1131,3=LIZer=r=610111115111. 
WAKE WITH NATURE. 
WOULD you know a pure delight? 
Would you feast the sense of sight ? 
Would you breathe fresh, balmy air? 
Would you gushing music hear ? 
NVould you feel a thrill of life, 
Full of peace, with rapture rife ? 
Rouse you with the rising day, 
View calm nature's grand display. 
Would you like to gain an hour ? 
Would you rob sloth of its power 
Would you cheerfulness obtain ? 
Would you cheat toil of its pain ? 
Would you duty make a pleasure, 
And insure a good hour's leisure ? 
Rouse you at the break of day, 
Wake with morning's twilight ray. 
Would you free yourself from care ? 
Would you find a time for prayer? 
Would you take your cross each day ? 
Would you walk in "wisdom's way ?" 
Would you feel God's grace within, 
helping you to conquer sin ? 
Rise, and at the dawn of day, 
Take an hour, read, sing, and pray. 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. S Chardow.xtrect 
WHOLE NO. 636. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1853. 
VOLUME XII. NO. 4. 
THE LATE ABDUCTION AFFAIR. 
THE Rev. T. F. Caldicott, D. n.. pastor of 
the First Baptist church in Charlestown, has 
prepared for the press an authentic narrative of 
the events connected with the conversion of 
Hannah Corcoran from Romanism, her abduc-
tion from Charlestown, and the treatment she 
received during her absence. This .narrative 
has been published in pamphlet form by Gould 
& Lincoln. We believe that no authentic ac-
count of these events—which created so much 
excitement in Charlestown—has before been pub-
lished, and it is fortunate, perhaps, that the 
publication of this narrative has been delayed. 
It will be seen by the following extract from the 
statement of Miss Corcoran, which is sworn to 
before a Justice of the Peace, that the reports 
in circulation at the time are confirmed, and 
that the girl was most foully dealt with : 
Tuesday, Feb. 15. " In the afternoon my 
mother came to Mr. Welch's, and found me 
almost sick. Soon after, Mr. Welch brought 
me some medicine in a tumbler ; the tumbler 
was two-thirds full. I drank some, and refused 
to take any more.; but mother compelled me to 
take it, saying it was molasses and water. It 
tasted a little acid, and she said it was vinegar. 
I immediately began to feel strangely, and, 
while they were about me, sprinkling holy 
water on me, &c., I lost my consciousness, and 
knew nothing until after dark, when I came to 
myself in a dark room, which I knew to be the 
same into which I went when mother took me to 
Mr. Lyndon's on the Wednesday evening pre-
vious. 
" My mother was beside me, and I asked her 
where I was. She said I was safe. I inquired 
if I was in Mr. Lyndon's house. She answered 
No.' Soon a person came in dressed ill priests' 
garments, whom I recognized as Mr. Lyndon, 
by what I could discover in ,the comparative 
darkness, and by his voice. 
" He took a chair, and sat down not far from 
vie. He asked, me if I wished to go to confes-
sion. I replied that I did not wish to ; and lie 
said that I must come to confession, trying to 
induce me in that way to put myself again under 
the control of the church. 
" I told him he would have to take out my 
heart, and put a different one in its place, before 
I could be a Catholic again. 
" He then rose and came towards me, took 
me forcibly by the arm, and compelled me to 
kneel by his side. I was very much frightened, 
and almost afraid to speak or move. 
He tried to compel me to repeat after him 
the form of confession ; but I did not utter a 
word, for I had nothing to confess to him. 
" He asked me if I knew where I was. I 
said, In your house.' 
He said, No.' Then I said, In your 
church.' He still said No,' but told vie I was 
in the vestry-room. 
" I was dreadfully frightened, and began to 
cry aloud. I was still kneeling, and my head 
was on Mr. Lyndon's lap. He put his stole over 
my head, and several times asked me if' 1 felt 
better. I said No,' and cried louder than be-
fore." 
On the 16th, Hannah says—" In the evening 
my mother came, and told me that an applica-
had been made to the Mayor of Boston to send 
out the police in search of me ; and she appeared 
much frightened. She said she should take me 
away the next morning about eight o'clock. She 
said she had been at Father Lyndon's, and he 
had given her ten dollars (I saw the bills—two 
fives) to pay for my going away ; and that she 
would stay with me that night." 
FAMINE IN INDIA. 
WE have famines occurring almost decennial-
ly, some of which, within our time, have swept 
their millions away. In 1833, 50,000 persons 
perished in the month of September in Luck-
now ; at Khanpoor, 1200 died of want ; and 
£500,000 sterling was subscribed by the boun-
tiful to relieve the destitute. In Guntoor, 
150,000 human beings, 74,000 bullocks, 159,-
000 milch cattle, and 300,000 sheep and goats, 
died of starvation. Fitty thousand persons per-
ished in Marwar ; and in the north-west Prov-
inces, 500,000 human lives are supposed to 
have been lost. The living preyed upon the 
dead; mothers devoured their children ; and the 
human imagination could scarcely picture the 
scenes of horror that pervaded the land. In 
twenty months' time, 1,500,000 persons must 
have died of hunger or of its immediate conse-
quences. The direct pecuniary loss occasioned 
to government by this single visitation exceeded 
£5,000,000 sterling—a sum which would have 
gone far to avert the calamity from which it 
arose, had it been expended in constructing 
thoroughfares to connect the interior with the 
sea-coast, or districts where scarcity prevailed, 
with those where human food was to be had in 
abundance ; or on canals to bear forth to the 
soil, thirsty and barren for want of moisture, the 
unbounded supplies our rivers carry to the 
ocean. 
Bombay Times. 
THE SOCIETY OF LADIES. 
THE following pertinent remarks occur at the 
close of an article on the dangers of " College 
Liffi," from the pen of a New York clergyman, 
which appeared in the New York Times: 
" The society of ladies has done much for me 
all my life long ; and it was the salutary, soft-
ening influence of such associations that with 
God's blessing, restrained me from many an ex-
cess into which I might otherwise have been led 
while receiving my education. It is a bad sign 
when a young man has no relish for such com-
pany. Whatever be a man's station in life, 
whether higher or lower, public or private, he 
will become a better man, and escape many a 
disaster, if he will listen in due season to the 
voice of the intelligent and the refined among, 
the other sex. Not only do they generally ex-
cel us in their nice perception of the proprieties 
of life, and in the tender sense of duty to both 
God and man, but they are equally before us 
in their instinctive facility of foreseeing evil 
before it is upon us, and of wisely discerning the 
character and Motives of men. 
" It was not all a dream which made the wife 
of Julias Ctesar so anxious that he should not go 
to the Senate Chamber on the fatal Ides'of March; 
and, had he complied with her entreaties, he 
might have escaped the dagger of Brutus. Dis-
aster followed disaster in the career of Napoleon, 
from the time that he ceased to feel the balance 
wheel of Josephine's influence on his impetuous 
spirit. Our own. Washington, when important 
questions were submitted to him, often has said 
that he should like to carry the subject to his 
bed-chamber before he had formed his decisions; 
and those who knew the clear judgment and ele-
vated purpose of Mrs. Washington, thought all 
the better of him for wishing to make her a con-
fidential counsellor. Indeed, the great majority 
of men who have acquired for themselves a good 
and great name, were not only married men, but 
happily married—' both paired and matched.' " 
IMINIII!WIM311111. 
THE ASSOCIATION. 
WE find in a late number of Chambers's Jour-
nal, an interesting incident which occurred in 
Sir Cloudesley Shovel's ship, previous to the 
last cruise which that British Admiral ever made. 
It also shows the stern, unbending rigor of the 
laws relating to those employed by sea or land 
in the service of their country : 
" Cloudesley Shovel's last ship was called the 
AssociatiOn ; and associated as we learn it was 
in men's minds with a curse pronounced on it at 
its departure from England, the name becomes 
singularly ominous. The incident to which we 
allude is very little known ; indeed we heard it 
only as an oral tradition from the widow of a 
captain in the navy, whose family were ac-
quainted with some of the actors in the tragedy. 
In those days naval discipline was severe, even 
to cruelty, and offences seldom failed of being 
punished according to the strict letter of the law 
contained in the Articles of War, be the extenu-
ating circumstances whatever they might. One
i 
 
of the warrant-officers of the Association—the 
gunner, I think—was married to a young and 
lovely woman who was in delicate health. 
" A few days previous to the ship's leaving 
port, a message was brought him from the shore, to 
the effect that she was dying, and that she wished 
him to come and receive her last farewell. He 
hastened to ask leave to Boson shore, without 
which of course he dared not comply with her 
request. He was refused ! Some desertions had 
taken place amongst the men, and the admiral 
had given strict orders that no leave should be 
granted. The feelings of the miserable husband 
as he left the quarter-deck may be imagined. 
Night was closing in ; it was certain that the be-
ing dearest to him of all in the world would not 
behold the -next sunrise. He was distracted at 
the thought, and trusting to the increasing gloom 
for concealment, resolved, in desperate defiance 
of orders, to endeavor to swim on shore. Watch-
ing his opportunity, accordingly, he leaped from 
the bowsprit, and succeeded in gaining the boat 
that had brought him the message, and which 
had not long pushed off from the ship. 
" He reached the shore, gained his home, and 
received the dying woman's last sigh ; but she 
lingered in life till the day-dawning, and he 
could not and would not leave her. It was con-
sequently long after sunrise when the unhappy 
man returned to his ship. He was aware that 
he came to meet his death, but his seaman's 
honor forbade the thought of seeking safety in 
flight. Nor was he mistaken. He was tried by 
a court-martial—a privilege accorded to the in-
ferior officers—and condemned to death for diso-
bedience of orders. There was no mercy—no 
reprieve given ! They hung him at the Associa-
tion's yard-arm in the face of the sun, and in 
view of' hundreds of spectators who lined the 
shore, some of whom, greatly excited, it is said, 
kneeled on the beach and invoked a curse on the 
merciless ship. When brought up for execution, 
the condemned man requested the chaplain who 
was in attendance to read aloud to him the 109th 
Psalm. Under the circumstances there was an 
awful significance in such verses as these : He 
persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might 
slay him that was vexed at heart ;' and in the 
solemn curse prophesied against the cruel : Let 
his days be few, and let another take his office.' 
" A solemn and fearful association was there 
between those words read aloud to the dying and 
the fate of the stern ship so called. She perished 
with all on board on the rocks of Scilley on the 
night of October 22d, 1707. The admiral, it 
has since been ascertained, was saved from the 
fury of the sea only to die by the hand of a wo-
man, being murdered in his sleep ; and the As-
sociation's name even has not been renewed—as 
is generally the case—in any new vessel in the 
royal navy." 
THE SPIRITS IN SYRIA. 
THE Sheik Bechir is a personage of acquire-
ments; he has a store of history and literature; 
his conversation is superior to that of his coun-
trymen, and he has, to complete the superiority, 
the fame of a wonder-worker, and the advantage 
of interview with the spirits of another world ! 
Who can resist such proofs of power as these ? 
He will place a jug between the hands of two 
persons sitting opposite to each other, which, on 
the recital of certain passages taken indiscrimi-
nately from the Koran and the Psalms of David, 
will move spontaneously. round, to the astonish-
ment of all beholders ! A stick, at his bidding, 
will move, unaided, from one end of a room to 
the other ! A New Testament, suspended from 
a key by a string, will turn violently round of 
itself ! An egg boiling in the saucepan, will be 
made to spring suddenly out of the water, and 
be carried to a considerable distance ! A double-
locked door will unlock itself! But the fol-
lowing trick seems to us the strangest of all. 
On two earthenware jars being placed in oppo-
site corners of a room, one empty and the other 
filled with water, the empty jar, on the recital 
of certain passages, will move across the room 
—the full jar will of itself pour its contents 
into the empty one, which will return to the 
place whence it came ! Churchill's Mount Lebanon. 
EMPLOYMENT FOR THE SEXES. 
IF ever woman attempts to confound her 
purely feminine sphere with that of man, by 
Bloomerizing " either her person or her em-
ployment, she will not only dishonor her own 
sex and alienate ours, but she is certain to fail 
in competition with man in his own special de-
partment of industry or thought; not because 
she is inferior in talent, but because nature has 
ordained a special difference in employment as 
well as in person. Man will fail in a feminine, 
as certainly as woman in a masculine sphere. 
His sphere is larger and more variegated, as the 
sphere of illimitable knowledge ; hers is smaller, 
but more intensely interesting, as the real seat 
of comfort and happiness. The elevation of 
woman, therefore, so much discoursed of in 
modern times, and for the promotion of which a 
league has been formed in the great metropolis, 
can only be effected by first discovering, and 
then by cultivating, the real feminine sphere of 
industry ordained by nature. Women can never 
be elevated by becoming more masculine. The 
tendency of civilization is rather to increase 
than diminish the difference of sex, and the per-
fect happiness of society coincides with the 
perfect separation of male and female employ-
ments. The entire separation will make woman 
more womanly, and man more manly; and not 
only endear one sex more to the other, but make 
them essentially indispensable in all the rela-
tionships of life to each other's happiness. 
MORALS IN NEW YORK. 
THE Editor of the New York Spectator, being 
summoned to the death-bed of a friend in 
Haverstraw, took the steamboat " Thomas C. 
Hulse," on Sunday morning the 3d inst., for 
that place. He says: 
" We had no conception, although the doings 
in the neighborhood of the Crystal Palace had 
somewhat opened our eyes, that such scenes were 
enacted in the neighborhood of this enlightened, 
Christian city, on the Sabbath, that by any 
portion of its inhabitants the proprieties of that 
day were so totally disregarded, or that the 
owners of any steamboat sailing from this port 
would pander to such depravity and Sabbath 
breaking. The boat was crowded very far be-
yond its capacity, but that was not the fault of 
the captain or the owners, but of the people 
themselves. It may, however, be well enough 
to raise the question whether the new law for 
the regulation of steamboats and the greater se-
curity of passengers, does not give some check 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
commence with the expulsion of the Manchus, 
for its stability would be in perpetual jeopardy 
from the incursions of those hardy adventurers. 
To maintain themselves against such warlike 
neighbors, the Chinese would be compelled to-
court the alliance of Christian States, so called 
—independence is utterly out of the question—
the choice being between subjection to the Man-
chus, or a reliance on the power and friendship 
of the " barbarians from afar." Of these alter-
natives the latter would be preferred by all who 
have at heart the present and future well-being 
of this large portion of the human family. It 
is by rendering obligations of this kind, that 
they are to be conciliated, and not by aiding 
their conquerors to retain the offensive yoke. 
The following letter, written from Shanghai 
from the present state of things, and in some re-
spects, from the state of final glory. But there 
is not the same harmony of opinion in reference 
to the way in which it is to be introduced. Let 
us come with prayerful simplicity of heart and 
mind, and search the Scriptures on this point. 
Daniel 2:31-45, establishes the point in ques-
tion. This passage is full and decisive. All 
previous kingdoms are to pass away, a new and 
imperishable kingdom is to take the place once 
occupied by them. Here is a succession of 
kingdoms stretching from the days of Nebuchad-
nezzar, the head of gold, down to the entrance of 
the new and entirely different kingdom which is 
to supplant and take the place of all the rest. 
The four kingdoms are the Babylonish, Medo-
Persian, Grecian, and Roman. Three have 
passed away : the fourth alone exists. And in 
what state does it now exist? Not in its legs 
of iron—its strong compacted state; but in its 
feet—its toes part of iron and part of clay—its 
last and worst estate, divided into ten separate 
and dissimilar kingdoms. The question arises, 
How are these ten heterogeneous kingdoms of 
the old Roman world to be transmuted into the 
fifth kingdom—that of Christ ? How is this 
earthly to be put off and the heavenly put on ? 
Not slowly and gradually by the agencies now 
in use, but suddenly by a stone ; and that stone 
cut without hands. This is the instrument, and 
this alone. It is sudden, instantaneous : not by 
moral and evangelical agencies, but by immedi-
ate power. And what is this stone ? Who that 
remembers Christ's own words. can, for a mo-
ment, doubt its meaning : " The stone which 
the builders despised is made the head of the 
corner; whosoever falleth upon this stone shall 
be broken ; but upon whomsoever this stone 
shall fall it shall grind him to powder." While 
Christ himself is the agent, who that reads the 
passage, can, for a moment, doubt that the stone 
smiting the image on his feet, by which the 
kingdoms are broken in pieces, is an immediate 
exercise of power, an act of sudden and awful 
ominous placard from the rebels, in which they judgment? 
hurl defiance at the foreigners. Some doubt its 
genuineness. It appears to me, however, to 
wear as much the appearance of authenticity as 
any we have hitherto seen. True, it would be 
impolitic, with an army of Tartars in their rear, 
to incense three powerful European States against 
them ; but they are ignorant of the power of 
foreigners, and are so flushed with previous suc-
cess, that they vainly believe the world is at 
their feet. 
" True, also, it is at variance with the religious 
proclamation, which quotes the Bible of for-
eigners. But that proclamation has the least 
claim of all to genuineness—being drawn up in 
so slovenly a mariner that no Chinese pretending 
to common school boy knowledge would put 
their names to it. The true state of the case 
seems to me that they are proud Confucianists, 
determined to establish the ancient manners and 
customs prevalent under the Han and Ming 
dynasty, and so exasperated against the Man-
chus, that they are likely to look with disgust 
upon anything foreign ; and while they are bent 
upon rooting out Budhism, they would be as 
little disposed to favor Christianity. We had 
letters last night from Soochow, detailing their 
cruelties to the Manchow women, when they 
took Nankin. Having decoyed seven hundred 
of these unfortunates into a building, under 
pretence of getting them married to Chinese 
people, they ruthlessly set fire to the whole, 
and reduced them to ashes. They then regis-
tered the inmates of every house in Nankin, and 
the next day went through the city, comparing 
the lists with the inhabitants found in each 
dwelling,. when, if they found more than the 
number given in (a very likely case) they killed 
the odd numbers. They then pressed every 
Chinese into the army, from 15 to 45 ; killed 
the children as useless, appropriating the younger 
women, and making the older ones cooks and 
scullions. This may be a mere report, exag-
gerated by the fears of the Chinese ; still the 
indiscriminate slaughter of the Budhist priests 
gives some color to it. 
The City of Shanghai is nearly deserted ; 
the inhabitants have carried out their goods and 
furniture, even to sticks and straws, leaving 
empty dwellings all shut up, and a few poor and 
ill disposed persons prowling about the streets. 
Of course there is no trade, and we expect soon 
to have a scarcity of provisions. We dare not 
pack up and remove our goods, for fear of 
alarming our servants, who will all instantly 
leave. We remain therefore ready to depart 
with what we stand up in, at a moment's warn-
ing." 
We give this letter as a kind of index to the 
feelings of the foreign community of Shanghai 
at the date at which it was written. It has 
since been reported that Nanking has been re- 
taken by the Imperialist troops. N. Y. Tribune. 
upon this dangerous overcrowding of boats. Is 
not the requisition about life preservers to the 
effect that they must bear some proportion to 
the number of passengers conveyed ? We make 
this suggestion for the benefit of those concerned. 
" The bar on board the boat was kept open 
from the moment of starting to the end of the 
trip on Sunday morning, and the same thing was 
done on the return trip in the afternoon, and 
even a temporary bar was erected, at which also 
intoxicating drink was sold, while on the part 
of the passengers there was one continuous, Un-
ceasing, eager struggle for liquor.' It was a 
scene—that same Sabbath morn profanation—
to make an angel weep ; and yet it was far out-
done by that of the afternoon and evening. 
Young men of respectable exterior were drunk 
even before breakfast, and behaved there worse 
than boors and savages. The whole morning, 
up to 11 o'clock, when the boat arrived at Ha-
verstraw, was a scene of riot and demoralization, 
while on the return trip, fights, drunken rudeness 
and coarseness, and the worst out-givings of 
maudlin or rabid inebriation kept up a continual 
disturbance. The major part of all this was 
caused by the brandy and other liquors sold on 
board the Thomas E. Hulse. That of the morn-
ing entirely so, and most if not all of that of 
the evening also. If drunk and disorderly per-
sons came on board, they were made more so by 
the temptation and example set before them. 
But as far as our observation extended, the most 
imbruted of the evening were those who com-
menced drinking in the morning at the bar of 
the Thomas E. Hulse." 
Of the day following he adds : 
Yesterday we spent in the city, and suburbs, 
making observations. At three o'clock, in the 
lower portion of the city, and in some parts of 
Brooklyn, gangs of youth, of very boys, were 
prowling about the streets maddened with intoxi-
cation ; so bent on outrage in consequence of 
their intoxication that it required some nerve to 
pass by them, while probably to have evinced 
fear would have been to provoke assault. We 
passed up Broadway before dusk, and everywhere 
was drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness. 
And that too in its most riotous features. The 
amount of inebriation, however, no types or 
words can depict. It was fearful." 
The Chinese Rebellion. 
that unfathomable ditch [Manchuria]. In sus-
taining from year to year the forty-eight banners 
there is nothing left for ourselves. Moreover, 
the vices of their covetous officers and base 
underlings rise up like mountains, making light 
of the exhaustion and suffering of the people, 
they merely devise methods for fattening their 
vile carcases, which encompass us like swarms 
of locusts. Verily, verily, they would consume 
the hills and empty the sea; their voracity 
being like the gnawing of tigers and the gulping 
of whales. There was everywhere crying and 
lamentation, for the want of some one to accuse 
them before heaven, when I emerged from pri-
vate life ; and having with my own eyes wit-
nessed these base proceedings, I strove to remove 
these sources of discontent, and to effect a re-
form in order to comply with the desire of the 
empire. 
" Now, having received the adorable com-
mands of Heaven to expel these contemptible 
miscreants, I dare not sin by a tardy obedience 
to these behests. The majestic march of my 
righteous army is designed to deliver the people 
as from a flood. I am thankful to have before 
me the example of Ching-tang, (founder of the 
Shang dynasty, 1776 B. c.) to whom the Empire 
reverted ; consequently the Empire's indignation 
is mine, and its hopes are also my hopes. The 
people have already enabled me to expel the 
murderous traitors from the whole region of 
Hupeh, Hunan and Sz-Chuen. These places, 
relying on the protection of Heaven, have re-
verted to me, and are in the enjoyment of tran-
quillity. The other provinces of the Middle 
Land should with more readiness embrace the 
occasion of forwarding the expectations of the 
people. 
" I hereby order Field-Marshal Su Chang-
pang, and Commissioner Ching Wan-yuen to 
proceed speedily on the 8th inst., [November 19, 
1852,] with all their forces, against Chi-chau 
and Su-chan [in G an-whni on the Yang-tsz] and 
the adjacent cities. Let their prowess elevate 
the Han [Chinese] and humble the Banners, 
[Manchus,] whereby peace will be given to the 
empire. As for you, who hold offices under the 
detestable usurpers, you are to understand that 
we are firmly resolved to protect the people, and 
that you must not presume to rely on your au-
thority and oppose me. Ever since we buckled 
on our armor, we have been scattering and kill- 
ing all who resist ; how, then, can you avoid 
being broken into splinters ? My valorous gen- 
erals and sagacious statesmen are as formidable 
as thunder and as rain ; their streamers and their 
banners darken the sun, frighten gods and 
demons, and by their awe-inspiring deportment 
subdue all before them. With such merit and 
ability, what obstacle may not be overcome ? 
You, whether among the civilians or military, 
who are inclined to take advantage of this oppor-
tunity of complying with heaven, are assured 
that the result of this undertaking is by no 
means uncertain, for the power of my troops is 
as great as the expansive Heaven. China will 
revert to me as readily as dust is driven by a 
puff of wind. It behooves you, therefore, 
promptly to discard the Tsing dynasty, seize the 
spear, and come and acknowledge that of the 
Han; you will not only thereby secure the 
safety of your families, but retain your rank. 
If you stay moping in the dark, disregarding 
the signs of the times, blushing, shame and 
remorse will be the consequence. Do not con-
temn my benevolent desires, nor say hereafter 
that early intimation was not given. I wish to 
employ the services of the competent, in accords-
ance with the practice of the sages; those of 
you who wish to aid the native dynasty should 
report yourselves to my prefects, stating your 
capabilities, which shall be recorded, for my 
reference, as officers are required. Let no one 
injure or offend such worthies as thus present 
themselves. Let the whole empire be apprised 
thereof, that my benevolent intentions may be 
known. Respect this, and yield a reverential 
compliance." 
The cities referred to in the above, fell an 
easy prey to the patriots, and thus closed their 
third campaign. At the close of the last Chi-
nese year (February 7, 1853,) Tien-teh had 
under his sway not less than 75,000,000 of his 
countrymen, holding the seat of his government 
in the great city of Wu-chung-fu, the capital of 
Hupeh ; and, owing to the gradual manner in 
which these conquests were made, time was 
allowed for organizing an effective administra-
tion. Evidently they are not the banditti which 
the authorities represent them to be; it may, or 
it may not be true, that originally nothing more 
than robbery was contemplated by the first 
leaders, and it is possible that to some extent 
rapine and pillage attended their march, for 
these are inseparable from a state of warfare, 
yet such statements are to be received with 
allowance coming as they do from their enemies, 
Whatever the party may have been is of little 
consequence; it conies before us now with a 
national character, and through a strong Pro-
visional Government making reasonable de-
mands. 
The real difficulty of a native dynasty would 
by an intelligent foreign gentleman, gives some 
further and highly interesting particulars of the 
operations of the rebels : 
" You will see by the public prints in what 
exciting times we live. We have had before us 
for the last week, all the pomp and circumstance 
of war. On Sunday last a body of 5,000 armed 
men, with about forty field pieces, paraded 
through our streets—harmless village braves, 
who are paid to run at the first shot, if indeed 
they stop to hear it. Now we have forts and 
lines thrown up all around us, with a redoubt at 
our very-way, constructed by the naval force 
under the command of Capt. Fishbourne. To-
day, at ten, all the foreign residents are to meet. 
at the requisition of all the Consuls, to consult 
on taking measures for joint defence. In the 
meantime, Nanking and Chin-keang-foo are 
taken by the rebels, and the insurgents have only 
been restrained from advancing on Soochow and 
Shanghai, by the pressure of the Imperialists in 
their rear, which has compelled them to retire 
on Nanking, where they are said to be surround-
ed ; other reports say that they have surrounded 
the Imperialists, and expect in a few days to 
put them to flight. You will have seen also an 
The Kingdom. 
NEARLY all Christians acknowledge that there 
is to be a millennial kingdom, differing widely 
Precisely equivalent to this is the vison in the 
seventh chapter. In the vision of the four 
beasts we have the same kingdoms, with a new 
power developed in the fourth—a little horn, 
which is the papal power. The end of these 
kingdoms is their destruction by the iron rod of 
judgment. The little horn made war with the 
saints and prevailed. One like the Son of 'man 
came. Now, what is this vision of the coming 
of the Son of man ? Faber tells us that it is 
simply a figure, or symbol, or type, denoting 
the conversion of the world. But Christ is 
never a type ; he never can be a type, for he is 
the great Anti-type; and a type is something in-
ferior to the thing typified. But Christ is over 
all and above all. flow then is it possible for 
Christ himself to be a type of the progress of 
his own gospel ? The millennial kingdom is to 
he ushered in by Christ's own coming in person 
to consume the man of sin by the very bright-
ness of his epiphany. 
We must omit the proofs of this view of the 
introduction of the kingdom with which the book 
of Psalms abounds. In the New Testament, 
the day of the Son of man is compared to the 
lightning that lighteneth out of the one part 
under heaven, and shineth unto the other part 
under heaven. Here there is suddenness. The 
day of the Son of man is coming upon the world, 
when it least expects that event. Then it is 
compared to the deluge of water in the days of 
Noah, when but one family escaped in the ark ; 
and to the deluge of fire in the days of Lot, 
when all the inhabitants of the plains perished, 
save Lot and his, who were scarcely saved ; for 
it was with tardy steps that they bent their way 
to Zoar. Now these types fail of meaning, if 
they do not mean that the coming of Christ's 
kingdom is to be amid judgments, that are to 
lay waste the powers of wickedness, and to des-
troy the son of perdition ; and on the very scene 
of this wide waste of ruin caused by sin, to erect 
his kingdom of grace, and peace, and love. 
But the book of Revelation is quite decisive 
on this subject. Here we follow the history of 
the Church down through three parallel lines, 
each bringing us to the kingdom of blessedness 
andEglory. First in the seals of the sixth chap-
ter, we follow the judgments of the Lord down 
to the sixth, which ends in earthquakes, and the 
sun black as sackcloth, and consummated judg-
ment. Then in the trumpets, we follow the very 
same path of judgment; and so also with vials; 
and that pathway brings us to the high and holy 
felicities of the millennium. 
" All is Paradise again ; 
Far happier place than that of Eden, 
And far happier days." 
Seal after seal is broken—trumpet after trum-
pet is blown—vial after vial is poured out. It 
comes—woe upon woe—judgment upon judg-
ment—crash upon crash ; and, as with aching 
eye and weary heart, we cry, " How long, Lord, 
how long ?" we seem to hear a voice far above 
the din of judgment; and it interprets all: 
" Overturn, overturn, overturn, till He come 
whose right it is, and I will give it Him." 
A 
AMONG the interesting papers relating to the 
present Revolution in China, received by the 
arrival of the Pathfinder, is one of more than 
ordinary ability and research by Dr. Macgowan. 
He has collected a mass of materials illustrating 
the history of the Revolution, and the leaders 
who now direct it, which throw so much light 
upon the subject, and withal are so entertaining, 
that our readers will not regret the space we 
have devoted to the matter. 
Tien-teh, who is the acknowledged head of 
the movement, and already exercises imperial 
powers over many millions of the Chinese, is a 
young man now in his 19th year, a pretended 
descendant of the Prince, who overturned the 
Mongol rule and established the Ming dynasty. 
His family continued to govern China for up-
wards of two hundred and fifty years, and with 
such moderation and justice as greatly to endear 
them to the people. They were finally over-
thrown by the irruption of the fierce Tartars of 
the North, and those of the Princes who sur-
vived the wars which followed, concealed them-
selves in the southwestern portion of the Empire. 
Tien-teh is descended from one of these, and 
appears therefore before the people, not as an 
unknown adventurer, but as the representative 
of a dynasty that is still remembered with a 
warm affection by the Chinese. The extortions 
of the Tartar Emperor and his swarm of corrupt 
officials, have prepared the people to welcome 
any change ; but when that change involves the 
overthrow of a foreign dynasty and the restora-
tion of their native Princes, a national feeling 
is begotten. Enthusiasm incites the rebel 
armies, and their treason to the powers that be, 
becomes patriotism and loyalty to their rightful 
rulers. Under such auspices, Tien-teh has 
steadily progressed in his conquests, until he 
has now under his sway not less than 75,000,000 
of his countrymen, whom he governs through the 
medium of a regular organized administration, 
assisted by Ministers and Generals of great 
sagacity and ability. Before commencing the 
last campaign, he issued a Proclamation, in 
which argument and passion are dexterously 
employed to bring the people to his support. 
The document is so excellent an index to his 
character and his policy, that we give it entire : 
" I hold," says the Prince, " that in exter-
minating tyrannical oppressors, and in tranquiliz- 
ing the people, reliance should be placed on the 
popular will; and that he who can firmly estab-
lish the empire should become its prince. The 
abominable and thievish usurpation from which 
we suffer has continued upward of two hundred 
years ; exacting the produce from the land, and 
absorbing the fat of the people, for stowing into 
IL_ 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
235 
Under the last but one of the vials we now 
stand ; and this has been pouring out ever since 
the first French revolution; and soon the wrath 
of God is to be filled up. At present there is a 
lull in the elements of wrath ; but he is blind 
to everything that is passing around him, and 
deaf to the voice of prophecy, who believeth not 
that even now " the unclean spirits are going 
forth out of the mouth of the beast, and of the 
dragon, and of the false prophet, unto all the 
kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to 
gather them together to the battle of that great 
day of God Almighty." The forces are gather-
ing and mustering for a future and final out-
burst. This present guilty state of things is near 
an end. The ground on which the man of sin 
now stands, is tottering and shaking perilously 
beneath him. 
All the half-philosophic and half-evangelic 
expectation of a good time coming, of the com-
ing back of a golden age to earth, through the 
instrumentalities of steamboats, telegraphs, and 
free trade, in connection with the efforts of mis-
sionaries, is just a delusion, a fairy tale, a mid-
summer's night dream. Come, the millenium 
will ; but what is coming first ? The last vial 
of God's filled-up wrath, now trembling in the 
angel's hand. We do not believe that the world 
is to be regenerated without those judgments, by 
the mere arts and agencies of man. We see no 
signs of amendment in the dark mystery of ini-
quity; and yet that incarnation of all princi-
ples of evil hath not many days to live. We 
see the thunder-cloud charged with all the ele-
ments of wrath and ruin : it gets blacker and 
blacker : it descends lower and lower. Every 
new event in these startling times, is like a 
gleam of lightning. Every rumor among the 
nations, is like the muttering of distant thunder. 
And where do we look ? Where do we ask you 
to look ? Why we look to the cross—to the 
death of the incarnate God—we look for mercy, 
for forgiveness, for shelter from the storm. In 
God's own opened heart, his own paternal home, 
we find a covert. " Return unto thy rest, 0 
my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with 
thee." 
We conclude then that Christ's kingdom is to 
be established immediately after the judgments 
of the little horn and the Roman beast. It is to 
be immediately after the outpouring of the 
seventh vial ; and whatever may now be the 
efforts and the apparent success of the enemies 
of Christ, that success is to be short-lived, and 
so soon as they are ripe for judgment, the har-
vest of wrath will come. We believe that the 
Roman world, in other words, the papal world, 
has sinned away its day of grace. Missionaries 
dare not go to them. The Bible cannot be sent to 
them. The blessed gospel is rejected by them. 
They are shut up, awaiting the final stroke ; and 
we wait to hear the cry, " Babylon is fallen, is 
fallen." And when the blackness and darkness, 
and tempest of these judgments have passed 
away, we shall find ourselves at once amid the 
cloudless light, and the unbroken Sabbath of the 
Millennium. 
Toronto Christian Observer. 
 
itsvmmisiticall1214 
The Great Delusion—Its Converts. 
TILE N. Y. Christian intelligencer has a very 
judicious article under this heading, as follows : 
Among " the signs of the times " is the con-
version of certain prominent jurists and states-
men to the delusions of the so-called spiritual 
rappings. Their advocacy of it is a triumph 
for the seers of the new revelation, and has 
doubtless staggered many weak minds. 
The question is worthy of study, How is it 
that these men of intelligence and education, 
trained to the science of the law, accustomed to 
the sifting of evidence, whose profesional maxim 
it is to take nothing upon trust, to believe noth-
ing without proof, have embraced a system full 
of such monstrous absurdity and unmitigated 
evil ? 
We should remember, in replying to this 
query, that jurists and statesmen are as fallible, 
infirm and speculative as other men. The law 
itself is proverbial for its " glorious uncertainty," 
and its disciples are not above their code. But 
we think that there is -a higher reason for their 
defection to be found in the souls of some of these 
men. Of all the reported cases, we know not of 
one individual who held any settled personal reli-
gious convictions. With strong religious sus-
ceptibilities, they had no established faith in the 
essential truths of the gospel. They have seen 
enough of the world to realize its vanity, and 
possibly to be disgusted with it. They have had 
trials, but no comforter; they want a refuge, 
but are unwilling to receive the plain and hum-
bling truths of the gospel. To satisfy their un-
settled consciences, and quell their rising appre-
hensions, they take up with whatever attracts 
attention by its novelty, mystery, and apparently 
spiritual origin. Like mariners adrift upon a 
stormy sea, they try to land in any cove that 
offers a prospect of shelter. Presently they 
hear the cry, " Breakers ahead," and we next 
see them stranded on the beach, or broken on 
the rocks of a wild and iron-bound coast. We 
have heard, on good authority, that one of the 
most eminent of these men was led into this un-
holy delusion by his attempts to hold intercourse 
with the spirit of his wife, who died a short time 
previous. The case is in point. Had he known 
the believer's refuge, his troubled soul would 
never have sought the ghostly solace that has 
brought him down so low. 
We must expect such things. Evidently, 
there is " a falling away" from the faith even 
among professing Christians. We have heard 
of large churches infected and panic-stricken by 
this plague. Where it will stop is only known 
to Him who in judicial wrath often gives sinners 
up to a " strong delusion, that they should be-
lieve a lie." 
The sole remedy, especially for Christian pro-
fessors who are in danger of its temptations, is 
in the simple gospel of our Lord Jesus. Let a 
man settle in his own mind that the Bible is the 
Word of God, infallible and complete, and re-
ceive its cardinal doctrines of the atonement, 
regeneration, sanctification, and their kindred 
truths, and we have little fear for one so " rooted 
and grounded in the faith." He will rest on 
these as settled conclusions. And when the wild 
infidel questions him, and when the " false 
Christ " pleads his claims, his answer will be, 
I have examined the argument, and satisfied 
myself that the Bible is the Word of God. I 
have settled it once and forever in my own con- 
victions. Whatever this book repudiates, is 
heresy ; whatever it rebukes, is sin ; whatever it 
is silent on, is not essential to our salvation.'" 
The whole Church needs to feel and to obey the 
injunction to the ancient Church of Philadelphia, 
Hold fast !" 
But while we should plant ourselves on these 
principles, and will be safe only there, we believe 
that the religious press and pulpit have mistaken 
their adversary by UNDERRATING the power of 
this delusion. We bethive it to be one of " the 
depths of Satan." Some of the secular presses 
have recently taken up the subject in a way that 
we would fain see carried out by their religious 
contemporaries ; and we cannot better close this 
article than by quoting from a vigorous editorial 
in the Daily Times of May 27, which should be 
universally read : 
" Not only does the delusion avoid every 
means of satisfactory test, and decline to make 
any developments tending to benefit the race or 
individuals—it inculcates the dreariest infidelity, 
and does more serious damage to the religious 
sentiment of the age than any influence it has 
ever encountered. And thus spreading over the 
world like prairie-fire—a mass of incongruity, 
falsehood, unreason, imposture, and infidelity—
it invites the most anxious attention of thought-
ful and conservative men. The humbug itself 
may of itself perish, but the irreligious offspring 
will survive indefinitely. It is high time to 
cease laughing at the fantastic absurdity of the 
monster, and go heartily at work to destroy it." 
( For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No. XLIT. 
STIRLING AND EDINBURGH. 
IT was the eve of " Stirling Races " and all 
the Hotels were overflowing with company. I 
found good entertainment at the Royal Hotel, 
but was lodged out. The next morning dawned 
bright and the streets were all alive with peo-
ple. The shop-windows were decked out in their 
gayest colors, strolling pedlers were crying their 
wares, tumblers performing their antics in the 
midst of admiring groups, over-grown boys play-
ing at thimble-rig, and travelling minstrels with 
hand-Organs and monkies, and dancing bears, 
drawing crowds and collecting pennies. 
I walked about the streets awhile, amusing 
myself with the various sights, and then made 
my way to the " CASTLE," up a long irregular 
street, past the Earl of Mar's magnificent castle, 
which was confiscated and levelled by order of 
King James, around several corners between 
high stone walls, up successive flights of steps, 
till I came across a guide who showed me the 
Castle. It is now garrisoned by 400 soldiers. 
Stirling Castle " is of great antiquity. The 
time of its first foundation is unknown. During 
the wars which were carried on for the indepen-
dence of Scotland, it was frequently taken and 
re-taken by the contending parties. About the 
time of the accession of the house of Stewart, it 
became a royal residence, and was long the fa-
vorite abode of the Scottish monarchs. It was 
the birth-place of James II. and James V. ; and 
James Vi. and his eldest son Prince Henry was 
baptized in it. In the south-east part of the 
fbrtress is a building in the form of a quadran-
gle called " James' Palace." It was built by 
James V. but is now converted into barracks. 
The open court in the centre is said to have been 
the place where the lions were kept, and fed 
through the windows. It has but one high story 
with long grated windows, and a half story above. 
Every long window is surmounted by a stone 
statue—one very indecent. On the south side 
of the square is the oldest part of the Castle. 
One of the apartments is called " Douglas' 
Room," where William Earl of Douglas was 
assassinated by James II. after he had granted 
him a safe-conduct. This event is thus com-
memorated in the " Lady of the Lake." 
" Ye towers ! within whose circuit dread 
A Douglas by his sovereign bled." 
On the west side of the square is a long, low 
building, which was originally the Chapel, but 
is now used as a store-room and armory. Here 
are some curious specimens of old armor—a 
huge leathern hat which Oliver Cromwell used 
to put on over all as a defence—a quantity of 
pikes with stout wooden handles, prepared for 
the militia, the " Sea-fencibles " at the time 
when fears were entertained of Napoleon's inva-
sion—and some old pikes and guns taken from 
the rebels in 1820. In one corner is the old 
pulpit from which John Knox used to thunder 
forth his bold, uncompromising denunciations of 
iniquity. It has been almost all cut up by the 
-pen-knives of visitors. 
The view from the ramparts is very fine. Near 
by is the mount on which executions commonly 
took place, called " Execution Hill," which 
Scott thus characterizes : 
" Then, 0 sad and fatal mound, 
That oft has heard the death-axe sound." 
On another part of the declivity is the crag be-
hind which Wallace's army was encamped. On 
the west, is the vale of Menteith, bounded by 
the Highland mountains. To the north and east, 
fertile fields, handsome country-seats, the wind-
ings of the Firth, the Ochill and the Grampian 
hills. To the east, the town, the Abbey Craig, 
the ruins of Cambuskenneth Abbey, and in a 
clear day the Castle of Edinburgh and Arthur's 
Seat may be seen. In the south the Campsie 
hills bound the view. At one corner of the ram-
parts called " Victoria Station," Queen Victoria 
stood in 1842 and sketched the scene. Another 
place is called " Queen Mary's Look-out." The 
field of Bannockburn was pointed out to me—
also the marks made by the cannon-balls when 
the Castle was besieged by Gen. Monk, the tower 
in which Roderick Dhu was confined by King 
James, and the room in which James was in-
structed by his tutor Buchanan. 
On my way down I visited the old Greyfriar 
or Franciscan church built by James IV. in 
1494. Here John Knox preached the corona-
tion sermon of James VI. in 1597. The old pul-
pit is still preserved in the vestry-room. Since 
the Reformation the church has been divided 
into two separate places of worship, called the 
East and West churches. 
At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon I took the 
train for Edinburgh, and arrived between seven 
and eight. The appearance of the city as we 
approached it was very imposing. We passed a 
magnificent building on the left in the castellated 
style, newly erected for a Hospital, then the Cas-
tle rock rose up on our right, we entered a deep 
ravine at its base and passing under the " Mound" 
reached the terminus, from which we emerged by 
a flight of stairs into the street above. Passing 
Scott's Monument, I walked up Prince-street, 
and established myself at Archibold's Hotel. 
EDINBURGH. 
Archibold's Private Hotel where I staid dur-
ing my sojourn in Edinburgh, was without ex-
ception the most comfortable, quiet and agreeable 
house of entertainment, I met with in my ab-
sence from home. I had a snug little front par-
lor on the first floor, looking out on Prince-street, 
commanding a grand view of the Castle directly 
opposite, where my meals were served up by a 
most attentive waiter, who was invisible save at 
the sound of the bell, and the adjoining room 
was my bed-room. The waiter was the only 
person I ever saw in the house, except on one 
occasion, when two gentlemen came into the 
parlor to read the newspapers. Where the other 
boarders were, or whether there were any others, 
was a mystery I could not solve. The accom-
modations were excellent and at a moderate 
price. 
My first visit was, of course, to the CASTLE. I 
walked down Prince-street, crossed the " Mound 
which connects the New Town with the Old, 
passed in front of the new Free Church College, 
an imposing edifice, through Ramsay Place, so 
called from the home of Allan Ramsay, the au-
thor of " The Gentle Shepherd," and by a pri-
vate path up the hill, came out on the Esplanade 
of the Castle, where a company of soldiers in 
the Highland dress were going through their 
military exercises under the drill sergeant. I 
passed around the batteries and saw the celebrated 
" Mons Meg," a gigantic piece of artillery which 
was cast at Mons in Flanders. It burst when 
firing a salute to the Duke of York in 1682, and 
has never been repaired. 
The view from the ramparts is very fine—the 
Grampian and Pentelean hills, the buildings of 
the " New Town," Carlton Hill with its monu-
ments, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crag, the " Old 
Town," spread out before you. The guide took 
me into a small building called " Queen Marga-
ret's Chapel," said to be the oldest church in 
Scotland. 
Leavinhe Castle Iwalked down High-street, 
past the Parliament louses, Tron Church, St. 
Giles' Cathedral, the Royal Exchange, and went 
to the City Chambers, to obtain an order to see 
the Scottish Regalia in the Tower-room at the 
Castle. Coming out I met my old acquaint• 
an ce of Basle, together with a young friend of 
his on his way to Dusseldorf to pursue his studies 
in painting. We went in company to the Castle 
and saw the Regalia, consisting of the Crown, 
the Sceptre, Sword of State and the Lord Tres. 
surer's Rod of Office. We were also admitted 
to Queen Mary's room, where James VI. was 
born, and from the windows of which he was 
let down in a basket by night and conveyed to 
Stirling Castle. On the wall is the prayer which 
she is said to have composed on that occasion. 
The following is a copy verbatim, though the 
original is in the old English character. 
" Lord Jesus Chryst that Crownit was with Thornise 
Preserve the Birth quhais Badgic heir is borne. 
And send Ilir Sonee Successione to Reigne still 
Lang in this Realine, if that it be Thy will. 
Als Grant 0 Lord quhat ever of Hir proceed 
Be to thy Glorie, Honer and Prais sobied. 
" Year 1566—Birth of King James—month 19 
Junii." 
From the Castle we walked down High-street to 
HOLYROOD PALACE. 
The Chapel in the rear of the Palace is a 
most picturesque ruin. The roof is all gone, 
and the wall of one end has a large window of 
beautiful proportions through which you see the 
country beyond. In one corner are the remains 
of David II., James II., James V. and Magda-
len his Queen, Henry, Lord Darnley and others. 
Lord Darnley was the last person buried there, 
until the re-interment of Queen Mary. It was 
her dying request that she might not be buried 
there, because Lord Darnley was ; and she was 
therefore buried in a church in the city. But 
when this church was taken down to open the 
rail-way, her remains were dug up and removed 
to this very vault. On one side is the door by 
which Lord Darnley and his associates, after 
passing through the church, eitered the Palace 
to murder Rizzio. 
An old lady in black with a stately air, waited 
on us through Queen Mary's apartments, which 
remain in nearly the same state as when she oc-
cupied them. There we saw a sofa with cush-
ions for Queen Mary and Lord Darnley-, on 
which they had many a tete-a-tete—chairs em-
broidered by Mary—the first grate and fender 
used in Scotland, introduced by King Jame; —
a coarse, clumsy affair. " What a fender for 
royalty !" said the old lady, lifting up both her 
hands. The adjoining apartment was her bed-
room. The bed with all its furniture has been 
kept as nearly as possible in the same state as 
when she occupied it. At the foot was a stand 
with a basket for baby-linen. We were shown 
a box containing her miniature, covered with 
silk embroidered by her when twelve years old 
living in Paris, with " Jacob's dream," and 
other scriptural scenes.. Adjoining is the closet 
where Darnley surprised Mary and Rizzio, who 
were at tea with the Countess of Argyle and one 
or two others. Rizzio terrified by the vindictive 
looks of the conspirators, clung to the skirts of 
the Queen for protection, but Darnley tore him 
off, George Douglas gave him the first stab, and 
he was then dragged into the outer apartment 
'and dispatched with fifty-six wounds. His body 
was then dragged into the adjoining room, and 
lay there all night, weltering in its blood. The 
stains are still to be seen on the floor. A par-
tition was afterwards built up by order of the 
Queen, to separate this part from the rest of the 
room. We also went through the Gallery of 
paintings, which however contains nothing re-
markable. 
Walking up the Canongate, we entered an 
old churchyard where we saw the monument 
erected to the poet Ferguson by Robert Burns. 
Saw John Knox's house with this inscription. 
Deus 
God 
After dinner we rode out upon Victoria road, 
got out at Arthur's Seat and ascended to the 
top. The view is magnificent—the Castle, the 
city, Carlton hill, the Firth, Leith, the German 
Ocean, Porto-bello, &c. Returned by the way 
of St. Anthony's Well and Chapel, and went 
on Carlton hill and saw the Monument of Du-
gald Stewart, Playfair's Observatory, the Na-
tional Monument, intended to commemorate Wa-
terloo, but left unfinished, Nelson's Monument 
and Burn's Monument. 
The next day was the Sabbath. In the morn-
ing I went to hear Dr. Candlish. The church 
is plain, but comfortable, and was well filled. 
The Doctor is a stern-looking man and evidently 
very nervous. His prayers consisted almost en-
tirely of scriptural expressions. The subject of 
his discourse was 2 Pet. 1:5-7. He had no notes 
and spoke with great freedom. His division was 
as follows : I. the connection of the text with 
the context. II. The connection of the different 
parts of the text with each other. Under the 
first head he remarked that what precedes the 
text appertains to the first coming of Christ; 
THE ADVENT 
ADVENT HERALD. 
Josephus states, (Ant. lib. 10, c. 1,) that having 
laid siege to " Pelusium," when ready to make an 
immediate assault,. a rumor reached Sennacherib 
that Tirhaka, king of Ethiopia was coming with 
great forces to aid the Egyptians, which caused 
him to abandon Egypt, and return to the siege of 
Jerusalem. The " rumor " which be heard is thus 
recorded in 2 Kings 19:9—" When he heard say 
of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold he is come 
out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again 
unto Hezekiah." And when in full march against 
Jerusalem to destroy it, (2 Chron. 32:21,) " the 
Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty 
men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the 
camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with 
shame of face to his own land. And when he was 
come into the house of his god, they that came 
forth of his own bowels slew him there with the 
sword." 
This history seems necessary in order to under-
stand the connection of this and the succeeding chap-
ter. And this army, belonging to the nation that 
had fulfilled the prediction in the previous portion 
of this 17th chap, of Isa. on Syria and Ephraim, is 
the " multitude of many people " on whom this 
" woe " is denounced. 
By an apostrophe to the Jews, the prophet thus 
c.als their attention to the approach of Sennache-
rib's army, and proceeds to predict its doom. And 
by similes he likens their approach to the rush of 
waters, and the voice of the seas—terms often used 
as symbols of people s. 
what follows, appertains to his second coming, 
so that the text is placed, just as Christians are, 
between the two ; and then dwelt upon the mo-
tives to Christian fidelity and zeal thus supplied 
by the retrospect and the prospect. 
Under the second head he remarked that 
" faith" was assumed as an indispensable pre-
requisite, and of the seven things to be added to 
faith, the first four, viz., " virtue,"—" knowl-
edge,"—" temperance,"—" patience," were ele-
ments of power—preparative ; while the remain-
ing three, viz., '' godliness,"—" brotherly-kind-
ness," " charity," showed the proper direction 
of these elements, or capabilities. " Virtue " 
he understood to mean (in the old English sense) 
valor—courage—fortitude—to profess and act 
out belief'. " Knowledge " is discretion—" the 
better part of valor," in a sound Christian sense. 
" Temperance " is self-command in its widest 
sense. " Patience " is perseverance. In con-
clusion he urged upon Christians with great 
earnestness the same diligent training, and exer-
cising unto godliness, that ambitious and aspir-
ing men practice for ungodly ends. 
In the afternoon I attended the Free Tron 
Church, where I heard Rev. Alexander Aber-
combie, from ----- Abbey. The sermon was 
a plain and sensible one from Jer. 6:16. Many 
of the soldiers of the garrison were present in 
fall Highland costume, and were very attentive. 
It seemed strange to see a red-coat in the precen-
tor's place to set the tune. 
At evening I visited the Grange burying-
ground to see the grave of Dr. Chalmers. The 
monument is nothing but a plain slab set in the 
wall with the inscription, " Thomas Chalmers, 
D. D. LL. D. Born 1780, died 1847." Close 
by is the grave of his wife who died about three 
years after. 
S. J. 111. M. 
2heat peralb. 
BOSTON, JULY 23, 1853. 
Tttmr readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
THE BURDEN OF DAMASCUS. 
BEHOLD, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be 
a ruinous heap.—v. 1. 
" Damascus " was the capital of Syria, about 
200 miles north-east of Jerusalem. In the seventh 
chapter v. 16th, Isaiah predicted that Samaria and 
Damascus should be bereft of their kings before the 
child then spoken of should come to years of dis-
cretion ; and in the 8th, (v. 4th,) that it should 
be before his younger son should be able to speak 
plainly. This prediction has reference to both of 
those kingdoms. In the fourth year of Ahaz, B. c. 
738, (2 Kings 16:9,) " the king of Assyria hearkened 
unto him : for the king of Assyria went up against 
Damascus and took it, and carried the people of it 
captive to Kir, and slew Rezin." Isaiah speaks 
as if he saw, in prophetic vision, the events fore-
told passing before his eyes. 
Dr. Clarke quotes from " Midrash," that " there 
were in Damascus three hundred and sixty-five 
streets, in each of these there was an idol, and each 
idol had his peculiar day of worship ; so that the 
whole were worshipped in the course of the year." 
If so, it was sufficient reason for its destruction. 
Damascus was an ancient city, and was in ex-
istence in the time of Abraham. It was after-
wards re-built, and was a subject of prediction in 
Zech. 9:1. 
The cities of Aroer are forsaken : they shall be for flocks, 
Which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.—v. 2. 
" Aroer " is supposed to be an extent of country 
in Syria, the site of many cities which were to be-
come desolated, and thus to become a place for the 
peaceable pasturage of flocks. 
glory of the children of Israel was thus made to 
pass away, so was to be the remnant of Syria.—A 
simile. 
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob 
Shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 
And it shall be as when the harvest-man ga.thereth the corn, 
And reapeth the ears with his arm ; 
And it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 
vs. 4, 5. 
" In that day," is when the ten tribes should be 
carried captive. Their diminution in numbers 
and power, is illustrated by a substitution, taken 
from the wasting away of a man's flesh, by sick-
ness or starvation ; and also by comparisons to the 
process of reaping. The harvest-man cuts down 
the stalks of grain and bears them from the field. 
In like manner, were they to be carried away into 
the cities of the Medea. " Rephaim " was a fer-
tile valley south-west of Jerusalem. 
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, 
Two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, 
Four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord 
God of Israel.—v. 6. 
Israel was carried captive in the sixth year of 
Hezekiah king of Judah, B. c. 720. But a small 
remnant of them were left in the land ; for in the 
18th year of Josiah, B. c. 622, when the passover 
was observed with great splendor, (2 Chron. 35:17) 
" the children of Israel that were present kept the 
passover at that time." The small number left, 
by an elliptical metaphor, is illustrated by the 
gleanings of a harvested field. By a simile, it is 
also illustrated by the gathering of olives—a few 
berries only being left in remote boughs where 
they escape the notice of, or are inaccessible to 
the gatherer. 
Mr. Lowth and Mr. Lord refer to Hezekiah's 
passover, (2 Chron. 30:10-18 ;) but that was held 
in the first year of his reign—five years before Is-
rael's captivity. 
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, 
And his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, 
Neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, 
Either the groves or the images.—vs. 7, 8. 
The judgments of God were to cause those left 
in the land to turn to him. When Josiah brake 
down the groves and pagan altars in Judah, (2 
Chron. 34:6, 7,) " so did he in the cities of Manas-
seh and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali. 
. . . . and throughout all the land of Israel." And 
when he repaired the house of the Lord, the Le-
vites who kept the doors, gathered money that was 
brought there, (v. 9th,) " of the hand of Manasseh 
and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel." 
When the king sent to inquire of the Lord, (v. 
21st,) he made mention of " them that are left in 
Israel and Judah ;" and, (v. 33d,) he " made all 
that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve 
the Lord their God. And all his days they de-
parted not from following the Lord, the God of 
their fathers." Thus did their eyes " have respect 
to the Holy One of Israel." They had seen the 
utter folly of trusting to the gods represented by 
images of their own creatioh. 
Their reformation, howe.yer, we have no reason 
to regard as a permanent one. They again re-
lapsed into forgetfulness of God. 
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an 
uppermost branch, 
Which they left because of the children of Israel : and there shall 
he desolation. 
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, 
And hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, 
Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with 
strange slips : 
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, 
And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish 
But the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate 
sorrow.—vs. 9-11. 
By a simile, the cities of Israel are compared to 
a forsaken bough. In v. 6th the people are com-
pared to the berries left ; but now, the cities are 
compared to the boughs. As only where they are 
remote and difficult of access, would the fruit gath-
erer leave any olives, so the inhabitants left in the 
cities, would be those who escaped the notice of 
the invaders. Some remote cities, even, might be 
spared. 
The cause of their desolation, is expressly at-
tributed to their forgetfulness of God, who, by an 
elliptical metaphor, is called " the Rock of thy 
strength,"—that is, a fortified place which no ene-
my could successfully assail. 
" Pleasant plants," are those calculated to pro-
duce delight. " Strange slips," are plants of for-
eign growth, propagated by cuttings. By a sub-
stitution, the taking of great pains in the cultiva-
tion of these, and realizing only disappointment, 
illustrates the grief and sorrow which follows the 
forsaking of God and turning to other sources for 
consolation and hope. 
A WOE UPON THE ARMY OF SENNACFIERIB. 
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise 
Like the noise of the seas ; and to the rushing of nations, 
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters.—v. 12. 
This is the introduction of a new subject, but 
one intimately connected with the former. After 
predicting the fate of Damascus and Samaria, 
which were captured by the Assyrians, the prophet 
utters a " woe " upon a great multitude, which, 
(v. 14th,) was to perish in a single night. 
When Samaria and Syria confederated against 
Judah, (2 Kings 16:7, 9,) "Ahaz sent messengers 
to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am 
thy servant and thy son : come up, and save me 
out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the 
hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against 
me. . . . And the king of Assyria hearkened unto 
him : for the king of Assyria went up against Da-
mascus, and took it, and carried the people of it 
captive to Kir, and slew Rezin." This was about 
B. c. 740. He put an end to the kingdom of the 
Syrians in Damascus, after it had existed ten gene-
rations, or from the time of Solomon. After the 
conquest of Damascus, the king of Assyria must 
have gone up and subjugated Ephraim ; for we 
read, (1 Chron. 5:26,) that " the God of Israel 
stirred up . . . Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, 
and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, 
and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 
and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and 
Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day." 
These acts of the king of Assyria, were done at 
the request of Ahaz of Judah, who acknowledged 
himself a vassal of, and paid tribute to the king of 
Assyria. 
Rushee, succeeded Pekah, after an interregnum 
of nine years, on the throne of Israel, B. c. 729. 
Shalmanezer, had now succeeded Tiglath-pileser 
as king of Assyria, and " Hoshea," (2 Kings 17:3,) 
" became his servant and gave him presents." 
About this time, Sabacon, the Ethiopian, called 
" So," in the Scriptures, invaded and took possess 
ion of the kingdom of Egypt ; and with him Ho-
shea made an alliance. 2 Kings 17:4—" And the 
king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea : for 
he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and 
brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he 
had done year by year : therefore the king of As-
syria shut him up, and bound him in prison." 2 
Kings 18:9-11—" And it came to pass in the fourth 
year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year 
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalma-
neser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, 
and besieged it. And at the end of three years 
they took it : even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, 
(that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,) 
Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did 
carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in 
Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in 
the cities of the Medea." B. C. 720. 
When Hezekiah succeeded Ahaz to the throne of 
Judah, (2 Kings 18:7,) " he rebelled against the 
king of Assyria and served him not." But the As-
syrians, by other wars, were unable to press their 
demand for tribute till the death of Shalmaneser, 
and the succession of Sennacherib. It is very proba-
ble that at this time Judah made application to 
Egypt for help, and therefore encountered the re-
buke of Isaiah in his 30th and 31st chapters-31:1 
—" Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, 
and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because 
they are many ; and in horsemen, because they are 
very strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One 
of Israel, neither seek the Lord." 
Late discoveries at Nineveh, have brought to 
light the fact that Shalmaneser was the Sargon of 
Isa. 20:1, (see note) who took " Ashdod ;" which 
must have been one cause of his not enforcing his 
demands upon Hezekiah. His success in Egypt 
would demonstrate the folly of trusting to time 
Egyptians for succor, and was doubtless one rea-
son why Hezekiah looked only to the Lord for help 
when Sennacherib came against him. 
2 Kings 18:13, 14—" Now in the fourteenth year 
of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria 
come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and 
took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to 
the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have of-
fended ; return from me : that which thou puttest 
on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria ap-
pointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hun-
dred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold." 
Notwithstanding this tribute, Sennacherib renewed 
the war. He marched, himself, again towards 
Egypt ; but he sent, (2 Kings 18:17,) " Tartan and 
Rabsaris, and Rab-shaketh from Lachish to king 
Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem," 
who told Hezekiah (v. 24th,) not to " trust on 
Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ;" and they 
railed " on the Lord God-of Israel. 
Hezekiah, in his extremity, looked to God for de-
liverance, and the Lord sent word to him by 
Isaiah (2 Kings 19:7), " Behold, I will send a blast 
upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall 
return to his own land ; and I will cause him to 
fall by the sword in his own land." Rab-shakeh 
then returned (v. 8th) " and found the king of 
Assyria warring against Libnah." They pressed 
on towards Egypt. It is supposed by Dr. Prideaux 
that at this time " populous No," Nah. 3:10,—the 
No-Ammon of the Egyptians, was destroyed.— 
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters 
hut God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, 
And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, 
And like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 
And behold at evening tide trouble ; and before the morning he is not. 
This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that 
rob us.—vs. 13, 14. 
The same figure is repeated. They come rush-
ing against Jerusalem, but God rebukes them ; as 
he said, 2 Kings 19:32-35—" He shall not come into 
the city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come be-
fore it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By 
the way that he came, by the same shall he return. 
and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord, 
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own 
sake, and for my servant David's sake. And it came 
to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went 
out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an 
hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when 
they arose early in the morning, behold, they were 
all dead corpses." 
By a substitution, " rebuke " is put for the de-
struction with which the Lord would overwhelm 
them,—the ease with which he would do it, being 
illustrated by similes of the wind's chasing away 
the chaff, and the whirlwind's tossing the " rolling 
thing "—mar. " thistle down." In the evening, 
Jerusalem was full of trouble at their approach ; 
but in the morning, 185,000 of them were dead 
corpses. 
The Discussion. 
THE following from brother Litch opens the dis-
cussion still further. We hope that on this point 
we shall have an EXTENSIVE response,—not 
lengthy but to the point. We want every variety 
of opinion that is entertained on it, and the shorter 
and more pithily expressed the better. 
We have so lately answered each of those ques-
tions, that it will not be necessary to repeat our 
views. 
When several brethren give the same answer, we 
may insert only one of a kind, and give the names, 
or the signatures assumed, of the others who ac- 
cord with it. If there is a general response to this, 
there may result from it a discussion of much in- 
terest. This question may be simply answered. 
Should there be a general agreement of opinion, 
no reasons to sustain it will be needed. Should 
there be a disagreement, then it will be proper to 
defend the several opinions by arguments. 
" MR. EDITOR :—Brother Robinson has answered 
well. No other answer could be given, as I can 
see, consistently with the plain reading of the pas- 
sage. We are, therefore, thus far agreed :—The 
reason assigned by Christ, as recorded by Mat- 
thew, why, when his people should see the abomi-
nation of desolation spoken of by Daniel the 
prophet, stand in the holy place, those who should 
be in Judea should flee to the mountains, &c., is, 
For there shall be great tribulation,' &c. 
" Question 2d. What are meant by the Abomi-
nation of desolation' and The holy place ?' 
" I might give my own views of these points ; but 
as they differ somewhat from those usually enter- 
tained, I prefer that others should reply according 
to the import of the passages in question, unem-
barrassed by conflicting sentiments. The question 
now proposed will admit of a greater latitude of 
views than the first, but still it is confined within 
narrow limits. The answer to it will, however, 
open a wide field before us. J. LITCH." 
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, 
And the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria 
They shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord 
of hosts.—v. 3. 
This prophecy, having respect to Ephraim as well 
as to Syria, was probably uttered in reference to 
their having confederated together against Judah. 
" The fortress of Ephraim, was its stronghold—
probably Samaria, its capital. 2 Kings 17:6—" In 
the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took 
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and 
placed them in IIalah and in Habor by the river 
of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." As the 
sense should be led by such a fancy. He is a man 
of ability, and a graduate of Union College. 
This reminds us of a similar visit which we re-
ceived two years since from a Catholic priest, who 
had just arrived from the south of Brazil in South 
America, where he had been stationed by the hier-
archy as a missionary. As he related his story, 
lie had become disgusted with the almost universal 
immorality of the clergy of the establishment 
there, devoted himself more prayerfully to the 
study of the Bible (Douay version), and was sud-
denly impressed (impressions govern all such) that 
he was commissioned to reform the immorality of 
the Church. This conclusion he arrived at in 1843. 
As he read, he found the text, (Dan. 12:1)—" And at 
that time shall Michael stand up." His name being 
Michael M'Carron, he at once concluded that he was 
the Michael who was to arise. Looking further, 
he saw that ending the 70 weeks in 33, where 
Usher places the crucifixion, the 2300 days begin-
ning with the 70 weeks would end in 1843, at the 
very time that he did stand up. With these coin-
cidences, he was fully convinced that he was the 
Michael predicted. 
Full of this faith he began his work of reform. 
It was not however palatable to his Papal brethren, 
and his labors were there terminated. In 1850 he 
came to the United States, and the next year, going 
past our office he called in. After many interviews 
with him, we saw nothing to cause us to doubt his 
sincerity. He conversed fluently in the Spanish, 
French and Latin, and was a man of mind. Per-
fectly sane on all other subjects, he was fully per-
suaded that he was the Michael. He too had rolls 
of MS. which he wanted published. These being 
ably written, and the most of them making no 
allusion to his divine commission, we selected from 
them, and published several. They were addressed 
to " John, Archbishop of Tuam," in Ireland. The 
first was entitled " The Strong Delusion," (2 Thes. 
2)—" Michael's Exposition of Prophecy, for the 
perusal of John, Archbishop of Tuam ;" and was 
published May 10 and 17, 1851. Another, pub-
lished July 19th, was entitled " Antichrist." They 
were severe attacks on the corruptions of the Pa-
pacy. Not having the room that he wished, he 
transferred his communications to the Boston 
Olive Branch, where they appeared for a succession 
of weeks—containing some shocking developments 
of what he had seen in South America. It is now 
more than a year since we have heard from him. 
There is now in New York city a man by the 
name of S. S. Snow, who holds forth weekly at a 
place which he calls " Mount Zion," and has done 
so for the last eight years, to about thirty followers. 
He impiously claims the same relation to the Son, 
that the Son bears to the Father ; but, denying the 
equality of the Son, he claims a regular gradation 
in rank from the Father down to himself. He too 
claims to be Michael, and also the Shepherd de-
scribed in Isa. 11:16, besides blasphemously ap-
plying to himself various other scriptural appella-
tions. He however is full of all cursing and 
bitterness, and delights most in uttering abomina-
ble anathemas. 
In December 1844, we had a visit from a person 
who resided in a neighboring town, whose name 
we were never able to learn, who was impressed 
with the idea that he was the " Man of Sin," pre-
dicted in 2 Thess. 2. He was here more or less 
for two weeks, fully convinced that the devil in-
carnate was manifested in him, as the incarnate 
God was in Christ. It was to him a source of in-
tense agony. He had known nothing of the Advent 
doctrine till he embraced that fancy ; but we had 
reason to believe that we convinced him that the 
man of sin was not a person, but the Papal hier-
archy, and thus relieved his mind materially. With 
the exception of a glimpse we had of him in the 
street two years subsequent, we have not seen him 
since. 
When individuals come with such fancies, we 
always point them to the law and the testimony. 
If they speak contrary to this, there is no light 
in them. We ask them for their credentials. 
The above was written in April last, imme-
diately after the visit of the first individual re-
ferred to, but has been delayed till the present 
time. Have heard nothing from him since that 
visit. We conclude that Bishop Asbury has not 
made his appearance in Baltimore—the papers 
being silent on that point. 
To Correspondents. 
" 1 NVOUD like to hear through the Herald your 
views on the 12th chapter and 13th verse of 2d 
Esdras." 
J. D. 
Our views are, that the book of Esdras is apoc-
ryphal, and no more entitled to be regarded as an 
inspired book, than the works of Josephus. If R. 
S. will count over the number of our Presidents, 
he will see that we have had fourteen. 
S. JACKSON.—The city of Rev. 21, which John 
SINGULAR FANCIES. 
He claims to be the recipient of various Divine 
communications, the reality of which he says are 
to be substantiated by miracles,—various, marked, 
and conclusive,—till which he asks no one to believe. 
Among these are the resurrection of several promi-
nent individuals from the dead, during the coming 
ten years, viz., Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, 
Joshua, Stephen, Martin Luther, Jonathan Ed-
wards, Francis Asbury, and others—the last named 
taking place on the first day of July 1853 at Balti-
more, where his body is entombed. On the 20th 
of March, 1863, he says the Saviour will come to 
hire in the clouds of heaven, and to him alone—
soon after which, on the 11th of May following, 
the city of Rome is to become as Sodom, and the 
river Tiber to terminate like the Jordan. He sup-
poses that he is to be an agent to usher in a new 
dispensation ; and that his coming is variously 
predicted in the Old Testament. Thus he supposes 
that he is Zerubbabel, that he is the Shepherd, the 
Fellow of the Lord of hosts, that he is the Priest 
after the order of Melchisedec, the Prophet like 
unto Moses, that he is brought to view by the two 
sticks in Ezekiel, and the two witnesses in Revela-
tion ; and that he is announced by various other 
appellations besides that of the Ancient of Days. 
He has never been an Adventist, found out the 
name of our paper by accident, and is ignorant of 
our views. 
The work to which he supposes he is commis-
sioned, is to re-organize the Church and to call out 
a people to the glory of God, under a new dispen-
sation. He claims inspiration. As an inspired 
writer, he claims that he has written the MSS. to 
which we have made reference. He has also com-
menced the work of re-writing the entire Scrip-
tures in the English language, so that the English 
may have all the authority of the original, or of 
an inspired translation. The English is the pure 
language to which he says the Church is to turn ; 
and his re-written Bible is that which he supposes 
the Church is to use in the new dispensation ; and 
which, he says, is to continue 2000 years from the 
20th of March, 1863. At the end of that period 
he expects the resurrection of the rest of the 
righteous dead, and that then the millennium is to 
follow. On the 20th of March, 1863, he expects 
to reach Adamic innocence, and to be invested 
with his " dominion ;" after which, is to be the 
reign of the saints on the earth, till the resurrec-
tion and millennium. 
One text he thought incontrovertible was that 
in Rev. 2:26, 27—" And he that overcometh, and 
keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give 
power over the nations : (and he shall rule them 
with a rod of iron ; as the vessels of a potter shall 
they be broken to shivers :) even as I received of 
my Father." From this he argues that some one 
man is to be thus commissioned. We however 
pointed him to Psa. 149:7-9—" To execute ven- 
geance upon the heathen, and punishments upon 
the people ; to bind their kings with chains, and 
their nobles with fetters of iron ; to execute upon 
them the judgment written : this honor have all his 
saints." 
He was here from the 9th to the 27th of March, 
was very courteous and respectful, evidently hop-
ing to make an impression, but disappointed of 
course in his errand, and left in season to reach 
by the cars some place unknown to us in the State 
of New York, where a Methodist acquaintance of 
his is buried, and whose resurrection he looked for 
on the 1st of April, which he was to be on hand to 
witness—the first token that he looked for of a 
divine attestation of his mission. Not having 
since heard from him, we conclude that his expec- 
tation has not been realized ; and we trust that he 
may be recovered to a more Biblical view of things : 
for it is a pity that one of so much apparent good 
WE have been lately visited by the Rev. Stephen 
Tourtellot, a Methodist minister, of Herkimer, 
N. Y., who claims to be the " ANCIENT OF DAYS," 
to whom " one like the Son of man came with the 
clouds of heaven," (Dan. 7:13) and to whom, i. e. 
the Ancient of Days, as he wrongfully interprets 
the prediction; is to be given the " dominion and 
glory and a kingdom," and who is to be served by 
" all people, nations and languages." 
We gave him a long and patient hearing, and 
examined some two hundred pages of manuscript 
in which lie has unfolded his claims, which he 
brought for publication. 
He is forty years of age, is neatly and respecta-
bly dressed, is about six feet two inches in height, 
is dignified in his appearance, wears his beard un-
shorn, which is of an auburn color, with corres-
ponding hair, is a man of good general intelligence, 
ready in conversation, and perfectly coherent in 
his talk. In short, his personal appearance, inde-
pendent of his monstrous pretensions, would readily 
command deference and respect. 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
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saw in vision, was a symbol, which we regard as 
a representative of the Bride the Lamb's wife. 
Compare, Rev. 20:9, 10 and 19:7-9. We have 
just mailed to you a copy of our " Approaching 
Crisis," which gives our views in full on that point, 
and the same reference to corresponding scriptures 
which we should make in an article devoted to that 
subject. That which was represented by the sym-
bol, was not then seen ; he saw merely a symbol 
of what would be. 
E. W. CASE, Bristol, Vt.—Will be pleased to 
have you act as agent. 
New Works, &c. 
"RAPPO-MANIA OVERTHROWN. In two Parts. Part First. The 
Christian Religion Triumphant, or the Scriptures, Reason, Philoso-
phy, Common sense, and Religion Vindicated against the claims of 
the Spiritual Rappers. By Henry Wickliffe. Boston: Fowler & 
Wells & Co. 1853." 
The writer of this work deals the spirit-rappers 
some hard raps, and demonstrates that their theory 
substitutes the spirits in the place of God, and is 
therefore a false religion. We could not, however, 
in reading the work, come to the conclusion that 
the author himself has correct views of God and 
the teachings of the Bible. We find him denying 
many clearly stated Bible declarations, and cannot 
therefore recommend the book as a safe antidote 
for the apostasy which it professes to meet. Its 
style also is horrid. It reads as if its author began 
to write as soon as he began to think, without 
waiting to mature his thoughts. 
"SECOND ANNEAL REPORT of the House of the Angel Guardian. 
June, 1853. By Rev. George F. Haskins, Rector. Boston: Pub-
lished by Patrick Donahoe, No. 3 Franklin-street. 1853." 
This is a Papal institution in this city, under 
the care of the Bishop of Boston. It furnishes a 
good home for houseless boys, and according to the 
report, is in a flourishing condition. Since its com-
mencement, two years since, 336 boys have been 
received there, and 74' are there at the present time 
—the majority of those discharged having been ap-
prenticed to various trades. Last winter, an ap-
plication was made for an act of incorporation, 
and the committee of the Legislature, after visit-
ing the institution, reported unanimously in favor 
of it, which was granted. 
"HINTS FOR TILE lIongEnoLn ; or Family Counsellor. By Rev. 
Wm. M. Thayer. Boston Published by John P. Jewett & Co. 
Cleveland, 0.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. London Low & 
Co. 1853." 
This is designed as a family manual, and treats 
of the duties pertaining to the conjugal, parental, 
filial, and fraternal relations—those which make 
home and kindred associations so pleasant. It 
shows what the family owes to the Sabbath, the 
Bible, and the domestic altar ; and it discusses a 
great variety of subjects in a very judicious and 
instructive manner. Such a work is timely, much 
needed, and to the purpose. 
"FAMILIAR LETTERS TO JOHN B. FITZPATRICK, the Catholic Bishop 
of Boston. By an Independent Irishman. Boston : Published by 
J. P. Mendum, No. 65 Cornhill. Far sale at the Periodical Depots. 
1853." 
These letters are designed to show the opposi-
tion of the Catholic hierarchy to free schools, a 
free press, and to democracy generally. They are 
vigorously written, and contain many home thrusts. 
We wish that Catholics might give it a candid 
reading. 
A Contrast. 
AT one time last week we received two letters 
from the Post-office. The first one opened, read : 
" you will pleas stop the Herald as i shoal take no 
more from the poast ofice." 
The next read : " I feel richly paid in the plea-
sure afforded me in perusing your very valuable 
and interesting paper, the Herald. May God bless 
you in your work, and enable you still to proclaim 
the truth, amid the scoffs of the world, and an un-
believing church, is the earnest desire of your 
friend and brother in Christ." 
Well, thought we, there are different modes of 
doing things, and different kinds of people in the 
world. Were it not for the sincere affection of 
warm-hearted friends, the conducting of a paper 
would be arduous indeed. An editor's greatest 
reward is in the satisfaction arising from the 
thought of administering to the gratification of 
others. Without the feeling that hundreds are 
strengthened, and consoled or instructed by the 
varied selections and original articles in his col-
umns, the labor of preparing and selecting them, 
would indeed be a weary task : but to know that 
its weekly visits are hailed with pleasure, lightens 
many a burden, and sweetens many a weary labor. 
Even the occasional assaults, and rumors of the 
efforts of those who " seek for iniquity "—that 
" make a man an offender for a word, and lay a 
snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn 
aside the just for a thing of naught," may all be 
forgotten, or rejoiced in, when one's friends mani-
fest their friendship, and the children of God take 
pleasure in his labors. 
"Shady Side." 
WE gave a notice some weeks since of a book 
published by John P. Jewett & Co., with the above 
title, designed to illustrate the peculiar trials which 
some country pastors and their wives have to en-
dure. It was written by the wife of Rev. Mr. 
Hubbell, of Avon, Conn., some of whose parish-
ioners being weak enough to suppose that they are 
the originals of certain characters described in 
the book, have raised a breeze against him and 
caused his dismission. The N. Y. independent 
says : 
" Rev. Mr. Hubbell, of Avon, Conn., has lately 
been dismissed from his pastoral charge of the con-
gregation whose minister he has been for the last 
thirteen years. And what was the occasion of his 
dismission ? Any heresy in faith or any conduct 
inconsistent with the Christian or clerical profes-
sion I Not at all. It was simply because his wife 
has written a book of such interest and power as 
to cause her name to be spoken along with that of 
Mrs. Stowe. We betray no secret in saying that 
Mrs. Hubbell is the authoress of that touching and 
impressive book, Shady Side,' of which we have 
lately spoken. The good people of Avon, however, 
would have it that some of themselves had sat for 
sundry most life-like portraits in the volume ; and 
the painter, while successful in pleasing all out-
side that little town appears to have almost as 
generally offended those living within it. But 
what to do with a woman, and one who had sim-
ply written a hook, and that too so universally ad-
mired, was a question not so easy of solution. But 
the solution shortly comes. She is the wife of a 
minister, who of course may be made the object of 
attack on the slightest pretext, and he cannot 
escape. He is guilty, if not of heresy, of having 
a wife who is a genius, the next worst thing to 
witchcraft. A council is convened, and the pas-
tor who has been faithful in his office for thirteen 
years is dismissed because his wife has had the 
audacity to write a book, which thousands have 
read with tears, and which the dismission from 
Avon will cause thousands more to read. 
" We are happy to add that Mr. H. has been 
invited already to assume the pastoral charge in 
an eligible place." 
SUPPORT OF THE HERALD.—I wish to ask those 
readers, who while they have been reading former 
numbers of the communications under this head, 
resolved to try and do something for it, if they 
have made the trial, and if that trial was vigorous 
and thorough ? For such it must be in order to be 
successful. There are many persons in the com-
munity who if the subject were brought before 
them would be glad of such a paper, persons of 
various denominations who feel the need of more 
scriptural instruction than they are now obtaining 
from the papers they read. Make the trial, and 
make it now, and thus become an angel of mercy 
both to the publisher and those who subscribe. 
You need not go fearfully as though you would 
impose on them some useless thing by which if 
successful they would be wronged out of their 
money ; for the Advent _Herald is worth all it will 
cost, to any mind searching for divine truth. Go, 
therefore fearlessly to the work, and if not success-
ful at the first, try again, and yet again. Nor is 
there any time to be lost in this matter. 
J. Liven. 
WAR IN ECROPE.—Advises up to the date of 
going t4) press leave this question still unsettled ; 
but things look no less warlike. The Sultan shows 
no disposition to yield, nor does the Czar show 
any. Both are energetically concentrating and 
accumulating their forces, and making every pre-
paration for a contest. We have given the sub-
stance of the various rumors on the subject, and 
wait farther intelligence. 
WE have received a note from Abington request-
ing us not to publish notices in the Herald of per-
sons to preach there, without their knowledge and 
approbation. We have sometimes had similar 
complaints from other places, i. e., of brethren ap-
pointing to preach when the pulpit is already sup-
plied. In all cases of appointments, it would be 
best first to ascertain the wants of the people by 
letter. 
WE were informed last week of the death of an 
aged subscriber, Mrs. L. LOVEJOY, of Royalton, Vt., 
in the 94th year of her age. She fell asleep in 
hope of the resurrection. The satisfaction in hav-
ing contributed to sustain the hope, and to dispel 
the gloom from the future of such aged saints, is 
no small reward. 
BRO. MANSFIELD'S TRACT. — We learn through 
brother Tracy, that brother Mansfield's tract is 
now out of print. As soon as we shall have ano-
ther supply from him will give notice. Till then 
we shall be unable to fill orders. 
COMM ION.—Brother Himes : In your report 
of the Conference in Canada, I am made to say, 
" I have baptized twelve or fifteen in Broome, 
lately." It should have been, "I was requested 
to attend a meeting in Broome and baptise zome 
twelve or fifteen." Yours, P. N. WEST. 
238 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
(To be continued.) 
able that the great God, the Sovereign of the uni-
verse, should stoop to interfere or interest himself 
with our little every-day affairs. That having 
once instituted the laws of the universe, all things 
are governed by those laws, which are as immuta- 
ble as their author ! Are such reasoners Chris-
tians ? Can they have any degree of confidence in 
the Bible as being a revelation of God's will ? If 
this view is true, why is prayer instituted ? Why 
are promises to answer prayer given ? Why are 
prayers to God and the answers to such prayers 
recorded, and the Bible filled with such records ? 
Yes, it must be true, that " The hairs of your head 
are all numbered." It is true, that " All things 
ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive 
them and ye shall have them." 
There is no subject on which the Church of God 
needs more to be roused and excited than this. In 
theory Christians profess to believe in the efficacy 
of prayer, but in works deny it. It is to be de-
plored that so few Christians know and appreciate 
their birthright as the children of God, to " Ask 
what ye will and it shall be done unto you." " Be 
careful for nothing ; but in everything by prayer 
and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your re-
quests be made known unto God. And the peace 
of God which passeth all understanding, shall 
keep your hearts and mind through Christ Jesus." 
There is no peace like that which flows from a firm 
reliance on the Lord for everything we need. Nor 
are his promises vain : lie will surely fulfil them 
to all who trust them sincerely and with the whole 
heart. Many can and do seek by prayer for spir-
itual blessings and expect to receive answers from 
God ; but when their temporal wants are con-
cerned, all confidence is gone, and they suffer them-
to be distressed and anxious, and scarcely daring 
to ask help of God, or if they do it at all, do it 
half-heartedly and full of doubt. But why should 
it be thus ? The promises are equally explicit in 
reference to temporal matters, as spirit interests. 
0 how much anxiety, care and distress we might 
save ourselves, did we but have implicit faith in 
God's promises ! and did we but ask him in faith 
for all we need. Daily experience proves to the 
people of God that he now as certainly hears and 
answers prayer, as he did in days of prophets or 
apostles. Many are the poor suffering children of 
God who look to him, as do the ravens and young 
lions, for daily bread ; and he feeds them. Yea, 
" The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but 
they that wait on the Lord shall not want any good 
thing ?" 
This great truth is forcibly illustrated in the 
" NARRATIVE OF THE LORD'S DEALINGS WITH GEORGE 
MULLER." Mr. Muller is a minister of the gospel 
in Bristol, England, and is widely known as the 
founder of an orphan's house, built, furnished, and 
sustained for many years, in entire dependence on 
Divine providence, to supply in answer to prayer, 
means for the support of three hundred orphans, 
feeding, clothing and educating them, until they 
become of suitable age to be put out to service, 
and sustain themselves. The Narrative consists 
for the most part of a plain unvarnished statement 
of facts as they from day to day occurred. And 
it seems hardly possible for any Christian to read 
it and not be the better for the perusal. I am free 
to confess that I have derived front it more clear 
views of the power and efficacy of faith and prayer 
than from any other work I have ever read. 
J. LITCH. 
C. E. AND VERMONT CONFERENCE. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
AFTERNOON. 
MEETING commenced at half past one o'clock. 
Prayer by brother Hutchinson. 
Discourse by brother Himes. (2 Cor. 5:14 to last.) 
Consider-1. The authority of the Christian min-
istry. There is one name given to Christian min-
isters which indicates their authority—ambassa-
dors. An ambassador is sent to make proposals 
of peace. This leads us to inquire, What is a call 
to preach the gospel? It is to be influenced by the 
Spirit of God so that we cannot rest without 
preaching :—cannot eat pleasant bread, but feel 
like crying out with the apostle,—" Woe is me if 
I preach not the gospel !" 
2. The objects of the Christian ministry. The 
Christian minister is not sent to philosophize, 
moralize, and deal in politics, but " Go thou and 
preach the kingdom of God " is the command 
which he has received from the great Head of the 
Church. The object of this ministry is to reconcile 
men to God. To effect this the sinner must be 
brought to accept of the ambassador and his mes-
sage. (2.) He must feel a deep sense of his sinful-
ness and danger while in his unconverted state. 
(3.) We must bring him to a sense of the love of 
God and of the Lord Jesus Christ in seeking to 
restore him to favor. (4.) We must seek to get 
him,to see the justice and purity of God's law. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
(Continued from our last.) 
The safety of the Catholic Church was evidently 
now in danger ; but as it had been reported that 
pictures of the virgin Mary had opened their eyes 
in different parts of the town, it was viewed as a 
miraculous manifestation of the virgin Mary's 
peculiar grace and favor ; and that she would 
miraculously interpose to sustain the temporal 
power of the Pope, although it seemed so immi- 
nently threatened with destruction. This supposed 
miracle had a powerful influence over the minds of 
the credulous multitude. Processions day and 
night, Ave Marias, Litanies, and illuminations 
were attended to with a wild enthusiasm bordering 
on madness! 
But no embassy from a foreign court brought 
hope of assistance. The Papal State felt that the 
period of its inevitable fall was fast approaching, 
and„his Holiness, as a last resort to save if possible 
his tottering throne, published a sacred invitation 
to his subjects to assist in a solemn procession to 
be formed on January 17, 1798. He also pre-
scribed certain acts of penance and humiliation, 
and promised to those who should prove themselves 
obedient to his instructions certain indulgencies 
for venal transgressions. To those who should 
attend the solemn procession, visit the sacred 
monuments exposed in St. Peter's, recite before 
them the seven penitential Psalms, or a limited 
portion of the Rosary—set apart one day for fast- 
ing, give alms to the poor, and confess their sins 
and receive the communion, his Holiness granted 
full indulgence as in the year of jubilee. For 
other specified acts of humiliation he granted an 
indulgence for ten years and forty days ; and in 
addition to all who would recite kneeling the seven 
penitential Psalms, or the third part of the Rosary, 
in each of the appointed days at the ringing of 
the bells in the evening, or at any other hour more 
convenient, the Pontiff granted for each day an 
indulgence of seven years and forty days. 
On the day appointed for the solemn procession 
the florist preceded strewing the streets with dried 
fhwers and myrtle. The charity boys of St. Michiale 
commenced the procession ; next followed the re-
ligious orders according to their age, attired in 
their respective habits. These were followed by 
the Cardinals on foot arrayed in habiliments of 
mourning. Three of the most sacred relics were 
carried on this occasion. The first a portrait of 
Jesus Christ, which according to Catholic tradition 
was painted by supernatural agency. This relic 
was never carried in procession or exhibited to the 
people except at times of national calamity ; and 
had not before been exhibited to the public since 
the year 1709, when it was shown to prevent the 
disastrous consequences of a dreadful earthquake. 
The second relic was a miraculous miniature por-
trait of the virgin Mary, holding in her arms the 
infant Jesus. The third, the chains with which 
St. Peter was bound when imprisoned, and from 
which he was liberated by the angel. 
This procession was numerously attended. It is 
stated that " a concourse of people followed in the 
act of devotion, amounting to little less than the 
whole population of Rome, many of whom, and 
those persons of distinction, went on bare foot." 
The three relics mentioned were afterwards 
placed on the altar, remained exposed eight days, 
and after they had been visited by nearly all the 
people of Rome, the peasantry, and the inhabitants 
of the country within a circuit of about twenty 
miles, they were removed by night to Santa Maria 
Maggiore. They remained on the altar at this 
place for several days. On February 4th they 
were carried to the church of St. Giovanni in 
Laterano. They received acts of devotion at each 
place, and after a short time they were removed 
privately. 
But all could not avert the fast approaching 
Papal doom ! The enemy was on his way ; and 
early in February, Gen. Berthier, at the head of 
the republican army of France, came in sight of 
the ancient capital of the world. By request of 
the Pope, his prime minister, Prince Belmonte, 
went to meet the French army, in order to ascer- 
On the same day, Feb. 15, 1798, the anniversary 
of the election and exaltation of Pope Pius VI. to 
the sovereignty of the Papal government, the tree 
of Liberty was planted in Rome. And while his 
Holiness was in the Sistine Chapel " celebrating 
his accession to the Papal chair, during the cere-
mony, and while receiving the congratulations of 
the Cardinals, Citizen Haller, the Commissary 
General, and Cervoni, who then commanded the 
Papal troops within the city, both entered the 
chapel, and Haller announced to his Holiness on 
his throne that " His reign was at an end." 
Gen. 
Cervoni presented to him the national cockade, 
which it is stated he rejected with some degree of 
dignity. 
(To be continued.) 
"BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING." 
THE doctrine of an over-ruling and ever-watchful 
providence is to the believer one of the sweetest 
and most consoling themes, next to his hope of a 
part in the kingdom of heaven, which can possibly 
be presented. Beset as we. are with constant dan-
gers and sore trials, had we no such comforting 
assurance as our Lord has left on record,—" Your 
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these 
things," dark indeed would be the Christian's path-
way. And yet to what multitudes is the promise 
only as an idle tale ! To them it seems unreasona- 
(5.) We must bring him penitently to seek for-
giveness, and openly confess his sinfulness, as 
those did, on the day of Pentecost, whose hearts 
were influenced by the truth. (And 6.) We are 
to lead him to make a public confession of his 
allegiance to God, by baptism, &c. 
3. The means by which this reconciliation is 
effected. There are two opposing parties. Christ , 
is the Mediator between God and man. The 
disciples were sent by Christ to negotiate with 
sinners. (1.) Jesus has come in the flesh to medi-
ate with us, and bring us terms of peace. The 
law was given amid the thunder and lightnings of 
Sinai, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 
He is meek and lowly in heart and freely invites 
us to come to him. (2.) God has established the 
ministry of reconciliation not only to instruct, but 
to pray and beseech men to be reconciled. Salva-
tion is God's free gift and comes to us through the 
cross. He does not want the sinner to work out 
his own salvation by anguish of spirit, but to feel 
deep enough on the subject to forsake his sins. 
(3.) In connection with these means the Holy 
Ghost has an important part to act. We must 
be brought under the divine influence, or we can-
not he saved. We are hidden a hearty welcome to 
the glory and blessedness of the kingdom of God. 
" All things are ready," so that the Christian min-
ister has nothing to do, but to beseech men to 
become reconciled to God. 
After preaching, brother Henry Janes was set 
apart to the work of the ministry by the laying on 
of hands. Elders Woren, Riffles and Reynolds as-
sisted in the ordination. Prayer was offered by 
brother Woren,—the charge given by brother 
Iiimes,—and the right hand of fellowship extended 
by brother Reynolds, after which closed the deeply 
interesting services of the afternoon. 
The members of the Conference having been re-
quested to remain for a season, the following let-
ter of brother Porter was read : 
" To the brethren assembled in the Annual 
second Advent Conference for Canada East and 
Northern Vermont : 
" DEAR BRETHREN :—At the time of your last 
annual Conference I was unable to attend, owing 
to the great misfortune which befel me a short 
time previous, and in which you sympathized. 
And now my affairs are such, together with the 
distance, and also the difficulty of travelling alone, 
(being without hands, having only the three last 
fingers of the right hand,) as to forbid my attend-
ance. I wish, however, to say in behalf of the 
church in Shipton, that we wish to concur 'with, 
and share in the result of all your healthy and 
judicious deliberations. 
" The brethren and sisters here are a warm-
hearted people, without jar, and discord, deeply 
interested in a cause destined to reach the resur-
rection. We cannot number scores of members, 
nor thousands of dollars, but that we are a united 
people may be ascertained from the fact that we 
have two meetings every Lord's day, well attended, 
considering that the little church is scattered over 
a wide tract of country ; and also that within the 
last year, we have built a meeting-house, 32 by 42 
feet, and have very recently raised a sum of about 
$80 to be laid out on the inside, towards finishing 
it. So that on the plains of Dan ' is reared the 
first Second Advent meeting-house in this Province. 
But as the above sum will not finish it, and our 
fingers have now touched the bottom of our pockets 
(for as a whole we are poor) we would most thank-
fully accept of any assistance which you in your 
wisdom may see fit to render. 
" To you, brethren, we would most respectfully 
put the question, Ought not this first-born' of 
houses to be cordially greeted, by at least a five, 
or a ten dollar bill from every sister church in 
Canada East ? That this question will meet with 
a hearty response in the affirmative from every 
such ' delegate ' composing your Conference is the 
wish, brethren, of your brother, waiting for the 
house not made with bands eternal in the heavens. 
6 JOHN PORTER. 
" Danville, Shipton, C. E., June 6th, 1853." 
After the reading of the above letter, the follow-
ing resolution was passed. 
Resolved, That in connection with the publica-
tion of brother Porter's letter, the churches be in-
vited to comply with his request, and thus assist 
in finishing the Advent meeting house in Danville, 
E. 
A donation of ten dollars was made by brother 
Foster, as coming from the church in Stanstead. 
The ordination of brethren D. W. Sornberger ; 
H. Merrill ; and Ede Lee was recognized by the 
Conference. 
Conference adjourned. 
In the evening we had a social meeting. The 
many warm exhortations which were given ren-
dered the interview pleasant and profitable. Thus 
closed the best Conference which we have bad in 
ConaEspoNnENTs are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily he understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the Herald. 
DETHRONEMENT OF THE POPE IN 1798. 
BY J. W. BONHAM. 
tain from the commander-in-chief his precise in-
tention. General Berthier informed him that the 
object of the French Directory was merely to ap-
prehend the persons accessory to the death of Gen. 
Duphot. But, although he stated that it was not 
his design to enter the city of Rome, he lost no 
time in executing his real object. 
On February 10, the castle of St Angelo was 
summoned to surrender. The Pope's troops were 
commanded to evacuate within four hours. The 
convicts were set at liberty. The French took pos-
session of the gates of the city. The Pope, his 
cardinals—with the exception of three—were made 
prisoners, and the Roman people found themselves 
suddenly placed under the dominion of the French 
army. 
The general-in-chief allayed all undue anxiety 
by issuing the following proclamation : 
" All the inhabitants of the Ecclesiastical State 
may be assured that their persons, their property, 
their churches, and religion shall be protected by 
the French army. 
" The functions of the church shall be religiously 
respected ; therefore all public demonstrations of 
devotion ought to continue without any change or 
alteration. 
ALEXANDER BERTIIIER. 
" February 10, 1798." 
On the 16th 6y of February General Berthier 
made his triumphal entry into Rome. On his 
arrival at the capital he delivered the following 
oration : 
" Shades of Cato, of Pompey, of Brutus, of 
Cicero, of Hortensius, receive the homage of free 
Frenchmen on that capitol where you have so often 
defended the rights of the people, and dignified the 
Roman republic. 
" With the olive of peace come these Gallic 
sons, to re-establish on the same place the altars 
of liberty that were originally raised by the first 
Brutus. 
" And you, Roman people, in re-acquiring your 
legitimate rights, you already feel what blood it is 
that flows in your veins, and you have only to cast 
your eyes around you, to see those monuments of 
glory that represent the ancient grandeur and virtue 
of your fathers." 
The following published proclamation declared 
the Romans free and independent : 
" The Roman people are now again entered into 
the rights of sovereignty, declaring their inde-
pendence, possessing the government of ancient 
Rome, constituting a Roman republic. The gen-
eral-in-chief of the French army in Italy declares, 
in the name of the French republic, that he 
acknowledges the Roman republic independent, and 
that the same is under the special protection of 
the French army. 
" The general-in-chief of the army acknowledges, 
in the name pf the French republic, the provisional 
government which has been proposed by the sov-
ereign people. 
" In consequence, every other temporal authority 
emanating from the old government of the Pope is 
SUPPRESSED, and he shall no more exercise any func-
tion. 
" The general-in-chief will make all the disposi-
tions necessary to secure to the Roman people their 
independence. In order, therefore, that the gov-
ernment may be well arranged, and that the new 
laws may be founded upon the basis of liberty and 
equality, he will take all the necessary measures 
ti secure the happiness of the Roman people. 
" The French general, Cervoni, is charged with 
taking care of the police, and the safety of the 
city of Rome, as also to instal the new govern-
ment. 
" The Roman republic, acknowledged by the 
French republic, comprehends all the country that 
remained under the temporal authority of the 
Pope, after the treaty of Campo Formic). 
" ALEXANDER BERTIHER. 
" Rome, the 15th of February, 1798 ; first year 
of liberty, proclaimed in the Roman forum and 
ratified on the capitol, with free voice, and sub-
scribed to by innumerable citizens." 
together for good to them that love God. The spirit 
of love and unity seems to be rising among us. At 
our social meeting on Sabbath morning we had an 
interesting season. A cementing and heavenly 
influence pervaded our midst. We can but look 
for better times among us. Yours, waiting, &c." 
Obituary. 
I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die." JOHN 11: 25, 26. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
239 
C. E, The attendance was good. Peace and unity 
prevailed. The blessing of the great Master of 
Assemblies was upon us ; and, I am persuaded 
that the brethren generally, returned to their 
homes confirmed and comforted. 
On the following day, (Sunday, June 12th,) 
brother Himes gave two interesting discourses to 
crowded audiences. At the close of the second 
service, the Lord's supper was administered.—
Many loyal hearts thus took the oath of allegiance, 
promising to be true to their absent Prince till he 
shall come to reign over the nations of the re-
deemed on " the new earth." We found com-
munion with saints in the mortal state to be pleas-
ant, and had a foretaste of the rest whisili remains 
for the people of God. When will the night be 
gone and the day of glory dawn l 
S. W. THURBER, President. 
J. M. ORRocK, Secretary. 
The following are the names of the ministering 
brethren who attended the Conference : 
J. V. filmes, Boston, Mass. ; B. S. Reynolds, 
North Danville, Vt. ; S. W. Thurber, Cabot, Vt. ; 
Henry Janes, Richford, Vt. ; P. V. West, Sutten, 
C. E. ; D. W. Sornherger, Stanbridge, C. E. ; Dr. 
R. Hutchinson, Waterloo, C. E. ; D. H. Merrill, 
Stanstead, C. E. ; John Woren, Hatley, C. E. ; 
Isaac Blake, Stanstead, C. E. ; J. M. Orrrck, Dur-
ham, C. E. 
Northern Illinois Conference. 
CONFERENCE met in the Grove agreeable to ap-
pointment with the Jefferson Grove church at 
Paynespoint, Ogle co., Thursday, June 30th. Ater 
the reading of the Scriptures and prayer, remarks 
were made by Elder Morgan relative to the nature 
and design of the meeting. A communication was 
read from Elder I. E. Jones on " New Testament 
order," and was listened to with interest. 
Elder S. Chapman was called to the chair, and 
the names of members of the Conference recorded. 
A committee was appointed to arrange and present 
business for the action of the Conference. 
Friday, July 1st.—Conference met agreeable to 
appointment. Listened to remarks from brethren 
of various directions on the present condition and 
demands of the cause in this region. A Confer-
ence of brethren from as many churches as could 
assemble to meet as often as once in six months, 
was decided upon as the best means to promote co-
operation and efficiency in prosecuting the work. 
devolving upon us. A plan providing for a semi-
annual Conference, was unanimously agreed upon. 
Also providing a standing Conference committee, 
or Board of Directors, whose duty it shall be to 
confer with churches and each other upon local 
matters that tend to the uphuilding of the cause, 
e. g., ascertain what churches desire preaching, 
how often, and what they can do to sustain preach-
ing, arrange for circuits—when practicable—and 
as far as possible see that the field is supplied with 
evangelists ; and arrange for camp and protracted 
meetings when desired, &c. 
Saturday July 2d.—Prayer by Elder Chapman. 
There were then chosen as Directors, J. King, of 
Pine Rock, D. Kenison, of Crane's Grove, W. A. 
Fay, of Somonauk, 0. Chaney, of White Rock, N. 
W. Spencer, of Clinton. 
The subject of church.order was then considered. 
An interesting article from Elder E. Miller, treat-
ing upon that subject, was read. All agreed that 
order became the Church of God, and recommended 
that the subject be more carefully considered, and 
that there should be Elders ordained in every 
church. 
A vote of thanks for the hospitality of the 
Jefferson Grove church was taken, and the Con-
ference adjourned to meet at a place which the 
Directors should hereafter designate. 
This meeting was characterized by love for God, 
and for the souls of men, which seemed to inspire 
every utterance. We believe many were there 
who love the doctrine of the soon coming and 
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
A solemn conviction seemed to rest upon the 
mind of all present that the coming of the Lord is 
very near. And what can we do to the most 
effectually prepare ourselves and others for that 
great day seemed the one all absorbing question. 
To accomplish this every heart seemed fired as 
with a holy zeal, and it is believed that the abun-
dant blessing of God will attend this effort by the 
converting and saving of many souls. 
P. B. MoauAN, Secretary. 
My Post Office address is Lafayette, Stark county, 
Illinois. 
P. B. M. 
Conference in Granville, N. S. 
A CONFERENCE was held in Granville, May 14th, 
I 1853. Meeting opened by singing. Prayer by 
brother John Woodworth. Chose brother William 
M. Ingham President ; brother Israel Rice Clerk. 
A representation of the cause was then given by 
the brethren. Brother Woodworth gave good ti- 
dings from the Bay shore and Victory Beach, Bro. 
Litch from Clint's Cave, said that these were en-
couraging times ; some prospect of a revival of re-
ligion, some were quite interested in the cause of 
the Advent, Brother Aaron Hardy ofStrong Beach, 
(Advent chapel) said there was more interest to 
hear, and a larger congregation the winter past 
than before. Brother Parker, from Granville Ferry, 
said there were many professors of religion in that 
place, but few seemd to love the coming of the dear 
Redeemer, but some were praying for more light 
on the subject, and have lately become interested 
in the Advent faith. Brother Gilliat, from Clem-
ents, stated that it was a very low state of religion, 
but few attended meetings. But still there were 
a few holding on to the faith once delivered to the 
saints, Brother Moore, of Hillsburgh ( Bear River), 
said the cause was very low. Brother Ingham 
preached one-third of the time at the Tabernacle, 
and found some that loved the gospel of the kingdom. 
Brother Johnson gave a general representation of 
the cause in the different fields of his labor. Said 
the cause was low in Clements and Hillsburgh, 
more interest in Granville to hear on the doctrine 
of the speedy coming of the Lord, and prejudice 
was giving way. 
Resolved, That this Conference highly approve or 
brother Wm. M. Ingham's labors, life and conduct, 
during his protracted labors since he has been in 
Nova Scotia, and we desire his stay continued, and 
pledge ourselves to his support during his stay and 
ministerial labors in this Conference. 
Resolved, That this Conference highly approve of 
the Advent Herald, and the labors of its editors, 
and pray the Lord to sustain the cause committed 
to their trust. 
Resolved, That this Conference desire to be on 
friendly and gospel terms with all true believers 
in Christ, and feel it duty to judge no man ; " but 
judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-
block in his brother's way." (Rom. 14:13.) 
ISRAEL RICE, Sec'y. WM. M. INGHAM, Pres't. 
.Hillsburgh, July 5th, 1853. 
PS. I wish to say that my health has so far im-
proved that I am able to speak occasionally. Jam 
quite weak yet, but am gaining strength quite fast. 
Thank the Lord. 
W. M. INGHAM. 
Conference in Beverly, C. W. 
DEAR BRO. 'TIMES send you an account of an 
Advent Conference held in Beverly June 25, John 
Pearce chairman, and Joseph Brown secretary. 
The following Resolutions were passed : 
We affirm our confidence in the Advent doc-
trine as held by the Advent tConference held in 
Albany in 1845, and since] conained in the Herald 
from time to time, and that we are convinced that 
the world is ripening for destruction, and in the 
light of the judgment as revealed in the Word of 
God, we are bound to do what we can to exhort 
one another and to send the gospel of the kingdom 
according to our ability to those that will hear. 
We have great reason to praise the Lord for 
having kept us attached in some degree to the only 
hope the Church have left on record, and have 
great cause to be humbled for our want of zeal in 
so good a cause, and notwithstanding this we 
have felt from time to time the blessedness of this 
hope. 
The importance of union by the members and 
officers of the Church by Pastors fulfilling their 
office and evangelists fulfilling theirs also. That 
exhortation and the office of the Deacon well at-
tended, with a union of fervent prayers, will ac-
complish much by the Divine blessing, and that 
without the faithful use of these means we are 
faulty. 
That we approve of attending to the ordi-
nances of God's house according to the light we 
have on the Scriptures. 
That we recommend that Gospel discipline 
be exercised in a proper spirit as necessary for the 
purity of the Church. 
That we acknowledge the scripture of the 
Old and New Testament as the highest authority 
on earth. 
That we endeavor to bear one another's bur-
dens and so fulfil the law of Christ. And that we 
consider that the Church is compared to a house-
hold and that some are weak in the faith, and that 
we are commanded to receive such, not to judge 
his doubtful thoughts. 
That we solicit the Committee of the Buffalo 
Conference to send Elder D. I. Robinson to help us. 
We should desire to have him all the time, but 
this we do not expect. Under God, do for the 
cause in this province what you can. 
Your brethren in the hope of the Gospel, in the 
behalf of the Conference. JOSEPH BROWN. 
DANIEL CAMPBELL. 
West Flanabrow, June 27th, 1853. 
DIED, in Gilford, June 15th, widow MARY CLIF-
FORD, aged 80 years. Her disease was a cancer in 
the face, of which she suffered much, which she 
bore with Christian resignation and fortitude, be-
lieving she would soon have a body not subject to 
disease, having believed in the speedy coining of 
the Lord. 
J. KNOWLES. 
DIED, in Gilford, July 7th, BETSEY, wife of Elisha 
Eaton, aged 53 years. Her disease was the dropsy. 
After a protracted suffering, she calmly fell asleep 
in Christ, leaving the consolation with her surviv-
ing friends, she would share in a better world where 
the inhabitants will not say, I am sick. J. K. 
DIED, in Epsom, June 10th, of consumption, 
Mrs. ELIZA A. :HARDEN, aged 20 years 10 months 
10 days. 
I am going home, said the gentle one, 
With the death dew on her brow ; 
I soon shall reach that happy plain, 
0 do not leave me now. 
Oh ! take me by the hand, said she, 
For my heart is cold and chill, 
And pray my dear, that I be 
Submissive to His will. 
Oh ! never shall I see again, 
My husband, earth's sweet flowers; 
But brighter far, I soon shall cull 
From Eden's beauteous bowers. 
And when my dear that I am gone, 
Shed not a tear for me ; 
But thankful be to Him who makes 
My struggling spirit free. 
DIED, of consumption, at brother Hiram Hill's, 
Greenfield, Saratoga county, N. Y., May 10th, 
1853, HANNAH M. WHITE, aged 21 years. She had 
lived for many years in the family of brother Hill, 
having been left an orphan on the death of her 
mother (the sister of brother II.) which took place 
when Hannah was about three years of age. She 
was then given to the charge of sister Tirzah Hill, 
who kindly took care of her, and watched over her 
childhood and youth, giving her at the same time 
much religious instruction. But she did not seem 
to be savingly benefited by her early advantages, 
till her last sickness came on, at which time it be-
came evident to her friends that an important 
change was passing in her mind. She became 
thoughtful and prayerful, and for several weeks 
before her death gave satisfactory evidence to the 
family, that she had found the Saviour. Her 
mind was calm, heavenly and serene. She was at 
peace with God, and all was peace within. With 
perfect composure she gave away her little property, 
dividing it among her friends, then sending 
for each of her relatives, she delivered to them 
separately, her last, her dying message, solemnly 
warning them against the dangers of living in sin, 
exhorting them at the same time to prepare to 
meet her in glory ; and then calmly sank to rest. 
" So fades the lovely, blooming flower, 
Frail, smiling solace of an hour. 
So soon our transient comforts fly, 
And pleasures only bloom to die." 
N. BILLINGS. 
DIED, in Naples, June 14th, 1853, Mr. FRANCIS 
KIMBALL, aged forty-eight. Mr. Kimball was fail-
ing three years, with a tumor in his stomach. He 
made application to a number of physicians, but 
all in vain. He entertained a hope that he should 
regain his health till last spring; when his dis-
order came on with renewed violence, and he gave 
up, that he must die. He had been a man that 
had put off the salvation of his soul, till a week 
before he died ; although a candid man and a 
believer in the religion of Jesus Christ. One 
morning as his wife came to his bed-side, he said 
to her, this is the most pleasant morning I ever 
saw in all my life, and asked her to raise up the 
curtain, so he could look out of the window, and 
see how pleasant it was. He said that God had 
forgiven his sins and he felt joyful ; and was will-
ing to die. He grew weak fast ; so that it was 
with difficulty his speech could be understood till 
on Sunday, before he died on Thursday, when he 
spoke plain, and said he had been praying to God, 
to give him strength to talk to his family. He 
conversed over one hour, to his family. and other 
relatives that were present, and made all the ar-
rangements concerning his funeral, and then said 
he was ready to die. On Thursday he fell asleep 
in Christ, with a good hope of a part in the first 
resurrection with those over whom second death 
has no power. He has left a wife and eight chil-
dren, with brothers and sisters to mourn his loss. 
But their loss is his eternal gain. A few appro- 
priate remarks were made on the occasion, by the 
writer, from Psa. 34:19. HUGH MC' QUILLAN. 
Casco, June, 1853. 
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This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future course, 
while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the times, and 
an exponent of prophecy. 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live —The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy, in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time, 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald, 
The best thoughts, from the pens of original writers, illustrative 
of the prophecies. 
Judicious selections, from the best authors extant, of an instruct-
ive and practical nature. 
A well-selected stunmary of foreign and domestic intelligence; 
and, 
A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar let-
ters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may learn 
the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845, and which are, in brief, — 
The Regeneration of this Earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Second 
Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The beStowment of Immortality (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word), through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and 
seventh trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICitLYI"—" — 
he 
second woe is past ; and behold the third woe come
th 
quickly" 
 
Rev. 11 : 14 — the time in which we may look for the crowning con-
summation of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall cif
deavor, 
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer ohio,; 
Lions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss, and so as to approve ourselves to every 
man's conscience in the sight of GOD. 
These are great practical questions. /f indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for renewed 
exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the Mas-
ter's service. It beetaneth them, also, to examine the Scriptures of 
truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? Let 
them speak. and let us reverently listen to their enunciations. 
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M. L. JACKSON writes, Abington, July 11, 1853 : 
" The relation of brother Taylor, as pastor of the 
church in this place, has been renewed for one 
year. The church, as a body, are united in him, 
and the relation he sustains is a happy one. We 
are endeavoring to live in peace with one another, 
and, as much as in us lieth, with all men, yet, by 
a consistent and orderly course, we would commend 
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of 
God. In consequence of pursuing such a course, 
some have left us, but we are not discouraged, 
knowing, as did the apostle, that all things work 
IBBBIIRTIEGIMMISSIMB, 
Contents of this No. 
Wake with Nature 
The Late Abduction Affair.. 
Famine in India 
The Society of Ladies 
The Association 
The Spirits in Syria 
Employment for the Sexes 
Morals in New York 
The Chinese Rebellion 
The Kingdom 
 
The Great Delusion 
Sketches of Travels 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
The Discussion 
Strange Fancies 
New Works 
233 A Contrast 
237 
Shady Side 
 
Dethronement of the Pope 238 
it Be Careful for Nothing 
16 Canada East and Vermont 
 
Conference 66 
t Northern Illinois Conference 239 
Conference in Granville, N. S. " 
234 " in Beverly, C. W. " 
Obituary of— 
235 Mary Clifford 
 
Betsey Eaton 
236 Eliza A. Marden 
Francis Kimball 
237 ltussir and Turkey 
China News 
64 
 
 240 
4, 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 23, 1553. 
RUSSIA AND TURKEY. 
ANOTHER letter of the Russian cabinet to the 
Turkish government has come to light. It is from 
Nesselrode to Reschid Pacha, and is dated St. 
Petersburg, May 31st, previous to the date of the 
circular letter. It is interesting only as showing 
the influences which have been brought to bear 
upon the Turkish government, to induce it to ac-
cede to the demands of Russia. The Russian 
minister refers to the rejection of the demands of 
which the Prince Menschikoff was the bearer, and 
the return of that ambassador, " which the Em-
peror learns with sorrow, but of which he could 
but entirely approve," and then states the object of 
the letter, as follows : 
"Thus, in addressing this letter to-day to your 
Excellency, my only object is to put it in your 
power, in so far as it is still possible, to render a 
most important service to yodr sovereign. Place 
once more the real situation of affairs before his 
Highness ; explain to him the moderation and the 
justice of the demand of Russia ; the very great 
insult done to the Emperor by opposing to his in-
tentions, which have constantly been friendly and 
generous, unfounded mistrust and inexcusable re-
fusals. 
" The dignity of his Majesty, the interests of 
his empire, the voice of his conscience, do not per-
mit him to accept such proceedings in return for 
those which he has had, and still wishes to enter-
tain, with Turkey. He must seek to obtain their 
reparation, and to provide against their recurrence 
in future. 
" In a few weeks the troops will receive the 
order to cross the frontiers of the empire, not to 
wage war,—which it is repugnant to his Majesty 
to undertake against a sovereign whom it has 
always pleased him to consider a sincere ally, but 
to obtain those material guarantees until the mo-
ment when, brought to more equitable sentiments, 
the Ottoman government will give to Russia the 
moral securities which she has in vain demanded 
for two years through her ref resentatives at Con-
stantinople, and, in the last instance, by her am-
bassador." 
The British and French fleets at Besika Bay are 
thus composed :—The former have eighteen vessels, 
carrying 776 guns, and the latter, thirteen vessels, 
with 844 guns. 
The latest advices from Constantinople are to 
the 20th. M. de Belabine, the last member of the 
Russian legation, took his departure on the 17th, 
taking with him all the records of the embassy, 
and other property of the Russian government. 
Merchants were emigrating. The Turkish govern-
ment continued is actively arming, although it de-
sired, it is said, to send an ambassador to St. 
Petersburg. Austria and Prussia remain neutral. 
The English and French fleets were at Tenedos. 
Dates from Constantinople by mail are to the 
13th ult., though the advices by telegraph are 
three or four days later. The Paris Debats has the 
following : 
N. BILLINGS will'visit North Danville, 'Vt., Aug. 3d, and labor one 
week in that place and vicinity, as Elder Reynolds may arrange; 
will preach at West Derby the 11th and 12th ; Derby Line, Sab-
bath, 14th ; Foster's Mills, C. E., 16th ; Head of the Bay, 17th 
and 18th ; Outlet, 19th; Waterloo, Sabbath, 21st, and the 23d,; 
West Shefford, 24th ;. Dunham, 25th ; Clarenceville, 26th, as bro. 
Colton may appoint ; Odeltown, Sabbath, 28th ; Swanton,Vt., 
31st ; Georgia, Sept. 1st—will some brother call for me on th ar-
rival of the first train from Swanton ? Waterbury, Sabbaths, 4th 
and 11th. Evening meetings at 7 o'clock.—N. B. 
D. CAMPBELL will preach in Toronto July 26th, 8 P. M. j Coburg, 
27th ; brother W. Jackson, Kingston, 29th, do, and over the Sab-
bath—brother W. Pease to meet me at Kingston ; bro. Bronson, 
Aug. 2d,8 P. M. bro. Beddel, 3d, do ; A. Spencer, 7th, 11 A. 
r240 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
I 
" Our letters from Constantinople by Trieste are 
to the 13th. The courier who left St. Petersburg 
on the 1st, with the last ultimatum of Russia, 
arrived on the 9th at Constantinople, as is already 
known. That document had been presented to the 
Divan ; it is under the form of a letter addressed 
by Count de Nesselrode to Reschid Pacha, Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs to the Sultan. The follow-
ing is the principal passage : The Emperor, my 
master, has informed me that Prince Menschikoff 
was obliged to quit Constantinople, after a stay 
there of three months, without having been able to 
obtain the guarantees which he demanded for the 
rights and privileges of the Greek Church. The 
Emperor considers the refusal of the Porte as a 
complete want of consideration, as an affront 
offered to his person. He approves completely of 
the conduct of his ambassador. In his solicitude 
for the preservation of the Ottoman Empire, he 
recommends the Porte to reflect once more on the 
disastrous consequences of its refusal, the whole 
responsibility of which must rest on it, and he ac-
cords it for the purpose, a final delay of eight days. 
At the expiration of that period the Russian 
troops will cross the frontiers, not to wage war, 
but to obtain from the Sultan the concessions which 
lie has refused to accord by the way of a friendly. 
arrangement. Count de Nesselrode hopes,' how-
ever, '''that the Porte, better advised, will yield 
before the Emperor shall have need to have re-
course to means which are repugnant to his senti-
ments for the Sultan Abdul Medjid, but the employ-
ment of which is imperatively imposed on him 
by his conscience and by that of his people.' " 
The above ultimatum, it will be recollected, was 
rejected on the 16th. 
" Constantinople letters of the 13th state 'that 
Baron Bruck, the Austrian envoy, had endeavored 
to induce the Porte to come to some conciliatory 
measures ; but the Sultan was firmly resolved not 
to accept the ultimatum. M. de Bruck is, how-
ever, reported to have so far succeeded as to per-
suade the divan to declare, in reply to Count Nes-
selrode, that the Sultan considers the last imperial 
firman in favor of the Christians, as a moral 
engagement of the Porte towards all the Christian 
powers." 
The latest accounts from the frontiers are con-
tained in a letter dated Jassy, June 17, communi-
cated by submarine telegraph, which says : 
" A special courier from St. Petersburg passed 
through this town on the 15th inst., on his way to 
Bucharest and Constantinople. After his depar-
ture the Russian Consul informed the Prince 
Ghika that unless the Porte accepted the ultimatum, 
the Russian General had orders to cross the Pruth 
and commence hostilities. He consequently de-
sired the Ilospodar to take the necessary measures 
for the victualling and the general comfort of the 
army. 
" In the course of the last three days detachments 
of Russian troops have marched into Skuliani, 
near Jassy, in which place a corps of 40,000 men 
is to be concentrated. 
" The occupation of the Danubian principalities 
is here considered as very probable, and it would 
seem that preparations are making (on semblait se 
preparer) for an object of still greater importance, 
as the squadron of the Black Sea has been armed 
for war. 
A previous letter from Jassy, dated June 13, 
says " the movements of troops continue in Bes-
sarabia, and nearly 100,000 men are stationed 
along the Moldavian frontier." 
The London Times of 2d inst. had received posi-
tive information from St. Petersburg, by the packet 
which left that capital for Stetten on the evening 
of the 25th of June, that on that day, on the re-
turn of the last courier from Constantinople, the 
Emperor of Russia despatched immediate orders 
to his troops to cross the Pruth. It was expected 
that this determination would forthwith be an-
nounced to the Russian nation, and to foreign 
States, by a manifesto. 
A letter dated Constantinople, June 16th, states 
that couriers have brought despatches by Belgrade, 
which assure the Porte of the union and complete 
understanding which animate the Western powers. 
The English fleet is in Besika Bay ; The French 
fleet near Mytilene. The staff of the army of 
Roumelia left on Saturday for Varna. Omer 
Pacha will command the army of Shunda ; that of 
Rustchuck will be under the orders of Mehemet 
Reschid Pasha. The Hassa Muchin leaves to 
enter on his functions at the end of the present 
week. In the two camps there are about 80,000 
men under arms, and before long from 30,000 to 
40,000 redifs will join the army. 
The Turkish fleet will he in the Black Sea either 
to-morrow or the day after. 
The American frigate Cumberland, under the 
command of Commodore Stringham, has obtained 
permission to accompany it. It is now certain 
that the breakwaters of Salina have been destroyed 
by the Russians in order to close the mouth of the 
Danube against mercantile ships, and unfortu-
nately more than 250 vessels are caught within as 
in a trap. 
The chiefs of the Patriarchites have made a 
declaration to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, recog- 
nizing the clemency and the good administration 
of the Sublime Porte, and have protested against 
the aggression of Russia. 
Letters dated the 30th ult., from the Danubian 
provinces, speak of the preparations for the passage 
of the Pruth by the Russians. The French war 
office has agreed to furnish 60,000 muskets to the 
Turkish government, and orders have been sent to 
have them despatched forthwith to Constantinople. 
The Turkish fleet is concentrated at the northern 
extremity of the Bosphorus, from Therapia to the 
Black Sea, and consists of 35 ships, two of them 
three-deckers, 10 frigates, 4 corvettes, 8 brigs, 
and 9 steamers ; this force will be increased by 8 
ships recalled from other stations, and 8 others 
which are in the course of equipment at the arsenal. 
The mercantile shipping is more wanted than ever 
at Constantinople and the Black Sea ports. 
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chroni-
cle states that the Porte, encouraged by the pres- 
ence of the English and French fleets, had followed 
up their rejection of the Russian ultimatum by a 
demand of the armed intervention of the four great 
powers of Europe. 
CHINA NEWS. 
WE find in the California papers some further 
news from China, brought by the Pathfinder, at 
San Francisco, which left Hong Kong on the 27th 
of April. The advices are not so late as by the 
way of England, but the California papers supply 
some details which are wanting in the later ad- 
published. It is dated March 31, and is issued by 
Lo, commander of the land and sea forces, and 
the General in charge of pacificating the eastern 
region and subduing the Manchows, and Hwang, 
Commissary General, and member of the Council 
of War, and reads as follows. The not very refined 
allusion to the foreigners, although amusing in 
its terms, bodes no good. It betrays an ill feeling 
on the part of the insurgents towards the for-
eigners, which it was hoped did not exist : 
" Our Emperor on the 22d day of the present 
moon (March 31st,) established the seat of his 
government at Nan-king, having thoroughly slaugh. 
tered the Alancho-w thieves, without leaving a dog 
or a fowl remaining. The Chinese officers, Lull-
keen-ying and his fellows, have all submitted to 
our rule, our emperor has not improperly injured 
a single individual of the people. At present, our 
grand army will in a few days arrive at Soo-chow, 
Sung-keang, Chang-chow, and Chin-keang ; let all 
the people of the various districts in those prefect-
ures be informed that our great officers are deeply 
versed in astrology, and know that Ursa Major is 
now in the ascendant over Keang-nan, and the 
T'llae-pih star has arrived at Sung-keang. The 
stinking foreigners at Shanghae are not worthy to 
be considered men, and it will be difficult to secure 
that there shall be no fighting at Shanghae. 
" Now the inhabitants of Chang-chow and Chin-
keang need not be under any alarm ; but the hon-
est people of Soo-chow and Sung-keang should get 
out of the way some hundred le among the villages, 
when they may ensure their safety. The subjects 
of the former dynasty are the children of the new 
emperor, and therefore it is necessary that we 
should take them into consideration. When our 
emperor has finally settled his government, we will 
issue a proclamation recalling the people to their 
homes, that they may peaceably follow their usual 
occupations, and attend to the literary examina-
tions. Let every one make himself acquainted 
with these our commands. 
" Stuck up at the gate of Soo-chow on the 24th 
day of the 2d moon (April 2d)." 
Appointments, Ac. 
II. II. Guess will preach in New York city Sabbath, July 31st, and 
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store,) Sabbath, Aug. 7th. He will be at home (Homer) Aug. 14th. 
I. H. SHIPMAN will preach at N. Springfield, Vt., Sabbath, July 31st. 
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vices. The following details of the movements of 
the rebels are given : 
" On the 11th of February they entered Han-
k'hovv ; on the 14th occurred the battle of Hwan,-
chow ; on the 16th they took Woo-ch'ang ; and 
18th marked the fall of Kew-keang ; on the 20th 
they arrived at Seaoukoo-san ; and the next day 
they reached Tung-lew ; Gnan-k'hin fell on the 
24th ; Ta-t'hung (about thirty miles to the north-
east of the latter place ) was passed on the 25th ; 
Woo-boo fell on the 3d March ; the Tung-se-leang-
san (two hills, one each side of the river, about 
ten miles from Woo-hoo,) was reached on the Gth ; 
T'hae-ping was taken the next day ; and on the 
8th the insurgents arrived opposite Nanking, which 
fell on the 21st ; but the rebels were compelled to 
evacuate it soon after, and were defeated on the 
5th of April by the imperial forces, about thirty 
miles south of Nanking. 
" The Lieutenant-Governor of Kiang-su has ad-
dressed formal applications to the consuls and 
commissioners of foreign nations, asking for aid 
against the insurgents." 
The Shanghae correspondent of the Hong Kong 
Register (no date given) says : 
" The true state of the case seems to me that 
they are proud Confucianists, determined to estab-
lish the ancient manners and customs prevalent 
under the Han and Ming dynasty, and so exasper-
ated against the Manchows that they are likely 
to look with disgust upon anything foreign ; and 
while they are bent upon rooting out Buddhism, 
they would be as little disposed to favor Chris-
tianity." 
The Hong Kong correspondent of the _Alta Cali-
fornia, under date of April 24, says : 
" The rebellion is now beginning to assume a 
more serious aspect. The rebels having taken 
Nankin, crowned their leader as Emperor, following 
it up by proclamations, &c. After taking Nankin 
they took Che-kiang-foo, and then proceeded to the 
Grand Canal with the intention of cutting off all 
supplies intended for Pekin, but were met by sev-
eral armed Portuguese lorchas sent up by the 
Tauoutie of Shanghae, assisted by the Imperial 
troops stationed there, who drove them back, 
leading to the abandonment of Che-kiang-foo, which 
is again in the possession of the Imperialists, and 
causing the rebels to retreat to Nankin, which 
may now be considered their stronghold. It is re-
ported that on the 12th of March the two forces, 
rebel and Imperialist, were to meet in battle array, 
to have a grand decisive battle. 
" The Pekin Emperor, having sent his ablest 
officer with 30,000 men to manage the business for 
him, the foreigners at Shanghae were organizing 
for defence, it being reported that the rebels were 
unfriendly to them. At Shanghae they have the 
United States steamer Susquehanna, three British 
ships of war, and one French. 
" The China Mail thinks that the rebellion can-
not succeed, though a long time will be required 
to put it down. 
" Fears are entertained in Canton that the rabble 
of that city, excited by the reports of the progress 
of the insurgents, will rise, and as they are known 
to be bitterly hostile to foreigners, the Hong Kong 
Register advises the latter to be prepared for emer-
gencies. 
" The chief magistrates of the districts of Nanhai 
and Pwan-yu have prohibited the exportation of 
rice." 
One of the proclamations of the insurgents is 
BENJ. WEBB will preach in Champlain, N. Y., Sunday, July 31st, at 
101 A. M., Odelltown school-house at 2 P. M., and in Mastin school-
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24th, and A. Sherwin, Sunday, 31st. 
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24th. 
P. HAWKES will preach in Clinton, Mass. (Concert Hall), Sabbath, 
July 24th. 
H. H. GROSS will preach in Winsted, Ct., Sabbath, July 24th. 
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