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This your watchword, faithful one, 
While contending with your lot ; 
Rest not till the race he done, 
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Onward through the mists of error, 
Fearless moving, clear the way ; 
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Travels in the East. 
Bit DR• J. V. C. SMITH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
GREECE. 
The territory of modern Greece is of about 
the dimensions of Massachusetts—with a popu-
lation of not far from one million, and an annual 
revenue of four millions of dollars. It is op-
pressed with a royal family, consisting of a 
king and queen, without children. His majesty 
is hated, if people speak truly, while her majes-
ty is rather popular. For the last eight months 
the king has been in Bavaria, and his loving 
subjects express a hope that he will never re-
turn. His salary is only $160,000 per annum ! 
A standing army is kept up of between 8,000 
and 9,000 men, which is of no earthly use, for 
if the Turks were to attempt a blow, they could 
eat up every soldier in the Greek service in one 
night. The kingdom depends for its security 
on the European powers exclusively. If, there-
fore, the army were disbanded, and the soldiers 
employed in agriculture, the wealth of the na• 
tion would increase more rapidly. Athens looks 
like a flourishing town, and will by and by be-
come a very handsome one. 
When the Rev. Mr. Hill, an American mis-
sionary, first took up his residence in Greece, 24 
years ago, not an edifice of modern growth had 
been erected. Coaches are driving through the 
streets actively, and if there were good roads to 
the country, there would be safe intercourse 
with the interior—but now there is not. Politi-
cal corruption is dominant, and the government 
carries all elections and every measure by the 
over-awing influence of soldiers in the back 
ground, a place in office, or a position for a 
dangerous individual where he can scrape the 
pot, as the proverb says, since there is no dish 
so clean that it does not yield a taste of what 
was in it. An English gentleman, who has re-
sided fifteen years in Athens, speaks particular-
ly of the low reputation of the courts of law. 
The judges of some of the tribunals have a sala-
ry equal to $35 a month, and are removable at 
the pleasure' of the king. The insecurity of 
their office is probably one cause of the corrup-
tion that has the ascendancy. 
Athens is governed by a corporation of a may-
or, municipal council, &c., elected by the citi-
zens. A more complicated kind of system never 
could have existed, since they elect electors, 
whose choice must be approved by his majesty, 
or, it is of no effect. Three mayors are annu-
ally elected, at the same time, whose names are 
carried up to the throne, and if Otho, or in his 
absence, the queen, likes the list, one of them 
is approved, and is qualified. If not, then there 
is an opportunity to go into a new election for 
three more. 
Athens at times is a. sickly city;and will con• 
tinue to be so till the drainage is better man-
aged. For miles round, the land is low and in-
clined to be marshy. On entering the plateau 
from the Pirwus, I was struck with its general 
resemblance to that of Esdraelon, and Celo-
Syria. Their geological features are precisely 
alike. In 1850 the mortality of Athens was 
1i84, while thebirths were only 534, in -apopu-
lation of 26,000.e In the early part of the pres-
ent year, typhus fever has been quite prevalent, 
and many deaths occurred. Still, with these 
facts before the king—for 110 one does or thinks 
here without his slow, cold, Bavarian consent—
nothing is done to better the public health by 
filling bogs, and draining off the water from 
marshy places. 
A more picturesque national costume cannot 
be conceived than the modern Grecian. A red 
cap, jauntingly worn, swayed to one side by a 
heavy silk tassel; a jacket of all colors, covered 
with embroidery—the sleeves open to the shoul-
der; a kilt, or white cotton petticoat, reathing 
to the knees—often containing ten yards ; red, 
white, and other colored stockings, with a differ-
ent colored wide garter outside ; red shoes, and 
a silk scarf wound several times tightly round 
the body, make up the essentials of a court or 
gentleman's dress. In consequence of swathing 
the abdomen so tightly as is the custom of the 
country, more people are said to be ruptured in 
Greece than in any other part of the world. 
Very little of the excellent land is under cul-
tivation—and consequently weeds, and especial-
ly those which yield something for the bees, are 
prevalent, and hence their multiplication. Mount 
Hyrnettus, east of the Acropolis, was celebrated 
in ancient times for its excellent honey. An 
excursion to the quarries on Mount Pentelicus, 
where the marble for all the past and present 
buildings of Athens and its environs was pro-
cured, shows the astonishing industry of the 
people in past ages. The plain of Marathon, 
the plain and region about Sunium ; the bay of 
Salamis, Elusis, and the theatre of the Elu-
sinian mysteries, are each and all of them points 
of intense interest in the history of civilization 
and classical literature. 
I visited the palace thoroughly, and although 
an unmeaning and ungraceful excrescence of 
marble, brick and mortar, it has some splendid 
state apartments within. It is too low studded, 
and the defect runs through the whole interior. 
The throne-room is very beautiful, without be-
ing overdone. 
On my way up the avenue, I saw the queen 
step on the hand of her groom, who raised her 
in a twinkling to the saddle of a spirited horse; 
and away cantered her little majesty, followed 
by a retinue of laced coats and other appendages 
of the household. 
Of the progress of education in Greece, the 
school system, the public morals, amusements, 
&c., it is not my intention to write much upon 
them at present. I am making diligent inquiries, 
and through the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Hill, 
and other gentlemen of intelligence and relia-
bility, shall no doubt gather up some valuable 
information, illustrative of the true condition of 
modern Greece. 
Amusing anecdotes are related of the king.—
His leading ambition seems to be, to be thought 
an universal genius and profoundly wise in 
every thing ; yet so despotic and self-willed is 
he, that no one must act or think without his 
special royal permission. The administration 
of the government, in its various departments, 
has suffered through the king's delays, and want 
of decision. About a year since, an officer of 
some distinction, stationed on the island of Ne-
gropont, being reduced very low in health, peti-
tioned his superior for leave of abence. The 
latter could do nothing till it was laid before his 
majesty. When the request came up, instead of 
answering promptly one way or the other, he 
laid by the paper for consideration. After a 
long while his mind was made up, and he gra-
ciously granted the poor sick officer's request; 
but unfortunately, when word reached the 
island, the petitioner had been dead three 
months ! At one time a basket of charcoal 
could not be purchased for government use, till 
the order had been submitted to his all-wise ex-
amination. The physicians of Athens, some 
tune since, concluded to publish a pharmacopoeia 
of their own, which was prepared by a commit-
tee, the chairman of which was the present pro-
fessor of chemistry in the University. It being 
a law, however, that no work shall go to press 
till the manuscript is submitted to the govern-
ment, the sheets, scrawled,off and abounding in 
apothecary signs and measures, were necessari-
ly handed to the bureau, without the least ex-
pectation of their being detained an hour. To 
the confusion of the committee, however, Otho 
took it into his head that he must hear it all 
read, it was so important. The professor was 
sent for, and the king, with pencil in hand, in-
dicated his views, as the former waded through 
an ocean of sentences unintelligible to the mud-
dy brain of this German blockhead. Six entire 
weeks were consumed before the inspection was 
completed—Llie nutty foul ha.,;as licLeneri {„r 
hours in succession to words and ideas which 
he could not comprehend. 
Near the base of the Acropolis, is the phil-
anthropic mission school established by the Rev. 
Mr. Hill and his lady, which is exerting a good 
influence on the moral and intellectual condi-
tion of the native inhabitants. The little chil-
dren are taught English, while they are instruct-
ed in every useful branch of knowledge in the 
Greek language. Their system is admirable; 
and from the happy results already realized, the 
effects, that the diffusion of first principles in 
morals, Christianity, and science, is to exert on 
the future destiny of this resuscitated country, 
are incalculable. The building is located near-
ly in the centre of the ancient Agora, or market. 
In digging for a foundation they came to the 
original marble floor of that building, and the 
steps by which one now ascends to the front door 
of 'the mission school are those identical stones, 
and were perhaps trodden upon by St. Paul, on 
his way to the Areopagus near by. Marble 
columns were also found, star.ding in their origi-
nal position, which had been covered for ages 
by the accumulated rubbish of two or three 
cities, built one upon the other. For a quarter 
of a mile N. W. and N. E. of the Acropolis, 
quite up to its perpendicular sides, the earth 
has been filled in to the depth of twenty feet.—
No matter where an excavation is made, mar-
ble, wrought into some form of beauty, is sure 
to come up. Mr. Hill actually found the public 
oil measures; and I examined one of the omars, 
or public measures for wheat. He presented 
me with an immense marble sarcophagus, with 
bull's heads, ram's heads, and a bold, heavy 
chain-work on the sides in relief, which must 
have been superb in its day. The length is 
about seven feet, by three wide and three high, 
weighing a ton and a half, if not more. It re-
fers to a remote antiquity, and may have con-
tained the body of Euripides, Pisistratus, or Ar-
istides the Just. In passing on the back of the 
palace garden, the other day, the workmen were 
opening a trench, in which some elegantly 
wrought blocks belonging to immensely large 
fluted columns, were exposed, where they may 
have been covered, for aught any one knows to 
the contrary, twenty-five centuries. 
also said to have been translated into the Chi-
nese and Tartar languages, written upon rich 
silk, and suspended at the imperial palace at 
Pekin. It is one of those poems that will bear 
a repeated reading, and I believe you will confer 
a favor on every lover of good poetry by giving 
it a place in the poet's corner : 
0 thou Eternal One ! whose presence bright 
All space cloth occupy, all motion guide ; 
Unchanged through time's all devastating flight; 
Thou only God ! there is no God beside. 
Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! 
Whom none can comprehend and none explore ; 
Who fill'st existence with thyself alone ; 
Embracing all ; supporting, ruling o'er; 
Being whom we call God—and know no more ! 
In its sublime research, Philosophy 
May measure out the ocean deep; may count 
The sands, or the sun's rays : but God ! for thee 
There is no weight or measure ; none can mount 
Up to thy mysteries. Reason's brightest spark, 
Though kindled by the lights, in vain would try 
To trace thy counsels, infinite and dark ; 
Arid thought is lost, ere thought can soar so high, 
Even like past moments in eternity. 
Thou from primeval nothingess didst call 
First chaos, then existence ; Lord on thee 
Eternity had its foundation ; all 
Sprung forth from thee ; of joy, light, harmony, 
Sole origin—all life, all beauty thine. 
Thy word created all and doth create ; 
Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine ; 
Timu art, coral arid chall be glorious. gre,-* 
Life-giving, life-sustaining protentate ! 
Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround, 
Upheld by thee, by thee inspired with breath ! 
Thou the beginning with the end host bound, 
And beautifully mingled life and death. 
As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze, 
So suns are born, so worlds spring forth., from 
thee ! 
And as the spangles in the sunny rays 
Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry 
Of Heaven's bright army glitters to thy praise. 
A million torches, lighted by thy hand, 
Wander unwearied through the blue abyss ; 
They own thy power, accomplish thy command, 
All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss. 
What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light ? 
A glorious canopy of golden streams ? 
Lamps of celestial ether, burning bright ? 
Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams? 
But thou to these art as the moon to night. 
Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, 
All this magnificence in thee is lost! 
What area million worlds compared with thee? 
And what am I then ? Heaven's unnumber'd 
host, 
Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed 
In all the glory of sublimest thought, 
Its but an atom in the balance weighed 
Against thy greatness ; is a cypher brought 
Against infinity ! What am I, then ? Naught. 
Naught! but the effulgence of thy light divine, 
Pervading worlds, bath reach'd my bosom too; 
Yes ! in my spirit doth thy Spirit shine, 
As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew. 
Naught ! but I live, and on hope's pinions fly 
Eager toward thy presence ; for in thee 
I live, and breathe, and dwell ; spring high, 
Even to thy throne of divinity. 
I AM, 0 God ! and surely thou MUST BE. 
Thou art! directing, guiding all ; Thou art' 
Direct my understanding then to thee. 
Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart, 
Though but an atom, 'midst innmens;ry• 
Still I am something fashioned by thy hand ; 
I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, 
On the last verge of mortal he;ng stand, 
Close to the realms where angels have their birth, 
Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land I 
God. 
The chain of being is complete in me ; 
In me is matter's last gradation lost, 
ten by Dershaven, the celebrated Russian poet, 
The following poem is said to have been writ- And the next step is spirit. Deity ! 
and by order of the Emperor of Japan was I can command the lightning, and am dust. 
A monarch and a slave ; a worm, a god! 
translated into Japanese, and hung up, embroi- 
dered with gold, in the temple of Jeddo. It is Whence came I here, and how ? so marvellously 
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Constructed and conceived ? This clod 
Lives through some higher energy ; 
For from itself it could not be. 
Creator ! Yes I thy wisdom and thy word 
Created me ! Thou source of life and good! 
Thou spirit of my spirit and my Lord ! 
Thy light, thy love, in all their brightest pleni- 
tude 
Fill'd me with an immortal soul to spring 
Over the abyss of death, and bade it wear 
The garments of eternal day and wing 
Its heavenly flight beyond this little sphere, 
Even in its source to thee, its author there. 
0 thought ineffable! 0 visions blest ! 
Though worthless our conceptions all of thee, 
Yet shall thy shadow'd image fill our breast, 
And waft its homage to thy Deity. 
God ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar ; 
Thus seek thy presence, Being wise and good ! 
'Midst thy works, admire, obey, adore ; 
And when the tongue is eloquent no more, 
The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude. 
On Eclipses of the Sun. 
BY CHARLES COLBY. 
Total eclipses of the sun are the most sub-
lime of celestial phenomena. Such an eclipse 
will occur upon the 28th inst., but it will not 
be total in the United States. Indeed, such 
eclipses are very seldom seen in the same por-
tion of the earth. For example, of those visible 
in the United States, the last occurred in 1806, 
which is well recollected by many persons, 
while the next will not occur until 1869. A 
complete annular eclipse will be seen in a part 
of the United States in May, 1854. 
The utility of eclipses is much greater than 
is generally supposed by the public. The con-
currence of the predicted and actual times of 
their commencement and termination, affords 
most accurate proof of the correctness of the 
theories by which they were predicted. The 
comparison of recent with ancient eclipses has 
proved that there has been an acceleration of 
the moon's mean motion. The observation of 
eclipses, (more especially those of the moon,) 
is a means, and one frequently used, of deter-
mining the longitudes of places. 
Chronology has derived very great assistance 
from eclipses. In the writings of many ancient 
historians, many events are recorded as having 
happened about the time when certain eclipses 
of the sun and moon occurred. By means of 
astronomy, the time of occurrence of any eclipse 
can be a..,ertuined witu perfect accuracy. And 
thus, if, of any event, it is recorded that it hap-
pened at a certain time before or after an eclipse 
of which an approximate time is given, the true 
date of that event is certainly determined.—
Many instances might here be given; but two 
will be sufficient. 
In the writings of Josephus it is said that on 
the night succeeding the death of Herod, there 
was an eclipse of the moon. The record of 
this event, (which is the only one mentioned 
by Joseph us, in any of his writings,) is of the 
greatest importance, since it determines the 
time of the death of Herod, and of the birth of 
Jesus Christ. 
Again,—in the history of Herodotus, record 
is made of an eclipse of the sun, which occurred 
during a battle between the Lydians and Medes. 
The day was suddenly changed into night ; the 
terrified armies ceased from their contest and 
made peace. Herodotus does not record the 
date of this event, except in mentioning that it 
was in the sixth year of the war between the 
nations. Astronomy is thus called upon to de-
termine the exact time of this event. This task 
is rendered, to some extent, more difficult, since 
Herodotus did not record the place or part of 
the country where the armies were contending. 
Hence, as might be supposed, different compu-
ters of the event have been led to entertain dif-
ferent opinions of its exact time and place.—
However, the learned Mr. Bailey has conclu-
sively shown that an eclipse which could cause 
so great darkness must have been total ; and 
hence it is required to determine at what time 
total eclipses occurred in that region. Accord-
ing to his calculations, this eclipse took place 
September 30th, B. c. 610. 
During the great eclipses which took place 
in 1836 and 1842, (the former being annular, 
and the latter total) several peculiar and won-
derful phenomena were observed. 
Mr. Francis Bailey describes his observations 
of them as follows :-1836—" When the cusps 
of the sun were about 40 deg. asunder, a row of 
lucid points, like a string of bright beads, formed 
round that part of the circumference of the 
moon that was about to enter on the sun's disc. 
My surprise was great on finding that these lu-
minous points, as well as the dark intervening 
spaces, increased in magnitude, contiguous ones 
appearing to run into each other like drops of 
water ; for the rapidity of the change was so 
so great and the singularity of the appearance 
so fascinating and attractive, that the mind was 
for the moment distracted and lost in the con-
templation of the scene. 
Finally as the moon pursued her course, these 
dark intervening spaces were stretched out into 
long, black, thick parallel lines joining the limbs 
of the sun and moon ; when all at once they 
suddenly gave way and left the circumferences 
of the sun and moon in those points, as in the 
rest, comparatively smooth and circular; and 
the moon perceptibly advanced on the face of 
the sun. 
The moon preserved its usual circular out-
line, during its progress across the sun's disc, 
until its opposite limb again approached the 
border of the sun. When, all at once (the limb 
of the moon being at some distancce from the 
edge of the sun) a number of long, black, thick, 
parallel lines, exactly similar to those before 
mentioned, suddenly darted forward from the 
moon, and joined the two limbs as before ; and 
the same phenomena were thus repeated, but in 
an inverse order. 
In the total eclipse of 1842, Mr. Bailey says 
that he at first " looked out very narrowly for 
the back lines which were seen in the annular 
eclipse of 1836, as they would probably pre-
cede the string of beads. These lines, how-
ever, were not seen by me. 
But the beads were distinctly visible ; and on 
their first appearance I had noted the time of my 
chronometer, and was in the act of counting the 
seconds in order to ascertain the exact time of 
their duration, when I was astounded by a tre-
mendous burst of applause from the streets 
below, and at the same moment was electrified 
by the sight of one of the most brilliant and 
splendid phenomena that can well be imagined. 
For at that instant, the dark body of the moon 
was suddenly surrounded with a corona, or kind 
of bright glory, similar in shape and relative 
magnitude to that which painters draw around 
the heads of saints, and which by the French 
is designated an aureole. 
Pavia contains many thousand inhabitants, 
the greater part of whom were at this early hour 
walking about the streets and squares, in order 
to witness this long talked of phenomena, and 
when the total obscuration took place, which 
was instantaneous, there was a universal shout 
from the observers, which " made the welkin 
ring," and for the moment withdrew my atten-
tion from the object which I was immediately 
employed. 
I had indeed anticipated the appearance of a 
luminous circle round the moon during the time 
of total obscurity, but I did not expect from any 
of the accounts of previous eclipses that I had 
read, to witness so magnificent an exhibition as 
woic place. 
I was surprised and astonished at the splen-
did scene which now so suddenly burst upon 
my view. It riveted my attention so effectual-
ly, that 1 quite lost slight of the string of beads, 
which, however, were not completely closed 
when this phenomenon first appeared. Splendid 
as its appearance really was, at the same time 
there was something appalling in its character; 
and I can readily imagine that uncivilized na-
tions may have become alarmed and terrified at 
such an object. 
But another remarkable phenomenon was 
now exhibited. Suddenly from the border of the 
moon there burst forth at three different points 
purple or lilac flames, visible to every eye, situ-
ated in the corona before mentioned. 
Appearances similar to these were seen at 
other places. In the eclipse of the present 
month observers in Europe, where the eclipse 
is total, will direct special attention to its obser-
vation, in order to note the phenomena which 
may occur. 
Canibralg-e Chronicle. 
Catching a Man-Catcher. 
Several of the ministers ejected by the Act 
of Uniformity, in 1662, united with the emi-
nent Richard Baxter in establishing a lecture in 
a private house. The time of worship being at 
a very early hour, Mr. Baxter one evening left 
home with a view of being there ready for the 
morning. The night, however, being dark, he 
lost his way, and after wandering for a long 
time he came to a gentleman's house, where he 
asked direction. The servant informed his 
master of this fact, who, thinking it unsafe that 
so respectable a looking man should be wander-
ing on the common at so late an hour, invited 
him to stay. Mr. Baxter readily accepted the 
invitation, and was treated with great hospitali- 
ty. His conversation gave his host a high opin- 
ion of his good sense and extensive information. 
The gentleman wishing to know the quality of 
his guest, after supper said, 
" As most persons have some employment or 
profession in life, I have no doubt, sir, that you 
have yours." 
Mr. Baxter replied with a smile, " Yes sir, I 
am a man-catcher." 
" A man-catcher, are you ? " said the gentle-
man ; " I am very glad to hear you say so, for 
you are the very person I want. I am a Jus-
tice of the Peace in this district, and I am com-
missioned to secure the person of Dick Baxter, 
who is expected to preach at a conventicle in 
the neighborhood early to-morrow morning; you 
shall go with me, and I doubt not we shall easily 
apprehend the rogue." 
Mr, Baxter very prudently consented to ac-
company him. Accordingly, the gentleman, 
the following morning, took Mr. Baxter to the 
place where the meeting was to be held.—
When they arrived there, a considerable num-
ber of the people were hovering about ; but, on 
meeting the Justice, they suspected his inten-
tions, and were afraid to enter the house. The 
Justice now intimated to Mr. Baxter his fears 
that Baxter had been apprized of his intentions, 
and would disappoint them, and proposed to ex-
tend their ride, that the people might be en-
couraged to assemble, and give them an oppor-
tunity of fulfilling their commission. They did 
so ; but on their return they still found the peo-
ple unwilling to assemble. The magistrate, 
now supposing that he should be disappointed 
of his object, said to Mr. Baxter, that as these 
people were much disaffected to the government 
he would feel obliged to him if he would ad-
dress them on the subject of loyalty and good 
behavior. Mr. Baxter replied, that as they met 
for worship, it was probable that such an ad-
dress would not satisfy the people; but that if 
the Justice would engage in prayer he would 
say something to them. The gentleman re-
plied that he had not his prayer book with him, 
or he would readily comply with the proposal; 
but expressed his persuasion that Mr. Baxter 
was able to pray with them, as well as to talk 
to them; and requested him to begin prayer. 
They entered the house, followed by the peo-
ple ; Mr. Baxter prayed with great devotion 
and fervor ; the magistrate, standing by, was 
soon melted into tears. The good divine then 
preached in his usual faithful and zealous man-
ner, and when he had concluded he turned to 
the Justice and said, 
" Sir, I am the very Dick Baxter of whom 
you are in pursuit. I am entirely at your dis-
posal." 
Thee magistrate, however, had felt so much 
during the service, and saw things so different-
ly to what he had done before, that his enmity 
was changed into love, and afterwards he be-
came the friend and advocate of the persecuted, 
and, it is believed, also, a sincere Christian. 
Watchman and Reflector. 
The Psalmist made the heavenly lights, the 
beasts of the earth, the fishes of the sea, as well 
as himself, the sbjects of his pious contempla- 
tion' I am fearfully and wonderfully made," 
said he, when turning his thoughts to himself. 
And ought not man sometimes, and much often-
er than he is wont to do, to make himself the 
object of his study ? And in entering on this 
study, what wonders rise to view ! Who can 
tell how the bones grow in the womb ? How 
curiously is the frame knit together! This re-
sults not from the parent's care or skill, nor yet 
from chance, All our members were written in 
God's book. He took care of us, when we 
could not take care of ourselves. And shall we 
now distrust his care ? God, help our unbelief ! 
How wonderful the construction of our nerves 
and arteries, and veins ! The one as cords to 
unite the parts together ; the others as pipes and 
channels to convey the blood and spirits to every 
part for the nourishment of the whole; and none 
of them idle or useless. 
How wonderful the structure of the ear ! So 
necessary to distinguish sounds one from ano-
ther; how necessary to the eomfortof life, by of 
fording the means of converse ! Where this 
organ is wanting, or fails, how much of the 
comfort of life is lacking or gone ! It is not in 
our power to repair the loss. This is the en 
trance to knowledge, and man's eternal happi-
ness apparently depends much upon the use of 
it. By the ear we hear the Gospel preached, 
learn the mind of God, and become acquainted 
with the way of salvation, For faith cometh 
by hearing. 
How curious and wonderful the structure of 
the eye ! Its position, its numerous and trans-
parent coats, their crystal juices, the motion of 
the whole, and ,the application of the sight in 
discerning particular objects. Everything about 
the eye is wonderful. The lids of the eye ex-
cluding dust from this delicate organ, and sup-
plying moisture for its preservation. How cheer-
ing is the light which these windows let into 
the house ! It is necessary that we should be 
tender and careful of this very important organ. 
The circulation of the blood is no less won-
derful. So swiftly running its course through 
all the members, day and night, sleeping and 
waking, to keep every part warm, vigorous, and 
healthy. The heart is the fountain, receiving 
the streams of blood from the veins, and then 
forcing them back again through the arteries, 
as water is conveyed first by pipes into the 
streets, then into the houses, and last of all into 
How wonderful is the spring of life! Whence 
is the first mover of this curious piece of work-
manship ? He that made it can tell, and none 
but he can. This is the little world that has 
employed the study of thousands in every age, 
and still leaves the wisest of men in the dark 
as to many things contained in the human 
frame. Man's own body alone, or almost any 
part of it, would afford matter of study for a 
wise man all his life. 
It is wonderful how the lungs, as bellows 
drawing in and sending out the breath, sustain 
the unceasing operation day and night; how the 
pulses keep their regular stroke, even when we 
are fast asleep, and can take no thought about 
them. Here is the true perpetual motion that 
never stands, • from the beginning to the end of 
life, though the person live a hundred years.—
And what a wonder that out of hundreds of 
millions of men in the world at the same time, 
yet there are not two faces or two voices that 
are exactly alike, Thus has the Creator ordered 
it, that men might not counterfeit each other, 
either in trading or in bearing witness, and that 
the innocent might not suffer for the guilty.—
There is nothing in the body of man that could 
have been ordered to greater advantage than 
has been done ; so that we may say, " How 
manifold are thy works, 0 Lord, in wisdom bast 
thou made them all !" But after all that has 
been said, or might be said, in admiration of 
the body of man, this is but the meaner part of 
him ; the cabinet in which to preserve his soul. 
If the case in which the jewel is keptis so pre-
cious, what then must be the soul in value?-
0 may I glorify my Maker in my body and in 
my spirit, which are his ! Congregationalist. 
Popery Always the Same, 
Such of our readers as may have observed 
the interesting intelligence that has appeared 
from time to time in this and other papers in 
regard to the religious movement in Tuscany, 
must have been looking with anxiety for the dis-
posal of the case of Count Guicciardini and his 
associates, who were arrested on the 7th of 
May for having met together in a private house 
to pray to their Maker, and to read his 'word. 
It was hoped that when it became known to the 
Tuscan Government that none of these meet- 
The Body of Man. ings had any connection with polities, and were 
purely of a religious character, the prisoners 
would have been dismissed, This would, at 
one time, have probably been the case ; but now 
that this State is under the entire domination 
of Rome, and dragged in the rear of toe new 
Papal league formed against religious liberty 
and the interests of Protestantism throughout 
the world, no mercy could be expected in the 
ease of such illustrious heretics. The Rotnish 
priesthood could not forget the crowds that had 
openly flocked to hear the blessed Gospel 
openly preached in Florence during the past 
winter, nor the avidity with which copies of the 
Holy Scriptures and other religious works were 
sought after and purchased ; and still less the 
striking fact that, for the first time since Po-
pery had cast its baleful shade over that un-
happy land, a body of native Tuscans had met 
together to partake of the Lord's Supper ac-
cording to the simple and scriptural form of its 
divine institution. They could not, in the pres-
ent day, venture to lead a man like Guicciar-
dini—a distinguished noble, the heir of an il-
lustrious name, and a man of irreproachable 
and amiable character—to the stake. The citi-
zens who had once elected him to one. of their 
distinguished public posts, would not have per-
mitted such an outrage. But, with what re-
finement of cruelty and cunning, which they so 
well know how to combine, they have passed 
upon him a sentence which is often as fatal to 
the sufferer, though it bears a less revolting as-
pect, than a capital punishment. Count Guicci-
ardini is sentenced to six month's banishment 
to the Maremme, a district in Tuscany, notori-
ous for the pestilential character of its climate, to 
which it is usual to send galley slaves and the 
most notorious criminals; when guilty of insu-
bordination in other prisons, His crime is the 
reading and circulating of the word of God, 
which all Christians are commanded to search 
and to proclaim to their fellow-creatures. His 
associates are to be disposed of in a similar 
way, leaving wives and young families desti-
tute. And this outrage is perpetrated in the 
nineteenth century, and by the same church 
and party who scorn the very word " tolera-
tion " here, and demand the full development of 
their sect, claiming that their canon law, de-
crees of Council of Trent, and Papal bull, should 
have full force in this free soil of Great Britain ! 
All this is fitted to rouse our indignation, and 
ought certainly to enlist our warmest sympa-
thies in behalf of the men who have suffered so 
cruelly for their attachment to divine truth, and 
their obedience to the command of God. It 
the different rooms. But what more deserves is gratifying to know that these young converts, 
notice is, that the blood which is now in the the first fruits of a reformed Italian church, have 
head or the heart will presently be in the hands stood the trial so nobly. It is said that Count 
or the feet, and will then run up again to the Guicciardini, in particular, stood the long and 
head. 
tortuous examinations of his inquisitors with 
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wonderful calmness and steadfastness. His an-
swers were often couched in the very words of 
Scripture, which quite baffled his adversaries. 
There is good reason to believe that this second 
reformation will not be permitted to be crushed 
and exterminated like the first. In the mean-
time, this new specimen of the alleged amelio-
rated character of Popery will not be lost upon 
the British public and British statesmen. It 
has already attracted the notice of Lord John 
Russell, and he will not fail to be informed by 
Mr. Shiel of what has followed since the first 
arrest of the prisoners. But whatever states-
men may do, the sufferings of these Christian 
exiles of Florence will surely not be forgotten 
by Christians and Christian churches in their 
private and public supplications. 
Edinburgh Witness. 
(Concluded.) 
The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held 
at the Sessions House of Truth ; in order to 
the Trial of Antichrist, for High Treason 
against His Most Sacred Majesty, King of 
Heaven and Earth. 
Sir John Temple, sworn. 
Q. Did you write the history of the rebellion 
in Ireland, in 1641 ? 
A. I did. It was printed in Dublin. 
Q. Do you believe that the prisoner was the 
ringleader of that rebelllion ? 
A. He certainly was. His own bulls show 
that he was deeply concerned in that dreadful 
insurrection. When he was known by the name 
of- Urban VIII. he publicly by a bull promised 
to reward the C'atholics of Ireland with a plena-
ry indulgence, and remission of all their sins.-
1 can repeat a part of the bull in his own words; 
they are as follows :—" Urbanus Octavus, &c. 
Having taken into our serious consideration the 
great zeal of the Irish towards the propagating, 
the Catholic faith; and having got certain no-
tice, how in imitation of their godly and worthy 
ancestors, they endeavor, by force of arms, to 
deliver their thralled nation from the oppression 
of the heretics; and gallantly do in them that 
lieth to extirpate and totally root out those work-
ers of iniquity, who in the kindom of Ireland 
had infested the mass of Catholic purity with 
the pestiferous leaven of their heretical con-
tagion. We, therefore, being willing with the 
gifts of those spiritual graces whereof we are 
ordained the only disposers on earth, and by 
virtue of that power of binding and loosing of 
souls which God was pleased to confer upon us, 
to all and every one of the faithful Christians 
in the aforesaid kingdom of Ireland, now and 
for the time militating against heretics, do grant 
a full and plenary indulgence, and absolute re-
mission of all their sins. Desiring heartily all 
the faithful in Christ now in arms, to be partak-
ers of this most precious treasury. 
"Dated at Rome, in the Vatican, of St. Pe-
ter's Palace, May 25th, 1643, in the 20th year 
of our Pontificate. A. M. MARALDUS." 
He also wrote to the rebel O'Neal, October 
18th, 1642, and to the Popish clergy and nobles 
of Ireland to the same effect. 
Q. Were many murdered in the year 1641 ? 
A. Yes, many thousands, in a cruel manner. 
Mr. Hunze, theHistorian, sworn. 
Q. Do you recollect how many were supposed 
to have been killed in the Irish massacre ? 
A. By some computations, those who per-
ished by those cruelties are made to amount to 
50,000, or 200,000 ; by the most moderate, and 
perhaps the most probable accounts, they must 
have been near 40,000. 
The Clerk of the Crown then `,1) d extracts 
from several examinations taken by virtue of 
commissions under the great seal of Ireland ; 
recorded in the archives of Dublin, and in pos-
session of the clerk of the council. 
Dr. Maxwell, the deponent, said, that the 
rebels confessed to him that they killed one 
morning in the county of Antrim 954 persons, 
and 1100 or 1200 more in the said county.—
Owen Frankland and others said, that above 
1000 were drowned in one river, in the county 
of Armagh. Many others murdered; 50 at 
Blackwater Church. William Blundell was 
drawn by the neck up and down Blackwater, 
and three weeks afterwards he with his wife 
and 7 children drowned. A wife was compelled 
to hang her husband. 22 Protestants put into 
a thatched house at Kilmore and burned. 1500 
murdered in three parishes. 300 stript naked 
and put into the church at Loughgall, and above 
100 murdered. John Gregg was quartered 
alive, and his quarters thrown in the face of his 
father, who was afterwards quartered in the 
presence of his wife. 500 were murdered at 
Armagh, besides 48 families near it. 18 Scotch 
infants hanged on clothiers' tenter-hooks in the 
county Tyrone, and 140 women killed by 2 
rebels, 45 by one woman, 316 at Dungannon, 
300 in their way to Colerain, and 400 drowned 
in the said county. At Sligo, the Protestants 
being all taken to jail, at midnight they were 
stripped naked and two butchers hired to kill 
them all with axes, &c. The White-friars who 
The Trial of Antichrist. 
employed the butchers, afterwards pretended to notice, that some of the evidences against the 
with holy water to purify the river from the prisoner are the evidences of common informers. 
stain of heretics' blood. In most counties near- Who was Luther, Calvin, and others that are 
ly all the English that could be taken were mur- called Reformers? Were they not once priests? 
dered ; at Kilkenny 7 were hanged, and one Were they not once connected with the prisoner? 
Irishman because he was taken in their coin- They violated their oaths when they deserted 
parry. At the same and other places men and his church, and the testimony of such should 
women were stripped naked ; but some, cover- be doubted. Gentlemen of the jury, the unfor-
ing themselves with straw, it was set on fire by tunate gentleman at the bar has seen much bet-
the rebels; 22 widows and others in the king's ter days. His situation really calls for pity and 
county, covered themselves with straw, which not vengeance. He has been a great sufferer of 
was fired. Many who escaped died naked, and late. His influence is much reduced. He has 
some with children in their arms, by the frost been made a complete tool of; and his power 
and snow. Women who were pregnant were is crushed almost to nothing. I am addressing 
killed in a manner too indecent and shocking to you, gentlemen, as sensible and dispassionate 
relate. Leiu Maxfield was dragged out of his men, and therefore I look up with confidence to 
bed, raving in a burning fever, and murdered.— you, to give a verdict in favor of my unfortunate 
His wife also, who was in labor, was stript nak- client. We shall now call some witnesses as 
ed and drowned in the river Blackwater, the to the character of the prisoner; and the evi- 
child half born. 
dences he has by means of his friends been able 
The Attorney General, after the examination to produce in hiS favor, will be weighed by your 
of a very considerable number of respectable humanity. 
witnesses, observed, that many more might be 
Witnesses on behalf of the Prisoner. 
called who would not only prove the prisoner 
to be the promoter of the rebellion of 1641, but Mr. Hate Controversy was first examined.— 
also of those of 1798 and 1803. But he con- He said, that he had some knowledge of the 
sidered it altogether unnecessary. Some of the prisoner, that he thought him an honest man, 
shocking barbarities were accompanied with that he never differed with him, or liked people 
circumstances too cruel and indecent to be no- to fall out about religion. On cross-examination 
ticed here; they are, however, printed in seve- he confessed he knew him only by name. 
ral books. 
Thuanus said, that he wrote several books.— 
King Edward the Confessor, sworn. That he took notice of the Waldenses, and of 
and not from any statement of mine. There is 
one witness, Mr. Historical Truth, who from 
the knowledge of the prisoner's conduct for sev-
eral centuries, enables him to give much evi-
dence. His testimony is confirmed by a consid-
erable number of emperors, kings, and queens. 
Martyrs, reformers, and others, have confirmed 
their united testimony, and inspired apostles 
have satisfactorily proved that all his power was 
usurped. 
Gentlemen of the Jury, it has been stated by 
the:prisoner's counsel that the prisoner was not 
at several places where he is charged with corn-
miffing murder. That he was not at Paris on 
the 24th of August, 1572, and other places.—
This the counsel must know is a mere quibble. 
He was in Paris, he was in England, and in 
Ireland, and wherever his government extended ; 
wherever his agents executed his laws. He has 
existed under a variety of names which mark 
his guilt.. His arrogance and ambition have no 
example. It is a question if even Lucifer him-
self. could vie with him. The prisoner has en-
deavored to storm the skies ! To dethrone the 
almighty Thunderer ! To be Universal Lord, 
and claim the stars of heaven. Gentlemen, I 
shall not trespass further upon your feelings, 
believing that your verdict will be according to 
truth. 
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE REVELATION addressed 
the jury ; when every minutia of evidence was 
summed up with legal precision and ability.—
It would no doubt be gratifying to some readers 
to have his charge at length, but the limits of 
the trial will not admit it. He concluded by 
observing that he left the determination of this 
case entirely to the consideration of the jury ; 
and that if they entertained a rational doubt in 
their minds of the guilt of the prisoner, they 
ought to acquit him. 
The jury did not retire from their box, but 
brought in their verdict GUILTY. 
The Clerk of the Crown called upon the pris-
oner at the bar in the usual form, to know what 
he had to say why judgment of death should 
not be awarded against him ; when the prisoner 
gave him a most expressive, sullen look, and re-
mained silent. 
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE addressed the pris-
oner in the most impressive manner. He told 
him that he had been charged with the awful 
crime of high treason against the King of kings 
and Lord of lords. That he had a most patient 
trial, and there was not a doubt either in the 
mind of the court or jury but that he was guilty. 
He also said, that he was sure his conscience 
must frequently have told him that his rebellious 
conduct could not fail to bring down the ven-
geance of heaven upon his guilty head. He 
concluded thus, "I call upon you now to attend 
to the sentence of the court. You, Antichrist, 
shall be taken from the place where you now 
stand to the place from whence you came, your 
irons are to be struck off, and you stript of all 
your pontificial vestments, splendor, pomp, and 
dignity. From whence you shall be drawn upon 
a hurdle to the place of execution, where you 
shall be hung with the chain of restraint, but 
not until you are dead; but while you are yet 
alive, your church, which is your body, shall be 
taken down and you deprived of the vitals of 
your religion. Then a mighty angel shall pro-
claim from heaven, louder than the most tre-
mendous 'peal of thunder, Babylon the great 
is fallen, is fallen,' (Rev. 18:2.)—and that the 
hour of your judgment is come. Your head or 
for the better, and was quite a different man.— 
He thought that every one should keep to the dominion shall then be struck off with the sword 
of God's inflexible justice, when the Lord of 
religion they were brought up to, and if sincere hosts himself, will consume it with the spirit 
it was all that God would require. 
of his mouth, and destroy it with the brightness 
Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL.—My Lords, and of his coming.'—Thess. 2:8. Then another 
Gentlemen of the Jury, you 'need not be under mighty angel shall take up a stone, like a great 
any apprehension of my intruding too much on mill-stone, and cast it into the sea, saying, thus 
your time. If this was only an ordinary case, with violence shall that great city Babylon (or 
I should make no observations ; but it is not on- Rome) be thrown down, and shall be found 
ly a question as to the guilt or innocence of the no more at all, (Rev. 18:21), and you shall be 
prisoner at the bar, but of many thousands, who utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord 
have been more or less concerned in his treason- God who judgeth you.'—Rev. 18:8. And may 
able designs ; and also others who have con- the Lord have mercy upon the souls of all those 
nived at his awful rebellion. 
Gentlemen of the Jury, with respect to the who live and die under your government." 
N. B. Some Protestant writers having, by 
evidence which has been laid before you on the mistake, noticed the time when the sentence 
part of the crown, I shall be very brief. I have would be put into execution, it may not be amiss 
little more than to call your attention to, and to observe, that it was left entirely to His Majes-
follow the statement of my able friend who first ty's sovereign will and pleasure. 
stated the case. Evidence has been laid before 
you, to prove that a conspiracy has existed for 
several hundred years to overthrow the govern-
ment of heaven, and compass the death of our 
Sovereign Lord the King. Gentlemen, the ques-
tion is, whether the prisoner was a participator 
of that guilt; you will determine by the evi-
dences whether he was not the very life and soul 
of that awful conspiracy. You have heard it 
proved that the prisoner lived at Rome as the 
Universal Bishop, Head of the Church, and God 
on earth. That he committed numberless mur-
ders. The small specimen that has been laid 
before you must have made too great an impres-
sion on your minds to require me to repeat them; 
and these are few to the number that could have 
been produced. 
Gentlemen of the Jury, you will draw your 
inferences from the testimony of the witnesses, 
the Parisian massacre. That to his knowledge 
Q. Do you know whose hand-writing this is ? the prisoner was at Rome at the time, as he was 
(A paper produced to this witness.) 
also in the reign of Queen 
 
A. 
 and at other 
A. I do. I wrote it by order of the prisoner. times when he was charged with committing 
(It was read by the Clerk of the Crown.) murders in England, Ireland, and other places. 
'° Edward, by the Grace of God, king of En g- Several other witnesses said the same. On 
lishmen. I make it to be known by all genera- cross-examination however they admitted, that 
tions of the world after me, that by special com- his government extended to these places, and 
mandment of our Holy Father Pope Leo, I have his government extended to these places, and 
that it was by his laws they were put to death. 
renewed and honored the holy church of the Mr. P. Painter said that he had known the 
blessed Apostle St. Peter, of Westminster.— 
And I order and establish forever, that what prisoner more than 1200 years, that he had 
painted many pictures for him, and that he al- 
person, or what condition or estate soever he be, ways paid him honestly. 
from whence ever he comes, or for what offence C. Carpenter, B. Bricklayer, P. Plasterer, S. 
or cause it be, flying for his refuge into the said Slater, P. Plumber, and C. Carver, gave the 
holy place, he be assured of his life, liberty, and prisoner a good character. 
limbs. And over this, I forbid, under pain of Demetrius Silversmith said, that he had made 
everlasting damnation, that no minister of mine more shrines by order of the prisoner than ever 
or my successors intermeddle them with any were made for Diana of the Ephesians, and 
goods, lands, or possessions of the said persons that he always thought the prisoner a very use- 
taking the said sanctuary. For I have taken ful man. J. Jeweller and B. Beadmaker said 
their goods and livelode into my special protection the same. 
"And therefore, I grant to every and each of R. Robemaker said, that he had received 
them, in as much as my terrestrial power may 
suffice, all manner of joyous liberty. And who- many thousand orders from the prisoner, whom 
he always respected much. That he had made 
ever presumes, or doth contrary to this my grant, various sorts of robes for his archbishops and all 
I will that he lose his name, worship, dignity, the orders of his clergy. That he took yearly, 
and power ; and that with the great traitor Judas, some hundred thousands of pounds for gowns, 
that betrayed our Saviour, he be in the ever- surplices, scarfs, sashes, cassocks, bands, &c., 
lasting fire of hell. And I will and ordain, that and that in some countries the bare washing of 
this my grant endure as long as there remaineth surplices,only among one order of clergy amount- 
in England either love or dread of Christian ed to more than 13,000
- 
 pounds a year. 
name." 
N. Bonaparte said, that he knew the prison- 
Q. Did many thieves, murderers, and other er ; that he came a long journey to crown him 
scandalous characters occupy this building ? Emperor, and therefore he was compelled to 
A. They did till they were so very numerous, speak well of him. 
that I was obliged to build a new church on the 
Mr. Half Protestant said, that he never knew 
north side for their use, which was dedicated to any harm of the prisoner. That he always 
St. Margaret. 
thought more was said of him than was true.— 
(The evidence here closed on the part of the That he respected the names of several witness- 
Prosecution.) 
es examined, such as Luther, and others, tut 
Defence of the Prisoner. 
did not see the reason why they disagreed.— 
COUNSELLOR QUIBBLE.—My Lords and gentle- He admitted that he had heard of murders corn-
men of the jury, I, as the assigned counsel for mitted by him, but thought he was much altered 
the prisoner at the bar, feel it my duty to make 
such a defence as the nature of the charge and 
evidences will admit. I am not under the nec-
essity of making a long statement in the defence 
of the prisoner, and therefore shall not trouble 
the court and jury. Gentlemen of the jury, you 
will studiously endeavor to banish from your 
midst every extraneous matter you may have 
heard that does not come within the charge pre-
ferred against my client; and only consider the, 
evidences that have been given on the part of 
the prosecution. With respect to any question 
of law in this case, I yield to the learned Lords 
on the bench ; and as to matters of fact, they 
are solely for the determination of you, gentle-
men of the jury, who are the sole judges of the 
testimony you have heard from the witnesses. 
The charge against the prisoner at the bar is 
high treason, compassing the death of the King, 
and promoting rebellion in all the earth. He 
also stands charged with divers murders in sev-
eral countries ; to wit, in Paris on the 24th of 
August, 1572, and in England, Ireland, Scot-
land, and other places. The evidence which we 
have to produce is evidence of an alibi, viz., that 
the prisoner was not at Paris on the 24th of 
August, 1572, nor in England, nor Ireland, nor 
Scotland, when these murders were committed. 
Should the evidence that will be produced raise 
in your minds, gentlemen of the jury, any doubt 
of the prisoner's guilt, you will of course acquit 
him, for where there is a doubt on the mind of 
a jury, it is better that 500 guilty persons should 
escape punishment, than that one innocent man 
should suffer. You will also consider, gentle-
men, that your verdict of guilty may place him 
in a premature grave. 
There are circumstances I am here compelled 
Neatness of Boston. 
In regard to the city of Boston, it far surpass-
es Philadelphia in neatness, and the city of 
New York is a filthy place beside it. What a 
pity it is, that our great metropolis would not 
copy something of the Boston notion about 
cleanliness. The commercial bustle of New 
York, we have 'heard urged as an argument in 
defense of its filthy streets 7 but never was any 
thing more fallacious, for those most filthy are 
in sections of the least life and activity.—
Another striking advantage which Boston has 
over New York is, its being a , finished city 
within all its origiral precincts ; go where you 
will, and rarely will you meet with the obstruc-
tions of bricks od mortar in your way. The 
perpetual teanbg down of edifices in our great 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
204 
THE FAMILY BADGE. 
Still, in the midst of the ever-wakeful storms 
through which we are passing to the kingdom, there 
is peace—deep peace—too deep for any storm of earth 
to reach. In the world we have tribulation, but in 
Jests we have peace. " Peace I leave with yon, 
my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth 
giveth give I unto you." And it is this which gives 
the peculiar aspect to the saints, the aspect of min-
gled joy and grief. The eye is dim with tears, yet, 
behold ! it glistens with joy. There is the brow of 
shaded thought, yet peace is playing round it.—
Clouds overshadow them, but on every cloud we see 
calm sunshine resting. 
Their " peace is like a river." It is not stagnant 
as the lake, nor tumultuous as die sea, but ever in 
calm motion, ever flowing on in its deep channel, 
like a river. The course may sometimes be through 
rocks, sometimes through level plains, sometimes 
through tangled brakes, sometimes along the corn-
field or " the hill of vines," yet still it moves unhin-
dered on. It may be night or day, it relay be winter 
or summer, it may be storm or calm, but it is there—
flowing on till the embrace of ocean receives it.—
Such is our peace ! Let us hold it. last. 
Nor need we hide our peace any more than we 
should hide our cross. Let the world see both, and 
learn how well they agree together. For it is the 
cross that makes this peace feel so sweet and suitable. 
Amid the tears of grief, peace keeps her silent 
place, like the rainbow upon the spray of the cata-
ract; nor can it be driven thence so long as J EHOVAH'S 
sunshine rests upon the soul. " The work of right-
eousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteous-
ness, quietness and assurance for ever." 
idea of continual progression, ever progressing ; but 
presents a grand result, that will be ever equally glo-
rious and enduring. 
BY REV. HORATIES BONAR. 
The family of which we speak is gathered out of 
every nation and kindred, and people, and tongue.—
It is " a great multitude that no man can number." 
Yet it is but one family. There is a family like-
ness among all its many members; and a family Elaine 
by which they are known. They have many things 
in common; nay; there are few things which are not 
common to all. They are all of earth. It is their 
native clime. They are all sprinkled with the same 
blood, and begotten again by the same Spirit,—
They all sing one song, use one language, rejoice in 
one hope, and are heirs of one inheritance. This 
oneness of feature and feeling and habit, throughout 
so many ages and amid so many diverse nations, 
marks them out as a peculiar people, and reveals 
their relationship to him who is " the same yester-
day, arid to-day, anti for ever." 
But they have one mark more peculiar than any of 
these. It is truly a family-badge. They are all 
cross-bearers. This is the unfailing token by which 
each member may be recognized. They all bear a 
cross. Nor do they hide it as if ashamed of it.—
They make it their boast. " GOD forbid that we 
should glory, save in the cross of our Lord JESUS 
CHRIST, by whom the world is crucified to us, arid 
we unto the world." Sometimes it is lighter, and 
sometimes it is heavier ; sometimes it has more of 
shame and suffering, and sometimes less, but still it 
is upon them. They carry it with them wherever 
they go. And it is always a cross: not merely so in 
name, but in reality ; a token of reproach and sor-
row. Sometimes they are represented as carrying 
it; and sometimes as being nailed to it ; but it is 
still the cross. 
They took it up when first they believed in Jesus 
and owned him as their all. Then it was that they 
forsook the world's tents and went without the gate, 
bearing the reproach of the crucified One. He whom 
they follow both bare the cross and was nailed to it, 
and why should they shrink from the like endurance? 
Shall they be ashamed of him I Shall they not 
rather count it honorable to follow where he has led 
the way, and to bear for him some faint resemblance 
of what he bore for them Shall any thing in the 
world be esteemed more precious, more honorable, 
than the cross of their beloved LORD? 'The world 
derides and despises it, but it is the cross of JESUS ; 
mid that is ALL to them. As a saint of other days, 
a cross-bearer of the olden time, has said, " 0 blessed 
cross of CHRIST, there is no wood like thine." 
Besides, this was the Master's will. He has laid 
on each the command to bear the cross. " If any 
man will come after me, let him deny himself, and 
take up his cross daily, and follow ere. "—Luke 9:23. 
" He that taketh not his cross and followed' after me 
is not worthy of me."—Matt. 10:38. The cross, 
then, is the badge of discipleship, and no follower of 
the LORD can be without it. The two things are in-
separable, Goo has joined them, and man cannot 
sunder them. No cross, no saint. No cross, no 
Soli. We must carry his cross all our life long ; we 
must be baptized with his baptism ; we must endure 
his reproach ; we must glory in being clothed with 
his shame. The flesh must he crucified with its al-
fections and lusts : our members must be mortified ; 
our old man must take the place of shame ; we in 
whom the flesh still remained', though its dominion 
is broken, must be willing to appear as outcasts and 
malefactors before the world, as JESUS did when he 
bore our sins upon the hill of shame. JESUS then 
with his own hand lays the cross oil each one that, 
comes to him, saying, " take this and follow me."—
Take it and be reproached for me. Take it and en-
dure tribulation forme. Take it and count all things 
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus 
CHRIST thy LORD. Take it and be willing to go 
even to prison or to death for me, not counting your 
life dear unto you, that you may follow me to the 
end, and receive the untading crown. Learn to en-
dure the cross and to despise the shame. 
But farther, we have the Master's example as well 
as the Master's will concerning this. I do not mean 
merely that he hung upon the cross. I do not refer 
simply to the faUt of his crucifixion. I mean much 
more than that. That was but the closing scene of 
a whole life of crucifixion. He was a cross-bearer 
from the hour that he was laid in the manger. All 
his days he bore the cross. His life was but a pil-
grimage to Calvary with the cross upon his shoulders. 
'Tradition tells us that, as he left the Judgment Hall, 
he was led along the " dolorous way," to Golgotha. 
But in truth his whole course on earth was the mourn-
ful way. It was all reproach and sorrow from his 
cradle to his grave. His was a sorrowing life ; and 
his death was but the summing up of his many sor-
rows ; the gathering of them all together and press- 
city—often excellent ones too to build up 
others, keep the place in unremitted confusion, 
and in a fog of rubbish and lime, which not 
only annoys the visitor, but greatly mars the 
beauty of its aspect. Another thing not a little 
to the credit of Boston is, its entire freedom 
from tobacco smoke. Not a cigar or pipe is 
seen in the mouth of any man in any part of the 
citya great recommendation to those like us, 
to whom the fumes of the abominable weed are 
utterly detestable. Had we time and room we 
should indulge in a few notes of admiration on 
the Boston Common, one of the most magnifi-
cent and beautiful parks to be found in any city 
of the Union. Our Battery is a small affair 
beside it. 
Baptist Recorder. 
(TAN fluent f4crat. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1851. 
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room in their prayers that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speeCh, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
A New VOLUME of the Herald will commence 
next week. We sincerely thank our patrons for past 
favors, and solicit a continuance of the same, so long 
as we may prove worthy of them. Will not each 
subscriber make an effect to obtain one new one ? 
Try. 
THE GREATNESS OF HIS KINGDOM. 
" Of the increase of his government and peace 
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and 
upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with 
judgment and with justice from henceforth even for-
ever."—Isa. 9:7. 
Some time since a brother requested our views res-
pecting the nature of the increase referred to in our 
text ; and we promised a compliance with his wishes. 
The words, the increase, are, in the Hebrew nn o, 
" mar-beh." The same word occurs only in one other 
place in the Bible—in Isa. 33: .23—" the prey of a 
great spoil is divided." Its cognates mir-bah and 
mar-beech occur, the former in Ezek. 23:32—" it con-
taineth much," and the latter in the following texts : 
Lev. 25 : 37—" nor lend him thy victuals for in-
crease." 1 Sam. 2 : 23—" all the increase of thy 
house shall die." 1 Chron. 12:29—" the greatest 
part of them had kept the ward." 2 Chron. 9:6—
" the greatness of thy wisdom." 30:18—" a multi- 
tude of the people." 
The above are the only places we find where those 
words (reeds in the Hebrew. The other words, ren-
dered increase in the Bible, have no relation to these, 
and therefore afford no aid in arriving at the meaning 
of this. Of the cognates, GESENIUS defines mir-bah 
to denote " largeness, amplitude, ample, large."—
Mar-beeth he defines, 1, greatness, multitude ;" 2, 
increase of a family, offspring ; 3, increase on a capi-
tal, interest, usury. The word in the text, mar-beh, 
he defines, 1, " enlargement, increase ; 2, greatness, 
abundance." 
Prof. WHITING, in reply to an interrogation on 
this point, says 
The word translated increase (mar-beh), in Isa. 
9:7, is a noun. Its signification is properly great-
ness. I translate the passsage, To the greatness o 
dominion and to the peace (shalom, prosperity), there 
being not an end." It has not the slightest reference 
to any idea like an advancing growth, but is parallel 
with many other texts which declare the unlimited 
existence of the kingdom of CHRIST." 
The text teaches, as we conceive, that the great-
ness to which CHRIST'S kingdom shall have attained, 
will be ever enduring. The stone which smiles the 
image on its feet (Dan. 2:35) becomes a great moun-
tain and fills the whole earth. When the earth is 
thus filled, the increase which the kingdom will have 
attained will remain : it " shall never be destroyed, 
and the kingdom shall not be lett to other people ... 
it shall stand forever."—v. 44. " And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that 
all people, nations, and languages, should serve him : 
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall 
not pass away, and his kingdom, that which shall 
not be destroyed. . . And the kingdom and dominion, 
and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole 
heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of 
the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting 
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey 
him."—Dan. 7:14, 27. 
The text gives no countenance whatever to the 
ing them into his cup at once, till the vessel burst, 
because it could hold no more. And then, for Him, 
the cross and the shame and the sorrow were at an 
end for ever. But for Os the cross remaineth still. 
Throughout life he was the "man of sorrows."—
He was "acquainted with grief." And herein we 
see something more of the family badge, as it was 
displayed in the Elder Brother. Acquaintanceship 
with grief ! This is the description given us of it. 
It is not one visit that makes us acquainted with a 
fellow man. Companionship is the result of con-
tinued intercourse. So one sorrow does not make 
us acquainted with grief, however deep and sharp its 
pangs may he. It may be the beginning of our ac-
quaintanceship, but that is all. There must he daily, 
hourly intercourse. Thus it was with JESUS.— 
Thirty-three years' daily converse with grief made 
him acquainted with it. And so it is with us.— 
The saints are men of sorrows still : and their ac- 
quaintanceship with grief must be obtained by daily 
fellowship. The disciple is not above his Master, 
nor the servant above his LORD. We need not think 
of another process than that which he underwent.—
He was made perfect through sufferings, and so must 
we. The Captain of our Salvation is, in this re- 
spect, the model and pattern of his saved ones. We 
are " always to bear about in the body the dying of 
the Lord JESUS, that the life also of JESUS may be 
made manifest in our body."-2 Cur. 4:10. 
It is the Lamb that we follow : the Lamb " as it 
had been slain." This surely speaks most plainly 
of the family badge. We are tbllowers of the man 
with the pierced hands and feet; the man, who is 
covered all over with the marks of the buffet and the 
scourge and the spitting ; the man with the crown of 
thorns. Yea ; he is our Elder Brother. He is bone 
of our bone and flesh of our flesh. And if we see 
so distinctly the family badge on him, shall we shrink 
from taking it up and binding it in triumph, as a 
jewel, oil our forehead—as a crown upon our head? 
Surely the purple robe of mockery may beseem us 
better than it suited Him. 
There is one mark by which, from the beginning, 
he has been distinguished as the woman's seed pre- 
dicted in Eden. It is the bruised heel. This is, in 
truth, only another way of expressing his character 
as the suffering, the crucified Son of Man. 'this 
was the mark which Gon gave by which he was to 
be known. Yet it was just at this stumbling stone 
that Israel stumbled. They had ho eyes for the 
dying SAVIOUR. The humbled JESUS found no favor 
with them. The bruised heel they could not away 
with. The very mark which GoD set upon him as 
MESSIAH was that on account of which Israel rejected 
him. Yet it is the bruised heel in which we rejoice. 
It is the man with the bruised heel that has won our 
hearts. It is him that we follow : and his bruised 
heel we engrave upon our banner as our most honora-
ble badge. 
The like bruising we look for as our portion here. 
Nor are we ashamed of it. All the saints before us 
have experienced it, and are we better than they ?—
Shall the soldiers of the last days be ashamed to wear 
the uniform which the army of the saints has gloried 
in for six thousand years? 
 
It is very remarkable that the Apostle fixes upon 
affliction as the mark of true Sonship. Truly he 
makes it the family badge. Nay, he makes it the 
test of o'Iir legitimacy. " What son is he whom the 
father chasteneth not? But it' ye be without chas- 
tisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bas-
tards and not sons."—fleb. P2:7,8. Strong language 
this ! Had any but an inspired apostle used it, there 
would have been outcry against it as absurd and ex-
travagant. Let us, however, take it as it is, for we 
know that it speaks the mind of Goo. Chastisement 
is, then, really one of the chief marks of our lawful 
and honorable birth. Were this characteristic not to 
be found on us, we should be lacking in one of the 
proofs of our sonship. Our legitimacy- might be 
called in question. It might be said that lie was not 
recognizing us as his true-born sons, and that either 
he had never received us as such, or had rejected us. 
There must be the family badge to establish our claim 
of birth, and to be a pledge of paternal recognition 
on the part of Goo out Father. 
It is a solemn thought. Flesh and blood shrink 
from it. We look around to see if there be no way 
of escaping, and ask it' it must be so ? Yes, it must 
be, as we shall shortly see, and the attempt to shun 
it is in vain. Yet it is also a blessed thought. It 
cheers us under trial to remember that this is the 
Father's seal set upon his true-born sons. Oh ! how 
it lightens the load to think that it is really the 
pledge of our divine adoption. 
We need not then count upon bright days below, 
nor think to pass lightly over the pleasant earth, as 
if our life were but the " shadow of a dream."—
Joy within we may expect,—" joy unspeakable and 
lull of glory," for that is the family-portion. But 
oy from without, the joy of earth's sunshine, the joy 
of the world's ease and abundance, the joy of un-
severed bonds and unweeping eyes, is not our lot in 
this vale of tears. 
THE FLOCK OF GOD. 
It is an exposed flock. When JESUS sent forth 
his disciples to preach the glad tidings of the king-
dom of GOD at hand, he said to them, " Behold, I 
send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye 
therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves." 
—Matt. 10:16. And PAUL said to the bishops of 
Ephesus, " I know that after my departure grievous 
wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the 
flock."—Acts 20:29. And the exhortation. of PETER 
is, " Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary 
the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeing 
whom lie may devour." From which we gather 
that if Satan cannot destroy the flock, he will, at least 
try to frighten them. 
It is a scattered flock. The sheep are found 
scattered everywhere through the " weary land " of 
this world. Yet, the Shepherd's eye is upon them ; 
he knows where they are. Yea, " he niaketh them 
to lie down in pastures of tender grass, and leaded', 
them beside the waters of quietness."—Psalm :23:2. 
Christians live not by bread alone, " but by every 
word which proceedeth out of the mouth of Got." 
To them his promises are " exceeding great and pre-
cious." 
It will soon be a gathered flock. " For eitis 
said' the Lord Goo, Behold I, even I, will bpth search 
my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh 
out his flock in the day that he is among iris sheep 
that are scattered ; so will 1 seek out my sheep, and 
will deliver them out of all places where they have 
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And 
will bring them out from the people, and gather them 
front the countries, and will bring them to their own 
land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel 
by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the 
country. 1 will feed them in good pasture, and upon 
the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be : 
there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pas-
ture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel' 
And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he 
shall feed them, even my servant DAVID ; he shall 
It is a purchased flock. PAUL, addressing the 
elders of Ephesus, says, " Take heed theretbre unto 
yourselves; and to all the flock, over which the Holy 
Ghost bath made you overseers, to feed the church 
of Goo, which he bath purchased with his own 
blood."—Acts 20:28. We are by nature " carnal, 
sold under sin ; " but by grace " we are bought with 
a price." An article will be considered valuable, 
according to what it has cost the owner ; arid that 
must be a valuable flock which cost the blood of the 
Shepherd. 
It is an obedient flock. 
JESUS says, " My sheep 
hear my voice, and I know them, and,theyftllow me." 
—John 10:27. His voice is now heard in the Scrip-
tures of truth, and we follow him when we comply 
with his requirements. " In keeping his command-
ments, there is great reward." 
It is a little flock. The Shepherd said on one 
occasion, " Fear nut, little flock ; for it is your 
Father s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.—
Luke 1'2:32. The flock of Goo in every age has 
been a little one ; and he has nowhere told us that 
it would become large enough to embrace the world, 
before the end of this dispensation. The truth of 
GoD is found with the few, and nut with the many. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
205 
feed them, a:A he shall be their Shepherd. And 
I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will 
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land ; and 
they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep 
in the woods. And I will make them, and the places 
about my hill, a blessing; and I will cause the 
shower to come down in his season ; there shall be 
showers of blessing."—Ezek. 34th. " And they shall 
hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; neither 
shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the 
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed 
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of 
waters."—Rev. 7th. 0 blessed day ! " when the chief 
Shepherd shall appear" to gather his flock into one 
fold, on the green fields of the regenerated earth.—
When earth shall once more bloom beneath the smile 
of its Creator.—When the saints of every age and 
clime will stand with the LAMB on the radiant heights 
of Zion. That indeed will be " the congregation of 
the righteous," where no sinner will be seen.—Psa. 
1:5. 0 blessed thought ! that the day is near which 
will consummate the hope of the church.—That soon 
the heavens will be lighted up with the glory of GOD: 
That JESUS will appear in three-fold glory, to rifle 
the graves, and change the righteous living. Well 
may we say with the poet, 
"ID what a blessed hope is ours, 
While here on earth we stay, 
We more than taste the heavenly powers 
And antedate that day." 
Reader, do you belong to the flock of God ? Are 
you resting the whole weight of your salvation on 
the merits of the Shepherd ? Are you a follower of 
the meek and lowly Jesus ? Tried and tempted you 
may be ; exposed to dangers you must be, but never 
doubt the love of Him who came from glory to 
wander over the mountains of this world in search 
of the lost sheep. (See Luke 15 : 1-7.) You may 
complain of weakness; but remember that it is the 
Shepherd's work to gather the lambs with his arm, 
and carry them in his bosom, and he has promised to 
do this.—Isa. 40:11. Do not complain of unworthi-
ness; remember that the song of the redeemed in 
glory will be, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain," 
&c. If you feel weary of sin, and earnestly long 
for more communion with GoD, it is the Spirit of 
GOD who has wrought in you this feeling and de-
sire. Continue to trust in CHRIST. " For we walk 
by faith, not by sight." J. M. ORROCK. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
LETTER FROM ELDER C. M. RICHMOND. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—I should have written you 
some weeks ago, and ordered the Herald, had I 
known where my Post-office address would be. I 
have come to the conclusion that it will be duty for 
me to take an agency, and while I am thus doing 
something to sustain myself and family, do what I 
can to sound abroad the truth as it is in JESUS. I 
wish to say here that I have received two bound vol-
umes of the Advent tracts, and have read them with 
great pleasure. I wish they might be generally cir-
culated. No Adventist ought to excuse himself from 
purchasing them the first opportunity. 
In view of what I have seen in some parts of West-
ern New York, I am more and more convinced that 
the Church of Christ must be steadfast and unwaver-
ing in her attachment to, and manifestation of THE 
TRUTH, if she would exert that power which GOD de-
signs she should exert in bringing ungodly men to bow 
at the feet of JESUS. I do not mean by this expression, 
that the Christian will never have occasion to change 
some of his views as to what is truth. But what I 
think so detrimental to the moral power of the 
Church is a restless, unstable spirit, that is ever seek-
ing to put some new and unusual meaning upon the 
word of GoD, and this, very evidently, without a 
careful and thorough examination of the subject. It 
does really seem to me that some brethren, in their 
morbid desire for new things, lose, in a great 
measure, that deep solicitude for the salvation of sin-
ners that should characterize the Christian, and with-
out which he will be of little use in the world. I am 
not speaking at random. I speak those things which 
I do know. One brother tells me the sins of the peni-
tent are never forgiven till the day of judgment ! !—
another, that the new birth our SAVIOUR mentions in 
his conversation with NICODEMUS, and which is called 
regeneration in other parts of the Gospel, is the res-
urrection of the body ! ! And still another has made 
the discovery that Antichrist, or the man of sin, is 
not Popery, but the devil ! ! But what would I have? 
Would I wish to put.the veto on free investigation, 
and seal up the lips of my brethren By no means. 
But I do earnestly entreat them to study deeply. and 
prayerfully, before they hasten to adopt such notions 
as the above. With my prayer that GOD will still 
crown your labors with his abundant blessing, I sub-
scribe myself, in hope of soon beholding the King in 
his beauty, your brother. 
Buffalo (N. Y.), July 15th, 1851. 
The N. Y. Observer gives to correspondents the 
following answers, which are worthy of being read 
by others, than those particularly addressed : 
" A. B. writes, Please to correct this article, as 
it is written in great haste.' 
Answer.—Then you should not have sent it. If 
you sere writing a letter of news, your haste would 
be excusable. but if you are preparing an essay for 
the Observer, it is worth doing well, if done at all. 
if you have no time to speak deliberately and correct-
ly, please not to speak at all. There are so many 
who are willing to take time, it is a pity that you 
should try to be heard when you are in haste to do 
something else. A preacher called to address a con-
gregation of five thOusand souls, would wish to be 
carefully prepared. When you speak through the 
Observer, you will have access to at least a hundred 
thousand minds. Weigh well your words, or do not 
speak. 
" Obituaries.—C. D. wishes to know why the Obit-
uary Notice sent some time since has never been pub-
lished. 
"Answer.—It was too long. One page of our pa-
per would be weekly devoted to Obituaries if we 
printed all we receive. And we have found by long 
experience that if we condense a notice, we strike out 
the matters which the authors most admire. As a gen-
eral rule, we print the whole or none, and in all cases 
where the notice is short, we give it a place. The 
subject of this brief sketch,' says a correspondent, 
who then writes six close pages, which would fill a 
column and a half of this paper ! A few lines will 
usually express all that is needful to be said, and 
more than this is rarely for edification. If your no-
tice was reasonably short, it was printed. One Doc-
tor of Divinity stopped his paper because he did not 
see in the Observer an• Obituary which he had sent ; 
and afterwards he discovered with the aid, probably, 
of a new pair of spectacles, that the notice was 
promptly printed, and had been published a month 
before he found it. 
"Return of MSS.—E. F. requests us to return his 
MS., which has not been published. 
"Answer.—We are not responsible for manu-
scripts sent to the office. In the mass of letters and 
papers constantly accumulating, those received to-day 
are buried under the wave that rolls in to-morrow, 
and a search for a lost MS., in a printer's office, le-
quires an antiquarian's perseverance, and more lei-
sure than a modern editor can boast. You should 
retain a copy of your article if you wish to be sure 
of it, for bread on the waters is more likely to be re-
turned to you after many days. 
" Why Not.—G. H. inquires the reason for the 
rejection of his communication. 
"Answer.—In this case our judgment was that 
there was no call for his remarks at this time. We 
may have erred : no man but the Pope claims to be 
infallible, and he is mistaken : but we act according 
to the light we have, and trust to the good sense of 
our friends to pardon our mistakes. We do not re-
ply to each, nor to one of a hundred inquirers, but we 
think that all sensible people will be satisfied to leave 
'the decision of such matters where it belongs. Un-
-sensible people will not be satisfied with anything." 
We hope all the friends in the vicinity will rally 
to the Tent-meeting at Clinton. 
The Destruction of Sodom. 
The inhabitants of those guilty cities of the plain 
were heedless of their terrible doom. lip to the 
very day of their destruction, " they did eat, they 
drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they 
builded," as though secure of an eternal abode in 
that fertile valley. They heeded not the cry that 
went up to heaven. The noise of the rioters had 
died away in the streets of Sodom. The men of 
that city were sunk down into the deep sleep, which 
succeeds a night of debauch. The sun rose as clear 
as ever, and shone with wonted brightness upon the 
beautiful vale of Siddim. The flowers opened as 
usual to receive its genial rays and shed their sweet 
fragrance abroad over the rich meadows. All 
around, the horizon was clear as crystal. No cote 
of warning was heard, till suddenly, a portentous 
cloud appears in mid-heaven, and opening its dark 
bosom, pours forth such a stream of lurid light as 
the world never beheld before. A storm of fire and 
brimstone overwhelmed the devoted cities, and com-
municating with the bitumen and sulphur of the plain 
and the combustible materials of which the cities 
were composed, suddenly enveloped the whole valley 
in one broad sheet of flame, and " the smoke of the 
country went up as the smoke of a furnace." Thus 
sudden and unexpected, will be the punishment that 
shall overtake the impenitent sinner in the day when 
Goo shall come down to visit upon him his iniqui-
ties. 
The destruction of the cities of the plain is per-
petual, to endure as long as the world stands, " set 
forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of 
eternal fire." MosEs thus describes the appearance 
of the place 450 years after the event : " The whole 
land thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that 
it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth 
therein." Modern travellers testify that it still pre-
sents the same sterile appearance. One of them says, 
as lie sat down upon a mountain to view the Dead 
Sea, " It was calm, motionless, and dead ; no trees 
or shrubs, riot a blade of grass grew on their naked 
sides." The soil is rendered sterile and barren, by 
the quantities of brimstone and salt mingled with it ; 
and masses of vitrified stone are yet visible, a per- 
petual memorial of the burning. It has continued 
age after age in the same condition, at once an im-
pressive testimony to the narrative of MOSES, and a 
frightful figure of that everlasting destruction that 
awaits the impenitent and unbelieving. 
N. Y. Observer. 
THE SLANDER SUIT.—Our friends need have no 
apprehension about this suit. It will turn out to the 
furtherance of the gospel." We only ask their 
pray_rs, and such tokens of sympathy, when called 
for, as we need, to keep us from embarrassment. The 
spirit of envy and malignity is most active in assail-
ing us on every side. It is unrelenting. But we 
shall still stand on the defensive, and by GoD's help 
maintain our profession, so that our friends every-
where s.,all have no just occasion of shame or re-
proach on our account. 
THE TENT MEETINGS at Providence, R. I., and 
Hartford, et., were of much interest. We have 
been so perplexed and overwhelmed with necessary 
duties, twat we have not yet been able to prepare an 
account of them. We hope, however, to have time 
to do so soon. • 
Another dreadful fire occurred at San Francisco 
on the .22d of June. Ten squares, in the very heart 
and business part of the city, were destroyed, con-
suming property to the amount of about $3,000,000. 
The tire was the work of incendiaries, who have 
been arrested by the Vigilance Committee. 
There have been an additional number of cases of 
lynch law there, and crime still prevails to a great 
extent. 
NOVA SCOTIA.—Bro I. ADRIAN has given us en-
couragement that he will go to Nova Scotia in Au-
gust, n the place of Bro. W. BURNHAM. Bro. A. 
is just the man to go. Our brethren may well have 
courage in view of his visit. 
mnoseiranos. 
"Lectures on the Lord's Prayer." 
Gout') & Liticart have published an elegant edi-
tion of sermons from texts furnished by the several 
supplications and precepts of that brief and univer-
sal Collect—the first lesson of infancy, and the last 
remembrance of age—the LORD'S Prayer,—by WIL-
LIAM R. WILIAMS, pastor of the Amity-street Church, 
New York. As a slight specimen of the character 
of the volume, we take the opening paragraph of 
the Lecture, upon the words, " Give us this day our 
daily bread : " 
" How majestic is the imagery of Scripture, when 
it presents to us our Maker and GoD, as feeding all 
the orders of His animate creation, and ministering 
continually what they as constantly need, for the 
sustentation of the life which He has bestowed upon 
them. The eyes of all wait upon Thee, and Thou 
givest them their meat in due season : Thou openest 
Thine hand arid satisfiest the desire of every living 
thing.' He giveth to the beast his food, and to the 
young ravens which cry.' The sea-gull winnowing 
the salt and wintry air along our coasts ; the petrel 
twittering in the storm over the far blue waves of 
mid-ocean ; and all the tribes that cleave the air, or 
traverse the deep paths of the seas, or rove our earth, 
look up to His daily vigilance and bounty, under the 
pressure of their daily necessities. To Him the 
roaring of the beast, and the chirping of the bird, 
and the buzzing of the insect, are but one vast sym-
phony of supplication from the hosts which He 
feeds. To His capacious garners their successive 
generations have resorted, and yet those stores are 
not spent ; neither has the Heavenly Provider failed 
in his resources, nor have the expectant pensioners 
been left to famish." 
To Correspondents. 
L. D. MANSFIELD—A person against whom a suit is 
commenced, always gives surety for his appearance, to the 
amount at which the damage is laid. And the one commenc-
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being obliged till twelve days before the court sits to an-
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of what the charge is. 
L. OSIER.—To believe that some time or other an event 
Will take Mice is Me thing. The shut-door theory that J. 
T. originated was that which taught that the Saviour had 
come as a bridegroom, with various other " fooleries." It 
is time misspent, to show the distinction to those who are 
either incompetent or indisposed to apprehend things as 
they are. 
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falsehoods and slander ; or when this fact is known, how 
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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 quetition of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for au everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events US 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-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of RD instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A departmcnt for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N.Y., April 29, 1845; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judginent of the Qffick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
his Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and. Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) 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 sey 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe coineth quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the fitith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Goo. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Goo is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their eminciations. 
Children's Advent Herald. 
CONTENTS OF THE AUG. NO. 
The Christmas Tree or a Child's Faith—The Importance of an 
Agreeable Exterior—Temperance Facts—Cockney Enigma on the 
Letter "1-1”—The Arithmetic of Life—True Affection—A Hindoo 
Suttee—A Powerful Advocate—Inconsistent Parents—llonesty and 
iptsuzRzeiews:irzttle--.R:es.olution—Malleability and Tenacity of Gold—Saga 
city and Strength of the Spider—A Child's Self-examination—Saga-
city of a Dog—Questions on Humility—The Pin and the Needle— 
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Foreign News. 
The U. S. mail steamship Atlantic arrived at New 
York on Sunday morning last. She had been ab-
sent from New York over eight months. 
The Crystal Palace still continues to be visited by 
great numbers. Nearly 79,000 visited it on the 21st 
oh. The receipts at the door, from one shilling ad- 
mittances, amounted to over $16,000. 
Alderman SALOMONS a Jew, recently elected to 
Parliament from Greenwich, has been refused per-
mission to take his seat, because he will riot take 
tha.t part of the oath which reads " on the faith of a 
Christian." Baron ROTHSCHILD was last year refused 
his seat, as a member from London, on the same 
ground. 
The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has passed its sec-
ond reading in the House of Lards by a large ma-
jority. Little doubt is entertained that it will pass. 
The French Assembly have refused to concur in a 
revision of the Constitution. A member accused the 
ministry of corrupt influences in reference to the 
getting up of the petitions in favor of the revision, 
and introduced a resolution implying censure, which 
passed. The ministry tendered their resignations to 
the President, who refused to accept them. 
The National Guard of Chatelerault has been dis-
banded by a decree of the President of the Republic. 
It was at this place the President was insulted on the 
occasion of his visit to Poictiers. 
From the Roman States we have awful details of 
condemnations to death, to flogging, to the galleys, 
to exile, and imprisonment. 
At Farvaga, a lieutenant of Austrian carbineers 
was stabbed, whereupon the carbineers rushed from 
their barracks and shut down the first person they 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The text contains a promise of all that we as Chris-
tians are looking for : the new state embracing every 
grand element of our " blessed hope." A period of 
joy, a glorious era is coming, a scene of splendor and 
beauty, such as never has been realized since tile 
Paradise of the first pair was here. The promise is 
sure, the annunciation of its coming is hacked home 
by the express declaration of the Creator, assuring 
the doubting heart, that the words are—not false and 
deceitful, but true and faithful. John the beloved, 
with pen and parchment, filling the elevated office of 
recording secretary to the Deity, as when anything 
doubly interesting was revealed, was again command-
ed to " write." Memory was scarcely to be trusted. 
It was a great announcement, and must not be forgot-
ten, but " printed in a book," for the surety and joy 
of the Church in all time. 
There is a chronology and locality to the fulfilment 
of the text, which it is of much importance that we 
carefully consider. With regard to the first, all men 
are looking for " a good time coming," hut all are 
not expecting it to be brought about in the same man-
ner, and by the same means. Some are rushing for-
ward to the future with a blind instinct, and mistaken 
notions of its nature ; others with intelligent desire, 
and a fancy and mind governed by the Scriptures.—
The Romanist and the Protestant ; the Despot and 
the Republican ; the Shaker, the Peace-man, the 
1 Christian, the worldling, all sects, all nations, all 
collect bodies of men, all individuals everywhere, 
confidently expect a soon coming " good time." And 
it is not a little remarkable, that nearly all inweave 
with the anticipated era a triumph of their prominent 
and cherished principles. The Romanist hopes for 
such a time, and blends with it a lofty position for 
his Church, in which her sentiments shall prevail, 
and she " sit a queen " in the earth. The Protest-
ant mingles with his expected spiritual reign a con-
quest of the kingdoms of the world by the gospel, and 
a triumph of the principles of Protestantism and 
Christianity. The Autocrat of Russia is doubtless 
dreaming in his boundless ambition, of the time when 
his despotic banner shall triumphantly wave not only 
over the plains of Europe, but over the whole world. 
This to him is the good time coining. The Repub-
lican, on the other hand, although compelled to ad-
mit that at present the prospect is very dark, and that 
" the only hopo of Europe in in God," still hopes that 
the cherished principle of liberty shall ere long spread 
among and rule the nationssand the flag of freedom 
float over all. The growing club of the lovers of 
peace stretch for the happy era, and trust to help it 
on by the destruction of the sword and a union of all 
men in one great bond of brotherhood. This con-
summation is deemed the only hope for a combating 
race. The Shaker, in his diminutiveness, even hopes 
for a triumph of his principles. One said to me, 
" All the world must become Shakers," adducing as 
proof.liag. 2:6, 7. God is a " Shaker." All men 
must become God-like. All, therefore, must be 
Shakers ! And the Socialist, too, celebrates a com-
ing triumph of love, and sings of " The day of the 
Lord at hand." 
We who have met here to-day are not an exception 
amidst the general belief of an approaching glad day 
for a ruined world. Be it known to all, that we, 
too, are looking for " a good time coming." The 
Bible warrants this hope. But our expectation of 
the agency by which this will be brought about, dif-
fers widely from that of the multitude around us.—
In this we stand at antipodes with the mass of Chris-
tendom, and with the world. They hope for the 
bright day without the Lord ; we expect his personal 
presence in that day. They look for the Sun to rise 
in the evening of that day ; we in the morning. We 
look for Him to come first, and be the glory and joy 
of that day, and not as one has said, " when the glory 
is all over and gone." They look for a millennium 
without Christ ; we for a millennial reign " with 
Christ." It dues not say, " they lived and reigned 
with the anointing—the Spirit—but with the anoint-
ed, or Christ, the Messiah. It is therefore not a 
spiritual, but a personal reign. The beheaded ones 
will be there : they cannot be there without a resur-
rection, and there can be no resurrection without 
Christ. 
The Church has ever, in the past, been in the 
minority on earth. So she is now, and will be till the 
great gathering day. It is to the " little flock " that 
the kingdom will he given. In the language of 
Melancthon, " We condemn those who circulate the 
Judaizing notion, that prior to the resurrection of the 
just, the pious will engross the government of the 
earth, and the wicked be oppressed." The Scrip-
tures assure us the reverse will be true. And Luther 
was but the echo of Paul when he said, " The older 
the world the worse." Until Christ comes, the 
Church is the desolate widow, called to fasting and 
mourning, and the word to her is ever, " Be ye pa-
tient until the coming of the Lord." Until he come, 
like Noah's dove, she will find no place on which to 
set her feet amid the troubled waters. Some hope to 
bring in the kingdom, in the absence of the King.—
This, too, is but an idle dream. There is not the 
first word for it in all the Bible. It is not till " the 
end of the world " that " the righteous shine forth in 
the kingdom as the sun." It is not till " the Son of 
man comes in his glory," that he gives that kingdom 
to the " blessed of the Father." And the apostle 
makes the coming of Christ, the judgment, and king- 
SERMON. 
Preached befor$thslenml/(nt Conference, 
 in Boston. 
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5. 
BY ELDER D. T. TAYLOR, JR. 
TEXT.—" And he that sat upon the throne said, 
Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto 
me, Write : for these words are true and faithful."—
Rev. 21:5. 
001U,MPONIDMOIE. 
I dom, to be synchronal,—the last two consequent upon earth will not be annihilated, but re-generated, and 
the first. 
peopled with a kingly race of immortals. Synony- 
And we, tort, look for a triumph of the great truths mous with this term, and synchronous with this 
we love and advocate, for 
I event, is the " restitution, or restoration of all things," 
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, occuring at the return of Jesus, as predicted by Peter, 
The eternal years of God are hers ;" 
and taught by all the prophets. (Acts 3 : 19, &c.) 
There is hope for the sin-cursed and sore-burthened 
but not until lie who has styled himself " the Truth " 
shall come and before a once scoffing but now earth. The wilderness shall yet be glad, arid the 
, 
once arid but now budding " desert shall blosom as 
trembling world, vindicate his cause and truth in per- the rose." The great redeemed company will, as 
son. We look according to his word for no peace 
 
they sung in the victory anthem, not reign in the air, And so believed the sainted Pollock, who after 
among the angry nations, until the Prince of peace but " reign on the earth !" Hail, happy day !— describing the burning of the earth, " yet riot to full 
shall come. Then, in " His day," when " His " Haste away a shattered world ye slow revolving annihilation," but purged by " sanctifying fires," 
dominion " shall be everywhere beneath the sun, seasons." L 
" there will be abundance of peace." They will creation rise !
et the new Jerusalem descend—the new says— 
learn war no more, for He will break the bow, and 
cutting the spear asunder, cause wars to cease to the Thirdly. Tire language of the inanimate creation, 
 
ends of the earth. 
as given in the 96th Psalm, its joy and rejoicing and 
gladness at the corning of the " Judge of all the 
The hope of the world is false. Gathering from 
the Scriptures the great truth of a corning period of earth," is not like that of a world doomed to 
blessedness, they mingle with it their own opinions lation, but rather of a groaning earth destined to a 
 
and fancies in regard to its nature, and hasten to meet joyful redemption. The world with every revolution 
 
the solemn future miserably deceived ! Alas, for " groans and travails in pain," under the blighting 
this poor world ! Its hope will perish ; its sun go curse of Jehovah. And thus it will continue, accord-
down in an endless night. Christ will conquer all in ing to the apostle, until " the redemption of the body," 
wrath who refuse to be conquered in love. They must i. e., the resurrection of the dead. Then, according 
be broken with the iron rod who spurn to bend at the to the same apostle, the same blessed destination in 
sceptre of mercy. 
reserve for a suffering Church, is also to be enjoyed 
It is in the Apocalypse especially that we see the by a ruined, storm-tossed, and earthquake-riven world. 
postponement of the glad era till Christ comes. One That destination is " liberty," " redemption," and 
would think that the heart of the beloved disciple " glorification." Then we shall have a " free soil," 
must have been pained, as he watched the Church and " there shall he no more curse." Then the joy-
amid the gorgeous arid terrible scenery that rolled in ous world will leap and roll in its orbit, and pour 
grand panoramic view before his aching and wonder- upon tine ear of its great Emancipator a perpetual 
ing eyes. Sometimes her members laying their hallelujahs anthem. " The new heavens and new 
heads as martyrs upon the executioner's block, and earth," says Dr. Cumming, " will be one grand 
anon following along a path illumined with the fag- sEolian harp, over which the Spirit of God will 
of fire. And linen, she at times] alnrost disappears sweep, wringing out from it ceaseless harmony." 
amidst smoke, thunder, hail, and lightnings, the ac- In the fourth place we remark, that there are 
companiments of the trumpets of woe and the vials strong ties that bind the Redeemer and his people to 
of wrath, and not "till the last trump " sounds does our world. This is the " fields" which for the 
she emerge from the ruin, and lifting her head ex- " treasure's " sake, the Church, He purchased. Out 
ultingly, cry, " The great kingdom has come !"— of its dust came the glorified form that now sits upon 
And again in another scene, as the curtain is lifted the Father's throne ; and out of it will, at the " last 
higher, and the misery of her militant state is again trump," come the forms of tine redeemed millions who 
portrayed, a monstrous-harlot church is seen making now, dust to dust," sleep in it as the buried 
herself " drunk with the blood of saints," until in " bride." Yes, amid the precious blood of him who 
agony they cry in the ear of heaven, " How long ?" trod'our soil with sorrow, and wet it with his tears, 
The golden city she reaches at last is indeed a bless- was poured like balm into earth's bosom, and I be-
ed home, but the way there was dark and dreary. It lieve it will there act like leaven until the fires of the 
was not among men that her " faith " was " found last day are kindled, and the world, touched by the 
unto praise and honor," but by her Lord " at his ap- plastic hand of the Regenerator, like the " fabled 
pearing." Deliverance comes at last, but it is when Phoenix," rises in life and beauty from its own ashes. 
the " King of kings " comes from heaven with his Titus an affinity—a link of love—is established be-
royal " armies," and not betore. Amid the conster- tween our world and its Maker, which will be con-
nation of kings, the wailings of Mystery Babylon, summated by his reigning in it. Those who believe 
and the hallelujahs of the true wife, tile long absent in a personal coming Saviour, and a literal resurrec-
Head and Bridegroom of the Church appears, to take tion of the righteous dead out of the earth, and then 
possession of the earth, and to redeem his people for- the earth's utter annihilation, we charge with incon-
ever. The great battle ensues! The enemy is con- sistency ; for they are manifestly thrown into the 
quered. The guilty harlot, in company with her absurd position of believing in the eternal redemption 
cruel paramour, the beast, and the false prophet, are of a part of the earth—that part forming the bodies 
condemned to lay their heads upon a fiery pillow for of the countless saved—yet the endless ruin of die 
a thousand years. Satan is arrested by an angel, remainder. And this charge can only be evaded by 
bound hand and foot, and thrown into the abyss.— denying the literal resurrection. We believe that 
The martyred dead live again. The grand miller- because he has said " he will make the place of his 
flint') has cotnynettueti, and the new state will assur- feet''—i. e., his footstool, the earth—" glorious " 
edly follow. The good time will come. 
that the earth was made for the revealing of his glory, 
But let us, in the second place, proceed to notice and therefore its destiny need not be a speculative 
the locality of this happy era—this kingdom—this question, because it is a great revealed truth. 
heaven (for the text points to the saints' heaven) But our text and its contexts afford conclusive 
more closely. 
proof. In the the first verse we are taught that the 
Where will this great salvation be displayed—inn new earth will occupy in the heavens the exact psi- 
some distant sphere, or in our globe? We answer tion of the old one ; else why does John say lie saw 
emphatically, in our world. And with candor we as- the first, or because, the last had passed away ? Two 
sure him who has not learned " Blessed are the opaque material bodies can never occupy the same 
meek "—says Christ, " I am meek—" for they shall space at the same time. It is very evident that the 
inherit the earth,"—that he has yet a great truth to new world will be displayed within the orbit of the 
learn. We look for a literal inheritance—a solid old. 
terra-firma. 'rule kingdom will riot be above tine The second and third verses positively meet with 
whole heavens, but " under " them. He who is to a negation the idea of a removal of the redeemed na-
reign over the house of Israel forever is to sit on Da- toms up to a distant sphere ; but teach, instead, the 
vid's throne, and that throne, or kingly power, was coming down of the city, or tabernacle of God, to the 
neither in the sun, moon, nor stars, but on the earth. eastit, arid His residence therein among men ; man 
The promised dominion is not from star to star, nor not. changing his locality, but only his condition, or 
from this planet to the end of the creation ; but " from state. Did it teach the translation of man away to 
sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the a far-off city, it should read, " the tabernacle of 
earth." And ours is the only world in which his man is with God, and they shall dwell with him." 
kingly power needs to be re-established ; for we But the words are reversed from this construction, 
know of no other that has rebelled arid broke loose and the sense being in accordance with the words, is 
from the throne. We believe that earth, having un- reversed with them. God's language is perfect ! 
dergone a fiery baptism, will he made anew, and Let us believe his ipse dixit, without asking for a 
shining with glory, be given to the righteous as their voucher. 
eternal inheritance. 
The fourth verse teaches the display of the saints' 
We now give a few reasons why we thus believe. inheritance a sorrowless one, where once pain and 
And— 
sorrow had existed. The words " no more pain," 
First. The identity between the soil of tine old " no more death," seem to teach this. Such lan- 
and new earth is nowhere more clearly seen than in guage is inapplicable to a sphere where these evils 
the Abrahamic promise. The land in which he had never been felt. We could not apply the pre-
dwelt, the soil on which he trod, the place in which diction to the upper heaven, where death never 
he was then a stranger, was promised to him and his rioted, any more than we could say of the city of 
seed, i. e., Christ and the Church, as an everlasting Boston, " there is no more cholera there," if this 
possession. The promise yet remains to he fulfilled. scourge had never been there. Only in a redeemed 
Will the possession of another land fulfil it? Would earth, once loaded with sorrow and sepulchres, and 
a residence in a far off " spirit land " wet his unstag- groaning beneath the tread of the " king of terrors," 
Bering faith and hope, in his heirship to the world?— can this be fulfilled. In that locality the enemy, 
Rom. 4:13. Methinks Abraham would he astonished as once, no more enters. " All death will die, all 
were he introduced into the modern heaven of the life will live." 
spiritualist in resurrection glory, and be told to Our text is plain : " I make all things new." 
" look and possess, for this is the promised land, the God is the great renovator, man's hand is not set to 
world in which was once the purchased cave-cemetery the work, though some in this day vainly hope, 
of Machpelali !" Methinks he would marvel were he through human agency, to accomplish it. God will 
lifted up to the heavens, and a' million of acres of do it himself. It teaches the restoration of our world. 
blue etherial sky were bequeathed to him as his por- He will make, not " new things," but " all things 
tion. " Abraham believed God," that he should have new." it is not the creation of a new world out of 
that land, and vet he looked for an heavenly inherit- mere matter, but the creation of a new world out of 
tance." This proves that he expected it when in a old matter. It is the renovation of the old earth, 
new and heavenly state, and he will doubtless become over whose head is the rush of six millenniums.—
a posessor when, raised from the dead, lie shall " sit The " things " must exist beforehand to be made 
down in the kingdom of God." May we " sit down new, and the act being one of wisdom and necessity, 
with him. 
implies age. The " all things " of course referring 
Secondly. Please read Matt. 19 : 28, punctuating it to those just specified,—" heaven and earth,"—the 
with a comma after the word " me." We are here heaven meaning the atmosphere. Thus tine argu-
taught a " regeneration " at the second coming of our ment is in a measure before you, though there re-
Saviour to sit on his " throne of glory." Generation mains much unsaid. 
is begetting, producieg, creating. " These are the Brethren, we are not alone in this faith, neither 
generation of the heavens and earth in the day they is it anything new. Many great names are with us 
were created."—Gen. 2:4. Regeneration is re-pro- here. This was the firm belief of Charles and John 
duction, or re-creation. The text points forward to Wesley, the founders of Methodism, as will be seen 
a renewed world under the reign of Messiah. The by all who have read their hymns, and especially 
Wesley's sermon on our text. This was the faith of 
Dr. Watts, as expressed in his beautiful hymn— 
" Lo what a glorious sight appears," &c. 
The Doctor fairly becomes extatic in the contempla-
tion of the beatific vision. This was the faith of tine 
poet Cowper, who sung, that when the six thousand 
years are ended, Christ will descend, 
" And what his storms have blasted and defaced 
For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair." 
" The essential particles remained, of which 
God built tine world again," &c. 
And this was the faith of the great Milton, the 
grand idea and leading thought embraced in " Paradise 
Lost," arid " Paradise Regained." He says the 
world will go on malignantly to the good, benignly 
to the had, until Christ appears to burn the world, 
then raise 
" From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, 
New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date." 
The gifted Chalmers, one of England's brightest 
sons, believed and advocated the same in his Sermon 
on the New Earth, a masterly production, in which 
he demonstrates the existence of a future material 
inheritance, yet spotless and free from sin. But time 
would fail to speak of all. 
Thus I have shown you the time when, and the 
place where, of the joyful day that is coming. It is at 
er beyond the revelation of Jesus, and will be on the 
renewed earth. Be it known to the citizens of this 
great city, that this faiths we firmly cherish : it is 
orthodox, it is scripture. This new world will be 
heaven enough for us. In it we shall experience 
" the absence of all evil, and the presence of all 
good." It will be a bright world. There may be 
night, there with respect to its period ; but none with 
respect to its darkness. There will be sunlight all 
night, for the moon's brightness will equal that of tine 
sun, and the sun will shine with seven-fold splendor. 
And the same unearthly magnificence that burned 
on Sinai's summit will fill the whole world. The sky 
will be sunnier than Italia's landscapes, more beau-
tiful its flowers, more fragrant than those of far-famed 
Madeira. Its unfading bowers will be vocal with 
music. " What a land of singing that must be," 
says Samuel Rutherford, " which has more than four 
summers in the year ! " There will be no grave- 
yards there, with monumental stones, bearing names 
that once were dear, and with loved ones in death 
beneath them. Death divided friends, with unwil- 
ling hands and pure Hearts and toms of resplendent 
beauty, will rise and reign there and meet and mingle 
forever. There will be no mould of age, nor mark 
of antiquity. It will he emphatically new,—far more 
deserving the appellation than this country. We all 
love new things : let us love this new world. It 
will he a new earth—a new heaven,—a new Jeru-
salem—a new' and magnificent King, and a new peo- 
ple. It will be for Christ arid those that are his ; 
and " if any man be in Christ he is a new creature." 
'co enter there we must have " new hearts." Like 
Columbus, we are satisfied of the existence of another 
and better world. Like Columbus we have procured 
an outfit, and have set sail to discover it. There are 
mutineers on board, and the ocean is stormy ; but 
never mind, let us trust in God. The promised land 
—the " continent of glory ''—is just a tread. Every 
day brings us nearer our homes, and few are the 
houses between this and the coining of the King and 
the kingdom. Do riot be discouraged. The Master 
bids us be of good cheer. The good time fur the 
pure is assuredly coming ! And above all, do nut 
miss of the new world. May we wash our robes and 
make them white in the blood of the Lamb, that we 
May at the last enter into his joy. Soon He will 
come. Time's career will be ended. The story will 
be told. The mandate will go forth. May we 
through rich grace forever possess the inheritance of 
the saints in light, when He who sits upon the throne 
shall make all things new. Amen. 
Biro. Buss :—I have no recollection of having seen 
any notice in the " Herald " of a book on chronology, 
written by George Smith, F. S A., Member of the 
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 
&c., printed at New York, inn 1848. He has coesid-
ered the three original Hebrew texts—Hebrew, Sa-
maritan, and Septuagint, and alsoJosephus. He gives 
a decided preference to the Septuagint, and endeavors 
to show that the Hebrew text, as we hare it, has 
been essentially corrupted, especially in its chro-
nology, he thinks probably in the second or third 
century. He thinks this was done by the exasper-
ated Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem, and in 
view of ti e rapid progress of the Christian religions 
atter that time. The object, he thinks, was to 
shorten the predicted time to the Messiah's coming, 
thereby endeavoring to complete the evidence of his 
true Messiahship ; for they had been confidently ex-
pecting that near the close of six thousand years their 
Redeemer would come, and by a computation from the 
true copy,for all three of' them THEN were essentially 
alike, they would find the time from Adam to Christ 
actually well near six thousand years; and this he 
endeavors to prove is the true chronology. Ile 
quotes from a great variety of authors. But perhaps 
you are acquainted with the book ; but whether you 
are or are not, please to, if you think best, give some 
comments on the little scrap I enclose, containing a 
chronology from Noah to the birth of Abraham, 
which 1 have drawn from his book. 
Now I want to ask, if it is so, that the Greek copy, 
for that was the one in common use in the apostles' 
time, is so much at variance with our version of the 
Hebrew Scriptures ? You see by the table herein en-
closed, that he makes the difference in time between 
the present Hebrew version and the Septuagint, from 
the flood to Abraham, eight hundred and seventy 
years. He makes the flood to occur in the year. of the 
world two thousand two hundred and sixty-two, and 
the advent of Christ, five thousand five hundred and 
seven. 
LETTER FROM Z. W. HOYT. 
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I have given this part of the book a partial exami-
nation, and compared it with the Bible as I have 
ability. The result I withhold at present, until I 
hear from you, and it may be made plain. Suffice it 
for the present to say, that he has opened some diffi-
culties which he has failed to clear away, and mag-
nified some which can be easily accounted for. 
You see he has given from the Septuagint the 
generation of Cainan ; whereas no other copy has 
it, and quotes it from Luke 3:36, through the line of 
Shem ; and, by the way, he is said to be the son of 
Ham.—Gen. 9:18. How is this, Bro. Bliss? and how 
is it that one hundred years are added to the five pa-
triarchs ? I would call your special attention to the 
two conflicting passages in Luke and Genesis above 
named. Who was 'Cainan, any way? and why did 
Noah place the malediction on him ? fur he said, he 
knew what his younger son had done, while at the 
same time he prefers no charge against Cainan for 
wrong doing. 
The writer of this book argues in favor of the 
Greek Scriptures, from the circumstance that the one 
hundred years being added to the post-diluvian pa- 
triarchs more than is found in our Scriptures, pre-
vents such a sudden transition of the time of human 
life. Is there any passage to show that life was es- 
sentially shortened immediately after the flood 1 He 
says, Israel was in bondage in Egypt only two hun- 
dred and fifteen years. How does he learn that ? I find 
four hundred years in both Testaments,—Acts 7:6, 
Gen. 14:13—thus agreeing with each other. During 
the progress of the general subject, for it is a book of 
522 pages, he has occasion to notice many jarring pas-
sages between the Old and New Testament, such as 
I should be inclined to consider as slight differences. 
Thus 1 have given some items in this learned 
book, for such it is, and wait for some reply, if you 
should think it beneficial to your readers,—it may by 
some be thought of little consequence ; but if this 
be the true time of past history, we readily see that 
it sets aside all evidence of our expected sabbatical 
rest from the seventh millenary, for that is long since 
gone by. Moreover, it has to my knowledge, in- 
clined some to put forward the time of Christ's com- 
ing to some long , long indefinite hereafter, being left 
without any polar star for a guide,—I mean those who 
have received the book as truth. One thing the 
writer has fully done, by the way, and that is, he has 
amply established the fact, that, from some time 
before, and some time after Christ, the pious Jews, 
embracing of course the apostles and early Chris-
tians, were full and unshaken in the belief that the 
seventh thousandth year would bring the hoped for 
millennial rest, according to the seventh day after the 
creation. Thus far he has rendered good service to 
the truth. 
Griggsville, July 16th, 1851. 
REMARKS.—In the Advent Herald, in a succession 
of Nos. beginning June 2d, 1849, and concluded July 
28th, you will find an able review of Mr. SMITH'S 
" Patriarchal Age," copied from the Pittsburgh 
Christian Advocate, in which those chronological dis- 
agreements are fully stated, and conclusively removed. 
In writing our Analysis of Sacred Chronology, we 
had that work, with a large number of other chro-
nological writers before us; and we devoted the last 
forty pages of that Analysis to a reply to the rea-
soning of Mr. SMITH, Dr. HALES, and those who 
have adopted the numbers of the Septuagint, in-
stead of those of the Hebrew text. In that, you 
will find the numbers of each presented, and the 
various objections noticed, that you allude to in your 
letter. The appearance of Mr. SMITH'S work, was 
one of the chief reasons which prompted us to publish 
the chronology at the the time we did. We wished 
to give in a full arid yet concise form, the facts and 
arguments which would enable those who are stum-
bled by such writers as Dr. SMITH, to arrive at cor- 
rect conclusions. Some of the reasoning will be 
found to be very disingenuous. 
LETTER FROM N. BILLINGS. 
Brio. hams :—Permit me to say through the 
" Herald," that in order to fulfil previous appoint-
ments, I left home on Saturday the 14th of June, 
and preached at the Advent hall in Westboro' the 
following Sabbath to interesting congregations, both 
at the morning and afternoon services. At the third 
meeting by request of the friends, we repeated a lec-
ture on the nature and importance of sacred music, 
which had been given in that place a few weeks 
previous. The day was one long to be remembered 
by us, and trust that good was done. Our brethren 
in that place are encouraged, and they have reasons 
for being so. 
Bro. Morley is laboring with them acceptably, and 
for the good of the cause in that vicinity. 
Friday 20th, preached at Bro. Currier's Hall, 
Springfield. Saturday 21st, took the cars for West 
Troy, New York, and arriving there about sunset, 
found a home under the friendly roof of a brother 
whose hospitality is known to many in that region. 
Sunday 22d, preached in the chapel in the morn-
ing, in the afternoon at the Nail-works,—thence re-
turning, attended a third meeting at West Troy ; 
there are a few friends holding on to the faith and 
trying to sustain the cause. May the Lord bless 
them, and grant them a gracious reviving. 
Wednesday 25th, went to Lansingburg a few miles 
distant, and preached in the evening. Thursday 
26th, at the Nail-works again. Friday 27th, went to 
Albany and spent the day with Bro. Gross, and en-
joyed an interesting visit. We remained over the 
Sabbath, and preached at the Advent chapel morn- 
ing and afternoon. In the evening we presented 
the subject of Sacred Music, with its relations and 
importance to the Advent cause. The day was one of 
interest to us, and we hope that it may riot be num-
bered among our lost opportunities. 
Tuesday July 1st, went t,, Greenfield by way of 
Saratoga, and preached in the evening at Bro. Hills. 
Wednesday 2d, preached at Middle Grove, (formerly 
called Jamesville, we believe,) where we had a large 
congregation (in a hall occupied by the Methodists) 
of attentive and patient hearers, while we addressed 
them from 1 Thess. 4:18. This was we trust a profit-
able season. There are but two Advent families in the 
place, but these appear to be the sincere friends of 
the cause. They are anxious to have Advent preach-
ing in the place if it be of the right kind. Our stay 
with them was short, but full of interest. Should 
Providence direct our footsteps that way again, we 
should feel it a privilege to make them another call, in 
accordance with their wishes. 
Friday the 4th, went to Fort Ann,—preached to full 
congregations on the Sabbath, in the morning at the 
Baptist meeting house, the remaining part of the 
day the Methodist church was readily granted to us, 
and again on the Monday evening following. On 
Wednesday arid Friday afternoons, held meetings in 
another part of the town. 
Low Hampton, Monday, I4th. Arrived here on 
Saturday, and preached at the chapel yesterday to 
a large gathering ; the season was one of deep inter-
est to us, it being our first visit to the place. Bro. 
Buckley was with us in the afternoon ; his health is 
poor, and he is unable to preach as formerly. At the 
close of the afternoon service our hearts were com-
forted, and our faith strengthened, in coming around 
the table of our Lord and Saviour, to eat of that bread 
and drink of that cup, in remembrance of him who 
suffered for us, and " bare our sins in his own body 
on the tree." 
We have now had the privilege of seeing the 
friends in this place, together with some of the mem-
bers of Bro. Miller's family, that we had never seen 
before, and of receiving a cordial welcome from them 
all. We are at this moment seated in the old arm-
chair, at father Miller's writing-desk, penning these 
lines. Here is the spot where he studied his Bible 
with so much delight, and " ate the little book " so 
sweet to his taste ; and here too he wrote his lectures 
on the prophecies, those precious gems that have 
comforted so many of the saints of God, alarming and 
terrifying at the same time, multitudes of hypocrites, 
backsliders, formal professors, and worldlings. Here 
upon this consecrated ground, a multitude of thoughts 
rush in upon the mind like a mighty avalanche, which 
we are unable to express. We look back upon the his-
tory of the world, and forward to its inevitable doom. 
To the glorious restitution, and the final entrance of 
the saints into the everlasting kingdom of God ; and 
pray that we may be numbered with them. As we 
are here sitting with the window open on our right, 
we look out upon the green hills and mountains of 
Vermont, and our lungs are fanned with the fragrant 
and invigorating breeze. On our left stands the old 
family clock, busy at work measuring ofi the brief 
span allotted to us poor mortals. We cast our eye 
around the room, but its former occupant is gone 
and numbered with the dead. The golden bowl is 
broken, the pitcher at the fountain, and the wheel at 
the cistern. The dust has already returned to the 
earth as it was, and the spirit to God who gave it; 
and we most involuntarily exclaim with one, " My 
father, my father, the chariot of Israel, arid the 
horsemen thereof." May short be thy slumbers, thou 
servant of God." 
" Break from his throne, illustrious morn. 
Attend, 0 earth, his sovereign word ; 
Restore thy trust, a glorious form 
Shall then arise to meet the Lord." 
Yours for the better land. 
Fort Ann (N. Y.), July 10th, 1851. 
LETTER FROM 0. R. FASSETT. 
Bro. Huess :—A few days since I was permitted 
to stand by the grave of our lamented Bro. Kent, who 
fell asleep in Christ some four years since, after 
having faithfuliy preached the gospel of the kingdom, 
and worn himself out in the vineyard of the Lord.—
The reflections of that hour will not soon be erased 
from my memory, and never did our hope of a resur-
rection appear more blessed and heart-cheering. The 
grave of our departed brother lies in Middletown, 
Conn., in a most beautiful and romantic spot, over-
looking the Connecticut river. A plain, yet neat 
marble stone marks the place where he lies, covered 
with earth and the green sod. On this stone is en-
graved the following appropriate words from Scrip-
ture : 
" Looking for that blessed hope, 
And the glorious appearing of the great God 
And our Saviour Jesus Christ."—Titus 2:13. 
While I stood by, gazing upon his silent grave, I 
thought of his faithfulness and zeal in the cause of 
God while alive. I thought of the last time we met, 
and on which occasion he addressed a large audience 
on the hope of the resurrection, making the 37th 
chapter of Ezekiel the fOundation of his remarks ; 
and I felt a desire to imitate him in his faithfulness. 
I thought of his last and his dying hours, when he so 
joyfully looked death in the face, sung so sweetly, 
and spoke so freely of his hope that he would soon 
awake from the slumbers of the grave. I thought of 
the resurrection morning, when he would live again, 
and no longer lie mouldering there,—when he would 
conic forth from his narrow house, throw off the ha-
biliments of the grave and mortality, be changed to 
immortality, to sicken and die no more; and all this 
to be realized in a few days, or months, at most. 
I thought again, if I were called to die, 1 would 
choose to lie by his side, or that of Bro. Miller, Fitch 
or Barry, so as on that blessed morn to rejoice to-
gether with them, and shout ALOUD that victorious 
and most triumphant song— 
" 0 death, where is thy sting ? 
0 grave, where is thy victory ?" 
The resurrection to me on this occasion appeared as 
it oft has since 1 have seen it to be the hope of the 
Church of God—a living reality,—" a lively hope," 
as the apostle expresses it. That scene seemed to 
pass before me in vision as it will in some measure 
appear hereafter. The sun was just setting in the 
west, arid as it spent its last rays upon the grave 
before me, it appeared to be but the closing of the 
day of time, to be soon followed by the morning, 
when the glorious Sun of Righteousness shall arise 
with healing in his wings. Yes, 0, yes ! that day 
will soon dawn and break upon our world, and in all 
its bright effulgence on the graves of the departed 
saints, quickening them again to life and activity.—
May the Lord hasten it in his time. 
This visit to the grave of our beloved brother, now 
asleep in death, had a pleasing effect on my own 
mind, and brought with a freshness and vigor the hope 
of the Christian, as I ever wish to realize it, for 
without a resurrection death and the grave will for-
ever be victorious. But thanks be to God, the last 
enemy, " death," shall be destroyed, and death will 
be swallowed up in victory. 
" The time draws nigh, when from the clouds, 
Christ shall with shouts descend ; 
And the last trumpet's awful voice 
The heavens and earth shall rend." 
Extracts from Letters. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I think it high time you heard 
from me again ; if I did not, I should excuse myself 
at this time. The cause for which you have been 
laboring and striving to sustain by the scanty means 
the brethren are furnishing, must make it an up hill 
business. I come to this conclusion from the tone of 
the " Herald." I am sorry to know that men will 
contract and suffer an account to accumulate as many 
have done for the " Herald," and then stop the 
paper without payment. Can such men expect to 
dwell on the new earth? Again: there is another 
class equally culpable, those who take the paper On 
tine score of being poor, and do not pay for it, because 
the publisher is riot willing the poor should he turned 
empty away ; when, in fact, many of them are riot 
poor. 
Now I think the Lord's poor should be sup-
plied with all needful information on all subjects. 
Brethren may feel quite willing to aid if they knew 
it was going to the needy. I am satisfied that claim-
ing to be an Adventist, or anything else, is no evi-
dence of one's being honest. Then let some course 
he taken to prevent imposition. 
I should like to know your mind on Acts 15:16,17. 
When is it that he will return and build, &c.? Please 
read and let me know who is the residue of men, &c. 
We learn by a parallel scripture (Amos 9:10:11) 
that the tabernacle of DAVID will be rebuilt when 
" all the sinners of Goo's people shall die by the 
sword." And the " residue of men," we suppose, 
rae those who will be left when all the sinners on 
the earth shall have perished.—ED. 
Sister POLLY LEE writes from Canaan (Pa.), July 
16th, 1851 : 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—By my dear husband's re-
quest on his dying bed, I write you a few lines.—
" Say to Bro. Himes," said he, " I die in the full faith 
that the advent is near at hand." My faith has not 
wavered since I embraced the doctrine in '42, though 
we have not had it preached here except when Bro. 
Chapman was here winter before last. As you have 
been informed, Mr. Lee was taken sick the last day 
of March, though we were not aware that it would be 
his last sickness. But so it has proved ; the last 
morning in June he fell asleep in Jesus, without a 
struggle or a groan. He was very patient, and never 
murmured or cotnplained. As he approached his 
end, it pleased the Lord to give him a great. manifes-
tation of his love, so that he prayed, and called on 
all to bless the Lord, eight days before he died. 
After that he could not speak much. and was so deaf', 
that we could not make, him hear. I am left to mourn 
tine loss of one to whom I have been united 55 years 
and nine months. Fifty five years gone by we joined 
the M. E. Church, and have never belonged to any 
other; and when we joined that Church, it was 
everywhere spoken against. My husband was 80 
years and seven months old, but he rests from his 
labor ; and I, 76 years old, still linger on the shores 
of time. My husband requested me, if I could, to 
send you five dollars to make use of for the cause, 
which I gladly do, and am happy to have it in my 
power to do it.. 0 how glad should I be to see you in 
this part of the land. 1 have wondered that some of 
the dear brethren, and Bro. Litchi in particular, did not 
come up here ; they would have a congregation,-1 
am sure that they would be sustained. Pray for me, 
that I may be wholly sanctified, and be kept blameless 
to the coming of my Lord. 
I would inform you that those who embraced the 
Advent Faith when Bro. Chapman was here, con- 
tinue faithful. 0 that the Lord would raise up 
more. I think if Bro. Jones, or Bro. Hawkes, would 
visit this part, they would have souls for their hire, 
and would meet with some reward in this present 
life, as well as a hundred fold in the world to come. 
Bro. G. W. Burnham writes from Seneca Falls 
(N. Y.), July 26th, 1851 : 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am now prostrated with 
ague and fever. How long this will confine me to 
my house, 1 do not know. It is about five weeks since 
have been able to perform any public service. I 
desire to love God with all my strength, that these 
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PHCEN1X TENT MEETING. 
On our arrival At Phoenix on the 11th ult., to erect the 
tent, we found that the liberal and enterprising brethren of 
that vicinity had engaged a beautiful and convenient spot of 
grand on the farm of Mr. J. LAVA LLEY, north-west of 
Buffalo Tent..meeting —Action of the Advent.. 
ists. 
At a meeting of the Second Advent church of Buffalo, N. 
Y., held in their house of worship on Delaware-street, in 
said city, at the close of Divine service on Lord's day, Au-
gust 32, 1851, Bro. Thomas Sayles being called to the 
chair, and Bro. W. M. Palmer being chosen secretary, a 
notice contained in the " Advent Harbinger," of Aug. 2(1, 
vol. 3, No. 7, purporting to be from Elder J. C. Bywater, ap-
pointing a Tent-meeting for Buffalo, to commence Sept. 2(1, 
and hold over thirteen days, embracing two Sabbaths, was 
read ; also, a further notice from Elder Bywater in the same 
paper, saying that he expected Elders Storrs, Marsh, and 
Cook, would be with hint at said Tent-meeting ; and in 
the saute paper an editorial, headed, "Tent-meeting in 
in Buffalo," was read, in which the editor calls special at-
tention to said advertised Tent-ineetiug in Buffalo, by Elder 
Bywater, and endorses that hanself and Elders Cook and 
Storrs would be there to aid Elder Bywater in preaching the 
word in Buffalo, apid exhorting a general attendance to said 
meeting ; therefore, 
Resolved, unanimously, That this' church has not desired 
said Tent-meeting to be holden by Elder Bywater, and El-
ders Marsh, Cook, and Storrs, and neither do they now de-
sire it. 
Resolved, further, That it has been reported to this church 
by its late pastor, that Elder Ily water, in New York city, 
told him that the church in Buffalo were all in harmony with 
the " Herald " in regard to the present doctrines, &c., now 
being advocated by him and others, but that he, the said El-
der Bywater, with his advocates, would, during this sum-
mer, come to Buffalo with the Big 'Pent, and make a scatter-
ing among them, or change them to the views of the " Har-
binger," (or words to that effect) ; also 
Resolved, That with the approbation and intended co-ope-
ration of this church, a Tent-meeting has long been pub-
lished to be holden in this city, to commence Sept. 28th, by 
Elder J. V. Himes, which fact must have been well known 
to those now advertising for Sept. 2d and onward; and that 
unless evil was intended to the peace of this church, as 
threatened, nonillion Christian courtesy would have prompted 
those engaged in this to have respected such intention ; 
therefore, fur this and for other known reasons, 
Resolved, That this church has no Christian confidence in, 
and can hold no Christian fellowship with, the said Elders 
Bywater, Cook, Marsh, and Storrs, until their past acts be 
repented of and changed, and that they cannot co-operate 
with them in said 'Pent-meeting, and they would most res-
pectfully, but must urgently, request them to indefinitely post-
pone the said advertised Tent-meeting for Buffalo ; and fur-
ther, that if said Elders Bywater, Marsh, Cook, and Storrs, 
or any of them, shall persist in carrying out said advertised 
meeting, that it is hereby ordered, that this preamble and 
these resolutions be, at the commencement of said meeting, 
published in the daily papers of this city, giving notice that 
this church has no fellowship with said Elders Bywater, 
Marsh, Cook, and Storrs, their meeting, or their associates, 
or many of the doctrines which they teach. 
Resolved, That the doings of this meeting be signed by the 
chairman and secretary, and copies forwarded to Elders J. 
Bywater, J. B. Cook, J. Marsh, and Geo. Storrs, at the 
several places where it is expected they will soonest get 
them. Also, copies forwarded to the " Advent Herald," 
" Harbinger," " Watchman," and " Monitor and Messen-
ger," with the request that each paper would publish in la; 
that this expression of the Second Advent church in Buffalo 
may be fully known, and her position fully identified, and 
that brethren front abroad may not be misled by the appeal 
of the editor of the " Harbinger," to expect this church to 
administer to their wants in a meeting called for her own dis-
traction, and by men with whom they cannot have Christian 
sympathy. 
The above resolutions were all passed unanimously. 
THOS. SAYLES, Chairman. 
W. M. PALM ER, Sec' y. 
S. Jennings—Have credited J. D. B. $3 36 on acc't—the 
balance (64 cts.) we place to your credit on " Herald " to 
540, as you did not specify what papers to send. 
J. W. Trumbull—Sent books the 30th. 
.1. Andrews—Have sent the book, which, with the post-
age we have to pre-pay, is 30 cts. 
Mrs. R. Conant, J. Eaton—Have cancelled your accounts, 
and will send. 
C. F. Sweet—Will cancel the old account. An agent 
would be of no use in a place where he would be the only 
subscriber, and we shall have to lessen our free list, instead 
of adding to it. 
Mrs. L. Dudley—You say in your letter that you inclose 
one dollar. We found no money in it. Your son called at 
the office the day before, and paid a dollar on the " Herald " 
to No. 560. Perhaps you afterwards concluded to send by 
hand. 
W. Paid—It was at error—you are credited to 568. The 
bundle was sent Aug. 4th. 
E. Shepherd—Have credited Bro. Vickey to 534 ; but 
that leaves a dollar due from G. W. Libbey. 
W. M. Palmer—W. Hines' paper was discontinued by the 
Postmaster of Buffalo at No. 523, who stated it was refused. 
McGarity has paid to end of present vol. 
S. G. Mathewson—Sent you books to Winsted the 6th, by 
express. 
Chase Taylor—You owe $1 on "Herald," and $3 54 on 
book acct. 
J. VOSE, $3—$1 for Herald to the Poor—$1 in aid of the Tent 
meetings, and $1 for Himes' Defence. 
Phoenix village. The ground is elevated, affording from the 
door of the tent a beautiful panoramic view of the surround- 
ing country. Though everything around was pleasant to the 
eye, yet the curse was upon it : it was not Eden, though 
beautiful. In the beautiful land, the home of the saints, 
" there shall be no more curse." 
Within three miles of our tabernacle, there were no less 
than thirteen flourishing factory villages, numbering front 
seven to ten thousand inhabitants. A large number of the 
people manifested a deep interest in the object of our meeting, 
and received us with much favor. 
Our first meeting was held Sabbath morning, July 13th. 
The (lay was beautiful, and at the hour of service the peo-
ple came up in crowds from every direction, filling the spa-
cious tent to its utmost capacity. Most of the male portion 
of the congregation gave up their seats to the ladies, and 
stood during the service in the outer circle. The most res-
pectful attention was bestowed on the sermons during the 
day, which were delivered by Elder WESLEY BURNHAM. 
I was unable to preach, and most of the day was confined to 
my tent. Bro. B. was happy in the selection of 'his sub-
jects, and treated them in so able and interesting a man-
ner, as to give general satisfaction. The day was a prosper-
ous one for the Advent cause,—we have heard of much good 
that was done. 
Doing the week three services were held each day. Ser- 
ITIMIS were preached by Bro. SHIPMAN, TAYLOR, FAS-
SETT, and KIMBALL. Notwithstanding the rain, good con- 
gregations attended, who appeared to appreciate the services. 
On the second Sabbath, the 20th, and the last day of our 
meeting, we had a most delightful day. The attendance was 
very large. My health had so far improved, that I ventured 
to speak once. The subject of my remarks was, " GOD in 
history." An argument was attempted to be drawn from the 
historical prophecies in favor of the personal coining of JE- 
ssu, of his reign on the earth, and the nearness of those events. 
It is cheering to learn, that the effort, though put forth in 
weakness, was not altogether in vain. 
In the afternoon Elder L. KIMBALL gave au excellent dis-
course on Matt. 24th. He was listened to with profound 
attention, and a good impression was made on the audience. 
At the conclusion, I addressed a few remarks to Adventists, 
and to members of other denominations present, closing with 
an appeal to the unconverted. The season was a solemn 
one. Up to this time, our meetings had been undisturbed ; 
nothing- whatever had occurred to mar the enjoyment of those 
present. But as I was concluding my address, a Member of 
G. NEEDHAM'S party in Providence, and who also resides 
in his family, commenced the distribution of the pamphlet 
purporting to contain the trial of J. V. HIMES before the 
Chardon-street Church. As soon as the meeting was closed, 
the individual alluded to stood up on a seat in the tent, and 
announced that he had the "Trial of J. V. HIMES," &c., 
for distribution. Of course this strange event excited the 
attention of the people, and they wished an explanation of it. 
Accordingly, I briefly stated the history of events during the 
past year or so, and showed that the design of circulating the 
pamphlet was to destroy my character and influence. In the 
meantime, I caused a copy of my " Defence " to be placed 
in the hand of each one who had received the pamphlet, thus 
accompanying the bane with the antidote. The people gene-
rally were satisfied of the evil design of the individual who 
was thus engaged, and finally separated, bearing with them a 
good impression. 
Our meeting was truly a triumphant one. Souls were 
quickened, the saints comforted, and conviction was forced 
on many minds. The brethren and friends will accept our 
hearty thanks for their liberality and co-operation. 
A word or two in relation to the unjustifiable attempt to 
mar the harmony of our meeting. At most of my meetings 
in Providence during the last year, I have been followed by 
the individual alluded to above with a malignity that would 
have done credit to a demon. Every sort of provocation has 
been offered, in the most aggravated forms, to induce me to 
do or say something that would afford my enemies an oppor-
tunity to complete what they have so long desired. The ob-
ject was clearly shown by the insolent query, " Why don't 
you prosecute me ?" 
Now, if I could be so annoyed; as to 
allow myself to appeal to the law to defend ins against out-
rage, the cry would be that I had appealed to C./EsAB. against 
" brethren,"—that I exemplified the conduct of the " evil 
servant" smiting his brethren, &c. But 1 have studiously 
endeavored to disregard these insults and annoyances, and 
continued in my proper labors, receiving the confidence and 
support of the Advent body. Despairing of a prosecution 
on my part, occasion was sought by my enemies by which 
they could appeal to the law. This occasion was brought 
about in the way related in last week's Herald. Though we 
could not have been induced to take the initiatory steps in a 
law-suit, my brethren will now perceive that I have no al-
ternative,—I am compelled to defend myself. I feel assured 
that this vexatious suit will be sustained by all the con-
spirators and their sympathizers. But be it known to them, 
that Goo, who has heretofore been my defender, will deliver 
me out of the hand of all my enemies. Let the brethren and 
friends everywhere have no apprehensions : the " secret 
workings," which have so long distracted us, will soon be 
brought to the light. I have not the slightest fear as to 
the result. 
J. V. H. 
Testimonial from the Second Advent Church in 
Hartford, Ct. 
BELOVED BRO. HIMES :—We regard it a duty we owe 
to you and the cause of GOD, in which we are mutually. en-
gaged, to give you a simple testimonial and expression of our 
love and respect, which may be used in any way you may 
deem proper. 
We have for many years witnessed your devotedness and 
untiring zeal in the case of oar coining Lord and King ; and 
these indefatigable labors to extend the knowledge of the Ad-
vent faith throughout the world has endeared you to our 
hearts. While, therefore, we have seen you enduring the 
scorn and contumely of the world, and assailed front time to 
time by foes within and foes without, we have regarded 
these only as the legitimate result of your faithfulness in the 
cause of God. The efforts put forth more recently to destroy 
your character, and ruin your influence in community, by 
those who have in various places conspired together for this 
purpose, has awakened our sympathies anew in your behalf, 
and caused us to stand by and support you by our prayers, 
sympathy, and " labor of love," in this time of your trial. 
We consider these attacks on your character, and these ef- 
A meeting will be held at Coburg, commencing Sept. '7, at 11 A Al, 
and continue several days. Also one at Asa Spencer's, Sept. 
at 3 e M. Primers are invited to attend, 
A Camp-meeting will commence in the Powley neighborhood 
Sept. 13m, at 3 P Al, and continue a week or more, as duty hay re-
quire. Friends will bring their tents.- A collection will be taken 
up to defray the expenses of the meeting. As we want to circulate 
gratuitously a number of excellent tracts at all of the above meet-
ings, let all the friends of the Advent cause remember their respon-
sibility to spread the light committed to them, and of which they 
will have to give an account. lirm. J. Powley, Peter, J.- Camp-
bell, of Huron, Peirce, and Truesdale, are invited. In behalf of the 
brethren, C. Powley, W . Jackson, D. Utimbelt. 
( Monitor A Messenger please copy the above.) 
There will be a Camp-meeting at Northfield Farms, near the resi-
dence of Bro. A. Gage, commencing Aug. 26th, and continue over 
the Sabbath. We cordially invite all to this least of tabernacle:), 
for we believe time Lord will be with us, according to his promise. 
Brethren who can are requested to bring tents and provisions ; ar-
rangements will be made at Bro. Gage's for all others ;—tlie poor 
shall lie fed, and have the gospel preached to thew. Horses kept at 
Bro. Gage's. Bro. 1'.111. Preble and others will be in attendance 
ho divide the word of truth. ANSON GAGE, S. W. BISHOP, S. W. 
SLATE, E. G. SCOTT, Committee. 
There will be a Camp-meeting at Winstead, two miles from the 
depot, commencing Sept. ad, and continuing probably over the fol-
lowing Sabbath. We invite all the lovers of Jesus, and those who 
wish to become his followers, to come in the mime of the Lord, tor 
we expect the good Lord will meet with his people, and mrgive 
simmers. VY e hope those who can will bring- their tents slid provi-
sions. Board aim horse keeping on reasonable terms, with a free 
table for God's poor. 'fliose coming by public conveyance will stop 
at the depot, or hotels in the place, where they can procure a cheap 
conveyance to the camp-ground. M. GRANT, S. G. MATHEWSON, 
H. MONGER, Committee. 
Providence permitting, Bro. J. Cummings will commence a Tent 
meeting at East Weare village, N. IL, Wednesday,. Aug. limit, and 
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continue over the Sabbath. 
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The P. 0. address of Elder ARTEMAS BROWN is Louisville, Ky. 
Second Advent Big Tent Meetings. 4 
A Second Advent Big Tent-meeting will commence at Richmond 
village, into., Aug. 20tli, to continue cam week. As this may be the 
only great gathering of Adventists its mists State tins season, it is 
hoped that our brethren its all this region will take an active hottest 
in it, and come prepared to labor for the salvation of simmers. Breth-
ren who can do so, will see the propriety u1 bringing tents with 
them, in which to board and lodge themselves and friends, and thus 
avoid the necessity of speculating shanties. e can, with a little 
efibrt, make sufficient provision for ourselves in many place*, arid 
also for those who come from a distance, and who cannot bring 
tents, but who will be ready to pay for such accommodatioas as they 
need. Brethren will do all they can to accommodate brethren from 
abroad. The location is easy of access, being within one hundred 
rods of the river, where steamboats pass each way from bath aid 
Waterville several times a day, and but a few rods from the railroad 
depot, so that those mune,: in the cars How bestow Lowell, Port-
land, Paris, Poland, Lewiston, or any isiterveanig towns, will arrive 
at 7 P at. Bra. Bones, E. Burnham, and F.H. berick, are expected, 
and we hope our preachers its 'name will also come, that we may 
put forth a united effort to save a portion of this perishing genera_ 
don, by sounding the proclamation of the soon coming judgineht. 
N. B. vv e have contracted with the river boats to carry all friends 
to and from the meeting at halt-price. Breffirena and friends will 
please say when they are buying tickets, " W e are going to the tent 
ineettne.' Cannot our brethren du the same on the railroad (lost 
o‘I‘' nud,. annAdLs,a,v epe.xitpoe ansisesosr„ L. CuRTIS, J. UMBERHIND, Com-
mittee; N. SMITH, 1. C. vvELLcume, assistaats. 
THE VERMONT TENT-MEETING. 
We have room for only the bare details of this meeting this week, 
but will add the remarks of the Committee next week. 
 V. 
There will be a Big, Tent and camp-meeting in New- Haven, Vt., 
commencing; Aug. Stan, and to continue till Sept. 7111. Eiders 
 
Himes, 1. E. Jones, W. Burnham, and others, are expected to at-
tend. The object of the meeting is to consider the great truth of 
our Lord's soon coutiug, the doctrines connected therewith, and to 
prepare a people ler the cowing of the Lord. All extraneous ques-
tions, such as gender strife, will be lett out. It is hoped this will lie 
a general meeting of Adventists throughout this region. 
Brethren coining from the north or south can come lay the Rut-
land amid litirlington railroads, and be lest within a few rods of the 
ground. The tare each way will be half-price.. Those who CRITILIC 
requested to brag their tents ; ample provision will be made for 
those who do not, on reasonable terms. Besides, good accommo-
dations can be had at two respectable hotels within halt a mile Of 
the ground. (Iii behalf 01 the committee of arrangemehts.) 
P. B. MORGAN. 
(Will the Monitor and Messenger please copy 1) 
Receipts from July 29th to Aug. 5th. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. Ify comparing it wits the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see how Jar he is in 
advance, or how Jar in arrears. 
T. Draper, 560; D. McGarity, 534; S. V. )Nason, 531; B. F. Carter, 
560; F. 11. Buick, 534; J. Andrews, 534; A. Lamb, 534; D. Prescott, 
a34; N. Dow, 534; Lucy A.Fellows, 534; G. T. Stacy, 534; J. Bache-
lor, 560 ; Mrs. E. Rogers, 534 ; S. Paine, 560 ; N. Pike, 560 ; G. W . 
W iggin, 560; 0. P. Redington, 534; E. Jones, 522 ; J. F. Davis, 547 ; 
Dr. D. Barber, 560; A. Gray, 534 ; C. Watkins,534 ; J. Hutchings, 
534; J. Brown, 534; L. Spencer, 560; C. B. Turner, 560; S. Vickery, 
534 ; I. Willoughby, 534 ; Z. W ilson, 560 ; W. V), . Tyler,. 560 ; G. 
Odell, 534 ; 1). Sargent, 534 ; S. Snow,-560 ; J. Reed, (and postage,) 
a7J ; W . D. Taller, 534 ; A. Bartlett, 560 ; M. Grant, 534 ; G. U. 
Crane, 534 ; J . Sloan, 660 ; S. Hurlbut, 517 ; G. W . Sharp, aiski ; J. 
Belden, 566 ; Beckley, 574 ; H. R. Parker, 560; Mrs. Wilcox, 586; 
W. Wilcox, 573 ; L. Chapman, 560--each $1. 
J. Hewlett, 560 ; It. C. Taylor, 521-50 eta. due ; L. G. Ingalls, 
560 ; J Powell, 560 ; A. Pratt, 534 ; J. W. Trumbull, 560 1 W. 0. 
Merriam, 560 ; 0. Page, 547 ; L. Baker, 534 ; J. C. Gillingham, 060 ; 
Ford, (and books, sent,) 563; A. Wells, 534; J. Young, a34; J. N. 
Nutter, 560 ; .1. Haskell, 560 ; T. Huntington, 560 ; N Pike, 467; J. 
Bowe, not) ; T. Fletcher, 560 ; H. K. Boyer, 560 ; A. Ferguson, 534 ; 
S. Starr, 534 ; E. Brisbin, 547 ; E. G. Scott, 547 ; W. D. Cook, 547 ; 
J. W. Stewart, 534; D. S. Niles, (and postage,) 556; S. Osgood, 534; 
J. Curtis, 456-82 due on old acc't ; C. Burt, 534; S. 1. Roney, a34— 
each $2. 
C. Whitney, 573 ; Deacon J. Tripp, 560 ; C. N. Ford, (three cop-
ies,) 560 ; A. Smith, 2d, 560 ; L. Cheney, 560 ; Ii. W . Johnston, 508—
$1 due A. Curtis, 560 ; H. Sharp, 612 ; G. Huntley, a60; A. An-
drew, 560—each $3—J. D. Bailey, (83 36 on acorn, and balance to 
6. J. on Herald to 540) ; S. Thurlow, 600—each 54—S. Pratt, 534 ; 
I. R. Gates, 430 ; W • Page, 560—each $5—C. B. Hotchkiss, 534—
$140—Dr. J. B. Terry, 599-52 50-11. B. Wyman, (two copies,) 
534—$1 50. 
NoTtcE.—As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
evening, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Troy, Vt., Aug. 15th, instead o 
Derby Line, as before appointed ; Richford, Sabbath, 17th ; Mont-
gomery, 19111; Johnston, 20th; Morrisville, 21st; Waterbury, Sab-
bath, 2401 ; Claremont, N. H., 26th. 
Bro. K. L. Hastings will preach at Litchfield, where Bro. Hall 
may aopoint, Aug. 9th; Kent, 10th; Roxbury, 11th; Pleasant Valley, 
14th—each, except.Sabbaths, at 5 P at, or evening, as the brethren 
may choose. 
I will commence a tent-meeting at New Durham Ridge Wednes-
day, Aug. 20th, and continue over the Sabbath. Bro. J. Couch will 
attend. 
J. CUMMINGS. 
Providence permitting, I will preach in the " Union meeting 
house" on 'lather's Hill, Whitetield, Sunday, Aug. 10th. 
I.:C. WELLCOME. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Hillsborough, N. H., Sabbath, 
Aug. 10th. 
BENJ. LOCKE. 
Bro. A. Sherwin will preach at South Newbury, Vt., Sabbath, 
Aug'. filth, and at North Danville Sabbath, 17th. 
General Camp-meeting.—Providence permitting, there will be 
an old-fashioned camp-meeting its North Wilbraham, on the old 
ground, commencing 'Monday, Aug. 18th, and continue probably 
over the Sabbath. We sincerely hope, and invite all ear and near to 
take an interest in this general gathering, and make it a special sub-
ject of prayer. Conic Monday and pitch your tents in good faith, 
with a full expectation, by the blessing of God, that it Will be a 
meeting which will tell, not for party, but for God and truth, on 
saint and sinner. Provision made for horses and board for those 
who wish, with no lack for God's poor. Those coming in the cars 
will stop at North Wilbraham depot. D. E. Moulton, Hiram 
Munger, Walter Pratt, Committee. 
There will be a Camp-meeting held on the ground owned by Mr. 
Steel and others, five nines from Dellefinit, and three miles from 
Milesburg, Pa., commencing Aug. 2:Rh,. and continue one (Neck or 
more. It is hoped there will be a general gathering of Adventists 
throughout this and adjoining counties; that they will come full of 
faith and earnest prayer, that the truth of our soon coming Lord, 
am] a preparation to meet him in peace, may receive a new impulse. 
All necessary arrangements will be made for the accommodation of 
those who cannot conveniently bring tents. Elders J. Litch, 1. H. 
Gates, and others will be,present to labor. 
J. D. Boyer, J. P. Farrar, 'rhos. Esworthy, R. McM uller, Joseph 
Eckley, H. K. Boyer, I'. Swartz, Coininittee. 
There will be a Camp-meeting at Fingal, on the old ground near 
widow Burdine's, commencing Aug. 1601, at 3 Pat, told continue 
over the second Sabbath. Friends tire requested to have their tents 
up on the Friday previous to the meeting.. Provisions will be made 
for horses on the most reasonable terms. Elder D. 1. Rubinson, 
of New York, and several others, wall be present. Collections 
will be taken up to defray the expenses of the meeting. In behalf 
of the brethren, Lewis B. Payson, A. Weldon, 1). Campbell. 
A Camp-meeting will be held near Bro. Burroughs', commencing 
Aug. 2801, at 3 P M, alai continue five days.- Friends will please to 
erect their tents previous to the day of meeting. Provision will be 
made for horses. It is hoped that a good number of niends Will lie 
present, us a consultation will be held at the close of the meeting, 
touching the best way of lbrwarding the cause. A collection will 
be taken up to defray the expenses of the ineetiiig. In behalt of the 
brethren, J. Burroughs, VV.-Willard, W. Cornwell, D. Campbell.