WK HAVE! NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1854 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
WHOLE NO. 709. 
On Mesmerism. 
(Continued from, our 
last. 
KEEPING this in view, it will not be difficult 
to discover some of the reasons, why Satan 
should introduce Mesmerism, and other forms 
of witchcraft and diablerie at this time. 
I say 
some of the reasons,—for I agree with what was 
written in a periodical lately on this point, that 
we do not at present see all its results. 
The words in this periodical are these:—"We 
have read this book," {a work on Mesmerism,) 
" for it is right we all should know what men 
are about in the higher spheres of thought, that 
we may not be taken by surprise, should some 
new and unexpected movement there take place. 
All great movements in the material world have 
their source in the spiritual;—look at the St. 
Simonian or Fourierite doctrines, for instance, 
how they have revolutionized all Europe with 
social theories. 
Theories precede practice.— 
Ideas precede theories. 
A new idea, or class of 
ideas, is a siege to society; they are bombs and 
shells, which roll about a long while before they 
explode; but all have a mission of some kind to 
fulfill. 
Mesmerism is one of those bombs. 
It 
has its mission,—for what, we cannot say; but 
it is filling men's minds with ideas entirely new, 
and it is leading to theories which must end in 
some practical result. . . . Moreover,, it is a 
healing power; it makes the blind to see, the 
deaf to hear, the lame to walk; and is now 
attempting to climb the heights of heaven, and 
take a peep into the Elysian fields, the ever-
lasting residence of the immortal Gods, who 
onee were men,"—(alluding to some recent lying 
revelations.by mesmerizers in Paris.) 
"We are not amongst those, who turn off a 
subject like this with a pooh!.pooh! for al-
though as yet unsatisfactory, it may be the avant-
courier of something more important. . . . There 
can be no doubt, that some great spiritual or 
ecclesiastical change is at hand. 
The Roman 
revolution is but a superficial type of much deep-
er and approaching fact. 
Coming events cast 
their shadows before;—so may it be, for aught 
we know, that this mesmeric mania, as it is 
called, is one of the shadows in advance of a 
coming era, in which new healing powers will 
be communicated to man, and new light revealed 
to men's minds upon those momentous questions, 
which men have never forgotten, or regarded 
with indifference." 
The writer of the above sees the truth in this 
matter, although indistinctly, and is too much 
inclined to anticipate favorably of Mesmerism, 
instead of seeing that the results must be evil. 
Let us, then examine shortly the evil results we 
caij even now discover flowing from the practice 
of Mesmerism. -
1. It has a weakening and defiling effect on 
the spirits of those who use it. 
2. When it is accompanied by clairvoyance 
or necromancy, professing, as is the case in 
many places, to give the power of converse with 
the spirits of the dead, Satan will use it to in-
troduce heresies and false and corrupting doc-
trines. In a book published in Paris by a notori-
ous mesuieriser and necromancer, called, " Ar-
canes de la vie future 
dewiles," 
au account is 
•given of what the spirits tell the mesmerised 
persons in their trance, viz,—that there is no 
hell, but that all go to a place of infinite hap-
piness, where they enjoy every pleasure that can 
gratify the intellect and the senses,—that all 
men we're in heaven before they were born in the 
earth, and they come to the earth merely in or-
der to learn what good and evil mean, and to 
be enabled to enjoy the good more when they 
return to it, and therefore they are glad when 
they leave the earth,—and that it is a great mis-
take to lament over the dead, no matter whether 
they have been righteous or wicked, have done 
good or evil, since they all go to happiness, and 
therefore, that wars, murders, pestilences, &c., 
are good things, and not to be deprecated, but 
rather desired, as meaps to dismiss men from 
trouble here to happiness there. 
We witness the like false and corrupting rev-
elations from similar sources, extending Ihem-
OFFICE, No. 4G 1-2 KnceJaud-i-nect 
VOLUME XIY. NO. 24 
of sometimes 1000 or 1200 feet. 
I stood trans-
fixed with awe at the sight of them. 
Down be-
low, you hear naught but the continual hollow 
roar of the close pent waters, vibrating and re-
sounding with overpowering din. 
The froth, as 
it dashes up, keeps the base of the rocks con-
stantly damp, whence the vegetation of this place 
is luxuriant to a degree 1 have seldom met with 
in my travels. 
The snow-white foam is often 
concealed by the 
overhangirg 
trees, whose 
branches meet, and thickly intertwine. 
Large 
eagles were describing parabolic curves above 
our heads; sometimes they sailed slowly over 
the whole length of the ravine, as if wondering 
at the bold intruders on their domain ; some-
times they came flying with food for their young 
ones, diving down first to some distance to ho£ 
low rocks beneath their nest, to reascend again 
to it soon after, with a majesty such as the ea-
gle alone possesses. 
It was then I understood 
that word which the Lord spake to Job, to make 
him acknowledge his insignificance—' Doth the 
eagle mount up at thy command, and make her 
nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the 
rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong 
place. 
From thence she seeketh the prey, and 
her eyes behold afar off ' (Job 39:27,29). 
Man 
has no dwelling here. 
The wild beasts alone 
frequent these caves. 
Therefore was I the more 
anxious to see this regiort, from whence ' the 
springs are sent into the valleys, which run 
among the hills' (Psa. 104: 10).' William was 
quite excited by the grandeur of this scene, 
Calm and composed as he was at other times, here 
he sprang like a mountain goat from one cliff to 
another, giving vent to his feelings in loud and 
repeated exclamations. 
As for me, my sensa-
tions were of a different nature. 
I felt oppressed 
and awed in that narrow mountain cleft, with 
those precipices thousands of feet high ; and I 
thought of the fearful state of feeling of those 
who shall one day say ' tp the mountains and 
rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of 
him that sitteth on the throne, and from the 
wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his 
wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand V 
(Rev. 0:16,77 )"—Vol. 1. pp. 145-0. 
" Not the luxurious Java, not the richly-
wooded Borneo, not the majestic Sumatra or 
Celebes, not the paradise-like Ceylon, far less 
the grand but naked mountains of South Africa, 
or the low impenetrable woods of the West In-
dies, are to be compared to the Southern pro-
jecting mountains of Lebanon. 
In yonder land, 
all is green, or all is bare. 
An Indian land-
scape has something monotonous in its supera-
bundance of wood and jungle, that one wishes 
in vain to see intermingled with rocky cliffs, or 
with town and villages. 
In the bare table-lands 
of the Cape Colony, the eye discovers nothing 
but rocky cliffs ; trees and forests are wanting; 
and there are parts where one may travel for 
hours together without meeting with a single 
human being or human habitation. 
It is not so, 
however, with the Southern ranges of Lebanon. 
Here are woods and mountains, streams and vil-
lages, bold rocks and green cultivated 
fields, 
land and. sea views; here, in one word, you 
find all combined that the eye could desire to be-
hold on this earth."—Vol. 2. p. 433. 
" What above all things remarkable, is the 
infinite variety of the scenery that surrounds us. 
Whether our winding path takes us over a height 
or through a gorge ; whether' it passes by a pro-
jecting rock or takes a bend into a ravine, where, 
for a short time, it seems entirely to disappear ; 
whether we are enclosed in woods or emerge in-
to open day, where the eye can command dis-
tances of more than two days' travelling, at every 
turn we have change; there is ever something 
new to attract and to ravish. 
Bear in mind, 
too, the fertility of these mountains. 
Look at 
the terraces, cultivated with rich vineyards; see 
with what difficulty the clusters are supported by 
branches and stakes. 
Where saw you ever such 
grapes, so large in size and i:n such enormous 
clusters ? Look at the mulberry gardens on 
those other terraces down below. 
These are 
reared, not for the sake of their fruit, as with us 
but. for their leaves for the feeding of silk-worms, 
selves daily in America, representing heaven as 
a mere Elysium of felicity for men, without the 
Saviour, without God, without His holiness and 
righteousness, without order, without worship, 
where the exercise of philosophical tastes and 
investigations is the occupation, and amiability 
and mutual kindliness constitute the moral per-
fection, of the inhabitants; peopling it with a 
motly assemblage of men of the most opposite 
creeds and principles, heathens, deists, heretics, 
blasphemers, and Christians, in every form in 
which the power and capacity of the natural 
man may be idolized and defiled, in contempt 
of the truth of God in the Gospel, and of all the 
principles revealed by Him for our trial and saU 
vation ; professing to declare false even elemen-
tary principles, deduced'by observation and re-
flection on outward things for governing scien-
tific inquiries, and substituting other principles, 
having no basis except the mere assertion of the 
lying spiritual authority; and insinuating all 
tihese falsehoods into the mind, in ways to flatter 
and please the individual, and in forms adapted 
to satisfy the unrighteous and deep-seated in-
stincts of the natural man, the love of ease, and 
dread of pain and death, the secret enmity of the 
heart against the revelation of God and of His 
righteousness in Christ, and the atheistical idea 
of the mere natural perfection and happiness of 
man by himself apart from God;—thus directly 
subserving Satan's master device, of bringing 
uncertainty and confusion into all the principles 
of truth and knowledge, natural and revealed 
and pretending to reconcile everlasting happiness, 
with ignorance of .God, and of His ways and 
will, and with his absence from His creatures; 
and so preparing men. whose principles have 
been thus thoroughly corrupted, for taking part 
in any wicked and abominable work, which Sa-
tan, " the murderer and liar from the begin-
ning," may yet be permitted to bring into the 
earth, for the final trial and chastisement of 
men, the exhibition of the character of consum-
mated sin. and the vindication of the eternal 
judgment of God. 
3. 
The practice of Mesmerism helps on the 
increasing infidelity and neology of these days, 
and many already ascribe what was done by 
our Lord and his Apostles to mesmeric power; 
and verily I believe, that it is one of the chief 
objects of Satan in introducing this art among 
christian men, not only to throw a slur upon the 
past workings of God but also upon any that 
may be done in the church, as the last days, 
come on, especially upon what we shall proba-
bly see more of than has been witnessed for many 
generations in the church,—the putting forth 
of the power of God to heal, in the use of the 
ordinances and ministries of Christ. 
Is there a man healed suddenly by his send-
ing for the elders of the church, and through 
their prayer, with the laying on of their hands, 
or in the use of oil,—will not Satan say to the 
unbelieving heart of men, half staggered with 
the undeniablen<?ss of the cure,—"See, does, 
not Mesmerism do the same? It is but a natural 
thing after all." 
And has not even a clergy-
man of the English Church (Palmer of Cheyne) 
written that missionaries should learn this art, 
and then they would be able to heal, &c., as 
promised in the Scripture ? 
Without doubt another solemn question arises 
here,—Is not Mesmerism one of the many ways 
of denying Christ come and coming in the flesh, 
—the mark of Antichrist (1 John,4:8,^infer-
ring the denial that he has come personally,— 
comes in his ministers and members now,—and 
will come personally again ? There are many 
ways of denying this. 
To assert that the Virgin 
Mary was conceived without original sin, for 
instance, is one way; and Mesmerism is another. 
There are two legitimate ways of healing dis-
eases. 
The one is in the use of the creature, 
which God has given as medicine for healing, 
as he has given food for sustaining, our bodies, 
and which, sanctified by the word of God and 
prayer, is to be received with thanksgiving. 
And when you have tried this, and feel that you 
want something more,i what does the Scripture 
direct ? It points out another way, which is not 
The Glory of Lebanon-
VAN DE VELD thus describes one of the chasms 
in the mountain where the Leotes dashes on in 
its thundering course :— 
% The rocks rise perpendicularly to the height 
merely God's blessing in the use of the external 
creature, in. the shape of .food or in medicine, 
but is supernatural, by the putting forth of God's 
power through the prayer of His ministers,— 
through the laying on of their hands,—through 
the use of oil. 
And this is to be accompanied 
with confession of fault, and forgiveness of sins, 
and the saving of the soul. 
" Is any sick among 
you ? Let him call for the elders of the church : 
and let them pray over him, anointing him with 
oil in the name of the Lord : and the prayer of 
faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise 
him up; and if he have committed sins, they 
shall be forgiven him. 
Confess your faults one 
to another, and pray one for another, that ye 
may be healed." (James 5:14-0;) 
And what is Mesmerism, but the mockery of 
this,—the substitute,—the devil's substitute,— 
for it? 
If the use of medicine sdcceeds not, 
send not for the elders of the church, the min-
isters of the Lord, but for a mesmerizer,—receive 
not the laying on of hands of Christ in His min-
ister, but the waving of the hands of a mesmer-
izer;—no need that there should be any prayer 
for your forgiveness, and thus God's holy love 
come out to you in the healing of the soul, as 
well as of the body; but let witchcraft heal 
the body, and leave the soul and spirit as they 
were,—or worse, having received satari; opera-
tion, and weakening and overpowering influence. 
This is not God's way : it is contrary to God's 
way. 
It is the denial of His ordinances; it is 
the substitution of another thing for them, which, 
as far as we can see, is an ordinance of the devil. 
It is the counterfeit of the true gold coin of the 
church, the kingdom of Christ. 
It is the dogs 
licking the beggar's sores. 
In all the lands of the baptised, the Church 
ought to have kept the faith of God's will and 
power to heal, through the use of His ordinance 
for that end. 
The Roman Catholics have turned 
the appointment into 
Extreme 
Unction,—to 
dismiss from 
life, instead of to recover back to 
health,—(although 
there are many 
instances 
among them, wherein God proves faithful to 
His own ordinance, and uses it, in spite of them-
selves, to heal and to restore.) 
Protestants, pn 
the other hand, have neglected the ordinance 
altogether, or, at best, retained a faint shadow 
of it in the Visitation of the Sick, wherein there 
is not even a decided petition for healing, and 
wherein prayers for commending dying persons 
are mixed up in it. 
Thus, on every hand, ap-
pears evidence of the lack of faith; and con-
secjuently all have left their poor, neglected and 
uninstructed people, to the care of the infidel, 
though, it maybe, benevolent, "dogs," who 
lick their sores with mesmeric power, instead of 
pouring in the wine and oil of the kingdom. 
It is no wonder, in the ignorance which exists 
as to spiritual matters,' and through the prevail-
ing unbelief that witchcraft is one of the works 
of the flesh, that Satan should have pointed 
out, and both bad men and good have accepted, 
the remedy provided by the powers of darkness, 
instead of the one given by God in His Church. 
But I feel confident, that it is only necessary 
to point out these things, to make every man, 
who fears God, shudder at the thought of having 
any connection with such an art, and refuse,— 
the one to put forth his hand to exercise it,—and 
the other, to allow himself to be brought into 
the condition, wherein he sleeps, and yet is 
awake,—is a helpless child, and yet a strong 
man to do evil,—not a dead man, or yet a 
living one,—not a soul without a body, or yet a1 
body without a soul, but.a strange, unnatural 
compound of both, in which state every door to 
evil is opened, and all the powers of conscience, 
reason, memory, and will, which God has given 
to guard that door, arc for the time suspended, 
and overmastered by deep and deadly slumber. 
THE 
ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the breeding of which now begins to form so 
important a branch of industry in Lebanon. 
But your eye has not gauged the lowest path. 
It has descended from the vineyard terraces to 
those of the mulberry-trees, and from that it de-
cends to a number of' other terraces, one in suc-
cession below the other. 
On some of those 
lower terraces you see pasture land, and cattle 
garzing ;• on others the, grayish color of 
the 
trees betrays the cultivation of the olive; on 
others you see the pale leaves of the poplar, or 
the golden green of the pomegranate; and in 
yonder trees, with their thick, dark, and elegant 
crown, you recognize the walnut, which I would 
call the king among the trees in Palestine. 
We have now come to the corner of a rock, and 
behold, an entirely different scene at once pre-
sents itself. 
In front of us is a mountain am-
phitheatre, with steep walls of a yellowish col-
or streaked with brown veins. 
You instantly 
recognize the sandstone formation ; and the wood 
that thrives best on sand ground, the fir or pine 
tree, in spite of the steepness of these hills, firmly 
inserts its roots within the cliffs." 
" The Kirweh presents a place where the rocks 
have not been rent, but where the water has 
made a way for itself through the solid masses 
below. 
The gorge at this place has a trury 
frightful aspect. The rocks, thrown in the wildest 
manner one on another, and the thundering roar 
and tumult of the waters in the dark abyss, which 
is occasionally hidden by the foliage of sycamores 
and wild fig-trees, no pen can adequately de-
scribe such a spectacle in all its wildness and 
grandeur."—Vol. 
p. 448. 
" Much already have I said to you about 
Lebanon and its glories. 
Yet between Rermel 
and the Cedars I saw still more of nature's beau-
ties, and these, too, of quite a different kind 
from what I had seen in the more southern 
mountain ranges at Jebea or Jezzin. 
From Her-
mel our path began immediately to rise, and 
brought us ere long into a high-situated valley 
which had been transformed into a magnificent 
park, by the hand of nature alone, without any 
assistance from the hands of man. 
I was rav 
ished with the picturesque groups of oaks, the 
fantastically-shaped terebinths, the oddly-twisted 
stems and branches of other trees, in which they 
bend together all sorts of green, pale, dark 
yellowish, or sometimes more inclining to brown 
And at other points,* again, the road led over 
rocky plateaux, grown over with short prickly 
shrubs. 
Alternately with these there appeared 
at other places cypress groves, where each sev< 
eral tree was in itself a study for the landscap 
painter ; some on account of their enormous 
stems and branches ; others on account of their 
trunks having been broken by storms, or being 
half decayed with age ; and others, too, on ac 
count of the bright verdue of the shoots here and 
there springing up from a piece of root appar 
ently dead, and partially torn out of the ground 
Would you see trees in all their splendor and 
beauty, then enter these wild groves that have 
never been touched by the pruning-knife of art 
where neither branches nor stems are ever bent 
into rectilinear forms, and where the dead wood 
is never removed from amid the living. 
Come 
np into Mount Lebanon, and then tell me if you 
ever had an idea of such natural cypress groves 
as are exhibited by the elevated valleys of this 
mountain range."—-Vol. 2. pp. 474-5. 
23 
Invitation, 
ADVENT 
SABF, 
29 
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i 1. We're going to see the bleed - ing Lamb,—Will you 
I 
In rap - turous strains to praise his name,—Will you 
as 
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all the joys of heav'n we'll share,— Will you 
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go? 
go? 
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Will you 
go?, 
go?: 
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life 
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go? 
Will ywi If 
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there shall wear, The conqueror's palms our hands shall bear, 
2 We're going to join the Heavenly Choir, Will you go ? 
To raise our voice and tune the lyre,—Will you go? 
There saints and angels gladly sing, 
Hosanna to their God and King, 
And make the heavenly arches ring,—Will you go ? 
3 Ye weary, heavy laden, come,—Will you go ? 
In the blest house there still is room,—Will you go? 
The Lord is waiting to receive^ 
If thou wilt on him now believe, 
He'll give thy troubled conscience ease,—Come believe! 
> 
4 The way to Heaven is free for all —Will you go ? 
For Jew and Gentile—great and small,—Will you go? 
Make up your mind, give God your heart, 
With every sin and idol part, 
And now for glory, make a start,—Come away! 
5 The way to Heaven is strait and plain,—Will you go? 
Repent, believe, be born again,—Will you go ? 
The Saviour cries aloud to thee, 
"Take up thy cross and follow me," 
And thou shalt my salvation see,—Come to me! 
"it: 
r", 
O, could I hear some sinner say,—I will go? 
I'll start this moment, clear the way,—Let me go ? 
My old companions, fare you weD, 
1 will not go with you to hell, 
I mean with Jesus Christ to dwell,—Let me go! Fare 
you well. 
CHRIST ALL IN ALL TO BELIEVERS.—The Scrip-
tures present him as our Fbundation, our Food, 
our Root, our Raiment, our Head, our Hope, 
our Refuge, our Righteousness, our Light, our 
Life, our Peace, our Passover, our Portion, our 
Propitiation, our Freedom, our Fountain, our 
Wisdom, our Way, our Ensign, our Example, 
our Door, ©fcr Dew, our Sun, our Shield, our 
Strength, our Song, our Horn, our Honor, our 
Sanctificatioo, our Supply, our Resurrection, 
our Redemption, our Lesson, our Treasure, our 
Ladder, our Truth',, our Temple, our Ark, our 
Altar, our All. 
Philip Henry. 
RECOLLECTION THE LIFE OF 
RELIGION.—Recol-
lection is the life of religion. 
The Christian 
wants to have his heart elevated more above the 
world by secluding himself from it as much as 
his duties will allow, that religion may effect 
this, its great end, by bringing its sublime hopes 
"Wi prospects into more steady action on the 
mind. 
I know not how it is that some Christians 
can make so little of retirement. 
I find the 
spirit of the world a strong assimilating princi-
ple. 
I find it hurrying my mind away in its 
vortex,, and sinking me among the dregs of a 
carnal nature. 
THE DAUGHTER 
OF A KING.—One day a poor 
woman called upon two elegant and pious young 
ladies, who received her with Christian affection, 
and sat down in the drawing room to converse 
upon religious matters. 
At this moment a dash-
ing lad. came in, and appeared astonished at so 
humble avisitor; one of the young ladies started 
and said, " Brother, don't be surprised ; this is 
a King's daughter, but she has not got on her 
fine clothes." 
John's Decrease and his Lord's In-
crease. 
IN the midst of a degenerate people, lost to 
the spiritual worship of Jehovah—abandoned by 
Him to the oppression of Gentile conquerors, 
and the rapacity of a corrupt priesthood, but 
cherishing still a perverted hope of the deliver-
ance promised to the fathers, John the Baptist 
arose—a man of severe sanctity, a prophet, and 
more than a prophet, sent of God to prepare a 
people for the coming of His Son, and publicly 
to introduce the Messiah to his official career 
and to Israel. 
The birth of the Harbinger was 
attended by supernatural signs which fixed atten-
tion upon him. 
llis manner of life was peculiar 
—reared in the desert, aloof from the corrup-
tions and the ambition of the world; his char-
acter was protected from pollution and his mo-
tives from suspicion. 
His character was remark-
able—even in that degenerate age, his sanctity 
commanded veneration, and such was the im-
pression made by his whole conduct, that the 
people not only classed him with the ancient 
prophets of God, but many of them believed 
that he was indeed the Christ. 
He studiously disclaimed the honors which 
the popular voice would have awarded to him. 
With unsparing fidelity he exposed the vices of 
priest and people, and in view of the heavenly 
character of the prince whose coming he an-
nounced, he summoned 
them to repentance. 
The voice of conscience sounded the rebukes of 
the prophet, and great multitudes were baptized 
of him in Jordan, confessing their sins, and pro-
fessing to hold themselves in readiness to own 
and welcome their king. 
The promised one came, however, very differ-
ent in character and condition from their con-
ceptions. 
Among the lowest and poorest of 
those who crowded to John's baptism, was one 
whose holiness stood out in marked contrast to 
the character of all other men, and whose very 
presence conveyed to the spiritual instincts of 
the Baptist, the full impression of a superior 
nature. 
He'who baptized men confessing their 
sins, felt that here was one whom it little be-
came him to receive as a penitent. 
But the 
stranger insisting on submitting to the ordinance 
of John's ministry, not on the ground of his 
own need of repentance, but on the ground of a 
becoming desire to fulfill all righteousness. 
On 
this ground, John consented; and no sooner did 
the meek form of the stranger come up Irom the 
honored waters, than Heaven was opened—the 
Holy Spirit descended on him and a voice from 
Heaven declared, " Thou art my beloved Son 
in thee I am well pleased." 
John perceived 
that the object of his mission was accomplished 
the long-looked-for was come ; anticipation was 
changed into reality ; and bare record that this 
is the Son of God. 
Thus Messiah was mani 
fested to Israel. 
The witness is unimpeachable 
—the testimony complete, the voice of Jehovah 
is uttered and the voice of faith responds, and 
both are recorded that we might believe that 
Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that 
believing we might have life through his name 
John's mission having reached this fulfilment 
he gives place to another, and prepares to trans 
fer the love and duty of his disciples to their 
true Lord. 
Among them were two young men 
of Galilee who, as they followed their quiet 
avocation of fishermen on the Lake of Gennesa- Anointed; and by way of eminence, he, the 
reth, had probably communed much together on 
the hope of Israel. 
They had received the 
Baptist's intimation of an approaching deliverer 
with eager confidence ; and, happily, were pres-
ent when John exchanged his prediction of the 
coming Messiah for a proclamation of the pres-
ent Messiah. 
They stood one day by their Mas-
ter's side, and John knowing how welcome the 
announcement would be, pointed out Jesus, and 
said, " Behold the Lamb of God." 
We cannot well imagine the emotions with 
which the hearts of these young men were 
agitated in circumstances which so far transcend 
our own experience, but we may sympathize with 
the anxious love which prompted them to follow 
Him who was thus pointed out to their faith; 
and we may appreciate, also, the reverence 
which, with all their anxiety, forbade them to 
draw near unbidden. 
They little reckoned then, 
the issues of that day in their future history. 
To Him whom they approached, it was a moment 
of tender love, when here in humility he person-
ally receives the first of the mighty multitude 
who should rejoice to call themselves his disci 
pies, and who, out of great tribulation, shall 
come to share the joy of his everlasting kingdom. 
Encouraging their advances, he turned and asked 
them " What seek ye ?" Thus invited they ask, 
Rabbi, where dwellest thou ?" in the most re-
spectful manner intimating their desire to be 
farther acquainted with him. 
He, since he had 
no dearer engagement than to welcome the in-
quiring, and since he had no mock dignity to 
sustain by an affected distance, cordially replied, 
" Come and see," 
The Evangelist informs us that they accom-
panied him home about the tenth hour, that is, 
as the Jew's divided the time between sunrise 
and sunset into twelve hours, about two hours 
from sunset; and to afford them a satisfactory 
interview it became necessary that, they should 
tarry with him for the night. 
How all our con-
ceptions fail to portray the little circle, their 
conversation, or their emotions! 
But we know 
some of the results of that interview. 
One of 
these young men was John the Son of Zebedee, 
whose narrative of what he saw and heard, we 
now quote; and the other Andrew, Simon Peter's 
brother, all familiar names in the future history 
of Christianity. 
This interview sealed their con-
victions, for we find Andrew at once seeking 
out his own brother with the good news, 
44 We 
have found the Messias." 
It is probably not necessary to explain to any 
of our readers, that Messiah is a Hebrew word, 
signifying Anointed, and that Christ is the cor-
responding Greek word. 
The practice of anoint-
ing with oil as a sign of consecration is very an-
cient. 
The first mention of it in Scripture is on 
the occasion when Jacob erected a pillar at 
Bethel, and we are told, " he poured oil on it." 
Under the Mosaic ritual, anointing was a special 
mark of the consecration of a person to any 
sacred office. Thus Moses was enjoined to take 
Aaron and his son, and anoint them and conse-
crate them and sanctify them that they might 
minister to God in the priest's office. So Samuel, 
by the appointment of God, took the horn of oil 
and then anointed David in the midst of his 
brethren to be king over Israel. 
Thus at length 
those who filled such offices were styled the 
great prophet, priest and king whom all the rest 
prefigured, is known as " THE ANOINTED." 
AS 
early at least as the Babylonish captivity, the 
term was appropriated to him. 
Daniel speaks 
of 14 Messias the Prince;" and the Jews used 
this designation in their ordinary conversation. 
This was the well understood significance of 
Andrew's announcement to his brother, 
41 We 
have found the Lord's anointed," our promised 
prophet, priest and king. 
Andrew moreover brought his brother to Jesus, 
and he, well acquainted with Peter's history and 
character, and foreseeing his future distinguished 
career, at once salutes him in terms of most in-
timate knowledge—44 Thou art Simon Barjona." 
This was a common mode of compounding a des-
criptive name among the Jews; as we have 
Barnabas a sort of consolation; so we have 
Barjona, the son of a dove, referring to Peter's 
fluctuating 
and. unstable character by nature; 
and then he intimates the complete revolution 
of character which grace should effect, " Thou 
shalt be called Cephas," which is the Syrian 
word corresponding with the Greek petros, a rock 
or stone, which was just to intimate to Simon 
that he should become as remarkable for firmness 
as naturally he was for fickleness. 
The Lord had come from Galilee to be bap-
tized by John, and so to enter upon his public 
career. 
After his baptism and temptation in the 
wilderness, he remained at Bethabara apparently 
for the sake of being made known to the people 
whom John had been preparing for him ; and 
this being accomplished he now prepares to re-
turn to Galilee. 
On the eve of his departure, 
he met Philip, a resident also of Bethsaida, the 
city of Andrew and Simon, and summoned him 
to follow him. 
Philip was well prepared to obey 
the call, and deeply impressed," as Andrew had 
been with the first near view of the Saviour's 
character, when he first met his friend Nathaniel 
he said to him—44 we have found him of Moses 
in the law and the prophets did write—Jesus of 
Nazareth the Son of Joseph." 
The Jews arranged the Old Testament Scrip-
tures in three grand divisions. 
1st. THE LAW 
which comprised the five books of Moses, also 
known as the Pentateuch Genesis, Exodus, Lev-
iticus, Numbers, and Dueteronomy. 
2d. THE 
PROPHETS, also divided into the former and the 
latter. 
The former 
prophets 
comprised the 
books of Joshua, Judges, 1st and 2d Samuel, 
and 1st and 2d Kings. 
The latter prophets in-
cluding all the prophetical books except the 
book of Daniel. 
3d. THE PSALMS, SO styled be-
cause the Psalms of David stood first in the di-
visions, styled also Cetulim which comprehended 
all the remaining inspired writings. Philip men-
tions the two first divisions as making mention 
of the distinguished personage whom he recog-
nizes in Jesus of Nazareth. 
Moses in the law 
or pentateuch speaks of him from the record of 
the first promise of a deliverer, through coven-
ants and promises, types and shadows, and per-
sonal revelations of the Angel of the Covenant, 
so that the law is full of Christ. 
The prophets 
also find their grand themes in the dignity of his 
origin, the lovliness of his character, the might 
of his arm, and the glory of his kingdom. 
These 
two are cited by Philip because they were read 
in the synagogues, and so become more familiar 
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to the people. 
But the other division might as 
well be cited as bearing witness of the same 
truth. 
Our Lord himself appeals to all the 
three divisions; and claims "that all things 
must be fulfilled which were written in the Law 
of Moses and the prophets, and in the Psalms. 
concerning me." 
He of whom they spoke is 
found at last, " Jesus of Nazareth the Son of 
Joseph." 
-Nazareth, proverbial for its poverty, and the 
uncouth character of its inhabitants, was proba-
bly the last place in the world from which hu-
man wisdom would look for the Saviour. 
But 
in the humiliation of our Lord it is ever thus— 
if there be a lower place than all the rest in 
which the lot of man may be cast, to that he 
descends. 
On Philip's mention of this disreput-
able place, Nathaniel influenced by common 
prejudice, asked, "Can there any good thing 
come out of Nazareth ?" 
Thus men too often 
dismiss the truth without examination, influenced 
by groundless prepossession. 
Thus too, they 
judge of the matters of faith by the standard of 
sense. 
Philip's reply was the dictate of true 
wisdom and supplies us with a valuable example 
in combating the prejudices of men. 
To reason 
the question had been worse than useless, it was 
better at once to bring it to a practical issue— 
"Come and see." 
And so may we say to all 
who, influenced by pre-possessions and antipa-
thies, are holding themselves &loof from the ex-
amination of the truth, " come and see." 
Na-
thaniel was not left long in doubt; nor would 
any, if arresting their proud antipathy and silenc-
ing carnal prejudices, they would come directly 
to the record which God has given us concern-
ing his Son; they would find that to know him 
is to believe upon him, and to believe on him 
is to have everlasting life. 
The manner in which Jesus saluted both Simon 
and Nathaniel, furnished the most striking proof 
of his divinity to their minds. 
He displays an 
acquaintance with their character and history, 
which no human discernment could have reached; 
and they at once felt themselves in the presence 
of one who knew their sitting down and their 
rising up ; who understood their thoughts afar 
off, who compassed their path and their lying 
down, and was acquainted with all their ways. 
They came as inquirers on the testimony of 
friends; they went away believing, for they 
heard for themselves, and knew that this is in-
deed the Christ the Saviour of the world. 
The testimony which Jesus rendered to the 
character of Nathaniel is so remarkable that we 
are surprised that we do not hear more of him 
ia the future history of Christianity, but thus 
God glorifies himself in making Saul, the chief 
of sinners, the foremost of apostles-; while Nath-
aniel the guileless, seems to have fallen back 
into the common ranks of discipleship. 
"Jesus 
saw Nathaniel coming unto him and saith of 
him Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there 
is 110 guile." 
This distinction " an Israelite in-
deed," was early understood. 
The Psalmist 
says "God is God to Israel--to such as are 
clean of heart." 
The import of the phrase may 
be learned from a subsequent saying of the Lord 
to his enemies among the Jews, " If ye were 
Abraham's seed ye would do the works of Abra-
ham;" or by Paul's distinction " he is not a Jew 
who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcis-
ion which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew 
who is one inwardly, but circumcision is that of 
the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, 
whose praise is not of men but of God." 
An 
outward Jew in virtue of his blood and his for-
mal observance of the law, might claini a share 
in the temporal blessings which God promised to 
them as a nation; but a share in the spiritual 
and heavenly blessings of the covenant that God 
made with Abraham, was not a national but an 
individual matter, not by birth but by faith, not 
of works but of grace. 
The Lord meant to in-
timate that Nathaniel was not only of the family, 
but of the faith of Israel, arid guileless, because 
God had purified his heart by faith. 
The children of God knew their adoption. 
Nathaniel was hot surprised to learn his sonship, 
but that a stranger should know it. 
He asks, 
"Whence knoweth thou me?" 
The answer, 
which does not at first sight appear to be a direct 
reply to the question, satisfied Nathaniel that he 
with whom he had now to do, needed no testi-
mony of man regarding him : "Jesus answered 
and said unto him before that Philip called thee, 
when thou wast under the fig tree, 1 saw thee." 
We have no means of ascertaining what inci-
dent was thus alluded to; it may have been 
some outpouriug of his soul in secret prayer— 
prayer, it may be, for the manifestation of the 
Hope of Israel; and perhaps in that very inter-
view, Nathaniel had the proof that He who 
hears in secret rewards openly. 
Our conjec-
tures, however, can determine nothing. 
It was 
evidently something known only to God and 
himself, for the mere mention of it overpowers 
every objection, and he at once exclaims: — 
"Rabbi, thou art the Son of God—thou art the 
king of Israel." 
_ No miracle seems to have been more impres-
sive and convincing than a revelation of the 
secrets of the heart. 
What a solemn thing it 
must have been, to stand in the presence of one 
who made men. feel that the darkness and the 
light are both alike to him, and that all things 
are naked and open to Him. 
Who could bear 
such a thought, unless it were accompanied by 
the assurance, that he who searches the heart 
and tries the reins, is our advocate and not our 
accuser—rour sympathizing High Priest and not 
a witness against us ! 
Nathaniel whs of the faith as well as of the 
family of Abraham, and waited for the consola-
tion of Israel. 
The instant he perceives this 
startling evidence that Jesus was the Christ, he 
acknowledged him as the Son of God the king 
of Israel, and therefore his king. 
The frank 
confession, Jesus greets with the assurance of 
greater grace in store. 
And this is ever the 
method of God's dealing with his people. 
" He 
that hath, to him shall be given"—every spirit-
ual attainment is a stepping stone to another; 
and all truth received by faith prepares the way 
for further discoveries. 
J esus answered and said 
unto him: "Because I said unto thee, I saw 
thee under the fig tree, believest thou? 
Thou 
shalt see greater things than these—And he 
saith unto him—verily verily, I say unto thee, 
hereafter ye shall see the heavens open, and the 
angels of God ascending and descending upon 
the Son of Man." . 
Infancy is the small beginning which ends in 
the fulness of the stature of the perfect man. 
So faith, lowly in its first discoveries and feeble 
in its first exercise, has a sure and surprising 
m aturity. 
Men frequently make a great mistake 
on this point, and expect maturity and the 
abundance of the revelation of Christian perfec-
tion at once. 
And multitudes refusing the first 
humble lesson of the fig tree, shall never be ad-
mitted to the higher manifestation of glory. 
Nathaniel recognized the Saviour in humiliation, 
and discerned the divine through the vail of the 
human, and the Lord intimates that this was 
but a beginning of his discoveries of the fulness 
of grace and truth. Nay, the faith which recog-
nized the king of Israel in the disguise of mor-
tality, shall ultimately be rewarded by the vis-
ion of his enthroned splendor. 
The Lord addresses Nathaniel as one of his 
disciples; " Verily verily I say unto thee" but 
the prospects which he holds out to him is not 
private and peculiar. 
He does not say hereaf-
ter thou shalt see—but hereafter ye shall see the 
heavens open and the angels of God ascending 
and descending upon the Son of Man. 
This, he 
speaks of as the common privilege of all Israel-
ites indeed. 
The opening of heaven, is several 
times mentioned in Scripture. 
Thus at the 
Baptism of the Lord, "the heaven was opened 
and the Holy Ghost descended;" and Stephen 
in the hour of Martyrdom, looking up and see-
ing the glory of God, said " Behold I see heaven 
opened and the Son of Man standing on the 
right hand of God." 
Jesus does not, however 
predict such a transcient opening of the heavens 
on an extraordinary occasion, but intimates the 
approach of a time when heaven shall stand 
open—when the communication which has been 
vouchsafed on rare occasions, shall be perma-
nently established; and from " heaven-open " 
the angels of God .shall be seen ascending and 
descending upon the Son of man. 
The form of 
expression upon the son of man, does not seem 
natural to our ears : it signifies that the son of 
man shall be the object of their journeying— 
they shall wait upon him as his servants; hast-
ening to him with their homage and going forth 
to do his will. 
And if so, where shall his 
throne be placed? 
" The kingdom and domin-
ion and the greatness of the kingdom under the 
whole Heavens shall be given to him," and over 
that universal kingdom Heaven shall stand open 
—communication unobstructed; and all its hosts 
will delight to own him Lord. 
How glorious 
will He be on that exalted throne—he who was 
once despised and rejected, and his people who 
have borne his cross and his reproach, and who 
loved him unseen shall be with him where he is 
to behold his glory. 
They shall not only see it 
but share—on his throne they shall sit with him, 
one in glory as they have been one in shame 
and sorrow. 
And even over those ministering 
Spirits who are sent forth to minister to them 
that are sanctified the dominion of his people 
also shall extend: "know ye not" says an 
apostle "that we shall judge angels." 
How 
elevating and purifying should a prospect so 
sublime be to us while we are surrounded by the 
vanity of earth. 
How comforting also amid the 
infirmities and disappointments of this life—well 
may the church renew the cry—" Come Lord 
Jesus, come quickly." 
Waymarks in the Wilderness. 
—to some jutting crag on the edge of a preci-
pice. 
To so dizzy a spot, no mountaineer, how* 
ever bold, dare venture; and the hunted animal 
has often found safety there. 
But the same 
spot, which protects it from man, is fatal when 
the Eagle is its pursuer. 
For the cunning bird 
now comes swooping down, in the might of his 
strength, and, with his huge wings, beats it 
over the crag into the fearful gorge beneath. 
Dashed to pieces by its fall, it becomes food to 
its foe, which swiftly pouncing upon its remains, 
bears them in his talons to his eyrie in the tops 
of the .rocks. 
Satan has a similar device for the destruction 
of believers. 
He knows that he can do nothing 
but annoy them, so long as they receive his 
assaults at calvary, in full view of a bleeding 
Christ. 
Hence, as the Eagle, he drives them if possible 
to " Mount Sinai." 
He darts upon them with 
accusations of legal imperfection. 
He thrusts 
the law before them, and calls .them to judge 
their lives and tempers by its sterft demands, 
and by its far reaching claims on the obedience 
even of the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 
By these means he moves the unwary disciple 
toward Horeb and Sinai; where, beholding noth-
ing but the law, with all its merciless terrors, 
and hearing only voices of thunder and wrath, 
he sinks condemned and sorrowful to the dust. 
Shame covers his face. 
Strength departs from 
him, and he readily falls a victim to some new 
device of his malicious adversary. 
Knowing this, the tempted believer should 
obstinately refuse to judge of himself or of his 
safety by a legal standard. 
He should meet 
every accusation of Satan by immediately fly-
ing to Christ in an act of resolute faith. 
Every 
discovery of legal deficiency, of spiritual pollu-
tion, or even of actual guilt, should be followed 
by deep, contrition of spirit, by confession, by 
an act of appropriating faith. 
However sore the 
temptation, however violent the assault, however 
fierce the attack, he must never allow himself to 
lose sight of Christ as his present Saviour. His 
victory depends on this. 
He must fight the bat-
tle at Calvary or be defeated. 
But contending 
there, defeat is impossible. 
Faith will spring 
up, grow mighty, irresistible and victorious in 
any heart, however tempted, that steadfastly 
persists in "Looking unto Jesus." 
Failing of 
this, allowing himself to be driven to Sinai, 
like the Chamois to the crag, he will be over-
come, perhaps destroyed. 
'Go, therefore, tempted Christian, to Calvary. 
Your heart feels cold and hard; your soul is 
dark; you find it difficult to drag yourself to the 
act of prayer; and you seem forsaken of Cod; 
but notwithstanding all this, you must fly to 
Christ and claim him as your present Saviour. 
Lie, just as you are tossed, distracted, buffeted, 
at Christ's feet with a prayer on your lips, a 
promise in your hand, and with your eye stead-
fastly gazing on his face, and your heart believ-
ing that for his own sake alone he does now 
accept and justify you. 
Do this, remain in this 
attitude patiently, stopping your ears against all 
the foul whispers of your foe, and, in a little 
while, a sweet persuasion of his love, a delicious 
outgushing of affection, will spring up fresh as 
living water from the everlasting hills in your 
spirit. A tideof joy will roll through your happy 
bosom, and your disappointed enemy will draw 
back, leaving you to undisturbed 
fellowship 
with your approving Saviour. 
And in all his 
future endeavors to destroy you, meet him in the 
same manner, according to the Apostle, who 
speaking of the Tempter, says, " WHOM RESIST, 
STEADFAST IN THE FaITH," 
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Herald. 
Christians in more humble stations. 
The spec* 
tacleand its accompaniments were too disgusting 
for their condescension—the consequence was 
that no respectable portion of this " ever faith' 
ful" community 
were found following their 
Saviour to his tomb, which had been prepared 
as usual in the cathederal, which was reached, 
and the remains carefully deposited with due 
solemnity and august ceremonial, while an 
anthem pealed along the vaulted roof and aisles 
that angels might have sung. 
It was the only 
thing in which the Christian's soul could take an 
interest; it was like spirits moaning for the holy 
dead, as it died away in solemn, lengthened ca-
dence from the chancel and the altar. 
After 
the body was placed," the procession continued 
en route to see the weeping Virgin and her com* 
forter to their residence or home in the glass 
cases of the holy "Saint John of God," and 
thence dispersed for scenes and doings ot every 
different character, for which they had received 
due dispensation in compensation for their divine 
occupation of the day. 
To-day we enacted in 
the cathedral the resurrection of Christ, and the 
organ, accompained with human voices, poured 
forth a joyous chant, that seemed indeed born of 
heaven. 
The bells gave out all their noise— 
the braaen mouth of war from the castles and 
forts echoed to the heavens the conquest over 
death and the grave. The slamming of shutters 
and doors, opened once more, to let in the light 
of the day—the racing of drays, carts and car-
riages, beating the time last made at Metarie— 
screaming, whistling, slam-bang and jam as if 
bedlam were let loose made Havana hideous 
for at least ten minutes after ten, when the fever 
of delight began to subside in the presence of 
the more religious obligations of duty and the 
labor of life—to earn " the bread by the sweat 
of the brow." 
To-morrow we are to have the 
finale of these celebrations—several processions 
from different churches will be on the tegris, to 
represent the meeting of the Saviour 
with 
Thomas, the Apostles, the poor Mary, and the 
Holy Mother—at which, I presume, some of 
the rank of the Church will be present, to 
ameliorate with accompanying incense the rank 
odors from the dark cloud of humanity thjt will 
occupy our streets; and some of the sublime 
State authorities will be there, to give due im-
pression and awe to public sentiment, and to be 
spoken of in the Herald; while there will be a 
sprinkling of naval and military galloon and 
swords attached, 
headed by the 
chivalrous 
lieutenant-colonel of dragoons, Don Ramos 
Marin, Inspector of the port of Havana, and 
commandant of the Resguardos, consumers of 
the small stores of confiscated vessels," 
A Hint for Tempted Believers. 
WHEN the Eagle of the Alps would destroy 
the timid but fleet-footed Chamois, he resorts to 
a curious device. 
He makes feigned attacks, 
darting down toward his prey as if to seize it. 
The frightened Chamois flies from its assailant, 
to its accustomed.place of refuge from the hunter 
Catholic Ceremonies in Havana. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Herald 
thus describes the Pagan ceremonies which took 
place in Havana during the Holy Week : 
" The religious proceedings commenced with 
the crucifixion of our Saviour, the forms of which 
and the nailing to the cross took place yesterday 
forenoon .in the oldest church in Havana, the 
San Juan de Dois. 
In the afternoon the blessed 
image of the body was taken down, washed, 
robed, and placed upon a consecrated bier, which 
was embellished with an infinity of holy trappings, 
and at five o'clock carried into the street, borne 
upon the heads of some dozen emancipados, 
where it was received by a military escort, con-
sisting of two companies of grenadiers and a 
squadron of lanceros, with two bands of music, 
muffled drums, &c. 
The body was followed at 
a respectful distance by the images of Mary, the 
mother; and theother, upon the same platform, 
borne in like manner upon the curly heads of 
relieves of apprentices, or stock of equal quality. 
The images appeared bowed down with grief, and 
the bearers and spectators were smiling in the 
exuberance of devotional s6ntimentand mockery. 
" The procession was preceded by a few black 
and white church officials—negroes bearing wax 
candles, crosses, banners, &c.—but the subse-
quent crowd was black and yellow—no saintly 
Captain General and obsequious devotional staff 
to follow and set a good example tor their fellow-
Chrisfs Agony* 
On, what a melting consideration is this! 
that out of Christ's agony comes our victory; 
out of his condemnation, our justification; out 
of his pain, our ease; out of his stripes our 
healing ; out of his gall and vinegar our honey ; 
out of his curse our blessing; out of his crown 
of thorns our crown of glory; oat of his death 
our life; if he could not be released, it was that 
we might 
If Pilate gave sentence against him, 
it was that the great God might never give 
sentence against us. 
If he yielded that it should 
be with Christ as they required, it was that it 
might be with our souls as well as we can desire. 
Little sins are the natural sins of man's life 
—that do of themselves tend hellward; but 
when greater, grosser sins join with them, they 
hurry the soul with swift and rampant motion 
down to hell.—Hopkins. 
Verbena. 
THE derivation of the name Verbena is some-
what uncertain i it originally signified any herb 
used to decorate altars for religious purposes ; 
and this being so universally employed, received 
the appellation of The Verbena. 
The Verbena sustained a considerable part 
in the impositions which were practiced upon 
the credulous in ancient times, and hence it is 
so frequently mentioned in profane history. 
The 
Magi (termed Wise Men) of the ancient Elam-
ites or Persians, made great use of this plant ia 
their worship or adoration of the sun, always 
carrying branches of it in their hands when they 
approached the altar. 
The magicians also em-
ployed the Vervain in their pretended divina-
tions, and affirmed that, by smearing the body 
over with the juice of this plant, the person 
would obtain whatever he set his heart upon ; 
and be enabled to reconcile the most inveterate 
enemies, and make friends with whom he pleased, 
gain the affections and cure the diseases of whom 
he listed. 
When they cut this plant, it is al-
ways done when neither the sun or moon was visi-
ble, and they poured honey and honeycomb on 
the earth as atonement for robbing it of so pre-
cious an herb. 
The Greeks called it4' The Sacred Herb," 
Juno^s tears, and Dovewort; and it was with 
this plant only that they cleansed the festival 
table of Jupiter before any great solemnity took 
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place', and hence, according to Pliny, the name 
Verbena is derived J It is also one of the plants 
which was dedicated to the Goddess of Beauty. 
Venus the victorious wore a crown of Myrtle in« 
terwoven with Verbena. 
The Romans continued the use of this plant 
in their' sacred rites, sweeping their temples and 
cleansing their altars With it, and sprinkling 
holy water With the branches. 
They also hal-
lowed or purified their houses with it to keep 
off evil spirits. 
Their ambassadors or heralds 
at arms wore crowns of it when they went to an-
nounce war or give defiance to their enemies; 
and which is thus noticed by Drayton : 
" A wreath of Verbena heralds wear, 
Amongst our gardens named, 
Being sent that dreadful news to bear, 
Offensive war proclaimed." 
Virgil mentions it as one of the charms in 
G 
use: 
Bring running water, bind those altars round 
With fillets, and with Vervian strew the ground." 
The Druids, both in Gaul and Britain, regard-
ed the Vervain with the same veneration which 
hey bestowed on the Mistletoe, and like the 
Magi of the East, they offered sacrifices to the 
earth before they , cut this plant in the Spring, 
which was a ceremony of great pomp. 
Pliny 
tells us that the Druids made use of it in casting 
lots, and in drawing omens, and in other pre-
tended magical arts: 
" Dark superstition's whisper dread 
Debarr'd the spot to vulgar tread ; 
' For there,' she said, ' did fays resort, 
And satyrs hold their sylvan court, 
By moonlight tread their mystic maze, 
And blast the rash beholder's gaze.' " 
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metonymy, " Gentiles " are put for the countries 
inhabited by them, Which should become the in-
heritance of the " meek "—Matt. 5:5. Reference 
is evidently here made to the regeneration, when 
the " meek shall inherit the earth,"—as is shown 
by what follows: 
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed ; 
Neither be thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to shame: 
For thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, 
And shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. 
—v. 4. 
The Church is still addressed as a forsaken wo-
man who had been subjected to mortification, be-
cause of her widowed and childless condition ; and 
its being no more ashamed, and no longer a widow, 
illutrates by a metaphor, the consummation of 
the union of the saints with Christ, who, (Eph. 
5;25-27,) " loved the Church and gave himself for 
it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the 
washing of water, by the word, that he might 
present it to himself a glorious Church, not hav-
ing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it 
should be holy and without blemish." 
For, (v. 
23,) " the husband is the head of the wife even as 
Christ is the head of the Church." For the Church 
is " espoused to one husband," (2 Cor. 11:2) to be 
presented " aB a chaste virgin to Christ." 
The epoch of this presentation is at the estab-
lishment of .the kingdom,—as it was symbolized 
to John, whose record is," Rev. 19:6-9—" And 1 
heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, 
and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice 
of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia : for the 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 
Let us be glad 
and rejoice, and give honor to him : for the mar-
riage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made 
herself ready. 
And to her was granted that she 
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white : 
for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they 
which are called unto the marriagq-supper of the 
Lamb." 
Therefore Isaiah adds : 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 
16, 
1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
oom in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
lis truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
ove, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
lothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
irly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER LIV. 
SING, 0 barren, thou that didst not bear; 
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail 
with child : 
For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the 
married wife, saith the Lord.—1>. 1. 
This is an apostrophe to Zion which in (49:21,) 
is represented as saying to the children she should 
have after she had lost the other, " Who hath be-
gotten me these, seeing I have lost my children 
and am desolate .?" To not " travail with child," 
is a metaphor illustrative of this desolate condi-
tion while their capital is trodden down of the 
Gentiles. 
And the declaration that, " more are 
the children of the desolate than the children of 
the married wife," is put by substitution to illus-
trate that the number of Christian converts during 
that period- should exceed the number of pious 
Jews who should have lived previous to it. 
Says 
Bishop Lowth, "The converted Gentiles are all 
along considered by the prophet as a new acces-
sion of adopted' children, admitted into the origi-
nal church of God and united with it." 
This test is quoted by Ptful, as applicable to 
the redeemed, in distinction from those who are 
Jews only by birth. 
Gal. 4:25-28—" This Agar 
is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jeru-
salem which now is, and is in bondage with her 
children. 
But Jerusalem which ie-above is free, 
which is the mother of us all. 
For it ie written, 
Rejoice, thou- barren that barest not; break forth 
and cry, thou that travaile&t not: for the desolate 
hath many more children than she which hath an 
husband. 
Now we, brethren,, as Isaac was, are 
the ehildren of the promise." 
of them unto th,e greatest of them, saith the Lord ; 
for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember 
their sin no more." 
At that time the Lord will be called " the' God 
of the whole earth "—he being known at the date 
of this prophecy only as the God of the Jews. 
Paul asks, Rom. 3:29—" Is he the God of the Jews 
only? is he not also of the Gentiles ? Yes, of the 
Gentiles also." 
Of that day John heard a great 
voice out of heaven saying, (Rev. 21:3,) " Behold 
the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and 
God himself shall be with them and be their God." 
And of the same time, we read in Zech'. 14:5, 9— 
" The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints 
with thee. . . . And the Lord shall be King over 
all the earth : in that day there shall be one Lord, 
and his name one. 
Enlarge the place of thy tent, 
And let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations-; 
Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; 
For thou shalt break forth on the right Hand and on the left; 
And thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, 
And make tbe desolate cities to be inhabited.—us. 2,3. 
The " tent " was a common habitation-in orien-
tal countries, and the direction to enlarge the 
place for it, &c., is- a substitution to illustrate that 
more room would be wanted for the accommoda-
tion of the Church, than was needed when it was 
limited to-the small territory of Jtodea. 
To " break forth " on the right hand and on the 
left is a metaphor,.expressive of the extension of 
the Church in different directions, to countries 
outside of Palestine. 
By the same figure, converts 
to Jehovah are denominated a " seed ;" and by a 
For thy Maker is thy husband ; the Lord of hosts is his name ; 
And thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; 
The God of the whole earth shall he be called.—r. 5. 
The declaration that thy Maker is thine " hus-
band," is a metaphor to illustrate the tender re-
lations that will exist between Christ and the re-
deemed in the resurrection state. 
Thus we read in Hosea 2:16-23—" And it shall 
be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call 
me Ishi," i.e., (margin,) My husband, " and shall 
call me no more Baali," i.e., (mar.) My lord; 
for I will take the names of Baalim," i.e. My 
lord " out of her mouth, and they shall no more 
be remembered by their name. 
And in that day 
will I make a covenant for them with the beasts 
of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and 
with the creeping things of the ground : and I will 
break the bow and the sword and the battle out of 
the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ; yea, I 
will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in 
judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies. 
I will even betroth thee unto, me in faithfulness : 
and thou shalt know the Lord. 
And it shall come 
to pass in that day, 1 will hear saith the Lord, I 
will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the 
earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the 
wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jczreel. 
Ane I will sow her unto me in the earth ; and I 
will have mercy upon her that had not obtained 
mercy ; and I will say to them which were not my 
people, Thou art my people ; and they shall say, 
Thou act my God." 
We also read in Jeremiah 3:14,17,—" Turn, 
0 backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am 
married unto you : and I will take you one of a 
city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to 
Zion ... At that time they shall call Jerusalem 
THE THRONE OF THE LORD ; and all the nations shall 
be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to 
Jerusalem : neither shall they walk any more af-
ter the imagination of their evil heart." 
This covenant of marriage between Christ and 
the Church, is equivalent to the " new covenant " 
spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31-34—" Behold the 
days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new 
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the 
house of Judah : not according to the covenant 
that I made with their fathers in the day that I 
took them by the hand to bring them out of the 
land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, al-
though I was an husband unto them, saith the 
Lord," or (mar.) should I have continued an hus-
band unto them ; " but this shall be the covenant 
that I will make with the house of Israel; After 
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in 
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts ; 
and will be their God .andthey shall be my people. 
And they shall teach no more every man his neigh-
bor, and every man his brother, saying Know the 
Lord : for they shall all know me, from the least 
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in 
spirit, 
And a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 
For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; 
But with great mercies will I gather thee. 
In a little wrath 1 hid my face from thee for a moment; 
But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, 
Saith the Lord thy Redeemer.—vs. 6, 7, 8. 
" A wife of youth," is one to whom a person is 
married when young—she is his first love, and 
therefore not easily separated from him. 
By a 
simile, the Lord's calling his Church as such, 
when she had been forsaken, <fcc., illustrates the 
re-union of Christ and the saints at the consumma-
tion, after their long mourning during the absence 
of the Bridegroom. Matt. 9:15—" Jesus said unto 
them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, 
as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the 
days will come, when the bridegroom shall be 
taken from them, and then shall they fast."—The 
return of the Bridegroom, is illustrated by a para-
ble in Matt."25:1-13. 
In v. 7, the period of the Lord's absence, con-
trasted with the unending ages and the glory that 
will follow, is comparatively " a small moment." 
Psa. 30:5—" For his anger endureth but a mo-
ment ; in his favor is life: weeping may endure 
for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." 
2 
Cor. 4:17, 18—" For our light affliction, which 
is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we 
look not at the things which are seen, but at the 
things which are not seen : for the things,which are 
seen are temporal; but the things which are not 
seen are eternal." 
The hiding of the face, is put by substitution for 
apparent forgetfulness of the Church during its 
probationary state, which is to be succeeded by an 
eternity of blessedness. 
Eph. 1:16—" That in the 
dispensation of the fulness of times he might gath-
er together in one all things in Christ, both which 
are in heaven, and which are on earth ; even in 
him." 
Matt. 24:31—" And he shall send his an 
gels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they 
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, 
from one end of heaven to the other." 
At the end 
of this world, (lb. 13:41, 43—" The Son of man 
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather 
out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them 
which do iniquity ; then shall the righteous shine 
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." 
THE ABRAHAMIC INHERITANCE, 
(Continued from the Herald of Dec. 2d ) 
WHEN the land of promise shall have been sub-
jected to .that cleansing process, it will truly be a 
" better country" than it ever yet has been, al-
though flowing as it has done with milk and honey. 
And when the new Jerusalem shall descend from 
heaven, (Rev. 21:2,) Abraham will enter the city 
for which he looked—the handy worl*of God's 
own architecture. 
As that descends only on the new earth,"as 
Abraham's inheritance is connected with the mani-
festation of the city for which he looked, and as the 
" better thing " which God has provided for us is 
to be bestowed when " they and us " are perfected 
together, the heirs of the Abrahamic covenant 
must enter on their inheritance simultaneously 
with the inheritance of the earth by the meek 
" Blessed are the meek," said the Saviour, " for 
they shall inherit the earth."—Matt. 5:5. 
And 
the redeemed from among men, " sung anew song, 
saying. Thou art worthy to take the book, and to 
open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain," and 
hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every 
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation ; and 
hast made us unto our God kings and prfests : and 
we shall reign (On the earth."—Rev. 5:9, 10 
Christ " is the mediator of the new testament, that 
by means of death, for the redemption of the trans-
gressions that were under the first testament, they 
which are called might receive the promise of eter-
nal inheritance."—Heb. 9:15. 
It follows from the foregoing considerations, that 
to inherit the land of promise is to receive it for 
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an eternal possession, that its inheritance is to be 
entered on in the future, and that it is to'be pos-
sessed subsequent to the deluge of fire Which is to 
sweep over and purify the entire earth. 
2. The heirs to the inheritance. 
Mr. Williamson argues that the present Jews 
are no longer the lawful heirs ; and Mr. Lord 
affirms that they are ; but we do not conceive that 
the point at issue is fully met by a decision of the 
question whether they are, or are not. 
It is evident from the foregoing, that there are 
to be reckoned among the heirs of the promise, not 
only Abraham, but all of his descendants who 
" died in faith," not having received the promises. 
As all those are heirs, if any others are proved to 
be such they are only heirs with them ; and as those 
who would not accept deliverance from their Cruel 
mockings and scourgings, so refused " that they 
might obtain a better resurrection," (Heb. 11:35,) 
it is in that state alone that they expected to in-
herit the promises. And consequently all who in-
herit with them, must inherit them in the same 
state. 
Mr. Williamson, and Mr. Lord agree that the 
promised seed of Abraham does not necessarily in-
clude all his natural seed. 
Of Abraham's eight 
sons, Isaac alone is enumerated : " for," as Paul 
writes. (Rom. 9:6-8,) " they are not all Israel, 
which are of Israel: neither because they are the 
seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in 
Isaac shall thy seed be called. 
That is, they 
which are the children of the flesh, these are not 
the children of God; but the children of the prom-
ise are counted for the seed." 
Not only " the son 
of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son 
of the free woman," (Gal. 4:30,) but the six sons 
of Keturah, Abraham's second but lawful wife, 
were all disinherited : " Abraham gave all that he 
had unto Isaac."—Gen. 25:5. 
Esau, also one of Isaac's two sons, was excluded 
with all his posterity, from the inheritance:— 
" For the children being not yet born, neither 
having done any good or evil, that tbe purpose of 
God, according to election might stand, not of 
works, but of him that calleth ; it was said unto 
her, The elder Bhall serve the younger. 
As it is 
written, Jacob have 1 loved, but Esau have I 
hated."—Rom. 9:11-13. 
In view of these facts, Mr. Williamson inquires: 
" If these did not prove that all the seed of Abra-
ham were then heirs, how can they prove that all, 
or any of those who now claim to be descended 
from Abraham are the lawful heirs'?"—Letters, p 
29. 
' 
This inquiry, Mr Lord treats as a most " extra-
ordinary postulate." 
But we conceive that Mr. 
Lord had not fully understood Mr. Williamson on 
this point. 
He understands him to take the posi-
tion " that there can be no certainty that any of 
Abraham's offspring are heirs, unless the whole of 
them are ;" but we understand him to argue that 
as only a portion of Abraham's natural seed are 
entitled to the inheritance, it is not certain that 
that portion now known as Jews are entitled to it. 
And this conclusion we conceive perfectly legiti-
mate. Mr. Lord himself says : 
" There is no express pledge in the covenant 
with Abraham, that all his descendants should be 
made partakers of its blessings. 
So far from it, it 
only promised that God would give the land of 
Canaan and other blessings to his seed; that is, to 
persons who should descend from him. 
It was no 
violation, or change of that promise, that that seed 
was afterward defined as exclusively of the line of 
Isaac ; and subsequently, that instead of embrac-
ing the two families that sprang from him, it was 
confined exclusively to the line of Jacob. 
Instead, 
the covenant was framed in harmony with the right 
God exercised at every stage of his subsequent 
procedure, of selecting according to his sovereign 
pleasure, the particular line out of the families 
that sprang from Abraham, and the particular 
families and individuals of that line, from genera-
tion to generation, that were to be made partakers 
of the promised gifts. The bestowment of those 
blessings on an election out of bis offspring, was 
as absolute a fulfilment of the covenant, as the 
bestowment of them on the whole seed would have 
been. To deny this, is to deny the consistency of 
God's procedure with his covenant, in the bestow-
ment of his gifts on the seed of Abraham : for he 
has indisputably, at every step of his administra-
tion under the covenant, exercised the right of 
either giving or denying its promised blessings to 
individuals and families of Abraham's race, as he 
pleased; and has at every stage confined them to 
an elect body and series of persons and families. 
Of the immediate descendants of Abraham he 
chose but one: of the immediate offspring of Isaac, 
he chose but one : of the children of°Jacob he 
chose only the twelve sons : of those who went up 
out of Egypt, two only were put in possession of 
an inheritance in the land qf Canaan ; and during 
the wars and conquests to which they were sub-
jected, from the death of Joshua to their dispersion 
by the Romans, there was an election oidy that re-
mained in possession of the land; and an election 
only that were returned from their captivities; 
and throughout the whole of that period an elec-
tion Only were made 'partakers of the spiritual 
blessings of the covenant, and admitted to the in-
heritance of everlasting salvation. 
To assume 
then, as Mr. Williamson does, that no such elec-
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tion of individuals out of Abraham's descendants 
as exclusive partakers of the promised blessings 
could have taken place; to claim that the fact that 
the whole wete not at first heirs, is a proof that 
none of them now are, is directly to contradict the 
administration God has exercised, and exhibit the 
sovereignty with which he has bestowed his gifts, 
as an infringement of his own promises."—Theo. 
and Lit. Jour., vol. 5. pp. 497, 498. 
If Mr. Williamson does thus assume that " tho 
fact that the whole were not at first heirs, is a 
proof that none of them now are," it would be " to 
contradict the administration God has exercised." 
But we argue, and so understand Mr. Williamson, 
that God having thus exercised his administration 
in past ages, is a proof that he may,—not that he 
does—-continue such an exercise of it, as to result 
in the disinheritance now, even of such as claim to 
be exclusively the heirs. 
Whether God has so done, 
must be determined by other considerations. 
We have already seen that the promise to Abra-
ham and his seed, was not independent of condi-
tions : " Walk before me, and be thou perfect." 
" Thou," Abraham, " shalt keep my covenant 
therefore thou, and thy seed after thee, in their 
generations."—Gen. 17:1, 9. 
The root was to be 
holy, and all accepted branches must be holy. 
A 
violation of these conditions, destroys all claim to 
the promises : " The uncircumcised man-child . . . 
shall be cut off from his people ; he hath broken 
my covenant."—Gen. 18:14. 
That would be one cause of disinheritance ; but 
other causes were implied; for both Ishmael and 
Esau were circumcised. 
The former was guilty 
of mocking the elected seed, (Gen. 21;9.) and the 
latter despised his birthright, (lb. 25;34). 
Why 
the sons of Keturah were excluded, there is no 
reason given, but it certainly could not be that 
they were, uncircumcised. 
While the promise to Abraham, is thus con-
nected with a condition, it is also absolute, both 
as it respects himself and his seed. 
It was abso 
lute respecting himself, because God knew that 
Abraham would abide by the covenant. 
He says 
of him, " For I know him, that he will command 
his children and his household after him, and they 
shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and 
judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham 
that which he hath spoken of him."—Gen. 18:19. 
It was also absolute respecting his seed, for God 
also knew that Abraham would have a seed to 
serve him; but it was none the less conditiona 
respecting the individuals of his seed. 
" For the 
promise that he should be the heir of the world was 
not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, 
but through the righteousness of faith. 
For if 
they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made 
void, and the promise made of none effect."—Rom. 
4:13, 14. 
(To be continued.; 
THE DEDICATION. 
IN our last ispue we noticed the dedication of 
our new chapel, and gave in full the discourse, 
preached on the occasion, but were then unable 
to give further particulars. 
The house was well 
filled at an early hour and few, if any, seats left 
vacant. 
At two P.M., the services were introduced 
with the anthem by the choir : " I was glad when 
they said unto me, let us go into the house of the 
Lord." 
Prayer was then offered by Elder Osier, 
of Salem, after which the 132d Psalm was read by 
Elder Mansfield, of New York. 
The following 
hymn was then read by Elder E. Crowell, of IIol-
den, Mass, and sung by the choir : 
Lord of hosts, to thee we raise 
Here a house of prayer and praise ; 
Thou thy people's hearts prepare 
Here to meet for praise and prayer. 
Let the living here be fed 
With thy word, the heavenly bread ; 
Here, in hope of glory blest, 
May the dead be laid to rest. 
Here to thee a temple stand, 
While the sea shall gird the land ; 
Here reveal thy mercy sure, 
While the sun and moon endure. 
Hallelujah !—earth and sky 
To the joyful sound reply ; 
Hallelujah !—hence ascend 
l'rayer and praise till time shall end. 
An appropriate dedicatory prayer was then of-
fered by Elder Henry Plummer, of Haverhill. 
The following hymn was then read by Elder D. T. 
Taylor, of Worcester, and was sung by the choir. 
The perfect world by Adam trod, 
Was the first temple—built by God ; 
His flat laid the corner-stone, 
Aud raised its pillars, one by one. 
He hung its starry roof on high— 
The broad illimitable sky j 
He spread its pavement, green and bright, 
And curtained it with morning light. 
The mountains in their places stood— 
The sea, the sky—and " all was good 
And, when its first pure praises rang, 
The " morning stars together sang." 
Lord ! 'tis not ours to make the sea 
And earth and sky a house for thee; 
But in thy sight our offering stands, 
An humble temple," made with hands." 
The sermon was then preached by the pastor, 
Elder Joshua V. Himes, from the following text, 
and given in full in the last Herald: 2 Ohron. 6:18. 
" But will God in every deed dwell with men on 
the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of 
heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this 
house which I have built! " 
The sermon was fol-
lowed by the chanting of the Lotd's Prayer by the 
choir, and the services were concluded with the 
benediction. 
Among the congregation we noticed the Mayor, 
several clergymen of different denominations, re-
porters for the press; and other citizens. 
Very re-
spectful attention was given to the exercises of 
the occasion, and a good impression* was evident 
on those present. 
In the evening a very sensible and judicious 
discourse was preached by Elder L. Osier, of 
Salem, Mas3., from Matt. 15:13. 
" Every plant, 
which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall 
be rooted up." 
The meetings were continued on Thursday and 
Friday. 
In the forenoon of each day there were 
prayer and social meetings in the vestry. 
On 
Thursday P.M., Elder J. M. Orrock, discoursed in 
the Chapel [from 1 Cor. 15:57. 
" But thanks be 
to God, which giveth us the victory, through our 
Lord Jesus Christ." 
And in the evening Elder D. 
T. Taylor preached from Luke 1:32,33. 
" He 
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him 
the throne of his father David. 
And he shall 
reign over the house of Jacob for ever ; and of his 
kingdon there shall be no end." 
On Friday P.M. , Elder Geo. W. Burnham preached 
from 3 John 9:10. 
" I wrote unto the church ; 
but Diotrephes, who loveth tp have the pre-emin-
ence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if 
I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, 
prating against us with malicious words: and not 
content therewith, neither doth he himself receive 
the brethren, and forbideth them that would, and 
casteth them out of the church." 
At the close of this discourse, Elder Plummer 
offered the following resolution, which was unani-
mously adopted: 
Whereas, a large number of Adventists being 
gathered together to attend the dedication of the 
new Advent chapel, in this city, and having ex-
amined the chapel, office and stores of the building, 
therefore, 
• 
Resolved, That we take this method to express to 
our brethren abroad, our confidence in the en-
tire success of the enterprise: that we are well 
pleased with the arrangement and finish of the 
building, and consider the property a good and 
safe investment. 
Resolved, That we congratulate our sister church 
of this city, for the new era that has dawned upon 
her history, and the bright prospects now before 
her for laboring successfully tor her own upbuild-
ing in " the most holy faith," and the salvation of 
sinners. 
Resolved, That the thanks of the church wor-
shipping here, as also, of all the shareholders, are 
due our beloved brother Himes, for his indefatiga-
ble labors in the accomplishment of an enterprise 
so much desired, in connection with the Advent 
cause in this city, and throughout the country. 
In the evening, the meetings were closed by a 
discourse from Elder L. D. Mansfield who took for 
his text James 2:8. 
His remarks were of a practi-
cal character, and were listened to with marked at-
tention. 
At their close, Elder D. I. Robinson made an 
appeal to the church to carry out the principles of 
the sermon, by entering upon the work with all 
the heart, when the services of the feast of dedica-
tion, of three days' continuance, were closed. 
The services throughout were replete with inter-
est and edification. 
The gathering was large, and 
the greetings of old friends were hearty and joy-
ous. 
The occasion seemed to form a new era in 
our history. 
The Adventist are more fully settled than ever, 
on the great doctrine of our faith, and are full of 
confidence and hopes. 
There is a prospect now, 
that there will be a rising in interest, and an in-
crease in our labors to promote the cause. 
Let all 
take courage. 
"We are well able to go up and 
possess the land." 
The ministering brethren present, were, L. Osier, 
A. Sherwin, S. I. Roney, G. W. Burnham, H. 
Plummer, L. D. Mansfield, D. I. Robinson, J. 
Farrar, T. M. Preble, I. C. Wellcome, D. T. Tay-
lor, J. M. Orrock, Chase Taylor, M. L. Jackson, 
C. Cunningham, W. E. Burnham, Wm. Ingham? 
E. Crowell, Thomas Smith, Dr. N. Smith. 
THE CHAPEL—FINANCE AND SHATTES. 
THE chapel is now done. 
The shares are only 
partly taken up. 
I have not pressed the subject, 
because I was not sure of the entire success of the 
enterprise. 
Hence 1 have only laid the matter be. 
fore our friends, and let all judge for themselves as 
to its merits, that they might act voluntarily in the 
matter. 
In this way about one hundred and sixty 
shares have been taken, on which reliance can be 
made. Several were taken by friends who could not 
meet their payments, and have recalled them. 
About $5000 have now been received towards the 
chapel. In the mean time I have been obliged to get 
loans, to meet my expenses, to the amount of about 
$7000, which must be met soon. 
Our dependence 
now is on the liberal and generous friends abroad, 
who may feel it to be a privilege to take stock in 
the Association. 
We can now give some assurance of the charac-
ter ofthe property, that could not be given before. 
The building is rented for over sixteen-liundred dol-
lars. 
The building has cost about three thousand dol-
ars more than was estimated, but the income also 
exceeds the estimate, so that the property is better, 
with the excess of expenditure, than the first esti-
mate. 
We have never promised our friends more 
than six per cent. 
We have always felt assured 
that we could do this, and hoped to do more,—and 
we may—for we shall do the best we can. 
A full report of the Trustees will be made in due 
time to the stockholders. 
I have thrown out these items for the purpose of 
calling the attention of friends to our financial cri-
sis. 
We have bills to meet of over $3000, by the 
first of January. 
There are onfy two ways to 
meet them. 
One, by taking up the shares—of 
which there are ninety in the market. 
The other 
is, by loans of money, on interest, with good secu-
rity, from $50, to $500, or $1000, as may be con-
venient for those who may favor us. 
1 am expect-
ing help, so that in the course of three months, I 
can repay all that may be desired in that time. 
Brethren and friends will remember me at this 
time, and give an immediate response, as I am in 
very special need, as the 
responsible 
financial 
agent of the Boston Advent Association. 
Dec. 11 th, 1854. 
JosnuA V. IIIMES. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
BY the arrival of the steamship Union, at New 
York, we have four days later foreign news. 
The besieged and besiegers at last accounts, 
were resting pn their arms, as if to recover new 
strength for the renewed slaughter expected about 
the 16th, when another attempt was to be made by 
the allies to carry the city by storm. 
The despatch of troops for the reinforcement of 
the allies in the Crimea, continues without inters 
mission. Every available steamship had been taken 
up,by the government for that purpose, and it is 
stated in the London Times that the British Govern-
ment is now paying at the rate of three millions 
of pounds sterling per annum for the charter of 
steamers alone, besides furnishing them with fuel. 
The Niagara and Arabia having been taken up 
by the government, the Cunard Company had 
issued a notice that no vessel belonging to that 
line would leave Liverpool until the 9th of De-
cember, after which date the communication would 
be on every alternate Saturday. 
The Collins line 
will have their days of sailing changed after the 
departure of the boat on the 29th of November, 
to Saturday, in order that the commerce on either 
side of the Atlantic may be inconvenienced as little 
as possible. 
The Cunard boats will therefore al-
ternate every Saturday with the Collins boats, the 
former for Halifax and Boston, and the latter for 
New York. 
The West India and Brazilian line of 
steamships was also to be temporarily interrupted. 
The war office has issued a circular, calling 
upon all the embodied as well as the disynbodied, 
militia, to give as many volunteers as possible to 
the regiments of Guards and the line, s»nd to the 
Royal Marines. 
The alarm in England relative to the position of 
the allied armies in the Crimea seemed to be sub-
siding, and the reinforcements which had arrived 
in the Crimea and were constantly arriving, were 
deemed sufficiently strong to carry out the objects 
of the campaign successfully. 
A winter campaign in the Crimea will evidently 
take place, and wooden barracks for twenty thous-
and men have been shipped by the British Govern-
ment. 
A despatch from Balaclava dated Nov. 7th, 
received via. Vienna, states that reinforcements for 
the allies were arriving at the rate of a thousand 
daily, and they were overjoyed at the arrival of 
these anxiously expected detachments. Both arm-
ies had completed their third parallels, which 
were connected by a trench. 
The allies had been obliged to form counter-
mines, the Russians having constructed mines com-
manding some of their works. 
The streets of the 
town had been strongly barricaded. 
Russian accounts state that the allies, having 
received considerable reinforcements on the 6th, 
7th, and 8th, made a demonstration against the 
left flank of the Russians, when the latter retired 
from the plains to the right bank of the river 
Tchernaya. 
15,000 men of the garrison of Kich-
enoff had been marched to Odessa, and Prince 
Paskiewitch had ordered another corps of 20,000 
men to the Crimea. 
A despatch from Menschikoff, dated Sebastopol, 
Nov.12th, states that at that date the bombardment 
continued. 
The allies, he says, had not advanced 
in their operations since the 8th, and wrere still 
fortifying their lines in the rear of Balaclava. 
Gen. Liprandi was wounded in the battle of the 
5th. 
Further details of the battle of the 5th, called 
the battle of the Inkermann, had been received by 
the steamer Telmaque, at Marseilles. 
They state 
that the attacking force of the Russians numbered 
35,000 men. 
The English batteries were taken 
and retaken several times. 
At noon the Russians 
made a sortie from Sebastopol against the French 
position, but were repulsed. 
They were also ultimately repulsed in the direc-
tion of Inkermann, after a bloody battle, which 
lasted eight hours. 
The Russian loss was 9000 
killed and wounded. Gen. Canrobert was wounded. 
The English loss was very great. 
Generals Cath-
cart, Strangeway, Gooldie and Torrens were killed, 
and Generals Browne, Bentinck, Butler and Adams 
wounded 
Thirty-six officers were killed, ninety-
six wounded and five are missing. 
Four hundred 
and 
forty-two rank file were killed, seventeen 
hundred and sixty wounded and one hundred and 
six missing. 
The Guards alone lost twenty offi-
cers. 
The French had one General killed, and two 
wounded, fifteen officers killed, and twenty-one 
wounded. 
The Russians, it is said, fired on the wounded, 
as well as on the detachments sent out on the 7th 
to bury the dead. 
The Russians were pouring in in large masses 
from the north, and reinforcements were required. 
The French accounts state that everything was 
prepared for the assault, but that the allies had 
postponed the attack until the arrival of their re-
inforcements. 
Prince Napoleon had left the camp, owing to 
the state of his health. 
The duke of Cambridge had been s'ightly wound-
ed. 
Lord Palmerston had arrived at Paris, and had 
daily interviews with the Emperor Louis Napoleon. 
Lord Dudley Stuart died at Stockholm Nevem-
ber 7th. 
A despatch from Hamburg states that a Russian 
squadron of 14 war steamers had made a reconnoi-
s mceasfar as Dagoe Sound without meeting any 
of the allied ships of war. 
The main body of the 
British fleet was still at Kiel. 
We have not got an official, or even a full, ac-
count of the bloody battle of the 5th., called the 
Battle of Inkermann. 
The latest particulars are 
^iven in tlie despatches. 
The Journal de Constan-
tinople gives the following account: 
" Early on the morning of the 5th, a Russian 
army, about 40,000 strong, bf whom 30,000 men 
consisted of reinforcements which arrived on the 
proceeding evening, under the command of General 
Danenburg and the Grand Dukes Michael and 
Alexander, profiting by an intense fog, marched 
upon Inkermann to the extreme limit of the Eng-
lish army, and attacked them vigorously. 
" General Cathcart assembled about 8,000 men, 
whom he opposed to the Russians, and for more 
than two hours this handful of brave soldiers had 
been struggling with the most heroic intrepidity 
against an army so superior in numbers, when the 
French troops arrived in all haste, and joining 
themselves to the English with an admirable spirit 
of fraternization, opposed to the enemy a body of 
about 3,000 men, who charged the Ruseian masses 
one against five, and repulsed them with the most 
irresistable impetuosity. 
" The Monet brigade arrived soon afterwards, 
and its arrival completed the rout of'the Russians, 
who retired in disorder about 4 o'clook in the after-
noon 
" During thi,s engagement, 
8,000 men of the 
garrison of Sebastopol made a sortie, and attacked 
some-companies who supported the French lines, 
which were not more than 100 metres from the 
place. 
" General de Lourmel went immediately with a 
few battalions to the assistance of these companies, 
who sustained the attack with intrepidity, repulsed 
the Russians, and, forcing them to take flight, 
pursued them to within 20 paces of the Quaran-
tine Battery. 
At that point a serious 
wound 
forced him .to stop, and the Russians were enabled 
to take refuge in the place. 
" In these two affairs the Russians, in killed 
and wounded, lost the services of more than 10,000 
men. 
The loss of the allied armies amounts to 
about 3,000 men in killed and wounded. " 
398 
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VISIT TO SORTIIERN NEW YORK. 
BRO. HIMES :—I left home for this place, Oct. 
27th, via. Boston and Springfield, wherel arrived 
the 28th about noon. 
On my way, I visited the 
noble edifice erected by the " Boston Advent Asso-
ciation," whieh being near its completion, will 
soon be dedicated to the worship of our adorable 
Lord, Providence permitting, according to notice. 
It is a building which, although inferior to many 
other places of worship in point of costliness, and 
decorations so attractive to the eye, is well calcu-
lated to answer the end of so worthy an enterprise, 
in behalf of the cause of our coming Redeemer. 
May the chapel be none other than a place where 
God is worshipped, and where the light shall ra-
diate from the gospel luminary, to the joy of be-
lievers, and conversion of many sinners, the few 
months or years we may continue in this proba-
tionary state. 
May peace and harmony ever be 
its guests, and no Judas with those whom " we 
have walked to the house of God in company" 
there be fjund to " lift up his heel against " the 
welfare of Zion. 
But this perhaps is too much to 
expect in this imperfect state : " I say unto all, 
watch," is the language of the Saviour. 
After a few hours ride from Boston, 1 found my-
self at the residence of brother Currier in Spring-
field, and was pleasantly entertained, although 
brother C. was absent. 
Early the next morning 
I was on my way to 
Albany.—Here 
I have spent three Sabbaths with 
the Advent Society who now hold their meetings 
(on the Sabbath and Thursday evening) in " Recha-
bite Hall," corner of State and North Pearl streets. 
I should judge there were some veterans of the 
cross yet remaining in A. 
Our meetings have 
been interesting, and on last Sabbath evening 
especially, there seemed to be more of the revival 
spirit in our midst, as a number ot penitents wept 
freely before the Lord, and I trust have resolved to 
seek and serve Him whom to know is life eternal. 
I have been cordially entertained in the family of 
brother Wm. Nichols, and others. 
Troy.— At West Troy, I have preached two 
evenings in a school-room occupied by sister Ayers, 
also in East Troy two evenings; one at the resi-
dence of brother Barringer, and last evening (wrhich 
closed my labors in this State for the present) in 
the Wesleyan chapef, furnished through the ener-
getic efforts of sister Lawton. 
In Troy our meet-
ings hav£ been quite interesting, and believers 
have been encouraged. 
Although few, they mani-
fested a desire to have more preaching such as 
will not scatter souls from, but gather them to 
Christ. 
Albany, together with a few places on 
the banks of the Hudson, up the river, could well 
support a minister of which they are now desti-
tute. 
If Adventists intend to maintain a separate 
interest in the ecclesiastical world, they must be 
interested in this mattei with some degree of unity 
at least. 
If they are not thus interested, they 
must expect to dwindle away and finally become 
extinct as a body. 
We cannot neglect God's ar-
rangement, especially when it is in our power to 
do otherwise, and live. 
There must be a co-ope-
ration of minister and people. 
Some in other 
plaees also, are in a degree awake to this subject. 
Brother Catlin, Barringer, and others, have kindly 
administered to my necessities. 
Waterford.—In 
this place I preached one even-
ing at the residence of brother Woldorf. 
A num-
ber of friends were in irom Lansingburg, (brn. 
Sayles, Brooks, and others,) who., together with 
those who were disposed to attend in W., com 
posed a fair audience for a private dwelling. There 
are some in these places who are interested in the 
cause of truth and its prosperity, forgetting not 
that the laborer is worthy of his hire. 
Fort Ann.—In this place 1 preached three even-
ings. 
The two societies (Baptist and Methodist,) 
kindly permitted me to occupy their houses of 
worship, the former on the first, the latter on the 
two last. 
We had an increase of interest and at-
tendance to the last, and have reason to believe 
that considerable prejudice, that barrier to the cir-
• culation ot gospel truth, was removed. 
In short, 
we had an excellent meeting,. 
And here let me remark, that I wonder not that 
the professed churches in many places are so shy 
of Adventists, when I consider the past extrava-
gance as it relates to the life and views of many 
professedly identified with them, and perhaps I 
may say, the present looseness of character mani-
fested by some. 
While there are some living 
" epistles known and read of all men," there are 
too many on the back ground ; and it furnishes no 
excuse for us that other professors are in the same 
condition. 
Our individual work expressed by Paul 
as the teaching of God's grace is, " That denying 
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live so-
berly, righteously, and godly in this present world, 
looking for the blessed hope and the glorious ap-
pearing of thj3 great God and our Saviour Jesus 
Christ."—Titus 2:11-14. 
May all who profess to 
understand the preciousness of the gospel, arise 
and let their light shine in view of the " day of 
•the Lord " being so very near at hand. 
If, then, 
we are buffetted by others, it will not be for our 
faults, but for Christ's sake. 
I was kindly re-
ceived by our friends, Burnall, George W. Miller, 
(son of Father Miller, who resides in this place,) 
and others. 
Low Hampton.—In 
this place I preached one 
Sabbath to good audiences. 
We had a pleasant, 
and I trust a profitable meeting. ' Here brother 
Bosworth has broken to the church the 
bread of 
life," for a number of years, and God, we have 
reason to believe has blessed his labors in the 
strengthening of believers, and conversion of sin-
ners. 
Here also, for the first time, I had a pleas-
ant interview, and forrfted a short acquaintance 
with brother Buckley, who has labored with zeal, 
preaching " the everlasting gospel " in days past, 
but now curtailed from this work by disease in a 
great measuse. 
He is about leaving for the West: 
may the blessing of God attend him and family, 
together with the means he may use for his re-
covery. 
I visited the burying ground in which re-
pose the remains of the departed brother Miller 
and his wife, (as it is- well known that in this 
town was their late residence) where, upon his 
monument the " old man eloquent," seems yet to 
discourse to the passers by upon the end of the 
world. 
" At the time appointed the end shall 
be," also, " Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh 
to the 1335 days," besides other appropriate and 
significant language, receive the attention of visit-
ors as they gaze upon the beautiful white marble, 
so emblematic of purity. 
In visiting Low Hampton for the first time— 
reading portions of his life in connection, and con-
trasting the present with the past, one can scarcely 
avoid the feelings of solemnity which so naturally 
creep over the mind, and almost wish himself back 
in former days when with vigor of mind the " sword 
of the Spirit " was wielded so mightily to the slay-
ing and making alive of so many sinners. 
But 
the cause of the Christian is onward; and how 
necessary to rightly improve the golden moments 
as they pass. 
In this place I was welcomed to the 
cottages of a number of the faithful. 
Since entering upon this tour, the election has 
been quite an absorbing theme with the inhabit-
ants of the "Empire State." 
It is well known 
that there are many political parties in this State, 
consequently, quite a number of candidates in the 
field for the supreme State officer. The result of the 
election has been shrouded in considerable obscu-
rity, but the fog appears to be dissolving, and 
the prospect is that the temperance people have 
achieved a victory in electing " Clark " to govern 
the State for the ensuing two year. 
Says the New 
York H9ha d of last Saturday, " According to our 
returns, Mr. Clark leads Mr. Seymour (Anti-tem-
perance candidate) 292 votes. 
The race hereto-
fore has been exciting—it has now become intensely 
so. 
The candidates seem so close together that 
one might, to borrow an expression from the vo-
cabulary of the race-course,' cover them with a 
blanket.' 
Before they reach the winning-post, 
however, Seymour may pass his opponent; but 
the chances are decidedly against him—the odds 
are in favor of Clark." 
The friends of reform will 
be pleased to learn, that provided the temperance 
men are foiled in their attempt to elect a governor, 
they have in prospect a two-thirds vote in the legis-
lature in favor of a suitable Temperance Bill that 
may be introduced, which renders the action of 
the governor nugatory. 
Yours in the gospel, 
J. 
P. 
FARRAR. 
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22^ 1854. 
THE PRECIOtTSNESS OF CHRIST. 
CHRIST is a precious stone, a tried stone,—a 
stone of trial more precious than silver or gold— 
the pearl of great price—and the desire, as the 
prophet says, " of all nations,"—and more to be 
desired than anything of an earthly nature—pre-
cious in regard to his royal descent—precious as 
the babe of Bethlehem—esteemed so by the heaven-
ly hosts, so precious that they left heaven and 
came to earth, praising God, saying, " Glory to 
God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will 
toward men "—precious in regard to the divinity 
of his person—precious in regard to. his Mediato-
rial office—precious in regard to the gifts he be-
stows upon men—precious in regard to his wis-
dom—more so than Solomon, greater than Jonah, 
and fairer than the children of men—yea, he is 
the chiefest among ten thousand, and the one al-
together lovely—the first begotten of the Father, 
and the first born from the dead—precious as pos-
sessing all the fullness of the Godfiead bodily—in 
short, all moral excellency, divine and human, 
created and uncreated, centre in him—precious 
to God the Father, his beloved Son in whom he is 
well-pleased—his elect in whom he delighteth— 
to be sure, the seed of a woman, but begotten by 
the Holy Ghost. 
Precious to angels—whose voicc 
John heard round about the throne, numbering 
ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands 
of thousands, saying with a loud voiec, " Worthy 
is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and 
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and 
glory, and blessing "—so precious to them that 
eternity will be none too long to render aspira-
tions of praise and adoration to him that sitteth 
upon the -throne, and Onto the Lamb—it will be 
their eternal song—and it is written: "to you 
that believe " he is precious—esteemed indeed by 
the world as a root out of dry ground, without 
form or comeliness—but how precious his atoning 
blood and meritorious righteousness to the guilty, 
self-condemned sinner, sitting at his feet pardoned 
—and showers of blessings resting upon llim—for 
his sake in the ardor of his love, he could lay 
down his life—how precious such a fountain for 
cleansing—how precious the existence of such an 
one whose arm is Almighty to save poor despised 
soldiers in the spiritual warfare—how precious 
his words—how sweet—sweeter than the honey, 
or the honey comb—how precious the light of his 
countenance, beaming with love to the desponding 
soul—how precious that salvation he imparts— 
and how precious the price he paid for it, not cor-
ruptible things such as silver and gold, but his 
own precious blood—precious in the estimation of 
God the Father—precious in the estimation of an-
gels—precious in the estimation of the four living 
beings ; (Rev, 5:14), and of the four and twenty 
elders—and is he precious to you, dear reader? 
Diamonds and pearls, and all the precious stones 
in the universe bear no comparison to this tried 
stone, and stone of trial. 
0 that a thoughtless 
and giddy generation of men would learn his pre-
ciousness, and their moral vision be so changed 
that they could behold the beauty of his charac-
ter, and appreciate his worth, so that they could 
in the warmth and ardor of God's love, recom-
mend him to others, as the one altogether lovely 
and precious. 
Then all enmity to his personal 
appearing would cease—it would be the joy and 
rejoicing of their hearts—yea, they would respond 
in harmony with the Spirit and the Bride in the 
language of John : " Come, Lord Jesus, come 
quickly—to which they could heartily offer their 
Amen. 
What say you, my brethren in Christ; can you 
not corroborate by your testimony the above dec-
laration to be true, and add your Amen ?—if 
so. recommend him to lost and sinful men. 
Rec-
ommend him to believers weak in faith, as a won-
derful Saviour, a sure Redeemer, abundantly able 
to deliver them from all the malice of hell, or 
power of devils, or death itself. 
Recommend him 
as preciqus, as gracious, as lovely, as beautiful, 
as compassionate, as willing, as ready to save all 
that come to God through him. 
Recommend with 
all the ability that you ^re master of, and then 
the half will not be told on account of the poverty 
of language. 
When we attempt to describe his 
excellencies, we feel our weakness, and are more 
than half inclined to wish that we had angelic 
powers of mind and thought to enable us to ap-
proximate a moity towards the reality; for it 
seems that if his divine excellencies could be set 
forth—if there was language capable of doing it— 
the most vile and abandoned sinners, those that 
Jiave manifested the most bitter hatred, would fall 
before him, and be ravished by his charms', and 
captivated by his glory. 
If so precious when seen 
only with an eye of faith, what will it be when 
faith is lost in actual vision? 
An inspired apos-
tle seems to feel the want of language to express 
this, and simply says, " a far nore exceeding and 
eternal weight of glory." 
Here I leave the sub-
ject, hoping to share in that glory, and believing 
it will soon be realized bv the millions that have 
gone down to their graves with Christ's armor on, 
together with those that likewise are found at their 
posts, waiting. 
I wish to say through the Herald to brother 
Chapman, that on his return East, we earnestly 
desire him to visit Homer with the calculation of 
spending some time with us. 
J. L. 
CLAPP. 
Homer, N. Y., Nov. 25th, 1854 
Letter from Daniel Campbell. 
Biio. HIMES :—I am still in the field. I left 
home about the 13th of October, and spent the 
first evening with brother Lawrence and family ; 
and the next at the Bordan neighborhood. 
I 
preached to an attentive audience. 
On the Sab-
bath following, 1 preached in Westminster, at 11 
A.M., also at the Methodist Chapel at 3 P.M., to 
large congregations, on the blessed hope ; and in 
the evening, at the Advent Church. 
On the next 
evening, I was at Deacon Beemer's, and the fol-
lowing one, at brother Laban Crandal's, and then 
at brother W. Willard's neighborhood, and at 
brother James'; also at Nelson, near Cunnings-
ville, and on the following feabbath at the Barnes 
neighborhood. 
I preached at our beloved brother 
David Barne's, and had a good time in preaching 
to the people. 
On the evening of the above day, 
I preached at brother W. Campbell's ; also called 
on Father Griggs, two miles east of OakneRe. 
I 
preached on my return, at.their school-house. 
I 
generally have good times at the above neighbor-
hood. 
Brother Griggs has lost his excellent wife. 
She was of the Christian Order, and a mother in 
Israel. 
She loved to hear the Advent preachers. 
I spent the following Sabbath in Toronto and 
preached once. 
In the evening I heard Dr. Piper 
preach a very good discourse. 
I have been in-
formed that he gives prominence to the personal 
coming of our Lord, and the regeneration at his 
coming. 1 also preached at brother Pearce's house, 
and had a good time. 
We need some help in this region to hold a con-
ference ; cannot you come. 
1 am sure you would 
have a very large hearing, and by spending ,two 
or three weeks it would tell on the cause while 
time lasts. 
If it is in your power come. 
Your 
brother in hope. 
DANIEL 
CAMPBELL. 
Letter from Sister X. Wood. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—Deacon J. Smith's response to 
Elder J. Cole's proposal, anct his proposal also, 
meets my wishes. 
He says, " Who will begin ?" 
I will. 
However, I hope the one hundred and 
ninety-nine, have got the start of me. 
It is self-
evident, that " No man that warreth entangleth 
himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may 
please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 
I should think truly a faith that will not produce 
five dollars, in the midst of health and plenty for 
such an object, had better be dropped and a better, 
living one sought, that will " work by love "—un-
feigned love to all them that love the Lord Jesus 
Christ in sincerity and truth. 
NANCY 
WOOD. 
Westminster, Moss., Nov. lGfth, 1854. 
SIEGE 
OPERATIONS. 
THE nature of the works undertaken by a be-
sieging army, and the means of offence and resist-
ance exerted in the siege of a fortified place, are 
probably not so well understood by the public 
as they would be if sieges were every-day affairs. 
The operations against Sebastopol having drawn 
attention to this subject, an explanation of some 
of the more important engineering operations of a 
siege may not be without interest. 
In a regular siege, every part of the fortress or 
fortified place ought, if possible, to be invested at 
the outset, and the communications of the enemy 
cut off, so as to prevent the ingress of supplies, 
which would enable the besieged to prolong their 
resistance. Starving out the garrison was formerly 
one ofthe most potent means of obtaining posses-
sion of a place, but in our day besieging armies 
rely more upon the weight of their batteries and 
the skill and success of their engineering opera-
tions, the cutting off of supplies being regarded as 
of secondary importance. 
In the siege of Sebasto-
pol, which now excites so much interest, the com-
munications of the Russians are open, ample sup-
plies can he obtained, and the garrison relieved at 
will; but the heavy fire of the allies has undoubt-
edly greatly distressed the Russians. 
Having strongly posted the main body of their 
army in a position where it cannot be annoyed by 
the guns of the besieged fortress, the first move-
ment of the besiegers is to ascertain the weakest 
part of the works of the enemy. 
A thoroughly 
fortified place ought to be able to bring a gun to 
bear upon every foot of ground where an enemy 
would be likely to effect a logdgment. 
The first 
object of the besiegers is to silence as many of 
these guns as possible and to make a breach in the 
walls to admit of an assault. 
Having ascertained 
the weakest portion of the fortress, the besiegers 
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proceed to Open trenches for batteries at a distance 
of from five to nine hundred paces from the walls 
of the fortress. 
These trenches are usually three 
feet deep and from nine to twelve feet wide, and 
generally run parallel with the outlines of the 
fortress, hence, they are called parallels. 
They are 
dug in the night by the " pioneers," who are lia-
ble to be interrupted by sorties and are guarded 
by a detachment of troops. 
The pioneers carry 
with them to the place of their labors, besides 
their spades and picks, a large number of facines, 
or gabions. 
The former are bundles of fagots, 
and the latter are wicker baskets which are filled 
with earth, and which serve in some degree to 
protect the sappers from any random shots of the 
enemy, as well as for a foundation for their breast-
works. 
These facines and gabions are placed on 
the side of the trench towards the enemy and»the 
earth is heaped over them, thus forming breast-
works to shelter the gunners from the fire of the 
enemy. 
To these trenches the heavy guns are 
transported, embrasures being made through the 
breastworks after the guns are mounted and ready 
for service. 
Having established the first parallel, and per-
haps silenced some of tho guns of the fortress, the 
besiegers proceed to open a second and a third 
parallel, each nearer to the fortress than the other, 
thus gradually encircling the place as in the folds 
of a huge anaconda, causing it to be 
" Girdled with a waist of iron, 
And hemmed about with grim destruction." 
These parallels are connected by ditches. 
By 
means of these works the besiegers are in a great 
measure protected from the fire of the besieged 
place ; and unless their works are interrupted by 
sallies, and their guns captured and spiked, they 
can inflict a serious injury upon the fortress with-
out being greatly exposed to the enemy's fire. It 
is said that this mode of approaching a fortress 
was first made use of in 1763, at the siege of 
Maeatricht. 
Cannon were first used in a siege at 
Cressy in 1346,ani at Calais in 1347. 
The largest 
cannon then known in Europe was used by the 
Turks at the siege of Candia in 1667. 
Having brought these parallells as near to the 
besieged place as prudence will admit, an attempt 
is made to effect a breach in the walls through 
which to make an assault. 
Here it may be re-
marked that the batteries of the besiegers are ol 
three kinds, breaching batteries, ricochet batteries, 
and mortar batteries. 
The first are brQught to 
bear directly upon the walls, which the gunners 
endeavor to batter down by point blank shots. 
Some of these batteries are erected en echarpe, or 
at an angle wTith the main batteries, in order to 
batter the breach obliquely. 
The guns of some 
are adapted to firing red hot shot, which set fire 
to anything inflammable upon'which they lodge. 
The WcocAe^-batteries are intended to command tbe 
enemy's line, so that the balls roll along the whole 
length of the rampart, rendering it insecure. 
The 
first experiment in this mode of firing is said to 
have been made at the siege of Philipsburg in 
1734. 
The mortar batteries are adapted to the 
work of throwing shells into the besieged place. 
They differ but little from the breaching batteries, 
except that they have no embrasures,-the eleva-
tion of the mortar being sufficient to carry the 
shells clear of the parapet. 
It is said that bombs 
were first invented at Venlo, in 1495, but accord-
ing to some authorities near a century after. 
They came into general use about the year 1634. 
The mortar and the ricochet batteries require great 
skill and precision on the part of the gunners in 
order to make them effective. 
It is stated that in 
the siege of Sebastopol tbe allies were much an-
noyed by the well directed fire from the guns of 
the city, until the francs 
tireurs—the 
sharpshoot-
ers of the French army—picked off the best of the 
Russian gunners. 
The fire of the Russian bat-
teries became afterwards more uncertain. 
From the last parallel—that nearest to the for 
tress—mines are sometimes extended to aid in the 
work of laying the defences of the besieged place 
in ruins. 
These mine are subterraneatf passages, 
which are sometimes directed with such precision 
by the engineers that they terminate directly under 
the walls or outer defences of the fortress ; under 
these a heavy charge of gunpowder is placed, which 
is exploded and sometimes with tremendous effect. 
The work upon these passages is usually conducted 
with great secresy ; for if the approach of a mine 
'is suspected by the besieged, a countermine may 
be exploded which will involve the mppers of the 
besieging army in almost certain destruction. 
These countermines are generally constructed 
under the covered way of the fortress—and here 
we will -state that fortifications usually consist of 
a Wall or rampart, outside of which is a ditch or 
fosse, beyond and parallel with which is a low 
breastwork which sinks to the level of the field 
with a gentle declivity, and is called a glacis. 
The 
space within this breastwork and between it and 
the ditch is called the covered way. 
Sometimes the 
glacis and covered way are called the counterscarp. 
It is under this covered way that a countermine is 
usually excavated. 
Branches of this countermine 
are sometimes extended under the glacis to afford 
means for listening and finding out the enemy's 
subterraneous movements. When a mine is discov-
ered approaching the glacis, a charge of gunpowder 
sufficiently powerful to shake the earth is exploded 
under the glacis, and as near to the enemy's mine 
as possible. 
The weight of the superincumbent 
earth of the glacis generally prevents the explosion 
from b^ing perceptible upon the surface, while it 
shakes the ground all around and destroys the 
hostile mines. 
Not unfrequently in excavating a 
mine the sappers come suddenly upon the enemy's 
countermine, and then there is no alternative but 
to fight. In view of this contingency the sappers 
are usually well armed. 
The Russians made great 
use of mines and other engineering operations in 
besieging the strongholds of the Turks in the war 
of 182B-9, as more recently at the siege of Silis-
tria. 
We do not learn that mining operations 
have been attempted at Sebastopol, the nature of 
the ground probably not permitting of this mode of 
approach. 
Having effected a practicable breach in the walls, 
an attempt is made to carry the place by storm. 
A breach is considered practicable when it will ad-
mit the entrance of fourteen men marching abreast. 
The assault upon a fortress, if strongly garrisoned, 
is usually attended with a great sacrifice of human 
life, and ought only to be attempted when the 
force of the besiegers is numerically largely in ex-
cess of that of the garrison. 
In the bombardment 
of a place the besiegers have greatly the advantage 
of the garrison, as they can concentrate their 
whole fire upon any particular point. 
In storm-
ing, however, the position of the contending par-
ties is reversed, the besieged being in a measure 
sheltered, and having it in their power, unless 
their guns- are silenced, to direct their whole fire 
upon the advancing column of the enemy. 
Some-
times a place consists of a series of detached forts, 
in which case they must be taken successively, 
often involving a great sacrifice of life. 
Sebasto-
pol is thus fortified, and, looking at the plan of 
its defences, the difficulties which the allies will 
have to encounter before becoming masters of the 
place, seem almost insurmountable. 
We have thus given our readers what we trust 
will be found an intelligible explanation of siege 
operations. 
The offensive works afford an oppor-
tunity for the display of the highest engineering 
skill, and the defence requires the exercise of much 
patience and endurance, as well as bravery. A siege 
is often protracted for weeks and months, and 
sometimes for years. 
The memorable siege of Troy 
occupied ten years, and Herodotus says that Azoth 
was besieged by Psammetichus the powerful, for 
twenty-nine years. 
Modern science has so multi-
plied the means of offence and defence that the du-
ration of sieges is now materially shortened. Acre 
was besieged by Bonaparte for sixty days, when 
the siege was raised. 
Bergos was besieged tor five 
weeks in 1812. 
Silistria was invested by the Rus-
sians for nine months in 1828-9, before it was 
captured. 
This was an unusually long siege, 
however, and was broken by an intermission while 
the besiegers were in winter quarters. 
With the 
terrible engines of destruction—the guns of large 
calibre and extended range recently brought into 
use—a siege ought to be terminated within a few 
weeks either by the destruction of the fortified 
place or by the exhaustion of the material of the 
besiegers ; for it should be remembered that with 
large guns the weight of the charges is increased, 
and to the same extent the difficulties of trans-
portation and of supplying munitions. 
Siege ope-
rations concentrate as it were all the horrors of 
war. 
The besiegers are constantly exposed to the 
heat or inclemency of the weather, and their la-
bors are continuous and exhausting. 
Within the 
beleagued citadel, hunger and thirst add to the 
horrors of a place 
" Where sighs and groans, and shrieks that rend 
the air, 
Are made, not marked ; where violent sorrow seems 
A modern ecstacy; the dead man's knell 
Is there scarce asked, for who ; and good men's 
lives 
Expire before the flowers in their cups, 
Dying, or ere they sicken." 
A terrible commentary on human progress and 
modern civilization, indeed, are the siege opera-
tions of the present day ! 
Boston Journal. 
VANITY OF WEALTH.—Who would not be covet-
ous, and with reason, if health could be purchased 
with gold 1 who would not be ambitious, if it were 
at the command of power or restored by honor ? 
But alas! a white staff will not help gouty Feet to 
walk better than a common cane ; nor a blue rib-
bon bind up a wound so well as a fillet; the glit-
ter of gold or of diamonds will but hurt sore eyes 
instead of curing them ; and an aching head will 
be no more eased by wearing a crown than a com-
mon nightcap. 
BENEFITS 
OF 
ADVERSITY.—A 
smooth sea never 
made a skilful mariner, neither does uninterrupted 
prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and 
happiness. 
The storms of adversity, 
like the 
storms of the ocean, arouse the faculties, excite 
the invention, prudence, skill'and fortitude of the 
voyager. 
The martyrs of ancient times, in brac-
ing their minds to outward calamity, acquired a 
loftiness of purpose, a moral heroism, worth a life 
of softness and security. 
THE just, though they hate evil, give men a pa 
tient hearing; hoping that they will show proof 
that they are not evil. 
Sir p- Sidney. 
THE man who pauses on his honesty, 
Wants little of the villain. 
Martyn. 
(Dbititarm 
• I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
chough he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die."'—JOHN 11:25,26. 
DIED, in Richford, Vt., Nov. 24th, 185^, sister 
CLEORA BLAISDELL, aged 53. 
Sister Blaisdell gave 
her heart to the Saviour in early life, and united 
with the Congregational church. 
In 1842, she 
became a believer in the speedy coming of Christ. 
Amid all the changing scenes through which we 
have been called to pass since that period, her hope 
has thrown its golden light over the future—her 
eye has been fixed on the land of promise, and she 
sighed for the day to come when her absent Lord 
should appear, and call for his pure and spotless 
bride. 
Like Enoch of old, she walked with God. 
and enjoyed the assurance that her ways pleased 
him. 
Her health had been poor for years—and a 
few weeks previous to her death, she was afflicted 
with dysentery,*from which she never recovered. 
During her sickness,'her soul was filled with peace, 
her loins were girt about with truth, her lamp was 
trimmed and burning. 
She was ready to depart 
and be with Christ, which was far better. 
She 
was often heard to repeat the following lines. 
" 0 the transporting rapturous scene, 
That rises to my sight! 
Sweet fields arrayed in living green, 
And rivers of delight. 
No chilling winds or poisonous breath, 
Can reach that healthful shore ! 
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, 
Are felt and feared no more." 
Her funeral was attended on the Sabbath follow-
ing her death, by a large and attentive audience ; 
and her remains were interred in the village grave-
yard, to await the summons of the Son of God. 
Brother Blaisdell, who has long been a lover of 
the Qoming of Christ, and a tried and consistent 
friend of the cause, is left with four children to 
mourn the loss of the departed. 
He bows with 
submission to the chastening of his Father, and the 
language of his heart is the same as that which 
fell from the lips of his suffering Redeemer, " Not 
my will, but thine be done." 
That the Lord may 
sustain him, and finally gather him to the land of 
the redeemed, where there shall be no tears, nor 
sorrow, nor crying, nor death, the former things 
having passed away, is the prayer of his friend, 
DIED, in East Boston, Nov. 22d, 1854, WM. II. 
KENNEDY, only child of brother and sister 
John 
Kennedy, aged 7 years, 10 months, and 25 days. 
Thus has a flower been cut down in its full bloom. 
Little Willie was tenderly beloved by all who knew 
him, especially by his parents, who weep his de-
parture, but still " sorrow not, even as others, 
who have no hope." 
His sickness was short, and 
his death sudden, and unexpected, until almost 
the hour of his departure. 
He was not afraid to 
die, though it was evident that he knew his end to 
be near. 
While he lived, he was remarkable for 
a quick understanding, and especially in things 
relating to God and religion, and died, with the 
name of "mother, dear mother," on his lips, 
calmly departing to a sweet, repose on the Saviour's 
bosom. 
The grave will not hold his tiny form 
long, not long will he be " absent from the body." 
The slumbering dust, re-invigorated with ever-
lasting life, shall speedily be tenanted again by 
the happy spirit, and he will meet his parents in 
the new heavens 
and earth, and dwell with the 
Saviour, where there is no more death, and where 
friends, parents, and children, are never parted. 
Meanwhile, his parents feel to say :— 
" Sleep on, sweet child, and take thy rest! 
Thy parents mourn, but thou art blest! 
God calls thee home,—he thinks it best." 
RELIGIOUS READING, 
OF THE BEST 
DESCRIPTION. 
"'he various Books, written and published, by the truly eloquent 
. and learned Scotch Divine, the present minister of Crown Court 
London, Rev. John Cumming, D. D., are attraoting widespread at 
tention, and are being perused by hundreds of thousands of admirinS 
readers, on both sides of the Atlantic. 
For simplicity and eleganc^ 
of diction, and holy fervor, we doubt if they are excelled by an^ 
writer, living or dead 
Their influence, whenever and by whomso-
ever read, ca,n be only good. 
No Christian's Library is complete, 
if destitute of these books. 
Their titles are as follows: 
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life. 
Voices of the Day. 
Voices of the Night 
Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
The Tent and the Altar. 
Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
To be followed by Readings on Exodus and Leviticus. 
And by 
the New Testament Readings at convenient intervals. 
The religious community, particularly the religious press, has 
spoken in high terms of commendation of these excellent works, as 
follows: 
Thousands will thank Jewett & Co. for putting this series of vol 
umes within their reach. 
Would that the whole community were 
reaping the benefit they are fitted to impart. 
Christian Mirror, Portland, Me. 
The choicest and richest illustrations of saored truths are here 
found grouped together in the most interesting and attractive form. 
The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
It it difficult to say whether this and the author's other works 
are more distinguished for splendor of diction, elevation of thought, 
or depth of evangelical and devout feeling. 
They are adapted to be 
universally popular and useful. 
Albany Argus. 
Elevated in thought, attractive in style, and devotional in tone, 
these volumes must command attention, and will become favoritea 
with the Christian reading community. 
The Presbyterian, Philadelphia. 
As a writer he is prolific, and his books have an immense sale. 
His style is clear and unaffected, and his pages breathe a spirit of 
warm evangelical piety. 
Vermont Chronicle. 
It will do the heart and head good to read Dr Cumming's writ 
ings. 
They will have an extensive circulation, and cheer many a 
pilgrim on his way to heaven. 
Canada Christian Advocate. 
There is a freshness, and beauty, and spirituality about all Dr. 
Cumming's productions that we have met with, which cannot fail to 
give them favor with the man oftaste, as well as the true Christian. 
Puritan Recorder, Boston. 
Jewett & Co., publish nothing but works of the most admirable 
character. 
In these volumes, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, they have 
supplied a want which the religious world has long felt. 
Schenectady Reporter. 
We know few books so enriched with thought and so pervaded 
with genial Christian feeling as those of Dr. Cumming. 
Lutheran Observer, Baltimore. 
In noticing the first volume of the series of which these beautiful 
volumes form a par , we have already expressed our very high esti-
mate of Dr. Cumming and of his works. 
Congregationalist, Boston. 
These volumes of the reprint of Dr. Cumming's works will be re-
ceived with great satisfaction by all who 'are familiar with his ripe 
genius and high Christian culture. 
Evening Traveller, Boston. 
All of Dr. Cumming's writings are eloquent, soul-stirring, stimu-
lating, pregnant with admirable suggestions, and filled with profita-
ble instruction. 
Zion's Herald, Boston. 
The works of Dr. Cumming breathe a most heavenly spirit. 
No 
one can read them without feeling himself elevated and incited to 
new duties and a higher state of Christian feeling. 
Mass. Life Boat. 
If Dr. Cumming can preach as he can write, there is no cause for 
wonder that he draws crowds of admiring hearers. 
Salem Observer. 
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Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On Mesmerism 
,'Abraliamic Inheritance .... 396 | 
393 Dedication 
397 
I at the time desired. 
We wish him every blessing 
in his new field of laber. 
The Olory of Lebanon 
393 
A Hymn 
394 
John's Decrease and his 
Lord's Increase 
394 
A hint for Tempted Believ-
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395 
Catholic Ceremonies in 
The Chapel 
397 
Foreign News 
397 
New Works 
400 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Visit to Northern New York 398 
The Preciousness of Christ . 398 
Letter from D. Campbell ... 398 
Havana 
395 Sipge Operations 
Christ's Agony 
365 Letter from N. Wood 
399 
Verbena 
395| 
OBITUARY. 
.EDITORIAL. 
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Prophecy of Isaiah 
396 M. H. Kennedy 
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Lets us rally once more dear brethren and sisters 
in this time of trial and darkness, in the name ol 
our soon comiDg King, and come together for the 
worship of God ; praying that his blessing may 
rest upon us, and love and harmony and 
union 
prevail. 
Homes will be provided for all who come 
In behalf of the Board. 
N. W. SDencer. 
Secretary. 
Clinton, Nov. 24th, 1854. 
MINES 
AND 
COUNTERMINES.—In the article on 
" Siege Operations," in another column, is a de-
scription of the method of assault and defence by 
means of mines and countermines, and it is stated 
that we had heard nothing of any mining operations-
in the siege of Sebastopol. 
The last arrival, how 
ever, brought the following extract of a letter from 
Balaclava, dated Nov. 1st, from which it would 
appear that these formidable offensive operation 
have been actually resorted to. 
We had supposed 
that the nature of the ground on the heights about 
New 
Subscribers 
BRO. 
GATES, of Lory's Creek, Pa., says: 
"1 
send you a list ol good subscribers, from my new I Sebastopol would not permit of mining: 
circuit. 
A visit from you of a month, would add 
greatly to the list." 
the discovery was made, the French made a coun-
termine and removed the powder. 
This mine has 
made our allies more cautious in their approaches, 
for it is evident the enemy is on the alert, and sees 
the formidable use to which the breaching battery 
is about to be put. 
As yet, we have not the least 
reason to suppose that they suspect the existence 
of the French minfe ; of course these matters are 
kept as secret as possible. 
The next mail will 
certainly convey decisive news." 
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The French in working at a covered way, with 
a view to mining*the Flag-staff Mount, this morn-
Thank brother Gates, for his liberal list. 
He ing discovered a strong Russian mine within a few 
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... 
feet of the parapet of their breaching battery. 
It 
sends us eleven. 
Let others go and do likewise. 
wag nearly twelve feet below the surface of the 
As to the visit, I shall be most happy to make it, 
earth, in the form of the letter T, and contained 
if the door should be opened for me to loave home, about 18 cwt. of powder. 
Of course, the instant 
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