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the earth, however great, is only an evidence 
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tion, a beauty, a glory which this world cannot 
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furnish ; yet every one of these yearnings are 
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that is here set in prophecy shall be fulfilled in 
fact, in the world's history, and in the Chris-
tian's grateful experience. 
Earth has been often the scene of great gath-
erings. Many of these are familiar to us. 
Sometimes men have met in countless crowds 
to battle ; sometimes to celebrate the Olympic 
games, and races, and wrestlings ; one time, 
familiar to you all, they came as the Crusaders 
of old, when, under the auspices of a Pope, who 
" As the greatest of all sacrifices was required, we may he assured 
that no other would have sufficed." —Essay on the Atonement • was foolish enough to consecrate such folly, 
How high Thou art! our songs can own 
and at the instigation of Walter the penniless, 
No music Thou couldst stoop to hear! 
But still the Sun's expiring groan 
and Peter the hermit, who had nothing better 
Is vocal iii the Father's ear. 
to do, they set out to recover the desolate tomb 
How pure Thou art! our hands are dyed 
With curses, red with murder's hue— 
of a dead Christ, instead of going forth to preach 
But He bath stretched His hands to hide 
the risen glory of a living and interceding Christ. 
The sins that pierced them from thy view. 
How strong Thou art ! we tremble lest 
Incidental evils have accompanied all great 
The thunders of thine arm be moved— 
gatherings ; but if there have been incidental 
But He is lying on thy breast, 
 
And thou must clasp thy best Beloved! 
evils, as there will be in this great .city at this 
now kind Thou art! Thou didst not choose remarkable time, I believe there will be perma- 
To joy in Hint for ever so; 
But that embrace thou wilt not lose 
nent, I hope, everlasting good. I do not believe 
For venzeance, didst for love forego! 
that the evil will anything like counterbalance 
High God, and pure, find strong, and kind! 
The low, the foul, the feeble, spare! 
the good. There are afloat many prophecies 
Thy brightness in His face we rind— 
Behold our darkness only there ! 
of evil ; many auguries of mischief offered in 
all shapes from all quarters on the present gath-
ering in this metropolis. I will never gather 
Anticipation and Contrast. dead leaves from my garden if I can find beau- 
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tiful roses; I will not look on the dark side of 
BY TILE REV. JOHN GUMMING. D. D. 
the picture, which may not be, but rather on 
" And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; the bright side, which possibly will be : at all 
and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. events, I will not anticipate evil ; I will rejoice 
And the foundations of the wall of the city were gar- in expecting good ; and if I am disappointed, I 
nished with all mariner of precious stones. The can only then patiently submit. Scepticism 
first foundation was jasper ; the second, sapphire ; has had its conferences, superstition its con-
the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the claves, Rome has had her jubilees ; why should 
fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius ; the seventh, not England have an enjoyment, if it be only 
chrysolite ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz 
the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth : for a day ? Consecrated it has been ; blessed 
the twelvth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates let us hope it will be •; and instead of prophesy-
were twelve pearls ; every several gate was of one ing evil, like birds of ill omen, let us rather 
pearl ; and the street of the city was pure gold, as it help on the good that is possible, and avert the 
were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein ; evil that is contingent. The present is the 
fur the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the greatest arid most miscellaneous gathering that 
temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, has been since the days of Pentecost itself. The 
neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of 
God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. tares and the wheat are together ; the gold and 
Arid the nations of them which are saved shall walk the alloy ; the good and the bad ; the frivolous 
in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring and the serious ; the gay and the grave. Their 
their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it inner hearts are not more diversified than are 
shall not be shut at all by day : for there shall be no their outer costumes and expression of counte-
night there. And they shall bring the glory and nance. 
honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no That gathering, however, is no accident. I 
wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither what- do not believe there is such a thing in all God's 
soever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie : but 
they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. universe as accident. Not the fall of the tiniest 
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, insect on its wing is an accident, any more 
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God than the fall of a monarch from his high throne. 
and of the Lamh. In the midst of the street of it, All are emissaries, all are missionaries, and 
and on either side of the river, was there the tree of great good the issue. Optimism, in my judg-
life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded merit, is the grand guarantee of the gospel of 
her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the nations. And there grace. - This gathering of the nations is elo-
shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and quent in lessons to us, and ought to call for se- 
of the Lamb shall be in it ; and his servants shall rious thought and solemn prayer. It is to the 
serve him; and they shall see his face; and his pulpit and to the pew an opportunity of doing 
name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall good, the highest good, everlasting good to the 
be no night there ; and they need no candle, neither souls of mankind. 
light of the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them light : Every such attempt is an effort of man to 
and they shall reign for ever and ever."—Rev. 21: 
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reach that perfection which was his first des- 
tiny ; and it is a confession upon man's part 
Scenes that are developng themselves around that he feels the want of something, and that 
us have suggested the reading and study of the he is anxious, and that he will labor, if possible, 
exquisite imagery prefixed to this chapter. I to recover it. The most beautiful painting we 
have examined these words, "God be merciful can look at ; the most finished poem we can 
unto us, and bless us ; and cause his face to read ; the most glorious structure I can contem-
shine upon us ;" i. e., make us a truly Chris- plate, are all efforts of man to reach a perfec-
tion people, that, in the language of the Psalm- tion of which he has vague and inextinguisha-
ist, " thy ways iaay be known upon the earth, ble recollections ; a perfection, too, the very at-
and thy saving health among the crowds of na- tempt to reach which is not only a prophecy, 
tions from the ends of the earth that are gath- but an augury of the fulfilment of God's prom- 
ered together in this great city." 
ise, that this air shall not always resound with 
The very perusal of the apocalyptic picture the tramp of battle-steeds, the rolling of the 
suggests, by way of contrast, the evanescence of war drum, and the sound of the clarion, and 
all that is an approximation to it. Man tries that this earth shall not always be steeped in 
to imitate the heavenly, but his brightest and tears, and torn with graves—that sickbeds, and 
most beautiful approximation is only the more sorrows, and crosses shall not always be ; that 
one day, and 1 believe SOONER than some imag- The palace in Hyde Park was opened the 
ine, the New Jerusalem will come down from other day by prayer. That was a noble fea-
heaven, and the world shall close as the world ture. That was the Great Exhibition. The 
began,—with Paradise itself. 
only sad thought I had about it, some month's 
The prediction which I have read from the ago, was, lest this should not be the case. On 
book of Revelation, describes a descent upon the Continent of Europe, they will not open a 
the earth, not an erection upon it. We per- railway till the priest conies to bless it ; nor 
ceive in the opening of the 21st chapter, that, will they start an engine until the Archbishop 
in apocalyptic vision, "John saw the holy city, says a mass for its welfare. And what they do 
New Jerusalem, coming down from heaven as in their superstition, surely we, who have a 
a bride adorned for her husband." It did not brighter and purer faith, and nobler hopes, 
grow out of the earth like a flower made of the ought not to leave undone ; and therefore I am 
earth's materials, and destined with the earth thankful that the edifice was opened with prayer. 
to decay, but it comes down from heaven. Its But this great edifice described in the Apoca-
origin is heavenly, its destiny is heavenly; its lypse, will not be opened with prayer, but with 
character is therefore essential and unmingled praise. It will be consecrated, not by the pres-
purity. It comes down, it is said, from heaven, ence of an earthly, but'by the glory of a heav-
and is planted on the earth, and it shall exhibit enly King; and the hymn that shall be sung 
a glory the very reading of whose record is mu- at the opening of this palace will not be a pro-
sic. When one listens to some one reading phetic, but an accomplished hallelujah—" The 
these two last chapters of the Apocalypse, it is Lord God omnipotent reigneth ; and the king-
as if we listened to the sweetest strains of the doms of this world are "—not will he—" become 
most majestic oratorio. The thoughts are so the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ." It 
magnificent, the language so poetical, that all shall have " no need," we are told, of the sun, 
that Shakspeare wrote, or Milton conceived, neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory 
sink into insignificance in comparison with of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light 
these grand accents of the son of Zebedee, the thereof." A Sabbath cairn shall repose on it 
fisherman of the lake of Gennesareth : "And I perpetually; every acre of it shall be holy, 
John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, com• every pulse of every inmate a Sabbath bell, 
ing down from God out of heaven," presenting every breath shall be fragrance, all sounds 
a glory, a magnificence, a splendor without shall be music, all scenes beauty, and this earth 
comparison, as it is without companion. shall yet be the holy chancel of that grand 
The reading of it suggests contrast. That ternple which is composed of the whole universe 
great structure raised in Hyde Park. beautiful of God ; and Christ, the High Priest, in the 
as it is, is nevertheless full of flaws and imper- midst of it, shall minister to us, and we serve 
fections. The rains will pierce it; it is liable and praise him without ceasing. Such is a 
to a thousand contingenci2s. An earthquake Christian's hope. Not a poet's dream is this, 
may gulp it down ; the hurricane may sweep but a Christian's hope, guaranteed by the oath 
it away; a single flash of lightning from God's and unfailing promise of our God. 
cloud may leave it, and all its glory, a misera- It is added, as a characteristic of this future 
ble wreck; a disorderly mob—though there is temple, that " there shall be no night there." 
no reason to anticipate that—may break it up; Night is used in the Scriptures both in the 
decay will lay its ten thousand wasting fingers sense of physical darkness and of moral igno-
upon it by-and-by ; and if decay do not, the rance, or of both. Now, in that future temple 
men that built it will be required to take it there shall be no night ; no dark pall shall be 
down ; so that it will have started up to show spread over it : none of its inmates shall be 
what man can do, and it will have gone away ever compelled to leave it ; no bird of night 
to tell us that all that man does is evanescent, shall hover over it; no haze or mist shall con- 
and that we should look not here but beyond teal its splendors : the Sun of righteousness 
for "a house not made with hands, eternal in himself shall shine upon it; and the sun that 
the heavens ;" a fabric that shall not know de- shines day by day from his meridian throne, 
cay, that shall endure for ever and ever. The shall be of no more use, amid the present and 
palace I have spoken of is doomed to decay ; immediate splendors of the fountain from which 
the palace of the age to come shall last for aye. he is filled, than the glow-worm at noon-day, 
Ruby rocks will be its foundation ; the quarried or the farthing candle amid the blaze of the 
gems of the earth will be its stones ; the very now noontide sun. There shall be no night 
dust that lies upon it will be the dust of dia. there, in this sense, that there shall be no need 
monds ; and all there will be perfect as it will for resting. We cannot do without night now. 
be pure. There will be no element of decay ; If it were ceaseless day, this frail machine of 
no hostile power from without ; its origin is ours—this wonderful machinery—this strange 
from above ; its guardian will be Omnipotence; mysterious engine—this harp with a thousand 
its duration will be eternity ! 
strings, would be worn out, wasted, and done 
One cannot pass without asking, have we up. Night conies with its broad, cool shad-
any hope of being citizens of that no mean city ? ows, and we lie down to obtain rest for our 
Have we any prospect of entering into that exhausted limbs, and repose for the over-excited 
palace not made with hands, and of admiring and wrought-up-mind ; but in that better land, 
what the nations will bring into it—their glory, in that great palace not made with hands, we 
their magnificence, and their riches, throned shall never weary examining the glories that 
upon which shall be no earthly, though beloved the nations bring into it ; we shall need no 
monarch, but the Prince of the kings of the night for the repose of the limbs, or to repair 
earth, whose crown is an everlasting crown, and the exhaustion of mind. The body shall be a 
whose dominion knoweth no end ? 
wing, not a weight to the soul ; and on unwea- 
This divine creation, this crystal palace on ried pinion, we shall move from space to space, 
the earth—and I believe it will be on the earth, ever striking out new glories, ever smitten 
for it is said to " come down from God out of with new admiration, ever giving uttererance 
heaven," and " like unto clear glass "—bath no to new praise, ever magnifying him who is 
need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, throned on the riches of all, and to whose 
as stated in the beautiful chapter from which 1 glory, and for whose pleasure, all things are 
have selected my motto. There will be no ob- and were created. There will also be no 
scoring cloud ; there will be no overhanging night in that better rest, in the sense that there 
shadow ; there will be no exhaling mist ; there will be no ignorance there. Let any of the 
will be no portion on which bright light shall uninitiated and unartistic go into the beautiful 
not shine, and no object that will not bear the creation in Hyde Park, and look upon the ex-
brightest light to be concentrated on it. Solo- quisite gems from one quarter, the intricate ma- 
mon's temple, 1 believe, is a blot in comparison chinery from another, and the texile fabrics 
with this ; and the most magnificent creation of from a third, and he will neither understand 
human genius, the concentrated splendor of all their meaning, nor history, nor object, nor how 
the combined cathedrals of England and of and by whom they were originally made. We 
Europe, will only be tp this great temple of the have but a narrow horizon for our minds to 
universe as the tiny light of the lamp is to the move in ; we have but weak eyes to examine, 
sun's, when he shines from his meridian throne. and partial light, or rather, ignorant minds, to 
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thistles succeeded the fruits of Eden, and the 
sentence of death went forth against Adam and 
all his unborn posterity. And we have abun-
dant reason to believe that this judicial curse 
extended to every living thing—" the creature 
was made subject to vanity, not willingly," as 
well as man ; and " the whole creation groan-
eth and travaileth in pain together until now." 
The science of geology, as presented by 
President Hitchcock, is full of attractions, and 
full of dangers. We think Dr. Hitchcock has 
no suspicion of the unhappy influence his book 
is exerting, and notwithstanding its religious as-
pects, we hazard nothing in saying that a latent 
skepticism in regard to the supreme authority 
of the Bible has been awakened by it in many a 
mind, hitherto reposing in undisturbed faith in 
the oracles of God. We think the remarakble 
phenomena presented by geology, may be solved 
without the skeptical idea, that death was be-
fore sin. The lapse of six thousand years, must 
make creation hoary, and the convulsions of 
earth, especially those of the general deluge, 
furnish the solid stepping-stones, by which we 
may solve the mystery appertaining to the im-
bedded tribes of the animal kingdom. Although 
the skeletons of men, may be supposed wanting 
to complete the chain of evidence, further dis-
coveries may reveal this evidence. But it is 
enough for us, that the Bible has disclosed the 
fact, that death is the fruit of sin, and we have on 
belief that geology has any other revelation, on 
this point, which can for a moment be trusted. 
We are sorry to see, that so good a journal 
as the " Puritan Recorder," puts in its plea, 
for the daring assumptions of geology. It speaks 
indeed with caution, but it leaves no doubtful 
impression on the mind of the reader, as to its 
confidence in the deductions of geology, and 
what are called its facts. We would earnestly 
commend to all who search the mysteries of na-
ture, that profound humility, which overawed 
and subdued the mind of Newton, as he traced 
the foot-prints of the Creator that supreme rev-
erence for his word, which accompanied him 
in all the excursions of his unrivalled genius. 
It is only thus, that the word of God preserves 
its ascendancy over the mind, and guards it 
from the onsets of unsanctified science, and a 
vain philosophy. 
The question naturally arises, Why is such 
interest felt and manifested for the circulation 
of the Bible? What mighty interests adhere 
to this household volume ? Why is it to be 
sown, as by the winds, over the length and 
breadth of our country ; nay, of the world ? 
What claim has it upon the gratitude of the 
race, that it should be singled out from all the 
productions of the human mind, and receive 
this pre-eminent glory ? Why is not our zeal 
equally awakened for the circulation of other 
works of genius ? the great productious of mas-
ter minds of different ages; works of poetry and 
history, of art and science, of government and 
religion ? The answer to these questions is 
to be found in the character and nature of the 
Bible. It is unlike all other books. It bears a 
relation to human wants and destiny, render-
ing it wholly unique and of such absorbing in-
terest as places every other book at a measure-
less moral distance from it. In one word, the 
Bible is not a human production. It is a special 
and miraculous revelation from God to man. 
As such, it is manifestly of the last importance 
that all men should as speedily as possible be 
made acquainted with its contents. No one 
will doubt this. To entertain any other view 
would be to charge its infinite Author with folly. 
It is consequently obligatory on those who pos-
sess this sacred treasure to communicate it to 
others. 
We presume there are few present (we should 
hope none) who are disposed to deny to the 
Bible the sublime character here attributed to 
it, and which is implied by the Christian faith. 
" The fool," and, as has been shrewdly re-
marked, the fool only, " hath said in his heart, 
there is no God." For everything around us 
and within us testifies his existence ; and I have 
no hesitancy in saying, that to deny the divine 
authenticity of the Christian Scriptures is evi-
dence of an ignorant head or a corrupt heart. 
We make this assertion not without a full view 
of the proofs by which it is sustained. The 
evidences of revealed religion are various and 
abundant, and rest on the soundest principles of 
philosophy. In proof of this it is enough to say, 
that Bacon, and Newton, and Locke were Chris-
tians—not merely in name, but made such by 
a thorough examination of the foundations on 
which our holy religion rests—Christians in be-
life, in heart, and in practice. We mention these 
names, not because a thousand others could not 
be enumerated, which have adorned the Chris-
tian profession, and stand conspicuously on the 
pages of history ; but because Bacon, and New-
ton, and Locke, were not only men of transcend-
ant genius and profound learning, but may be 
styled the fathers of modern science. And who 
are the votaries of infidelity, that alone claim to 
bring to bear on the investigation of the subjects 
submitted to us. And as we walk through 
this earthly palace, we shall meet with many 
we do not know, some disposed to plunder us, 
others willing to help us; most of them men 
of strange tongues, strange dresses, manners, 
and habits. But when we shall meet in the 
palace that shall glow in the splendors of an 
unsetting sun, all there shall speak their own 
tongues, but they shall be to our ears only as 
different dialects of the same catholic tongue. 
We shall all praise the same God, and we 
shall be able each to say " Amen " to the praise 
of all. And those costumes which are now so 
various, shall all be exchanged for robes white 
and clean, washed in the blood of the Lamb; 
arrayed in which, we shall hold palms of vic-
tory in our hands :—the mother meeting the 
babe she lost in infancy; the friend recognizing 
in the resurrection features the long-severed 
friend ; circles broken up on earth, meeting 
again, and all made happy in the affection of 
each other, because all are happy in the pres-
ence of God and of the Lamb. " There shall 
be no night there."—(To be continued) 
Geological Theorizers. 
When we commenced, six or eight years 
since, to question the tendency of the teach-
ings of many writers on Geological science, we 
are not aware that the editor of a single re-
ligious journal had called attention to the sub-
ject—i. e., to show that the authority of the 
Scriptures is being thus undermined by many 
professed Christians. Since then, however, we 
have been pleased to notice that one and ano-
ther are seeing the boldness of geological pre-
tensions. We have before shown that known 
geological facts harmonize with the letter of 
Scripture, while geological theories are in op-
position ; and that geological facts cannot be 
harmonized with these anti-scriptural theories. 
The following article from the Panoplist—a 
well conducted periodical in this city, takes the 
same general view. 
The science of geology has lately become 
very bold in its pretensions. In the hands of 
President Hitchcock, it has abated nothing of 
its claims. On the contrary, those views of 
geology which in our view subtract materially 
from the authority of the Scriptures, are viewed 
by Dr. Hitchcock with evident complacency. 
We do not mean to say that he intends to 
weaken the claims of the Bible, but we think 
this is the necessary effect of his teachings and 
speculations on this subject. It is impossible for 
us to avoid this conclusion. 
Dr. Hitchcock thinks that the facts of geology 
warrant the belief, that innumerable tribes of 
animals inhabited this earth, prior to the crea-
tion of man. They lived and died on its surface ; 
their history is written with" the point of a dia-
mond, and is graven with an iron pen upon the 
rock forever." Now this theory, in our view, 
comes directly in conflict with the Bible. We 
think it has no claims in the matter of analogy 
to the argument drawn from the Copernican 
system, which is often quoted in its support. 
That system was said to be in connexion with 
the Bible, because it asserted that the sun and 
stars did not actually rise and set ; and the ar-
gument was that if the system were true, that 
the world goes round the sun, it is contrary to 
the Bible, which being the word of God, must 
be true, in opposition to any and every system. 
Therefore the world could not revolve round the 
sun. But when the Copernican system was 
announced, there was still an apparent rising 
and setting sun, which sufficiently answered the 
objection and warranted the use of such lan-
guage in the Scriptures—it was practically true 
that the sun rose and set, it was really true, 
that in respect to this earth, the sun was sta-
tionary. 
But is there any such principle of harmony, 
between what are called the facts of geology, 
and the facts of the Bible ? Geology asserts, 
that death preceded the creation of man, that in 
the animal kingdom, death reigned for ages, be-
fore man was formed. The Bible declares, that 
by one, man, " sin entered the world and death 
by sin." Geology asserts, that this world was 
one vast sepulchre ; that its rocks and caverns 
were filled with memorials of death before man 
was created. But the Bible declares, that after 
man's creation, " God saw every thing which 
he had made, and behold it was very good." 
Where then was the garden of Eden ? Did 
it spread its walks of beauty over the domain 
of death ? Did its tree of life and the forbid-
den tree of knowledge spring up from the abodes 
of corruption ? Is it possible to conceive of such 
a paradise, in a world already the empire of 
death.? The Bible expressly informs us, that 
life or death were to be the fruit of obedience or 
disobedience, and that immediately upon the 
fall of man, the ground was cursed for his sake, 
the face of nature was changed; thorns and 
have sufficient penetration to discover the in-
sufficiency of the Christian evidences? Who 
are to fill up the shallowness of these illustrious 
men, and, after so many ages of darkness under 
the teachings of prophets and apostles, are at 
length to show mankind the true wisdom ? 
They are men generally destitute of moral 
principle, and of openly profligate lives. And 
if they are sometimes found intoxicated, it is 
not chargeable on their having drank copiously 
at the pure fountains of philosophy. The true 
secret of their infidelity is to be found in their 
wickedness. But in the language of the great 
Phillips, (the Irish barrister.)" In despite of all 
their scoff and scorn and menacing, I say of the 
sacred volume they would obliterate, it is a book 
of facts, as well authenticated as any heathen 
history,— a book of miracles, incontestably 
avouched,—a book of prophecies, confirmed by 
past as well as present fulfilment,—a book of 
poetry, pure, natural, and elevated, even to in-
spiration,—a book of miracles, such as human 
wisdom never framed for the perfection of hu-
man happiness." Such is the character of that 
incomparable volume which we commend to the 
notice and offer for the reception of our fellow 
men. 
The ancient Greeks had one sentence, which 
they believed, though without evidence, to have 
been inspired, to have descended from heaven ; 
and they inscribed it in letters of gold upon the 
front of the most splendid of their temples.—
They endeavored to fix it under the gaze of 
every eye ; and that he who ran might read it. 
We have an entire volume, not of doubtful, but 
of certain inspiration. What gratitude, then, 
should we show to God for this unspeakable 
gift ; and what efforts should we make to im-
part it to our fellow men. Whatever there is 
of sage wisdom in that heaven-descended pre-
cept of the Delphic oracle, " Guathi scantori" 
—know thyself ; if it be the consummation of 
all human attainment to know ourselves, and to 
know the nature and extent of our obligations 
to ourselves, to society, and to God ; you need 
riot be told that this knowledge never was, 
nor never can be, derived from the intellectual 
and moral absurdities which constitute every 
system of heathen religion. This boasted revela-
tion, therefore, of the Greek had but little influ-
ence upon human life and manners, and none 
at all upon human destiny. It is truly valuable 
only when read in the light of the Christian 
Scriptures. 
And we now ask, what is wanting in the 
character of the Bible to render it worthy of its 
divine original, and worthy of universal accep-
tation among men ? In what is it wanting to 
adapt it to its purpose, and render it subservient 
to human welfare ? Is it defective in the range 
of its subjects ? In this respect it is limited. 
Had it treated upon all subjects—had it discussed 
and answered questions of curious import, or 
only of subordinate interest to man—it would 
have been useless, by the number arid extent of 
its details ; " the world could not have contained 
the books which Must have been written." The 
wisdom and goodness of God are then displayed 
in confining revelation to questions vital to our 
peace and happiness. And this appears from 
another view. Other knowledge was attainable 
by the use of our own faculties ; and the desire 
and pursuit of this knowledge was designed to 
supply motive and activity to the mind ; scope 
for its exercise, and the means of its develop-
ment. The Bible does not prohibit any useful 
knowledge ; but it adapts itself to man's pres-
ent state, as initiatory and progressive ; one of 
activity and pursuit, rather than of contempla-
tion and enjoyment. 
The truth which lay beyond the reach of 
man's faculties, and which it most behooved 
him to know, was moral and religious truth; 
and here the Bible is full and complete. In re-
gard to other knowledge, its language is," What 
thou knowest not now, thou shalt know here-
after." But it gives us present knowledge of all 
that relates to duty, and to man's chief good. 
To begin with the great truth which lies at 
the foundation of every moral system, the ex-
istence of God, and his nature and character—
is the Bible defective in information upon these 
all-important subjects ? These truths emblazon 
every page front Genesis to Revelation. And 
the reader of the Bible is the only human being 
that has any just conceptions of the nature and 
character of him who made him, or even of his 
existence. Creation and Providence, without 
the aid of a divine teacher, never communicated 
this knowledge to man. Hence, as the light of 
revelation faded away front those lands where 
it first shone, these truths became less and less 
distinct, till they were utterly lost. And the 
knowledge of them can only be restored to 
those lands by restoring to them the Bible.—
There is not an instance of this knowledge 
being regained through any other means than 
the gospel. And even in Christian lands it is 
only such as are familiar with the sacred ora-
cles that entertain worthy views of the Divine 
Being. 
And are the Scriptures defective in informa-
tion respecting the human soul ? Certain it is 
that such knowledge is to be found nowhere 
Words. 
The late work of Trench on etymology, his-
tory, and change of the meanings of words, is 
one of the most interesting and curious works 
of the kind ever published since Horne Tooke 
put forth his diversions of Purley. We give 
the following as specimens : 
DEGENERATED WORDS. 
How many words men have dragged down-
ward with themselves, and made partakers more 
or less of their own fall ! Having originally an 
honorable significance, they have yet, with the 
deterioration and degeneration of those that 
used them, deteriorated and degenerated too. 
What a multitude of words, originally harmless, 
have assumed a harmful as their secondary mean-
ing ; how many worthy have acquired an un-
worthy ! Thus " knave " meant once no more 
than lad, (nor does it now in German mean 
more ;) " villain " than peasant ; a " boor " was 
only a farmer ; a " varlet " was but a serving-
man ; a " churl " but a strong fellow. " Time-
server" was used two hundred years ago quite 
as often for one in an honorable as in a dis-
honorable sense, " serving the time." " Con-
ceits " had once nothing conceited in them ; 
" officious " had reference to offices of kindness, 
and not of busy meddling ; " moody " was that 
which pertained to a man's mood, without any 
gloom or sullenness implied ; " demure " (which 
is " des mceurs," of good manners) conveyed 
no hint, as it does now, of an overdoing of the 
outward demonstrations of modesty. In " crafty " 
and "cunning " there was nothing of crooked 
wisdom implied, but only knowledge and skill; 
craft," indeed, still retains very often its more 
honorable use, a man's " craft " being his skill, 
and thenthe
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c trade in which he is well skilled. 
And 
you that the Magdalen could have 
ever given us " maudlin " in its present con-
temptuous application, if the tears of penitential 
weeping had been held in due honor in the world? 
" Tinsel," from the French " etincelle," meant 
once any thing that sparkles or glistens ; thus 
cloth of tinsel " would be cloth inwrought 
with silver and gold ; but the sad experience 
that " all is riot gold that glitters," that much 
which shows fair and specious to the eye is yet 
worthless in reality, has caused the word im-
perceptibly to assume the meaning which it now 
has ; and when we speak of " tinsel," either 
literally or figuratively, we always mean now 
that which has no reality of sterling worth un-
derlaying the glittering and specious show which 
it makes. " 'Tawdry," which is a word of cu-
rious derivation, though 1 will not pause to go 
into it, has undergone exactly the same pro-
cess; it once conveyed no intimation of mean 
finery, or shabby splendor, as it now does. 
else. What was the knowledge of heathen an-
tiquity on this subject ? Just as satisfactory as 
their whole system of metaphysics—without 
first principles, and spreading out into an end-
less maze of errors ; an interminable field of 
wild and bootless speculations, where the hardy 
adventurer was sure to lose himself, or stick 
fast amidst the fogs and quagmire of his own 
reasonings. Who does not know that all rational 
ideas respecting the nature, condition, and im-
mortality of the soul, may he traced directly to 
divine revelation, and chiefly to the gospel ? 
The glorious dispensation of grace and truth, 
by Christ and his apostles, is the grand instru-
ment of discovery in making known to man a 
future life, the existence of the soul after death, 
and the conditions which abide it. It hence 
challenges to itself the honor of having brought 
life and immortality to light. And laying aside 
the Bible, we challenge the world to show us 
any other source of light sufficient to dispel the 
darkness of the grave. Who, without this in-
spired volume ibefore him, could answer the 
question of Job, "If a man die, shall' he live 
again ?" It is not to be answered by gazing at 
the heavens, or by looking into the mechanism 
of the earth, or the mechanism of the soul it-
self. It is to be learned by looking into the 
Bible. Here it is revealed and authenticated. 
Here we learn that " whosoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me," says Jesus, " shall never die." 
Nay, we are here taught the astonishing doc-
trine, that the body itself is to he rescued from 
the power of death, and to be re-united to the 
soul in a glorious immortality. " I am the res-
urrection and the life ; whosoever believeth in 
me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." 
This doctrine was revealed at a very early pe-
riod of the world, as long ago at least as the 
days of the Idumean patriarch. We hear him 
exclaiming, in the confidence of that faith which 
is the substance of things hoped for, and the 
evidence of things not seen, " Though after my 
skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh 
shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, 
and not another." The language of the poet 
drew its inspiration not from Parnassus, but 
from Mount Zion : 
" Corruption, earth and worms 
Shall but refine this flesh, 
Till my triumphant spirit comes 
To put it on atresh." 
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211 
THE WORD DUNCE. 
We may all know what a " dunce" is, but 
we may not be as well acquainted with the quar-
ter whence the word has been derived. Certain 
theologians in the middle ages were termed 
schoolmen ; being so called because they were 
formed in the cloister and cathedral schools 
which Charlemagne had founded ; men not to 
be lightly spoken of, as now they often are by 
those who never read a line of their works, and 
have not a tithe of their wit, who moreover, 
little guess how many of the most familiar 
words which they employ, or misemploy, have 
descended to them from these. " Real," " vir-
tual," " entity," " nonenty," " equivocation," all 
these, with many more unknown to classical 
Latin, but which now have become almost ne-
cessities, were first coined by the schoolmen, 
and, passing over front them into the language 
of those more or less interested in their specu-
lations, have gradually filtered through the suc-
cessive strata of society, till now they have 
reached, some of them, to quite the lowest. 
At the revival of learning, however, their 
works fell out of favor ; they were not written 
in classical Latin ; the form in which their 
speculations was thrown was often unattractive; 
it was mainly in their authority that the Romish 
Church found support for its perilled dogmas ; on 
all which accounts, it was considered a mark of 
intellectual progress and advance to have broken 
with them and altogether thrown off their yoke. 
Some, however, still clung to these schoolmen, 
and to one in particular, Thins Scotus, the great 
teacher of the Franciscan order ; and many 
times an adherent of the old learning would 
seek to strengthen his position by an appeal to 
its great doctor, familiarly called Duns ; while 
the others would contemptuously rejoin, " Oh, 
you are a Dunsman ;" or, more briefly, " You 
are a Duns ;" or, " This is a piece of dunsery ;" 
and inasmuch as the new learning was ever en-
listing more and more of the genius and schol-
arship of the age on its side, the title became 
more and more a term of scorn. " Remember 
ye not," says Tyndal, " how, within this thirty 
years and far less, the old barking curs, Dunce's 
disciples, and like draff called Scotists, the chil-
dren of darkness, raged in every pulpit against 
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew ?" 
prejudicies. They are worked upon. Another 
loves in his soul to do good. A pretended op-
portunity is furnished. By such means are men 
swayed, and thrust hither and thither on the 
chess-board, by the solitary aspirant or the sel-
fish conclave. One man would fain have it un-
derstood he is a very brave man. He will blus-
ter, and declare, and positively clinch, with his 
accent, tone, gesture, cast of his countenance, 
what he says. He is known, by his acts, to be one 
of the greatest cowards in the world. Another 
would, by his soft, bland tones, his righteously-
appearing demeanor, palm himself on you as a 
saint. But look out. Another will fulminate 
and browbeat, and declare he hates oppression, 
and is one of the most disinterested of men. 
Give him power, place him in the circumstances, 
and he would prove to be an audacious tyrant, 
as, in fact, he is, and woe to the race ! Another, 
as he is from time to time suspected, will change 
his position, according to the circumstances, 
wrap himself up — wrap himself up ; retire, 
deeper and deeper, into the supposed impene-
trable arcana of his soul, and fancy he is not 
known. Perhaps he is not to some men—to 
most men. Alas, he is to God, and some men 
know him. He will be known by everybody, 
by and by. His acts will speak for themselves. 
Generations are reviewed by their successors. 
The relation of individuals to the mass—the 
responsibility of their acts are estimated ; his-
tory is written; men have time for it, and will 
have ample materials for it. Every man who 
has acted a prominent part will have his appro-
priate niche. 
On the other hand, it is doubtless equally 
true that other men suffer for a time, perhaps 
during their entire lives, perchance throughout 
all time, in the estiinatton of their fellow men, 
because they are not truly known—are misun-
derstood. But truth will ultimately triumph, 
prejudice be overcome. Men often reverse their 
judgments as they better understand each other. 
Let a man fear God and work righteousness, 
and not be concerned about hirnSelf. God will 
take care of his character. " Let thine eyes 
look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight 
before thee. Ponder the paths of thy feet, and let 
all thy ways be established. Turn not to the 
right hand, nor to the left ; remove thy foot from 
evil." In other words, be a man, be a Christian 
man ; be as you should be, and by all means, seem 
as you be. 
Journal and Messenger. 
would walk together to those once renowned 
quarries which fill the suburbs of this town, 
and there we would see where the hammers of a 
thousand workmen had been briskly at work—
the. mighty chiselled blocks, and great obelisks 
lying there as fresh and perfect as if the work, 
men were only at dinner round the other side of 
the mountain—and it is long before the mind 
can divest itself of the illusion ; but, reader, the 
men that hewed these stones have beet) mum-
mies for two thousand years, and for two thou-
sand years naught but the scream of the wild 
eagle, and the howl of the jackal, has broken 
the death-like stillness of this spot, where once 
rose some of Egypt's grandest temples and no-
blest obelisks. 
We left our dahabeeh at Syene, and started 
for Nubia and Philae by the desert route. A 
broad highway opened before us lined with jut-
ting rocks of most fantastic forms. Strange 
castles, and giant forms of Anakims, horrid and 
fearful, projected themselves against the even-
ing sky. And these rocks were many of them 
inscribed with the hieroglyphical names and ex-
ploits of kings, who three thousand years ago 
led their dark battalions along this route for the 
conquest of Ethiopia and the South. A strange 
country this, where the very rocks by the road-
side preach sermons, and tell tales which even 
history has failed to utter. And I can never 
forget, when exhausted and almost fainting 
through the heat, for the sun's rays were yet 
scorching hot, how grateful to me was the shad-
ow of one of these great rocks in this weary 
land, nor how cheerfully we reined up our rest-
less animal, and luxuriated in its welcome 
shade. Soon the road narrowed to a simple 
pass, and our little cavalcade proceeded in 
single file through one of the strangest and 
dreariest passes through which it has ever been 
my lot to pass. We had scarcely seen a human 
habitation since we left Assorean, and the one 
or two human beings that we met grinned and 
stared upon us most insultingly. A little naked 
urchin had brought us a beautiful specimen of 
an Ammonite, and a woman offered us some 
glass beads for baksheesh. But when we had 
gone a little further, and saw before us a run-
ning stream of crystal water foaming upon its 
banks, and vases of the richest emerald green, 
scattered with palm trees, and partly covered 
with an Arab village, with groups of merry chil-
dren, and herds of goats and camels browsing, 
we forgot our heat and toil, and stood, and 
gazed, and wondered at the strange contrast. It 
was called Mahatta, and near by flowed the 
Nile, upon whose waters we are again embarked, 
with our head full of Philae and Osiris. 
Correspondence of the N. V. Ob.erver. 
Persecution of Protestants. 
In the English journals full accounts may be 
seen of the progress of despotism in poor Tus- 
cany. We learn from good authority, that 
the Grand Duke has said that he will exter-
minate Protestantism in his dominions if his 
name be sent down to infamy. This remorse-
less bigotry of the Grand Duke, fostered by all 
the cunning zeal of Rome, is the secret of the 
destructive measures now introduced into Tus-
cany. In a political point of view, there was 
not a shadow of apology for them. The Jews, 
for instance, showed themselves every way 
worthy of their civil rights, granted them in 
1848 ; not a complaint against them was sent 
up to the Government. The Pope's nuncio has 
been the prime mover of the suppression of the 
constitution. 
The Court of Rome has not ceased to remon-
strate against the mildness of the late laws to-
ward this unfortunate race ; and at the growing 
disposition of the people toward Protestant doc-
trine. At last Rome is triumphant. Not an 
obstacle now exists in Tuscany to the execution 
of her will. 
To show what Protestants have to expect, I 
need only point to the case of the Madiais now 
in progress. They (husband and wife) were im-
prisoned last August for having allowed meet-
ings at their house for the reading of the Scrip-
tures. The indictment against them was finally 
made out under the title of blasphemy. The 
trial, deferred again and again, was at last com-
menced on the 21st of April ; thirty-seven wit-
nesses were summoned to testify against them ; 
thirty-six were present at the call ; hut one, a 
servant woman whom they had employed, was 
sick and unable to attend. For this cause the 
trial was again deferred, and the truly worthy 
people were remanded to their cells, to linger 
on in a painful suspense. The man bears the 
disappointment calmly; but poor Mrs. Madiai, 
who has suffered two severe fits of sickness 
during her solitary confinement of eight months, 
was very much overcome. They will probably 
be sentenced at last to a term of years. Very 
posssibly the sentence may be commuted to 
exile. after they have been taken in chains with 
common criminals to the fortress of Piombino. 
A physican, who was recently sentenced to six 
months hard labor there, for consenting to call 
in the Swiss Protestant pastor to visit a dying 
Italian who wished for his services, was released 
after a few days, and exiled for a year ; but 
nothing could dissuade the authorities from the 
petty vengeance of sending him down to the 
galleys in chains in the prison van with some 
malefactors. So they will probably do with Mr, 
and Mrs. Madiai. 
These religious persecutions are only digging 
the grave of Popery. The TUSCatiS now see 
they can have no civil liberty without being in-
dependent of Rome ; and that independence they 
will declare upon the first opportunity. 
Fire in the Woods. 
One who has not seen an extensive confla-
gration in the forests, can hardly conceive the 
majesty of the scene. The writer has often 
been exposed to mighty tempests in winter 
voyages across the Atlantic, but he regards a 
wide-spread fire in the pines as excelling in solemn 
grandeur. There is an awful awakening of 
the conscience, and remembrance of God's de-
dunciations against the finally impenitent, which 
fill the mind with indescribable emotion. 
On one occasion. the alarm of " fire in the 
woods " was given while the congregation was 
attending afternoon service in church. Quietly 
all the male portion of the audience retired—
for a little delay is fatal—and hurried to the 
scene of destruction, about two miles distant, 
with shovels and matches, to throw up a line of 
sand far ahead of the flames, against which to 
" back fire." This is, to start a line of fire, 
which is prevented from advancing by the freshly 
thrown up sand, or the occurrence of a wood 
road, and which draws back gradually towards 
the advancing flames, both columns soon feel-
ing the influence of mutual attraction, and com-
ing together with appalling fury. 
We were thus engaged, when looking behind, 
to our dismay we beheld another fire making 
fearful progress about a mile distant, and near 
to which was a large rank of about two thou-
sand cords of cut wood ready for market. Im-
mediately one-half our force was detached to 
meet this new enemy, while the remainder, 
with desponding hearts, struggled against the 
advancing foe. Quick as thought the fire 
leaped over the feeble barrier erected against 
it, flew among the tree-tops, and drove the 
whole company before it, causing each one to 
seek safety in sudden and rapid flight. On-
ward came the roar of the tempest, and with 
almost the rapidity of a horse, carrying swift 
destruction in its path. A wide and somewhat 
deep stream lay immediately before us, across 
which we were forced to dash, and which we 
hoped would interpose a barrier to its further 
advance. Not so—it leaped across, appearing 
to fly upon the top of the shrubs which lined its 
banks, and did riot cease its ravages until it 
passed over a distance of four miles in length 
and by a mile in breadth, causing an immense 
loss in timber and fences. 
We could multiply the description of these 
exciting scenes, and tell of many hair-breadth 
escapes from instant and awful death, but the 
above must suffice. Such exhibitions of the 
power of the Almighty and of man's utter im-
potence, are calculated deeply to impress the 
mind. Have you " a refuge from the storm, a 
shadow from the tempest," to shield you when 
the great day of his wrath shall come, and when 
none shall be able to stand but " they who are 
written in the Lamb's book of life ?" 
American Messenger. 
THE PAPACY, OR THE STATE OF 
ROPE. 
The destiny of modern Europe was sealed 
as long ago as A. D. 606, when the Bishop of 
Rome was made head of the universal church. 
by the edict of a man stained with the double 
guilt of usurpation and murder. Religion is 
the parent of liberty. The rise of tyrants can 
be prevented in no other way, but by maintain-
ing the supremacy of God and conscience; arid 
in the early corruptions of the gospel, the seeds 
were sown of those frightful despotisms which 
have since arisen, and of those tremendous con-
vulsions which are now rending society. Look 
at the Europe of our day. What is the Papacy 
but an enormous cancer, of most deadly viru-
lency, which has now run its course and done 
its work upon the nations of the continent. 
The European community, from head to foot, 
is one festering sore. Soundness in it there is 
none. The Papal world is a niggling mass 
of corruption and suffering. It is a compound 
of tyrannies and perjuries. of lies and blood-red 
murders ; of crimes abominable and unnatural ; 
of priestly maledictions, socialist ravings, and 
atheistic blasphemies. The whine of mendi-
cants, the curses, groans, and shrieks of victims, 
and the demoniac laughter of tyrants, commin-
gle in one hoarse roar. Faugh ! the spectacle 
is too horrible to be looked at; its effluvia is 
too fetid to be endured. What is to be done 
with the carcass ! We cannot dwell in its 
neighborhood. It would be impossible long to 
inhabit the same globe with it : its stench were 
enough to pollute and poison the atmosphere of 
Seem as You are, or as You would 
be. 
Those men commit a dreadful mistake, who 
undertake to seem what really they are not.—
Every man, sooner or later, is understood—in-
evitably and without fail in the great apocalypse 
to come. Then, it is true, all the time, that 
God knows all things. If men realized this, how 
could they ever attempt to play false ? The 
games of life are not circumscribed in their 
scope and in their results to the revolution of the 
hour, the duration of place, the bounds of mor-
tality, the cycles and epicyles of time. Eternity 
is before us. They all strike into it. 'Tis dis-
tressing to see men wearing masks—attempting 
to feign what really they are not. Yet it is a 
very common thing seen. Alas ! that it is ever 
seen in high or sacred places ! Life is too often 
not only a masquerade of folly, but of pretence. 
Like their God who made them, so far as they 
manifest themselves, men should be transparent 
—seem, what they really are. 
But eternity or time is not necessary to re-
veal men. They generally manifest themselves, 
willingly or unwillingly, consciously or uncon-
sciously, in their own lifetimes. They acquire 
a character, and it is not always such a charac-
ter as they suppose they have acquired. It is 
often very much unlike, or entirely antipodal 
to, the one they entertain of themselves. Many 
men seem or fancy to know others better than 
they seem to know themselves. 
At the mention of a man's name, not only 
the outlines of his person, but even the tout en-
semble of the man within appears before us—
the embodiment we have entertained of his 
character. It is, therefore, useless to disguse. 
The mask, sooner or later, drops off, or is for-
cibly removed. The man betrays himself in 
his speech, in his gait, in the glance of his eye, 
the quivering of the muscle, a thousand times 
a year, and when he little suspects it. There 
is nothing secret that shall not be revealed.—
Some men will talk like angels, but act like 
fools ; will preach righteousness, but serve the 
devil. 
The business of men is with men. Other 
things being equal— mind, education, moral 
worth, and leaving Providence out of view—no 
man can obtain more than his natural portion of 
these things but at the expense of his neighbor. 
But such cannot be acquired by open seizure. 
That would be highway robbery. They must, 
then, be gotten by the jostle in the crowd of 
life ; by the strife of mind ; by false issues ; by 
using them, if possible, for their purpose. Men, 
therefore, study each other—their idiosyncra-
sies—their passions and prejudices. Such a 
man can be flattered. It is done. One can be 
bribed. He is secured. Another loves place. 
It is given to him. One is controlled by his 
The Doomed Land. 
We passed Edfoo and its temples at night, 
and the next morning were aroused by a rat-
tling of musketry, which would have done honor 
to a small battalion. Our worthy dragoman 
was saluting with all his might the little town 
of Assorean, or Syene, to which we are fast ap-
proaching; amid a scenery too, the wildest we 
have ever witnessed ; high jutting rocks of Sy-
ciate granite lined each side of the channel, and 
immense columns of black basalt, which re-
minded one of the Giant's causeway, and these 
mountain rocks here interlined and girt about 
with sand of a deep mustard yellow, and over 
the whole the rising sun was throwing such a 
soft and mellow glow, as only an Eastern at-
mosphere can produce ; and before us lay the 
town, like every Northern Egyptian town, full 
of naked children and men, donkies and dogs, 
and women whose only covering was a rag 
about the loins. I wish I could give a perfect 
picture of the desolation of this place and re-
gion, but the attempt I fear would be futile.—
There are scarcely any noble ruins of palaces 
or temples ; hardly anything which would de-
note this as the one grand frontier city and forti-
fication of ancient Egypt ; whose mart was 
stored with the rich products of Ethiopia and 
the East, and whose inhabitants stood high for 
valor and wisdom in the ancient world. A part 
of the old quay still remains, covered with 
hieroglyphics, from some of which are resolved 
the name of Psanzmiticus —a portal to the temple 
of the Pharaohs. A horribly mutilated statue 
of Osiris, and this is all, if we may except a 
thick stratum of pottery and half-buried granite 
remains which covers the country more or less 
around. Fearfully wild and jagged as is the 
naturai scenery, the black basalt which every 
where abounds, ramparted with the sterile yel-
low desert sands, gives to the whole country a 
most cursed appearance, for this is the very ex-
pression that formed itself in my mind, as I first 
gazed upon it from a lofty summit, and then 
turned to my Bible and read how the pride of 
the " Tower of Syene should be laid low, and 
this border of Ethiopia desolate." How often 
have we wished that we had some sceptical 
companion, that we might see the effect of all 
this upon his mind ! that he might accompany 
us throughout the length and breadth of this 
doomed land, and see it in all its wretchedness, 
and poverty, and filth, and vermin, as we have. 
Then we would turn to the twenty-ninth and 
hirtieth of Ezekiel's prophecy, that he mights 
ee what a perfect and faithful daguerreotypet 
the prophet has drawn—how every jot and tittle 
has found its fulfilling counterpart here. We 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to giveit 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he 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. 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
mandments and my laws ? See, for that the LORD hath 
given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the 
sixth day the bread of two days : abide ye every man 
in his place, let no man go out of his place on the 
seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh 
day."—Ex. 16:2-5, 13-16, 21-30. 
Here is the first recorded instance of a formal rest 
on the seventh day being observed by the people. On 
the preceding seventh day they took a long journey 
at the command of the LORD ; on the six following 
days the marina fell, and on the seventh beginning to 
count from the day on which the manna fell,—the 
people rested. This would he the fifth Sabbath, in 
order, reckoning from the day of triumph over the 
defeated Egyptians. 
In the third month, the observance of a seventh day 
for rest, after six days' labor, was incorporated into 
the law delivered on Sinai, in these words : " Re-
member the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days 
shalt thou labor, and do all thy work : but the seventh 
day is the sabbath of the LORD thy GOD : in it thou 
shalt do no work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 
thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cat- 
tie, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : for in 
six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea 
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : 
wherefbre the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hal-
lowed it."—Ex. 20:8-11. 
The words of this command, are positive and une-
quivocal, that after six days of labor, the seventh is 
to be set apart as a day of rest. But no intimation 
is given of the point of time, at which the enumera-
tion should set out and the weekly cycle begin. Had 
the command designated this, it would have been ac-
companied by some rule for the reckoning of clays 
themselves, so that all nations might observe the 
same astronomical hours. But the law is not fettered 
with that circumstantial exactnesss which would have 
required difficult and sometimes astronomical calcula-
tions to insure its uniform observance, and without 
which it is impossible, owing to differences of Lat. 
and Lon. to determine the precise hours to be observed 
in all places. And there are no means of learning the 
day that corresponds with the original sabbath. But 
not a syllable is added respecting the order and num-
ber of the days ; and it cannot be reasonably disputed 
that the command is truly obeyed by the observance of 
the seventh day, after six days of labor, independent 
of any particular method of computing the septenary 
cycle. 
It is not however left to every individual to decide 
for himself where his week shall commence, and at 
what point his seventh day of rest shall fall. The day 
has its public as well as its private uses ; and these 
require that the same day shall be recognized by the 
same community. Among the Jews GoD interposed, 
and designated the day by the withholding of manna. 
Their week began to be reckoned from the first day 
on which the manna fell, with no apparent reference 
to its agreement with the first weekly cycle of time, 
and without any evidence of its correspondence with 
it. Indeed, there is evidence to the contrary ; fur if 
there had been a regular succession of sevens in the 
order of days front the creation, Goo would not 
have disregarded that order, by leading Israel the 
long journey from Elim to the wilderness of Sin on 
the seventh day preceding the one on which the 
manna was withdrawn. As Goo would never have 
disregarded the observance of one day in seven, when 
he had expressly hallowed and sanctified it, we are 
obliged to conclude that that was not the day which 
he had thus previously consecrated. ' 
But the Sabbath having now become to the Jews 
of two-fold significance, there was a reason for the 
designation of the day which was thus set apart.—
GOD'S day of rest after his six days of creation, and 
that type of the final rest prepared for the people of 
GOD, would be commemorated, and the great end 
kept in view, by the observance of any seventh day. 
But in addition to this, their signal deliverance from 
Egypt (Deut. 5:15), when their long years of slavish 
toil had ended and they sang for joy over their de-
liverance front boridage—was to be commemorated ; 
and that was no insignificant type of the final over-
throw of all GOD'S enemies, and the deliverance 
of all the redeemed. To keep this in remembrance 
there was no day more appropriate to be observed 
as the Jewish Sabbath than that which corres-
ponded with the one on which they rejoiced over the 
slaughtered Egyptians. And on the day correspond-
ing with this, we have seen that the manna was with-
holden. There the Sabbath was doubly a sign to 
them, as GOD said : " Verily my sabbaths ye shall 
keep : for it is a sign between me and you through-
out your generations ; that ye may know that 1 am 
the LORD that Both sanctify you. It is a sign between 
me and the children of Israel for ever ; for in six 
days the Loan made heaven and earth, and on the 
seventh day he rested and was refreshed."—Ex. 31: 
13, 17. " I caused them to go forth out of the land 
of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my 
judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in 
theta. Moreover, also I gave them my sabbaths, to 
our planet. It must be buried or burned. It 
cannot be allowed to remain on the surface of 
the earth : it would breed a plague, which would 
infect, not a world only, but a universe. It is 
in this direction that we are to seek for instruc-
lion ; and here, if we are able to receive it, 
thirty generations are willing to impart to us 
their dear-bought experience. Lessons which 
have cost the world so much are surely worth 
learning. 
Edinburgh Witness. 
lieMucirt tjeral. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
THE SABBATH. 
were overtaken by the Egyptians, who pursued them 
into the sea, which parted and gave the Israelites a 
safe passage across on dry land, but drowned the 
Egyptians. They probably began to pass over at the 
commencement of the night v. (21), which was the 
beginning of the seventeenth, and in the morning 
(v. 27), the LORD overthrew the Egyptians, in the 
midst of the sea. Thus on the seventeenth day, 
which commenced the preceding evening, they rested 
and praised the LORD, in the song of Moses the ser-
vant of the LORD. 
Whether this day coincided with the seventh day 
of the paradisiacal week, or not, we have no means 
of determining ; but it was the first day which it was 
in their power to observe : and the Sabbath with the 
Jews commemorated their deliverance from Egypt, 
as well as the resting of GOD from his works of crea-
tion. MOSES said to all Israel : " Remember that 
thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that 
the Loan thy GOD brought thee out thence through 
a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm : therefore 
the LORD thy GoD commanded thee to keep the Sab-
bath holy."—Deut. 5:15. 
There being to the Jews a two-fold significance in 
the observance of the Sabbath, there could be no 
more appropriate epoch from which to count these 
weekly cycles than the day on which they rested from 
their pursuing task masters. How sweet to them 
must have been that first resting day,—the first they 
had ever enjoyed from their cruel trials arid fatiguing 
flight. 
From the Red Sea the children of Israel went out 
into the wilderness three days (15:22), and found no 
water. Then they carne to Marah where the waters 
were bitter, but were miraculously made sweet, 
(v. 23.) Then they came to Elim (v. 27), where 
they remained till the fifteenth day of the second 
month. This day, in the regular succession would 
have been the fourth Sabbath front their resting on 
the shores of the Red Sea ; but its observance does 
not seem at this time to have been formally com-
menced. Or, it is possible that they had observed 
other days of the seven. GOD had not, it would 
seem, thus far commanded the observance of this spe-
cific day ; for on this day the children of Israel " took 
their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of 
the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of 
Sin, which is between 'Elim and Sinai, on the fif-
teenth day of the second month after their departing 
out of the land of Egypt."—Ex. 16:1. This jour-
ney was taken by the LORD'S appointment ; for " at 
the commandment of the Lotto the children of lsrae' 
journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they 
pitched : as long as the cloud abode upon the taber-
nacle they rested in their tents."—Num. 9:18. 
When they reached the wilderness of Sin, " the 
whole congregation of the children of Israel mur- 
mured against Moses and AARON in the wilderness : 
and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to 
GOD we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land 
of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when 
we did eat bread to the full : for ye have brought us 
forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly 
with hunger. Then said the LORD unto Moses, Be- 
hold, I will rain bread from heaven for you ; and the 
people shall go out and gather a certain rate every 
day, that I may prove them, whethet they will walk 
in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on 
the sixth day they shall prepare that which they 
bring in ; and it shall be twice as much as they 
gather daily. . . . And it came to pass, that at even 
the quails came up, and covered the camp : and in 
the morning the dew lay round about the host. And 
when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the 
face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, 
as small as the hoar frost upon the ground : and when 
the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, 
It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And 
Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the 
LORD hath given you to eat. This is the thing which 
the Loan hath commanded, Gather of it every man 
according to his eating : an omer for every man ac-
cording to the number of your persons, take ye every 
man for them which are in his tents. . Arid they 
gathered it every morning, every man according to his 
eating : and when the sun waxed hot it melted : and 
it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered 
twice as much bread, two omers for one man :' and 
all the riders of the congregation came and told 
MOSES. And he said unto them, This is that which 
the LORD bath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy 
sabbath unto the Loan : bake that which ye will bake 
to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe ; and that which 
remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept until the 
morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as 
Moses bade and it did not stink, neither was there 
any worm therein. And MOSES said, Eat that to-day ; 
for to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD ; to-day ye shall 
not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it ; 
but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it 
there shall be none. And it came to pass, that there 
went out some of the people on the seventh day for 
to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said 
unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my corn- 
be a sign between me and them. that they might know 
that I ant the Lorin that sanctify them."—Ezek. 20: 
10-12. 
As observed by Israel the Sabbath had a national, 
as well as a universal significance. It was national 
inasmuch as it was commemorative of their deliver-
ance from Egyptian bondage ; and it was universal 
inasmuch as it was commemorative of GOD'S resting 
from his works. As the particular day observed by 
the Jews, was necessary only for its national signi-
ficance, it follows that when it should cease to be a 
national observance, its universal significance might 
be commemorated on any other succession of seventh 
days which should be regularly preceded by six days 
of toil. As GOD bad selected a day adapted to the 
national observance, should he ever make it com-
memorative of any event, more significant and of 
more general interest, titan the deliverance of Israel 
from Egypt, it would be expected, that, either by 
precept or by his providence, he would designate the 
day for its observance, by which the new event would 
be commemorated, and its original significance re-
tained.—(To be continued.) 
EMIGRATION vs. POPERY. 
" Among the various singular phenomena now visi-
blein Ireland, and the divers results arising from emi-
gration, there is one for which the public were not 
prepared, but which is now beginning to excite very 
general attention. When Popish peasants repair 
to the British colonies, they are both accompanied 
and preceded by priests, by whom special care is 
taken to retain them in the fetters of Romish super-
stition ; so that emigration is not a loss but a gain to 
the empire of Antichrist. With improved means of 
subsistence, while they cease not to increase and 
multiply, they can afford to pay the priesthood on an 
ampler scale. Thus the cause goes on prosperously 
in the British colonies ; but it is much otherwise in 
the United States, where they are poured into the 
heart of an active, reading, thinking, talking, inde- 
pendent community, and thus placed in an atmos-
phere which genetrates to their utmost soul, rousing 
within them a spirit of manhood issuing in their 
spiritual emancipation. It has been asserted, that 
the vast majority of Popish emigrants to the United 
States have renounced their fathers. This fact has 
become known in Ireland, and is engaging tine seri- 
ous attention of the priests, wino heretofore encour-
age, but now denounce emigration. They are report- 
ed to be utterly confounded by the -revelations of the 
American Missionary, Mr. MULLEN, who has trans-
mitted to Ireland the true state of the case. The re-
sult is, that the priesthood are handing together to 
check the progress of the Exodus. Nothing is being 
left undone, by altar denunciations and otherwise, to 
stay the progress of the mighty movement across the 
Atlantic. Even the more moderate priests and bish-
ops among them, as the Right Rev. Dr. Haly, are 
manifesting the utmost dread of the consequences, and 
resorting to practical methods to avert them. Tine 
subject seems to have come home with special force 
till Dr. Haly and his clergy, since the emigration from 
that diocese has been enormous, whereby their flocks 
are thinned, and their gains diminished. To the 
praise of the emigrants, it is stated, that they are 
sending home large sums of money to their relatives 
to aid them in effecting their departure,—an event 
which is taking place in every part of Ireland. Thus 
help is coming to truth, and the friends of truth, from 
a quarter least thought of. It remains to be seen, 
how far the power of the priests will succeed in 
checking the spirit of emigration. Reasoning from 
the past, there is ground to tear that the success may 
he but, unhappily, too great ; nevertheless, already 
the best results have been effected. It will' be in the 
memory of many of our readers, that Dr. Dyer stated, 
at the recent meeting of the Sunday School Union, in 
Exeter-hall, that if the priests arid the Pope were 
wise, they would beware of sending their people to 
the New World, since the inevitable result was, to 
a large extent, that they at once doffediitrlinteistibuadiugueiero. f 
their thraldom, and asserted their rights as men to 
think for themselves." 
A correspondent of the London Times thus writes 
concerning the same matter : 
" The letter of the Rev. Mr. Mullen, with its can- 
did admissions of the gradual extinction of the Ro- 
man Catholic faith, as soot) as its votaries set foot on 
American soil, continues to create a perfect furore 
among the Irish clergy of both creeds. The Prot- 
estant party have had the letter reprinted and circu- 
lated throughout several districts, as strong presump- 
tive evidence of the decline of Popery, and of the 
progress of the principles of the Reformation. The 
Romish clergy, from the lord primate ' on his throne 
down to the humblest curate, appear to be perfectly 
astounded by the revelations of tine American mis-
sionary, and the whole machinery of mother church 
has been set in motion with the view of checking a 
system which has led to such disastrous results as 
those vouched for on the competent authority of one 
high. in the confidence of Archbishop Cullen himself. 
To stay the flight acrossthe Atlantic is the first great 
object of the counter movement just now at work.—
As well might it be attempted to stop the tide with 
a pitchfork ; but the trial is, nevertheless, being made, 
with what success time alone can tell. For the last 
month the subject of emigration has been the theme 
of altar eloquence throughout the length and breadth 
of the kingdom, and arguments of all kinds have 
been used to dissuade the people from abandoning 
the old country ' and the religion of their forefa- 
thers. The text was taken tip on Sunday last by the 
The word Sabbath signifies rest. It was instituted 
at the close of Gon's six days' work of creation, when 
" he had rested on the seventh day from all his work 
which he had made. Arid GOD blessed the seventh 
day and sanctified it : because that in it he had rested 
from all his work."—Gen. 2:2, 3. 
To sanctify, in the sense of the word here used, is 
to separate, set apart, or appoint to a holy sacred or 
religious use. By formal appointment, GOD thus dis- 
tinguished one day in every seven, from the other 
six, and gave commandment. that it should he observed 
as a day of rest. It was a commemorative observ- 
ance—commemorative of GoD's having rested from 
all his labors after six days' work in the creation ; and 
it has also been held to be typical of the final rest 
which Goo bath prepared for his people. (Heb. 4: 
1-11.) Because of this, the belief has been gene-
rally prevalent that at the close of six Chiliads in 
the work of redemption, the seventh millennium 
would usher in the eternal state. 
Whether there was at. observance of the Sabbath 
during the period front ADAM to Moses, has been a 
subject of much dispute. , In Gen. 7:4, 10 and 8:10, 
12, the days are numbered by sevens, which is of 
some significance. And in Gen. 29:27 the week is 
known as a division of time. The earliest Greek 
poets, make distinct reference to the week as a cycle 
of time, as do the ancient Chaldeans, Rotnans, and 
Egyptians. It is inconceivable how a period not 
marked by any natural division of time, should have 
become universally known, unless it was observed 
from the creation. 
" The Sabbath was made for man," says the SA-
VIOUR, (Mark 2:27.) And when he so says, he clearly 
lefers to its original institution, as a universal law. 
It was made for man ; not as he may be a Jew, or a 
Christian, but as man, a creature on trial for eternity, 
and under obligation to love worship and obey his 
Creator. It was made for man's comfort, and con-
venience. It gives him opportunity for that physical 
rest which his bodily nature imperatively demands, 
and without which the race would speedily deterio-
rate ; and it gives him opportunity to call his thoughts 
away from earthly cares and objects, and to centre 
`them on GOD. His well-being in this world and the 
next, is thus subserved by GoD's having blessed the 
seventh day and hallowed it. Says Dr. CLARK : 
" GOD has spoken well of the Sabbath, and good to 
them who conscieinciously observe it." And Dr. 
PATRICK remarks : " the inure pious any people were, 
the greater respect they had to this day." 
As men became wicked, tir observance of one day 
in seven, doubtless became mostly if not entirely dis-
regarded ; and even the Jews in their Egyptian bond-
age, must have been unable to gain the time from 
their " task masters " fur its observance. They 
could not however have been entirely ignorant of it; 
for when the command is given : " Remember the 
Sabbath day and keep it holy," there is an implied 
reference to an observance of which they had some 
knowledge, but of which they had become careless 
and indifferent. 
The children of Israel came out of Egypt on the 
fourteenth day of the first month, reckoning from 
even to even, (Ex. 12:6), when they journeyed from 
Ramses to Succoth, (13:37), and there encamped. 
They took their journey from Succoth, probably on 
the fifteenth of the month, and encamped in Etham, 
in the edge of the wilderness. (13:30.) They next 
journeyed and encamped before Pi-hairoth, between 
Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon, pro-
bably on the sixteenth. (14:1.) At this place they 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
213 
Right Rev. Dr. Haly, the respected titular of Leigh-
lin and Ferns, a prelate who deservedly possesses the 
good will and confidence of all creeds and classes, 
but who, upon this occasion, has, I learn, failed to 
convince the remnant of his flock of the dangers they 
must be prepared to encounter, should they persist in 
the resolution formed by many of them to follow 
their relatives to their new homes in the Western 
world. The emigration from the district over which 
Dr. Haly presides has been enormous, and the gross 
amount of the sums of money transmitted by the emi-
grants, either fur the immediate relief or for the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses out of their friends 
in Ireland, almost exceeds the limits of belief." 
"WATCH." 
BY 3. C. RYLE. 
6` Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, 
which took their lamps, mid went forth to meet the bridegroom. 
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were 
foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them : but the wise 
took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom 
tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a 
cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh : go ye out to meet him. 
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the 
foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil : for our laws are 
gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not 
enough for as and you hut go ye rather to them that sell, and buy 
ye for yourselves. And while they went to hay, the bridegroom 
carne ; and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage: 
and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, say-
ing, Lord, Lord, open to as. But he answered and said, Verily, I 
say, unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know nei-
ther the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh."—Matt. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
Is there a man or a woman among the readers of 
this article who ever laughs at true religion ? Is 
there one who persecutes and ridicules vital godli-
ness in others, and dares to talk of people being over-
particular, and righteous over-much ? Oh ! beware 
what you are doing ; again, I say, beware. You 
may live to alter your opinion, but perhaps too late. 
Ah ! reader, there is a day before us all when there 
will be no infidels, no ! not one. There is a day 
when the disciples of PAINE, and VOLTAIRE, and EM-
ERSON, shall call on the rocks to fall on them, and on 
the hills to cover them. Before the throne of JESUS 
every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that 
he is Loan. Remember the day, and beware. 
Is there among the readers of this article some dear 
child of GoD, who is mocked and despised for the 
Gospel's sake, and feels as if he stood alone? Take 
comfort. Be patient. Wait a little longer. Your 
turn shall yet come. When the spies returned from 
searching Canaan, men talked of stoning CALEB and 
JOSHUA because they brought a good report of the 
land. A few days passed away, and all the assem-
bly confessed that they alone had been right. Strive 
to be like them. Follow the LORD fully, as they did, 
and sooner or later, all men shall confess that you 
did well. Never, never be afraid of going too far. 
Never, never be ashamed of desiring to go to heaven, 
and of seeking to have a great crown. Millions will 
lament in the day of CHRIST'S return, because they 
have not got religion enough ;—not one will be heard 
to say that he has got too much. Take comfort. 
Press on. 
And now, reader, it only remains for me to close 
this article by three words of application, which seem 
to me to arise naturally dut of the parable of which 
I have been writing. I heartily pray to Goe to bless 
them to your soul, and to make them words in season. 
1. My first word of application shall be a question. 
I take the parable of the ten virgins as my warrant, 
and I address that question to every one of my read-
ers. I ask you, " Are you ready ?" Remember the 
words of the Lord JESUS, " They that were ready 
went in with' the bridegroom to the marriage,"—
they that were ready, and none else. Now here in 
the sight of GOD, I ask every reader, Is this your 
case I Are you ready ? 
1 do not ask whether you are a churchman, and 
make a profession of religion.—I do not ask whether 
you attend an evangelical ministry, and like evan-
gelical people, and can talk of evangelical subjects, 
and read evangelical tracts and books. All this is 
the surface of Christianity. All this costs little, and 
may be easily attained. I want to search your heart 
more thoroughly, and probe your conscience more 
deeply. I want to know whether yon have been 
born again, and whether you have got the Holy 
Ghost dwelling in your soul. I want to know whether 
you have any oil in your vessel while you carry the 
lamp of profession, and whether you are ready to 
meet the bridegroom,—ready for CHRIST'S return to 
the earth. I want to know, if the LORD should come 
this week, whether you could lift up your head with 
joy, and say, " this is our GOD ; we have waited for 
him ; let us be glad, and rejoice in his salvation." 
These things I want to know„ and this is what I 
mean to say, " are you ready ?" 
" Ah !" I can imagine some one saying, " this is 
asking too much. 1 o be ready for Christ's appear-
ing ! this is far too high a standard. This is ex-
travagance. There would be no living in the world 
at this rate. This is a hard saying. Who can bear 
it ?" I cannot help it. I believe this is the standard 
of the Bible. I beiieve this is the standard PAUL 
sets before us when he says the Thessalonians were 
" waiting for the Son of GoD from heaven," and the 
Corinthians " waiting for the coming of our Lord 
JESUS CHRIST." (1 Thus. 1:10 ; 1 Cur. 1:7,) And 
the standard PETER sets before us when he speaks 
of " looking for and }tasting unto the coming of the 
day of GOD."-2 Pet. 3:12. I believe it is a mark 
that every true believer should be continually aiming 
at, to live so as to be ready to meet CHRIsT. Gon 
forbid that I should place the standard of Christian 
practice a hair's breadth higher than the level at 
which the Bible places it. But GoD forbid that I 
should ever put it a hair's breadth lower. If I do, 
what right have Ito say that the Bible is my rule of 
faith ? 
I want to disqualify no man for usefulness upon 
earth. I require no one to become a hermit, and 
cease to serve his generation. I call on fit) man to 
leave his lawful calling and neglect his earthly af-
fairs. But I do' call on every one to live like one 
who expects CHRIST to return, to live soberly, right-
eously, and godly in this present world ; to live like 
a pilgrim and a stranger, ever looking to JESUS ;—to 
live like a good servant, with his loins girded, and 
his lamp burning ;—to live like one whose treasure 
is in heaven, with his heart packed up and ready to 
be gone. This is readiness. This is preparation. 
And is this too much to ask? I say unhesitatingly, 
that it is not. 
Now, reader, are you ready in this way ? If not, 
I should like to know what good your religion does 
you. What is it all but a burdensome form ? What 
is it but a mere temporary cloak that will not wear 
beyond this world ? Truly a religion that does not 
make a man ready for everything,—for death, for 
judgment, for the second advent, for the resurrec-
tion,—such a religion may well be looked on with 
suspicion. Reader, if your religion does not make 
you ready for anything, you may depend the sooner 
it is changed the better. 
2. My second word of application shall be an in-
vitation. 1 address it to every one who feels in his 
conscience that he has no grace in his heart,—to 
every one who feels that the character of the foolish 
virgins is his own. To every such person I give an 
invitation this day, in my Master's name. I invite 
you to " awake and flee to CHRIST." 
Reader, if you are a man of this sort, you know 
that all within you is wrong in the sight of Gun. 
Nothing can be said more title about you than that 
you are asleep,—asleep not merely about the doc-
trine of CHRIST'S second advent, but about everything 
that concerns your soul. You are wide awake per-
haps about temporal things. You read the newspa-
pers it may be, and are mighty in " The Times." 
You have your head stored with earthly wisdom and 
useful knowledge. But you have no heart-felt sense 
of sin, no peace or friendship with Goo, no experi-
mental acquaintance with CHRIST, no delight in the 
Bible and prayer. And yet you are a sinner, a dy-
ing sinner, an immortal sinner, a sinner going to 
meet CHRIST, a sinner going to be judged. What, I 
would put it to your conscience as an honest man, 
what is all this but being asleep? 
How long is this to go on ? When do you mean 
to arise and live as if you had a soul ? When will 
you cease to hear as one who hears not ? When 
will you give up running after shadows, and seek 
something substantial? When will you throw off 
the mockery of a religion which cannot satisfy, can-
not comfort, cannot sanctify, cannot save, and will 
not bear a calm examination? When will you give 
up having a faith which does not influence your prac-
tice,—having a book which you say is GOD'S word, 
but treat as if it was not,—having the name of Chris-
tian, but knowing nothing of CHRIST ? Oh ! reader, 
when, when shall it once be ? 
Why not this very year? Why not this very day? 
Why not at once awake and call upon your GOD, 
arid resolve that you will sleep no longer? I set be-
fore you an open door, I set before you JESUS CHRIST 
the SAVIOUR, who died to make atonement for sin-
ners,—Jesus who is able to save to the uttermost,—
JESUS willing to receive. The hand that was nailed 
to the cross is held out to you in mercy.—The eye 
that wept over Jerusalem is looking on you with 
pity.—The voice that has said to many wanderers, 
"thy sins are forgiven," is saying to you, " come to 
me." Go to JESUS first and foremost if you would 
know what step to take. Think not to wait for re-
pentance and faith, and a new heart, but go to him 
just as you are. Go to him in prayer and cry, " LORD 
save me, or I perish. I am weary of sleeping ; 
would fain sleep no longer." Oh ! awake thou that 
sleepest, and CHRIST shall give thee light. 
Sun, moon, and stars are all witnessing against 
you ; they continue according to Goo's ordinances, 
and you are ever transgressing them. The grass, 
the birds, the very worms of the earth, are all wit-
nessing against you : they fill their place in creation, 
and you do not. Sabbaths and ordinances are con-
tinually witnessing against you ; they are ever pro. 
claiming that there is a Goo and a judgment, and 
you are living as if there were none. The tears and 
prayers of godly relations are witnessing against 
you ; others are sorrowfully thinking you have a 
soul, though you seem to forget it. The very grave-
stones that you see every week are witnessing against 
iyou ; they are silently witnessing, life is uncertain, 
time is short, the resurrection is yet to come, the 
LORD is at hand. All, all are saying, awake, awake, 
awake ! Oh ! reader, the time past may surely suf-
fice you to have slept. Awake to be wise. Awake 
to be safe. Awake to be happy. Awake and sleep 
no more. 
3. My last word of application shall be an exhorta-
tion to all true believers, to all who have the oil of 
grace in their hearts, and have fled for pardon to the 
blood of the Lamb. I draw it front the words of the 
Lord JESUS at the end of the parable. I exhort you 
earnestly " to watch." 
1 exhort you to watch against everything which 
might interfere with a readiness for CHRIST'S ap-
pearing. Search your own hearts. Find out the 
things which most frequently interrupt your com-
munion with CHRIST, and cause fogs to rise between 
you and the sun. Mark these things, and know 
them, and against them ever watch and be on your 
guard. 
Watch against sin of every kind and description. 
Think not to say of any sin whatever, " Ah ! that 
is one of the things that I shall never do." I tell 
you there is no possible sin too abominable for the 
very best of us all to commit. Remember DAVID 
and URIAH. The spirit may be sometimes very 
willing, but the flesh is always very weak. You are 
yet in the body. Watch and pray. 
Watch against doubts and unbelief as to the com-
plete acceptance of your soul, if you are a believer 
in CHRIST JESUS. The Lord JESUS finished the work 
he came to do :—do not tell him that he did not. 
The Lord JESUS paid your debts in full :—do not tell 
him that you think he left you to pay part. The 
Lord JESUS promises eternal life to every sinner that 
comes to him :—do not tell him, even while you are 
coming, that you think he lies. Alas I for your un-
belief! In CHRIST you are like NOAH in the ark, 
and LOT in Zoar,—nothing can harm you. The 
earth may be burned up with fire at the LORD'S ap-
pearing, but not a hair of your head shall perish. 
Doubt it not. Pray for more faith. Watch and pray. 
Watch against inconsistency of walk and conformi-
ty to the world. Watch against sills of temper and 
tongue. These are the kind of things that grieve 
the Spirit of GOD, and make his witness within us 
faint and low. Watch and pray. 
Watch against the leaven of false doctrine. Re-
member that Satan can transform himself into an an-
gel of light. Remember that bad money is never 
marked bad, or else it would never pass. Be very 
jealous for the whole truth as it is in JESUS. Do not 
put up with a grain of error merely for the sake of a 
pound of truth. Do not tolerate a little-false doc-
trine one bit more than you would a little sin. Oh ! 
reader, remember this caution. Watch and pray. 
Watch against slothfulness about the Bible and 
private prayer. There is nothing so spiritual but 
we may at last do it formally. Most backslidings 
begin in the closet. When,a tree is snapped in two 
by a high wind, we generally find there has been 
some long-hidden decay. Oh ! watch and pray. 
Watch against bitterness and uncharitableness to-
wards others. A little love is more valuable than 
many gifts. Be eagle-eyed in seeing the good that 
is in your brethren, and dim-sighted as the mole 
about the evil. Let your memory be a strong box 
for their graces, but a sieve fin their faults. Watch 
and pray. 
Watch against pride and self conceit. PETER said 
at first, " though all men should deny thee, yet will 
not I." And presently he fell. Pride is the high 
road to a fall. Watch and pray. 
Watch against the sins of Galacia, Ephesus, and 
Laodicea. Believers may run well for a season, 
then lose their first love, and then become lukewarm. 
Watch and pray. 
Watch not least against the sin of Jehu. A man 
may have great zeal to all appearance, and yet have 
very bad motives. It is a much easier thing to op-
pose anti-christ than to follow Christ. It is one thing 
to protest against error: it is quite another thing to 
love the truth. So watch and pray. 
Oh ! my believing readers, let us all watch more 
than we have done. Let us watch more every year 
that we live. Let us watch that we may not be 
startled when the Lord appears. 
Let us watch for the world's sake. We are the 
books they chiefly read. They mark our ways far 
more than we think. Let us aim to be plainly-writ-
ten epistles of Christ. 
Let us watch for our own sakes. As our walk is, 
so will be our peace. As our conformity to Christ's 
mind, so will be our sense of Christ's atoning blood. 
If a man will not walk in the full light of the sun, 
how can he expect to be warm ? 
And above all, let us watch for our Lord Jesus 
Christ's sake. Let us live as if his glory was con-
cerned in our behavior. Let us live as if every slip 
and fall was a reflection on the honor of our King. 
Let us live as if every allowed sin was one more 
thorn in his head, one more nail in his feet, one more 
spear in his side. Oh! let us exercise a godly jeal-
ousy over thoughts, words, and actions, over motives, 
manners, and walk. Never, never let us fear being 
too strict. Never, never let us think we can watch 
too much. 
LEIGH RICHMOND'S dying words were 
very solemn. Few' believers were ever more useful 
in their day and generation. Of few can it be said 
so truly that he " being dead yet speaketh " But 
what did he say to one who stood by while he lay 
dying " BROTHER, BROTHER, WE ARE 
NONE OF US MORE THAN HALF AWAKE." 
To Correspondents. 
W. L. C.—We do suppose the wicked will be 
raised front the new earth at the end of the 1000 
years. The new creation and descent of the New 
Jerusalem at the commencement of that period, and 
the resurrection of the wicked at its close, being in 
our opinion clearly taught, we arrive at no other con-
clusion. And without this view we could find no pe-
riod when the ashes of the wicked will be trodden 
under the feet of the saints. (Mal. 4:3.) 
M. M. M.—Because we do not embrace what 
others deem light, it is not to he supposed we " close 
our eyes to the light," that we are " determined to 
adhere to our views," &c., &c. We have not ar-
rived at our views hastily or without examination. 
We have confidence in their soundness. The views 
you present have not been discussed by us merely 
once, or twice, or thrice, but scores of times during 
the last twelve years. The subject not being a new 
one to us and our readers, may be the reason why we 
and they ever remain unmoved by what is advanced 
to prove the restoration of the carnal Jew. We how-
ever claim to be perfectly honest in our convictions ; 
and we expect to be credited for sincerity in our be-
lief, and for a desire to know the mind of the Spirit 
respecting all scriptural declarations, by those who 
communicate through our columns. We are of course 
our own judges, whether we have refuted, in our own 
estimation, whatever we reply to. Whether we con-
vince others is another matter ; but when we have 
said all we think is necessary respecting any point, 
we take the liberty to refrain from further comments. 
" Sketches of Travel."—Owing to not receiving 
the Ms. in season, the continuance of these able and 
interesting articles is deferred to the next number. 
Gethsennane. 
Lieut. Lynch, of the United States Exploring Ex-
pedition to the River Jordan and the Red Sea, in 
1848. visited the garden of Gethsemane, about the 
middle of May. He says : 
" The clover upon the ground was in bloom, and 
altogether the garden, in its aspects and associations, 
was better calculated than any place 1 know to soothe 
a troubled spirit. Eight venerable trees, isolated 
from the smaller anti less imposing ones, which skirt 
the Mount of Olives, form a consecrated grove. High 
above, on either hand, towers a very lofty mountain, 
with the deep, yawning chasm of J ehoshaphat between 
them. Crowning one of them is Jerusalem, a living 
city ; on the slope of the other is the great Jewish 
cemetery, a city of the dead. 
" Each tree in this grove, cankered and gnarled, 
and furrowed by age, yet beautiful and impressive in 
its decay, is a living monument of the affecting scenes 
that have taken place beneath and around it. The 
olive perpetuates itself, anti from the root of the dy-
ing parent stem, the young tree springs into existence. 
These are accounted one thousand years old. Un-
der those of the preceding growth, therefore, the Sa-
viour was wont to rest; and one of the present may 
mark the very spot where he knelt and prayed and 
wept. No caviling doubt can find entrance here. 
The geographical boundaries are too distinct and 
clear for an instant's hesitation. Here the Christian, 
forgetful of the present, and absorbed in the past, can 
resign himself to sad, yet soothing meditation. The 
few purple and crimson flowers, growing about the 
roots of the trees, will give ample food for coutem-
plation—for they tell of the sufferings and the ensan-
guined death of the Redeemer." 
SABBATH SeHons.—A correspondent inquires res-
pecting the best mode of arranging and conducting 
a Sunday school. We have no thoughts on this sub-
ject which we regard as of particular value on this 
point. According to our notion, every school needs 
a superintendent, who should see that the school is 
opened by singing and prayer. The teachers and 
scholars should be so proportioned that the classes 
will correspond in numbers anti age to the capacity 
of the scholars and adaptation of the teachers. We 
think that each teacher can best manage his class ac-
cording to his own plan and skill. Our own method 
with a Bible class is to take some consecutive portion 
of scripture, and get all the information obtainable 
respecting its meaning from all other scriptures—the 
same as we are illustrating the book of Hebrews—
asking various questions, and illustrating as the sub-
ject may demand. 
The New York Evangelist says, on the" authority 
of the Congregational Journal, in an article on the 
state of religion in New Hampshire, that within the 
period of ten or twelve years, twenty-eight Orthodox 
Churches in that State have become extinct, and ten 
new ones have been organized. All but three of these 
ten were formed from others. This decline is pro-
bably more sensible in New Hampshire than any 
other State, as that sterling region has always been 
proverbially a fine state to emigrate from ; but there 
is some little reason to doubt that a similar census of 
other Eastern States would also exhibit a melancholy 
decline, both in !timbers and religious efficiency, of 
the Orthodox churches." 
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tion is dead! But if in the formation of the new so-
ciety, they are disposed to incorporate six articles of 
the old constitution into the new one, then those six 
articles so incorporated ate binding,-the other four 
2d. They will not want in the future. As the Chief are not. Now all the commandments found in the 
Shepherd, he will gather his flock into one fold, and New Testament are binding, and no others. Christ 
be their " one shepherd," seeking their full and observed the Sabbath in a manner to please himself 
abundant supplies. " Behold I, even I, will both -but not the old Jews-till his death ; and he also 
search my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd was circumcised, and kept the Passover till his cru-
seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his cifixion, but these things were all taken away, or 
sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, ceased, when he was nailed to the cross. (See Col. 
and will deliver them out of all places where they 2:14.) Nowhere in the New Testament, can we 
have been%cattered in the cloudy and dark day. And find that Christ, or the apostles, ever taught the ob-
I will bring them out, and gather them from the servance of the Sabbath after the resurrection of the 
countries, and will bring them into their own land, Saviour. Could we find evidence in the Scriptures, 
and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and by to prove that any one day is more holy than another, 
the rivers, arid in all the inhabited places of the court- it would lead us to the seventh day, and we should 
try. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon have to observe it now, for it is the only day that 
the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be : God ever sanctified and made holy, as a day of rest. 
there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pas- But this being a " sign," or type, we believe it 
tore shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel." ceased when other types and shadows ceased. 
-Ezek. 34:11-15. This will be in the resurrected In relation to the first day of the week being the 
and glorified state, for in a subsequent chapter, we Sabbath, I think it is the proper day for us to observe 
have the vision of the " valley of dry bones," which as the Sabbath, not, however, because I believe it 
is explained to be the " whole house of Israel." particularly holy, more than any other day of the 
" Then said he, Son of man, these bones are the week, but because I believe it right to abstain from 
whole house of Israel : Behold, they say, our bones secular labor one day in seven, and devote the day to 
are dried, and our hope is lost : and we are cut off such religious exercises as has been the practice of 
fur our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto our forefathers and early Christians, in commemora-
them, Thus saith the Lord God : Behold, 0 my peo- lion of the resurrection of our Saviour. I believe the 
ple, I will open your graves, and cause you to come laws of our land, in this respect, should be strictly 
up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of regarded. 
Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I wish it understood that I still believe the seventh 
I have opened your graves, 0 my people, and brought day was a sign of the seventh thousand year, and was 
you up out of your graves. And shall put my Spirit to be observed as such till types and shadows ceased ; 
in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your and 1 believe we shall soon realize the thing signified 
own land."-Ezek. 37:11-14. 
by it, not, however, by observing the seventh day 
In the teachings of our Saviour, he says to the for the Sabbath, but through Christ, who has become 
Jews : " Other sheep I have, which are not of this our rest-or in other words, by obeying the gospel, 
fold : them also will I bring, and they shall bear my but not the law. 
East Weare, (N. H.), June 10th, 1852. 
voice :and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 
REMARKS.-As there is a certain kind of responsi- 
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they bility resting on editors, and as we do not wish to he 
follow me. And I give unto them eternal life : and misunderstood respecting our position as to the Sab- 
they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them bath, we have given an article on this subject in ano- 
out of my hand."-John 10:16, 27, 28.-(To be con- ther column. We should express our views on many 
tinned, 
parts differently from that here given. 
LETTER FROM T. M. PREBLE. We do not understand that any portion of the ten 
commandments were ever abrogated, or that the Sab-
BRO. HIMES :-Having been requested to give my bath has been. We regard the command to conse-
views on the Sabbath, and why I give op the observ- crate one day in seven to the service of God, as bind-
ance of the seventh day, I will briefly state them. ing on all Christians, and that the first day's observ- 
From the summer of 1844, to that of 1847, 1 con- ante is well pleasing in the sight of God. But 
scientiously observed the seventh day-or Saturday while we regard one day above another, we leave 
-for the Sabbath. The principal reasons why I others to the persuasions of their own minds. What 
did so, are the following : 
we aim at in this, is to avoid being supposed to en- 
In early life I was taught by my parents and dorse what we do not. On all Bible questions we 
others, to " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it deem it important to avoid the use of any language lia-
holy," &c. ; and I subsequently found that in every ble to a misconstruction.-En. 
instance where this command was found, it always 
referred ti, the seventh day-never to the first day. 
SERMON. 
In Bro. Miller's views of the great Sabbath, 
Preached by J. Litch at the Conference in Hartford, June 10th. 
he argued that the Sabbath was a sign of the seventh 
thousand year of the world. And on reflection I 
saw that the first day could not be a sign of the sev- 
enth thousand year, but rather of the eighth, reckon-
ing in successive order from creation. These points 
being settled in my mind, and believing that Gentiles 
as well as Jews were included in the command, I 
was compelled to observe the seventh day till my 
views underwent a change. 
But on more mature reflection and investigation, 
I found to my satisfaction: that the seventh-day Sab-
bath was never designed for the Gentiles-or in other 
words-was never intended to be observed after the 
resurrection of Christ ; as the observance of all types, 
and shadows, &c., were to cease after that time, 
The Sabbath was a sign (Ex. 31:13, 17 ; Ezek. 
20:12,) or " shadow of things to come ; but the body 
is of Christ."-Col. 2:17. 
The Gentiles are not a typical people, and there-
fore they are not hound to observe the Sabbath as the 
Jews did. 
If the Sabbath-among other things-was a shadow 
of things to come, but the body was of Christ, we 
cannot make the shadow go beyond the body ! All 
shadows may be traced to the body which casts them, 
but no further ! The sign or shadow was to be ob-
served, or traced till Christ-the body-was reached ; 
then he became our rest, or surety for the rest, as set 
forth in Heb. 4:1-11. 
The question may here be asked ;-" Is the sev-
enth-day Sabbath abolished ? I answer, yes. It 
may again be asked ;-Were the ten commandments 
all abolished 1 answer again, yes. (See 2 Cor. 
3:1-11.) Says the objector ;-" Are none of the 
commandments binding upon us !" Oh, yes, all that 
are incorporated into the New Testament, and no 
more. Let me illustrate. Suppose the reader, the 
writer, and some five hundred others, belong to a 
Temperance Society, having a constitution of ten ar-
ticles. After a lapse of time, the society wish to 
disorganize, and form a new one on better principles. 
Now when they have disorganized, the old constitu- 
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day ; and not such a Shepherd ? No ; he will amply supply all 
to me only, but unto all them also that love his ap- our need in this life. His people shall not want the 
pearing."-2 Tim. 4:8. We, too, labor in hope of true spiritual bread, nor the true spiritual drink, so 
that incorruptible and glorious clown, to be given at long as they confide in him. 
his appearing. And finally, our Saviour, to illus-
trate the fearful separation that will ultimately take 
place between the righteous and the wicked at the 
judgment, represents himself as a shepherd dividing 
his sheep from the goats, thus : " When the Son of 
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels 
CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN GOD, with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his 
glory : and before him shall he gathered all nations : 
and he shall separate them one from another, as a 
" The Lord is my Shepherd t I shall not want. Ile maketh me to 
lie down in green pastures he leadetit me beside the still waters. shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats : and he 
.1 le restoreth my soul: he leadei h me in the paths of righteousness 
for his tonne's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley and shall set the sheep on his tight hand, but the goats 
shadow of death, I will fear no evil t for thou art with me; thy rod on the left."-Matt. 25:31-32. 
and thy staff they comfort me."--Psa. 23:1-1. 
David, in this Psalm, expresses his firm trust and " .1" shall not want."-Here is the expression of 
confidenceln the Lord ; and the words of the text his trust and confidence in his Redeemer and Lord. 
are truly beautiful, and calculated to inspire the heart As the faithful and good shepherd seeks the supply 
with the same trust and confidence in the same great of his flock, and leads them forth to luxuriant pas-
Source of all comfort and joy. The sentiment, too, tures, and beside the living streams, so he expected 
can be heartily responded to and adopted by every his Lord to supply all his need. The saint need not 
child of God : for such put no trust in an arm of flesh, fear, for he shall not want. 
but in the living Grad, who " made the world, and 1st. in the present life. Says David : " I have 
all things therein, and giveth to all life, and breath, been young, and now am old yet have I not seen 
and all things." 
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." 
" The Lord is my Shepherd."-Reference is here -Psa. 37:25. And who have ever seen them for-
bad more especially to the Redeemer. Like Abra- saken or begging their bread from door to door,- 
ham, lie saw " his day and was glad." All the spending their days in begging ? Not but that they 
prophets saw by faith the " coming One," and under have seasons of trial, and at times are destitute of the 
the direct agency of the Holy Spirit, spoke and wrote necessaries of life,-this they have had to endure ; 
of him. Jesus says to the Pharisees : " David but often at such times God has miraculously come 
in spirit called him Lord, saying, The Lord said to their deliverance, and so supplied their wants, as 
unto my Loud, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make to show them that he was their guardian and pro-
thine enemies thy footstool ;" and their inquiries, " If lector. Their poverty and the trial of their faith 
David call him Lord, how is he his son?" and they have been designed to bring them to see and experi-
were unable to answer him. This exhibits their ence the richer supplies of his grace and mercy. His 
great ignorance of the true character of the expected people are not promised the luxuries of this life, 
Messiah, notwithstanding all their advantages, and though some may enjoy then: ; but they are certainly 
their boasted knowledge of Moses and the prophets. promised with its comforts ; and our Saviour would 
How distinctly David saw his true character, may quiet the apprehensions of any who would thiuk that 
be seen by a careful study of the Psalms, many of they were to be so far reduced as not to enjoy them in 
which are prophetic of him. He saw Christ in his future : " Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 
humility, sufferings, and death ; in his burial, resur- for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall 
rection, and ascension ; in his mediatorship, and as drink : nor yet fur your body, what ye shall put on. 
Judge and King. He saw him clearly in all his Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rai- 
prophetic offices,- as Prophet, Priest, and King. ment Behold the fowls of the air : for they sow 
Thence Christ says : " All things must be fulfilled not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; ye 
which were written in the law of Moses, and in the your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not 
prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me."-Luke much bettet titan they ? Which of you by taking 
24:44. 
thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why 
My Shepherd."-Our Saviour bears this title, take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of 
from the fact, that, like a shepherd, he leads, protects, the field how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they 
and governs his people, and provides continually for spin ; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in 
their welfare. His guardianship and divine care over all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
them is thus beautifully expressed by the prophet Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, 
Isaiah : " He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, 
shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them shall he not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little 
in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are faith ? Therefore, take no thought, saying, What 
with young."-Isa. 40:11. 
shall we eat, or, What shall we drink, or, Where- 
Our Lord styles himself " the Good Shepherd :" withal shall we be clothed ? (for after all these 
not as an hireling, that feels no especial interest in things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Fa-
the flock, " because he is an hireling, and careth not ther knoweth that ye have need of these things. But 
for the flock," and who, when " he seeth the wolf seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteous-
coming, leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and the wolf ness, and all these things shall be added unto you. 
catcheth them and they are scattered ;" but as one Take therefore no thought for the morrow : for the 
that regardeth the flock, and perileth his life for their motrow shall take thought for the things of itself. 
safety, as did David his prototype.-" And David Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."-Matt. 
said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, 6:25-34. This passage does not teach idleness, nor 
and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb that we make no calculation to supply our wants, or 
out of the flock : and I went out after him and smote that we are to be the mere recipients of God's merci- 
him, and delivered it out of his mouth : and wherilhe ful bounty, as the vegetable, or inanimate creation ; 
arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and but that we have no undue care, or anxiety, in refer-
smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both ence to the future ; that after we have done all that 
the lion and the bear."-1 Sam. 17:34-36. So with is in our power to supply the wants of nature, He 
" the Good Shepherd :" lie delivers his people out who clothes the grass of the field, and feeds the fowls 
of the hand of " the adversary the devil, who as a of heaven, will assuredly open his hand and supply 
roaring lion walked] about, seeking whom he may our wants. Think of the fact, that the cattle upon 
devour."-1 Pet. 5:8. Yea, he even lays down his a thousand hills are his, that he knows all the fowls 
life for his sheep : " I am the good shepherd : the of the air, and that the treasures of the earth are his ; 
good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. . I and will not he supply his people with his bounty 
lay down my life for the sheep."-John 10:11, 15. from his rich and inexhaustible store-houses? He 
This he did when he suffered and died on the cross, will ! He set a table in the wilderness, and for forty 
a curse and a sin-offering fur us. What an expres- years spread it to meet the wants of the thousands of 
sion of his love and regard is this ! 
Israel ! In that dark, howling wilderness, where 
The apostle Paul calls him " the Great Shepherd." there were no cultivated fields, nor vineyards, he gave 
" Now the God of peace, that brought again from them bread from heaven, and man did " eat angels' 
the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd food !" He quenched their thirst from the smitten 
of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting rock, and the bitter waters of Meribah. When they 
covenant, make you verfect."-Heb. 13:20, 21. Pe- lusted for flesh, he sent quails, " as it were a day's 
ter styles him the " Chief Shepherd." " And when journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other 
the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a side of the camp," and six feet in height ! He sent 
crown of glory, that fadeth not away."-1 Pet 5:4. the ravens to feed Elijah, multiplied the widow's oil, 
There are under shepherds, he says, who are to feed and her handful of meal, which was to be the last for 
the flock of God, " taking the oversight thereof, not herself and son, wasted not for a whole year, but 
by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but was an abundant supply. It was the Shepherd of Is-
of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's rael that fed the " five thousand men," beside women 
heritage, but being ensamples to the flock."-1 Pet. and children, with the five loaves and two small fishes, 
5:2, 3. Such have promise of this" crown of glory," and afterwards they gathered the fragments, and 
when " the chief Shepherd shall appear." The great found them to be twelve baskets full ; also the " four 
apostle of the Gentiles, faithful in his calling to the thousand," beside women and children, with seven 
day of his death, could say, " There is laid up for loaves and a few small fishes, and they took up seven 
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the baskets full of the fragments ! Shall we want with 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
BY 0. It. FASSETT. 
" Therefore said he unto them, The harvest is 
great, but the laborers are few."-Luke 10:2. 
The time had nearly arrived for the Messiah to 
come, as predicted in Zech. 9th, " Behold thy King 
corned)," &c. Before he should come, it was neces-
sary that the people should be notified. 
The apostles preached " The kingdom of God is 
at hand." This work needed to he fully done ; and 
in view of it used the language of the text, " Pray 
ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, to send forth 
laborers." In the ninth chapter of Luke, the twelve 
are sent forth. In the 10th chapter, we have a rec-
ord of the appointment of the seventy ; but he still 
taught them to pray for an increase. 
He taught the twelve that they would not go over 
the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come ; 
therefore he appointed the seventy to go forth to those 
cities and towns where he himself came. Their mes-
sage to the Jewish nation, and that nation alone, was, 
" Know that the kingdom is come to you." Their 
message was to communicate what belonged " to 
their peace''-i. e., what related to Jesus as the 
Messiah. 
Soon after this work was consummated, Christ ful-
filled the prophecy in Zech. 9th : " They thought 
the kingdom of God would immediately appear ;" 
therefore lie spoke the parable in Luke 9th : " A 
nobleman went into a far country," &c. Jesus 
was welcomed king of Israel, and son of David, by 
the disciples and the people ; and even the children 
in the temple cried hosannalt ! 
They expected Jesus to become king at that pass-
over, and the multitude went out to meet him. But 
Jesus, as he progressed toward the city, paused and 
wept over it, and pronounced its doom. (Luke 20: 
37-44.) The disciples asked, " When shall these 
things be, anti what shall be the sign of thy coming ?" 
Christ then told them-the gospel shall be preached 
again to the Jews ? No, but " to all nations-then 
shall the end come." Then shall they say, " Bless-
ed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,"-
when Jesus returns. 
saved ?" They were instructed to look to Christ, 
were converted and baptized. On Thursday the 20th 
inst., the friends convened at the meeting house in 
this place, and after a season of solemn prayer to 
Almighty God, a brief article was presented by Bro. 
C. for the consideration of the brethren, containing 
select portions of Scripture, and finally embracing 
the entire New Testament, which, after mature re-
flection, was adopted as a church covenant by fifteen 
brethren and sisters, who were present on the occa-
sion. Last Sabbath, previous to participating to-
gether in the Lord's Supper, seventeen others were 
added to our number. On the following day, eight 
more united with us, making in all, forty happy 
souls, twenty-four of whom have recently been bap-
tized by Bro. C., the other sixteen came in from 
other churches. The work is still going on. Bro. 
C. has left us, making his way hack to Hancock 
county, from which we believe he intends to go 
North. This, dear brother, is a great work. It far 
exceeds our expectations. To God be all the glory. 
Amen. 
We sympathize deeply with you, dear brother, in 
your trials. The Lord sustain you, is our prayers. 
Yours in the blessed hope. 
P.S. When Bro. C. came to this place last Sept. 
there was not an Adventist here ; but under his la-
bors at that time three or four of us heartily embraced 
the faith, and established meetings of public worship. 
Since which we have endeavored, in our way, to 
preach the doctrine to others. 
There is something extraordinary in this doctrine. 
Men that never before attended public worship at all, 
now turn out night and day to hear the word. An 
impression is produced on the minds of this commu-
nity, which doubtless will remain till the Lord comes. 
[We have received letters of a similar tenor, from 
C. N. Ford, of Mendon, Adams county, Ill., and 
Moses 'Winslow, of Perry, Pike county, Ill., speak-
ing very encouragingly of Bro. Chapman's labors in 
those sections. We are pleased to hear of his suc-
cess and trust that he may he continued an able, use-
ful and humble minister of the New Testament.] 
Letter from M. Fall. 
BRO. II/NIES :—I am still in the land of the living, 
and yet in the land of the dying, looking confidently 
for our Lord and Saviour, when there shall be no 
more death, neither sorrow not crying. I can truly 
say, that I think the evidence is plain, that we are 
living in perilous times, when men are lovers of 
pleasure more than they are lovers of Christ. We 
see it in the worldling, and in the churches ; and we 
that love Christ and his appearing, should keep close 
to the cross, watch unto prayer, and he sober. 
I sympathize with you in your trials; but through 
much tribulation we are to enter the kingdom of God. 
Like Joshua, be of good courage, for we shall soon 
enter into the promised land. 
We do not hear much on the Advent. Bro. Brown 
preached for ns this spring. He was heard with 
much satisfaction. I think if he would give himself 
up to work in the vineyard of the Lord, lie would 
do much good, and be an instrument in saving souls, 
and have many stars in his crown. Some are finding 
fault with the Adventists, on account of not speaking 
against the sin of slavery. how is it, brother? Yours 
patiently waiting for the blessed hope. 
Greenbush (Ohio), June 14th, 1852. 
Letter from P. Powell. 
BROTHER HIMES is now more than a year 
since I was called home from Vermont, by sickness 
in my family ; since that time it has not. been con-
sistent for me to leave home more than a few days at 
a time. I have preached most all of the Sundays in 
the vicinity where I live. My sick ones are now re-
covering, and I hope I shall be able to go to Vermont 
rain the latter part of the season, which I am very 
anxious to do. I hope to he remembered in the 
prayers of all the faithful. Yours in the hope of the 
gospel. 
Three Rivers, June 25th, 1852. 
OBITUARY. 
.1 RID the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he will LIVE: mod whoever liveth 
and believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
DEPARTED this life, May 20th, 1852, Bro. ISAAC 
WILLOUGHRY, of Holderness, N. II., aged 62, with 
lung complaint. He leaves a companion artd six 
children who mourn his loss, but they are supported 
with the hope that it is his gain, and with the pros-
pect of meeting soon at the resurrection, in hope of 
which our brother rejoiced. The proclamation of 
the Saviour's soon coming found our brother a sin-
ner, and reading the evidences, he felt that he was 
unprepared for the event. He cried to God and 
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reproach of the truth. As he drew near his dissolu-
tion he couid rejoice and praise the Lord, exhorted 
his friends and neighbors to prepare to meet him at 
the judgment. His funeral was attended on the 22d, 
when some remarks were made on the occasion from 
Rev. 14:13 : " Blessed are the dead who die in the 
Lord." 
S. G. SMITH. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
We will turn our attention to the second announce-
ment of the coming of the kingdom. Could we see 
Christ, should we not hear him say to us, " Pray ye 
therefore the Lord of the harvest, to send forth la-
borers into the harvest ; for the harvest is great, but 
the laborers are few ?" 
We will consider our work. If this gospel is 
what it was at Christ's first advent, we know our 
message : " The kingdom of God is at hand ; re-
pent and believe the gospel." That such a work has 
been commenced, we cannot doubt, by the preaching 
of the historical prophecies relating to the coming of 
the kingdom. In different parts of the world, God 
has moved on the minds of men by his word, and 
Spirit, and providence. These do not all agree with 
us in all their views. I refer to the millenarians, 
who hold to probation arid the conversion of the na-
tions of the earth, and the Jewish race. With this 
subject I have no quarrel ; but I cannot see it to be 
truth. The influence which this doctrine has ex-
cited on Adventists, is my chief objection to it. All 
these have abandoned the Advent cause throughout 
the land. Why it is so, I cannot tell ; but that it is 
so I am certain ; and I have therefore felt constrained 
to oppose it, not because I love controversy, but be-
cause I love the 'truth, and the cause of God. Let 
these do their work, and with their own tools. 
The time was when this Advent doctrine went 
forth on the wings of the wind, riot only throughout 
this land, but in other lands. Much has been dune, 
but still the work is vast. 
The great obstacle to the success of this doctrine 
is the prevailing doctrine of the churches, that the 
kingdom of God spoken of in the prophets, is the 
gospel Church, and that the world will all be con-
vested. We are to show when this kingdom will 
come, how it will come, &c. But we must be ready 
to answer questions, and illustrate the Scriptures, in 
respect to that kingdom. 
We shall be asked what the second Psalm means—
" Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for 
thine inheritance." We must show them. The peo-
ple are famishing for the truth on these questions. 
They feel a vacuum, but do not know what they need. 
They are not satisfied with the preaching which they 
hear. Is not Jesus interested for them ? They are 
famishing for the bread of life. Make people to un-
derstand that Jesus will reign on earth, and they nat-
urally ask, " When will this he ?" It is our duty 
to answer, though we may not be able to tell the 
exact time. We must not use this doctrine as a mere 
speculation—without any practical influence. 
John called them to repentance, in view of the 
coming kingdom. The Lord Jesus did not content 
himself with a mere announcement of the time, but 
told the people to repent, and believe the glad tidings. 
He is our example, we must follow his steps. The 
14th of Rev. is parallel with the 24th of Matt., and 
in that passage men are called upon " to fear God 
and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment 
is come." God has his servants in the field, but 
few in comparison with the number who are needed. 
It is one thing to get men to believe in Christ, but 
is another to build them up in their most holy faith, 
and present them faultless before Christ at his com-
ing. This was Paul's work, and we have no right 
to dispense with any of those things which the apos-
tles taught and did. 
We are to watch over the flocks, and lead them 
into green pastures, and beside the still waters. We 
must, as Paul did, admonish them against grievous 
wolves, which shall not spare the flock. 
The apostles did up their work, and left behind 
them pastors, teachers, &c. ; and now Christ has the 
same—pastors and teachers to build up the flock. 
Some can teach at the fireside, others are evangelists, 
and go forth to the world. Each has his own gift. 
We have found it is a small thing to go and break 
up new fields. From many scores and hundreds that 
have been converted by us, have been left, and being 
alone, have backslidden, and now you can find scarcely 
any who will acknowledge the Advent faith in many 
of these places. But where the work has been fol-
lowed up by subsequent efforts, there the cause of 
God flourishes. 
How few there are for this work. How few com-
pared with the one thousand millions of the earth, 
who are embraced in this mission ! The number is 
small indeed. We must cry to the Lord of the har- 
vest, to 'raise up laborers. We must not trust in 
our own energy arid capabilities alone, but we must 
look to God for help. 
I have been asked what will be the issue of the 
Advent movement. I have only to say, that " this 
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the 
world, for a witness to all nations, and then shall the 
end come." I have no fears for the Advent cause—
it will live—it must live. • We have not been fault-
less,—we have doubtless erred in many things; but 
God has been with this work. 
We will now look back at what has been done. 
Fifteen years ago, I do not know that halt a dozen 
ministers in the country taught these views. Now 
there are many ministers, of various denominations. 
In all parts of our wide-spread country, there are be-
lievers in the second coming of Christ at hand. 
A brother who resided in Wisconsin, found in a 
retired place fourteen persons, who were full of faith 
in this doctrine. Some of them were Virginia plant-
ers, who having received this doctrine, had forsaken 
their wealth and pleasures, and gone to the wilds of 
Wisconsin to labor with their hands. 
We have no reason to faint or be discouraged. I 
have some knowledge of the Advent cause, and I be-
lieve it to be in a Netter condition to-day than at any 
time during the last eight years. The standard of 
piety has been advanced. In Pennsylvania, there is 
more praying for God's blessing than there has been 
for years before. There is a disposition to come up 
to the help of the Lord—to the help of the Lord 
against the mighty. 
I trust we shall have the spirit of our work. Like 
weeping Jeremiah, may we go forth from this Con-
ference. And like Moses, may we throw ourselves 
between God and the people, and say, " If thou wilt 
not hear me, then blot out my name from thy book." 
LETTER FROM H. ROBBINS. 
BRO. H1MES :—I have tried since I have been in 
this city to find some Advent believers, but as yet 
have found none. I have been several times on Sun-
days to the old chapel in which they formerly held 
their meetings, hoping to find some of the brethren, 
and to listen to the word of God as presented by some 
faithful Advent minister. 
A short time since, I listened to a discourse from 
a minister of much celebrity in this city, in which lie 
gave a clear and truthful sketch of this world's his-
tory, down to the present time. He dwelt at some 
length upon the Papacy, clearly proving it to be the 
Man of Sin predicted by the apostle Paul, and the 
usurping little horn of Daniel's vision. He showed 
its present state as agreeing with prophecy, and that 
its end is certainly near—that it would shortly be 
destroyed by the brightness of Christ's second glori-
ous coming. He endeavored to impress upon the 
minds of his hearers the certainty of the near ap-
proach of this event, both from scripture prophecy 
and from the fact, that the impression prevails the 
world over, that some great change or event is at 
hand,—that men have always had a sort of spiritual 
apprehension of the approach of all great events, or 
changes, just before they transpired, quoting the truth-
ful adage, that " coming events cast the shadows 
efore." He was quoting so much Scripture and 
presenting it in so clear a light, that I began to hope 
that a truthful impression in relation to the nature 
of the second coming of Christ would be left upon 
the minds of his hearers. But yon can judge of my 
feelings, when he closed his discourse by transform-
ing the second glorious personal coming of Christ to 
consummate the work of redemption, into the spir-
itual coming to convert the world, and return the 
Jews to Palestine. I could scarcely refrain from 
shedding tears to think that the minds of men should 
be thus misled, and the truth of God so mutilated by 
a man of such learning and eminence. But as you 
well know, this is but a specimen of the prevailing 
preaching, which suits, and is sought after by the 
great mass of professing Christians. The person-
ality of the Son of God is thns entirely done away 
with. And should he now appear, would not the 
prediction inferred from these words, " When the 
Son of man cometh, shall he find faith upon theearth," 
he fulfilled ? 
How difficult to live properly in these perilous 
times of spiritual darkness and death. May they 
soon end by the dawning of the glorious resurrection 
morn, and the ushering in of that bright Sabbath of 
rest, which remains for the people of God. Your 
brother in the fellowship of the gospel. 
Cincinnati, (0.), June 3d, 1852. 
Letter from J. P. Mallory and S. R. Glenn. 
BRO. IIIMES :—Although personally we are stran-
gers to each other, yet, by the love of God we are 
acquainted. We are happy to inform you and the 
brethren of kindred faith, that a glorious work is be-
gun here in these ends of the earth under the labors 
of our beloved Bro. S. Chapman. This is the third 
time Bro. C. has been with us during the past year. 
Previous to his late visit here he had been in Han-
cock county, doing much good. From thence, he 
went to Pike county, and performed considerable la-
bor in the " high ways and hedges " there. But 
while in Hancock, we addressed him a letter desiring 
him to visit us again. He consented to our request, 
and has now completed his labors here. The Lord 
has been with him of a truth. As John the Baptist 
preached in the wilderness of Judea, so Bro. C. 
come to us, saying, " Repent ye, for the kingdom of 
heaven is at hand." Praise God, the message was 
well received, and the word had the desired effect, 
much good has been done in the name of the Lord. 
Sinners began to inquire, " What shall we do to he 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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by offering twenty-four cents for the first hour, twelve for the 
next, and so on, besides a feast of bread and cheese, and ale 
to wind off with. Twenty or thirty men are needed to work 
each engine, but a fire never yet occurred in London where 
there was a lack of men for hire on these terms. 
The trained firemen attend to all the dangerous parts of 
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devouring element. If it is necessary to enter a room full of 
smoke and flames, a fireman with a smoke-proof dress en-
ters at once to the rescue of the perilled object. The work 
goes on coolly, but with wonderful despatch ; and when all 
is over, all parties who have worked adjourn to the nearest 
public house, to partake of the before-hand bargained-for 
bread and cheese and ale. 
The fire brigade belongs to some eighteen or twenty in-
surance companies, and has fifteen or sixteen stations. There 
are a superintendent and captains, and the men are promoted 
according to their energy and trustworthiness. We need not 
add that they are paid well, and those employed who are 
stout, strong, and full of expertness. Here is one of the 
great advantages they have over the members of the fire 
companies in American towns, who do not make it their 
business. They are generally persons of ordinary strength, 
and can never be so skilful as men who make the putting out 
of fires a profession. 
The Editor. 
The fable of the miller, who on his way to a neighboring 
fair, to sell his ass, took everybody's advice, until at last by 
his folly, the ass was lost in a river, affords a special warn-
ing to editors. Many that can just handle a pen, think them-
selves abundantly competent to manage a journal, and rather 
than hide their light under a bushel, volunteer criticism and 
advice very freely. One suggests one thing, another pre-
cisely the reverse ; and if the editor stopped to consider all 
the various contrarieties of opinion, he would be very much 
like the sagacious animal who starved between two bundles 
of hay. A Toronto paper thus depicts the editorial frater-
nity in this particular : 
"It is told of a celebrated painter, that having finished a 
picture, upon the design and execution of which he had be-
stowed much pains, he was desirous of obtaining a free ex-
pression of public opinion upon the merits of his work. To 
effect this, he mounted his picture in a conspicuous part of 
the market-place in his native town, and concealing himself 
behind the canvass, heard the remarks of those who paused 
to criticize it. He was forcibly struck with the incongruity 
of the observations which were freely and abundantly made, 
and resolved to adopt a device by which he might expose the 
injustice of such wholesale condemnation, and the folly of 
seeking to please the tastes of a multitude. Accordingly, on 
the following day the picture appeared in its former position, 
by its side were placed a pallet of colors, and some brushes, 
and over it a large placard, inviting the passenger to oblite-
rate any defect, and making any alteration or improvement 
which his judgment or fancy might suggest. The result of 
this was, that which had been a very creditable painting iii 
the morning, was at night a mass of blotches and daubs. 
" The moral of this fable has a direct and personal appli-
cation to ourselves. We hear various suggestions daily of-
fered as to the manner in which our paper might be made 
more useful and more attractive. Our extracts are not well 
selected ; our style is ton polemical ; we are too high, we 
are becoming evangelical, we are too discursive, we do not 
give news, we trench too much upon politics, &c., &c. Now 
we ask every candid reader to run his eye over the arrange-
ment of our paper, and say honestly whether, in so limited a 
space, we could well bring together a greater variety of ma-
terial to please and instruct persons of all ages, professing 
our principles, and looking for information on points con-
nected with the progress and welfare of the church and 
empire." 
Extraordinary Adventure. 
One of the most extraordinary adventures of a child of 
which we ever heard, occurred in this vicinity last week. 
On Thursday, the 10th of June, a son of John Keenan, of 
this place, aged only threeand a half years, disappeared from 
Isis home, and no tidings of hint could be obtained by his 
parents. On the follotving day, bills were circulated solicit-
ing information respecting him. It was atlength ascertained 
that a child answering to ills description had been seen in an 
easterly direction from the village, and an active search was 
immediately instituted for the missing boy. It appears that 
he was seen by several persons, but in one instance only tin-
der circumstances that excited suspicion that he was lost, 
and in this instance the person neglected to take charge of 
him immediately, and when followed, he had disappeared in 
the woods, and could not be found. 
The course of the child was followed in part by the infor• 
oration of those who had seen him, but mainly, we under-
stand, by his foot-prints in ploughed fields and muddy places. 
He was at length found on Saturday evening, at half-past 
five o'clock, near the boundary line between Seekonk and 
Rehoboth, five and a half miles ilea straight line front his 
home, and fifty-four and a half hours after his disappearance, 
and fifty-nine after he ate his breakfast on the previous 
Thursday morning. He left home barefooted and very thinly 
clad, having nothing on but a thin calico dress, and an apron, 
and these were wet when he was found. In this condition 
FOREIGN NE WS. 
The American steamship Atlantic arrived at New York 
on Saturday last. 
England. 
The Earl of Malmesbury announced in the House of Lords 
on the 14th of June, that the Government had determined to 
suspend for the present the bill for the extradition of French 
criminals. This measure excited much indignation among 
the public, who looked on it, not unnaturally, as a means to 
give the French police power over political refugees. 
The Queen has issued a proclamation, prohibiting the pub- 
lic exercise of the Roman Catholic religion elsewhere than 
in places of public worship. The Queen will protect the 
religious rites of the Roman Catholics, but other denomina-
tions must not be disturbed. 
The Fifeshire Journal says that Sir David Brewster has 
demonstrated that the. immense diamond which figured in the 
Exhibition, is not the genuine Koh-i-noor, but a very fine 
diamond, nevertheless, and is the one Shah Soojah gave up 
to the British as the real " mountain of light." 
The Government of Denmark has refused to acknowledge 
the loans raised and debts contracted by the insurrectionary 
government of 1848, amounting to 17,824,566 marks. 
France. 
Credits have been asked ,to complete the tomb of Napo-
leon ; another for a monument to the late Archbishop of 
Paris, accidentally shot in the insurrection of June ; and 
lastly a credit of 300,000 francs, destined to afford pensions 
to the servants of Louis Philippe. 
The procession of Corpus Christi took place on Sunday. 
At Paris the ceremony was conducted with much magnifi-
cence. 
Some other public functionaries have refused the oaths, 
among them M. Courgeon, Professor of History in the Col-
lege of Bordeaux. But one naval officer has refused to swear 
allegiance. 
The Government has decided to withdraw the allowance 
granted during the past twenty-two years to Polish refugees 
in France. 
The stamp returns show a falling off in the circulation of 
the Paris newspapers of 239,000 copies for May, as com-
pared with that for April, caused, no doubt, by the restric-
tions imposed on the press with regard to the publication of 
news and of leading articles, 
Switzerland. 
The Neufchatel question becomes more complicated. Ott 
the 7th of June the Federal Flag of Switzerland was brought 
front Basle to the city of Neufchatel, and set up in the centre 
of a square formed by officers of the canton. The major of 
the Neufchatel rifle rifle corps then addressed the officers, 
calling on them to be true to that flag, and, if necessary, the 
Federal Government would assist them in maintaining their 
independence. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony. 
Egypt. 
Said Pacha has fillen under suspicion since his departure 
for France, where he is at present. His palace has been 
searched, and a quantity of arms found, and over one hun-
dred persons, supposed to be his accomplices in political con-
spiracy, have been arrested and sent to the citadel at Cairo. 
A tribe of Bedouins, one thousand strong, who are in his in-
terest, have escaped to Bengazi, and placed theniselves be-
yond the reach of pursuit. 
Progress of "Spiritualism." 
The rappers out West are getting into the pulpit, as the 
following from the Marshall (W is.) Democrat will show : 
" Some of the clergy in the eastern part of the county 
(Clarke) say that they ate inspired by the spirits, and that 
their sermons delivered out of the pulpit are not their own, 
Hut that they are the instruments through which the spirits 
operate upon the mass of the people. We understand that 
these divines, or the spirits through them, say that the mil-
lennium has commenced, and that in less than five years the 
wicked are to be swept from the face of the earth, and the 
righteous are to inherit it forever. It is reported that one of 
the ministers said, on Sunday last, while preaching to a 
crowded house, that not more than a dozen of his audience 
would ever pass through the shades of death. It is also said 
that the spirits have informed the people, through the me-
diums, that the old way of baptizing is all wrong, and that 
they should use water instead of wine for sacramental pur-
poses ; and we are informed that the people are following 
the directions to the letter. A new church has been organ-
ized, called the Church of Christ, and a meeting is now be-
ing held, which commenced one week ago, and is to continue 
until the spirits tell them to stop. We are told that some 
are so infatuated with this new religion, that they do not do 
a single thing without first consulting the spirits. The ex-
citement in the neighborhood is great, and some of the best 
men in the county are strong believers." 
The Fire Department of London. 
An American gives an explanation of the manner of ex-
tinguishing the fires in London, which must be interesting to 
our readers, since there are there no organizations for attend-
ing to fires, as in this country. 
Several insurance companies unite and provide a disci-
plined band of firemen, who act as leaders ; for the crowd 
which gather to see a fire are made to assist. These hands 
have their rendezvous at convenient places, and are always 
ready for any calamity. 
One of these spots is a singular scene. At all hours of 
the day and night, you will find several fire engines well 
mounted upon strong cars, to which are attached two or fon 
powerful horses. The gates are always open, the horses 
harnessed, and the lines in the hands of a driver. Besides 
he had wandered to the place where he was found, through 
ploughed fields and woods, and across ditches and swamps. 
So tar as is known or believed, he had not eaten a mouth-
ful of food since the previous Thursday. Two nights the 
little fellow must have slept in the open air, on the cold, 
damp ground, and they were cold nights too, there being a 
frost on each, if our memory is correct. His feet were badly 
lacerated by stones, briers, &c., and much swollen, but he 
appeared to he otherwise in good condition, and is doing well. 
His greatest anxiety, on being found, was to lie taken to his 
mother, for whom, he said, he had been looking. When 
asked if he did not sleep cold the previous night, he replied 
that he did. 
The latter part of the strange adventure of this child was 
in and through an extensive swamp, in which people have 
been lost, and where, some forty years ago, a woman, stumble 
to find her way out, perished, and her body was not found 
until nine days afterwards. In this swamp is a stream of 
water five or six feet wide, and of considerable depth, and 
the mud in its lied and on its banks is so deep and soft, that 
it is difficult to cross it. But this child did cross it—how, 
every one who has seen it is puzzled to conjecture. 
From the appearance of his tracks in this swamp, it is 
supposed that lie wandered abooctherein several miles. He 
was found on the margin of the swamp, hut was supposed to 
be in between it, and one and two hundred men were en-
gaged on Saturday in searching for hint. 
We question whether there is another instance on record 
in which a child of so tender years survived so much fa-
tigue, privation, and exposure. If this little Keenan lives, 
and does nut make a tough specimen of a man, Isis age will 
" belie the promise of his spring. "—Pawtucket (R. I.) Gaz. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 3, 1852. 
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 he 
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 men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
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from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
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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 CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
Ilis 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 Destructions 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,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
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 its which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the flame. We shall en-
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every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD iS at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted liens 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. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The July number (No. 3, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautiful 
little monthly paper is published. 
CONTENTS. 
A Warning to Boys. 
Nobility of Mind. 
Keep out of Debt. 
Youthful Neglect. 
The Atmosphere. 
The Gold Sovereign. 
The Schoolmaster at Home. 
Enigma, &c. &c. 
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Sabbath, 4th 
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