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WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED 
CUNNINGLY DEVISED 
FABLES. 
WHOLE NO. 706. 
VOLUME XIV. NO. 21 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1854. 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
OFFICE, No. 46 1-2 Kiieclaml-strcet 
The True Motives of 
Effort. 
Evangelical 
THE most popular argument against milenarian 
views is, that their prevalence would prove fa-
tal to the missionary enterprise, by destroying 
the hope of the world's conversion. 
This argu-
ment takes it for granted that the big and ambi-
tious hope for converting the world, is that which 
inspires every missionary, and influences the sup-
porters of the missions; and this, as a matter of 
fact, we respectfully deny. 
It furnishes the 
point of many a missionary speech, and grace-
fully winds up many a report, but it can never 
be found operating in the hearts of men as a 
motive either to effect or sacrifice. 
We should 
consider the man who set out in any evangelical 
enterprise with this object in view, as a visionary 
enthusiast, who must either find another motive, 
or speedily abandon the effeclin despair. 
Those 
who are making daily sacrifices and undergo-
ing thankless and unrequited toil, are moved, 
.not by the thought of the world's conversion, 
but by a Christ-like desire for the conversion of 
men and woman individually, an^ they think it 
joy enough, amid all their labors, if by any 
means, they may save some. 
So far as the hope and proipise of the world's 
•conversion does influence the professing church, 
its influence appears to be in the highest degree 
disastrous to the church's spirituality and zeal. 
For it invests a work which demands the most 
self-denying and laborious zeal, with a romantic 
and unreal interest, such as, in matters of ordin-
ary life, results in the most unprofitable and un-
practicable day-dreaming. 
The work ofthe mis-
sionary abroad, and the evangelist at home, 
must be done among the repulsive details of in-
dividual ignorance, corruption and 'unbelief; 
and must advance, not by vast and imposing 
achievements on the great field of the world, but 
by slow and unnoticed steps in the highways and 
by-ways of human life. 
The heart that earnestly 
cherishes the hope of splendid victories, and 
that has been taught to believe that the gosple, 
ascending the car of modern improvement, is 
advancing speedily to the glory of a univer-
sal ascendency, must be chilled and blighted 
by the first glance at1 the actual 
condition, 
not of the heathen world, not of Christendom 
so-called, 
but 
of the 
so-called 
evangelical 
churches, where we see nothing but a growing 
carnality and supineness, and here nothing but 
complaints of spiritual barrenness and leanness. 
The tone of exultation and self-laudation which 
is indulged in by those who advocate the splen-
did delusion, is alike inconsistant with what 
spiritually minded men know of our professing 
Christianity, with the sad truth regarding hu-
man depravity, and with all that the word of 
God teaches us regarding the prospects of a suf-
fering church and despised gospel. 
Over it all, 
we keenly feel that the honor of the Redeemer 
and the salvation of perishing men demand that 
views of a different order should prevail, and 
that motives of a more influential character 
must be urged, to give depth, earnestness and 
energy to the evangelical efforts of our churches, 
slumbering amid friends and neighbors for whose 
souls no man cares, and in the presence of a 
world groping its way through darkness to des-
pair. 
Professing Christians need that their pity 
should be awakened, their love enkindled, their 
labors stimulated, and their indifference rebuked, 
in view of the actual and awful condition of men 
dead in trerpasses and sins ; not that their van-
ity should be flattered, and their ambition fan-
ned by the fictitious gloss that is spread over the 
pollutions of. the present, or the darkness of the 
future. 
The history of Christianity shews that it has 
always been preached with the greatest fidelity 
and success, when it was preached in the face of 
the most unrelenting hostility, when there was 
the least to encourage the hope of extended suc-
cess, and when there was most to concentrate 
the efforts of the church on the less ambitious 
aim of individual conversation. 
Among Christ-
an laborers, the most earnest and sustained ac-
tivity has been put forth by humble men, in whose 
soul tha fires of ambition were extinguished, 
whose views of the condition of men were the 
darkest, whose anticipations of success were the 
most abased, and who thought least of anything 
save the glory of the Redeemer and the conver-
sion of the ungodly. 
We find ancient prophets 
delivering their messages with the complaint on 
their lips, " who hath believed our report?" 
and apostles preaching the gospel while they 
braved the rejection of the world and encount-
ered shame, hatred and death. 
Our Lord sent 
them forth, not to an easy triumph, but as lambs 
among w.olves; and in all the apostolic writings, 
we look in vain for a single expression that in-
timates an anticipated temporal triumph. 
Like 
their Lord when the apostles enjoy fidelity, and 
stimulate the zeal of other and more youthful 
preachers of the gospel, they do not cheer them 
on by assurance of drawing success, but set be-
fore them all the stern realities of a perish-
ing world, a growing corruption, and an approch-
ing judgment. 
"1 charge thee," says Paul to 
Timothy, "before God, and the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead 
at his appearing and kingdon, preach the Word; 
be instant in season and out of season; reprove, 
rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doc-
trine; but after their own evil desires, will 
they heap to themselves teachers, having itch-
ing ears: and they will turn away their ears 
from the truth ; and be turned aside into fables. 
But watch thou in all things; endure afflictions; 
do the work of an evangelist; fulfil thy minis-
try." 
In the same spirit of plain earnestness, must 
the churches in our day be urged to the accom-
plishment of a trying and toilsome mission, 
with a single eye to the glory of God. 
We 
would address ourselves to those who are new 
creatures iu Christ, for no others have part or 
lot in this matter, and they apart from any argu-
ment or persuasion, have experienced the in-
stinct of anew life, prompting them to speak be-
cause they have believed, and to commend the 
Saviour whose grace we have tasted. 
The love 
of Christ constrains them. 
It is a spontaneous 
impUlse of the renewed life to seek to save the 
lost. 
And, in order to any advancement of evan-
gelical zeal and effort, it behoves us, first and 
foremost, to begin at home with a more earnest 
and prayerful improvement of all the means of 
advancing a work of grace on our own hearts. 
All that promotes our spirituality and sanctifica-
tion will strengthen our holy desires for the ad-
vancement of a work of grace around.us. 
Our 
abiding union with Christ, our extended knowl-
edge of him, and growing conformity to his im-
age will nourish it. 
We must widen the separa-
tion between us and the world; cultivate the 
habit of walking by faith and not by sight, as 
pilgrims and strangers here, looking for a better 
country, that is an heavenly. 
And to this end, 
we must cut assunder all earthly alliances and 
aims in our religion ; all sectarian and denomina-
tional ambition; all expectations of temporal 
triumph; all motives to religious zeal which 
find their origin and issue on this great day of 
the Lord. 
We must realize that we are not our 
own, but bought with a price; live with the ap-
pearing ofthe Lord constantly in view; and la-
bor that, whether present or absent, we may be 
acceptable to him. 
Then, knowing the terror 
of the Lord, we must persuade men. 
•. 
With special reference to the defections of the 
church in our day, we must seek more deep and 
searching views of the evil of sin; and more 
profound and abasing views of the guilty and un-
done state of man, which is too commonly ob-
scured by flattering notions of man's glory, and 
the age's progress. 
We must bring sin into the 
light of the Divine holiness and love, shining 
from the cross; and in the Bame light, we must 
look into the dark depths where men lie, by na-
ture children of wrath. 
We must see all of 
this first with reference to ourselves, looking into 
the hole of the pit whence we were dug; and 
seeing sin in us, exceeding sinful, that we may 
obtain enlarged views of the love bestowed on 
us, and a deepening sense of the preciousness of 
the salvation revealed to us. 
We muse seek more exalted views of the glory 
of his person and the perfection of his work. 
We must learn to magnify both the doctrine of 
the cross and the doctrine of the crown of Christ, 
and cherish a rapt and adoring love of him who, 
though unseen, is rejoiced in with joy unspeaka-
ble and full of glory. 
We must thus learn to 
court all things but loss, for the excellency of 
the knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord. 
We 
must simplify our views of the way of accept-
ance in the beloved, amplify our views ot the 
distinction of our place in him, and expand our 
conception of the salvation which shall be 
brought to us at his appearing. 
We must seek deeper views of the office ofthe 
Holy Spirit, and a more habitual sense of our 
dependence or. Divine influence, instead of con-
tending ourselves with sanctifying by this name, 
the ephemeral excitement of rare occasions of 
religious zeal. 
We must aim at a daily recog-
nition of the Spirit as that in which we live; a 
daily consciousness of His indwelling in us, and 
a daily dependence on His presence with the 
Word as its vital and animating power. 
We must rise to full conceptions ofthe glory 
and blessedness of adoption into the family of 
God; conformity to His image, and the inherit-
ance incorruptible, undefiled and unfading, that 
is reserved in heaven for us. 
The glory which 
shall be revealed, the crown which shall be be-
stowed, and the kingdom which shall be enjoyed 
must shed a hallowing light over our every-day 
lives; that dead to the world and strangers to 
it. we may go up through the wilderness lean 
ing on the arm of our beloved; looking for that 
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the 
great God and our Saviour—Jesus Christ. 
Then we shall nolonger be misled by the sec-
ularized aspect of the church, as imposing cor-
poration, destined to gather into its treasury the 
resources of human wisdom and industry; and 
to identify with itself the civilization, refine-
ment and institutions of the world. 
We will no 
longer expend on the ambitious prospect of the 
temporal ascendancy of Christianity, sympathies 
which belong to a suffering church in a perish-
ing world. 
The church will be seen as a com-
pany of cross-bearing pilgrims; chosen out of 
the world, in which it holds forth the word of 
life, to gather into itself those whom the Father 
hath given to its head; till they find their re-
ward in the glorious manifestation of the sons of 
God. 
Then, shall seethe truth regarding the world 
and the churches' mission here. 
These views 
will tear off the veil of counterfeit virtue and 
delusive promise, and exhibit the world in naked 
pitifulness; now, as ever, guity and condemned 
:—men everywhere ready to perish. 
We shall 
see men lying under the ban* of a righteous sen 
fence, the execution of which is stayed by the 
long suffering of God, who is not willing that 
any should perish, but that all should come to 
repentance. 
That which we call time, is not a 
shoreless expanse, through which human society 
advances on an interminable course of improve 
ment; but a brief day of grace, which amid 
man's perversity, is hastening to a terrible close 
In this light all of human enterprise, invention 
and industry, which does not bear on human sal 
vation, is a vain inpertinence; the strife of 
parties, the war of nations, the rivalries of ambi 
tion, the competition of commerce—the whole 
toil and trouble in which men fret out a brief 
existance, is less than the pride of insects or the 
anger of atoms. 
Our business is not to l<?ad the 
world in its fancied progress, but to preach the 
Word, instant in season and out of season. 
The 
world is not a theatre which man is to make 
illustrious by his achievments; nor the field 
which he is to beautify by his genius or ennoble 
by his powers; but the scene of his sin and 
shame, where one work is to make known the 
one way of life, comforted by the thought that 
God has chosen this scene of wrong and ruin 
for the theatre on whieh he will display the ex-
ceeding riches of his grace, when he shall make 
all things new. 
For the fashion of the world 
passeth away. 
The cloud-capped 
towers 
of 
mortal strength ; the gorgeoup palaces of mortal 
pride; the dungeon of man's oppression; 
the 
lazar house of his misery; the house of his pov-
erty ; the den of his crimes— all—-all " shall 
dissolve, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, 
leave not a wreck behind." 
Seeing, then, that 
all these things shall be dissolved, what manner 
of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversa-
tion and godliness, looking for and hastening to 
the coming of the day of God. 
Waymarks in the Wilderness. 
The Waldenses-Estraordinary 
Deliverance-
THE following interesting narrative is from 
the address delivered by the Hon. and Rev. Bap-
tist, W. Noel, before a Meeting on the present 
state of the Waldensian Churches lately held in 
England. 
Mr. N. has recently visited them, 
and said: 
" You are aware, most of you, that the Church-
es of the valley of Piedmont which I have 
lately visited, have existed from time imme-
morial, that their origin is not well ascertained, 
but that certainly they have been offering a 
practical protest against the abuses and errors 
of the Church of Rome since the eleventh cen-
tury, and probably from an earlier period. 
I 
have lately visited all their parishes and church-
n company with M. Roussell, in a tour 
amongst them, during which he preached to 
to considerable congregations in every one of 
their temples. 
1 should be in danger of weary-
ing you by anything like a detail of what we met 
with on that visit, and 1 would rather, therefore, 
confine your attention to a single meeting which 
closed that tour, and at which my dear friend, 
Mr. Henderson, and several other English friends 
were present. 
There is«a place at the head of one of their 
valleys, the valley of St. Martin, called the 
Balsille. 
It is a promontory that runs down 
from a high mountain, which is insulated and 
extremely precipitous on all sides. 
The moun-
tain itself is called the mountain ofthe Quartre 
Dents, the mountain of the four teeth. 
The 
lower part of it, the Balsille is divided into two 
parts, one called the Chateau and the other the 
Fortin. 
This mountain stands between two tor-
rents, which close just in front of it. 
At our 
place of meeting there was a beautiful lawn, 
with short grass intermingled with rocks of an 
undulating form. In front of the lawn is a prec- • 
ipice of about 200 feet in height; just above 
that precipice is a narrow ledge of.level ground, 
called the Chateau, or Castle, and above that 
are the precipitous cliffs called the Fortin, which 
are four successive conical summits, exceedingly 
difficult of access. 
On the north-east there is a 
still higher mountain, of which the Balsille 
forms a part, and on the left a mountain called 
the Guignivert, about the same height, 
Above 
the Guignivert, and behind the Balsille, is a 
still higher mountain, eight or nine thousand 
feet high, the upper part of which is exceedingly 
precipitous. 
"The neighborhood I 
have described was 
the scene of a very heroic defence about 200 
years ago. 
Henri Arnaud, who was pastor and 
colonel of that people, at the head of 800 men, 
returned to their .valleys, when the whole Vaudois 
nation had been banished thence. 
They had 
lost their valleys and homes, and were ap-
parently expatriated for ever, when Arnaud, 
with these 800 men, determined at all events to 
recover their valleys and property. 
They came 
back without money, without resources or pro-
visions, and in the face of a vast force they re-
covered valley after valley; but, at the same 
time, they were engaged in a strife so unequal, 
that it was probable, though their loss was very 
small compared "with that of their enemies, that 
eventually they would be worn out and destroy-
ed. 
At length Arnaud proposed to his men that 
they should not wander fron height to height, 
and engage in successive conflict any more, but 
concentrate their forces on this mountain, called 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the Balsiile, and there ine^t tlieir enemies, and 
aWait the result of a general attack. 
There they 
encamped, and rendered the place strong by 
such sortifications as they were able to make, 
which would be nothing in modern warfare, but 
Which were formidable at a time when caiion 
was not brought to bear npon such fortresses. 
There these bold, brave, and pious men spent 
the whole of a severe winter in the midst of the 
deep snows which were surrounding thefn on 
every side, after having resisted several attacks 
made upon them in the autumn. 
" At length, in the spring, it was announced to 
them that their enemies would return.: 
Various 
offers were made to the Vandois to lay down 
their arms 
they were promised pardon, and a 
sum of ftioney each, if they would relinquish and 
give up their enterprise; but they were deter-
mined, by the help of God, to secure recovery 
of their vallies and the restoration of their fami-
lies. 
They therefore announced that they meant 
to await their enemies, and at this time were 
reduced to about four hundred. 
Marshal Cati-
net, one of Louis XIV.'s best Generals, came to 
attack them with an army" of nearly twenty 
thousand men. 
He filled the valley with troops, 
crowned every height with soldiers, and sur-
rounded the Vaudois, so that it seemed impossi-
ble for them to escape, and then conducted a 
seige upon the Balsiile, but with such ill-success 
that the French soldiers were mowed down by 
hundreds ; and at length the indomitable Vau-
dois were completely victorious, and drove off 
the French army. 
Louis XIV., however, was 
not to be baffled by a few peasants, and Marshal 
Catinat did not mean* to give up his enterprise 
because he was once defeated. 
He therefore 
left the command of his army to M. de Feuqui-
eres, who returned to the attack at the head of 
12,000 men. 
The soldiers filled the valley of 
St. Martin, crowned the neighboring hills with 
their forces, filled all the woods, and just oppo-
site the chateau of the Balsiile, placed a battery 
of cannon. 
The valley had never seen cannon 
before, and the Vaudois were ill-prepared to re-
sist any such attack, 
A white flag was then 
hoisted by De Feuquiers, to announce that they 
should be forgiven if they would surrender; and 
afterwards a red flag replaced it, to announce 
that there would be no quarter if they did not 
surrender. 
They were then asked if they would 
yield, to svhich Arnaud and his men replied, 
that the cannon might fire, but their rocks would 
not be likely to be shaken by them, and that 
their hearts were like those rocks. 
"But though they might be very bold, they 
were not able to resist the battery ; it tore down 
their poor fortifications rapidly, and the soldiers 
of De Feuquieres ascended the Balsiile by its 
only approach, which was a steep and glassy 
slope, on the southern part of the Chateau. 
At 
length with very little difficulty they entered 
into the fortress itself. 
Meantime the Vaudois, 
who had only lost a single man, retired to the 
Fortin, the sharp pinnacles behind.' The Fortin 
had no means of defence; it was difficult of ac-
cess, but as there was no water, and no means 
of living in the midst of the snows, the Vaudois, 
it was supposed, could not hold out; and the 
French, quite certain that their foes were in 
their hands, immediately announced that every 
man of them should be hung in front of the 
chateau the next day. 
On the following day 
the French mounted, with their usual gallantry, 
up those pinnacled heights, chased the Vaudois, 
and expected to take them prisoners ; but when 
they had become fully possessed of the whole 
mountain of the Quatre Dents, and had the For-
tine in their hands, without a single shot re-
turned, they looked for tbeir prey in vain, and 
did not find a single Vaudois there. 
Vet all 
around them were terrible precipices; every 
height of the country was filled with troops of 
tin a nemy's forces ; at night, after those four 
hundred men had stood the whole day in battle, 
they knelt down on the ground, and implored 
the aid of God. 
Just at that time such a mist 
rose from the valley, boiling and curling up 
from beneath, as to hide them completely from 
the numerous watch-fires of the enemy, which 
were burning through the night, and which 
would have flashed upon them and left them no 
hope of escape. 
By the aid of that friendly 
mist they ascended a precipice with naked feet, 
which they could not hare ascended with their 
shoes on—a precipice which no man has ever 
climbed besides, which not a man of the enemy 
would have dared to ascend, and which the 
chamois itself could not have climbed. 
They 
were in total darkness; they felt their way 
from rock to rock, and ascended, holding each 
other's hands. 
The next morning, when the 
mist cleared away, the French, thinking to find 
them on the Fortin, looked high in the clouds, 
above the Giugnivert, and saw those men cut-
ting their way in the snow, on the highest point 
of the mountain beyond. 
God blessed them, 
and in ten days peace was made, and they were 
taken into service of the Duke of Savoy, as his 
favored troops, who before was, in conjunction 
with Louis XIV., seeking their utter extermina-
" It Was a gallant defence and a remarkable 
escape which their meeting was called to cele-
brate. 
There is but one path to the spot at 
which the meeting was held.—The mountains 
and rocks are far too precipitous to be climbed 
any other way, at least without great difficulty. 
Along that path, from earliest dawn, there was 
a continuous flow of visitors. 
I awoke at half-
past three, just as the first twilight was begin-
ning to appear, and it was glorious to see the 
Whole of that narrow pathwa ycrowded with visit-
ors, climbing up the valley towards the Balsiile. 
People were walking along the whole distance, 
as far as the eye could see, groping along the 
side of the mountain. 
At nine o'clockwe reach-
ed the spot, and I was forcibly reminded of 
the day on which the battle L have described to 
you was fought; for while the sun broke out above 
our heads, the mists such as those which shrouded 
Henry Arnaud and his friends seemed to hang 
over the Balsiile, making it look as black as 
though it were the infernal region itself. 
As 
I approached the Balsiile 1 could easily im-
agine with what terror the superstitious French 
soldiers would approach to the attack. 
It seemed 
as if the place was the very citadel of the Prince 
of Darkness, for the sunshine only made the 
shadows still deeper. 
However, on this day was 
no sign of conflict. 
We saw three thousand 
peasants assembled and seated on the grass in a 
beautiful theatre. 
There was a natural platform 
prepared by the rock on which we stood. 
It 
was a beautiful sight to see the place crowded, 
and the preparation made for the meeting. 
" At nine o'clock the meeting was openod by 
one of the Vaudois pastors, a vice-moderator of 
the vallies, who expounded the -order of pro-
ceedings., and gave out a hymn to be sung. 
A 
very earnest prayer followed, by another pastor 
named Malan. 
There was then a recital of the 
historical events which I have mentioned, ex-
tremely well drawn np by a Vaudois pastor of 
Turin, whose ministry among the Italians God 
has greatly blessed. 
The recital was listened to 
with great interest. 
He mentioned many things, 
showing the providential 
care of God 
over 
Arnaud and his men. 
It seems that when they 
returned from Switzerland they drove away the 
inhabitants who occupied their property before 
they could gather in their harvests. 
But they 
were so soon attacked themselves that they could 
not afterwards gather it in; so that in one of 
the vallies the snows came and completely buried 
the harvest before it could be gathered at all. 
In the winter, when they had taken possession of 
the Balsiile, and had no provisions, being in 
danger of starvation, they returned to this val-
ley, to see if they could find any; and to their 
surprise they found that the snows had melted, 
and that th? harvests were ready for them, en-
abling them to live during the winter for several 
months. 
The people were invited to join in a 
hymn of praise, called the song of Balsiile, and 
about a thousand voices joined in delightful 
harmony, to sing God's praise for the rescue of 
their fathers. 
The hymn contained such senti-
ments as these: 
" It was here that our fathers, the true and the 
bold, 
With myriads against them, but God on their 
side ; 
Superior to hardship and hunger and cold, 
The crosses of Rome its armies defied. 
Like Israel elected God's goodness to show, 
They are saved by His care in each suffering 
time; 
Their harvest they dug from the sheltering snow, 
And climbed where the chamois would tremble 
to climb'. 
When the cannon had conquered their pinnacled 
height, 
And nought was before them but death and des-
pair, 
They prayed to their jnaker that perilous night, 
And he made them to triumph in answer to 
prayer. 
And now when the signs of the terrible fray, 
The bullets of France are found deep in the sod, 
Each relic of battle should teach us to pray, 
Each bullet remind us of duty and God. 
Thou land of great actions, thou home of our sires, 
High crags which have witnessed the toils of the 
brave, 
Inspire us their children with ardent desires, 
The foes of our faith to enlighten and save!" 
The New Earth. 
"THE prevailing opinion in this country, 
probably, has been, and still is, that the destruc-
tion of the world described by Peter will amount 
to annihilation—that the matter of the globe 
will cease to be. 
But in all ages there have 
been many who believed that the destruction 
will be only the ruin of the present economy of 
the world, but not its utter extinction. 
And 
surely Peter's description does not imply anni-
hilation of the matter of the globe. 
He makes 
fire the agent of the destruction, and, in order 
to ascertain the extent of the ruin that will fol-
low, we have only to inquire what effect com-
bustion will have upon matter. 
The common 
opinion is, that intense combustion actually de-
stroys or annihilates matter, because it is there-
by dissipated. 
But the chemist knows that no 
one particle of matter has ever been thus de-
prived of existence; that fire only changes the 
form of matter, but never annihilates it. 
When 
solid matter is changed into gas, as in most 
cases of combustion, it seems to be annihilated, 
because it disappears; but it has only asumed 
a new form, and exists as really as before. 
Since, therefore, ljiblical and. scientific truth 
must agree, we may be stire that the apostle 
never meant to teach that the matter of the 
globe would cease to be, through the action of 
fire upon it; nor is there anything in his lan-
guage that implies such a result, but most obvi-
ously the reverse." 
Edward Hitchcock, D.D., L.L.D-, late Pres. of Amherst Col-
1' It cannot be thought that what is here 
said [in 2 Peter 3d Chap.] respecting the burn-
ing of the world is to be understood figuratively, 
as Wettstein supposes ; because the fire is here 
too directly opposed to the literal water of the 
flood to be so understood. 
It is the object of 
Peter to refute the boast of scoffers, that all 
things had remained unchanged from the begin-
ning, and that, therefore, no day of judgment 
and no end of the world could be expected. 
And so he says that originally, at the time of 
the creation, the whole earth was covered and 
overflowed with water.(Gen. 1.), and that from 
hence the dry land appeared ; and the same was 
true at the time of Noah's flood. But there is 
yet to come a great fire revolution. 
The heavens 
and the earth (the earth with its atmosphere) are 
reserved, or kept in store, for the fire, yntil the 
day of judgment, (v. 10.) 
At that time the 
heavens will pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, 
and everything upon the earth will be burnt up. 
The same thing is taught in verse 12. 
But in 
verse 13, Peter gives the design of this revolu-
tion. 
It will not be annihilation, but we expect 
a new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness, i. e., an entirely new, altered, and 
beautiful abode for man, to be built from the 
ruins of his former dwelling-place, as the future 
habitation of the pious (Rev. 21. 1). 
This will 
be very much in the same way as a more perfect 
and an immortal body will be reared from the 
body which we now possess." 
Dr- Knapp. 
Rev. Edward D. Griffen, D.D., late president 
of Williams College, Mass., says " A question 
here arises, whether the new heavens and new 
earth will be created out of ruins of the old; 
that is, whether the old will be renovated and 
restored in a more glorious form ; or whether 
the old will be annihilated and the now made 
out of nothing. 
The idea of the annihilation of 
so many immense and glorious bodies, organized 
with inimitable skill and declarative of "infinite 
wisdom, is gloomy and forbidding. 
Indeed it 
is scarcely credible that God should annihilate 
any of his works. 
It ought not to be believed 
without the most decisive proof. 
On the other 
hand, it is a most animating thought that this 
visible creation which sin has marred,—which 
the polluted breath of men and devils has de-
filed,—and which by sin will be reduced to ut-
ter ruin,—will be restored by our Jesus,—will 
arise from its ruins in tenfold splendor, and 
shine with more illustrious glory than before it 
was defaced by sin. 
"After a laborious and anxious search for 
light on this.interesting subject, I must pronounce 
the latter to be my decided opinion. 
And the 
same, I find, has been the more common opinion 
of the Christian fathers, of the divines of the 
Reformation, and of the critics and annotators 
who have since 
flourished. 
I could produce on 
this side a catalogue of names which would con-
vince you that this has certainly been the com-
mon opinion of the Christian church in every 
age, as it was also of the Jewish." 
Sermons, vol. 2. p. 450. 
The Messiah, "finally, when the present 
course of the world shall have ended, will abol-
ish even the outward consequences of the fall, 
the evil which sin has occasioned, and, after the 
utter extinction of the kingdom of darkness, 
glorify his kingdom on the renovated earth." 
Reuel Keith, D D. Professor in Theological Seminary in Virginia. 
" God will make, not the earth only, but,the 
heaven also, much more beautiful than they are 
at present. 
At present, we see the world in its 
working clothes; but hereafter it will be ar-
rayed in its Easter and Whitsuntide robes." 
Martin Luther, 
" If it be the purpose of God that the earth 
shall be subjected to a total conflagration, we 
perfectly well know that the instrument of such 
an event lies close at hand, and wait only the di-
vine volition to burst out in a moment. 
But 
that would not be a destruction ; it would be a 
mere change of form, and, no doubt, would be 
subservient to the most glorious results. 
' We, 
according to promise, look for a new heavens, 
and a new earth; wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness.' " 
Scripture and Geology,by Rev. John Prye Smith D.D. 
" This saith the Creator and Governor of the 
universe : ' Behold I make all things new !' 
all which are included in that expression of the 
apostle, ' A new heaven and a new earth.' 
This 
is the introduction to a far nobler state of things, 
such as it has not yet entered into the heart of 
man to conceive,—the universal 
restoration. 
For' we look,' says the apostle,' for new heavens 
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteous. 
neSS.'" 
JohnWeBley, 
" Very serious and impressive is the fact, 
that this idea of a radical change in our planet 
is not only predicted in the Scriptures, but that 
the earth herself, in her primitive rocks and 
varying formations, on which is lithographed 
the history of successive convulsions, darkly 
prophesies of others to come. 
The old poet 
prophets, all the world over, have sung a reno-
vated world. 
A vision of it haunted the con-
templations of Plato. 
It is seen in the half-in-
spired speculations of the old Indian mystics. 
The Cumaean sibyl saw it in her trances. 
The 
apostles and martyrs of our faith looked for it 
anxiously and hopefully. 
Gray anchorites in 
the desert, worn prilgrims to the holy places of 
Jewish and Christian tradition, prayed for its 
coming. 
It inspired the gorgeous vision of 
Augustine's ' City of God.' 
In every age since 
the Christian era, from the caves, and forests, 
and secluded ' upper chambers,' of the times of 
the first mis ionaries of the Cross,—from the 
Gothic temples of the Middle Ages,—from the 
bleak mountain gorges of the Alps, when the 
hunted heretics put up their expostulations, 
' How long, O Lord, how long !'—down to the 
present time," 
The Natural Responsibility of Man-
1. 
THAT man is a responsible being, is a truth 
assented to by the dictates of the natural con-
science. 
The organization of civil society is 
based upon its admission, and it is pre-supposed 
in the giving of God's Supernatural Revelation. 
2. The responsibility of man is founded on 
the necessary claim of the Creator, to the love 
and service of the creature; and, therefore, the 
obligation of man to serve God, cannot result 
from the terms of a mutual covenant; for that 
implies a voluntary contract between parties, 
into which they are at liberty to enter, or not, 
as theyplease. 
Now, doubtless, the act of crea--
tion» on the part of God, was perfectly volun-
tary, there being no cause of any thing He does, 
distinct from His own inherent Sovereignty. 
The act of creation, however, does not essentially 
include the obligation to reward the obedience 
of the creature; that obligation can exist only 
in consequence of a promise or covenant• made 
in the exercise of Sovereign condescension. 
3. With man, on the contrary, the case is 
different. r The fact that existence has be$n be-
stowed upon him, bears with it, the inevitable 
necessity of submission to the will of Him from 
whom the existence has been received. 
With 
man is left no choice of independence of his 
Maker; besides obedience to the law of God, 
there can be but the one alternative, of suffer-
ing the penalty of transgression. 
4. The condition of man's responsibility is the 
capability of moral action: the liberty of obey-
ing, or of disobeying positive commands. 
In 
order to this, he was endowed with 
intelligence 
to perceive and understand his duty; with con-
science to feel his obligation ; together with the 
capability of acting in reference to 
motives. 
This moral constitution is pre-supposed in every 
case of positive law; and, consequently, if man 
had not been thus endowed, he could not have 
been the subject of that system of Divine moral 
government, under which he was placed at his 
creation. 
. 
5. From this view of the rights of the Creator, 
and of the moral constitution of man, the law 
of God for the government of man, must ir its 
requisitions, be co-extensive with the whole 
original moral 
capacity; and must 
remain 
immutably in force, as long as a rational crea-
ture exists, that has derived his being from the 
Lord of all. 
The Jerks. 
FROM a forthcoming historical work entitled 
" the New Compendium of Methodism," by the 
Rev. J. IJ. Young. 
" 1803, August. 
What may be called a re-
markable excrescent feature of the great revival 
in Tennessee and Kentucky, makes its appear-
ance near Knoxville, in the former state. 
It 
consisted in violent agitation of the body, or 
spasmodic contraction of the different muscles, 
and soon became known as Jhe 'jerks,' or ' jerk-
ing exercise.' 
It spread with much rapidity in 
the southwest, and principally among Presby-
terians, Methodists, and Baptists; but it was 
not confined to these denominations, for Prot-
estant Episcopalians, Independents, and even 
the quiet Quakers, did not escape the attacks of 
this singular physico-religious epidemic. 
The 
unconverted,—especially 
persecutors,—formal 
professors of religion, sometimes persons of nu-
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371 
doubted ipiety, and occasionally preachers as 
well as private members, shared in its glory or 
its shame. 
One writer mentions having passed 
a camp-ground where ' from fifty to one hundred 
saplings had been cut down breast high, for the 
people to jerk by!' Jerking was soon associated, 
among the more extravagant of the Presbyteri-
ans and Baptists, particularly in Kentucky, 
with violent dancing, rolling and barking, to 
the great injury of religion. 
How far these hu-
miliating exercises were under the direction of 
Satan and the Shakers, remains to be revealed 
in the future ; but it may be admitted that, al-
though they were reproachful to religion, and 
for many years contributed to the discontinuance 
of camp-meetings in Kentucky, they were, nev-
ertheless, overruled for good in some instances, 
and made to subserve the very cause they were 
intended to destroy." 
Predictions of Malachi. 
A CORRESPONDENT of Blackwood has made an 
admirable paraphrase of, so me of Malachi's pre-
dictions. 
There is life and spirit in the poems. 
It will not suffer by a second reading. 
A sound on the rampart, 
A sound at the gate, 
I hear the roused lioness 
Howl at her mate. 
In the thicket at midnight, 
o 
1 
They roar for the prey 
That shall glut their red jaws 
At the rising of day. 
« 
For wrath is descending 
On Zion's proud tower; 
It shall come like a cloud, 
It shall wrap like a shroud, 
Till, like Sodom, she sleeps 
In a sulphurous shower. 
For behold ! the daj- cometh, 
.When all shall be flame; 
When, Zion! the sackcloth 
Shall cover thy name.. 
When thy bark o'er the billows 
Of death shall be driven ; 
When thy tree by the lightning 
Of death shall be riven; 
When the oven unkindled 
By mortal shall burn ; 
And like chaff thou shalt glow 
In that furnace of woe ; 
And dust as thou wert, 
Thou to dust shall return. 
'Tis the darkness of darkness, 
The jnidnight of soul! 
No moon in the depths 
Of that midnight shall roll. 
No starlight shall pierce 
Thro' that lire-chilling haze ; 
Nor torch from the roof 
Of the temple shall blaze. 
But when Israel is buried 
In final despair; 
From height o'er all height, 
<jod of God, Light of Light, 
Her sun shall arise— 
Her great Sovereign is there ! 
Then the sparkles of flame 
From his chariot wheels hurl'd, 
Shall smite the crown'd brow 
And the god of this world! 
Then, captive of ages! 
The trumpet shall thrill 
From the lips of a seraph 
On Zion's sweet hill— 
For, vestured in glory, 
Thy monarch shall come, 
And from dungeon and cave 
Shall ascend the pale slave ; 
Lost Judah shall rise 
Like a soul from the tomb ! 
Who rushes from heaven ? 
The angel of wrath; 
The whirlwind his wing, 
And the lightning his path ; 
His hand is uplifted, 
It carries a sword ; 
'Tis Elijah ! he heralds 
. 
Th^march of his Lord ! 
Sun, sink in eclipse ! 
Earth, earth, shalt thou stand, 
When the cherubim wings 
Bear the king of thy kings ? 
Wo, wo, to the ocean, 
Wo, wo, to the land! 
Tis the day long foretold, 
'Tis the judgment begun ; 
Gird thy sword, thou most Mighty! 
Thy triumph is won. 
The idol shall burn 
In his own glory shine ! 
Proud Zion, thy vale 
With the olive shall bloom, 
And the musk rose distil 
t 
Its sweet dews on thy hill; 
For earth is restored, 
The great kingdom is come. 
The Invader Invaded. 
NEVER in war has so powerful a nation as 
Russia suffered in so short a time such dishon-
or, defeat, and loss. 
A signal retribution seems 
to have attended the policy and the efforts of 
that power throughout the whole course of the 
campaign. 
The invader is himself invaded ; his 
legions have been rolled back from the shores 
of the Danube to those of the Pruth; the evils 
he inflicted upon him, both in kind and in de-
gree, and his prospects are for the moment 
gloomier than are those of the nations he so 
lately despised. 
The moral influence of the Au-
tocrat is gone for ever, and that of his subjects, 
such as it was, has likewise perished. 
The Czar 
has been abetted by them in this invasion ; it is 
not the Emperor only, but all Russia with which 
we are at war, however much we may read in 
the daily press of another purpost, 
There may 
bo a reluctant acquiescence on the part of cer-
tain crafty diplomatists, especially just now that 
Russian statesmanship is so much disparaged; 
they may be, and doubtless there is, an op-
position to the war among the commercial class-
es of St Petersburg, because their ports are 
blockaded, and their commerce shut up to the 
highway of Germany; but the objects of the 
war ard welcome to every true Russian. 
Nine 
hundred years ago a Russian chief led his hordes 
to the gates of Constantinople, and pillaged and 
burned its suburbs, and on retiring spread fir® 
and havoc in his course, just as the Russian is 
proud of doing to-day. 
Silistria was the scene 
of Russian exploit before William of Normandy 
made the conquest of England, and again and 
again have the Greek Emperors recoiled before 
the barbarian followers of the Russ, and pur-
chased an ignoble peace. 
Constantinople has 
been accustomed to tremble before the Muscov-
ite, and to make any terms rather than incur 
his wrath. 
Christians or Moslems ruling there 
could never ignore the power, nor be indifferent 
to the continuity of the colossal northern em-
pire. 
These true stories are dear to the shop-
keeper in St. Petersburg, and the serf in the 
provinces, as well as to the official, the noble, 
the soldier, and the Czar, for whatever the Rus-
sians leaves unlearned, the exploits of his " holy 
Russian," from the remotest time, he is sure to 
know either by books or tradition. 
The gov-
ernment fosters an individious nationality, more 
than perhaps any other government ever did, 
and this is always calculated upon in the mili-
tary enterprises of the Emperors. 
The clergy 
are, however, the chief instigators of all these 
modern incursions upon the South—to humble 
the Moslem, and erect the cross on St Sophia, 
is as earnest a motive with them as territorial ag-
grandizement with the Czar. 
The glories o.f a 
universal empire, and the universal, establish-
ment of the i&mo-Greek Chureh, are the mas-
ter-passions of the whole people, and this fact 
must be taken into the account, when we exact 
securities for the future. 
So far Russia has 
suffered terribly in pursuit of her dream of 
strangely blended glory and fanaticism. 
What-
ever be the issue this season of the Baltic expe-
dition, it has already not only blockaded the 
great outlet of Russia, but diverted thither ar-
mies that are now required in the Crimea, and 
upon the shores of the Euxine. 
Finland has 
been so menaced, arid the feelings of her people 
against Russia so evoked, as to cause the ut-
most uneasiness at St. Petersburg among all 
classes of that city able at all to comprehend 
the crisis. 
The experiment, as we may best call 
it, at Bomarsund, has demonstrated to our great 
gunnery captain, Admiral Chads, that the mark 
which he so well knows how to hit, is likely to 
crumble beneath the stroke, instead of present-
ing the effectual resistance upon which he cal-
culated ; thus, no doubt is left that next spring 
Revel and Sweaborg are doomed, and the city 
of Helsingfors at the mercy of our fleets or our 
soldiers, while the Russian ships moored within 
her harbor must be ours, or sink in flames. If 
that fortress falls, it is a problem whether Cron-
stadt will ever be defended. 
We admit that if 
assault be delayed until next spring it maybe 
still more strengthened, for the experience gained 
at the Aland Isles is not lost upon the Emperor 
any more than it is upon our own magnates, but 
no additional defences can make it impregnable, 
it must fall before the combined operations of 
military and naval attack. 
Sebastopol, ere 
these sheets reach our readers, will be begirt 
with the steel and flame of avenging hosts, or, 
already thus encircled, it maj be that while our 
readers persue these columns the true tidings of 
victory to our arms are borne along the wing of 
the lightning to our exulting homes. 
The Cir-
cassian coasts and their fortresses', as well as the 
Crimea, are already lost to Russia, and now 
that a Turkish army .penetrates into Bessarabia, 
the horrors of this war will, on many points, be 
showered upon the country of the aggressor him-
self, and the hoofs of invading squadrons already 
echo in the ears of Russian citizens, tread down 
the fields of Russian husbandman, and rest in 
their homesteads, just as did those of the wild 
Cossack by the inhabitants of contiguous terri-
tory. 
Already Russian recources and the pur-
suits of industry all through the empire have 
greatly suffered. 
The harvestman has been taken 
from the sickle to supply the ranks serried 
in war, or mowed down by the pestilence; and 
while southern Russia was laden with the ripen-
ing grain the hands that should secure the gold-
en treasures have been stepped in blood or stiff-
ened in death. 
The mercantile marine of Rus-
sia is captured or laid up like the fleets in her 
arsenals to rot; failures occur daily in what 
were the marts of commerce; the silver rouble 
is reduced one third in value, and the paper 
rouble two-thirds; forced loans empty the coffers 
of those who once were rich, and the treasury 
of the state is empty. 
Sixty thousand soldiers 
have blackened in death among the swamps of 
the Dobrudscha, or bleached, upon the roads and 
plains of Wallachia, and tens of thousands more 
have perished in Crim-Tartary. 
Magazines, 
stores, fortresses, have been blown up or des-
poiled, their garrisons made fugitives or captives, 
and now the mightiest nations that ever raised 
the sword of battle are pointing it against the 
heart of Russia. 
Notwithstanding the lying and 
boasting which are worked as a system, by the 
proclamations of the Emperor,'the despatches 
of the chiefs, and the columns of the 
Invalide 
Eusse, the people are beginning to learn, within 
all the confines of the empire, that Circassian, 
Turk, Frank, and Briton are now on her soil; 
and that waste, dispersion, and seizure have 
swept around her shores, and are draining the 
reservoirs of her power. 
The invader is suffer-
ing as the invader. 
He sowed the wind, he 
reaps the whirlwind. 
He essayed to fling the 
lightning, it is discharged upon his own bosom. 
Thus will perish the authors and instruments of 
tyranny, until justice and freedom are avenged 
upon the earfh, and an enlightened world shall 
learn war no more. 
London Christian Weekly News, Oct. 17. 
The Future. 
" BUT as truly as I live, all the earth shall be 
filled with the glory of the Lord.—Num. 14:21. ' 
This emphatic assurance should remove all 
doubts concerning the future state ot our world. 
It is an answer to every possible objection. 
It 
is the settled decree of God. 
It comes from the 
holy Oracle, like a mid-day sun bursting through 
every cloud, and dispelling all darkness. 
1. 
THE DIVINE PURPOSE. 
1. It is unconditional. 
2. It is certain as the existence of God. "As 
truly as I live." 
It embraces the whole earth as the scene of 
its beneficence. 
II. 
THE MODE OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT. 
1. Law—the dispensation of typical ceremo-
nies; Judaism conservative. 
2. Gospel—the despensation of the Spiiit; 
Christianity diffusive. 
3. Empire—the dispensation of the universal 
theocracy ; Christ's will, the world's code. 
III, RESULTS OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT. 
1. Paradise restored. 
2. Christ rewarded. 
3. The mystery of humanity solved. 
THE CHURCH. 
"Christ also loved the church, and gave him-
self for it: that he might sanctify and cleanse it 
with the washing of water by the word, that he 
might present it to himself a glorious church, not 
having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ; hut 
that it should be holy and without blemish."— 
Eph. v. 25-27. 
I. 
THE GIFT. 
1. He gave Himself to a lowly condition. 
2. He gave Himself to a suffering life. 
3. He gave Himself to an ignominious death. 
II. 
THE MOTIVE. 
It was love. 
1. It was love to the guilty. 
2. It was love to the polluted. 
3. It was love to the dying. 
III. 
THE PURPOSE. 
1. That He might set it apart to the service 
of God—a Church. 
2. That He might purify it from all iniquity. 
3. That He might invest it with beauty and 
honor—a glorious Church without spot or wrink-
le. 
4. That it might be His own for ever—a 
Church presented to himself. 
Inferences. 
1. Are we members of this Church ? 
2. If so how secure is our position ! 
3. How immense our obligations ! 
walls shall hold me ? whithersoever I go, my-
self followeth me: For whatsoever thou fliest, 
0 man, thou mayest, but thy own conscience : 
wheresoever, 0 Lord, I go, I find thee; if angry, 
a revenger •; if appeased^ a redeemer i what Way 
have I, but to fly from thee to thee ; that thou 
mayest avoid thy God, address to thy Lord. 
IN every work that thou doest, and in every 
place that thou art; whithersoever thou goest, 
and wheresoever thou passeth be mindful of the 
end of life, and of the last hour which thou 
knowest not. 
WHITHER fly I ? to what place can I safely 
fly? to what mountain? to what den? to what 
strong house? what castle shall I hold? what 
Foreign News-
NEW YORK, Nob. 16.—Cunard steamship Asia, 
Capt. Lott, from Liverpool at 11 o'clock on the 
morning of 4th inst, reached her dock here short-
ly after 9 o'clock this morning. 
She bryigs, 
444 passengers. 
On the 5th inst, 2.15 A. M. 
passed steamship 
Europa, 
8 miles north of 
Tuskar; l>3th, 7 P. M„passed steamship Pacif-
ic, from New York for Liverpool. 
The pro-
peller Charity, from Quebec^ had arrived at 
Liverpool, 
The following telegraphic despatch was re-
ceived at the Foreign Office, just before the de-
parture of the Asia, from Lord Stratford de Rad-
cliffe: 
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 28—midnight. 
The 
captain of the English steamer Transport, 
which 
left Balaclava on the evening of the 26th, con-
firms to a great extent the information brought 
this morning by a French ship. 
It appears that the Russians attacked the forts 
in the vicinity of Balaclava on the 15th, their 
number being about 30,000, 
The attack was 
unexpected. 
The Cossacks preceded the in-
fantry. 
To resist them at first, were Ottoman 
troops and some Scotch regiments. 
The Turks 
gave way and even left their guns, which the 
Russians seized and turned against them. 
The 
Scotch, however, remained firm in their position. 
The French took part in the affair, with ad-
mirable bravery. 
On the next day the position 
was attacked by 800 Russians, as well from the 
Sapastopol side as that of Balaclava. 
They 
were repulsed with great slaughter. 
The loss 
of the Russians must have been great, 
It is affirmed that the fire of the batteries of 
the town had much slackened, and according to 
the reports of the wounded officers who had 
arrived at Ba-yuk-dere, the belief was still firmly 
entertained that Sabastopol would soon be in the 
hands of the Allies. 
Among the names of the killed and wounded 
we find no general officer. 
S. DE REDCLIEEF." 
Lord Dunkellin is promoted to Captain and 
Lieut. Colonef. 
Up to the 25th of Oct. the seige and bombard-
ment of Sebastopol continued with regularity 
and success, and the loss of life in the town of Se-
bastopol was so great that the air was said to be 
tainted by the number of unburied and putrifying 
dead. 
Admiral Nachimoff had been killed by a shell. 
Lord Raglan is understood to be favorable to 
a prolonged bombardment in preferance to an 
immediate assult. 
On the other hand, the 
Weiner Zeitung pnbliehes the following: . 
" Richeneff, Bessarabia, Oct. 29. 
On the 
25th, Gen. Liprandi attacked the detached camp 
of the English, and took the four redubts which 
protested their position. 
The assailants, also 
took eleven guns. 
At the same time such a 
powerful cavalry attack was made that it prob-
ably cost the English half their light cavalry, 
Lord Cardigan, whg commanced the cavalry, 
escaped with great difficulty. 
Lord Dunkellen" 
was taken prisoner by the Kussians. 
* 
Greek accounts from Odessa'confirm this, and 
say that the English cavalry lost five hundred 
men. 
It is certain that the Russians have received 
considerable reinforcements, and a still stronger 
corps was expected from Perekop. 
• 
In the recent attack made upon the forts at 
the mouth of the harbor of Sebastopol, the vessels 
of the allies were much damaged. 
The British were said to be within three hun-
dred yards of the Russian works, but the works 
were not strong enough, and had been much in-
jured. 
A deserter stated that the Russian loss 
was very great. 
The French division from the Piraeus had 
passed the Bosphorus, to reinforce the besieging 
army. 
The official despatches made no mention of 
Gen. Liprandi's alleged victory. 
The affair is 
understood to have taken place near Eupatoria, 
where the allies are on the look-out for the ex-
pected Russian reinforcement. 
The English accounts say that their cavalry 
was attacked, but that the French advanced to 
their assistance, and the Russian retired. 
Lord Dunkellin's family has been informed by 
the government that the report of Lord Dun-
kellin's capture by the Russians is not true, or, 
at least, very doubtful. 
It is said that two Russian men of war, which 
had been careened over in the harbor, to serve 
as batteries, had been sunk by the allies. 
Water was beginning to fail in Sebastopol. 
Lord Raglan's chief interpreter, a Greek, had 
been sent to Constantinople for trial as a Rus-
sian spy. 
Menschikoff reports officially that the Russian 
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loss at Alma was 4500 men; and that Fort 
Constantino had been much damaged, bastion 
No. 3 having had 33 guns dismounted. 
Gortschakoff was apparently strengthening his 
position on the Danube.-
Contradictory rumors are current as to the 
progress of negotiations, and Austria will cen-
tainly not, unless competed, come to an open 
rupture with Russia until' she is confident of the 
support of Prussia and the Germanic Govern-
ments. 
There is talk of a note from Count Nes-
slrode to Prussia, stating that Russia is prepared 
for all contingencies, and will, under all circum-
stances, maintian her traditional policy in the 
East. 
_ '^rU-'/sJ 
/ 
, 
$I)e QUtomt fjeralb. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 25, 1854. 
tHK 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, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
srly disputation. 
freely forgiven—without which salvation would 
not be possible for any." 
Rom. 3:23-26—"For 
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of 
God ; being justified freely by his grace, through 
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God 
hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in 
his blood, to declare his righteousness for the re-
mission of sins that are past, through the forbear-
ance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his 
righteousness : that he might be just, and the jus-
tifier of him which believeth in Jesus." 
THE PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER LIU. 
He is despised and rejected of men ; 
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief ; 
And we hid as it were onr faces from him ; 
He was despised, and we esteemed him not.—t;. 3. 
John 1:10, 11—" He was in the world, and the 
world was made by him, and the world knew him 
not. 
He came unto his own, and his own received 
him not." 
Luke 19:14—" His citizens hated him, 
and sent a message after him sajing, We will not 
have this man to reign over us." 
• The Saviour's joy is nowhere leferred to ; but it 
is recorded (John 11:35,) that " Jesus wept." 
Also on the occasion of his last visit to Jerusalem, 
(Luke 19:41,) " he beheld the city and wept over 
it." 
In the garden, (Matt. 2G:37,) he " began to 
be sorrowful and very heavy," an8 he said, " My 
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death." 
He prayed, " 0 my Father, if it be possible, let 
this cup pass from me." iAnd, (Luke 22:44.) 
"being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: 
and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood 
falling down to the ground." 
To hide the face 
from him, is put by substitution for a refusal to 
bestow on him a look of recognition and compas-
sion. 
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: 
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 
—v. 
" Surely," is a word of much emphasis—there 
being no possibility of a mistake. 
He suffered be-
cause of our sins, and not for any wrong of his 
own; and therefore we should not have hid our 
face, from him, as in v. 3. 
He bare our sins and 
carried our sorrows away into a land of forgetful-
ness, as was typified by the scape-goat. 
(Read 
Lev! 16:5-22.) 
To " bare " our griefs, and " carry " our sor-
rows, are metaphors illustrative of his enduring 
in his own person the punishment due for our 
sins ; and his being " stricken," and " smitten " 
of God, are put by substitution for the infliction 
on him of those sufferings. 
This scripture is referred to in Matt. 8:16,17— 
" They brought unto him many that were possessed 
with devils : and he cast out the spirits with his 
word, and healed all that were sick ; that it might 
be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the proph-
et, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sick-
nesses." 
But it has a more full fulfilment in his 
death, aa we read, Ileb. 9:28—" Christ was once 
offered to bear the sins of many ; and unto them 
that look for him shall he appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation." 
1 Pet. 2:24—" His 
own self bare our sins iu his own body on the 
tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto 
righteousness: by whose stripes, we are healed.' 
All we, like sheep, have gone astray ; 
We have turned every one to his own way; 
And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 
—v. 8. 
By a simile, the failure of man to comply with 
the requirements of Jehovah are likened to s heep 
that have strayed away from the protecting care 
of their shepherd ; and this acknowledgment of it 
is a penitent confession for sin. Thus David said, 
(Psa. 119:176) " I have gone astray like a lost 
sheep; seek thy servant." 
Peter said to those to 
whom he wrote in his 2d epistle (2:25) " Ye were as 
sheep going astray; but now ye are returned unto 
the Shepherd and Bishop [episcopus—overseer] of 
your souls." And Jehovah said to Ezekiel (34:6,) 
" My sheep wandered through all the mountains, 
and upon every high hill; yea my flock was scat-
tered upon all the face of the earth, and none did 
search nr seek after them." 
But when Jesus 
(Maft. 9.36,) " saw the multitude, he was moved 
with compassiou on them, because they filiated, 
and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no 
shepherd." ,j,,... 
( 
" Have gone astray," and " turned to his own 
way," are^put by substitution for estrangement 
from God, and for pursuing a course of conduct 
chosen by each one for himself. 
And " iniquity " 
is put by a metonymy for the punishment due for 
our iniquity. 
In the margin it reads, The Lord 
" hath made the iniquity of us all to meet on 
him." 
— 
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his 
mouth : 
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, 
And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, 
So hi openeth not his mouth.—v. 7. 
Not opening his mouth, is put by substitution 
for not. speaking,—his meekly dying for us, and 
his silence when questioned by the Jewish high 
priest, being likened, by similes, to the unresist-
ing silence of a lamb when it is to be slaughtered, 
and of a sheep when being divested of its fleece. 
Matt. 26:62, 53—" The high priest aro0e and said 
unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it 
which these witness against thee? 
But Jesus 
held his peace." 
27:12-14—"And when he was 
accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered 
nothing. 
Then saith Pilate unto him Ilearest 
thou not how many things they witness against 
thee 1 And he answered him to never a word ; in-
somuch that the governor marvelled greatly." 
1 
Pet. 2:23—" Who, when he was reviled, reviled 
not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; 
but committed himself to him that judgeth right-
eously." 
This portion of Isaiah was explained by Philip 
to the eunuch. Taking it for his text, he " preached 
unto him Jesus." 
(Read Acts 8:26-35.) 
was to suffer a violent death. 
Dan. 9:27—" Af-
ter threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut 
off, but not for himself,"—suffering for our sins. 
" Was stricken " is put by substitution for put to 
death—The mar. read, is, " the stroke was upon 
him." 
A.nd he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his 
death ; 
Because he had donej no violence, neither was any deceit in his 
mouth.—i). d. 
Bishop Lowth renders this text: " And his grave 
was appointed with the wicked ; but with the rich 
man was his tomb: although he had done no 
wrong, neither was there any guile in his mouth." 
Those who were punished with death among the 
Jews, were subjected to an ignominious burial. 
The Saviour was executed between two thieves, on 
a cross designed for the execution of a murderer ; 
and it was doubtless intended that their bodies 
should be treated alike. 
John 19:31—" The Jews 
therefore, because it was the preparation, that the 
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the 
Sabbath-day, (for that Sabbath-day was an high 
day) besought Pilate that their legs might be 
broken, and that they might be taken away." But 
their ignominious purpose respecting the body of 
Jesus was divinely frustrated. Matt. 27:57, 58— 
" When the even was come, there came a rich 
man of Arimathea. named Joseph, who .also him-
self was Jesus' disciple: he went to Pilate and 
4>egged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded 
the body to be delivered." John 19:39-41—" And 
there came also Nicodemus (which at the first came 
to Jesus by night) and brought a mixture of myrrh 
and aloes, about an hundred pounds weight. Then 
took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen 
clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews 
is to bury. 
Now in the place where he was cru-
cified, there-was a garden ; and in the garden a 
new.sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid." 
Thus he received a burial such as is usually ac-
corded to wealthy Israelites. 
" Deceit" is put by a metonymy tor expressions 
of deceit. 
1 Pet. 2:21, 22—" Christ also suffered 
for us, leaving us an example, that ye should fol-
low his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile 
found in his mouth." 
But he was wounded for our transgressions, 
He was bruised for our iniquities : 
The chastisement of our peace was upon him ; 
And with his stripes we are healed.—v. 5. 
" Wounded," is in the margin, " tormented.' 
Rom. 4:25—He "was delivered for our offences, 
and was raised again for our justification."—1 
Cor. 15:3—" Christ died for our sins according to 
the Scriptures." 
1 Pet. 3:18—" For Christ also 
hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, 
that he might bring us to God, being put to death 
in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." 
By his 
sufferings satisfaction was made for God's broken 
law, so that the sins of penitent believers may be 
ne was taken from prison and from judgment: 
And who shall declare his generation ? 
For he was cut off out of the land of the living: 
For the transgression of my people was he stricken.—v. 8. 
The first part of this text reads in the margin, 
He was taken away by. distress and judgment, 
but, &c. 
(Read Acts 8:33 ) The idea seems to be 
that by distress, suffering under a judicial sen-
tence, his life was to be terminated. 
It does not 
appear that Christ was incarcerated in prison— 
the little respite from punishment, which such a 
confinement would give, not being allowed him. 
" Who shall declare his generation !" is under-
stood by Bishop Lowth to refer to the practice re-
corded in the Mishna, which states that before 
any person was convicted of a capital offence, 
proclamation was made before the prisoner by the 
public crier in these words : " Whosoever knows 
anything of this man's innocence let him come 
and declare it." 
There is no evidence that such 
proclamation was made in connection with the 
trial of tho Saviour ; although the Gemara of 
Babylon, written in the 2d century fabulously al-
leges that it was for a period of forty days! ! 
Bishop Lowth supposes that the Saviour alluded 
to the neglect of the Jews to take this measure to 
ascertain his innocence, when (John 18:19, 21,) 
the high priest " asked Jesus of his disciples, and 
of his doctrine. 
Jesus answered him, I spake 
openly to the world ; 1 ever taught in the syna-
gogue, andin the temple, whither the Jews always 
resort; and in secret have I said nothing. 
Why 
askest thou me ? ask them which heard me, what 
I have said unto them : behold, they know what I 
have said." 
" Cut off," is a metaphor to illustrate that he 
stance going into annihilation. 
Out of the ruins 
of this sacred chaos may another heaven and an-
other earth be made to arise, and a new material-
ism, with other aspects of magnificence and beauty, 
emerge from the wreck of this mighty transforma-
tion, and the world be peopled, as before, with 
the varieties of material loveliness, and space be 
again lighted up into a firmament of material 
splendor. 
" It is, indeed, a homage to that materialism, 
which many are for expunging from the future 
state of the universe altogether, that, ere the im-
material soul of man has reached the ultimate 
glory and blessedness designed for it, it must re-
turn and knock at the very grave where lie the 
mouldered remains of the body which it wore, and 
there inquisition must be made for the flesh, and 
the sinews, and the bones which the power of cor-
ruption has, perhaps centuries before, assimilated 
to the earth around them, and then the minute 
atoms must be reassembled into a structure that 
bears upon it the form, and lineaments, and gen-
eral aspect of a man, and the soul passes into 
this material framework, which is hereafter to be 
its lodging-place forever ; and that not as its pris-
on, but as its pleas&nt and befitting habitation ; 
not to be trammelled, as some would have it, in a 
hold of materialism, but to be therein equipped 
for the sevices of eternity ; to walk embodied 
among the bowers of our second paradise; to 
stand embodied in the presence of our God." 
Chalmers. 
THE EARTH AND MAN. 
" MAX, at the first, had for his place this world, 
and, at the same time, for his privilege an un-
clouded fellowship with God, and for his prospect 
an immortality, which death was neither to inter-
cept nor put an end to. He was terristial in re-
spect to condition, and yet celestial, both in re-
spe'et of character and enjoyments. 
" The common imagination that we have of para-
dise on the other side of death, is that of a lofty 
aerial region, where the inmates float in ether, or 
are mysteriously suspended upon nothing; where 
all the warm and sensible accompaniments, which 
give such an expression of strength, and life, and 
coloring to our present habitation, are attenuated 
into a sort of spiritual element, that is meagre and 
imperceptible, and utterly uninviting to the eye of 
mortals here below ; where every vestige of mate-
rialism is done away, and nothing left but certain 
unearthly scenes, that have no power of allure-
ment, and certain unearthly ecstasies with which 
it is felt impossible to sympathize." The holders 
of this imagination forget all the while that there 
is no necessary connection between materialism 
and sin« that the world which we now inhabit 
had all the solidity and amplitude of its present 
materialism before sin entered into it; that God, 
so far, on that account, from looking slightly up-
on it, after it had received the last touch of his 
creating hand, reviewed the earth, and the wa-
ters, and the firmament, and all the green herbage, 
with the living creatures, and the man whom he 
had raised in dominion over them, and he saw every 
thing that he had made, and behold, it ivas all very 
good. They forgot that, on the birth of material-
ism, when it stood out in the freshness of those 
glories whi'ch the great Architect of nature had 
impressed upon it, that the morning stars sang to-
gether, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. 
They forgot the appeals that are every where made 
in the Bible to his material workmanship, and how, 
from the face of these visible heavens, and the gar-
niture of this earth which we tread upon, the 
greatness and goodness of God are reflected on the 
view of his worshippers. 
No, my brethren, the 
object of the admirations we sit under is to extir-
pate sin, but it is not to sweep away materialism. 
By the convulsions of the last day it may be shaken 
and broken down from its present arrangement, 
and thrown into such fitful agitations as that the 
whole of its existing framework shall fall to 
pieces ; and with a heat so fervent as to melt the 
most solid elements, may it be utterly dissolved. 
And thus may the earth again become without 
form and void, but without one particle of its sub-
LETTER PROM LONDON. _ 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Traveller writing 
from London, Nov. 3d, says: 
" Eleven years ago, theMarquis de Castine, in 
his work called " Tlje Empire of the Czar," the 
result of observations made during a journey 
through Russia, drew the following dark picture of 
the Ruler of that country:—" I have no more hesi-
tation, no more uncertainty of opinion as regards 
the character of the Emperor ^Nicholas ; my judg-
ment of that Prince is at length formed. He is a 
man of talent and resolution : it needs that ho 
should be, to constitute himself the gaoler of the 
third of the globe ; but he wants magnanimity ; 
the use that he makes of his power only too clearly 
proves this to me. May God pardon him ! happily 
I shall never see him again. 
* 
* 
* 
* 
" His resentment is implacable ; with hatred so 
strong, he may be a Sovereign, but he cannot be a 
great man. 
The great man is merciful, the politi-
cal character is vindictive ; vengeance reigns; 
pardon converts. 
The existing crisis appears to 
justify this estimate ; and though sufficiently beset, 
nothing has yet happened so decisive as to humble 
and change the nature of the Giant, who would 
war against Fate itself. 
" In the absence of direct despatches from the 
Crimea, public opinion is much agitated, and the 
public' funds more or less affected by sinister ru-
mors, which may, without exception, be traced to 
Greek commercial sources, abroad and in London. 
The Greeks do not disguise their partiality towards 
Russia, and their wish that the Czar may be vic-
torious. 
As a means (so far) to this end, they 
daily circulate news favorable to the side they es-
pouse, and the merchants and money jobbers specu-
late on the impression they have produced, as 
they are more or less believed, and besides their 
own fabrications, they pretend to pin their faith 
to the veracity of the accounts from St. Petersburg, 
or elsewhere, which chime in with their projects 
and desiderata. Thus they hold that the garrison 
of Sebastopol have, in several sallies, destroyed a 
French battery, and spiked 19 guns and mortars ; 
and been even more successful against the English, 
not only overthrowing their siege works, but de-
feating their cavalry in the field at Balaklava, 
with great loss. 
" To counteract those Greek on dits, and an-
other of a surprise at Eupatoria, we know that 
the Russians acknowledge the loss of 4500 killed 
and wounded at the Alma ; that |he joint bom-
bardment by the allied fleet and land forces which 
began on the 17th, was very destructive and cost 
the enemy two Admirals, Kornileff killed and Na-
chinoff wounded, if not dead (a righteous fate for 
the heroes of Sinope); and that up to the 25th, 
when the Trent1 steamer left, and reached Varna 
on the 25th, the siege continued to be regularly 
pressed in spite of natural and strategic difficulties 
and the brave defence of the army-garrison. 
The 
despatches expected by Government do not reach 
later than this; nor is there any certain intelli-
gence beyond the/foregoing date. 
But, as every 
hour may bring the authentic details of the fight-
ing during the week after the operations com-
menced, and perhaps a day or two farther particu-
lars, it may be that a postscript will convey some 
interesting matter. 
p 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
374 
" Five o'clock. 
We have no more authentic 
news from the seat of war. 
The Times' Vienna 
correspondent repeats the rumor of Gen, Lipran-
di having carried the fortifications at Balakla-
va and killed 500 of the British cavalry—and 
states that the French works at Sebastopol had 
been found too week, enough perhaps to furnish 
grounds for MenscliikofFs version of the operations, 
and the English had pushed their approaches to 
within 300 yards of the enemy. 
It is evident that 
Sebastopol must be a mass of ruins, and hardly 
possible to be retained much longer even as the 
head quarters of an army. 
The prudence of per-
severing in the terrible bombardment, instead of 
sacrificing lives, in an assault, cannot be ques-
tioned. 
The place will soon be virtually extin-
guished ; and then it will be seen whether the 
combatants, re-inforced as they have been on both 
sides, will try the issue of a campaign in and for 
the Crimea. 
" Cholera and Typhus, we are sorry to say, 
continue* to do their fatal work. 
The deaths of 
many gallant officers are announced by every arri-
val. 
"The rise in the corn market appears to have 
received a small check ; and more home-grown new 
wheat is coming in, so that in spite of all the ex-
cesses, it is to be hoped that the price of the staff 
of life may be kept within reasonable bounds, and 
the consumption of the laboring classes and the 
poor. 
These, with pinched provision and empty 
stomachs, can hardly be expected to be satisfied 
with the meagre assurance, that though the late 
harvest was one of super-abundance, there was so 
much of exhausted granery stock to replace, that 
it was not only neutralized but immediately fol-
lowed by an extensive rise. 
So, when the preced-
ing supplies were almost exhausted, the wheat 
ranged at 50s, but when fully replenished, and 
a large proportion over, it advanced 20 per quart-
er ! This is queer and not convincing logic. ' The 
comparative failure in American breadstuff pro-
duce is utterly inadequate to more than a very 
partial rise ; and the simple truth is, that the ex-
pectation of war prices, and the ability to hold 
back for them, is quite enough to account for the 
tampering with a trade in which such vast com-
binations and monopolies prevail. 
" The Liverpool failures, and their effect on 
the great Provision Houses in England, Ireland 
and America, continue to occupy much public at-
tention," and are generally attributed to gigantic 
speculations founded on Bill 
accommodations, 
which brought on the crash at the first pinch. 
The balance against the firm of W. Oliver is given 
out to be £113,000, and flattering hopes are held 
out of favorable realization : but meanwhile the 
mischief is done, and the wide-spread ramifications 
of the evil causes not only a commercial paralysis, 
but much 
distress throughout this important 
branch of commerce. 
" Kossuth is at present domiciled at his resi-
dence in St. John's Wood, about a mile from Hyde 
Park Corner. 
He is living retiredly but sees a 
good many of his political friends, and it is under-
stood is not without carrying on intrigues in Ger-
many, through numerous agents attached to the 
revolutionary cause." 
p. T. O. 
MY JOURNAL, 
WEDNESDAY, Sept. >th.—Took cars in company 
with Elder Osier for the Champlain Camp meet-
ing ; we arrived at Rouse's Point in the evening 
and put up with brother W. Weeks. 
THURSDAY, Uth.—Went 
on to the camp ground 
and prepared for the meeting, which opened on the 
15th. 
1 gave the discourse from Rev. 2:4—" Nev-
ertheless I have somewhat against thee, because 
thou hast left thy first love." 
At the close, a large 
number spoke, some confessing and others giving 
a good testimony for the truth. 
The work of <Jod 
began to revive, and from this meeting there was 
a steady increase of love and power in the meetings 
until the close. 
SATURDAY, Sept. l&lh.—Was 
a good day, three 
discourses were given by Elders Farrar, Osier and 
myself, and some were awakened and confessed the 
Lord. 
SUNDAY, Sept. 17th.—There 
was a very large at-
tendance, and a solemn and attentive audience dur-
ing the day. 
Many were impressed with the im-
portance of personal religion, which was mani-
fested in after meetings. 
MONDAY, 18th.—Was a day of victory and a 
number were converted. 
All hearts were cheered 
with the songs of new born souls. 
TUESDAY, 19th.—The meetings increased in in-
terest and power, a number converted, and six 
baptized. 
We had a glorious season at the water. 
One young lady was converted at the time on the 
banks of the river, and has become a bold advocate 
of the cause. 
WEDNESDAY, 20th.—The meeting increased in 
power and interest beyond any previous day. 
Eight more were baptised, about fifteen converted, 
and at the closing service, forty came to the altar 
for prayers. 
We were obliged to close the meet-
ing at this time, though all were anxious for its 
continuance. 
We felt sadly about it, but engage-
ments at New Haven, prevented a longer stay. 
So 
we formed the parting circle in which brethren and 
sisters, and many of the citizens united. 
It was a 
scene of surpassing interest. 
We parted in the 
hope 
" Soon to meet again, 
Meet ne'er to sever ; 
Where peace will wreath her chain, 
Round us forever." 
During the entire meeting fourteen were bap-
tised, sixteen were received into the church, and 
thirty or more converted, 
We left the meeting in 
charge of Elder Dudley, who baptized others and 
continued the meetings for a time. 
This people need a good pastor, may God give 
them one " after his own heart." 
THURSDAY, Sept. 21si.—Brother Clark kindly 
took us to the depot at Rouse's Point, where we 
took cars for New Haven, and arrived at noon. 
We held meetings on the 22d, 23d and 24th. 
Several were awakened and converted to God. 
Brother Osier and myself were obliged to leave be-
fore the meeting closed. 
Brother Farrar remaine 
and sustained it to the end. 
The season was a re-
freshing one. 
I returned home September 24th, to remain for 
a time with the church, and attend to duties of 
the office and jiew chapel. 
From Sept. 24th to Oct. 22d, I preached regular-
ly in Chardon Street Chapel. 
October 22d, we 
closed our labors in that consecrated place. 
We 
left with a little remnant, and commenced in our 
new place of worship at the corner of Kneeland 
and Hudson Street. 
The Chapel not being finished, 
we began in the vestry which was dedicated Qct. 
29th. 
The meetings were well attended on that 
day, as also on the succeeding Sabbath. 
All heart* 
were filled with joyand hope. 
We truly " thanked 
God, and took courage." 
TUESDAY, Nov. 7th.—I left home to fill an ap-
pointment in Richmond Me. 
I spent this evening 
with Elder Pearson, in Newburyport; the Hall 
being engaged for other purposes, 1 did not preach. 
Brother P. is prospering in his work. 
The church 
there are united, stable-minded, and settled in the 
Advent faith and hope. 
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8tK.—I spent in Portsmouth. 
During the day visited a numbei of families, some 
of whom were fried, and afflicted, to whom I ad-
ministered the consolations of the gospel. 
In the 
evening preached in the Advent chapel to a full 
and canffid audience. 
The time message of '54 was 
received with favor by many in this place. 
But 
they received' kindly from me a close, practical dis-
course from Num. 14:24—" But my servant Caleb, 
because he had another spirit with him, and hath 
followed me fully, him will I bring into the land 
whercinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." 
THURSDAY, Nop, 9th.—Took the cars for Rich-
mond, Me. 
Brother Osier joined me at Portland, 
and we arrived at R. in time for the evening ser-
vice. 
We were very kindly entertained on our ar-
rival by brother Wm. C. Hall, at the village. 
The meetings continued four days, and were of 
much interest and importance to the cause. 
The 
number was not large, but many of the faithful 
and true hearted were there. 
We were of " one 
heart." 
Brother Wellcome, the Secretary of the 
Conference has given an account of the meeting, 
which will be found in another column. 
I regret-
ted that brother Osier and myself were prevented 
by the storm from giving two discourses on our 
true position on the time. 
They have had as much 
as they desired the year past on the time, of the 
advent this year, and would have been glad to 
have heard on the true position of Adventists on 
this point. 
We may yet do this, when it will be 
as well appreciated as now. 
There is good evidence 
to believe in the immediate coming of Christ. 
The 
fact that the recent times set by presumptuous 
persons for the coming of our Saviour have passed, 
doeg not effect the substantial'reasons of the imi-
nency of that event. 
The " Lord is nigh, even at 
the door." 
The Adventists are more than ever 
settled in this great and glorious truth. 
The Maine Conference will no doubt meet again 
in a few months, when it will be more fully at-
tended by the friends of the cause. 
Let them keep 
up good courage. 
During the Conference, by request of the citi-
zens in Richmond village, I gave a discourse on 
Romanism. 
It was largely attended. 
The Ameri-
can party are triumphant here. 
MONDAY, Nov. 13th.—By special request I gave 
a discourse on Romanism in Hallowell. 
We had 
good attendance in City Hall, and were well re-
ceived by the citizens, as well as by the Advent-
ists. 
I was cordially received by Dr. Smith and 
family, as always, as also by the " little flock " 
who are striving to live and maintain the cause. 
TUESDAY, Not?. 14th.—Came to Portland, and 
having a few hours before the meeting, I visited 
a number of families, and had pleasant interviews 
with old friends. 
The '54 message has had quite 
a run here, much to the sorrow of many of the 
true hearted and faithful Adventists. 
But they 
have never left the cause, although for a time they 
have kept back till the tide of excitement was over. 
They expressed to me much confidence and hope 
relating to the cause in P., which they are still 
determined to maintain. 
They only need a faith-
ful pastor. 
1 gave a discourse on Heb. 11:7—" By faith 
Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as 
yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the sav-
ing of his house ; by the which he condemned the 
world, and became heir of the righteousness which 
is by faith," to a very full house, " who received 
the word " with interest. 
WEDNESDAY, Nov.' 15th.—Returned to Boston, 
where I shall be confined mostly for the present. 
I shall be glad to hear from the friends of the 
cause, what is the state of the cause among you, 
and what are its wants 1 Let us all arise and en-
ter anew upon our work. 
Brethren and sisters 
who have been disappointed should not be dis-
heartened ; cheer up. 
The good land is just in 
view. 
" He that is to come, will come, and will 
not tarry." 
IIave#patience. 
A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR, 
HARTFORD, CT., Nov. 18.—This city this morn 
ing has been the theatre of the most intense excite-
ment, growing out of the refusal of a Roman Cath-
olic Bishop to allow the remains of Father Brady 
to be buried near the church. 
In consequence of 
some difficulty, the Bishop had suspended Brady, 
and the treatment which the latter had received is 
believed to have induced the disease of which he 
died. 
She people, siding with their former pastor, 
determined that he should be buried near the church 
as he had requested, and 
yesterday afternoon 
dug a large place for the purpose of building a 
receptacle for the coffin. 
This morning the whole was found to have been 
filled up by order of the Bishop, but the people 
were not to be defeated, and despite the efforts of 
the Bishop and Priests, succeeded in again opening 
the hole. 
The Bishop then refused to open the 
church for the performance of the funeral services, 
but after an hour's delay the people again suc-
ceeded and tbe church was opened, when it was 
found that ^the alter had been so fixed that the 
mass could not be celebrated. 
But the people again triumphed and had things 
put to rights, and now, 12 o'clock, a priest from 
one of the adjacent villages, a friend of the late 
Father Brady, is saying mass. 
The streets in the neighborhood of the church 
have been filled all the morning with an excited 
multitude. 
Some particulars of the former history of the 
man seems necessary to a proper understanding 
of the peculiar scene sat his funeral, in which, it 
will be remembered, the Catholic rebelled against 
the dictum of the Bishop, and insisted upon bury-
ing their lamented friend and teacher according to 
the dictates of humanity and the teachings'of 
their better natures. • 
Father Brady has been in Hartford 18 years, 
duriDg which time he had the satisfaction of see-
ing a small society increase to one of immense 
size under his personal labors 
The Courant says 
that Father Brady " has uniformly shown him-
self on the side of temperance, good order, and 
subjection to the law. 
He has kept the peculiar 
characters of some of his congregation from any 
intrusion on the rights of others, and has won the 
respect of the members of other denominations by 
the good influence he has exherted over the turbu-
lent, arfd by the peace of society which he has pre-
served." 
The deceased had purchased him a house, and 
had succeeded in erecting a splendid stone cathe-
dral. 
The Courant says: 
"When the Bishop of Hartford arrived among 
us, he required, as we understand, the surrendry 
of all the church property to himself, which, we 
believe, Mr. Brady granted. 
He further demanded 
that Father Brady should give up his house inTal-
cott street, and live with him in Church street. 
This Father Brady refused to do, and a long and 
bitter controversy ensued. 
At one" time Father 
Brady in endeavoring to enter the cathedral for 
some religious purpose, was forbidden by the sex-
ton and a personal recontre ensued, for which Fa-
ther B. was suspended from his office as Parish 
Priest. 
, 
" It was for a long time hoped that he would be 
restored, but on the Sabbath before the last, it was 
announced that another man would take his place. 
" This blow to all the hopes and aims of his whole 
life weighed heavily upon him, and, the cholera 
intervening, he died on Thursday night, after an 
illness of 24 hours." 
Father Brady, previous to his death, indicated 
the spot where he_would be buried, in front of the 
Cathedral, and here his parishioners determined 
that his remains should be deposited. 
This the 
Bishop resisted, and the scenes occurred which 
have been correctly reported by the telegraph. 
Letter from Eliza Clark. 
BRO. HIMES : I subscribed for your paper at the 
Conference in Lowell, in the summer of '41. 
And 
I have not yet seen the time, that I felt as thoug'i 
I could do without it. 
And you may expect me to 
be a constant subscriber, as long as I am able to 
read it, and pay for it. 
To my mind, it is the 
best paper in the land : and I have long felt that 
there should be some extra exertions made by the 
friends of the cause, for its support. 
Was glad 
to see the proposition of brother Cole, and Smith, 
to raise money, to relieve you from your embarres-
ment. 
There are marfy that are able, and I doubt 
not willing, to pay fifty dollars: and there are 
still many more that are not able to pay so much, 
that will gladly pay five dollars. 
I cheerfully 
send you my name, to be one of the two hundred, 
to raise a thousand dollars ; and also the name of 
sister Abby F. Ober. 
And believing that what we 
do, must be done soon ; we send you—enclosed the 
ten dollars. 
And now dear brethren and sisters, 
let us come up to this work in earnest, not only 
by giving our money, for the support otthe cause, 
but let us aid by our prayers, and let those that 
are capable enrich the columns of the Herald, with 
the productions of their pen. 
Will not those 
Watchman, that have left tbe walls on account of 
poor health, favor us occasionally with a word of en-
couragement in this trying time ? Finally brethren, 
let us do what we can. that it may be said unto 
us, in that day, Well done good and faithful ser-
vant. 
Pray for me and mine, that we may be pre-
mitted,—though all unworthy—to meet you, and 
all the dear saints in the Kingdom of God. 
Your 
sister, hoping for redemption at the coming of 
Christ. 
ELIZA CLARK. 
Manchester, N. H., Nov. lo, 1854. 
An Enquiry. 
IN Daniel 9:25 we read as follows : " Know 
therefore and understand, that from (he going 
forth of the commandment to restore and build Je-
rusalem unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven 
weeks and threescore and two weeks." 
Now can the termination of these 69 weeks or 
483 years have a later date than the crucifixion, 
or A.D. 34 ? And if not, does it not follow that the 
2300 days, must have ended at least 3 years since, 
admitting their connection with the 70 weeks ? 
AN INQUIRER. 
ANS. They could not have reached to the cru-
cifixion : for they . only extend to Messiah the 
Prince, who was recognized as such at his bap-
tism. 
Also this crucifixion was to be in the midst 
of the 70th week, and transpired three and a half 
years after the Divine public fecognition of the 
Messiah. 
The 490 weeks could extend only to 
A.D. 34; and from that time to the present is over 
1820 years. 
THE DEDICATION will be remembered by our 
brethren and friends—December 6th at 2 o'clock. 
We shall be most happy to see all interested. 
And though our means of accommodation are very 
limited, we shall do the best we can, and all we 
can to accommodate. 
Brethren will come directly to the chapel, and 
call at46 1-2 Kneeland Street, (up stairs). 
J. 
V. 
HIMES. 
Note from S. Foster. 
BRO. HIMES :—The propositions of brother Cole, 
and Smith, to raise $2,000 are good. 
I hope the 
friends of the cause will make up tlje first and 
second. 
Twenty to pay $50. each—$1,000 ; two 
hundred to pay $ 5. each—1,000. 
I claim 
the 
privilege in each case. 
Tours Truly, 
. 
Nov. 
16th 1854. 
S. FOSTER 
ALONZO JONES of Worcester Vt., last week, ac-
cidently discharged his gun so that the charge ot 
shot entered his mouth and lodged in his brain. 
He was alive at last accounts, but was not expected 
to survive. 
" THE 
ABRAHAMIC INHERITANCE."—This article 
commenced in our last, will be continued in the 
next Herald. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. 
Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, ftom 
he friends of the 
Herald. 
CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS IN 
MAINE, 
was holden in Richmond, Nov. 9th, 10th, 
11th and 12th. 
ACCORDING to previous appointment the Confer-
ence convened at the " Reed " meeting house, 
Nov. 9th, at 7 o'clock P.M. An able and truly im-
portant discourse was delivered by brother J. V. 
Himes, founded on Num. 14:24—" But my servant 
Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, 
and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into 
the land whereinto he went, and his seed shall 
possess it.'" 
The leading sentiments dwelt upon 
were, the importance of " following the Lord 
fully," in the meekness and confidence of the spir-
it of Christ, in harmony with the divine arrange-
ments ; together with the blessed results of so do-
ing. 
FRIDAY MORNING. 
Nov. 10th.—Conference met at 7 1-2 o'clock, and 
listened to a well arranged discourse, by brother 
L. Osier, from Eph. 5:16, " Redeeming the time 
because the days are evil." 
Practical Christiani-
ty, while surrounded by evil, was forcibly urged 
upon us, as an indispensable duty. 
The days too 
were noticed as being the " last," and full of evil. 
AFTERNOON. 
At 2 o'clock, brother Himes gave us a sermon 
founded on Psa. 133, " Behold how good and how 
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in 
unity. 
It is like the precious ointment upon the 
head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's 
beard, that went down to the skirts of his gar-
ments. 
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew 
that descended from the mountains of Zion, for 
there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life 
forevermore.1' T^jjs was a sermon not stfon to be 
forgotten by those who heard. 
It came with such 
spirit and power, breathing the spirit of the ful-
ness of the gospel of Christ, as to lodge in the 
hearts of the brethren and sisters, and good will 
follow as the fruit. 
EVENING SESSION, 
ft 
At half past 6 brother Osier preaohed a valuable 
and comforting discourse to the saints, but a sol-
emn and impressive warning, to ungodly evil work-
ing persons, and sinners, founded on 1 Peter 4:15-
17, after which a season was occupied in exhorta-
tion, by various brethren and sisters. 
SATURDAY. 
Nov. 11 th.—At 9 o'clock p. M. met for prayer 
and conference, but the time was mostly occupied 
by one who had no interest in our Conference^un-
til 11 o'clock, when brother Himes preached from 
Heb. 11:7, much to the strengthening ofthe faith, 
and confirming the hopes of the church. 
This was 
by the Holy Spirit, made a heart searching ser-
mon. 
AFTERNOON SESSION.. 
At 2 o'clock p. M. Conference' met to hear " Re-
ports of Churches and families abroad." 
The ministers present at Conference were breth-
ren N. Smith, L. L. Howard, R. R. York, J. Par-
tridge, and I. C. Wellcome of Maine, J. V. Himes 
and L. Osier of Massachusetts. 
Before the session 
to hear reports of churches, however, brethren 
Howard, York and Partridge left to fill their Sun-
day appointments. 
It being very rainy, many, 
from various parts of the country, who intended to 
be present, were prevented the pleasure. 
A larger 
number were present than we expected. 
Confer-
ence organized, after prayer, by the choice of 
brother N. Bmith, as Chairman and I. C. Well-
come, Secretary, when the following reports were 
received: 
Richmond.—Brother Bates remarked, that their 
meetings had been more fully attended the past 
year, but less spiritual, some things had distracted 
them, &c., so he had not attended the meetings 
much for some time past. 
Brother Bailey said, 
We have two meetings a week, good union among 
ourselves, there is a difference of opinion on time, 
but this ought not to seperate us. God has blessed 
us, and we have had many good seasons. 
The 
Lord's supper is neglected. 
We differ about 
church order, but we mean to live and serve God, 
and gain the kingdom when Jesus comes. 
Brother L. Curtis said, God's house is a house 
of order, I am interested in the cause, but I wish 
to see things go on in Bible order. 
Bro. Umberhind said, We have had some blessed 
meetings this year. 
I love the sentiment we have 
been hearing preached at this meeting, " think, 
and let think." 
We want to learn all we can, and 
have love and fellowship, and labor together for 
souls till Jesus comes, to give us the kingdom. 
Bro. Wm. C. Hall said, We need to be united in 
our labors, we had some good meetings; some 
have been very strong on the new time movement, 
and some probably too much influenced by the no-
work doctrine, and some other things. 
Brethren 
Wellcome and Smith have preached to us some 
during the last summer, which I think has had a 
good effect among us. 
Hallowell.—I. C. Wellcome said, We have a few 
brethren and sisters in H. who love the Lord, and 
serve him, and they are holding fast whereunto 
they have attained. 
We organized a church of 11 
members, and mean to live in the order of the gos-
pel, we have about as many more with us, who 
are afraid of organization lest we shall go too far. 
During last winter our congregations were good ; 
the Lord converted some, reclaimed some, and con-
vinced some Christians, of the truth of the Advent 
near. 
Since then we have moved our meetings 
twice, our congregations small, our social meetings 
very good, we are well united, and mean to " hope 
unto the end." 
The calls from abroad are so nu-
merous that brother Smith and myself are away 
much of the time. 
I am fully satisfied that not 
much permanent good can be done, without follow-
ing the Bible rule of organizing. 
• Bro. N. Smith said, We are well united and 
mean to stand ready constantly, for the coming of 
the Lord. 
Some among us are partial believers in 
the time. The time argument has been presented 
among us. 
I thought their was a probability that 
there might be something in the 5:19 argument, 
but that argument failed. I have had no confi-
dence whatever in their new argument—on the 
types. 
Topsam,—Bro. George Howland said, We have 
no meetings ; we have sometimes tried to maintain 
meetings, have started three, but could not sustain 
them. 
There are but few of us, we sometimes at-
tend other meetings and we find some among them 
who love the doctrine of Christ's coming, and love 
to have us speak of it. There are a few of us now 
who wish to start a meeting if we could maintain 
it, and have order in worship. 
Newcastle.—Bro. T. Hanley said, The Advent 
people are my people, 1 mean to live with them. 
In our place there are three families of believers, 
we are well united, we meet every Sunday, and 
read the Word, and pray, and sometimes read a 
sermon, have had no preaching among us for a 
long time, except one Sunday, brother Wellcome 
preached to us and baptized two young men, our 
brethren. 
We are in full faith on the duty of 
church order. 
Litchfield.—Bro. S. Mitchell said, We have gen-
erally come to Richmond to the monthly meetings, 
there .are a few of us who are trying to live for the 
kingdom, I have been favorable to the time, 1 con-
fess I thought there was something in it; but we 
dont want to divide, I believe their is no need of it, 
we ought to be united to serve God.' 
Brother C. II. Robinson said, We want to see 
union and order and wrork together. 
Have had 
but little preaching. 
Brethren Smith and Well-
come have preached to us some, we have had some 
good meetings. 
Brother N. Smith said, I have preached at 
Litchfield some, there is a prospect of good among 
them. 
Though the time folks do not attend the 
meetings much, there is generally a good congre-
gation, the last time I preached there, eleven tes-
tamonials followed the sermon. 
Paris.—Sister Knight said, I am glad of the 
privilege of being here, I am still looking for the 
Lord, I love the doctrine of the Lord's coming. 
The cause in Paris has long since been distoacted, 
and destroyed, by errors taught ^mong us, a few 
are left who love to look for Jesus. Have no 
preaching except brother Wellcome has been along 
and preached a few times in our house. 
We have 
the Herald and it is not large enough, I read it 
through too soon, sometimes I read it through 
twice. I mean to live for the Lord. 
Brethren 
Ezra H. Dorrs and Wm. C. Hall spoke next on the 
general interest of the cause, and need of faithful 
laborers to advance it. 
Gardiner.—Bro. N. Smith said, I have preached 
some in Gardrner. 
There are a few brethren there, 
but the cause is not prospering. 
At the Ripps 
district, there is some prospect of good, they want 
more preaching. 
Portland.—Brother L. Osier said, I preached in 
P. on my way to this Conference ; the old brethren 
in the cause are still united, those who have always 
sustained the cause. They authorized me to say 
that they sympathize with this Conference and 
wish to be remembered by us here, they have 
given way, for the present, to the " last cry " in* 
fluence, but intend to resume their labors, and re-
organize a Church, and labor on, " if God per-
mits." 
A numbers of other places would have been re-
ported by those who had labored through this part 
of the State, but there was not time to do so. 
On motion, it was voted that this Conference 
adjourn to meet again, at the call of the Chairman 
and Secretary, at such timS and place as they 
shall appoint. 
We may have our next Session in 
Portland, should time allow us to do so. 
EVENING. 
It being very stormy we held social meetings at 
the several houses where the brethren put up, one 
of which I know to be very good. 
SUNDAY. 
Nov. 12th.—At half past 10 o'clock A. M., brother 
Himes preached an able, practical discourse, from 
Neh. 3:28-30. 
He entered largely into the im-
portance of our being, living, working Christians, 
for the benefit of ourselves, our families, neighbors 
and the world, to secure the salvation of sinners. 
AFTERNOON. 
Brother Osier preached a deeply interesting and 
important sermon founded on 2 Tim. 1:14—" Hold 
fast the form of sound words, which thou hast 
heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ 
Jesus." 
His leading ideas were, the truth and 
divine authority of the Scriptures, tlje principle of 
literal inserpration, the importance of sound doc-
trine, in distinction from " turning God's words 
upside down." 
The storm continuing, our public 
meetings closed with this service, and we held 
social meetings in the evening at several houses. 
The one we attended at the house of brother 
Umberhind, was of a very interesting and profit-
able character. 
Thus closed another gathering of faithful, and 
true hearted believers in the sp&dy coming of our 
blessed Lord, to give all his disciples a home 
where parting scenes will not be known. The 
meeting was one well calculated to advance the 
cause of God. The delegation was not large, but 
it was of that character which gave the fullest evi-
dence that the cause of our soon coming Lord, 
lives, in the hearts of a people in Maine, who will 
not be easily turned aside from the work assigned 
them by the great head of the Church. 
We were 
happily disappointed in finding, after so many 
cross winds, such oneness of faith and unity of 
heart, such desire for united and systematic co-op-
eration to labor on, in patience and hope, for the 
salvation of sinners, and the farther advancement 
of truth among Christians, while we wait for the 
Lord. 
0 ur preaching and devotional exercises 
and business transactions were entirely harmoni-
ous, comforting, strengthening, and united in their 
tendency, producing a healthy, and we trust, a 
lasting impression on those without, and strength-
ening union and confidence among ourselves, dis-
persing a thick cloud of jealousy and prejudice 
gathered from the elements of a poisoned moral 
atmosphere. 
May the Lord enable us to labor on 
in unity and love, with heavenly wisdom, and a 
zeal worthy of our cause, until our Lord and Mas-
ter shall come " to give us an inheritance among 
all them that are sanctified." 
N. SMITH, Chairman. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Secretary. 
Hallowell Nov. Uth, 1854. 
REMEDIAL 
WATERS. 
« 
MR. EDITOR.—Having leisure time I visited this 
far-famed watering place, remaining a few hburs, 
over one train of cars on my way from Fort Ann to 
Waterford. 
This beautiful village is situated 
about thirty miles at the north from Albany, and 
is quite easy of access being the terminus of a 
number of railroads from different sections of the 
country. 
My curiosity very naturally led me to 
visit the Springs so celebrated, which are found in 
a valley in the rear of " Broadway " running 
through the village north and south. Among the 
Springs tubed and in use are High Rock, Congress 
Hamilton, Putnam's Congress, Pavilion and Em-
pire ; others however of less note are situated in 
and adjacent to Saratoga. 
Respecting the history 
and medicinal ingrediants of these waters, some 
thoughts and facts elicted from " Allen's Analy 
sis " (a small work published in this place, from 
the pen of a resident and consulting physician,) 
may not be uninteresting to your readers. 
It appears that their early aboriginal history is 
veiled in obscurity, without a traditionary legend 
even to convey to civilization the savage notions 
of their origin and healing virtues. 
In this place 
undoubtedly the Red man of the forest, herbiver" 
ous animals of the American wilds, and the marine 
birds of passage would come to supply themselves 
with saline substances, said to be so accessory to 
the development of a healthy physical system. 
" But the year 1707 formed a new era in the his-
tory of these fountains. It introduced them with 
many of their savage uses to the whites, whose 
spirit of contention and enterprise had caused a 
general survey of the American wilds, and planted 
military forts and primary settlements along the 
shores of the principal lakes, and the banks of the 
main rivers of the country. 
During this year, 
Sir William Johnson of revolutionary memory, 
became a subject of disease, and a participator in 
pure savage hospitality and skill in the remedial 
use of the water. 
Being beyond the reach of com-
mon means of relief, he applied to his red friends 
for council and assistance. 
They advised tho 
water of the High Rock Spring, as the means with-
in their roach and knowledge, best calculated to 
furnish the required aid. 
And as was customary 
with them they carried out their precepts in their 
practice. They placed him upon a litter, and bore 
him upon their shoulders from Johnstown, Mont-
gomery county, via Ballston Lake to the High 
Rock fountain—thereby giving the very best evi-
dence in their power of their knowledge of, and 
confidence in the prescription which they had made 
their white friend. And there, at the fountain 
head, they administered to him the sparkling water 
from the rock, to his perfect relief and cure. 
From 
Johnson the knowledge of his cure was communi-
cated to all thq surrounding settlements of whites ; 
who in turn visited the Spring and used it as a 
remedial agent, with corresponding success. From 
the time of Johnson's celebrated visit, these Springs 
hav£ been annually visited by the wise, the curi-
ous, the diseased, and the fashionable—every year 
increasing the number of strangers above that 
which preceeded it—until it has become one of the 
most fashionable watering places on the globe." 
It is said for the first twenty-five years after their 
discovery by the whites, their remedial agencies 
wrere often tested by personal experience, yet why 
they exerted a sanative influence over diseased or-
gans, giving them health for disease, buoyancy of 
spirits for dejection of mind, vigor for debility, 
but little was known. 
They began to be prescribed 
by physicians, and a thorough examination of 
their chemical composition was commenced. 
They 
are found to contain " Chloride of Sodium, Carbon-
ate of Soda, Hydriodate of Soda, Carbonate of 
Lime, Sulphate of Lime, Carbonate of Magnesia, 
Sulphate of Magnesia, Carbonate of Iron, Bromide 
of Potash and Sulphur; and in a gaseous state, 
Carbonic Acid, and Sulphuretted 
Hydrogen." 
These waters when properly used, are said to be 
useful in cases of Chronic Rheumatism, Cutaneous 
diseases, Billious diseases, Scrofula, Gravel, Chol-
orosis," &c., also cases of" long standing debility 
and depraved general health. 
Patients whose di-
gestive organs have been impaired by disease, en-
feebled by excess, or exhausted by the toil of accu-
mulated years, find in them an agent which will 
relieve the organs, without first increasing the ex-
isting debility." 
They prove equally efficacious 
in winter as summer. 
Invalids find relief also in 
judiciously using them for bathing. 
Owing to the 
Carbonic Acid gas, the water as a drink is rendered 
lively, and probably when accustomed to their use, 
palatable, in a greater degree then when indulging 
in the initiatory drink. 
They have a smart pun-
gent taste. 
Such is a very brief sketch of one of 
natures productions, and judging from what is 
said respecting the " Congress " that " no place 
or country is there so remote, either on this con-
tinent or the other, that it does not send represen-
tatives to partake of its beautiful and exilerating 
water as it flows from the fountain," for the hap-
piness of man. 
Many however, it is to be feared, 
while they participate in the blessing, think but 
little of the " giver of every good and perfect 
gift."—James 1:17. 
And here permit me in connection with this out-
line, to call attention to those healing, exhilerat-
iDg, and satisfying " waters " (Isa. 55:1), which 
when compared with those alluded to, are as the 
substance to the shadow. 
But few however realize 
this fact. Saratoga invites thousands, especially 
of the rich and affluent—God invites all, the poor, 
needy and despised of all colors and pations, as 
well as the wealthy. 
" Ho every one that thirsteth, 
come ye to the waters." 
The former invites with 
money—the later, " without money and without 
price." 
"Whosoever will, let him take the wa-
ter of life freely:'—Rev. 
22:18. The waters of 
the former may protract life for a time only—those 
of the later give eternal life, bays the Saviour, 
" Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall 
give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I 
shall give, shall be in him a well of water spring-
ing up into everlasting life."—John 4:14. 
Those 
375 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
of the former may cleanse the physical system 
from its impurity to a certain extent—those of the 
later will cleanse the soul from its moral impurity, 
and finally the body from all physical impurity, 
quickening it into immortality. " If the spirit " 
(answering and the "rivers of living water."— 
John 7:38, 39,) " of Him who raised up Jesus 
from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up 
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mor-
tal bodies by His spirit that dwelleth in you."— 
Rom. 8:1. Again," Our conversation is in heaven; 
from whence also we look for the Saviour, the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body 
that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious 
body."—Phil. 3:20,21. 
0 ye seekers after health, 
while it may be proper for you, in securing the 
desired object, to seek those remedies which perish 
with the using, as Paul desired Timothy*(1 Tim. 
6:23), yet remember these only give temporary re-
lief at best, often fail even to do that, and some-
times render the patients worse, by the prescrip-
tions of unexperienced and short sighted physi-
cians, remember there is " balm in Gilead," an 
experienced, far-sighted, and all powerful physi-
cian there, and if you continue to apply the remedy 
from the fountain head—the source of all good you 
will eventually find the long-sought blessing in a 
land of untold happiness and delight where " the 
inhabitants shall not say I am sick."—Isa. 33:24. 
Come, then, fellow sinner to the fountain of living 
waters, tarry not upon the desert mountains of 
unbelief, linger not in the valley of pollution, or 
beside the poisonous stream of sin and death, but 
come and plunge into the " fountain opened to the 
house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem 
for sin and for uncleanness." (Zech. 13:1),— 
" plunge beneath the purple gore, and wash your 
robes in the blood of the Lamb ; so shall you be a 
King and a Priest unto God and tbe Lamb, and 
eventually reign on the (new) earth."—Rev. 5:9, 
10. 
J. P. r. 
Saratoga Springs, Nov. 9th, 1854. 
PRAYER. 
" Pray without ceasing."—(1 Thess. v. 17 
Prayer was appointed to convey 
The blessings God designs to give : 
Long as they live should Christians pray, 
For only while they pray they live. 
Hart. 
Prayer is a retirement from earth to attend on 
God, and hold correspondence with him that dwells 
in heaven. The things of the world, therefore, 
must be commanded to stand by for a season, and 
to abide at the foot of the mount, while we walk 
up higher to offer up our sacrifices as Araham did, 
and to meet our God. 
Watts. 
In every storm that either frowns or falls, 
What an asylum has the soul in prayer ! 
Young. 
In the absence of the sun, the mild and peaceful 
radience of the moon enlivens our path. 
Let de-
votion spread a cheering light over your darkest 
hours. 
" The Queen of Night," says Bowdler, 
" unveils its full beauty, when the hours of joy 
and lustre have passed away, pouring as^it were, 
a holy light through the damps and darkness of 
adversity." 
Thus will constant prayer cheer the 
darkest season of affliction. 
Bickersteth. 
The best means of keeping near to God is the 
closet. 
Here the battle is won or lost. 
Payson. 
In this valley of sorrow and strife, 
Prayer shall rise with my earliest breath ; 
It shall mix in the business of life, 
Cunnigham. 
" Asjhe hart panteth after the water brooks, so 
panteth my soul after thee, 0 God. 
When shall 
1 come and appear before God?" 
Prayer is the most secret intercourse of the soul 
with God, and, as it were, the conversation of one 
heart with another. 
Dr. A. Clark. 
Angels are around the good man, to catch the 
incense of bis prayers; and they fly to minister 
kindness to those for whom he pleadeth. Supper. 
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness ; not 
the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; 
not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. 
Hannah More. 
0 Thou by whom we come to God, 
. 
The Life, the Truth, the Way ; 
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod— 
Lord teach us how to pray ! 
Montgomery. 
Lip labor, though it be ever so well labored, if 
it be at all, is lost labor. 
M- Henrf-
" Is any among you afflicted? let him pray."* 
(James v. 13.) 
THE REDEMPTORISTS. 
THE New-Orleans Creole, a paper which is ren 
dering efficient service in the cause of Protestant-
ism, contains the following article on the subject 
of the Redemptorists, a corps of young priests who 
have been perambulating the country, endeavor-
ing to get up a Romish Revival. 
" THE REDEMPTORIST FATHERS.—In January last 
we announced the advent of this order of priests in 
the Crescent City; and during the four months 
ensueing, we noted their progress. 
Now that they 
have long since departed for other fields, it it well 
to keep them in mind. 
To help us bear them in 
mind, they have left behind a little tract—for 
Romish priests do not object to tracts, provided 
their hierarchy have the censorship of the press 
that issues them. 
The one lying before us is en-
titled-—' Remembrance oj the Mission opened at St. 
Patrick's Church, New Orleans, January 15, 1854, 
by the Redemptorist Fathers.' 
This tract is so 
small and comprehensive, that we copy it entire, 
as follows : 
" ' Prayer for the Perseverance.—Oh ! Mary, 
Mother of God, and my own beloved Mother ! I 
cast myself at thy feet to thank thee for all the 
graces which thou hast obtained for me during this 
Holy Mission. 
Oh ! how sweet it is to remember 
all those eternal truths which enlightened my mind, 
inflamed my heart, and taught me to prepare for 
death and judgement ? How joytul was that first 
moment, when I resolved to change my life and 
keep the commandments of God ! How great the 
peace of heart after I had made that sincere con-
fession of all my sins. 
Never shall I forget that 
delightful hour when I recommended my soul and 
salvation to thy motherly care, that solemn hour 
when I renewed the vows of my baptism, and then 
received the Papal Benediction, with the plenary 
Indulgence of the Church. 
How happy would I 
be, could I persevere in that same state until the 
last breath of life! But, alaa ! the world is full 
of dangers ; Satan is seeking always to ensnare 
my soul, and the fraility of the human heart is 
so great! Oh ! no, Mother of God ! I cannot per-
severe by my own strength. 
I should fall into mor 
tal sin—and oh ! if that sin should be my last, and 
remain unforgiven. 
•44 ' Therefore, oh Mother of God ! take my heart 
into thy keeping, and maintain me in these my 
firm resolutions. Never will I sin any more. Never 
will I utter sinful words ;%never will follow dan-
gerous amusements, keep evil company, or expose 
my soul to the occasions of sin, and so lose agaim 
all the fruits ot my conversion. 
Now I am i>, 
child of God ; Jesus Christ, thy Divine Son. is my 
friend, the angles are companions, I am & dear 
child of thine. 
Oh, Holy Lady ! keep me ever in 
thy loving heart! 
Maintain, then, these resolu-
tions in my soul. 
Pray for me, thy child, to 
Jesus, thy Divine Son, and should ever Satan come 
to seduce my soul, then I will pray to thee. 
" ' Oh, Mother ! help me; watch over me ; sup-
port me; never let my soul be separated from 
Jesus Christ, thy Son, and my Redeemer. 
" ' Remember, Dear Christian ! 1. To keep the 
promises and good resolutions you have made dur-
ing the Mission. 
44 4 2. To pray three Hail Marys morning and 
evening in honor of the purity of the Blessed Vir-
gin. 
44 4 3. To maintain in your heart a devotion to th<> 
Holy Rosary. 
" ' 4. And never forget the acts of a good 
Christian, recommended to you so often during the 
Mission. 
" ' Daily acts of Christian life, as usually recommended 
by the Redemptorist Fathers in their Missions. 
"'In 
the morning. 
1. When you awake, give 
your first thoughts to God, saying—' Oh! my 
God, I give myself entirely to Thee ! ' 
" ' 2. Getting out of bed, make the sign of the 
cross, and say ' In the name of the father, and of 
the Son, and of tbe Holy Ghost—Amen.' 
" '3. When you areMressed, kneel down and say 
your morning prayers ; add three Hail Marys, in 
honor of the purity of the B. Virgin Mary. 
44 ' During the day. 
1. When you are tempted 
to anger, say, ' Oh ! my Mother.' 
" '2. If bad thoughts come into your mind, say 
quickly—4 Jesus and Mary help me!'—Repeat 
the Hail Mary, or some other prayer, till you have 
banished them. 
" 4 3. Before you begin your work, say, ' All for 
Thee, Oh ! Lord—Oh ! my Jesus, all for Thee ! ' 
" 4 4. Before meals say—' Bless us, Oh, Lord ! 
and these thy gifts which we are about to recieve 
from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord—Amen.' 
" 4 5. Alter Meals say—4 We give Thee thanks, 
Almighty God, for all thy benefits, who livest, 
and reignest, world without end—Amen.' 
4 4 4 At night. 
1st. Kneel down and make the 
, sign of the cross, as in the morning,4 In tbe name 
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost—Amen.' 
44 4 2. Say then,4Oh ! my God, give me grace to 
know wherein I have offended Thee, and give me 
a perfect sorrow for my sins.' 
44 4 Then you must pause a little to see what sins 
you have committed during tho day—afterwards 
ask pardon for the faults you have discovered by 
making an act of Contrition. 
Then make acts of 
Faith, Hope and Charity, and say your evening 
prayers. 
44 4 When in bed,'fold your arms in the form of a 
cross, and say before you sleep, 4 It is appointed 
for me once to die, and I don't know when, nor 
where, nor how—but what I do know is, that if I 
die in mortal sin, I am lost.' 
44 4 And then if you are in mortal sin, resolve to 
go and confess as soon as possible.' " 
OBITUARY* 
To THE REV. J. V. 
HIMES. 
Dear Sir :—At the 
request of the widow and friends, as well as the 
deceased himself, DR. 
HORATIO G. VDNK, of this 
place, who died October 29th, 1854,1 send you the 
following particulars respecting him, to be pub-
lished in the Advent Herald, as he was one of your 
county, N. Y., Sept. 14th, 1827, and died at Mil-
waukee, Wis., October 29th, 1854, of»inflamation 
of the bowels. He removed from Little Falls", Her-
kimer county, N. Y., and came here three years 
ago. 
During the past summer his health has not 
been very good, and he was taken with the above 
disease October 23d, which terminated in his death 
on the 29th, leaving a widow and one child seven 
months old, and other friends to mourn his loss. 
Our acquaintance with the deceased has been very 
short. 
We came here some six or seven weeks ago 
and being a stranger, had no more acquaintance 
with him than with many others. 
Being, how-
ever, some acquainted with his parents who are 
members of the Methodist E. Church in this place, 
we were requested to go and pray with him before 
he left the shores of time. 
This was on the 28th 
Oct. 
We went, conversed and prayed with him; 
during our conversation be often said that44 he had 
been a great sinner " fearing that the 44 eleventh 
hour was past;" after presenting the case of the 
thief upon the cross to him, he did not know but 
tMit he could find mercy. 
T^e urged him to much 
prayer, and especially to present faith, as in all 
probability he could not recover. The next day, 
the 29th, being Sabbath, we could not call again, 
because of public duties, till in the afternoon, 
which we did and after prayer again, he requested 
to be baptized: 
Being an adult we asked him ff 
he knew that God for Christ's sake had forgiven 
his sins? he answered, 441 do." 
HaVing to go 
home to attend my sick wife and also to get our 
discipline, we informed him that he should be bap-
tized when we returned. 
We came back and a 
few friends being present, we engaged in earnest 
prayer for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 
He 
was then baptized by sprinkling, as immersion was 
out of the question in this instance, and a blessed 
time we had. the Lord witnessing with the Spirit 
to the soul of our dear friend that he was forgiven 
and accepted of God in Christ. 
He immediately 
said 44 Bless the Lord," and added,441 could never 
say that before," and 44 bless the Lord," again. 
Having to leave for our evening engagements, we 
bid him good bye with a glad, though sorrowing 
heart, when he said 44 The Lord bless you." 
Dur-
ing the remainder of the time that helived he was 
often heard and found engaged in prayer. 
After 
giving directions respecting the funeral and place 
of interment, exhorting his companion to 44 bring 
up their child in the nurture and admonition of 
the Lord," with composure of spirit he fell asleep 
in Jesus. 
Tbe expression of praise 44 Bless the 
Lord," was very frequent with himafter his bap-
tism, so lam informed by bis friends., His re-
mains were interred on the 1st of November at 
Polk, Washington county, Wis. 
Being satisfied 
in our own minds of an entire change having taken 
place in the above friend, we hesitate not to say 
that though 'tis a solemn thing to die, yet death to 
him, was no doubt an eternal gain, and always 
will be to those who humbly repent of sin. believe 
on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour from 
sin. 
If the blessed Redeemer of our souls said to 
the penitent upon tho cross 44 This day shalt thou 
be with me in Paradise," and this wae a brand 
plucked from the fire, will he not say to this one 
likewise 44 Thy sins being forgiven, thou also shalt 
be with me where I am." 
May the consolations 
of God the all ifise Being, be granted unto the 
bereaved one, whose trust is in him who hast said 
that he would be 44 a Father to the fatherless and 
a God to the widow." 
Yours Respectfully, 
R. BLACKBURN. 
Pastor of the M. 
Church, 
Grove Street, Milwauke, Wis. 
Dr. H. G. Vunk, was born at Hardwich, Otsego 
DIED, in this town on the 27th of March last, 
SARAH JANE, only daughter of brother Nathan and 
sister Clarissa 
DOOMTTLK, aged 8 years and 4 
months. 
Also on the 10th of October last, LFWIS 
M. only son of brother and sister Doolittle, aged 
15 years and 2 months. 
Thus by permission of 
their Heavenly Parent, who does not 44 afflict wil-
lingly or grieve the children of man," our brother 
and sister are left alone to finish 44 life's uneven 
journey." 
But they sorrow not as those who have 
n^> hope, for they believe their children will come 
again from the land of enemy. Their son although 
not a professor of the religion of Jesus previous to 
his last sickness, was ever a kind and dutiful child, 
and during the illness of 10 days, which resulted 
in his death, he gave the most cheering evidence of 
that change of heart which alone can prepare us 
for the kingdom of God, so that when asked if he 
would wish to recover his reply was he had no 
choice, only to be prepared for the will of God 
concerning him. You will gratify the feelings of 
our brother and sister by publishing in connection 
with this notice the following lines: 
Ah, they are gone, there enshrouded they lie ; 
Hushed are ^ieir voices, and clouded their eyes; 
Cold are their forms and all motionless now, 
Death's fatal seal enstamped on their brows. 
Mournful we gazed on the face of the dead ; 
Many the tears that in sorrow w§ shed ; 
Deep was the anguish there rending the heart, 
Sad was the hour that saw them depart. 
Slowly away moved the burial train, 
Severed those links in affections fond chain ; 
Low in the earth they have laid them to rest, 
Precious the treasure enclosed in its breast. 
Peaceful their slumbers, 0 sweet their repose, 
Safe from life's turmoil, its cares and its woes ; 
Short is the silent embrace of the tomb, 
Hope'pointing upward disperses the gloom. 
Soon will the King in his glory descend, 
Triumph o'er death, and the grave's fetters rend, 
Kindred and friends shall we meet as they rise, 
Bright and immortal ascending the skies. 
Mt. Holly, ftov. 13th, 1854. 
D. B. 
London, Rev. John Cumming, D. D., are attraoting wide-spread at-
tention, and are being perused by hundreds of thousands of admiring 
readers, on both sides of the Atlantic. 
For simplicity and elegancy 
of diction, and holy fervor, we doubt if they are excelled by any 
writer, living or dead. 
Their influence, whenever and by whomso-
ever read, can be only good. 
No Christian's Library is complete, 
if destitute of these books. 
Their titles are as follows : 
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life. 
Voices of the Day. 
Voices of the Night 
Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
The Tent and the Altar. 
Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
To-be followed by Readings on Exodus and Leviticus. 
And by 
the New Testament Readings at convenient intervals. 
The religious community, particularly the religious press, has 
spoken in high terms of commendation of these excellent works, as 
follows: 
. 
Thousands will thank Jewett k Co. for putting this series of vol-
umes within their reach. 
Would that the whole community were 
reaping the benefit they are fitted to impart. 
Christian Mirror, Portland, Me. 
The choicest and richest illustrations of sacrejj, truths are here 
found grouped together in the most interesting and attractive form. 
The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
It it difficult to say whether this and the author's other works 
are more distinguished for splendor of diction, elevation of thought, 
or depth of evangelical and devout feeling. 
They are adapted to be 
universally popular and useful. 
Albany Argus. 
Elevated in thought, attractive in style, and devotional in tone, 
these volumes must command .ajf ention, and will become favorites 
with the Christian reading community. 
The Presbyterian, Philadelphia. 
As a writer he is prolific, and his books have an immense sale. 
His style is clear and unaffected, and his pages breathe a spirit of 
warm evangelical piety. 
Vermont Chronicle. 
It will do the heart and head good to read Dr Cumming's writ 
ings. 
They will have an extensive circulation, and cheer many a 
pilgrim on his way to heaven. 
Canada Christian Advocate. 
There is a freshness, and beautv, and spirituality about all Dr. 
Cumming's productions that we have met with, which cannot fail to 
give them favor with the man of taste, as well as the true Christian. 
Puritan Recorder, Boston. 
Jewett & Co., publish nothing but works of the most admirable 
character. 
In these volumes, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, they have 
supplied a want which the religious world has long felt. 
Schenectady Reporter. 
We know few books so enriched with thought and so pervaded 
with genial Christian feeling as those of Dr. Cumming. 
Lutheran Observer, Baltimore. 
In noticing the first volume of the series of which these beautiful 
volumes form a par', we have already expressed our very high esti-
mate of Dr. Cumming and of his works. 
' 
Congregationalist, Boston. 
These volumes of the reprint of Dr. Cumming's works will be re-
ceived with great satisfaction by all who are familiar with his ripe 
genius and high Christian culture. 
Evening Traveller, Boston. 
All of Dr. Cumming's writings are eloquent, soul-stirring, stimu-
lating, pregnant with admirable suggestions, and filled with profita-
ble instruction. 
Zion's Herald, Boston. 
The works of Dr. Cumming breathe a most heavenly spirit. 
No 
one can read them without feeling himself elevated and incited to 
new duties and a higher state of Christian feeling. 
Mass. Life Boat. 
If Dr. Cumming can preach as he can write, there is no cause for 
wonder that he draws crowds of admiring hearers. 
Salem Observer. 
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AYER'S PILLS. 
A
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male Complaints, &c., &c. 
Indeed, very few are.the diseases in 
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sickness and suffering might be prevented, if a harmless but ef-
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No person can feel well 
while a costive habit of body prevails ; besides it soon generates 
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the timely and judicious use of a good purgative. 
This is alike 
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They all tend to become or produce the deep-seated and formidable 
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and this Pill has been perfected with consummate skill to meet that 
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for these facts, are 
PROF. VALENTINE MOTT, the distinguished Surgeon, of New York 
City. 
DOCT. A. A HAYES, Practical Chemist of the Port of Boston, and 
Geologist for the State of Massachusetts. 
IUA.»L. MOORE, M.D., an eminent Surgeon and Pphsician, of the 
City of Lowell, who has long used them in his extensive practice. 
II. C. SOCTUWICK, Esq., one of the first merchants in New York 
City. 
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in their effects upon trial. 
« 
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combined together in such a manner as to insure the best results, 
This syst ,'m of composition for medicines has been found in the 
Cherry Pectoral and Pills both, to produce a more efficient remedy 
than had hitherto been obtained.by any process. 
The reason is per-
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qualities, by this each individual virtue only that is desired for the 
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Hence it is self-evident the effects should prove as 
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powerful antidote to disease than any other medicine known to the 
world. 
As it is frequently expedient that my medicine should be taken 
under the counsel of an attending Physician, and as he could not 
properly judge of a remedy without knowing its composition, I have 
supplied the accurate Formulae by which both my Pectoral and 
Pills are made to the whole body of Practitioners in the United 
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If however there should 
be any one who has not received them, they will be promptly for-
warded by mail to his address. 
Of all the Patent Medicines that are offered, how few wouM be 
taken if their composition was known! 
Their life consists in their 
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I have no mysteries. 
The composition of my preparations is laid open to all men, and 
all who are competent to judge on the subject freely acknowledge 
their convictions of their intrinsic merits. 
The Cherry Pectoral was 
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where, 
[j'lysl-6m 
376 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The True Motives of Evangel-
ical Effort 
The Waldenses—Extraordi-
nary Deliverance 
The New Earth 
The Natural Responsibility of 
Man 
The Jerks 
Predictions of Malachi 
The Invader Invaded 
The Future 
Forcing News 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
The Earth and Man 
Letter from London 
369 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
369 
. 374 
.. 375 
370 
370 
OBITUARY. 
371 H. G. Yunk 
371 S. J. Doolittle 
371 A'disgraceful Affair 
.. 373 
371 Letter from Eliza ClaJk... .. 373 
Agents 
.,376 
372 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 25, 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. 
S. Foster 
50. 
PROPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS, 
To be one of two hundred to raise one thousand dollars 
for the Office. 
Mrs. S. Mann 
.'.... 
$5.00 
Pmrf. 
E. Clark 
5,00 
* 
A Subscriber 
5,00 
" 
~ A Subscriber 
5.00 
" 
S. Foster 
5,00 
" 
| L. Edwards 
5,00 
" 
Agents. 
AN EFFORT TO INCREASE OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST. 
SEVERAL names among our list of agents have 
been omitted of late ; but it was not intended to 
leave them out permanently, the list being short-
ened merely to make room for other matter. 
We 
wish to add to the present one, and soon to publish 
a full list of agents, and would like to have every 
advent minister become actively and responsibly, 
one of these. 
We also want an efficient agent in 
every town where it is possible 
We are not par-
ticular whether they are male or female. Those 
who volunteer and feel an interest in the cause, 
, make the best agents. 
We shall be glad to hear 
from any who feel this interest, and will enter up-
on the work of dojng their part in raising a thou-
sand new subscribers by the first of February, 
1855. 
-
We wish to add yet another class of persons who 
can do much for us : we refer to our paying sub-
scribers. 
If each of these would make an effort to 
get one, and succeed, it woukl place us beyond want. 
Who will go about this work 1 Who will go about 
it now? Who will undertake it with a determina-
tion to succeed 1 Shall we not hear soon ? You 
may all speak at once, if you please, in this case, 
we will give due attention. 
Those who obtain the largest lists will#be pro-
portionally remembered. 
The following is our present list of agents which 
we wish to enlarge and perfect: 
ALBANY, N.Y 
W.Nicholls, 185 Lydius-street. 
BASCOE, Hancock county, 111 
WM. S. Moore. 
BUFFALO, N. Y 
John Powell. 
CABOT, (Lower Branch,; Vt 
I). M. P. Wallace. 
CINCINNATI, 0 
Joseph Wilson. 
DANVILLE, C. E.T 
G. Bangs. 
DLXHAM, C. E 
D. W. Sornberger. 
DURHAM, C. E 
J. M. Orrock. 
DERBY LINE, Vt 
S. Foster. 
DETROIT, Mich. 
Luzerne Armstrong 
EDDINGTON, Me 
Thomas Smith. 
HALLOWELL, Me 
I. C. Weilcome. 
HARTFORD, Ct 
Aaron Clapp. 
HOMER, N.Y 
J. L. Clapp. 
LOCKPORT, N. Y 
R. W. Beck. 
LOWELL, Mass 
J. 0. Downing. 
Low HAMPTON, N. Y 
D.Bosworth. 
NEWBURYPORT,Mass........ Dea. J. Pearson, sr., Water-street. 
NEW YORK CITY 
Wm. Tracy, 246 Broome-street. 
PniLADEL.pniA, Pa. J. Litch, N.E.cor. of Cherry and 11th nireets. 
PORTLAND, Me 
Afex. Edmunds. 
PROVIDENCE,!R. I 
A.Pierce. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y 
WM. Busby, '215 Exchange-stibM 
SALEM, Mass 
Lemuel Osier. 
SHAB-BONA GBOVB, De Kalb county, 111 
Elder N. W. Spencer • 
SOMONAUK, De Kalb county, 111 
Wells A. Fay. 
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis 
William Trowbridge. -
TAYLORSVILLE, Christian county, 111 
Thomas P. Chapman. 
TORONTO, C. W 
D. Campbell. 
WATERLOO, Shefford, C. E 
R. Hutchinson, M. D. 
WHITE ROCK, Ogle county, 111 
.'. Elder John Cummings,jr. 
WORCESTER, Mass 
J. J.Bigelow. 
amount continue to flow into the various funds es-
tablished for relief of the sick and wounded. 
Pub-
lic meetings were being held in the chief cities in 
aid of the 
patriotic fund." 
An incident, somewhat singular, as showing the 
peril of departure, by even one hairbreadth, from 
the orthodox track, as settled by the church, is to 
be found in the news at hand. 
No less a man 
than Lord Palmerston' is the offender. His Lord 
ship was presiding at a meeting of agricultural 
laborers, and addressed them as follows : 
" You will find that all children are born good : 
it is bad education and bad associations in early 
life, that corrupt the minds of men. It is true 
that there are now and then exceptions to general 
principles. 
As there are men who have been born 
with club feet, born blind, or with other personal 
defects, so also it will happen that childreu will be 
born with defective dispositions; but these are 
rare exceptions. 
Be persuaded that the mind and 
heart of man are naturally good, and it depends 
upon training and education, whether that good-
ness, implanted at birth shall continue to display 
itself or whether, by bad associations, it shall be 
corrupted and destroyed." 
Such doctrines, it appears, are not for the 
•'common people." 
The London Times says: 
" This is a doctrine, at all events, wholly gratuit-
ous." 
Another paper says that Palmerston's rus-
tic auditors were " shocked at his Lordship's igno-
rance " and impiety. 
Transcript. 
And why should he not be, when he teaches what 
the Bible denies. 
IMPOSING CEREMONIAL.—Letters from Rome speak 
of extensive preparations being made there for the 
Evangelical Council to be held next month, for the 
purpose of pronouncing the Virgin immaculate in 
her conception and free from original sin. 
St. 
Peter's the Vatican, the Chapelle Sixtus,-St. Jean 
de Lateran, &c., are to be refreshed and rebanish-
ed ; and the courts are to be paved in mosaic. 
The Vatican will be lighted with gas. 
The Coun-
cil will beheld at St Jean de Lateran next month, 
and the dogma be will promulgated with all the 
pomp of which the Eternal City is capable, on the 
8th of December, the fete of the Holy and now, 
as it seems, the Immaculate Conception. Five hun-
dred foreign prelates will attend the ceremony. 
Row Between a Roman Catholic Pracst and Iiis 
Congrcgrtien. -
UTICA, November 13.—A row took place yester-
day in-the Roman Catholic church of this city, 
growing out of a difficulty between the priest and 
the St. Joseph's Society, concerning a banner. 
Legal measures had been resorted to, which had 
resulted in favor of the society. And the priest not 
relishing the decision rendered against him stated, 
yesterday from his pulpit that there were thieves 
and liars present, and that he could not proceed 
with the services of the churcl* until they left. 
He then withdrew, when a fight followed among 
the congregation. 
Four of the rioters were ar 
rested and held to bail. 
A GOOD HINT.—The celebrated John Angell James 
in a communication to the British Banner, made 
the following sensible remark : 
"Why should students, whatever their taste, 
capacity, and aptitude, all be drilled after the 
same fashion, and kept four or five years dogging 
at the languages, of which they are never likely to 
make anything, and are thus, in some cases, pre-
vented from becoming good preachers, by being 
made bad scholars. 
I do not write thus to depri-
cate sound learning, for I contend for this wherever 
it can be obtained, but to show that it is not in 
all cases, necessary for great usefulness. It is an 
unquestionable fact that many of our most popular 
and useful ministers in the present day, as well 
as in past times, have made no pretensions to 
scholarship." 
THE Bishop of Victoria, in a description of a 
late tour in southern India says that there is now 
a Brahmin in the Judge's Court, and educated iu 
the Madras University, who gained the prize for 
the best essay on the evidences in favor of the 
Christian religion, but who yet remains a heathen 
Loss OF THE NEW ERA.—The papers the last 
week chronicle another frightful shipwreck—the 
New Era from Bremen, with 400 passengers, and 
a crew of thirty men. 
It went ashore in a dense 
fog, on the 12th inst., about twelve miles below 
Sandy Hook, N. Y., and all bul 102 found a wa 
tery grave. 
TNE elections returns have been received from all 
but five towns in the State, of the vote for Gover-
nor on Monday. The aggregate is as follows : 
Washburn 26,848. Gardner 80,042, Wilson 6,686, 
Bishop 13,467,Wales 314, scattering 759. 
Gard-
ner's ftiayority over all others, 32,745. 
Last week we wrote thktMr. Gardner's majority 
was about 30,000, but our printers set it up to 
50,000, an error which needs to be rectified. 
GENERAL AGENTS FOR MAINE.—Eld. Thos. Smith 
Eddington, Me., Eld. I. C. Wellcome, Hallowell 
Me. 
Our friends'can get our books of these bretl 
ren, and also the Advent Herald. 
Great Britain. 
Contributions for the Wounded—Lord Palmer-
ston's Theology.—Contributions 
to a very large 
Special 
Notice. 
THE DEDICATION.—The new chapel at the corner 
of Hudson and Kneeland Streets, in this city will 
be opened for public worship on Wednesday, Dec 
6th, at half past 2 o'clock, P.M. ; services will be 
continued over the Sabbath. We cordially invite 
all our bretheren and friends 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-
ters, that the blessing of God may attend our 
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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