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YOLUME XIII. NO. 21 
Atonement-day ; they looked on it with idle won-
der ; they did not look in order to see and feel 
the meaning of that blood-sprinkled mercy-seat. 
Perhaps many of them " looked on the ark" 
with a feeling of exultation, as they thought of 
the victory that it had gained over their con-
querors in Philistia ; and some may have proud-
ly pointed to it as the palladium of Israel's safe-
ty. 
An immense multitude had ere long gazed 
on it with such feelings, fifty thousand and seven-
ty at least; and a murmur of happy, self-com-
placent congratulation might be heard through-
out the throng. 
They were glorying in the ark 
as that which had humbled Philistia, scourging 
Ekron and Ashdod and Gath, and extorting ac-
knowledgments of homage from all the princes 
of that land ;—they were examining this singu-
lar possession of Israel with curious eye; they 
were agreeing to give it honor on such accounts 
as those we have mentioned. 
The eoifer with its 
jewels (1 Sam. 6:15) was carefully attended to 
by the Levites, and sacrifices duly offered. But 
still that ark was misunderstood. 
At Shiloh it 
had been used superstitiously ; now, at Bethshe-
mesh, it was treated irreverently. 
Accordingly, Jehovah, who had lately taught 
superstitious ones a remarkable lesson by forsak-
ing Shiloh, interposed at Bethshemesh to teach 
irreverent ones. 
Unlike the serious, anxious 
gazers on the brazen serpent, thesemen of Beth-
shemesh, who looked without a warrent, found 
not healing, but disease,—" he smote them ;" 
and then it is added afterwards, that, " the Lord 
had smitten the people in great smiting." 
Here it is that the history is often misunder-
stood. 
One word in our version has contribu-
ted greatly to this mistake, namely the word 
'' slaughter." 
In the Hebrew it is not<' slaugh-
ter," it is " stroke," or rather " smiting." 
And 
this " smiting " is not death ; it was not neces-
sarily fatal. There is no proof that the smitten 
died; there is nothing to lead us to believe that 
the fifty thousand and seventy perished. 
The 
words say only, that they were " smitten;" 
a 
chastisement was sent, but not unto death. 
No doubt it was a severe chastisement, so that 
the people cried (not unlike the cry of the 
Philistines, in chap. 5, 8:10,) " To whom shall 
he go up from us ? who is able to stand before 
this°holy Lord God ?" 
But it was not death. 
It was a chastisement that left " the men of 
Bethshemesh " alive still, for ver. 20 tells of 
their bitter cries. 
In all probability, it was 
somewhat like that chastisement mentioned 2 
Chron. 30:20, disease sent because of a profan-
ing of the Passover ordinance, but healed after-
wards. 
It was of that class of judgments. 
The 
word, " smite " is used of Balaam's chastising 
his ass (Numb. 22:32,) and in Exod. 21:15 it is 
used of a son striking father or mother a blow, 
and in a multitud of similar cases, where noth-
ing fatal is meant. 
And so it was, we believe 
in this case. 
But what then was the nature of the chastise-
ment? 
We think we can make it probable 
that these men of Bethshemesh were smitten 
with emerods. The punishment of the Philis-
tines was now inflicted on them ; for the Lord is 
equally wroth at open infidelity and hardened 
self-complacent rationalism. 
The Lord, indeed, 
was teaching Israel and the nations for all 
time, that these three things are hateful in his 
sight:—1. Suverstition, 
like that manifested 
in bringing the ark from Shiloh ; 2. Infidelity, 
like that of the Philistines; 3. Rationalism, ox: 
cold, curious, intellectual, irreverent speculation 
on holy things. 
But how do we prove that the smiting was 
with emerods ? In this way. We find in chap. 
5:6 it is " smote " that is used for sending that 
disease on the men of Ashdod; and in verse 9 
especially, mark the words, " And he smote the 
men of the city, both small and great." 
Well, 
what was this smiting ? Can we ascertain ?— 
Yes, for it is added, " and they had emerods." 
In one clause it is told us " they were smitten," 
and then in another this smiting is explained to 
be " sending •emerods " on them. 
And that 
emerods were not necessarily fatal is proved at 
once by verse 12, where a distinction is made 
between those who died and those who were so 
afflicted ; "the men that died not were smitten 
with emerods." 
Thus, then, it appears that this history is gen-
erally misunderstood. Critics have tried to alter 
the figures, amazed that more than 50,000 should 
die at once, and that in so small a district as 
Bethshemesh ! But it turns out that there was 
no such " slaughter "—there was, instead, an 
awful judgment; more than 50,000 smitten with 
the same disease that had chastised the unbeliev-
ing uncircumcised Philistines. Irreverent Jsrael 
were made painfully to'feel that they were on a 
level with the heathen in character and in doom. 
TJnder this sore infliction, the men of Bethshe-
mesh did not apparently repent. They were 
alarmed, astounded, affrighted, but were not 
humbled, it would seem. 
At all events, they 
gladly parted with the ark, and allowed the 
" men of Kirjath-jearim " (1 Sam. 7:1), where 
dwelt the Gibeonites, whose lowly service of God 
was in the capacity of " hewers of wood and 
drawers of water," to take it to their pleasant 
village, where it rested long (about 40 years), 
amid their woods and orchards and vineyards, on 
the slope of the ridge whereon their dwellings 
stood. 
Bethshemesh got an offer of the ark, but let it 
slip ; that is, the Lord brought before them that 
ark of grace, and by unbelief they rejected it; 
while the simple-minded, devout Gibeonites of 
Kirjath-jearim, not far off, made it welcome. 
What instructive lessons are here! 
If Shiloh 
warned us, so does Bethshemesh, and so does the 
sojourning of the ark between both, and its rest-
ing at length " in the fields of the wood." 
1. 
Shiloh testifies against formality superstition— 
the Popery of every age. 
What folly to be con-
tent with what touches only the body ! Will a 
man be as well content with a sun shorn of his 
beams, as with a sun that enlightens and en-
livens? 
2. The cities of Philistia that were 
scourged by that ark proclaim God's judgments 
on infidelity and heathenism. If the simple 
majesty of Him who is the truth is despised—if 
men think they can do without a Sun—if the 
atoning mercy-seat is scoffed at or disbelieved— 
then shall men feel what is written— 
'' Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, 
Adn, as a mighty man that shouteth by reason of 
new wine, 
And he smote his enemies on their hinder parts; 
He put them to a perpetual reproach." 
(Psalm 
78:65, G6.) 
The shame of his judgment confutes the pre-
tensions of the unbelievers to superior wisdom 
and discernment. 
3. And then Bethshemesh 
comes to proclaim the folly of rationalism and 
irreverent speculation. 
Then venture to gaze on 
the sun in his effulgence, and, ere ever they are 
aware, their eyes are dazzled and blinded ; but, 
in their delusion, they fancy that this blindness 
is light. 
They go boldly and rashly to meddle 
with holy things, not feeling their personal need 
of atonement—not feeling their conscience so 
stained and polluted as to require an Almighty 
Saviour —not asking for the necessities of their 
hearts' affections, a living Immanuel. 
Let such 
beware. 
They are acting the part of Bethshe-
mesh—they are " looking on the ark." 
What 
lessons these for our day ! What lessons for the 
" last and perilous." 
Bethshemesh, by a strange coincidence, was 
marked again by an event that displayed rash-
ness and boldness, punished by a just stroke. 
In after days (2 Kings 14:11), Amaziah, King 
of Judah, insisted, in his self-sufficiency, on 
"looking the King of Israel in the face," at this 
very place, and found nothing but defeat and 
confusion. Might not that disaster recall the 
former history of the place, and revive the mem-
ory of tho lessons of the past ? And would not 
the disaster in the days of Ahaz, when it fell in-
to the hands of the Philistines, first of all the 
cities assailed (2 Chron. 28:18), have the same 
effect ? 
One other remark is suggested to us, in draw-
ing to a close. 
It was the hand of God that 
directed the milch kine to take the road to Beth-
shemesh instead of Shiloh, when the ark was 
SOON AND FOREVER. 
" 
SOON and forever!" 
Such promise our trust, 
Though ashes to ashes, 
And dust unto dust; 
Soon and forever 
Our union shall be 
Made perfect, our glorious 
Redeemer, in Thee, 
When the sins and the sorrows 
Of time shall be o'er ; 
Its pangs and its partings 
Remembered no more ; 
When life cannot fail, 
And when death cannot sever, 
Christians with Christ shall be, 
Soon and forever. 
Shiloii and Betlishemesli: 
FROM TOE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Concluded.) 
BUT let us return to Shiloh, and ask yet again 
about God's dealings there. 
Did Shiloh fall, 
and' Rot arise ? Did the ark not return ? Then, 
whither did that ark repair ? And was there 
any look towards Shiloh in the ark's after-move-
ments ? 
The ark, as 1 Sam. 6:1, tells us, and as 1 
Sam. 5, details, was "seven months" in the 
land of the Philistines—a full, complete season. 
But while among the Philistines, it was felt to 
be still the ark that at Shiloh had in other days 
been the residence of " Jehovah who dwelt be-
tween the cherubims.1' 
The cry of Asheod and 
Ekron and Gath, smitten with emerods, while 
Dagon lay broken on his own threshold, had 
been heard afar; and the lords of Philistia sent 
homeward that ark which they dared not profane. 
It was carried to Israel's borders by the two 
milch kine, which, though bleating for the loss 
of their calves at home, never once turned in 
any direction but towards Israel's land; as if 
the Lord would teach men thereby how the very 
beasts as well as the very stones would testify 
for Him as worthy to be obeyed, if men were 
stubborn. 
And see! grace to Israel still! for 
He directs the kine straight towards his ancient 
border. The ark approaches Bethshemesh at last. 
The men of the place are at their wheat harvest; 
but all crowd around it with joy. 
They set it 
©a a great stone ia the field of Joshua,#one of 
their people : every other work is suspended for 
the time : all exult in this return of favor. 
There is the Ark of Shiloh now! near Beth-
shemesh, in the midst of a field! It stands 
elevated on a great stone; but this is not the hill 
of Shiloh ! Still, it is as much the Ark there, 
in that field and on that stone, as when it stood 
on the slopes of Shiloh, 
Let Israel learn not to 
trust to places; and let us learn that, Christ in 
the humble manger of Bethlehem is as really 
God, as when he spoke from the Holy of Holies 
to the ministering priests at Jerusalem. 
One 
reason why Bethshemesh was the place to which 
the ark first was sent, may have been its near 
vicinity to Philistia; even as in 2 Chron. 28:18, 
it seems to be on that account that it is first sub-
dued by that people in the days of Ahaz. 
But, 
besides it was a Levitical and priestly city. 
They surely will honor it. 
But there are no curtains round it; no pillars 
and courts of fine linen enclose the place where 
it stands, and no mysterious vail hides it from 
view. 
And so the crowds from Bethshemesh 
venture to approach it familiarly, as if they were 
like the high priest in the Day of Atonement. 
They wilfully neglected the command given in 
their law, Numb. 4:5-20. 
And here we meet with the misunderstood his-
tory. 
The Lord suddenly broke forth with beams of 
glory on these men of Israel who were acting so 
irreverently. 
" They looked on the ark." 
They 
ought to have bowed before it, and worshipped; 
but instead of so doing, they made it an object 
ef irreverent curiosity, treating it with rash and 
rude familiarity, and perhaps even pry in g into 
its contents. 
At all events, they looked °on it 
for other purposes than did the high priest on the 
again to take its place in Israel, and be the sea 
of Jehovah. 
In that act of Providence, we no-
ticed, the Lord made an offer to the men of 
Bethshemesh—an offer which they, by their ir-
reverent actings, forfeited for ever. 
Let us, as 
Gentiles, be taught. 
Go to Shiloh, and see there 
what shall be thy end, if thou give way to super-
stition in these last days; but go also to the 
fields of Bethshemesh, and see there what thy 
end shall be if thou, O Gentile Church, givest 
way to rationalism in any shape or of any sort. 
Bye as the men of Kirjath-jearim. 
Take Abina-
dab as thy pattern ; reverently entertain the ark 
of God, and so be blest, worshipping, in unosten-
tatious faith, at the mercy-seat, thine eye resting 
on the blood of the Son of God. 
Warned by 
Shiloh, Philistia, and Bethshemesh, let thine be 
the true and simple fhith that intelligently and 
solemnly uses the revelations of God—that, at 
the mercy-seat, expects to see, at length, the un-
veiled glory, that which tells of the everlasting 
presence of Jehovah with his redeemed. 
Be 
found there at his appearing. 
Be found in com-
pany with the men of Kirjath-jearim. They 
sang of old, " We heard of it at Ephratah "— 
we heard and were warned by the events that 
attended its abode in the region of Ephraim; 
'' We found it in the fields of the wood''—we 
sought it out, not among the men of Bethshe-
mesh, but among the reverent worshippers at 
sequestered Kirjath-jearim, and with them we 
joined. 
Glad that we were permitted to bow 
before the Lord, in beauties of holiness, we say, 
"We will go unto his tabernacles, we will wor-
ship at his footstool," and we joined the waiting 
ones who keep up the cry, " Arise, 0 Lord, un-
to thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength " 
(Psalm 132:6-9). 
The Dawn of Day. 
BY THE REV. JOH* CUMMING, D. D., ENG. 
" YES, we have 
Answers oft we know not whence, 
Echoes from beyond the grave, 
Recognized intelligence. 
" Such rebounds our inward ear 
Catches sometimes from afar. 
Listen, ponder, hold them dear, 
For of God, of God they are." 
" The night is far spent, the day is at hand."— 
Rom. 13:12. 
Amid much that is painful to the Christian 
heart, and perplexing to every mind, it is de-
lightful to know that the night to which such 
perplexities and pains are confined is far spent, 
and that the day that dissipates them all is close 
at hand. 
Scripture and the signs of the times 
so teach us. 
What is meant by the night ? and what by 
the day ? and what are the presumptive proofs 
that the one is far spent, and that the other, as 
the^apostle proclaimed it to be then, and as we 
may with greater emphasis proclaim it to be 
now, is close at hand? 
The night is justly associated as a symbol, in 
every language, owing to its characteristic dark-
ness, with the greater or lesser ignorance of the 
human mind. 
The dispensation under which we 
now are is called by the apostle, from this cir-
cumstance, with others, the night. 
There is 
much around us that the most enlightened are, 
unable to penetrate. 
There are obscurities ly-
ing on the commonest things that the most gifted 
minds are incompetent to remove. 
There are 
bright truths of which we can now see only the 
shadow. 
There are grand sounds of which we 
can now hear the echoes only. 
There is a 
brightening glory beyond the horizon of our 
present view, occasional sparks of which are all 
we can now catch ; by which, however, we may 
form some conception of the distant magnificence 
and the splendor on which the sun never sets. 
" We see," says the apostle, "as through a 
glass, darkly." 
And those things about which 
Christians quarrel are generally these very things 
which we cannot see, because of the night now 
far spent; but which we shall see, and 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
comprehend, when the day itself comes. 
The night, too, may fairly he regarded as the 
symbol of the prevalence, more or less, of error. 
The night that now is is too plainly character-' 
ized by the growth and progress of multitudinous 
heresies, misconceptions and delusions. 
How 
many creeds are still popular among mankind, 
pervaded, every one of them, with the most 
deadly heresy f flow much alloy of error is 
there irr the faith of many a church, true and 
Christian in the main, notwithstanding !' In 
the great western apostasy there is evidence of 
night, deep, dark, impenetrable, lying on head 
and heart, and overshadowing both with baleful 
delusion. 
A system is there in which truth is 
neutralized by error; in which the light js ad-
mitted only to be extinguished by darkness, or 
to be divided and distorted; in which Jesus is 
recognized in order to be betrayed, as of old, 
with a kiss; a system where the minister of the 
Gospel is perverted into the priest, where one 
sacrament! is made a god, and the other an ex-
orcism \ in which worship is pantomine, the 
church a sepulchre, and Christianity a gigantic 
parody. 
This apostasy exists, and will exist in 
She night, and so long as the night shall last, 
for it will be destroyed only by the brightness of 
the Redeemer's coming. 
The first ray of the 
rising of that Sun who is now beneath the hori-
zon, will utterly blast and break up that system 
which ha3 destroyed the souls that he came to 
save, and dishonored him that came to save 
them. 
It is because that conspiracy, through 
all its heads, is conscious that the night is §lt 
spent, and that its despotism is almost gone, 
that it is now beating about in every country 
and capital of Europe, in order to gain a foot-
hold, if it should only be for one hour, before 
the night departs, and the bright light comes, 
in which its hierarchy and all its dependent 
systems of darkness can neither live nor pros-
per. 
But the night is not only associated with igno-
rance and error; it is also identified in Scripture 
with sorrow, tribulation and affliction. " The 
night of trial," " the night of weeping," "the 
night of sorrow," " the night of affliction," are 
frequent scriptural expressions. 
And who does 
not know that, in this dispensation, through not 
a little but much tribulation, we must enter into 
the kingdom of God ? How often are the loved 
and the cherished snatched away without notice, 
through the interposition of a mysterious Hand, 
accompanied by no indication of the why or the 
wherefore it was so ! 
How often does a storm 
descend upon us, that we neither see nor know 
whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth; which 
we can feel was present by the chasm it has left, 
whilst it swept away all our industry had ac-
cumulated, and left the bare earth with no in-
scription or solution of the interposition ! Not 
a year ends that has not been to many a night 
of tribulation. 
How much trial, how muchsor 
row, how much conflict, do we feel in keeping 
right a heart that ever tries to snap its leading-
strings within, and to hold at bay a foe ever 
watchful, and ever going about seeking whom 
he may destroy! 
How much tribulation must 
there be endured by every one who knows what 
the Saviour hath said of the most sainted, 
" Satan hath desired to have thee,"—which is 
the characteristic of the night,—"that he may 
sift thee as wheat" ! Yet how consolatory is 
the holy guarantee, that night shall end 
bright day ! 
"1 have prayed for thee,"—not 
that thy affliction may cease,—but " that thy 
faith fail not." 
The night is also associated in Scripture with 
toil and labor. 
The chuVch is now militant, not 
glorified.. Men object very frequently, as I have 
heard them say, to controversy for the purity 
and the safety and the spread of the gospel. 
Surely, the very law of our condition is contro-
versy. 
We now constitute the church militant. 
Who and what is a soldier! 
A man armed for 
the defence of what he loves, and for repelling 
those that would filch him of that which he loves. 
Even so the church of Christ, as now represented 
in every passage of Scripture, is striving, labor 
ing, working, fighting. The church is militant 
and while the night lasts she must continue so 
—each sentinel must be at his post, each soldier 
in his rank, each sword ready in its sheath, each 
laborer on the building,—every man feeling that 
he is here to fight while the night continues, and 
that only when the coming day dawns shall he 
reap the promised reward, the crown of glory 
the incorruptible inheritance that fadeth not 
away. 
The night, too, is associated in Scripture with 
death. 
Now we die. 
But when the day pre 
dieted in that beautiful chapter of the Revela-
tion on which I have already written shall 
arrive, there shall be no death nor night there 
But while the night lasts,—that is, while this 
dispensation continues,—death will visit every 
man, 
A heathen poet could say, 
" iEquo pede pulsat, 
Pauperum tabernas regumque turres 
that is, 41 Death beats with an equal foot at the 
huts of peasants and at the palaces of kings. 
This is an inseparable characteristic of the night 
The strongest heart must cease its beatings ; the 
stoutest arm must be paralyzed; the bravest 
man, and the most gifted man, must lie down 
and turn his face to the wall and die. 
This is 
the universal factthis is a standing condition 
of the night that now it, which will continue 
until the night be spent, and the day dawn. 
But the apostle tells us that this night is far 
spent'. I believe that it is so, that from Scrip-
ture, not from my own fancy. Some of the twi-
light beams seem to indicate that the Sun of 
righteousness, if below the horizon, already tips 
it with his outer rim, and will soon emerge and 
shed down the splendor of millennial day. 
But 
it is when the sun is just below the horizon,— 
that is," when the day is nearest,—that the 
clouds seem to struggle most for ascendancy, 
and that the contest becomes, or seems, the most 
intense, whether the day or night shall have the 
victory. 
Thus we may expect that, just because 
the night is far spent, and the day is at hand, 
the conflict will become hotter, the evil for a 
season intenser, and trials multiplied a thousand-
fold. Who can look back to the last five years, 
and not see that we have scarcely passed a year 
without a special chastisement or judgment of 
God ? In one year was the failure of the crops, 
in another year that of our commercial pros-
perity, in another the pestilence that swept away 
eighteen thousand of this metropolis alone, and 
in this year the irruption of a moral pestilence 
from the Tiber. 
I use this expression, not to 
offend those Roman Catholics who, of course, 
repudiate the epithet, but because a time is come 
for us to tell them more emphatically than we 
ever did what the Bible enunciates about their 
system; and because the judgments denounced 
on it are soon about to descend,—judgments 
from which I conjure them to escape as Lot from 
Sodom, lest they receive its plagues. 
All these 
things indicate that the day is at hand. 
Ancient 
prophecies are nearly all fulfilled. The Apoc-
alyptic vials are nearly poured out. The seventh 
is pouring out, and its effects are felt in every 
land, and acknowledged by almost every inter-
preter of prophecy. 
The seventh trumpet has 
sounded, and its echoes are reverberating over 
all the earth. 
The seals have all been broken, 
and their mysterious contents are made known. 
The eve of the last conflict has come. 
Well-
drilled forces are mustering to the battle. 
Our 
own country is stirred, at this moment, to its 
depths, as if there were in its very conscience— 
in the national conscience—an instinctive pre-
monition of what is speedily coming on the 
earth, and yet a high moral sensibility which 
makes me think more highly ot this great coun-
try than I ever thought in my life. 
It has a 
perception, clear and fixed, that the dismantler 
of the holy, the enslaver of the free, the shutter 
of God's word, is come amongst us, to make his 
last, and I know it will not be his successful, 
stand for the night, in opposition to the break-
ing day; for darkness, in opposition to light; 
for slavery, in opposition to freedom ; for Anti-
christ, in opposition to Christ. 
" The night is 
far spent, the day is at hand." 
Great prophetic 
epochs, as well as Apocalyptic symbols, are all 
passing rapidly into fulfillment. The six thou-
sand years of the world to which the Jew 
attaches so much importance are nearly closed. 
The year 1864 begins the seventh millenary of 
the world's history, which the Jew anticipates 
as the world's grand rest—the earth's holy and 
happy sabbath. 
Perhaps some of us may never 
see death ; for " The trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we that 
are alive at his coming shall be caught up to 
meet the Lord in the air." 
The great volcanic 
eruption in 1848 was an impressive evidence 
that the unclean spirits that went out under the 
sixth' vial had been intensely and untiringly 
working. 
I have proved elsewhere that in 1847 
the sixth vial was poured out, that the unclean 
spirits had just then begun their work. 
Let us 
review the recent terrific democratic eruption of 
Europe; let us look at the state of Europe at 
this moment. 
Every man is standing with his 
hand at his sword-hilt, not knowing whether he 
shall have to draw it, before the morrow dawns, 
against his brother. Never was Germ an Europe, 
French Europe, Italian Europe, in a state of 
greater chaos, of more ominous aspect, than at 
this period; and never were these words more 
truly realized,—" Wars and rumors of wars; 
nation rising up against nation." Ask states-
men, and they will tell you " their hearts are 
failing them for fear, for the things that are 
coming upon the earth." 
And what is the re-
cent papal invasion, to which I have alluded, 
but a surface-sign of the depth and tho energy 
of the unclean spirit that has been working, not 
only in a section of the Church of England, but 
in every department of social life, seizing the 
concession of yesterday as a new out-work for 
the purpose of demanding another to-day ? Nor 
have we yet done with all the results with which 
this daring deed is pregnant. 
In the weekly or 
gan of the Roman Catholic Church it is now de 
clared that the Emperor of Austria and the 
President of the French have sent to the " Car 
dinal of Westminster " congratulatory addresse 
on his elevation to his present position. 
These 
are ominous missives in the mind of every man 
that reads the signs of the times, and studies the 
aspect of European affairs at the present mo-
ment, 
But let us not be alarmed at this, but 
rather rejoice that, if what remains be terrible, 
" the night is far spent," and the day that 
settles all conflicts, ends all quarrels, scatters 
all clouds, and brings within our glorious hori-
zon the unsetting Sun of righteousness, is close 
—closer than many of us imagine—at hand. 
This leads me, next, to notice what are some 
of the characteristics of the day that is also 
mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans. 
I have described the night, and have tried to 
show what it is the symbol of: let us now inves-
tigate for a little the nature of the day, and seek 
to ascertain what it represents. 
The day of perfect knowledge is at hand. 
The 
clouds that lie upon many a truth will soon be 
dissipated. 
That curtain that screens from us 
the Holy of Holies will ere long be rent from 
the top to the bottom. 
Hieroglyphic signs, that 
are inscrutable to us, because the key of the 
Son of David that unlocks them has not yet been 
applied, will be explained and rendered lumin-
ous in the splendor in which they were written. 
The unction of the Spirit will descend from the 
skirts of the high priest's robe upon all his peo-
ple, and they shall no more teach every man his 
neighbor, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall 
know him, from the least even to the greatest. 
The effulgence of that risen Sun shall shine into 
all depths, and ascend to all heights, and cover 
the wide world with an unending glory. 
Con-
troversy shall shut its mouth, and contention 
sheathe its sword : and brethren that now meet 
only to quarrel shall meet and mingle to praise 
God together; and many that had not a taper 
on earth, nor saw a star in the firmament, in 
that light shall see all things clearly. 
This 
day is at hand. 
Fact and Scripture say so. 
The day of truth is at hand. 
Error shall flee 
away like a mist before the morning sun. 
Hin-
dooism, Mohammedanism, the Mishna, the Shas-
ter, the Koran, the Talmud, the Breviary, shall 
all be annihilated, as earthly exhalations, for-
In that bright light, Popery, with its 
creeds, its charms, its amulets, its rosaries, its 
crucifixes, its images, its awful blasphemies, its 
deceptions, its deadly superstitions, shall be ut-
terly burned up. 
Its cardinals, priests and 
monks, shall either be—which God grant!— 
snatched from the blazing voleano in which it 
sinks, or they shall perish in it and with it; for 
strong, we are told, is the Lord God that judgeth 
her. 
That day, so near at hand, is the day of joy. 
There shall be a song of joy at that dawn that 
will rise in deepening sounds from the plains to 
the mountain-tops, and from the mountain-tops 
to the far and high heavens, raising the strain 
as it was never raised before—" Salvation, and 
glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our 
God, and he shall reign for ever and ever." 
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to 
him : for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and 
his wife hath made herself ready." 
Now stream-
lets of joy enter into us; but then we shall en 
ter into an ocean of joy—joy at the downfall of 
Babylon; at the crushing of Satan ; at the ex-
tinction of sin ; at the flight of disease, and sor-
row, and death, and tears; joy at the return of 
Paradise to earth, and the admission of man 
into Paradise:—and the angels' song, which 
began when Christ was born, shall be actualized 
in fact when Christ shall come,—" Glory to God 
in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will 
toward men!" 
The very universe will become 
a revelation, a complement to the Bible that 
now is; and the very stars shall be the words 
in which God's mind will be written ; and man, 
the priest of nature, shall present her willing 
and pure offering of thanksgiving and praise; 
because nature, she that is about to bring to the 
birth (Natura), has at last brought to the birth, 
and Christ is come, and the new genius is com-
plete, and his sceptre is stretched over all. 
It will be a day, too, of admiring thanksgiv-
ing and gratitude. 
That beautiful psalm which 
was sung when the pestilence was removed will 
be sung when sin and superstition and error are 
annihilated, with an emphasis with which it was 
never sung before,—" Bless the Lord, 0 our 
souls! 
All that is within us be stirred up to 
bless and magnify his holy name :" it shall be 
sung in the past—" He hath pardoned our sins, 
he hath healed our diseases, he hath redeemed 
our life from destruction, he hath renewed our 
age like the eagle's, he hath crowned us with 
loving-kindnesses, and with tender mercies." 
It will be a day of lasting rest. 
When the 
night that is far spent is completely exhausted, 
and the day that shall be is fully come, then 
there shall be perfect rest. The earth shall have 
its Sabbath which it lost by our sin. 
Man shall 
have his, in its integrity, and purity, and beauty. 
God rested on the seventh day from all his work, 
and hallowed the Sabbath, and blessed it. 
I 
believe there is not a beast in the field, nor a 
fish in the sea, nor a fowl in the air, that has 
not a right to the Sabbath, and that shall not 
yet have a Sabbath of rest. 
There is not a la-
borer in the work-shop, nor a toiling man in the 
post-office, nor a clerk in the counting-house, 
that may not claim the Sabbath. 
Next to God's 
word, God's Sabbath is the right and privilege 
of man. 
Popery saps and practically subtracts 
both; infidelity impugns and denounces both r 
by God's grace we will part with neither. 
And 
when that last Sabbath comes,-—the Sabbath of 
all creation,—the heart, wearied with its tu-
multuous beatings, shall have rest; the soul, 
fevered with its anxieties, shall enjoy peace. 
The sun of that Sabbath will never set, or veil 
his splendors in a cloud. 
The flowers that grow 
in his light will never fade. 
Our earthly Sab-
baths are but faint reflections of the heavenly 
Sabbath, cast down upon the earth, dimmed by 
the transit of their rays from so great a height 
and so distant a world. The fairest landscapes, 
or combinations of scenery upon earth, are but 
the outskirts of the paradise of God, fore-earnests 
and intimations of that which lies beyond them ; 
and the happiest Sabbath-heart, whose every 
pulse is a Sabbath-bell, hears but a very inade-
quate echo of the chimes and harmonies of that 
Sabbath, that rest, where we " rest not day and 
night," in which the song is ever new, and yet 
ever sung. 
"0. long-expected day, begin, 
Dawn on this world of woe and sin ! 
Fain would we leave this weary road, 
To sleep in death and rest in God." 
It will be, in the next and last place, the day 
of reunion of all regenerate hearts, long severed 
and separated on earth. 
Those we parted with 
here,—we thought, in our folly, forever,—and 
whose images are written in our memories as in 
bright picture-galleries, ever full of light, we 
shall find to have been only borrowed for a sea-
son, not finally taken away. 
Those flowers that 
faded around us, and sickened in the air which 
we now breathe, we shall then discover not to 
have been blasted and trodden under foot, but 
transplanted to a better soil and a balmier air. 
Those bitter partings which we wept over upon 
earth we shall see to have been only God's own 
way of colonizing that distant and scarcely for-
eign land towards which we are journeying, and 
over which shall cease entirely the night now 
far spent, and shall shine the day that is now 
elose at hand. 
(To be continued.) 
Religious Aspect of the Turco-Rus-
sian Struggle. 
(Concluded.) 
" THE Holy Synod of St. Petersburg is, it is 
true, composed of some of the highest dignita-
ries of the Russian Church, (taken from the 
monastic order;) but these are appointed by the 
secular authority; are presided over by a lay-
man who represents the Czar, and whose veto 
can suspend, or even annul, the most solemn 
resolutions of the synod, even when unanimously-
adopted. 
The person who occupied for years, 
and who, we believe, still occupies the import-
ant post of president of the supreme ecclesiasti-
cal council, which regulates and decides on all 
matters concerning the discipline and adminis-
tration of the Church of Russia, is a general of 
cavalry — General Protuson ! The body thus 
controlled by a military chief may be increased 
in numbers, or reduced, according to the plea-
sure of the Czar; but those who ordinarily con-
stitute that ecclesiastical board are the metro-
politan of St. Petersburg, the archbishops, a 
bishop, the emperor's confessor, an archmandrite, 
(one degree lower than a bishop,) a chaplain 
general of the naval and military forces, and an 
arch-priest. 
But whatever be the rank, the 
learning, or the piety of the synod^ one thing 
must be well understood by them :—they must 
never dare to express an opinion, or give utter-
ance to a thought in opposition to the Czar. The 
edicts of the synod bear the imperial impress ; 
they are invariably headed with this formula, 
By the most high will, command, and con-
formably to the sublime wishes of his majesty,' 
&c. &c. 
If it be alleged that the authority of the 
holy synod, with its bearded, booted, and sabred 
president, relates merely to the temporal admin-
istration of the Church, and that should a ques-
tion of dogma arise, recourse would be had to 
an (Ecumenical Council, composed of all the 
Churches of the Oriental rite, we reply that the 
superintendence of the Synod is not cofined to 
points of mere administration or discipline. The 
canonization of a saint, for instance, is not a 
matter of mere administration. 
When a subject 
is proposed for that distinction—and the Rus-
sian Hagiology is more scandalously filled than 
the Roman in the worst times of the Papacy— 
it is the synod, that is, the Emperor, who decides 
on the claims to worship of the unknown candi-
date whose remains have been previously sancti-
fied by the gross superstition of a barbarous peas-
antry. 
It is true that in consequence of some 
notorious criminals having, not many years ago, 
been added to the list of orthodox saints, the 
Emperor, since the discovery of this, has mani-
fested considerable repugnance to exercising this 
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part of his pontifical functions. He has on re-
cent occasions, refused his fiat, of canonization. 
A few years ago some human bones were dug 
up on the banks of a stream in the government 
of Kazin, which, for some reason, or other, were 
supposed to possess miraculous powers. A cun-
ning speculator thought it a regular godsend ; 
and petitions were forthwith sent to St. Peters-
burg, claiming divine honors for the unknown. 
The petitions were repeatedly rejected, but as 
often pressed on the Emperor. 
His pontifical 
majesty, who was assured on high authority, 
that the claims of the present candidate were 
quite as well founded as those of many in the 
jRagiology, at last reluctantly consented to is-
sue his order of canonization but roundly swore 
he would not grant'another saintship as long as 
he lived. 
Vet it is not doubted that the oppor-
tunity offered by the present ' holy war' of con-
tinuing the sacred list will be made use of un-
sparingly. 
w The following presents, in favorable contrast, 
the state of the Greek communion in Turkey: 
" 4 With that complete dependence in spirit-
ual as in temporal government on the chief of 
the State, and that debasing servitude of the 
Russian Church, may be compared with advan-
tage the immunities and privileges of the Church 
of Constantinople even under the Mussulman 
Government. 
Its patriarch is the chief of the 
Greek communities, the president of their synod, 
and the sovereign judge, without interference on 
the part of the Sultan's authority, of all civil 
and religious matters relating to these commu-
nities which may be brougtht before it. 
The 
patriarch and the twelve metropolitans who, un-
der bis presidency, compose the Synod or Grand 
Council of the Greek nation are exempt from 
the Haratch, or personal impost. 
The imposts 
the Greek nation pays to the government are 
apportioned, not by the Mussulman authorities, 
but by its own archbishops and bishops. Those 
prelates are de officio members of the municipal 
councils, by the same right as the Turkish gov-
ernors and muftis. The cadis and governors are 
bound to see to the execution of the decisions or 
judgments of the bishops, in all that relates to 
their diocesses respectively ; and to enforce the 
payment of the contributions which constitute 
the ecclesiastical revenues. 
The clergy of the 
Greek Church receive from each family of their 
own communion an annual contribution, for the 
decent maintenance of public worship. 
They 
celebrate marriages, pronounce divorces, draw 
up wills, and from all these acts derive a con-
I siderable revenue; and in certain cases, they 
! 
are authorized to receive legacies bequeathed 
for pious objects. 
For every judgment pro-
nounced by their tribunals, the patriarch and 
metropolitans are entitled to a duty on the value 
of the property in litigation, of ten per cent. 
They have the power of sentencing to fine, to 
imprisonment, to corporal punishment, and to 
exile, independently of the spiritual power they 
possess, and, which they do not rarely exercise, 
of excommunication. 
The patriarch and the 
prelates are paid a fixed contribution by the 
priests to whom the higher functions of the min-
istry are confided; and these in their turn, re-
ceive a proportional amount from the clergy 
under their immediate superintendence. 
The 
incomes of the patriarch of Jerusalem, Antioch, 
and Alexandria, of the thirty-two archbishops, 
and the one hundred and forty bishops of the 
Ottoman Empire, are paid out of these public 
contributions. 
44 4 These immunities present, as we have said, 
a striking contrast with the condition of the Or-
thodox Church in Russia. 
A church so en-
dowed and with powers over the millions who 
belong to its communion, would naturally tempt 
an ambitious sovereign to become its master un-
der the name of protector. 
We discard com-
pletely any inquiry into the relative merits of 
the tWo communities; but we think it must be 
evident to any impartial mind, that the protec-
torate of the Czar, in his character as head of 
the orthodox faith, would make him the supreme 
ruler over the Ottoman Empire in Europe. 
44 ' We do not mean to allege that the immu-
nities of the Christian population have been 
faithfully respected by the pashas, the cadis or 
other agents of the Porte. 
We admit that most 
of what has been said of the intolerance and cor-
ruption of the Turkish officials is true,, and that 
acts of oppression and cruelty have been per-
petrated, which call for the severest reprehen-
sion, and require the interference ot the Chris-
tion governments of Europe. 
But what we dis-
pute is, the exclusive right of the Emperor of 
Russia to such intervention or to such protec-
torate, 
41' The Church of Constantinople regards that 
of St, Petersburg as schismatical, however nearly 
they approach in some respects ; and so far from 
acknowledging a right of protectorate, either in 
the synod or the Emperor she claims over her 
younger and erring sister all that superiority 
which is imparted by primogeniture. 
She would 
rejeet the claim of Russia to supremacy, and re-
fuse to be administered by a servile synod, with 
! 
a nominee of the Czar for president 
To sub-
mit to that protectorate would be to admit for-
eign authority; that admission would involve 
the loss of her patriarch, the evidence of her 
independence ; and to this conviction may be 
traced the indifferences of the Greek population 
to Russian interference, and the co-operation its 
clergy has given to the Porte. 
" 4 But, scattered amid the immense popula-
tion which are subject to the Sultan may be 
found communions not belonging to the Con-
fession of Photius as adopted by the Eastern 
Churches, and still less to the schismatical 
branch of it which is known as the Russian 
Church. These communions have no relation, 
affinity, or in fact anything whatever in common 
with the synod of St. Petersburg, or the Czar, 
whom they regard as a spiritual usurper, and 
the creed he possesses as all but heretical. The 
Eutychirn Armenians amount to no less than 
2,400,000 persons, of whom nearly 80,000 are 
actually united to the Latin Church; but, what-
ever be the difference in dogma or ceremonial 
between them, they unite in opposition to the 
Synod of St. Petersburg, and in submission to 
the Porte. 
There are, moreover, upward of a 
million of Roman Catholics and united Greeks 
—that is, Greeks who admit the supremacy of 
the Pope,"while observing their own ceremonial, 
and who, it will not be questioned, have an 
equal right to protection. 
We can easily un-
derstand the interference of the European pow-
ers on behalf of those communities among whom 
are to be found persons of the same religious 
belief as themselves ; but we cannot understand 
on what grounds an exclusive claim is put for-
ward ' by a power which can have no sympathy 
with them, and which has destroyed the most 
important link in the connected Church of St. 
Petersburg with that of the patriarch. 
The pos-
session of Constantinople by the Russians would 
we are convinced, be followed by the destruc-
tion of the independence of the Eastern Church, 
the substitution of some Russian general or ad-
miral, Prince Menschikoff perhaps, or Prince 
Gortschakoff, or whoever may happen to be the 
favorite of the day, for the venerable patriarch; 
and by the most cruel persecution, not perhaps 
so much from religious intolerance, as for the 
same reason assigned by Peter the Great for his 
abolition of the patriarchal dignity. The treat-
ment of the united Greeks of the Russian Em-
pire, the Catholics of Poland and of the Musco-
vite provinces, is sufficient to show to those who, 
now at all events, live tranquilly under the rule 
of the Sultan, what they have to expect from 
the tolerance, the equity, or the mercy ot such 
a Russian protector. 
One fourth of the Latin 
population ruled over by the Czar is made up 
of various religious sects and forms of worship— 
Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Moham-
medanism, Judaism, Lamaism, Schamaism, &c. 
In theory these different persuasions have a right 
to toleration ; but in practice the case is differ-
ent. 
The jealousy of the Czars, and their de-
termination to reduce all that comes within their 
grasp to the same dead level of servitude, can-
not endure a difference of any kind, religious or 
political; and pretexts are never wanting for 
persecutions, which have been compared to those 
of the worst days of the Roman Emperors. The 
Baltic provinces, Lithuania and Poland, testify 
to the truth of these alligations. 
It appears 
clear, then that the Christian communities of 
the Ottoman Empire do not require the protec-
tion or dominatioin of Russia, which would crush 
all alike.'" 
The War in the East. 
THE last accounts from the Baltic fleet were 
to the 25th ult. 
Sir Charles Napier visited 
Stockholm on the 24th, and had an audience of 
King Oscar on the following day. 
The Ad-
miral returned on the 25th to the squadron, 
which was lying in Elfsnabem harbor, five hours' 
sail from Stockholm. 
The Journal de St. Vetersbourg of the 23d 
ult., contains a proclamation from the Emperor 
to his people, in which he represents the war 
against England and France as one undertaken 
in defence of the Orthodox faith. England and 
France, he says, have thrown off the mask and 
revealed their real object, which is to weaken 
Russia and to deprive her of her powerful po-
sition in Europe. 
Russia will fight for the 
Christian faith, in defence of her co-religionists, 
oppressed by their merciless enemies. 
Lord Raglan arrived at Malta on the 25th, 
and left the same day for Turkey. 
The Cara-
doc left on the 26th for Corfu, to convey the 
Duke of Cambridge. 
The news from the seat of war on the Dan-
ube is rather more positive in its character than 
that brought by previous arrivals. 
There can 
be no doupt that the Russians have abandoned 
their former line of operations extending through 
Wallacaia in the direction of Servia, and are 
now concentrating their forces on the lower Dan-
ube, where they are operating against the strong 
fortress of Silistrra. 
They are said to have ex-
perienced a reverse at Czernavoda, and it is 
confidentially affirmed that in this battle a Rus-
sian detachment was completely defeated; but 
as reinforcements were seen advancing, the Turks 
retreated. 
The reports lately current of the terrible re-
sistance experienced by the Russians on their 
passage of the Danube, a month back, have been 
fully confirmed. The Turks, who were in small 
force, evidently gave them the most disastrous 
reception possible, and they fell back in good 
order according to instructions. 
The fighting 
which was thus continued for forty-eight hours, 
comprised, therefore, in reality, an important 
Turkish victory, and if the onward progress of 
the Russian army is to be made step by step at 
similar cost, there will be little dangerfrom the 
remnant that will ever see Constantinople. 
It 
appears that at one point of the river the first 
regiment sent across were destroyed to a man, 
that subsequent reinforcements met a nearly 
similar fate, and that it was only by a body of 
fifteen battalions strong that the Russians were 
ultimately enabled to make good their landing 
at this point, where, in the first instance, little 
difficulty had been calculated upon. 
In consequence of the evacuation of Lesser 
Wallachia by the Russians, the Turkish troops 
had taken possession of the three important 
points in advance of Kalafat, and were march-
ing upon Krajova, which they probably now 
occupy. 
The fact of the Russians having experienced 
an important check in the Dobrudscha, is official-
ly confirmed. We are, however, still ignorant of 
the details of the affair and of the exact locali-
ty of the engagement. 
Silistria, very vigorous-
ly attacked, resists successfully. The Russians 
have already sustained considerable losses. 
BELGRADE, April 29.—On the 24th the Rus-
sians evacuated in great haste their hospitals and 
magazines at Krajova. 
Gen. Lipranda and the division under his 
command were expected the day after at Krajo-
va, which town he was to leave on the 27th. 
The Turks from Kalafat have already occu-
pied Mulgavit, Gunia, Pajona, and Palechti. 
They were expected at Krajova on the 28th or 
29th. 
ORSOVA, April 26th.—It was confidently ex-
pected that the Russians would undertake impor-
tant operations against Rustchuck, Nicopolis, 
and Rassova ^ in a few days. 
On the 23d, the 
fortress of Silistria remained uninjured. 
It is 
not doubted that Omar Pasha will be able to 
maintain himself until the allies arrive! 
According to advices from Constantinople of 
the 2Uth, 10,000 men of the combined French 
and English force had reached that city. 
The 
movement of troops from Gallipoli to Adrinao-
ple has commenced; this is the only decisive 
step towards meeting the enemy, the two armies 
have yet taken. 
At Shumla, there has been, or there will 
shortly be, a military execution, remarkable for 
the high position of the criminal. 
Osman Pa-
sha, a Tartar Turk and an old soldier, who late-
ly commanded at Matchin, has, by the order of 
Omar Pasha, been arrested for cowardice in the 
face of the enemy, and for treasonable conniv-
ance with the enemy's plans. 
He has, in the 
face of the troops he commanded, been deprived 
not only of the insignia of his rank, but also of 
the outward marks which distinguish the Otto-
man soldier, and is to be executed with the as-
sent of the Sultan. 
He was the Governor of 
Matschin, which for^ess was surrendered to the 
Russians. 
The Brussels Independence, of the 30th ult., 
has heard by the telegraph from Marseilles, 
that a portion of the loan for 20,000,000 francs 
had been advanced to the Porte by the French 
and English governments. 
The full particulars of the bombardment of 
Odessa by the combined* fleets in the Black sea, 
have not been received, but it would appear that 
the movement was not attended with brilliant 
results. 
Beyond the destruction of a portion of 
the town, but little impression appears to have 
been made. 
A private despatch received from 
Odessa by a Greek firm in London, and dated 
the 26th ult., states that the whole combined 
fleet took its departure on the morning of that 
day. The attack upon Odessa is justified by 
the circumstance that the Russians fired on H. M. 
steamer Furious, which was sent with a flag 
of truce to take of the British subjects in 
Odessa. 
The subjects of the Greek Empire had been 
ordered to leave Constantinople, Smyrna, Alex-
andria, and other cities, within fifteen days af-
ter correspondence between Turkey and Greece. 
The measure seems to be generally considered 
harsh, and is severely commented upon in the 
London Times. 
The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has is-
sued a circular declaring his intention not to 
retaliate upon the Turkish government. 
Gov-1 
ernment would withdraw the exequaturs from 
the consular authorities of Turkey, and has or-
dered them to quit the country, but declares that 
Turkish subjects may continue to reside in the 
kingdom, and that the vessels under the Otto-
man fiag shall be received in "Greek ports, in 
order to carry on freely their commercial oper-
ations as before ; and both are placed under the 
protection of the Hellenic laws. 
9 
THREE DAYS LATER, BY THE EURO PA, 
The text of the protocol signed at Vienna on 
the 9th of April, hy the representatives of Aus-
tria, France, Oreat Britian and Prussia, has 
been published. 
The protocol was called forth 
by the new complication -of the Eastern question 
in consequence of England and France having 
been drawn into the war, and which was consid-
ered by the representatives of Austria and Prus-
sia as involving a fresh declaration of principles. 
The protocol in substance declares that the gov-
ernments remain united in the double object of 
maintaining the territorial integrity of the Otto-
man empire, of which the fact of the evacuation 
ot the Danubian principalities is and will remain 
one of the essential conditions; and of consoli-
dating in an interest so much in conformity with 
the sentiments of the Sultan, and by every means 
compatible with his independence and sovereign-
ty, the civil and religious rights of the Christian 
subjects of the Porte. 
The signature of such a 
protocol by the representatives of Austria and 
Prussia is far from indicating an intention to join 
with Russia. 
The English Government have sent despatches 
to Constantinople, advising the establishment of 
a Polish Legion in Turkey, to operate against 
the Czar. This fact was announced by Lord 
Dudley Stuart, at the annual dinner of the Lit-
erary Association of the Friends of Poland. 
It 
was also stated that arms had been placed in the 
hands of the Commander-in-Chief for the use of 
the Polish Legion. 
It does not appear that Sir Charles Napier has 
made any important movement in the Baltic, 
further tffan blockading the Russian ports, and 
no indication is given of his future plans. 
Pub-
lic expectation of some brilliant affair in that 
quarter is beginning to subside, and it is even 
intimated that Sir Charles Napier will confine 
himself to blockading, without risking an action 
against the fortified outposts of the Russian Em-
pire. 
The London Times says : 
44 The present war is a people's war, and the 
people will not object to pay for it. 
Pay for it, 
however, undoubtedly they will, and that very 
heavily indeed. 
Soldiers and sailors are warn-
ing us not to risk our wooden walls against stone 
fortifications. There is danger in shallow waters, 
and wear and tear in stormy seas. 
So we are 
advised to do the work with a strong, but quiet 
and patient, hand—to blockade and starve out 
the foe, and produce all the effects of war by a 
mere exhibition of power, but with hardly strik-
ing a blow. All this will be expensive, and is 
very expensive already/' 
An extract of a letter from onboard the Lhike 
of Wellington, bearing date the 27th April, 
states :—44 We are about to attack Hango Hinch 
Harbor, which will be the opening of the ball, 
and of which I hope to render you a good ac-
count," 
From the seat of war on the Danube. 
The 
report that the Turks have gained a great victory 
on the Danube was transmitted from Bucharest 
to Vienna, and coming from a quarter unfavora-
ble to the Turks, the news would seem to be not 
entirely without foundation. The following is 
the most full account of the affair: 
VIENNA, May 3.—The following report circu-
lates in Bucharest:—44 Omar Pasha advanced 
with 70,000 men toward the Dobrudscha, on the 
18th or 19th of April, and a battle took place 
with Luders' corps between Silistria and Ras-
sova. 
44 During the night Omar Pasha had detached 
a division in the direction of the Black Sea, and 
when the battle was at its height the next day, 
this corps attacked the Russians in their rear, 
causing unexampled confusion and consterna-
tion. 
44 General Luders retreated towards Czerna-
voda. 
It is said that the Russians lost many 
guns, ammunition, stores, and baggage wager.*, 
and even their military chests." 
A Paris despatch of the 4th, says : 
44 A telegraphic despatch is said to have been 
received by the Government last night, announc-
ing a victory by the Turks, and that Omar Pasha 
had succeeded in cutting in two the Russian army 
in the Dobrudscha. 
The despatch, however, is 
not regarded as sufficiently authentic, and there-
fore was not published." 
The following was also received from Buchar-
est, by way of Vienna : 
44 On the 20th a Turkish flying corps crossed 
the Danube below Silistria, in order to destroy 
the Russian stand batteries. 
They advanced 
Kalarah, where there was hard fighting for some 
hours. 
The Turks fought like lions, but, being 
terribly overmatched, were ultimately forced to 
retreat." 
The London papers believe this reported battle 
to be a mere exaggeration of the affair at Czer-
nadova reported a week ago, but another des-
patch gives an account of a battle on the 23d at 
the same place, in which the Russians were 
again defeated, with a loss of 500 men and 250 
164 
THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
tiken prisoners, 
ft is not improbable, there-
fore, that a series of engagements hate taken 
place between the Russians and a portion of the 
Turkish troops in the neighborhood of Czer'na-
dova. 
The operations against Silistria do not seem 
to have been attended with much success. 
Accounts from Orsova state that the Russians 
had ceased cannenading Silistria, and " it was 
expected by their movements that General Graeb 
was about to raise the siege. 
The success of the 
Turks near Czernadova is confirmed." 
The Paris Pays says that the Russians have 
not only suspended their advance in the Do-
brudrcha, but that General Graeb, who com-
mands the siege operations against Silistria, has 
asked for reinforcement. 
®l)e 
intent Qcvnli). 
BOSTON, MAY 2T, 1854. 
THB 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 
ISAI^fH. 
CHAPTER XLI. 
JEHOVAH, having thus invited them, proceeds to 
the vindication of his sovereignty. 
He inquires : 
Who raised up the Righteous man from the east, called him to his 
foot, 
Gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings ? 
v. 2. 
" Raised up " is literally rendered, aroused. 
But of the one raised up, there are conflicting 
opinions. 
Many expositors think that Cyrus is 
referred to ; and many others, that it is Abraham. 
This last was the view of Jewish writers generally; 
and Bishop Lowth remarks that he is with more 
propriety called the " righteous man," or as in 
the margin, " righteousness," than Cyrus would 
be; for, (James 2:23,) "Abraham believed God, 
and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: 
and he was called the friend of God." 
The con-
text, also, shows that God is narrating the origin 
and progress of his people Israel, whom he denomi-
nates (v. 8,) " My servant ... the seed of Abra-
ham my friend." 
In vindicating his sovereignty, in his dealings 
with them, it is very natural that God should be-
gin with a reference to " the father of the faith-
ful ;" " who is the father of us all" that believe, 
and to whom was made, (Rom. 4:13,) " the prom-
ise that he should be the heir of the world." 
God raised up Abraham " from the east." (Acts 
7:2.) 
" The God of glory appeared unto our fa-
ther Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, be-
fore he dwelt in Charran, and said unto him," 
(Gen. 12:1,) " Get thee out of thy country, and 
from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, 
unto a land that I will show thee." 
The land that 
he was led into was the land of Palestine, in which 
this prophecy of Isaiah was uttered ; and Mesopo-
tamia, out from which he was called, lay to the 
north-east of it. 
The Lord's calling " him to his foot," is put by 
substitution, for his placing Abraham in a posi-
tion where the Lord would instruct him, as a child 
sits at the feet of its teacher. As Paul was brought 
up at the feet of Gamaliel, so was Abraham a fol-
lower of God, who instructed him in the way in 
which he should walk 
The Lord "gave the nations before him, and 
made him rule over kings." 
lie raised up Abra-
ham that by his seed he might punish the idola 
trous nations of Canaan, which were driven out 
from before Israel, because of the abominations 
they had committed, in iulfilment of the promise 
to Abraham, that when the iniquity of the Amo-
rites should have come to the full, he would give 
him (Gen. 15:18-21,) all that land " from the 
river of Egypt unto the great river,, the river Eu-
phrates : the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the 
Kadinonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites 
and the Rephaims,and Amorites, and the Canaan 
ites, and the Girgashites. and the Jebusites." 
Be-
fore this, (Gen. 14:1-15,) when " Amraphel king 
of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer 
king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations," made 
war with the nations of Sodom, and had captured 
Lot, Abraham " armed his trained servants, born 
in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and 
against them, he and his servants by night, and 
smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which 
is on the left side of Damascus." 
This is denomi-
nated (14:17,) " the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, 
and of the kings that were with him, at the valley 
of Shaveh, which is the king's vale." 
This victory is forcibly illustrated by the follow-
ing : 
He gave them as the dust to his sword, and driven stubble to his bow. 
He pursued them, and passed safely; 
Even by the way that he had not gone with his feet — vs. 2,3. 
The defeat of the five nations by Abraham is 
compared by a simile, to the manner in which the 
dust is driven before the wind. 
Thus the Psalm-
ist said,.(18:42,) " Then did I beat them small as 
the dust before the wind : I did cast them out as 
the dirt in the streets." 
The " bow," was the common weapon of ancient 
warfare; and their being given as stubble to it is 
a simile, illustrating by the manner in which chaff 
is scattered before the wind, the slaughter of the 
nations. 
His passing safely, conveys the idea that he 
passed uninjured ; and his pursuing them by the 
way he had not gone with his feet, shows that he 
followed them into a country in which he had not 
before travelled. 
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the be-
ginning ? 
I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.—4. 
The Lord inquires who has done this ? and re-
plies to the question that it is himself. 
He had 
so disposed events as to accomplish that result. 
Deut. 32:8—" The Most High divided to the na-
tions their inheritance, when separated the sons of 
Adam, he set bounds to the people according to the 
number of the children of Israel." 
Acts 17:26— 
He " hath determined the times before appointed, 
and the bounds of their habitations." 
It is not improbable that the "generations" 
here referred to, are the successive ones which hau 
constituted the "seed ot Abraham;" in which 
case his calling them from the first, would be his 
raising up Abraham, calling him to his feet to in-
struct him, and making of him a great nation. 
Of this seed Mo* said, (Deut. 32:10,) The Lord 
' found him in a desert land, and in a waste howl-
ing wilderness; he led him about, he instructed 
him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." 
In the phrase, " I the Lord, the first, and with 
the last I am he," his eternity and unchangeable-
ness are asserted. 
Thus he said to John, (Rev. 
1:8,) " I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which 
was, and which is to come, the Almighty." 
ursued them unto Dan. 
And he divided himself 
ance, in the place, 0 Lord, which thou hast made 
for thee to dwell in; in the sanctuary, 0 Lord, 
which thy hands have established." 
And when 
they defeated the Amorites God said, (Deut. 2:25,) 
" This day will I begin to put the dread of thee 
and the fear of thee upon all the nations that are 
under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of 
thee, and shall tremble and be in anguish because 
of thee." 
In fulfilment of this, when " Balak the 
son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the 
Amorites," (Num. 22:3,4,) " Moab was sore afraid 
of the people because they were many ; and Moab 
was distressed because of the children of Israel. 
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, now 
shall this company lick up all that are round 
about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the 
field." 
Rahabof Jericho said to Joshua, (2:9-11,) 
" I know that the Lord hath given you the land, 
and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that 
all the inhabitants of the land faint because of 
you. 
For we have heard how the Lord dried up 
the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came 
out of Egypt, and what ye did unto the two kings 
of the Amorites that were on the other side Jor 
dan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 
And as soon as we had heard these things, our 
hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more 
courage in man, because of you : for the Lord your 
God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth be-
neath." 
Josh. 5:1—" And it came to pass, when 
all the kings of the Amorites which were on the 
side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the 
Canaanites which were by the sea, heard that the 
Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from be-
fore the children of Israel, until we were passed 
over, that their heart melted; neither was their 
spirit in them any more, because of the children of 
Israel." 
The cause of their fear, is because of God's re-
gard for the descendants of him who had been called 
from the east, and guided and instructed ; and in 
contrast with the dismay of those nations, God 
The isles saw it, and feared ; 
The ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 
They helped every one his neighbor ; 
And every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, 
And he smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, 
Saying, It is ready for the sodering : 
And he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 
vs. 5-7. 
'The isles," as in v. 1, denote maritine coun-
tries, which are put, by a metonymy, for their in-
habitants ; and, by an elliptical metaphor, distant 
nations are denominated " the ends of the earth." 
The land of Canaan was a maritine country. 
The surrounding nations saw how the Lord had 
called Abraham, and made of his seed a great na-
tion ; they trembled in view of the consequences, 
and in their alarm they consulted together for 
their mutual encouragement and defence. 
Their 
trust being in false gods, they would naturally 
seek to multiply their idols, hoping by an unusual 
zeal in their service to make their gods more pro-
pitious, and thus to avert their danger. 
And so 
the carpenter, goldsmith, and others engaged in 
their manufacture, would hasten their several 
parts, that the idols might be made, and set up in 
their temples ; and then they thought that the 
gods represented by them, would hasten to defend 
and protect them. 
The nations had entirely sunk into idolatry, 
when God raised up Abraham that he might have 
seed to serve him. 
Thus the Lord said to the 
people, (Josh. 24:2, 3.) " Your fathers dwelt on 
the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, 
the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : 
and they served other gods. 
And I took your fa-
ther Abraham from the other side of the flood, and 
led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and 
multiplied his seed." 
They were also raised up 
as an instrument for the punishment of the idola-
trous nations, who feared before them. 
God had 
said, (Ex. 15:14-17,) " The people shall hear, and 
be afraid : sorrow shall take hold on the inhabit-
ants of Palestina. 
Then the dukes of Edom shall 
be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling 
shall take hold upon them ; all the inhabitants of 
Canaan shall melt away. 
Fear and dread shall 
fall upon them ; by the greatness of thine arm 
they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people 
pass over, 0 Lord, till the people pass over, which 
thou hast purchased. 
Thou shalt bring them in, 
and plant them in the mountain of thine inherit-
But thou, Israel, art my servant, 
Jacob whom I have chosen. 
The seed of Abraham my Friend. 
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, 
And called thee from the chief men thereof, 
And said unto thee, Thou art my servant; 
I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.—vs. 8, 9. 
By a metaphor, the descendants of Abraham are 
denominated his seed ; and by the same figure, the 
distant lands from which they had been called, 
are termed " the ends of the earth." 
" Called thee from the chief men thereof," is 
rendered by Lowth, Barnes, and others, " from the 
extremites thereof," and is made parallel with 
" the ends of the earth " before referred to, from 
which God had called Abraham into Palestine, 
where he had become the father of a seed to serve 
him. 
It is also parallel with the raising up the 
righteous man from the east, in v. 2. 
Fear thou not; for I am with thee : 
Be not dismayed ; for I am thy God : 
I will strengthen thee ; yea, [ will help thee ; 
Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteous-
ness.—v. 10. 
God's presence, and aid, are a perfect safeguard 
against all evils ; and the promise of them is full 
of consolation. 
" 1 will uphold thee with the right hand of my 
righteousness," is rendered by Lowth and Barnes, 
" my faithful right hand." 
It is put by a metony-
my for his power which will be faithfully exerted in 
defence of his people. 
Thus Moses said to Israel, 
(Deut. 31:6,) " Be strong and of a good courage, 
fear not, nor be afraid of them : for the Lord thy 
Gcjd, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not 
fail thee, nor forsake thee." 
LETTER FROM A 
CLERGYMAN 
OF 
THE 
METHODIST 
EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH. 
MR. EDITOR—Dear Sir:—Though 
1 am not able 
to accord with the peculiarities of the Advent faith, 
yet I wish to acknowledge the high gratification 
I receive from the weekly perusal of your paper. 
I consider it second to none of its size for the ability 
of its editorial management. 
Its judicious selec-
tions of rich and often rare interest, and its sober 
and philosophic reading of the present commotions 
in the East, make it a treat to any who desire im 
provement rather than diversion, and who wish to 
keep up with the times. 
Presuming that your brethren wish to entertain 
no errors as to matters of fact, and having heard 
several times from the Advent pulpit, a statement 
of Mr. Wesley's opinion as to the end of the world 
in 1836,1 will take the liberty of correcting that 
impression by quoting the only passage in his 
works from which, as I conceive, such an idea 
could have arisen. 
In a letter to Mr. C. Hopper, of Scotland, in 
1788, he says : 
" I said nothing, less or more, in Bradford 
church, concerning my opinion but what follows : 
Bengelius had given it as his opinion, not that the 
world would then end, but that the millennial reign 
of CRrist would begin in the year 1836. 
1 have no 
opinion at all upon the head. 
I can determine noth-
ing at all about it. 
These calculations are far 
above, out of my sight. 
I have only one thing to 
do,—to save my soul and those that hear me. 
1 
am 
yours affectionately, 
JOHN WESLEY. " 
(See his works, v. 6, p. 795.) 
I am not aware that he ever recorded any opin-
ion at variance with this, upon this subject. 
While writing, I will also take the liberty of re-
questing your solution of two or three difficulties 
which have always been felt in my own mind, in 
reading or listening, upon the points in question. 
1. As to the resurrection—the general represen-
tation of the Scriptures, I might say all but uni-
versal, is, that this event is One, universal at the 
end of the world; and that it embraces both charac-
ters, the good and bad in its startling summons to 
the realms of death. 
We continually meet with 
such expessions as, " A resurrection both of the 
just and unjust," " the resurrection at the last 
day, in which the good shall rise," " The hour in 
the which all that are in their graves shall hear 
his voice and come forth, they that have done 
;ood to the resurrection of life, and they that have 
one evil to the resurrection of damnation." 
Your view, on the strength mainly of a single 
text in the Apocalypse, commonly understood fig-
uratively, represents it as two, one of the righteous 
and one of the wicked, and those a thousand years 
apart. 
2. So of the general judgment—it is spoken of 
as, " A day ofjudgment for the world," " the judg-
ment-seat of Christ," before which the good and 
bad alike shall stand, " when the Son of man shall 
come in his glory, . . . and before him shall be 
gathered all nations," &c., " the day [not days] 
when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus 
Christ," &c., and this at the conflagration of the 
earth. 
Your view, if I understand it, divides the judg-
ment-day into two; viz., one of the saints, at the 
commencement, and the other of the wicked, at the 
end of the " thousand years." 
3. Your view, or the doctrine of the Past Advent 
Millennium, brings after it the loosing of Satan, 
the raising of the wicked dead out of, and the 
pouring of the polluted lords of Gog and Magog 
into the virgin fields of the new earth—the bliss-
ful abode of the saints for the last great battle, 
into which no unclean thing can enter. 
At such 
a disturbance of the rest of the blessed, all hearts 
revolt. 
4. How am I to be assured that the signs celes-
tial, which you enumerate, of Christ's coming are 
the ones meant by Christ, when all that language, 
according to the usus loquendi of the Scriptures, 
was emphatically fulfilled before and at "the de-
struction of Jerusalem 1 Can your argument have 
any weight in the scales of reason, until you have 
first proved that that language was not used figura-
tively by Christ, as was the custom of the proph-
ets ; and in which sense Clarke, Dodridge, Venton 
and others show it to have been remarkably ful-
filled. 
Yonr views on these points would be grati-
fying to 
yours, truly, 
C. C. MUNGER. 
Worcester, April 26th, 1854. 
REMARKS.—When Mr. Wesley is quoted as dat-
ing the end of the world in 1836 ; or when he is 
quoted as fixing on any dates for the ending of the 
prophetic periods, injustice is done him. 
He did 
look to given years, as those in which given periods 
might end ; but there was very little definiteness in 
his calculations, 
Thus he says in his " NOTES," 
on Rev. 13th : 
" The length of the several periods here men" 
tioned, seems to be marly this : 
1. The non-chronos contains less than 1111 y's. 
2. The little time 
888 
3. The time, times, and half a time 
777 
4. The time of the beast 
666 
And comparing the prophecy and history to-
gether, they seem to begin and end nearly thus : 
1. The non-chronos extends from about 800 to 
1836. 
2. The 1260 days of the woman from 847 to 
1524. 
3. The little time from 947 to 1836. 
4. The time, times, and half a time from 1058 to 
1836." 
And on the 17th chapter he adds : 
" Perhaps the times hitherto mentioned might be 
fixed thus : 
1058 Wings are given to the woman. 
1077 The beast ascends out of the sea. 
1143 The forty-two months begin. 
1810 The forty-two months end. 
1832 The beast ascends out of the bottomless 
pit. 
1836 The beast finally overthrown." 
We are aware that a verv unwarrantable use has 
been made of his name by those who represent him 
as doing what he only says might perhaps be done. 
Great caution is needed to represent an author's 
opinion just as he represents it. 
On the points of difieulty mentioned we remark, 
that 
1. Our view that the resurrection of the just at 
Christ's coming, is prior in order of time to that 
of the wicked, is not limited to the interpretation 
of a single passage. In one of the passages quoted, 
(John 5:29,) it may literally be rendered : " they 
that have done good at the resurrection of life, and 
they that have done evil at the resurrection of 
damnation." 
The word rendered " hour," in the 
previous verse, (hora,) is variously rendered time, 
in Matt. 18:1 ; day, in Mark 6:35 ; tide, in Mark 
11:11 ; and season, in John 5:35. 
It is perfectly 
in accordance with its rendering in other places to 
have it read, " the time is coming, in the which 
all that are in their graves shall hear his voice and 
come forth." 
There is nothing in the Context t<5 
determine the length of that time. Other scriptures 
show an order in the resurrection, and Rev. 20th 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
165 
gives tbe length of the period—1000 years—in 
which it will be effected. 
No scripture asserts that the wicked are raised 
at the same instant that the righteous are: that 
they are not, is evident from several passages. 
Of the wicked the Psalmist said (49:14), " Like 
sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed 
on them ; and the upright shall have dominion 
over them in the morning : and their beauty shall 
consume in the grave from their dwelling." 
Then 
contrasting his own resurrection with their condi-
tion, he adds, (v. 15,) " But God will redeem my 
soul from the power of the grave: for he shall re-
ceive me." 
Isaiah said of the wicked (26:14), "They are 
dead, they shall not live ; they are deceased, they 
shall not rise; therefore hast thou visited and des-
troyed them, and made all their memory to per-
ish." 
Then turning to Zion he exclaims, (v. 19,) 
" Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead 
body shall they arise. 
Awake and sing, ye that 
dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, 
and the earth shall cast out the dead." 
The prophet Daniel also said of the resurrection 
(12:2), "And many of them" (mark, not all) 
" that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake ; 
some to everlasting life, and some to shame and 
everlasting contempt." 
Prof. Bush gives as the 
correct explication of tlfls passage : 
" ' And many of the sleepers of the dust shall 
awake; these (the awakened) (shall be) to ever-
lasting life ; and those (the unawakened) 
(shall 
be) to shame and everlasting contempt,'—the same 
that' is suggested, as he says, by some of the Jew-
ish school, and is undoubtedly very ancient.' Aben 
Ezra renders it, ' Those who awake shall be (ap-
pointed) to everlasting life, and those who awake 
not, shall be (doomed) to shame and everlasting 
contempt.' 
The words of 
Gaon himself, are, 
' that this is the resuscitation of the dead of Israel, 
whose lot is to eternal life, and those who shall not 
awake, are theforsakers of Jehovah.' ' " &c.—An-
astasis, p. 134. 
It should be borne in mind that Professor Bush 
discards entirely the doctrine of the resurrection 
of the body ; but one of his strongest reasons for 
so believing is that while the church regard it as 
a simultaneous event to all, the Scriptures repre-
sent the wicked as left in their graves when the 
righteous are raised ! 
Thus he argues : 
" That our Lord ' for the most part, speaks of' 
the resurrection ' as the distinguishing privilege 
and prerogative of the righteous. 
Thus, Luke 
(20:35, 36,) " But they which shall be accounted 
worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection 
from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in mar-
riage : neither can they die any more; for they 
are equal unto the angels, and are the children 
(sons) of God, being the children (sons) of the resur-
rection." 
Here it is clear that the " children of 
God," are identified as the same with the " chil-
dren of the resurrection." 
Again, (Luke 14:12— 
14,) when commanding his disciples to call the 
poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, to their 
feasts, he adds, " And thou shalt be blessed ; for 
they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be 
recompensed at the resurrection of the just; as if the 
resurrection emphatically belonged to the just. 
In 
strict accordance with this, the apostle expresses 
himself, (Phil. 3:11,) "If by any means I might 
attain unto the resurrection of the dead." ' " 
We may well inquire why the righteous are 
called the children of the resurrection, if all are 
then raised ?—why their resurrection is said to be 
that of thejMsJ, if it is also that of the unjust?— 
and why Paul should so strive to attain unto the 
resurrection of the dead, if the resurrection he 
hoped to have part in was to be common to all? 
The text as quoted from Phil. 3:11, does not how-
ever express the full force of the language, which 
signifies, literally, " a resurrection from among the 
dead." 
In accordance with this rendering, we read in 
Heb. 11.35—" Women received their dead raised 
to life again: and others were tortured, not ac-
cepting deliverance ; that they might obtain a bet-
ter resurrection.'''' 
A resurrection at the last day, i.e at Christ's com-
ing, is given as a promise to those who believe in 
Christ: John 5:40—" And ye will not come unto 
me, that ye might have life." 
Why this promise, 
if all are to be raised at that epoch 1 
In addition to these, Paul expressly asserts an 
order in the resurrection. 
He says, 1 Cor. 15:21-
23 
" For since by man came death, by man came 
also the resurrection of the dead. 
For as in Adam 
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
But every man in his own order : Christ the first-
fruits ; afterward they that are Christ's at his 
coming." 
Why is it specified. " they that are 
Christ's at his coming," if they who are not his 
are also then raised] 
Also in 1 Thess. 4:16, we 
read, " For the Lord himself shall descend from 
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archan-
gel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first." The sense evidently is that 
they rise first, i.e., before the living are changed; 
but why are only " the dead in Christ" spoken of 
as rising before the change of the living—if all are 
alike raised at that time ? 
With the foregoing scriptures we should be com-
pelled to the belief that the wicked are not raised 
subsequent to the righteous. 
How long subse-
quent, is not revealed till the Apocalypse is un-
folded to John, who writes, (Rev. 20:4-6,) " I 
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the 
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and 
which had not worshipped the beast, neither his 
image, neither had received his mark upon their 
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years. 
But the 
rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 
resurrection: on such the second death hath no 
power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
Christ, and shall reign with hira a thousand years." 
It is true that the force of this passage is sought 
to be evaded by regarding it as " 
figurative,"—but 
in violation of language. 
The only figure that it 
can be claimed to be, is the metaphor ; and in 
that, that of which the affirmation is made is al-
ways literal, and the affirmation, to be a metaphor, 
must be incompatible with the nature of that of 
which the affirmation is made. 
Therefore if it is 
•a metaphor, the souls which John saw living again, 
must be the literal souls of the martyrs, &c., and 
there is no way in which they could live in distinc-
tion from the rest of the dead who do not live for 
a thousand years, than by a resurrection from the 
dead ; and hence there is no metaphor involved. 
Farther, the affirmation that " this is the first res-
urrection," predicated of the souls of the martys, 
is not incompatible with their nature ; and there-
fore there is no figure involved. 
The language, however, in not 
figurative, 
but 
symbolic. 
John saw the souls living again. 
The 
declaration that " this is the first resurrection," 
is the inspired interpretation of the significance of 
the symbol; and the interpretation of symbols is 
always literal. 
Hence by no law of figures or sym-
bols can anything but a literal resurrection be af-
firmed of the passage in question. 
It may be added, that its being a single passage, 
while in harmony with the current teaching of 
Scripture, does not mitigate against its truth,—a 
single unequivocal utterance being as authorita-
tive as many. 
2. To the referance to the day of judgment, it is 
sufficient to say that there is nothing to limit it to 
a day of twenty-four hours. 
All must appear be-
fore the judgment-seat of Christ; and so must all 
criminals appear before human judges, but not 
necessarily at the same time. 
We however under-
stand that the judgment in Rev. 20:12 is the judg-
ment of the dead. 
As those who are Christ's only 
are promised a resurrection at the last day, it fol-
lows that the judgment on the dead is rendered 
before the resurrection, and that the resurrection 
of the just is in consequence of their acquittal and 
acceptance. 
The gathering and separation of the 
nations in Matt. 24th, we understand to have ref-
erence to the quick or living—there being no res-
urrection there brought to view. 
It separates the 
righteous from the wicked and gives them a part 
with the resurrected saints. 
3. We might have revolted at the idea of Satan's 
having admittance into Eden before the fall; but he 
none the less was permitted to enter there. 
It was 
not his entrance, but his success there which pol-
luted it. 
Now it strikes us as perfectly fit, in the 
winding up of all things, to permit Satan with all 
his resurrected demons to come into the regene-
rated earth—not to gain any victory there, but 
that his hosts may see what they have lost, and 
the redeemed what they have escaped, preparatory 
to a final banishment from earth for ever. 
4. It is not for us to show that the signs are not 
figurative; 
but for those who thus claim, to prove 
that they are not literal. 
The burden of proof is on 
them. We have never seen any evidence of their ful-
filment before ot at the destruction of Jerusalem, and 
know not on what occurrences you rely ; but any 
occurrences before or at the tribulation of those 
days would be insufficient to fulfil a scripture 
which predicts events that were to transpire " af-
ter the tribulation of those days." 
(Matt. 24:29.) 
The nature or nearness of the advent does not how-
ever, turn on their being literal or 
figurative. 
Some hold to the one and some to the other fulfil-
ment. 
1 
TO 
CORRESPONDENTS. 
E. SHEPHERD.—Our own opinion is that there is 
a strong probability that the events specified were 
those covered by the prediction of the Saviour re-
specting his second coming. 
The same event be-
ing several times repeated does not make it so com-
mon as to destroy its significance; nor do we ap-
prehend that any reference was made to supernat-
ural phenomena. 
The objection to our view is 
that we do not limit the prediction to a single 
event, i.e., not that we do not believe enough, but 
that we believe too much respecting it. 
If in times past we have not been in possession 
of historical facts on the subject, it is no reason, 
when we are in possession of them, that we should 
withhold from our readers the intelligence needful 
to enable them to judge relative to the nature and 
number of such occurrences. 
Since writing our former article, we find the fol-
lowing in the Boston Journal of May 20th. 
" A MEMORABLE ANNIVERSARY.—Seventy-four years 
ago, yesterday, in 1780, occurred the famous ' dark 
day ' of New England. 
It is thus described and 
its cause explained by Nathaniel Adams : 
" ' The 19th of May, 1780, was remarkable for 
uncommon darkness. 
The morning was cloudy, 
attended with a little rain. 
Between 10 and 11 
o'clock the darkness increased, and began to as-
sume the appearance of evening. 
Fowls went to 
roost, and the cattle collected round the barn-
yards, as at the approach of night. 
Before noon 
it became so dark, as to be difficult to read with-
out a candle ; and lights were necessary at dinner, 
and to transact the work of a family throughout 
the afternoon. 
The evening was enveloped in to-
tal darkness : the sky could not be distinguished 
from the ground. 
The clouds began to separate, 
and the vapors to disperse a little before midnight, 
and some glimmerings of light appeared. 
The 
next morning was cloudy, but not unusually dark. 
" ' For several weeks previous there had been 
extensive fires in the woods, and the westerly wind 
had driven the smoke and cinders, with which the 
air was charged, all over the country. 
On the 
morning of the 19th, the wind came in various 
directions, but principally from the eastward, and 
brought with it a thick fog ; these counter currents 
meeting, stopped the progress of the clouds, and 
formed different strata of them ; and as light is 
always reflected from the surface, they became 
more impervious to it than a more dense cloud, 
which presents only one surface. 
The atmosphere 
was likewise filled with clouds of smoke and cin-
ders, as well as with vapor, which gave them a 
dirty yellowish hue. 
Pieces of burnt leaves were 
continually falling, and ' the rain water was cov-
ered with a sooty scum.' 
The darkness extended 
throughout New England, and was observed several 
leagues at sea.' " 
The Conference at Providence. 
THE fifteenth General annual Conference of Ad-
ventists, which met at Providence on the 16th to 
the 19th inst., was one of the best attended and 
harmonious meetings of the kind which has been 
held for a number of years past. 
We have not re-
ceived the minutes of the doings for the present 
issue of the Herald but expect to hear from the 
secretaries in season for our next. 
There was 
unity of feeling respecting the aspects of the pres-
ent signs of the times, and a general expression of 
opinion respecting the setting of times, and as 
sumptions respecting what is not revealed. 
AGENT.—Elder J. Litch will act as agent for the 
Advent Herald, and our other publications, on his 
tour west. 
NOTICE—Elder J. Litch will preach in Mansfield, 
O., on Sunday, May 28th. 
THE royal mail steamer Europa, arrived at New 
York on the 19th inst., bringing news from Liver-
pool to May 6th, and of considerable interest. 
The allied fleet bombarded the Russian forts at 
Sulina, mouth of the Danube. 
No details re-
ceived. 
On the 18th and 19th Omar Pasha with 70,000 
men gave battle to Gen. Luders between Silistria 
and Rassova. 
The battle raged several hours. 
During the previous night Omar had sent a di-
vision towards Sed, which division, during the 
height of the battle, attacked the Russians in the 
rear, causing tremendous confusion. 
The Russians retreated behind Cznarooda with 
loss of many guns, stores, baggage, and military 
chests. 
The Russians continued the attack on Silistria 
on the 20th. 
The Turks crossed the Danube to 
destroy the Russian batteries, the Russians hav-
ing advanced to Kalerson, and after hard fighting 
retired. 
Up to the 23d Silistria remained undamaged. 
Paskiewitch has ordered the Russians to advance 
no further into the Dobrudscha. 
An important battle was fought on the 25th, be-
tween the Turks and Greek insurgents. 
Nola was 
taken by the Turks, by assault, in fifty minutes. 
The Greek leaders, Karaistkak and Isavellas, fled. 
There was considerable slaughter. 
The important town of MetzOo has also been 
taken by the Turks, and was afterwards pillaged 
by Albanians. 
The Greek leader, Griva,fled. 
With the exception of Pirous all the coast of 
Greece is closely blockaded by the allies. 
On the 19th a battle ensued between the Turks 
and Montenegrins at Necehick. 
The Montenegrins 
were commanded by Geoige Petrovitch. 
Hostili-
ties have fairly commenced. 
It is reported that 
Austria will occupy the province. 
Great excitement had been caused by rumors of 
the exploits of the Grapeshot, and a British steamer 
had been sent in pursuit of her. 
The Grapeshot, it will be remembered, cleared at 
New York, for Constantinople, some weeks since, 
and considerable remark was occasioned by the re-
port that she had on board a large number of 
George Law's muskets. 
Suspicion was still further 
excited by the report thst the Grapeshot was at the 
mouth of the Mississippi, but the New Orleans 
papers never recorded her arrival at that port. 
The report above, that she was privateering in the 
English Channel, seems improbable. 
Two hundred persons are supposed to have per-
ished in the recent collision in the channel, between 
the Bremen barque Favorite, for Baltimore, and the 
American barque Hesper. 
The Emperor of Russia is extremely active, and 
goes backward and forward between Cronstadt and 
St. Petersburg almost incessantly. 
Several regi-
ments of Guards are ordered to Finland. 
Prince Paskiewitch has granted permission to 
neutral ships at present in the different mouths of 
the Danube, to depart freely until the 20th of 
May. 
The report of the abandonment of Aland by the 
Russians required confirmation. 
The Danish Government lingers on the side of 
Russia. 
The Swedes are decidedly in favor of the allies. 
One Swedish line of battle ship and four frigates 
were in commission at Copenhagen, and more being 
made ready. 
A most formidable force of row boats is being 
organized by the Russians to harass the invading 
fleet in the shallow waters; 800 armed boats are 
already enrolled. 
All the boats of the Neva Yacht 
Club are placed at the disposal of the Czar. 
A 
considerable number of these are assembled at 
Sweaborg and Cronstadt. 
Sir Charles Napier has hastily applied to his 
Government for a fleet of small steamers that may 
be able to penetrate wherever row boats could. 
On the 25th, Arta was taken by the Turks, and 
3000 insurgents under Karaiski were defeated by 
Osman Pasha. 
Many Greeks, who attempted to 
join the insurgents have been taken by the French 
ships and delivered over to Said Effendi. 
An attempted insurrection in Samos has failed. 
Another account announces there taking by the 
Sultan's troops, of the town of Metzovo, a very 
important position. 
The inhabitants of this city 
are entirely Christian, and are mostly wealthy: 
They openly alleged that they were induced to 
throw off their allegiance to Turkey, by the repre-
sentations of Signor Rosetti, the Greek Consul who 
has been expelled from Janira. 
With the exception of the Pirous, all the coasts 
of Greece are rigidly watched 
by 
the 
Fi-er.ch 
and English ships-of-war. 
Their cruisers are sta-
tioned at Patras, Vanetya, Stylido and Negropont. 
They suffer no vessel to come out without sending 
a searching party on board. 
Pirates are swarming the Archipelago. 
An 
English brig had drifted ashore on the Isle of An-
dros. 
There was no person on board, but the cab-
ins were drenched with blood. 
The recently discovered Greek conspiracy, of 
which the Russian emissary, Baron Oelsner, was 
one of the prime movers, was a formidable affair. 
The plan was to raise a host of some 60,000 Greek 
conspirators in various parts of Turkey, and at a 
given hour they were to put their Turkish neigh-
bors to the sword. 
The principal blow was to be 
struck at Constantinople. 
EXTRACT from a letter by the Rev. Mr. Churchill, 
of Boston who is now travelling for his health in 
the East: 
" It gives one an ever present idea of the expan-
sive enterprise of his countrymen, to find their 
commodities of commerce continually in his path 
wherever he goes. 
I have not yet visited any con-
siderable city of Turkey where I did not find the 
Medicines of my country represented by Ayer's 
Cherry Pectoral. 
In Smyrna, Aleppo, Jaffa, Jer-
usilem and Constantinople, we S3e in each, on the 
peculiarly American looking Iron card, of Dr.. 
Ayer, saying in a language which not one in a 
thousand of the passers by can read, " Ayer's 
Cherry Pectoral for Cough's, Colds, and Consump-
tion, Sold Here." 
On a shelf behind the cross-
legged mussulman are seen the bottles with their 
English, Spanish, French and German faces turned 
to the crowd, and on inquiring we are told that 
foreigners are not the only purchasers, but the 
true believers themselves waive their trust in fate 
to try this product of American skill, when they 
find there is no other cure for them. 
i' I was told here yesterday that the Cherry Pec-
toral had been presented to the Sultan, and is now 
in constant use in his harem, and in the Hospitals 
of the Empire." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. 
Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the 
Herald. 
peril by sea and land, in want often and in poverty 
always, is soon to be free and keep a blessed jubi-
lee. 
Glory to God's blessed name. 
Yes, and all 
the dear saints of all conditions, all climes, all 
colors and languages will enjoy the marriage-feast 
together. 
" I long to see that day," yet with pa-
tience will I wait and toil and pray, yet hoping 
always I may soon " see and be made like him," 
and dwell with him forever. 
I. C. WELCOME. 
Hallowell, April 12th, 1854. 
AN EXHORTATION. 
DEAR BRETHREN IN THE LORD,—Let your hope be 
strengthened in these evil times, by carefully com-
paring the passing events with the chart by which 
we run. 
See the surf on the right and on the left, 
it indicates that the shore is near; and its boistrous 
foam, its raging impetuously upon us on either 
side, indicates the " narrow way " that passes from 
the broad sea of time to the harbor of eternal 
glory. 
The channel is narrow and rough, yet the 
beacon lights are numerous, and a careful lookout 
will enable us to escape the dangers if we are well 
acquainted with the chart, and its plain descrip 
tions of the coast for which we run. 
We must be 
careful here. 
See, our reckoning is out; we need 
a double watch ; there are many false lights all 
along the channel into which we have entered. 
Watch ye therefore," be on the lookout to see 
the first approach of land ; any hour may now 
open to our view the high towers of the Eternal 
City, attended by " the Son of God,?'—its ruler— 
" our Saviour " and King. And then, the " mighty 
angels," they, too, shall come to escort us to our 
eternal home. 
Glory to God ! 
I sometimes seem 
to see all this a reality, but again it fades from 
my view, but a reality it is to be. 
Yes, all shall 
be accomplished. 
We " shall see the King in his 
beauty," and " behold the land " which is just be-
fore us. 
It comes ; all things bespeak it near. 
" Be ye also ready 
let your heart be strong ; the 
battle is almost ended with the saints ; the victory 
is declared by " our Captain ;" it is certain, and 
glory is the bounty, " a crown of glory never to 
fade," " life eternal." 
Who that has any concep-
tion of such a " reward," would not " fight the 
good fight of faith " for a day, and " lay hold on 
eternal life-" 
0, "be strong, be strong. 
Be-
hold thy God cometh." 
Yes ; " he cometh," and 
" he will redeem you." 
The armies of kings and 
of emperors are gathering for the fray, but they 
who lead them know not their fate. 
The soldiers 
in those wars, poor souls, fight for small pay, and 
earthly glory; they may hope for an honorable 
discharge, but they are to be disappointed. 
They 
may hear " the shout of a King among them," but 
it will strike terror to their heart, for it "is the 
King of Glory," and they his enemies. 
0, dread-
ful day to them who have not Christ for their 
king. 
But the saints can rejoice and exclaim, 
" Lo this is our God, we have waited for him, this 
is the Lord and he will save us, we will be glad 
and rejoice in his salvation." 
Who among us has 
such a heart to-day 1 
*' He that walketh uprightly 
and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth 
in his heart, he that backbiteth not with his tongue, 
nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up [or 
receiveth, or endureth, margin] a reproach against 
his neighbor," such " shall dwell in God's holy 
hill." 
They that have a "pure heart shall see 
God." 
Are we, brethren and sisters, such per-
sons 1 If we are partakers of the virtues of Christ's 
shed blood, and by a living faith united to him, 
as the branch is to the vine, then we are made 
" the righteousness of God in him," and u he is 
our peace." 
0 that we may so " stand," " walk," 
" run," and " live by faith," that we can rejoice 
in the prospect of seeing Jesus. 
It is but a little 
longer and all our longing desires will be realized. 
The care-worn, " tossed and tempted " saint will 
" renew his age like the eagle," the faithful watch-
man who has sacrificed his home and the social 
family comforts of which others partake, who has 
toiled by day and by night, in study, in prayer, 
in exhortation, in preaching and "watehing for 
souls," who has buffeted the storms of the north, 
the burning heat of the south, traversed the vales, 
and climbed the hills, penetrated the wilderness, 
been made welcome in the log cabins, sought ad-
mittance, with trembling, at the stately mansions 
of the rich, often to be repulsed because of the 
cross of Christ, and who, above all, has endured 
the temptations and allurements that has fallen in 
his way, on the right and left, to seek ease and 
pleasure where his brethren seem to find them, and 
faced a wicked world, who frown and scorn, de-
ride and defame,'to tell them a Saviour/s lore, and 
ask them to receive the glad tidings that " a ran-
som is found." 
He who has done thus, while in 
LETTER FROM JOSEPH L. MANASON. 
[LEST some should take advantage of the inser-
tion of this to claim that it is an expression of our 
opinion, we take this opportunity to disavow it— 
publishing it merely in compliance with the wish of 
a subscriber. 
As we find nothing in it to sustain 
the assumptions claimed, we shall occupy no space 
in showing its logical and chronological defects.] 
" THE FULNESS OF TIME." 
I. The 1260 days of Daniel, commenced when 
the dragon becoming possessor of, could give his 
" seat" (and the saints) into the hands of the 
" forty-two mouth beast," should begin when the 
city of Rome was entered and possessed by dragonic 
authority, A.D. 536, according to Gibbon, Bower, 
Milner, Encyclopedia 
Americana, and 
others; 
whereat the last of the " three horns fell;" and 
not when the Ostrogoths raised the siege of " that 
great city," and retired in 538. 
As France was [the chosen instrument to sup-
press the " man-face " horn, she commenced the 
work of curtailing 1260 years from A.D. 536; viz., 
at 1796. Her agent, Bonaparte, then " satisfied him-
self with threatening the Pope till he brought him 
to terms of surrendering to the French republic, 
Bologna, Farara, and the coast of the Adriatic.' 
Now the coincidence is, that the dragon by degrees 
(the first I take) " gave the beast power," &c., 
and France by steps (the first I take) took " away 
that dominion." 
II. The 1290 davs, beean at the 
taking away 
of the daily and the placing of the abomination that 
maketh desolate," receive no reason for a com-
mencement thirty years prior to the date of the 
1260 ; but Daniel, Paul, and the Revelator stand 
boldly beside the affirmation that the abomination 
that maketh desolate is Papal Rome. 
For while 
the "abomination of desolation" as applied to 
Imperial Rome here, (Dan. 9:26; Matt. 24:15; 
Luke 21:20,) is made to mean the subjects and the 
prince of the subjects thereof, so, logically, when 
applied to the " falling away," the Pope and his 
subjects are intended ; and, therefore, Imperial 
Rome taking " away " himself and " placing " 
the " abomination that maketh desolate," (Dan. 
8:11; 11:31,) fnust be in respect to locality of sub-
jects and prince ; and thus the " dragon gave the 
beast his power, and his seal, and great authority." 
(Rev. 12:2.) 
" Then (upon the removal of impe-
rial power,) shall that wicked, that (Dan. 7:8,) 
man of sin be revealed," the crowned Pope. 
(2 
Thess. 2:8.) 
The 1290 then, placed at A.D. 536, 
fall to 1826. 
This period is used to point to a marked event 
of the prophecy, the unsealed book—as, by the 
laws of language, the context thereof will admit it 
to refer to nothing else. 
Now, allowing Mr. Addis of Europe, and Mr. 
Miller of America, from two to four years for writ-
ing the vision to publish upon tables, and by facts 
they are seen commencing to write at the medium 
point, more or less, about 1826. 
Since then the 
book of Daniel has been a wonderful book, unseal-
ing and unsealed. 
III. The 1335 days are the 1290 and forty-five 
added ; the forty-five showing the amount of wait-
ing time from the unsealing to the end itself; or, 
in other words, the " time of the end." 
The com-
mencement of the 1335 with that ofthe 1290, and 
the termination at Daniel's standing in his lot, 
by the resurrection are guarded by a battery of ar-
guments inapproachable. 
From A.D. 536 then, 
1335 pass to 1871. 
IV. Many things apparently look to 2400 days 
as the period of Dan. 8th. 
Inferential arguments 
—the supporters of all faith—here are some— 
1. The 1335 days, commencing with the 1260 
and 1290, and ending with the period ot chapter 
8th., call for more than 2300. 
2. As the correct period must cover the time " the 
vision treads under foot 
the sanctuary and host," 
2300 cannot span the space. 
3. The angel showed Daniel, in chapters 11th 
and 12th, " that which was noted in the Scripture 
qf truth,"chapter 8th. 
Cambyce was therefore in 
that chapter, for he was the first of the " three 
kings that shall yet stand up in Persia." 
Conse 
quently the period dating back to him, 2300 can 
not do it. 
4. The ram seen " pushing northward, west 
ward, and southward," in his greatest power, he 
did it by Cyrus, and the 2300 are insufficient. 
5. Wolff's revelations from Hebrew manuscripts 
of the third and fifth centuries, bound by him at 
Ispahan and Bolahara, show 2400 able to compete 
with the 2300 for antiquity. 
Mr. Wolff, unsettled 
himself by such disclosures, confirms the suspicion 
by finding 2400 also in a Greek manuscript of the 
fifth century, at Adrianople. 
6. The period of chapter 8th, if called 2300, re-
quires a strained effort to connect it with the sev-
enty weeks, and, when united therewith, is entirely 
distorted by chronological dates, while it is posi-
tively known that the cleansing of the sanctuary 
referred to, synchronize with a future time ; for, 
observe there is no cleansing while the vision treads 
under foot; and the following passages show that 
the tread of the Gentiles ceases only with the de-
parture of " blindness " from Israel by the new 
covenant—the " Redeemer coming to Zion "—the 
" consummation," &c. 
(Dan. 9:27 ; Luke 21:24; 
Rom. 11:25 ; Isa. 59:20 ; Jer. 31:27-40.) 
The period of chapter 8th commences at the time 
the vision began to tread under foot &c., for the 
query of the saint, " how long the vision" &c., 
and the answer thereto, have treading underfoot as 
the special object of search by unequivocal language. 
Cyrus was appointed to build up and restore the 
sanctuary and host, but his reported successor, 
Cambyces, by petition from the enemies of Jews 
saysRollin, commenced the work of treading forth-
with, " by the many discouragements he laid the 
Jews under." 
The death of Cyrus then is the 
starting place of the number. 
According to Arch-
bishop Usher, Cyrus died before Christ 529. 
The 
2400 from that point pass to 1871, in perfect har-
mony with the end of 1335. 
Now here is an easy agreement of the prophetic 
periods not attainable, without force, through 2300 
—force I mean, upon all the foregoing numbers. 
The injunctions to watchfulnsss in the New Tes-
tament, are based upon the limits of " near even 
at the door," and " this generation," and conse-
quently can have no bearing upon a knowledge of 
the more definite signs, the prophetic numbers. 
A small class will be " waiting to the 1335 days," 
while a larger class, never understanding the pro-
phetic periods, will wait through this " genera-
tion." 
JOSEPH L. MANASON. 
LETTER FROM GEORGE W. CLEMENT. 
BRO. HIMES :—The Advent cause appears to be 
prospering in Manchester to an extent by far mo're 
encouraging than at any period we have seen dur-
ing the past year. 
With those brethren who so 
abruptly left the chapel on Central-street, last fall, 
and set up a separate meeting, also disappeared 
much cause of strife and division, though we have 
reason to hope that not all who were led away in 
that movement should be " marked " as causing 
division among brethren. 
But it is to be feared 
that a portion, at least, who took the lead in the 
matter of separation did not possess all the char-
acteristics which the apostle denominates the fruit 
of the Spirit, which he declares to be " love, joy, 
peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 
meekness," and " temperance." 
Our meetings 
now are spiritual and interesting ; and union and 
harmony seem to prevail in place of former bicker-
ings, collisions and warrings upon questions of 
minor importance, calculated only to engender 
strife without having the least tendency to lead 
people to greater devotion and to a preparation to 
meet the coming Saviour. 
Our congregation is 
generally much larger than previous to the separa-
tion, and there appears to be a deep and thorough 
determination on the part of the church, to live up 
to the light they have, and to grow in grace and 
knowledge from day to day till the Master appear. 
As the fruits of this state of things, we see some 
at nearly every meeting, manifesting a desire for 
salvation by requesting the prayers of Christians 
in their behalf; and we are cheered while hearing 
a portion of that class subsequently tell of the joys 
of pardoned sins and the love they bear to the 
brethren and to the cause of the Advent nigh. 
On 
the whole we have reason to " thank God and take 
courage." 
Those who set at nought our blessed 
hope, can do so if they will. 
They have loftier 
concerns to attend to than looking for the return 
of Jesus of Nazereth. 
They probably feel secure 
and at ease in their opposition to our cause. 
But the judgment will disclose our several posi-
tions—and the judgment is at hand. 
We know it 
is urged that we can do but " little or no good, for 
community will not go with us." 
Suppose they 
will not. 
What then ? Are we to go back and 
desert the Advent 
flag! 
Never. 
Let " commu-
nity " stay if they will not be entreated to come. 
" Community " staid in Sodom, when Lot fled out 
of it—and his very sons-in-law thought he was a 
fool. 
They discovered their mistake. 
The "com-
munity " of Jericho would not go with Rahab, the 
harlot. 
They wished they had afterwards, when 
they saw the scarlet line hang in her window— 
that pass-over-sign which saved her and her father's 
house, when the city fell before the blasts of the 
bessiging ram's horns. 
Bunyan's Pilgrim could 
not carry " community " with him when he quit 
the city of Destruction. 
Some went with him as 
far as " Despond," when they went back. 
May 
our motto ever be—onward—" Never stand still till 
he who is our life shall appear. 
I sincerely hope the Lord may be with you in 
the conference next week, and that all composing 
the same, may bear in mind the responsibilities 
that are on them. 
May they weigh heavily, and 
give to all their deliberations solemnity and char-
acter in the sight of God. 
May he impart wisdom 
that you all may be enabled to examine carefully 
the doctrine you embrace, and then kindly but 
earnestly, mildly but firmly, abide by them and 
advocate them. 
And O, may all beware of di-
visions. 
If we forget the cause and turn our 
swords against each other, God will smite all such 
with those who utterly reject the Gospel and over-
whelm us in one common desolation. 
Let us be-
ware that we lose not great principles in a strife 
about minor points of doctrine—that we sacrifice 
not the essential truths of our position as Advent-
ists to personal prejudices, party feelings, and 
sectarian jealousies; and*with a common faith, 
and with God as our common leader, may we 
unitedly labor for the salvation of souls till our 
Deliverer come. 
As ever yours, 
G. W. 
CLEMENT. 
Manchester (N. H.), May 12th, 1854. 
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. 
THE great Captain of our salvation, having drank 
to its dregs the bitter cup, was taken from the cross 
and laid in a sepulcher as the prophet had foretold, 
when he said, " lie made his grave with the rich 
in his death." 
Then were the words of Jesus ful-
filled : " Ye shall be sorrowful, but the world shall 
rejoice." 
Had the disciples understood the Scrip-
tures by the prophets respecting the Messiah, they 
would not have been in dispair when his body was 
in the grave, but how dark is the mind of fallen 
man without the illumination of the Holy Spirit! 
And here we see the constant companions of Him 
who spake as never man spake, groping in darkness, 
with hope blighted, hearts sick and sad. 
They 
had forsaken the world and their occupations in it, 
to follow and obey him who, as they had hoped, 
would restore the kingdom in its former greatness 
to Israel, and he had left them here alone. 
He 
had gone to the grave. 
He who had so often re-
pelled his foes now had become death's prisoner. 
He who had manifested his power by recalling to 
life some who had fallen, was now encircled in 
death's icy arms—and they who had loved him 
were sorrowful. 
Oh ! whither, say they, shall we 
flee for aid, since he into whose ear we have been 
wont to pour our complaints can no longer listen; 
the hand which was ever ready to minister to our 
wants, is now palsied ; the eye so long and con-
stantly beaming compassion, tenderness and love 
divine, is now closed ; the voice so sweet, so full 
of music, is hushed ; the heart ever moving with 
compassion is now cold ; and what shall we do ! 
whither shall we go! 
Our woe is merited : for 
when we followed him to Gethsemane and saw him 
bowed beneath the intolerable burden—not one 
hour could we watch, though entreated to again 
and again ; and when we saw him taken by wicked 
hands and led away we forsook him and fled ; and 
when upon the cross he was extended, we came not 
near to minister unto him then—to drop the sym-
pathetic tear or cast upon him a look of love ; but 
we followed him afar off—and no wonder he has 
forgotten us. 
Thus might the sorrowing disciples have mused, 
but the blessed Lord had not undertaken a work 
which he was unable to accomplish, and although 
he gave his life a ransom, he had power to take it 
again. 
His soul was not left in hell, nor did his 
flesh see corruption. 
Early on the morning of the 
first day of the week the bands of death were 
broken, and the Lord triumphant rose from the 
dark tomb and became the first fruits of them that 
slept. 
But he did not forget his humble followers. 
The same kind voice they were again permitted to 
listen to, and they still received instructions from 
his sacred lips. 
He showed them his hands and 
feet wounded for their healing. 
But his stay among them was short: this was 
not the Second Coming of which he had often 
spoken to them; he had not yet received the king 
dom he had purchased ; the work of grace was not 
then completed, for he had not yet become our in-
tercessor, his blood had been shed, but he had not 
presented 
himself in man's behalf 
before hifj 
Father's throne. 
The day of seperation came, and 
a cloud received him out of sight. 
And now, for 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
167 
eighteen 
hundred years, he 
has sat upon his 
Father's throne seeking and obtaining pardon for 
the rebellious sons and daughtrs of Adam. 
Will 
he not soon, very soon, see that enough have ac-
cepted the invitation of mercy to fill the mansions, 
in his house of many mansions, prepared for his 
redeemed? to surround his table, to celebrat9 the 
marriage of the Lamb once slain but risen and 
glorified ? 
Oh yes, we hear the rumbling of his 
chariot wheels, the deadly strife has begun or is 
about to commence, in whieh he will find, mankind 
engaged when he shall appear without an offering 
for sin unto salvation of all who love his appear-
ing. 
T. 
Montgomery, Vt. 
Inquiry. 
I WISH to inquire if it is proper for an individ-
ual member of a Church, to assume the responsi-
bility to invite just whom he pleases to preach at 
the/shurch to which he belongs, not knowing if it 
would be agreeable to the church to extend such 
invitation? 
To my mind it looks very inconsistent, if one 
person can be justified in such habits, any number 
of persons may enjoy the same liberty. 
And then 
the door is wide open for discord and confusion 
And if that course is persisted in, it will not take 
a prophet nor the son of a prophet to determine 
what the end will be. 
Do you not think that it would be better for 
ministers, before engaging to preach to a regularly 
organized church, to first ascertain if their ser-
vices are solicited by the church, or only by some 
individual member of that church ? 
We hold to order and a person coming to us up-
on an unauthorized invitation will not stand ap-
proved in our judgment. 
Note.—The above inquiry involves a question of 
much importance to the peace, good order and pros 
perity of our church. 
The inquiry seems to be so 
judiciously answered by the inquirer, that we add 
nothing. 
" A word to the wise," &c. 
THE WORLD AND CHANCE.—How often might a 
man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, 
fling them out upon the ground before they would 
fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make 
a good discourse in prose. 
And may not a little 
book be as easily made by chance as this great 
volume of the world ? How long might a man be 
sprinkling colors upon canvas with a careless hand, 
before they could happen to make the exact picture 
of a man ! 
And is man easier made by chance 
than his picture ? How long might twenty thou-
sand blind men, which should be sent out from 
several remote places in England, wander up and 
down before they would meet upon Salisbury Plain 
and fall into rank and file in the exact order of 
an army ? 
And yet this is more easy to be imag-
ined than how the innumerable blind parts of mat-
ter, should rendezvous themselves into a world. 
Tillotson. 
SEVERE STORM AND LOSS "OF LIFE AT WASHINGTON 
AND BALTIMORE.— On Wednesday afternoon, be-
twen 2 and 3 o'clock, a tremendous storm of wind 
and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, 
broke over the city of Washington. 
Of such se-
verity was the war of the elements that the House 
was disturbed in its session, and a gentleman was 
obliged to suspend his remarks. 
A lady residing 
in the First ward was killed. 
The storm was equally severe at Baltimore. The 
wall of one of the stores on Light-street, destroyed 
by fire on Sunday, was blown down by the wind, 
killing Willson L. Lloyd, one of the firm of McEl-
derry & Lloyd, and a clerk named Samuel C. At-
kinson. 
They were in an office adjoining the wall, 
and which was crushed by the fall. 
RUMORED REVOLUTION IN CUBA.—A despatch in 
the New York Times, from Washington, says that 
private letters were received in that city on Satur-
day morning, from Havana, which indicate the 
probability that Cuba is now in the midst of a 
revolution, in which Spaniards and Creoles gener-
ally are participators. 
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. 
"Lift up your heads: for your redemption 
draweth nigh." 
(Luke 21:28.) 
The hour of agony is over now ; 
And faith beholds, within the guarded grave, 
That sacred body which contained a God. 
The hour is over—Christ hath died to save : 
" Life—immortality are brought to light." 
The victor sleepeth ; he hath won the fight! 
But ere the sun shall rise upon his tomb, 
lhe song of angels shall proclaim him fled. 
No more a tenant of the earth he formed, 
No more a mystic teacher of the dead : 
A mighty conqueror—a power supreme— 
Of all creation the adoring theme. 
And now another hour approacheth near— 
Swiftly it cometh, " as a snare," on all— 
When Christ descending in a veiling cloud, 
Shall summon kingdoms at his trumpet's call. 
A judge Omnipotent; a gracious friend. 
At whose dread presence every knee shall bend. 
Ye pneachers of the word, speak boldly forth, 
As if ye stood before that judgment-seat; 
Ye are the " watchman," Jesus set on high ; 
Speak, as it were your final pulse's beat; 
Arouse your people from their fatal sleep— 
Reclaim for Christ, his lost and erring sheep! 
" Distress of nations," with perplexing thoughts, 
" Famine, and pestilence," and fearful " signs ;" 
Men's spirit's " failing them for fear," who look 
With searching earnestness on God's designs ; 
Writ with His finger on the wall of Time, 
Behold the burden of His words sublime ! 
Let us " take heed," then, lest our hearts be 
charged 
To " surfeiting," with life's engrossing cares; 
Let us stand ready, with the lamp of Hope, 
Nor let this day o'ertake us " unawares." 
Watching and prayer be ours—calm thoughts on 
high— 
" Lift up our heads—redemption draweth nigh !" 
London illustrated News. 
THE NEW CREATION. 
A STRANGER here, 
Amid the sights and sounds of a ruined earth, 
How long I for the new creation's birth, 
O'er nature's bier! 
How dark the night— 
Foreheralding the breaking of the dawn, 
When trumpet tones proclaim time's long night 
gone, 
And come the light. 
That morn's at hand,— 
E'en now as wistfully I turn my eye, 
Out from my eastern casement to the sky, 
My hopes expand. 
And as I gaze. 
The " passing of the former things away,"— 
Earth's death-scene and her restitution-day 
Before me blaze. 
And Eden fair, 
Uprisen from the wreck I see her start, 
Robed in unfading beauty, that bright band, 
" No curse is there." 
'Tis not a dream, 
Faith's eye hath seen that panorama fair, 
But 0 ! the Author of all beauty there, 
Will be the theme. 
Montgomery, Vt. 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Soon and Forever (poetry) .. 
Shiloh and Betbshemesh 
The Dawn of Day 
Religious Aspect of the Turco-
Russian Struggle 
The War in the East 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
Letter from a Clergyman.... 
Foreign News 
Conference at Providence.... 165 
161 To Correspondents 
165 
161 Book Notices 
168 
161 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
An Exhortation 
166 
162 Letter from J. L. Manason.. 166 
163 
" 
« G. W. Clement.. 166 
The Resurrection of Christ.. 166 
1641 Inquiry 
167 
164 The New Creation fpoetry).. 167 
1651 Descent from the Cross " .. 167 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MAY 27, 
1854. 
BOOK 
INOTICES. 
" INFIDELITY ; Its Aspects. Causes, and Agencies: 
being the Prize Essay of the British Organization 
of the Evangelical Alliance. 
By the Rev. Thomas 
Pearson, of Eyemouth, 
Scotland. 
New York : 
Robert Carter & Brothers, No. 285 Broadway. 
1854." 
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PART THE FIRST. 
Infidelity in its Various Aspects. 
Atheism; or, the Denial of the Divine exist-
ence. 
Pantheism ; or, the. Denial of, the Divine Per-
sonality. 
Naturalism ; or, the Denial of the Divine Provi-
dential Government, 
Spiritualism ; or, the Denial of the Bible re-
demption. 
Indifferentism; or, the Denial of Man's Re-
sponsibility. 
Formalism ; or, the Denial of the Power of 
Godliness. 
PART THE SECOND. 
Infidelity in its Various Causes. 
General Cause. 
Speculative Philosophy. 
Social Disaffections. 
The Corruptions of Christianity. 
Religious intolerance. 
Disnnion of the Church. 
PART THE THIRD. 
Infidelity in its Various Agencies 
The Press. 
The Clubs. 
The Schools. 
The Pulpit. 
Appendix. 
The work is prefaced with the following introduc 
tion: 
The answer given by the messengers to the an-
gel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, 
in the vision of Zechariah the prophet, does not 
apply to our times : " We have walked to and fro 
through the earth, and behold all the world sitteth 
still and is at rest." 
Politically and morally, in 
the sphere of things sacred and in the sphere ot 
of things civil, Europe, in the middle of the nine-
teenth century, is a troubled sea. 
Numerous and 
mighty agencies, both for good and evil, are abroad 
and at work. 
These agencies may embody the 
same great principles that have been opposing and 
struggling with each other from the beginning. 
Light and darkness strove on the face of the deep 
before this goodly universe rose out of chaos, and 
they have their strivings still. 
Error is not of 
yesterday any more than truth. 
They encountered 
each other in Paradise, they have had many en-
counters since, and they are yet in the field. But 
periods arise which become exalted into epochs* 
when these ancient forces, on the one side or on 
both, display more than usual* vigor, appear in 
new or revived forms, change their modes of at-
tack and defence, and come off with honors. 
Such 
a period was the begining of the Gospel when 
truth in her fairest form descended from heaven, 
sustained the combined attack of all the powers of 
evil, and by her own inherent vigor spoiled princi-
palities and powers and went on conquering and 
to conquer. 
Such a period was the dark or mid-
dle ages, which, like a long and 
dreary 
night, 
succeeded a short but bright day, when it seemed 
as if truth had been driven from the field, and 
the world had been given up to the reign of ig-
norance and terror. 
Such a period was the Ref-
ormation of the sixteenth century, which, with 
a voice whose sound was like the sea, awoke 
Europe from the sleep of ages, mustered in fierce 
and vigorous conflict all the powers of good and 
evil, and sent throughout the heart of ransomed 
humanity a thrill of joyous liberty that has echoed 
over the earth and down the stream of time. 
Such a period, (to contract our view within our 
own England,) was that august and earnest cen-
tury when an oppressed people rose up, resolute 
and majestic, against their faithless oppressors— 
when the Puritans sounded the Gospel trumpet 
against the formalism and irreligion of the age, 
and men awoke at once to civil freedom and that 
yet higher liberty wherewith the truth makes men 
free. 
And—to leap over the bridge that spanned 
the dark and boisterous waters that rolled between, 
one of those dreary intervals that ever and anon 
occur in hisotry, and which constituted in itself a 
dark age, when the foe was permitted to advance 
and stretch his sceptre over the church and the 
world, and, in a great measure, corrupt the form 
and stifle the voice of truth itself,—such a period 
was the latter half of the last century, when an 
awakening evangelism, big, and feeling-hearted, 
counteracted the materalistic tendencies which a 
sceptical soulless philosophy had given to the age, 
and blew upon the cold earthly morality that had 
usurped the place of the Gospel in the college 
chair and in the church pulpit. 
The fruits of this latter age, fruits both good 
and evil, we are now reaping. 
There is more rea-
son, however, to be thankful for its legacy of good, 
than to deplore the inheritance of its evil. 
Its 
shining light has sinned more and more unto our 
own day, but masses of dark clouds envious and 
portentous have followed it. 
We are not so mood-
ishly disposed as to call to remembrance the former 
days and say that they were better than the pres-
ent. 
No, the age, carrying along with it much of 
the rich good of the past is, in spite of many 
drawbacks, advancing onward in the right path. 
There is in the heart of humanity a much larger 
amount of the leaven of heavenly truth than could 
be found at any preceding period, and notwith-
standing all opposing tendencies, it is spreading, 
and will spread. 
Despotism, which robs man ot 
his rights, and obstructs the progress of God's 
truth, is losing its ground, and truth and freedom 
are advancing. 
The Bible, the schoolmaster, the 
evangelist, and the missionary, are abroad. 
The 
church at home is becoming more and more alive 
to the call of her Lord, " arise, shine,"—her voice 
is becoming more loud and earnest in the pulpit, 
her instruction agencies among our home popula-
tion are strengthening, and thickly multiplying, 
and she is lengthening her cords so as to embrace 
within her pale the abundance of the sea and the 
forces of the Gentiles. 
But if it is unwise to brood 
over the maladies of an age as if it were only evil 
and that continually, it is not less so to glory in 
its fair forms and healthy activities as if oblivious 
of its wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. 
The sun is in the heavens bright and beaming, 
but the clouds have gathered surcharged with the 
elements of strife, and they are ever and anon 
darkening and troubling the sky. 
Our age is one 
of intense earnestness and action both for good and 
evil. 
The old truth and the old error which have 
struggled throughout the past, are in the field. 
But neither is slumbering, both are vigilant, ex-
tending their lines, increasing their forces, devis-
ing and adopting new modes of defence and attack, 
as if conscious that a blow was about to be struck 
which would mark another great era in the conflict 
between the powers of good and evil. 
There are giants on the earth in these days both 
in the one encampment and in the other. 
A 
mighty force is on the side of the friends of truth, 
but it is sadly divided and scattered. 
What is 
wanting is the strength of union, the concentration 
of those energies in defending the citadel and mak-
ing inroads on the enemy, which are spent on the 
defence of comparatively unimportant posts, or in 
one detachment of the same corps guarding against 
the encroachment of another. 
The champions of 
error, though not without their discords and di-
visions, are yet wiser in their generation than the 
children of light. 
As of old they discern the signs 
of the times, and take counsel together against the 
Lord and against his anointed. 
The Press, to 
which under God we owe so much of our light and 
liberties, wields a mighty influence on the side of 
evil. 
The halls of philosophy, hallowed though 
they be by many a name illustrious for Christian 
worth as well as intellectual greatness, are often 
sending forth doctrines as gross as the earth or as 
vague as the air, but alike adverse to that truth 
which coming from above is above all. 
Our cur 
rent literature and works on science, with not a 
few bright and beneficent exceptions, are hostile 
either by their silence in reference to divine truth 
when their subjects afford them occasions to speak 
out, or by their avowed opposition to much of what 
constitutes the essence of true religion. 
And what 
is peculiar in a great measure to our times, and 
throws a vast potency into the scale of irreligion, 
is the unceasing effort of infidels to diffuse their 
principles among the artizans and laboring classes 
of the land. 
The earth is not still and at rest. 
Men of every class are searching after an unknown 
good. 
The demon of infidelity is stalking abroad, 
knocking at the palaces of the rich and the cottages 
of the poor, transforming itself into this shape and 
that, and becoming all things except an angel of 
good, to all men. 
One dreary theory succeeds an-
other, like storm-cloud chasing storm-cloud over 
the face of the sky, and yet man is not at peace. 
The cravings of his mind are agonized, not satis-
fied. 
It becomes those then who know the truth 
and whom the truth has made free, those who hav-
ing believed do enter into rest, to arouse themselves 
for the two-fold object of meeting infidelity at the 
various points and combatting its diversified forms, 
and of presenting in every lawful way that -truth 
which they know only can give rest to a laboring 
and heavy-laden world. 
Let the antagonist forces 
on the one side as well as on the other be pressed 
into the unfettered conflict, and the lovers of God 
and the friends of man have nothing to fear but 
much to hope. 
" Christianity, like Rome, has 
had both the Gaul and Hannibal at her gates; but 
as the ' Eternal City,' in the latter case, calmly 
offered for sale, and sold, at an undepreciated 
price, the very ground on which the Carthaginian 
had fixed his camp, with equal calmness may 
Christianity imitate her example of magnanimity. 
She may feel assured that, as in so many past in-
stances of premature triumph, on the part of her 
enemies, the ground they occupy will one day be 
her own; that the very discoveries, apparently 
hostile, of science and philosophy, will be ulti-
mately found elements of her strength." (Rogers' 
Essays, v, 2, p. 345.) 
" All flesh is as grass, and 
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. 
The 
grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth 
away. 
But the word of the Lord endureth for-
ever." 
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