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THE THINKER AND THE DOER. 
WHOLE NO. 614 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1853. 
VOLUME XI. NO. 8. 
to my own children, and to adepts in this sci-
ence, the common precepts of our profession 
and its secret requirements, but will conceal 
them from all others. According to the best of 
my knowledge I will make use of the rules of die-
tetics for the comfort and relief of my patients. 
I will remove from them everything that could 
be injurious to them—and all kinds of witchcraft. 
I will never administer a deadly poison to any 
one, whoever he may be, or however earnestly I 
may be solicited, nor will I prepare it for ano-
ther to administer. I will never cause abortion. 
I will preserve my life pure and holy as my art. 
I will never remove calculi, but will direct such 
patients to those who make this their business. 
In every house in which I may enter it shall be 
only for the relief of the sick, preserving myself 
free from all voluntary iniquity; abstaining from 
all kinds of debauchery ; forbidding myself all 
improprieties, whether with man or woman, slave 
or free. Anything which I may see or hear in 
the exercise of my profession, that ought not to 
be divulged, shall, by me, be regarded as an in-
violable secret. 
" If I faithfully fulfil the conditions of my 
oath, may my life pass happily away; may I 
gather the fruits of my labors, and live, honored 
by all, to the latest posterity. But if I fail 
therein, and perjure myself, let the contrary of 
all this happen." 
SCARCELY has dawn commenced when every-
body is in action. Nature seems invigorated by 
night's repose, and heavy drops of dew hang on 
every leaf. Stately palms wave their foliage in 
the morning air, and gay colored humming-birds, 
parrots, and macaws diffuse animation over the 
scene. The time is delightful, but of short dura-
tion ; towards nine o'clock the heat begins to be 
felt, and that lassitude for which tropical regions 
are so well known seizes everything. The leaves 
droop, the wild pigeons cease to utter their notes, 
and the inhabitants seek shelter in the shade of 
their dwellings. At noon a profound silence 
prevails, only broken now and then by some rep-
tile gliding among the dead leaves of the forest, 
or by the solitary tapping of the woodpecker. 
Not a breath stirs the air, the whole atmosphere 
trembles from the excessive heat, and the ther-
mometer of Fahrenheit, when exposed to the full 
ONE sits at home with pale, impassive brow, 
Bent on the eloquence of lifeless letters ; 
Noting man's thoughts from Mind's first dawn till now, 
When Truth seems, heaven-inspired, to burst her fetters. 
Another plies the force of stalwart limbs, 
And keen wit sharpened by the whirl of action ; 
For midnight lore no studious lamp he trans, 
Curtailed and muffled from the world's distraction. 
Two destinies—converging to one end, 
The glorious issue of all human labor ' • 
Where in harmonious union softly blend 
The praise of God, the profit of our neighbor. 
Each has his gift--the stamp affix'd at birth, 
That marks him for the servant of a Master ; 
The chosen steward of His realm of earth, 
The shepherd watching for a higher Pastor. 
Each has his crown—of earthly laurels here,
Gathered and woven by the hand Of mortals ; 
And when the spirit-city's towers appear, 
Dropped on his brows by angels at its portals. 
Judge not which serves his Master best, 
Haply thou mightest be true worth's detractor; 
For each obeys his nature's high behest,—
'The close-pent thinker, and the busy actor. 
"UNCLE TOM." 
IN the many criticisms on Mrs. Stowe's great 
work, no objection is so common as that of ex-
aggeration, or overdrawing in the finale of Un-
cle Tom's .death. All who read the newspapers 
agree that whippings to death do occur, but all 
will not or cannot believe that any one for con-
science' sake, has died by the lash here, in this 
glorious nineteenth century. Those " niggers " 
who are whipped to death are desperate charac-
ters—persons who have worn out the patience of 
overseers and masters by crime and laziness. 
Well, in the summer of 1839, we were in 
Louisville, Ky. As no great change has ever 
taken place in our opinion on this slavery ques-
tion, we were at some loss then for a place to 
go to preaching, and used on the Sabbath to 
walk out to a graveyard, or into the fields, or 
up and down the streets in search of sermons. 
One forenoon, passing a little frame church on 
Walnut street, if we recollect rightly, we heard 
the voices of a congregation singing. Brother 
Samuel, who was with us,—it was farther down 
street than would have been thought safe for a 
woman to walk alone at midday,—said it was 
a congregation of Methodists, and a missionary 
station, he thought, but assured us he had once 
dropped in and heard a sermon he liked. 
We went in and took a seat. A plain-look-
ing elderly man preached in the style usual for 
Methodists—preachers in country plaCes—all 
about religion—its comforts in life and triumphs 
in death. Like Uncle Tom, he insisted, with 
great earnestness, that it was " a great thing to 
be a Christian." Religion—it made the weak 
strong, and the meanest most honorable. To il-
lustrate this grand truth, he told an anecdote as 
something coming within the range of his own 
knowledge, of an old slave who had " got relig-
ion." His master was kind, but irreligious and 
reckless, and was withal much impressed by the 
earnestness of his servant's prayers and exhorta-
tions. But one day, one evil day, on the Sab-
bath, too, this same kind master was drinking 
and playing cards with a visitor, when the con-
versation turned upon the religion of slaves. 
The visitor boasted that he could " whip the re-
ligion out of any nigger' in the State in half 
an hour." 
The master, proud of possessing a rare speci-
men, boasted that he had one out of whom the 
religion could not be whipped. A bet was laid, 
and the martyr summoned. A fearful oath of 
recantation, and blasphemous denial of his Sa-
viour, was required of the old disciple, upon 
pain of being whipped to death. The answer 
was, " Bress de Lord, massa! I can't !" 
Threats, oaths., entreaties, and noise were tried, 
but he fell on his knees, and holding up his 
hands, plead, 
" Bress de Lord, Massa, I can't ! Jesus, he 
die for me ! Massa, please, massa, I can't !" 
THE PHYSICIAN'S OATH. 
THE following " oath of the physician " is one 
of the most remarkable relics of antiquity. It 
is ascribed to Hippocrates, but is believed to be 
of still greater antiquity. It is, however, cer-
tain that it was in vogue in his time, now more 
than 2000 years ago. It is alluded to in the 
writings of Plato, Soranus, Jerome and others. 
It may be well to remark by way of preliminary, 
that Apollo, the son of Jupiter, was the god of 
medicine. Esculapius was the son .of Apollo. 
Hygiea (health) and Panacea (universal remedy) 
were Esculapius's daughters. In all oaths of 
those days it was customary to invoke the gods 
and goddesses : 
" The Oath. I swear by Apollo, the physi-
cian, by Esculapius, by Hygiea and Panacea, 
that I will fulfil, faithfully, to the extent of my 
power and ability, this oath and this written en-
gagement; that I will consider him who taught 
me this act in the light of a father ; that I will 
watch over his interests, provide liberally for 
his wants, consider his children as my own broth-
ers, and that I will instruct them in this profes-
sion, if such be their wish, without salary or 
compensation ; that I will communicate to them 
CLEON AND I. 
CLEON hath a million acres, 
Ne'er a one have I ; 
Cleon dwelleth in a palace, 
In a cottage I; 
Cleon bath a dozen fortunes, 
Not a penny I ; 
Yet the poorer of the twain is 
Cleon, and not I. 
Cleon, true, possesseth acres, 
But the landscape I ; 
Half the charms to me it yieldeth 
Money cannot buy. 
Cleon harbors sloth and dulness, 
Freshening vigor I ; 
He in velvet, I in fustian, 
Richer man am I. 
Cleon is a slave to grandeur, 
Free as thought am I ; 
Cleon fees a dozen doctors, 
Need of none have I ; 
Health-surrounded, care-environed, 
Cleon fears to die ; 
Death may come, he'll find me ready, 
Happier man am I. 
Clean sees no charms in Nature, 
In a daisy I ; 
Cleon hears no anthems ringing 
In the sea and sky ; 
Nature sings to ine forever, 
Earnest listener I ; 
State for state, with all attendants, 
Who would change ?—Not I, 
DAY AND NIGHT IN THE TROPICS. 
influence of the scorching rays, frequently rises 
to the height of 124 degrees. In the afternoon 
the heat becomes less oppressive, breezes spring 
up, and the cool air of the evening calls forth 
new life. The forests are now glittering with 
myriads of fire-flies, crickets are chanting their 
merry tunes, and here and there are groups of 
people chatting and amusing themselves. But 
nothing can exceed the beauty of the scene when 
the full moon rises, shedding its silvery light 
over the broad foliage of the tropics. Whatever 
may have been the fatigue of the day, whatever 
the body may have suffered from the heat and 
languor, all is forgotten when this spectacle pre-
sents itself. 
FLIGHTS OF RHETORIC. 
I HAVE not found that God hath made much 
use of labored periods, rhetorical flowers, and 
elegancies, to improve the power of religion in 
the world : " yea, I have observed how Provi-
dence bath sometimes rebuked good men when 
they have too much affected these pedantic foole-
ries, in withdrawing from them his usual aids, 
and exposing them to shame, Flonel. 
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with 
my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes en-
tertained me ; but it was Scripture expressions 
which did penetrate my heart, and that in a way 
peculiar to themselves. J. Brown, of Haddington. 
John did not preach so much to please as to 
profit. He choose rather to discover men's sins, 
than to show his own eloquence. That is the 
best looking-glass, not which is most gilded, but 
which shows the truest face. Thotas Watson. 
Preaching experimentally is the life and soul 
of preaching. Men love sermons that come to 
their business and bosoms. Job Orion. 
Which things also we speak, not in the words 
which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the 
Holy Ghost teacheth. And I, brethren, when 
I came to you, came not with excellency of 
speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the 
testimony of God. 
Paul. 
 
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PROHIBITING THE BIBLE. 
HENRY VIII, by royal proclamation, forbade 
the general reading of the Bible by the laity. 
He made exceptions, however, in favor of the 
Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of 
Commons, and captains in the wars, who may 
need to quote it " in order to enforce public ha-
rangues." A nobleman " may read it in his 
house or garden quietly or of good order." A 
merchant " may read it to himself privately. 
Ladies of quality may read it to themselves—
not to others." The King as carefully sur-
rounded it with cautions as if it were a torpedo, 
or something of that sort. His daughter, Queen 
Elizabeth, had also her leaning to the old order 
of things. She would not permit any ridicule 
of the Virgin Mary or the sign of the cross, and 
once front her pew when Nowell, her chaplain, 
made a sly, collateral dash at the " sign," called 
out to hint and bid him back to his text ! 
HARD FEELINGS. 
" Tinny shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge 
against the children of thy people." All those 
hard and unkind feelings which you entertain 
towards your neighbor because he has injured 
you, are forbidden by the word of God, and 
bring heavy guilt upon your soul. Do not try 
to escape by saying, this is a part of the old 
Jewish law, that has long since been abrogated. 
The words of the Saviour are still more forcible : 
" If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heav-
enly Father will also forgive you. But if ye 
forgive not men their trespasses, neither will 
your Father forgive your trespasses."—Matthew 
6 : 14, 15. A more fearful denunciation against 
those who indulge unkind feelings towards any 
individual of the human race, could hardly be 
uttered. 
The executioner summoned his aids, the old 
man was tied up, and the whipping commenced; 
but the shrieks for mercy were all intermingled 
with prayers and praises—prayers for his own 
soul and those of his murderers. .When faint-
ing and revived, the terms of future freedom 
from punishment were offered again, and again 
he put them away with the continued exclama-
tion, " Jesus, he die for me ! Bress de Lord, 
massa ! I can't." 
The bet was to the full value of the property 
endangered. The men were flushed with wine, 
and the experimenter on " nigger religion " in-
sisted on " trying it out." Honor demanded he 
should have a fair chance to win his bet, and the 
old disciple died under the lash, blessing the 
Lord that Jesus had died for him ! 
The preacher gave his recital with many tears, 
and before he was done, we do not think there 
was a dry eye, except our own, in the house. 
Our pulses all stood still with horror, but the 
speaker did not appear to dream that his story 
had any bearing against the institution with 
which he was surrounded. 
We cannot remember how he said the par-
ticulars came to his knowledge, but think the 
martyr had been under his pastoral care, and 
that he got the minutiae from slave witnesses in 
a " love-feast." 
He gave us the story simply to show what a 
good thing religion was. Of those who heard it, 
and the many persons there to whom we related 
it, we found not one who appeared to doubt it. 
Any indignation felt and expressed was against 
the individual actors in the tragedy. 
This, and the account we once gave of the old 
man " born in Pennsylvania, and free when 
twenty-eight !" who told us his own story of his 
beautiful " Misses Jenny " and her bad husband, 
who sold him South by treachery.; of his telling 
his own stbry of being " born in Pennsylvania 
and free," and being subsequently sold and re-
sold eight times ; of his seven good masters, and 
the cruel one who gave him the scars he exhib-
ited to make hint quit going to meeting, and 
curse God and Jesus Christ; of his present hap-
piness in having found Misses Jenny, and the 
prospect of going with her " home to Virginny " 
—these things convince us that there have been 
more Uncle Toms in these United States than 
we of the North have ever dreamed of in our 
philosophy. 
There are to-day, as there have been in all 
ages, thousands of wicked men, thousands of 
fanatics who would, if they had the power, pun- 
ish with fine, imprisonment, stripes, fire, and the 
rack, the heretic who differs from them in opin- 
ion. What then could be expected when one 
class holds irresponsible power over the lives of 
another ? Just, that some of them will be very 
ready to use it. Pittsburgh Saturday visitor. 
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'rim BATTLE OF TOURS, A. Ds 732, 
" THE events that rescued our ancestors of 
Britain and our neighbors of Gaul from the civ-
il and religious yoke of the Koran."—Gibbon, 
Although three centuries had passed away 
since the Germanic conquerors of Rome had 
crossed the Rhine, never to repass that frontier 
stream, no settled system of institutions or gov-
ernment, no amalgamation of the various races 
into one people, no uniformity of language or 
habits, had been established in the country at 
the time when Charles Martel was called to re-
pel the menacing tide of Saracenic invasion from 
the south. Gaul was not yet France. In that, 
as in other provinces of the Roman empire of 
the West, the dominion of the Caesars had been 
shattered as early as the fifth century, and bar-
baric kingdoms and principalities had prompt-
ly arisen on the ruins of the Roman power. But 
few of these had any permanency, and none of 
them consolidated the rest, or any considerable 
number of the rest, into one coherent and or-
ganized civil and political society. The great 
bulk of the population still consisted of the con-
quered provincials, that is to say, of Romanized 
Celts, of a Gallic race which had long been un-
der the dominion of the Caesars, and had ac-
quired, together with no slight infusion of Ro-
man blood, the language, the literature, the laws, 
and the civilization of Latium. Among these, 
and dominant over them, roved or dwelt the Ger-
man victors; some retaining nearly all the rude 
independence of their primitive national charac-
ter, others softened and disciplined by the aspect 
and contact of the manners and institutions of 
civilized life ; for it is to be borne in mind that 
the Roman empire in the West was not crushed 
by any sudden avalanche or barbaric invasion. 
The German conquerors came across the Rhine, 
not in enormous hosts, but in bands of a few 
thousand warriors at a time. The conquest of a 
province was the result of an infinite series of 
partial local invasions, carried on by little ar-
mies of this description. The victorious warri-
ors either retired with their booty, or fixed them-
selves in the invaded district, taking care to keep 
sufficiently concentrated for military purposes, 
and ever ready for some fresh foray, either 
against a rival Teutonic band, or some hitherto 
unassailed city of the provincials. Gradually, 
however, the conquerors acquired a desire for 
permanent landed possessions. They lost some-
what of the restless thirst for novelty and adven-
ture which had first made them throng beneath 
the banner of the boldest captains of their tribe, 
and leave their native forests for a roving mili-
tary life on the left bank of the Rhine. They 
were converted to the Christian faith, and gave 
up with their old creed much of the coarse fero-
city which must have been fostered in the spir-
its of the ancient warriors of the North by a my-
thology which promised, as the reward of the 
brave on earth, an eternal cycle of fighting and 
drunkenness in heaven. 
But, although their conversion and other civ-
ilizing influences operated powerfully upon the 
Germans in Gaul, and although the Franks (who 
were originally a confederation of the Teutonic 
tribes that dwelt between the Rhine, the Maine, 
and the Weser,) established a decisive superiori-
ty over the other conquerors of the province, as 
well as over the conquered provincials, the coun-
try long remained a chaos of uncombined and 
shifting elements. The early princes of the 
Merovingian dynasty were generally occupied in 
wars against other princes of their house, occa-
sioned by the frequent subdivisions of the Frank 
monarchy; and the ablest and best of them had 
found all their energies tasked to the utmost to 
defend the barrier of the Rhine against the pa-
gan Germans who strove to pass that river and 
gather their share of the spoils of the empire. 
The conquests which the Saracens effected over 
the southern and eastern provinces of Rome were 
far more rapid than those achieved by the Ger-
mans in the north, and the new organizations of 
society which the Moslems introduced were sum-
marily and uniformly enforced. Exactly a cen-
tury passed between the death of Mohammed and 
the date of the battle of Tours. During that 
century the followers of the Prophet had torn 
away half the Roman empire ; and besides their 
conquests over Persia, the Saracens had overrun 
Syria, Egypt, Africa, and Spain, in an uncheck-
ered and apparently irresistible career of victory. 
Nor, at the commencement of the eighth centu-
ry of our era, was the Mohammedan world di-
vided against itself, as it subsequently became. 
All these vast regions obeyed the caliph; through-
out them all, from the Pyrenees to the Oxus, the 
name of Mohammed was invoked in prayer, and 
tha Koran revered as the book of the law. 
It was under one of their ablest and most re-
nowned commanders, with a veteran army, and 
with every apparent advantage of time, place, 
and circumstance, that the Arabs made their 
great effort at the conquest of Europe north of 
the Pyrenees. The victorious Moslem soldiery 
in Spain, 
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" A countless multitude ; 
Syrian, Moor, Saracen, Greelt renegade 
Persian, and Copt, and Tartar, in one bond 
Of erring faith conjoined—strong in the youth 
And heat of zeal—a dreadful brotherhood," 
were eager for the plunder of more Christian 
cities and shrines, and full of fanatic confidence 
in the invincibility of their arms. 
The monkish chroniclers, from whom we are 
obliged to glean a narrative of this memorable 
campaign, bear full evidence to the terror which 
the Saracen invasion inspired, and to the agony 
of that great struggle. The Saracens, say they, 
and their king, who was called Abdirames, came 
out of Spain, with all their wives, and their 
children, and their substance, in such great mul-
titudes that no man could reckon or estimate 
them. They brought with them all their armor, 
and whatever they had, as if they were thence-
forth always to dwell in France. 
" Then Abderrahman, seeing the land filled 
with the multitude of his army, pierces through 
the mountains, tramples over rough and level 
ground, plunders far into the country of the 
Franks, and smites all with the sword, insomuch 
that when Eudo came to battle with him at the 
River Garonne, and fled before him, God alone 
knows the number of the slain. Then Abder-
rahman pursued after Count Eudo, and while he 
strives to spoil and burn the holy shrine at Tours, 
he encounters the chief of the Austrasian Franks, 
Charles, a man of war from his youth up, to 
whom Eudo had sent warning. There for nearly 
seven days they strive intensely, and at last they 
set themselves in battle array, and the nations 
of the North standing firm as a wall, and im-
penetrable as a zone of ice, utterly slay the 
Arabs with the edge of the sword." 
The European writers all concur in speaking 
of the fall of Abderrahman as one of the princi- 
pal causes of the defeat of the Arabs; who, ac- 
cording to one writer, after finding that their 
leader was slain, dispersed in the night, to the 
agreeable surprise of the Christians, who expect- 
ed the next morning so see them issue from their 
tents and renew the combat. One monkish 
chronicler puts the loss of the Arabs at 375,000 
men, while he says that only 1007 Christians 
fell : a disparity of loss which he feels bound to 
account for by a special interposition of Provi- 
dence. I have translated above some of the most 
spirited passages of these writers ; but it is im- 
possible to collect from them anything like a 
full or authentic description of the great battle 
itself, or of the operations which preceded and 
followed it. 
Though, however, we may have cause to re-
gret the meagreness and doubtful character of 
these narratives, we have the great advantage of 
being able to compare the accounts given of Ab-
derrahman's expedition by the national writers 
of each side. This is a benefit which the in- 
quirer into antiquity so seldom can obtain, that 
the fact of possessing it, in the case of the bat- 
tle of Tours, makes us think the historical testi- 
mony respecting that great event more certain 
and satisfactory than is the case in many other 
instances, where we possess abundant details re- 
specting military exploits, but where those de-
tails conic to us from the annalists of one nation 
only, and where we have, consequently, no safe- 
guard against the exaggerations, the distortions, 
and the fictions which national vanity has so of- 
ten put forth in the garb and under the title of 
history. The Arabian writers who recorded the 
conquests and wars of their countrymen in Spain 
have narrated also the expedition into Gaul of 
their great emir, and his defeat and death near 
Tours, in battle with the host of the Franks un-
der King Caldus, the name into which they 
metamorphose Charles Martel. 
They tell us how there was war between the 
count of the Frankish frontier and the Moslems, 
and how the count gathered together all his peo- 
ple, and fought for a time with doubtful success. 
" But," say the Arabian chroniclers, " Abder- 
rahman drove them back ; and the men of Ab- 
derrahman were puffed up in spirit by their re-
peated successes, and they were full of trust in 
the valor and the practice in war of their emir. 
So the Moslems smote their enemies, and passed 
the River Garonne, and laid waste the country, 
and took captives without number. And that 
army went through all places like a desolating 
storm. Prosperity made these warriors insatia- 
ble. At the passage of the river, Abderrahman 
overthrew the count, and the count retired into 
his stronghold, but the Moslems fought against 
it, and entered it by force and slew the count ; 
for everything gave way to their cimeters, which 
were the robbers of lives. All the nations of 
the Franks trembled at that terrible army, and 
they betook them to their king Caldus, and told 
him of the havoc made by the Moslem horsemen, 
and how they rode at their will through all the 
land of Narbonne, Toulouse, and Bordeaux, and 
they told the king of the death of their count. 
Then the king bade them be of good cheer, and 
offered to aid them. And in the 114th year * he 
mounted his horse, and he took with him a host 
that could not be numbered, and went against 
the Moslems. And he came upon them at the 
great city of Tours. And Abderrahman and 
other prudent cavaliers saw the disorder of the 
Moslem troops, who were loaded with spoil ; but 
they did not venture to displease the soldiers by 
ordering them to abandon everything except 
their arms and war-horses. And Abderrahman 
trusted in the valor of his soldiers, and in the 
good fortune which had ever attended him. But 
(the Arab writer remarks) such defect of disci-
pline always is fatal to armies. So Abderrah-
man and his host attacked Tours to gain still 
more spoil, and they fought against it so fiercely 
that they stormed the city almost before the eyes 
of the army that came to save it; and the fury 
and the cruelty of the Moslems toward the in-
habitants of the city was like the fury and cru-
elty of raging tigers. It was manifest," adds 
the Arab, " that God's chastisement was sure to 
follow such excesses; and fortune thereupon 
turned her back upon the Moslems. 
" Near the River Owar, the two great hosts 
of the two languages and the two creeds were set 
in array against each ether. The hearts of Ab-
derrahman, his captains, and his men, were filled 
with wrath and pride, and they were the first to 
begin the fight. The Moslem horsemen dashed 
fierce and frequent forward against the battalions 
of the Franks, who resisted manfully, and many 
fell dead on either side, until the going down of 
the sun. Night parted the two armies; but in 
the grey of the morning the Moslems returned to 
the battle. Their cavaliers had soon hewn their 
way into the centre of the Christian host. But 
many of the Moslems were fearful for the safety 
of the spoil which they had stored in their tents, 
and a false cry arose in their ranks that some of 
the enemy were plundering the camp ; whereup-
on several squadrons of the Moslem horsemen 
rode off to protect their tents. But it seemed 
as though they fled; and all the host was troubled. 
And while Abderrahman strove to check their 
tumult, and to lead them back to battle, the 
warriors of the Franks came around him, and he 
was pierced through with many spears, so that 
he died. Then all the host fled before the ene-
my, and many died in the flight. This deadly 
defeat of the Moslems, and the loss of the great 
leader and good cavalier Abderrahman, took 
place in the hundred and fifteenth year." 
This result preserved Europe from subjection 
to Mohammedanism, which would have reversed 
the prediction to which we have made reference. 
(To be continued.) 
The Divine Authority of Scripture. 
IF we desire to know what Mohammed had 
taught, we should be anxious to learn the opin-
ions of Abou-Beker, Ali, or of Abou-Hanifah ; 
or if we would know the doctrines of Sehleier-
macher, we should ask them from his disciples 
in Germany or elsewhere In like manner, in 
regard to the doctrines of Christ, though the 
first point is to inquire of the Master, it is nev-
ertheless interesting and useful to interrogate 
the disciples. I shall propose to-day, therefore, 
to explain to you the testimony of the disciples 
of Christ during the two greatest epochs in the 
history of man, namely, the commencement of 
Christianity and the Reformation. 
It has been said, in this land, that the Divine 
authority of Scripture is an invention posterior to 
primitive Christianity. This is not a new asser-
tion. Many writers have held it, at different 
times. Permit me to mention two, one among 
the Protestants, and the other among the Roman 
Catholics. Here is the former. 
In the middle of the last century, there lived 
in Germany a learned Protestant, whose charac-
ter Madame de Stael thus describes : " Origi-
nal and profound, he always used the most pre-
cise and forcible words ; in his writings he was 
invariably animated by a hostile feeling toward 
those whose opinions he attacked; like a hunts-
man, who finds more pleasure in the chase than 
in the result of it." This savant was named 
Lessing ; and is regarded by the Rationalists 
themselves as one of the fathers of Rationalism. 
How did he become so ? According to Doctor 
Hase—himself a Rationalist—Lessing was the 
first to attack, in Germany, the Divine authori-
ty of Scripture, and to pretend that Christianity 
is independent of the Bible. At first he wished 
to preserve Christianity, and only to sacrifice 
the Bible ; but Christianity soon departed like-
wise. The vase was broken, and the life-giving 
water was spilled and lost. The Christian doc-
trines fell, one after the other. A learned theo-
logian has given us a history of the revolution 
which has been accomplished in Germany, since 
1750, in the field of theology. Matters came, 
by little and little, to so deplorable a condition, 
that in empty churches sermons on the culture 
of potatoes, or other useful matters, were sub-
stituted for the preaching of Jesus Christ. 
To pretend, like Lessing, to attack the au-
thority of the Bible, and yet to respect Chris-
tianity, is to act like the American Indians, who 
cut down the date-palm close to the earth. 
* Of the Hegira. 
" See," say they, " the fruit remains !" and they 
eat of it. But wait some days; the fruit is with• 
ered, the branches are withered, the whole trunk 
is but dry wood; and this tree, which might have 
given to you and to your children so agreeable 
a fruit, is now good for nothing, but to be cut 
in pieces and cast into the fire. 
And what was it Lessing did to attack the au-
thority of the Bible ? Exactly what is now done 
here. " It is an invention of Catholicism," said 
he; only he placed this invention later than the 
time of the Gnostics, at the era of the Council 
of Nice, in 325. 
If the Protestant Rationalists pretend that the 
Divine authority of Scripture is an invention of 
Roman Catholicism, let us now consider Roman 
Catholics, who pretend that it is an invention of 
Protestantism. 
The second of the divines whom I will cite, is 
the Roman Catholic Staphylus, who, attacking 
the Reformation with the zeal of an apostate, 
placed among the maxims invented by this Ref-
ormation, the following :—" Major est auctoritas 
Scripturm quam Ecclesice," " Greater is the 
authortiy of Scripture than that of the Church." 
Thus, when it comes to the Divine authority 
of the Bible, Roman Catholics and Protestant 
Rationalists alike reject it : no one desires it. 
This doctrine of authority, according to each of 
these parties, is an invention of the other. In 
our days, and among us, the notions of Lessing 
and Staphylus, respecting the recent invention 
of the idea of the authority of the Bible, have 
been revived. Let us now seek to learn the 
voice of the early ages; and see, whether it was 
then believed that recourse to the Divine au-
thority of the Bible, that Biblicism, is " the 
plague of the Church." 
At Rome, in the latter part of the first centu-
ry, Clement, an elder or bishop of the Church 
(probably he of whom Paul said to the Philip-
pians, " Clement, whose name is in the Book of 
Life,") taught in that ancient city, where Paul 
also had taught in chains. Would you know 
what you should do, you who seek salvation ? 
—Clement shall tell you : " Examine carefully 
the Scriptures," says he, in the 45th chapter of 
his Epistle to the Corinthians ; " they are the 
true oracles of the Holy Spirit. Know that in 
them there is nothing unjust, nor false, nor 
feigned." 
About the same time, in the beginning of the 
second century, at Antioch, the metropolis of 
the Gentile Christians, as Jerusalem was of the 
Christian Jews, Ignatius, a disciple of St. John, 
shed abroad the mild effulgence of the Christian 
virtues. Would you know who those are that 
deny the Lord, and whom the Lord will deny ? 
—Ignatius will tell you : " It is those," says 
he, " who have not been persuaded either by the 
prophets, or by the law of Moses, or by the gos-
pel." Or would you seek the fountain of that 
truth to which you should at all times apply ? 
—Ignatius shall answer : " Fly to the gospel, 
as if it were the person of Jesus Christ ; to the 
apostles, as if they were the presbyters of the 
Church. The gospel is the perfection of incor-
ruptibility." Ignatius died a martyr for the 
name of Christ Jesus. • 
In ancient Smyrna (which pretended to be the 
cradle of Homer,) Poly carp, a venerable Chris-
tian, and also a disciple of John, gathered round 
him many disciples. Sayest thou, I have al-
ready believed in the Lord, but how shall I, 
from day to day, be built up in this holy faith ? 
Here is the answer : " Paul," wrote Poly carp 
to the Philippians (chapter 3d), " Paul, who 
whilst in the midst of 'you, taught you perfectly 
in the word of truth, when absent, wrote letters 
to you; to these you should look, to be built up 
in the faith which has been given you." Or, 
again : Wouldst thou know upon what authority 
thou oughtest to believe the things of the invisi-
ble world ? Polycarp argues from 1 Cor. 6 : 2, 
to establish the judgment to come : " Do we not 
know that the saints shall judge the world, as 
Paul indeed taught us." 
The World's Regeneration. 
(Continued from our last.) 
THERE are two theories respecting the manner 
in which the era foretold by revelation, when 
the kingdoms of this world shall become the 
kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ, is to be ush-
ered in. The most generally adopted, as I have 
suggested in a former article, is, that the mil-
lennium is to be gradually introduced by the 
preaching of the gospel, and subordinate agen-
cies, that all nations are to be converted, and 
that holiness to the Lord will be stamped on 
every heart. This reign of righteousness it is 
supposed will take place on the earth as it now 
is, and continue at least a thousand years, before 
Christ shall come. The other theory is, that 
there will be no millennium until Christ shall 
come again, and that the world, instead of being 
converted to Christ, before his coming, is fast 
ripening for destruction. 
1. Let us then in the first place, endeavor to 
ascertain what the Scriptures teach, as to the de-
sign of the Christian dispensation. Can we find 
language, will be found there. There are now 
in the House of the Sacred Congregation at 
Rome several English students receiving a proper 
ecclesiastical education, who will eventually- be 
attached to this church, besides other Italian 
and foreign priests." 
reference to the fullness of the times of the Gen-
tiles; as in Gal. 4:4, he speaks of the fullness 
of Jewish times, or the end of the time appointed 
by the Father for deliverance from the bondage 
of the law, and for introducing the Christian dis-
pensation. The believer is now waiting for the 
adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. 
(Rom. 8:23.) And this redemption of the body 
from the power of death and the grave is to take 
place at the second coming of our Lord. 
Redemption, is what the people of God from 
the beginning have heen looking for. To the 
promised seed revealed to Adam, they who be-
lieved the promise, looked for redemption. A 
faithful few " walked with God," but the great 
bulk of mankind were led captive by Satan. 
The wickedness of man became in the progress 
of fifteen centuries so great that the deluge was 
sent, and the wicked were swept away. (And as 
it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when 
the Son of man cometh. Matt. 24:37-39 ; Luke 
17:26-30.) 
Again, God called Abraham, made a covenant 
with him and with his seed. He held communion 
with him. Abraham believed God, and was 
counted as righteous ; some of his seed walked 
with God and looked for redemption in Christ ; 
but the majority of his descendants were rebel-
lious, and the curse rested on the world. 
Then Moses was raised up as a leader and 
lawgiver. The law was added to the Abrahamic 
covenant because of transgression. The promises 
of a Deliverer became more distinct, and as the 
time appointed for the advent of the Saviour 
drew nigh, there was a general expectation of 
his appearing. Simeon was waiting for the con-
solation of' Israel. And Anna rejoiced at the 
Saviour's birth, with all that were looking for 
redemption. 
We are living under the dispensation thus in-
troduced at the Saviour's advent of humility. 
The believer, now, as before the flood, and as in 
the intervening periods, 'from Noah to Christ, is 
also looking for redemption. And redemption 
includes not only justification, (Rom. 3:24) and 
sanctification, (1 Cor. 1:30) but the resurrection 
of the body from the power of death and the 
grave. (Luke 21:24-28 ; Rom. 8:23.) 
God has almost six thousand years been tak-
ing out of the world an elect Church. He has 
been, and is, preparing for the establishment of 
his kingdom on the ruins of all earthly kingdom's. 
(Dan. 2:44; 7:27.) Christ shall come again, 
and all his saints with him, and the kingdoms of 
this world, so long revolted from God, shall be 
subject to his peaceful and glorious reign. He 
shall come from heaven, in like manner as he as-
cended. (Acts. 1:9-11.) He shall come sud-
denly, as " a thief," as " a snare," " as the 
lightning," " as the flood." 
He shall come to 
raise the bodies of his saints (Job 19:25, 26 ; 1 
Cor. 15:22, 23 ; 1 Thess. 4:14.) And with them 
to take possession of the earth and reign over it. 
(Psa. 2:8; Isa. 24:21-23 ; Luke 22:29, 30 ; 2 
Tim. 2:11, 12 ; 4:8.) He shall come to perfect 
the great work of redemption, and to bring to 
pass the purport of his petition, that all his peo-
ple may be one. 
If then the Christian dispensation is, as we 
believe, introductory to another; and if, as St. 
Paul writes to Timothy, the Lord Jesus Christ 
shall judge the quick and the dead at his appear-
ing, and his kingdom, thus connecting the es-
tablishment of his kingdom with his second ad-
vent, we may look forward to his coming as an 
event not remote. We can make practical, the 
Scriptural exhortations to " watchfulness as men 
who wait for their Lord ;" and find in the hope 
of a glorious resurrection, at his coming, an in-
centive to duty, such as animated the apostles in 
their warfare against sin. Our Lord has gone 
to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. 
(Luke 19:11, 12, &c.) May we so improve the 
talent committed to us in learning and doing his 
will, that at his return we may have part in the 
resurrection to life, and thus be ever with him. 
Witness and Advocate. 
THE CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY. 
AFTER several attempts by ambitious Popes, 
this doctrine or ordinance, was established by 
the tyrannical Hildebrand, Gregory the Sev-
enth, in the eleventh century. The parochial 
clergy had generally married, and they protested 
long and strongly against abandoning their wives. 
But-the advantage of having the ecclesiastics, 
in all countries, separated from all connection 
with their native soil and native interests, and 
the fixture of large bodies of men in every king-
dom wholly devoted to the objects of Popedom, 
overpowered alike the voice of nature, justice, 
and Scripture. " Those whom God had joined 
together," were put asunder by man. No act, 
even of the Papacy, ever produced more crime. 
No act could be politically more injurious, for 
it withdrew from the increase of population—in 
times when population was the great want of 
Europe, and when half the land was desert-
300,000 parochial priests, 300,000 monks, and 
friars, and probably upwards of 300,000 nuns ; 
an intimation of the conversion of the world to 
Christ, by the agencies now employed? We think 
not. In the first council of the Church at Jeru-
salem, (and as we apprehend, the only coun-
cil whose decisions are infallible) we find a dec-
laration of God's purpose in sending the gospel 
to the Gentile nations. At the beginning of the 
Christian dispensation, Paul and Barnabas were 
sent forth by the Holy Ghost, to preach the gos-
pel to the Gentiles. (Acts 13:1-4.) " For so 
the Lord commanded saying, I have set thee 
to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst 
be for salvation unto the ends of the earth, and 
when the Gentiles heard this they were glad, and 
glorified the word of the Lord ; and as many as 
were ordained to eternal life believed."—Acts 13: 
47, 48. But a controversy having arisen at An-
tioch respecting the circumcision of the Gentile 
converts, Paul and Barnabas and others with 
them, went to Jerusalem to the apostles and el-
ders to consider and determine the question. In 
that council Peter having referred to his mis-
sion, by divine direction, to Cornelius, the Gen-
tile Centurion, James as the presiding apostle 
made the following remarkable comment, in giv-
ing the decision of the council. " Simeon hath 
declared how God at the first did visit the Gen-
tiles to take out of them a people for his name." 
—Acts 15:14. 
" Now, if we believe (as we profess to do) that 
this is not merely the opinion of the apostle, but 
that he spake these words as he was moved by 
the Holy Ghost, then we have here a distinct 
declaration of God himself that the design of 
this dispensation is to take and save a people out 
of the Gentiles, which is certainly a very differ- 
ent thing front converting and blessing all the 
families of the earth."—Rev. H. McNeile. And 
we find thus far in the history of the Church, and 
the world, that God has, through the preaching 
of the gospel, been taking out of the world an 
elect church. No nation as a nation has ever 
been converted. Sin has ever been in the as-
cendant among the most favored of the Gentile 
nations. It is so now. Look at England and 
our own country, the two most highly favored 
among nominally Christian nations. Are all 
righteous ? Or is there even a gradual advance 
in holiness ? Is not the warfare rather deepen-
ing between the Church and the world ? True 
it is, that now, as eighteen centuries ago, and as 
through intervening centuries, God is accomplish-
ing his purpose, in " fulfilling the number of his 
elect, and hasting the coming of his kingdom " 
by adding to his mystical Church of such as shall 
be saved ; but we see no evidence to warrant the 
hope of the world's conversion in its present state, 
even if the opinion was not condemned by Scrip-
ture, and by the voice of the Church in better 
days. 
Still the impression prevails in many minds 
that there are passages of Scripture, which pre- 
dict the world's conversion, through the agency 
of the Church, and the preaching of the gospel. 
We find the sentiments in sermons, as, for ex- 
ample, in the late election sermon before the 
Legislature of Massachusetts, from Rev. 11:17, 
and from a sermon before the American Board 
of Missions, by Dr. Cox, in which he claims for 
the Church " to hold, of God, the right to win 
the world." We meet with it more frequently, 
perhaps, in the speeches on Anniversary occa-
sions ; and we suppose the speakers and writers 
believe that their opinions are founded on a right 
interpretation of Scripture. They base,their ar-
guments on the supposition that we are living in 
the latter times of the final dispensation, which 
will issue in a spiritual millennium, and a re-
alizing of the divine promises of mercy to the 
world. We also believe, that we are living in 
the latter times, or rather what the apostle calls 
the " last days " of the Christian dispensation, 
when perilous times " prevail (2 Tim. 3:1,) when 
schisms and heresies distract the Church ; and 
when the gospel is being preached to all nations, 
as a witness (Matt. 24:14) to take out of them a 
people for God ; and then the end shall come. 
As a witness, the gospel is fulfilling its design. 
The offer of' eternal life in Jesus Christ to the 
world, will leave all who reject it without ex-
cuse ; while to those who embrace it, will be ful-
filled the blessed promises' of a resurrection to 
life, at his coming. But we do not suppose that 
this is the final dispensation. With Isaiah (65: 
17,) and St. Peter, (3:13,) we look for a new 
heavens add a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness. We think that as the patriarchial dis-
pensation was introductory to the Jewish, and as 
the Jewish was introductory to the Christian, so 
the Scriptures lead us to expect a following 
epoch which may not inappropriately be desig-
nated as the dispensation of the kingdom. 
St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Ephesians (1: 
10) makes known to us the purpose of God, 
" that in the dispensation of the fullness of the 
times lie might gather together in one, all things 
in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which 
are on earth, even in him ; and his assertion is 
that the believer has an earnest of this inherit-
ance in the present life, by the sealing of the 
Holy Spirit, until the redemption of the pur-
chased possession, (Eph. 1:Q-14, and also Eph. 
tt 4:30.) Now we suppose St. Paul here to have 
thus giving up to a life of idleness, and almost 
total uselessness, in a national view, an enor-
mous multitude of human beings annually, down 
to this hour, through nearly nine centuries! But, 
to give the true character of this presumptuous 
contempt of the Divine will, and of the primal 
blessing of " Increase and multiply, and replenish 
the earth," and of the universal custom of the 
Jewish covenant, in which the priesthood de-
scended by families ; we should know the soli-
tary miseries entailed by monastic and conven-
tual life, the thousands of hearts broken by re-
morse for those rash bonds, the thousands sunk 
into idiotism and frenzy by the monotony, the 
toilsome trifling, the useless severities, and the 
habitual tyrannies of the cloister. Even to those 
we must add the still darker page of that gross-
ness of vice which, in the ages previous to the 
Reformation, produced frequent remonstrances 
even from the Popes, and perpetual disgust 
among the people. 
TRANSUBSTANTIATION. 
This doctrine declares that, when the words 
of consecration have been pronounced over the 
Eucharist, the bread and wine are actually trans-
formed into the body and blood, the soul and di-
vinity of Christ. This monstrous notion was 
wholly unknown to the Christians of the first 
four centuries. In the eleventh century it was 
held that the body of Christ was actually pres-
ent, without directly affirming in what manner. 
It was not until the thirteenth century (A. D. 
1215) that the change of the bread and wine be-
came an acknowledged doctrine, by the Fourth 
Lateran Council. This doctrine contradicts the 
conception of a miracle, which consists in a 
visible, supernatural change. It contradicts the 
physical conception of body, which is, that body 
is local, and of course cannot be in two places 
at once ; but the body of Christ is in heaven. 
It also contradicts Scripture, which pronounces 
that the taking of the bread and wine 'you'd be 
wholly profitless, but by the accompanying ope-
ration of the Holy Spirit, acting on the faithful 
partaker of the sacrament ; the language of 
Christ being : " The flesh profiteth nothing. The 
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit." 
The whole efficacy is spiritual. 
THE INVOCATION OF SAINTS. 
This doctrine first assumed an acknowledged 
form in the seventh century. It had been gradu-
ally making its way, since the dangerous hom-
age paid to the tombs of the martyrs in the third 
and fourth centuries. But this invocation made 
them, in the estimate of their worshippers, gods. 
For the supposition that they heard and an-
swered prayers in every part of the world at 
once, necessarily implied omnipresence—an at-
tribute belonging exclusively to the Deity. 
emotwilleson....*Nerftwitallgra 
Priesthood, as it was, is, and shall 
be. 
F1014 TDB LONDON "VADTERLy aontlIAL OF Fnornitay." 
(Concluded.) 
THEIR priesthood is still in abeyance, so far as 
the actual exercise of it is concerned. They are 
priests-elect ; but, at present, no more. Their 
title they have received, when brought into the 
Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ; but on 
the active functions of priesthood they have not 
entered. It doth riot yet appear what they shall 
be. They wear no royal crown ; they are clothed 
with no priestly raiments ; their garments for 
" glory and for beauty " are still in reserve 
among the things that are " reserved in heaven, 
ready to be revealed in the last time." Both 
their inheritance and their priesthood are as yet 
only things of faith ; they are not to be entered 
on till their Lord returns ; they are priests in 
disguise, and no man owns their claim. Yet it 
is a sure claim ; it is a Divine claim ; it is a 
claim which will ere long be vindicated. The 
day of the MANIFESTATION of these priests is not 
far off. And for this they wait, carefully ab-
staining from ursurping honors and dignities 
which God has not yet put upon them. 
The High Priest whom they own is now with- 
in the veil ; and till he come forth, they repudi-
ate all priestly pretensions, knowing that at 
present all sacerdotal office, and authority, and 
glory, are centered in him alone. To attempt 
to exercise these would be to rob him of his pre-
rogative, to forestal God's purpose, and to de-
feat the end of the present dispensation. 
Their priesthood is after the order of Mel- 
chizedek. The King of Salem and priest of the 
Most High God is he whom they point to as 
their type. Their great Head is the true Mel-
chizedek ; and they under him, can claim the 
office, and name, and dignity. Melchizedek's 
unknown and mysterious parentage is theirs, for 
the world knows them not, neither what nor 
whence they are. Melchizedek's city was Sa-
lem—theirs is the New Jerusalem, that cometh 
down out of heaven from God. His dwelling 
was in a city without a temple, and he exercised 
his priesthood without a temple; so their abode 
is to be in that city of which it is said, " I saw 
no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty 
and the Lamb are the temple of it." Distinct 
from Abraham, and greater than he, though of 
the same common family of man, was Melchize-
dek ; so they, " the church of the first-born," 
distinct from Israel, and greater than they, yet 
still partakers of a common nature, are to in-
herit a kingdom more glorious and heavenly 
than what shall ever belong to the sons of Abra-
ham according to the flesh. 
For priesthood is not merely for reconcilia-
tion, but for carrying on intercourse after recon-
ciliation has been eflected. It is not merely for 
securing pardon, but for forming the medium of 
communication between the pardoner and the 
pardoned. Thus priesthood may exist after all 
sin has passed away, and the curse has been 
taken from sky and earth, and all things have 
been made new. 
For this end shall priesthood exist in the eter-
nal kingdom, both in the person of Christ him-
self, and of his saints. A link is needed between 
the upper and the lower creation—between heaven 
and earth—between the visible and the invisible 
—between the Creator and the created. That 
link shall be the priesthood of Christ and his re-
deemed. They shall be the channels of commu-
nication between God and his universe. They 
shall be the leaders of creation's song of praise ; 
front all regions of the mighty universe gather-
ing together the multitudinous praises, and pre-
senting them in their golden censers before Je-
hovah's throne. Through theih worship shall 
be carried on, and allegiance presented, and 
prayer sent up from the unnumbered orbs of 
space, the far-extending dominions of the King 
of kings. 
Whether the kingly or priestly offices are to 
be conjoined in each saint, as in Christ himself, 
or whether some are to be priests and some kings, 
we know not. The separation of the offices is 
quite compatible with the truth of the Church 
forming the Melchizedek priesthood : for the ref= 
erence may be to the Church as a body, and not 
to each individual. And is it not something of 
this kind that is suggested to us by the four liv-
ing ones and the four-and-twenty elders in the 
Revelation? Do not the former look like priests, 
and do not the latter look like kings ? 
Yet it matters not. In either way, the dignity 
is the same to the Church; in either way will 
the " royal priesthood " exercise their office un• 
der him who is the Great Priest and King. 
Our priesthood, then, is an eternal one. Then 
will be room for it, and need for it hereafter, 
though the evils which just now specially cal 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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Movements of Romanists in Lon- 
don. 
UNWONTED exertions are being made by Ro-
manists to erect an immense edifice in London, 
avowedly for the worship of foreigners, but avail-
able for all. The British Banner thus describes 
the method by which this object is to be accom-
plished : 
" The Pope and the Cardinals entered heartily 
into the project; and, indeed, there can be no 
doubt that it was by them originated. The views 
of the Vatican were, that the new edifice should 
be erected like those in Rome, and the functions 
performed according to the Roman usage, a so-
ciety of secular priests, called the Congrega-
tion of the Catholic Apostleship,' founded in 
Rome by Pilotti, being appointed to take the 
direction of the church,' and to have the pos-
session of its income. In this arrangement there 
was no difficulty, forasmuch as Dr. Melia was 
one of the body. 
" The next step was for the Sacred Congre-
gation,' at the instance of the Pope, to give 
these priests a patent. Accordingly, on the 7th 
of December, 1847, this was done, and attested 
by Cardinal Wiseman on the 5th of February, 
1850. From this it will be seen that Papal 
movements, however slow, are sure, and that the 
end is infallibly reached. All things being 
ready, then came the question of funds, and 
for that the usual machinery was put in mo-
tion. The Pope urged what he called the good 
work' on the Bishops of the Pontifical States, 
and the Propaganda pressed it on the attention 
of the Bishops of other Papal States in Italy. 
Nay, Dr. Melia himself, adopting one of the 
worst practices of British nonconformity, actu-
ally commenced a course of chapel-begging. To 
this end, he travelled through Italy, not only in 
the Papal States, but also in the kingdom of 
N aples. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the 
other duchies, were each presented with a beg-
ging-box. Cardinal Wiseman then stepped for-
ward, and recommended it to the Bishops of 
France and the Catholics of England. 
" This church, we are told, will be built on 
the model of the oldest Christian churches, and 
the divine services celebrated in Italian and Eng-
lish, and also in other languages, if required. 
Priests of all nations, confessors speaking every 
Romish Doctrines. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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for its exercise shall then have passed away. 
We greatly narrow the range of priesthood when 
we confine it to the times and the places where 
sin is to be found, Such, no doubt, is its pres-
ent sphere of exercise ; and it is well, indeed, 
for us that it is so. Did it not extend to this, 
where should we be ? Were it not now ordained 
specially for the alienated and the guilty, to re-
store the lost friendship, and re-fasten the broken 
link between them and God, what would become 
of us ? But having accomplished this, must it 
cease ? Has it no other region within which it 
can exercise itself? Has it not a wider range 
of function to which, throughout eternity, it will 
extend, in the carrying out of God's wondrous 
purposes ? And just as the humanity of Christ 
is the great bond of connexion between the Di-
vine and the human, the great basis on which 
the universe is to be established immoveably for 
ever, and secured against a second fall, so the 
priesthood of Christ, exercised in that humanity, 
shall be the great medium of communication, in 
all praise, and prayer, and service, and worship 
of every kind—between heaven and earth—be-
tween the Creator and the creature—between 
the King Eternal, Immortal, and Invisible, and 
the beings whom He has made for his glory, in 
all places of his dominion, whether in the heaven 
of heavens, or in the earth below, or throughout 
the measureltss regions of the starry universe. 
Tina readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
crly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER II. 
(Continued from our last.) 
And upon ail the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, 
And upon all the oaks of Bashan, 
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are 
lifted up, 
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. 
vs. 13-16. 
MOUNT Lebanon is on the north boundary of 
Palestine, and its cedars were stately and magni-
ficent. 
In 1818, Dr. litellaxesols found there a remnant 
of them,—" a small clump of large, tall, and beau-
tiful trees," which he pronounced " the most pic-
turesque productions of the vegetable world that he 
had ever seen "—" rearing their heads to an enor-
mous height, and spreading their branches to a 
great extent." One of them that he measured was 
thirty-two feet in circumference. 
In a beautiful metaphor in which the " Assy-
rian " is described, the appearance of the cedar is 
given in Ezek. 31:3-9, " Behold, the Assyrian was 
a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a 
shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and 
his top was among the thick boughs. The waters 
made him great, the deep set him up on high with 
her rivers running round about his plants, and 
sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the 
field. Therefore, his height was exalted above all 
the trees of the field, and his boughs were multi-
plied, and his branches became long because of the 
multitude of waters, when he shot forth. All the 
fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, 
and under his branches did all the beasts of the 
field bring forth their young, and under his shadow 
dwelt all great nations. Thus was he fair in his 
greatness, in the length of his branches : for his 
root was by great waters. The cedars in the gar-
den of GOD could not hide him : the fir-trees were 
not like his boughs, and the Chesnut-trees were not 
like his branches ; not any tree in the garden of 
GOD was like unto him in his beauty. I have made 
him fair by the multitude of his branches : so that 
all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of 
GOD, envied him." 
Because the Assyrian king is called a cedar, Dr. 
BARNES thinks that the cedars, here, denote " the 
princes and nobles of the land of Israel." But 
there is no affirmation, as in that case, that those 
princes are the high cedars of Lebanon. Conse-
quently the expression lacks the attributes of the 
metaphor. 
Bishop LOWTH, Dr. CLARK, and Dr. SCOTT, all 
understand by the cedars, &c., the princes or ex-
alted ones in the nation : but there is no reason 
whatever for understanding them as anything dif- 
fetent from what the inspired writer has called 
them. 
Bashan was on the east of Jerusalem. It was 
conquered by MOSES from OG, king of Bashan, and 
became the possession of the half tribe of MANAS-
SEH. It was celebrated for its pasturage and fine 
cattle, which are referred to in other scriptures. 
It was said -of Tyrus, (Ezek. 27:6,) " Of the oaks 
of Bashan have they made thine oars." The Amo-
rite (Amos 2:9) was said to be " strong as the 
oaks ;" and ZECHARI.k11 said, (11:2,) " Howl, 0 ye 
oaks of Bashan ; for the forest of the vintage is 
come down." 
Judea abounded in lofty mountains, so that a 
reference to them is particularly appropriate. Psa. 
125:2—" As the mountains aro round about Jeru-
salem, so the LORD is round about his people." 
But, (Psa. 144:5,) the LORD has only to " touch 
the mountains, and they shall smoke." He who 
bath " weighed the mountains in scales, and the 
hills in a balance," has said (Isa. 54:10,) that 
" the mountains shall depart, and the hills be re-
moved." Micah 1:3, 4—" For behold, the LORD 
cometh forth out of his place, and will come down 
and tread upon the high places of the earth. And 
the mountains shall be molten under him, and the 
valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire, and as 
the waters that are poured down a steep place." 
Nah. 1:5, 6—" The mountains quake at him, and 
the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his pres-
ence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 
Who can stand before his indignation and who 
can abide in the fierceness cyf his anger ? his fury 
is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown 
down by him." Hab. 3:3-6—" GOD came from 
Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Se-
lah. Ilis glory covered the heavens, and the earth 
was full of his praise. And his brightness was as 
the light►, he had horns coming out of his hand ; 
and there was the hiding of his power. Before him 
went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth 
at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth : he 
beheld, and drove asunder the nations ; and the 
everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetu-
al hills did bow : his ways are everlasting." This 
must be (2 Pet. 3:12,) " at the coming of the day 
of GoD, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be 
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat." 
Lofty towers, and strongly fortified walls, were 
the most secure means of defence for cities, against 
besieging armies. 
It was said of Zion, (Psa. 48:12, 13,) " Walk 
about Zion, and go round about,her : tell the towers 
thereof ; mark well her bulwarks, consider her 
palaces." In the day of the LORD all such will 
come down. Not one of them will furnish any pro-
tection against the storm of Gon's indignation. 
" The ships of Tarshish," were those in which 
the commerce of Israel was principally carried on, 
SoLomosl (1 Kings 10:22,) " had at sea a navy of 
Tarshish with the navy of Hrasm : once in three 
years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, 
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." JE-
HOSHAPHAT also (2 Chron. 20:36,) " made ships to 
go to Tarshish. And they made the ships in Ezion-
geber." 
" TARSHISH " was a son of JAVAN, and a grand-
son of JAPHETII, son of NOAH. Gen. 10:2-5—" By 
these," i. e., the descendants of JAPHETH, " were 
the isles of the Gentiles "—countries bordering on 
the sea—" divided in their lands." It is now gen-
erally agreed that the place referred to is Tartes-
sus, a city of Spain, at the mouth of the river Bae-
tis. Ezion-geber was on the Red Sea, and it is sup-
posed that they sailed around the south of Africa, 
and procured the various articles of their assorted 
cargoes, at the several ports where they touched. 
Bishop LOWTH says, " It is certain that under 
PHARAOH NECHO, about two hundred years after-
ward, this voyage was made by the .Egyptians. 
(Herodot. iv. 42.) They sailed from the Red Sea, 
and returned by the Mediterranean, and they per-
formed it in three years." 
The father of history—whom modern critics 
have vindicated from the once current imputation 
of being also the father of a good many fictions— 
has preserved to us a curious story which he heard 
in Egypt, some twenty-three centuries ago, con- 
cerning the manner in which the first circumnaviga- 
tion of Africa—or Libya, as it was then called, was 
effected. The event was said to have taken place 
in the reign of that PHARAOH NECHO who ruled in 
Egypt about six hundred years before the Chris-
tian era, and whose dealings with the Jews are re- 
corded in the Scriptures. " NECIMS, king of Egypt " 
—this is what HERODOTUS heard —" despatched 
some Phoenicians in vessels, with instructions to 
sail round Libya, and through the Pillars of Her- 
cules [Straits of Gibraltar], into the Northern 
[Mediterranean] Sea, and so to return to Egypt.. 
The Phoenicians set out front the Red Sea, and 
navigated the Southern Ocean. When the autumn 
came, it was their practice to land on whatever 
part of the coast they happened to be near, to sow 
the ground and wait for the harvest. After reap-
ing it, they would again put to sea ; and thus, af-
ter two years had elapsed, in the third they passed 
through the Pillars of Hercules, and arrived at 
Egypt." 
To this succinct narrative, the cautious historian 
adds a remarkable statement. "They said," he 
observes, " but for my part I do not believe the as-
sertion, though others may, that in their voyage 
round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 
This part of the story, which awakened the incredu-
lity of HERODOTUS, is now known to be the strongest 
confirmation of the truth of the whole account. A 
voyager, in making the passage round the Cape 
from the eastward, will have the sun on his right 
hand—that is to the north. At the present day, 
any intelligent school-boy who has learned the first 
elements of astronomy, will easily understand this 
statement ; but in the time of the old Greek histo-
rian, the fact could only have been ascertained by 
actual experience. 
The ships of Tarshish are evidently put by sy- 
necdoche for all ships. When JONAH would flee from 
the presence of the LORD, (1:3,) he " went down to 
Joppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so 
he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to 
go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of 
the LORD." lie did not realize the truth of what 
the Psalmist said : (Psa. 139:7-100 " Whither 
shall I go from thy Spirit ? or whither shall I flee 
from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, 
thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, 
thou art there. If I take the wings of the morn- 
ing, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; 
even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right 
hand shall hold me." As the day of the LORD will 
be upon the ships of Tarshish, and on all ships, 
" the shepherd shall have no way to flee, nor the 
principal of the flock to escape."—Jer. 25:35. 
" All pleasant pictures," and everything that 
the eye takes delight in—or as it is in the margin 
all pictures of desire, will alike perish, in the day 
of the LORD, when all the works therein shall be 
burnt up. 
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, 
And the haughtiness of men shall be made low : 
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.—v. 17. 
This is a repetition of v. 11. After the declara-
tion there of man's humiliation and GoD's exalta-
tion, the prophet proceeds to show how it is to be 
effected. This done, he repeats the declaration 
with which he set out, which makes it very em-
phatic. 
And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, 
And into the caves of the earth, 
For fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, 
When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.—vs. 18, 19. 
The idols in which men have trusted will en-
tirely disappear. The evidence which will then 
make apparent GoD's greatness and glory, will 
show the utter worthlessness of false gods. Men 
will no longer trust in them. Forsaking the fan-
cied protection of such, they have no resource but 
to flee to the rocks and caves of the earth for ref-
uge ; so terrible will be the presence of JEHOVAH, 
to those who have rebelled against him. 
" When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." 
" Ariseth " is a metaphor, implying that GoD will 
set himself about the work that he intends to do. 
Corresponding scriptures show that there will then 
be a literal shaking of the earth. Hag. 2:6—" For 
thus saith the LORD of hosts ; Yet once, it is a lit-
tle while, and I will shake the heavens, and the 
earth, and the sea, and the dry land." This is 
thus interpreted by PAUL, (Heb. 12:26, 27,) " He 
hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not 
the earth only, but also. heaven. And this word, 
Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those 
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, 
that those things which cannot be shaken may re-
main." We read in Isa. 13:11-13, that GOD saith, 
" I will punish the world far their evil, and the 
wicked for their iniquity ; and I will cause the ar-
rogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the 
haughtiness of the terrible.. I will make a man 
more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the 
golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore will I shake 
the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her 
place, in the wrath of the LORD. of hosts, and in 
the day of his fierce anger." 
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, 
Which they made each one for himself to worship, 
To the moles and to the bats ; 
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged 
rocks, 
For fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, 
When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.—vs. 20, 21. 
The first of these texts is often quoted in pray-
er, by those who, in using it, verily suppose they 
are praying for the conversion of the worshippers 
of idols. But the context shows that they do not 
cast away their idols, to come penitently trusting 
in the SAVIOUR'S merits for pardon and salvation. 
They do it in the abandonment of all hope—in the 
depths of their humiliation and despair. 
To cast them to the moles and to the bats, is a 
hypocastastasis, for the abandonment of them.—
Those animals seek abandoned ruins, and obscure 
places. They venture out only in the dark, and 
are animals of the lowest order The declaration 
that they abandon their idols to such animals as 
these, teaches an utter abandonment of them. But 
they have no rock of refuge—nor ark of safety to 
flee to—the inaccessible clefts in the rocks, being 
their only hope. Joust says : (Rev. 6:15-170 " And 
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the 
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty 
men, and every bond-man, and every free-man, hid 
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the 
mountains ; and said to the mountains and rocks, 
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that 
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the 
Lamb : for the great day of his wrath is come, 
and who shall be able to stand ?" And the SAVIOUR 
said : (Luke 23:30,) " Then shall they begin to 
say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, 
Cover us." 
The 21st verse ends this portion of the prophecy 
—the next verse being the commencement of a new 
paragraph. 
There has been brought to view in this 2d chap-
ter of Isaiah, the restoration of Israel and of all 
the redeemed, in the new earth wherein dwelleth 
righteousness,—when the times of refreshing shall 
come from the presence of the LORD ; the subse-
quent reign of CHRIST, when peace and righteous-
ness shall forever flourish ; and the terrible judg-
ments which will overtake the ungodly, and result 
in their destruction out of the earth, preparatory 
to its redemption and subsequent renovation. 
The remaining verse of this chapter, is so closely 
connected with the following chapter, that it should 
be considered as the commencement of it.. 
(To be continued.) 
IS ROME BABYLON, AND WHY 
:ROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPIIRCY,". 
(Continued from our last.) 
SCARCELY had MAXIMUS declared himself Emperor, 
when disputes began. A swarm of Eastern monks 
spread themselves through Gallia ; of these a por-
tion, named Priscilianists, half Arian, half Social-
ist, in creed, went even beyond the Romanists, and 
drew some of the clergy into their contentions and 
treason. They preached community of goods, ab-
stinence from marriage and military service, and 
divers restrictions on others which they did not 
practise themselves. They were charged with vices 
roost scandalous. If the Government had not in-
vestigated, fathers and husbands would have sum-
marily chastised them. These men were proceeded 
against for offences, contra bons mores, 'by the 
parties they had injured, before the common law 
judges, in the usual way. The immediate fact 
proved was that of filthy and indecent exposure in 
the midst of a multitude of young females. They 
pleaded privilege, as sacred persons, for this. The 
Courts rejected the plea. The Pontiff stepped in. 
He contended that the Emperor had no right to 
make that an offence which her the Pontiff, had not 
proclaimed such, and that he alone had the right 
to decide whether priests ought or ought not to 
pray naked in public. These men, although not 
members of the Catholic Church, be it observed,—
not in communion with her, could only be tried by 
the pontifical tribunals. MAXIMUS was firm ; the 
criminal law took its course ; and for this his char-
acter has been blackened for fifteen centuries. 
The priestly hypocrites, St. MARTIN and SuLpertus 
SEVERUS, the men who had handed over GoD's 
saints to the rack, the scourge, and solitary starva-
tion, became enraged that a sovereign should pre-
sume to decide upon the propriety or impropriety 
of the ecclesiastics,. Their reclamations were loud 
and incessant. If MAximus is to blame at all, we 
must blame him for excess -ofirittnew-- -Had he 
driven across the Rubicon all the hired spies of 
Rome, and declared that no Italian foreigner should 
moil or meddle within his dominions, he would 
have done well. If he had marched on Rome, 
driven out the usual; er, and proclaimed the right 
of every church to manage its own affairs, and of 
every Christian to serve GOD according to his own 
conscience, without any foreign intrusion, he would 
have done still better. 
At the same time we must, in fairness, admit, 
that, according to the letter of the law, DAMASUS 
was right. The Roman Pontiff, Christian or Hea-
then, had the legal right of deciding all ecclesias-
tical causes in the Roman Empire. But MAXIMUS 
might argue very well, that as the Pontiff had 
never possessed any right, title, power, or do-
minion beyond the Severn or the Tweed', that the 
Welsh, or, as they were then called, the Picts, 
and Scotch had not come down from their hills to 
receive those laws from DAMASUS which they had 
refused from Caassa:- The question had now be- 
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61 
come national. The Church and the Latin-speak-
ing population clung to the Pontiff ; the Gymri 
and Scandinavian adhered to their Emperor ; and 
the Emperor acted according to the Scandinavians 
and the Cymri. 
The Pontiff, however, was sorely perilled. He 
was not slow in seeking revenge. If the few real 
Christians were opposed, the Arians might help 
him. Defeated in the attack of Constantinople by 
a body of Arab mercenaries, who always fight well 
behind walls, the revolted Goths only sought new 
countries to plunder. The Eastern Emperor gladly 
employed them to conquer the West. The Pontiff 
opened for them the passes of the Apennines and 
the Alps. They poured like an avalanche into the 
Empire, sweeping over every obstacle. Cut off by 
an irruption of these savages from his main body, 
and with only German troops near him, MAXIMUS 
perished, Resistance then ceased. CONAN AP ME-
RIADWR, commanding the British army of the Rhine, 
fell back upon Bretagne and La Vendee, where the 
nature of the ground helped him to hold his own 
against the Gothic horse, and where the descend-
ants of his soldiers have ever since remained the 
sole conservative link in French society. There 
they held their own. The rest of Europe submit-
ted tamely. The estates of the Roman nobles were 
divided by the conquerors. Yet they mixed not 
with the people ; unlike the Romans, who, despis- 
e ing the female as a mere toy, everywhere inter-
mixed with and became absorbed by the people, 
the Goths proudly refused to marry except with 
the daughters of the noble, and thus the two races 
continued to dwell amid each other till the revolu-
tion of 1787 ; and the nobles, then golden-haired, 
blue-eyed, tall and slight, stood distinguished from 
the shorter, darker, and more sharp-visaged Celtic 
people. 
Now the result of this was to force both Celt 
and Roman into union. A conspiracy had been 
formed amongst the worshippers of the false Mes-
siah, Bacchus, Mithra, or Nimrod, for the total 
overthrow of the system of compromise, which had 
converted Isis and Horns into the Virgin and CHRIST. 
This conspiracy now had to assume another form, 
that of a Celtic or democratic union against 
the Gothic conquerors; and the progress of this 
conspiracy through Carbonarism, Gnosticism, the 
Knights Templars, and Illuminatism, till fully de-
veloped into the order of Mizraim, we shall have to 
trace at some future day, showing that there exists 
a latent power in the Church of Rome in her, but 
not of her, which may at any time throw off even 
the mask of outward piety she still retains. But 
enough of this,—the question now became one not 
of Catholic, Donatist, or Meletian, Isis worship-
per, or believer in Mithra or Bacchus ; all men 
and creeds were alike cut up and trampled on, and 
Roman and Celt gradually formed themselves into 
the modern nationalities of Europe, writhing and 
struggling against the higher intellect and greater 
mental energy by which they were subdued. 
The remark that the people of every kingdom 
differ much, the aristocracy little, except where, 
as in Spain, they have degenerated by intermarry-
ing too closely, is true. In Europe there are many 
races, but, except in Britain and Hungary and the 
west of France, the ruling caste is everywhere the 
same. Perhaps Poland may be an exception, but 
of this we are not sure. Thus, then, was prepared 
that struggle between aristocracy and democracy 
which was destined to convulse the world, and 
from which England, the most aristocratic of all, 
has alone escaped, the conquerors not having 
brought wives with them, and having been there-
fore forced to become, in every sense of the word, 
Britons. 
The defeat of MAXIMUS produced disastrous con-
sequences here. The Roman colonists, who in our 
early histories are confounded with the geeuine 
Britons, revolted against the Silurians. Gothic 
troops came to help. The Welsh and Scotch, ex-
hausted with the expedition under MAxIMUS, were 
more than half paralyzed. Their chief, true to 
that tendency in human nature which makes man 
seek his opposite, became enamored of a fair Saxon 
beauty, and betrayed his people. 
Reverting to the proceedings of the Papacy, 
however, we find that the Pontiff had now before 
him scenes of fearful peril. His great point was 
to enforce that first principle of Isis worship, celi-
bacy_ Without this the priests would everywhere 
become national, not Roman, and might, as in 
England they did, form the conneeting link be-
tween the nothern conqueror and his conquered 
people, and bring them into amity. So long as 
the empire had but one military chief there had 
been less fear. This unholy scheme he pursued. 
According to his successor, Simms, the Holy 
Spirit of GOD could dwell only in holy bodies ; 
therefore he who married, voluntarily parted with 
the Holy Spirit conferred by the hands of the Pon-
tiff at his ordination. Thus, by preventing the 
priests intermarrying with the people where they 
resided, the results were produced as by the simi-
lar arrangement of Isis in her mysteries. The 
conquerors and the conquered were alike admissi-
ble, but all admitted forfeited their nationality and 
became members of the Roman Church, just as a 
Hebrew admitted to the Chaldee rites, or a Greek 
to the Egyptian, no longer remained a Hebrew or 
a Greek, but was bound by a higher oath and a 
more sacred obligation to the great brotherhood. 
Such was the course adopted by St. SIRICIUS. 
His successor was less hypocritical. It is stated 
by Zozueus,—it is believed by all respectable histo-
rians,—that he, for payment, as Pont, licensed 
the evocation of the evil one ; nay more, ho con-
sented to license and employ the professed Chalde-
an sorcerors, whom the laws of the Pontiff Emper-
ors had sentenced to death. This fact stands on 
record, proving that in the siege by ALARIC, CELES-
TINE was not only Bishop of Rome, but had the 
Pontifical power of dispensing with and overruling 
the Imperial laws, a power as distinct from that 
of bishop as the jurisdiction exercised by the Duke 
of WELLINGTON in licensing pilots at the Cinque 
Ports is from his powers as Commander-in-Chief, or 
his quasi-Episcopal authority as Constable of the 
Tower over its chaplains. 
The victory of the apostasy, complete in Europe, 
had yet, however, to be consummuted in Asia. 
The school of Antioch, according to Mr. NEWMAN, 
was practically Protestant. The hardy mountain-
eers and converted Jews who formed it, contended 
that Scripture means exactly what it says. They were 
deep, critical students. They weighed every word, 
but remained obtusely insensible to ORIGEN and 
BASIL, and JEROME'S mystifications. Believing that 
no private Christian could habitually deceive, they 
shrunk from attributing deceit to the apostles. 
Disbelievers in the sacramental grace, ignorant of 
auricular confession, believing the resurrection of the 
material body, and not the creation of a gaseous 
substance wherewith to clothe it, these men were 
hard and stern logicians. They held the Fall to 
be a reality, the Godhead of CHRIST a reality, sal-
vation by faith a reality, and were not willing these 
should be explained away. Arab by descent, they 
inherited the sharp, calculating qualities of their 
race ; strict logicians, first-rate mathematicians, 
admirable linguists, they were wholly deficient in 
rhetoric and imaginative powers. Their tendency 
was to the strict, the practical, the definite. 
(To be continued.) 
DESTITUTION OF LONDON. 
THE following from the London British Banner, 
gives a sad picture of the spiritual destitution of 
the great centre of the Christian world—the capi-
tal of " the bulwark of Protestantism." It will 
be seen that only one in every fifty of the inhabi-
tants of London are even communicants in any of 
the churches. How near does that indicate the 
evangelization of the world 
" THE spiritual condition of London is fearful 
beyond all human calculation. At the present mo-
ment, with its vicinityift comprises two and a 
half millions of immortal souls ! In the course of 
seven more short years, it will, in all probability, 
number three millions. The question, therefore, 
comes to be, what is to be done ? What will be its 
spiritual condition when it shall have realized these 
figures, and have been thus converted into a mighty 
nation There is the utmost reason to fear, that 
neither the Christians of the metropolis, nor those 
of the Provinces, have any idea of the true state of 
the case. There is no proportion whatever, between 
the spiritual apparatus and the work to be achieved. 
This want of clear information is the cause of so 
much calmness and complacency in the general 
mind. Even they who have been born in London 
know little of it—none less ! The nearer an object 
is to the eye, the less that eye is struck by it. That 
it may be rightly estimated, it must be placed at a 
proper distance, or special care must be taken to 
deal with the difficulty, by minute and particular 
examination. We shall state a figure or two, not 
to satisfy inquiry, but to stimulate it. 
" Well, then, we have the means of knowing suf 
ficient concerning the spiritual state of several por-
tions of it to excite indescribable emotions. We 
shall show how matters stood in two or three lo-
calities on the morning of the census taken last 
year. We regret to say that the census is not yet 
published ; but we have the means of ascertaining, 
with sufficient accuracy, certain facts, which will 
go far to illustrate our subject. There is, then, 
one locality, comprising a population of 119,990. 
Now, what number of edifices of all denominations, 
Popish and Protestant, heterodox and orthodox, 
are to be found in that district ? Just fifty-seven. 
What is the amount of the accommodation sup-
plied by these edifices I Just 31,556 sittings. It 
is important, then, to ascertain how these edifices 
were occupied on the morning of that eventful day. 
Passing by fractions, we shall state in round num-
bers what, we believe, will turn out to be substan-
tially correct. In the morning, the attendance of 
old and young, including schools and children ac-
companying their parents, was 21,000. What shall 
we allow for the evening ? Perhaps few of our 
readers will hesitate to say, somewhere about one-
third or one-half more, and, in some cases, double 
that of the morning. The fact is otherwise. It was 
nearly one-half less,—that is, it was 11,000. Yes ; 
11,000 out of 119,990, was the attendance on the 
means of religious instruction, showing the tenden-
cy towards half-day hearing ! 
This is not an exceptive case. In another lo-
cality, with a population of 139,200, comprising 
fifty-one places of worship of all sorts, supplying 
34,065 sittings, the morning attendance was, in 
round numbers, just 21,000, and the evening about 
the half of that number. 
" Taking another, and one of the most respect-
able localities, with a population of 56,500, com-
prising twenty-eight edifices, with 16,279 sittings ; 
what was the morning attendance here ? In round 
numbers just 11,000. Did the evening, in this 
case, improve the matter ? Slightly so—that is to 
say, there were then 7,000, old and young, out of 
56,500 ! 
" Such, then, is the condition of these three lo-
calities, and they may be taken as a very fair sam-
ple of the entire of our mighty metropolis. With 
an aggregate of one hundred and thirty-six chap-
els, there were at the principal service—that is, 
the morning, just 54,000 attendants ! 
" This view is sufficiently awful, but it is by no 
means the worst. Passing by the ocean of immor-
tal spirits that make no pretension to any regard 
for the salvation of their souls, let us look at those 
who more regularly, or occasionally, do attend on 
the ordinances of religion. How many of these may 
be supposed to be earnest worshippers, to have 
made something like a conscientious profession of 
faith in the Redeemer of men Shall we say the 
half? The result would still be a mournful fact ; 
but even this is denied us. Shall we venture upon 
a third I That, too, would be greatly to err. We 
shudder at the idea of stating the real figures ! 
This matter, however, has been already set before 
the public in the last and the invaluable report of 
that most important institution, the London City 
Mission. The Committee of that organization have 
deliberately declared, that the insignificant island 
of Jamaica, with only 380,000 population,—adults 
and children,—has as large a number of communi-
cants as is to be found in the metropolis of Eng-
land, with its two and a half millions ! The figures 
may thus be stated : The communicants at Jamai-
ca are 56,000. The communicants of London, al-
lowing to each of the 800 church edifices seventy,—
and examination will show that the figure is rather 
under than over,—of course, amount to just 56,000. 
Were our readers prepared for this communica-
tion ? It may well startle, but we trust it will not 
end with a mere rush of emotion. The figures ought 
to promote inquiry into the fact, whether things 
really be as here alleged in London. Nor is this 
all. They ought to stimulate inquiry, whether a 
state of things somewhat resembling this does not 
exist in other of our great towns and cities." 
THE MONTENEGRINS. 
EVERY steamer from Europe brings an account 
of the progress of the war which is now raging be-
tween Turkey and her revolted dependency, Monte-
negro. It may not be generally known, however, 
that this tract of country or district which fig-
ures so largely in the European advices, is only 
ninety square miles in extent, containing a popu-
lation numbering not more than 100,000. It is 
situated in the midst of the wild provinces of North 
Western Turkey. The New Bedford Mercury gives 
the following account of the warfare which is wag-
ing to conquer this people : 
" The two great arbiters of the destinies of East-
ern Europe, Russia and Austria, are drawing into 
the conflict, and the Eastern question,' the per-
petual puzzle for cabinets, bids fair to be revived. 
This is a sufficient apology for a word or two upon 
Montenegro and its people. They form, perhaps, 
the last fragment of the old Servian kingdom, that 
once stretched from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, 
but now blotted from the map of nations. In race 
they are distinct from the Ottoman people, as well 
as in their religion, which is that of the Greek 
Church. Something of the old republicanism of 
the early New England colony may find a parallel 
in them—for they are, in fact, a republic of small 
communities ; each village having the right to be 
governed by its own assembly. The head of the 
people, called BLADICKA, is both temporal and 
spiritual leader—is bishop and sovereign. The of-
fice is hereditary and in one family, but cannot 
descend directly, as the priesthood requires celiba-
cy. The present BLADICKA is like another great 
personage, the nephew of his uncle ;' but unlike 
the present French Emperor, is a practised soldier, 
having been educated in a military career before 
entering the church. 
" Like most mountaineers, the Montenegrins are 
sharp shooters, using long guns that carry to a 
great distance, and hardy, brave, and fierce, and 
burn with unquenchable hatred against the Turks. 
Their land is a series of mountain peaks, with deep 
valleys between, without roads, except rough and 
scarce discernible paths abounding in fastnesses all 
but inaccessible to regular troops. Constantly an-
noyed by their incursions into its territory, the 
Porte has attempted to crush them, and hence the 
present war. 
 
" In the examples of similiar attempts before al-
luded to, the long and costly and doubtful struggle 
has been between such people and mighty nations 
in the prime of vigor, and assisted by all that ex-
haustless means and modern science can supply. 
Here they have only to contend with an effete 
monarchy, with irregular and feeble resources, and 
far behind the rest of Europe in warlike arts. The 
result, especially if the mediation of Russia and 
Austria be thrown into the scale of the Montene-
grins, is hardly to be questioned." 
A Moral View of Cuba. 
Rev. Mr. CUTTER, of Belfast, who is spending 
the winter in Cuba, for the benefit of his health, in 
a letter from Cardenas, to the Belfast Signal, after 
alluding to some of the social customs of the place, 
presents the following dark picture of its moral 
features : 
" The moral features are darker still—the cus-
tom of concubinage prevailing to such an extent, 
that the Bishop in his recent visit, reproved them 
sharply, and to remove an objection founded on the 
great expense attending the marriage rites, offered 
to marry any of them free of charge. The objec-
tion urged was a serious one to a poor man, 1' it 
be correct, as we are informed, that the marriage 
fees were often eight and nine ounces, and some-
times more. Such an excuse, however, could hardly 
be admitted for a wealthy merchant, doing the 
most lucrative business in the city, and occupying 
a house that cost forty thousand dollars. 
" While on this subject 1 will speak of another, 
that may show the deep degradation of the affec-
tions. I refer to the burial of the dead. The grave-
yard just lies on the outer limits of the city. In 
it the dead are buried indiscriminately without re-
gard to age, sex, or color, in long trenches dug for 
the purpose. Often they are covered so slightly 
that the face and other parts of the person may 
be entirely exposed. After remaining thus buried 
for a twelvemonth, the decomposition of the flesh 
being hastened by quick lime, the bones are dug 
up and thrown into a heap, wher
e they lie bleached 
by every wind of heaven—all mingled together, 
skulls and bones of the master and slave, of the 
beautiful daughter and the lowest serf—' all un-
knelled, all unknown.' Where marriage, the insti-
tution on whose holy observance society must stand, 
and the funeral rites, in which the purest affec-
tions of the heart are fostered, are unknown, what 
hope can there be for freedom ? What glory or 
strength would such a people bring to any land ? 
I had no desire to see them part and parcel with 
us when at home—I have a deeper repugnance 
against their annexation than ever." 
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raised up and sent forth by GOD to give light on 
the Holy Scriptures. 0 how that light shines ! 
And it will shine more and more unto the perfect 
day. I thank the LORD that I ever became ac-
quainted with that good man ; and while reading 
of him, I did wish that every Adventist might pos-
sess his ' Memoirs,' and not only read it, but let 
others read it. By so doing, I think much preju-
dice would be removed, and these blessed truths 
advanced." 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
DEFINITE TIME. 
WE were wishing to make some remarks on the 
subject of the following letter ; but brother Well-
come has so fully and clearly covered the same 
points, that we commend his letter, instead of any 
thing we might ourselves write, to the careful con-
sideration of all impartial readers.—En. 
The question has been often asked during the 
last few years, What do you think of the time ?—
referring to some ilefinite point then advocated for 
the coming of Christ. Answers have been given 
variously, by different brethren, according to their 
judgment ; and by sceptics, according to their feel-
ings. But it has too often occurred that when 
honest and candid brethren have failed to see that 
the arguments were good for the end to be at the 
point which some were advocating, they have been 
considered as " opposers of time," " backslidden," 
" apostates," as " smiting their fellow servants," 
" joining hands with the wicked," &c., &c., by 
some who knew much less than those whose cause 
they were seeking, with an overheated zeal to ad-
vocate. 
Such a spirit in any one professing godliness has 
never savored much of Christianity. And after see-
ing this spirit fostered, and actively bringing forth 
abundant fruit during several excitements among 
us, and seeing that it is brought into the field again, 
by such as have neglected to learn modesty by the 
failures of the past, I wish to say a few words about 
some ideas now circulating at a high rate among 
some. 
And first, I will remark, that I understand it to 
have become an established fact, that all who are 
really looking for Christ, and are interested in the 
subject of his return, believe the study of prophetic 
scripture, the prophetic periods, and of history re-
lating to their fulfilment, to be of special import-
ance, and ought to be encouraged. And although 
the conclusions to which great and good men have 
arrived hitherto, have not altogether been correct, 
they should not be reproved and defamed for their 
faithful endeavors, as they often have been. Nei-
ther should we be discouraged in our studies, be-
cause they have failed to get all the truth, but 
rather use all the information they have given us, 
and try to go on as much farther as we can, in pur-
suit of what they have not discovered of revealed 
truth. Those who do not occupy this position have 
not learned, (so it seems to me) to appreciate the 
abilities which God has graciously given us for 
progress in knowledge. But when men act on this 
principle and arrive at what they believe to be a 
solution of a point, should they not retain a teach-
able spirit still, and be ready to listen with candor 
to the objections and arguments of others, who 
differ from them, and grant them the same claim 
to honesty, and consider them entitled to as much 
respect in the opinions of others, as they think 
they themselves worthy of ? So it seems to me, 
unless it be from cavilers and sceptics. But I fear 
that many of us have so much of sell' yet alive, that 
we are too often led far from this position, and on 
many subjects besides that of time. Yet as I have 
special reference to time, and some of its advocates, 
I will leave other matters. Prophecy, the ppriods 
marking the times, and history relating thereto, 
have been faithfully canvassed many times, by men 
of great minds and facilities for such a work, to 
learn when the Gentile dispensation would close. 
Some have given their conclusions with much defin-
iteness, and also with dogmatism, while others have 
given theirs with candor and modesty, yet with con-
fidence, careful to guard against a dogmatizing 
spirit, in a subject of so indefinite a character as 
that of historical data, in fixing the precise time 
for the commencement and ending of the prophetic 
numbers. These conclusions and their results are 
worthy of a careful consideration, they have been 
instrumental in arousing a slumbering Church and 
world, to listen to the truth of, and in causing mul-
titudes to prepare for the soon coming judgement. 
That influence still exists, and so much of it as has 
been of God, exists for the good of mankind, but so 
much of it as exists from overheated zeal, or a 
misguided spirit, is only to mar the work in our 
hands. But while it is admitted that the best of 
men may err, we should attribute the best of mo-
tives to those who have erred in this matter. And 
by what has been exhibited already by investiga-
tion, we have overwhelming proofs that the end is 
near, and by the light which shines from these 
numbers, together with all other evidence before 
us, we should be fully convinced that the day 
of God is just before us, when all who are not 
joined to Christ will forever perish. But there has 
been and still is, opposition to time, on the part of 
many, and opposition to the investigation of the 
subject at all. The devil and wicked men are op-
posed, and they have manifested their hatred in 
many forms, men have fought against it from the 
worst of motives. Others have had opposition aris-
ing from considerations, the character of which, 
we are not competent to judge, God will see to 
that. But we should not come to the conclusion 
that all who do not embrace, (or who keep silent 
on) every argument attempting to show the end of 
time, are opposed to the truth on that subject. Yet 
it is too often the case that, because all do not 
weigh testimony in the same scale as the advocates 
of a point, those who attempt to give a reason why 
they do not heartily come to the same conclusion, 
are set down as " opposers," and treated as ene-
mies. Now this is not an " iron bedstead," nor a 
" cast iron creed," to be used only in one phase 
of heresy, but it is one that can be transformed to 
fit any occasion required. But while we are in 
" perilous times," we must expect the development 
of character described by Paul, and although the 
cause must meet with all these adverse winds, it 
will live until Jesus comes to reign. While the 
subject of definite time has come up again, and a 
class of brethren believe they see the true time for 
the Lord to come, I hope the evils above referred 
to will be guarded against: I am not sorry for 
their efforts at progress, nor for the results of their 
investigations, unless those who know much less 
why they believe than they do, shall make the un-
fortunate use of it that a certain class of minds 
has made before them. I speak not of those who 
know whereof they affirm, but of that class whose 
knowledge of history is very limited, and who 
live upon excitement, and think but little of the 
results following an excitement raised by false 
promises, or incorrect arguments, and who seize 
upon the subject of time, and use it as though the 
argument was wholly from heaven, and perfectly 
infallible, while they, at least some of them, can-
not give the first principles of the evidence they 
claim so much from. I love to have brethren preach 
and write all they know about time, and present 
all the evidence bearing upon the subject, if done 
in modesty, and with discretion. But when breth-
ren preach, or argue in public, that " Anastasius 
was the last Pagan Emperor," that the allusion to 
Daniel of " the abomination of de olation," by 
Christ, as recorded in Matt. 24th, " was a pre-
diction of the suppression of Arian worship, and 
fulfilled A. D. 519," and" that the 1260 days ended 
before A. D. 1780, and if we disputed this we dis-
puted Christ's own words, and the certainty of 
the end being before 1855, was based on Christ's 
word, which must fail if it did not," &c., &C., and 
call this " light," and think we " are quibblers," 
if we doubt such testimony, I choose to bear the 
hard names, rather than the. rebuke of the wise. I 
am strongly opposed to such teaching, and to get-
ting up an excitement by such machinery. I hope 
but few are engaged in such a work, and that they 
will soon see that the cause they profess to love, is 
suffering by their work. Zeal we should have, but 
it should be according to knowledge. Some are so 
zealous in this matter as to think if we do not con-
sent to their light, and feel willing that the 
churches should be illuminated by such " light," 
we are opposers. It is now currently reported that 
the Herald, brother Himes, &c., are opposed to 
time, and to investigation on the subject, and he 
is doing what he can to prevent the late arguments 
being given to the Advent body, and that he teach-
es publicly that no reliance can be placed on his-
tory as touching the fulfiment of prophecy, &c., 
&c. Now if this is true, there is some room for 
complaint, until he shall leave the cause and noti-
fy us, so we may know his position. And if not 
true, then there is great moral delinquency some-
where. May the Lord direct us in a plain path, 
and enable us to keep on the watch-tower and take 
heed to ourselves and to the flock of God, waiting 
for redemption at Jesus' coming. 
I. C. WELLCOME 
NOTE.—Men of piety will never calumninate those 
who are unable to receive as light that which per-
verts history. When they are necessitated to re-
sort to that means of defence, it argues a want of 
confidence in the soundness of their conclusions. 
The charge against brother Himes, is entirely 
groundless.—En. 
COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 
" BE ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye 
think not, the Son of man cometh."—Matt. 24:44. 
Grave and interesting is the question propound-
ed, by the disciples, to our Lord, viz., " What 
shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of 
the world ?" The heading of this article is a part 
of the great Teacher's answer, which is more fully 
recorded in Matt. 24:36-51. In his reply he plain- 
ly declares a strong resemblance between the cor-
ruptions of the generation in which the patriarch 
Noah lived, with the events of the deluge ; and the 
corruptions of the generation in which " the Son 
of man " will be revealed, and the events of his 
coming. Thus, (Matt. 24 : 37-41,) " But as the 
days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the 
Son of man be. For as in the days that were be- 
fore the flood, they were eating and drinking, mar- 
rying and giving in marriage, until the day that 
Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the 
flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two 
be in the field ; the one shall be taken, and the 
other left. Two women shall be grinding at the 
mill ; the one shall be taken, and the other left." 
That the " day " and coming of Christ, here 
spoken of, is the last day of this mundane system 
and his final coming to judgment, is evident from 
the following consideration. In our Lord's reply, 
" this day," is spoken of as the period when re-
wards are conferred, and punishments inflicted, 
upon his faithful and unfaithful disciples. 
These retributions were not recompensed to the 
" faithful," when according to the Lord's warning 
they fled to the mountains and perished not with 
the Jews who believed not ; for Jesus speaketh to 
them on this wise, " Ye shall be recompensed, in 
the resurrection of the just." 
Neither were these retributions meted out to the 
unfaithful disciples. For Enoch says, " Behold, 
the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 
to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all 
that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly 
deeds which they have ungodly committed." And 
as the destruction of Jerusalem was not the re-
tributive dispensation referred to by the Lord, nei- 
ther, at any period before or subsequent, has the 
Lord made the" faithful and wise servant " " ruler 
of all his goods," or cut the evil servant asunder, 
and appointed him his portion with the hypocrites, 
where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
Identical with " that day," and the end of the 
world, is the coming of Christ presented to us ; the 
coming of him who is to be revealed from heaven 
in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that 
know not God ; and gathering his elect together 
from the four winds. God hath appointed a day in 
which he will judge the world by that man whom 
he had ordained. Thus when the appointed day 
arrives, the ordained Judge shall be revealed in 
flaming fire, appoint to the evil servant his portion, 
and make the faithful and wise ruler of all his 
goods. With this accords all the sacred passages 
referring to this subject. Thus, " Michael shall 
stand up . . . . and many that sleep in the dust of 
the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and 
some to shame and everlasting contempt." Says 
Jesus, " Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, 
in the which all that are in the graves shall hear 
his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have 
done good, [' the faith* and wise servant,'] unto 
the resurrection of life ; and they that have done 
evil, [' the evil servant,'] unto the resurrection of 
damnation." 
Then it is in the retributions of " that day," the 
Lord will most palpably distinguish between the 
righteous and the wicked ; and, returning to life 
fi:om the dead, man will discern between him that 
serveth God, and him that serveth him not ; be- 
tween the " wise " and the " evil servant ;" the 
former spared and preserved as a jewel most pre-
cious, the other stubble and ashes, under the feet 
of the righteous. As the Lord saith, blessed is 
that servant, and cut asunder is this, whose por-
tion is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Now when 
the deep degradation of the generation who shall 
witness this day is considered, and also the awful 
doom of a carnal professor, with what solemn 
weight must this warning have fallen upon the 
minds of his disciples—Be ye ready. How much 
do Christians need to watch and pray that they 
may not be drawn away into the general corrup-
tion as the day approaches. 
But especially when we take into consideration 
the uncertainty of the time of this astounding 
event, unknown to men, to angels, to the Son him-
self who " grew in knowledge :" known only to 
the Father. How soon it may be here, but One 
can tell ; the angels, the Son of man knew not. 
What solemn interest does this throw around its 
awful character. 
The people in the days of Noah knew not the 
moment of their destruction, nor apprehended its 
approach until the flood came and took them all 
away. Thus the last form of unprecedented ven-
geance shall come as a snare upon all that dwell 
upon the face of the earth. 
If known to a good man was the design and firm 
determination of a thief to break through his 
house and steal, yet if he knew not the time he 
had fixed upon to execute his designs, he would be 
in great suspense. 
He would expect the attempt to be made in the 
night ; but since he knows not what night, and sup-
poses the thief will be governed by circumstances 
to decide upon the period. In this undecided and 
indefiniteness of mind he would be exceedingly 
more liable to become unwatchful than if he knew 
not only the very night, but also the very hour in 
that night, fixed upon for the attack, suppose at 
twelve o'clock r. M. on Friday next. Would he 
go to bed that night and sleep soundly ? No, the 
hour of twelve would be in his wakeful vigilant 
mind until it fully arrived. The good man would 
be ready ; ready to prevent the breaking open of his 
house. 
Because, he knew the thief would come, and also 
the hour of his arrival, he would be on his guard 
without being particularly warned. But since Je-
sus will come upon a more awful business—and 
lawfully to execute vengeance upon every son and 
daughter of man that doeth evil, and especially, 
since we know not the hour, the day, the trump of 
God shall sound ; Oh ! how needful, how timely ; 
what energy enforces the solemn warning--" There-
fore be ye also ready : for in Such an hour as ye 
think not, the Son of man cometh." Let us dwell 
upon these preservative syllables, " Be," now, and. 
constantly. It was no less the duty of every Chris-
tian to be prepared for this event long since than 
it is now. No less his duty to be in a state of prep-
aration now than to be found when Christ shall 
make his appearance. What if the Lord did not 
speak in the past tense to us, nevertheless, it has 
been spoken in the present tense, ever since we 
were able to read and understand. This duty met 
us upon our entrance into life as well as into faith. 
Our conversion, (if truly converted,) was but the 
inverted gaze of the eyes of our understanding, 
looking back by faith to Christ in his first advent, 
with a longing desire by his intercession and grace 
to secure a preparation for his second coming. 
" Be." It is here in this state, by the instruc-
tions of the gospel, sanctification of the Spirit, and 
fellowship of the Father and the Son ; through faith 
we must be prepared, and the possibility of the 
preparation rests entirely with the disciple. Here, 
there is no preparation to be made by the degene-
rate generation after the archangel's trump. He 
that is then filthy in the present state, remains thus 
punished in another. " Be ye," ye my disciples ; 
you are in danger of not being in a state of readi-
ness. " Be ye also," the good man of the house 
watched, was ready according to the circumstances 
of the event which threatened him. Be ye also 
ready to stand before the Son of man. I shall come 
to recompense you my stewards, fully prepared to 
reward the faithful, and punish the slothful ser-
vant. Be ye also ready to receive a blessing, to be 
received into life. Be ye ready ; having done well, 
that I may receive you into everlasting habitations, 
and make you ruler over all my goods. Thus are 
we led to see the importance of a present prepara-
tion for this fast approaching event, and to inquire 
what with us constitutes this readiness. F. G. 
LECTURES ON ROMANS XI. 
BY 0. R. F ASSET T. 
LECTURE I. 
" I SAY then, Hath God cast away his people ? 
God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed 
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath 
not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wet 
ye not what the scripture saith of Elias ? how he 
maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged 
down thine altars ; and I am left alone, and they 
seek my life. But what saith the answer of God 
unto him? 1 have reserved unto myself seven thou-
sand men, who have not bowed the knee to the 
image of Baal. Even so then at this present time 
also there is a remnant according to the election 
of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of 
works : otherwise grace is no more grace. But if 
it be of works, then is it no more grace : otherwise 
work is no more work."—Rom. 11:1-6. 
This chapter is quoted by many in support of 
this idea, that the nation of the Jews are to be re-
stored to their former national independence, and 
have fulfilled to them in the future, many great 
and glorious promises. Such, it seems to me, over-
look many important passages in the New Testa-
ment like the following : " Of a truth I perceive 
that God is no respecter of persons : but in every 
nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteous-
ness, is accepted with him." — Acts 10:34, 35. 
" For there is no difference between the Jew and 
the Greek : for the same Lord over all, is rich unto 
all that call upon him." — Rom. 10:12. " The 
Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, 
and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gos-
pel."—Eph. 3:6. Such scriptures are far from 
teaching that the Jews are a favored nation above 
that of others, or that there are to be conferred 
upon them peculiar blessings and privileges under 
the new covenant which are not to be enjoyed by 
others. If, according to these passages " God as 
no respecter of persons," if, with him, " there is 
Sap 
difference between the Jew and the Greek," and " the 
Gentiles are fellow-heirs of the same body and par-
takers of his promises in Christ by the gospel," then 
Individuals must have a wrong understanding of 
these scriptures which they suppose make him 
still partial to the Jews. And here let me remark, 
that the plain passages of Revelation should define 
the meaning of the more obscure ; and the New 
Testament should ever be taken as the expositor 
of the Old. 
The apostle in previous chapters, had labored to 
show that both Jews and Gentiles were, under the 
gospel dispensation, on the same footing ; and that 
national distinctions were no longer to be regarded 
in the distribution of blessings, and he quoted from 
the prophets in support of this fact. Also, that 
the Jewish nation was equally as sinful and aban-
donded as others. First, Moses saith, " I will pro-
voke you to jealousy by them that are no people, 
and by a foolish nation I will anger you." And 
" Esaia,s saith, All the day long I have stretched 
forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying 
people."-Chap. 10:19-21. 
But now seeming to anticipate the Jewish ob-
jector, who would say to Paul, you are teaching 
contrary to the Scriptures ; did not David say that 
" the Lord will not cast off his people ?" - Psa, 
94:14. " Yes," says the apostle, " and he will 
not. I do not teach that God has cast away his 
people, ' God forbid. For 1 also am an Israelite, 
of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.' " 
He has not cast them away ; and besides these, 
there are now, as in the days of Elias, " a rem-
nant " of faithful ones it; the nation, and these he 
has not " cast off."-vs. 2-5. 
What does the apostle teach here ? Evidently 
that the faithful alone of that nation in any and 
every age are regarded as his people :-none other. 
" The seven thousand " in the days of Elijah who 
had " not bowed the knee to Baal," were his peo-
ple. Not wicked Ahab and Jezebel, and the " four 
hundred and fifty prophets of Baal," and the " four 
hundred prophets of the groves," and apostate Is-
rael ! Those, too, in the apostle's day who were 
the faithful: and these constituted but the " rem-
nant," as in the days of Elias were his people-
not those who were " ignorant of God's righteous-
ness," and " went about to establish their own 
righteousness," and would not" submit themselves 
unto the righteousness of God." Those who make 
the term " his people " cover the whole Jewish 
nation, do not certainly understand the apostle. 
This faithful " remnant " in that nation of every 
age constitute his people of that nation ; and those 
he has never " cast away," and never will. His 
word is true therefore, spoken by the prophet Da-
vid. And when he sweeps off, from time to time, 
by his severe judgments multitudes of the sinful 
and unbelieving Jews, do not say, that he has 
" cast away his people," for he does not, and never 
has regarded this class as his people. The Jews 
and Judaizers have ever laid claim to this. But 
hear the Saviour deny the claim. " They answered 
him, we be Abraham's seed and were never in bond-
age to any man : how sayest thou, ye shall be made 
free ?" " Jesus answered, Whosoever committeth 
sin is the servant of sin." The Jew, if he commit 
sin is a sinner, and cannot be a child of God. 
" And the servant abideth not in the house forever : 
but the son abideth ever." The unconverted Jew 
is the servant, not the son, and hence he will not 
abide in the house. " If the son make you free, 
ye shall be free indeed." The Jew must be pardoned 
to belong to God's house. " I know ye are Abra-
ham's seed." He did not deny their lineal de-
scent. " But ye seek to kill me, - this did not 
Abraham. If ye were Abraham's children ye would 
do the works of Abraham." Thus he denies their 
boast. To be a child of Abraham in the scripture 
sense is something more than to have a genealogi-
cal descent ! " Ye do the deeds of your father," 
says the Saviour. But, say the Jews, making a 
still higher claim, " We have one father, God." 
Will the Saviour acknowledge theta as God's chil-
dren ? No ! " Jesus saith unto them, If God 
were your father, ye would love me." " Ye are 
of your father the devil." In a scriptural sense 
therefore, sinful Jews are neither Abraham's children 
nor God's people ! 
So the apostle had already declared in a preced-
ing chapter ; and quotes from the prophet to show 
that the majority of the nation were apostate and 
fallen, while only " a small remnant " were re-
garded as faithful. " Though the number of the 
children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, A REM-
NANT shall be saved."-Chap. 9:27. And this is to 
be-mark the fact ! when he " will finish the work 
and cut it short in righteousness ; because a short 
work will the Lord make upon the earth."-v. 28. 
Though at this time there should be an infinite 
multitute of this nation on the earth, only" a rem-
nant" of them " shall be saved." This quotation 
is from Isaiah 10:20-23. 
" And it shall come to pass in that day, that 
the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the 
house of Jacob shall," &c. " The remnant shall re-
turn, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty 
God." And this does not include all the nation at 
that time, " For though thy people be as the sand 
of the sea, a remnant of them shall return : the con-
sumption decreed shall overflow in righteousness. 
For the Lord God of hosts will make a consump-
tion even determined in the midst of all the land." 
This time will be " when the Lord hath performed 
his whole work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem." 
-v. 12. Conpare with Daniel 9:27. " And for the 
overspreading of abominations he shall make it deso-
late, even until the consummation, and that deter-
mined shall be poured upon the desolate." Ac • 
cording to these passages, at the final consumma-
tion, at the judgment and coming of the Lord, only 
a remnant of the then existing nation of the Jews 
will be saved. The remnant does not include the 
whole remaining of that nation, but the small mi-
nority then living. 
Who are " the remnant," and " his people," 
whom God hath not " cast away ?" 
They are those whom he " foreknew."-" God 
bath not cast away his people which he fore-
knew." - v. 2. Those whom God saw from the 
beginning would be his people, and submit to his 
righteousness. lie has foreknowledge ; we cannot 
divest him of this attrPoute. " He knows the end 
from the beginning," and this only is his preroga-
tive. By this power he foreknew who of that na-
tion 'in each successive generation would be the 
faithful, and these he called his own. This pres-
cience could not destroy their free moral agency, 
for this knowledge was not made known to them. 
Neither does foreknowledge determine the fate of 
any. Those whom he foreknew were " the chil-
dren of the promise."-Chap. 9:8. 
Those " according to the election of grace."-v. 5. 
Who are these I God's grace, is God's love to our 
race. The gift of that grace is his Son. " God 
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son." The special participators of this grace are 
BELIEVERS. " That whosoever beliuveth on him 
should not perish." " By grace are ye saved 
through faith." To be " the elect according to 
the election of grace," one must therefore he a be-
liever - for grace elects and saves none others ! 
Does it elect, choose, and save unbelievers ? If 
Universalism be true, it does, but not without. 
The elect according to the election of grace" of 
the Jewish nation are the believers. " For Christ 
is the end of the law for righteousness to every 
one that believeth." " For the Scripture saith, 
whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." 
-Chap. 10:4-13. The greater part of the Jews 
never did believe on Christ, nor do they at the 
present day. They will neither " confess with the 
mouth the Lord Jesus," nor " believe in the heart 
that God hath raised him from the dead." They 
declare him to be an impostor ! That his disciples 
" came by night and stole him away !" Can they 
be " the elect according to the election of grace ?" 
Again adds the apostle : 
" If by grace, then it is no more of works."-v. 6. 
This too, cuts off the vast majority of the Jews, for 
they rejected Christ and his righteousuess, and seek 
to be justified by the deeds of the law. (Chap. 
10:1-3.) 
The salvation of man, whether Jew or Gentile is 
all of free sovereign grace, through the exercise of 
faith in the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour. 
He is our righteousness. Our faith in him is ac-
counted to us for righteousness. So that we are 
not saved by works, but " by grace through faith." 
The Jew, therefore, that seeks salvation through 
any other medium, or by any other way than by 
faith in Christ, cannot be " the elect according to 
the election of grace." He climbeth up some other 
way, and he is therefore both a " thief and a robber." 
DOCTRINES. 
All the Jews are not, and never were, regarded 
as God's people. Neither do the promises con-
template the whole nation. But " the remnant," 
and these are the faithful and holy - believers in 
Christ. 
Gentile believers, are heirs to all the promises to 
be fulfilled to the faithful of that nation in the fu-
ture. And no promise can be inherited by the Jew 
in which the Gentile believer is not a joint and 
equal heir. (Eph. 3:6 ; Gal. 3:7, 8.) 
IMPROVEMENT. 
Are we Gentile believers ? Then shall we inherit 
those rich and blessed promises belonging to the 
new covenant, not only in time, but in the eternal 
world, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; patri-
archs, prophets and apostles. (Gal. 3:7-8.) 
If we are not, then with the unbelieving and un 
sanctified Jew we must experience the fearful ret-
ribution of the wicked. " Indignation and wrath, 
tribulation and anguish upon every soul that doeth 
evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile For 
QDbitimrp. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
63 
there is no respect of persons with God."-Rom. 
2:6-11, 
BRO, LABAN E. BATEs writes from Kirkland, (N. 
Y.), Jan. 26th, 1 853 :-" My own health is yet 
feeble, and such is the state of my lungs that in 
all probability my public labors as a minister of 
the gospel are ended. 
" The thought to me is a most painful one, and 
the reflection stings my soul with the keenest an-
guish. I would however bow with meek submis-
sion to the will of heaven, knowing that the " judg-
ments of God are unsearchable, and his ways past 
finding out.' 
" May God bless you, my beloved brother, and 
crown your arduous labors with abundant success. 
And in the great gathering day may you be num-
bered among his special treasures,' and share 
in the fruition of that glory which shall be the 
portion of the blest. As ever, your brother, affec-
tionately." 
Note.-We truly sympathize with our brother 
in his affliction. We can but hope that God will 
yet restore him. 
J. V. II. 
" I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth, and 
belioveth in me, shall never die." Jonx 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, in this town, Jan. 11th, brother EDMUND 
CHASE, aged 56 years. Brother Chase was a man 
of sterling integrity. He was a firm believer in the 
Son of God, and a beloved member of his body the 
Church. Of him it may be said, " He was an Is-
raelite indeed in whom there was no guile." He 
had long been waiting for the return of the Bride-
groom,evidently ready for the event. He was 
peaceful and happy in his last sickness, and died 
in hope of a better resurrection. " The memory of 
the just is blessed." HENRY PLUMMER. 
FELL asleep in Christ, Dec. 10th, 1852, in this 
city, sister MATILDA REMINGTON, wife of brother 
Benjamin Remington, aged twenty-seven years. 
Our sister was converted at the age of fifteen, and 
for the most part of the time till her death, main-
tained the Christian character. In 1843 she em-
braced the glorious news of Christ's speedy com-
ing, and this in the hour of her departure was the 
consoling hope which kept her heart. She was per-
mitted to leave a word of warning to her friends, 
that they prepare to meet her at that day. She 
often during her sickness contemplated the victory 
over disease and death at the resurrection of the 
just, with expressions of joy. Although a devoted 
husband and four children with a numerous circle 
of relatives and friends are left to mourn, yet, 
not without hope, for " God will quicken her again 
and bring her up from the depths of the earth."-
Psa. 71:20. A large congregation was addressed 
at her funeral by Elder Edwin Burnham, from those 
words. 
GEO. W . BURNHAM. 
Providence (R. I.), Feb. 8th, 1853. 
DIED, in South Natick, Mass., Jan. 24th, 1853, 
of consumption, ANN MARIA, daughter" of Charles 
and Harriet Perry, aged 14 years, 10 months, and 
16 days. In the death of Ann Maria, brother and 
sister Perry feel the stroke of divine Providence, 
and are called to part with their eldest and lovely 
daughter. Just one year before she died, she was 
taken with bleeding at the lungs, which prostrated 
her very much. She however partially recovered and 
hoped to regain perfect health. But again she 
was called to suffer in the same way, yet still, she 
hoped to live. Thus prostrated on a sick bed, she 
felt the need of the Christian's religion, and desired 
the support of the Christian's hope. She sought 
her Saviour and found him precious to her soul, 
and rejoiced in his love until the chilling hand of 
death had done its work, and her spirit returned 
to God who gave it. During her sickness her mind 
was clear and seemed constantly to dwell upon the 
beauties of her Saviour. The Bible was her study, 
and in its truth she delighted. The resurrection 
was her hope, and in the coming of the Lord she 
rejoiced. The following composition she wrote 
while attending school at the age of twelve. It 
shows her regard for the Bible which all children 
should have. 
" THE BIBLE.-The Bible is the word of God, 
given to us for our guide in this world. It is 
a light to our path, and a lamp to our feet. It 
directs us to the strait and narrow path which 
leadeth unto eternal life. It directs us to the Lamb 
of God, who taketh away the sins of the word. It 
teaches us how to obtain eternal life. It teaches 
children to remember their Creator in the days of 
their youth. It teaches children to obey their pa-
rents in the Lord. As we enter upon this new year 
may we commence anew the study of the Bible, 
that we may obey its teachings and love its Au-
thor." 
Brother and sister Perry feel sorely afflicted. 
Ann Maria has gone, and the tear of sorrow had 
hardly ceased to flow ere death again entered 
their windows and tore from their embrace their 
lovely babe, Harriet Emma, aged nine months and 
eight days, fell asleep in Jesus February 3d, 1853. 
Thus death has severed the cords of affection in the 
family of brother and sister Perry, and and their 
circle is broken, but they sorrow not as those who 
have no hope. 
" They look to that world where these partings are 
o'er, 
When death and the tomb can divide them no 
more." 
A discourse was given by the writer, Jan. 26th, to 
a large circle of friends and neighbors, upon the 
resurrection, at the house of the afflicted parents of 
the late Ann Maria. Also a discourse from Jer. 
31:15-17, February 5th, at the funeral of this little 
babe, Harriet Emma. " Many are the afflictions 
of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out 
of them all." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
ENGLAND.—A great meeting was held at Exeter 
Hall, London, on the 25th ult., in behalf the MA-
DIAI, and another at Birmingham, and petitions to 
the Queen were adopted in behalf of religious lib-
erty in foreign countries. 
There was an impression in London, that on the 
re-assembling of Parliament, Lord PALMERSTON will 
present a motion for an increase of the army. 
FRANCE.—We give below the remarkable speech 
of the Emperor before the Senate and the Legisla-
tive body, announcing his intended marriage. The 
ceremonies attending the occasion are thus related. 
At half-past twelve o'clock the Grand Master of 
the Ceremonies, announced the Emperor. His 
Majesty, in the costume of a Lieutenant-General, 
preceded by the great officers of his household, ac-
companied by their Imperial Highnesses Prince 
JEROME and Prince NAPOLEON, and by his Ministers, 
entered the room. The Emperor, standing before 
the throne, having Prince JEROME on his right, and 
Prince NAPOLEON on his left, pronounced the fol-
lowing speech, with a clear and accentuated voice, 
but with a visible emotion, which was shared by 
the whole assembly : 
6, Gentlemen :-1 yield to the wish so often mani-
fested by the country, in coming to announce to 
you my marriage. 
" The union which I contract is not in accord-
ance with the traditions of old policy ;—that is its 
advantage. 
" France, by her successive revolutions, has al-
ways roughly separated herself from the rest of 
Europe. Every Government ought to seek to make 
her re-enter into the rank of the old monarchies, 
but this result will be more surely attained by a 
straightforward and candid policy, and by good 
faith in all transactions, than by royal alliances, 
which create false security, and frequently substi-
tute family for national interests. 
" Besides, examples of the past have left in the 
mind of the people superstitious beliefs ; they have 
not forgotten that for seventy years past foreign 
princesses have only ascended the steps of the 
throne to see their race dispersed and proscribed 
by war or by revolution. One female alone ap-
peared to bring happiness, and to live more than 
others in the remembrance of the people, and that 
woman, the good and modest wife of General Bo-
naparte, was not the issue of royal blood. 
" It must, nevertheless, be admitted that in 1810 
the marriage of Napoleon I. with Maria Louisa, 
was a great event ; it was a pledge for the future, 
and a real satisfaction for national pride, since the 
old and illustrious house of Austria, who had so 
long made war against us, formed an alliance with 
the elected chief of a new Empire. Under the last 
reign, on the contrary, had not the amour propre of 
the country to suffer when the heir of the crown 
sought in vain for several years an alliance with a 
sovereign house, and at length obtained a princess, 
doubtless accomplished, but only in a secondary 
rank, and of another religion. 
" When in the face of old Europe, one is led by 
the force of a new principle to the height of old 
dynasties, it is not by seeking to introduce oneself 
at any price into the family of kings that one 
makes oneself accepted. It is rather by remem-
bering one's origin, in preservins, one's own char-
acter, and in assuming frankly before Europe the 
position of a parvenu—a glorious title when it 
comes from the free suffrages of a great people. 
" Thus, obliged to set aside precedents hitherto 
followed, my niarriage was no longer anything but 
a private affair ; the only thing that remained was 
the choice of the person. She who is become the 
object of my preference is of high birth. French 
by heart, by education, and by the remembrance 
of the blood which her fathers shed for the cause 
of the Empire, she has, as a Spaniard, the advan-
tage of not having in France any family to whom 
she would wish to give honors and dignities. 
" Gifted with every quality of mind, she will be 
the ornament of the throne, as in the day of dan-
ger she will become one of its most courageous 
supports. A Catholic and pious, she will address 
to heaven the same prayers as myself for the hap-
piness of France ; gracious and good, she will, I 
firmly hope, cause to revive, in the same position, 
 
the virtues of the Empress Josephine. 
" I come, then, gentlemen, to say to France—I 
have preferred
_ a woman whom 1 love and respect,1 
to one unknown, and whose alliances would have 
advantages mingled with sacrifices. Without tes-
tifying disdain for any one, I yield to my penchant, 
but not without having first consulted my reason 
and thy convictions. In short, in placing independ-
ence, qualities of heart, and family happiness, 
above dynastic prejudices, and calculations of am-
bition, I shall not be the less strong, since I shall 
be more free, 
" Soon, in proceeding to Notre Dame, I shall 
present the Empress to the people and to the army ; 
the confidence which they have in me assures me 
of their sympathy in her I have chosen ; and you, 
gentlemen, in learning to know her, will be con-
vinced that on this occasion again I have been in-
spired by Providence." 
In less than half an hour after the delivery of 
this speech, it was placarded in all parts of Paris. 
The speech made quite a sensation, and was re-
ceived with cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" The 
press generally speak favorably of the measure. 
The ultra Bonapartists, however, regard it as a 
mesa/fiance. The Bourse fell, hut recovered. The 
marriage was appointed to take iplace on the 30th 
of January. 
The heralds have set to work to make out the 
future Empress's pedigree. Not contented with 
the very excellent materials of her father's recog-
nized genealogical tree, they already claim for her 
royal blood. The Director of the Archaeological 
College of France has sent the following commu-
nication to the Government journals : 
" The family with which the Emperor forms an 
alliance is one of the most illustrious of Spain. 
Our future Empress belongs to the house of Guz-
man, whose origin dates back to the earliest times 
of the Spanish monarchy, and which several histo-
rians say was the issue of royal blood. All the 
branches of this family have played a distinguished 
part in. history. We will quote among others those 
of the Dukes of Medina, of las Torres, of Medina-
Sidonia, and of Olivares, and those of the Counts 
of Montijo, of Teba or Teva, and of Vallaverde, 
Marquis de Ardales, de la Algara, &c., grandees 
of Spain." 
It is reported, that 500,000 emigrants are to be 
transported from France to Algeria, at the expense 
of the Government. 
ITALY.—A Genoa letter of the 19th of January 
states that DANIEL MAZZINGHI, a surgeon, aged 25 
years, native of Volterra, has just been tried there 
and sentenced to three years imprisonment, for 
having, conjointly with Capt. PAKENHAM, of the 
British navy, preached in favor of Protestantism 
at La Spezzia and its neighborhood. The trial 
took place with closed doors. Letters from Turin 
state, that the case was brought before the Cham-
ber of Deputies on the 19th, and that explanations 
were promised on the subject the next day. 
The Intendant-General of Chambery has pub-
lished a decree, prohibiting the introduction into 
Savoy of the Bible bearing the name of DE SACY. 
The Intendant founds this measure on an article of 
the statute, which requires the authorization of 
the bishop for the printing of Bibles, and conse-
quently prohibits Bibles printed abroad from being 
introduced into the country without that authori-
zation. 
A company of Genoese merchants had made ar-
rangements to establish a monthly line of steam-
ers between Genoa and Montevideo. The capital 
is, to be 10,000,000 of francs. 
Vessels arriving at Genoa from the Brazils, West 
Indies, Charleston, and New Orleans, are to be 
subjected to quarantine. 
The report that the Pope was seriously ill of 
apoplexy, is not confirmed. 
TURKEY.—The Turks are vigorously pursuing 
their operations against the Montenegros. 
OMAR PACHA took Grahoro by storm, but in at-
tempting to surprise the capital of Montenegro in 
the mountain, he was repulsed. He intended to 
renew the attack on the 17th. 
SUMMARY. 
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce states that 
Kossuth, while in this country, signed a contract 
with the agent of an armory for the manufacture 
of several hundred thousand ball cartridges, seve-
ral pieces of ordnance, and other munitions of war, 
to be delivered at a port in the Mediterranean. 
The Washington papers contain an official 
note of the Postmaster General, suspending for 
three months, at the request of the French Minis-
ter, the order equalizing the rates of postage on all 
letters between the United States, France, and 
England. Instructions have been sent out to Mr. 
Ingersoll to renew negotiations relative to postage 
with England commenced by Mr. Lawrence. 
— There is an Indian woman living among 
the Penobscots, who has lived to see her grand-
daughter's grand-children. She is so old that she 
has thrgotten her age, but is still smart, and walks 
out most every day. Such an instance of longevity, 
*here one lives to see descendants in the fifth gene-
ration, is rarely known. 
The Congressional committee of investiga-
tion on the charges against the parties connected 
with the capitol extension, are busily engaged in 
taking evidence. From the testimony taken so far 
it would appear that the charges of gross corrup-
tion are fully substantiated. One of the commit-
tee states that, judging from the evidence already 
taken, he has no doubt that at least one-third of 
the amount ($600,000) appropriated for the capi-
tol extension has been squandered, and that vari-
ous parties, high and low, are implicated iu the 
transaction. 
There is a man now living in Bloomfield, 
Ontario county, N. Y., who will be in April next, 
if he live to that time, 112 years old. His name 
is James Knight. He was born in Queen's county, 
Ireland, in April, 1741. Within the last eight or 
nine months a marked change had taken place in 
his intellectual capacity, but aside from this, he 
was apparently much the same as for many years 
past. fie resides with his son, who is seventy-two 
years old. 
The London Athenaum, in an article on the 
literary productions of last year, remarks that 
Erance is, for the moment, blotted out from the 
list of literary nations. " All the muses are silent 
on her soil. Her poets are exiles, her wits and 
orators silent. Her historians, with one bold and 
noble exception, are abashed and idle." What is 
true of literary France, is true, in its degree, of 
almost every other country on the continent of 
Europe. 
The Concord Democrat states that a cow 
belonging to Mr, Moody Gillingham, of Newbury, 
N. H., in eating some garden vegetables, acciden-
tally swallowed a very sharp butcher knife, about 
eleven inches in length, including the handle, with 
a blade more than an inch and a quarter wide. On 
the 10th of January, a sore appeared in her side, 
just back of the shoulder-blade, through which a 
quantity of corn, hay, and other food, was dis-
charged. On the 17th Mr. Gillingham perceived 
the point of the knife protruding from the opening, 
and with the aid of a pair of pincers drew it out 
of the handle through the cow's ribs uninjured. 
The second morning afterwards, the handle was 
found in the crib, also uninjured, having been vom-
ited up in the course of the night. 
The jury of inquest, summoned to investi-
gate the circumstances attending the death of 
Thomas Roberts; whose body was found on Mon-
day morning, the 7th inst., in a stable on Hudson-
street, this city, with his head cut and mutilated, 
returned the following verdict, chiefly founded upon 
the opinion of the surgeons, who made a post-mor-
tem examination of the body :—That he was mur-
dered and itobbed of his money in the stable owned 
and occupied by Joshua Roberts and James A. 
Piper, on Hudson-street, otposite the engine house, 
Despatch, between the hours of 10 o'clock on the 
evening of the 6th and 5 o'clock on the morning of 
the 7th inst., and that said murder was inflicted 
by several wounds with a hatchet, or some other 
deadly instrument, in the hands of some person or 
persons to the jury unknown. 
THE NATICK MURDER.—OUT readers will recol-
lect the details of the horrible murder of Mr. Ou-
vra Taylor and wife in Natick, on the evening of 
the 17th of Sept. last, the facts in regard to which 
we published at the time. Thomas Casey, an Ir-
ishman, about twenty years of age, was arrested 
on suspicion of being the murderer, and subse-
quently was examined on the charge, and commit-
ted to Lowell jail, to await his trial at the April 
term of the Supreme Judicial Court for Middlesex 
county. Soon after Casey's examination, a shirt, 
identified as pelonging to him, was found covered 
with blood. 'Until quite recently, Casey has stoutly 
denied his guilt, or any knowledge whatever of the 
murder. Within a few days past, in conversation 
with persons in the jail at Lowell, Casey fully con-
fessed his guilt of the horrible tragedy. He stated 
that he and the old man (Mr. Taylor) had some 
dispute about half a dollar, which caused a fight 
or scuffle between them, in which he gave Taylor 
his mortal wound ; that Mrs. Taylor, overhearing 
the noise, came into the room, when he thought he 
" might as well fix her out too." Casey appears 
very indifferent in regard to his fate. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 19, 1853. 
New Works.—Just Published. 
" MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM MILLER."-430 pp. 12 mo. 
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" A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE."-
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" PHENOMENA OF THE RAPPING SPIRITS."—With 
this title, we shall issue in a tract form the thirty-
two pages of the Commentary on the Apocalypse,—
from p. 254 to 286—which treats of the " Unclean 
Spirits " of Rev. 16:13, 14. It comprises only 
what was given in the former pamphlet with this 
title from pages 22 to 54, which is all that was es-
sential to the argument then given, and will be 
sent by mail and postage pre-paid 100 copies for 
$3, 30 for $1. Without paying postage, we will 
send 100 copies for $2,50, or 36 for $1. Single 
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" THE SAINTS' INHERITANCE, OR THE WORLD TO 
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NOTE.—A reference to myself at the close of bro. 
WELLcoms's article, on another page, makes a word 
from me necessary. I have opened the Herald for 
them to pnblish their views, and published all they 
have sent on the subject, save some articles of bro. 
BALDWIN, whose calculations have all failed. I 
have been waiting for a reply to brother ROBINSON'S 
review of their works on the time, but as yet have 
received nothing. The Herald is open for light on 
this subject. Will they fairly meet the difficulties 
pr 
- esented by brother ROBINSON to their views? We 
wait. 
J. V. H. 
Future Labors. 
THE calls made upon me are so numerous, that 
have been greatly perplexed as to what course I 
should pursue in responding to them. The state 
of the cause in New England seems to demand the 
most of my labors ; bat I must go to Western New 
York for a season. I shall visit Low Hampton, 
Bristol, Champlain, &c., as soon after I return as 
may be possible. 
Albany, N. Y.—Sunday; Feb. 27th. 
Clark's Mills—Feb. 28th, evening, and March 1st. 
Syracuse—March 2d. 
Homer—March 3d (conference), and Sabbath. 
Auburn—March 7th and 8th, evening. 
Seneca Falls—March 9th and 10th, evening. 
Rochester—Sabbath, March 13th. 
Lockport—March 14th, evening, • 
Lewiston—March 16th. 
Buffalo—March 18th and 19th, evenings, and 
Sabbath, 24th. 
• 
. I wish to say to brethren and friends who feel 
benefitted by my labors, and are interested in my 
missionary work in the Advent cause, that I am 
dependent on the free-will offerings of my friends for 
support. In some places, where I consider the 
cause needs assistance, the people are able to con-
tribute but little. This much I feel it necessary 
to say, not only in my own behalf, but also in be-
half of those whose services I require in special 
cases. 
J. V. HIMES. 
Appointments, &c. 
T. Terfolt will preach in Westford, Vt. (in the school-house near 
brother Collins'), Feb. 224, evening, and remain in that section 
and Cambridge over the following Sunday, preaching every even-
ing as the brethren may desire. Let there be once more a rally in 
Cambridge. Ile will preach in Morrisville on Tuesday evening, 
March 1st, and in Stow (on the West Branch), the 24, evening. 
N. BILLINGS will preach in EssexeFeb. 22—will the friends arrange for 
a meeting in the evening ? Swanton, Bid ; Isle Lamott, 24th, and 
remain over the Sabbath—will some brother from the Island call 
for me at the Alhurg station, on the arrival of the first train from 
Swanton, Feb. 24th. 
Lvvi DUDLEY will preach in Derby Line Sabbath, Feb. 20th ; South 
Troy, Vt., 22d, evening ; Johnson, 23d, do ; Waterbury, 24th, do. 
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