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OFFICE, No. S Chardon-street. 
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BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1853. 
VOLUME XI. NO. 15. 
I SHALL BE A KING. 
THE eldest son of the Duke of Hamilton, who would have inher-
ited his titles and honors, died in his youth, rejoicing in the Chris-
tian faith. A little while before he departed, he said to his younger 
brother, "I am going to die, Douglas ; you will be a Duke, but I 
shall be a King !" 
L" coma sit beside me, Douglas—close by me, on the bed, 
And we will tin the while you bathe my ever-aching head. 
Turn up the hour-glass, brother, and place it where mine eye 
Can mark with what relentless haste the silent hours go by 
Few yet remain to me, I ween, and those so darkened o'er 
With languor and with suffering, I cannot wish for more ; 
Nay, do not turn thine eye away in pity or in pain, 
I know 'tis written on my brow that life is on the wane ! 
"I do sometimes remember how in our childish plays—
And we've not long outgrown them, those happy, sportive days—
Thou oft wouldst ;veep that thou wert not the favor'd eldest son—
Thou little dreamedst that my race would be so early run ! 
Nay, Douglas, nay, forgive me—I meant thee not to grieve, 
I gain far nobler honors than those I'm glad to leave : 
Death seems no more a mournful and melancholy thing—
And, brother, thou wilt be a Duke, but I shall be a King ! 
"Reach down the blessed Bible—I'll show thee where 'fis writ, 
And well we know 'tis truth divine, each word and line of it. 
Oh, let me charge you, brother, more earnestly to seek 
Thy portion in that better land of which I love to speak : 
Here is the chart to guide us along life's dubious way, 
To the clear sunshine which illumes that everlasting day ! 
My soul (loth anchor on the hopes these blessed pages bring—
Yes, Douglas, thou may'st be a Duke, but I shall be a King i" 
RESISTING THE SPIRIT. 
IT is' a spectacle over which an angel might 
weep, if there could be tears in heaven ; man, 
feeble man, child of dust, and crushed before the 
moth, strives with almighty God. Who has not 
done it ? How many are doing it yet ? And 
while man does it in his thoughtlessness, he hears 
not, or if' he hears, he heeds not, the sound which 
comes from the distance and falls upon the ear 
in tones so solemn and distinct, and with a ca-
dence so dreadful, " My Spirit shall not always 
strive with man." He heeds it not, but goes on 
his way resisting the Holy Ghost. Thus he 
hastens on to a condition of hopelessness and 
helplessness. Quick as the mind can act, he 
speeds him onward. Every stifled conviction 
accelerates his movements. Every Sabbath's 
light but lights him forward. Every message of 
the truth, every argument and appeal of the 
sanctuary which falls upon his ear, and reaches 
his spirit, serves but to quicken his progress. 
Ere long the crisis comes. In an unlooked for 
moment, the grieved and insulted Spirit spreads 
his wings for a final flight, and as he goes, he 
leaves upon the soul a seal which neither earth 
nor heaven, nor hell can break. The die is then 
cast, the work is done, the decision is recorded. 
" Let him alone," is the sentence which has 
gone forth, and the man is lost. Thenceforward 
his career is one of growing sinfulness. Thence-
forward his state is one of spiritual sleep, pro-
found as that of the grave, undisturbed by any 
Sabbath argument, unbroken by any threatening 
omen, unaffected by the approaching realities of 
another world ; and though he may live amid 
scenes of spiritual beauty, and though the re-
freshing showers of heavenly grace may brighten 
and give new verdure to the moral landscape 
around him — there he is—a spot blasted by 
heaven's fire which can never be Cultivated, a 
tree scathed by heaven's lightning, ready to be 
cut down as fuel for the burning. 1 may seem 
to you to speak strongly, but, 0 ! how lame and 
feeble are my words to give expression to the 
sentiment which God has uttered, " Woe unto 
them when 1 depart from them !" 
Rev. Erskine Mason. 
LIGHT AND SHADOW. 
IT is only a little pauper ! Never mind her. 
You see she knows her place, and keeps close to 
the wall, as if' she expected an oath or a blow. 
The cold winds are making merry with those thin 
rags. You see nothing of childhood's rounded 
symmetry in those shrunken limbs and wasted 
features. Push her one side, she is used to it, 
she won't complain. She can't remember that 
she ever heard a kind word in her life. She'd 
think you were mocking if you tried it. 
She passed into the warm kitchen, savory 
with odorous dainties, and is ordered out with a 
threat by the portly cook. In the shop window 
she sees nice fresh loaves of bread and tempting 
little cakes. Rosy little children pass on their 
way to school, well-fed, well clad, and joyous, 
with a mother's parting kiss yet warm on their 
sweet lips. 
There seems to be happiness enough in the 
world, but it never comes to her. Her little 
basket is quite empty; and now, faint with hun-
ger, she leans wearily against that shop window. 
There is a lovely lady who has just passed in. 
She is buying cakes and bon bons for her little 
girl, as if she had the purse of Fortunatus. How 
nice it must be, to be warm and have enough to 
eat! Poor Meta! she has tasted nothing since 
she was sent forth with a curse, to beg or—steal, 
and the tears will come ; there is happiness and 
plenty in the world—but none for Meta! 
Not so fast, little one ! Warm hearts beat 
sometimes under silk and velvet. That lady has 
caught sight of your little woe-begone face and 
shivering form. 0 ! what if it were her child? 
and obeying a sweet maternal impulse, she passes 
out the door, takes those little benumbed fingers 
in her daintily-gloved hands, and leads the child, 
wondering, shy, and bewildered, into fairy-land. 
A delightful and novel sensation of warmth 
creeps over those frozen limbs, a faint color 
tinges those pale cheeks, and the eyes grow 
liquid and lovely, as Meta raises them thank-
fully to her benefactress. The lady's little girl 
looks on with innocent joy, and learns for the 
first time, how " blessed are the merciful." 
And then Meta passes out with a heavy basket 
and a light heart. Surely the street has grown 
wider, and the sky brighter ! This can scarcely 
be the same world ! Meta's form is erect now 
—her step is as light as a child's should be. 
The sunshine of human love has brightened her 
pathway ! Ah ! Meta ! earth is not all darkness 
—bright angels yet walk the earth. Sweet-voiced 
pity and heaven-eyed charity sometimes stoop to 
bless. God's image is only marred, not destroyed. 
He who feeds the ravens, bends to listen. Look 
upward, little Meta. 
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TILE CAUSE OF CHRIST. 
Do I love the cause of Christ ? Do I make 
efforts in behalf of others, in order to benefit 
them therein ? A cause of such vast and in-
conceivable magnitude and importance, should 
engage all our energies. To promote the cause 
of Christ, it is necessary to favor it by word and 
deed, to be actively engaged in arresting the at-
tention of others, and communicate instructions 
in its behalf, exemplifying' our faith by our lives 
and actions, as we journey onward in our pil-
grimage. 
The power of godliness should manifest itself 
by love of order, purity, peace, prayer, and 
praise to God, love to his word, and likewise to 
his ministers, whose wants and necessities we 
must not forget, remembering that the Lord 
says, that " the laborer is worthy of his hire," 
and, " they that preach the gospel shall live by 
the gospel." Have they ministered unto us 
spiritual things, should not we minister unto 
them temporal things ? Must not we then put 
our shoulders to the wheels, as well as others? 
Is it not our duty as Christians to do all we can, 
in this great and glorious cause? If we cannot 
do as much as others, this should not deter us 
from doing as much as we can. The cause is 
great and good. We know it. Oh, then, may we 
come up to our duties, whatever others do. Why, 
we read that women ministered of.their substance 
to the Lord, when he was here on the earth. 0 ! 
says one, I can't give anything — the gospel 
should be preached without money and without 
price; this thing of paying preachers, I do not 
like ; did they only cease to beg for money, I 
would love the cause much better. If all were 
thus inclined, would not the gospel wheels soon 
be stopped ? What would become of the Church, 
and of the world ? Others sacrificed their time 
and their money, that the gospel might freely 
come to us. 
0, then, may we love the cause, and under 
the influence of the Holy Spirit, improve our 
time, knowing that we are altogether dependent 
on the grace of God, and that man is but as the 
flower of the grass, and may wither in an hour. 
May we remember these things, and do all we 
can for the cause of Christ, that our reward may 
be everlasting life. Evangelical Messenger. 
EIGHT FEARS. 
A PASTOR, in a Congregational paper, has the 
following FE:vas—the first eight respecting him-
self—the other six respecting his brethren : 
I fear that I am not sufficiently thankful 
for the privilege of preaching the gospel. 
That I think too much of the trials of the 
ministry. 
That I am not entirely devoted to my work 
as a minister. 
That I have given my people occasion to 
utter just complaints respecting my sermons. 
That I have needlessly caused them to feel 
dissatisfied with my prayers. 
That I have not visited them as I ought to 
have done. 
That some have already gone to hell through 
my unfaithfulness. 
that others, who may now form a part of 
my charge, will perish in like manner. 
SIX MORE FEARS.—l. I fear that some have 
entered the ministry without being called. 
That some who have been called have not 
entered it. 
That some who were called, and who did 
enter it, have left without permission. 
That their influence, in leaving, has been 
evil, and only evil, to the ministry. 
That some, now in the ministry, are more 
intent on acquiring the world than saving souls. 
That merchandise, agriculture, animal mag-
netism, electricity, and a thousand other secu-
lar interests, are carrying captive numbers of 
the watchmen of Israel. 
SATAN AND THE CHURCH. 
THE following anecdote is transcribed from a 
periodical published in this country nearly fifty 
years ago. It illustrates an awful truth, that 
wicked persons are agents of Satan, who, in pun-
ishment for sin, are delivered up to him, and 
who become his slaves to execute his will in the 
world which he governs. Happy indeed is the 
assembly of the people of God where he is not 
found. 
The members of a congregation had frequently 
met, to deliberate on measures which involved 
their comfort, and even their existence ; but a 
troublesome person, whose popular eloquence 
gave him a dangerous influence, repeatedly de-
feated every attempt to carry these measures into 
effect. At one of these meetings, a member, 
who had the welfare of the society much at heart, 
appeared, while his antagonist was in the heat 
of debate, to be fast asleep ; the friends of the 
society, astonished at his indifference, at length 
roused him up. He started, rubbing his eyes, 
saying, in apparent agitation, 
" I have had a strange dream." 
Every eye was turned to him, and every ear 
open. " A dream ! what was it ?" 
" I dreamed," said he, " that I was in hell, 
where I saw Satan, who inquired, What news 
from earth ? I told him I came from this place, 
where the congregation were met to decide on 
business which had long distracted them. This 
information threw him into great excitement. 
I must instantly go there,' said he, and was 
making ready to set off immediately. But just 
as he was departing, he asked me whether his 
friend — was at the meeting or not. I as-
sured him he was not only there, but very active. 
Well, well, then,' said Satan, I will not go, 
after all; my presence is unnecessary. I know 
that my friend --- will do my business as 
well as I could do it myself.'" 
This epilogue produced an effect which noth-
ing else could produce. It silenced the noisy 
orator, and the measures, which he had hitherto 
successfully opposed, were readily adopted. 
West. Christian Advocate. 
MOTHER'S CONSOLATION. 
A LITTLE fatherless boy, of four years of age, 
sat upon the floor, surrounded by his toys. Catch-
ing sight of his mother's face, as the tears fell 
thick and fast, he sprang to her side, and peep-
ing curiously in her face, said, " You've got 
ME." (Simple, artless little comforter !) Dry 
your tears, young mother. There is something 
to live for : there are duties from which even 
your bleeding heart may not shrink ! A " tal-
ent " you may not " bury ;" a stewardship, of 
which your Lord must receive an account ; a 
blank page to be filled with your hand with holy 
truth ; a crystal vase to keep spotless and pure.; 
a tender plant to guard from blight ; a mildew, 
a. drop that must not exhale in the sun of world-
liness ; an angel for whom a " white robe " must 
be made ; a cherub, in whose hands a " golden 
harp " must be placed ; a " little lamb," to be 
led to the " Good Shepherd !" 
" You've got me !" Aye ! Cloud not his sun-
ny face with unavailing sadness; lest he catch 
" the trick of grief," and sigh amid his toys. 
Teach him not by your vain repinings, that " Our 
Father pitieth not his children !" 
Teach him to love him in the cloud as in the 
sunshine ! You will have your gloomy hours ! 
There is a void even that little loving heart may 
not fill, but there is still another, and he says : 
ME ye have always! 
Fanny Fern. 
THE POWER OF SILENCE. 
A GOOD woman in New Jersey was sadly an-
noyed by a termagant neighbor, who often vis-
ited her and provoked a quarrel. She at last 
sought the counsel of her pastor who added sound 
common sense to his other good qualities. Hav-
ing heard the story of her wrongs, he advised her 
to seat herself quietly in the chimney corner 
when next visited, take the tongs in her hand, 
look steadily into the fire, and whenever a hard 
word came front her neighbor's lips, gently snap 
the tongs, without uttering a word. 
A day or two afterwards the good woman came 
again to her pastor with a bright and laughing 
face to communicate the effects of this new anti-
dote for scolding. Her troubler had visited her, 
and, as usual, commenced her tirade. Snap, 
went the tongs. Another volley. Snap. Ano-
ther still. Snap. " Why don't you speak?" 
said the termagant, more enraged. Snap.—
" Speak," said she. Snap. " Do speak ; I shall 
split if you don't speak !" And away she went, 
cured of her malady by the magic power of si-
lence. 
It is hard work fighting a Quaker. It is poor 
work scolding a deaf man. It is profitless work 
beating the air. One sided controversies do not 
last long, and generally end in victory for the 
silent party. 
MENTAL EXCITEMENT. 
BAD news weakens the action of the heart, op-
presses the lungs, destroys the appetite, stops di-
gestion, and partially suspends all the functions 
of the system. An emotion of shame flushes the 
face ; fear blanches it ; joy illuminates it ; and 
an instant thrill electrifies a million of nerves. 
Surprise spurs the pulse into a gallop. Delirium 
infuses great energy. Volition commands, and 
hundreds of muscles spring to execute. Power-
ful emotion often kills the body at a stroke; 
Chilo, Diogoras, and Sophocles, died of joy at 
the Grecian games. The news of a defeat-killed 
Philip V. The door-keeper of Congress expired 
upon hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis. 
Eminent public speakers have often died in the 
midst of an impassioned burst of' eloquence, or 
when the deep emotion that produced it suddenly 
subsided. Largrave, the young Parisian, died 
when he heard that the musical prize for which 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
it."—Rev. 21:22. 
dent character without the least tendency to dis- heads, and, like a flaming torch ascending up- in an instant annihilate it. The accusers are 
proper to remark, to guard ourselves from the elevates all,—on which liberty, equality, frater- said, " He is near that justifieth me : who will gel purity would appear dark, when viewed in 
prevalent in our day, which rushes from the tree of life, instinct with time vitality, and loaded "Righteousness and judgment are the habitation our High Priest. The angels surround him, and 
God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of without servility, and creates a manly indepen- throne ; it dispels the clouds that hang over our beholds the thunderbolt in his hand which could 
opposite and equally mischievous extreme so nity, truly so called, grow up as branches of the contend with me ?" and of whom it is written, the light which emanates from the breastplate of 
scepticism that tramples under foot the ordi- with real fruits ; where our common and aborigi- of his throne." We realized the presence of this rest under the shadow of his wings ; for they feel 
nances of God, to the fanaticism which canonizes nal nature is felt by all hearts to be our common great Being during the earthquake on Golgotha that life is in his breath, and peace in his pres-
and worships them as idols in the room of God. condition, and acknowledged amid all the trap- —and trembled. We behold him under a new ence. Thus the Prince of Easter stands clad in 
" AND I saw no temple therein : for the Lord Parts obedience to laws and lawful authority praise addressed to Him that sitteth upon the presence. Hell lies conquered at his feet, for it 
Buy it is no less important, it may here be is the sacred platform which levels none and glory of Him to whom Jesus alluded when he mouths ; for they see that even the snow of an- 
The Apocalyptic Temple. designing priesthood, the creatures of democratic The Easter King. forever closed, and hia soul only experiences the 
Iva itay. J. CUMMING, D. D. LONDON, ENGLAND. 
altogether of that noblity of nature which im- " THE Lord is risen !" It seems a song of love of God, and the constant sensation of his 
(Continued from our last.) 
respect and insubordination. The house of God wards into heaven, shows us, by its light, the ashamed and silent, and no longer open their 
or rather ochlocratic turbulence, and destitute 
approbation of his Father, the enjoyment of the 
We know not which is most injurious; the one pings of rank and the veils of circumstance ; aspect at the resurrection—and rejoice : for the a glory which fills both heaven and earth ; the 
which would evaporate every rite into a tran- where rich and poor meet together, and see and Son has now finished the work which his Father King of earth, which he hath bought with his 
scendental mystery, or an empty metaphor and cherish the ties of a common but not ignoble had enjoined him. He has re-established that law blood, and King of heaven, which now greets 
figure of speech ; or the other, which would con- brotherhood. 
which had been put to shame, and has offered him with rejoicing, because the Son of man is 
dense them into gods, and make the Church a Society cannot become compact till welded an obedience such as should satisfy even the de- about to mount the throne of eternal majesty. 
new Pantheon, a place of innumerable shrines by Christian love ; and it can attain its culmi- mands of God. He has risen victorious over the 
Krummacher. 
and altars for their adoration, till a crucifix be- nating greatness only when it is universaly illu- attacks of hell ; the fiery darts of every conceiva-
comes more precious than the atonement, an al- minated and inspired and directed by the wis- ble temptation have been turned 'aside on the 
tar the Saviour, and a wafer their God. dom that is from above. All government in buckler of his faith; he has preserved unshaken 
Thus it is that sensual pride would idolize, this world requires temples. Be it a monarchy, his confidence in God, where the highest seraph WE do not disparage topical Preaching. That 
and intellectual pride would scorn the sacra- a republic, or an aristocracy, there can be little might have despaired ; and proved himself sub- has its place. But we propose to give some rea- 
ments,—a pulverizing scepticism would destroy righteous rule above, and less loyalty and obe- ject to the will of his Father in all things, by sons why pastors frequently, if not regularly, 
them, and a sensuous superstition would canon- dience below, where the restraining, guiding, undergoing an ignominious and accursed death. should engage in expository preaching. By ex-
ize them. God will meet neither the pride of a sanctifying truths of Christianity are not appre- For all this he is now worthy, full worthy, of position we do not understand mere dry exegesis, 
darkened intellect, nor that of a depraved heart; ciated. Concience is the fountain of power ; it the rich and glorious reward appointed for him but a full and familiar development of the sense 
but he condescends to the weakness of man, and must be touched. In the house of God, and by the eternal counsel of his Father : it belongs of Scripture, in the form of a popular discourse. 
mercifully and wisely provides for all its re- through the instrumentality of' the truth of God, to him by the justest of all claims : and his The propriety and importance of this mode of 
quirements. 
this faculty is reached, and awakened, and re- work being now accomplished, the Son of Mary preaching, we think, is shown by the following 
Man needs a temple. His nature shows it : placed upon its legitimate throne ; and man then merits to be crowned with glory according to the considerations. 
were he pure intellect he could dispense with it, thinks and plans as before God. We may be holy promises of God. Lo! this crowning takes 1. Expository was evidently the primitive 
—were he mere animalism he could not rise to assured, houses of prayer where such results fol- place before our very eyes. Scarcely has the mode of preaching. 
it, still less above it ; but as soul and body, im- low, are far more important contributions to the morning star announced the dawn of the third He who taught as never man taught expounded 
mortality and mortality wed together, he finds stability and safety of the State than prisons; day, when the eternal covenant of truth shines to his discipleS, in all the scriptures, the things 
in the appointments of God, his word, his house, and the lessons of Christianity, than stringent in all its splendor from the heavens : the Al- concerning himself. The apostles, in their de- 
his ordinances, all that is requisite in this dis- laws; and love and loyalty, the inner inspiration mighty keeps his word; and his hands are laden fence of the Messiahlip of Christ, expounded the 
pensation to aid, to stimulate, to improve, and of the soul, than the fears created by penal codes, with garlands for the Victor. He is still sleep- prophecies which related to him. The memorable 
fit him for a nobler and more glorious destiny. or the obedience forced from without by an Ar- ing silently and calmly in his chamber, and hell sermon on the day of Pentecost, was but an ex- 
Sinners need temples. They require to be gus-eyed police. Loyal subjects, and wise and is still rejoicing in the idea that it has obtained position of portions of Joel and the Psalms, prac-
arrested, roused, awakened, or .they perish in just and merciful rulers, are not the wild shoots the mastery, when suddenly the voice of the Al- tically enforced. Apollos mightily convinced 
their sins ; their minds require light, their judg- of nature, growing on the commons of the earth, mighty penetrates the tomb : the word " Arise !" the Jews by the exposition of their own scrip-
ments facts, their consciences conviction, their but divine plants, the planting of the Lord, and is pronounced over the corpse ;—in an instant the tures. An able article in the Christian Review 
whole nature regeneration, improvement, and requiring divine nutriment. I never can believe bandages are loosened, and the linen cloth is of December, 1842, on " The Systematic The-
elevation ; and no process has been shown or felt that the social order, all but universal allegiance, removed ; the stream of immortal life gushes elegy of the Early Church," to which we refer 
in the history of mankind to have been so fraught and enthusiastic reverence for our institutions in through the stiffened limbs ; the form of a ser- the reader, fully sustains our position. 
with power, as that of a faithfully preached this great land, are merely the results of com- vant disappears, and the Son of man rises from 2. Another argument is drawn from the ef- 
gosp el. 
mercial calculation of loss by their removal—or the dust in unspeakable glory and brightness. fects produced upon the preacher's mind. These 
Saints need temples no less than sinners. of Saxon doggedness, or of pure habit, or of Heaven is set in motion, and the angels of God are various and important. 
They are the corn in the field, the flowers in the traditional veneration. Their roots have struck, descend to pay homage to the Prince of Life. A I. Exposition disciplines the mind. 
garden, the branches of the vine, and they must no doubt, into the convictions and hearts, but seraph opens for his Lord the door of the tomb, The preparation of an exposition requites 
have the dew-drops and sunbeams of the sky to deeper and stronger still, I believe, into the con- and the earth trembles with joy under the feet close, hard thinking; not the dr:liking of mathe-
fall upon them, or they wither; they are depen- sciences of our people. A jus humanum in it- of its glorified King; the stones call out " Ho- matical reasoning, it is true, but the more diffi-
dent, they live on influences from above. Grace self thus rises to the rank and strength of a jus sanna !" and the rocks rending asunder are his cult task of moral reasoning. The expositor is 
is an exotic; it is implanted from on high, amid divinum ; and in the blow levelled at the ordi- hymns of praise; the guards who watched his obliged to master the shades of sense which dis-
an inhospitable and uncongenial world, and it nance of man, they see a stain aimed at the hon- tomb, the representatives of his enemies, now tinguished the signification of words. Having 
must be sustained and invigorated from the source or of God. The true charter of our social liber- overpowered by his majesty, lie like dead men, settled the sense of individual terms, he must 
of its birth; and it has been invariably and uni- ties is the word of God; and the place where its on the ground at his feet; the saints, after the now grasp the whole scope of thought, and bring 
formly found, in all places, ages, and circuit'. words are read, and its responsibilities impressed slumber of thousands of years, rise out of their it up to one view. Besides, a pastor who has 
stances, that the greater our growth in grace, —call it cathedral, church, or chapel—is a place graves to bear witness that the ,land of death has promised his people a course of expository ser-
the greater becomes our appetite for the means on which the State mightily depends. It is the been conquered, and the power of death taken mons, feels the necessity of application, as he 
of its maintenance and increase—the exercises Bible that exposes all forms of tyranny and false- away. Nature, adorned in the fairest colors of would not without his pledge. 
and influences of the sanctuary of God. It was hood, by bringing before the mind the types, and spring, seems in silent adoration to solemnize the Thus urged, he thinks and thoroughly investi- 
no sentimental poet, but holy David, who wrote images, and formulas, of immortal truth and triumph of her Creator; and the sun, which is gates. As difficulties rise, he grapples them with 
the eigty-fourth Psalm : " How amiable are thy spiritual freedom ; by displacing the authority even now issuing forth in all its glory from the manly vigor, and by the exercise of his power, 
tabernacles, 0 Lord of hosts ! My soul longeth, of 'the Church by the authority of Christ; by flaming gates of the firmament, appears to be as- greatly increases them. But why prepare ser-
yea even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord. annihilating the decretals of popes by the voice cending for no other purpose than to swell the mons ? Why not study the Scriptures, and think, 
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : a day of God. Put away our Bibles, and pull down coronation splendor of the great Prince of Life ! and thus discipline the mind ? For the well 
in thy courts is better than a thousand ; I had our sanctuaries, and how long will our institu- Never have we seen Jesus as he now appears known reason, that" man is a lazy being, and 
rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, tions remain? The Bible is the palladium of bursting from the tonab! We saw him when he said needs something to urge him to his work. Facts 
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." The our constitutional freedom : with the Bible,' we unto the devils, " Come out of him !" and they will show, that ninety-nine out of a hundred of 
soul grows in capacity with its progress in knowl- can never be enslaved, without it we cannot re- came : we saw him when he rebuked the raging the pastors of the present day never have, and 
edge and truth; one satisfaction delighting it main long free : what is brightest in our history elements ; and we broke forth into the cry of as- never will, so study the whole Bible as to be 
awhile, indeed, but preparing it also to thirst for is reflected from it; what is most powerful, pure, tonishment, " What manner of man is this, that able to give even a tolerable opinion upon their 
new and more glorious draughts from the foun- and holy in our constitution is inspired by it. even the winds and the waves obey him !" We contents, unless they have adopted some system 
tain of living waters; and hence, wheresoever In the future dispensation, in which, as as- saw him when, monarch of nature, he trod upon by which they are obliged to do it. 
the invitation is sounded forth, on the highway serted in the passage under review, there will th&billows, which became like rocks under his 2. Exposition tends to make the preacher a 
or amid sacred furniture, from the pulpit or on be no temple, it may be proper to add, there feet ; and when he called into the abode of cor- strong man. To be " mighty in the Scriptures " 
the hill side, " Ho, every one that thirsteth, will be no necessity for a temple. In the an- ruption, " Lazarus, come forth !" and the dead is to be a strong minister. The Bible is the text 
come ye to the waters," it hears in such words cient temple of Jerusalem—the special and pe- man arose, and left his prison-house. But all 'book of his profession. If he understands that, 
sounds full of melody and irresistible attraction, culiar residence of Deity—were the Urim and this falls far short of that glory and splendor in and is able to bring its contents down to the inl-
and resolves, at all hazard or expense, to be Thummim, the Shechinah and the mercy-seat, which he rises to-day. Amidst all his previous derstanding and consciences of men, though 
there. The " company " of the people of God and the overshadowing cherubim. But in the wonders and miracles, he was not so highly ex- rough be his eloquence, he is a strong man. 
is a Christian's " own," the scene, the source, coming dispensation, the temple will be coexten- alted as now, at the moment when we greet him Such was Apollos, and such were Luther, 
the kindler of fellowship, sympathy, commun- sive with the city, the Church and State will be with hallelujahs in the garden of Joseph. If we Zwingle, and the older Reformers. 
ion ; and therefore they who have made the one ; the very walls will be built of those precious imagine him as we last beheld him, suffering the Having increased his knowledge by the prep- 
greatest progress in conformity to the Divine im- stones, fragments of which were placed on the pains of martyrdom, and the weight of our sins aration, he is further aided by the exercise of 
age, are they who seek most and frequent often- breastplate of the high priest ; and the glory of oppressing him—when, forsaken by God and by preaching. Yes, preaching gives him still clearer 
est the house of God, the assembly of the saints, the Lord, that dwelt between the cherubim of old, every creature, he was nailed to the cross, and conceptions of the sense, and fixes the whole more 
and enjoy its ennobling exercises with greatest will cover with its splendors every spot of the being made a curse for us, was rejected both by firmly in his mind. Every one knows that to 
delight and largest benefit. 
holy city. Then all citizens will be Christians, heaven and earth—we can scarcely believe 'that study any science to advantage, one must teach 
People of the living God, 
all rulers spiritual ; and the great idea of Ar- we behold the same Jesus in the glorious form it. Apply this to the preacher. Does he wish 
I have sought the world around, nold, so forcibly and eloquently rendered by the rising from the sepulchre. Yet he is the same, to study the Scriptures, and become in any good 
Paths of sin and sorrow trod, Duke of Argyll, in his recent work—impossible the same as he who once bore the curse of our degree master, let him teach them ? Let him 
Peace and comfort nowhere found. in this dispensation —will be actualized, and sins; and it is this which makes us wonder and think for himself. However much he may lum- 
Now to you my spirit turns, Church and State will be melted into one in the rejoice to-day. Lo ! he stands above his tomb, her his memory with the thoughts of others, those 
Turns a fugitive unblest ; 
New Jerusalem, inseparable and undistinguisha- a victorious hero, overpowered by death indeed, 
Brethren, where your altar burns, 
ideas will never became living members, but 
Oh receive me into rest ! 
ble for ever. All will be priests of God. but only for a time ; for death is now dead in mere wooden limbs, which, having no vital con- 
Lonely, I no longer roam, 
Such temples as exist on earth will be un- him, and has forever yielded to his supremacy. nection with his inner man, he can never use to 
Like the cloud, the wind, the wave, necessary in the future age, because all space The melancholy picture which w e beheld on Mount advantage. 
Where you dwell shall be my home, will be holiness to the Lord. In the ancient Golgotha can no longer be discerned : the body Some sensible man has said, that " he never 
Where you die shall be my grave ; economy, certain rules and acts of worship were of weakness, the tabernacle of fleeble flesh—the feared to debate with a man who has a large li- 
Mine the God whom you adore, so restricted to the temple of Jerusalem, that it heavy and earthly covering, a prey to the fury brary." This remark was probably made upon 
Your Redeemer shall be mine ; would have been sin to attempt to perform them of the elements—the mortal form in which he the supposition that many who are blest with nu- 
Earth can fill my heart no more, •in any other place. Thus it is written in Dent. atoned for our sins, all has been left behind him merous books are strongly tempted to use their 
Every idol I resign. 
12:13—" Take heed to thyself, that thou offer in the tomb. His body has received immortal eyes and memories, rather than their thinkin 
Society needs temples. The Christian Church not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou life, and the splendor of unchangeable bright- powers. Such are not strong, much less ready 
is the nursery of a Christian people. .A., society seest ; but in the place which the Lord shall ness ; and in his soul there is a paradise of men. Books injure no thinker. Commentaries 
that springs from the mosque, the Socialist's den, choose, in one of thy tribes, there shalt thou peace, and a heaven of joy and delight. There greatly aid the expositor. But the expository 
the Romish temple, will be found unmanagea- offer thy burnt-offerings, and do all that I com- is no longer a trace in his heart of sorrow and 
ble, unquiet, unprosperous, the mere slaves of a 
preacher must think for himself. 
mand thee." 
suffering, struggle and trial : his wounds are 
Expository Preaching. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
115 
3. Exposition qualifies the preacher for sound 
systematic doctrinal preaching. 
Systematic theology is simply the doctrines of 
the Bible arranged. It is a map of the whole 
field, so drawn, that the eye of the mind may 
perceive the relative position and bearing of 
each topic contained in it. Though the arrange-
ment is human it is not to be despised. But he 
who would draw the map of a country must first 
survey it, and minutely note the situation and 
bearing of each prominent place. Then, with 
the topography before him, he may draw his 
lines, and present the whole at one view. The 
man who would arrange a cabinet of minerals 
must first examine it article by article. Then, 
and then only can he assign each its appropriate 
place. So must the theologian understand his 
material is found chiefly in the Divine word, 
and must be drawn directly thence. How then 
can he understand the word, so as to evolve and 
arrange its doctrines, without careful critical ex- 
position ? 
• 
One may read authors, gather up their 
thoughts, and employ the Scripture which they 
have quoted, with their glosses ; but instead of 
drinking from the gurgling
° 
 fountain, bursting 
fresh from the'mountain's base, he descends far 
into the plains, and sips from the insipid stream, 
mudded by human imperfections. " Give me 
the Bible," said the dying Payson, and give me 
the Bible, said his living example in his study 
and pulpit. So should every theologian say, by 
word and by deed, " give me the Bible." We 
are not opposed to consulting men, both living 
and dead, but, they are ever to be held secon-
dary. Nor should a man consult any human 
opinion on a theological question, till he .has 
tasked his own energies, to ascertain from the 
living word what is the mind of the Spirit. Till 
then, he is not prepared to profit by consultation. 
In fine, no one can be a sound theologian who is 
unable to expound the word of God. 
Besides the less a man interprets Scripture, 
the more will he rely upon his reason and the 
opinions of others, until theology degenerates 
into mere philosophy. 
Paul, with prophetic vision, clear and far-
reaching, saw this evil, and warned us against 
it in those significant words, " Beware, lest any 
man spoil you through philosophy." Though he 
probably referred immediately to the disposition 
manifested in his day, to explain the sacred mys-
teries of Christ in accordance with the heathen 
philosophy. Yet, the spirit of the caution should 
guard us against neglecting Divine revelation, 
and resorting to human wisdom. The philoso-
phizing spirit of Origen, and the neglect of the 
pure word of God, paved the 'way for the Papa-
cy, and the same spirit, manifested in an undue 
dependence upon the opinions of the fathers, and 
the logic of the schools, is urging onward the 
Papal car at the present day. The prominent 
cause is a neglect of the Bible. 
Michigan Christian Herald. 
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Views of the Catholic Hierarchy. 
THE following are some of the authentic teach-
ings of the Church of Rome upon several famil-
iar topics. They are from authentic sources. 
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. 
The Church of Rome hates the freedom of the 
press, and justly looks to it with the most sen-
sitive apprehension, and the bitterest hate. The 
following extract from the Encylical Letter Cir-
cular, addressed by Pope Gregory XVI. in 1832, 
" To all Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and 
Bishops : " 
" Hither tends the worst and never sufficiently 
to be execrated and detested liberty of the press ; 
for the diffusion of all manner of writings, which 
some so loudly contend for and so actively pro-
mote. We shudder, venerable brethren, at the 
sight of the monstrous doctrines, or rather por-
tentous errors which crowd upon us in the shape 
of nurnberles volumes, and pamphlets, small in 
size, but big with evils, which stalk forth in 
every direction ; breathing a malediction, which 
we deplore, over the face of the earth. Yet are 
there not wanting, alas ! those who carry their 
effrontery so far as to pergist in maintaining that 
this amalgamation of errors is sufficiently resist-
ed, if in this inundation of bad books, a volume 
now and then issue from the press in favor of re-
ligion and truth. But is it not a crime then, 
never sufficiently to be reprobrated, to commit 
the deliberate and greater evil, merely with the 
hope of seeing some good arise out of it ? Or is 
that man in his senses, who entrusts poison to 
every hand, exposes it in -every smart, suffers it 
to be carried about on all occasions, aye, and to 
become a necessary ingredient of every cup, be-
cause an antidote may be afterwards procured 
which chance may render effective ? 
" Far other hath been the discipline of the 
Church in extirpating this pest of bad books, 
even as far back as the time of the apostles, who 
we read committed a great number of books pub-
licly to the flames. It is enough to read the law 
passed in the fifth Council of Lateran on this sub-
ject, and the constitution afterwards promulgated 
by our predecessor of happy memory, Leo Xth, 
That what was wholesomely invented for the 
faith, and for the extension of useful arts, may 
not be diverted to a contrary purpose, and be-
come an obstacle to the salvation of Christ's 
faithful.' The subject engaged the closest atten-
tion of the Council of Trent, and as a remedy to 
so great an evil, they passed that most salutary 
decree for forming an index of the volumes in 
which depraved doctrines are contained. No 
means must be omitted,' says Clement XIIth, 
our predecessor of happy memory, in the En-
cylical letter on the proscription of bad books, 
no means must be here omitted as the extremity 
of the case calls for all our exertions, to exter-
minate the fatal pest which spreads through so 
many works : nor can the materials of error be 
otherwise destroyed than by the flames, which 
consume the depraved elements of evil.' " 
COMMON SCHOOLS. 
Archbishop Hughes has lately publicly de-
clared that it is better children should be allowed 
to grow up in ignorance, rather than to be edu-
cated at our common schools. 
In the place of the " Common School Sys-
tem," the Jesuit priesthood strive to substitute 
their own, which perhaps may be as well appre-
hended by the following words of Ignatius Loyo-
la, the founder of " the sacred order of Jesus!" 
He says : 
" Lastly, a means easy and safe, of subjugat-
ing the judgment is that which was a habit with 
the holy fathers—namely, to fix it in your mind 
that whatever a superior commands is the order 
and will of God himself; (not much mind re-
quired for that certainly,) and as when you are 
required to believe according to the Catholic 
faith, you bend your whole will and mind to do 
so, in like manner in bringing yourself to per-
form the order, let it be what it may, of the su-
perior, a certain blind impulse of the will shall 
bear you forward, without giving space for in-
quiry. Thus did Abraham obey when command-
ed to offer up his son; and thus in the times of 
the New Testament, i. e., under the Christian 
dispensation, did a holy father exercise his vir-
tue as recorded by Cassian. As for instance the 
Abbot John, who inquired not whether that which 
he was ordered to do was useful, or not ; but 
continued daily throughout the year, and with 
great labor, to watch the dead stump of a 
tree ; nor did he ask even if it was profitable or 
not, as when he applied his whole strength to ef-
fect the removal of a huge block of stone, to 
which the united strength of many would have 
been unequal. This sort of obedience has, in 
some cases, received the divine approval by 
means of miracles. As not to mention instances 
which yourselves are aware of, that of St. Maur, 
a Benedictine, may be named, who when at com-
mand of hiS superiors, he walked into a lake, 
did not sink ; or that of one who commanded by 
his superior, to bring him a lioness, went and 
caught her, and brought it to him. Such is the 
method of bringing the judgment into subjection, 
and of approving without hesitation, every com-
mand of the superior, not manifestly sinful, which 
holy men have observed, but which those who 
desire to attain to a perfect obedience will imi-
tate !" 
( For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No. XXXI.—VENICE. 
THE DOGE'S PALACE. 
THIS has two fronts, the southern, on the Molo, 
towards the sea, and the eastern on the Piazet-
ta. The lower story is an open gallery original-
ly clear through to the interior court, but now 
closed up on that side, and that part of it on the 
Piazzetta was formerly called the Broglio, and 
was the resort of the Venetian nobles, when they 
wished to see each other on business. At the 
time of our visit it was occupied by the Austrian 
guard, and several pieces of artillery were plant-
ed in front of it, commanding the Piazzetta, so 
as to quell any popular rising which might take 
place there. 
We passed through the Porta della Carta, 
into the cortile, or interior court, and crossing 
it ascended the " Giant's Stair-case," so called 
from two colossal statues by Sansovino, of Mars 
and Jupiter, which stand one on each side at 
the head of the stair-case. The ceremony of the 
coronation of the Doge was anciently performed 
at the head of the stair-case. Turning to the 
right, we pass along the loggia or open gallery, 
of the second story and see on the wall the open-
ings of the terrible lions' mouths, the receptacle 
of all secret communications in state affairs. 
Near the end of this side is the great stair-case, 
the Scala d'Oro, i. e., " Stair-case of Gold." 
Ascending two flights, we gain admission to the 
suite of rooms which occupy the two fronts of 
the Palace. The firstroom is an ante-chamber, 
filled with books, from which we pass into the 
Salla dell Maggior Consiglio, i. e., the " Hall 
of the Greater Council," a magnificent room, 
one hundred and seventy-five and a half feet 
long, eighty-four and one-third broad, and fifty-
one and one-third high, adorned with the most 
splendid paintings by Tintoretto, Bassano, Paul 
Veronese, and others, illustrating' the glories of 
Venice. " Paradise " by Tintoretto on the east 
end of the hall, is saidcto be the largest picture 
ever painted upon canvas, being eighty-four and 
one-third feet in width, and thirty-four in height. 
The Public Library is now kept in this room. 
The ceiling is rich with painting and gilding, and 
just below the cornice there is a series of por-
traits of the Doges, with the black veil covering 
the space, which should have been occupied by 
Marino Falieri and the well known inscription, 
" Hic est locus, Marini Faletro, decapitati pro 
criminibus This is the place of Marino Fa- 
lieri, who was beheaded for his crimes." 
A corridor connects this hall with the Sala 
dello Scrutinio, i. e., " Hall of the Inquisition," 
which is also adorned with historical pictures, 
and a continuation of the Doges' portraits. 
The upper story contains another suite of 
apartments, adorned with many fine paintings, 
and rich in historical associations, the " Senate 
Hall," with the same furniture as in the days of 
the Republic ; the room where the " Council 
of Three " held their sittings—the Audience 
Chamber in which the Doge and his Privy Coun-
cil received foreign ambassadors. I sat in the 
Doge's chair, and to aid my imagination, thun-
dered out an imperative mandate, sentencing the 
prisoner at the bar to the lowest dungeons of the 
Palace; whereat one guide manifested great con-
sternation and begged us to desist, lest we should 
be arrested on suspicion of revolutionary de-
signs. From some of these rooms there were se-
cret communications with the dungeons below. 
Descending to the second story, we entered 
another apartment, from which we were conduct-
ed to the Pozzi, i. e., " Wells "—two ranges of 
state dungeons one below the other. As we went 
down the narrow passage between the solid stone 
walls into the dark, close, heavy air below, 
where our lantern gave but a feeble light, it 
seemed as if we were bidding forewell to free-
dom, happiness, and hope, and a cold shudder 
passed over me as I thought how many had gone 
down these steps, never to return. The cells are 
about five paces in length, two and a half in 
width, and perhaps seven feet high. They are 
closed by double doors, and the only opening 
was a small round hole in the wall over the door. 
At the end of the narrow passage into which the 
cells open, is a small grated window. I went 
into one of the cells and closed the door, while 
the guides stood without, and I tried to conceive 
the feelings of one immured there. It seemed as 
if it would be impossible to sustain life there 
many days. 
At the end of another passage is a door open-
ing into a small room, with a grated window and 
a door in the outside wall. This was the place 
of execution. The condemned was seated upon 
a stone step and an iron collar fastened around 
his neck and gradually tightened by a screw. 
The body was then taken out through the out-
side door which is about on a level with the wa-
ter, and carried off in a boat and sunk in the 
Adriatic. 
We afterwards crossed the covered bridge 
which connects the Palace with the prison, called 
the Bridge of Sighs. 
I have ever seen. They represent various scenes 
in the history of our Lord, and the figures of the 
purest white marble, stand out with a boldness 
and beauty of workmanship I have never seen 
equalled. Here is the celebrated Peter Martyr 
by Titian, one of his finest paintings. 
In the open space in front of this church stand 
the celebrated statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni da 
Bergamo, the second equestrian statue erected 
in. Italy after the revival of the arts. 
We also visited the Academy of the Fine 
Arts, an extensive collection of paintings and 
scutpture, containing the finest specimens of the 
Venetian school, by Titian, Paul Veronese, Tin-
toretto, Bassano, &c., and several of the palace 
similarly enriched. We applied to the Austrian 
commandant for permission to visit the Arsenal, 
but failing to obtain it were obliged to content 
ourselves with sailing up to the entrance and ad-
miring the four colossal marble lions which were 
brought from the Peloponnesus in 1685. One 
of them formerly stood at the entrance of the 
Piraeus at Athens. 
This Arsenal is said to be nearly three miles 
in circuit, surrounded by walls and towers built 
between 1307 and 1320. It has four basins, 
nearly surrounded by dry docks and slips for the 
building of vessels and workshops. The armor-
ies contain many curious specimens of ancient 
armor and weapons, and instruments of torture 
—and the model-room has some interesting illus-
trations of naval architecture in former times. 
One is deeply impressed with the greatness of 
Venice in her palmiest days. 
Venice has always been famous for street 
music. Some of it is very good. One day while 
dining at the Restaurant San Gallo, in the open 
square before the building, we were entertained 
with music by an old man of sixty-seven years, 
who played a violin and accompanied it with 
his voice. He was succeeded by a lady and two 
men with a violin and two guitars, who made 
very sweet music. The passers by stopped to 
listen, heads were put out from the neighboring 
windows,—at one window was a nurse with a 
beautiful child—the whole scene was very pic-
turesque. I copied the following inscription 
upon the house opposite : " Has cedes Frances-
coniorum, quas ob diuturnae amicitiae candorem 
lautioribus hospitiis praetulerat, Antonius Cano-
va sculpturm princeps, extremo halitu consecra-
vit." 3 Ides Oct. 1822. " This house of the 
Francescans, which, on account of the sincerity 
of long continued friendship, he had preferred 
to more splendid hospitality, Antony Canova, 
the prince of sculpture, consecrated by his last 
breath." 
We threaded the narrow passages of the city., 
we crossed the Rialto and sought for counter-
parts of the Jew Shylock, we explored the ca- 
nals and bridges in our gondola, we floated down 
the Grand Canal in the golden glow of sunset, 
singing " Virginia, melodies," and taking a linger- 
ing farewell of those stately palaces, stately even 
in their decay, many of them evidently settling 
down into the water, with great cracks in their 
walls, broken cornices, and grass growing upon 
their roofs,—we did our shopping in the arcades 
of the Piazza, we took our last ice at " Florian's," 
and thus ended the fairy spell of Venice. The 
next morning as we were rowed from the hotel 
to the railway station about day-break, a cold 
gray mist rested upon everything; everything 
was damp, dreary, and uncomfortable ; all the 
romance was gone, and we were glad to take our 
departure. 
S. J. M. M. 
CAN INSECTS TALK I 
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, in a late is-
sue, quotes the following from the Natural His-
tory of Animals, by Rymer Jones : 
" A striking instance of the possession of a 
capability of spreading intelligence, and that of 
a somewhat abstruse character, is furnished by 
Huber and others upon bees. Every one is 
aware that the queen-bee is an object of the 
greatest solicitude and attention to the workers 
of the hive ; a.nd yet, among so many thousands, 
all busily employed in different and distant parts 
of the colcuiy, it would appear impossible for 
them to ascertain, at least befbre the lapse of a 
considerable time, whether she was absent or not. 
In order to see whether bees had a power of con-
veying news of this kind, the queen-bee has 
been stealthily and quietly abstracted from the 
hive ; but here, as elsewhere, ill-news was found 
to fly 'apace. For some half-hour or so, the loss 
seemed not to be ascertained, but the progress-
ively-increasing buzz of agitation gradually an-
nounced the growing alarm, till shortly the 
whole hive was in an uproar, and all its busy 
occupants were seen pouring forth their legions 
in search of their lost monarch, or eager to 
avenge, with their stings, the insult offered to 
their sovereign. On restoring the captured queen 
to her subjects, with equal secresy, the tumult 
speedily subsided, and .the ordinary business of 
the community was resumed, as before the oc-
currence. That in such cases as those above 
narrated, information, and that of rather a com- 
CHURCHES OF VENICE. 
These are numerous and splendid, filled with 
paintings and sculpture. The church of Sa. 
Maria Gloriosa de' Frani contains many fine 
tombs. A plain slab in the pavement marks the 
spot where Titian was buried, who died in 1575, 
at the age of ninety-nine. In the body of the 
church are two large and splendid monuments ; 
on the right that of the unfortunate Doge Fosca-
ri, who died 1457 ; opposite is that of the Doge 
1Vicoli Tron, who died 1472, an immense struc-
ture, fifty feet in width, and seventy in height, 
composed of six distinct stories, and adorned by 
nineteen whole length figures larger than life, 
besides a profusion of bas-reliefs and other orna-
ments. 
The monument of the Doge Giovanni Pesaro, 
(who died 1658,) is also a stupendous fabric, in 
singular taste. It is supported by Moors or Ne-
groes, of black marble, dressed in white marble, 
their black elbows and knees protruding through 
the rents of their white jackets and trowsers. 
The bronze skeletons bear sepulchral scrolls ; 
and dragons sustain a funeral urn. In the centre 
sits the Doge. 
By the side of this is the monument erected 
to the memory of CANOVA the sculptor. It is a 
repetition of his own design fbr the Archduchess 
Christina at Vienna—a vast pyramid of white 
marble, with open doors of bronze, into which 
various mourners, Art, Genius, &c., are seen 
walking in funeral procession. 
The door of the sacristy is a triumphal arch, 
erected in honor of the Venetian general Bene-
detto Pesaro. Over the Pesaro altar is a beau-
tiful votive picture by Titian. 
The church of San Giovanni e Paolo con-
tains many fine sculptures. Here are the monu-
ments of the Doge Michele Morosini, (died 1382,) 
the Doge Leonardo Loredano, (died 1521,) and 
the Doge Andrea Vendarnin, (died 1478,) and 
many other Doges and Generals: The chapel of 
the Rosary is adorned with the finest alti-rilievi 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
plea character, was transmittdd by one insect to 
another, cannot be doubted ; but by what means ? 
All that has been ascertained upon this point is, 
that the ants and the bees cross their antennae 
in a peculiar manner with the antenna of the 
others that they encounter, and this action, be-
ing repeated again and again, seems to be a mode 
of .communicating intelligence common among 
the insect races, 
2hent Cyraa 
BOSTON, APRIL 9, 1853. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER VII. 
And it came to pass in the (lays of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the 
son of 1;zziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pe-
kah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem 
to war against it, but could not prevail against it.—v. 1. 
AHAZ king of Judah, and PEKAH king of Israel 
reigned contemporary but three years. PEKAH be- 
gan his reign B. c. 757. And, 2 Kings 16 : 1, " In 
the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Rema-
liah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham king of Judah, be- 
gan to reign "—B. C. 741. Pekah " reigned twenty 
years," (2 Kings 15:27,) only three beyond the ac-
cession of Ahaz : so that the events here described 
must have been between B. c. 741-739. But this 
invasion is supposed to have been in the first year 
of the reign of Ahaz, B. c. 741—seventeen years 
after the date of the previous vision. 
Before the accession of Ahaz to the throne of 
Judah, and while Jotham was king, Pekah and 
Rezin had formed designs against Jerusalem. 2 
Kings 15 : 37—" In those days the LORD began to 
send against Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and 
Pekah the son of Remaliah." When Ahaz came 
to the throne, he proved to be a wicked prince : 
2 Chron. 28 : 1-6, 8—" He did not that which was 
right in the sight of the LORD, like David his fa-
ther : for lie walked in the ways of the kings of 
Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. 
Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son 
of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, af-
ter the abominations of the heathen whom the 
LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high 
places, and on the hills, and under every green 
tree. Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him 
into the hand of the king of Syria ; and they smote 
him, and carried away a great multitude of them 
captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he 
was also delivered into the hand of the king of Is-
rael, who smote him with a great slaughter. For 
Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hun-
dred and twenty thousand in one day, which were 
all valiant men ; because they had forsaken the 
LORD God of their fathers. .. . .. And the children of 
Israel carried away captive of their brethren two 
hundred: thousand, women, sons, and daughters, 
and took also away much spoil from them, and 
brought the spoil to Samaria." 
The above invasions seem to have been.in a meas-
ure independent of each other, and previous to the 
league between the two monarchs. They failed to 
overcome Ahaz, but he was fearfully alarmed at 
the report that the' two invading kings had joined 
their forces, and were to make a united attack on 
him. 
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate 
with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and tile heart of his peo- 
pie, 
 
as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind—v. 2. 
By metonymies, the " house " is put far the 
family of David ; Syria for its inhabitants, and 
the heart for the mind.. And by a simile, the ef-
fect which this intelligence produced on the king 
and people of Judah, is likened to the action of 
the wind on the trees of the forest. As ttey are 
swayed to and fro, so were the hearts of the king 
and people violently agitated, and filled with con-
sternation. By the use of a metaphor, they are 
said to be " moved.." It was probably at this time 
that Ahaz (2 Kings.16:7) " sent messengers to Tig-
lath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am thy ser-
vant and thy san : come up, and save me out of 
the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand 
of the king of Israel, which rise up against me "—
probably in the second year of his reign, B. c. 740. 
He looked not to GoD for help, but trusted in man. 
He might have feared the entire loss of his king- 
dons. But Gon had purposed to preserve the house 
of David till the MESSIAH should come—notwith-
standing it was necessarY to chastise it. 
Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, 
and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper 
pool in the high-way of the fuller's field ; and say unto him, 
Take heed, and be quiet ; fear not, neither be faint-hearted, 
For the two tails of these smoking fire-brands, 
For the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Rema-
liah.—vs. 3, 4. 
The name of Isaiah's son, " Shear-jashub," sig-
nified " the remnant shall return." The children 
of Isaiah were given him " for signs and for won-
ders in Israel." (Isa. 8 : 18.) Therefore, to take 
Shear-jashub, was an assurance that the nation 
should not be entirely destroyed, but that, if car-
ried into captivity, a remnant should return—as 
they afterwards did from the Babylonian bondage. 
The place where they went to meet Ahaz, is sup-
posed to have been on the south-west side of the 
city, at the head of the valley of Hinnom. Jeru-
salem was supplied with water from two pools or 
lakes outside of the city. This was the " upper 
pool," called Gihon, (2 Chron. 32:30), and Enro-
gel, or the fuller's fountain, (Josh. 15 : 7.) The 
end of the conduit, or aqueduct, was probably 
where it entered the city ; and the king had doubt-
less gone there with his court to secure the foun-
tain for the use of the city during the expected 
siege, or to prevent the enemy front appropriating 
it to their own use. Its exact location is a subject 
of some doubt. 
The exhortation to Ahaz was designed to quiet 
the alarm of the king. In like manner, Moses 
spake to the children of Israel, when the Egyp-
tians had pursued them to the Red Sea (Ex. 14:13), 
" Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of 
the Loan." 
By a metaphor, the confederate kings are called 
the tails, i. e., the ends of " two smoking fire-
brands "—brands nearly burnt out. By a meto-
nymy, Syria is again put for the people of that 
country. The prophet shows his contempt for Pe-
kah, by calling him " the son of Remaliah," in-
stead of his own name. • As the remains of two 
fire-brands, they were not objects of alarm. The 
message of the prophet is continued : 
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, 
Have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 
Let us go up against Judah and vex it, 
And let us make a breach therein for us, 
And set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 
Thus saith the Lord God, 
It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.—vs. 5-7. 
By a metonymy, Syria is again used for its in-
habitants, and by the same figure, Judah is used 
for the land they possessed. Who the son of Ta-
beal was, to whom they purpoSed to give the king-
dom, is not known—there being no other histori-
cal reference to him. As a pillar or edifice, when 
overturned ceases to stand, so, by the use of a 
metaphor, the counsel purposed against Judah, 
was not to stand. Then follow the reasons why it 
would be ineffectual : 
For the head of Syria is Damascus, 
And the head of Damascus is Rezin ; 
And within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that 
it be not a people. 
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, 
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. 
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.-vs. 8, 9. 
Bishop Lowth suggests that there has been a 
transposition of these words, and thinks they origi-
nally read thus—with the exception of his transla-
tion which does not improve the sense : 
"For the head of Syria is Damascus, 
And the head of Damascus is Rezin, 
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, 
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son ; 
And within threescore and five years 
Shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." 
It is only by the use of a metaphor that the capi-
tal can be said to be the head of a country ; or the 
king the head of the capital. On these heads, 
each respectively relied. They had no deities who 
could enable them to carry their evil counsel into 
effect, and therefore could make no headway against 
the purposes of the LORD God, who offered to pro-
tect Judah. Besides, the LORD had purposed that 
in seventy-five years Ephraim should be broken, 
and be no longer a people. As a vessel may be 
broken into fragments, so, by a metaphor, the ten 
tribes were to be " broken "—separated and scat-
tered, never to be known as an independent nation 
or a distinct people. Consequently, Judah had 
but little to fear from them. 
This prophecy began to be fulfilled soon after the 
utterance of the prediction. Ahaz having sent to 
Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, for protection 
against Syria and Ephraim, " the king of Assyria 
hearkened unto him " (2 Kings 16 : 9) : " for the 
king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and 
took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, 
and slew Rezin." 2 Kin. 17:1-3—" In the twelfth 
year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son 
of Elah, to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the 
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel were before 
him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of 
Assyria ; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave 
him presents.." This was B. c. 729, and Hoshea 
made annual presents to the king of Assyria, six 
years. 
lb. vs. 4-6—" And the king of Assyria 
found conspiracy in Hoshea : for he had sent mes-
sengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no pres-
ent to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by 
year : therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, 
and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria 
came up throughout all the land, and went up to 
Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth 
year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, 
and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed 
them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Go-
zan, and in the cities of the Medes." 
The last king of the ten tribes thus terminated 
his reign B. c. 720—twenty years after the date of 
the prophecy. But though the kingdom was broken, 
it does not appear to have been entirely stripped 
of its inhabitants till forty-five years later, B. C. 
776, in the twenty-second year of Manasseh king 
of Judah, who (2 Chron. 33 : 9-13) " made Judah 
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do 
worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had de-
stroyed before the children of Israel. And the 
LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people : but 
they would not hearken. Wherefore the Loan 
brought upon them the captains of the host of the 
king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the 
thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried 
him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, 
he besought the LORD his God, and humbled him-
self greatly before the God of his fathers, and 
prayed unto him : and he was entreated of him, 
and heard his supplication, and brought him again 
to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh 
knew that the LORD he was God." At this time it 
is supposed the final deportation of Israel from 
their land took place, which was the sixty-fifth 
year from the date of Isaiah's prophecy. We read 
(2 Kings 17 : 18, 22-24) that " the LORD was very 
angry with Israel, and removed them out of his 
sight : there was none left but the tribe of Judah 
only. . . . The children of Israel walked in all the 
sins of Jeroboam which he did ; they departed not 
from them ; until the LORD removed Israel out of 
his sight, as he had said by all his servants the 
prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their 
own land to Assyria unto this day. And the king 
of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from 
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and 
from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of 
Samaria instead of the children of Israel ; and they 
possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." 
Since then, the ten tribes have never dwelt in 
their own land. A portion of them became incor-
porated with the Jews, and the remainder were 
scattered among the nations. 
Looking back to that period, we can see the ful-
filment of the prophecy ; but to Ahaz, when it was 
uttered, its fulfilment was in the future. And the 
prophet said to him, " if ye will not believe, surely 
ye shall not be established." The prophesy was 
unconditional, but faith on the part of the king 
was necessary for his own permanency. Ahaz, it 
seems, lead little faith in the prophet's word. Yet 
the LORD was very indulgent to him, and offered to 
give present proof of its future fulfilment : 
Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a 
sign of the Lord thy God 5 ask it either in the depth, or in the height 
above.—vs. 
It was thus in the power of the king to have any 
miraculous demonstration that he might wish, of 
the truth of the prediction. He might himself 
designate the phenomenon. 
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.—v. 12. 
Ahaz' refusal to ask a sign of GOD, was not out 
of respect to GOD ; for he was a confirmed idolater, 
and trusted in other gods. 2 Kings 16 : 4—" He 
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and 
on the hills, and under every green tree." He also 
trusted that the king of Assyria would help him ; 
for he had sent for him. 2 Chron. 28 : 20, 22-25 : 
" And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto 
him, and distressed him, but strengthened him 
not. . . . And in the time of his distress did he 
trespass yet more against the LORD : this is that 
king Ahaz. For he sacrificed unto the gods of Da-
n ascus, which smote him : and he said, Because 
the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore 
will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. 
But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the 
house of GoD, and cut in pieces the vessels of the 
house of GOD, and shut up the doors of the house 
of the LORD, and he made him altars in every cor-
ner of Jerusalem. And in every several city of 
Judah he made high places to burn unto other 
gods, and provoked to anger the Loan God of his 
fathers." 
Such was his impious conduct after GOD'S gra-
cious condescension to furnish him with any evi- 
I dence he might demand, of the truth of GOD'S 
promise. And therefore GOD thus rebukes him : 
And he said, Hear ye now, 0 house of David ! Is it a small thing 
for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also ?—v. 13. 
Weariness, by a metaphor, attributed to GOD, 
can only imply the offensiveness to GOD of the 
king's wickedness, while bearing long with him. 
The " house of David," by a metonymy, is put 
for the family of David: GoD had said to David, 
(2 Sam. 7:16,) "Thy house and thy kingdom shall 
be established for ever before thee ; thy throne 
shall be established for ever." 1If his children 
should commit iniquity, they were to be chastened 
with the stripes of men ; but he was never to want 
a son to sit upon his throne for ever. 
(To be continued.) 
THE SAVIOUR'S PROPHECY 
OP 
JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION, AND THE WORLD'S TERMI- 
NATION. 
MATT. XXI V. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Vs. 9, 10—[" But before all thesa they shall lay their hands on 
you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and 
into prisons, being brougl.t before kings and' rulers for my name's 
sake : and it shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore 
in.your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I 
will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall 
not be able to gainsay nor resist."—Luke, vs. 12-15] "Then shall 
they deliver you up to be afflicted : [` and ye shall be betrayed both 
by parents and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends '—Luke], and 
shall kill ['some of—Luke) you: and ye shall be hated of all na-
tions for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and 
shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." 1" But there 
shall not a hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye 
your souls."—Luke.] 
THE following illustration of this portion of the 
prophecy is copied from an article on this subject, 
given by brother Litch, in the _Herald, two years 
since : 
" Persecutions against the disciples of CHRIST be-
gan at an early age after the ascension of CHRIST. 
The first of magnitude was that which arose against 
Stephen, as recorded in the 7th chap. of the Acts 
of the Apostles. Under the leadership of Saul of 
Tarsus, havoc was made of the Church, and they 
were scattered abroad, and went everywhere preach-
ing the word, Saul and his confederates pursuing 
them and persecuting them even unto strange cities. 
Nero was the first Roman emperor who instituted 
a formal persecution against the saints of GoD, in 
A. D. 64. He is said to have fired the city of Rome, 
that he might have the pleasure of witnessing the 
conflagration ; and then to shield himself from the 
odium of such a transaction, he charged the crime 
on the Christians, and instituted a most terrific 
persecution, which raged with great ferocity till 
the death of the monster. 
" The next general persecution waged by the em-
perors, was A. D. 94, under Domitian, a monarch 
of similar character to Nero. It was during this 
persecution, and under this emperor, that John 
was banished to the Isle of Patmos, where the vis- 
ions of coming events were opened to him. Domi- 
tian almost exterminated Christianity for the time 
being. No station in life was sufficient security to 
protect the disciples of CHRIST. Flavius Clemens, 
a man of Consular dignity, with his mifc, who had 
become Christians, were put to death. 
" in the year 106 or 107, a violent persecution 
raged in Bythinia, an account of which was com- 
municated by Pliney, the governor of the province, 
to Trajan the Roman emperor. From his account, 
it is evident that the persecution was waged from 
hatred to the name of CHRIST ; and that treachery 
was rife, so that they betrayed one another to so 
alarming an extent, as to fill even the government 
with terror. Pliney says : ' In the course of this 
business, informations pouring in, as is usual when 
they are encouraged, more cases occurred. An 
anonymous libel was exhibited, with a catalogue 
of names of persons who declared that they were 
not Christians then, and never had been.' 
" Marcus Antonio assumed the Imperial dignity 
161. He was a bitter persecutor of the followers of 
CHRIST, and continued his persecution for nineteen 
years. During his reign Justin Martyr, and the 
venerable Polycarp, with other eminent Christians, 
suffered death. Whenibrought before the tribunal 
in the hundredth year of his age, the proconsul told 
him to reproach CHRIST, and he would release him. 
' Eighty and six years,' said Polyearp, have I 
served him, and he bath never wronged me, and 
how can I blaspheme my King who hath saved 
me?' And with the most perfect triumph, he yield-
ed himself up to death for the sake of CHRIST. 
" The emperor Severua, in 203, passed an edict 
forbidding any of his subjects to change their re-
ligion, hoping thereby to retard the spread of Chris-
tianity. Many under it were brought to a cruel 
dea,,tAh. i 
aximin, a few years after, continued the per-
secution of the followers of CHRIST. But Decius, 
who became emperor in 249, waged a most dreadful 
war of extermination against the Christian cause. 
He directed his officers to exterminate the whole 
race of Christians, on pain of death, or to force 
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years, and vast multitudes of martyrs suffered. 
Valerian also manifested the spirit of intolerance 
and persecution ; and under his reign Cyprian fell 
a glorious martyr to the cause of CHRIST, in the 
hope of a better resurrection. 
" In the commencement of the fourth century, 
under Dioclesian, a most violent persecution raged 
for eight years. It began in 302, by pulling down 
the churches of Christians, burning their books, 
and depriving them of civil rights. 
" The recital of their sufferings would appear al- informed of his crime, nor permitted to know who 
had informed against him. But torture after tor-
ture was inflicted for the purpose of inducing con-
fession. Says Voltaire : ' This procedure, unheard 
of till the Inquisition, makes all Spain tremble ; 
suspicion reigns in all bosoms ; friendship and 
quietness are at an end ; brother dreads brother ; 
and father his own son.' 
" Lorente thus gives the statistics of the Spanish 
Inquisition, from the year 1481 to the present cen-
tury. 
" All the victims condemned and burnt, 33,912 ; 
burned in effigy, 15,695 ; placed in a state of pen-
ance, with rigorous punishment, 291,150 ; total 
341,057. 
" When the city of Beziers was taken by the Cru-
saders in 1209, seven hundred Christian Albigenses 
were slain in one church ; sixty thousand perished 
in all. 
" When the city of Lavour was taken, eighty 
gentlemen were slain in cold blood : the governor 
and his lady were put to death, four hundred Chris-
tians burned alive ; and all the rest of the citizens 
indiscriminately put to the sword ! 
" When Languedoc was invaded, one hundred 
thousand Albigenses fell in one day. 
" A Papal historian, Mezerai, says of the mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew's eve,J.n Paris : The 
streets were paved with dead bodies and the mor-
tally wounded, the gateways were blocked up with 
them. There were heaps of them in the squares ; 
the small streams were filled with human blood, 
which flowed in torrents to the river.' 
" ' Similar massacres were enacted, at the same 
time, at Meaux ; at Troyes ; at Orleans ; at Ne-
vers ; at La Charite ; at Toulouse ; at Barbades ; 
and at Lyons. France was drenched in the blood 
of the Huguenot Christians in the reign of Charles 
IX.' 
" There perished under Pope Julian 200,000 
Christians ; and by the French massacre, on a 
moderate calculation, in three months, 100,000. 
Of the Waldenses, there perished 150,000 ; of the 
Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesu-
its, in thirty years only, 900,000. The amount 
murdered by the Duke of Alva, is set down by Gro-
tius at 100,000. 
" The estimate of the number of deaths of thich 
the Church of Rome is guilty, is estimated by those 
most competent to make it, at 68,500,000. The 
amount of suffering endured by these individuals, 
and the heart-rending anguish caused by their suf-
ferings among surviving friends, what mind can es-
timate or pen describe ! 
" Well did the 'Holy Ghost, in describing this 
horrid system, present it as having a mouth speak-
ing great things, and making war upon the saints 
and prevailing against them. 
" The facts given 'above are mostly from Dr. 
Brownlee's ' Roman Catholic Controversy.' They 
are necessarily briefly stated, and present an.inade- 
quate view of the horrible sufferings of the people 
of GOD under that despotic and bloody power. Nor 
has the spirit which prompted these persecutions 
ever changed." 
er's apprehension. Dr. Geddes states, that a fa-
ther, three sons and three daughters, all diving in 
one house, were carried prisoners to the Inquisition 
without knowing of one another's being there, for 
seven years, when the survivors of them, who had 
not died under their horrid tortures, met at the 
Auto da fe, when their eyes fell on each other, 
about to be consumed in the flames.' 
" The accuser and accused were never confront-
ed in an Inquisition court. The prisoner was never 
vested this day with more than ordinary attraction ! 
And where but in these localities are we to look 
for the great membership and support of " the only 
true church ?" Here, surely, are the priests and 
prelates of this church to be found by thousands, 
and the people by millions on millions are mem-
bers of it by birth, and trained up from infancy 
by this vast hierarchy,—and what a hopeful com-
pany is presented, and how full of moral promise 
to a perishing world ! 
How perfectly besotted with ignorance and stu-
pidity such a population must be, and how utterly 
destitute of sober, careful reflection, not to be ap-
palled at the blasphemous pretensions of the Papal 
hierarchy, that such a mass of moral putrefaction 
is " the only true Church of JESUS CHRIST !" No 
wonder the intelligent and well informed in France 
are said to be infidels ; the contemplation of the 
claims of the Papal priesthood, with a moral il-
lustration like this,—the antipodes of that piety 
which commends itself to the human conscience,—
cannot fail to produce scepticism in the minds of 
those who think and have no other means of in-
struction ; and that the ignorant mostly should re-
main the dupes of their impositions and artifice, 
and thus constitute " the only true church," is not 
at all surprising. 
N. Y. Baptist Register. 
reports, and became the most virulent of our op-
posers. However wicked and indefensible such 
conduct may be, we know of no remedy, under the 
present state of things. It is one of those evils to 
which the Church has always been subjected. 
I found a few faithful ones, who have " kept the 
faith," and thus far " fought a good fight." I 
gave a discourse on " following the LORD fully," 
in connection with a clear and full view of the po-
sition of Adventists, both in regard to doctrine and 
to time. The people had been instructed on the 
time a week before, by one who professed to have 
no doubt about the event occurring in 1854 ! I 
was surprised to hear this fact, as difficulties had 
been pointed out to him by brother PREI3LE and 
others, which should have made him less sanguine, 
at least. But I was still more surprised to learn, 
that he publicly affirmed that " nothing had been 
brought against his views on the timt ;" and fur-
ther, that nothing could be, and that his calcula-
tions were to be received without a doubt ! 
It is to be hoped that Adventists will look well 
to their Bibles, and also see that history is not 
garbled to make out a case, which, though asserted 
with pious positiveness, will doubtless terminate 
like many other similar things in the past. While 
it is safe, as well as our duty, to look for the 
speedy coming of our SAVIOUR, with prayer, watch-
fulness, and self-denial, it is not safe to defer it to 
any future time, " lest coming suddenly, he find us 
sleeping." 
J. V. IhmEs. 
most beyond credence, were they not related both 
by pagans and Christians. Every torture which 
could be invented was resorted to, to terrify the 
disciples and stop the spread of the Christian reli-
gion. 17,000 are said to have suffered martyrdom 
in one month. In Egypt alone, 150,000 suffered 
death, besides 700,000 who came to their end in 
banishment or the public works. At length a medal 
was struck for Dioclesian, with this inscription—
' The name of Christians being extinguished.' 
" This was the last general persecution by the 
Pagan emperors, Dioclesian dying in 312, and in 
324 Constantine published an edict by which the 
ancient religion of the empire was abolished, and 
Christianity established as the religion of Rome. 
Thus when the enemy of CHRIST supposed the vic-
tory perfect, GOD had raised up instruments to ef-
fect an entire change, and place Christianity in 
the ascendant. 
" Passing over the wars which were waged 
against heretics by the Greek emperors and emis-
saries of the Pope, for the establishment of his 
power, we will briefly glance at the 'persecutions 
which were more systematically waged after the 
establishment of their power. 
" The Inquisition was the great instrument of 
persecution, and sacrificed many millions of lives. 
The Council of Verona, in 1184, constituted each 
bishop the Inquisitor of his own diocese. But in 
the commencement of the 13th century, the Pope 
appointed special delegates to visit those parts where 
his power was the most despised and trampled un-
der foot, who, failing by their preaching to convert 
heretics, took on them, without consent of bishop 
or magistrate, to inflict capital punishments on 
their victims. ' But,' says Dr. Brownlee, the In-
quisition was perfected in its terrific power, when 
the emperor Frederic II. and Louis IX., surnamed 
St. Louis, king of France, lent their authority to 
establish this tribunal ; and when the magistracy 
was converted into a tool of the priests to enact le-
gal murders on men, simply for their opinions in 
religion.' 
" Pope Innocent III. was properly its founder, 
and Saint Dominic its earliest Inquisitor. It was 
fully in operation in Italy in 1251. It gradually 
extended into other countries, and the tormentors 
and executioners of ' the Holy Office' were always 
Dominican friars.' In England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, and some other countries, they never yet 
were able publicly to establish the Inquisition, and 
it was soon banished by an indignant people from 
France and Germany. But poor, unhappy Spain, 
Portugal, and Italy, were doomed to smart for cen-
turies under its crushing and diabolical power. 
" ' In Spain, where this tribunal triumphed in 
the reign of terror, over religion, morals, and bleed-
ing humanity, there were eighteen different In-
quisitorial courts, with their apostohcal Inquisitors. 
And besides the legions of officers in these hells, 
there were 20,000 familiars, dispersed over the land. 
These mingled in all companies, invaded the sanc-
tity of families, and dragged all suspected persons 
to the cells of the Inquisition. 
" The familiars were spies, invading the sancti- 
ty of the domestic circle, bound by the most solemn 
oath, to report every word, look, and act, that 
could be construed into disregard or slight of the 
Church, her dogmas, or doings, to the Holy Inquisi-
tion. On the most faint suspicion, every person, 
either at noon day or at the midnight hour, was 
liable to be seized and dragged to the cells of the 
horrid slaughter house. The wife and mother was 
carried from the bosom of husband and children. 
Fathers, husbands, brothers, sisters, the blooming 
maid and adorned bride, in an hour of fancied safe-
ty, was made the victim of torture or debauchery, 
with no power to deliver them. Such was the ter-
ror inspired by this diabolical institution, that 
whenever the words were heard,—' Open to the holy 
Inquisition,' Deliver up your wife, your daughter, 
your son, parent or husband, to the holy Inquisition,' 
instant would the terrified relative, with rapid step 
hasten without daring to remonstrate or even im-
plore pity, lead forth the trembling victim to be 
delivered to the tormentors. The next day would 
the bereaved go into mourning as for one dead. 
Nor dared they to breathe one word of murmuring 
or complaint, lest they should be the next victims. 
" With such profound secrecy did these famil • 
iars conduct their movements, that members of 
the same family would know nothing of each oth- 
(To be continued.) 
"ONLY TRUE CHURCH." 
A LETTER from KIRWAN, to the N. Y. Observer, 
speaking of a LORD'S day spent in Paris, writes 
thus : " A Sabbath day spent in Paris, where there 
is no Sabbath set apart to the service of GOD by 
the people, is not easily forgotten by a Protestant ! 
And it is impossible so to describe it as to make a 
person who never witnessed it, fully comprehend 
it. Popery in Papal countries knows no Sabbath. 
In Paris, it has been converted into the harvest day 
of play actors, shopkeepers, restaurants, buffoons 
and mountebanks." 
What a description is here given of the moral 
condition of one of the most distinguished Papal 
cities of Europe, the capital of the great empire 
which supplies Pius IX. with the troops which 
preserve him in possession of his throne ! And 
what different picture could be given of the obser-
vance of this day in the cities of Vienna, Madrid, 
Lisbon, Naples, Florence, Venice, Genoa, or any 
other Papal city on the continent,—not even ex-
cepting Rome itself? None whatever. The best 
that could be said of any of them is, that the LORD'S 
day is pre-eminently the day of public amusement 
and dissipation,—theatres and ball rooms, and the 
various places of pleasure and indulgence are in- 
MY JOURNAL. 
Feb. 10th.—Commenced a course of lectures in 
Lawrence, Mass. The Advent church there has 
been revived of late, under the labors of Elder J. 
P. FARRAR. Bro. F. is well received, and is dis-
posed to sacrifice and labor for the cause in its low 
estate and poverty. This our ministers will have 
to do in most places until the churches become 
strong and established. All our hope is now de- 
pending upon a sacrificing and faithful ministry, 
to give a Bible form and efficiency to the elements. 
We are not to complain of things as they are, but 
by untiring labor and devofion make them what 
they ought to be. 
The location of the meeting in Lawrence is fa-
vorable for building up a good society. All that 
is now wanting is the revival spirit, with devotion 
to the cause. The meetings at this visit were well 
attended, and some good was seen, though not so 
much as we hoped to witness. I gave six dis-
courses. The Sabbath (our last day) was stormy, 
so that many were prevented from attending. On 
the whole, however, the meeting was attended with 
good results. 
Feb. 141/I.—Returned to Boston, and improved 
the time to the 16th in visiting the sick in B. and 
in Worcester, and in attending to duties connected 
with the Herald office. 
Feb. 17th.—Took the cars for Alton, N. H., 
where 1 had been invited to give a series of lec-
tures on the Advent doctrine. The meetings were 
held in the Freewill Baptist chapel. I found much 
prejudice existing in the community against the 
Advent doctrine, from the misrepresentations that 
had been made of it by some ; but on a full pre-
sentation of the doctrine as held by Adventists—
in ten discourses—I had the happiness of seeing 
the prejudice give way, so that the community are 
now mostly of this faith. And what was more es-
pecially gratifying was, to witness the effect of the 
truth on the hearts of many professors of religion, 
who broke down before GOD, humbling themselves 
and confessing their sins. Many of the uncon-
verted were also awakened, and some gave them-
selves to GOD. The last service was one of very 
great interest. Every one appeared to be anxious 
that the meetings should be continued ; but I was 
compelled by other engagements to leave them. I 
could only commend them to GOD, who is able to 
strengthen them and build them up. They have 
my gratitude and prayers for their hospitality and 
kindness. I think 1 never saw a better prospect of 
gathering, by a continuance of the meetings, a 
bountiful harvest. The results of this meeting, I 
think, cannot but be good. 
Feb. 21st.—By request, I gave a discourse in 
New Durham Ridge. Here was once a united and 
happy flock, who lived in the order of the gospel, 
and were a light in the world ; but a " root of bit-
terness sprung up among them, whereby many 
were defiled." A class of teachers, assuming the 
Advent name, also came among them, and taught 
them to discontinue and hate the Advent Herald, 
along with its proprietor and those associated with 
him in its publication. Another topic descanted 
on by these teachers was, that "pon had laid H. 
on the shelf "—had " done with him." They also 
claimed that they were the true successors—the re-
positories of light and truth. Besides all this, H. 
had made himself rich, &c. &c. In short, that he 
was a very bad man, and that people ought not to 
hear him, or any of his associates. This seems to 
have been the gospel, or the principal message, of 
these unhappy men. Some believed their wicked 
" Mrs. Ogle, from Philadelphia, was in the sa-
loon of the ladies' car, reclining on a sofa, when 
they went over. She says the car, in going down 
the embankment, which was a gradually sloping, 
not a perpendicular one, made four revolutions, and 
finally landed before reaching the foot of the hill, 
on a strip of nearly level ground. She soon after 
found herself outside the car, and did not feel in 
the least hurt. How she got out she does not know. 
" The scene of confusion and disorder, amidst 
the cries and groans of the wounded, she describes 
as terrifying. Mrs. Ogle says she noticed the first 
jar of the train when suddenly checked, and also 
felt sensibly, and with peculiar sensation and con-
sciousness, the first overturning of the cars, and 
then each successive one, as they slowly followed 
each other, she herself alternately striking the sides, 
the bottom, and the top of the car, but as she had 
clasped and held on to the cushions of the sofa or 
lounge upon which she had reclined, was protected 
thereby, as she supposes, to some extent, from re-
ceiving more than slight bruises. She afterwards 
discovered, however, that she had been burnt upon 
one of her limbs by the fire scattered from the 
stoves." 
BRO. EDWIN BURNHAM will commence his western 
la,bers at Buffalo, on the first Sabbath in May. 
The friends west who desire him to vist them on 
his tour, will do well to correspond with brother 
Tanner of Buffalo. 
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD 
ACCIDENT. 
THE following particulars from Baltimore papers 
will be read with melancholy interest : 
" The following reliable information we gather 
from Mr. Abat and Mr. Henry, of Louisville, who 
reached here last night. Mr. Abat is considera-
bly bruised, and Mr. Henry, slightly, but will be 
able to go on to New York, as they intend in a day 
or two. We learn from these gentlemen that in 
the two cars that went over the precipice, there 
were seventy-four passengers, only twelve of whom 
were able to come through to Baltimore yesterday, 
the others who we're not killed, being too badly in-
jured to be brought further than Cumberland. It 
appears that Mr. H. was standing on the platform, 
talking with Mr. Rawlings, the conductor, at the 
time the accident occurred. Mr. R. leaped from 
the platform, and was saved, but Mr. Holt being 
on the lower side, was precipitated down the em-
bankment, alighting among the sharp rocks, and 
was terribly torn and mashed. He lived, however, 
three hours, perfectly sensible, but during the last 
two hours suffered great bodily pain. His mind, 
however, was calm, and he gave his money, about 
forty dollars, and his gold watch to Mr. Rawlings, 
with many directions to those watching him about 
his position, so as to relieve or mitigate his suffer-
ings if possible. He was perfectly aware of his 
approaching end, and spoke of it with composure 
and without fear. Mrs. Giese acted most nobly: 
She was lacerated badly, and one of her children 
was instantly killed, and with her face literally 
covered with blood, picked up two of the children in 
her arms, and went to the creek near by, and bathed 
and washed them so that they soon revived. One 
of these little ones died after they arrived at Cum-
berland. There were four of these and the only 
small children in the cars—two survived with their 
parents. This family were also from Louisville. 
 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
From Robert Sears' Guide to Knowledge, pub- 
lished in New York, 1844, we extract the follow-
ing : 
" On the 19th of May 1780, an uncommon dark-
ness took place all over New England, and extended 
to Canada. It continued about fourteen hours, 
or from ten o'clock in the morning till midnight. 
The darkness was so great, that people were una-
ble to read common print, or tell the time of the 
day by their watches, or to dine, or transact their 
ordinary business without the light of candles. 
They became dull and gloomy, and some were ex-
cessively frightened. The fowls went to roost. 
Objects could not be distinguished but at a very 
little distance, and everything bore the appearance 
of gloom and night. Similar days have occasion-
ally been known, though inferior in their degree 
or extent of their darkness. The causes of these 
phenomena are unknown. They certainly were 
not the result of eclipses. Many have supposed 
them to be produced by layers of vapor, souse as-
cending and others descending, so as to intercept 
the rays of the sun in their passage to the earth. 
The winter before the great day above mentioned 
was the severest winter ever known in New Eng-
land. Snow lay about four feet deep the whole 
time from the middle of November to the middle 
of April." 
1 have conversed with two individuals, men of 
.veracity, one a native of Scotland, the other of 
England, who both testify to the occurrence of this 
darkness throughout their native countries. All 
THE DARK DAY OF 1750. 
(To be continued ) 
the phenomenon described as attending that mem-
orable day in New England was also witnessed in 
Great Britain, producing also the same effect and 
being regarded as a sign of the coming judgment-
day. In Scotland it is remembered and referred to 
us the " Black Saturday." * 
In 1848, in Thompsonville, Ct., I had an interview 
with an aged colored man who related that he saw 
and remembered well that dark day. He was 22 
years of age at the time—was then connected with 
the army and stationed with others at West Point, 
N. Y. About three weeks previous to the dark-
ness a female in singular attire, and with the de-
meanor of a prophetess, entered the town announc-
ing coining judgments, and proclaimed everywhere 
that " the 19th day of May in that year would be 
the greatest day ever known in North America." 
The place was filled with officers and soldiers who 
listened to her warnings, and being very irreligious 
in their habits, were measurably impressed with ti 
fear of some approaching catastrophe. Avowing 
that whatever befell the place should also be shared 
by their mysterious informant, the woman was ar-
rested mail placed in custody. Time passed on—
the 19th day came and with it the alarming dark-
ness. In the fear which took hold of all, the wo-
man was released. She immediately disappeared 
from West Point, and was never seen or heard of 
in the place afterwards, and as none knew her she 
could not be traced. Such was the tale of our 
aged Christian friend, who since we saw him has 
gone from among the living. 
The Green Mountain Freeman, published at Mont-
pelier, Vt., dated Feb. 17th, publishes the follow-
ing verses, remarking, that they. " were furnished 
us by an old gentleman of a neighboring town, in 
whose family they have been preserved nearly sev-
enty years ; having been written shortly after the 
memorable event they describe in the old ballad 
style of the day." 
Let us adore, and bow before, 
The sovereign Lord of might; 
Who turned away, the shining day, 
Into the shades of night. 
All nature stands when he commands, 
Or changes in its course ; 
His mighty hand rules sea and land, 
He is the Lord of hosts. 
Nineteenth of May, a gloomy day, 
When darkness veiled the sky ; 
The sun's decline may be a sign 
Some great event is nigh. 
Let us remark, how black and dark 
Was the ensuing night ; 
And for a time the moon declined, 
And did not give her light. 
Can mortal man their wonders scan, 
Or tell a second cause ? 
Did not our God then shake his rod, 
And alter nature's laws? 
What great event will next be sent 
Upon this guilty land ? 
He only knows who can dispose 
All things at his command. 
Our wickedness we must confess, 
Is terrible and great ; 
Sin is the thing that we should shun, 
The thing God's soul doth hate. 
Our mighty sins God's judgment brings, 
But still we hardened grow ; 
Then judgments great may not abate, 
Until our overthrow. 
How sin abounds in all our towns, 
Now in these gospel days ! 
How vice prevails, and virtue fails, 
And godliness decays ! . 
If we neglect, can we expect, 
According to our doing, 
But that we are, as we may fear, 
Just on the brink of ruin. 
Awake ! awake ! your sins forsake ; 
And that immediately ; 
If we don't turn, His wrath will burn 
To all eternity. 
This is the day that sinners may 
Repent and turn to God ; 
If they delay, and won't obey, 
Then they must feel his rod. 
How good and kind would sinners find 
Their great Redeemer now ; 
If they'd awake, their sins forsake, 
And to his sceptre how. 
The gospel call is unto all ; 
Repent, why will you die? 
Why will you go to endless woe. 
And pass my mercy by l 
Come unto me, Jesus doth say, 
All ye that weary are ; 
Ye shall find rest, ye shall be blest, 
For so his words declare. 
If after all, this gracious call 
You utterly refuse ; 
And stop your ear, and will not hear. 
But your own ruin choose ; 
Mercy abuse, and grace refuse, 
Justice then takes the throne ; 
And in some hour Almighty Power 
Will make his vengeance known. 
many years after the 518 date they use? Is it said, 
the " war of Vitalian " was " the crisis "—" the 
decisive and turning point," which led to the final 
triumph of the Papal power ? That is the very 
question in controversy,—not to be assumed and as-
serted, but to be proved. People may and can be-
lieve it, and preach it, if they will, without proof ; 
but to convince dthers, rationally and scripturally, 
needs proof—proof ! But Constantinople is not 
Rome, nor the Greek church the Roman, or Papal, 
though called Catholic then, and now. And not-
withstanding the accession of Justin and Justin-
ian, the monophysite party prospered under the 
patronage of Antonia, wife of Belisarius, and the 
Empress, so that in 435 they had one of these bish-
ops, Anthimius, made patriarch of Constantinople, 
and Vigilius, another, made Pope of Rome in 436, 
as may be seen in Neander's history, and several 
others. How then can 519, when no event of im-
portance is noted, be it, instead of 514, or 518, or 
532, or other dates, when " wars," or " decrees," 
or " councils," of a decisive character occurred? 
These remarks are made, not to oppose investiga-
tion, or discussion, but to induce candor, modesty, 
and unity ; and to oppose dogmatism and Popish 
positiveness and infallibility, so frequent and in-
jurious on this subject. Better one Pope than 
many. 
" THERE shall be signs in the sun and in the 
moon."—Luke 21:25. " The sun shall be dark-
ened in his going forth, and the moon shall not 
cause her light to shine."—Isa. 13:10. " The sun 
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her 
light."—Matt. 24:29. 
" A something strikingly awful shall forewarn 
that the world will come to an end, and that the 
last day is even at the door."—Martin Luther. 
" The moon shines with a borrowed light, and 
therefore if the sun from whom she borrows her 
light is turned into darkness she must fail of course 
and become bankrupt."—Matthew Henry. 
The following description of the extraordinary 
dark day was given by Dr. Adams, * on the 27th 
of may, 1780, eight days after it occurred. He 
writes : 
" We had a very extraordinary phenomenon the 
19th day of this month. In the morning it was 
rainy till about 9 o'clock, when the clouds broke 
away and the sun appeared, but very red. After 
nine the clouds grew very thick, with the wind from 
south-west in breezes : at half past ten it was un-
commonly dark, the clouds appearing of a yellow 
hue. At eleven, the public school was dismissed, 
it being so dark that no person could read or write. 
It continued to grow darker till twelve, when it 
was so dark we could not tell one person from ano-
ther in a room with three large windows in it. In 
short, it was midnight darkness at noon-day. The 
fowls went to roost, and there was a strong smell of 
smoke. It had been very dry for a long time, the 
wind having been at the east for four or five days, 
which drove the smoke back to the westward, and 
when the wind shifted, it brought it all down in a 
body, which together with the dense clouds, caused 
the darkness, which lasted till three o'clock P. M., 
before it again began to grow light. Thousands 
of people who could not account for it from natural 
causes, were greatly terrified, and indeed it cast a 
universal gloom on earth. The frogs and night 
hawks began their notes. At four o'clock the wind 
shifted to the north-east, which brought the clouds 
back, and at sunset it was again very dark. At 
nine it was a darkness to be felt by more senses 
than one, as there was a strong smell of soot. Al-
most every one who happened to be out in the even-
ing, got lost in going home. The darkness was as 
uncommon in the night,-as it was in the day, as the 
moon had fulled the day before." 
* The dark day in New England was Frida 
There was no record that that darkness was see 
* We published Dr. Adams' account of it a short in England. The dark day there was on Saturda 
since, but again give it.—ED. 
—En. 
y. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
REVIEW. 
BY D. I. ROBINSON. 
(Continued from our last.) 
ALISON says : " On the death of Duphot, on the 
27th of Dec. 1798 (1797 ?) the Directory resolved 
to make it the pretext for the immediate occupa-
tion of Rome, and the overthrow of the Papal gov-
ernment. Berthier received orders to march rapid-
ly into the Ecclesiastical states. Berthier, with-
out an instant's delay, carried out the orders of the 
Directory." The order was—" Arrived in Rome, 
employ your whole influence to establish a Roman 
Republic." 
Of the Pope it is said : " His Swiss guard was 
relieved by a French one, and he ordered to dispos-
sess himself of all his temporal authority. (He re-
fused.) He was dragged from the foot of the altar, 
in his palace ; the whole effects in the Vatican in-
ventoried and seized, and the aged pontiff conduct-
ed with, only a few domestics, amidst the brutal 
jests and sacrilegious songs of the French dragoons, 
into Tuscany." And then, after describing, at too 
great length for us to quote, " the devastation of 
the churches, convents, palaces, and the immense 
spoil collected," as " vastly greater than that of 
the Goths, Vandals, and Bourbons," he adds : 
" Meanwhile, the work of revolution went on rag- 
idly in the Roman states. The whole ancient in-
stitutions were subverted. The executive made to con-
sist of five consuls, after the model of the French 
Directory ; the legislative power vested in two 
chambers, and the state divided into eight de-
partments. But to preserve the entire dependence 
of this government on the French Directory, it 
was specially provided that alliance, offen- 
sive and defensive, should be immediately con-
cluded between the French and Roman Repub-
lics ; that no laws made by the Roman legisla-
tivebodies should either be promulgated, or have 
force, without the approval of the French gener-
al stationed at Rome ; and that he might, of his 
own authority, enact such laws as might appear 
necessary, or were ordered by the French Direc-
tory." All this, and more, might ,be given, from 
their own authority. The Pope was carried into 
France, and died there during the above state of 
things. All must see the absolute subversion of 
his temporal authority, both by the Directory and 
the Roman people, and its " entire dependence 
on the Directory," and a " spoliation," much 
greater than by Napoleon in 1809. The same 
might be said, and proved, respecting the deposing 
of him from his temporal authority, and the erec-
tion of a republic in.1848 ; but that occurred with-
in the reading and memory of all, and I need not 
stop and dwell upon it. All the three are import-
ant events, and so was the one of 1813, when Na-
poleon returned from Russia, and at Fontainbleau 
made the Pope " negotiate away his temporal au-
thority to himself," and perhaps more striking than 
either of those. But how can we know, or be jus-
tified in asserting that either one is absolutely 
the one, that " it is God's time ;" " that if it does 
not come in '54, Millerism is dead ;" and " this is 
Bible," " and true if the Bible is true ?" Do you 
say, you do not? I can admit it, but several oth-
ers do, who lecture, and many of those who em 
brace it. We have the proof. But suppose the 
decree of 1809, 17th of May, be the time for ending 
the 1290, then forty-five years more, to finish the 
1335, will not reach to 1855, but only to the 17th 
of May, 1854 ! Why then talk and write of 1855 ? 
This again shows the inaccuracy and the indefi- 
niteness of these calculations on " definite time," 
and is reason, if we had no other, for not calling 
it " Bible," and " God's time," and being positive 
that this, and no other, is the one. Just as dating 
them at the events of 518, which they place in 519, 
would end them in the fall (September) of 1853, 
instead of 1855 ! But, as the great event, or fact, 
on which they rest for the beginning of these pe-
riods—viz., the suppression of " true Christian 
worship "—how can it be that this took place at 
or near that time, by the Emperor and the Pope, 
if Arianism was the true worship ; when five kings 
and their people, or kingdoms were not Catholic, 
but Arian, and submitted neither to the Emperor 
or the Pope, for a long time after this, as the Van-
dals in Africa, Goths in Italy, the Visigoths in 
Spain, Burgundians of Burgundy, and Lombards 
on the South of Germany ; all of whom allowed 
of freedom of warship but the Vandals, and who 
were not subdued or converted by the Catholics for 
0 dreadful state, when 'tis too late, 
For sinners to return ; 
'When life and breath are lost in death, 
The soul in hell must burn. 
And now let all who hear this call, 
And saw the day so dark ; 
Make haste away, without delay, 
And get into the ark. 
Then safe shall he forever be, 
That doth to Jesus come ; 
He need not fear though death be near, 
Since heaven is his home. 
I communicate the above to the Herald, thinking 
it may interest its readers who are looking for the 
coming of our Lord. 
D. T. TAYLOR. 
LETTER FROM KIRKLAND, N. Y. 
BRO. Baiss :—Nearly one long year has passed 
away since I was stricken down by the hand of 
disease, and constrained to leave the theatre of ac-
tive public life ; and such has been the state of my 
health for most of the time, together with the cares 
of my family, that I have been unable, to a great 
extent, to communicate with my friends. Thus 
have I been cut off from those endearing associa-
tions with the saints of God, which for years I was 
permitted to enjoy. During the period of my iso-
lated and lonely condition, I have endeavored, as 
far as the laws of health and various duties would 
admit, to review the history of my experience and 
observation in the Advent cause. Thoughts upon 
the past, the present, and the future, have at times 
seriously occupied my attention. In reviewing the 
past, I have endeavored to profit by the experience 
which I have had, and as far as errors and imper-
fections in my history have appeared, I have en-
deavored to correct and put them away. Most 
earnestly and devoutly do I pray, that heavenly 
wisdom may guide me in the way of truth and 
righteousness. 
In contemplating the present, I am happy to say, 
that never, in my humble judgment, has the Ad-
vent cause in this.country stood upon a more per-
manent, or sure and safe foundation, than at the 
present time. And what seems most essential and 
requisite to promote the health and give strength 
and vitality to the cause, is a renewed and entire 
consecration to the work on the part of those who 
cherish sentiments so divine and heavenly in their 
origin, and so purifying and elevating in their 
character. 
The clouds which had gathered in the moral 
heavens, covering for a while with gloom and sad-
ness our spiritual horizon, and presaging a storm 
which threatened to engulf in ruin the Advent 
cause, and with it the hopes of thousands, have at 
length broken and passed away. The veteran band, 
who nobly bare their bosoms to the shock, are per-
mitted, under the guidance of an overruling provi-
dence, and with a cloudless sky, to prosecute their 
heaven-commissioned work, better prepared, by the 
severe discipline to which they have been subjected, 
to breast the storms which may gather and howl 
around them in the future. While those, whose 
unholy ambition prompted them to plan, and as 
far as in them lay to execute a plot, which, had it 
been successful, would have veiled the cause of 
God with sackcloth, and filled the hearts of thou-
sands of his saints with lamentation and mourn-
ing, have been left like a stranded wreck, exposed 
to the gaze and just indignation of the lovers of 
' impartial justice ; and those who were accessory 
to their deeds of darkness, may be seen, like raven-
ing wolves disappointed of their prey, mangling 
and devouring each other. 
But, brethren, it is God who has given the vic-
tory, and to him belongs the glory. There is no 
time for stopping to exult over a vanquished and 
fallen foe. The work in ,which you are called to 
engage is pressing. The Macedonian cry for help 
comes borne upon every breeze. The ranks of the 
faithful and devoted servants of God have been 
broken and thinned by the invasions of the great 
Destroyer. Brethren Fitch, Barry, Kent, Miller, 
and Southard,—who were among the pioneers in 
this glorious cause,—are no more, Having fin-
ished the work assigned them to do, the grave 
opened its portals, and calmly and peacefully they 
sunk into its bosom, leaving to the ministry and to 
the church an example of Christian fidelity and 
devotion worthy of imitation. Others, whose hearts 
are interested, and whose energies have been spent 
in endeavoring to arouse the Church, and publish-
ing to a guilty world the swift approaching judg-
ments of God, (among whom are our beloved brn. 
Pinney and C. B. Turner,) are laid aside by the 
hand of disease. Their work in the gospel minis- 
try, in all probability, is ended ; and they feel that, 
unless prevented by the speedy return of our ex- 
iled King, that their countenances will ere long be 
changed, and they too he laid away, leaving to 
others the completion of the work in which they 
were so long.engaged. 
119 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
"I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in roe. 
though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die." JOHN 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, in. South Boston, March 23d, of scarlet fe-
ver, ELBRIDGE FISKE, only son of brother JOHN S. 
and sister ELIZABETH S. NILES, aged three years and 
seven months. This is the fifth child that brother 
and sister N. have followed to the grave. They are 
consoled, however, under their deep afflictions, in 
view of the consummation of their hope in the 
resurrection from the dead, at the appearing and 
kingdom of our Saviour, which they believe to be 
near at hand, when they hope to meet their little 
ones, clothed upon with immortality. J. P. B. 
DIED, in Newton (tipper Falls,) March 25th, 
1853, FRANCIS C. 
f congestion of the 
lungs, son of Luther T. and 
CUNNINGHAM;
Ikbigail P. Cunning- 
ham, aged two years and three months. 
Francis was their only son, and the first child 
with whom they have been called to part. The 
grief caused by such a separation can be under-
stood only by those who have experienced the 
same ; but that grief is consoled by the precious 
hope of the gospel, which our brother and sister 
have cherished, for years, as the highest interest for 
which they live. That hope is made, by this be-
reavement, more precious than ever. 
The funeral services were performed at the Meth-
odist church, which was very kindly granted for 
the purpose, on Lord's day, the 27th, when the 
writer spoke from 1 Mess. 4:18, showing that the 
manner in which the hope of the gospel is to be 
realized is our consolation, as Christians, concern-
ing the departed subjects of that hope. 
A. HALE. 
ELISHA GREGORY, of Winchendon, Mass., died 
Wednesday morning, March 17th, 1853, aged 82 
years. Brother Gregory in 1827 made a profession 
of religion, and lived about as other professors till 
1842, when by the preaching of the advent at 
hand, he was aroused to a renewed consecration 
and more active energy in the cause of Christ. He 
was steadfast and faithful through all the changes 
and disappointments we have passed. He recol-
lected very distinctly the circumstances of the dark 
day of 1780 ; says that his father took the Bible, 
read, and said in reference to the darkness, that it 
was a fulfilment of prophecy ; also that he attend-
ed a parish meeting that afternoon and evening, 
and that the darkness of the night was so great, 
that it prevented several who were in attendance 
from reaching their homes ; and. consequently they 
tarried out by the way until morning. When at 
the point of his departure, he expressed confidence 
before God, said he could trust in the Saviour, and 
die in peace. " Precious in the sight of the Lord 
is the death of his saints." SAMUEL HEATH. 
Obituarp. 
Some who were once interested in the Advent 
cause, whose talents and influence were made to 
tell in the spread and triumphs of the truth, are 
nearly or wholly silent on the subject, or have en-
tirely separated themselves from their former breth-
ren and associations. I do not presume to deter-
mine the motives which have prompted these breth-
ren to such a course, but submit it to the revela-
tions and final decisions of the last great day. 
When I think of the valiant few who are nobly 
struggling in the unequal contest, my soul is 
stirred within me, and my heart is greatly pained 
at the reflection, that such are the infirmities to 
which I am subjected, that it is impossible for me 
to join them in this heavenly and ennobling work. 
But, my beloved brethren, be faithful, " and in a 
noble cause contending," determine never to fly 
your colors, or turn your back upon the enemies 
of your King. Having sworn allegiance to the 
Prince who leads the hosts of the armies of Israel, 
push the battle to the gates, resolved never to cease 
the conflict (unless cloven down upon the battle-
field) until the din and clangor of arms shall be 
hushed in the triumph of our cause, and victory 
emblazoned upon the banner of the Son of David. 
The future, with all its solemn responsibilities and 
obligations, is before us ; and the period for the 
faithful servants of God to labor for the prosperity 
of the Church and the salvation of ungodly men, 
must be short, very short indeed. Remember, my 
brethren, that " he that winneth souls is wise," 
and that a rich and glorious reward is in reserve 
for those " faithful and wise servants," who shall 
be • found giving to the household " meat in due 
season," when our Lord returns. 
I cannot close this communication without ex-
pressing the deep interest and sympathy I feel in the 
mission and labors of one who, after many long 
years of incessant and indefatigable toil and effort 
in the service of his Master, still continues at his 
post, and with indomitable perseverance pursues 
the work assigned him, undaunted by his adversa-
ries, and unappalled by the multiplied obstacles 
thrown across his pathway. In his visit to West-
ern New York, brother Himes recently spent two 
days with the few friends in this vicinity. We felt 
mud' blessed and strengthened by his timely and 
friendly visit. His public labors, as Well as his 
private visits, were blessed to the edification and 
comfort of those among whom he was permitted to 
mingle and associate. The appropriateness and 
adaptation of his labors in their various depart-
ments, were a beautiful exemplification of the great 
principles of Christian philosophy, so clearly and 
fully portrayed in the fourth chapter of the second 
letter to the Corinthians. 
As I parted with our brother at Rome, and saw 
the cars bear him forward on his mission of love 
and mercy, I could but exclaim, God bless the 
man ! and may he be enabled, by divine grace, to 
rise superior to every unholy influence, and with 
true Christian humility, meekness, and fortitude, 
prosecute the work in which he has been called of 
God to engage. Maintaining such a position, he 
need have no fears of the result. Friends, devoted, 
tried, and true, will rally around hini ; and what 
is more and far better, God and heaven will be en-
listed in the success and triumphs of his self-deny-
ing and self-sacrificing labors. 
The above, as far as relates to the labors and 
Christian character of our brother, is the verdict 
arising from' the honest conviction of my mind, 
uninfluenced by personal or selfish considerations. 
Encomiums, with a desire to flatter, are most re- 
pugnant to my feelings. I know enough of the 
weakness of human nature to understand that poor 
mortals, unrestrained by the grace of God, are 
willing to receive any amount of commendation 
that will pamper their unholy pride and wicked 
ambition. In what I have said, I wish simply to 
render a just and proper tribute to the Christian 
character and efforts of one whose purposes and 
object are misrepresented. My brother, I am con- 
fident, will appreciate my motives ; and he is not 
so destitute of the " true grace of God," as to con-
strue words designed for encouragement and com-
fort from his brethren, into a foolish and wicked 
panegyric. 
But I must close this letter, already protracted 
beyond its original design. There is much that I 
would like to communicate, but my health and 
pressing cares admonish me that I must forbear. 
Assuring you, my beloved brother, of true Chris-
tian sympathy in your arduous labors, I subscribe 
myself your brother in Christ. 
March 18th, 1853. LABAN E. BATES. 
few suggestions more on the eleventh of Daniel. 
The first two verses refer to the Medes and Per-
sians. Hence I infer, that Gabriel is commis- 
DEATH has again been among us in Philadelphia, 
fulfilling its great mission. Two of the early friends 
of the Advent faith and cause in this city have re-
cently fallen asleep in Jesus, and are blest. JAMES 
S. MOORE, aged fifty-seven years, after- a long pro-
tracted sickness, pulmonary consumption, departed 
this life Feb. 25th, 1853, full of joyful hope, nay, 
more, of " full assurance of faith," of a part in 
the first resurrection, and an inheritance which 
shall never fade away. Brother Moore, when the 
Advent doctrine was introduced into this city, was 
a member of the Baptist church. But bis attach-
ment to the hope of the gospel overcame, and he 
unhesitatingly came forward as an unflinching sup-
porter of what he believed to be important, but 
long neglected truth ; and so long as his health 
permitted took an active part in the Advent church.. 
For the last two years his sickness has prevented 
his meeting with us in the house of prayer. ' But 
the furnace of affliction has accomplished its end, 
the purification of his faith, which " shall be found 
unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appear-
ing of Jesus Christ." As his heart and flesh failed, 
with greater confidence he felt that God was the 
strength of his heart and portion forever. The pain-
ful and sleepless nights and wearisome days of his 
sickness were filled up alternately with praise and 
prayer, until his heart seemed all a glow of love to 
God and man, and the gentleness and confiding 
trust of an infant was his portion. And in this 
happy frame he fell asleep, saying, " T know I shall 
have part in the first resurrection." J. LITCH. 
MAIIITABLE DYER, the wife of James W. Dyer. 
was born in Marblehead, Mass. She was sister of 
the late Joseph Millet, of Fairhaven, Mass. In 
early life she embraced the 'Saviour as her friend 
and portion; and united with the M. E. church in 
her native place, while the cause of Methodism was 
yet in its infancy in that town. Subsequently to 
her marriage she resided in New Bedford until 
1837, when the family removed to this city. When 
the writer of this notice first visited Philadelphia 
in Dec. 1841, she became deeply interested in the 
subject of the glorious restitution, and reign of 
Christ on the redeemed earth. It was mainly 
through her influence the way was opened for a 
second visit in 1842, when an effectual door was 
opened for the preaching of the great truths of 
the second advent of our Saviour. Sister Dyer was 
naturally of a very ardent temperament, and open 
and frank in the expression of her thoughts upon 
all subjects, and as might have been expected, 
brought on herself many trials. Her life has been 
one of trial, and for many years past of great fain- 
sioned to inform the prophet, not only what should 
befall his people in the subsequent ages of the 
world, but also that he is about telling him the 
particular nations who should trample the sanc-
tuary and the host under their feet. The third, 
sixteenth, and thirty-sixth verses, from the simi-
ilarity of language used, I lay it down as an 
axiom, that they each introduce, not only a change 
of dynasties, but also a change of nations, conse-
quent on political revolutions. The third verse in-
troduces Alexander the Great—" a mighty king " 
—" doing according to his will." The fourth verse 
tells us his kingdom is broken and divided toward 
the four winds of heaven. After a few military 
convulsions four kingdoms were consolidated—and 
four kings stJod up to reign, viz., Cassander, Lysa-
machus, Selucius, and Ptolemy. The two latter 
were the kings of Syria and Egypt—Ptolemy of 
the South, and Selucius of the North. From the 
fifth to the sixteenth verse we have a graphic de-
scription of the wars and revolutions of Egypt and 
Syria, in which the Jewish nation suffered almost 
beyond the power of language to express. Their 
various appliances and evolutions, their marches 
and countermarches—their achievements and de-
feats, and their diplomatic intrigues, all had a 
chilling influence on the Jewish nation, and crushed 
for runny years the happiness of Israel's sons and 
daughters. 
The sixteenth verse introduces Rome, and ends 
the Roman power with the thirty-fifth verse. In 
these twenty verses are embodied Pagan and Pa-
pal Rome—Rome ascending to universal empire—
Rome in the zenith of her power and glory—and 
Rome descending to its divided state.* None but 
God could indite language to express in so small a 
compass, the comprehensive policy and achieve-
ments of this mighty empire ! Let us ever adore 
his surpassing wisdom. The thirty-sixth verse in-
troduces us, as I said in my former communication, 
to the Saracens, the Latin Crusaders, the Fatamite 
Caliphs, the Mamelukes, Eastern Rome, the Tar-
tars, and the Papal power, so far as the Latin Cru-
saders are concerned. The traits of character ex-
hibited from the thirty-sixth to the fortieth verse, 
including the first two lines of the latter, cannot be 
found in any of the above nations individually— 
and as they all have trodden down the Holy Land 
and persecuted the people of God—therefore an in- 
dividual king is taken, who combines all the pecu- 
liar traits mentioned in those verses. Commencing 
with the third line of the fortieth verse, it reads— 
" And the king of the north shall come against 
him like a whirlwind." This king of the north is 
the Turk—" and he shall enter ;" who ? the Turk 
—" he shall enter also the glorious land ;" who ? 
the Turk—" he shall stretch forth his hand ;" 
who ? the Turk—" he shall have power ;" who ? 
the Turk—" he shall go forth with great fury ;" 
who ? the Turk—" he shall plant the tabernacles 
of his palaces ;" who ? the Turk—" He shall come 
to his end, and none shall help him." Who The 
Turk ! I have no time scarcely to write, else I 
would trace the correspondencies in history with 
the whole chapter. My faith is, when Turkey falls, 
Rome will fall, and Christ will come ! Amen. Even 
so, come Lord Jesus. 
N. BROWN. 
March 30th, 1853. 
Letter from Hallowell, Me. 
BRO. HIDES :—With gratitude to God I would 
inform the lovers of Zion that truth is gaining the 
attention of some who have hitherto neglected it, 
and its effects are as usual. Sinners are awakened 
and brought to Christ, both in and out of the 
churches. Since our conference at Whitefield in 
December last, the work of reformation has con-
tinued to progress, and quite a number have been 
converted to God, and become lovers of our blessed 
Saviour, and of his appearing, and have " put on 
the Lord Jesus Christ by baptism. 
At South Gardiner also a revival is in progress 
under the preaching of " the gospel of the king-
dom " at hand. Many bachliders have been re-
claimed, and a number of sinners converted, and a 
general interest is awakened in the place, and a 
desire is manifested to prepare for the coming of 
" Christ and his kingdom.' 
At Gardiner city also some have been converted, 
and stand in the truth rejoicing in the hope of soon 
seeing Jesus. Brother Tahon's family share in this 
blessing, and the converts intend to be baptized to-
morrow. May the Lord continue the good work 
until the end of time, which we hope is very near. 
Brother J. Merriam is still laboring in this section 
of the country to good acceptance,' and his labors 
in the Lord are judicious and well calculated to ad-
vance the cause of Christ. Yours as ever, looking 
for redemption and eternal life at the coming of 
our Lord. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
March 25th, 1853. 
ily affliction. But in the midst of all she has held 
fast her faith in Christ as her Saviour, and her 
soon coming and glorious King. Her sickness has 
been a protracted and painful one ; greatly affect-
ing her nervous system, and depressing and irri-
tating her spirits. But during_ the last week of 
her life she had as she expressed it, " exceeding 
joy." I have rarely witnessed a more perfect tri-
umph of the grace of God than on her death bed. 
Her spiritual prospects grew more bright as her 
physical powers failed. It was all calm, and joy, 
and peace. She fell asleep in Jesus Saturday, 
March 19th, 1853, aged fifty-five years, leaving be-
hind her an afflicted husband and four children. 
Philadelphia, March 25th, 1853. J. Lrrcii. 
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ITALY AND HUNGARY.-From Italy and Hungary 
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supplied with it. A liquor dealer said after read-
ing the speech of the former, " I don't go to church 
much, but I should like to sit under that man's 
preaching." For sale at the Fountain office, Hart-
ford, Ct. $1,50 per hundred without covers. 
The San Juan Affair. 
THE National Intelligencer does not apprehend 
that anything serious will result from the recent 
proceedings at San Juan, and thinks that although 
the city authorities of San Juan have resigned, the 
only part taken by our naval commander was to 
defend the property of Americans of the Transit 
Company. The Union, which may be regarded as 
the government organ, gives the following as the 
only reliable facts in the case, which do not vary 
materially from the statements we have heretofore 
published : 
" In the month of February, the municipal coun- 
aside, and candidates selected with a single view 
to the school question. Both Catholics and Jews 
participated, and pledged themselves in favor of 
the people's colleges. Great indignation was ex-
pressed at the attempts of foreign ecclesiastics to 
interfere with our common school system. 
Mori BY STRONG-MINDED WOMEN.-The Cleveland 
Herald says that on the 1st inst., some thirty wo.' 
men, well backed by gentlemen, proceeded to the 
grocery store of Anthony Jacobs, in Ashland, and 
asked him to discontinue the sale of liquor and the 
use of a bagatelle board, which had enticed many 
of the youth and some of the married men from 
their homes. lie refused, and the ladies chopped 
his bagatelle table into kindling wood, and emptied 
his liquors into the street. They then visited ano-
ther grocery and a tavern, both of which capitu-
lated. 
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT D ISA STER.-A terrible steam-
boat disaster occurred in Galveston hay, Texas;on 
the night of the 23d ult. The steamers Neptune 
and Farmer were racing from Houston to Galves-
ton, when the latter exploded, killing the captain, 
clerk, 2d engineer, and thirteen of the crew, and 
about twenty passengers were also killed or miss-
ing. Twenty,passengers, most ladies, were saved. 
Appointments, &c. 
THOMAS Slern will preach in Orrington, Me. (in the school house 
near the Mill Creek), Sunday, April 10th. 
D. T. TAYLOR will preach in Champlain, N. Y., Sunday, April 10th, 
(if no other app's), all day ; in Waterbury, 'Vt., Sunday, 17th. Ile 
will have books and tracts with him. 
THERE will be a conference in North Abington, Mass., commencing 
April 14th, and continue over the Sabbath. Brethren J. Pearson 
and W. Burnham will attend. We hope our friends in Hingham, 
Scituate, and towns adjoining, will attend.-Close TAYLOR. 
Till the first of June, D. T. TAYLOR'S Post-office address will he 
Rouses Point, N. Y. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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been sent to Oxford. Have now sent back numbers. 
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Thompson & Co. 
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packed as you directed. 
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A HEROINE.-During the destructive fire, which 
occurred at Cincinnati on the 27th inst., an in-
stance of female heroism occurred which has sel-
dom been excelled. A family, consisting of a 
mother and four children, was residing in the 
third story of a factory. While the factory was 
burning, the mother, finding herself cut off from 
retreat, in consequence of the stories beneath being 
on fire, ascended to the roof carrying her children 
with her. Here, tying one of her babes to her 
shoulders, she boldly leaped across an alley six 
feet in width to the roof of another building, from 
whence, leaving her burden, she returned, and in 
like manner carried over in safety each of the oth-
ers. The act was witnessed by a large concourse 
of spectators. The mother was in feeble health, 
and nothing but maternal love could have carried 
her through so trying a scene. The name of the 
woman is not given. 
BLACK SNOW.-A correspondent at Walpole, N. 
H., writing under date of 30th ult., says :-" We 
have had in some parts of this town and in the ad-
joining towns, what we call a very remarkable oc-
currence, viz., a fall of black snow. I send you some 
writing with snow as it fell, and written with a 
clean pen. Please notice it in your paper if you 
think it worthy of notice. Perhaps some one may 
account for it." The writing sent by our corres-
pondent is perfectly legible, and has the appear-
ance of having been written with pale ink. We 
leave ;the explanation of the phenomenon to the 
scientific. 
Boston Journal. 
THE COMMON SCHOOL QUESTION IN CINCINNATI.-
An immense mass meeting was held the 28th ult 
in Market Square, to nominate an independent tick-
et for city officers to sustain the common schools in 
opposition to the encroachments of the Roman 
Catholics. All political lines are entirely laid 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, APRIL 9, 1853. 
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learn the wishes of our correspondents. 
cil of San Juan, in consequence of some dispute 
with the Nicaragua Transit Company, passed an 
order for the demolition of the depot and buildings 
of the company, situated on Punta Arenas, oppo-
site the city. This order was partially carried 
into effect on the 21st of February. Meanwhile, 
on the 10th of March, the U. S. sloop-of-war Cyane, 
Capt. George N. Hollins commanding, arrived at 
San Juan, under orders to cruise in that vicinity. 
Immediately Capt. Hollins was served with a pro-
test from the agent of the Transit Company against 
the order of the council of San Juan, and with a 
request to protect its property from further depre-
dation. Accordingly he despatched Lieut. Green 
with a remonstrance to the council against any ad-
ditional outrage on the property of the Transit 
Company ; but the council replied that they would 
complete the destruction of the buildings at 11 
o'clock the next day, 11th of March. Capt. Hol-
lins then made a protest in person to the council 
against their threats, but with no better result. 
Learning that the people of Nicaragua were pro-
ceeding to the destruction of the buildings of the 
company, he despatched a detachment of marines 
for their protection. Being forbidden by the guard 
to disturb the buildings, the Nicaraguans desisted 
from their purpose and dispersed. In consequence 
of their repulse, the council of San Juan abdicated 
their functions. Capt. Hollins deemed it necessary 
to continue the protection of the company's prop-
erty ; and on the application of an American citi-
zen who had suffered some outrages from the Nic-
araguans, he issued a proclamation warning them 
in no manner to molest the person or property of 
foreigners resident in San Juan." 
Despatches from Capt. Hollins, giving full par-
ticulars of the affair, have been received at the 
State Department. The Washington correspond-
ent of the N. Y. Herald says that Capt. Hollins's 
course has met the unqualified approbation of the 
President, and that further orders, of a similar 
tenor to those under which the Cyane has acted, 
will forthwith be despatched. 
TERRIBLE. RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND.-A 
very serious accident recently occurred to the ex-
press train of cars for Liverpool, bringing passen-
gers from Scotland and the North of England.-
It appears that the train, which consisted of an 
engine, tender, and eight cars, from sonic cause 
unknown, but supposed from the high rate of speed 
at which it was driven, ran off the track at Hal-
shaw Moor, within a few miles of Manchester. The 
tender and one of the cars were driven with great 
force against the embankment at the side of the 
road, and the other cars were crowded with great 
force one upon the other, one or more of them being 
completely crushed. After the accident every ex-
ertion was used to relieve the sufferers, and it was 
found that a fearful sacrifice of human life had 
taken place. Three persons were killed instanta-
neously, one died shortly after, and two others 
were not expected to recover. Several were badly 
scalded, and a great many suffered from fractured 
limbs and severe wounds and bruises. The en-
gineer of the train was among the killed. The train 
was going at so high a speed at the time of the ac-
cident, that the oscillation rendered it difficult for 
the passengers to keep their seats.