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" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
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Luke 9:28-30. 
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JUDGMENT HYMN. 
THE following article from the Congregational-
ist is from the pen of Mr. Kirk, of this city, who 
is now travelling in Europe. It gives so vivid 
WHOLE NO. 643. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1853. 
VOLUME XII. NO. H. 
escape, but their steps were dissatisfied with those who led the army, and 
and only the darkness above felt he could manage better for himself; and 
so it seems he can, for by taking the other 
way he is advancing far more easily and rap-
idly." 
" Poor Rolfe !" sighed Albyn, " he will be 
found wrong, and on the wrong side, at the last 
struggle." 
" But of the shorter way," said the stranger; 
will you accept it ?" 
I gave you my answer," said Albyn sternly. 
" Away from this ledge of rocks, seducer !" said 
he, " or I must compel thee." 
" At least," answered he, " I may join the 
ranks you command. By the cross upon my 
brow you can see that I belonged to the army of 
the King once, though by its scorching fire you 
can see I have deserted my trust. Woe betide 
me for it !" 
" Pass through, then," said Albyn with hesi-
tation, " and see thou act faithfully. You fight 
not in the front ranks. Convey this stranger," 
said Albyn, " to the back part of the camp," as 
a soldier, who had been roused by the stranger's 
voice, was drawing near his leader. The 
man bowed, and obeyed, and retired with the 
stranger. 
Albyn looked after him with an anxious eye, 
but his thoughts soon returned to his post and the 
approach of the King. 
Before the dawn of day Albyn gave up his 
post to one to hold a short time while he took 
rest in his tent. He laid down, and was soon 
asleep. He had dreams of the work he was 
called to do, and woke with a start. Something 
had touched him, and he thought, as he woke, a 
figure darted across the floor, but it was too 
dark to see plainly. He thought, too, something 
pricked him like the point of a sword, but his 
armor was too good and proof to let him feel any 
more than he did. 
" It is strange !" said. Albyn to himself, as he 
laid himself down again. " It is strange !" and 
again he was just sinking to sleep when a slight 
movement was heard in his tent, and before he 
could raise himself he was again struck in the 
bosom by a hand he could not see. But a sec-
ond time the weapon glanced off from his armor, 
and Albyn sprang from his resting place unhurt. 
He made a sudden rush in the dim light at the 
figure, which he could see making his way from 
him. He struck at him with his sword, and so 
surely, that, just as the figure glid front his tent, 
he wounded him. 
" No weapon which is formed against thee 
shall prosper," said a Voice. 
Albyn sought in vain for the object of his 
pursuit. It escaped his hands ; and the dim-
ness of the morning light prevented his seeing 
clearly many yards before him. It was plain 
that he was clearly watched and followed for his 
death, and he bound his breastplate closer to 
him, and grasped his sword tighter in his hand. 
His thoughts were bent on Erza, and, full of 
anxiety about the boy, he returned to his post. 
No life of ease Albyn led. Sleep only just 
enough to fit him for his soldier's work, and 
food of the plainest kind to bear him through 
his day's toil. 
The morning was breaking over the hills, and 
all the host of the Vast Army were up and 
stirring, to be ready for the struggle of the en-
suing day. Albyn had been anxiously watching 
for some time the state of the glow in the east, 
which had far outshone in lustre the light of the 
rising sun. 
The morning broke in full brilliance. There 
was a stir in the camp—a clash of arms—a 
flutter of banners—a confused noise of warriors 
preparing for the fray—a distant sound, like the 
noise of chariot-wheels, or thunder, among the 
mountains. 
1 awoke from my dream. 
0 my Redeemer, come, 
And through this fearful gloom 
Brighten my way ; 
Then shall my soul arise, 
Soar through the flaming skies, 
Join the solemnities 
Of the Great Day. 
Now my approving God 
Quickly emits abroad 
Glories benign. 
Lo ! lo ! he comes, be's here, 
Angels and saints appear ; 
Gone is my every fear, 
Jesus is mine. 
0 my Redeemer, God, 
Washed in thy precious blood, 
Bold I advance ; 
Fearless I'll range along, 
Join the triumphant throng, 
Shout an ecstatic song 
Through the expanse. 
Ceaseless my soul shall cry 
Through all eternity, 
Praise ye the Lamb. 
Yrwas by his sovereign,grace 
That we beheld his face ; 
All ye angelic race, 
Praise him. Amen. 
The Vast Army. 
CHAPTER III. — THE STRIFE. 
THE armies were engaged in battle .together; 
that is, part of each had met, and the struggle 
had begun. Many had fallen on either side. 
Those who fell in the ranks of the King's army 
were at once carried away, I saw, to the land 
beyond the hills. Erza had been close by AlT 
byn's side, and bore the banner bravely. He 
had not feared shaft or bolt, which were show-
ered around on every side. 
" Meet me, Erza," said Albyn, " round the 
point of yonder hills, and bear the banner, and 
lead those few men with you; it will be a pass 
gained for the hosts of the King. 
Delighted to have a post of trust, Erza sprang 
forward, and I saw the banner sail gallantly 
along as the boy bore it along the. pass. The 
men followed Erza, and all gave way before hint 
and the banner. 
The pass grew narrower and darker, and had 
more than one turn in the direction which led 
towards the King's army. Erza was in doubt 
which to take. He knew the time was short, 
and he must meet Albyn at a given moment ; a 
mistake in the path would be infinitely dangerous; 
and he stopped to consider. The roar of the 
battle rose to the sky. He tried to guide him-
self by that, for he knew Albyn was in the 
thick of it. At this moment some figures were 
seen coming up one of the paths : they were 
dressed in the dress of the King's army, and 
came towards Erza : they bowed before the ban-
ner as they came near. Eager to get on, and 
without sufficient thought to notice that the men 
had their backs turned to the King's advancing 
army, Erza asked which path led to the point he 
wished to gain. 
" This way," said they, pointing down a 
left-hand path. " We will go before you, and 
K 
Go hack !" cried the men in front scoffingly. 
It is impossible ; there is no way back. Come 
after us, my brave fellows; we will lead you 
safe.. Leave that brain-sick boy to his own wil-
ful way. He will find it no easy work to find 
his way back, we'll warrant." 
The manner of the men showed Erza he was 
betrayed. Without Albyn, the darkness thick- 
ening round him, no glow to be seen, and the 
noise of the distant battle sounding far off over 
the hills, poor Erza felt in despair. 
" I have again lost my charge, though I 
meant it well. What shall I do ?" He turned 
round to retrace his steps. " What shall I do 
if yon men attack me? They never will have 
brought me to this without carrying out their 
work further." 
While he thought thus, an arrow struck the 
rock above his head, and glanced at his feet. It 
flew front the dark part of the path down which 
the men had gone. The next instant a footstep 
came hurriedly up, and one of his own men re-
turned. 
" Fly, Erza ! fly ! they are traitors. The rest 
of' your men have joined them, and they are 
bent on your life. There is no time to lose." 
Erza began to retrace his lost way. 
" Want of watching !" said he to himself; 
" want of watching ! what trouble it has brought 
on me !" 
As soon as he turned, the glow became visible 
behind the hill, and he took heart. 
" This way, this way," cried the soldier, 
groping his way in the darkness over some high 
stones towards a pass in the rocks which seemed 
to shine with the glow. 
" Nay," said Erza, " we must go over the 
same way we came. No other way will lead us 
safely." 
" But the path is dark and long. We shall 
never find our way ; and hark! I hear talking in 
the distance." 
But Erza knew he must retrace his own 
steps, however tedious and 'difficult. Want of 
watchfulness and thought led him into the 
trouble. 
" This way, this way," shouted the men behind, 
who, finding they could persuade Erza to follow 
no further, were returning to attack the boy in 
the pass. 
An arrow whizzed through the dark, and the 
soldier by Erza's side fell dead at his feet. Erza 
made all speed to 
close behind him, 
hid him from them. 
" Where is Erza ? where can he be ?" cried 
Albyn, who was engaged in the very heat of the 
battle, and by determined courage was doing 
wonders in valor and wisdom. The King's 
army had been just joined, and the whole mass 
of the foe cut through. " Where is Erza ? for 
the fight draws near its end, and we shall soon 
have to meet the King in person, and I would 
not Erza were away for worlds." 
Erza has deserted to the enemy," cried a 
voice from the crowd. 
" It is false," said Albyn, laying his hand on 
his sword. 
I saw him," said the soldier, who stepped 
out dressed in the King's colors. " I saw him 
with a band of the enemy just now going down 
a pass away from the direction we are taking." 
Albyn looked distressed ; but it was a soldier 
of the King who spoke, and he did not know 
how to disbelieve him. He took out his horn 
and wound it; three times it sounded, and three 
times it came back from the hills, but no answer 
came from Erza. 
The night was fast coming on, and Albyn had 
drawn off to let his men repose, as the armies 
had separated from the strife; but Albyn did 
not sleep : his band filed up a defile of rocks, 
which, through the legions of the enemy opened 
a way to the army of the King. Under the 
rocks, and beneath their huge shadows, Albyn's 
men laid down, but each man with his sword 
drawn, and his shield thrown over his breast. 
Albyn alone was awake and watching. He 
paced along to and fro the outworks of his post. 
The light glowed all round, so as sometimes to 
obscure the light of the moon, which gradually 
seemed to lose its own light before the advanc-
ing glory on the hills. All around glanced the 
lights of huge fires which the enemy had lit to 
put out the glow. A figure moved in the light, 
and was hid again in the shadow. Albyn 
watched it. Again lie saw it come out and re-
turn ; and each time it seemed to draw nearer 
to where he was standing. It seemed to be a 
man, who was crouching down to avoid being 
seen, and still came closer each leap to where 
Albyn was standing. The young
t' 
 warrior saw it, 
and placed himself on his guard. At length, 
with a single bound, the figure sprang on to the 
wall of rock along which Albyn was pacing his 
watch. Albyn did not move, but, grasping his 
sword in his hand, waited to see what the strange 
figure which now lay coiled up before him would 
do. Presently the man, having cautiously 
looked around, drew himself to his full height 
before Albyn. 
" Whence and who are you," said Albyn, 
" who appear thus stealthily ? Stand, before 
you advance another 
Hush !" said the man, placing his finger on 
his lip ; " I am one who am weary of serving 
the enemy of the King, and would join the host 
you command ; and more, I have a secret I can 
give you worth mines of gold. I can open to you 
a secret way- through yonder hills which will lead 
you quickly to the very centre of the army of 
the King." 
" Stand back ! there is but one way to the 
host of the King, and that is straight before us, 
and our means of passing. the shield and sword. 
There is no other—there is but one way the King 
we serve has bid us approach Him ; and by that 
way alone we will go." 
You are foolish," cried the other. " Rolfe, 
whom I know is good, and works for the King, 
has just drawn off with a division of his troops, 
and through the other path is fast reaching the 
army of the King, far faster than you along this 
rough way." 
Albyn looked up, and saw that the part of 
the valley lately occupied by Rolfe and his men 
was left empty and deserted. 
" And how long has Rolfe left us?" cried 
Albyn, somewhat surprised. 
Only just now," said the other ; " and he 
has made rapid progress already. He was partly 
HASH ! 'tis the trump of God, 
Sounds through the realms abroad, 
Time is no more. 
Horrors invest the skies, 
Graves burst, and myriads rise ; 
Nature in agonies 
Yields up her store. 
Quick reels the bursting earth, 
Rock'd by a storm of wrath, 
Hurd from her sphere ; 
Heart-rending, thunders roll, 
Demons tormented howl ; 
Great God, support my soul, 
Yielding to fear. 
High on a flaming throne, 
Rides the eternal Son, 
Sovereign august 3 
Worlds from his presence flee, 
Shrink from his majesty ; 
Stars dash'd along the sky, • 
Awfully burst. 
Thousands of thousands wait 
Round the great judgment seat, 
Glorified there ; 
Prostrate the elders fall, 
Winged is my raptured soul, 
Nigh to the Judge of all ; 
Lo ! I draw near. 
MUMS
a 
guide you ; for the pass is difficult and danger-
ous." 
Erza quickly consented. The men turned 
down the pass, and the boy, holding up the ban-
ner, followed. The path grew darker and more 
difficult. The din of the battle grew gradually 
more distant, and Erza felt, beyond doubt, he 
was not approaching the spot he had meant. 
You are leading me falsely," cried he, 
drawing himself up against a rock, as if he 
would go no further. 
The men only continued pointing to the way 
in which they had been bending, and assured 
him all was right. One sign Erza might have 
looked for, which would have decided him,—the 
glow of light. Wherever that was, the soldiers 
of the King might be, and no where else. Erza, 
in his eager desire to obey Albyn, had forgotten 
to look for it. He now looked round ; not a 
ray of the glow shone on rock, or hill, or stone. 
The boy grew alarmed. His heart beat high. 
He had again, he thought, betrayed his trust, 
and the King would come, and he would not be 
there to meet Him ; He would call him, and he 
would not be ready. 
" I go no further," said Erza, drawing a jave-
lin from his quiver, and preparing to make a 
stand. 
The men who followed now grew discon-
tented. 
" You have led us so far," said they, " and 
we must go on. Those men who guide us will 
not lead us wrong. We will not return." 
" It is through my unwatchfulness that you 
are all led wrong," said Erza bitterly, and 
scarce r3straiei ig a tear. 
" You may go back, if you will," said they ; 
" we follow the guides you chose." 
England—Dr. M'Neil. 
290 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
fire will penetrate, detect, and expose. In it 
every man's work shall be manifested.' 
 Then 
shall ye return ; and discern between the 
righteous and the wicked.' Malachi declares, in 
that day the Lord will make up his jewels.' 
These are the same as the precious stones in the 
context; while the unconverted are stubble.' 
Gold, silver, precious stones' are the only ma-
terials of which a house should be built, that is 
to endure the fire : for wood, hay and stubble ' 
cannot bear that test. 
" The point of the discourse then appeared in 
the third head; which he entitled the effects of 
this discrimination and destruction on the minis-
ter. His faith hi Christ may save himself; but 
his professional labor will fail of professional 
reward, if' he have not built up gold and silver. 
Apostolical succession, or a true ordination does 
not secure to those who perform the functions of 
the ministry, professional success and reward ; 
nor does it secure to those who enjoy its minis-
trations, a guaranty against being destroyed as 
stubble, in the day that shall burn as an oven. 
That is surely a vital point to establish between 
us and Newman ; us and Pius IX. 
" The heart of England is manifestly stirred 
on the question whether the Pope or the Bible 
is to rule in these Islands. And it is cheering 
to see one of the most influential of the Episco-
pal clergy taking the true ground in regard to 
it. I hear it affirmed, indeed, that Dr. McNeil 
is excessively anti-papal. What the affirmers 
mean by that, I do not yet know; and therefore 
can conform their impressions or judgment in the 
case with no acknowledged standard." 
Christ Inviting the Soul. 
[Translated from the Russian.] 
us to be accurate in stating that the moment the 
note of the Four Powers is accepted at Constan-
tinople, orders will be forwarded to Prince Gort-
chakoff, by telegraph, to quit the Danubian prov-
inces without delay. We have every reason to 
hope that the Porte will at once accept the note 
in question, which completely assures the inde-
pendence of Turkey; and in this event we may 
rely on seeing our prediction realized, that by 
the 10th of next month the last Russian soldier 
will have recrossed the Pruth." 
The Berlin National Zeitung has a commu-
nication from Russia, dated the 12th inst., which 
states that the Czar's acceptance of the Vienna 
proposition was not unconditional ; the evacua-
tion of the Principalities was made dependent 
on the acceptance of the proposals by the Porte 
without alteration or change. The Pate will 
not send off an ambassador until the order to 
withdraw is sent to the Russian troops ; the Czar 
will not send that order till the Porte has signed 
an arrangement which is tantamount to a con-
cession of every point in dispute ; and having 
got so far as to be permitted to send the envoy 
to St. Petersburg, there will then be the two 
questions of indemnification of expenses, and 
expulsion of all political refugees. The former 
will be waived, but of the latter, although lit-
tle has been said on the point as yet, Russia will 
profit by this opportunity of having Turkey at a 
disadvantuge, to obtain a measure which the 
firmness of the Porte refused two or three years 
back, and Austria will gladly join in enforcing 
the pressing demand. 
Letters from Malta of the 12th state that a 
courier had arrived at Constantinople with the 
news, that 25,000 Austrians would occupy Ser-
via as a check upon any revolution that might 
arise out of the occupation of the Principali-
ties by the Russians. The Prince of Servia re-
plied that he should resist such a measure by 
50,000 men. The latest accounts from Con-
stantinople report that public opinion continued 
decided in favor of the policy of resistance. 
WHY, 0 man, hast thou left me ? 
Why hast thou turned from Him that loveth 
thee? 
Why hast thou again joined thyself to my 
enemy ? 
Remember, that for thy sake I came down 
from heaven. 
Remember, that for thy sake I became flesh. 
Remember, that for thy sake I was born of a 
virgin. 
Remember, that for thy sake I went through 
childhood. 
Remember, that for thy sake I was brought 
low. 
Remember, that for thy sake I became poor. 
Remember, that for thy sake I lived on the 
earth. 
Remember, that for thy sake I was perse-
cuted. 
Remember, that for thy sake I bore evil 
speaking, reproaches, angry words, dishonor, 
wounds, spitting, blows, mockings, and bitter 
sufferings 
Remember, that for thy sake I was numbered 
among the transgressors. 
Remember, that for thy sake I suffered a 
cruel death. 
Remember that for thy sake I was buried. 
I came down from heaven to raise thee to 
heaven. 
I was made low to exalt thee. 
I was dishonored to bring glory upon thee. 
I was wounded to heal thee. 
I died that thou mightest have life. 
Thou didst sin, and I took thy sin upon my-
self. 
Thou wast guilty, and I bore thy punish-
ment. 
Thou wast a debtor and I paid thy debt. 
Thou wast condemned to death and I died for 
thee. 
To this my love and compassion led me; I 
could not bear that thou shouldst suffer such 
evil, 
Dost thou despise this my love ? 
Instead of love, thou givest me hatred. 
Thou lovest sin and not me. 
Thou laborest for thy passions, and not for me. 
Now, what dost thou find in me deserving thy 
dislike ? 
Why dost thou not wish to come to me ? 
Dost thou desire good for thyself? Every good 
is with me. 
Dost thou desire happiness ? Every blessing 
is with me. 
Dost thou desire beauty ? What is more beau-
tiful than I am ? 
Dost thou desire dignity ? What is more no-
ble than the Son of God ? 
Dost thou desire glory ? Who is more glori-
ous than I ? 
Dost thou desire exaltation ? Who is higher 
than the King of heaven? 
Dost thou wish for wealth ? I have all riches. 
Dost thou desire wisdom? I am the wisdom of 
God. 
Dost thou desire friendship ? Who is more 
worthy of love, and loving than I? for I laid 
down my life for all. 
Dost thou seek help ? Who can help except me? 
Dost thou seek a physician? Who can heal ex-
cept me ? 
a description of that distinguished Millenarian, 
Dr. McNeil, and contains so good an exposi-
tion of a difficult text of Scripture, that we 
have transferred it to our columns. 
" Landing in Liverpool on Saturday evening, 
my first day. in England was the sacred day. 
And the first impression I received was so strong 
that I hasten to communicate it to your readers. 
Having heard much of Dr. McNeil, I waited 
first on his ministrations. He is beyond the 
meridian of his day, if that imaginary line runs 
through the thirty-fifth year of man's life. His 
stature is tall ; figure erect; hair, gray; voice, 
rich, strong, and of more than ordinary compass. 
In his reading the commandments I discovered 
that he is an emphatic man. You could feel, for 
instance, when he read the second command-
ment, that he believed the people of England 
are in danger of making to themselves graven 
images,' and of bowing down ' themselves to 
them. Distinctness of articulation, earnestness 
of utterance on those and kindred terms showed 
his antagonism on this point to some gentlemen 
in his own and the Roman Church. The same 
attitude of mind appeared in his announcement 
of a meeting to be held during the week, for 
promoting the education of the children of the 
poor. The design of this, he said, was, to teach 
children the word of God, free from all admix-
ture of mediaeval adulteration.' The conclusion 
to which any stranger would have come, even at 
this stage of the service, was, that Dr. McNeil is 
surely both anti-papal and anti-Puseyist, even 
low-church ; and this would correspond to the 
facts of the case. 
" His text was the 13th verse of the third 
chapter of first Corinthians : Every man's 
work shall be made manifest; for the day shall 
declare it.' 
" It was surprising to me to see a minister of 
the Episcopal church stand in the pulpit, with a 
little Bible in his hand, with nothing but an 
outline of his discourse before him. The ser-
mon was an eloquent talk ; full of light, and 
not destitute of warmth ; being, however, mainly 
exegetical and polemic. It commenced with 
referring to the context ; to show that the work 
referred to, is the work of the preacher. The 
division was into three heads : the difference be-
tween ministers and churches ; the difference 
between the good and the bad members of the 
church ; the effects of this discrimination on the 
minister. The statements under these heads 
were clear, Scriptural, and appropriate to the 
times, In some respects, he remarked, there is 
no difference between the ministers and the mem-
bers of the church. They have the same faith; 
the same code of morals ; the same part in cele-
brating the death of Christ. But the office is a 
reality, and not imaginary ; it is not an inven-
tion or arrangement of man ; for Christ formed 
it. That the ministers and members are distinct 
is evident from many parts of the Scripture. 
The figure of the Church in the Apocalypse, for 
instance, is that of a candlestick; while that of 
the minister is the star, The star and the can-
dlestick are alike in reflecting light. But they 
are unlike in their position and functions. In 
this portion of his discourse we were really car-
ried back to the Reformation, The spirit of 
battle was breathed around us. Yet no violence 
nor harshness, no exaggeration nor undue 
severity escaped the preacher. But the point 
was fully settled, that the office is only an office, 
It confers no grace. Let it be that there is such 
a thing as apostolic succession ; it secures no 
piety in those who are in the succession. Judas 
was ordained by the Saviour himself. But the 
Scriptural description of the ordination of the 
twelve, is concluded with the declaration : one 
of them was a devil.' Judas was as much or-
dained as Peter ; Pelagius, as Augustine. You 
must judge them by their fruits. If a minister 
leads his people to the Bible, he is a laborer 
with God ; if' he leads them away from the word 
of God to human tradition, he is not a builder 
for God. If the Pope himself has the mark of 
the son of perdition' upon him, you may 
admit the reality of his ordination, but call him 
by the same name with his predecessor, the be-
trayer of Christ. 
" Under the second head the preacher gave a 
valuable specimen of expository discourse, show-
ing the harmony of the Old and New Testa- 
ments. Wood, hay and stubble ' mean persons, 
who belong to the Church, without piety. The 
day' spoken of in the text is frequently referred 
to in the Scriptures. The present time is called 
night,' But' the day' is approaching. Mala-
chi describes it as a day that shall burn as an 
oven,' consuming the stubble.'. There is a real 
and vital distinction between the true and the 
false members of the Church. But who shall 
make it ? when, and where ? Shall the minister ? 
the Church ? or bishop ? or a council of bishops ? 
No. It is not to be done here, nor now. The 
day ' that tries by fire, is to effect the discrimina-
tion and separation. The night is now, when 
the foolish virgins are slumbering among the 
wise ; the bad fish are among the good. The 
day is coming; a day of burning, in which the 
Dost thou seek joy ? Who can give joy ex-
cept me ? 
Dost thou seek consolation in grief? Who can 
console except me ? 
Dost thou seek rest? In me thou canst have 
rest for thy soul. 
Dost thou seek peace ? I am the Peace of the 
soul. 
Dost thou seek life ? I am the fountain of 
life. 
Dost thou seek light ? I am the Light of the 
world. 
Dost thou seek truth ? I am the Truth. 
Dost thou seek the way ? I am the Way. 
Dost thou seek a guide to heaven ? I am the 
true Guide. 
Why dost thou not wish to come to me ? 
Dost thou not dare to come ? To whom is 
there an easier access ? 
Art thou fearful of asking ? Whom, coming to 
me with faith, have I refused ? 
Do thy sins hinder thee ? I died for sin-
ners. 
Does the multitude of thy sins distress thee ? 
In me is abundant mercy. 
Come unto me, all ye that are weary and 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matt. 
11:28.) 
The Eastern Question. 
THE latest advices from Constantinople are to 
the 5th of August. Private letters announce that 
the Porte is as resolute as ever in its determina-
tion not to make any concessions to Russia, in ad-
dition to those that are compromised in its ulti-
matum, and not to accept anything which does 
not include the evacuation of the Danubian prin-
cipalities " as soon as possible." Public opinion 
continued decidedly in favor of the policy of re-
sistance ; and if there were a few, but very few, 
personages of a contrary way of thinking, it was 
believed that their influence would be impotent 
when the feeling on the other side was so strong 
and so general. Concurrently with this a good 
deal of dissatisfaction prevailed amongst most 
classes of the population at what is termed the 
" dilatoriness of the English government;" and 
the same correspondence adds, that the feeling 
pervaded even the English residents. 
The rumor was again revived of the resignation 
of Lord Stratford, or of his desire to resign, for 
the same reasons. 
The Sultan's manifesto, the correspondence 
says, has not produced all the good effects ex-
pected from it. It was considered popularly as 
rather weak, but its weakness may be attributed 
to the influence exercised by the foreign diplo-
macy. 
The Persian Ambassador has notified to the 
Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the Shah had 
highly approved of his conduct with respect to 
the Emperor of Russia, and he offered him all 
the succor he was able to afford. A large corps 
d'armee was in course of formation, under the 
command of the Shah in person, at Suettanieh, 
near the province of Azerbaidian. 
The state of discipline of Omar Pacha's army 
and the officers' activity, are highly spoken of. 
The health of the troops is much better than that 
of the Russians, who suffer great mortality. The 
erection of Russian fortifications and bridges on 
the Danube is not unlikely to lead to some out-
break of hostilities, for Omar Pacha is about to 
erect some works, also, on the island of Schetel. 
The enthusiasm of the Turks, and the daily in-
creasing strength of the war party, render the 
contemplation of a sudden and peaceful termi-
nation of the question a difficulty with the min-
isters of the Sultan, who fear the internal dis-
turbances, perhaps, more than even a Russian 
war. 
Lord John Russell's admission, that the as-
sent of the Porte to the note adopted by the 
Conference at Vienna has not yet been received, 
has, taken in conjunction with certain other facts, 
tended to shake a little the confident belief' that 
the Oriental question had been virtually settled. 
The Morning Herald and other journals have 
assailed the Ministry as though it had purchased 
peace by a dishonorable sacrifice of Turkey, and 
they assert that the note agreed to by the Four 
Powers is very little, if at all, different from the 
note of Prince Menschikoff. The Morning Post 
(ministerial organ,) however, asserts that the two 
notes are antipodean. Prince Menschikoff de-
manded an engagement of the Porte to Russia, 
whilst the note of the Four Powers is no engage-
ment whatever. The Post says : 
" The note of the Four Powers, which simply 
and with civility encloses the firmans lately 
granted in favor of the Christians, contains no 
engagement whatever on the part of the Sub-
lime Porte, and therefore, the independence of 
the Ottoman Empire and of its head is intact. 
The Emperor of Russia, who has accepted this 
note, has thus abandoned his ultimatum, and, at 
least, postponed his designs upon Turkey." 
With respect to the assertion that Russia will 
not evacuate the Principalities, because no stipu-
lation has been made to that end, the Post says : 
" We are confident that the event will prove 
" The Howard Association." 
A FRENCH paper at New Orleans pays a well 
merited tribute to the self-sacrificing labors and 
unwearying devotion of the members of the How-
ard Association. We extract a passage from a 
translation by the Philadelphia Bulletin : 
" It is with a profound feeling of sadness that 
we look back and unroll before us the gloomy 
picture of the week just elapsed. Nothing to 
diversify the sad spectacle with which our eyes 
are saddened; not one bright color to relieve the 
dark background; not a ray of the sun to bright-
en this scene of desolation. 
" The deserted city wears the appearance of a 
city of death. No more fine equipages make the 
pavements re-echo, and deposit before the bril-
liant shops and elegant stores throngs of women, 
young, gay, and adorned, breathing happiness 
and health. Alas ! happiness, gaiety, freshness, 
and youth have fled far from us. Misery and 
disease—these are all that are before us. Instead 
of brilliant equipages, we see, moving slowly 
towards the field of rest the dead carts and gloomy 
vehicles which are no longer escorted even by 
ministers of religion or by friends. People die 
without noise and in silence, without the crowd 
knowing who has been cut off from the living; 
the dead have not even names, only a number 
is made in adding to the death list published ev-
ery day. 
" Far from wearying itself by its frequent 
blows, the scourge seems every day to acquire 
new strength. The figure of the deaths remains 
the same, but the proportion between the figure 
and the population has increased. Departures, 
death, and the experience of the malady by a 
great number have contracted the circle in which 
the terrible monster which desolates our city may 
move. But every day lie makes his usual feast, 
and the immolations will cease only when the 
victims shall fail. 
" In presence of such calamities man finds a 
sort of consolation in contemplating the noble 
acts of charity which it gives birth to. Among 
all the associations which have exhibited, since 
the epidemic began, the Howard Association 
must be mentioned. We have followed some of 
the members of this Society, and by them we 
have formed an opinion of the others. One must 
see the miserable dens where these heroes of 
charity penetrate;—must see the misery and 
wretchedness from which they rescue hundreds 
of unfortunate creatures, to transport them to the 
hospitals they have provided ; must follow them 
to the horrible holes where men die without phy-
sicians, nurse or medicine, without a glass of 
water to appease a devouring thirst ; must have 
gone with them in their pious visitations, in or-
der to understand that, however disastrous the 
epidemic is, it would commit still greater rav-
ages, but for the zeal, the courage, the indefati-
gable constancy of these Samaritans.. 
" Men for the most part habituated to a life of 
ease, they have given up their homes and the com- 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
291 
the hemisphere, and presenting an extraordinary 
and to the ignorant, an appalling appearance. 
Various conjectures have been formed by astrono-
mers respecting the " tails " of Comets. The 
fixed stars are often visible through them—and 
sometimes they appear so brilliant that they 
have been distinguished during a full moon—and 
sometimes, even after the sun has risen. Tycho 
Brahe imagined that the appearance of these aw-
ful looking appendages was caused by the trans-
mission of the Sun's rays through the body of the 
Comet, which he supposed to resemble a lens in 
transparency. Kepler ascribes this phenomenon 
to the impulsion of the solar rays, which drive 
the atmosphere of the comet behind it. Sir Isaac 
Newton held that the tail of a comet was a thin 
vapor which is produced by the Sun's heat, and 
rises as smoke does, from the earth ; while some 
modern philosophers suppose it to be a stream of 
electric matter. 
The tail of the comet which appeared A. D. 135, 
covered a space in the heavens, equal in length 
to the whole milky way ! The length of the tail 
of the comet of 1618, was one hundred and four 
degrees ! In 1774 a comet appeared whose tail 
was thirty degrees in length, and had several 
branches, resembling a fan! The comet which 
appeared in 1759, had a tail which shone with 
great brilliancy, and extended over nearly one-
third of the heavens. 
When a comet is examined with a good tele-
scope, it appears like a mass of vapors surround-
ing a dark nucleus. These bodies evidently pos-
sess very large atmospheres—indeed, some of 
them appear to be all atmosphere. As it ap-
proaches the sun, its pale and dull light becomes 
more brilliant—and when it reaches its perihel-
ion, or point nearest the sun, it is often brighter 
than the planets. At this time, the tail, if the 
comet has one, becomes particularly conspicu-
ous. 
These bodies are of different sizes--some hav-
ing made their appearance which were larger than 
the sun ; others are of a size much less than the 
earth. The number belonging to the solar system 
is unknown. From numerous observations made 
on the comet of 1680, Sir Isaac Newton came to 
the conclusion that comets revolve around the sun 
like planets, but that they move in ellipses ex-
tremely eccentric, and stretching far beyond the 
limits of the planetary system. Dr. Halley, in ac-
cordance with this theory, collected all the obser-
vations which have been made upon these bodies, 
and calculated the elements of 24—but their pro-
gress through the heavens is so liable to be accel-
erated or retarded by the attraction of the larger 
planets, that these calculations have seldom or 
never proved accurate. 
forts of their domestic circle, to take their post 
at the pillow of suffering—and what sufferings! 
The most repugnant duties, the most abject labor, 
check them not in their holy mission. At the 
corner of Victor and Marigny streets, there is a 
house which the passer-by looks at with a sad-
dened eye, and from which are constantly heard 
cries and groans of agony. Before this house, 
every morning, stands a death cart, which never 
returns empty. The load which it brings is the 
dead of the day. The house is one of the hos-
pitals established by this Society in our city. 
" There, two men who have families and busi-
ness to care for, but whom we shall not name 
for fear of wounding the sacred modesty which 
always surrounds true charity, have fixed their 
posts. The pestilent atmosphere of the house of 
death is the only air they breathe. Groans, com-
plaints and cries are the only sounds they hear; 
grief and agony the most terrible the only sights 
their accustomed eyes have seen for a month. 
In the midst of this they live night and day, 
and we know that since the 21st of last month 
these two men have not slept one whole night—
not indeed four hours—under their own roof. 
Night before last the nurses and servants, worn 
out with fatigue, had for the most part left their 
posts; but these men went bravely to work ; run-
ning from one to the other, they were every-
where relieving the sufferings of each. Never 
was a Sister of Charity more ready or more gen-
tle. Then when it was necessary to carry new 
victims down to the chamber of the dead, it was 
they who bore them thither in their arms." 
The First English Martyr. 
AMONG the furious zealots of those times none 
were more conspicuous than Archbishop Arun-
del, by whose efforts and influence, in the year 
1400, an act of Parliament was passed, author-
izing all such unhappy persons as the clergy 
should deem guilty of heresy, to be burnt to 
death. The following account of the proceed-
ings against the Rev. Sir William Sawtre, the 
first person who was burnt at the stake in Eng-
land for his religious opinions, is given by an 
English writer. 
" The Archbishop, impatient to put this cruel 
law in execution, even during the session of Par-
liament that made it, brought Sir William Saw-
tre, rector of St. Oswyth, London, to take his 
trial for heresy, before the convocation of the 
povince of Canterbury at St. Paul's. The chief 
heresies of which he was accused were these two, 
that he refused to worship the cross, and that he 
denied the doctrine of transubstantiation. The 
unhappy man, in order to avoid the painful 
death with which he was threatened, endeavored 
to explain away his heresies as much as possible. 
He consented to pay an inferior vicarious kind 
of worship to the cross on account of him who 
died upon it. But that gave no satisfaction. He 
acknowledged the real presence of Christ in the 
sacrament; and that, after the words of conse-
cration were pronounced, the bread became the 
true spiritual bread of life. He underwent an ex-
amination of no less than three hours on that sub-
ject, February 19, A. D. 1401; but when the 
Archbishop urged him to profess his belief,—
' That after consecration the substance of the 
bread and wine no longer remained, but was con-
verted into the substance of the body and blood 
of Christ, which were as really and truly in their 
proper substance and nature in the sacrament, as 
they hung upon the cross, as they lay in the 
grave, and as they now resided in heaven ;' he 
stood aghast, and after some hesitation, declared, 
That, whatever might be the consequence, he 
could neither understand, nor believe that doc-
trine.' On this, the Archbishop pronounced him 
an obstinate heretic, degraded him from all the 
clerical orders with which he had been invested, 
and delivered him to the Mayor and Sheriffs of 
London, with this hypocritical request, that they 
would use him kindly ; though he well knew, 
that all the kindness they dared to show to him 
was to burn him to ashes. He was accordingly 
burnt in Smithfield, and had the honor of being 
the first person in England who suffered this 
painful kind of death, for maintaining those doc-
trines which are now maintained by all the Prot-
estant churches." 
Comets. 
THE comet which has lately made its appear-
ance, and may now be seen in the heavens at 
evening twilight, has excited much curiosity, if 
not wonder, among those of the inhabitants of 
this planet who have beheld it. 
Comets are sometimes remarkable for a lumi-
nous projection in a line directly opposite to the 
Sun, which of course follows them as they ap-
proach the Sun, and goes before them as they re-
cede from that body. This luminous appendage 
is commonly called a tail, but it is a head or tail 
as its position varies. These tails are sometimes 
of great size, extending over a large portion of 
Friendless, desolate, alone, 
Entering a world unknown! 
Oh, be earnest ! 
Loitering 
Thou wilt perish ! 
Lingering 
Be no longer—rise and flee ; 
Lo ! thy Saviour waits for thee ! 
Independent. 
Varieties. 
ANECDOTE. 
THE following is said to be found in an an-
cient history of Connecticut : 
" Soon after the settlement of the town of 
New Haven, several persons went over to what 
is now the town of Milford, where, finding the 
soil very good, they were desirous to effect a set-
tlement; but the premises were in the peaceable 
possession of the Indians, and some conscientious 
scruples arose as to the propriety of deposing and 
expelling them. To test the case a church meet-
ing was called, and the subject was determined by 
solemn vote of that sacred body. After several 
speeches had been made in relation to the subject, 
they proceeded to pass votes—the first was the 
following : Voted, that the earth is the Lord's 
and the fullness thereof.' This passed in the af-
firmative, and Voted, that the earth is given to 
the saints.' This was also determined like the 
former—nem.. con. 
3d. Voted, we are the 
saints,' which passing without a dissenting voice, 
the title was considered indisputable, and the 
Indians were soon compelled to evacuate the 
place, and relinquish the possession to the right-
ful owners." 
A THOUGHT. 
THE humblest wayside flower 
Will lift its head on high, 
And gradually, each hour, 
Rise closer to the sky. 
So may I live each day 
Of life that's to me given, 
That, like the flower, 1 may 
Be nearer unto heaven. 
CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE CHINESE INSURGENTS. 
THE Washington correspondent of the N. Y. 
Evening Post speaks as follows respecting the 
religious movement among the Chinese insur-
gents ; 
" The despatches lately received from Com-
modore Perry, from China, are said to be of a 
most singular and interesting character, fully 
confirming the Christian predilections of the 
Chinese insurgents, representing the whole revo-
lutionary movement, in fact, as being in reality 
a religious war. The great body of the public 
are taken by surprise at the extraordinary na-
ture of the revelations, never having suspected 
that so considerable a body of what may be 
styled Christians,' were to be found in the inte-
rior of China. About half a century ago, per-
haps longer, there was a small work published, 
called Dr. Buchanan's Researches in the East,' 
and a sermon styled the Star in the East,' in 
which a very circumstantial account is given of 
the discovery of a very large body of Christians 
somewhere in the interior of India; since which 
they appear to have been forgotten. Can it be 
that these people have any connection with the 
present very extraordinary revolutionary move-
ment? How else can this political phenomenon 
be explained ? I only allude to it as a matter 
worthy of investigation." 
" POOR thing, it is gone !" So said a tender 
father to a friend, as he was speaking of a child 
of two months old, which death had just robbed 
him of. " But it was the will of heaven. We 
did all that was possible ; I have nothing to re-
proach myself with. It was only sick a week, 
in that time we had four physicians. They gave 
it calomel eight times, put a blister plaster upon 
its breast, and six mustard poultices; they also 
gave it antimony, and all other medicines as 
much as was necessary, and it had to die, poor 
thing," 
THE DARKNESS GONE. 
M. A. TOWNSEND, writing from New Brighton, 
Pa., under date of June 27, says : " A little 
boy, blind from birth, aged about four years, 
died in this village a few days ago, with scarla-
tina. About an hour before the little sufferer 
departed, he exclaimed, Pa! I see now. Dark-
ness is all gone. Day is come !' His father in-
ferred from the incident that he was better, and 
would probably recover. But an hour passed, 
and he was gone," 
BENEVOLENCE, 
" I AM rich enough," says Pope to Swift, 
" and can afford to give away a hundred pounds 
a year. I would not crawl upon the earth with-
out doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleas-
ure of what I give by giving it alive, and seeing 
another enjoy it." " When I die," adds the poet, 
" I should be ashamed to leave enough for a 
monument, if there were a wanting friend above 
the ground." 
THE LAW A GARDEN. 
" IT is impossible," says Roger North, " but 
in process of time, as well as from the nature of 
things changing, as the corruptions of agents, 
abuses will grow up; for which reason the law 
must be kept as a garden, with frequent digging, 
weeding, turning up, &c. That which in age 
was convenient, and perhaps necessary, in ano-
ther becomes an intolerable nuisance." 
431 041 
1 re HARD FEELINGS. 
" THOU shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge 
against the children of thy people." All those 
hard and unkind feelings which you entertain 
towards your neighbor, because he injured you, 
are forbidden by the word of God, and they 
bring heavy guilt upon your soul. Do not try to 
escape by saying, this is a part of the old Jew-
ish law, that has long since been abrogated. The 
words of the Saviour are still more forcible : 
" If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heav-
enly Father will also forgive you. But if ye for-
give not men their trespasses, neither will your 
Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 9:14, 
15. A more fearful denunciation against those 
who indulge unkind feelings toward any individ-
ual of the human race, could hardly be uttered. 
Potato Blight. 
THIS loathsome disease, which has of late years 
made such sad havoc in the crops of our most 
valuable esculent, the potato, has again shown 
itself in its most malignant form. Innumerable 
fields in the vicinity of the city show the pres-
ence of the blight, and look as if they had been 
scorched by fire. Everywhere, from the east 
and the west, from the north and the south, the 
disease is manifesting itself, and blighting not 
only the rot, but with it the hopes of the pota-
to culturist and the potato consumer. 
In most of the towns of Massachusetts, in 
Maine, in the Provinces, in all the richest gar-
dens of its production, the same story is repeat-
ed ; our exchanges from all quarters are noting 
the fact that the rot is speedily becoming changed 
from a healthful and nutritious article of food for 
man and animal, into an offensive nuisance. 
The rot is not the final decay of a ripened fruit, 
the regular dissolution of a healthful organic 
production that has reaced its maturity, per-
formed its functions, and then returned again by 
the law of ultimate decomposition to its original 
elements. Such a decomposition of the potato 
would be no argument against its use as food, 
for that is the regular process in the economy of 
nature by which organic substances are resolved 
into their original elements to furnish material 
for new forms. All things that have organic life, 
whether animal or vegetable, must pass through 
this stage at last; the loveliest human form,.,the 
most delicious fruits, and the most delicate flow-
ers, are the earliest to decay after the period of 
maturity is reached. 
But the potato rot is a disease; it is the seed 
of organic death that works and festers even 
while the plant is putting forth its most vigorous 
efforts to reach maturity. It pervades the field 
until it gathers strength and then in a night, as 
if by the blast of a poisonous wind, or the breath 
of a pestilence, the dark green leaves are black-
ened and withered. The roots may not show signs 
of decay for a few days; they may even be dug 
and sold in the market; and if cooked immedi-
ately and consumed without delay, not a suspi-
cion of the secret poison that pervades them may 
be entertained; but let them rest a few days and 
they become a loathsome mass, that starving 
swine would turn away from with disgust. 
In view of these facts the question is worthy 
of serious consideration whether the potato ought 
to be made use of as food ; whether, if' tainted 
with the disease, it ought not to be expunged 
from the list of our articles of diet. 
A Candid Mind. 
THERE is nothing sheds so fine a light upon 
the human character as candor. It was called 
whiteness by the ancients, for its purity and 
beauty; and it has always won the esteem due 
to the most admirable of the virtues. However 
little sought for or practised, all do it the hom-
age of their praise, and all feel the power and 
charm of its influence. The man whose opinions 
make the deepest mark upon his fellows ; whose 
influence is the most lasting and efficient; whose 
friendship is instinctively sought, where all 
others have proved faithless, is not the man of 
brilliant parts, or flattering tongue, or splendid 
genius, or commanding power; but he whose 
lucid candor and ingenuous truth transmit the 
heart's real feelings pure and without refraction. 
There are other qualities which are more showy, 
and other traits that have a higher place in the 
world's code of honor ; but none wear better, 
All Things Earnest. 
TIME is earnest, 
Passing by ; 
Death is earnest, 
Drawing nigh. 
Sinner ! wilt thou trifling be? 
Time and death appeal to thee. 
Life is earnest; 
When 'tis o'er, 
Thou returnest 
Nevermore. 
Soon to meet eternity, 
Wilt thou never serious be ? 
Heaven is earnest; 
Solemnly 
Floats its voices 
Down to thee. 
Oh ! thou mortal, art thou gay, 
Sporting through thine earthly day ? 
Hell is earnest; 
Fiercely roll 
Burning billows 
Near thy soul. 
Woe for thee ! if thou abide, 
Unredeemed, unsanctified ! 
God is earnest; 
Kneel and pray 
Ere thy season 
Pass away ; 
Ere be set his judgment throne, 
Vengeance ready, mercy gone ! 
Christ is earnest, 
Bids thee " come ?" 
Paid thy spirit's 
Priceless sum. 
Wilt thou spurn thy Saviour's love, 
Pleading with thee from above? 
Thou refusest, 
Wretched one ! 
Thou despisest 
God's dear Son ! 
Madness! dying sinner, turn ! 
Lest his wrath within thee burn. 
When thy pleasures 
All depart, 
What will soothe thy 
Fainting heart ? 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
" Be still," indicates that silence will reign 
there. All its bustle and noise of commerce is to 
be hushed. 
" Sidon " was about twenty miles north of Tyre, 
which was a colony from it. The inhabitants of 
Sidon were principally engaged in commerce be-
tween Tyre and other cities. Ezek. 27 : 8—" The 
inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mari-
ners." 
"Sihor " was in Egypt. Jer. 2 : 18—" What 
hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the 
waters of Sihor?''—evidently the river Nile, fa-
mous for the overflow of its waters, and thus de-
nominated " great waters." These made the coun-
try very productive, and constituted it the granary 
of surrounding countries, which„ doubtless added 
much to the wealth of Tyre. 
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms : 
The Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, 
To destroy the strong holds thereof.—v. 11. 
Instead of merchant city, " Canaan " is the mar-
ginal reading, which is adopted by Lowth, Barnes, 
and others. Tyre, Sidon &c., were the strong-holds 
of Canaan. " As the ancient inhabitants of Ca-
naan were traffickers, or merchants, the [Hebrew] 
word [for Canaan] came to denote merchants in 
general."—Barnes. 
The Lord's stretching his hand over the sea, 
shaking the kingdoms, and giving commandment, 
are substitutions for the purpose of the Lord, and 
the acts of his providence which would result in 
the downfall of the strong-holds of Canaan. 
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, 
0 thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon 
Arise, pass over to Chittim ; there also shalt thou have no rest.-v. 12. 
This is an apostrophe to the people of Tyre, 
called by an elliptical metaphor, " the virgin 
daughter of Zidon "—it being originally a colony 
from that city. Like a dishonored woman her re- 
j 
 were at an end ; and though they should 
flee to her cities and colonies, they would therd 
find no repose. 
The places to which they fled were probably in-
volved in the subsequent wars of Nebuchadnezzar, 
who, according to Megasthenes, carried his arms 
as far west as the Pillars of Hercules, subduing 
the greater part of the north of Africa and Spain. 
(Barres.) 
Behold the land of the Chaldeans ; this people was not, 
Till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness 
They set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; 
and he brought it to ruin.—v. 13. 
By an apostrophe, the prophet now designates 
the agent by which the sentence uttered against 
Tyre was to be executed, which shows that the 
conquest of old Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, is the 
time to which the foregoing prophecy has reference. 
" This people "—i. e., the Chaldeans or Babylo-
nians, was not known 68 a formidable power, (for 
such is the use of the phrase, " were not," in 
Dent. 32:21,) till the Assyrians fortified the city 
and gave it celebrity. In the time of Job, (1:17,) 
the Chaldeans were a predatory people, living by 
plunder. The city of Babylon was probably founded 
by Nimrod on the spot where the erection of the 
tower of Babel was attempted ; but Semiramis first 
reclaimed it from the vast waters of the Euphrates 
—confining the river within its banks by dykes—
and made it a place of importance. Nabonassar 
added to its importance. But Nebuchadnezzar so 
improved and beautified it, that he said (Dan. 4: 
30), " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built 
for the house of the kingdom by the might of my 
power, and for the honor of my majesty ?" Its 
importance was doubtless so modern, that at the 
date of this prophecy, surrounding nations were 
familiar with the history of the erection of its tow-
ers and palaces. And that city, formerly so un-
known and rude, had come up under the providence 
of God and was to effect the ruin of the more an-
cient and magnificent city of Tyre. This is also 
predicted in Ezek. 26 : 7-9 : " Thus saith the Lord 
God ; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus, Nebuchad-
nezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the 
north, with horses, and with chariots, and with 
horsemen, and companies, and much people. He 
shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the 
field : and he shall make a fort against thee, and 
cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler 
against thee. And he shall set engines of war 
against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break 
down thy towers." 
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish : for your strength is laid waste.—v. 14. 
This is a repetition of the apostrophe with which 
the prediction commenced (verse 1,)—in which 
" ships," by a metonymy are put for their occu-
pants; and " strength" for Tyre, the source of 
their strength—or as v. 11 reads, their strong-
hold. IIcr fall would be greatly lamented. Ezek. 
26:15-18—" Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus ; 
Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, 
when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made 
in the midst of thee l Then all the princes of the 
sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay 
away their robes, and put off their broidered gar-
ments : they shall clothe themselves with trem-
bling ; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall 
tremble at every moment, and be astonished at 
thee. And they shall take up a lamentation for 
thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, 
that wast inhabited of sea-faring men, the re-
nowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and 
her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on 
all that haunt it ! Now, shall the isles tremble in 
the day of thy fall ; yea, the isles that are in the 
sea shall be troubled at thy departure." 
And it shall come to pass in that day, 
That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of 
one king : 
After the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.-v. 15. 
After the conquest of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, 
it remained a desolation till the defeat of Babylon 
by the Medes; when another city of the same name 
was built on an island about three-fourths of a 
mile from the former city. 
The days of one king," are equivalent to the 
days of one kingdom—i. e., Babylon, of which 
Jeremiah said (25 : 9, 11, 12) : " Behold, I will 
send and take all the families of the north, saith 
the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Baby-
lon, my servant, and will bring them against this 
land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and 
against all these nations round about, and will ut-
terly destroy them, and make them an astonish-
ment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.. . 
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an 
astonishment ; and these nations shall serve the 
king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come 
to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that 
I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, 
saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of 
the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual deso-
lations." 
Some of the nations were conquered before oth-
ers, but at the end of the period designated, they 
would all be released from subjection to Babylon. 
Then Tyre would be restored to its former pros-
perity ; but the simile, that she should sing as an 
harlot, indicates that the character of its inhabit-
ants would be unchanged. The resemblance to a 
virtuous or a vicious female, is often used to illus-
trate the character of cities. 
Be thou ashamed, 0 Zidon : for the sea hath spoken, 
Even the strength of the sea, saying, 
I travail not, nor bring forth children, 
Neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at 
the report of Tyre.—vs. 4, 5. 
An apostrophe to Zidon. As the parent of Tyre, 
Zidon must necessarily share largely in its pros-
perity or adversity—the city, by a metonymy, be-
ing put for its inhabitants. 
The sea, by personification, is represented as 
speaking for Tyre, and describing its destitution of 
inhabitants ; for which Zidon, as the parent city 
is called to lament. The intensity of her grief, 
being illustrated by a simile,—comparing it to the 
effect which would be produced by similar tidings 
respecting Egypt. 
Pass ye over to Tarshish ; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days ; 
Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.—vs. 6, 7. 
An apostrophe to 'lyre, indicating the flight of 
its inhabitants, on perceiving the loss of the city 
inevitable, as recorded by Jerome. Tarshish is one 
of the places to which they would migrate. By a 
metonymy, the city is put for its inhabitants, and 
is described as a woman unused to hardships, com-
pelled to take a long journey on foot, in search of 
a home. 
Who bath taken this counsel against Tyre, 
The crowning city, whose merchants are princes, 
Whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth ? 
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, 
And to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 
vs. 8, 9. 
The prophet now proceeds to show that the de-
struction of Tyre, was not the result of man's pur-
pose, but of God's. And that it is a punishment 
for her pride and vanity. Read Ezek. 28:1-10. 
" Princes," is a metaphor, illustrating the dig-
nity and splendor to which her merchants had at-
tained. 
Pass through thy land as a river, 0 daughter of Tarshish : there is 
no more strength.—v. 10. 
Daughter of Tarshish " is an elliptical meta-
phor, for the inhabitants of that city. By an apos-
trophe, their future independence of Tyre is an-
nounced — they having before been held as its 
colony. The " strength "—lit., band or girdle, 
which had restrained them within prescribed lim-
its. being no more, they cease to be subject to Tyre ; 
and by the simile of a river overflowing its banks, 
their own freedom is illustrated. 
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten ; 
Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be rernem-
bered.—v 16. 
This apostrophe is addressed to the restored city, 
which by a metaphor is denominated a " harlot." 
It had been forgotten for a long period, and the ar-
tifices which would be resorted to, to attract the 
or gather less tarnish by use, or claim a deeper 
homage in that silent reverence which the mind 
must pay to virtue. 
As it is the most beautiful, so it is the safest 
of moral qualities. None fall into so few mis-
takes—none darken and deform themselves with 
so little falsehood and wrong—none so free from 
the pain of doing wrong, as those who walk 
amidst the pitfalls and miasmas, passions and 
errors, of our tainted life, clothed habitually 
with candor. The rare and comely union of 
prudence and of principle, of firmness and for-
bearance, of truth and zeal, of earnestness of 
feeling and discrimination of views, is to be 
found only in minds pervaded and enlarged by 
candor. To love, and to seek in all things, the 
truth—to choose and adhere to, before all the 
solicitations of passion, or the power of preju-
dice, or the force of public opinion, or the 
claims of interest or power, whatever is right 
and true—to believe, at every juncture of expe-
rience or thought, that nothing is so good, or 
desirable. or trustworthy, as truth—to scent the 
truth amidst all the unpopular disguises which 
too often disfigure it in this world—this must be 
safest and best, whatever we may think of it, if 
God really reigns, and there be an eternal dis-
tinction between truth and falsehood, right and 
wrong. In nothing have men so vital an inter-
est as in truth. Nothing should we so earnestly 
strive to get at, or hold fast when obtained. 
" Buy the truth, and sell it not." Green Leaves. 
1)C 2buent 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1853. 
Trm readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored anti 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may he conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, nnbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
THE BURDEN OF TYRE. 
Howl., ye ships of Tarshish ; for it is laid waste, 
So that there is no house, no entering in : 
From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.—v. 1. 
This sentence on Tyre was probably uttered 
about one hundred and fifty years previous to the 
overthrow of old Tyre, by Nebuchadnezzar during 
the Jewish captivity. New Tyre was subsequently 
built on an island about three-fourths of a mile 
from the shore. The first of the name was built 
on the main land, and at the time of this prophecy, 
was the commercial capital of the world, and a 
place of great strength. Read Ezek. 26:1-21, and 
27:1-36. 
The prophecy begins with an apostrophe to the 
ships of Tarshish, calling them to lament over the 
ruined city. Tarshish was a city in Spain, and the 
most distant port to which eastern commerce ex-
tended. (See note on 2:16.) Its " ships," are put 
by a metonymy for the persons on board of them. 
Ezekiel said to Tyre (27 : 12) : " Tarshish was thy 
merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of 
riches ; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded 
in thy fairs." 
The " land of Chittim," denoted the islands and 
countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea, but 
particularly Cyprus. Josephus says of the sons 
of Japhet (Ant. 1. 6. 1) " Cethimus possessed the 
island of Cethima ; it is now called Cyprus ; and 
from that it is that all islands, and the greatest 
part of the sea coasts, are named Cetthim [Chit-
tim] by the Hebrews ; and one city there is in Cy-
prus that has been able to preserve its denomina-
tion." Nebuchadnezzar, after a siege of thirteen 
years, entirely demolished the city of Tyre, leav-
ing not a house standing. Jerome says :—" The 
Tyrians, when they saw they had no other means 
of escaping, fled in their ships, and took refuge in 
the islands of the Ionian and Atean Sea." Thus 
the destruction of the city was made known, and 
the news of it communicated from Chittim to the 
ships of Tarshish. 
 
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle ; 
Thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over tho sea, have re- 
plenished. 
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, 
Is her revenue ; and she is a mart of nations.—vs. 2, 3. 
" Isle," in Scripture denotes any maritime coun-
try—the main land, as well as an island. This 
apostrophe, Mr. Barnes understands to be ad-
dressed to Tyre ; but Mr. Lord, to the cities on the 
Mediterranean coast which the ships of Tyre were 
accustomed to visit. We incline to the former 
view. 
commerce of surrounding nations, are illustrated 
by the substitution of the analogous ones which 
abandoned females then made use of to attract at-
tention. 
And it shall come to pass after the end of severity years, 
That the Lord will visit Tyre, 
And she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication 
With all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.-v. 17. 
These declarations are substitutions for the acts 
of providence, by which God would restore her to 
her former prosperity after the seventy years, and 
her resuming her former commercial pursuits, 
again becoming a mart for all nations, with which 
she would practice the same unworthy arts for 
purposes of gain that were then to result in her 
destruction. 
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord : 
It shall not be treasured nor laid up; 
For her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, 
To eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.—v. 18. 
The usual meaning put upon this passage, is 
that its wealth would be consecrated to religious 
uses ; but this does not comport with the predicted 
character of the new city, nor with its history—it 
having long since been destroyed and is now only 
a miserable village. A more correct view seems 
to be that her future wealth would not remain for 
the permanent advantage of the new city; but 
should be taken possession of by those whom the 
Lord had designated as their future conquerors. 
After continuing a prosperous city for a long pe-
riod, new Tyre was conquered by Alexander the 
Great, and desolated. Since then, it has not re-
covered its former standing. 
NOTE.—Mr. Lord's " Designation of the Figures 
of Isaiah," in his Theological and Literary Journal, 
impressed us with the great aid which a knowledge 
of the nature and use of figures gives in the inter-
pretation of prophecy, and first suggested this se-
ries of articles. In their progress thus far, his ar-
ticles in the Journal have been of material assist-
ance to us. He progressed with them no farther 
than the 23d chapter of Isaiah, which point we 
have now reached. In our future investigation of 
this prophecy, therefore, we shall not have his as-
sistance, only as we are successful in applying the 
principles evolved in the consideration of the fore-
going chapters. 
EXPOSITION OF 1 COR. 3 : 11-15. 
" Foe other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is 
Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, 
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble ; every man's work shag 
be made manifest : for the day shall declare it, because it shall be 
revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every man's work, of what 
siwt it is. If any man's work abide which he bath built thereupon, 
he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he 
shall suffer loss : but he himself shall be saved ; yet so as by fire." 
A CORRESPONDENT inquired a short time since re-
specting the meaning of this passage,—being some-
what puzzled how a man can be saved whose work 
is burned in the fire. 
The apostle is illustrating the increase of the 
Church of Christ under the figures of planting and 
building. He distinguishes between those who la-
bor, and those whose conversion is the result of 
their labors. The former " plant "and " water," 
and the latter are the " increase " which God gives. 
Paul and Apollos are ministers, by whom the 
church believed in Christ. Of the ministers Paul 
says, " we are laborers " &c., (v. 9) : but to the 
Church he says, (same v.), " Ye are God's hus-
bandry, ye are God's building." In carrying out 
the figure of the building, he shows that Christ is 
the foundation on which the Church is built ; and 
that ministers are the master builders who build 
thereon. While the building as a whole, is a sub-
stitution for the Church, the " gold, silver, pre-
cious-stones, wood, hay, and stubble," are substi-
tutions for the analogous classes of believers, 
which the several builders work into the building. 
Some of those materials will endure the fire which 
only refines them ; such are substitutions for those 
members of the Church who will endure the day 
that shall try them. Other materials enumerated, 
are combustible, and are substituted for those 
nominal converts who will perish with the ungod- 
ly. Now as those who turn many to righteousness 
will shine as stars forever and ever, it is of some 
importance to the minister that his work be of a 
nature that will endure the test when the fire shall 
try it. If his work abide, i. e., if those professedly 
converted under his ministry prove to be the Lord's 
jewels, he will receive a reward ; they will be the 
sheaves that he will bring with him, and will be 
stars in his crown of rejoicing ; but if they were 
only nominally converted, they will be burned like 
hay, wood, and stubble, in the fire, and will be 
a loss to him who has labored to build them on 
the foundation of Christ Jesus ; but he will himself 
be saved ; yet his salvation will he so as by fire, 
because he is himself of a material that shall abide 
the test. 
An article in another column headed " England, 
Dr. McNeil," from the pen of Mr. Kirk of this 
city, gives an interesting notice of a sermon on this 
text, to which we refer the reader. 
 
 
 
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THE ABOMINATION, AND HOLY PLACE. 
(Continued from our last.) 
WHILE we may not understand that the Roman 
army was the abomination foretold but that its 
idolatry was, the connection between the army and 
the abomination, we regard as proved by a com-
parison of the records which Matthew, Mark and 
Luke have made of the Saviour's discourse. The 
Saviour said, according to 
Matt, 24;15, 16,—" When ye, therefore, shall 
see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by 
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso 
readeth, let him understand,) then let them which 
be in Judea flee into the mountains." 
Mark 13;14—" But when ye shall see the abomi-
nation of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the pro-
phet, standing where it ought not, (let him that 
readeth understand) then let them that be in Judea 
flee to the mountains." 
Luke 21:20, 21—" And when ye shall see Jeru-
salem compassed with armies, then know that the 
desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which 
are in Judea flee to the mountains ; and let them 
which are in the midst of it depart out ; and let not 
them that are in the countries enter thereinto." 
While the two former say nothing about the en-
compassing of Jerusalem with armies, the latter 
says nothing respecting the abomination. It is 
very evident that Luke either paraphrases what 
Matthew and Mark recorded, or else supplies what 
they omitted,—either of which proves the connec-
tion claimed. Dr. Townsend, we think justly, 
supposes the latter, and thus arranges the several 
records: 
" But when ye shall see the abomination of des-
olation [spoken of by Daniel the prophet], standing, 
where it ought not, in the holy place, (whoso read-
eth, let him understand !) and when ye shall see 
Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that 
the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them 
which are in Judea flee to the mountains." 
As, according to Matthew and Mark, they were 
to flee to the mountains when they saw the abomi-
nation ; and, according to Luke, when Jerusalem 
was encompassed with armies ; it follows that 
those two must have synchronised in point of time, 
and it forever settles the question when the abomi-
nation overspread, if it does not what the abomina-
tion consisted in. 
Josephus applied the abomination spoken of by 
Daniel 9:27, to the Jews themselves, though we 
think erroneously. Speaking of the zealots in the 
city of Jerusalem, he said : " Those men, therefore, 
trampled upon all the laws of men, and laughed at 
the laws of God ; and for the oracles of the pro- 
phets, they ridiculed them as the tricks of jugglers ; 
yet did these prophets foretell many things con- 
cerning virtue and vice, which when those zealots 
violated, they occasioned the fulfiling of those very 
prophecies belonging to their own country ; for 
there was a certain ancient oracle of those men, 
that the city should be taken, and the sanctuary 
burnt, by right of war, when a sedition should in-
vade the Jews, and their own hands should pollute 
the temple of God."—De Bell, lib. 4, cap. 6, § 3. 
In another place he says : 
" I cannot but think, that it was because God 
had doomed the city to destruction, as a polluted 
city, and was resolved to purge his sanctuary by 
fire, that he cut off these their great defenders and 
well-wishers, while those that a little before had 
worn the sacred garments, and had presided over 
the public worship, and had been esteemed venera-
ble by those that dwelt on the whole habitable earth 
when they came into our city, were cast out naked, 
and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts.—
De Bell, lib. 4, cap. 5, § 2. 
Various writers, Hengstenberg and others ad-
duce the above as proof that the abomination was 
on the part of the Jews ; but had they demonstrated 
that supposition, it would not affect the epoch of its 
fulfilment. 
The application of this prophecy, it may be con- 
sidered, has been settled by its fulfilment. Dr. 
Townsend remarks on the passage : 
" Then let them which be in Judea flee into the 
mountains." This counsel was remembered, and 
wisely followed by the Christians afterwards. And 
we find it accordingly most providentially ordered, 
that Jerusalem should be encompassed with armies, 
and yet that the Christians should have favorable 
opportunities of makins.' 
 their escape. Josephus 
(sect. 4, p. 1102, edit. Hudson) tells us that Ces-
tius Gallus, in the 12th year of Nero, if " he had 
been inclined to break through the walls of the city 
by force, would instantly have taken it, and put an 
end to the war ;" but, contrary to the expectation 
of all, and without any just cause, he departed. 
Vespasian was deputed in his place, as governor of 
Syria, and to carry on the wars against the Jews ; 
and when he had subdued all the country, and was 
preparing to besiege Jerusalem, the death of Nero, 
and soon afterwards that of Galba, compelled him, 
from the disturbances and civil wars that ensued 
in his own country, to defer for some time his plan 
of operations against Jerusalem. These apparently 
incidental delays enabled the Christians to provide 
for their safety ; and Eusebius and Epiphanius in-
form us, that all who believed in Christ left Jeru-
salem, and fled to Perea, and other places beyond 
the river Jordan. Josephus also remarks, after 
the retreat of Cestius Gallus, " Many of the illus-
trious Jews departed from the city, as from a sink-
ing ship." After this period, when Vespasian was 
confirmed in the empire, Titus surrounded the city 
with a wall, thirty-nine furlongs in dimensions, 
strengthened with thirteen forts, so that, Josephus 
says, " with all means of escaping, all hope of 
safety was cut off from the remaining Jews." So 
marvellously did our blessed Saviour insure, by his 
prophecy, deliverance to those who believed on him, 
and had faith in his promises : and so always 
" The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out 
of temptations."—Notes, p. 149. 
Josephus says that " Cestius was not conscious 
either how the besieged despaired of success, nor 
how courageous the people were for him ; and so 
he recalled his soldiers from the place, and by des-
pairing of any expectation of taking it, without 
having received any disgrace, he retired from the 
city without any reason in the world."— Wars, b. 2, 
ch. 19, § 7. 
Mr. Whiston, commenting on this passage in Jo-
sephus, says : "There may another very impor-
tant and very providential reason be here assigned 
for this strange and foolish retreat of Cestius ; 
which if Josephus had been now a Christian, he 
might probably have taken notice of also ; and 
that is the affording the Jewish Christians in the 
city an opportunity of calling to mind the predic-
diction and the caution given them by Christ about 
thirty-three and a half years before, that when they 
should see the abomination of desolation—(the 
idolatrous Roman armies with the images of their 
idols in their ensigns, ready to lay Jerusalem deso-
late) stand where it ought not, or in thedioly place, 
or when they should see Jerusalem encompassed 
with armies they should then flee to the mountains. 
By complying with which, Jewish Christians fled 
to the mountains of Perea, and escaped this de-
struction. (See Lit. Acorn. of Proph. pp. 69, 70.) 
Nor was there, perhaps any one instance of a more 
impolitic, but more providential conduct, than this 
retreat of Cestius, visible during this whole siege 
of Jerusalem." 
" Eusebius and Epiphanes say, that at this junc-
ture, after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, 
and Vespasian was approaching with his army, all 
who believed in Christ left Jerusalem and fled to 
Pella, and other places beyond the river Jordan ; 
and so they all marvellously escaped the general 
shipwreck of their country ; not one of them per-
ished."—Dr. Clarke, on Matt. 24:16. 
Says Josephus " After this calamity had be-
fallen Cestius, many of the most eminent of the 
Jews swam away from the city, as from a ship 
'when it was going to sink."— Wars, b. 20, § 1. 
" Theodoret * saith there was a fame that when 
Vespasian and Titus came to fight against them, 
the faithful that were there, by revelation, left the 
city according to our Lord's admonition," (Luke 
21:20), and that of them Zachary foretold, tl-e rest 
shall not perish."—Daniel Whitby, D. D. Corn. on 
Luke 21:18. 
The conquest of Jerusalem by Titus, who soon 
after became emperor of Rome, and Pontifex Maxi-
mus, or the pagan high priest, terminated forever 
the Jewish sacrifices ; and paganism was permitted 
even in the holy city. Says Josephus : 
" The Romans, upon the flight of the seditious 
into the city, and upon the burning of the holy 
house itself, and of all the buildings round about 
it, brought their ensigns to the temple, and set 
them over against its eastern gate ; and there did 
they oiler sacrifices to them ; and there did they 
make Titus imperator, with the greatest acclama-
tions of joy."—Wars, b. 6, ch. 6, § 1. 
" In forty years from the time the Messiah was 
cut off by wicked hands," says Bossuet, " the Ro-
man eagle descended and Judea was no more." 
—Rel. En. v. 1, p. 16. 
The mountain of the Lord's house had become 
like the high places of the forest,—the site of idol-
atrous worship. And the Jews were even taxed to 
maintain it. Says Dr. Brownlee : 
" The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, the most 
magnificent shrine of Roman idolatry, had been 
burnt in the civil war between Vitellius and Yes-
pasian, a few months before the taking of Jerusa-
lem. It was determined to rebuild this edifice on 
its former splendid scale ; and, in order to aug-
ment the funds for this purpose, Vespasian issued 
an edict, that the proceeds of the annual capitation 
tax of two drachmas, formerly paid by the Jews 
throughout the world for the maintenance of the 
temple-worship, should now be applied to an ob-
ject which they abhorred. This was to wound their 
religious feelings in the most vital part, and the 
tribute was levied in the most oppressive manner." 
Brownlee, Hist. Jews, p. 19. 
( To be continued.) 
THE EASTERN QUESTION. 
IT is considered from the general tone of news-
paper comments, that this question is not yet re-
garded as fully settled. They do not regard the 
intelligence received as perfectly authentic and of-
ficial. The Tzar is not, they imagine, predisposed 
to peace. and they fear that he will find some excuse 
for refusing to withdraw his troops from the prov-
inces. His whole course has been opposed to peace, 
and we shall not be sanguine that it has been ef-
fected, until the troops of Russia have actually re- 
On Zech. 14:2. 
crossed the Pruth. Even then, it will not be diffi-
cult for Nicholas to find new cause for re-opening 
the quarrel. 
The New York Evening Post has a letter dated 
Constantinople, Aug. 5, containing some interest-
ing items of information which we have not met 
with elsewhere. The writer states that at that 
date, no reply had yet been received from St. Pe-
tersburg to the proposed plan of an amicable settle-
ment of the difficulty between Turkey and Russia. 
The proposed arrangement is said to have had its 
origin with Baron de Bourquenay, the French am-
bassador at Vienna, and who has represented France 
at Constantinople. Actuated by feelings of grati-
tude toward the Sultan for favors shown him, the 
Baron drew up the proposed arrangement, which it 
is said gives certain assurances of the friendly and 
honorable intentions of the Sultan towards the 
Christian and other religious persuasions in his em-
pire, and provides that in case these are received as 
satisfactory, and the Emperor of Russia withdraws 
his troops from the Danubian Provinces, the Sul-
tan will send an ambassador to St. Petersburg to 
convey an autograph letter from himself to the Czar, 
in reply to that brought him by Prince Menschikoff ; 
and that, in this letter, he will offer assurances of 
his design to continue the privileges and immunities 
possessed by the Greek Church in his empire. The 
writer says : 
" Some persons believe that this proposition will 
be accepted by the Emperor of Russia, and yet the 
most prevalent impression is that it will not meet 
with favor, and that he does not intend to accede 
to any arrangement of the question, but rather by 
prolonging the rupture of diplomatic relations be-
tween the two governments, compel the Porte to 
maintain its present expensive armaments, and so 
sink under their weight. The Sultan's General-in-
Chief, Omar Pachas has now with him at Shumla 
one hundred and ten thousand men ; eighteen thou-
sand more are daily expected from Egypt. The 
fortresses of Nema, Shumla, Silistria, Rurtchuk and 
others, near and on the Danube, are well manned, 
and the troops are anxious for the commencement 
of hostilities. The Sultan's fleet lies in the fine 
Bay of Buyukdere, near the entrance to the Black 
Sea—some thirty or thirty-five vessels in all, and 
seven more are soon expected from Egypt." 
The following despatch, dated Vienna 19th, is 
published : " The agent of Wallachia at Constan-
tinople, on the 13th, advised Prince Stirbey that 
the Divan had unanimously recommended the ac-
ceptance of the last Austrian collective project to 
the Sultan. This authentic intelligence was for-
warded hither from Bucharest, via Hermannstadt, 
by telegraph." 
A Paris despatch dated 22d, says : " The ac-
counts are rather contradictory on the subject of the 
acceptance by the Porte of the note of the four 
powers. One journal, that generally derives its in-
formation from the Foreign office, seems to have no 
hesitation in stating the affirmative ; while another, 
which is evidently inspired at Russian and Austrian 
sources, declares that the affirming journal is in 
error, and that no account of such acceptance has 
been received. The latter would seem to be sup-
ported in its views by the continued silence of the 
Moniteur, which so promptly announced the assent 
of the Czar, while the prorogation of the English 
Parliament, the speech from the throne, and the re-
marks of Lord Palmerston, are regarded as indica-
tions that no further apprehensions about a speedy 
and pacific settlement ought to be entertained. Still 
the question is asked, has or has not the govern-
ment received intelligence of the readiness of the 
Porte to accede to the propositions contained in 
the note ; and if it has, why has it not stated so in 
the Moniteur ? There is reason to believe that the 
government has received such intelligence' but it 
has not made it public because the acceptance in 
question was conditional. It was conditional be-
cause the Porte insists upon the evacuation of its 
principalities previous to sending an ambassador ; 
or that a pledge be given that they shall be evacu-
ated directly its acceptance be officially notified. 
" In truth, the Sultan is placed in a very critical 
position. It is owing to the great exertions of the 
Turkish government, and the personal influence of 
the Sultan himself, and one or two popular min-
isters, that troubles have not already broken out in 
Constantinople and elsewhere ; but it is considered 
perilous to put the patience of the population to 
too severe a trial, by taking no security for the 
withdrawal of the Russians. The government, it 
is stated, has already received intelligence, if not of 
the formal acceptance of the note by the Porte, at 
least of its readiness to do so on the evacuation 
of the Principalities ; and though a brief delay may 
still take place, there is no sufficient reason to sup-
pose that the present difficulty will not be removed, 
always supposing that there is a sincere desire to 
do so, quite as well as the rest." 
To Correspondents. 
C. E. HATCH.—We have inserted the notice of 
the death ; but the lines were so imperfect in 
rhyme and metre, that while soothing to mourn-
ers, they would not be interesting to the general 
reader. 
" LETTER of Publius Lentulus to the Senate of 
Rome, concerning Jesus Christ."—A subscriber 
has sent a copy of this for publication in the Her-
ald, unaccompanied by any evidence of its authen-
ticity. We have published it two or three times 
within ten years, and have declined it as many, 
because of doubt respecting its genuineness. Noth-
ing is easier than forgeries of this kind, and when 
such documents are published, they should be ac-
companied with tire evidence on which their au-
thenticity rest. There are many such things afloat, 
which are of no value whatever. 
THE HERALD OFFICE. 
I AH under obligations to brother Litch for his 
voluntary and unsolicited articles on " The Sup-
port of the HERALD," which were published in my 
absence, and of which I had no intimations till I 
read them in the HERALD. 
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Advent brother L.'s devotion to the cause is known 
of all. He has been conversant with the history 
and position of the HERALD office from the first. 
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be so conducted, as to meet the approval of those 
who are thus personally familiar with them ; and 
put to the blush and make apparent the falsity of 
those who designedly misrepresent, because of their 
jealous or selfish purposes. 
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The greatest number of subscribers we have ever 
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400, from whom we had not heard for a long time, 
and added sixty-three to the poor list which left 
4327. The well known opposing influences with 
which the HERALD had to contend have been success-
ful in reducing our list more than 600 ; so that at 
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3643 subscribers of all kinds—including the poor 
and non-paying,—which deprives us of the means 
we before had to supply the poor, and circulate 
publications. A portion of this falling off is to be 
attributed to an effort made the present year to ex-
cite prejudice against the office, on the ground that 
the Herald has the enormous circulation of 5000 pay-
ing subscribers ; and though we anticipate no dele-
terious results from it except in its own locality, 
our list has been somewhat reduced by it. It will 
require no prophet's ken to predict that with such 
influences continued, without the earnest efforts of 
friends to counteract them, that the paper must be 
made less efficient by being reduced to its former 
dimensions, or perhaps entirely suspended. This 
is put forth with the hope that a statement of these 
facts will prompt the friends of the HERALD to more 
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cover for it all that it has lost, and more. Even 
now, we trust, that the tide has turned. During 
the month of July, we have had a net gain of 25, 
for which we are mainly indebted to brother Litch's 
articles. 
I know that in my labors, I am actuated by no 
selfish motives ; and I have the fullest confidence 
that while God wishes the continuance of the HER-
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He, however, requires our own exertions; and as 
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between now and the first of January next. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
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without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the Herald. 
FUTURE EVENTS REVEALED BY GOD. 
BY ZETA. 
" BEHOLD the former things are come to pass, 
and new things do I declare : before they spring 
forth I tell you of them." (Isaiah 42:9.) 
God knew the end from the beginning. He is 
the only infallible source from whom a knowledge 
of future events can be obtained. In different 
ages of the world he has mercifully revealed his 
will, and inspired duly qualified men to foretell 
things to come. Those who have been thus hon-
ored, are denominated Prophets. The Scriptures, 
however, speak of two classes, viz., those who 
prophesied in accordance with the will of God ; 
and those who did so out of their own hearts—
saying " Thus saith the Lord," when he had not 
spoken. The knowledge of future events is inva-
riably communicated by the Spirit of the Almighty, 
and a true prophet is the medium, or mouthpiece 
through whom Jehovah speaketh. A false prophet 
is an individual who designedly, or through the 
delusion of Satan assumes that he is supernaturally 
endowed, or possesses naturally, the power of see-
ing into futurity and foretelling what shall hap-
pen. Some of this class exist at the present time ; 
but as they invariably have ultimately to revise 
their predictions to make them agree with the 
occurrences which they pretend to have known be-
forehand, their elastic prophecies assume a striking 
chamelicn and protean nature! God in mercy has 
given us an infallible rule, whereby we can deter-
mine with unerring certainty the true from the 
false prophet : " And if thou say in thine heart, 
how shall we know the word which the Lord hath 
not spoken ? When a prophet speaketh in the 
name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor 
come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord 
bath not spoken, but the prophet bath spoken it 
presumptuously : Thou shalt not be afraid of 
him." (Dent. 17:21, 22.) 
The Bible is a perfect revelation of God's will 
to man. All that is necessary to make us wise 
unto salvation may be found in the Old and New 
Testaments. Therefore we require no living 
prophets as in ancient times, neither new revela-
tions ; and hence when modern prophets desire the 
privilege of giving utterance to their new and 
special revelations, we may with due respect view 
them as a class of dignitaries whose services are 
not required, and whose instructions the Church 
may dispense with without loss. We can only re-
pose confidence in the revelations contained in the 
Bible. We dare not lean upon the sayings of 
men who fain would have us receive their erratic 
Productions as inspired. " The law and the testi-
mony " is our only safe appeal and guide. 
In the past history of the world, previous to the 
infliction of judgments, or the ushering in of im-
portant changes, Jehovah has given a timely warn-
ing. The sacred Scriptures furnish several strik-
ing examples of the observance of this principle 
in connection with the moral government of God. 
In some cases such warnings were sealed until 
nearly the time of their accomplishment. But 
through light shed upon the Scriptures they have 
been made plain during the existence of the gen-
eration of men destined to witness their fulfilment. 
This arrangement has answered the purpose of 
giving new revelations : 
In the days of Noah the flagrant wickedness of 
man reached to the skies and grieved the Most 
High. It repented him that he had made man, 
and he resolved to destroy man with the earth. 
He did not however execute the threatened judg- 
ment immediately. His long suffering waited an 
hundred and twenty years. (Gen. 6.) 
When the children of Israel went into Egyptian 
bondage,—also when they came out with great 
substance—they did so in fulfilment of the predic- 
tions of Jehovah previously uttered. (See Gen. 
15:13.) 
When God determined to punish his people for 
their sins, by making them serve the king.of Baby-
lon seventy years, and afterwards punish the king 
and overthrow his kingdom, he previously com-
municated his intention of doing so to his servant 
Jeremiah. (Jer. 25 : 8-14. See the record of its 
fulfilment in 2 Kings 24:8-16 ; 2 Chron. 36:14-21; 
Jer. 29:10 ; Dan. 5:25-31 and 9:1, 2.) 
In the days of Abraham and Lot, God deferred 
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah until he 
had communicated his intention to Abraham. 
The servant of the Lord warned the inhabitants 
faithfully ; but although the clouds were gather-
ing thick and fast around their guilty heads—with 
the storm of righteous indignation ready to burst 
upon them—they heeded it not and refused to re-
pent. Therefore when Lot entered Zoar, although 
the sun had arisen and was shining in splendor, 
the same day God rained fire and brimstone from 
heaven and destroyed them. " And he overthrew 
those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabi-
tants of the cities, and that which grew upon the 
ground." (Gen. 19:25.) 
The same principle has been observed by God in 
relation to the rise and fall of kingdoms. In the 
book of Daniel—" the sacred calendar of prophe-
cy "—are predictions descriptive of the rise and 
fall of Babylon,—the kingdom of Media and Per-
sia,—its overthrow by the Grecians—the establish-
ment of the dominion of Alexander upon its ruins 
—the rise of the Roman empire—its changes and 
ultimate destiny. 
During the ministry of the Saviour he foretold 
the great change to come upon the Jewish nation, 
the doom of their beautiful Temple and city. Yea 
he wept when he saw their hardness of heart, and 
said : " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest 
the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto 
thee, how often would I have gathered you as a 
hen gathereth her brood under her wings and ye 
would not ! Behold, your house is left unto 
you desolate. For I say unto you, ye shall not 
see me henceforth till ye shall say, Blessed is 
he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Matt. 
23:37.) 
To his disciples he said, " When ye see Jerusa-
lem encompassed with armies, then know that the 
desolation thereof is nigh !" 
" Behold the former things have come to pass 
and new things do I declare ; before they spring 
forth I tell you of them." The examples presented 
of the observance of this declaration in time past, 
may be considered the pledge of the certainty of 
its observance in the future. 
We proceed to inquire, Is the expectaion that 
we are on the eve of some great change based upon 
the " sure word of prophecy ?" For several years 
past theolOgians, politicians, and statesmen have 
expressed their candid opinion that an important 
crisis rapidly approacheth, and that we live on the 
eve of the most solemn events ever witnessed. 
True they differ as to their nature and detail. One 
writer on prophecy remarks : " Never perhaps in 
the history of man were the times more ominous, 
or pregnant with greater events than the present. 
The signs of them in many respects are set before 
the eyes of men and need to be told : and they 
strike the senses so forcibly, and come so closely to 
the apprehensions of all, that they may be said to 
be felt as well as seen. The face of the sky never 
indicated more clearly an approaching tempest, 
than the signs of the times betoken an approach-
ing convulsion, not partial but universal. It is 
not a single cloud surcharged with electricity, on 
the rending of which a momentary flash might ap-
pear, and the thunderbolt shiver a pine, or scathe 
a few lonely shrubs, that is now rising into view. 
But the whole atmosphere is lowering, a gathering 
storm is accumulating fearfully in every region, 
the lightning is already seen gleaming in the 
heavens, and passing in quick succession from one 
distant cloud to another,• as if every tree in the 
forest would be enkindled, and the devastating tem-
pest, before purifying the atmosphere, spread ruin 
on every side. Such, is now the aspect of the 
political horizon. The whole world is in agita-
tion. All kings on earth, whose words are wont to 
he laws, are troubled. The calm repose of ages, 
in which thrones and altars were held sacred, has 
been broken in a moment. Ancient monarchies 
which seemed long to defy dissolution, and to mock 
at time, pass away like a dream. And the ques-
tion is not now of the death of a king or even the 
ceasing of one dynasty and the commencement of 
another ; hut the whole fabric of government is 
insecure, the whole frame of society is shaken. 
Every kingdom, instead of each being knit to-
gether and dreaded by surrounding States, is 
divided against itself, as if dissolution were the 
sure destiny of them all. . . . There are signs of 
change in every country under heaven ; and none 
can tell of what kingdom it may be told to-morrow, 
that a revolution has been begun and perfected in 
a week. Every kingdom seems but to wait for its 
day of revolt, or revival, and the only wonder now 
would be, that any nation should continue much 
longer what for ages it has been ; or that the 
signs of the times should not everywhere alike be 
a striking contrast to those that are past." " Dis-
tress of nations with perplexity !" 
(To he continued.) 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
NO. V. 
HAVING illustrated two points of received in-
struction from Holy Writ, indispensable to Chris-
tian experience, we are prepared to state another 
reason for the introduction of the Scriptures among 
sinful men, viz., that through learning, and hav-
ing in exercise the patience, and comfort of them, 
" we might have hope." (Rom. 15:4.) 
Well has it been said, that " Looking forward 
must ever be the attitude of the Church. In one 
sense it may be said to be the attitude of the whole 
human race ever since the fall. Who is satisfied? 
Who is living in the contented enjoyment of the 
present! Who is not sensible of a craving which 
he has never yet been able to appease? But the 
difference between the Church and the world is 
this : the Church has something to look forward to 
—something fully satisfying, and which rests on 
the sure word of God ; whereas the world is ever 
grasping at shadows, and ever finding itself mis-
erably deceived." (Ad. Tr., v. 1.) Hence, of our 
heavenly Father we may " ask for good, and hope 
it ; for the ocean of good is fathomless." But 
what is hope? " Hope is the desire of some good, 
attended with the possibility, at least, of obtain-
ing it ; and is enlivened with joy greater or less, 
according to the probability there is of possessing 
the object of our hope. Scarce any passion seems 
to be more natural to man than hope; and consid-
ering the many troubles he is encompassed with, 
none is more necessary ; for life, void of all hope, 
would be a heavy and spiritless thing, very little 
desirable, perhaps hardly to be borne ; whereas 
hope infuses strength into the mind, and by so do-
ing lessens the burdens of life. If our condition 
be not the best in the world, yet we hope it will be 
better, and this helps us to support with patience." 
(Buck.) 
The gospel hope is a link in the golden chain 
of truth (1 Cor. 13 : 13) necessary for our salva-
tion, (Rom. 8:24,) and is compounded of expecta-
tion, desire, and object unseen. It is intimately 
connected with faith as its antecedent, and is its 
legitimate offspring ; hence unbelievers are " with-
out hope." Lord Byron, although " a man gifted 
with great genius," yet being destitute of faith, 
in his last moments thus writes : 
" Aye, but to die, and go, alas ! 
Where all have gone, and all must go; 
- To be the nothing that I was, 
Ere born to life and living woe ! 
" Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, 
Count o'er thy days from anguish free ; 
And know whatever thou hast been, 
'Tis something better not to be." 
The atheist Hobbes said in his last moments, " I 
am now about to take a leap in the dark." 
Thus as faith proceeds, and hope follows, the 
faith of the gospel believes what God has spoken, 
the hope expects and desires, with patience and 
joy, the promised blessing. The good (2 Thess. 2 : 
16) or true hope rests upon a sure foundation, 
(1 Pet. 1:3,) and the possessor is " ready always to 
give an answer to every man who asketh him a 
reason of the hope that is in him, with meekness 
and fear," (1 Pet. 3 : 15,) both as it regards the 
work of Christ and his own. On the contrary, the 
false hope rests upon a fabric as frail and deceitful 
as the spider's web, (Job 8 : 13, 14,) and the ex-
pectation of its possessor shall perish. (Prov. 10 : 
28, and 11 : 7.) Let me illustrate : The farmer 
(1 Cor. 9 10) prepares his ground in the proper 
season, sows his seed, performs the necessary la-
bor for cultivation, and trusts the providence of 
God for an increase. If interrogated respecting 
his prospects about midsummer, he readily points 
to his waving fields, and exults at his confidential 
hope of a harvest. He has a reason—a good foun-
dation for his hope. Such is an illustration of the 
Christian hope. Another farmer sits down, folds 
up his hands, neglects to plough and sow his seed, 
and expresses his determination to " trust in the 
Lord," saying, " God has promised seed time and 
harvest while the earth remaineth, (Gen. 3 : 22 ; 
Isa. 55:10) ; also we are to consider the ravens, for 
they neither sow nor reap, and God feedeth them, 
(Luke 12 : 24,) consequently I shall be provided 
for." Who would not say that he was foolish in-
deed—his trust was presumptuous—his idea of 
God's word vague—(for even ravens do what they 
can for themselves) — his foundation uncertain, 
consequently his hope of a harvest false Like to 
this is the hope entertained by sinners. Most cher-
ish an expectation of and desire for happiness in 
the world to come, yet because of the sin of omis-
sion on their part, they will perish. Some talk of 
the declarations of God's word, such as " God is 
the savior of all men," &c. (1 Tim. 4 : 10), yet, 
like the farmer, the circumstances and conditions 
therewith they totally disregard—cast them into 
the shade. The promises of God upon which we 
base our hope, both as it regards temporal and 
spiritual blessings, are equally certain, the condi-
tions upon which we receive them are equally 
binding, the disastrous results of neglecting them 
equally true, with this difference—the one short, 
the other, long—the first, temporal, the second, 
eternal. 
To travellers over the sea of time, how necessary 
that we understand our latitude and longitude—
the permanency or frailty of our bark, and the 
strength or weakness of the anchor (Heb. 6:19) of 
our hope. To this end I now offer a few reasons 
for a " good hope." without which our foundation 
is as impermanent as the changeful sand, which 
will fail us in the day when the storm of God's 
wrath shall burst upon a wicked world. (Matt. 
7:24-27.) 
J. P. P. 
THE DISCUSSION. 
BRO. BLISS :—When ye therefore shall see (what) 
the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel 
the prophet, stand (where) in the holy place (whoso 
readeth let him understand.) 
It is called an abomination. 
Of desolation—this is its name. 
You are to see it. For the Lord never told 
any of his creatures to see anything if it was not to 
be seen. 
It is to stand in the holy place. 
Now, the question naturally arises, what is the 
holy place here spoken of'? Is it the literal Jeru-
salem, the capital of the land of Judea, or not ? 
I find nowhere in Scripture that Jerusalem is called 
" the holy place." It was sometimes, before 'the 
first advent of our Lord, called the holy city, but 
never after, by either himself or the apostles. 
There are two expressions, in Acts 6:13, and 21:28, 
where it is called the holy place ; but this was by 
some persecuting Jews, which amounts to nothing. 
While on the other hand, the Saviour calls it a 
" city of murderers." (See Matt. 22:7.) The tem-
ple, he said, was a den of thieves. Surely, then, 
we could not style either Jerusalem or the temple 
the holy place. Had there been any rites or cere-
monies, or system, or place, that was called the 
holy place when this prophecy was given ? I answer 
there was. The tabernacle, the tent of the congre-
gation, with its rites and ceremonies, constituting 
the foundation of the Jewish religion, was called 
" the holy place." It is called the holy place no less 
than 26 times, beginning with Ex. 28th, and end-
with Lev. 16th. This system, which was intro-
duced for the benefit of his people the Jews, these 
rites and ceremonies which only pointed to Him 
which was to come, was to give place to the gospel 
dispensation. Why ? Because " the law made 
nothing perfect ; but the bringing in of a better 
hope did, by which we draw nigh unto God." 
(Heb. 7 : 19.) Therefore the bringing in of a 
better hope, or the ushering in of the gospel, 
took the place of the other : for it is declared, 
(lleb. 10 : 19), " Having therefore, brethren, (lib-
erty, mar.,) boldness to enter into the holiest by the 
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he 
consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, 
his flesh." Therefore " the holy place," (as it was 
called,) being done away, and the gospel being put 
in its place, there is no alternative, and it must of 
necessity become " the holy place." Observe, I 
do not say the Church took the place, but the gos-
pel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Church is not 
the gospel, but the Church may be attached to the 
gospel; and in this sense it may become a living 
monument of the effects of the gospel. This brings 
us to two questions : 
1. What is the gospel and how revealed? And 
2. What constitutes the " abomination of desola-
tion," or " the abomination that makes desolate," 
as Daniel calls it ? 
The abomination of deso-
lation, or the abomina-
tion that makes desolate, 
revealed. 
Rev. 6 : 7, 8 — " And 
when he had opened the 
fourth seal, I heard the 
voice of the fourth beast 
(creature) say, Come and 
see. And I looked, and 
behold a pale horse, and 
his name that sat on him 
was Death, and hell fol-
lowed with him. And 
power was given unto 
them over the fourth part 
of the earth, to kill with 
sword, and with hunger, 
and with death, and with 
the beasts (governments) 
of the earth." 
Behold the contrast ! The gospel revealed in its 
beautiful simplicity, and purity, and the abomina-
tion of desolation, death and hell stripped of its 
abominable covering, they or he rides upon a pale 
horse. He endeavors to make some show towards 
the gospel. What a terrible scene is brought to 
view on the opening of this the fourth seal ! Is 
The gospel in its pu-
rity, although in figura-
tive or symbolical lan-
guage. 
Rev. 6 : 1, 2 — " And 
I saw when the Lamb 
opened one of the seals : 
and I heard as it were 
the noise of thunder, one 
of the four beasts (crea-
tures) saying, Come and 
see. And I saw, and be-
hold a white horse, and he 
that sat on him had a 
bow ; and a croWn was 
given unto him : and he 
went forth conquering, 
and to conquer." 
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not this a fit emblem of " the abomination of deso-
lation?" Behold it ! Death riding upon a pale 
horse, to deceive. Some resemblance to white, Hell 
following with him to devour with a tremendous 
power, first, to kill with the sword, secondly, with 
hunger, thirdly, with death. What ! death and 
hell power to kill with death ! Observe the expres-
sion. Awful, dreadful, deadly poison,—the poison 
of the serpent. (Rev. 13:15.) Fourthly, with the 
beasts (kingdoms, or governments of the earth.) 
Beloved brethren, who has ever had power given 
unto them to call on the governments (plural) of 
the earth to kill, to destroy the saints of the Most 
High but one, and that a gigantic power, since the 
introduction of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ ? 
and has not that power done more to desolate the 
vineyard of Jehovah than any other power that 
has arose since the foundation of the world Is 
there any difficulty in finding this power that is 
here uncovered and seen in its nakednesss, death 
and hell destroying the saints of the Most High ? 
The opening of fifth seal reveals the people whom 
they had slain. Surely there need be no difficulty 
in seeing who or what this abomination of desola-
tion was, and the holy place he has occupied. To 
us who live in the nineteenth century, there can be 
no difficulty in looking back and tracing his blood-
stained course, beginning in the fifth century, to 
the present time. This " mystery of iniquity," 
which had already begun to work in Paul's day,—
this " man of sin," this " son of perdition, who 
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is 
called God, or that is worshipped, so that (profess-
ing to be the vicar of Jesus Christ) he as God, 
sitteth (where) in the temple of God, (the holy 
place) shewing himself that he is God." Behold 
his name stands out in bold relief,—" Mystery, 
abominations of the earth," &c. 
" Truly he has walked 
The earth, from age to age, and drank the blood 
Of saints, with horrid relish drank the blood 
Of God's peculiar children, and was drunk, 
And in his drunkenness dreamed of doing good. 
The supplicating hand of Innocence, 
That made the tiger mild, and in his wrath 
The lion pause, the groans of suffering most 
Severe, were naught to him : he laughed at groans : 
No music pleased him more, and no repast 
So sweet to him as blood of men redeemed 
By blood of Christ." 
But enough on this point : his day is gone, his 
time, times, and half has rolled away ; his 1290 
days, or years, is numbered with the ages past and 
gone ; the cup of affliction of the people of God has 
been filled to the brim ; they have drunken the 
dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out. 
(Isa. 51:17.) The God of Israel says, affliction 
shall not rise up the second time. (See Nahum 1: 
6-9.) Hear his voice, his lovely, his comforting 
voice, as he speaks by the prophet (Isa. 51:21-23), 
"Therefore, hear now this, thou afflicted : and 
drunken but not with wine. Thus saith thy Lord 
Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of 
his people : Behold I have taken out of thine hand 
the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of 
my fury : thou shall no more drink it again. But 
I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, 
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we 
may go over, and thou hast laid thy body as the 
ground, and as the street, to them that went 
over." 
Once more. Truly there shall be a time of trou-
ble, such as never was, but thanks be to the Crea-
tor of heaven and earth, it is not a time of perse-
cution : the blood-washed throng may pass through 
the waters, they may stand or walk in the midst of 
the fire, but the voice of Israel's God sounds loud-
er than the roaring waters, or the devouring flame, 
saying, " Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I 
have called thee by thy name : thou art mine. 
When thou passest through the waters, I will be 
with thee : and through the rivers, they shall not 
overflow thee ; when thou walkest through the fire, 
thou shalt not be burnt ; neither shall the flame 
kindle upon thee, for I am Jehovah thy God, the 
Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour." 
The setting up of God's everlasting kingdom has 
been sounding for a period of 21 years, and soon 
the Holy One of Israel will shine forth in his beau-
ty, in his majesty, and in his strength. Then he 
will send forth his angels to gather his redeemed 
from one end of heaven to the other, where they 
have been scattered in the dark and cloudy day ; 
and while the broad banner of God's everlasting 
kingdom shall wave in triumph over the lofty bat-
tlements of Sion, the shouts of the redeemed shall 
be heard as the voice of many waters, as the voice 
of mighty thundering, saying, " Alleluia ! for the 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth." (Rev. 19:6.) 
Thy brother in the love of Jesus, B. BUssIER. 
Philadelphia (Pa.), Aug. 26th, 1853. 
Bro. Buss :—As you are presenting us with your 
views of the " abomination of desolation," and the 
" holy place," I will venture one question for your 
consideration, which you may have had presented 
to your mi"d before. 
If the abomination of desolation was the Roman 
armies, how will you explain Mark 13:14, which 
represents that power (whatever it may be) " as 
standing where it ought not ?" Could such be true 
of the power that invaded the holy land? Did not 
God send those armies there ? If so, how could they 
stand where they ought not. in the sense used by 
our Saviour in Mark's gospel ? Yours truly, 
R. R. YORK. 
Yarmouth (Me.), Aug. 31st, 1853. 
As not the Roman armies, but the Paganism 
that overspread wherever those armies took posses-
sion, is held by us to be the abomination, we do not 
see any difficulty in the case. Brother York will 
not probably contend that Paganism ought to be 
the religion of Judea. 
CORRECTION.—BRO. Blass : In the publication of 
my last, there was an omission of an important 
clause in the quotation of Dan. 7:25, which, I am 
quite sure, was correctly quoted in the manuscript. 
The passage corrected would read thus :—" He 
shall speak great words against the Most High, 
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and 
shall think to change times and laws : and they 
shall be given into his hand until a time, and times, 
and the dividing of time." The words italicised 
were the words which were omitted, thereby weak-
ening the force of the article ; as the object was to 
show that the people of God were under the do-
minion of the Papacy, wherever that power ex-
tended. That the Catholic faith, or heresy, ex-
tended into Palestine, and was propagated by the 
sword, see Bower's History of the Popes, pp. 324 
and 334. 
w. 
LETTER FROM MANLIUS, N. Y. 
Dear Brethren and Sisters scattered over the world: 
As a sister in the glorious hope of soon witnessing 
the return of our Lord and Saviour, I now address 
you in the fulness of my heart, cemented as we are 
by the dying love of a crucified Redeemer, and em-
bracing the same hope of a returning King, it is 
with confidence and love that I attempt to insert a 
few lines for your perusal, feeling incompetent to 
say anything which will edify or instruct, yet I 
will bear my testimony to what I conceive to be 
God's truth in these last days. 
As the children of God, we belong to one family, 
and take a special interest in all that concerns each 
member : when one member suffers, the rest sym-
pathize with it ; and if a crumb of prosperity falls 
to the lot of any, it is a source of rejoicing to all. 
I feel thankful that the Lord has given some of 
his servants wisdom to search into the time, and 
the manner of time that the prophet testified that 
the Nobleman would return, and I am sure that 
daily events testify to the correctness of their views. 
God has said the wise shall understand, and he has 
said that whosoever is wise, and will observe these 
things, he shall understand the loving-kindness of 
the Lord. This implies that wisdom is applied to 
those who search diligently the records of divine 
truth. 
The heavenly hosts are not unmindful spectators 
of the events of these last days, but are looking 
with anxious solicitude when man shall be again 
restored to his original purity and blessedness. 
And shall man be mute while angels sing, Glory 
to God in the highest, that Eden is soon to be re-
stored to its perennial glory? No; let us rather 
join in the chorus, and cry mightily to him that he 
will come, and come quickly. Signs there's no 
mistaking, and the events wafted on every breeze, 
echo loudly, Behold the bridegroom cometh ! 
We who profess this faith, scattered over the 
world, as it were, one of a city, and two of a family, 
stand in a most important situation as it respects 
our example and influence over our fellow-crea-
tures, that our daily walk and conversation do not 
disannul, or make void our faith before a gainsay-
ing world, and cause them to meet us with the re-
tort, What do ye more than others ? The scenes 
which we are looking for are to decide the eternal 
destiny of a world. Who can, in any adequate 
proportion realize the important post in which we 
are placed? Our Saviour, in addressing his disci-
ples, says, " Ye are the light of the world," and 
that a light should not be placed under cover, but 
in a conspicuous place, that all may be benefited ; 
yet our Saviour says to the Pharisees, Ye will not 
come to the light, because they loved the darkness 
better. (Would that there were no such in our 
day.) Yet if we have light, we are bound to ex-
hibit it. But, dear friends, how much of the light 
has become darkness, and thereby caused many to 
stumble ? Where much is given, much will be re-
quired. If (as I truly believe) this is God's truth, 
and we have been led to investigate and embrace 
it, what will be our responsibility if we fail to 
manifest it to others, or to suffer it to grow dim 
and languish in the socket ? We read of those 
who, after professing to be Christ's disciples, and 
hearing him gladly, at some of his doctrines went 
away, and walked no more with him. Would that 
this had not been the case of any who received the 
tidings gladly in '43, but because of the tarrying 
time they renounce the whole faith. This must 
occur in consequence of losing the roll, and not 
giving heed to the sure chart. 
That all who love our Lord's appearing may 
stand on their watch-tower in these perilous times, 
is the prayer of a sister in the blessed hope. 
PHYHURA BLOOD. 
I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me. 
though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die." JOHN 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, at Spencer, on the 18th ult., CHENEY WAR-
REN, only child of George D. and Sophronia T. 
Hatch, aged 14 months. 
DEATH OF Brio. H. L. SMITH.—This beloved bro-
ther has fallen asleep in Jesus. He died on Thurs-
day, Aug. 25th, at 5 o'clock, P. M. I attended his 
funeral at Auburn on the Saturday following, when 
a large and sympathizing audience were in attend-
ance. He died unexpectedly, though his declining 
health had indicated unmistakably his approach-
ing dissolution. Few men were more beloved, and 
few could be more lamented. I shall give, as soon 
as practicable, a sketch of his life, and the circum-
stances attending his death, from materials fur-
nished by his family, and from my own acquaint-
ance with him. His wife is left with a large family, 
and is deeply afflicted. L. D. MANSFIELD. 
FELL asleep in Jesus, at Swanton Falls, Vt., on 
the 4th of August, 1853, HANNAH, wife of brother 
HENRY ASSLETINE, in the 50th year of her age. She 
was for many years a devoted member of the Con-
gregational church, and died in this connection. 
Her husband embracing, while a Methodist, the 
doctrine of Christ's speedy coming, a few years 
since, sister A. was brought to investigate the sub-
ject likewise, and while cherishing this " blessed 
hope," in connection with every day Christianity 
and domestic duties, she has ever cordially wel-
comed the ministers and people of the Second Ad-
vent, frequently observing that great light had been 
thrown upon her mind from the Scriptures by their 
means. After much suffering, she died in the 
peaceful hope of a better resurrection. A husband 
has lost a companion, an adopted child a mother, 
and the Church of God a member and friend. But 
we mourn " not as those without hope." A numer-
ous, attentive, and weeping audience were ad-
dressed by the writer on the occasion of her burial, 
from 1 Cor. 15:26. 
D. T. T. 
DIED, in this city, Aug. 2, 1853, brother JAMES 
HENRY CORNELL, aged 28. In the death of our 
brother a devoted wife, and mother, with other near 
relatives, and the church of which he was a mem-
ber, are called to " sorrow," yet they can " rejoice 
in hope." About three years ago brother C. gave 
himself to God. Previous to conversion, his mind 
on divine things was inclined to skepticism ; but, 
meeting with temporal misfortune, and, about the 
same time, having his attention called to discourses 
by brother Himes and others, on the prophecies, he 
was brought to realize the fact, that his worldly 
hopes were vain, and induced to search the Scrip-
tures with faith and prayer, that he might secure 
the sure hope which its pages alone reveal. In 
this pursuit he found peace, compared with which 
all his enjoyments in sin were but bitterness Dur-
ing a lingering sickness (consumption), he exem-
plified that meekness and patience which is derived 
alone by firm faith from the Divine arm, and good 
hope in the precious promises of the Bible. A day 
or two before his death, he said to me with great 
earnestness, " Oh, how good to feel that God is all 
the while with us." And often during his weari-
some days and nights of pain, he would exclaim, 
" What should I have done now without this bless-
ed hope ?" Those portions of the Bible which re-
lated particularly to the resurrection of the saints 
and the change of the righteous living at the com-
ing of the Saviour, and their eternal union with 
Him in the earth restored, were his delight. The 
sweet passage in the 14th chapter of Job, " Thou 
shalt call and I will answer thee," &c., he would 
often refer to with great interest. Movements 
among the old nations of the world waking up to 
earth's last battle—even that of the day of God 
Almighty—and other signs of the times,—contin-
ued to possess much interest, and afford him joy, 
as indicating the swift approach of Him whom he 
waited for with love. Thus he sweetly closed a 
short but precious companionship with friends 
here ; and he waits the dawn of that heavenly sab-
bath of a redeemed world, which sin nor death can 
ever disturb. At his funeral a congregation was 
addressed by the writer, from Rev. 21:4—" And 
there shall be no more death." 
Yes, God was with thee, and upon his arm 
Supported alway, thou did'st fear no harm ; 
With eye of faith undimm'd, to Eden's shore, 
This fading world could flatter thee no more. 
Peace to thy slumbers, servant of the Lord, 
Soon he will call thee to thy blest reward ; 
Responsive to that voice thou wilt arise, 
And meet with joy thy Saviour in the skies. 
We'll strive to meet thee on that cloudless morn, 
When Christ shall come and this sad earth adorn ; 
No death,—no tear, our joyful eyes shall dim ; 
But we shall see His face, and be like him. 
GEO. W. BURNHAM. 
Providence, Aug. 24th, 1853. 
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TUE, at Rochester, N. Y., is acknowledged to he one of the 
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Contents of this No. 
Judgment Hymn 2S9 
The Vast Army.... it 
Christ Inviting the Soul 290 
The Eastern Question 
The Howard Association " 
The First English Martyr 291 
Comets 
All Things Earnest 
Varieties 
Potato Blight 
A Candid Mind 
The Prophecy of Isaiah .... 292 
Exposition of 1 Cor. 3:11-15 " 
The Abomination and Holy 
Place 
 293 
The Eastern Question 293 
To Correspondents 
The Advent Herald " 
Future Events Revealed by 
God 
 291 
The Scriptures 
The Discussion 
Letter from Manlius, N. Y 295 
Obituary of— 
Cheney Warren 
II. L. Smith 
Assletine 
J. H. Cornell 
Temperance Petition 
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ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1853. 
NEW WORKS.—We have now arranged to pub-
lish a volume of Elder 0. R. Fassett's discourses, 
doctrinal and practical. Subjects : 
The Two Covenants. 
The Millennium—Two Resurrections, or Ex-
position of Rev. 20th. 
Exposition of the 11th chapter of Romans. 
This will be a timely and valuable work. We 
hope to be able to give it a wide circulation. 
sons and property of the citizens against aggres-
sion. The chief object of the city organization is 
thus to protect the people of Boston. 
We have a large body of organized police, 
watchmen, and constables, all aiding to promote 
this end. The principal business of these officers 
is to prevent the commission of crime. What they 
do to secure its punishment is of much less im-
portance. 
The most prolific source of crime in our com-
munity is intemperance. It is confidently believed 
that three-fourths, and probably more, of all the 
violations of the criminal code in this city, can be 
traced directly and indirectly to this one cause. 
But how do the unhappy offenders contract their 
pernicious habits? The answer is no secret. Ev-
ery one knows that the tippling shops where liquors 
are drank at the counter do more than all other 
causes to create and perpetuate the great army of 
criminals. It is not a question whether dram shops 
are nuisances. This is universally admitted. It 
seems to the undersigned that the Board of Alder-
men, as the guardians of the city, bound to do 
everything within the limits of their legal power 
for the protection and welfare of the citizens, are 
loudly called upon to see the statutes intended to 
repress intemperance and the crimes which it en-
genders, are faithfully enforced. 
We are not required to decide whether the pres-
ent liquor law is the best possible,—whether it is 
better than the old law, or whether it is such a stat-
ute as we should have made. But it is the instrument 
which the Legislature has placed in our hands to 
suppress a noxious business,—an instrument which 
beyond doubt has accomplished a vast amount of 
good in various quarters. It is the only instru-
ment we have. If it can be made to operate effec-
tually here, the result cannot fail to be gratifying 
to every friend of humanity. It is not for us to 
assume that the law cannot be enforced, till the 
trial has been fairly made. Let it not be a charge 
against us that we connive at any crime, least of 
all, at that crime which is really the greatest, since 
it is the procuring source of a vast majority of all 
others. The right of the Mayor and Aldermen to 
act on this subject, as a branch of their general 
power for the administration of police,” cannot 
be disputed. The right in this case implies a cor-
responding duty. Infractions of the liquor law, to 
an enormous extent, are taking place daily. Not 
only are these positive crimes in themselves, but 
we repeat it, the cause of an infinity of other 
crimes. There is no class of offences which so con-
stantly demand the interposition of the police, as 
those against the liquor law. Every day, every 
hour, every moment, is the authority of the law of 
the State openly set at defiance. 
Our police is vigilant in arresting thieves, rob 
hers, burglars, those who break the peace, and the 
wretched victims of intemperance. Why should 
they not be equally vigilant in bringing to justice 
the men by whom these criminals are chiefly made? 
It seems to your committee that we ought not to 
inquire how little the liquor law compels us to do 
towards the suppression of this ruinous business, 
but rather what powers we have for this purpose. 
It would be easy to show that the public burdens 
are largely increased by the existence of dram-
shops ; that the present demand for increased ac-
commodations at our Jail, House of Correction, 
and insane Hospital, is attributable to this cause, 
and that by refusing to give effect to this law we 
are weakening the restraint of all law ; but we for-
bear. Our great, our perpetual duty, we say it 
once more, is to protect the people in their persons 
and property from criminal aggression. 
Enforcing this law is manifestly within our prov-
ince. We are bound in the most solemn manner, 
as the friends of order and good government, to se-
cure its observance to the best of our ability, and 
to call on all officers under our control to aid in ef-
fecting the object. Impressed with these views, 
the undersigned recommends the adoption of the 
following order. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
J. SLEEPER. 
The Conference in New York. 
IN answer to inquiries in respect to the character 
and design of our Conference, which seem not to be 
understood, we would say : 
lst. It was thought that a series of meetings at 
the opening of our chapel, would tend to promote 
the cause of Christ among us, and be an appropri-
ate initiation of our new house of worship. 
2nd. The Industrial Exhibition would attract 
many of our brethren from abroad, during Septem-
ber, and it would be pleasant to meet such in reli-
gious services, which should consist of meetings for 
sl e iking, prayer, and preaching of the word. 
There ore the general invitation. 
The meeting is not designed for business, but for 
mutual edification and spiritual improvement. 
Let the meeting be made the subject of prayer, 
that Gods blessing may attend it. L. D. M. 
We congratulate brOther Mansfield and the New 
York friends on the completion of their place of 
worship. May it be indeed a sanctuary to them, a 
house of God, and the very gate of heaven. We 
trust that they will find it the commencement of a 
new era, and that they may have occasion to date 
from it, as an epoch marking the commencement of 
more earnest prayers, holy living and united ef-
forts in the advancement of the Master's cause. 
We trust also that their conference may be one 
of mutual profit to many souls.—En. 
FITCH'S MONUMENT. 
Brother Fassett acknowledges from Mrs. A. Guild, 
1$, and from F. McWilliams, $7 
 8 00 
Total 
 30 00 
Opening of the Advent Mission Church, and 
Conference in New York. 
OUR chapel in this city will be opened on the 11th 
of September (Sunday), and a conference will be 
held during the week, extending over the Sabbath, 
if the interest shall warrant. It was the original 
purpose to have a local conference, but the season of 
the year being favorable to a general gathering of 
our brethren, and the INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION form-
ing an attraction to the city, it has been thought 
best to extend a general invitation to brethren and 
friends all abroad, to meet with us at that time. 
We cordially invite our ministering brethren and 
others interested in the cause, to assemble with us 
on the 11th of September, and spend a few days in 
conference. A number of ministers from abroad 
are expected. 
We shall extend hospitality as far as possible, 
and our brethren in the adjacent cities will do the 
same, we have no doubt. Those who have particu-
lar friends to whom they can go, had better pro-
ceed directly to their houses ; others may come to 
the chapel, 39 Forsyth-street, between Hester and 
Walker streets, where some one will be on Satur-
day, the 10th, to direct strangers to places. 
Should there be more than can be entertained by 
ourselves, we shall aid our friends in procuring 
comfortable boarding places at moderate charges. 
(By order of the committee of the Advent Mis- 
sion Church.) L. D. MANSFIELD, Sec'y. 
P.S. Preaching every evening in the week. The 
services in other respects will be announced on the 
Sabbath. 
DRAWING ON THE IMAGINATION.—We were not a 
little surprised, not long since, at a remark made, 
after listening to a sermon from Rev. 1 : 7—" Be-
hold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall 
see him, and they also which pierced him ; and all 
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him." 
The sermon was a very clear presentation of those 
scriptures which teach a second personal coming 
of Christ, and kept very closely to the text of 
scripture. After passing out, a hearer remark el 
that it was all very good, but he " did not like to 
hear a minister draw so much on his imagination." 
" Perhaps," said we, " what you thought imagi-
nary is all in the Bible." " Per-haps it is," said 
he, with all the complacency, that a consciousness 
of being right, will enable a man to assume. What 
particulars do you refer to, said we, that you 
thought merely a flight of fancy? He did not at-
tempt to enumerate any ; and we parted with the 
conviction on our part, that many persons are so 
ignorant of the contents of the Bible that they re-
ally do not know what it teaches. When they 
listen to preaching, if it sounds right on the ear, 
all well ; but many constant hearers of preaching 
are unable, from their own familiarity with the 
Scriptures, to test the preaching by the word. 
BRO. PINNEY IN NEW YORK.—This dear brother—
so long and sorely afflicted, and so near to death's 
door many times—has rallied in strength suffi-
ciently to visit this city, with his family. But, 
alas ! how changed ! Disease has made such des-
perate work with his face, that his features can be 
scarcely recognized. He has known sorrow deep 
and dreadful, while by degrees that loathsome dis-
ease, cancer, has been eatinc, away the whole side 
of his face. He bears with resignation his great 
calamity, and looks to the grave as a quiet resting-
place from his tortures and sorrows, but longs to 
see Jesus the great deliverer. He expects to return 
home to Seneca Falls soon, and we trust that lie 
will not be forgotten, but that brethren and sisters 
will remember him, after a goodly sort, for his la- 
bors of love in the past. 
M. 
It is unnecessary for us to add to the above. 
Our brethren are acquainted with brother Pinney's 
long-continued sufferings, and consistent endurance 
of them. Any expressions of sympathy to him 
will be well bestowed and thankfully received.—Ed. 
Toua WEST.—Letters have been received from 
the following persons, requesting lectures in my 
tour West :—S. Chapman, W. H. Ruggles, J. P. 
Mallery, R. Chown, A. Clark, Wm. S. Moore, L. 
Armstrong, J. Blain, J. Clague, M. Fall, E. Ed-
gerton, R. Draper, R. T. Rust, N. W. Spencer. M. 
H. Post, D. Chittenton, J. N. Snyder, J. Wilson, 
J. H. Smith, and others. I shall endeavor to ar-
range so as to visit all the places to which I have 
been invited, that my time will allow. It is not 
likely that I shall be able to comply with all the 
invitations ; but I shall endeavor to make another 
visit, when I hope to respond to those I may be 
forced to pass by at this time. Let all be patient 
till their turn comes. 
I shall take the Northern route first, and return 
by the Southern through Ohio. The particulars 
will he given hereafter. 
Letters have been received at the office from oth-
ers besides those named in the foregoing by brother 
H., without an opportunity yet to put him in pos-
session of them.—ED. 
GRASSHOPPERS.—We learn from Vermont, says the 
N. Y. Tribune, that the grasshoppers are very de-
structive all over the State. In some parts they 
have swept off every green thing. We have seen in 
this State within a few days where they were eat-
ing the apples from the trees as well as those which 
had dropped, so that all hope was lost of saving 
any of the yield of the trees. 
SUPPORT OF THE " HERALD."—During the month 
of August, our friends just kept the number of our 
subscribers even—there being forty-three stoppages 
and forty-three new subscribers. We hope for the 
present month to have a better result to report. 
"Youth's Guide." 
THE "YOUTH'S. GUIDE" is published the first week in each month, 
at this office. Terms (in advance)—Single copy, 25 cents a year ; 
twenty-five copies, $5; fifty copies, $9 ; Canada subscribers (with 
postage pre-paid), 31 cts. ; English subscribers, 2s. 
CONTENTS OF THE SEPT. ND. 
Michael the Miner. 
The Four Pistareens. 
Reading for the Young. Don't Waste your Time ; or a 
Always Going to Church. I Lesson for Young Men. 
Whitsuntide in England. A Funny Petition, 
Daily Life of the Christian Child. Self-Inquiries. 
Who was the Gentleman ? An Ingenious Puzzle. 
How to Remember. 
Enigma, &.c. 
Appointments, &c. 
N. BILLINGS will preach at Calais, Vt., Sept. I5th, and remain over 
the following Sabbath, and labor as Elder 0. Davis may appoint—
will brother Davis call for me at the Montpelier depot on the arri-
val of the first train of cars from Rouses Point on the above 
named day ? at Cabot, 20th—will remain over the Sabbath, and 
labor as Elder Thurber may arrange. Will some brother from 
Cabot call for me at the house of Elder Davis in Calais, as above 
dated ?-15. R. 
ELDER Edwin Burnham will hold a meeting of two days (Oct. 8th 
and 9th) at Sugar Hill, N. H. The brethren and sisters from 
abroad are invited to come in and enjoy a season of hearing the 
word again, and of laboring for the advancement of the cause of 
Christ. (For the brethren.) I. H. StnEmati. 
A MEETING will commence at Lake Village, N. H., on Saturday be-
fore the first Sabbath in October, at 10i o'clock, and continue as 
long as it may be proper, D. V. 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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Memoir of Permelia Ann Carter, with a brief 
account of her life, and containing extracts from 
her journal and letters, with miscellaneous articles. 
Edited by her sister. Sister Carter was originally 
a member of the Baptist church in Westboro'. 
On hearing the evidences of the personal advent 
of Christ, she became a convert to the faith, and 
was a bright and shining light of the cause while 
she lived, and in death she triumphed in the 
blessed hope of a speedy resurrection. 
This work will not fail to be a blessing to all 
who read it, but more especially to young 
Christian believers of both sexes, in the Advent 
churches. 
TEMPERANCE PETITION. 
A PETITION signed by Lyman Beecher, F. n., and 
others, to the city government, has been presented, 
asking for an enforcement of the so called " Maine 
Law," and closing with these words : 
" On you it devolves to see that the law is carried 
into effect without delay, and without evasion, and 
this we respectfully ask ; and this we are bound by 
our reliance on your characters to believe will be 
done." 
The Mayor and a majority of the government 
take umbrage at this, and in their report on the pe-
tition comment on it as follows : 
The committee regret that the petitioners should 
make use of language like this without first attempt-
ing to ascertain what the duties are which the act in 
question imposes upon the Mayor and Aldermen. 
if they had done so, the committee think they would 
not have spoken of those duties so confidently and 
so authoritatively, and the committee regret that 
the petitioners should assume that the Board of 
Mayor and Aldermen have not endeavored to inform 
themselves thoroughly as to their duties, or that 
they need any prompting to induce them to dis-
charge those duties faithfuly, when they are bound 
to do so according to their best knowledge and abili-
ty, by the solemn obligation of their official oath. 
The petitioners may be assured that the Board have 
given special and anxious attention to the subject, 
with a view to the discharge of their duties under 
this statute, whatever they may be, and the com-
mittee are confident that the Board will be thought, 
by the public, to have full as much interest in the 
moral welfare and prosperity of our city, as even 
the petitioners themselves." 
This may all read very well on paper ; but those 
who remember the large number—more than one 
thousand of them—who were licensed immediately 
after the enactment of the Maine law,—or when it 
was evident that it was to be enacted,—but before 
it went into operation, to sell spirits contrary to 
the provisions of that enactment for nearly a year 
after it should go into effect, will not accord to his 
Honor (?) the Mayor any very earnest desire to en-
force that law. Nor will those who remember the 
summary ejection of Marshal Tukey from office, for 
the probable reason that he was determined to do 
his duty in the enforcement of that law, acquit%he 
government of a determination to throw all possi-
ble obstacles in the way of its enforcement. If any 
farther evidence of this is wanting, it is apparent 
in the perfect impunity with which that law has 
been constantly violated in this city, without any 
effort to enforce it, and which has called forth this 
petition from the friends of temperance and order. 
While the majority are indifferent to its enforce-
ment, we are glad to see that Alderman Sleeper 
has the manly courage to dissent from them in the 
following minority report : 
The undersigned, one of the committee to whom 
was referred the memorial of Lyman Beecher and 
others, respectfully reports. 
The committee have given the memorial the 
thoughtful consideration which the importance of 
its subject, as well as the high character of its sign-
ers, seemed to require. 
The undersigned concurs fully with the memori-
alists in regarding it as a duty of the city authori-
ties to respect and enforce the law intended to re-
strain the traffic in ardent spirits. 
The great object of all government, be it na-
tional, state, or municipal, is to protect the per- 
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L. DUDLEY will preach at Caldwell's Manor Sept. 21st ; Stanhridge, 
22d ; Dunham, 23d ; Richford Mills, 24th ; Enosburg Samsonville, 
Sunday, 25th ; Swanton Falls, 27th. Each, except Sunday, at 61 
0. D. EASTMAN will preach at Sugar Hill Sept. 18th, and W. 
Eastman Sept. 25th. 
D. T. TAYLOR will preach at Essex, Vt., Sunday, Sept. 11th. Will 
brethren•Bud and Hurlbert please appoint the place ? 
CAMP MEETINGS, Re. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, a Camp-meeting will be held in Winsted 
(on the old ground,) commencing Monday, Sept. 12th, and continu 
ing over the Sabbath. (See Herald of July 25, 9th, and 16th.) 
A TENT-MEETING will be held in Waterloo, C. E., to commence on 
Wednesday, Sept. 14th, at 2 P. M., and continue over the following 
Sabbath. Elders I. II. Shipman and B. S. Reynolds will attend. 
Let there he a general gathering. 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
A MEETING will be held in Melbourne, C. E., to commence Wednes-
day, Sept. 21st, at 2 P. M. and continue over the following Sunday. 
Brother I. H. Shipman will attend. We hope the brethren will give 
this appointment a general circulation, and make their calculations 
to attend at the commencement of the meeting, and induce others to 
do the same. " A word to the wise is sufficient." J. M. ()BROCK. 
A MEETING will be held in the "Old Meeting-house" in Hatley, C. 
E., to commence Wednesday, Sept. 28th, at 2 E. M., and continue 
over the following Sabbath. We hope the true faith and position of 
Adventists will be presented, and that the truth will commend itself 
to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Let us make this 
meeting a subject of prayer, and with the blessing of God, prosperity 
will attend our labors. 
I. II. SHIPMAN, J. N. ORBOCK. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
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the 29th of August—same day that the money was received. 
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