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THE RESURRECTION MORN. 
BY MISS H. M. JOHNSON. 
I Questioned one who knelt in grief 
Beside his partner's grave, 
Where now his spirit found relief 
From sorrow's dark'ning wave ? 
He raised his eyes, hell dim with tears, 
While smiles his brow adorn—
'Tis the bright hope that 'brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I asked a mother, as she laid 
Her first-born in the tomb, 
What the wild flow of anguish stayed, 
And calmed her spirit's gloom? 
She dashed away the gathetiig tear 
That filled her eye forlorn ;— 
"'Tis the bright hope that brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I asked a lonely orphan child, 
By her last parent's bier, 
What now could ease her anguish wild, 
And stay the burning tear? 
Deep, deep emotions filled her heart, 
And shook,her fragile term ;— 
"'Tis the bright hope that brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I asked a brother 'bowed in woe 
Beside a sister fair, 
Whose gentle head death had laid low, 
What saved him from despair' 
A smile beamed through his falling tears, 
And soothed the raging storm.;—
" 'Tis the bright hope that brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I questioned one whose tears fell fast 
Upon a friend's cold brow, 
His dearest, truest friend,—his last,— 
What hope could cheer him now.? 
A ray of light stole o'er 'his face, 
So lonely mid forlorn ;— 
"'Tin the bright hope that brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I asked a Christian, whose low breath 
Broke faintly on my ear,— 
A Christian at the verge of I I t 11, — 
What now his soul could cheer.? 
A smile as pure as angels wear, 
His joyful brow adorned ;— 
"'Tis the bright hope that brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
I searched the Holy Book of Life, 
To find the 'brightest part, 
Which in each hour of grief and strife 
Could cheer the Christian's heart ; 
An angel's voice broke on my ear, 
And thrilled my trembling form ;—
"'Tis that, 'tie that which brings to view 
The resurrection morn." 
The New Heavens and New Earth. 
BY TH'O'MAS BURNET. 
N4I
Mr. BURNET, a learned English writer, and secretary to king 
LLIAM, was born A. D. 1H His Theory of the Earth, from 
which these extracts are taken, does not favor probation alter the 
advent.] 
(Continued from our last.) 
We come now to the third and last head of 
our discourse; to determine the time and place 
of the millennium. And seeing it is indiffer-
ent, whether the proofs lead or follow the con-
clusion, we will lay down the conclusion in the 
first place, that our 'buisiness may be more in 
view; and back it with proofs in the following 
part of the chapter. Our third and last propo-
sition therefore is this ; that the blessed millen-
nium, (properly so called) according as it is de-
scribed in Scripture,'cannot obtain in the pres-
ent earth, nor under the present constitution of 
nature and providence .; but it is to be celebrated 
in the new heavens and new earth, after the 
conflagration. This proposition, it may be, will 
seem a paradox or singularity to many, even of 
those that believe a millennium : we will there-
fore make it the business of this chapter, to 
state it, and prove it, by such arguments as are 
manifestly founded in Scripture and in reason. 
And to prevent mistakes, we must premise 
this, in the first place ; that though the blessed 
millennium will not be in this earth; yet we 
allow, that the state of the church here will 
grow much better than it is at present : there 
will be a better idea of Christianity, and, ac-
cording to the prophecies, a full resurrection of 
the witnesses, and an ascension into power, and 
the tenth part of the city will fall ; which things 
imply ease from persecution, the conversion of 
some part of the Christian world to the reformed 
faith, and a considerable diminution of the 
power of Antichrist,* But this still comes short 
of the happiness and glory wherein the future 
kingdom of Christ is represented; which can-
not come to pass till the man of sin be de-
stroyed, with a total destruction. 
In the first place, we suppose it out of dispute, 
that there will be new heavens and a new earth 
after the conflagration. This was our first 
proposition, and we depend upon it, as suffi-
ciently proved both from Scripture and antiquity. 
This being admitted, how will you stock this 
new earth ? What use will you put it to ? It 
will be a much nobler earth, and better built 
than the present.; and it is a pity it should only 
float about, empty and useless, in the wild air. 
If you will not make it the seat and habitation 
of the just in the blessed millennium, what will 
you make it? How will it turn to account? 
What hath providence designed it for? We 
must not suppose new worlds made without 
counsel or design. And as, on the one hand, 
you cannot tell what to do with this new crea-
tion, if it be not thus employed ; so, on the 
other hand, it is every way fitted and suited to 
be an happy and paradisaical habitation, and 
answers all the natural characters of the millen-
nial state ; which is a great presumption that 
it is designed for it. 
But to argue this more closely upon Scrip-
ture grounds. St. Peter says the righteous shall 
inhabit the [new heavens and the new earth—
(2 Pet.; 3:13): " Nevertheless, according to his 
promise, we look for new heavens and a new 
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness ;" that is, 
a righteous people, as we have shewn before. 
But who are these righteous people ? That is 
the great question. If you compare St. Peter's 
new heavens and new earth with St. John's, 
(Apoc. 21:1, 2) it will go far towards the resolu-
tion of this question : for St. John seems plain-
ly to make the inhabitants of the new Jerusa-
lem to be in this new earth : " I saw," says he, 
" new heavens and a new earth, and the new 
Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven ;" 
therefore descending into this new earth, which 
he had mentioned immediately before. And 
there the tabernacle of God was with men, (v. 3) 
and there he, that sat upon the throne, said, 
Behold I make all things new ;" referring still 
to this new heavens and new earth, as the thea-
tre where all these things are acted, or all these 
scenes exhibited ; from the 1st verse to the 8th 
now the new Jerusalem state being the same 
with the millennial, if the one be in the new 
heavens and new earth, the other is there also. 
And this interpretation of -St. John's word is 
confirmed and fully assured to us by the prophet 
Isaiah ; who also placeth the joy and rejoicing 
of the new Jerusalem in the new heavens and 
new earth, (65:17, 18) : " For behold, I create 
new heavens and a new earth ; and the former 
shall riot be remembered : but be you glad and 
rejoice for ever in that which 1 create ; for be-
hold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her 
people a joy ;" namely, in that new heavens and 
new earth : which answers to St. John's vision 
of the new Jerusalem being let down upon the 
new earth. 
To these reasons, and deductions from Scrip-
ture, we might add the testimony of several of 
the fathers; I mean :of those that were mille-
naries : for we are speaking now to such as be-
lieve the millennium, but place it in the present 
earth before the renovation ; whereas the an-
cient millenaries supposed the regeneration and 
renovation of the world before the kingdom of 
Christ came ; as you may see in Irennus, Jus-
tin Martyr, Tertullian, Lactantius, and the au-
thor ad Orthodoxos. And the neglect of this, 
look upon as one reason, as we noted before, 
that brought that doctrine into discredit and de-
cay : for when they placed the kingdom of the 
saints upon this earth, it became more capable 
of being abused by fanatical spirits, to the dis-
turbance of the world, and the invasion of the 
rights of the magistrates, civil or ecclesiastical, 
under that notion of saints ; and made them 
* All fulfilled since Burnett wrote. 
also dream of sensual pleasures, such as they 
see in this lift' ; or, at least, gave an occasion 
and opportunity to those that had a mind to 
make the doctrine odious, of charging it with 
these consequences. All these abuses are cut 
off, and these scandals prevented, by placing the 
millennium aright; namely, not in this present 
life, or on this present earth, but in the new 
creation, where peace and righteousness will 
dwell. And this is our first argument why we 
place the millennium in the new heavens and 
new earth ; and it is taken partly, you see, from 
the reason of the thing itself, the difficulty of 
assigning any other use of the new earth, and 
its fitness for this; and partly from Scripture 
evidence, and partly from antiquity. 
The second argument for our opinion is this : 
the present constitution of nature will not bear 
that happiness that is promised in the millen-
nium, or is riot consistent with it. The disease 
of our bodies, the disorders of our passions, the 
incommodiousness of external nature ; indi-
gency, servility, and the unpeaceableness of the 
world ; these are things inconsistent with the 
.happiness that is promised in the kingdom of 
Christ. But these are constant attendants upon 
this life, and inseparable from the present state 
of nature. Suppose the millennium was to be-
gin nine or ten years hence, as some pretend it 
will ;* now shall this world, all on a sudden, 
be metamorphosed into that happy state ? Apoc. 
21:4—No more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, 
nor death, says St. John : all former things are 
passed away. But how passed away ? Shall 
we not have the same bodies ; and the same ex-
ternal nature ; and the same corruptions of the 
air ; and the same excesses and intemperature 
of seasons ? Will there not be the same bar-
renness of the ground, the same number of peo-
ple to be fed ; and must they not get their liv-
ing by the sweat of their brows, with servile la-
bor and drudgery ? How then are all former 
evils passed away ? And as to the public af-
fairs, while there are the same necessities of 
human life; and a distinction of nations, those 
nations sometimes will have contrary interests, 
will clash and interfere one with another ; 
whence differences, and contests, and wars will 
arise, and the thousand years truce, I am afraid, 
will be often broken. We might add also, that 
if our bodies be not changed, we shall be sub-
ject to the same appetites, and the same pas-
sions; and upon those, vices will grow, as bad 
fruit upon a bad tree. To conclude ; so long as 
our bodies are the same, external nature the 
same, the necessities of human life the same; 
which things are the roots of evil ; you may 
call it a millennium, or what you please ; but 
there will be still diseases, vices, wars, tears and 
cries, pain and sorrow, in this millennium ; and 
if so, it is a millennium of your own making ; 
for that which the prophets describe is quite 
another thing. 
Farthermore ; if you suppose the millennium 
will be upon this earth, and begin, it may be, 
ten or twenty years hence ; how will it be in-
troduced ? How shall we know when we are 
in it, or when we enter upon it ? If we con-
tinue the same, arid all nature continue the 
same, we shall not discern when we slip into 
the millennium. And as to the moral state of 
it, shall we, all on a sudden, become kings and 
priests to God ? Wherein will that change con-
sist, and how will it be wrought? St. John 
makes the first resurrection introduce the mil-
lennium ; and that is a conspicuous mark and 
boundary : but as to the modern or vulgar mil-
lennium, I know not how it is ushered in.—
Whether they suppose a visible resurrection of 
the martyrs, and a visible ascension ; and that 
to be a signal to all the world that the jubilee is 
beginning; or whether it is gradual, and creeps 
upon us insensibly ; or the fall of the beast 
marks it ; these things need both explication 
and proof; for to me they seem either arbitrary, 
or unintelligible. 
But to pursue our design and subject : that 
which gives me the greatest scandal, in this doc-
trine of the vulgar millennium, is their joining 
* Who looked for a millennium in this present 
state. 
things together that are really inconsistent; a 
natural world of one color, and a moral world 
of another : they will make us happy in spite 
of nature ; as the Stoics would make a man 
happy in Phalaris's bull ; so must the saints be 
in full bliss in the millennium, though they be 
under a fit of the gout, or of the stone. For 
my part, I could never reconcile pain to happi-
ness ; it seems to me to destroy and drown all 
pleasure, as a loud noise does a still voice : it 
affects the nerves with violence and overbears 
all other motions. But if, according to this 
modern supposition, they have the same bodies, 
and breathe the same air in the millennium, as 
we do now, there will be both private and epi-
demical distempers, in the same manner as 
now. Suppose then a plague comes and sweeps 
away half an hundred thousand saints in the 
millennium, is this no prejudice or dishonor to 
the state ? or a war makes a nation desolate ; 
or. in single persons, a lingering disease makes 
life a burden ; or a burning fever, or a violent 
colic, tortures them to death : where such evils 
as these reign, christen the thing what you will, 
it can be no better than a mock millennium. 
Nor shall I ever be persuaded that such a state 
as our present life, where an aching tooth, or 
an aching head, does so discompose the soul, as 
to make her unfit for business, study, devotion, 
or any useful employment ; and that all the 
powers of the mind, all its virtue, and all its 
wisdom, are not able to stop these little motions, 
or to support them with tranquillity ; I can never 
persuade myself, I say, that such a state was 
designed by God or nature, for a state of happi-
ness.—(To be continued.) 
(For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No, I—THE VOYAGE. 
A VOYAGE TO EUROPE ! What a grand idea ! 
It had long haunted my imagination like some 
bright vision of romance, which I hardly dared 
hope ever to see realized. The very word 
" voyage " had a bracing, inspiriting, salt-water 
air. It called up " spirits from the vasty deep " 
—old ocean's varied forms of beauty and sub-
limity, gallant ships proudly careering o'er the 
waves, crews of brave and generous-hearted 
tars, and all the exciting scenes of nautical ad-
venture. 
And then EUROPE —the world's museum, 
crowded with the choicest productions of genius 
in every department of human effort, with her 
time-honored castles, her stupendous cathedrals, 
her magnificent palaces, her immense works 
of public utility, her unequalled collections of 
paintings, and statues, and antiquities, her ven-
erable universities, her vast libraries, her long 
line of illustrious artists, and historians, and 
poets, and philosophers, and orators, and states-
men, and heroes, where every spot of ground 
is hallowed by its association with the most 
celebrated events and names in history —it 
seemed impossible for one to breathe the air or 
tread the soil of such a classic land, without 
catching the inspiration of its greatness, and be-
coming himself a great man by inevitable con-
sequence. 
Imagine then, my delight at the prospect of 
actually attaining this elevation, and becoming 
myself " a travelled man." Yes ! The good 
ship " Aberdeen, Hubbard, master," was up for 
Liverpool, to sail in five days, and it was for 
me to say, whether I would go in her. I hur-
ried home to make the necessary preparations . 
How vivid is the recollection of those few days ! 
All surrounding objects seemed to share in my 
excitement of feeling, and to wear looks of un-
wonted significance. What changes might pass 
over them during my absence ! How changed 
might I be before my return ! And what if I 
should never come back again ! The very books 
on my study shelves, seemed to reproach me 
for leaving their quiet and dignified society, to 
become a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth. 
Once under way, I began to feel, for the first 
time, the loneliness of my situation. We were 
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lighted streets were visible on both sides of us. or heaved the capstan, seemed to have no more ness, which sees nothing of the fulfilment of alence of Christianity as the result of a pacific 
Yet it seemed as if the ocean already rolled be- life in it than the creaking of the ropes or the prophecy which occurs at every step in our missionary process, under the guidance of ho-
tween me and my native land. I had set out turning of the windlass. And the miserable progress toward the judgment. It were better man wisdom and principle, but without slack 
for foreign shores, and return was impossible, condition of their clothing, added to the wretch- by far, in approaching an unknown and danger- ening in the least our obligations to help for-
until 1 had accomplished the end of my pil- edness of their appearance. No two were ous coast to keep a look-out from the mast-head, ward this great cause, I look for its conclusive 
grimage. 
dressed alike, There was every conceivable though we should mistake a bank of fog for a establishment through a widening passage of 
The next morning the wind was in our favor, variety of shape, and color, and texture in coats continent, than to remain in careless security in desolations and judgments with the utter demo-
and the music of the Sabbath bells was borne and pantaloons—the shortest possible round- the cabin, until the ship was stranded on a rock- lition of our present civil and ecclesiastical 
to our ears from a the land-0 how sweetly abouts, and the longest possible overalls—old bound coast. 
structures.' 
they sounded, as if calling us to stay, and rest hats, caps, and huge sou'-westers—boots, shoes, We have hazarded many opinions respecting " Pious men on the Continent are awakening 
that day under the shadow of the sanctuary. slippers, and bare feet. Falstaff's ragged regi- the future, which time has proved to be quite to these scriptural views. The following ex-
But we heeded them not. Our pilot was aboard, ment could not have been worse off. Most unfounded; this should teach us to proceed with tract from ' L'Esperance,' a French journal, of 
and we immediately got under way. It was a of them were drunk when shipped, out of mon- greater caution, but should no dead us to aban- Jan. 5th, 1839, will show this : 
beautiful morning, and the harbor was alive ey and out of clothes. All their advance wages don the post of observation, and resign ourselves " ' After a review of the stormy condition of 
with vessels, some, like us, outward bound, and had gone to pay the score run up at their to carnal security. 
the world at this moment, are we not authorized 
others just arrived. Soon we met the United boarding places since their last voyage. Con- It was once thought that there never could be to offer with solemn emotion this great question, 
States mail steamer" Herman," from Southamp- sequently, when we reached Liverpool, they a state of general hostility and resort to arms " Whither are we going ?" 
ton, with all her colors flying ; then the packet were wholly at the mercy of those ravening in the old Roman world, as the " four angels " ' We have already said, that we have no 
ships " Waterloo," and e Guy Mannering," and wolves, who prowl about the docks to entice standing on the four corners of the earth hold- pretensions of any kind, and we shall especially 
others, whose decks were crowded with emi- new comers to their boarding-hells, where they ing the four winds of heaven," were symbolical guard against endeavoring to answer the great 
grants, just opening their eyes on the " New keep them awhile on the credit of their next of four great European powers,* which would question that we have just offered, by the light 
World." About noon we passed Sandy Hook, voyage, and then pocket their wages in advance, by the potency of their own influence and the of diplomacy. 
and discharged our pilot. The wind freshened and turn them adrift in the same destitute, skill of their diplomacy, so control the affairs of " ' What is indeed that mass of short-sighted 
up from the southward, and we began to make wretched condition. 
Europe as to prevent the recurrence of the wisdom, which imagines to govern the world, 
some headway. 
Many sea-faring men with whom I have con- scenes of bloodshed which had so often trans- and to foresee at two days' distance what the 
The next morning brought my first experience versed on this subject, have expressed to me pired on the old Roman domain ; but scarcely future will bring forth ? Microscopic wisdom, 
of sea-sickness. I succeeded in getting on deck their conviction, that much of this evil might had this view been received, before nearly the perfectly versed in the crowd of odious and 
and walking a little, but at breakfast-time my be prevented, if the universal practice of paying whole world is electrified by the upheaving of shameful details, of which the political world 
appetite suddenly disappeared, and I retreated seamen's wages in advance were discontinued. the nations, and the overturning and reconstruc- at this moment is composed, and who, foresee--
precipitately to my state-room, where I turned if they did not receive their pay, or only a part tion of half the governments of Europe; while ing one of the turns of the road, imagine that 
in and lay the rest of the day. This was Mon- of it, until after they had sailed, then they would the " battle of the warriors was with confused the general direction of things will necessarily 
day. Tuesday, ditto—ate nothing but a few have some money coming to them when they noise and garments rolled in blood." France, remain in the course in which human affairs 
prunes and some arrow-root gruel. Wednes- were sober enough to know its value, and to Italy, Hungary, Austria, and the German States; now run. When Napoleon departed for Mos• 
day, ditto—much sea, and a great deal of roll- make a good use of it. A feeling of self-res- countries forming the very marrow of the Ro- cow, did he, powerful as he was, know that he 
ing ; managed a little soup for dinner ; fine pect and independence would grow up in their man Empire, felt the shock most severely, arid was departing for St. Helena ? Leaving then 
headway. Thursday, not much better. Captain minds, and when they arrived at the end of thousands of slaughtered victims on the gory the great question asked above to remain in all 
handed me the bulletin for the day—" Lat. 41 their voyage, they would be better able to look battle-fields, told us too plainly to be mistaken, its vagueness, and inquiring anew, Whither 
deg. 2 min. N. long. 58 deg. 25 min. W.—seven out for themselves, and steer clear of the land- that the " winds of heaven " were not " held." are we going ? we reply— 
hundred miles from home." 
The above is a sharks. I would fain appeal to ship owners, Some writers have maintained that the corn- "' As to the details, no one knows; but gene, 
 
specimen of the entries in my diary, day after and agents, and all honest and benevolent per- ing of the Lord would occur at a time of pro- rally, here appears certain to us. 
day, without much variation, till 1 became very sons, who are interested in the welfare of sail- found peace, while nearly all have anticipated a " ' At best through violent storms. 
much reduced in strength and spirits. I find the ors. is not such a change practicable ? period of unprecedented tribulation and calamity. " ' To an immense revolution, which shall 
following reflections written in my note-book The eighteenth day out we came in sight of Our Saviour taught that " DISTRESS OF NA- renew the political and religious world. 
about that time : 
land, passed Cape Clear, and were obliged to TIONS with perplexity, men's hearts tailing them " ' To a inoment of profound darkness, fol- 
" Et is worth something to learn, by going beat up the Channel in the face of an east wind. for fear and for looking after those things which lowed by a dazzling light. 
abroad, that God is everywhere, and that we The next day, towards evening, we came near are coming on the earth," would be the imme. " `To a casting down of the proud, and an 
may carry with us a sense of His gracious pres- the Irish coast, saw Brown Stonehead with its diate precursors of his coming. 
exaltation of the feeble. 
ence wherever we may go. The Psalms which two beacons, and could discern the verdure on Nor do we think that Paul's declaration, " ' But all very differently to what the seve- 
1 committed to memory last winter are a source shore ; then Waterford lighthouse, where was a " when they shall say PEACE AND SAFETY,.then ral parties imagine.'" 
of great comfort to me now. Especially when pilot boat lying off, from which three men came sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they Thus far the events have been much as an- 
confined to my berth and unable to read, I take alongside of us in a small boat, to see if we had shall not escape," (the passage upon which ticipated. 
great satisfaction in recalling them to mind and any provisions to give them. The next day those rely who expect a time of peace will pre- The late wars in Europe, though " wars 
dwelling upon them. 
we were becalmed, so that the tide drifted us cede the advent), contradicts this, for he evi- of armies," to some extent, was, nevertheless, 
" It is hard to feel our continual dependence down the Channel. Towards evening, however, dently refers to the general unbelief respecting eminently a " war of opinions." Absolutism 
on God ; I mean not only to realize it, but to de- the wind sprang up again, and the succeeding Christ's coming, and their " safety " relates to against popular forms of government, and lib-
light in it. To-day I am sick. I feel my de- day we passed Holyhead, had a view of the Isle safety respecting that event; while the " fears " erty against oppression, were the great antago-
pendence. But I hope to feel better to-morrow, of Man, saw the Skerries, rocks that proved fa- and consternations of which Christ speaks, are nistic elements, and the conflicting of armies 
and not so dependent. Just as if 1 was not as tal to so many vessels before the erection of the such as are produced by " the distress and per- was only incidental to the antagonism of prin. 
dependent at one time as at another. So now present lighthouse, and beyond the Isle of An- plexity of nations," and the general unsettlingci-p
ie 
I am at sea, I feel my dependence. But I hope glesey, had a glimpse of the cloudy outline of of the social and political affairs of the world. Ths. eextract from " L'Esperance " anticipated 
to be on land in the course of a few weeks, and Mount Snowdon, which our Welchman contem- Europe is the grand theatre of prophecy, and e violent storms, an immense revolution, which 
then be in a measure relieved from a sense of plated with delight. We soon made Point all the closing scenes, of the mighty drama of should renew the political and religious world, 
my dependence. While absent from my family, Linus, the usual station for pilots, about forty- history will transpire there. Asia, the principal —casting down the proud, and exalting the fee--
I feel our joint dependence on God for life, and five miles below Liverpool, and when I went on seat of the first three stupendous monarchies ble,—and all in a very different way from what 
health, and all things. But what can I do for deck late in the afternoon, quite an exciting which were delineated in Daniel's prophecy, the several parties imagine." 
them when present ? How entirely dependent scene presented itself. Our signal was set for arid whose delineations history has verified, is 
The beginning of those events has already 
then as now. Teach me, 0 Lord, ever to cher- a pilot, viz., the union jack at the fore ; in the not so much an object of interest as Europe, been realized ; but the grand consummation of 
ish a sense of my dependence, in health as in distance was a pilot boat with colors flying, res- which embraces Rome and the ten kingdoms these dramatic scenes has not been realized as• 
sickness, on land as on sea, at home as abroad, ponding to our call, her small boat making for into which the empire was divided. Every in- yet. But we regard the "signs of the times" 
and even to rejoice in it." 
us ; a steam-tug alongside, anxious to escort us telligent observer of "the signs of the times, as pregnant with events of startling magnitude, 
We had but four cabin passengers. One was up the Mersey, for only sixteen guineas, which will, therefore, look earnestly and patiently to which seem inevitable in 1852. 
an elderly man, an Englishman, for many years our captain refused to give. The pilot came Europe for developments, indicating our where- It will be seen from this passage from Bick- 
past a resident at the Belize, Honduras, now on aboard and dispensed the news to our hungry abouts in the great chart of human affairs re- ersteth's " SIGNS OF THE TIMES," that Russia is 
his way to make arrangements for the removal company. The next morning a steamer took vealed in prophecy. 
expected to fulfil' an important part in the ter- 
of his family to England, a pleasant, sociable us in tow, we passed Rockfort, had a fine view We should look to Europe, then, for " die- rible drama which closes the history of nations. 
man, who had graduated at the University of of Liverpool on the left, and Birkenhead on the tress of nations, with perplexity," and though " The Russian nation appears, both from 
Cambridge, and made the tour of Europe in right, under a clear sky. The flag was up at the last four years have partially fulfilled this prophecy and providence, to have a leading part 
his youth. One was a Welchman, who came Prince's Dock, to signify that it was full of yes- prediction, yet we have only seen e the begin- assigned to it in these last tribulations, though 
to this country thirty-one years ago, and settled sels ; but on our captain's landing, room was ning of sorrows," in that direction, from all hu- it be to its own ultimate confusion and over- 
in Oneida county, N. Y., now on a visit to his made for us ; we entered the basin and hauled man appearance. 
throw. The 38th and 39th chapters of Ezekiel, 
relatives in the " old country." The third was into the dock just as the " Isaac Webb," swarm- That it may be seen how strong the expecta• commencing—" Set thy face against Gog, of 
a jolly young Yorkshireman, who had lived ing with emigrants, was hauling out of the "Wa- tion of the unsettling of Europe and a general the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshec, and 
awhile at Paris, Brazil, and then in Canada. terloo Dock," opposite ; having made a very good state of hostilities has been, and even before Tabal," apparently point out the three chief prov- 
I shall always feel under great obligations to passage of twenty-two days. S. J. M. M. the last European revolution, I quote from Mr. 
 
Bickersteth's work on "The Signs of the Times," inces of the Russian empire. The dread by 
our excellent captain, for his kind attention to
the nations of the present overwhelming power 
in 1845. He says : 
my health and comfort while under his care. 
published
of that land is not without a just cause. Oh 
Although evidently a thorough-going sailor, per- Signs of the Times. " Even political men have announced this that it might lead us to the only true source 
fectly familiar with all the details of his pro-
BY L. D. MANSFIELD. 
from the common sagacity and foresight of of strength." 
is coming. In Dec. 1826, the late Mr. 
fession, he has none of that roughness of ex- 
— 
what
The probability of this grand and appalling 
terror or manner, which we commonly associate We may not be able with all the light of Canning testified in the House of Commons, 
 ' I fear the next war which shall be kindled in collision between the nations of Europe, includ- 
with sea-captains, but was as agreeable and prophecy, to discover the precise order of events Europe will be a war not so much of armies as ing Russia, in 1852, is made very strong by the 
gentlemanly a man as you would wish to see. which are in the womb of the future, but we 
Our steward too—I should he ungrateful were should keep on the look-out and be ready to dis- of opinions ; the consequence of letting loose aspect which things are assuming at the pres. 
the passions, at present chained and confined, ent time. The following letter from a corres- 
I to omit mention of his many admirable quali- cern the application of prophecy to current 
would be to produce a scene of desolation which pondent of the New York "Herald," shows us 
fications—attentive, prompt, ready for anything, events, lest we fall under the censure of the no man can contemplate without horror. I that great things are anticipated at the opening 
always looking on the bright side, even when Lord Jesus for our want of discernment of the 
dread the recurrence of hostilities in any part of the next spring. It will speak forcibly to 
the wind was dead ahead, and possessed of "signs of the times," as the Pharisees did at 
of Europe, and would bear much and forbear the watchmen who are anxious to know the 
the happy art of adapting his replies to the his first advent. 
time of night. 
 
There are two extremes in this matter, both long, rather than let slip the furies of war, not 
" Washington, Oct. 14, 185 
knowing whom they may reach, or how far 
1. 
varying humor of his questioners. I never 
could cease to admire the dexterity and grace of which ahould be avoided. The first is a 
" I send you, Mr. Herald, a plan of raising a 
with which he would convey dishes of all quali- state of moral obtuseness, which fails to per- these ravages may extend.'" 
"Similar are the views of a most able de- German loan of two millions of dollars. You 
ties, shapes, and dimensions, from the cook's ceive any relation between transpiring events,
would do well to print it in the original, as well 
quarters to the cabin, across the deck in perfect however momentous their import, and the fender of divine truth, who states his opinion as in English, for thousands of Germans would 
safety, even in the roughest weather. 
thus— 
prophecies. And the other, is a disposition to 
e 'Of this, in general, I am satisfied, that the see it if published in your columns. 
Our crew were a hard looking set, many of make an application of events to historical 
next coming (whether in person or not I forbear " I learn that double twenty thousand dollars 
them old men, hardly capable of duty, and all prophecy, without sufficient deliberation, and to say) will be a coming not to final judgment, has been raised by Dr. Kinkel, since his brief 
apparently enfeebled by hard labor and ex- hastening to conclusions before the premises 
but a coming to precede and usher in the mil- sojourn amongst us. Success, say I, to this 
posure and vicious courses. There was not one are fairly laid in facts. 
fresh looking countenance among them ; not one As a people, we have, doubtless, erred in the lennium. !utterly despair of the universal prey- movement. It is conceived in wisdom, and will 
be sure to carry, if our re-actionary President 
 
which bore any expression above that of a low last mentioned particular far more than in the 
 will not come down upon the Doctor with anoth- 
* 
sensuality ; and not even that buoyancy of former; but this is not to be wondered at, and As we know of no instance where a govern- 
ment is symbolized by an angel, we have not been er Cuba-outlawing and anti-law of nations proc-
spirit which often animates brutes. The mo- is on the whole less pernicious in its influence able to adopt the view that the four angels symbolize lamation ; but 1 am happy to learn there is no 
notorious song with which they braced the yards than the moral, and I might say mental obtuse- 
danger of that, as German votes are not to be 
governments.—Eo. HER. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
devour before him, and it shall be very tempes-
tuous round about him. He shall call to the 
heavens from above, and to the earth, that he 
may judge his people." When Christ finally 
left his apostles, "a cloud received him out of 
their sight ;" and while they were gazing up 
to heaven two angels said : " This same Jesus 
which is taken from you, shall so come in like 
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." 
" The Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, 
and with the trump of God." Men will see 
sights and hear sounds that morning, such as 
never met their senses before. The brightness 
of his coming will extinguish the light of the 
heavenly bodies, and the sounds, which shall be 
heard, shall make the earth reel and stagger like 
a drunken man. 
The day of judgment will probably exceed 
all other days in length. There is a general 
impression that it will commence at midnight. 
I shall not state all the reasons of this belief, 
but merely say, they render the opinion pro- 
babl e. Besides, the term day, in both the Old 
and New Testaments, often denotes a much 
longer period than twenty-four hours. The 
apostle Peter is speaking of " the day of judg-
ment and perdition of ungodly men," when he 
tells us that " one day is with the Lord as a 
thousand years, and a thousand years as one 
day." Hence many sober and learned men 
have inferred that the judgment day will last a 
thousand years. One thing is certain, and that 
is, the judgment will last long enough to answer 
all the ends of a public trial, vindicating the 
government of God, and acquitting the innocent, 
condemning the guilty, and showing how God 
is just in saving sinners, who have fled to 
Jesus. 
It will also be above all others a day of con-
vocation. The heavens and the earth shall fur- 
nish the assembly. The chariots of God, which 
are twenty thousand, shall roll down the skies, 
bearing in them the ten thousand times ten 
thousand angels. And them that sleep in Jesus 
will God bring with him. The dead in Christ 
shall rise first, and be caught up into the air 
to meet the Lord. Prophets, apostles, martyrs, 
confessors, saints of all ages and nations, shall 
all be there. There too shall be fallen angels 
and wicked men. " We must all appear before 
the judgment-seat of Christ." What an as- 
sembly! There never was a congregation so 
large before, and there shall not be such a one 
after this day. 
It will be a day of unparalleled excitement. 
There will be no listless spectator there. Peo- 
ple have fallen asleep at a funeral, at a mar- 
riage, under the preaching of the gospel, and 
at the bed of the dying. But none will fall 
asleep at the judgment-day. Every eye shall 
see and every ear shall attend to the Judge. 
Every faculty of the soul will be roused to 
the highest exercises, of which it is capable.—
Dreams, fancies, and wandering thoughts attend 
men in this life, but not at that day. 
To men it will be a day of despair. There 
never were such tears as will be shed, such 
sighs as will be heard, such groans as will be 
uttered, nor such cries as will pierce the air 
that day, when men shall wish for annihilation, 
but wish in vain ; when they shall " say to 
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide 
us from the face of him that sitteth on the 
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : for 
the great day of his wrath is come ; and who 
shall be able to stand ?" Wicked men may be 
bold now, but the stoutest of them will find 
their courage fail them when the heavens shall 
pass away with a great noise, and the elements 
shall melt with fervent heat. 
To the righteous it will be a day of joy and 
triumph. Saints in glory are awaiting the 
adoption, to wit, the redemption of their body. 
They shall in that day attain the glorious lib-
erty of the sons of God. I would not have be-
lieved it, if the Bible had not said so, but the 
righteous shall " have boldness in the day of 
judgment." Nothing in the word of God sur-
prises me more. The most timid child of God 
shall have no fears. The believer, who on 
earth was startled at anything unusual, will 
have a divine composure during all these amaz-
ing exhibitions. 
thrown away with impunity by the Whig party. 
Besides, I hear that Dr. Kinkel's interview with 
the President, in which he told him all his plans, 
was perfectly satisfactory. 
" That all Germany will strike a blow for lib-
erty next spring, you may put down in your 
widely read sheet as a fixed fact, before it hap- 
pens, for happen it will. Italy, too will strike 
at the same time; and then a war of extermina-
tion against the arch enemy of liberty, that devil 
who sits upon his icy throne in the swamps 
of the Neva. I speak what is now intended; 
and to the enemies of popular liberty in Europe, 
it is no secret. 
The convention of European democrats will, 
most probably, be held in your city, in the 
course of the next two or three months. So 
you will have all the real celebrities of Europe 
in your midst—Kossuth, Kinkel, Mazzini, Le-
dru Rollin, and their determined associates. I 
am very much afraid that Mr. Fillmore will put 
them under the ban of the law of 1848, espe-
cially if the oppressors of Russia, Austria, 
Prussia, Naples, Rome, and their cat's-paw, 
Louis Napoleon, should send over a protest ; 
but I hope, Mr. Herald, they will be safe from 
all Presidential interference, under the powerful 
shield of public opinion, as displayed in your 
payer. 
"I have another piece of news for you, if you 
have not had it already, in these days of steam 
and lightning, and that is, that the Italians 
have already raised two millions of dollars, 
which are now on deposit in a London bank, 
subject to the control of revolutionary demo-
crats, who are preparing to blow up the crowned 
tyrants of the old world. There is yet a hope 
for Italy, you will see from this. 
" Russia is pushing Louis Napoleon forward to 
his destruction, might and main, and the kite is 
obeying the autocratic impulse, as is evident to 
all. The election for the next President of 
France will be the signal for the great battle of 
Armageddon, between the people on the one side, 
and the few on the other. Wo to the oppressor 
at the next upraising ! Von Gagen, the traitor 
to the people's cause, foreseeing the storm, has, 
I learn, sold his estates in Westphalia, and is 
probably now on one of the Western States, to 
settle. A pregnant sign of the future." 
Strange that this writer, who is evidently no 
student of prophecy, should call the anticipated 
conflict the " battle of Armageddon," but it may 
be as unwittingly true as the language of the 
High Priest who proposed that Christ should 
" die for the nation, and that the whole nation 
perish not ;" though he meant in a very differ- 
ent sense from that in which the Holy Ghost 
intended, under whose unconscious impulse he 
uttered the prophecy. So may the " battle of 
Armageddon " occur really, but very differently 
from what the writer anticipated. At all events, 
we should be on the look-out, and be ready for 
that day. 
There is no reason to doubt the opening of a 
terrific drama in 1852, and we hope it will close 
by the brightness of the Lord's coming, and 
that the scenes—as respects God's people—will 
terminate in glory and not in gloom. 
Monitor and Messenger. 
" That Day." 
From the earliest ages, inspired men have 
freely and clearly spoken of the day of judg-
ment. Enoch, who was the seventh from Ad-
am, and all of whose life on earth, except twenty-
two years, was contemporaneous with that of 
our first father, prophesied, saying, " Behold the 
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, 
to execute judgment upon all, and to convince 
all that are ungodly among them of their un-
godly deeds, which they have ungodly com-
mitted, and of all their hard speeches, which 
ungodly sinners have spoken against him."—
Three thousand years after this, Jude found 
no fitter words, by which to warn outrageous 
sinners, than those spoken to the antediluvians. 
in the 50th Psalm, Asaph gives an account 
of the same great day, scarcely, if at all, less 
full :and particular than that given by our Lord 
in the 25th of Matthew. The last words of 
the royal preacher are no less decisive : " God 
shall bring every work into judgment, with 
every secret thing, whether it be good, or 
whether it be evil." So that for full five thou-
sand years we know that the doctrine of future 
judgment has been no secret to the pious. It 
was no novelty in the days of the apostles. It 
was so well understood by the early Christians, 
that in 2 Timothy 4:8, Paul simply calls it 
" that day," meaning the great day, the day 
of days, and the day for which all other days 
were made, and in comparison of which all 
others are as nothing. Let us notice a few 
things respecting it. 
It will commence so as no other day ever did. 
Other days begin with the rising of the natural 
sun, but this will be ushered in with the bright-
ness of Immanuel's appearance. Other days 
begin with general quiet, but this will begin 
with great and unusual noises. " Our God shall 
come, and shall not keep silence : a fire shall 
Was it Saul, Judas, or Jeroboam ? No. It was 
Job, "a perfect and an upright man, one that 
feared God and eschewed evil." 
That the day will he a day of ecclaircisement. 
Things will then be cleared up, which were 
grievously full of darkness. God's providence 
will then be made plain as to a thousand things 
before inexplicable. The successful villany of 
the wicked will then be exposed. The slan-
dered, abused and injured of our race will then 
have justice done them. Many a righteous man 
judicially murdered, will then face his corrupt 
earthly judge with the suborned witnesses and 
perjured jurors that sat on his trial, and gen-
erally God will bring forth the righteousness of 
his people as the light, and their judgment as 
the noon-day. There will no longer be any 
doubt whether Burr meditated treason or not, 
who wrote the letters of Junius, or who com-
mitted murders, that were never punished on 
earth. 
The judgment-day will also be a day of final 
decision. In this world appeals are often taken 
from lower to higher courts, from the judgment 
of contemporaries to that of posterity, arid from 
the judgment of man to that of God. But the 
judgment-seat of Christ is the court of the last 
resort. From his decision there lies no appeal. 
Then more than in all other times will be ful-
filled the saying: " He that is unjust, let him 
be unjust still ; and he which is filthy, let him 
be filthy still ; and he that is righteous, let him 
be righteous still ; and he that is holy, let him 
be holy still." 
The day of judgment will be the last day.—
After it " time shall be no longer," that is, du-
ration shall not be measured by the alternations 
of day and night, and there shall be no succes-
sion of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, 
and years, as now. All beyond the judgment-
day is eternity. 
That this last day and its scenes will have an 
ineffaceable impression on the minds of all men, 
is not to be doubted. None will ever forget 
what they then saw, and heard, and felt. Men 
may in eternity not remember with clearness 
days, which on earth were called great days, but 
the memories of the last day will not grow dim 
while eternity rolls on. " Son, remember," was 
a dreadful part of the rich man's doom. And 
the righteous will never cease to celebrate the 
mercies and deliverances of that " last of the 
sons of time." 
It may well be doubted whether even good 
people think as much as they should of the day 
of judgment. It was Justin Martyr, I think, 
who often told his friends that these words were 
always sounding in his ears, " Awake, ye dead, 
and come to judgment." The apostles seem to 
have had every thing associated with the last 
day. When one would express gratitude for 
kindness and hospitality, he prays that his 
friend may receive mercy of the Lord in that 
day. When the same writes to his beloved 
children, he says : " Behold, the Judge standeth 
before the door." When Christ was on earth, 
he said : " Be ye therefore ready also : for the 
Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think 
not." And after he ascended to heaven he 
said : Behold, I come quickly ; and my reward 
is with me, to give every man according to his 
work." Let us often and solemnly meditate on 
this day ; yea, let us hasten to the coming of 
the day of the Son of man. Then when the 
cry is heard, " Behold he cometh," we shall 
reply, " Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly."— 
w. s. P. 
N. V. Observer. 
Prediction of the First Eclipse. 
stars, it is found that this same track was fol-
lowed from year to year, and from century to 
century, with undeviating precision. But it 
was soon discovered that it was far different 
with the moon. In case she, too, could leave 
behind her a silver thread of light,' sweeping 
round the heavens, in completing one revolu-
tion. this thread would not join, but would wind 
around among the stars in each revolution, cross-
ing the sun's fiery track at a point west of the 
previous crossing. These points of crossing were 
called the moon's modes. At each revolution the 
mode occurred further west, until, after a cycle 
of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the 
same direction entirely around the ecliptic.—
Long and patiently did the astronomer watch 
and wait; each eclipse is duly observed, and 
its attendant circumstances are recorded, when, 
at last, the darkness begins to give way, and a 
ray of light breaks upon his mind. He finds 
that no eclipse of the snn ever occurs unless the 
new moon is in the act of crossing the sun's track. 
Here was a grand discovery. He holds the 
key which be believes will unlock the dread 
mystery, and now, with redoubled energy, he 
resolves to thrust it into the wards, and drive 
back the bolt. 
To predict an eclipse of the sun, he must 
sweep forward from new moon to new moon, 
until he finds some new moon which would oc-
cur while the moon was in the act of crossing 
from one side to the other of the sun's track. 
This certainly was invisible. He knew the ex-
act period from new moon to new moon, and 
from one crossing of the ecliptic to another.—
With eager eyes he seizes the moon's places in 
the heavens, and her age, and rapidly computes 
where she crosses at her next change. He finds 
the new moon occurring far from the sun's 
track; he looks around another revolution; the 
place of the new moon falls closer to the sun's 
path, and the next closer, until, reaching for-
ward with piercing intellectual vigor, he at last 
finds a new moon which occurs precisely at the 
computed time of the passage across the sun's 
track. Here he makes his stand, and on the 
day of the occurrence of that new moon, he an-
nounces to the startled inhabitants of the world 
that the sun shall expire in dark eclipse. Bold 
prediction ! Mysterious prophet ! with what 
scorn must the unthinking world have received 
this solemn declaration ! How slowly do the 
moons roll away, and with what intense anxiety 
does the stern philosopher await the coming of 
that day which should crown him with victory, 
or dash him to the ground in ruin or disgrace. 
Time to him moves on leaden wings ; day after 
day, and at last hour after hour, roll heavily. 
The last night is gone—the moon has disap-
peared from his eagle gaze, in her approach 
to the sun, and the dawn of the eventful day 
breaks in beauty on the sluffibering world. 
This daring man, stern in his faith, climbs 
alone to his rocky home, and greets the sun, as 
he rises and mounts the heavens, scattering 
brightness and glory in his path. Beneath him 
is spread out the populous city, already teeming 
with life and activity. The busy morning hum 
rises on the still air, and reaches the watching-
place of the solitary astronomer. The thousands 
below him, unconscious of his intense anxiety, 
joyously pursue their rounds of business, their 
cycles of amusement. The sun slowly climbs 
the heavens, round and bright, and full-orbed. 
The lone tenant of the mountain-top almost be-
gins to waver in the sternness of his faith, as 
the morning hours roll away. But the time of 
his triumph, long delayed, at length begins to 
dawn—a pale and sickly hue creeps over the face 
of nature. The sun has reached his highest 
point, but his splendor is dimmed—his light is 
feeble. At last it comes ! Blackness is eating 
away his round disc—onward, with slow but 
steady pace the dark veil moves, blacker than 
a thousand nights—the gloom deepens—the 
ghastly hue of death covers the universe—the 
last ray is gone, and horror reigns. A wail of 
terror fills the murky air—the clangor of brazen 
trumpets resounds—an agony of despair dashes 
the stricken millions to the ground, while that 
lone man, erect on his rocky summit with arms 
outstretched to heaven, pours forth the grateful 
Bushings of his heart to God, who had crowned 
his efforts with triumphant victory. 
Search the records of our race, and point me, 
if you can, to a scene more grand, more beauti-
ful. It is, to me, the proudest victory that ge-
nius ever won. It was the conquering of na-
ture, of ignorance, of superstition, of terror, all 
at a single blow, and that blow struck by a 
single man. And now do you demand the 
name of this wonderful man ? Alas ! what a 
lesson of the instability of earthly fame are we 
taught by this simple recital. He who had 
raised himself immeasurably above his race—
who must have been regarded by his fellows as 
little less than a god, who had inscribed his 
fame on the very heavens, and had written it 
in the sun, with a " pen of iron, and the point 
of a diamond "—even this one has perished 
from the earth—name, age, country, all are 
swept into oblivion ; but the proud achievement 
stands. The monument reared to his honor 
Yet to saint and sinner it will be a day of sur-
prise and wonder. Many will be saved, and 
many lost contrary to the expectations of some, 
who knew them on earth. Christians will won-
der that they are saved, and how they are saved, 
and they will be unspeakably surprised at hav-
ing themselves commended for deeds, of which 
they took no farther account than that they 
were very imperfect. Sinners will be filled with 
amazement to find that they are lost, and how 
their ruin was accomplished, and especially that 
they are condemned for many things that they 
always prided themselves upon. Christians 
should be saved. Sinners wonder why they 
should not be saved. The sinner asks, " What 
have I done ?" The Christian, " What have I 
not done ?" The sinner says he does the best 
he can. The Christian knows he does not. 
Who was it that said, " Behold, I am vile ?'' 
BY PROF. 0. MITCHELL. 
To those who have given but little attention 
to the subject, even in our own day, with all 
the aids of modern science, the prediction of an 
eclipse seems sufficiently mysterious and un-
intelligible. How, then, it was possible, thou-
sands of years ago to accomplish this same 
great object, without any just views of the 
structure of the system, seems utterly incredi-
ble. Follow me, then, while I attempt to re-
veal the train of reasoning which led to the pre-
diction of the first eclipse of the sun, the most 
daring prophecy ever made by human genius. 
Follow, in imagination, this bold interrogator 
of the skies to his solitary mountain summit—
withdrawn from the world—surrounded by his 
mysterious circles, there to watch and ponder 
through the long nights of many—many years. 
But hope cheers him on, and smoothes his 
rugged pathway. Dark and deep as is the pro-
blem, he sternly grapples with it, and resolves 
never to give over till victory crowns his ef-
forts. 
He has already marked that the moon's track 
in the heavens crossed the sun's, arid that this 
point of crossing was in some way immediately 
connected with the coming of the dread eclipse. 
He determines to watch, and learn whether the 
point of crossing was fixed, or whether the 
-moon, in each succeeding revolution, crossed 
the sun's path at a different point. If the sun 
in his annual revolution could leave-behind him 
a track of fire, making his journey among the 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
stands ; and although the touch of time has 
effaced the lettering of his name, it is powerless, 
and cannot destroy the fruits of his victory. 
A thousand years roll by ; the astronomer 
stands on the watch-tower of Babylon, and 
writes for posterity the records of an eclipse ; 
this record escapes destruction, arid it is safely 
wafted down the stream of time. A thousand 
years roll away ; the old astronomer, surrounded, 
by the fierce but wondering Arabs, again writes 
and marks the day which witnesses the sun's 
decay. A thousand years roll heavily away ; 
once more the astronomer writes, from amidst 
the gay throng that crowds the capital of Eu-
rope. Record is compared with record, date 
with date, revolution with revolution, the past 
and present together—another struggle com-
mences—another triumph is won. Little did 
the Babylonian dream that he was observing 
for one who, after a lapse of three thousand 
years, should rest upon this very record of the 
successful resolution of one of Nature's darkest 
mysteries. 
Daguerreian Journal. 
1)e fluent )elan. 
"BEHOLD: THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1852. 
All readers of the IlEnAtn 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 he conducted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
Eittl of the Volume. 
With the last number the old volume closed.—
With the new year, a new volume commences.—
Three weeks since we marked on their paper or en-
velops the indebtedness of each one who is owing for 
the paper, at the close of the year, The receipt of each 
one of these would make a very acceptable New Year's 
present. We hope to hear from all soon, and expect 
to from those who recognize their obligation to do 
justly. We hardly know what to think of some who 
receive volume after volume and never seem to real-
ize that what contributes to their pleasure costs the 
office money, and involves it in embarrassment when 
deprived of its just dues. We would much like to 
settle up with each one to the close of the present 
year. We hope those in arrears will not fail to make 
an effort, at least, to pay their dues, that we also 
may be able to do justice to our creditors: The be-
ginning of the year is a fine time to repent of all 
sins both of omission and commission, whether pe-
cuniary or otherwise. 
THE NEW YEAR. 
Another year has been added to the days of the 
past, and we have entered on another of these fleet-
ing periods of time. How swiftly the months suc-
ceed each other ! But yesterday, as it were, the 
closing year dawned on us ; and its rapid moments 
have so soon fled. 
These way marks in our journey of life, if rightly 
improved, serve a useful purpose. If time was un-
measured and unmarked,—if it had no succession of 
light and shade, of day and night, of summer and 
winter, of months and years—if the sun continually 
looked down on us, from a fixed point in our sky, 
and we had nothing to remind us of the passing of 
time, we might give little heed to the duties and res 
possibilities of life. But their swift succession can-
not fail to remind us that few and evil are the days 
of the years of our life, and that their tale: is soon 
told. How important then is it that on these annual 
returns, we do, what should often be done, review our 
past lives, scan the motives of our hearts, and repent 
before the living Gon, over our many short comings 
.and departures from duty. Who is there that lives, 
and has no occasion to mourn over hours misspent, 
foolish thoughts indulged, idle words and thought-
less acts which need to be repented of? and who can 
count the sum of them ? Also who is sufficiently 
mindful of the many mercies received ? Who is 
thankful enough for preserved or restored health—
exemption from sickness, for having while so nn= 
worthy, been fed, clothed and sheltered, and supplied 
with every needful god ? In recounting our short 
comings, and our many blessings, we need to humble 
ourselves anew, and to be devoutly thankful before 
Him, in whom we live and move and have our being : 
and thus to begin each new year with higher arid 
holier purposes than those which may have been be-
fore the actuating ones. 
On these annual returns, it is customary with pub_ 
lie journalists, also, to recall the prominent events of 
the paSt, and to speculate respecting the future. Of 
the past year, the two most prominent occurrences 
have been the liberation of M. KOSSUTH with his 
visit to this country, and the seizure of the Dictator-
ship in France by Lours NAPOLEON. 
And these are 
only important as they may have a bearing on the 
future. Aside from these the past year has been one 
of remarkable quiet, but of constant apprehension. 
It has stood in striking contrast with that of 1848, 
with which a writer in the North British Review thus 
contrasts it. 
Probably since the fall of the Roman Empire the 
world has never seen a year so eventful and distract-
ing as 1848. It seemed like a century compressed 
into a lustrum. Never was there a year so dis-
tinguished beyond all previous example by the mag-
nitude and the multiplicity of its political changes—by 
the violence of the shock which it gave to the frame-
work of European society—by the oscillations of 
opinion and success between the two great parties 
in the Continental struggle. Never was there a 
year so pregnant with instruction and warning—so 
rich in all the materials of wisdom both for sovereign 
and for people—so crowded with wrecks and ruins, 
with the ruins of ancient grandeur, and the wrecks 
of glorious anticipations — so filled with splendid 
promises and paltry realizations, with hopes brilliant 
and fantastic as fairy-land, with disappointments dis-
mal and bitter as the grave. Thrones, which but 
yesterday had seemed based upon the everlasting 
hills, shattered in a day ; sovereigns, whose wisdom 
had become a proverb, arid sovereigns, whose im-
becility had been-notorious, alike flying from their 
capitals, arid abdicating without a natural murmur or 
a gallant struggle ; rulers, who had long been the 
embodiment of obstinate resistance to all popular 
demand, vying with each other in the promptitude 
and the extent of their concessions ; statesmen of the 
longest experience, the deepest insight, the acutest 
talent—statesmen like Metternich and Guizot—baf-
fled, beaten, and chased away, and reaching their 
foreign banishment only to turn and gaze with a 
melancholy and bewildered air on the ecroulement of 
schemes and systems of policy, the construction of 
which had been the labor of a life-time; eminent 
men sinking into obscurity, and going out like snuff; 
obscure men rising at one bound into eminence and 
power; ambitious men finding the objects of their 
wildest hopes suddenly placed within their grasp ; 
Utopian dreamers staggered and intoxicated by see-
ing their most gorgeous visions in the point of reali-
zation ; patriots beholding the sudden and miraculous 
advent of that liberty which they had prayed for, 
fought for, suffered for, through years of imprison-
ment, poverty, and exile .„ nations which bad long 
pined in darkness, dazzled and bewildered by the 
blaze of instantaneous light ; the powerful smitten 
with impotence ; the peasant and the bondsman en-
dowed with freedonr and unresisted might, the first 
last, and the last first ;—such were the strange phe-
nomena of that marvellons era, which took away the 
brealit of the heholder„ which the journalist was unable 
to keep pace with, and " which panting Time toiled 
after in vain." 
This is 1848. What follows in 1851 ? 
Where now are all those bright prospects van-
ished ?—which of all those mighty changes have be-
come permanent ?—what has been the enduring fruit 
of all these brilliant victories I—where now are to be 
found all those fresh, young, sanguine constitutions ? 
With scarcely an exception, everything has fallen 
back to its old condition. In nearly every state the 
old domain of despotism has returned, bringing with 
it worse evils than itself. Hungary and Hesse are 
crushed ; Bavaria has been degraded into the brutal 
tool of a more brutal tyrant ; the Prussian people are 
sullen, desponding, and disarmed,—and the Prussian 
government sunk into a terrible abyss of degradation; 
Austria has a new eniperor, more insolently des-
potic than any of his predecessors for many a long 
year ; and throughout Germany constitutional liberty 
has been effectually trampled out. In Italy, Venice 
and Lombardy have been conquered, and are now ex-
periencing the ea victis; Tuscany is worse, because 
more Austrian than before, and alarmed at the peril 
she has incurred ; the small duchies are as bad as 
ever—they could not) be worse ; the Pope, terrified 
out of his benevolence and his patriotism, has been 
restored by foreign arms, and the old ecclesiastical 
abominations are reinstated in their old supremacy ; 
while Naples and Sicily are again prostrate at the 
feet of the most imbecile and brutal of the incurable 
race of Bourbons. Two short years have passed 
away since Europe presented to the lover of liberty 
and human progress the most smiling aspect she had 
ever worn :—and in this brief space of time, an in 
exorable destiny has gathered together all the far-
reaching anticipations, all the noble prospects, all the 
rapid conquests, all the rich achievements of that 
memorable era, and covered them over with these 
two narrow words—Mc jacet. 
Thus the past year contrasts with that of 1848, but 
it is more in its exemption from great events, than in 
actual- retrograde movements,—these having been 
mostly consunimated in the intervening years. 
Turning from the past, what is the prospect of 
the coming year ? The relations of this Government 
with several foreign powers are in a somewhat criti- 
cal condition. Spain is dissatisfied with the connec-
tion of this country with the Cuban affair. Great 
Britain continues tier Protectorate on the Mosquito 
coast, contrary to the spirit of her treaty with this 
Government, which is also demanding au apology for 
the attack on the Prometheus. Mexico refuses to 
confirm her grant respecting the Tehuantepec route ; 
and citizens from the United States seem bent on 
revolutionizing her northern territories. The Sand-
wich Islands, if ceded to this Government, as theie 
is now quite a probability, may give mortal offence 
to France, which has long kept up a petty quarrel 
with it, endeavoring to compel it to admit her brandy 
and Catholic priests. Russia and Austria are any-
thing but pleased at the reception which M. KOSSUTH 
has received in this country ; and should the popular 
breeze which lie is fanning, compel this Government 
to interfere in favor of Hungary, we could not well 
avoid being embroiled in the quarrels of all Europe. 
Thus far in respect to our own Government. How 
is it with Europe ? Everything there seems verg-
ing towards a mighty struggle between absolutism 
and republicanism ; and it seems hardly possible to 
avert it beyond the present year. The Austrian ex-
chequer is on the verge of bankruptcy ; and yet her 
existence depends on her raising the means to support 
her army. Hungary is ripe for another revolt ; and 
only wants the " material aid " for arms and other 
munitions of war, to make a more mighty and des-
perate effort than their last. The reception of M. 
Kossu'rH in England and in the United States, cannot 
but give them great encouragement. The small Ger-
man duchies are discontented under the governments 
of other petty sovereigns ; and plans are said to be 
forming in this country for the return of large numbers 
of Germans, with revolutionary purposes. Italy is in 
a very precarious condition, and only waits the fa-
vorable moment to set the Pope again adrift, and to 
hurl FERDINAND from the throne of Naples. The 
dictatorship of France has just been seized by LOUIS 
NAPOLEON, and the coming year may not pass over 
without bringing a crisis in the affairs of that nhtion. 
Russia is ready to pour down from her northern 
forests tier hordes of Cossacks at any moment when 
she has anything to gain by war, or to fear by inac-
tion ; and Turkey sits a tempting bait to Russian 
ambition, and if seized would compel other powers 
to interfere. And thus the entire civilized world 
seems ready to be embroiled in war, whenever the 
crisis may occur. These things are causing politi-
cians to watch with eager interest the signs of the 
times. 
If thus interesting to the politician, they can be 
none the less so to the student of prophecy. Al-
though it would be vain to speculate, and foolish to 
predict respecting the future; yet the signs of the 
times are ever objects of interest, and worthy of most 
attentive consideration. The journalist should ever 
be more ready to record what does transpire, than to 
predict what will ;. and yet it is within his province 
to point out probable contingencies. In these how-
ever he is always liable to mistake and misjudge, 
and should never speak dogmatically. A month 
since, we could not well conceive how the time for 
the general election in France could fail to terminate 
the government of Lours NAPOLEON ; but his seizure 
of the absolute power, has put an end to all specula-
tion respecting that point of time. In like manner 
any opinion as to the course of events in the future, 
may he proved fallacious by the results. We shall 
therefore be content with noticing the fact that there 
is a universal looking for of a revolutionary storm 
in Europe. Its proximity is felt by all., and though 
it may be delayed, it cannot be averted. It is re-
garded, in the forcible and expressive language of 
KOSSUTH, as " the turning point of centuries in the 
destiny of mankind," as the "approach of universel 
danger," the " decisive struggle "—the " last in 
mankind's history," the " approaching death of des-
potic governtnents," the " decisive snuggle in man-
kind's destiny," " the drawing near of the judgment," 
" the hour when the trumpet of the resurrection of 
the enslaved nations shall sound." In the language 
of the inspired Evangelist, it is " the distress of na-
tions with perplexity,—men's hearts failing them for 
fear and for looking after those things which are 
coming on the earth." 
Such is the general expectation. That it will be 
disappointed in respect to the establishment of repub-
lics in the place of despotic governments, we doubt 
not ; nor do we doubt that the real events of which 
these are premonitory symptoms, " will come as a 
snare on all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
earth," notwithstanding the general expectation.—
The mistake which is made respecting the spuposed 
dawning of human liberty, by the amelioration of po-
litical governments, will serve to fasten the snare on 
those who are thus looking for a succeeding time of 
peace and safety ; when as Christians we are com-
manded to " Watch therefore and pray always that 
ye may he accounted worthy to escape all these things 
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son 
of man." Therefore as Adventists we can but look 
forward to the probable events of the coming year 
with increased interest. 
It is now nearly twelve years since this paper first 
unfurled its banner to the breeze, and made the dis-
tinctive announcement of its devotion to the procla-
mation of the near personal advent of CHRIST. It 
has had to encounter much determined and bitter op-
position from those who have aimed to silence it, or 
to divert it to the support of less important questions; 
but steadily and successfully has it overcome all ob-
stacles. It has also had to encounter many elements 
of fanaticism, and anarchy, which have now with 
drawn themselves, and formed a " union" of their 
own ; so that in the future the friends of this cause will 
not he molested, by their opposition, or by attempts of 
theirs to identify themselves with us. In place of 
such we are pleased to find that all the staid and soe 
her ones, those who act not by impulse but by con-
viction, remain firm and steadfast in support of the 
cause they first espoused. We have the satisfaction 
of being at peace one with another, so that we com-
mence the new year with the prospect of laboring 
together in all places unitedly,. harmoniously and 
effectively. We will endeavor as co-workers with 
each other, in our several stations and fields of labor, 
to continue our united exertions for the conversion of 
souls, and the advocacy of the near pre-millennial 
advent. We ask the aid of all in extending the cir-
culation of the Herald. The principles which we 
advocate, and the doctrines to which this paper is 
committed will be learned by the follow ing prospectus 
for the coming year of 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting Possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all nuen a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the Suture, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of Cualsr at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) througl4ChnisT, at the Resurrection 
I.X. The New Earth,the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
X. We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel "QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly "—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Got) is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciation& 
ZECHARIAII CHAPTER VIII. 
A correspondent asks for an exposition of this por-
tion. of Scripture. 
ZECH A RIAH prophesied in the days of DARIUS king 
of Persia who began to reign R. c. 520. The work 
of the temple which had been commenced under Cy-
RUs hut which ceased in the days of ARTAXERXES 
(SMERDIS) " MHO the second year of the reign of 
Dams the Persian " (Ezek. 4:24) had been now 
recommenced. " In the second year of DARIUS the 
king, in the sixth meth, came the word of the Lord 
by HAGGAI the prophet, unto ZERUBBABEL. 
And 
the Lord stirred up the spirit of ZERUBBABEL . . 
and the spirit of all the people, and they came, and 
did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their 
Goe in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month 
in the second year of DARIUS the king."—Hag. 1:1, 
14, 15. 
Two months subsequent to this—" in the 
eighth month, in the second year of DARIUS, came 
the word of the Lord unto ZECHARIAH."-- Two 
years subsequent to this," in the fourth year of 
king Damns," the word of the Lord came to Zecna-
RIAH, as it is recorded in the seventh chapter of 
that prophecy, and continued in the eighth chapter, of 
which an exposition is requested. 
It will thus be seen that this prophecy was uttered 
B. c. 518. Sixty-eight years before this, B. c. 586, 
the city had been smitten in the eleventh year of 
ZEDEK1AH, and the nineteenth of NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 
when they " burned the house of the LORD, and the 
king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all 
the houses of the great men, burned he with fire "—
leaving in the land only certain of the poor for vine, 
dressers and for husbandrnen. (See Jer. 52:5-16.) 
And two years subsequent to this, in B. c. 516, the 
temple" was finished on the third clay of the month 
Adar, which was in the sixth year of DARIUS the 
king."—Ezra. 6:16. This was also sixty years pre-
vious to the return of those who went up from Baby-
lon under Ezea, in the seventh year of ARTAXERXES 
(B. c. 458), and seventy-three years before the final 
restoration of the captives under NEHEMIAH in a, e. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
Bonaparte's sacrilegious aim at the very life of Re- peace, but to make war, or division—and still he is 
publicanism, but I take it rather for one of those the Lord of peace, and I find the explanation, that he 
providential effects by which the very crime turns out came to make division—as a rule given to man that 
only to promote that just cause which it was intended he must go on for right, for truth, for law—that he 
to oppress. (Cheers.) I could not become scathed must not abandon his resolution to stick to the right, 
or stunned by it, because it was unexpected by me. and truth, and law, for the word " peace," but that 
I have very often, in New York, publicly and pri- peace there is only where there is right—where 
vately, foretold that event. Every steamer may bring there is law ; and even if division is required, it must 
us tidings of the outbreak, of the unavoidable crisis be for peace, and it is pointed out by God that the 
of the European Continent, because almost the day destiny of humanity is to be free. 
of the great contest between Ambition and Freedom 
In his great speech delivered in Baltimore, he said : 
is being pointed out by the Presidential election in 
France. It is quite certain that the ambition of Louis You know that the great revolution is brought 
Napoleon Bonaparte, pushed on by Russian and Aus- home already to the nations of Europe by the impi-
trian craft, will not await the day, but call forth the ous blow of Louis Napoleon. The elected President 
struggle at the earliest time. I have foretold this of France has by his impious blow struck down the 
publicly ; and indeed there was no necessity to read Constitution, in order that he might become Emperor. 
the stars, or to watch the flight of the clouds, in or- He has stricken it down as a tool of the Czar of Rus-
der to foresee that event. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte sia and the Emperor of Austria. It was yesterday 
has sufficiently proved, by his whole life, that his I received the news that the Austrian Ministry has 
only aim is to copy his uncle. 
openly declared that the absolutistical powers of Eu- 
There was no divinatory power wanted to foretell rope are resolved to maintain the usurpation of Louis 
the Napoleon stroke, as really I very often have done, Napoleon, therefore the revolution has already broken 
since my arrival on your happy shores. But I must out in Europe. The first blow of war is already 
beg leave to state, that however shocking it may be to struck, and no man in the world has the power to 
honest hearts of free Americans, to see a man playing stop its progress. Its vibration will be felt through-
out of mere ambition, such a dreadful drama with out Europe, and no where with more resolution than 
the blood and the liberty of his nation, still I feel in my poor down-trodden Fatherland. 
entirely assured, that the final issue of Louis Napo- Gentlemen, the Emperor Napoleon, nearly fifty 
leon Bonaparte's impious stroke will and can but be years ago, spoke a prophetic word, when he said that 
beneficial to the cause of Liberty on the European in My years the European Continent would become 
continent. Before all, I beg to consider that there is either Republican or Cossack. Now the fulfilment 
not the slightest reason to believe that the French na- of that prophecy draws near. Hungary once free, 
zion will submit to the ambitious usurpation of the the Continent of Europe becomes Republican ; Hun- 
" Nephew of the Uncle," as he is called. gary oppressed, the Continent becomes Cossack. 
Every man knows that to support him would be 
only to plunge France into the horrors of a long and 
bloody civil war, instead of plunging it into a dis- 
honorable peace. The Legitimist party must of 
course he in a fury against him. The Orleanist party 
equally so. Their leaders, de Joinville arid Aumlae, 
are already threatening him from Belgium. The 
Republicans of course must hate him—the murderer 
of the Constitution so nobly won, and so dearly paid 
for. The party of glory must look with contempt at 
him—he has no glory to offer to them—there is no 
glory to he earned on the side of the despots of the 
European Continent. Even the Uncle—ambitious 
as he was—had glory to offer to France, not because 
he fought for the tyrannical despots, but because he 
fought against them, not because he maintained their 
wavering thrones, but because he was an upsetter of 
kings. Thus having neither the legitimists, nor the 
Orleanists, nor the Republicans, nor the partizans of 
glory with him, but rather each of them against him, 
how could his usurpation be a pledge of peace, 
even to those few who loved their own tranquillity 
more than their country—who loved their pottage 
more than freedom, and hate servitude less than they 
love liberty? Indeed, many a thing may be possible 
in France—even the restoration of the Bourbons, if 
you please; but Louis Napoleon ludicrous and yet 
bloody ambition, triumphant over France is impossi-
ble. The French people may bear delusion, it may 
hear deceit for a time--alas, too often it has—but in-
sult, never ! 
It is very probable that even the cunning manoeu-
vre of election voting was carried in passive silence, 
scarcely troubled 'by some unconnected outbdrst of 
isolate indignation—nay, it is even probable `that 
even Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had the majority of 
the given votes, but mark well, gentlemen, the ma-
jority of the given notes. but not of the nation. The 
majority of the people have not voted—it has not ac-
cepted the arbitrary battle-field which ridiculous am-
bition offered to it. The majority of the nation has 
pronounced by abstaining front voting, and that absti-
nence, you will see to prove the most effective pro-
testation against the ambitions usurper. That is my 
impression of what has happened on the 20th of this 
month, appointed for voting by the usurper—had it 
happened otherwise, then the majority of the nation 
has voted against him. I am sure of it. In both 
cases, we are but at the beginning—those who look 
for peace at any price, mind my words, without Louis 
Napoleon's impious stroke, there was yet a possi-
bility that the church-yard peace of oppression might 
go on for a while. Now the alarm bell has rung.—
War has broken out. It appears that there is a 
mournful fatality in the destinies of freedom, to be 
baptized in blood. We may regret this fatality, but 
accept it we must. And Louis Napoleon's stroke 
made this fatality a fact. The blow is struck. Thus 
the partizans of peace, at any price, must come to a 
speedy decision, what cause they will adopt. Every 
thing is possible but irresolution, and the delay of a 
decision is impossible. 
It will thus be seen that this prophecy was uttered 
during the time Judea and Jerusalem were desolated, 
and when Gin) had begun to have thoughts of mercy 
towards Zion. The word of the LORD as recorded 
in the '7th chap. of Zechariah, therefore has respect 
to the desolations of Jerusalem which had already 
been accomplished ; and that of the 8th to the bless-
ings which were about to be conferred on the Jew-
ish people. This commencing with verse 5th of the 
7th chapter, the priests were reminded that when 
they mourned and fasted, in the fifth aud seventh 
mouths, even during those seventy years of desola-
tion which were thus drawing to a close, that they 
had not at all fasted unto the LORD ; and that when 
they did eat and drink, it had not been unto him, 
but unto themselves. And then they were reminded 
of the wo!ds which the LORD had cried by the for-
mer prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in 
prosperity, and the cities round about her, (v. 7), 
they were commanded to " execute true judgment, 
and show mercy and compassion every man to his 
brother : and oppress not the widow, nor the father-
less, the stranger, nor the poor : and let none of you 
imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But 
they refused to hearken, and pulled away their shoul-
der, and stopped their eats, that they should not hear. 
Yea, they made their hearts asan adamant stone, lest 
they should hear the law, and the words which the 
LORD of hosts bath sent in his Spirit by the former 
prophets : therefore came a great wrath from the 
LORD of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that as 
he cried, and they would not hear ; so they cried, 
and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts : but 
I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the na-
tions whom they knew not. Thus the land was de-
solate after them, that no man passed through nor 
returned : for they laid the pleasant,land desolate."—
vs. 9-14. 
Thus were they shown the consequences which had 
fallen on the nation, in the persons of their fathers, 
and upon their pleasant land, and upon their beauti-
ful and beloved city. 
But now GOD turns to them again with purposes 
of mercy : '" Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was 
Jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jeal-
ous for her with great fury " (Zech. 8:2) ; but this 
;fury had all departed. And now : " Thus saith the 
LORD ; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in 
the midst of Jerusalem : and Jerusalem shall be called, 
A city of truth ; and the mountain of the LORD of 
hosts, The holy mountain. Thus saith the LORD of 
hosts.; There shall yet old men and old women dwell 
in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his 
staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the 
city shall be full of boys aud giros playing in the 
streets thereof."—vs. 3-5 
All this was subsequently fulfilled when the cap-
tives of Israel were returned from the streams of 
Babylon, under EZRA and NEHEMIAH—sixty, and sev- 
enty-three years subsequent to this. They went up 
and again inhabited Jerusalem—so that there were 
again old men., and old women dwelling in those pre-
viously deserted streets ; and the jocund laugh of 
many playful boys arid girls again resounded through 
those desolated walks, and thoroughfares which were 
again filled with juvenile footsteps. 
Such a promise, at the time ofJerusalern's desola-
tion, seemed marvellous to the remnant of the people 
who were then endeavoring to re-build the temple 
arid restore the city, but it was not so in the eyes of 
Him who thus promised ; for " Thus saith the LORD 
of hosts ; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the rem-
nant of this people in these days, should it also be 
marvellous in mine eyes! milli the LORD of hosts." 
—v. 6. 
They are then shown how this promise is to be 
fulfilled.(vs. 7, 8): 4"I'hus saith the Load of hosts ; 
Behold I will save my people from the east country, 
and the west country : and I will bring them, and 
they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem : and they 
shall be my people, and I will be their GoD, in truth 
and righteousness." 
All this came to pass ; and sixty years from the 
utterance of this prophecy, we find EZRA blessing the 
LORD fur having put such a thing into the king's 
heart. (Ezra 7:27.) Again he says : 
" And now for a little space bath grace been 
showed from the LORD our GOD, to leave us a rem-
nant to escape, arid to give us a nail in his holy place, 
that our Goo may lighten our eyes, arid give us a 
little reviving in our bondage. For we were bond-
men ; yet our Goo bath not forsaken us in our bond-
age, but bath extended mercy unto us in the sight of 
the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up 
she house of our GOD, and to repair the desolations 
thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jeru-
salem."—Ezra 9:8, 9. 
That this had reference to the time when the tem- 
ple was being built, and that these promises were in 
contrast with previous desolations, is shown by 
the 9th verse and onward of this 8th chapter of 
Zechariah : 
" Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands 
be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by 
the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day 
that, the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts 
was laid, that the temple might be built. For before 
these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire 
for beast ; neither was there any peace to him that 
went out or him that came in because of the affliction : 
for I set all men every one against his neighbor. 
But now I will not he unto the residue of this people 
as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. For 
the seed shall be prosperous ; the vine shall give her 
fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the 
heavens shall give their dew ; and I will cause the 
remnant of this people to possess all these things.—
And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse 
among the heathen, 0 house of Judah, and house of 
Israel ; so will I save you, and ye shall he a bless-
ing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. For thus 
saith the LORD of hosts ; As I thought to punish you, 
when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the 
LORD of hosts, and I repented not: so again have I 
thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and 
to Judah : fear ye not."—Zech. 8:9-15. 
Then follows an exhortation to them to observe those 
things by which they might retain the favor of Gon : 
" These are the things that ye shall do ; Speak ye 
every man the truth to his neighbor ; execute the 
judgment of truth and peace in your gates : and let 
none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his 
neighbor and love no false oath : all these are 
things that I hate, saith the LORD."—vs. 16, 17. 
Then follows a reference to their religious observ-
ances : 
" Thus saith the LORD of hosts ; The fast of the 
fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of 
the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall he to the 
house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts: 
therefore love the truth and peace."—v. 19. 
These were facts which they had observed in their 
captivity—that of the fourth month, answering to 
our June, wherein Jerusalem was taken, (Jer. 53:6,7) 
that of the fifth, answering to our July, when the city 
and temple were burnt by the Chaldeans, (2 Kings' 
25:8) that of the seventh, answering to our Septem-
ber, in memory of the murder of GEDALIAH, whereupon 
all the remainder of the Jews were dispersed into 
several lands, and the desolation of Judea completed, 
(2 'Kings, 25:25; Jer. 41:17, 18), and that of the 
tenth, corresponding to our December, when the 
Babylonians commenced the siege of Jerusalem.—
Jer. 53:4. These fasts they were .now no longer to 
observe. The judgments which occasioned them be-
ing removed, they might turn their fasting into feast-
ing, and lay aside the mournful circumstances with 
which they had been solemnized. 
After this, their future privileges are brought to 
view, if they would but conform to GoD's require-
ments, which completes the chapter. 
" Thus saith the Lord of hosts : It shall yet come 
to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabit-
ants of marry cities : and the inhabitants of one city 
shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray 
before she Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts : I 
will go also. Yea, many people and strong nations 
shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, 
and to pray before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of 
hosts; In these days it shall come to pass, that ten 
men shall take hold, out of all languages of the na-
tions, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is 
a Jew, saying, We will go with you : for we have 
heard that God is with you."—vs. 20-23. 
EZRA intimates that if they should again forget GoD, 
that they,,would be unworthy of his farther favor. 
He says : " Should we again break thy command-
ments, and join in affinity with the people ref these 
abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us 
till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should 
be no remnant nor escaping ?"—Ezra.9:14. MALA-
CHI the last of their prophets, complains of the irreli-
gion of the Jews, which is evidence that they had 
not conformed to the conditions on which their future 
glory was predicted. And therefore when CHRIST 
came unto his own, his own received him riot. But 
as many as received him to them he gave power to be-
come the sons of Goe, even to them who believe in 
his name.—John 1st. And through their instrumen-
tality the Gentiles have since come to that light, and 
kings to the brightness of that rising. Many peo-
ple and strong nations have received the gospel at 
their hands, and multitudes who were not Jews, have 
turned to those who were—were Jews inwardly, and 
have cast in their lot with them—convinced that GOD 
was with them. 
The import of this chapter is simple and plain ; 
and it cannot be taken from-its obvious connexion 
and applied to the distant future, without doing vio-
lence, to its unequivocal declarations. 
KOSSUTH IN PHILADELPHIA. 
As all will wish to know how he is affected by the 
recent news from France, we quote from his speech, 
in the city of brotherly love. To a delegation in-
viting him to visit Harrisburg, he said : 
The circumstances of Europe, by recent advises, 
hasten the outbreak that is impending, and then what-
ever the generous will of the people of the United 
States proposes with regard to the object of the mis-
sion, will admit of no delay. One word is true : the 
despots are ready to push back the nations standing 
upon the brink, and there is danger of their being 
drowned. Had your government sent out an agent 
to Hungary to protest, instead of to see, the Russian 
intervention would have been prevented, and Hun-
gary would have now been free. 
At the citizens' banquet on the 26th, he said : 
I do not feel stunned by Mons. Louis Napoleon 
Another steamer, or the next following, will prove 
the truth or fallacy of KossuTH's opinion, as to the 
result in France. It will be decided by the vote 
which the citizens universally are called to make on 
the proposition submitted to them by the President. 
In a reply to a delegation of clergymen, M. Kos-
SUTH advances the idea that peace may be fought for, 
and he gives a curious exposition of Scripture on that 
point. 
I would like, could I have been so happy, to have 
read the Bible—which I even have done—in the Eng-
lish language, because it would afford me more facili-
ty to reply to certain principles which I find there. 
But I could riot have it in English, only now and then, 
since I am free from my captivity in Turkey. There-
fore I wish to know of one statement which I have 
heard pronounced, quoted from the Bible, but some-
what in a different way from that which 1 have read 
in the Greek, Latin, and Hungarian : " Glory to God 
in heaven, and peace and good will to men un earth." 
In Latin I have heard it : " Glory to God in heaven, 
and peace to good willing men on earth ;" "Gloria 
in alliissimus Deo! et in terra pax hominihus bone 
voluntalis." So it is in Latin, and certainly the 
Greek, "en anthropois," gives the same meaning. 
I got the impression that it is to those who follow 
out the Gospel precept of good will to each other 
that we are here taught that peace is to come. From 
the Bible I got the impression that our Saviour, who 
again, in another place, said he came not to make 
W e have been called to drink of the cup of afflic-
tion. Dimming the last week, two of our little ones, 
SARAH ELIZABETH, aged four years, and Joseph BAR-
STOW, aged two years, have been taken from us by 
that dreadful malady, the scarlet fever. JOSEPH B. 
died on Friday night, at sixteen minutes before eleven, 
and SARAH E. on Saturday evening, about half past 
seven. Sweetly they sleep together, free from the 
sufferings and temptations of life, till the trump of 
God shall wake their slumbering dust. 
" Lovely and pleasant in their lives, in their deaths 
they were not divided." 
" I take these little lambs, said he, 
And fold them in my breast ; 
Protection they shall find in me, 
And he forever blest. 
"'Their feeble frames my power shall raise, 
And mould with her venly skill, 
I'll give them tongues to sing my praise, 
And hands to do my will. 
" His words the happy parents hear, 
With transports all divine, 
0 Jesus all we have and are, 
Shall he forever thine." 
Philadelphia, Dec. 23d. 
J. LITCH. 
Meddling with other Governments. 
The British nation, says the N. Y. Borne Journal, 
have done a great deal of what Kossuth and the agi-
tators would like the Yankees to do, viz., meddle 
with other governments, for sympathy or other rea-
sons. A writer in one of the London papers thus 
sums up what John Bull has gained by it : 
" Belgium, which we united to Holland at so much 
cost and pains, has long thrown off that yoke, and it 
is no thanks to us that she is not a mere appendage of 
the crown of France. 
Holland, whom we endeav-
ored to aggrandize, has a standing quarrel with us, 
only unimportant because we have not succeeded in 
making her even a second-rate power. We are no-
where so unpopular, either with peoples or with 
courts, as in Portugal and Spain, the chief objects 
of our costly and heroic interference. Nowhere are 
we so insulted, and with such impunity. Our inter-
ference in behalf of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies 
has not obtained either a single political right or the 
performance of one Royal promise in favor of the 
island we rescued, preserved, and restored. The 
Pope, whom we were so forward to reinstate in his 
lost independence, has since used it incessantly to 
promote disaffection among our own people, and 
abridge the prerogatives of our Crown. In Greece, 
if a British subject has his house pulled down over 
his head, his property destroyed, so little disagreea-
ble is the occurrence to the sovereign which we cre-
ated or the people we made free, that we must back 
our bill of damages with five sail of the line. Wheth-
er we are on the hest possible terms with Austria, 
whether the many millions we have spent in her be-
halt have been spent to a political advantage, we 
leave to those who now ask our interference between 
the house of Hapsburg and the finest provinces of 
the Austrian empire. Whatever our gains by out 
countless expenditure in Germany, we cannot flatter 
ourselves that we hi.ve much promoted the cause of 
constitutional government. It is almost forgotten 
that during the war we gave much substantial assist-
ance to Russia. What is there to show for it? As 
for Turkey, it certainly is a generous power, but we 
have not done much good to Syria by restoring it to 
the Porte, and there is still some apprehension that 
it may use the hold we gave it upon Egypt to impede 
our Indian communications. We have not told half 
our tale; but we have said enough to prove that the 
assistance we have rendered the nations of Europe, 
even when successful, has been the source of expecta-
tions that will never be fulfilled, and of obligations' 
that will never be acknowledged." 
* Heb. 11:8-10. f Heb.11:17-19. Job. 19:23-28. § Heb. 11:24-26. 
6 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LOOKING FORWARD. 
BY,I.M.ORROCK. 
" Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appear. 
ing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ."—Titus 
2:13. 
I saw a man of stately mien, 
Whose gait bespoke his youthful age, 
No scowl upon his face was seen,—
No pent-up storm of fitful rage. 
With cheerful looks and placid brow, 
A husband and a lord he was; 
Hundreds at his command would bow, 
And yield submission to his laws. 
With all his wealth, how strange to say ! 
He had no city as his home, 
But dwelt in tents from day to day, 
Or with his flock and herds would roam. 
To those who looked on him with pity 
He said, " I seek a heavenly city." 
Years fled, and he became a sire,— 
A lovely youth stood by his side ; 
It was the parents' fond desire 
That Isaac should with them abide. 
But see, on yonder mountain's brow 
How strange a sacrifice is made ! 
An altar raised ! and on it now 
That very son is bound and laid ! 
With knife up-raised, the father stands, 
Ready to strike the fatal blow— 
Kind heaven! is it thy command 
That lays a parent's hope so low 
Hark ! hark ! a voice ! it conies from heaven, 
" Stay, Abraham, withhold thy hand, 
A substitute to thee is given, 
Thou hast obeyed the Lord's command." 
Isaac released ; the trial o'er, 
I saw them from the mountain go, 
But how he could the trial endure, 
Is what I surely wished to know. 
I asked what buoyed his spirits up, 
He smiled, and said, " 7 he blessed hope." j- 
Another object met my gaze, 
Near me appeared the man of Uz, 
And when I asked about his case, 
He answered me, in substance, thus,— 
" I was a prince of great estate ; 
A lovely wife and friends were mine ; 
Children and servants too, would wait, 
Or else perform what I designed. 
But Satan, with malicious art, 
Used means to take my flocks away ; 
I saw my power at once depart, 
Ten children died in one short day. 
My wife is turned against me now, 
My health is gone, and here I lie ; 
But to God's will I humbly bow : 
I'll trust in him though I should die. 
I know that my Redeemer lives, 
Though I must die with other men ; 
Though earth my falling dust receives, 
I know that I shall live again." 
I asked him what dispersed his gloom, 
He calmly said, " The Lord will come." 
Moses was next, of good report, 
His way of life I heard him tell : 
He was brought up in Pharaoh's court, 
And knew Egyptian science well. 
But he forsook the stately hall, 
The lordly mansions, wealth, and pride, 
Choosing to go at duty's call, 
Whatever ills might. him betide. 
He led the Jewish nation through 
The wilderness, for forty years ; 
And all their trials and dangers knew, 
Mingling with them in hopes and fears. 
He heard them murmur and complain, 
And felt their anger on him fall, 
But chose still with them to remain— 
Patiently enduring all. 
I asked what caused him to endure, 
He said, " God reigns, the prize is sure." 
Lo ! glory bursts o'er Judah's plains, 
A heavenly host is hovering there, 
Revealing to the pious swains 
The tidings they were sent to bear,— 
" The Christ is born ! the Word is made 
A light to shine on distant lands ; 
Go find him in the manger laid, 
Go find him wrapped in swaddling hands." 
I saw the child to manhood grow ; 
He was immersed in Jordan's stream, 
Then gladly wandered to and fro, 
While free salvation was his theme. 
He healed the sick, he raised the dead, 
He caused the deaf to hear his voice, 
At his approach the demons fled, 
He made the mourners to rejoice. 
I saw him in Gethsemane, 
And three disciples with him there; 
I heard him groan in agony, 
And raise to heaven an earnest prayer. 
Betrayed, denied, and left by all, 
His last, and solemn hour drew nigh, 
He was in Pilate's judgment hall, 
Unrighteously condemned to die. 
Behold ! the cross on Calvary's brow 
Beals up the suffering, dying Lamb ; 
Earth quakes ! rocks rend ! and darkness now 
Enshrouds the earth in awful gloom ! 
'Tis finished now, the struggle's o'er, 
His sighs, and groans, and tears have fled ; 
He feels the thorns and spear no more, 
He now is numbered with the dead. 
His body soon was borne away 
And laid within the rich man's tomb, 
But on the third, the appointed day, 
He did his life and power resume. 
saw him in the immortal state, 
And wond'ring at these scenes, so strange, 
I humbly asked him to relate 
The cause of such a wondrous change. 
He said, " That. I might bliss restore thee,— 
'Twas for the joy [thus] set before me." * 
But time would fail me, should I try 
To tell the effects of this " good hope,"— 
How many who were called to die, 
Did with it keep their courage up. 
I saw a Paul forsaking all, 
And counting earthly treasure dross, 
Prepared to go at Jesus' call, 
To preach the doctrines of the cross. 
I asked what hope his heart could stay, 
He smiled, and said, " I look for day." t 
Three million martyrs next were seen, 
Who under Paganism fell, 
And who by God's free grace had been 
Sustained against the power of hell. 
I thought of fifty millions more, 
Who under Papal power were slain ; 
How could they all their trials endure? 
What was the hope which did sustain ? 
I heard a cry ! it came from heaven, 
It was the voice of martyred ones; 
They sighed for what had not been given, 
Even to those who were God's sons. 
Their cry was this :—" 0 Lortl, how long, 
Ere thou avenge our every wrong ?" t 
Again I listened to a prayer, 
Which seemed to come from every land, 
It was borne onward, through the air, 
From sunny India's coral strand,— 
From Europe's many pious sons, 
Who walk along the " narrow way;"— 
From the numerous holy ones 
Scattered throughout America,— 
From Afric's coast, from Asia's plains, 
Where first the gospel truth was preached ;— 
From all the Islands of the main, 
Where those reside whom truth has reached. 
From heaven and earth, from sea and sky, 
From trees, and fields, and springing sod, 
I heard the prayer ascending high, 
Borne onward to the throne of God. 
It came from those who sighed for home, 
The prayer was this, " THY KINGDOM COME." § 
CONFERENCE AT WORCESTER, Mass. 
In accordance with previous advertisement this con-
ference commenced on the 10th inst. The morning 
session was spent in prayer to Goo, that his blessing 
might rest upon the labors of his servents, and that 
heavenly wisdom might characterize all our actions. 
AFTERNOON SESSION.—Services were opened by 
singing and prayer, after which Bro. HEATH preached 
a timely and practical discourse from Phil. 3:20, 21. 
The importance of heavenly conversation and citizen-
ship was earnestly enjoined upon all. 
EVENING SESSION.—Singing and prayer. Preach-
ing by Bro. OSLER, from 2 Pet. 1:19-21. The dis-
course was clear and instructive, and well calculated 
to confirm our faith in the " sure word of prophecy." 
The speaker was plain and earnest, though candid 
and affectionate. 
THURSDAY, DEC. 11. 
MORNING SESSION.--Conference opened by singing 
and prayer, by Brn. PREBLE and HEATH. 
Bro. J. V. HIMES was chosen Chairman, Bro. 
D. T. TAYLOR, Jr., appointed Secretary, and Brn. 
PREBLE, PEARSON, and HIMES, a business committee. 
The A. M. was devoted to remarks on the state of 
the cause and the necessity of scriptural order in all 
the churches ; the want of which had hitherto been 
s source of evil and confusion. Each spoke candidly 
and freely ; deploring the lack of intelligent, con-
certed action, and mutual responsibility to GOD and to 
each other, which has and does still exist among 
many in various places. We might not see precisely 
alike in regard to Bible order, yet looseness in the 
church and ministry was repudiated, and New Tes-
tament discipline was enforced by all who spoke. Let 
us no longer talk, but act, that the Master of the house 
hold at his corning may find us itt love and unity, and 
not in confusion and distraction. Bro. HIMES read a 
list of the Advent churches in Massachusetts, also 
the number of ministers, and remarked that help was 
needed in these places. 
After an amicable discussion in regard to the best 
method to be adopted concerning ministerial unity of 
action, together with the practicability of holding 
quarterly conferences in this State for mutual benefit, 
the Conference adjourned till the P. M. 
AFTERNOON SESSION.—Hymn 10 was sung, and 
prayer offered by Elder OSLER. After singing again, 
" GOD moves in a mysterious way," an excellent dis-
course was listened to from Bro. Pearson. Subject, 
" Egypt, as connected wiilt Bible History." Bro. 
P. gave from Scripture and history many very inter-
esting details in the revolutions of this almost extinct, 
arid hitherto much unknown ancient empire : show-
ing especially the superior reliability of the Bible in 
correctness of event with regard to its origin, etc., 
also the complete fulfilment of the latter in relation 
* Heb. 12:2. Philip. 3:7-11, and Rom. 13:11,12. t Rev. 6:9-11. 
Matt. 6:10 ; Rom. 8:19-23. 
to the utter abaSement of that kingdom among which 
the sciences and arts once existed in such perfection, 
and whose haughty king, in the pride of his splendid 
dominion, could say, " My rivers are my own." In 
conclusion, he gave the contrast between its present 
meanness and former grandeur. " God said two or 
three thousand years ago, that it should become a 
base'' low' kingdom. Its present abject condi-
tion is a striking evidence of the fulfilment of prophe-
cy. Its fate will probably be that of Turkey—both 
swallowed up in gigantic Russia. Egypt preaches 
in thunder tones that the Ruler of the universe is the 
author of the Bible. The end of all earthly king-
doms is at hand,—God is coming to claim them for 
his Son. Let us be ready for the last great act in 
this world's drama." We cannot follow the speaker 
entire, but hope, as many desire, that he will furnish 
a copy of his discourse for the Herald. The meeting 
adjourned till evening. 
EVENING SESSION.—Services of singing arid prayer 
as usual, after which a discourse was preached by 
Bro. Taylor. Subject, " The Lord's Prayer."—Matt. 
6th chapter. Good attention was paid to the word, as 
the speaker dwelt upon the preparation for, and rapid 
approach of the everlasting kingdom. The King 
is at hand, arid his out-riders are on before him. May 
we all be prepared for his arrival. 
FRIDAY, DEC. 12. 
MORNING SESSION.—The time was entirely Occu-
pied in giving an account of the cause among the 
churches, in various parts of the country. 
Bro. Rimes remarked, that in reference to Bible 
order, some of our brethren had got the idea that we 
meant to deprive them of their liberties ; but so far 
from this, he said, we mean to protect those liberties 
instead. We in Massachusetts want a definite, intel-
ligent, scriptural method of doing the Lord's work. 
A conference of elders and brethren, with mutual 
rights, is desirable. We want to know each other, 
and instead of always repairing the evil of misunder-
standing, to go to work for God understandingly. 
Some think the end is too near to do anything of 
this kind. It is near, we know, and so much the 
more need that Christ may find us in order. Bro. 
H. alluded to a large town where some had ruled in 
disorder till they were sick of it, and had now pro-
posed a more excellent way. A door was now 
opened there to do good. Let us do as well as say, 
in kindness and faithfulness. 
Bro. Preble said, we in New Hampshire will not 
cast you off for doing as you think best. You pursue 
this course out of your peculiar position, still fellow-
shiping us should we not follow you precisely. We 
are all freemen, but are not free to trample on each 
other's rights, or to judge and proscribe others. I 
am opposed to isms, but believe in New Testament 
order, and labor with this view. If you adopt meas-
ures to meet the wants of the cause in Massachusetts, 
it is your right. We will work in our way also. 
Soine brethren in New Hampshire do not understand 
you. I said to them I would conic and see, and know 
thestate of things. I am satisfied now, and will return 
and correct any misunderstanding. The cause is 
prospering with us. In Lake village, N. H., there 
is a good revival. Souls are being converted, and 
we have interesting and stirring times. At Meredith 
Neck, also, there is a good interest, some twenty hav-
ing been converted and reclaimed. In other places, 
too, the Lord's work is going on. We keep on as in 
'42 and '43, and things are in a healthy state. 
Bro. Pearson remarked, that things were very en-
couarging in Newburyport,—uncommonly so. Bro-
therly love and unity prevail among us. We try to 
conduct ourselves in a way that will cause the com-
munity to respect us, and they do. Many who were 
once against us, are becoming favorable. A Mr. 
D—, who a few years since wrote against our 
views, attended one of the lectures of the last Confer-
ence, and gave a candid hearing. We have hired a new 
and larger hall, and have increased our congregation. 
Some sceptics and infidels are being moved, and our 
interests are constantly increasing. The Conference 
had a good effect there. I am anxious to have well 
regulated Conferences, and to have quarterly sessions 
among the churches. I cannot work in confusion. 
For want of an understanding of each other's way, 
we may overthrow each other's work. Let us be re-
sponsible to each other and to God, and not be too in-
dependent. Let us labor systematically. Let us be 
true and honest, and God will bless us. 
Bro. Osier said that they were in order in Salem. 
We have gospel order, and have had healthy minis-
ters visit us. We have resolved (in the language of 
Bro. Hawkes,) not to have Paul plant, and Apollos 
pull up. We have a good hold upon the public mind ; 
never a better than now. Many have been added to 
the church. Some have recently been converted, and 
we are looking for an extensive revival. I go for 
convincing the judgment, and also for converting the 
heart. A good church may now be revived in Lynn. 
Let us labor to build them up there, that we may 
have a healthy and useful society there, that will 
reflect honor upon the cause.—(To be continued.) 
JUDGE NOT. 
Our predilections naturally lead us to certain por-
tions of Scripture, which we find easy to remember 
and practice ; for instance,—a person who has natu-
rally an amiable disposition, readily obeys the in-
junctions of kindness, courteousness, and tender-
heartedness ; but finds really a cross, when he is 
obliged to " reprove and rebuke." On the contrary, 
one who is harsh, irritable, and nervous, will present, 
on all occasions, the penalty of the law, and the 
judgments of God ; but consider the graces of piety, 
compassion, and courteousness, as minor points, and 
partly, as weaknesses of the flesh, more to be over-
come than nurtured and perfected. 
But this is not as it should he ; for the word of 
God, when obeyed, is powerful enough tq make up 
the deficiencies of nature, and those who by profes-
sion follow the Lord Jesus, are expected to give heed 
to all his teaching, by making a practical use of them. 
Moreover, it is written," Man shall live by every word 
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." It is as 
natural for us to form opinions, and speak them, as 
it is for the " spark to fly upwards ;" and oftener, 
rashly and arbitrarily than by meditation, and a com-
parison of causes with results. Knowing which, 
the Saviour gives the above monition, and lest he 
should not be heeded, follows immediately with the 
penalty. Men of good judgment and sound piety, 
may err in an exposition of prophetic scriptures ; 
but no man of common sense ever need stumble at 
the plain, practical teachings of the Saviour. Many 
of them, however, are so directly opposed to our 
careless mode of living, that we pacify our con-
sciences, by considering them inapplicable to our 
time, or incapable of a literal interpretation. And 
the above admonition usually falls among the latter 
class, inasmuch as it is supposed to divest us of the 
faculty of compairng ideas with facts, and thereby 
perceiving their agreement, or disagreement. But 
the Saviour had no reference to the power of dis-
cerning good from evil, or right from wrong ; else 
why does he subsequently say to the Jews,—" Why 
judge ye not that which is right ?" Or if he would 
have taken from us the right of examining and de-
termining whether a brother walked not according to 
the gospel, why does Paul say, " Now I beseech you, 
brethren, mark them which cause divisions and of-
fences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, 
and avoid them ?" 
Rash censure and severe judgment are nowhere 
allowed in the Scriptures, and Paul perceiving the 
audacity of some in this judging, exclaims," Who art 
thou that judgest another man's servant ? to his own 
master he standeth or falleth." " Yea," the very man 
whom you have rashly condemned " shall be holden 
up," " for God," who sees all" hidden things," and 
knoweth " the counsels of the heart," " is able to 
make them stand." 
We are to " receive him that is weak in the faith, 
but not to doubtful disputations ;" that is, not to dis-
pute with him on points which to his mind are doubt-
ful, but rather to " be gentle, apt to teach, patient." 
Paul says again, we that are strong ought to bear 
the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our-
selves. But instead of obeying this requisition, it is 
too often the case, that tl ose who consider themselves 
" strong," grieve and crush " the weak," by hard 
sayings and denunciatory epithets. 1 have seen meek 
and quiet followers of the Lord judged and con-
demned for the merest trifles ; and whole multitudes 
anathematized en masse for not believing certain doc-
trines ; whereas, many, perhaps, among them, like 
" certain disciples whom Paul found," had " not 
even heard that there was such a thing." Of such 
judges the Saviour says : " First cast the beam out of 
thine own eye, then shalt thou see clearly to cast the 
mote out of thy brother's eye." 
Some exempt themselves from judgment, but take 
the privilege of judging others, from Paul's expres-
sion of the " spiritual man," whom he says " judg 
eth all things." Now if Paul had said all persons, 
as they apply it, it would indeed have been a sweep-
ing expression, and caused a deal of trouble in our 
world ; but the " all things " which is thus judged 
[discerned] must be the things of which he is dis-
coursing, which, instead of persons, are " the deep 
things of God " that the " Spirit searcheth," and 
which the " eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," it 
" maketh us to comprehend," " that we may know 
the things " " he hath prepared for them that love 
him." " Yet he himself is judged [discerned] of 
no man." " It doth not yet appear what we shall 
be ;" and because the Spirit produces no visible 
change, " the natural man " cannot yet judge [dis-
cern] the.spiritual ;" " but when he shall appear," 
and " the spiritual man is made like him," all will 
plainly discern the difference. 
It is written, the saints shall judge the world ; 
and many, supposing themselves to be saints, and 
capable of " discerning spirits," pass sentence with-
out mercy. But of such I would ask, When the saints 
shall judge the world? Certainly the Scriptures give 
no authority of thus judging, until the time. come 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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that the Saviour says to him who has overcome, " 1 
grant to sit with me in my throne." Till then, it 
behooveth us to clothe ourselves with humility, and 
say with him, " I judge no man." " He that judgeth 
his brother judgeth the law ; but if thou judge the 
law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and des-
troy. Who art thou that judgeth thy brother ?" 
" Therefore, thou art inexcusable, 0 man, whosoever 
thou art that judgest, for wherein thou judgest ano-
ther, thou condemnest thyself." " Let us not there-
fore judge one another any more, hut judge this 
rather, that no man put a stumbling-block, or occa-
sion to fall, in his brother's way." 
Brethren, the time is not long that you will have 
to " bear the infirmities of the weak," or the " con-
tradiction of sinners," therefore be humble, be pa-
tient, and forbearing. It you should hurt " the oil 
and the wine," if you should " condemn the just," 
you would be ashamed in the judgment to see that 
man whom you had condemned, accepted of the Lord. 
I have sheep, said the dear Saviour, which are not of 
this fold, them I must bring. Now if he will bring 
sheep from another than your own particular fold, 
do not hinder him, I beseech you, by forbidding them, 
as did the disciples, because they followed not. you. 
Remember, " he that judgeth is the Lord." " There-
fore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord 
come, who will bring to light the hidden things of 
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the 
heart." 
B. 
LETTER FROM S. CHAPMAN. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—On the same day that I wrote 
von from Mt. Sterling, (Sept. 20th,) I commenced 
holding a profitable meeting at the " Christian 
Church " in Ripley. Having preached to that peo-
ple eight times before, they were prepared to give 
heed to the word. I addressed them from the desk 
nine times, exhibiting the evidences from God's word 
and the signs of the times, that " the end of all 
things was at hand." I also visited from house to 
house, and in my usual way preached much by the 
fireside. The people were eager to hear, and I am 
happy to add, they were in a suitable state of mind 
to receive the word joyfully. Bro. McPherson, their 
minister, who several weeks before had become deeply 
interested in the subject, and was then favored with 
the reading of the " Advent Herald " weekly, came 
out decidedly in defence of the doctrine. Many back-
sliders, Universalists, and other sinners, were con-
verted to God. Had several seasons of baptizing, 
and about twenty happy souls were added to the 
Church. Bro. G., a prominent member, being him-
self thoroughly converted to the faith, remarked, (as 
I was about to leave the place,) " Bro. C. I think it is 
safe to say, that more than one hundred of the mem-
bers of our Church have heartily embraced the Ad-
vent faith, and will hereafter defend the doctrine on 
all suitable occasions." This brother, Elder McPher-
son, and others, have accompanied me into other fields 
of labor, and have rendered us material service. 
Front R. I went to Coopertown, some six or eight 
miles south, where I preached to respectable and very 
attentive congregations seven times. Much prejudice 
was manifestly removed. Several backsliders were 
effectually reclaimed. Sinners were alarmed in view 
of the judgment, and quite a number confessed faith 
in the doctrine. 
We intend to see that people again. 
Bro. Penkake will visit them, and others occasionally, 
during my absence. While our meetings were in 
progress in C., the brethren in Ripley fell in with a 
minister from Rushville, who did not sympathize with 
them at all in their views touching the " blessed 
hope." They entreated him to attend our meetings 
and hear for himself what was so much " spoken 
against." He refused, but said, " If this man will 
come to Rushville and preach, arid give me an oppor-
tunity to reply, I will go out and hear him." Bro. 
McPherson went immediately to Rushville and se-
cured the " Christian Church " for that object, and 
ventured to make an appointment for me. I con 
sented to the same, and met a good congregation the 
first evening. Having great freedom of utterance, I oc-
cupied nearly two hours. The " minister " was pres-
ent, but made no remarks. The next evening the 
house was full, and at the suggestion of Bro McP. 
1 spoke on the " signs of the times." The word was 
effectual in the hearts of some. Elder T. was again 
present, but said nothing till the meeting was dis-
missed, and was then heard to say, " On the whole 
I think I shall not attempt to oppose your minister, 
for his object is most manifestly to do good," &c.—
We should have remained there longer, but a travel-
ing minister of some note was to occupy the desk 
the next evening and the following Sabbath. The 
brother at whose house I spent the last night, (a promi-
nent member of that Church) sat up with Bro. McP. 
and myself till near midnight, and seemed to rejoice 
in the prospect of living to witness the glorious ap-
pearing of his beloved Lord. He and others ex-
pressed a wish that we return and visit them again. 
(Rushville is a flourishing town.) 
I next visited Scott's Mills, some ten miles north-
west of R., where (in Sept. last) I preached a few 
times to good effect (north of Mount Sterling eight 
miles, as reported in my last. The people there, as in 
R., are generally of the " Christian " order. They 
have three ministers, two of whom received the doc-
trine favorably at that time. The other, (not having 
heard a word from us,) after we had left, manifested 
considerable opposition to our views, and thereby 
saddened the hearts of the friends. Brn. R. and C., 
being but babes in the faith, found it rather difficult 
to give a direct " answer to those who inquired of 
them the reason of their hope." They therefore sent 
a pressing request for me to visit them again, and in-
struct them more fully on the subject. Accordingly 
I spent the Sabbath (Oct. 19th,) and several evenings 
with that people, and never was 1 received more cor-
dially by the brethren in any place. Preached four 
times. Our sanctuary was crowded, and the best at-
tention was paid to the word. A few souls were 
hopefully converted, and the Church, almost without 
exception, embraced the faith and confessed it openly. 
At the close of our last meeting, (say ten o'clock in 
the evening) the Lord's Supper was administered, 
the three ministers and most of the Church were pres-
ent. By request I gave a brief address on the occa-
sion. The season was truly refreshing. As we 
were about to " sing a hymn and go out," Elder R. 
said to the Church, " Now while we sing let all who 
feel that they have been benefited by Bro. Chapman's 
labors, and desire him to return and visit us again, 
manifest it by giving him the right hand of fellowship. 
The whole Church (the minister who had opposed us 
not excepted) came forward and presented the friendly 
hand. It was truly an affecting scene, and we mutu-
ally felt that it was hard to separate from each other. 
But I confidently believe that I shall soon meet that 
dear people in the kingdom of our beloved Lord. 
Returned to Mount Sterling, to rest a few days in 
the family of Bro. Sweet, (my late home.) There 
I met Elder 0., a Baptist minister from Perry, Pike 
county, who had heard of our labors in this section, 
and came twenty or thirty miles (via Ripley) to see 
us, and to inquire conceining our faith. Spent two 
days with us, witnessed the baptism of a happy con-
vert both to God and to the Advent faith. Heard 
two Advent discourses and much conversation on the 
same glorious subject. Then he was prepared to 
give us a hearty invitation to visit Perry. 1 recalled 
another appointment, and returned with him. The 
Baptist Church was opened to us. I preached three 
evenings, and twice on the Sabbath (Oct. 5th.) Had 
good congregations. On the Sabbath the house was 
filled to overflowing. Elder 0. followed me with 
friendly and appropriate remarks. The word seemed 
to be well received. Several of the brethren re-
quested me to remain with them longer. But I had 
to return to meet my engagements in Brown county. 
I promised, however, to visit them again if possible. 
Have performed considerable labor in Walker's 
Neck, and other small settlements, where the word 
was well received. Baptized one happy soul at the 
former place, and left them hungry for the word.—
Had pressing calls to visit Griggsville,Verseilles, and 
Chambersburg, but could not comply therewith till 
I had fulfilled my engagements here, and in Adams 
county. Bro. Penkake, of Mount Sterling kindly 
conveyed me to Clyde, (five miles south of here,) 
where we commenced our labor in this section Nov. 
1st. Bro. P. preached that evening ; he spent a day 
or two only with me, arid then had to return forty 
miles. Our meetings there were well attended, and 
seemed quite interesting till the following Tuesday 
evening, when it became necessary for us to proceed 
no farther, or make a bold attack upon the " fable " 
of the world's conversion. This we endeavored to 
do effectually, and think we did not fail in our object, 
so far as the unprejudiced mind was concerned. But 
it being a favorite theory with the Presbyteriau min-
ister and others, who were present, quite an excite-
ment was produced thereby. After meeting the min-
ister made several inquiries, which I frankly answered 
in the hearing of the congregation. The next day I 
sent hint the " letter addressed to the Rev. Dr. Rat.-
fles," which he promised to read with attention.—
We cannot but hope some good will result therefrom. 
I preached there the next evening to a full house, 
from Dan. 8:6, then left to meet a respectful call 
from this place, but returned to Clyde and spent 
one Sabbath, (Nov. 9th.) Met for worship in Bro. 
Schellhous's front room. The friends were present 
from this place and from Mendon, Adams county.—
After preaching, the Lord's Supper was attended. 
The season was delightful. Several participated for 
the first time. Bro. S. has been greatly blessed in 
his family, as well as in his own soul. The particu-
lars of which he may have given in his letter to you 
of a recent date. 
Entered upon our work here Nov. 6th, and with the 
above exception have continued our meetings on the 
Sabbath and nearly every evening to the present time. 
Preached seventeen times. Have visited much from 
house to house, and am happy to say we are now en- 
joying a refreshing season from the presence of the 
Lord. Our house of worship has been the sanctuary 
of the Methodist and Freewill Baptist churches, al-
ternately, for several years. Perfect harmony has 
ever prevailed among them. When our meetings 
had been in progress four or five days, several of the 
prominent members of each of these churches publicly 
confessed their fuith in the doctrines we teach. Sin-
ners then began to tremble and inquire, " What shall 
we do ?" At length Mr. G. (a man of middle age, 
considerable reading, and much respected in this com-
munity,) after listening to a discourse on the resur-
rection of the dead, and to twenty-seven heart-felt ex-
hortations from the brethren, rose in the congregation 
and exclaimed, "The Lord for Christ's sake has for-
given my sins. Praise the Lord, 0 my soul !" &c. 
He then pressed through the crowd, clasped me by 
the neck, and said, " 0 Bro. C., I do thank God that 
he sent you to this place to inform its of his soon 
coining, and to admonish us of our danger. Surely 
if I had not heard you (or preaching of this kind), I 
must unavoidably have been lost. 0, praise the 
Lord ! My friends, help me praise the Lord !" &c. 
The next morning that dear brother was buried with 
Christ in baptism. Since that time the word has 
proved effectual in many hearts. Most of the mem-
bers of both churches, and others who have come in 
from abroad, have heartily embraced the faith. A 
number of precious souls have been converted to God. 
Have had the satisfaction of baptizing, in all, seven. 
Others will go forward soon. The work is still go-
ing on gloriously. In the midst of sickness I con-
tinue to enjoy good health, and a mind to work. 
Praise the Lord, 0 my soul ! Yours as ever, ex-
pecting redemption soon. 
St. Albans, (Ill.), Nov. 25th, 1851. 
P.S. My P. 0. address is as' before, Springfield, 
Ill., care of Dr. M. Helm, who kindly forwardsto me. 
FACTS. 
It is a fact, that the preaching of the Gospel is 
a work ordained by the Lord—(and no Christian 
doubts it.) 
This work is committed to faithful men, by 
whom it must be performed, or woe is theirs—that's 
true. 
Some men preach the law, and not the gospel— 
that's a fact! or, we confess, we don't understand 
either. 
It is also a fact, that some preach neither the 
law nor gospel! but their own notions! 
It is a fact, that the Lord has ordained that 
" they that preach the gospel, shall live of the 
gospel." 
" The laborer is worthy of his hire ;" and yet 
at certain places, the preacher's due is withheld from 
him. This is wrong,—that is a fact. 
There are none too many laborers, of the right 
kind, in the field at present. 
It is a fact, that some have left the field be-
cause they were not supported in it. And- 
Others will be obliged to leave soon, for the 
same reason, if the " chief Shepherd " does not 
come and end their wants ! That's a fact ! 
It is a fact, (as Bro. B. remarked) that some 
people will pray—" Lord, send forth more laborers 
into the vineyard ;" and they will not help support 
those already in it when they are abundantly able ! 
Such people ought to have an angel that needs 
no earthly sustenance, to preach to them—that's a 
fact—if they deserve any preaching at all ! ! 
Will such remember this fact, viz : " That no 
covetous person shall inherit the kingdom of God ?"—
Eph. 5:5 ; 1 Cor. 6:9. 
But there are some who like, Onesiphorus of 
old, " often refresh " the servants of God, and " min-
ister unto them in many things." And for such 
God's servant's will pray—" The Lord grant unto 
them that they may find mercy in that day. " They 
" will not lose their reward." 
There is a wrong somewhere, when subscrib-
ers withhold that which they justly owe for the paper 
they read weekly—that's a fact ! 
If they are able to pay—and are urged to pay 
—and then don't pay for their paper—we conclude 
they don't mean to pay; or else they are slow to un-
derstand—and slow to act—and we fear they will be 
too far behind to have " an abundant entrance admin-
istered to them into the everlasting kingdom "—
when the Master comes ! !—That's a fact. 
If any of the above facts are true in reference 
to any of our readers, and they are guilty, and think 
we mean them—we do—that's a fact, and wish they 
would reform, before it is too late. SIMON. 
Obituary. 
DIED, in Champlain, Nov. 24th, 1851, Bro. Timm-
AS BROOKS, aged 75 years. He had been a great suf-
ferer for several years, but bore it with remarkable 
patience. He looked for his reward at the resurrec- 
tion of the just. 
J. W. B. 
DIED, in Strafford, Vt., Oct. 22d, JUSTIN J. ROIBN-
soN, son and only child of Bro. Jared and Sister Lydia 
Robinson. aged five years, nine months, and 24 days. 
He was amiable and lovely, and his parents deeply 
feel his loss, and we sympathize with them. 
B. S. REYNOLDS. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
French Affairs. 
The English and French papers are filled almost entirely 
with the incidents connected with Louis Napoleon's coup 
d'etat. The London Morning Chronicle says the news, when 
carefully sifted, seems to exhibit the completeness rather than 
the qualified character of the President's success. 
Barricades had been erected, but the want of heart mani-
fested in defending them may be taken as the measure of the 
inclination to resist. Among the population of the Fan-
bourgs, had there been an armed opposition at all, we might 
have imagined that inaction was the resource of men who 
had waited their opportunity, whereas there can now be lit-
tle doubt that it is the result of indifference. 
The Republican leaders, though appealing to the people 
both in the name of the laws and of Socialism, have been 
unable to create a tumult of the smallest moment. 
Private advice,: state that the recent fighting was of a char-
acter more fearful than that of June, 1848, and that no quar-
ter was given. It is also stated, that souse of the troops have 
joined the people, and that Gen. Magnau, the commander-in-
chief of the garrison in Paris, was inclined to declare against 
the President. 
The President decrees-1st. The National Assembly is 
dissolved. 2d. Universal suffrage is re-established-the law 
of the 31st of May is repealed. 3d. The French people are 
convoked in their elective colleges from the 14th to the 21st 
of Dec. 4th. The state of siege is decreed of the first mili-
tary division. 5th. The Council of State is dissolved. 
The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution 
of this decree. The President, through the Prefect of Po-
lice, addressed a proclamation to the citizens of Paris. 
On the President's appearance in the streets on Tuesday, 
he was received without any enthusiasm. " Vive la Repub-
lique !" was the only cry uttered by the people. No attempts 
were made to repress the expression, and the attitude of the 
troops was calm and firm. 
The following is the President's appeal to the people : 
FRENCHMEN-The present situation cannot last much 
longer. Each day the situation of the country becomes 
worse. The Assembly, which ought to be the firmest sup-
porters of order, has become a theatre of plots. The patriot-
ism of three hundred of its members could not arrest its fatal 
tendencies. Instead of making laws for the general interest 
of the people, it was forting arms for civil war. It attacked 
the power I hold directly -from the people ; it encouraged 
every evil passion ; it disturbed the repose of France. I 
have dissolved it, and nuke the whole people judge between 
me and it. The Constitution, as you know, had been made 
with the object of weakening, befOrehand, the powers you 
entrusted to me. Six millions of votes were a striking pro-
test against it, and yet I have faithlully exercised it. Provo-
cations, calumnies, outrages, found me passive, but now that 
the fundamental part is no longer respected by those who in-
cessantly invoke it, and the men who nave already destroyed 
two monarchies, wish to tie up my hands, in order to over-
throw the Republic, my duty is to battle their perfidious 
projects, to maintain the Republic, and to save the country, 
by appealing to the solemn judgments of the only sovereign 
I recognize in France-the people. 
I then make a loyal appeal to the entire nation, and i say 
to you, if you wish to continue this state of disquietude, that 
degrades you, and endangers the future, choose another per-
son in toy place, for I no longer wish for a place which is 
powerless for good, but which makes me responsible for acts 
which I cannot hinder, and chains me to the helm when I 
see the vessel rushing on the abyss. If, on the contrary, you 
have still confidence in me, give me the means of accomplish-
ing the grand mission I hold from you. 
That mission consists in closing the era of revolution, in 
satisfying the legitimate wants of the people, and in protect-
ing them against subversive passions. It consists especially 
to create institutions which survive men, mid are the founda-
tion on which something durable is based. Persuaded that 
the instability of power, and the preponderance of a single 
Assembly, are the permanent cause of trouble and discord, I 
submit to your Suffrages the fundamental bases of a Constitu-
tion which the Assemblies will develope hereafter : 
1. A responsible Chief, named for ten years. 2. The Min-
isters dependent upon the Exechtive alone. 3. A Council of 
State, formed of the most distinguished men, preparing the 
laws, and maintaining the discussion before the Legislative 
corps. 4. A Legislative corps discussing and voting the 
laws named by universal suffrage, without scrutin de liste, 
which falsifies the election. 5. A second Assembly, formed 
of all the illustrious persons of the nation-a preponderating 
guardian of the fundamental part of public liberty. 
This system, created by the First Consul in the beginning 
of the present century, has already given to France reprise 
and prosperity. It guarantees them still. Such is my pro-
found conviction. If you partake it, declare so by your suf-
frages. If, on the contrary, you prefer a government without 
force, monarchical or republican, borrowed from some chi-
merical future, reply in the negative. 
Thus, then, for the first time since 1848 you will vote with 
complete knowledge of the fact, and knowing for whom and 
for what you vote. If I do not obtain the majority of the 
votes, I will summon a new Assembly, and lay down before 
it the mission I have received from you ; but if you believe 
that the cause of which my name is the symbol,-that is, 
France, regenerated by the revolution of '89, and organized 
by the Emperor, is still yours,-proclaim it to lie so by rati-
fying the power I demand of you ; then France and Europe 
will preserved front anarchy, obstacles will be removed, 
rivalries will have disappeared ; for all will respect the will 
of the people,-the decree of Providence. 
Palace of te Elysee, this 2d day of December. 
LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 
In an address to the army, the President entreats them to 
be proud of their mission, as to them he looks to save the 
country. He says, vote freely as citizens, but, as soldiers, 
do not forget that passive obedience to the orders of the 
Chief of the Government is the rigorous duty of the army, 
from the general down to the soldier, to be ready to repress 
all attempts against the free exercise of the sovereignty of 
the people. He then concludes : " Soldiers, I do not speak 
o yoU of the recollections attached to my name. They are 
engravers on your hearts. We are united by indissoluble ties. 
Your history is mine. There is between us in the past a 
community of glory and misfortune. There shall be in the 
future a community of sentiments and resolutions for the re-
pose and grandeur of France." 
Among those arrested are Generals Changarnier, Bede-au, 
Cavaignae, Lamoriciere, Leflo, Col. Cyarris, M. Thiers, 
Baze, Brum, and others. It is said that Lainoriciere after-
wards escaped. 
The Minister of War made an address to the Generals of 
the army. The soldiers were to vote for a President within 
forty-eight hours. Yes, or No, is simply to be replied to the 
following proposition :-" The French people wish the main-
tenance of the authority of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and 
entrusts hint with the powers necessary to frame a Constitu-
tion on the basis mentioned in his proclamation of the 2d 
instant." 
By the arrival of the Cunard steamship Canada, with 
three days' later news, we are put in possession of the fol-
lowing additional particulars. 
The whole vote of the army was 65,289, 61,456 were in 
favor of Louis Napoleon, 3,749 against him, arid 84 refrained 
from voting. 
No less than four more departments had been placed in a 
state of siege, but serious disturbances were few and of lim-
ited extent. The whole number of arrests is stated at 1800. 
M. Thiers is again arrested, anti sent to the Prussian 
front ter. 
Many members of the Mountain have fled the country. 
In the Nievre, the Socialists, during a short ascendancy, 
burned the registers and archives, and destroyed much prop-
erty. 
The Count de Chambord (Henry V.) had sought an inter-
view with the Austrian Prime Minister at Vienna, but had 
been told that Louis Napoleon must receive the countenance 
of all monarchical cabinets. 
Seventy-three newspapers have been suspended in France. 
Several of the Paris papers, after the coup d'etat, appeared 
without editorial continents. 
A letter from Jerome Bonaparte to the President is pub-
lished, advising moderation, and a genuine appeal to the 
people. 
Several legions of the National Guard have been dis-
banded for exhibiting disaffection. 
A Paris date of the 2d mentions the following circumstance, 
which shows that the President, in his coup, only anticipated 
a similar movement on the part of the majority of the As-
sembly :-" The President of the Republic was informed 
last night, that a meeting was held at Gen. Changarnier's 
'house, attended by M. Thiers, M. Baze, and others of the 
chiefs of parties, at which it was decided that the coup 
against the President should be made this very day-that is, 
that he should be arrested, the Assembly prorogued, or dis-
solved, and no doubt the Republic abolished." 
The editor of the N. Y. Herald, in an article relating to 
French affairs, says :-" During our recent visit to France, 
we made it a very earnest subject of our investigation to as-
certain, from all sources, the probable destiny of that coun-
try, and the chances which any species of republican or other 
government had for permanence and popularity. According 
to the best of our judgment, we are very much disposed to 
believe that Louis Napoleon, from the very boldness of his 
coup d'etat, and the imperial traditions still hanging around 
his name, will be able to carry out, in every point of view, 
his programme of revolution, which he has promulgated by 
proclamation in Paris, and throughout the departments. He 
will, no doubt, have strong elements of opposition to contend 
against amongst the Socialists, Red Republicans, the Orlean-
ists, and the Bourbonists, of various shadei and characters. 
But he never would have again appealed to universal suffrage 
unless tinder the strong conviction, that in the excitement of 
the moment, and in the enthusiasm created by his coup d'etat, 
he could procure his own re-election, and the return of two 
Chambers composed of friends of his system and his pro-
gramme." 
The day on which Louis Napoleon made his bold move-
ment, (Dec. 2d,) was the anniversary of the coronation of 
the Emperor Napoleon in 1804, and of the battle of Auster-
litz, in 1805. 
Beyond a violent agitation in the other capitals of Europe, 
consequent upon the critical state of affairs in France, there 
is no interruption of the public peace. 
Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to Nov. 4th state, 
that a severe chastisement had been inflicted upon the enemy 
by the force under the command of Gen. Somerset. The 
Kaffirs in Fish river, Bush District, have been, repulsed in 
several skirmishes. In the Water Kloof, the enemy was 
beaten back, after several hours' hard fighting, and their 
camp destroyed. The British loss amounted to forty killed 
and wounded, and the Kaffirs killed are estimated at from 
four to five hundred. 
THE REVOLUTION IN CHILL-We find the following 
particulars of the revolution in Chili in the Panama Star of 
Nov. 21st :-" The rebel army, 1300 strong, commanded by 
Carrera and Arteaga, was met by the Government troops, 
850 strong, at Petorca, about forty leagues front Santiago, on 
the 14th inst. They fought for three hours, and the result 
was, the total defeat of the former, with a loss of seventy 
killed, two hundred wounded, and four hundred prisoners, in-
cluding thirty-six officers. Carrera and Arteaga have not been 
taken. The Government army lost fifteen killed and fifty 
wounded. Four hundred of the troops have gone by sea to 
the south to join Bulnes's army, the remainder will sail on 
the 26th for Coquimbo ; so that the affair in the north may 
be considered quelled. In the south, Gen. Cruz has an army 
of 400 regulars, and 2500 militia, the latter badly clothed 
and armed. He has not budged as yet from the province of 
Concepcion. Bulnes, in a few days, will be 011 the frontier 
of that province, with 1000 troops of the line, and 300 mili-
tia, all well armed, clothed, and paid. Bullies appears to be 
determined to run no risks, and is acting cautiously, but he 
will no doubt soon put an end to the revolution. 
The British steamer Gorgon took on the 22d, at Talca-
huano, of the steamer Arauco, (formerly the Vulcan,) from 
the insurgents, she having been declared a pirate by the Chi-
Ilan Government. 
Mr. George Ralston, of King's Creek, Hancock co., Va., 
a few days ago purchased a keg of powder for the purpose of 
blasting rocks, and placed it in his cellar for safe keeping. 
During his absence his little son, aged six years, not being 
aware of the consequences, applied a torch to the keg, and 
instantly the whole building was blown to atoms, and the boy, 
with another child, killed, and ten others seriously injured. 
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guarantee of its value, if experience had not already proven 
to the public that it is one of the most effectual remedies for 
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American Vocalist.-This is the best book of the kind in 
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Philadelphia, I a.- .1. Litch, 
North 11 tit street. 
Portland, Ste- W m. Pet tingill. 
Providence, R. 1-A. Pierce. 
Rochester, N. Y.-Win, Busby, 
HartJord, CL-Aaron Clapp. 
Ileuvelton, N. Y.-W. D. G'hoslin 
Homer, N. Y.-J. L. Clapp. 
Lockport, N. Y.-H. Robbins.