Luke 9:28 30. 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. 8 Chardon-street 
WHOLE NO, 633. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1853. 
VOLUME XII. NO. 1. 
NIGHT SONG. 
HEART, he still ! 
In the darkness of thy woe, 
Bow thee, silently and low ; 
Comes to thee whate'er God will 
Be thou still I 
Be thou still 
Vainly all thy words are spoken ; 
Till the word of God hath broken 
Life's dark mysteries—good or M—
ile thou still ! 
Sleep thou still ! 
'Tis thy Father's work of grace, 
Wait thou yet before his face, 
He thy sure deliverance 
Keep thou still 
Lord, my God ; 
By thy grace, 0 may I be 
All-submissive, silently, 
To the chastenings of the rod ;— 
Lord, my God. 
Shepherd, Ring! 
From thy fullness, grant to me 
Still, yet fearless faith in thee, 
Till, from night, the day shall spring , 
Shepherd, King. 
CIVILIZATION NOT CHRISTIANITY. 
THE sentiment is very prevalent that the prov-
ince of Christianity is merely to elevate man-
kind to a civilized condition ; or that when a 
nation is civilized, Christianity follows as a mat-
ter of course. 
The fallacy of this is seen in the present con-
dition of France and Germany, where the most 
high degree of civilization is connected with in-
fidel or neological principles. The province of 
the gospel is to make men wise for another state 
of being; and this is as much needed by civilized, 
as by uncivilized society. Ancient Greece and 
Rome, the centres of civilization, needed the 
gospel as much as the most degraded of savage 
tribes. 
In connection with the idea that civilized men 
are half Christianized, is another, that man was 
originally a savage, and has been gradually 
brought to a civilized condition. That the re-
verse of this is true, is thus noticed by the Sci-
entific American, in reference to one .of the hea-
then cities of antiquity : 
Many shallow philosophers entertain the 
notion that man commenced his existence as a 
wild savage of the woods, and that his progress 
has been step by step to his present elevated po-
sition in modern civilization, No man enter-
taining such opinions can retain them after read-
ing Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, a work re-
cently re-published in excellent style by the 
great American house of Harper & Brothers of 
this city. At a time far anterior to that of his-
torical record, excepting what we have in the 
Sacred Scriptures, there were races living and 
dwelling in Asia, who were highly civilized, and 
who were acquainted with sculpture, architec-
ture, music, and civil policy ; a race who built 
splendid palaces and adorned them with some of 
the choicest works of art, of a kind which have 
been thought by many to be but recently discov-
ered. The saw, the shovel, and the axe, instru-
ments in general use among all nations now, 
were also used by the serfs of Nineveh and 
Babylon ; the speaking trumpet was' even known 
in those days.. In the illustrations of this book 
which their descendants are utterly ignorant. 
The builders of the Assyrian palaces employed 
large slabs of alabaster, on which are representa-
tions of captives drawing. these huge slabs, many 
of which are believed to be the forefathers of the 
present race of Jews. But however skilful they 
may have been in moving large stones, it would 
no doubt have done them good had they been 
permitted to see how us Yankees make frame 
houses travel through our streets. 
" The inscriptions on alabaster slabs and 
blocks, discovered by Layard, have been trans-
lated by Col. Rawlinson and Dr. Hineks, and 
corroborate the correctness of the Bible, and 
what is very remarkable, the translations of the 
stone writing, agree exactly with the sacred text 
in stating the amount of gold (thirty talents) 
taken by Sennacherib from Hezekiah, king of 
Judah. A chapter of intense interest to men 
of science in this work, describes the discovery 
of arched drains, vases, and kettles of copper ; 
bronze bells, bronze cups ; ivory and mother-of-
pearl studs, fit for the shirt bosom of a modern 
beau ; a bronze strainer, &c., in short, the As-
syrians appear to have been better acquainted 
with the making of bronze vessels and figures 
than the moderns. Glass bowls were also dis-
covered, but what is more interesting, is some 
picks and saws made of iron. This metal was 
long supposed to be unknown to the ancient 
Asiatics. Among the glass articles discovered 
was a rock crystal lens, with opposite convex 
and plane faces. It is the most ancient speci-
men of a magnifying and burning glass kmown. 
" We have long entertained the opinion that 
savage races are blasted limbs torn front the 
trunk of a higher civilization, and this book 
deepens our conviction respecting the correct-
ness of this theory, opposed as it is to the jar-
gon of a shallow, unphilosophieal, but declaim-
ing sect of the present day, but agreeing with 
every deduction that can be drawn from the re-
mains of ancient cities, roads, &c., found in 
every part of the world." 
DECEIVING KINGS. 
" 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 Almighty." 
—410v,. 16:14. 
We noticed a few weeks since that the Pope 
had been experimenting withtable moving. The 
following from the Espana, a Spanish journal 
published at Madrid, shows that the royal family 
of that country are looking into the subject : 
did not take the least part in the experiments. 
Everything was done by the other persons pres-
ent, H. M. having condescended to call to her 
presence the noblemen and officers of the escorts 
to see that which they had never seen before, or 
to experience among themselves the effects of 
the magnetic circle produced by their associates. 
" The progressive movements, the turning of 
the tables, as well as the application of the cir-
cle to the human body, and, iu short, as many 
trials as were made, had the most complete re-
sult. Her Majesty at a late hour retired, agreea-
bly surprised, to the royal palace." 
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. 
I saw the temple reared by the hand of men, 
standing with its high pinnacles in the distant 
plain ; the storm beat upon it—the God of na-
ture hurled his thunderbolts against it—and yet 
it stood as firm as adamant. Revelry was in its 
hall—the gay, the happy, the young, the beau-
tiful were there. I turned, and the temple was 
no more—its high walls lay in scattered ruins, 
moss and wild grass grew wildly there, and at 
the midnight hour the owl's cry added dsolation 
to the scene—the young and the gay, who had 
revelled there, had passed away. 
I saw the child rejoicing in his youth—the 
idol of his father. I returned, and the child had 
become old. Trembling with weight of years he 
stood the last of his generation—a stranger 
amidst the desolation around him. 
I saw the oak stand in all its pride upon the 
mountain — the birds were carolling on its 
boughs. I returned. The oak was leafless and 
sapless—the winds were playing their pastimes 
through the branches. 
Who is the destroyer ?" said Ito my guar-
dian angel. 
It is Time," said he—" When the morning 
stars sang together with joy over the new-made 
world, he commenced his course—and when he_ 
shall have destroyed all that is beautiful on the 
earth—plucked the sun from its sphere—veiled 
the moon in blood—yea, when he shall roll the 
heavens and the earth away as a scroll, then shall 
an angel from the throne of God come forth and 
with one foot on the sea and one on the land, lift 
up his hand towards heaven, and heaven's Eter: 
nal, and say.—' Time is, Time was, Time shall 
be no longer.' " 
Paulding. 
AN ANTIDOTE FOR ERROR. 
How shall Christians be prepared to meet the 
errors that abound ? No given rules can define 
every position which the enemy takes. .As the 
road is very broad, and the enemy is called a 
crooked serpent., his course is devious, and his 
forms changing. Formalism and rationalism, hy-
pocrisy and infidelity, and 'all the various forms 
of iniquity, combine to destroy the saints of God 
and blind the• minds of the children of men. 
Still, there is a remedy.. The Holy Scriptures 
are inspired of God. They are mighty through 
God to the pulling down of strong holds. Divine 
truth can fill the soul, and • then the chaff can 
find no room. Heavenly love casts out fear. 
The sword of the Spirit is the word of God, and 
the " Jerusalem blade," .as Bunyan calls it, will 
cut its way through. 
Let the Holy Scriptures be read; let the gos-
pel be preached in simplicity and power, and it 
will destroy error just as certainly as the fire con-
sumes the .cane-brake with its insects and rep- 
tiles. H cheerfully should every Christian 
take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word 
of God, and put on the whole armor of God, and 
so be strong in the Lord and the power of his 
might! How cheerfully and zealously should 
every minister of the gospel declare the counsel 
of God in thunder-tones, and tell in promises 
kind and sweet that Jesus lives to save ! Then 
will error die, false teachers fail, and love and 
truth survive and .triumph in immortal day. 
N. V. Recorder. 
DRAW IT MILD, CHARLEY 
IT is not worth while to be extravagant ; every 
unnecessary adjective gives you one more chance 
to be wrong; every expletive May demand of 
you a troublesome explanation. Just state the 
facts in simple, quiet English, and leave your 
hearer to draw his conclusions, and utter the ex-
clamations. 
Draw it mild, Charley ! rather understate than 
overstate it, better write a postscript with an ad- 
ditional incident to-morrow, than have to retract 
and apologize for saying too much. Libels grow 
out of too strong language. Charges of slander 
are based on superlatives. It is not worth while 
to make every wound a " bleeding wound," 
every push a " violent thrust," to make a kick 
of a hint, nor to " kill a man dead." You need 
not make all your villains " outrageous vil-
lains," your rascals " unmitigated rascals," your 
hypocrites " consummate hypocrites," Better 
have a little something to say next time. The 
best of hens wont lay without a nest egg. Leave 
one good, sounding superlative in the inkstand 
when you are done. 
Draw it mild, Charley ! it takes less time, it 
saves invention, it will spare you some hours of 
headache, and in the course of half dozen years, 
the price of a copy of Webster's Dictionary. 
Draw it mild, Charley, greater things are to 
happen than have yet transpired—richer mur-
ders, more desolating fires, more destructive 
floods, more terrific accidents, more tremendous 
explosions than have yet transpired. Don't pile 
up all the agony to-day. You know how care-
less we are, how reckless of life, how rash in 
purpose, how headlong in rushing onward. We 
have whole volumes yet to write of horrible de-
tails and startling developments, if we live to 
watch this crazy old world much longer. Don't 
let us waste all our tri-syllabics before the steam 
is fairly up. We've got to hurl a deal of indig-
nation at evil doers yet—let us be a little choice 
of our ammunition. Our fulminations will be 
required in many quarters yet, let us not waste 
our thunder. Don't make too " awful a con-
flagration " out of a burning shanty—you know 
that all this wicked world is to be burned up yet, 
N. Y. Times, 
IMIIIMEM11111111113.0 
OLLISON ON THE WESTERN RAILROAD. 
A FRIGHTFUL collision occurred on the West-
ern Railroad on Thursday, P. M., June 23d, at 
the East Brookfield station, which resulted in 
the loss of one life—the serious injury of several 
passengers, and the demolishing of several cars. 
As the New York mail train, which left 
Springfield at-half past 1 o'clock, was approach-
ing the East Brookfield station, at its usual rate 
Of speed, it was found that a switch had been 
misplaced which led the approaching train from 
the main to a side track, encumbered with a 
train of freight cars. No effort on the part of 
the engineer could prevent the dreadful conse-
quences, and the engine crushed into the freight 
train, completely destroying one of those cars, 
demolishing three baggage cars and destroying 
four passenger cars filled with human beings. 
The broken baggage and passenger cars, with 
their contents, presented a frightful scene of 
desolation. The first car was thrown from its 
running gear, and was canted over; the second 
had crushed into the first, and was thrown from 
its wheels; the third was much damaged ; the 
fourth slightly injured; while the last remained 
on the track uninjured. The baggage cars were 
almost entirely demolished. The earth was 
ploughed up for a considerable distance, and the 
rails entirely destroyed. 
The first sensation of the passengers was a 
heavy crushing motion; and then followed a 
crash of wood and glass accompanied with a 
cloud of dust. The passengers were thrown for-
ward with great violence, and many of them were 
severely injured—some of them dangerously. 
There was a momentary silence, which was suc-
ceeded by cries and screams of terror, such as 
are seldom heard, but once heard are never for-
gotten. Some for the moment seemed to have 
been struck dumb and almost senseless by ter-
ror, others seemed frantic with fright, while some 
retained their usual presence of mind. The mo-
mentary fright over, the passengers began to ex-
tricate themselves from the ruins. 
One of the passengers, A. H. Johnson, of 
Worcester, axe-helve maker, was killed. He 
was standing on the platform of the first car. He 
leaves four children, but no wife, and was a 
worthy and respectable in an. 
There were many women and children in the 
cars, and their screams were terrific. A mother 
" I have been informed that, since the suc-
cessful result of the magnetic experiments, which 
were made on the 8th ultimo, by a family resid-
ing in Aranjuez, and of which our readers are 
already acquainted by the Espana, of the 10th 
ult., her Majesty Queen Isabella, hearing di-
rectly of the circumstance, wished to be present 
at the repetition on the day following. On this 
day, in the morning, the same persons who on 
the 8th had discovered the successful applica-
tion of the magnetism of the circle—not only to 
tables, but also to many other objects, and chiefly 
to the human body, were in attendance. To 
Witness it, H. M. the Queen, H. M. the King, 
and II. R. H. the Princess of Asturias, accom-
panied by their respective attendants, went on 
the 9th, at five o'clock in the afternoon, to the 
country-seat called Labrador, where also came; 
by invitation. H. M. the Queen's mother, with 
her two daughters, and Dr. Rubio. Out of high 
there is a representation of the mode by which consideration and prudence, H. M. the Queen 
the ancient Assyrians moved heavy bodies. A 
colossal winged bull is represented to have been 
placed on a sledge having rollers, and drawn by 
great bodies of men pulling ropes. Another 
body of men are represented as assisting with 
levers, and Mr. Layard remarks that this was 
the plan he employed himself to remove the 
same piece of sculpture (which is now in the 
British Museum.) The old Assyrians were ac-
quainted with making twisted ropes an art of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
210 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
still from Thebes-s-as it had been from the days 
of Moses—there is no doubt that the wise and 
powerful king of Israel whose reign of forty 
years made Jerusalem resplendent in all the 
earth, sustained by marriage the relation of a 
son to one of the muminied tenants of these 
sculptured tombs. Hence it was that the come 
mercial fleet of Solomon, manned by the seamen 
of Tyre, swept with safety the Red Sea, then 
the highway of commerce between Egypt, Ara-
bia, and the East, and brought to him " the gold 
of Ophir " to swell the magnificence of his capi-
tal. But this affinity was short-lived ; for before 
the death of Solomon Egypt became the refuge 
of Hadad the Edomite, an enemy of Solomon, 
who " found great favor in the sight of Phara-
oh," and who married the sister of Taphenes his 
queen ; and also the refuge of Jeroboam, whom 
Solomon sought to kill that he might not wrest 
the kingdom from his own son. The same tem-
ple that records the name of the ally and the 
father-in-law of Solomon, records also the name 
of the conqueror of his son Rehoboam, and from 
its hieroglyphics preserved for almost 3000 
years, bears witness to the fidelity of the sacred 
historian. 
It was predicted that No should be " cut off" 
and " rent asunder," that Egypt should go into 
captivity, and that it should ever after be " the 
basest of the kingdoms; that it should no more 
exalt itself above the nations nor rule over them, 
and that it should no more have a prince or dy- 
nasty of its own, but should be subject to foreign 
sway. (See Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezek.) More- 
over, this destruction was foretold as coming, 
from the East and from the North, from the na-
tions that bordered upon the Euphrates, as well 
as from intestine wars. Now the monumental 
history of Egypt teaches us that the dynasty of 
Diospolitans or Thebans which had stood for up- 
wards of 700 years, was superseded first by a 
king from lower Egypt, then by Ethiopian in-
vaders, then again by the Saites from lower 
Egypt, denoting a state of internal commotion, 
and this mostly after the ,time of Isaiah; and 
also that within fifty years from the date of 
Ezekiel's prediction and seventy-five years after 
the captivity of Jehoiakim in Egypt, Cambyses 
conquered Egypt, and established a dynasty of 
Persian monarchs that lasted for a hundred 
years. The traces of his invasion may still be 
seen at Thebes in the partial destruction of some 
of its proudest monuments. The most stupen-
dous statue ever reared was felled and broken 
by his revengeful arm. It was the personifica-
tion of Egyptian power, in the colossal image 
of the king " seated on a throne, in the usual 
attitude of Egyptian figures, the hands resting 
on his knees, indicative of that tranquillity which 
he had returned to enjoy in Egypt after the fa-
tigues of victory." The weight of this statue 
has been computed at upwards of 887 tons; it 
is said to have been originally seventy-five feet 
high by twenty-three in breadth ; and by my own 
measurement of its fragments, I found the fore-
head fourteen feet from ear to ear, the head 
twenty-five feet six inches across from point to 
point where the back lies upon the ground—the 
whole circumference not being accessible;—the 
body fifty-one feet measured across the shoulders 
from their insertion in the back, the shoulder it-
self sixteen feet six inches, the arm eleven feet 
six inches from shoulder to elbow, and the feet 
five feet ten inches long by four feet eight inch-
es broad. The destruction of such an image, 
standing at the gate-way of one of the principal 
temples, may well have been symbolical of the 
destruction of Egypt. " The daughter of Egypt 
shall be confounded ; she shall be delivered into 
the hand of the people of the North . . . . and 
they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt. I will also 
destroy the idols . . . . and the pomp of her 
strength shall cease in her." " He "—the king 
of Babylon SHALL BREAK ALSO THE IMAGES 
[statues or standing images] of Bethshemesh 
[the house of the sun] that is in the land of 
Egypt."—Jer. 43:13. 
Daniel saw in his vision four great monar-
chies which in succession overspread the earth, 
and then were destroyed. Each of these mon-
archies conquered Egypt, and three tf them—
the Persian, the Macedonian and the Roman—
here established their own dynasties of kings or 
viceroys. The same temples and monuments 
that record the names of the Egyptian Phara-
ohs, record the names of Carubyses, Darius, 
Xerxes and other Persian kings, and the names 
of the Ptolemies, who administered the Govern-
ment of Egypt under the Macedonian and the 
Roman empires ; so that at Thebes, as in one 
vast sepulchre, lie buried all the empires of the 
world from the migration of Mizraim to the fall 
of Rome. Each bath apart its own sepulchre, 
and the place of some no man knoweth to this 
day ; but here too all lie entombed together. I 
find here the name of Rome written upon the 
sepulchre of thrice vanquished Egypt, and yet I 
have already looked upon the grave of Rome 
that then seemed covered with the mould of ages. 
Standing here amid the Hades of kings and 
empires, as one by one goes down into the pit— 
the conqueror and the conquered to one common 
grave—I can realize that terrible imagery of 
the prophets.--" I made the nations to shake at 
the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to 
hell with them that descend into the pit . . . 
They also went down into hell with him to them 
that be slain with the sword; and they that were 
his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the 
midst of the heathen . Hell from beneath is 
moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming,; it 
stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief 
ones of the earth ; it bath raised up from their 
thrones all the kings of the nations. All they 
shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also be= 
come weak as we ? art thou become. like to us ? 
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the 
noise of thy viols; the worm is spread under 
thee, and the worms cover thee."-Ezek. 31:16, 
17, and Isaiah 14:9-12. 
Since her first fall Egypt has not had, she has 
not now, a prince or a dynasty of her own. 
But not only are all empires buried here at 
Thebes- -aworld is buried here also. It is com-
puted that from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 human 
mummies were deposited in the catacombs of 
this one city,—a number four or five times as 
great as the whole present population of Egypt, 
and equal to one-hundredth part of the present 
population of the globe. As I stood upon the 
Lybian mountains that overlook the plain of 
Thebes, which the wealth, and power, and the 
religious sentiment of generations long since de-
parted had perforated for miles, and had adorned, 
with wondrous art, for their place of sepulture, 
and with buried millions under my feet, and the 
desecrated tombs of kings on every hand, looked 
forth over the plain where once they dwelt in 
conscious power, and in its whole circumference 
of forty miles saw only a few scattered villages 
of beggarly Arabs, and over the vast area of the 
ancient city saw only the four or five half-buried 
and shattered temples that mark its site, I felt 
the meaning of those words of Peter, " All flesh 
is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower 
of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower 
thereof falleth away ; but the word of the Lord 
endureth forever. And this is the word which 
by the gospel is preached unto you." 
THE old man stood at his window by the New-
Year's midnight, and' gazed with the glance of 
a protracted despair upward upon the immutable, 
ever blooming heaven, and downward upon the 
still, pure, white earth, upon which at the pres-
ent moment lived no one so joyless and slumber-
less as he. For his grave was close at hand : it 
was only concealed by the snow of age, not by 
the green of youth, and out of all the richness of 
life he brought nothing with him, save errors, 
sins, sickness, a wasted body, a desolated soul, 
the breast full of poison, and an old age full of 
remorse. The beautiful days of his youth, this 
day returned as spectres, and brought him back 
again to that beauteous morning, when his Fa-
ther for the first time had set him upon the di-
viding way of life, that, to the right, conducts 
over the sun-path of virtue, into a broad tran-
quil land, full of light, of harvests, and of an-
gelic ones, and which, to the left leads down-
ward into the mole-tracks of vice, into a dark 
cavern full of dripping poison, full of serpents 
aiming at their prey, and of pitchy, choking va-
pors. 
Ah, the serpents hung at his breast, and the 
poison-drops were upon his tongue, and he knew 
now, where he was. 
Bereft of reason, and with grief unutterable, 
he called heavenwards : " Give me back my 
youth ! Oh Father, place me upon the divid-
ing-way again, so that I may make a different 
choice!" 
But his Father and his youth were long de-
parted. He saw wills-o'-the-wisp dance upon the 
marshes and die upon the church-yard, and he 
said : " They are the days of my folly !" He saw 
a star fall from heaven, and glisten in its fall, 
and go out upon the earth. " It is 1," said his 
bleeding heart, and remorse with its serpent 
teeth, bit deeper into its wounds. 
His feverkl fancy showed him sleep walkers 
slinking upon the roofs, and the wind-mill raised 
its arms, threatening to crush him, aid a mask 
that had been left behind in the deserted charnel 
house, assumed little by little, his own features. 
In the midst of the struggle, suddenly the 
music for the New-Year streamed downward from 
the tower, like a distant church hymn. He grew 
calmer—he looked around the horizon, and over 
the wide earth, and thought upon the friends of 
his youth, that now, happier far than he, were 
teachers of the earth, fathers of happy children, 
and blessed men, and he said : " Oh, like you, 
could sleep this New-Year's night with tearless 
eyes, had I only chosen—Oh, I could be happy, 
dear parents, had I but fulfilled your instruc-
tions and New-Year's wishes. 
In feverish recollections upon the time of his 
youth, it appeared to him as if the mask with 
his own features stood up in the charnel house 
—at last, by means of that superstition which 
sees on New-Year's eve, spirits and the futurity, 
it became a living youth. 
was seen trying to screen her child from injury, 
regardless of herself—a benutiful instance of ma-
ternal instinct, 
It is wonderful that such an accident should 
occur with so' little loss of life, and the passen. 
gers have every reason to be thankful that their 
lives were spared, 
The conductor, as soon as he had partially re-
covered from the shock occasioned by the collie 
sion, went to Mr, Flagg, the keeper of the de-
pot, who is also a switchman, and asked "'flow 
is this ?" rin is reported to have replied---" No 
one is to' blame but myself !" and immediately 
ran across the fields, The accident was the re-
sult of culpable carelessness on the part of the 
switchman. 
Boston Journal. 
Antiquities of Egypt. 
Ma. THOIVIPSON, pastor of the church at the 
Tabernacle in Broadway, N. Y., in a letter writ-
ten from Thebes, to his church and published in 
the New York Independent of June 9th, says 
No monument has been: found in Egypt of a 
date prior to that assigned by Moses to the flood ; 
and no known dynasty of kings can be carried 
back farther than within thirty years of the date 
of that event in our commonly received chro- 
nology of the Bible, The gigantic temple of 
Karnak, which even in its ruins is the most im-
posing structure in the world, was no doubt the 
work of several successive kings, and even of 
successive dynasties, stretching over a period of 
1500 years, each of which sought to augment its 
grandeur by the addition of gates, or wings, or 
porticos,. or images and sculptures, until the di-
minutive sanctuary of the first monarch was en-
larged to the length of nearly 1200 feet, and, 
by side gates and temples, to a circuit of about 
a mile and a half. Upon the columns and the 
walls of this temple are recorded the names of 
several Egyptian monarchs in whom the readers 
of the Bible have a special interest. The first 
name recorded is that of the Pharaoh who ruled 
the land in the time of Joseph ; and it is an inci-
dental proof of the length and the prosperity of 
his reign as indicated by the sacred narrative, 
that he should have founded a temple in a city 
so remote from the cities of Memphis and Heli-
opolis, (the " Noph," and the " On" or " Beth-
shemesh" of the Scriptures,) which were his 
principal capitals, 500 miles to the north. Here, 
too, is the name of that " new king who knew 
not Joseph," and who, himself a native of 
Thebes, was the founder of a new dynasty, in 
sonic sense, therefore, an intruder or a usurper 
at the North, and probably from that circum-
stance an oppressor. There are evidences from 
the sculptures connected with his name, and 
from the stamp on the bricks of some ruins at 
Thebes, that the Pharaoh who occupied the throne 
at the time of the Exodus was an extensive build-
er of temples, monuments and public works, 
which accords with the representation in the 
Scriptures of his exacting of the Israelites such 
severe labors in the making of brick. Indeed 
the process of making brick from clay under 
the lash of overseers, is among the subjects 
sculptured on his tomb. 
Perhaps these inferences are altogether fanci- 
ful, since I make them without having at hand 
any authority in Egyptian antiquities except a 
guide-book that does not particularly affect 
Biblical associations. But there is one corres-
pondence of this hieroglyphical history with the 
Scriptures too striking to be questioned. We 
read in the 12th chapter of the second book of 
Chronicles, that in the fifth year of king Reho-
boam, Shishak king of Fgypt came up against Je-
rusalem,—because they had transgressed against 
the Lord,—with 1200 chariots and 60,000 horse-
men; and the people were without number that 
came with him out of Egypt ; and he took the 
fenced cities that pertained to Judah, and came 
to Jerusalem. . . . . So Shishak king of Egypt 
came up against Jerusalem, and took away the 
treasures of the king's house." Now among the 
sculptures on the walls of the temple of Karnak 
are some pertakining to the reign of Sheshonk I., 
as his name reads in the hieroglyphics, which 
represent the captives taken by Sheshonk in his 
expedition against Jerusalem, and also " the 
names of the captive towns and districts" taken 
in the same expedition. Among these names 
the French savant Champollion, who first dis-
covered the key to the Egyptian, hieroglyphics, 
decipherd that of the " kingdom of Judah ;" 
and a glance at the countenances of the captives 
must satisfy any one that they are Jews. Now 
by Egyptian chronology the reign of this king 
is fixed at from about the year 980 to 950 be-
fore Christ, a period of thirty years that covers 
the time of the conquest of Judea by the " Shi- 
shak " mentioned in the books of Kings and of 
Chronicles. It was either in the earlier part of 
the reign of this monarch or in that of his prede- 
cessor, that Solomon made his " affinity " or al- 
liance with Egypt, which was consummated by 
his marriage with the daughter of the reigning 
" Pharaoh," who seems to have been his favor- 
ite wife. As the Egyptian dynasty of that era was 
Ancient Babylon—its Ruins. 
Iv may be known to many of our readers that 
the French Government has employed a party 
of gentlemen t ) explore the site of ancient Baby-
lon, From reports just received from them, it 
appears that they have ascertained, beyond rea-
sonable doubt, that the ruins beneath a tumu-
lus called the Kasr, are those of the marvellous 
palace-citadel of Semiramis and Nebuchadnez-
zar. They are in such a state of confusion and 
decay, that it is. impossible to form from them 
any idea of the extent or character of the edifice. 
They appear, however, to extend beneath the bed 
of the Euphrates, a circumstance accounted for 
by the change in the course of that river, In 
them have been found sarcophagi, of clumsy 
execution and strange form, and so small, that 
the bodies of the dead must have been packed 
up in them, the chin touching the knees, and 
the arms being pressed on the breast by the legs. 
These sarcophagi have every appearance of hav-
ing been used for the lowest class of society; 
but notwithstanding the place in which they were 
found, the discoverers are inclined to think that 
they are of Parthian, not Chaldean origin. There 
have also been found numerous fragments of en-
amelled bricks, containing portions of the figures 
of men and animals, together with cuneiform in-
scriptions, the latter white in color on a blue 
ground. According to M. Fresnel, the chief of 
the expedition, these bricks afford a strong proof 
that the ruins are those of the palace of Nebu-
chadnezzar, inasmuch as the ornaments on them 
appear to be sporting subjects, such as are de-
scribed by Ctesias and Diodorus. The founda-
tions having been dug down to in certain parts, 
it has heen ascertained that they are formed of 
bricks about a foot square, united by strong ce-
ment, and that they are in blocks, as if they had 
been snapped in all directions. In a tumulus 
called Amran, to the south of Kasr, interesting 
discoveries have also been made. They appear 
to be the ruins of the dependencies of the pal-
ace situated on the left bank of the Euphrates; 
and they contain numerous sarcophagi, in which 
were found skeletons clothed in a sort of armor, 
and wearing crowns of gold on their heads. 
When touched, the skeletons, with the excep-
tion of some parts of the skulls, fell into dust ; 
but the iron, though rusty, and the gold of the 
crowns are in a fair state of preservation. M. 
Fresnel thinks that the dead in the sarcophagi 
were some of the soldiers of Alexander or Seleu- 
cus. The crowns are simple bands, with three 
leaves in the shape of laurel on one side,, and 
three on the other. The leaves are very neatly 
executed. Beneath the bands are leaves of 
gold, which it is supposed covered the eyes. 
From the quantity of iron found in some of the 
coffins, it appears that the bodies are entirely 
enveloped in it ; and in one there is no iron, but 
some ear-rings, a proof that it was occupied by 
a female. The sarcophagi are about two and 
three quarter yards in length, by between half 
and three quarters of a yard wide, and are en- 
tirely formed of bricks, and united by mortar. 
In addition to all this, a tomb, containing statu- 
ettes in marble or alabaster of Juno, Venus, 
and of a reclining figure wearing a Phrygian 
eap,together with some rings, ear-rings and other 
articles of jewelry, has been found, as have also 
numerous statuettes, vases, phials, articles of 
pottery, black stones, &c., of Greek, Persian, or 
Chaldean workmanship. 
London Literary Gazette. 
Russia and Turkey. 
TILE London corespondent of the N. Y. Tri-
bune, writing on the 3d of June, takes the fol- 
lowing view of the Eastern question : 
" As I have constantly informed you; Russia. 
has been assembling her forces on her southern 
frontiers, for the last twelvemonth, and while 
she lulled the Western powers to sleep with dec-
larations of moderation, she has gone on with 
intrigues and cunning, till the time comes when 
she can step, in with armies. She now threatens 
both Turkey' and Persia. From the Shah she 
The New-Year's Night Dream. 
He could see no more—he covered his eyes ; 
a thousand hot tears streamed upon the snow—
he could but gently sob, hopeless and reasonless, 
" Only come buck to me, come back to me my 
youth." 
And it came back to him, fin. it was only that 
upon the New-Year's night, that he had thus 
frightfully dreamed he was still a youth ; only 
his errors were no dream. But he thanked God, 
that being still young, he might turn about in 
the filthy ways of vice, and' betake himself' upon 
the sure path of virtue, that leads into the broad 
land of harvests. 
Turn with him, young reader, if you chance 
to stand upon the same path of folly. 
In the future, this frightful dream will be 
your judge ; but when full of sorrow you should 
once exclaim, " Return to me beautiful youth !" 
—then would it return NEVER. 
From the German of Jean Paul, by' Erastus Stephen. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
claims the city of Asterabad in Asia, the best 
and most southern harbor of the Caspian. This 
is one step more toward India, and in Europe 
she claims the Protectorate over one-third of the 
population of Turkey, though they do not require 
and even protest against this protectorate. Of 
course the Czar is well aware, as we all are, that 
such a demand could not be granted, but he re-
quires a pretext for seizing the Danubian prin-
cipalities, the richest provinces of the Turkish 
empire in Europe. They form a thriving agri-
cultural country, which exports its corn to Eng-
land and imports English commodities under the 
free trade tariff of Turkey, (5 per cent. ad valo-
rem upon imports.) The inhabitants are begin-
ning to improve their moral and material con-
dition, and to appreciate their local self-govern-
ment. Thus they have become anti-Russian, and 
must therefore be annexed, lest their example 
should influence the subjects of Russia. Of 
course, such a step leads to war. English inter-
ests are at stake, and the English Government 
must therefore seem to oppose the designs of 
Russia. But the English aristocracy fear Eu-
ropean Democracy more than Russian absolu-
tism, and are well aware that Turkey has only 
one way of success in a war with Russia. That 
is, by allying herself with the Democracy of Eu-
rope, by taking the offensive, by causing an out-
break in Hungary, and threatening Russia in the 
flank. Transylvania is prepared for a rising, and 
the Sclavonic population of Croatia, with the 
Serbs and Wallachs of Hungary are dissatisfied, 
even according to the correspondents of the Lon-
don Times. Such a plan is not only possible, 
but must be successful. Lord Aberdeen and Lord 
Palmerston are aware of all this, but they know, 
also, that a war begun in Turkey and extended to 
Hungary, would spread all over Germany, and 
would upset all the petty princes from the Dan-
ube to the Rhine. They, therefore, are anxious 
to confine the war within the narrowest limits. 
This seems plausible—this seems humane—this 
seems liberal—and yet really it assures the great-
estadvautage to Russia. 
" Lord Stratford and English diplomacy are 
now again preaching to the world, that Austria 
is the real barrier against Russia, that Austria 
is the natural ally of Turkey; and they are di-
recting all their exertions to the purpose of keep-
ing Austria neutral in the coming war. Russia 
cannot desire anything more advantageous for 
herself. Austrian neutrality assures to the ar-
mies of the Czar a safe line of retreat, with a 
good base of operations, and an uninterrupted 
communication, in fact all he requires ; while if 
Austria were leagued with Russia, the Czar 
would be forced to leave a strong force in the 
neighborhood of Hungary, which would enable 
the Turks to turn the Russian main army by a 
rapid movement across Transylvania. Austria, 
even in the days of her strength, was never a 
barrier against Russia, or why during the last 
thirty years has the Czar advanced so far toward 
the South., as even to occupy and de fitcto to 
close the mouths of the Danube, the principal 
artery of Austrian commerce ? How can Aus-
tria now be such a barrier., weakened as she is 
by the disaffection of the people, and maintained 
almost entirely by Russia ? She is and must re-
main the ally of the Autocrat, but she cannot 
serve his purposes better than by remaining neu-
tral.. Yet it is English, it is anti-Russian policy 
which is endeavoring to persuade Austria to do 
just what the Czar wishes she should do ! 
" Though Prince Menschikoff has left Con-
stantinople and the diplomatic rupture has been 
duly announced to the different Ambassadors, I 
do not believe in an immediate outbreak of the 
war. A rising in the Danubian provinces must 
first be brought about by Russia, and this will 
happen in Servia. Prince Michael IVIilosh is now 
supported by the Russians, who dethroned him 
ten years ago. He is supported because Prince 
Alexander, the present sovereign, has become an-
ti-Russian, and a friend of Turkey and Hungary. 
The revolution which is in preperation will be 
the signal for the Russians to occupy the princi-
palities. 
Napoleon III. has not yet made up his mind 
what to do. He would prefer to act in concert 
with the old dynasties, but he feels himself 
slighted by them, and has some suspicions that, 
after all, they might turn against him. It is 
therefore not impossible that he will take advan-
tage of the complications of the East to strike a 
blow against Austria in Italy. You know that 
the diplomatic relations between Switzerland and 
Austria have been interrupted, but as soon as the 
Ministry at Vienna saw that Switzerland was 
throwing herself under French protection, it was 
announced in the papers that Count Karnicki, 
the Ambassador, had left Berne only for plea-
sure, in the same way as Chevalier Hulsemann 
had left Washington, only to reach home in an 
unostentatious way, after having left with great 
fuss." 
ruifilment of Prophecy. 
Wwv are we to believe that the things unseen 
are eternal ? When Moses went to the children 
of' Israel, he said, The Lord God of their fa-
thers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Ja-
cob, hath sent me unto you. The Lord made a 
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to 
give to their seed the land of Canaan, and more 
than four hundred years afterwards he sends his 
servant Moses to lead the children of Israel to the 
promised land. When Christ came to the world, 
he spake in the name of the Lord, and in his 
name performed acts of divine power ; and the 
things that had been foretold of him long before 
were fulfilled in him. His death was effected by 
Satan and wicked men ; but in so doing they ful-
filled the word of the Lord ; and this is wonder-
ful. It is said in the New Testament that cer-
tain things were done that the word of the Lord 
might be fulfilled, which shows that the Lord 
lives to perform his words of mercy or judgment; 
but in the death of Christ we see that wicked 
men and wicked spirits can only accomplish the 
word of the Lord ; thus the greatest act of Provi-
dence that ever was, the death of Christ, upon 
which hangs the life of the world, was fulfilled 
by wicked men and Satan. " The wrath of man 
shall praise him." There are many things fore-
told which have come to pass, as the coming of 
the Saviour, his life, his death, his reign in the 
world, which is now fulfilling in the world; that 
Egypt shall be the basest of the kingdoms ; that 
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gen-
tiles; the fear of man upon the beasts of the 
earth; the curse upon the descendants of Ham. 
Now, we believe the things to come which we 
cannot see, from the fulfilment of the word of 
the Lord in things before our eyes : " Declaring 
the end from the beginning, and from ancient 
times the things that are not yet done, saying, 
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my 
pleasure." 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Let Him Alone. 
METHINKS it should startle thousands if it 
could meet them in their dreams of bliss and con-
tentedness with this world's goods : " Ephraim 
is wedded to idols ; he has chosen the world for 
his portion, and likes it ; he has set his heart 
upon the things of time and sense, and finds them 
sufficient to his happiness; his cup is full; his 
spirit is sated ; he drinks it eagerly, and does 
not wish for more. Let him alone ; do not rouse 
him from his dreams, to tell him it is no reality ; 
do not disturb his conscience, or mar his plea-
sures, or awake his fears, or check his hopes ; 
he has made his choice, let him have it, and 
abide it; I am done with him !" 0, God, rather 
than pass such a sentence on us, pursue us for-
ever with thy chastening rod ! If we have an 
idol that we love too much, better that it be 
dashed in pieces before our eyes ; better that the 
scorpion sting of sorrow chase fmom your bosoms 
every thought of bliss ; better, far better, that 
we be wretched and miserable of the earth, than 
that we be left to such a prosperity, a happy 
dream, from which the only waking will be eter-
nal misery. While he designs to correct us, there 
is hope in the very zenith of our folly. While 
he pursues our sins with punishment, mocks our 
wild hopes, mars our mad schemes, and blights 
our expectations, there is hope that he will save 
us from the eternal consequences of our folly. 
But when he lets us alone; when the careless 
conscience feels no pang, the stupefied conscience 
sounds no alarm, all on earth goes well with us, 
and no warning voice from heaven reaches us ; 
when, in the enjoyment of this world's goods, 
the Giver is forgotten, and no evil conies of it ; 
when the laws of our Creator are broken and 
disregarded, and no punishment ensues ; when 
we prefer time to eternity, and earth to heaven, 
and sin to holiness, and remain happy withal, 
start not our bosoms at the thought ? He may 
have said of us, as he said of Ephraim, " Let him 
alone !" 
Caroline Fry. 
111••••=l• 
A211•111111 
(For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No. XLII. 
WINDSOR, CAMBRIDGE, AND OXFORD. 
WHILE spending a few days in London after 
my return from " the Continent," I made several 
excursions to places in the vicinity, which I had 
not visited before. One of these was to WIND-
SOR. The distance by the South Western Rail-
way is twenty-six miles. An " excursion ticket " 
to go and return in the second class carriages, 
was 4s. 6d. From Waterloo station we passed 
through Vauxhall, Putney, Richmond, Twicken-
ham, Feltham, Staines, to Windsor. 
A steep flight of steps cut in the rock leads 
up to the Castle, which with its numerous build-
ings and squares is a town in itself. 1 first visited 
ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, a fine Gothic edifice, built 
by Edward III„ and much enlarged and embel-
lished by succeeding monarchs. The Cenotaph 
of the Princess Charlotte is an affecting monu-
ment. It is divided into two compartments; in 
the lower one, the body is represented lying on 
a bier immediately after the departure of the 
immortal spirit; it is covered with drapery, be-
neath which the outline of the figure is won- 
derfully apparent, and part of the right hand 
projects from under the veil with startling effect. 
At each corner is a female figure weeping. The 
figures are exquisitely sculptured of the purest 
marble, and the effect upon my own mind was 
singularly impressive. 
The choir contains the stalls of the Knights of 
the Garter. Over each stall under a canopy of 
carved work, are the sword, mantle, helmet, and 
crest of each knight ; above these is the banner 
on which are his armorial bearings, and at the 
back of the seat an engraved brass plate records 
his name, style, and titles. Among the names 
are the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prus-
sia. The Chapel also contains many royal monu-
ments. The great painted window over the Al-
tar is a fine work of art. It was designed by 
Benjamin West, and represents the Resurrection 
of our Saviour. 
I next visited the KEEP or ROUND TOWER, 
which stands on the summit of an artificial 
mount, and was anciently surrounded by a ditch, 
which is now filled up in part, and the rest con-
verted into a shrubbery and garden. The view 
from the top of the battlements is one of great 
extent and beauty, comprising parts of twelve 
counties. The Tower is three hundred and two 
and a half feet in circumference, and from the 
level of the Little Park to the top of the flag-
staff, is an elevation of two hundred and ninety-
five and a half feet. 
The principal apartments of the Palace were 
closed against visitors on account of the exten-
sive repairs and alterations in progress, but we 
were promised admission to the QUEEN'S STABLES 
at one o'clock P. M.—an arrangement with which 
I was perfectly satisfied, as I had no doubt it 
would prove the more interesting exhibition of 
the two, especially to one who was sated with 
palaces. 
So after waiting an hour or two, the gate was 
opened by one of the grooms, and we made the 
tour of the stables under his guidance. The es-
tablishment was characterized by great order and 
neatness. All the floors were scrubbed to the 
last degree of cleanliness. You might have 
rubbed a white cambric handkerchief over them 
without soiling it. 'We saw the " Ponies' har-
ness," the " Pony carriages," the Prince of 
Wales' " goat-carriage," Prince Albert's and 
the Queen's Pony carriages, and then the Ponies 
themselves—one cross little specimen from Java, 
only twenty-seven inches high—several beauti-
ful Arabian mares, each with her name over her 
stall, such as " Leda," &c., and many fine 
horses : different sets of harnesses, some splen-
didly ornamented; and carriages without num-
ber of all descriptions—one, a present from 
Louis Philippe, two droskies from the Emperor 
of Russia, such as he uses, and a sledge ; night 
carriages with conveniences for sleeping, car-
riages for servants, and carriages for riding in-
cog. The wheels of some of the carriages had 
very large tires for riding on the turf, and others 
were covered with an elastic substance to deaden 
the noise, and called " noiseless wheels." 
Another visitor and myself hired an open car-
riage to take us to " Virginia Water," a beau-
tiful ride through the Great Park. One avenue 
through which we rode, called the " Long 
Walk," is three and a half miles long, lined 
with magnificent elm trees the whole distance. 
At its upper extremity on an elevation called 
Snowhill, is a bronze equestrian statue of George 
III., by Westmacott. The views of the lake from 
different points are very beautiful. An elegant 
little fishing temple hangs over the water, where, 
we were told, the Queen sometimes went-a-fishing. 
On the lake is a beautiful miniature frigate, full-
rigged, with batteries and everything complete. 
On great occasions it is manned by a crew of boys, 
who go through a variety of naval evolutions for 
the entertainment of her Majesty. We got out 
and walked across the meadows, along the shore 
of the lake, while the carriage went around by 
the road. At the mouth of the lake there is a 
small cascade, such as one may see in almost 
every brook in New England, but in the eyes of 
my cockney-friend it appeared an exceeding great 
" water-fall." It was amusing to see the awe-
struck wonder with which he contemplated it, as 
if it were a second " Niagara." 
We stopped at a little inn called the " Wheat 
Sheaf," for dinner, and then rode back by a dif-
ferent way, passed the Ranger's house, the Duch-
ess of Kent's, saw the Prince's Aviary, where 
the Queen sometimes comes and feeds the birds, 
paid a visit to " Hearne's Oak," the scene of 
Falstaff's punishment by the fairies, saw the 
plain of Runnymead, famous for the meeting of 
the Barons and King John, the 15th June, 1215, 
and near by the island in the river called Magna 
Charta Island, where the great Charter was 
signed—taking the rail again at Windsor and 
arriving in London at six o'clock in the evening. 
CAMBRIDGE. 
Another excursion was to Cambridge, fifty-
seven and a half miles. distant, by the Eastern 
Counties Railway. Leaving Shoreditch station 
at two twenty-five P. M., and passing through 
Tottenham, Waltham, Broxbourne, Harlow, 
Bishop Stortford, and Chesterford, we arrived at 
Cambridge at 5 .25, where a long string of gay-
looking onmibusses were in waiting ta convey 
passengers to the different hotels. 
After tea I made the tour of the Colleges; 
went first to King's College, visited the Dining 
Hall, the Chapel, a magnificent pile of Gothic 
architecture, with twenty-five beautiful stained 
glass windows. The ceiling is of solid stone. I 
went up into the garret over-head to see the in, 
 
genious construction of the roof. Admired the 
beautiful grounds in the rear of Clare Hal}-=the 
pleasant walks along the river Cam. Coming 
to the stone bridge my guide interrogated me 
respecting the number of stone balls on the para. 
pet at the sides, assuring me that he had never 
been able to find a visitor who gave a correct an-
swer. 1 counted seven on each side, making 
fourteen in all. Whereupon with great exulta-
tion he took me across the bridge and showed me 
one of the balls from which a quarter had been 
cut out, thus making the number, as he trium-
phantly asserted, not fourteen as might appear 
on a superficial observation, but thirteen and 
three quarters ! He said that the piece was cut 
out by one of the students to win a bet. Vis-
ited Trinity College, saw Newton's rooms and 
Observatory, St. John's College, the " Old " and 
the " New ;" Trinity church, where Charles Sim-
eon preached ; All Saints' church, which has a 
monument by Chantrey to Henry Kirke White; 
St. Catherine's Hall, Pembroke College, &c., 
&c:, the Senate House, the Pitt Press, the Obser-
vatory. The buildings are all of stone, of' va-
rious ages and styles of architecture, generally 
arranged in quadrangles, on three sides of an 
open court, the fourth side closed by a wall with 
gates for entrance, and pleasant walks and 
grounds in the rear and at the sides. Each Col-
lege is a distinct Corporation, holding its buil 
ings and libraries, and possessing large funds 
in money, land, houses, and advowsons, i. e., the 
right of presentation to vacant benefices. Each 
College has its own constitution and regulations, 
its scholars, fellows, and masters. The Univer-
sity is a corporation by itself, holding the Pt .b-
lie Library, the Senate-house, (when their pub-
lic convocations are held and degrees conferred) 
the printing press, the Observatory, and some 
other establishments, and also having power to 
make rules for the government of the whole 
body, and to choose the several professors. 
The University has the privilege of sending 
two representatives to Parliament. The right of 
election is vested in the members of the Senate. 
All masters of arts or doctors in one of the three 
faculties, viz., divinity, the civil law, or physic, 
having their names upon the college boards, 
holding any University office, or being resident 
in the town of Cambridge, have votes in this as-
sembly. 
OXFORD. 
The next morning I left Cambridge, returned 
to London, hurried across the city and reached 
Paddington station just in time to take the 
12 . 30 train of the Great Western Railway ; 
passed through Slough, Reading, Pangbourne, 
turning off on a branch road at Didcot, and ar-
riving at Oxford about three P. M., a distance of 
sixty-three miles. 
I went to the " Angel Hotel." The room as-
signed to me bore this magniloquent inscription, 
engraved upon a brass plate on the door : " This 
room was occupied by Rev. Mr. Wood, Precep-
tor to his Royal Highness, the Prince of' Cam-
bridge, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st July, 1835." 
My first visit was to the BODLEIAN LIBRARY, 
which has 270,000 volumes. A copy of every 
book published in the Kingdom must be deposit-
ed here. The great number of old manuscripts 
attracted my attention — several Hebrew ones 
with notes written in the form of animals ; Queen 
Elizabeth's Latin Exercises, and many other in-
teresting memorials. The Library is adorned with 
many fine portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir 
Peter Lely, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, as Ad-
dison, Swift, South, Butler, Prior, Shirley, 
Locke, Duns Scotus, the Duke of Wellington, 
and innumerable others. Among the curiosities 
were the model of a subterranean Temple in In-
dia, ninety feet under ground, made of teak-
wood by natives, and a most beautiful alabaster 
model of the Cathedral in Calcutta. 
After dinner visited University College ; 
Queen's; Magdalene,—famous for its square tow-
er of fine proportions, and its chapel with its elab-
orate carved stone-work and. stone organ-case, 
and its painting of " Christ bearing the Cross," 
attributed to Guido, and another of the " Last 
Judgment ; "—took 
Addison's walk," about 
three quarters of a mile long, saw a herd of 
about sixty deer, scattered over the lawn ; visit-
ed New College, admired the stained glass in 
the Chapel, brought from Flanders four hundred 
years ago, and the great window painted after a 
design by Reynolds, with the Nativity at the top, 
and allegorical representations of the Christian 
virtues at the sides ; saw the superb Bishop's 
Crosier of the founder, 'William de Wykeham, 
of silver, gilt, six feet long, and weighing seven-
teen pounds; visited the Theatre, the place of 
public convocations, sat in the Chancellor's seat, 
where all the Kings since Charles I. have sat; 
generally held. Those abiding by the-old standards 
quote from his book the words and sentences which 
teach heretical sentiments ; arid then the Doctor 
turns round and claims that he does not hold the 
sentiments which it is claimed his words teach, and 
that he does not dissent from the established for-
mulas ! The Doctor's claim would be a little more 
credible, if he did not also profess his ability to 
subscribe to every formula of faith ever published 
—the elasticity of language, in his view, being such 
that the opposite teachings of different creeds, may 
be easily understood to convey the same doctrines ! 
Those who fail to find in the Doctor's book the 
teachings imputed to him, must be blessed with 
his faculty to make language elastic. It is a fac-
ulty, however, which alone enables men to draw 
from the Bible the opposite teachings they ascribe 
to it. They depart from the natural significance 
of words, and attach to them an internal sense, not 
conveyed by the natural use of language. We be-
lieve in holding " fast to the form of sound words," 
and receiving them- according to their natural im-
port. 
AT WAR WITH JEHOVAH. 
THE God- of the Hebrews was, like those of other 
nations, a reflex of their own character ; nor was 
their theological idea, except- in the single feature 
of unity, greatly in advance of the corresponding 
sentiment among the heathen. It was, in fact, a 
heathenish idea—that is to say it was an outgrowth 
of the spiritual principle in a barbarous people. 
The Jews were, in their national character, hard, 
severe, and cruel ; and yet they believed themselves 
the chosen people of the world—the favorite chil-
Idren of Jehovah ; and their God partook of the same 
character. He appeared with manifestations of ter-
ror ; his laws were in the highest degree cruel and 
severe ; he was worshipped with rites of blood ; and 
i 1 CHARACTER he was a compound of selfishness, cru-
elty, and unmixed egotism. The very manner in 
which he sets forth his supremacy, and demands 
universal worship, as represented in the decalogue, 
suggests an idea that is repulsive and abhorrent to 
an enlightened and delicate mind. But these thoughts, 
crude and gross as they appear, were yet exactly 
adapted to the people who adopted them, because 
they were the outgrowth of their own spiritual ne-
cessities and developments. Journal of Progress. • 
ate sepulchre—called by a metonymy, a house. 
For the king of Babylon, was reserved no such 
mausoleum ; he was probably denied even the tionor 
of a common burial—being cast aside as a worth-
less branch, as garments which are left to rot, and 
as the carcass of a beast are cast aside. These are 
very striking similes, illustrative of his being de-
nied a decent grave. 
Besides the metonymy and similes, there are met-
aphors in the use of " seed " for offspring, and 
" destroyed," for made desolate. 
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; 
That they do not rise, nor possess the land,,nor fill the face of the 
world with cities." 
For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, 
And cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, 
And son, and nephew, saith the Lord.—us. 21, 22. 
Children often suffer for the iniquity of their fa-
thers. With Belshazzar, his dynasty ended. No 
child, nor any more distant relation succeeded him 
on his throne. The nation of Babylon had its trial 
state, as all nations at one time or another do 
have, had been weighed in the balances and found 
wanting, and was set aside forever. 
The tropes used in this illustration, are the 
apostrophe, in the address to the Medes to prepare 
slaughter for them ; metaphors in the use of " fill " 
for cover, " face " for surface, and " cut off " for 
exterminate ; and the substitution, in the use of 
the expressions " not rise," for the recovering of 
Sovereignty, and " I will rise up," for the acts of 
GOD'S providence, which were to effect their over-
throw. 
I will alscAnake it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water 
And I will sweep it with the besorn of destruction, saith the Lord of 
hosts.—v. 23. 
The " bittern," is a bird that feeds on fish. The 
whole plain of Babylon became an immense marsh, 
where such birds would find a fit possession. After 
the conquest of the city, the waters of the Euphra-
tes, which Cyrus diverted from their bed, that he 
might enter Babylon by the channel of the river, 
were never restored again, bat covered the adjacent 
country with pools of water. This was one great 
cause of the utter depopulation of that country. 
" Twill sweep it with the besom of destruction," 
is a substitution for the acts of GOD'S providence, 
by which he would desolate it, as with a broom. 
This is the end of the prophecy relating to Babylon, 
which has become an utter rain. 
The paper from which the above extract is-taken, 
is one of many now published which are devoted to 
the advocacy of the developments and manifesta-
tions of the spirit rappings. 
In all these Journals, one prominent character-
istic is, that they have declared direct war upon 
" JEHOVAH Elohem "—" the Elohe * of Abraham, 
the Elohe of Isaac, and the Elohe of Jacob." (Ex. 
4:5.) He it was who amid the thunders of Sinai 
declared, " Thou shalt have no other elohern before 
ME." (lb. 20:2.) And the great question then at 
issue between the worshippers of JEHOVAH and the 
worshippers of Baal, is the same which is now at 
issue between Bible Christians and the worshippers 
of spiritual mediums. 
Said Elijah (1 Kings 18:21) : " How long halt 
ye between two opinions ? If JEHOVAH be the Elo-
hem, follow him : but if Baal, then follow him." 
JEHOVAH announced himself to Moses as the Crea-
tor of all things. Ex. 20:11—" In six days JEHO-
VAH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that 
in them is." And it is by virtue of his relation to 
us, as our CREATOR, preserver, and most bounti-
ful benefactor, that he demands our homage and 
love. Withholding these, we withhold what is his 
due ; and rejecting him for other elohem (gods), 
we rebel against him and become apostates. 
No nation has been without its gods. They are 
the real, or the imaginary beings to which they look 
for favor and protection. In times of perplexity, 
they consult with the prophets of such gods to 
learn whether they shall be prospered in this or 
that, and they bestow their homage on those which 
they worship. In Hebrew times, they styled their 
gods, their elohern; and the question at issue was, 
Which is the true elohem? The elohern of the hea-
then were departed heroes—ghosts of dead men—
demons. They built altars and groves to them-, and 
made their sons and daughters pass through the 
fire to Baal. They practiced sorcery, and all the 
arts of magic, to elicit responses from the dead for 
the instruction of the living ; they practiced witch-
craft, used enchantments, consulted those who 
claimed to he mediums with departed spirits, and 
were necromancers (talkers with the dead). All 
such substituted other elohem for the JEHOVAH,—
the only true ELOHE. Rom. 1 : 21-23—"- When 
they knew GOD, they glorified him not as pop, nei-
ther were thankful, but became vain in their im-
aginatiOns, and their foolish heartwas darkened. 
Professing themselves to- be wise, they became 
fools ; and changed the glory of the uncorruptible 
Go]) into an image made like to corruptible man, 
l
and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping 
things." 
The worship, or the recognition of demons, or 
El, Elohe, and Elohem, are the Hebrew words rendered "God," 
in our translation. 
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth : 
And this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 
For the Lord of hosts bath purposed, and who shall disannul it ? 
And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back ?—vs. 26, 27. 
The entire extinction of the Assyrian and of 
Babylon, was a result, the like of which ultimately 
would overtake all nations. This is more minutely 
predicted in Jeremiah 25:15-38, which read. 
That Goo would make use of means to effect this 
result, is expressed, by substitution, under the im-
agery of his hand's being stretched out—twice re-
peated. 
PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. 
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, 
Because the rod of him that smote thee is broken 
For out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, 
And his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.—vs. 28, 29. 
King Ahaz died B. c. 725; and the events of his 
death and the succession of Hezekiah seem to have 
been the occasion of this prophecy,—which is 
disconnected with the preceding portions of the 
chapter. 
" Palestina," was the name of that portion of 
the Chapel near by where Charles L held his 
Parliament of Peers, and where Cromwell's 
troopers afterwards quartered their horses ; visit-
ed All Souls, Brazen Nose, Exeterf Lincoln, 
Colleges, Radcliffe Library ; saw the " Mar-
tyr's Memorial," an elaborate Gothic :cross of 
stone, of a triangular form, with niches contain-
ing statues of Cranmer on one side, Latimer on 
another, and Ridley on the third; saw the place 
marked by a stone in front of Baliol Colleges 
where the martyrs were burned at the stake, and 
the prison near by from which Cranmer was 
compelled to witness the sufferings of some of 
his fellow martyrs, which his persecutors hoped 
might induce him to recant. 
After breakfast the next morning, I took a 
walk through Christ Church meadows, a fine 
broad gravelled walk, bordered by magnificent 
elms, along the banks of the Isis and Cherwell ; 
visited Christ Church Colleges, Oriel, Corpus 
Christi, Merton, and Pembroke. Oxford has 
twenty Colleges, and five Halls. The difference 
betwen a College and a Hall is only nominal at 
present. The Colleges grew out of schools, some 
of which were claustral, i. e., appendages of con-
vents or other religious bodies, and others were 
of a more secular character. Where many of 
these secular scholars resided in one house, it 
was called a Hall or Hostel, i. e., Inn, and the 
name was afterward retained, though the insti-
tution was not materially different from a Col-
lege. 
S. J. si. 111. 
the 21ucnt *r4. 
BOSTON, JULY 2, 1853. 
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his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
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Prompt payment is the life of a newspaper, as 
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THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Tony that see thee shall- narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, 
saying, 
" Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake 
kingdoms ; 
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; 
That opened not the house of the prisoners ?—us. 16, 17. 
THE former texts contrast the thoughts of the 
king with the condition to which he was reduced. 
These show the wonder of the people, that one 
whom they had regarded as so great, should have 
come to such an end. They would look narrowly, 
to be sure that they were not deceived. 
The figures employed, are the metonymy in the 
use of earth for its inhabitants, and kingdoms fOr 
the governments of the same ; and the simile, in 
likening the condition to which he reduced the king-
doms of the world to a wilderness. 
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one 
in his own house. 
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, 
And as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust thro' with a sword, 
That go down to the stones of the pit ; as a carcass trodden under feet. 
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, 
Because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people 
The seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.—vs. 18-20. 
The burial of kings was in magnificent mauso-
lea. They were surrounded with splendor in their 
tombs. The pyramids of Egypt, and the temple of 
Bel in Babylon were built for this purpose. All 
nations had their royal burying places, where they 
buried their monarchs in state, each one in a separ- 
the land of Canaan occupied by the Philistines.; 
and most translators render it Philistia—a me-
tonymy for its inhabitants, the Philistines. They 
had been in subjection to the house of David since 
the time of that monarch, and in the reign of Uz-
ziah had been grievously smitten. 2 Chron. 25:6, 7 
—" And he went forth and warred against the 
Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and 
the wall of Jahnah, and the wall of Ashdod, and 
built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philis-
tines. And GOD helped him against the Philis-
tines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Cur-
baal, and the Mehunims." 
On the death of Uzziah the Philistines had great 
occasion for rejoicings : the rod of their oppressor 
was broken. In the days of Ahaz (2 Chron. 28:18, 
19), the Philistines " invaded the cities of the low 
country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken 
Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Sho-
d() with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the 
villages thereof, Gina° also and the villages there-
of : and they dwelt there. For the Loan brought 
Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel : for he 
made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against 
the LORD." But when Ahaz died, and Hezekiah 
ascended the throne of Judah, they had no longer 
any occasion to rejoice over the death of Uzziah ; 
for Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:8), " smote the Philis-
tines, even unto Gaza, and the border& thereof, 
from the tower of the watchman to the fenced 
city." 
By elliptical metaphors, the royal line of Judah 
is called a " rod," a " root," and a " serpent ;" 
and the successor of that line, a " cockatrice," and 
a " fiery flying serpent." 
And the first-born of the poor shall feed, 
And the needy shall lie down in safety: 
And I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 
v. 30. 
" The first born of the poor," is a Hebraism for 
the most poor, as the first born of the rich-would 
be expressive of the most rich. Judea had been in-
vaded by the Philistines during the reign of Ahaz ; 
but when Hezekiah should turn his arms against 
them, they would be no longer able to molest the 
poorest of their Jewish neighbors—whose exemp-
tion from their attacks is illustrated by the substi-
tution of feeding and lying down in safety. 
The entire destruction of the Philistines is here 
predicted,—their " root," being an elliptical meta-
phor for their race. Their destruction is also pre-
dicted in the 47th chap. of Jer. and in Amos 1:6-8. 
Howl, 0 gate ; cry, 0 city ; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved : 
For there shall come from the north a smoke, 
And none shall be alone in his appointed times.—v. 31. 
Instead of rejoicing, they would have occasion to 
howl over their miseries. The " gate," is put by 
a metonymy for those stationed to defend it ; and 
" city " and " Palestina '' for their inhabitants—
to whom in reality the apostrophe is addressed. 
Palestina was on the south-west of Judea, and 
the evidence of the approach of Hezekiah's army, 
would be the cloud of dust which would be seen in 
that direction. 
What shall one then answer the messeng r3 of the nation ? 
That the Lord hath founded Zion, 
And the poor of his people shall trust in it.--v. 32. 
In the history of the reign of Hezekiah, after he 
smote the Philistines (2 Kings 18 : 8), the next 
events recorded of him, is his being besieged by the 
Assyrians, and their miraculous slaughter. Dur-
ing the siege messengers were sent to Hezekiah, 2 
Kings 19:8. And v. 14th, Hezekiah received the 
letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it : 
and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, 
and spread it before the LORD." His prayer is re-
corded in vs. 15-19. Then the LORD sent an an-
swer to the king respecting the messengers by Isai-
ah the son of Amos (2 Kings 19:20-34), to the ef-
fect that he would defend Israel. 
Others suppose it refers to the defeat of Senna-
cherib (2 Chron. 32 : 21), when, v. 23d, " many 
brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and 
presents to Hezekiah king of Judah : so that he was 
magnified iu the sight of all nations from thence-
forth." 
The Case of Dr. Bashnell. 
THE alleged heretical sentiments put forth by 
Rev. Dr. Bushnell, of Hartford, in some of his re-
cent publications, were brought before the General 
Association of Connecticut (Congregational), at its 
recent meeting in Waterbury. After an animated 
discussion, a resolution was adopted, almost unani-
mously, condemning the sentiments which the com-
plainants understood to be set forth in his publica-
tions. The resolution adopted, was moved by one 
of his personal friends, Rev. Dr. Bacon, of New 
Haven. It is so worded as to condemn the senti-
ments imputed to Dr. Bushnell by the complain-
ants, without asserting, or even admitting, that 
they are rightfully imputed to him. It hits the 
errors, but misses the man. N. Y. Journal of Corn. 
And thus the Doctor slips out from the net 
spread for him. 
The Doctor writes a book for the purpose of set-
ting forth his views on certain points on which he 
thinks his opinions are more philosophical than those 
PROPHECY AGAINST THE ASSYRIAN. 
The Lord of hosts bath sworn, saying, 
"Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass ; 
And as I have purposed, so shall it stand 
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, 
And upon my mountains tread him under foot : 
Then shall his yoke depart from off them, 
And his burden depart from off their shoulders.—us. 24, 25. 
These texts and the two following, have refer-
ence to Assyria ; and they might be entitled The 
burden of Assyria. They predict the LORD'S pur-
pose to destroy the Assyrian, as the preceding texts 
did, that he would destroy Babylon. The end of 
the Assyrian, eemivell as of Babylon was in the fu-
ture, at the time of its utterance ; but when the 
Jews were in captivity in Babylon, this prediction 
had been fulfilled ; and its being given in this con-
nection may have been to comfort them in their 
bondage with the assurance that the prediction 
against Babylon would also be fulfilled. 
The certainty that GOD would fulfil his word, is 
illustrated by the metaphor" stand." The immu-
tability of his word is analogous to the standing of 
an immovable physical object. The Assyrian, is, 
by a metonymy, put for the Assyrian army ;—the 
destruction of which, being analogous to the break-
ing of a fragile vessel, is illustrated by that meta-
phor. To tread him under foot, and to cause his 
yoke and burden to be removed, are substitutions 
for the acts of GoD's providence, by which he would 
destroy them and cause their dominion to cease. 
This was to be in GOD'S land, and on his moun-
tains ; and was fulfilled on the mountains of Pales-
tine, when the army of Sennacherib was destroyed. 
(2 Kings 19:35-37. See notes on Isa. 10:27.) 
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other elohem, instead of Jehovah, is incompatible 
with allegiance to Him. Therefore it is no cause 
for wonder that the modern talkers with the dead, 
and consulters with those attended by familiar 
spirits. mediums, &c., should array themselves 
against JEHOVAH. The rebellion of the Israelites 
consisted in " speaking against JEHOVAH," in ques-
tioning his sovereignty, and in turning away to 
serve other elohem. Because of these things JEho-
vno visited them with the pestilence and other 
plagues, and gave them into the power of the hea-
then whose gods they had preferred to him. Be-
cause the heathen served other elohem, JmovAn 
dispossessed them of their lands and gave them to 
Israel on condition of being faithful to His service. 
And these things were for admonitions to us, that 
we turn not away from Him to the service of gods 
which are no gods. 
The '' Progressionists," " Spiritualists," or 
" Harmonial Philosophers," as they choose to de-
nominate themselves, have deliberately accepted 
the issue respecting the true Elohem, have rejected 
JEHOVAH as the ELOHE, and have chosen as their 
elohem the identical gods to which the heathen sac-
rificed their sons and their daughters. They hesi-
tate not to denounce JEHOVAH as " selfish, cruel, and 
egotistical ;" for in thus characterizing " the GOD of 
the Hebrews," they characterize JEHOVAH the He-
brew Gon. In thus denominating Him, no wonder 
that they despise His Word, and His Ordinances ! 
In so doing they war with GOD. Puny man can 
war with GOD, only in setting up his will in op-
position to GoD's will, and his teachings to GoD's 
teachings. Man cannot lift his hand against JEHO-
VAH, and can war with Him only by a conflict of 
opinion. Are not these men, then, warring with the 
LAMB? And will not the LAMB overcome them? 
To Correspondents. 
WHAT are we to understand by the following, in 
Dan. 9 : 24—" Thy people "—" thy holy city "—
" to finish the transgression " 1 Also in the 8th 
chap. and 23d v.—" When the transgressors are 
conic to the full" Did the transgressors come to 
the full before the destruction of Jerusalem ? Was 
the trangression finished before that epoch? 
Yours in the " blessed hope," 
Kingston (N. H.), June 25, '53. N. &tow-N. 
All of these questions, probably, will be involved 
in the discussion of the 24th of Matthew, referred 
to in this paper ; and to answer now might be pre-
mature and unsatisfactory. We shall hope to see 
them answered by others. 
WOULD it not be instructive to your readers; to 
take up the word " city " and tell us what it means 
in those places where it is not synonymous ? 
Yours respectfully, 
Bath, June 24th, 1853. S. JACKSON. 
lt would involve some labor to comment on every 
instance of its occurrence. If you have any par-
ticular texts, in which you are at a loss respecting 
its meaning, we shall be happy to do what we can 
to make plain its meaning. It is oftener used in 
its common signification, than otherwise. It is 
sometimes used as a figure. In Prov. 10 : 15—" a 
rich man's wealth is his strong city," it is a meta-
phor expressive of the rich man's trusting in his 
riches. In Matt. 8 : 34, it is a metonymy, put for 
those living in the city. 
BIBLE CLASSES.—These are a very important aux-
iliary for the study of the word of GoD. It might 
be possible to get up a large Bible class on a Sun-
day morning, noon, or evening, even in places 
where there is no stated preaching. And every 
congregation should have a class of adults, to study 
in connection the word of Gon. Why not in every 
society form a class for the study of the prophecy 
of Isaiah I Could a number of classes be thus 
formed, it would add to the interest of the articles 
now being published on the subject ; and it might 
elicit thoughts in opposition to some points ad-
vanced the publication of which would give pi-
quancy to the discussion. 
One object in taking up Isaiah, would be to turn 
the attention of a large number of persons, to a 
consideration of the same scriptures, which would 
give interest to it. Shall we not have the privi-
lege of announcing that several societies arc act-
ing in accordance with this suggestion ? We be-
lieve that in Newburyport they have already formed 
a class of this kind, to which we are indebted for 
the thought we have advanced. We shall be pleased 
to hear from brother Pearson of their success. 
We have on hand full sets of the back numbers 
of the Herald from the commencement of the year, 
when the articles on Isaiah commenced, so that we 
can supply those who may wish for them in full. 
THERE will be preaching on Monday, July 4th, 
at the house of brother Franklin Gale, Newton, N. 
II. Brethren and preachers in the vicinity are in- 
vited, to come in. 
II. PLUMMER. 
THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. 
HENRI' C. WRIGHT, formerly a student of Divinity 
at Andover, we believe, in a letter in the Liberator, 
respecting the late anti-Bible. Convention at Hart-
ford, says 
" The issue is between Nature and the Bible—
between natural, fixed law, and the arbitrary law 
of the Bible—between the GOD OF NATURE AND TILE 
GOD or THE BIBLE. Is there a contradiction be-
tween them ? In what does it consist ? Which 
must yield—Nature or the Bible 1—the GOD of Na-
ture or the GoD of the Bible ?" 
This is one of the questions which the Christian 
has now to meet. " The God of Nature," which is 
thus set in opposition to JEHOVAH, is a pantheistic 
god of which all existing things constitute a part. 
The editor of the Spiritual Telegraph (Rapping 
spirits) thus expresses his belief : 
" We believe that Deity exists in His universe—
that the life of GOD flows out through all his crea-
tions, and hence that the life-principle, or the Di-
vine Spirit, pervades and actuates all his creatures, 
in the precise degree which may best secure the 
sublime objects and issues of His government. . . . 
In our judgment GOD is visible in all things, in 
proportion as they approximate to the standard of 
Divine Perfection."—June 18th, 1853. 
Conversion, with those of the above belief, is not 
saving faith in JESUS as the SAVIOUR of sinners, but 
a recognition merely of a future existence ; and 
those who are led by the spirit rappings to ex-
change a denial of a future existence for a belief 
in such—without any knowledge of the way of sal-
vation—are duly announced in the Telegraph as 
skeptics converted," and are referred to as evi-
dence of the " good" which these developments 
are producing ! But these religionists do not 
know how little their ideas of GOD differ from those 
of the heathen ; nor how unlike they are to the 
teachings of inspiration, which teaches the neces-
sity of a Mediator to give us access to Gon. The 
following extract from the writings of McCosn, 
will show some of man's ideas of GOD. 
" How totally different is the God of the He-
brews from the gods believed in and worshipped 
by persons who lived in the neighboring countries, 
and in the same states of society. -What a differ-
ence between Jehovah—and Osiris, or Baal, or 
Jupiter, not to speak of Astarte, and Venus, and 
Bacchus ! The characters differ not only in de-
gree, but they belong to a different class or order, 
and are without a single common virtue, except 
that suggested by an unpacified conscience as it 
points to a God displeased with human rebellion 
and folly. 
" The God of Israel, on the other hand, is alto-
gether different from the God of the philosophers,-
whether of the deini-civilized nations of the east, 
of ancient Greece and Rome, or modern Europe. 
It might be easy, we are aware, to cull isolated 
passages from Plato, Cicero, and Seneca, in which 
there appear to be wonderfully enlarged views 
given of the Divine nature, but when the whole 
theology of these authors is taken in its combina-
tion, we find the select quotations to be utterly de-
ceptive. Take Greece and Rome in their ripest 
periods, and examine their boasted • disciplines.' 
The Epicureans removed their gods far above the 
care and supervision of human affairs ; in short, 
as Cicero says, admitted their existence in words, 
but denied it in fact.' The Academies may be re-
garded as represented by Cicero ; they delighted in 
discussino• everything, but they believed little. 
Peripatetics habitually overlooked Divine things, 
and their views of God are acknowledged to be 
miserably meagre and unsatisfactory. There re-
mains only among these famous sects that of the 
Stoics, usually represented as the most advanced 
of all sects of Greece or Rome in the knowledge of 
Deity. Now, according to them, there was one 
great Divine Principle or Being, with a vast num-
ber of other gods. This Being or Principle was rep-
resented by them as of the nature of fire, regarded 
by them as the most elevated and powerful of all 
elements. This Divine power of fire they repre-
sented as the governing principle of the universe, 
regulating all things by cycles. In these cycles, 
which followed one another in never-ending suc-
cession, there was a periodical conflagration, in 
which all things were consumed into the elemen-
tal fire or Divine principle which .at this period 
reigned alone. Then, in the proper course of de-
velopment, this etherial substance began to con-
dense ; and first the sun, the heavenly bodies and 
the gods were formed, and then the earth and men, 
and these continued to act their allotted part till 
the cycle closed with another conflagration, in 
Which heaven and earth, and gods, and men, were 
absorbed in the divine and all devouring ether. It 
might be easy to find language in the writings of 
this sect sounding loftily to the ear, (the Stoics 
were addicted to lofty phrases in ethics and reli-
gion ;) but such was really the theology of the 
sect which produced the hymn of Clenthes, which 
Cicero selects to represent sound and enilghtened 
theism, and which produced Seneca, Epictetus, 
and Antonius, the greatest divines and moralists 
of all heathen antiquity. May we not hold the 
Stoic Deity to be the highest product which the 
Greek and Roman intellect could furnish in Di-
vinity ? 
" How different at this day is the God of revela-
tion from the god of abstract and academic philo-
sophy, whether, it be that of speculative Germany, 
or sentimental France, matter of fact England, or 
Scotland with an intellect as hard as its rocks. 
These gods are all of a class. However they may 
differ in lesser matters, some of them being painted 
in the more meagre and others in more gorgeous 
colors, they are shorn of the attribute of business. 
They all differ from the living and true God, who, 
while clothed in attributes as lofty as any which 
the reason of philosophers can develop, or the im-
agination of poets can conceive, is yet raised far 
above their crude conceptions, by being constituted 
a holy g&vernor and judge." 
The god of nature, the god of the spirit rappers, 
and all other false gods, agree essentially with va-
rious ideas of GOD, which the Scriptures repudiate. 
Unless we recognize a GOD who has prescribed a 
moral law, is offended by disobedience, and haS 
provided a way of access to him by a crucified SA-
VIOUR we may as wellremain an atheist. No other 
god can avail us anything. 
The Drama at Constantinople. 
THE New York Tribune commenting on this sub-
ject, says : 
" We do not profess to vaticinate with regard 
to the Emperor Nicholas, for the reason that the 
more injudicious and morbid side of his character 
has received an exaggerated development within 
the past fifteen years, and he is by no means so 
much to be relied upon as formerly. In a country 
so desperately corrupt and servile as Russia, and, 
indeed, in any country, absolute despotic power is 
of necessity alike unwholesome to the heart and 
the mind charged with its exercise ; and in the case 
of the present Czar it has gradually extinguished 
the nobler elements, put aside a certain severe ele-
vation and magnanimity of purpose that marked his 
youth, and converted him not only into a bad, hut 
into a capricious man. For this reason it is diffi-
cult to say with confidence what he will do under 
the rebuff his representative has just received from 
the Sultan. Still, the indications are rather that 
he will not go to war, but will make the best of 
the circumstances, and content himself with some 
diplomatic phrases addressed by the Porte to all 
the great Powers together, informing them of the 
concessions made to its Christian subjects since the 
departure of Menschikoff, and that there the matter 
will be allowed to drop for the present. Not that 
Russia will abandon her traditional purpose to 
annex the Moslem dominions, but that its execu-
tion will be postponed to some more convenient 
season, when England and the Continental States 
have enough to do to proVide for domestic calami-
ties, financial or other." 
CHURCH ACCOMMODATIONS.—The last census gives 
36,011, as the number of houses for religious wor-
ship of all denominations of Christians, in the 
United States ; and it estimates that they are ca-
pable of accommodating 13,849,384 persons, —
probably a fair estimate. It will thus be seen 
that in this Christian land, one half of the entire 
population are entirely unsupplied with church 
accommodations. Of the churches built, the at-
tendance will probably not average more than two 
thirds of the number they would accommodate, so 
that only one out of every three of the inhabitants 
of this country are constant attendants at any place 
of worship. Of these, probably not half are pro-
fessors of religion ; and of professors, the number 
who are true worshippers, the LORD only can esti-
mated. But it may be questioned whether this, the 
most Christian country on the globe, is more than 
one tenth Christianized ! It is only out of every na-
tion, kindred, tongue and people, that the church 
triumphant is to be gathered. 
THE 24TH CHAPTER OF MATTHEW.—We have re-
ceived a communication from brother Litch, pro-
posing a discussion through the columns of the 
Herald, on the 24th of Matthew, which may lead 
to a general review of the subject of historical 
prophecy and prophetic periods. We shall give 
his article next week, and shall hope for a general 
participation throughout the country, of the friends 
accustomed to writing, in the discussion. We pro-
pose pursuing the subject till we can find some prin-
ciple in reference to this chapter, on which we as 
a people can harmonize. All who are interested 
in the subject, and wish to have all that is said on 
it, had best subscribe immediately, as it may he 
difficult, perhaps impossible, to obtain back num-
bers when they will want them. 
NEW VOLUME.—This No. commences the semi-
annual volume, which closes with the first of Jan. 
It will be seen that we publish two volumes a year 
at $1 a vol.—$2 a year ; but that we continue the 
paging through both volumes, and give the index 
for the entire year at the close of the last volume. 
We will not disguise our wishes to double the 
list of our subscribers. Our ability to improve 
the Herald, depends on the support which is ex-
tended to it. Now is a good time to subscribe for 
it. Will its friends call attention to it and en-
deavor to induce those who would be likely to do 
so, to subscribe for it 
MY JOURNAL. 
DURING the late Conference at Salem—on the 
19th of May—I completed my forty-eighth year of 
this wilderness state. How _soon has the time 
passed away ! It seems like a " tale that is told." 
I was converted to GOD at the age of seventeen, 
and united with the Christian church in New Bed-
ford, Mass., and commenced speaking in public, 
the same year. At the age of twenty-two I relin-
quished my secular business, and gave myself en7 
tirely to the work of the ministry. In 1839, I em-
braced the doctrine of the near pre-millennial 
vent of CHRIST, to the spread and support of which; 
since that time, I have devoted all my energies. 
By GOD'S blessing, I hope to continue thus until 
my mission shall be ended. It is not too much for 
me to say, that I have endeavored to do my duty. 
If I have failed, it has not been because I lacked 
the desire to do so, or that I did not love the cause. 
On the contrary, I have desired to discharge my 
duties in such a manner, that I might receive the 
approbation of GOD. The time is rapidly drawing 
near, when nothing but the approbation of GOD 
will be worth posseSsing. The praise of man may 
inflate, or please, for a moment ; but its unsatisfy-
ing nature will soon be apparent to all mankind. 
The last fourteen years of my life have been 
years of stormy trials ; but GOD has supported me 
through them all. I claim to be nothing more 
than a poor sinner saved by grace, content to await 
the appearance of the Judge of all the earth, who 
will do that which is right not only to me, but to 
those also from whom I have suffered so much. 
My work is not yet done. While life and health 
are given me, and the day lasts, I must work ; and 
now, with renewed health and vigor, while fields of 
labor and usefulness are opening on every side, I 
consecrate myself anew to the blessed cause of God. 
Tour to Western Neiv York. 
May 24th.—Took the cars at Boston for Albany, 
N. Y. Was detained two hours at Chatham, on 
account of the cars running off the track at Kin-
derhook, so that it was late before I reached my 
appointment ; nevertheless, I was in season to 
speak an hour on the glories of the new heavens 
and earth, in the vestry of the Baptist chapel in 
WasEington-street. The audience was large, and 
the occasion was one of interest and enjoyment. 
May 25th.—Went to Auburn, N. Y., where I 
met with Elders Inginire and Gross, and a number 
of lay brethren, with whom I had pleasant inter-
views. I gave a lecture in the evening. They all 
seemed to be in good cheer, and the prospects of 
the cause in this region look encouraging. 
May 26th.—Visited Seneca Falls. There are 
many excellent brethren and sisters in this place, 
but having no pastor, they are in a low state. I 
delivered one discourse. Found brother Pinney in 
better health than at any former visit, though still 
greatly afflicted. He is resigned to the will of GOD. 
May 27th.—Called upon brother H. L. Smith, of 
the Auburn church, at the water-cure establish 
merit at Clifton Springs, N. Y. He was feeble, al-
though somewhat improved. Brother S. is a pillar 
in the church, and a consistent and devoted friend 
of the Advent cause. May Goo spare his useful 
life. He is resigned to the will of GOD, and happy 
in the blessed hope. 
May 28th.—Came to Rochester, N. Y., and put 
up with Bro. C. Dutton. All arrangements had 
been made for the Sabbath service. On the 29th 
I gave three discourses in Corinthian Hall, to 
large and very attentive audiences. There is no 
place in Western New York where my audiences 
are so large as in Rochester. The standard was 
raised and the cause established here more than 
ten years since. 
I was much gratified to meet with Dr. L. D• 
Fleming, with his family, who invited me to dine 
with him, with which I was happy to comply. The 
interview revived old scenes which took place 
in Rochester ; for Dr. Fleming took the charge 
of the first . Advent paper published in Rochester, 
entitled the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom. He con-
ducted the entire volume with ability and faithful-
ness. I found him in the same spirit and cher-
ishing the same faith and hope as he did ten years 
ago. It is known to many that Dr. F. labored 
in Portland, Me., some twelve years since with 
much saceess, and that there he lost his voice. 
Since that time he has turned his attention to the 
healing art, and has become eminent in his pro-
fession. He has now purchased the " Lake View 
Water Cure " establishment, in the suburbs of 
Rochester, and will open one of the most extensive 
and splendid establishments of this kind in the 
country. Our friends who have need to seek health, 
will find this Institution one of the most pleasant, 
as well as the treatment and attention the most 
agreeable and successful. 
The cause in Rochester will have the sympathy 
and influence of Dr. F., and we hope the time 
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Isaiah, which some readers are disposed to treat 
lightly or neglect perusing ; where shall we find a 
more interesting portion of God's word ? Yet there 
are portions which to us, removed as we are so 
many hundred years from the scenes and circum-
stances under which the book was written, need 
elucidation, and comparison of scripture with scrip-
ture ; and also the historical incidents which were 
once but prophecy should be produced, in order to 
a full appreciation of the force and beauty of the 
predictions. And this is the office of the commen-
tator. Again, the popular sentiment under the in-
fluence and instruction of the great mass of reli-
gious teachers, has assigned the book in general 
terms, to the department of poetry and figures, 
where we are to look for very little solid and in-
spired truth. It is on this principle nearly all the 
existing commentaries on Isaiah are constructed. 
But we have presented to us, one on an entirely 
different principle; it proceeds on the conviction 
that God inspired his servant to write every word 
of it, and that its poetic and figurative character 
does not detract. in the least degree from its inspired 
character. That a figure of speech, is as much un-
der the laws which govern language, as the most 
direct and plain assertion in literal terms ; that 
every figure is easily designated and classified un-
der its proper name. And all this is done for us 
in the expositions given us in the Herald. I hazard 
nothing in saying that I doubt whether so clear and 
forcible a commentary on the book, is extant as 
the one now in progress by the editor of the Her-
ald. In saying this I do not wish to be understood 
as endorsing every idea put forth in the work, but 
as expressing my full conviction that he is perform-
ing a great and important service for the Church 
of this age ; and that all who not only read, but 
study the weekly numbers, will be richly repaid for 
their labor. And those who should pay the sub-
scription price of the paper for a year for those ar-
ticles alone, would be abundantly remunerated. [I 
do not write this for your eye, Mr. Editor, but for 
your readers.] I wish I could impress every reader 
with the loss he is sustaining by passing over that 
part of the weekly table of contents. I might speak 
also of the great amount of foreign news of the 
most select character, which the readers of the 
Herald obtain without going over so large a mass 
to gain a little information. But I will close this 
article by once more urging each reader to try and 
obtain one more subscriber and forward to the 
" Advent Herald." A paper so valuable must be 
sustained. 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
NO. IV. 
THE second point to be observed under the head 
of instruction received, is the comfort of the Scrip-
tures. (Rom. 15:4.) In this age, 
" Much time is spent, 
And anxiety felt " 
relative to the comforts of this life, among which 
are health, wealth, meat, drink, raiment, and a 
dwelling for the body, while the enchanting thea-
tre, fascinating ball-room, pleasure excursion, ban-
queting entertainment, revelry hall, popular festi-
val, (church fair or levee,) reported moral drama 
will not be long before they will be able to get a 
faithful pastor. 
Imade calls on brethren Wm, Busby, Williams, 
Orton, and others, by whom I was cordially re-
ceived. It would require a month to search out 
and visit our numerous friends in this city, but 
we did what we could in the short time allotted. 
May 30th.—Went to Batavia, N. Y. Was cor-
dially greeted by brother E. M. Smith. The cir; 
cumstances of the past which gave us both some 
perplexity are now all understood. We shall have 
no more. I was always confident that time would 
reveal the real cause of our perplexities ; and 
that selfishness and bigotry would ultimately ex- 
pose itself. Brother S. is a liberal brother, having 
the good of the cause at heart, and is doing all he 
can to sustain it. We bad no public meeting, but 
a few friends came to his house in the evening, to 
whom I gave a discourse on the " blessed hope." 
May 24th.—Went to Buffalo, and was, as usual, 
kindly received by brother H. Tanner and family. 
From the first, brother T. has been whole-hearted 
and faithful to the Advent cause. Even in a re-
verse of fortune he still stood by the suffering cause 
in B. in all its trials. And now that God has again 
smiled upon his efforts in his business affairs, he 
has given a liberal portion to purchase and fit up 
the house of God that was almost in ruins, and 
placed the church on a new and more permanent 
basis. May heaven accept the offering, and suc-
ceed the effort. I was also kindly greeted by Elder 
Edwin Burnham, who had been laboring here for a 
month to revive and give a new impulse to the 
cause. 
June lst--5th.—Attended the Conference, the pro-
ceedings of which will be found on another page. 
The attendance was not large, but the representa-
tion from different parts of ie field was good and 
encouraging. The spirit of enterprise manifested 
for the cause was cheering. The hand of God was 
discernible. If the requisite ministerial help can 
be obtained, they will accomplish all that their 
liberality has planned for the spread of light and 
for the support of the cause in that city and re-
,gion. They have resolved to raise this year $1000 
for missionary purposes, and have invited Elder D. 
I. Robinson to labor among the destitute within 
the bounds of the Conference. They could not 
have made a better choice. 
On the Sabbath, I baptized three in Lake Erie. 
We had a blessed season. One of the candidates 
is a recent convert from the Episcopal Church, un-
der the labors of brother Burnham. 
June 6th.—Returned to Boston, tarried one day, 
to attend to business connected with the office and 
the church, and left for Canada East. 
SUPPORT OF THE "ADVENT HERALD." 
BY J. LITCH. 
Why the Advent Herald should be supported. 
4. The amount of biblical exposition which the 
Herald contains, is more, probably, in the course 
of a year than any if not all the religious papers 
of the country, and expositions such as cannot be 
found otherwise by the readers of the Herald. The 
articles which have been republished in the paper 
from the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, are 
exceedingly rich and full of instruction ; so also 
are Dr. Cumming's sermons of a superior order. 
And as a work of " Travels in Europe," there is 
nothing extant more full of interest and instruc-
tion, or more complete, than has been given in the 
" Sketches of Travel," from the pen of S. J. M. M. 
In short, the readers have presented before them 
from week to week a rich intellectual treat. There 
might, it is true, be more given to play upon the 
passions, excite the feelings, and gratify a love 
for that to which the Athenians devoted their 
time in days of old, " to hear and tell of some new 
thing." But it is questionable whether the readers 
would become better Christians by such reading. It 
is true that a morbid intellectual appetite will find 
but little in the Herald to gratify it or increase its 
disease. Had the conductors of the paper spread 
their sails to every breeze calculated to drive them 
in that direction, they might have greatly swelled 
their subscription list, and their purse, but where 
would have been their conscience, and how would 
they have met their responsibilities in a coming 
day? But standing'erect and steadfast in the main-
tenance of sound doctrine, each new movement has 
drawn from their list a number of subscribers. But 
the paper remains, and in a state, too, in which 
we need not be ashamed to put it into the hands 
of any friend whose mind we wish favorably to 
impress. 
Is there not reason to believe that many who 
complain of the articles which fill up the paper 
from week to week, do not read them to know 
whether they are good or bad ? It is not all 
that excites or gratifies our feelings, that is the 
most profitable. But all who will carefully and 
prayerfully read over those neglected articles will 
generally find them replete with instruction of a 
solid and permanent character ; they will instruct 
and confirm, rather than excite the Christian. And 
while for these considerations many are falling off 
from the support of the Herald, is it not the duty 
of those who appreciate this feature in the paper, 
to double their efforts to increase its circulation 
and usefulness? 
L
We will take for instance the exposition of 
of the stage, as also other like entertainments, are 
sought as sources of the soul's enjoyment. Yet how 
few recognize the source from whence all real en-
joyment flows — the sacred volume : nevertheless 
from it the believer derives support. Says the 
voice of inspiration, " Hearken diligently unto me, 
(God's word) and eat ye that which is good, and 
let your soul delight itself in fatness." (Isa. 55:2.) 
Does he learn that the earth had its origin from 
God, and, after creating all things, he pronounced 
them " very good?" (Gen. 1:31.) There is com-
fort. Although the earth in consequence of man's 
disobedience, and man, God's noblest work, has 
fallen, does he learn that God still rules in the 
governments (Dan. 4:25) of the world, and will 
suffer them to advance thus far and no farther ? 
There is comfort. In the Scriptures of truth he 
reads of man's transgression — losing the favor 
of God—subjection to sorrow, pain, and death, 
but views rising out of the grand whole, gems of 
precious truth, promises of a restorer—Saviour ; 
these in the moral, are like so many stars in the 
literal firmament, and give him consolation. Is 
trouble from time to time his portion ? are trials 
strewed thick in his pathway ? do cares press his 
soul? He learns with comfort that " no good thing 
will he withhold from those who walk uprightly,." 
(Psa. 84:11.) Does he learn when tempted that 
he has a merciful High Priest to succor him ? (Heb. 
4:15, 16.) There is comfort : that his light afflic-
tions work for him a far more exceeding and eter-
nal weight of glory ? (2 Cor. 4:17.) In this there is 
consolation. Is he informed that his tender inno-
cent babes are cut off by death, they shall come 
again from the land of the enemy? (Jer. 31:15-17.) 
If friends fall asleep in Jesus, God will raise them 
in eternity's bright morning? (Psa. 49:140 and if 
alive when heaven's archway is paved with efful-
gent light, and Christ's advent is attended by the 
shining retinue down its glory-gilt pathway, he 
shall be changed to immortality in a moment? 
(1 Cor. 15:51, 52; 1 Thess. 4:16-18.) Consolation 
flows freely, as saith the apostle, " Comfort one 
another with these words." Does he learn of the 
restitution of the earth ? (Acts 3:21,) of its being 
clean dissolved (Isa. 24:19), and of a " new earth," 
filled with God's glory emerging from its ruins? 
(2 Pet. 3:13,) and finally may he know when Christ 
is near by certain signs as truly as that summer 
is near when the trees are putting forth leaves ? 
(Matt. 24:33.) From these truths the believer de-
rives consolation, in harmony with the Saviour's 
injunction, " Lift up your heads, for your redemp-
tion draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28.) 
Adventists are censured sometimes for dwelling 
so much upon promises having a future fulfilment, 
such as the Messiah's advent—resurrection—com-
ing kingdom—plan of redemption in restoring that 
which was lost, including the earth, clothing it 
with perennial beauty, and securing it to the saints 
as their eternal inheritance, as though not of much 
consequence. and present the inquiry from time to 
time, why do thus you preach, pay, or sing? In 
replying, the first passage quoted in this number 
(Rom. 15:4,) is adduced as presenting a solution 
of the question in part, viz., truths written and 
learned are for our comfort. Again the closing 
theme of the gospel dispensation is to call upon 
individuals to " fear God, and give glory to him ; 
for the hour of his judgment is come." (Rev. 14:7.) 
If indeed Adventists have been too limited in their 
sphere of action, confined too closely to the fore-
going sentiments, may we not attribute it to the 
exclusiveness of those who thus reprehend us, rela-
tive to them ? We think so, if perchance we are 
not excused in so doing. But in turn, we ask for 
their forbearance while we present inquiries rela-
tive to the importance they attach (as manifested 
in their religious exercises) to death—the world's 
conversion, and the eternal abode of the saints 
within or beyond the bounds of space : are we in-
structed from the Bible to prepare, and watch for 
death( rather than Christ's coming) to that de-
gree, as advocated by many at the present day ? 
that the saint's inheritance is in the sun, moon, 
stars, air, or third heaven, or leave us in darkness 
respecting it ? For these questions we ask not an 
answer flowing from the imagination, but a scrip-
tural one : " To the law and to the testimony : if 
we speak not according to this word, it is because 
there is no light in us." (Isa. 8:20.) 
My reader, in concluding these remarks let us 
reflect for a moment upon the blessed, blessed, 
and thrice blessed privilege to which the Christian 
is exalted. He receives comfort from the great" I 
Am " through his written word. While earth's 
comforts partake of the nature of the source from 
which they are derived, consequently fleeting, and 
only serve in the end as a cause of anguish, when 
that source is removed, it partakes of the nature 
of God, consequently perfect, and eternal. (2 Pet. 
1:4.) And while of the Saviour, the soul and cen-
tre of the word, he sings, 
THE BIBLE AN INSPIRED BOOK. 
" For myself, I fearlessly say it ; in prosecuting 
this work, I have often been constrained to give 
thanks to God for having called me to it ; for I 
have there seen more than once, the Divine Majesty 
fill with its splendor the entire temple of the Scrip-
tures; I have seen all the threads of that coarse 
garment, with which the Son of man was clothed, 
become suddenly such as no fuller on earth could 
make them ; I have often seen this book (the Bi-
ble) illuminated by the glory of God, and every 
word appear radiant. In fine, I have felt what we 
always experience in sustaining a cause which is 
holy and true ; that it grows the more in truth 
and majesty, the more you contemplate it." 
The work is published by John S. Taylor, New 
York. 
J. Linn. 
We gave a notice of the above work in our col-
umns on the 6th of April, 1842, and advertised it 
among the books for sale at this office ; and in Au-
gust and September, 1848, in successive numbers, 
we made extensive extracts from the work. It is 
however doubtless new to many of our readers, 
whose attention we are happy to call to it ; and 
we can fully endorse all that brother Litch has said 
respecting it. 
Letter from Milesburg, Pa. 
BRO. HMS :—I have just returned from a very 
profitable visit to brother Boyer's district. I left 
home the last day of May, visited Coopers, found 
the church in a prosperous condition. June 1st 
went to Clearfield town, spent the time until the 
next afternoon very pleasantly with brother Frank 
and family, when I left for Caledonia. Met brother 
B. in this place, anl assisted at a meeting. Fri-
day, the 3d, we went to Ridgeway, the county seat 
of Elk county, and commenced a meeting, which 
continued over the Sabbath. There is no society 
in that place, but we had an excellent hearing, and 
were gratified to learn that the people who were 
in attendance, comprising the principal men of 
that county, were favorably impressed with our 
views. On Monday we started for Rich Valley, 
McKean county, preaching every evening on the 
way. We arrived there on Friday, and commenced 
our meeting, which continued over the following 
Sabbath. There is a devoted and interesting church 
in this place, and we spent our time with them 
quite pleasantly. Preached at Haithies on my 
way home, where I arrived last Saturday. 
The state of the cause in brother Boyer's dis-
trict is very encouraging, as it is indeed through-
out Central Pennsylvania. The principal obstacle 
is, that we cannot supply with regular preaching 
all the places where our labors are desired. The 
societies raised throughout Pennsylvania, so far as 
my knowledge of them extends, adhere strictly to 
the views advocated by the Herald relative to the 
fulfilment of prophecy—future age—destiny of the 
wicked—maintenance of gospel order, &c. &c.. and 
" LIVE by faith, and not by sight,"—
Christian, why those flowing tears ? 
Why that gloomy brow ? 
Why those dark and bitter fears, 
That torment thee now? 
Throw aside the dark control 
That has gained upon thy soul, 
Bid thy doubts take all their flight, 
" Live by faith, and not by sight." 
Though temptations often rise, 
Lead thee far astray,— 
Keep in view the glorious prize, 
Always watch and pray ;—
Know the crown is sure to those 
Who the tempter's power oppose, 
Keep thine armor pure and bright, 
" Live by faith, and not by sight." 
Though thy soul is deeply stained, 
Turn from self thine eye, 
" Worthy is the Lamb once slain," 
And his dying cry 
Still is ringing loud and clear, 
In the Father's holy ear, 
Then let not thy sins affright, 
" Live by faith, and not by sight." 
Though thy life be-dark and drear, 
One of pain and gloom ; 
Though all that thy heart holds dear, 
Slumber in the tomb ; 
Although want and grief be thine, 
The hand that smites thee is divine, 
Through this sad and weary night, 
" Live by faith, and not by sight." 
Though the darkness reigns supreme, 
Faith with piercing eye, 
Sees a glorious morning beam, 
And that morning nigh— 
Which ushers in the perfect day, 
When every cloud shall flee away,— 
Then, Christian then, faith with delight 
Shall quickly yield her place to sight. 
H. M. JOHNSON. 
" My comfort by day, and my song in the night, 
My hope, my salvation, my all," 
he looks forward to the time when those prospects 
transcendently glorious are realized, and, on Zion's 
radiant heights, he sings, without an alloy of earth 
to shade his consolation, the song of victory and 
redemption. 
" Comfort, ye ministers of grace, 
Comfort the people of your Lord ; 
0 lift ye up the fallen race, 
And cheer them by the gospel word." 
J. P. E. 
IT is a question in which every Christian has a 
deep interest, to what extent is the Bible inspired? 
How far is it reliable as being a divinely authenti-
cated record of facts and revelation of the Divine 
will? Our salvation is at stake, and we should 
well understand what we believe, and why we be-
lieve it. My attention has recently been called to 
this subject by reading " GAUSSEN on the inspiration 
of the Bible." 
Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you and some 
of your readers have made the acquaintance of the 
book long ago, as it was published in 1843 ; but I 
will venture to bring it to the notice of your read-
ers at the present time. I have read several works 
at different times devoted to this subject, but am 
free to confess, that none of them have made that 
impression upon my mind which the above-named 
has left. The position assumed, and successfully, 
as I think, maintained, by facts and arguments, is 
just what the Church of this day greatly needs, 
that The Bible—every word of it—was given by di-
rect inspiration of God, and is therefore to be im-
plicitly received by every Christian with the same 
deference as if God spoke to him personally and 
audibly. I wish earnestly to commend the peru-
sal of it to every Christian, but more especially to 
commend it to the attention of every minister 
among us, as a text-book, to be not merely read 
over once, but to be studied until the sentiments 
and arguments become their own. And I am much 
mistaken if they do not conclude their study with 
the feelings and sentiments of its honored author, 
thus expressed in the preface to the work 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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concur with the remarks of brother Lich, in the 
Herald of the 18th, respecting that paper as the 
organ of the Advent faith. They express the con-
viction of my mind when I embraced the doctrine 
nearly eight years since, and it remains unaltered. 
I have been grieved that some brethren, to whom 
I felt much attached, have expressed dissatisfac‘ 
tion ; but while my personal acquaintance with 
you is very limited, I have judged in this case, as 
in all others, that it is best to let well alone. 
Yours in love, J. T. LANING. 
June 2011/, 1853. 
SECOND DAY—FRIDAY MORNING. 
Conference at 9 A. H., opened by prayer. Pro-
ceedings of yesterday read by the Secretary. 
Business Committee reported the following order 
of business : 
Hear reports on the state of the cause. 
Discuss the propriety of raising a fund to as 
sist in sustaining Evangelists 
Pass resolutions relative to our position. 
The above report being received, the brethren 
from different sections reported the state of the 
cause in the different places from whence they 
came. 
Brother Campbell, from Canada West, said he 
had labored in Canada ten years. There were but 
few Adventists in the Province. Kingston :and vi-
cinity, there are a few faithful souls. So also in 
Coburg, Toronto, Wellington Square, and London 
District. In all these places with others that might 
be named, there was a reasonable hope of doing 
good, and raising up Advent churches. 
Brother J. J. Porter of New York, said he la-
bored some years since in this place and vicinity, 
and he thought the present movement in this Con-
ference would tend to advance the cause. 
Brother E. M. Smith of Batavia, N.Y., said that 
the cause was low, both in Batavia and vicinity. 
A few met once in two weeks for worship, and had 
interesting meetings. They also had meetings in 
the neighborhood of much interest, and good was 
being done. 
Brother Boon of Norwalk, 0., said he attended 
the meeting to enjoy the feast, but would say a few 
things in regard to the state of the cause in Nor-
walk and vicinity. There were but few Adventists, 
most that had been so went over to other views, 
and the Advent cause was in a very low state. 
Brother H. Tanner said in regard to Buffalo and 
vicinity, they were in a state of almost entire des- 
FIRST DAY, JUNE 2D. 
THE meeting was organized by the appointment 
of brother J. L. Clapp Chairman, E. W. Smith 
and William Busby Secretaries. 
Prayer by brother J. J. Porter, of New York. 
On motion, the following committee on business 
was appointed, E. Burnham, H. Tanner, J. V. 
Himes, D. Campbell, William Busby. After some 
general remarks relative to the state of the cause, 
the Conference adjourned to 9 o'clock Friday morn-
ing. 
CONFERENCE AT BUFFALO. 
Letter from Waupaca, Wis. 
BRO. RIMES :—After being absent three months, 
I arrived safe home the 7th. Found my family all 
well, for which I feel thankful to my heavenly 
Father. 
My visit East was a very pleasant one. The 
meeting with the dear brethren at Salem Confer-
ence was of great interest to me. It was one of 
the best I ever attended. It will long be remem-
bered, and I have no doubt the effect will long be 
felt. 
My interest for the cause of Christ was never 
greater ; I feel like engaging anew in the cause. 
The thought of soon seeing Him whom our soul 
loveth, is enough to cheer the heart in the midst 
of our most severe trials ; it gives new courage to 
go forward and proclaim the good news to the heirs 
of the kingdom, and warn the people to prepare 
for the judgment. How solemn, and yet how sub-
lime the thought, that God's tabernacle is to be 
with ,men, and he is to dwell with them and be 
their God, and they shall be his people ! But with 
what earnestness should the inquiry be made, Shall 
I be able to stand in his presence ? The Lord pre-
pare us for that event. 
I wish to express my gratitude to the dear breth-
ren for ther kindness and friendly aid. I feel un-
der great obligations. The Lord reward them at 
the resurrection of the just. 
I expect to start back East with my family in a 
few weeks, and hope to be found in the way of my 
duty and my labors blessed of God to the advance-
ment of his cause. 
The Lord grant us an abundant entrance into 
the everlasting kingdom of God, is the prayer of 
.your brother in tribulation. MOSES CHANDLER. 
June 10th, 1853. 
titution. There was no pastor in all the region. 
Buffalo, Lockport, Lewiston, Jamestown, &c., were 
all destitute ; they wanted help, and must have 
help, or the cause must suffer, if not go down ; but 
they had the means to sustain it, and if they could 
get ministerial help they would he sustained. 
Brother Busby of Rochester said, the cause in 
R. was in a low state, they were not organized, and 
had been scattered, some have gone to the churches 
which they would not have done had they have had 
an Advent preacher ; but they have occasional 
preaching, and at such times have large attend-
ance. They had sought for a suitable pastor, but 
as yet find none who would sustain them. They 
still look forward to the time when they will have 
a church and a faithful pastor. 
Brother William Griffith, Port Robinson, C. W., 
said they had a few believers that were faithful, 
but some had been turned away from the faith, but 
he and the few that were with him determined to 
sustain the cause so far as they could, but they 
needed help. 
Brother J. N. Snyder, Mansfield, 0., said that 
he was a member of the Dunker Church. They 
were Adventists, though they differed from us. He 
was interested in the Advent cause, and had done 
what he could to introduce the doctrine, and build 
up the cause in his vicinity. He had no sympathy 
with the notions of what is called the Age to Come. 
He was anxious to have some able preacher visit 
them who could present the truth and sustain it. 
Brother Boon also added that the field referred 
to by brother Snyder was a very promising one, 
and if it could be occupied by an efficient ministry, 
much good might be done. 
Brother Burnham made some general remarks 
on the state of the field, and the difficulties to its 
further cultivation ; the want of union of effort, 
and means also to sustain the ministry. The efforts 
put forth by this Conference be hoped would tend 
to supply these. 
Brother Tanner remarked that it had not always 
been so. Once was the time when we were united, 
and all the means needed were at hand, and he 
trusted it would be so again soon. 
Brother S. H. Withington, of South Alabama, 
N. Y., said he was really alone. He believed the 
advent was near. There were some about him who 
held to the new view of the Age to Come. He had 
candidly looked at the subject but was of the opin- 
ion that it was not true. He was in favor of gos 
pet order. 
Brother Himes was called upon to give some in-
formation about the far West. He said that he had 
received letters and urgent calls for help from that 
portion of the country. Without going over the 
field extensively, he would give one or two cases. 
Re then read the following extract of a letter sent 
to the general Conference at Salem : 
" BRN. OSLER AND RIMES :—An unworthy sister 
presumes to intrude upon your goodness from a far 
distant land, hoping that this correspondence may 
reach you at the time of the Conference at Salem. 
The object in writing is this :—We have a little 
band of believers here planted by brother Chapman, 
and we are perishing for lack of knowledge. We 
want a pastor who will give us meat in due season. 
One who will preach Jesus crucified, risen, and 
coming. One that will give the trumpet a certain 
and not an uncertain sound, or else how shall we 
prepare ourselves for the battle ?—believing as we 
do that the means by which the cause must be 
sustained is the preaching of the gospel. We have 
made several feeble efforts, which have met with 
little or no success. 
" Could you not enter into some systematic plan 
at your Conference to sustain the cause here ? I 
think that every church in the West would respond 
through the _Herald to such a proposition as the 
Conference might adopt. The thought struck me 
that a faithful and experienced brother would be 
useful to come here and have the care of as many 
congregations as he could visit quarterly in this 
particular section ; say from Whitesides to Brown 
county. Why not make a proposition to the breth-
ren West to enter into some kind of association to 
unite their interest in order to sustain the cause ? 
" Brother Himes, the Western people are lib-
eral, and will carry out such measures as you think 
would best promote the cause. Please remember 
us for we are praying the Lord to send forth more 
laborers into the harvest. We need a few ex-
perienced men that can be depended on ; to have 
like Paul the care and oversight of the churches, 
while those of less experience can have encourage-
ment and support under them. I think they would 
pay in proportion to their property on the grand 
list, as some of you do at the East, if the proposi-
tion was made to them ; at least for one or two 
years to make a trial. The Lord bless and direct 
you is the prayer of 
W. C. PAGE. 
" Somerset, Bear Creek Township, Ill., May 7th." 
He then introduced an extract of a letter from a 
brother in Illinois, which would give an idea of the 
kind of preachers wanted, and some of the difficul-
ties under which they labored : 
" We have lived down in a great measure the 
prejudice against our belief in the soon coming Sa-
viour, but there are those coming in among us un-
solicited, advocating the views of the Rochester Har-
binger, claiming to be Adventists, and telling to all 
that will hear them, that their views are the views 
I of the Adventists in general. They leave the 
weightier matters of repentance toward God and 
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel of 
his soon possessing the kingdom under the whole 
heaven, and preach sermon after sermon upon the 
unconscious state of the dead, and the annihilation 
of the wicked. Let this be as it may it is not prof-
itable preaching, and is not calculated to lead the 
mind of most persons to Him who is the resurrec-
tion and the life. 
" Send us a pastor that will preach to us in the 
tone of the Herald and we will sustain him. Let 
us know how much it will require to defray his 
travelling expenses to us. And let us know imme- 
diately if there is not one among you that will 
come out to this vast West and sustain the cause 
of Him who will one day say, ' Well done, good 
and faithful servant, thou hest been faithful over 
a few things, I will make thee ruler over many 
things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' Re- 
membering our Lord's assurance to Peter that 
there was no man that bath left house, or brethren, 
or sisters, father or mother, &c., for my sake and 
the gospel, but shall receive an hundred fold in 
this time, and in the world to come eternal life." 
He then presented the following brief statement 
of brother Chandler, which he left with him, as he 
had to leave before the Conference closed. 
" I have been laboring in the West for the last 
seven years. I commenced my labors at Milwau-
kee seven years ago. There was a small church 
numbering about twenty. We had a good congre-
gation. We met a part of the time in the Court-
house, and part in a school-house. I spent about 
four months there, and then removed to Rock co. 
At Milwaukee, the church had severe trials, and 
finally was discontinued. Some moved away, and 
others died, some spiritually, others literally. We 
had a very pleasant church at Rock Prairie. I 
preached there part of the time. I resided there 
about two years ; during this time I got an open-
ing at Round Prairie, Boone county, Ill. We had 
a great interest. We had another opening at Cold 
Spring Prairie, McHenry county, Ill., where I 
preached part of the time. Another at Rockford, 
Winnebago county, Ill.—quite a good congrega-
tion in the place. Another at Crane's Grove, Ste-
venson county, Ill.—good interest here also, and a 
good church. I preached some at Princeton, Bu-
rul county, Ill., to a few friends there. I made 
two visits to Springfield, Ill., and spent some few 
weeks there and in the region. There was a good 
interest through all that part of the country. 1 
then lost my health, and had to leave the field for 
the most part for two years—preached when I was 
able. Some of my family were sick during the 
time. I then moved north to Winnebago county, 
Wis., to find a climate more adapted to my consti-
tution. I regained my health, but had to labor 
with my hands to support my family. I preached 
on Sundays in Winnebago and Zondulack county 
—had two very good congregations. So I continued 
in that northern part of the State. Have preached 
what I could. I have had to support myself and 
family for the last five and a half years with my 
own hands, for I do not think I have received one 
shilling for preaching during that time, except 
what I received during my visit East. After I re-
tired from the field, there were not laborers enough 
to occupy it, and other influences came in and de-
stroyed a great part of what we had done. The 
preachers who labored with me soon gave all their 
influence to support another paper, so withdrew 
from me. The cause in 'Wisconsin is in a low 
state—it needs help. My health is such that I 
shall have to return to the East again." 
After reading these extracts, brother Himes re-
marked that he intended going West this fall, and 
should survey the field, and see what could be done 
to supply the wants of the churches. 
(Remainder next week.) 
Obituarv. 
" FROM death's arrest no age is free, 
Young children too may die." 
MARTHA ANN was the only child of ELISHA W. 
and EUNICE TURNER, of Salem, and at the age of 14 
years has been called away from parents and friends, 
as well as also from a world of sin and suffering. 
She had always been remarkable for her conscien-
tiousness, but never made a profession of religion. 
For some weeks before her death, she had devoted 
herself to seeking the Lord by earnest prayer, and 
when asked what she prayed for, said she prayed 
for a new heart. Her mother asked her which she 
had rather do, die or get well? She said she had 
rather die, if she only had a new heart ; for she 
feared that if she lived she should lose it, like some 
others. She said she did love the Lord, but was 
afraid she did not love him enough ; if she only 
knew that she did, she should be satisfied. She 
sometimes in meeting felt while they were singing 
Jesus died on Calvary's mountain," as though 
she could trust in the Lord. Her last moments 
were spent in asking the pardon of her parents for 
her childish faults, and then saying she could not 
see, she asked, " 0, mother, will Jesus receive 
me ?" "Yes, my child, he will." She immedi-
ately went into a spasm, and spoke no more. She 
fell asleep in Jesus, we doubt not, Sabbath morn-
ing, June 12th, 1853. 
J. LITCH. 
Salem (Mass.), June 24th, 1853. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
mael. It is stated that the Turks will not make 
the Danube, but the range of the Balkan, their 
line of defence. While thus preparing for war, 
the Divan does not neglect chances for peace. Ar-
bitration had been spoken of. Reschid Pasha was 
in favor of such a solution, but several of his col-
leagues opposed. Rumors state that Austria offers 
informally to mediate, to allow the Czar an apolo-
gy to retreat with honor. 
It was positively stated by the London and French 
presses that the English fleet had had orders to join 
the French in the Bay of Besika, but had not left 
Malta June 2d. 
June 14th. — Yesterday the Prince of Prussia 
and Duke of Saxe Coburg passed through Lisle on 
their way to England. 
Orders reached Brest on the 10th to arm two 
steam frigates and two sailing vessels ; nothing 
known of their destination., 
Advices of 30th May say that Turkey had handed 
to the Ambassadors of the four powers a note ex-
plaining the measures taken by Turkey to maintain 
the integrity of her territories, and declaring that 
any arrangement with Russia is out of the ques-
tion, while that power persists in its exorbitant 
pretensions. 
On the 28th, the French Minister gave Redschid 
Pasha formal assurance of the support of the French 
Government. Lord Stratford de Redeliffe was to 
have an audience on the 2d of June, for the pur-
pose of giving a similar assurance on the part of 
England. The military preparations of the Turks 
are carried on with great activity. The Turkish 
fleet of twenty-two sail anchored at the entrance 
of the Black Sea on the 30th. At the Arsenal 
twelve corvettes and several frigates were being 
armed, and would be got ready by the 2d of June. 
One hundred and forty flat boats are employed in 
transporting the artillery and ammunition to the 
fleet and citadel on the Bosphorus. Troops and 
stores have also been sent to Varina. The militia 
are pouring in from all quarters. The troops were 
to be reviewd on the 30th. 
A special messenger was to be despatched on the 
31st for Bucharist and Vienna. Col. Hernoff, com-
mander of the Russian pontoon brigade, had arrived 
at Ainga, on the left bank of the Pruth. 
VIENNA, June 10th.—Lord Westmoreland and 
the Baron de Mayendorf have had a long confer-
ence, and afterwards couriers were despatched to 
London and St. Petersburg. 
7th inst., to the effect that the Emperor of Russia 
had despatched a courier from St. Petersburg to 
Constantinople with a demand that Prince Men-
schikoff 's last proposal should be accepted by the 
Porte within eight days "The fact," says the 
Times, "is less unfavorable to a pacific solution of 
the dispute than at first sight may appear ; and, 
the sending another courier is a fresh proof that 
the symptoms of temporization, commenced by 
Prince Menschikoff, is continued by the Emperor 
himself." 
Although it was still fully thought, on the.re-
ceipt of this news, that the peace of Europe would 
net be broken, yet the further developments of the 
affair was most anxiously awaited. 
The British Mediterranean fleet had sailed for 
the Dardanelles, and the Channel fleet had been 
ordered to the Mediterranean. 
The French fleet had arrived in Bescia Bay. 
The attitude taken by the Sultan is much ap-
proved by Turks and Greeks in Syria, as well as 
Turkey. A voluntary subscription is making to-
wards the expenses of the army. 
The latest accounts were less favorable for the 
maintenance of peace. The messenger sent from 
St. Petersburg is said to have no discretionary 
power. He merely carries a demand from the 
Czar that the Porte shall within eight days accede 
to Menschikoff 's ultimatum, or take the conse-
quences. Count Nesselrode, jr., is not charged 
with any authoritative mission to the Western 
courts that can alter the position of affairs. 
Meantime the Porte prepares bravely for defence. 
Orders are given to Namek Pasha, formerly Gov-
ernor of Arabia, a man of much energy, to attack 
the Russians with his 40,000 men if they attempt 
to cross the river Pruth. Colseres, a Frenchman, 
with the Egyptian fleet of twelve vessels, is daily 
expected at Constantinople. 
Mustapha Pasha, Governor of Therregoomie, 
offers to raise 200,000 Albanians and march them 
on any point. Renderham Bey also demands per-
mission to raise a force in Jiurdestan. Arming 
the fleet goes on with vigor, and all spare labor in 
Constantinople is employed in conveying ammuni- Changarnier denies that he has offered his ser- 
tion to the forts. 
vice to the Porte. 
PAPERS received by the Baltic contain little ad-
ditional to what was published yesterday by tele-
graph. The Eastern question still absorbs the at-
tention of Europe. Yet it is the general opinion 
that the difficulty will be settled without war. The 
Russian Emperor has declared that he does not in-
tend to make war upon Turkey, or interfere with 
the independence of the Porte, only he will occupy 
the Danubian Provinces with his army. The Eng-
lish press generally seem to agree that such occu-
pation would not afford cause for war ; whether 
Turkey would so regard it is not-so certain. 
The solution of the movement for occupying the 
Provinces is supposed to be, if the Czar cannot, by 
diplomatic dexterity, obtain the protectorate of 
the Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire, he 
will take possession of them ; but he will not de-
clare war against Turkey ; lie will leave her and 
her allies, if they choose, to declare war against 
him. 
The Earl of Clarendon in the House of Lords, 
and Lord John Russell in the Commons, in answer 
to interrogatories, have stated that the English and 
French fleets have been ordered to the Dardanelles, 
and that there is the best understanding between 
the English and French Governments on the sub-
ject. The .Moniteur, in making the same announce- 
ment, says this measure of precaution does not 
preclude the hope of an amicable arrangement of 
the present difficulties. 
A meeting was held at London, Lord Shaftesbury 
presiding, to forward the welfare of fugitive slaves 
in Canada. Rev. S. Ward, colored, spoke, and the 
subject is to be agitated. 
Lloyd's has advanced " war risks " of insurance 
of shipping to the Black Sea from ten to thirty 
shillings ; to St. Petersburg, steamers, five shil-
lings ; sailing vessels proportionately higher. 
Napoleon keeps his own counsel respecting his 
intentions in Eastern affairs. 
The opinion of leading journals is that war will 
be avoided. Nevertheless the funds have been much 
agitated, and close at a considerable decline. 
The Moniteur contains an announcement that the 
French and English fleets are formally offered to 
aid the Porte-, and will at once proceed to the Dar-
danelles. But the Moniteur believes it will be set-
tled peacefully. 
Abdel Bader, fired of banishment at Broussa, 
wishes to return to France. 
Contents of this No. 
Night Song 
 
 
'Civilization not Christianity 
Deceiving Kings 
Beautiful Extract 
Antidote for Error 
Draw it Mild, Charley 
Collision on the West. Rail- 
road 
 
Antiquity of Egypt 
'New Year's Night Dream 
 
Ancient Babylon-its Ruins 
Russia and Turkey 
Fulfilment of Prophecy 
Let Him Alone 
Sketches of Travel 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
it 
 
209 
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44 
210 
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211 
212 
The Case of Dr. Bushnell ... 212 
At War with Jehovah .. , ... " 
To Correspondents 213 
The Question at Issue 
 44 
The Drama at Constantinople " 
My Journal 
 44 
Support of the Advent Her- 
ald 
 214 
The Scriptures 
The Bible an Inspired Book " 
Letter from Milesburg, Pa " 
" " Wapaca, Wis 215 
Conference at Buffalo 
Obituary of M. A. Turner " 
Foreign News 
Deaths in the Tombs 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Turkish Question. 
WHEN the _Humboldt sailed, the impression had 
gained ground both in London and Paris, that al-
though the Emperor of Russia might make some 
demonstrations against Turkey, by menacing, or 
even crossing the Danubean frontier, yet that ac-
tual hostilities would he avoided by diplomatic set-
tlement of the question. 
Telegraphic despatches from Vienna state that 
the Russian forces had already commenced their 
march towards Moldavia and Wallachia. Not-
withstanding these portentous signs, it was gen-
erally thought peace would be preserved. 
The fourth army had also been ordered from St. 
Petersburg to proceed from Warsaw by forced 
marches to Bessarabia, a Russian province adjoin-
ing Moldavia. 
The Turks, on the other hand, were not idle, 
and were preparing for vigorous resistance. The 
Egyptian fleet and an army of 30,000 men were 
proceeding to the support of the Sultan, whilst the 
Turcoman Chiefs were raising 100,000 men, free 
of expense to the Porte, for the defence of Islam-
ism ; nevertheless, it was believed that peace would 
be maintained. The mediation of Austria and 
Prussia was spoken of. 
Count Nesselrode had arrived in London with 
despatches. 
The most authentic intelligence, however, is that 
published in the third edition of the Times of the 
Deaths in the Tombs. 
AMONG the fearful results which have transpired 
within a few weeks, we believe that we alluded to 
the death of four men in the New York Tombs, 
without giving the particulars. It seems that six 
men, intoxicated, were confined in one small room, 
imperfectly ventilated, and the air of which was 
quickly surcharged with gas respired from their 
filthy lungs. The following is from the New York 
Courier and Enquirer : 
" Six full grown men were thrust by them into 
a damp stone cell, eleven feet by twelve, having no 
communication with the outer air, except a hole 
two inches in diameter through the iron door open-
ing into the corridor. Here they were locked up 
for the night with a heedlessness, that the grossest 
ignorance of the laws of animal life cannot palliate 
into anything less than downright barbarity. At 
the end of an hour, the door was opened, and it 
was found that death had already done its work 
upon one. His corpse was borne away, and again 
the iron door was barred. Three hours were suf-
fered to pass ; again was the dark portal swung 
open, and another was seen on the floor, writhing 
in agony. His keepers had mercy enough on him 
to take him from the place and send him to the 
public hospital. But there Was no mercy for his 
fellows. The door closed upon them, and was not 
unlocked until six hours afterwards. Then it again 
swung upon its hinges, and behold there was ano-
ther corpse upon the floor, stark and stiff, and near 
it, the three remaining prisoners, in their very 
death spasms. For decency's sake, a physician was 
sent for, but one of the sufferers expired before 
medical assistance could be brought, and another 
breathed his last soon afterwards. Thus that sin-
gle night's doings cost the lives of four men, and 
brought two others to the very brink of the grave. 
For such official recklessness as this, there is no 
punishment too severe—this matter must not stop 
here—the city must bring these officials to justice, 
or be the participants in their guilt. It is a tra-
gedy the like of which cannot be found in our city 
history since the fearful drama of the Jersey Prison 
Ship ; but that act was performed by our then mas-
ters, this by our present servants." 
A" FALSE CHRIST."—Intelligence has been re-
ceived at Paris, that the Jews of Jerusalem, as 
well as those of Europe, are now in the greatest 
anxiety. There is a rumor spread among them, by 
which it is said, that an impostor has made his ap-
pearance in the neighborhood of Bagdad ; and, ac-
cording to the reports, he has produced several 
wonderful miracles, among which, it is related that 
he escaped from a cell in which he was barricaded, 
and that a discharge of five hundred guns had no 
effect upon him. 
A LATE number of the New York Tribune con-
tained the following ridiculous notice :—" Lecture 
by the Spirits.—This evening, Henry Clay and J. C. 
Calhoun will deliver a lecture through the medium-
ship of Rev. R. P. Wilson, Spiritually Magnetized, 
at Hope Chapel. Subject—The true principles of 
Government. One part of the lecture will be dic-
tated by Henry Clay, and the other by J. C. Cal-
houn. Commence at eight o'clock.—Admission 25 
cents." 
A MONSTROUS PROPOSITION.—A bill is now before 
the Legislature of New York, which propos 
nothing less than to overturn, in faVor of Re-
manism, the long established system of ecclesiasti-
cal tenures ; to place in the hands of the Roman 
bishops, all the millions of church property be-
longing to the various Catholic societies, thus placJ 
ing it at once beyond all control by those societies, 
in charge of a trustee who is in no wise responsible 
to them, but who holds his appointment from, and 
his allegiance to a foreign power, Viz., the Pope. 
NOTICE TO BRETHREN IN WESTERN NEW YORK.—
If the LORD will, I shall visit them in August. All 
wishing for lectures, can address me immediately. 
1 will preach at Albany the first Sabbath in Au-
gust, 7th ; at Auburn, Tuesday evening, 9th ; Se, 
 
neca Falls, Thursday evening, 11th ; and at Roches-
ter Sabbath, August 14th, as brethren Busby and 
Dutton may arrange. 
Let all meet us for consultation who can. All 
wishing for lectures after that, can address me 
there. 
D. I. ROBINSON. 
CAMP MEETINGS, &c. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, 
permitting, a Camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, 
(on the old ground,) commencing Monday,, Sept. 12th, and conduit-
ing over the Sabbath. Those Coming in the cars or stage will be ac-
commodated with cheap conveyance to the encampment. Accom-
modations for horseS on reasonable terms, and a good boarding tent, 
where the poor will not be excluded for want of money. We invite 
all to come who are interested in the preparation for eternal life, and 
the time of the return of our Saviour. Brethren, sisters, mid friends, 
we wish to see, you together once more at this feast of tabernacles in 
the tented grove, where the pilgrims, weary and worn, may be 
cheered again by the sweet songs of Zion, 
S. A. HITCHCOCK, 
A. D. SMITH, 
M. GRANT, 
0. JONES, 
S. G. MATHEWSON, 
Committee. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a Camp-meeting in Vernon, 
Vt., to commence Aug. 15th, and continue over the following Sun-
day. Particulars hereafter. (In behalf of the brethren.)—E. G. 
SCOTT. 
MEETINGS will commence in Shipton, C. E., July 6th, at 2 r. M., and 
continue over the Sabbath.—S. W. THUP.BER, J. WOILEN. 
IN Melbourne, C. E., commencing July 13th, at 2 P. N., and continue 
over the Sabbath.—S. W. THURBER, J. M. Oamick. 
Is Sutton, C. E., to commence July 6th, at 2 P. ta., and continue 
over the Sabbath.—J. M. ()mock, P. V. WEST. 
The present Ottoman force musters 139,000 regu-
lars, and in all 449,000 land forces, with a fleet of 
1500 guns, besides. six steamships and twenty-two 
small crafts. A Russian force of 120,000 infantry 
hangs on the Moldavian frontier. 
It is rumored the Czar will himself come to Is- 
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