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" I Sing to Calvary." 
BY MRS. SOUTIIEY. 
Down from the willow bough 
Mv slumbering harp I'll take, 
And bid its silent strings 
To heavenly themes awake: 
Peaceful let its breathings be, 
Soft and soothing harmony. 
Love, LOVE DIVINE, I sing: 
Oh, for a seraph's lyre, 
Bathed in Siloa's stream, 
And touched with living fire : 
Lofty, pure, the strain should be, 
When 1 sing of Calvary. 
Love, Love, on earth appears, 
The wretchcd throng his way; 
He beareth all their griefs, 
And wipes their tears away: 
Soft and sweet the strain should be, 
Saviour, when I sing of Thee. 
He saw ine as He passed, 
In hopeless sorrow lie. 
Condemned and doomed to death, 
And no salvation nigh : 
Long and loud the strain should be, 
When I sing His love to me. 
" I die for thee," He said— 
Behold the cross arise ! 
And lo! He bows his head-
He bows His head, and dies! 
Soft, my harp, tliy breatliiugs be, 
Let me weep on Calvary. 
He live* •' afrarn he lives 
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1 hear the voice of love -
He comes to soothe my fears, 
And thaw my soul above: 
Jovful now the strain should be, 
When 1 sing of Calvary. 
Apocalyptic Sketches. No. II. 
BY REV. JOHN CUMMINO, D. D. 
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE APOCALYPSE. 
" Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own 
blood, and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and His Father, 
to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever."—Rev. 1:5,6. 
Some have objected to all expositions of the 
Apocalypse, as if these were not identical with 
the preaching of the Gospel, nor useful and in-
structive to those that hear them. This is griev 
ous misapprehension. 
Whatever God has writ 
ten is surely entitled to our study, as it was 
meant for our good, and cannot be otherwise 
than useful to those for whose learning it was 
inspired: " all scripture," says the apostle, " is 
profitable." The Apocalypse, so far from not 
being the Gospel, is replete with its most pre-
cious truths, is inlaid with the testimony, fra-
grant with the excellence, and illuminated with 
the glory of the Son of God. It refers back-
ward to the Man of sorrows, and looks forward 
to the throned Lamb. 
Christ is its alpha and 
omega, and the testimony of Jesus its woof 
and warp. 
But for the sake of them, who 
shrink from expositions of this book, who look 
at the Apocalypse through the mists of preju-
dice, the misapprehensions of ignorance, or any 
other similar cause, I will address myself this 
evening to the task of showing how full, how 
beautiful is the Gospel according to the Apoca-
lypse. 
Leaving my text, which is an epitome of the 
Gospel, I request your attention to such pas-
sages as these—Rev. 5:9 : " Thou art worthy 
to take the book and to open the seals thereof, 
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to 
God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and nation." 
This is surely the very 
music of Calvary floating down from heaven 
and breaking on our ears—shall I rather say 
our hearts, this evening in Exeter Hall. 
Rev 
o:12: " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to 
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and 
strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing" 
—words that come like the chimes of the waves 
of that sea of glory that spread out their wa 
ters about the throne of God. 
Rev. 7:13 : " What are these which are ar 
say, 
rayed in white robes, and whence came they ? 
These are they which came out of great tribu-
lation, and have washed their robes and made 
them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
There-
fore are they before the throne of God, and 
serve Him day and night in His temple." This 
is an Apocalype of heaven—its tenantry, and 
the way to it. 
Rev. 14:13: "And I heard a 
voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, 
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from 
henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
rest from their labors,; and their works do fol-
low them." 
This is the trumpet of jubilee 
sounding in the grave—the Gospel transfiguring 
by its presence, the very ashes of the dead. 
Rev. 21:6: "I will give to him that is athirst 
of the fountain of the water of life freely." 
Rev. 22:17 : " And the Spirit and the bride 
Come. 
And let him that heareth say 
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And 
whosoever will, let him take of the water of 
life freely." 
Thus, in no portion of the Bible are the 
grand characteristics of Christianity more fre-
quently or fully stated. 
The drapery of the 
throne does not conceal the Lamb that is in the 
midst of it; and the intense splendor of the 
many crowns " that are on the brow of " the 
King of kings," does not dim or conceal that 
cross on which he hung in agony as fhe " 
of sorrows." 
These passages which we have quoted are 
like stars in the Apocalyptic firmament, of 
greater or lesser magnitude, each shining in 
the light of the Sun of Righteousness: these 
are fragments of the rich and beautiful embroi-
dery on the mystic veil, significant of yet richer 
beyond it; these are snatches, mellowed but 
not spent in their transit from the skies, of the 
awful and solemn harmonies that break and 
roll before the throne of glory. 
But in all 
Christ is all. 
The Apocalypse is the record of 
what Christ is and does, since he ascended 
from the earth, and a cloud received him out of 
sight. 
It is the history of his post-resurrection 
glory. 
It is an illuminated commentary on 
Zech. 6:13: "He shall sit and rule upon his 
throne, and he shall be a priest upon his 
throne;" a Priest to offer sacrifice for our guilt 
—a King to rescue us from enemies, and sub-
due us to himself; a Priest to expiate our sins 
a King to extirpate them ; a Priest to take 
away the guilt of sin—a King to break its pow-
er; a Priest to pardon—a King to_ purify; a 
Priest to give a title to heaven—a King to cre-
ate fitness for it. 
As a Priest He makes it pos-
sible for God to pardon us—as a King he makes 
us willing to receive that pardon ; as a Priest 
he restores us to the divine favor—as a King 
he communicates to us the divine image; the 
majesty of the King tempered by the mercy of 
the Priest, is the light he lives in: and the 
Book of Revelation is the holy window through 
which we see these things—the contents and 
characters of the upper sanctuary. 
It is not 
less necessary that we should see Christ a King 
than Christ a sufferer. I cannot but add also, 
that this book contains the history of the do-
ings of Christ in all places; of his presence, 
and evidence of that presence everywhere. 
It 
is a reflection of the panorama of 7000 years, 
on the concave of the sky, and the revelation 
of its connexion with Christ. 
It shows Him 
to be in the history of nations, the changes of 
dynasties, the eclipse of kingdoms, the wreck 
of empires, restraining—overruling—sanctify-
ing. Josephus becomes unconsciously the chro-
nicler of His presence, in the fall of Jerusa-
lem ; and Gibbon, in spite of himself, the faith-
ful witness of his presence, in the decline of 
the Roman empire. Wheresoever the plough-
share of Vespasian was driven, or the cimeter 
of the Moslem mowed, or the foot of the Goth 
trod,—wheresoever the persecutor drove the 
Christian from Pella to the Cottian Alps,— 
wheresoever the wild beasts devoured, or the 
flames consumed,—wheresoever the crescent 
waxed, or the cross waned,—where Trent thun-
dered its anathemas, and Luther echoed his 
protests,—in the Sicilian vespers—at the mas-
sacre of Bartholomew—on the pavements of 
Smithfield—in the French Revolution—on the 
field of Waterloo—in all facts—in all occur-
rences—Christ was, and is; and this sublime 
book is the evidence that it is so. 
" Unto Him that loved us "—it is written in 
my text. 
Who can this be, who to John was 
sc plainly familiar, and yet so great and so glo-
rious, that he omits even his name, as if no one 
could mistake him ? 
No angel in heaven, nor 
ancient patriarch, no apostle nor king, can this 
be. 
None of these had love to dare, nor 
strength to do what is here ascribed to " him." 
He must have been man, for he had blood to 
shed; he must have been a man of sorrows, 
for he shed that blood.—This Christ was,—mar 
in all that the word comprehends, in its infirmi 
ties, and tears, and trials, and sorrows. 
Sin 
he had not; it is no part of humanity,—it is 
its disease—its corruption, and from this he was 
infinitely distant. 
He was man, but holy man ; 
but he must also have been God. 
The fact 
that he laid down his life voluntarily, implies 
this. 
No creature has his life at his own dis 
r a creature giving up his life unbidden, 
would be a suicide. 
Besides, were Christ not 
God, what he has done would make me wor-
ship him as God; for he that redeems, and 
pardons, and saves me, and at such an expen-
diture as that of Calvary, must gather to him-
self my adoration, my trust, my love. 
I can-
not but worship Him who saves me from eter-
nal perdition, and lifts me to eternal joy. 
If 
Christ be not God, the foresight of this tenden-
cy would have filled the Apostolic Epistles with 
warnings'against the idolatry which would have 
inevitably and justly become all but the uni-
versal worship of Christians. 
But He is God 
as truly as man; worship and confidence are 
his due, and our salvation. 
" He loved us," and this antecedently to our 
loving him : his love to us originated our love 
to him, as the sound creates its echo. 
How 
great, how sovereign that love which lighted 
upon us, in whom there was nothing to attract, 
deserve, or retain it; but, on the contrary, 
much to provoke, weary, and. repel it. 
He 
loved us, in spite of what we were, not because 
of what we were ; not on account of excellen-
cies in us, but to create excellencies that were 
not in us. 
Man loves, because he sees some-
thing in the loved to attract his affections,— 
God loves, in order to create in the loved some-
thing to retain his love. 
It is this that makes 
our conscious debt to grace exceed all computa-
tion, and defy all repayment. 
We may con-
ceive the intensity of this love by numbering 
and estimating, if we can, the difficulties 
through which it had to wade. 
He had to save 
sinners, not in spite of the law, but according 
to the law, to show God's law righteous, while 
it condemns, and righteous still while it ac-
quits ;—God true while be stands by his testi-
mony, " the soul that sins shall die ;" and no 
less true while he makes real his declaration, 
" he that believeth in the Son of God hath ev-
erlasting life;"—God just while He justifies 
the ungodly, and holy while He takes sinners 
to His bosom. 
These are some of the seeming 
impossibilities that love had to do—the innu 
merable contrarieties it had to reconcile—the 
infinite obstructions through which it had to 
work its way, to reach us. 
The height from 
which it came—the throne of Deity; the depth to 
which it descends—the ruin from which it plucks 
us; its breadth—the earth which it circles as 
with a zone—and its length from first ti 
—Eternity. 
He washed us from our sins in his own 
blood." 
This is the scriptural phrase for his 
atoning expiatory sufferings. 'Nothing else but 
the life of the Son of God expended on the 
cross could ensure the forgiveness of the least and 
fewest of these sins of ours. No other ele-
ment had virtue. 
No voice from height or 
depth in the universe could say, with authority, 
to the least transgressor, " thy sins be forgiven 
thee." 
No fasting, mortification, or penance, 
or absolution of the priest, or indulgence of 
Pope or jubilee, ever approached the inner seat 
of the soul's disquiet; none of these rise high 
enough to reach God, or descend low enough 
to reach us. 
The accusations of conscience in 
the midst of all these " refuges of lies " out-
number its excuses, and the law of God, in 
spite of these and thousands more, will fulmi-
nate its lightnings. 
Nor does sin ever exhaust 
its penalties, and thus render forgiveness un-
necessary, and the shedding that blood uncalled 
for. A convict banished for a definite period, 
exhausts his sentence, and thus becomes free ; 
but were that convict to commit, in the course 
of his exile, a new crime, a new sentence would 
fasten on him, and add to the years of his ban-
ishment ; we siri while we suffer, we add to our 
punishment by adding to our guilt, and thus by 
the very nature and necessity of the case, sin 
is Ma eternal evil; never working out its cure, 
but ever its perpetuity ; it is a sclf-ger^ratit.g 
evil, eternity does not exhaust it, it adds to it; 
atonement was essential to our restoration; 
without shedding of blood, there is no remis-
sion of sins—and what an atonement! it has 
touched the deep spot of anger in the bosom of 
God, and descending along its dark line to its 
utmost havoc and curse, it has rescued, recon-
ciled, restored us. 
Christ pardons us while we 
sin, and draws us off while he pardons alike 
from the love and practice of sin; it was his 
own blood that made this atonement, and it 
alone. 
No other element mingled with it, noth-
ing could heighten its value—it needed nothing. 
He trod the wine-press alone. 
He suffered 
alone, and his suffering was sufficient. He 
obeyed alone, and his obedience all that was re-
quired. 
His is all the merit of the process, 
and therefore all the glory of the result. 
He 
paid all we owed to God, and purchased more 
than God owed to us. 
He began it in the man-
ger, and finished it upon the cross. He hum-
bled himself to merit, and he is exalted to bes-
tow salvation. 
What depth of dye must there 
be in sin! what intensity of evil in that terrible 
monosyllable ! what concentrated poison, see-
ing no less illustrious a victim, no less costly a 
price was required, no less precious a thing than 
the blood of Christ could wash it away. Trem-
ble at sin. 
Plague, pestilence, and famine are 
nothing to sin. 
These scathe the body, it blasts 
the soul. 
But through Christ I am washed 
from my sins by that precious blood, from their 
curse, their condemnation, and all their penal 
consequences. 
The law remains in all its 
force, its sacredness and its stability, and yet it 
has no bold of me. 
All my guilt is put away, 
all my demerits are cancelled, and from no spot 
in the wide universe can a sentence of condem-
nation come upon me, or the thunder of a vio-
lated law smite me. 
But I see in the atone-
ment of Jesus not merely a channel for the ef-
flux of the love and forgiving mercy of God, 
but a standing proof of that love, its measure, 
its exponent, and representative. 
It not only 
shows me that God can forgive me consistently 
with all his attributes, but also that he delights 
to do so. 
What this sacrifice expresses, is as 
precious as what it does. It is evidence to me 
that my salvation is not a mere provision for a 
bare escape from punishment, but the proof of 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 34 
a love in God my Father that longs to embrace 
me. 
It meets precisely what I need—it sup-
plies what I long and thirst to know. 
I re-
quire, in order to have peace, not only that God 
should not punish me, but that he should love 
me, not only freedom from the curse, but friend-
ship with God—I cannot be happy with mere 
safety. I require reconciliation—I cannot con-
sent to enter heaven, and spend its cycles as a 
pardoned convict, tolerated, spared, but no more 
—I long to be^ there, an adopted son. 
I feel 
that God must not only let me go, but take me 
back, ere I can be happy. 
I must be placed, 
not merely beyond the penalties of the law, 
but beneath the love of God. 
I require to be 
raised higher than pardon, justification, and 
sanctification; I must not only pass the tribu-
nal of the legislator ; I cannot rest till I repose 
in the bosom, or rest amid the sunshine of the 
reconciled countenance of my Father. 
I see 
all this embodied, expressed, and secured in the 
atonement of Jesus. 
It is not only the way to 
heaven, but the measure and the pledge of the 
welcome that awaits me there. 
It is thus I 
hear richer music in the words," It is finished," 
than I ever heard before. Now can I say and 
sing with an emphasis I never felt before, " Un-
to Him that loved me, and washed me from my 
sins in his own blood; to Him be glory and do-
minion forever and ever."—[To be continued.] 
The Prophecies Concerning Tyre. 
BY THOMAS NEWTON, D. D. 
(Continued from our last.) 
II. The inhabitants should pass over the 
Mediterranean into the islands and countries 
adjoining, and even there should find no quiet 
settlement. This is plainly signified by Isaiah, 
(23:6,) " Pass ye over to Tarshish," (that is, to 
Tartessus in Spain,) " howl ye inhabitants of 
the isle:" and again, (v. 12,) "Arise, pass over 
to Chittiin," (that is, the islands and countries 
bordering upon the Mediterranean,) " there also 
shalt thou have no rest." 
What the prophet 
delivers by way of advice, is to be understood 
as a prediction. 
Ezekiel intimates the same 
thing, (26 : 18,) " The isles that are in the sea 
shall be troubled at thy departure." 
It is well 
known that the Phoenicians were the best navi-
gators of antiquity, and sent forth colonies into 
several parts of the world. 
A great scholar of 
the last century hath written a whole treatise 
of the colonies of the Phoenicians, a work (as 
indeed all his are) of immense learning and 
erudition. 
And of all the Phoenicians the Ty-
rian were the most celebrated for their shipping 
and colonies. 
Tyre exceeded Sidon in this 
respect, as Strabo testifies, and sent forth colo-
nies into Africa and Spain unto and beyond 
the pillars of Hercules : and Quintus Curtius 
saith, that her colonies were diffused almost 
over the whole world. The Tyrians, therefore, 
having planted colonies at Tarshish, and upon 
the coasts of Chittim, it was natural for them, 
when they were pressed with dangers and diffi-
culties at home, to fly to their friends and coun-
trymen abroad for refuge and protection. That 
they really did so, St. Jerome asserts upon the 
authority of Assyrian histories, which are now 
lost and perished. 
" We have read," saith he, 
"in the histories of the Assyrians, that when 
the Tyrians were besieged, after they saw no 
hope of escaping, they went on board their 
ships, and fled to Carthage, or to some islands 
of the Ionian and iEgean sea." 
And in ano-
ther place he saith, " that when the Tyrians 
saw that the works for carrying on the seige 
were perfected, and the foundations of the walls 
were shaken by the battering of the rams 
whatsoever precious things, in gold, silver 
clothes, and various kinds of furniture, the no 
bility had, they put them on board their ships 
and carried to the islands; so that the city be 
ing taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing wor 
thy of his labor." 
It must have been grievous 
to Nebuchadnezzar, after so long and laborious 
a siege, to be disappointed of the spoil of so 
rich a city; and therefore Ezekiel was commis 
sioned to promise him the conquest of Egypt 
for his reward : (29 :18, 19:) " Son of man 
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his 
army to serve a great service against Tyrus 
every head was made bald, and every shoulder 
was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army 
for Tyrus, for the service that he had served 
against it. 
There thus saith the Lord God, 
Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto 
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall 
take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take 
her prey, and it shall be the wages for his army." 
But though the Tyrians should pass over to 
Tarshish and to Chittim, yet even there they 
should find no quiet settlement, "there also 
shalt thou have no rest." 
Megasthenes, who 
lived about three hundred years before Christ, 
and was employed by Seleucus Nicator in an 
embassy to the king of India, wrote afterwards 
a history of India, wherein he mentioned Nebu-
chadnezzar with great honor. 
This historian 
is quoted by several ancient authors; he is cited 
particularly by Strabo, Josephus, and Abyde-
nus in Eusebius, for saying that Nebuchadnez-
zar surpassed Hercules in bravery and great 
exploits, that he subdued great parts of Africa 
and Spain, and proceeded as far as to the pil-
lars of Hercules. 
After Nebuchadnezzar had 
subdued Tyre and Egypt, we may suppose that 
he carried his arms farther westward: and if 
he proceeded so far as Megasthenes reports, the 
Tyrians might well be said to " have no rest," 
their conqueror pursuing them from one coun-
try to another. But besides this, and after this, 
the Carthaginians, and other colonies of the 
Tyrians, lived in a very unsettled state. Their 
history is made up of little but wars and tu-
mults, even before their three fatal wars with 
the Romans, in every one of which their affairs 
grew worse and worse. Sicily and Spain, Eu-
rope and Africa, the land and their own ele-
ments, the sea, were theatres of their calamities 
and miseries; till at last not only the new, but 
old Carthage, too, was utterly destroyed. 
As 
the Carthaginians sprung from the Tyrians, 
and the Tyrians from the Sidonian, and Sidon 
was the first-born of Canaan, (Gen. 10 :15,) so 
the curse upon Canaan seemeth to have pur-
sued them to the most distant parts of the earth. 
III. The city should be restored after seventy 
years, and return to her gain and her merchan-
dise. 
This circumstance is expressly foretold 
by Isaiah (23 : 15-17): " And it shall come to 
pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten 
seventy years, according to the days of one 
king," or kingdom, meaning the Babylonian, 
which was to continue seventy years : " after 
the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an 
harlot. 
Take an harp, go about the city, thou 
harlot that hast been forgotten, make sweet 
melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be 
remembered. 
And it shall come to pass after 
the end of seventy years, that the Lord will 
visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and 
shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms 
of the world upon the face of the earth." 
Tyre 
is represented as a harlot, and from thence these 
figures are borrowed, the plain meaning of which 
is, that she should lie neglected of traders and 
merchants for seventy years, as long as the 
Babylonian empire lasted, and after that she 
should recover her liberties and her trade, and 
draw in several of all nations to deal with her, 
and particularly the kings of the earth to buy 
her purples, which were worn chiefly by em-
perors and kings, and for which Tyre was fa-
mous above all places in the world. 
Seventy years was the time prefixed for the 
duration of the Babylonian empire. 
So long 
the nations were to groan under that tyrannical 
yoke, though these nations were subdued some 
sooner, some later, than others. 
Jer. 25:11,12 
—" These nations shall serve the king of Baby-
lon seventy years: and it shall come to pass 
when seventy years are accomplished, that I 
will punish the king of Babylon, and that na 
tion, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the 
land of the Chaldeans, and will make it per-
petual desolations." 
And accordingly at the 
end of seventy years Cyrus and the Persians 
subverted the Babylonian empire, and restored 
the conquered nations to their liberties. 
But we may compute these seventy years 
after another manner. 
Tyre was taken by 
Nebuchadnezzar in the thirty-second year of 
his reign, and in the year 573 before Christ.— 
Seventy years from thence will bring us down 
to the year 503 before Christ, and the nine 
teenth of Darius Hystaspis. 
At that time it 
appears from history that the Ionians had re 
belled against Darius, and the Phoenicians as 
sisted him with their fleets : and consequently 
it is reasonable to conclude that they were now 
restored to their former privileges. 
In the sue 
ceeding reign we find that they, together with 
the Sidonians, furnished Xerxes with several 
ships for his expedition into Greece. 
And by 
the time of Alexander the Tyrians were grown 
to such power and greatness, that they stopped 
the progress of that rapid conqueror longer 
than any part of the Persian empire besides.— 
But all this is to be understood of the insular 
Tyre ; for as the old city flourished most before 
the time of Nebuchadnezzar, so the new city 
flourished most afterwards, and this is the Tyre 
that henceforth is so much celebrated in history. 
IV. The city should be taken and destroyed 
again. 
For when it is said by the prophets, 
(Isa. 23:6,) " Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle ;" 
(Ezek. 27 :32,) " What city is like Tyrus, like 
the destroyed in the midst of the sea ?" (28:8,) 
" They shall bring thee down to the pit, and 
thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain 
in the midst of the seas:" these expressions 
can imply no less than that the insular Tyre 
should be destroyed, as well as that upon the 
continent; and as the one was accomplished by 
Nebuchadnezzar, so was the other by Alexan-
der the Great. But the same thing may be in-
ferred more directly from the words of Zecha-
riah, who prophesied in the reign of Darius, 
(Zech. 1:1; 7:1,) probably Darius Hystaspis, 
many years after the former destruction of the 
city, and consequently he must be understood 
to speak of this latter. 
His words are these, 
(9:3,4,) " And Tyrus did build herself a strong 
hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine 
gold as the mire of the streets. 
Behold the 
Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her 
power in the sea, and she shall be devoured 
with fire." It is very true that " Tyrus did 
build herself a strong hold; " for her situation 
was very strong in an island, and besides the 
sea to defend her, she was fortified with a wall 
one hundred and fifty feet in height, and of a 
proportionable thickness. 
" She heaped up 
silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of 
the streets," being the most celebrated place in 
the world for trade and riches, " the mart of 
nations," as she is called, conveying the com-
modities of the east to the west, and of the 
west to the east. 
But yet, " Behold the Lord 
will cast her out, and he will smite her power 
in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire." 
Ezekiel had likewise foretold that the city 
should be consumed with fire (28:18): " I will 
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall 
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon 
the earth, in the sight of all them that behold 
thee." 
And accordingly Alexander besieged 
and took the city, and set it on fire. The ruins 
And palace spire and idol fane 
Of temples built on Dura's plain, 
And the rich gardens of the East 
Were lighted for a princely feast; 
And there they hung from wall and tower, 
Wafting perfume from many a flower: 
And sparkling waves and waters ran 
Through the bright bowers of Babylon. 
But look! the spacious palace gate, 
Where sits Belshazzar proud in state, 
Is opened on the splendid night. 
Adorned with flowers and gems of light: 
A thousand lords in homage bow 
Before that stern and haughty brow ; 
And by him sits, in graceful mien, 
The fair and youthful Eastern queen. 
And ladies grace that gorgeous hall 
Upon this noble festival. 
The king now speaks, wljile all around 
In breathless silence catch the sound :— 
" Minstrels, come forth, and your songs now 
raise, 
On the harp,on the sackbut, and psaltery of praise, 
To the gods of silver, and gold, and stone ; 
There's none can withstand them, there's none, 
there's none. 
" Bring forth rich draughts of ruby wine, 
Brought from the vineyards of Palestine ; 
And drink to the gods of wood, gold, and stone, 
There's none can withstand them, there's none, 
there's none. 
" Drink again, lords and ladies fair, 
The sparkling draught, so bright and so rare, 
To the gods of gold, and silver, and stone, 
There's none can withstand them, there's none, 
there's none. 
I" Bring forth the gold cups of Solomon, 
Whose God and glory have sunk like the sun, 
of old Tyre contributed much to the taking of And we 'n
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drink t0 the ^ods of Wood' Sold'and 
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the new city; for with the stones, timber, and 
rubbish, of the old city, Alexander built a bank, 
or causeway, from the continent to the island, 
thereby literally fulfilling the words of the 
prophet Ezekiel, (26:12,) " They shall lay thy 
stones, and thy timber, and thy dust in the 
midst of the water." 
He was seven months in 
completing this work, but the time and labor 
were well employed, for by means hereof he 
was enabled to storm and take the city. 
As in the former siege, the inhabitants, ac 
ording to the prophecies, fled over the Mediter-
ranean to the islands and countries adjoining, 
so they did likewise in this latter siege; for 
Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius both 
testify that they sent their wives and children 
to Carthage; and upon the taking of the place, 
the Sidonians secretly conveyed away fifteen 
thousand more in their ships. 
Happy 
they who thus escaped, for of those who re-
mained behind, the conqueror slew eight thou 
sand in the storming and taking of the city; he 
caused two thousand afterwards cruelly to be 
crucified, and thirty thousand he sold for slaves. 
They had before sold some of the captive Jews, 
and now it was returned upon them according , 
to the prediction of Joel (3 : 6-8): <; The chil- And the wise men came, and the words they saw 
stone 
For who can withstand them ? there's none, 
there's none." 
And the minstrels sounded the songs of praise, 
While the harpers echoed the lofty lays ; 
And the revellers each full deeply quaffed, 
To the idol gods, of the foaming draught. 
But why comes a change o'er the splendid scene ? 
Why alters Belshazzar his haughty mien ? 
Why suddenly ceases the impious hymn ? 
Why the lights and gems so strangely dim ? 
Look yonder! high up on that lofty wall, 
Where the lights with a sickly lustre fall; 
The fingers appear of a viewless form ! 
Sudden as lightning breaks forth in a storm, 
Writing words which fill hearts with a dreary 
chill ! 
While the revellers' voice, and harps are still. 
The king saw the part of the hand that wrote, 
And the strange wild gleams that above it float, 
And his face grew pale as the marble wall, , 
And the pillars that grae'd that noble hall. 
Haste ! haste ! bring here of the wise men to me ; 
Let him tell what these terrible Avords may be— 
And I'll give him a robe of the royal dye, 
And a chain of gold with mine own to vie. 
dren also of Judah, and the children of Jeru 
salem have ye sold; behold I will return your 
recompense upon your own head, and will sell 
your sons and your daughters." 
This is the 
main of the prophecy, that as they had sold the 
captive Jews, so they should be sold themselves: 
and having seen this so punctually fulfilled, we 
But each quailing heart was filled with awe, 
And they silently turned from that dreadful sign; 
Its meaning there's none can dare to divine. 
The Hebrew Daniel they anxiously call, 
To come to the fear-stricken banquet hall;— 
Canst thou tell what these burning words may be, 
And unfold their hidden mystery ? 
may more easily believe that the other parts If so> a rich boon is prepared for thee, 
were so too, though at this distance of time, 
and in this scarcity of ancient historians, we 
Of a seat of honor and high degree, 
And a costly robe of a scarlet dye, 
are not able to prove all the particulars. When And a golden cham Wlttl mme own to Tie-
the city was taken before, the Tyrians received Then the Hebrew looked on the words of fire, 
their kings afterwards from Babylon; and now Expressing the weight of Jehovah's ire, 
their king held his crown by Alexander's ap- And the light ofheaven beams forth from his eye, 
pointment. 
The cases are parallel in many Whlle hls hP breathes the spirit of prophecy. 
respects : but the city recovered much 
sooner | He tums to the king, and his message brings 
from the calamities of this siege than from the 
fatal consequences of the former. For in nine-
teen years' time it was able to withstand the 
fleets and armies of Antigonus, and sustained 
a siege of fifteen months before it was taken : 
a plain proof, as Dr. Prideaux observes, of " the 
great advantage of trade. 
For this city being 
As the prophet and priest of the King of kings. 
" To others, 0 king, may thy rich gifts be, 
But the words I'll read and interpret to thee. 
Thou knowest in days that have long gone by, 
God gave state to thy sire, and majesty; 
A kingdom which spread o'er the earth's wide 
domain, 
the grand mart, where most of the trade both While nations and tongues revered his great 
of the east and west did then centre, by virtue 
hereof it was, that it so soon revived to its pris-
tine vigor."—[To be continued.] 
Belshazzar's Feast. 
[The following poem, from the Portsmouth 
Journal, we learn from that paper, was written 
by one of the misses in the High School in that 
town, and was read among the specimens of 
composition, at a late examination.] 
The night was beautiful and still, 
While moonlight gilded many a hill 
name— 
It spread north and south, east and west, like a 
tree 
Whose branches o'ershadowed the land and 
the sea. 
But his heart grew proud, God humbled him 
then, 
And drove him away from the sons of men; 
And he ate of the grass, and was wet with the 
dew, 
Till his spirit was chastened, and then he knew 
That it was by the most high God of heaven, 
His majesty, honor, and glory were given. 
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35 
And this, Belshazzar, full well thou hast known, 
Yet hast bowed to the gods of wood, gold, and 
stone— 
Hast lifted thyself 'gainst Omnipotent power, 
Who thy life and kingdom will sever this hour— 
And these words of fire to thee do declare, 
That thy kingdom is gone, no more shalt thou 
wear 
The jewell'd crown of the Chaldsean throne, 
Which the God of Israel hath overthrown. 
Thou'rt found to want, when with balance art 
weighed, 
Thy laurels of glory forever must fade, 
And the last of the dreadful words I read— 
Thy kingdom is severed 'tween Persian and 
Mede!" 
The seer's dread message already is done, 
And the scarlet robe and chain are won ; 
And now he goes forth from that banquet hall, 
But the fearful words yet gleam from the wall. 
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The night has now sped, and the morning bright 
Is beaming through clouds of golden light; 
But never before had the orb of day 
Looked down on a battle-field's dreadful array, 
More dire in carnage, and streaming blood 
Gushing forth from hearts in a purple flood, 
Than Babylon'si streets, where her king lies 
slain, 
And her nobles and peasants in death remain. 
But far away in a hidden bower, 
Where bloomed full many an Eastern flower, 
Sat a Hebrew maiden, and thus she sung, 
And her country's harp seemed newly strung:— 
" Palestina, rejoice ! and break forth in song ! 
Let your praises to God be loud and long; 
Even as he hath spoken, the brass gates are 
broken, 
And Babylon's fallen to rise no more ! 
" Come forth Jewish captives! now join the 
dance! 
By Babylon's waters let glad footsteps glance ! 
For your yoke is broken, even as God hath 
spoken, 
And Babylon's fallen to rise no more ! 
" God's promise is sure ; in time he will bring 
Our hoped and expected Messiah King! 
Then all yokes will be broken, for thus God 
hath spoken, 
And Babylon's fallen to rise no more !" 
My Saviour. 
BY JOHN EAST, M. A. 
MEDIATOR. 
MY 
SAVIOUR is the " one Mediator between 
God and men." 
(1 Tim. 2:5.) 
My carnal na-
ture, in common with the whole of our fallen 
race, is at variance with God. 
Sin has sepa-
rated me from him, and drawn over my head 
the naked sword of his offended justice, and 
the penalty of his violated law. When my 
soul first discovers this unsheathed weapon of 
righteous anger, I am filled with dismay, and 
am disposed to cry out, with Job, " I am afraid 
of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not 
hold me innocent.—For he is not a man, as I 
am, that I should answer him, and we should 
come together in judgment; neither is there 
any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his 
hands upon us both." (Job 9:28, 32, 33.)" But 
all my apprehension is removed, and hope and 
joy take the place of dread and grief in my 
heart, when the Holy Ghost reveals the Lord 
Jesus Christ before me, in the plentitude of his 
mediatorial office. I behold him standing be-
tween me and God, fully commissioned and 
perfectly able; to restore me to a state of recon-
ciliation with him. 
He uplifts his own pierced 
hand against the raised arm of justice; and, 
pointing to his own scarred side, in which the 
sword of the law was plunged and satiated with 
atoning blood, he removes all ground of enmi-
ty and opposition, bringing the Father's alien-
ated love to my soul, and bringing back my 
prodigal soul to itself and the love of God. 
My Saviour is the " one, the only Mediator 
between God and men." 
Saints and angels, 
who, by erring mortals, are daily approached 
under this name, and as filling this office, shrink 
back from the idolatrous homage, and would as 
soon dare to take possession of the throne of 
Deity itself, as assume the title and functions 
of Mediator. ^ How could angels mediate for 
fallen man, who were able to accomplish noth-
ing for their own fallen companions? 
How 
could the saints,—" the spirits of just men made 
perfect,"—who are themselves indebted for all 
they have and are to the mediation of the Son 
of God ? Let my soul rejoice in Emmanuel's 
all-sufficiency as " the Mediator of a better 
covenant, even the new covenant of grace, es-
tablished upon better promises, and sealed with 
his own blood." (Heb. 8:6; 12:24.) 
What 
can ever break a reconciliation so dearly bought, 
so effectually made, and so firmly secured ? 
My Saviour will never withdraw from his me-
diatorial station before the throne, until the last 
soul, whom he has ransomed by his blood, shall 
be reinstated in the divine favor, and renewed 
after the divine image. 
Then his mediatorial 
office will cease; but the fruits of it will re-
main forever, in a perpetual revenue of glory 
and joy to himself, and of happiness to myself 
and happy millions more, who have partaken of 
the " reconciliation." 
The Better Land. 
" The shapings of our heavens are the modi-
fications of our constitution," said Charles 
Lamb, in his reply to Southey's attack upon 
him in the Quarterly Review. 
He who is infinite in love as well as wisdom, 
has revealed to us the fact of a future life, and 
the fearfully important relation in which the 
present stands to it. 
The actual nature and 
conditions of that life He has hidden from us— 
no chart of the ocean of Eternity is given us— 
no celestial guide-book or geography defines, 
localizes, and prepares us for the wonders of 
the spiritual world. 
Hence imagination has a 
wide field for its speculations, which, so long 
as they do not positively contradict the revela-
tion of the Scriptures, cannot be disproved. 
"We naturally enough transfer to our idea of 
heaven, whatever we love and reverence on 
earthr Thither the Catholic carries in his fancy 
the imposing rites and time-honored solemni-
ties of his worship. There the Methodist sees 
his love-feasts and camp-meetings, in the groves 
and by the still waters and green pastures of 
the blessed abodes. 
The Quaker, in the still-
ness of his self-communing, remembers that 
there was " silence in heaven." 
The Church-
man, listening to the solemn chant of vocal 
music, or the deep tones of the organ, thinks 
of the song of the elders, and the golden harps 
of the New Jerusalem. 
The heaven of the northern nations of Eu-
rope was a gross and sensual reflection of the 
earthly life of a barbarous and brutal people. 
The Indians of North America had a vague 
notion of a sun-set land—a beautiful paradise 
far in the west—mountains and forests filled 
with deer and buffalo — lakes and streams 
swarming with fishes — the happy hunting-
ground of souls. In a late letter from a devoted 
missionary among the western Indians, (Paul 
Blohm, a converted Jew,) we have noticed a 
beautiful illustration of this belief. 
Near the 
Omahaw mission-house, on a high bluff, was a 
solitary Indian grave. 
" One evening," says 
the missionary, " having come home with some 
cattle, which I had been seeking, I heard some 
one wailing, and, looking in the direction from 
whence it proceeded, I found it to be from the 
grave near our house. 
In a moment after, the 
mourner got up from a kneeling or lying pos-
ture, and, turning to the setting sun, he stretched 
forth his arms in prayer and supplication, with 
an intensity and earnestness as though he 
would detain the splendid luminary from run-
ning his course. 
With his body leaning for-
ward, and his arms stretched towards the sun, 
he presented a most striking figure of sorrow 
and petition. 
It was solemnly awful. 
He 
seemed to me to be one of the ancients, come 
forth to teach me how to pray." 
A venerable and worthy New England cler-
gyman, on his death-bed, just before the close 
of his life, declared that he was only conscious 
of an awfully solemn and intense curiosity to 
know the great secret of death and eternity. 
The excellent Dr. Nelson of Missouri, was 
one who, while on earth, seemed to live another 
and higher life, in contemplation of infinite 
purity and happiness. 
A friend of ours once 
related an incident concerning him, which made 
a deep impression upon our mind. 
They had 
been travelling through a summer's forenoon in 
the prairie, and had laid down to rest beneath 
a solitary tree. 
The Doctor lay for a long 
time, silently looking upward through the open-
ings of the boughs into the still heavens, when 
he repeated the following lines, in a low tone, 
as communing with himself, in view of the 
wonders he described:— 
" Oh the joys that are there, mortal eye hath not seen! 
Oh! the songs they sing there, with hosannas between! 
Oh, the thrice-blessed song of the Lamb and of Moses! 
Oh, brightness on brightness! the pearl-gate uncloses! 
Oh, white wings of angels! Oh, fields white with roses! 
Oh, white tents of Peace, where the rapt soul reposes! 
Oh, the waters so still, and the pastures so green ! " 
The brief hints afforded us by the sacred 
writings concerning the " better land," are in-
spired and beautiful. Eye hath not seen, nor 
the ear heard, neither hath it entered into the 
heart of man to conceive of the good in store 
for the righteous. 
Heaven is described as a 
quiet habitation-^-a rest remaining for the peo-
ple of God. 
Tears shall be wiped away from 
all eyes; there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any 
more pain. To how many death-beds have these 
words spoken peace ! And how many failing 
hearts have gathered strength from them to 
pass through the dark valley of shadows. 
Yet we should not forget that " the kingdom 
of heaven is within ; " that it is the state and 
affections of the soul; the answer of a good 
conscience; the sense of harmony with God; 
a condition of time 4s well as of eternity.— 
What is really momentous and all-important 
with us is the present, by which the future is 
shaped and colored. A mere change of locality 
cannot alter the actual and intrinsic qualities of 
the soul. 
Guilt and remorse would make the 
golden streets of Paradise intolerable as the 
burning marl of the infernal abodes, while pu-
rity and innocence would transform hell itself 
into heaven.—J. G. Whittier. 
Fourth Universal Monarchy. 
NUMBER 
XII. 
Though we have dated the mingling <?f the 
German dynasty with the Roman family as con-
querors of that race, at A. D. 476; yet, the 
same barbarians began to occupy parts of that 
territory more than half a century earlier. We 
have previously noticed the four great struggles 
of the German dynasty with the Roman, for 
supremacy, noticed in the scripture, under the 
symbols of four trumpets (Rev. 8:7-13), which 
resulted in the infliction of a " deadly wound " 
on the head of the Roman dynasty, and the 
transfer of supreme power, or the " diadem," 
to the Romano-German family; we shall no-
tice the incipient steps, for the erection of ten 
powers, on which, for a " short time" supreme 
authority is to rest. 
These ten powers, or 
kingdoms, are of German origin ; or, at least, 
ten kingdoms of the German race arose in the 
fifth century. 
The enumeration of different 
authors is slightly varied, though not sufficient 
to affect the general rule. 
Reckoning all the 
different kingdoms noted in their lists, there 
would be thirteen. 
What ten must we select 
from the thirteen ? 
On this point we shall not 
be very positive that ours are the true ten. The 
difficulty arises, in part, on fixing upon the 
three which were humbled by the little horn. 
Machiaval, Lloyd, Sir I. Newton, Bishop New-
ton, Whiston, and Faber, with two exceptions, 
declare the remaining seven to be, " 1. Vandals, 
2. Suevi, 3. Alans, 4. Burgundians, 5. Franks, 
6. Visigoths, 7. Anglo-Saxon." 
We give the 
following, as the list of the ten, viz.: Vandals, 
Suevi, Alans, Burgundians, Franks, Visigoths, 
Anglo-Saxons, 
OSTROGOTHS, LOMBARDS, 
HERD-
LI. The last three being the ones "plucked 
up," by the little horn. 
We shall notice the 
establishment of the ten kingdoms in the order 
above named. 
Our information is from stan-
dard works. 
1. Vandals. " The Vandals who 
entered Gaul in 406, soon passed into Spain, 
and after occupying of that province for near 
twenty years, in 427 invaded Africa, wrested it 
from the Romans, instituted an independent 
kingdom, and ruled it until the year 533."— 
Lord. 
" The Suevi, who at the same period 
passed through Gaul, conquered Gallicia, in 
Spain, and maintained a kingdom till 585, 
a space of one hundred and ^seventy-seven 
years."—lb. 
" Of the Alans, who entered 
Gaul in 407, a part advanced into Spain, and 
after sustaining a separate government eight or 
nine years, were conquered by the Vandals and 
Suevi, and passed with the former into Africa. 
Another body settled on the Rhine, and in 440 
in Valencia. 
They repulsed Attila from Or-
leans, their capital, on his invasion of Gaul in 
451, and were stationed in the centre of the 
army by which he was defeated at the battle of 
Chalons. 
On his invasion of their territory in 
453, they were supported by the Goths, and 
gained another victory. In 464 they invaded 
Italy, and laid waste Liguria. 
Clovis extended 
his conquests over their territory, as far as the 
Liger, in 485, but they continued to subsist as 
a separate people till 507, and perhaps a few 
years later, when they were conquered by the 
Franks."—lb. " The Burgundians established 
themselves in Belgic Gaul in 407. 
After a 
few years they obtained possession of Savoy, 
and subsequently of Gaul on the Rhone, and 
maintained a separate kingdom till 524, when 
they were conquered by the Franks. 
On the 
division of the French kingdom, it again be-
came a separate state, and continued most of 
the time for several centuries."—lb. 
" The 
Franks also entered Gaul in 407, and within 
a few years established a kingdom on the 
Rhine, which they continued to maintain and 
advance, until in the sixth century, it extended 
over the whole of the territory which had been 
held by the Romans, and subsisted through sev-
eral centuries."—lb. 
" The Visigoths, in 408, 
passed from Italy into the south of France, 
maintained a kingdom there till the year 506, 
when, being driven by the Franks into Spain, 
they wrested a part of it from the Suevi, and 
in 585 extended their sway over the whole pen-
insula."—lb. 
The Saxons invaded the island 
of Britain in 449, and soon after established a 
kingdom which had been held by the Romans, 
and subsisted through several centuries."—lb. 
" The Oi trogoths, who were under the domin-
ion of Attila, on the dissolution of his empire 
settled in Pannonia, and continued to hold their 
share of that province, and part of Illyria, till 
their invasion of Italy, and conquest of the 
Heruli, in 493."—Ib. " The Lombards, who 
were a branch of the Gepidaa, were also under 
the sway of Attila at the period of his inva-
sion of Gaul and Italy; and on the dissolution 
of his empire in 455, assumed a portion of Pan-
nonia, which they continued to retain till the 
reign of Justinian, when they conquered the 
Gepidse, whose seats were within the Eastern 
empire, principally, and on the north of the 
Danube. 
They subsequently extended the con-
quests towards the west to Bavaria. 
In 568 
tfiey invaded and conquered Italy, where they 
maintained their empire till near the close of the 
eighth century."—.ft. 
" The Hendi, who had 
also been under the sway of Attila, in 476 
crossed the Danube into Noricum, and advanc-
ing into Italy, where they maintained their em-
pire till conquered by the Ostrogoths in 493. 
After having conquered and dethroned Augus-
tulus, and having proclaimed Odoacer, their 
leader, king of Italy."—Ib. 
" These separate 
dynasties are with propriety united in a single 
symbol, and exhibited as one great combination 
of usurping tyrants, from the similarity of their 
arrogatiohs, policy, and rulers. 
They were all 
feudatory monarchies. 
They all adopted, in a 
large degree, the laws of the ancient empire as 
their common law. 
They united in the same 
usurpation of the divine rights, in imposing the 
same false religion on their subjects, and in a 
similar hostility to the true people of God. 
They all nationalized the church, and all per-
secuted dissenters."—Ib. 
We have now traced the history of the fourth 
monarchy to the year 476. 
That year, as we 
have seen, was eventful: the year in which 
the supremacy departed from the Roman dy-
nasty, to be found henceforth with the ROMANO-
GERMAN family. The whole empire had been 
convulsed for more than a century with the 
disputes of the two races. The Roman family 
from the day it conquered Macedon, had seen 
no equal. 
Though waging frequent wars with 
Peresia, Rome was generally victorious; in its 
wealth, great, in its strength, "pure iron." 
The Romans had early warning of the danger 
to be apprehended from the swarms of the 
northern hive. 
Their dominions had early 
been laid waste by these savage northmen. 
The Germans—" Ghar-men "—warriors had 
often carried ruin through the fairest parts of 
Italy. 
It was not, however, until the days of 
Constantine that any serious danger as to the 
final issue, was apprehended. 
Up to that date 
few honors had been conferred upon barbarians; 
but they had been so long mingling as servants 
and soldiers, that further promotion was abso-
lutely requisite. 
In vain did the Roman family 
resort to the plan of fencing them out by a wall 
from the Rhine to the Danube, and by armies 
along those rivers. 
Having tasted of the wines 
of Italy, and luxuriated upon its soil—no hu-
man bar could impede, for any length of time, 
their inroads. 
The Roman family, in conse-
quence of its great wealth, had grown effemi-
nate. 
They were not able to compete with the 
hardy warriors of the north. 
The period from 
the year 337 to 476 was marked with continual 
conflicts between the two families. 
Under Ala-
ric, Genseric, Attila, Odoacer, and Theodoric, 
the barbarian family had acquired such power 
that the Roman dynasty gave way, and their 
supremacy all transferred to the barbarians, who 
began their reign in 476. 
From the year 384 to 
476, the deadly wound is inflicted on the sixth 
head, by the four thrusts of the German family. 
The Roman family does not, however, become 
extinct. 
Though physically 
conquered, yet 
they are morally the conquerors. 
They caused 
the Germans to adopt their'language, their 
laws, their religion. 
In a word, the iron con-
tinues, yet the clay nation, or family, has the 
supremacy: 
Hence the propriety of the term 
Romano-German. 
J. P. 
WEETHEE. 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the existence of the kingdom of Israel, terminated in 
the sixth year of Hezekiah. 
To prove that the right length has been assigned to 
the reigns of the several kings, we have only to ascer-
tain if the sums of the reigns of the two branches of 
the kingdom from the accession of Jehu to the ninth 
of Hoshea are equal. 
'BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH!!' 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 4,1548. 
Kings of Judah. 
Q. Athaliah -
Jehoash 
Amaziah 
Interregnum 
Uzziah - 
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Jotham 
Ahaz 
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Hezekiah 
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Sacred Chronology— 
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND 
JUDAH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
JOTHAM.—" In the second year of Pekah the son 
of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of 
Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 
Five and twenty 
years old was he when he began to reign, and he 
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem." 2 K. 15:32, 33. 
As Jotham began to reign in the second year of 
Pekah, his sixteenth and last would synchronize with 
the seventeenth of Pekah, B.C. 741, A.M. 3420. 
AHAZ.—" And Jotham slept with his fathers, and 
was buried with his fathers in the city of David his 
father: and Ahaz reigned in his stead." 2 K. 15:38. 
Ch. 16:1,2—" In the seventeenth year of Pekah the 
son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of 
Judah began to reign. 
Twenty years old was Ahaz 
when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in 
Jerusalem," to b.C. 725, A. M. 3436. 
2 Kings 15 : 30—" And Hoshea the son of Elah 
made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Rema-
liah, and smote him, and reigned in his stead, in the 
twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah." 
As Ahaz began to reign in the seventeenth year of 
Pekah, and Jotham reigned in all but sixteen years 
from the second of Pekah, it follows that the twen-
tieth year of Pekah, when Hoshea came against him 
and slew him, must have been three years after the 
death of Jotham, or in the third year of Ahaz, which 
would be in the twentieth year from the commence-
ment of Jotham's reign. 
2 Kings 17:1—" In the twelfth year of Ahaz king 
of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah, to reign in 
Samaria nine years." 
As Hoshea slew Pekah in the third year of Ahaz, 
and did not begin to reign in his stead-till the twelfth, 
it follows that from the death of Pekah to the com-
mencement of the reign of Hoshea, was an interreg-
num of nine years. This was the second interregnum 
that occurred in the reigns of the kings of Israel. 
HEZEKIAH.—" And Ahaz slept with his fathers, 
and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; 
but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the 
kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his 
stead." 2 Chron. 28:27. 
2 Kings 18 : 1, 2—" Now it came to pass in the 
third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that 
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to 
reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jeru-
salem," to B.c. 696, A. M. 3465. 
2 K. 18:9-12—" And it came to pass in the fourth 
year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year 
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shal-
maneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria 
and besieged it. And at the end of three years they 
took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, (that is, 
in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,) Samaria 
was taken. 
And the king of Assyria did carry away 
Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in 
Hobar by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the 
Medes : because they obeyed not the voice of the 
LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and 
all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, 
and would not hear them nor do them." 
2 Kings 17:7, 8, 18, 22, 23—" For so it was, that 
the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD 
their God, which had brought them up out of the 
land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king 
of Egypt, and had feared other Gods, and walked in 
the statutes of the heathen whom the LORD cast out 
from before the children of Israel, and of the kings 
of Israel, which they had made. . . . Therefore the 
LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them 
out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of 
Judah only. .. . For the children of Israel walked in 
all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed 
not from them; until the LORD removed Israel out of 
his sight, as he had said by all his servants the pro-
phets. 
So was Israel carried away out of their own 
land to Assyria unto this day." 
As the reign of Hezekiah commenced in the third 
year of Hoshea, the ninth and last of Hoshea, with 
6 
40 
29 
11' 
52 
16 
16 
6 
Kings of Israel. 
Jehu 
.
.
. 
Jehoahaz 
-
Jehoash 
Jeroboam II. 
1st Interregnum 
Zachariah & Shallum 
Menahem 
Pekaiah 
Pekah -
2d Interregnum -
Hoshea 
176 
28 
17 
16 
41 
23 
1 
10 
2 
20 
9 
9 
176 
It is thus sfeen that the sums of the reigns of the 
two lines of kings are equal. If to one hundred and 
seventy-six we add ninety-five, the length of time 
that intervened from the revolt of the ten tribes, we 
have two hundred and seventy-one years. 
And if 
from this we deduct thirty-two years, the length of 
the two interregnums, we have two hundred and thir-
ty-nine full, or two hundred and forty current, years, 
which JOSEPHUS gives (Ant. 9. 14, 1) as the length 
of the reigns of the kings of Israel. 
2 Kings 18:13, 17—" Now in the fourteenth year 
of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria 
come up against alHhe fenced cities of Judah, and 
took them. . . And the king of Assyria sent Tartan 
and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachesh to king 
Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem." But 
when Hezekiah had prayed unto the LORD, " it came 
to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went 
out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hun-
dred, four score and five thousand: and when they 
arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead 
corpses." 2 Kings 19 : 35. 
" In these days was Hezekiah sick unto death."— 
And when he had prayed, the LORD sent by Isaiah, 
saying, " I will add unto thy days fifteen years."— 
And when these were fulfilled, " Hezekiah slept with 
his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his 
stead." 2 Kings 20:1, 6, 21. 
" MANASSEH was twelve years old when he began 
to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusa-
lem," to B.C. 641, A. M. 3520. "And he did that 
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the 
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast 
out before the children of Israel. . . . And the LORD 
spake by his servants the prophets, saying, Because 
Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abomina-
tions,. and hath done wickedly above all that the 
Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made 
Judah also to sin with his idols: therefore thus saith 
the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such 
evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever hear-
eth of it, both his ears shall tingle. And I will stretch 
over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet 
of the house of Ahab : and I will wipe Jerusalem as 
a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside 
down. 
And I will forsake the remnant of mine in-
heritance, and deliver them into the hand of their 
enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to 
all their enemies." 2 Kings 21:1, 2, 10-14. 
" Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the cap-
tains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took 
Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fet-
ters, and carried him to Babylon." 2 Chron. 33:11. 
It is supposed by commentators, that at this time 
was also fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah delivered in 
the second year of Ahaz, when " Rezin the king of 
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, 
went up toward Jerusalem to war against it," viz., 
Isa. 7 : 7, 8—" Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not 
stand, neither shall it come to pass. 
For the head of 
Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is 
Rezin: and within three score and five years shall 
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." 
" It was sixty-five years from the beginning of the 
reign of Ahaz, when this prophecy was delivered, to 
the total depopulation of the kingdom of Israel by 
Esarhaddon, who carried away the remains of the ten 
tribes which had been left by Tiglath-pileser, and 
Shalmaneser, and who planted the country with new 
inhabitants. That the country was not wholly stripped 
of its inhabitants by Shalmaneser appears from many 
passages of the history of Josiah, where Israelites 
are mentioned as still remaining there : 2 Chron. 34 : 
6, 7, 33; 35:18 ; 2 Kings 23:19, 20. 
This seems to 
be the best explanation of the chronological difficulty 
in this place, which has much embarrassed the com-
mentators. 
See Vsserii Annal. V. T. ad. an. 3327, 
and Sir I. Newton, Chronol. p. 283. 
" ' That the last deportation of Israel by Esarhad-
don was in the sixty-fifth 
year after the second of 
Ahaz, is probable for the following reasons : The 
Jews, in Seder Olam Rabba, and the Talmudists, in 
D. Kimchi, on Ezek. 4th, say, that Manasseh king 
of Judah was carried to Babylon by the king of As-
syria's captains, 2 Chron. 33:11, in the twenty-second 
year of his reign ; that is, before Christ 676, accord-
ing to Dr. Blair's tables. 
And they are probably 
right in this. 
It could not be much earlier; as the 
king of Assyria was not king of Babylon till 680, ibid. 
As Esarhaddon was then in the neighborhood of Sa-
maria, it is highly probable that he did then carry 
away the last remains of Israel, and brought those 
strangers thither who mention him as their founder. 
Ezra 4 : 2. 
But this year is just the sixty-fifth from 
the second of Ahaz, which was 740 before Christ.— 
Now the carrying away the remains of Israel, who, 
till then, though their kingdom was destroyed forty-
five years before, and though small in number, might 
yet keep up some form of being a people, by living 
according to their own laws, entirely put an end to 
the people of Israel, as a people separate from all 
others : for from this time they never returned to their 
own country in a body, but. were confounded with 
the people of Judah in the captivity; and the whole 
people, the ten tribes included, were called Jews.'— 
Dr. Jubb. 
Two MSS. have twenty-five instead of 
sixty-fiveand 
two others omit the word five, reading 
only sixty."—Dr. 
Clarke. 
2 Chron. 33 : 12, 13—" And when he [Manasseh] 
was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and 
humbled himself greatly before the God of his fa-
thers, and prayed unto him : and he was entreated of 
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him 
again to Jerusalem into his kingdom." 
2 Chron. 33:20—" So Manasseh slept with his fa-
thers, and they buried him in his own house: and 
Amon his son reigned in his stead." 
(To be concluded in out next.) 
Death of John Quincy Adams. 
" A great man has fallen!" During the firing of 
cannon on the 22d ult., in commemoration of the an-
niversary of WASHINGTON'S birth day, intelligence 
was received, by Telegraph, that ex-President AD-
AMS was suddenly attacked with paralysis, in the 
House of Representatives, the day previous. 
He 
was seized at his seat, and on attempting to rise, fell 
back in his chair, out of which he would have drop-
ped had he not been caught by Mr. FISHER, a mem-
ber of the House, who received him in his arms. 
He 
was then borne by several gentlemen into the area in 
front of the clerk's table, when, at the suggestion of 
the Speaker, the House immediately adjourned. He 
was carried on a sofa into the rotunda, where a medi-
cal member of the House attended him, administering 
water and bathing him with spirits, while others re-
pressed the crowd which gathered around from all 
quarters. 
The sofa was then moved nearer to the 
door which opens on the Eastern portico, for the sake 
of fresh air, but was finally taken up on the shoulders 
of several gentlemen and borne into the Speaker's 
room. 
The words which Mr. ADAMS uttered, in a low but 
distinct tone, as he sank on the left side of his chair, 
and at the moment when he was stricken by the hand 
of death, were these— 
"THIS 
IS THE LAST OF EARTH—I AM CONTENT!" 
These were the last words he uttered. 
He con-
tinued till the 23d ult., when he died like Chatham, 
in the Senate House—in the Speaker's room. 
He 
was 80 years of age last July. 
Mrs. ADAMS, during 
his illness, was unable to leave her bed, from indis-
position. 
His son, CHARLES F. ADAMS, of this city, 
was sent for immediately on the attack, and started 
by the first conveyance. 
Mr. ADAMS was one of the remarkable men of his 
age. 
He commenced public life at the age of 14, as 
secretary to Mr. FRANCIS DANE, Foreign Minister to 
Russia, and has been in public life nearly all the time 
since—filling the responsible stations of foreign min-
ister, senator, and representative in Congress, Presi 
dent of the United States, &c. 
He was a member of the Unitarian church in Quin-
cy, when it was orthodox, and never changed his 
connection with it; but his public writings and con-
versation abundantly indicated that he regarded his 
Saviour as the Being to whom he looked for the for-
giveness of his sins. 
He had some peculiar views respecting the Scrip-
tures. 
Two years since he astonished the country 
by advocating the possession of the whole of Oregon, 
on the ground that the Scriptures commanded us to 
replenish the earth. 
It might be for this reason that 
he justified the war of England against the Chinese ; 
supposing that the more enlightened nations were 
thus to carry civilization over the earth. 
It is stated, 
that in the circle of his immediate friends he frequent-
ly spoke of the conquest of Mexico, as breaking one 
of the seals, by which that country is to be opened 
to the free admission of light. 
The New York Sun 
of Feb. 10th mentions that at a meeting of friends 
at the house of a celebrated professor of theology, on 
Christmas, 1843, it was stated, as the prediction of 
that great statesman, based on scriptural prophecy, 
that within seven years we should be involved in a 
great war, which would also be our last, and that it 
would involve other nations in the contest, and finally 
end in the peace of a thousand years foretold in scrip-
ture. 
He recently said to a friend, that ever since he was 
thirty years old, he had been accustomed, among the 
first things, to read the Bible every morning. 
With 
few interruptions, he has followed the practice over 
half a century. 
He has read seven different versions, 
in the German, French, Greek, and Latin languages, 
besides various English translations. 
He was well versed in the modern languages of 
Europe, and when President, was in the habit of giv-
ing audience to the ambassadors of every nation in 
their own language. 
/ 
Like Begets Like, 
EVERY family of man has its peculiar lineaments, 
which are transmitted from generation to generation. 
National peculiarities are so strongly marked, that 
emigrants to any land cannot deceive the intelligent 
eye respecting their origin. 
And their descendants, 
even through many generations, indicate their origin, 
by the strong national characteristics they have inher-
ited from their ancestors. 
The same principle holds true in the moral affinities 
of families. 
With here and there an exception, the 
miserly father transmits his miserly propensities to his 
son ; and the benevolent has sons inheriting his be-
nevolent desires. 
And so with the other propensi-
ties of the human heart. 
This is not only true in 
genealogical descent, but the rule holds good in the 
social affinities of the race. 
As among the feathered 
songsters of the woods and groves, those whose fea-
thers are of the same hue, and which carol the same 
songs, wing together in aerial gambols ; so men, 
whose hearts beat high in unison, will delight in so-
cial converse with each other. 
They are drawn to-
gether by a natural affinity. The society of the great 
and good, is only coveted by those whose moral sen-
sibilities render them suitable partakers of such en-
joyment. 
The hells of the gamblers and debauchees, 
and the bar-room circle, number none whose tastes 
and habits do not fit them for such society. 
Minds 
similarly actuated are drawn together by the tendrils 
of sympathy which entwine themselves around each 
other's heart-strings. 
And hearts which do not beat 
in unison, are similarly repulsed. 
The noble, the 
whole-souled, the generous, those whose hearts are 
expanded with love towards God, and good will to-
wards men, delight in the presence of spirits similar-
ly actuated. 
The selfish, those who regard their 
own interests as the great end of their living, the 
sour and morose, the possessors of a coarse denuncia-
tory spirit, love not to mingle with such angelic 
minds. 
This principle of the affinity of likes, will account 
in a great measure for the division and separation 
of mankind into sects and parties : each man finds his 
own level, politically, morally, religiously. Oil and 
water will not mix; nor will good and evil. Benevo-
lence cannot associate with selfishness, nor love with 
hate. 
It is for this cause that different parties and 
sects have certain habits of thought, and casts of 
mind, so that it is no difficult matter to judge from 
the shape of a man's head and the lineaments of his 
physiognomy, what people he would most delight to 
mingle with. 
Men of given moral affinities not only draw around 
them men of like affinities, but they beget like 
thoughts and feelings in the hearts of those they as-
sociate with. 
One sour-minded, morose, selfish indi-
vidual will corrupt a whole society. 
One man, whose 
pen is dipped in gall and wormwood, may corrupt a 
whole denomination: the abettors and sympathizers 
of such will go down, down, down, till it becomes al-
most impossible for them again to ascend to what now 
appears to them the giddy height from whence they 
have fallen. 
On the other hand, the pure-minded, the practically 
godly man, who deals not merely in words, which 
cost nothing, but whose deeds proclaim his thoughts; 
he begets like feelings among his associates. 
Thus 
some whole societies are very generous. others, very 
penurious. 
Some few individuals in each case have 
given the tone and bearing to the whole. 
Men do[not 
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles. 
Love 
will not beget hate, nor hate love. 
How important, 
then, it is, that those who would benefit their fellow 
pilgrims bound to the same goal, should cultivate 
within themselves such habits of thought and ho-
ly affection, as will exert around them an influence 
for good—that they should not feed that morbid de-
nunciatory spirit of hate which is so easily excited, 
and so hard to be allayed. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
37 
LETTERS OF COMMENDATION.—We have frequent-
ly felt great indecision respecting the publication of 
the commendations of our friends. If we alone were 
to be affected by these expressions of confidence, we 
should promptly leave unpublished every reference to 
ourselves. 
For while it is very pleasant to learn that 
our labors are valued and approved by our co-laborers 
in the cause we have espoused, we have learned long 
since to be very little affected by the commendations 
of friends, or the malignings of foes: a higher and 
holier object than this is the goal of our ambition. 
Therefore, we publish none of these for any consider-
ation of our own. 
There is, however, another mo-
tive : the friends of the cause, who look to the Her-
ald as the exponent and defender of their faith, are 
interested in its welfare : they are anxious to know 
of its prosperity : they wish to learn the opinions of 
each other through its columns,—the only channel 
they have for exchanging their thoughts respecting it. 
We regard the Herald as their servant and agent, in 
duty bound to furnish them with these words of en-
couragement and approbation, that each may know 
he is not alone in his thoughts and feelings. We do 
not flatter ourselves that the Herald has been directed 
and guided solely by our own wisdom. 
We humbly 
believe that ONE wiser than man has directed and con-
trolled, has preserved and strengthened us, and has 
oft times given us wisdom to act, when we should 
otherwise have failed in our aim. 
If, therefore, 
there is any merit in the course we have taken, and if 
we have been enabled for eight long years to adminis-
ter to the spiritual wants of brethren and sisters, let 
all the praise and glory be to God, whose we are, 
and whom we serve 
Mr. WINTIIROP, Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, in commenting on the death of Mr. ADAMS, 
paid the following tribute to his memory:—" What-
ever advanced age, long experience, great ability, 
vast learning, accumulated public honors, a spotless 
private character, and a firm religious faith, could do, 
to render any one an object of interest, respect, and 
admiration, they had done for this distinguished per-
son ; and interest, respect, and admiration, are but 
feeble terms to express the feelings with which the 
members of this House, and the people of the coun-
try, have long regarded him." 
THE 
LENGTH 
OF DAYS.—At Berlin and London, 
the longest day has sixteen and a half hours. 
At 
Stockholm and Upsal, the longest- day has eighteen 
and a half hours. 
At Hamburg, Dantzic, and Stet-
tin, the longest day has seventeen hours, and the 
shortest seven. 
At St. Petersburgh and Tobolsk, 
the longest has nineteen, and the shortest five hours. 
At Tornea, Finland, the longest day has twenty-one 
hours and a half, and the shortest two and a half.— 
At Wanderbus, in Norway, the day lasts from May 
21st to July 22d without interruption. 
At Spitzber-
gen the longest is three and a half months. 
STEAM.—" Steam," said Mr. WEBSTER, in a re-
cent speech, " is on the rivers, and the boatmen may 
repose on their oars; it is in the highways, and be-
gins to exert itself along the courses of land convey-
ances ; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet 
below the earth's surface ; it is in the mill, and in the 
workshops of the trades. 
It rows, it pumps, it ex-
cavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it 
weaves, it spins, it prints." 
The Cosmogony of the Earth. 
EVENING 
CONVERSATIONS 
BETWEEN 
EARTH-READER 
AND BIBLE-READER.—ON THE CREATION. 
[Continued from our last.] 
E. R.—In regard to the constitution of the air, it 
has already been sfiown that the effect of such an at-
mosphere as you speak of would be directly the op-
jposite of what you suppose. 
The atmosphere which 
produced the plants that these large animals fed on, 
must have been very " impure " for man ; and if, as 
you suppose, during this period the coal deposites 
were formed, it was not possible for man then to ex-
ist, since the amount of carbonic acid gas necessary 
for the growth of those plants would have made the 
air poisonous for him to breathe. 
B. R.—I judge differently. If all the carbon which 
entered into the structure of the woody fibre which 
forms our coal-beds, was at any period disengaged, 
and existed in the atmosphere in the form of carbonic 
acid gas—which is a constituent of our atmosphere, 
in the proportion of one part in a thousand—it might 
have been difficult for man to breathe it. 
But before 
the creation of man, in obedience to the word of God, 
MOSES informs us that on the third day " the earth 
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his 
kind, and the TREE yielding fruit, whose seed was in 
itself, after his kind." 
Thus we learn that vegeta-
tion was created in its maturity. 
And we know not 
but it may have covered the earth in dense forest. If 
so, this superabundance of carbon would have been 
absorbed by the first generation of vegetation, before 
man's creation on the sixth day. New vegetation 
might be formed as fast, and no faster, than the pre-
vious vegetaticfti decayed, so as to absorb the disen-
gaged carbon, and continue the luxuriant growth, 
leaving the atmosphere perfectly adapted to the respi-
ratory organs of man. 
Even if it was not all thus 
absorbed, it being the heaviest constituent of the at-
mosphere, its tendency is to the caverns and hollows* 
of the earth's surface ; and consequently man could 
with impunity have lived in the elevated parts of the 
limited portions of the earth's surface beyond which 
his residence would not necessarily then extend : or 
portions of gas might have been absorbed by such rock 
as has an affinity to it, to be given out as the increase 
of vegetation required. 
The coal deposite exhibits 
evidence of being mostly the result of a single growth 
of vegetation; i. e. what was growing at one time 
on the earth. 
And I suppose that—with the excep-
tion of what accumulated at the mouths of rivers, in 
fresh water lakes, or was carried into the ocean by 
the action of the rivers during 1656 years anterior to 
the flood,—it consists of the forests existing just pre-
vious to the deluge, submerged by the action of its 
waters, and the breaking up of the fountains of the 
great deep. 
There is no more carbon in the coal de-
posite than before existed in the woody fibre of which 
the coal is composed. 
The changing of the wood to 
coal would neither expel, or absorb any additional 
carbon; it would merely retain the carbon of the 
wood, and expel its foreign constituents. 
There 
would, therefore, be the same amount of carbonic 
acid in the atmosphere after the deluge, as existed 
before the deluge, after the earth had been once dense-
ly covered with a growth of wood; and consequently 
man could have breathed the atmosphere before the 
coal deposites were formed. 
E. R.—I am pleased to admit all you say respect-
ing the process of the forming of coal from woody 
fibre, &c.; but as to man's growing small in stature, 
and his years becoming fewer, &c.; I shall reserve 
any remarks I may have to make till some future 
stage of this conversation. 
Your remarks draw me 
toward the gist of the argument. 
We must now 
take a step downward through the recent and tertiary 
geological periods into the midst of the great sec-
ondary deposites'. 
The chalk formation 
attracts our notice.—This 
formation is about 3000 feet in thickness, and is com-
posed of the remains of animals, as any one may see 
by taking a piece of comraon chalk, and carefully 
dusting oft a few grains, and placing them in the 
range of a microscope; upon doing so, we see an in-
finite number of animalculae. 
These small animals 
are mostly shell-fish, and all of marine origin. 
Each 
one of them must have had time to run its brief round 
of existence—like any other animal, it must have 
passed through its periods of growth and decay. 
In 
view of these facts, does not the impression force itself 
on the mind that it must have taken a very long time 
for a deposite of this thickness to have been made by 
this process? 
It is a fundamental principle among 
geologists at the present day, that the same processes 
of formation are continually going on at the present 
time as have been going on at all past times. 
We 
see processes similar to those of the chalk forma-
tion going forward now; we infer that like results 
were formerly produced in like manner, and in like 
spaces of time, unless we know of some conditions 
that have varied. 
B. R.—The chalk formation is evidently of animal 
origin: but I see not why it may not have been 
formed in a much shorter space of time than you im-
agine. 
It is not spread over the entire earth's sur-
face ; its greatest thickness is found only in a few lo-
calities, like the chalk cliffs of Dover, England, &c. 
The present growth of any formation is not always in 
the ratio of its growth during past ages. 
The little 
marine insects, of whose shells the chalk formation is 
chiefly composed, required a certain kind of food for 
the development of their shell. 
When this food was 
abundant, they would naturally exist in greater num-
bers than when there was a scarcity of material. 
There must now be so much less of the constituent 
material of that formation, now existing in other 
forms, as there is of it in the chalk formation. 
Conse-
quently, it is so much less abundant now than in the 
early ages: so that the ratio of its present deposite 
may not be that of a former deposite. 
And therefore 
the formation may have been produced in a period of 
time very short, compared to that indicated by present 
accumulations. 
HARRIS remarks, that in this forma-
tion, " crowded as it is with conchological remains, 
not a shell of one of all the seven thousand existing 
species is discoverable." 
Thus we see the reason 
why this deposite is not now being formed as in past 
ages: the species of marine insects, whose shells have 
accumulated, do not exist. 
The purity of this depos-
ite,—its freedom from foreign substances, proves that 
when these insects did exist, they must have 
filled the ocean with numberless myriads. 
For all 
that we know to the contrary, these may have been 
exterminated by subsequent marine inhabitants. 
The 
chalk formation is only found in particular localities. 
No evidence has been yet presented of its extent. 
The most stri-
* An illustration of this is seen when a well is filled with this gas, 
while the air is pure above it. 
There is very little chalk in America, 
king localities of this deposite are on the coast of Eng-
land ; and it is very easy to imagine how they were 
there accumulated:—the Gulf Stream, which extends 
across the entire Atlantic, washes the western coast 
of England ; and when the ocean abounded with the 
insects, they may have been carried there by the cur-
rents of the ocean, depositing it in a comparatively 
short space of time. 
The chalk formation is, there-
fore, to us, no obstacle against the receiving of the 
letter of the Mosaic text. 
E. R.—My friend admits that these beds are of ani 
mal origin, and as they must have been a consid-
erable length of time in forming, he will probably admit 
that they must have taken up more than one week of 
time. We shall subsequently, if we have not already, 
show that this deposite was made anterior to man's 
coming upon the earth ; if both these things are so, the 
earth must have been more time in coming into its 
present state, than six revolutions of itself upon its 
own axis. 
Let us now proceed downward still further in our 
readings. 
We pass through the intermediate strata 
and distinct formations, and come at once to the great 
coal formation, or carbonaceous deposite. 
Far below 
the chalk, and nearly at the bottom of the fossiliferous 
strata, we find this formation. Where did this vast 
deposite come from?—From the air, where it was 
once held in suspension as carbonic acid gas. 
My 
friend knows as well as myself what almost inex-
haustible quantities of coal there are in almost all 
parts of the earth, and therefore no time need be spent 
in showing this fact; but let us look a few moments 
at what must have taken place in connection with its 
formation. And first we observe, that it is of vegeta-
ble origin, and of that sort of growth which is called 
" endogenous," a kind of plant that grows from the 
bark inwardly, unlike the oak, and most of the forest 
growths of our latitude,and like our Indian corn ,and most 
of the growths of the torrid zone, and also a kind of 
plant that never attains great size except in very warm 
climates. We have many specimens—rings of trunks, 
or even whole trunks themselves, showing that these 
plants were often many feet in diameter; and since 
coal is extensively found in the temperate zones, and 
high northern latitudes, we infer that a much warmer 
state of the atmosphere must have then existed than 
at present. 
In fact, the plants that go to make up 
the coal formation could not grow by any heat of 
atmosphere, of which we have any experience ; for it 
is well known that the sun's rays are the principal 
agent in preparing food for plants, by separating the 
carbonic acid from atmospheric air ; nor could any 
highly organized animals live at that time in the re-
gions where these plants grew ; since the constitution 
of the air at that time made it absolutely unfit for 
such animals to breathe, and its temperature was so 
high as to have speedily disorganized almost all highly 
formed animal substances. 
We find no traces of the 
existence of warm-blooded animals during this period. 
Perhaps a few of the lower organized and inferior 
animals might in some parts of the earth-as the extreme 
north and south—at that time have lived ; for there 
were different degrees of heat and cold then, as now, 
in different latitudes. 
Why did not those sudden 
convulsions that buried up and preserved the plants 
of that time, preserve also highly organized animals, 
that might then have been roaming amongst the herb-
age?—Simply because there were none to be pre-
served. 
The air we breathe, and out of which plants 
now grow, has but a very few parts of carbonic acid gas 
^n a thousand. If an excess above this usual quantity, so 
small as hardly to be detected by any ordinary analy-
sis, makes the air poisonous to breathe, what must 
it have been when a quantity sufficient to feed the old 
coal plants was diffused through it? 
Nor did this 
process go on with rapidity, and then in a short time 
cease. 
Although the coal deposite is in all several 
thousand feet in thickness, yet it is in layers some fifty 
feet thick. 
Between these layers, which are, of 
course, of land formation, are other and sea forma-
tions ; consequently, the process of making coal from 
plants, which process we very well understand, was 
carried on over and over, some thirty or forty times, 
during this carboniferous period. 
It must, then, have 
taken TIME—an incalculable length of time; and 
since we have shown that this must have gone on an-
terior to the advent of man, but yet posterior to the 
chaotic period, more than six days of twenty-four 
hours each, must have been occupied in fitting up this 
ball for the residence of our father ADAM. 
B. R.—You have read a long chapter from your 
book, the earth. 
Respecting the existence of car-
bonic acid in the atmosphere before the formation of 
the coal-beds, I have already shown that what was 
disengaged by the decomposition of vegetation 
would be amply sufficient for the supply of each suc-
ceeding growth ; that once covering the earth with a 
dense vegetable growth, would be all sufficient to 
keep the earth thus covered, without an undue pro-
portion of carbonic acid in the atmosphere—the same 
as the dense forests of Brazil are now perpetuated 
through succeeding growths in an atmosphere not too 
highly charged with carbonic acid for man's exist-
ence. 
If that was not sufficient, God might have 
produced it as needed, from caverns of the earth, to 
which even now it tends by its specific gravity, when 
the atmosphere is too highly charged with it; or it 
might have been developed from such materials as 
have an affinity for it. 
In the woody regions of the 
earth there is now no greater abundance of this ma-
terial than in desert. 
Therefore I conclude that the 
growth of the woody fibre constituting the coal, was 
not inconsistent with man's existence at the same 
time; and consequently I am under no necessity to 
locate its formation before the creation of man, or 
within the week of creation. 
When you speak of the thickness of the coal de-
posite, it is to be remembered that such thickness 
and number of strata are only found in peculiar locali-
ties. In some parts of the earth, for thousands of 
miles in extent, no coal is found—as in Sahara, and 
parts of Asia, &c. 
Very little is found in New Eng-
land. It abounds principally in beds, or basins, where 
it may have been carried by the action of water. Coal-
beds are found of astonishing extent and thickness in 
England, France, and in various sections of Europe, 
Asia, and Africa, but the most extensive known are 
in our country. 
Coal formations abound throughout 
the Middle and Western States, particularly in the 
State of Pennsylvania. 
It is estimated that in the vi-
cinity of Pittsburgh, over three entire counties, coal 
may be found sufficient to supply the United States 
with fuel for one thousand years, if time was to con-
tinue so long. 
Some of these may have accumulated before, and 
others during the deluge. 
By accumulations in fresh 
Water lakes and at the mouths of rivers before the-de!-
uge, we can imagine many thick beds were formed 
with many strata, in certain localities. 
We see simi-
lar deposites now in the process of formation, which 
mighty changes of the earth might develop. 
Im-
mense rafts of lumber, miles in extent, and of an as-
tonishing depth, have accumulated in the waters which 
flow into the Mississippi from the west. 
That of the 
Red River is the most remarkable. 
Large quantities 
of drift wood are being carried away by all large 
streams, which flow through wooded sections. About 
1000 streams of various sizes discharge their waters 
into Lake Superior. 
The drift timber that is swept 
down these, after floating awhile in the lake, sinks to 
the bottom. 
There must therefore be in the bottom 
of that lake a large accumulation of vegetable depos-
ite. 
Thus they might accumulate during the 1656 
years preceding the deluge. 
But during that catas-
trophe, we suppose the great mass of coal was depos-
ited. The mighty growth of vegetation in the ante-
diluvian forests could not have been otherwise than 
up-rooted by the mighty commotion «f the elements. 
As the rains descended on the opening of the win-
dows of heaven, and the floods came pouring down 
the sides of the mountains, the soil would be washed 
away from the roots of the trees, leaving them to be 
carried away by the rush of waters, hurled into the 
rivers, and wafted thence into the ocean. 
Subjected 
to the action of the water, and encumbered with the 
earth which would adhere to their roots, they 
would soon sink in large masses. 
The soil of the 
old world, subjected to the same action of the ele-
ments, would rapidly accumulate upon them. 
Buried 
under such a pressure of earth and wa:er, they would 
in a short time become coal, so that on the retiring of 
the waters of the deluge, and the substitution of the 
bed of the antediluvian ocean for the earth that was 
before the flood, they would constitute the immense 
beds of coal as we now find them. 
We thus find 
them easily accounted for on this supposition. 
But 
without some mighty overturning like the deluge, and 
this supposed change in the relative position of land 
and water, it is difficult to account for them. 
(To be continued.) 
38 v 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Correspondence. 
Will He be True ? 
Will he be true ?— 
And will our Saviour come 
Down from the skies, 
To take his children home ? 
Yes, he has said, 
" Behold, I quickly come." 
FIRST 
CHORUS. 
Angelic powers above, 
Extol our King ! 
Let all the saints below, 
His glories sing. 
Mansions on earth 
Renewed he will provide, 
For all who now 
His promises confide: 
In palaces 
They will with joy reside. 
(Chorus.) 
In realms of bliss,— 
On Canaan's happy shore, 
Immortal songs, 
Shall ring for evermore, 
With harmony, 
That ne'er was heard before. 
(Chorus.) 
Then death will flee, 
And all otu^sorrows cease; 
Then trials end— 
• 
When comes the Prince of Peace, 
Then saints will see, 
With joy, their great release. 
(Chorus.) 
Then free from care, 
Amid the pastures green, 
Christ's little flock 
Will there in peace be seen; 
While waters pure, 
Will gently roll between. 
(Chorus.) 
The saints, with robes 
Celestial ever drest, 
With crowns of gold, 
Shall gain their long-sought rest, 
To live and reign 
With beauty always blest. 
(Chorus.) 
They will obtain 
Great joy and gladness all, 
When tear no more 
Shall e'er in sorrow fall; 
From pain and grief, 
Christ will his people call. 
(Chorus.) 
Lord, quick return! 
And let our waiting eyes 
See Thee descend , 
Triumphant from the skies ; 
Cherubic host, 
Our rapturous souls apprise! 
SECOND 
CHORUS. 
Then will loud anthems rise, 
When Christ shall come, 
From all the ransom'd throng, 
In heaven their home. 
D 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
Remarks on Rev. 17:1-6. 
"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vi-
als, and talked with me, Eaying unto ine, Come hither; I will show 
unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sittath upon many 
waters ; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornica-
tion, and the inhabitants of tiie earth have been made drunk with 
the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into 
the wilderness •. and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, 
tall of names of blasphemv, having seven heads and ten horns. And 
the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet-color, and decked with 
gold and precious stories and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand 
full of abominations and tilthiness of her fornication: and upon her 
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON 
THE 
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARl.OTS AND ABOMINA-
TIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with 
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: 
and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." Rev. 17 
1-6. 
What follows in this chapter is an explanation of 
the symbols in the above visions. 
And as God does 
not take symbols to explain symbols (for then, in 
turn, they would equally need to be explained), it fol-
lows that this explanation is literal. 
Any other view 
would place us upon a wide sea of uncertainty.— 
When the Lord undertakes to explain anything, he 
accomplishes his object. 
He says what he means, 
and means what he says. 
It may be inquired, then, Why he employed sym-
bols at all ? 
I answer :—By addressing the eye and 
ear, he more deeply impressed the mind of the pro-
phet, than if 
had addressed the ear only. 
The 
same increasing effect is realized with us, when the 
vision is made plain upon tables, or well represented 
upon charts. 
When we have before us a representa-
tion of what the prophet saw, we listen with more 
interest to what the revealing angel says in explana-
tion. 
God has thus arranged to impress the mind 
through two of its great inlets with the great facts of 
prophetic history. Kingdoms are first represented by 
beasts; kings, as dynasties; or on a smaller scale, 
by horns; an apostate church, by a woman, &c. 
This ten-horned beast is seen at three different 
times, because it represented the most important and 
the last kingdom upon the earth, prior to the king-
dom of God. 
Daniel (in chap. 7) saw him in vision 
tread down the whole earth, and stamp the residue 
with its feet. 
While Babylon, Medo-Persia, and 
Grecia, are represented by the lion, bear, and leopard, 
the most dreadful carnivorous beasts on the earth ; 
they were of no comparative interest to his "trou-
bled" and "grieved" spirit with the ten-horned 
beast, which was dreadful and terrible, and strong 
exceedingly. 
Daniel is informed (v. 23), that the 
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the 
earth. 
John previously saw this ten-horned beast as re-
vealed in Rev. 13th. 
Chap. 17:8—" The beast that thou sawest, was, 
and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless 
pit, and go into perdition : and they that dwell on the 
earth shall wonder, (whose names were not written 
in the book of life from the foundation of the world,) 
whey they behold the beast that was, and is not, and 
yet is." 
What! exclaims one, can that be literal? 
The beast that was, is not, and yet is ! What a para-
dox ! 
An individual in Boston, a few years ago, in 
writing against the Advent, used the figure of the 
" tag " and " tally " to test prophecy. 
The figure 
was a good one, but it fell into bad hands. 
It is well 
known that steamboats and railroads have small pieces 
of tin, on every two of which are stamped the same 
figures : one piece of tin is attached to the traveller's 
ge, and another piece, having on it the same 
number, is given to the traveller. When the baggage 
is exhibited, the traveller, by presenting his tally, 
—if it corresponds with the tag on his property—ob-
tains it. 
As there are no two " tags," or two " tal-
lies," with the same figures, the proof is evident and 
conclusive. 
Just so with history and prophecy. 
If the history 
agrees with prophecy in all its parts, the proof is cer-
tain. 
Now let us try this beast by this rule. 
If we 
can find a plate of historic events which will perfectly 
agree with this seeming paradox, that must be the 
thing intended. 
Most every one has read or heard of Gibbon's his-
tory, entitled, " The Decline and Downfall of Rome." 
And has any historian, theologian, or statesman, ever 
found fault with the title, as inappropriate to the 
facts which he details ? 
Yet we hear Dr. Dwight, of 
Yale College, in speaking of the Lutheran Reforma-
tion, saying, that Rome, in the opening of the 15th 
century, was the strongest power this world had ever 
seen. And no one disputes the truth of his assertion 
A kingdom, whose downfall had been written a little 
after, is " the strongest power this world had ever 
seen!" 
It made a transit—disappeared for a short 
time, to re-appear in a new form. 
Between A. D. 
356 and 483, according to Marchiavali, Bishop Lloyd, 
and Dr. Hales, Western Rome, or two-thirds of the 
Roman empire, was invaded by the Goths and Van-
dals, and dived into ten kingdoms. The light of lite-
rature was put out; and the world sunk into a moral 
night, called the " Dark Ages." 
These were the 
ten horns which are ten kings. 
But how was this 
beast brought into existence^ again ? 
Vs. 13, 17— 
" These have one mind, and shall give their power 
and strength unto the beast. . . . For God hath put in 
their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give 
their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God 
shall be fulfilled." 
Clovis, king of the Franks, professed the Catholie 
faith in 496. 
He was the'first of the ten, and Ar-
thur, king of Britain, the last of the ten, who pro-
fessed Christianity. 
Arthur received his crown from 
a Catholic bishop in 508 or 9. 
These ten kings re-
ceived power as kings one hour, or a short space, with 
the beast, when they agreed and gave him their king-
dom. 
It was wonderful to see so many proud king-
doms in Europe, disagreeing in everything else, and 
after waging the most bloody wars with each other, 
all agreed to sustain the Catholic Church for so many 
centuries! 
Do not the "tag" and "tally" agree 
thus far? " The beast which was, is not, and yet is.' 
Vs. 9, 18—" And here is the mind which hath 
wisdom. 
The seven heads are seven mountains, on 
which the woman sitteth. . . . And the woman which 
thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the 
kings of the earth." 
What city thatever gave laws 
to the world was built on seven hills ? 
Rome has 
been called the " seven-hilled city." 
Rome reigned 
over the kings of the earth, as Babylon reigned over 
Assyria, or Jerusalem over Judea. 
V. 10—" And there are seven kings: five are 
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and 
when he cometh, he must continue a short space." A 
king in this prophecy, as in Daniel, means a kingdom 
or government. 
In Dan. 7: 17 it is said, these four 
kings which shall arise. 
And in v. 23 it is said, the 
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth 
No kingdom is mentioned in history as having had 
seven distinct forms of government but Rome. Dan-
iel said of the fourth beast, " It shall be the fourth 
kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all 
kingdoms;" and in no respect was it more diverse 
than in its seven forms of government. Those forms of 
government were, 1, Senatorial, 2, Tribunate, 3, Con-
sular, 4, Decemvirate, 5, Triumvirate, 6, Imperial, and 
7, Kingly. 
Thus we see, in every instance, that his-
tory and prophecy agree. 
V. 16—" And the ten horns which thou sawest 
upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall 
make her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her flesh, 
and burn her with fire." How wonderful, that after 
these ten kings had been agreed for many centuries in 
giving their strength and kingdom unto the beast, 
they should then " hate the whore, and make her 
desolate." 
Yet this was the fact. 
From the time 
of Luther, some of those kings disagreed with the 
Papacy; but none made her desolate and naked until 
Bonaparte's time. 
God did not then take a man of 
royal blood to humble that proud dynasty, but took a 
man till then unknown, from an island almost as 
much unknown, under whose feet every Catholic 
shrank, crumbled like chalk. 
And when God had 
" done his work, his strange work ; and brought to 
pass his act, his strange act," He laid him back into 
the obscurity from which He had called him, and cast 
him upon a desolate island. 
When Bonaparte en-
gaged in his expedition to Russia, which is under the 
Greek church, his wisdom forsook him; and the 
proudest army ever brought into the field, except that 
led by Xerxes into Greece, was destroyed by the 
Lord alone,—his enemies only keeping out of his 
way. 
That was not his mission. 
And when he 
comes against England, or a Protestant country, he is 
crushed, and sent into exile. 
His work was done; 
and like Samson shorn of his locks, he was weak as 
another man. Every blow aimed at a Catholic throne 
crushed it to the earth; while every blow directed 
against the Greek, or the Protestant bulwarks of 
Christianity, fell back upon and crushed himself.— 
God will hide pride from man. 
And yet how few 
historians see anything of the Lord in that strange 
series of events which so singularly demonstrated his 
providence and word. 
Austria now takes the protection of the states of 
the Church, which constitute the Beast, as the Church 
does the woman, which sits upon it. 
For the last 
five or six years, there has been an undercurrent in 
Italy, lifting, like the expanting gasses of a volcano, 
which Austrian bayonets could but just keep down. 
In that time, every philosopher and statesman has of-
fered an opinion as to the probable course of events 
there. 
But how has God laughed at human wisdom, 
" made counsellors mad, and taken the wise in their 
own craftiness!" 
Every one of them has predicted 
falsely. 
None put the prophetic telescope to their 
eyes, and none have seen the shape of coming events. 
The old Pope died, full of years: there was no-
thing strange in that event. 
The seven cardinals, 
who were to elect a new "God on earth" from 
among their number, began, as usual, by nominating 
one whom they were sure would not be elected, only 
to bring the case on to the docket; expecting it 
would take, as usual, from three weeks to three 
months, to make an election. 
As the Pope is a civil 
prince over the three states of the church, as well as 
the successor to St. Peter, his election is a political, 
as well as ecclesiastical event, in which the different 
governments of Europe have an influence. 
The 
case heretofore has been, where a pope died, to be-
gin with one who was not likely to be elected, to give 
time for the two or three who were the most likely 
to succeed, to manage against each other. 
This 
election was begun as usual, when, at the first ballot-
ing, Pope Pius IX. is in St. Peter's Chair!!! 
One 
of the " wise ones " finds no solution for the " mys-
tery," but that it was a " miracle of the devil." We 
are glad that one of them, at least, has at last found 
out that the devil has, for once, had something to do 
with that infallible church. 
But however much that 
personage has had to do with that church heretofore, 
it is clear, from our text, that God has had much to 
do in this event. 
But who, and what is " Pope Pius IX., the won-
der of wonders of the nineteenth century?" 
His history, as it has been given by the different 
journals of the day, is briefly this : He was once a 
sergeant in Bonaparte's army, which was the most 
intelligent ever brought into the field, not excepting 
the Roman, where he learned the principles of civil 
liberty. 
He also once passed through this city, on a 
mission to South America, where he observed our in-
stitutions. 
And no sooner is he on the throne and in 
St. Peter's Chair, than he begins civil reforms, and 
makes himself the apostle of civil liberty! 
Austrian 
bayonets, which have protected both, the beast and 
the woman, are now turned against them! 
Who, 
among all the "wise ones" of this age, predicted 
such a chapter of events? 
Not one. 
Every one 
" wonders after the beast, whose names are not writ-
ten in the Book of Life of the Lamb." (v. 8.) 
We 
can see large placards in almost every street in this 
city, with " Pope Pius IX., the WONDER of the nine-
teenth century." Alas ! how many will both, " won-
der and perish." 
Blessed are those eyes which see, 
and those ears which hear. 
Russia and Austria are 
pledged, as they value their own political existence, 
to put down the policy of the present Pope. An edi-
torial hi the New York " Sun," recently said, 
" Metternich is pledged to oppose a will of iron to 
the policy of the Pope ; and he will do it; but as his 
first act was unpopular, he has fallen back, only to 
wait an attack on a more vulnerable point." 
A writer in the New York " Observer," last year, 
who appeared to be well versed in European affairs, 
used language to this effect: " Since the Ottoman 
Empire has ceased to alarm the governments of Eu-
rope, they have turned the eye of jealousy upon each 
other." 
And he goes on to show that Russia and 
Austria are marshalled for tyranny, and England and 
France for free principles, or limited monarchy; while 
Prussia was doubtful, into which scale she should 
cast herself—and that those elements were marshal-
ling for a great conflict. How much this sounds like 
the pouring out of the sixth vial ? 
" And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the 
gaeat river Euphrates; and the waters thereof was 
dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might 
be prepared. 
And I saw three unclean spirits like 
frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out 
of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of 
the false prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils, 
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of 
the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to 
the battle of that' great day of God Almighty. 
Be-
hold, I come as a thief. 
Blessed is he that watcheth, 
and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and 
they see his shame. And he gathered them together 
into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armaged-
don." Rev. 16:12-16. 
Nearly all commentators agree that the drying up 
of the Euphrates, represents the fall, or waning of 
the Ottoman Empire. 
It will be seen that those 
three spirits of devils only go forth to gather, before 
Christ comes, after which, " they gathered them to-
gether into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Ar-
mageddon." 
So Prof. Whiting, and many others, 
render it. 
From all of which it appears, that the 
nations are to be in a preparing condition,—-just ready 
to break loose, full of apprehension and excitement— 
when suddenly the Judge of quick and dead shall 
appear, and roll forth upon them the thunders of his 
vengeance. 
Awful day to the world! but glorious 
to those who are not of the world. 
It also appears 
from chapter 7:1-4, that the four great powers of 
Europe will not let go or cease to hold the four winds, 
(wars and commotions, Dan. 7:1,) until the servants 
of God are sealed. 
They will be on the eve of break-
ing loose—the waves of political excitement will rise 
higher and higher, but the final rush ! cannot be till 
the saints are sealed, and delivered. 
Are not things now in that condition ? 
Russia, four years since, added 400,000 to her 
standing army, and this year she adds 80,000 more, 
England, 50,000, and France, 60,000! " The Otto-
man Empire has ceased to alarm " them, and " they 
have turned the eye of jealousy on each other." And 
to give the climax, Pope Pius IX. is thrown, by a 
most unlooked for providence, as a fire-brand into the 
open magazine ! What now remains but the coming 
of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven? 
Amen. 
Even so come, Lord Jesus. 
It may be objected that as the Saviour is to " be 
revealed in flaming fire," there cannot be time for 
those spirits to gather the kings of the whole earth 
afterward. 
By turning to Isaiah 34:8; 63:4, and 
Rev. 18:8, it will be seen that the time allotted for 
the destruction of the earth by fire, is the same as 
was occupied in its destruction by the flood, (see 
Gen. 7:11; 8:13, 14,) viz., a day-year. 
Paul shows 
in Heb. 12:18-28, that the scene at the giving of the 
law, was a type of the coming of Christ to establish 
a kingdom which cannot be shaken, or moved." 
There are then things in that scene which demand 
attention : 1st. There were clouds, the, and a tem-
pest, Ex. 24:15-17; Heb. 12:18. 
Christ' will ap-
pear in the same manner when he will " shake not 
earth only, but also heaven." 
2d. A select number 
were taken from the mass up into the mount, where 
they saw a great beauty and glory, Ex. 25:2-11. 
So also when the famine appears. 
" One shall be 
taken and the other left." 
3d. The mass who were left were at first greatly 
terrified, but within forty days their priests made 
them an idol which they worshipped ; and, as for 
" Moses, they did not know what had become of 
him." 
So also when the saints are taken up to meet Christ 
in the air, and he becomes literally a wall of fire round 
about them, and a glory in the midst of them, as on 
Sinai,—the Holy Spirit withdrawn from those who 
are left, they at first wail, but soon turn infidels. As 
for the saints, they "wot not what is become of 
them." 
The latter scene is no more strange than 
the former. 
i. E. J. 
New York, Feb. 1848. 
A Heart Inquiry. 
•' Seeing then that all these things sjiall be dissolved -, what manner 
of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness; 
looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God." 2 Pet. 
3:11,12. 
MANY of the world have ever -been solicitous of 
qualifications answering, in some degree, to their pur-
suits and prospects. 
The destined soldier must be 
bred to the science and profession of war. 
The mari-
ner must understand navigation, and naval tactics. 
The merchant, to buy and sell, and get gain. 
The 
politician must be learned in books, and all the theo-
ries by which men have sought to rule, and climb. 
The churchman must learn science and theology. 
Mechanics must understand their arts ; and even mis-
ers have their arts. 
And last, we have seen in these 
last times, that one must be skilled in mesmeric clair-
voyance, and practice it too, or he might, it was 
deemed, as well be out of the world. These all seem 
to understand what manner of person they must be. 
Some, more considerate, think farther, and deem re-
ligion and some provisions for a future state necessa-
ry. 
Most people haVe thought some preparation for 
death was necessary; but many think, and have 
thought that serious things belong to a serious time ; 
and that it would be time enough when the world 
was passing away. 
Others have thought that reli-
gious profession, and the practice of religious duties, 
would keep them in favor with heaven; and the Lord 
would give them Divine grace sufficient for their fu-
ture welfare. 
But Peter knew of no such prepara-
tion for death. 
Many hope to die well, who do not 
try to live well; but the apostles knew, and we may 
know, that without holiness, no man shall see the 
Lord. 
Peter in the above scripture gives a test of, 
and .an incentive to true godliness ; and the only 
state in which a Christian must live, or die, or enter 
into his glory. 
But though it was profitable in all 
ages, it is intended to be especially applied to those 
who should be alive in the last times. 
And it comes 
with particular emphasis to us. 
What manner of 
persons ought we to be, who believe we may live to 
see the heavens and the earth, and all the works 
therein dissolved? 
Many people expect "a slum-
ber in the dust," and go to meet it in a slumbering 
mood. 
But we, who expect, and have reason to ex-
pect, to see in our own day, the King of glory des-
cending, amidst the scenes of dissolving nature; what 
manner of persons ought we to be, in all holy conver-
sation and godliness ? 
Peter does not tell, in this 
place; but leaves it to be inferred. And here I think 
we may plainly see that one reason why the Lord has 
given a presentiment of this, by his word, his provi-
dence and his Spirit, is, that on it we may crucify 
every unholy faculty and propensity, and by his help 
gain a victory over the world, the flesh, and the de-
vil : or rather that he may do it for us 
What manner of persons ought we to be ? 
Can 
we love a leprous, contagious world, that is so soon to 
be dissolved ? 
Can we love gold; when its posses-
sors will so soon cast it into the street, and none 
stoop to pick it up ? 
Shall the lust of the flesh, the 
lust of the eye, and the pride of life, have power with 
us, when the naked ground to kneel on is nearly all 
we need here ; and an assurance of faith, nearly all 
we can desire? 
The apostle proposes the question, 
with the motive, as the most effectual argument and 
answer : " For we know that when he shall appear, 
his saints shall be like him, and see him as he is." 
And if we profess to look for, and aspire to those 
things, we know it consists not in false profession 
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Floods of everlasting light 
Freely flash before him; 
Myriads, with supreme delight, 
Instantly adore him; 
Angels' trumps resound his fame; 
Lutes of lucid gold proclaim 
All the music of his name, 
Heaven echoing the theme. 
CHO O, how good it is to be blest, 
And dwell where our Redeemer is! 
3 
Four and twenty elders rise 
From their princely station; 
Shout his glorious victories, 
Sing his great salvation; 
Cast their crowns before his throne; 
Cry, in reverential tone, 
Glory be to God alone, 
Holy, holy, holy One! 
O, how good it is to be blest, 
And dwell where our Redeemer is! 
Hark! the thrilling symphonies 
Seem, methinks, to seize us;. 
Join we to the holy lays— 
Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! 
Sweetest sound in seraphs' song; 
Sweetest note on mortals' tongue; 
Sweetest carol ever sung; 
Tesus! Jesus! flow along. 
O, how good it is to be blest, 
And dwell where our Redeemer is! 
and dissimulation ; but in an earnest desire to be con-
formed to the Divine will in all things; and to attain 
as nearly as may be; to the spirit and likeness of our 
Redeemer, before we see him. 
" For he that has 
this hope, purifies himself, even as he is pure." 
This expectation and hope, creates an earnest de-
sire to become more and more acquainted with the 
object of it. 
He who has it, cannot be satisfied with 
a belief that he has known something of the Divine 
Spirit; but seeks for the largest manifestations. 
He 
does not seek to contemplate the Saviour always as 
a man of sorrows ; but as he who shall wear many 
crowns, ruling all events, wielding all destinies, and 
restraining and conquering all enemies. 
Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolv-
ed ; and that it has become a subject of habitual ex-
pectation and of hope ; what manner of persons ought 
we to be, in all holy conversation and godliness. 
All 
holy living and deportment; all holy duties; and all 
consecration to God ; striving with all prayer for the 
indwelling of the Holy Ghost; for victory over spir-
itual enemies; and ultimate sanctification. And he 
adds, as a characteristic duty and privilege,—" Look-
ing for, and hastening unto the coming of the day of 
God." 
To love Christ, is to love his appearing and 
kingdom. 
And they who believe he has given them 
sufficient reason, by his word and providence, to look 
for him, and hear and feel his Spirit within them 
saying, " Surely I come quickly ;" will assuredly 
look for him: they could not help it, without the 
consciousness of apostacy. 
Not only look for, but 
" hasten unto the coming of the day of God." 
But 
why hasten unto it ? that will not bring it the sooner. 
Hasten to a spiritual realization of it. 
Hasten to it 
by faith, and hope, and love : and that draws as many 
beams of the Sun of Righteousness into the soul as 
possible, before he comes; deposit all your hopes, 
and fears, and cares, and dangers, and desires with 
him. 
No matter what opposes; if saved at all, we 
must be saved by him, who is almighty. 
By him, 
as Mr. Romain says, " who has been with you in 
ten thousand battles; and who will soon make you 
more than conquerors." 
Then let my soul arise, 
And tread the tempter down ; 
My Captain leads me forth, 
To conquest, and a crown. 
A feeble saint shall win the day, 
Though death and hell obstruct the way. 
Should all the hosts of death, 
And powers of hell unknown, 
Put their most dreadful forms, 
Of rage and mischief on, 
I shall be safe, for Christ displays 
Superior power and guardian grace. 
D,.7. 
D. 
REYNOLDS. 
Phihpsport (N. Y.), Feb. 24th, 1848. 
letter from Bro. W. Johnston. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES 
Might I ask, through the 
Herald 
to say to those who love to be most meek, 
patient and teachable, that I, as a member in the body, 
are often pained to see how inconsiderately the sacred 
developments of Mr Miller are so frequently substi-
tuted by the fancied superior light of others, as ex-
hibited in other Advent papers. 
I think those who 
consider candidly his views on the prophecies, as a 
whole ought to acknowledge that he has written 
upon those subjects more correctly than many who 
have preceded or Mowed him. 
We ought to be re-
spectful to our seniors in theological knowledge and 
^nristian experience ; especially in the connection of 
new theories, which, while they evince the weakness 
01 
.lr author, at the same time directly contradict 
maxims established by the superior knowledge and 
more material experience of " fathers in the gospel;" 
though we would call no man "father," in this re-
spect. 
I know of none that has taken more notice of the 
deep things of God than Mr. Miller. 
Nor do I know 
of any as having manifested more mind and scriptu-
ral research, than he has done in his writings upon 
the hidden things of the prophecies. 
I think, there-
fore, that those propounding new views should be 
careful in bringing things before the public, which 
not only imply a contradiction, but contempt of the 
same thing, as explained by one who has shown many 
what they could not show themselves. 
Besides, it gives ground to our enemies to say that 
where such diversity of opinions prevail about one and 
the same thing, there can be no certainty of conclu-
sion or evidence; neither any unity of faith. It is 
commendable, indeed, in brethren to view and review: 
but not to contravene or despise, at the same time, by 
implication, those views of others, which when view-
ed thus, the eye of right reason, will appear more 
tenable than those by which they are superceded. 
Brethren, I can tell you that strangers, nay clergy-
men of other churches, are as unanimous (where I am 
acquainted) in giving Mr. Miller as much, if not more 
credit for his labors of the gospel, than many of his 
own nominal household. 
Surely he has toiled when 
we have not. 
He has been waking and thinking 
when we slept. 
He has seert to the bottom where we 
could but look on the surface. 
He has gone alone 
where we could not with " guides!" 
Then if such 
be the case, how is it that so many now think them-
selves so much wiser than he ? 
See the productions 
of some on the two horned beast; on the ten horned 
beast; the two witnesses ; the expiring of the 1260 
days, &c. &c. 
Brethren, Bro. Miller has been bearing the bur-
den and heat of the day ; he went front-ward in the 
battles of the truth of his God. 
He has labored in 
the word and doctrine ;—now, therefore, as 
inva-
lid of the gospel, he should " be accounted worthy 
of double honor." 
Yea, it is our duty to sympathize 
with him while bearing the burthen of his infirmities, 
through age and other sufficient causes of trial and 
temptation, also those coming from his own unfaithful 
children in the gospel. 
Finally, "we should not 
think of ourselves more highly than we ought, but to 
think soberly "—" in honor prefering one another," 
" with all lowliness and meekness, endeavoring to 
keep the unity of the spirit, in the bond of peace." 
As to the state of the cause in these parts, I would 
say, that although they who love it, are few, yet I 
trust they will be faithful. They have their trials, 
temptations, and persecutions from an unbelieving, 
wicked world, and a subtle enemy, as all they that 
will live godly in Christ Jesus must have; yet 1 trust 
they do know that they are disposed to work together 
for their good, and that finally, they will work out for 
them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of 
glory. 
As to definite time, may I be permitted to express 
my opinion. 
It is this: that all the evidence neces-
sary for us to know, in order that we may lift up our 
heads and direct them to the consideration of the days 
of our redemption; that we may take heed, lest at 
any time our hearts be overcharged, and drunken with 
the cares of this life, and that we may know that he 
is nigh, even at the door ; that our loins be girded 
about, and our lights burning; and that we ourselves 
be like unto men that wait for their Lord ; has been 
given. 
I also fear that those looking for more defi-
nite evidence, than the£t already given, may miss the 
mark, should they not make a right use of what they 
have got. 
Matilda (C. W.), Feb. 10th, 1848. 
(Mr. Miller is but a man, and he would not have 
us receive his teaching unless we can see "it to be in 
accordance with God's word. 
Follow him, as far as 
he follows Christ. 
We should receive the truth, let 
it come from what source it may. 
It would doubtless have been much better with us 
if Bro. Miller had been more respected, and followed 
in his sound expositions, and wise counsels. 
Many 
who bear the name of "Millerite," have perverted 
all his views of truth, and duty, by their insane 
novelties.—Ed.) 
Letter from Bro. J. Wilson. 
[Href. WILSON, of Cincinnati, 0., writes that the 
cause in that city is still sustained by Bro. WEETHEE 
and the few that remain steadfast in the truth. 
He 
has sent us the following sketch of a sermon, which 
shows that there are yet signs of life in some of the 
watchmen.] 
I will give you a sketch of some remarks that I 
heard last Sabbath afternoon, by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, 
a Presbyterian minister, and a son of the late Dr. 
Wilson, who preached some sermons, a few years 
since, on the cleasing of the sanctuary, which event 
he supposed would occur in 1847. 
These sermons 
were noticed by you about 1843. 
Mr. W. read a few verses, where Christ says to 
some, that they could discern times and seasons: " In 
the evening ye say, that it will be fair weather to-
morrow ; and in the morning, that it will be fair wea-
ther to-day, &c.; hut how is it that ye cannot dis-
cern the time?" 
He then went on to remark, that 
man had an instinct within him, which awakened a 
desire to know what was in the future. This was 
right,—God was pleased with it. 
He then urged the 
importance of his hearers studying the Scriptures, es-
pecially the prophecies. 
But to this, he remarked, 
there were some objections made. The objector says, 
In studying the prophecies, I may become a fanatic. 
Well, let us look at this. 
There are fanatics among 
all doctrines of the Bible,—say upon the divinity of 
Christ; how many fanatics on that doctrine ? 
Then 
again, on the total depravity of man. 
Some say, that 
man is totally depraved; while others take the oppo-
site view. 
There are likewise many fanatics on both 
sides of this question. 
These objections, therefore, 
fall to the ground. 
But then the objector says, I 
have no objections of studying the fulfilled prophecies. 
Well, in doing this, we see prophecy fulfilled, and 
also prophecy unfulfilled. Then we are to select be-
tween prophecies unfulfilled and fulfilled. Let there 
be a cord from this pulpit to the door; but a veil 
drawn so that we cannot see the end. 
But can we 
not ascertain how far we have got along on this cord 1 
We can look back on prophecy and history, and thus 
ascertain how far we have advanced. 
Mr. Wilson 
then read a few passages, to show that it was our 
duty thus to study. 
Among others, he read in Reve-
lations where it speaks of the vials to be poured out. 
Now let us look and see where we are. 
We learn 
from history that the sixth vial has been poured out, 
in the passing away of the power of the Ottoman 
empire. 
If this be so, where are we now? 
We are 
now just at the point where the seventh vial is im-
pending over our heads, waiting for God to speak 
the word, when its contents will be poured out. What 
is to follow that? 
The finishing of the mystery of 
God. 
He referred to the political world ; spake of 
the increase of the Catholics, and how their favor was 
courted by politicians, in order to gain their votes. 
He spoke of the present time as being dark and trou-
blous. 
He concluded his discourse by exhorting his 
people, in a very feeling manner, to watchfulness, lest 
Christ should come on them as a thief. 
" Watch for 
yourselves and for your children, for your destruction 
will be very great if you be not prepared." 
He said 
that he should speak further on the subject at another 
time. 
In closing with prayer, he plead with much 
earnestness that these days of darkness might be 
shortened, and that the church might be delivered. 
I presume we shall learn, from his next discourse, 
what he suposes that deliverance will be. 
I was 
pleased with his remarks, which were extemporane-
ous, more especially on account of his former pray-
ers and preaching. 
I am of the opinion that he is 
looking for the conversion of the world ; but I thought 
I wanted po better Second Advent preaching than I 
hea^d on this occasion. 
I took no notes, but give the above from memory, 
which I think is the substance of what he said. 
Letter From Bro. J. Lenfest. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am once more returned, 
after an absence of three months, to spend a few 
weeks in the bosom of my family, preparatory to an 
anticipated tour to another part of the Province of 
Nova Scctia. 
My visit to Halifax has been more pleasant and 
profitable than I was led to anticipate. 
I found there 
some firm friends to the cause of Christ, quite a num-
ber of whom have seen and embraced the doctrine of 
His speedy coming, to judge the quick and the dead. 
My hearty thanks are due to them for their kindness 
and liberality to me while among them; especially to 
Bro. Robinson and family, who, during two months 
of my stay, treated me with more than brotherly 
kindness. 
May the Lord reward them richly, and 
grant them an abundant entrance into his glorious 
kingdom. 
During my stay there, I lost no proper opportunity 
of introducing the great question to the notice of the 
people, and I trust with some good degree of success. 
The Advent books, tracts, and papers have been 
scattered over the city, and have been instrumental in 
awakening a spirit of enquiry among the people, and 
it is hoped that much good will be the result. 
Halifax is to Nova Scotia what Boston is to New 
England, a place of resort for traders, farmers, sea-
men, and by their means the publications have been 
sent into the surrounding country. 
Packages have 
been sent to Bermuda, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, 
&c., with the assurance that they would be carefully 
read; and I am encouraged to hope that the " bread 
thus cast upon the waters " will, ere long, be found 
to the praise of God. 
It is my intention, the " Lord willing," to return 
in a few days, accompanied by my beloved companion, 
to the Province, there to remain for the present. 
I 
could wish that one more efficient in body might oc-
cupy that field ; but as there are none that seem to 
feel it duty to do so, I intend to devote my time and 
talent to the advancement of the cause there for the 
present; and I hope still to have the prayers and 
sympathies of the friends of this mission. 
I am satis-
fied, from observation made during my two visits to 
the Province, that as much good may be done by ju-
dicious effort there as in any part of the States. 
Boston, Feb. 23d, 1848. 
Bro. THOMAS P. HEDRICK writes from Lauree (IndO, under date 
of Febi nary 9th, 1848 -
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The Lord has poured out his 
Spirit in an extraordinary manner in this place and vi-
cinity, and all over the State of Ohio, as I learn, and 
which I hope may be a general thing throughout the 
United States, and over the world. 
If this should 
prove general, would it not be a fulfilment of the 
prophecy of Joel, and another strong indication that 
the Lord is at hand 1 You must express your views 
4a 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 40 
upon the refreshing seasons that the churches are 
now receiving, after so long an absence of the Holy 
Spirit from them. 
I conceive it bears a very solemn 
and interesting relation to the Advent movement if 
we could properly understand it. 
May the Lord give 
us light in reference to it, that we may be preserved 
faithful in the discharge of our duties both towards 
the world and the churches, and keep us holy until 
the glorious appearing of Christ. 
I have, my dear 
brother, attached myself again to the M. E. church, 
with a full knowledge on their part of my Advent 
views, to which they take no exceptions, except to 
the specific time. 
In this I think they are right.— 
They fully believe he will come again. 
The only 
difference between them and us is, that we think he 
will come earlier, and before the millennium. 
Bro. I. ADRIAN writes from Three Rivers (Mass.), under date of 
February 21st, 1846:-
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I returned home last evening 
almost worn out with continual labor, and quite sick 
with a cold. 
I seated myself by the fire, and took up 
the " Herald," and to add to my sorrow, I found that 
you had been compelled to leave the field, wounded, 
and unable to endure any longer its fatigue. 
I felt 1 
could not have it so ; yet I trust the Lord will take 
care of his cause. 
I must acknowledge that I ad-
mire the independence manifested in the course you 
have taken to sustain the great cause; and I pray 
God that you may be placed on your feet again in the 
front rank on the field of battle. 
The Lord is bless-
ing our labors at Square Pond : a man, who had lived 
in his sins over forty years, has been converted to 
Christ, and to a love of his appearing ; meetings are 
held at his house in the evening. 
There are many 
other cases of conversion in this place. 
God is with 
them. 
Bro. WILLARD COUSENS writes from Prospect (Me.), under date 
of February Sth, 1648 
:— 
DEAR BROTHER :—I have just returned from a visit 
among the brethren in Lincolnville, and the regions 
round about. 
I found the saints engaged in the 
work of the Lord. At Youngtown the Lord is bless-
ing his people, by adding to the church such as will 
be saved. 
It is said that there were twenty on theiT 
knees at one time, crying for mercy. 
I hope that as 
many as one out of ten will turn and give glory to 
God. 
Bro. R. H. GRESHAM writes from Jeffersonville, under date of 
February 4th, 1848:-
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The " Herald " is always a 
welcome visitor in my family, and I esteem it more 
highly than I do any other paper. 
The little church 
gathered here last fall is prospering, and, I trust, 
doing good. 
We live in peace and harmony, and ex-
tend our hands and our hospitalities to all who serve 
the Lord in sincerity and truth. 
It would give us 
great pleasure to have your company and your labors 
for a week or two.—The harvest is indeed plentiful, 
but the honest, sincere laborers are few. 
Bro. ELIJAH MACOMBER writes from New Shoreham (R. L), un-
der date of February 23d. 1848:— 
BRO. HIMES :—We have in this place a goodly 
company of believers, who are well engaged in the 
cause, and our prospects are brightening. We should 
be glad if some ministering brethren would come this 
wav, and help forward this glorious cause as the 
Lord may direct. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MARCH 4, 1848. 
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If any of our agents to whom we sent extra copies of 
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At the commencement of this volume, we cut off the 
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Soon 
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Since then, and during the month of February, we 
have had 43 voluntary stoppages, and 188 new sub-
scribers ; besides which 55 of those who were dis-
continued, have re-subscribed. 
This gives us a net 
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is one third as many as the 600 we cut off. If our 
friends are equally energetic, that breach in our list 
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With the increased expenses we have assumed wepk-
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5.-" The Great Image." 
6.-" If I Will that He Tar-
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of Thy Coming ?" 
8.-" The New Heavens & 
New Earth." 
9.—"Christ our King." 
10.-" Behold, He Cometh 
with Clouds." 
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Summary. 
Obituary. 
DIED, of scrofula consumption, Jan. 31st, LOVIRA 
BELDEN, aged 13, daughter of our beloved Bro. Jas. 
Belden. 
She was a serious, lovely child ; but when 
she met with a change of heart, I am unable to tell. 
From the Saturday before her death, until Monday 
morning, when she sweetly fell asl?ep, her whole 
soul was filled with prayer and praise. 
She said to 
me as I approached her bed, "I am going home. 
Glory! glory! 
Hallelujah!" 
To her friends she 
said, "Don't weep for me." 
And their weeping 
was truly turned into thanksgiving and praise. 
We 
often sang many hymns at her request, in which she 
frequently joined. 
Although her bodily sufferings 
were great, yet she endured them with the patience 
of an old soldier of the cross. 
At an interval of 
apparent quiet, she was asked if she would like to 
get well. After a pause, she said, " I had rather die ; 
for I should commit no more sin." 
She conversed 
with all of the family, and bade them farewell. 
To 
her eldest sister she said, " You must pray to God 
to make you happy ; he has made me happy, and he 
will you." To her eldest brother she gave her Bible, 
with good advice; and to a little brother she said, 
" Don't forget the little prayer I learnt you." 
She 
distributed her clothing and books to the several 
members of the family with as much pleasure as if 
she had been in health; for there was a heavenly 
smile on her countenance. She would often exclaim, 
" Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. 
Glory! glorv ! 
Hallelujah!" 
This is the third daughter Bro. Bel-
den has laid under the clods of the earth. 
He fee's 
that their spirits are now united where spirits wait. 
This death has been blest to the arousing of professed 
Christians in this neighborhood, and we have estab 
lished weekly prayer meetings, which have been 
owned and blest of God to our souls. 
We are ex-
pecting that God will convert souls in our midst. We 
ask the prayers of all God's children,, that this may 
be the case. 
MIRIAM 
BECKLEY. 
Berlin ( Ct.), Feb. 19th, 1848. 
DIED, of consumption, on the 15th inst., at Har-
mar, O., STEPHEN CLAY DODGE, youngest son of the 
late John Dodge, of New York, and the youngest 
brother of the wife of Bro. Tracy, our faithful agent 
in that city. 
We feel to sympathize in their bereave-
ment ; but we trust they are fully sustained by the 
hope of meeting him at the resurrection of the just 
NOTICE.—BRO. HALE may be expected to preach 
at Exeter, N. H., the second Lord's-day in March ; 
at Dover, the Tuesday evening following; and at 
Portsmouth, the following Friday evening, and also 
the third Lord's-day in March. 
CAUTION TO A SCREAMER.—Mr. WESLEY, in a let-
ter to one of the preachers in connection with him, 
says:—" Scream no more at the peril of your soul. 
GOD now warns you by me, whom he has set over 
you. Speak with all your heart, but with a moderate 
NOT HONEST.—To take a paper from the Post-of-
fice year after year, directed to another person, with-
out informing the publishers. 
We have found seve-
ral such cases lately. 
To CORRESPONDENTS.—S. DAYTON.—The inser-
tion of your article we think, would tend to a profit-
less discussion. 
The position would be controverted. 
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Major Van Buren, who arrived in New York, from Washington, 
on Tuesday evening, states positively that the treaty will be con-
firmed—that the obnoxious clause relative to the land claims will be 
abandoned by Mexico. 
Jacob Vail, a wealthy farmer of Somers, Westchester Co., N. Y., 
has beeu beaten to death by his children. 
Margaret, wife of Michael Brennan, aged 26, native of Ireland, 
poisoned herself with arsenic in New York. Cause unknown. 
Joseph H. Stokes, of Dalton, Ga., was instantly killed on the 19th 
instant, by being crushed under the wheels of a train upon the Au-
gusta Railroad. He attempted to jump upon the cars. 
In Mobile, in a lit of jealousy, Francis Conklincuthis wife's throat, 
probably fatally, attempted the death of three other women, one his 
wile s mother, and then cut his own throat. He died immediately. 
Luke Franklin, an English stone-cutter, in quest of work, was 
killed bv falling from a ledge of rocks on the line of the Connecticut 
Railroad, near Ireland depot. 
Lieut. Scholl, of Capt. Peltzer's company, shot himself on the 24 th 
ult. at Fort Mann. He has left a wife and two children. 
The Sultan of Turkey has granted free and full liberty to Protest-
ants in all their temporal and spiritual affairs. 
George Capeu, a worthy school teacher in Foxborough, aged 21 
years, who was in the habit of returning every Saturday to his la-
ther's, in Sharon, across Massapoag pond,was found drowned therein 
on the evening of the 26th ult. 
At Salem, N. J., Hester Brown, a colored woman, was tried for 
killing Wm. Radley. Radley was intoxicated, and behaved outra-
geously at defendant's house. She retaliated by throwing a pint 
bowl, which, striking him on the head, cut it severely. About two 
hours after Radley died. Verdict—not guilty. 
Joseph Cox, an engineer on the Trenton Accommodation Railroad 
train, was killed instantly, by his head coming in contact with a 
small wooden depot just above the Shammony bridge. 
Albert, aged 21 years, son of Benjamin Mitchell, committed suicide 
by cutting liis throat on Great Chebeague Island, Casco Bay, while 
partially deranged. 
The Lynn News states, that the tmdy of a boy, which was missing 
at the time of the wreck of the brig falconer, 
on Ipswich beach, in 
December, was washed ashore a week or two since, when the 
wreck went to pieces. 
Mr. Oliver Fuller, of Lynn, was killed on the Eastern Railroad on 
Thursday lbrenoon, about 11 o'clock. He was walking upon the 
track, near the lower depot, in Lynu, at the time of the passage of 
two trains in opposite directions. He stepped from one track to Uie 
other, but before lie could get entirely across, he was struck by the 
engine of the down train, and instantly lulled. He was about 7J 
years of age. 
The Queen of Spain has had sixteen physicians in consultation on 
her case. 
In Port-de-Grave, Newfoundland, Frederick Garland was made 
drunk at a party, and set down upon a hot shovel, and roasted be-
fore a large tire, so that lie would probably die. Pleasing sport. 
Late intelligence mentions symptoms of revolution and civil war 
in the states of Venezuela, Equador, and Bolivia, South America. 
There was a severe earthquake in Chili on the 26th of Oct. 
A servant of T. McGee was burnt to death at Charleston, by her 
clothes taking fire. 
A. B. Hall was burning out his chimney in Newark, N. J., when it 
burst in the second story, and two or three hundred dollars damage 
ensued from lire and water. 
A woman of intemperate habits, who used to get up in the night to 
smoke a pipe, was burnt to death in Easttown, Pa., while sitting in 
a chair. The whole family had partaken freely of whiskey in the 
evening. 
Mr. Edward Highley, of Templeton, came to his death by the use 
of water drawn through a lead pipe. The death of his wife, two or 
three years ago, was attributed by some to the same cause. 
Francis Gray, sailor, stabbed Charles Clendellan, laborer, danger-
ously, iu their boarding-house, 95 Orauge-st., New York, aud lied. 
Ruins of three elevated buildings, in a beautiful square, and other 
houses of lime and stone, with figures of men in stone, have just 
been discovered inPeten, San Jose, Honduras. 
Salmon Austin, arrested in Mercer, Pa., for passing counterfeits, 
after writing a letter to his wife, in Reserve township, cut his throat 
in a horrible manner, as well as his right leg. He may recover. 
At Helena, Arkansas, the river bank is caving in rapidly, and fears 
are entertained that the principal portion of the town will be de-
stroyed. Many persons had already removed their families. 
A riot is reported on the line of the Canada Railroad, a few miles 
from Portland, in which several were wounded, aud one killed. 
Mr. Oliver, of Ohio, was killed at the stone ferry in Medford on 
Thursday, by the falling of a large stone, and another man named 
Smith was considerably injured. Mr. Oliver survived the accident 
long enough to have one of his legs amputated. 
Catharine McGowan, of Pittsburgh, in attempting to kick another 
woman, last week, fell lrom a gallery and broke her neck. 
Patrick Rourke, some time missing, was found drowned at Fall 
River, with $169 on his person. 
Charles Soin, a German, supposed to have had gold oil his person, 
and to have belonged to a military company in N ew York, was found 
murdered in San Diego, in California, in September. 
Mr. McClay attempted to commit suicide at the Exchange Hotel, 
Baltimore. He first cut his throat, and then tlirew himself from the 
fifth sto«p window. Though horribly injured, he was alive the next 
morning. 
Charles McComick, an aged and respectable citizen of Clark Co., 
Va., caught his foot in the carpet, fell upon the fixe, and was burnt 
so that he died a lew days afterwards. 
David and William Beaty aud Patrick Foye, have been held for 
trial in Newport, R. I., for throwing indecent writings into the house 
of Isaac R. Tanner, addressed to his daughter. 
The Buffalo Express of Tuesday states, that the ice has passed out 
of the harbor, and all is free for the resumption of navigation. The 
lake is as clear of ice as in July. This is without precedent in the 
history of Lake Erie navigation. 
Goodwin, who confined his wife in a pig-stye, in Canada, and suf-
fered her to perish miserably, has been sentenced to imprisonment in 
the penitentiary for life. The judge told him that the jury had been 
very merciful in not convicting him of murder, and if he had been so 
convicted, he would assuredly have been hanged. 
John Norrfi, Thomas Nelson, Peter McHugh, and Michael Clark, 
have been bound over to take their trial in March, for instigating the 
turn out at the Fall River mills. 
In a fight at Fall River, David Brownell, teamster, stabbed a bar 
tender named Springer, fatally, it was feared. 
Samuel I., two years old, child of John Barnard, Silver-st., South 
Boston, was strangled to death by a piece of meat lodging in its throat. 
At Cazeuovia, N. Y., Peter Touissant, a colored man, cut the 
throat of J. Woodward, Esq., while shaving him. They had had 
some altercation about the price. Mr. W. may recover. T. has fled. 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
1 will preach, the Lord willing, in Salem, March 5th ; South Read-
ing, 6th, evening; Lawrence, 7th, do ; Haverhill, bth, do; Exeter, 
9th, do ; Kensington, 10th, do; Portsmouth, Lth; Rye, 14th, even-
ing ; Salisbury, loth do ; Newburyport, lothdo; Salein, Uth to 19th ; 
South Reading, *3d to 27th. 
W. S. CAMPBELL. 
Providence permitting, I will attend the following appointments, 
each in the evening, except those on Sunday:—Troy, Vt., Sunday, 
Marcli 5th; Morristown, 7th; Waterbury, 8th: Woodstock, 11th 
and 12th ; North Springfield, 13th ; Grafton, 14th ; Townsend, 15th; 
West Brattleboro', 16th ; Northfield, Mass., 17th ; North Leverett, 
or vicinity (where Bro. Everett may appoint), 16th and 19th. 
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PROSPER POWELL. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Holden, March 7tli and Sth, even-
ing ; Providence, 10th, do ; Bristol, 11th and 12th, do; Hope V illage, 
15th and 16th, do; Smithfield, lbth and 19th, do. 
I. R. GATES. 
The Lord willing, I will be at Springfield the second Sabbath in 
March; Fitchburg the 3df Abington the 4th. 
N.BILLINUS. 
The Lord willing, 1 will preach at Jamaica, the9tn March, 6 P.M., 
and remain over tiie Sabbath; Townsend, the 13th, 6 r. M. ; West 
Brattleboro', the 14th, do, Vernon, the lath, 1 p. M. ; Northfield 
Farms, Mass., the 17th, 10 A. M.; Haydeuville, Williamsburg, the 
18th, at 6 p. M., and remain over the Sabbath; Granbury, the 2lst, 6 
P.M.; Three Rivers, the 22d, do; Brimfield, the 23d, at I P.M.; 
Southbridge, the 24th, 6 p. M. ; Ax Factory, Ct., the 25th, at 6 p. M., 
®uid remain over the Sabbath. 
R. v. LYON. 
EXPOSITION of REV. XIII., by the subscriber, showing particu-
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P. ALLING. 
Norwalk (O.), Feb. 22d, 1848. 
A GREAT FLOOD has occurred at Masillon, Ohio. A 
reservoir, ninety feet above the town, burst, and the 
contents were poured into the town, tearing down sev-
eral brick warehouses, a factory, and the Tremont 
House. 
The canal embankment was much damaged, 
and nearly all the stores in the town were overflowed. 
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