J» V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
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BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1854. 
YOLUME XIII. NO. 5. 
followers. 
Such was the character of Cyril, a 
canonized saint of the holy Catholic Church. 
Nestorius was to be tried by a council to be 
held at Ephesus, and Cyril, having induced a 
majority of the bishops to espouse his side, suc-
ceeded in degrading him from the office of patri-
arch. 
Although denounced by the Council of 
Ephesus, the Nestorians continued to exist. They 
spread their doctrines into the Eastern world and 
found refuge within the confines of Persia ; and 
they alone of all Christians, seemed at that time 
to have recognized that it was their duty to spread 
Christianity through the world. 
They multi-
plied bishoprics and arch-bishoprics throughout 
Asia to a wonderful extent, and although many 
of these dignities must have been merely nomi-
nal, still there was little doubt that a powerful 
organization existed, and the members of the 
Greek Church in Asia were actually a more nu-
merous and powerful body than the Roman 
Catholic branch in Europe. But the dark day 
came upon them. 
The mighty Tamerlane drove 
them to the mountains, and massacred all who 
crossed the path of his conquering troops. 
Great 
numbers apostatized to idolatry; many embraced 
Mohammedanism, and many more at a subse-
quent period were induced by the Catholics to 
acknowledge the Pope as the head of the Church. 
Thus Nestorian Christianity died apparently from 
theplainsof Asia—remaining only in the bosoms 
of a few brave men, who, with their descend-
ants, secure in the mountain fastnesses of Persia, 
dared still to cherish the forbidden faith. 
The Infidelity of tlie Rappers. 
As chroniclers of passing events it is necessary 
to notice the progress of the new faith that has 
arisen in our midst. The following notice of 
"Judge Edmonds in Worcester," by the commu-
nications purporting to come from Voltaire, shows 
that they are gradually endorsing the most offen-
sive features of infidelity. 
The City Hall was pretty well filled last Mon-
day evening, by an assemblage to hear Judge 
Edmonds, of New York, discourse upon the 
Spiritual Phenomena. 
There was some excel-
lent singing by two young men, with melodeon 
accompaniment, at the commencement and close 
of the other exercises, which would have been 
more than enough for the small admission fee 
charged at the door. 
Dr. Dexter of New York 
opening the meeting with prayer ; this was fol-
lowed by singing, and the Doctor commenced. 
He said he would read a dialogue which he had 
in his hand, in manuscript, between two spirits. 
The matter purported to come from the spirits of 
Voltaire and Cardinal Wolsey. 
We understood 
the drift of the dialogue, or the points deemed 
important in it, were, that Voltaire was not an 
infidel, but only a philosophical thinker, so 
much in advance of his age and generatian that 
he only appeared to be an infidel; that he (Vol-
taire's spirit) did not regret that his writings and 
speculations had been circulated, for if they 
lacked the form of expression which he might 
now give them, and necessary to an understand-
ing of his real inner knowledge, still they would 
lead to controversy and inquiry, and of course 
to truth. Dr. Dexter occupied about half an 
hour. 
The chief points in Judge Edmonds' discourse 
were: He would tell them how he had come to 
believe Spirit communications, after thorough, 
patient, and deep investigation, and enumerated 
the different kinds of opposition, which he con-
siders are evidence of the truths of spiritualism. 
Many thousands had before this day suffered 
martyrdom for their belief—they were "me-
diums." 
That there was a surprising intelli-
gence in these spiritual rappings; that there was 
evidence in them that the " Great Father of all 
was shedding upon his children the light of a 
new religion;" that the phenomena revealed 
what Moses and Christ had failed to reveal; 
that it is necessary at this age of the world to 
have such a revelation ; that it improves their 
temporal and physical condition ; that it will 
OFFICE, No. 8 ChnrrioR-strce 
Spirit Rappings 500 Years ago. 
THE spirit rappers of our times hail the pre-
tended spiritual developments of the few last 
years, as signs of a new era in the destiny of hu-
manity. 
It marks, they say, the progress of 
man toward better things ; it opens a new page 
in his history. 
Of course this assumption is 
built on the presumption that these spiritual 
agencies are novelties, hitherto unknown in man's 
history. 
But alas! for this pretension, it has 
as little foundation in reality, as the alleged in-
visible rappers themselves. For that pleasant 
old chronicler of the olden time, JOHN 
FROISSART 
of blessed memory among all lovers of good his-
tory, records events precisely similar to these 
boasted novelties of our modern wonder mon-
gers. 
Admitting the truthfulness of his state-
ments—and there is at least as much truth in 
what he records, as there is in the assertions of 
that man of dreams, visions, fancies, &c., A. J. 
Davis, the spirito played their freaks with their 
favorites as much as five hundred years ago, at 
least. But we will let honest John tell his story, 
which we quote as condensed from his pages by 
the National Intelligencer. 
Zion,:i Herald. 
" About the year 1360 (nearly five centuries 
ago) Raymond, Lord of Corasse, had a difficul-
ty with a priest or ' clerk ' about tithes, the col-
lection of which he had resisted. The priest 
threatened vengeance, and departed. 
About 
three months after, when the knight least thought 
of it, and was sleeping in bed with his lady, in 
his castle of Corasse, there came invisible mes-
sengers, who made such a noise, knocking about 
everything they met with in the castle, as if 
they were determined to destroy all within it, 
and they gave such loud raps at the door of the 
chamber of the knight, that the lady was exceed-
ingly frightened. The knight heard it all, but 
did not say a word, as he would not have it ap-
pear that he was alarmed, for he was a man of 
sufficient courage for any adventure. 
These 
noises and tumults continued in different parts 
of the castle, for a considerable time, and then 
ceased. 
On the morrow all the servants of the 
household assembled and went to their lord and 
said: 
" 1 My Lord, did you hear what we all heard 
this nightv 
" My lord de Corasse dissembled and replied, 
'What is it you have heard!' 
They then re-
lated to him all the noises and riotings they had 
heard, and that the plates in the kitchen had 
been broken. He began to laugh, and said: 
' It was nothing—that they had dreamed it, or 
that it had been the wind.' 
' In the name of the 
saints, (added the lady,) I well heard it.' 
" On the following night the noises and riot-
ing were renewed, but much louder than before ; 
and then some such blows struck against the door 
and windows of the chamber of the knight, that 
it seemed they would break them down. The 
knight could no longer desist from leaping out 
of his bed and calling out, ' Who is it at this 
hour thus knocks at my chamber door ?' 
'• He was instantly answered, ' It is I.' 
"'And who sends thee hither?' asked the 
knight. 
" ' The clerk of Catalonia, whom thou hast 
much wronged, for thou hast deprived him of 
the rights of his benefice; I will never, therefore, 
leave thee quiet until thou hast rendered him a 
just account, with which he shall be contented.' 
" ' What art thou called,' said the knight, 
' who art so good a messenger V 
" ' My name is Orthon.' 
4' ' Orthon, (said the knight,) serving a clerk 
will not he much advantage to thee; for if thou 
believest him, he will give thee great trouble; 
I beg thou wilt therefore leave him and serve 
me, and I shall think myself obliged to thee.' 
" Orthon was ready with his answer, for he 
had taken a liking to the knight, and said, ' Do 
you wish it ?' 
" ' Yes, (replied the knight,) but no harm 
must be done to any one within these walls.1 
" ' 0, no, (answered Orthon,) I have no pow-
er to do ill to any one—only to awaken thee and 
thy rest, or that of other persons.' 
The Nestorians. 
THE Nestorian Christian religion, which at 
one time prevailed so extensively in Asia, and 
seemed upon the verge of indoctrinating that, 
vast continent with the principles of Christiani-
ty, and of which it is said a few traces may still 
be found amoug the mountain crags of Persia, 
was founded in the early part of the fifth century 
by Nestorius, who was appointed to the patri-
archal chair of Constantinople in the year 428. 
Nestorius carefully distinguished between the 
divine and human nature attributed to Christ, 
and refused to the Virgin Mary the title of 
" Mother of God." 
He believed that while she 
was the mother of his human nature, she could 
not be the mother of his divine nature. 
He fear-
lessly preached this doctrine in the church of 
St. Sophia, in Constantinople, and his labors 
soon excited the indignation and hatred of those 
who had learned to worship the Virgin. A pow-
erful party was formed against him, headed by 
Cyril, who was at that time the patriarch of 
Alexandria, in Egypt. 
Cyril, the opponent of Nestorius, was an in-
tolerant fanatic. As an instance of his injustice 
and bigotry, it is related that when he assumed 
the patriarchal robes in Alexandria, there were 
40,000 wealthy Jews in the city, who had long 
resided there in peace and freedom. 
Cyril im-
mediately, at the head of a large force of his 
adherents, attacked the Jews in their synagogues, 
killed many of them, and seized the property of 
their whole community. Taking the largest share 
for himself, he divided the remainder among his 
" ' Do what I tell thee, (added the knight,) 
we shall well agree, and leave this wicked priest, 
for he is a worthless fellow, and serve me.' 
" ' Well, (replied Orthon,) since thou wilt 
have it so, I consent.' 
"Orthon took such an affection to the Lord 
de Corasse that he came often to see him in the 
night time; and when he found him sleeping, he 
pulled his pillow from under his head, or made 
great noises at the door or windows; so that 
when the knight was awakened, he said, ' Orthon 
let me sleep.' 
' I will not,' replied he, ' until I 
have told thee some news.' The knight's lady 
was so much frightened, the hairs of her head 
stood on end, and she hid herself under the bed-
clothes. 
'Well,' said the knight, 'and what 
news hast thou brought me ?' 
" Orthon replied, ' I am come from England, 
Hungary, or some other place, which I left yes-
terday, and such and such things have hap-
pened,' 
Thus did the Lord de Corasse know by 
the means of Orthon all things that were pass-
ing in different parts of the world; and this con-
nexion continued for five years. 
m, 
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w 
w 
w 
" The knight subsequently became desirous of 
seeing his ' invisible messenger,' when the fol-
lowing dialogue took place: 
"The kuight interrogates the spirit, 'And 
where dost thou come from ?' ' I came from 
Prague, in Boorhemia.' 
' How far is it hence ?' 
'Sixty days' journey,' replied Orthon. 'And 
hast thou returned thence in so short a time?' 
' Yes, I travel as fast as the wind, or faster.' 
" ' What, hast thou got wings?' 
" ' 0, no.' 
" ' How then canst thou fly so fast ?' 
" ' That is no business of yours.' 
" ' No !' said the night, ' I should like exceed-
ingls to see what form thou hast, and how thou 
art made.' 
" ' That does not concern you to know,' re-
plied Orthon; 'be satisfied that you hear me, 
and that I bring you intelligence that you may 
depend on.' 
" That the spirit of Orthon did afterwards ap-
pear to the knight, first in the form of ' two 
straws which were turning and playing together 
on the floor,' and afterwards as ' an immensely 
large sow,' together with other entertaining mat-
ter, the curious reader will find by reference to 
the chronicles of—' FROISSART.' 
" 
relieve thousands suffering in mental slavery, and 
they will throw off the trammels of sectarianism 
and become free; that there was nothing in the 
Bible or in the laws of nature at war with it, 
and, that, as it is to be the belief ultimately of 
all, the sooner we believe, the better for us. 
These, we think, were the prominent ideas ad-
vanced. 
To illustrate his statement that there was supe-
rior intelligence connected with the phenomena, 
he said he was in Central America some time ago, 
and some of his friends in New York city in-
quired of the spirits of his (the lecturer's) cir-
cumstances. 
In seven or eight instances the in-
formation received by his friends was found to 
accord with the actual facts, as he had kept a 
very minute journal, and could prove. Two 
days before the news of the loss of the San 
Francisco, a medium in New York had all the 
particulars written out, and, as was afterwards 
found, perfectly correct, even to the most unim-
portant detail. 
Last week, said the lecturer, myself and nine 
other persons saw and heard a melodeon played 
most beautifully, and no human hand was near. 
He read some writings, supposed to be from 
spirits; another piece was sung, and the audience 
dispersed. 
No facts other than mentioned above, or tan-
gible arguments, were offered to prove that the 
manifestations were produced by the spirits of 
the departed. 
No new light was shed upon the 
Subject. 
Worcester jEgis. 
There will be no Night there. 
No night, with its gloomy darkness and fear-
ful raging tempest. 
How it howls about our 
casement and tears in fury among the leafless 
branches. The thunder mutters its fearful an-
ger, and the ghastly lightning glares vividly 
about us. But there no storms will sweep over 
the soul. All will be serene and pure; as the 
morning sun bursting in beauty over the tranquil 
lake; as the midnight sky gazing silently and 
solemnly upon the repose of nature, when the 
wind has hushed its breath and the little stars 
hold converse in gentle whispers. 
No night there1, with its long and tedicus 
hours of anxious care, of restlessness and pain. 
Ah, who cannot recall them ; when we'sat by 
his bedside, and bathed his fainting temples, and 
heard the knell of the lazy hours as they crept 
slowly by. And then the morning came, but 
not to our souls, for the spirit of the beloved had 
gone and left us desolate 
No night there! with its unconscious stupor; 
with its forgetfulness of the past and unconcern 
for the future; with its dreams of terror, and 
sudden alarm. 
The faculties of the soul will be 
all awake there. We shall know as we are 
known; know the depths of that love that saved 
us; the immensity of that power which redeemed 
us. We will tell it in the diamond starlight 
showered upon our pathway; we will read it in 
the solemn cycles of the rolling planets. The 
flowers of Paradise will whisper it to our souls, 
and its gentle waters and healing streams all will 
speak of it. 
No night there! and therefore no darkness; 
no darkness and therefore no fear. 
He will wipe 
away all our tears. His banner over us will be 
love; and we will think of the days gone by ; 
of the toils and conflicts of old earth, and it will 
be like the thoughts of the weary mariner, when 
he has clewed up the sails for the last time; and 
now from his mountain home gazes o'ei^the fret-
ful, roaring waters on which he has suffered and 
toiled. 
The Fall of Ambition. 
MR. Patrick Adamson was once a preacher of 
highly distinguished popularity. 
Pride and am-
bition, however, appeared to have influenced his 
sacred calling. By his influence and popular 
talents he rose rapidly in church preferment un-
til he obtained the mitre, and became Archbishop 
of St Andrew's. 
Dazzled with the grandeur 
and dignity to which he had attained, and vain 
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HERALD. I 
of the powers which his office combined, he com-
menced a violent persecution against his inferior 
brethren; at which he was frequently heard to 
say, that of whatever else he might be deprived, 
of three things he was certain—his riches, his 
learning, and the king's favor. 
But how vain 
wa8 his boasting! 
A short time only elapsed 
before in the face of all the people, the judgment 
of God overtook him, and his pride and cruelty 
became his ruin. 
His intellectual powers, of 
which he boasted, withered; so that although his 
eloquence had been greatly admired, he was un-
able to express himself even in a few words with 
coherency ; his riches made unto themselves 
wings and flew away, until he was obliged to seek 
and subsist on charity from those very ministers 
he had persecuted; while the king's favor, in 
which he had trusted, not only was lost, but he 
became so far the object of his abhorrence, that 
the prelate himself declared, " he was sure the 
king did care more for the worst of his dogs 
than for him;" and thus, cast off by the world, 
whose favor he had sought, and by Him " whose 
favor is life," but whose favor he had rejected, 
he lived and died in the greatest misery and 
want. 
0, how wretched 
Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favors ! 
And he, and every one, that God's blest smile 
And his soul's peace, barters for earthly trash 
(Continued from our last.) 
Chronological Table 
OF 
EVENTS 
CONNECTED 
WITH 
THE 
PArACY. 
1526. IN a diet of the German Empire, held at 
Spire, " it was carried by a great majority, that 
the execution of the edict of Worms (A. D. 1521) 
should be suspended till the doctrines, which 
had given occasion to it, were examined, and 
either condemned or approved by a general 
council. 
At the same time it was agreed, that 
a solemn address should be presented to the em-
peror, entreating him to assemble one without 
delay, and that, in the meanwhile, every prince 
should be at liberty to regulate ecclesiastical 
matters in his own dominions as he should think 
expedient. 
And now the German states and 
princes, who were friends to the reformation, 
being thus delivered from all restraint, made it 
their business to banish the superstitions of 
popery out- of their dominions, and introduce 
genuine Christianity in their room. 
This liberty 
they enjoyed for the space of three whole years; 
and, improving it to the advantage of their cause, 
they introduced, during that time, the reforma-
tion among their subjects quite unmolested."-
Bower, v. 3, p. 306. 
1527. The Duke of Bourbon, being in want 
of money to pay his troops, resolved to plunder 
Home. 
Accordingly he marched to and entered 
that city. 
" No instances occur in history of cruelty, 
lust, avarice, and contempt of everything that 
is sacred, which were not practised, on this oc 
casion, by the bigoted Spaniards, as well as by 
the Germans, who were for the most part Lu-
therans, and enemies to Rome. 
They, who re-
late the particulars, agree all in this, that though 
Home had been frequently taken, and plundered 
by the barbarians, it had never seen, since its 
foundation, so dismal a day. 
" The pope, instead of leaving Rome, and re-
tiring, as many advised him, to some fortress of 
the ecclesiastical state, fled to the castle of St. 
Angelo, which was immediately invested by the 
prince of Orange. 
In the meantime the army of 
the confederates advanced to the relief of the 
pope, and even came within sight of Rome. But 
the Duke of Urbino, general of the confederate 
army, urging many difficulties against their at-
tempting to raise the siege of the castle, they 
marched back."—lb. p. 305. 
The pope at length gained his liberty, by 
granting to the emperor, Charles V., " one-tenth 
of the ecclesiastic revenues in all his kingdoms," 
with other mortifying conditions. 
" While these -things passed in Italy, the ref-
ormation was carried on, with wonderful suc-
cess, in Germany, several of the German princes, 
and most of the imperial towns having embraced 
the new doctrine, and allowed it to be freely 
preached within the limits of their respective ju-
risdictions."—lb. p. 306. 
1529. The resolutions granted in 1526, at the 
" Diet of Spire, were revoked at the end of three 
years, by another held in the same place, and 
every change in religion was declared unlawful 
till authorized by the general council that was 
soon to meet."—lb. p. 306. 
" Against that declaration four princes of the 
empire, and thirteen imperial cities entered a 
solemn protest ; and hence arose the denomina-
tion of PROTESTANTS, a name that has thence-
forth been given to all who renounce the errors of 
Rome."—lb. p. 307. 
1531. At the diet at Augsburg,, the Protes-
tants first presented their confession of faith, 
which was composed by Melanethon—no regular 
system till then having been drawn up. 
It con-
tained twenty-eight chapters, of which twenty-one 
declared the opinions of the reformers, and seven 
pointed out the errors and abuses that caused 
their withdrawal from the church of Rome. 
This 
was answered by the Romanists, to which the 
emperor would receive no reply. 
On the 19th of November an edict was is-
sued by the diet, confirming that of Worms, con-
demning all the changes in doctrine and wor-
ship introduced by the reformers, and command-
ing the princes, states, and cities, that had with-
drawn their obedience to Rome, to return to their 
duty, on pain of incurring the high displeasure 
of the emperor, and the ban of the empire. 
" This edict alarmed the princes, who had em-
braced the reformation; and in order to put 
themselves in a condition of repelling force, if 
any were offered, by force, they metatSmalcald 
in the landgraviate of Hesse, and there entered 
into a confederacy in defence of their religion 
and liberties. 
' This confederacy was highly displeasing to 
the emperor; but as Solyman, Emperor of the 
Turks, entered at this time the kingdom of Hun-
gary at the head of a very numerous army, and 
the confederates refused to concur, in the defence 
of that country, either with men or with money, 
unless the emperor revoked the edicts of Worms 
and of Augsburg, or, at least, suspended their 
execution, he was obliged to come to an agree-
ment with them."—lb. p. 308. 
1532. " Accordingly, on the 13th of July, 
1532, a peace was concluded at Nuremberg 
upon the following conditions:—That the con-
federates should furnish the emperor with the 
necessary subsidies for the defence of the king-
dom of Hungary ; and the emperor, on his side, 
should suspend the execution of the above-men-
tioned edicts, and molest no man on account of 
his religion, till the points in dispute were finally 
determined in a free general council, which he 
should cause to be summoned within six months, 
and to be opened within a year. 
A religious 
truce being thus concluded to the inexpressible 
joy of the confederates, they sent at their own 
expense, such powerful reinforcements to the im-
perial army, commanded by the emperor in per-
son, that, at his approach, Solyman, though at 
the head of two hundred thousand men, thought 
it advisable to retire, and march quietly back to 
Constantinople."—lb. p. 308. 
1534. Henry VIII., king of England,lC being 
on the 3d of November, 1534, declared by the 
parliament ' supreme head, on earth, of the 
Church of England,' he thought himself, by-
virtue of that title, master of the religious senti-
ments of his subjects; and as he still retained 
most of the grossest errors of popery, and with 
them the persecuting spirit of that church, they, 
who denied any of them, met with no better 
treatment from the king than they did from the 
pope. 
And thus matters continued in England 
during the whole reign of Henry VIII."—lb. p. 
310. 
Pope Clement dying this year, Paul III. was 
elected in his room. 
1538. "In the present year, 1538, was at 
last published the bull of excommunication 
against Henry VIII. 
It had been drawn up in 
1535, on occasion of the execution of Cardinal 
Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; had been sub-
mitted to the judgment of the cardinals, and- ap-
proved by most of them in a full consistory. 
However the pope, flattering himself that an ac-
commodation with England might still be brought 
about, delayed the publication of it till the pres-
ent year; when finding an agreement with the 
king quite desperate, he published it with the 
usual solemnity, and caused it to be set up on 
the doors of all the chief churches of Rome. 
By that bull the king was deprived of his king-
dom ; his subjects were not only absolved from 
their oaths of allegiance, but commanded to 
take arms against him, and drive him from the 
throne; the whole kingdom was laid under an 
interdict; all treaties of friendship or commerce 
with him or his subjects were declared null; his 
kingdom was granted to any who should invade 
it, and all were allowed to seize the effects of 
such of his subjects as adhered to him, and en-
slave their persons, &c. 
But these were all 
'bruta fulmina;' and the king, provoked be-
yond measure at the insolence of the pope, con-
tinued to persecute, with more severity than 
ever, all, without distinction, who refused to-re-
nounce the papal supremacy, and acknowledge 
his own."—lb. p. 312. 
1540. Ignatius of Loyola, founded the order 
of Jesuits. 
" To the three vows of poverty, chastity, and 
obedience, common to all religious orders, they 
add a fourth, that of implicit, blind, and unlim-
ited submission to the pope ; and thus are they 
at his absolute disposal ; always ready, at a mo-
ment's warning, to repair to what part of the 
world he shall think fit to send them. 
The pres-
ent pope, Paul III., confirmed their order by a 
bull, dated the 27th of September, 1540, but 
upon condition that it should not exceed the 
number of sixty persons. 
This restraint the 
same pope took off by a second bull, of the 14th 
of 3Iarch, 1543, leaving them at liberty to ad-
mit as many as they pleased. 
Thus they became 
in the space of one hundred and thirty-six years, 
a very numerous and formidable body."—lb. p. 
316. 
1544. Charles V., Emperor of Germany, as-
sembled a diet at Spire, and gave his assent to 
the following resolutions passed by that body, 
and highly favorable to the cause of the refor-
mation : 
" 1. That the Protestant as well as the Catho-
lic churches should enjoy their revenues quite 
undisturbed. 
" 2. That the judges of the imperial chamber, 
which is the supreme court in Germany, should 
consist of an equal number of Catholics and 
Protestants. 
" 3. That no man should be molested on ac-
count of his religion, but all prosecutions, on 
that score, be suspended till the meeting of a 
general council; which was granting, in the 
meantime, to all liberty of conscience."—lb. p. 
314. 
These resolutions were, as we may well 
imagine, highly displeasing to the pope; and 
they were no sooner communicated to him, than 
he wrote to the emperor, reproaching him, in 
very sharp terms, with betraying the cause of 
the church, and even threatening to employ 
against him the arms that Christ had put into 
his hands as his vicar upon earth. 
This brief, 
or letter, the emperor answered with great tem-
per."—.ft. p. 314. 
1545. " In the year 1545, a large tract of 
country at the south of France, inhabited chiefly 
by the Waldenses, was overrun and most cruelly 
desolated by the popish barbarians, under the 
command of a violent bigot, named Baron Op-
pede. 
A copious account of this persecution is 
given by a candid Romish contemporary histo-
rian, Thuanus, in the history of his own times. 
As a specimen of the cruelties perpetrated upon 
the heretics at this time, we can only extract 
the description of the taking of a single town, 
Cabrieres. 
' They had surrendered to the pa-
pists, upon a promise of having their lives 
spared; but when the garrison was admitted 
they were all seized, they who lay hid in the 
dungeon of the castle, or thought themselves se-
cured by the sacredness of the church ; and be-
ing dragged out from thence into a hollow mead-
ow were put to death, without regard to age or 
the assurances given : the number of the slain, 
within and without the town, amounted to eight 
hundred: the women, by the command of Op-
pede, were thrust into a barn filled with straw, 
and fire being set to it, when they endeavored to 
leap out of the window, they were pushed back 
by poles and pikes, and were thus miserably suf-
focated and consumed in the flames.' "—Bow-
ling's Hist. Romanism, pp. 580, 581. 
1546. Martin Luther died. 
The pope assembled a council at Trent, of 
which he had the entire control. 
" While the fathers at Trent thundered out 
their anathemas against all who received not 
their decrees, and, on the other hand, the Protes-
tant princes, assembled in a diet at Ratisbon, 
protested against their authority, the pope and 
the emperor entered privately into a confederacy 
against them, in order to crush them by a sudden 
blow, and thus put an end, by dint of arms, to 
the disputes that could not be decided by force 
of argument. 
" By virtue of this league- or confederacy, the 
pope was to furnish the emperor with twelve 
thousand Italian foot and five hundred horse, to 
pay him, at two different payments, two hundred 
thousand ducats, and grant him one-half of the 
ecclesiastical revenues of Spain, during the 
course of the present year, 1546."—Bower, v. 3, 
p. 315. 
1547. " With this supply of men and money, 
the emperor was enabled to take the field early 
the next spring. 
But the Protestants, whom he 
intended to have surprised, having received 
timely intelligence of his design, appeared in 
the field as early as he, under the command of 
John Frederic, elector of Saxony, and Philip 
landgrave of Hesse. 
'' The two armies engaged on the 24th of April 
when that of the elector and landgrave was en-
tirely defeated, and both were made prisoners, 
Had the pope and the emperor improved this ad-
vantage, they might have either entirely ruined 
the cause of the reformation, or greatly retarded 
its progress. 
But the pope, jealous of the grow-
ing power of the emperor, and apprehending 
that, should he get the better of the Protestants 
his ambition would tempt him to carry his vie 
torious arms into Italy, not only recalled the 
ecclesiastical troops, under various pretences 
from his armies, and withheld the stipulated 
subsidies, but entered into a confederacy with 
the new king of France, Henry II., against 
him. 
" Charles, provoked beyond measure at the 
perfidiousness of the pope, as he styled it, at his 
thus preferring his private interests to those of 
the church, and the indifference he showed with 
respect to the religious disputes that divided the 
whole empire, resolved to. compose those differ-
ences by his own authority, quite independent of 
that of the pope or his see. 
" Accordingly he appointed a diet to meet at 
Augsburg on the 1st of September of the present 
year, and assisting at it in person with his victo-
rious army at hand, he proposed the settling of 
some articles, which all, Protestants as well as 
Catholics, should agree to, and peace thus be 
maintained in religious matters, till all their 
differences were, by some other means, finally 
determined. 
Julius Pelagius, Bishop of Naum-
burg, Michael Sidonius, and John Agricola, a 
Lutheran, were charged with the drawing up of 
those articles. 
" As the articles, or formulary, drawn up by 
them, was to serve, not as a permanent, butonly 
as a temporary rule of faith and worship to both 
parties, it was called the 4 interim.' 
It con-
tained all the essential doctrines of the Church 
of Rome, but artfully softened, and in a man-
ner disguised ; and it was therefore disapproved 
and rejected by the Protestant party. 
However, 
it was, by the emperor's command, published with 
great solemnity, and all were enjoined, upon the 
most grievous penalties, to conform, in practice, 
to this imperial creed; which produced in Ger-
many most deplorable scenes of violence and 
bloodshed. 
As by this formulary all were left 
at liberty to use the cup, or abstain from it, and 
the clergy were allowed to embrace a state of 
marriage, or a state of celibacy, as they should 
think fit, it was no better received by the popish, 
than it was by the Protestant party. 
"The pope, highly offended at the emperor's 
taking upon him to prescribe laws, by his own 
authority, concerning the doctrine of the disci-
pline of the church, and looking upon such an 
attempt as derogatory, in the highest degree, to 
the majesty of the pontificate, condemned the 
interim' in the strongest terms, and would have 
proceeded to extremities against the emperor 
himself, had not the cardinals wisely interposed, 
putting his holiness in mind of the dreadful con-
sequences that had lately attended the too hasty 
proceedings of his predecessor against the king 
of England."—lb. pp. 315, 316. 
1549. Paul died, and Julius III. became his-
successor in the papal chair. 
1554. Mary, surnamed the Bloody, ascended 
the throne of England, and bitterly persecuted 
the Protestants during a reign of five years— 
285 persons being burned alive for heresy.— 
Bowling's Hist. Rom. p. 550. 
1555. Pope Julius died, and was suceeeded 
by Marcellus II., who lived but twenty-one days' 
when Paul IV. was chosen. 
A religious peace was concluded in the famous 
diet of Augsburg on the 25th of September. 
By the articles of that peace the subjects of 
the empire were allowed to judge for themselves 
in matters of religion, and full liberty was 
granted to all to conform to that church which 
they thought the purest, and the most agreeable 
to the true spirit of Christianity."—Bower, v. 
3, p. 318. 
Here were terminated those deplorable scenes 
of bloodshed, desolation and discord which had 
so long afflicted both church and state. 
A treaty 
was formed, called the Peace of Religion, which 
established the reformation, inasmuch as it se-
cured to the Protestants the free exercise of their 
religion, and placed this inestimable liberty on 
the firmest foundation."—Goodrich's Ch. Hist. 
151. 
" From the ' Peace of Religion ' ... may be 
dated the establishment of the reformation; since 
from that time, the power of the Roman pontiffs 
has, on the one hand, been on the decline, and 
the principles of the reformers have, on the 
other hand, been advancing. 
The state of Eu-
rope, at this time, or a few years later, in re-
spect to religion, stood thus: Italy, Spain, Por-
tugal, the Belgic provinces, under the Spanish 
yoke, continued their adherence to the Roman 
pontiff. 
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Prussia, 
England, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland, be-
came Protestant'. 
Germany was about equally 
divided. In Switzerland, the Protestants claimed 
a small majority. 
For a season, France, it was 
to be hoped, would forsake the fellowship of 
Rome; but, at length, she became decidedly 
papal, although she retained several millions of 
Protestants within her limits."—lb. p. 156. 
1559. Elizabeth succeeded Mary on the throne 
of England, which placed the reformation there 
on a firm Vasis. 
Paul IV. " was universally hated by the peo-
ple of Rome ; and they no sooner heard that his 
recovery was despaired of, than they rose in a 
tumultuous manner, and flying to the capitol, 
struck off the head of a statue erected to him 
there but three months before; dragged it with 
a thousand insults through all the public streets 
of the city, and even applauded with loud ac-
clamations a Jew who had the boldness to put 
upon the head of the statue the yellow hat, which 
this pope had ordered all that nation to wear 
and they wear it to this day throughout the whole 
state of the church. 
The populace having thus 
vented their rage upon the statue, crowded to 
the prison of the Inquisition, broke open the 
doors, released seventeen hundred prisoners, only 
requiring them to swear that they were good 
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Catholics, and then set fire to the building, 
which soon reduced it to ashes With all the pro-
cesses, papers, and records of that court."— 
Bower, v. 3, pp. 318, 319. 
1560. Pius IV. was crowned pope. 
" About the year 1560, during the suspension 
of the council of Trent, a most violent and 
bloody persecution was carried on against the 
Waldenses of Calabria at the south of Italy, by 
direction of that brutal tyrant, Pope Pius IV. 
Two monks were sent from Home, armed with 
power to reduce the Calabrian heretics to obe-
dience to the Holy See. 
Upon their arrival, at 
once to bring matters to the test, they caused a 
bell to be immediately tolled for mass, com-
manding the people to attend. 
Instead of com-
plying, however, the Waldenses forsook their 
bouses, and as many as were able fled to the 
woods with their wives and children. 
Two com-
panies were instantly ordered out to pursue 
them, who hunted them like wild beasts, crying, 
' Amazzi! ArnazziV that is, 'murder them! 
murder them !' and numbers were put to death." 
—Bowling, p. 581. 
1564. " Pope Pius published a thundering 
monitory against Joan d' Albret, queen of Na-
varre. accused of Calvinism, summoning her to 
appear, in person, within six months, before the 
tribunal of the holy inquisition at Rome, on 
pain of forfeiting her crown, her kingdom, and 
all her dominions. 
But the French king Charles 
IX. highly provoked at the presumption of the 
pope in summoning to Rome the widow and 
mother of the two first princes of the blood royal 
of France, obliged him to suppress the monitory, 
and drop the prosecution."—Bower, v. 3, p. 319. 
1565. Pius IV, died, and was succeeded by 
Pius V. 
1568. " Pius, not satisfied with thus clearing 
Italy of all persons whose faith was suspected, 
encouraged Charles IX. of France to make war 
upon his Protestant subjects, and, in order to 
put him in a condition of utterly extirpating 
them, he sent the ecclesiastical army to join the 
king's, and by a bull, dated at Home the 24th 
of November 1568, allowed the estates of the 
Gallican Church to be alienated, to the amount 
of one hundred and fifty thousand crowns of 
yearly revenue for carrying on this holy war." 
—Ib. p. 320. 
1572. Charles IX. of France " affected to 
form a union between the Catholics and Protest-
ants, by giving his sister in marriage to the young 
king of Navarre, and upon the grand celebra-
tion of the nuptials in Paris, where the Protest-
ants resorted upon the occasion, from all parts 
of France, he ordered a general massacre to 
commence and extend throughout the kingdom. 
More than 70,000 Protestants of every age, sex, 
and condition throughout France, fell a sacrifice 
to this bloody edict."—Butler's Hist. pp. 183, 
184. 
" The slaughter soon extended itself to every 
quarter of the city, and when the glorious sun 
looked forth that morning, it was upon an aw-
ful spectacle. 
The dead and the dying mingled 
together in undistinguished heaps. 
The pave-
ments besmeared with a path of gore, along 
which the bodies of the murdered Protestants 
had been dragged to be cast into the waters of 
the Seine, already dyed with the blood of the 
slain. 
The executioners rushing through the 
streets, bespattered with blood and brains, bran-
dishing their murderous weapons, and in merri-
ment, mimicking the Psalm-singing of the Prot-
estants! The frantic Huguenots, bewildered with 
fright, running hither and thither to seek a place 
of safety, but in vain. 
Some ran towards the 
house of Coligny, but only to fall by the hands 
of the same murderers; others, remembering 
the solemn promises of the king, and hoping 
that he was not privy to the massacre, ran to-
ward the palace of the Louvre, but only to meet 
a more certain and speedy death; for, even 
Charles himself fired upon the fugitives from the 
window of tbe palace, shouting with the fiend-like 
fury of a devil or an inquisitor, 1 Kill them ! kill 
them !' "—Bowling, p. 588. 
Pius V. died, and was succeeded by Gregory 
XIII. 
1582. " We are indebted to this pope for the 
new calendar; for it was in his pontificate, and 
by his order, that the calendar was rectified, and 
the 1 new style,' as they call it, introduced. 
It 
first took place in the month of October 1582, 
and was immediately received in all Catholic 
countries, but rejected by the Protestants, choos-
ing rather to continue in their error, than to be 
set right by the pope. 
It has been adopted, 
within these few years, by the British Parlia-
ment; and now, if I mistake not, it universally 
prevails."—Bower, v. 3, p. 321. 
In this Bower is mistaken; for it has qever 
been adopted in Russia. 
•1585. On the death of Gregory, Sixtus V. 
was elected pope. 
1588. Philip II. of Spain, being " highly in-
censed against Queen Elizabeth, as the protector 
of the Protestants, prepared for the invasion 
of England with the most formidable fleet then 
ever known, styled the invincible armada,"—-in-
tending to hurl Elizabeth from her throne. " The 
armada put to sea, and appeared off the coast of 
England, and threw the nation into a state of 
consternation ... but a violent tempest arose, 
which overwhelmed the armada, dispersed and 
dashed the ships against the rocks, and left the 
fugitives an easy prey to the ships of Elizabeth." 
—But. Hist. p. 144. 
1590. Sixtus died, and was succeeded by Ur-
ban VII. He lived but twelve days, and was 
succeeded by Gregory XIV. 
" He declared for the Catholic league in 
France; excommunicated king Henry, under 
the name of Henry of Bourbon; and assisted his 
enemies, to the utmost of his power, both with 
men and with money. 
But in France his bull 
was declared scandalous, seditious, contrary to 
the canons and the rights of the Gallican Church, 
and ordered to be torn and publicly burnt by 
the hands of the common executioner. 
But his 
time was short; for he died on the 15th of Oc-
tober 1591, after a pontificate of ten months and 
ten days."—Bower, v. 3, p. 325. 
1591. Innocent IX. was chosen pope. 
1592. Pope Clement VIII. succeeded on the 
death of Innocent. 
1598. Henry IV., king of Navarre, succeeded 
to the throne of France, " published his famous 
edict of Nantz, which guaranteed to the Protest-
ants the quiet enjoyment of their religion."— 
But. Hist. p. 165. 
1605. Clement died, and was succeeded by 
Leo XI. He lived but sixteen days, and was 
succeeded by Paul V. 
This pope " entertained so high an opinion of 
the papal power and authority, that he suffered 
himself to be publicly styled 6 Vice-god upon 
earth, the Monarch of Christendom, and the 
Supporter of Papal Omnipotence.' "—Bower, 
v. 3, p. 327. 
1606. Paul issued a bull, laying the domin-
ion of the Venetian republic under an edict. 
The Venetians, declaring the bull to be null 
and void, obliged the clergy to perform divine 
service as usual, and banished from all their 
dominions the Capuchins and Jesuits, the only 
religious orders that complied with the bull."— 
lb. p. 327. 
1621. Paul died, and was succeeded by Grego-
ry xv. 
1623. On the death of Gregory, he was suc-
ceeded by Urban VIII. 
1641. " The pope, at the instigation of his 
nephews, and upon the most frivolous pretences, 
sent an army to seize on the city of Castro, be-
longing to Odoard Farnese, duke of Parma. 
But the duke being supported by the republic of 
Venice, by the grand duke of Tuscany, and the 
duke of Modena, the Barbereni were obliged, 
after an unsuccessful war, that is said to have 
cost them twenty millions of crowns, to restore 
Castro, and conclude a dishonorable peace."— 
lb. p. 329. 
1644. Urban dying, Innocent X. was elected 
pope. 
" As the Barberini were possessed of immense 
wealth—some say to the amount of two hundred 
and sixty thousand crowns of yearly revenue-
the pope, at the instigation of Donna Olympia, 
who wanted to enrich her own family at their 
expense, began his pontificate with a furious per-
secution against them. 
But France interposed, 
and, espousing their cause, obliged the pope, 
much against his will, to come to terms with 
them."—lb. p.330. 
1655. Alexander VII. succeeded to the pa-
pacy on the death of Innocent. 
1657. The Jesuits who had been banished 
from Venice in 1606, were restored, by a de-
cree of the Senate, at the request of the pope 
and of the king of France. 
1661. "A quarrel broke out between Alex-
ander, and the French king, Lewis XIV., on 
occasion of an insult, offered by the Corsicans of 
the pope's guard, to the duke of Crequi, the 
king's ambassador at Rome."—Ib. p. 331. 
1664. 
" As The pope delayed to give the re-
quired satisfaction, the king seized on the city 
of Avignon, and ordered a body of troops to file 
off for Italy. 
Alexander, terrified at these hos-
tilities, thought it advisable to submit, and im 
plore the clemency of the incensed monarch 
Negotiations were set on foot, and in 1664 a 
peace was concluded at Pisa upon the most in 
glorious and mortifying conditions to the pope." 
—Ib. p. 331. 
1667. Alexander died, and had for his sue 
cessor Clement IX. 
1670. Clement X. succeeded Clement IX. 
1676. Innocent XI. was elected pope. 
Origin of the China Rebellion. 
THE Rev. Mr. Tyson Yates, an American 
Baptist missionary at Shanghae, has sent home 
the following account of what he believes to be 
the true origin of the present movement in China. 
We copy from the Independent : 
Shanghae, 22d September, 1853. 
There are at present stopping in our mission, 
two lads, whose identity is not known, except to 
our mission. 
One, a boy of fifteen, is the son of 
the " Southern King;" the other, a lad of eigh-
teen or twenty, who was on last Sabbath received 
into our church by baptism, is the nephew and' 
adopted son of the " Southern King," (one of 
the four great leaders of the rebellion in China.) 
From these young men, (the elder of whom is 
well acquainted with all the circumstances that 
led to the first hostile demonstrations) we have 
been able to get correct information, touching 
the origin of the rebellion. 
From these young men, we learn that Hung 
Su-Chen, (at present known as Tai-ping wong,) 
having embraced the Christian religion, destroyed 
every sign of idolatry about his house and school-
room, (for he was a teacher of a high school,) 
and gave much attention to publishing the gos-
pel. 
Disciples to the new doctrine multiplied 
rapidly. 
Soon, this innovation upon the ancient 
customs attracted the attention of the authorities 
of Quang See, (for it was in this interior prov-
ince, far removed from foreign influence, that 
this new thing started.) 
The authorities in question attempted to crush 
this new religion by persecution, but this only 
attracted attention to it, Finding that the new 
sect was daily and rapidly increasing, they (the 
civil and military authorities) beheaded two of 
the disciples, thinking that this rigid measure 
would suppress this disorderly body. 
But so far 
from having this effect, they (the Christians, who 
had increased by this time to quite a consider-
able number) took up arms in defence of their 
religion, and called upon God to aid and defend 
them. 
The imperialists, in an engagement with them, 
were routed, with great loss. 
The Christian 
army increased rapidly, till they were able to 
withstand any force that might be brought against 
them. 
The Christian army was now fairly com-
mitted. 
They well knew that they must be de-
livered from the bondage of the imperial yoke, 
both civil and religious, or death was certain. 
They formed the design of subverting the gov-
ernment; with the intention of establishing in 
its stead a liberal and Christian government. 
They issued tracts and circulars, in which 
they attacked the abuses and corruptions of the 
civil authorities and the religious teachers, &e. 
They destroyed idols, and circulated portions of 
the Scriptures and religious tracts, and preached 
to the people a purer religion. 
All this, strange 
to say, secured them the favor of the people, 
and their thousand was soon multiplied. 
Thus 
Hung Su-Chen commenced, about three years 
o. 
Since then, he has fought many battles. 
In every place he exposes the corruptions of 
the mandarins and priests, destroys idols, circu-
lates the Scriptures and religious tracts, (many 
of which are his own productions, in which, of 
course, there are many errors,) and preaches the 
gospel. 
His main army is now before Pekin. 
Considering all the circumstances of the present 
rebellion in China, viewed either in a civil or 
religious point of veiw, it is without a parallel 
in the history of the world. 
28th Octobtr. On the 28th, last month, an 
imperial army came against the insurgents in 
charge of Shanghae. 
Fro n that day to the pres-
ent moment, we have had almost 
continual 
fighting 
at Shanghae. 
And as my house is sit-
uated within 250 feetof the city wall, more than 
half of the battles have been fought under cover 
of, and around the Baptist mission premises 
At this moment, my house is trembling under a 
rebel cannon that is firing within 300 feet of me. 
The dispirited imperialists having been badly 
beaten in all their attacks by day, are trying 
what they can do under cover of the darkness of 
night; consequently, tbe insurgents frequently 
keep up a constant firing for half an hour or 
more, when there is no enemy near, as is the 
case to-night. 
The insurgents have the city in 
the best state of defence, and it is generally be 
lieved that no imperial force can take it by 
fighting. 
I have not been able to enter the city for just 
one month. 
Our work is brought to a dead 
stand. We can form no idea when this state of 
confusion will end, 
1 have removed my family 
to a place of safety, among the Episcopal mis-
sion, and I remain by my house to keep the im-
perialists from entering my premises. 
Some sixty grape shot have struck my house 
I, however, have no fear of being injured. 
Shumla simply in the character of an amateur. 
1 consider, therefore, that I am an impartial ob-
served of what goes on under my eyes. The 
question of orthodoxy and Holy Places does not 
interest me the feast in the world-, but I do feel 
desirous that my fellow-soldiers of all nations 
should know in truth what is taking place on the 
Danube, and not be misled by the reports of the 
Russian generals." 
General Prim then takes 
up the assertions of Prince GortschakofF one by 
one, and refutes them. 
He convicts General 
Dannenburg of great incapacity, and Genera] 
Gortschakoff of boldly attempting to foist on the 
world a story as absurd as it is untrue. He 
says:—" At the moment when the Russians com-
menced the attack (on the 4th Nov.), the redoubt 
was open on both sides, for want of time to com-
plete the works, so that twenty men might have 
entered on the left and fifty on the right hand. 
Had the general commanding given himself the 
trouble, as he ought to have done, to make a re-
connaissance, he would have discovered the weak 
points of the Turkish position, and might have 
attacked with great chance of success, and with-
out losing so many brave soldiers as he did. 
But General Dannenburg doubtless thought that 
he had only to advance his infantry and artillery 
to drive the Turks into the Danube." 
The following is the result of the Spanish 
general's observations on the Turkish army:— 
" The troops of Turkey are no longer such as 
the Russians had to combat in former wars. 
Then incontestably the Turkish soldiers were in-
dividually brave, but the army was an undisci-
plined multitude, ill armed, each fighting accord-
ing to his own notion, without unity, without 
concert, advancing or retiring at will, in a word, 
without the least military organization. 
To-day, 
without having lost any of their traditional cour-
age, they are, thanks to the reforms introduced 
into the army, disciplined and well-taught sol-
diers, and constitute an army perfectly organized 
according to the principles of European armies, 
and consequently in a condition to match with 
the Russians. 
I am convinced that in the spring 
for I see no chance of an honorable arrange-
ment—the Russians will find that with equal 
forces they have not the least superiority over 
the Turks." 
Gen. Prim's Opinion of the Turks 
and Russians. 
GENERAL PRIM has dealt very sharply with the 
famous 'Gortschakoff bulletin of tbe battle of 
Oltenitza, which he says will be laughed at by 
every corporal who may read it. 
The General 
says:—" I have just come from the head-quar 
ters of Omar Pasha, where I have passed four 
months. 
I am a mere soldier, and I went to 
General Councils. 
BY the (Ecumenical or General Councils, we 
are to understand those Assemblies of Bishops 
which have been held at different times, and 
have been supposed to represent the whole body 
of the Christian Church. 
The Romanists reckon 
eighteen, viz,' 
1. The First Council of Nice, A. D. 325, 
2. The First Council of Constantinople, A. D. 
381, 
3. The Council of Ephesus, A. D. 431. 
4. The Council of Chalcedon, A. D. 451. 
5. The SecondCouncilof Constantinople, A. D. 
553. 
6. The Third Council of'Constantinople, A, D. 
680. 
7. The Second Council of Nice, A. D. 787. 
8. The Fourth Councilof Constantinople, A. D. 
869.. 
9. The First Council of Lateran, in Rome, 
A. D. 1123. 
10. The Second Council of Lateran, A. D. 
1139, 
11.. The Third Council of Lateran, A. D. 1179. 
12. The Fourth Council of Lateran, A. D. 
1215. 
1^3. The Council of Lyons, A. D. 1245, 
14. The Second Councilof Lyons, A, D. 1274. 
15. The Council of Vienna, A. D. 1311. 
16. The Council of Florence, A. D. 1439. 
17. The Fifth Council of Lateran, A. D. 1512, 
18. The Council of Trent, A. D. 1545. 
Resides the above, there was a Council held 
at Constance, A. D. 1414, which 
condemned 
Huss, and Jerome of Prague, and denied the 
cup to the laity. 
This oouncil is allowed by the 
Romanists to have the authority of a General 
Council with -respect to its last sessions. 
The Title of D. D. 
REV. Albert Barnes, thus comments on Mat-
thew 23:3. 
"Jesus forbade his disciples to seek such titles 
of distinction. 
The reason he gave was that he 
was himself their master and teacher, 
They 
were on a level; they were to be equal in au-
thority; they were brethren, and they should 
neither covet nor receive a title which implied 
either an elevation of one above another, or 
which appeared to infringe on the absolute right 
of the Saviour to be their only teacher and mas-
ter. 
The command here is an express command 
to his disciples not to receive such a -title of dis-
tinction. 
They were not to covet it, they were 
not to seek it; they were not to do anything that 
implied a wish or a willingness that it should be 
appended to their -names. 
Everything which 
would tend to make a distinction among them, 
or destroy their purity; everything which would 
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lead the world to suppose that there were ranks 
and grades among them as ministers, they were 
to avoid. 
It is to be observed that the command 
is, that they were not to receive the title. 
' Be 
not ye called Rabbi.' The Saviour did not forbid 
them giving the title to others when it was cus-
tomary or not regarded as improper, (Comp. Acts 
26:25,) but they were not to receive it 
It was 
to be unknown among them. 
This title corres-
ponds with the title ' Doctor of Divinity,' as 
applied to ministers of the gospel; and, so far 
as I can see, the spirit of the Saviour's command 
is violated by the reception of such a title, as it 
would have been by their being called Rabbi. 
It is a literary distinction. 
It docs not appro-
priately pertain to office. It makes a distinction 
among ministers. 
It tends to engender pride, 
and a sense of superiority in those who obtain 
it; and envy and a sense of inferiority in those 
who do not; and the whole spirit and tendency 
of it is contrary to the ' simplicity that is in 
Christ.'" 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 4, 1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XXXIII. 
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, 
A people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive ; 
Of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.—v. 19. 
The thoughts of those addressed are again di-
rected to the distant future — to the land they 
should ultimately see, which was then " very far 
off." 
There they would witness no such invasions 
as that from which they had been delivered. 
" A fierce people," are a fighting people, whose 
very looks carry terror. 
A foreign language is 
unintelligible to those who have not learned it; 
which is illustrated by its being called, by a meta-
phor, a "deeper" speech,!, e., one which they 
could not fathom or comprehend. 
By a metonymy, 
also, " tongue " is put for the language spoken. 
Talking unintelligibly, they appear to stammer. 
In the future glory which awaits the righteous of 
that and of all generations, there will be no inva-
sions of foreign armies, speaking an unintelligible 
language and terrifying by the fierceness of their 
looks ; for, (Isa. 65:25,) " They shall not hurt nor 
destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." 
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: 
Tiiine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, 
A tabernacle that shall not be taken down : 
Not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed. 
Neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.—D. 20 
Jerusalem, after the date of this prophecy, never 
enjoyed any extended period of prosperity. 
It has 
been repeatedly conquered, and is now in posses-
sion of the' Turks. 
The period here brought to 
view, therefore, must have respect to the future 
restoration of Zion, when, Jerusalem having been 
trodden down of the Gentiles till the times of the 
Gentiles are fulfilled, the mountain of the Lord's 
house shall again become the chief of the moun-
tains and have precedence of the hills. 
By a metonymy, " eyes'" the organ of vision, 
are put for those who shall see Zion's future glory. 
And by the use of the metaphor it is called a 
" habitation " and a " tabernacle " or tent. 
The 
eternity of the restored city, is illustrated by the 
permanence ascribed to the cords and stakes of the 
tent, which, by a metaphor, Jerusalem is denomi-
nated. 
At the end of this text, the Masoretic Bibles con-
tain this note :—" The middle of the book "—i. e. 
of Isaiah. 
But there the glorious Lord will be unto us 
A place of broad rivers and streams ; 
Wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass 
thereby.—u. 21. 
Broad rivers and deep streams are sources of 
fertility to the country through which they flow, 
and they servo for the support and defence of the 
cities situated on them. 
By a use of the meta-
phor, it is affirmed that the glorious Jehovah shall 
be to his children " a place," of such rivers and 
streams, i. e., he would be their defence and pro-
tection and their source of every comfort and bless-
ing. 
Says Campbell: "In such a highly cultivated 
country as England, and where great drought is 
almost unknown, we have not an opportunity to 
observe the fertilizing influence of a broad river ; 
but in South Africa, where almost no human 
means are employed for improving the land, the 
benign influence of rivers is most evident. 
The 
Great, or Orange River, is a remarkable instance 
of this. 
I travelled on its banks, at one time, for 
five or six weeks ; when, for several hundred miles, 
I found both sides of it delightfully covered with 
trees of various kinds, all in health and vigor, and 
abundance of the richest verdure ; but all the 
country beyond the reach of its influence was com-
plete desert. 
Everything appeared to be strug-
gling for mere existence ; so that we might be said 
to have had the wilderness on one side, and a kind 
of paradise on the other." 
While the Lord will be to the redeemed a place 
of rivers, it will not be such as are navigated by 
large vessels —" gallant ships;" nor by smaller 
craft — "galleys with oars," which are put by 
substitution for greater or lesser agents of destruc-
tion. 
Such could not approach on it to invade the 
city, as is sometimes now the case ; but the river 
which he will be unto them, is the river of Life. 
Said the Psalmist, (46:4, 5, ) " There is a river 
the streams whereof shall make glad the city of 
God, the holy place of the Most High. 
God is in 
the midst of her; she shall not be moved : God 
shall help her, and that right early." 
And John 
says of his closing vision, (Rev. 22:1, 2,) " And 
he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear 
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and 
of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on 
either side of the river, was there the tree of life, 
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded 
her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the nations." 
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, 
The Lord is our king, he will save us.r—u. 22. 
" For," &c. 
Here follows the reason why there 
will be nothing to molest the redeemed. 
It is be-
cause the Lord will be their Judge, Lawgiver, 
and King, and will save them from all molesting 
influences. 
There shall be nothing that shall harm 
them. 
Thy tacklings are loosed ; 
They could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the 
sail: 
Then is the prey of a great spoil divided ; the lame take the prey. 
v. 23. 
This is evidently an apostrophe to enemies wish-
ing to invade those thus protected of Jehovah. 
It 
having been said, in v. 21st, that no galley with 
oars nor gallant ship should pass by them, the 
idea is continued ; and the enemies of the redeemed 
are represented as a dismasted and dismantled 
ship,—the declarations, that their " tacklings are 
loosed," that they could not " strengthen their 
mast," nor " spread the sail," being put by sub-
stitution for 
their inability to effect anything 
against those protected by Jehovah. 
Rev. 20:7-10 
—" And when the thousand years are expired, Sa-
tan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go 
out to deceive the nations which are in the four 
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather 
them together to battle : the number of whom is 
as the sand of the sea. 
And they went up on the 
breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of 
the saints about, and the beloved city : and fire 
came down from God out of heaven, and devoured 
them. 
And the devil that deceived them was cast 
into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast 
and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented 
day and night for ever and ever." 
By the substitution, also, the division of the 
spoil is put for the loss which shall result to the 
enemies of Jehovah's government, and the .gain 
that shall accrue to its subjects—the lame taking 
the prey, being put, by the same figure, to illus-
trate that their overthrow will be so complete, that 
the weakest of God's children will enjoy unmo-
lested the inheritance forfeited by Jehovah's ene-
mies. 
This figure may be taken from the gathering of 
spoil, which doubtless followed the destruction of 
the army of Sennacherib, in which the most feeble 
in Jerusalem might participate. 
The same idea is 
illustrated by the flight of the Syrians, (2 Kings 7: 
5-8,) when four leprous men " rose up in the twi-
light to go unto the camp of the Syrians : and when 
they were come to the uttermost part of the camp 
of Syria, behold, there was no man there. 
For 
the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear 
a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the 
noise of a great host: and they said one to another, 
Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the 
kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyp-
tians, to come upon us. 
Wherefore they arose 
and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and 
their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it 
was, and fled for their life. 
And when these lepers 
came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went 
into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried 
thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and 
bid it : and came again, and entered into another 
tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it." 
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick 
The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity — d. 24. 
This is evidently synchronous with Rev. 21:4— 
" And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes ; and there shall he no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain ; for the former things are passed away." 
Pain, sickness, sorrow, and death, are the result 
of the curse. 
When that shall be removed there 
will be a return to that state to which the race 
would ultimately have arrived had not man fallen. 
These are the consequences of sin; but (Matt. 
8:17,) Christ " himself took our infirmities, and 
bare our sicknesses." 
Isa. 53:4, 5—" Surely he 
hath borne our griefs, and carried our Borrows. . . 
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our 
peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are 
healed." 
Being pardoned freely through the blood 
of Christ, the sins of God's chosen ones will not be 
laid to their charge ; and being forgiven, they will 
no longer suffer the consequences of sin ; but will, 
in their resurrection bodies, enjoy eternal life, and 
health forevermore. 
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" The laws of interpretation by which the author 
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the nations that are to be deceived on the release 
of Satan after the close of that period. 
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the reverse, in our judgment, of those to which his 
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TORNADO IN OHIO. 
\ ! 
IN the Cleveland Plaindealer we find particulars 
of the ravages of the tempest of the 20th inst., in 
I 
the vicinity of Mount Vernon, Ohio. 
The com-
mencement of the tempest is stated as follows : 
j 
" The hurricane broke out not far from 3 p. M., 
and was preceded by a light rain, which had fallen 
all day, accompanied by wind and cold. 
For a 
short space before the storm made its appearance, 
the weather is said to have grown rapidly warm, 
and the wind to have lulled. 
" The tornado first manifested itself in the west-
ern part of Miller township, about eight miles 
j 
west of south from Mount Vernon. 
It seemed to 
spring into full life and passion at once, like Pal-
las, all armed, from the brain of Jove." 
From this point the tornado swept on towards 
and through Brandon, tearing up fences, taking 
i 
off roofs, prostrating churches, taverns, school- 
! 
houses, stores, dwellings, and everything else in 
its path. 
Several persons were injured, and one 
woman, a Mrs. Slater, was killed. 
A cooking-
stove wafc carried several rods, and the roof of one 
house was blown so far that at last accounts it had 
not been found. 
The tempest passed through four 
pieces of woods; one of them was half a mile 
long ; a second, half a mile ; a third, a fourth of a 
mile, and the fourth a mile long. 
In each case the 
track was about a quarter of a mile wide, and ex-
hibited the condition described in the following 
case : 
" The tempest here entered a piece of woods, 
half a mile long, and cut a swath a quarter of a 
mile wide from one end to the other. 
It looks as 
though some giant had gone through the forest 
with a sickle. 
Almost every tree is blown down 
flat upon the ground. 
The few which remain 
standing are stripped of their boughs and branches, 
and their trunks are twisted till they look like 
whip cords. The appearance of the prostrate woods 
is very curious. 
In the centre of the storm track 
the trees are laid alongside of each other in parallel 
lines, with almost geometrical regularity. 
As you 
go out toward the edge on either side, the trees 
gradually diverge from the parallel, till at last 
they lay quite at right angles to the central track, 
some having fallen in a northerly direction, and 
others in a southerly direction, heads and points 
together. 
Most of the oaks are from' one to two 
feet in diameter. 
The width of the track is just 
about the same where the hurricane left the woods 
as where it entered. 
It is a little singular that, 
along the very edges of its destroying path, the 
trees are not at all injured, scarcely the most deli-
cate twigs being broken off." 
The Plaindealer says : "No language can do jus-
tice to the fearful magnificence of the tornado as it 
stalked wrathfully over the land. 
The frightened 
spectators can only say that it was ' awful,' ' hor-
rible.' 
It seems to have worn the appearance of a 
mighty black pillar, reaching from eaith to heaven, 
irradiated by blinding flashes of lightning, and ac-
companied, in its devastating march, by the music 
of a hundred cannon. 
" The time occupied by the passage of the tor-
nado over one spot is variously represented at from 
two to five minutes. 
That so lew human lives 
were lost is truly marvellous. 
The inmates of 
houses generally escaped by going into the cellar 
or getting under the beds. 
" During the storm the rain fell in great abun-
dance in Mount Vernon, washing away the streets 
in some places." 
To Correspondent. 
" 
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your subject had beeu too fully discussed, to make 
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respecting Christ's coming or the end of the age 
at the destruction of Jerusalem ; and Universalists 
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You will permit us, who know the progress of de-
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the friends. 
37 THE ADVENT HERALD. 
I 
MY 
JOURNAL. 
Dec. 15th.—Took leave of fri ends in Coopcrstown, 
and brother Glenn kindly conveyed us to Perry, 
Pike county, to our next appointment. 
We dined 
at brother M. Winslow's, formerly of Danvers, 
Mass., an old and fast friend of the Advent cause. 
We bad a coraial welcome from him and his kind 
family. 
The meeting had been appointed in the 
Baptist chapel, in the village ; some repaired 
thither in season for the service. 
On our arrival 
we found that the notice had been sent to the 
Christian preacher the evening before, who was 
holding a protracted meeting in the place. 
On 
looking at the notice, he said, " Is this notice for 
J. Y. Himes, of Boston ?" 
" Yes," was the reply. 
" Well," said he, " I shall not give it for the Bap-
tist house. 
He must preach here ; I will give it 
out for our place, and you must bring him here ; 
our house is the largest and best, and we all want 
to hear him." 
On my arrival I found the 
preacher referred to was Elder D. P. Henderson, 
of the Christian order, of Canton, Mo. We had be-
come acquainted many years ago by our writings 
in the Luminary and Palladium, papers published 
by the Christians in the East, and other papers 
published by B. W. Stone and others in the West, 
brother H. then being connected with Eld. Stone, 
in Georgetown, Ky. 
Providence had now opened 
the door for an interview, which we had long de-
sired. 
Brother Henderson received me most cordially, 
and introduced me to his ministering brethren, 
and then to a large and crowded audience. 
Bro. 
Chapman opened by prayer. 
I spoke about two 
hours, and gave a full view of the Advent ques-
tion, both of its nature and nearness. 
I had the 
most profound attention throughout. At the close, 
brother H. gave his full and hearty approbation, 
and commended the discourse to the candid consid-
eration of the audience. 
They much desired that 
we would protract our stay, and give other lec-
tures, but this we could not do. 
Dec. 16th.—Elders Henderson, Jones, and several 
others called upon us. 
We had an interesting in-
terview. 
They purchased some books, and we gave 
them others, which will enable them to learn more 
fully the true position of the Adventists. 
I learned by them, that Elders Jones and Hen-
derson were Agents of the " Christian University " 
at Canton, Lewis county, Mo., a new institution, 
got up by the Western Christians and Disciples 
united. 
They are blended in one body, and are 
quite distinct from the Christians in the East. 
They are a numerous and intelligent body of 
Christians. 
The Agents intend to raise $150,000, 
to endow the college. 
The buildings are being put 
up by people in the county where it is located, 
and will accommodate five hundred students. 
It 
will be devoted to Christianity, and a pure Eng-
lish literature. They hold out the means'of educa-
tion to both male and female, especially the latter. 
In connection with this mission, they hold pro-
tracted meetings, and gather souls to Christ in 
every place they visit. 
Brother Henderson said 
to me on parting, " Brother Himes, our churches 
are open to you to preach the advent of the Sav-
iour. 
Come among us and you shall be wel-
comed." 
Such kind and Christian treatment to 
us, as strangers in a far distant land, was duly ap-
preciated. 
v 
During this interview the carriage was waiting 
to take us to Naples, on our way to Springfield. 
So we were cut short, and were obliged to give 
them the parting hand. 
But— 
" Blest be the tie that binds 
Our hearts in Christian love." 
While in Perry, we put up by invitation with 
brother King, of the Baptist church. 
I found that 
he was an old Boston acquaintance of upwards of 
twenty years ago. 
We had often met at the house 
of Mr. Cleasby, one of my parishioners. 
He re-
minded me of the circumstances, which were called 
to mind with all their freshness and power. 
lie 
has our thanks for his kindness and hospitality. 
Brother Winslow took us to Naples, where we 
parted, he returning home, and we taking the cars 
for Springfield, 111. 
We arrived in S. about nine 
o'clock p. M., and were most kindly welcomed by 
Dr. Helm and family. 
The Advent cause was established here by Bro. 
A. Stevens, in 1843. 
They kept up an interesting 
meeting many years without a pastor. 
Brother 
Chapman made them a visit two years ago, and la-
bored with success ; strengthened and enlarged the 
cause. 
After he left them, they were visited by 
others, which did not profit them. We found them 
in a low and tried condition. 
I gave eight dis-
courses in the Court House, to good assemblies. 
There was but little impression at the time. 
I 
was so worn down, that I feared that but little 
would be done to help them. 
I am happy to be 
assured, however, that some good was done. They 
have revived their meetings, and go on with new 
courage, with hopes of usefulness. 
Here I renewed my acquaintance with brother 
J. Battersby and family. 
He had given several 
lectures before our arrival. 
They have been in 
this city some months, and are much esteemed by 
the brethren here. 
They are about to remove to 
Arkansas. 
May every blessing attend them. 
Dr. II. and family will receive my thanks, with 
others, for their kindness and liberality. 
While at Dr. Helm's, I was much interested in 
looking over the Life of Martin Luther, by M. 
Meurer. 
The following extract will, no doubt, be 
read with interest: 
" In the year 1541, when during a very beauti-
ful spring, everything flourished and bloomed, Lu-
ther said to Justus Jonas :—' If only sin and death 
were absent, we would be satisfied with such a 
paradise. 
But it will be much more beautiful 
when the old world and the old state of things will 
be entirely renovated, and an eternal spring begin, 
which will be and continue fdrever.' 
The compu-
tation of those who confidently fixed the year and 
the day of the final judgment being once referred 
to, he said :—' No, verily, the text is too plain in 
Matthew 24th : Concerning the day and the hour 
knoweth no man, no, not the angels in heaven, but 
alone my Father; therefore neither I, nor any 
man, nor angel, can fix the day or the hour. 
I 
believe, nevertheless, that all the signs which are 
to precede the last day have already happened. 
The Gospel is preached throughout the world, the 
child of perdition is revealed, and destroyed in the 
hearts of many, the kingdom of Rome is declining 
to its fall, all the elements and creatures are in 
commotion, and declining; there is no longer any 
love or fidelity on earth, and Christ may come 
when he may, he will find but a small flock of be-
lievers ; excess in eating and drinking, the prac-
tice of usury, anxious cares, covetousncss, extrava-
gance in dress and building, and all manner of ir-
regularity, verily being as prevalent now as they 
were at the times of Noah, wherefore I*conceive 
that the signs preceding the last day are fulfilled. 
Unless it should be that Gog and Magog, together 
with the papacy, should yet be crushed and des-
troyed previously, in a temporal respect too, and 
that particular and supernatural darkness should 
perhaps be witnessed in the sun and moon, as was 
the case at the death of Christ, and that the Gos-
pel should, previously to the last day, be banished 
from all the churches, schools, and pulpits, and be 
found only with pious heads of families, within 
their four walls, as it was at the times of Elijah, 
and as it verily almost seems it will be now. Oth-
erwise, everything is fulfilled which is to precede 
the last day. 
Methinks Christ our Lord is already 
publishing his summons in heaven, and the angels 
are preparing for the journey, and because during 
these six thousand years all the great and marvel-
lous events of which Elijah prophesied, havo oc-
curred in spring and about Easter, I trust Christ 
will also appear about Easter, and cause his voice 
and thunder to be heard in a morning tempest, and 
then with one stroke, confounding the heavens and 
the earth, in a moment of time transform the liv-
ing, raise the dead, create a new heaven and earth, 
hold his judgment in the clouds, wholly fulfil the 
Scriptures, together with his last: It is finished; 
this we await. 
For in this vale of tears we at any 
rate have no life, joy, or consolation, except in so 
far as we hear, contemplate, believe and preserve 
God's precious Word. 
This Word, Lord Jesus, 
thou eternal Word, continue unto us ; then we are 
and continue in life, and will triumph over death, 
the devil, and all their hosts, and finally prevail. 
Basijig myself upon the verbal and written Word, 
[ began my cause upon and with this Word ; I 
have thus far. through the power of God, safely 
maintained it; with this Word I am superior to 
all my enemies ; upon this Word I still stand and 
base myself; upon this Word I will pass through 
death, to my dear Lord and Redeemer. 
Whoever, 
therefore, with me, and together with me, yea, in-
deed. together with Christ, will venture to rely 
upon this Word, let him do it. 
I know nothing 
more secure and sure than the Word of God, re-
corded in the prophets and the apostles.' " 
Dec. 23d.—Took leave of brother Chapman, 
with whom 1 had been associated for six weeks, 
day and night, travelling and preaching the word 
of God. 
We were joined in a blessed fellowship, 
and labored in entire harmony. 
We found it hard 
to part. 
Several allusions having been made to brother 
Chapman's trials, in taking my leave of him I 
ought in justice to say a word on this subject. 
It 
is well known to many that Eld. C. was several 
years since married to a person who he supposed 
would be a suitable helpmeet for him. 
For a time 
she was so ; but being of an ardent temperament, 
and withal ambitious and assuming, she interfered 
with his arrangements, so as to destroy his useful-
ness, and her own. 
Being unable to advise or in-
duce her to pursue a proper and judicious course, 
he made provision for her and desired that she 
might remain at home. 
This she refused to do, 
and followed him in his fields of labor, speaking 
unkindly of him, and using her influence to distract 
and break up his societies. 
She succeeded for a 
time, but by her injudicious course, and imprudent 
connection with another, she destroyed the confi-
dence of her partizans, and has fallen into disre-
pute among them. 
Brother C. has conducted him-
self under this trial with great patience and pru-
dence ; and in the midst of it has labored night and 
day, with much success, in the cause of God. 
His 
reputation is untarnished, and he has the confi-
dence and fellowship of the Advent churches.- May 
the Lord still sustain him as an apostle in the West 
em field. 
I took leave of Dr. Helm, brethren Wise, Maxy, 
and others, at 3 p. M. and took cars for Chicago, 
about throe hundred miles. 
We arrived in safety 
the next morning at 7 o'clock. 
Having sent an 
appointment to brother N. M. Adams, for this 
place, for the Sabbath, I expected to remain, but 
the letter was not received in season. 
Being un-
well and fatigued, I was well pleased with the 
matter, and took the next train for Toledo, on my 
way to Cincinnati, 0., to fulfil an appointment 
there. 
But on my arrival at T. I was so ill that 1 
was obliged to recall that, (though very reluctant-
ly,) and take the cars for home. 
I needed rest, 
and could not labor more without it. 
I arrived at 
Cleveland Sunday at 6 o'clock A. M., and put up 
with brother Beckwith, where I received every at-
tention. 
Being unable to preach, I took the opportunity 
to hear Prof. Finney, of Oberlin, who had been 
giving lectures here for some time. 
His subject in 
the morning was the " Pharisee and the Publican." 
He gave a sound, practical discourse. 
In the 
afternoon he described the character of the " Me-
diator," and prepared the way for the evening's 
discourse^ in which he was to J>ress the sinner to 
accept the mediation of Christ and be reconciled 
to God. 
I was not able to attend. 
Mr. Finney 
does not speak with the power or the success that 
he did in former yehrs, yet he makes a good im-
pression where he labors, on both saint and sinner. 
He is yet perfectly in the dark on the personal 
coming of Christ. 
There is hardly an allusion to 
the subject in his discourses'. 
He treats those 
kindly who hold this view, but says he don't 
understand it. 
He looks for the world's conver-
sion ! 
THE LITTLE 
HORN. 
(Continued from our fast.) 
THE sunshine of prosperity that beamed upon 
the visible Church when the Roman Empire be-
came Christianized, gave being, as already shown, 
to those corrupt principles which commenced the 
great apostacy, and prepared the way for "him 
whose coming is after the working of Satan, with 
all power, and signs, and lying wonders." 
This 
declension of the Church, and the corruption of 
the life-giving doctrines and pure precepts of the 
gospel, commencing under Constantine, continued 
to grow in strength, gradually, but surely, extend-
ing its pernicious and debasing influence over the 
minds of men, and firmly establishing the reign of 
superstition and error. 
Mosheim, speaking of the doctrine of the Church 
during the fifth century, remarks: "Instead of 
leading men into the paths of humble faith and 
genuine piety, they bewildered them in the laby-
rinths of controversy and contention, and rather 
darkened than illustrated the sacred mysteries of 
religion by a thick cloud of unintelligible subtili-
ties, ambiguous terms, and obscure distinctions. 
Hence arose new matter of animosity and dispute, 
of bigotry and uncharitableness, which flowed like 
a torrent through succeeding ages, and which all 
human efforts seem unable to vanquish." 
" If, 
before this time, the lustre of religion was clouded 
with superstition, and its divine precepts were 
adulterated with a mixture of human inventions, 
this evil, instead of diminishing, increased daily." 
After referring to the honor paid to the images of 
departed saints, and the belief in the miraculous 
efficacy of the bones of martyrs, he says : " We 
shall not enter into a particular account of the 
public supplications, the holy pilgrimages, the su-
perstitious services paid to departed souls, the mul-
tiplication of temples, chapels, altars, penitential 
garments, and a multitude of other circumstances, 
that showed the decline of genuine piety, and the 
corrupt darkness that was eclipsing the lustre of 
genuine Christianity." 
And he adds: " It will 
not be improper to observe here, that the famous 
pagan doctrine concerning the purification of de-
parted souls, by means of a certain kind of fire, 
was now more amply explained and established 
than it had formerly been. 
Every one knows that 
this doctrine proved an inexhaustible source of 
riches to the clergy through the succeeding ages, 
and that it still enriches the Romish Church with 
its nutritious streams." 
" Concerning the rites and ceremonies used in 
the Church during this [the fifth] century," says 
tht same historian, it " would require a volume of 
a considerable size " " to enumerate the rites and 
institutions added to the Christian worship." 
" Divine worship was now daily rising from one 
degree of pomp to another, and degenerating more 
and more into a gaudy epeetacle, only calculated 
to attract the stupid admiration of a gazing popu-
lace. 
The riches and magnificence of the churches 
exceeded all bounds. They were also adorned with 
costly images, among which that of the Virgin 
Mary, holding the child Jesus in her arms, obtained 
the principal place. 
The altars, and the chests in 
which the relics were preserved, were in most 
places made of solid silver ; and from this we may 
easily imagine the splendor and expenses that were 
lavished upon the other utensils which were em-
ployed in the service of the Church." 
" A new method also of proceeding with peni-
tents was introduced into the Latin [Western] 
Church, for grievous offenders, who had formerly 
been obliged to confess their guilt in the face of 
the congregation, were now delivered from this 
mortifying penalty, and obtained, from Leo the 
Great, a permission to confess their crimes pri-
vately to a confessor appointed for that purpose. 
By the change of the ancient discipline, one of the 
greatest restraints upon licentiousness (and the 
only remaining barrier of chastity.) was entirely 
removed, and the actions of Christians were sub-
ject to no other scrutiny than that of the clergy ; 
a change which was frequently convenient for the 
sinner, and also advantageous in many respects to 
the sacred order." 
^ 
In this " new method " we can clearly discern 
the stealthy but rapid development of " the mys-
tery of iniquity," and the sure fastening of the 
chains of superstition, binding the mass to the ar-
rogant throne of Antichrist. 
The confessional has 
been one of the principal means by which the 
Romish Church, or the Papal Hierarchy, gained 
such an extraordinary power, and which they have 
so long wielded, and the secret of their almost 
superhuman influence, and by which they have 
crushed every feeling of independence, and de-
graded their followers into abject slaves to their 
arbitrary will. 
" The history, both of nations and 
individuals, exhibits fearful examples of the abuse 
of confidence thijs reposed in priests. 
In political 
affairs, especially, it has been made the means of 
effecting the basest intrigues, to the ruin of states, 
and the disgrace of religion." 
In this alteration of the " ancient discipline " 
into a secret confession to the priest, which was 
done by Pope Leo the Great, in 450, we behold an 
effective measure to the attainment of ecclesiasti-
cal supremacy, and one of the peculiar traits in 
the character of " the man of sin," and an essen-
tial element constituting his tyrannical govern-
ment. 
Concerning the Rules of the Church in this cen-
tury.—Several causes contributed to bring about 
a change in the external form of ecclesiastical 
government, and there were created " five superior 
rulers of the Church, who were distinguished from 
the rest by the title of Patriarchs "—the Bishops 
of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, 
and Antioch. These Patriarchs were distinguished 
by considerable and extensive rights and privileges, 
that were annexed to their high stations. 
They 
alone consecrated the bishops, who lived in the 
provinces that belonged to their jurisdiction. They 
assembled yearly in council the clergy of their re-
spective districts, in order to regulate the affitirs 
of the Church. 
The cognizance of all important 
cases, and the determination of the more weighty 
controversies, were referred to the Patriarch of the 
province where they arose. They also pronounced 
a decisive judgment in those cases where accusa-
tions were brought against bishops ; and lastly, 
they appointed vicars, or deputies, clothed with 
their authority, for the preservation of order and 
tranquillity in the remoter provinces. 
Such were 
the great and distinguishing privileges of the Pa-
triarchs. 
This new arrangement in the govern-
ment of the Church, instead of establishing peace, 
and prescribing the aspiring ambition of these five 
prelates, became a source of constant and " per-
petual dissensions and animosities, and was pro-
ductive of various inconveniences and grievances, 
and resulted in the most bloody wars, and the most 
detestable and horrid crimes." 
The Patriarch of 
Constantinople reduced to his obedience the Bish-
ops of Alexandria and Antioch, as prelates only of 
the seeond order, and took from the Roman Patri-
arch a portion of his jurisdiction, " but the Pope," 
says Mosheim, " far superior to them in wealth 
and power, contended also with more vigor and ob-
stinacy, and, in his turn, gave a deadly wound to 
the usurped supremacy of the. Byzantine Patriarch.'1 
" No one of the contending bishops found the 
occurrences of the times so favorable to bis ambi-
tion as the Roman pontiff. 
Notwithstanding the 
redoubled efforts of the Bishop of "Constantinople, 
a variety of circumstances concurred to augment 
his power and authority, though he bad not yet 
assumed the dignity of supreme lawgiver and 
judge of the whole Christian Church. 
The Bish-
ops of Alexandria and Antioch, unable to make 
head against the lordly prelate of Constantinople, 
often fled to the Roman pontiff for succor against 
his violence; and the inferior order of bishops 
used the same method, when their rights were in-
vaded by the prelates of Alexandria and Antioch : 
so that the Bishop of Rome, by taking all these 
prelates alternately under his protection, daily ad-
ded new degrees of influence and authority to the 
Roman see, rendered it everywhere respected, and 
38 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. I 
was thus imperceptibly establishing its supremacy.'" 
The declining power and the supine indolence of 
the emperors, left the authority of the bishop, who 
presided in their capital, almost without control." 
The reason given in a canon of the Council of 
Chalcedon, why the bishops of the Roman see should 
hold a pre-eminent rank among other prelates, 
should arrest our attention :—because Rome was the 
capital of the empire; as D'Aubigne significantly 
asks, 
If Rome be the queen of cities, why should 
not the pastor be the king of bishops? Why should 
not the Roman Church be the mother of Christen-
dom? 
Why should not all nations be her chil-
dren?" 
And he adds: "It was natural to the 
heart of man to reason thus," and so did the 
Council of Chalcedon reason, and so did the Ro-
man pontiff. 
But what policy, what pretensions 
to supremacy, did the ]Popes put forth when the 
capital was removed tp Ravenna, and when the 
barbarian kings who governed Italy established 
their imperial cities elsewhere? 
Honorius, the 
Emperor of the West, and his court, resided at 
Ravenna, and says a Catholic writer, speaking of 
dome's destruction by Alaric, 410, " Thus did 
Rome lose that power, splendor, and magnificence 
which had made it, for so many ages, the first city 
in the world." 
Now, at the time of Rome's dis 
grace in the eyes of the world, and when these lo 
cal circumstances no longer favored the Papal as 
sumptions, what were its claims to ecclesiastical 
authority and honor? 
The claims to supremacy 
were purely spiritual!—based on the saying of the 
Saviour, " Thou art Peter, and upon this rock 
will build my church ; and the gates of hell shall 
not prevail against it; and I will give unto thee 
the keys of the kingdom of heaven : and whatso 
ever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in 
heaven." 
This blasphemous interpretation of the 
Roman popes had been partially advanced before 
but unsuccessfully ; and as we have before re 
marked, the chief reason assigned by the Council 
of Chalcedon why the Roman see should have the 
highest ecclesiastical rank, was especially local— 
now, especially spiritual. 
The legate of Pope Celestine, in the Council of 
Ephesus, 431, said:—"It is a thing undoubted 
that the apostle Peter received the keys and power 
of binding and loosing: which Peter still lives and 
exercises judgment in his successors, even to this 
day and always." 
The legate of Pope Leo, before 
a later Council, held at Chalcedon, said, " It is 
Peter that speaks in Leo." 
Leo himself, in a ser-
mon preached on St. Peter and St. Paul's day 
said, " As being the see of the blessed Peter, thou 
R.ome, art made the head of the world, so as to 
have wider rule through religion than by the power 
of earthly dominion." 
" Among all the prelates 
who ruled the Church of Rome during this cen 
tury, there was not one who asserted his authority 
and pretensions with such vigor and success, as 
Leo, surnamed the Great." 
The successor of Leo, Pope Hilary, was ad 
dressed by another bishop, as " Vicar of Peter 
unto whom, forthwith from after the resurrection 
of Jesus Christ, the keys of the kingdom belonged 
for the illumination of all." 
Pope Gelasius, who governed the Roman see 
from 492 to 496, in a letter said : " Things divine 
are to be learned by the secular potentates from 
bishops, above all, from the vicar of the blessed 
Peter." 
In a letter to the Emperor he said:— 
" There are two authorities by which the world 
governed, the Pontifical and the Royal; the first 
being the greater, as having charge of the sacra 
ments of life: and in divine things to become 
kings to bow the neck to priests, specially to the 
Head of priests, whom Christ's own voice has set 
over the universal Church." 
Did the Pope 
Rome in 519 employ stronger language, or claim 
higher authority? 
And Pope Gelasius not only 
said, but acted, for in A. D. 494 he formally excom 
municated the Greek Emperor. 
" He authorita 
tively drew up a list of the Scriptures of the Old 
and new Testament, to be received as canonical 
and divine, as also Scriptures and writings not 
be received ; the last with damnation pronounced 
against their authors." 
In a Council he impi 
ously declared, " According to the concurring tes-
timony of tradition and of the canons of the Fa 
thers, yet not by virtue of them, but throu 
Christ's own delegation, the Roman see holds the 
primacy; and itself, without spot or wrinkle, has 
authority over the whole Church, for its general 
superintendence and government: there being ex-
cepted from its- authority of the keys none living, 
but only the dead." 
At the close of this arrogant 
speech, the assembled bishops shouted " Vicarium 
Christi te videmus .'" 
BEREAN. 
THE DISCUSSION. 
REPLY 
TO G. W. 
H0YT. 
MR. 
EDITOR :—Brother Hoyt asksr " How can 
the abomination of desolation of Matt. 24:15, take 
place subsequent to the sixth seal, and the gospel 
angel, as I take it for granted some suppose !" 
I do not know of any one who does suppose it is 
after the sixth seal. 
For one, I do not. 
I regard 
the sixth seal as a reiteration of the prediction of 
Matt. 24:29, 30, and hence, as an event subsequent 
to the placing the abomination of desolation in the 
holy place. 
If by " The gospel angel" he means 
the preaching of " this gospel of the kingdom in 
all the world for a witness to all nations," before 
this dispensation ends, as foretold Matt. 24:14; 
or the " angel having the everlasting gospel to 
preach," &c., of Rev. 14:6, 7 ; I do certainly sup-
pose them to be prior to the placing of the abomi-
nation of desolation in the holy place. 
Nor can 
see any incongruity in such an order of events. 
He asks, 2d, " How are the righteous to suffer 
that tribulation in coipmon with the wicked, 
whereas, the former have express signs and warn-
ings given them to escape those things." 
I answer, the directions of our Lord, " flee to 
the mountains," imply that Judea will be the scene 
of more immediate and greater peril than a more 
distant or obscure place. 
This direction also, 
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye 
may be accounted worthy to eseape all 
these 
things, and to stand before the Son of man," do 
indicate that he will have a special care for the 
most pious and faithful of his children ; and that 
it should be the desire and effdrt of each, to secure 
it. 
The two instances referred to, " Sodom and 
the old word," both show that God's servants were 
left in the midst of furious foes up to the period of 
final wrath on the wicked. 
Noah buffeted an hun 
dred and twenty years with a world, every thought 
and imagination of whose heart was evil and only 
evil, and that continually. 
Lot was surrounded 
with and his house assailed by demons incarnate, 
before he was delivered. 
Both Noah and Lot were 
placed in a condition of most severe trial of their 
faith before deliverance came. 
And it is also true 
that the impending ruin came after that ordeal, 
as a snare on the wicked. 
Noah and Lot passed 
through the trial of faith and were then delivered 
It is just such a trial as Lot had, a trial of faith, 
surrounded by infuriated demons, assailing them 
on every hand after the day of grace ends, through 
which the saints will pass, just before the appear-
ing of the Lord to take them away from the earth. 
None but the truly godly will endure the test; all 
others will be swept away with the torrent. 
Hence 
the necessity of entire consecration to God. 
It is a hard task to separate the " trouble " of 
Dan. 12th, and the " tribulation " of Matt. 24th 
They are clearly identified by each being such as 
never was before, and that in Matthew such as 
never shall be again ; which is not true, if that in 
Daniel is future and that in Matthew past. 
Once more, he says, " The week of confirmation 
has been disconnected from the sixty-nine weeks 
and carried forward to the closing of probation 
and the sacrifice there mentioned made Christ's 
sacrifice." 
This statement of the position does not present 
the true view. 
" The week of confirmation " has 
not been separated from the sixty-nine weeks, for 
the reason that it was never connected with them 
The one week, according to my view, is no part 
either of the seventy weeks, or of the 2300 days 
but it is a period by itself, to follow the ending of 
the 2300 days, during one half of which Christ' 
work of mediation will continue ; but in the midst 
of it, his offering will be completed, and there will 
" remain no more offering for sin." 
The last thing 
the high priest did in the most holy place, was, to 
sprinkle the mercy-seat with blood ; and then to 
come forth into the outer tabernacle and sprinkle 
it; and lastly, the altar before the tabernacle 
Was that a true type ? 
Again, he says, " If I were to separate the sev-
entieh week from the sixty-nine weeks, I would 
place it at the seven years' war on Jerusalem, in 
the midst of which the Jewish sacrifice was taken 
away." 
This is a view which Rev. William Ram 
sey has advocated for several years. 
But I con 
fess I cannot see the authority for making such an 
interregnum between the sixty-ninth and seventieh 
weeks. 
If such an interregnum did appear in the 
prophecy, it would be indeed a strong reason for 
placing the taking away of the daily sacrifice at 
the destruction of Jerusalem. 
But as I can see 
no such authority, I think the view presented 
above, the only one which will explain it. 
• 
The tendency of the age is toward a general 
apostacy from the doctrines of the Bible, and from 
the Messiahship of Jesus. 
Infidelity is making 
gigantic strides, and spiritual communications are 
the great instruments for carrying it forward. 
Christians never more than now needed the whole 
armor of God to withstand the wiles of the devil. 
But aa time rolls onward the peril will increase 
more and more, until the full development of the 
abomination of desolation will appear in the holy 
place, and the tribulation will be upon us. 
J. 
LITCH. 
CONFERENCE IN LOW HAMPTON, N, Y. 
BRO. 
HIMES : — Having been requested to give 
several copies of the " Articles of Association for 
the Advent Mission and Tract Society of Addison 
and Rutland counties, Vt., and Washington county, 
N. Y.," I send them to you for publication in the 
Herald, that all interested may have a copy. 
I. The meetings of the society shall be semi-
annual. 
II. The object of this society shall be to supply 
the destitute with the gospel of the kingdom of 
heaven at hand, by preaching and the distribution 
of tracts. 
III. The officers of the society shall consist of: 
1. A secretary and treasurer, whose duty it shall 
be to keep a register of names of members and con-
tributors—an account of all money received and 
paid out, and to make a report to the society at 
its regular meetings. 
2. A disbursing committee consisting of five, (a 
majority of whom may transact business,) whose 
duty it shall be to inquire into the wants of the 
cause, and appropriate the funds of the society in 
distributing tracts, and in supporting such minis-
ters as they may approve while they are laboring 
for the society, and to audit the accounts of the 
treasurer. 
IV. The officers shall be elected by a majority 
of the members present at each annual meeting of 
the society. 
V. Any person may become a member for six 
months, ty paying twenty-five cents; for one year, 
fifty cents; for life, $5,00. 
This society was organized at a meeting of Ad-
ventists held in Addison, Vt., June 4th and 5th, 
1853. 
The writer was elected Secretary and Trea-
surer. 
Brn. D. Bosworth and S. P. Miller, of 
Hampton, N. Y., P. B. Morgan and AlfredSmith, 
of Addison, and E. W. Case, of Bristol, Vt., Com-
mittee. 
A liberal contribution was raised. 
The society adjourned, to meet at Low Hampton, 
N. Y., on the first Friday in January 1854. 
The meeting was held as per adjournment. 
But 
few present. 
None from abroad. 
We received 
letters from P. B. Morgan and E. W- Case, ex-
pressing a deep interest in the prosperity of the 
society, and stating that the thaw prevented their 
presence. 
Our society is in its infancy, but we feel that 
we have made a good beginning. 
Over $30,00 
have been received by the treasurer, $10,50 paid 
out,—mostly for tracts that have been distributed, 
we hope with good results. 
$20,00 in the trea-
sury. 
More will be received soon. 
The commit-
tee will call for the funds as the door shall open 
for doing good. 
At our last meeting a committee was appointed 
to select subjects and recommend brethren to write 
essays, to be read at the next annual meeting of 
the society. 
Reported as follows : 
Subject of the first essay—The Spirit and Ad-
vantages of the Tract and Mission Enterprise. 
By 
P. B. Morgan. 
Second essay—The Hope of the Church. 
By H. 
Buckley. 
Third essay—AVhat should be our faith relative 
to^he coming of Christ. 
By D. Bosworth. 
Adjourned to meet at Bristol, Vt., on the first 
Friday in June 1854, at 7 P. M. 
H. 
BUCKLEY, Secretary. 
Hampton (N. Y.), Jan. 15th, 1854. 
and returned Wednesday, continuing till Jan. 2d. 
Here my voice and strength failed me, and 1 had 
to leave till yesterday. 
In the mean time some 
twenty found peace in believing, and how many 
backsliders were reclaimed the day of God alone 
will determine. 
I baptized two Friday week be-
fore Christmas, two Christmas day, and four New 
Year's day. 
Four went to the Baptist church and 
were baptized, and others will go forward soon. 
In our meetings some ten or twelve, formerly Ad-
ventists, took a part, with some six or eight Metho-
dists, as many Baptists, one or two Congregation-
aliste, and one or two Christians. 
A sceptic who 
attended our meetings, remarked, they are all one. 
All who take a part in our meetings treat the doc-
trine of a soon coming Saviour with kindness, and 
most with real love. 
We met Saturday in the af-
ternoon to perfect an organization of a church, 
which was attempted some time ago, but was not 
completed. 
We adopted a plan, but for want of 
time to attend to the necessary regulations, we ad-
journed over to Tuesday afternoon, when we hope, 
by the divine blessing, to come into order, ascer-
tain who " we are," and go on our way rejoicing. 
I never saw the time when the labors of judi-
cious Adventists were in such demand as at present. 
I cannot supply one half the calls I receive. 
O 
that the Lord would raise up faithful laborers and 
thrust them into his harvest. 
Yours, 
D. 
BOSWORTH. 
Mount Holly, Jan. 23d, 1854. 
LETTER FROM D. BOSWORTH. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—Sometime in the latter part of 
November I made up my mind to hold a series of 
meetings in this place, and announced my deter-
mination to the brethren. 
But such had been the 
trials they had been called to pass through, they 
were discouraged, and some of them told me there 
was no use in trying to do anything for that place 
more than to strengthen the things that remain. 
As they were disheartened, I wrote to brother 
Thomas of Bristol to come and help me. 
I com-
menced meetings the last Sabbath in November. 
The first evening, one gentleman rose for prayers, 
and came out in religion the Wednesday following 
On Thursday brother Thomas came, and it was 
like the coming of Titus, our hearts were made 
glad, for he was full of faith and the Holy Ghost 
Before this I had preached in this place two years, 
and had never known more than eight or nine to 
take any part in social meetings. 
But the third 
evening after we commenced, nineteen testified for 
God ; and the fourth evening after preaching, 
twenty-five brought in their offerings. 
I staid till 
Saturday morning, and left for home, leaving bro. 
T. to continue the meetings over the Sabbath. 
On 
Monday he left. 
I returned Thursday and con-
tinued the meetings evenings till Saturday week 
following. 
I then went home, spent the Sabbath, 
FETTER FROM JONATHAN COLE. 
BRO. IIIEES :—I wish to be indulged, and favored 
with a response to a few interrogations. 
1. Are not the waters of the great river Euphrates 
about to be dried up ? 
2. Are not the three unclean spirits like frogs 
gone forth ? Have they not been more successful 
than any well balanced mind could have supposed 
they would ? 
3. Is it altogether improbable that the decisive 
battle of Armageddon will be fought within one 
year ? 
4. Is there not great distress and perplexity of 
the nations, and men's hearts fail them for fear, 
and for looking after those things which are com-
ing on the earth, if these can be answered in the 
affimative ? 
5. Is it not very evident that the seventh vial 
will soon be poured out, and the voice heard say-
ing, " It is done." 
May we strictly adhere to the 
directions given by our Saviour: " Watch ye there-
fore and pray always, that ye may be accounted 
worthy to escape all these things, and stand be-
fore the Son of man." 
I have been a constant reader of the Herald since 
its commencement, and although I have been a 
professed member of a Baptist church for sixty-
four years, the Advent articles of faith I think to 
be the most scriptural. 
I aiu alone as to my be-
lief in this place, no one to associate with me. 
The Herald has afforded me much satisfaction, 
but the discussion which has for a number of 
months occupied a large space in the paper, al-
though it may present much valuable information 
to the public, I am fully convinced that it never 
will result in anything definite. 
JONATHAN 
COLE. 
Salisbury Centre, Jan. 1854. 
Note.—An 
answer to the first, second, fourth, 
and fifth questions, will be found in our tract enti-
tled the " Rapping Spirits," 
or an exposition of 
the 16th chapter of Revelation. 
In regard to the 
third, whether it will be this year, we cannot tell. 
We see nothing to hinder, and can ardently pray 
with our aged father in the gospel, that it may be 
so, yet on these matters we are not positive as to 
the time. 
We think the true and safe position is, 
to watch and wait in readiness. 
LETTER FROM J. E. HURD. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—Knowing that it is cheering to 
the friends of Zion to hear of her prosperity, I 
cheerfully submit a few lines to your valuable pa-
per, the contents of which strengthens, comforts, 
and cheers us in this pilgrimage state. 
We have for the most of the time for three years 
past, sustained our prayer-meetings twice a week, 
although our numbers have been few and yet 
" pursuing." 
About the first of last December, the church 
had a spirit of prayer that God would send us one 
of his servants, who should rightly divide the 
word of truth and win sinners to Christ. 
About 
that time Elder S. W. Thurber, of Cabot, Vt., was 
deeply impressed that he must go to Canada, or 
grieve the Spirit of God. 
He made his way over 
the frozen ground, and came to us in the fulness of 
the gospel, " like a cart pressed under sheaves." 
The spirit of Christ was manifest in our first meet-
ing and that to bless; wanderers soon began 
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ADVENT 
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39' 
come home; sinners trembling bowed before the 
Lord and found mercy. 
Quite a number of young 
men of talents have given their hearts to God and 
have become valiant for the truth. 
Thirty willing 
subjects followed their Lord in baptism. 
Many 
Wanderers were reclaimed, and saints quickened. 
Brother Thurber stopped with us about eleven 
days,—meetings mostly evenings. 
He has left and 
gone to other towns in the province, and we hear 
that the Lord is blessing his labors abundantly. 
I think the work here is the most powerful that 
1 have witnessed for ten years. 
The converts are 
strong, decided, and labor understandingly in the 
word of the Lord. 
Oh, the contrast; to see the ydung man that a 
few days ago could be found at the grog-shop with 
his cards in his pocket, and the spirit of alcohol in 
his body, exchange them for the word of God and 
the spirit of Jesus, with the spirit of glory shining 
in his countenance. 
To God belongs all the glory. 
The only test preached, was repentance towards 
God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Deep 
conviction still rests on the people, and the good 
work is going on. 
May it continue till he whose 
right it is to reign shall take to himself his great 
power and reign. 
We feel that the sealing angel is doing up his 
last work on the earth, and it will soon be said— 
" He that is holy, let him be holy still." 
We are 
looking with deep interest on the Eastern nations, 
and believe that soon every one will be delivered 
that is written in the Book. 
May this be our 
happy lot, is the prayer of yours, looking for the 
kingdom. 
J. E. HURD. 
Barnston (C. E.), Jan. 15th, 1854. 
Note.—Tho question as to who was to " plant 
his tabernacles between the seas, &c., see an arti-
cle of Elder Fassett, which will appear in our 
next. 
LETTER FROM I. H. SHIPMAN. 
BRO. HIMES :—I have just returned from a visit 
to the churches in Bristol, Addison, and Water-
bury, in Vermont. 
In Addison, the church are 
enjoying a very good revival under the labors of 
brother Morgan and brother Bentley. I spent three 
evenings with them, and hope it was not in vain. 
At Bristol the brethren are steadfast in the faith, 
and although they have had but little preaching 
for some months, yet they sustain their meetings 
well by prayer and conference, and are now ex-
pecting to erect a house of worship, to be finished 
early in the spring. 
I enjoyed my visit there very 
well, and left them rejoicing in hope. 
May the 
Lord strengthen those who expressed a determina 
to start anew for the kingdom. 
At Waterbury the cause is on the rise. 
Brother 
Taylor's labors have been blest, and he has seen a 
number converted within a few months past. Our 
meeting there was signally attended with the bless 
ing of God. 
Seven or eight spoke in our last 
meeting with them, who were determined to seek 
the Lord and serve him to the end. 
As brother 
Taylor continues the meeting I hope the good work 
will go on until the consummation. 
I find most 
of our brethren are looking with much interest at 
the war movements in the East, and are doubtless 
receiving much more strength from that and other 
signs, than from the reckoning of periods from 
dates in connection with human, and therefore im 
perfect, chronology. 
And if I mistake not tbe se-
quel will show that Christ's own words in Matt. 
24th and Luke 21st, and corresponding texts from 
the New Testament, will be the strongest assurance 
to the church of her Lord's return in her last con 
flict. 
As on most other subjects, Christ's own 
words will give the clearer light, and happy is he 
who heeds his admonitions in such an hour as 
this. 
He certainly is at the door, and I hope none 
will live careless under his faithful admonitions 
and warnings. 
I hope the Herald will be well sustained in this 
season of trial, and be a faithful beacon to the 
church. 
Therefore I send you a new subscriber 
as requested through the Herald, and hope all 
others will do likewise. 
I hope to send you many 
more if permitted to labor here a few months 
longer. 
Your brother and companion in tribula-
tion and in hope. 
I. H. SHIPMAN. 
Sugar Hill, Jan. 18«A, 1824. 
imbued with this subject many years before I ever 
heard of father Miller. 
I thought that the gospel 
having already extended so far, would soon be pub-
lished among all nations, and then, as the Saviour 
said, will the end come. 
I have since read his 
works with great delight and profit. 
I am satis-
fied that his views are spiritually scriptural. 
I was 
then a Methodist, as I now am. I soon began more 
especially to feel that I must resort to that all-
cleansing blood for a fitness to stand before the 
Son of man. 
And soon I obtained that present sal-
vation so anxiously sought for. 
Since which time 
I have I think been living for eternity, although I 
have experienced many trials common to the Chris-
tian course, but my greatest trial is that I am no 
more like my Saviour. 
An indelible impression has been made upon 
ray mind that the day of the Lord is at hand. " It 
hasteth greatly." 
" Seeing then that ye look for 
such things, be diligent that ye may be found of 
him in peace without spot and blameless." 
I 
hope too much time will not be spent in discussing 
subjects not of the most vital importance, by watch-
men upon Zion's walls; they will doubtless feel 
that they cannot " come down," for they are doing 
a great work. 
I herewith consent that the above 
may be inserted in the Herald, should you deem it 
worthy of such a place. 
Yours, 
Georgia, Jan. 21s/, 1854. 
C 
HODGES. 
Letter from C. Hodges. 
BRO. IIIMES :—For some time I have been anxious 
to inform you that 1 am highly interested in your 
excellent paper,—its pages are richly ladened with 
gospel truths, and the signal ability with which it 
is conducted, commends its perusal to all who love 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 
It is the coming of the 
Saviour that will consummate the Christian's hope 
—but Oh ! who will abide the day of his coming 
and stand when he appeareth? 
He that hath 
clean hands and a pure heart. 
My mind had been 
» I LOVE THE LORD I" 
( PSALM 116:1.) 
" I LOVE the Lord ;" in childhood s day 
All with his love was bright; 
He gave the flowers, the sunny ray, 
And watched my bed by night. 
" I love the Lord ;" his gentle call 
My young heart early won ; 
And he became my all in alF— 
My fortress, shield, and sun. 
" I love the Lord ;" he was my friend, 
When earth grew dark and drear ; 
His love knew neither change nor end— 
It banished all my fear. 
" 1 love the Lord ;" 'midst deepest woe 
1 called upon his name, 
And like a sunbeam's radiant glow 
His Spirit's comfort came. 
" I love the Lord ;" when sickness prest 
On me, as wdth'ring blight, 
He gave me comfort, strength, and rest, 
Sweet thoughts and visions bright. 
"1 love the Lord ;" if death's cold grasp 
Upon my heart is laid, 
My Saviour's arms my soul shall clasp : 
Why should I be afraid 1 
"1 love the Lord;" -when I shall tread 
The unknown, heavenly way, 
His grace shall guide the spirit fled— 
His love shall be my stay. 
" I love the Lord ;" when he descends, 
With him I still shall be, 
And while the song of praise ascends, 
With joy shout " victory." 
" I love the Lord ;" when he shall reign 
King over earth and sea, 
With him, amid his ransomed train, 
I shall forever be. 
" I love the Lord ;" and watch and pray 
While yet a pilgrim here ; 
Still longing for that glorious day, 
When Jesus shall appear. 
VIOLETTA. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
merciful cessation for the present. 
Yet why dwell 
upon this subject ? 
When I reflect on the suffer-
ings of those martyrs, who laid down their lives in 
the cause of Christianity, and in ages past have 
fallen victims to the oppressor, I feel that all I 
have endured is, in comparison with them, only as 
a drop of the bucket, which is drawn from the 
well of affliction. 
As we have this promise, that 
' all things shall work for good to those who love 
God,' so we may rest assured that we shall not be 
called to suffer one pain or sorrow too much, or 
' be tempted above that which we are able to bear.' 
That we may all keep up courage, amidst the 
dark vicissitudes of life, and not grow weary of 
the correction of our Heavenly Father, is the sin-
cere prayer of your sister in the faith and promises 
of Christ." 
M. M. MAXWELL writes from M. Falls, Poland, 
Jan. 23d, 1854 :—" I have often desired to let my 
voice be heard through the Herald in praising God. 
For I feel in my heart to thank and praise the 
Lord ; and my most ardent desire is to glorify 
him. 
My mind has been stirred up, cheered, and 
blest, in reading the life of father Miller. 
Thank 
the Lord that though he is " dead, he yet speak-
eth." 
0, bless the Lord who hath not let our ene-
mies triumph over us. 
My hope and trust has 
been in the Lord God from my youth, and he will 
not forsake me when my strength faileth. 
Any 
evidence that the Lord is near has always given 
me joy. 
I have longed for the time when he shall 
have dominion, and the whole earth shall be filled 
with his glory. 
But I desire to be patient, and 
be found doing his will, although I may have to 
suffer for it. 
I know I have been too unwilling to 
suffer reproaches and persecution, but I desire the 
prayers of the faithful that 1 may be strengthened, 
and endure to the end. 
No doubt, dear brother, 
those that help you by their prayers, &c., rejoice 
when they hear the Lord is with you to bless your 
labors. 
Many have been made glad when they 
read of your prosperity, and sad when you were 
afflicted. 
My prayer has been that the Lord would 
comfort you on every side. 
Yours truly." 
SISTER L. M. 
RICHMOND writes from Lebanon, 
(N. Y.,) Jan. 16th, 1854 :—" We have not been 
without our trials the year past, but there is a 
BROTHER L. 
CONKEY 
writes from Burlington, 
(Wis.,) Jan. 15th, 1854 :—" How glad I should 
have been, to have invited you to visit Burlington 
while on your tour West, but when I remembered 
the reception brother Chapman received, I came 
to the conclusion that I should never invita another 
brother to visit us in this place. 
I have done my 
duty. 
Brother C.'s labors were blest to some, 
however, and I do not regret his visit. 
I have 
been very much interested in reading the account 
of your journey through this Western country,— 
especially your meeting with brother Chapman. 
God bless that beloved brother, is ray prayer. 
Why is it that brethren H. and C. should be 
called to pass through so many severe trials? 
Well brethren, I verily believe it will soon be over. 
Soon God will take you and all the faithful watch-
men from the walls, and establish them in his ever-
lasting kingdom, with all his suffering saints. 
I 
am glad to learn that the brethren in Massena, 
N. Y., have been blessed with a visit from S. I. 
Roney, and that brother Dudley was also to visit 
those dear brethren who have been severely tried 
in time past." 
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I am the resurrection and the life: he that bclieveth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die."'—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
DIED, in this city, Nov. 21st, Miss 
NANCY G. 
BREW, aged twenty-seven. The deceased, who was 
a native of New Hampshire, came to this city about 
three years since. 
Very soon after coming here, 
she was prostrated by a complication of complaints, 
and the family with whom she came, and upon 
whose care and professed friendship she was thus 
unhappily cast, fearing that her sickness might be 
of long continuance, made arrangements to place 
her in the alms-house, which was exceedingly re-
pugnant to her sensitive feelings. 
Brother and 
sister Townsend, providentially hearing of the case, 
at once freely offered her a home, which she gladly 
and thankfully accepted, where she was tenderly 
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She 
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leaving the best of evidence that she will hear the 
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Neivburyport, Jan. 1854. 
HENRY LUNT, JR. 
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DIED, in East Randolph, Mass., Dec. 19th, sis-
ter 
SUSAN W. LAW, youngest daughter of sister 
Abigail Buker, aged nineteen years. 
Sister Law 
experienced religion during the revival in this 
place in the winter of '51, of which she soon after 
made a public profession, was baptized by the 
writer, and united with the Advent church in this 
place, of which she was a devoted and consistent 
member until her death. She was sick about three 
weeks with lung fever followed by the typhoid. 
She bore her sufferings with meekness and sub-
mission, being sustained by the presence of that 
Saviour whom she had served while in health. 
She was sensible of death's near approach, saying 
from the first, to her mother, that she should not 
be with her long, and endeavored to comfort her 
with the prospect of soon meeting again in the bet-
ter land. 
She earnestly entreated those who visited 
her to seek the Saviour, and be in readiness for 
his coming. 
She has left a mother, sister, brother, 
and other relatives to mourn her loss. 
The church 
for the first time are called to mourn the loss of a 
member by death. 
But our loss is her gain. 
The 
funeral was attended on the 21st by the writer. 
On the following Sabbath a discourse was deliv-
ered on the occasion from Num. 23:10. 
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[d. 10 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Spirit Rappfngs 500 Years ago 33 
The Nestorians.............. 33 
Infidelity of the Rappers .... 33 
There will be no Night there.. 33!Conference in Low Hampton 
The Fall of Ambition 
.. 33 Letter from D. Bosworth 
My Journal . • .............. 37 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Little Horn... 
3" 
The Discussion, 
38 
Chronological Table of Events 
connected with the Papacy 3+ 
Origin of the, China Rebellion 35 
General Prim'si Opinion of the 
Turks and Russians ....... 
General Councils .., 
35 
The Title of D. D 
35 
Tornado in Ohio. 
36 
Foreign News 
40 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah. 
Book Notices . 
36 
Jonathan Cole. 
J. E. Hurd .... 
I. H. Shipman. 
C. Hodges. 
To Correspondents 
3& I Love the Lord (poetry) 
Extracts from Letters— 
M. M. Maxwell 
L. M. Richmond ..... 
L. Conkey..... 
Wm. Nichols ........ 
OBITUARY. 
Nancy G. Drew 
36 Susan W. Law. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
A RUMOR from Paris, that the mission of the 
Prince de Chimay from the King of the Belgians 
to the Emperor of the French is conneeted with the 
presentation of pacific proposals from the Czar 
had produced a favorable reaction in the stock 
markets. 
This is the only peaceable feature in the 
news by this arrival. 
Some time since it was 
stated that the King of the Belgians was under-
stood to be using his best efforts to avert the threat-
ened war, and the present statement may possibly 
be true. 
At all events the reliance placed upon it 
at Paris hais been sufficient to cause a partial reac-
tion from a rapid decline on the Bourse. 
How far 
the Czar may be in earnest in any peace proposi-
tion which he may offer is another question-. 
It is 
most probable that lie desires to- gain time. 
The question of peace or war now seems to 
hinge on the answer of the Czar to the collective 
note which was recently accepted by the Sultan. 
This note is as follows : 
" The undersigned, Ambassador of her Britannic 
Majesty, in accordance with the representatives of 
France, Austria, and Prussia, has the honor to 
make known to the Sublime Porte that the govern-
ments of the four powers have still reason to be-
lieve that his majesty the Emperor of Russia does 
not regard the thread of negotiations as broken by 
the declaration of war, and by the events the con-
sequence thereof; and knowing, moreover, that, 
according to the proposed declarations of his Im-
perial Majesty, that he desires only to behold as-
sured a perfect equality of rights and immunities 
octroyed by his Majesty the Sultan and his glorious 
ancestors to the Christian communities, subjects of 
the Sublime Porte . 
" On its part, the Sublime Porte, responding to 
those declarations by that which it made itself to 
regard it as concerning its honor to continue to 
maintain the said rights and immunities, and to 
be still disposed to put an end to the difference 
arising between the two powers : 
" The negotiation to be followed shall be based 
upon— 
" 1. The most speedy evacuation possible of the 
principalities. 
(La plus prompte possible.) 
2. The renewal (renouvelkment) of ancient 
treaties. 
" 3. The communication of the firmans relative 
to the spiiitual privileges octroyed by the Sublime 
Porte to all its subjects not' Mussulmen, which 
communication made to the powers, should be ac-
companied by suitable assurances given to each of 
them. 
14 The arrangement already made to meet the 
agreement (Vaccord) relative to the Holy Places, 
and to the religious establishments at Jerusalem, 
shall be definitely adopted. 
" This arrangement concerns the erection of a 
church and the establishment of a Russian hospital 
at Jerusalem. 
w The Sublime Porte shall declare to the repre-
sentatives that it is ready to name a plenipoten-
tiary to establish an armistice, and to negotiate on 
the above named basis, with the concurrence of the 
powers, and in a neutral town agreed upon betwgen 
them. 
" The declarations made by the powers in the 
•preamble of the treaty of July 13, 1841, shall be 
f ,rmally confirmed by those same powers in the 
interest of the independence and integrity of the 
Ottoman Empire, and in that of the equilibrium 
of Europe (et de celtte du concert Europeen). 
44 The Sublime Porte shall declare (declarerait) 
on its part in the same interest its firm resolution 
to develope more efficaciously its administrative 
s, stem, and th >se internal reforms of a nature to 
satisfy the wants and the just expectations of its 
subjects of all classes." 
(SignedJ 
STRATFORD DE REDCLHTE, 
BARAGUAY D'HILLERS, 
L. DE AVILDENBRUCK, 
B. DE 
B«PCK. 
Per a, Dec. 12, 1853. 
We give below the text of the important circu-
lar from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to 
the respective legations, of which mention was 
made in the Niagara's advices : 
" The affairs of the East are taking a too seri-
ous turn not to recall your attention, even at the 
moment when circumstances impose new duties 
upon the government of his Imperial Majesty, to 
the efforts which we have not ceased to make, for 
the purpose of preventing the complications with 
which Europe is so seriously menaced. 
The question 'about the holy places, either 
misrepresented or misunderstood, had excited the 
apprehensions of the Russian Cabinet; we have 
tried to calm these alarms by frank and complete 
explanations. 
It did appear to us that in preserv-
ing the rights of the Porte, a question of such a 
nature might well be cleared up at a distance from 
the seene where it originally arose. 
Our opinion, 
however, was not shared by Russia, and Prince 
Menscbikoff received the order to repair to Con-
stantinople. 
I will merely say, that had we really 
entertained the exclusive views which are imputed 
to us—if the claiming of our ancient and incon-
testible rights had not been sustained by so much 
moderation—the mission of that Extraordinary 
Ambassador would at once have been the object of 
a conflict, which we knew how to avoid. 
" The affairs of the sanctuaries at Jerusalem 
were hardly settled, and, bv the admission of Count 
Nesselrode himself, regulated in a satisfactory 
manner, when another difficulty presented itself. 
Prince Menschikoff demanded guarantees for the 
maintenance of the privileges of the Greek church. 
The Cabinet of St. Petersburg did not prove by 
any particular fact that these privileges had been 
violated; while the Porte, on the contrary, con-
firmed solemnly the religious immunities of her 
Christian subjects. 
Animated by the desire to 
appease a difference which, if it concerned on one 
hand the sovereign rights of the Sultan, touched 
on the other the conscience of his Majesty the 
Emperor Nicholas, the French government, in con-
cert with the English, have assiduously tried all 
means to conciliate the interests, at once so delicate 
and so complex, engaged in the affair. 
44 The Russian Cabinet cannot have forgotten 
the zeal and loyalty with which we have endeavored 
to accomplish this difficult .task. 
Neither can it 
deny that the resistance of the Porte to accede to 
a first plan of arrangement, as emanated from the 
conference at Vienna, was not the only cause of 
our failure. 
In the course of those various nego-
tiations serious events took place. 
A Russian 
army had crossed the Pruth and invaded in full 
peace two provinces of the Ottoman empire. 
The 
fleets of France and England ought to have ap-
proached the Dardanelles at that moment; if the 
French government had desired to do so, its naval 
forces might have anchored in the roadstead at 
Constantinople. 
" However, though it thought it necessary to 
establish its rights, it showed all the more its mod-
eration in the step. 
The nature of the relations of 
Russia with the Porte had become too abnormal 
not to allow war to succeed peace, or rather, to 
call the subject by its real name, that ^ie aggres-
sion on the Turkish territory should not produce 
its natural consequences. This change in the situa-
tion has necessitated a new movement of our fleet, 
and, at the instance of the Sultan, the French flag 
has appeared in the Bosphorus simultaneously 
with the British. 
44 However, sir, we had not renounced the hope 
of an arrangement, and together with Austria and 
Prussia, as already previously with England, we 
pursued once more a pacific end. 
New proposi-
tions, for the success of which we shall not cease 
to employ our efforts, have been addressed to the 
Porte by the representatives of the four powers. 
44 None of the treaties concluded with Russia 
interdicted to our men of war the navigation of 
the Black Sea. 
The treaty of the 14th of July, 
1841, in closing in time of peace the passage of 
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, reserved to 
the Sultan the right to open them in time of war, 
and from the day when the Sultan gave us free 
permission to enter the Straits, the Euxine became 
equally open to us. 
The same motives which had 
kept us for a long time at the Bay of Besika, 
stopped our fleets in the road of Beicos. 
41 The French Government was most anxious to 
manifest its friendly sentiments toward Russia, 
and to reject before the world the responsibility 
upon aggravation in the actual state of things, 
which, despite all considerations, could not be 
modified. 
The French Government thought, more-
over, after the contents of the recent despatches of 
General Castelbajac, that the Russian Cabinet, 
satisfied with the possession of what she considered 
as a pledge, would not have taken any offensive 
part in the struggle which she has so unhappily 
commenced with Turkey. 
It seemed to us sufficient that the presence of 
our flags in the waters of Constantinople ought to 
have attested our firm resolution to protect that 
capital against a sudden danger, and we did not 
wish that its premature appearance in the quarters 
nearer the Russian territories should pass I'or a 
provocation. 
The state of war rendered, no doubt, 
possible a collision between the belligerents, both 
by sea and land, but we had a right to think that 
our reserve would be imitated by Russia, and that 
her admirals would avoid with equal care the oc-
casion for a rencontre, in abstaining from proceed-
ing to aggressive measures, when, had we supposed 
the Russian Cabinet to be animated by different 
sentiments, our fleet would certainly have exercised 
a more active vigilance. 
44 The event of Sinope, sir, has realized all our 
apprehensions, and this deplorable fact modifies 
equally the attitude which we ought to have taken. 
The agreement which has recently existed at Vien-
na between France, Austria, England, and Prus 
sia, has established the European character as re-
gards the difference between Russia and Turkey 
The four Courts have solemnly acknowledged that 
the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire was 
one of the conditions of their balancing policy 
The occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia consti 
tutes the first attempt against that integrity, and 
there can be no doubt that the chances of war 
might still more endanger it. 
Count Nesselrode 
represented, a few months back, as a necessary 
compensation of what he has since called our 
4 maritime occupation,' the invasion of the Danu 
bian Principalities. 
44 On our part, sir, we believe that it has become 
indispensable for us to measure ourselves the ex-
tent of the compensation to which we are entitled 
by right as the powers interested in the existence 
of T Turkey and the military positions already taken 
by the Russian army. 
We must have a pledge 
which assures us of the re-establishment of peace 
in the East,, on conditions which do not change the 
distribution of the respective forces of the great 
States of Europe. 
The French and English gov-
ernments have consequently decided that their fleets 
should enter the Black Sea, and combine their move-
ments in such a manner as to prevent the territory 
or the Ottoman flag from being exposed to a new 
attack by the Russian navy. 
44 The Vice Admirals Hamelin and Dundas have 
just received orders to communicate this to all 
those whom it concerns, and we hope that this 
loyal step will prevent conflicts which we should 
see but with deep regret. The French Government, 
I repeat, has but one object—that of contributing 
to bring about honorable conditions, and a recon-
ciliation between the two belligerent parties, and 
as circumstances oblige us to arm ourselves against 
terrible casualties, we still hope confidently that 
the Russian Cabinet, which has given such numer-
ous proofs of wisdom, will not expose Europe to 
useless wars—to trials of war from which the sov-
ereigns have saved her for so many years. 
DROUYN DE L'HUYS. 
Appointments, &c< 
J. M. ORROCK will preach in South Troy. Vt., Feb. 13th; W ter-
bury, 15th ; Bristol, 16th ; Low Hampton, N. Y., 18th, and Sun-
day, 19th. 
After which he will go to Buffalo, and spend two 
weeks as Elder Fassett may arrange. 
I. H. SHIPMAN will preach at Cabot, Vt., Feb. 8th, and continue 
over the following Sabbath. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
LATEST NEWS BY THE 44 ASIA."—The allied fleets, 
except six ships left at Besicos Bay to guard the 
Bosphorus, entered the Black Sea on the 3d of 
January. 
The first division of the Turkish fleet 
accompanies the allies. 
The second division re-
main anchored at Therapia. 
The Czar is not sup-
posed to view the entry of the fleet as a declara-
tion of war, buthas ordered all his own fleet to re-
turn to Sebastopol. 
On January 4th the Turks gained a brilliant 
success on the Danube, having stormed and cap-
tured the Russian entrenched camp at Citale, near 
Kalafat, and put 2500 of the enemy to the sword. 
They also attacked a body of 18,000 Russians, sent 
to relieve Citale, and after a sharp encounter, com-
pelled them to retreat. 
The Jiussians are thus 
driven back from the position by which they hoped 
to cross the Danube. 
The Turkish force in battle 
was 15,000 men, and fifteen guns. 
It is admitted that Omar Pasha has brilliantly 
out manoeuvred the Russian commander. 
Other 
advantages on the Danube were formerly notified 
by the Divan on the first instant, to the Ambassa-
dors of the four powers. 
Details are not given, 
but are supposed to be the storming and capture 
of Karakal, with several skirmishes ot less moment. 
In Asia, the defeat of the Turks, under the weak 
generalship of Abdi Pasha, is confirmed, but Gen. 
Guyon has gone to the army with full powers, and 
the spirit of the Turks has revived now that the al-
lied fleets are in the Black Sea, with the reinforce-
ments whicli can be sent into Asia with safety. 
Gen. Schamyl had sent a messenger to the Porte, 
announcing that he was now prepared to act en-
ergetically against the Russians. 
Turkish losses 
in Asia are consequently brighter. 
Meanwhile 
negotiations are going on. 
The Sultan's proclamation is published, approv-
ing of the decision of the Grand Council to open 
negotiations on the footing proposed by the powers, 
Turkey to send a representative to a conference in 
a neutral city. 
Rumors of fresh successes by the Turkish army 
in Wallachia have alarmed the Vienna Cabinet. It 
is rumored that the Emperor of Austria was to 
leave for Warsaw immediately, in order to hai^ a 
conference with the Czar. 
It is confirmed that Persia has resumed negotia-
tions with Britain, and will not at present attack 
the Turks. 
The ostensible cause ol the difficulty 
with Britain was a claim of Abdoul Keerin, a 
British subject, against the Persian government. 
The infant princess of Spain had died suddenly. 
The Rev. Jas. C. Richmond complains that he is 
detained a prisoner by the Austrian police at 
Kechenet, Hungary, and calls on the United States 
for redress. 
Amoy had been captured by the Imperialists, 
who massacred one thousand inhabitants. 
From Persia we learn that the Affghan envoy 
left Teheran before the arrival of the new Russian 
plenipotentiary, with a threat that if Persia formed 
an alliance with Russia, the Affghans would in-
vade the Persian territory. 
The rumors of the Russian defeat at Kalafat are 
fully confirmed. 
WE see by the Court records, that the two coun-
terfeiters, White, of Buffalo, and Lawrence, of Ej-
ping, N. H., have been placed under ten thousand 
dollar bonds, each, for making and selling, imita-
tions of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 
This is right. 
If 
the law should protect men from imposition at all, 
it should certainly protect them from being im-
posed upon by a worthless counterfeit of such a 
medicine as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 
We can only 
complain that the punishment is not half enough. 
The villain who would for paltry gain, deliberately 
trifle with the health of his fellow-man, by taking 
from their lips the cup of hope, when they are 
sinking, and substituting a falsehood—an utter de-
lusion, should be punished at least as severely as 
he who counterfeits the coin of the country.— Green 
Co. Banner, Carrollton, 111. 
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1st. By th; plain declarations of the word. 2d. By 
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