tit.)1a9n9d qtrtioD - ' • 1 ' !110 f19)1'-ild r r. f`, !),)n 9iirr /.1t 4',11,41)1,14;,401i odir ,.1 ".4)tiorl r at '7 ..y "WE HOVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO you THE POWER AND COMING OF' OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY .. WHEN WE WECIE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT.' 11111111•100=M1.101111165.61,EleNIM HOPE OF DAWN. NEW SERIES. VOL. X. XVO,Valffg 014T, '0414)',A7Cp) rwifmrxma 3`,34ect NO. 21. WHOLE NO. 601 Nmatsmosensen.s• THE ADVENT HERALD LS PI! RUSHED EVERY SATURDAY AT NO 8 CHARDON-STREET, BOSTON, (Nearly opposite the Revere House.) JOSHUA V. HIMES, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ALL mormeleaDmis, Orders, or remittances for this (Ace, should be directed (pint p ii 1. to .1.. y. DIMES, Boston, Mass. Subscri hers' tunes, will) tie+ !'t t-n"ire address, should be distinctly given when money is lo,rwarded ''.** Fs, tum,, &r., sec last page. "Until the day dawn and the day-star arise."-2 PET • 1:19. Till the day dawn, And the Day-star arise,— Father, 0 keep thy son, Thy fi-eble, faithless one! 0 guide him through the waste, Till the long gloom be past. It is a night of fear, The path is rough and drear ; Clouds frown, blasts rush along, The tempest gathers strong ; Strange perils compass me, Of flood, fire, rock, and sea And I, in .loneliness, Would fain still onward press. 0 felt and known, hut yet unseen, be nigh ; 0 loved and longed for, hear each hidden sigh ; Leave me not, struggling thus, to faint, to sink, to die. Till the day dawn, And the Day-star arise,- 0 Saviour, let thy love, Down-dropping from above, This withered sold renew With thy flower-freshening dew ! O never-changing Friend, My tailing steps attend ; Bold thou me up, and so I shall pass safely through. Still keep the at thy side, Thou who for me hast died 0 light me on my way, My joy, my strength, my stay. 0 clasp me closer to thy pierced side, Thou who for roe the death of deaths has' died; Let not this staggering faith be too, -too sorely tried. Till the day dawn, And the Day-star arise,— Spirit of gentle love, Thou tempest-calnting dove, Come, mod within me dwell, Come, and all gloom dispel. Most blessed Comforter, Ply weary footsteps cheer. 0 light and lamp divine, Upon my midnight shine ; Better than star or MOOD, Brighter than day's bright noon, 0 let thy joyous ray Turn all toy night to day. Let not thy silence to the conflict add, When thou art with me, even my grief is glad ; When thou art absent from nue, joy itself is sad. Quarterly Journal or Prophecy. Genesis—Chapter III. FROM THE " LONDON QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." (Continued from our last.) V. 12—" And the man said, The woman whom thou gayest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." He feels that God has had his eye upon him, and that what he says is true. It is the tree that has given him this knowledge of " evil." Had he waited God's time, the eating of it would have given him the knowledge of only good ; but he has refused to wait ; he has diso- beyed God ; he has made haste to be wise ; and it has opened his eyes only to the evil. Still, however, he will take no blame to himself for doing what he has done. He makes no direct and honest answer to God, in freely confessing that he had eaten, yet he cannot deny the deed, and therefore, in the very act of admitting (not confessing), he casts the blame upon the wo- man,—nay, upon God, for giving him such a tempter. Here let us mark such truths as these. 1. The difference between admitting, sin and confessing it. Adam admits it,—slowly and sullenly,—but he does not confess it. He is confronted with a Being in whose presence it would be vain to deny what he had done ; but he will go no farther than he can help. He will tacitly concede, when concession is extorted from him, but he will make no frank acknowl- edgment. I,t is so with the sinner still. He does precisely as Adam did ; no more, till the Holy Spirit lays his hand upon his conscience and touches all the springs of his being. Up till that time he may utter extorted and reluctant concessions, but he will riot confess sin. He will not deal frankly with God. He is sullen, and admits that he is a sinner because others do it, —because it would be thought pride in him not to do it,—because he cannot help it,—because he is conscious there is something wrong ; but still there is no open-hearted confession. If there is not actually the " keeping silence " (Psa. 32:3), or the "covering of sin " (Pros'. 28:13). there is nothing of the ready spirit ; " I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine ini- quity have I not hid. I said, 1 will confess my transgressions to the Lord ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."— Psa. 32:5 ; Pray. 28:13 ; Luke 15:18-21; 1 John 1:9. The artfulness of an unhumbled sinner. Even while admitting sin, he shakes himself free from blame; nay, he thrusts forward the name of another, even before the admission comes forth, as if to neutralize it before it is made. How artful ! yet how common still ! Men do not only give a mere reluctant admis- sion,—they do not merely in so doing try to shift the blame from themselves, but they at- tempt, by introducing the name of another, be- fore the admission is made, to give the impres- sion most cunningly that this other is the really guilty person. Thus, by mentioning another first, they hope to draw away all the attention from themselves to him, so that, before their own guilt has been conceded, attention has been directed to him as the guilty one, and thus not only is there a bare admission of guilt instead of an honest confession, but there is a most cun- ning endeavor to undo that very admission by the peculiar way in which it is made. It is difficult to say whether such a method he more cunning or cowardly. It is certainly the pro- cedure of a man who is, on the one hand, afraid to confess, and, on the other, afraid not to con- fess, and who compromises these to opposite fears by a most artful declaration, which shows how sorely he shrinks from the consequences of his own poor admission. Ah ! where do we find honest, unreserved acknowledgment of sin ? Nowhere, save in connection with par- don. Up till the moment that we learn the " forgiveness that there is with God," there will always be reserve,—a cowardly reluctance to confess, an unmanly shifting of the guilt from off ourselves, a desire to palliate our sins, or lessen their number, There will always be "guile," for there will always be a motive to hide our sins ; but when the free pardon comes, it takes away all reserve, it renders us "guile- less." We confess it freely, for the reasons for restraint are done away. And in coming to re- ceive the pardon, we put forward the name of our Surety first, before even mentioning our sins, that like Adam, though not with his guile, we may call attention to Him on whom we cast our guilt : "For THY NAME'S SAKE, 0 Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great."—Psa. 25:11. The self-justifying pride of the sinner. He admits as much of his guilt as cannot be de- nied, and then takes credit to himself for what he has done. He is resolved to take no more blame than he can help. Even in the blame that he takes, he finds not only an extenuation, but a virtue, a merit ; for he fled, because it was not seemly for him to stand before God na- ked ! Nay, even in so much of the blame as he takes, he must divide it with another, thus leaving on himself but little guilt and some con- siderable degree of merit. Had it not been for another, he would not have had to admit even the small measure of blame that he does ! There is pride here, but no godly sorrow ; noth- ing of the " broken spirit ;" nay, not even de- spair. His self-righteousness elates him, buoys him up, and makes him think his case not so bad as to be hopeless. Till the sinner sees the cross it will be always so. Law will not hum- ble him. The voice of Cod will not humble, though it may alarm him. He must see the utter condemnation of himself in the cross, and at the same time God's provision for meeting his case and removing the condemnation ere he will throw away his confidences. It is only the knowledge of the Divine righteousness that can remove either his pride or his shame, just as it is only the knowledge of the " perfect love " that can cast out fear. The hardened selfishness of the sinner. He accuses others to screen himself. He does not hesitate to inculpate the dearest ; he spares not the wife of his bosom. Rather than bear the blame, he will fling it anywhere, whoever may suffer. And all this in a moment ! How instantaneous are the results of sin ! Already it has rooted out affection, and broken the near- est tie, and made man a being of dark selfish- ness. He has ceased to " love his neighbor as himself." SELF has now risen uppermost within him. He is steeled against his dearest of kin. He does not hesitate to expose them to the wrath of God ; he cares not what their doom may be provided lie escape ! " Hateful, and hating one another," is the inscription on the forehead of our fallen race. It is this that we here read upon the brow of Adam. The sinner's blasphemy and ingratitude to God. " The woman whom thou gayest me," said Adam. God's love in giving him a help- meet is overlooked, and the gift mocked at. God's earnest pains in providing for him a com- panion so suitable are forgotten, nay, turned into an occasion for casting the blame of his fall upon him. Had it not been for thee, I should not have sinned ;—she whom thou gayest me has become my seducer. Thou didst it, in giving me such a companion. Thus it was that Israel taunted God with being the author of their sins and woes (Ezek. 33:10) : "If our transgressions be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live ?" That is, " If we die, we must just die ; we cannot help it; and God is only mocking us with broken promises, speaking to us of life, yet sending only death." Arid in reference to this it was that God cleared himself upon oath, refusing to lie under the imputation, or to take the blame of man's death ; " As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." Thus it is that scoffers in these last days pervert the gifts of God into an excuse for sinning, or into reasons for believing that there is no such thing as sin at all. When we speak of their sin following their lusts, they ask, " What sin can there be in the indulgence of those desires that God has given ? or if there be sin in these things, who is to blame but He who gave them ?" The sinner's attempt to smooth over his deed. " The woman gave me the fruit, and I ate of it ; that was all. Giving, receiving, and eating a little fruit ; that was all ! What more simple, natural, innocent ? How could I do otherwise ?" Thus he glosses over the sin. He speaks smooth things to himself regarding it, and would fain make God think as little of it as he does himself. And so men still trifle with sin. What harm is there in it ? What harm is there in the song, the dance, the laugh, the gaiety, the glitter ? Are not these amuse- menstharmlessi Alt! it was thus the first sinner tried to reason with his God. But did he suc- ceed ? Did God accept his plea of harmless- ness ? Did he turn away his wrath, or dilute the curse, or justify the transgressor ? So long as man persists in smoothing down his sin, and trying to make God think as lightly of it as he does himself, he must fail in finding favor. It is not till he acquiesces in God's verdict, and, accepting condemnation as his due, takes the sinner's place before God, that he can hope at all. For all hope to a sinner begins in the ac- knowledgment of his hopelessness, and consent- ing to take his hope, not front the idea that wrath is not his due, but front the knowledge of that wondrous grace that has stretched its blessed circle far beyond the uttermost limits of human sin. V. 13—" And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." The trial proceeds, and the investigation is carried on with all judicial calmness. Adam's sullen answer awakes no wrath, and calls forth no remark. The Lord God now passes on to the woman. She had been accused by the man, and he turns to her to see how the man's accusation stands. He takes him at his word, and proceeds with the inquiry : " What is this that thou hast done ?" Is it really trite that thou hast done this thing with which thy hus- band charges thee ? In Eve we mark the same self-justifying spirit. She does not, indeed, retaliate upon the man, and say, " How am I to blame for his sin, seeing he need not have oaten unless he had pleased ?" She admits that she had done the deed, though, like her husband, she does so most sullenly, and not by a direct or frank con- fession. She does riot deny the deed, but she will not take the blame. It was the serpent that beguiled her! How could she help it ? As if she would thus indirectly cast back the blame on God. " It was thine own creature, the serpent ; he is the real cause ; blame him, not me ; why was he allowed to beguile me ?" Thus it is that the sinner refuses to accept the guilt, even when he admits the deed. He dares not say, I did not do the deed ; but he does not hesitate to affirm, " I was not to blame in doing it." He affirms, either " the sin was not a very great one," or, " there were many excuses for me ;" and the greatest of all is this, that " it was a creature of God's own making that seduced me." See how fatally sin works. It makes him a liar,—a liar to his own con- science, to his fellows, to his God. It makes him a coward. It makes him an accuser of others. it makes him a blasphemer of God himself. To own himself totally a sinner,— made so, not by God, nor by any fellow-crea- ture, nor by education, nor by circumstances, but solely by himself,—is what he will no stoop to. Yet on any other terms God cannot deal with him. As a confessed sinner, he may at any moment go to God, assured of finding fa- vor and pardon ; but on any other footing ap- proach to God must be made wholly in vain. Half-confessions will riot do ; concealments, will not do ; extepuations will not do ; there must be the full acknowledgment of entire guilt, oth- erwise God can have no dealings with him at all. And here, again, let us mark the forbear- ance of God, Even before grace is directly an- nounced to man, we can observe the dawnings of it in the way in which God approaches man, and in the difference between his dealings with man and his dealings with the serpent. How slow to anger ! HOW loth to find the woman guilty.! How anxious to hear all that she has to say for herself before pronouncing sentence ! How condescending, too, in all this ; for he comes himself in person to make the inquiry, not trusting it to another; and comes most gra- ciously to seek after man, when man was flee- ing, from him ; not hastily putting a harsh con- struction upon his flight, but waiting to hear his excuse and defence ; not threatening or up- braiding, but, in the words of calm and friendly inquiry, asking, " What is this that thou hast done ?" Such is the God with whom we have to do, —" the God of all grace ;" not hating, but lov- ing ; not cursing, but blessing ; not hasty, but slow to anger ; not upbraiding, but dealing ten- derly ; not condemning, but pardoning. How manifestly is this the same God who so loved the world as to give his only-begotten Son ! How perfect the harmony of character in this God, from these first words, spoken to fallen man, to the last which his book contains ! How blessed to learn that this God, who sought out Adam when he fled from him, is seeking the sinner still, unprovoked by his wanderings and resistances and self-excuses ; availing with un- diminished patience and forbearing love, to re- ceive and to love and to bless.—(To be contin- ued.) Louis Napoleon and the Pope. These two distinguished persons hold, at the present time, very peculiar relations to each other. Both of them lacking principle sadly, a certain sort of fraternity subsists between them ; and were it not that two of a trade can never agree, they might possibly get along without much jarring. The misfortune is, that they know each other too well, and hence mutual distrust. •-It is one of the most remarkable and ti 370 THE ADVENT HERALD. ----- " Previously to the completion of the decy- echo of this same text, My purposes were broken pherment, the action of the hieroglyphic horse off, even the thoughts of my heart. What a had perplexed me. As he seemed neither to multitude of children, who by untimely death advance or recede, I had set down the neck have broken off the purposes of fond and hoping thrown backwards, and the disparted fore-legs, parents ! What a vast throng of youth, gath- as symbolical, perhaps, of the haughty bearing ered in early life to the tomb, .have thus been of his rider. The full decypherment first un- broken off in their purposes? What a congre- deceived me. The king is in the act of retreat ; gation of men, in the midst and in the vigor of his horse has just received the check of the rein, years, just as they had begun to enjoy the Iruits by which the head is thrown back, and the of toil and sacrifice have had their purposes brok- fore-legs are parted, while the hind legs remain en off, even the thoughts of the heart ! Not a as yet unmoved. The whole action is one few of the aged too, have been, even at the elev- familiar to every horseman, Who has suddenly enth hour, surprised by death, with plans wiper- and violently checked his horse." fected and preparation not matured—their pur- There seem to be two inscriptions referring poses were broken off! to this, one of which Mr. F. thus translates : The man of God has left an unfinished ser- " Fleeth the swift long horse, rising both fore- moo or a service uncompleted, to attend the feet together, going at full speed, his rider summons of death—the physician has been dashed to the ground ; Pharaoh running with called away, while making his daily routine of long strides like a fleet-horse takes startled mercy—the professor in the midst of academi- flight, casting off violently with both hands, to cal engagements—the politician before he had quicken his pace, his helmet." The other he reached the goal of his life's ambition—the law- gives thus : The people journeyeth through yer in the middle of a suit—the author before the passage terror-stricken : urges onward with his volume was completed—the merchant in his slackened reign benignantly, Jehovah, the peo- plans and operations of business—each and all ple. The people essayeth the waters ; Pharaoh had their purposes broken off, even the thoughts retrograding, reins back his war-horse." of the heart. In connection with this we may notice the The voyager, on entering port, with buoyant magnificent inscription of about one hundred hope of soon meeting old friends, is suddenly feet in height. The title is all that has yet overwhelmed with his bark, and sinks like lead been copied by travelers. It (the title) alone is in the waters ! The long absent traveler, after six feet in height, g..t, though consisting of but one having sacrificed personal comfort to shorten line. It has forty-one successive lines under his absence from loved ones, just begins to in- this, evidently forming one entire piece, which dulge the thought of a reunion at home, when Mr. F. conjectures is the Song of Moses ! We his purposes are broken off, even the thoughts • trust that no time will be lost in having it cop- of his heart ! At a time unexpected and in a ied and sent home. It will form the best test of manner mysterious, the summons came, the the truth of Mr. F.'s theory. plans of years are suddenly cut off, he dieth in The next inscriptions decyphered by Mr. F. his full strength. Thus it ever has been, and are those relating to the feathered fowl. Of will continue to be—for at such an hour as we these there are three, very similar to each other. think not death comes—and when he calls, we We give only the first. " The red geese ascend can enter no defence—the skeleton, prescription, from the sea ; lusting, the people eat on at them." theme, forum, brief, honors or profits, whatever The next two refer to the rock in Horeb. occupies the mind at that moment, must be There, in the heart of these, the rude sketch of left. Happy those living in a state of prepara- a rock, and the decypherment of the words is tion for the hour—then you may as follows : The people the hard stone sati- ates with water, thirsting." Again : " The hard rock water a great miracle." The next is the battle of Rephidim. Here there is the figure of a man with uplifted hands. The decypherment runs thus : " Prayeth unto God the prophet upon a hard great stone ; his hands sustaining Aaron Hur." in Ireland, that people begin to speak of the The next we come to, is the plague of the fiery serpents. In this inscription there is the „Reformation " in that country. We named, figure of a serpent in the act of striking a pros. not long since, the very large number who had trate Israelite. The serpent is represented as been lately received into the Episcopal Church curling in sinuous folds. The interpretation is in the diocese of Tuam. Presbyterian missions as follows : " Destroy, springing on the people, likewise are eminently heralds of death—they kill. The people pros- successful. It is not the fiery serpents. Hissing, injecting venom, strange that the Rornish priests are incensed by trating on their back, curling in folds, they wind such events. The following a contemporary round, descending on, bearing destruction." finds reported as uttered in a sermon by a priest These specimens Must suffice. There are in Bala : many others in this volume ; and there are thousands of others in the desert of Sinai yet " Now, congregation, give ear to me. There are Bible readers going among you with cor- uncopied and undeciphered. No time, we trust, will be lost in bringing home more. The field rupt Bibles and filthy tracts, by which they hope to them to enter your houses, nor attempt to lathing either to Nineveh or Babylon. seduce you ; but don't listen to them, nor al- of antiquities thus opened up, promises to be one of profoundest interest—far beyond that at- low touch one of their tracts. They also intend to If these inscripttons are Israel's own records set up a school here. If I find that any of you of the Lord's dealings with them, how much send any of your children to it, I will denounce light may yet be cast on Scripture ! The rocks you from this altar. A little false prophet came h of Sinai may yet prove reflectors of a wondrous here some time ago and set up a school ; but 1 light upon many things that have hitherto been will go there this week with a whip, and I will flog the Catholic children to their own doors. accounted dark and puzzling. If these inscriptions are indeed Israel's own And not content with this he now brings his records of the Lord's dealin Bible-readers here. But I will pray to the Lord what can the infidel say ? g Is not his mouth with them, then that he may give me power to banish them. I'll stopped ? The very stones cry out against him, let them see I have the power, and they will be banished. If 1 find that any one gives work and say, " the God of Israel is he who alone doth wonders, his name is Jehovah." to any one who gives them lodging, I will curse If these inscriptions be truly lsraelitish, how them. I will not say much to-day, but if I find completely is the whole theory of myths swept that any one disobeys these orders, I will quench away. Strauss may turn each chapter of the the candles on them next Sunday." Bible into a myth, but what will he do with these rock-written records? They are not taken Socrates had a Zantippe, and Wesley a Vi- from Scripture ; nay, they must have been writ- zelle. ten prior to most of the Pentateuch, yet they narrate simple facts, in which mythism can have no place for developing itself, or displaying its dextrous feats of jugglery and lies. Death. "My days are past, my purposesbroken or, even the thoughts of my heart." How many since these inspired words were recorded, have realized their truth ! How many, with a dying breath, have adopted them as their history ! How many more, by their unperfected plans, unfinished business, unsigned wills, have proved that their purposes were broken off, even the thoughts of the heart. To some doubtless, since we turned to this declaration of Job, has the divine truth become an awful reality ? The broken column, so common in our ceme- teries, is a fit emblem of purposes broken off. Could those cities of the dead be reanimated, and their masses be allowed one record of their passage from time to eternity, it would be the beneficent features of Divine Providence, that amazing number, but that many of them are cut corrupt men are so constituted that they cannot out in the hard granite ? fully confide in each o,her. It would, indeed, Thus much for the general theory thrown be a sad thing for the world could they cord- out by most who have visited these localities. ially agree upon a coalition for the accomplish- To believe that these inscriptions were the work ment of their bad purposes.. Each intent upon of pilgrims visiting Mount Sinai requires much his own aggrandizeMent, their plans necessarily about the same amount of credulity as to be- clash, and in the end they arm themselves lieve that they were graven on the rocks when against each other. Louis Napoleon has but first created. Indeed weshould be inclined to one object—his own exaltation, and in all his think the latter hypothesis considerably less re- public measures this is the secret spring. He pugnant to reason, to facts, and to history. keeps his army in Italy to protect the Pope The great mass of these inscriptions oc- against his own wilful and not very affectionate curs, riot on any of the routes from Arabia Pe- subjects ; what could he do less as a faithful trea to Mount Sinai, but on the direct road from son of the Church ? This is the ostensible mo- Mount Sinai to Suez and Egypt, and pre-emi- tive ; under it, however, lies one much stronger, nently in the Wady and Djebel Mokatteb, on which is to make the holy father " his prisoner, the coast road to Suez. The single known ex- and to prevent him from tampering with neigh- ception to this remark, the road from Djebel boring powers. Faithful Austria is extremely Mousa or Mount Hor to Akaba through the anxious to show its zeal for the " head of the Wady Arabah, which has been described but Church " in the same way. Napoleon, since he very recently, is in the ascertained march of the came into power, has been most obsequious to Israelites, it being the only route open to them the Pope and his tried friends the Jesuits, for from Mount Hor to Akaba, or Ezion-Geber." the reason not that he cares a button for religion Is there any people in whom all the discord- in any form, but the success of his scheme is antes seems to unite and be harmonized, save dependent on his popularity with the Church. Israel in their desert sojourn ? Suppose these He aspires to the imperial throne, and in his writings to have been their work, then every- own language, wishes for " consecration from thing is accounted for in the simplest and most the chief of Christianity e ;" or in other words, natural way. Deny that they are Israel's, and that the Pope should place the crown on his you may describe them to chance, or the giants, head. His wish is intimated ; the Pope becomes or the angels, or any other race of beings you alarmed ; he is afraid of offending his ally the please,—but no earthly nation, which history Austrians, and perhaps the Russians, too, by has written of could have executed these sculp- pouring the sacred oil on the brows of a usurper, tures.* who has no title to the throne by "divine AI r. Forster thinks he has discovered the key right ;" he is apprehensive, too, that Napoleon to the language, and its interpretation. And we le Petit may serve him as Napoleon le Grand have no doubt that, in part, he has, though his served his predecessor Pious VI., by enforcing discoveries are still imperfect. his hospitality on him a few years, instead of a The language is not Hebrew, neither is it few days, should he visit the Parisian capital. Egyptian, properly speaking. And herein con- To escape the dilemma, " his holiness " used a sists one of the corroborations of Mr. Forster's little deception, such as served him on a pre- theory. For, if he be correct, then these writ- vious occasion, and under pretence of seeking ings are in the ancient Egyptian character,— necessary relaxation, by a steamboat excursion, just that which we might have expected Israel he attempted to fly to Naples. A French steam- to have used. Thus Mr. F. explains himself : boat, the commander of which was, no doubt, " The opinion of Cosmas, then so long, and fully apprized of the Pope's intentions, insisted so unjustly contemned, is, after all, the right on accompanying him as an escort of honor ! and true judgment : namely, that the Sinaitic The Pope would willingly have declined the inscriptions were the work of the ancient Is- honor of his company ; but true French polite- raelites, during their forty years' wanderings in ness insisted, and then the plan of escape was the wilderness. But from the settlement of their frustrated. The Pope is still Napoleon's pris- authorship there arises a further question, as oner ; and the question is, whether he will con- to the language, or dialect, in which they were sent to place the imperial diadem on the head written. The word Iao, answering to the Greek of his faithful son ! It will be curious to see how Icsw, in three letters for the ineffable Name, in- these grand intriguers will settle their differences. stead of the Scriptural rpm, Jehovah, in four, Should the Pope prove obstinate, Napoleon has alone sufficiently indicates that language, or it in his power to punish him ; not by with- dialect, not to have been the Hebrew of the Old drawing his army from Italy—that would be Testament. Hebrew words and phrases, in- brid policy, as Austria would soon supply its deed, in common with all the Semitic dialects, place—but by simply withdrawinghis protection it has been shown, and will hereafter more fully from the Pope, and preventing foreign interfer- be proved, to contain, but its vocabulary is not ence, while his own subjects dealt with him. the Mosaic Hebrew. But if it be not Hebrew. This would, indeed, be a sad dilemma for the the reason of the case tells us that it must have Pope, knowing, as he does, that his own sub- been the ancient Egyptian : the vernacular idiom jects hate him most cordially, and would, in a of the country and people, among whom the day, hurl him and his corrupt court from the Israelites had sojourned for the term of eight seats of power. What, then, with the fear of generations, or of two hundred and fifty years." such a juncture before his eyes, shall the Pope Let us now briefly sketch some of the de- do ? Shall he incur the displeasure of other cypherments. The first is the passage of the formidable powers, by crowning Napoleon ; or Red Sea. In Exodus 15:17 we read, " The lose his government, if not his head, by refus- horse of Pharaoh went in," See. Now there is ing ? In either case, he may become the cause an inscription and a hieroglyphic on one of the of a general war, the result of which could onld rocks in connection with this, strikingly bring- be disastrous to the Roman Catholic govern- ing out the exactness and literality of the above ments of Europe, which richly deserve chastise- p << assage in the Song of Moses. ment. While we throw out these few thoughts, we feel perfectly composed as to the issue of In the fourth line of this inscription, the ye d by a cal ch this or any other political question which may e in the was form arreste of a horseh iero . The glyphi Arabic fa, aracter which rise in Europe. We know that God reigns, f and has his purpose to accomplish. His ends, formed thehead and neck of the animal, being followed by p, the Greek rho, and by the He- cannot be defeated. He may suffer despotism and false religion to retain their power a little brew .1s, ain, the royal name of Pharaoh appar- longer ; but their fate is sealed, and sooner or ently stood bofore me. To ascertain whether later, they will wither under the scorching blast the contents of the inscription tallied with the of his anger. name was the next and instant object. The de- cyphered inscription proved to be a record of the passage_ of the Red Sea, and of the vain at- Sinaitic Inscriptions. tempt of Pharaoh to escape from the returning waters by flight on horseback. FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." " The characters of this inscription were all (Concluded.) sufficiently clear, and being mostly letters of These writings could only have been done by known forms, on the principle of assigning to a people possessing implements of various kinds, them their known powers, it was decypherable implements which no pilgrims ever think of with comparative facility. The last word alone carrying with them. They must have graving presented an impediment ; for it was a mono- tools of strength, and in considerable numbers ; gram, and with the disentangling of monograms for in the title of one of the inscriptions the let- I was not, at this period familiar. The sense tern are six feet long, and the remaining forty required by the whole context was horse, or feet long, and the remaining forty lines in pro- warhorse. But some time elapsed before 1 dis- portion. Besides graving tools, they must have covered that the last word was rabat ; and sig- ben amply provided with ropes and ladders, for nifles A horse of ancient race,' or Horses pre- very many of the inscriptions could only have pared for war.' been cut by means of these appliances. The difficulty of working on the face of rocks * The figures sketched, are strong confirmations. under a scorching sun is so great that it could We have in some a peculiar rock, rudely carved,— only be overcome by men who, living in the evidently the rock that was smitten. In others we desert, could avail themselves of all opportuni- have a man holding up both hands in the attitude of ties, and take things leisurely, or else who were prayer, evidently Moses praying on the hill when shadowed from the heat in some miraculous Joshua was fighting with Amalek. In another we way. The labor of copying even a few of them have a serpent springing upon a man, evidently a sketch of one of the fiery serpents. And it is re- is described by travelers as almost insupport- rnarkable that the inscription under, or ahove, or able. What must have been the toil of execut- around each of these, as decyphered by Mr. Forster, ing them, when we consider, not only their exactly corresponds with the figure. Notwithstanding Wesley had written a trea- tise in favor of celibacy, he married a widow named Vizelle, with four children, and an inde- pendent fortune. She proved, however, a com- plete termigant, was jealous, ill-natured, and overbearing. It is said, says Southey, that she frequently traveled a hundred miles, for the purpose of watching, from a window, who was in the car- riage with him when he entered a town. She searched his pockets, opened his letters, put his letters and papers in the hands of his enemies, in hopes that they might be made use of to blast his character ; and sometimes laid violent hands upon him and tore his hair. She frequently left his house, and upon his earnest entreaties, returned again ; till alter having thus disquieted twenty years of his life, as far as it was possible for any domestic vexation to disquiet a man whose life was passed in locomotion, she seized on part of his journals, and many other papers, which were never restored, and departed, leav- ing word that she never intended to return. With an unfaltering trust approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasent dreams. Christian Mirror. The Reformation in Ireland. So numerous are the converts from Popery THE ADVENT HERALD. ADVENT HARP. 11 12 ADVENT HARP. -19 j2---Ns —4# *et— so • do Fair dawn that doth usher mi - len - n - al glo - ry, N "tH4 12 9 The earth groans her welcome, her winter-clad mountains b 2`17—N-6:44sF410 jo" --?41 •—•— •—•— _4--1 Thou 0 0_10 0 4 0 11) • beau-ty and ri.---2,i;i -e-I,:f —____.•f thee to re -,, 4 day. deem. pro0 g- nos -ti - ca - tor of --i: P/INSI re E: 7 0 -o ' oe bon-dage and gloom wait for 0 -0—' 0 From vie —-1 71-41ir. i'.2.---., T--t i•E • g 5 _l____,d 1 —• • 1-• j\_1\pl N _d--• • -40 • --re-- ire toe- -too- • ‘• And beaming with glo - ry un - fad - ing shall ren - der 1;--t • • • -1030: He comes from their dust all thy chil - dren to wa - ken, .--1-to—# IR • • •-• __.441_,e, 0 ;— _r I hail thine ex - --- -1%sP1-4 1 of et_e_ 0_10--• pect - ed first Fa id!. aq... . heads to be - 1 # ft glimmer - ing ray; i?.._• 1.4 hold thy first Lift up their white l• • • • gleam; -t= tri 11---i,___0 , 1 • • t• • r 'irN4NI---4 That day long pro - dict - d,r -umph-ant whose splendor I ; , - • • 04° • I-111 -1 _14 tot- I.' • 0-- Fair Zi - on long termed by thy foes the for - sa - ken, T1— -ia--1 ----1 -41,--0-0- n T ._NT 1 _ts ti -'±-0 o--* * • i-• This dark fro - zen earth like the re-gion of light. 10NP/ Ofr ®-x _41. I-011- And to thy sad gates full sal - va -tion to bring. Not -a a a '14 ta IP IP I • t gi pnl -+-0 0— • to I 160-0-0- go— The stars and the shad - ows are fad-ing be - fore thee, :1! ,,J1t; Her vales and dark cav - erns and ice-prisoned foun-tains, e 14 a tif —I . • • • 1 * • twit * Shall -r% • The — -,.I__•__•• burst yon blue _r bh.-:-!. --',, Lord is thy por - tal now cur-tained with night, -011 74-!0-11 1-----7---- • I--# • • th IX --I-- Ma - ker, thy Hus-band and King; • -9 • • H--H to t— 1,4 3 Far, far shall thy foes be removed from thy borders, From fear and oppression, the sigh and the grave, From sword and from tumult, and all earth's disorders, Forever thy mighty Redeemer shall save. sit When 'stablished in peace and his glory reflecting, "'En From gates and from walls rich with pearl and with gold Thy saints who now wait great deliverance expecting, Shall joyful return to their heavenly fold. Dying as a Christian vs. Dying as a Roman. The aged Simeon, as he took the young Sa- viour in his arms, said, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." When the protomartyr Stephen fell beneath the missile of his enemies, he exclaimed, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit !" and, getting upon his knees, he cried with a loud voice, " Lord, lay not this sin to their charge!" and when he had said this, he fell asleep. The apostle Paul, just before his martyrdom, exclaimed : "I have fought a good fight ; I have finished my course ; I have kept the faith ; hence- forth there is laid up for me a crown of right- eousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day !" Ignatius, who, by the edict of the Emperor Trajan, was brought from Antioch to Rome to be thrown to the lions in the Amphitheatre, ceased not to exhort Christians on the way, say- ing, " My Lord was crucified for me !" " Abjure Christianity, or you shall be thrown to the wind beasts," said the Roman Proconsul to the agedPolycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. " Let them come on," cried Polycarp ; " we Christians are not accustomed to change from better to worse, but from bad to better." The venerable Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers, A. D. 355, in his dying moments thus addressed his soul : " Soul, thou hast served Christ these seventy years, and art thou afraid to die ? Go out, soul ! go out !" When the chain was placed on the neck of John Floss, he exclaimed with a smile : " Wel- come this chain, for Christ's sake !" The fag- gots having been piled up to his neck, the Duke of Bavaria, in a brutal manner, called on him to abjure. " No, no," cried the martyr; " I take God to witness I preached none but his own pure doctrines, and what I taught I am ready to seal with my blood." Jerome of Prague, who followed Huss to the stake after a few months, said to the executioner, who was about to kindle the fire behind him, " Bring thy torch hither ; do thine office before my face : had I feared death, I might have avoided it." The last words Luther was heard to utter were: " Into thy hands I commend my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me, 0 Lord God of truth." " Nothing but heaven," said the mild Melanc- thon, when asked by his friends if he wanted any thing. And then he gently fell asleep in Christ. George \Vishart cried out at the stake, " For the true gospel, given me by the grace of God, I suffer this day with a glad heart. Behold my visage shall not see me change color. I fear not this fire." The last prayer offered by Tindal, who trans- lated the Bible, and suffered martyrdom in 1536, was, " 0 Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Lawrence Saunders, who suffered martyrdom daring the reign of Queen Mary, kissed the stake to which he was bound, exclaiming, " Wel- come the cross of Christ ; welcome life everlast- ing !" " Be of good heart, brother," cried Ridley to plied," Be of good comfort, brother; for we shall this day light such a candle in England as, by God's grace, shall never be put out " Bergerus, a councillor of the Emperor Maxi- milian, said, while dying, "Farewell, 0, fare- well, all earthly things, and welcome heaven." George Buchanan, the ornament of Scottish literature, who could write Latin verse with a purity almost worthy of the Augustan age, was taken with his last illness when in the country. To the message of King James, who summoned him to be at court in twenty days, he sent this reply : " Before the days mentioned by your Majesty shall be expired, I shall be in that place where few kings enter." The Marquis of Argyle, when advancing to the scaffold, said, " I could die as a Roman, but I choose rather to die as a Christian." Among the last words of Claude were these : " I am so oppressed that 1 can attend only to two of the great truths of religion, namely, the mercy of God, and the gracious aids of the Holy Ghost." For the last fourteen years of his life, the philosophic John Locke applied himself to the study of the Scriptures. " Blessed be God," said he on his death-lied, " for what the law has shown to man ; blessed be his name for justifying him through faith in Christ ; and thanks be to thy name, 0 God, for having called me to the knowledge of the divine Saviour." When that great philosopher and divine, President Edwards, was dying, some in his chamber were lamenting his departure as a frown on the College and a heavy stroke on the Church, not supposing that he attended to them, or even heard them ; turning his dying eyes on them, he said, '‘ Trust in God, and you need not fear." These were his last words. Edward Payson, of Portland, went out of the world with the song of an angel on his lips. When loboring under very acute pains, he ex- claimed, " These are God's arrows, but they are sharpened with love." David Hume, in his last moments, spoke with a cheerfulness in accordance with the tenor of his innocent and philosophic life. This agrees with the testimony of his friends. The author of the " Wealth of Nations " says, " he died as a philosopher dies," and represents him as en- gaging cheerfully in a game of whist, and in- dulging in some good-humored drollery about Charon and his boat. But was this manly, was this dignified, when so solemn an event as death, even admitting that it might end existence, was at hand ? Is not the part he played too studied, not to say too trifling, for the dying philosopher? Well has the good Bishop Horne remarked, that the man who could meet death in such a frame of mind might smile over Babylon in ruins, es- teem the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon an agreeable occurrence, and congratulate the hard- ened Pharaoh on his overthrow in the Red Sea. But it is now said that Hume died in extreme agony and horror of mind, and that the woman who attended him as nurse expressed her fer- vent desire never again to be present at so hor- rible a scene. (See Prof. Silliman's Journal in Europe.) Let me add a few more remarkable sayings of dying men. Dr. Johnson lamented many things in his past career, but when the light of evangelical truth broke in upon his mind, he obtained Chris- tian peace, in which he died. Baron Haller died expressing his renewed confidence in God's mercy through Jesus Christ. Julian the Apostate exclaimed, as he fell wounded fighting with the Persians, " Thou hast conquered rue, 0 Galilean !" The deist Hobbes said with horror, in his last moments, " I am taking a fearful leap in the dark." Cardinal Mazarine, " 0 my poor soul, what is to become of thee ? whither wilt thou go ?" Voltaire (see Bishop Wilson's Evidences of Christianity) died crying out, in the horrors of despair, on the name of Christ at one time, and at another on the names of his associates and admirers, whom he cursed as causing, by their flattery, his ruin. New York Daily Times. Massacre of the Mamelukes. On the first day of March, 1811, Mehemet Ali perpetrated a crime which ever afterwards rendered his name infamous. He collected all the Mameluke Beys in the North of Egypt in the citadel at Cairo. He gave out that he wished them to share in the ceremony of in- vesting his son Jonsam with the caftan. It was remarked that on the morning of that day that the suri!rose the color of blood, and the face of the pacha looked dark and troubled ; but at times he cleared it up with a smile of kindness to de- ceive his victims. The Beys came mounted on their finest Arabian horses, in their magnificent uniforms, forming the most superb cavalry in the word, The pacha presented them with cof- fee, arid paid them all honor. At length they were commanded to move in procession from the citadel. Meanwhile 'Mehemet Ali placed himself on a terrace, seated on a carpet, and calmly smoked his Persian pipe. He took care to be so situated that he could see all that was to take place below. He permitted the proces- sion to reach the critical point ; he then ordered the gates of the citadel to be closed upon the hitherto unsuspecting Mamelukes. When the portcullis fell behind the last of the proud pro- cession, they were at once hemmed in like a ship in the lock of a canal. Before and around them there was nothing but blank pitiless walls and barred windows, and the only opening up- ward toward the bright blue sky Mehemet Ali waved his hand, and forthwith the heights above bristled with guns. The caged and de- fenceless warriors had only time to look arouud them with one stare of surprise, indignation and despair, when every musket wits fired, and most of them fell at once beneath the shower of bul- lets. Volley after volley flashed from a thou- sand guns upon this devoted band. They met their fate nobly. Some calmly crossed their arms on their mailed bosoms ; some drew their flashing swords, and uttered fierce curses—all in vain. One sprang rapidly beneath the deadly fire into a red and writhing mass. He spurred his charger over heaps of his slaughtered com- rades, and his noble Arabian leaped the battle- ments ; and, although the poor animal was killed by the dreadful fall, the rider escaped, amid the storm of bullets, and found safety first in the sanctuary of a mosque, and next in the desert. Four hundred Mamelukes were slaughted in the citadel. if I " How it swells ! I preached that great ser- mon. /converted that man. /got up that re- vival. 1 delivered that lecture. 1 command a great audience. I set the wheels in motion. I sat moderator. I was chosen president. I wrote that splendid article. I made that won- derful speech. I fought the great battle. I stormed the fort. 1 conquered. /killed Goli- ath. I have done so much for that society. I never failed to carry my point. I never had my equal." The lesson to be conveyed by the above quo- tation, is of no private interpretation. It is seen in every line, ai,d he that runs may read. I have dune so much,' 1 have never failed,' etc. Does a professed disciple make such estimates, and is not a Christian character thus imperilled ? We read of those who, judging themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. We are told also of one " who left us an example that we should fol- low his steps,' who made himself of no reputa- tion,' came not to he ministered unto, but to minister,' pleased not himself ;" went about doing good.' Has a Christian brother or sister been aided by divine grace, in some small degree to cease from man ' and pattern after the glorious exam- ple of Jesus, and will not '1' and mine' shrink away to their proper place, and their doings be lost sight of when compared with the labors and infinite sacrifices of the Redeemer ? Has labor been performed for a benevolent object—was it performed as unto the Lord,' believing the ob- ject truly worthy in his sight ? and shall it not have its reward'? But whether less or more than others have accomplished, does it not dwindle to comparative insignificance when placed be- side the great work yet to be done, ere the Chris- tian's duty to a dying world is half performed ? Where is boasting, then ? How i1.1 does it be- come those who though they may have done all, are unprofitable servants,' to seek commen- dation from man, or ever to dwell upon their own doings with a spirit of self-complacency that unfits them to labor successfully in the eye of the master. Before honor is humility.' Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.' •••••1111 Solemn and Eventful Question. rte' 4 — An old Congregational minister of the gos- pel, just closing the 77th year of his age, who is engaged in preparing a book for publication in the city of New York, has been in the habit for a short time past of dining at a coffee-house, where, at that hour of the day, uniformly a company of more or less sober gentlemen, of various ages, were engaged in a kind of game at a table in the middle of the room, merely for pastime, without bet or wrangling among them. On the last day of September, at noon, there were but two at the game, one youngerly man front Europe, and a man of upwards of Latimer, " for our God will either assuage this Grotiius cried out, " Oh ! I have consumed flame, or enable us to abide it." Latimer re- my days in a laborious trifling !" sixty years of age, who pleasantly busied them- selves in their mode of pastime, while the old minister was taken his mid day repast. A thought came into his mind on the preciods value of time, which was so often wasted as though useless—good for nothing. This led him at the dose of his repast to step to that table, and put the following question to the gentlemen at their play : What value would you set upon sixty minutes of time if you could be assured that this, and this one hour only, were allotted you to seek and secure an eternal interest in the kingdom of heaven ?" They both appeared as- tonished, but made no definite reply, except a few words by the youngest, who said, " That is a solemn question." At the coffee-table next day, at noon, that youngerly man said to the old minister, " Do you remember your question yesterday noon ?" " I do." " Well, that old man that was then playing pastime with me, was taken ill in the afternoon, a doctor visited him, and about one o'clock at night he died I" " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." The above statement may be relied on as fact. Let the ques,im which was put to those men be considered, estimated, and improved by every waster of precious time, which God has given, to seek and secure an inheritance in the king- dom of heaven. " What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? Or, what shall a man give for his soul ?" Sixty minutes—the last hour of an im- penitent sinner's life. What is that hour worth ? i — e::eeese.- 4. L"'" (11)e fistall. "BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOV: 20, 1852. All readers of the HERALD are molt earnestly besought to give it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he hon- ored and his truth advanced; 050, that it may he conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth,• in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. CRITICISM ON ACTS 1:11. 1. Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? This nliZh7 e i7,1;evrh,lch s yse t=ril.`1,cr','L',11,37:.'iun'tnot=va:::,),, shall so come " This passage of Scripture is commonly under- stood to teach that the Lord Jesus will return again to the earth, visibly and personally, as he departed from it. There is much reason to doubt that this is the true sense of the passage. If the angels had de- signed to inform the disciples that Jesus would come hack to the earth, there is a form of expression ap- propriate to the idea of coming back, which so care- ful a writer as Luke could hardly have failed to em- ploy. The Greek language contains a compound verb which he might have used to express this sense ; or, he might have used the same phrase that we find in John 14:3, where Jesus says to his disciples, If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself.' The word which Luke has employed in this passage is eleusetai; (a form of er- chomai) which signifies to corne, to go, to arrive ; to come back or return is not its proper signification. The meaning of this passage 1 understand to be that Jesus would continue going in the same manner that the disciples had seen him go, until he should reach heaven. " The ascension of Jesus was evidently unexpected by the disciples. While he was talking with them, Ire ascended before their eyes towards heaven, until a cloud received him out of their sight ; they mean- while continued looking steadfastly toward heaven,' naturally expecting his return. To remove such an expectation, the angels appeared to them, and inti- mated that it would avail them nothing to stand gaz- ing up into heaven, for the same JeSus whom they had seen thus ascending, would so arrive at heaven, as they had seen him go. Satisfied with this state- ment. they ceased to gaze after their ascended Lord, and returned unto Jerusalem.' " Herald of Gospel Liberty. 372 THE ADVENT HERALD. her murdered son was passed off as the deliverer, the Son of GOD, and whose heel the serpent bruised, his mother surviving, retained the power he had won over the nations. That her son was the Ninitod of Scripture would require a dissertation to prove ; but is, I think, more than probable. We find, then, after his death, that the deities worshipped in Assyria were : First, Ham and Seba, subaltern deities, but ob- jects of divine manifestation, and, in fact, gods and intercessors with the triune Divinity. That Divinity was supposed to consist of,—the Eternal Father, Shemir, the incarnate female principle ; and Assarac, the false Messiah, her son,—these two last only being objects of much worship, as assuming a mortal frame, the supreme Father interfering little with mortal affairs. The Oriental apostasy speedily broke into three parts. The greater mysteries reserved for the priest- hood, the lesser for the soldiers and nobles, remained nearly the same everywhere, the vulgar faith being modified for political purposes ; and the Egyptian priesthood on the separation from Assyria, and ex- pulsion of their conquerors, seizing the right to mar- ry, and thereby constituting themselves, like the Brahmins, an aristocracy as well as a priesthood. It has been remarked of Universalism, that it is a system, not of ascertaining the meaning of Scrip- ture but of explaining it away, so that its threaten- ings shall not be left to terrify the tender suscepti- bilities of persons of that faith. If the design of the above criticism is not for the same object, then the purpose for which it was written is hidden in obscu- rity. If the several texts which speak of CHRIST'S coming can be so explained, that they shall cease to express any such meaning to those who wish him not to come, they seem to fancy that they may repose safely without fear of such au event—as the young partridge by placing its head under a leaf, supposes, that because it can see no danger, that none exists. There is no reason to suppose the disciples were ignorant of CHRIST'S expected ascension to heaven. Before his crucifixion he had told them that he was to go away to Him who had sent him, that after he should be gone the Comforter would come., and that the Comforter would not conic except he should first go. (See John 16th.) After his resurrection he sent a message to them by MARY, " 1 am not yet as- cended to my Father : but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, arid to my GOD, and your GOD."—John 20:17. He afterwards gave directions to them to wait at Je- rusalem till they received the promise of the Father, i. e., the Condoner whom they had been told could not come till he should have gone to the Father ; and then he led them out to Bethany and gave them his parting blessing and was caught up from them. Under these circumstances, with a familiar knowl- edge of the story of Errocir and ELIJAH, could there be any question that the disciples needed any as- surance that the SAVIOUR would arrive at heaven I The idea is absurd. The word eleusetai may signify to go, as well as to come; and in the six hundred and thirty-nine places in the New Testament, where the several forms of erchomai occur, in ten places they are translated went; in two, entered ; in two, resorted ; and in one each, it is translated lighting, grew, brought, accompanied, and next ; while in the remaining six hundred and twenty places, it is rendered came, come, coming, "cometh &c. Its general use therefore is to signify a coming. LUKE uses it in his gospel and the Acts, in one hundred and fifty-four places ; and in four only of those is it translated went, once entered, and once next—in the remaining places it being used as above. It never signifies to go in any direction but toward the one speaking, unless that other direction is ex- pressly stated. While the word come, is often equivalent to the word arrival, it is never correctly used to denote an arrival at a distance. The above Greek word is in no place in the New Testament rendered arrive; and if in the text it is used to denote that the SAVIOUR would go to heaven, it would read : " This same JE- SUS shall so go as ye have seen him go into heaven." Such tautology must have been vastly enlightening to the disciples. We are told that " so careful a writer as LUKE would not have used this word." Whether correctly or not, Luxe uses a form of the word to express the return of the prodigal son : " But as soon as thy son was come " (Luke 15:30.) He also used it to denote the corning of CHRIST : " Nevertheless when the Son of man com- eth, shall he find faith on the earth ?"-18:8. He also mused it to denote the return of the nobleman who gave to his servants ten pounds, and said, " Occupy till I come."-19:13. In other places in the New Testament it also signifies to return viz., " For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come [re- turn] and SARAH shall have a son." — Rom. 9:9. " TIMOTHY is set at liberty, with whom if he come [return] shortly, I will see you "—Heb. 13:23 ; " J E- sus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, [return] what is that to thee 1"—John 21:22. " Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come [return] and offer thy gift."—Matt. 5:24. " When he shall come [return] to be glorified in his saints."-2 Thess. 1:10. " lie went his way arid washed and came [re- turned] seeing "—John 9:7 : " He took the young child and his mother and came [returned] into the land of Israel."—Matt. 2:21. " Then came [returned] the officers to the chief priests."—John 7:45. " 1 will not leave you comfortless, I will come [return] to you."-14:18. " Ye have heard how I said unto you I go away, and come [return] again unto you." —v. 28. The original of this passage is geocr o Iecroes- °yews- EXEvcrETut or Tp07POP. The Greek word epoeror (tropon) which is used in connection with the word EXEyeercei (eleusetai) come, is from the word TpE7ra, (trepoo) to turn, from which the word tropic is de- rived and applied to .those circles which in geogra- phy denote that when the sun has reached a given point, he returns to the place in the heavens from whence lie came. A Sabbath Day's Journey. We sometimes hear people speak of " a Sabbath day's journey towards heaven." But those who re- peat that oft-repeated sentence have net been reminded that if it is employed figuratively at all, it should be to express the very opposite of considerable progress. The Sabbath day was not a day for traveling. The Sabbath day's journey, of which St. LUKE speaks (Acts 1 : 12) was no more than two thousand paces, or the greater mile, also called " the bound of the Sabbath," the utmost distance lawful for a journey oft that day. This limitation was not imposed by GOD, on the institution of the Sabbath, nor when the law was confirmed at the giving of the Decalogue, but was afterward admitted by the Jews on a decision of their Rabbies. In the meantime of our Lord's incar- nation, then, " a Sabbath day's journey " was the measure of two English miles ; and so it occurs once in the inspired volume. If, therefore, any mystical Were we to prove the Church of Rome as literally and truly the (laughter of the Babylonian Apostasy, as the American Episcopal Church is the daughter of the Church of England ; if the connections be- tween the old Assyrians and the modern Roman peo- ple prove as close as that between the New Eng- landers and the old English, we should have some definite and fixed grounds to proceed upon. Establish the identity of the Roman worship in all respects with that of AsTARTE, and that the Pontiff himself is not the successor of PETER, but the rep- resentative of NIMROD, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, and NE- RO, and you at once destroy any claim for reverence he may have made upon the mind of the most credu- lous of our countrymen. It will probably be asked, what evidence have we on the points thus raised That evidence given at length would fill volumes. Ten years ago, it was incomplete. The recent discoveries of LAYARD and RAWLINSON in Assyria ; of WiextNsoN in Egypt, the chronological researches of the Duke of Man- chester, Mr. BOSANQUET, and Sir WILLIAM JONES, the archaeological studies of HUGGINS and the Hon- orable WILLIAM HERBERT, the ethnological facts col- lected by KNox, LATHAM, MORTON, SMITH, and IIAPIILTON, with the admissions of Continental In- fidels and the leaders of the Secret Societies formed against our faith ; the mystic, magnetic, and magical delusions which have from time to time existed, and which are now carried on so openly by Baron De- poTET, CAHUGUET, and others in Paris, and even here, must all be carefully analyzed. Suffer me, however, to present the practical upshot of my own studies in a short and concentrated form. In the sixth century after the flood, Egypt and Asia were overrun by the armies of an Assyrian Queen, named by the Assyrians Astarte, or Athor ; by the Babylonians Mylitta ; by the Greeks Pallas, Hera, or Aphrodite, as they respectively belonged to the Dorian, Hellenic, or Ionian clans ; by the Egyptians Isis, and by the Persians Shimar, or Se- miramis. Her armies were commanded by a son, named in varions dialects, Horns, Apollo, or As- sarac, Adonis, Thammuz, Hercules, or Nimrod, whom tradition reputes to have been slain by a red- haired chief, who refused to submit to him. Her hus- band was called Osiris. By this Queen the Chaldee mysteries were formed for the purpose of organizing a distinct class, drawn from all races, deprived of all individual nationality, and devoted only to her. This priesthood was gov- erned by a pontiff appointed by the sovereign, sup- ported by a college believed to consist of seventy-two hierophants, and was divided into seven orders simi- lar to those of the Romish Church, the four higher taking the vow of celibacy, the lower corresponding to the readers, exorcists, &c., of the Roman Catho- lics, being allowed to marry. Their costume, as re- tained by the Etruscan branch, who were, in part at least, so far as the priests and nobles were concerned, an early Chaldean colony, precisely corresponded to the modern Romanist. The mitre, crozier, stole, alb, chasuble, cope, were their distinctive badges, whilst the Archflamens bore the episcopal ring. Ad- mission into the lower ranks of the priesthood could be conferred only by the higher, and by 9Cerperoyice, imposition of hands, and breathing of the Archfla- men upon the Hierens, and to those not only initi- ated into the lesser, but the higher mysteries, was granted the privilege of studying architecture, as- trology, chemistry, geometry, mathematics or medi- cine, and mesmerism and magic ; all the initiated being sworn never to disclose their knowledge to any one not duly enrolled. Thus all power was confined to a class, who, precluded from marriage, could have no sympathy with the people, and would become the ready tools of their Queen. These priests, I believe it will be admitted, had three grades of instruction, one fur the low castes, as they were called, or in other words, for the con- quered fraternity of Phut, Canaan, and Mizram ; ano- ther for the military caste, and a third kept to them- selves ; hut as to the first, differing in every country, and adapted to the feelings of the populace whom they deceived. Of that populace a number, too, were made sacred persons, enrolled as friars, but not ad- mitted to the priesthood. This Assyrian queen, there is reason to believe, pretended to be, or at all events was, worshipped by the priesthood she instituted, as an incarnation of the Holy Spirit of God, and as the organ of grace and mercy, as the Bride of the Eternal Father, the wo- man who was to bruise the serpent's head. Whilst The first step in the lesser system was that of Baptismal Regeneration. No person was to learn aught of doctrine or discipline till regenerated by the priest, plunged under water, and raised from it half drowned. The priest made him pronounce a formula, renouncing his nationality, devoting himself to the queen of heaven ; and then marked his forehead in !a mixture of salt, saliva, and water with the mystic Tau, the sign of the false Messiah ; he was then pronounced ..i.sievE5, twice born, regenerate. He was no longer a Chaldean, Babylonian, or Arab, or des- cended out of SEEM, HAM, or JAPIIETH, but the mem her of a mystic brotherhood, to whom alone was al- lowed the privilege of eternal life. Yet his brothel- hood was in practice confined to white and high caste men. Fraternity might be talked of—it was simply the object of its leaders to form an association for their own ends. The candidate was then placed tin- der a private instructor, to whom he confessed from time to time every thought. When pronounced wor- thy he was admitted to the interior mysteries of the goddess. There, after being sprinkled with holy water, a wafer called mola, the same name now ap- plied by the Italians to the wafer in the mass, was presented by the hierophant, which he ate in honor of the queen of heaven, and at the same time swore to be faithful to her. A cross, the mystic Tau, was worshipped ; the same genuflexions as now performed, while the tonsured priest appeared in the same cos- tume as that the priest now wears. Then strange scenes followed, and phantasmogorical illusions and mesmeric influence ; and amidst burning incense and the shouts of worshippers, the goddess was seen re- vealed amidst her half intoxicated votaries, ascend- ing from her heavenly palace, and revealed in daz- zling light ; and declared that all worship, whether directed to Astarte, Hera, Aphrodite, Pallas, Ceres, Diana, Proserpine, or Shinar, were alike received to the one Iris, the incarnate manifestation of the Spirit of GOD ; and that those who once became her followers, delivered at death from the bondage of matter, should dwell forever as disembodied spirits ; whilst the profane vulgar should pass from body to body, unable to raise themselves to her. Penance followed disobedience of the confessor,—scourging, self-macerations were recommended, but not enforced. The initiated were required, as a proof of their loy- alty, to keep three annual feasts in honor of the Virgin Goddess,—the feast of her birth, on the 25th of March, or Lady-day ; the feast of her son's birth, on the 25th of December ; and the feast of her as- sumption into heaven and reunion of the Deity on the 8th of September ; and also a fast of forty days, fol- lowed by a feast day, agreeing with modern Easter in date, and preceded by a carnival. Was not the attempt to substitute this for the Hebrew passover the cause of those dreadful wars which separated the Church of Wales from the proselytes of A UGUSTINE I Were riot thousands of Britons slaughtered rather than accept the Pagan fast for the Christian feast I On the other hand, the greater mysteries seem to have been confined to few, arid these again were di- vided into two parts. There were what they called the right hand and the left hand mysteries. In the former the virgin still continued the main object of worship, and she was represented, we have seen, as the incarnate spirit of JEHOVAH. In the other, which was confined to the descendants of HAM, the initiated were taught how- ever, that JEHOVAH, the Creator of the world, was a stern and a cruel Deity, hating human knowledge and happiness; but that the prince of the power of the air, Satan, the true GOD, taking compassion on mankind, had sent his son, Boodh, Assarac, or Nim- rod, or Ham, for man's salvation from the yoke of JEHOVAH, and that he would deliver those who wor- shipped him from the bondage of the body in which signification belongs to the phrase, it must be alto- gether different from the meaning and wishes of those who use it. And be it remembered, that tl.e inaccu- rate use of Scripture language leads to inaccuracy of conception as to the spiritual truths, and, as a prolific source of error, cannot be too carefully avoided. IS I ROME BABYLON, AND WHYS rrn- FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." THE ADVENT HERALD. 373 man's spirit had been inprisoned by JEHOVAH, the Creator of the- world and the God of the Jews ; JEHO- VAH had cut off Assarac, but he would again become incarnate for final victory, and raise them to dwell with him in disembodied happiness. Thus, then, the resurrection of the body was directly denied, and re- jected as a calumny. All things were lawful to those who worshipped him. They might worship JEHO- VAH if they would but worship him too. There were the students of magic, the searchers of forbidden knowledge, the sorcerers, the wizards, the devil wor- shippers. If the followers of the right hand mystery subsist in the Jesuit order, I have had personal evidence that the left hand mysteries still exist in continental Eu- rope. The followers of both sexes might however, then, as now, be mixed up together. I have been assured that there are many priests at this moment in France who are also Rosicrucians, and still more who are Templars. The knowledge of magic, of mesmerism, of medi- cine, of gunpowder, was not to be lightly given away. To become also first-rate mesmerists, or ma- gicians, we all know requires strict fasting and con- tinence, and the more a person can disengage himself from what is merely sensual, the more lie can act upon others. Nor was this worship unrewarded. These men were expert chemists and able magicians. By the fumes of drugs burnt as incense, they could wrap the spirit, in delight, and throw the body into a state of coma, in which mesmeric clairvoyance might easily be induced, and the party believe himself to converse with the invisible world. By the Stone of Memphis they could render their votaries insensible to pairs, as by chloroform. By hasheesh they could wrap them in ravishing enjoyment almost beyond human power to support, unfitting them for the duties of life forever afterwards. These they used, but as secrets of their power ; but the destruction of the Gauls, and many other facts, prove that they had also means of des- truction more fearful than any we know now. Need we refer to the Greek fire, far more formidable than our Congreve rockets now. The apostasy thus commenced in worship of a fe- male deliverer, broke speedily into three schisms, corresponding with the three great races..of mankind, and called by the apostle PAUL, for distinction, the Greek, or Hellenic, comprising the whole of the dark-eyed white-complexioned race, the Scythian, comprehending the Northern, and the Berber, extend- ing through Eastern Asia, Africa, India, and every- where amongst the race of Ham. These three seem at first to have had their chief seats at Babel, at Thibet, and at Memphis, each having its own pontiff, and pretending to he the true church. Although Nineveh was the capital of Asia, it is worthy of remark that the college of priests pre- ferred fixing at Babel, away from the overpowering influence of the military court. The apostasy that took place in Thibet still con- tinues unaltered. There we find that the first step to salvation is absolute regeneration by baptism, that heaven can only he reached by holy monks and meek- eyed nuns, who have renounced marriage, and who duly scourge themselves, or each other ; all married persons passing through purgatory ;,that self-macera- tiort is meritorious before the Deity ; saints and crosses are everywhere stuck up ; the chants, almost Gregorian, are constantly performed in the temples ; that the sole'intercession wish him is his once incar- nate Virgin Queen, his son Buddha, or Nimrod, who is always represented as a Zambo or son of an Afri- can father and white mother, or else as entirely black amongst races by whom a Zambo or Negro can never have been seen ; being raised above all mortal care, and returning to earth only, for destruc- tion of the material universe; that the costume of the monks and nuns is identical with that of modern Rome ; that they practice confession, sprinkle holy water, cross themselves on all occasions, set up cross- es, kneel before the Madonna and child, in figure ex- actly Roman, distribute the wafer, repeat prayers similar to the Romanist on the same rosaries of which they claim the invention ; and, in short, according to the testimony of the Jesuits, differ from Rome only in two unhappy particulars, the reverencing the Grand Lama for their Pope, and the appellation of Buddha, as given to their Incarnate male Deity. It is need- less to say that of atonement, or justification, or re- newal of heart, or salvation from sin, these men know and desire nothing. Furthermore, the Roman Catho- lic views of heaven and hell, and purgatory, of the merit of good works, of the use of forms, of the singing of masses and prayers for the dead, are per- fect transcripts of those of Thibet, the very costume and regulations of their monks and friars ; and is there not reason to believe physiologically that these Tartars descend from a mixed race of soldiers, partly consisting of descendants cif Cush, and partly from Japheth, who assisted Horus, Assarac, or Nimrod, in his attempt to subdue the north. And does not this agree with the Assyrian and Persian record, that Semiramis marched upon Tartary, and made Balk the seat of her power. And does not this ex- plain the warrior descendants of Japheth, who set- tled in Tartary, choosing to have their own priests, not those from Babylon, whilst the King of Egypt, on recovering independence, was equally anxious to keep his priesthood national.—(To be continued.) THE PERSECUTION AT FLORENCE. The facts of the case are perhaps known to all our readers. It may suffice to say, that at this moment FRANCESCO and Ross MADIAI are suffering punish- ment as felons, at the galleys, in company with the offscourings of Italian society, in pursuance of a sen- tence passed upon them and confirmed by the Courts of Tuscany. And what dreadful crime have they committed to deserve such treatment? Are they persons of infamous character? Have they been in league with assassins and robbers I Have they taken a part in any of those political plots which keep the despots of Italy in perpetual and nervous alarm? Nothing of the kind is even insinuated against them. Quite the contrary. They are persons of unblemished reputation—respected by all that know them, and sin- gularly free from political intrigue. For all this we have the express acknowledgment of the public prose- cutor. The sole offence with which they were charged is " impiety," meaning, by that term, the possession of the Bible—reading the Bible, and induc- ing others to read it with them ! This is their crime —nothing more. It is a comfort to have a case of this kind, simplified as it has been to our hand, in the judicial proceedings of the Tuscan Courts. Even in the:darkest Papal countries, it is usually otherwise. What is called heresy, is commonly mystified, and converted into a political crime. It is not so much for their religion that heretics are punished, as for some pretended offence against the State. But the Duke of Tuscany and his ghostly advisers, have no such squeamishness about them. They don't go about the bush ; they specify the crime in simple and ex- plicit language. These persons possessed and read the Bible, and therefore they are punished like com- mon felons. In this Protestant country, it is custom- ary for the advocates of Popery to deny that their church prevents the people from reading the Bible, and to cry out about it as a grievous calamity, when it is charged with so doing. But, in fact, the charge is true, and their denial, when examined, consists in nothing but quibbles. It is Protestant translations which are prohibited, they tell us. Of course they ate earnest and active in furnishing their people with such a translation of the Scriptures as they approve. No such thing. It is a matter of notoriety, that no member of that Church is allowed to possess and read even authorized Romish translations, without a written permission to do so, which is rarely asked, and still more rarely granted. The hostility of the Romish Church to the Bible is bitter and relentless. The Tuscan priests would have no hesitation in ac- knowledging this. The Tuscan Court, by their pro- ceedings against the Alsnist, openly proclaim it. In what a humiliating position has the Duke of TUSCANY placed himself by this transaction ! Under his sanction, those worthy people have been tried, sentenced, and punished. When recently appealed to on the subject, he is represented as having declared, that it was with him a matter of conscience thai the sentence should take its course. To what pitiable degradation Popery reduces its victims ! But four short years ago it was announced that, " of all the reforming sovereigns, the GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY has gone the furthest in concessions made to reli- gious freedom. While he declares Roman Catholi- cism to he the religion of the State, he tolerates every other form of religion, and admits to all public offices and as members of the Chambers, persons of all creeds whatever." The goad of reform made him act like a rational man. Nothing was heard about his conscience then. The man, however, is without principle ; as he was foremost in reform, he was foremost in the re-action which speedily followed. He surrounded himself with meek docility, and even, gladness of heart, to his dear friends the Jesuits, and they have made him what he now is. They have drugged him with Popish narcotics, have put out his eyes, have suppressed every merciful feeling in his heart, and made him insensible to his own shame. To what a depth of voluntary debasement does a civil ruler descend who permits himself to become the mere creature and passive tool of tonsured priests ; men, as a class, without sympathy for liberty, nar- row minded, selfish, greedy of lucre, and as ready to act the traitor to those who will not succumb to them, as they are exacting and tyrannical to those who be- come their prey ! To this condition of vileness the DUKE OF TUSCANY has stooped, and now licks the dust and hugs his chains ! We are not to forget, indeed, that the Tuscan Government, or at least the public prosecutor for the Government, boasts of its toleration ; and assuredly, and orissimal notion they seem to have of it. They tolerate a man to think as he likes. He may be a heretic of the darkest dye ; may hold all the pecu- liarities of CALVIN, or anything he likes ; and, so long as hs keeps them to himself, the Government will say nothing to him. But let him afford any out- ward indication of what his thoughts are ; let him possess a Bible ; let him be detected in reading it, however privately ; let him breathe his sentiments to others, and the galleys or the stake will be his por- tion. And this is toleration ! What a happy and lib- eral constitution ! What a merciful Government ! So generous that they decline to punish a man for his private thoughts ! Thank ye for nothing, as O'CoN- NELL would-have said. How any Government is to know the private thoughts of its subject this State officer does not inform us. He, however, may leave it to be inferred, that it is quite within the province of the ruling powers to seize and torture all, or any of their subjects, on whom their suspicions may hap- pen to light, with a view to compel them to divulge what their religious opinions are; and the admirable toleration of the Government consists in this, that although possessed of this power, they magnanimous- ly abstain from exercising it. Perhaps, after all, some prudent regard to their own safety has as much to do with this species of toleration as any better de- fined principle. Were they attempting to put into exercise the power they claim, the country would soon become to hot to hold them. When the alter- native lies between dying on the battle-field or expir- ing amidst groans of anguish in the torture chamber, the most slavish and craven of subjects will not long hesitate as to the side which they must choose. The British Banner. Testimony of Judas to the Character of Christ. The testimony of an enemy to the excellence of a man is beyond all value ; especially when the evidence given irculpates the reputation of the enemy himself. In this view let us look at the atch traitor against the Son of Goo. For the sum of about twanty-five dollars, JUDAS had betrayed the Messiah into the hands of his enemies, and where now was the happiness of that treacherous man ? His conscience, which had long slept, now awoke, and thundered in his ears the nature and ex- tent of his crime. The money he had received as the price of blood, even though the sum had been multiplied a thousand times, would not obtain for him peace of mind ; and those, even, from whom he ex- pected applause, viewed hint with horror, and joined in the general execration of his crime. Satan, who had drawn him into presumption, now cherished his feelings of despair ; the disciples of CHRIST could not be expected to afford him sympathy, and he neither expected nor desired the pardoning mercy of JESUS. The heavens seemed to gather blackness against him, the earth refused him comfort, and hell opened its mouth to receive him ; while the universe seemed to unite in saying to him, " It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Goo," when his laws have been broken, and determined rebellion against his authority has been manifested. What, under such circumstances, does,,Junss do ? Just the last thing which we might have expected. He returns to the priests and elders, professes repent- ance, throws the money he had received from them on the floor of the hall, and utters, in tones of agony, " I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." Surely our world never witnessed a more striking proof of the power of conscience, or heard so decisive a testimony to the innocence of CHRIST'S life. If JESUS had really been an impostor, JUDAS would have felt no reproaches of conscience for hav- ing aided in bringing him to justice ; for every hon- est man must have applauded the deed. And had there been any deception practiced on the part of J E- sus, this JUDAS, who had known him so well, had every possible inducement to disclose it. But when even he was compelled, at such a time, reluctantly to declare JESUS innocent, we may confidently rejoice in his character, and place unlimited confidence in his mission. Watchman and Reflector. Experience of a Convict in Australia. Many a time have 1 been yoked like a bullock with twenty or thirty others, to drag along timber. About 800 died in six months at a place called Toongabbie, or Constitution Hill. I knew a man so weak, he was thrown into the grave, when he said, " Don't cover me up ; I am not dead ; for GoD's sake, don't cover me up !" The overseer answered, " D—n your eyes, you'll die to-night, and we shall have the trouble to come back again !" The mar, recovered, his name is JAMES GLASSHOUSE, and he is now alive at Richmond. They used to have a large hole for the dead ; once a day men were sent to collect the corpses of prisoners, and throw them in without any ceremony or service. The native dogs used to come down at night and fight and howl in packs, gnawing the poor dead bodies. The Governor would order the lash at the rate of 500, 600, to 800 ; and if the men could have stood it, they would have had more. 1 knew a man hung there and then for stealing a few biscuits, and another for stealing a duck frock. A man was condemned—no time—take him to the tree and hang him. The overseers were allowed to flog the men in the fields. Often [have men been taken from the gang, had fifty, and sent back to work. Any man would have committed a murder for a month's provisions. I would have committed three (murders) for a week's provisions. Confessions ofJohn Smith. FROM THE ISTHMUS—In our late Isthmus papers we find several matters of interest. The " Camara," or provincial legislature of the Isthmus adjourned on the 24th of October. No definite action was taken upon the subject of the federation of the Isthmus, which, as noticed at the time of the last arrival, was before the body. A law had been framed for the pur- pose, but it was finally postponed to the next session of the Camara. A most frightful accident occured on the Crucos route Oct 20, the particulars of which are as follows : A Mr. Stone, his lady and child, who came passengers from New York, in crossing the river Cardenas about five miles from Panama, were suddenly caught by the freshet, whilst about half way across the river. The torrent overwhelmed the whole party with its tremen- dous force, carrying both mules and riders down the stream. Mr. Stone and the child were afterwards picked up by some natives, hut the unfortunate lady was drowned before aid could he rendered. Her body was afterwards recovered and interred. We un- derstand that the mules were lost also. ALLEGED MASSACRE OF 50,000 CHINESE—We have a report from China by way of California, that the rebels had made an incursion into Hunau, where they had captured the city of Chun-chow, after a slaugh- ter of three days and nights, during which 50 000 people—men, women and children—were killed. These dates purport to be of the 7th of Aug. The story is hardly credited by the journals which make it public. A correspondent of the New York Ob- server, writing from Canton under date of Aug. 20th, represents the rebellion in Kwangsi Province to be in a measure subdued, the insurgents having been driven to the mountains, and says that at no time has it been considered as endangering the over throw of the government. There is probably but little foundation for the report of so large a slaughter. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN CHAMOUNIX. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Chamounix, under date of Sept. 18th, gives a very graphic account of the inundations there As most travelers from this country visit Chamounix, to have a close view of Mont Blanc, we subjoin the let- ter for their perusal. Chamounix is a small village about seventy miles from Geneva, chiefly inhabited by those whose business it is to conduct tonrists to- ward Mont Blanc, or even to its summit if they dare venture; to Martigny, or through any of the passes of that wild region. They live like one happy family, being all formed into a mutual society for the aid of any one who may be lost in the hazardous employment. The greatest inundation which has occurred this century has just carried misery and desolation through this secluded valley. On Thursday last, the rain commenced falling in torrents, and when morning broke, the Arve had risen considerably, but there seemed no reason to apprehend any danger, as the river has carved for itself a channel deep and wide enough, one. would have thought, to drain ad trio Alps between Chamounix and Geneva. It was ob- served, however, with some uneasiness, that the stream which precipitates itself from the Glaciers de Bois into the river A rveiron had swollen into a cataract. Toward night, the river had risen five or six feet above its ordinary level, and the mountain sides were marked in every direction with the white seams of new water courses. On Friday morning-, the aspect of the Arve, as it tore through the village, hurrying forest trees, planks and fragments of wooden bridges on its turbid waters, and momentarily rushing higher and higher up against its banks. was enough to ex- cite the gravest apprehensions. All the people in the village turned out, by beat of drum, to help each other in the approaching calamity. It was not long in corning. Ere nine o'clock A. M., the river had burst its banks, and flooded the whole of the lower part of the valley, sweeping away the flax crops of the poor cot- tagers, left out to dry, and covering their scanty sup- plies of food and corn with thick lavers of white mud, composed of the debris of granite and shade rocks, which will take years to remove. The in- creasing force and power of the torrent was marked every minute by the greater size of the trees and timber it bore along, and by and by, the most painful feelings were excited by the appearance of the planks arid roofs of chalets whirling down in its waves, which had boiled and chafed in huge masses of water, resembling liquid mortar. All the strangers at the hotels turned out, in spite of the incessant rain, to watch a Eight so novel and so terrible. Above their heads hung a deep canopy of clouds, which settled down to the very base of the Alps, or drifted now and then up along the moun- tain sides, only to show the glaciers pouring down their furious cascades through the pine trees, and to reveal the ampler currents of the water courses. Around, on every side, was a dense vapor, concealing every object at the distance of one hundred yards, but still leaving the angry rush of the roaring Arve and its chaotic burdens but too plainly visible as it seethed through the widely spreading banks, which grew more distant from each other with every minute. The sound of the huge boulders, which it forced along, as they struck the rocky bottom, literally *LW 374 THE ADVENT HERALD. 11.111.1.131. shook the ground, and filled the air like growling thunder, and the long reverberations of the avalanches mingling with this horrid tumult, the crash of trees and timber, and the hissing of the toppling waters of river and cataract, formed an awful chorus. The anxious faces of the villagers but too well revealed thelamount of the destruction that was taking place, as surrounding their priest, who stood with uncovered head beneath the teeming clouds, they gazed from the bridges in hopeless despair at the torrent below. By the fragments which passed in quick succes- sion, it was known that all the bridges along the road toeMartigny had been destroyed, and, from ex- perience, they had reason to believe greater mischief would be done lower down the valley. At the Hotel de Londres, strenuous efforts were made to preserve the bridge which led from the garden across the river to the road ascending toward the Cascade des Pelerins, and large beams of wood, trees stripped of their branches, were conveyed, with great labor, and placed so that one end was fixed under the bridge, and the other weighed dawn by large stones and balks of timber, rested on the ground ; but in spite of this eccentric engineering, it was plain to those who watched the progress of the flood, that the erec- tion could not long withstand the furious tide that beat against its buttresses. Before eleven o'clock the waters had rushed into the hotel garden, and in a few moments after, the stone buttressses and foundation were snapped and overthrown, and with a tremendous crash, down came the bridge into the Arve, which, whirling it round and round like a straw, speedily hurried it out of sight Only one bridge was now left in the vil- lage, and it was crowded during the day, with peo- ple, and though several false alarms caused them to run off, it was fortunately so high above the Arve- and its foundations were so strong, that it escaped all injury. All the walls of the side and part of the road, way, however, were washed away. On walking by the mountain side, above the valley, the appearance of the torrent was frightful. Enor- mouepine trees, ash, and beeches of great bulk, were to be seen struggling to rise out of the race, and lift- ing their dark roots and branches for an instant, but to he whelmed again by the stream, the course of which was marked everywhere by ruined mills and half-drowned chalets. Women, gaihered on the hill- side, stood wringing their hands, and weeping, as they looked on their submerged homes, their friendly roofs, just peeping above the water ; or with their husbands, lathers, and sons, bore their humble house- hold goods to some securer elevation. All the population agreed in saying they had never heard of, or seen such a deluge before, and I certainly was inclined to believe it, from witnessing the ineffi- cient and unskilful attempts they made to check the destruction caused by the river. For the most part, indeed, they submitted, in silence, to a calamity which they seemed to consider inevitable and irre- madiable. The small millers, whose houses stood by the roadside, were, of course, the great sufferers. In every case their dwellings were destroyed, and their property carried away ; and it was melancholy to see some of those great, stout fellows crying like children, as they beheld the fruits of years of industry and toil swallowed up in an instant for ever. A more touching subject for a painter than one of these sad groups perched on a rock over their home, and la- menting over its loss, as they watched the Arve scaling its walls, till it gurgled through the windows and the whole building sank with a crash, could not be imagined. It is to be hoped that Mr. Hugard, a Savoyard landscape painter, who is here, by order of the French Government, to finish some large pieces of Alpine scenery for the Ecole des Mines, may ren- der the world familiar with the details of this flood, of which the pen can never convey a description. In one night, the river arose, in some places, twen- ty-five and thirty feet. All communication has been cut off between us and Geneva, and up and down the valley for some days ; but there are many reports respecting the loss of life and property down toward Sallenches. It ie said that fifty persons have been drowned at Bonneville, and that those who escaped were taken out of the top windows in boats. New Cuban Expedition. The promoters of the contemplated expedition against Cuba, here, openly proclaimed their pur- poses and objects, and they have no fear of any inter- ference by this Government—for they will not, as they say, do anything that is illegal. They can ac- complish all their objects, and yet commit no act in violation of the neutrality of the United States. Their numbers are great, their resources are proba- bly increasing, and their plans are managed with dis- cretion. In New York, the number of men who could be marshalled in a filibuster procession exceeds ten thou- sand. They intended to make a great display on the occasion of the reported removal, by the Government. of Lieut. Porter from the mail steamer service. On some early occasion they will make a public exhibi- tion of their " Order " in the streets of New York, and probably of other cities. It appears that the ren- dezvous of the invaders, and the depository of their arms and munitions of war, is to be without the lim- its of the United States. In connection with this subject, an inquiry has recently been made at the War Department concerning the state of Mr. George Law's contract with the Government for the pur- chase of arms. The following is an authentic state- ment of Mr. Law's purchase of muskets :-64,399 muskets at $2,40—$154,557 60 ; 65,623 muskets at $2,00—$131,240 ; 14,331 muskets at $2,00-28,662. Total, $314,459 60. These muskets are all in ex- cellent condition, and well packed in excellent boxes. They are only a small part of Mr. Law's collection of warlike munitions. The invaders will find no dif- ficulty, therefore, in procuring arms, and at a rea- sonable price, for all their objects. I hear from various quarters that a great and un- exampled number of strangers will visit Washington during the present session and next spring. Many will be drawn hither by business, and more by curi- osity. We shall have brisk times here for some years to come. Washinzton Cor. of the Baltimore Sun. THE STATE OF MAN. BY NATURE. " Dead in trespasses and sin," " Vile," e polluted," and " unclean ;" " Naked," " miserable," " blind," " Darkened " in his " heart " and'' mind," " Satan's slave," a " child of wrath," Wandering " helpless," from the path, " Without hope," and " without God," " Without strength " to seek the road ; " Knowing nothing," '' hating life," " Speaking evil," " sowing strife ;" " In the way that leads to death," His best hope a " puff of breath ;" " Of the world," he hath no rest, • Peace a stranger to his breast ; " Hating God," who " knows him not," " God is not in all his thought ;" A " despiser " of the word ; One who " will not " seek the Lord ; But " stout-hearted," void of faith, And " condemned " to endless death. BY GRACE. " Quickened " by the voice of God ; " Cleansed " by his atoning blood, " Clothed," and blessed ;" light is given ; Darkness from his spirit driven : See, " the Son has made him free," And he " walks at liberty." He is an " adopted son," Dwelt in by the Holy One ! He has found the pathway " strait," " Leading to the heavenly gate." He is " strong in Christ the Lord," And he loves his holy word. Now he knows the " better part," God has given a fleshly heart. He will " follow after peace," Own the " Lord his righteousness." He is " holy," '' true," and " just ;" " In the Lord he puts his trust." IN GLORY. " Life eternal " shall be his ; He shall " see Hint as he is ;" He shall " know as he is known ;" He shall love the Lord alone ; All his sorrows shall be o'er ; Sin shall never grieve him more. " Faith shall then be lost in sight ;" God shall be his glorious light ; He shall see Him " face to face," Who has saved him by his grace. " Like " his Saviour, he shall be Sharer in his majesty. He shall " enter into rest ;" He shall mingle with the blest , He shall cast his purchased crown At the Saviour's fieestool down. " Filled and satisfied " with joy, Naught shall burden, fade, or cloy ; Death shall ne'er his bliss dissever ; He shall be " with Christ " forever. The Middletown Silver Mine. The editor of the Middletown News has visited this place, and descended nearly to the bottom of the shaft. He says : " Here we saw the old timbers and braces left by the miners, who over one hundred years ago worked this mine, still as sound and undecayed as a week af- ter they were put there. We looked down the deep, dark chasm which yawned before us, and the Cornish miner who led the way, descended by the ancient ladder, (also left in the mines,) and disappeared in the gloom, the candle• which he carried serving only to make darkness visible. This old shaft is quite in- teresting ; it is constructed with considerable care, and shows that extensive operations must have been carried on here. At different distances side galleries are cut in the rock, and down below the vein of sil- ver shows out from two and a half to three feet in width. This old shaft was probably worked on ac- count of the silver, and by persons well acquainted with mining. In fact, it is ascertained that at one time a party of Germans, at another, of Englishmen, under Col. James, worked it. On the approach of the trouble between England and the colonies, it was abandoned and closed up, and during die war of the revolution worked only for the lead. It is more than probable that the lead used for bullets at the battle of Saratoga was obtained from this mine, there being on record a letter from Gen. Ward, containing an or- der for 5000 lbs. of pig lead, and the answer stating that by a certain day the requisite amount should be at Newburg, on the North River. Middletown, therefore, did her part in w hipping Gen. Burgoyne. "'There is a tradition current among the farmers in the neighborhood of the mine, which runs to this effect : That years ago an Englishman, after stroll- ing around the mines and examining them, offered to w qk for the proprietors on condition that they would give him his board, and let hint stir the kettle of lead while melting. It was observed that he soon began to prosper, bought land, and set about building a house. He was watched, and it was noticed that he frequently thrust the iron rod with which he stirred the lead into the ground, and at night collected the earth around the kettle, and melted it. He was therefore arrested and charged with theft, but noth- ing, being proved against him, was allowed to go free. The above tradition, which involves a scien- tific fact, proves that the ore at this mine was long ago known to contain silver. It was reserved, how- ever, for Dr. Francfort to demonstrate its richness and develop its extent." Satanic Literature. The Cincinnati Atlas states that the West is flooded with trash in the shape of cheap blood and thunder stories, and expresses the hope that the press throughout the country will help to wage a war of extermination against the nefarious traffic. This ob- scece and revolting literature is hawked about by agents who insinuate themselves into every dwelling, office, and public place, and by their misrepresenta- tions induce thousands to buy their demoralizing pub- lications, thins diffusing the poison through the com- munity. Is there no means, asked our Cincinnati contemporary, to stay the torrent of impurity I None, we fear, but in cultivating a purer taste in the com- munity, which would lead them to reject as they would garbage the vile stuff offered for their mental diet. It is positively amazing the number of writers, male and female, of trashy tales that have sprung up in this country during the last ten years. Many of our weekly papers are laden with their contributions; and heaven spare the digestive apparatus that can re- ceive and assimilate them ! It is almost enough to disgust one with fiction to see the quantity of rub- bish that these scribblers have the capacity of giving forth, '' in one wishy-washy, everlasting flood." Many of the stories are written by prurient, preco- cious boys, in whom the imaginative faculties have been strongly developed. We. have our recollection of one lad, who, after contributing any quantity of pirate stories and others of like quantity to one of our most widely circulated weeklies, died of cerebal excitement produced by the emission of such quanti- ties of clever trash. Let the public discourage the publication of these stories by refusing to buy them, and the evil may be gradually corrected, and a more salutary taste be substituted. Boston Transcript. Interesting front Havana. The Savannah Courier learns from a passenger by the Isabella, from Havant., that the state of affairs in the island was daily becoming more and more de- plorable. Spies are placed by the Government in al- most every public house in Havana. They are also on board the steamers, and in all places of public re- sort, se that it is impossible for any one to utter a whisper against the Government without being lia- ble to arrest arid imprisonment. Last week, an aged and wealthy Creole for some slight offence was ig- !luminously garroted. It will be recollected that some time since, four young ladies were imprisoned, one for making a Lone Star flag, and the other three for being engaged in manufacturing cartridges. A few days since, one of them died in prison, and the oth- ers were sentenced fur three years. Many of the Creoles had been driven to dispair, and were offer- ing their property for sale at almost any price with a view of leaving the island. The Government how- ever was throwing every obstacle in the way of ef- fecting sales. It was impossible for them to get more than from one third to one-half of its value, but then upon that amount the Government levies a tax of five per cent. Some were actually deserting valuable estates and fleeing the country in order to escape the terrors of the base system of espionage instituted by the Governor General. Great Mail Robbery. Mr. Holbrook, agent of the Post Office Department, arrested in Philadelphia on the 11th, the perpetrator of several mail robberies committed at Baltimore. The prisoner is John W. Comegys, and has been employed as the conductor of an express train on the Baltimore railroad, who cut open the pouches at dif- ferent times, at Baltimore, and took possession of drafts after destroying the letters. He had obtained the cash upon drafts remitted by various New York banks to Southern correspondents, but payable in New York, by opening an account in a bank here and depositing the drafts with forged endorsements. When arrested, he had $7570 in hills of the Bank of North America, in his possession, being the pro- ceeds of the stolen drafts. Comegys had opportunities to commit robberies, there being no mail agents to express trains. The prisoner confesses his crime arid acknowledges hav- ing destroyed many drafts that he knew could not he converted into money. The first discovery of the robbery was from a rifled pouch in a sink attached to the United States Hotel at Baltimore. The prisoner is connected with a most respectable family in Phila- delphia. Slave Case in New York. A slave case of much interest is now pending in New York. It involves the freedom of eight col- ored persons, consisting of one young man about eighteen years of age, two women not over eighteen or nineteen, each with an infant at the breast, and three children, two of whom are twins, eight years of age, and a boy about twelve years old. It appears that they were brought into New York from Vir- ginia by Jonathan Lemman, on their way to Texas. The facts are admitted by the counsel for the alleged slaves, who raises the question whether the claimant has a right to hold them as property after having vol- untarily brought them to a free State. Mr. Culver, who appears as their counsel, had them brought be- fore the Superior Court on a writ of habeas corpus, and demanded their discharge, on the ground, that having been brought into New York by their master, they were free by that act ; that, by the act of 1841, slavery in this State was abolished, even for the nine months' term; that these persons were not fu- gitives from labor under the United States Constitu- tion, and hence nut liable to be retained ; and that as no slavery was recognized by New York laws, these persons were entitled to their freedom. The Judge stated that he would give a written decision on Sat- urday (the 13th). Boston Journal. Tobacco Smoking. The practice of tobacco smoking was introduced by Sir Walter Raleigh, about 1586. Its use, however, like that of coffee, encountered much opposition. Laws and severe penalties were enacted against it. The Grand Duke of Moscow forbade its entrance into his territory, under pain of the knout for the first of- fence, and death for the next. The emperor of the Turks, the king of Persia, and Pope Urban VIII., all issued similar prohibitions. A hundred volumes were written against it, and even king James I. took up his pen to suppress it. He styles it, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, painful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof most neatly resembling the hor- rible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." CORRESPONDENCE. REVIVALS. It seems to me there can be nothing of more vital importance to the promoting of the interets of the church militant, than a revival of pure and undefiled religion. That such is perfectly in harmony with the moral law of God, and the laws of mind seems to me equally evident. That there is much in the idea of a revi- val inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible must, I think, appear obvious to the mind of every in- vestigating person. The oft backslidings of Israel, the inhabiting of a strange land—the fervent prayer, " Oh Lord revive thy work," with many such like truths must clearly prove (1), that revivals in the church have been more or less needed in every age, and, (2) that to do such a work when needed was the manifest pleasure and will of God—with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turtling. The same truth is again illustrated in that interest- ing narrative related of the Prodigal Son. Our Lord here scents to recognize the truth (1), that it is pos- sible for the human mind like the prodigal son to be- come indifferent to its clearest interests, to become enamored with the groveling anti licentious pleasures of sin to such a degree as to leave the affectionate and almost hallowed paternal roof, in exchange for an abode with harlots and swine—or as to leave the joys of religion, and the lively hope of an inheritance in the celestial world through the Lord Jesus Christ, in exchange for the pleasures of sin, and a life alone on a sin-cursed earth. And (2), if we would again obtain the favor of our Father from whom we have so wickedly departed, we must first resolve and re- turn towards our Father's house ; must repent and do our first works over again. And (3), if we will thus return, and do on the part of ourselves, God, like the tender Father will return to us ; in fulfilment of that great truth—draw near to God and he will draw near to you—fur God loved the world, and " would not that any should perish." Yes dear friend, though you may have grievously backslidden, and sinned against our heavenly Father, yet God's infinite love has made provision so that even thou, if not now snatched away in thy sins, may like the prodigal son return to thy Father's house. " If any man sin he hath an advocate with the Father even Christ the righteous." A revival does not imply a reforming of tine forms or nature of religion—nor the giving a new dispen- sation—nor the working nominally a miracle. But by a revival of religion we understand the revivifying —renovating of such churches or portions of the church as have in a great or less measure departed from their first love, and become lukewarm, or dead to religion (i. e., morally) and alive to the world. Therefore we see when a revival is needed, when there is a form of godliness without the power, when there is the church of Christ without any spirit to feel and labor for the welfare of souls—when there is no spirit to sacrifice to God—no spirit of self-de- nial—no spirit of fervenvud prevailing prayer : but on the contrary a spirit of covetousness—of strife— bickering—evil speaking—and jealousies etc., when such is the case a revival of religion is imperatively demanded to save the church. The requisite fruits of a revival then is to 1, beget a spirit of self-examination in the church by which they are led to discover the vast moral distance they are from God—how much beneath their privilege they live—how indifferent they are to the welfare of souls. A spirit of repentance and humility before God. A new consecration to God and the interests of his cause. It most of all begets a spirit of renewed engagedness and labors for the welfare of souls. The shortness of time, and the duration of eternity, the scenes of the judgment of the great day of the Al- mighty, awful interests that are at stake then and there, roll before the mind, and fail not to beget the spirit of incessant labor for the welfare of souls. And we may therefore add That there will be marked success in the labors of the church for the salvation of sinners. This must appear obvious from considering the requisites and conditions of the Scripture promises. The declara- tion is, " They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy." " Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy ; break up your fallow ground ; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he collie and rain righteousness upon us." The two great ends then gained by a revival of religion is, first, a deeper work of grace in the church ; and second, the winning of souls to Christ, and saving of there from everlasting destruction from LETTER FROM E. R. PINNEY. PEAT BRETHREN :—A crisis has now arrived in my disease that makes it necessary for me to cease from all the cares of business and seek quiet and rest in order to make one more effort to save myself from destruction by it. My present physician, (Dr. Car- dell of Baldwinsville) says it is useless to try to benefit me unless I can be free from care and anxiety. The interest many of the dear brethren have evinced in my welfare heretofore, induces me to avail myself of the medium of the Herald, to give a brief history of my case from my last cummunication to the pres- ent time. When I ceased preaching for the Rochester Church I went to keeping hooks for a livelihood, in which I continued most of the time up to last November, at which time the canker set in so violently as to oblige me to leave it and commence doctoring my cancer again, in which I have been constantly engaged up to the present. Last spring my means of support being exhausted, I went into a boarding-house, in which I continued until October 15th, when my health and circumstances made a change necessary. A door seemed to open for me among the dear brethren of my former labors in this place, where for the present I expect to remain. It is now nearly two months since I had my last attack of canker. Up to that time I retained my health and strength remarkably. Since then I have been confined to my house, and much of the time to my room arid bed. I am now quite feeble and daily becoming more so ; but hope soon measurably to re- gain my health and strength again. My sufferings for the last few weeks have been constant and much of the time intense. But the grace of God has hith- erto sustained me, so that I have not fainted. My trust is still in God, that he will at last give me the victory through Christ. I have often been reminded of the burning bush in God's dealings with me. I am not yet consumed, though at times my feet " have well nigh slipped ;" for I have been " made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone I and 1 am full of tossing,s to and fro until the dawning of the day." And my temptations have been so severe at times that I have found it extremely difficult with David to say, " I know, 0 Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me :" but still consolation and joy in God could be found nowhere else. Brethren pray for me that my faith fail riot. There have been times when my overwhelming sufferings I feared would lead me to turn away from God. It is not always as easy to apply the consolations of the gospel in adversity and affliction, as when in health and prosperity. There have been seasons when as David said, " The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me : I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; 0 Lord I beseech thee, deliver my soul." But like Job I could not find him. " Be- hold, (he says) I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, hut I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him ; lie hideth himself on the right hand thdt I can- not see him." Thus shut up I cried out, " 0 that I knew where I might find him :" but not a ray of light from heaven pierced the gloom, and in my an- guish I cried out, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me I" While thus in;despair I yielded, and threw myself into the arms of divine goodness. In due time the " Father smiled," the gloom dissi- pated, and joy like a well-spring of glory flowed into my soul. I shouted, Glory to God ! and thought I should never, no never, doubt again. But my brethren I will not afflict you any longer with my exercises of gloom. I have many scenes of joy. I sometimes live on P.isg,ali's top in all my affliction for weeks without an intervening cloud. For which I praise the Lord. I close by saying, I love my Saviour and his ap- pearing, and all of like precious faith, as well as ever. My whole being is wrapped up in desires to wake up the world to receive our soon coming King. But my work is done, at least, until God shall be pleased to renew my strength. I cannot talk nor sing, nor read, nor study, nor write (but very little, THE ADVENT HERALD. the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power. And this, the having a revival or not, is left optional with the church. If we will return, and seek the Lord till he come and rain righteousness upon us, we may. But if this we do not how great must be our guilt before God. If we hide our light under a bushel—if like the dog of the manger, we neither eat ourself nor permit those who would—if " we the lamp of life deny," how great must be our condem- nation before God. Better would it be for the cities of the plain than for us. Curse all the people bit- terly saith the angel of the Lord, because they came not up to the help of the Lord against the !nighty. P. B. M. this short epistle has cost me quite an effort), and it is with the greatest effort I can command my thoughts sufficiently to pray even in secret. I feel that I am ready to meet the world at the judgment- 1 shall be clean from their blood. I have faithfully warned them by night and by day, and by every means in my power. After all I feel that I have been a very unprofitable servant. But I have done what I could, and as long as I could, both in tern- porals and spirituals, and I now throw myself upon the mercy of God. Rejoicing in my ever present motto " Spes mea Christos," and trusting in his mer- its I hope for mercy unto eternal life and glory, and a kingdom. Pray for me, my brethren, and may God abundantly bless you, and enable you to be faithful and secure the kingdom through Christ, is the prayer of your unworthy and afflicted brother. Seneca Falls, Nov. 6th, 1852. LETTER FROM SAMUEL WALKER. Brio. HIMES :—During the several years in which I have had the pleasure of reading the Herald I have been greatly edified by the comments upon Scripture, embracing the general Advent views. The remarks upon noted sermons of ministers, Dr. Bangs, Dr. Cox, Dr. Spring, and many others ; contrasting the views of Adventists with those of Millennialists, have im- parted an interest of the highest order to the Herald. The recent remarks touching upon the present ad- vancing condition of the Advent churches, is a cause of encouragement and gratitude. I am also with you on the subject of time. That we ought not be too positive in fixing a time immediately near for the second advent of the Lord of glory. After the en- tire failure of the advent tip to '48, I came to this conclusion, that 2300 and 1260, could not extend be- yond '48, therefore they were fulfilled when the Catholics drove their Pope from the throne. And that we are now to look for the fulfilment of the 1335, which is an extension of seventy-five years. I then read the seven vials, Rev. 16th, and was surprised to find the sixth vial, 13th verse, so distinctly ex- pressed, and also the sixth vial, the only one to which an explanation was given, verse 14th. I re- marked at that time that past history had not recorded an event corresponding to this vial, I considered it our privilege as Adventists to look for a fulfilment of this very important prophecy, and to judge of the phenomena of the Rapping Spirits in reference to this fulfilment. When this event shall transpire I have no doubt it will go forth in great velocity to the entire world, proselyting with unparalleled success, deeply affecting the interests of religion. Those look- ing tbr a millennium will not recognize a fulfilment of prophecy, while those who believe the kingdom of Christ will be in the new earth, will notice so re- remarkable an event with the deepest interest. Springfield (Mass.), Nov. 8th, 1852. Letter from I. H. Shipman. BRO. HIMES :—Yesterday was a good day with us in this place. At twelve o'clock we repaired to the water side and baptized fifteen happy believers, most of w hom have experienced the pardoning grace of God sinceyou were here. We then returned to the place of wor- ship, and at the close of the afternoon service admin- istered the Lord's supper. Our body slips would not hold the communicants, and all that were baptized joined with us. I have no need to say that every heart was melted with the love of Christ on such an occasion. I think it will not be soon forgotten. In the evening, although the weather and traveling were unfavorable, we had a large congregation, nearly fifty spoke, some backsliders returned, and several young people expressed a determination to follow Christ. Over thirty came forward for prayers, several for the first time, and we think it one of the most profitable meetings we have had. A number expressed a de- sire to be baptized next Sabbath. The work is deep and thorough, and all are con- strained to say God is in the work. I think I never saw a more candid, firm, and understanding company of converts in any revival I ever witnessed. We do not inform you of this glorious work to sound a trumpet, but if possible to stir up others to labor for the salvation of perishing souls. I was much com- forted with the account of the late revivals in Penn- sylvania and Canada, and hope all who are witness- ing revivals, will notice the same through the Heald, that it may encourage others. Yours in hope. Sugar Hill, Nov. 8th, 1852. Letter from L. Scott. BRO. HIMES :—Our meetings are regularly held and continue as interesting as ever. Bro. Fowler from Mendon, preaches for us once a month, and Bro. E. P. Burdett occasionally. The theme of the Sec- ond Advent is increasingly more interesting as time advances, and I look forward with transport to the time when Jesus shall appear to collect his jewels from the different parts of earth's dominion, and when the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the king- dom of their Father. We are wishing very much for an Advent preacher to be sent here among us from the East. He would he well received and sustained throughout this great region of the West. One is needed to supply the little churches scattered around with the administra- tion of the word and the ordinances of God's house. We are glad to hear from time to time from our beloved Elder S. Chapman. He is the one to whom we are very much indebted for our precious knowl- edge of the prophetic portion of God's word. For we are well persuaded that we have not followed cunningly devised fables, but a glorious and a heav- enly reality, which illuminates our mental horizon, and will until the day dawn and the shadows flee away. " I long to see that glorious day, When all the saints shall stand On Zion's mount, in bright array, Redeemed from every land." St. Albans (Ill.), Oct. 29th, 1852. Letter from J. D. Boyer. BRO. HIMES : —The Lord is still reviving his work on Seunemahoning Circuit. Last Sabbath I baptized five more at Caledonia, and gave the right hand of fellowship to six who have been lately converted to God. Last Friday I returned to Rich Valley in company with Elder Gates. We remained five days, and dur- ing, our stay I baptized thirty-four, and have received forty-one into the Advent Church. They are truly whole hearted in the work. They have raised the amount sufficient for a meeting-house, and expect to worship in it the first of January. Elder Gates has done good by his efforts in spreading the truths of the Second Advent,of our Saviour. Since our camp-meeting in August, I baptized eighty-two up to the present time. To God be all the glory. Breth- ren pray for us that the work of the Lord may con- tinue. Yours in the blessed hope. Newspaper Poets. It is wonderful—the vast amount of so called poe- try that a country editor is called upon to examine and " if he thinks worthy " present to the reading public. Some mother thinks " her daughter writes such pretty verses for one so young that she would really like to see some of them in print." A smart boy at an academy, to the neglect of his Latin and Greek, and the utter ruin of his mathematics, fancies himself a genius, spends his time in clothing very soft sentiments in very bad rhyme, and condescend- ingly sends his lucubrations to the nearest newspaper, with a modest request for fifteen extra copies of the number to circulate among his anxious relatives and doming friends. And we have known people, that were oid enough to know better, to suffer themselves to he so deluded as to imagine that they were gifted with the " faculty divine," and greatly to the disgust and surprise of their friends give way to that tempo- rary madness. And unless the poor editor is willing to incur the displeasure of some of his subscribers, he must present to his readers all the vain attempts, and ridiculous failures, of these aspirants for poetic fame. The trouble with them is, that they forget that hut very little, comparatively, of the vast amount of language that is clothed in rhyme, has any merit whatever—that true poets are indeed" few and far be- tween," and the public are surfeited with indifferent ginglers in rhyme—and that the chances are a thou- sand to one that they belong to the latter class. It strikes us that if they would keep constantly in mind these very obvious truths, more would content them- selves with reading their productions to such of their friends as are willing to listen to them—and spare the feelings of editors, and the patience of readers. The following lines, written by a bereaved mother, are a fair sample of the greater p irt of the poetry which is sent to country newspapers : 0 dear little Clarissa we bid you adieu, Though you but one sick day ever knew, And that was the day before you expired, Even then we thought you well when you retired. At two in the morning, she walked and smiled and played, At six her soul was in heavenly garments arrayed, She died in her mother's arms as if in sweet reprise, Oh how must her fund parents feel to find her breath closed. Vermont Journal. November. No sun—no moon ! No morn—no noon— No dawn—no dusk—no proper time of day— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue— No road—no street—no " !'other side the way "— No end to any row— No indications where the crescents go-- No top to any steeple— No recognitions of familiar people— No courtesies for showing 'em— No knowing 'ern ! No traveling at all—no locomotion— No inkling of the way—no notion— " No go "—by land or ocean— No mail—no post— No news from any foreign coast— No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility— No company—no nobility— No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member— No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flow'rs, no leaves, no birds, No—vember ! THE ADVENT HERALD. This paper lowing now been published since March, 1840, the his- tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its Suture course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the times, and an exponent of prophecy The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the age in which we live—The near approach of the Fifth Universal Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , and to hold up before all men a f'aithf'ul anal aflectionate warning to flee from the wrath to come. The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from tine pens of origi- nal winters, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections from tire best authors extant, of tun instructive and practical nature. 3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to its Eden beauty. The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of tha Millennium. His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at Ins Appearing and Kingdom. His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change of the Living Saints, at the Advent. The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec- ond Resurrection. Their Resurrection and Judgment, rut the end of the Millen- nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The Sec ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"—Rev 1i:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma- tion of the prophetic declarations. These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o. the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. 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The article concludes as follows :-" How- ever this may be, the firm and collected resolution of the ma- ritime powers of Europe is to oppose the aggressive policy of the United States when it extends its area beyond the North American continent to Cuba and the Sandwich Islands, as the safeguard of a peace which might otherwise be sacri- ficed to the outcry of an indignation meeting." The other papers, little and big, hold forth in the same wain. Louie Napoleon writes to the papers, that though some of the parties are personal friends of his, he was in no ways implicated in the late duel. M. M. Barthelemy, principal, Demowenay Baronet, and Allain, seconds, are committed for wilful murder, notwithstanding the meeting is said to have been conducted in accordance with the generally received " code d'honneur." President Roberts, having completed in a satiefactory man- ner all the negotiations which constituted the object of his visit, sailed on the 30th ult. for Liberia, in the British war steamer Dee. The Morning Herald announces, that ten line-of-battle ships, now being built, are ordered to be fitted with screw propellers. The clergy of Birmingham have agreed, by a large ma- jority, to an address to the Crown against the revival of Con- 'Vocational action. The Duke of Terceria and several other officers, had ar- rived at Southampton, deputed by the Portuguese Govern- ment to be present at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. The iron, coal, and manufacturing districts were all very brisk; and business buoyant. The London Stock Exchange had been much disconcerted by the repudiation of the new Turkish loan by the Sultan. The Times states that the ex- p ,rts of goods to the Australian markets continued very active. The London Times of the 28th ult. has a very angry edi- torial respecting the Crescent City afildr. It lays down the law as if it were umpire between the nations of the world, and gives the United States gratuitous counsel, which only betrays the ignorance of that journal with respect to the Government and people of this Republic. France. Prolonged Cabinet councils are daily held at St. Cloud, doubtless on the subject of the empire. Recruiting is already going on among the cavalry for the Imperial Guard, and it is confidentially given out that the civil list of the Emperor will be fixed by the Senate at 30,000,000 francs. The settlement of the succession affords food for specula- tion and table talk. It is generally believed that the Senate, on the 4th of Nov., will propose, in general terms, the em- pire, hereditary in Louis Napoleon, with power, failing issue, to nominate his successor. Specimen coins, with " Napoleon, Empereur," and on the reverse an eagle, with " L'Empire Francais," had been re- ported as struck at the mint. It is now understood that the confirmation of the Empire will be submitted to the popular vote. The repudiation of the Turkish loan, and the departure of the Turkish Minister front Paris, had created great excite- ment among the moneyed classes. The Government, how- ever, had made nu intimation of its intentions on the subject, and the panic was subsiding. A well-informed private correspondent writes to the agent of the N. Y. associated press at Liverpool :-" You will ob- erve the recent fluctuations on the Bourse. The speculation in the funds and railways is immense, and must lead to a cri- sis if not stopped shortly. For instance, Paris and Lyons are selling for cash at 987f. 50c., and for the 15th Novem- ber 1100f." Count D'Appony Long, Austrian Minister at Paris, is dead. The Abbe Globerk, known in connection with Italian affairs in 1848, died recently at Paris, aged forty-five. The Ohligade, twenty gun brig, has sailed for the South Sea station. Articles of exhibition from France are to he sent to the Dublin Fair free of expense, by order of the President. The commercial condition of the country is highly prosperous. Rumors are current of the creation of a new nobility, soon after the establishment of the Empire. The accounts report continued tranquillity in the capital. The London Chronicle mentions a rumor, that another in• fernal machine was discovered at Fontainbleau, and that it was to have been discharged at the President while he was hunting in the forest. Abdel Kader was to pay a visit to Paris as soon as he was allowed to quit his place of confinement. The Pope had declined to proceed to Paris to perform the act of coronation andxonsecrate the new Emperor. The news from Constantinople had been exciting. It was stated during the week that an insurrection had broken out, and that the French Minister had demanded his passport. Neither statement was correct. The Divan had, however, been in the greatest perplexity to raise funds to pay the in- stalments on the repudiated loan. The Sultan had sent his plate to be coined, but the Minister of Finance managed to scrape together sufficient funds to dispense with such a sacri- fice, and nearly the required amount had been transmitted to Louden and Paris. The matter will probably now subside peaceably, although the prominent hand that Russia and France have had in the affair cannot fail to be remembered. Prince Calimaki, Turkish Ambassador, had been recalled for his share in the transaction. Miscellaneous. The Plenipotentiaries of the Darmstadt Coalition held their first meeting at Vienna on the 20th tilt. The postal union between Austria, Modena, and Parma, was officially announced to commence from the 15th inst. The Pope, in a speech made in the Consistory on the 27th of September, complains of the ingratitude of New Grenada in curbing the power of the Church. Ile threatens with his lightest displeasure all prelates who obey the civil law re- specting parochial examinations, and lauds the conduct of the Archbishop of Santa Fe de Bogota. Meantime, the Min- ister of New Grenada has struck his flag and left Rome. A telegraphic dispatch, in anticipation of the arrival of the overland mail, is published, conveying intelligence that a brigade of the British many, accompanied by Gen. Goodwin, had left Rangoun for Prone. The steamers were to return immediately for a second brigade. The Burmese had de- stroyed Prone, and posted themselves in Masserona Height, ten miles from the town. They were said to be only 7000 strong, with a few guns. A famine was said to prevail through Upper Ava, the British having intercepted on the river over 20,000 tons of rice. The Indian journals are unanimous in demanding the im- mediate annexation of Burrnah. India proper, the north- west country, the Nizatn's, and the King of Oude's territo- ries, are in the usual distracted state. After the above was put in type, the Atlantic arrived at New York, with news three days later. Time intelligence, however, is unimportant. We subjoin all that possesses any interest. The gales along the coast of Britain, at the end of the past week, were very destructive to shipping and life. Over twenty vessels were wrecked, and the larger portion of their crews perished. There were no American vessels reported among them. One ship had a cargo valued at £300,000, which was fallen on and plundered by the people along the coast. Several other ships were plundered in like manner. A public meeting was held in London on the evening of the 1st inst., fur the purpose, as expressed in the hills, of sympathizing with and aiding the foreign refugees at present its the metropolis. Letters were read at the meeting from Kossuth, approving of the meeting, and from Mazzini and Louis Blanc, opposing it. Two decrees have been signed by the President of France, one for converting the four and a hall per cents. into three Per cents., and the other fixing the legal rate of interest at four per cent. 0. Abdel Kader had an audience of the President at St. Cloud on Friday, by whom he was warmly embraced, when the ex-Emir renewed time oath he had taken never to return to Algeria. Crowds of people surrounded his carriage, and paid hint every respectful attention, and seemed rejoiced that he had been released from captivity. He had received an invitation to dine with the Minister of War on Friday. Letters from Paris state that Prince Callimajo, the Turk- ish Ambassador at Paris, had received his letters of recall. Preparations are making in Paris for the organization of the civil household of the flame Empire. The columns of the Moniteur are again filled with names or places at which addresses have been agreed to in favor of the Empire. The correspondent of the Times vouches for these facts, and adds that the Constitutionnel and Patrie both had the cir- cumstance in type, but the matter was seized by the police. The employees of the Elysee take every opportunity of parading the pacific policy of the Emperor. Preparations are going on for the meeting of the Senate in the hall used as the Chamber of Peers under the restoration, and under a part of the reign of Lords Philippe. It is be- lieved that the Senate will hold only four sittings ; that the vote on the Plebiscite will take place on the 21st and 22d inst. ; that the suffrages will be counted by the Legislative corps on the 1st of December, and that the proclamation of the Empire will be on the 2d. The Times has a rather cir- cumstantial account of the discovery of a military conspiracy against the President. The gist of the matter is, that the Paris police, by means of opening letters, traced communica- tion between a man they arrested in Paris, and several offi- cers of the garrison at Fontainbleau. The conspiracy, what- ever it was, is claimed on the one hand by the Legitimists, and on the other hand by the Orleanists. The Daily News mentions the arrests, but says the prisoners are all civilians. Twelve commissioned officers, eighteen non-commissioned, and forty privates, are placed under arrest. SUM MARY. -- Hon. Win..R. King, Vice President elect, is seri- ously ill at his home in Selina, Ala. - It is stated that a thousand pounds of opium are sold by retail every week in New York, and that the practice of opium eating is increasing very rapidly. - A young man !mined John Sweeny fell into a kettle of boiling dye, at Fax's woolen factory, Worcester, on the 10th, and was so badly scalded that he cannot recover. - A similar accident occurred at the woolen mill in Dorrville, R. I., on Monday, by which Mr. John Peckham lost his life. He leaves a wife anti eight children. - The Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company are about laying down a sub-marine cable across the Straits of Canso, in place of the wire now extended from towers on ei- ther side. - Oo the morning of the 13th the mill of Messrs. Moulton and Symonds, in Waterto%vn, N. Y., together with a block of wooden buildings, was destroyed by fire. It is believed that a young man named Hudson Hadcock,mineteen years of age, perished in the flames. The loss by the fire is estimated at $20,000, mostly covered by insurance. - Reports state that the propeller Powhattan has foun- dered on Lake Erie, and that every soul on board at the time has perished. She had a number of passengers-no list given. Books and papers belonging to the ill-fated vessel have drifted ashore. Nothing authentic has yet been ob- tained, but it is feared that the account will prove true. - Last Saturday evening, at a house in Boardman- street, Newburyport, a young girl, about sixteen years of age, named Frances Bartlett, while putting a stick of wood in the stove, set her apron on fire; and ran out in the open air. Her dress about the breast and shoulders was almost immediately on fire, and she was terribly and probably fatally burned. There is very little chance of her surviving. - A child, aged about four months, belonging to Mr. John Whelden, of Nantucket, was burnt so badly on Satur- day last, as to cause its death on Sunday morning. The child was left, we understand, tied into a chair, and during the absence of the family from the room, its clothes took fire, and before they were extinguished, it was burnt so badly as to result as we have stated. NEWFOUNDLAND.-The Neufoundlander says With every fair allowance fur exaggerated reports, we know there are localities, north and west particularly, where the fishery has almost completely failed ; and the potato blight has spread from one end to the other. These two concurrent causes must manifestly produce a vast amount of distress." THE ADVENT HERALD. BOSTON, NOV. 20, 1 8 52. NEW WORK. " The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c. : A revival of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro- ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. ' For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al- mighty.' "-=Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single- $8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single copy 2 cts. for each 500, or any part of 500 miles. This is the title of a pamphlet published at this office. It begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that and the three chapters next following-ending where the tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. The First Vial.-16:2. The Second Vial.-16:3. The Third Vial.-16:4-7. The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. The Sixth Vial.-16:12. The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. The Adinonition.-16:15. The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. The Seventh Vial.-16:17-21. The Judgment of the Harlot.-17:1, 2. A Wotnan on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. l'he Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. The Destruction of Babylon.-18;9-24. The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial- that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol- ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re- ligious teachers, who should present a belief contrition to Pa- ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decem- regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon- worship is conntion to those three religions-that the teach- ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de- mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites (Deut. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma- geddon-that this battle will commence in a violent conflict between the opinions of men and the word of God-that these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction of the wicked from the earth. New Works to be out the 1st of Jan. 1st MILLER'S LIFE-in one volume. 2d. AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE-its one vol. These are now in preparation fur the press, and will be more particularly noticed hereafter. The Life of Mr. MILLER was commenced two years since, and would have been completed then, "but Satan hindered us."-1 Thess. 2:18. We hope now to be able to complete it without interruption. Those who sent in money for it then, which has not since been appropriated by them, to other ob- jects, and received the first number, will be entitled to the entire volume, the same as if the first number had not been sent. Its price cannot lie now determined. It will probably be somewhere from $1 to $1,25. The Exposition of the Apocalypse will contain about 400 pages. Price, 50 cts. This is nearly through the press. Orders may be sent in for both of the above works. CBS RDON. STREET CHA P EL.-I preached in this place last Sabbath to a large audience. The church is encouraged, and still hopes in God for better times. Elder Edwin Burn- ham will be with them the next two Sabbaths.-J. V. H. MAINE.-Unexpected duties in Massachusetts and about home, will delay my visit East for some time. J. V. H. "Youth's Guide." The Nov. number (No. 7, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu ittle monthly paper is now out. CONTENTS. Richard Bakewelt (Chap. 8.) Life in the Arctic Sea. A Dog Story. Yankee Ingenuity. A Wonderful Clock. A little Boy's Wish. The Sabbath School Scholar. little Things. The Voyage of Life. A Child's Hand. How the Rack was Abolished. Politeness. Simeon Green, or the Man that The Young Tobacco Chewer. Cured his Bad Neighbors. The Kind of Fruit Indigestible. Adventure with a Snake. For the Curious, &c. &c. TERMS (invarzab/y in advance). Single copies 25 cis. a year. Twenty-five copies (to one address) 5 , Fitly copies I Bno. IIIMES'S NOTICES. He will preach- • Nov. 17th-Moultonhoro', N. H., (in the town house,)evening• 18th-Ossipee. N. H., at 10 o'clock amid evening. 19th-Tiittonboro', and continue over the Sabbath. 20th-Meredith Village (evening). " 23d-Orange, (in the meeting-house,) evening, and the 24[11, at 10 A. M., 1 P. M., and evening. Nov. 26th-New Durham Ridge, In A. Nr.,1 P. m., evening, and continue over the Sabbath. Elders W. Burnham and Smith will assist in this meeting. Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st-Loudon Ridge, 10 A NI, 1 r it, and even- ingleec'. 2d-Pittsfield, evening,. " 4th and 5th (Sunday) - Allenstown meeting-house, three times each day, at 10 A it, 1 P M, and evening. Elder .1. G. Smith will accompany and assist Bro. H. NOTE-It is not possible for Elder II. to visit other places in New Hampshire at present. Friends will be patient. NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday morning, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. Providence permitting, I will preach at Northfield Farms, Mass., Sabbath 21st; Smith Vernon, Vt., SRI North Springfield, 24th and 25th ; Sabbath, N. 11., 26th ; Hartland, (Denameire 'Sabbath, 28th-will some brother call for me at the Itartleed depot on the arrival ot the first train from Claremont on Saturda3, 27111 ? Waterbury, 30th : Stow, Dec. 1st-where Bro. Tracy may anoint; Burlington, Sti ; Rouses Point, 3d ; Champlaim Sabbaths, 51.1i and 12th, and will labor in the vicinity a t'ew days, as doors may open. Evening meetings at 7 o'clock•-N. BILLINGS. The Lord willing, Bra. N. Smith and I. C. Wellcome will hold a meeting in Hope, Me., in the Town Hall, or where Bro. Went worth shall appoint, commencing Dec. 3d, evening, and ciddiene over two Sundays, and during such a portion of the intervening time as may be thought best -1. U. WELLCOME. Providence permitting, I will preach in Hingham, Mass., Nov. 28th, as Bro. Moses Tower may arrange ; Scituate Harbor, 1:901, evening., as Bro. Asa Curtis niay appoint, and continue my lectures evenings until Dec. 3d -CHASE TAYLOR. The Lord willing, I will preach at ittsfield, N. H., Sunday, Nov. 21st ; Westford, Mass., Sunday, Seth ; Tulionboro', N. II , Sunday, Dec. 13th.-J. W ESTON. I will preach in North Abington Sabbath, 21st-I should like to have the brethren meet iu confereuce on Saturday, the 20th.-Wm. M. INGHAM. H. 1.. Hastings will preach at Winsted, Ct., Nov. 28th ; Bland- ford, or Granville, Dec. tat, (instead of previous dates)-Bro. Bates, appoint. Bro. S. WT. Thurber will commence a meeting at South-west Strafford, Vt., Nov. 25th, evening, and hold over the Sabbath. Elder B. Locke will preach at Hillsborough, N. H., Sunday, Nov. 28t1).-T. M. PnEBLE. It is expected that Bro. Edwin Burnham will preach in the Char- don-street Chapel the last two Sundays in Nov. Bro. D. I. Robinson will preach in Westboro' Sabbath, Nov. 21st. Bro. C. R. Griggs will preach in Worcester, Sabbath, Nov. 21st. 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