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-WARNING AND ANTICIPATION. 
Dream not of a fairer earth 
Ere the King of kings shall come, 
Till creation's second birth 
Guilt shall swell its awful sum. 
Ne'er a brighter sun shall rise 
Till Christ shall greet our waiting eyes, 
Earth shall wear no richer green 
Till Christ upon the Mount is seen. 
Deeper still on land and sea 
Gather shall the night of sorrow, 
Few shall Zion's watcher's he 
At the dawning of the morrow 
Far resoundeth o'er the flood 
The roar of Satan's multitude, 
Hear the rushing of his wing, 
See its sable shadowing. . 
Christian, ere the clash of war, 
Gird your armor, take your post ; 
See, by faith, the guiding-star, 
See your angel-guarding host. 
High the Gospel-banner wave, 
Hear your mission, "Seek and save;" 
Hear your marching orders,* " Call 
.lew and Gentile,—summon all." 
Fear ye not the storm and flood, 
Cheer with loving words each other. 
Satan's snares resist to blood ; 
Lean noon your Elder Brother. 
Ere shall burst the bolt of wrath, 
Bright with blessings make your path; 
Bear to every clime and nation 
Tidings of the great salvation. 
When the world Rath heard the sound, 
Through the night will flash the ray,--
From liether's hills our King shall bound, 
And bring the everlasting day. 
* It is reported that the Duke of Wellington said to a clergyman, 
who spoke to him about the futility of a mission to the Hindoos, 
" Look at your marching orders, Sir,—' Go into all the world, and 
preach the gospel to every creature.'" 
Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. 
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Gmesis—Chapter III. 
FROM THE " LONDON QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(See Herald of Sept. Ilth.) 
V. 8—" And they heard the voice of the Lord 
God (Jehovah-Elohim) walking (or, who was walk-
ing) in the garden in the cool (Heb., the wind) of 
the day ; and Adam (Heb., the man) and his wife 
hid themselves from the presence (Heb., the face) of 
the Lord God amongst (Heb., in the midst) the trees 
of the garden." 
Scarce had the transgressors twised their gir-
dles, and thus completed the hasty covering 
which was to hide their shame from each oth-
er's eyes, when they heard the voice of the 
Lord God, and trembled as they were thus 
reminded that there was another eye to hide 
from. It was not, indeed, a long-known, but 
still it was a well-known voice. They had 
heard it before, and they recognized it at once. 
" It is the voice of Jehovah ! He is corning,—
whither shall we flee ? It was no mere sound ; 
no casual blast or rush of the meeting streams ; 
it was a living voice,—the voice of a being as 
true and personal as themselves. To them God 
was a real being,—a person ; and his voice a 
real voice. 
Whether any form were seen we know not. 
There might be, for God did always, in after-
ages, as to Abraham, reveal himself in a form. 
But this matters not. A distinct and intelligi- 
ble voice addressed thetn ; and they recognized 
it as the voice of Jehovah Elohim,—" the Lord 
God." They " heard " it, and they knew it. 
They had " heard " it before, and they are now 
to hear it again, though in circumstances far 
different. 
When the Lord God thus uttered his voice 
he was " walking in the garden," for it seems 
not to be the voice that was moving or walking 
(as some think), but Jehovah himself. Else-
where he is spoken of in the same way. When 
speaking to Israel of Canaan, as their promised 
dwelling, he not only says, " I will set my tab-
ernacle among you," but " I will walk among 
you."—Lev. 26:12. Or, when referring to their 
desert-sojourn, he gives, as a motive to entire 
purity in their habits, " The Lord thy God 
walketh in the midst of thy camp, therefore 
shall thy camp be holy."—Deut. 23:14. As 
the reference here is obviously to God's pres-
ence, as manifested in the Shekinah, or visible 
glory, so it might have been in Eden by some 
such visible form that the Lord revealed him-
self and " walked " in Paradise. 
It was " in the wind of the day " that Jeho-
vah was heard. Meaning thereby, either at the 
time that the breeze was blowing, or in the 
breeze ; or, more probably, both. It is generally 
in connection with the wind, or whirlwind, that 
Jehovah is said to appear. (Ezek. 1:4 ) In 
2 Sam. 22:11 we read, " He was seen upon 
the wings of the wind;" in Psa. 18:10 we read, 
" He did fly upon the wings of the wind;" in 
Psa. 104:3 we read, " Who walketh upon the 
wings of the wind." 
In these passages we 
note the difference of expression, yet the iden-
tity of the general idea,—He was seen upon the 
wind ; He did fly upon the wind ; He did walk 
upon the wind; which last is the expression in 
the passage before us. 
As soon as Jehovah appeared and his voice 
was heard, the transgressors fled. Terror took 
hold of them, and shame covered them. Fig-
leaves might hide them from each other's eyes, 
but when God comes nigh they must try some-
thing more effectual. They flee. That is their 
first effort. Their object is to get as far from 
him as possible. But they need something 
else. They flee to the thickets, that the gloom 
may render them invisible. 
It was from the " presence," or " face," of 
God that they fled. It is evident that some-
thing was seen by them, here and elsewhere 
calledt' by this name. It was from this " face " 
of God that they turned away, just as the wicked 
are said hereafter to be " punished with ever-
lasting destruction from the presence of the 
Lord." This name seems to be given because 
the manifestation (whatever it might be) was 
that which, in God, corresponded to the face of 
man,—the part which reveals most of the man 
himself. It was a visible glory indicative of a 
personal presence,—the presence of the second 
person of the Godhead, who, from eternity, was 
the brightness of Jehovah's glory, and the ex-
press image of his person. This visible glory 
(like the Shekinah in the wildernes pursuing 
the rebels) seems to have advanced towards 
them ; and as it advanced they retreated,—the 
voice and the glory from which the voice issued 
combining to terrify them, for they were the 
voice and the glory of that God whom they had 
disobeyed. Their own refuge is the trees of 
the garden ; yet what shelter could they be from 
a glory so light, or from a voice which makes 
the mountains to shake ? (Psa. 29,h.) 
That voice ! It pierces the sinner's ear in a 
moment. It forces its way into the conscience. 
Nothing can withstand it. It is specially to the 
conscience that it speaks alarming, convincing, 
overpowering. When it speaks in the law, 
then the commandment comes (Rom. 7:9) ; the 
sinner is smitten, he flees before it or falls un-
der it. It weeps through hint and lays him in 
the dust. His mouth is stopped ; he is com-
pelled to plead guilty. " By the law is the 
knowledge of sin." 
And then that glory ! It terrifies the trans-
gressor. He cannot bear it, even afar off. Its 
approach overwhelms him. Even the saints 
have trembled at it,—(Job 42:5 ; Isa. 6:5; arid 
Dan. 10:7, 8),—how much more the sinner ! 
The " presence " of Jehovah is light, and that 
he cannot bear, for he loves the darkness. Is-
rael got a glimpse of it on Sinai and trembled ; 
the ungodly shall see it in the day of wrath and 
flee to the rocks for shelter. 
And then see the insufficiency of human cov-
erings. Till God came nigh the fig-leaves 
seemed safe enough ; but he shows himself, 
and then the covering is found " narrower than 
a man can wrap himself in it."—Isa. 28:20. 
He flees, and tries another covering (for leaves 
will not do ; he must have the whole trees), 
still " making lies his refuge, and under false-
hood hiding himself."—Isa. 28:15. For whith-
er can he flee from God's " presence ?"—Psa. 
139:7. Neither fig-leaves nor thickets will do. 
It is God that is the sinner's terror ; and the 
nearer he comes the greater is that terror. No 
human coverings can avail. Darkness will not 
do. Distance will not do. The wrappings of 
man's merits will not do. To be naked before 
God is what he shrinks from ; and none of these 
can hide his nakedness. That which alone can 
remove his terror and his shame is a shelter 
that is divine,—a covering that is infinite,—the 
righteousness of the Son of God. 
In the day of wrath this scene of Eden will 
be repeated,—man fleeing from the presence of 
God, In the absence of thickets he will be-
take himself to the rocks and hills. (Hos. 10:8 ; 
Rev. 6:15, 16.) But what will these do ? Can 
his eye not pierce these ? Can his hand not 
pluck them thence ? For thus the Lord has 
spoken, " Though they dig into hell, thence 
shall mine hand take them ; though they climb 
up to heaven, thence will I bring them down ; 
and though they hide themselves in the top of 
Carmel, I will search and take them out thence." 
—Amos 9:2, 3. 
And the Lord God (Heb., Jehovah-Elo-
him) called.unto Adam (Heb. the man) and said unto 
him, Where art thou ?" 
The voice which had been heard was no in-
articulate noise such as tempest or thunder. It 
addressed itself to Adam,—to " the man." The 
words are not " He said to," but " He called to " 
Adam. And there could be no mistake as to 
who was meant. He proceeds by making in-
quiry after him, that, step by step, he may make 
sin unveil itself, and draw confession from the 
sinner. He does not at once lay hold of the 
offender and extort a confession by terror. Nei-
ther does he proceed upon his own omniscience 
and say, " Thou art the man " His object is 
so to speak to the conscience that the man may 
confess, and be led without compulsion to sur-
vey his own devious steps. " Where art thou ?" 
was the question. Simple, yet like the Lord's 
words to the woman of Sychar (John 4th), ef-
fectual for bringing all to light. As if he would 
say, " I expected to find thee at the appointed 
meeting-place, but I find thee riot. How is it 
so? What has led thee away ? Where art 
thou ?" Thus he goes in quest of the sinner. 
And he said, I heard thy voice in the 
garden, and 1 was afraid, because I was naked ; and 
1 hid myself." 
The man replies immediately. God has met 
him face to face, and he cannot evade him or de• 
cline an answer. He had heard the voice. He 
had known it at once. It was " in the garden " 
that he heard it, and terror took hold of him. 
He admits that he had fled from God, and that 
he was not where he ought to have been found. 
He excuses himself for fleeing because, being 
naked, he was afraid of the majesty of God ; 
and feeling that he was unfit to stand before 
him he had hid himself.* In so speaking, he 
seems to take credit to himself for having fled, 
and rather suggests that the blame lay with 
God, who had made him naked. In this there 
is no confession of sin; there is fear and shame ; 
but that is all. Instead of " declaring his trans-
gression," he first attempts to hide it by hiding 
himself ; and when that is vain, he shifts the 
blame from himself to God It seems to be to 
this that Job refers, when he says, " If I covered 
my transgression as Adam, by hiding mine 
iniquity in my bosom."—Job 31:33. Covering 
sin in any such way avails not. There is but 
one covering which is effectual,—the covering of 
the blood. It is by blood alone that sin can be 
" covered." Man, however, knew not this. He 
thought he could cover it himself. He had yet 
to learn that the only thing that can cover sin 
is that which can absorb it arid make it as 
though it had never been. God had yet to un-
fold his own method and to teach man the effi-
cacy of the blood as a covering ; so that when 
he came to understand this he would feel that, 
in order to cover sin, it is not necessary to flee 
from God or resort to thickets, but that receiv-
ing isirod's testimony to the covering efficacy of 
the blood he may meet God face to face with-
out shame or fear, reversing the words of his 
first father, arid saying, " I heard thy voice, and 
was not afraid, for I had found a covering ; and, 
instead of hiding myself, I returned to thee." 
And he said, Who told thee (or declared 
to thee) that thou wast for art) naked Hast thou 
eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou 
shouldst not eat ?" 
God pursues the inquiry. His object is to 
make man convict himself. He has touched 
the conscience already, and he now sends the ar-
row deeper. Thou speakest of being " naked." 
How is this ? Thou didst not feel thus at first. 
Hitherto thy nakedness has been no barrier be-
tween thee and me. Who, or what, has sug-
gested the thought that it is so ? Who, or 
what, has made thee afraid or ashamed to come ? 
Whence hast thou got this knowledge, by 
means of which thou excusest thyself from 
drawing near to me, and palliatest thy guilt in 
fleeing from me ? Man is silent. He answers 
not a word. No one has told him. The 
thought has started up from within. A strange, 
but irresistible feeling has taken possession of 
him,—" I am naked ; I cannot look upon God ; 
God cannot look upon me." Without noticing 
man's silence, God proceeds with his inquiry. 
Hast thou eaten of the tree which I prohib-
ited ?" This is the only thing that could have 
done it. is it possible that thou hast already 
transgressed ? Thus, by question after ques-
tion, he leads man to the acknowledgment of 
his sin, making him feel that his sin is already 
known, that the true cause of his fear is no se-
cret, and that " all things are naked and open 
unto the eyes of Him with whom he has to do." 
—(To be continued.) 
The Second Advent. 
the vastness of his own mind : (2 Pet. 3:8:) 
and chronological prophecies are given to assist 
us in discerning the times. (Dan. 8:13, 14 ; 12: 
6, 7. 
The practical inference that we may most 
profitably gather from the apparent delay of 
this great event is rather this : if they had to 
expect his coming quickly, much more should 
we who are so obviously much nearer the time. 
This is a rapidly approaching event ; I come 
quickly, is an expression repeated four times in 
the last chapter of the Revelation. Quickly in-
deed did the Lord begin to accomplish that 
which he had testified, and rapidly is the course 
of events advancing along. Nothing can stop 
the progress of him whose very title is the 
Coming One. (Matt. 11:3 ; Luke 7:19 ; Heb. 
10:37.) Any delay that may seem to take 
place is owing to his infinite compassion. " The 
Lord is long suffering to us ward, not willing 
that any should perish, but that all should come 
to repentance."-2 Pet. 3:9 It will come un-
expectedly, sooner than the wicked think ; soon, 
in comparison of eternity, and therefore quickly 
to all. 
If this difficulty be felt; the promises of corn-
ing quickly were made to the church nearly 
eighteen centuries since, and how could it be 
true in their case, that he should come quickly, 
whet-, it is clear that his coming must have been 
thus distant. We may reply, the whole of the 
case is not before us. For instance, we know that 
departed spirits are with Christ, and happy in 
* Fleming supposes that man, before he sinned, him, but we know not how periods, long to us, 
had a sort of " luminous vestment," which disap- may be rapidly passed through by a disembodied 
peared the moment
" 
 lie sinned (Christology," b. iii., spirit. But more especially the simple and full 
eh. 3) ; and adds, Adam turning apostate, it was 
no way fit that he should wear the livery of the She- reply is, the eternal Spirit speaks according to 
kinah any longer, and therefore the luminous gar-
ment with which he and Eve were clothed is taken 
away, and they are left naked." Mede has a some-
what similar idea, when he speaks of their " naked-
ness " as being an " obscuration of that glorious and 
celestial beauty which he had before his sin ; the dif-
ference whereof was so great that he could not en-
dure afterwards to behold himself any more, but 
sought for a covering, even to hide himself from him-
self."—" Works, (folio) p. 233. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The apostle says, only a few years after the 
resurrection of Christ, " Now is our salvation 
nearer than when we believed : the night is far 
spent, the day is at hand."—Rom. 13:11. In 
these days, after seeing the events which the 
church has witnessed, accomplishing so many 
of the prophecies of Revelation ;—after seeing 
the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth so large 
a portion, if not the whole, of the 1260 years ; 
after seeing the pouring out of the vials, (Rev. 
14), and the wasting of the Papal and Moham-
medan Antichrist, the general preaching of the 
gospel, and the stir among the Jews; the in-
fidelity that is so widely diffused and so openly 
avowed ; and all the agitating events of the 
present day, thickening as they are upon us,—
every Christian has seen enough to say, " I will 
stand upon my watch, and set me upon the 
tower, and I will watch to see whit he will say 
unto me, and what I shall answer when I am 
reproved " (Hab. 2:1-3), and to listen to the ad-
monition, " the vision is yet for an appointed 
time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie : 
though it tarry, wait for it : because it will surely 
come, it will not tarry." 
No Christian can tell the day nor the hour 
when the Son of man cometh ; and on this very 
ground every one is called to watchfulness and 
prayer, and to be like one waiting for the return 
of his Lord. (Matt. 24:42.) If even it he thought 
that previously to his coming, there should be 
a millennium, or thousand years of blessedness 
on earth, it must be remembered, that our God 
repeatedly and constantly exhorts us to be 
watchful, and prepared for his corning sudden-
ly : any view of a future millennium that would 
make this impracticable cannot be scriptural. 
and our ignorance of the time and the sudden- 
Such is the second advent of Christ, which 
ness of it, makes it impossible that there should is before his church. It is full of terror to all 
be an intervening certain period of 1000 years his enemies, for " He shall be revealed from 
yet to come ; and we shall find consistency and heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 
rest in plain words. Thus we shall be enabled to taking vengeance on them that, know not God 
yield up our minds with comfort and satisfaction and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus 
to the obvious meaning of innumerable expres- Christ : who shall be punished with everlasting 
sions throughout the word of God ; without any destruction from the presence of the Lord, and 
jarring between our opinions and the apparent from the glory of his power."-2 Thess. 1:9. 
statements of the divine record. 
0 reader ! be not, for all that this world can 
It is objected that death is the same to us as give, among those enemies. It is full of con-
the coming of Christ. The practical duty of solation to his people, for he " shall come to be 
constant preparedness for this great change is glorified in his saints and to be admired in all 
clear. In the way of Providence, death comes them that believe."—v. 10. 0 my reader ! may 
suddenly to all : and though not with the same you and I 'be numbered among his believing 
blessed hope, nor with the same purifying power, saints. 
yet the shortness and uncertainty of life (James Desire for Christ's coming is the very spirit 
4:14; 1 Cor. 7:29,) is a quickening motive for I of every Christian who truly loves him. The 
deadness to the world and preparedness for last sound of the church in the book of God, 
meeting our God. That state of mind which in reply to the promised quick coming of our 
is a due preparation for the awful change that Saviour, is, Even so, come Lord Jesus. The last 
death makes, prepares us also for the coming note in the richest expressions of love to Christ 
of Christ ; death is a decisive day to us as indi- abounding in the book of Canticles is, " Make 
viduals, fixing our state for ever. But, while haste, my beloved, and he thou like to a roe or 
a lively view of the comina. of Christ is a great a young hart upon the mountains of spices." 
help to right preparation for death, it gives us The prayer our Lord himself has taught us 
also the enjoyment of a blessed hope, instead of ever to use. is, Thy kingdom come. If we love 
the dread of an evil, all our days. 
our Saviour we must long to behold him. If 
Though the practical use of a doctrine is not now seeing him only by faith, we rejoice with 
the ground on which we can prove it, as we are joy unspeakable, how infinitely desirable must 
hardly competent judges on that point, yet it it be to see him as he is, and dwell with him 
being often objected to pre-millennial views, forever! 
Biekersteth. 
what is the real importance of them ? does not 
death answer the same end in practice as the 
coming of Christ is expected to answer ? It 
may, in addition to what has already been said, 
be farther observed in reply : Death in itself is 
the wages of sin, and the dissolution of the body 
undesirable (2 Cor. 5:4,) and an object of terror, 
rather than of hope ; Christ's coming is from a 
covenant of love, terrible indeed to the wicked, 
but a blessed hope to the righteous. Death does 
not ordinarily come without some previous no-
tice and time of preparation ; our Saviour comes 
quite by surprise. We think we can ward off 
death by skill, and care, and medicine for a long 
time ; there is no warding off the irresistible 
coming of the Lord. Death does not take away 
our possessions from our family and friends, and 
therefore does not effectually separate us from 
the love of the world ; but our Saviour's com- 
ing is the t ntire destruction of all worldly plans, 
hopes, and prospects ; takes away estates, mort-
gages, funds, titles, earthly reputation, and 
everything on which the carnal heart builds, 
not only from us, but from our children, and 
leaves us and them nothing but the heavenly 
inheritance, and the promised glories of the Re-
deemer ; and that when he shall appear we 
shall be like him, for we shall see him as he 
is. Hence it is he that hath this hope in him 
purifieth himself as he is pure. (1 Jno. 3:2, 3. 
The coming of Christ is then far more effectual 
to wean us from the world, and to lead us to 
bring up our children separated from it and dead 
to it, and living only for the kingdom that can-
not be moved. (Heb. 12:28.) 
There are unhappily but few among real 
Christians whose faith and hope excite them to 
a holy desire to depart and be with Christ. 
(Phil. 1:23.) There are very many who from 
weakness of faith, and perhaps careless walking 
with God, through fear of death, are all their 
life-time subject to bondage. (Heb. 2:15.) The 
fears of such spring from this cause : they are 
afraid that they are not true disciples of Christ, 
and shall not be accepted by him ; and though 
this state of heart probably arises from a sinful 
want of faith in and subinission to all his truth, 
and is comfortless and unsatisfactory, yet, if 
such are indeed born of God, their great desire 
is to win Christ and be found in him, (Phil. 3: 
8, 9) ; and could they be assured that they had 
an interest in Christ, and would be gathered 
with his sheep into the heavenly fold, they would 
look at death without terror. To assist such, I 
would direct them as the sacred writers do, riot 
to look merely at death, but to look also at the 
coming of Christ. Death, though in one view 
a privilege, in another is the wages of sin, and 
a terrible enemy ; but the return of Christ is a 
blessed hope full of joy. (Titus 2:13) A lively 
faith in the corning of Christ, (1 Con 15:23, 
52-57) gives us the victory over death and all 
its sting. 
Weigh much then the glories and blessed-
ness of his return, till holy desires be kindled in 
your heart, and you have no hesitation in join-
ing in the desire of the church, " Even so, conic 
Lord Jesus." (Rev. 22:20.) These words are, 
as if the church with ardent desired exclaimed, 
" 0 hasten thy coming,—let sin be abolished 
for ever, perfect holiness be given to thy people 
in glory, thine elect be gathered, their bodies 
raised, thyself admired in thy saints, and the 
transient glimmerings of this distant glory issue 
in seeing thee as thou art, and being ever with 
thee, 0 Lord. 0 Jesus, thou King and Saviour 
of the church, accomplish the number of thine 
elect; finish the days of conflict; destroy the 
works of Satan ; swallow up death in victory ; 
manifest thine own glory, and may we soon be 
Sinaitic Inscriptions. 
FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
Have we not too much been accustomed also 
to view the future coming of Christ as a solitary 
fact, rather than as a period full of important 
events ? The first coming of Christ occupied 
above thirty years, and varied events took place 
in it. May not his second coming also be a 
lengthened period ? may it not also include a 
great variety of important events? On the order 
of future events, our knowledge must be in a 
measure obscure. And was not the very ob-
scurity designed to have, among other advan-
tages, this practical effect, that the church may 
never be without the privilege and duty of wait-
ing for and expecting the quick return of its be-
loved and adored Head. 
Let it then be remembered that all Christians 
agree that our Lord Christ shall come, and come 
suddenly, quickly, and unexpectedly. His own 
statement is express on this point—" Behold, I 
come as a thief." We must then lay aside all 
confidence in views that would practically inter-
fere with immediate preparation for his coming, 
and seek to attain the blessing connected with 
the announcement of his coming : " Blessed is 
he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest 
he walk naked,and they see his shame."— Rev. 
16:15. 
The varied ways in which the coming of 
Christ is explained tend to show that a spiritual 
corning does not accord with the simple declara-
rations of Scripture. Some, in order to meet 
the numerous expressious of the suddenness of 
our Lord's coming, deny that the millennium is 
to come, and yet the order of the Apocalypse, 
and the comformity of this hope with innu-
merable promises both of the Old and New Tes-
tament, make this view so unsatisfactory that 
it is by no means generally entertained. Others 
think coming may mean death; but this will 
not apply to the varied descriptions of his com-
ing, and would make that which is the grand 
theme of prophecy an hourly and momentary 
event ; coming after an a postacy, coming after 
the great tribulation, coming as the deluge, 
coming as the destruction of Sodom, coining as 
lightning, coming with the sound of the trum-
pet, coming with his holy angels, applies not to 
death. Others think that it can only be a spir-
itual coming before the millennium in judg-
ments and mercies ; founding this on Daniel's 
giving the expression, the Son of man coming 
in the clouds, in the symbolical part of his pre-
' diction, the Ancient of Days sitting symbols al-
ly in judgment, and the Son of man's coming in 
the clouds not being mentioned in the literal 
explanation. (Dan. 7:9-27.) But God is essen-
tially invisible ; the Son of man is visible, and 
the kingdom given to him is literally mentioned 
in the 'symbolical plan of the prophecy, just as 
it is in the literal explanation. His coming per-
sonally to establish his kingdom rests not on 
that passage alone, but on other passages that 
cannot he so escaped. (2 Tim. 4:1,8 ; 1 Pet. 5:4 ) 
The great diversity of these opinions, and the 
different plans for escaping from the force of 
plain expressions, may at least lead us to sus-
pect that the mind naturally desires any thing 
rather than yield to the unwelcome fact of such 
an unparalleled interference with the disturbance, 
not only of all its preconceived notions, but of 
the whole present system and course of this 
world. Let us yield to the plain meaning of 
the words, and believe that coming means com-
ing, the Son of man's coming, means the Son 
of man's coming ; his coming in the clouds, 
(Acts 1:11,) means his corning in the clouds,, with thee in that glory torever and ever !" 
It is well known that the whole Sinaitic re-
gion abounds with inscriptions. These occur, 
with small breaks, along the whole line of an 
extensive valley, named from this fact, Wady 
Mokatteb, or the written valley. They are to 
be found also covering the face of a neighboring 
mountain, hence called Djebel Mokatteb, or the 
written mountain. 
Of these inscriptions there are thousands.—
Probably they are much more numerous and 
widely scattered than is yet known ; for several 
parts, where they are likely to be found, have 
not been visited. They extend for miles, ac-
cording to the unanimous testimony of travel-
ers ; and if wider research be set on foot, they 
will, in all likelihood, be found to spread over 
many miles more, and to cover the numerous 
smaller valleys as extensively as they do Wady 
Mokatteb. They occur almost exclusively on 
the direct road from Sinai to Suez and Egypt, 
and not on any of the routes from Arabia Petrea 
to Sinai. The whole exception of this is the 
Wady Arabah, regarding which we merely at 
present remark that it is in the line of Israel's 
march from Egypt. 
They are seen in every conceivable situation; 
on the loose fragments that strew the valley ; 
on the rocks that rise upon its slopes ; on lofty 
cliffs, utterly inaccessible save by the ladder or 
rope ; on the granite precipices of Mount Ser-
bal, and on the sandstone of Mokatteb ; some-
times scratched, sometimes graven, sometimes 
dotted, sometimes stained. The labor bestowed 
upon them must have been enormous, and they 
could only have been executed by men who had 
no lack of time or tools. It is almost needless 
to add that they must have been the fruit of the 
united labor of multitudes, and multitudes well 
stored with provisions and well supplied with 
water ; as otherwise they could not have re-
mained in the desert a single day. It is of im-
portance to add that they must have been the 
work of a single generation. This is proved by 
the entire sameness of character and general 
style of workmanship, so that this point is ae.-
mitted, even by those, such as Prof. Beer, whose 
theories of their origin would have demanded a 
longer period for their execution. 
These inscriptions were first discovered in 
the beginning of the sixth century. Cosmas, 
an Alexandrian merchant, called Indicopleustes 
from his voyages to India, traversed on foot the 
Sinaitic peninsula. From a bustling traveler 
he became a quiet monk, and in the leisure of 
monastic solitude wrote his " Christian Topo-
graphy," a book, absurd enough in its astro-
nomical speculations, but faithful in its details 
of fact. " Cosmas," says Dr. Robertson, " seems 
to relate what he himself had observed in his 
travels, or what he had learned front others, 
with great simplicity and regard for truth." In 
that work is contained his narrative respecting 
these inscriptions. To his eye they appeared 
of great and of an unknown character. Many 
of them were fragments of rocks which had 
rolled down from the cliffs, and these fragments 
were evidently old, one after another having in 
the lapse of ages found its way into the valley. 
From the fact that on some of these pieces the 
inscriptions were found inverted, it is plain that 
they must have been executed while the rocks 
were in their original position on the cliff. 
It would seem that there were some Jews 
with Cosmas, whom he had fallen in with on 
his journey, or who had accompanied him in his 
tour. They read the inscriptions to him, and 
gave him the traditional account of the way in 
which they were executed. They told him that 
the authors of the inscriptions were their fore-
fathers when sojourning in the desert. Costnas 
evidently had no doubt that the account thus 
given was the true one. He relates it as such ; 
and, no doubt, the appearance of the writings 
commended the account of these Jews, and cor-
roborated this tradition of their venerable anti-
quity. Had they been of recent origin, even 
within a few centuries back, their appearance 
would have detected them, as, in that region, 
sharpness of outline would be preservd for ages, 
whereas it would appear that extreme age 
marked them all. 
From the sixth to the sixteenth century we 
hear nothing of these inscriptions. About the 
middle of the sixteenth century, Peter Belon, 
or Belonius, as he latinizes his name, a Paris 
physician, seems to have visited Arabia, and af-
terwards, in the year 1554, published a quarto 
volume in French, on the memorable things to 
be found in the East. Among these he refers 
to the Sinaitic inscriptions. 
About a century after, Athanasius Kircher, a 
German antiquary, wrote his work, " CEdipus 
Egyptiacus," in which he takes up the inscrip-
tions under notice. It was published at Rome 
in 1652. 
A few years after Balthasar Monconys, a 
French traveler, visited Arabia, and published 
his remarks on these writings in 1665. 
In the year 1722, the Prefetto of the Fran-
ciscans at Cairo made a journey to Sinai, in 
company with some missionaries of the Cairo 
Propaganda. On his way back he passed 
through the Wady Mokatteb, and gives a de-
scription of the writings, much as Cosines had 
done. As to the interpretation of them he was 
totally at a loss. " We had in our company," 
says he, " persons who were acquainted with the 
Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, Latin, 
Armenian, Turkish, English, Illyrican, German, 
and Bohemian languages, yet none of them had 
any knowledge of these characters, which have 
nevertheless, been cut into the hard rock, with the 
greatest industry, in a place where there is 
neither water nor anything to be gotten to eat." 
His opinion of them is, that" they contain some 
very secret mysteries, and were engraved either 
by the Chaldeans or some other persons, long 
before the coming of Christ." 
1737, Pococke visited that region. His de-
scription of these engravings is very brief, but 
he has copied many of them, and given us two 
large plates containing what he copied. These 
are exceedingly valuable, more especially as 
he gives the exact place and rock fropi which he 
copied each. 
Shortly after an English gentleman, Charles 
Thompson, visited the place, and remarks, 
" There are abundance of other inscriptions on 
the stones about these mountains, but as they 
are in a very ancient character, void of beauty, 
and absolutely unintelligible, I thought the pains 
of copying them might very well be spared." 
In the year 1'753, Robert Clayton, Bishop of 
Clogher, translated and published the Journal 
of the Franciscan Prefetto, already referred to, 
with remarks on the origin of Hieroglyphics. 
This work seems to have occasioned more 
speculation and called up more interest than any 
of the preceding, especially as he offered the 
sum of five hundred pounds to any one who 
would undertake the journey to Arabia, and 
bring back copies of the inscriptions. He states 
it as his opinion that " these characters are the 
ancient Hebrew characters, which the Israelites, 
having learned to write at the time of the giving 
of the law on Mount Sinai, diverted themselves 
with practising on these mountains during their , 
forty years' abode in the wilderness," 
Shortly after Edward Wortley Montague 
traveled from Cairo to these regions, and pub-
lished, in 1766, in the " Philosophical Trans-
actions," " an account of his journey from 
Cairo in Egypt to the written mountains in the 
desert." He ascribes these writings to Greek 
pilgrims from Constantinople or the Monsa, be-
cause there happen to be among them one or 
two brief Greek inscriptions, as if the fact of 
these one or two being so distinctly Greek did 
not prove that they have an entirely different 
authorship and date front the others. 
1761, Niebuhr was sent by the King of Den-
mark to explore Egypt and Arabia. He ex-
amined the inscriptions, and thinks them " of 
little importance," " executed at idle hours by 
travelers ;" as if travelers could climb twenty, 
fifty, or even one hundred feet of sheer preci-
pice, and cover miles with their writing,—one 
letter of which it would take at least a day to 
engrave! Niebuhr, however, states one very 
important fact, " that even in the third century 
these inscriptions had been mentioned by a 
Greek author." 
In 1783, Valley published his travels. He 
had visited the Written Valley, but only to 
sneer at what he saw, and at the attempts of 
others to unfold the secret. " To these (Greek) 
pilgrims," he says, " we must attribute the in-
scriptions and clumsy figures of asses, camels, 
&c., engraven on these rocks, which have, from. 
these, acquired the name of Djebel Mokatteb, 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
or Written Mountain. Mr. W. Montague, who 
traveled a great deal in these countries, and 
carefully examined these inscriptions, is of this 
opinion. M. Count de Gebelin, author of Le 
Monde Prirnitif,' has lost his labor in endeavor-
ing to discover some mysterious meaning." 
After this, travels to this region became more 
frequent ; and as each traveler refers to these 
inscriptions, without casting more light upon 
their meaning, we need not name them. One 
important step, however, began to be taken, and 
that was the copying of them. Messrs. Con-
telle and Roziere copied seventy-five ; Seetzen, 
Burckhardt; and Henniker, described and copied 
many ; Laborde has given a striking sketch of 
the whole valley. But the most important work 
is that of Mr. Gray, who, in the " Transactions 
of the Royal Society," published one hundred 
and eighty-seven inscriptions which he had 
copied. 
So much for the history of these inscriptions. 
Let us now inquire into their origin. 
It is admitted, as beyond dispute, that these 
inscriptions must have been executed at one 
time, and within one generation. Beer concedes 
this. Now is it not something even beyond the 
marvellous, that one generation of pilgrims 
should have achieved such prodigious works, 
whilst no pilgrims, after these thirty or forty 
years, should have thought of doing the like, 
even with these notable writings of their prede-
cessors before their eyes ? That one generation 
must have been a peculiar one, the like of which 
never had been before, and certainly never has 
been since That such a generation of pilgrims 
should be unheard of either in history or tradition 
is strange indeed. 
These inscriptions could only be the work of 
a great multitude. And as this multitude must 
have gathered to that valley, from whatever 
countries, very. nearly at the same time, it 
seems remarkable that this emigration, or cru-
sade, or whatever it. may be called, is not only 
unknown now, but was unheard of by Cosmas, 
who visited the locality in the sixth century. 
This vast multitude must either have come from 
one nation or from many. If from one, how has 
this national pilgrimage, for it must have been 
by tens of thousands, been obliterated from the 
annals of these ages ? If from many, two rather 
different questions raise themselves,—(1st), How 
came it to pass that so many nations agreed, all 
at once, to flock to Sinai ? (21), How did all 
these many nations agree to record the memo-
rials of their visit in one language and charac-
ter? 
These' writings could only be executed by a 
people residing in the desert. Now, when was 
the Arabian desert ever the settled residence of 
any nation ? The Bedouin scours it, or pitches 
his tent in it ; bUt he cannot dwell in it in the 
proper sense of the word. No multitude could 
dwell in it without a miracle. No multitude 
could obtain food, far less water, without a mira-
cle. Thus Jeremiah paints it, " A land of des-
erts and of pits ; a land of drought and of the 
shadow of death ; a land that no man passed 
through, arid where no man dwelt."—(To be 
continued.) 
A Good Man in a Bad Place. 
And now we return to Sodom—verily, this 
house of Lot looks nobly—lofty in its architec-
ture, and rich in its adornment; golden vessels 
upon its board, voluptuous couches in all its 
chambers, the red light beaming mellowed 
through its mighty halls, and instruments of 
rare music in its sumptuous parlors. 
At first view, it seerneth wise in Lot to have 
turned from Canaan's sojourn, and pitched his 
tent toward Sodom. But let us enter in for a 
moment, and perceive whether, after ail, Sodom 
be as blest a home as Canaan. Behold that 
wrinkled man, with his head upon his clenched 
hand as if bowed down with the burden of 
mighty Sodom. Ah.it is Lot ! He is not hap-
py in Sodom. Do you ask the secret of his un-
happiness ? It is that which at all times gath-
ers over the home of the worldly-minded Chris-
tian. First of all, Lot was despised even by the 
Sodomites. Just as a clear-sighted world al-
ways despise a half-hearted professor, who, for-
getful of his covenant vows, comes to mingle 
with them in worldliness. Wicked men see 
clearly in this matter. They perceive inconsis-
tencies of profession and practice. And just as 
worldly men despise a traitor, though they may 
have been advantaged by his treachery, so do 
they, while mingling in the society of worldly 
Christians, despise them in their heart for their 
worldliness. 
The men of Sodom said in their contempt, 
"this fellow came in to sojourn with us, and now 
he will needs be a judge, "and they pressed up-
on him to destroy him. 
Lot was not at home in Sodom—he felt like 
a stranger. Then, again, he lost his property. 
Just as God will take away earthly idols ; so 
that, verily, the way to grow in earthly comfort 
is to grow in grace. God sent against Sodom 
the kings of the East, and they conquered the 
cities of the plain, and carried away the riches 
of all its inhabitants, and left Lot beggared of 
all the flocks and herds wherewith he had de-
scended from Canaan. 
Moreover, there was constantly busy in the 
heart of the patriarch the fierce sting of a re-
proving conscience. God will not let alone a 
worldly-minded disciple to rest contented in his 
apostacy. Says inspiration, " Lot was vexed 
with the filthy conversation of the wicked." 
He saw sights and heard sounds in Sodom, that 
stirred up the depths of bitter thoughts within 
him, as the hurricane stirs up the ocean. 
Then, to, his dear children were forming in-
timacies with the foul sinners of the plain ; and 
they would not come when the fire was kindled 
on his household altar. They were away, 
where, with foul rites, and dance and song, 'here 
went on the beastly worship of the heathen. 
Tell me, ye parents, who will go amid the van-
ities of a false and perilous world, and think it 
due to the courtesies of refined life, to mingle 
in those scenes of fashionable gayety, where God 
is as little thought of as he was in Sodom ; tell 
me, if seeing your children, as they are this day, 
given up to vanity, ye cannot understand the 
poignancy of Lot's sorrow at that awful thought. 
But, alas ! alas ! we are as yet on the outskirts 
of the patriarch's sorrow. The winding up of 
that startling drama of worldliness on a Chris-
tian, is alike rapid and horrible. The story is 
too peculiar to need repetition. 
Just at the time when, worn out with the 
bitterness of a conscience-stricken life, Lot was 
looking to the grave for repose, just then came 
the awful mission to Sodom : " Up, up ; get out 
of this city, for I will destroy it." " But," cried 
the old man, " Oh ! riot so, my Lord. Behold, 
I am old ; I cannot escape to the mountains, lest 
some evil befall me." " Well, then, if you stay, 
you perish—up—up; escape for thy life ; stay 
not in all the plain ; look not behind thee, lest 
thou be consumed." 
Now the home of Sodom begins to lose its 
voluptuous beauty—verily, the rosy clouds that 
curtained it at sunset, are burning with the fire 
of the wrath of God. Behold the patriarch flee-
ing to his son-in-law's at midnight, perhaps, in 
weeping anguish, as they will not come forth 
unto his deep entreaties. See him fleeing forth 
in the dim night, leaving home, property, and 
plenty, and rushing toward the mountains for 
life ; then wearied, all friendless and poor, in his 
rude dwelling above Zoar. 
Once more behold him upon the shore of that 
dark water which covers the devastated plains 
of Siddim—that wild, gloomy, desolated ex-
panse of lifeless billows, whose name is Asphal-
tites—the Lake of Death—upon the border of 
that sluggish, festering gulf, standing, an old 
and withered wanderer, all alone. Come near, 
and note him well ! How that old heart is 
wrung with mighty anguish ! And why ? Be-
cause, far down amid those sluggish waters, there 
lie, burnt into ashes by an augry God, smitten 
down in the vigor of beauty, his beloved dead. 
See how his bosom is heaving with the agony 
of a broken heart. Listen to his voice in its 
tremulous anguish, " Oh, my children ! my chil-
dren ! who perished beeause I would not dwell 
in Canaan !—Would God—would God I had 
died for you !" And see, now he turns away 
from that dark water, and retires slowly along 
the plain. But, what ails him ? What hash 
met him on the way ? Why, it looketh like a 
human form—and yet it does riot. It speaks 
not—cold, stony—statuelike—a pillar, a mon-
ument of salt ! 
Now the old man trembles ! how he casts 
himself upon the cold ground in agony ! And 
who wonders ? The wife of his bosom—the pa-
rent of his home for many a long year—the 
mother of his children—the beloved one, whose 
dear voice had cheered him all along life's path-
way—smitten down by divine anger, because he 
would not live and dwell in Canaan. Hark to 
his agonized, his heart-broken cry : " Oh, be-
loved one !—Oh, lost one !—lost by my unfaith-
fulness—lost forever. Would God I had died 
for thee !" 
Now, here I want to leave you. You that, 
having professed Christ, are living lives of 
worldliness, seeking its riches, and honors, and 
pleasures, and not making it the supreme end of 
your lives to glorify God and save souls. Here 
I want to leave you—by the poor, cold, cavern 
bed of heart-broken and homeless Lot ; while 
afar in the distance, with heaven's soft sunshine 
on its beautiful repose, rich, too, in earthly goods 
of flock and herd, and the fragrance of its ac-
cepted sweetness ascending the sunny firma-
ment, ye catch the matchless loveliness of the 
habitation where Abraham dwelled. 
Here we leave you, praying that visions of the 
sadness and sorrow of the desolated patriarch 
shall so enforce themselves upon your spirit, that 
firm in the strength of your great Deliverer, ye 
shall look away from all the solicitations of sin-
fulness, assured that it is better even in this 
world to love God with a whole spirit, as it was 
well for Abraham that he dwelt in Canaan, and 
most sorrowful for Lot when he pitched his 
tent tnward Sodom." Rev. C. Wadsworth. 
The Believer's Rest in Christ. 
" Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy 
laden, and 1 will give you rest. " 
A convinced sinner, out of Christ, sees every-
thing against him ; nothing yields any comfort 
—yea, everything increases and aggravates his 
burden, when he looks to things past, present, 
or to come. If he reflects upon things past, his 
soul is filled with anguish to remember the sins 
committed and the seasons neglected, and the 
precious mercies that have been abused. If he 
looks on things present, the case is doleful and 
miserable—nothing hut trouble and danger, 
Christless and comfortless. And if he look for-
ward to things to come, that gives him a deeper 
cut to the heart than anything else, for though 
it be sad and miserable for the present, yet he 
fears it will be much worse hereafter ; for all 
these are but the beginning of sorrows. But on 
his coming to Christ, all things are marvellously 
altered; a quite contrary face of things appears 
to him—everything gives him hope and comfort 
which way soever he looks. So speaks the apos-
tle, " All things are yours, whether life or death, 
or things present, or things to come ; all is yours, 
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's. " 
Christ invites and commands such to come unto 
him ; and if your sin hinder not Christ from 
calling, neither should it hinder you from corn-
ing. Bethink thyself what wilt thou do, and 
whither wilt thou go if not to Jesus Christ ? 
Nothing can ease or relieve thee, till thou dost 
come to him ; thou art under a happy necessity 
to go to him ; with him only is found rest for 
the weary soul. 
The Issue in Europe. 
There can be no just question that religion 
enters vitally into the present struggles for as-
cendency in Europe. Romanism, ever the 
natural ally of despotism, is casting the whole 
force of her influence against the advance, nay, 
against the very existence, of liberal ideas. 
Proof enough of this is seen in the treatment 
which Kossuth received from the first at the 
hand of Catholics, while in this country. True 
liberty, civil and religious, has nothing any-
where to hope from the papacy. We quote as 
proof of the foregoing, the annexed paragraph 
foreign
from an intelligent 
 correspondence in 
the " New York Spectator :" 
Watchman and Reflector. 
"According to the last intelligence from Bel-
gium, it appears that the re-actionary party 
there has at length triumphed, and that Sar-
dinia is consequently the only Roman Catholic 
country in which a liberty Ministry now exists. 
The cabinet, resigned in June, owing to the un-
favorable turn of the elections which then took 
place, but who subsequently consented to hold 
office until the meeting of the Chambers, have 
now definitely retired. The influence of the 
priesthood has been incessantly directed to this 
end, and another instance has thus been fur-
nished that whatever may be his desires, it is 
irnpossible for any ruler to resist their will. It 
is to be hoped, at the same time, that the lesson 
will tend to convince the Protestant world of 
the fact which they have been so slow to admit, 
that the struggle now going on has been, from 
its commencement in 1848, not a trial of strength 
between democracy and conservatism, but a re-
ligious war, conducted on the same principles 
as those which disturbed the whole of Europe, 
and ravaged Germany and the Netherlands in 
the eighteenth century." 
Keeping the Truth. 
Solomon charges us to " buy the truth, arid 
sell it not." Purchase it at any price, and part 
with it at none. Many have refused to give its 
price, and others have parted with it, infinitely 
below its worth. Paul, who had made great 
sacrifices to obtain this precious pearl, when 
writing to the Christian Hebrews, who had also 
given their all for it, said, " Let us hold fast the 
profession of our faith without wavering ; for he 
is faithful that promised." Not a few have done 
this. A poor girl, who resided on the sea-coast 
of England, was asked, when dying, by a cler-
gyman, what she thought of Jesus ; her reply 
was beautiful and sublime,—" Jesus," said she, 
"I cleave to him as the limpets to the rocks." 
Excellent girl, who does riot almost envy her ? 
Yes, the Christian will cling to Jesus in spite 
of everything. The stormy ocean, hurling its 
destructive fury around, only causes the limpets 
to cleave to the rocks more firmly. So was it 
with Job; the more heavily his sorrows fell 
upon him, the more fully did he determine, 
" Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." 
When tempted to desert the truth, or to re-
nounce the cause of Christ, " we may," says 
Andrew Fuller, " imagine that the martyrs in 
heaven are calling to us. One may say, Hold 
it fast ; I died in a dungeon, rather than forego 
it.' 
 Hold it fast,' says another,' I bled for it.' 
Hold it fast,' says a third, I burned for it.'" 
Let this duty be considered as practically de-
volving on every one who has named the name 
of Christ. Let us boldly confess Christ, and 
cleave to him constantly, that so we may hum- 
bly expect that he will own us in the presence 
of his Father and an assembled universe. 
Watchman and Relli tier. 
Luther and Napoleon. 
Napoleon at Fountainbleau, and Luther at 
Wartburgh ; what a contrast ? the one retired 
from the strife of arms for a few short hours, to 
muster the forces of his mind to make a grand 
surrender of his crown and kingdom, yielding 
all the fruit of his past years of toil and triumph. 
A point was at issue, upon a point hung all— 
his destiny. He resolved wisely to yield ; the 
great man was conquered, fallen from his giddy 
height. 
Luther was snatched away ; he knew it was 
the hand of God ; was shut up in an isolated 
castle, and played the knight in the name of 
the Lord ; there he had sweet and holy com-
munion with the King of kings; no interdict 
forbade him the august presence of Majesty ; 
his soul warbled forth in melodious hymns of 
praise ; the achieving power of God's truth filled 
him with holy valor. Yield ! no, conquest 
was his theme, as he strode the old baronial 
halls ; halting to send up his supplication, his 
heart burned with increased energy and fire to 
pursue the battle of the Lord to the final over-
throw of the Man of sin. 
At length the stirring vigor of holy love and 
power broke him loose from his retreat ; and 
the crown and the kingdom were his confident 
aim, when he was again in the hottest of the 
battle beside his compeers, to encourage and re-
vive their drooping faith. 
Earthly crowns fade away in retirement ; all 
their tinsel is then seen ; but in solitude and re-
treat'from earthly glare, the heavenly crown 
sparkles, attracts, realizes its substance. 
Christian Advocate and Journal. 
Love of a Dog to his Master. 
How many a weary step, through mire and 
dirt, bath this poor dog followed my horse's 
heels to-day, and all this for a poor reward ! for 
all he gets for it by night is but bones arid 
blows. Yet will he riot leave my company, but, 
is content upon such hard terms to travel with 
me from day to day. 
0 my soul ! what conviction and shame may 
this leave upon thee, who art even weary of 
following thy Master, Christ, whose rewards 
and encouragements of obedience are so incom-
parably sweet and sure ! I cannot put back this 
dog from following me, but very inconsiderable 
trouble is enough to discourage me in the way 
of my duty. Ready I am to resolve as that 
scribe did, (Matt. 19th), " Master, I will follow 
thee wheresoever thou goest ;" but how doth 
my heart falter, when my heart must encounter 
the difficulties of the way. 0 ! let me make a 
whole heart-choice of Christ for my portion and 
happiness ! and then I shall never leave him or 
turn back from following him, though the pres-
ent difficulties were much more, and the pres- 
ent encouragements much less. navel. 
The Destruction of Pompeii not Instantaneous. 
Pompeii was not completely buried by a sin-
gle eruption. Eight successive layers have been 
traced above its ruins. In the intervals the in-
habitants roust have returned to secure their 
more valuable property. 
Sir William Gell mentions that a skeleton of 
a Pompeian was found," who apparently for the 
sake of sixty coins, a small plate and a saucepan 
of silver, had remained in his house until the 
street was already half filled with volcanic mat-
ter." The position of the skeleton indicated 
that he had perished apparently in the act of 
escaping from the window. 
Other instances of like character are no less 
striking. The skeletons of Roman sentries 
were found, in more than one instance, at their 
posts, furnishing a remarkable proof of the stern 
military discipline of imperial Rome. The skel-
eton of a priest was found in one of the rooms 
of the Temple of Isis. Near his remains lay an 
axe, with which he had been trying to break 
through the door. 
Passmore Edwards. 
Prayer. 
Prayer is the mightiest engine God has placed 
in our hands. It is the best weapon to use in 
every difficulty, and the surest remedy in every 
trouble. It is the key that unlocks the trea- 
sury of promises, and the hand that draws forth 
grace and help in time of need. It is the silver 
trumpet God commands us to sound in all our 
necessity, and it is the cry He has promised al-
ways to attend to, even as a loving mother to 
the voice of her child. 
Prayer is the simplest means that man can 
use in coming to God. It is within reach of all 
—the sick, the aged, the infirm, the paralytic, 
the blind, the poor, the unlearned—all can pray. 
It avails you nothing to plead want of memory, 
and want of learning, and want of books, arid 
scholarship in this matter. So long as you 
have a tongue to tell your soul's state, you may 
and ought to pray. Those words, " Ye have not 
because you ask not, " will be a fearful condem-
nation to many in the day of judgment. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Mlle 20uent qeratb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, NOV: 13, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it Clod may he hon-
ored and his truth advanced; also, that it may be. conducted in 
faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the 
truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or 
sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE DATE OF THE APOSTACY. 
" And now ye know what withholdeth that he might he revealed 
in his time. For the myvtery of iniquity (loth already work only 
he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And 
then shall that Wicked he revealed, whom the Lord shall consume 
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness 
of his coming. "-2 Thess. 2:6-8. 
The dates of the apostacy, and of the legal termina-
tion of the Pagan priesthood, are chronological points 
of no little interest, and we desire to publish what-
ever of authentic history will throw any light On the 
subject. Some months since, we made an extract 
from an article in the London Journal of Prophecy, 
but not becoming particularly interested in it at the 
time, we did not copy the remainder of it. We now 
purpose to give it under the editorial head, commenc-
ing with the next number. It is entitled " Is ROME 
THE BABYLON OF THE APOCALYPSE 1" 
This article is an explanation of that, and is de-
signed to prepare the way for it. That article, we 
suppose, is from the pen of Mr. BONAR, whose name 
is not unfamiliar to our readers. The writer com-
mences with the ancient Babylonian worship, which 
he traces down into the Catholic Church. And thus 
he proves that the Papacy is the daughter of Baby-
lon. We shall not at this time follow him down 
through his historical sketch, but bespeak for the ar-
ticle a careful reading ; for if his reasoning is sound, 
he throws much light on this important subject. 
From the time of NUMA, about B. c. 700, the Pagan 
hierarchy was organized under a PONTIFEX MAXIMUS 
or " SOVEREIGN PONTIFF,"—a Pagan high priest. 
Under Numa, who regulated the sacred rites of 
the Romans, there was only one Pontifex. This 
number was afterwards increased to four, then to 
eight, and, under Sylla, to fifteen. The pontifices 
formed a particular college of priests, which super-
intended the affairs of religion, at the head of which 
was the pontifex maximus, the chief priest, whose 
duty was the inauguration of the priests, and, in ear-
lier times, the care of the public records (annales 
maximi). He also superintended the sacred rites of 
Vesta. He held his office for life, and could not 
leave Italy. The emperors afterwards assumed this 
title. The pontifices had the supreme superintend-
ence of the religious worship, and its ministers di-
rected the religious solemnities, had the care of the 
calendar, arid decided lawsuits which were connected 
with religion (hence the jus pontificum). The ex-
ternal badge of the pontifex, at least on solemn occa-
sions, and while engaged in the dutier of this office, 
was a dress bordered with purple (toga prtexta), 
and a tapering hat in the form of a cone, which was 
made of the skins of sacrificed animals (tututus or ga-
lerus).—Ency. Amer. vol. 10, p. 245. 
He invites and exhorts, in the most pressing terms, 
the subjects of the Roman empire to imitate the ex-
ample of their master ; but he declares, that those 
who still refuse to open their eyes to the celestial 
light, may freely enjoy their temples, and fancied 
gods. A report, that the ceremonies of paganism 
were suppressed, is formally contradicted by the em-
peror himself, who wisely assigns, as the principle 
of his moderation, the invincible force of habit, of 
prejudice, and superstition.* Without violating the 
sanctity of his promise, without alarming the fears 
of pagans, the artful monarch advanced, by slow and 
cautious steps, to undermine the irregular and de-
cayed fabric of Polytheism. The partial acts of se-
verity which he occasionally exercised, though they 
were secretly prompted by a Christian zeal, were 
colored by the fairest pretences of justice, and the 
public good ; and while Constantine designed to ruin 
the foundations, he seemed to reform the abuses, of 
the ancient religion. After the example of the wisest 
of his predecessors, he condemned, under the most 
rigorous penalties, the occult and impious arts of di-
vination ; which excited the vain hopes, and some• 
times the criminal attempts, of those who were dis-
contented with their present condition. An igno-
minious silence was imposed on the oracles, which 
* See Eusebius in Vit. Constantin. I. ii. elL 56, 60. In the sermon 
to the assembly of saints, which the emperor pronounced when lie 
was mature in year. and piety, he declares to the idolators (c. xi.,) 
that they are perinitted to offer sacrifices, and to exercise every 
part of their religious worship. 
had been publicly convicted of fraud and falsehood ; 
the effeminate priests of the Nile were abolished ; 
and Constantine discharged the duties of a Roman 
censor, when he gave orders for the demolition of 
several temples of Phoenicia; in which every mode 
of prostitution was devoutly practised in the face of 
day, and to the honor of Venus.* The imperial city 
of Constantinople was, in some measure, raised at 
the expense. and was adorned with the spoils, of the 
opulent 'temples of Greece and Asia ; the sacred 
property was confiscated ; the statues of gods and 
heroes were transported, with rude familiarity, among 
a people who considered them as objects not of ado-
ration, but of curiosity ; the gold and silver were re-
stored to circulation ; and the magistrates, the bish-
ops, and the eunuchs improved the fortunate occasion 
of gratifying, at once, their zeal, their avarice, and 
their resentment. But these depredations were con-
fined to a small part of the Roman world ; arid the 
provinces had been long since accustomed to endure 
the same sacrilegious rapine, from the tyranny of 
princes and proconsuls, who could not be suspected 
of any design to subvert the established religion.f 
The sons of Constantine trod in the footsteps of 
their father, with more zeal, and with less discretion. 
The pretences of rapine and oppression were insen-
sibly multiplied ; every indulgence was shown to the 
illegal behavior of the Christians ; every doubt was 
explained to the disadvantage of paganism, and the 
demolition of the temples was celebrated as one of 
the auspicious events of the reign of Constans and 
Constantius. The name of Constantius is prefixed 
to a concise law, which might have superseded the 
necessity of any future prohibition. " It is our plea-
sure, that, in all places, and in all cities, the temples 
be immediately shut, and carefully guarded, that 
none may have the power of offending. It is like-
wise our pleasure, that all our subjects should ab-
stain from sacrifices. If any should be guilty of 
such an act, let him feel the sword of vengeance, and 
after his execution, let his property be confiscated to 
the public use. We denounce the same penalties 
against the governors of the provinces, if they neg-
lect to punish the criminals." But there is the 
strongest reason to believe, that this formidable edict 
was either composed without being published, or was 
published without being executed The evidence of 
facts, and the monuments which are still extant of 
brass and marble, continue to prove the public exer-
cise of the pagan worship during the whole reign of 
the sons of Constantine. In the East, as well as in 
the West, in cities, as well as in the country, a great 
number of temples were respected, or at least were 
spared ; and the devout multitude still enjoyed the 
luxury of sacrifices, festivals, and of processions, by 
the permission or by the connivance, of the civil gov-
ernment. About four years after the supposed date 
of his bloody edict, Constantius visited the temples of 
Rome ; and the decency of his behavior is recotn-
mended by a pagan orator as an example worthy of 
the imitation of succeeding princes. •‘ That empe-
ror," says Symmachus, " suffered the privileges of 
the vestal virgins to remain inviolate; he bestowed 
the sacerdotal dignities on the nobles of Rome, 
granted the customary allowance to defray the ex-
penses of the public rites and sacrifices ; and, though 
he had embraced a different religion, he never at-
tempted to deprive the empire of the sacred worship 
of antiquity." The senate still presumed to conse-
crate, by solemn decrees, the divine memory of their 
sovereigns ; and Constantine himself was associated, 
after his death, to those gods whom he had renounced 
and insulted during his life. The title, the ensigns, 
the prerogatives of SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, which had 
been instituted by Numa, and assumed by Augustus, 
were accepted, without hesitation, by seven Chris-
tian emperors, who were invested with a more abso-
lute authority over the religion which they had de-
serted, than over that which they professed.t The 
divisions of Christianity suspended the ruin of pagan-
ism.—Gibbon, vol. 1, pp. 470, 471. 
and GRATIAN invested Trisouosies with that empire. 
Says GIBBON : 
[A. D. 378-305.] The ruin of Paganism, in the 
age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of 
the total extirpation of any ancient and popular super-
stition ; am' may therefore deserve to he considered, 
as a singular event in the history of the human mind. 
The Christians, more especially the clergy, had im-
patiently supported the prudent delays of, Constan-
tine, and the equal toleration of the elder Valentin-
ian ; nor could they deem their conquest perfect or 
secure, as long as their adversaries were permitted 
to exist. The influence, which Ambrose and his 
brethren had acquired over the youth of Gratian anti 
the piety of Theodosius, was employed, to infuse 
the maxims of persecution into the breasts of their 
imperial proselytes. Two specious principles of re-
ligious jurisprudence were established, from whence 
they deduced a direct and rigorous conclusion, against 
the subjects of the empire, who still adhered to the 
ceremonies of their ancestors ; that the magistrate is, 
in some measure, guilty of the ethnics which he neg-
lects to prohibit, or to punish ; and that the idola-
trous worship of fabulous deities, and real demons, 
is the most abominable crime against the supreme 
majesty of the Creator. The law of Moses, and the 
example of Jewish history, were hastily, 'perhaps 
erroneously, applied, by the clergy, to the mild and 
See Eusebins, in Vit. Constantin. 1. iii. c. 54-56, and 1. iv. c. 23, 
25. These acts of authority may be compared with the suppression 
of the Bacchanals, and the demolition of the temple of Isis, by the 
magistrates of Pagan Route. 
I Euselaus Vit. Constant. 1. iii. C. 54), and Libanius (Oral. pro 
Tem plis, p. 9, to, edit. Geinofred,) both mention the pious sacrilege 
of Coastatitine, which they viewed in very difkreat tights. 'fire 
latter very expressly declares, that "he made use of the sacred 
money, but made no alteration iii the legal worship; the temples 
indeed were impoverished, but the sacred rites were performed 
there."-Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, v. iv. p. 140. 
I The fourth Dissertation of M. de la Basile, sur le Souverain 
Pontificiat des Empereurs R0111018 (in the Mein. de l'Acad. tom. 
xv. P. 75-144), is a very learned and indicious performance, which 
explains the state, and proves the toleration, of paganism, from 
Constantine to Grattan. The assertion of Zosimus, that Grafian 
was the first who refused the pontifical robe, is confirtned beyond a 
doubt and the murmurs of bigotry, on that subject, are almost 
silenced. 
universal reign of Christianity. The zeal of the em-
perors was excited to vindicate their own honor, 
and that of the Deity : and the temples of the Roman 
world were subverted, about sixty years after the con-
version of Constantine. 
From the age of Numa, to the reign of Gratian, 
the Romans preserved the regular succession of tine 
several colleges of the sacerdotal order. Fifteen 
Pontiffs exercised their supreme jurisdiction over all 
things, and persons, that were consecrated to the ser-
vice of their gods ; and the various questions which 
perpetually arose in a loose and traditionary system, 
were submitted to the judgment of their holy tribunal. 
Fifteen grave and learned AUGURS observed tile face 
of the heavens, and prescribed the actions of heroes 
according to the flight of birds. Fifteen keepers of 
the Sybilline books (their name of QUINDECEMVIRS 
was derived from their number) occasionally con-
sulted the history of future, and as it should seem, 
of contingent, events. Six VESTALS devoted their 
virginity to the guard of the sacred fire, and of the 
unknown pledges of the duration of Rome ; which no 
mortal had been suffered to behold with impunity. 
Epueos prepared the table of the gods, conducted the 
solemn procession, and regulated the ceremonies of 
the annual festival. The three FLAMENS of Jupiter, 
of Mars, and of Quirinus, were considered as the 
peculiar ministers of the three most powerful deities, 
who watched over the fate of Rome and of the uni-
verse. The KING of the SACRIFICES represented the 
person of Numa, and of his successors, in the reli-
gious functions, which could be performed only by 
royal hands. The confraternities of the SALLIANS, 
LUPERCALS, &c., practised such rites, as might ex-
tort a smile of contempt from every reasonable man, 
with a lively confidence of recommending themselves 
to the favor of the immortal gods. The authority, 
which the Roman priests had formerly obtained in 
the councils of the republic, was gradually abol-
ished by the establishment of monarchy, and the re-
moval of the seat of empire. But the dignity of their 
sacred character was still protected by the laws and 
manners of their country ; and they still continued, 
more especially the college of pontiffs, to exercise in 
the capital, and sometimes in the provinces, the rights 
of the ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction. Their 
robes of purple, chariots of state, and sumptuous 
entertainments, attracted the admiration of the peo-
ple ; arid they received, from the consecrated lands, 
and the public revenue, an ample stipend, which 
liberally supported the splendor of the priesthood, and 
all the expenses of the religious worship of the state. 
As the service of the altar was not incompatible with 
the command of armies, the Romans, after their con-
sulships and triumphs, ascribed to the place of port-
tiff, or of augur ; the seats of Cicero and Pompey 
were filled, in the fourth century, by the most illus-
trious members of the serrate; and the dignity of 
their birth reflected additional splendor tin their sa-
cerdotal character. The fifteen priests, who composed 
the college of pontiffs, enjoyed a more distinguished 
rank, as the companions of their sovereign ; and the 
Christian emperors condescended to accept the robe 
and ensigns, which were appropriated to the office of 
supreme pontiff. But when Gratian ascended the 
throne, more scrupulous, or more enlightened, he 
sternly rejected those profane symbols; applied to the 
service of the state, or of the church. the revenues of 
the priests and vestals ; abolished their honors and 
immunities ; and dissolved the ancient fabric of Ro-
man superstition, which was supported by the opinions 
and habits (f eleven hundred gears. Paganism was 
still the constitutional religion of the senate. The 
hall or temple in which they assembled, was adorned 
by the statue and altar of victory ; a majestic female 
standing on a globe, with flowing garments, ex-
panded wings, arid a crown of laurel in her out-
stretched hand. The senators were sworn on the 
altar of the goddess, to observe the laws of the em-
peror and of the empire ; and a solemn offering of 
wine and incense was the ordinary prelude of their 
public deliberations. The removal of this ancient 
monument was the only injury which Constantius 
had offered to the superstition of the Romans. The 
altar of Victory was again restored by Julian. tol-
erated by Valentinian, and once more banished from 
the senate by the zeal of Gratian. But the emperor 
yet spared the statues of the gods which were ex-
posed to the public veneration : four hundred an 
twenty-four temples, or chapels, still remained Of 
satisfy the devotion of the people ; and in!every quar-
ter of Rome, the delicacy of the Christians was of-
fended by the fumes of idolatrous sacrifice. 
[A. D. 384.] But the Christians formed the least 
numerous party in the senate of Rome ; and it was 
only by their absence, that they coutd express their 
dissent from the legal, though profane, acts of a Pa-
gan majority. In that assembly, the dying embers 
of freedom were, for a moment, revived and inflamed 
by the breath of fanaticism. Four respectable dep-
utations were successively voted to the Imperial 
court, to represent the grievances of the priesthood 
and the senate; and to solicit the restoration of the 
altar of Victory. The conduct of this important 
business was intrusted to the eloquent Symmachus, 
a wealthy and noble senator, who united the sacred 
characters of pontiff arid augur, with the civil dig-
nities of proconsul of Africa, and prefect of the city. 
The breast of Sp-mad-ins was animated by the 
warmest zeal for the cause of expiring Paganism ; 
arid his religions antagonist laments d the abuse of his 
genius, and the inefficacy of his moral virtues. The 
orator, whose petition is extant to the emperor Val-
entinian, was conscious of the difficulty arid danger 
of the office which he had assumed. He cautiously 
avoids every topic which might appear to reflect on 
the religion of his sovereign ; humbly declares, that 
prayers and entreaties are his only arms ; and art-
fully draws his arguments from the schools of rhet-
oric rather than from those of philosophy. Sym-
machus endeavors to seduce the imagination of a 
young prince, by displaying the attributes of the god-
dess of Victory ; he insinuates, that the confiscation 
of the revenues, which were consecrated to the service 
of the gods, was a measure unworthy of his liberal 
and disinterested character ; arid he maintains, that 
the Roman sacrifices would be deprived of their force 
and energy, if they were no longer celebrated at the 
expense, as well as in the name, of the republic. Even 
skepticism is made to supply an apology for superstition 
The great and incomprehensible secret of the universe 
eludes the inquiry of man. Where reason cannot in-
truct, custom may be permitted to guide ; and every na-
tion seems to consult the dictates of prudence by a faith-
ful attachment to those rites, which have received the 
sanction of ages. If those ages have been crowned 
with glory and prosperity, if the devout people have 
frequently obtained the blessings which they have 
solicited at the altars of the gods, it must appear still 
more advisable to persist in the same salutary prac-
tice ; and not to risk the unknown perils that may 
attend any rash innovations. The test of antiquity 
and success was applied with singular advantage to 
the religion of Numa ; and ROME herself, the celes-
tial genius that presided over the fates of the city, is 
introduced by the orator to plead her own cause be-
fore the tribunal of the emperors. " Most excelleet 
princes," says the venerable matron, " fathers of 
your country ! pity and respect my age, which has 
hitherto flowed in an uninterrupted course of piety. 
Since I do not repent, permit me to continue in the 
practice of my ancient rites. Since I am born free, 
allow the to enjoy my domestic institutions. This 
religion has reduced the world under my laws. These 
rites have repelled Hannibal from the city, and the 
Gauls from the capitol. Were my gray heirs re-
served for such intolerable disgrace? I am ignorant 
of the new system that I am required to adopt ; but 
I am well assured, that the correction of old age is 
always an ungrateful and ignominious office." The 
fears of the people supplied what the discretion of 
the orator had suppressed ; and the calamities which 
afflicted, or threatened, the declining empire, were 
unanimously imputed, by the Pagans, to the new re-
ligion of Christ and of Constantine. 
But the hopes of Symmachus were repeatedly baf-
fled by the firm and dexterous opposition of the arch-
bishop of Milan ; who fortified the emperors against 
the fallacious eloquence of the advocate of Rome. In 
this controversy, Ambrose condescends to speak the 
language of a philosopher, and to ask with some con-
tempt, why it should be thought necessary to intro-
duce an imaginary and invisible power, as the cause 
of those victories, which were sufficiently explained 
by the valor and discipline of the legions. He justly 
derides the absurd reverence for antiquity, which 
could only tend to discourage the improvements of 
art, and to replunge the human race into their origi-
nal barbarism. From thence gradually rising to a 
more lofty and theological tone, lie pronounces, that 
Christianity alone is the doctrine of truth and salva-
tion ; and that every mode of Polytheism conducts 
its deluded votaries, through the paths of error, to 
the abyss.of eternal perdition. Arguments like these, 
when they were suggested by a favorite bishop, had 
power to prevent the restoration of the altar of Vic-
tory ; but the same arguments fell, with much more 
energy and effect, from the month of a conqueror : 
and the gods of antiquity were dragged in triumph 
at the chariot-wheels of Theodosius. In a full meet-
ing of the senate, the emperor proposed, according 
to the forms of the republic, the important question, 
Whether the worship of Jupiter, or ,that of Christ, 
should be the religion of the Romans ? The liberty 
of suffrages, which he affected to allow, was des-
troyed by the hopes and fears that his presence in-
spired ; and the arbitrary exile of Symmachus was a 
recent admonition, that it might be dangerous to op-
pose the wishes of the monarch. On a regular di-
vision of the senate, Jupiter was condemned and de-
graded by the sense of a very large majority; and it 
is rather surprising, that any members should he 
found bold enough to declare, by their speeches and 
votes, that they were still attached to the interest of 
an abdicated deity. The hasty conversion of the sen-
ate must be attributed either to supernatural or to-
sordid motives ; and many of these reluctant pros-
elytes betrayed, on every favorable occasion, their 
secret disposition to throw aside the mask of odious 
dissimulation. But they were gradually fixed in the 
new religion, as the cause of the ancient became 
more hopeless ; they yielded to the authority of the 
emperor, to the fashion of the times, and to the en-
treaties of their wives and children, who were insti-
gated and governed by the clergy of Rome and the 
monks of the East. The edifying example of the 
Anician family was soon imitated by the rest of the 
nobility ; the Bassi, the Panllini, the Gracchi, em-
braced the Christian religion ; and " the luminaries 
of the world, the venerable assembly of Cato, (such 
are the high-flown expressions of Prudentius,) were 
impatient to strip themselves of their pontifical gar-
ment ; to cast the skin of the old serpent ; to as-
sume the snowy robes of baptismal innocence ; and 
to humble the pride of the consular fasces before the 
tombs of the martyrs.'' The citizens, who subsisted 
by their own industry, and the populace, who were 
supported by the public liberality, filled the churches 
of the Lateran and Vatican, with an incessant throng 
of devout proselytes. The decrees of the senate, 
which proscribed the worship of idols, were ratified 
by the general consent of the Romans : the splendor 
of the capitol was defaced, and the solitary temples 
were abandoned to ruin and contempt. Rome sub-
mitted to the yoke of the gospel ; and the vanquished 
provinces had not yet lost their reverence for the 
name and authority of Rome ! 
Had the Pagans been animated by the undaunted 
zeal which possessed the minds of the primitive be-
lievers, the triumph of the church must have been 
stained with blood ; and the martyrs of Jupiter and 
Apollo might have embraced the glorious opportu-
nity of devoting their lives and fortunes at the foot 
of their altars. But such obstinate zeal was not con-
genial or the loose and careless temper of polytheism. 
The violent arid repeated strokes of the orthodox 
princes were broken by the soft and yielding sub-
stance against which they were directed ; and the 
ready obedience of the Pagans protected them from 
the pains and penalties of the Theodosian Code. In-
stead of asserting, that the authority of the gods was 
superior to that of the emperor, they desisted, with a 
plaintive murmur, from the use of those sacred rites 
which their sovereign had condemned. If they were 
sometimes tempted, by a sally of passion, or by the 
hopes of concealment, to indulge their favorite su-
perstition ; their humble repentance disarmed the 
severity of the Christian magistrate, and they seldom 
refused to attune for their rashness, by submitting, 
with some secret reluctance, to the yoke of the gos- 
On the death of V ALENTIAN, A. D. 376, GRATIAN 
was elected emperor by the soldiers and was chosen 
Pontiff by the priests, but he was the first Christian 
emperor who refused to wear the pontifical robe. In 
With the establishment of the empire, AUGUSTUS A. D. 378, VALENS, the emperor of the East died, 
became emperor. He was not only the head of the 
state, but he united to his imperial office that of 
" Pontifex Maximus," which was held by each of 
the succeeding emperors till the time of GRATIAN. 
" GRATIAN was the first emperor who refused the 
pontifical robe."—Index to " Gibbon's Rome." 
When CONSTANTINE embraced Christianity, while 
he abolished Paganism as the religion of the empire 
he did not abolish the Pagan worship. Says GIBBON : 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
365 
pel. The churches were filled with the increasing 
multitude of these unworthy proselytes, who had 
conformed, from temporal motives, to the reigning 
religion ; and while they devoutly imitated the pos-
tures, and recited the prayers of the faithful, they 
satisfied their conscience by the silent and sincere in-
vocation of the gods of antiquity. If the Pagans 
wanted patience to suffer, they wanted spirit to re-
sist : and the scattered myriads, who deplored the 
ruin of the temples, yielded, without a contest, to 
the fortune of their adversaries. The disorderly op-
opposition of the peasants of Syria, and the popu-
lace of Alexandria, to the rage of private fanaticism, 
was silenced by the name and authority of the em-
peror. The Pagans of the west, without contributing 
to the elevation of Eugenius, disgraced by their par-
tial attachment, the cause and character of the usurp- 
er. The clergy vehemently exclaimed, that he ag- 
gravated the crime of rebellion by the guilt of apos-
tacy ; that, by his permission, the altar of Victory 
was again restored ; and that the idolatrous symbols 
of Jupiter and Hercules were displayed in the field, 
against the invincible standard of the cross. But the 
vain hopes of the Pagans were soon annihilated by 
the defeat of Eugenius ; and they were left exposed 
to the resentment of the conqueror, who labored to 
deserve the favor of heaven by the extirpation of idola-
try. 
The imperial laws, which prohibited the sacrifices 
and ceremonies of Paganism, were rigidly executed ; 
and every hour contributed to destroy the influence 
of a religion, which was supported by custom, rather 
than by argument. The devotion of the poet, or 
the philosopher, may be secretly nourished by pray-
er, meditation, and study ; but the exercise of pub-
lic worship appears to be the only solid foundation of 
the religious sentiments of the people, which derive 
their force from imitation and habit. The interrup-
tion of that public exercise may consummate, in the 
period of a few years, the important work of a na-
tional revolution. The memory of theological opin-
ions cannot long be preserved without the artificial 
helps of priests, of temples, and of books. The ig-
norant vulgar, whose minds are still agitated by the 
blind hopes and terrors of superstition, will be soon 
persuaded by their superiors, to direct their vows to 
the reigning deities of the age : and will insensibly 
imbibe an ardent zeal for the support and propagation 
of the new doctrine, which spiritual hunger at first 
compelled them to accept. The generation that arose 
in the world after the promulgation of the imperial 
laws, was attracted within the pale of the Catholic 
Church ; and so rapid, yet so gentle, was the fall of 
Paganism, that only twenty-eight years after the death 
of Theodosius, the faint and minute vestiges were no 
longer visible to the eye of the legislator. 
The ruin of the Pagan religion is described by the 
Sophists, as a dreadful and amazing prodigy, which 
covered the earth with darkness, and restored the an-
cient dominion of chaos and of night. They relate, 
in solemn and pathetic strains, that the temples were 
converted into sepulchres, and that the holy places, 
which had been adorned by the statues of the gods, 
were basely polluted by the relics of Christian mar-
tyrs.—" The monks " (a race of filthy animals, to 
whom Eunapius is tempted to refuse the name of 
men) " are the authors of the new worship, which, 
in the place of those deities, who are conceived by 
the understanding, has substituted the meanest and 
most contemptible slaves. The heads, salted and 
pickled, of these infamous malefactors, who, for the 
multitude of their crimes, have suffered a just arid 
ignominons death ; their bodies still marked by the 
impression of the lash, and the scars of those tor-
tures which were inflicted by the sentence of the 
magistrate ; such " (continues Eunapius) " are the 
gods which the earth produces in our days ; such are 
the martyrs, the supreme arbitrators of our prayers 
and petitions to the deity, whose tombs are now con-
secrated as the objects of the veneration of the peo-
ple." 
The example of Rome and Constantinople con-
firmed the faith and discipline of the Catholic world. 
The honors of the saints and martyrs, after a feeble 
and ineffectual murmur of profane reason, were uni-
versally established ; and in the age of Ambrose and 
Jerome, something was still deemed wanting to the 
sanctity of a Christian church, till it hail been conse-
crated by some portion of holy relics, which fixed 
and inflamed the devotion of the faithful. 
In the lung period of twelve hundred years, which 
elapsed between the reign of Constantine and the ref. 
ornnation of Luther, the worship of saints and relics 
corrupted the pure and perfect simplicity of the 
Christian model ; and some symptoms of degeneracy 
may he observed even in the first generations which 
adopted and cherished this pernicious innovation. 
The sublime and simple theology of the primitive 
Christians was gradually corrupted ; and the motsmu-
CHY of heaven, already clouded by metaphysical sub-
tleties, was degraded by the introduction of a popu-
lar mythology, which tended to restore the reign of 
polytheism. 
As the objects of religion were gradually reduced 
to the standard of the imagination, the rites and cere-
monies were introduced that seemed most powerfully 
to affect the senses of the vulgar. If, in the begin-
ning of the fifth ceutury, Tertullian, or Lactantius, 
had been suddenly raised from the dead, to assist at 
the festival of some popular saint, or martyr, they 
would have gazed with astonishment and indignation, 
on the profane spectacle, which had succeeded to the 
pure and spiritual worship of a Christian congrega-
tion. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown 
open, they must have been offended by the smoke of 
incense, the perfume of flowers, and the glare of 
lamps and tapers, which diffused, at noon-day, a 
gaudy, superfluous, and, in their opinion, a sacrile-
gious light. If they approached the balustrade of 
the altar, they made their way through the prostrate 
crowd, consisting for the most part, of strangers and 
pilgrims, who resorted to the city on the vigil of the 
feast ; and who already felt the strong intoxication 
of fanaticism, and perhaps, of wine. Their devout 
kisses were imprinted on the walls and pavement of 
the sacred edifice ; and their fervent prayers were 
directed, whatever might he the language of their 
church, to the bones, the blood, or the ashes of the 
saints, which were usually concealed, by a linen or 
silken veil, from the eyes of the vulgar. The Chris-
tians frequented the tombs of the martyrs, in the hope 
of obtaining, from their powerful intercession, every 
sort of spiritual, but more especially of temporal 
blessings. They implored the preservation of their 
health, or the cure of their infirmities ; the fruitful-
ness of their barren wives, or the safety and happiness 
of their children Whenever they undertook any dis-
tant or dangerous journey, they requested that the 
holy martyrs would he their guides and protectors on 
the road ; arid, if they returned, without having ex-
perienced any misfortune, they again hastened to the 
tombs of the martyrs, to celebrate, with grateful 
thanksgivings, their obligations to the memory and 
relics of those heavenly patrons. The walls were 
hung round with symbols of the favors which they 
had received ; eyes, and hands, and feet, of gold and 
silver ; and edifying pictures, which could not long 
escape the abuse of indiscreet or idolatrous devotion, 
represented the image, the attributes, and the mira-
cles of the tutelar saint. The same uniform original 
spirit of superstition might suggest in the most dis-
tant ages and countries, the same method of deceiving, 
the credulity, and of affecting the senses, of man-
kind ;hut it must ingenuously be confessed, that the 
ministers of the Catholic Church imitated the profane 
model, which they were impatient to destroy. The 
most respectable bishops had persuaded themselves, 
that the ignorant rustics would more cheerfully re-
nounce the superstitions of Paganism, if they found 
some resemblance, some compensation, in the bosom 
of ,Christianity. The religion of Constantine a-
chieved, in less than a century, the final conquest of 
the Roman empire : but the victors themselves were 
insensibly subdued by the arts of their vanquished ri-
vals !— Gibbon, v. 2, pp. 183-187, 192-195, 198, 199. 
The above shows the downfall of the Pagans and 
the apostacy of the Christians. 
The refusal of GRATIAN to wear the pontifical 
robes, made it necessary to elect an ecclesiastical 
head of the empire. 
DAMASUS, afterwards canonized by the Papal church, 
was at this time Bishop of Rotne, and he is pro-
nounced by GIBBON, " a very ambiguous character." 
GIBBON says: 
The splendid vices of the Church of Rome, under 
the reign of Valentinian and Damasus, have been 
curiously observed by the historian Ainmianus, who 
delivers his impartial sense in these expressive 
words : " The prfecture of Juventius was accom-
panied with peace and plenty ; hut the tranquillity 
of his government was soon disturbed by a bloody 
sedition of the distracted people. The ardor of 
Damasus and Ursinus, to seize the episcopal seat, 
surpassed the ordinary measure of human ambition. 
They contended with the rage of party ; the quarrel 
was maintained by the wounds and death of their fol-
lowers ; and the prwfect, unable to resist or to ap-
pease the tumult, was constrained, by superior vio-
lence, to retire into the suburbs. Damasus prevailed ; 
the well-disputed victory remained on the side of his 
faction ; one hundred and thirty-seven deadbodies* were 
found inthe Basilica of Sicinius, where the Christians 
hold their religions assemblies ; and it was long before 
the angry minds of the people resumed their accus-
tomed tranquillity. When 1 consider the splendor of 
the capitol, I am not astonished that so valuable a 
prize should inflame the desires of ambitious men, 
and produce the fiercest and most obstinate contests 
The successful candidate is secure, that he will be 
enriched by the offerings of matrons ; that, as scion 
as his dress is composed with becoming care and ele-
gance, he may proceed, in his chariot, through the 
streets of Rome; and that the sumptuousness of the 
Imperial table will not equal the profuse and delicate 
entertainments provided by the taste, and at the ex-
pense, of the Roman pontiff's. How much more ra-
tionally," continues the honest pagan, " would those 
pontiffs consult their true happiness, if, instead of al-
leging the greatness of the city as an excuse for their 
manners, they would imitate the exemplary life of 
some provincial bishops, whose temperance and so-
briety, whose mean apparel and downcast looks, re-
commended their pure and modest virtue to the 
Deity, and his trite worshippers." ,The schism of 
Damasus and Ursinus was extinguished by the exile 
of the latter ; and the wisdom of the prwfect Prwtex-
tatus restored the tranquillity of the city. Preetex-
tatus was a philosophic pagan, a man of learning, of 
taste, and politeness, who disguised a reproach in the 
form of a jest, when he assured Damasus, that if 
he could obtain the bishopric of Rome, he himself 
would immediately embrace the Christian religion. 
This lively picture of the wealth and luxury of the 
popes, in the fourth century, becomes the more curi-
ous, as it represents the intermediate degree, be-
tween the humble poverty of the apostolic fisherman, 
and the royal state of a temporal prince, whose do-
minions extend from the confines of Naples to the 
banks of the Po.—Ib. vol. 2, pp. 93, 94. 
Such was the Bishop of Rome, chosen in A. D. 
366. On the refusal of the Pontificate by GRA1'JAN, 
when it became necessary to choose an ecclesiastical 
Head, this bishop of Rome was one of the candidates 
and succeeded to the office. In A. D. 378 he was de-
clared " Poeerinx MAXIMUS," having already held 
the highest office in the Catholic Church, that of 
Bishop of Rome for twelve years, and thus were 
tented the offices of " Pope," and " Pontiff." This 
fact, is on the authority of the article to which we re- 
ferred, and which we shall commence in our next. 
GIBBON says that TeeoDoerus " dictated a solemn 
edict, which proclaimed his own faith, and prescribed 
the religion of his subjects. It is our pleasure (such 
is the Imperial style,) that all the nations, which are 
governed by our clemency and moderation, should 
Jerome himself is forced to allow, crudelissimm interfectiones 
diversi semis perpetrates. (in Chron. p. Ibti.) But au original libel 
or petition of two presbyters of the adverse party has unaccountably 
escaped. They affirm, that the doors of the Basilica were burnt, 
and that the roof was moiled ; that Damasus marched at the head 
of his own clergy, grave-diggers charioteers, and hired gladiators ; 
that none of his party were killed, but that one hundred and sixty 
dead bodies were found. This petition is published by the P. Sir-
mond, in the first vdlume of his works. 
steadfastly adhere to the religion which was taught 
by St. Peter to the Romans; which faithful tradition 
has preserved ; and which is now professed by the 
PONTIFF DAMASUS, and by Peter, bishop of Alexan-
dria, a man of apostolic holiness. According to the 
discipline of the apostles, and the doctrine of the gos-
pel, let its helieve the sole deity of the Father, the 
Son, and the Holy Ghost ; tinder an equal majesty, 
and a pious Trinity. We authorize the followers of 
this doctrine to assume the title of Catholic Chris-
tians ; and as we judge, that all others are extrava-
gant mailmen, we brand them with the infamous 
name of heretics ; and declare, that their conventicles 
shall no longer usurp the respectable appellation of 
churches. Besides the condemnation of divine jus-
tice, they must expect to stiffer the severe penalties, 
which our authority, guided by heavenly wisdom, 
shall think proper to inflict upon them.' "—Ib. vol. 
2, p. 156. 
This DAMASUS was originally a monk from Mount 
Carmel ; and in the days of VESPASIAN the Carmel-
ites worshipped MAIA the " Mother of the gods "—
an old Babylonian deity. When Christianity became 
popular they embraced it, — substituting for their 
Babylonian worship, that of the virgin MARY—" the 
mother of GOD." Thus they continued their old 
worship under a new name. 
DAMASUS, on becoming Sovereign Pontiff, was 
constituted by the imperial edict " the sole judge of 
religious matters." He was the first Bishop to whom 
this power was granted. Exercising this power he 
expelled from the church those who would not wor-
ship the " Mother of Gon." " The orthodox opposed. 
They declared their hope, that the Lord would return 
and reign. DAMASUS decided that the reign of the 
saints had begun already. He now formally declared 
the Millenarians heretical. He expelled them from 
the church. His courts everywhere decided against 
them. None were left save those That worshipped the 
Virgin Queen, and desired not that Christ would re-
turn in the flesh." Thus the Babylonian worship 
took the place of Christianity. 
Here, then, is the great apostacy. Here Goo's 
church was expelled from the apostate one, arid fled 
into the wilderness. 1260 years front this date, 
1641, was marked by the Irish massacre in which 
40,000—some say 150,000 Protestants perished.--
This was 120 years from the commencement of the 
Reformation, when those doctrines which were re-
jected by the apostacy, had been restored to public 
confidence, in all Protestant countries and the people 
of GoD had come out from the Babylon of the Apoca-
lypse. The Christian worship being thus publicly 
recognized, the church could be no longer in the wil-
derness. 
The 1260 days that the saints were to be persecuted 
by the little horn, could not however be dated from 
this apostacy ; for that was to begin after the rise of 
the ten horns, the subversion of three of them, and the 
attaining of the Papacy to a political position, like 
that conferred on it by the decrecof JUSTINIAN in A. 
D. 533, and the arms of JUSTINIAN in A. D. 538. 
THE TRULY RELIGIOUS MAN. 
Who is he I He is not a strange, unnatural being 
with a mariner and look all peculiar to himself, walk-
ing among his fellows with solemn visage and a 
cheerless and unsocial heart. He is not a piece of 
formal and mechanical precision ; nor a stern and 
frowning monster, nor yet a cold ascetic, such as 
children dream of with terror, and men avoid with 
disgust. He is not a person putting on a sanctimo-
nious demeanor, feigning a proud superiority to his 
brethren, saying always by the air he carries," Stand 
by thyself, I am holier than thou." Ile is not an 
artificial thing at all, not a hollow show, set up to 
represent religion as a kind of clay figure, all out-
wardness, and no living and warm emotion within. 
He is altogether a different and nobler object, one 
worthier our affection, one that may be drawn to us 
in confidence, and trusted always. He is the true and 
just man, the generous and great-souled man. He 
has deep sympathies and broad charities for humanity. 
He has high, unbending principle. He has a loving 
and a feeling heart—a heart whose steady pulses throb 
responsively with the sufferings and the joys of all 
his kind. He is the master of himself and the servant 
of nothing, and no one but his Father in heaven. 
He lives with no selfish aim, and suffers no self seek-
ing to narrow his benevolent desires, or stifle his kin-
dred impulses. He goes resolutely and faithfully 
into the common duties of life, to follow there his law-
ful calling, and obey there the sacred rules of honor, 
of good faith, of moderation and equity. He goes 
forth daily with meekness in his mien and humility 
in his breast, but lie carries a most dauntless courage 
for the right,—a determination, such as no temptation 
can vanquish, to do all things well,—a resolve, set 
firmly to duty, that all bad forces in the universe can-
not bend back. He has a truth telling tongue, and 
an eye that turns away from folly, and lips that dare 
rebuke oppression, and injustice and itypocrisy, in 
their loftiest seats and haughtiest equipage. He will 
defend the down trodden, and protect the lowly, and 
minister to the suffering, and plead for the widow arid 
give alms to the poor. 
Such is the truly religious man ; hut not such only, 
for lie is something, more. There are other exalted 
and manly traits, other noble elements in his nature. 
There are other aspirations in him which reach tip to 
heaven, and take hold on heavenly things: that whis-
per to him of the Infinite Being and the infinite world; 
that tell him of religion, arid call him to its benign 
and blessed service ;—aspirations that guide him, yes, 
'tree him to communion with Gun, towards excellency 
yet unattained, and that fasten his strong hope and 
his ardent faith on the world that is immortal, and 
the life that is eternal. He is the devout man, and a 
man whom devotion makes infinitely more a man to 
be. reverenced and loved. He is filled ever with the 
thought that his very life is sent from GOD, and sus-
tained by GOD, and will not perish with the body. He is 
a man, in a word, that holds his destiny in sight ; 
lives for it with a single purpose ; consecrates him-
self to fulfil it daily; and seeks strength for it in that 
Paternal Being, by whom it will surely be given 
and thus he is the only rational and consistent being 
that lives at all. Such is the truly religious—the 
truly good man. The life of heaven he has begun 
on earth. What a happy world were it full of such ! 
Let each reader of this add one—himself or herself—
to the number of the truly religious, and truly good. 
Exchange paper. 
PREPARATION FOR DEATH.—When you lie down 
at night, compose your spirits as if you were not to 
awake till the heavens be no more. Arid when you 
awake in the morning, consider that new day as your 
last, and live accordingly. Surely that night cometh 
of which you will never see the morning, or that 
morning of which you will never see the night; but 
which of your mornings or nights will be such, you 
know not. Let the mantle of worldly enjoyment 
hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped 
when death comes to carry you into another world. 
When the corn is forsaking the ground, it is ready 
for the sickle : when the fruit is ripe, it falls off the 
tree easily. So when a Christian's heart is truly 
weaned front the world, he is prepared for sheath, and 
it will be the more easy for him. A heart disen-
gaged from the world is a heavenly one, and then we 
are ready for heaven, when our heart is there before 
US. 
Burton. 
THE HORN OF THE BEAST.—The following, para-
graph, from the Paris Univers, the leading Popish 
Journal in France, shows what Popery would be if it 
could, the world over :—" A heretic examined and 
convicted by the church used to be delivered over to 
the secular power, and punished with death. Noth-
ing has ever appeared to us more natural or more 
necessary. More than 100,000 persons perished in 
consequence of the heresy of WYCLIFFE; a still greater 
number by that of old JOHN Huss ; it would not be 
possible to calculate the bloodshed caused by the here-
sy of LUTHER, and it is not yet over. After three 
centuries, we are at the eve of a recommencement. 
The prompt repression of the disciples of LUTHER, 
and a crusade against Protestantism, would have spared 
Europe three centuries of discord and catastrophes, 
in which France and civilization may perish." 
THE TRUE CHRISTIAN.—NO man ought to think 
he bath found petite, when nothing troubles hiim ; 
nor that all is well, because everything is according 
to his mind ; nor that he is a holy person because he 
prays with great sweetness and comfort. But lie is 
at peace who is reconciled to Goo ; and Goo loves 
him when he hash overcome himself; and all is well 
when nothing, pleases him but GOD, being thankful 
in the midst of his afflictions ; and he is holy who, 
when he bath lost his comfort, loses nothing of his 
duty, but is still the same when Goo changes his face 
towards him. 
Jeremy Taylor. 
NOISY CHRISTIANS.—UNCLE JACK, a colored di-
vine, said to his hearers," You noisy Christians re-
mind me of the little' branches ' after a heavy rain. 
They are soon full, then noisy, and as soon empty. 
I had a great deal rather see you like the broad river, 
which is quiet, because it is broad and deep." Again 
he said, " When the wind blows hard, the dry leaves 
make a great deal more noise than the green ones." 
The joy of the hypocrite is butt for a moment." 
Job 20 : 2. Dean SWIFT says it is with some little-
souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less 
they have in them, the more noise they make in pour-
ing it out. 
FORGIVENESS.—My heart was heavy, for its trust 
had been abused, its kindness answered with foul 
wrong ; so, turning gloomily from my fellow men, 
one summer Sabbath day, I strolled among the green 
mounds of the village burial place ; where, pondering 
how all human love and hate find one sad level, and 
how, soon an late, wronged and wrong doer, each 
with meekened face arid cold hands folded over a still 
heart, pass the green threshold of our common grave, 
whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart. Awed 
for myself, and pitying my race, our common sorrow 
like a mighty wave swept all my pride away, and 
trembling, I forgave. 
J. G. Whittier. 
• 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ing arms and called aloud for mercy ;—hut called in 
vain ; for those whose sympathies she would fain 
have enlisted, turned a deaf ear to her entreaties, and 
unmoved beheld the last gleam of liberty extin-
guished, and heard the last expiring groan of free-
dom, as faint and exhausted she sunk into the arms 
A VISION OF THE WORLD. of despotism and tyranny. 
The sun had sunk behind the western hills, and the I turned mine eyes from the blood-stained shores 
 
sultry fires of the day had yielded to a cool and re- of Hungary, to those of her oppressor, but nothing 
save wickedness and the lowest degradation rewarded 
freshly, breeze. The busy hum of human voices 
was hushed, and the feathered tribes safely lodged my gaze, and I saw that Austria, though a tyrant, 
 
w 
in their leafy homes, had forgotten their sweet songs. was still a slave ;fur she trembled before the haughty 
 
The noise, the tumult, the cares and the labors of the despot of the North ; she wore the yoke of bondage 
 
which his hand had forged, and bowed submissively 
day were over. I sat alone under the shade of a 
to his will. 1 wandered over the surrounding 
towering tree whose branches, beautiful and verdant, 
coun-
overhung the river whose bosom was now as calm tries, ever and anon treading upon the pale heaps of 
 
and placid as the lovely sky it reflected. All around motionless victims of war and revenge, when sud-
me was serene and beautiful,—the glowing west ra- denly a proud flag burst upon my view bearing the 
diant with blushes tinging the surface of the lake sweet emblem of " Liberty." With hurried steps I 
with golden colors and throwing an air of dazzling drew towards it, but started back in amazement, for 
that proud banner waved over a land which wore the 
beauty upon the lofty forest and verdant fields,—and 
now the stars came forth one by one, till all the sky galling bands of slavery; a land where tyranny held 
 
was covered with a gorgeous train awaiting the ar- absolute dominion, and where liberty existed only in 
. 
rival of their queen, who with a majestic air slowly name ; and though the proud tyrants who swayed the 
advanced from her stately home in the far off east, rod of despotism talked loudly of " Republicanism 
 
and Equality," still the uplifted halter and the blood-
and soon mountain, forest, valley and river were 
stained scaffold where thousands had perished for up-
For a while my heart seemed in perfect unison 
bathed in a flood of soft and silvery light. 
holding their rights, proclaimed in tones of thunder 
t 
with the scene before me, but soon a dark and dreary that freedom had never shed her mild and genial rays 
 
shade settled upon my soul, and the sun of gladness, upon the polluted soil of France. 
 
down-trodden and suffering people. And those cries 
CORRESPONDENCE. were re-echoed back, if possible, in more agonizing 
tones by a sister-band, for Hungary, weak and pros-
trate at the feet of a tyrant, stretched forth her bleed- 
with joyful hopes are anticipating the time when their soon become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his 
enveloped in deep mourning forgot to shine. Strange 
and powerful thoughts came over me : they rushed 
forth like the wild outpourings of the volcanic moun-
tain and overwhelmed me with their burning tide 
till body and soul seemed exhausted and lay like a 
straw upon the roaring bosom of the deep. Gladly 
would I then have torn aside the veil which separates 
the known. from the unknown world, and gazed upon 
the mysteries of the future. Lite seemed like a 
strange and confused dream. The present, the past, 
and the future were alike incomprehensible to me. 
infidelity and tormenting fears took possession of my 
soul and for an instant I almost doubted my own ex-
istence. 
Suddenly I raised my eyes, but started back in 
astonishment. The scene was changed ; the whole 
world seemed spread out to my view, and as I gazed 
around me with an eager and wondering countenance 
a view, dictated perhaps by the secret yearnings of 
my own heart, whispered—" Arise, walk through 
the length and the breadth of it," and obeying the 
command Lturned hastily and with winged footsteps 
sought the sunny region of the East. 1 stood within 
the sacred walls of Jerusalem, but the fires which 
once gleamed brightly upon the altars were cold and 
dead, and the holy place was trodden by Gentile 
feet. I roamed along the hilly coasts of Judea, but 
sad and desolate scenes met my view on every side, 
and afar in the distance I heard the clangor of war ; 
the shrieks of mortal agony ; and beheld the sunny 
plains flowing with the blood of brothers. I sought 
the shores of Africa, but the sight there was sicken-
ing. Wickedness and superstition held supremacy ; 
and though now and then there appeared a pale mis-
sionary of the cross, yet on every hand sacrifices 
were offered up to dumb and senseless idols, and Af-
ric's sable sone and daughters bowed down to the 
works of their own hands. With a sad heart I turned 
away and thought in a refined and civilized land to 
find scenes more in unison with an enlightened mind. 
But, alas ! the whole of Europe was but one ex-
tended battle-field, and though the clashing of arms 
and the roar of musketry was now hushed for a mo-
ment, it was only that the groans of the dying, and 
the bitter wail of desolate orphans might be the more 
distinctly heard. 
I paused for a while among the ruins of the third 
universal monarchy, and beheld the descendants of 
those whose names had once been a terror to the 
whole world, and whose conquests had been extended 
from sea to sea, trembling beneath the tread of the 
Ottoman. The energies of Greece were wasted, and 
her sons, forgetful of the glory of their ancestors had 
tamely sunk into slavery and despair. 
From thence I turned my course toward " that 
great city " which proudly seated upon her " seven 
hills " once bade defiance to the world and swayed 
her sceptre over the nations of the whole earth. But 
the glory of Roars had departed ; and he at whose 
feet crowned heads had once bowed in awe and rev- 
erence, surrounded now by foreign guards trembled 
for his life within the walls of the Vatican. From 
" the palace of the Caesars " I gazed upon the king- 
doms which had once formed the Roman Empire, 
but even as iron cannot be united with clay, neither 
could these kingdoms be united in the bonds of peace. 
Italy, fair and beautiful, lay before me, but her lovely 
plains were made desolate by war and oppression, 
and every balmy breeze bore with it the cries of a 
I sought the fair " Islands of the Sea " and rested 
for a moment beneath the shade of " the old British 
oak " whose branches, wildly waving, overhung 
many a lovely land, and whose roots, spreading far 
and wide, flourished in every clime and on every 
soil. For a while scenes of peace and prosperity 
met my view, but I soon discovered where poverty 
and crime walked forth hand in hand,—where wick-
edness and misery unveiled their faces, arid then a 
long and piercing cry—a cry of anguish, of rage and 
of despair borne from the shores of famishing Erin 
burst upon my affrighted ear, and with a terror-
stricken heart I turned and fled across the Atlantic. 
But scarcely had I placed my feet upon the " land 
of freedom," when a loud and bitter wail attracted 
my attention, and a scene full of horror and misery 
presented itself before me ;—" In the land of the 
free," under the very emblem of liberty, where the 
" stars and stripes " were proudly waving, I beheld 
slavery; slavery in its most horrible form. 
I beheld 
man sunk to the level of the brute, bearing with fear 
and trembling the burdens and stripes laid upon him 
by his lordly master. But though degraded by his 
fellow-men, and by those too, who gloried in the free-
dom of their country, still within the breast of the 
poor slave burned a flame which neither tyranny nor 
oppression could extinguish, and when that flame 
burst forth from its deep caverns and mingled with 
the fuel of despair, then the oppressed and down-trod-
den negro raised his lettered hands to heaven and 
called aloud for " vengeance." The land of freedom 
was the seat of slavery and crime, and with a shud-
der 1 closed my eyes to shut out from my view scenes 
so horrible and revolting to humanity. 
But suddenly the sound of approaching footsteps 
and the busy hum of voices attracted my attention, 
and raising my eyes I beheld a great and almost in-
numerable company, collected from every land and 
from every clime. The great and mighty ones of 
the earth were there : princes and nobles were among 
the number ; before them went the sound of a trum-
pet, and over their heads waved a banner bearing the 
single inscription, " Liberty." Each hand held an 
unsheathed sword ; the battle-spear was uplifted, 
and upon each broad shield " Republicanism " was 
engraved in glowing colors, arid ever and anon from 
their lips arose the cry, " Down with tyranny and 
oppression. Down with monarchy and despotism. 
The standard of peace and liberty shall soon be 
erected ; the crash of crumbling thrones shall soon 
be heard throughout the whole world ; the crowns 
shall fall from the haughty brows of monarchs, and 
one universal republic shall extend from the burning 
sands of Africa to the snow-clad hills of the North." 
I gazed upon them for a moment, then almost invol-
untarily the question arose to my hps,—" Who are 
these ?" A soft voice at my side replied, " These 
are they who go forth to conquer by the sword the 
proud tyrants of the earth : to burst asunder the bands 
of slavery and despotism, and to bid the oppressed 
and down-trodden nations proudly lift up their heads, 
freed from the galling yoke of bondage. They are 
looking forward with eager expectations to the deci-
sive struggle which shall shake the nations of the 
whole earth ; which shall tear down the srong-holds 
of the despot, and from the ruins of scattered thrones 
and broken crowns, they are expecting a government 
to rise, free and unpolluted, which shall shed its 
genial influence over the earth. These are they who 
several countries, many of which are groaning be-
neath] the heavy chains of thraldom, shall cast their 
chains aside and welcome the reign of peace and 
freedom. Their cry is,— The crisis is at hand ;' 
and they are looking out for the approaching storm ; 
the storm which shall sweep away everything that 
impedes its progress ; the storm to which firmly-
built thrones shall be no harrier—the storm which 
shall place kings and princes on a level with their 
subjects,—but when that storm shall have passed 
away, when it shall have spent its whole fury upon 
the despotic rulers of the earth, then liberty, sweet 
liberty shall dispel every cloud of darkness and wave 
her banner over a universal Republic." With a 
shudder I turned away, for I could still behold the 
blood-stained shores of the Republic of France, and 
the cry that burst from the lips of the oppressed slave 
in the " land of freedom " was still ringing loudly in 
my ears. 
confused noise of battle and the garments rolled in 
blood pass away : soon shall the clarion of war be 
hushed forever, and succeeded by the sweet tones of 
mercy ; soon shall the warrior cast aside his sword 
and hind upon his brow the helmet of peace, for' a 
king shall reign in righteousness,' and his' dominion 
shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the 
ends of the earth.' The great millennial age will 
be ushered in, and the glory of the Lord shall cover 
the whole earth as the waters cover the sea. Soon 
shall the Bible be circulated throughout every land, 
and the mild beams of the gospel irradiate every clime, 
and put to flight the dark clouds of superstition arid 
error. Soon shall the Sun of Righteousness arising 
with healing in his wings enlighten the home of 
every benighted heathen, and then shall the barba-
rous tribes of the whole earth overthrow their idols 
and turn unto the true and living God. Then, at 
the name of Jesus shall every knee bow and every 
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and then 
shall the church of God enjoy a long repose, for 
' the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.' " 
Again the same question escaped my lips, " Who 
are these ?" and again the same voice replied, " These 
are they who go forth to conquer, not by carnal 
weapons but by the sword of the Spirit,' and are 
looking for a thousand years of peace and prosperity 
to the church, and that church shall then embrace the 
nations of all the earth, for all shall know the Lord 
from the least unto the greatest.' Fhese are they 
who with hopes bright and ardent are anticipating 
the glorious day when the shackles of bondage shall 
be broken, not only from the body butt also from the 
mind, arid that mind shall soar far beyond the limits 
now assigned it and overflowing with love, peace and 
holiness hold sweet intercourse with its Creator. 
Their prayer daily arises, "Phy kingdom come, thy 
will be done on earth as it is in heaven ;' but 'tis for 
a spiritual kingdom that they pray, and while they 
offer up their petitions for the spiritual coming of 
Christ,—for the conversion of the world, and for the 
joyful time when God the Father shall deliver into 
the hands of his Son the heathen for an inheritance, 
and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession,' 
they forget that it was said by holy arid inspired lips 
that the same Jesus which was taken up into heaven 
shall so come in like manner ' as he was seen go into 
heaven ;—that He shall take vengeance on them 
that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our 
Lord Jesus Christ ;'—and that He shall rule ' the 
heathen (not with the mild sceptre of peace and love) 
but with a rod of iron, and shall dash them in pieces 
like a potter's vessel. These are they who go forth 
proclaiming with a loud voice, The world is grow-
ing better and better ; wickedness is on the decline ; 
the gospel is being preached to every creature and 
soon shall the end come—the end of war and strife—
the end of Satan's dominion when the nations of every 
land shall bow at the mild sceptre of Jesus." Strange 
doctrine! 1 exclaimed, for wherever I turned my 
eyes I beheld scenes of wickedness, confusion, and 
crime, and I saw that " evil men and seducers were 
waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being de-
ceived." 
While I was still musing on these things a loud 
shout burst upon my ears, and turning toward the 
place from whence it proceeded, I beheld another 
I company still, at no great distance from me. The 
blood-stained banner of the cross waved above them ; 
in their hands they held " the word of life " and 
their motto was, " Behold the bridegroom cometh." 
The poor and lowly ones of the earth were there t 
the tattered garments of poverty covered many a 
shivering form, but their faces were bright with hope, 
and with a heavenly faith as with one accord they 
raised the cry : " The kingdoms of this world shall 
Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." Sign 
after sign have appeared ; prophecy after prophecy 
have been fulfilled, and now we can lift up our heads 
and rejoice, for we know that our redemption draw-
eth nigh. The first, the second, and the third uni--
versal monarchies have passed away and we are now 
living in the last age of the fourth, arid soon shall 
the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall 
never be destroyed. Soon shall we see the King 
in his beauty and juin the blood-washed throng upon 
the blissful heights of Zion ; soon shall he that sit-
teth upon the throne say, " Behold, I make all things 
new ;" then shall we obtain joy and gladness, and 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away ; then shall the 
curse be removed and the earth regain its primeval 
beauty ; then shall the tabernacle of God be with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people, and God himself shall be with them, their 
God. And God shall wipe away all tears front their 
eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sor-
row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more paint 
for the former things shall have passed away. 
I saw there were many mourners among the num- 
forth : " We believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
and them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring 
with him. For the Lord himself shall descend front 
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel 
and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ 
shall rise." 'Tis but a little while and he that shall 
come will come and will not tarry :—yet a little while 
and we shall meet the dearly beloved ones around 
the throne of God to blend together our songs of har-
mony and love, and then the tongue now silent shall 
shout triumphant over every sorrow. 'Tis but a lit-
tle while and we shall embrace their forms no longer 
subject to pain, to sickness, and to death, but incor-
ruptible and fashioned like unto our Saviour's ow n 
glorious body, and then dashing away the falling 
tears they raised the cry, " How bright the vision ! 
0 how long shall that glad hour delay ?" Every 
heart there caught the burden of the song, and they 
cried aloud in strains which rent the skies and re-
echoed through the vaulted arches of heaven, " How 
long, 0 Lord, how long ?" 
For a moment I stood and gazed upon them in 
speechless wonder, then tnrning to the bright being 
at my side I inquired, " Who are these ?" and 1 re-
ceived the reply, " These are they who go forth to 
warn the nations of the approaching wrath. They 
have not followed cunningly devised fables when they 
made known the power and coming of their Lord, for 
they have taken heed unto the sure word of prophecy 
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, and com-
paring that word with the history of the world they 
have come to the conclusion that but one more proph-
ecy remains to be fulfilled, and that is the prophecy 
of Enoch the seventh from Adam,'—' Behold the 
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints.' 'Fhese 
are they who with lamps trimmed and burning are 
looking for and hasting unto the coming, of the day 
of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be 
dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat, nevertheless they according to his promise look 
for new heavens arid a new earth wherein dwelleth 
righteoushess. These are they who with au eye of 
faith can already discern his chariot preparing to 
cleave the starry plains of heaven, and are looking 
forward with hope and joy to the resurrection of the 
dead. While they look upon the increasing wicked-
ness of a wicked world, they can discern a fulfilment 
of the words of the prophet, The wicked shall do 
wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand.' 
They listen to the declaration of their Lord and Sa-
viour, • Behold, I come quickly,' and with the be-
loved disciple can respond with their whole heart, 
Even so, come Lord Jesus.' " " Glorious doc-
trine !" burst front my lips while I was scarcely 
aware of it. But can it be true ?" I inquired, while 
my heart heat wildly with emotion, and the tear-drops 
gushed forth in torrents. The being to whom I put 
the question pointed to a Bible which lay neglected at 
my feet, and with a smile said, " To the law and to 
the testimony : if they speak not according to this 
word it is because there is no light in them." I 
opened the holy book and with an earnest desire af-
ter truth 1 searched its sacred pages " as for hidden 
treasures." I found one unbroken chain of proph-
ecies and that without the exception of a single link, 
all those prophecies had been fulfilled save that which 
the company before me were heralding—" Behold, 
the bridegroom cometh." A new light broke in upon 
my soul and dispersed every cloud of darkness. The 
cross and the crown passed in rapid succession before 
me, but I knew that the cross waeven/y for a season, 
and that the crown was everlastinAr. 
With a cry of 
joy upon my lips I sprang forward, enrolled my name 
among the followers of the Lamb, and with a fer-
vent and sincere heart 
" I jointed in the catholic cry, 
0 Jesus in glory appear, 
Appear in the clouds of the sky." 
H. M. JOHNSON. 
At that moment I beheld another company follow-
ing in the footsteps of those who had just preceded 
them, but instead of the sword they carried the Bible 
in their hands, and upon their breasts I beheld the 
signature,—" Holiness to the Lord :" and they cried ber,—many who had laid dearly beloved ones in the 
with a loud voice : " Peace and safety : soon shall cold and silent tomb, but their streaming eyes were 
the power of the oppressor be broken : soon shall the raised toward heaven and their trembling lips faltered 
LETTER FROM P. B. MORGAN. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
367 
BRO. "TIMES :—After writing you last I tarried a 
few weeks in Connecticut, during which time I 
preached several times to the church in Kent, and 
attended a few days at the Winstead camp-meeting—
an interesting meeting, but an account of which you 
have already published. I will merely remark that 
it afforded indubitable evidence of the strong hold 
Adventism has taken in that State. 
It was the largest camp-meeting of Adventists I 
ever attended. The labors of Elders Morgan, Mat-
thewson, Grant, Gunn, Howell, and others, have 
been most indefatigable. But the most of my time 
I spent with my father, who I lament to say I found 
in feeble health—is already advised by his physi-
cian to refrain from preaching—and I fear will never 
be able to again discharge all those important duties 
that devolve upon a preacher of the everlasting gospel. 
Oh for the morn when this mortal shall put on im-
mortality—when shall come to pass the saying, Oh 
death, where is thy sting, Oh grave,where is thy vic-
tory ! It is when the chastening hand of God is 
upon us—when the fierce waves of affliction surround 
and seem threatening us,—that we may test the vir-
tue and moral tendencies of the truths preached by 
Adventists. We then learn that it is indeed a great 
practical doctrine. 
Since my return to Vermont, I have visited and 
preached in the following places : 
Low Hawpon, N. Y.—We have here a good con-
gregation who are under the watch-care of Bro. 
Bosworth, and doing well. There is no other meet-
ing in the place. I preached there last Lord's day 
when the chapel was filled with attentive listeners ; 
the interest at this time is excellent, some we trust 
have already come to a saving knowledge of the 
truth, and others are inquiring the way. The door 
is also open for preaching in Castleton and Fairhaven. 
At Bristol, Vt., I have preached once sad find the 
interest in no measure declining. Though they have 
not been blessed with a " revival " or a large ac-
cession to their number, still our brethren are firm 
in the faith of the great truths pertaining to the near 
coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, re-
joicing in hope. They had anticipated enjoying the 
labors of our beloved Bro. 1. E. Jones. But duty 
seemed to dictate otherwise—what we all much re-
gret. 
At Burlington, there are yet a few names who 
love the precious truths of the Bible who meet regu-
larly at the Advent chapel to exhort one another, and 
hear discussed the great truths relating to the king-
dom of God. 
At Waterbury, I attended a conference, and al-
though all was not done that might be done perhaps 
to profit, yet the meeting with old friends in social 
devotional exercises.; was refreshing. The brethren 
here remain firm in the faith and the interest in the 
community is very considerable. They enjoy the la-
bors of Bro. D. T. Taylor. 
The brethren in this place are yet rejoicing in 
hope, and trust there has been somewhat of an ae 
cession to their strength during the year past. They 
seem like coming up to the help of the Lord. Our 
prayer is, 0 Lord, revive thy work. 
For a while past our churches of this region have 
been quite destitute of faithful laborers. Our venera-
ble father Billings has visited them occasionally—
and whose labors I am happy to know have been ap-
preciated. The field is plenteous but laborers few. 
I purpose laboring in several places during the 
corning winter, if time lasts, and the Lord willing. 
Pray for us. Yours in the blessed hope. 
Addison, (VI.), Oct. 301h, 1852. 
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EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
Bro. WILLIAM S MOORE writes from Bear Creek, (Illinois,) 
Oct. 19th, 1652. 
Bao. H rates :—The paper, it appears to me to 
hold forth the truths as contained in the Scriptures, 
to which I must confess I was an entire stranger till 
Bro. S. Chapman came amongst us last winter. I 
am truly thankful that our heavenly Father directed 
him to this part of the country. I think he has been 
the instrument in the hand of God of doing much 
good in this State. I have heard a good many that 
are able to say as well as myself that whereas they 
were once blind but now they can see. Indeed the 
Advent doctrine seems so plain that I often wonder 
why all that hear do not believe. 
We have a small society here, seventeen in num-
ber. There is another society about six miles south 
of us which is larger, but I do nut know the exact 
number. We 'have a Bro. Fowler from Mendon, 
Adams county, who comes and speaks words of com-
fort to us. lie is to be with each society every two 
weeks. He embraced the Advent doctrine last win-
ter, he is not a regular ordained preacher, but is a 
member of the Congregational Church, but a strong 
believer in the Advent doctrine. 0 that some of the 
brethren whose names I see in articles written for 
the Herald, would conic out amongst us, I believe 
there might be a glorious work performed in the 
West, if the people could only have the truth given 
to them as contained in the Scriptures unmixed with 
fables. 
I will try and increase the number of subscribers 
for your valuable paper by the time the present vol-
ume expires. Should time continue or lam permit-
ted to still remain on this sin-polluted earth, which I 
expect will soon be changed to a better, where we 
shall not suffer from sin, where sickness, sorrow, 
pain, and death, are felt and:leared no more. 
Yours in the blessed hope of the soon appearing 
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall 
change these vile bodies and make them like his glo-
rious body. 
Bro. ALEXAN DER WELDON writes from Dunwieh, (C. W.), 
Oct. 20th, 1552. 
BRO. HrMEs :—We were lately favored with a 
visit from D. Campbell, who held a series of meet-
ings in this place, which have proved a great bless-
ing to many ; previous to this the state of religion 
here was very low . We have great reason to be 
thankful for the occasional visits of self-sacrificing, 
self-denying, and devotional men of God. Brn. Litch 
and Robinson gave quite an impetus to the cause 
when they visited us ; could they have remained 
longer much good might have been done. The ar-
rangements of these traveling brethren are generally 
such, that they have to leave about the time that the 
people are beginning to feel an interest in the meet-
ings. We should be very happy if Bro. Robinson 
could visit us again, and remain a little longer with 
us than lie did before. 
Bro. JOSHUA BURtIAM writes from Atkinson, Oct. 23d, 1852. 
BRO. IIIMES :—After my respects to you arid all 
the dear brethren of like precious faith, I would say 
that we stand fast in the doctrine of the coming of 
the dear Saviour at hand. The signs of the times 
indicate to us, that the time is just at hand when the 
Lord of glory will come to deliver all his tried and 
tempted followers and take them to himself. The 
Herald, that precious weekly messenger, is all the 
food we get except the Bible. The Lord has opened 
a way for us that we can have it a little longer. If 
faithful we shall soon meet where sin and imperfec-
tions will be done away. Bless the Lord. 
Bro. THOMAS SMITH writes from Surrey, (Me.), Oct. 2501,1852. 
Bao. Hisses spent the Lord's day (yesterday) 
in this place, where I preached the word three times 
to very attentive audiences, and especially in the 
evening, when the large school-house was well filled 
with a deeply attentive congregation. Adventism 
has taken a deep hold on several minds here, the re-
sult of which is they hold meetings by themselves 
and exhort one another daily while they see the day 
approaching, and are ready and glad to receive the 
Lord's servants to declare to them the sure word of 
prophecy. 
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. 
The following is from an address of theRev. James 
Inglis, before the Society of Evangelical Inquiry in 
the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary : 
" The world, as a whole, in its natural condition 
lies under the curse of sin and is perishing. Our 
race is actually under condemnation, and apart from 
any provision of mercy, is hastening to destruction. 
I mean this to apply, in all its length and breadth, to 
fallen man as such. Not merely averring that hail 
Divine grace not interposed there would have been 
no escape, but that now, since grace has interposed, 
there is no escape for any but by the personal apply-
cation of the specific remedy which Divine grace 
has provided. 
" God has graciously revealed a plan whereby a 
sin-stricken world shall be redeemed from the curse. 
In the fullness of time he unfolded the mystery of 
his will in Jesus Christ, whom he set forth a propi-
tiation for sin, that whosoever believeth on him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life. This plan in-
cludes ample provision for the pardon, sanctification, 
and final salvation of all who receive it. The suffi-
ciency of the remedy, and the enlargement of the 
grace that provides it, warrants the offer of its bene-
fits to every man. So that, while there is no salva-
tion in any other, there is none to whom the offer of 
salvation in Christ is not free, or to whom the offer, 
accepted, will not be effectual. 
" The communication of the glad tidings of this 
salvation is, so far as the world is concerned, the 
grand object of Christian institutions and activities. 
" To state the matter in other words, God has in-
timated that this world, which is now the empire of 
Satan, shall be rescued from his impious sway ; that 
he will set up the glorious and everlasting kingdom 
of his Son—whom he has given to be a sacrifice for 
sin ; so that repentance and the remission of sins may 
he preached in his name amesnes all nations ; and that 
those who believe in him shall with him inherit the 
kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of 
the world. The great business of God's people in 
the world is to proclaim die things concerning the 
kingdom and the name of Jesus. The activity of 
Christians is not only an instrumentality which God 
condescends to use under this gracious plan, but it is 
the only appointed instrumentality for bringing men 
out of darkness into light. I am not unmindful that 
this instrumentality depends for success absolutely 
upon the agency of the Holy Spirit ; and that God 
also, providentially, promotes this work, but still there 
is no other known or ordained instrumentality. 
" This is the mission of every Christian ; and this 
mission has no other limitation than the world. It 
knows no distinction of home and fineign field ; ex-
cept that home is the point where the work begins, 
.abroad is the expanse over which responsibility 
stretches. We may, for convenience, treat them as 
two : but in the word of God the field is one—the 
world. It is true, of the sinner at your door and of 
the sinner at the remotest corner of the regions of 
horrid cruelty, that there is no salvation in any oth-
er ; and our responsibility to make it known to both, 
is limited only by our ability and our opportunity. 
" There, then, is a whole world lying under con-
demnation, whose dark depths we cannot fathom ; 
here is a salvation, whose glorious heights we can• 
not measure, divine in its sufficiency and unlimited 
in offer. That which alone can raise any from that 
dark depth to the glorious height, is belief of the 
Gospel. The Gospel, in order to belief, is to he 
preached by believers ; for it bath pleased God, 
through the foolishness of preaching, to save them 
that believe. And here an important inquiry arises. 
The Gospel itself is the wisdom of God, arid the 
power of God unto salvation to every one that he-
lieveth ; but the instrumentality for its publication 
is feeble and fallible ; is the preaching of it then suf-
ficient to secure belief? That it is the best possible 
means may be taken for granted since God selected 
and appointed it. The preaching of the Cross is in-
deed, to them that perish, foolishness. Man may 
wickedly and wilfully reject the tiuth, but still, to 
the humble and honest, it brings with it, invariably, 
the proof of its divine origin and the experienceof 
its divine power. So much is this the case, that 
one, who made most extensive trial of it, has declared 
that if it is hid to any it is hid to the lost, who are 
wilfully blinded." 
DEATH AND BURIAL OF LUTHER. 
His death at length drew near. About one o'clock 
of the morning of February 18th, 1546, the pain at 
his chest became intolerable. He frequently prayed, 
" Into thy hands I commit my spirit My heavenly 
Father, eternal and most merciful God, thou hast re-
vealed to me thy dear Son our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Him have I preached. 1 adore him as my only Sa-
viour and Redeemer. I know 1 shall be forever with 
Him, for no one can pluck me out of his hand." Dr. 
Jonas said to him, " Beloved father, do you still hold 
on to Christ the Son of God our Saviour and Re-
deemer 1" " 0, yes," was his last utterance. He 
then folded his hands on his breast, turned his face on 
one side, and fell asleep softly as an infant on its 
mother's breast. The Countess of Mansfield, who 
was present, would scarcely believe he was gone, till 
the icy coldness of death under her touch chilled all 
hopes. She wept as one that refused to be comforted. 
Orr February 19th, his body was borne in a leaden 
coffin to St. Andrew's Church, Eisleben, where Dr. 
Jonas preached from 1st 'Thessalonians, 4th chapter, 
13th and 18th verses, and next day the body was borne 
to Wittenberg. As the procession proceeded, one 
of the crowd unexpectedly gave out and began to sing 
the first hymn composed by Luther : 
" From deep distress I call to thee, 
My God regard my crying." 
And the whole multitude joined in the hymn, till their 
voices were choked with weeping. The body was 
finally taken to the Castle Church, which was crowded 
with weepers. Bugenhagen and Melancthon succes-
sively entered the pulpit. The former gave out his 
text, but the moment he attempted to address the au-
dience he was overcome by weeping. The congre-
gation joined in his burst of feeling, and from thence 
the crowd in the streets caught the solemn sympathy, 
and the whole city became literally a Bochim. Mar-
tin Luther fell asleep in Jesus.. . . His ashes repose 
peacefully in the hope of a resurrection in Wittem-
berg. His living voice consecrates its churches, and 
his dead dust endears its soil. Kings arid emperors 
have made pilgrimages to the tomb of that monk, anti 
nations cherish in their hearts his imperishable name. 
Charles V., Frederick the Great, Peter of Russia, 
and Wallenstein, and lastly Napoleon, visited the spot 
where the remains of the reformer lie ; arid even these 
names, the sound of which still shake the casements 
of the world, seem but ciphers beside the dust of 
Martin Luther. The moral grandeur of an Augus-
tinian monk dims the lustre and diminishes the great-
ness of heroes, consuls, and kings. Nobler far is 
moral than mere physical dominion. He is the true 
ruler who sways mind with truth, not he who restrains 
with a rod of iron. We may applaud the energy 
which subdues rebellious provinces, and clothes with 
golden harvests otherwise arid fields. But we must 
admire and infinitely prefer that more glorious might 
which throws into other minds kindling thoughts—
awakens in human hearts a sense of their lost prerog-
atives, arid moulds society into all the firms of truth, 
and beauty, and order. 'The Pauls, the Lathers, the 
Calvins, the Cranmers, and the Knoxes are the true 
sovereigns of the earth; the Napoleons, and Caesars, 
and Alexanders are not to be compared with them. 
The former shall only begin to approach their meri-
dian glory, when the latter sink into midnight obliv- 
ion. 
Dr. Cumming. 
" NOTHING, indeed, can be more futile, than even 
the most correct system of religious opinions, if our 
faith has no influence on the heart ; and fails, there-
fore, to produce its legitimate consequence,a godly 
life and conversation ; everything in Christianity is 
directed to practical purposes : and in the day of 
righteous retribution, it will only aggravate our con-
demnation to have heard, understood, and approved 
the word of the Lord, if we shall have persisted in 
refusing to follow its dictates." J. J. Gurney. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper lowing now been published since March, 1540, the his-
tory of its paid existence is a sufficient etiaranty of its finure 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; iu which the kingdom under the whole heaven shah be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting Possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up betine all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee front the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the berme, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2—Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of Ibreign and domestic intelligence, 
mud 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the mate of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those upanintously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. V., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of Clouser at the conunencenient of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at tuts Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked front the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this wont,) through Curtner, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of tone between the shah and err 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe conteth quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consununa-
don of the prophetic declaration. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the fliture. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Goss. 
These are great practical Questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Con is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometli them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures I 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their entinciations. 
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NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c.: A revival 
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to he symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
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' For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
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begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following—ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.—Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Via l.-16 ;17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17:1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17 :3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylun.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial—
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits—that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decem-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,—Shat demon-
worship is common to those three religions—that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship—that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Dent. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon—that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God—that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible—and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
New Works to be out the let of Jan. 
let. MILLER'S LIE E—ht one volume. 
23. AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE—in one vol. 
These are now in preparation fur the press, and will be 
more particularly noticed hereafter. 
The Life of Mr. MILLER was commenced two years since, 
and would have been completed then, "but Satan hindered 
us."-1 Thetis. 2:18. We hope now to be able to complete 
it without interruption. Those who sent in money for it then, 
which has not since been appropriated by them, to other ob-
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entire volume, the same as if the first number had not been 
sent. Its price cannot be now determined. It will probably 
be somewhere from $1 to $1,25. 
The Exposition of the Apocalypse will contain about 400 
pages. Price, 50 cts. This is nearly through the press. 
Orders may be sent in for both of the above works. 
Owing to the inability of the paper maker to supply the 
paper for the Herald at the regular time, our readers will re-
ceive their papers this week a day later than they usually do. 
Bro. HIMES will preach in Chardon-street Chapel next 
Sabbath, Nuv. 14th. 
" Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane : 
or the Dynamic Laws and Relations of Man. Embracing 
the Natural Philosophy of Phenomena, styled Spiritual 
Manifestations,' by E. C. Rogers. In five Nos.—No. 1. 
Boston : J. P. Jewett & Cu. Cleveland, O.: Jewett, Proc-
tor & Worthington." 
We have received the first of the above series, and have 
read it with a good deal of care. The author approaches his 
subject with a good deal of confidence, that he shall account 
for all the manifestations of the " Rappers," by natural laws 
—though he is forced to admit that electricity, magnetism, or 
other known principles will not account for them. He begins 
with very sound principles which must govern in all scien-
tific investigations, and concludes that " no phenomena can 
b. developed without the ffilfilinent of some principle exist-
ing between an agent and a substance," and that we are to 
determine the agent, " by observing under what conditions 
and circumstances the phenomena occur, both as regards the 
agent and the substance." He then proceeds to classify Pacts, 
and find under what circumstances they occur. luthe case 
'of Dr. Phelps, whose chairs, tables, knives, forks, spoons, 
nails, blocks of wood &c. were thrown about the house in 
different directions, to the destruction of $150 worth of prop-
erty without any visible agency, he finds it was the most vio 
lent when a little frightened boy about eleven years old was 
present. In the case of Mrs. Golding whose plates would 
walk off the pantry shelves, one after another, by some in-
visible agent, it was when a certain girl was in the room with 
her mistress. When chairs, stools &c. walked across the 
floor without help, a certain boy was present. When a chest 
moved with three men seated on it, a stool floated in the air 
&c. a certain girl was present. From such facts he concludes 
that the human body, when in a certain state, all other things 
agreeing, is capable of producing those results—on the prin-
ciple that a divining rod, held in some persons' hands will 
point towards concealed treasure. In this number, however, 
he has not shown what the principle is, or how the body thus 
acts. Nor has he thus far attempted to account fur the intel- 
ligence manifested by this agent. He has demonstrated that 
these manifestations are in connection with human presence ; 
but not that they can be produced by any such connection, 
without the additional aid of unclean spirits, which, the Bible 
shows, act in such connection. In short, he has omitted the 
Bible testimony on demoniacal agency. 
" The. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
published quarterly, under the direction of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society. Boston : Thomas Prince, 
Printer and Publisher, No. 111 Tremont Row. 1852. Sold 
in New York by C. S. Francis & Co., 252 Broadway." 
The October number of this journal is received. The 
following is its table of contents : 
" Memoir of the Farrar Family—Organization of the new 
Government of N. E. 1686—Early Malden Records—Peti-
tion from Hull to the General Court, 1675—Early Settlers of 
Essex and Old Norfolk—Early Marriages of Marshfield, 
Mass.—Extract from Judge Sewall's interleaved Almanac—
Abstracts of the Earliest Suffolk Wills—Deaths of New 
England Magistrates and Divines—Memoir of the Joboatio 
Family—Arrival of Sir Edmund Andross at Nastaket—Pe-
terborough Petition for Defence, 1750—Petition of Ipswich 
Canada, 1755—The Dutch House of Good Hope at Hart-
ford—Petition of Capt. William Traske,1661—Thunder and 
Lightning at Marlborough, 1749—Brief Memoirs of Prince's 
Subscribers—Boston Records, (Roxbury, Sudbury, Water-
town,)—Notices of New Publications—Errata—Marriages 
and Deaths—Index." 
BRO. HIMES :—I wish to acknowledge through the Her• 
ald $10 from the Providence church for the disabled minis-
ters, which amount has been appropriated to Bro. C. B. 
Turner. I hope the example of that church will be generally 
followed. Yours, &c. L. D. MANSFIELD. 
New York, Oct. 30th, 1852. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
FRANCE.—It is impossible to decide when the empire 
will be proclaimed. The subject seems to form the absorbing 
topic of conversation in Parisian circles, and the letter wri-
ters make it the subject of extended comments. It is sur-
mised that the debates of the Senate, which is to assemble 
on the 4th November, will not be long. There can be no 
question but that a ready cut and dried proposition will be 
laid before it, which the Senators, after a decent delay of a 
few days, supposed to be devoted to the careful examination 
of the people's petition for the empire, will embody in the 
form of a senatus consultum. 
It is now generally thought that the President will assume 
the imperial title in December. One thing is certain—Louis 
Napoleon keeps his own counsel. He is not in the habit of 
disclosing his intentions long beforehand. The decree for 
convoking the Senate was sent to the Moniteur for insertion 
at half-past 12 o'clock at night, and all the previous day peo-
ple in what is called " the best informed official circles " had 
been vehemently asserting that it would not appear for some 
time. 
The place assigned for the future residence of Abdel Ka-
der, is not far from the town where Kossuth and some of his 
companions were sent after their escape from Hungary. 
Broussa, which contains a population of about 50,000 souls, 
Turks, Greeks, Jews, and Armenians, was once the capital 
of the ancient Bithynia. Situate on a flank of Mount Olym-
pus, it was conquered from the Greek emperors in the begin-
ning of the 14th century, when the passes of the mountain 
had already been left unguarded, and the victorious Orchan, 
son of Othman, succeeded, by force or by treachery, in ob-
taining possession of it. 
Tusca si Y.—It will be recollected that the Tuscan Govern-
ment, recently condemned Francisco Madiai and Rosa, his 
wife, to upwards of four years of brutal anti infamous punish-
ment in the prisons of forced labor of Volterra and the Er-
gastolo, or female galleys, at Lucca, for the offence of pos-
sessing and reading the Holy Scriptures and the English 
Book of Common Prayer. This monstrous sentence, which 
was first pronounced by the Corte Regia of Florence on the 
4th of June, after a preliminary detention of ten months in 
the common jail of that city, has siuce been confirmed by 
the Court of Cassation. This outrage on humanity and re-
ligion has drawn forth remonstrances from the King of Prus-
sia and other high personages in Europe, who have brought 
this case under the distinct personal knowledge of the Grand 
Duke of Tuscany. But that prince adheres with the impla-
cable bigotry of a fanatic to a sentence that degrades himself 
far more than it can injure the victims of this cruelty, since 
it gives fresh force and truth to the worst charges ever al-
leged against the authority he represents, and the church to 
which he belongs. 
Pitcairn's Island. 
Rear Admiral Moresby, of H. B. M. Pacific fleet, commu-
nicates to the Admiralty an interesting account of a visit 
made to Pitcairn's Island, in August of the present year, 
from which it would appear that the population of this Island 
is beginning to exceed its capacity fur supplying sustenance. 
He says : 
" It is impossible to do justice to the spirit of order and 
decency that animates the whole community, whose number 
amounts to 170, strictly brought up in the Protestant faith, 
according to the Established Church of England, by Mr. 
Nubhs, their pastor and surgeon, who has for twenty-four 
years zealously and successfully, by precept and example, 
raised them to a state of the highest moral conduct and 
feeling. 
" Of fruits and edible roots they have at present abun-
dance, which they exchange with the whalers for clothing, 
oil, medicine, and other necessaries ; but the crops on the 
tillage ground begin to deteriorate, landslips occur with each 
succeeding storm, and the declivities of the hills, when de-
nuded, are laid bare by the periodical rains. 'f bvir diet con-
sists of yams, sweet potatoes, and bread fruit ; a small quan-
tity of fish is occasionally caught ; their pigs supply iinnually 
upon an average about fifty pounds of meat to each individ-
ual ; and they have a few goats and fowls. Their want of 
clothing and other absolute necessaries is very pressing, and 
I am satisfied that the time has arrived when preparations, 
at least, must be made fur the future, seven or eight years 
being the utmost that can be looked forward to for a continu-
ance of their present means of support. The summary of 
the year 1851 gives—births, 12 ; deaths, 2; marriages, 3. 
On their return from Tahiti, they numbered about sixty, of 
whom there were married thirteen couple ; the rest from the 
age of sixteen to infancy." 
Admiral Moresby furnished the islanders with some sup-
plies, which were gratefully received. He adds in his letter 
that "the Adeline Gibbs, American whaler, Mr. Weeks 
master, was there during our visit. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks 
were living on shore. It would be a happy circumstance if 
a person like her could be found to reside among them." 
Boston Journal. 
Louts NAPOLEON.—In Victor Hugo's new work, enti-
tled " Napoleon the Little," in which the President of 
France is rather roughly handled, occurs the following pas-
sage, which cannot be considered very complimentary :—
"This silence of his Louis Bonaparte sometimes breaks ; 
but then he does not speak, he lies. This man lies as other 
men breathe. He announces an honest intention ; be on 
your guard : he affirms ; distrust him : he takes an oath ; 
tremble for your safety. Machiavel has made small men ; 
Louis Bonaparte is one of them. Having announced an enor-
mity against which the world protests—to disavow it with 
indignation—to call the great God to witness that he is an 
honest man—and then, at the moment when people are re-as-
sured, and laugh at the ludicrousness of the enormity in ques-
tion, to execute it : this is Louis Bonaparte. It was so with 
the coup d'etat; it was so with the decree of the conscrip-
tion ; it was so with the spoliation of the Princess of Or-
leans ; and it will be so with the invasion of Belgium, and 
of Switzerland, and with everything else. It is his process ; 
you may think about it just what you please. He employs 
it ; he finds it effective. It is his affair, and he will settle 
the matter with history." 
THE NEXT CUBAN EXPEDITION.—The N. Y. Coureri 
and Enquirer, in noticing the current minors of an American 
colony for St. Domingo, and its probable objects,affirms that 
there is a formidable expedition, in which thousands of men 
are enlisted, now ready to sail for Cuba whenever the signal 
is given, and adds :—" As to the Cuban expedition, we learn 
from an undoubted source that it is in a forward state of prep-
aration, and it is represented that the utmost care has been 
taken by the leaders not to violate the neutrality laws of the 
United States. All the arms and ammunition required have 
been procured abroad in large quantities, and are now depos-
ited without the bounds of the United States, in a depot 
known only to a few of the leading spirits. Not even a pop-
gun has been procured in the United States. The men are 
to leave this country as emigrants, unarmed, and will sail 
from different ports, and, it is calculated, in such a manner 
that no suspicion shall go abroad as to their actual destina-
tion. The measures of the revolutionists have been taken 
with great circumspection, and, it is only to be feared, that 
those who embark in this expedition will meet the bloody 
fate of their predecessors." 
A MAN KILLED BY A SNAKE.—One of the under-keep-
ers of the Zoological Garden in London, was recently killed 
by the bite of a cobra. It appears from the testimony of one 
of his companions that the unfortunate man was playing with 
the reptiles, without heeding the remonstrances of the wit-
ness. He first took the " bocco " snake from its case, which 
he handled with impunity. He then put it back and took out 
the cobra, put it under his waistcoat at the right side, and it 
crawled round and came out at the left side. He drew it out, 
and was holding it between the head anti the middle of the 
body, when it darted at his face and bit his nose, the fangs 
drawing blood. His face soon became liviti,and his respira-
tion imperfect. This lividity continued extending until death, 
which soon occurred. There were ten small punctures, or 
wounds, on the nose, four on the right and six on the left 
side.—Boston Journal. 
The Montreal Courier hints that some daring incendiaries 
have lately attempted to burn the remainder of the city of 
Montreal, and it therefore warns the citizens to be prepared 
with loaded arms, and if they detect the ruffians, to "finish 
them at once." 
A lady in Philadelphia, named Shannon, was in the act of 
closing the shutters of a window in the fourth story of a 
house, when she was precipitated upon the pavement below, 
dashing out her brains, anti causing almost instant death. 
Cortes, in a letter to Charles V., in illustration of the ad-
vanced state of society among the Indians of Mexico, says 
that " they begged in the streets like civilized people." 
Youth's Guide." 
The Nov. number (No. 7, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
ittle monthly paper is now out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 8.) Life in the Arctic Sea. 
A Dog Story. 
Yankee Ingetwity 
A Wonderful Clock. A Little Boy's W istt. 
The Sabbath School Scholar. Little Things. 
The Voyage of Life. A Child's (land. 
How the Rack was Abolished. roffietie.s. 
Simeon Green, or the Man that The Young Tobacco Chewer. 
Cured his Bad Neighbors. The Kind of Fruit Indigestible. 
Adventure with a Snake. For the Curious, &c. 
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continue over the Sabbath. Elders W. Burnham and Smith will 
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Hampshire at present. Friends will be patient. 
times each day, at 10 A NI, 1 P M, and evening. 
N iitonborn,, 
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Elder J. G. Smith will accompany and assist Bro. H. 
NOTE-It is not possible for Elder H. to visit other places in New 
Nov. Stith-New Durban' Ridge, 10 A. m., 1 e. tit , evening, and 
Nov.
tat-London Ridge, 10 A M, 1 P M, and even- 
" 19th -Tuft onboro', and continue over the Sabbath. 
" 20th-Meredith Village (evening). 
" 4111 and 5th (Sunday) - Allenstown meeting-house, three 
" 18th-Ossipee, N. H., at 10 o'clock and evening 
" 23d-Orange, (in the meeting-house,) evening, and the 24th, 
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Elder J. P. FARRAR'S Post-office address is, for the present, Law-
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NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes 
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Appointments, &c. 
Providence permitting, I will preach at Salem Friday evening, 
Nov• 12th ; Essex, Sabbath, (4th ; Berlin, 18th-where Bro. John 
Barns may appoint ; Athol, 19th-will some brother call for me on 
the arrival of the second train from Fitchburg ? Northfield Farms, 
Sabbath, 'Slot ; South Vernon, Vt., 23,1 ; North Springfield, 24th and 
25th ; Claremont, N. H., 26th ; Hartland, (Densmore MIS) Vt., 
Sabbath, 28th-will some brother call for me at the Hartland depot 
on the arrival of the first train from Claremont on Saturday, 27th ? 
Waterbury, 30th t Stow, Dec. 1st-where Bro. Tracy may appoint; 
Burlington, 2d ; Rouses Point, 3t1 ; Champlain, Sabbaths, 5th and 
12th, and will labor in the vicinity a few days, as doors may open. 
Evening meetings at 7 o'clock• -N. BILLINGS. 
I will preach in Westboro' Nov. 11th, and Sunday afternoon and 
evening, 14th • Nortifforo', 12th' 
 and Sunday forenoon ; Lowell, 
(where Bro. Sherwin preaches,) 16th; Lawrence, lids; Salem, loth; 
Lynn, 19th-where the brethren may appoint ; North Abington, 
Sabbath, 21st-1 should like to have the brethren meet in comerence 
MI Saturday, the 2001.-Wm. 111.1?iGHAlit. 
The Lord willing, Ben. N. Smith and I C. Wellcome will hold a 
meeting in Hope, Me., in the Town Hall, or where Bro. Went 
worth shall appoint, commencing Dec. 3d, evening, and continue 
time as may he thought best -1. C. WELLCOME. 
over two Sundays, and during such a portion of the intervening 
If the Lord will, a conference will he held at Kingston, N. H' in 
the Academy Hall, commencing Wednesday evening, Nov. 17th, 
and hold over the Sabbath. Ben. L. Oster, J. Pearson, and H. 
Milliner are expected to attend. (For the brethren.) 
WESLEY .B111INHAM. 
Providence permitting, I will preach in Hingham, Mass., Nov. 
28th, as Bro. Moses Tower may arrange ; Scituate I-Dubois 29th, 
evening, as Bro. Asa Curtis may appoint, and continue my lectures 
evenings until Dec. 3d -CHASE TAYLOR. 
H. L. Hastings will preach at Springfield, Mass.,,Nov. 16th ; 
Winsted, Ct., 21st; Blandford, or Granville, 24th-Bro. Bates, 
appoint. 
Bro. S. W. Thurber will commence a meeting at South-west 
Strafford, Vt., Nov. 25th, evening, and hold over the Sabbath. 
Elder B. Locke will preach at Hillsborough, N. II., Sunday, Nov. 
28th.-T.B.PREBLE. 
It is expected that Bro. Edwin Burnham will preach in the Char-
don-street Chapel the last two Sundays in Nov. 
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Settlement of Accounts. 
Previous to the 1st of January we have got to purchase 
new type for the Herald, and get two important works through 
the press. To do this and meet our current expenses will re-
quite all the money that we can raise. We want each one 
who is indebted to the office, to make an immediate effort to 
send us the balance of his account ; and it is important that 
it be attended to at once. 
Reader, does this, or does it not appeal to you R If it does, 
is it not a reasonable request I If it does not, we thank you 
for your past promptness, nod will thank you to nudge your 
neighbor to whom it dues, and who may he troubled with a 
short memory. 
It is right that this should be attended to. 
It is reasonable. 
We need all that is clue tss. 
We need new type. 
We depend on this source to obtain it. 
We need the means now. 
Shall we, through the neglect of A, B, C, D, &c., have 
to use the old type another year I Or will each one let us 
hear from them without delay I 
P.S. We are sorry to add, after keeping the above in a 
few weeks, that A,B, C, anti D, and a few others have evi-
dently not yet read it, or have not yet made up their mind to 
let its hear from them immediately. Reader, are you a 
reader of the word only ? or are you a doer of it also? 
Business Notes. 
Jacob Myers-81 for Herald to No. 625 and hooks. Did you want 
the Herald sent to you, and also to David Silsby ? We have entered 
It to both. 
B. S. Reynolds-Mrs. Sias' paper was directed to Mrs. Liao, New-
port, but we have changed it. 
T. Wardle-As Bro. L.'s papers are sent by mail, we have sent 
your music in the same way. 
J. M 0.-The Youth's Guide to Canada subscribers is 31 cts.-
see Youth's Guide. 
W. B. Schermerhorn-We received the $2, credited you to No. 
630 and receipted it in No 13 of the Herald-Sept. 2J ilt. 
S. Foster-Have credited you $10, and charged you 86,75 per or 
der of J M. O. 
I. C. Wellcome, $10-The balance now due is $10,30. 
T. M. Preble-Sent you books the 6th by express. 
J. D. Boyer-Sent you books the oth, care of J. Litelt. 
S. Walker-Seat by express. 
Delinquents. 
It we have by mistake published any who have paid, or who are 
poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on king apprised cf 
the fact. 
The Postmaster of Wallingford, Vt , informs us that the 
Herald is refused by HIRAM WELLMAN, who owes.. 3 50 
The Postmaster of Charlestown, N. II., returns the pa-
per of Dr. M. DAVIS, as not taken from the I ost-oflice. 
 
He owes 
 400 
Total delinquencies since Jan. tat. 18:52 
 126 70 
The Advent Herald. 
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paid till after three nionths tem» the commencement 01 the voluse, 
the paper will be $1 124 cts. per volume, or $2 25 cis. per year. 
$5 for six copies- 
 to one person's address. $10 tor thine( it copies.. 
Single copy, 5 cents. To those who receive of agents 
ex- 
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CANADA SUBS.CRIBERS.-As papers to Canada will not be per-
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to the line, which under the new law is 26 cents a year, if pie-paid 
in Bostou, the terms to Canada subscribers will be $2,25 n year, 
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for six months, or $1 114 a year, it requires the addition of 2s. for 
six, or 4s. time twelve months, to the subscription price of the Het-
old. So that 6s. sterling liar six mouths, and 12s. a year pays for the 
Herald and the Americas postage, which our English subscribers 
will pay to our agent, Richard Robertson, Esq., L01:1.1011. 
PosTsoK.- The postage on the Herald, if pre-paid Quarterly or 
yearly, will be 13 cents a year to any part of Massachusetts, and 26 
cents to any part of the United States. If not pre-paid, it will Le 
half a cent a number in the State, and one cent out of it. 
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Receipts from Nov. 2d to the 9112. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see brain far ire is in 
advance, or how Jar in arrears. No. 554 ?VIM the closing No. of 
last year. No. 580 is to the end of the first six months of the 
present year ; and No. 606 is to the close of this year. 
H. Rogers, 593. and Harp ; C. Churchill, 606 ; C. It. Smith, 606 ; 
G• Mullet), 625 ; F. Van Gorden, 625 ; A. V% eltion, 645, and tract ; 
Mrs. P. Buck, 634, and tract ; L. (line, 593 ; S. }hillock, 606 : B. 
Loomis, 632 ; H. Coolidge, 612; I.. D. Allen, 612: D. G. Drake, 
632; L. Taylor, 632 ; R. Itofftwell, 606 ; I. Troxell, 625 ; Rev. J. 
Cook, 658 ; J. Davis, 616 ; Elder A. Simmons, 632 ; M. E. Daniels, 
626; W. W'. Spencer, 632; .1. Pickering, 625; ht. Corliss, 625; I. 
Willoughby, 586-77 cts. due ; De IA itt Clinton, 625.; '1'. Roberts, 
625 B. Dursin, jr., 625 ; J. W 
W. Chandler, n32 ; Wm Luce, 61s ; N. 
Weston, 63s ; .1. V. Rowell, 625 ; S. Knight, 612 ; S. B. Look, 566, 
and (1s4 els. for tract, sent)-$1 each. 
',malice, 626; G. Loomis, 1112: W. Chambers, 586 Wm. 
S. Howden, (50 cis. on Y. G.) 599 ; U. F. Arnold, 630; ill`Clary, 
032 ; .1. Mudgett, 612 ; Dr. M. P. Wallace, 651 ; T. E. AN ilson, 651 ; 
H. :4 Packard, 630; J. Truesdell-Vv. P. 1'. to 699 and harts 
Oswald, 612 ; J. Rofe, 651 ; L. Richardson, 636 ; R Earle, (if new 
sub.), 651, and 25 cts. for Y. G.; N. Dunshee, 651'; Deacon J Pear-
son, on acc't ; E. Pike, 632 ; T. E. Morrill, 612 ; S. Boardman, 650 ; 
J. S. Morgan, 612 ; R. Robinson, 630 ; S. flays, 651 ; D. Boon, nss ; 
J. T. Thomas. 534-$2,77 due Jan. Ist-each $2. 
A. Potter, 695, and tracts ; H. Baker, 586-each $3. C. L. Page. 
599 ; Z. Jenness, 625-each $1,50. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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