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LONGING FOR CHRIST'S RETURN. 
By DR. ISAAC WATTS. 
O 'twos a mommfal parting' day, 
" Farewell, my spouse," he said ! 
(How tedious, Lord, is thy delay ! 
How long my love has staid.) 
" Farewell," at once be left the ground, 
And climbed his Father's sky 
Lord, I would tempt thy chariot down, 
Or leap to ghee on high. 
Round the creation wild I rove, 
And search the globe in vain ; 
There's nothing here that's worth my love, 
Till thou return again. 
My passions fly to seek their king, 
And send their groans abroad, 
They beat the sic with heavy wing, 
And mourn an absent God. 
With inward pain my heart-strings sound, 
My soul dissolves away ; 
Dear sovereign, whirl the seasons round, 
And bring the promised day. 
 
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The New Heavens and New Earth. 
BY THOMAS BURNET. 
r Mr. BURNET, a learned English writer, and secretary to king 
WILLIAM, was horn A. D. 1(32 His Theory of the Earth, from 
which these extracts are taken, does not favor probation after the 
advent.] 
(Concluded.) 
Our third argument is this : the future king-
dom of Christ will not take place, till the king-
dom of Antichrist be wholly destroyed : but 
that will not be wholly destroyed till the end of 
the world, and the appearing of our Saviour; 
therefore the millennium will not be till then. 
Christ and Antichrist cannot reign upon earth 
together; their kingdoms are opposite, as light 
to darkness: besides, the kingdom of Christ is 
universal, extends to all the nations, and leaves 
no room for other kingdoms at that time. Thus 
it is described in Daniel, in the place mentioned 
before, (Chap. 7:13, 14): " I saw in the night 
visions, and behold, one like the Son of man 
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the 
Ancient of days; and there was given him do-
minion and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo-
ple, nations, and languages should serve him." 
And again (v. 27), " And the kingdom and do-
minion, and the greatness of the kingdom un-
der the whole heaven, shall be given to the peo-
ple of the saints of the Most High, whose king-
dom is an everlasting kingdom, and all domin-
ions shall serve and obey him." The same 
character of universality is given to the king-
dom of Christ by David, (Psalms 2d and 72d ; 
Isa. 2:2,) and other prophets. But the most di-
rect proof of this is from the Apocalypse, where 
the beast and false prophet are thrown into the 
lake of fire and brimstone (chap. 19:20), before 
the millennium comes on.—chap. 20. This, be-
ing cast into a lake of fire burning with brim-
stone, must needs signify utter destruction ; not 
a diminution of power only, but a total perdi-
tion and consumption. And that this was be-
fore the millennium, both the order of the nar-
ration shows, and its place in the prophecy ; and 
also because notice is taken, at the end of the 
millennium, of the beast and false prophet being 
in the lake of fire, as of things past, and forrnely 
transacted : for when Satan, at length, is thrown 
into the same lake, it is said he is thrown into 
the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast 
and the false prophet are.—Apoc. 20:10. They 
were there before, it seems, namely, at the be-
ginning of the millennium ; and now, at the 
conclusion of it, the devil is thrown into them : 
besides, the ligation of Satan proves this point 
effectually ; but so long as Antichrist reigns, 
Satan cannot be said to be bound : but he is 
bound at the beginning of the millennium, 
therefore Antichrist's reign was then totally ex-
pired. Lastly : the destruction of Babylon, and 
the destruction of Antichrist, go together ; but 
you see Babylon utterly and finally destroyed 
(Apoc. 18 and 19) before the millennium comes 
on : I say, utterly and finally destroyed ; for 
she is not only said to be made an utter desola-
tion, but to be consumed by fire, and absorpt as 
a mill-stone thrown into the sea ; and that shall 
be found no more at all.—chap. 18:21. Nothing 
can express a total and universal destruction 
more effectually, or more emphatically. And 
this is before the millennium begins ; as you 
may see both by the order of the prophecies, 
and particularly in that upon this destruction, 
the hallelujahs are sung, (chap. 19,) and con-
cluded thus (vs. 6, 7) : " Hallelujah, for the 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad 
and rejoice, and give honor to him : for the mar-
riage of the Lamb is come, and his wife bath 
made herself ready." This, I suppose, every 
one allows to be the millennial state, which now 
approaches, and is making ready, upon the de-
struction of Babylon. 
Thus much for the first part of our prgument, 
that the kingdom of Christ will riot take place 
till the kingdom of Antichrist be wholly de-
stroyed. We are now to prove the second part : 
that the kingdom of Antichrist will not be 
wholly destroyed till the end of the world, and 
the coming of our Saviour. This, one would 
think, is sufficiently proved from St. Paul's 
words alone, (2 Thess. 2.8) : The Lord shall 
consume the man of sin," who is supposed the 
same with Antichrist, " with the spirit of his 
mouth, and shall destroy him with the bright• 
ness of his coming." He will not then be de-
stroyed before the corning of our Saviour ; and 
that will not be till the end of the world. For 
St. Peter says (Acts. 3 : 21), "The heavens 
must receive him," speaking of Christ," until the 
times of restitution of all things ;" that is, the 
renovation of the world. And if we consider 
that our Saviour's coming will be in flames of 
fire, as the same apostle St. Paul tells us (2 
Thess. 1:7, 8), it is plain that his coming will 
not be till the conflagration; in which last 
flames, Antichrist will be universally destroyed. 
This manner of destruction agrees also with the 
Apocalypse, and with Dahiel, and the prophets 
of the Old Testament. As to the Apocalypse, 
Babylon, the seat of Antichrist, is represented 
there as destroyed by fire.---chap. 18:8, 18; 
chap. 14:11; chap. 19:3, 20. And in Daniel, 
when the beast is destroyed (chap. 7:11), his 
body was given to the burning flame. Then as 
to the other prophets, they do not, you know, 
speak of Antichrist, or the beast, in terms, but 
under the types of Babylon, Tyre, and such-
like ; arid these places or princes are represented 
by them as to be destroyed-by fire.—Isa. 13:19; 
Jer. 51:25 ; Ezek. 18. 
So much for this third argument. The fourth 
argument is this : the future kingdom of Christ 
will not be till the day of judgment, and the 
resurrection ; but that will not be till the end 
of the world ; therefore, neither the kingdom of 
Christ. By the day of judgment here, I do not 
mean the final and universal judgment ; nor 
by the resurrection, the final and' universal res-
urrection ; for these will not be till after the 
millennium. But we understand here, the first 
day of judgment, and the first resurrection, 
which will be at the end of this present world ; 
according as St. John does distinguish them in 
the 20th chapter of the Apocalypse. Now that 
the millennium will not be till the day of judg-
ment in this sense, we have both the testimonies 
of Daniel and of St. John. Daniel, (in chap. 
7, v. 9, etc., v. 20, etc.,) supposes the beast to 
rule till judgment shall sit, and then they shall 
take away his dominion, and it shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High. 
St. John makes an explicit declaration of both 
these in his 20th chapter of the Apocalypse, 
which is the great directory in this point of the 
millennium; he says, there were thrones set, as 
for a judicature.—v. 4. Then there was a res-
urrection from the dead ; and those that rose 
reigned with Christ a thousand years : here is 
a judicial session, a resurrection, and the reign 
of Christ, joined together. There is also an-
other passage in St. John, that joins the judg-
ment of the dead with the kingdom of Christ ; 
it is in the 9th chapter, under the seventh 
trumpet; the words are these (v. 15), "And the 
seventh angel sounded, and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this 
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, 
and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever 
and ever. And the four and twenty elders, etc. 
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come, and the time of the dead that they should 
be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward 
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, 
and them that fear thy name." Here are two 
things plainly expressed and linked together, 
the judging of the dead, and the kingdom of 
Christ ; wherein the prophets and saints are re-
warded. Now as the judging of the dead is 
not in this life, so neither is the reward of the 
prophets and saints in this life ; as we are taught 
sufficiently in the gospel, and by the apostles.—
Matt. 19:28; 1 Thess. 1:7; 2 Tim. 4:8 ; 1 Pet. 
1:7; and chap. 5:4. Therefore the reign and 
kingdom of Christ, which is joined with these 
two, cannot be in this life, or before the end of 
the world : and as a farther testimony and con-
firmation of this, we may observe, that St. Paul 
to Timothy bath joined together these three 
things : the appearance of Christ, the reign of 
Christ, and the judging of the dead " I charge 
thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead 
at his appearing, and his kingdom."-2 Tim. 4:1. 
This might also be proved from the order, ex-
tent, and progress of the prophecies of the 
Apocalypse ; whereof some are such as reach 
to the end of the world, and yet must be accom-
plished before the millennium begin, as the 
phials. Others are so far already advanced to-
wards the end of the world, as to leave no room 
for a thousand years reign ; as the trumpets.—
But because every one hath his own interpreta-
tion of these prophecies, and it would be tedious 
here to prove any single hypothesis in contra-
distinction to all the rest, we will therefore leave 
this remark, to have more or less effect, accord-
ing to the minds it falls upon, and proceed to our 
fifth argument. 
Fifthly, the new Jerusalem state is the same 
with the millennial state ; but the new Jerusa-
lem state will not be till the end of the world, 
or till after the conflagration ; therefore neither 
the millennium. That the new Jerusalem state 
is the same with the millennium, is agreed 
upon, I think, by all millenaries, ancient and 
modern : Justin Martyr, IrenHus, and Tertullian 
speak of it in that sense; and so do the later 
authors, so far as 1 have observed. And St. 
John seems to give them good authority for it; 
in the 20th chapter of the Apocalypse he says, 
the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, 
were besieged by Satan and his gigantic crew 
at the end of the millennium : that beloved city 
is the new Jerusalen ; and you see it is the 
same with the camp of the saints, or, at least, 
contemporary with it. Besides, the marriage 
of the Lamb was in, or at the appearance, of 
the new Jerusalem ; for that was the spouse of 
the Lamb.—Apoc. 21:2. Now this spouse was 
ready, and this marriage was said to be come, 
at the destruction of Babylon, which was the 
beginning of the millennium.-28:7, There-
fore the new Jerusalem run all along with the 
millennium, and was, indeed, the same thing 
under another name. Lastly, what is this new 
Jerusalem, if it be not the same with the mil-
lennial state ? It is promised as a reward to 
the sufferers for Christ (Apoc. 3:12), and you 
see its wonderful privileges (chap. 21:3, 4), and 
yet it is not heaven and eternal life; for it is 
said to come down from God out of heaven.—
Apoc. 21 : 2, and 3:11. It can therefore be 
nothing but the glorious kingdom of Christ upon 
earth, where the saints shall reign with him a 
thousand years. 
Now as to the second part of our argument, 
that the new Jerusalem will riot come down 
from heaven till the end of the world ; of this 
St. John seems to give us a plain proof or dem-
onstration ; for he places the new Jerusalem in 
the new heavens and new earth ; which cannot 
be till after the conflagration. Let us hear his 
words (Apoc. 21:1, 2) : " And I saw a new 
heaven, and a new earth : for the first heaven 
and the first earth were psssed away; and there 
was no more sea. And I John saw the holy 
city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God 
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for 
her husband." When the new earth was made, 
he sees the new Jerusalem coming down upon 
it ; and this renovation of the earth not being 
till the conflagration, the new Jerusalem could 
not be till then neither. The prophet Isaiah 
had long before said the same thing, though not 
in terms so express ; he first says, " Behold, I 
create new heavens and a new earth, wherein 
you shall rejoice :" then subjoins immediately, 
" Behold. I create Jerusalem a rejoicing."—Isa. 
65:17, 18. This rejoicing is still in the same 
place ; in the new heavens and new earth, or, 
in the new Jerusalem. And St. John, in a like 
method, first sets down the new earth, then the 
new Jerusalem ; and expresses the mind of the 
prophet Isaiah more distinctly. 
This leads me to a sixth argument to confirm 
our conclusion : the time of the restitution or 
restoration of all things, spoken of by St. Peter 
and the prophets, is the same with the millen-
nium ; but that restoration will not be till the 
corning of Christ, and the end of the world ; 
therefore neither the millennium. That this 
restitution of all things will not be till the com-
ing of our Saviour, St. Peter declares in his 
sermon (Acts. 3:21), and that the coming of our 
Saviour will not be till the end of the world, or 
till the conflagration, both St. Paul and St. 
Peter signify to us, (1 Thess. 1:7, 8; 2 Pet. 
3:10), therefore it remains only to prove, that 
this restitution of all things, spoken of here by 
the apostle, is the same with the millennium. 
I know, that which it does directly and imme-
diately signify, is the renovation of the world ; 
but it must include the moral world as well as 
the natural; otherwise it cannot be truly said, 
as St. Peter does there, that all the prophets 
have spoken of it. And what is the renovation 
of the natural and moral world, but the new 
Jerusalem, or the millennium ? 
These arguments, taken together, have, to me, 
an irresistible evidence for the proof of our con-
clusion, that the blessed millennium cannot ob-
tain in the present earth, or before the confla-
gration : but when nature is renewed, and the 
saints and martyrs raised from the dead ; then 
they shall reign together with Christ in the new 
heavens and new earth, or in the new Jerusa-
lem ; Satan being bound for a thousand years. 
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Sketches ®f Travel. 
No. II.—LIVERPOOL. 
" So here I am at last in the old country," 
said 1 to myself involuntarily, as 1 stepped 
ashore with something of the feelings of an ex-
ile returning to the land of his fathers. For we 
do not feel like aliens in those countries which 
have always occupied a large place in our 
minds ; whose history has been the wonder arid 
delight of our childhood ; the lives of whose 
great men have been the food of our youthful 
aspirations ; and to whose literature we are 
mainly indebted for the development, growth, 
and culture of our mental faculties. They are 
not foreign from our thoughts and affections. 
We have often visited them in imagination ; 
and now that we ate actually there, we seem to 
have been there before. Memories of the past 
come forth to meet us, old associations take us 
by the hand and greet us in familiar tones, as if 
welcoming us back again to some former home. 
Especially is this true of ENGLAND—in every 
sense our mother country, the prolific source 
of all our virtues and of all our glories. The 
germs of all our free institutions were found in 
her. They only needed a more genial soil and 
more auspicious skies, in order to attain their 
present luxuriance. Till within a compara-
tively recent period, our history is the same as 
that of England. We have an equal share in Li/ 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
her great names. Chaucer, Shakspeare, and 
Milton are our poets. Bacon, Locke, and New- 
ton are our philosophers. Coke, Hale, and 
Blackstone are our jurists. Chatham, Burke, 
and Erskine are our orators. No Englishman 
has any better title to these names than we 
have. 
Our baggage was placed in charge of a car-
man who had obtained a permit to have it ex-
amined at the Dock depot, whether we followed 
him. The officer in attendance, a very civil, 
gentlemanly man, put me to very little trouble, 
not even opening my carpet-bag. My fellow- 
passengers were not su fortunate. One of 
them had two or three American reprints of 
English authors—Dickens' and Lever's works 
—which were condemned to the flames with-
out leave of redemption. Another had a par-
cel of tobacco, a package of letters, and a num-
ber of daguerreotypes from children in America 
to their parents in Wales, which were seized 
with great indignation, and subjected the bearer 
to a vexafous and expensive detention before 
a magistrate. The best way to avoid trouble 
at the Custom House, the only honest way in-
deed, is to have nothing contraband in your 
possession, so that you can carry a clear con-
science. Above all, keep clear of American re-
prints, private letters, and tobacco. 
The general appearance of Liverpool was 
more inviting than I had supposed. Its streets, 
though not so wide or regular as those of New 
York, are much cleaner and better paved. The 
buildings are not generally as lofty, (except the 
warehouses, which are seven or eight stories,) 
but more relieved by architectural ornaments, 
heavy cornices, paneling, and pediments. Some 
of the new blocks in Broadway, e. g., that on 
the site of Grace church, are more in the Eng-
lish style of commercial building. The streets 
are much more quiet than in New York, most 
of the heavy business being confined to the 
neighborhood of the docks. 
These docks are the greatest " lions " of Liv-
erpool. They are constructed in the side of 
the bank of the river, and are on a most stu-
pendous scale :—wet, and dry, and graving 
docks, connected with wide and commodious 
quays and immense warehouses. The wet docks 
occupy a superficies of ninety acres, 3,384 yards, 
and the quays measure seven miles one hun-
dred and fifty-six yards in length. Within a few 
years extensive docks have also been construct-
ed on the opposite side of the Mersey at Birk-
enhead. 
The principal public buildings are the Town 
Hall, the Exchange, and the Custom House. 
The Town Hall is a handsome Palladian build-
ing, surmounted by a dome, which is crowned 
by a statue of Britannia. It contains a number 
of portraits, a statue of Roscoe by Chantrey, 
and on the landing of the staircase, one of Can-
ning by the same artist. The Exchange build-
ings form three sides of a square, in the centre 
of which is a group of statuary in memory of 
Nelson, executed by Westmacott in 1813. Vic-
tory is just about to crown the hero as Death, par-
tially concealed by a shroud, stretches out his 
skeleton hand and touches his heart, while a sail- 
or stands before in an attitude of defence, and 
another kneels behind, lamenting his fate. On 
the sides of the base are bas-reliefs of Nelson's 
victories ; and four colossal male figures, in at-
titudes of humiliation and grief, are chained to 
the corners. The new Custom House, by far 
the finest building in Liverpool, both in mag-
nitude and architectural dimensions, contains 
also the Post Office, Excise Office, the Stamp 
Office, the Dock Treasurer, and Secretary's Of-
fice, the Board-room and offices of the Dock 
Committee, There is also a splendid building 
recently erected, though in an unfirtished state, 
opposite the Station-house of the London and 
North Western Railway in Lime-street, called 
St. George's Hall, to be devoted to the Fine 
Arts. It is in the Grecian style, and has an 
exquisitely wrought 'sculpture in bas-relief on 
the front pediment, representing several fig-
ures, Commerce, Agriculture, the FineArts and 
Sciences, &c., bringing their tribute to Britannia. 
I was struck with the marked difference in 
the appearance of people I met in the streets 
from those I had been accustomed to see at 
home. The people here are heartier, fuller-
faced, ruddier, carry their heads higher, and 
project their chests more, their lips are more 
parted, as if breathing more freely, and they 
are more leisurely in their gait. They have 
mare of the vivacity and buoyancy of youth, 
their tones of voice are higher and more varied, 
and to use a common English expression, they 
look much more " jolly " than our New York 
merchants, driving along Wall-street, as if hurry-
ing for dear life, nith stooping shoulders, com-
pressed lips, pale faces, and anxious looks. 
One notices the absence of the large-painted 
and gilded signs, which line the sides of our 
streets—the prevailing mode here being wide 
plates-of brass or white metal on the door-posts 
or window sills, engraved with large letters, 
and kept bright by daily scrubbing. l'he drink-
ing establishments are styled " Vaults "—e. 
L
Ale, and porter, and wine, and spirit vaults." 
You see a great many little donkeys in the 
streets, some rode by children, and others har-
nessed in carts—poney carriages with lady-
drivers—and huge draught horses three and 
four tandem, whose load is limited by a special 
ordinance to sixteen barrels of flour apiece. In 
case of a fire, you will see the engines drawn by 
horses on the gallop, followed by a string of 
carts with casks of 'water to feed the engines 
till the water is let on from the hydrants. The 
water which supplies the town is not flowing 
at all times, but is only let on at certain sea-
sons to fill the cisterns attached to the houses. 
The markets in Liverpool are well worthy 
of a visit, particularly St. John's, which covers 
nearly two acres of ground, and is all under 
one roof, supported by one hundred and sixteen 
pillars. The market in Great Charlotte-street 
is celebrated for its fine fish—salmon and tur-
bot, and a singular-looking red fish called " gur-
nets," with a head shaped like the inverted stern 
of a ship. 
St. James' Cemetery is also quite a curiosity. 
It was formerly a quarry of red sandstone, but 
has now been converted into catacombs. It is 
situated in the midst of the town, surrounded 
by streets and blocks of houses, enclosed by an 
iron railing. Near the entrance is a beautiful 
marble chapel. You descend a path cut in 
stone, now leading through a tunnel in the 
rock, till you come out upon a level spot in the 
bottom of the ravine, which constitutes the 
cemetery, and is laid out in walks and flower-
beds, and adorned with shrubbery and trees.—
The sides of the ravine are mantled with creep-
ers and .ivy, in some places smooth rock, in 
others hewn stone laid in arches and contain-
ing vaults. In the centre is a small circular 
stone building, containing a marble statue of 
Huskisson, the distinguished Parliamentary pa-
tron of Railways, one of Liverpool's greatest 
benefactors. 
Several pleasant excursions may be made in 
the environs of Liverpool, by the omnibuses 
which run in all directions — Toxteth Park, 
West Derby, Aighurth, and Wavertree (pro-
nounced " Watery.") From the last place is 
a walk of a mile to Childwall, where is " Child-
wall Hall," belonging to the Marquis of Salis-
bury, and a very ancient church well worthy of 
a visit. It is built of red sandstone, in the old 
English style, the entrance is below the surface, 
and lined with monumental tablets of clergy-
men. The slips and seats are of oak, not painted 
or varnished, and very rude ; a great many re-
cesses containing large square pews for noble 
families, with separate entrances, and lozenge-
shaped escutcheons containing coats of arms 
hanging up over their respective pews. The 
view from the rear of the church is a fine spe-
cimen of English landscape—green fields—a 
small stream—the country sprinkled with coun-
try seats, villages, and spires, and a railway 
train passing in the distance. s. J. M. M. 
The Mosaic Account of the Creation. 
" Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 
and all the host of them. And on the seventh day 
God ended his work which he had made ; and he 
rested on the seventh day from all his work which lie 
had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and 
sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all 
his work which God created and made."—Gen. 2:1-3. 
The apostolic caution," Beware lest any man 
spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, 
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments 
of the world, and not after Christ," was never 
more needed than at this moment, owing to the 
insidious effects and pretensions of geological. 
science. Although many of its supporters are 
the avowed friends of divine revelation, we must 
consider them as deceived by the accomplish-
ments and reputation of men distinguished in 
the science of geology, and who, not contented 
with its legitimate province, go far beyond it, 
compelling revelation to bend to their specula-
tions, without regard to the disastrous conse-
quences to which it is thereby subjected. 
Among other subjects which geology has at-
tacked, is the time specified by Moses as em-
ployed by Jehovah in the creation of the world. 
Geologists would have the period of six days to 
be understood as embracing periods of vast du-
ration, not to he comprehended by our feeble 
powers. 
But the scriptural account refers, it is very 
evident, to six diurnal periods, the writer in-
tending that it should be so understood, inti-
mating no difference whatsoever as to their 
length, between them and that of the seventh 
diurnal period—the latter being only marked as 
that period on which nothing was created, the 
work of the preceding six days presenting a 
perfect and entire organization of creation, so 
that each preceding day had the perfecting of its 
peculiar work. This is plainly asserted by the 
divine word as applicable to every department of 
creation. " The Lord God made the earth and 
the heavens, and every plant of the field before 
it was in the earth, and every herb of the field 
before it grew." 
It is very evident, then, that on this principle 
(its immediate perfection by the word of God,) 
creation in all its parts was effected, so that long 
periods of time, as geologists assert, were not 
necessary, neither were they employed in crea-
tion. We might as well contend for periods of 
time as necessary for the growth of plants and 
herbs, which are said to have been created be-
fore they grew, or even were in the field, as 
contend for periods of time as necessary for the 
creation of the different strata on the earth's 
surface. What was created, was created by the 
word of God, " so that things which are seen 
were not made of things which do appear."— 
Creation, in all its parts, being a series of stu- 
pendous miracles accomplished by the simple 
fiat of God, and applicable to all that is on the 
earth's surface, as well as to that which is not 
immediately cognizant by our senses, but essen-
tial for the welfare and comfort of his creatures. 
I here allude, not to formations which are un-
doubtedly effected by time, under the influence 
of chemical action, since creation, but to those 
formations on which the great age of creation is 
predicated by geologists. 
If, as must be admitted by all who receive 
the Scriptures as the word of God, Jesus of 
Nazareth, in his pre-existent state, was the 
great Creator, and if he, while on earth, dis-
played his creating power without the inter- 
vention of laws of production or of reproduction, 
why should it be thought a thing incredible that 
he formed the earth just as it is stated as re- 
gards time in the Mosaic account of the crea- 
tion ? The loaves and fishes with which he 
fed five thousand men, besides women and chil- 
dren, were not produced by the laws of produc- 
tion, for he created fishes which never swam, 
and bread from grain which never grew. Those 
came from his hand as fast as they could be-dis- 
tributed to the famishing multitude, and if so, 
why should the diurnal periods of time, accord- 
ing to the Mosaic account of the creation, not 
be sufficient for the production of the various 
phenomena of creation in the geological struc- 
ture of the earth's surface ? The divine fiat, 
and not time, being all that was requisite, ac-
cording to the statement of the writer of the 
book of Genesis, and all that was employed by 
the great Creator. 
Some geologists, who would like to retain the 
assumptions of their science as to the period of 
time in creating, and reconcile them with the 
Mosaic account, would refer it to the period.oc-
cupied by the reorganization of the earth, fitting 
it for the reception of man, and not to its first 
origin. But this goes on the ground that God 
must needs have had laws to effect his pur- 
poses in creation, and by so doing they limit 
the omnipotent God, whose power was just as 
equal to the task of creating at once, as of giv-
ing to matter a certain period of time to effect 
his purposes. 
In conclusion, had long periods of time been 
employed in creation, there would have been 
little or no force in constituting a diurnal period 
as comprehending the Sabbatical institution, the 
force of the observance of the institution lying 
in that the work of creating occupied just six 
of these diurnal periods, as in the text that 
heads this article, and not long, interminable 
periods of time, God requiring, after his own 
example, a cessation from labor after that of 
six diurnal periods, namely, the seventh as com- 
prehending the institution. And this very rea-
son is assigned when the divine institute was 
again promulgated from Sinai : "For in six 
days the Lord made heaven arid earth, the sea, 
and all that in them is, arid rested the seventh 
day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath 
day and hallowed it." 
Thus do we dispose of the opposition of geo-
logical science to divine revelation, by an ap- 
peal to the word of God itself in support of its 
own statements. It asserts that the work of 
creation was a miracle, and unless we are pre- 
pared to give eternity to matter, it is just as 
reasonable to conclude that the world was made 
in six days, and at the period specified by Mo-
ses (as thousands of millions of years ago) when 
the eternal God thought fit to cormnand its ex-
istence. We have no objection that geology 
should drill and bore the earth for its own le-
gitimate purposes, but would protest against its 
pretended discoveries being reared and shaped 
into a science to invalidate the teachings of the 
Bible as to the period of creation and the man-
ner of creating. " Let God be true, and every 
man a liar." 
Watchman and Reflector. 
The Image of God. 
" In the day that God created man, in the likeness 
of God made he man.. . . And Adam begot a son 
in his own likeness, after his image."—Gen. 5:1, 3. 
If we would form a right estimate of man's 
reason in his fallen state, we must try to ascer-
tain the condition in which it came forth from 
the hand of the Almighty. Of the precise na-
ture of that condition, in all its faculties, we are 
not informed ; but the Scripture describes it in 
general terms, quite sufficient to satisfy the in-
quiries of every honest mind. 
The very first mention of man's creation be- 
speaks the order of his destiny : " And God 
said, Let us make man in our image, after our 
likeness ; and let him have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
ever the cattle, and over every creeping thing 
that creepeth upon the earth."—Gen, 1:26. 
" Let us make man in our image, after our 
likeness." In what did the image and likeness 
of God consist? Was it in the form of the 
body, or yet in the structure and properties of 
the mind ? How could these be called the image 
of the invisible God, seeing they are but the 
creatures of his hand? No : the image of God 
must consist in the moral likeness of God, in 
itself untreated ; eternal as God is eternal, and 
holy as he is holy. This is clearly proved 
by terms in which Scripture designates the re-
covery of the soul by grace. It is " renewed 
in knowledge after the image of him that cre-
ated him."—Col. 3:10. It puts on " the new man, 
which after God is created in righteousness and 
true holiness."—Eph. 4:24. We may then as-
sume it as a fact, that man, spiritually speak-
ing, was at the time of this creation what he is 
when renewed by grace; that his reason was 
such as enabled him to possess and retain the 
knowledge and love of God, and to hold intel-
ligent and constant intercourse with his Maker. 
It is of great importance thus to trace the origi-
nal condition of the soul of man, as it enables 
us to confront him, in his ignorance and folly, 
with what he once was, and thus to prove to 
him how deeply he is fallen. 
The character of the intelligence that God 
imparted to man is implied in the following 
language : " And let them have dominion over 
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, 
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon 
the earth." 
Man was intended to be God's vicegerent 
upon earth ; his will to be the reflection of 
God's will ; his judgment the counterpart of the 
mind of God ; his knowledge and capability of 
rule to be derived immediately from God. Nor 
can we doubt that in like manner God implant-
ed in the brute creation an instinctive recogni-
tion of the divine will, in the authority thus 
delegated to man. This is proved by the fact 
of the animals having come instinctively to Ad-
am to be named ; and, had man retained his 
innocence, not only would the birds and beasts 
and fishes have always come at man's bidding, 
even as the domestic animals do now ; but the 
soil of the earth would, doubtless, have res-
ponded to the calls of his industry in a degree 
of which we can form no conception. Thus 
all nature, animate and inanimate, spiritual and 
physical, would have presented one harmonions 
conformity to the mind of God—one uniform 
submission to the law impressed on them at 
their creation. 
It was with this purpose that God " breathed 
into man's nostrils the breath of life, and man 
became a living soul." Consequently, together 
with animal existence, there must have been 
breathed into the soul all the spiritual life and 
intelligence which constitute the image and 
likeness of the holy God. For, when " God 
saw everything that he made," " behold it was 
very good "—altogether what God designed it 
to be ; and all that is related of man before the 
fall proves that this was the case with the Li, 
 
man soul. 
" And out of the ground the Lord God formed 
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the 
air, and brought them to Adam, to see what he 
would call them ; and whatsoever Adam called 
every living creature, that was the name thereof. 
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the 
fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." 
—Gen. 2:19, 20. There is great significance 
in its being said that God brought the animals 
to Adam "to see what he would call them."—
This implies that God hereby appealed to the in-
stinctrve knowledge of man—to a power of un-
derstanding already existing within him. We 
are told of Solomon that " he spake of trees, 
from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, to the 
hissop that springeth out of the wall : he spake 
also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping 
things, and of fishes."-1 Kings 4:33. Now the 
wisdom that enabled Solomon to do this was 
not instinctive : it was a special gift of God—
something superadded, which he as a fallen 
being did not naturally possess. But with Ad-
am the case was wholly different. He had an 
instinctive wisdom, which enabled hint to read 
at once in every animal the peculiar properties 
of its nature, and thus to bestow upon each a 
suitable name. That he performed the task in 
a mariner strictly conformable to truth is quite 
clear; for it is written that, " whatsoever Ad-
am called every living creature, that "(of course 
by divine authority) " was the name thereof." 
This fact is worthy of especial notice, because 
it proves that man, before the fall, was able, in 
all things needful, to read the mind of God, and 
thus to make his own inferences, as well as his 
own conduct, an exact counterpart of the knowl-
edge and of the will of the Lord God. 
We are told that " there came of all people 
to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the 
kings of the earth, which had heard of his wis- 
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doin."-1 Kings 4:34. But, if man had con-
tinued innocent, all would have been as Solo-
mon, or rather as Adam was before the fall, 
compared with whose instinctive knowledge the 
acquirements of Solomon himself were as a 
thing of naught. And, if we carry on our view 
of Adam's primeval intelligence to his knowl-
edge of the heavenly bodies, in their orbits and 
mutual bearings, and of all that is called physi-
cal science, what a vast idea it gives us of the 
endowments of man, as he came forth from the 
hand of God ! Compared with this, what are 
all the present attainments of man in his la• 
borious and up-hill pursuit of knowledge in its 
various branches ! And yet we may presume, 
by reason of the exeeeding glory to be conferred 
upon the saints in Christ, that the knowledge of 
Adam himself in his innocence was nothing to 
what they will possess hereafter. 
The chief object of man's creation, the chief 
glory of his innocence, was that he should hold 
spiritual intercourse with his Maker. This is 
implied in the very fact of his having been en-
dued with spiritual intelligence, and of his hav-
ing been made in the likeness and image of 
God. It is also to be gathered in the strong 
light of inference (breaking through the dark 
clouds that envelop the fall of man,) from what 
is related of our first parents after the commis-
sion of their sins : " And they heard the voice 
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the 
cool of the day."—Gen. 3:8. Does not this 
unfold the intimate nature of man's intercourse 
with God before the fall ? 
We are told of Moses that the Lord spake unto 
him " face to face, as a man speaketh to his 
friend."—Ex. 33:12. And Abraham, from his 
frequent intercourse with the Lord, as well as 
trom the simplicity of his faith, " was called the 
friend of God."—Jas. 2:23 But here, as in the 
case of Solomon's wisdom, theeffect was that 
of special inspiratian, whereas in Adam it was 
that of natural intuition. Of this we have fur-
ther proof in the character of the " new man of 
the heart," which is " after God, created in 
righteousness and true holiness," being " re-
newed in knowledge, after the image of him 
that created him.''—Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10. 
Now one of the glorious properties of the 
"new man" is that he can hold fellowship with 
God himself ; for it is written, " And truly our 
fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son 
Jesus Christ."-1 John 1:3. And it cannot be 
doubted that, as a created intelligence—made 
" in the image of God, after his likeness "—
man, in his innocence, must have had direct and 
sensible intercourse with his Maker, although 
the nature of his fellowship with God must 
have been greatly inferior to that which is the 
heritage of God's people in Christ Jesus. 
But we know that it was not in knowledge 
only, but also " in righteousness and true holi-
ness," that man's reason sufficed him before the 
fall ; for as he knew God's will, so he loved to 
do it. Reason directed, and the heart obeyed; 
consequently man's moral conduct was a cor-
rect delineation of the features of that "image 
of God," in which he was created. 
Such was man in his primitive condition, such 
the nature of the reason which God bestowed 
upon him. But no sooner had our first parents 
committed the act of disobedience, than reason, 
in the true sense of the word, vanished from 
their minds. The sense of God's omnipresence 
still lingered in the conscience ; but reason, in 
-its blindness, disowned the fact; and ever since, 
all that was before instinctive in man, as to the 
knowledge and love of God, has to be received 
by inspiration, step by step, and truth by truth. 
We are in the habit of calling this the fall of 
reason—we should rather call it reason's death. 
If the term " death " is applied to a thing " that 
was, and is not," can it, under any circum-
stances, he more correctly applied ? In man 
there had been spiritual intelligence—loving, 
intimate, and childlike intercourse with God. 
This had been, and was not. It was dead, as 
much as though it had never been. The soul 
of reason had departed, and left it a dead corpse 
of spiritual ignorance and imperception. " In 
`the clay that thou eatest thereof thou shaltsurely 
die."—Gen. 2:17. The penalty had been in-
curred : the sentence upon the spiritual part of 
man's being was fully executed : his soul was 
dead. From that time to the present hour man, 
in his natural condition, has been groping in 
the dark, in the lowest depths of ignorance and 
death. Civilization and philosophy may veil 
the naked deformity of his condition ; the pro-
fession of Christianity, and a head-knowledge 
of its truths, may appear to substitute light for 
darkness ; but, nevertheless, no man, unless 
he have been the subject of a spiritual change, 
can possess even the elements of the knowledge 
of God ; for it is written : " No man knoweth 
who the Son is, but the Father ; and who the 
Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the 
Son will reveal him."—Luke 10:22. 
And here, if it be admitted that the chief 
purpose of an intelligent being is to hold inter-
course with his Maker, the question may be 
proposed to any one who admits this truth, 
whether he himself is conscious of having any 
direct intercourse with God ; and, if not, how 
this can be accounted for on any other principle 
but on that of human nature having fallen from 
its original condition, and human reason having 
died the death ? If our perceptions of Deity 
amount to no more than a mist of undefined 
sensation ; if our view of heavenly things be 
like looking at a dead wall, this is not to know 
God, nor to hold intercourse with the Most High. 
Church of England Magazine. 
Questionable Sermonizing. 
The clarion voice of Liberty may shout at 
the approach of him who is viewed as the in-
carnation of the spirit of freedom over the 
world ; the mass may crowd around his chari-
ot-wheels with the wildest enthusiasm ; and 
learned jurists hang on his lips while he is giv-
ing vent to the most impassioned and enno-
bling sentiments in behalf of the down-trodden 
and oppressed, and even confess that he has 
taught them new lessons on American and in-
ternational law ; but we hardly thought he 
could take the pulpit by storm, and literally de-
throne the object of all legitimate worship there. 
It seems, however, we were mistaken in our 
estimation of the extent of popular enthusiasm. 
The pulpit has been made the rostrum for pro-
claiming to the world the praises of the noble 
Hungarian, and the devotion we owe to liberty. 
Several clergymen, whose names we care not 
to repeat—although they have appeared in the 
public secular prints in their own advertisements 
—made him, on Sunday last, the theme of 
their respective discourses. They, of course, 
thought that this would be neither a disfavor to 
their people nor dishonor to God. To condemn 
them is not our business. To their own Mas-
ter they stand or fall. Hundreds of years ago, 
Peter the Hermit preached, on all days of the 
week, a crusade against the infidels who had 
seized on the land of our Saviour. This is a 
crusade against despotism. The dogmas of the 
false prophet, and the edicts of the despot, are 
alike inimical to the spirit of freedom. 
One of the preachers above alluded to, de-
nominates Kossuth " God's man for the times ;" 
and another speaks of his coming " as illustra-
tive of the second coming of Christ!" The 
negative characteristics of this last sermon an-
swered well to a description we once had of a 
similar pulpit harangue, which was said to have 
had in it neither Lord, God, Jesus Christ, nor 
devil. This was full of the fire of patriotism, 
and savored not a little or " hero worship," for 
which, we must confess, we have an instinctive 
dislike. A secular paper that reports a synop-
sis of this discourse, admits it was "wholly 
secular," but "eloquent and impassioned ;" and 
says " it is a pity that it was not delivered at 
the Irving House dinner, instead of from the 
pulpit of the house of God, where its points well-
nigh elicited applause, and laughter was sup-
pressed at times with difficulty !" 
Thus, a member of the secular . press—one, 
too, by no means fastidious—has saved us the 
trouble of passing upon such a use of the Sab-
bath. For, after such an opinion from such a 
quarter, we certainly may withhold ours, or 
simply add that, whatever this may be, it is 
certainly not the gospel of peace. When 
Phelps's great store in Fulton-street fell, and, in 
a moment, crushed to death so many hapless 
beings; when the awful conflagration of the 
Lexington, on the Sound, whelmed so many in 
a watery grave ; when the Hague-street catas-
trophe sent a thiil of horror through our city; 
and the late calitnity in Greenwich Avenue 
caused so many hearts to bleed ; then it was 
highly befitting that the pulpit take up the sol-
emn themes, for the benefit of their hearers, 
and call upon them, while God's judgments are 
abroad in the earth, to humble themselves and 
learn righteousness. Laudations of heroes, how-
ever great, and revolutions, however devoutly to 
be wished, we think entirely out of place in the 
pulpit ; and such a use of the Sabbath is but 
erecting an idol where Christ alone should be 
exalted. Let us cease from man whose breath 
is in his nostrils ; for wherein is he to be ac- 
counted of?" 
N. Y. Intelligencer. 
"I have been Slandered." 
But it will do you no good to worry yourself 
about it. You can, if you like, chafe yourself 
into as miserable a being as there is living.—
You can thus comfort your reviler, by carrying 
out his plan, which was to make you unhappy. 
It is a pity, when bitten by such a serpent, to 
turn serpent too, and bite yourself, as many do, 
by fuming and raging about the ill-usage they 
have received. 
Suppose you give chase to a slander, and 
seek to find the father of it. Who is likely to 
admit that relation? If you start out on this 
enterprize, you will find that " Gashmu said 
it;" but nobody knows who he is. You could 
as soon catch your own shadow, as catch him. 
Likely the slander is the work of a dozen hands, 
and each did so little about it, that you can 
fasten no definite charge. If you could catch 
the very Gashmu by the beard, you might have 
occasion to regret that you had befouled your 
hands by laying them on such a scape-grace. 
But in most cases, one tale-bearer finds the 
wool, another dyes it, another spins it, another 
weaves it, another sends the article to market, 
but each has done so little about it, that all slip 
through your fingers like a parcel of eels, and 
you cannot bag your game by your utmost en• 
deavor. 
Perhaps you can get a crumb of comfort from 
this suggestion. As slanderers cannot well be-
spatter each other, being respectively so well off 
in this way already, their attack on you shows 
you do not belong to their company. They 
could do nothing in their line with characters 
as black as their own. They would not have 
assailed you, had not they regarded you as liv-
ing in a very different atmosphere from their 
own. 
Another crumb. The being slandered brings 
you into very good society. The most eminent 
for moral worth on earth, have been abused in 
this way. Look at Paul for example. Hissing 
hot, and from a thousand tongues leaped forth 
the revilings of wicked men. There was nothing 
too bad for them to say of him. Guns of every 
caliber were fired at him. Every Jewish and 
Pagan dog barked at him ; but the fiercest and 
most insulting of them could not bark him out 
of his propriety. He let them follow their trade, 
while he came not down from the dignity of his 
own glorious office, to return evil for evil. It 
is not so bad an affair to get into so good com-
pany as that of Paul. 
Ponder, too, the language of an old English 
writer, " If we be dashed and bespattered abroad, 
we must study to be cleaner at home." If false 
accusations do but set us, in all earnestness, to 
correct what we do know to be actually wrong 
within us, we will reap wheat where our re-
vilers counted we should have nothing but tares. 
Any serious inquirer can find a plenty in him-
self to condemn, though he is conscious the 
things charged against him are untrue ; and if 
he is put upon looking up his real faults, for 
the purpose of humbling himself in view of 
them and emptying his heart of them, his ac-
cusers will have done him a good, though an 
unintentional service, by sending him in that 
direction. 
Slanders do us service in another way, and 
the good old Archbishop Leighton's language 
cannot be improved, who writes thus :—" The 
sharp censnre of evil-speakings that a Christian 
is encompassed with in this world, is no other 
than an hedge of thorns set on every side, that 
he go not out of his way, but keep strait on it 
betwixt them, not inclining to the right hand 
nor to the left; whereas, if they found nothing 
but the favor and good opinion of the world,' 
they might, as in a way unhedged, be subject 
to expatiate and wander out into the meadows 
of carnal pleasures that are about them, that 
would call and allure them, and often amuse 
them from their journey." N. Y. Evangelist. 
Perversions of the Doctrine of Provi- 
dence. 
With a leer of unbelief, and a bite of sarcasm, 
Macaulay records one of the most striking events 
o f Providence, in a way to throw contempt on 
the Christian doctrine of -Providence, by mis-
representing it. Alluding to the destruction of 
the Spanish Armada, and the descent of the 
Prince of Orange upon England, for the dis-
comfiture of Popery there, the distinguished his-
torian says : 
" The weather had indeed served the Prot-
estant cause so well, that some men, of more 
piety than judgment, believed the ordinary laws 
of nature to have been suspended, for the pres-
ervation of the liberty and religion of England. 
Exactly a hundred years before this, they said, 
the Armada, invincible by men, had been scat-
tered by the wrath of God. Civil freedom and 
divine truth were again in jeopardy, and again 
the obedient elements had fought for the good 
cause. The wind had blown strong from the 
east, while the Prince wished to sail down the 
Channel—had turned to the south, when he 
wished to enter the bay of Torbay—had sunk 
to a calm during the disembarkation, and as 
soon as the disembarkation was completed, had 
risen to a storm and met the pursuers in the 
face." 
A writer of Macaulay's intelligence ought to 
be able to write out a description of such an 
event of Providence, without throwing over it 
a foul smoke, to obscure the glory of God in it, 
and misrepresent the views of Christians about 
it. He should have known that Christians can 
see signal interpositions of Providence, when 
there are no miracles, and no suspensions of 
nature's laws. The Christian doctrine of Provi-
dence is, that the laws of nature, which are the 
settled modes of God's working, were formed 
for the very purpose, that God might do the very 
things which he does in great and small, and 
in just the way and time in which he does them. 
Or, to be more specific, God settled the laws 
which generate and control the winds, (among 
other purposes,) that he might use the winds 
as his instruments of preserving, as he did, the 
liberty and religion of England, in the case re-
ferred to. Macaulay uses the phrase "obedient 
elements " in irony. But it was sober truth. 
Time elements obeyed, in that instance, the pur-
pose for which the laws of winds were made 
and also the control of Him who rides upon the 
wings of the wind. 
What is plainer, than that God, in settling 
the laws of physical nature, settled and arranged 
them as he did, that he might through them do 
the very things which he does. And if that be 
so, there is no event—if we except miracles, 
performed for the purpose of showing the laws 
of nature suspended—there is no event of which 
it may not be said, that it was contemplated 
when the laws of nature were made, and that 
they were made for the very purpose of bring-
ing it about. There is no suspension of a law, 
but a wise, and to a human view, it may be a 
wonderful execution of it. 
The laws of nature, so far from being a cum-
brous machinery, preventing God from unex-
pected and short turns of his hands, to execute 
any design that he will, or to convey any gift 
that he will, are made with divine skill, ad-
justed to this very purpose. They are so framed 
as to be used as his arms, through which he 
may reach us, and touch the springs of our con-
trol and our supplies, with a freer hand than 
the musician touches the keys of his instrument. 
If every gift of God were conveyed to us by an 
angel, as a special messenger, or if every event 
were appointed to us by a simple exertion of 
God's will, or a simple word spoken, God could 
not be more free or unembarrassed, in the ap-
pointment of events to men, than he is now, in 
all his outgoings to us, through the established 
order of physical causes. Puritan Recorder. 
A Short Memory. 
We have heard of a man on a Sabbath-day 
who was making a great haste along a road 
and meeting another man, he inquired if he had 
seen a boy with a cart and sack of grain on the 
way. The man replied, " I met a boy with a 
short memory on the road." The father of the 
lad seemed surprised. The other added, " I 
think the lad belongs to a family who have short 
memories." 
The father was still more sur-
prised, and wished to know whit this meant. 
The man satisfied him by saying that God had 
commanded them to remember the Sabbath-day 
to keep it holy, and that they were of too short 
memories to obey him. 
This anecdote suggests a most important fact 
in the spiritual state of men. There are short 
memories on many subjects besides the Sabbath. 
Let me ask my reader, if you do not forget 
some of the most awfully momentous things • 
that can affect the mind or memory of man ? 
You are convinced that you can only live in 
this world for a very short period. Perhaps by 
far the greater part of this brief season is al-
ready gone—yet you are living and calculating 
as if you might live an eternity here, and at 
least as if you had a very long life assured to 
you by God. Surely that is a very great defect 
of memory by which a man forgets his own 
mortality, and calculates as if it were not a fact. 
But, farther, your stay here is most uncertain. 
You know you cannot count on an hour. You 
know this, but do you remember it ? Have you 
made all preparation, so that should you be 
called away the next moment you may be all 
ready ? Perhaps you are not yet at peace with 
God—you may be in that state in which you 
would certainly perish eternally if called to die. 
You hang suspended over the gulf of eternal 
woe by the brittle thread of a mortal life. Surely 
if, in this dreadful position, you can go on with 
the frivolities and follies of life, you must in-
deed have a short memory. 
See that giddy youth, dressing for a ball—
his soul is in jeopardy of eternal hell every mo- 
ment—the sentence of the second death remains 
uncancelled against him—he knows that he is 
totally unprepared to meet God—he knows that 
the snapping of a small artery would plunge him 
into a dismal future—yet he is full of glee and 
full of pride, and full of anticipations—surely 
he has a short memory ! 
We should almost 
say that he has a marvellous power of forget-
fulness! 
0, reader, if such is your own case, depend 
upon it you will yet be brought to your senses. 
Your memory, though most accommodating, 
now, will be roused to its terrible work at a fu-
ture day. Would it not be infinitely better it 
were awakened now, that you might so remem- 
ber your sad state as to flee for refuge to your 
endangered spirit ere it be too late ? Perhaps 
in addition to all I have mentioned, you may 
have had the most solemn warnings of your 
dangerous position. You may have stood by 
the dying bed of those who have told you the 
sad tale of their regrets, and warned you of 
your danger. You may have heard of cases 
that made your ears tingle—cases in which 
fools were called before God in the midst of 
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Wretch," to " be execrated by all good men," and to the utmost limit. The enforcement has its recip-
unblest with a " solitary impulse in common with rocal evils in the call for armed assistance, and thus 
honor or honesty and Republican liberty," But the convulsion increases with acclerated velocity.—
KOSSUTH is undoubtedly right. If there are any ele- Who can doubt the result? 
merits of revolution in Europe, they are likely to be We have already learned that the move towards 
presently in full flame. The atmosphere grows fer- absolutism in France had occasioned intense sensa-
vid. Europe trembles at French quietude. The tion at the courts of all the great monarchies. There 
Governments, which subsisted for centuries upon was an instant disposition to admit the new aspirant 
popular affection, and the memories of the past, and to full consociation with legitimacy. The issue is 
the spectacle of present glory, have lost all their pres- one upon which absolutism is willing to stake the 
criptive hold upon the people. There has been mu- whole question of popular or prescriptive rights.—
tual estrangement. To keep crowns upon their heads, That baneful principle has identified itself thoroughly 
kings have to fight for the principle of legitimacy, with the retrogressive move of the Frenchman, and 
and the people have had to pay ; and, should the will share in all the consequences. If, as there is 
present regime subsist so long, two or three genera- ground for hope, the French people boldly throw the 
tions will have to help pay for the right of FERDINAND 
impostor overboard, and extinguish the power that 
to succeed FRANCIS, and of NICHOLAS to succeed has lent him ephemeral existence, the signal of a 
ALEXANDER. 
Infinite blessings, to be sure, worthy general movement of the German and Austrian races 
of infinite sacrifices! The people dislike the prin- will be given. The sovereigns have followed their 
ciples and the cost equally. They are discontented. cue ; and when the time comes, subjects will follow 
A. cheaper and at the same time more diffusive sys- theirs. The issue is accepted by the people ; and 
tem of public-being is sought after. Despotism, if Louis BONAPARTE stand, Europe will continue in 
alarmed, throws itself behind armies, which it takes the peace of bondage and oppression and wrong ; if 
new laws and the creation of future damning evils he fall, there will be a war of regeneration, and re-
to maintain. And thus nations and monarchs find form and right. Gov. KOSSUTH believes in, and pre-
themselves in conflict ; and thus revolutions are nursed pares himself for the latter alternative; and we ac- 
into thrifty vigor and promise. 
cept his views as eminently sagacious and correct. 
Europe is universally ruled by fear. The boun- 
N. Y. Daily Times. 
44 SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD."—It was a 
gracious word. 
JESUS was satisfied. It was little, 
and was useless ; but He accepted it as enough, for 
it was all she had. How soothing and cheering is 
their folly---or in which immortal but guilty 
and unpardoned men were struck down without 
hope or mercy. 
You may have felt in your se-
cret heart that their cases were remarkably like 
your own, and yet you have forgotten all this ! 
Surely you must have a short memory! But 
mark well, my dear friend, memory is not in-
voluntary. " The nations that forget God" are 
to be turned into hell. Their crime is want of 
memory—that is, want of using their memories 
—that is, not liking to retain God in their 
thoughts. 0 ! is it thus with you ? Can you 
live and move and have your being in one 
whom you daily and habitually FORGET? Can 
it be that He who bore your curse fails to find 
a place in your memory ? Then surely that 
memory must be defective indeed ! Yes, it 
must, 1 fear, be threatening a fatal defect.—
Would you have it remedied ? Would you be 
rescued from the dreadful doom upon which it 
is hurrying your precious soul ? Then must 
you repent of your forgetfulness ; and above all 
things remember Him who bore the curse due 
to your sin, and whose mighty Spirit is ever 
ready to take of the things which are Christ's, 
and to show them to us. Get here one hour of 
the enjoyment of the peace which passeth un-
derstanding, and keeps the heart and mind by 
Christ Jesus, and you will not soon forget him ; 
nor will you be exposed to the madness of those 
who forget their spiritual danger so as to dance 
on the brink of ruin, while the next moment 
may find them for ever hopeless. 
Glasgow Christian News. 
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dary bet weearepublicanism and despotism, which re-
cently lay along the Rhine, Louts BONAPARTE has 
rubbed out. The continental map has but one color. 
France is only restrained by the mailed hand.—
The great good of the people, universal suffrage, is 
tendered them at the point of the bayonet. The medi-
cine is pleasant, but the vehicle bad. Whole prov-
inces reject it, and the benefactor has to turn upon 
them the torrent of civil war to make them submit to 
he free. The project of the representative cham-
bers, which is no more likely to he carried out, than 
if the perjured projector had not promised it, can give 
no security against a Government backed by the 
troops. 
NAPOLEON had his chambers, and his coun-
cils, and the Bourbons had a half-dozen Parliaments ; 
and had everything their own way, besides. The 
new order of things, arrived at as it has been by abom-
inable methods, will not he sanctioned by the peo-
ple ; and must therefore result either in a pure des-
potism or a sanguinary revolution. The latter is the 
more probable. 
Germany sleeps, but sleeps restlessly. The " thirty 
tyrants " cling desperately to their little seats ; for 
the signs of trouble are imminent. Last winter they 
were ready to give back to Austria the old sovereignty 
of the German Empire, in the hope of greater con-
joint security, but the scheme was suppressed by 
France and England. The ancient jealousy and dis-
trust of Austrian ascendancy could have been over-
come by nothing short of the keenest apprehension 
of popular wrath. Prussia has been kept quiet all 
along by the seeming lingering attachment of the 
king to constitutional forms, if not to liberal princi-
ples. The debt and annual expenditures fall more 
lightly upon the masses than in sonic of the neigh-
boring states ; the former not exceeding by any very 
considerable amount one year's income. On the other 
hand, the sudden anti violent intimacy between Ber-
lin and Petersburgh has given much dissatisfaction 
to the masses, who reasonably dread the effect of bad 
company upon the internal administration. Members. 
of the royal family have travelled to the Muscovite 
capital, and been feted, and feasted and flattered, 
until the silly-paced Brandenburgs begin to mistake 
the Demidoffs for demi-gods. There have been in-
terviews, too, between the imperial and the royal 
majesties, all tending to the same affirmation of fra-
ternity and alliance. The course of this business is 
curiously watched by an intelligent people, whose 
disgust will.soon become aversion, and their aversion, 
revolt. 
The Austrian fabric is of that composite order, 
that like the prophet's image, a touch may at any 
moment crumble it. Unfortunately, the various races, 
in looking for a way out from the detested thral-
dom, all look in different directions. There is no 
unity of ultimate purpose, and therefore, unhappily 
no immediate union to make the path clear to any 
purpose whatever. The Germans seek a restora-
tion of German unity ; the Slaves ate disposed to fra-
ternize with the rest of the race in Turkey, Poland, 
and Russia, in realizing the idea of a great Panslavic 
empire, to extend over half the world. The Czar, 
of course, smiles on, and, perhaps, at the poetical 
notion. The Italians of Venice and Lombardy also 
yearn for national unity, but care little for the form 
of government. The Magyars, a lonely race, have 
alone the noble aim of establishing a free, republi-
ban State on principles similar to those developed 
here. And whatever the hopes for the future, the 
present has a fearful motive power to action. The 
obvious discontent of all the races, calls for a larger 
military force—that iron hoop that singly holds the 
centrifugal empire together—and the military calls 
for double taxes. Taxation had already gone beyond 
all hounds of reason or safety, and it is now stretched 
the inference to the spirit that would give, but finds 
it bath nothing,—that would be and feels, it is noth-
ing. Let the lonely, the disabled, the dejected, take 
it to their comfort. One feeling sacrificed to his will 
—one desire foregone for his love—one passion sub-
dued at his command—one idol broken at the SA-
vIOUR'S feet, is of more worth than all external labors. 
It is the spikenard very costly—bought dearly by her 
that gives it, valued of Him that takes—for Be 
knows what she has parted from to bring it. More 
than SimoN, when he spreads his feasts—more than 
Charity when she unloads her purse. Thousands 
give much, and keep their best—thousands yield 
much, and yet withhold their dearest. I will take to 
my SAVIOUR the most precious that I have, and part 
from it freely at his word ; and if it be no more than 
the sin I have cherished, the idol I have loved, the 
health, the activity, the name 1 have enjoyed, I part 
from it to Him willingly and freely ; I shall be satis-
fied that He accepts, and surely He will say of me, 
She hash done what she could." 
Author of the Listener. 
RIGHT EruoTri Ns.—Many persons seem to be more 
solicitous for STRONG emotions than for RIGHT emo-
tions. It would perhaps be a fair representation of 
their state to say the burden of their prayer is, that 
their souls might be like" the chariots of Aminidab," 
or that like PAUL, they may be caught up into the 
third heavens. They seem desirous, perhaps almost 
unconsciously to themselves, to experience or to do 
some great, as well as some good thing. Would it 
not be better for them, in a more chastened and hum-
ble temper of mind, to make it the burden and the 
emphasis of their supplication, that they may be 
meek, forbearing, and forgiving ; that they may have 
a willingness to wash the disciples' feet, and have a 
great love even for their enemies ; in a word, that 
they may bear the image of CHRIST, who came not 
with observation, but " was meek and lowly of heart." 
ENGLAND.—A letter from Mr. R. J. WALKER, de-
clining the invitation to a banquet in Southampton, 
excited considerable interest in that town, and is 
placarded about the streets, under the heading," An-
glo-American Alliance." Mr. WALKER, after de-
nouncing the acts of Louis NAPOLEON, and referring 
to the possibility of England having to defend her-
self against the despotic governments, says : " Should 
you desire the co-operation of my country, it will be 
given by the government and sustained by the peo-
ple with zeal and unanimity. I know nothing since 
the days of the Crusaders, that could excite in Ameri-
ca a feeling so deep, universal, and enthusiastic, 
which would call out as many millions, if necessary, 
of my countrymen, as an invitation from you to your 
children in America, to fight together the last great 
triumphant battle for the liberties of wan." 
The Arctic Expedition.—Dr. Kane, who was attached to 
the American Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in 
a course of lectures on that subject, delivered at the Smithso-
nian Institute in Washington, said in substance : " The topic 
is full of interest. For the first time we were made aware 
of the geographical importance of the Arctic ocean— an 
ocean whose area exceeds four-and-a-half millions of square 
miles, and whose tributary rivers drain a larger country than 
the Indus, the Ganges,. the Mississippi, and the Oronoco 
combined. 
" In discussing the much vexed question of the cui bond of 
these Arctic expeditions, Dr. Kane, after citing in detail 
their valuable contributions to general science, observed that 
the cod fishery of New Fotmdland grew out of the voyage of 
Sir Humphrey Gilbert ; the North-west passage of Davis 
opened the whale fishery of West Greenland ; and Frobi-
sher pioneered Hudson to that great bay, which now margins 
the most lucrative fur company of the age. 
"Sir John Franklin was last seen in Baffin's Bay, in July, 
1845, moored to an iceberg, and awaiting an opening to the 
west. By a strange coincidence, the American expedition 
was imprisoned for two successive seasons at the same spot. 
The next traces of his onward progress were the sad memo-
rials of his first winter encampment, at the mouth of Wel-
lington Channel, a large inlet opening towards the north ; 
and here Dr. Kane, after describing the scene, which he was 
among the first to visit, expressed his conviction that the 
missing vessels had proceeded in the early summer of 1846 
up this inlet to the unknown regions of the north. This 
seems to us extremely probable. The American expedition, 
in fact, drifted helplessly in this very direction. They at-
tained a latitude (75 26 north) never before attained on this 
meridian by keel of Christian ship, and there saw the -dark 
water sky that indicated the Polyna, or open sea, advocated 
by Lieut. Maury. It was this painful and helpless drift to the 
north that urged upon Dr. Kane and his comrades the convic-
tion of Franklin having preceded them upon.this very pas-
sage."—National Intelligencer. 
The Freshet on the Connecticut.—The Springfield Republican 
of Monday says :—" Three men were seen going down the 
river opposite Springfield, in the midst of the floating ice, on 
Friday evening,—one in a boat alone, the others together in 
another. Their situation was perilous, but it is not known 
whether they escaped or perished. A buggy wagon was 
picked up at Hartford, floating down with the ice, on Friday. 
Saturday morning the ice was piled in enormous heaps at 
Hartiord, the meadows covered with water, and the river 
nineteen feet above low-water mark." 
IS EUROPE RIPE FOR REVOLUTION. 
" I can humbly make the suggestion, that it is im-
possible for the United States not to feel interested 
in the condition of Europe, and that there never was 
a time when the condition of Europe deserved your 
attention more than at the present time. You know 
what is the condition of Europe now. It is univer-
sal oppression of civil, political, and religious liber-
ty.. These are the three great treasures which make 
your glory and your happiness. And you know, 
also, that out of this oppression every man has fore-
seen that a new revolution on the European continent 
must arise. You know that the great revolution is 
brought home already to the nations of Europe by 
the impious blow of Louis Napoleon. The elected 
President of France has, by his impious blow, struck 
down the Constitution, in order that he might become 
Emperor. He has stricken it down as a tool of the 
Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Austria. It 
was yesterday I received the news that the Austrian 
Ministry has openly declared that the absolutistical 
powers of Europe are resolved to maintain the usur-
pation of Louis Napoleon, therefore the revolution 
has already broken out in Europe. The first blow 
of war is already struck, and no man in the world 
has the power to stop its progress."—Gov. Kossuth, 
at Baltimore. 
Admitting, as we must, the absolute intimacy of 
the orator with European politics, his recent disquisi- 
tions upon them possess very unusual interest. The 
singular clearness with which he analyzes the mo-
tives and tendency of the theft of sovereignty by the 
BONAPARTE, contrasts vividly with the confused non-
sense of a morning paper, which applauds the act 
and the wisdom of the actor, in the same breath that 
denounces the latter as a " disgraced and perjured 
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. 
Our attention has just been called to, and our in-
terest engaged by, the work to which we have allud-
ed, and in its present connection with subjects now 
uppermost in the public mind, we feel confident our 
readers will thank us for gathering from it some of 
the more important of the facts it furnishes, coming, 
as they do, from a source that may be received with 
perfect confidence. The work we allude to is one 
recently published in England, by J. H. SKENE, Esq. 
Its title is : " The Three Eras of Ottoman History ; 
a Political Essay on the late Reforms of Turkey, 
considered principally as affecting her position in the 
event of a War taking place." Ill-formed persons, 
speaking or writing of the Turkish army, are apt to 
treat it as inefficient, badly equipped, ill disciplined, 
and in every respect inferior to that of any other of 
the great powers of Europe. So far is this from 
being the case, it appears from the facts given by this 
writer, that the Turkish army is at the present mo-
ment in a more efficient state than it has been at any 
time during the last two centuries, and that in the 
event of a war, the Sultan would probably he able 
to maintain himself, single handed and alone, even 
against the combined attacks of Austria and Russia. 
We have not room to follow the writer we speak 
of, in his excellent view of the history of Turkey ; 
we propose to confine ourselves to her present con-
dition. In this connection, however, it is necessary 
to state that early in the present century, the insu-
bordination of the Janissaries, or standing army of 
Turkey, had become such, that it was found neces-
sary to overthrow them, as the only alternative to 
the overthrow of the empire itself. With many dif-
ficulties and much danger, this was filially accom-
plished. While the Sultan was replacing the Janis-
saries by regular and better disciplined troops, and 
before he could organize a new army, the ambition 
of Russia sought to take advantage of his condition 
by an unprovoked and unjustifiable war. Taken thus 
at disadvantage, Turkey was defeated and compelled 
to assent to a humiliating treaty of peace. Since then, 
a number of years of uninterrupted peace have ena-
bled the Sultan to form a powerful and well disci-
plined army. We cannot give in detail Mr. SKENE'S 
minute account of the organization of this army. It 
is divided into six separate armies, each consisting 
of two services, the active and the reserve. The 
whole establishment of the former, belonging to the 
active service, amounts to 180,000 men, but its effec-
tive strength is at present 123,000. The reserve 
now composes a force of 212,000 men, and will 
have a total of 300,000 when this establishment shall 
have been completed. The two services, as they now 
stand, form an effective force of 335,000 men. When 
their full strength shall have been filled up as con-
templated, it will amount to 480,000. Besides these, 
there are a number of detached corps in Crete, Tri-
poli, Tunis, in garrisons, &c., &c., which raise the 
effective strength of the present standing army to 
365,000 men. By the augmentations as proposed 
and now being carried out in Bosnia, Albania, and 
Servia, and inclusive of the marines, sailors, and the 
police force, " the grand total of armed men at the 
disposal of Turkey, in the event of her existing 
resources being called into play, may be quoted at 
no less than 664,000 men, without having recourse 
to occasional levies, which are more easily and effi-
ciently realized in Turkey than in any other country." 
Boston Atlas. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
13 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
French Affairs. 
All is quiet in France. Attention is now chiefly 
directed towards the forthcoming election, when 
Louis NAPOLEON will, without doubt ,elected, though 
not without considerable opposition. 
At the latest accounts the departments and all 
France was in the utmost tranquillity. The result 
of the election would not be known before the 28th 
or 29th. 
General CAVAIGNAC had been offered his liberty, 
and refused to leave his prison unless his fellow pris-
oners could do the same ; so he remains. The se-
vere restrictions which the prisoners at first suffered 
have been relaxed. They now dine and exercise 
together. 
It is fully believed that Russia, Austria, and Prus-
sia are straining every nerve to sustain Louts NAPO-
LEON in his usurpation. 
The following review and comments on the French 
affairs, is from the Liverpool European Times of the 
20th ult. : 
" The occurrences in France succeed each other 
with such frightful rapidity, that it is almost impossi-
ble to crowd into our ordinary space even a brief 
summary of what is going on in that devoted country. 
Scarcely a day has passed but several departments 
have been declared in a state of siege. In the cen-
tre of France, in the departments east, west, north, 
and south, a reign of terror has been established, 
and it is evident from the facts which are filtered 
through the corrupt journals of the tyrant, that a 
wide-spread resistance against his despotism prevails 
in every quarter, which is only checked by the fear 
of popular anarchy, and the too ready bayonets of the 
military dictator. 
" We have now learned from authentic sources, 
that the slaughter of the Parisian populace on the 
Boulevards, and in the north-eastern quarters of,Pa-
ris, when the brief struggle took place, was perpetrated 
by the brutal soldiery with a wanton ferocity, which 
reminded us of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. 
No troops, much less the French, would have dared 
to commit such acts of butchery unless they had been 
sure of approval from their superior officers. They 
who resisted, and they who did not resist, were cut 
down remorselessly, without distinction of age, sex, 
or nation ; even Americans suffered in the melee. 
" Gagged as the press is in France, it is altogether 
impossible to state the loss of life, still less of per-
sonal liberty, which the French people have had to 
endure. The usurper issues his quasi imperial de-
crees from the Tuilleries, as if all the resources of 
France were unreservedly at his arbitrary disposal. 
" Public works, embracing the costly improvements 
near the Louvre, which successive sovereigns could 
not compass, are decreed by a stroke of the pen. The 
workmen are to be employed at the cost of the coun-
try, but to propitiate the saints they are not to labor 
on Sundays. The Pantheon, where infidels resort 
to worship at the shrines of VOLTAIRE, MIRABEAU, 
and JEAN JAQUES ROUSSEAU, is converted into a 
church. 
" M. MONTALEMBERT, the Jesuit, asks the people 
to vote for M. BONAPARTE, as his usurpation is not 
contrary to the law of Goo, or the fundamental prin-
ciples of society. 
The Fourier legitimist Bishop of Chartres echoes 
the same principles. VAILLANT, who is declared to 
be the real conqueror at Rome, is created a French 
Marshal. In one word, the adulterous alliance be-
tween open despotism and ultra religious intolerance 
is complete. 
" We have frequently extolled the patriotism of 
M. LAROCHEJAQUELIN ALBERT. He is bound up 
with one section of the Legitimist party. To his 
eternal honor he has protested against the usurpation 
of the dictator in terms which will add fresh laurels 
to flis illustrious name. He loudly protests against 
the overthrow of the Assembly— unlawfully dissolved 
by the executive power—against the violation of the 
personal freedom of a great number of Representa-
tives, and the erection of the arbitrary caprice of one 
individual .in the place of law. This noble-minded 
patriot says that he has long denounced the succes-
sion of adventurers, who dishonor France, and he 
protests with all the energy of conviction against the 
act of usurpation, and the proceedings by which it 
was accompanied. 
"'the constitutional prerogatives which M. Bo-
NAPARTE, under the hollow pretext of a delegation, 
usurps, would hurl France into more inconceivable 
confusion. The times for the Cxsars cannot have 
come for France. M. LAROCHEJAQUELIN ends his 
spirit-stirring denunciation by declaring, that in a 
Republic no one has a right to dispose of the desti-
nies of the land except according to the free and full 
expression of the public will. 
" This is glorious language, let it come from whom 
it may. But the heel of the tyrant is upon the neck 
of France, and at this moment, although we fancy 
we perceive a reaction on the part of the people, and 
an increasing determination to vote against the usur-
per, as the whole army, bureaucracy, placemen, and 
a large portion of gambling traders, side with 13oNa-
PARTS, it is difficult yet to judge what the result of 
the secret ballot will be on the 20th and 21st. 
" The suppression of the Siecle newspaper has 
opened the eyes of the people. The threats held out 
to the moderate Journal des Debats, that it must 
adhere or abdicate, and the compulsory process by 
which articles written at the Tuilleries are forced 
into the columns of refractory journals, are beginning 
to produce their necessary consequences. 
" The suppression of two or three legions of the 
National Guard is also Ominous of future mischief, 
but perhaps above all, the certainty which now gains 
ground, that the despotic potentates of Austria, Rus-
sia, and Prussia, are straining every nerve to uphold 
BONAPARTE. 
" These facts,whic hare now notorious, are leading 
to a revolution in the minds of the people, which will 
produce terrible consequences. Amidst the terror 
and tranquillity which the Government journals pro-
claim, the public funds have still been maintained at 
an extraordinary height, and no one doubts that the 
money or the credit of the Bank of France has been 
employed for this purpose. 
" A decree is issued providing for collecting taxes, 
but all the produce of the gold mines in the universe 
will not suffice to maintain BONAPARTE. 
" The latest news from Paris announces the sup-
pression of the disturbances in the Basses Alpes.' 
" The Minister of the Interior has directed the 
Prefect of Police to act upon the decrees ordering the 
banishment of members of secret societies from the 
capital, or if necessary, from France. He also asks 
for reports respecting the National Guards through-
out France, no doubt with a view to get rid of the 
whole of that force. 
" The documents found in the apartments of M. 
BAZE and General LEFFEE have been placed in the 
hands of the authorities, and the accomplices in the 
alleged plot are all to be prosecuted. 
" The Government have declared thirty-four out 
of the eighty-six departments in a state of siege, on 
account of their exhibition of disaffection—yet the 
Government reports the news from the departments 
favorable. 
" It is affirmed that the total number of French-
men killed in Paris and the departments, in carrying 
out NAPOLEON'S coup d'etat, is not less than 2000. 
" The French papers contain an account of open 
insurrection in several of the departments, attended 
with considerable loss of life. In one case the insur-
gents numbered 1600, and another 6000, but they were 
overpowered ; sixty or seventy insurgents were killed 
in one engagement 
" Louts NAPOLEON has ordered the expenditure of 
2,000,000 francs for the purchase and demolition of 
the houses situated between the Louvre and the 
Tuilleries, and the levelling of the ground between 
the two places. 
" Mr. RIVES, the American Minister, continues to 
show the disapprobation of our Government of Louis 
NAPOLEON'S conduct, by not attending his receptions. 
He is the only diplomat who absents himself. 
" The 6th legion of the National Guard of' Paris 
is dissolved. It is said that the Department of Po-
lice is to be raised to the rank of a Ministry, and that 
M. CARLIER is to be the new Minister. 
" LOUIE! NAPOLEON appears to be up to all sorts of 
demagogue tricks, to tickle the army, and the labor-
ers, and retain them in his interest. He grants 
honors and decorations to the former, and in some 
eases double wages and pretty speeches to the latter. 
Five hundred laboring females presented their fe-
licitations on ti e last Sunday, with a speech and 
bouquet. He replied that he was happy to see his ef-
forts for the happiness of France and the working 
classes so justly appreciated, and that with the aid 
of all good citizens he would persevere in the same 
course. 
The Minister of the Interior had received ad-
dresses from twenty-one communes of the horges 
and from communes municipal, councellors, mayors, 
National Guards, &c., of various places in twenty-
five departments, and is informed that addresses are 
in course of signature in five hundred Communes of 
the dedartment of the Haut Saone. 
The Univers is menacing Switzerland, in which 
country it pretends to say theme is a Socialist party 
in league with that of France. 
" 'Flue President takes an active patt in the draw-
ing up of the new Constitution with which he is to 
gratify France. It is said that he occupies no less 
than eight hours a day in this great affair, with M. 
POUCHER, M. BAROCHE, and M. TROPLING. 
" VicToa Moo had successfully escaped from 
Paris to Brussels. His arrest had been ordered. 
Count BLAZENEPPE, one of the aids de camp of the 
Emperor of Russia, has arrived at Paris, it is said, to 
compliment the President on his recent exploit, and 
to present him, in the name of his master, with the 
Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Andre, which is 
the first order in the Russian Empire. 
" The correspondent of the London Times says, 
that since the proclamation of the Prefect of the Seine, 
calling on the electors of the Republic, more than 
20,000 persons applied for voting tickets ; in the 
second arrondissement the number of applicants 
amounted to 28,000. 
" The Romish Tablet undertakes the defence of 
Louts NAPOLEON, and it appears that a large portion 
of the Cathoiic priests of Ireland are gradually ar-
riving at the same view. 
SPAIN.—" The Queen of Spain has pardoned all 
the Cuban prisoners. 
" The Madrid Gazette publishes the correspond-
ence between WEBSTER and CALDERON in reference 
to the LOPEZ prisoners, and adds that her Majesty, 
desirous to give the American President and Govern-
ment a testimony of friendship, has thought fit by a 
spontaneous act of her royal clemency, to pardon all 
the prisoners in the late expedition against Cuba ;—
that her Majesty considers it an event of the highest 
importance for both countries that the negotiations 
relative to this subject have terminated so satisfacto-
rily ;—that she fully approves of the conduct of her 
Minister at Washington, and concedes him the Grand 
Cross of CHARLES III. 
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY--''A lot of prisoners from 
Hungary were brought to Vienna on the 10th.—
They included KOSSUTH'S sisters, and some Hunga-
rian nobles. 
" Austria cherishes the idea of striking a severe 
blow against the commerce of England, hoping to 
unite the chief continental countries in a prohibitive 
system against England. 
" In Austria and Hungary discontent is increasing. 
At Vienna, great anxiety was felt for the news from 
the United States respecting KOSSUTH'S reception. 
There is increased uneasiness in diplomatic quarters 
respecting movements of the Austrian troops near the 
Po, who were ordered to advance upon Rome. It is 
said that Prince ScriwaaTzsNautto has asked the 
Sardinian Government to receive an Austrian garri-
son in a Piedmontese fortress. 
GERMANV.—" In Germany the press is forbidden 
to record events in France in a manner adverse to 
BONAPARTE. 
" Letters from Rome of the 10th instant state 
that the occurrences in Paris had produced there a 
very profound impression. The Pope received the 
news from the French Ambassador without betraying 
the least emotion. It is said that the French garri-
son at Rome immediately deposited its adhesion to 
the policy of Louts NAPOLEON in the hands of Gen. 
GEMEAU. 
" Rome was illuminated, but it was not known 
whether at the expense of the Papal Government or 
the French. 
" The Genoa papers of the 12th assert that the 
troops in Africa had received the news of the coup 
d'etat with great coolness, and showed discontent at 
the imprisonment of the generals, and called for their 
release while voting. 
'The United States mail steamship Franklin arrived 
at New York on Saturday last, with two days later 
intelligence. We subjoin the following : 
" The Constitutionnel, the organ of NAPOLEON, in 
regard to the voting in the Provinces, says : Our 
own letters from the Provinces continue to give the 
best hopes for the election of the 20th and 21st of 
December.' At Lyons, even a decided majority is 
expected. In the Isere that result is certain, and it 
will be the same in the Haute Vienne. In the Dor-
dogne the eagerness of the population to prepare for 
the coming vote is declared by a Provincial news-
paper in the following terms : Every man amongst 
our population is preparing to vote at the coming 
election, and not a man able to go to the polls will 
be absent.' All the political parties appear as if 
they had agreed to insure the definite triumph of 
murder over that of barbarism. In the department of 
Loire, lately so much a prey to socialism, a majority 
of three-fourths of the votes is reckoned upon. In 
other provinces it is expected to obtain five-sixths. 
" The voting commenced in Paris on Saturday morn-
ing, at 8 o'clock. The Mairies of Paris were used 
as ward-rooms. The usual sentinels, half regular 
army, and half National Guard, were stationed at the 
entrance, and distributed tickets to all passers-by. 
More than 100,000 electors voted, and though the re-
sult of the election is not known, there is no doubt 
of NAPOLEON'S election. The vote of the army in 
favor of NAPOLEON is 213,854. Against him 16,348. 
" La Presse has come out in favor of NAPOLEON as 
a choice of evils. 
" The Times of 22d ult., in a leader on French af- 
fairs, says : Just before the election, that is, on 
the 18th, the decree authorizing the Police to seize 
and remove from Paris for deportation all suspected 
persons, came into operation, and there is reason to 
believe that in pursuance of Mons. de MORNY'S posi-• 
tive injunctions, some hundred of persons wete so 
seized in Paris on the night of Thursday, and have 
been conveyed, no one knows whither, though a 
squadron of powerful steamers is always waiting at 
Brest and Cherbourg, to convey these untried con-
victs to Cayenne. Such a measure may natural-
ly check a license of universal suffrage, which is, in 
fact, no more in terror-stricken France than the li-
cense of every one to vote in one way for one man. 
Even the bulletin voting tickets are said to be con-
trolled by the police, in such a way that it is con-
sidered to he an offence to print the word non on a 
card, and it is evident from these extraordinary pre-
cautions that Louts NAPOLEON has ceased to rely on 
the enthusiasm of the people, and is speculating 
mainly oil the effect of force and fear.' The same 
article also says : The votes of the Legitimists and 
Constitutional party will he given against Louts NA-
POLEON, or not given at all.' It is a remarkable cir-
cumstance that a quarter of the seamen in the navy 
have had the courage to vote against the Bonapartist 
plot. 
" The Times also states that the relations of Louts 
NAPOLEON with the despotic powers are almost equal-
ly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as Austria and Russia, 
although pleased by the French dictator and willing 
to support him, can only look upon his power as of 
merely a provisional character, and LOUIS NAPOLEON 
as a stop-gap till legitimacy is restored. 
" The Paris correspondence of the Times announces 
that soon after the coup d'etat of the 2d, the British 
Minister sent a note to Louis NAPOLEON, of an ener-
getic character, demanding to know if he intended to 
abandon the liberal and constitutional policy which 
had previously formed the bond of alliance between 
the two Governments. The reply of the French 
Government was not deemed satisfactory, and a new 
official letter was subsequently sent, the reply to 
which was also unsatisfactory, but stated that a per-
son should be sent to confer with Lord PALMERSTON. 
The party however declined the mission, on the 
ground of being unable to afford the British Govern-
ment the precise assurances required. 
" The Government have secretly given notice to 
printers, that if votes against NAPOLEON are printed, 
they will lose their licenses, and thus many who can-
not write takes a yes vote. It is further stated that 
other means of intimidation as well as bribery are 
resorted to. 
" Accounts from Morocco state that the dispute 
with France is not concluded, the Emperor having 
refused to treat with the Charge d'Affaires. That 
functionary had accordinglyre-embarked on board a 
French war steamer at Tangier, accompanied by all 
the French residents." 
STILL LATER.—On Sunday afternoon the United 
States mail steamer Atlantic, Capt. WEST, -arrived at 
New York, bringing the following additional intel-
gence. 
The charge against the Government of having printed 
only affirmative tickets, and prohibited others from 
printing any in the .iegative, is fully met by the fol-
lowing official circular, addressed to the President of 
the Chamber of printers in Paris : 
" Paris, Dec. 13th. 
" MONSIEUR LE PRESIDENT7-The rumor is spread 
at Paris that it is forbidden to print voting papers 
bearing the word No. The Government, wishing to 
ascertain the liberty and sincerity of the votes, has 
not given such an order. Be kind enough, in conse-
quence, to transmit to the printers of Paris the notice 
that they may, in all liberty, print as many negative 
bulletins as they may please. 
" L. LE HON, Chef de Cabinet." 
The voting " Yes or " No " for Louis NAPO-
LEON as President of France for ten years, took place 
on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of December. So far 
from any considerable portion of the people abstain-
ing from voting, the number of votes cast was larger 
in Paris than in 1848, showing that the Socialists 
and the Red Republicans, who were advised by their 
leaders to abstain, are not numerous, although they 
are noisy and fierce. It is believed that LOUIS NA-
POLEON will have received at least eighty-two per 
cent. of the universal vote of France. 
The majority in favor of Louts NAPOLEON will, as 
was foreseen, be immense. In every part of the 
country from which returns have been received, the 
number of votes in favor of the President immeasur-
ably exceeds the number of the negatives. There 
has not been a majority against him in any one of the 
districts from which the returns have been hitherto 
received. 
The following is art extract from a private letter 
written by an Englishman at present residing hi 
Paris, and formerly a member of the British House of 
Commons :—" The Times,' and other English pa-
pers publish outrageous statements, and give a very 
wrong impression of the state of things in France. 
The coup of Louis Napoleon has succeeded in a way 
no one anticipated, and the way in which not only 
the public funds and railway stock have advanced, 
but the country produc3 markets also, to my mind, 
shows that the country feels that a great incubus is 
removed by the riddance of a constitution that could 
not, and a Chamber that would not work ; and not 
only France, but all Europe has been spared a most 
awful convulsion by the bold and extraordinary coup 
of the 2d of December." 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
you. I hope that some of you will come and preach try ; arid, thank God, there are some loyal hearts in mon acceptation of language among men. We in- 
to us. 
every land waiting for this great kingdom and King. quire, therefore, what is a wo? " Wo unto the 
Bro. Craig said, that the church in Clinton had Let us be ready. 
wicked ! it shall be ill with him."—Isa. 3:11. This 
 
tried to unite, and take the Bible as their rule of The Conference was brought to a close on Friday settles the point that a wo is a judgment denounced. 
faith and duty ; but some refused, and a separation evening, many of the brethren being obliged to re- Says Brown : " Wo denotes a heavy calamity."—
followed. The tent-meeting last summer removed turn home on Saturday, and Bro. Himes being too Says B. B. Edwards : " It implies a malediction," 
much prejudice from the public mind. Since then, indisposed to stay and hold meetings on that day, as i. e., a curse. Now I understand the advocates of 
Bro. Shipman had labored among them, and was previously anticipated. Brn. Taylor, Pearson, Os- the popular theology, with which you are identified, 
much liked. They had recently resolved anew to ter, A. Brown, and C. Wood, were chosen a corn- claim that no convulsion or catastrophe is requisite, 
act in concert, have chosen officers, and mutually mittee to prepare a report, and call another meeting to change the order of things, but that the means of 
DERIDE NOT WEEPiNG. agreed to support preaching. We now want a min- when it should be proper. Harmony and a blessed grace, in their ordinary operation, are designed of 
Let not those tears derided he, 
ister to break to us the bread of life. We need a re- spirit prevailed throughout the meeting, many re- God to renovate the world. Taking this view we 
They gush but from a wounded heart ; viva! of the work of God in converting sinners, and marking that they hail enjoyed a rich feast. The inquire, what is this fearful judgment impending over 
The charity that's always kind 
mean, as a church, to hold prayer-meetings when we singing was sweet indeed. The audiences, though a wicked world, through which " it shall be ill with 
Would rather heal, than scorn the smart. have no preaching, and not go where we have to not large, were attentive and orderly. The interest them ; for the reward of their hands shall he given 
The pang which causes tears to flow, scratch so hard for a few grains of corn, 
and good feeling increased, and we learn that Bro. them?" Ans.—The glory of the Lord shall fill the 
No other language e'er express'd ; 
Bro. Bean said, that the church in Worcester had Bonham had an excellent time on the following Sab- earth, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God. 
0, may we not its import know, 
When God's elect shall be redressed? 
 
 been prospered under the labors of Bro. Shipman, bath. We trust his labors in Worcester will be Again, what is the appalling " heavy calamity" 
and had enjoyed much. Some have been converted, abundantly prospered in the Lord, and are confident denounced on the ungodly, and now ready to fall on 
To kind and tender hearted ones 
and the good interest has not yet subsided. There he will have the hearty co-operation of a hospitable, the guilty ? Ans.—The sweet refreshing showers of 
Like tender mercy shall be given ; 
And he who from the heart forgives, is unity among us, and the community here favor us generous, and well regulated church. 
divine grace, the descent of the Holy Ghost in its 
Shall freely likewise be forgiven. 
in many things. We have a Sunday school and Bi- The ministering brethren present were L. Osier, comforting, cheering, blessed influence. Again, what 
The Saviour, when he dwelt below, 
ble-class, and trust in God that we shall prosper. J. Pearson, J. Craig, T. M. Prehle, J. W. Bonham, is the awful malediction or curse threatened, in our 
Wept with the sorrowing and distress'd ; Bro. Taylor remarked, that the Advent church in J. V. Himes, A. Bentley, S. Heath, and D. T. Tay- age, upon the polluted heathen ? Ans.—The heal- 
And like a father now he looks 
Boston was still endeavoring to keep her head above tor, jr. 
J. V. HIMES, Chairman. ing balm of Gilead is to be applied to their every 
With tender pity on th'oppress'd. 
the water. I am laboring among them at present, D. T. TAYLOR, Sec'y. 
wound, the light of the gospel is to burst in splendor 
He kindly listens to their cries, 
having come there by request of the church the fall 
over all the earth, the dark corners of the earth, which 
Arid oft he answers thus their prayers, 
"Child, take my yoke, and on me cast past. There is perfect union among us, and we trust LETTER TO DR. LYMAN BEECHER. are now full of the habitations of cruelty, are about 
Your griefs, your burdens, and your cares. a moderately increasing interest in the cause. The 
to be illuminated with its heavenly, soul-cheering 
 
 
Bible-class arid Sabbath school have been revived ; VENERABLE AND DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER :—It beams of sacred light. 
" My all-sufficient grace accept, 
And ever in my love confide; 
some have been impressed with the truth, and have is with great deference to your distinguished abili- 
I am aware there are those, in our day, who 
The bruised reed I never break, 
requested prayers, and we are praying earnestly that ties, and consciousness of personal inferiority, that I would apply the threatenings in the abstract, and not 
Nor e'er the stricken heart deride. 
we may see a revival of religion in our midst, not address to you a line. But as God has chosen " the in the concrete ; contending for the punishment of 
" Your burdens and your griefs I bore, merely to augment our numbers, but, that God may things which are not, to bring to naught the things sin, but absolution of the trangressor. I do not how- 
And deeper pain and sorrow felt, 
be glorified in the salvation of souls. The noble- that are," He can wield the most feeble instrutnen- ever take you to be of that class, and therefore am 
When blood bedew'd the ground on which, 
With crying strong, and tears, I knelt. 
 
 hearted company in B. have had many trials, and I tality to His glory. I have also a desire to refund, unable to conceive by what means you avoid the 
wonder they are not all disheartened, and the fire if possible, some of the debt of gratitude I owe from paradox stated, or how you solve the problem, that 
"The cup I drank, though earnest pray'd 
gone out ere this, being smothered by the rubbish •; the fact, that my attention to the subject of religion the denunciations of a wo trumpet are to be fulfilled 
That it might from me be removed ; 
And by a like submission made, 
but we trust, in God's name, the light will still burn was arrested in Boston, some twenty-five years since, 
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the crowning blessing of the world. 
Your fellowship with me is proved. in the candlestick till Jesus comes. We are for by your preaching. But what has particularly in- 
2. The next allusion to the seventh trumpet is the 
" Whate'er the instrument may be, 
scriptural order and discipline, and as members of doted me to write, is the circumstance that you declaration of the angel, under the solemn sanction 
Or treach'rous friend, or envious foe, one family have no objection to enrolling our names have recently denominated those of us who, agree- of an oath, that " in the days of the voice of the 
The hand is mine ;—then patient be, on the family record in that good, old-fashioned book ably to the injunction of Peter, are " looking for and seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the 
For I have called you hereunto. 
—the Bible—which alone, in few words, we declare hasting unto the coming of the day of God," as mystery of God should he finished." 
and take as our creed. We hope you will all re- " crack-brained millenarians." 
What is the mystery of God? When our Lord 
" Like as a father I correct, 
Let not the wayward son complain ; 
The position we occupy results from the fact, that 
Nor chast'ning thus in mercy sent, 
member us, and pray that God will revive his work 
expounded to the disciples the parable or the sower, 
Be exercised on thee in vain. 
among us. This is our salvation. 
we are pre-eminently scripturalists ; or, in other he told them they were permitted to know the " 
words that 
that we adhere to the literal interpretation of 
" Though tribulation I appoint,' 
Bro. Parker, of Holden, said he was glad to be Bible truth. Now the mere sciolist in divinitytery of the kingdom of God." This parable was a 
may 
I'll be your staff, I'll be your stay, there, and remarked that the want of Bible order
development of the gospel economy, which of course 
d 
-h 
down contemptuously on the smpeearte 
l 
i 
And in that better world to come, 
among them had been a sore evil ; but after talking look
will then be finished. The term mystery, as used 
 
a long time, the little church of Adventists in H literalist ; and this is what we anticipate from sti- 
Will wipe your every tear away. 
in Scripture, refers not to the marvellous, but to the 
unlearned and 
ficial minds, who, 
unstable, 
being 
 
"Then, while you sorrow, still rejoice, had chosen their officers, as taught in the scriptures, per
hidden ; hence Paul speaks of " the gospel, as the 
And let my will be made your own ;
" wrest the Scriptures." The masses, who follow 
 
and had had some preaching, but wished for more. 
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revela- 
The cross, the very present cross, 
them, stumble in like manner ; and thus " if the blind 
Bear patient, and await the crown." We all need a better understanding of each other's lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch together; tion of the mystery, which was kept secret since the 
C. S. plans. Our preachers sometimes come in collision in
world began, but now is made manifest ; and, by the 
but we, who knew these things before, beware lest 
 
regard to their appointments, two or three coming at 
Scriptures of the prophets,—made known to all na- 
CONFERENCE AT WORCESTER, Mass.
being led away by the error of the wicked, we fall 
 
once to the same place. We need more order and 
tions, for the obedience of the faith."—Rom. 16:25, 26. 
(ConcludedJi•om 
from our own steadfastness.-2 Peter 3:16, 17. But, 
our last) 
regularity. Though not the same in numbers as in 
Again, " Whereby when ye read, ye may understand 
from minds under sterner discipline, both classical 
Bro. Childs said he was happy to be there. The '43, we are still strong in the Lord. 
my knowledge of the mystery of Christ, which in 
and theological, we expect not contumely or oppro- 
brethren in Westboro' are still firm. There are After a very agreeable and profitable morning ses- 
other ages was not made known unto the sons of 
brium. Be it theirs, who understand neither ecclesi- 
means enough in the church of Adventists there to sion thus,spent in hearing from the different brethren, 
men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and 
nor sacred hermenuitics, to revile if 
have and support a pastor ; and we are desirous of the exercises closed at 12 o'clock with prayer by Bro. astical history, 
prophets, by the Spirit, that the Gentiles should he 
they will. Be it ours, to " revile not again." The 
obtaining one for at least a part of the time. I sym- Himes. 
fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of 
arid subsequent 
destruction, 
Physical 
 q 
patinae with the objects of this Conference : I am in AFTERNOON SESSION. —Conference opened with 
uent renovation, the his promise in Christ by the gospel." 
I might pro- 
personal epiphany, and pre-millennial advent are not 
favor of order, and a more definite understanding singing, and prayer by Bro. Taylor. Bro. Pearson 
teed to quote all the passages in the New Testament 
demonstrated in Scripture, 
clearly 
but have been 
 
of each other, and it' we would prosper, we must then discoursed from Lev. 26th and Deu. 28th chap- onlywhere the mystery of God is spoken of; but the 
endorsed by the brighest moral and intellectual lu- 
have it. 
tern, showing the fulfilment of the scriptures with
above will be sufficient. Wherever the term mys- 
minaries the world ever saw ; intellects that tower 
Bro. Brown said they were endeavoring to live in regard to the Jews. Many very Interesting histori- 
tery occurs, with the definite article prefixed, it al- 
as far above ordinary minds as the Andes or the 
Providence. There never was a better interest among cal facts were given of this ancient and once peculiar 
ways embodies the elements of the gospel ; and is 
Himmaleh mountains above the crust of the earth. 
us than there is now. Our social meetings ate good people of God. The threatenings, and their fulfil- And, what is not a little remarkable, when the au- no more nor less than the gloroius doctrine of salva• 
and profitable. We have large congregations some- ment to the letter, were dwelt upon at length. He thority of such giants in the mental and moral world lion by grace, through faith, now, for the first time, 
times,—quite filling our hall. Two or three bun- showed conclusively, that as a nation they never 
openly promulgated both to Jews and Gentiles. If 
dred attend our meetings, and listen attentively to the could return to their land, and to their former great- is thrown into the balances of the sanctuary, then the economy of grace is to be " finished," the 
pre 
then 
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onderance is found to be in our favor. 
why 
And 
word. We have an excellent Sunday school, and ness. Blessings were promised to them on condi- p
whole work of saving men, by the preaching of the 
is this, but simplicity is the order of God ; that the 
also a Bible-class; and, trusting in God, we hope lions, (see Lev. 26 : 40, &c.) ; but those blessings 
gospel, ended, when the seventh trumpet shall begin 
economy of nature and of revelation, as developed to 
we are advancing. As a church, we sympathize with were not restored nationality, and the possession of 
to sound, why please ourselves with an idea of the 
men of profound erudition, demands the literal in- 
this Conference. ' 
their territory, but an inheritance in the land prom- 
glorious triumphs of the gospel, after God declares 
terpretation ? Look over the catalogue of ancient 
Bro. Bentley said he was always free to express ised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,—the new earth. 
the dispensation of mercy shall be finished? Wiry 
worthies during the first centuries of the Christian 
the right. Where I labor, (in New Hampshire,) (See v. 42.) The discourse was well calculated to 
a 
anticipate the greatest ingathering of souls after the 
era, and see how, with one accord, they looked for 
there is a good and increasing interest, accompanied strengthen our faith in the Bible. The speaker closed 
summer is past and the harvest ended ? Confident 1 
the glorious, personal reign of Christ on the earth. 
with a general desire to be ready for the great events with an earnest exhortation to the unconverted to 
am, that nothing else can he made of the revelation of 
Then follow down till you reach the names of Luther, 
before us. There are some who present many bin- " repent and be converted." 
the mystery, in the apostolic age, but the dawn of the 
Melancthon, &c., the Fathers of the Reformation. 
derances in the way of successful labor. There is EVENING SESSION. —After prayer and singing, 
Messianic dispensation, or gospel day, to he closed 
Observe the name of Newton, that prince of philoso- 
an order in their disorder,—that is, an order to go Bro. Taylor preached from Matt. 24:14. In an analy- 
when the mystery of God shall be finished, at the 
phers, and other English scholars, whose very names 
against all order. There is a lack of real gospel sis of the text, he spoke of the "end," that it was 
sounding of the seventh trumpet. 
are towers of strength. Look at Chalmers, of our 
order among some. Talking about order is not the not the end of the Jewish economy, but the end of 
3. Tine next point presented is this: " And the 
own times, confessedly the most eloquent theologian 
thing : we must act,--we must come up to the divine this present age,—the' end of time,—the end of the of the age, whose death within a few years has seventh angel sounded ; anti there were great voices 
word. How can we associate with those who " walk world. He then proceeded to rehearse the grand 
in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are be- 
clothed the world in sackcloth, and at others now 
disorderly?" Such are in a morbid state of mind, 'events that we expected to come to pass at or beyond 
come the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ." 
living, who stand pre-eminent in biblical literature. 
and are never satisfied. Their order is to do what the end, namely, the personal coming of Christ, the 
—Rev. 11:15. Now how does it happen, that stns 
this question hinges not on human authority. 
they have a mind to, irrespective of the rights of literal resurrection oethe righteous dead, and change„
is the only item quoted by the advocates of a tem- 
To the law and to the testimony : if they speak 
others. Such being opposed to order, stand most in of the living saints,—the renovation of the earth,—not according to this word,” says God, `° it is be - 
need of it. I go for gospel order. 
the descent of the New Jerusalem,—and the eternal
they maintain an unbroken silence in relation to other 
Bro. Bartlett said he resided in Strafford, Ct., and reign of the Redeemer with his elect in this perfect cause 
As
thn 
 all r 
enre is no light in them." 
points ; that it is a wo trumpet, that the mystery of 
rotestant commentators admit the six from- 
 
several miles from any brethren of the same faith. realm. He then gave the sign of the approach of 
God shall then be finished, &c ? The answer to this 
pets have sounded, and that the seventh is about to 
He was deeply interested in this cause, and his the end, seen in the proclamation of this glad tidings sound, permit me to call your attention to that event, question is doubtless found in the fact, that this is the 
 
neighbors also wished to hear on the subject of the of the kingdom in nearly all the world. It was not 
only item which appears to favor that view, for if 
as portrayed in the word of life! The first annuncia- 
Advent. I have read some, and think that those who to convert all the world, but-as a witness, or sign of 
tion we have of the seventh trumpet is in Rev. 8:13— the governments of earth are still to remain kingdoms, 
endeavor to crush the first and principal medium of the end, and would accomplish its mission, if not a
in tine plural, we could not well interpret this to 
" Wo, wo, WO, to the inhabiters of the earth, by 
 
truth among us are wrong, and though some who do single soul accepted it. It has already traversed sea 
represent the kingdom of God. But you are aware 
reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three 
not understand the state of things, sympathize with and land in its mighty mission. It has been pro-
angels, which are yet to sound." Now the proper that the term kingdoms occurring the second time, is 
the wrong-doers, I cannot have sympathy with them, claimed in Asia, Europe, South America, some parts method of settling the import of a passage in holy inserted hy the translators. The literal rendering is 
I have confidence in our pioneers, and stand with of Africa, many of the Islands, and in our own court- 
this : The kingdoms of this world are become our 
writ, is a reference to biblical usage, and the corn- 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
15 
Lord's, and his Christ's. Thus the literal reading 
of the text harmonizes perfectly with the personal 
advent. It is as if I should say, the kingdoms of 
England, Scotland, and Ireland, are become Queen 
Victoria's ; or, in other words, she is the ruling 
monarch, and sways the sceptre of government over 
different realms ; which, being united, now consti-
tute, not her kingdoms, but kingdom. Just so in 
this case. The governmental authority is trans-
ferred from the monarchs of this world, and vested 
in Him " whose right it is." Thus the kingdoms 
of this world, being subject to the Messianic reign, 
constitute that kingdom, which si to extend " from 
sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the 
earth." Now the kingdom is the Lord's.-0b. 21. 
" And the Lord shall reign over them, in Mount 
Zion, from henceforth even forever. And thou, 0 
tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daugh-
ter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first 
dominion, the kingdom shall come to the daugh-
ter of Jerusalem."—Mic. 4:7, 8. But when will 
this kingdom he organized Certainly not in an 
absolute and appropriate sense, in the present evil 
world, while the Nobleman has gone into a far coun-
try to obtain that kingdom ;—while the subjects of 
that happy reign, for the most part, lie sleeping in 
the dust ;—while the territory is usurped by " the 
Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now 
worketh in the children of disobedience."—Eph. 2:2. 
Says the apostle, " 1 charge thee therefore before 
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the 
quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom." 
—2 Tim. 4:1. When the Son of man shall come in 
His glory, and shall sit upon the throne of His glory, 
then shall the King say to the righteous, " Come, ye 
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom," &c.--
Matt. 25:34. Thus, it appears, that the kingdom 
will be organized at His second coming, to judge the 
quick and dead. 
4. The next point presented relates to the dura-
tion of the kingdom here brought to view : " And 
we shall reign forever and ever." If this be not the 
everlasting kingdom of God, will you point out a 
passage in the Bible where it is referred to? The 
term forever is equal in duration with everlasting ; 
but here we have the intensive form of expression, 
viz., to ages of ages. Now what propriety in limit-
ing this everlasting reign to merely a part of the gos-
pel age? Can the term ctrwyc“ Toy aramov, as applied 
to the kingdom of God, imply a less period than the 
gospel age? You make it so if the kingdom in-this 
case is to consist in the universal triumph of the gos-
pel ; for the moment that universality ceases, the 
kingdom ends. Now the adherents to the popular 
view admit that, at the close of the millennium, Gog 
and Magog will come up, and the world relapse into 
its former declension from God ; so that their king-
dom will begin in the midst of the gospel age, and 
terminate ere its close. But in contrast to this, 
Scripture represents the duration by the intensive 
term, ages of ages.—(To be continued.) 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
Bro. WM. S. MILLER writes from Low Hampton (N. Y.), 
Dec. 20th, 1851 : 
BRO. RIMES :—I think we shall soon see the great 
trouble of which the prophets have written, and in 
which the waiting people of God will be delivered. 
0, it is my prayer, " Come, Lord Jesus, 0 come 
quickly, and receive thy afflicted people." 
You will undoubtedly, if you live, suffer more than 
you have already-; but, dear brother, you have God's 
promise to sustain you. Could it have been the will 
of God that my dear, venerable father should have 
lived to this time, and borne a part of your late trials, 
it would, no doubt, have been of much consolation to 
you. But he has been taken from us, and you are 
left to bear scoffs and mockings without his ready 
sympathy and counsel. But your crown will shine 
the brighter in the heavenly kingdom of God's dear 
Son. 
Finally, dear brother, be faithful a little longer. 
I see that old Europe is all ready for a volcanic erup-
tion. What does Kossuth's arrival here mean, but 
to kindle and arouse a sympathy for the oppressed 
nations of Europe, that cannot be extinguished until 
God's will shall be accomplished in the establishment 
of his everlasting kingdom ? 0, brother, I think 1 
see the approaching storm as it rises above the East-
ern horizon. Well, 1 can say, Let the great battle 
of' Armageddon come! This was what my dear fa-
ther hoped to see ; but God had otherwise determined. 
I close by saying to you, Be wise, be prudent, and 
perseveringly faithful, and you will surely receive a 
crown of glory at the appearing of the Saviour. 
Bro. MOSES TEWKSBURY writes from Hartland (Vermont), 
Dec. 25th. 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—.My prayer is, that the Herald may 
he supported and conducted in such a manner, that 
God's word may he glorified, and the saints comforted 
and instructed. May your enemies be found liars at 
your approaching trial, and may your trust be in that 
God who has said, No weapon that is formed against 
the righteous shall prosper, arid every tongue that 
rises in judgment against them he will condemn, for 
their strength is of me, saith the Lord. But remem-
ber, brother, the weapons of our warfare are not car-
nal, but they are mighty to the pulling down of 
strongholds. May the Lord bless you, and may you 
continue to proclaim the glad tidings of the kingdom 
of heaven at hand. I subscribe myself your aged 
brother, looking for the promised redemption of all 
God's people, through Christ Jesus my Lord, as near 
at hand. 
Bro. GEORGE C. BAKER writes from Garrettsville (Ohio), 
Dec. 25th, 1851 : 
DEAR BROTHER :—Having to write on business, 
would say to the brethren scattered abroad, that I am 
still looking for the coming of the Son of man. The 
hope of seeing Jesus, and being like him, is the only 
source of consolation that I have in this vale of tears. 
Though I am remote from any society of Advent be-
lievers, I am willing to stand alone rather than give 
up the hope of the gospel. The state of things all 
over the world clearly indicates a closing up of this 
dispensation. Brethren, look up and lift up your 
heads, for our redemption draweth nigh. 
" Religion bears our spirits up, 
While we expect that blessed hope,—' 
The bright appearance of the Lord, 
And faith stands leaning on his word." 
Bro. WILLIAM HOLMAN writes from Fort Ann (New York), 
Dec. 24th, 1851 : 
DEAR BRO. IIIMES :—I have been afflicted of late, 
—deeply afflicted. The king of terrors has been 
permitted to enter my dwelling, and take from me, 
under most painful circumstances, my little daughter 
Lovedy, aged three years. In the absence of her 
mother and myself for a few moments, my child got 
a candle which had been left on the table, and set her 
clothes on her fire, by which she was so badly burned 
as to cause her death, after much pain, in three 
weeks. A funeral sermon was preached by Bro. 
W. Manning from Job—" Where is now my hope!" 
I know she will rise at the last day. This afflictive' 
providence has aroused me from my drowsy, sinful 
state to repentance and faith, so that I now look for-
ward with bright anticipations of soon seeing her 
again, and am able to sing, " How long shall death 
the tyrant reign ?" 
Bro. S. A. BEERS writes from Brooklyn (New York), Decem 
her, 22d, 1651 : 
DEAR Brim HIMES :—We feel a lively interest in 
the renewal of the warfare against the interests and 
usefulness of the Herald and its conductors. I could 
have wished the churches to have spoken out in a 
plain and distinct manner, expressive of their views 
of the merits of the controvery, immediately after 
the return of the delegates from the Boston adjourned 
Conference ; but we must not expect to view all 
things in the same light until we are permitted to see 
eye to eye in the glorified kingdom of rest. Should 
Providence permit our common enemy to arraign you 
before Caesar's bar, be assured you will have our con-
fidence, prayers, sympathy, and such substantial aid, 
when the occasion requires, as our numbers will 
warrant. Yours in hope. 
Bro. S. I. RONEY writes from Lynn (Massachusetts), Decem-
ber 31st, 1851 : 
Our meetings continue to be somewhat interesting. 
The brethren have procured a beautiful hall, in a 
central place in the city. Their prospects are good, 
and they feel considerably encouraged. Our prayer 
and conference meetings are quite interesting, and 
we hope for better times for Lynn. 
(Published by request.) 
CELESTIAL RAILROAD. 
The way to heaven by Christ was made, 
With heavenly truth the rails were laid ; 
From earth to heaven the line extends— 
To life eternal, where it ends. 
We're going home, we're going home, we're 
going home, to die no more, 
To die no more, to die no more ; 
We're going home, to die no more. 
Repentance is the station then, 
Where passengers are taken in ; 
No fee for them is there to pay, 
For Jesus is himself the way. 
We're going home, &c. 
The Bible is the engineer, 
That points the way to heaven so clear, 
Through tunnels dark and dreary here, 
That does the way to glory steer. 
We're going home, &c. 
God's love the fire, his truth the steam, 
That drives the engine and the train ; 
All those who would to glory ride, 
Must come to Christ—in him abide. 
We're going home, &c. 
Then come, poor sinners, wow's the time, 
• 
At any station on the line : 
If you'll repent and turn from sin, 
The train will stop and take you in. 
We're going home, &c. 
Eye bath not seen, nor ear bath heard,—,, 
For so declares God's holy word,—
The joys that are prepared for those 
Who in this car to glory goes. 
We're going home, &c. 
S. S. 
OBITUARY. 
" I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in mai, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever livethand lie-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."-John 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, in Newmarket, N. H., Nov. 9th, 1851, Su-
SANNAH BURLEY, wife of the late Josiah Burley, 
aged 87 years. The deceased embraced the gospel 
of Christ at an early age, and sustained the princi-
ples of religion through life. Her reason was some-
what impaired by her extreme age, but the religion 
she professed through life sustained her in death. 
She fell asleep in the full assurance of a resurrection 
and glorious immortality beyond the grave. May 
her death be sanctified to the good of her bereaved 
children. 
DIED, in Montgomery, Vt., Oct. 19th, 1851, Sister 
MELINDA ROBBINS, wife of Bro. Lemuel Robbins, 
aged 62 years. Our departed sister was born in 
Townsend, Vt., in 1789. It was in the days of glad 
and happy youth that she listened to the inviting 
voice of Jesus, and gave her heart to him. After her 
marriage she united with the Baptist church in 
Brooklyn, Vt., of which she remained a worthy 
member until 1824, when she removed to this place, 
(Montgomery,) and united with the church here. 
Sister Robbins was an affectionate wife, a kind mo-
ther, and an exemplary Christian. When she first 
heard the proclamation of our Saviour's return to 
.‘ judge the world in righteousness," it filled her 
heart with joy. She contemplated the event as one 
much to be desired, and listened with pleasure to the 
evidence that indicated it to be nigh at hand. She 
was one of that number that expected the Redeemer 
in 1843 ; and though disappointed, she still believed 
most firmly, that the day was not far distant when 
she should see Jesus as he is and be like him. She 
was willing to suffer for the truth, and thanked God 
that she was counted worthy, being comforted by the 
promise, that " if we suffer with him, we shall also 
reign with him." During the last four years she 
had been a continual sufferer, from a variety of com-
plaints, attended by an unusual irritation of the 
nerves, and her mortal frame gradually wasted away. 
She received the unwearied attention of her kind 
husband and family, who spared no pains to provide 
for everything that could make her comfortable, and 
smooth her pathway to the grave. During her sick-
ness she often expressed a fear that she should lack 
for patience to wait for the termination of her inde-
scribable sufferings. But the promise so precious to 
God's suffering children—" My grace shall be suffi-
cient for thee "—sustained her in her most intense 
suffering. She bore her afflictions with that patience 
which becomes the Christian, realizing that " God 
is too wise to err, and too good to be unkind "—
that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy 
to be compared with that glory that shall be revealed 
in God's dear children, in the rest. that remaineth for 
them. Three weeks previous to her death, she rap-
idly grew worse, and was conscious that she must 
very soon lie down in her cold and narrow bed. But 
the grave had no terrors for her, for she knew that if 
Death encircled her body in his icy arms, and laid it 
in his prison-house, Jesus would send a convoy of 
angels to escort her freed spirit to the place where 
good spirits " rest for a little season." And she 
knew that Jesus would watch her sleeping (lust, and 
that when the night was forever past, and the glori-
ous morning shall dawn, he will come down through 
the parted skies, and call to the heavens from above, 
and to the earth from beneath, saying, " Gather to-
gether my saints," and that she—yes, she—should 
" hear his voice and come forth," all glorious, to re-
ceive the spotless robe and star-gemmed crown—that 
in tones sweeter than any music that ever fell on 
mortal ear, he would say, " Come, ye blessed of my 
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you." It 
was this cheering hope that enabled her oft to say to 
her only surviving daughter, " 0, Mary, I wish I 
was in the kingdom—' I long to be there.''' In this 
frame of mind she continued until her summons came, 
and then, without a fear, a struggle, or a groan, she 
fell asleep in Jesus. A large audience assembled at 
her burial, on which occasion Eld. A. Stone preached 
a sermon from Matt. 22 : 30—" For in the resurrec-
tion they neither marry nor are given in marriage, 
but are as the angels of God in heaven." From this 
text he drew light to drive away the darkness that 
envelops the uninformed mind, and to comfort our 
aged, stricken, and companionless brother and chil-
dren, who now, with tearful eyes and aching hearts, 
took their last, long, lingering look at her who, for 
many years, had been an affectionate wife and a ten-
der mother. Our departed sister's lowly bed was, 
made by the side of a much loved daughter. There 
they sleep side by side on their clay-cold pillows, 
with the clods of the valley for their winding-sheet, 
and the snows of winter for their covering. It may 
be that the green grass will yet wave over their bo-
soms, and the wild rose shed its perfume around the 
place of their repose ; but they will not sleep long, 
for soon Jesus will come, and they will hear his 
voice and come forth, to "shine as the sun in the 
kingdom of their Father." " Blessed are the dead 
that die in the Lord." " Let me die the death of the 
righteous, and let my last end he like his." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its !Inure 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live-The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall he 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time, 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate wanting to 
flee from the wrath to conic. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the "Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief- 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly "-Rev 
11:14-the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the (Inure. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Gon is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciations. 
NEW TRACT.-The Approaching Crisis,-not a Political 
renovation of the nations, but the establishment of the king-
dom of God,-shown by an exposition of the 20th of Reve-
lation, and corresponding scriptures. We are preparing a 
tract on the above subject, which we hope to have out in a 
few weeks. 
To CORRESFONDENTS.-B. F. B.-We have no view 
of 1 Sam. 28:15, different from what is conveyed by the nat-
ural meaning of the words there used. We suppose that 
the spirit of Samuel was sent to announce to Saul, that on 
the morrow he and his sons should be with Samuel. Tirt 
woman professed to be able to converse with the dead ; 
when Samuel was sent, she and Saul seem alike surprised. 
To our Agent in London, R. ROBERTSON, Esq.-Will 
you have the kindness to get and forward to its the second 
number of the Quarterly Journal of Prophecy for Jan. 1849 1 
It will enable us to complete our file of that valuable Journal. 
Appeal for Aid to carry on the Prosecution.-We are told by 
those who see the papers which sustain the conspiracy, that 
an appeal has been published soliciting contributions to aid in 
carrying on the prosecution against its. 
" The (Old) Farmer's Almanac, calculated on a new and 
improved plan, for the year of our Lord 1852," &c., " estab-
lished in 1793. By Robert B. Thomas." Boston : Pub-
lished by Jenks, Hiekling & Swan. - Sold by booksellers and 
traders throughout New England. 
This annual has been so long a favorite with the farming 
interest, that anything by way of commendation would be a 
work of supererogation. It has made its annual appearance, 
with its full complement of "new, useful, and entertaining 
matter." 
THE NEWS OF THE DAY is of so much importance at 
the present time, that we have made full quotations from for-
eign and domestic journals, believing that our columns could 
not be filled with any matter of more interest to our readers. 
lion. GEO. BAN CROFT, at a banquet given to KOSSUTH 
by the New York Press, expressed his conviction that " the 
event which we this day commemorate, exceeds in grandeur 
all that has preceded it in the history of man." Such ex-
travagant remarks, must be rather inconsiderately made. 
American Vocalist.-This is the best book of the kind in 
the market. It can be had, wholesale and retail, at this 
office. 
A Reverend Trifler.-Among the mass of disgusting scan-
dal developed by the Forrest trial, the following note ad-
dressed to Mrs. Forrest by the Rev. E. L. Magoon, shows 
the vulgarity of the "association " in which the immorali-
ties were engendered : 
DEAR " KATE "-Your kind invitation to "coin," at 
three P. M. came to hand at eleven this morning. I forth-
with posted to your tabernacle, and now here I is, to say that 
it is unpossible utterly to he with you as desired. 
At the hour you name the dead are to be boried, and at al-
most every other hour for many days and nights to come, I 
shall be up to my eyes in work. Last week I was in four 
n_ctreat congregations in Providence, Boston, and Salem.- 
Next week-but no matter. Wife sends lots of love. 
Yours, pertinaciously, MAGOON. 
The low levity of this impertinent epistle, written just be-
fore the solemn hour in which "the dead are to be buried," 
is shockingly disgusting.-N. Y. Evening Mirror. 
The Late Kossuth Excitement at New York.-Much has 
been said in different parts of the country in regard to the 
different phases of the Kossuth excitement in New York. 
The following letter from the Washington correspondent of 
the N. Y. Express probably conveys a correct estimate of 
the public opinion in regard to the various banquets, dinners, 
&c., to Kossuth : 
" The Kossuth movements in the city of New York are 
much commented upon among public men, anti these com-
ments'have not been very complimentary. Without being 
able to judge of them myself, having but comparatively little 
knowledge of the causes of them, or the men concerned in 
them, it is nevertheless a duty to say, that they have essen-
tially damaged the religious, moral, and political influence of 
your city. You have appeared to be a French populace ra-
ther than like an American people,-for you don't seem to 
draw much distinction between the enthusiasm of a Jenny 
Lind, or a Kossuth-and it is believed that if Lola Monies 
had come in the absence of any other enthusiasm, the recep-
tion would have been just about as noisy over her. These 
reflections, whether just or unjust, spring up among public 
men, and create prejudice against you, and damage your in-
fluence in the country, in all respects. 
" l'he Beecher scene of grape-shot, cannon-balls, &c., in 
the Puritan Church of Brooklyn, was one of the first things 
that struck religious Christian men with amazement. Such 
fighting men of God we are not accustomed to out of your 
city. Indeed, the whole religious movement for a general 
European war, only shows how little hold religious peace so-
cieties yet have won over the minds of even Christian men. 
This is excused in part by observing men here, upon the 
ground, that Kossuth is believed especially to represent the 
European principle of anti-Roman Catholicism, in conse-
quence of his avowal, that a part of his plan was for the 
overthrow of the Pope of Rome, as a temporality, as well as 
the Austrian emperor. Protestants are excusable, we know, 
in going a great way to dethrone the Pope of Rome ; and 
hence war speeches of Christian ministers are understood, 
save when:Mr. Beecher brings into a Christian Church such 
very embodiment of hell, and Satan, as cannon-ball and 
grape-shot. 'These things, and the cheers of deacons, elders, 
and saints over them, nobody can understand." 
How Kossutk Learnt the English Language.-Kossuth, in 
a speech at Baltimore to a deputation of Protestant clergy-
men, confirms the report current in the newspapers that he 
acquired a knowledge of the English language while in prison. 
He said :-" It is some twelve years ago, that for my decided 
attachment to the right of the free press, which had never 
been oppressed except by the arbitrary laws of my country, I 
was put in prison by the Austrian Government. The first 
year they gave me nothing to read, and nothing to write with. 
The second they came and told me that it would lie granted 
to read something, but that I must not Blake my choice of 
any political books, but only a diffident one. I pondered a 
little, and knowing that a knowledge of languages was a key 
to sciences, I concluded that perhaps it might be useful to get 
some little knowledge of the English language. So I told 
them I would name some books which would not partake in 
the retnotest way of politics. I asked for an English gram-
mar, Shakspeare, and Walker's Dictionary. The books 
were given, and I sat down, without knowing a single word, 
and began to read the Tempest, the first play of Shakspeare, 
and worked for a fortnight to get through the first page. I 
have a certain rule never to go on in reading anything with-
out perfectly understanding what I read. So I went on, and 
by and by became somewhat familiar with your language." 
Politics and-the Pulpit. - The following extract from 
Burke's essay on the French Revolution, although written 
many years ago, is imbued with practical wisdom, and is ap-
plicable to the times it which we live :-" Politics and the 
pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought 
to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian 
charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government 
gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. 
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does 
not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of 
the character they leave, and the character. they assume. 
Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so 
fond of interineddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs on 
which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have 
nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the 
church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed 
to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." 
Religion in New York.-The annual report of the City 
Tract Society reveals startling facts respecting the religious 
habits of the New Yorkers. Seventy years ago, when the 
city of New York contained only 23,000 inhabitants, there 
was a place of worship for every 1353 persons ; but now, 
with an increase of half a million to the population, there is 
not one for every 2100 persons, and but few of these are filled. 
There are, says the report, two hundred thousand pet-sons its 
the city of New York who do not habitually attend church. 
Nor is there church accommodation for this vast number, 
even if they desired it. Of the reasons usually assigned for 
non-attendance, the report says :-" When asked to account 
for this neglect, some unblushingly avow their enmity to reli-
gion ; some declare their preference for Sabbath.excursions; 
some'complain that our church arrangements are made fur 
the rich and intellectual, rather than for the poor and un-
learned ; and others make other excuses." 
Correction.-Mr. Editor :-Will you be so good as to in-
sert the following correction of that part of the reported 
speech of the Rev. H. W. Beecher, which represents him 
as punning 011 the word "damned." 
The facts were these : Being often interrupted by cheers, 
he said in substance-" I and like a stream that must have 
full flow. If you interrupt me by cheers, it is like a dam 
across a stream." A gentleman sitting behind him said, 
" We don't want Beecher damned." Those who noticed the 
interruption, but did not hear the remark, looked inquiringly 
at Mr. B., who, waving his hand to the person, said, " My 
friend says he does not wish me damned." A similar cor-
rection occurs in the N. Y. Tribune of Dec. 161h.-Boston 
Journal. 
• 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Interior of Africa.-The Westminster Review contains an 
interesting article relating to Africa, from one who claims to 
have lived for several years on the western coast, whence be 
made excursions into the country. He says that a state of 
civilization exists among some of the tribes, such as has not 
been suspected hitherto by those who have judged only from 
such accounts as have been given of the tribes with which 
travellers have come in contact. They cannot be regarded 
as savages, having organized townships, fixed habitations, 
with regular defences about their cities, engaging is agricul-
ture, and the manufacture of cotton cloths for clothing, which 
they ornament with handsome dyes of native production, and 
exhibit handicraft in their conversion of iron and precious 
metals into articles of use and ornament. The merchants en-
trust their goods to the care of native traders, in various 
parts of the country, stored in huts, without protection, yet 
preserved in entire safety, acts of robbery being very rare. 
Native traders are held in high respect, especially if wealthy, 
and in some cases whole tribes engage in the business of 
itinerant traders, no impediment being offered to them even 
among nations where a state of war exists. 
The Revolution in Chili.-We are indebted to a friend fur 
the following extract from a letter, dated Valparaiso, Nov. 
26th :-" Our revolutionary troubles still continue, and for 
the past two months no business of consequence has been 
done. On the 28th ult. quite a battle took place between the 
Government forces and the insurgents, in which some thirty 
were killed and seventy wounded ; but the Government car-
ried the day, and dispersed the rebels in an hour or two. 
We are in daily expectation of news of a grand battle in 
Chilian, some three hundred miles from this place, between 
the Government forces and the insurgents, which will decide 
the fate of Chili for years to come. No doubt is entertained 
that the Government will gain the day. It is a serious affair 
for the commercial interests of the country."-Boston Jour. 
Official Announcement of Louis Napoleon's Movement.-On 
Tuesday, the 30th inst., the French Minister at Washington 
called at the Department of State, by direction of his Gov-
ernment, to officially announce that the President of the 
French Republic had adopted the great measure for the pub-
lic safety ; that the Chief of the State owed it to 6,000,000 
Frenchmen, who had elected him, and to the world, which 
had received his nomination as a new era of tranquillity- for 
France, to preserve her from a revolution, of which the 
world might feel the recoil ; that strong in his consciousness 
of patriotic intentions in repelling the dangers which threaten 
France and Europe without end, he invited the nation to a 
free choice of a firm and durable government-that he ap 
pealed to the suffrage of all in a moment so solemn to his 
country, and thought that this appeal ought to enlighten Eu-
rope and the world in regard to his object. 
" Coming events cast their shadows before."-Mr. CHOATE, 
in a late speech, referring to the state and aspects of the Eu-
ropean world, said :-" What that aspect and state exactly 
is, how wholly unsettled, what shadows, clouds, and dark-
ness appear to rest upon it, you entirely appreciate. It has 
seemed to one as if the prerogatives of crowns, and the rights 
of men, and the hoarded-up resentments and revenges of a 
thousand years, were about to unsheath the sword for a con 
flict, in which blood shall flour, as in the Apocalyptic vision, 
to the bridles of the horses, and in which a whole age of 
men shall pass away-in which the great bell of time shall 
sound out another hour-in which society itself shall be tried 
by fire and steel-whether it is of nature and of nature's 
God, or not." 
Operations of the American Board of Foreign Missions.-
The number of missions is 25 ; number of stations, 110 ; 
out stations, 34 ; total number of laborers connected with the 
missions, 560 ; printing establishments, 12 ; pages printed 
bust year, 52,669,739; printed since the beginning, 948,589,-
739 ; number of churches, 92 ; church members, 23,971‘; 
added during the year, 1222 ; seminaries, 7 ; boarding and 
free schools, 756 ; total number of pupils in all the schools, 
23,373. 
Louis Blanc writes to the London News, that the plot of 
which Louis Napoluon is the accomplice, is to form three 
great Europeon despotisms. Austria is to absorb Italy, Rus-
sia is to extend herself to Constantinople, and France is to 
swallow Belgium. If England resists, she is to be crushed. 
The Pope has taken offence at the permission given by the 
King of Sardinia to erect a Protestant church at Turin, and 
has so expressed himself to the Sardinian Minister at a di-
plomatic interview. 
Professor Mon E s STuA RT, of Andover Theological Semi-
nary, died of influenza on Sunday, the 4th inst., at the ad-
vanced pge of 71 years. 
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