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Thou host too little known 
The love thou could'st forget 
Even for a moment ; can the chill 
Cling to thy spirit yet ? 
Life is not long enough 
For hours of dark distrust; 
Enough of woe will come unsought, 
Ere "dust return to dust !" 
" Peace—peace on earth "—was sung 
O'er Bethlehem's hills of light ; 
Surely, the loving angels bring 
Its echo back to-night ! 
Enough ! no need of words ! 
I feel I am forgiven ! 
One tear has caught a rainbow from 
The last quick ray of Heaven. National Era. 
The Vast Army. 
BY REV. EDW. MONRO, PERPETUAL CURATE OF HARROW-WEALD, ENG. 
WHOLE NO. 644. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1853. 
VOLUME XII. NO. 12. 
LET NOT THE SUN GO DOWN UPON YOUR 
WRATH. 
THE sun is almost down—
The shadows flicker higher 
Up the old pines, whose torch-like tops 
Are flashing Day's last fire. 
Oh ! ere the light goes out— 
Ere on that crimson cloud 
The first dim fold of darkness falls 
From twilight's deepening shroud— 
Come, lay my hand in thine ; 
Look to yon gate of heaven, 
Glowing in purity and peace, 
And say, "Thou art forgiven:" 
"Let not the sun go down," 
Oh friend ! upon thy mail, 
Shadowed by even a doubt, to mar 
Thy angel's record scroll ! 
CHAPTER U.—THE SUMMONS. 
WHEN I slept again, I tried to catch the thread 
of the scene, but could not. A change had passed 
over everything ; all was altered : how strange-
ly ! I felt confused : evidently much had hap-
pened; but how quickly and suddenly ! A blaze 
of light, so dazzling and intense, wrapped every-
thing, I was glad to look away. Every hill and 
crag were so bathed in the rising light, as to 
leave not even a shadow where a man could hide 
himself. Each .point anct rock were lost in the 
blaze of fire. I doubted not the King and his 
army had arrived. I looked anxiously around 
for those whom I had so long been interested in. 
It was plain that all were taken by surprise, and, 
though all had been expecting it, none were as 
they meant to be. What I could see most clear-
ly, were numbers of the Messengers of the King, 
who passed rapidly to and fro along the hosts, 
seemingly bent on some work of their Master's. 
The enemies of the King were flying in all di-
rections, though some still seemed determined 
to face the danger. 
My attention was first drawn to the form of 
Erma who was standing within the defile of the 
rocks with the banner in his hand; he seemed 
wounded all over, his face looked pale, and his 
strength exhausted : a band of men had been at-
tacking him, 
him, to wrest the banner from him, but 
he had fought for it so valiantly that hitherto it 
had been in vain. 
" My banner ! my post!" cried Erza ever and 
anon, as he turned his now languishing eye up 
to the flag which floated above him. " My ban-
ner ! my post! at least I will try and keep it 
this time ;" and he struck another and another 
blow for the precious charge Albyn had given 
him. 
" My post ! the banner ! the King !" said he ; 
" I am at my post at least now, am 1 not ?" 
cried he, anxiously turning to the Messenger who 
stood beside him. 
" Thou must follow me at once," said the 
Messenger ; " the King has called for thee." 
Then in a moment all the events of the past 
rushed over Erza's mind and memory, like colors 
of a summer's sky across the surface of water, 
and he looked deeply sorrowful, and a cloud of 
sadness passed over his eyes. Swiftly and silent-
ly over the glowing rocks did Erza and the bright 
one go. Erza held his banner, and the Messen-
ger led the way. 
" Called for me ! called for me !" said the 
boy to himself, anxiously. " The King come! 
come at last ! Oh, Albyn, Albyn, would that 
you were here !" 
I saw the poor boy could scarce keep pace 
with the Messenger, so quivering were his knees, 
and his heart beat so high. 
" Whither away ?" said one who passed 
them. 
" To take young Erza to meet the King," said 
the other, and the boy again trembled. 
At that moment, a loud, wild, and bitter cry 
arose not far from them. Erza started, he 
thought he knew the sound ; 'he looked anxiously 
down a deep ravine at his feet and a high over-
hanging rock. He saw the form of Ulric—his 
helmet had fallen from his head, and lay in 
shivered fragments on the ground; his shield 
was also lying in atoms by his side, shattered by 
a huge piece of rock which had fallen upon it. 
The boy was trying to hind his armor of defence 
close around him, to protect himself, but a burn-
ing wind, which rolled down the barren pass, 
tore it from him as fast as he put it on. Mean-
while he strove, and strove in vain, to find a 
hiding—place under the shadow of the rocks, 
but could find none. The intense light prevent-
ed a shadow, and Ulric could not hide himself. 
Down the pass, towards the agonized boy, came 
two Messengers, swift and silent. Ulric saw and 
guessed their message, and uttered the piercing 
shriek which Erza heard. Ulric placed his hands 
against his ears, and held them closely. 
" I will not hear, I will not hear the mes-
sage ; I know it already." 
But, despite his efforts, an awful Voice passed 
on, and Ulric could not help hearing it. 
" Ulric, the King has called for thee." 
Erza again shuddered at the awful call, and 
Ulric tore his hair, and, stamping his feet with 
rage, said he would not go. But I saw those 
Messengers laid their hands on him, and ;Ulric 
became helpless as a little child, and in silent 
despair followed them. His hands were clasped, 
his hair hung wild over his shoulders, his riven 
vest and broken armor hung in fragments about 
him. 
" Erza! Oh, Erza!'' cried he, as his eye look-
ing up glanced on the youth, and his face pale as 
marble, moved swiftly along on the edge of rocks 
above. 
There was a strange contrast in the expression 
of the two. Erza's pale, anxious, awful brow 
betokened reverence and intense anxiety. Ulric's 
worn face and hollow cheek showed an expression 
of calm despair. Erza's hands were folded cross-
wise on his breast. Erza's cross was there, and 
seemed to flicker like a flame of pale uncertain 
light, now high, now low, but still clearly liv-
ing, while on Ulric's brow a tongue of burning 
fire seemed to lick and scorch, and ever and anon 
he pressed his fingers on his forehead as if in 
agony: 
So they two passed on swiftly and silently be-
hind the Messengers, and the banner Albyn gave 
him floated in its purple folds above the head of 
Erza. 
A party now crossed their path, of a different 
manner and appearance. A man, who seemed 
the leader, was walking quickly on, and, look-
ing round continually, bid them behind to fol-
low. His manner was bold and fearless. 
" Come on," said he ; " follow me, we go to 
join the King, who has reached the faithful ar-
my. We go not the same way as the others we 
have passed or met. But it matters not the way, 
so we meet the King. All is right with me ; I 
have nothing to fear." 
So spoke Rolfe as he addressed the men by 
his side. I was surprised to see how his face 
had gained an expression of confidence and bold-
ness since I last saw hint in my dream. 
" Be not so confident," said the voice of a 
Messenger who came up to him. "Rolfe, the 
King calls for you." 
I saw a slight change pass over Rolfe's face; 
he turned a moment pale, but immediately 
recovering his confidence and firmness, he fol-
lowed the Messenger. 
" It will matter little," said he, addressing 
his guide, " which way we approach the King, 
so we are there when He calls." 
The Messenger's words were few and solemn. 
" There is but one way," said he, looking on-
wards. 
" And that the way which seemed the best for 
one's work," said Rolfe. To be sure I broke 
away Albyn's army and the outward body of the 
Vast army ; but my heart was in the same cause, 
so I count it matters little; and all these good 
people who followed inc are bound up in the 
same cause with myself." 
" Whether it be for good or for bad," said 
the other, " you have brought them into it, and 
you must answer for them ;" and he continued 
his onward step. 
" Oh ! true, true;" continued Rolfe, putting 
on a manner of ease. " I have no fears about 
that. But how will it fare, think you, with 
young Erza, who left the King's cause ?" 
" I know not, the King will decide ; it all de-
pends whether he was at his post—the post the 
king gave him." 
" His post—the post !" muttered Rolfe, " you 
make much of that. I have not made so much 
of it; still of course I have made a great deal 
of it, quite enough. I have no fears.'' 
" Those who say they have no fears, are fear-
less in words only," said a Voice. 
Rolfe seemed disturbed. 
" Well, but," continued he, addressing the 
Messenger, " well, but tell me ;" but the Mes-
senger placed his finger on his lips, as if for si-
lence, and Rolfe looked frightened and was 
still. 
I noticed many figures followed Rolfe closely, 
who seemed to cling to his footsteps. 
" Why do you follow so closely, friends ?" 
said he. 
" We are bound up with you," was the answer. 
" You led us here so far, and we will be by 
you now, that you may answer for us; for you 
know, more than we do, why we took the step 
we did." 
" What step ? what step ?" cried Rolfe impa-
tiently, yet half—jocosely. 
" Why, the leaving the -Vast Army," said 
they. " We had our doubts, you know, at the 
time, and they are increased now, you took it 
upon yourself to lead us away, and you must an-
swer for us now, if we took a false step." 
" Oh, don't fear; don't fear, my good fel-
lows," said Rolfe, " all is safe ;" but a falter in 
his voice betokened a slight doubt in his mind 
whether it were so. 
The men shook their heads, and followed the 
Messengers of the King. I looked to Rolfe's 
brow, I saw the mark of the cross; but it was 
like a furrow, or a-channel, dry, without light, 
and lifeless. As they went on, they crossed the 
path of more than one who was being led to the 
presence of the King. I noticed there were very 
many more than I had seen before, and all were 
deeply concerned more or less in their meeting 
with the King. My eye fell on a figure who 
was hastily coming up from the rocks, following 
his Messenger, and approaching the place where 
Rolfe was standing. 
There was a settled look of scorn on the face 
of this man, which seemed to struggle with a 
feeling of fear which plainly held him. 
" Oh, Lufra! cried Rolfe, " and are you too 
summoned to meet the King? we are a goodly 
company. But how are you ready ? for you 
never believed He would come at all ; and what 
is likely to be the case of such ?" said he, address-
ing the Messenger. 
The Messenger made no answer, but moved on 
more swiftly in his onward course. Lufra, looked 
sullen and scornful. 
" Nay, don't be angry," said the other ; " I on-
ly wondered how the King would receive you, 
when you seemed scarce to believe there was a 
king at all." 
" It remains to be proved yet, perhaps," said 
he; but though he tried to wear an expression 
of boldness and carelessness, his lips quivered, 
and his voice faltered. 
The Messenger turned and looked at him, and 
an expression of deep sorrow wasiu his face at 
Lufra's last words ; his eye seemed to look him 
through and through; Lufra felt it, and hung 
his head, and pulled his soldier's cap more 
closely over his eyes. 
" At least," said Rolfe, " you were not at 
your post when the King came, and they say 
that is all that matters." 
" Better to be away altogether from one's 
post, than mind it carelessly as some do," he an-
swered. " I am none of those who have made 
so much of the thing that is to be done ; my care 
is for the way of doing it. It's better at least-to 
be an open foe, than a bad serving friend," he 
continued in a tone excusing himself. " I love 
openness, and I doubt not but the King does too. 
I shall not stand in so bad a plight either, when 
I think of this one and that who did their work 
so poorly, and were so easily drawn off their 
post ;" and his voice gained more confidence. 
" We must hasten," said the Messenger ; 
" time is short, and the King waits not." 
Lufra hastened on : I looked at his brow; I 
saw at first nothing, no mark, no Sign upon his 
brow; at last I thought I could discover a pale 
light which burnt there, but it was more the red 
mark of a fire nearly burnt out. 
I noticed that Erza, did not stay to look at any 
who passed him ; he moved on, bearing his ban-
ner with a look of deep anxiety on his brow. 
" Oh, stay ! stay, wait for me one little hour," 
cried a loud and bitter voice ; " hear me ! but 
one little hour ! I am undone ! I am undone ! 
Cannot you stay one hour, while I gather my 
broken fragments ?" 
" Not a moment !" was the calm stern an-
swer of him who, with his arm stretched out to-
wards the east, was urging the supplicant to fol-
low. 
I turned towards the spot : on a rock which 
overhung a pass, leant .the slender form of a 
youth ; at hiS feet lay a banner, broken, and in 
shivers, which he was vainly trying to gather up. 
As he stood, I noticed large tear-drops coursed 
their way down his face, and his whole frame 
seemed to shudder with emotion. 
" Oh, it was my post, my post, my poor neg-
lected post ! I was bid keep this banner to wave 
above the pass, and I but left it for a few min-
utes, and the foe has cut it in pieces; and now 
I am called to meet the King ; and must I go ? 
utterly, utterly unready. Is- there no hope ? 
may. I not stay to strive to put it together ?" 
" Away ! away !" cried the Messenger stern-
ly ; " there is no time—the King waits thee." 
" For what?" asked the boy bitterly. 
" To give an account of how you have kept 
your post committed to you," said he, '' and 
guarded that committed to your charge: Thou 
knowest, Ulla !" said he, again urging him. 
Ulla wrung his hands in bitterness of soul. 
" And what account shall I give ? I left it 
not half an hour, to join with yonder merry ones 
in play, and see what it has come to !" 
The time is short," said the other ; " we 
must go." 
" My post. ! my neglected post !" cried the 
boy bitterly, as he passed Erza with his banner 
shivered and rent, and dragging
° 
 it after him. 
Erza shuddered, and hung his head; "My 
neglected post !" thought he, 
The boy addressed him as he passed quickly 
by him, as if speaking would relieve his suffer-
ing mind. " I never thought it would come to 
this," said he, looking bitterly at Erza; " I 
never, never thought it; you are happy, very 
happy; Oh ! can you do nothing to help me ?" 
He appealed so sadly and earnestly to Erza, that 
the boy scarcely knew what to answer. 
" What is the cause of your grief ?" said he. 
" I have deserted my appointed place, and 
my banner is broken." 
" That is not all," said a Voice. 
The boy hesitated, and hung his head. 
A Voice passed by, which said, " When Ul-
la's banner fell by his own neglect, a large por-
tion of the soldiers of the King lost their signal 
and mark, and were lost in the defiles of the 
racks, and were taken captive by the enemy ; 
and they will all bear witness against Ulla at the 
King's bar." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
• 
Ulla shuddered 
" But, surely, what you did was most natural, 
My neglect stops not at the banner's being for a father to wish to be near his son." 
broken," said he bitterly ; " and where it will " Yes, but the King expects nothing but obe- 
end I know not. Oh ! Erza, Erza, cannot you dience to Him. He will have none served but 
help me ?" 
Him, and no cause thought of but his. A son 
How can I ?" said the other kindly; " I must not be thought of first ; and besides, sir, 
would do all I could, but I know not what to do," see how my son treats me ; he lays all on me, he 
Oh, I know that, I know that," said Ulla; turns against me ; and so it is always where we 
"you can do nothing ; I am undone ! undone !" place our affections on the wrong object, or even 
At that moment a band of captives were seen the right one overmuch ; the very thing we love 
being hurried along towards the camp ; their turns against us, and proves our ruin ; and now 
hands were loaded with chains, and their necks all is lost !" 
bowed down. 
And the poor father covered his face with his 
" Whither away ?" said one. 
hands, and went on ; I thought I noticed the 
" Whither ?" said they ; " to the King, to an- son mock at him and his grief. 
sorer for our neglect of duty, by which, damage 
has come to the King's cause ; but we care not I will mention but one more of the parties I 
much, for we shall lay all the blame on him saw, for there were many ;—I noticed one, they 
who caused it. It was no fault of ours; we called him Olfric ; his step was firm, and his 
never saw the banner float as the leader said it eye cast down ; his brow calm and serene, and 
would, and how could we help it ? Let the its expression peaceful ; his soldier's dress was 
blame fall where it lies." 
wound around him ; on his breast some wounds 
Ulla groaned deeply, and smote his breast. had been made ; he carried his shield and his 
" Undone ! undone !" said he. " Is there not sword, and the cross glowed brightly on his fore-
one more hour ? Kind sir, one hour, and I will head. I saw one following him close, and 
firmly hold my place, and go through every suf- crouching down behind him, as I thought he 
fering to keep it. Oh, I would bear years of seemed trying to be hid in the shadow the young 
suffering at my place, if I may only go back soldier cast from the glow before him on the 
and try once more, only once more! Is all ground behind him. The hindmost figure seemed 
hope over ?" 
older by some years than the foremost, though 
The Messenger made no answer, but calmly his anxious, frightened manner and agitated ef-
pointing over his head to the point they were forts betokened an alarm that the other did not 
moving to, went swiftly on. 
show. 
" Then all is lost," said the poor boy, and " Who is yon crouching man?" said I, ad- 
folding his hands on his aching brow : I heard dressing my guide. 
him speak no more. 
" He is one who, having a far fame for his 
" The King is kind and full of love," said knowledge of arms, instructed many of the sol-
one who came by on the same object, led by a diers of the King in the mode of warfare, and 
Messenger, " and I am depending on his kind- has indeed formed some of our best soldiers : 
ness, so why not you?" he continued, addressing and young Olfric is one of his best of all ; a 
him we just spoke of ; " I am confident all is valiant and faithful soldier has the youth been 
right with me, I have never left the work I had to the King. But yon man, though he formed 
to do, that is, only when I plainly saw I could so many good men, turned out ill himself, and 
be more useful elsewhere, and then I used my neglected his own work. Men spoke fair of him 
own judgment, and changed my place." for the work he had done for others, and now he 
" And what was the change ?" asked another, is trying to hide in the shadow of him he formed 
who walked by him. 
and taught, hoping that will save him." 
" Why, I was told to give a signal from a hill " And will it have any effect !" said I. 
when the enemy should be seen advancing along " None whatever," was the answer ; " none. 
a certain road; and after I watched a long time, It is not the fitting others for their post that will 
I saw none were coming; and hearing fierce do when soldiers meet the King, if they have not 
work going on below, and knowing how well been found ready at their own." 
suited I was to be in the thick of the fight, I " But," said I, " if all the army praise him, 
went down, and every one praised me for it, and even its leader ?" 
said I had done well, and should be an eminent " True," said the other : " but that will not 
servant of the King, and should have a high re- do ; there is another Voice more trustworthy 
ward." 
than that ; nothing is so deceitful and deceived 
The other was silent. 
as the opinion of one soldier of another." 
"You do not doubt it ?" said the first, with a I was thoughtful, I could not help watching 
slight anxiety in his manner. 
the many vain efforts the poor man seemed to 
" I do," was the answer ; " I do doubt if it make, to be sheltered by Olfric's shadow, but it 
will hold good when you meet the King." would not cover him, and could not. 
" Why ?" said the other ; " surely I must At length the numbers grew so many that I 
know best my own line." 
could scarcely distinguish one group from anoth- 
" Nay ! but I have ever heard that the King er. All seemed bent on the end of their jour-
is especially jealous about any one changing or ney, and were looking forward, with more or less 
choosing for himself ; and besides, how know terror, to meeting the King. I followed with 
you but what the enemy may have passed over my guide, and naturally kept my closest atten-
the road at the moment, and so more harm done tion on Erza, whom I had so long an interest in. 
to the King's cause, than all the good you did I followed him as near as I could, but when we 
in the fight below ?" 
reached the end of the line of works we had been 
His companion grew thoughtful and sad. moving along, I found we could proceed no fur- 
" I meant no harm," said he ; I did it for ther ; for the air was thronged with the Messen- 
the best." 
gers of the King, who prevented nearer approach; 
A silent solemn Voice passed by, which all I could do was to stand and gaze down, 
seemed to say, " Over the very road the enemy were through the openings in the works I could 
passed, the moment you ceased to watch, the see the intense light which they said was near 
danger done to the King was great ; one hour's the King himself, and through which there were 
more watching would have saved all." entering and returning those who were led into 
The boy turned ashy pale and spoke no more. his presence. 
saw following the King's Messengers. There 
I will mention but two more of the figures I The Small Number of the Elect. 
came a man older than some I had seen, and by 
his side a youth, who seemed like his son. The 
father frequently turned to his boy, and appeared 
in some degree of discomfort. 
Whatever trouble there is," said the boy in 
a sullen manner, " you must take the blame." 
" Alas ! alas !" said the other ; " who would 
have thought it would have come to this, to lay 
all the guilt on me? You seem glad to do it, 
and then for it to come from you! Oh ! me, 
alas ! alas !" cried the father, clasping his hands, 
and looking with agony towards the glow. 
" What is the matter ?" said one who was 
passing near. 
" The matter!" said the other; "why, the 
King gave me a place in the Vast Army, and 
told me he would trust me, and would depend 
on me; and I had arms given me, and begun to 
do my work with determination. But yon boy, 
whom I loved with my soul, who was in another 
part of the army, refused to do his work unless I 
were near him ; and without orders I left my 
work to join him." 
" Well ! but you went back to it again ?" 
" No, no ; I meant to do so in an after day, 
and he kept me, and I put off going continually ; 
and at last the army joined the King, and I was 
not there, and now t am called to meet Him, 
and what shall I do ?" 
mercy or of eternal death pronounced against On the morning of the 21st of May, last year, 
you ; for you may well flatter yourselves that the rain began to fall in torrents, and soon 
you will die such as you are to day. All these caused the Weirabee river to overflow. By 12 
desires of change and amendment which amuse o'clock noon, the waters had risen so high as to 
you, will amuse you till the bed of death. This reach the house of E. D. W , Esq., which 
is the experience of all ages. All that you will stood on the west side of the stream, in a beau-
in the future find new in you, will perhaps be a tiful little valley, lying between the high banks 
greater and more aggravated account to render that run along the margin of the river. The gar-
to God, than what you have to day. And as to den lay on the opposite side of the stream, and 
what you will yet be, were you to be judged this was by this time completely covered. This state 
moment, you could almost decide what will be of things seems not to have caused much appre-
your fate when you leave this life. 
hension, as in Australia floods are of frequent 
" I ask of you, then, and I ask it of you, ter- occurrence in the winter season ; but at two 
ror-stricken, not separating in this respect my o'clock the family became suddenly alarmed at 
fate from yours, but placing myself in the same the immense body of water, now rolling down on 
position in which I desire to regard yourself—I both sides of the house, in the river on the one 
ask of you, then, if Jesus Christ should appear hand, and in the hitherto dry gullies, or old wa-
in this temple, in the midst of this assembly, the ter courses, on the other, rendering it impossible 
most august in the world, in order to judge you to reach the high banks already mentioned, and 
—to make the terrible separation between the gain a place of safety. It was therefore deemed 
sheep and the goats—believe you, that the greater advisable to make preparations for getting on 
number of those here weuld be placed on his the roof of the house. There were eight persons 
right hand ? Believe you, that the division at the station. Five of the number being ladies, 
would be equal ? Believe you, that even ten they were almost helpless. So rapidly did the 
righteous men would be found here, whom once waters increase, that it was with the utmost dif-
God could not find in five entire cities ? I ask ficulfy they managed to open the door and keep 
it of you—you know not, and I know not myself it open, while one by one they attempted their 
—Thou alone, Oh God, knowest those that are escape ; the stream rushed so wildly through the 
thine ! But if we know not those who belong to passage, that before the family had all quitted 
him, we know, at least, that sinners are not his. the parlor, the chairs, tables, and other articles 
But who are the faithful here assembled ? Titles of furniture, were floating in confusion around 
and dignities here count nothing ; you will be them. 
despoiled of them by Jesus Christ. But who are At dusk, 5 o'clock, they were all on the roof, 
they ? Many sinners who wish not to reform and as well situated as circumstances would per-
their lives ; yet more, who desire it, but who de- mit, trying to cheer each other with the assur-
fer their conversion. Again, others who never ance that the house would stand, although im-
reform but only again to fall back. Finally, a mense logs kept continually crashing against it. 
great number who believe they have no need of That hope, however, passed away, for shortly 
conversion. These are they who are reproved ! afterward they could distinctly hear the parti-
Take away these four classes from this assembly, tions underneath them gradually giving way. It 
for they will be taken away in the great day ; was now nine o'clock, the rain still descending 
and then appear, ye just ! Where are ye ? Thou heavily, a terrific gale of wind blowing, and it 
holy remnant of Israel, pass to the right hand ! was as much as they could do to hang on, shel-
Pure grain of the Lord, separate yourself from tering themselves with blankets from the bitter 
this chaff, destined for eternal fires! Oh God ! cold. The waters, as well as they could discern 
where are thine elect ? and what is left for thine in the dark, were raging around them on every 
inheritance ?" 
side, like the ocean in a storm ; and by this time 
had reached as high as the eaves of the house. 
They therefore fled to the saddle-boards or ridge, 
as a last place of refuge ; and just as they got 
up, the two chimneys, which formed the gable 
ONE priest alone can pardon me, ends of the house, fell with a crash. The mo- 
Or bid me " Go in peace;" 
ments of suspense that followed are indescriba- 
Can breathe that word, Absolvo te, ble. Was it possible that the roof could stand ? 
And make these heart-throbs cease: At length ten o'clock came, and the man serv- 
My soul has heard His priestly voice; ant succeeded in crossing over to the roof of the 
It said " I bore thy sins—rejoice !" kitchen, at the back of which stood an old tree ; 
but he had scarcely got up on its branches, when 
He show'd the spear-mark in his side, the roof to which the others clung sunk and dis- 
The nail print on his palm ; 
appeared. Another fearful moment, and they 
Said, " Look on Me, the Crucified; were afloat—afloat on the raging flood, amidst 
Why tremble thus ? Be calm ! the wreck of the house, with its varied contents, 
All power is mine, I set thee free, tossing in wild confusion around them. Never 
Be not afraid—Absolvo te." 
will the survivors forget the cry that arose on 
the air, above even the strife of the elements, as 
the current swept them away on the fragments of 
the wood shingled roof. At a short distance, 
however, and in front of the spot where the house 
had stood, were several large gum trees. One 
of the ladies screamed out : " To the trees ! to 
the trees !" and as the roof dashed against one 
of them, Mrs. K—, Miss L—, and their 
visitor, caught hold of the branches ; but how, 
they could not tell, as it was too dark to distin-
guish anything rightly. The remaining four, 
Mr. and Mrs. W—, with their daughter and 
son, sunk in the waters, and, with the exception 
of the son, never rose again. 
He robed me in a priestly dress, 
Morning was long, long looked for. At laA 
That I might incense bring 
it tardily made its appearance ; but with it came 
Of prayer, and praise, and righteousness, no hope of rescue, for all the boats in the neigh- 
To heaven's eternal King; 
borhood had that night been washed away; and 
And when he gave this robe to me, the neighbors who had gathered around the spot 
He smiled and said, Absolvo te. could render no assistance. In the middle of 
the day, the ladies caught sight of Mr. W 
(the son), they could only distinguish him far 
away in the distance. Till then, they thought 
he had perished with the others ; and their joy 
on discovering him was sadly checked by per-
ceiving his perilous position. As the current 
carried him down the river, he had caught hold 
of a floating log, to which he clung, and which 
afterward lodged in the branches of a small tree ; 
the action of the waters kept this in continual 
motion, which compelled him to hold on con-
stantly with both hands, and as the darkness of 
the second evening closed in upon him, the spec-
tators felt he had only been rescued on the one 
" A little while," and He shall come night to perish on the next. 
Forth from "the inner shrine," 
As dusk approached on Saturday evening, the 
To call His pardon'd brethren home; waters had subsided considerably; so much so, 
0 bliss supreme, Divine ! 
that the man-servant was able to come down from 
When every blood-bought child shall see his tree to the one on which the ladies were shel- 
THE PRIEST who said, Absolvo te. tered. At the foot of the latter, the roof' of the 
kitchen had lodged. He assured them that they 
might with safety descend; and most gladly did 
An Australian Flood. they avail themselves of his assistance to do so ; 
but as the waters were yet too high to hope for 
THE scene of this disaster is a station on the any other relief, thye had to pass the second 
lower Weirabee, distant about twenty-four miles long, long night, cold and hungry, on the wreck 
west of Melbourne, and the residence of one of of the root' of the kitchen, which was now firmly 
the oldest and most respectable families in the imbedded in the newly thrown up gravel bank. 
colony of Victoria : 
Hour by hour, the night slowly wore away ; at 
VOLTAIRE regarded the following extract from 
Massillon, as one of the finest specimens of elo-
quence. It is taken from this eminent preach-
er's sermon on " The small number of the elect." 
Massillon does not waste his time and words in 
this discourse, in dissertations upon the eternal 
decrees of God, &c., but deduces the small num-
ber of the saved from the conduct of men, from 
moral causes, from the fewness of the righteous 
on earth. The entire discourse is very forcible 
and animated. But when the orator came to 
the following passage, Voltaire says, the whole 
assembly involuntarily started to their feet, and 
that the murmurs of acclamation and astonish-
ment disconcerted Massillon, but greatly in-
creased the effect of his appeal. The animated 
tone, manner, and language of the French pul-
pit orator, is needed to give complete effect to 
his discourse. 
" I pause with you, my brethren, who are 
here assembled. I speak no more of the rest of 
men ; but regard you as if you were alone on 
the earth. And this is the thought that occupies 
and moves my soul. I imagine that this is your 
last hour, and the end of the world ; that the 
heavens are about to open above you, and Jesus 
Christ appear in all his glory in the midst of his 
temple, and that you are assembled here like 
trembling criminals, to hear the sentence of 
Absolvo Te. 
In chains of sin once " tied and bound," 
I walk in life and light; 
Each spot I tread is hallow'd ground, 
Whilst Him I keep in sight 
Who died a victim on the tree, 
That he might say, Absolvo te. 
By him my soul is purified, 
Once leprous and defiled; 
Cleansed by the water from his side, 
God sees me " as a child ;" 
No priest can heal or cleanse but he—
No other say, Absolvo te. 
In heaven He stands before the throne, 
The great High Priest above, 
" MELCHIZEDEK "—that name alone 
Can sin's dark stain remove; 
To him I look on bended knee, 
And hear that sweet Absolvo te. 
A girded Levite here below, 
I willing service bring; 
And fain would tell to all I know 
Of Christ the priestly King; 
Would woo all hearts from sin to flee, 
And hear Him say, Absolvo te. 
d. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
with the mild sway and heavenly light of this 
same infallible Church Who can doubt it ? 
Hear the oracle •: " Our religon can and 
should be supported by Governtnent," It assures 
us that the priests and Jesuits are all " working 
to produce this desirable result," Is it doubtful 
now '1
Nil desperoulum 1 the good time's com- 
ing, 
Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, 
last came the morning again, and to the surprise 
and joy of all, Mr. R. W— was still seen on 
the floating log, hanging on as before. The wa-
ters were now subsiding fast ; and shortly after 
sunrise, about fifteen men from the adjoining 
stations came down to see what could be done 
for the rescue of the sufferers. They went to the 
gentleman first, as his situation was most peril-
ous ; and three of them plunged courageously 
into the stream, and got ropes across to him. 
He secured one around his waist, and with that 
was dragged to the shore, in a state of such ex-
haustion that it was thought at first he would 
not recover : but, thanks to a kind providence, 
he is now quite well. The men next went to the 
assistance of those on the gravel bank, and they 
had in like manner to be dragged to the land 
with ropes. At last they were all landed safely 
on the high banks, and at once taken to Mr. 
C 's station, where every kindness and atten- 
tion was shown them, and where they remained 
till they regained their strength. They had been 
altogether forty-eight hours without food, very 
thinly clad, and with no covering on either their 
heads or feet. Everything belonging to the 
house and family was washed down to Port Philip 
Bay, a distance of about four miles; even the 
piano-forte was found on the beach, but of course 
totally destroyed. Nothing of value was saved ; 
and the place is so changed, that no one could 
recognize the valley where once stood the happy 
home and beautiful garden of the family at the 
Weirabee, whose hearth is indeed a lonely one 
now. 
The Oriental Question not Settled. 
No official news from Constantinople. It 
seems that the Sultan and his Council have not 
yet made up their mind whether they should ac-
cept the propositions of the four Powers, though 
strongly recommended by Lord Redcliffe and 
M. de Lacour. The Sultan now finds fault with 
his protectors at London and Paris, who here 
pushed him at the time of Menschikoff to resist, 
but now advise him to yield, when Russia has 
aggravated the insult by an act of piracy. More-
over, it becomes daily more dangerous for the 
Porte to yield before the Principalities are evac-
uated, since the Turkish army have declared 
that, in case there shall be no satisfaction given 
to Turkey, they will return to Constantinople 
and murder all the coward Pashas who have sac-
rificed the national honor and independence.—
The Ulemas and Muftis are all for war ; the Pa-
shas for peace. Yet whatever may be the reso-
lution of the Porte, the Oriental question is far 
from being settled. The last two telegraphic 
despatches look rather serious. The first an-
nounces with a few words the outbreak in Ser-
via; which I had predicted many months back; 
the second informs us that the Hospodars of the 
Principalities, recalled by the Sultan to Constan-
tinople, have declared that they shall not com-
ply with the order. Upon this the Consuls of 
England and France struck their flags and left 
their post. Besides, Fokshani, a Moldavian 
town on the Turkish bank of the Pruth, is now 
erected into a fortress by the Russians, and the 
Austrian army of observation, close to the fron-
tier of Servia, is daily increased and put under 
the command of General Schlick, the best gen-
eral of the Austrian's. In a few days we may 
hear that the Austrians have crossed the frontier ; 
of course always as the allies of the Porte; oc-
cupying Servia, but only to preserve it to the 
Sultan. Now we cannot forget that Servia is a 
dependency of Turkey which pays tribute to the 
Porte, and furnishes a war contingent, but the 
internal administration of which is entirely in 
the hands of the natives. They elect their 
Prince, the Sultan confirms him only, and if, 
therefore, there is a rising in Servia against the 
reigning Prince, it is not called for by the mal-
administration of the Turks, and it does not alter 
the condition of the principality and its relation 
to the Porte. That the present Prince, Alexan-
der Karageorgiwich, is known as a mild and in-
telligent ruler, who has only one fault, viz., that 
he is anti-Russian, and therefore Austro-Russian 
intrigues are to deprive him of his throne, and 
Turkey of one province more. However, I know 
positively that Prince Alexander was prepared 
for an outbreak in the interest of Michael Obre-
nowich, who was dethroned in 1841, and I be-
lieve that the insurrection was soon quelled, 
though the telegraph has not yet said anything 
about the rusult of the rising. This however 
will be a sufficient pretext for Russia not to 
evacuate the Principalities, and perhaps for Aus-
tria to enter into Servia, and in any case, the 
question is far from being settled. The Czar 
has completely outwitted the English and French 
Governments, and the war will probably break 
out in winter or the beginning of spring, when 
the navies of the maritime powers cannot assist 
the Turks. 
The West generally looks upon the Ottoman 
Empire as upon a dead body wtthout vitality—
as on a realm held together only by its inertness, 
by the forbearance of its neighbors, and the mor-
tal jealousy of the great powers of Europe, who 
A Fejee Specimen of Burying Alive. 
Fnom a " Journal of a cruise among the Isl-
ands of the Western Pacific," by John Elphin-
stone Erskine, Captain in the Royal Navy, we 
take the following picture of a living interment 
among the Feejee Islands. The scene relates to 
a young man who having been ailing for some 
time, who fearing to be reproached by the Fee-
jee young women as a skeleton, concluded to go 
down into the ground before life and his poor 
body should become strangers. An American 
by-stander tried to dissuade the young man from 
his purpose, but in vain : 
" By this time all his relations had collected 
round the door. His father had a kind of wood-
en spade to dig his grave with, his mother had a 
new suit of tapa, his sister some vermillion and 
a whale's tooth, as an introduction to the great 
god of Rage-Rage. He arose, took up his bed 
and walked, not for life but for death, his father, 
mother, and sister following after, with several 
other distant relations, whom I accompanied. I 
noticed that they seemed to follow him some-
thing in the same way that they follow a corpse 
in Europe to the grave—that is, as far as rela-
tionship and acquaintance are concerned—but, 
instead of lamenting, they were, if not rejoicing, 
acting and chatting in a very unconcerned way. 
At last we reached a place where several graves 
could be seen, and a spot was soon selected by 
the man who was to be buried. The old man, 
his father, began digging his grave, while his 
mother assisted' her son in putting on a new tapa, 
and the girl—his sister—was besmearing him 
with vermillion and lampblack, so as to send 
him decent into the invisible world, he—the 
victim—delivering messages that were to be 
taken by his sister to people then absent. His 
father then announced to him and the rest that 
the grave was completed, and asked him in ra-
ther a surly tone, if he was not ready by this 
time. The 'nether then nosed him, and like- 
wise the sister. He said, " Before I die, I 
should like a drink of water." His father made 
a surly remark, and said, as he ran to fetch it in 
a leaf doubled up—" You have been a consid-
erable trouble during your life, and it appears 
you are going to trouble us equally at your 
death." The father returned with the water, 
which the son drank off, and then looked up into 
a tree covered with tough vines, saying he should 
prefer being strangled with a vine to being 
smothered in the grave. His father became ex-
cessively angry, and spreading the mat at the 
bottom of the grave, told the son to die " faka 
tamaka "—like a man—when he stepped into 
the grave which was not more than four feet 
deep, and lay down with the whale's tooth in his 
hands, which were clasped across his belly. 
The spare sides of the mats were lapped over 
him so as to prevent the earth from getting to 
his body, and then about a foot of earth was 
shovelled in upon him as quickly as possible. 
His father stamped it immediately down solid, 
and called out in a loud voice, " Sa tiko, sa 
tiko "—you are stopping there, you are stop-
ping there—meaning, " Good by, good by." 
The son answered with a very audible grunt, and 
then about two feet more earth were shovelled in 
and stamped as before by the loving father, and 
" Sa tiko," called out again, which was answered 
by another grunt, but much fainter. The grave 
was then completely filled up, when, for curios-
ity's sake, I said myself, " Sa tiko," but no an-
swer wasalthough I fancied or did really 
see the earth
gen
iv
Crack a little on the top of the 
grave. 
The father and mother then turned back 
on the middle of the grave, and having drop-
ped some kind of leaves from their hands, 
walked away in opposite directions toward a 
running stream of water hard by, where they 
and all the rest washed themselves, and made 
me wash myself, and then we returned to the 
town where a feast was prepared. As soon as the 
feast was over, began the dance and uproar, 
which are always carried on either at natural or 
violent deaths. All classes then give themselves 
up to excess, and create all manner of uproar, 
by means of large bamboos, trumpet shells, etc., 
which will contribute to the general noise which 
is considered requisite to drive the spirit away, 
and deter him from desiring to dwell or hover 
about his late residence. e 
.,.. 
.• ' valgday+ 
The Good Time Coming. 
IN a sermon delivered by a Romish priest, on 
the 26th of March last, in the village of Dushore, 
Sullivan county, Pa., the following language was 
uttered, and much more of the same sort : 
" The United States belong to our Lord the 
Pope, and are his property ; and the time is 
coming, Christians—before long, too—when the 
Roman Catholic religion will be the only one 
allowed among the people." 
" Our church has had eighteen hundred years 
experience—she is right, and has decreed it. She 
is infallible, and therefore cannot be wrong. We 
are all working to produce so desirable a result, 
Our religion must, can, and should be supported 
by government." 
Well, this is somewhat encouraging.—Modest 
claims, these. Perhaps they will be conceded by 
the free people of these United States, descend-
ants of the pilgrim sires. But somebody, no 
doubt, will live to see. According to the above 
oracle of this quasi prophet, we and all our good-
ly possessions are the property of our Lord the 
Pope. We are soon to have but one master—he 
not in heaven, but on earth ; not God, but the 
Pope. We are to have one worship—not accord-
ing to the dictates of conscience, but the teachings 
and ritual of the Pope ; not the spiritual wor-
ship of the Father, but the adoration of saints 
and the Virgin Mary, of pictures and pretended 
relics, mixed up with the senseless mummeries of 
pagan priests. We are to enjoy the advantage 
of an infallible Church, gently coercing, if need 
be, by fire and fagot, and the tortures of the 
inquisition, our belief in the truth, according to 
her teachings—however contrary these teachings 
may be to reason and experience—to evidence. 
mathematical or moral ; however absurd or ri-
diculous. What condescension to our weakness ! 
How easily and certainly are we thus to be freed 
from grievous doubts, which might impiously 
laugh to. scorn all the ordinary appliances of 
logic. What, for example, but these arguments 
of fire and steel, of cords and screws, addressed 
to his imagination, could have cured the " hereti-
cal depravity " of a Galileo, jeopardizing his 
eternal salvation, and that of myriads of others, 
by believing and teaching that the earth turns 
over—also that it moves round the sun ; instead 
of the canonical doctrine, that it is the ,centre of 
the universe, and immovable. What had been 
the prospects of science, to say nothing of the 
spiritual interests of mankind, in the days of this 
foolish and headstrong philosopher, had not the 
world been blessed with an infallible Church to 
correct his pernicious errors ! And 0, my coun-
trymen, is it possible we are so soon to be blessed 
are unable to come to an understanding about 
the spoils, It is always repeated, for instance, 
by Cobden and his friends, that there are scarcely 
any roads in the country ; that the Turks have 
no aptitude, either for industrial or commercial 
enterprise ; that they do not participate in the 
busy movement of Europe ; are stationary and 
unproductive in arts and literature ; and are, 
therefore, doomed to perish by the contact and 
intercourse of civilization, like the red Indians 
or the islanders of the Pacific. Certainly it is 
an Empire Eastern in its character, different 
from those which we are accustomed to see and 
to deal with in Europe. We see in Turkey a 
dominant race extending its sway over many na-
tionalities, different in creed, institutions and 
interests, controlling their own local and provin-
cial government, none of them admitted to the 
Imperial Administration, not called to the de-
fence of the Empire, and not imbued with any 
peculiar affection toward the rulers, who seem to 
hold the territory in the same way as they con-
quered it—by the sword. But these general 
outlines apply to many other Eastern Empires 
—British India, for instance ; and riots and par-
tial insurrection are not easily to be avoided in 
such a state of things. But, on the whole, there 
is less ill-will among the different nations of Tur-
key toward their masters than in Hindostan 
against the East India Company, because the 
Turks are no centralizers. They do not inter-
fere with the local self-government of the com-
munities; they tolerate every religious creed, 
and acknowledge and maintain the traditional 
local institutions of the different provinces; they 
have even excluded themselves from the terri-
tory of Servia, Moldavia, and Wallachia. 
With the exception of the garrison of Bel-
grade, there is, in time of peace, no Turk to be 
found in all the three Danubian Principalities, 
which are governed by the natives, according to 
their laws and custom : " Here, at least," says 
Urquhart, " the complaints against the mis-
" rule of the Turks are exaggerated. They 
" could not misrule much where they did not 
" rule at all—nor be ferocious where never pres-
" ent. Their haughty carelessness removed deep 
" grounds of opposition, and their subjects could 
" not suspect them of insidious designs, fhr less 
of theoretic views, against their institutions. 
" The barbarism of Turkey was sterling—a bar- 
barism of gold—beside the pinchback civiliza-
" tion of the Russians ; it inflicted neither con- 
scription nor serfage, warred with no peculiar-
" ity of tongue, opinion, or habit, and did not 
bless the nations with uniformity of centrali-
" zation." Therefore, though the Turks are not 
much loved by their Christian subjects, their 
nominal rule is yet by far preferred either to 
that of Austria or of Russia. As to the Moldo-
Wallachs who, in 1821, were known for their 
Russian sympathies, they have become recon-
ciled to their lot as nominal Turkish subjects. 
Since they have made acquaintance with the civ-
ilized absolutism of Russia they begin to like the 
inertness of Turkey, and they prefer the Turks, 
whom they never see, to the liberating armies of 
the Czar, which they have to feed. Y. Tribune. 
Tens kind of individual is always smelling a 
continuous line of rats. He sees, hears, or dreams 
of anything in which he does not smell a rat. 
The most harmless action of his neighbor, under 
his suspicious and inquisitorial disposition, is 
made a matter of serious investigation, because 
he knows there is something in the wind, for he 
saw his neighbor, Mr. B—, talking confident-
ly to Mrs. 5— that very morning in the mar-
ket. He puts that and that together, and con-
nects this whispering in the morning with some-
thing he heard in the barber's shop, some weeks 
before, and he is satisfied that his neighbor B 
is either going to fail in business, or abscond with-
out giving his creditors due notice. 
The most terrible part of a man's character is, 
that he places such faith upon the corrollaries he 
draws from his false premises, that he does not 
hesitate to give wing to the base suspicions of his 
mind, and frequently ire the means of bringing, 
about a disaster which never would have hap-
pened but for him. 
Many a happy fireside has been rendered des-
olate—many a prosperous young man brought to 
ruin—many a virtuous and amiable girl been driv-
en to despair by the fiendish inuendoes of the sus-
picious man. No man, however upright and 
honest—no woman, however irreproachable—no 
maiden, however pure, is safe in the neighbor-
hood of a suspicious man. He has all the curiosi-
ty of Paul Pry, without his good nature. Rot-
ten to the core of his heart himself, he has no 
faith in the honesty and virtue of others. He ex-
ists in a state of continual doubt of the motives 
and actions of others, and in consequence his life 
is at the best, but a prolonged misery. 
N. 0. Delta. 
Pulpit Tenderness. 
THE Rev. Andrew Bonar tells us that on one 
occasion, meeting the late Rev. R. M. M'Cheyne, 
that lovely young minister asked him what the 
subject of' his last Sabbath's sermon had been, 
and on being told that the text was, " The wicked 
shall be turned into hell," he asked, " Were you 
able to preach it with tenderness?" Admirably 
does his biographer gad, " Certain it is that the 
tone of reproach and upbraiding is widely differ-
ent from the voice of solemn warning. It is not 
saying hard things that pierces the conscience of 
our people; it is the voice of Divine love amid 
the thunder. The sharpest point of the two- 
The Suspicious Man. 
The Death of Judas. 
IN Matt. 2,7::5, it is said that Judas, after hav-
ing brought his money and thrown it down in the 
temple, went and hanged himself. Objectors 
have represented this statement as inconsistent 
with that in Acts 1;18, where he is said to have 
" purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, 
and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the 
midst and all his bowels gushed out." But 
these passages do not necessarily contradict each 
other. Matthew does not say that Judas, after 
having hanged himself, did not fall to the ground, 
nor, on the contrary, does Luke say that Judas 
did not hang himself before he fell to the ground; 
and unless the writers affirm the reality of the 
events which they respectively mention in such a 
way as to assert or imply that if the one event be 
true the other must be false, it is obvious that they 
do not contradict each other. Of the precise re-
lation of the two events in question to each other, 
we have no information, and can affirm nothing 
with certainty. Some intermediate circumstance 
connected the one with the other as parts of 
the same transaction, but that circumstance 
not been recorded. It is conjectured that Ju-
das may have hung himself on the edge of a 
precipice near the valley of Hinnom, and that 
the rope breaking by which he was suspended, 
he fell to the earth and was dashed to pieces. 
As I stood in this valley and looked up to the 
rocky heights which hung over it on the south 
side of Jerusalem, I felt that the proposed ex-
planation was a perfectly rational one ; I was 
more than ever satisfied with it. I measured the 
precipitous, almost perpendicular walls, in dif-
ferent places, and found the height to be various-
ly forty, thirty-six, thirty-three, thirty, and twen-
ty-five feet. Olive trees still grow quite near the 
edge of these rocks, and anciently no doubt these 
and other trees were still more numerous in the 
same place. At the bottom of these precipices 
are also rocky ledges on which a person would 
fall from above, and in that case not only would 
life be destroyed, but the body almost inevitably 
bruised and mangled. 
Prof. Hackett. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE COMING CRISIS. 
means to alleviate their atiguish in view of im-
pending calamities. 
" Darkened," applied to " joy," is a metaphor 
expressive of its cessation. Joy is regarded as a 
light, which is extinguished. Its action on the 
mind is analogous to that of light on the body—
enlivening and gladdening. As the Psalmist says, 
(97:11) " Light is sown for the righteous, and 
gladness for the upright in heart." And Solomon 
said, (Prov. 13:9) " The light of the righteous re-
joiceth, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put 
out." Also, (Prov. 15:30) " The light of the 
eyes rejoiceth the heart." 
By a synecdoche, '• city " is put for all the 
cities of the earth ; and by a metonymy, " gate " 
the entrance to ti-se city, is put for those who go 
in and out thereof. 
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, 
There shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, 
And as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.—v. 13 
" As the shaking of an olive tree," and " as the 
gleaning of grapes," are similes teaching that a 
remnant of the inhabitants of the earth will be 
saved from the destruction awaiting the great ma-
jority. It corresponds with the 6th v. : '• There-
fore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and 
few men left." The condition of the few, and the 
change which passes on them is not given in the 
text, but is clearly stated in other scriptures. See 
note on v. 6th. 
They shall lift up their voice 
They shall sing fur the majesty of the Lord, 
They shall cry aloud from the sea. 
Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires. 
Even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 
vs. 14, 15. 
To " lift up the voice," is a metaphor expressive 
of its loudness, whether it be for the utterance of 
joy or grief. In the present instance it is in the 
utterance of songs that they cry ; and the subjects 
of the affirmation are the righteous who are spared 
and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. They 
shall sing because of Jehovah's majesty. " From 
the sea," is an obscure expression in this connec-
tion, unless it has reference to the " sea of glass 
mingled with fire " used as a symbol in Rev. 15:2, 
on which stood " them that had gotten the victory 
over the beast, and over his image," who, at this 
epoch, will " sing the song of Moses the servant 
of God, and the song of the Lamb ; saying, Great 
and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Al-
mighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of 
saints." 
Because they will thus shout the praises of the 
Lord, they are encouraged to do it—even amid the 
fires of the last day, above which as in an island 
of the sea, they repose in safety, when caught up 
to meet their coming Lord. 
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, 
Even glory to the righteous. 
But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me ! 
The treacherous deal Ts have dealt treacherously ; 
Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.-v. 16. 
The prophet represents himself as hearing the 
songs referred to in the previous texts—the present 
being put for the future tense. The burden of 
them is, " Glory to the Righteous." The day of 
the Lord will be a day of glory to them, while it 
darkens all the joy of the wicked. Till then, the 
people of God are afflicted and scattered ; then they 
will be gathered and glorified. This view of their 
future glory led the prophet to contemplate the 
state of his own spiritual condition, and by a term 
descriptive of the loss of flesh, he expresses his 
self abasement. Dr. Lowth supposes that the 
prophet stations himself in the place of God's 
professed people, and utters his self-condemnation 
in view of the defects which he foresaw in them. 
" Treacherous dealers," are a substitution for 
those who do wickedly ; and their dealing " very 
treacherously " is indicative of the intensity of 
their wickedness. Bishop Lowth says, " the word 
togedhim [for treachery] often signifies the trans-
gressors of, or apostates from God's law ; so it is 
used 48:8, Jer. 5:11, and elsewhere ; and in this 
sense the Septuagint understand it here ; which 
agrees best with the scope of the place, and im-
plies that iniquity should very much abound, even 
among the professors of the true religion, and should 
bring down God's judgments in a terrible manner 
upon great numbers of them." 
ALL men admit that)ve are nearing a crisis of no 
common magnitude ; but different minds view it 
from different stand points. The following is the 
view which the Investigator, the infidel paper in this 
city takes of the subject : 
To a calm observer and cool calculator in regard 
to European politics and the present exigency of 
things, it is evident that a crisis is just at hand. 
In the very nature of things ; an armed neutrality 
with its enormous expense; the deep indebtedness 
of all the belligerent powers of Europe, in conse-
quence of which taxation is carried to the extreme ; 
the low price of labor and high price of all kinds 
of sustenance which places millions on the point of 
edged sword is not death, but life, and against 
self-righteous souls the latter ought to be more 
used than the former. For such souls can hear 
us tell of the open gates of hell and the un-
quenchable fire far more unconcernedly than of 
the gates of heaven wide open for their immedi-
ate return. When we preach that the glad tid-
ings were intended to impart immediate assur-
ance of eternal life to every sinner that believes 
them, we strike deeper upon the proud enmity of 
the world to God, than when we show the eter-
nal curse and second death." 
(.11)e taDucat Cjeral. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1853. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTE11, XXIV. 
Tins prophecy, beginning with the 24th and 
ending with the 27th chapter, is applied by dif-
ferent expositors to various desolations of Jerusa-
lem, as Mr. Barnes thus states : 
" Grotius regards it as relating to the carrying 
away of the ten tribes by Shalthanezer. Hensler 
supposes that it refers to the invasion of Sennache-
rib. Vitringa supposes that it relates to the 
times of the AlacCabees, and to the trials and 
calamities which came upon the Jews under the 
persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes. Noyes re-
gards it as descriptive of the destruction of the 
land by Nebuchadnezzar, and of the return of the 
Jews from exile. Calvin regards the account in 
these four chapters as a summing up, or recapitula-
tion of what the prophet had said in the previous 
prophecies respecting Babylon, Moab, Egypt, &c., 
and then of the subsequent state of prosperity, 
and of the spread of the true religion which should 
succeed these general and far-spread devastations. 
Subsequently to each of these predictions respecting 
calamity, the prophet had foretold prosperity and 
the advance of truth ; and he supposes that this 
is a mere condensing, or summing up of what he 
had said more at length in the preceding chapters. 
Lcwth supposes that it may have reference to all 
the great desolations of the country by Shalman-
ezer, by Nebuchadnezzar, and by the Romans, 
especially to that of the Romans to which some 
parts of it, he says, seem to be peculiarly appli-
cable. 
" On the whole, it seems to me, that the prophe-
cy relates to the calamities that would come upon 
the nation by the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar, and 
the carrying away to Babylon, and the subsequent 
deliverance from that oppressive bondage, and the 
joy consequent on that."—Notes on Isaiah, v. 2, 
pp. 132-3. 
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, 
The world languisheth and fadeth away, 
The haughty people of the earth do languish.—v.4. 
The last clause of this verse, shows that the 
people of the land are the subjects of the affirma-
tion, and that the earth " and " world " are put 
by metonymy, for those who inhabit it. " Lan-
guish " and " fade away," are metaphors, terms 
applicable to flowers, which soon lose their vitali-
ty—to illustrate the wasting away of the inhabit-
ants. Isa. 64:6—" We all do fade as a leaf." 
James 1:11—" For the sun is no sooner risen with 
a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and 
the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the 
fashion of it perisheth : so also shall the rich man 
fade away in his ways." 
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; 
Because they have transgressed the laws, 
Changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.—v. 5. 
The earth itself is marred and defiled because of 
sing and has become obnoxious to God's judgments. 
God said to Israel, (Num. 35:33)—" Ye shall not 
pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it de-
fileth the land." Psa. 106:38—They " shed inno-
cent blood, even the blood of their sons and of 
their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the 
idols of Canaan ; and the land was polluted with 
blood." God holds in abhorrence the very land 
wherein is committed such wickedness, and which 
had drank up the blood shed upon it. 
The laws transgressed are those enacted by 
Jehovah. Instead of obeying the ordinannes or 
statutes delivered in the Bible, others are substi-
tuted as a rule of conduct ; and the everlasting 
covenant, between God and Abraham, is made of 
no effect to those who refuse compliance with the 
conditions which make all of his faith partakers 
of its blessings—" broken " being a metaphor ex-
pressive of their amendment of it. 
Therefore bath the curse devoured the earth, 
And they that dwell therein are desolate 
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 
v. 6. 
The " curse " is a consequence of sin. God 
said to Adam, (Gen. 3:17, 18)—" Cursed is the 
ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles 
shall it bring forth to thee." By a metaphor, the 
curse is said to have " devoured the earth," or 
eaten it up, expressive of the dissolution to which 
it is to be subjected in consequence of the curse. 
Also because of sin, the inhabitants will be wasted 
away by the fires of the day of judgment. 2 Thess. 
1:7, 8—" The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire 
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and 
that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 
2 Pet. 3:10—" The heavens shall pass away with 
a great noise, and the elements shall melt with 
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that 
are therein shall be burned up." 
" Few men left." The fires of the last day will 
burn only the " ungodly,"—those who know not 
God, and obey not the gospel. Christians who 
" are alive and remain," will be changed in the 
twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortali-
ty, and will be caught up above the sea of fire, and 
left to inherit, with the, raised saints, the regene-
rated earth. (1 Cor. 15:50-54 ; 1 Thess. 4:17.) 
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, 
All the merry-hearted do sigh. 
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth. 
The joy of the harp ceaseth. 
They shall not drink wine with a song ; 
Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink if —vs. 7-9, 
By a personification, feelings compatible only 
with intelligence are ascribed to wine. It is 
usually resorted to for its exhilarating effects ; but 
the ascription of mourning to it expresses an 
absence of all joy. Men would cease to find pleas-
ure in it. It would add to their distress. " Harp," 
by a synecdoche is put for all instruments of 
music. 
The city of confusion is broken down , 
Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.—v 10. 
The Hebrew word for confusion, (mn—toh-hoo) 
is expressive of emptiness, vanity, destitution of 
form, waste, &c. It occurs in Gen. 1:2—" And 
the earth was without form, and void." In Job 
26:7—it is rendered " the empty place." 
The " city of confusion," is not necessarily any 
particular city, but may be a synecdoche for all 
cities. Lowth gives us the sense, " Every city is 
the image of desolation," which is favored by a 
comparison of the 12th v. with 25:2. The dissolu-
tion and ruin will be complete so that the earth 
will again be in the state described in Gen. 1:2, 
when it was " without form and void, and dark-
ness was upon the face of the deep." " Broken 
down," is a metaphor illustrative of its destruc-
tion. 
There is a crying for wine in the streets ; 
All joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 
In the city is left desolation, 
And the gate is smitten with destruction.—vs. 11, 12. 
Wine and strong drink are often used to drown 
grief by those destitute of the consolations of re-
ligion. To cry for wine, is a substitution for any 
starvation ; the extreme tyranny now exerted 
against everything which hears the aspect of civil, 
religious, or political liberty ; and the iron rule 
which as to the future forbids all hope of mitiga-
tion, must soon cause a reaction among the masses 
which will be sweepingly desolating and terrific in 
its result. The masses have tasted of liberty. The 
great truths which have been during the last half 
century proclaimed by ten thousand tongues and 
pens, the bright and undying examples of plebeian 
worth and constitutional liberty which have been 
set before the people, cannot perish and be blotted 
out of the mind of the people. 
The most sacred, efficient, precious, or terrible of 
all instruction, is traditional. It becomes reduced in 
compass, not efficiency. Like the granite and the 
diamond it becomes more solid and brilliant with 
the lapse of time. The memory of facts, of bless-
ings lost and cruelties endured, is perpetuated by 
the lullaby of the young mother and the dying 
whispers of the aged sire. How does it tell on the 
remnants of the old religions of the world ! How 
has it preserved the worshippers of fire, the Gue-
bres of the East, and how as a bond of iron bound 
together the Jewish nation during the last eigh-
teen centuries ! This mighty energy is now quick-
ening and consolidating a vast and gigantic power 
among the masses of Europe. It is preparing pa-
triots, martyrs, statesmen, generals, soldiers, ar-
mies, and navies, on whose flags will be seen the 
terrible motto, " Right against might—no confi-
dence—no hope—hut death to our tyrants !" It has 
to come. It will come. It must come. There is 
no other alternative. The profoundest statesmen 
can neither see nor hope for any other. It will be 
the crisis of humanity. Shall it live, exist, flour- 
ish, or be crushed forever Shall it or priests and 
despots perish ? The low muttering and deep-toned 
thunders of this tempest of human suffering and 
wrath are already beginning to be heard ; and its 
lightning in terrific colors is seen to play upon the 
blackening and far extending horizon of the entire 
religious and political world. Revolving pistols, 
needle rifles, and rifle cannon and death-dealers 
will put into the rank, centre, and rear of conflict-
ing hosts swift destruction. Telegraphic despatch 
and railroad speed and steamboat celerity will give 
fearfulness to the tidings and rush of destruction 
and devastation and death. Let America awake ! 
Who can tell when and where the first shock of the 
coming tempest will be felt ? 
All such speculation is vain. We are approach-
ing a crisis, but the nature of it can be determined 
by no worldly wisdom, and by no scanning of tha 
motives of men. He who, hundreds of years be-
fore the events transpired, said " of Cyrus, He is. 
my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure ; 
even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built,—
and to the temple, thy foundation shall be laid ;" 
who said of the proud capital of Judea, ". Zion for 
your sake shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusa-
lem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the 
house as the high places of the forest ;" and also 
that " Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty 
of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God 
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah ; it shall never be 
inhabited," &c., has also said of the crisis to which 
all eyes are directed, that " at that time shall Mi-
chael stand up, the great prince which standeth for 
the children of thy people : and there shall be a 
time of trouble, such as never was since there was 
a nation even to that same time : and at that time 
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall 
he found written in the book. And many of them 
that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, 
some to everlasting life, and some to shame and 
everlasting contempt. And they that be wise, shall 
shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they 
that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for-
ever and ever."—Dan. 12:1-3. 
THE ABOMINATION, AND HOLY PL ACE. 
(Continued from our last.) 
ALMS ADRIAN erected a heathen temple on 
Mount Zion about A. D. 147, which he dedicated 
to Jupiter Capitolinus ; and he erected " a new 
city on the site of Jerusalem, peopling it with a 
Roman colony. The city received the name of 
Asia Capitolina. The Jews were forbidden to en-
ter it, or even to approach its vicinity ; and, in or-
der to gall their feelings, and thus keep them away 
the more effectually, the image of a hog, as we are 
told by Jerome, was placed over the gate leading 
to Bethlehem."—Brownlee, Hist. Jews, p. 24. 
After this, the name of Jerusalem had been so 
forgotten, that " when one of the martyrs of Pal-
estine, in the persecution of Maximin, on being 
asked of what city he was, answered, ' of Jerusa-
lem,' neither the governor of the provinces, nor 
any of his assistants knew what city he meant."—
Ib. p. 36. 
Says Gibbon : " After the final destruction of the 
temple by the arms of Titus and Hadrian, a plough-
share was drawn over the consecrated ground, as 
a sign of perpetual interdiction. Sion was de-
serted ; and the vacant space of the lower city was 
filled with the public and private edifices of the 
Allan colony, which spread themselves over the 
adjacent hill of Calvary. The holy places were 
polluted with monuments of idolatry ; and either 
from design or accident, a chapel was dedicated to 
Venus, on the spot which had been sanctified by 
Dr. Scott acquiesces in the same opinion ; but 
he remarks that, " Some think that it is a gen-
eral denunciation of vengeance from God on sin-
ful nations, and on the whole earth : and, like 
many other prophecies, it is couched in such terms, 
as may apply to many similar events, and can 
scarcely have its full accomplishment, except in the 
consummation of all things."—Com. 
This last opinion is much more probable than 
the others ; and there are references to the resur-, 
rection and judgment, which are not reconcilable 
with any other view. 
BEDOLD, the Lord maketh the earth empty, 
And maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, 
And scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof —v. 1. 
The earth is spoken of as if it was a dish, which, 
by being upset is emptied of its contents—the 
phrase, " maketh empty, and turneth it upside 
down," being metaphors, illustrating the depopu-
lation of the earth at the epoch referred to. The 
same figure is used respecting Jerusalem in 
2 Kings 21:13, " I will wipe Jerusalem as a man 
wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside 
down." 
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; 
As with the servant, so with his master ; 
As with the maid, so with her mistress ; 
As with the buyer, so with the seller; 
As with the lender, so with the borrower ; 
As with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled : 
Fur the Lord hath spoken this word.—vs. 2, 3. 
These six similes, illustrate the similarity of 
the result to,—not the character of all classes of 
the inhabitants—one of each class, by the sy-
ncedoche, being put for its class. All orders and 
conditions of men are to be alike removed from the 
face of 'the earth—" emptied," being a metaphor 
to illustrate the removal of its entire population. 
THE ADVEN T HERALD 
301 
might by possibility involve me in difficulty with 
him, or even be deemed by him unneighborly, 
would it not be best, before actually drawing up 
in form the proposition which has been made, and 
committing ourselves to its support, to despatch a 
courier to St. Petersburg for the purpose of ascer-
taining directly from the Czar if he will accept the 
terms it offers him.' 
" The powers at once agreed that this was only 
reasonable, and 'be courier was despatched to St. 
Petersburg. The Czar smiled, took sufficient time 
to satisfy himself of the extent of the difference be-
tween six and half a dozen., and, before the courier 
could back himself from the imperial presence to 
the door, told him to return immediately to Vienna, 
and assure the conference that they might confident-
ly perfect their work ; he would give a distinguished 
proof of his own moderation, his love of peace, 
and his deference to the conference, by setting this 
quarrel with the Porte on the terms proposed ! 
The arrangement suggested by Austria was then 
put in form by the conference, and copies prompt-
ly despatched for the signatures of the Czar and 
the Sultan. Intelligence of the actual apposition 
of these signatures is not yet received ; but none 
doubt that we shall very soon have it ; and only a 
very few seem to doubt that all difficulties in the 
East are now settled. I confess that I am among 
these few ; but it is not worth while to repeat why 
it is that I am so." 
The New York Tribune says : 
" Though the Turkish difficulty with Russia is 
regarded as being about as good as settled, there 
are some striking circumstances which render the 
end still doubtful. An indispensable condition of 
the assent of the Porte to the propositions of the 
mediating powers is that the Russians shall at once 
evacuate the Danubian Principalities, and this the 
Emperor has promised shall be done. But if in 
the mean time a state of things should arise in the 
Principalities themselves which could be made, 
under the very treaties now violated by the presence 
of his troops, to justify their remaining there, it is 
evident that he will have them remain. Now such 
a pretext can be found in the disturbances in Ser-
via, long since feretold in our columns as a part of 
the drama now being enacted, and to-day reported 
as actually having occurred. Here is ample rea-
son for the Czar, after having gained in these ne-
gotiations and by the promise to march out his 
army, all the time he desired, now to say that he 
holds himself released from that promise, and re-
gards it as his duty to keep his forces where they 
are, in order to preserve tranquillity. Meanwhile 
the season for naval operations in the Black Sea is 
rapidly passing ; the autumnal tempests hove be-
gun to render its waters unsafe, and presently the 
magnificent French and English fleets that lie at 
anchor in the Bay of Besika will be constrained to 
sail away, leaving the Russians to begin the war 
with no other antagonists to conquer than the 
Turks. 
" Bat even supposing that there should be a dif- 
ferent denouement to the present complication—
that the Turkish Government should suppress its 
unwillingness to accept the propositions of the four 
powers, that the Russian troops should be with-
drawn, and diplomatic intercourse be resumed be-
tween St. Petersburg and Constantinople, it by no 
means follows that the danger of war will cease to 
exist. If Russia should now draw back, it will be 
only that she may better leap upon her prey. She 
will not for an instant abandon her purpose of an-
nexing Turkey. Nor do we think its execution will 
be long delayed. She alone gains anything by the 
events of the present crisis, for she comes off with 
her demands granted, her antagonists humbled, her 
victim weakened and demoralized, the frontier 
provinces Russified, and the road to Constantinople 
opened to her advancing legions. She will then 
not delay much to pluck the fruit which is not only 
ripe, but which has thus been abandoned by all 
who might have been counted on to defend it. 
Russia has hitherto moved slowly in the acquisi-
tion of Turkey, but now she may precipitate the 
crisis at her pleasure. A war will be a part of it, 
but for her war has no terrors ; and it is quite pos-
sible, though not altogether probable, that not-
withstanding all the loud proclamations of peace, 
this war may be let loose within the present year. 
As the French saying is, He that lives will see.' 
the death and resurrection of Christ."—Hist. Rome, 
v. 2, p. 34. 
" In the crusades, .all the power of Europe was 
employed to rescue Jerusalem from the heathens, 
but in vain. It has been trodden down for nearly 
eighteen centuries by its successive wasters ; by 
Romans, Grecians, Persians, Saracens, Mamelukes, 
Turks, Christians, and again by the worst of rulers, 
the Arabs and the Turks."--Ency. v..2, p. 982. 
This is in accordance with the words of the Sa-
viour (Luke 21:24)—" And they shall fall by the 
edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive 
into all nations ; and Jerusalem shall be trodden 
down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gen-
tiles be fulfilled." " That is, till the full number 
of the Gentiles, which God shall call, be com-
pleted ;" of which Dr. Whitby, who held to an 
opposite doctrine, says " This, 1 confess, is a very 
ancient interpretation of these words." 
Here we should leave the question, were it not 
objected that, " from the time the daily sacrifice 
shall be taken away, and the abomination that mak-
eth desolate set up," there shall be but 1335 pro-
phetic days to the consummation. (Dan. 12 : 12, 
13.) This would be an objection, provided the 
abomination referred to by the Saviour, was the 
last one brought to view in this text. By v. 27 of 
Dan. 9th, it will be seen that from the destruction 
of the city, Jerusalem was to be overspread by 
abominations " even until the consummation." 
They are there referred to in the plural. The Sa-
viour speaks of it in the singular. Dan. 11 : 31 
and 12:11, show that the abominations of Dan. 9 : 
27 are successive, and make it evident why the Sa-
viour spoke in the singular. 
By " the daily," we understand an abomination 
that was to be taken away, to give place to another 
that was to be set up. The word sacrifice is a sup-
plied word, and the idea would he better repre-
sented by the daily abomination. By the daily, is 
primarily understood a daily service. The word 
-ran (tah-mud), rendered " daily," signifies the 
continual, which is its usual rendering—a few ex-
amples will illustrate. 
,Ex. 25:30—" Shewbread before me, alway ; 
27:20—" Lamp to burn always; 
28:29—" A memorial before the Lord con-
tinually; 
28:38—" It shall be always upon his fore-
head ; 
29:38—" Day by day, continually; 
29:42—" A continual burnt-offering ; 
30:8—'• A perpetual incense ; 
Lev. 6:13—" Fire shall ever be burning." 
There is no instance where the word is used, 
when the word continual, or continually, might 
not be substituted and express the idea of the text. 
By the " daily " to be taken away therefore, we 
understand a form of abomination, which had its 
continual ceremonial observances, like those of the 
Levitical worship. And such had Paganism. The 
sacred fire was kept constantly burning on its al- 
tars. To guard it, six Vestals devoted their vir- 
ginity ; and daily sacrifices were offered with great 
magnificence. Of Julian, ,Gibbon says : " Every 
morning he saluted the parent of light with a sac- 
rifice, the blood of another victim was shed at the 
moment when the sun sunk below the horizon ; and 
the moon, the stars, and the genii of the night re-
ceived their respective and seasonable honors."—
_Hist. Rome, v. 2, p. 29. 
An idolatrous worship, offering to imaginary 
deities sacrifices in imitation of those instituted in 
honor of Jehovah, might not inappropriately be 
called " the daily," which was to be taken away, 
and which was to be succeeded by an abomination 
of desolation which had no such daily rites. 
About A, D.-323, " Constantine the Great, and 
his mother Helena," having embraced Christianity, 
ordered all the heathen monuments in Jerusalem 
to be destroyed, and erected many Christian edi-
fices. Referring to the erection of the heathen 
temple of Venus, " on the spot which had been 
sanctified by the death and resurrection of Christ," 
Gibbon says : " Almost three hundred years after 
those stupendous events, the profane chapel of Ve-
nus was demolished by the order of Constantine ; 
and the removal of the earth and stones revealed 
the holy sepulchre to the eyes of mankind. A mag-
nificent church was erected on that mystic ground, 
by the first Christian emperor ; and the effects of 
his pious munificence were extended to every spot 
which had been consecrated by the footsteps of pa-
triarchs, of prophets, and of the Son of God."—
Hist. Rome, v. 2, p. 34, Harper's ed. 
Successive crowds of pilgrims then began to 
flock to Jerusalem from the shores of the Atlantic, 
and from the most distant countries of the East, 
attracted there by the desire of contemplating the 
monuments of the redemption. And so great be-
came the wealth and pre-eminence of the church 
of Jerusalem, that it " excited the ambition of 
Arian, as well as of orthodox condidates," who 
aspired to its episcopal dignity. The name of Je-
rusalem, which had been disused for a long time, 
was restored to it ; and Constantine had so beauti-
fied it with splendid Christian edifices, " that Eu-
sebius irreverently imagined that it might be the 
New Jerusalem foretold by the prophets."—Brown-
lee, Hist. Jews, p. 36. 
On the accession of Julian, the apostate, to the 
throne of the Cxsars, he attempted, B. c. 363, the 
rebuilding of Solomon's Temple, out of hatred to 
the Christians, and with the avowed design of de-
feating the prophecies which declared that it should 
never be rebuilt. He employed great numbers of 
workmen to clear the foundations, but was deterred 
from his effort by balls of fire breaking from the 
earth, which so scorched and appalled the work-
men that they were compelled to desist. 
Paganism. although superseded, had not been 
suppressed in the Roman empire. According to 
Gibbon, (vol. 1, p. 471,) " the title, the ensigns, 
the prerogatives of SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, which had 
been instituted by Numa, and assumed by Augus- 
tus, were accepted without hesitation by seven 
Christian emperors, who were invested with a more 
absolute authority over the religion which they 
had deserted, than over that which they professed." 
Gratian, elected in 376, was the first Christian 
emperor, who refused the Pontifical robe. Till 
then, the Pagans had from the days of Numa 
preserved the regular succession of the several 
colleges of the sacerdotal altar."—Hist. Rome, 
v 2, p. 183. 
Lit " 
In 378 Gratian associated with imself, as em-
porer in the east, Theodosius, a name celebrated 
in history as that which effected the ruin of Pa-
ganism. Gibbon says, " The ruin of Paganism, 
in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only ex-
ample of the total extirpation of any ancient and 
popular superstition."—V. 2, p. 183. " The de-
crees of the Senate which proscribed the worship 
of idols, were ratified by the general consent of the 
Romans."—lb. p. 187. 
The refusal of Gratian to assume the Pontifical 
robes, left many ecclesiastical matters which had 
before been submitted to the Pontiff, without any 
tribunal to adjust them. Damasus, who had been 
elected Bishop of Rome in A. D. 366, which office 
he reached over " one hundred and thirty-seven 
dead bodies," was in 378, declared Pontifex Maxi-
mus, when for the first time that heathen title was 
assumed by a ChriStian priest. 
Damasus was originally a monk from Mount 
Carmel. In the days of Vespasian, the Carmelites 
were worshippers of " MAIA, the mother of the 
gods "—an old Babylonian deity. When Chris-
tianity became popular they embraced it—substi-
tuting for their Babylonian worship, that of the 
Virgin Mary—" the mother of God,"—continuing 
their old worship under a new name. 
Damasus was constituted by an imperial edict 
of Theodosius, " the sole judge of religious mat-
ters "—the first Bishop to whom this power was 
granted. Exercising this power, he expelled from 
the Catholic Church those who would not worship 
the " Mother of God." Says Mr. Bonar " The 
orthodox opposed. They declared their hope that 
the Lord would return and reign. Damasus de-
cided that the reign of the saints had begun al-
ready. He now formally declared the Millena-
rians heretical. He expelled them from the church. 
His courts everywhere decided against them. None 
were left save those that worshipped the Virgin 
Queen, and desired that Christ would not return 
in the flesh."—Lon. Jour. Proph. 
With the worship of the Virgin Mary, the wor-
ship of other saints was introduced ; and thus the 
worship of other divinities was substituted for 
that of Jehovah. In thus substituting the Baby-
lonish worship for Christianity, the Papal Church 
became the Apostacy, and the Mystic Babylon of 
the Apocalypse. 
In A. D. 527 Justinian was invested with the 
imperial purple as monarch of the east. Among 
the magnificent edifices he erected, was one for the 
worship of the VIRGIN MARY at Jerusalem. Says 
Gibbon : " The Virgin of Jerusalem might exult 
in the temple erected by her imperial votary, on a 
most ungrateful spot, which afforded neither 
ground nor materials for the architect. A level 
was formed, by raising part of a deep valley to the 
height of the mountain. The stones of a neighbor-
ing quarry were hewn into regular forms ; each 
block was fixed on a peculiar carriage drawn by 
forty of the strongest oxen, and the roads were 
widened for the passage of the enormous weights. 
Lebanon furnished her loftiest cedars for the tim- 
bers of the church ; and the seasonable discovery 
of a vein of red marble, supplied its beautiful 
columns, two of which, the supporters of the ex- 
terior portico, were esteemed the largest in the 
world. The pious munificence of the emperor was 
diffused over the Holy Land."—Hist. Rome, v. 3, 
p. 44. 
With Justinian, saint worship had become fully 
established ; and according to Gibbon, " almost 
every saint in the calendar acquired the honors of 
a temple."—lb. p. 45. 
(To be continued.) 
THE EASTERN kIJESTION. 
THE Paris correspondent of the National Intel& 
gencer, humorously and aptly illustrates the pres- 
ent aspect of the difficulty between Russia and Tur-
key, in the following extract which we take from 
his letter of the 18th ult: 
 
" We have this week no important news to com-
municate from the East. The formal acceptance, 
either by the Czar at St. Petersburg, or by the 
Sultan at Constantinople, of the terms of settle-
ment proposed by the Four Powers in the Vienna 
note, has not been received. The public, however, 
and the journals almost without exception, con-
tinue to treat the question as definitively settled, 
and in a manner that will leave unbroken the peace 
of Europe. Turkey, it is argued, must of course 
accept any terms proposed by the Four Western 
Powers, and Russia will of course accept the terms 
of peace which she has all along offered as the ob-
ject and end of her policy. 
" It is admitted that the Vienna note accords to 
the full extent all that Russia has demanded of Tur-
key, with a slight variation of form only. She has 
gained the victory. Her aggression, if it be one, 
upon the dignity and sovereignty of Turkey, is con-
summated ; and what, it may be seriously asked, has 
the ostentatious support of France and England 
profited her Russia despatches to Constantinople 
a pompous and dictatorial embassy, and haughti-
ly demands six from the Porte. The Sultan is 
thrown into consternation, and conscious of his 
weakness, is upon the point of yielding, but upon 
consultation with France and England, and being 
promised support, plucks up courage enough to re-
ply, No, I will not give you six ! My dignity and 
independence as a sovereign both forbid it !" Cer-
tainly not,' add France and England, this demand 
of six by the Czar is quite inconsistent with the 
honor and independence of the Sultan. We declare 
ourselves the protectors of the Sultan, and will 
maintain against Russia by arms, if necessary, the 
integrity and independence of the Ottoman Em-
pire.' Thereupon the Russian troops cross the 
Pruth, invade the principalities, and prepare to 
cross the Danube. Thereupon the French and 
English fleets advance to the mouth of the Darda-
nelles, and the Sultan buckles on his armor, strain-
ing every nerve, melting even his mother's plate to 
procure the means for suitably equipping his ar-
mies and navies. ' Give me six!' repeats the Czar, 
with an air that plainly meant, ' if you do not, I 
will not only keep what I have seized, but, cross-
ing the Danube, will advance upon Constanti- 
nople !" Never !' replied the Porte. We'll 
back you!' added France and England. Even at 
the cost of a European war, the integrity and in-
dependence of the Ottoman Empire must be main-
tained intact.' 
" And for awhile the war seemed inevitable, in 
presence of such persisting exaction and such reso-
lute refusal. Even Austria and Prussia appre-
hended that their good friend the Czar was going 
a little too far. In a final effort, however, to 
throw the responsibility of war, if war must come, 
upon Russia, the representatives of the Four Pow-
ers met at Vienna, and in the conference that there 
ensued, Austria, to the immortal honor of her ac-
umen and diplomatic ability, is understood to have 
discovered the occult solution of the pending diffi-
culty. She proposed that the Sultan, persisting, 
as they all agreed his honor and independence re-
quired of him, to refuse to give the Czar six, should 
be advised by the Four Powers represented in the 
conference (Turkey was not) to offer to the Czar, 
by way of compromise, half a dozen ! 
" Admirable!' exclaimed England and France. 
We never would have consented that the Sultan 
should give to the Czar six, but we can promptly 
advise him to give half a dozen, as Austria sug-
gests. This arrangement satisfies his honor and 
our own ; it leaves untouched the integrity, and 
especially the independence, of the Ottoman Em-
pire, which we all have so much at heart ; and it 
satisfies all the really just demands of the Czar 
himself. We will answer for it the Porte will accept 
this solution. Its good sense and notorious spirit 
of conciliation, so conspicuous hitherto, not less 
than the intrinsic equity of the proposition itself, 
are our guaranty.' 
" But,' suggests Austria, ' though persuaded, 
as we all are, that his Majesty the Emperor of all 
the Russians, will, from deference to the expressed 
sense of the powers assembled in conference, ac-
quiesce in the really important concessions which, 
for the peace of Europe, we ask of him, and as I 
would most carefully avoid doing anything that 
BAILLIE, in describing a meeting held by an as-
sembly of divines in 1643, says : 
" We spent from nine to five graciously. After 
Dr. Twisse had begun with a brief prayer, Mr. 
Marshall prayed large two hours, most divinely con-
fessing the sins of the Assembly, in a wonderful, 
prudent, and pathetic way. After, Mr. Arrow-
smith preached an hour—then a psalm ; thereafter, 
Mr. Vines prayed near two hours, and Mr. Palmer 
preached an hour, and Mr. Seamen prayed near two 
hours, then a psalm ' • after, Mr. Henderson brought 
them to a sweet conference of the heat confessed in 
the assembly, and other seen faults to be remedied, 
and the eonvenieney to preach against all sects, 
especially Anabaptists and Antinomians. Dr. 
Twisse closed with a short prayer and blessing." 
302 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
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city Jerusalem. The 2300 days (years) of Dame 
have been made to begin with the conunandinent 
by which the sixty-nine weeks were dated. By such 
calculation, the 2300 'days must have expired long 
ago. They must begin with the seventy weeks, (v. 
24,) -or else I cannot see any clue to date or reckon 
that period in the book of Daniel ; and yet it is 
said seventy weeks are determined to seal up the 
vision and prophecy—that of the 2300 days, which 
was received fifteen years before. So also the time, 
times, and a half (1260 years,) have been reckoned 
to begin or end with the 1290 and 1335 day (year) 
periods. I cannot see any warrantable connection. 
The 1290 are dated with a certain abomination that 
maketh desolate. This abomination must be ano-
ther besides that quoted by our Saviour, and may 
be found to have existed on the rise of Popery. 
Will you please to answer the following ques-
tions : 
What is the meaning of the words—" seventy 
weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon 
thy holy city ''—Jerusalem? 
What would you think if you should read 
from a decree of the Emperor Nicholas, that sev-
enty weeks were determined upon the Sultan's 
people, and their sacred city (Constantinople), es-
pecially when a little further along you are told, 
" that the people of the prince that shall come 
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ?" (Dan. 
9 : 26.) 
To say the seventy weeks were fulfilled at the 
anointing of the Most IIoly, they could not reach 
to any notable event with the city. But that they 
reached to the destruction of the city and the na-
tion, including other events by the way, as men-
tioned in the sane verse, seems to me at the pres-
ent time to be the most probable. The seventy 
weeks in this sense with the 2300, 1260, 1335, have 
no beginning with divine warrant, but have a 
marked period for their terminus. L. INGALLS. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the Herald. 
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.) 
(Concluded.) 
HEAR another writer :—" We are living amidst 
much that is calculated to impress the mind. Our 
day is one of eventful times. Weeks are now real-
izing events which formerly sufficed for the work 
of year's. Time seems hurrying on with an in-
creasing energy—heaping around us, in rapid suc-
cession, ecclesiastical changes, political and social 
convulsions, and wonderful scientific discoveries, 
in such startling and sudden profusion as to stun 
and shake even the most sanguinely-disposed minds. 
A pandora box of progress seems to have been emp-
tied—and the people of the nineteenth century 
resemble very much the boy for the first time 
breeched, feeling the unmanagableness of his new 
garment interfering with the usual freedom of the 
newly-discarded dress. We are actually inclined 
to pause, and inquire with all sincerity, if this is 
really the world of our grandfathers? 
" Circumstances seem no longer the controller, 
but the controlled. Science has increased, by its 
wonderful discoveries, the power' of the human 
race so much as to make them able to control ev-
erything but life. Man has acquired all the char-
acteristics of a god, excepting that of immortality ; 
and were it not that the tree of life is securely pre-
served by heaven itself, Gen. 3 : 24,) his impious 
mind would even grasp at it. What is this event-
ful state of things to produce ? Is it of God, or of 
the devil? Is it the preliminary of the oft-desired 
millennium of happiness, or is it the precursor of 
a still darker age than has yet been exhibited on 
the world's platform ?" 
the events for which they look? Christians have 
a right to search the Scriptures. The Bible is their 
map, and chart, and guide. God has revealed no 
superfluous truths. There is no portion of his 
word that may be dispensed with, or rejected. 
" All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and 
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correc-
tion, for instruction in righteousness : that the 
man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished 
unto all good works." (2 Tim. 3 : 16, 17.) 
In the case of Noah and the antediluvians, Lot 
and the inhabitants of Sodom, Jonah and the peo-
ple of Nineveh, Jerusalem and the Jews, God's 
judgments were blended with mercy. And when 
we consider his past dealings with the children of 
men, is it reasonable to suppose that he will usher 
in that august event, which will decide the des-
tiny of our race, without giving the impenitent 
space for repentance, and his children some indi 
cation that their final deliverance is at hand? 
Our present position and future prospect are 
clearly revealed in the word of the Lord. Now, 
as in past ages, God loath his faithful watchmen 
on the walls of Zion, who, seeing the sword com-
ing, warn their fellow-men to seek for safety. 
Those who heed the faithful warning, will escape 
the danger ; while those who heed it not, will be 
taken as by a snare,—but their blood will be on 
their own head. The sound of the approaching 
conflict will wax louder and louder. The din and 
noise of battle will be heard in many lands. Po-
litical earthquakes will take place, thrones and 
dominions will fall, and monarchs reel in dismay. 
But he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh ; the 
Lord shall hold them in derision, speak to them in 
his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 
Read the Apocalyptic conflict : " And I saw heaven 
opened, and behold, a white horse : and he that sat 
upon him was called Faithful and True, and in 
righteousness he doth judge and make war. His 
eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were 
many crowns ; and he had a name written, that no 
man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed 
with a vesture dipped in blood : and his name is 
called The Word of God. And the armies which 
were in heaven followed him upon white horses, 
clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of 
his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he 
should smite the nations : and he shall rule them 
with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the wine-press 
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And 
he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name 
written, King of kings, and Lord of lords." (Rev. 
19 : 11-16.) 
This event will bring glory to Christ, and deliv-
erance to the redeemed, who will sing : 
" Whatever ills the world befall, 
A pledge of endless good we call, 
A sign of Jesus near ; 
His chariot will not long delay, 
We hear the rumbling wheels, and pray, 
Triumphant Lord appear !" 
" And the seventh angel sounded; and there 
were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms 
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord 
and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever.... 
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come, and the time of the dead, that they should 
he judged, and that thou shouldest give reward 
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, 
and them that fear thy name, small and great ; and 
shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." 
(Rev. 11: 15-18.) 
LETTER FROM HALLOWELL, Me. 
A MEETING has just closed at Whitefield, where 
many of the brethren and sisters, with many sin-
ners of this region, have enjoyed the privilege of 
meeting under a commodious tent, to listen to 
some of the great and all-important truths con-
nected with the end of this world, viz., the signs 
of the times, the coming of Christ, the saints' in-
heritance, and arguments on the prophetic periods, 
showing when this coming and reign will take 
place. The weather was favorable, and the con-
gregation good and orderly throughout. Many 
heard for the first time, and listened with marked 
attention. I can but hope that the pungent truths 
preached were sown in some hearts that will bring 
forth good fruit. Some of the backsliders were 
reached, and, I trust, reclaimed, and many made 
to feel that it was time to prepare for the coming 
of the Lord. 
It was a joyous privilege to meet with our breth-
ren from all quarters, who are quickened by the 
same blessed hope, and it was pleasing to see the 
happy surprise of some brethren from abroad, 
when they saw the many brethren and sisters 
whom the Lord had raised us in this region in the 
last few years. They seemed to say, " Who bath 
begotten me these ? where have they been ?' ' Surely 
God has been good to us, and done greater wonders 
among us than we expected. 
QUESTIONS. 
MR. EDITOR see by the Herald of Sept. 3d, 
that you have answered my questions, but not with 
perfect gratification. 
I believe the seven weeks, three-score and two 
weeks, and the covenant week, commenced with a 
certain commandment, (Dan. 9 : 25,) and termi-
nated seven years after the public ministry of 
Christ began, as you stated. The fractional weeks 
of verses 25 and 27, which amount to seventy, is 
no evidence to me that they are any part of the 
seventy weeks in v. 24, or begin or terminate with 
the same. The sixty-nine weeks are dated, and 
reach unto tile Messiah. The seventy weeks are 
determined upon the Jewish nation, and the holy 
ANSWER. 
" Seventy weeks," convey to our mind the 
idea of 490 prophetic days—years. And their be- 
ing determined on the Jews and on Jerusalem, we 
understand to be the period of their national pro-
bation ; at the end of which, rejecting the gospel 
for themselves, the apostles should turn to the 
Gentiles, and thenceforth all nations be equally 
embraced in the offers of the Divine favor. 
We should think that the Turks had that 
length of time in which they might accept of the 
Tzar's ultimatum—or take the consequences, in the 
loss of their city by conquest. When we did read 
from the Tzar, that " the Porte shall within eight 
days accede to Menschikoff's ultimatum, or take 
the consequences," we understolid, that if that 
time elapsed it would not be in his power to ac-
cept, unless a new offer was extended. We ex-
pected however that some time would elapse be-
tween the end of the time determined, and the in-
fliction of the consequences. In like manner the 
Jews had 490 years offered them in which they 
might accept of the Lord's ultimatum, which would 
determine the question whether they were to retain 
that pre-eminence which, as a city, and as a na-
tion they had so long enjoyed. Failing to comply 
with the prescribed conditions within the time spe-
cified, a prince was afterwards sent to destroy the 
city and sanctuary.—En. 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
NO. VI. 
1. Love to God.—Says the apostle (Rom. 5:5) : 
" Hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of 
God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy 
Ghost given unto us." Mark the reason why we 
have a hope fraught with boldness—" because the 
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts." But 
how do we love God ? " By the Holy Ghost given 
unto us." Then we love him as our Father. (Rom. 
8:14, 15.) And what are the conditions by which 
we receive the Holy Ghost? Ask, believing, and 
ye shall receive. (Luke 11:13 ; Mark 11:24.) Do 
we love God as our Father ? " I do not know," 
says one. " So long as I can call God my Father, 
I am safe," replies another, however wicked he 
may be ; while a third responds, " I hope I do," 
i. e., " 1 hope I have a hope." To the first I would 
say, your position is unsafe, for the Bible hope is 
one of assurance. (Hob. 6 :,11-19.) To the see-
ond—how can we love another as our father, who 
never was our parent, either by natural birth or 
adoption? Morally considered, we, like the unbe-
lieving Jews, are of our " father the devil," be-
cause we follow in his footsteps—do his works. 
We must be " born again," or, to use another il-
lustration, be "adopted " into God's family, (Rom. 
8:14, 15, and Gal. 4 : 5, 6,) by the Spirit obtained 
by prayer in order to love God as our Father. 
Then we wait for the consummation of the work 
(relating to the physical system), at the resurrec-
tion of the just. (Rom. 8:23; Col. 1:18.) If we 
Is there reasonable ground for such expectations ? 
Are there any warnings and predictions in the Bi-
ble that will explain the nature of the events ? A 
careful examination of the Scriptures will con-
vince the candid inquirer after truth, that there is 
a striking correspondence existing between its pre-
dictions and the present aspect of society. The 
Bible alone explains the nature of the great event 
upon which we are on the eve, viz., the coming of 
the Sap of man in glory. This event includes sev-
eral others—the sounding of the seventh trumpet, 
the resurrection of the dead, the times of restitu-
tion, and the period of final doom. The scriptures 
which establish these points are numerous, plain, 
and explicit ; and being inspired, are therefore 
true. All speculations in reference to the expected 
change not based upon the Scriptures, must be re-
jected, as well as theories professedly drawn there-
from, but which are sustained only by far-fetched 
inferences and perversions, which contradict plain 
declarations. 
God has revealed to us definite information on 
the subject of the day of the Lord ; and although 
" secret things belong to God, those things which 
are revealed belong unto us and our children." 
(Dent. 29 : 29.) Our God " changeth the times 
and the seasons, removeth kings and setteth up 
kings, giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge 
to them that know understanding. He revealeth 
the deep and secret things, knoweth what is in the 
darkness, and the light dwelleth with him." " All 
prophecy is the revelation of future events ; all 
fulfilled prophecy is God's history of the world re- 
vealed before the events come to pass ; while all 
unfulfilled prophecy is the history of the world 
still future, and in due time will be fulfilled."— 
Scott. Most of the predictions that refer to the 
present dispensation, have received their accom-
plishment, and we therefore conclude, that the 
present dispensation must pass away, and make 
way for a better state of things. But the " good 
time coming " that the Scriptures predict, will not 
be of the nature popularly expected, neither will 
it be ushered in by human instrumentality, nor its 
blessings enjoyed by all men indiscriminately.—
Those who dispute this frequently interpret peace 
to signify war, and war, peace ; destruction to 
mean salvation, and eternal salvation temporal, 
the everlasting existence of the kingdom, its dura-
tion for a limited period, Christ's return, to sig-
nify his presence in spirit, and his predicted glori-
ous reign on the earth, religion in the heart ! But, 
alas ! in reply to this they state, that the prophe-
cies are dark, and cannot be understood. But if 
it be presumptuous to endeavor to understand pro-
phetic truth, can it be right for those who condemn 
this course, to apply the very same predictions to 
We listened to many clear and pointed truths, 
and I pray God that we may all profit by them, by 
giving new energy to the living saints, by reclaim-
ing the wanderer, and leading careless sinners to 
Christ. It is certain that the false traditions and 
hopes of some were completely laid bare, and 
shown to be anti-Christian, and in a manner to 
benefit all who wish for light. But while we love 
the truth, and wish to be benefited by it, we must 
take heed to this scripture, " Prove all things, and 
hold fast that which is good." There are some 
things believed and taught in connection with the 
truth, which must prove detrimental wherever re-
ceived. I do not refer to the arguments on the 
prophetic periods, fur I am well persuaded that 
there is weight in them, and I think another year 
will show us the fulfilment of the promise, that 
Daniel shall stand in his lot ; but I allude to the 
idea held out, that we are to know the day before 
it comes. This idea seems to be taking, and in or-
der to be received, certain texts must be dislocated 
and perverted, to make way for such a notion. I 
would not allude to this but for the fact, that it 
will extend through the body, and none but a pub- 
lie remark would go where these notions are ob-
taining. I do it to caution those brethren who 
teach it, and to awaken those who hear it to inves-
tigation, for certain it is that Christ has not only 
taught us that we may " know when he is near, 
even at the door," but he has as surely taught us 
that the event will break upon us in an unexpected 
moment, or " in such an hour as ye think not." 
Consequently we must be on the watch, not get 
our minds fixed on a specific day in the future, and 
feel that we have time allotted us till then. No ; 
our Lord has not thus taught. Hear him : " Then 
shall two be in the field ; the one shall be taken, 
and the other left. Two women shall be grinding 
at the mill ; the one shall be taken, and the other 
left. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour 
your Lord doth come." (Matthew 24 : 40-42.) 
" Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day 
nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." 
(Matt. 25:13.) " Watch ye therefore, for ye know 
not when the master of the house cometh, at even, 
or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the 
morning, lest coming suddenly he find you sleep-
ing." (Mark 13 : 35.) How clearly are we here 
taught to be on the watch for that great event, not 
especially for the events that precede it, as some 
argue, but for the Lord himself. We will hear 
him again : " Blessed are those servants whom the 
Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching... And 
if he come in the second or third watch, and find 
them so, blessed are those servants Be ye 
therefore ready also, (as the good man of the 
house,) for the Son of man cometh at an hour 
when ye think not." (Luke 12:37, 38, 40.) 
Again : In Luke 17:28-36 we have a clear illus-
tration of the suddenness of that event, and of the 
fact that that day—the last day—last twenty-four 
hours of Noah's and Lot's time, is used to show 
how it will he in the last day—last twenty-four 
hours of this age. Two men are to be in one bed, 
two women at the mill, two men in the field, one 
to be taken (or seized), and the other left (or es-
cape), and all the sophistry in the world will not 
change it. It is also dangerous to say that " the 
last acts of our life will not determine our des-
tiny " in that day, while we have the case of Lot's 
wife as an example. I know the sealing passage 
is brought in here, and some others, but they will 
not fit. Saints have been sealed long ago, and lost 
at last. It is he who endures to the end that is to 
be saved,—end of trial, of temptation, and that 
brings us to the moment of Christ's coming. 
0, brethren, let us be ready, to submit to the 
clear and simple teachings of our Lord, and not 
think to be wise above what is written, not raise 
an idea that will cause fanaticism, and division, 
and strife among us ; but let us learn all that is 
true, and be on our watch, praying that we may 
be able to escape all things that are coming to 
pass, and to stand before the Son of man, acquitted 
and meet for his blessed and eternal kingdom. 
Aug. 29th, 1853. I. C. WELLCOME. 
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do not pray, we have not the Spirit bearing wit.. 
ness with ours that we are his children, conse-
quently no love for God, the result of which is a 
destitution of a " good hope." To the third—you 
are a professor, and not living up to your privi-
leges and duty. " Blessed be the God and Father 
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which ac-
cording to his abundant mercy bath begotten us 
again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus 
Christ from the dead." (1 Pet. 1: 3.) The inac-
tive hope of forty years' standing is not here ex-
pressed, but a living one—hope of assurance. 
Love to the children of God (1 John 3:4).—By 
the children of God I do not mean those who be-
long to a particular institution, party, or denomi-
nation, (i. e., such is not the testing rule,) for 
wicked individuals are united with all undoubt-
edly. What then is the rule for testing Christian 
character ? On a certain occasion, Jesus was in-
formed that his kindred wished to see him. He 
inquired who they were, and then stretching forth 
his hand toward his disciples, said, " Behold my 
mother and my brethren." (Matt. 12 : 46-50.) 
Now mark ! " For whosoever shall do the will of 
my Father which is in heaven, the same is my 
brother, and sister, and mother." Wherever we 
find an individual thus keeping the commandments 
—doing his will—bearing his image—bringing 
forth the fruits of righteousness, among which is 
a love of Christ's appearing, (2 Tim. 4 : 8,) pro-
vided they do not think as we do in every point, 
we shall embrace them as children of the same 
family—offsprings of the same Parent, and heirs 
of the same hope, providing we are in possession 
of the gospel hope. Oh ! how many unkind, un-
charitable, and bitter feelings have been cherished 
in the heart, and expressed by the lips of some 
professed teachers of the present day towards oth-
ers who do not stand ready to endorse all the im-
aginations of their brain, jump at their conclu-
sions of God's word, and hail them as " new 
light," while perhaps those who do are considered 
good, notwithstanding looseness in reference to the 
above rule may characterize their lives. Again : 
John says—" He that knoweth God heareth us ; 
he that is not of God heareth not us." How nat-
ural for the unrenewed heart not to love the so-
ciety of Christians. How often do they take pains 
to avoid their company. Especially would I men-
tion those who are departing from their first love. 
But when we love the Saviour they are sought. 
Reader, have you this evidence of a well-grounded 
hope? 
Love to our enemies (Matt. 5 : 44).—This was 
the spirit of Jesus, without which we are none of 
his. " God commendeth his love toward us, in 
that while we were sinners Christ died for us." In 
turning our mind's eye back to Calvary, we see 
much to provoke him to cry for vengeance upon 
his enemies : his royal descent, the nature of the 
offence, the nearness and obligations of the offend-
ers, and the righteousness of his cause. But hear 
him : " Father, forgive them, for they know not 
what they do !" 
" Oh ! for this love let rocks and hills 
Their lasting silence break, 
And all harmonious human tongues 
The Saviour's praises speak. 
" Angels assist our mighty joys, 
Strike all your harps of gold ; 
But when you raise your highest notes, 
His love can ne'er be told." 
This of course is the love of benevolence, which 
is an inclination to seek the happiness or welfare 
of anything, and is distinguished from the love of 
complacence, as manifested toward his people only 
(Psa. 149:4), which arises from the consideration 
of any object agreeable to us, and calculated to af-
ford us pleasure. Do we love our enemies? Can 
we pray for them? can we do them good? " That 
is very difficult," says one. I know it is, for the 
Carnal mind. The law of the carnal mind is, You 
strike me, and I'll strike you! And in the same 
ratio that we give countenance to it, or, in other 
words, cherish the spirit of revenge towards others 
for the injury they have done us, the foundation of 
our hope will be undermined, and we shall lose 
sight of its object. I do not say but others may 
be dealt with for their good, and that of the com-
munal-, for their crimes, (Rom. 13:4) ; yet on the 
part of ourselves, if in possession of a good hope, 
there is no feeling of revenge. " Vengeance is 
mine, and I will repay, saith the Lord." Again : 
The churches generally have in exercise too little 
of this benevolent love toward perishing sinners—
hence a dull hope. Would to God it were other-
wise. Time is short ; the Lord will soon come, and 
their destiny will be sealed forever. Shall we not 
arouse ourselves ? May the spirit of Jesus so ope-
rate on our hearts as to constrain us to cry out, 
" 0 Lord, revive thy work !" In the same propor-
tion as we feel and labor for sinners, we shall have 
a lively hope. The principle of the Bible is, " He 
that watereth shall be watered himself ;" or in 
the language of a member of the Massachusetts 
Legislature on one occasion, "Religion is a singu-
lar commodity the more you export of it, the 
more you have at home." May we so live and act, 
that our experience may teach us the truthfulness 
of it. 
J. P. F. 
Letter from Derry, N. H. 
DEAR BRETHREN :—Suffer a word of exhortation 
from an unworthy, brother, yet one who has ever 
felt a warm interest in the Advent cause. My 
heart has been truly pained while I have seen the 
work of the enemy among uS, dividing and scatter-
ing the little flock. How many among us have 
fallen victims, and how many by his cunning de-
vices have been led captive at his will. But while 
the work of distraction has been going on, how 
good it has been to have a medium through which 
brethren might communicate, to stay up each oth-
er's hands amid the fiery conflict, one that has ever, 
kept a straight-forward course, that has not been 
turned hither and thither by every wind that hap-
pened to blow across its path ; whose pilot has 
seemed to have had his eye on the polar-star, while 
many have sprung up around it, which have soon 
shown either that they never were on, or else that 
they had finally run off the right track ; still it 
has kept its course, making from week to week its 
heart-cheering visits. And though our hearts have 
sometimes been pained in view of the course which 
some have taken, from whom we had expected bet-
ter things ; yet we could rejoice while turning over 
its pages to find so many brethren still firm at 
their post. 
But the enemy was not ignorant of all this ; and 
as if to strike at the very centre, he made one des-
perate thrust at this cherished messenger. Mean-
time, the brethren and sisters who had before 
cheered our hearts with their lively epistles, seemed 
to have got off their guard and laid down their 
pens, which caused many who had been otherwise 
disaffected by the whispering of the enemy to say, 
" Brother Himes has backslid; the Herald has 
backslidden—it is not what it once was." But 
notwithstanding all this, the weapon has fallen 
comparatively to the ground, and our welcome vis-
itor still keeps its course ; the brethren and sisters 
are again waking up to its aid. And who will 
have the presumption to say, the Lord has not had 
a hand in its support? 
And now, dear brethren, let us go to work with 
renewed energy, employing both our time and tal-
ents. The cause demands it. We are hastening 
to the judgment, with perishing souls around us ; 
and shall we suffer them to come up to the judg-
ment unwarned Could we meet them there with 
boldness ? 0, may we be clean from the blood of 
souls that day ! And what agent can be employed 
that will scatter light and truth more broadcast 
than this weekly messenger ? Then let us who are 
unable to edify with the pen, endeavor to enlarge 
its circulation. And you, dear brethren and sis-
ters, whose epistles contribute so much to enrich 
its pages, let not your pens lie idle. Give no oc-
casion to have it said, Where is this or that bro-
ther or sister ? You can preach to larger numbers 
with your pen than with your lips. The Herald 
will then soon regain its number of subscribers, 
and we shall see the cause prosper, and souls saved. 
Yours truly, A. CHASE, JR. 
Sept. 7th, 1853. 
WILL you give through the Herald your views of 
Luke 17th, from the 30th verse to the end of the 
chapter ? Why was it necessary that such direc-
tions as in verse 31, should be given to any who 
are on the earth at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 
when probation shall have been closed! Also, why 
is similar language used by our Saviour, giving 
the same directions to be observed, where speaking 
of the destruction of Jerusalem? (See Matt. 24 : 
17, and Mark 13:15.) As it reads, there seems to 
be similar directions given to be observed and fol-
lowed by believers in Christ, at two very dissimilar 
events, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, 
and the second coming of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ. I feel that a true exposition of the 
fore-named scriptures will he of service to the 
cause of truth, and help to my mind in many 
things brought to view in the chapters quoted 
from. 
n. C. 
REMARKS. 
Why the Saviour should give such directions we 
may not know ; and yet it is evident that he does 
give such. We conceive the idea to be this : The 
Saviour is teaching the suddenness of the second 
advent, and the inappropriateness, when his com-
ing shall transpire, of any thought respecting 
secular affairs. Those whose affections then linger 
about the affairs of this world, as those of the wife 
of Lot did about Sodom, will be left as she was ; 
and therefore the necessity of then forgetting the 
things which now necessarily occupy a portion of 
our time. 
A similar direction in relation to escaping from 
the approaching armies that were to desolate Je-
rusalem, also implied the necessity of promptness 
on that occasion. The command, it will be remem-
bered, was a mode of expression familiar to the 
Jewish mind, whenever pecular promptness was 
to be enjoined.—En. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
C. LawzoN writes from Troy, Aug. 3d, 1853 :— 
There are a few in Troy who are lifting up their 
heads and rejoicing, in view of the things which are 
coming to pass, knowing that their redemption 
draweth nigh. We have some preaching, and, I 
hope, a good deal of praying. We do not neglect 
the assembling of ourselves together, as the man-
ner of some is. Sometimes we have about as many 
at a meeting as Noah had with him in the ark, 
sometimes less ; but I believe we have always had 
as many as three, enough to claim the promise. 
0, it is a good thing to wait upon God in faith, 
even if there is only one or two of the faithful met 
together. The place seems awful. The Lord will 
give grace and glory, and no good thing will he 
withhold front them that walk uprightly. At our 
last meeting, we resolved to have preaching as 
often as we could get that which was good, God 
being our helper and our leader. 
" I have been making efforts to get subscribers 
for the Herald, but it seems as if the people were 
given up to believe a lie." 
M. H. FRANK writes from Clearfield, Aug. 17th, 
1853 :—" I am glad that I have the privilege of 
sending you one subscriber for the Advent Herald, 
and I hope that every Adventist in the States and 
elsewhere will wake up to this matter, and see if 
they cannot send you one at least. It would be 
well for all of us to read brother Litch's articles 
over and over, and then make one trial to see if the 
list of subscribers could not be greatly increased." 
Bito. HisiEs :—Where is brother Munn, who vis-
ited at my house last year, when I lived in Athens, 
Vt. I wish to travel with him this fall. 
Wm. S. CAMP. 
munmsnawassgassitsemo 
THE HERALD OFFICE. 
I AM 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. 
Since first embracing the doctrine of the Second 
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. 
Nothing connected with it has been kept from his 
knowledge. He can have no inducement to speak 
otherwise than impartially respecting it ; and it 
is from a personal knowledge of its condition and 
wants that he was prompted to make the appeal 
that he has. We trust that our affairs may ever 
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. 
I have for some time felt quite anxious respect-
ing the office and my mission in connection with it. 
The greatest number of subscribers we have ever 
had, was on the 1st of Jan. 1851, when they num-
bered 4664. Soon after, we struck off from our list 
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 
the close of the last volume, July 1st, we had but 
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 
earnest efforts to extend its circulation, and to re- 
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-
ALD office, he will provide the means for its support. 
He, however, requires our own exertions ; and as 
an inducement to friends to exert themselves to 
procure subscribers, I will make the following 
OFFER. 
Those" who will procure three or more new and 
paying subscribers, and wish for remuneration, 
may order from the office any books that we pub-
lish, to the amount of one fourth the money they 
obtain from such subscribers. Or, if they prefer, 
they may order to one fifth the amount of it in any 
of the books that we purchase and keep for sale. 
In addition to the above, we will make a present of 
Jewett's great picture of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro-
gress—a steel engraving on a plate 24 by 30 inches, 
and sold for $5, to the one who will send us the 
greatest number—over ten—of paying subscribers 
between now and the first of January next. 
We want to bring the list up to 5000 paying 
subscribers ; which is necessary, so make the office 
as efficient as it should be, to enable me to publish 
the works I have in my 'nand, to supply the HERALD 
to the worthy poor, to assist in new fields of labor, 
and to meet the obstacles which are thrown in my 
way abroad by those who are more anxious to de- 
stroy, than to build up. 
J. T. H. 
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ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON. SEPTEMBER 17, 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. 
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. 
READING FOR THE YOUNG. 
Let not the Sun go down upon 
your Wrath 
 297 
The Vast Army 
Small Number of the Elect 598 
Absolvo Te 
 
The Australian Flood LC 
The Oriental Question not 
Settled 
 299 
A Fejee Specimen of Burying 
Alive 
 
The Good Time Coining " 
The Death of Judas 
The Prophecy of Isaiah .... 300 
The Coming Crisis 
 300 
The Abomination and Holy 
Place 
 
The Eastern Question 301 
Future Events Revealed by 
God 
 302 
Letter from Hallowell, " 
Questions 
 
The Scriptures 
Letter from Derry, N. H.... 303 
Extracts from Letters 
C. Lawton 
 
M. H. Frank 
Spirit Rappers' Second Adv't 304 
The Chinese Rebellion 
CI 
The Suspicious Man 
Pulpit Tenderness 
D. I. ROBINSON-Batavia, N. Y. 
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CONTENTS OF THE SEPT. NO. 
Michael the Miner. 
Reading for the Young. 
Always Going to Church. 
WhitSiintide in England. 
Daily Life of the Christian Child. 
Who was the Gentleman ? 
How to Remember. 
The Four Pistareens. 
Don't 'Waste your Time ; or a 
Lesson for Young Men. 
A Funny Petition, 
Self-Inquiries. 
An Ingenious Puzzle. 
Enigma, &c. 
MARRIED, in Montgomery, Vt., Sept. 4th, by Elder C. Greene, Mr. 
SAMUEL HURLBUT, to Miss MARY ANN SQUARES, both of C. E. 
Appointments, &c. 
J. Y. Throes will preach in the Chardon-street chapel, Boston, Sab-
baths, Sept. 18th and 25th. 
D. I. Romxsos will preach in Lockport, N. Y., Sabbath, Sept. 18th 
and Seneca Falls, Sabbath, 25th. 
N. BILLINGS will preach at Calais, Vt., Sept. 15th, 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 Sabbnth, and 
labor as Elder Thurber may arrange. Will some brother front 
Cabot call for me at the house of Elder Davis in Calais, as above 
dated ?-x. B. 
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. SHIPMAN. 
A MEETING will commence at Lake Village, N. IT., on Saturday be-
fore the first Sabbath in October, at 10 o'clock, and continue as 
long as it may be proper, 0. V. 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
L. DUDLEY will preach at Caldwell's Manor Sept. 21st ; Stanbridge, 
211 ; Dunham, 23d ; ttichford Mills, 24th ; Enosburg, Samsonville, 
Sunday, 25th ; Swanton Falls, 27th. Each, except Sunday, at 6i 
WESLEY IlvastrrAm will preach in the academy in Rochester village, 
N. II., Sunday, Sept. 18th. 
0. D. EASTMAN will preach at Sugar Hill Sept. 18th, and W. H 
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A strnTistd will be held'in.Melbourne; C:r.;th commence Wednes-
day, Sept. 21st, at 2 P. It. and continue over the following Sunday. 
Br Other I. II. 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. ORROCE. 
A MEETING. will be heldin the " Old Meeting-house" in Halley, C. 
E., to commence Wednesday, Sept. 28th, at 2 P. 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. H. Sniroox, J. M. °BROCK. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOR many years it has been a subject of anxious 
solictude with us, to provide for the religious in-
struction of the children of Adventists. Books 
and papers devoted to the instruction of our chil-
dren in the doctrines of the Bible, as held by Ad-
ventists, are not to be found in the libraries of 
other denominations; hence we have had to pre-
pare and publish, at a heavy expense, works to 
meet this specific object. In endeavoring to carry 
forward this design, we are sensible that all has 
not been done that the case required ; but our lim-
ited means would not allow us to do more. 
For several years. the receipts for the children's 
paper, as well as for the question books, did not 
cover the expense of their publication-the defi-
ciency being made up from the income of the office. 
And such has been the want of interest in the sub-
ject, that nothing has been given by others to aid 
in this department of our work. But we are hap-
py to say, a different state of feeling exists at the 
present time. There now seems to be a disposition 
on the part of Adventists to sustain and extend 
the Sabbath School interest, and aid in the publi-
cation of works devoted to it. This is encourag-
ing. And we feel confident,, that the more our 
friends think on the subject, the more important 
will it seem to them, and the more disposed they 
will feel in furthering it. 
There are two ways in which substantial aid can 
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One is, by pecuniary donations ; the other, by the 
employment of the pen. We respectfully solicit 
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pen, are invited to furnish articles for the Guide, 
which shall advance the Sabbath School interest. 
We also desire to form a Sabbath School Library, 
and should be glad to be favored with manuscripts 
for examination, suitable for books of from 24 to 
100 pages, and if used, we will make remuneration 
for them, if their authors require it. 
Our present published works consist of the fol-
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Youth's Guide, a monthly paper, at 25 cts. a 
year. 
Questions on the Book of Dame!. (1 vol.) 
A work on Bible subjects, giving the princi-
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A work concerning-the Saviour and his teach-
ings, adapted for small children. A new edition, 
just out. 
The Bible Class-a work in the form of con-
versations on the Bible, suitable for young persons, 
and containing much valuable information on the 
nature of the Kingdom of God, and the near com-
ing of the Saviour. 
Other works are in preparation, and will be pub-
lished as soon as we shall have the means to do so. 
A Sabbath School Hymn Book is now ready for 
the press, and may be got out this season. 
With the above works, we can set our children 
right upon every important view we hold of Chris- 
tian doctrine. With these, teachers, and others, 
can pre-occupy the minds of their children with 
correct views, and shut out wrong ones, or ren- 
der them innocuous. Thus we may use all that is 
good in the libraries of other denominations, with-
out expoSing our children to danger. 
WORKS OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS. 
We have examined with much care the works of 
different Sabbath School Depositories, and give our 
preference to the " American Sunday School Union." 
While the works of this institution contain less 
that is objectionable, there is found in them much 
that is valuable. Besides, from the large sales of 
the Union, and the liberal donations made to ad-
vance its object, it furnishes works at a very cheap 
rate, which is of some consideration. We have 
made arrangements with the Agent, by which we 
can furnish all works needed at the same prices at 
which they can be procured at the Depository. 
In addition to our own works, named above, we 
would commend the following : 
The Mine Explored ; or, Help to the Reading of the Bible. 282 pp. 
With maps. Price, 75 cts. This is an invaluable work for teach-
ers. 
SACRED GEOGRAPHY. 
Biblical Geography ; or, Illustrated Sketches of the Countries and 
Places mentioned in Bible History. With a map. By J. F. Ken-
nedy. 382 pp. 18 mo. 50 cts. 
Map of Palestine. A new and elegantly engraved map of Pales-
tine, three feet by two, lined with fine muslin, mounted on rollers, 
and colored and varnished. $1. 
Map of Palestine. This is drawn upon muslin or cotton cloth, 
five feet in length. The lines are bold and strong, to be seen dis-
tinctly by a whole school, or large Bible-class, at one view. By 
the Rev. J. P. Durbin, D. D. $1,25. 
New and beautiful Map of Palestine, fourteen by twenty-two 
inches, on sheets. 10 Us. 
Map of Jerusalem. This is a beautiful map of ancient Jerusa-
lem and its environs, drawn on stone, front the best and latest au-
thorities. It is designed to accompany and illustrate Selumiel, or, 
A Visit to Jerusalem. $1. 
DICTIONARIES. 
Union Bible Dictionary. 648 pp. 18 mo. 45 cts. 
Same, fine paper, bound in sheep. 55 eta. 
Same, bound in muslin. 50 cts. 
Same, bound in morocco, gilt, gilt edges. $1,50. 
Same, in octavo size, and large type. $1,50. 
Same, with maps. $2. 
Dictionary of Scripture Natural History. 400 pp. IS mo. 50 cts. 
SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 
The Sunday School and Family Library, No. 1, consists of 100 se-
lect volumes, from 72 to 252 pages 18 mo., substantially bound, 
with muslin backs and marbled paper sides ; each volume regu-
larly numbered and ready for use, with twenty-four catalogues of 
the same. This Library will he found useful not only for Sunday 
Schools, but for families and public schools. The 100 volumes con-
tain 11,628 pages, and are illustrated by more than 400 wood en-
gravings. Only $10 for the Library, at the rate of 10 cts, per vol. 
The Sunday School and Family Library, No. 2, which contains 100 
select volumes, from 72 to 270 pages 18 mo., substantially bound, 
with muslin backs ; each volume regularly numbered and ready 
for use ; with twenty-four catalogues of the same. Only $10. 
The Sunday School and Family Library, No. 3, contains 100 select 
volumes, from 72 to 288 pages 18 mo., substantially bound, with 
muslin backs ; each volume regularly numbered and ready for use, 
with twenty-four catalogues of the same. Only $10. 
The Juvenile Library, containing 100 books, bound in 75 volumes, 
from 52 to 162 pages 18 mo., with muslin backs and marbled pa-
per sides ; each volume regularly numbered, with twelve cata-
logues of the same. Only $5. 
QUESTION BOOKS. 
Vol. 1. Containing the life and miracles of Jesus Christ ; 144 pages 
18 mo. 
- 2. Containing the parables and other instructions of Jesus Christ ; 
128 pages 18 mo. 
3. Embracing the creation of the world to the deliverance of the 
children of Israel from Egypt; 136 pages 18 mo. 
Embracing the release of the Israelites to the death of Joshua 5 
124 pages 18 mo. 
Containing questions on the Acts of the Apostles ; 144 pages 
18 mo. 
6. Embracing the death of Joshua to the death of Samuel ; 125 
pages 1s rao. 
7. From the death of Samuel to the Babylonian captivity; 171 
pages 18 mo. 
Containing questions on the Epistle to the Galatians ; 80 
pages 18 mo. 
Comprising the history of the Israelites, from the Babylonian 
captivity to 'the end of the Old Testament, including the books of 
Daniel, Ezra, Esther, and Nehemiah,. 
Containing questions on the Epistle to the Romans ; 158 
pages 18 mo. 
11. Containing questions on the Epistle to the Hebrews; 128 
pages 18 mo. 
12. Containing lessons designed to give a general view of the 
whole Bible ; 160 pages 18 mo. 
13. The Consecutive Union Question Book-Matthew. 
" " 
" Mark, with the text 
printed in the book. 
- 15. " 
6, 
" Luke, " 
" 44 
it 66 
 c. 
" John, " 
The Child's Scripture Question Book, designed for the younger 
classes of Sabbath Schools. The answers to the questions ore 
short, simple, and, as far as practicable, in Bible language ; 197 
pages 18 too., embellished with sixty-three engravings. 
Questions on'lliblical Antiquities. Part I. By Rev. Dr. Neville. 
The above are 61 cents each. 
Tracts for Little Folks-twelve in number, suitable for distribution 
among Sabbath School scholars. 10 cents a package. 
The Spirit Rappers' Second Advent. 
A WRITER in the Spiritual Telegraph feels " im-
pressed to say," that " Biela's comet," which is 
expected in 1856, after a lapse of three hundred 
years, is composed of " spiritual essences," and 
occupied by " spiritual inhabitants." lie says of 
it : 
" This approaching comet has already shed some 
spiritual rays upon our earth, which have pre-
pared, and are still preparing, the inhabitants of 
earth for the reception of the concentrated rays of 
this superior celestial body. This will be the sev-
enth time of its appearance since the Christian era 
began. It will N the second coming of Christ, for' 
then the seed of universal brotherhood will be sown, 
or the kingdom of heaven will become established 
on earth. Until then the soil will be well prepared 
for its reception, when it will gradually grow and 
finally bear its fruits-humanity's redemption. 
Its last appearance in 1556 was crowned by the 
Reformation, and we are still living in the pro-
phetical Congregation of Philadelphia. In fact, 
the seventh era will begin with the year 1872, 
when the influence of this comet will be thoroughly 
felt, for in reality three hundred and twelve earthly 
years constitute an era." 
We note these ebullitions of fancy, as evidence 
that fallen man will more readily believe anything, 
however absurd, than the word of the Lord. 
The Chinese Rebellion. 
A LETTER from Richard J. Dana, dated at Can-
ton, June 10, published in the N. Y. Journal of 
Commerce, says : 
" The principal leaders'of the rebellion are said 
to be from the neighborhood of this city. They 
were literati, who obtained a knowledge of: the 
Christian religion, by intercourse with some of 
the missionaries, and from the Scriptures and re-
ligious works which had been translated into Chi 
nese. They became teachers of the new faith, and 
made so many converts, that they attracted the 
notice and finally the persecution of the Mandarins 
to such an extent, that some of them died in con-
sequence.. This goaded them to rebellion-they 
gathered a number of followers, organized them, 
and led them forth with the avowed object of over-
throwing an idolatrous and corrupt government ! 
Their progress thus far has been one unbroken 
career of amazing success - they have passed 
through the most popular and wealthy portion of 
this great country, capturing all the large cities 
on their way, and overturning all opposition with 
the greatest ease. Their progress and audacity 
have carried dismay and terror over the hearts of 
their opponents, who appear never to have the 
courage to meet them face to face. They have 
sought to win the favor of the people at large, but 
have slaughtered the Tartars, man, woman, and 
child, whenever they have met them ; and have 
destroyed the idols and temples of Fo and Taou, 
and, in many instances, have slain the priests. 
" They now hold possession of the most important 
posts of the whole country, viz : Nanking, Chin-
kiang, and Kwa.-Chow-on the great river Yank-tze-
kiang, and at the entrance of the grand canal. It 
is not impossible that ere the next mail leaves, we 
may hear that they have started again for their 
final dash upon Peking. It is generally believed 
that their progress toward that capital, will be as 
successful and triumphant as it has heret',fore 
been. 
" One of the most striking developments in the 
present state of affairs, is the utter weakness and 
inefficiency of the Tartar government. Its prestige 
was injured by the English war, and it is now al-
most entirely dissipated. Its power over the peo-
ple was, in fact, the idea of its irresistibility, and 
when the idea vanishes, the power goes with it. It 
appears to have no sympathy or support from the 
mass of the people ; the latter are by nature and 
habit unwarlike and timid, and even lif they had 
the courage, they have not the will, to take up 
arms in defence of the government." 
THE YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.-The New 
Orleans papers are full of the sad details of the 
pestilence. By the telegraphic reports it will be 
seen there is a decided decrease in the virulence of 
the fever ; on the 30th, the deaths were 125, and 
on the 31st, 124. The Pella, of the 23d, says • 
" We fear that the bill of mortality for to-day 
will be fearfully increased by the sudden change in 
the atmosphere. We heard of one case where a 
gentleman, sick with fever, had the window of his 
room open at the time, who was struck by the first 
blast of the norther, and died in a very few min-
utes after, though he had been previously recover-
ing. The epidemic is prevailing in Algiers and 
Gretna, and the suburbs, with as.great if not great-
er severity than in the city. They have commenced 
the organization of societies to take care of the sick, 
and selected places for infirmaries, and have other-
wise completely organized for work." 
THE Advent chapel in Forsyth-street, New York, 
was opened on the 11th, with great interest and 
enthusiasm. Sermon by the pastor, Elder Mans-
field, in the forenoon, by Elder Whiting in the af-
ternoon, and by myself in the evening. The house 
was full all day, and the best of attention was 
paid to the word. The collections during the day 
amounted to over a thousand dollars, which cancels 
the debt upon he building.. All praise to. God. 
Brother Mansfield has been the Nehemiah in this 
work. his untiring industry and faithfulness in 
this matter will not fail of being rewarded. More 
hereafter. 
J. V. H. 
New York, Sept. 12th, 1853. 
" The Ladies' Wreath and Parlor Annual."-
These two monthlies have been united, and come 
to us under the united name, published by Burdick, 
Reed & Roberts, No. 8 Spruce street, N. Y. This 
periodical contains only original matter, and an-
nounces that it has reached the circulation of forty 
thousand. 
A REQUEST.-Bro. C. B. Turner, now on the sick 
list, wishes to find sonic person on the coast who 
can obtain for him " Cod Liver Oil," to be extract-
ed in such manner as he shall direct-he not being 
willing to risk the oil as now prepared. Will any 
one who can respond to this, write us, or write 
brother Turner at East Randolph, Vt. 
WESTERN TOUR.-I shall not be able to give my 
appointments till next week. 1 shall then make 
arrangements for a three months' tour, in accord-
ance with the wishes of those who have written to 
me, desiring my labors. Providence permitting, I 
shall commence the first of October. J. v. n. 
AGENTS IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.-J. D. Boyer, 
Second Fork, Elk county ; J. T. Laning, blilesburg, 
Centre county ; M. A. Frank, Clearfield ; all of 
-whom will have a supply of our publications in a 
few weeks. 
A. S. Corey, 632 ; Mrs. A. C. Abell, 664 ; W. Baker, book and to 
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673 • R. Allen, 658 ; C. Ford, 6:37 ; W. M. Cheney, 648; II. Ill'Mul-
len,642 ; G. W. Watson, 664 ; Lydia M Lowell, 658 ; 0. A. Scott, 
651 ; L. Wiswall, (of Athens, Vt.) 664 ; T. Freeman, 658 ; E. Rob-
erts, 658 ; E. P. Zimmerman, 664; J. Wise, 606-42 clue Jan. 1st; 
R. T. Price, 664 ; T. Scott, 664 ; B. 11. Osborn, 664 ; E. if. Fisher, 
641 ; Chas. Dow, 664-each $1. 
J. Krome, 690; W. T. Newcomb, 658 ; T. 0. Cole, 650 ; J. C. 
Durgin, 612-$1,77 due Jan. let ; J. Shank, 632 ; R. MrMullen, 536 
-$2,77 due Jan. 1st ; A. Davidson, 684 ; N. Warner, 671, and Y. 
G. ; J. S. Rhodes, 690 ; J. Thorp, 627 ; W. Zimmerman, 690 ; H. 
Russell, 65S ; Daniel Burris, 690-each $2. 
A. Keyes, 632 ; A. Smith, 2d, 677, and X. 0.-each $3. II. Gil-
bert, 658.; J. Sharer, 690; J. M'Clinsey, 612-$1,77 due Jan. 1st-
each $5. I. Chapman, 664-$1,20. W. M. Atwood, 694-80 cents. 
J. Hallabaugh, 645-$1,50. P. Swartz, 658-77 etc. J. T. LaniOg 
-$10 on acct. S. B. Turner, 658 and Y. 0.-52,25.