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1 CORINTHIANS 7:16. 
"FOR what knowest thou, 0 wife, whether thou shalt save thy 
husband ? or how knowest thou, 0 man, whether thou shalt save 
thy wife ?" 
Husband., who shall tell to thee, 
That the loved one thou art leading 
Swiftly toward eternity, 
Yet perchance the way unheeding, 
To thy prayers and counsels given, 
May not gem thy crown in heaven ? 
Wif,, who, bowed with anxious cares, 
O'er thy hardened husband mourneth, 
Following on through weary years, 
To that bourne whence none returneth—
Who shall tell that, given to thee, 
lie for whom' thy watch is keeping, 
May not yet an angel be, 
Far bsyond this vale of weeping? 
Parent, who with tearful eye 
O'er each slumbering couch art bending, 
Dreading that futurity 
Towkrd which each tiny foot is wending, 
Labor on with many a prayer, 
Watch the thousand pitfalls round thee 
On that goodness cast thy care 
Which a sure relief hath found thee. 
Do the darlings of thy soul 
Pierce thee through with many a sorrow ? 
Passions spurning just control, 
Promise yet a fearful morrow ? 
Cheer thee, labor on, and pray, 
He who dries the mourner's tear, 
Who on earth shall dare to say, 
Will not hear a parent's prayer- 
11111 not, to thy wrestlings given, 
Save thy family in heaven. 
American Messenger. 
The Vast Army. 
BY REV. EDW. MONRO, PERPETUAL CURATE OF HARROW—WEALD, ENG. 
CHAPTER T.—THE END. 
I WAS roused from my gazing by an exceeding, 
loud and bitter cry, which burst from the en-
trance to the King's presence. One came forth, 
urged on by the Messenger of the King ; his 
hair hung wild and disordered from his agonized 
brow, his fingers were twisted in it, and I thought 
he would have torn it off in the extremity of 
his distress ; his eye glowed red with terror and 
despair, and as he went along he criK1 bitterly, 
Undone ! undone ! undone !" 
Those who followed. him, I noticed, urged 
him on with whips, which added to his suffer-
ings. The agony of his mind seemed far worse 
than his bodily anguish. They were driving 
him on to certain hideous and dark chasms 
among the mountains, which appeared so lonely, 
and dismal, and chill, so vast and fathomless, 
that I trembled to look at them. Terrible 
sounds seemed to come up, sepulchral and hol-
low, from the chasms ; and the whole scene was 
such as to fill the mind with deep and awful 
terror : towards this fearful place the Messengers 
Were hastening the boy. 
" It is the place," said my guide, " to which 
all. those go who have been found in arms against 
the King, and have at all deserted from his 
cause, to live there for ever apart from his 
presence." 
" For ever ?" said I with a shudder. 
For ever," answered the guide ; " there is 
no hope of return." 
None," said I, '' even if they humble them-
selves ?" 
None! hope is past. They had their time, 
and did not do their work ; time enough was 
given, and they had their calling, but they let 
the time slip, and it is too late ; no more will 
be given." 
But," said I, " the King came at last so 
suddenly." • 
" That matters not," said'. he, '' if they were 
told to be watching." 
" And so young !" 
" Youth and boyhood are no excuse or es-
cape," answered he. 
By this time the agonized boy had come near 
the place where 1 stood, and I saw it was Ulric. 
" Undone ! undone !" cried he ; " undone !" and 
he tried to linger : he clung to the rock with 
fearful agony, as the Messengers, who followed, 
by a touch undid his hold, .and he was com- 
J. V. IIIMES, Proprietor. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. 8 Chardon-street 
WHOLE NO. 645. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1853. 
vorumE XIL NO. 13. 
pelled onward. I saw his face was haggard as 
he passed me, and he was tearing large handfuls 
of hair from his head, and gnashing with his 
teeth with horror and despair : I turned sickened 
from the sad ,sight; and shuddered. Every now 
and then I looked after him, and still saw his 
wretched figure going on, and those bright stern 
ones who followed him. I heard his voice raise 
and fall on the wind, and it bore the same tone 
of agony, " Undone ! undone ! undone !" He 
said no other word, and the word has rung 
in my ears ever since, and the awful tone with 
which he said it. I saw him just as he entered 
the awful chasm, and the Messenger gave him 
over to some I could not see. I saw him give 
one look back as he left the light for ever, and 
heard the exceeding bitter cry, " Undone ! un-
done ! undone !" as it came up in hollow echoes 
from the dark chasm. I was riveted to the 
spot, and could think of nothing but Ulric; it 
filled my soul with horror. 
" How dreadful," said I, " to have a work 
given us, and not to do it ! how dreadful not to 
watch ! Happy, happy Albyn, to have been 
found watching ! Bow fearful to be found un-
ready, to be overtaken with our work all un-
done, when we know we had it to do !" 
" Fearful, indeed," said my guide, who had 
been with one of those who had led Ulric to his 
fearful doom, and had returned to my side ; 
" yon Messenger says, when Ulric stood before 
the King, the scene was exceeding awful." 
Now 1 noticed that no one could tell what 
passed who had actually seen it, but each spoke 
as told by others, so exceeding reverent and 
awful was their feeling about the King. I 
strove to catch the Messenger's words as he 
spoke, and, as far as I could gather, it was as 
fellows, though his whole manner and each 
word was so full of awe and reverence, that it 
was hard for me to gain more than a broken 
account. 
" The multitude which gathered round the 
King," said he, " moved back while Ulric was 
led up by the Messengers who had brought him 
to the King : the wretched boy stood, and strove 
in vain to hide his eyes with his hands, that he 
might not see the dazzling light around him ; 
but nothing could shut it out, and he trembled 
so as to terrify those who stood near him, to see 
one so woefully distressed. It was found he had 
not the King's mark upon him ; for the cross 
still stood upon his brow, but its light was grow-
ing red and fiery, and was losing its lustre. 
There was a pause, in which the poor boy 
pressed his hands closer and closer to his burn-
ing brow. When the King came, he was found 
among the enemy; that was enough; he heard 
it, and could not deny it. He had twice at-
tempted the life of Albyn, whom he had sworn 
to slay ; as those told me who had it from others. 
The manner of the King was exceeding gentle. 
But Ulric could not look up nor speak." 
" But," said I, " his last acts were the ef-
fects of ill example. He had got among false 
men, who seduced him." 
" But what led him there.?" said the Messen-
ger ; " was it not his own act in leaving his ap-
pointed place ? and had he not from time to 
time many and distinct warnings of the King's 
approach and his own danger ?" 
" But," said I, " the leaving his post a few 
moments was but a slight offence for so terrible 
a punishment." . 
" Nay, see," said he, " see what it led to ; it 
brought him among the King's enemies ; it 
helped the enemy to an advantage ; they would, 
never have had such power over the lives of so 
many of the King's faithful servants ; it led him 
on to plot against young Albyn,. and to be at 
last found among the King's bitterest foes." 
" True," said I ; " but having taken one false 
step, it was so dififi:cult to draw back." 
" He had many warnings, and might often 
have turned back, and did begin, but returned 
again to his sin. He had warning after warn-
ing : see the King's watchfulness in sending the 
Messenger to him, to give him hope if he would 
return to his post, even after his attempt on 
Albyn's life on the hill; but he neglected all." 
" But," said I, " it was not made so clear 
to him as it might have been, that the King was 
so near." 
" The King is not wont to make it more clear. 
He expects his servants to be ever watchful and 
looking out." 
I could say nothing more; I was silenced; 
it was all true. 
And Ulric,—" said I. 
" And he," continued the Messenger, " hav-
ing naught to say, was led away ; and in his 
bitterness as he moved away, he caught a sight 
of Albyn, and stretching out his hand to him, 
cried, Oh, Albyn! saveme! save me!' but it 
was too late, and he was forced on : the door 
was shut—you saw the rest," said he; but I 
did not answer, for at the moment I fancied I 
heard the awful echo from the chasm, " Undone ! 
undone ! undone !" 
While I was thinking on all he had told me, 
the Bright One stood by me, and I was again 
aroused from my thoughts by his voice. 
" You seem interested," said he, " to hear 
how it fares with the soldiers of the King. 
There was one who," continued he, " was sum-
moned to meet Him, just after Ulric was con-
demned, whose manner and bearing struck the 
Vast Army who were standing round. He came 
forward with a quick step and free manner, so 
much so that all were awe-struck. He seemed 
sure of his being safe." 
Was his name, Rolfe ?" asked I, struck with 
the account of his easy manner. 
" The same," said the Messenger. " He was 
followed by a number of persons who seemed to 
dog his steps, though he was fain to shake them 
off. My friends,' said he, follow me not just 
now ;' but they clung to him, and said their 
cause was bound up with his ; and I heard it 
was said against him that he had deserted his 
post, and was found taking a totally different 
direction to that appointed him by the King." 
" He had deserted the outward form of his 
army, and taken his own line of operation, and 
had caused Many to do the same by specious 
words and fair promises ; and many of these, by 
his having led them out of their appointed place, 
were brought in such close contact with the 
enemy, as to be actually shaken in their fideli-
ty to the King altogether, so as to induce them 
to desert in many cases; and this they clam-
orously urged upon him as the cause of their 
ruin. The only defence he could make was, 
that he still served the King in affection and 
heart ; that he only took his own way to show 
it, that it mattered not whether he remained in 
the main army or not, so as he worked for the 
common cause : but in this he was found woe-
fully mistaken ; he had disobeyed the King's 
word, and had led others away from their posts 
and allegiance : every word of defence he ut-
tered, the men around him were clamoring against 
him as the cause of their ruin." 
" And what became of him ?" asked I, im-
patient to hear the end of the man who had 
chosen his own way. But my question was an-
swered in a different way to that I expected ; 
for the Messenger, pointing with his hand, led 
my eye to the entrance through the rocks, where, 
pale and silent as living death, with his hands 
crossed on his breast, and his eye fixed with in-
tense despair, as of one thunderstruck and aston-
ished, suddenly Rolfe came forth, driven on by 
the Messengers, and the door was shut. 
" And is his case hopeless ?" said I, anxiously. 
" Utterly," said the other. " He chose his 
own path, deserted the Visible Army of the 
King, which alone was an act of high rebellion, 
and led others to do the same, though he did not 
mean harm at first : but it was done, and he 
must abide the result." 
" And that," said I, " is ruin ?" 
" Utter and hopeless," said he. 
I followed with my eye Rolfe's sad fignre, as 
it followed Ulric to his fearful doom; I watched 
it far amid the rocks, till I could see it no 
more ; he never stopped. He neither turned nor 
spoke. I followed him with my eye till he 
seemed to enter the same awful chasm which 
Ulric had gone into, and I dared look no longer. 
" There was one," continued the Messenger, 
" who tried to be sheltered by the shadow of 
another ; he was an old man, and came crouch-
ing behind the form of one whom he had trained 
to arms, and seemed to think that his having 
done that would screen him from the rigor of 
the King, in having deserted his own post ; but 
it was wonderful to see how hopeless the poor 
man's efforts were; turn which way he would, 
the shadow became no shadow, so keen and 
penetrating was the light which filled every-
thing; and the old man was compelled to stand 
forth, for he could find no dark place to hide 
him from the eye of the King." 
" Then his having trained a good soldier 
served him in no stead ?" said I. 
" None whatever ; far from it : the King 
cares more for one act of obedience to his orders, 
which shows self-devotion or denial, than for 
the training of fifty soldiers for his cause." 
At this moment the old soldier appeared, 
tearing his hair and gnashing his teeth in des-
pair : he cried out bitterly at having spent his 
time in preparing the young soldiers, and hav-
ing neglected himself. As he passed the thresh-
old I saw him turn continually round, and, 
clasping his hands, begged to be let back. " One 
moment more !" said he ; " one moment more to 
get myself ready ! only one hour, one short 
hour !", but the door was shut. 
" Did you see aught of one Erza ?" said I to 
the Messenger. 
Ema! yes, indeed," he answered ; " it will 
be long before I forget him. He was a young 
boy, and he held back in the rear of the multi-
tude of the Vast Array, A banner was bound 
around him, which was stained with his blood; 
his face was like what I never saw before, so 
anxious, so full of earnest inquiry; and he stood 
near Albyn the faithful one, and seemed cling-
ing to his dress, and bathing his hands with his 
tears. I shall never forget it, the bitter look of 
intense love and anxiety which he cast on Al-
byn when he was compelled to go forward; but 
Albyn could not go with him. He seemed to 
say kind soothing words to him as they parted, 
for they chased from him the cloud which was 
gathering on the poor boy's brow, The boy 
hung his head on his bosom, and folded his 
hands on his breast ; his sword, which seemed 
tl have done good work, hung by his side ; his 
shield hung from his neck ; in one place it had 
been pierced through. The boy's face was so 
simple and beautiful, yet so full of awe and 
anxious fear, I could never forget it, nor the 
way in which he left Albyn's side; they said the 
King called him; he looked up to Albyn's 'face, 
and said, Oh, Albyn ! the King? the King'!' 
It seemed as if meeting the King had long been 
the object of his thoughts anefears, as if his 
whole soul had been taken up in how he was to 
meet the King. Poor boy ! I 'have heard since, 
it was his one thought, night and •day, how to 
meet the King." 
" And how went it ?" said I, anxious to hear 
the end. 
" There was a long pause; and enemies of 
Erza's came forward to show how he had injured 
the King's cause by a false step taken at the 
first beginning, which had brought about many 
other errors, and they were clamorous he should 
be condemned ; but he had bitterly repented it, 
and gave up his whole time to -make amends; 
not that he pleaded that for himself, for he 
pleaded nothing, but was as one who felt himself 
all wrong, and remained with his hands folded, 
and his head fallen on his bosom. All the time 
I saw not a muscle move in him : his banner 
and sword bore witness to his efforts and ear-
nestness of late." 
" But the end, the end ?" said I; " was Erza 
forgiven ?" 
" He was," said he. "With his gunmen 
white as driven snow, his cross on his brow 
glowing with heavenly light, his face radiant 
with perfect peace, his hands still folded in his 
bosom, young Erza returned to Albyn's side, for-
,given." 
I bowed in thankfulness. 
" And Albyn.?" said I. 
r 306 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
" Albyti !" said the other. " Before the 
gathered Millions of the Vast Army, he stood 
before the Kitig. He had kept his post, and 
fulfilled his work ; he had been faithful to the 
end, I saw him, and I shall never forget him 
again ; the young soldier's bearing, and his 
peaceful brow, with the cress; like living light 
glowing on it : all eyes were on him, He had 
been found watching,. and before the' assembled 
army he received his fall reward, I gazed, till 
I could see no more the' young bay's single fig 
ure as it stood in the living light; and as I 
gazed, I found at last my eyes were fixed on 
vacancy, for Albyn had passed away, He had 
gone with Era to the' land of the King, They 
had passed beyond the ancient hills ; they had 
gone to the' world of the' eastern glows they 
were seeing the King they had served; and gaz-
ing on him they had loved, They have pnt off 
the helmet for the conqueror's crown, and the 
sword for the harp of joy, in the land where the 
noise of the battle has ceased,- and the soldier 
strives no more. 
What Paul did riot Glory in. 
before God ? Oh no, never, never, never for a 
moment ! 
And now; reader, mark what I say. If the 
apostle Paul never gloried in any of these things, 
who in the world, from one' end to the other, has 
any right to glory in them in our day ? If Paul 
said, " God forbid that I should glory in anything 
whatever, except the cross," who shall dare to 
say, " I have something to glory of-I am a 
better man than Paul ?" 
Who is there among the readers of this paper, 
that trusts in any goodness of his own ? Who 
is there that is resting on his own amendments, 
his own morality, his own performances of any 
kind whatever ? Who is there that is leaning 
the weight of his soul on anything whatever of 
his own in the smallest possible degree ? Learn, 
I- say, that you are very unlike the apostle Paul. 
Learn that your religion is not apostolical 
ligion. 
Who is there among the readers of this paper, 
that trusts in his churchmanship for salvation ? 
Who is there that is valuing himself on his bap-
tism, or his attendance at the Lord's table—his 
church-going on Sundays, or his daily services 
during the week—and saying to himself, What 
lack I yet ? Learn, I say, this day, that you 
are very unlike Paul. Your Christianity is not 
the Christianity of the New Testament. Paul 
would not glory in anything but the cross. 
Neither ought you. 
Rev. J. C. Ryle. 
The Plan of Salvation. 
AN ALLEGORY. 
CHRISTMAS EVANS was a man noted for his 
sterling piety and the striking originality of his 
thoughts. The following allegory was uttered 
by him at an associational meeting, He was 
preaching on the depravity of man by sin, and 
of his recovery by the death of Christ. He said : 
Brethren, if I were to represent to you in a 
figure the condition of man as a sinner, and of 
his recovery by the death of Christ, I should rep-
resent it somewhat in this way : Suppose a large 
graveyard, surrounded by a high wall, with only 
one entrance, which is by a large iron gate which 
is fast bolted. Within these walls are thousands 
and tens of thousands of human beings, of all 
ages and of all classes, by' one epidemic disease 
bending to the grave. The grave yawns to swal-
low them, and they must all die. There is no 
balm to relieve them ; no physician there ; they 
must perish. This is the condition of man as a 
sinner. All, all have sinned, and the soul that 
sinneth, it shall die. While man was in this de-
plorable state, Mercy, the darling attribute of 
Deity, came down and stood at the gate, looking 
at the scene, and wept over it, exclaiming, " Oh 
that I might enter ! I would bind up their wounds, 
I would relieve their sorrows, I would save their 
souls !" When Mercy stood weeping at the gate, 
an embassy of angels, commissioned from the 
Court of Heaven to some other world, passing 
over, paused at the sight, and Heaven forgave 
that pause ; and, seeing Mercy standing there, 
they cried, " Mercy, Mercy, can you not enter ? 
Can you look upon this scene, and not pity ? Can 
you pity, and not relieve ?" Mercy replied, 
" I can see ;" and in her tears she added, " I 
can pity, but I cannot relieve." " Why can you 
not enter?" " Oh," said Mercy, "Justice has 
barred the gate against me, and I cannot, must 
not unbar it." At this moment Justice himself 
appeared, as it were to watch the gate. The 
angels inquired of him, " Why will you not let 
Mercy in ?" Justice replied, " My law is broken, 
and it must be honored. Die they, or Justice 
must !" At this there appeared a form among 
the angelic band like unto the Son of God, who, 
addressing himself to Justice, said, " What are 
thy demands ?" Justice replied, " My terms are 
stern and rigid. I must have sickness for their 
health ; I must have ignominy for their honor ; 
I must have death for life. Without shedding 
of blood there is no remission." " Justice," said 
the Son of God, " I accept thy terms. On me 
be this wrong, and let Mercy enter." " When," 
said Justice, " will you perform this promise ?" 
Jesus replied, " Four thousand years hence, upon 
the hill of Calvary, without the gates of Jeru-
salem, I will perform it in my own person." The 
deed was prepared and signed in the presence of 
the angels of God. Justice was satisfied, and 
Mercy entered, preaching salvation in the name 
of Jesus. The deed was committed to the patri-
archs, by them to the kings of Israel and the 
prophets ; by them it was preserved till Daniel's 
seventy weeks were accomplished. Then, at the 
appointed time, Justice appeared on the hill of 
Calvary, and Mercy presented to him the im-
portant deed. " Where," said Justice, " is the 
Son of God ?" Mercy answered, " Behold him 
at the bottom of the hill, bearing his own cross ;" 
and then she departed, and stood aloof at the 
hour of trial. Jesus ascended the hill, while in 
his train followed his weeping Church. Justice 
immediately presented him with the deed, saying, 
" This is the day when this bond is to be exe-
cuted." When he received it, did he tear it in 
pieces, and give it to the winds of heaven ? No, 
he nailed it to his cross, exclaiming, " It is fin- 
ished.." Justice called on holy fire to come down 
and consume the sacrifice; Holy fire descended ; 
it swallowed his humanity, but when it touched 
his deity it expired ;• there was darkness over the 
whole heavens ! But " Glory to God in the 
highest, on earth peace, goodwill to men," 
" This," said the Welchman, " this is but a 
specimen of Christmas Evans," 
London Jewish Expositor. 
Sabbath Entertainments. 
" Do you like your minister as well as ever ?" 
was the question once addressed to a member of 
the street church, " Oh, yes, his sermons 
are roast beef and plum pudding to us for a 
whole week," This was high praise indeed, and 
bespoke a full pantry, as well as no small skill 
in setting out the Sabbath feast. The celebrated 
divine who preached such nutricious discourses 
we never had the pleasure of hearing, but we can 
easily conjecture how he preached, and what 
made his sermons so savory and strengthening. 
They must have had a great deal of Bible 
in them. Not an occasional passage culled out 
to beautify a sentence or round off a period, but 
they were saturated with the Word of God. The 
strong meat is found in the Scriptures alone. 
There is no preventive of spiritual dyspepsia so 
certain and efficacious. The preacher who never 
" wears out," or wears his people out either, is 
he who conducts his guests on the Lord' s day to 
the King's table, and feeds them from the unex-
hausted banquet of Revelation. 
They had a great deal of' every day religion 
in them. They were practical. There is a pain-
ful lack, with many ministers, of knowledge of 
human nature in its daily actings. They may 
not be ignorant men. They are tolerably familiar 
with Owen and Poole, and Turretin, know all 
about the Council of Trent, and may even aspire 
to an acquaintance with the Magdeburg Centuri-
ators. But to the living, acting, laughing, weep-
ing, tempted and sinning world around them, 
they are well nigh strangers. During the week, 
their parishioners have been driving a plough, or 
hammering an anvil, or pleading a cause, or have 
been " up to their eyes " in cotton bales or sugar 
casks. When the Sabbath comes these parish-
ioners bring to the sanctuary their every day wants 
and trials, as citizens, of men of business, as 
parents, as husbands, or as children. They want 
preaching that shall tell them how to live as well 
as what to believe. They want plain instruction. 
They want doctrine, but doctrine made portable 
and practical. They hunger for truth, but sim-
plified and purged from scholastic technicalities. 
A third characteristic of nutricious preach-
ing (for we cannot protract this short paragraph,) 
is that it has a great deal of prayer over it. There 
are other men beside the staid Quakers who 
believe that he who preaches aright must preach 
" as the Spirit moves him." And the Divine aid 
comes down the invisible ladder by which the 
prayer of faith ascended to the Heavenly Inter-
cessor. McCheyne never wrote a line without 
previous prayer to God. Holy John Welch rose 
from his bed at night, and spent hours in plead-
ing for the celestial baptism. We are persuaded 
that one half hour spent in prayer is a better 
preparation for sermon writing than a whole 
morning passed amid books and manuscripts. 
Bene orasse est bone studuisse." Our Lord 
and Saviour pronounced a blessing on the repaSt 
of five loaves and two fishes; but his ministering 
servants must not only lift up their hands to God 
when they offer the bread of life, but during 
every previous hour that they spend in preparing 
the Sabbath entertainment. 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Religious Condition of Germany. 
THE London Baptist Magazine has an inter-
esting article upon the religious condition of 
Europe, from which we give the following ex-
tract with reference to the present religious con-
dition of Germany : 
" The fatherland of Luther and the cradle of 
the reformation, presents very little that is 
really cheering to the Christian mind. A very 
large portion of the country is Roman Catholic, 
and as Popery as well as Protestantism is sanc-
tioned by the governments of the several king-
doms or states, the Protestants leave Popery 
unmolested, and even sincere Christians in the 
Lutheran Church deem it wrong' to attempt the 
conversion or proselytism of their Roman Catho-
lic neighbors. We hope that the increasing ex-
ertions and pretensions of Romanism have awak-
ened the minds of Protestants to their danger 
and their duty. 
" Among the Protestant clergy of Germany, 
notwithstanding their confessions of faith, ration-
alism is fearfully prevalent. By the great por-
tion of them Christ is regarded as the wisest of 
men, and the greatest teacher of morals, and 
salvation is expected as the reward of good 
works. This miserable theology is preached in 
the churches, taught in the parish and grammar 
schools, and forms the prevailing sentiment in 
the religious literature of the country. We 
know that even in the churches of Halle, where 
the influence of such deservedly eminent men as 
Tholuck and Neander has been felt, and in 
whose university the rising clergy are learning, 
we trust, better things, the Bible is derided as 
an old-fashioned book, and the absurdity of 
prayer is proclaimed, and that too from a pulpit 
in front of which is one of the best portraits of 
Luther, which one would almost expect to act as 
a cheek upon the utterance of such blaephemy. 
The whole religious literature of Germany is 
more or less rationalistic ; and though very 
much that is valuable, especially on subjects re-
quiring close historical research, has issued from 
the German press, there is scarcely a writer 
whom it would be safe implicitly to follow.—
The religious condition of the people is worse 
than that of the clergy. Millions are led away 
by this rationalism, and millions more are alto-
gether indifferent to religion. The Sabbath day 
and the public worship of God are generally 
disregarded. In Berlin, out of a population of 
400,000, scarcely 20,000 attend any place of 
worship. Most of the merchants open their 
shops or warehouses on the Sunday ; in manu-
facturing districts most of the laborers work, and 
there is not a town in Germany, in which the 
theatre is not open on the Lord's day ; and 
those who may attend different places of wor-
ship in the morning, meet together in the even-
ing in the theatre for the united service of Satan. 
Even Christians recognize but very partially the 
claims of the Sabbath. The masses of the peo-
ple regard religion as the instrument of oppres-
sion. A working man, the type of thousands, 
addressed the clergyman of his parish, Dr. 
Krummacher, thus " I have nothing more to 
do with the Church and her preachers. That 
time is past. Religion is an invention to press 
down the people. For the purpose of gaining us 
more into their thraldom, they preach to us 
about a God who does not exist ; and to keep us 
down, and make us satisfied with our oppressed 
state, they comfort us with the hope of a heaven 
in which they themselves do not believe. The 
days of our minority are over, and we are no 
longer to be held in by the fable of a supernatu-
ral world. We are now aware that the hereafter 
of which you preach is but. a dream. We all 
live in this world only, and we are looking for-
ward to a time when we, too, shall be permitted 
to live Yes sir, this is my conviction, 
and be assured that my opinion is the opinion of 
millions; yes, we poor and despised people 
think thus, although all dare not venture to 
give utterance to their feelings." Nor is it any 
matter of astonishment that this should be the 
case. The clergy, even the best of them, are 
on the side of absolutism ; their sympathies are 
with the despotic rulers, and not with the people; 
and those who might easily acquire an influence 
over the masses, direct their efforts for liberty 
into proper channels, and deliver them from the 
socialist leaders who profit by their wrongs, and 
make them the instruments for effecting their 
own ambitious and dishonest purposes, influenced 
by fear of socialism, keep aloof from the people, 
and sanction and support the governments in 
their despotism. We hope they may not, be 
swept away in the flood of desolation which 
threatens, and which such a course of procedure 
is calculated to promote. 
Translation of the Bible into English. 
EVERY lover of the Bible must be interested 
in knowing the facts associated with the transla-
tion of the Scriptures into the English language 
—a language spoken by so many millions of hu-
man beings—probably the vernacnlar tongue of 
more than of any other one language on the 
earth. In giving to man a revelation of his will, 
God evidently did not design that it should be 
shut up in the Hebrew, Greek, or Latin lan-
guages. Hence, by His providence, men were 
raised up, whose piety and literary qualifications 
rendered them competent to translate the word 
of God into a language spoken by thousands, 
whose ignorance of other languages necessarily 
kept them in ignorance of the Bible. 
The " venerable Bede," who died A. D. 735, 
furnished a translation of John's gospel into the 
Anglo Saxon, just before his death. About two 
hundred years after that, King Alfred gave a 
translation of the Psalms. It remained for 
John Wickliff, who was born in England in 
1324, to prepare the first complete translation 
into English. This was translated not from 
the Hebrew and Greek, but the ancient -Vul-
gate, a Latin version which had been prepared 
by Jerome, in the fourth century. Wickliff 
died in 1384. But his enemies would not per-
mit his bones to rest peacefully in the grave. 
They were disinterred, burned to ashes, and 
thrown into the " Swift"—a small brook. In al-
luding to this fact, Thomas Fuller says, " This 
brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon 
into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they 
into the main ocean.. And thus the ashes of 
THERE' are many things that Paul might have' 
gloried in, if he had thought as some do in this 
day, If ever there was one on earth who had 
something to boast of in himself, that man was 
the great apostle' of the Gentiles, Now; if he 
did not dare' to glory, who shall ? 
Ile never gloried itt his national pritileges. 
Be was a Jew by birth, and as he tells us him-
self—" an Hebrew of the Hebrews." He might 
have said, like many of his brethren. "' I have 
Abraham for my forefather, I am not a dark, 
unenlightened heathen. I am one of the fa-
vored people of God, I have been admitted into 
covenant with God by circumcision. I am a far 
better man than the ignorant Gentiles," But 
he never did so. He never gloried in anything 
of this kind. Never for one moment ! 
He never gloried in his own works. None 
ever worked so hard for God as he did. He was 
more abundant in labor than any of the apostles. 
No living man ever preached so much, travelled 
so much, and endured so many hardships for 
Christ's cause. None ever converted so many 
souls, did so much good to the world, and made 
himself so useful to mankind. No father of the 
early Church, no reformer, no missionary, no 
minister, no layman—no one man could ever be 
named, who did so many good works as the 
apostle Paul. But did he ever glory in them, 
as if they were in the least meritorious, and 
could save his soul ? Never, never for one mo-
ment, 
He never gloried in his knowledge. He was 
a man of great gifts naturally, and after he was 
converted, the Holy Spirit gave him greater gifts 
still. He was a mighty preacher, and a mighty 
speaker, and a mighty writer, He was as great 
with his pen as he was with his tongue. He could 
reason equally well with the Jews and Gentiles. 
He could argue with infidels at Corinth, or Phar-
isees at Jerusalem, or self-righteous people in 
Galatia. He knew many deep things. He had 
been in the third heaven, and heard unspeakable 
words. He had received the spirit of prophecy, 
and could foretell things yet to come. But did 
he ever glory in his knowledge, as if it could 
justify him before God ? Never ! never ! never 
for one moment ! 
He never gloried in his graces. If ever there 
was one who abounded in graces, that man was 
Paul. He was full of love. flow tenderly and 
affectionately he used to write ? He could feel 
for souls like a mother or a nurse feeling for her 
child. He was a bold man. He cared not whom 
he opposed when truth was at stake. He cared 
not what risks he ran when souls were to be 
won. He was a self-denying man—in hunger 
and thirst often, in cold and nakedness, in watch- 
ings and fastings. He was a humble man. He 
thought himself less than the least of all saints, 
and the chief of sinners. He was a prayerful man. 
See how it comes out at the beginning of all his 
Epistles. He was a thankful man. His thanks-
givings and prayers walked side by side. But 
he never gloried in all this, never valued himself 
on it, never rested his soul's hopes on it. Oh 
no, never for one moment ! 
' He never gloried in his churchmanship. If 
' ever there was a good churchman, that man was 
-Paul. He was himself a chosen apostle. He 
:was a founder of churches, and an ordainer of 
ministers. Timothy and Titus, and many elders, 
received their first commission from his hands. 
- He was the beginner of services and sacraments 
in many a dark place. Many a one did he con-
vert. Many a one did he receive to the Lord's 
table. Many a meeting for prayer, and praise, 
and preaching, did he begin and carry on. He 
was the setter up of discipline in many a young 
church. Whatever ordinances, and rules, and 
ceremonies were observed in them, were first re-
commended by him. But did he ever glory in his 
office and church standing ? Does he ever speak 
as if his churchmanship would save him, justify 
him, put away his sins, and make him acceptable 
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1 
Wickliff are the emblem of his doctrine, which 
is now dispersed all the world over." Wickliff 's 
Bible was translated before printing machines 
were invented, hence in a manuscript form its cir-
culation must necessarily have been comparas 
tivaly 
To William Tyndale belongs the honor of 
having taken " the first steps toward giving to 
the English nation a Bible printed in their own 
tongue," In 1524, the gospels of Matthew and 
Mark were printed in Hamburg, and the whole 
of the New Testament, in 1525. Subsequently, 
" in 1535, was printed the entire Bible, under 
the auspices of Miles Coverdale, who mostly fol-
lowed Tyndale as far as he had gone; but with, 
 
out any other connection with him." 
In the year 1537 a folic; Bible was printed in 
a city of Germany, bearing the following title : 
" Tsis BYBLE which is the Holy Scripture; in 
which are contayned the Olde and Newe Testa-
ment, truely and purely translated into Englysh 
by Thomas Matthew. MDXXXVII." This Thom-
as Matthew was none other than John Rogers, 
the Martyr, who was burned at the stake in the 
days of " bloody Mary," and who went at that 
time by the name of Matthew. This translation 
is substantially the basis of all other transla-
tions into the English language, including the 
one now in common use. It contains Tyndale's 
labors as far as he had gone previous to his mar-
tyrdom—the Old Testament as far as the end of 
2nd book of Chronicles, and the whole of the 
New Testaments It is said that there is now in 
this country, in the hands of one of his descend-
ants, a copy of the Bible used by this eminent 
martyr for Christ. 
In the year 1540, the great Bible now called 
," Cranmer's Bible," first appeared. Cranmer's 
Bible, which was issued under the royal com-
mands, differed but little from Tyndale's trans-
lation. 
About 25 years after Tyndale translated the 
New Testament, his work was revised by an em-
inent exiled scholar, and was printed in June, 
1557. This was the celebrated " Geneva Testa-
ment,"• and was the first English Testament divi-
ded into verses, and led the way to the revision 
of the whole Bible. The author of this revised 
editon of the English Scriptures was probably 
William Whittingham. lie was assisted in this 
work by Anthony Gilly and Thomas Sampson, 
D. D. They were three companions in exile—
banished from England for their devotion to the 
cause of God. But God overruled it for good. 
During their banishment, they revised a transla-
tion of the English Scriptures, which for about 
eighty years was the Bible of the English na-
tion. 
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in 1568, 
what is known as the " Bishops' Bible," was 
published under the supervision of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. It was revised by fifteen 
learned men, nearly all of whom were bishops, 
—hence the name of the work. 
When James I. ascended the throne of Eng-
land, in 1603, in compliance with a petition 
bearing the names of about one thousand minis-
ters, a conference was called at Hampton Court, 
for the purpose of " hearing and determining, 
things pretended to be amiss in the Church." 
This conference consisted of four Puritan divines, 
nine Bishops, as many Cathedral clergymen, 
and four divinity Professors from Cambridge. 
The result showed that this meeting was called 
to afford the King an opportunity to thunder his 
anathemas against the Puritans. In one respect, 
however, this conference was productive of great 
good. Dr. Reynolds, a staunch Puritan, and a 
bold advocate of his oppressed brethren, request-
ed of the King that there might be a new transla-
tion of the Bible, " without note or comment." 
The King granted the request of Dr. Reynolds 
in the following form : " That a translation be 
made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can 
be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this 
to be let out and printed without any marginal 
notes, and only to be used in all churches of Eng-
land in time of divine service." About six 
months after this, the scholars were chosen, (47 
in number,) and soon entered upon their work. 
After seven years of severe toil, in the year 1611, 
the English version of the Bible, now in use 
among us, was completed. 
Those who read the English Bible, and feed 
their souls with the precious truths it contains, 
should bear in mind that to procure for them in 
their own language the word of God, Christian 
men have toiled hard, suffered reproach, and 
sighed in dungeons, and burned at the stake. 
The Papal Church would have kept the Bible 
locked up in the Latin language, from the com-
mon people—would have substituted for it hu-
man inventions and superstitions. 
" But to outweigh all harm, the sacred book, 
In dusty sequestration wrapt too long, 
Assumes the accents of our native tongue ; 
And he who guides the plough, or wields the 
crook, 
With understanding spirit now may look 
Upon her records, listen to her song, 
And sift her laws—much wondering that the 
wrong, 
Which faith has suffered, Heaven could calmly 
brook, 
Transcendant boon ! noblest that earthly king 
Ever bestowed to equalize and bless, 
Under the weight of moral wretchedness." 
Religious Quackery at Constanti- 
nople. 
ONE day, as we were passing through one of 
the most frequented galleries of the great Ba-
zaar—one of those main arteries of commerce 
where dervishes and tale-tellers, Albanian danc-
ers and snake-charmers from Egypt, jostle the 
regular traffickers and porters—we observed a 
knot of persons formed around a venerable look-
ing man in a loose robe and lofty turban of green 
silk, who was engaged in trampling upon a sick 
man with dim eyes and sunken cheeks, stretched 
upon the pavement. The first idea that suggest-
ed itself to our puzzled minds was naturally 
that the old man in green calpack was triumph-
ing over a vanquished enemy; but this supposi-
tion was refuted by the first glimpse of the anx-
ious and sympathizing faces of the bystanders. 
The dragoman soon emplaned the mystery. It 
appeared that the old gentleman in the green 
turban was a celebrated magician or enchanter; 
and, as wizards are neither roasted nor pelted in 
Mohammedan countries, was equally respected 
for his cabalistic powers, and his being a most 
learned Mussulman, doctor, and divine, famous 
as a preacher and controversialist, and, more-
over, so holy a man that it was expected he 
would one day be graced by the honors of canoni-
zation. Such was the Emir Abdallah, Nazir—
Ed—Deen, prior of the dervishes of Brousa, who 
was busily engaged in treading upon the poor, 
shivering invalid, whose ailments the pressure of 
his sanctified and slipperless foot was to cure. 
Many Moslems at the foot of the grave were 
said to be kicked back again by that wonderful 
foot. It may have been so. Great is the power 
of imagination. The prior of the Brousa der-
vishes is neither better nor worse than his broth-
er quacks in Europe. Yet he was infinitely more 
picturesque than the sprucest doctor that ever 
puffed a medicinal water or a pin's—head pill ; 
and certainly as he stood proudly erect with his 
wand grasped in his outstretched hand, his long 
white beard and towering turban giving a look 
of majesty to his massive features, and his ample 
robe floating about him in the breeze like a hur-
ricane of green silk, he looked as superb a nec-
romancer as Prospero himself. The bystanders 
looked on with awe—struck faces, reverently 
watching the proceedings of the magician ; the 
patient looked confiding and hopeful. The so-
lemnity of the operator's bearing defied descrip-
tion ; but close by stood a ragged little copper 
colored dervish, wearing a very high white felt 
hat with a green rag wound about it,who watched 
ed the scene with scornful unbelief twinkling in 
his cunning little black eyes, and incredulity 
grinning from the corners of his malicious little 
mouth, garnished with yellow fangs, and graced 
by a perpetual dog's smile of knowingness and 
crafty malignity. 
Christ Raising the Widow's Son. 
LIST ; 'tis the wail of death 
Stirring the air, 
Room for the weeping throng, 
Room for the bier. 
Hushed is the voice of mirth; 
Silence and dread 
Gather while murmuring ones 
Bear on the dead. 
Who is the fallen one ? 
Who has gone down 
Into that dreamless rest 
Silent and lone ? 
Infant with innocence 
Stamped on its brow ? 
Age when the race is run, 
Slumbering low ? 
Not these; a widow's son 
Rests on the bier ; 
For her last cherished one 
Falleth the tear. 
Weep then life's only joy 
Perished with him ; 
There lies thine earthly hope 
Faded and dim. 
Throw back the city gates, 
Let them pass on, 
Bearing the sleeper forth 
To his long home. 
Why are they pausing now ? 
Who draweth near ? 
Why do•they startled press 
Back from the bier ? 
Jesus of Nazareth 
Meeting the throng, 
Marketh that stricken one, 
Heareth her moan, 
Sees with compassion 
The lone widow's tear, 
Bidding her weep no more, 
Toucheth the bier. 
Death thou art mighty ! 
But mightier he 
Who has delivered 
Thy victim from thee. hi. 
In thy dark realm . 
His mandate is heard ; 
And at his bidding 
Thy gates are unbarred ; 
So does he wake the dead 
Uttering his call; 
While they behold it 
Fear is on all. 
Glory to God ! 
For a prophet is risen, 
Honor and praise 
To his name shall be given. 
N. Y. Observer. 
The Eastern Question. 
TIIE last arrival from Europe brought the Sul-
tan's acceptance of the joint note of the four pow-
ers, with some slight modifications. The modifi-
cations are trifling in their character, and yet 
they are of such a nature as to serve the pride of 
a helpless nation, so far as that could be done 
without taking from the force of the concessions 
to Russia. But trifling as these alterations are, 
they may serve as a pretext for further delay on 
the part of the latter power. 
The Sultan concedes to the Greek Church not 
only all the rights and privileges previously ac-
corded by special treaty with Russia, but also 
all the privileges and immunities which have 
been granted to other Christian churches, and 
promises that there shall be no modification ap-
plied to the condition of these matters without a 
previous understanding with the governments of 
France and Russia, and without protection to 
the rights of the different Christian communities. 
And finally, the Sultan concedes a site for the 
construction of a Russian church in Jerusalem, 
and engages to sign a solemn undertaking which 
shall place these foundations under the special 
supervision of the Consul General of Russia in 
Syria and Palestine. We believe that this lat-
ter provision is, in substance, a concession of the 
most obnoxious portion of the demands of the 
Czar. It is the very demand which England 
and France recommended the Porte to resist, 
and the concession of which virtually takes from 
the Sultan the sovereignty over his subjects. 
It now remains to be seen whether the Czar is 
willing to yield the advantages which he has al-
ready gained, and to withdraw his troops from 
the Principalities. It will be noticed that there 
is no stipulation in the joint note that the Czar 
shall evacuate these provinces. The parties to 
the conference appear to have taken it for grant-
ed that the Emperor Nicholas " would do what 
was right," to use a homely but expressive. 
phrase. The uncertainty which exists, however, 
as to this matter, will tend to keep alive the anx-
iety which is still felt in many quarters, that 
war may yet grow out of this affair. We must 
confess that we have not that confidence in the 
honor of the Czar, which was expressed by the 
British Premier in reply to inquiries made in 
Parliament, and which seems to be entertained 
by many of the British and French writers. It 
is by no means improbable that he will demand 
some further concessions by way of indemnity 
for the past, before consenting to withdraw his 
troops from the principalities, and that England 
and France may yet be called upon to consider 
whether the continued occupancy of Moldavia 
and Wallachia can with propriety be regarded 
by Turkey as a cases belli. 
The London Times continues its efforts to 
throw the responsibility of a possible rupture of 
pending negotiations upon Turkey. Referring to 
the note which was adopted by the Sultan, it 
says: 
" We do not hesitate to express our conviction 
that this Note does include terms sufficiently fa-
vorable to the essential interests of the Ottoman 
Empire ; and if the delay which has now occurred 
were unhappily to lead to its ultimate rejection 
and to graver consequences, we are equally con-
vinced that this ill-advised determination would 
have the most injurious effects upon the dignity 
of the Sultan's Government." 
Again the Times says : 
" When Russia assumed a menacing attitude, 
having deceived and attempted to overreach her 
allies, and compromised the peace of Europe, we 
were entirely of opinion that the most energetic 
measures might be required, and ought to be ta-
ken, if necessary, by the Western Powers to de-
feat her pretensions and to resist her progress, 
and this country was prepared to meeet that dan-
ger, not from any strong sympathy for Turkish 
barbarism, but from an unanimous hostility to 
Russian aggression. That demonstration proved 
successful, for Europe was unanimous, and 
Russia was reduced more speedily than had been 
anticipated to accept the offered terms. In the 
interests of peace, and in the real interests of 
Turkey, it is as important to prevent the Sultan 
from making war on Russia, as it was to pre-
vent Russia from making war on the Sultan. 
We care little for one or the other party ; our 
concern is with that cause of civilization, free-
dom, and peace, which has nothing to gain from 
the triumph on either side, though it has much 
to lose by a rupture; and we support the terms 
of compromise recommended by the Four Pow-
ers, because they afford an honorable path out of 
a difficult position, without increasing the weak-
ness of one side, or the preponderance of the 
other." 
The paragraph we have copied was penned af-
ter the Sultan had acceded to the note of the 
Vienna conference, and we can draw no other 
meaning from the remark we have italicised, 
than that Turkey must prepare herself to accede 
to still further demands from Russia, should 
such a course be necessary, for the sake of peace. 
If the Times is a correct exponent of the British 
policy in the Turkish matter—(and so far as that 
policy has been public it has been reflected by 
that journal)—Turkey has not only been aban-
doned by England, but will actually be coerced 
into keeping the peace, whatever future indigni-
ties she may receive from Russia. We do not 
wonder that a hostile feeling against France and 
England has sprung up among the Turks, and 
that those countries are accused of cowardice. 
Resurrection of the Body. 
" I AM the resurrection and the life ; till he 
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet 
shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth 
in me, shall never die." 
The resurrection of our bodies from the grave 
the mind contemplates with the most untiring 
satisfaction and delight. It reconciles us to those 
dispensations of Providence, which without its 
cheering consolations would render the present 
existence miserable. It supports us under the 
stroke of the severest bereavements. It enables 
us to look upon death itself not only with com-
posure, but with that firm hope which divests it 
of its terrors; and presents it to our view as a 
vanquished enemy. 
Were our prospects bounded by the present 
life, man would of all creatures be the most un-
happy. The reason with which he is endued, so 
far from contributing to his comfort, would prove 
a source of constant difficulty and distress. Alive 
to the recollection of past sorrows, his heart 
would bleed whenever those sorrows passed in 
review before him. Conscious of those trials 
with which he must necessarily meet, before his 
exit from this world, those trials would be in-
creased by anticipation. The death of his con-
nections would be viewed as a final separation ; 
consequently that separation would embitter his 
life; and his own dissolution, involving in it the 
gloomy principle of annihilation, would be con-
sidered the climax of all evil ; so that from his 
cradle to the grave, he would not only be a 
stranger to happiness, but the victim of one con-
tinued series of distress. 
To reconcile us to those events inseparable 
from the present life, religion with all its con-
solations comes to our relief. It dispels that 
gloom, which conceals from the view of man his 
future destiny; and assures him that " although 
the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, 
he has a building of God, a house not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens." It shows him, 
that the calamities of life are intended to wean 
him from this world, and to direct his attention 
to a better ; " that his light affliction, which is 
but for a moment, will work for him a far more 
exceeding and eternal weight of glory." It in-
forms the Christian that death will terminate his 
sorrows, and with such a prospect in view, he 
looks forward to the hour without a fear, and ex-
cls ims with rapture, " Oh ! death where is thy 
sting, Oh grave where is thy victory." It carries 
him to the mount of transfiguration, and proves 
to him that the identity of our persons will be 
preserved after death. It shows him that Moses 
and Elias, who had been called into eternity 
centuries before, appeared on the Mount with 
Christ; and that the disciples both saw and knew 
them. It tells him that though " our bodies are 
sown in corruption, they will be raised in incor-
ruption," and that assurance animates him with 
the hope of beholding those beloved objects from 
whom he has been separated; and whose remains 
he has followed in solemn procession to the 
grave. By such consolations a parent's grief is 
assuaged ; the widow's tears are dried up ; the 
orphan's lamentation is hushed into silence ; and 
we are enabled to bear the trials incident to our 
state, with dignified composure. 
Caution in Judging. 
WHILE Hannah, the mother of Samuel, was 
offering up a silent prayer to heaven, at Shiloh, 
she became an object of rash and undue repre-
hension. Eli, the High Priest, supposing her to 
be intoxicated, hastily said to her, ' How long 
wilt thou be drunken ?" To this severe censure, 
Hannah replied, " No, my lord, I am a woman 
of a sorrowful spirit ; I have drunk neither wine 
nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul 
before the Lord." This rash and unwarrantable 
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shaking and agitation of its material. Thus Peter 
says (2 Pet. 3:10, 11)-" But the day of the Lord 
will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the 
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the 
earth also and the works that are therein shall be 
burned up. Seeing then that all these things 
shall he dissolved, what manner of persons ought 
ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness 1" 
army. And the beast was taken, and with him 
the false prophet that wrought miracles before 
him, with which he deceived them that had received 
the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped 
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, 
And' shall be removed like a cottage ;* 
And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it 5 
And it shall fall, and not rise again.--,v. 20. 
" Shallrreel to and fro like a drunkard," is an 
expressive simile illustrative of the surging and 
heaving of the earth when dissolving in the fires of 
the consummation. 
Removed," is a metaphor, illustrative of the 
change which will be effected in the earth's sur- 
face. So entire will it be, that when John saw 
the " new heaven and a new earth " symbolized in 
vision,.(Rev. 21:1,) it was said, " The first heaven 
and the first earth were passed away." 
" Like a cottage," is a simile, to illustrate its 
removal. The cottage (see note on Isa. 1:8) was 
a temporary shelter. When it had served the 
purpose for which it was erected, it was sometimes 
abandoned and left desolate, and at other times 
was removed or destroyed. At this epoch, the 
earth will have served its purpose for the present 
order of things, and will no longer continue as now 
constituted. 
" Heavy " is a metaphor, which, applied to the 
" transgression," implies that as a most incumbent 
weight pressing upon a cottage, or on a beast of 
burden, will press it to the ground, so the sins of 
the world will cause its destruction-" fall " be-
ing a metaphor illustrative of that result. 
" It shall not rise again," implies that it will 
not be a partial, but a final end of the " earth that 
now is." " Not rise," is a metaphor, and carries 
out the figure of a beast's falling under its burden. 
There will be no recovery of the earth, excepting 
as it shall be recreated-its destruction being not 
its annihilation, but a change. The Psalmist said 
of the heavens (Psa. 102:26), " All of them shall 
wax old like a garment ; as a vesture shalt thou 
change them, and they shall be changed." This 
was said by the same voice that bath promised, 
(Heb. 12:26, 27,) " saying, Yet once more I shake 
not the earth only, but also heaven. And this 
word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of 
those things that are shaken, as of things that are 
made, that those things which cannot be shaken 
may remain." So entire will be the change, that 
that which falls is said to be no longer in existence. 
Thus God said by Isaiah (65:17), " Behold I 
create new heavens and a new earth : and the 
former shall not be remembered nor come into 
mind." And Peter said (2 Ep. 3:12, 13), " 'The 
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the 
elements shall melt with fervent heat. Neverthe- 
less we, according to his promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness." 
And it shall come to pass in that day, 
That the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, 
And the kings of the earth upon the earth.-v. 21. 
" In that day," is the epoch of the earth's dis-
solution. 2 Pet. 3:7-" The heavens and the earth 
which are now, by the same word, are kept in 
store, reserved unto fire against the day of judg-
ment and perdition of ungodly men." 
" The hosts of high ones that are on high," are 
distinguished from " the kings of the earth upon 
the earth," and therefore denote other intelligences 
than those living at the time of the end. Paul 
speaks (Eph. 2:2), of " The Prince of the power of 
the air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children 
of disobedience ;" (6:12,) " For we wrestle not 
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, 
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness 
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high 
places." Jude 6th-" And the angels which kept 
not their first estate, but left their own habitation, 
he bath reserved in everlasting chains under dark-
ness unto the judgment of the great day." 
The heathen supposed that departed heroes were 
exalted as deities over men, and as such they adored 
and sacrificed to them ; but all alike will he pun-
ished in that day. 
Of " the kings of the earth," we are told that 
The earth i8 utterly broken down, 
they will war with the Lamb. John (Rev. 19:19- 
The earthtis,clean dissolved, 
The earth is moved exceedingly.-v. 10. 
21) " saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, 
This is the result of the shaking of the founda- and their armies, gathered together to make war 
tions of the earth. It is supposed by Granville against him that sat on the horse, and against his 
Penn, that at the deluge the elevated portions of 
the earth's surface were depressed below the sur-
face of the waters. The condition of the stratum. 
of the rocks, shows that• such a rending of the 
crust of the earth may have taken place. This, his image. These both were cast alive into a lake 
text teaches- an analogous breaking up of the of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant 
earth's surface at the epoch under consideration- were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the 
an entire dissolution of its substance, and violent horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth : 
judgment of Mi. is left on record in order to 
teach us to be cautious in forming and epress-
log our opinions respecting the characters and 
states of others, The grounds on which we build 
our judgments ,should always be such as intimate 
knowledge and careful observation pronounce to 
be solid ; or like Eli of old, we may precipi-
tately condemn what Jehovah approves, and of-
fend against the generation of the righteous, 
Certain it is, our knowledge of the exercises and 
feelings of others is at best very circumscribed. 
The heart lies concealed from our view ; it is 
known to God only. Hence, we shall always 
be exposed to error, unless we conform to the 
rule of judgment prescribed in the Divine Word. 
Hypocrites will deceive us, and we shall be de-
ceived in God's children. Take heed, then, 
how ye judge ; for with what judgment ye judge 
ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye 
mete it shall be measured to you again. Delib-
erately weigh actions and circumstances, and 
judge righteous judgment.. 
and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."-
Read the second Psalm. 
And they shall be gathered together, 
As prisioners are gathered in the pit, affoitd1-341 
And shall he shut up in prison, 
And after many days shall they be visited.-v. 22. 
Notwithstanding their punishment in the day of 
the earth's ruin, they are to be reserved for far-
ther punishment. 
" As prisoners are gathered in the pit "-[mar. 
" dungeon,"] is a simile drawn from the custom of 
kings, who collected together their prisoners taken 
in war, and confined them in prison, until the ar-
rival of some extraordinary occasion, when they 
were brought forth for punishment. It illustrates 
the same truth that is brought to view in Rev. 19: 
20, when they are " cast alive into the lake of 
fire." 
" Visited " is used in scripture in both a good 
and a bad sense ; but here, in the sense of punish-
ing. Thus Job said (31:14), " What then shall I 
do when God riseth np ? and when he visiteth, 
what shall I answer him ?" Again (35:15), " lle 
bath visited in his anger." And Isaiah said (26 : 
14), "Thou bast visited and destroyed them." 
" After many days," is from the time of their 
being shut up in the prison like prisoners in a pit. 
It corresponds with the time designaed in Rev. 
20:5, which is to intervene between the resurrec-
tion of the righteous and that of the wicked : 
" The rest of the dead lived not again until the 
thousand years were finished." At the end of that 
period, it follows, that they will be raised ; vs. 7, 
8-" And when the thousand years are expired, 
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall 
go out to deceive the nations, which [are raised at 
the same epoch, and] are in the four quarters of 
the earth,-Gog and Magog,-to gather them to-
gether to battle : the number of whom is as the 
sand of the sea." 
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, 
When the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, 
And in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.-v. 23. 
When the kingdoms of this world become our 
Lord's and his Christ's, (Rev. 11:15,) it synchro-
nizes with (v. 18,) " the time of the dead that they 
should be judged, and that thou [0 Lord God Al-
mighty] shouldest give reward unto thy servants 
the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear 
thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy 
them that destroy the earth." 
" Confounded " and " ashamed," applied to the 
sun and moon, are metaphors to illustrate their 
paleness compared with the glory which shall be 
revealed in that day. John saw in vision, (Rev. 
20:23), " And tile city had no need of the sun, 
neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory 
of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light 
thereof." Then (ib. 21:3), " The tabernacle of 
God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and 
they shall be his people, and God himself shall be 
with them, and be their God." Said Isaiah (60: 
19, 20), " The sun shall be no more thy light by 
day: neither for brightness shall the moon give 
light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee 
an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy 
sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy 
moon withdraw itself : for the Lord shall be thine 
everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning 
shall be ended." 
The Jehovah of hosts shall reign in Mount 
Zion, and in Jerusalem." This is the capital of 
his restored empire. John saw (Rev. 21:10), 
" that great city descending out of heaven from 
God." V. 24-" And the nations of them that 
are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the 
kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor 
into it." The koh-desh, or sanctuary mountain 
which God gave Israel for a refuge, we draw from 
this passage will he the favored seat of the new Jeru-
salem. 
His ancients," before whom the Lord will 
reign gloriously, are the " elders " of the people. 
They include the patriarchs and prophets, the long 
line of honored saints, who were pilgrims and 
strangers on earth, who looked forward to a bet-
ter country, even an heavenly. This is the time of 
their reward, when they, with all the redeemed, 
will be made perfect. 
THE ABOMINATION, AND HOLY PLACE. 
(Concluded.) 
IN A. D. 614, Jerusalem was conquered from the 
Romans by Chosroes, the monarch of Persia ; and 
the holy land was overspread " by the worshippers 
of fire, and the impious doctrine of the two princi-
ples "-inculcated by the Magi, the priests of the 
religion of Zoroaster. Of its conquest, Gibbon 
says, " The ruin of the proudest monument of 
Christianity was vehemently urged by the intoler-
ant spirit of the Magi." . . . " Jerusalem was 
taken by assault. The sepulchre of Christ, and the 
stately churches of Helena and Constantine were 
consumed, or at least damaged by the flames ; the 
devout offerings of three hundred years were rifled 
in one sacrilegious day ; the patriarch Zachariah, 
and the true cross, were transported into Persia ; 
and the massacre of ninety thousand Christians is 
imputed to the Jews and Arabs who swelled the 
disorders of the Persian March."-Hist. Rome, v. 
3, p. 229. 
In A. D. 628, Chosroes, the king of Persia, per-
ished by an insurrection in his capital, and his 
successor restored what was claimed to be " the 
true wood of the holy cross," to " the importunate 
demands of the successor of Constantine." The 
succeeding year was made memorable by " the res- 
titution of the true cross to the holy sepulchre. 
Heraclius, emperor of Constantinople, performed 
in person the pilgrimage of Jerusalem, the identity 
of the relic 'was verified by the discreet patriarch, 
and this august ceremony has been commemorated 
by the annual festival of the exaltation of the 
cross."-/b. p. 241. 
Thus was the worship of relics, added to the 
abominations which were to desolate Jerusalem to 
the consummation. But another desolating agent 
was now approaching. 
In A. B. 637, Jerusalem was conquered by the 
Saracens. After a siege of four months, the Chris-
tians submitted to the followers of the False Proph- 
et, and Omar " entered the city without fear or 
precaution ; and courteously discoursed with the 
patriarch concerning its religious antiquities. So- 
phronius bowed before his new master, and secretly 
muttered in the words of Daniel, " The abomina-
tion of desolation is in the holy place." By com- 
mand of Omar, " the ground of the temple of Solo- 
mon was prepared for the foundation of a Mosque," 
which soon reared its stately pile on the site of the 
House of the Lord : and the religion of the impos- 
tor was celebrated on the spot which Jehovah had 
chosen out of all the places of the earth to put his 
name there. Surely the mountain of the Lord's 
house, by these successive profanations, had be-
come like the high places of the forest, where rites 
of heathen abominations were celebrated. 
A tribute of two pieces of gold was the price of 
protection for Christians ; the sepulchre of Christ, 
and the church of the resurrection were still left in 
their hands ; and pilgrimages of Christians to Pal-
estine were rather stimulated than suppressed by 
the conquest of the Arabs, whose revenues were in- 
creased by the tribute of many thousand strangers. 
In A. D. 1076, " the hereditary command of the 
holy city and territory was intrusted or abandoned 
to the emir Ortok," the chief of a tribe of Turk- 
mans. The insults to which the native Christians 
and pilgrims were now subjected excited the nations 
of Europe " to march under the standard of the 
cross to the relief of the holy land." Since the 
conquest of the Turks the pilgrimages had been 
less frequent ; so that few in Europe had any id( a 
of the distance to Palestine. When the masses of 
the people had been instigated to march to the holy 
city, " such was their stupidity that at the sight 
of the first city or castle beyond the limits of their 
knowledge they were ready to ask whether that was 
not the Jerusalem." 
In A. D. 1096, successive hordes of adventurers 
began to press toward Palestine ; but of the first 
crusaders 300,000 perished before they conquered 
a single city. During a period of discord, among 
the Turks, the Saracens of Egypt had recovered 
Jerusalem, in A. D. 1096, and on the arrival of the 
crusaders, were the ones to be overcome, which 
was effected in 1099-about 460 years after the 
conquest of Omar ; and the city was rescued from 
the Mohammedan yoke. The crusaders " indulged 
themselves three days in a promiscuous massacre, 
and the infection of the dead bodies produced an 
epidemic." " Seventy thousand Moslems were put 
to the sword, and the Jews were burned in their 
synagogue." Palestine was erected into a Chris- 
tian kingdom, to which the Turks put an end in 
1187. Since then it has been again trodden under 
foot by the followers of the False Prophet-and is 
to " be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the 
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." 
This limit to its treading down, implies, that not 
always will it be thus desolated. At the end of 
2300 days, said Daniel, shall the sanctuary, the 
holy mountain be cleansed. This accords with the 
prediction in Micah, which, after foretelling (3:12) 
that " the mountain of the house," should become 
" as the high places of the forest," announces, 
(4:1), that, " In the last days it shall come to pass 
that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall 
be established in the top of the mountains, and it 
shall he exalted above the hills : and people shall 
flow unto it." (See also Isa. 2:2.) 
The phrase, " in the last," in both Isa. 2:2, and 
Mic. 4:1, is from the Hebrew nnnx (ah-gharuth), 
which denotes the end or farthest part. Examples : 
Psa. 37:37, " for the end of that man is peace ;" 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
hie truth advanced 5 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-
"fly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CIIAPTER XXV. 
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, 
Are upon thee, 0 inhabitant of the earth.-t 17. 
ANIMALS were entrapped by means of pits dug 
in the ground, into which they fell unawares, or 
were frightened into by various artifices resorted 
to for that purpose. In a similar manner they 
were entangled in nets. The Romans used, for 
that purpose, " formadines," consisting of lines 
strung with feathers of various colors, which, 
fluttering by the wind, or when shaken, with the 
shouts of the hunters, frightened the beasts into 
the toils designed for them. An allusion to this, 
is a substitution for the calamities which are to 
overtake the inhabitants of the earth-inhabitant, 
by a synecdoche, being put for inhabitants. 
And it shall come to pass, 
That he who fleeth from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit 
And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in 
the snare t 
For the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the 
deep do shake.-v. 18. 
The idea here conveyed, is that there would be 
no way of escape ; and if they should seem to 
avoid one peril, they would he caught in another. 
The figure is a substitution, drawn as before, from 
the hunting of animals, to illustrate the calamities 
coming upon men. As beasts, terrified by the 
shouts and, formadine, in fleeing would fall into 
the pit dagrfor, them, or if springing from thence 
would be entangled in nets skilfully arranged, so 
the. wicked will find no way of escape. 
" The windows from on high," are a plain al-
lusion• to, the deluge, by a reference to which Peter 
illustrates the-final conflagration. 2 Pet. 3:5-7- 
They aro willingly ignorant of, that by the word 
of God the heavens were of old, and the earth 
standing.out of the water and in the water : where-
by the world that then was, being overflowed with 
water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, 
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, 
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and 
perdition of ungodly men." The Hebrew word for 
" windows," is applied to any opening, as a sluice 
Or a flood-gate, and is used in Genesis to illus-
trate the descent of waters. The metaphor teaches 
that the avenues by which God will pour out his 
wrath on a guilty world, will be unobstructed. 
The shaking of the foundations of the earth, is 
expressive of an earthquake, affecting the entire 
earth. 
three great fortresses and the army of Omar Pacha. 
The powers which prefer the maintenance of peace 
to the security and dignity of Turkey might possi-
bly take the alarm when they found that a cam-
paign had commenced, in which the whole course 
of the Danube, with the rich provinces on both 
sides, might soon become the prize of the conquer- 
ion In short, Turkey would have the double 
chance of defending herself by her own resources, 
and of forcing England and France, and even Aus-
tria, to interfere for the purpose of maintaining 
the balance of power. It is worth the while of 
statesmen to remember that there is thus a danger 
of war on the side of Turkey, as well as on the 
part of Russia." 
The Russians and Turks both continue their war-
like preparations. The Egyptian fleet and forces 
have arrived, and the troops are encamped at Bey-
cos, on the Bosphorus. 
BUCHAREST, Aug. 17.-Yesterday the Austrian 
Consul General received despatches, informing him 
that peace may be considered as established, and 
that the Russians will evacuate the principalities 
in September. 
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.18919453 MY JOURNAL. 
TOUR IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
Aug. llth.-In company with Mrs. H. and Mrs. 
Osier, (the venerable mother of Elder L. Osier, 
who had been on a visit to her son,) I left Boston 
by way of Worcester and Norwich. The night was 
calm and pleasant, and the only hindrance we met 
with was a thick fog on the river, which detained 
us several hours, so that we did not arrive at New 
York until a late hour in the day. During the 
morning., while walking the forward deck, my at-
tention was turned towards a company of Danish 
emigrants. One young man among them, who had 
been sick, seemed to be greatly depressed and trou-
bled, while his young wife, with an infant in her 
arms, looked sad and anxious. I had left them but 
a few moments, when I was startled by the cry, 
" A man overboard !" Turning round, I saw the 
young man rise to the surface of the water, strug-
gle, again sink, and again rise, all the while en-
deavoring to keep his head above the water. In 
the meantime a boat was sent to rescue him, but 
before it reached him, he sunk for the last time, to 
rise no more, perhaps, till the resurrection morn. 
The sorrow and anguish of the young wife were 
indescribable. A widow, with a helpless infant, 
and a stranger in a strange land, with no relatives, 
and but few acquaintances, her situation was in-
deed a painful one., Her husband had about fifty 
dollars in his pocket when he made the fatal leap, 
leaving her penniless, and homeless. By the help 
of a Danish gentleman, I was enabled to learn 
from the poor woman her sorrowful story. I then 
traversed the boat, and stated her case to the pas-
sengers, requesting that the benevolent would at 
least visit her. God opened the hearts of many, 
so that the afflicted stranger received a liberal con-
tribution, with much sympathy and many prayers. 
She kissed the hand of each of her benefactors, 
and made expressions of heart-felt gratitude. God, 
I doubt not, will reward them. Truly " God is 
the widow's God, and a Father to the fatherless." 
We were kindly welcomed in New York by bro.. 
and sister Tracy. We tarried there but a few hours, 
and left the same evening for Philadelphia, where 
we were cordially greeted by brother Henry Lye 
and family. 
Aug. 13th.-Went to Norristown, to see to a 
legacy left me, some years since, by Mr. Phineas 
Philips, of that place. The .will of Mr. P. reads 
as follows Six hundred dollars to the office of 
the Advent Herald, for the benefit of that office." 
One of the executors of Mr. Philips' will, a law-
yer, declined to pay me the legacy, on the ground 
that he did not know any such office, or its pro-
prietor, that could legally receive it. SO I was ob- 
liged to place the matter in the hands of an attor-
ney to prosecute in court, or lose it entirely. Af-
ter several years of the " law's delay," a verdict 
was obtained from a jury in my favor. When the 
expenses of litigation are deducted, the amount 
received will he but little over $400, the office los-
ing several years' interest. 
It was in expectation of receiving this legacy, 
that I several years ago expended the amount in 
works, in which Mr. Philips, the testator, was 
deeply, interested. And could he have foreseen how 
I should be treated in this matter, he no doubt 
would have left it in other hands. Little did he 
think that one of his executors would spend a por-
tion of his hard earnings in a law-suit, to prevent 
a legacy from going to a cause to which he had 
left it, and which he.so dearly loved.; or that the 
faith in which he lived, and triumphantly died 
would be treated with 'lightness in open court, and 
urged as a reason why the Advent Herald office 
ought not to receive his legacy ! 
I have made reference to this matter, because 
the thing has been made public, and is not cor 
rectly understood. 
While upon this subject, I may as well mention 
38, " the end of the wicked shall be cut off ;" 73:17, 
" then understood I their end ;" Prov. 14:13, " and 
the end of that mirth is heaviness ;" 23:32, " At 
the last it biteth like a serpent ;" 25:8, " what to 
do in the end thereof ;" Eccl. 7:8, " better is the end 
of a thing ;" Isa. 46:10, " declaring the end from 
the beginning." From the foregoing examples we 
are justified in rendering the text, " It shall come 
to pass in the end of days," &c.-corresponding 
with the consummation of Daniel 9:27, to which 
time the holy place was to be desolated, the end of 
the 2300 days, when the sanctuary is to be cleansed ; 
and the fulfilment of the times of the Gentiles, 
to which Jerusalem is to be trodden under foot. 
" The mountain of the Lord's house," that is to 
be established in the top of the mountains, can be 
none other than that which was to be for a long-
time like the high places of the forest,-the moun-
tain on which the temple of Solomon was built. 
The word " established,'' in each place,-Heb. 
117 (koon)-conveys the idea of permanence. The 
same word occurs in the following passages. Job 
21:8, " Their seed is established in their sight ;" 
Psa. 51:10, " renew a right (in the margin-con-
stant) spirit within me ;" Psa. 57:7, " My heart 
is fixed;" Psa. 98:2, " Thy throne is established of 
old ;" Prov. 4:18, " shineth more and more unto 
the perfect day ;" Hos. 6 : 3; " His going forth is 
prepared." &e. 
The phrase " in the top of," is. from the Hebrew 
word v.iNi (rohsh) which signifies the head or chief 
-that which has the pre-eminence-as in the fol-
lowing texts : Exodus 6 : 14, " the heads of their 
fathers' houses ;" 12:2, " the beginning of months ;" 
30:23, " Take thou unto thee principal spices ;" 
36 : 38, " He overlaid their chapiters ;" Lev. 6 : 5, 
" restore it in the principal ;" Num. 1:2, " Take 
ye the sum of all the congregation ;" 14:4, " Let 
us make a captain ;" 31:26, " the chief fathers of 
the congregation ;" Deu. 33:15, " And for the 
chief things of the ,ancient ;" Josh. 11:10, " the 
head of all those kingdoms ;" 1 Sam. 9:22,' in the 
chiefest place among them ;" 1 Kings. 21:9, " set 
Naboth on high among the people ;" 1 Chron. 
16:7," David delivered first, this psalm ;" 23:20, 
" Micah the first;" 26:10, " Simri the chief ;" 2 
Chron. 20:27, " Jehoshaphat in the forefront of 
them ;" 31:10, " Azariah the chief priest ;" Job 
22:12, " behold the height of the stars ;" Psa. 83: 
2, " they that hate thee have lifted up the head ;" 
141:5, " it shall be an excellent oil;" Prov. 1:21, 
" She crieth in the chief place; " Isa. 7:8, " the 
head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damas-
cus is Rezin ;" 29:10, " the prophets and your 
rule's;" &c., &e. 
The phrase " and shall be exalted, is from the 
word se,e) (nah-sah), and also implies pre-eminence ; 
as in Isa. 57:15, " the high and lofty One ;" Est. 
5:11, " he had advanced him above the prince." 
The whole passage, then, may read, " And it 
shall come to pass at the end of the days, that the 
mountain where the Lord's house was built, shall 
(again) be established, as the chief among the 
mountains, and have precedence above the hills." 
That mountain, in the land which the Lord espied 
as the glory of all lands ; which he selected from 
among all the tribes of Israel to put his name 
there ; which was hallowed by the obedience of 
Abraham, by the erection of the house of God, and 
by the observance of those types which during 
long ages, foreshadowed our great sacrifice, which 
was also offered for the sins of the world not far 
distant from it ; that mountain, which had been 
so long hallowed, but which because of the sins of 
the people, was to be defiled by abominations so 
as to become in the eyes of Jehovah like the high 
Places of the forest, was again to be sanctified. 
and cleansed, and have the pre-eminence over all 
other hill-tops, as the chief seat of Jehovah's king-
dom on earth. But as it is to he desolated till the 
consummation, and is to be trodden down till the 
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled ; as when they 
are fulfilled they will " see the Son of man coming 
in a cloud with power and great glory " (Luke 
21:27) ; and as the heaven must receive him " un-
til the times of restitution of all things, which 
God bath spoken by the mouth of all the holy 
prophets," it follows that the restoration of time 
mountain of the Lord's house, is subsequent to 
the removal of the curse from the earth, and the 
renewal of all things. Till then will abominations 
desolate it ; and thenwill the sanctuary be cleansed. 
The Atlantic Submarine Telegraph. 
THE N. Y. Mirror thls discourses on the projects 
of the present age. There are so many wonderful 
things happening all around us, it would be hardly 
safe to say what is, or what is not, within the 
reach of human accomplishment : 
" At the risk of startling all old fogydom, we 
venture to assert that within ten years from this 
day, the Eastern ports of the American continent 
will he in instant telegraphic communication with 
the Western ports of Europe. There will be a sub-
marine telegraph between Halifax and Galway, 
which will literally bring us the foreign news in 
RUSSIA AND TURKEY. 
THE modified note of the Vienna conference was 
not despatched from Constantinople direct to the 
Czar, as stated in the telegraphic abstract of the 
foreign news. The note was sent with the modifi-
cations to Vienna. The conference did not hesitate 
to adopt the Turkish modifications, and to despatch 
them to St. Petersburg, with instructions to their 
own ministers there to give them the strongest sup-
port in their communications with the Russian 
government. 
A Paris letter of evening of 1st says :-" In Paris 
the Eastern question is at length considered as ter-
minated, as it is anticipated by very few that the 
Emperor of Russia will demur to the modifications 
or hesitate to execute his pledge of evacuating the 
Danubian Provinces." 
On the other hand, we have a newspaper state-
ment that in circles believed to be well informed at 
Berlin, there are no sanguine hopes entertained of 
a speedy settlement of the Eastern question, but 
rather the opinion that the Russians will not retire 
from the Principalities before an indemnity is paid 
or secured them. 
the London Times, referring to the modifications 
which were made, says : 
" Something has been said of further conditions 
annexed by the Porte to the acceptance of the mod-
ified note, but these have not been put forward in 
the same absolute form. They refer, of course, to 
the evacuation of the principalities, which has all 
along been regarded as the condition sine yua non 
of any settlement .at all, and they appeal to the 
Conference for further guarantees against the re-
currence of these disputes. Upon the receipt of an 
affirmative answer from St. Petersburg-which 
may be expected in about a week from this time-
the Turkish ambassador charged with the renewal 
of diplomatic relations might proceed, by way of 
Vienna, on his mission ; and it is to be hoped that 
the evacuation of the principalities would in the 
meantime take place." 
The London Times states that the Grand Vizier 
and Reschid Pacha have declared that beyond the 
note, as altered in the Divan, it was impossible for 
them to go. 
The London Morning .Chronicle, in commenting 
upon the present aspect of the negotiations, says : 
" While Europe has been conceding, point after 
point, every demand of Russia, Turkey has been 
arming, both in Europe and in Asia, and the Egyp-
tian fleet is already in the Bosphorus. The Otto- 
man cabinet is known to be divided on the questiori 
between a war which might be successful, and a 
peace in which everything but the nominal integ- 
rity of the Empire would he sacrificed. An able 
and ambitious officer is watching the invader on 
the Danube, and the troops in the north of Asia 
Minor are drawing nearer and nearer to the seat of 
actual war in the Caucasus. What would be the 
result if, after all, the Sultan were to determine 
on resistance, throwing on his allies the responsi-
bility of aiding or abandoning him '! Even a pru-
dent statesman, in the position of Reschid Pacha, 
might find prospects of advantage in such a reso-
lution. 
Moldavia and Wallachia are already in the pow-
er of the enemy, and behind the Danube lie the 
two other legacies which were left me some years 
ago. The first was a sum of twenty dollars, which 
I obtained without difficulty, the executor being a 
Christian and a gentleman. The other was a 
legacy of one hundred dollars, left me by an indi-
vidual in Connecticut. A disaffected Adventist 
made an attempt to cheat inc out of it ; but learn-
ing from his lawyer that it would cost him a hun-
dred dollars to make the trial, (at the same time 
there being a doubt of success,) he concluded to 
abandon his benevolent project. 
As " common fame " has awarded my friends 
some credit for bequeathing to me numerous and 
large sums, I would say, that the above sums are 
all that I have received by legacy ; and these I have 
appropriated in a way for which I shall be pre-
pared to a.count, in presence of the donors, before 
the Judge of all the earth, to whom I am ac-
countable. 
Aug. 14th.-Preached to the Advent church in 
Philadelphia, of which brother Litch is pastor. 
The day was oppressively hot, yet we had a large 
audience, and a refreshing time. Brother L. was 
absent at Harrisburgh. 
Aug. 15th.-Was obliged to leave for home with 
Mrs. H., who had been feeble for several days. Left 
P. at Vo'clock, and arrived at Boston at 5 P. 3I. 
the next day. Mrs. H. endured the fatigue of the 
journey better than I expected. Tarried in B. half 
an hour, and returned to Philadelphia on the 17th. 
Dined, and took the cars for my appointment at 
the Second Fork, Elk county, in the evening. Ar-
rived at Lewistown (160 nines) the next morning 
at 7 o'clock, and from thence by stage (thirty-four 
miles) to Bellefonte, going at the rate of four miles 
an hour. Here I was greeted by brethren in the 
place and from Milesburg, a few miles distant. 
After taking some refreshment with brother Rals-
ton, I went to Milesburg and preached in the even-
ing. There was a good audience present, and we 
had a very interesting season. 
Aug. 19th.-Brother Eckley conveyed me from 
Milesburg to Karthaus, over the Alleganies to the 
Susquehanna, twenty-seven miles, going over the 
mountains little more than two miles an hour.-
Much wearied, I put up for the night with brother 
Yarnell's family, who received me kindly, and sup-
plied my wants. 
Aug. 20th.-Brother Boyer sent brother Goff 
with a carriage to take me the rest of the way, 
(about twenty miles,) over what is called the 
" Barrens," a 'piece of woods, about thirteen miles 
of which is without an inhabitant. The road is 
worse than the road from Melbourne to Waterloo, 
C. E. We made considerable less than two miles 
an hour on this part of it. No human being ought 
to be punished by being obliged to go over it more 
than once in his life-time. Arrived at brother Boy-
er's house, at Second Fork, in season to preach in 
the evening. I need not say that my meeting with 
brethren Boyer and Laning was one of enthusias-
tic greeting. Here I also met with brother and 
sister Litch. Though nearly all the rest were stran-
gers, they did not remain so very long. " Rumor 
and common fame " had made them familiar with 
my name, though they had heard of me on better 
authority. And now, having an opportunity of 
seeing me, after hearing the reports of friends and 
foes, they had made up a judgment in my favor, 
and heartily received me as a brother and a laborer 
in the vineyard of our common Lord. 
The Sinnemahoning river runs within half a mile 
of the camp-ground, in a north-east direction. 
Bennett's Branch empties into it from the west, 
and runs directly by 'the residence of bro. Boyer, 
at a distance of fifty rods. The valley of Bennett's 
Branch, a rich and fertile tract, is about a mile 
wide at this place. The mountains rise on either 
side from six hundred to a thousand feet. In this 
beautiful valley, being a central paint in his cir-
cuit, brother Boyer purchased a few acres of wood-
land, on which, within the last six months, he has 
erected a cheap but handsome cottage. Brother 
and sister Litch, and brother Laning and myself, 
enjoyed the hospitality of brother and sister Boyer 
in their new residence ; and though all was wild 
about us, we never felt more at home, or enjoyed a 
better visit. 
Ten rods in the rear of the cottage, in a thick 
forest, was the camp-ground, occupying the most 
beautiful and shady grove I ever saw. The preach-
ers' stand was situated at the foot of a gentle slope, 
With two 'large, welMinished board tents on each 
side. On the right and left was a range of board 
'tents, 'fifteen in number, forming a hollow square. 
, While viewing this camp, the -words of the Psalm-
ist were brought to my mind-" How amiable are 
'thy tabernacles, -0 Lord of hosts." But the beau-
tiful scenery of nature, and the arrangements of 
-skill, are nothing, " where every prospect pleases, 
- and only man is vile." Without God's blessing, 
" all is 'vanity." 
The meeting had been in progress two days when 
less than no time ; and at all hours of the day and 
night. We shall have a full report of the trans-
actions at the Paris Bourse and the London ex-
change, at the close of business in those capitals, 
before the opening of business on the same day in 
New York ! 
" The distance across the Atlantic between the 
points we have named, is only 1600 miles ; and the 
best engineers regard this sub-marine enterprise 
as perfectly practicable, at a cost varying from 
$1,500,000 to $3,000,000. But before the Atlantic 
Telegraph is constructed, we shall have steamers 
crossing from Nova Scotia to Ireland in about three 
and a half days ! 
" The steamship Uncle Sam, in her recent rapid 
trip to the Pacific, made nearly four hundred miles 
in one day. At this rate that vessel would make 
the voyage from Halifax to Galway (1600 miles) in 
four days ; and there can be no doubt but steamers 
will be built within five years, if not within one 
year, that will accomplish the distance in three 
and a half days. 
" In this direction we are heart and hand with 
Young America ;' and ready to go ahead as fast 
as the attest. Let the electric chain unite the two 
hemispheres ; and let our ocean steamers, like 
giant shuttles, weave the continents closer and 
closer together. Let us have the Pacific Railroad 
-the greatest, the boldest, and the noblest enter- 
prise ever conceived by man. Let the whole globe 
be laced with iron bands and wound around with 
the electric thread. Then knowledge will fly to 
and fro through the earth ; and thought will dart 
like sun-light from land to land. This is truly a 
matter-of-fact, utilitarian age (the latest news from 
the Old World informs us that Mount Sinai is being 
worked as a coal mine); but if it build, as it must, 
the great iron highway from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific, it will achieve an epic greater than Homer 
ever sung. The mere conception of such a work is 
a Poem more inspiring than the Iliad." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
arrived. Brethren Litch and Laning had both 
preached, and a good beginning had been made. 
The camp families had come in from four to twen-
ty-five miles around. The meeting had been made 
a subject of much prayer, and preparation had 
been made in the hope that by the blessing of God 
some good might be done. In the meantime, the 
devil had stirred up a number of active and enter-
prising young men in the vicinity to serve him, 
and prevent any good being done. Ten gallons of 
spirit (for nothing could be done without this) 
was obtained, and an opposition camp set up a 
little distance from ours, with an officiating high 
priest, in long robes, who was to pardon sin for so 
much a head, and give them as much spirit as 
they could drink, while another blasphemously 
administered the communion. These facts were 
brought to our ears at an early date. But know-
ing that the citizens generally were most favorable 
to brother Boyer and the meeting, we gave our-
selves to prayer and took care of our own camp 
and its duties. 
Saturday evening I gave my first discourse to a 
large audience. There seemed to be some indica-
tion of good. Brother Litch took charge of the 
prayer-meeting, in which some tokens of God's 
favor to sinners were manifested. 
Sabbath, Aug. 21.—It was a beafttiful morn. 
The people flocked from all quarters. After the 
devotional exercises were concluded, I commenced 
a discourse on the saints' inheritance, in which I 
was interrupted by some young men, who had 
been filled with spirit from the other (Satan's) 
camp. I could not proceed until they were re-
moved ; which was soon done efficiently and quietly 
This was the only interruption we had throughout 
the meeting. And this did us good. I proceeded 
with the sermon, and was heard with the most 
profound attention to the end. In the afternoon 
brother Litch gave an able discourse on Matt. 16 : 
13-17, which was effective. In the evening I 
spoke on the importance of " following the Lord 
fully." At the close, brother Litch conducted the 
prayer-meeting. Signs of good were manifest. 
Monday, Aug. 22.—The work began in good 
earnest. I gave two lectures during the day, one 
on Christian meekness and the nature of the in-
heritance, and another on the " through tribula-
tion" to the kingdom. Brother Litch spoke in the 
evening on 2 Cor. 5:14,15. 
The work now increased in power, and a number 
came forward for prayers, and some were blessed. 
Arrangements were made for baptism on the mor-
row, and a number of candidates presented them-
selves. 
Tuesday, Aug. 23.—This was a beautiful day. 
The congregation was good, and the solemnity in-
creased. I gave two discourses in the day. Brother 
Boyer baptized ten in Bennett's Branch, most of 
them heads of families. It was a glorious day for 
the church. And " at even-tide it was light with 
us in the Lord." The whole camp was cheered by 
the conversion of one soul from the other (Satan's) 
camp, and the very one, too, who was employed 
to get the liquor. This fact brought the Goliath 
of the party into the altar, to see if his companion 
was sincere, whereupon he threw his arms about 
his neck, and besought him to bow with him at' 
the foot of the cross, and seek the mercy of God in 
the forgiveness of his sins. This entreaty he could 
not withstand. He quailed, he yielded, he bowed 
and cried far mercy, and soon he rejoiced in the 
salvation of God. This struck terror to the hearts 
of his companions. Some of the saints doubted, 
for a time, whether he was sincere, others were 
witnesses of his conduct, and were convinced it 
could not be a mockery, and they gave him their 
full sympathy, and helped him along. 
The altar was crowded, and many obtained the 
blessing of God, and gave him praise at the close 
of the service. 
Wednesday, Aug. 24—Was a dark, stormy morn-
ing. It rained incessantly till noon. There was 
no preaching service in the forenoon. At two 
o'clock, I preached on the second chapter of the 
" Acts of the Apostles." During the discourse it 
rained again, but few moved till the close. We 
again repaired to Bennett's Branch, and brother 
B. baptized fifteen. It reminded us of Pentecostal 
times., for we had by this time drank largely of its 
spirit. The whole camp was filled with extacy 
and praise. The people without were awe-struck, 
and most were deeply convicted. 
In the evening we had our comma:pion season. 
I gave a discourse, and brother Litch assisted me 
in the distribution of the elements. The curtains 
of night were hung about us, a solemn stillness 
prevailed, while we thought of the " Garden of 
Gethsemene "—the institution of the supper in 
the upper chamber," in Jerusalem—the betrayal 
of the Master by Judas—the trial and condemna-
tion of the innocent Lamb of God—and his cruci-
fixion, made the scene one of the deepest solemni- 
ty ; while to these considerations, was added the 
faith, that he that was once crucified for us, would 
soon coins again, in the glory of the Father, and all 
the holy angels with him, and give us an abun-
dant entrance into his everlasting kingdom. 
At the close of the supper the altar was again 
crowded for prayer. Brother Crozier, who had 
been the leader of the other camp, had now gained 
sufficient strength to speak boldly for Christ, and 
affectionately invite the remaining part of his com-
panions to Christ. They stood without the rail of 
the altar ; he saw them, and among them the one 
who had made a mock, a few days before, of the 
Lord's supper. He appealed to him to come to 
Christ for mercy : he came—all broken down.—
Many others followed, and ere the close, many 
gave themselves to God, and were saved by faith. 
I never saw such a work before. There was no 
" wild-fire " or " fanaticism," but there was the 
salvation of God. 
This was our last public meeting, but we hardly 
knew how to have it so. A great interest was 
manifested to continue it over the Sabbath ; but 
other engagements prevented this. On the mor-
row brethren Litch and Laning were to go to 
Clearfield, and brother Boyer and myself to Kar-
thaus to fill other appointments. 
Thursday, Aug. 25.—The families assembled in 
the parting circle and took an affectionate leave of 
each other. The scene was one of very solemn and 
joyful interest. Here were the storm-beaten vete-
rans, with the faithful membership, and the num-
erous converts just entered the field, some of whom 
a few days before were the most violent enemies, 
all in the fullest fellowship, giving to each the 
parting hand, with pledges of faithfulness. We 
parted. But while the families living at a distance 
returned to their homes, and brethren Litch and 
Laning went to their appointments, I remained 
to preach again in the evening, such was the de-
sire to hear. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock we 
met a number of inquirers, with the converts, at 
brother Boyer's house, where we had an interest-
ing meeting. At 4 o'clock P. M. we went to the 
water again, and brother Boyer baptized three—
among the number a young niece of Mrs Boyer, 
Miss Emma Hall. This was a case of much inter-
est. Emma bids fair to be not only an ornament 
to the cause, but an active, useful laborer. In 
the evening the audience was large and attentive. 
I spoke from 2 Cor. 5:18, 19, 20. At the close, 
we had a season of prayer. The altar was again 
filled, and a greater victory gained than at any 
former meeting. Upwards of fifty souls had now 
been blessed since Monday evening, and among 
them the person who made a mock of the com-
munion, in " Satan's camp." He spoke at the 
close of this meeting, and warned his fellows to 
come to Christ. On rising, he remarked : " My 
friends, I do not rise to tell you what I have been, 
this you know, but what 1 mean to be. By God's 
grace I mean to make my way up the hill--I am 
determined." Eleven more'now offered themselves 
for baptism. Brother Boyer was to accompany 
me to Karthaus the next day, to aid in the meeting 
there. But such was the state of things here that 
I told him, though quite worn out, I would go 
alone, and he might remain and hold a meeting 
on the camp-ground over the coming Sabbath, and 
baptize brother Crozier, and the converts would 
help him. He is a young man of great promise, 
and may be the first fruits of our late day of 
" fasting and prayer for the ministry." Time will 
show. 
Friday, Aug. 26.—Brother Boyer took me on 
my way to Karthaus, about six miles, when I took 
another conveyance over the barrens to K., and he 
returned to his work. 
It is about eleven years since I became acquaint-
ed with brother B., but I have not been able till 
now to visit his field of labor and give him the 
helping hand. His present field is in Elk county, 
among the Allegany mountains. He has gathered 
quite a number of churches, which are united and 
happy, and prospering under his faithful pastoral 
care. He has settled in their midst, and will con-
tinue to devote his whole attention to their wela 
fare. Brother Boyer has set a good example for 
others. He not only plants, but waters and takes 
care of the field. • 
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Sister Boyer, anxious to "Joa her inr;litta'd in 
useful labor, in this wild and destitute region, has 
arranged to establish a High School for young 
ladies, to which she will devote her time and tal-
ents. The school will be of a high order, and 
prove a great blessing to the community. The 
success of our brother and sister in their respec-
tive departments of labor, is not an experiment ; 
but they have the community with them, in their 
good will and support. Brother Boyer has shown 
himself to be tile Oberlin " of this portion of the 
Alleganies. 
Milesburg (Pa.), Sept. 3d, 1853. 
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THE DISCUSSION. 
[We should not publish the following article, if 
we consulted merely our judgment ; but as we 
have opened our columns on the subjectawe are 
willing the writer should speak.] 
Bao. HIMEs ;—I have felt considerable interest 
in the discussion now going on in the Herald, and 
if satisfied that we had been essentially enlight-
ened yet, would not take up my pen. And let me 
say, I conceive we labor under disadvantages, and 
make fundamental mistakes at tile starting points ; 
but before I name them, let me say, we as God's 
people must believe his word, one portion of which 
is, " The path of the just is as a shining light, 
which shineth more and more unto the perfect 
day." Now it looks inconsistent with this portion 
of truth to transcribe the ultraisms of the past, 
and past centuries too which are known to be in-
consistent with present light. True, we may con-
sult with 'profit the writings of other times, but 
remember, we have now greater light or we are 
not God's people. Also that the introduction of 
Hebrew and. Greek idioms is of doubtful utility to 
those whom God's providence has given an English 
Bible. But not to augment generalities I will en-
deavor to sustain the implication 'of mistakes in 
fundamentals given above. 
The most I have read, or heard, and my Bibles, 
both English and American, refer me to Dan. 9:27 
and 12 : 11 for the abomination of desolation, and 
some writers for identity in those passages, which 
the very face of them contradict ; therefore what I 
may write will be partly an exposition, and partly 
review of those who have written upon the sub- 
Tt. In order to be as brief as possible, I will re- 
isr to rather than quote scripture, except where 
istice to the subject requires quotation. 
Turn with me to those passages to which I may 
sfer. Now let us examine very carefully Dan. 9 : 
7. Who is the first pronoun in it? All will unite 
'ad say, Jesus Christ. What act does he perform? 
'onfirms the covenant Who is the next pronoun ? 
ame person. What act does he do ? Takes away 
ae virtue in expiatory sacrifices, although their 
:Iitrforinatice is persisted in by the Jews until they 
re broken up by the people of the prince (v. 26) 
At should come, in the destruction of both city 
nd sanctuary. What is the cause assigned for 
le, destruction? Ans. : overspreading of abomi-
ations. Who the next pronoun ? Ans.: Jesus, 
greeing with Acts 6 : 14. What does he do ? 
fakes it desolate until the consummation. Here 
Ad Luke 21 : 24, Matt. 24 : 14, and its parallels. 
.gain : What agent does he take? (as it is not ac-
)nplished by his personal coming.) Ans.: In v. 
2 agreeing with Luke 19 : 41-45 and parallels. 
uery : Why may not Daniel use the same phra-
tology as God's other prophets, which abound in 
ieir reproofs (for your abominations, &c.) an ex-
flange of form, for, by in this verse as elsewhere 
ould make a great alteration of the sense. What 
sxt ? And that determined shall be poured upon 
le desolator, (marginal,) agreeing (in case of the 
estruction of Nebuchadnezzar,) and after that I 
'• ill punish the king of Babylon. God is consist-
at ; and as he would do in one case, so he must 
in another, the circumstances being the same. 
asked to account for the plurality of abomina-
ons, I answer, God is one. The fact of there be-
ig sects among them differing widely in first prin-
iples of religion, would be a sufficient reply. 
that Paul denominated the straightest sect ! Je-
ts said had made void the law through tradition. 
ut I find nothing here which Jesus sends us to 
,aniel for, and we are compelled by the absence 
I' other passages having claims of identity, as 
ell as by the phraseology of Jesus, in his allu-
on to Daniel, to go to 12:11, but let us go there 
trefully, for it is of importance to understand, as 
nplied by the Saviour's injunction. And we find, 
a a careful survey, we are to take our stand be-
veen two objects as to time, those two objects 
ave each a qualifying term appended, also that 
ae succeeds to the place of the other.. Let me 
ere remark, that it matters not whether we. drop 
to word sacrifice or not in the argument; but as 
wish to follOw the best authority, I prefer retain-
; )g it, as God's providence has placed it there. 
Therefore, for the present, we will let MraBush 
withdraw his substitution (abomination). Now if 
this thing on our right hand was Paganism, and 
that on our left was tile people of the prince, they 
being pagans would place, rather than displace 
their faith. Here is a complete paradox in the 
teachings of some. If, as others teach, it is the 
Jewish sacrifices we have already seen, they or vir-
tue in them ceased in the midst of the week, 
blotted out, according to Paul, at the cross. Now, 
brother, go to Gal. 3d, read very carefully, and for 
brevity's sake let me tell you in substance, that 
you will find the law to have been instituted as a 
provisional government until the promised seed 
should come, because the conditions of the cove-
nant and promise were transgressed. But after 
the seed promised came, we are no longer under a 
schoolmaster, the law being superseded by our 
duty in obeying Moses' Prophet in all things. The 
apostle refused at the first council ever held by 
Christians 'to engraft or amalgamate it with the 
gospel of Christ, those being called the concision, 
who, to the rejection of Christ, adhered to Juda-
ism. 
We will now notice the time mentioned here :—
" And from the time the daily sacrifice shall be 
taken away, and the abomination that maketh 
desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days. Blessed 
is he that waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days." 
On the year-day calculation the end would have 
come, Daniel and tile waiting ones blessed and 
standing in their lot, (in their inheritance—Septua-
gint,) in 1405. That those days are identical, in 
addition to the apparency in the text, I will add 
that brother E. G. Colby, of Milton Mills, N. H., 
has, a copy of the translation of Theodore Beza, 
about tuio hundred,years old, which came into his 
fatally as a pretii.diis relic from relatives in Eng-
land, in which-Ord reading is thus : " Blessed is 
he that waiteth and cometh to a month and an 
half," added thereto. Having now shown what 
the daily sacrifice and abomination are not, I now 
proceed to show what' they are. 
And first, let me say, often the best way to find 
out what a thing is, is first to find out what it is 
not ; and in this case it is emphatically so, there 
having been nothing in the history of the specified 
time except for the one, the true worship of God, 
and for the other, the Papacy. I anticipate some 
will expect me to take the position, and defend it, 
that the Pope stood in the Church of God. No, 
sir, he never stood there. The falling away con-
stituted the church the apostacy. Tile true Church 
Went into the wilderness. The true Church was 
not in those fields which made what Gibbon calls 
the fever of the times. Where did he stand, it 
will be asked, which will answer the prophecy, 
" in the holy place," " where it ought not?" I 
answer : he usurped the prerogative, or right, or 
place of God in dictating in matters of faith in 
the minds of men, where God says the law, or con-
ditions of the new covenant should be written, and 
in killing all who will not submit to his dictation. 
I have not Gibbon at hand now, but those who will 
consult his history in the times of Justin and Jus-
tinian, will find the Pope's claims resisted by his 
opposers in the substance of the following sen-
tence, " that sovereignty in matters of faith, by 
man over the mind's of men, is to usurp the pre-
rogative of God." He acquired the position he 
claimed, and thus seated himself in the place of 
God, or " holy place," " where he ought not."' It 
is unnecessary here to go into metaphysics, and 
demonstrate how the mind can be properly Called 
the " temple of God," " holy place," &c. ; but go 
to the Scriptures, which corroborate the fact that 
God constituted it such. 
We may now hear a discourse at Jacob's well 
with profit, and Jer. 31 to 35 commented on by' 
Paul, Heb. 8:8, 1 Pet. 2 : 5-9, and Phil. 3 : 3, with 
many other corresponding passages. Now we come 
to specific holy places. An error here will be in 
not following its transposition from one manner of 
worship or dispensation to another. The patriar-
chal, or family, or covenant, the tabernacle, tem-
ple, and Christian all had them. We may here 
with profit consult Webster on the sanctuary, 
which he defines, first, a sacred place, in respect to 
the Jews, the most retired part of the temple, or 
holy of holies ; next, any place where divine ser- 
vice is performed. We may now ask what made 
Sinai's mount holy at one time? Ansi : Because 
God came down upon its crest, and met the media- 
tor of the old covenant, and extended its conditions,. 
which had been broken, after which it might have 
been an interesting, but not consequently a holy 
place. So likewise in the wilderness, the holy 
place, or sanctuary, depended upon latitude and 
longitude of the encampment. We are now pre-
pared to, take Webster's third sense—" a place of 
worship, or where divine service is performed." 
" Not in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem," says 
Jesus, "In every nation," says Peter. " In all jj 
the world, for a witness unto all nations," says 
the commission. These will give us the true idea 
of what the sanctuary is at the end of the 2300 
days, and consequently what will be cleansed, 
that it is the earth, the first sanctuary, (and first 
defiled,) where the morning stars sang together, 
and the sons of God shouted for joy, not knowing 
an enemy was in sound of their voices, and where 
we have God's word all was good. We will now 
compare " the times of the Gentiles " and the ac-
complishment of the commission. Are they not 
that there was no cause for precipitate flight by 
the Christians, having four years, or five, accord-
ing to Dr. Clarke, to gain. But I fear I am get-
ting lengthy. I will notice one or two other points 
and close. 
And first, if the Papacy is not understood by the 
abomination of desolation, our Lord in foretelling 
us " all things," has nowhere particularized that 
dreadful scourge of the Church, while he has told 
us of things of much less importance. Again a 
paradox in his teaching, if it be the Roman army, 
the end shall come, when all the earth shall con-
stitute a cleansed sanctuary. Now let us go to 
the Saviour's prediction which called up this dis-
course, and elicited the question of the disciples, 
as I shall prove there was but one and the sign of 
it. Mark, Jesus was specific. By all the evange-
lists we read, not one stone upon another that 
shall not be thrown down, which is not yet accom-
plished ; consequently the interrogation must have 
been for knowledge of an event subsequent to our 
times, agreeable to the the opinions of many who 
understand them to inquire about events associated 
in their minds with the end of the world. But for 
the proof. 
Now Jesus went out of the temple to the Mount 
of Olives. He must needs go through the central 
or Beautiful Gate, opposite to which is a gate in 
the city wall, which leads to the Mount of Olives ; 
and as Jerusalem inclines towards it, the founda-
tion of the temple was very high, which supported 
a row of porches, one of which was called Solo-
mon's in our Saviour's day, because it stood upon 
a portion of the foundation built by him, which 
had survived former destructions or ravages. This 
wall is yet standing in its order of original con-
struction. I will refer the reader to the letters of 
Rev. Mr. Duffield, who was there in 1852, and also 
to arguments of infidels in general, who deny the 
literal fulfilment of the prediction. By these stones 
our Saviour passed as the direct road to Mount Ol-
ives. " Behold, what manner of stones?" Jose-
phus relates that some of them were forty-five cu-
bits in length, six in width, and five in height. 
Mr. Duffield calls them massive, and adds he saw 
thirty-five Jews kneeling or standing here, and 
reading the 58th, 59th, and 60th Psalms, and sob-
bing aloud as they kissed the stones, the only re-
mains of their ancient temple. It is evident the 
Saviour referred to the climax of destruction ra-
ther than a partial accomplishment. It remains 
therefore to be fulfilled when Gog comes against 
the land of Israel, when God's fury comes into his 
face, when " every wall shall fall," steep places, 
mountains, (Ezek. 38 : 18, 21; Heb. 12 : 26-280 
and the events connected with the pouring out of 
the seventh vial. It may be said, why flee from 
Judea, &c.? Ans. : In obedience to the general 
rule given, when they persecute you in this city, 
flee to another, &c. ; and as the Papacy extended 
into Judea, that portion of the woman must go 
into the wilderness, with precipitation symbolized 
by wings. The same is true in flight from that 
power in other countries, or generally, which was 
not the case in Christians fleeing from Jerusalem 
or Judea. Now in touching upon the destruction 
of Jerusalem, we come to an age of Rome, whereas 
' the historian says it was governed by short-lived 
tyrants,, who arose by conspiracy and fell by mur-
der, who followed each other in quick succession. 
It was about 66 of our era that the first outbreak 
occurred, which compelled the Roman governors 
of the East to turn their arms against the Jews. 
Florus the governor having exasperated them by 
his tyranny and cruelty, called to his aid Cestius 
Gallus, prefect of Syria, who with a large army 
undertook their subjugation ; but after several at-
tempts, was obliged to retire, with a loss of about 
'fire hundred men. This encouraged the rebels, 
who opened the gates, pursued the Romans with 
great slaughter. The loss of the Romans was up-
wards of five thousand foot and three hundred 
hOrse, and being so hotly pressed, were obliged to 
leave behind their baggage-wagons, cattle, and 
military engines, which fell into the hands of the 
Jews. This, which seemed a victory to the Jews, 
was mourned as a calamity by the more peaceable 
inhabitants, for they clearly foresaw the dreadful 
evils which must speedily follow when Rome should 
arise in her strength. Under this apprehension, 
many fled, among whom were the Christians, who 
obeyed the injunction of their Lord upon the re-
ceipt of intelligence of Cestius' defeat. Nero sent 
Vespasian into Syria to conduct the war. This 
was about the beginning of 67. Vespasian col-
lected his army, and when on the eve of marching 
for the holy city, received news of the death of 
Nero. Several emperors were now placed and dis-
placed, which caused a cessation of military ope-
rations in the East until early in the spring of 70, 
when Titus arrived at Jerusalem, and destroyed 
the city. I have been a little formal here to show 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
NO. VII. 
As the mariner, who would make the port, rather 
than remain in the midst of the waters, because 
ignorant of the haven, or, as the wise master 
builder will not leave his building unfinished for 
want of information, so our heavenly Father is not 
at the helm of Zion's ship as she passes over the 
raging, foaming billows of time, destitute of all 
knowledge of port or distance ; He has not com-
menced the superstructure of hope in the absence 
of information or power for its consummation, neither 
are His servants in darkness : and as God's word 
is the Book of light, we again make our appeal to 
it for the purpose of defining the objects of the 
Christian's hope, with which this topic would be 
left incomplete. 
Christ's second appearing.-" Beloved, now 
are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear 
what we shall be : but we know that when He 
shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall 
see Him as he is. And every man that hath this 
hope in Him, purifieth himself even as He is pure." 
(1 John 3:2, 3 ; Titus 2:13.) What hope ? Ans. 
(1) of the Lord's appearing, (2) of seeing Him as 
He is, (3) of being like Him. Who can estimate 
the value of this hope to the Christian Its ten- 
dency is to purify. Thousands scattered over our 
world, in both heathen and Christian lands, can 
testify to this truth. The following from the 
Baptist Missionary Herald, March 1844, is of in-
terest upon this point. " At a late hour last 
evening, after the Burmans had all gone to their 
homes, there were Karens sitting about the room, 
some from Rangoon, others from Bassein and the 
hills, conversing as to the sufferings of their 
brethren now in prison ; what would, probably be 
their fate, how they would eficlure their sufferings, 
and if killed, whether they would suffer death joy-
fully. While speaking on this point, one of the 
assistants gave an account of the death of an old 
Christian woman, who died a few days since at 
Baumee, one of the most happy deaths of which I 
have heard among the Karens. I have seen many 
of them breathe their last, and generally they have 
no extacies and no fears ; they die resigned to the 
will of God. ' God will take care of me,' is gen-
erally the answer to questions relative to their ex-
ercises. This old woman had been a Christian 
several years, and was a person of much prayer and 
simple faith. She was sensible of the approach of 
death for several days, and rejoiced at the pros-
pect ;-said, I have been looking for the coming of 
Christ to judgment, but shall die and not see the day ! 
But,' she continued, • I shall go to see Him.' She 
exhibited that divine joy, that brightening of the 
Powers of the soul, that foretaste of glory, which 
sometimes precedes the hour of death." 
Observe, 1st, The old Karen woman was one of 
" much prayer and simple faith," and her death 
" one of the most happy :" her life and death were 
extraordinary. 2. She was looking for the com-
ing of Christ, which motive was, undoubtedly a 
strong incentive to holy living and perseverance. 
May the same hope lead us to imitate her example. 
The Resurrection.-Not a spiritual one, as 
the Church, who " hope for that they see not," 
(Rom. 8:24, 25,) enjoy that as a present blessing 
(1 John 3:14). Of Christ it is said, " His flesh 
should rest in hope" (Acts 2:26) ; and Paul affirms 
that " it is sown in corruption ; it is raised in ins 
corruption " (1 Cor. 15:42) : arguments however 
plausible can never annul these declarations.-
Hence Paul testifies before a council (Acts 23:6), 
Felix (Acts 24:14, 15), Agrippa (Acts 26:6-8), 
and the Jews at Rome (Acts 28:20), of this hope ; 
and so necessary a btOek,jost o late si,aperatructure 
identical ? I see not how to avoid it. And then in saying it ought not to stand there, when it must 
to fulfil his word. Again : In Nebuchadnezzar's 
doing the same, he was styled " God's servant," 
and Jesus abominates the Romans, and both were 
pagans. Again : I see no authority for taking some 
parallel language in Luke 17th, and associate it 
with that of Matt. 24th and Mark 13th, if in 
these places it means at the destruction of Jerusa-
lem, the former being expressly declared to be 
when the Son of man is revealed. 
The above is respectfully submitted to those who 
are waiting for the, kingdom of God. That it is 
faultless, would be too much to claim for it, or 
anything human. 
J. H. MORGAN. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
montarmisms 
of hope, that the whole remains or falls with it 
(1 Cor. 15 chap.). That it is the hope of Israel, 
may be farther learned from Ezek. 37 : 1-14, and 
will be consummated to the Church at the Messiah's 
return. (1 Cor. 15:22, 23 ; 1 Thess. 4:16.) Then 
her long-looked for period will arrive when Abel 
will breathe again, no more to feel the assassin 
hand of a brother ; when Abraham, leaning upon 
the promise of his " shield and reward " (Gen. 
15:1), emerges from the dust. never more to so-
journ in a strange land ; then Isaac and Jacob 
will share with him in the same blessings ; Joseph'S 
bones will be conveyed to a fairer land thaii 
ancient Palestine ; Moses will realize what waS 
shown at the burning bush (Luke 20:37), and not 
only behold, but tread upon and partake of the 
fruits of the promised land ; Noah will possess, 
not the earth changed by water, but renovated by 
fire ; Job will see his Redeemer in his flesh (Job 
19:23-28) ; Isaiah's dead body will awake and 
sing (Isa. 20:19) ; David will awake in the Lord's 
likeness and be satisfied (Ps. 17:15) ; Ezekiel's dry 
bones will shake, come together, and live ; Daniel 
will stand in his lot (Dan. 12:13) ; God will be 
Hosea's death plague (Hosea 13:14) ; Paul will 
attain unto " the resurrection from the dead " 
(Phil. 3:11) ; others who were " tortured not ac-
cepting deliverance," will obtain that " better res-
urrection " ( Heb. 11 : 35 ), and all the blood-
washed throng will sing the song of victory and 
redemption, and come with singing unto Zion ; 
songs and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away (Isa. 53d chap.) ; 
then, that kind father, tender mother, beloved 
companion, innocent babe, sprightly youth, strong 
adult, and experienced sire will greet each other, 
being trophies of grace, 
" In the land of Paradise." 
No wonder the dying saint, when about to be 
separated from all that is dear on earth, exults in 
the promise with an exclamation, " 0, the beauties 
of the resurrection !" Such, reader, may be your 
lot if found in that day having exercised " repent-
ance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus 
Christ." You may escape " the resurrection of 
damnation." (John 5:28, 29.) 
3. The new earth.-Says Peter, (2 Pet. 3 : 13,) 
" We, according to his promise, look for a new 
earth ,wherein dwelleth righteousness." This prom-
ise may be found in Isa. 65 : 17 and 66 : 22, and is 
termed " new," in the same sense as the Christian 
is called " a new creature." (2 Cor. 5 : 17.) He 
is changed by grace. There will be a restitution 
of the earth, (Acts 3:21,) wrought by the element 
of fire-a change. Much might be written upon 
this point, as also others, but I forbear for the 
present, and close the discussion of hope, (which 
subject has been introduced in Nos. 5, 6, 7,) by an 
extract from the writings of John Wesley, in ref-
erence to the blessings of the new earth : 
" He that sitteth upon the throne will soon 
change the face of all things, and give demonstra-
tive proof to all creatures, that his mercy is over 
all his works. The horrid state of things which 
at present obtains, will soon be at an end. On the 
new earth no creature will kill, or hurt, or give 
pain to any other. The scorpion will have no poi-
sonous sting. The adder no venomous teeth. The 
lion will have ho claws to tear the lamb; no teeth 
to grind his flesh and bones. Nay, no creature, 
no beast, bird, or fish will have any inclination to 
hurt any other. For cruelty will be far away, and 
savageness and fierceness be forgotten ; so that 
violence shall be heard no more, neither wasting 
or destruction seen on the face of the earth. The 
wolf shall dwell with the lamb, (the words may 
be literally as well as figuratively understood,) and 
the leopard shall lie down with the kid. They shall 
not hurt or destroy, from the rising of the sun to 
the going down of the same." 
" 0 what a blessed hope is ours, 
While here on earth we stay, 
We more than taste the heavenly powers, 
And antedate that day." J. P. F. 
LETTER FROM ELK COUNTY, Pa. 
[WE regret to learn of the illness of brother J. 
D. Boyer. The following note will show why he 
was not with us at Milesburg. After a little rest, 
we hope he will be able to resume his labors.] 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :-No doubt it will be of in-
terest to you to hear of the result of the meeting 
after you left. 
The mountains and the valleys still continue to 
resound with songs of praise to the great I Am. 
The congregation that assembled for the Sabbath 
appointment, after you left, was as large as any 
during the camp-meeting, except the first Sabbath. 
They were all pleasantly seated in the tented grove, 
waiting for some one to break to them the bread of 
life ; but God disappointed them, by laying his af-
afflicting hand on brother Boyer, who was obliged 
to take to his bed the same afternoon you left. He 
continued to grow worse, so that he was unable to 
attend to his appointment at ten o'clock ; but at 
2 is, H., by the assistance of the brethren, he was 
enabled to occupy the appointed place, and, by the 
grace of God, to administer comfort to his saints, 
and words in due season to sinners. Solemnity pre-
vailed on account of the presence of the Lord. 
Brother C., a young man that was blessed at the 
meeting, arose after brother Boyer, and addressed 
the young converts in a very becoming manner. 
Ten presented themselves for baptism, and fifteen 
were received into the church by the right hand of 
fellowship. 
Brother Boyer anticipated the pleasure of meet-
ing with the brethren at Centre camp-meeting, but 
the Lord ordered it otherwise. He was again pros-
trated on a bed of languishing for nine days more, 
during a part of which time we almost despaired 
of his life. But by the blessing of God, and the 
aid of a skilful physician, he is now recovering as 
fast as can be expected. The Lord has still a great 
work for him to do in this part of his vineyard. 
Your labors, together with those of brethren 
Litch, Laning, and others, have been crowned with 
abundant success. Eternity alone will tell the re- 
sult. Your brother in Christ, T. F. BOYER. 
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ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1853. 
Tour West. 
Duras in Bcston require my presence till the 
first week in October. I shall probably begin my 
appointments in Cleveland, 0. ; but if I can get off 
at an earlier date, I will comply with requests 
to call at Albany, Auburn, and Buffalo. In that 
case, due notice will be given, by letter, at least. 
I deeply regret that it will not he in my power 
to respond to the urgent requests of friends in 
many other places on my way, for I must at once 
enter the Western field. I shall commence with- 
Cleveland, 0., Oct. 6th, at 7 P. M., as brother 
Penfield may arrange. 
Mansfield, 0., Oct. 9th to 12th.-A course of 
lectures, as brother Snyder shall arrange. 
Norwalk, or Fairfield, 0., Oct. 13th to 16th, 
as brother Boone and others may arrange. 
Detroit and Central Michigan, Oct. 18th to 
the 23d. In this time I will deliver lectures in De-
troit, and hold a conference in Adrian, or Niles. 
As I cannot arrange definitely, I would be grateful 
to Elders Hoyt and Seymour, and brethren Arm-
strong, Case, and Tucker, if they would consult 
together, and arrange meetings to the best advan-
tage. 
Middlebury, Ind.-Elder E. Miller, or Dr. 
Chaplin, may arrange for Oct. 24th and 25th, and 
write me to Cleveland, 0. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 27th, evening. 
Greenbush, Wis., Oct. 29th to 31st, as bro. 
Abrams and Elder Sweet may appoint. 
S. Sheboygan, Wis., Nov. 1st, evening, as Elder 
Trowbridge may appoint. 
9. Rockford, Ill., Nov. 4th, 5th, and 6th.-A 
course of lectures. 
From Nov. 7th to the 30th, I will devote to such 
portions of the field as brother S. Chapman may 
deem the most advisable, in large conferences, and 
by day or evening lectures. Will brother Chap-
man arrange in season, and give notice in the Her-
ald! I hope to have the company of brother C. a 
part of the time, as well as that of brother P. B. 
Morgan. 
On my way home, I intend to visit St. Louis, 
Mo., Cincinnati, 0., and many other places to 
which 1 have been invited. 
I ask the prayers and sympathies of all the 
friends of the Advent cause, that God will grant 
me health and strength to perform the work before 
me in the proposed tour, and above all, bestow on 
me wisdom and grace to feed the flock of God, and 
bring the wandering sinner to the fold of Christ. 
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continue so for some time to come. The South and 
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be sown, labor is to be performed, and money ex-
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liberal donations of late, which are credited under 
their appropriate head. We doubt not, that while 
we are doing all in our power to advance and ex-
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give all necessary aid towards the successful prose-
cution of the work. In our Western tour, we shall 
scatter liberally those useful books and tracts which 
we have prepared for the purpose. 
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AT HOME.-1 arrived home on the 16th, in good 
health, and preached to the tried flock in Chardon-
street chapel on the 19th. 
Anniversary of the "Bible Union." 
WE give the following notice with pleasure, and 
wish all success to the Society : 
American Bible Union Rooms, 
Sept. 13th. 1853. 
MY DEAR BROTHER :-The Fourth Anniversary of 
the Bible Union will be held in the meeting-house 
of the First Baptist Church in this city, commenc-
ing on Thursday the 6th of October at half-past 10 
o'clock, A. B. The exercises are expected to con-
tinue through Thursday and Friday. Among the 
speakers engaged, are, Rev. Spencer H. Cone, D. D., 
President. Rev. John L. Wailer, La. D., Louis-
ville, Ky. Rev. T. C. Teasdale, D. D., Washington, 
D. C. Rev. James Lillie, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. 
0. B. Judd, New York ;city. Rev. G. Achilli, D. 
D., Italy. Rev. Prof. Wm. C. Duncan, New Or-
leans, La. Rev. P. F. Jones, New York. James 
Edmunds, Esq., Jeddo, N. 
The following also have been invited, and are ex-
pected : 
Rev..Prof. T. J. Conant, D. D., of the University 
of Rochester, N. Y., to preach the Annual Sermon. 
Rev. Prof. E. S. Gallup, Madison University, N. 
Y. Eld. R. L. Coleman, Richmond, Va. Rev. D. 
R. Campbell, LL. D., President of Georgetown Col-
lege, Ky. Rev. Joshua Fletcher, Amenia, N. Y. 
Eld. James Challen, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Your are particularly invited to attend, and 
bring your friends. 
W31. H. WYCKOFF, COT. SeC. 
To Correspondents. 
J. C. Nos.-The Advent churches in the East 
are in favor of temperance, peace, liberty, or anti-
slavery, and other good causes. They do not make 
these questions hobbies, but bear a faithful testi-
mony on all proper occasions in their support. 
We do not use alcoholic wine in the communion. 
The way we prepare the juice of the grape is this: 
We get the best raisins, cut them open, pour boil-
ing water on .them, and let them stand twelve or 
twenty-four hours, then press out the juice, and 
let it settle, when it is fit for use. We have used 
no other in Boston for many years. 
CORRECTION.-Some time since, in giving an obit-
uary notice of H. Chambers, from the pen of bro. 
Sornberger, he was made to say that she had a 
good hope when taken sick. Brother S.'s notice 
said, after she had been sick some time, and a few 
weeks before her death, she obtained evidence of 
her acceptance with God. We are happy to cor-
rect this even at this late date, as sonic persons 
have been disposed to accuse our brother of mak-
ing an incorrect statement. 
NEW WORKS.-We have now arranged to pub-
lish a volume of Elder 0. R. Fassett's discourses, 
doctrinal and practical. Subjects : 
The Two Covenants. 
The Millennium-Two Resurrections, or Ex-
position of Rev. 20th. 
Exposition of the 11th chapter of Romans. 
This will be a timely and valuable work. We 
hope to be able to give it a wide circulation. 
A REQUEST.-Bro. C. B. Turner, now on the sick 
list, wishes to find sonic person on the coast who 
can obtain for him " Cod Liver Oil," to be extract-
ed in such manner as he shall direct-he not being 
willing to risk the oil as now prepared. Will any 
one who can respond to this, write us, or write 
brother Turner at East Randolph, Vt. 
SUMMARY. 
- In Harrisburg, Va., a girl aged fourteen 
years went to sleep on the 31st of August, and has 
not since been fully awake. 
- The London Tunes says the Austrian gov-
ernment has addressed to the President of the U. 
States a strong demand for reparation for the out-
rage offered to the imperial flag by Captain Ingra-
ham. 
-It is rumored that at a prolonged meeting 
of the cabinet at Washington, the subject under con-
sideration was a joint protest from all the principal 
governments of Europe except England, against 
Capt. Ingraham's conduct in the Kosta affair. The 
protest, it is .said, was received by the steamer 
Franklin. 
- At Ironton, Ohio, a respectable looking wo-
man, Mrs. March, the wife of a respectable me-
chanic, was arrested on the complaint of her hus-
band,, and lodged in jail, in default of $500 bail, to 
answer at court a' charge of assault and battery 
with intent to kill, for beating her own daughter, 
a child of seven years of age, with a rope, until ,it 
was considered very doubtful as to its recovery. 
- In proportion as the Oriental question as-
sumes a more pacific aspect, the differences be-
tween Switzerland and Austria gain in importance, 
and offer a variety of difficulties for solution. Al-
though desirous of peace, the Swiss people show no 
disposition to make further concessions to Austria, 
and the Bond has approved of the policy of resist-
ance recommended by the Bunderrath. There is 
every appearance that the fortifications at Bellin-
zona will be carried on with great spirit. 
- One day last week, in South Carrolton, 
Mublenbure• co., Ky., a young lady of good char-
acter, daughter of Col. Wilson, having been cal-
umniated by a young man, called upon him, armed 
with a revolver, accompanied by her father'. The 
slanderer would not, or did not, deny his allega-
tions, whereupon she fired, inflicting a dangerous 
if not a fatal wound in his throat: 
In Buffalo, New York, a young man, be-
longing to Rochester, but for the past six years a 
student in the schools of the former city, became a 
raving maniac. his physician attributes his mel-
ancholy condition to an excess of study, and the 
constant ambition to excel, by which he was in-
spired. In one of his paroxysms he assaulted one 
of his attendants, bit off one of his fingers, and oth-
erwise wounded him. He also assaulted a young 
lady to whom he was engaged. "' 8"R" 
The sudden appearance of a Russian squad-
ron in the China seas has given rise to much spec-
ulation. It was conjectured by some that the ves-
sels were sent as a sort of flotilla of observation, 
commissioned to watch and report upon the con-
nection of foreign powers with the revolutionists; 
others, that the Emperor of the North was about 
to assist his Eastern brother in quieting his now 
troublesome subjects ; but the weight of popular 
opinion inclined to the belief that the ships would 
set off for Japan, and perhaps anticipate, the Amer-
icans at Jeddo. 
-Mr. E. Meriam, of Brooklyn, has taken the 
trouble to keep a record of the deaths, injuries, &c., 
reported in the New. York papers, to have been 
caused by the use Of eainphene, burning fluid, ros-
in oil, and similar preparations, during the year 
ending Auemst 31st, 1853. From this record we 
learn that ten persons were burned to death by 
caniphene, &c., in New York, four in Brooklyn, 
and five in other .places, while by the seine causes 
fourteen were badly injured in New York, nine in 
Brooklyn, and five in other places. Several of the 
persons reported injured, were so severely burned, 
that it is probable they died. In several cases 
houses were set on fire by the explosion's. 
" THE CRADLE OF OUR SAVIOUR."-The Journal 
de Bruxelles says, that the Pope has sent the Duke 
of Brabant a fragment of the wood of the manger 
which .formed the cradle of our Saviour. When 
this precious relic was presented to his RoyabIligh-
ness, he is said to have been much affected. The 
Duke is aged 18 years. He is the heir-apparent to 
the Belgian throne, and was recently married to an 
Austrian princess. He is also a grandson of the 
late King of France, Louis Philippe. His father, 
who was a Protestant until called to Belgium in 
1830, was first married to the Princess Charlotte 
of Great Britain, who died in 1817. 
RUSSIAN TROOPS IN THE PROVINCES.-The London 
Times correspondent says : 
" All accounts from Wallachia agree as to the 
unhealthy state of the Russian troops, and the un-
feeling neglect of their comforts shown by their su-
perior officers, who treat them as mere machines. 
They were observed marching into Bucharest un-
der the burning heat of a July sun, sweltering un-
der the load of their great-coats, winter clothing, 
and heavy knapsacks, many of them from time to 
time dropping on the road through fatigue. Ty-
phus fever commits great ravages 'amongst theme. 
They have, it is said, a great dread of the superior 
prowess of the Turkish soldier, but express their 
determination to go forward to certain death and 
glory to fight for the Holy Sepulchre, which they 
say'hae been sold by the Sultan to the Jews. They 
frequently ask how far it is to 'Jerusalem, which 
they regard as the future field of battle." 
A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, 
speaking of the improvement in morals in San 
Francisco, says :-" Our city has become a city of 
churches and the Sabbath day regarded almost uni-
versally gas a day of rest. Society is blessed with 
the presence of women, who are now flocking to 
our shores in vast numbers, bringing the children 
of the East to bless and cheer the sterner sex. 
Gambling is fast dying out. Houses that one year 
ago would have rented for $3,000 to $5,000 per 
month, for gambling purposes, are now offered for 
business marts at $1,000 to $1,500 per month. 
On Long Wharf, where one year ago there was 
over a dozen gambling houses, there is now but one 
in operation. The same may be said of other 
prominent localities. 
FACTS ABOUT THE FEVER.-The New Orleans Cres-
cent says, a few months ago a merchant of this city 
took to his home and heart a youthful bride, and 
went to reside in the Fourth District. Wishing to 
live in privacy, he engaged only one servant-a 
fresh green girl, from the Emerald Isle. She took 
the fever and died in a few days. Another was 
hired and shared the same fate. A third and a 
fourth filled the vacancy in the household, and fol-
lowed in succession the sweeping summons of the 
same fell destroyer. Following the impulse of a 
natural dread, the merchant went to Mobile to 
avoid the destructive visitation of the scourge, and 
the next day buried his young and beautiful bride 
Disgusted with a home where naught but empty 
chambers served to call up the memories of de-
parted joys, he returned to the city to sell out his 
household, determined to leave a locality to him so 
suggestive of sorrow. He died that day. When 
our informant visited the premises, there was but 
one living creature. It was a solitary parrot, 
swinging in its lonely cage, wailing Anwittingly its 
desetteestate, Alas, poor poll ! 
A THRILLING SCENE.-A few days since, as the 
express train for Baltimore was passing the vicini-
ty of Naaman's creek, at the rate of forty miles an 
hour, a horrifying sight was witnessed by those 
having charge of the train. A man, apparently a 
fishetnian, inhabiting one of the shanties close by, 
who was laboring under mania a potu, had thrown 
himself upon the, rails for the purpose of self de-
struction ; but two females having drawn him off, 
were engaged in a dreadful struggle to prevent his 
again throwing himself before the train. One had 
a deadly grip of his legs, while the other was kneel-
ing upon his breast, as the iron horse went thun-
dering by, just. grazing her clothing ; indeed so 
close was she, that her own escape from instant 
death was most imminent. The whole scene occu-
pied but an instant, and scarcely any of the pas-
sengerszwere aware of the calamity which had been 
impending. Those who witnessed it were horror 
struck, knowing the impossibility to prevent the 
destruction of all three, if the maniac succeeded in 
struggling only a few inches nearer the rail. 
Philadelphia Ledger. 
"Youth's Guide." 
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CONTRNTS OF THE SEPT. NO. 
Michael the Miner. 
The Four Pistareens. 
Reading for the Young. 
Whitsuntide in England. 
Daily Lite of the Christian Child. 
How to Remember. 
Always Going to Church. 
Who was the Gentleman ? 
Don't Waste your Time ; or a 
Self-Inquiries. 
Enigma, &c. 
An Ingenious Puzzle. 
A Funny Petition, 
Lesson for Young Men. 
Appointments, Re. 
L. D. THOMPSON will preach at Claremont, N.11., Sunday, Sept. 
25th ;.Grautham, 26th ; Fisherville, 27th Loudon Ridge, 28th ; 
Loudon Mills, 29th ; Allenstown, 30th; Exeter, Sunday, Oct. 2d ; 
Portsmouth, 3d ; Rye, 4th and 5th ; Hampton, 6th ; Kingston 
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word again, and of laboring for the advancement of the cause of 
Christ. (For the brethren.) I. II. SHIPMAN. 
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long as it may be proper, D. V. 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
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CAMP MEETINGS, &c. 
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to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Let us make this 
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The Vast Army " The Eastern Question 
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 " The Prophecy of Isaiah .... 308 
Sabbath Etertainments " The Abomination and Holy 
Religious Condition of Oer- 
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many 
 " Russia and Turkey 309 
Translation of the Bible into 
My Journal 
 
English 
 " The Discussion 310 
ReligioUS Quackery at Con- 
The Scriptures 311 
stantinople 
 307 Letter from Elk County, Pa. " 
Christ Raising the Widow's 
Tour West . 
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