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"FATHER, THY WILL BE DONE." 
Whatever path thy guiding hand 
Shall give niy feet to tread, 
The terrors of the desert land, 
Fierce skies above my head, 
Or when revealed in purple light, 
Soft meads and streams appear, 
And frosts untimely never blight 
The promise of the year ; 
" Father, thy will be done." 
If every earthly promise fade, 
Each hope of mortal happiness, 
If povery my roof invade, 
And wants each, every day distress ; 
Or if my corning years be crowned 
With household loves and social joy, 
And 'mid all luxuries he found 
The fear no evil main destroy ; 
" Father, thy will he done." 
Should slander wound with vengeful sting, 
And nearest friends forsake my side, 
Because my erring soul would cling, 
To the dear cross where Jesus died ; 
Or if thy bounteous power bestow 
Fair gills of friends, the tried, the trite, 
Who praise thee for the bliss they know, 
And love me that I show it too ; 
" Father, thy will be done." N. Y. Observer. 
Nineveh. 
A SKETCH FROM THE BIBLE AND RECENT DISCOVERIES. 
The history of the Assyrian empire, and of 
Nineveh, its metropolis, is wrapped in obscurity. 
The empire had flourised and become extinct 
for nearly two hundred years, at least, before 
classical history commenced. Its monuments 
have been buried in the city's ruins for near 
three thousand years ; and the traces of its lit-
erature and of its annalists, if it ever had them, 
have been altogether lost. Till lately all hope 
of possessing any true history of this the first 
empire of the world, has all been but aban-
doned ; and even its existence has been trans-
ferred to the category of the myth. 
We read in Genesis that the mighty hunter 
Nimrod " had the beginning of his kingdom at 
Babel," and that either he or some one connect-
ed with him built Nineveh, and laid the foun-
dation of the Assyrian empire. There is given 
to us, in profane history, a long list of kings 
from Ninus, or Nimrod, to Sardanapalus, of 
whom we have nothing but their names, and 
whose story. is doubtful. At different times 
it would seem that the neighboring countries of 
Babylonia and Assyria took the lead of each 
other ; perhaps Babylon first predominating, 
then yielding to Nineveh, and afterwards again 
obtaining the ascendancy. With almost the 
only exception of the reference to Nimrod men-
tioned above, nothing is known of the Assyrian 
history till we find Pul invading Judea in the 
reign of Menahem, about B. C. 769. It is thought 
he was the king who repented at the preach-
ing of Jonah." Tiglath.Pileser succeeded him, 
subdued Syria, affording temporary relief to the 
king of Judah, yet on the whole doing him 
much disservice. He was followed by Shal-
maneser or Enemessar, who took Samaria and 
carried captive the ten tribes, destroying the 
kingdom of Israel, which had entered into al-
liance with the Egyptian king, with whom Shal-
maneser was at war. Sennacherib succeeded ; 
and his reign, though short, was striking, and 
"Soon after this the prophet went to Bethel. 
This, it will be recollected, was a seat of the 
worship of one of Jeroboam's golden calves—
the inhabitants of which were therefore doubt-
less very corrupt in their religious notions and 
services. The reception which the prophet met 
with confirms the impression. He was assailed 
by a rabble of young blackguards with cries of 
Go up, thou bald-head ! go up, thou bald-head 
Luke 9, 2,40 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, RUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY .. • • WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT.' 
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had a marked eflect on the future fortunes of 
the empire. He endeavored to reduce Egypt to 
his sway ; and to accomplish this the more ef-
fectually, and at the same time punish the diso-
bedience of Hezekiah, he determined first to 
possess himself of the territory of the king of 
Judah. Jehovah, however, heard the prayer of 
Hezekiah, and asserted his superiority to " the 
gods of the nations," by destroying at a blow 
the flower of the Assyrian army. 
From this blow the empire of Nineveh never 
entirely recovered. Taking advantage of it, 
probably, the Medes, who had been tributary, 
revolted. Before this, perhaps, Sennacherib had 
perished—murdered by his sons. Esarhaddon 
succeeded him at Nineveh, carried captive Ma-
nasseh to Babylon, afterwards allowed him 
to return, and maintained a war for several years 
with the king of Egypt. During his reign he 
would appear to have been engaged in strength-
ening his empire ; and 'this he did so effecually, 
that in the seventeenth year of Nebuchadonosor, 
his successor, the Assyrians engaged and over-
threw Arphaxad, or Phaortes, sixty years before. 
Having solicited the assistance of the former 
allies of his house, and having met with a re-
fusal, on his return from Ecbatana he prosecuted 
a series of successful wars against them. Ac-
cording to the author of the book of Judith, on 
invading Judea under Holofernes, his general, 
he sustained a defeat, which, encompassed with 
enemies as was the Assyrian empire, brought 
about its final overthrow. 
Cyaxares, the son of Arphaxad, having mas-
tered a horde of Scythians which had overspread 
the east for twenty-eight years, prepared to 
avenge his father's death, and to achieve again 
liberty for the Medes. Uniting with Nabopa-
lassar, who had assumed independent regal 
power in Babylon, he attacked and took Nine-
veh in or about the year B. C. 606. Nineveh 
was overthrown, and the Assyrian empire was 
finally destroyed. 
Nebuchadnezzar ascended the throne at Ba-
bylon shortly after the destruction of Nineveh. 
He made several successful incursions into Ju-
dea, and finally carried the king and people 
captive to Babylon. He afterwards destroyed 
Tyre, (Old Tyre,) and by war and intrigue de-
feated Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt. He 
spent the rest of his reign (with the exception 
recorded in Daniel) in enlarging and beautify-
ing his metropolis. The latter events of the 
Babylonian empire are better known. Belshaz-
zar succeeded him; Cyrus invested Babylon, 
drained the river, entered the town whilst the 
inhabitants were feasting in security, slew the 
king, and transferred to the Medes and Persians 
the ascendancy of the East. 
Such is a sketch of all that has been known 
of the Assyrian empire till within the last six 
or seven years. Tradition has to some extent 
kept up a confused remembrance of the site of 
Nineveh ; and the earliest historians allude, in 
passing, to vast masses forming the ruins of the 
ancient cities of the Assyrians. On the river 
Tigris there have frequently been noticed, ris-
ing up from the general level of the country, 
vast heaps covered in the spring with luxuriant 
vegetation, and several of them occupied by vil-
lages— vast heaps, which show only by the frag-
ments of pottery strewn about them, that they 
owe their origin to the hand of man. Lately, 
some of these mounds have been excavated by 
M. Botta, the French consul at Mosul, and by 
Mr. Layard, an enterprising countryman of our 
own. They are found to consist of the ruins 
of large edifices, temples, or palaces, or per-
haps more probably serving the two-fold pur- 
pose ; and to have concealed within them monu-
ments, which have lain for nearly three thou-
sand years buried in the ruins. 
The general absence of stone in the plains of 
the Euphrates and the Tigris, compelled the 
founders of these early cities to use, in build- 
ing, the clay of which the soil consists, and 
which, hardened by the great heat of the sum- 
mer's sun, afforded enduring materials for their 
structures. The bitumen which bubbles up in 
many parts serves as a cement; and the pres-
ent condition of those ruins supplies a faithful 
comment on the building of Babel : " they had the most superficial reader. " Whithersoever 
brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." the spirit was to go, they went, thither was 
It is obvious, however, that against the corn- their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted tip 
biped agency of fire and water, such materials over against them : for the spirit of the living 
could not long stand. From many of the re- creature was in the wheels. When those went, 
mains which have been disinterred, it is plain these went ; and when those stood, these stood ; 
that the tradition of Nineveh having been des- and when those were lifted up from the earth, 
troyed by fire was a true one ; and thebricks, the wheels were lifted up over against them." 
crumbled by the heat, would dissolve when ex- It would quite exceed our limits were we to en-
posed to the action of the ruins, long before the ter into the discussion of the real nature of these 
twenty-five hundred years that have elapsed representations ; nor perhaps can it be at all 
since Nineveh was overthrown. The sand satisfactorily determined till the inscriptions 
drifted by the wind of every successive century found on the sculptures are more thoroughly un-
would not fail to complete the work of destruc- derstood. 
tion ; and we have presented before us in these These inscriptions are in the cuneiform, or 
vast ruins a literal fulfilment of the prophecy, arrow-headed character. This character hay-
" the gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the ing no resemblance to any now existing, and 
palace shall be dissolved," for " Nineveh is laid the key to it having been lost, so far as we 
waste." 
know, for about two thousand years, was entire] 
From the centres of several of these heaps ly unknown till within the last five and twenty 
of ruin, several sculptures and other monuments years. Professor Grotefend, Major Rawlinson, 
have been dug out. They principally consist and others, have made wonderful progress in 
of has-reliefs on oblong slabs of alabaster, which deciphering and translating these inscriptions. 
is to be found in considerable abundance in the As in the case of the Rosetta stone, furnishing 
neighboring mountains. These mountains are a clue to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, there have 
evideptly the products of the earliest art, being been discovered a few inscriptions in two other 
deficient in perspective, and without any thing characters besides the cuneiform. Starting from 
resembling the graceful finish of Grecian re- these alone, an alphabet of forty letters has been 
mains. They, however, possess much boldness determined on,and a proximate translation given 
of outline and vigor of execution; and the sub- to many of the inscriptions. When the mean-
jects show that they were the work of a peo- ing has been assigned to those already found! 
pie who had carried to a considerable height the as well as to many more which the continued 
arts both of peace and war. The sculptures investigations will probably lay bare, much ad-
chiefly represent hunting or battle scenes. One ditional light will be shed on the Assyrian his-
now deposited in the British Museum, sent tory. 
home by Mr. Layard, containing a picture of In the meantime, very much has been done 
the siege of a fortified city, will serve as a sam- by way of illustrating many passages of the Old 
pie of the rest. The besieged are on the walls Testament. The chariots and horsemen, the 
of the city, discharging arrows against their as- bow and quiver, the "gorgeous attire," the pro-
sailants. The king is represented leading his fusion of ornament, the pride of the rulers, their 
army on foot, three warriors being probably to strongholds, the employments and dignity of 
be considered as personifying the whole of the their officers, the material of which the city was 
troops, and accompanied by an attendant, a composed, its vast extent, the lion as a symbol 
eunuch. There is drawn up against the wall of the empire ; these and many more are sub-
of the city a battering ram, on a stand con- jects which bring to light and invest with new 
strutted apparently of wicker work, resting on force the meaning of many of the prophecies.— 
wheels, and surmounted by a tower, from which It has been said, indeed, that if nothing more 
warriors are discharging arrows against those had been achieved by the investigations at Nim- 
on the walls. Stones are represented falling rou .1 than the illustration of two verses of Eze-
from the wall, in consequence of the blows of kiel (23:14-16,) the labors incurred had been 
the battering ram, and one of the besieged ap- amply repaid. For a most interesting elucida-
pears to he holding up his arms, as if suing for tion of these verses we must refer to the fifth 
peace. As an instance, too, of the way in which of Mr. Blackburne s lectures. 
Scripture is corroborated by these sculptures, It is not, however, merely as illustrating the 
it is worthy of notice, that while the battering Old Testament that these discoveries are im 
ram is not mentioned in classidal history till a portant ; they are quite as valuable as witness-
much later period, in the prophecies of Ezekiel es of its truth. Striking coincidences are seen 
repeated reference is made to it. 
to exist between these books and sculptures 
Besides the historicatpictures which adorned which have been buried for twenty-five hundred 
the walls, there have also been discovered sev- years. Such coincidence must be perfectly un- 
eral large bas-reliefs, and some statues, con- designed ; the facts now discovered have not 
sisting of monstrous or mystical representations. been known to classical authors during the 
There is frequently found the hawk-headed, whole period of literature; resemblances are 
winged figure of a man, having a basket in one traceable even in minute particulars, and all evi- 
hand, and a fire-canoe in the other. Much dis- dently possessing, in the sacred narrative, the air 
cussion has arisen as to what these figures were of reality. Were there to be discovered after the 
intended to represent; some holding it to be the saine lapse of time a narrative by some unin- 
god Nisroch, others a statue of Nimrod, the spired penman corroborating the sacred story by 
founder of the empire; while others regard it as name, even this would be more open to sus- 
either a religious or political allegorical figure. picion, and less entirely satisfactory, than the 
A beautiful specimen of this figure is in the vast monuments now after so many centuries 
Museum, and along with the other remains will distentombed. Here, at least, there can be no 
amply repay the time bestowed in its examina- fraud, no collusion ; and they go far to prove 
tion. Two colossal images of the winged hu- that our sacred books were written at least in 
man-headed bull and lion, emblems respectively the countries and at the times which they pro-
of royalty and power, have also somewhat re- fess. They present us with a fresh assurance 
cently arrived in England. 
that increased light will only render more con- 
One of the most interesting features of the spicuous the truth of the word of God. 
regarded as a symbol of the Deity, and appears 
London Baptist Magazine. 
sculptures is a figure representing what has been 
as the only object of worship on the earliest 
Assyrian monuments. It consists of the bust 
of a man enclosed in a circle, and having on 
each side and beneath the wings of a bird.—
This figure is frequently seen accompanying the 
monarch, being raised a little above his head, 
and seemingly engaged in watching over him, 
and directing his actions. The resemblance 
which these figures bear to those spoken of in 
the first chapter of Ezekiel, both in their shape 
and in the office assigned to them, must strike 
Fate of the Mocking Children. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
night that week, to show his pastor that the "Heaven!" cries the dying saint ; " 0, how 
young people were not to be influenced by his shall I describe its glories ? I am hastening to 
 
officious meddling with their concerns. in ac- —" a land of pure delight, 
 
cordance with this resolution, he gat his young 
Where saints immortal reign; 
 
associates together, and after kneeling down and Infinite day excludes the night, 
 
offering a mock prayer, to ridicule his minister, 
And pleasures banish pain.' 
 
he induced them to make arrangements to spend I am going to the eternal city, whose builder 
every night of that week in the hall-room. On and maker is God. To hunger no more, neither 
Monday evening, the young people assembled thirst any more ; for the Lamb in the midst of 
to commence the week's dissipation, in accord- the throne shall feed them, and God shall wipe 
ante with the arrangements which had been away all tears from their eyes ! What think I 
made. Some time in the evening the doctor of heaven ? Oh, ask me not ! Never can mor-
was sent for to visit a sick man who lived a few tal do justice to the theme. 
miles out of the village. Though the night was 
 
extremely cold, he started on horseback, with "But shortly ye also shall know, 
 
 
his silk stockings and his dancing-slippers on, And feel what it is to be there.' 
 
 
to go and see his patient. Though he had no "Is this imagination ? Is this self-deception ? 
appearance of being intoxicated, and was per- Alt, no. How glorious to look through the val-
fectly acquainted with the road, yet he missed ley of the shadow of death, and catch, as it 
his way, and after wandering round in an un- were, a glimpse of the shining ones who shall 
travelled path, where the snow was deep, for lead to the celestial city ! Should we not, then, 
some time, he was thrown from his horse, and be ready to exclaim, with St. John, Come, 
the next morning was found near the road which Lord Jesus? ' " 
 
he had left, crawling upon his hands and knees Reader, what think you of heaven ? What 
in the snow. He was taken home, and medical think you of Christ ? if well of Him, then 
assistance immediately called in ; but his lower well of heaven ; if hopelessly of Him, then 
limbs were so badly frozen, that, after great hopelessly of heaven ; if lightly of Him, then 
suffering, he was obliged to have them ampu- lightly of heaven ! Oh, reject not this offered 
tated just below the knee-joints. He ultimately salvation. Come, and through faith in Him who 
recovered his general health, but was obliged to died that you might live, receive freedom from • 
walk on his knees the rest of his life. When sin and hope of heaven. " The Spirit and the 
he saw that he must be reduced to this necessity, Bride say, Come ; and let him that heareth say 
he remarked to some friends, that he had never Come ; and let him that is athirst come ; and 
bowed the knee to God or man, but he should whosoever will, let him take of the water of life 
now have to humble himself in the sight of both. freely." " In my Father's house are many limn-
ing about the village in this painful posture, and I go to prepare a place for you ; 1 will come 
I have seen him often since his recovery, go- sions ; if it were not so, I would have told you. 
could not avoid feeling that he had been left to again and receive you unto myself; thatApp where
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The Venal Sanctuary. eat of the fruit of his own doings, and was a I am, there ye may be also," 
iheea 
sad monument of the impotency of man, when 
BY THE REV. JAMES GILBORNE LYONS, L.L. D. 
he sets himself against the Almighty. From 
 
the day he resolved to dance six nights in sue- The Useful and the Beautiful. 
cession, to grieve his pious minister, for kindly 
warning the youth of his charge of the dissi- 
We have ofttimes met with a good thing in. 
pacing tendencies of that amusement, he was the Edinburgh Review, and among many of its 
forever unable to step to the sound of the viol; high literary articles are to be found valuable 
 
and from the day he had impiously knelt to ridi- suggestions to the mind of the contemplative 
cule the prayer of his godly pastor, he had been Christian. The following remarks are valuable, 
doomed to go upon his bended knees to the close not only on account of their literary and histori- 
of his life. 
cal excellence, but on account of the grave moral 
I would never rashly interpret the providences they convey. The writer in the Review 'says : 
I trod the hallowed ground that bore of God, but I love to study them ; and when " The tomb of Moses is unknown, but the 
A Christian temple tall and proud, they speak as plain a language as they did in traveller slakes his thirst at the well of Jacob. 
When at each wide and lofty door
this case, I feel that we should be belying the The gorgeous palace of the wisest and wealthi- 
Went streaming in a gorgeous crowd : Lord, to say, " That it was not He." his provi- est of monarchs, with the cedar, and gold, and 
A welcome day bid all rejoice— 
deuces, like his word, are designed for our in- ivory ; and even the great temple of Jerusalem, 
A fair and ancient festival, 
struction and admonition, and when we see him hallowed by the visible glory of the Deity him- 
And the glad organ's mighty voice rebuking presumptuous sins, by signally rebak- self, are gone ; but Solomon's reservoirs are as 
Shook the strong roof and Gothic wall. ing them in this world, others should take warn- perfect as ever. Of the ancient architecture of 
Full many a token marked the fold ing that they fall not under the same condem- the Holy City, not one stone is left upon another; 
Where rich and high believers meet, nation. It is a fearful thing to disregard the but the pool of Bethesda commands the pil- 
The sacred volume clasped in gold, monitions of those whom God has set to watch grim's reverence at the present clay. The col- 
The costly robe, and drowsy seat : for our souls, and give us warning from him ; umns of Persepolis are mouldering into dust ; 
Priest, people, altar, chancel, choir, but when, in addition to this sin, we maliciously but its cisterns and acqueducts remain to chal- 
Arch, column, window, porch, and gate— insult the Lord's messenger, and deride the very lenge our admiration. The golden house of 
That ample fane, from vault to spire, prayers which he is daily offering up for us, we Nero is a mass of ruins ; but the Aqua Claudia 
Looked solemn all arid calmly great. ought to expect a severer punishment than that still pours into Rome its limpid stream. The 
which falls upon ordinary transgressors. temple of the Sun at Tadmor, in the wilderness, 
But mark ! An old and weary man, 
has fallen ; but its fountain sparkles as freshly 
A stranger clad " in raiment vile," 
in his rays as when thousands of worshipers 
With failing steps and features wan, 
What Think You of Heaven? thronged its lofty colonnades. It may, be that 
Went tottering up the fair broad isle:— 
London will share the fate of Babylon, and 
They cast him out ; 0, faithless race ! "Heaven!" says the infidel, with a sneer, nothing be left to mark its site save mounds of 
On some rude bench—unseen—remote ; " there is no such place ! A set of hypocrites crumbling brickwork. The Thames will con. 
Convicted in that hour and place 
may pretend that they are going to some grand tinue to flow as it does now. And if any work 
Of a lean purse and threadbare coat ! place some day, to be a thousand times better of art should still rise over the, deep ocean of 
off than anybody else : but what wise man be- time, we may well believe that it will be neither 
Yes ! and if He, who saved the lost, 
Stood fainting on that haughty floor, lieves them ? To live for ever, indeed ! No, no ; a palace nor a temple, but some vast acquedi3ct 
Arrayed in weeds of little cost, 
when a man chances to die, he dies, and there's or reservoir ; and if any name should still flash 
an end of him. Why not ?" And why not, in- through the mist of antiquity, it will probably 
Meek as He sought our world before ; 
In spite of words which none might blame, deed ? Why not intellect, judgment, memory, be that of the man who in his day sought the 
 
imagination, conscience, as mortal as matter? happiness of his fellow men rather than their 
And works of goodness freely done, 
glory, and linked his memory to some great 
" Heaven ! I don't know, I am sure," ex- 
That sordid post of wrong and shame 
Would greet JEHOVAH'S ONLY SON. 
claims the worldly man, in answer to your query : work of national utility and benevolence. This 
 
is the true glory which outlives all. others, and 
" I can't tell what to think exactly ; 1 should like 
Oh for a prophet's tongue or pen 
 
 
shines with undying lustre from generation to 
to have a sure prospect of going there, if 1 could 
To warn the great in wealth and birth, 
manage it ; in tact, I have some thoughts of see- generation—imparting to works something of 
Who build their God a house, and then 
ing about it before very long ; but just now, you its own immortality, and in some degree rescu 
Plant there—the meanest pomps of earth : 
 
 
ing them from the ruin which overtakes the or- 
see, we are busy !" 
To brand that church which spurns the poor 
dinary monuments of historical tradition, of 
"Heaven 
 !" replies the self righteous one ; 
From every vain and venal pew. 
"yes, we shall meet there ! though I have not mere magnificence." 
Where, " clothed in purple," herd secure, 
To kneel or sleep—the !oddly few ! 
much time to talk to you, being very much en- 
gaged in works of charity—can't expect to go 
Rudeness. 
Give me the shed, low, bare, and plain, to heaven for nothing, you know." For noth- 
Where love and humble truth abide, ing! do you say, when Christ has died ? Is not some men are blunt in their feelings, and 
Rather than earth's most noble fane, this an all-sufficient sacrifice ? Believe me, rough in their manners ; and they apologize 
Defiled by selfish pomp and pride: nothing but His death can open the gate to for their coarseness by calling it honesty, down- 
Give me the damp and desert sod, heaven. Salvation is not by " works, lest any rightness, plainness of speech. They quote in 
Walled in by dark old forest-trees, man should boast." 
self-defence the sharp words and shaggy mien 
Roofed over by the skies of God— 
" Heaven!" exclaims the awakened sinner ; " 0, of Elijah and John the Baptist, and, as affec- 
But perish temples such as ti,hie.eur 
I am far from thence ; such happiness was never tation, they sneer at the soft address and mild 
!eal Transcript. 
meant for me ; my sins prevent even hope ; 0, manners of gentler men. Now, it is very true 
that I knew the way !" " I, even 1," said the that there is a certain strength of character, and 
 
Ridiculing Prayer. Saviour, " I am the way, the truth, and the life ; an impetuousness of feeling, and a sturdy vehe- 
In a congregation with which the writer no man cometh unto the Father but by me !" mence of principle, to which it is more difficult 
was intimately acquainted, the pastor, at the and " whosoever will, let him come !" to prescribe the rules of Christian courtesy, than 
commencement of the winter's amusements, " Heaven !" repeats the young believer, at to more meek and pliant natures. It is very 
 
preached a sermon against dancing. Though he the outset of a life of faith—" Heaven, I dare pessible that Latimer, in his bluntness, and 
was a man of much prudence, an treated the but just think of it as mine ; scarcely yet can I Knox, in his erect and iron severity, and Lu-
subject with great kindness and delicacy, yet a look forward, with assurance of hope, to the ther, in the magnificent explosions of his far-re. 
young physician, who was a prominent leader eternal life Jesus has bought for me. But what sounding indignation, may have been nobler va-
in the dissipations of the place, was greatly of- happiness is it to know that our names are writ- tures, and fuller of the grace of God than the 
fended, and swore that he would dance every ten in heaven !" 
supple courtiers whose sensibilities they so 
 
And how did the prophet meet this rude assault, heard levelled at the name and acts of Elijah• 
from what the reader takes from the narrative Him, surrounded as he was with terrors, they 
to have been a gang of unmannerly boys ? He would not have dared thus to insult and abuse ; 
turned and cursed them—nothing less—cursed but from his comparatively meek and gentle 
them in the name of the Lord ; and forthwith successor, whom they had never hitherto seen 
came two she bears---perhaps robbed of their in any position of authority, they thought there 
whelps—and tore forty-and-two of them. We was nothing to apprehend, and that they could 
dare say there are few young readers, or indeed with impunity pour out the blackness of their 
old ones, of' this passage in the Bible, who do hearts upon him. They had heard that Elijah 
not think the prophet was terribly severe ; and had been taken up to heaven, and they believed 
that, although the children ' deserved a good it ; but instead of being suitably impressed by 
whipping or something of that sort for their im- it, they regarded it as a fine new subject of 
d
de- 
pu-ence, it was going rather too far to punish rision—telling the disciple to go up ' after his 
them with death. But, in the first place, he did master, and then they should be well rid of 
not do so. He cursed them '—and that not both. To this they added the ignominious term 
from personal resentment, but under a divine of baldhead,' which was one of great indignity 
impulse, without which, we will venture to say, with the Israelites—baldness being usually seen 
no prophet ever dared to pronounce a curse.— among them as the effect of the loathsome dis-
He cursed, and that was all. He did not punish. ease of leprosy. It was a term of contempt, 
He left it to the Lord to determine and inflict equivalent to calling him a mean and unworthy 
the measure of punishment ; and that the Lord fellow—a social outcast. In this sense it is 
judged the crime worthy of death, requires us still used as a term of abuse in the further East 
to look more closely into its nature. 
(India, etc.), and is often applied as such to men 
" In the first place, we are to take the chil- who have ample heads of hair. In western 
dren not as mere thoughtless boys, scarcely Asia, where men shave their heads, the term is 
knowing what. they were about, but as young not now known as one of reproach. 
men acting from a strong animus against the " The offence, involving as it did a blasphe- 
prophet for his works' sake, and with a full mous insult upon one of the Lord's most signal 
meaning to insult and discourage him at the acts, made a near approach to what in the New 
commencement of his career. The Hebrew Testament is called the sin against the Holy 
word here employed to describe them (naarim, Ghost. It became the Lord to vindicate his 
singular naar ,) no doubt does denote even an own honor among a people governed by sensible 
infant, and a mere child; but also does as fre- dispensation of judgments and of mercy; and 
quently denote grown-up lads, youths, arid young it became him to vindicate the character and au-
men, and is often used, irrespective of age, in thority of his anointed prophet at the outset of 
application to servants and soldiers. In fact its his high career." Kitw's Daily Illustrations. 
use is more extensive than ours of the term' boy,' 
 
though that is very wide, and more nearly cor- 
respond to the Irish use of the same word boy,' 
or gorsoon,' or the French of garcon.' We 
need only to point out a few passages to show 
this. The term is applied to Ishmael when he " Where in our churches is the place for the 
was about fourteen years old ; to Isaac when he poor ? I ask this question with shame and sor-
was grown up to a young man ; Hamor of row : WHERE IS THE PLACE FOR THE POOR ? . . . 
Schechem, when of marriageable age, and proba- Admit that here and there a poor person has a 
bly not less than twenty years old ; to Joseph seat : WHERE IS er ? Is he invited to sit with 
when he was seventeen ; to Gideon's son Jether, us in a good place,' or do we say to him : 
when old enough to he ordered to slay two Stand thou then', or sit here under my foot- 
kings ; to Solomon after he had become king ; stool ? ' " 
Right Rev. Bishop Ives. 
to the four hundred Ainalekites who escaped "I will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation."—LEv. 26:31 
on camels; to Elisha's servant, Gehazi ; to the 
son of the prophets who anointed Jehu ; to the 
two hundred and thirty-two attendants of the 
princes of the provinces who went out against 
Benhadad ; to the soldiers of the Assyrian king ; 
and in other places too numerous to cite. In 
all these cases, though differently translated, ac-
cording to the apparent meaning of the sacred 
writer—by child, lad, young man, servant—the 
word is but one in the original, and is the same 
which is here employed to express children.' 
" But it will be said those designated here are 
not only children, but little children.' Even 
so ; but-in one of the instances just cited, Solo-
mon calls himself a little child,' when certainly 
a young man ; and we wish to point attention 
to the fact, which we have never seen noticed, 
that although those who came out against 'the 
prophet are little children,' the little' 
is dropped where the forty-two who are slain are 
mentioned. Even the word for children ' is then 
changed to another, ieladim ; singular jelad ; and 
although that word is of nearly sinonymous use 
and application with the other, the change with 
the dropping of the word little,' is probably in-
tended to mark the distinction. Wherever there is 
a rnob of idle young men, there is sure to be a 
. number of mischievous urchins, who shout and 
bawl, as they do, without knowing much of the 
matter. Although, therefore, there were no 
doubt little children among this rabble of young 
Bethelites, there is every reason to suppose that 
the forty-two of them who were destroyed were 
the oldest ones, the ringleaders of the set, and 
who very well knew what they were about.. It 
is worthy of note here, that the Jews have long 
considered a father responsible for the sins of 
his sans while they are under thirteen years of 
age, after which they become accountable for 
themselves. There is a ceremony, wherein the 
father publicly, in the congregation, transfers to 
his son, when he attains that age, the responsi-
bility he has hitherto borne for him. This no-
tion is old, We trace it in John 9:28, where 
the parents decline to answer for their son, on 
the ground that he has reached the age of per-
sonal responsibility, and can answer for himself.. 
If this idea was as old as the time of Elisha— 
and it probably was, though the age may then, 
have been later—it supplies a fresh argument 
to show that the youngest of those destroyed was 
not under the age to which personal responsi--
bility was fixed by the Jews themselves—the 
Bethelites among the rest. 
" Observe further, that these youths were not 
accidentally erizountered ;• they did not happen 
to be at their sports outside the town when the 
prophet passed ;. but they came out ' of malice 
prepense to meet' and insult him. Such a 
purpos3 against the prophet must have been the 
result of their ungodly training in that evil 
place, and must have had its root in the sneers 
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rudely shattered. But it does not follow that 
men who have not got their warfare to wage, are 
entitled to use their weapons. Nor does it even 
follow that their warfare would have been less 
successful had they wielded no such weapons. 
The question, however, is not between two ri-
val graces-between integrity on the one side 
and affability on the other ; but the question is, 
Are these two graces compatible :? Can they 
co-exist ? It is possible for a man to be explicit 
and open, and honest, and, withal, courteous 
and considerate of the feelings of others? Is 
it possible to add to fervor and fidelity, suavity, 
and urbanity, and brotherly kindness ? The 
question has already been answered, for the 
actual union of these things has already been 
exhibited. Without referring to Nathan's in-
terview with David, where truth and tenderness 
triumph together, or Paul's remonstrances to his 
brethren, in which a melting heart is the vehi-
cle of each needful reproof, we need only revert 
to the great example itself. In the epistles to the 
Asiatic Churches, each begins with commen-
dation, wherever there was anything that could 
be commended. With the magnanimity which 
remembers past services in the midst of present 
injury, and which would rather notice good than 
complain of evil, each message, so far as there 
was material for it, is ushered in by a word of 
eulogy, and weight is added to the subsequent 
admonition by this preface of kindness. And 
it was the same while the Lord Jesus was on 
earth. His tender tone was the keen edge of 
his reproofs, and his unquestionable love in-
fused solemnity into every warning. There 
never was ot.e more faithful than the Son of 
God, but there never was one more considerate. 
And just as rudeness is not essential to honesty, 
so neither is roughness essential to strength of 
character. The Christian should have a strong 
character ; he should be a man of remarkable 
decision ; he should start back from temption as 
from a bursting bomb. And he should be a man 
of inflexible purpose. When once he knows 
his Lord's will, he should go through with in 
aye, through fire and water with it. But this 
he may do without renouncing the meekness and 
gentleness which were in Christ. He may have 
zeal without pugnacity, determination without 
obstinacy. He should distinguish between the 
ferocity of the animal and the courage of the 
Christian. And whether he makes the distinc-
tion or not, the world will make it The world 
looks for the serene benevolence of conscious 
strength in a follower of the Lamb of God ; and 
however rude its own conduct, it expects that 
the Christian himself will he courteous. 
Hamilton's Royal Preacher. 
Pearls for Stringing. 
Live to God.-Those whom God renews by 
his grace, are bound by the most solemn ties to 
live to his glory.. Go then to the sacred volume, 
visit with a penitent and believing heart the 
sanctuary, and thus use every divine ordinance, 
and there it shall be told thee what thou must do. 
Repent of Sin.-This doctrine was proclaimed 
by the prophets, taught by Christ an-I his apos-
tles, and now published by the ambassadors 
of truth. The tears of repentance for sin must 
precede the emotions of joy on account of pardon. 
Love.-Love is the diamond among the jewels 
of the believer's breastplate. The other graces 
shine like the precious stones of nature, with 
their own peculiar lustre and various hues, but 
the diamond is white, uniting all the colors. 
The Sun yet Remaineth.-All day the storm 
rages ; the air is dark with driving snow, and 
nature looks dreary and desolate. Courage, 
my soul ! there is still a sun behind the clouds, 
and he is moving northward. The earth will 
yet blossom and bring forth fruit. 
Four useful Maxims.-1. Never regret what 
is irretrievably lost. 
Never expose your disappointments to the 
world. 
Never complain of being ill used. 
Always speak well of your friends, but of 
your enemies speak neither good nor evil. 
Pray for Mercy.-prayer is one of the best 
evidences of a changed heart. It was said of 
Saul, " Behold he prayeth." A single sentence, 
a groan that cannot be uttered, proceeding from 
a contrite heart, shall never be despised. 
The growth of grace is like the polishing of 
metals. There is first an opaque surface, by 
and by you see a spark darting out ; then a 
strong light ; till at length it sends back a per-
fect image of the sun that shines upon it. 
Edward Payson. 
A Christian without trials would be like a mill 
without wind or water; the contrivance and 
design of the wheel-work withinside would be 
unnoticed and unknown without something to 
put it in motion without. Nor would our graces 
grow unless they were called into exercise ; the 
trials and difficulties we meet with not only 
prove, but also strengthen the -graces of the 
Spirit. 
Newton. 
A Precious Truth.-Christ did not count his 
converts by thousands, nor yet by hundreds, nor 
yet tens ; but he counted them .by units, saying, 
" there is joy in the presence of the angels of 
God over one sinner that repenteth." He 
valued individuals ! and yet at last shall he wel-
come his redeemed as an innumerable multitude 
whom no man can number. 
Believe in Christ.-This was the direction of 
Paul and Silas to the Philippian jailor. Stay 
not questioning his willingness, for every one 
that asketh receiveth-doubt not his power, for 
he is able to save to the uttermost-plead not 
your unfitness, for though you are not worthy, 
you are welcome. 
The Pet Fawn. 
A pretty little pet fawn had been brought in 
very young from the woods, and nursed and pet-
ted by a lady until it had become very tame. 
It was so graceful, gentle, and playful, that it 
became a universal favourite. One morning, 
after its usual gambols, it threw itself down in 
the sunshine at the feet of one of its friends, 
upon the steps of a store. There came along a 
countryman who had been a hunter, with one 
of his hounds. The dog suddenly stopped near 
the young deer; the little animal saw him and 
started to its teet, instinctively taught that an 
enemy was at hand. Its whole character and 
appearance were changed ; all its past habits 
were forgotten ; every wild impulse was awake; 
its head erect ; its eye flashing. In another in-
stant the faWn was leaping wildly through the 
street, and the hound in full pursuit. The iriends 
who had long fed and fondled it called its name 
in vain. The hunter endeavored to whistle back 
his dog, but with no better success. The fawn 
clashed onward to the lake, the hound and the 
village dogs at his heels. Men, women, and 
children, anxious for the fate of the pet fawn. 
crowded the shore, or threw themselves into 
boats to intercept the hound before he reached 
his prey. The little animal directed its course 
across a bay towards the border of a forest, and 
the owner of the hound crossed a bridge, running 
at full speed, hoping to seize his dog as he 
landed. The fawn touched the land, and in 
another instant it would reach the cover of the 
woods. The hound followed, arriving at the 
same spot. His master was now coming up at 
the most critical moment. Would the dog 
hearken to his voice, or could the hunter seize 
and control him in time ? 
A shout from the village bank proclaimed that 
the fawn had passed out of sight into the forest ; 
at the same 4instant the hound, as he touched 
the land, felt the hunter's arm clutching his 
neck. 
The woods were searched in vain for the lost 
fawn. Some thought it would return, after its 
fright was over, of its own accord. It wore a 
collar with its owner's name upon it. Before 
many hours a hunter came to the lady whose 
pet the little creature had been, and showing a 
collar with her name upon it, said that he had 
been out in the woods and saw a fawn in the 
distance; the little animal instead of bounding 
away as he expected, moved towards him ; he 
took aim, fired, and shot it to the heart. When 
he found the collar about its neck, he was very 
sorry that he had killed it. And so the poor 
little thing died. One would have thought that 
terrible chase would have made him afraid of 
man ; but no, it forgot the evil, and remembered 
the kindness only, and came to meet as a friend 
the hunter who shot it. 
This beautiful story, condensed from " Rural 
Hours," conveys more than one moral lesson. 
Like the pet fawn, the " wild impulses " and 
passions of our nature may be tamed or restrained 
by grace ; but they still exist, and, when least 
expected, they may gain the mastery. 
Had the fawn trusted its friends instead of its 
feet, it would have been safe, Self-dependence 
is too apt to take the place of simple faith in 
times of trouble and temptation. We may then 
learn from the fawn, to cling the closer to our 
best Friend when the " roaring lion "crosses our 
pathway, or when fright or passion would drive 
us to the mountains of sin. 
Just as the hound was seized at the critical 
moment, and the panting fawn was rescued, so 
is many a child of God snatched from danger 
when most in peril. "Man's extremity is God's 
opportunity." 
Unlike the fate of the fawn, if at last we will 
return, we shall meet no cruel, fatal wound. 
Christ was wounded for our transgressions, and 
bruised for our iniquities. His arms are open 
to receive us. Come, then, from your wanderings 
and from your enemies, to the only place of 
saftey and of peace, the cross of Christ. 
American Messenger. 
" Time Enough Yet." 
How many are on their road, to eternal ruin 
with the above words in their hearts, if not in 
their mouths-! My mind was lately called to 
this subject by an accident which happened not 
far distant. 
A man who had always appeared to be care- 
less about his soul's eternal welfare, was ap-
proached by one who had loved his soul, and 
was asked if he did not feel it his duty to give 
his heart to God, arid try to secure his soul's 
salvation. His answer was, " There is time 
enough yet." This was on Tuesday: arid on 
Saturday following, as he was on his way to 
the mill, his horse ran away, and threw him so 
violently from his wagon, that he never was 
able to speak afterwards, but in a few hours was 
ushered into the presence of his Judge. 
How many are in the world who, like him, 
are promising themselves time enough yet; and, 
notwithstanding they are entreated to come to 
Christ, they are saying, in the language of Fe-
lix, " Go thy way for this time : when I have 
a convenient season, I will call for thee ! 
"Time enough yet," says the giddy youth, 
" for me to think of death, and make prepara-
tion for eternity : when I have partaken awhile 
of the pleasures of youth, and have reached man-
hood, then I will give myself up to God and 
serve him with my whole heart."' 
" Time enough yet," says the man in the 
prime of life : " when I havereached the noon-
tide of life, then 1 will give diligent heed to 
those things which pertain to my present and 
eternal happiness." 
" And yet thereis time sufficient," says the 
man who is now passing the meridian of life ; 
" 
 
when am clear of the cares of this world, and 
have reached old age, then 1 will repent, and 
give God my heart." 
" Time enough when I am prostrate with old 
age," says the man whose head is beginning to 
blossom for the tomb; " when all my physical 
powers are exhausted, and death appears in 
view, then I will take God for my portion." 
" Time enough once, but now for ever past," 
says the hoary-headed sinner, as he is about to 
be launched into eternity, while Despair, with 
her raven wings, hovers over him. 
And how many, in the dark regions of eter-
nal night, have paved their way thither with 
such sentiments as these ! Could we uncover 
the doleful regions of despair, how many should 
we see who had promised themselves that there 
was " time enough yet !" Bible Class Magazine. 
Progress of the Anglo-Saxon Race. 
By a fortunate coincidence, the general total 
of the American census, taken last year, has 
just been received ; and we are enabled, in con-
junction with the returns made on the 31st of 
March for this country, to measure the absolute 
progress of the Anglo-Saxon race in its two 
grand divisions, and to compare the laws of 
their respective growths in relation to each other 
and the rest of the world. It is estimated, in-
cluding Ireland and the colonies, that there is a 
grand total of men speaking the same language, 
and manifesting the same general tendencies of 
civilization, of 56,000,000, from which are to 
be deducted the three millions of negro slaves 
in the United States, leaving a remainder of 
fifty-three millions, chiefly of Anglo-Saxon de-
scent, and deeply impregnated with its sturdy 
qualities of heart and brain, as the representa-
tive of this advancing stock. 
Two centuries ago there were not quite three 
millions of this race on the face of the earth. 
There are a million more persons of Magyar 
language, at the present moment in Europe, 
than there were in Europe and America of this 
conquering and colonizing people in the time of 
Cromwell. How vain, then, for men to talk of 
the political necessity for absorbing small races ! 
Sixty years ago the Anglo-Saxon race did not 
exceed 17,000,000 in Europe and America. At 
that time it was not numerically stronger than 
the Poles. Thirty years ago it counted only 
thirty-four millions ; being altogether only three 
millions and a fraction more than the popula-
tion of Fiance at that time, and considerably 
less than the Teutonic population of Central 
Europe. 
In 1851 it is ahead of every civilized race in 
the world. Of races lying within the zones of 
civilization, the Sclaves alone are more numer-
ous, counted by heads; but comparatively few 
of this plastic and submissive stock have yet es-
caped from the barbarism of the dark ages. In 
wealth, energy, and cultivation, they are not to 
be compared with the Frank, the Teutonic, and 
the Anglo-Saxon. Number is almost their only 
element of strength. Of all the races which 
are now striving for the mastery of the world, 
to impress on the future of society and civiliza-
tion the stamp of its own character and genius, 
to make its law, idiom, religion, manner, gov-
ernment, and opinion prevail, the Anglo Saxon 
is now unquestionably the most numerous, pow-
erful, and active. The day when it might pos-
sibly have been crushed, absorbed, or trampled 
out, like Hungary arid Poland, by stronger 
hordes, is gone byforever. That it was possi-
ble at one time for this people to be subdued by 
violence, or to fall a prey to the slower agonies 
of decline, there can be little doubt. 
In 1650, the United Provinces seemed more 
likely to make a grand figure in the world's fu-
ture history than England. Their wealth, ac- 
tivity, and maratime power, were the most im-
posing in Europe. They had all the carrying 
trade of the West in their hands. Their lan-
guage was spoken in every port. In the great 
Orient their empire was fixed, and their influ-
ence paramount. England was then hardly 
known abroad. Her difficult idioms grated on 
foreign ears, and her stormy coasts repelled the 
curiosity of more cultivated travellers. Had the 
thought of a day arriving when any single 
European language would be spoken by mil-
lions of persons scattered over the great contiy 
nents of the earth, from New-Zealand to He-
brides, and from the Cape of Storms to the Arc-
tic Ocean, occurred to any speculative mind, 
Dutch, not English, would probably have been 
the tongue to which he would have assigned the 
marvellous mission. Yet Holland has risen in 
the scale of nations. Her idiom is now acquired 
by few. Her merchants conduct their corres-
pondence and transact their business in French 
or in English. Even her writers have many of 
them clothed their genius in a foreign garb. 
On the other hand, our literature and lan-
guage have passed entirely out of this phase of 
danger. Dutch, like Welsh, Flemish, Erse, 
Basque; arid other idioms, is doomed to perish 
as an intellectual medium ; but whatever may 
be the future change of the world, the tongue 
of Shakspeare and of Bacon is now too firmly 
rooted ever to be torn away. No longer con-
tent with mere preservation, it aims at universal 
mastery. Gradually it is taking possession of 
all the ports and coasts of the world : isolating 
all rival idioms, shutting them up from inter-
course with each other, making itself the chan-
nel of every communication. At a hundred 
points at once it plays the aggressor. It con-
tends with Spanish on the frontiers of Mexico ; 
drives French and Russian before it in Canada 
and in the Northern Archipelago ; supersedes 
Dutch at the Cape and Natal ; elbows Greek 
and Italian at Malta and in the Ionian Islands ; 
usurps the right of Arabic and Suez at Alexan-
dria ; maintains itself supreme at Liberia, Hong-
kong, Jamaica, and St. Helena ; fights its way 
against multitudinous and various dialects in 
the Rocky Mountains, in Central America, on 
the Gold Coast, in the interior of Austria, and 
among the countless islands in the Eastern Seas. 
No other language is spreading in this way.-
French and German find students among culti-
vated men ; but English permanently destroys 
and supersedes the idioms with which it comes 
in contact. 
The relative growth of the two great Anglo-
Saxon States is note-worthy. In 1801 the popu-
lation of Great Britain was 10,942,647 ; in 
1801 that of the United States was 5,319,762, 
or not quite half. In 1850, the population of 
the United States was two millions and a third 
more than that of Great Britain in 1851; at 
this moment it probably exceeds it by three mil-
lions. The rate of decennial increase in this 
country is less than 15 per cent., while in 
America it is about 35 per cent. In the great 
continental states the rate is considerably lower 
than in England. 
Christian Man-Christian Woman, 
Young or old, rich or poor, will you read, pray 
over, and practise the following ? The items 
were collected by Samuel Gunn : 
Be thankful for what God has done for 
you.-Isa. 12:1. 
Be as earnest now as you were in seeking 
pardon.-Heb. 6:11. 
Live every moment by faith in Christ.-
Gal. 2:20. 
Do not make the piety of others your 
standard.-Matt. 15:24. 
Do not expect to be very happy, unless 
you are eminently holy.-Isa. 48:18. 
Diligently and by faith seek entire sancti-
fication.-Heb. 6:1. 
Punctually and devotionally attend the 
ministry of the Word.-1 Pet. 2:2. 
Value the weekly prayer-meeting.--Matt, 
18:20. 
Neglect not the communion of saints. 
Mal. 3:16. 
Make family worship interesting and 
profitable.-Psa. 118:15. 
Have stated times for closet prayer.-
Matt. 6:6. 
Daily and prayerfully read the Scriptures. 
-Psa. 12:7. 
Never neglect a duty because you do 
not feel much.-1 Sam. 2:30. 
Maintain great tenderness of conscience. 
1 Tim. 1:5. 
Guard against pride in your dress.-1 
Tim. 2:9. 
Avoid all lightness in your conversation. 
-Eph. 5:4. 
Be very careful in your choice of compan-
ions.-Prov. 13:20. 
Never parley with the great adversary. 
-Jas. 4:7. 
Be zealous for the salvation of souls.-
Jas. 5:20. 
Joyfully wait for the coming of the 
Saviour.-Phil. 3:20. 
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tation being used synecdochially for all their cities The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the ad-
and habitations) were before then to be made deso- versaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall 
late ; so that where the busy hum of life then showed not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philis, 
 
a thickly crowded population, the time would come tines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the 
when weeds and vegetation would overspread, and east together : they shall lay their hand upon Edoin 
the young of animals should find pasture. The and Moab ; arid the children of Ammon shall obey 
prophet continues, ir, v. 11, to describe the desola- them. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue 
of the Egyptian sea ; and with his mighty wind shall 
tion of those Countries, and which is partially to be he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in, 
caused by the acts and improvidence of those who the haven streams, and make men go over dry-shod. 
dwell therein : As if, where fuel is proverbially And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his 
pe, which all be , from Assia li as it 
scarce, the women should set on fire and needlessly Wed 
waAlto Israel in
sh 
 the day
hell 
that lie came
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; 
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of the 
burn the remnants of their withered and broken land of Egypt."--Isa. 11: 10-16. 
branches; so will those inhabitants show that they The epoch of the fulfilment of this scripture is 
are a people of no understanding, and because they shown by its own reading, as well as by the context, 
utterly fail to perceive the hand of Gon in his deal- to be that of the first resurrection. The context 
ings with them, and persevere in their stupid wilful brings to view a period when " they shall not hurt 
blindness, he that made them will have no mercy on nor destroy in all my holy mountain," saith the 
them, and show them no favor. 
LORD; for the reason, that " the earth shall be full of 
These predictions have been strikingly fulfilled, the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the 
not only in Syria, but throughout that whole country, sea."—v. 9. It is in " that day" that there shall be 
so that the infidel VOLN EY, in his " Ruins" when he a ROOT of JEssE, which shall stand for an ensign of 
utters the following, pays a merited tribute to the the people. The phrase " root of JESSE," is a meta- 
truthfulness of inspiration. He says : 
phorical title of CHRIST—he being " the root and 
" Where are the ramparts of Nineveh, the walls the offspring of DAVID," JEsso's son.—Rev. 22:16. 
of Babylon, the palaces of Persopolis, the temples At that clay CHRIST, then, is to stand as an ensign of 
of Balbec and Jerusalem? Where are the fleets of the people. The position of CHRIST to his church 
Tyre, the docks of Arad, the looms of Sidon, and 
the multitudes of sailors, pilots, merchants, and sol- is here, by a comparison, illustrated to be like that 
diets? Where are those laborers, those harvests, of a standard. An ensign is a conspicuous visible 
those flocks, and that crowd of living beings which standard around which thepeople assemble •; a
n
d the 
then covered the face of the earth ? Alas ! I have 
surveyed this ravaged land •, hut I have seen only a use of this figure in this connection demonstrates the 
trace, like that which the foot of the passenger leaves visibility and personality of his presence during the 
on the dust. The temples are crumbled down ; the period specified. As the people assembled around 
palaces are overthrown ; the ports are filled up ; the their chosen banner, so will the Gentiles, or the 
cities are destroyed ; and the earth, stripped o its 
inhabitants, is only a desolate place of tombs." elect from among them, look to CHRIST as their great 
When the land should have been thus desolated, it centre. The act ascribed is not the process of dis- 
should come to pass in that day (v. 12)—recurrence covering CHRIST, but of looking to him when found 
being had to the coming epoch before referred to— —it being the period of his promised rest, so glori-
that " the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the ously depicted in the previous texts, when the earth 
river into the stream of Egypt" and gather one by is filled with the knowledge of the LORD. 
one, the children of Israel. The country embraced It is in " that day " (v. 11) when the earth is 
within these boundaries extends from the Nile to the about to be thus filled, that the LORD will set his 
Euphrates, arid comprises all the countries wherein hand to gather the remnant of his people. As the 
the children of Israel dwelt, prior to their dispersion time is when the LORD stands for an ensign of the 
by the Romans when they had ceased to be GOD'S cho- People, it follows that the act of gathering is when 
sen generation. Consequently within that territory he shall appear in person, and is therefore at his per- 
sonal advent. For the Loa') to "set his hand ''to 
cousin Israel—the dead men of Zion, referred to in the 
nowrepose the dead bodies of those who were right- 
gather his people, is a metaphorical allusion to the 
previous chapter (26:19), who were to live, when corresponding means by which he has elsewhere 
 
Predicted 
those who dwell in the dust shall arise and sing, andredicted that they shall at this period be gathered. 
 
the earth shall cast out her dead. The phrase—" the Thus we read in Matt. 24:31, that when he shall 
 
Lord shall beat off," is a metaphor, taken from the come in his glory, " he shall send his angels with a 
great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather 
beating off with a flail, or the threshing of grain. It 
g 
to-
illustrates, by the separating of the pure grain from gether his elect from the four winds, from one end of 
 
the chaff, how Goo will sever the righteous from the heaven to the other." The LORD'S doing this "the 
 
second time," is in reference to the restoration of the 
wicked, when he shall come to fill the face of the 
world with the fruit of the buds and blossoms of people among whom he had placed his name from 
Israel.—(v. 6.) The same idea is brought to view in all of their previous dispersions. He now makes 
 
Matt. 13:40-43, when the end of the world is corn-a thorough and final work in restoring the entire 
the woman, are also presented in the same connection 
in the seventh of DANIEL where they are likewise 
explained to be seven kings or kingdoms, it follows 
that they must be the agents referred to in Morin, 
who are to perform the same acts. The obscurity of 
DANIEL is owing to the reference to the judgment, 
immediately preceding the reference to the desola-
tion of the little horn. The connection, at first view, 
would seem to imply that the desolation of that horn 
was a consegeunce of the sitting of the judgment, 
and that those who sit in judgment were to be its 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" desolators. Parallel scriptures, however, show that 
 
 
 those who desolate the little horn, are not those who 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, OCT. 4, 1 8 5 1. occupy the seats of judgment; arid that this desola- 
 
 
 tion, instead of being consequent on the judgment, is 
All readers of the 1-113R.A.I,D are most earnestly besought to give is immediately to precede, and to pave the way for its 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and sitting ; so that the two are appropriately presented 
his truth advanced ; also, that it limy he conducted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgmeitt and discernment of the truth, in nothing in connection. While the hot n is to be desolated and 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dit- 
putation. 
made naked before the end, it is also to have power 
 
 to make war with the saints and prevail, till the 
THE ADVENT HERALD. Ancient of days shall sit, to give the kingdom to the 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his- saints. 
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 2. The burden of the exhortation in the text, we 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
understand, is to put Christianson their guard against 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the the deceptions whieh would previously be practiced, 
age in which we live-The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall he and the various efforts which would be put forth to 
given to the saints of the Most high, for an everlasting possession. prove that CHRIST had come, as at the destruction of 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time „ , em, in OWEDENBORG, in ANN LEE, &C., &C., 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate warning to Jerusalem, 
 
flee from the wrath to come. 
after which we are not to go, or follow. 
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- 3. Your first reference to ISAIAH, reads as fol- 
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections lows : " He shall cause them that come of JACOB to 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, take root : Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar face of the world with fruit. Hath he smitten him, 
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. as he smote those that smote him ! or is he slain ac- 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously Cording to the slaughter of them that are slain by him ? 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief- In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to with it : he stayedh his rough wind in the day of the 
Its Eden beauty. 
 
east wind. By this therefore shall the iniquity of 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
JACOB be purged ; and this is all the fruit to take 
Ht. His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, the 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change groves and images shall not stand up. Yet the de-
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that fenced city shall he desolate, and the habitation for-
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec- sakes, and left like a wilderness : there shall the calf 
and Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen. feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the 
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
branches thereof."-27:6-10. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection The day which is brought to view in the context, 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
(26:190 is " that day " when the dead men of Zion 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" "The sec. shall live, arising with the dead body of the prophet, 
and woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"-Rev who addresses them.-26:19. It is also in " that 
11:14-the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma- 
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
day " when thedragon, understood by the Jews to 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of he the devil, is to be destroyed, (27:1,) which events, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the fhture. We shall ea. synchronous passages teach us, arise at the epoch of 
deavor, by the Divine help, to present °valence, and answer objec- the first resurrection.—(See Rev. Q0:1-5.) It is " in 
lions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom- 
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to that day," that GOD "shall cause them that come of 
 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
JACOB 10 take root ;" and when Israel shall " fill 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
" 
GOD is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re- the face of the world with fruit. The budding and 
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the blossoming of Israel are metaphors, illustrating its 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures? future prosperity and fullness. Those who come to 
 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciations. JACOB, and who are to be the Israel that is thus pros- 
perous, filling the world with fruit when the dragon 
Tots. present being a short volume of twenty numbers, end- is destroyed and the dead men of Zion shall live 
ing with the year, 77 cents in advance will pay for it. On again, must include all who are embraced in that 
English subscribers, 4s. 8d, pays for the same, class by the inspired commentary of the New Testa- 
ment on these promises of the Old—by which we 
1NCtUIRIES ANSWERED. learn that they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 
but that ABRAHAM'S seed comprise all who are 
BRO. BLISS -As you are always willing, according to your ability, 
o give light 10 those who are in darkness, I would like to have you CHRIST'S. 
explain the fidlowing texts : 
Dan. 7:26—"But 
 
the judgment shall sit,"-(Is it " the judg- Ill " that day " we have been shown 
 (v. 2), that 
meat " of vs. 9 and 10 that in here referred to ?)-" and they shall 
take away his dominion," &c. To whom does the Pronoun " they,' the condition of Goo's people will be comparable to a 
refer Luke 17:30-34.-If the Son of man will he revealed as suddenly 1` vineyard of red wine,"—er to the best and most 
as the lightning that shineth " out of the one part under heaven unto 
the other part under heaven," (v. 24) ; and if the saints are changed valued kind of wine. Till then (v. 3) the LORD 
" in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," when the lord himself 
descends from heaven, as is intimated in vs. 34-36, and taught more will watch over those who are his, keeping them 
clearly elsewhere, what necessity is there for the exhortation Con- 
tained in the text ? 
day and night from all harm, And while fury is not 
Will you paraphrase Isa 27:6-10 ? 
When will Isa. 11: 10-14 be fulfilled ? Explain vs. 14 and 15 in the LORD (v. 4)—while He does not chastise his 
particularly. 
A good exposition of the above texts would be thankfully received children in anger, but correcteth as a father correcteth 
by 
A BEREM 
REMARKS. 
his children, yet when as briers and thorns, the 
1. To explain any text, we must compare scrip- wicked and incorrigible bid defiance to him, he will 
ture with scripture. The clear sense of a parallel consume them wit limit mercy. He would however 
passage will often make apparent the meaning of one rather (v. 5) that such should make their peace with 
smire obscure. The " judgment " spoken of in v. him, that they may repose in his strength. Thus 
16, being referred to as " the judgment " that " shall premising, the LORD then gives the assurance con-
sit," it can mean no judgment other than that, the sit- tained in v. 6, of the fullness of his purposes re-
ting of which had ,just been so graphically described specting those who love him,—and whom he had 
in the same chapter (vs. 9, 11). We understand compared to a vineyard of the choicest wine. 
that it synchronizes with the judgment of Rev, 20:4, Having thus shown the glorious result which 
and with the " end " spoken of in the same verse, to awaits his people, he begins (in v. 7) a new tiaras 
which " they " were to take away the dominion of graph, and calls attention to his past dealings with 
the " little horn "—to its ruin and destruction. The them. In smiting them he has not made an utter end 
agents referred to, who were to dispossess the " lit- of them as he had of others. But when (v. 8) they 
tle horn " of its dominion a short time previous to act perversely, in a measure, GOD condescends; to de-
the sitting of the judgment, are clearly seen by com- bate with them ;—and in his controversy with his 
paring this scripture with Rev. 17:16, " And the ten people, in the midst of judgments he remembers mer-
horns which tl ou sawest upon the beast, these shall cy. By thus dealing with them (v. 9) he purgeth 
hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and away the sins of JACOB, and eleanseth his people of 
naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire." all their defilements—turning the stones of the altars 
The harlot referred to in Rev. is evidently the same they have reared against him into dust, as if they 
power that is symbolized by this " little horn " of were nothing but chalk stones beaten in sunder, and 
DANIEL : so that whatever powers make her desolate demolishing all their false gods, and the groves 
and naked, must be those which take away the domin- where they have worshipped. But while promising 
ion of the little horn to produce the same result. And them mercies, the judgments which are to come on 
as the " ten horns " of the Apocalyptic beast, which them are not forgotten.—(v. 10.) Their fenced 
are expressly declared to be those which shall desolate cities and inhabited places (the words city and habi- 
" remnant." 
The " remnant of his people " who are then to 
be restored, are" the elect " of GOD who are promised 
a dwelling there (Isa. 65:9),—the " few men " who 
are " left " when " the inhabitants of the earth are 
burned " (24:6), and " the nation anti kingdom " 
that will not worship GOD having been " utterly 
wasted " (59:12)—the righteous persons who survive 
the melting of the elements (2 Pet. 3:13)—the blessed 
and holy who have part in the first resurrection (Rev. 
20:6)—the chosen ones gathered by the angels from 
the four winds (Mark 13:27) to the presence of the 
LORD, who stands as an ensign of these gathered ones. 
The places named from which they are gathered, 
are, by a hypocatastasis, used for all the places from 
whence those who shall have washed their robes and 
made them white in the blood of the LAMB, shall be 
gathered out of every nation and kindred and tongue 
and people under the whole heaven. Pathros is a coun-
try in Upper Egypt. (See Jer. 44:1 and Ezek. 29:14). 
Cush is the same as Ethiopia, located either in the 
south of Arabia, or in Abyssinia, or perhaps com-
prising both ; Elam is the western part of Persia ; 
Shinar is the plain in which Babylon was built (Gen. 
11:2), on the Euphrates ; Hamath was a city of Sy-
pia on the borders of Judea, situated on the river 
Orontes ; and " the islands of the sea " was a term 
used by the Jews to denote all places bordering on 
the Mediterranean—the word island then denoting 
any land bordering on the sea, instead of as now, a 
land surrounded by the sea. A reference to these 
countries,—they being those places with which the 
Jew's were then the more familiar, although they are 
now some of them depopulated,—would convey the 
idea to them of a universal gathering. 
The same idea is repeated in v. 12 : An ensign is set 
up for the nations, which expression is a hypocatasta-
sis, denoting that a corresponding act will gather the 
nations. Thus we read of the same epoch, in Matt. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord 
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the 24:31, 32, that "when the Son of man shall come in 
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from As- his glory, and all the holy angels with him . . . . be-
syria, and from Egypt, and from Patbros, and from fore him shall he gathered all nations." As in 
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from 
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he Matt. "ate shall separate them one from another," 
shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall as- put the good on his right, and say to them, " Come 
semble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the ye blessed of my Fattier, inherit the kingdom pre-
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth, pared for you from the foundation of the world, (vs. 
pared to a harvest, and while all things that offend 
are gathered out, the righteous shall shine forth as 
the sun in the kingdom of their Father. When all 
the country where the dead of Israel were buried, is 
beaten or threshed out, the inference is that they will 
then again live, —each individual of them being 
gathered. 
The last verse of the chapter shows that this will 
transpire at the epoch of the sounding of the great 
or last trumpet—when " in a moment, in the twink-
ling of an eye, . . . . the dead shall be raised in-
corruptible, and we shall be changed " (1 Cur. 15: 
52)—when " the LORD himself shall descend from 
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel 
and the trump of GOD, . . . the dead in CHRIST shall 
rise first," and " we which are alive and remain, 
shall he caught up together with them in the clouds" 
—1 Thess. 4:16,17,—when " the kingdoms of this 
world are become those of our LORD and his CHRIST ; " 
when is come the time of the dead that they should 
be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto 
thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and 
them that fear thy name, small and great" (Rev. 11: 
15-18,)—and when CHRIST " shall send his angels 
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall 
gather together his elect from the four winds, from 
one end of heaven to the other."—Matt. 24:31.—
Thus will all the outcasts of Zion be gathered—As-
syria and Egypt the scene of two of Israel's cap-
tivities, being representatives of all the places where 
GoD's people dwell, who shall come up to worship 
the Loa') in the holy*mouut at Jerusalem. 
" A Berean " will see that we have exceeded his 
request, and given an exposition of the entire chapter. 
4. The last Scripture to which you make reference 
reads as follows : 
" And in that day there shall he a root of Jesse, 
which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it 
shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
269 \.1 
"The Sower Soweth the Word."--Marl; 4 :14. 
Arid then there is no more than he can do. The 
seed is not his, the ground that it falls on is not his, 
and if it grow to perfection the honor is not his. He 
cannot make it grow, he cannot make it bear, he lets 
it fall as he is bidden, and that is all he can do.—
We all too much forget this—both they who teach 
and they who learn ; we all too much forget that the 
effectual teaching of the Word of GoD is not the 
word of man. We think we can do a great deal, and 
with zealous earnestness we set about it. We seek 
access to the thoughtless sinner, provoke occasions 
to enter into talk with him, and pour the words of 
truth on his unwilling ear. We do well, for this is 
the sower's task ; but then we are surprised that it 
succeeds not. The seed grows not up—the fowls 
have picked it up—the thorns have choked it—the 
sun has scorched it : we are surprised, discomposed, 
impatient ; the minister of the Gospel complains that 
he hath preached in vain ; the teacher of the Gospel 
complains that he hath taught in vain, and so we fret 
ourselves, and say that we have lost our work. But 
we err, in that we mistake what was our work.—
We drop the seed, and there our task is ended ; if 
it grows up, it is the work of another. The owner 
of the seed may complain that it makes no returns—
the owner of the ground may complain that it bears 
him nothing—but the sower has no complaint to 
make. If the seed dies, it is -not he that is wronged 
—if it grows up, it is not he that makes it grow.--
And in like manner we forget this truth, when we 
are to be the receivers of' the word. We look to 
this one and to that one for assistance—we think if 
THE SHORTNESS OF TIME. 
Thus from these seemingly opposite directions, 
there is coming in a dark arid powerful current of 
hostility to the principles on which society rests, the 
plenary inspiration and sufficient authority of the 
word of God. And it is with a feeling of joy that 
we look to this society as a common spot where we 
can gather from every department of the church of 
Christ, to rally around the everlasting word. Many 
a storm has dashed in its fury against this rock, and 
rolled away, leaving it unmoved and unharmed, on 
its deep and unshaken base ; and wild and fearful 
though this tempest may be, yet when it has spent 
its most terrible might, the rock shall again he seen 
resting calmy on its enduring foundation, the beacon 
and the land-mark of the world. Rev. T. V. Moore. 
If time he so short—if the space allotted to each one 
of us be so narrow—if already but a small remnant 
of our lives be left to us—and if much evil and suffer-
ing be apportioned to us all, surely we may with 
truth observe, THAT TIME IS NOT WORTH LIVING FOR. 
What can there be in this perishing world that is 
worthy the pursuit of the soul ? True, there are 
many things very attractive to the sense, very fascinat- 
ing to the imagination. Many delightful objects 
around us solicit our attention ; many that are fitted 
to charm every faculty of our mind, and gratify 
every passion of our nature—riches, and gaiety, and 
dissipation, and honor ; all the innocent and all the 
guilty gratification of life : and these things have a 
natural and almost irresistible hold on our affections. 
But look at them through the medium of eternity, 
and what are they ? Day-dreams—short, uncertain, 
fleeting vanities, fashions of this world that are pass-
ing away. They will not bear minute investigation; 
they have in them all the seeds of corruption and de-
cay ; they elude the eager grasp, and disappoint the 
most anxious devotee to their charms ; they are like 
those fog-banks which often deceive the oldest and 
most experienced mariners, and delude them with 
the hope of land—but when their imagination is 
wrought up to the highest pitch of expectation, and 
they already fancy that they discover the well-known 
headlands and the desired haven, the sun breaks 
through, the wind arises, and the deceitful phantom 
vanishes in air ! So are all those things of time and 
sense which men idolize and adore in the place of 
GOD and eternity. The Scripture reveals their na-
ture and their doom ; they are transitory ; they 
" perish with the using." And can they, then, satis- 
fy! The soul of man is formed to embrace the no- 
blest ideas of the highest enjoyments, even those of 
infinite duration ; it is formed for GOD and heaven, 
and with these alone can it be fully satisfied. There-
fore it is that men devoted to this world and to the 
things of time are never contented ; they discover, 
after all their eager pursuit of business and pleasure, 
that, as the Scripture expresses it, they are but 
" feeding on ashes !" They hunger and thirst, but 
their hunger is never abated nor their thirst quenched. 
How strikingly are such persons addressed by the 
prophet HAGGAI : NOW, thus saith the Lord of 
hosts, consider your ways ; ye have sown much and 
bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye 
drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe 
you, but there is none warm, and he that earneth 
wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes !" 
Such is an inspired description of the utter folly and 
vanity of living for time ; and were these words writ-
ten on our hearts, we should need no further instruc- 
tion in this respect. 
Rev. Francis Close 
32-34) ; so here the dispersed of Judah and the out-
casts of Isarel, the epoch of whose gathering is the 
same, must either represent, or be included among 
those to whom the Saviour gives the kingdom—gath-
ered from all parts of the earth. 
Verse 13, repeats the idea, of peace and quietness 
filling the whole earth, brought to view in v. 9. The 
envy of EPHRAIM, a representative of the ten tribes 
who for a long time were so envious of JUDAH, will 
then depart—a metaphor denoting its cessation. The 
literal ten tribes long since ceased to envy JUDAH, or 
to be known by them, so that a mere cessation of the 
existence of their envy cannot be the import of the 
text. We mnst not forget that at the time of the 
giving of this prophecy all the people of GoD were 
comprised in EPHRAIM and JUDAH. Their reconcilia-
tion would therefore be a fit figure to express the fu 
titre harmony of GOD'S people. The several denomi-
nations in Christendom have not envied and vexed 
each other with any less determination than EPHRAIM 
and JUDAH did each other; and their harmony and 
reconciliation we consider to be as much taught by 
the text, as that of the tribes mentioned. We do 
not however understand of this as Mr. Loafs does, 
that Israel and Judah are then to occupy a position in 
s,vhich they might, if disposed, vex and harass each 
other. Their perfect reconciliation is here simply 
affirmed, and that peace and harmony may be more 
owing to the difference in their new position, com-
pared with their former,—in the entire absence of all 
causes of envy and oppression,—than to any other 
reason. When Goy shall beat off, or thresh, those 
countries, where now repose the righteous of Israel 
and Judah according to the flesh, the dead men of 
Zion live again (Isa. 26:19), and the righteous sleep-
ers in the dust of the earth of those countries shall 
awake to everlasting life (Dan. 12:2), then will the 
restored of literal Israel and literal Judah, come up 
out of their graves, be re-united in their own land 
(Ezk. 37:13,14), and evermore dwell in love and 
harmony. 
The cutting off of the adversaries of Judah, is 
a metaphorical act, denoting their excision, or de-
struction — corresponding to the utter destruction 
elsewhere threatened on the nation or kingdom that 
refuses to worship GOD (Isa. 60:12)—so that every 
one that is left of all the nations which came against 
Jerusalem, will willingly go up to worship the King 
(Zech. 14:16). Thus we read that " the Lord JESUS 
CHRIST shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 
angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that 
know not GOD, and that obey riot the gospel of our 
Lord JESUS CHRIST."-2 Thess. 1:7, 8. Thus " iu 
the end of this world, the Son of man shall send 
forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his king-
dom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, 
and shall cast them into a furnace of fire."—Matt. 
13:41. This corresponds with Rev. 19, where the 
same epoch is brought to view, where the restored 
outcasts of Israel and dispersed of Judah unite their 
voices in " the voice of the great multitude," which, 
as a voice of many waters, shout, " Alleluia : for 
the Lon GOD omnipotent reigneth," and tne mar-
riage of the Lamb is come. The remnant of the in-
habitants of earth, who belong not to the bride clothed 
in white linen, are at this epoch slain with the sword, 
which proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD. 
This destruction of the wicked nations is brought 
to view in v. 14,—a corresponding scripture. Their 
flying.* upon the shoulders of the Philistines in the 
west, and their spoiling them of the east together, 
must be analogous acts, alike denoting the destruc-
tion of their enemies. The Philistines, Edomites, 
Moabites, and Ammonites were the ancient enemies 
of Israel ; and although those nations are now ex-
tinct, by a beautiful figure they are expressive of all 
the enemies of the people of GoD, who are to be de-
stroyed at iris coming. 
To " fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines," is 
a metaphorical allusion to the pouncing of a bird upon 
its prey. The eagle flies upon the shoulders of the 
lamb and bears it to destruction; anti as the bird thus 
pounces on its prey, so will the agents sent to gather 
out of the kingdom all things that offend, fly upon 
the shoulders of GOD'S enemies in the west, and spoil 
those of the east together,—the names of those an-
cient enemies of GOD'S people being substituted as 
expressive of all his enemies. To lay the hand on 
Edom and Moab, is to lay the hand on them to spoil 
them. The phrase—" the children of Ammon shall 
obey them," is at first obscure. The marginal read-
ing is, " their obedience." Dr. CLARK renders this 
text : "Edom and Moab shall be the laying on of 
their hand ; and the children of Ammon shall be their 
obedience." Ammon being one of the ancient ene-
mies of Israel, its mention with other enemies, shows 
that its fate is to be like theirs. Its obedience can-
not therefore be a willing obedience, but must be 
such as is proper to ascribe to the vanquished. Am-
mon is no longer the haughty oppressor commanding 
obedience, but the vanquished and spoiled enemy that 
obeys the will of its victor, and submits to its fate. 
The tongue of the Egyptian sea, is that branch of 
the sea which is now called the Gulf of Suez. It is 
that part of the Red sea, which was passed by the 
children of Israel on dry ground, when they went 
out of Egypt. As GOD then, for their deliverance, 
made a passage of dry land across the tongue of the 
Egyptian sea, and they went safely over; so is it 
said, that He will utterly destroy it, when He sets his 
hand " the second time " to gather his people, i. e. 
lie will remove every obstruction in the way ,of 
their deliverance. The LORD'S shaking his hand 
over the river is a hypocatastasis, illustrative of the 
same idea. Egypt and Babylon were two great 
oppressors of Israel. As the sea of the former is to 
be utterly destroyed, so is the Euphrates, the river 
of Babylon to be utterly dried. It will be smitten in 
all its streams, and no longer present an obstruction 
to their restoration, but men shall walk over it with 
dry feet. Those former restorations are used as fig-
ures to illustrate the future restoration of all the re-
deemed from all lands. 
The " highway " of v. 16, is a continuation of 
the same idea—a removal of all obstructions. As 
Israel was led out of Egypt, being guided by pillars 
of cloud and of fire in a way that they knew not, so 
will GOD remove all obstructions from the way of his 
people, when he shall miraculously lead them from 
the Babylon, the Assyria of the gospel dispensation. 
The 12th chapter follows as an expression of joy—
the song of praise which will be sung by the re-
stored of Zion, and corresponds to the alleluias of 
Rev. 19, and is an additional evidence of the correct-
ness of this application. 
Taking the New Testament as an inspired com-
mentary on the Old, the unequivocal and literal dec-
larations respecting the events and epoch which are 
illustrated by the several figures used in the foregoing 
scriptures, make their meaning clear and intelligible ; 
and we cannot avoid explaining the predictions of 
the Old Testament in the light in which they are un-
folded by the harmony of the New, unless we en-
tirely ignore those subsequent revelations, which were 
made tor the better understanding of the former. 
MODERN INFIDELITY AND 341 EBIBLE. 
we could listen to such a minister, we should be be-
nefitted. If we had such advantages of religious 
intercourse as some others have, we should advance 
more rapidly. If we could bring the friends on 
whose account we are anxious to hear a particular 
preacher, or to discourse with a certain individual, it 
would surely be effectual. Nay, but he is no other 
than the sower, and the sower soweth the seed, and 
what becomes of it? He cannot make soft the heart 
it falls upon—he cannot fence it round that Satan 
shall not enter there—he cannot displace the engross-
ing, captivating world that is already in possession 
of it. The seed must be received indeed ere ever it 
can grow, and it is well for us to he wherever the 
messenger scattereth the sacred words of truth ; hut 
we have need to beware lest we look more to him 
that sowed' than to Him that giveth the increase, and 
whether the benefit derived be for ourselves or others, 
in our eager pursuing of the means, forget the prayer 
that should bring down the blessing on it. Fry. 
We Love God Because he First Loved us. 
The essential element of religion is love. But how 
could I love the being who was a tyrant ; the stern 
interrupter of my lawful enjoyment ; and who, re-
versing the statement of Scripture, desired that his 
creatures should perish ? The discovery of God as 
a Father, is constantly the turning point in religion. 
Suppose that we should discover some individual, 
whom we had conceived to be a mere stranger, to be 
a long lost parent, how would this indifference be 
melted into love ! And when the soul makes a simi-
lar discovery, with regard to God, the frost of indif-
ference dissolves, and the heart surrenders itself at 
once and altogether to his service. " One is your 
Father which is in heaven." believe this truth, 
as explained and illustrated by the Gospel.; to value 
it, and act upon it, is genuine religion. God is my 
reconciled Father in Christ ; then I must love, and 
trust, and cheerfully and unequivocally serve him. 
Is the Father in heaven ? then I must mingle rever-
ence with affection, and tremble at his displeasure, 
even when I repose upon -his love. Is one only my 
Father? then I must oppose no authority to his; 1 
must admit none to wield his sceptre, or to occupy 
his throne in my soul ; I must obey God rather than 
man. Lord, we have too long halted_ between two 
opinions. Come, thou that .art the Father of our 
spirits, come and dwell in us and rule in us. Wash 
us with the blood of atonement, sanctify us by the 
Spirit of truth, clothe us with the white robe of the 
Redeemer's righteousness, and give us at once the 
adoption and the dispositions of eons,—the delightful 
portion of those who are admitted to be -heirs of God, 
and joint heirs with Christ. Res. J. W. Cunningham 
American Board of Missions. 
The Forty-second Annual Meeting of the Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 
was held at Portland, Me., commencing on Tuesday 
the 9th ultimo. The attendance was unusually large. 
Hon. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, President, occu-
pied the chair. An abstract of the annual Report 
was read, from which it appears that the receipts of 
the Board during the year have been $274;902 21, 
hich is an advance on the year previous, of $23,-
376 59. B.ut as the legacies have been less by 
$3000 than those of the previous year, the actual 
advance in donations alone, has been $26,682 17. 
The expenditures for the year have been $284,830-
56 ; that -is 9,928 25 more than the receipts. This 
excess, with the debt of last year, makes the present 
debt of the Board $43,999 40. The amount of print-
ing has been greater than in any previous year. 
The number of missions is 25—last year, 24 ; 
number of stations, .110—last year, 106 ; number 
of out stations, 33—last year, 28 ; number of or-
dained missionaries, 151—last year 157. 
These, together with assistants, make the whole 
number of laborers sent from this country, 386.—
Last year the number was 395. Add -to these 142 
native helpers, and it -makes the whole number of 
laborers connected with the Board in foreign lands, 
528. Last year it was 517. 
The number of printing offices is 124 number of 
churches, 92 ; church members, 24,763 ; added during 
the year, 1,204. Pledges were made on Thursday 
to the amount of $20,000.; of which Judge WIL-
LIAMS, Of this city, gave .$1000, SETH TERRY, Esq., 
$250, ANSON. G. PHELPS, of New York, $2000, and 
Mr. DURFEE, of Fall River, $1000. It was esti-
mated that not less than .1300 ministers •were present 
on that day. 
Christian Secretary. 
RUSSIAN " PEACE, LAW, AND ORDER." In the be-
ginning of -July, several prisoners, detained in the citadel at 
Warsaw, were condemned by court-martial, and had their 
-sentences communicated to them. The families of these un-
fortunates expected to obtain their pardon from the Emperor 
during his stay in Warsaw, or at all events, during the cele-
bration at Moscow, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of -his 
coronation, but they -had hoped in vain. On the 20th of July 
four of the convicted were publicly flogged. One received 
' 
2,000 lashes, two 1,500 each, and the fourth 2,000. This 
last fell dead after having received 1,000 lashes, and they 
placed the-body of the dying man on a stretcher, where they 
administered the remaining thousand to-his corpse. Thirty 
others, of whom the greater ,part were entitled to the am-
nesty granted to refugees, were -sent to the mines of Siberia. 
The council of war is inexorable in respect to any one en-
gaged in the Hungarian struggle. 
The infidelity of the present day is not the in-
fidelity of the past. It is not that mouthing, vulgar, 
and loathsome thing that it once was—a thing to dis-
gust and alarm, rather than to seduce and persuade, 
It has laid aside much of its repulsive vulgarity, has 
put on a new costume, and comes forth in the garb 
of learning, and sometimes even in the sacred habili-
ments of religion. It no longer appears as the ene-
my of religion in its highest type of development ; 
no longer as the antagonist of Christianity, but as 
the reformation and perfection of Christianity itself. 
It comes to us in the courtly greeting of JOAB, but 
also-with JOAB'S concealed and bloody hand. It ap-
proaches with the smile and kiss of an apostle, but 
only that, with Iscariot perfidy, it may more effectual-
ly betray arid destroy. And this subtle mode of attack 
is made in every conceivable form. It meets us in the 
form of science and philosophy, falsely so called. 
The authority of the Bible is coolly and sneeringly 
set aside for the crudest speculations and the boldest 
generalizations of a conceited sciolism, and its tes-
timony ruled out of court, as inadmissible and incon-
clusive on points where its most solemn utterances 
have been distinctly made. If we assert that in the 
beginning GoD created the heavens and the earth, we 
are told that this is a question of science, and that 
theologians must not meddle with what lies beyond 
their department. If we assert that GoD has made 
of one blood all nations of men, we are told that 
this is a question of science, and we must abandon it 
to the philosopher. If we assent that GOD swept 
away the wickedness of the world by a universal 
flood, we are told that this is a question of science to 
be abandoned to the schools. Arid thus, step by step, 
the authority of the Bible is undermined by the 
teachings of a pretended philosophy, whose tendency, 
if nut its design, is to diminish and finally to destroy 
the claims of that Bible as a final and sufficient rule 
of faith and practice. 
Systems of social reform are eagerly and busily 
pushed forward, whose principles are wholly and 
radically unchristian, if not anti-christian in their na-
ture. Men are getting more merciful than GOD him-
self, and affecting a philanthropy more pure and, all 
embracing than that of JESUS CHRIST. And these 
views are promulgated in every conceivable form, 
from the ponderous metaphysics, of philosophy, of 
religion, to the frothy fiction of the fugitive Maga-
zine. Lectures, reviews and newspapers are carrying 
them in popularized form to every class of minds, 
and slowly but surely poisoning the principles of the 
young and unsuspecting. But more than this, the 
influence is secretly reaching the church herself.—
There is a tendency in many parts to recede from the 
old, high, and true views on the subject of inspira-
tion. Theories are gaining ground, modes of rea-
soning and interpretation are coming in vogue, that 
practically nullify the authority of the Bible as an 
infallible arbiter, at least in all questions of doctrine. 
270 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
" when he had by himself made an atonement for 
Orrington Camp-meeting: 
our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Ma- DEAR BRO. H1MES :—Having had the privilege of 
jesty on high." " Blessed be the Lord God of 1s- attending an Advent Camp-meeting at Orrington last 
rael, who hath visited and redeemed his people, and
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. 
week, I wish to say, that it vat a season of interest, 
bath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house and I trust it will prove profitable to the cause of our 
of his servant David, as lie spake by the mouth of his coming Lord. Many of the saints were refreshed Travellers who wander in the footsteps of the chil- 
gan."—Luke 1:67-70. 
holy prophets, which have been since the world be- and strengthened in the faith of soon seeing Jesus, dren of Israel, among the rocks of Sinai in the 
by the able and timely discourses preached by the " howling wilderness," find the rocks covered with 
" Behold, I come quickly," is the startling an- watchmen who attended. The meeting was well at- thousands of inscriptions, and rude drawn figures of 
nunciation of the Holy One. " Him that overcometh tended, and many listened with profound attention to camels, goats, lizards, serpents, horses, mules, clogs, 
will 1 make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he the evidence of our hope, and the reasons for look- ostriches, tortoises ; men standing, in motion, lifting 
shall go no more out; and I will write upon him the ing for its speedy realization. The social meetings the hands to heaven, looking down, sitting on camels, 
name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, were free, and many of the brethren and sisters were horses, and mules — armed with spears, swords, 
new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven full of faith and hope. I was blessed and strength- shields—fighting, hunting, &c. These inscriptions 
from my God, and my new name." " That same ened by the gospel truth preached, and can hut think were first noticed by a traveller thirteen hundred 
Jesus " that brought us, will soon " come again," that Good in his providence kept the hearts of his years ago : and more recently copies of some of them 
for He shall " rend the heavens and come down," servants from extrareous subjects, and filled them have reached Europe, but have till now defied all el-
and " as a vesture shall he fold them up," and they with the all-important message of the kingdom at forts for their deciphering. The discoverer of the 
shall be changed, and the earth renewed shall be il- hand. Good order was preserved throughout, only key to this language is the Rev. Mr. Forster, of 
luminated by the brightness of his coming.—" The as it was occasionally interrupted by a class of Canterbury, Eng., who has recently issued a work 
Bright and Morning Star " shall never set, or be desperadoes from other towns, who, although well entitled " The Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Si-
eclipsed by the day, but shall itself be the light of dressed, acted like enraged devils from the burning nai." He proves that the writing is old Egyptian, 
that " perfect day," that never shall be followed by pit ; but they were not suffered to do much harm. from which the Arabic language is principally de- 
night. 
H. L. SMITH. 
rived ; and that the inscribers were the children of 
Auburn (N. Y.), Sept. 2d, 
1851. 
Richmond Tent-meeting again. Israel, during the forty years they sojourned in the 
I trust it will cause no little surprise to the multi- wilderness. They knew the Egyptian language, as 
Letter from Wm. II. Moll. tulle who attended this heavenly and free meeting, they had been for a long period, before their exodus, 
to learn, that any brother could be so bound in his in the land of bondage. We give below a few trans-
DEAR BRO. Hines :—While I am home, and have own views or feelings as to go into other parts, and lotions of some of these inscriptions, without any 
leisure, I feel that I must write a few lines, as it was report that it was not a free meeting,—that rules were punctuation, as that was then unknown. The words 
my father's request. He had been afflicted with laid down to keep all within a certain limit, and there- enclosed in brackets are not in the original. 
[Concerning the Murmuring of the Israelites at the 
for about ten years, and at certain times was seized principal conductors. I notice this for the benefit of 
lameness for twenty years, and had root walked a step by keep out all who differed in any degree from the 
Behold, the believer 
with severe pains. Four or five weeks before his those who were not at that meeting, and who may Well of Marah, and Moses Curing its Bitterness.] 
In God's holy word, 
death he suffered much from cramping pains. He hear such a report. I am sorry to say, that. I have The people with prone mouth drinketh [at] the water 
Is made the receiver 
died on the 13th of August, without a murmur or met with it' many times the past week, on the Penob- 
springs 
Of peace from the Lord. 
word of complaint. He (often spoke of your kind- scott, and have as often pronounced it a misstatement. The people [at] the two water springs 
In any condition 
ness in sending- him the " Herald," and the many I _ was at first at a loss to know what it could grow kicketh [like] an Ass 
His peace will not fail ; 
feasts he had received from it, which he said were out of, but at length, found that it was from a remark smiting with the branch of a tree 
In a lofty position, 
meat and drink to his soul. He had been a strong made by Bro. Burnham in a discourse, while show- the well of bitterness he heals [Here follows the 
Or poverty's vale, 
believer in the speedy coming of Christ since 1843. ing the contrast between the law and the gospel. In drawing of an ass.] 
In the midst of temptation,
A few days before his death he said that he never speaking of the liberty of the gospel, he noticed [The Passage of the Red Seal 
In sickness, or pain, 
believed that the coffin and earth would ever inclose what it gave men liberty to do, and what it did not ; The people journeyeth through the passage terror 
His hope of salvation, 
him ; but he was willing to submit to the will of the —that it did riot allow us to introduce ourselves and stricken 
And peace will remain. 
Lord, as he believed that he would soon be raised, our strange messages and extraneous matters into Urges onward with slackened rein benignantly Jeho- 
He goes to the kingdom of Jesus, the giver, and be permitted, with the glorified saints, to sing others' meetings, or to deprive others of their rights, V 
And finds on the way, he has" peace like a river." the praises of God in the new earth. I do not be- &c. This he spoke as a general principle, and re- 
the 
 People 
) p
IlheeespseaiyTelteh the waters 
J. M. 0. lieve that a person ever went from his house, after marked, " We do not believe in such liberty, and will Pharaoh retrograding 
he became a believer in the Advent doctrine, without not have it." I must think every gospel free man Reins back his war horse 
"THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR." receiving a short sermon from him on that subject. can say Amen, and no one need apply it to himself Fleeth the swift long horse raising both fore feet 
He often said that he was the only person in the place unless he rejects the principle laid down. 
together going at full speed his rider dashed to the 
" I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you that took the " Herald," and he was afraid that when 
I. C. WELLCOME, ground 
these things in the churches. I am the root and the he stopped it, the interest would die away there. A Brewer (Me.), Sept. 20th, 1851. 
Pharaoh running with long strides [like] a fleet 
offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." short time before his death, he called one of the Ad 
horse takes startled flight casting off violently 
—Rev. 22:16. 
vent brethren to him, and told him, if any one asked 
[with] both hands to quicken [his] pace [his] helmet 
how his faith was concerning the coming of Christ, 
Take Heed. 
[Miraculous Supply of Quails, or, as it should be, 
to say that he was as strong as ever. 
The apostle Paul writes that " we ought to give 
Geese.] 
There are but. 
 
 
The 
 
a few Adventists in this place—per- the more earnest heed to the things which we have 
haps not more than three or four who are strong in heard," (pertaining to the " great salvation,") " lest 
 red geese ascend from the sea 
Lusting the people feed on them 
the faith. I have been afflicted, so that I have been at any time we let them run out, as leaking vessels." 
unable 'to do anything for nearly four months. I (Heb. 2:1, margin.) A leaking vessel is a very fit si- [Here follows on the rock forty lines more, but no 
very nearly lost my eyesight, but the Lord blessed militude of the minds of some persons, who hear the copy of them has yet reached Europe.] 
me again with health, so that 1 am able to go at my truth as it is in Jesus. They go to meeting on Sun- [The Murmuring and Miracle at Meribah.] 
business again. 1 want to be a genuine Adventist, day, and when they return, they declare they had a The People the hard stone satiates with water thirsting 
continually looking for the coming of Christ, for I " good meeting," " excellent preaching," &c., but The hard rock water a great miracle 
believe that he is at the door. We have a snug lit- before the next Sabbath arrives, the truth which 
tie meeting-house, bukat present are without a min- they heard on the previous day has nearly, if not [The Battle of Rephidim. O:: the top is a drawing 
of Moses with uplifted hands.] 
ister. I wish you could come here, or send some quite, leaked out. But in this church-going, hypo- Prayeth unto God the prophet [upon] a hard great 
one, to give us a few lectures. The house would be critical, pleasure-seeking age, the minds of some are 
opened for you, as the members are half-way Advent- scarcely fit to be compared to a leaking vessel, as it stone 
 
its. We talk to them as well as we can of the corn- requires some tine for all the water to run out of a [his] hands sustaining Aaron Hur 
ing of Christ, for that is the doctrine I believe we vessel, unless the leak is a large one ; and I have [The Miracle at the 1?ock of Meribah Kadesh. Three 
should preach, and which I wish to help along. I thoughtthat
separate inscriptions.] 
now 
Some people's minds are like a sieve; The eloquent speaker strikes the rock flows forth the 
love to read the " Herald," and I do not believe that 
I shall ever be the poorer for it, either in this world, 
or in the world to come. 
water falling down 
So little heed to truth they give, 
That if to church they sometimes go, The eloquent speaker bowing the head takes his rod 
The truth runs through them ere they know, in his hand resounds the struck rock 
Centreport, Sept. 22d, 1851. 
And while the truth they can't retain,. The People Mouses provolteth to anger kicking like 
EIk County, Pa., Camp-meeting. 
The motes, or errors, will remain. 
an Ass 
[At] the water springs wanton the people raileth 
against Jehovah 
crying out 
 
The People an ass replete with food biteth [at] the 
waters 
Moses averteth his face from him Jehovah 
[Plague of Fiery Serpents. On the top is the figure 
of a serpent.] 
Destroy springing on the people the fiery serpents 
Hissing injecting venom heralds of death they kill 
The People prostrating on their back curling in folds 
They wind round descending on bearing destruction 
The people sustain on a pole erecting a standard 
the male serpent fiery of molten brass 
The people look towards the fire 
bowing themselves down sought by an evil thing offer 
vows 
the tribes (the Hebrews) 
[Some other Inscriptions, viz. :] 
The people wandereth to and fro 
the people a wild ass [Here follows the outline of 
an ass] 
Bending, the neck he breaks the wild ass [Here fol- 
lows another.] 
The people at Marah drinketh like a wild ass [Out- 
line of an ass.] 
The people fight with each other in play [Two men 
fighting with sticks.] 
The people a great docile Camel cheers it with con., 
 
dector's voice Jehovah 
The people kicketh like an Ass, like a goat they stand 
erect 
The people mutters like a goat 
Reasons with them in the night Jehovah 
The people mutters like a goat 
Calls the tribes to him Jehovah 
The people of the tribes bridling restrains with the 
rein Jehovah 
Biting twists round his neck the wild ass 
The people kicketh like an ass the people drives to 
the water Jehovah 
The people the water spring seek greedily [at] Marah 
The people kicketh [like] a wild ass 
The people raileth reviling cursing a loud braying 
Ass vociferous 
002,MME)ONEANUM, 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
THE PEACE OF JESUS. 
" Peace I leave with von, my peace I give unto 
you : not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let 
not your heart be troubled, neither let it he afraid." 
John 14:27. 
See that gentle river. 
 
Flowing through the vale, 
Its water rurmeth ever, 
Though other streamlets fail. 
It passes by the mountains, 
Through the forest flows, 
Receiving from the fountains 
Their water, as it goes. 
To flow o'er rocks and quicksands 
It does not refuse; 
Thro' poor and thro' rich lands 
Its course it pursues. 
Through calm, pleasant seasons, or storm and com- 
motion, 
Its course is the same as it flows to the ocean. 
Israel rejected the Lord and desired a king : God 
gave them Saul, to whom also he " gave another 
heart, and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he 
prophesied among them." The prophet Samuel said 
unto the people, " It is the Lord that advances Moses 
and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of 
the land of Egypt. And when ye saw that Nahash, 
the king of the children of Ammon, came against 
you, ye said unto me, Nay ; but a king shall reign 
over us : when the Lord your God was your king. 
Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen!! 
and behold, the Lord bath set a king over you 
. . . . Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with 
all your heart : for consider how great things He 
hath done for you. But if ye shall still do wickedly, 
ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.-
1 Sam. 12th. 
God sent Saul to smite Amalek and utterly destroy 
them ; but Saul spared Agag and the best of the 
sheep, &c., and would not utterly destroy them, but 
reserved them to sacrifice unto the Lord. And Samuel 
said, Hath the Lord a great delight in burnt offer-
ings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? 
Behold, to obey is better than the fat of rams. For 
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubborn-
ness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast 
rejected the word of the Lord, he bath also rejected 
thee from being king." Saul confessed that he had 
sinned, and assigned as a reason—" because I feared the 
people, and obeyed their voice." The consequence 
was that " the Spirit of the Lord departed from him, 
and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him." " The 
Lord seeth not as man seeth : for man looketh on the 
outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the 
heart :" hence Eliab was refused, and David was 
anointed ; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon 
David from that clay forward. God was with him, 
and cut off all his enemies, and made him a great 
name. Moreover, he promised to appoint a place for 
his people Israel, saying, " I will plant them, that 
they may dwell in a place of their own, and move 
no more ; neither shall the children of wickedness af-
flict them any more as beforetime." Again : " I will 
set up thy seed after thee, and I will establish his 
kingdom ; I will be his father, and he shall be my 
son." David said, as he sat before the Lord: " 0 
Lord, thou Toast spoken of thy servant's house for a 
great while to come." 
Again : " Thou, 0 Lord, art 
my lamp ; God is my strength and power : and he 
maketh my way perfect." After David had sleep 
with his fathers, then sat Solomon upon the throne 
of his father, and his kingdom was established great-
ly, and he reigned in all his glory, until he loved 
many strange women, and his wives turned away 
his hart,. and Solomon did evil in the sight of the 
Lord, and went not fully after the Lord as did his 
father David." The kingdom was rent from his son, 
save one tribe, for David's sake—" that David my 
servant may have a light always before me in Jeru-
salem, the city that 1 have chosen to put my name 
there." 
We follow down the stream of time till the angel 
Gabriel is sent from God to a Virgin, declaring- to 
her that she should bring forth a Son, and call his 
name Jesus He shall be great, and shall be called 
the Son of the Highest ; and the Lord God shall 
give unto him the throne of his father David ; and 
he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever ; and 
of his kingdom there shall be no end." But he must 
first redeem the house of Jacob with his own " pre-
cious blood " (1 Pet. 1:18-21) ; he must also per-
form the part of a kinsman, and redeem the lost " in-
heritance."—Ruth. 4:14. Thus he did stiffer as it 
behoved him, ere he could enter into his glory. And 
DEAR BRO. Hines :—With pleasure I sit down to 
give you a short account of the meeting held lately 
in Elk County, which resulted, we trust, through 
the blessing of God, in much good. 
The distance from this place across the Alleghany 
mountains is forty-five miles, over very rough roads, 
which renders the travelling quite fatiguing ; yet as 
the husbandman is cheered on through his toil by the 
prospect of a rich harvest, so it is the privilege of all 
Christ's servants to be encouraged in view of the 
promise, " Lo 1 am with you," expecting stars in 
the crown of their rejoicing, " at the coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." 
Bro. Gates being entreated to attend the meeting, 
sacrificed a visit to his friends for that purpose, and 
rendered essential service. May the Lord reward 
him at the resurrection of the just for his labors of 
love. The meeting continued about five days, and 
the brethren and sisters, principally from that region, 
and a few from this, were laboring together for the 
conversion of sinners, the quickening of saints, and 
the spread of the truth of the speedy advent of our 
Saviour more extensively. The result was, about 
fifteen were converted, eleven united with the church 
by the right hand of fellowship, and three were bap- 
tized. Bro. Boyer, who is laboring with his accus-
tomed zeal for the salvation of perishing souls, will 
remain with them over the coming Sabbath, to con- 
tinue the well-begun work. Bro. Lane, formerly a 
Methodist preacher, (who resides on the Sinnema- 
honing river,) assists him. The cause, we believe, 
has received a new impetus, the church strength, and 
a flame added to the fire before kindled, which the 
" wicked one" cannot easily extinguish. 
To the above I will add a remark in reference to a 
grove-meeting held previous to the Centre County 
Camp-meeting, with an interesting company of be- 
lievers in Cooper's settlement, Clearfield county, 
about twenty-five miles from this place. Bro. Boyer 
and myself attended the meeting. The people came 
together from a distance of six or eight miles, and 
from the interest manifested, I should say that the 
truth touching the corning of Christ was taking deep 
root in the community. A number presented them-
selves for prayers, and one, we trust, found peace in 
believing. Let us unite to " praise the Lord for his 
goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children 
of men." I remain yours, &c. J. P. FARRAR. 
Milesburg (Pa.), Sept. 19th, 1851. 
" Take heed how ye hear." Some men would rather 
go six or eight miles to hear a sermon preached, 
than spend half an hour in meditation upon it when 
they get home. " Take heed what ye hear." 
J. M. 0. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE : he who believeth in ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE and whoever liveth and be-
heveth in me, will NEVER die."-John 11:25, 26. 
DEAR Bit°. Hines :—I write to inform you, and 
our friends scattered abroad, of the death of another 
of the little flock, who are looking for the speedy 
personal return of Jesus. My only sister, Mrs. HAN-
NAH B. TURNER, (lied of consumption, in Stockbridge, 
Madison county, N. Y., the 7th inst., aged 43 years. 
1 was with her the last two weeks of her life, and 
had the satisfaction of witnessing the consoling na-
ture of " the faith once delivered to the saints," and 
its ability to smoothe the pathway to the grave. She 
often spoke of the resurrection with delight, and se-
lected Job 19 : 25-27 as the theme of discourse for 
her funeral. About a week before her death, when 
speaking of the Advent, she remarked, that should 
she see Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven, she 
felt she could shout, " Glory to God !" but she was 
resigned to the will of the Lord, whatever it might 
be. While she has left a companion and two chil- 
dren, and many friends, to mourn her loss, the sweet 
assurance that she will arise in the morning of the 
resurrection consoles us in the bereavement. As I 
saw her wasting away, I often felt to say, " How 
long shall death the tyrant reign?" 0 ! the blessed-
ness of the new earth, where 
" Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, 
Are felt and feared no more." 
Your sister in hope of a share in that inheritance, 
H. P. BUTTRICK. 
Brooklyn (N. I'.), Sept. 25th, 1851. 
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 ssainsiansuasomsocasseaf 
THE AAVEN T HERALD. 
The people biteth [like] a Mule rushing daringly in 
famishing 
The people at Marah bleateth like a goat kicketh like 
an Ass at the basins of the two water springs it 
drinks greedily with prone mouth 
The people of the Hebrews restrains with the rein 
tying it with a noose Jehovah 
The People of the Hebrews biddeth begone Jehovah. 
Glasgow Chistian News. 
" Gentlemen," says the man with the hammer, 
" the next article I have the honor to submit to your 
emulation is the advowson, with patronage, &c., of 
the rectory of Trettire and Michael Church, Here-
fordshire, net annual value £250, present incumbent 
seventy-four years of. age. What shall we say for 
the rectory of Trettire and Michael ? Herefordshire 
—splendid county ; magnificent hills, that lift the 
thoughts of churchmen to the devotional altitude; 
beautiful thymy pasturage tor sheep. Malvern mut-
ton, for instance, unparalleled. Now, an offer, if you 
please, gentlemen, for Trettire and Michael, net 
value £250, gentlemen. Further, gentlemen, pres-
ent incumbent is seventy-four years of age—seventy-
four, gentlemen ; so be quick with your biddings." 
First Bidder—One thousand pounds. 
Auctioneer — A thousand pounds ! What, and 
present incumbent with one leg in the grave? Think 
of the county, gentlemen—the feet of the everlast-
ing hills of Herefordshire—and mend your bidding. 
Second Bidder—One thousand two hundred. 
Auctioneer—And present incumbent seventy-four? 
Pray, gentlemen, do not forget ; one leg in the grave, 
gentlemen ; at least, cue leg. 
Third Bidder—Fifteen hundred. 
Auctioneer—Come, we're getting on ; but fifteen 
hundred ; only fifteen hundred for 'Trettire and Mi- 
chael ; going like a drug, gentlemen—like a drug. 1 
should be sorry to find no better devotion in the com-
pany than—thank you, sir—sixteen hundred ; no 
warm enthusiasm for the Established Church, and 
that at the present time, when rampant Popery 
threatens—one thousand seven hundred, thank you— 
our altars and our borne—seventeen hundred and 
fifty, thank you—and present incumbent—seventy-
four—seventy -four=--and according to the course of 
all sublunary things, with one leg in tire grave, gen-
tlemen—a human and commercial fact you cannot too 
well consider, gentlemen. No advance on seventeen 
hundred and fifty, and one leg in the grave ? 
Fourth Bidder—Eighteen hundred. 
Auctioneer—Thank you ; but consider, gentlemen, 
the span of life ; seventy-four and one— 
Fifth Bidder—Eighteen hundred and fifty. 
Sixth Bidder—Ninety. 
Auctioneer—Thank you ; eighteen hundred and 
ninety for Trettire and Michael ; salubrious county ; 
seventy-four--one leg in the grave—and the best pas- 
turage. No advance on eighteen hundred and ninety? 
No advance ?—going—going—one leg, gentlemen ; I 
must call your attention to one leg in the grave. No 
advance? Going going. (Hammer falls.) Ad-
vowson, with rectory of Trettire and Michael, yours, 
sir—and dog-cheap—sold for a song ; sir, a very 
song. 
A short pause. 
Auctioneer—The next lot 1 shall have the honor 
to offer to the competition of the company is the ad- 
vowson, patronage, &c., to the rectory of Llanwarne, 
also iii the sublime and salubrious county of Here-
fordshire, net annual income £359, and the present 
'incumbent—I must be allowed to dwell on this touch- 
ing circumstance—present incumbent the over-ripe 
and patriarchal age of eighty-four; fourscore years 
and four; so, gentlemen, confident in your enterprise 
arid speculation, I do—I must—expect a handsome 
offer. Shall we say a couple of thousand pounds to 
begin with ? Reflect—fourscore years and four. 
First Bidder—Fifteen hundred. 
Auctioneer—Thank you, sir, for a beginning.—
Fifteen hundred, and eighty-four—that is, fifteen 
hundred for advowson of Llanwarne, a favored spot, 
where the tares of dissent have never shown them-
selves among the corn of—thank you, fifteen hundred 
and fifty. No advance upon fifteen hundred and 
fifty? arid present incumbent white-haired patriarch—
eighty-four. 
Various bidders—Sixteen hundred. And fifty. 
Sixteen, seventy. (Long pause. Hammer descends.) 
Another pause. 
Auctioneer—The next lot, gentlemen. 
But here Punch must break off; assuring the 
reader, that the auctioneer, ere he quitted his nos-
trum, disposed of in all seven sacred lots to the glory 
and lasting profit of the Established Church of salt, 
and let us hope, to the enduring advantage both of 
sellers and buyers. 
Fete Dieu. 
We learn from the Montreal Witness, that the last 
celebration of this Popish festival took place with 
more than usual display. We give the following ex-
tract, that our readers may see that Popery, with all, 
its impiety and superstition, is the same in the nine-
teenth century as in the sixteenth. 
" The women in the procession, we are informed, 
amounted probably to thousands, each with a wax ta-
per in one hand, arid a book or string of heads in the 
other, and all engaged as devoutly in reading or pray-
ing as the exciting scene would permit. The great 
attraction of the spectacle, however, arid, we believe, 
a new feature in the procession, was about two hun-
dred boys, arranged according to size, from perhaps 
seven to twelve years of age, and dressed to repre-
sent angels, each having a wreath or chaplet of flow-
ers about his head, flowing white muslin garments, 
ornamented with spangles, and a pair of wings, made, 
we believe, of gilt paper. There was a large num-
ber of girls similarly dressed, but without wings, but 
we did not learn whether they were angels or not. 
" Bands of music, drums, singing, and bells kept 
up such a din as must have proved very annoying to 
the quiet worshippers within the walls of Christ 
Church, whilst the procession was dragging its mighty 
length along before their door. But the most gor-
geous object in the procession was, as usual, the 
Dais, or Canopy, which cost, it is said, $2,500 ! Un-
der this marched a priest, carrying before his face a 
great artificial eye, set in a golden disc, to represent 
the all-seeing eye of the invisible and eternal Crea-
tor ! and another priest carried the sacrament, or as 
the French Canadians call it, the Good God in a ci-
hoire, or box. The celebration is called the " Fete 
Dieu," or Feast of God, and the wafer, in the box, 
is the God in honor of whom it takes place, and be-
fore which, at the ringing of the bell, all kneel down 
in the dust or mud, as the case may be, not even, of 
course, excepting the angels in white muslin." 
A similar demonstration took place in Sandwich, 
C. W., though not on so magnificent a scale. The 
Canada Evangelist thus speaks of it.: 
" The commencement of the procession consisted 
of a boy who carried a variety of flags of different 
colors. A company of militia, with officers in full 
uniform, with drawn swords, also formed part of the 
procession, and at different intervals fired off their 
muskets. This is done, we are informed, by way of 
shooting the devil. A stand was erected in front of 
the old Roman Catholic Church, on which were 
placed a crucifix and a number of cups of flowers. 
During the progress of the procession, a correspond-
ent informs us, several cases of assault were com-
mitted on Protestants, by knocking off their hats, be-
cause they did not uncover their beads when the 
idolatrous procession passed them. A woman and 
boy were walking in the rear, when a Frenchman 
came out of the crowd with a large club in his hands, 
and gave the boy a severe beating for not joining in 
the idolatrous homage. He then attacked a young 
man from the States, and struck him several times 
on the side with his club." 
The Bible and Philosophy. 
Speaking of the vagaries of a " hunger-bitten " and 
idealess Philosophy, Coleridge remarks: 
" These are but empty echoes which the fancy ar-
bitrarily associates with apparitions of 'natter, less 
beautiful but not less shadowy than the sloping or-
chard or hill-side pasture-field seen in the transparent 
lake below. Alas ! for the flocks that are to be led 
forth to such pastures ! a It shall even be as when 
the hungry dreameth, and behold ! he eateth ; but lie 
waketh and his soul is empty ; or as when the thirsty 
dreamed' ; but he waketh and is faint ! '—Isa. 29:8. 
O that we should seek for the bread which was given 
from heaven, that we should eat thereof and be 
strengthened ! 0 that we should draw at the well 
at which the flocks of our forefathers had living wa-
ter drawn for them, even that water which, instead 
of mocking the thirst of him to whom it is given, be-
comes a well within himself, springing up to life 
everlasting ! 
When we reflect how large a part of our pres-
ent knowledge and civilization is owing, directly 
or indirectly, to the Bible ; when we are compelled 
to admit, as a fact of history, that the Bible has been 
the main lever by which the moral and intellectual 
character of Europe has been raised to its present 
comparative height ; we should he struck, methinks, 
by the marked and prominent difference of this Book 
from the works which it is now the fashion to quote 
as guides and authorities in morals, politics, and his-
tory. I will point out a few of the excellencies by 
which the one is distinguished, and leave it to your 
own judgment and recollection to perceive and apply 
the .contrast to the ,productions of the higiest name 
in these latter days. In the Bible every agent ap-
pears and acts as a self-subsisting individual : each 
has a life of his own, and yet all are one life. The 
elements of necessity arid freewill are reconciled in 
the higher power of an omnipresent Providence, that 
predestinates the whole in the moral freedom of the 
integral parts. Of this the Bible never suffers us to 
lose sight. The root is never detached from the 
ground. It is God everywhere ; and all conform to 
his decrees, the righteous by performance of the law, 
the disobedient by the sufferance of the penalty." 
The Scriptures. 
Whether we consider the depth and compass of 
the disclosures of the lively oracles of God—the dis-
tinctness and clearness of their information—the cer-
tainty and truthfulness of what they reveal—or their 
universality and adaptation, together with their char-
acter of invariableness and immutability, we must con-
fess that they are altogether unique arid unrivalled. 
The oracles of antiquity always kept within a certain 
range and circle, while their ambiguity was such 
that no dependence could be placed upon their utter-
ance. But in the Sacred Writings there is no dis- 
crepancy—no contradiction. Notwithstanding the 
variety of subjects of which they treat—whether 
they touch on things within the sphere of the natural 
or the srpernatural—the physical or the moral—the 
seen or the unseen—the present or the future—there 
is a perfect unity in all their representation and utter-
ances. They challenge our faith as something in 
which we may repose with unwavering trust amid all 
the vicissitudes and uncertainties of this shifting 
world. Coming from the God of Truth, they can 
never impose upon the credulity of men. If things 
were not as the book sets them forth, the book itself 
would have had no existence. Things are not true 
because the Bible says them, but the Bible says them 
because they are true. All truth has its source in 
God, and wherever we meet truth, whether in the 
Pagan or the Christian, whether in the findings of 
philosophy, or the creations of poetry, or the facts of 
science, we have that which is in correspondence with 
the one infinite arid unchangeable mind. Now, if He 
be without variableness or the shadow of a turning, 
how securely can we rest in his word. The pillars 
of the universe may tremble—the stars may fade from 
our eye—the sun may go out in eternal darkness—
heaven and earth may pass away—but His word 
abideth forever. 
Pathway. 
The Two Travellers. 
The following story of a noble act of humanity is 
from the interesting German tales of Krummacher : 
Two travellers once rested on their journey at an inn, 
when suddenly a cry arose that there was a fire 
in the village. One of the travellers immediately 
sprang up, and ran to offer his assistance. But the 
other strove to detain him, saying, " Why should 
you waste your time? Are there not hands enough 
to assist ? Why concern yourself about strangers ? " 
His friend, however, listened not to his remon-
strances, but hastened to the fire, the other billowing 
and looking on at a distance. A woman rushed out of 
the burning house, crying " My children ! my chil-
dren ! " When the stranger heard this, he darted 
into the house among the burning timbers, while the 
flames raged fiercely around him. " He will surely 
perish ! " cried the spectators. But after a short 
time, behold he came forth with scorched hair, carry-
ing two young children in his arms, and delivered 
them to their mother. She embraced the infants and 
fell at the stranger's feet : but he lifted her up and 
comforted her. The house soon fell with a crash.—
As the stranger and his companion returned to the 
inn, the latter said, " Who bade thee risk thy life in 
such a dangerous attempt ? " The first answered, 
" He who bids me put the seed into the ground, that 
it may decay and bring forth the new fruit." " But 
if thou hadst been buried among the ruins ? " His 
companion smiled and said, " Then should 1 myself 
have been the seed." 
A Malay's Test of Honesty. 
A New England sea-captain, going to India, was 
hoarded by a Malay merchant, a man of high stand-
ing and wealth, who asked if he had any tracts or 
good books he could part with. The American, at 
a loss how to account for so singular an inquiry from 
such a man, replied, '° What can you want with 
tracts and good books? You cannot read a word of 
them." " True," said the other : " but I have a 
use for them, nevertheless ; and it is this : When-
ever one of your countrymen, or an Englishman, 
calls on me to trade, I put a tract or good book in his 
way, and then watch to see what lie does with it. If 
he reads it soberly, and with interest, 1 infer that he 
is honest, arid will not cheat me ; but if he throws it 
aside with contempt, or a profane oath, I have no 
more to do with him : I cannot trust him." 
Give Good Measure. 
When I was a young man, there lived in our neigh-
borhood a Presbyterian, who was universally reported 
to be a very liberal man, and uncommonly upright 
in his dealings. When he had any of the products 
of his farm to dispose of, he made it an invariable 
rule to give good measure, over good, rather more 
than could be required of him. One of his friends, 
observing him frequently doing so, questioned him 
why he did it, told him he gave too much, and said 
it would not be to his own advantage. Now, my 
friends, mark the answer of this Presbyterian :—
" God Almighty has permitted me but one journey 
through the world, and when gone, I cannot return 
to rectify mistakes." Think of this, friends, only 
one journey through this world. J. Simpson. 
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our efforts to revive the cause here, and place it in its proper 
position. The office, which was established here for the 
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" Millerism," as they are pleased to stigmatize it, we have 
therefore nothing further to do than to use every means to 
restore and sustain things as originally designed and still de-
sired by all true-hearted Adventists. 
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terested in the stability and efficiency of the cause al the 
West. Direct to J. V. HimEs, care of C. DUTTON, Roch-
ester, N. Y., until the 16th or 18th of Oct,
. so that we may 
receive the letters before our departure for Homer. 
Rochester, Sept. 25th. 
J. v. H. 
CONFERENCE AT HOMER.—A Conference will be held 
in the Advent chapel in Homer village, commencing Oct. 
23d, and continued over the Sabbath. Bro. E. BURNHAM 
and others are expected to be present. We expect, by Goo's 
blessing, to have one of the largest and best meetings ever 
held there. Let all come up to the feast. J. V. H. 
ACCOUNTING FOR IT.—The last number of the Spirit 
World, accounting for the false answers given by the spirit 
rappings, presumes that such spirits belong to an order in the 
other sphere, similar to that in this, where obscure persons 
assume the titles of Doctor, Professor, &c., for the sake of 
notoriety. 
WE would call attention to the Prospectus of a new daily 
and weekly paper to be published in New York city, which 
will be seen in another column. 
Bro. L. D. MANSFIELD will commence his kmbors with 
the Advent Church in Hester-street, New York, Sabbath, 
Oct. 5th. 
The Christian's Weapons. 
" A meek and heavenly spirit," says the Christian 
Era," will often vanquish where intellectual power 
fails. Discard carnal weapons—wrath, bitterness, 
ill-feeling of every kind. They will injure your 
cause. The Bible is full of wise maxims for Gon's 
servants. " Fret not thyself because of evil-doers ; 
neither be thou envious at the workers of iniquity." 
" Do nothing through strife and vainglory." " Nei-
ther give place to wrath." " In your patience pos-
sess ye your souls." Indulge no desire to wound 
the feelings of an opposer, and you will have your 
reward in great eternal peace. Thus get the victory 
ever yourselves—it must be done by prayer and faith 
—and then you may vanquish others. If any have 
reason to be calm and unruffled, it is those who are 
conscious of baying GoD and truth and right on their 
side. It any can find it easy to love their enemies 
and opposers, and pray for them that despitefully use 
them, it is those who are struggling in the cause of 
compassion for the suffering. 
WHOLESALE CHURCH DISCIPLINE.—In South Caro-
lina, recently, among the Baptists known as Hard 
Shells, from their anti-mission and anti-temperance 
views, three ministers were expelled from the Church 
by vote, for joining the Sons of Temperance. The 
vote of exclusion stood seventy in favor to twenty-nine 
against. Then the difficulty rose what to do with 
those who voted in the minority1—" They believe," 
says the paper giving an account of it, " we ought 
not to turn a man out of Church for joining the Sons 
of Temperance, and living sober lives,thereby believ-
ing that we have done wrong.—This is a grievous 
and wicked offense, and its perpetrators must be 
punished. But this difficulty was soon answered by 
Bro. Elial Pennell, who novel that all those who 
voted in the minority be expelled from the church ! 
And this motion being seconded, the moderator made 
the announcement, that if any one objected to this 
motion, let him rise ; but none being disposed to rise, 
he announced the fact, that Rev. John W. Jones, 
Rev. J. J. Watts, and Rev. Robert N. Steele, with 
twenty-nine other members, were expelled from the 
Baptist church. 
N. Y. Observer. 
FIRE IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The" Chronicle " of 
19th says :—" For the last three days the city has 
been so completely enveloped in smoke, as almost to 
exclude the sight of the sun. The fires are raging 
along shore between this place and Saint Andrews ; 
several dwellings have been destroyed as well as dam-
age done to crops and fence." 
Extensive fires are said to prevail in the woods in 
Charlotte county, and other districts to the westward. 
The St. John " Courier " says the dry warm 
weather has brought f5rward the corn crop, which 
otherwise was expected to be a failure. Hay is abun-
dant. Buckwheat will not probably be half a crop. 
Oats much above the average. Potatoes, although 
universally struck down, (lo not appear to be much 
affected at the roots, and will probably be better 
than they have been since the appearance of the dis-
ease ;—we hope it is wearing out. 
A terrible gale of wind has been experienced at 
Newfoundland, which drove on shore nearly all the 
vessels on the cost, totally destroying many with the 
loss of their entire crews. In Bay Fortune the gale 
was most severely felt. 
FIRES AT THE EAST.—The timber fires are still raging, 
without abatement. The rain of Sunday did but little to-
wards extinguishing them. It is impossible to estimate the 
damage already done or to tell its extent. A letter in the 
Portland Advertiser" says the whole of Hancock county 
is burned over. The fire has swept over Mount Desert, and 
destroyed several houses. Two dwellings in Jonesport have 
been burned. The dams on the west branch of the Narra-
guagus are burnt to the bed of the river, and most of the 
meadow hay on the river is lost. A letter from Cherryfield 
says : "The whole country is burning up. Scarcely all acre 
of green land remains along the whole seabord of this county. 
And the fire is raging fearfully on our liver, (Narraguagus.) 
No. 10 is burning up. No. 16 has been burnt over. Bed-
dington and No. 18 are in great danger, as the fire has 
reached them both. The day I left for court, I counted fif-
teen large fires around our village. Last Sunday scarcely a 
man attendded church ; all were engaged in protecting their 
own dwellings or assisting their neighbors. All the timber 
land in Cherryfield has been burnt over, and Armsburgh has 
suffered severely. An extensive fire is raging on No. 40, at 
the head of the river, and endangering 34 and 35. If this 
weather continues much longer, all the timber land on this 
river will lie desolated." 
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sth; Bristol, Vt., Sabbath, 120, and remain in the vicinity till the 
'Thursday following„ holding meetings in the evenings, as brethren 
may think best ; Addison, 17111, and remain over the Sabbath ; 
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26th, and remain in the vicinity a few days, and labor as Bro. Grohs 
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13th Dover, 14th ; Portsmouth, 15th ; Rye, 16th, and remain over 
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Sabbath ; Manchester, N. H., 311th ; Hill, Sunday, Nov. 2d. Each, 
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New lane, lOth; Northfield Farms, Mass., Sabbath, 12th-each, ex 
cept Sabbaths, at early candle-light. 
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ing; to hitefield, 10th, and remain over the Sabbath; Newport, Vt., 
Sunday, 19th. 
J. CUMMINGS. 
Brn. 'I'. M. Preble and J. Cummings will attend a conference in 
the Christian meeting-house cover the Towit-house) in Boscawen, 
N. fl., to commence Nov. 19th, 1 P m, and continue over Sunday. 
Bro. I. R. Gates will preach at Haverhill, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 5 ; 
Champlain and v icinity„ 12th. 
Bro. Chase Taylor will preach at Abington, Mass., Sunday, Oct 
12th, and Hingham, Stinday,,19th. 
There will be a Conference meeting at. West Poland, to com-
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noticed in the Her- 
Oct. 28th. All the 
requested to attend. 
Earthquake near Naples. 
The following account of the terrible ravages of 
this earthquake is extracted from the Naples corres-
pondence of the London Daily News : 
The terror and misery here is beyond my powers 
of description. Bascilicata has suffered throughout 
the whole district. The town of Nenosa is nearly 
destroyed ; the market place is one heap of ruins.—
In this district the earthquake assumed its most ter- 
rible phenomena, viz.: first, a perpendicular action, 
and then an oscillatory. Rapola is in ruins; the ca-
thedral no longer exists. Day and night, women, 
men, and children, were tearing away the ruins to 
find their friends and relatives. At Rioreno the in-
habitants were employed, when I arrived, in digging 
at the ruins. Half this town is destroyed. I saw 
several of the wounded—not less than 120. 
I think I never could witness a more painful pic-
ture, and I need not remind you I have attended the 
wounded after more than one battle, and that is bad 
enough ; but here with the horrors of the very worst 
of wounds—the crush—you see a mother lamenting 
a child under a mass of fallen rubbish ; a father 
wildly asking, " where is my family 2my wife '!"—
child without parents ; some lamenting over the dy- 
ing, some weeping over the dead.. 'Gran dio! Gran 
dio! 
The village of Bavile has actually disappeared. 
I found all about this district large fissures, partly 
filled tip with houses. 
A man who escaped told me it appeared to him 
that, for a minute, he was being tossed about in the 
air : the earth appealed, as it were, with a breathing 
power ; and then came a rocking movement, a shak-
ing to and fro. There was a strong stench of de- 
composing bodies. This place was really deserted 
by the inhabitants ; at least I saw very few. How 
shall I give you an idea of what was once the town of 
Melfi 2The cathedral is down, as are the college, 
the churches, the military depot, and 163 houses ; 98 
are in a falling state, and 180 are pronounced as 
dangerous. 
I should have told you the village of Ascoti has 
also suffered immensely ; 32 houses have fallen in.- 
1 do not know how many lives are lost; I should im-
agine altogether the loss of life cannot be less than 
three thousand, including all the sufferers in all the 
towns. On inquiry at the police office at Naples, I 
am told, up to this day, " there turns of dead bodies 
dug out of the ruins from all the towns and villages 
is 857, but the excavations have only commenced." 
One gentleman told me his brother wrote, stating 
that he had 170 piastres, and many valbable articles 
of furniture, after the earthquake, when all the fami- 
ly in town had left the house. Sixty-five boys of 
the college of Melfi are supposed to have perished. 
I have heard that in one place a lake has appeared. 
It may be observed that Melfi is the site of an old 
volcano. 
Near Melfi, Aug. 20. 
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