
" Aye,—the Bible explained by a minister?" 
" No, your Reverence ; the Bible explained by 
itself; for when it is allowed to speak, it explains 
itself without any assistance from any other quar-
ter ; and in the very act of reading it, we allow it 
to speak." 
" But, after all, the minister preaches ; and he 
insists on your believing what he preaches?" 
" No, your Reverence ; the preacher tells us not 
to believe on his word, but when we go home to 
take the Bible and examine whether it contradicts 
or confirms what he has delivered from the pul-
pit." 
" But, don't you see this is a mere sham ; and 
that you, the common people, cannot examine the 
Holy Scriptures, so as to judge whether they con 
firm or contradict what the preacher says ?" 
" At that rate, your Reverence, St. Luke made 
fools of the common people; for the preacher 
pointed out to us a passage in the Bible which 
mentions that the Bereans compared the preach-
ing of the Apostle Paul with the Holy Scriptures; 
and more than that, St. Luke commends them for 
doing so."—Acts 17:11. 
" Admirable, Master Dennis! you are quite a 
Doctor of Divinity! 
You know as much as a 
whole Synod of Bishops ! Your decisions will be 
equal to those of a General Council J" 
" No, your Reverence; 1 make no pretentions to 
judge for other persons ; but I take the liberty of 
judging for myself. God inspired the Bible : I read 
his inspired *tvord, and that ia all." 
" But you are not able to understand it." 
" The proof that I can is, that I really do un-
derstand it. 
I understand very well an almanac 
made by an ordinary man. 
Why should I not un-
derstand the Bible, which has God for its author ? 
Cannot God express what he means as well as a 
mere mortal ? Besides, the Bible speaking of it-
self, says it is ' a light.' "—Psa. 119:105. 
" Dennis, you are obstinate and conceited." 
" Your Reverence, if he is obstinate who never 
changes his opinion, it is you who are obstinate ; 
but as for me, I found myself in a bad road and 
changed for a better, that is* all. 
I have never 
pretended to be infallible." 
" You are very conceited to think that you know 
so much more than others." 
" Others are not very humble in thinking they 
know more than God; but it is to God and not to 
my fellow-men that I hold myself responsible." 
" I must tell you that if you go on reasoning in 
this way, I shall not admit you to confession." 
" I confess myself." 
" Not to me, at all events." . 
" No ; but to God." 
"To God?" 
" Yes; to God, who declares in the Bible that, 
' if we confesstour sins, he is faithful and just, to 
forgive us our sins.' "—1 John 1:9. 
" The Church will not marry you." 
" I will get married elsewhere." 
" The Church will not bury you." 
• 
" I shall not trouble myself about my dead body, 
if I save my soul." 
" You will be excommunicated !" 
" No matter, if I am received by God." 
" No prayer^ shall be offered for you ." 
" I shall pray for myself." 
" No masses will be said for you to release you 
from Purgatory ! 
" They would be of no use ; for I reckon on go-
ing to Paradise." 
" To Paradise, do you !" 
" Yes; to Paradise." 
" How do you know that?" 
" Why, thus : I read in the Bible that the thief 
when hanging on the cross at the right hand of 
Jesus, after having confessed his sins to Jesus 
Christ, who is God, said to him, ' Lord remember 
me!' 
'And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say 
unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Para-
dise.'—Luke 23:41-43. 
If, then, a penitent male-
factor could be pardoned by believing on Jesus 
Christ, I cannot see why, if I repent, and trust in 
the same Saviour, I may not equally obtain salva-
tion ; and the proof that my hope is well founded 
lies in what I have read in the same blessed book, 
that' God so loved the world that he gave his 
only-begotten Son, that whomsoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' 
—John 3:16. 
But as I make a part of the world 
here spoken of. it follows, that if I believe, I shall 
be saved." 
" But while you are waiting to go to Paradise, 
you must live in this world, and I tell you plainly, 
that you will lose your livelihood by joining these 
heretics. 
No one will have anything to do with 
you." 
" I trust in Him who gives us 4 day by day our 
daily bread ;' and if God be for me, what can all 
those do who are against me?" 
" You will be a laughing-stock to everybody." 
" And what will that signify? 
Was not Jesus 
mocked and set at nought?" 
" Everybody will shut their doors against you!" 
" Jesus Christ had not where to lay his head." 
" You will be called an apostate !" 
" Was not St, Paul the greatest of apostates at 
his conversion ? 
" Everybody will take pleasure in refusing to 
do you a kindness !" 
"The world persecuted the Master, and there-
fore may well persecute his disciples; and the 
more I am persecuted for my faith, the more I 
shall feel that I am truly a disciple of Christ." 
" Well! we shall see how long you will hold 
out! First of all, no one will give you any work." 
" And what next?" 
" No one will admit you under their roof!" 
" And what next?" 
" No one will have anythihg,to do* with you ei-
ther in buying or selling." 
" And what next ?" 
" No one will receive you into their society." 
sgjus 
THE 
ADVENT 
HERALD. 
44 So then the whole world will conspire against 
me?" 
44 Certainly!" 
" And who will be at the head of the conspira-
cy t » 
44 Who ! who ! what does that signify ?" 
44 At all events, whoever he may be, you may 
tell him that he is not a Christian, for Christ com-
mands us to forgive offences, while this man in-
dulges in revenge. 
Jesus commands men to love 
one another, and this man appears quite disposed 
to hate me. Should he happen to be a priest, you 
may tell him that his prototypes were members of 
the Sanhedrim, who, through hatred, condemned 
Jesus to death. 
Should he be an Ultramontane, 
you may tell him that I am astonished at nothing 
done by him and by those who invented the Inqui-
sition. 
Lastly, should it be yourself, be assured 
that your vengeful spirit is to me the best proof 
that you are not in the truth. 
Christ said, ' For-
give,'and you take vengeance. Christ said,' Teach 
all nations,' and you refuse even to let them read 
the Bible. 
Christ said,' Freely ye have received, 
freely give,' (Matt. 10:8) ; and you sell,—not, in-
deed, the Gospel, for that you conceal,—but you 
sell your masses, your prayers, your dispensations, 
your rosaries, your tapers, your indulgences, your 
baptisms, your interments ; but as for me, I can 
make shift to do without your wares, while I ap-
ply to that God who gives heaven gratuitously." 
" Gratuitously!" 
" Yes, gratuitously ! and this it is that vexes 
you! 
For when a blessing is bestowed gratu-
itously, the concurrence of those who sell is not 
wanted. 
Yes, gratuitously! this one word is ruin-
ous to all your schemes. 
God gives, and you 
sell. 
God pardons, and you punish. 
God loves, 
and you hate. 
How can you expect that we should 
not go to God, or wonder that we do not come to 
you ? But act toward me just as you please ; I 
have learnt not to fear those who can kill the 
body ; but only to fear those who can destroy the 
soul; in other words, I stand in no awe of you." 
41 Y'ou are an insolent fellow." 
" I am not; but I have the courage to speak the 
truth." 
" You are impious." 
" I have been so, while bending the knee before 
images of wood or stone ; but I have ceased to be 
so, since I have believed in the living God, and 
trusted only in my Saviour." 
" You are a miserable wretch." 
" Yes, a miserable sinner ; but a penitent and 
humble sinner,I trust, whom God has pardoned.' 
44 You will always be a 
." 
" What I shall be, I do not know, but I know 
what I wish to be. 
1 wish for the future to live in 
purity, because it was precisely my sins that cru 
cified tbe Saviour. 
I wish to be sincere, just, and 
charitable, because Jesus has been so good as-to 
give me everything. 
Allow me to tell you what 
kind of person I am. 
When persons love me 1 
love them in return ; when they do me a favor I 
wish to return it two-lold ; the more generous 
others are towards me the more grateful I feel. 
Well! and has not God been generous to me more 
than I have words to express? 
He has granted 
mo pardon, and heaven, and eternity. 
Thus my 
heart bounds with joy, and I am ready to do all 
that God requires of me ; but what he requires of 
me is most delightful. It is to love him and love 
my brethren,—to love even you, Reverend Sir.' 
441 do not want your love." 
44 I shall not the less pray for you." 
441 do not want your prayers." 
, 
44 See the difference between us, your Reverence. 
I love you, and you hate me. 
1 offer you my 
prayers, and you refuse me yours. 
But Jesus 
Christ has said,4 By their fruits ye shall know 
them : do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of 
thistles ? '—Matt. 6:16. Judge now, Reverend Sir! 
which of us, you or I, is the disciple of Jesus 
Christ!" 
when he stood facing me a few minutes before. 
It's a strange feeling to come over you all at once 
that you have killed a man. 
He had unbuttoned 
his jacket, and was pressing his hand over the 
front of his chest, where the wound was. 
He 
breathed hard, and the blood poured from the 
wound and also from his mouth every breath he 
took. 
His face was white as death, and his eyes 
looked so big and bright as he turned them and 
stared at me—I shall never forget it. 
He was a 
fine young fellow, not more than five-and-twenty. 
I went down on my knees beside him, and my 
breast felt so full, as though my own heart would 
burst. 
He had a real English face, and did not 
look like an enemy. 
What I felt I never can tell, 
but if my life would have saved his, I believe 1 
should have given it. 
I laid his head on my knee, 
and he tried to speak, but his voice was gone. 
I 
could not tell a word he said, and every time he 
tried to speak, the blood poured out so, I knew it 
would soon be over. 
I am not ashamed to say 
that I was worse than he, for he never shed a tear, 
and I couldn't help it. 
His eyes were closing 
when a gun was fired from the 
to order us 
aboard, and that roused him. 
He pointed to the 
beach, where the boat was just pushing off with 
the guns, which we had taken, and where our ma-
rines were waiting to man the second boat, and 
then he pointed to the wood, where the enemy was 
•concealed—poor fellow, he little thought how I had 
shot him down. 
1 was wondering how I could 
leave him to die and no one near him, when he 
had something like a convulsion for a moment, 
and then his face rolled over, and with a sigh he 
was gone. 
I trust the Almighty has received his 
soul. 
I laid his head gently down on the grass 
and left him. 
It seemed so strange when I looked 
at him for the last time—I somehow thought of 
every thing I had heard about the Turks and Rus-
sians, and the rest of them—but all that seemed so 
far off, and the dead man so near.'" 
WAR I\* THE^ilGHT OF HUMANITY. 
No one can read the following without emotion, 
and without having his sense of the horrors of war 
increased. 
It is from an English sailor to his 
wife, describing his sensations on killing a man 
for the first time, and is copied from the London 
Inquirer : 
44 We dispersed a few yards distance from the 
beach, to keep the coast clear whilst the boats' 
crews made prizes of the guns. 
The enemy had 
the advantage of the wood, and also knowing 
the country well, and a troop of them showed in 
in advance. 
We were ordered to fire. I took 
steady aim and fired on my man at about sixty 
yards. 
He fell like a stone. 
At the same time a 
broadside from the 
went in amongst the 
trees, and the enemy disappeared, we could scarce 
tell how. 
I felt as though I must go up to him, 
to see whether he was dead or alive. 
He lay quite 
still, and I was more afraid of him lying so, than 
Mr. Layard. 
AT a meeting in which he was presented with 
the freedom of the city of London, Mr. Layard 
said, in regard to his Assyrian researches: 
44 Doubtless, if I had undertaken these excava-
tions and researches with no other end than grati-
fying an idle curiosity, or an ordinary spirit of 
enterprise, 1 should be utterly unworthy of the 
honor you have shown me. 
I trust they were em-
barked in for a higher motive. 
Archaeology, if 
pursued in a truly liberal spirit, becomes of the 
utmost importance, as illustrating the historv of 
mankind. 
I confess that, sanguine as I was as to 
the results of my researches amongst the ruins on 
the Tigris and Euphrates, I could not, nor. indeed, 
probably could any human being, have anticipated 
the results which they produced. 
I do not say 
this in self-praise—I consider myself but as an 
humble agent, whose good fortune it has been to 
labor successfully in bringing about those results. 
I could not doubt that every spadeful of earth 
which was removed from those vast remains would 
tend to confirm the truth of prophecy, and to il-
lustrate the meaning of Scripture. 
But who could 
have believed that records themselves should have 
been found, which, as to the minuteness of their 
details and wonderful accuracy of their statements, 
should confirm almost word for word the very text 
of Scripture ? And remember that these are no 
fabrications of a later date, in monuments centu-
ries after the deeds which they professed to relate 
had taken place, but records engraved by those 
who had actually taken part in them." 
Romish Propaganda. 
IT will be of interest to our readers to note what 
this engine for putting forward Romanism is do-
ing and where. 
It is principally worked in Eu-
rope, whence it obtains its largest supplies. 
A 
writer to the N. Y. Evangelist says the annual re-
port of the Propaganda has been published. 
The 
figures it presents are worth studying. 
The re-
ceipts of the Propaganda amount to the sum of 
3,335,149 francs. 
France alone has given 2,364, 
148 francs. 
After France come the Sardician 
States, for the sum of 257,114 francs, Prussia for 
200,998 francs; the British Isle for 193,746 francs. 
Belgium is on the fifth line, its contribution is 
150,629 francs. 
Adding to the receipts of 1853, 
The balance of 1852, 
f 3,953,149 
1,245,112 
The total is, 
5,198,262 
Then come the expenses for the year 1853 : 
Missions in Europe, 
44 
Asia, 
44 
Africa,' 
44 
America, 
44 
Oceanica, 
Expenses for printing the 44 Annals," 
&c., in France and foreign coun-
tries. 
Ditto of administration in France 
and foreign countries, 
Total of expenses for the year 1853 
alone, 
Balance of excess of receipts for the 
first payments to the missions of 
1854, 
936,121 
1,440,510 
342,700 
1,089,428 
413,787 
172,638 
32,089 
4,427,278 
670,988 
5,198,261 
1,200; in Flemish. 4,800; in Italian, 24,300; in 
Portuguese, 2.500; in Dutch, 200; in Polish, 
500. 
PALESTINE. 
D T J. G. W II I T T I E R. 
Sum total. 
The 44 Annals of the Propaganda of the Faith " 
are issued every two months to the number of 
172,000 copies —viz,: in French, 106,500; in 
English, 16,000 ; in German, 15,200 ; in Spanish, 
BLEST land of Judea ! thrice hallowed of song, 
Where the holiest of memories pilgrim-like throng; 
In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, 
On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee. 
With the e^ye of a spirit I look on that shore, 
Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before; 
With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod 
Made bright by the steps of the angels of God. 
Blue sea of the hills ! in my spirit I hear 
Thy waters, Gennesaret, chime on my ear ; 
Where the Lowly and Just with the people sat 
down, 
And thy spray on the dust of his sandals was 
thrown. 
Beyond are Bethulia's mountains of green, 
And the desolate hills of the wild Gadarene ; 
And I pause on the goat-crags of Tabor to see 
The gleam of thy waters, O dark Galilee ! 
Hark, a sound in the valley ! where, swollen and 
strong, 
Thy river, O Kishon, is sweeping along ; 
W here the Canaanite strove with Jehovah in vain, 
And thy torrent grew dark with the blood of the 
slain. 
There, down from his mountain stern Zebulon 
came, 
And Naphtali's stag, with his eye-balls of flame, 
And the chariot of Jabin rolled harmlessly on, 
For the arm of tbe Lord was Abinoam's son ! 
There sleep the still rocks and the caverns which 
rang 
To the song which the beautiful prophetess sang, 
When the princes of lssachar stood by her side, 
And the shout of a host in its triumph replied. 
Lo, Bethlehem's hill-side before me is seen, 
With the mountains around and the valleys be-
tween ; 
There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there 
The song of the angels rose sweet on the air. 
And Bethany's palm-trees in beauty still throw 
Their shadows at noon on the ruins below ; 
But where are the sisters who hastened to greet 
The lowly Redeemer and sit at his feet ? 
I tread where the twelve in their wayfaring trod : 
1 stand where they stood with the chosen of God— 
Where His blessings were heard and his lessons 
were taught, 
Where the blind were restored and the healing 
was wrought. 
O, here with His flock the sad Wanderer came— 
These hills He toiled over in grief are the same— 
The founts where He drank by the wayside still 
flow, 
And the same airs are blowing which breathed on 
his brow. 
And throned on her hills sits Jerusalem yet, 
But the dust on her forehead, and the chains on 
her feet; 
For the crown of her pride to the mocker hath gone, 
And the holy Shekinah is dark where it shone. 
But wherefore this dream of the earthly abode 
Of humanity clothed in the brightness of God ? 
Were my spirit but turned from the outward and 
dim, 
t 
It would gaze even now on the presence of Him ! 
Not in clouds and in terrors, but gentle as when, 
In love and in meekness, he moved among men ; 
And the voice which breathed peace to the waves 
of the sea, 
In the hush of my spirit would whisper to me ! 
And what if my feet may not tread where he stood, 
Nor my ears hear the dashing of Galilee's flood, 
Nor my eyes see the cross which he bowed him to 
bear, 
Nor my knees press Gethsemane's garden in prayer: 
Yet. Loved of the Father, Thy Spirit is near 
To the meek, and the lowly, and penitent here ; 
And the voice of thy love is the same even now, 
As at Bethany's tomb, or on Olivet's brow. 
O, the outward hath gone!—but, in glory and 
power, 
The Spirit surviveth the things of an hour ; 
Unchanged, undecaying, its Pentecost flame, 
On the heart's secret altar is burning t ie same ! 
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Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
To be followed by Readings on Exodus and Leviticus. And by 
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The hypocrite always strives to divert at-
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sparingly that of others. 
He thinks he shall seem 
good in the exact ratio as he makes others seem 
bad." 
Goethe. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
. Contents of this N o. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Ext mporaneous Preachiag.. 361 
Character vs. Wealth 
361 
A Visit to Dr. Duff's English 
School in Calcutta 
362 
The Priest's Curse 
362 
The Dilemma of Mohammedan 
ism 
362 
An Interesting Letter 
sg^ 
Disaster on the Great Western 
Railway 
3gg 
Another Feaful Railroad 
Calamity 
363 
Foreign News 
363 Palestine (poetry) 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecv of Isaiah 
364 
Abrahamic Intelligence 
364 
Chronology of the Judges... 365 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Chronolgy of the Judges.... 366 
Just like the Cld Church.... 366 
Letter from W, H. Eastman. 366 
Dennis and the Priest 
366 
War in the Light of Ilumani-
' ty 
367 
Mr. Layard 
367 
Romish Propaganda-. 
367 
... 367 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 18, 1854. 
PROPOSITION OF ELDER J, COLE, 
» 
To be one of twenty to raise one thousand dollars to aid 
me in my missionary labors, and the Herald. 
Jonathan Cole 
$50. 
S. F 
50. 
John Smith 
50. 
L. II. Smith 
50. 
PROPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS, 
To be one of two hundred to raise one thousand dollars 
for the Office. 
I 
Mrs. S. Mann 
$5,00 
E. Clark 
5.00 
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5,00 
ally undergoing a violent spasm, which gave op-
portunity for the renewed exhortations of the 
brethren, and the narration of a remarkable inci-
dent by one of the chief exborters. ' My breth-
ren,' said he, ' the case of this young lady whom 
you now see before you, filled with the Holy 
Ghost, reminds me of a very interesting case, simi-
lar in its nature to this, which transpired four 
years ago at a camp meeting which I attended. 
A young lady was leaning on the elbow of a gen-
tleman, and was laughing at the scenes before her, 
when suddenly she was touched by the Divine fire, 
and began to jump up and down. She jumped 
three feet straight up in the air, and kept on 
jumping till it took three men to hold her. 
This, 
my brethren, was a remarkable instance of the 
way that God deals with us.' " 
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. 
THE Freeman's Journal some time since, con-
tained a paragraph denying that the St. Louis 
Shepherd of the Valley had ever published articles 
denouncing the principles of religous toleration, 
and asserted that the United States Senators who 
commented on its alleged opinions had been mis-
led. The following from a recent number of the 
Shepherd of the Valley, reiterating and defending 
its previously expressed sentiments, tends to convict 
the Journal of making statements which facts will 
not sustain. 
Bap. Memorial. 
" Well, then, is this doctrine pf toleration a 
Christian doctrine or is it not ? Does it come from 
heaven or hell—from God or the devil ? Do we see 
anything of it in the Bible, in the fathers, in the 
actions or writings of the saints, in the treaties 
of the doctors of the church ? Was it heard of be 
fore the birth of Protestantism ? Has it not been 
condemned by the council of Constance ^nd re-
peatedly by the Supreme Pontiffs ? Is it anything 
more.than a convenent theory got up, that the Cath-
olics living amongst Protestants may meet with 
less ill will? 
Are not the French Philosphers and 
their disciples its most zealous advocates ? Has it 
ever had any more than a theoretical existance, 
except where it has been practically impossible to 
carry into active operation the principles which it 
condemns ? Wras St. Thomas right when he said 
that, ' It is a much worse thing to corrupt the 
faith by which life is given to the soul, than to 
falsify money, whieh is an assistance to the tem-
poral life V 
Did he reason correctly from these 
premises when he argued that temporal princes 
might justly punish convicted heretics ? la it not a 
boast that the church never changes? 
And is not 
her history an open book which all may read 
wjiich we could not chose if we would, and of 
which we have no cause to be ashamed ? 
" We still say, however, we are not in favor of 
roasting heretics ; and that,, if this sort of work 
is to be revived—though in our miserable times it 
is quite impossible, since men have no belief which 
they care to propagate, or for which they dare en-
dure—if persecution is to be renewed, we should 
rather be its victims than its agents; but we are 
not, therefore, going to deny the facts of history, 
or to blame the saints of God and the doctors and 
pastors of the Church, for what they have done 
and sanction. 
We say that the temporal punish-
ment of heresy is a mere matter of expediency ; that 
Protestants do not persecute us here, simply be-
cause they have not the power ; and that where we 
abstain from persecuting them, they are well aware 
that it is merely because we cannot do so, or think that 
by doing so we should injure the cause that we wish (o 
serve." 
Titles in the Turkish Empire. 
THE very frequent use of the words, " Sultan," 
"Porte, "&c., in the newspapers publishing ac-
counts of affairs in Turkey at the present time, are 
erroneously understood by many persons. 
" The Sublime Porte," is the official title of the 
Government of the Ottoman Empire, and not the 
title of any officer of the Government, as many sup 
pose it to be. 
The Ottoman Empire is called Sultan, or Grand 
Sultan, or Grand Seignior, according to the fancy 
of the person speaking or writing. 
They all mean 
the same thing. 
Pasha is the governor of a province, and accord-
ing to the importance of his province, he is distin-
guished by one or two or three tails. Every Pasha 
has his own army in his own province, distinct 
from the great army of the Empire. 
A Pasha 
with throe tails has the power to punish with death 
arty agent who seems to threaten the general safe-
ty- 
• 
, 
Bey is a sub-governor under the Pasha. 
' The Divan is the Council of State, and consists 
of the principal ministers. 
The Reis Effendi, is high chancellor of the Em-
pire, and stands at the head of all the body of at-
torneys—which body is thought to contain the best 
informed men of the nation. 
Tadi is a sort of judge, or justice of the peace. 
To order the bastinado on common people, to im-
pose a fine on a rich Greek or European, to con-
demn a thief to be hanged, is.about all the duty of 
an ordinary Cadi. 
Boston Transcript. 
SUICIDE BY ACCIDENT.—A boy about ten years of 
age hung himself in his father's cellar Tuesday 
evening. 
He had gone off with a gun against his 
father's consent, and on his return he said that he 
would go down into the cellar and make believe 
bang himself, so that his father would not punish 
him. 
His father came home in an hour, and, 
upon going into the cellar, found his son hanging, 
dead. 
He had mounted upon a cask and fastened 
a rope about his neek, and it is supposed that the, 
cask fell over and the little fellow was left sus-
pended. 
Prov. Journal. 
THE Election for state officers, in Massachusetts, 
has just resulted in the choice of Henry J. Gardner 
for Governor by some 50,000 majority—the result 
of a mystical organization, spoken of in the pa-
pers as the "Know Nothings." 
Scene in n (/amp Meeting. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Daily Times, 
in giving an account of a Camp meeting lately 
held at Port Chester, relates the following inci-
dent, which affords a melancholy example of hu-
man fanaticism and folly. 
Such things are dis 
gusting to men of common sense. 
And what won-
der that outsiders, who suppose this to be Gospel 
religion, turn from it with contempt, and become 
skeptics and scoffers. 
" Many of the converted and the anxiously in-
quiring prostrated themselves at the altar, and 
gave evidence of the- strength of their emotions. 
We observed one lady, over whose head twenty 
summers had scarcely passed1, who- was evidently 
most earnestly exercised. 
She fell into the arms 
of her female friends, wailing and laughing by 
turns, clapping her hands in extacv, and occasion-
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6th, at half past 2 o'clock, P.M. ; services will be 
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We cordially invite 
all our bretheren and triends from all parts of the 
country to participate with us in this feast of the 
dedication. It will continue four days. 
We ask the prayers of all the brethren and sis-
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meeting, and that it may be a feast indeed. 
The stockholders will hold a meeting at the 
time, of which due notice will be given. 
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