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the belief that such influence was exerted in res-
pect of them ? 
1. Passing by other and more doubtful cases, 
I call attention here to a clear and indubitable 
instance of the communication of superhuman 
knowledgfe by a agency. 
The case I refer to 
has been noticed for another purpose in a note ; 
it is that of the Pythoness of Philippi. 
We 
have here (Acts 16:16-19) an unquestionable 
proof of such a communication of superhuman 
knowledge. 
It may be first observed, that the 
term used by the sacred writer to describe this 
woman's occupation, ma?iteuomai, 
and which 
our translators have rendered 
"soothsaying," 
signifies u to foretell, divine, prophesy, 
DELIVER 
AN 
ORACLE." 
It is precisely the same word 
which is used by Herodotus when referring to 
the divination of the Scythians, 
(Lib. 4, cap. 
67,) and which is also employed by him when 
speaking ofthe famous oracle at Delphi. 
(Lib. 
6, cap. 76; et lib. 8, cap. 88.) 
The case is, 
therefore, strictly in point. 
In this instance, then, it is clear that an evil 
spirit gave to the woman the power of making 
superhuman, cr oracular, communications. 
The 
presence and power of this spirit were absolutely 
necessary to the production of those results: for, 
when the demon was expelled, her masters 
"saw that the hope of their gains was gone," 
ind their chagrin and rage led to a fierce perse-
cution. 
It is vain to urge that this was a mere 
mercenary aftair; and that it is not to be sup-
>osed that Satanic influence would be permitted 
n such a case. 
The Holy Ghost has declared it 
ro be a fact. 
Whatever fraud or wickedness 
might have been employed in connexion with 
;his business, it is, therefore, an acknowledged 
truth by every believer in revelation, that oracu-
lar answers, communicating superhuman knowl-
edge, were in this case given by diabolical 
agency. 
2. We have to inquire, in the second place, 
whether the case of the heathen oracles is such 
as to justify the opinion that this diabolical in-
luence was sometimes used in respect of them. 
(1.) It seems reasonable to suppose, that if 
uch Satanic influence was employed in what 
tppears to have been merely a private and mer-
enary effort, it might surely be expected in 
hose great national institutions which stood 
issociated with idolatrous delusions, and which 
tad all been brought into operation by the same 
infernal power. 
(2.) It is important to consider the fact, that 
these oracles were sustained in high credit, and 
trusted with implicit confidence, by the wisest 
statesmen and sovereigns of the nations of anti-
juity most celebrated for their high state of 
;ivilization. 
Not only did this continue under 
(articular circumstances and for a season or an 
ige, but it lasted throughout successive centu-
ries. 
This is an argument which all candid 
minds have felt. 
Hence the learned Banier 
asks, "Is it, then, credible that if the oracles 
aad been nothing but the offspring of priestcraft, 
whatever artful methods they may be thought to 
have used, and however successful in pumping 
out the secrets and schemes of those who came 
to consult them;—is it credible, I say, that 
those oracles would have lasted so long, and 
supported themselves with so much splendor and 
reputation, had they been merely owing to the 
forgery of the priests ? 
Imposture betrays itself, 
falsehood never holds out. 
Besides, there were 
too many witnesses, too many curious spies, too 
many people whose interest it was not to be de-
luded. 
One may put a cheat for a time upon a 
few private persons, who are overrun with credu-
lity, but by no means upon whole nations for 
several ages. 
Some princes who had oeen played 
upon by ambiguous responses,—a trick once dis-
covered,—the bare curiosity of a free thinker, 
—any of these, in short, was sufficient to blow 
up the whole mystery, and at once to make the 
credit of the oracles fall to the ground. 
How 
many people, deluded by hateful responses, were 
concerned to examine if it was really the priests 
by whom they were seduced ! 
But why? 
Was 
it so hard a matter to find one of the priests 
themselves, capable of being bribed to betray the 
The Pilgrimage-
BY REV. A. C. 
THOMPSON. 
GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, 
My staff of faith to walk upon, 
My scrip of joy, (immortal diet!) 
My bottle of salvation, 
My gown of glory, hope's true gage ; 
—And thus I take my pilgrimage. 
Over the silver mountains, • 
Where spring the nectar fountains, 
There will I kiss 
The bowl of bliss, 
And drink mine everlasting fill, 
Upon every milken hill ; 
My soul will be a-dry before, 
But after that will thirst no more. 
SIR WALTER 
RALEIGH. 
" A voyage to a distant land,"—such is the 
life of every true believer, and a sanctified asso-
ciation of ideas naturally suggests " thoughts on 
heaven." 
"They that say such things declare 
plainly that they seek a country, that is, a 
heavenly. 
Not having received the promises, 
but having seen them afar off, they are persuaded 
of them, and embraced them, and confess that 
they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth,— 
that they desire a better country, that is, 
heavenly." 
It is too late in the history of a race groping 
in darkness, to embark in an attempt to find the 
garden that was planted eastward in Eden. 
In 
former times there was, to be sure, no geographi-
cal problem which awakened so much interest 
as that ancient locality. 
No other has given 
rise to such extravagent opinions. 
Some of the 
allgorizing fathers believed there never was, act-
ually, any Paradise; that it existed only in 
metaphor. 
Others, allowing it a local reality, 
placed it in the third heaven, in the moon, in 
the air, under the earth, where the Caspian Sea 
now is, and under the equator. 
Classical na-
tions pictured their traditional Paradise, the 
Garden of Hesperides, as an island, or islands, 
somewhere in the ocean. 
There have been those 
who supposed that the primitive abode of man 
was in Ceylon, in Tartary, in Sweden, on the 
Danube, in Ethiopia, or among the Mountains 
of the Moon in Africa. 
There are, indeed, other 
and comparatively probable theories; 
but it 
must be confessed impossible to identify the pre 
cise spot of the present globe where our first pa-
rents were originally placed. 
The sooner men 
give up searching for a terrestrial Eden and di-
rect their inquiries after the Paradise of God, the 
better. 
" And Joshua sent men, saying, Go up and 
view the country." 
" And now we are journey 
ing unto the place of which the Lord said, I 
will give it you: come thou with us, and we 
will do thee good." 
It appears from the great 
Guide-book that not much is needed for this life 
alone—merely something tor travelling expenses; 
that investments are not to be made here by the 
way; but that bills of exchange on a capital the 
other side are wanting. 
We are enjoined to lay 
up treasures there, and we find that, with a mu-
nificence surpassing description, the best of se-
curities are proffered, and that we are supplied 
with promissory notes "exceeding great and 
precious." 
" Let me depart, that I may go to mine own 
country," " because the king's business requireth 
r haste." 
On our way to the Better Land, to the 
h celestial city, we would not stop at every poor, 
paltry village this side and be greatly taken with 
the miserable shows that present themselves. 
We would go unencumbered, for he that goes 
lightest goes 
fleetest. 
It was happy in the Ro-
mans to call baggage impedimenta. 
"Where-
fore, laying aside every weight, and the sin 
which doth so easily beset us, let us run with 
patience the race set before us." 
In leaving the literal home, and in prosecut-
ing a literal journey, travellers should cherish 
a prayerful desire that all they meet with may 
be sanctified. 
There is a religious use to be 
made of the eyes and ears, and all the incidents 
of an excursion. 
The very conveniences and in-
conveniences of travelling, the impudence and 
imposition eucountered, bring hallowed hints to 
a devout mind, touching the Better Land. 
There 
will be no noise, no rudeness, no fatigue there; 
no want of suitable accommodations; no perilous 
locomotion, nor one jarring vehicle in all that 
world; no deceptive, petulent, profane guides; 
angels never ask for fees. 
In our Father's house 
are many mansions, but no confined, ill-venti-
lated, infectious rooms. 
Bolts are not required; 
bills are not presented; police are not needed 
in the new Jerusalem. 
Even the high enjoyment of the objects, 
scenes and events of earth, if devoutly managed, 
is no part of wordliness; it is using the world 
as not abusing it; it belongs to conversation in 
heaven. 
Appropriate prayerful use • of what 
passes before us will only foster a keener relish 
for things unseen. 
Cultivating such a habit, we 
shall be laying up treasures in heaven. 
We 
would, then, have our senses all on the alert; 
we would drink in the living colors that float at 
daybreak, at noontide, and in the softening hour 
of fading day. 
We would stamp on our memory 
an image of the enchanting, glorious garniture 
of sky, rivers, lakes, sea, mountains and valleys, 
and would let praise and prayer to God hallow 
all. 
Beholding thus with open face as in a 
glass the glory of the Lord, we shall be changed 
into the same image, glory to glory. 
" And their brethren said unto them, What 
say ye ? 
And they said, Arise, for we have 
seen the land, and behold, it is very good." 
In 
declaring plainly that we seek a better country, 
we do not consider ourselves to be on a voyage 
of discovery. 
Our knowledge of the other world 
is derived from sources 'very different from those 
which carried hints concerning the existence of 
this western continent to the shores of Europe, 
—floating trees and plants, borne by the gulf-
stream from the tropics. 
He, who alone came 
down from heaven, who is himself the way, the 
truth and'the life, has declared, " If it were so, 
I would have told you: I will come again and 
receive you unto myself, that where I am, there 
ye may be also." 
In the midst of our toiling 
and rowing, Jesus cometh to us, about the fourth 
watch of the night, walking upon the sea; and 
presently the shipmen deem that they draw near 
to some country. 
" And that knowing the time, 
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep ; 
for now is our salvation nearer than when we 
believed; the night is far spent, the day is at 
hand." 
" Our life is like the hurrying on the eve 
Before we start on some long journey bound, . 
When fit preparing to the last we leave, 
Then run to every room the dwelling round, 
And sigh that nothing needed can be found ; 
Yet go we must, and soon as day shall break ; 
We snatch an hour's repose, when loud the sound 
For our departure calls ; we rise and take 
A quick and sad farewell, and go ere well awake." 
The Heathen Oracles. 
WE now direct attention to THE 
SACRED 
ORA-
CLES of the heathen/ 
These were everywhere 
regarded as means of obtaining from the Deity 
some solution of difficult cases, or Information 
respecting events in distant places, or at future 
times, beyond that, which merely human wisdom 
could possibly furnish. 
The fact of their insti-
tution and prevalence is, therefore, a testimony 
borne by all antiquity to the fact of the divine 
omniscience, and to the certain existance of a 
primative revelation. 
If, as some would-be philosophers are anxious 
to make us believe, mankind began their career 
in a semi-bestial state and by gradual and succes-
sive improvements worked their way up to their 
present elevated intellectual position, whence 
could possibly have originated a belief in the 
divinity of oracles ?' We might as reasonably 
calculate on a herd of baboons seeking such illu-
mination, as that man would do so in such cir-
cumstances. 
No ; it stands 
confessed, that 
heathen oracles, however vain, false, or guileful 
were but corruptions of a true and real revela-
tion from God to man. 
It was, indeed, the crowning glory of the pa-
triarchal times, that they had access unto God. 
The few elements of information which have 
.reached us respecting this period, do not explain, 
as fully as could be desired, the manner and 
means by which this boon was realized : but it 
speaks to the fact in such a way as to place it 
beyond all doubt. 
Rebekah was driven by her 
distress to seek divine succor, she was at no 
loss for the means of obtaining it: " She went 
to inquire of the Lord" 
The puerile exposition 
ot commentators, that this was an appeal to 
some patriarch, or a simple exercise of prayer, 
is altogether inadmissible : the clear, ample, ex-
plicit, and prophetic answer which she received, 
decides the case, and proves that she had access 
to an oracle of God. 
Gen. 25:22, 23. 
When, therefore, Satanic guile and power had 
succeeded in diverting the minds of men from 
the only true object of worship to deified men, 
and brutes, and elements, it became necessary 
that the false, idolatrous religion thus introduced 
should possess a real or pretended power, equiva-
lent to that afforded by the oracle of Jehovah in 
patriarchal times. 
Hence we find everywhere, 
among the cultivated heathen nations of anti-
quity, oracles established which professed to 
give responses dictated by Diety in answer to 
the inquiries of the worshippers; 
and, as the 
learned Banier affirms, "every nation where 
idolatry prevailed had its oracles." 
Egypt, 
Greece, Rome, and other countries, afford abun-
dant evidence in proof of this assertion. 
The important question is then suggested, 
What was the real character of these oracles ? 
Were they the result of combined fraud and in-
genious contrivance ? or did they in any measure 
emanate from, and were sustained by, Satanic 
influence ? 
In the solution of this question, the 
learned of our own as well as of other countries 
are much at varience with each other. 
Bishop 
Sherlock is so confident of the Satanic character 
ofthe heathen oracles, that he does not hesitate 
to state that he regards those who deny that the 
devil gave out the oracles to the heathen world, 
as evincing " a degree of unbelief" which de-
prives them of all right to debate questions of 
this kind. 
(Works, vol. 4, p. 49. 
London 
1830.) 
While, on the other hand, Dr. Middle-
ton pleads guilty to this degree of unbelief, and 
maintains that these oracles were " all mere 
impostures, wholly invented and supported by 
human craft, without any supernatural aid or 
interposition whatever." 
(Miscel. Works, vol. 
5,p.262. 
London, 1755.) 
When such divines 
stand thus opposed to each other, nothing can 
be hoped for in respect of authority. 
Our only 
resource is, therefore, to investigate the subject 
for ourselves, under the guidance of such aids 
as its nature affords. 
It may be observed in limine, that an objec-
tion has been taken to supernatural interposition 
in respect to oracles, which appears to be most 
unsound and unreasonable. 
It has been asserted 
that numerous proofs exist of fraud, deceit, and 
corruption, in the agency by which they were 
administered : and hence it is argued, that they 
could not have emanated from diabolical influ-
ence. 
It is difficult to conceive of a more in-
consequential conclusion. 
If it had been al-
leged that these oracles were the result of divine 
prescience, then the proof of positive guile and 
wickedness in the agents might be held sufficient 
to disprove the claim. 
But surely there is no 
such obvious antagonism between Satanic influ-
ence and fraud, guile, and wickedness, that the 
presence of the one must necessarily prove the 
absence of the other. 
On the other hand, I am 
free to confess, that this asserted guile and fraud, 
instead of disproving the presence Satanic influ-
ence, rather inclines me to infer the operation 
of su :h agency. 
In the investigation of this subject, then, it 
appears to me, we have to decide on these im-
portant questions :•—First, have we any certain 
knowledge that a fallen spirit, at any time, or 
under any circumstances, has beeo permitted to 
dictate superhuman 
knowledge to mankind ? 
And, secondly, if this has been done, is the case 
of heathen oracles one which reasonably justifies 
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cause of his accomplices, by the fair promises 
and more substantial gift's of those Who omitted 
no means of being thoroughly informed in a 
subject' of such concern ?""—MytMogy, vol. I, 
p. 328. 
Lempriere echoes the same argument, and 
says, li Imposture and forgery cannot long flour-
ish, and falsehood becomes its own destroyer." 
-^Dictionary, 
S. v. Orcaulum. 
Yet it is an un-
deniable fact that, " during the best period of 
their history, the Greeks, generally speaking, 
had undoubtedly a sincere faith in the oracle, 
its counsels and directions.'''-^-Smith's Met. 
of 
Greek 
arid Komten 
Antiq., 
p. 670. 
Hence 
Lucan, who wrote his Phctisaiia 
scarcely thirty 
years after our Lord's crucifixion, lament's as 
one of the greatest evils of the age, that the 
Delphie oracle was become' silent. 
From the 
general credit which the oracles maintained in 
an enlightened age, and during a very lengthened 
period, it is extremely improbable that they 
should have been nothing more than the base 
results of f?aud and fiction. 
(To be continued.) 
Elijah's Sacrifice at Carmel-
THE following paragraphs, which we find 
quoted in Blackwood, 
are' from a recent work on 
Palestine, by Lieut. 
V^N D^ VEI.DE. 
Tn our 
judgment, this saga-cious traveller has given the 
best illustration of the locality of Elijah's sacri-
fice, hitherto published. 
Every student of Holy 
Writ will be gratified with it. 
It will help him 
to a better appreciation of the inspired descrip-
tion of .that most remarkable miracle. 
It will 
confirm his faith in the historic truthfulness of 
the Bible narrative. 
A Dr. Kalley was the companion of Mr. Van 
De Velde in his exploration of Mr. Carmel. 
Both these gentlemen agreed in the opinion that 
the spot pointed out as the locale of the miracle 
by the Carmelite monks, did not meet the neces-
sities of the Scriptural narrative. 
Hence, they 
followed the traditions of the Arabs concerning 
it and arrived at the conclusions detailed in the 
following passages: 
" Having seated ourselves beneath the shade 
of a huge oak, we once more opened our Bibles 
at chap. 18th of 1st Kings, and examined what 
was required in the place of sacrifice, in order 
to its agreement with the account given in the 
Bible. 
According to verse 18th and 19th, it 
must have been able enough in size to contain a 
very numerous multitude. 
El-Mohhraka must 
at that time have been quite fitted for this, 
although now covered with a rough dense jungle. 
Indeed, one can scarcely imagine a spot better 
adapted for the thousands of Israel to have stood 
drawn up on than the gentle slopes. 
The rock 
shoots up in an almost perpendicular wall of 
more than two hundred feet in height on the side 
of the plain of Esdraelon. 
On this, therefore, 
there was no room for the gazing multitude; 
but, on the other hand, this wall made it visible 
overthe wholeplain, and from all the surrounding 
heights,, so that even those left behind, and who 
had not ascended Carmel, would still have been 
able to1 witness at so great a distance, the fire 
from heaven that descended upon the altar. 
" According to verse 30th, there must have 
been an altar there before, for Elijah repaired 
• the altar of the Lord that was broken down 
It was well known that such altars were uni-
formly built on very onspicuous eminences. 
Now there is not a more conspicuous spoton all 
Carmel than the- abrupt rocky height of Moh-
hraka, shooting, up so suddenly on the east. 
Verses 31st and 32d point to a rocky soil, in 
which stones- were to be found to serve for the 
constmctioMof the altar, and yet where the stones 
must have been so loose,, or so covered with a 
thick bed of earth, that' a trench'could have 
been made round the altar r whilst not of so loose 
a composition of sand and earth as that the 
water poured into it would have been absorbed 
The place we were examining met these requisi 
tions in every respect;, it showed its rocky sur 
face, with a sufficiency of large fragments of rock 
lying around, and, besides, well fitted for the 
rapid digging of a trench. 
"But now comes the grand difficulty of both 
believers and unbelievers, who have seen this 
place : Whence could- Elijah have procured so 
much water as to have it to- pour over the offer 
ing and the alta-t in barrelfuls, so that he filled 
the trench also with water, at a time when, after 
three years of drought, all the rivers and brooks 
were dried up, and the king in person, and the 
governor of his house, divided the land between 
them to pass through it, to see if, per-adventure 
any fountains of water might be found, and grass 
to sUve the horses and mules alive?—(Verses 1-6. 
To get rid of this difficulty, some pious travel 
lers, with imaginations stronger than their judg-
ments, have said, ' 0 as for the water, the thing 
speaks for itself; it must evidently have been 
got from the sea.' 
But less religious persons 
who were sharp enough to perceive that the 
place where Elijah made the offering could not 
have been at the seaside, have rightly remarked 
that it must have been impossible, from every 
other point of Carmel lying more inland, on ac-
count of the'great distance from the sea, to go 
hither and return on an afternoon, much more 
to do this three several times, as is expressly 
stated in the 34th verse. 
Such persons, there-
fore, have rejected altogether this absurd explana-
tion, without, however, themselves arriving at 
any better solution of the difficulty; and this 
has led unbelievers, in their prejudiced haste, to 
assert that the Bible narrative is a mere fiction 
that being the view which best suited their pur-
pose. 
Dr. Kalley and I felt our mouths shut in 
the presence of this 
difficulty. 
We saw no 
spring, yet here we were certain the place must 
have been : for it is the only point of all Carmel 
where Elijah could have been so close to the 
brook Kishon, then dried up, as to take down 
thither the priests of Baal and slay them, return 
again to the mountain and pray for rain, all in 
the short space of the same afternoon after the 
Lord had shown, by His fire from heaven, that 
He, and He alone, was God. 
( See verses 40-
44.) El-Mohhraka is 1635 feet above the sea, 
and perhaps 1000 feet above the Kishon. 
This 
height can be gone up and down, in the short? 
time allowed by the Scripture. 
But the farther 
one goes towards the middle of the mount ain, the 
higher he ascends above the Kishon, 
because 
Carmel rises higher then, and the plain through 
which the river flows runs lower down. 
Add to 
this that the Kishon takes a course more and 
more diverging from the mountain, and the 
ravine by which people descend to the river's bed 
is exceedingly difficult to pass through, so that 
full three hours are thought necessary for travers-
ing the distance from Esfieh to the stream. 
Nowhere does the Kishon run so close to Mount 
Carmel as just beneath El-Mohhraka. 
Pious 
expositors, who would transfer the scene to the 
seaward side of the mountain, seem quite to 
have left out of sight the required condition— 
that it must be near the brook Kishon. 
Well, then, we went down to the Kishon 
through a steep ravine, and, behold, right be-
low the steep rocky wall of the height on which 
stood—250 feet, it might be, beneath the 
altar plateau—a vaulted and very 
abundant 
fountain, built in the form of a tank, with a few 
steps leading down into it, just as one finds else-
where in the old walls or springs of the Jewish 
times. 
Possibly the neighborhood of this spring 
may have been the inducement that led to that 
altar which Elijah repaired having been built 
to the Lord in former times. 
Possibly too, the 
water of this spring may have been consecrated 
to the Lord, so as not to be generally accessible 
to the people, even in times of fearful drought. 
In such springs the water remains always cod, 
under the shade of a vaulted roof, and with no 
hot atmosphere to evaporate it, 
While all 
other fountains were dried up, I can well under-
stand that there might have been found here 
that superbundance of water which Elijah poured 
so profusely over the altar. 
Yes, the more I 
consider the matter, the more am I convinced, 
that from such a fountain alone could Elijah 
have procured so much water at that time. 
And 
as for the distance between the spring and the 
supposed site of the altar, it was every way pos-
sible for men to go thrice thither and back to 
obtain the necessary supply. 
' Further, the place of Elijah's offering—the 
same probably, where he cast himself down up-
on the earth and put his face between his knees, 
in offering thanks to the Lord for the divine pow-
er He had hitherto displayed, to beseech Him 
for the future fulfillment of His promises, that of 
rain for the parched ground—the place of Eli-
jah's offering, I say, behoves to have been so 
screened by arising ground on the west or north-
west side as to intercept a view of the sea; for 
he said to his servant, 1 Go up now, and look 
toward the sea. 
Moreover, 'the distance to 
that height must not have been great; for the 
passage runs—' Go again seven times,' (verses 
42-44.)* Now, such is the position of El-Moh 
hraka, that these circumstances might all quite 
well have been united there. 
On its west and 
northwest side the view of the sea is quite inter-
cepted by an adjacent height. 
That height may 
be ascended, however, in a few minutes, and a 
full view of the sea obtained from the top." 
Religion of the Tyrol. 
THE whole country is full of churches, chapels 
by the wayside, in the woods and meadows, 
crosses, crucifixes-, and saints and angels painted 
upon the houses, and even upon the outer walls 
of the stables. 
Sometimes St. Christopher is 
represented of gigantic stature, supporting his 
steps across the river with a pine tree, while the 
infant Saviour, planted upon the shoulder of 
his Christian Goliath, smiles into the huge up-
turned visage. 
Sometimes St. Florian is the 
painted patron of the dwelling, and you read 
the petition, " St, Florian protect this house 
and all who here go in and out." 
Usually a 
somewhat melancholy-looking Virgin and Child 
are painted in fresco over the door. 
Each mira-
cle or wonder that has ever taken place has 
made the spot sacred as a pilgrimage, and you 
can scarcely walk an hour without coming upon 
some one of these holy places. 
To-day I was 
in a church in the little village of Absam. 
In 
the year 1797 a peasant girl discovered upon a 
window-pane a picture of the Virgin Mother, 
and no one knew how it came there. 
Con-
noisseurs thought it might have been painted at 
some forgotten time, covered with dirt, and now 
by a- hard rain or unusual washing, brought to 
light again. 
However, this natural explanation 
was not at all agreeable to the feelings of the 
people. 
The girl had discovered the painting 
during a time of war, and almost universal sick-
ness. 
Soon after, peace, and the restoration of 
health, followed, and both blessings were at 
once ascribed to the immediate and miraculous 
interposition of the blessed Virgin. Accordingly, 
with great pomp and ceremony, the window-pane 
was solemnly removed from its obscure position, 
and amid the rejoicings of the people carried in 
procession to the church, where it was placed 
upon an altar set apart tor the purpose, and now 
for more that half a century it has received the 
adorations and the offerings of the faithful. 
The 
holy coat at Treves would find a willing believ-
er in almost every inhabitant of these mountains 
and valleys. 
The walls were covered with the 
usual offerings of arms, legs, hands, and hearts 
of wax, while a vast number of votive tablets 
displayed in the rudest paintings the mode of 
the paticular deliverance. 
The offerer is falling 
from a high window, legs and arms sprawling 
in the air, while the Virgin sits peaceful and 
smiling above, with the child in her lap, and of 
course delivers her faithful worshipper from im-
pending destruction. 
In another, man and 
horse are rolling over into an impossible posi-
tion and a speedy deliverance. 
A woman de-
scribes herself as having been deserted by God 
and the world, when she received comfort and 
consolation from a dove that flew to her, and 
she calls upon her neighbors to thank God and 
adore him for " this astounding miracle." 
A 
father and mother, he with his hat under his 
arm, and she with the queer round fur cap which 
they wear here even in summer, kneel by the 
side of their little' swaddled baby, that looks 
like a stick of wood, and record their story: 
that all other means having failed, they resorted 
in the last necessity to this " Mercy Picture," 
and their child recovered. 
One of these offer-
ings was apparently new, and, as it attracted 
great attention from eight or ten women, who 
came in while I was there, I looked at it, and 
found it to be from the priest himself, who, hav-
ing tried all other means, medicines, and doc-
tors, had finally applied himself to the picture, 
and instantly recovered. 
In the same church I 
found a printed prayer, from which I translated 
a few extracts:— 
" PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH, PATRON OF TYROL 
" O holy Joseph, true foster-father of Jesus 
Christ, powerful protector of our Empire, and 
especial patron of our fatherland Tyrol! look 
down upon a believing people, who, trusting to 
thy mighty intercession, have placed themselves 
under thy protection. 
Withhold the avenging 
arm ot thy Divine foster son. 
Keep us, by thy 
intercession, in the only true Roman Catholic 
faith, that we and our posterity, through the 
one faith, and the true Christian charity which 
springs from it alone, may be united with our 
departed fathers in this faith, both here and 
above. 
Give us all strength and courage to 
contend fearlessly unto death for this our high-
est good." 
But, upon the other hand, there is a view of 
the picture which it would be untrue and un-
just to conceal. 
Upon inquiry in one of these 
villages I was told there was not an unbeliever, 
either man or woman to be found. 
Thinking 
that this statement might be somewhat over-
drawn, I went on to say that such a person 
would probably be shunned by all, and would 
perhaps become an object of persecution. 
With 
great simplicity, however, the woman replied 
she "did not know, because there was no such 
person in this neighborhood; but there might 
be in the .Zillerthal, where the people went 
abroad more, and brought home foreign money 
and manners, and perhaps also foreign or new 
notions in religion." 
Thinking myself suffi-
ciently answered, 1 desisted from further in 
quiries. 
Tyrol has long been a kind of fighting outpost 
of the Romish Church. 
Placed between Italy 
the country of the Holy See, and Northern Ger-
many, the original foundation of modern Prot-
estantism, the people cling with the greater 
tenacity to the faith and the practices of their 
fathers. 
Every battle which they have%fought 
to use their favorite expression, " fur Kaiser 
und fur Vaterland "—for the Emperor ancl their 
Fatherland—has been counted a holy war ; for 
the invasion has often sprung from those who 
professed none or an opposite faith. 
It is a touching sight, when the peasants 
come in at noon, the village bells everywhere 
ringing up the dinner at the old-fashioned hour 
of twelve! 
Every eating-room in the hotel 
except those appropriated to strangers, and al-
most every room in the cottage, is furnished 
with a crucifix, and often this is decbrated with 
pictures, and made into a house altar. 
It has 
been so from age to age. 
Before this the hardy 
and hungry peasants stand in a row, and with a 
devout demeanor, and in an audible voice, be-
seech Almighty God to bless what they are 
about to receive from his bountiful hand. 
This 
continues for several moments. 
If a stranger 
appears, one of the first questions asked is, " is 
he Catholic ? " 
I have heard this inquiry anx-
iously made about me when I was supposed to 
be asleep, and especially after I had presented 
the " House Mother " with a piece of wood that 
grew on the banks of the Jordan, the gift being 
immediately wrapped up is a picture of St. John 
the Baptist, and placed among the relics on the 
family altar. 
London Daily News. 
Missionary Intelligence. 
AT the Oct. monthly concert at the Bowdoin-
street church, the following religious intelli-
gence was communicated by Mr. Treat, one of the 
Secretaries of the A, B. C. F. M.—as reported 
in the Boston Traveller. 
It will be seen by the 
referance to China, that the revolution there 
does not give any hopeful promise of the speedy 
conversion of that empire to a pure Christianity. 
Mr. Treat first alluded to the school for 
Jewish children, established by Mr. Parsons at 
Smyrna, which has been commenced under fa-
vorable auspices. 
Cesarea has now become a 
regular station of the Armenian mission, Messrs. 
Farnsworth and Ball having arrived there on 
the 17th of June. 
Their reception was very 
cordial. 
The street was thronged with curious 
crowds, and the yard of their house with friends 
gathered to welcome them. 
A church is already 
organized at Cesarea with eight members. 
From a letter just received from Mr. Schnei-
der, it appears that eighteen persons were to be 
admitted to the church at Aintab, August 20, 
and others were candidates for the same privi-
lege. 
There is certainly a very remarkable 
state of things at this station. 
The reformation 
has made such progress that the old Armenians 
will not hear from their preachers such dis-
courses as were once satisfactory. 
Of one of 
the Vartebeds the people say, " Does he not 
know that such preaching will not answer here ?" 
On the Sabbath prior to the date of his letter, Mr. 
Schneider says, There were between a hundred 
and one hundred and fifty new hearers, all pro-
fessing the intention of becoming Protestants. 
The death of Mr. Nutting was briefly referred 
to. 
" From Karash and Ressab the intelligence 
continues to be favorable. 
At the former place 
it is expected that a Church will be organized 
very soon. 
At a village near Kessab, all the 
inhabitants (save one, perhaps), have renounced 
their former faith. 
This result was brought 
about, it is said, mainly by the influence of a 
pious Armenian female. 
Mr. Williams, of Mosul, died on the 1st of 
July. 
His loss will be felt severely. 
The readi-
ness of the Moslem to hear the gospel at the 
Mosul dispensary still continues. 
In reference 
to this subject,.Mr. Williams says: 
1 Nothing in the strange ways of the " Ameri-
canees," has so astonished the native Christians, 
as listening to a distinct avowal and enforcement 
of the peculiar doctrines of the cross in the pres-
ence of Moslems ; and more than once have we 
seen them pale with fright at such temerity.' 
On the 1st S abbath in July, four persons 
were admitted to the Church at Ahmednugger; 
on the following Sabbath seven were admitted 
to the church at Madras. 
In both cases, some 
of the converts are quite promising. 
The death 
of Mrs. Vrooman at Canton on the 18th of June 
was mentioned. 
Mr Treat then read a portion 
of a letter just received from Dr. Bridgman. 
who is stationed at Shanghai, giving an account 
of a late visit to the Insurgents at Nanking, &c. 
As he is peculiarly competent tospeak on the 
subject, we will quote what he says : 
" ' The government of the insurgents is a the-
ocracy, the development of what is believed by 
them to be a new dispensation, like that to the 
Israelites under Moses. 
They most distinctly 
avoW a personal intercourse between the heaven-
ly Father and the heavenly Elder Brother, on 
the one hand, and their two principle leaders, 
on the other. 
1 Their government is a mixed form, half politi-
cal and half religious. 
It has an earthly, as 
well as a heavenly, or at least a divine magis-
tracy. 
Their government, moreover, is a royal 
despotism. 
The old Imperial style is laid aside. 
They have no emperor, but a fraternity of kings, 
composed of a heavenly king, an eastern king, 
a western king, a southern king, a northern 
king, and an assistant king. 
These six royal 
personages, according to the testimony given to 
us by their " brethren," are all now resident at 
their new capital, which they call Tien King 
or " Heavenly Capital," and also Shing-ching 
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323 1 
the " Holy City." 
The name of the first king 
is Hung Siutsiuen, or Tai-ping-wang, " great 
peaceful king." 
The name of the second is 
Yang Siu-tsing. 
While Jesus is 'the heavenly 
Father's first horn son, they say that Hung Siu-
tsinen is the heavenly* Father's second son; 
and, most shocking to relate, Yang Siu tsing 
has, to his other titles, taken two terms, which 
in the New Testament are applied to the third 
person of the adorable Trinity, namely, Kiuen-
wet-sz, Gutzlaff's translation of the Comforter, 
and Shing-shii^fung. Morrison's term for the 
Holy Spirit. 
1 This royal brotherhood claims universal^ > 
ereignty on earth. 
This claim they put forth 
in language unequivocal. 
As the heavenly Fa-
ther, the supreme Lord, tjie august high Ruler, 
is the only one true God, the Father of the 
souls of all nations under heaven ; so the heaven-
ly King is the true sovereign of all nations under 
heaven; and as they ought reverently to wor-
ship the one, so ought they to bow submissively, 
and bring tribute, rare and precious gifts, to the 
other! 
' This new government is characterized, as we 
sawit, by remarkable energy, order, and devotion. 
There was, toacertainextentva community of in-
terest. 
Wealth and storeswere in abundance, and 
seemed consecrated to the one great purpose of 
working out their great revolution. 
Their nu-
merical strength and the extent of territory, al-
ready acquired, are great, much greater than 
is generally believed by foreigners. 
Hitherto 
and at present theirs is in a great measure the pro-
cess of breaking down, demolishing the old or-
de - of things. 
Truly the " Breaker has come 
up," 
' As to their religious creed, I have time now 
to say bub a few words. 
While they have ac-
quired much light and knowledge, these are in-
termixed, as you see, with gross darkness and 
ignorance. 
When writing you in May last 
year, I did not hesitate to say that they recog-
nized the doctrine of three persons in the God-
head. 
This I said because they had in their 
hands a version or versions of the Holy Scrip-
tures, and formulas which they held as true, and 
in which it was taught. 
But as now informed, 
1 am constrained 
to doubt if they have any dis-
tinct 
knowledge 
of the divinity 
of the 
Holy 
Spirit.''" 
The Worship of the Virgin. 
OUR readers have already been made aware 
that Pope Pius IX. has summoned a great con-
clave of the chief dignitaries of the Roman 
Catholic Church to meet at Rome, during the 
month of October, to settle the question whether 
the Virgin Mary was herself conceived without 
sin, free by birth from every taint of human im-
purity and imperfection, and thus a divinity who 
may properly be made an object of human adora-
tion. 
Hitherto this dogma has not formed an 
authoritative part of the Roman creed, and has 
been stoutly disputed within the bosom of the 
Church itself, but it is expected by the more 
zealous adherents of the doctrine that it will 
now be finally adopted and made obiligatory on 
all the faithful. 
As far as it can be ascertained by historical 
investigation, the worship of the Virgin was to-
.tally 
unknown among the early 
Christians. 
Neither'the disciples of Christ, the Apostles, the 
founders of the first various churches, nor the 
early Fathers, allowed of any such worship. 
The first signs of it appear about the end of the 
* fourth century among some Thracian or Scythian 
Christian women 
living 
in Arabia. 
These 
women were called in Greek, Collyridians, from 
a small cake, collyris, 
offered by them to the new 
Christian goddess. 
But even at that time the 
example given by Irene, Tertullian, Origen, 
Basil, and Chrysostom, was followed, and Mary 
was considered as any other mortal, and spoken 
of by-theologians with the faults and her virtues. 
Still, the special worship began to extend be-
yond Arabia, and was accepted, to a certain 
degree, by the church in general, and in the fol-
lowing centuries various church-festivals were 
established in honor of the Mother of Christ. 
In the twelfth century, however, the practice 
of Mariol'atry acquired a certain disheveled and 
extravagant character through various orders of 
monks and nuns. 
The immaculate nature of the 
Virgin, however, having thus been recognized in 
this twelfth century, some canons of Lyons took 
up the idea of the immaculate conception from 
her 
mother, and at once marked a day in 
the almanac for its commemoration. 
This in-
vention, however, proved too much for the hard-
hearted order of the Dominicans, those bloody 
off-shoots of the persecution of the Albigenses 
and of Vaucleuse in the south of France. 
The 
gloomy Dominican founder and those friars were 
the authors of the Holy Inquisition, and the 
Dominicans were ordained by the Popes to be the 
managers, purveyors, and masters of ceremonies 
to the auto-da-fes. 
To the present day the Dom-
inicans are the official inquisitors at Rome, and 
the Censure—the Index—is principally in their 
hands. 
As we have mentioned, the Dominicans 
protested against the notion of the immaculate 
conception, and Papal edicts allowed them to 
dispense with this theological subtlety. 
Thomas 
Aquinas, a disciple of Aristotle, wrote likewise 
against it, treating it 'as an absurdity; but Duns 
Scottfs raised his voice in its favor. 
The order 
of Franciscans, founded by one of the least in-
tellectual Italian enthusiasts contained the lead-
ing defenders of the immaculate conception. 
In 
the fourteenth century, the Sorbonne, or Uni-
versity of Paris, decided in its favor, thus cloth-
ing it with a kind of high theological authority. 
The Council of Basilea, the .Popes Sextus IV.. 
Alexander VI. of infamous memory, the Coun-
cil of Trent, and Gregory XIII., decided for 
maintaining the commemorative festival with-
out, however, making of the question a dogma 
for the church. 
The Jesuits, those antagonists and mortal ene-
mies of the Dominicans, espoused from the start 
the cause of the Virgin against them. 
In course 
of time, the Jesuits gave to this worship in gen-
eral a feverish intensity, surrounding it with a 
sentimental and mystical halo, bestowing on it 
the most varied explanations and significations, 
and uplifting it among their adepts, and especial-
ly the lower classes and women. 
Thus they 
secured to themselves a closer and stronger hold 
over excited imaginations. 
Under the new over-
whelming influence and impulse of the Jesuits, 
the present Pope seems to have determined to 
immortalize his name by finally settling the 
question, and eventually inscribing the immacu-
late conception among the binding dogmas of the 
Church. 
That decision we shall probably be able 
to announce within a few weeks. 
Henry Longden—His Conduct as a 
Class-leader. 
[BRO. 
HIMES :—I forward you the following 
article taken from the Wesleyan 
Journal. 
It 
was handed me by one of my 
flock. 
I think it 
may benefit my brethren in the ministry as it has 
me. 
I. 
H. 
SIIIPMAN.] 
" The first objects of my attention were to con-
vince the people of the necessity of punctual at-
tendance, to conform to all the rules of society, 
and to acquaint myself with every member, as 
much as one man may know another; and when 
I had used every human effort of which I was 
capable, then frequently to commend them to 
God in my closet. 
" The Lord gave me the desire of my heart in 
behalf of most of them, and great was our pros-
perity. 
They were very conscientious in their 
attendance : so much so, that we have sometimes 
been the winter quarter, and we have not had 
one absentee, unless detained by sickness, al-
though we lived a quarter of a mile out of the 
town. 
" I made it a duty to call upon those members 
of my class who were heads of families, to know 
the state of their domestic economy, family reg-
ulations, and family religion. 
1 never found 
one involved in difficulty and debt, but they were 
first deranged in their plans of economy; and I 
never found one defective in regular attention 
to family worship, that prospered in personal 
piety. 
Verily, ' godliness with contentment is 
great gain.' 
" By various means I became acquainiel with 
each, nearly as with my own soul, with their be-
setments and temptations, arising from their age, 
sex, circumstances, and situations in life. 
It 
was often sounded in my ears. ' Bid the people 
that they go forward;' and, blessed be God! 
many of us did 
' March hand in hand, 
To Immanuel's land.' 
" In my frequent intercessions for the people, 
God took me into his pavilion. 
It is not proper 
to relate the answers to prayer which I received, 
respecting those who unfortunately began to re-
lax in prayer and watchfulness, in love and 
obedience, and who had begun again to live in 
indulgence of some secret sin. 
The detection 
broke the snare, led to humiliation of soul, 
which often ended in restoration and healing. 
" Every few months we had a trial, arising from 
that which in itself was a cause of thanksgiving. 
The Lord increased our numbers, and the room 
became too small, and it was necessary to divide 
our company. 
This occurred again and again. 
"My experience in my nervous fever taught ma 
to bear with the infirmities of the weak; but I 
ever made a proper distinction between infirmi-
ties and sins. 
I could not, dare not, palliate or 
soften the sins of the unfaithful; and I knew a 
true penitent would always run before me, in 
self-abhorrence and crimination. 
I loved my 
people, and sought to build them up, but only 
uppn a good foundaticm ; and few come among 
us, but those who loved and sought plain deal-
ing. 
When I had confidence of a professor, I 
loved to administer a sovereign balm for every 
wound by the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, and 
all the consolatory promises of the Gospel. 
These soldiers of Christ nobly stood, bearing the 
burden and heat of the day : primitive Metho-
dists, hardy Christians, who denied themselves, 
took up their cross, and followed their Lord and 
Master. 
Foreign News. 
NEW 
YORK, Oct. 6.^The Canada arrived this 
morning with Liverpool dates to the 23d. 
The news is important. 
The Petrel 
steamer 
put back to the Clyde on the 18t.h, dismasted, 
her decks swept and leaking. 
Five of her pas-
sengers out of 111 had died. 
It, is officially annonuced by the French and 
English governments that on the 14th, 58,000 
men landed without opposition at Eupatoria, and 
immediately marched 
upon Sebastopol; 
the 
transports returned to Varna for 14,000 more 
Frenchmen. 
The instructions issued to the troops at Yarna 
at the moment of embarkation had been pub-
lished, and display evidence of the most minute 
care and forethought, and indicate that the in-
tention is to make an immediate attack upon 
Sebastopol. 
A dispatch dated Varna 22d, says from Rus-
sian sources it had been ascertained that the 
Russians did not oppose the landing of the allies, 
because their entire force in the Crimea numbers 
only 38,000 men, besides the garrison in Sebas-
topol 2000 strong. 
The Russians have 30,000 
men and forty-eight guns on the heights leading 
to Sebastopol, and they will defend these heights 
to the utmost. 
The allies march upon Sebastopol by way of 
Simmerssol. 
The first encounter was anticipated 
to take place about the 21st or 22d, unless the 
Russians advanced from their position to meet 
the allies. 
The Russian fleet had again run into Sebasto-
jol, and part of the allied fleet had arrived off 
that fortress. 
It was stated from Constantino-
ple, but as yet unconfirmed, that the Czar at the 
last moment assented to terms, and that a 
steamer was despatched to postpone the; landing, 
but at last advices she had not reached the fleet. 
Ships with troops were off the fortress of Kim-
bura, and Island of Tendra, Odessa, doubtless 
with a view of intercepting Russian reinforce-
ments for the Crimea. 
The English are said to have captured a Rus-
sian express steamer with important despatches, 
off Sebastopol. 
Anapa and KerSch were closely blockaded. 
The evacuation of Moldavia was now complete. 
Gen. Guyon was recalled from Asia. 
Greece makes submission to the Porte, and 
offers a treaty of commerce. 
The rupture with Persia was officially contra-
dicted. 
Spanish affairs were unchanged. 
Th« Belgian Ministerial crisis is over. 
Min-
isters remain. 
English officers have been sent to the Turkish 
army at Kars. 
Prince Napoleon has sent 12.000 muskets to 
Schamyl. 
Persia is menaced by the Turkomans, who 
have taken the fortresses of Mero and Meschid. 
The Grand Duke Constantine was expected at 
Limeropol. 
It is said that the Emperor of the French is 
to visit England shortly before Christmas. 
A diabolical outrage had been perpetrated in 
Ireland. 
About 900 inhabitants of the town of 
Enniskillen and the adjoining neighborhood pro-
ceeded by railroad to Derry on the 15th, and 
had.a grand Protestant and Orange celebration. 
As they were returning the train came in contact 
with a large fragment of rock placed upon the 
rails, instantly killing the Stoker, and wounding 
numerous others, including Lord Enniskillen. 
The deed is stated to have been done by the 
Catholics, and suspicion of it was entertained 
beforQ hand, so that unusual precautions were 
taken, and the train was going at a very slow 
rate at the time, otherwise the loss of life must 
have been frightful. 
ATHENS, Sept. 16.—The French commander 
has again demanded that 2000 troops be received 
at Athens. 
The King refused, declaring he 
would leave his capital should the Ministry ac-
cede to the demand. 
VIENNA, 
Wednesday.—The 
Fremden 
Bladt 
states that on the 13th all the Strand batteries 
recently erected at Odessa, were destroyed by 
part of the allied fleet. On the 12th, a powder 
magazine exploded at Perkop. 
There is said to 
have been a great loss of life on the part of the 
Russians. 
Two vessels of the allies were also 
damaged. 
This despatch needs confirmation. 
ST. 
PETERSBURG, 
14th.—A number of regi-
ments have been inspected by the Emperor, and 
marched to share in the campaign of the South. 
CONSTANTINOPLE, 17th.—While the embarka-
tion at Varna was being proceeded with, a Turk-
ish steamer upset two gun boats, and twenty 
zonaves were drowned. 
The fleet which left the mouth of the Danube 
the 9th of Sept., met with a serious accident, an 
English and two French transports having foun-
dered. 
The Greek ambassador has returned to Con-
stantinople. 
It length we 'have decisive news from the 
Crimea, being in brief the landing of the great 
expedition Hp on which the eyes of the whole 
civilized world are now 
fixed. 
We have bu't 
few details, but the statement is that on the 14th 
of September 25,<000 French, 25,000 English, 
and 8,000 Turks, landed successfully, and with-
out resistance, at -Eupatoria. 
These 
troops 
commenced the march on Sebastopol, and the 
j 
transports returned to Varna for more troops. 
The allied fleet, arranged in the order of battle, 
j 
were at the time before Sebastopol, in the ex-
pectation that the Russian fleet would come out 
and commence the attack. 
Eupatoria, or Kas-
solv, is situated on Kalamita Bay, and is de-
scribed as a town of 8000 to 10,000 inhabitants. 
There are two routes to Sebastopol-; the coast 
rout would occupy about six days marching, 
j 
and the route by the interior about twelve days. 
There will undoubtedly be a battle at some 
point on the .route, but with a force of from 80, 
000 to' 90,000 of the best 'troops in the world, 
the allies do not expect any serious -resistance. 
Indeed, the English speak of the taking of Se-
bastopol as a fixed fact. 
It seems to be gener-
ally believed that Omar Pasha will checkmate 
the Czar in Bessarabia, by carrying the war 
there, and thus prevent the concentration of an 
overwhelming Russian force in the Crimea. 
The second expedition to the Crimea -is to 
sail and reinforce the first as soon as the neces-
sary steamers can be spared. 
It is already 
collected at Varna, and will be composed of 
20,000 men, including a large cavalry force. 
The Crimea is nominally under the command 
j 
of Prince Menchikoff. 
From various sources, 
we learn that the Czar is pushing all his dispos-
able forces into the Crimea. 
A letter from a resident at Odessa says that 
that port was bombarded by the allies on the 7th 
of September, and adds the following in regard 
to the preparations made to receive the enemy 
by the Russians: 
" Prince Menchikoff had exhausted 
every 
means of defence in order to render Sebastopol 
impregnable by sea and land. 
Between Sebas-
topol and Balaklava, five strong detached forts 
have been built, which are manned by a corres-
ponding number of troops. 
The road from Bala-
klava toJalta has been broken up here and 
there, and mined. 
The reach of coast from Se-
bastopol to Eupatoria is defended at irregular 
intervals by six batteries. 
Round Eupatoria 
three forts have been built—north, south, and 
east. 
This place is garrisoned by 15;000 men. 
The heights around Sebastopol are surrounded 
with trenches and ditches, crowned with 18 bat-
teries, and defended by 20,000 men. 
The.garri-
son of Sebastopol amounts to not more than 10-
000 men; and if you add to them the crew of 
the fleet, the place itself will be defended by 25-
000 men. 
Priroe Menchikoff has prepared his 
1' 
people for the worst in a proclamation he is-
sued on the 3d inst." 
Some of the English papers are inclined to 
doubt the statement that Odessa has been bom-
barded. 
It is stated that there is not now 
a Russian soldier, either in Wallachia or 'the 
Dobrudsha, and the Austrians are in possesion of 
both provinces. 
Erom the Baltic fleet we have 
the following: \ 
" Her Majesty's cruisers having towed' 'the 
French ships and British transports, with'the 
troops on board, returning back to France out-of 
the Baltic, returned to their cruising .ground 
immediately. 
In the'Gulfs ofFinland and Both-
nia, a number of -Dutch vessels sought to enter 
the blockaded ports. They were, however, speed-
ily intercepted, and Her-Majesty's ship -Archer 
sent one, the Minima.; 
into Memel. 
She is 
h.djn with Hollands, cheese, and miscellaneous 
produce, and with her cargo, will be sent home 
to England for condemnation. 
The fleets have entirely left Aland." 
A large number of persons in South Wales 
have left, and others are still preparing>to follow, 
for the Mormonitesettlements in-North America. 
These persons are principally from the counties 
of Carmarthan and Glamorgan, and-many have 
given up a comfortable home and subsistence, 
in order to seek .their paradise on the banks of 
the Salt Lake. 
A very large exodus of these 
deluded people has taken place from South 
Wales, and, if -anything, the -movement is on 
the increase. 
The emigrants are principally 
small farmers, mechanics, iron-workers, colliers, 
&c., with here and there persons of a better 
class. 
They make their way to Liverpool, Bris-
tol, or Plymouth, and thence start for JVew 
Orleans, where they ascend the river to their 
new settlement. 
The Madrid journals of the 16th and 17th 
have nothing important in them, and no allusion 
is made to the search after M. Soule, mentioned 
in a private telegraphic despatch from -Bayonne. 
The capital of Spain is represented by a private 
letter to be tranquil as tegards the surface of 
things, but the government 
has to contend 
against both Republican and Carlist intrigues, 
and doubts are expressed of the firmness and en-
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ergy of Espartero. 
The Republicans in Madrid 
although not very numerous, are very active; 
and as long as French political refugees are al-
lowed to reside there, this party, although nu-
merically weak, will be strong in influence. 
It 
appears, however, that the Spanish Government 
is aware of its danger, and has commenced 
measures of precaution. 
On the 16th, says one 
of the letters from Madrid, three well-known 
refugees were ordered to quit Madrid, and it was 
expected that the expulsion of persons of this 
kind would soon become general. 
A letter from Paris of the 19th Sept., says, 
Mr. Soule, the American ambassador at Madrid, 
who, according to the yet unexplained tele-
graphic despatch of yesterday, was hiding from 
the Spanish police, arrived at Toulouse on the 
17th, accompanied by Mr. Sickles, the U. S. 
Secretary of Legation at London. 
ITALY.—In the month of December Pio Nio-
no intends to decide ex cathreda upon the immac-
ulate conception of the Holy Virgin; he has 
already collected the written opinions of the most 
eminent prelates living on the subject, most of 
whom—indeed, I believe, all—agree with him-
self in admitting the immaculate conception ; 
he has sent an encyclica t<5 all prelates " in 
grace and communion with the Holy See," re-
questing their prayers, and authorizing them to 
institute jubilees and grant indulgences on the 
occasion ; and, finally, he has invited two bish-
ops at least to repair to Rome from every Cath-
olic country to be present'at the great ceremony. 
The rumors of upwards of a thousands bishops 
being convened in council by his holiness are 
much exaggerated; jt being the policy of the 
Holy See to avoid councils, in whatsoever shape, 
as much as possible. 
INDIA 
AND 
CHINA.—By the overland mail, 
dates are received of Calcutta Aug. 5; Bombay 
Aug. 1; Madras Aug. 11; and China July 2'2. 
We quote from the summary in an English pa-
per : 
" Numerous pirate fleets are cruising all over 
the east coast, and one numbering fifty junks, 
crowded with men, had lately congregated with-
in forty miles of Fu-chau. 
'1 Amoy remains quiet; and at Swatow an ex-
tensive trade in sugar is fast springing up. 
" From Shanghai we have news by the Bar-
racouts, from which we gather that the affairs 
of the rebels, were gradually growing more des-
perate. 
They had received some re-inforcement 
in numbers, but want and sickness were making 
s%d havoc within the walls, and dissentions were 
fast springing up amonst them. 
We have also further news from Nankin, 
giving a still blacker shade to the very dark 
picture already presented. 
New books and new 
revelations have been brought down, a translation 
of one of which has been sent to the 
Herald, 
and we may judge of its nature when the editor 
assures us that it is so " blasphemous, silly, and 
absurb," that he even hesitates to allow a line 
to sully his columns, while he regards it as con-
taining such an admixture of error, pride, and 
presumption as to "paralyze the hopes entertained 
for missionary labors, and the extension of Chris-
tianity, for a long time to come." 
The fanata-
cism and blasphemy of both leaders and people 
are reported to be of the most revolting kind 
The eastern and western kincs respectively per 
sonate the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, and 
among the chiets generally ignorance and im-
posture contend for mastery. 
scribes." And they said, (Matt. 13:54,) " Whence 
hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty 
words?" 
A " word " is put by a synecdoche for the words 
of consolation which he should speak to the sor-
rowing—for which " weary " is put by substitu-
tion. 
He said to such, (Matt. 11:28-30,) " Come 
unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. 
Take my yoke upon 
you, and learn of me : for I am meek and lowly in 
heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For 
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." 
To waken morning by morning, is to awaken 
every morning. 
To waken the ear as the learned, 
or as those who learn, as some render it, is put 
by substitution for his being made attentive to the 
reception of the teachings which he was commis-
sioned to impart—the ear, an inlet to the mind, 
being a metonymy for the mind which thus be-
comes attentive. 
The figure is taken from the acts 
of teachers who rouse up their scholars early in 
the morning, to communicate to them the lessons 
of wisdom which they are to impart to others. 
The Lord hath opened ray ear, 
And I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked 
off the hair : 
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.—vs. 5, 6. 
Opening the ear, according to Wm. Lowth, was 
a Hebrew metaphor for making known something 
to another. 
The Saviour did not decline the com-
mission communicated to him—not to turn away 
back being put by substitution for not refusing to 
fulfil the sacrificial office. He did pray, (Matt* 
26:39,) " 0 my Father, if it be possible, let this 
cup pass from me ;" but he immediately added : 
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." 
And 
so, (Phil. 2:8,) " he humbled himself, and became 
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." 
For he said, (Heb. 10:7,) " Lo I come (in the vol-
ume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy 
will 0 God." 
He gave his back to the smiters, &c., when Pi-
late, (John 19:1-3,) " took Jesus and scourged 
him. 
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, 
and put it on his head, and they put on him a pur-
robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews ! and 
they smote him with the palms of their hands." 
Matt. 26:67—" Then did they spit in his face, and 
buffeted him ; and others smote him with their 
hands." 
This being the only scripture where there is a 
prediction that he should be spit upon, the Saviour 
must have had reference to it when he said, (Luke 
18:31-33,) " All things that are written by the 
prophets concerning the Son of man shall be ac-
complished. 
For he shall be delivered unt(* the 
Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully en-
treated, and spitted on ; and they shall scourge 
him, and put him to death : and the third day he 
shall rise again." 
And this proves that the Sa-
viour was the subject of this prediction. 
To submit to being spit upon, was to submit to 
the grossest indignity that could be offered—it be-
ing considered insulting by the orientals even to 
spit in the presence of another. 
" To spit in the 
king's presence, or in the presence of each other, 
was an act of indecency." 
{Herod, B. i. 99.) 
It 
was also considered an unpardonable insult even 
to touch the beard of another contemptously; and 
an Oriental will resent nothing sooner than an in-
sult offered to his beard.' But such, and greater 
insults, the Saviour, for our sakes, voluntarily en 
dured. 
He willingly undertook a work which he 
knew would be attended with such indignities. 
BOSTON, OCTOBER 14, 
1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it Qod 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 
erly disputation. 
THE 
PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER L. 
The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned, 
That I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is 
. 
weary: 
% 
He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as 
the learned.—v. 4. 
The speaker here, is evidently the Messiah. 
The 
" tongue of the learned " is put by a metonymy 
for an ability to instruct,—a fitness to impart 
knowledge. 
His teaching was so wonderful that 
even the Jewish officers were deterred from taking 
him, saying (John 7:46,) " Never man ppake like 
this man." 
For. (Matt. 7:28, 29,) " The people 
were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught 
hem as one having authority, and not as the 
27:24,) " that just person ;" and declared, (Luke 
23:4,) " I find no fault in him." 
And the won-
ders which God wrought at his crucifixion, com-
pelled the Roman centurion to exclaim, (Luke 
23:47,) " Certainly this was a righteous man." 
Those who would bring charges against him, 
are challenged to stand with him for the trial of 
their accusations before an impartial judgment: 
to stand together, and to come near, being put by 
substitution for the mutual submission of such 
charges to such a tribunal. 
Rom. 8:31, 33—"If 
God be for us who can be against us. . . . Who 
shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? 
It is God that justifieth." 
While the Messiah should come off victorious 
over all his foes, they would become old and per-
ish. 
A garment that is cast aside soon becomes 
moth-eaten and worthless : by a simile their decay 
is illustrated by its waxing old; and by a meta-
phor their being eaten by moths, affirms their de 
struction. 
Who is among you that feareth the Lord, 
That obeycth the voice of his servant, 
That walketh in darkness, and hath no light? 
Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. 
—u.10. 
To walk in darkness, is put by substitution for 
mental sorrow, a sense of depravity, or affliction and 
gloom of any kind. 
All such by the apostrophe, 
are exhorted to put their trust in Jehovah. 
The 
Psalmist said, (23:4,) 
"Yea, 
though I walk 
through the valley of the shadow of death, I will 
fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and 
thy staff they comfort me." 
The" name of the Lord " is put by metonymy for 
the Lord ; and to " stay " upon him is a metaphor 
expressive of firm reliance on him. 
Jehoshaphat said to Israel, ( 2 Chron. 20:20,) 
" Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be es-
tablished ; believe his prophets, so shall ye pros-
per. 
And David said, (Pea. 20:7,) " Some trust 
in chariots, and some in horses ; but we will re-
member the name of the Lord our God." 
The Appellative ot Common Words in so foil afid 
large a manner, that any Verse may be readily 
found by looking for any material Word in it. 
In this part, the various Significations of the prin-
ciple Words are given ; by which the true Mean-
ing of many Passages of Scripture is shown : An 
Account of several Jeivisn Customs and Ceremonies 
is also added, which may serve to illustrate many 
Parts of Scripture. 
2. The Proper Names in the Scriptures. 
To 
this Part is prefixed a Table, containing the Sig-
nifications of the Words in the Original Languages 
from which they are derived. 
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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about 
with sparks: 
Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kin-
dled. 
This shall ye have of mine hand ; ye shall lie down in sorrow. 
—v. 11. 
The tormer verse was addressed to all who sought 
Divine consolation. This is addressed to those who 
seek to remove the darkness from their path-way 
by efforts of their own. 
To kindle a fire and to 
compass themselves with sparks, are put by substi-
tution for the adoption of plans for their salvation, 
and to walk in their light, is a figure of the same 
kind for abiding by them. 
The direction thus to 
walk is ironically spoken ; the consequences of so 
doing being immediately announced. 
Thus we 
read in Eccl. 11:9—"Rejoice, O young man, in thy 
youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in days of thy 
youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and 
in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that 
for all these things God will bring thee into jud-
ment." 
" Hand," the instrument of action, is put by a 
metonymy for God himself: and the declaration 
that they shall lie down in sorrow, is a substi-
tution for the wretched end which will overtake 
all who forsake Jehovah. 
Psa. 16:4—"Their sor 
row shall be multiplied that hasten after another 
God." 
Matt. 25:4,—" These shall go away in 
to everlasting punishment: but the righteous in-
to life eternal." 
For the Lord God will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded 
Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not 
be ashamed.—v. 7. 
When the Saviour prayed, if it were possible 
for the removal of that cup, " and his sweat was 
as it were great drops of blood falling to the 
ground," (Luke 22:43,) " there appeared an angel 
unto him from heaven strengthening him." 
And 
so he was Divinely sustained amid all the cruel-
ties heaped on him. 
To assume a determined ex-
pression of the face, is put by substitution for de-
cision of the mind ; and its comparison, by a simile, 
to a flint, illustrates the unyielding nature of this 
determination. 
Thus God said toEzekiel, (3:8,9,) 
" Behold, I have made thy face strong against 
their faces, and thy forehead strong against their 
foreheads. 
As an adamant, harder than flint have 
E made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be 
dismayed at their looks." 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD, 
• 325 
skeptically inclined. 
" 
THE 
THEOLOGICAL 
AND 
LITERARY 
JOURNAL.— 
Edited by David N. Lord. Number XXVI. 
Octo-
ber, 1854. 
New York : Published by Franklin 
Knight, 138 Nassua-street. 
1854." 
We have received the October Number of this 
valuable Quarterly, which now needs no commen-
dation of ours. 
The following are its Contents. 
ART. 1 .—The Truth of the Laws of 
Symbolization 
and the Importance of their 
Results. 
The question whether they are true or not of 
great moment. 
The principle on which symbols are used. 
Distinction between analogy and exact sameness. 
The main laws of symbols. 
Their chief characteristics. 
The spheres from which they are taken. 
The false principle on which they proceed who 
misinterpret them. 
Conclusion. 
ART II. The Exposition of Romans 
11. 12, 15, 
25. 
ART, III. The Parables of the New 
Testament. 
The principle on which they are employed. 
The sphere from which they are taken. 
Their characteristics and laws. 
Their two classes. 
The scene of the kingdom of 
God they 
are 
chiefly employed to illustrate. 
The reason that Christ taught by parables. 
The parable of the two builders ; its object. 
The sayings of Christ to which it refers. 
The analogy of the two buildings to Christ's 
hearers. 
The analogy of the trial of the buildings to the 
trial of Christ's hearers. 
Lessons taught by the parable. 
The parable of the sower. 
The principle on which it is framed. 
The hearers represented by the way-side ground. 
Those denoted by the rocky ground. 
Those represented by the thorn ground. 
Those devoted by the good ground. 
Truth taught by the parable. 
ART. IV. The Apostolic 
Commission. 
ART. V. The Plurality 
of Inhabited 
Worlds. 
ART. VI. Notes O/ 
Scripture. 
• ART. VII. A Designation 
and Exposition of the 
Figures of Isaiah, Chapter 
XXVlll. 
ART. VIII. Hints to Orthodox 
Antimillenarians. 
ART. IX. The Tactics of a Class oj 
Antimillen-
arians. 
ART. X. Literary 
and Critical 
Notices. 
1. Dr. Lord's Essay on the Millennium. 
2. Dr. Cooper's Lectures on Odd-Fellowship. 
3. Dr. Cumming's Lectures on Romanism. 
4. Dr. Upham's Religious Maxims. 
5. Mr. Nicholson's Discourse on Christ's Ascen-
sion. 
6. Conversations on the Office of Ruling Elder. 
7. Symbolic Prophecy. 
8. Defence of the Eclipse of Faith. 
9. The British Periodicals. 
10. Mr.Goodell's Changes in the East. 
11. The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative 
Language. * 
LETTER FROM ELDER JONATHAN COLE. 
BRO. HIMES :—I want the privilege of conveying 
my feelings to the Advent brethren. 
DEAR BRETHREN :—Are we firm in the belief that 
the Advent cause originated, and has thus far suc-
ceeded by the agency of the Holy Spirit? 
If so, 
are we not actually withholding that assistance 
which the cause requires and our duty to do at 
this time. 
Is it not as much as brother Himes 
ought to bear, to stand in the front of the battle 
and expose himself to all of the artillery the ene-
mies of the cause can muster, without being ein-
barrased for want of means to honorably sustain 
the printing of the Herald, and himself and family 
in his arduous missionary labors. 
Is it not giving 
the enemies of the cause occasion to think we are 
not sincere in what we profess to believe? 
It 
looks so to me. 
Now for a proposition. 
I will be one of twenty 
to raise one thousand dollars, payable by the 
fifteenth day of January next; to be appropriated 
for the uses above mentioned. 
And as others may 
concede, let them send in their names for insertion 
in the Herald to encourage others. 
I do think it 
is not only taxing brother Himes more than he in 
Christian charity ought to bear, but the cause it-
self is now suffering in consequence of our neglect.. 
Brethren let me have the pleasure of seeing your 
names inserted in the Herald soon. 
Yours truly, 
JONATHAN 
COLE. 
Salisbury Center, N. Y., Oct. 2d, 1854. 
I received the above letter with joy and surprise. 
It was difficult to accQunt for such a movement in 
the mind of our father in the gospel. 
I had laid 
my case, and that of the office before God. 
And 
there I left it, trusting in Him by whom I had been 
sustained thus far. 
I had one more duty to per-
form, in connexion with my humble prayers. 
That 
was to address a note to such friends of the cause 
as would be likely to appreciate my case and ren-
der me aid. 
The appeal of father Cole supercedes 
this, as all who are interested will be likely not 
only to see it, but also to sympathise in his benevo-
lent spirit. 
. 
r' 
I have said but little of the financial condition 
of the office for some time past, I had hoped by 
untiring devotion to the cause, and economical 
management, to free the office from all embarras-
sment and to sustain myself and family. ' But dur-
ing the last year, activ§ and virulent influences 
have been at work, much to the injury of the office. 
I regret to say, that nearly all the old slanders 
against me have been revived, revamped, and others 
added. 
These wicked'and false reports have been 
used to injure the circulation of the Herald, and 
the publications of the office generally. 
1 forbear 
to repeat any of these things. 
I would have 
avoided a reference to them, if I could in justice 
to a suffering cause. 
My warfare with 
these 
elements closed in their utter defeat in their at-
tempt to break me down in the memorable suit at 
Providence, R. I. 
While this class of persons 
have been doing what they could to ciipple and 
break down this office, it is due to truth that 1 
should say that the friends of the office have been 
mindful of the interests of the office, and have kept 
up the list of the Herald in a good degree. 
But in 
other respects very little help has been received to 
aid my free distribution of tracts and papers; or 
in my missionary labor. 
While I bear testimony 
to the liberality of brethren in all the places where 
I have labored, I have also to add that it has not 
been in their power, in many places to do more 
than meet my traveling expenses. 
While in others 
a competency has been raised. 
As I know no other 
work, or interest on earth, then that of the Advent 
cause, I am obliged to look to the fruits of my 
labor, in this work for the support of those depend-
ing upon me. 
While I make no claim, or even appeal for aid, 
having made the above statement, which I believe 
is due to me, and the cause 1 serve, I only add a 
few facts relative to the state of the office. 
There is now due the office, from those who have 
gone into definite time, the Saturday Sabbath, and 
other things, who withhold or refuse to pay, more 
than 
. 
$500. 
The office has expended during the past year in 
sending the Herald to the poor, and in donations 
of books, above receipts for those objects, about 
There is now due from subscribers to the Herald 
for past volumes ending July 1st, about 
$2,000. 
There is also due on book account, besides that 
enumerated in the first item, about .... 
$200. 
Making about 
$3,000, 
now due the office, which on every principle o!,' 
honor and honesty, should be paid. 
By the risa 
in the price of paper, our expenses for that article 
alone have been about $300 more the past yea? 
then they would otherwise have been ; and other 
things, expense of living, &c., have been propor 
tionally increased, without any increase of income 
from the paper. 
1 must have immediately, front 
the above or other sources at least $2,000, to meet 
the wants of the office—my debt for paper alonet 
being over one thousand. 
If these sums due the office could be collected, 
it will be seen that brother Cole would have no oc1, 
casion to make a proposition to aid me, or maku 
so liberal an offer to make up the sum he has pro-
posed. 
If those indebted to the office will withhold 
their dues, then the friends of our bleeding cause, 
if they mean it shall live and prosper, will have to 
render liberal aid. 
And why should it not be sus-
tained. 
Is not the Saviour soon to come? 
Have 
we not got the truth on this great subject? 
Do 
we not hold it in a healthful gospel purity ? 
And 
is not this the work, and just the work our Saviour 
requires at our hand ? 
So I think, and what abili-
ty I have, henceforth I hope to be able to devoto 
to this glorious cause. 
The Paschal Moon. 
BRO. HIMES :—My motto is, " owe no man any 
thing,"—" honor to whom honor is due; and an 
you have laid me under obligations by faithfully 
exposing my error in supposing there was a pass-
over full moon on Friday, A.D. 37. 
I hasten to 
return you my thanks for so doing. 
A good 
cause never is benefitted by error, and I am always 
glad to exchange error for truth. 
1 made up my 
mind several years since to be honest in my reli-
gion, believing that would keep me so in other 
things. 
And in no way can a person more surely 
obtain my gratitude than by exposing my errors 
in my religious faith. 
I am satisfied my error arose from the fact of 
Ferguson's placing the crucifixion in the true era, 
A.D. 37 * which I had confounded with the vulgar 
era ; and as necessity required a paschal full moon 
on Friday of the same year, 1 therefore inferred 
one in A.D. 37 on the authority of Ferguson, in 
which error I was confirmed by the declaration of 
the same by a writer in the Crisis. 
When L wrote 
that article (which was more than five months 
since,) and which I supposed long ere this lost in 
the rubbish of the office of The Crisis, I looked for 
my table of authority, but could not find it. 
1 
wrote therefore from memory. 
The fact is, not ex-
pecting to have use for my Advent statistics and 
publications, I have during my long illness kept 
giving them away until I have but very few left. 
My Advent library is all gone except vols. 1 and 2. 
I consequently wrote from memory, or a depend-
ence (in many things) upon others statements. 
1 
mention these things not merely as an apology, but 
as the facts in the case. 
In view of the above, I cheerfully renounce my 
error, and acknowledge that with the present light, 
I see no authority for extending to, or terminating 
the 2300 day-period this year. 
And hope that any 
and all who have been influenced by my statement 
to adopt the argument, seeing its error, will at 
once promptly reject and expose it. We have true 
reasons enough for expecting Christ soon, yea, this 
year, without depending upon false ones. 
But I 
close, brother H.,by resuming my expression of 
thanks for your faithful and lucid exposure of my 
error. 
Yours in hope of seeing Jesus soon, 
8. Falls, Oct. 3d, 1854. 
E. R. 
PINNEY. 
N. B. I hope you will let my infirmities excuse 
me for not eppying this. 
I expect to leave for 
Rochester on a visit. 
I have been permitted by 
God's blessing to visit my aged parents once more 
and probably for the last time. 
My general health 
is much better than it has been and I am at pres-
ent quite comfortable not having had a swelling 
for some weeks. 
But my cancer grows worse very 
fast, it has got to be a fearful looking sore. 
My 
family are all qliite well. 
Yours, 
E. R. 
PINNEY. 
REMARKS.—The above is frank and 
Christian, 
and is just what might be expected from one actu-
ated by Christian principles. 
It is always a pleas-
ure to spend time and labor to enlighten those who 
can, like brother Pinney, appreciate, and like him 
have candor to acknowledge the correction. 
In 
the present case brother Bliss feels amply paid for 
the complicated calculation which was necessary 
to arrive at the astronomical position of the moon 
at the time referred to. 
We sincerely sympathize with brother P. in his 
sufferings. 
There is however deliverance in pros-
pect. 
* A.D. being a chronological technicality, should never be 
used only in connection with the vulgar era. 
When we refer to the 
true 
epoch of Christ's birth, it should be omitted.—ED. 
Convocation of Catholic Rishopg. 
The first Council of the Catholic Bishops and 
other Ecclesiastical dignitaries of the province of 
New York, assembled in New York on Sunday, 
the 1st inst. 
The ceremonies of the occasion were imposing and 
novel in that latitude. 
The Council assembled at 
the house of the Archbishop, and dressed in the 
full regalia of the Church, proceeded to the Cathe-
dral in Mott street. 
The procession was headed 
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wuy oi wmcn it is stated, naa oeen concentrated 
by a priest carrying the cross, and Archbishop&i 
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(<Qn the heights about Sebastopol. 
A letter from 
Hughes carrying the pastoral staff, or crozier 
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' °des8a says: « The heights in front of Sebastopol 
private judgment. 
My political sovereign has no 
right to demand my obedience to any order con-
trary to the law of God, and he has not been con-
stituted my judge to interpret authoritatively that 
law for me, or for any one else." 
The Concord Grape. 
WE were much interested, some weeks since, in 
a visit to the nursery grounds of Mr. E. W. Bull 
of Concord, Mass.—the originator of the justly cel-
ebrated " Concord Grape"—a new variety. 
And 
now we have been doubly gratified in the receipt 
of a box of the clusters of the ripe fruit. 
It is a 
seedling of the second generation, from the fruit of 
an old and valuable vine on his estate, and of 
course a native. 
Its wood is therefore hardy and 
adapted to this climate ; while it is celebrated as 
a prolific bearer, and an early ripener. 
The fruit 
is delicious and fully equal to the Isabella grape 
in flavor, while it exceeds the Catawba in the 
abundance and excellence of its juice, and it is 
therefore a desireable wine, as well as eating grape. 
Cuttings from it are being sought for by grape 
growers in all directions; and at $5, each, Mr. 
Bull is-unable to supply the demand. 
We learn that he has some thousands of them 
in process of rooting for the demand of the coming 
season. 
Did we own a foot of ground, where we 
could sit under our vine, we should have one grow-
ing over our head. 
Sebastopol. 
THE last advices from Europe mentioned that the 
main body of the allied army of the Western pow-
ers had landed at Eupatoria, and commenced its 
march on Sebastopol. 
The strength of the army 
is stated at 25,000 French, 25,000 English, and 
8000 Turks. 
The transports had returned to Varna 
for the reserve. 
It was stated that the army would 
advance by the way of Simferopol, instead of by the 
shorter route along fhe coast. 
The distance to 
be traversed if the interior route is taken cannot 
be less than one hundred miles. 
The 
London 
Morning 
Chronicle considers it probable that the 
adoption of this route will secure the troops against 
their most formidable difficulty—the water. 
For 
about the first twenty miles, the line of march ap-
pears to run along the banks of the lakes, without 
any vestige of a running stream ; but, further on, 
there are everywhere rivers at no great distances; 
and beyond Simferopol, the road passes successive-
ly near the sources of the Alma, the Katcha, and 
the Belbec. 
The allies have ere this undoubtedly measured 
their strength with the Russian army, the main 
body of which it is stated, had been concentrated 
brought up the rear. 
The Pontifical High Mass 
of the Holy Ghost was preformed, after which the 
Archbishop delivered the inaugural sermon. 
The 
performance of the service lasted four hours with-
out intermission. 
The business of the convocation, which will be 
conducted in private, will commence to-day. 
The 
Tribune referring to the Archbishop's sermon, re-
marks : 
" The Bishop does Dot distinctly declare the ob-
jects for which the Convention was called, but the 
tenor of his discourse leaves no room to doubt 
that the convocation was dictated, or at least much 
hastened by the Know-Nothing movement and the 
street preaching disturbances here and in other 
cities." 
It may sound somewhat strange to American 
ears to hear the term province applied to independ-
ent States in this republic. 
Yet they are regarded 
by the papists only as provinces of the Papal See 
—the Pope claiming spiritual sovreignty 
over 
every one who is in communion with the hierarchy 
of Rome. 
And the allegiance which every Papist 
rccognizes as due to that foreign potentate is such, 
that he cannot intelligently take the oath of alle-
giance to this country without being guilty of 
perjury. 
It is true that they claim that the Pope 
is only their spiritual guardian, but yet their spir-
itual allegiance to him is such, that he has only 
to ignore any or all enactments of this government, 
and the conscience of every Catholic feels bound 
to 
obey the Pope's mandate. 
The Pope thus 
wields a veto power over the doings of every State 
in America—so far as the obediance of Papists is 
concerned. 
And 
thus Brownson 
Jesuistically 
says: 
" I owe no duties to my country but such as 
are prescribed by the law of God ; and the only 
authority the Pope has over me as a citizen is his 
authority as the spiritual guardian and judge of 
that law as binding on my conscience. 
He, at the 
very lowest, I think, is as likely to interpret and 
apply that law justly, as is Franklin Pierce, or 
Chief Justice Taney, or as I should be in my own 
which are encircled by redoubts and trenches, are 
armed with eighteen batteries, and defended by 
20,000 men. 
The garrison of Sebastopol is only 
10,000 strong, but, if we add to this number the 
crew of the fleet, the fortress is defended by 25,000 
men." 
This is probably not the whole disposable 
force of the Russians. 
The Czar has had ample 
time to prepare for the defence of his most impor-
tant military and naval station on the Black Sea, 
and the invading army will have to cope with a 
strong and determined foe. Advices from that quar-
ter must be awaited with the deepest 
anxiety. 
The defences of Sebastopol are so strong that its 
capture, except by an overwhelming force, would 
be one of the greatest military achievements of the 
age. 
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS IN 
MAINE.— 
There is a desire for a general gathering of Ad-
ventists in Me. , on the part of many of the early, 
steadfast, and faithful friends of the cause. 
It is 
proposed, therefore, to hold a conference, to com-
mence Nov. 9th, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Some of the objects of this meeting will be to 
form a better acquaintance with each other—to 
learn each other's views, and also to hear reports 
of the state of the cause within the bounds of the 
State, and to provide for the destitute, &c. 
The 
meeting will be held at Richmond. 
Brethren will 
be provided for, and it is hoped that there will be 
a general gathering, from all parts of the State. 
The " reasons of our hope," and the evidence, of 
the speedy coming of Christ, will be fully given. 
J. V, 
HIMES. 
ORDINATION AT LAWRENCE, MASS.—Bro. William 
Eustis Burnham, will be set apart to the work of 
the ministry, on Wednesday evening, Oct 18th. 
Preaching on the 19th in the evening. 
Brethren in the ministry, and members of the 
churches in the vicinity are respectfully invited, 
The church is much revived and encouraged un-
der the labors of Brother B. 
J. V. HIMES 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we"ake of any scripture, from 
he friends of the Herald. 
THE SIGNS OF OUR LORD'S RETURN. 
BRO. 
IIIMES :—Your answer to the " inquiries " 
of sister Burnham in relation to the " darkening 
of the sun " after " the tribulation of those days," 
excites in my mind a desire to say a few words on 
that vexed question. 
I have for many years held 
decided opinions which I think are very clearly 
sustained by the testimony of the prophets, and of 
Christ in Matt. 24th, Mark 13th, Luke 21st, and 
subsequent history; and which to my mind are 
unequivocal, which lead me to the conclusion and 
confirm me in it, that the signs of the Lord's com-
ing. " the darkening of the sun," " the fall of the 
stars," the sea and waves roaring, men's hearts 
failing (expiring) within them for fear, for look' 
ing after those things that are coming upon the 
earth, are all and entirely in the future; that 
when they are fulfilled, or come to pass, they will 
be fulfilled completely as a whole scene, not as 
portions covering ages; and, I trust, I may be 
permitted to give some of my reasons for differing 
so widely from you and so great a number of Ad-
ventists in this matter. 
To be sure my opinion is not worth a rush as 
such ; and I would not obtrude it before your 
readers but for the consideration that the affirma^ 
tion of the " signs past " is making such havoc 
among the simple minded of our brethren and sis-
ters, and, taught by experience in the past, what 
moral disasters and erroneous interpretation of the 
prophetic scriptures can produce, and conceiving 
it to be more conformable to my duty not to with-
hold anything whicn may tend to prevent such dis-
asters, if I have any means of correcting such in-
terpretations, and feeling persuaded in my own 
mind, I have in this case, although very ill quali 
fied for the task. I therefore would with a deep 
feeling of modesty, proceed to a brief examination 
of the question proposed by sister Alice Burnham 
(in all defference to you, because I object to your 
answer.) 
1. Has the sun been darkened to fulfil 
Matt. 24:29? 
I would answer unhesitatingly, no,.i 
certainly not. 
My reasons are, 1st, because the powers of the 
heavens have not been shaken so as to make men's 
hearts fail [or expire within] them for fear, &c. 
; 2. Because by " seeing " these things—the dark-
ening of the snn, &c., we have not " known " that 
his coming was " even at the door." 
3. Because the tribulation of those days have 
not yet in any sense had an " afterwards," the 
" sorrows " are yet severe in the " wringing out 
the dregs " of it. 
4. Because it is not like the predictions of God 
for the instruction of his people, to fulfil his all 
important signals in portions covering a period of 
150 years—those signals to be " seen " too in one 
Beason, any more than the fig-tree's budding cov-
ers portions of many years to indicate one ensuing 
summer. 
5. Since the pretended darkening of the sun, or 
darkenings, we have lived a long time and have not 
" seen " the remaining signs of the series, and the 
plainest rules of language oblige us to conclude 
that the whole series occur in consecutive order. 
6. Because (I believe) there is no record of the 
sun having been darkened since the crucifixion. 
The Lord declared the " sun shall be darkened "— 
dark days in certain localities make out no proof 
of the darkening of the sun. 
Permit me to attempt to sustain each of my rea-
sons by God's word, and cjuimon sense. 
1. The powers of the heavens shaking is given as 
a reason why men's hearts fail for seeing the dis-
tress of nations with perplexity, the tribes of the 
earth mourning, &c., which is evidently occasioned 
by the darkening of the sun, &c., so we read. 
Now what are the heavens ? Is not the " heavens " 
here identical with the word atmosphere ? I be-
lieve all assent to that. 
Well, is there a power 
in the atmosphere by which alone we effect our ly-
ing down, and ouj rising up; our standing still, 
and our locomotion ; for ourselves and all ani-
mated creation, as well as things inanimate. 
Is 
it by the same power that the tower of B ibel and 
all other edifices are reared ? and the ark of Noah, 
and all other vessels are floated and managed on 
the sea ? 1 believe all will agree that such is a 
fact. 
Does not the prophets declare out of the mouth 
of the_Lord, and in his name, that " once more he 
will shake the earth," (as at the giving of the law 
to Moses) and not the earth only, [as then] but 
also heaven?"—to what purpose I ask? 
I an-
swer with Paul, to the purpose that all things that 
are " made " may be " shaken " and " removed." 
VV hen does the prophet say that will take place? 
When the " desire of all nations shall come," in 
other words, as Paul, when we shall receive a 
kingdom which cannot be removed [shaken], (see 
Haggai 11:6 ; Heb. 12:26. 27 and parallels.) 
Are not these shakings identical ? 
1 think so. 
Then we see what the powers of the heavens, or 
atmosphere are, and when the shaking is to 
take 
place, in connection with the advent of the King 
of kings. 
Now let us digress a moment to look at one 
or two important facts. 
First, our 
atmospheric 
heavens is a medium of elasticity of great power, 
having a pressure upon every man of moderate 
size equal to four and a half ton's weight. 
It ex 
tends from all points of the body of the earth for 
at least forty miles from its surface. 
At the poles 
the air is dense and heavy, because cold. 
Under 
the tropics the air is constantly greatly rarified by 
the direct rays of the sun. 
The cold air of the 
poles has a constant tendency to rush and roll over 
to the middle region of the earth—the tropics, but 
is kept in equilibrium by the rays of the sun ; and 
this tendency is relieved by its rolling over in lim-
ited currents in one direction one part of the year, 
and in another, another part—these currents are 
called trade winds. 
Any local interruption of 
these currents are followed by those awful erup-
tions in the' heavens called hurricanes, or torna-
does, the destructive power of which are slight in-
dications of the shaking of the heavens. 
Now, to resume, let me ask what keeps the cold 
air of the " heavens " at the poles, and the hot air 
of the tropics in equilibrium ? I answer, the con-
stant activity of the sun's direct rays. 
What would be the effect of an obstruction of 
the sun's rays arresting their direct force upon the 
tropical atmosphere ? 
It would, I conceive, be a 
cessation of the equilibrium; and since the ten-
dency of the cold air of the poles to roll in upon 
the tropics is constant, the cessation of equilib-
rium would be followed by such tempest and storm 
as would be best calculated to bring dismay. 
This 
effect would necessarily follow a " darkening of 
the sun," a temporary obstruction of his rays, for 
only one day. 
This shaking of the heavens has 
not yet taken place ; therefore, the " sun " has 
"ipver been " darkened." 
' 2. The plainest rules ot language, I conceive, 
oblige, us to understand the Lord to say, in effect, 
that as sure as ye know by seeing the buds on the 
fig-tree 
that summer is nigh at hand, so surely 
shall ye " know " of your ownselves—having no 
need for another to teach you, that my coming is 
near, even at the door. 
This seems clear. 
Well 
now, those persons who saw those dark days could 
not know the Lord was near, even at the door. 
We know they could not know any such thing— 
the season passed, and the lesson of the parable of 
the fig-tree proves that therefore those dark days 
were not the " darkening of the sun " signified by 
the Lord. 
Then, again, we have not " seen " any 
of them. 
We were not then born, consequently, 
they were no signs of the Lord's coming, else his 
language is at fault; for how can we then " know " 
his coming is at the doors not having " seen " the 
signs, they not having occurred in our lifetime. 
3. The tribulation of those days has not in any 
sense had an " afterwards." 
Let me ask 1st, what " days" are " those " in 
the which thero should be great tribulation, such 
as there never was since the beginning of the world 
to that time, nor ever shall be afterwards ? 
And 
2d, what is the tribulation", and upon whom, and 
what? 
1. Are they hot the " days " in which it should 
be a woe to " give suck?" the " days " of ven-
geance, that all things should be fulfilled upon this 
people that had been written by Moses, by Micah, 
by Daniel, and the other prophets ? the " days " 
in which they should fall by the edge of the sword, 
and be led away captive into all nations, and Je-
rusalem be trodden down of the Gentiles until the 
times be fulfilled? 
You admit in answer to sister 
Burnham, these are the " days." 
Then they are 
not yet ended, for Jerusalem is yet trodden down by 
the Gentiles. 
2'. What is the tribulation, what was it upon, 
and upon whom ? 
I answer, upon Jerusalem and 
her people; the overspreading of abominations 
that was decreed to make her desolate till the con-
summation—this the tribulation—greater than any 
other since the beginning of the world, severer, dicated clearly that the " seeing " of the sign will 
more complete. 
be co-extensive with the " testimony " in relation 
What! was this tribulation arrested by the to it. 
Why should it not be ? 
ftor 
could an ag-
Protestant Reformation? 
What1 shall we " for- gregation of repitions be the sign by any means, 
get " Jerusalem and her degradation, and tribula- 
Just as soon could the budding of the fig tree put-
tion and substitute another case, another issue, of ting forth leaves twelve times last century signify 
which the disciples who asked for the information that the summer of 1855 is at hand, 
could have not by any possibility have had the re- 
But permit me just to say what 1 expect in the 
motest idea ? 
Peter, James, John, and Andrew 
future, since I deny what so many of my brethren 
asked of the Lord questions of certain import. 
The believe is past. 
I expect the tribulation as indi-
lecality of the subject was Jerusalem ; the all-en- cated above, to continue upon Jerusalem until the 
grossing interest in their minds was her overthrow seventh trumpet sounds—then her Lord will rise 
and the long recorded coming of Him who was to up to take to himself his great power and reign— 
be her restorer. 
Do you suppose they were igno- the messages of Isaiah 40 and 57 will be appro-
rant of the prophets ? Assuredly not. Did they not priate—the power of her desolation will be broken 
know that Micah had testified that she should be- without hand and " none shall help him "—the 
come heaps—" plowed as a field." Had they less tribulation—the treading down legally cease.— 
interest in Jerusalem than others of their nation " Immediately after " the sun shall be darkened ; 
before them ? 
Had they not learned of the desola- yet in " those days " previous to the kingdom, but 
tions denounced against the "pride of the whole still, "after that tribulation." 
Briefly, to save 
earth," the " city of defences," the " city of l^a- space I expect it to occur on this wise, and 1 think 
vid," which "the Lord had chosen to place his I have good reason. 
The coming King is preceeded 
name there ;" the most important spot to them of by a pageantry of glory, (Matt. 15:31). 
His her-
all God's creation. 
Had they not learned what aldry, the angels—thousands of thousands, " even 
was to come upon her, as written by Moses, and many thousands." 
Let me remark the angels are 
David, and Micah, and Isaiah, and Daniel? 
Most corporeal persons ; this host will be a solid pha-
assuredly they had. 
Cannot we realize how their lanx ; in their stately progress I suppose them to 
interest would be excited at the bare mention ol obstruct the rays of the " sun"—perhaps at a 
her desolation? 
Then how can it be supposed very remote distance from the earth, the focus of 
that the Lord after he had excited their interest the rays of their glory will not be a substitute for 
about the " sorrows," the desolations, the tribu- the rays of the sun, which they,will thus obstruct, 
lations of their holy city, that he would jump The " sun will be darkened." 
The atmospheric 
away from that to discourse about a tribulation, phenomena alluded to above—the " shaking of the 
the locality, and nature of which, as men, (and powers of the heavens," would then take place— 
they were men, uninspired too. at that time,) they distress of nations with preplexity—" the sea and 
could not have any conception of? 
Would the waves roaring "—as they never learned to roar 
blessed Master mock his poor dejected disciples ? before—men's hearts failing them for fear, &c. 
What did they want to know about any other Then as the glorious heraldry approach nearer, 
tribulation, in a far off land, and, even among and the obstructions of the sun's rays cease; 
and 
upon, Gentiles by birth and nation ? 
I warrant they, constituting the " sign of the Son of Man," 
you they thought of nothing but what they in- are seen in heaven. 
" And then shall all the tribes 
quired about; Jeruscl.m 
and her King, and Re 
of the earth mourn "—and they shall, (next in 
storer, whom they believed Jesus to be. 
consecutive order) " see the Son of Man coming in 
And I may be permitted to express my convic- the clouds of heaven in power and great glory," 
tion that any interpretation of prophecy that pro- &c. 
Now learn a parable of the fig tree and all 
ceeds upon a " forgetfulness " of Jerusalem is er- the trees—" So likewise ye, when ye SEE these 
roneous and will fail. 
things, KNOW that it is near even at the doors. 
" If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right Verily I say unto you this generation, you James, 
hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to Peter, John and Andrew, and your cotemporaries 
the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem 
shall not pass away till all these things [began to] 
above my chief joy," is not an isolated expression, 
be, (asjt might be rendered, and is by some,) ful-
but th sentiment of the prophetic Scriptures. 
filled." 
Be assured of what the Lord adds, Heaven 
Then my conclusion is, that the " tribulation of and earth shall pass away but his words shall not 
those days "—is the tribulation upon Jerusalem ; pass away. 
which " sorrows " had their " beginning " in the 
If I have said aught amiss, pardon me ; but so 
life-time of the disciples whom he addressed in the believes your humble servant, waiting still to be-
wars and rumors of wars, &c., which preceeded 
hold the "darkening of the sun;" and, then, 1 
their overthrow by the Roman enemies—when 
expect to lift up my head and rejoice in the knowl-
abominations 
overspread 
her 
with 
desolations \edge 
of the immediate approach of Him, whom 
which yet continue. 
Therefore the " sun has not having not seen, we love and adore. 
As ever 
been darkened," because the tribulation is yet in yours, 
JAMES 
WOLSTENHOLM. 
its operation. 
I will only remark on my 6th reason for the 
present, and close with my view of the darkening 
of the sun as I expect to see it before I see Him I 
BRO. 
HIMT-S :—I am alive, and well, and here. 
who is all my hope. 
1 have labored here most of the time since the 
6. I deny that there has been a solitary " dark- middle of June ; but things were much changed 
ening of the sun " since the crucifixion. 
That any when I got back from what they were when 1 left, 
of the recorded dark days in the last century were and have remained changed to this day; though 
darkening of the sun I deny; because, 1st, I find we have had large attendance and pretty good 
that to the east and the west of the locality of meetings, yet no special revival. 
I have visited a 
such darkness the same rays of the sun which good deal among the people, and have been sowing 
usually illuminated such locality was illuminated the seed which we hope will spring up and bear 
as usual; at least there is nothing shown to the fruit. 
I have been tried, but not discouraged. 
I 
contrary and I infer there would have been if the have visited Homer twice, and find them holding 
darkness had extended there. 
For illustration on and enduring aflliction. Brother Gross had been 
take the dark day of May 19th, 1780. 
The locality 
sick ; had preached but part of the time, but his 
of the darkness is claimed to h?ve been Massachu- health was improved. 
Bro. Clapp had preached 
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and a part of part of the time, and others occasionally supplied 
New Hampshire ; and that the darkness continued the desk. 
Here I heard Mr. Louguen, one of the 
16 hours, commencing about 10 o'clock in the fore- " Jerry Rescuers," " a mighty man of valor," a 
noon. 
Now if the " sun " had been darkened it colored man who was once a slave, and saw a 
would have been darkened in England from 2 1-2 brother and sister sold from their mother into the 
P.M., for 16 hours, because the sime identical rays far South ; the description was overwhelming, but 
of the sun which light up these regions light up what must the reality have been ? I also visited 
England; but there was no unusual darkness there « N, Y. Central College," open to all; a fine in-
at that date, therefore, it follows, that the " sun " stitution at McGrawville, a beautiful village about 
was not darkened. 
Whatever occasioned the dark- six miles from Cortland and Homer. 
It was va-
ness of those days it is certain it was not the dark- cation, but the fall term was to begin that week, 
ness of the sun or obstruction of his rays to our Conversed with the President, (who is in his prime, 
atmosphere. 
| and shows the lineaments of a noble man,) and the 
LETTER FROM D. I. ROBINSON. 
2. 1 deny it bee«use this very information about preceptress, and went over the building, and saw 
the " darkening of the sun," " immediately after a few of the fine scholars. 
It is a retired and in-
the tribulation of those days " is a part of the gos- viting place to send students for quietude, health 
pel [good news] of the kingdom which should be and morals. 
preached in all the world for a testimony to all na- 
I passed through Depuyster and Truxton on my 
tions—wheresoever the children of men dwell— return. 
At the first is the " seventh-day Baptist 
that expresses universality; then, shall we sup- College," I suppose the only one in the United 
pose that this most important sign of the kingdom States. 
This is a beautiful 
flourishing 
village, 
earning, which shall be preached universally shall and full of business. 
« A convention of singers " 
be " done in a corner," or repeated in corners were assembled to spend a week, and they made 
successively 1 I can never lelieve such a thing, the village vocal with their music. 
At Truxton, 
Surely, if language has a certain meaning it is in- [ brother Bates preached once in four weeks. 
He 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 119 1 
has been very sick, and was not wholly recovered 
the last time he was out there, and some feared he 
never would. 
1 did not see him. 
I visited Seneca Falls, preached there Sabbath 
before last. 
Brother Pinney was away, so I did 
not see him, but was told his health had been 
much better this summer, than in the winter and 
spring, but the cancer continues eating on the face 
slowly. 
There were a few faithful at that place, 
and we had a good attendance and meeting. 
At Auburn were the great conventions while I 
was there. 
I attended the State Temperance Con-
vention, and heard some great speaking. 
It was 
a great gathering of great and good temperance 
men, to nominate candidates for State officers, to 
carry the Maine Law into operation. 
They were 
unanimous on Myron H. Clark for Governor, but 
on Raymond for Lieutenant Governor there was 
much division, though he was at length nominated, 
having been previously nominated by the whigs, 
and anti-Nebraska conventions, though not by the 
last with unanimity, not that any seemed to doubt 
that he would do all they wanted of him officially, 
for he had pledged himself to do so, but they 
thought if he did it would be only from interest, 
because he justified Seymour in his veto of the 
Maine Law last year ; and then they thought both 
candidates should not be of tfie same party, so 
some seceded and nominated another ticket. 
I 
also was at Syracuse last week, where met the 
Liberty Party Convention, and some of the noblest 
and most philanthropic spirits of the State. 
Ger 
rit Smith, Beriah Green, Frederick Douglass, A. 
Payne, &c. &c., and. nominated another separate 
State ticket, thorough-going anti-slavery and tem-
perance. 
All these against the " hards " 
and 
softs " two tickets, both rummies and pro-slave-
ry. 
Politics are numerous enough in New York 
this year, good, bad, and indifferent can " go it" 
to their liking. 
As to the parties and candidates, 
four out of five are sure to be beaten, and perhaps 
more; but 1 think the temperance and anti-Ne 
braska stand the best chance " to have it all their 
own way " this year. 
At the anti-slavery meet-
ing there was an important discussion all day Fri-
day at the Great Market hall, filled with eager 
listeners to Garrison and Payne in the forenoon 
and Garrison and Gerrit Smith in the afternoon, 
on the duestion whether the Constitution is pro 
slavery. 
It was thrilling in the afternoon ; Ijiever 
heard Gerrit Smith display so much energy and 
power before ; there was " majestic eloquence " 
indeed at times. 
In the evening C. L. Remond 
spoke well, though there is, of late years, a tinge 
of " despondent melancholy," and " harsh 
sar-
casm," which 
is unpleasant and 
unprofitable. 
Beriah Green is one of the most profound reason-
ers of our land, and age. 
Twenty years ago 1 so 
thought, on reading two sermons of his, and I was 
confirmed on hearing him here. 
Douglass also 
spoke, and displayed more cheerfulness and hope, 
with equal thought and knowledge on the subject. 
Saturday came off the great " Jerry 
Rescue" 
meeting of three thousand people. 
G. Smith, L. 
Lee, F. Douglass, and Mr. Rogers, a poet from 
Newark, N. J., and Garrison occupied the time, 
and did well. 
It was one of the most interesting 
meetings I ever attended. 
But Douglass carried 
off the palm and the crown. 
He went beyond him-
self, beyond my expectations, in weighty wit, in-
tuitive perception, and profound reasoning; and 
all so easy, so natural, and good, that all loved to 
hear and applaud ; but enough of this, something 
better I hope next time. 
D. I. 
ROBINSON. 
Brewerton (N. Y.), 
Oct. ith, 1854. 
A NORTHERN 
TOUR. 
BRO. 
HIMES .—I returned home a few evenings 
since, after an absence of nearly five weeks, and 
found all in usual health. 
Thanks are due to otir 
heavenly Father for his loving kindness, tender 
mercy, and kind providence shown toward us while 
"going out," (visiting many places new to my-
self, and forming an acquaintance with many which 
I trust will not easily be erased from my memory,) 
also while " coming in."' 
The places visited, were Nashua, Louden Mills, 
Lake Village, Meredith Neck, and East Haverhill, 
N. H. ; Waterbury, Duxbury, Burlington, and 
New Haven, Vt. ; Champlain, and Perry's Mills', 
N. Y. ; Odletown, C. E., and Westboro', Mass. 
In each of these localities, I trust more or less 
good was effected. 
In some, backsliders were led 
to see their true condition, repent and live, while 
sinners were pricked to the heart, cried to God for 
mercy, and soon learned by happy experience the 
sweets of pardoning love. 
The camp-meeting at 
Perry's Mills, attended in connection with your-
self and brother Osier, will ever be remembered I 
trust as an oasis in my history—those precious 
truths listened to, the candid attention given by 
the citizens, also their kindness manifested toward 
us—those tears of penitential 
sorrow—anxious 
moments—pleadings for mercy—divine brighten-
ing of youthful countenances, and foj-etastes of 
glory, because of sins pardoned, and compliance 
with duty ; manifestations of divine power, bap-
tismal scenes, etc., to the parting hour, tend to 
impress us with the truthfulness of God's word, 
and the reality of Christ's holy religion, as also 
the fact that all is not accomplished for sinners as 
yet, that'may be when there is a directness in our 
preaching and appeals. 
Such manifestations of a 
Saviour's love have a tendency to create within us 
longings to be with him in the day of his glorious 
appearing, and lead us to adopt the sentiments so 
truthfully and beautifully personified in the fol-
lowing stanzas : 
•" The future ! cruel were the power 
Whose doom would tear thee from my heart, 
Thou sweetner of the present hour, 
We cannot, no, we will not part! 
Then haste thee Time, 'tis kindness all, 
That speeds thy winged feet so fast; 
Thy pleasures stay not till they fall, 
And all thy pains are quickly past. 
Thou fliest and bear'st away our woes ; 
And as the shadowy trains depart, 
The memory of sorrow grows 
A lighter burden on the heart." 
At New Haven, during the meeting of a few 
days, (which was favored by the preaching of bro. 
Osier and yourself a portion of the time,) seven or 
eight protessed to find peace in believing. 
May 
the Good Shepherd care for the lambs of the flock, 
lead them in green pastures, and beside the still 
waters. 
Pf they watch and pray, love Christ and 
the Bible, the prayer meeting, and the closet, and 
are faithful to their companions, God will preserve 
them blameless unto his heavenly kingdom. 
The recent agitation on lime has affected more 
or less in some localities, and although the ab-
sence of evidence for divine authority impressing 
us to preach definite time in the past, together 
with the deleterious results of this preaching, was 
occasionally referred to, yet 1 trust it was done in 
a Christian manner, and without censoriousness, 
believing the " foundation of God standeth sure, 
having this seal; the Lord knoweth them that are 
his." 
The Lord blesses all in proportion to their 
piety at heart, and will save all who " love his 
appearing," not because of their errors, but in 
spite of them, by his grace. 
However, we are not 
excusable for shutting our eyes from the right. 
If we present a conclusion arrived at partly, to say 
the least, from human calculation and 
human 
knowledge, and enforce that upon our fellow-men 
as certainly from God, you must believe it or be 
damned, thus making it a test, we make " divis-
ions contrary to the word."—Rom. 16:17. 
Upon 
such a basis must ever rest a definite time theory. 
Our opinion relative to a question arrived at from 
a certain course of reasoning, may be correct or 
it may not; tests should ever be accompanied by 
an unequivocal thus saith the Lord, without which 
we are not required to receive them—they should 
fall inflicting no injury, at our feet. 
May God 
speed the right. 
Yours in the gospel. 
J. P. 
Lynn (Mass.), 
Sept. 29th, 1854. 
FARRAR. 
Letter from Prosper Powell. 
BRO. HIMES :—I think that justice to myself and 
the cause of truth, demands a few words from me 
through the Herald. 
It was with pleasure that we 
noticed in the Herald and Crisis, an appointment 
for brother Dow at this place, and we were sadly 
disappointed that he did not^come. 
Quite a num-
ber came, some of them from a distance, and re-
turned home very much dissatisfied. 
Now the facts in the case are these : H. F. Hig-
gins assumed the responsibility of writing to the 
Cris;s. 
stating that there were no brethren 
at 
Three Rivers, and that he had better go to another 
place. 
And, if I have been rightly informed, he 
told brother Dow and others, that 1 had given up 
the Advent faith and the Bible. 
This man pro-
fesses to believe that the Lord is coming in a few 
days, and I should think such a belief would lead 
to more honest statements. 
I never intimated any 
such thing to him, or to any other person. 
I wish 
here publicly to state that I have the fullest confi-
dence in the truth of the Bible, and the faith ad-
vocated by the Advent Herald, though I have not 
been able to preach it for some time past, my ner-
vous system being in such a state that I could not 
give my mind to study or thought, on any subject. 
Those who have been afflicted in the same way 
will know how to sympathize with with me; but 
there is but little sympathy in this world. 
I sigh 
for that land where the inhabitants never say " I 
am sick." 
In consequence of this state of things I have 
been at work with my h^nds, though in much 
weakness, to support my family, so that when the 
Lord does come, I may not be accounted worse 
than an infidel. 
"Yours in hope, 
PROSPER 
POWELL. 
Three Rivers, 
Oct. 2d, 1854. 
BRO. HIMES :—I am convinced that Russia will 
prove to be the third woe—that after making con-
quests in the East, it will be felt here, (Ezek. 38,) 
and that then will be experienced that time of un-
precedented distress foretold by our Lord, as well 
as by Daniel, which is immediately to precede his 
sacred coming. 
Believing that you like to have 
the opinions of others on this subject, even when 
differing from your own, I thus give you mine. 
May the Lord direct us into all truth, and into 
the patient waiting for Christ. 
I am yours in gos-
pel bonds. 
WILLIAM 
BIDDLE. 
Chesterfield (Ct.), 
Oct. 2d, 1854. 
WHAT 
IS-TIME! 
I ASKED an aged man, a man of cares, 
Wrinkled and curved, and white with hoary hairs ; 
" Time is the warp of life," he said. 
" 0 tell 
The young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well." 
I asked the ancient venerable dead, 
Sages who wrote, and warriors who bled ; 
From the cold grave a hollow murmur flowed, 
" Time sowed the seed we reap in this abode !" 
I asked a dying sinner, ere the tide 
Of life had left his veins:—" Time !" he replied, 
" I've lost it! oh, the treasure !" and he died. 
I asked the golden sun, and silver spheres, 
Those bright chronometers of days and years ; 
They answered, " Time is but a meteor glare !" 
And bade us for eternity prepare. 
I asked a spirit lost; but oh, the shriek 
That pierced my soul! I shudder while 1 speak; 
It cried, " A particle, a speck, a mite 
Of endless years, duration infinite !" 
Of things inanimate, my dial I 
Consulted, and it made me this reply :— 
" Time is the season fair for living well, 
The path to glory, or the path to hell." 
I asked old father Time himself at last, 
But in a moment he flew swiftly past; 
His chariot was a cloud, the viewless wind 
His noiseless steeds, which left no trace behind. 
I asked the mighty angel, who shall stand 
One foot on sea, and one on solid land: 
" By heaven," he cried, " I swear the mystery's 
o'er! 
Time was," said he, " but time shall be no more!" 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this Xo. 
Missionary Intelligences.... 322 
The Worship of the Viogin.. 323 
Henry Longden 
323 
Foreign News 
323 
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The Signs of our Lord's Re-
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326 
Letter from D. I. Robinson.. 336 
A Northern Tour 
327 
What is Time (Poetry) 
327 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
324 
New Works 
324 
Letter from J. Cole 
325 
Paschal Moon 
325 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Pilgrimage 
321 
The Heathen Oracles. 
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Elijah's Sacrifice at Carmel.. 322 
Religion of the Tyrol 
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ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, OCTOBER T, 1854. 
REMOVAL OF THIS OFFICE. 
THE new Chapel is now so far advanced that we 
expect to remove into it about the middle of this 
present month of October,—the rooms designed 
for our occupancy being 
now near their com-
pletion. 
The Chapel part and stores, will not be 
completed under a few weeks later. 
The office of the Advent Herald, will then be lo-
cated over the Chapel at the corner of Kneeland 
and Hudson-streets,—the entranco to it being from 
Kneeland-street, which extends from 534 Wash-
ington-street, to 151 Sea-street. 
The Railroad pas-
senger Depot for the Worcester and Western roads, 
is on the corner of Kneeland and 
Albany-streets, 
one street east of the new Chapel. 
And the de-
pot for the Old Colony and Fall River road, is on 
Kneeland and South-streets, four streets east of 
the Chapel. 
Kneeland-street, is also a continua-
tion of Eliot-street, which extends from the depot 
of the Providence and New Bedford Railroads, to 
Washington-street. 
Sea-street, in which Knee-
land-street terminates, is now the principal avenue 
to South Boston ; but a new one has been ordered 
to be built, which commences at the foot of Knee-
land-street. 
It will therefore be apparent 
that 
Kneeland and Eliot-streets constitute a continuous 
thoroughfare across the city, extending from the 
Providence depot, past the Chapel, the Worcester 
and Old Colony depots, to South Boston : and it is 
the only continuous thoroughfare across the city, 
in that part of it. 
It is therefore the principal 
street extending east and west in that neighborhood 
and can easily be found by those visiting Boston. 
Those coming in the cars on the Providence, New 
Bedford, Worcester, Old Colony and Fall River 
roads, landing on the line of the street, will need 
no guide to it. 
Those coming in on any other road 
will first inquire either for Washington or Sea 
streets and then proceed up or down to No. 534 of 
the former or 151 of the latter, where they are in-
tersected by Kneeland-street. 
Hudson-street, 
on 
the corner of which the Chapel is situated, is the 
third street east of Washington-street and the sixth 
street west of Sea-street. 
We have thus been particular because strangers 
sometimes find it difficult to find places in the city 
with which they are not familiar ; and we have of-
ten had complaints of the difficulty of finding our 
office where now located. 
THE 
DEDICATION of the Advent Chapel in this 
City, will probably take place some time in No-
vember. 
Due notice will be given, that all who 
may wish to attend may have opportunity. 
In the mean time we now give a cordial invita-
tion to our brethren and sisters all abroad to 
come up to the 44feast of the Dedication." 
We 
will give them the best reception that our circum-
stances in a pent up city will allow. 
We shall 
expect a glorious gathering of the faithful. 
NEW TRACTS.—We shall publish the following 
tracts soon : 
COUNSELS TO YOUNG 
DISCIPLES. 
THE 
CHRISTIAN 
SABBATH. 
The First Day of the 
Week. 
THE 
DELUGE. 
We shall soon publish several choice pieces of 
music with hymns, suited to the wants of the 
churches. 
Any persons who have choice hymns, 
or tunes, which they desire to have published, 
will please send them in. 
We will give any such 
that may be suitable, and have merit. 
THE WORLD'S FAIR OF ALL NATIONS.—Among the 
noticeable things on exhibition at the Crystal Pal 
ace, we saw a contribution of New Pills, from the 
laboratory of DR. J. C. AYER, the author of the 
widely known and valued CHERRY 
PECTORAL. 
AS 
it is against the express regulations ofthe Palace, 
to admit any quack medicines, this fact shows that 
his remedies are not placed in that category by the 
authorities. 
Indeed, we have before known that 
his Pectoral was highly appreciated by scientific 
men, and have seen lately that his Pills are held 
in great estimation by those deeply learned in the 
healing art. 
True Reformer, Mass. 
sisting of between three and four hundred 12 mo. 
pages, neatly bound in black muslin, in the style 
of Miller's Memoirs. 
I have already received suf-
ficient 
encouragement to decide on putting the 
work to press immediately, or as soon as it can be 
done. 
It will probably be in the hands of the 
pressman by the first of November, and ready for 
delivery to subscribers by Dec. 1st. 
Price, de-
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3000 miles of Philadelphia, ONE DOLLAR. 
Those who wish it, are desired to inform me 
immediately, so that I may know how many copies 
to order printed. 
Send one dollar, post paid, to 
J. Litch, 45 North llth-street, Philadelphia. 
The work is intended to be a clear and forcible 
illustration of the doctrine of the pre-millennial 
advent and reign of Christ, unraveling the intrica-
cies and mysteries of the vexed Jewish question in 
all its lights and shades. 
The following synopsis 
will give a general idea ofthe nature of the works. 
1. The first and second Adam :—tho relation of 
each to the globe we inhabit, and to the human 
race who did originally and shall finally and for-
ever inhabit the earth. 
2. The Jews and Jewish economy—its bearing 
on and relation to the Christian and future .ever-
lasting dispensation. 
3. The Jewish relation to the land of promise. 
A purely conditional relation, to continue only 
while they conformed to the covenant under which 
they went in to possess it ; Christ being the true 
heir. 
4. The Jewish relation to the kingdom of the 
house of David, conditional, and might have con-
tinued eternally had they comformed to the condi 
tions ; not doing so, they lost it. 
5. Christ, the true literal king of the Jews; 
he came to them literally, in his own proper per-
son as king, and asserted his claim ; and for that 
reason was rejected and crucified. 
And for this 
rejection the Jews were rejected and ejected from 
the land of promise, and the sceptre departed from 
Judah. 
. The Jews: the sense in which they were re-
jected of God when scattered,—1. the ten tribes, 
the two tribes. 
7. The relation of the Jews to the everlasting 
kingdom of Christ: they will be restored to the 
land and kingdom in the resurrection and regenera-
tion ; " the house of Israel" to consist of all be-
lieving Jews, of all ages and climes, divided into 
their own tribes; the twelve apostles their chiefs. 
. The Messiah, the Christ, the anointed, synon-
imous, and belong to prophet, priest and king.— 
The first two offices are acknowledged to have been 
filled by Christ at his first advent, in the most liter-
al sense ; the last therefore will be as fully realized. 
9. The new birth, its nature and absolute necessity 
in order to inherit the kingdom of God. 
The 
means and condition of its attainment. 
10. The eternal heaven of the saints to be in 
the new earth. 
The regeneration to precede the 
millennial. 
11. The millennial reign, its introduction, na-
ture, end ; and the everlasting reign. 
12. " Timesofthe Gentiles," its import, progress 
and termination. 
13. The gospel of the kingdom, its nature, pro-
gress and design. 
The signs of the times. 
Many other points will come in incidentally, not 
here enumerated. 
Nor should it be expected that 
all the foregoing, will be considered in the exact 
order, in which it is here introduced. 
The object is as far as possible, to present a con 
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as a people, are agreed, and which we regard as 
standard points of doctrine—a desideratum long 
needed. 
To EDITORS.—Editors who will give this pro-
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forward a copy to my address, shall be entitled 
to one copy of the work. 
» 
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JOSIAH 
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NEW WORK. 
BY J. 
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