J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
OFFICE, No. 8 ChardoM-strcct 
WHOLE NO. 697. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. 
YOLUME XIY. NO. 12 
Terms of Peace. 
THE despatch in which Lord 'Clarendon re-
plied, on the 22d of July, to the last communi-
cation made to Vienna by the Court of St. Pe-
tersburg, and the Notes exchanged on the 8th 
of August between the English, French, 
and 
Austrian Ministers, were laid before Parliament 
on the last day of the Session, but have only 
been delivered to members of the Legislature 
within the latfit few hours ; since the commencement 
of these protracted negotiations no papers have 
yet been produced which throws so strong and 
clear a light upon the intentions and engagements 
of th-e great Powers of Europe. 
Lord Claren-
don's despatch of the 22d of July is, with some 
trifling exceptions identical with that ot M. 
Drouyn de Lhuys ofthe same date, and, indeed, 
the two Governments had previously concerted 
the exact terms in which they should deal with 
the Russian overture. 
The chief difference be-
tween the English and French communication 
is, that M. Drouyn de Lhuys introduced the four 
points which are regarded by both Governments 
as the bases of peace, into his princippal Note, 
while they were transmitted to Lord Westmor-
land in a separate despatch. 
The terms them-
selves are, however, indentical, and accordingly 
on the 8th of August the British Minister waited 
upon Count Buol by appointment, and the Notes 
to which reference has so frequently been made 
were exchanged. 
The substance of these Notes 
is, that after repeated confidential conversation 
in Vienna, Paris, and London, the three Courts 
are of opinion that the existence of the Ottoman 
Porte cannot be connected with the general equi-
librium of Europe, and the relations of Russia 
and the Porte cannot be re-established on solid 
and durable bases, 
1. Unless the Russian protectorate of the 
Principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, andSer-
via, be discontinued, and the privileges secured 
to those provinces by the Sultan placed under 
the collective guarantee of Europe. 
2. Unless the navigation of the Danube, at 
its mouths, be treed from all obstacles. 
3. Unless the Treaty ofthe 13t,h July, 1841, 
be revised in the interest of the balance of pow 
er of Europe. 
4. Unless the Russian claim to the official 
protectorate of the Christian 
subjects of the 
Porte be given up. 
The British and French Governments declare, 
as belligerents, that they are decided not to dis-
cuss, or take into consideration, any proposition 
from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, which shall 
not imply on its part a full and entire adhesion 
to these principles; and the Austrian Cabinet, 
taking cognizance of this declaration, accepts for 
itself the engagement not to treat except upon 
these bases : all parties reserving to themselves 
a free deliberation on such further conditions or 
guarantees as the continuation of hostilities with 
France and England or the commencement of 
hostilities with Austria may render necessary. 
These formaT engagements being now before 
the world, and having been contracted subse-
quently to the announcement that the Princi-
palities would be evacuated 
by Russia, the 
great question now under discussion is at once 
relieved from the obscurity that has hitherto 
prevailed on two essential points :—What are 
the definite objects of the war, and on what terms 
can 'peace be concluded? 
What will be the 
conduct of Austria with reference to the ulteri-
or conditions that the Western Powers had al-
ready bound themselves by treaty to obtain ? 
The answer to these questions is now plain. 
Peace may be concluded on the bases laid down 
in these Notes, and Anstria, as well as France 
aad England, takes upon herself the engagement 
to treat on no others. 
Copies of these documents 
were at once forwarded to St. Petersburg, not 
for discussion, but for the acceptance or rejection 
of the Emperor Nicholas; but we are not yet 
acquainted with the effect produced by them on 
the Russiae Cabinet. 
Substantially, though not 
as yet in complete diplomatic form, the exchange 
of sheet Notes is the basis of a treaty of offensive 
and defensive alliance between the three Powers 
on behalf of the important conditions they con-
tain. 
Those conditions are not terms of com-
promise, on which past dissensions might be 
healed and peace restored, but they provide ef-
fectually for the future. 
They abolish all these 
stipulations which Russia has extorted from 
Turkey by former defeats ; they would establish 
a new state of things in the Principalities, on the 
Danube, and in the Black Sea; and they would 
place the Turkish Government on a new footing 
in its relation to Europe. 
That they will now 
be accepted by Russia is more than we antici-
pate, but that they do include and dispose of the 
essential parts of this immense and overwhelm-
ing question we confidently affirm. 
The vague-
ness and uncertainty which have thus far en-
shrouded our diplomatic proceedings, and even 
our military operations, are rapidly giving way 
to definite objects and precise engagements ; and 
the whole course of policy which we have steadily 
advocated in the course of these transactions its 
reduced to a tangible shape. 
We know for 
what the Allied Powers are contending, and we 
believe that these objects are within their reach. 
But, if the expectations we have so long en-
tertained and defended as to the ultimate policy 
of Austria are thus confirmed, so also are the 
suspicions with which we habitually regard the 
conduct of the King of Prussia and the Cabinet 
of Berlin. 
We learn from Lord Clarendon's de-
spatch, that it was Prussia who declined to at-
tend the Conference which Count Buol proposed 
to summon for the purpose of communicating 
the answer of Russia to the last Austrian de-
mands. 
In consequence of this refusal, which 
was, in fact, a withdrawal from the Conference, 
the further communications of the Three Pow-
ers were carried on in a confidential manner be-
tween London, Vienna, and Paris; and Prussia, 
as we stated at the time, dropped out of the po-
sition she had filled in the councils of Europe. 
When we say that the diplomacy of this country 
and its allies has been successful, except in one 
instance, we mean that it has failed to rouse in 
the heart of the King of Prussia one spark of 
honor or independence, and that the Prussian 
uation, which does not share the infatuated de-
votion of that Sovereign to Russian idols, has 
as yet given no sign of its ability or determina 
tion to shake off Russian thraldom. 
The appro-
priate penalty for this pusillanimous abandon-
ment of the interests of Germany and of Europe 
will be found in 
the increased 
ascendancy 
which the Emperor of Austria has already ac 
quired, and will probably retain, over every part 
of Germany where the intelligence and national 
feelings of that people are unsubdued. 
Should 
Prussia be induced to go still further, and to 
lend herself more openly to the designs of Russia 
she will find that she has lost her honor without 
obtaining security, and, indeed, the preparations 
she is making for the defence of the Baltic coast 
indicate the apprehensions already excited by 
the presence of the Allied Fleets within a few 
lours sail of Stettin and Dantsic. 
At present 
however, it is enough that she be passed over in 
silence; that these important engagements have 
been contracted without her; that, as the matter 
now stands, the Eastern question may be settled 
without her: and that she is deprived of the pow-
er to betray the cause which she has refused tQ 
oeryg 
British Banner of August 23d 
Tremendous Hurricane in Georgia 
A VIOLENT hurricane occurred at Savannah on 
the 8th of Sept. It commenced to blow Thursday 
afternoon, and the gale increased in violence 
until Friday afternoon, when the climax appears 
to have been reached, for the editor of the Re 
publican says that at that time the storm was so 
terrific thai he could not leave his office to ob-
tain particulars of the damage. 
From the ac 
count in the Republican 
we learn that one half 
of the trees in the city were prostrated, while 
the remainder were stripped of their foliage and 
limbs. 
Houses were unroofed, chimneys blown 
down, fences ruined, doors wrcnched off ; in 
short, every damage that could be effected bv 
wind was visible in every street. 
We copy a 
few items : 
"Just fifty years ago yesterday, Sept. 8, as 
we learn from our back files, the coast of Geor-
gia was visited by the most frightful hurricane 
that had been known since the settlement of the 
State. 
It is remarkable that the gale which now 
shakes the building in which we write, and is un-
roofing the town, prostrating trees and chimnies, 
and destroying vast, amounts of property, should 
occur just fifty years to a day after that of 1804. 
'' Looking from the upper story of the Republi-
can buildings, we find that the whole of Hutch-
inson's Island opposite the city, is submerged, 
and that the rice fields above and below, both on 
the Georgia and Carolina side, as far as the eye 
can reach, are completely inundated. 
" The loss from the destruction ofthe rice and 
Sea Islands cotton crops in Georgia and South 
Carolina, must be immense. 
Indeed, it can only 
be estimated by millions. 
With the rioe fields 
flooded, and an angry, terrible hurricane sweep-
ing over them, tearing up the embankments and 
destroying the work of years, it is difficult to 
place a limit upon the damage done. 
It is 
doubtful whether rice enough will be saved on 
Savannah river for seed, and the same, we fear, 
is true of all the rice lands in this State and 
South Carolina. 
The embankments and canals 
are destroyed, as well as the little rice that had 
been harvested. 
The lands on both sides the 
river are flooded from five to ten feet deep as far 
as the driving rain will permit the eye to sweep. 
Hutchinson's Island at nightfall was covered 
with eight to twelve feet of water, so that vessels 
of a large size might have sailed over it without 
obstruction. 
Some three or four hundred head 
of cattle and hogs on the island, belonging to 
Maj. Starke, were lost and large quantities ot 
lumber lying at the mills, and other property. 
Several of the mills were unroofed and flooded, 
and otherwise damaged-. 
Late in the afternoon, 
a house was seen floating from the island. 
" We learn that the gale did not extend more 
than sixty or seventy miles into the interior. 
" It is impossible to convey to the distant reader 
an idea of the present aspect of the city. 
Of 
the hundreds of beautiful trees that ornamented 
the squares and streets, at least over half of 
them have been blown down, and those standing 
have been stripped of their branches and leaves. 
It was almost impossible to get through the town 
Saturday morning, so completely were the streets 
blocked up. 
Monument square is a wreck ; so 
is Orleans square, opposite Mr. Robert Haber-
sham's residence." 
After giving a long list of churches and pri-
vate residences that suffered, the Republican 
says 
it would take a whole page of their paper to 
enumerate the losses. 
With the present me-
chanical force of the city, it will take months 
simply to repair the damaged roofs. 
The shipping 
suffered severely. 
Steamers 
Jenny 
Lind, 
Oregon, 
and 
Sam Jones, are 
wrecked, as well as many smaller craft. 
American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions. 
WE have received a copy of the Report of the 
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign' 
Missions for the.year 1854—the forty-fifth year 
of the existanoe of the association—of which we 
compile a brief abstract for the benefit of our 
readers. 
The report states that during the past 
year four corporate members of the society have 
passed away. 
They are Rev. Leonard Woods, 
D,D., and Rev. Joshua Bates, D.r., of Massa-
chusetts, Mr. Ansan G. Phelps of New York, 
and Mr. Nathaniel 0,. Kellogg of Connecticut. 
Intelligence has been received of the death of 
two missionaries and five assistant missionaries. 
They were connected, respectively, with the 
Zulu, Nestorian, Madras, Micornesian, 
Assy-
rian,Armenian and Canton missions. Thirty-four 
new missionary laborers have been sent forth, 
and sixteen are now under appointment. 
With regard to the present conditions of the 
missions in Southern and Western Africa, the 
report says that the year has been one of trial 
rather then of prosperity, the people generally 
seemed to feel but little interest in the labors of 
the missionaries. 
At Athens, in Greece, the recent banishment 
and recall of Dr. King has created a strong pop-
ular sentiment in his favor. 
The attendance on 
his preaching has more than doubled, and his 
influence has proportionally increased. 
With regard to the mission to the Armenians, 
the past year has been one both of severe trial 
and brightening promise. 
The prospect for the 
raising up of a well qualified ministry in Turkey 
is encouraging. The war hs» occasioned no seri-
ous hindrance to the regular course of labor, and 
in some parts of the field, as on the upper waters 
of the Euphrates, in Arabkir and its vicinity, 
and in Cilicia, the developement of Christiani-
ty, is beyond that of any previous year. 
The work of the Syria mission goes forward, 
and at most of the stations progress is reported. 
More then a score of schools give Christian edu-
cation to about six hundred pupils. 
Among the Nestorians, where sixteen years 
ago the missionaries could learn of but a single 
female who could read, there are now 79 free 
schools, attended by 1300 pupils, ofwhom 359 are 
females. 
The four missions among 
the Mahrattas of 
Western India report nothing specially new. 
The people are constantly improving in intellect-
uality and morality. 
The desire for general 
education is increasing, and there is a great de-
mand for the works ofthe mission press, consist-
ing chiefly of the Scriptures and religious tracts. 
No striking changes have occured in the char-
acter and prospects of the missions in India and 
Ceylon. 
In China the missionaries continue to look 
with interest and hope upon the movements of 
the insurgents, trusting that they will prepare 
a way for the preaching of the gospel thoughout 
the empire. 
The missionaries at the Sandwich Islands 
have still much to try their Christian faith; 
but there is evidence of progress in the slow ris-
ing of the people, under the influence of the 
gospel, from the deep degradation of theiPformer 
state 
The closing part of the report contains an in-
teresting statement of the various missionary suc-
cesses among the Indian tribes of North America. 
Among the Choctaws iu Texas, more than one 
hundred new converts have been admitted to 
Christian fellowship in the year past. 
Among 
the Cherokee, Dakotas, and Tuscaroras the work 
is slowly advancing. 
The Ojibewas on Lake 
Superior are being gradually led to the paths of 
morality, truth and religion, and an interesting 
revival has taken place among the Senecas. 
The following summary gives an idea of the 
present condition and labors of the Association : 
Number of missions, 29; stations, 119 ; out 
stations, 48. 
j 
Number of ordained Missionaries (9 being 
physicians), 161; licentiates, 1; physicians not 
ordained, 8; other male assistants, 20 ; female 
assistants, 216 ; whole number of laborers sent 
from this country, 406. 
Number of native 
preachers, 43 ; native helpers, 223 ; whole num-
ber of native assistants, 266-
Number of printing establishments, 11; pages 
printed last year, 57,650,750; from the begin-
ning, 1,01-5,783,228. 
Number of churches, ( including all at the 
Sandwich Islands,) 104; church members, 25,-
846; added during the year, 2,331. 
Number of seminaries, 9; other boarding 
schools, 28; free schools (334 supported by 
Hawaiian government,) 967 ; pupils in the sem-
inaries (82 do.), 453 ; boarding schools, 
638; 
298 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
free schools, (11,771 do.) 22,459; whole num-
ber in seminaries and schools, 23,550. 
The War. 
WE have given, from the Times, 
a di* 
gest of the correspondence which has recently 
passed between the Britsh and Austrian Govern-
ments. 
From that correspondence, our readers 
will gather the perfect good faith with which 
the Governments of England and of France 
have 
hitherto 
conducted their 
negotiations. 
From the same may likewise be learned, with 
the utmost explicitness, the grounds of that con-
test. 
It will also be seen, that the word of the 
Western Powers is solemnly pledged, that they 
will enter into no negotiation whatever with the 
Czar, that does not assume the four great points 
specified. 
If, therefore, Nicholas shall, at any 
time, deem it expedient to terminate hostilities, 
he knows the conditions. 
The Western Powers 
say, These points, or—cannon I 
Under the circumstances, then, the only al-
ternative for Nicholas is, submission or hostili-
ties. 
He may, prehaps, for a season, find it an 
intolerable trial to his pride, not simply to re-
trace his steps beyond the Pruth, and to forego 
the splendid territories, on which he had ruth-
lessly seized, and which he had determined to 
hold, as what he called " material guarantees ;" 
but also to confess himself beaten and reduced 
to the hard and humbling necessity, not of 
proudly negotiating, but of absolutely submit-
ting to a peace, the terms of which are unaltera-
bly dictated by the Western Powers. 
If England and France shall abide by the 
ground they have now adopted, the submission 
of Nicholas is only a question of time. 
What-
ever strength position may give to Cronstadt or 
to Sebastopol, these dread fortresses cannot be 
of lasting service to Nicholas. 
In both cases 
there is a fortress and a fleet,—a fortress operat-
ing, so to speak, for a double purpose. 
While 
it shuts out the fleets of the Allies, it shuts in 
the fleets of the Czar, with this difference, that 
while the fleets of the former are sweeping the 
seas at pleasure, the fleets of the latter are pris-
oners. 
The fleets of Nicholas are to all intents 
as if they were not. 
To him they are really of 
no service, but to deepen his disgrace, and 
heighten his humiliation. 
They 
contribute 
nothing whatever to the safety of the empire : to 
the forts, not to them, he exclusively looks. 
As represented by his fleets, he is simply a rob-
ber in his.den ! 
If the police, in pursuit of him, 
cannot get in, at the same time, he cannot get 
out; and the matter is thus reduced to a pure 
question of patience and hunger. 
These fleets, 
without firing a shot; are yet preparing the way 
for victory. 
Their terrible presence, both in 
the Baltic and in the Black Sea, on the right 
hand and on the left, cannot fail of exerting the 
most serious influence on the minds of the Rus-
sians. 
< The Commanders and the Admirals of the Al-
lied Powers are, therefore, at this moment, the 
schoolmasters of Rnssia, and the lesson they are 
teaching her, if not the most agreeable, is yet 
the most salutary that can possibly be imparted. 
The time has come to bring down her towering 
pride and to work in her the conviction that she 
was by no means the Mistress of all, but simply 
a Sister of other Kingdoms, and as such, neither 
the wisest nor the worthiest of the sisterhood, 
and without the slightest claim to control the 
rest, 
g 
Their own miserable inferiority and their ut-
ter inability to meet the Allied Fleets in mortal 
combat they cannot hide from themselvers and 
they will feel that they owe their safety neither 
to their numbers nor their bravery, but purely 
to the accident of the two forts already referred 
to. 
The state of feeling thus engendered must 
make sad havoc of their own vanity and imagi-
nary power, to menace and control the nations 
of Europe. 
Their Imperial glory, even in their 
own barbaric esteem, will thus melt away like 
the snow on their own mountains and the ice in 
their own rivers on the approach of the sum-
mer's sun. 
British Banner of August 23d. 
Louis Napoleon. 
TEE man whom the world erewhile pronounced 
half a simpleton, half a madman, has given, 
and is still giving substantial evidence, that he 
is incomparably the ablest Soverign on the Con-
tinent of Europe, and that evidence he has given 
under a great variety of circumstances, sueh as 
have fallen to the lot of none of his contempora-
ries. 
From the outset, he has shown that his 
resources are equal to every emergency. 
He 
has surprised others; he has been surprised by 
none. 
He writes, speaks, acts, and governs uni-
formly well. 
No man living 
has a more 
thorough command of his own tongue and temper, 
few men are able to bring wider views and deep-
er sagacity to regulate the policy of the passing 
hour, or to lay foundations, deep and strong, for 
Commanding the nation's confidence, and secur-
ing the nation's warfare. 
Every month but 
serves to illustrate some new phase of his remark-
able character, some fresh resource for exciting 
interest, cementing power, conciliating affection, 
and raising admiration. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. 
HALIFAX.— Sept. 12. 
The Russian hospitals 
and magazines are being removed from Galatz to 
Bessarabia. 
The Austrians have entered Wallachia but 
their further movements are not reported. 
Gen. 
Cornorini has gorn to Bucharest tq consult with 
Omar Pasha. 
In the recent fire at Varna, half a million 
pounds of bread, equal to two weeks consumption 
of the British army, was burned. 
The fire is 
supposed to be wilfull, and as a precaution for 
the future, a cordon has been drawn round all 
the magazines containing powder. 
There was 
considerable excitement, the incendiaries being 
supposed to be Russians agents. 
Transports con-
tinue to arrive from Malta. 
The French troops are getting impatient at 
their long inactivity. 
The Cholera has made 
terrible ravages in both armies and fleets, and 
many thousands have perished, but it is now 
abating. 
All was quiet at Constantinople. Said Pasha, 
the new Viceroy of Egypt, is on a visit to the 
Sultan. 
Devesh Pasha, a skilful! diplomatist, 
has been sent to the Principalities as Turkish 
Commissioner. 
Rheza Pasha is intriguing to 
have Omar Pasha transferred to the command 
of the Army in Asia, but the Sultan wisely re-
fuses. 
ASIA.—The disasters to the Turks in Asia 
are confirmed. 
On the 29th of July, Selim 
Pasha was defeated and the Russians occupied 
Bajazed. 
On the 7th of August a vapory dis-
play of the Turkish force brought on a general 
engagement, and a general battle was fought 
near Kars. 
The Turks attacked the Russian en-
trenched camp at Bajukdere, and also drove the 
right wing of the Russian army, but a general 
charge of Russian cavalry swept them back with 
immense loss. 
The Turks lost 4000 men, and 
confess that the Russians were the victors. 
The 
Russians suffered severely, however, and an ar-
mistice was agreed to by both parties after the 
battle. 
The Turks retreated into Kars, and 
abandoned their camp, which was taken poses-
sion of by the Russians, who acknowledge a loss 
of nearly 1000 killed. The battle last five hours; 
40,000 men and 150 pieces of cannon were en-
gaged. 
Selim Pasha, the Turkish commander 
on this occasion, has been superceded by Mus-
tapha Pasha, who has already distinguished him-
self in the Dobrudscha. 
GREECE.—The excitement caused by the an-
nouncement of the French commander that, as 
the Piraeus is unhealthy, he will move his troops 
to Athens, is very great. 
The delay granted by the Porte to Greece 
for the adjustment of the difficulties with Turkey, 
expired on the 1st September, but no arrange-
ment had been made. 
NEGOTIATIONS.—The Russian reply to the note 
from Prussia, in support of Austrian Somma-
tion ; and Austria's reply to the Russian answer 
of June 26, are now published, as they were 
presented to the German Bund. 
Their contents 
were previously known. 
VIENNA. 
August 
31.—New proposals have 
been made by Russia, which will involve new ne-
gotiations, but the particulars have not trans-
pired. 
GREAT BRITAIN.—The weather has been ex-
tremely favorable for harvesting, and a very 
large proportion of the crops have been secured. 
FRANCE.—The Emperor returned from Biaritz 
to Paris, and had proceeded to the camp at 
Boulogne. 
The Empress remains at the Baths. 
Prince Albert will visit Louis Napoleon, as will 
also the King of Belgium. 
The Moniteur publishes the official account 
of the fall of Bomarsund, but it discloses nothing 
new. 
Reports were current in the Paris Bourse that 
Sweden and Denmark were about to sign a 
treaty of alliance with the Western Powers, but 
it was considered very doubtful. 
BELGIUM.—The Ministry had tendered their 
resignations to the King, but they were not ac-
cepted. 
The cause of their resignation is un-
known. 
SPAIN.—The Union Republican Club is closed 
by order of the Government, and detachments 
of National Guards had been ordered to arrest 
the members if they persisted in assembling. 
Several smaller Clubs have also been dispersed. 
Madrid is profoundly tranquil. 
All the pro-
vincial juntas are suppressed. 
Government pub-
lishes the account of the defalcations of the old 
ministry, showing $30,000,000 deficit, with the 
revenues of Cuba mortgaged for two years, aud 
all the extra resources of the kingdom pledged. 
Espartero had raised a temporary loan of $2,000 
000 on security of the customs receipts at Ha-
vana, and upon Bank securities. 
A decree appears confiscating the property of 
Queen Christiana. 
Under cover of this meas-
ure she has left Madrid for Portugal, whence 
she will embark for Italy or France. 
Much of 
her wealth is safely invested in foreign securi-
ties. 
Notwithstanding the supposed profound tran-
quility, private advices report outbreaks at Mad-
rid on the 28th when it became known that 
Queen Christina had escaped. 
A few barrac-
ades which had been put up were pulled down 
by the National Guard, and the opportune entry 
into the city of some regiments of cavalry pre-
vented much mischief. • 
Saragossa continues restless and the whole 
province ot Arragon is unquiet. 
Carlist move 
ments are spoken of in one or two quarters, and 
there are hints of military disaffcctions in Galicia. 
Marvaez has applied for permission to go to the 
baths at Bearitz. 
Sarterias, the late infamous 
Spanish Minister, has arrived at Bayonne. 
ITALY.—The cholera is abating. 
Romagua 
and Duchias are in a disturbed state, and many 
assassinations had taken place. 
Seven more 
persons had been sentenced to death at Parma. 
The universal jubilee contemplated by the Pope 
will be held in October or November next, and 
a general convention of the Church will meet at 
Rome to settle the question of the immaculate 
conception. 
CHINA.—Advices from China to July 6, says 
that the treaty between the United States and 
Japan has been singned. 
Nothing had been 
seen of the Russian fleet in the Indian waters. 
Study of Divine Truth. 
HE who becomes a student of nature soon 
finds that he is bending over a fountain which 
deepens beneath his gaze. 
And what is the 
Jewish economy, if we desire to reach its interi-
or, truths, but a vast, profound, elaborated enig-
ma, to which the Gospel, indeed, brings us the 
key, but the opening and exploration of which 
is yet incomplete; excusing, if not justifying, 
the opinion of Origen, that" a clear understand-
ing of the reasons of the Israelitie economy, and 
of all the Levitical laws, belongs to the privi-
leges of the future life ? " 
And the teaching of 
Christ seems to possess the same profound and 
comprehensive character. 
Comparative anato-
my informs us, not only that animated nature 
forms an ascending series of beings, beginning 
with few organs, and increasing in number, com-
plexity, and finish, up to man; but that, in 
'some of the earliest and simplest links of the 
human chain, there is traceable a promise, a 
mute prophecy of all the rest, a rough outline 
of all that is to follow—that many processes are 
sketched in the lower animals, the completion 
of which is reserved for the composition of man. 
In like manner, the entire system of Judaism 
was one compacted prophecy of the Gospel, a 
presentiment of Christianity; in which the great 
doctrines and virtues which it is the province of 
the new dispensation to develop and mature, 
may be found in their embryos and elements. 
And on the same principle, in the sayings of 
Christ, the Gospel may be found thrown out in 
its rudiments. 
"For Christ," saith Milton, 
"'gives no full comments or continued dis-
courses ; but speaks oft in monosyllables, like a 
master scattering the heavenly grain of his doc-
trine like pearls here and there, which requires 
a skilful and laborious gatherer." 
His teaching 
is the seed-plot, in which the great doctrines of 
grace were first sown, to be afterwards trans-
planted and cultivated in the inspired ministry 
of the apostles, where they have room to luxuri-
ate and yield in perfection the fruit of life. 
The Church of God has been too generally 
content with the surface-truths of revelation; 
those which we have only to stoop for in order 
to possess; but which are made so obvious and 
placed so near, not as a premium to indolence, 
but in accommodation to our moral incurious-
ness and necessities; not as a dispensation from 
diligent investigation, but as an allurement to it 
where it can be madeT and to render it unneces-
sary whereit cannot. " The kingdom of heaven," 
in the sense of celestial truth, " is like treasures 
hid in a field; the which, when a man hath 
found he hideth; and, for joy thereof, goeth and 
selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field ; " 
and buyeth it, in order that he may ransack and 
turn up every part of it, and make himself mas-
ter of all itd treasures. 
And further, it is as if 
the same man, while digging for more coins and 
concealed jewels, should unexpectedly happen 
on a vein of precious ore. 
Hitherto, we have 
done little more than collect, estimate, and clas-
sify the more accessible treasures. 
But let the 
shaft, which is already begun, he sunk deep 
euough, and the labors of the mine be properly 
conducted, and the discovery of many a rich and 
precious lode will demonstrate that the great 
globe itself is flot' more interlaced with golden 
veins, and filled with precious things, than the 
field of revelation, the store-house of the un-
searchable riches of Christ.- 
Harris. 
The Substance of the Gospel-
WHAT a happy thing it is that the gospel 
comes into so litih compass .'• 
Often have I felt 
this when visiting the sick and the dying. 
When I have found the mind incapable ef vigor-
ous, expansive, or continuous thought, how 
thankful have I been that the gospel is so short 
and so simple ; that the elementary truths which 
gives peace to the conscience and hope to the 
heart, can be stated in so few words ! 
There is 
Divine wisdom and Divine kindness in this. 
There are short sentences which contain essen-
tially all that a sinner needs to know, to give 
him a sense of pardon and confidence towards 
God: 
"The wages of sin is death; but the 
gift of God is eternal lile, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord." 
" This is a faithful saying, and 
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus 
came into the world to save sinners, even the 
chief." 
This is the record, that God hath 
given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his 
Son. 
He that hath the Son hath life ; he that 
hath not the Son of God hath not life." 
These, 
and others of a like descriptien, are precious 
sentences. 
They are what the dying " man of 
God," Dr. M'All, so emphatically denominated 
the core, the very core, of the gospel. 
Connected with this is the striking fact that, 
in the hour which is sure and common to all— 
the hour of nature's last conflict and most press-
ing exigency—the hour when the mind is shut 
up to one point, and that point peace with God 
and hope for eternity—that in that hour all 
minds come to be so very much on a level, in re-
gard to what imparts their confidence. 
It is the 
same truth, in all its simplicity, that gives it to 
the greatest as well as to the least, and to the 
least as well as to the greatest. 
It is most 
instructive and interesting to see how minds 
of the largest grasp and mightiest power, when 
they come to this hour of trial and of final de-
cision, when passing through t'he valley of the 
shadow of death, anticipating eternity, and con-
flicting single-handed with the last enemy, have 
recourse to the same simple elements of Divine 
truth that are the springs of peace to the very 
weakest of the " babes in Christ." 
I have been struck with this in the biographies 
of some of the most distinguished of our modern 
divines. 
Look to the terms in which they ex-
press the ground of their everlasting hopes. 
Although, from previously knowing the charac-
ter of their minds, you of course 
conceive 
thoughts of a higher order associated with those 
terms, and although at times there may be cor-
uscations of brilliant sentiment emitted, that 
indicate the undying light within, yet substan-
tially they are the very same in which "poor 
Joseph " expressed the ground of his : " It is a 
faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, 
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save 
sinners;" and why not Joseph? 
What dying 
sinner can say more? 
I mean not that the 
minds are equal—that were folly ; but that, as 
the greatest and the least stand on the same 
ground of condemnation, they must stand also 
on the same ground of acceptance ; so that he 
who has traversed the whole round of theologi-
cal learning ; has explored its depths, and scaled 
its heights; has argued with metaphysical acu-
men, and illustrated with matchless eloquence 
all its points; has read and has written volumes 
upon volumes, when he comes to the test of a 
dying hour, is shut up to all the simplicity of 
the " faithful saying." 
This is what he needs, 
equally with the least; and this is what the 
least, equally with him, enjoys. 
And the per-
fectly child-like submissiveness with which mas-
terminds in Israel have avouched their reliance 
on the most rudimental elements of the truth, is 
among the marks of its divinity. 
It shows that 
in the one point of need, in which all are alike, 
and which, in all cases equally, the gospel is 
intended to meet, the adaptation of means to the 
end is perfect. 
Dr. Ward law. 
Eloquent Portrait of our Saviour.' 
THE following is a description of Jesus Christ, 
as it was found in an ancient manuscript, sent by 
Publius Montulus, President of Jud'ea to the 
Roman Senate : 
There lives in this place in Judea, a man of 
singular character, whose name is Jesus Christ. 
The barbarians esteem him as a prophet, but his 
followers adore him as the immediate offspring 
of the immortal God. 
He is endowed with such 
unparalleled virtue as to call back the dead 
from their graves, and to heal every kind of 
disease with a word or touch. 
His hair flows in 
those beautiful shades which no united colors 
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can match, falling into graceful curls below his 
ear, agreeably couching on his shoulders, and 
parting on the crown of his head, like the dress 
of the sect of Nazarites. 
His forehead is smooth 
and large ; the cheek Without a spot, save that 
of a lovely redhis nose and mouth arc formed 
with exquisite symmetry, His beard is thick, and 
suitable to the hair of his head, teaching a little 
below his chin and parting in the ttiddle like a 
fork. 
His eyes are bright, clear, and serene. 
He rebukes with majesty, counsels with mildness, 
and invites with the most tender and persuasive 
language. 
His whole address, whether in word 
or deed, being elegant, grave, and striclty char-
acteristic of so great a being! 
No man has seen 
him laugh, but the whole world behold him weep 
frequently; and so persaasive are his tears, that 
the multitude cannot withhold theirs from join-
ing sympathy with him. 
He is moderate, tem-
perate and wise. 
In short, whatever this phe-
nomenon may turn out in the end, he seems at 
present a man of excellent beauty and divine 
perfection, every way surpassing the children of 
men." 
The Cave of Time. 
I STAND within the cave sublime 
Of aged, venerable Time; 
An ancient cavern, vast and grand, 
Washed by the waves on either hand; 
1 hear its echoes, full and strong-, 
Floating these lengthening aisles along, 
Far down the track of by gone years, 
Telling of sorrows, joys, and fears 
J ^ 
I hear the heaving, surging sigh 
Of mighty billows rolling nigh ; 
I feel the dash of ocean's wave 
Against this tide-bound, tide-washed cave : 
The dashing of a shoreless sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity ! 
A river strong, and full, and deep, 
Glides here with ever-widening sweep; 
And many a dew-drop, many a rill, 
And broader stream its channel fill, 
As, bound on its resistless course, 
It sweeps along with tireless force, 
For ever moving on its way 
With ceasless and majestic sway ; 
Still rolling on, through peace or strife, 
This river of our mortal li e; 
And in its current, deep and strong, 
Bearing unnumbered life-drops on 
Into that boundless, shoreless sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity ! 
These wide-sprung arches nobly grace 
The rocky sides: on these I trace 
Records or ages long gone by, 
Chronicled here enduringly; 
Here marks, unerring marks, I see 
Of ancient fires, whose potency 
Diffused to liquid mass the rocks, 
Or heaved them with the earthquake's shocks, 
Here too I see, 0 record true! 
The deluge water-marks in view, 
And over all these walls sublime, 
I trace the history of past time, 
Still listening to that sounding sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity! 
This vaulted root above reveals 
Fair glittering pendants, but conceals 
Heaven's daylight from my eyes: I gaze 
By the dim torches' flickering rays, 
,And yet a crevice here and there 
Shows me the sunshine bright and fair. 
Ah ! here, beneath this central dome, 
Full, eye-inspiring ray-tides come; 
Just there they strongest, clearest shine 
Where lies that open Book divine ; 
And calmly, joyfully I look 
From off this heaven-illumined Book 
Far onward to that shoreless sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity ! 
Now by this light I shuddering see 
Dark chambers of iniquity; 
Here airs mephitic scatter death, 
Foul airs of pestilential breath; 
These dens of darkness, look within! 
See there the serpent-form of Sin ! 
Intemperance, Avarice, Lewdness, Wrong, 
Drag here their loathsome lengths along ! 
Here riot in their native air 
Envy and Malice, hideous pair, 
And in this cavern dark and wide 
Strive their distorted heads to hide, 
Regardless of that sounding sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity ! 
And here, just in the noon-tide blaze 
Of these enlightening Gospel rays, 
A gloomy dungeon opens wide 
Its gates. 
Here manhood's lofty pride 
And childhood's mirth together die! 
0 living soul of tyranny! 
0 mystery of iniquity! • 
0 cruel heart of slavery ! 
In this full beam of heavenly light, 
Dispensing there such fearful night, 
So near the surgings of that sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity 
Through all this cavern's lengthening way 
Rise alters, gloomy, grand, or gay, 
To Wealth, Ambition, Pleasure, Pride 
Devoted, or to aught beside 
For which the human soul aspires 
With yearnings of its strong desires; 
Seen in-the torchlight glimmering there 
Fair they appear, oh ! wondrous fair ; 
•But when some rays upon them shine, 
Reflected from that Book divine, 
Many seem crumbling to decay, 
Poor, worthless, fragile things of clay-! 
Those structures only based on " Rock 
Of Ages " shall withstand the shock 
Of this resistless, shoreless sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity! 
Onward I pass : the billows roar 
More near, more solemn than before, 
Dashing their mighty, heaving tides 
Against the sea-girt cavern's sides. 
Floating adown this widening stream, 
(Whose waters deeper, calmer seem 
The nearer we approach that goal 
Toward which their restless currents roll>) 
Soon shall I pass from out this cave 
Into that ocean's azure wave. 
Then shall I gaze, 0 hour sublime, 
Backward upon thy walls, 0 Time, 
From out that boundless, shoreless sea, 
The Ocean of Eternity. 
VT. 
On Pride. 
LET this be the test of true or false religion ; 
that which teacheth us to exalt God most and 
most to depress ourselves, is the true. 
As the 
lightning hath always a spite against the high 
spires and tall pines, striking them, when the 
shrubs and cottages stand untouched; so hath 
the God that made it, at a self-advanced great-
ness. 
Besides the odiousness of a proud man 
among men—God is commonly even with him 
here. 
How many have we known that have been 
fastidious of their diet which have come to leap 
at a crust, to beg their bread. 
How many that 
have been proud of their beauty, have been 
(ere they died) the loathsome spectacles of de-
formity, 
The Lord roots up the house of the 
proud. 
(Proverbs 15:25.) 
The proud man is 
an abomination to the Lord. 
(Proverbs 16:5.) 
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty 
spirit before a fall. 
(Proverbs 16:18.) 
There 
is not the holiest of us but is in this way faulty. 
0 let us be humbled by our repentance, that we 
may not be brought down to everlasting confu-
sion. 
Let us be cast down upon our knees that 
we may not be cast down upon our faces. 
For 
God will make good his own word. 
A man's 
pride shall bring him low. 
Is it our riches? 
Riches have wings, and if they leave us not, we 
must them. 
Is it our land ? How long is that 
ours ? 
Is it our honor ? 
Alas, that is none of 
our's; for honor is in him that gives it, not in 
him that receives it. 
Well may I, therefore, 
ask with Ecclesiasticus, " Why is this earth and 
ashes proud?" 
Though it were as free from sin 
as it is from perfection; but now, when wicked-
ness is added to vanity, and we are more abom-
inable by sin than weak by nature, should we 
not be utterly ashamed to look up to heaven, to 
look upon our own faces! 
Surely, therefore, 
whensoever you see a proud man, say, " There 
is a fool." 
Hezekiah humbled himself for the 
pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord 
came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 
Bishop Hall. 
The Fulness of Christ. 
COME unto me, said your Redeemer, and all 
your maladies shall be remedied, all your neces-
sities shall be supplied. 
What though you have 
committed numherless sins? 
I offer to you un-
linited pardon. 
What though the law of God, 
w.iich you have violated, the law to which you 
cm render no satisfaction, denounces its curse 
uoon your head ? 
Fear not, I have turned the 
curse from you ; I have borne it myself in your 
behalf; I have fulfilled the law; 1 have made 
an atonement. 
What though you are immersed 
in weakness and corruption ; unable to think 
any good of yourself; unable to will or do ; un-
able to discover the method of pleasing God; 
unable to continue in the path of righteousness 
were you placed in it? 
In your weakness my 
strength shall be made manifest and' perfected. 
Four corruption I will cleanse in the fountain I 
have opened for uncleanness and sin. 
By the 
Holy Ghost the Comforter, whose influence is at 
my disposal, I will enlighten your understand-
ing, and renew your heart. 
From me you shall 
learn the will of my Father; you shall have 
grace, whereby you shall serve him acceptably. 
What though you are surrounded by present 
evils ? All power is mine in heaven and on 
earth. 
My peace I give unto you. 
All things 
shall work together for good to you in the end. 
I lead you to a world where there shall be nei-
ther pain, nor sorrow, nor death. 
Your light 
afflictions which are but for a moment shall work 
for you a far more exceeding and eternal weight 
Of glory. 
Gisborne. 
" He Careth for You." 
IT is often hard to think so ; that in His al-
taightiness he should deign to have a thought 
towards us. 
Why, the heavens cannot contain 
Him, and if amid the immensity of His creation 
this little world were blotted from existance, 
its loss would never be perceived ; and here we 
are, worms upon its surface, poor, helpless and 
worthless> and yet he careth for us. 
" He careth for you." 
0 what a load it takes 
from these poor, weak shoulders. 
He that has 
lit up the starry heavens. 
He that has rolled 
forth the planets; that guides the sun in its 
course, and hath established the everlasting hills 
^-He it is that careth of us, and upon whom we 
are to cast all our care—spiritual as well as 
temporal; anxieties wearing the body as well 
as corroding the soul; fears gloomy as night; 
uncertainties, dark and distressful: the whole 
burden of our sins, of our temptations, of our 
doubts, trials and vexations—all to be cast upon 
Him who careth for us. 
Surely he must care a 
great deal for us to be willing to bear them all. 
And it is well for us poor mortals, that we have 
one who is able and willing both to care and to 
bear. 
Yet we see some Christians go grovelling 
along as if such a promise had never found a 
place in God's word. 
They prefer to bear their 
own burdens instead of casting them upon the 
Lord. 
And they do bear them, and bear them 
till they are crushed under then ; and not until 
they are crushed under them are they willing 
that God should take them to himself. 
" He careth for you. " 
Children of affliction, 
here ye this. 
What though the world forsake 
you, and leave you to mourn alone. 
What 
though a base ingratitude has stung you to the 
quick, and clouds of anxieties are clustering all 
around you. 
There is one that careth for you, 
and though all others should forsake you, He 
never will. 
True, the night is dark and the bil-
lows are strong, and the tempest thickens, yet 
look up ; there is One walking on the billows by 
your side, who is mightier than you; and it is 
to just such as you that he loves to extend his 
care—that precious care, whose watchfulness is 
never withdrawn ; whose love is never dimmed. 
In the valley He will walk by your side, and 
along the steep and dreary road will take your 
burden to Himself. 
"Cast thy burden upon 
the Lord, He will sustain thee." 
"He careth for you." 
Child of perplefity, 
here ye this, 
Why then take thought for to-
morrow ; the morrow is all His own. 
Can you 
make it better? If you could make it better and 
take it out of His hands all to yourself, would 
you do it ? I doubt it, if you knew how much 
He loved you. 
Trials perhaps, but then trials 
producing patience; and experience hope; and 
all producing what ? why a heart fitted to love 
and serve Him ; just such a heart as He wants 
you to have, just such a heart as He says you 
must have if you are to dwell for ever with Him. 
N. Y. Observer. 
BEHOLD thou art made whole : sin no more lest 
a worse thing come unto thee.—John 5:14. 
This is the language of Jesus Christ to the in-
dividual whom he had healed, when he found 
him in the Temple. 
His condition before he 
received the kind attention and experienced the 
healing power of the Messiah, was most sad and 
humiliating. 
The different forms of misery ap-
pear to have concentrated in him. 
A 
lingering 
disease had taken possession of his body, and for 
thirty-eight years he had not been exempt from 
pain. 
Poverty had also aattended him with its 
train of lamentable circumstances, and he had 
not the means to purchase comfort or hire atten-
tion, 
He was also friendless. 
Being poor, 
he could not present those prospects of remu-
neration which so readily secure the kind atten-
tion of the cold and mercenary world, and there 
was no one who was moved by a dictate of hu-
manity or an impulse of friendship, to attend to 
his necessities. 
In the touching language of 
Inspiration, " A certain man was there which 
had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 
When 
Jesus saw hyn lie and knew that he had been 
now a long time in that case, he saith unto him : 
Wilt thou be made whole ? 
The impotent man 
answered him : 
Sir, I have no man when 
the water is troubled to put me into 
the 
pool; but while I am coming, another steppeth 
down before me. 
Jesus saith unto him, rise, 
take up thy bed and walk. 
And immediately 
the man was made whole, and took up his bed 
and walked, and on the same day was the Sab-
bath." 
During the same day, he visits the tem-
ple. 
In consequence of his affliction, he had 
long been debarred the privileges of God's 
house. 
He had probably gone there to give ap-
propriate manifestations of his gratitude to God, 
for the great blessing he had received in the res-
toration of his health. 
It is beautiful and en-
couraging to see those who have been signally 
favored by God, repairing to the sanctuary to 
acknowledge his goodness, and make known to 
their fellow men what he had done for them. 
It is also a suitable method of obtaining instruc-
tion in reference to our future safety and com-
fort. 
" Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the 
temple, and said unto him : Behold thou art 
made whole, sin no more lest a worse thing come 
unto thee,'* 
This solemn truth is implied in the language 
of the Saviour. 
His protracted bodily infirmity 
was the effect of the sin of his youth. 
He is 
not represented as an old man; there is nothing 
said in relation to his age J we are therefore 
naturally lead to the conclusion, that this pain-
ful affliction of thirty-eight years continuance, 
was the consequence of improper conduct in the 
days of his youth. 
Misery always accompanies 
sin, as an effect accompanies its cause. 
How 
much of the sorrow and regret, the pain and an-
guish experienced by many in the decline of 
life, can be easily traced up as the consequences 
of their youthful dissipation! 
The Psalmist 
prays to God : " Remember not the sins of my 
youth, nor my transgressions," Job exclaims: 
" Thou writest bitter things against, me, and 
makestmeto possess the iniquities of my youth." 
How many in every age can, with truth and 
propriety, give utterence to the same sentiment. 
In one, who has scarcely arrived at the meridi-
an of life, we behold the bloated face, the dis-
torted features, the shattered constitution, and 
the impaired mind, all, the unhappy conse-
quences of youthful intemperance. 
In another, 
who has scarcely attained the prime of life, we 
discover that the vermilion of youth has fled 
from his cheek; a pale and sallow complexion 
has settled down upon his brow; the flesh has 
perished away from his body, and he presents 
only a living skeleton, affording indubitable evi-
dence that the spring tide of his existence has 
been spent in the pursuit of impure and lewd 
gratifications. 
When these wrecks of humanity pass before 
our view, we recall to mind the language of Zo-
phar, the Naamathite : " His bones are full of 
the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with 
him in the dust." 
But while such persons are suffering the just 
merit of their sin, they should not be abandoned 
as having fallen beneath the hope of recovery. 
They are still within the reach of divine mercy, 
and should be regarded as objects of commisera-
tion. 
Their society should be sought, not for 
the purpose of acquiring their dissolute habits, 
but to bring to operate upon their hearts the 
healing and sanctifying influences of the Gospel. 
The unhappy invalid, who during the period of 
thirty-eight years had been suffering the conse-
quences of the sin of his youth, obtained an in-
terest in the kind sympathy of the Saviour, and 
was restored to health. 
" Behold thou art made 
whole : sin no more lest a worse thing come 
unto thee." 
ADVICE 
TO 
PARENTS.—Be ever gentle with 
children God has given you; watch them con-
stantly ; reprove them earnestly, but not in an-
ger. 
In the forcible language of Scripture 
" Be not bitter against them." 
" Yes, they are 
good boys," 1 once heard a kind father say, " I 
talk to them pretty much, but I do not like to 
beat my children—the world will beat them." It 
was a beautiful thought, though not elegantly 
expressed. 
Yes, there is not one child in the 
circle round your table, healthful and happy as 
they look now, on whose head, if long spared, 
the storm will not beat. 
Adversity may wither 
them, sickness fade, and a cold world frown on 
them; but amid all, let memory carry them 
back to a home where the law of kindness 
reigned, where the mother's reproving eye was 
moistened with a tear, and the father frowned 
" more in sorrow than in anger." 
DEUTERONOMY 
29:29.—The secret things be-
long unto the Lord our God; but those things 
which are REVEALED belong unto as and our 
children forever, that we may DO ALL THE 
WORDS 
OP 
THIS 
LAW. 
30:11—Eor this commandment 
which I command you this day, is not hidden 
from thee, neither is it far off: it is not in heaven, 
that thou shouldst say, Who shall go up for us 
to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may 
hear it and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, 
that thou should say, Who will go over the sea 
for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear 
it and do it? 
But the Word is very nigh unto 
thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, 
THAT 
TIIOU 
MAYST DO 
IT. 
THE rain is not more necessary to raise the 
seed, the sun is not more necessary to bring it 
to maturity, than is the work of the Holy Spirit 
: 
in the conversion of men. 
But it is one thing 
to believe that their is an agency of the Spirit, 
and gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost, to ren- j 
der Christianity beneficial to men; and quite 
another thing to have a deep and practical per- J 
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suasion 
of it, and to regulate all our feelings 
and expectations on the momentous subject of 
converting the world, by a continual reference 
to this most interesting trilth. 
THOSE! who rail at poetry and refinement as 
superfluous ingredients in everyday happiness, 
little kndw what main props they thus seek to 
undermine. 
These will abide when even princi-
ples wave. 
Manly 
delicacy is as necessary in 
family life as manly recitude: and 
•womanly 
tact as womanly virtue. 
There is much happi-
ness wrecked from the absence of the one, as of 
the other, and perhaps more. 
These who neglect 
the varnishes 
of life, commit an insidious sin 
toward themselves; and these lie in the mind, 
and not in the purse. 
PARTICULAR places become dear to the heart 
of man more generally by the association attached 
to them, than by their beauty, convenience or 
fertility. 
Nor is this the case only as affecting 
individuals, for attachment founded on memories 
or traditions binds tribes and nations likewise to 
certain spots, and this is carried so far occasion-
ally that the mere name of a distant country 
will call from the bosom feelings of affection and 
devotion, joy, pride and hope. 
IN calling Himself Oar God, the Lord giveth 
us to understand, that He alone is and will be, 
our high 
goodness, 
help, defence, 
treasure, 
abundance of all good things, horn of plenty, 
and bottomless fountain, out of which we may 
abundantly draw what is necessary for the soul 
and the body, both for this world and the next. 
So Genesis 17:15. 
I am the Almighty God; or 
as some read, El Shaddai—that is, God mighty 
in power, abundant in riches; sufficient to re-
ward plentifully, and lacking of nothing. 
®lje 'Mmxt 
$)eral&. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. 
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. 
CHAPTER XLIX. 
LISTEN, 0, isles, unto me ; and hearken, ye people, from TOR ; 
The Lord hath called me from the womb ; 
From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 
—v. 1. 
In the general opinion of commentators, the 
Messiah is the speaker here. 
The epoch brought 
to view, in accordance with that interpretation7 
must be his advent, when he was rejected by the 
Jews, and mercy was proclaimed to all nations. 
The word " isles " is used in the sense of coun-
tries bordering on, or those beyond the sea, and is 
put by a metonymy for the inhabitants of those 
distant countries, who are commanded to give at-
tention to the gospel which was to be preached in 
all the world as a witness to all nations. 
In announcing his claims to the consideration of 
the nations he bases them on the ground of his 
Divine appointment: his office was not presumpt-
uously assumed, nor entered on without his being 
especially called to it from his birth,—before 
which his name and office were announced. 
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword ; 
In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, 
And made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me : 
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, 
0 Israel, in whom I will be glorified.—vs. 2,3. 
By a metonymy " mouth " is put for the words 
he should utter, and which by a similee, are com-
pared to " a sharp sword " to illustrate the execu-
tion which they would accomplish. 
Heb. 4:12 — 
" For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and 
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even 
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of 
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the 
thoughts and intents of the heart." 
Isa. 11:4— 
"He shall smite the earth with the rod of his 
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he 
slay the wicked." 
Hos. 6:5—" Therefore have I 
hewed them by the prophets ; I have slain them 
by the words of my mouth." 
Rev. 19:15, 21— 
" And out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged 
sword, that with it he should smite the nations. 
. . . And the remnant were slain with the sword 
of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword pro-
ceeded out of his mouth." 
lb. 2:16—" Repent; or 
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight 
against them with the sword of my mouth." Eph. 
6:17—" And take . . . the sword of the spirit which 
is the word of God." 
The following passages quoted by Bishop Lowth 
indicate that the heathen used a similar figure to 
illustrate effective oratory. 
" It is said of Peri-
cles by Aristophanes : 
"His powerful speech 
Pierced the hearer's soul, and left behind 
Deep in his bosom its keen point infixt." 
So Pindar, Olym. 2. 160 : 
" Come on ! thy brightest shafts prepare, 
And bend, 0 Muse, thy sounding bow; 
Say, through what paths of liquid air 
Our arrows shall we throw?" 
WEST. 
In carrying out the figure of the sharp sword, 
the Saviour is represented as hidden in the shadow 
of God's hand, as a sword is protected by the cov-
ering of the scabbard till it is needed for use. 
In 
like manner, by the use of a metaphor, God defends 
the Messiah and his words, till all shall be fulfilled. 
By the use of another metaphor also, he is repre-
sented as a " polished shaft," pr arrow, hid in a 
quiver, to illustrate that when the fulness of time 
should come the Messiah would appear for the ac-
complishment of the Divine purposes,—as an ar-
row is drawn from its place and despatched to the 
appointed mark. 
The sharper the sword, and the 
smoother the arrow, so much the more certain is 
the promised result. 
Jacob was called " Israel," in Gen. 32:28, be-
cause as a prince he had power with God and with 
men and prevailed. 
As thus given, the name is 
applicable in its highest sense only to Christ,—he 
having wrestled with God for the salvation of per-
ishing sinners, and been successful. 
As a servant, 
see Note on 42:1. 
God was glorified in Christ by his suffering in 
ufan's stead, and thus opening a way of access for 
man to God. 
When Judas had received the sop 
ard went out to betray Christ, (John 13:31, 32,) 
"Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and 
God is glorified in him. 
If God be glorified in him, 
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall 
straightway glorify him." 
14:13,—" And what-
soever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that 
the Father may be glorified in the Son." 
15:8 — 
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much 
fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 
Then I said, I have labored in vain, 
I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; 
Ye^surely my judgment is with the Lor*, and my work with my 
God.—vs. i. 
This is given as the language of the Messiah af-
ter he should have entered on his ministry ; which 
was primarily, (Matt. 15:24,) " unto the lost 
sheep of the house of Israel." 
John 11:1,—" He 
came unto his own, and his own received him not." 
Luke 19:14,—" His citizens hated him, and sent a 
message after him, saying, We will not have this 
man to reign over us," 
Thus while many believed, 
the nation at large rejected him, so that he wept 
over Jerusalem, and said, Matt. 23:37, 38,—" 0 
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the proph-
ets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, 
how often would I have gathered thy children to-
gether, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under 
her wings, and ye would not! 
Behold, your house 
is left unto you desolate." 
This apparent want of success among the Jews, 
was only preliminary to the extension of the gos-
pel to all nations, which is brought to view in the 
texts following. 
The Saviour commits the whole matter to God, 
knowing that all the Divine purposes would be 
fully accomplished. 
"My work" is in the margin, "my reward," 
which was in God's hands. 
Said the Saviour, 
(John 6:37, 38, 44,) « All that the Father giveth 
me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, 
I will in no wise cast out. 
For I came down from 
heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of 
him that sent me. ... No man can come to me 
except the Father which hath sent me draw him : 
and I will raise him up at the last day." 
The sal-
vation of all those will be his reward—the result 
of his work; for which the travail of his soul will 
be satisfied. 
And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb 
To be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, 
Though Israel be not gathered, 
Yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, 
And my God shall be my strength. 
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, 
To raise up the tribes of Jacob, ami to restore the preserved of Is-
rael: 
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, 
That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end*„ofthe earth. 
'—vs. 5, 6. 
The result of the Saviour's ministry was not to 
be dependant on the Jews rejection or acceptance 
of him. 
It was foreseen that they would reject 
Christ andbe rejected in turn. 
Thus the Saviour 
said to them, (Matt. 21:42, 43,) " Did ye never 
read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders 
rejected, the same is become the head of the corner : 
this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in 
our eyes ? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom 
of God shall be taken from you, and given to a na-
tion bringing forth the fruits thereof." 
And Paul 
and Barnabas said, (Acts 13:46, 47,) " It was nec-
essary that the word of God should first have been 
spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and 
judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, 
we turn to the Gentiles : 
For so hath the Lord 
commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light 
of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation 
unto the end of the earth." 
The nation of Israel is likened to a scattered-
flock of sheep which a shepherd is endeavoring to 
gather into his fold—" gathered " being put by 
substitution for their deliverance. 
The salvation 
of Jews only, in comparison with the gathering of 
a people out of all tribes and nations, was so small 
a part of the "Divine purpose in giving a Saviour 
to a lost world, that its insignificance is illustrated 
by its being denominated, by a metaphor, a " light 
thing "—a term literally applicable only to mate-
rial objects. 
To " raise up " Israel, as to a higher 
position in space, is put by substitution for their 
regeneration—the blessings offered the Jews being 
of a kind with those which were to be extended to 
the Gentiles. 
The " preserved of Israel" is in the margin 
the " desolations." 
Bishop Lowth renders it the 
" branches of Israel;" but it has evident reference 
to the remnant of Israel which should believe. 
While Christ was rejected by the nation, yet, (John 
1:12, 13,) " As many as received him, to them 
gave he power to become the sons of God, even to 
them that believe on his name : which were born, 
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of 
the will of man, but of God." 
Rom. 9:27—" Esa-
ias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the num-
ber of the children of Israel be as the sand of the 
sea, a remnant shall be saved." lb. 11:5,7—" Even 
then at this present time also there is a remnant 
according to the election of grace. . . . What 
then1? 
Israel hath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for ; but the election bath obtained it, and 
the rest were blinded." 
By a similee, the Saviour is compared to a 
" light," by which the Gentiles were to be illumi-
nated—illustrative of the moral regeneration which 
should be effected in their minds. 
" Salvation," 
by a metonymy, is put for the means of salvation ; 
by a metaphor, distant lands are denominated 
" the end of the earth." 
Thus saith the Lord, the redeemer of Isiael, 
And his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, 
To him whom the nations abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, 
Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, 
Because of the Lord that is faithful, 
And the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. 
-v. 7. 
It was predicted of the Messiah that he was to 
be " despised and rejected of men," (Isa. 53:3,) 
and we read of his ignominious trial, (Matt. 26: 
67,) " Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted 
him ; and others smote him with the palms of 
their hands." 
And he became a " servant of ru-
lers " by voluntarily submitting to the infliction 
of death by their command. 
This, however, was 
only his humiliation, to be followed by glorious 
conquests in all lands, and to be gloriously con-
summated at his second appearing : when, (Psa. 
72:7-11,) " In his days shall the righteous flourish : 
and abundance of peace so long as the moon en-
dureth. 
He shall have dominion also from sea to 
sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. 
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before 
him ; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 
The 
kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring pres-
ents : the kings of Sheba and Sheba shall offer 
gifts. 
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him : 
all nation shall serve him." 
Tnus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, 
And in a day of salvation have I helped thee : 
And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, 
To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ; 
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth ; 
To them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. 
They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in high 
places.—us. 8, 9. 
An " acceptable time," was one that was in ac-
cordance with God's will: when it was his pleas-
ure to hear—a time which he had designated in 
infinite wisdom. 
Gal. 4:4, 5, " When the fulness 
of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made 
of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them 
that were under the law, that we might receive the 
adoption of sons." 
When Paul adverted to the 
fact (2 Cor. 5:19,) that " God was in Christ recon-
ciling the world unto himself;" he adds (6:2,) 
" For he eaith, I have heard thee in a time ac-
cepted, and in the day of salvation I have succored 
thee ; behold, now is the accepted time; behold 
now is the day of salvation." 
" Have I heard thee 
the salvation of sinners 
is represented as the result of the Saviour's sup-
plications for those who look to him. 
Jesus 
prayed, (John 17:11, 15, 20,) " Holy Father, keep 
through thine own name those whom thou hast 
given me, that they may be one, as we are-. ... 1 
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the 
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the 
evil. . . . Neither pray I for these alone, but for 
them also which shall believe on me through their 
word." 
Paul, affirming the unchangable priest-
hood of Christ, adds, (Heb. 7:25,) " Wherefore he 
is able also to save them to the uttermost that 
come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to 
make intercession for them." 
9:24—" For Christ 
is not entered into the holy places made with 
hands, which are the figures of the true ; but into 
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of 
God for us." 
1 John 2:1, 2—" If any man sin, 
we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ 
the righteous : and he is the propitiation for our 
sins : and not for ours only, but also for the sins 
of the whole world." 
" To establish the earth," is in the margin to 
"raise up," as to a former condition that which 
had been desolated by an enemy, doubtless refering 
to its restitution at the consummation. 
Psa. 
96:10-13—" Say among the heathen that the Lord 
reigneth : the world also shall be established that 
it shall not be moved : he shall judge the people 
righteously. 
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the 
earth be glad ; let the sea roar, and the fulness 
thereof. 
Let the field be joyful, and all that is 
therein : then shall all the trees of the wood re-
joice. 
Before the Lord ; for he cometh, for he 
cometh to judge the earth ; he shall judge the 
world with righteousness, and the people with his 
truth." 
God created " the earth for the children of 
men "—as an inheritance for his saints. 
Be-
cause of sin, it has become a desolate heritage ; 
but here a restoration is promised that the meek 
may come iri possession of it. 
Psa. 114:16—" The 
heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's : but the 
earth hath ho given-to the children of men." 
Matt. 5:5—" Blessed are the meek : for they shall 
inherit the earth." 
Rom. 4:13—" For the prom-
ise that he should be the heir of the world was not 
to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but 
through the righteousness of faith." 
2. Pet. 3:11 
-14—" Seeing then that all these things shall be ' 
dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be 
in all holy conversations and godliness, looking for 
and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, 
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dis-
solved, and the elements shall melt with feivent 
heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, 
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness. 
Wherefore, beloved, see-
ing that ye look for such things, be diligent that 
ye may be found of him in peace, lvithout spot, 
and blameless." 
Rev. 21:1, 3—'And I saw a 
new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven 
and the first earth were passed away ; and there 
was no more sea. 
And I heard^a great voice out 
of heaven, saying. Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with 
them, and be their God." 
As we are told, (Acts 14:22,) "that we must 
through much tribulation enter into the kingdom 
of God," the condition of Christians here is like 
that of prisoners in an enemy's country. 
They are, 
(Isa. 42:22,) a people robbed and spoiled; they 
are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid 
in prison-houses." 
Paul called himself, (Eph. 
3:1,) " the prisoner of Jesus Christ," when he 
was in bonds by the Romans ; and his hope was in 
the resurrection which he secured a part in by 
faith in Christ Jesus. 
Thus Zechariah said, (9:11, 
12,) " By the blood of thy covenant 1 have sent 
forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no 
water. 
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners 
of hope." 
For the prisoners to go forth and those 
in darkness to show themselves, are substitutions 
illustrative of the redemption which Christ will 
effect tor his people. 
And their feeding in the 
way, and their pastures being in all high places, 
are the same kind of tropes illustrative of their 
freedom from aggression, and the security of their 
position. Psa. 78:5-2,—He " made his own people 
to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the 
wilderness like a 
flock." 
79:13,—"So we thy 
people and sheep of thy pastures will give thee 
thanks forever." 
They shall not hunger nor thirst: 
Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : 
For he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, 
Even by the springs of water shall he guide them. 
And I will make all my mountains a way, 
And my high-ways shall be exalted—vs. 10,11. 
This teaches an abundant supply of all their wants 
and is applied by John to the resurrection state. 
Rev. 7:16, 17—" They shall hungar no more, nei-
ther thirst any more; neither shall the sun light 
on them, nor any heat. 
For the Lamb which is in 
the midst of the throne shall feed them,, and shall 
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lead them unto living fountains of waters ; and 
God shalL wipe away all tears from their eyes." 
There is a metaphor in the use of the word 
" smite," to illustrate the scorching effects of the 
sun's rays, which the saved will not encounter. 
To make the mountains a way, is to make them 
accessable for travel, and to exact the highways, 
or causeways, as Wm. Lowth renders it, is to so 
elevate them that there shall be no obstruction 
from marshes or low vallies across which they 
conduct. 
The expression is parallel to that 
in 
40:4. " Every valley shall be exalted, and every 
mountain and hill shall be made low. " 
In the 
new earth for which Peter authorises us to look, 
when the elements of this shall have been melted 
with fervent heat (2 Pet. 3:13.) the inequalities in 
the earth's surface will not probably by marked 
by such evidences of disruption and violent up-
heavings, 
protruding 
rocks, 
preciptious preci-
pices, and impassible gorgas as mark the present. 
THE PAPACY.—FOREIGNERS. 
THERE has been ofJate, a great increase of oppo-
sition to the Papal influence, which has entered so 
largely as an element into the politics of this coun-
try during the last few years; and there is danger 
of exciting in the community a feeling of hate be-
tween the individuals of different races and differ-
ent creeds. 
It is, however, very important that a 
distinction be made between the Papacy, and Pap-
ists as such. 
Doubtless the great majority of the 
members of that communion are honest and sincere 
in their belief; and they are equally, with those of 
every faith, entitled to the free exercise of the 
rights of conscience and the protection of law. 
The great antiquity of the Papal hierarchy; its 
government, modeled after that of the State so long 
ago as the time of Constantine ; the mighty influ-
ence it has exhorted for ages over the political 
organizations of Europe ; an unbroken line of Su-
preme Pontiffs extending from the present, back to 
the time of Damasus of the 4th century, who was 
the first of the Popes that was elected to the Pon-
tifical office which till then, for more than ten cen-
turies from thejtime of Numa, Rome's second king, 
had dignified with regal splendor and royal pre-
rogatives the head of the Pagan priesthood; its as-
sumed infallibility; the implicit obedience with 
which its votaries have been accustomed to sub-
mit to its dictation; its supposed possession of the 
keys of heaven by which to admit or shut out at 
pleasure ; an unending round of saint's days and 
feast days ; it sassumed ability, by the aid of mass-
es and money, to transfer suffering souls from Pur-
gatory to Paradise; the hold which the secret con-
fessional gives to the priests over the consciences 
of its adherants ; splendid vestments, magnificent 
piles of Gothic architecture, pictures and painted 
windows, pretended miracles, and unmeaning mum-
meries; the jargon ofoa ritual recited in an un-
known tongue; these, with 
all the fascinations 
which can be brought to bear upon the mind 
through the eye and ear of simple minded worship-
ers, have given the Papacy such an ascendancy 
over those whom it teaches " that'ignorance is the 
mother of devotion," that it is no wonder 
that 
those enchained by it cannot break away from its 
spiritual bondage. 
It is, therefore, not the indi-
viduals of that faith, but the spiritual system against 
which the warfare should be directed. 
And what is the system against which we war ? 
It was symbolized in prophecy, as a " little horn," 
or government, coming up insiduously among the 
decem-regal divisions of the Roman empire. 
" And 
behold in this horn were eyes, like the eyes of a 
man, and a mouth 
speaking great 
things,"— 
" whose look was more stout than his fellows "— 
even speaking great words against the most High, 
and wearing out the 'saints of the most High, and 
thinking " to change times and laws." 
That sys-
tem was denominated by the apostle, " the mys-
tery of iniquity . . . whose coming is after the 
working of Satan with all power and signs, and ly-
ing wonders." 
He 
called 
its sovereign 
head, 
" The man of sin," " The son of perdition, who op-
poseth and exalteth himself above all that is called 
God, or that is worshipped ; so that he as God sit-
teth in the temple of God showing himself that he 
is God." 
The unhallowed connection of the church 
with the State was foreshown in Apocalyptic vis-
ions, as " a woman sitting on a scarlet colored 
beast, full of names of blasphemy." 
" And the wo-
man was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and 
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, 
having a golden cup in her hand full of abomina-
tions and filthiness of her fornication. 
And upon 
her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Baby-
lon the great, The mother of harlots and abomina-
tions of the earth." 
And John saw her " drunken 
with the blood of the saints." 
The subsequent rise and history of the Papacy 
have fully verified those sublime predictions. 
The 
conversion of Constantine and the bestowal of im-
perial favor had made the church so popular, that 
the name of Christian was eagerly coveted and 
adopted by multitudes who sought only the sub-
serviency of their own purposes ; so that when Da-
masus, its head, who had attained to the Popedom 
over the murdered bodies of one hundred and thir-
ty-seven victims in the Basilica of Urcinius, was 
subsequently elected to the vacant Pagan office of 
Pontifix Maximes, the apostate party in the church 
had become so numerous as to be able to re-adopt 
the abandoned Pagan rites and symbols, and to 
drive from their body those who adhered to the 
more primitive and apostolic faith. 
This Man of sin having thus seated himself in 
the temple of God, began to assume the preroga-
tives of God. 
By alliance with the State, the Ro-
man hierarchy succeeded, as early as 381, in being 
authorized, in the ever memorable edict of Theodo-
sius, to assume in distinction from all others, the 
title of " Catholic Christians "—all who dissented 
from her doctrines, being branded as " extravagant 
madmen," and " infamous heretics," their conven-
ticles refused the appellation of churches, and they 
doomed to suffer the " severest penalties " which 
the imperial wisdom should think proper to inflict 
on them. 
Having attained to a place in its relation to the 
State, analogous to that before occupied by the 
Pagan priesthood, it succeeded to its privileges 
and emoluments, and aped its faith and practices. 
Heroes were no longer deified, to be petitioned by 
mortals as the dispensers of good, but pretended 
saints were cannonized, and regarded as objects of 
adoration,—much to the scandal of the Pagans, 
who denominated the monks, " a filthy race of ani-
mals " and accused them of having substituted in 
the place of the deposed deities " the meanest and 
most contemptible slaves." 
Said Eurapius, " The 
heads, salted and pickled, of those infamous male-
factors, who for the multitude of their crimes have 
suffered a just and ignominious death . . . are the 
gods which the earth produces in our days ; such 
are the Supreme arbitrators of our prayers and pe-
titions to the deity." 
The ghosts of the departed 
were the only gods the heathen worshiped; and 
like them, the Romanists made supplications to 
the dead. 
The images, or idols, before which, the 
pagans bowed as to the shrines, or representatives 
of divinities, were made to represent saints and an-
gels, and as such were regarded with divine rever-
ance. 
The smoke of incense, burned before them in 
the Pagan worship, arose anew in the imitative cer-
emonies of the Romish church. 
Holy water, with 
which the heathen had sprinkled'themselves, found 
a place in the new ritual. 
Candles no longer 
burned in the day time in heathen temples, but 
were transferred to Roman altars. 
Vestal virgins 
gave place to Papal nuns. 
The ancient statue of 
Jubiter, became the statue of St. Peter. 
Mary, 
as the mother of God, was adored instead of Mayo, 
the old Babylonian divinity, who wad hailed as the 
mother of the gods. 
And the old Roman Pantheon 
which was dedicated by Agrippa, " to Jove and all 
the gods," was re-consecrated by Boniface IV. 
'' to the blessed Virgin and all the saints.'' 
So per-
fect indeed was the adoption of the heathen cus-
toms, that Dr. Middleton, who visited Rome in 
1729, was compelled to testify, that " all their 
ceremonies appear plainly to have been copied 
from the rituals of primitive Paganism—as if 
handed down by an uninterrupted succession from 
the priests of old, to the priests of new^Rome." 
The perfume of incense, the glare of tapers at noon-
day, devout kisses imprinted on the walls and 
pavements, fervent prayers directed to the bones, 
the blood or ashes of saints hid behind silken veils, 
the infliction of bodily sufferings for the sins of the 
soul, and unmeaning rites took the place of the 
faith and service of apostolic purity and simpli-
city. 
Such were some of the errors and corrup-
tions which were superadded to what was retained 
of truth—developing the predicted apostacy. 
But how did it treat those who dissented from 
its abominations 1 Prescriptive enactments were 
excuted with the utmost rigor,—confiscating their 
property and inflicting on them banishment and 
death. 
0 the cruelties that have been inflicted in 
the name of religion ! 
Even their tender mercies 
were cruel. 
When Sir Wm. Sawtre, rector of 
Oswyth London, the first English martyr 
was 
burnt in A.D. 1400, for not believing that the bread 
was transmuted into the actual flesh that hung 
on the cross, the Archbishop, in delivering him as 
a heretic to the Mayorand Sheriff of London, hyp-
ocritically requested that they would used him 
kindly !—well knowing that all the kindness they 
would show him would be to burn him to ashes. 
And one of the cruel edicts of Frederic II., permit-
ted bishops to show mercy to heretics—" provided 
the tongues of those who should be pardoned were 
cut out, so that they might not again blaspheme." 
Heretics were not only publicly 
unathematized, 
but they were denied food and shelted. 
Pope 
Alexander III, interdicted all from yielding them 
refuge, and from commuicating with them in buy-
ing and selling, or in the solace of human conver-
sion. 
He forbid that any should harbor them 
alive, or give them Christian burial when dead. 
Those who even favored them were excluded from 
office, as well as from admission into courts of jus-
tice, either as witnesses or suiters, and were de-
nied the power of inheriting or bequeathing pro-
perty. 
Nothing short of an entire extermination 
of all whom Rome adjudged sa heretics was de-
termined on : and to effect this, fire and sword, 
the dungeon and rack, the block, gibbet, and stake, 
with the most refined tortures that curel malice 
could devise were freely resorted to. 
When the 
crusaders were on the point of storming Beziers, 
some one inquired how the Catholics were to be 
distinguished from the heretical inhabitants when 
the massacre should take place ! " Kill them all," 
replied Arnold,a Cistercian Abbot who was present; 
" God will know his own." 
This advice was fol-
lowed, and about 60,000 perished. 
Who is not 
familiar with 
the history of the slaughter of the 
Waldenses, and with that of St. Bartholomew's eve? 
By the granting of. indulgences to all who would 
war on the former, and authority to apply to their 
own use whatever of their property they might 
sieze, 18,000 troops were induced to burst upon 
their peaceful vallies, the inhabitants were driven 
from their homes, their houses burned, and such 
of them as took refuge in the caverns of the Alps 
were there burned or suffocated. 
But who can 
narrate the horrors of St. Bartholomew's eve, 
when, unexpected by the Protestants, a general 
massacre was ordered in France, and 70,000 of 
every age, sex and condition fell a sacrifice to the 
bloody edict! 
In every quarter of Paris, when the 
morning sun looked forth upon the awful specta-
cle, the dead and dying lay commingled in undis-
tinguished heaps. 
The pavements were besmeared 
with paths of gore, along which the bodies of the 
murdered had been dragged to the waters of the 
Seine, which was dyed with the blood of the slain. 
And terror and dismay filled the hearts of the sur-
viving Huguenots. Subsequently, when Lewis XIV 
revoked the edict of Nantz, one twentieth of all the 
Protestants in France perished by butchery and 
military executions. 
A price was set on the heads 
of the remainder who were hunted like the beasts 
of the forests—600,000 of them escaping by fleeing 
from the kingdom. 
These are only solitary instances of Papal cru-
elty, which during twelve centuries wore out the 
saints and left their bones bleaching on mountain 
and valley throughout Europe. 
Such has been its 
cruelty ; but this has been equalled by its arrao-
gance. 
The Papacy has deposed and excommuni-
cated kings, absolved their subjects from all allegi-
ance to them,and crowned and uncrowned monarchs 
its pleasure. 
It has demanded implicit obediance 
from crown as well as from cowl. And in its claim to 
unchanging infallibility, what it has been and done 
onoe it lacks not the disposition but only the ability 
to be and do again. 
Need we then wonder that its 
efforts to gain power in this country should be re-
sisted by those who wish for no re-enactment of 
past scenes 1 
Already, this country is regarded by the Papists, 
as a province of the Roman See. 
Their councils 
here, are denominated provincial councils. 
Al-
ready have they demanded that our school system 
shall be remodeled, so that sectarian schools may 
take the place of those which are free to all. 
The 
Bible, so long a reading book in our schools, 
they have sought to displace. 
They have demanded 
that in school books no reference shall be made to 
the acts of cruelty which Papists in past ages have 
perpetrated in the name of religion ; and in a 
neighboring 
state, the pages which 
have con-
tained 
such reference have been blackened and 
mutilated. 
They demand that all Papal Church 
property 
shall be invested 
in 
the 
persons of 
the bishops; 
and 
congregations 
which 
refuse 
compliance with such a mandate are visited with 
the greater excommunication. 
The members of 
that communion, constitute a political 
phalanx, 
which votes in a body according to the dictation 
of its bishops, who seek by being able to wield such 
an element, to hold the balance of power, and 
gain any end they may seek. 
Their members are 
increasing by every imigrant ship that lands on 
our shores, and unchecked they would soon con-
stitute a formidable and dangerous power in our 
midst. 
It is no wonder then that mere politicians 
should seek to check its growth and to curtail its 
influence. 
But the danger is that instead of op-
posing the thing, men in their excitement will di-
rect their enmity against the individuals of the 
Papal faith. 
This would be neither republican 
nor Christian, and is therefore to be deprecated. 
But opposition to the Papacy as a system, is in 
fulfillment of the Apocalyptic predictions, that they 
shall hate the harlot, and eat her flesh and burn 
her with fire—i.e., that they will detest her abom-
inations, destroy her resources, take away her 
benefices, and abrogate her influence—the termin-
ation of which will be by the brightness of Christ's 
coming. 
Foreign News. 
A telegraphic 
despatch 
from Quebec, ot the 
18th inst., announces the arrival there of the Ot-
tawa, which left Liverpool on the 6th, and is the 
latest we have received before going to press. 
The only important fact communicated is the ab-
solute refusal of the Czar to negotiate with the 
Western Powers on the basis prescribe by the 
French minister. 
The Cholera was abating in the 
allied army. 
The slow progress which has been made by the 
armies in the east, has caused the N. 
Y. 
Tribune 
to denominate this a " sham war." 
Those who 
have ventured to predict the events which " the 
arrival of the next steamer" would show to have 
been accomplished, have been more venturesom 
than sagacious. 
BRO. HIMES :—On reading " Extracts from Lu-
ther's Writings," published in the Herald of Sept. 
9th, I am forcibly reminded of many circumstan-
ces and events that have transpired during our 
own history, as a people called out to engage in 
the work of calling back the public mind to the 
plain, simple truths of the gospel, from which the 
multitude have departed, and in citeing them to 
the fulfillment of God's prophetic truth, and thus 
seeking to prepare " a people to stand ready for 
the revelation of Jesus Christ." 
How many times 
we have seen clear developements of these spirits 
which Luther terms "fantastical." 
I hope no 
reader of the Herald will neglect to read and pon-
der well that subject of which he treats. 
The same 
that befell the Apostles befell Luther and others 
in his day, and the picture is being clearly drawn 
among us also. 
Let us watch and be sober. 
Sept. 14. 
1854. 
1. C. 
WELLCOME. 
MY JOURNAL. 
TOUR INTO 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
FRIDAY, Aug. 11.—Took cars for Fall River, thence 
by boat to New York. 
On our way, near Bridge-
water, a man and horse were seen on the track—the 
alarm was given, but he seemed not to heed it, and 
in a moment was stove to atopis, and the fragments 
of the body were scattered in every direction. 
" In 
the midst of life we are in death." 
Greater care 
should be taken in passing railroad crossings, or 
walking upon the track. 
We took the boat at 8 
o'clock and were in New York by 7 the next A.M. 
This has become the best and safest route to New 
York. 
Saturday, August 12, I spent in visiting 
brethren in New York, Brooklyn, Newark, and in 
other duties connected with the cause. 
SUNDAY, Aug. 13.—Preached morning and eve-
ning in the Advent chape] in Forsy th-etreet. 
Broth-
er Mansfield was absent on a visit to Western New 
York. 
We had fine audiences, and good interest. 
In the P.M., I preached in the Advent chapel in 7th 
Avenue. 
Elder J. M. Daniels has taken the pastoi.-
charge of this church and is doing well. 
Brother 
Porter has taken a journey West for his health. 
The last letter from him brings the cheering intel-
ligence, that his health was improving. 
MONDAY, Aug. 14.—Called at Morrisville, Pa., 
and spent a few hours with Elder Bentley. 
I 
found him and his family in good health, and the 
cause under his care prospering. 
In the evening, 
preached in the Advent chapel in Philadelphia. 
We had a very good audience, and an interesting 
time. 
Many of the brethren had just come from 
camp-meeting, and were in quite as good spiritual 
condition as the speaker. 
Brother Litch was with 
us, having just arrived from the West. 
The 
church has prospered in his absence 'under 
the 
labors of brother Lanning. 
TUESDAY, Aug. 
15.—Went to Harrisburg, Pa. 
Noticc had been given that I would preach in the 
Lutheran church on " Romanism." 
But 
Judge 
an influential member of the church, being 
violently opposed to it, on political grounds, the 
friends for peace sake obtained the Court House, 
which was filled to overflowing. 
I had a quiet 
and candid hearing, though it was feared by some 
it would be otherwise. 
The " Know 
Nothing," 
movement has excited the Protestant masses in this 
state to a high degree of feeling, against" Roman-
ists." 
It will enter into the elections this fall, 
and no doubt control them in favor of the " Ameri-
can party." 
We have a few honorable names in Harrisburg, 
who love the advent faith, and hope. 
Brother 
Henry Boyer, and others received us kindly. 
I 
think by judicious and efficient labor a good cause 
might be raised here. 
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 
16.—Took cars at 3 o'clock 
—I—a—— 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
A.M., for Lewiston. 
Here I joined brother Liteh, 
who left Philadelphia, the night before. 
We ar-
rived at Lewiston about 7 o'clock, took breakfast, 
and by 8 we were wending our way towards the 
" Seven Mountains." 
We had 34 miles to by go 
stage, over the seven mountains to Bellefonte. 
We 
arrived at 5 P.M. and found brother Eckley in 
waiting for us, who conveyed us to Milesbury, and 
thence to his hospitable mansion three miles in 
Marsh Creek. 
Here we have a fine chapel, and the 
Camp-meeting is also to begin here August 31. 
Notice had been given that I should preach at the 
chapel this evening. 
We had a good gathering, 
and I had a fine time, in speaking from Luke 21:34. 
Brother Litch, added some interesting remarks. 
The next day, we were to start for the Second 
Fork, on the Sinnamahoning -river about forty 
miles. 
I dreaded it some, as we would have to 
cross the " barrens," again, on the worst of roads. 
Brother Boyer, however had taken care to get us 
a good conveyance, and to secuife brother Eckley, 
the best of travelling companions, to take us over, 
so that things were made as pleasant as they could 
be on an unpleasant road. 
THURSDAY, Aug. 
17.—We 
took an early start 
for the Second Fork. 
The day was extremely hot, 
and we drove accordingly. 
At sundown we found 
ourselves at the Big Spring, about halfway across 
the " barrens." 
We could not get though that 
night, and so we took the horses out, fed them, 
and then built a booth to lodge in for " a night.' 
We had a large camp fire to give light, and 
warmth, and with what provisions and comforts 
wehad, we enjoyed " our sleep in the woods," very 
much. 
In the morning we took an early start and 
arrived at brother Boyers in season for the morning 
meeting. 
We received the most hearty greetings, 
of brother B. and his family, as alsofrom the 
brethren generally. 
Some changes had taken place since we last met. 
Directly after the close of the meeting last year 
brother B. was taken sick, and was kept from his 
field of labor a time, when most needed. 
The 
cause consequently suffered much ; yet, on his re-
covery, and visitiations of the churches, gracious 
revivals broke out by which a goodly number have 
been added to them in the diotrict, the last year. 
I was glad to find that the greater part of those 
converted, and baptised at the camp meeting last 
August, were still holding on to the hope ot the 
ospel. 
Some, however, as in all such cases, have 
" fallen away.". 
Our meeting commenced the 18th and continued 
to the 22d. 
It was well attended most of the time, 
Saturday, and Sabbath, very fully. 
The churches 
were well represented. The camp meeting in Cale-
donia, :'n the same district, to be held the next week 
no doubt prevented a more full representation 
from that region. 
The preaching was done by 
Elders Litch, Gates and myself, thirteen discourses 
in all; of which I gave six. 
A good impression 
was made upon many of the unconverted, but not 
as great as last year. 
There were seven converted, 
and a number reclaimed. 
The churches also were 
much revived, and consecrated themselves anew to 
work of God. 
The quarterly Conference held its 
session on the 21st. 
It was an interesting session. 
They have nothing but harmony, and can sing the 
133 Psalm, in full application to themselves. 
May 
it never be otherwise. 
The reports from the 
churches in 
the 
district 
were encouraging.— 
Church in Caledonia now numbers 47. Have had a 
good revival in the last year. 
Are arranging to 
build a chapel. 
A new church of five members 
has been organized in Wilson's neighborhood, nine 
miles from Caledonia. The prospect good. 
Church 
in Rich Valley, good state, and prospects good, 40 
members. 
They have built a chapel. 
Inter-
esting Sabbath school. 
Pine-street church, is not 
as prosperous as formerly. 
Meetings good, well 
attended* and hope for better days. 
They now 
have 20 members. 
Church at Second Fork, some 
scattered, and tried, have prospect of a better state 
of things. 
They intend building a chapel. 
They 
number 26. 
Church in First Fork, good state. 
They have also built a chapel the last year and 
paid for it. 
Their present number is 16, two more 
to be received at their next meeting. 
Church in 
Rees's Settlement, in Potter county, raised last year, 
and numbers 15. 
They are steadfast in the faith, 
and need more help to build them up. 
This is but 
a meagre sketch of the reports of these infant 
churches. 
But it will serve to show our brethren 
what brother Boyer has been doing in this moun-
tainous region. 
Two years ago, there was one but 
one or two adventists in all this region. 
" What 
hath Godwrought." 
" It is the Lord's doings and 
is marvellous in our eyes." 
We had two happy seasons of baptizing, during 
the meeting. In closing, a circle was formed, when 
each took the parting hand. 
It was night, all na-
ture was still and solemn, while the songs, pray-
ers, and shouts of saints filled the air. 
The time 
had come for separation, perhaps a final one, or till 
the " last trump," when the saints will meet no 
more to part. 
Oh, these partings ! How painful! 
But though: 
" When we asunder part, 
It gives us inward pain, 
Yet we shall still be joined in heart 
And hope to meet again. 
" This glorious hope revives 
Our courage by the way, 
While each in expectation lives, 
And longs to see the day." 
August 23 and 24.—I spent with brother Boyer 
and his people in order to take a little rest 
Brethren Gates and Litch, went before us to Cale-
donia, to commence the meeting. 
August 25th.— 
Brother B. took me in his carraige to Caledonia, 
twenty miles up the 
river, 
called " Bennetts. 
Branch," which empties into the Sinnamahoning. 
I was much interested and delighted with the 
beauty and grandeur of the scenery. 
On either 
side of the river the whole distance there were bold 
high mountains, covered with heavy pine and hem-
lock timber. 
Sometimes we were on the low bank 
of the river, at other times we were climbing the 
mountain side, in a narrow road, located within a 
few feet of the precipice ranging from one, to five 
hundred feet in depth.- The slightest deviation 
from the main track in some places would precipi-
tate the traveller down the bank. 
There is no 
railing or defence, and often the road is not any 
better than it ought to be. 
The country is now 
being settled more thickly and improvments are 
being made in this rich valley. 
Besides, strange 
as it may seem, a railroad has been surveyed 
through it as far as " Front Run." 
We saw the 
men at work upon it, having commenced that day. 
It forms a part of the " Erie and Sunbury Rail-
road." 
It will open a communication into this 
new and wild country, with Philadelphia, and also 
the great West. 
The mountains are covered with 
the most valuable timber, and internally abound 
in coal and iron. 
We arrived in season for the evening service. 
They had selected a pine grove for the meeting, a 
pleasant and convenient place. 
Four good broad 
tents were erected for the convenience of families 
and strangers on the ground. 
This being the first 
meeting of the kind, held by the Adventists in this 
region, there was a general desire to hear on the 
part of the community, so that during our meet-
ing we had large attendance, and the most candid 
attention. 
During the two first days of the meet-
ing nothing seemed to move. 
No direct impression 
seemed to be made upon the people. 
On the Sab-
bath we had the largest audience that ever assem-
bled in this part of the country. 
A good impres-
sion was evidently made and prejudice gave way 
in many minds, which prepared the way for some 
good to be done ; some resolved to seek the Lord. 
On Monday evening the altar was filled with the 
penitents, some of whom were converted that even-
ing. 
The next evening th® altar was crowded. 
Some of the persons had been among the most pro-
fane and wicked. 
Several were converted. 
The 
interest was such that although we had arranged 
to close the meeting, we were obliged to continue 
it another day although in so doing we should 
have to travel all night to meet our next appoint-
ment. 
But we were well paid for protracting the 
meeting. 
Six or eight were converted, and others 
were confirmed in the faith. 
Up to this time ten 
were baptised and united, in connexion with others, 
with the church. 
This whole region is now open 
to the truth. 
The time had now arrived for us to 
tear ourselves from this kind people. 
At midnight 
brother Gates and I, t jok leave of our friends, and 
commenced our journey over the mountains, to 
Marsh Creek. 
It was dark, and the way was 
through thick, heavy timbered woods. 
Brother 
Gates, took the lantern and walked ahead, and I 
led, oisdrove the horse. 
By the morning light we 
had made about fourteen miles. • Here we came to 
the first house, since we left Caledonia ! 
We 
stopped, put up our team, and called for breakfast. 
Mother Goff, (a Mother indeed,) with whom we 
put up on the camp ground, had furnished us with 
some nice venison, which we now had prepared for 
our breakfast. 
While this was being done we 
went with the huntsman, to a Deer Lick, near by, 
where a deer had been shot the night before. 
We 
found his trail of blood but he was only wounded 
and had escaped. 
Panthers also abound in these 
woods. 
Mr. Coombs with whom we took break-
fast, narrowly escaped from one, a few years ago. 
Passing through the woods, upon a load of hay, 
the panther sprang upon him from the branch of 
a tree, but Mr. C. escaped as by a miracle. 
After 
breakfast, we sung them a song commencing with: 
" This groaning earth is too dark and drear," and 
offered prayer, bid them adieu and proceeded on 
our way, over the "barrens," 12 miles. 
It was 
scorching hot, mercury at 100, but when we had 
got through to the banks of the west branch of 
the Susquehanna, we had a heavy thunder storm, 
which though violent, was very refreshing. I stood 
under an old shed with the horse in the midst of 
the storm. 
The " shed " would have protected 
one from the rays of the sun, better then the 
floods of water. 
But the storm presented so grand 
a scene, that I felt Well rewarded for the exposure. 
Brother Gates had fled to the house near by sup-
posing I would follow, so that he had the pleasure 
to see me stand in the midst of the storm, till it 
abated. 
We now went on our way, and at even-
ing the rain and darkness induced us to put up in 
" Snow Shoe " at the " Gate." 
Mrs. Ross, our 
landlady, prepared us an excellent repast, after 
which, having had but little sleep, or rest for some 
time, we were glad to find a couch for repose. 
We 
rose early in the A.M., and went on six miles to 
take breakfast with brother Hinton, where we are 
always made welcome. 
We hastened on, and ar-
rived in season for meeting at Marsh Creek. 
We 
found them all ready and waiting. 
The camp 
ground had been greatly improved and enlarged. 
Seven new tents had been erected and all were 
filled, eighteen in number. 
I was greatly aston-
ished at the increased interest and prosperity of 
the cause. 
Brother Lanning may be assured his 
labors were not in vain. 
The camp looks like a 
little village. 
To-day I gave two discourses. 
The 
congregations were very good ; in the evening some 
came to the altar for prayer. 
The church was in 
readiness, and entered at once into the work. 
Our 
prospects were very good for one of the best of 
meetings. 
The second day I preached in the morn-
ing. 
In the P.M. brother Litch and Boyer arrived 
from Caledonia, and it being time for service bro-
ther L. relieved me by preaching. 
After the meet-
ing brethren L. and B. reported the following ac-
count of the closing scenes of the meeting in C.: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES.—Thinking the closing up of 
our Caledonia meeting may be of interest to the 
readers of the Herald, I will endeavor to give you 
a sketch of it. 
During the day, on Thursday, the 
meetings were interesting and it was evident that 
the spirit of God was moving on the minds of the 
people, and that new cases of awakening existed. 
At 10 1-2 A.M. we had a most excellent experience 
meeting before the stand ; at the close of which, 
four persons came forward for baptism, and were 
immediately led down into the water, and there by 
this public profession of their faith put on Christ. 
In the afternoon 1 endeavored to speak on the 
great day of judgment, when the books shall be 
opened, and all our conduct reviewed and meet a 
just retribution. 
The evening closed in, and clouds 
and darkness overspead the sky. 
But notwith-
standing, the hour of worship found some two or 
three hundred assembled to enjoy the privileges of 
the occasion. 
I again attempted to address the 
audience from Prov. 1:22-30. 
At the close the 
altar was crowded with penitents ; and the grac« 
of our Lord Jesus was exceeding and abundant 
towards them, so that ten of them arose and testi-
fied of peace they had found in believing in Jesus, 
Others spoke of their determination to follow on 
to know the Lord. 
The opportunity was then 
given for those who wished to unite with the 
church, or to recieve baptism, to present them-
selves. 
Nine came forward ; five united with the 
church, four desired baptism. 
As soon as preparation could be made, the com-
pany repaired to the water. 
This was one of the 
most grand and sublime scenes I have ever wit-
nessed ! It was the solemn hour of midnight and 
thick darkness enshrouded the wood, which was 
one of thick pine and hemlock. 
Let the reader 
imagine a forest ot hemlocks of fifty years, studded 
with a thick undergrowth, and a pathway suffi-
ciently wide for two persons abreast to pass it. 
Through this bower you see some two hundred 
persons with pine torches, lanterns, candles, &c., 
winding their way to the water side, while the 
sound of some fifty voices in clear, rich, heartfelt 
melody reverbrated through this mountain vale. 
But we are at the water side ! It is a beautiful 
pool of water in the Kersey Run, some fifty rods 
above its junction with the Bennett's Branch of 
Sinnamahoning Creek. 
The pool is about six rods 
long and between three and four wide, running 
east and west. 
On the north side of the basin you 
see the clear bright flame of an enormous pile of 
pine tops, boughs and other dry fuel, light up the 
darkness of the night and revealing surrounding 
objects, and casting its glow of redness on the 
waters before us. 
The south side, you see another 
pile of pitch pine, blazing and contributing its 
quota of light on objects around. 
We stand on 
a sandy beach, and overhanging us huge hemlocks, 
bending as if in adoration, around us in the back 
ground a luxurient growth of laurels. 
Within 
this enclosure are assembled a company to witness 
this scene of interest. 
On a bridge below the pool 
another company have arranged themselves and 
wait in silence the introduction of the solemn or-
dinance. 
Far in the east, over the mountain 
ranges before us, lay an embankment of black and 
angry clouds revealed to us ever and anon by the 
bright flash of the forked lightning, so far distant 
that the accompanying thunder was inaudible, 
Listen ! The voice of prayer at that water's edge 
rises to heaven while the assembled multitude, in 
this sublime temple, reverently bow their heads 
before the divine Majesty who made the whole. 
Look ! The servant of God steps forth from the 
stony isthmus on which he has been standing and 
leads down into the glowing pool, rendered radi-
ent by the blazing pile, a disciple in the bloom of 
life, who has come to be buried with her Lord in 
the liquid grave, the emblematic death to sin, that 
henceforth she may walk in newness of life. 
At 
this crisis the sound of sacred song to the air, 
" Star of Bethlehem " breaks forth in the conse-
crating and self-denying words, 
" I'm not ashamed to own my Lord." 
The midst of the pool is reached! 
There is a 
pause! 
Silence reigns around; when solemnly 
the man of God proclaims—" My sister, on a pro-
fession of your faith in Christ, and in obedience 
to the command of the Lord Jesus, I baptize you 
in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," 
—while he buries the submitting child of God be-
neath the yielding waves. 
But see ! again she 
rises in likeness of the resurrection of her Lord 
and Master, with a face glowing with joyful hope 
to pursue her Saviour's footsteps to the kingdom of 
God. 
Another and another follow till five have 
thus confessed the supremacy of the Son of God, 
amidst the resounding music of that delightful 
hymn. 
The,scene is closed, and the Iconcourse slowly 
and thoughtfully pursue their way back to the 
camp. 
The scene now changes ; the congregation 
assemble around the stand to await the parting 
scene. 
All is now in readiness ; and after a few 
words of review, congratulation, exhortation and 
advice from the stand, the circle is formed and the 
parting salutation given, in which about 150 per-
sons participated. 
The hymn was theft sung, 
" You will see your Lord a coming," 
in which most of the assembled concourse united ; 
the benediction was then pronounced, and at a few 
minutes before 1 o'clock, Sept. 1st, the people dis-
persed for their mountain homes. 
J. 
LITCH. 
We now resume the report of the meeting at 
Marsh Creek. 
Saturday evening. 1 spoke again. 
The audience was very large and solemn. 
Seven 
came to the altar and two were converted. 
The 
altar was crowded with the anxious, in connexion 
with a large number of brethren and sisters, well 
trained to the work and well engaged in it. 
The Sabbath came—beautiful and 
pleasant. 
The people came in from all quarters, and made 
up a very large and intelligent congregation. 
I 
saw none who appeared to be ill disposed, or even 
light and trifling, as is too often the case. 
I gave 
a discourse in the A.M., on the " New Heaven and 
New Earth," and had the best attention. 
Brother 
L. preached in the P.M., on the Kingship of Christ. 
In the evening, I answered the question in Acts 
2:37, " Men and brethren what shall we do?" 
There was a large number of convicted sinners on 
the ground, eight of whom came to the altar at 
the close of the sermon ; all of whom were con-
verted. 
Most of them came out shouting and re-
joicing, which sent a thrill through the congrega-
tion. 
Between thirty and forty were seen to kneel 
'in and about the altar, in time of prayer, who h^d 
not made any public request for prayer. 
It was 
midnight before we could close and get our fami-
lies at rest. 
Shouts and the voice of melody, were 
heard from every tent. 
This will be remembered 
as the most blessed of earthly Sabbaths. 
Duties of an important character required that 
I should pack up and leave this heavenly camp of 
the saints, before the close of the meeting. 
But 
the way of duty being the way of happiness, I pre-
pared to leave at an early hour, September 4th, for 
Bellefonte, to take convevance home. 
But when 
the morning came, the conveyance which I had en-
gaged, failed me, and so I was obliged to remain 
another day. 
It was a sad disappointment to me, 
and a joyful one to the brethren; I cannot but 
hope it will be overruled for good, " God doeth all 
things well." 
At 5 o'clock the public prayer meeting began, 
and soon after, five new cases of conviction was 
made known—and all came to the altar. 
We had 
a real pentecostal season. 
Most of them were con-
verted before preaching time. 
I then read and ex-
pounded the 2d chapter of the Acts. 
At the close 
1 called for those who wished for baptism, and 
eight applied, and will be baptized to-morrow 
after I leave. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
303 1 
In the P.M., by request, I gave a discourse on "Ro-
manism." 
It had been reported that I was at the 
head of the " Know Nothings," and that the thing 
originated with the Adventists! 
The man who 
started this story was formerly a vender of Weeth-
er's Pamphlet! 
He did that to injure us, and has 
started this last story for the same object. 
Poor 
man, he has showed in these acts that he might 
know more, and behave better. 
It is needless to 
say that these things have only served to help us, 
and sink their author into a " lower deep." 
In my discourse I made no reference to the 
" Know Nothings," because I " know nothing " 
about them. 
I gave the Scriptural view of the re-
ligious, moral, and political character of Popery, 
and the duty of Protestants at this time respecting 
it. 
There was a good representation of the citi-
zens, many of whom, it was said, were " Know 
Nothings," who expressed their gratification with 
the facts and illustrations given. 
In the evening, I spoke again. 
The audicnce 
was large and solemn. 
I spoke from II 5:20. 
My 
object was to bring every sinner in the congrega-
tion to a crisis. 
I knew that most present were 
deeply convicted of sin, and felt it a duty to come 
to Christ. 
At the close of the sermon, an invita-
tion was given for all who felt the need of Christ 
to come to the altar for prayer. 
A large number 
came, and gave themselves up to God, sixteen of 
whorrt were blessed of the Lord. 
This was indeed 
a glorious and victorious time for the church. 
Sixteen souls "reconciled to God." 
A much 
greater number were still waiting at the " Pool," 
for healing. 
Nine persons made application for 
baptism, in the close of this meeting. 
By request 
of Elder Boyer, the pastor, I addressed, and re-
ceived, by the righthand of fellowship, seven inter-
esting souls to membership of the church. 
This 
closed the scenes of the day. 
The hour of 11 had 
now arrived, and we were obliged, though reluct-
antly to close the service. 
I then gave the parting 
hand to brother Boyer, and his beloved people. 
It was hard to separate, but duty called, and at 12 
o'clock I left for Bellefonte, and put up at the 
Hotel at 2 o'clock, A.M. 
I got a few hours sleep, 
and then took stage over the mountains again for 
Lewiston, on my way home. 
Arrived at 5 P.M., 
ten hours in a blazing hot sun, in the hottest day 
of the season. 
At 6 P.M. we took the " Iron 
chariot," and with the lightning speed streamed 
away to the " City of Brotherly Love," and arrived 
at half past 12. 
At halt past 1, left for New York, 
and arrived at 7 A.M. ; took cars for Boston at 8 
A.M., and arrived bome.at half past P.M., and found 
all well. 
I have several things to say that I have not time 
to add, and must be deferred. 
Since my return I 
have received the following account of the closing 
services of the Marsh Creek meeting, which will 
be read with interest. 
DEAR 
BRO. 
HIMES :—1 sit down to give you, as 
you requested, the sequel of the Marsh Creek camp-
meeting. 
Tuesday, 5th, the day you left us, the 
forenoon was spent in baptismal services in Wal-
lace's Run, two miles from the camp, where thir-
teen were buried in the watery element. 
The sea-
son was a most interesting one and deeply impres-
sive. 
In the afternoon and evening I spoke to the 
people. 
The evening service was one long to be 
remembered. 
The mourners seat was crowded 
with weeping penitents and ten or twelve found 
peace. 
Wednesday, 6th, was the last day of the feast. 
The morning prayer and conference meeting was 
spiritual and characterized by fervent prayer for 
the salvation of souls. 
At 11 o'clock 
brother 
Boyer preached us an excellent discourse, which 
was listened to with deep interest. 
I spoke again 
in the afternoon, but the services were cut short 
by a shower of rain which drove the friends to the 
tents. 
As evening closed in, it became manifest 
that we could not worship out of doors. 
The 
chapel was therefore lighted up and thither we re-
sorted for service. 
At this point, brother I. R. 
Gates arrived, and addressed us. 
The house was 
filled and aome outside. 
He entered into the spirit 
of the occasion and preached a soul stirring and 
awakening discourse. 
An invitation was given, 
and the mourners bench soon filled with anxious 
souls seeking the way of life. 
Five or six found 
peace and were rejoicing in the Saviour's love. 
The rain having subsided we repaired again to the 
camp to celebrate the Lord's supper. 
It was a 
memorable and affecting scene. 
There were the 
old hoary headed veterans of the cross who had 
faced the storms of 70 and 80 winters, and the 
blooming child of 11 or 12 years, sitting down un-
der heaven's canopy of clouds, with thunders roll-
ing over us and lightnings flashing around, as if 
Sinai was again on fire and shook at the presence 
of the HOLY ONE. 
But there before our eyes stood 
the •memorial of the cross with its fount of blood, 
in which are quenched the bolts of Sinai, and 
hushed its terrors; the bleeding victim is before 
our eyes, the man of Calvary and the King of Zion. 
We hear his voice proclaiming peace. 
" My body 
is broken for you." 
" This is my blood of the New 
Testament which is shed for you and for many for 
the remission of sins." 
With joy we hail the 
proclamation, and fear is lost in humble confidence. 
The supper closed, an invitation for those who wish 
to unite with the church or to receive baptism is 
again extended. 
This was responded to by sixteen 
happy souls who wished admission into the church, 
and 12 who desired baptism. 
While in the act of 
receiving these into the church by extending to 
each the hand of fellowship, the storm again com-
menced and we were driven to the tents and the 
ceremony completed and arrangements made for 
baptism the next morning. 
When the shower had 
passed by, we formed the parting circle, and those 
who for a week had enjoyed together so many hap-
py, precious seasons and so much strengthened the 
ties of Christian love and fellowship, were called 
to say " farewell," to part, to meet here no more; 
but full of the cheering hope of meeting where the 
sad farewell will never be known or heard. 
It 
was a solemn and deeply affecting occasion ; and I 
trust the hearts of many were made better for wit-
nessing and participating in it. 
The parting salu-
tation given, the hymn was sung by the circle, 
" You will see your Lord a coming," the blessing 
pronounced, and between one and two o'clock the 
Center county camp-meeting was closed and the 
congregation dispersed. 
Between thirty and forty professed to find peace 
in Christ; 25 were baptised and 25 united with the 
church. 
The churches in Center are stronger, more vigor-
ous and have a more encouraging prospect of use-
fulness than at any former period. 
The Advent 
cause is decidedly on the advance. 
Yours, 
Milesbury, Sept. 7th, 
1854. 
J. 
LITCH. 
When shall I hear my blessed Father saying, 
" Ye faithful children come ?" 
Arrayed in spotless white, on Zion's mountain, 
I long with Christ to stand ; 
And bathe my weary brow in Life's pure fountain, 
In Eden's" happy land." 
I long to wear a crown, with glory shining, 
And Jesus to adore ; 
I long to be where there is no repining— 
Where sorrows come no more. 
Even now I seem to see, by faith beholding, 
That far off" better land 
Yes, 1 can see its pearly gates unfolding, 
And angels round them stand. 
One moment more they wait, the word is given, 
. How swiftly now they come ? 
God's faithful ones arechang'd, the graves are riv'n, 
The saints are all at home ! 
Then I will hasten on, no longer fearing 
The dark and thorny way ; 
Since to my raptured sight is now appearing, 
The bright and endless day. 
M. T. B. 
Salem, June 23d, 1854. 
©bituarri. 
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 26.26. 
To Bro. Wm. M. Ingham. 
SEEING in the Herald a statement from you that 
you thought best to leave your present place of 
labors, I suggest the propriety of your coming to 
Maine, some where on the Kennebec. 
There is 
enough to do here in the vineyard of the Lord, and 
although " questions of strife " have raised many 
adverse influences, yet there is need of some five or 
six more laborers in this part of the field ; and if 
they should come and show by their labors, and 
constant, consistant lives, that they are God's min-
isters, and " preach the Word," looking ofter the 
wellfare of" the flock of God," shutting their ears 
to party strifes, and foul calumny, they would find 
room, not for a few days or months, only, but until 
Jesus comes to take his children home. 
New and 
interesting fields are constantly opening for those 
who would labor untiringly, on Bible principles, 
and endure the trials of new fields of labor (which 
but few at this day seems willing to do). 
I know 
of ten new places now, where the people are wait-
ing for us to occupy, and yet we are not able to 
supply half the old places. 
Many begin to see 
and speak of the propriety of having those to la-
bor who are free from party purposes. 
Will you 
not think best to come this way and help us? 
Yours in the fellowship of the gospel. 
I. 
C. 
WELLCOME. 
Hallowelh Sept. 15th, 1854. 
DIED, in Pittsfield, N. 
H., of dysentery, Aug 
20, 1854, Charles E. Crosby, aged 5 years and f 
months. 
This was an only son ; a lovely boy 
But he rests in peace, to be raised again at the 
coming of our Lord. 
Oh, may the dear parents 
be prepared to meet him " in the resurrection o* 
the just," although now left to mourn. 
j. H. 
" The once loved form, now cold and dead, 
Each mournful thought employs ; 
And nature weeps her comfort fled, 
And withered all her joys. 
" Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, 
When what we now deplore 
Shall rise in full immortal prime, 
And bloom to fade no more. 
" Cease, then, fond nature, cease thy tears; 
Behold the Saviour nigrh : 
And when in glory he appears, 
Thy joys shall never die." 
RELIGION. 
There is a flower all other flowers excelling, 
Its blossoms fair unfolding to the view ; 
Its sweetest fragrance yields mid sorrow's dwelling 
And cheering all life's toilsome journey through. 
Imprinted on its tender leaf most plainly, 
Are joy's that erring mortals cannot tell ; 
Of that bright, heavenly world, unknown to sorrow, 
Where all the saints of God ere long will dwell. 
The brightest, sweetest treasurers this blossom, 
'Twill give reiief to sorrow, pain, and woe ; 
'Twill gently lull to rest the weary spirit, 
And lead us where the living waters flow. 
No killing frosts shall ever blight or wither 
This sacred flower, or change its beauteous hue; 
Unshaken it shall,stand though clouds may gather, 
And break, in fearful wrath upon the view. 
The balmy fragrance of the spicy breezes, 
Not halt so sweet, and blest, a perfume bears; 
Religion is its name, its birth celestial; 
Immortal verdure this exotic wears. 
May its benign and heavenly influence cheer us, 
While we shall sojourn on the shores of time; 
And ere terrestrial scens with us have ended, 
May it prepare us for a holier clime. 
Newburyport, 
Sept. lQth, 1854. 
c. Jl. s. 
DIED, Sept. 2d, 1854, of Consumption, at Ox 
ford, N. II., in the 17th year of her age, 
LAURETT 
B. W EST, daughter of brother Gilman, and Sister 
Almira West. 
She experienced religion two or 
three years since but deferred baptism until this 
summer when it was certain she could not recover 
she could not endure the thought of dying without 
submitting.to this ordinance, and although in 
great_ weakness, she was carried 4 or 5 miles to a 
favorite place and there received baptism at the 
hands of Elder E. B. Rollins ; and ever after her 
mind was clear, and her last sickness and death 
was triumphant and happy. 
She rests in Jesu.. 
until tht last trumpet shall being her forth clothed 
in glorious immortality. 
I. H. 
SHIPMAN. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—My father fell asleep in Christ 
June 7th in hope of a glorious resurrection, soon 
to be realized. 
His charge to his brethren was to 
hold fast the faith, and preach the doctrine of the 
advent. 
He was a faithful minister ot Christ. 
His 
age was 69 years 4 months 2 days. 
BENJAMIN CALLAY, jr. 
Sanborntonf August, 
7th 1854, 
DIED, in Henniker, N. H.,Sept. 12th, Miss 
Jerusha Huse, aged 59 years. 
J. B. 
HUSE. 
" 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Terms of Peace 
297 
Hurricane in Georgia 
297 
American Board of Eoreign 
Missions 
297 
The War 
298 
Louis Napoleon 
298 
Foreign News 
298 
Study of Divine Truth 
298 
The Substonce of the Gfispel. 298 
The Cave of Time (poetry).. 299 
Varieties 
299 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Islah 
300 
The Papacy-Foreigners 
300 
Foreign News 
........ 301 
My Journal; 
301 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
To Bro. W M- Ingham 
303 
Religion.... (poetry) 
303 
Poetry 
303 
OBITUARY. 
Chas. E. Crosby 
303 
L. B. West 
303 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. 
Tendency to Infidelity. 
THE Editor of the Tennessee Baptist gives the fol-
lowing opinion of the tendency of the writings of 
the authors below named : 
" John Pye Smith, Hugh Miller, E. Hitchcock, 
and their followers in the department of Geology; 
Agassiz and Nott in the department of Zoology 
and Ethnology, and the German Neplogists in the 
department of Theology and Bible interpretation, 
are engaged in the fearful work (i. e.,) 
weaken-
ing and undermining the world's faith in the in-
spiration and authority of the Sacred Volume. 
" We lay no claim to the' gift prophetic,' but we 
boldly predict the scientific Geologists and Neolo-
gists of this day, are sowing broadcast the seeds 
of Infidelity that will spring up and wave in a 
harvest so dark, in churches, schools, and States, 
as to threaten the very existance of evangelical 
Christianity. 
We read already in legible, unmis-
takable characters, the ' signs of times ' and the 
' burden ' of the future. 
The world is now set-
ting more strongly towards Infidelity than at any 
former period ; the moving causes are forced upon 
the most casual observer. 
" The works of the above authors are used as text 
books in our schools, literary and theological, or the 
speculations of their authors endorsed and advo-
cated from the chairs of all our colleges and the 
pulpits of our progressive evangelical doctors and 
divines. 
Our ministers and scholars are too gener-
ally yielding a blind assent to the speculations 
and assumptions of these intoxicated and hallucin-
ated speculists' prolific theories in Theological and 
Physical Sciences." 
We have at various times given extracts from 
the writers named, in confirmation of the above 
expresssed opinion. 
We add the following from 
Hugh Miller, which has a strong pantheistic tend-
ency, and that of the worst form, the incorporation 
ot the Creator in the creature : 
" In the history of the earth which we inhabit, 
molluscs, fishes, reptiles, mammals, had each in 
succession their period of duration ; and than the 
human period begun—the period of a fellow-worker 
with God, created in God's own image. 
What is 
to be the next advance 1 Is there to be merely a 
repetition of the past 1—an introduction a second 
time of man, mads in the image of God? 
No! 
The geologist, in the tables of stone, which from his 
records, finds no example of dynasties, once pas-
sed away, again returning. 
There has been no 
repetition of the dynasty of the fish—of the reptile 
—of the mammal. 
The dynasty of the futute is to 
have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to 
be the dynasty—1 the kingdom '—not of glorified 
man made in the image of God, but of God him-
self, in the form of man. 
In the doctrine of the 
two conjoined natures, human and divine,and in the 
future doctrine that the terminal dynasty is to be 
peculiarly the dynasty of Him in whom the nations 
are united, we find the required progression beyond 
which progress cannot go. 
We find the point of 
elevation never to be exceeded meetly coincident 
with the final period never to be terminated—the 
infinite in height harmoniously associated with 
the eternal in duration. 
Creation and the Creator 
meet at one point, and in one person. 
The long 
ascending line from dead matter to man has been 
a progress God wards, not an asymptotical progress, 
but destined from the beginning to furnish a point 
of union ; and occupying that point as true God 
and true man, as Creator and created, we recognize 
the adorable Monarch of ail the Future ! " 
BRO. 
HIMES :—Are the views presented in the 
last number of the Herald from the " London Quar-
terly Journal of Prophecy," concerning Christiani-
ty and the true "Christian Missionary," &c.. 
accordance with the New Testament as taught by 
our Lord and his apostles ? 
If not, will not its in-
sertion in the columns of the Herald be injurious 
to the cause of sound doctrine," which as Advent-
ists, we are called upon to contend for. 
Yours in love, 
WM. A. 
MUNROE. 
Providence, R. 1., Aug. 28, 1854. 
REMARKS.—The objectionable sentiment appears 
to be the belief expressed by. the writer that the in 
English army sent to Turkey there were really 
Christian men,—as evidenced by some twenty of 
them being found on their knees in the barracks 
by themselves praying,—and the hope that they 
might prove to be missionaries among the Mussul-
men. 
Whether it might, or might not be possible, 
for a private soldier to be an humble Christian, 
and as such to be instrumental in enlightening 
those with whom he associates, we prefer to have 
decided by Him who alone knoweth all hearts, in-
stead of sitting in judgment on such, ourself. 
The 
n»te with which the article was commenced in the 
preceding paper, we supposed would explain the 
object and purport of the insertion of the article— 
viz., to show how the people of great Britain re-
gard their own connexion with the present eastern 
war. 
THE Youth's 
Guide for September has been is-
sued. 
The following are its contents : 
Poetry. 
Richard Bakewell." 
A Dollar on the Conscience. 
Editorial. 
Socrates. 
Snowy Mist.—A Fable. 
Pleasant Words. 
A Lovely Incident. 
Dreadful Power of Superstition. 
Sin Leaves its Mark. 
Little John's Prayer. 
Enigmas, &c. 
Not ices. 
NOTICE.—The subscribers to the chapel, who 
have not paid the enstalment due on their shares, 
aie requested to remember us as early as conveni-
ent. 
We now have special need of all due. 
I wish also to say to any of our friends who may 
have funds on hand which they could loan on good 
security, with interest, that I wish to obtain a few 
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Harvy call for me on the arrival of the first train from Richmond? 
At Hatley, 12th and 13th, and over the Sabbath as Elder Warren 
may appoint. 
Barnston, 17th, 18th and 19th, as Elder Thurber may arrange ; by 
request, I will deliver an address on the nature, importance, and 
benefits of Sacred Music, at the last meeting. 
A full attendance 
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Week-day 
meetings at 7 o'clock, or otherwise as brothers in charge may 
think best 
The above appointments are made by the kind direc-
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N. BILLINGS. 
ELDER CHAS. P. Dow will preach at 
Three Rivers, 23d and Sunday 24th. 
Chickopee Falls, 25th. 
Springfield, 26th. 
Jawbuck, 27th. 
Warehouse Point, 28th. 
Hartford, 29th. 
Week evening appointments at 1 and a half P.M., unless 5 P.M. be 
preferred. 
As brother Dow is a stranger in many of the above 
mentioned places, I would herebv commend him to the brethren 
•as a minister worthy of their confidence and Christian fellowship. 
D. T. 
TAYLOR. 
I WILL preach, the Lord will, at 
Outlet, C. E., Oct. 12th and 13th. 
Waterloo. 14th and Sunday, 15th. 
Stanbrbridge, Stone Settlement, 17th. 
Brother Burden's neighborhood, 18th. 
Clarenceville, 19th and over the Sabbath. 
Week evening appointments at 7 o'clock. 
BKNJ. WEBB. 
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mills, as brother Willey may appoint, Friday 29th, at 10 o'clock 
A.M., and continue over the Sabbath. 
" 
J. M. ORROCK. 
D. W. 
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Lake Village, N. II., Sabbath, Oct. 1st. 
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