Luke 9:28 30. 
J. V. IIIMES, Proprietor. 
"WE HIVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. S Chardon-street 
WHOLE NO. 652. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1853. 
VOLUME xi'. NO. 20. 
 
 
 
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Chronological Table 
OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE PAPACY, 
A. D. 192-Victor is chosen Pope, 
196-Victor disputed with the Eastern church-
es, about the time of observing Easter. They 
observed it on the 14th day of the first moon, 
while Rome observed it on the Sunday follow-
ing. Victor " took it upon him to impose the 
Roman custom on all the churches that followed 
the contrary practice, . which we may call 
the first essay of papal usurpation." The East 
refusing to comply, he " published bitter invec-
tives against all the churches of Asia, declared 
them cut off from his communion, sent letters of 
excommunication to their respective bishops."-
Bower's Hist. Popes, v. 1, p. 18. 
201-" A dreadful persecution was raised 
against the Christians by the Emperor Severus, 
and carried on with great cruelty in all of the 
Empire."-lb. p. 19. 
235- Maximinus began to persecute with 
great cruelty the Christians.-/b. p. 23. 
251-Cornelius is chosen Pope by the unani-
mous voice of the people and clergy. Novatian, 
a presbyter, who aspired to the same dignity, re-
fused to acknowledge him, made a schism in the 
Church of Rome, is excommunicated. lie gained 
himself a party, and became the first anti-Pope. 
-lb. p. 28. 
256-About this time " happened the famous 
contest about the baptism of heretics, which rent 
the whole church into two parties, the one head-
ed by St. Cyprian, and the other by Stephen," 
the Pope. The former held that " baptism ad-
ministered by heretics was nail and invalid;" 
and the Pope held the contrary.-lb. p. 31. 
256 (Sept. lst)-St. Cyprian summoned a 
great council of eighty-five bishops and a great 
number of presbyters and deacons, who met at 
Carthage, which decided in favor of baptizing 
heretics.-lb. p. 33. 
Deputies were sent to apprise the Pope of 
what was done by the council. Stephen refused 
to receive them, and " cut off from his commun-
ion all the bishops, who had assisted at the coun-
cil, and all those who held the same opinion."-
Ib. p. 33. 
257 (Aug. 23)-Stephen died ; and his suc-
cessor, Sixtus II., " who was a man of quite 
different temper, laid the storm, which his furi-
ous and ungovernable passion had raised."-
" We find no farther mention made of this dis-
pute till it was revived by the Donatists " (in A. 
D. 311).-Ib. pp. 34, 35. 
259-Dionysius is elected Pope. " During 
his Pontificate, the Goths broke into the Empire, 
and overran all Asia Minor."-lb. O. 35. 
" In the time of Dionysius was held the fa-
mous council of Antioch, which condemned and 
de?osed Paul, bishop of that city, who deile 
the distinction of the Divine Persons, and tee 
Divinity of Christ Paul having kept by 
force possession of the bishop's habitation, in de- 
fiance of the council, the Catholic bishops had 
recourse to the Emperor [Adrian], who, after 
hearing both parties with great. attention, ad- 
judged the house to him, who should be ac-
knowled by the Bishop of Rome and the other 
bishops of Italy. This Baronius interprets, as 
an open acknowledgment of the Pope's supremo-
cy."- Ib. p. 36. 
311-Melchiades was chosen Pope. A " re-
markable incident of' this Pontificate was the 
famous schism, formed in Africa against. Cmcil-
ianus, the Catholic Bishop of Carthage." A 
party declared him to be illegally elected, and 
separated themselves from his communion, and 
from the communion of all who communicated 
with him ; that is from the communion of the 
Catholic Church." The new party were called 
Donatists. " Such was the rise of the famous 
schism, which, for the space of three hundred 
years and upwards, occasioned great disturbances 
in the churches of Africa."-Ib. pp. 42, 43. 
312-The Emperor Constantine embraced the 
Christian religion, and issued an edict, " allow-
ing the Christians the free exercise of their 
religion, and likewise the liberty of building 
churches."-Ib. p. 41. 
313-" Peace was restored to the Church in 
the East, as well as in the West, after a most 
cruel and bloody persecution of ten years and 
four months."-lb. p. 42. 
313 (Oct. 2d)-The Council of Rome con-
vened by the Emperor, met in the Lateran pal- 
ace, and condemned the Donatists; but the 
schism was not healed. It continued, " rending 
the church into most furious parties and factions, 
for the space of near three hundred years."-Ib. 
p. 44. 
314-Sylvester was chosen Pope. " It was 
in the Pontificate of Sylvester and under the be- 
nign auspices of Constantine that the ecclesias- 
tical hierarchy was first formed and settled in 
the manner it continues to this day ; the new 
form. of government introduced by that prince 
into the State, serving as a model for the gov-
ernment of the Church."-Ib. p. 47. 
314 (Aug. lst)-By request of the Donatists, 
and the order of Constantine, the great Council 
of Arles was held, to hear charges from the 
Donatists against Caecilianus, a Catholic bishop 
of Africa, from whom they had separated. The 
Council declared him " innocent," and those 
who accused him were " cut off from the com- 
munion of the Church."-lb. p. 45. 
In this dispute between Cmcilianus and the 
Donatists, Osius, a Catholic bishop, " undertook 
with great zeal the defence of the former, and 
prevailed in the end upon Constantine to espouse 
his cause and declare against the Donatists, 
whom he thenceforth punished with great severi-
ty, taking their churches from them, and send-
ing the most obstinate among them into exile." 
lb. p. 69. 
Osius was the author of the first Christian 
persecution. For it was be who first stirred up 
Constantine against the Donatists; many of 
whom were sent into exile, and some even sen-
tenced to death, nay, and led to execution."-
lb. p. 72. 
324-Constantine, without any apparent rea-
son removed the seat of his government kona 
Rome to Constantinople. 
325-The first General or oecumenical coun-
cil held in the church, was convened by the Em- 
peror " at p. 47. 
At this council, Arianism is condemned, and 
the Nicene creed framed. 
341-" The Arian faction, headed by Ruse-
bins, Bishop of Nicomedia," requested a council, 
to depose Athanasius. The Pope called one at 
Rome in June, consisting of fifty bishops, who 
unanimously acquitted Athanasius. The Euse-
bians, instead of going to Rome, held a council 
at Antioch, and deposed him."-lb. p. 55. 
347-A numerous council met at Sardica, in 
Dacia. It was called by the Emperor Con-
stans, at the request of the Pope. " The orient-
als came, but withdrew soon after, upon the 
council's refusing to exclude Athanasius, and 
some others, whom they had condemned." Those 
bishops were declared innocent ; and those elect-
ed in their places deposed and cut off from com-
munion with the Catholic Church.-lb. p. 57. 
"Athanasius, though declared innocent, did 
not think it advisable to return to his see," hav-
ing learned that the Emperor Constantius had 
issued an order for his death.-Ib. p. 58. 
349-Constantius chose rather to recall Atha-
nasius, and the other exiled bishops, than en-
gage in a civil war, with which he was threat-
ened by his brother Constans, if he did not.-lb. 
p. 58. 
The Pope " Julius, soon after, had the satis-
faction of receiving a solemn retraction made by 
Uracius, Bishop of Singidumim, and Valens, 
Bishop of Mursus, two of Athanasius' most in-
veterate enemies, publicly owning, that whatever 
they had said or written against him was utterly 
thlse, groundless, and invented out of pure mal-
ice : at the same time they embraced his com-
munion, and anathematized the heresy of Arius, 
and all who held or defended his tenets."-/b. 
p. 58.. 
352-Liberius, is chosen Bishop of Rome. 
" Constans, the great support of the Orthodox 
party, being murdered, and Constantius upon 
the point of becoming master of Rome," the 
Arians again complain of Athanasius. The 
Pope " wanted to ingratiate himself with the 
Arians, and by their means with the Emperor ; 
and therefore, without any regard to the testi-
mony of the Orthodox bishops, or the known in- 
nocence of the oppressed Athanasius, he wrote to 
the Eusebians, acquainting them that he com-
municated with them; but as to Athanasius, he 
had cut him off from his communion, and from 
the church."-lb. p. 60. 
" Constantius, now in quiet possession of the 
whole Empire by the death of Magnentius, . . 
summoned a council to meet at Arles." It was 
composed chiefly of Arians ; and the great point 
was to get the Italian bishops to condemn Atha- 
nasius. They not consenting, " an edict was is- 
sued by the Emperor, sentencing all those to 
exile who should refuse to sign " his condemna- 
tion. The Pope's legates signed it.-Ib. p. 60. 
355-The Pope Liberius wrote to the Empe-
ror, defending Athanasius, and requests a new 
council, which was assembled at Milan-con-
sisting of three hundred Western, and very few 
Eastern bishops. The most of them condemned 
Athanasius, and those who refused, were exiled 
by the Emperor.-lb. p. 61. 
The Pope, refusing to unite in that condem-
nation, was, by the command of the Emperor, 
seized in the night-tine, and conveyed a prisoner 
to Milan, where the court. then resided. Not 
submitting to the Emperor, he was banished to 
Bercea in Thrace.-lb. p. 62. 
357-The Emperor Constantius visited Rome, 
when, being importuned by the ladies for the re- 
turn of their bishop, he restored the Pope to his 
see, who complied with the Emperor's wishes, 
condemned Athanasius, and signed the Semi-
Arian heresy.-lb. p. 63-65. 
358-The Emperor called a council at Nico-
media. While the bishops were on the road 
there, the city was utterly destroyed by an earth-
quake on the 24th of Aug., which prevented the 
meeting of the council.-lb. p. 72. 
359 (May 23d)-The Emperor, with " a small 
number of Arian, and Semi-Arian bishops," met 
at Sirrnium to draw up a new confession of faith. 
" After a debate which lasted a whole day, they 
at length agreed to suppress the word consub-
stantial," which was in the old confession of 
faith, " and introduce the word like in its room ; 
so that the Son was no more to be said consub-
stantial, but like to the Father in all things ; 
the three last words Constantius added, and, by 
obliging all who were present to sign them, de-
feated, say the Semi-Arians, the wicked designs 
of the pure Arians. However, excepting those 
words, the whole confession was thought to favor 
their doctrine ; whence the Emperor, well satis-
fied with the like in all things, OBLIGED them to 
sign it."-Th. p. 73. 
359 (July 21st)-The Emperor assembled two 
councils, one in the east, and the other in the 
west. The former met at Seleucia ; and the 
latter at Rimini-numbering over four hundred 
bishops. At the western council two Arian 
bishops appeared with the Sirmian confession, 
which being read, the council rejected it, and 
condemned all heretics in general and the Arians 
in particular.-Ib. pp. 73, 74. 
360-The Arians prevailed on Constantius to 
issue " an order, which was published through-
out the Empire, commanding all bishops to sign 
the Sirmiau confession, on pain of forfeiting their 
dignity, .and being sent into exile. This order 
was executed with the utmost rigor in all the 
provinces of the Empire, and very few were 
found, who did not sign with their hands, what 
they condemned in tkeir hearts. Many who till 
then had been thought invincible were overcome, 
and complied with the times; arid such as did 
not were driven, without distinction, from their 
sees, into exile."-lb. p. 77. 
360-Ulphilas, the bishop and apostle to the 
Goths, had extended the doctrines of Rome 
among that barbarous people; but the barbari-
ans, in embracing Christianity, rejected the doc-
trine of the Trinity, and embraced the views of 
Arian, 
" The apostle of the Goths subscribed the 
creed of Rimini ; professed with freedom, and 
perhaps with sincerity, that the SON was no 
equal, or consubstantial to the FATHER; com-
municated these errors to the clergy and people ; 
and infected the Barbaric world with a heresy, 
which the great Theodosius proscribed and ex-
tinguished among the Romans."-Gibbon, v. 3. 
p. 397. 
361---Constantius died, and was succeeded 
by " Julian, surnamed the apostate, who immedi-
ately recalled all those who had been banished 
by Constantius on account of their religion."-
Bower, v. 1, p. 77. 
363-Julian attempts the rebuilding of the 
temple at Jerusalem, but is frustrated. 
366-Damasus is elected Pope, after a close 
contest with Ursinus. It is affirmed that " the 
doors of the Basilica were burnt, and that the 
roof was untiled ; that Damasus marched at the 
head of his own clergy, grave-diggers, chariot-
eers, and hired gladiators; that none of his 
party were killed, but that one hundred and six-
ty dead bodies were found."-Jerom in Chron., 
p. 186. 
" They contended with the rage of party ; the 
quarrel was maintained by the wounds and death 
of their followers ; and the prefect., unable to 
resist or to appease the tumult, was constrained, 
by superior violence to retire into the suburbs. 
Damasus prevailed ; the well-disputed victory 
remained on the side of his faction ; one hundred 
and thirty-seven dead bodies, were found in the 
Basilica of Sicinius, where the Christians hold 
their religious assemblies; and it was long be-
fore the angry minds of the people resumed their 
accustomed tranquillity."-Gibbon, v. 2, p. 94. 
366 (Oct.)-Ursinus was banished by the pre-
fect Juventius. 
At this time, Marcellinus, a heathen writer, 
says of " the pomp attending that dignity," i.e., 
of the papal office, that the popes " surpass the 
Emperors themselves in the splendor and mag-
nificence of their entertainments."-Bower, v. 1, 
p. 85. 
367-The Emperor Valentinian gave leave to 
Ursinus to return to Rome, which he did on the 
15th of Sept., " in a kind of triumph, being met 
and received with loud acclamations by those of 
his party."-Ib. p. 86. 
367 (Nov, 16th)-Ursinus was again ban-
ished, by order of the Emperor, " with seven of 
his followers, who were all confined to different 
places in Gaul, where they continued till the 
year 371."-Ib. p. 86. 
" The schism of Damasus and Ursinus was 
extinguished by the exile of the latter ; and the 
wisdom of the prefect Prxtextatus restored the 
tranquillity of the city."-Gibbon, v. 2, p. 94. 
372-" A second step toward the papal su-
premacy, was a law enacted in the year 372, by 
the Emperor Valentinian, which favored ex-
tremely the rise and ambition of the Bishops of 
Rome, by empowering them to examine and 
judge other bishops."-Dowling's Hist. Rome, 
p. 40. 
This law was given, " that. religious and 
ecclesiastical disputes might not be decided by 
profane or secular judges, but by a Pontiff of 
the same religion as his colleagues."-Bower's 
Hist. Popes, p. 86. Cod. Theod. ap. p. 80. 
" New disturbances being raised in Rome by 
the party of Ursinus, the city was upon the point 
of becoming again the scene of civil war. Sim-
plicius, then Vicar of Rome, at the request of 
Damasus [the Pope], gave the Emperor immedi-
ate notice of the approaching danger ; and the 
Emperor in answer to his letter sent him a re-
script, commanding all those who in contempt 
of religion, held or frequented unlawful assem-
blies, to be banished one hundred miles from 
Rome, that their obstinacy might hurt none but 
themselves.' Thus for the present a stop was put 
to the disorders that began to reign in the city." 
Bower, v. 1, p. 93. 
" Damasus, having thus, in the end, by the 
favor of the Emperors, entirely got the better of 
the adverse party, and secured his dignity, he 
turned
ib!p.8 h7.is thoughts to ecclesiastical matters."- 
 
 
 
362 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
sentatives of the powers, actuated by the sincere 
intention of preventing the occupation of those 
provinces, urged upon the Sublime Porte the ne-
cessity of framing a draft note occupying a mid-
dle place between the draft note of the Sublime 
Porte and that of Prince Mensehikoff. More 
lately the representatives of the powers confi-
dently communicated different schemes of ar-
rangement to the Sublime Porte. None of these 
latter responded to the views of' the imperial 
government; and the Ottoman cabinet was on 
the point of entering into negotiations with the 
representatives of the powers on the basis of a 
project drawn up by itself in conformity with 
these suggestions. It was at this moment that 
news of the .passage of' the Pruth by the Rus-
sians arrived, a fhct which changed the face of 
the whole que3tion. The draft note proposed by 
the Sublime Porte was then set aside, and the 
cabinets were requested to express their view`s of 
this violation of the treaties after the protest of 
the Sublime Porte, On the one hand, the Otto-
man cabinet had to wait for their replies, and 
on the other it drew up, at the suggestion of the 
representatives of the powers, a project of ar-
rangements, which was sent to Vienna." 
The manifesto says that since the Russian cabi-
net has not been content with the assurances of-
fered, since the benevolent efforts of the Four 
Powers have proved fruitless, and since the 
Sublime Porte cannot longer tolerate the exist-
ing state of things, or the prolongation of the 
occupation of the principalities, the Ottoman 
cabinet finds itself obliged to declare war, and 
that it has given instructions to Omer Pacha to 
demand from Prince Gortschakoff the evacua-
tion of the principalities, and to commence hos-
tilities if, after a delay of fifteen days from the 
arrival of his despatch at the Russian head-
quarters, an answer in the negative should be 
returned. 
The declaration of war, however, is accompa-
nied by the considerate and mild qualifications, 
which conclude the manifesto : 
" It is distinctly understood that should the 
reply of Prince Gortschakoff be negative, the 
Russian agents are to quit the Ottoman states, 
and that the commercial relations of the respec-
tive subjects of the two governments shall be 
broken off. 
" At the same time the Sublime Porte will 
not consider it just to lay an embargo upon Rus-
sian merchant vessels, as has been the practice. 
Consequently they will be warned to resort either 
to the Black Sea or to the Mediterranean Sea, 
as they shall think fit, within a term that shall 
hereafter be fixed. Moreover, the Ottoman 
government, being unwilling to place hindrances 
in the way of commercial intercourse between 
the subjects of friendly powers, will, during the 
war, leave the straits open to their mercantile 
marine." 
The publication of this manifesto places be-
yond doubt the fact that war has been declared 
against Russia, but that hostilities were not to 
commence if within the space of 15 days the 
Russian troops evacuated the principalities. 
The 15 days following this peremptory summons 
expire on the 25th of October. Of course the 
Czar will not yield to such a summons. Indeed, 
advises were received at Vienna on the 17th that 
Prince Gortschakoff has sent a reply to the de-
mand, to the efect that he is neither authorized 
to commence hostilities, nor to conclude peace, 
nor to evacuate the principalities. The Cologne 
Gazette also publishes a telegraphic despatch 
from Vienna, dated 16th, stating that Prince 
Gortschakoff had answered Omer Paella's de-
mand in the negative, as he had no orders to 
evacuate the principalities. The Gazette adds 
that " hostilities will not necessarily begin even 
yet, as the Russian commander-in-chief, in refer-
ence .to the period fixed by Omer Pacha, meant 
that he must receive instructions from St. Pe-
tersburg." 
A Paris letter of Oct. 16, 6 an m., says :— 
It is asserted that an important despatch has 
been received from St. Petersburg. The Czar, 
who had promised to accept any proposals the 
mediating powers might make, has, on receiv-
ing the news of the Turkish declaration of war, 
declared that he retracts all his concessions. 
He added that nothing remained now but war to 
the knife." 
The above, though not improbable. requires 
authentication. It does not appear that any ef-
fective measures are being taken to avert a col-
lision, although the Cologne Gazette, under date 
of Berlin, 12th, says—" Diplomatists are now 
engaged in drawing out projects of arrangement 
of the Eastern question, which are to serve as 
the basis of a new conference at Vienna." 
The exhaustion of the finances at Constanti-
nople is described as having reached a height 
previously unheard of. Six-eights of the taxes 
for the ensuing year have been already col-
lected. The pecuniary sacrifices that have al-
ready been made by private individuals, by the 
ulemas, and many of the priesthood were nearly 
exhausted, and the Porte was printing kairnes 
(bank notes) day and night, which, after the 1st 
of October, were to be current in all payments 
by and to the State. 
" A letter from Trebizond of the 21st nit., ; Those who disobey and profane his name seldom 
Russia and Turkey. 
THE following is the manifesto of the Ottoman 
Government, intimating the course it intends to 
pursue towards Russia, and assigning the reasons 
for adopting it. It is reported, says the London 
News, that the term within which hostilities must 
commence, unless the principalities are previ-
ously evacuated by Russia, has been intimated 
by the Turkish to the Russian commander-in-
chief in a brief and soldier-like letter—as cour-
teous and as stern as the bow of a duellist to his 
antagonist on taking up his ground : 
The manifesto of the Sublime Porte remarks 
in the outset that the principal points to which 
the government of his Majesty the Sultan desires 
to give prominence are these : That from the very 
beginning, his conduct has furnished no motive 
of quarrel, and that, animated with the desire of 
preserving peace, he has acted with a remarkable 
spirit of moderation and conciliation. 
It remarks that even if Russia had a subject 
of complaint in relation to the holy places, she 
ought not to have raised pretensions which the 
object .of her complaints could not sustain, and 
should not have taken measures of intimidation 
on the subject of a question which might have 
been settled amicably between the two powers. 
The question of the holy places, says the mani-
festo, was settled to the satisfaction of all parties, 
and the Sublime Porte had testified .a favorable 
disposition on the subject of the guarantees 
demanded. Was it not, then, seeking a pretext 
for a quarrel, to insist upon, and endeavor by 
threats.and warlike measures, as Russia had done, 
to enforce the question of the privileges of the 
Greek Church, granted by the Ottoman govern-
ment—privileges which the. government believed 
its honor, its dignity, and its sovereign power 
were concerned in maintaining, and on the subject 
of which it could neither admit the interference 
nor the surveillance of any government ? 
In relation to the compromise measures, the 
proclamation says : 
" As to the non-adoption of the Vienna note 
in its pure and simple form by the Sublime Porte, 
it is to be remarked that this project, although 
not in every point conformed to the note of Prince 
Menschikoff, and while containing, it is true, in 
its composition, some of the paragraphs of the 
draft note of the Sublime Porte, is not as a whole, 
whether in letter or spirit, essentially different 
from that of Prince IVIenschikoff. * * * * * 
" It must.be remarked, however, that while 
we have still before our eyes a strife of religious 
privileges raised by Russia, which seeks to base 
its claims on a paragraph so clear, and so precise 
in the treaty of Kainardji ; which wishes to 
insert in a diplomatic document the paragraph 
concerning the active solicitude of the Emperor 
of Russia for the maintenance in the states of 
the Sublime Porte of religious immunities and 
privileges which were granted to the Greek rite by 
the Ottoman emperors before Russia so much as 
existed as an empire, to leave in a dark and 
doubtful state the absence of all relation between 
these privileges and the treaty of Kutschuk 
Kainardji, to employ in favor of a great com-
munity of subjects of the Sublime Porte profess-
ing the Greek religion expressions which might 
make allusion to treaties concluded with France 
and Austria relative to the French and Latin 
religions—this would be to incur the risk of 
placing in the hands of Russia vague and obscure 
paragraphs, some of which are contrary to the 
reality of facts, and would offer to Russia a solid 
pretext for her pretensions to a religious surveil-
ance and protectorate—pretensions which that 
power would attempt to produce, affirming that 
they are not derogatory to the sovereignty and in-
dependence of the Sublime Porte. 
" If the government of his Majesty the Sultan 
has judged it necessary to require that assurances 
should be given, even if the modifications which 
it introduced by it into the Vienna note were 
adopted, how in conscience could it be tranquil 
if the note were to be retained in its integrity, 
and without modification ? The Sublime Porte, 
in accepting that which it has declared to all the 
world it could not admit without being compelled 
thereto, would compromise its dignity, in view of 
the other powers, would sacrifice its honor in 
the eyes of its own subjects, and would commit 
a mental and moral suicide. 
" Although the refusal of Russia to accord 
the modifications required by the Sublime Porte 
has been based on a question of honor, it cannot 
be denied that the ground of that refusal was 
simply and solely its desire not to allow explicit 
terms to replace vague expressions which might 
at some future time furnish it with a pretext for 
intermeddling. Such conduct, therefore, compels 
the Sublime Porte to persist on its part in with-
holding its adhesion." 
It being alleged that the haste with which the 
Vienna note was drawn up resulted from the 
backwardness of the Sublime Porte to proposo 
an arrangement, the government of the Sultan 
proceeds to justify itself by stating the follow-
ing facts : 
" Before the entrance of the Russian troops 
into the two Principalities, some of the repre- 
states that the fortifications, the citadel, and all 
the works of defence of that place have just 
been armed in a very formidable manner, and 
that an attack from the Russians on the side of 
the Black Sea was not to be feared. The squad-
ron which has been demanded for the protec-
tion of the coast, was every day expected from 
Constantinople. The Turkish army on that im-
portant point of Asia Minor is in excellent con-
dition, very numerous, and well commanded. 
The Russian forces, on the contrary, are repre-
sented as inferior in their ensemble, and not nu-
merous on the western frontier, and almost en-
tirely concentrated in Georgia and Circassia, and 
it was in order to demand reinforcements that 
the military governor of the Caucasian prov-
inces, whose head quarters are at Tiflis, sent one 
of the officers of his staff to St. Petersburg. 
" A letter from Constantinople of the 1st 
instant contains the following details, not yet 
published Selim Pacha, who commands a 
corps d' armee, of which the head quarters are 
at Erzeroum, has received a reinforcement of 
20,000 men, and his position was excellent. 
The Servian government had offered the Porte 
an auxiliary of 20,000 men, and the • Shah of 
Persia had officially declared his neutrality.' " 
Odessa, Oct. 3.—To-day the Russian fleet ar-
rived at this port from Sebastopol, with the view, 
as it is believed, of embarking troops for Re-
doutkale. 
The Chinese Rebellion. 
REV. DR. BACON, of New Haven, in th course_ 
of some remarks at the meeting of the A. B. C. 
F. M., stated that the author of that " Trimetri-
cal Classic," the sacred book of the Chinese reb-
els, was written by a pastor of a little home mis-
sionary church in Wisconsin—Rev. Ira Tracy, 
a former missionary of the board in China. 
The Hebrew Observer (London) says, the Ten 
Commandments of the insurgents, are arranged 
as follows : 
Once more is the vivifying power of Judaism 
gloriously manifesting itself. Judaism, which, 
in the religions of Christians and Mohammedans 
in past centuries, sent forth beneficent emissaries 
to a benighted world, has now deputed the 
Prince of Peace,' in the densely-populated 
plains of China, to reclaim degraded millions 
from brutalizing idolatry and debased morality. 
We have before us several extracts from the re-
ligious works used by the so-called Chinese reb-
els, portions of which we re-produce. When 
our readers have perused them, we feel assured 
that they will consider with us the promised re-
generation of China as another triumph achieved 
by the code promulgated amidst the thunders of 
Sinai." 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
The Ten Celestial Commands, which are to be 
constantly observed : 
THE FIRST COMMAND—Thou shalt honor and 
worship the great God. 
The great God is the universal Father of all 
men, in every nation under heaven. Every man 
is produced and nourished by him ; every man is 
also protected by him ; every man ought, there-
fore, morning and evening, to honor and worship 
him, with acknowledgments of his goodness. It 
is a common saying, that Heaven produces, 
nourishes, and protects men. Also, that being 
provided with food we must not deceive Heaven. 
Therefore whoever does not worship the great 
God, breaks the commands of Heaven. 
The hymn says : 
Imperial Heaven, the Supreme God, is the true 
spirit (God) ; 
Worship him every morning and evening, and you 
will he taken up ; 
You ought deeply to consider the ten celestial com-
mands, 
And not by your foolishness obscure the right prin-
ciples of nature. 
THE SECOND COMMAND—Thou shalt not wor-
ship corrupt spirits (gods). 
The great God says :—Thou shalt not have 
other spirits (gods) beside me. Therefore all 
besides the great God are corrupt spirits (gods), 
deceiving and destroying mankind ; they must 
on no account be worshipped ; whoever worships 
the whole class of corrupt spirits (gods), offends 
against the commands of Heaven. 
The hymn says : 
Corrupt devils very easily delude the souls of men ; 
if you perversely believe in them, you will at last 
go down to hell. 
We exhort you all, brave people, to awaken from 
And 
 
early
your l e tnhlaarkgey 
'your peace with your exalted 
Heavenly Father. 
THE THIRD COMMAND—Thou shalt not take the 
name of the great God in vain. 
The name of the great God is Jehovah, which 
men must not take in vain.• Whoever takes 
God's name in vain, and rails against Heaven, 
offends against this command. 
The hymn says : 
Our exalted Heavenly Father is infinitely honora-
ble : 
THE SEVENTH COMMAND—Thou shalt not com-
mit adultery, or any thing unclean. 
All the men in the world are brethren, and 
all the women in the world are sisters. Among 
the sons and daughters of the celestial hall the 
males are on one side and the females on the 
other, and are not allowed to intermix. Should 
either men or women practice lewdness, they are 
considered outcasts, as having offended against 
one of the chief commands of Heaven. The 
casting of amorous glances, the harboring of 
lustful imaginations, the smoking of foreign to-
bacco (opium), or the singing of libidinous songs, 
must all be considered as breaches of this com-
mand. 
The hymn says : 
Lust and lewdness constitute the chief transgres-
sion ; 
Those who practice it become outcasts, and are the 
objects of pity. 
If you wish to enjoy the substantial happiness of 
Heaven, 
It is necessary to deny yourself and earnestly cul-
tivate virtue. 
THE EIGHTH COMMAND— Thou shalt not rob or 
steal. 
Riches and poverty are determined by the 
great God, but whosoever robs or plunders the 
property of others, transgresses the command. 
The hymn says : 
Rest contented with your station, however poor, 
and do not steal ; 
Robbery and violence are low and abandoned prac-
tices ; 
Those who injure others really injure themselves. 
Let the noble-minded among you immediately re-
form. 
THE NINTH COMMAND—Thou shalt not utter 
falsehood. 
All those ,who tell lies, and indulge in devil-
ish deceits, with every kind of coarse and aban-
doned talk, offend against this command. 
The hymn says : 
Lying discourse and unfounded stories must all be 
abandoned ; 
Deceitful and wicked words are offences against 
Heaven. 
Much talk will in the end bring evil on the speak-
ers; 
It is then much hotter to be cautious, and regulate 
one's own mind. 
TILE TENTH COMMAND—Thou shalt not conceive 
covetous. desires. 
When a man looks upon the beauty of ano-
ther's wife or daughters with covetous desires, 
or when he regards the elegance of another 
man's possessions with covetous desires, or when 
he engages in gambling, he offends against this 
command. 
The hymn says : 
In your daily conduct do not harbor covetous de-• 
sires : 
When involved in the sea of lust, the consequences 
are very serious ; 
The above injunctions were handed down on Mount 
Sinai, 
And to this day the celestial commands retain all 
their force. 
come to a good end. 
If unacquainted with the true doctrine, you should 
be on your guard. 
For those who wantonly blaspheme involve them-
selves in endless crime. 
THE FOURTH COMMAND—On the seventh day, 
the day of worship, you should praise the great 
God for his goodness. 
In the beginning, file great God made heaven 
and earth, land and sea, men and things, in six 
days, and having finished his works on the 
seventh day, he called it the day of rest (or 
Sabbath), therefore all the men of the world, 
who enjoy the blessing of the great God, should 
on every seventh day specially reverence and 
worship the great God, and praise him for his 
goodness. 
The hymn says : 
All the happiness in the world comes from Heaven. 
It is therefore reasonable that •men should give 
thanks and sing ! 
At the daily morning and evening meal there should 
be thanksgiving, 
But on the seventh day, the worship should be more 
intense. 
THE FIFTH COMMAND—Thou shalt honor thy 
father and thy mother, that thy days may be 
prolonged. Whoever disobeys his parents breaks 
this command. 
The hymn says :. 
History records that Shun honored his parents to, 
the end of his days, 
Causing them to experience the intensest pleasure 
and delight ; 
August Heaven will abundantly reward all who 
act thus, 
And do not disappoint the expectation of the au-
thors of their being. 
THE SIXTH COMMAND—Thou shalt not kill or 
injure men. 
The hymn says : 
The whole world is one family, and all men are 
brethren ; 
How can they be permitted to kill and destroy one 
another 
The outward form and the inward principles are 
both conferred by Heaven : 
Allow every one, then, to enjoy the ease and com-
fort which he desires. 
of its ravages are given, It is also attended by 
the usual concomitants of desperation and reck-
less crime. Robberies and murders are things of 
every day occurrence. These places were recent-
ly assailed and overrun by the British, and their 
trade and their crops destroyed. 
A PROMISE. 
A PROMISE should be given with caution and 
kept with care-. A promise should be made by 
the heart and remembered by the head. A promise 
is the offspring of the intention, and should be 
nurtured by recollection. A promise and its 
performance should, like the scales of a true 
balance, always present a mutual adjustment. 
A promise delayed is justice deferred. A promise 
neglected is an untruth told. A promise attend-
ed to is a debt settled. 
No MAN is a gentleman, who, without provo-
cation, would treat with incivility the humblest 
of his species. It is a vulgarity for which no 
accomplishments or dress can ever atone. Show 
me the man who desires to make every one happy 
around him, and whose greatest solicitude is 
never to give just cause of offence to any one, 
and I will show you a gentleman by nature and 
practice—although he may never have worn a 
suit of broadcloth, or ever have heard of a 
lexicon. 
Persecution for Preaching Against 
Romanism. 
IT is a fact, which has been known for at least 
three centuries, that Protestantism can persecute 
when it has the power, as well as Popery. But 
again and again has it been demonstrated that 
while with Popery persecution is a principle, 
with Protestantism it is an accident ; while with 
Popery it is the rule, with Protestantism it is 
the exception; and not only so, but it is against 
the rule, against the theory, against the spirit, 
and against the practice of the Gospel. The 
Romish Church is consistent in being a persecut-
ing church, but the Protestant Church is incon-
sistent. The Romish Church makes its bishops, 
in their consecrating oath, solemnly swear that 
they will, to the utmost of their power, PERSE-
CUTE and oppose all heretics. The Romish gos-
pel is a persecuting gospel. 
What then are the circumstances under which 
Protestantism can, will, or ever does, prosecute 
or persecute? And what is the kind of Prot-
estantism, that, in imitation of the Romish 
Church, undertakes this mission ? There may 
be a Christian, and there may be an unchristian 
Protestantism, an erroneous and an orthodox 
Protestantism, an infidel and a believing Prot-
estantism, an established and a voluntary Prot-
estantism, a prelatical and a New Testament 
Protestantism. At the present time, in Prus-
sia, there seems to be, dominant and furious, 
a Protesta.nsism of the establishment, which hat-
ing all direct Gospel truth,takes sides with the 
Romish Church, and is ready to prosecute and 
persecute those pastors, even of the Established 
Church, who dare to utter one word against the 
errors of Romanism. This is the present state 
of religious freedom, even in Prussia, thanks 'to 
the influence of the Jesuits. 
The facts in the case are these. A law has 
been passed in Prussia, absurd and iniquitotis, 
under any pretence of religious liberty, a penal 
law which says, " Whosoever blasphemes God, 
either in word, writing, or in any other way, or 
derides one of the Christian churches, or a 're-
ligious party possessing corporate rights, or the 
subjects of their veneration, doctrines, organiza-
tion, or customs, or refers to them in a way 
which exposes them to hatred or contempt, shall 
be punished with imprisonment not to exceed 
three years." 
Well, on the ground of the above-mentioned 
law, Pastor Heinrich, of Langerfold, a Protest-
ant clergyman of Prussia, a Christian, Orthodox 
Protestant, has been arraigned, and tried, and 
condemned, for preaching in his own pulpit a 
sermon, in which the prominent .characteristic 
differences between the Protestant and Romish 
churches were tried by the Word of God ! The 
sermon was preached by Pastor Heinrich on 
occasion of the anniversary of the Reformation, 
and the text chosen was in the 119th Psalm, 
105th verse :—" T hy Word is a lamp unto my 
feet, and as a light unto my. path." After 
preaching the sermon, Pastor Heinrich printed 
it, in order to give the avails for the purchase of 
a new organ in his parish church. 
Immediately the Romish power, with the law, 
was down upon him. " A religious party pos-
sessing corporate rights," claimed to have been 
attacked and libeled ; " one of the Christian 
churches " complained of its doctrines and cus-
toms having been brought into contempt; and 
forthwith the grasp of the secular authority as 
in Rome's palmiest days was laid upon the Pas-
tor Heinrich, and he is brought before the crimi-
nal court of Hagen in Westphalia to stand trial 
for breaking the law in using expressions and 
arguments in his sermon adapted to bring into 
contempt the doctrine and practices of the Rom- 
ish Church. The indictment against him speci-
fied fourteen distinct counts, founded upon four-
teen selected passages in Pastor Heinrich's ser-
mon. 
Notwithstanding this _defence, cogent and ir-
resistible, Pastor Heinrich, in defiance of all 
right, and in utter disregard of all the claims of 
religious liberty, was condemned by the civil 
authority, at the complaint and demand of the 
Romish Church. A severe imprisonment the 
Court did riot dare to impose, but only fourteen 
days for the minister, and seven days for the 
printer; but it stands as a disgraceful fact, il-
lustrative of civil and religious liberty in Prus-
sia in the year 1853, that a Protestant pastor of 
the Church of Christ in that country commits a 
crime against the penal law, when he preaches 
on the subject of Popery in accordance with the 
Word of God by which he is bound, and the 
Confession of Faith to which he has promised to 
be faithful. 
But this is not all. The Romish power is 
busy,.and quite successful, with the same game, 
in other places. The Roman Catholic General 
Radowicz, having published a work attacking 
the Protestant Church, Pastor Beischlax Treves 
came out in answer to it ; but because of what 
he had to say of Popery in that defence of Prot-
testantism, he was arraigned for violation of the 
law, condemned and sentenced to four weeks' 
imprisonment. This was no longer ago than the 
month of February ; and thus it is, that " where 
Jesuits rule colleges, and pervert or blind cabi-
nets, the preachers and propagators of error are 
allowed license without bound, and the ministers 
of truth are held down in silence,_ so that there 
is persecution as inquisitorial and absolute as in 
Madrid or in Rome." 
Independent. 
India and China. 
TILE overland mail brings files of papers from 
Bombay to the 12th of September, and Hong 
Kong to the 24th of August. It appears by the 
following extract of a letter from the Bombay 
correspondent of the London Times, that the 
newly a.cquired territory of the British is any 
thing but a paradise : 
" The accounts from Burmah are mcst un-
satisfa ctory,—the famine though abating, is still 
very severely felt; the troops are sickly and 
disgusted; and the country everywhere out of 
sight of our posts is literally possessed by large 
bands of robbers, who, there is too much reason 
to believe, are instigated by the government of 
Ava, with the object of laying waste our new 
territory, and compelling its inhabitants to emi-
grate into Burmah proper." 
Our advises from China are somewhat indefi-
nate, yet they all agree as to the successful pro-
gress of the insurgents northward. The following 
extracts we copy from our foreign papers : 
" It was reported there had been hard fighting 
in the Honan province ; but the rebels forced 
their way through without apparently sustaining 
any severe reverses, and had crossed the Yellow 
River into Shantung province, the capital of 
which, Tsi-nanfoo, it is given cut, had fallen. 
They were pushing on towards Pekin in great 
force, and it was the current belief that a division 
of the rebels was not far from that capital, but 
the vague reports of its having been taken seem 
premature. Accounts had arrived that the Yel-
low River had burst its embankment at the same 
place where it was repaired last year, and which 
would require a million of dollars to restore. 
" The insurgents retain Nankin and Chin-kiang-
foo. At the latter place there had been a smart 
engagement with the imperialists, in which the 
latter were completely routed and obliged to 
retire, the insurgents taking a place towards 
Soochan, which caused great consternation in 
that city, and which would no doubt shortly be 
obliged to submit. In Kwangsi, the insurgents 
held the Poyang Lake and the principal outlets, 
and are advancing south towards the Canton 
province, and the imperial government are active 
in fortifying the Meilin Pass, the route they 
must take. 
" Canton remains quiet, but there are indica-
tions of uneasiness, and the greatest precautions 
are taken by the mandarins to prevent surprise ; 
but, should Pekin fall, it will no doubt be a 
signal for an immediate rise and outbreak, which 
must put a stop to trade for some time. The 
Emperor, it is said, has called on the Mongol 
princes to assist him, and they have promised 
troops to meet the rebels. 
" At Foochow all was pretty quiet on the 4th 
instant, owing to the stringent measures adopted 
by the authorities. 
" Amoy, up to the 10th instant, remained in 
possession of the rebels, but the imperialists 
were to make another effort to retake it in a few 
days. In an attempt to take the imperial fleet, 
the rebels were unsuccessful, and very unfortu-
nate in having several of their vessels driven on 
the mandarins' war junks and taken, and all on 
board were beheaded. The place had been visited 
by a severe typhoon, causing great damage to 
houses and property." 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Contest.--1. Kings 18 22— fc0. 
THE silence of the people at his appeal was 
no surprise to Elijah. He knew them and their 
state too well. He had calculated on it, and 
was prepared for it.—He was prepared, by one 
grand demonstration, to force upon them the 
conviction of the impotency of their idol, and 
to compel them to acknowledge the supremacy 
of Jehovah. This was probably deemed by him 
to be necessary, before he could be justified in 
interceding for them, that they might have rain, 
with the God whom they had as yet refused to 
acknowledge. What right had they to expect 
favors from Him whose authority they had disa-
vowed, and whose greatness they had insulted? 
No ; they must be brought to a more suitable 
state of mind before he could pray the Lord to 
open wide that hand, in which the seasonable 
rains had been so long shut up. 
Elijah proposed a trial which should demon-
strate to their senses the proportion between the 
claims of Jehovah and of Baal. He desired 
that two bullocks should be provided—one for 
him, and one for the priests of Baal. These 
they were to lay out upon two altars for sacri-
fice, in the usual manner ; but that, instead of 
applying fire to their offerings, each party should 
supplicate their God, and the God that answered 
by sending fire to consume the victim, should be 
acknowledged as the Almighty Lord. To show 
that the human disadvantage was all on his side, 
the prophet touchingly alluded to the dispropor-
tion of their numbers: " I, even I only, remain 
a prophet of Jehovah; but Baal's prophets are 
fbur hundred and fifty men." 
The proposal was altogether so fair and unob-
jectionable, that the people assented to it with 
such entire satisfaction, that the Baalite priests, 
whatever may have been their misgivings, could 
not with any credit refuse to abide by this or-
deal. Indeed, they could have done so with the 
less grace, seeing that, as we have shown, their 
Baal was no other than the sun, whence it 
should have been very much in his line thus to 
supply them with the fire they wanted for his 
service. Remembering what we have read re-
soect:ng the skill of the ancient he ithen priests, 
in the arts of producing sudden combustion by 
their skill in pyrotechnics, one almost shudders 
at the danger of the trial proposed; for, if the 
priests had been able, by some secret art or con-
trivance, to kindle the fire upon the altar, the 
result would have been deeemed conclusive by 
the people in favor of Baal. But they did not 
possess such arts, or from the suddenness of 
their being called on for this trial, off their own 
ground, and watched by thousands of vigilant 
eyes, were unable to exercise them. 
They, however, set to work with the reality or 
show of great courage and vigor. They built 
their altar, they laid on their wood, they slew 
the victim, and set it ready for the burning. 
They then commenced their sacred invocatory 
dances around the altar—first slow and solemn 
—then quicker,—then with frantic energy,—
their numerous skirts flaunting in the air, and 
creating an artificial breeze. Then, as their blood 
waxed hot, and their' enthusiasM was kindled, 
arose from among them shrill cries, fit to pierce 
the heavens, of " Baal, hear us! Baal, hear us !" 
and presently, in the madness of their bewilder-
ing excitement, they smote themselves with their 
knives, and the blood gushed out and streaked 
their persons with gore, presenting a most fright-
ful spectacle to the eyes of unexcited observers. 
But still their oracle was dumb—no responsive 
fires came down from heaven in answer to their 
cries ; and as the time advanced in their abortive 
efforts to rend the brazen heavens, the voice of 
the Lord's prophet was heard lashing them with 
sarcasms, which smote them with far keener cuts 
than the knives which, in their madness, they 
thrust into their flesh: " Cry aloud; for he is 
a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or 
lie is on a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, 
and must be awaked." This is one of the few 
examples of ridicule to be found in the Scrip-
ture, and justifies the use of that somewhat dan-
gerous weapon on proper occasions. The present 
occasion was marvelously proper, and the proph-
et's words must have had an awakening effect 
upon the minds of the people, coupled as it was 
with the wild doings of the priests, which might 
have been stimulating had they been less pro-
tracted, or had any result appeared. But the 
whole affair grew vapid by its long duration, 
and by its entirely abortive character. We have 
no doubt that the people were heartily weary of 
it, and ceased to pay attention to their proceed-
ings, long before the priests found it in their 
hearts to give over their attempts, and were con-
strained to confess that their god could or would 
not move to vindicate his own honor. 
The expectancy of the people had, however, a 
remaining object. It was yet to be seen whether 
or not the Lord would do that which Baal had 
failed to accomplish. But Elijah was in no 
hurry. He allowed them to occupy the greater 
part of the day in their vain endeavors, that 
their utter futility might be manifest to all the 
people. It was not until the regular time of 
evening sacrifice approached, that the prophet 
arose for action. Then the relaxed attention of 
the people was once more wound up, and directed 
with eager interest to his proceedings. The 
murmur of voices all around became suddenly 
silent, and those who had sat down or were 
lounging on the dry plain, stood up. 
One would think that Elijah might as well 
have gone over to the altar of the Baalites, 
where everything was ready, and call down, in 
the Lord's name, the fire which the priests 
had been unable to obtain from their idol. But 
he would have nothing to do with the unclean 
thing. He knew the place of an old altar 
which had been formerly used for the worship of 
Jehovah. It was in ruins, and had, as a high-
place altar, been irregular ; still, as consecrated 
to the Lord, it was better than one set up for 
Baal, and better than one altogether new. He 
repaired it, so that when completed, it was com-
posed of twelve large stones. Ten tribes only 
had direct concern in this controversy; but the 
faithful prophet would not omit the opportunity 
of impressing upon the assembled people the 
essential unity of the nation, and the unity of 
their true worship. All being ready, the prophet 
directed the altar, the victim, and the wood, to 
be flooded with water, in such abundance that, 
as it flowed down, it quite filled a trench he had 
caused to he digged around to receive it. He 
multiplied difficulties, in order that the miracu-
lous nature of the result might be rendered the 
more striking, in contrast with the vain efforts of 
Baal's votaries, of which the cold altar and the 
unconsumed victim stood there for a monument. 
At the right moment of national sacrifice, the 
prophet approached the altar; and the simplicity 
of his proceedings—of his words and actions—
appears in fine contrast with the demonstrative 
antics in which Baal's priests had consumed the 
day. He called upon " Jehovah, God of Abra-
ham, Isaac, and Israel," to " let it be known 
this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that 
am thy servant, and that I have done all these 
things at thy word. Hear me, 0 Lord, hear me; 
that this people may know that Thou art the 
Lord God, and that Thou hast turned their heart 
back again." The words had no sooner passed 
his lips than the fire of the Lord came manifest-
ly down, with such devouring energy that it con-
sumed not only the victim—not Only the wood, 
but the very stones of the altar, and licked up 
all the water that was in the trench. It had 
been some`ing—it had been enough—to have 
kindled the wood merely. The Baalite priests 
would have been glad of so much from their god; 
but here was something far more and greater—
something to suggest to the people that it was 
only of the Lord's mercies that they, in their 
clustering thousands, were not also consumed. 
The effect was irresistible. Every knee smote 
the ground, every face sought the dust, and one 
universal cry rose to heaven—" The Lord, he is 
the God!" 
Kitto's Daily Bible Illustrations. 
Varieties. 
SHIPS IN THE BOSPIIORUS. 
A correspondent of a late London paper gives 
an animated description of the appearance of 
the Bosphorus at the present juncture, and the 
character of the Turkish ships of war: 
" On turning the curve near Therapia, the 
green tents of the Egyptian army on the heights 
near the Giant's Mountain rise to view, whilst 
the bay of Buyukdere discloses the Ottoman 
fleet, which stretches along the whole length of 
the inhabited portion of the European coast up 
to the entrance of the Black Sea.. These mon-
strous ships give the scene a warlike aspect, well 
in keeping with the numerous forts, bristling 
with artillery, that line both the Asiatic and 
European coast at that point; and the charming 
scenery combines to render the general effect as 
admirable as it is interesting. The Mahmoude, 
flag ship of the Admiral, carries one hundred 
and twenty-six guns, and is in every respect, as 
are also the rest of the fleet, superiorly equipped. 
The Turkish artillerymen are excellent. A Brit-
ish naval officer expressed his astonishment to 
me at their precision in firing. As regards the 
crews, all that can be said is, that they are obe-
dient, and competent to fulfil the duties that 
may fall to them, namely, the defence of the 
entrance to the Bosphorus; but they are not sai-
lors, in the English sense of the term ; and how 
can they be expected to be so ? No Turkish 
ship cruises forth to the Atlantic. It is only by 
crossing the seas, or by contending with the ele-
ment they live on, that sailors are made. The 
Turks are very good sea-soldiers; it cannot, 
however, be disguised that sailors they are riot. 
The Greeks are the seamen of the Levant. None 
are, however, to be found on board Turkish men-
of-war, as the Porte cannot trust them." 
FAMINE. 
A NEW HAVEN paper has information from a 
commercial house in that city, that a flunine is 
raging in Rangoon and Prome, Birnian empire. 
The most deplorable and heart-rending accounts 
364 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The Hong Kong Register of Aug. 16 confirms 
the report before published, that the insurgents 
had taken and destroyed certain images used in 
the Catholic churches. It says, that while the 
Catholics were attending to their devotions in the 
church, a portion of the army entered, destroyed 
all the images, and made prisoners of the whole 
congregation, about one hundred in number, and 
took them to the rebel camp, where they have 
since been confined. It is said that they are 
treated with cruelty, and that three of their 
number have peen put to death. 
The same paper says that great differences are 
breaking out among the rebel chiefs. 
The North China Herald has a report that 
Pekin had been taken by the insurgents, but says 
it wants confirmation. A still later report says 
that the army of the insurgents was in the vicinity 
of Pekin when the last scouts left. 
TLIN Ckbucut craE t. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 12, 1853, 
DIN readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he 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. 
CHAPTE, XXVIII. 
WOE to the crown of pride, 
To the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauti, is a fading 
flower, 
Which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome 
With wine !--v. 1. 
Tins chapter is the commencement of a new 
prophecy. 
" The crown of pride," is a metaphorical name 
given to Samaria, the capital of Ephraim. Omri, 
king of Israel, (a. c. 937) "bought the hill Sa-
maria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built 
on the hill, and called the name of the city which 
he built, after the name of Slimes, owner of the 
hill, Samaria." (1 Kings 16:24.) Richardson, 
who visited it, says : 
" Its situation is extremely beautiful, and strong 
by nature; more so I think than Jerusalem. It 
stands on a fine insulated hill, compassed all round 
by a broad, deep valley. The valley is surrounded 
by four hills, one on each side, which are culti-
vated in terraces to the top, sown with grain and 
planted with fig and olive trees, as is also the val-
ley. The hill of Samaria likewise, rises in ter-
races to a height equal to any of the adjoining 
mountains." 
So beautifully situated, the capital of Ephraim 
is appropriately denominated its proud crown, or 
crown of pride. It was such to those who dwelt 
on it, called in the text " the drunkards of 
Ephraim "—intemperance, probably, being a pre-
vailing sin among them. 
" A fading flower," is soon to be cast away as 
worthless,—its value being gone when its beauty 
and freshness wither. The " glorious beauty " of 
Samaria, by a metaphor, is called a " fading 
flower," to indicate that the time was near when it 
should be cast away as a worthless thing ; which 
was effected by the Assyrians when they carried 
the ten tribes captive. (2 Kings 17:3-6.) 
By the use of the metaphor, also, the hill of 
Samaria is called the " head " of its surrounding 
valleys,—and their fertility illustrated by their 
losing termed " fat." Grotius thinks that the 
beauty of the hill being called a fading flower on 
the head of the valleys, is to illustrate the intern- 
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, 
Which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, 
As a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth 
with the hand.—v. 2. 
The " mighty and strong one " which the Lord 
bath, is the agent with which he will desolate Sa-
maria. It is a substitution for the Assyrian,—
" the rod and the staff' of the Lord's anger." (Isa. 
10:5.) 
The manner in which they should come against 
Ephraim, is, by the use of similes, compared to a 
tempest of hail, to a destroying storm, and to a 
mighty flood of overflowing waters. And " cast 
Lord's" strong one " would remove them from their 
place—as if Samaria, or the kingdom of which it 
was the capital, was a light thing which might be 
taken in the hand and cast indignantly to the 
ground. The act denoted their destruction as a 
nation, according to the prediction of Isaiah (7:8), 
" Within threescore and five years shall Ephraim 
be broken, that it be not a people ;" which was 
fulfilled when (2 Kings 17:20) the Lord " delivered 
them into the hand of spoilers until he had cast 
them out of his sight." 
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden un-
der feet t—v. 3. 
Barnes renders this, " The proud crown of the 
drunkards of Ephraim," he., i. e., the hill of 
Samaria,—it being thus designated by an elliptical 
metaphor. It was to be trodden under the feet of 
the Assyrian invaders. 
And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley, 
Shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer ; 
Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his 
hand he eateth it up.—v. 4. 
By the use of metaphors, the hill of Samaria is 
again denominated the " head " of the valley ; the 
fertility of which is illustrated by the word " fat ;" 
and it is declared that the beauty of the hill, should 
he a fading flower, as in v. 1. And by a simile, 
its beauty is compared to the early ripened fruit 
which is greedily eaten—to illustrate the greedi-
ness with which the Assyrians wenn kasize on and 
appropriate to themselves the spoil of Samaria. 
In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, 
And for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people. 
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, 
And for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.—vs. 5, 6. 
It is possible that these two verses are intro-
duced parenthetically and refer to the day of the 
Therefore the prophet proceeds to lament the im-
perfections of the " residue of God's people." 
But they also have erred through wine, 
And through strcng drink are out of the way ; 
The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, 
They are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through 
strong drink ; 
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no 
place clean.—vs. 7, 8. 
The intemperate use of wine was common in 
Judah, as well as in Israel,—even among those 
consecrated to God's service. 
A way, literally, is a path to walk in. The sense 
of the text, evidently, is that the effect produced 
by wine on their mind and judgmht7Nvas analo-
gous to its physical effect on their body. They 
were " out of the way " which God had prescribed 
for their moral conduct, for which the expression 
is a substitution. 
The priests and teachers of Israel were thus in-
structed respecting the use of wine. Lev. 10:9—
" Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor 
thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle 
of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a 
statute for ever throughout your generations." 
And the reason given for abstinence on such occa-
sions, was, (vs. 10, 11,) " That ye may put differ-
ence between holy and unholy, and between un-
clean and clean ; and that ye may tench the chil-
dren of Israel all the statutes which the Lord bath 
spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." Con-
sequently an intemperate use of wine disabled 
them from distinguishing between things holy and 
unholy, and from teaching correctly God's stat-
utes. 
" Swallowed up of wine," is a metaphor, ex-
pressive of its effect on their understanding. By 
indulgence in it, they could not see the nature and 
relations of moral questions, nor form correct con-
clusions respecting them—" stumble " applied to 
judgment, being a metaphor, expressive of their 
erroneous views. 
" Full," applied to " tables," is also a meta-
phor, and illustrates the frequency with which 
this outward effect of intemperance was met with. 
OUR CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 
FAMILIAR SPIRITS IN THE CHURCH. 
IN the Herald of Oct. 8th, we gave under this head, 
a review of a Letter addressed to the Edwards' 
(Orthodox Congregationalist) Church in this city, 
by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Newton, members of that 
church, who advocate the rehabilty of the teachings 
of departed spirits. 
On another page will be found a reply to our re-
view, from the pen of Mr. Newton, who feels ag-
grieved at certain statements of ours respecting his 
letter. 
It would not be at all surprising if we had mis-
apprehended its contents—the advocates of a new 
theory, and those who take ground against it, being 
very liable to misunderstand each other. 
Owing to a press of other matter, our review of 
the " Letter " was crowded from our columns for 
quite a number of weeks after it was written, but 
we have looked it up and given it a reperusal, we 
find nothing to vary in our notice of it. 
The first exception taken to our review, is that we 
represent them as asking the public to assent to cer-
tain extraordinary statements as facts, without 
presenting sufficient evidence to enable the public 
to judge of the correctness of their conclusions—
leaving our readers to infer either a reprehensible 
unwillingness, or total inability to submit the al-
lodged facts to the scrutiny of the public. And 
then he goes on to say that it was not their design 
to give a detail of facts, and that they did not ask 
assent to such on their testimony. 
It was not their design to give some of the evi-
dence which had influenced them, we misjudged. 
We were led to our conclusion from the following 
on page 4 of the Letter,. 
" . . . . We have judged it proper, in Christian 
frankness and confidence, to lay before you a con-
cise and truthful statement of the position in which 
we find ourselves, and of the wonderful means 
through which we have been brought to it 
We then invite your candid attention to a brief 
narration of observation and experience." 
After giving their experience, they say : 
"' We speak that we do know, and testify that 
we have seen,' and why should you not receive the 
witness of those in whose integrity and veracity 
you would confide on all other subjects, as well as 
the testimony of persons who lived eighteen hun-
dred years ago, and of whom you know and can 
know nothing."—p. 14. 
Here, certainly, is a request for the public to re-
ceive their statements of fact. And it was in view 
of this that we wrote. 
We did not impugn their credibility, nor ques-
tion their sincerity. On the contrary we said of 
them : 
" • With all apparent sincerity, and with an ear-
nestness and force worthy of imitation in the de-
fence of truth, they address the circular letter, 
comprised in the first pamphlet, to the members of 
the church with which they were connected—pro-
fessing to detail their experience during two years 
of investigation, and to give the reasons for their 
new views, as an act due those they were associated 
with." 
Our remarks were respecting what they professed 
to state as facts ; and not as Mr. Newton in his 
communication evidently understood respecting 
other things which he regards as evidence, which 
he did not profess to give, which he could not have 
done in such circumscribed space, and for which 
they referred to " evidence already before th e 
public." Had our remarks been in respect to what 
he did not profess to give, he would have had cause 
of complaint. 
It will he borne in mind that we accepted his 
testimony, but not his judgment respecting his testi-
mony, on the points to be sustained by it. With 
the reality of it, we have no dispute with him. It 
is its reliability that we call in question, and take 
decided ground against. 
" The undeveloped demon." We did " come 
to the conclusion that to cast out an undeveloped 
demon is to kill a person :" but we did not give 
that as their conclusion, we took the ground that 
a demon being a departed spirit, an undeveloped 
demon must he one that has not been separated 
from the body ; and that to developo it, death must 
ensue. This was to show the absurdity of talking 
about " undeveloped demons." We suppose we 
had the right to that argument. 
What we said of unknown tongues, was to 
the same point—showing the incorrectness of the 
phrase, and that they must mean known tongues, 
unintelligible to the medium ;- for a tongue really 
unknown, would be the utterance of jargon. 
Lord. It is thus regarded in the Targum of Jona-
than :—" In that time Messiah the Lord of hosts, 
shall be a crown of joy," he. ; and Kimchi says 
the rabbins in general are of this opinion. But 
the imperfections attributed to the residue of Israel 
militates against that opinion. 
" When" (2 Kings 17:18,) " the Lord was very 
angry with Israel, and removed them out of his 
sight, there was none left but the tribe of Judah 
only." They were spared because they had not so 
far removed from Jehovah. 
When Samaria was destroyed, Hezekiah, a pious 
prince, was king of Julah. 2 Kings 17:5—" He 
trusted in the Lord God of Israel ; so that after 
him was none like him among all the kings of 
Judah ; nor any before him." 
When the king of Assyria came against him, 
Hezekiah (Isa. 37:1-4) " rent his clothes, and cov-
ered himself with sackcloth, and went into the 
house of the Lord ;" and sent a message to Isaiah 
to " lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left." 
And Hezokiah prayed unto the Lord, saying, (Isa. 
37: 16-,20) " 0 Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that 
dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, 
even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth ; 
thou hast made heaven and earth. Incline thine 
ear, 0 Lord, and hear ; open thine eyes, 0 Lord, 
and see : and hear all the words of Sennacherib, 
which bath sent to reproach the living God. Of a 
truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste 
all the nations, and their countries, and have cast 
their gods into the fire ; for they were no gods, but 
the work of men's hands, wood and stone : there-
fore they have destroyed them. Now therefore, 
0 Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all 
the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art 
the Lord, even thou only." Thus the Lord, by a 
simile, was " for a crown of glory and for a diadem 
of beauty " to them. 
Kings sit in judgment (Prov. 20:8) ; and the 
warriors direct the battle. Relying not in their 
own judgment and strength, in this emergency, 
they cast their burden on the Lord, and, by a repe-
tition of the same figure, he was as judgment and 
perance of the inhabitants,—it being the custom of strength to them. He directed their cause, and 
the ancients to wear on their heads chaplets of 
flowers on festive occasions. 
" Overcome," is in the margin, " broken " with 
wine, or, literally, " smitten," a metaphor, illus-
trative of the physical derangement produced in 
the human system by intemperance. 
defended them—sending forth his angel, and in a 
single night slaying 185,000 of the enemy. (2 
Kings 19:35.) 
To " turn the battle to the gate," is to cause 
the entire defeat of an enemy and to make them 
return to their own land. 2 Sam. 11:23—" And 
we were upon them even unto the entering of the 
gate," i. e., of the enemy. After the slaughter of 
the 185,000, (2 Kings 10 : 36), " Sennacherib king 
of Assyria departed, and went, and returned and 
dwelt at Nineveh." There is a metaphor in the 
word " turn," applied to " battle," expressive of 
the direction which it takes. In this case it was 
against the enemy. 
While some in, Judah looked to God, and ob-
tained deliverance in this emergency, the ways of 
the great majority of them had not previously 
pleased the Lord, nor did they continue to merit 
his favor : 2 Kings 17:19—" Also Judah kept not 
down to the earth with the hand," is a substitu- the commandments of the Lord their God, but 
tion, for the ease and violence with which the walked in the statutes of Israel which they made." 
ON the first page of the paper, we have com-
menced a chronological table of the principal his-
torical events connected with the papacy. Our de-
sign in this is to place within reach of the readers 
of the Herald, such historical extracts as will ena-
ble them to judge of the significance and import-
ance of any events specifically referred to. Many 
persons do not have access to works of history ; 
and this will be to such, a valuable substitute. 
The arrangement of events chronologically, will 
enable any one to find it in the year of its occur-
rence. We hope therefore that all will preserve 
the papers containing these articles, for future ref-
erence. We design them as the foundation of an 
argument, showing the presumption and absurdity 
of the use which some are making of the events of 
519 and 1809 ; which cannot well be done without 
something of the kind. With this, when the events 
of any year are referred to, it can be turned to un-
der its date. 
A superficial acquaintance with history is not 
sufficient, for an impartial judgment respecting 
an epoch in prophecy. When such are asked to 
look through an inch tube, that enables them to 
see only the events of a limited period, not know-
ing that corresponding events have transpired at 
various periods, they take it for granted that the 
events shown them, have the significance ascribed 
to them and avow their faith in the theory taught. 
Such persons only confess to a want of familiarity 
with history. 
Another way in which the superficial become ob-
fuscated, is by losing sight of the point at issue. 
When the dispute is not respecting an event, but 
its significance, they suppose that by quoting a 
multitude of historians in affirmation of the event, 
their theory is established, when the point at issue, 
is its significance. We have before us a pamphlet, 
containing historical extracts by " F. II. B.," 
which illustrates this point. A number of histo-
rians are quoted to show that a schism was healed 
in 510—a historical fact that none disputes : there 
was then no use of quoting various authors to sus-
tain each other. What is at issue, is its signifi-
cance. 
In our chronological table, we purpose copying 
from that pamphlet all the historical facts given 4. A " deeper wrong," which it is claimed we 
in it. We shall npt copy them as many times as have done, is omitting to state that'they claim 
the same things are there given ; but purpose to that all their investigations were pursued with de- 
give each fact once, and then to give in connection vout, earnest, agonizing prayer to Him who says, 
with it, the several authors who respectively affirm ' ask and ye shall receive.' " And that they are 
it : so that our readers will be in possession of all so confident of having relied on God, that if it is 
the historical information relied on. 
proved that they have embraced error, they are 
With this number we shall begin to print a bun- ready from their " inmost souls to regard God 
Bred copies extra, so that subscribers who wish to as utterly faithless to His promises ! and to believe 
commence with these articles, can he supplied. that when " they " ask bread He will give a stone 
1001 
365 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
—when " they " ask truth, He will give a lie," &e. 
—p. 17. 
If they suppose that such a statement would 
cause Christians to give more weight to their opin-
ions respecting the import of admitted phenome-
non, they are much mistaken,—at least it did not 
impress us. There is no errorist who is not ready 
to affirm such a declaration, and doubtless in all 
sincerity. We have not forgotten, that ye may 
" ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss." 
There is such a thing as not knowing " what ye 
ask." A person may in reality be addressing an 
elope of their own imagination, when they suppose 
they are praying to Jehovah. They do so, when 
they imagine a being different from what the 
Scriptures describe Jehovah to be. When they 
address an imaginary being, to whom they at. 
tribute the approbation of that which Jehovah 
has declared an " abomination," and vanity, they 
no more address Him, than did the priests of Baal, 
who called on their imaginary supreme deity, 
" from morning even until noon." They agonized 
in prayer to him, " they leaped upon the altar 
which was made," they " cried aloud and cut 
themselves after their manner with knives and lan-
cets till the blood gushed out upon them." We 
question not their earnest, agonizing efforts to pre-
vail with their god—yet they prevailed not. Sin-
cerity alone is no evidence of truth. 
We understand that consulting the departed, is 
joining in the same worship that characterized the 
fhllowers of Baal. We do not say this to aggra-
vate any one, we write in all tenderness of spirit 
and commiseration for those engaged in it. It is 
our deliberate opinion, formed after an extensive 
analysis of a large mass of testimony produced in 
connection with these manifestations. We under-
stand that those who receive communications from 
the departed, have rejected God's prohibitions 
against it ; and having rejected God's words and 
turned unto vanity, how can we expect them to be 
kept from error—however much they may agonize 
in prayer. " Surely God will not hear vanity, 
neither will the Almighty regard it." He has 
said, " Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not 
answer ; they shall seek Me early, but they shall 
not find Me." " Although they shall cry unto Me, 
I will not hearken unto them." 
We know not how any can plead the promises of 
the Bible, of the Jehovah of the Bible, without 
unqualifiedly accepting the testimony of the Bible. 
They place " the' authority' of communications 
given to men in ages gone by—some of which have 
been compiled and included in the volume called 
the Bible," to use their own words in referring to 
the Scriptures—on a par with communications pur-
porting to come from the dead at the present day. 
They say of truth, " We are not to look for it only 
in here and there an individual in ages by gone, or 
in the pages of one Book or one set of Books, writ-
ten centuries ago ;" and that " we wish no longer 
to be considered as bound to any particular voice of 
truth or form of expression,"—showing that they 
are all afloat, and have no reason to suppose that 
they are still resting on the " Rock of. ages." Why 
then should they accuse God of unfaithfulness if 
he hears not their cries unto him ! 
Again we are accused of using an expression 
which they do not, viz. " communication with the 
dead " for " intercourse with spirits." He denies 
that communicating with spirits is communicating 
with the dead : But will he deny that the Scripture 
in prohibiting communication with the dead, had 
reference to the spirits, and not to the bodies of the 
departed. We used the scriptural term for the 
thing. By avoiding the scriptural denomination of 
it, they do not avoid conflict with its prohibitions 
of it. If forbidding to consult familiar spirits is 
not forbidding to consult the spirits of the departed 
then pray what is it? 
In inviting us to investigate these manifesta-
tions for ourselves, Mr. Newton is not aware that 
we have been a reader of some half a dozen weekly 
papers devoted to this subject, and are familiar with 
many of their more prominent volumes. We have 
not been to witness any of the table movings and 
to see any of the mediums—keeping constantly in 
mind that passage in Isa. 8:19, 20—" And when 
they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have 
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and 
that mutter : should not a people seek unto their 
God ? for the living to the dead ? To the law and 
to the testimony : if theyspeak not according to this 
word, it is because there is no light in them." We 
have canvassed and analyzed the testimony on this 
subject, taking the Bible for our guide ; and our 
conclusion is a full admission of the reality of the 
manifestations, and a total denial of their reliability 
—two separate and distinct points. 
ANOTHER REPLY.—Before receiving the article 
from Mr. Newton, noticed above, we received a 
communication signed by one whose initials are 
W. J. Y. and who claims to have been changed 
from an infidel to a Christian by these manifesta-
tions. As such transformations are daily referred to 
as evidence that it is of God, we will give the close 
of his article to show what kind of Christianity 
men are converted to by it : 
" And since Christ confesses God more kind than 
any earthly parent, even to the ' unthankful and 
the evil,' I dare not presume he would either anni-
hilate me or endlessly torment me, for living up to 
and obeying, to whatever extent I may, those clear 
intuitions of justice and mercy felt by Christ and 
taught by him—met as they are by my own inten-
tions and consciousness, while taking nothing for 
truth that has not the sanction of my inner nature 
or conscience. If any man preach other gods I can 
not follow him until revealed to me by evidence 
beyond controversy or reasonable doubt ; nor can 
I put faith altogether in what was written of old, 
because I have no reliable will, or ability to dis-
cover the truth of the olden records not personally 
conversant of the things recorded therein." 
We do not know that those who do not admit the 
inspiration of the Scriptures and make their " inner 
nature " the standard of truth, have made any ad-
vances from infidelity that gives them any claim to 
the name of Christian. The worshippers of gods 
many and lords many, have advanced thus far. To 
be a Christian, requires a knowledge of Christ as 
their Saviour—as Him in whom they trust for sal-
vation. 
W. J. Y. will excuse our not inserting the re-
mainder of his article, which is not sufficiently 
matured for publication. It is crudely written, 
without system or arrangement, and could not be 
intelligible to our readers. 
REMARKS ON THE 2300 DAYS. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Did primitive writers place the crucifixion 
from 38 to upwards of 40 ? 
The A. D. Era was not invented till A. D. 532 ; 
and did not begin to be much used till A. D. 730. 
None who lived before those dates, could fix on 
any year A. D. for the crucifixion. 
There were those who supposed Christ was more 
than forty years old when crucified ; but had they 
any reason for such a supposition? They had very 
simple ones, which are thus stated and answered 
in a six-fold commentary which we have, that was 
written in 1608. All will own that the reasons 
for such a supposition amount to nothing : 
"Some were of opinion, that Christ lived forty-six years at the 
least, that the body may austver to the shadow, the substance to the 
figure, because the material temple, which was a figure of the true 
temple Christ Jesus, is said to have been forty-six years in building. 
Ireimus thinketh that Christ lived fifty years, because of that place 
(John 8th) where the Jews say unto Christ, 'thou art not yet fifty 
years old,' &c. And he further addeth this reason, that it was not 
fit that Christ should begin to preach in his youth, but should take 
that grave function upon him, when he grew in years. (Irenceus, 
lib. 2, advers. hares. cap. 39.) 
" But 1. The Jews' words (speaking but by guess) are not much 
to he weighed, though some in that place do read forty for fifty. 
(Chrysost.) 2. There may be as great gravity in young years as in 
age for not years, but the graces and gifts of God's Spirit do bring 
authority. 3. And if Christ had lived so many years, it is not like 
that the evangelists would have passed over in silence the great 
works which Christ did in that time, whereas they only set down 
year of 
foilrtaho.rs 
passover 
after 
 those things
his bap Ihinic Christ
hwiich w 
was in tlainedth'iritdietuhntyoeat 
Christ had lived about forty, toward fifty years, he could not have 
suffered under Tiberius' 
 in whose eighteenth year he is generally 
held to have died, being baptized in his fifteenth year, (Luke 3 : 1,) 
for Tiberius reigned but twenty three years in all." 
May the nudst of the week, refer to any time 
within the circle of the week ? 
There is no warrant whatever for such a use of 
the word. Of the Hebrew, Prof. Whiting says, 
" It has a special signification of dividing into two 
parts, or to halve." Dr. Prideaux reads it, " the 
half part." Ferguson adopts the same reading. 
Rev. J. Orton, s. T. P., says it " should be rendered 
in the half part thereof." In the six-fold Cora. 
referred to it reads, " in the middle or half of the 
week." Houbigant gives, " in the middle of the 
week." Hengstenberg reads, " and the half of the 
week." Dr. Hales renders it, " and half of the 
week." Dr. Kennedy says, " in the half of the 
week." No scholar ever renders it within the 
circle ; and to do so is taking a liberty with the 
word of God, which we should not dare attempt, 
however much the exigency of our theory might 
require it. It is the same in the Hebrew, as in 
the following texts : Ex. 12:29—" At midhight the 
Lord smote." 24:9—" Moses took half of the 
blood." 25:47—" two cubits and a haef shall be 
the length." Num. 34:14—" and half the tribe of 
Manasseh," &c. The same Hebrew word is used 
115 times in the Old Testament ; and is rendered 
half 101 times ; mid as a part of the word midnight 
four times ; and midst eight times ; middle, once, 
and part thereof twice—in each of which it was di-
vided into two parts. FeW words in the Bible 
have a more definite meaning than this. It is the 
word rendered half, in Dan. 12:7. 
Have not the learned misled us on these 
points ? 
Learned men are fallible mortals like ourselves. 
Learned men seldom make declarations without 
giving the reasons for their opinions. We are not 
to receive what they say because they affirm it ; 
but because of the evidence they present for what 
they affirm. If a learned man is a wicked man 
and makes declarations which facts contradict ; 
other learned men would expose his wickedness 
by showing that there are no such facts. If the 
learned have been themselves deceived, it must be 
shown so by a presentation of evidence to convict 
them. The testimony of a learned man is none the 
less valuable because of his learning. If his learn-
ing disqualifies him for a witness, how ignor-
ant should he have been, to have been competent 
to have arrived at a correct conclusion " If ig- 
norance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." 
If the evidence exists that the crucifixion 
i 
was on Friday, s the Lord Jesus Christ thereby 
convicted of falsehood ? 
We are horrified at the expression of such a con-
ception ; and we beg pardon of our readers for 
printing it, which we should not do under ordinary 
circumstances. It is recorded in Luke that the 
day in which Christ was laid in the sepulchre, 
was that when " the Sabbath drew on " and the 
women who prepared the spices for his embalming, 
only beheld where he lay, and rested on the Sab-
bath day, and then came on the first day of the 
week and found that he had risen. (See Luke 23:53 ; 
24:1.) Christ had affirmed over and over again 
that he should rise front the dead on the third day. 
(See Matt. 16:21; 17:23 ; 20:19 ; Mark 9:31 ; 
10:34 ; Luke 18:33 ; 24:7, 46.) Here it is recorded 
eight times that he said he would rise on the third 
day. When crucified, the Jews requested that the 
sepulchre be made sure " until the third day." 
(Matt. 27:64.) And on the first day of the week, 
the two disciples on their way to Emmaus, said to 
the risen Saviour, " To-day is the third day since 
these things were done." (Luke 24:21.) if the 
crucifixion was on Thursday, the resurrection was 
on the fourth day ! Shall these ten texts which fix 
it on the third day be disregarded ? 
Now the learned are aware of the fact, that 
Matthew's gospel was written in the Hebrew and 
not in the Greek, and that the Hebrew for " a day 
and night " was used by the Jews for any portion 
of a day, and was precisely equivalent to our word 
day. Dr. Whitby says : 
" In their phrase to say, ' so many evenings and 
mornings, days and nights,' is the same as to say 
so many natural days ;' for in the measuring of 
any time which contains in it both days and nights, 
a day is always taken in that sense in which it in-
cludes both day and night. Moreover, the Greek 
language bath its compounds, and so is able to ex-
press a natural day by the word yex,9ettepoy, but the 
Jews have no such compound words, and therefore 
cannot otherwise express a natural day but by these 
two words, day and night.' So Gen. 7:4, I will 
cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty 
nights :' 1 Sam. 30:12, that Egyptian did eat 
no bread, nor drink water, three days and three 
nights :' Exod. 24:18, ' Moses was in the mount 
forty days and forty nights.' 
" Secondly, Note that it is a received rule among 
the Jews, ' that a part of the day is put for the 
whole ;' so that whatsoever is done in any part of 
the day, is properly said to be done that day ; since 
then our Lord was in the grave one whole natural 
day, and part of two other natural days, he might 
truly be said, according to their computation, to be 
in it three days and three nights. Note, 
"Thirdly, That it is very usual to reckon that to 
he done in so many days, or so many days and 
nights, which is done so as that the action begins 
in any part of the first, and ends in any part of 
the last day : so 1 Kings 20:29, They encamped 
against one another seven days, and in the seventh 
day the battle joined.' And Esther saith, 4:16, 
Fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three 
days, night or day ; I and my maidens will fast also, 
and then I will go in unto the king ;' and yet (v. 1) 
she goes in to the king on the third day.' So Luke 
2:21, When eight days were accomplished for the 
circumcision of the child, they called his name 
Jesus ;' and yet the day of his birth and of his 
circumcision were two of these eight days, and the 
complete days were only six. So St. Luke saith, 
that about eight days after these words, he took 
Peter, John, and James, and went up into the 
mount' (Luke 9:28) : but St. Matthew, 17:1, and 
St. Mark, 9:2, tell us it was six days after ;' i. e. 
including the day he spoke the words, and the day 
he went up into the mount. it might he reckoned 
eight, excluding them it was only six. Since then 
our Saviour was in the grave part of Friday, and 
the evening or night before must, by the Hebrew 
computation, be accounted to that day ; seeing he 
was in the grave all Friday night and Saturday ; 
seeing he was in the grave all Saturday night, and 
part of the morning of the day following, and 
that morning, with the precedent evening, make a 
third natural day, he may according to the Hebrew 
computation, be truly said to have been three 
nights and three days in the heart of the earth.' " 
—Whitby's Com. on Matt. 12:40. 
There is no kind of question but the Jews and 
disciples alike understood the Saviour to affirm 
that his resurrection would be on the third day. 
The learned, therefore, in teaching that his resur-
rection was on the third day, and in showing how 
the reference to Jonah was in perfect harmony 
with it, are not the ones who call in question the 
veracity of him " who spake as never man spake." 
If done at all, it is by others. 
Does the fact that a covenant is not of force 
till the death of the testator, prove that the week 
of its confirmation must begin after the crucifixion? 
Those who reason thus, should inquire how it 
can be of force till it is confirmed. It is the con-
firmation of anything that gives force to it. A 
man's will is not effective till it is probated. In 
the making of the ancient covenants, they were 
confirmed by the death of the victim. Christ was 
the one whose death is referred to by Paul as sus-
taining a correspOnding relation to the new cove-
nant. It was the seal of it. It was the great 
thing in the confirmatory process. How signifi-
cant, then, was its occurrence in the middle of 
that wonderful week of years,—having been pre-
ceded by the signs and wonders accompanying 
Christ's ministry, and being followed by those of 
the first three and a half years of the apostles, af-
ter which they turned to the Gentiles. 
At what age did the priests enter on the du- 
ties of their office ? 
Originally at the age of thirty ; but sometimes 
at the age of twenty. Compare Num. 4:3, and 2 
Chron. 31:17. 
Is there any certainty that the decree to 
Ezra, is the one from which to reckon the seventy 
weeks ? 
It is the only document issued by Artaxerxes, 
which is denominated a decree, or of which a copy 
has come down to us. Ezra is the only Jew to 
whom it is known that any such document was di-
rected. (7:12.) It provides expressly for the resto-
tion of Jerusalem. (7:25, 26.) Ezra's thanking 
the Lord for giving them a " wall in Judah and 
Jerusalem (9:9), shows that he interpreted the de-
cree as authorizing the re-building of Jerusalem—
the two things to be embraced in the decree. The 
unlimited power conferred on Ezra by the decree 
(7:18, 20,) shows that be had cause thus to inter-
pret it. The time of Christ's baptism is a well es-
tablished point in chronology. He was then be-
ginning to be about thirty years of age. He was 
only six months younger than John. His birth 
could not have been after the death of Herod, 
which is determined by an eclipse of the moon in B. 
c. 4. He must therefore have been thirty years of 
age as early as A. D. 27. The ministry of John is 
demonstrated to have commenced in A. D. 26, which 
synchronized with the 15th of Tiberius, reckoning 
from his partnership in the empire. The seven 
and sixty-two weeks or 483 years from the 7th of 
Artaxerxes, B. c. 457, according to the undoubted 
Canon of Ptolemy, and the undisputed era of 
Nabonassar, would terminate in A. D'..27—in the 
very year when it is evident the Saviour's bap-
tism was. Herod began to re-build the temple in 
B. c. 19. It had been forty-six years in building 
at the first passover recorded in connection with 
our Saviour's ministry, which is therefore shown 
to have been in A. D. 28. He was crucified at the 
fourth passover of which there is any notice in his 
ministry, and the fourth from A. D. 28, was in A. 
D. 31. All the early writers in the Church affirm 
that his ministry continued three and a half years, 
however much they may dispute respecting the 
date of his death. He was to be cut off in the 
midst of the week. The midst of the first week 
from the fall of A. D. 27, would reach the spring 
of A. D. 31. The first half of it witnessed the signs 
and wonders of Christ's ministry : and the last half 
that of his apostles, after which they turned to 
the Gentiles. And the victim was slain in its 
midst. These and various other considerations, 
amount as nearly to a demonstration, as it is pos-
sible to demonstrate the chronology of any histori-
cal event. 
Binas.—For the last two months, the receipts of 
this office have fallen short about $40 a week of 
our current expenses. We need the sums owing 
by those in arrears for their paper. We shall 
soon send bills to all in arrears ; and those who 
anticipate that event, will do us a great favor by 
previously sending in their dues, and will avoid 
those mementoes of indebtedness. 
New Works. 
"Simmtrunes, by Lucy Larcom. Boston , John P. Jewett & Co. 
Cleveland, 0.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. 1851." 
T3is is a neat little volume, in which simple truths are illustrated 
by similitudes drawn from familiar things. 
" A SABBATH SCENE. By John G. Whittier.. Boston: John P. Jew-
ett & Co. Cleveland, 0.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. 1854." 
This is a poem, neatly printed, with two stanzas on each page, 
and each page ornamented by a wood cut illustrative cf the subject. 
The poem represents a fugitive slave, taking refuge in a church 
during divine service, and the pursuers after her. She finds no pro- 
tection there, which affords the author an opportunity to speak 
scornfully of pulpit, priest &c. As we can imagine no person's act-
ing the part ascribed to him, we are led to inquire whether such cart 
catures do not do more to advance infidelity, than to foster correct 
sentiments. 
"THE WARSING Voice, Ttme, AND PROPHECY. By Vriala Smith. 
Rochester, N. V.: Published by James White. 1853." 
This is a theological poem. We have not been particularly 
charmed with its theology or poetry. 
NEW AGENTS.—Wm. Trobridge, Sheboygan Falls, 
Wis. Dr. Horatio G. Punk, Milwaukee, Wis. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that for themselves, and to decide on their own respon- and forbidden intercourse, we most confidently and 
shall arise," and of the eleventh, not the first in- sibility, before God and man." And in a note at solemnly appeal to the Searcher of hearts to attest 
torial occupancy. Nay, the language is rather ex- for not having fulfilled a previously-entertained agonizing earnestness we have ever sought to be 
timation is given that it shall have universal terri- the conclusion of the reply, in giving my reasons our innocence. He knows with what sincerity and 
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pressive that they will not embrace the entire ter- design of' preparing for publication a detailed nar- led and taught only by him. This appeal we are 
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titory of the Cmsars, for they come up " out " of ration of facts, the following is prominently stated : ready at any moment to carry before his judgment 
the fourth kingdom. Again, the vision of chapter " Aware that no testimony of another can supply seat, and to stake, if need be, our eternal destiny 
8th, where the four kingdoms are symbolized by the place to a careful investigator of personal ob • upon it ! This is strong language, but it comes 
horns, the eleven are not brought to view, but in servation—he [I] would greatly prefer that all from the very depths of souls that have been ago-
the vision of the seventh chapter where both are should with candor and patience, with sincere nized in their search for truth as but few mortals 
CORREPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not symbolized, a marked distinction is made ; the minds and pure hearts, investigate for themselves." have any conception. , What better directions, 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de- 
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, four divisions of the Grecian empire are symbolized I may ask, does this look like shrinking from than those we have followed, could you or any 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from by heads, whilst the eleven kingdoms are simply public scrutiny ? Does it look like asking credence other professed religious teacher have given ? They 
the friends of the Herald. 
 
 represented as horns, and common sense tells us on vague and loose testimony, or trying to crowd are precisely those which you and all believe have 
TIME OF THE SECOND ADVENT. 
 
 that there is a material difference between a head down our " opinions" instead of facts If any come from God himself, and to which his most 
and a horn ; the former governs the entire body, position could be less egotistical and dogmatical, positive promises are attached. While devoutly 
EVERY sincere disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ but not thus the horns, therefore, to the four heads or .more frank, manly and rational, I desire to and earnestly complying with his own conditions, 
will " love his appearing," but every true lover of were given the territory over which Alexander know what it is. And yet you pass over all this he has seen fit to send us wisdom, and light, and 
the Saviour's second advent to this world, may not reigned, but the fourth empire is nowhere repre- in silence, in fact stating to your readers precisely spiritual good, and communications of his will, as 
readily adopt every theory which may be put forth, sented as a beast with eleven heads ! The four gov- the opposite of the truth. 
he did to Cornelius and others in the olden time, 
fixing the specific time of that important event. ernments into which the Grecian empire was di- Again, in alluding to our declaration that the gifts by the " ministration of angels ;" and what are 
Twice have the great body of the Adventists, by vided may be represented by either heads or horns of healing and speaking in " unknown tongues," we" that we should withstand God," or reject his 
arguments then considered irrefragable, advocated, as horns, because they were kingdoms, and as heads etc., had been granted, you say " All these, they messengers ? Moreover, these " angels " have, in 
by the press and from the pulpit, the definite time of the leopard, because they governed, and occu- claim, are well attested. They forget that they are many instances demonstrated themselves (by evi-
of Christ's coming, and twice have they been taught pied the entire territory of that empire. Not thus not the judges, but only witnesses. They pro- deuces of which, to a great extent, we must from 
the utter folly and injurious effects of such vain in Scripture, or in fact, with the eleven horns. sent no evidences of these miraculous perform- the nature of the case, be the sole judges,) to be 
attempts, and the truthfulness of His plain decla- I They were kingdoms, hut never destined to " em- ances," etc. 
the spirits of our departed relatives and friends ;— 
ration, " Ye know not when the time is." We I brace the entire territory over which the Cmsars Now, admitting that our testiniqny is " no evi- not dead, but living in a higher life ; while the 
may pervert the simple reading of such texts, and reigned," but a circumscribed, limited territorial deuce " in these matters (though I am not aware messages they have brought us from the Eternal 
violate their import and spirit, but sooner or later government, therefore they are appropriately rep- that that testimony was ever yet impeached, be- throne in answer to our petitions, have borne so 
we all shall learn, that although " heaven and resented as horns, and only as horns. 
fore either a civil or an ecclesiastical tribunal, and evidently the impress and seal of Divinity, that to 
earth shall pass away," his " words shall not pass 
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(To be continued.) 
am quite willing its reliability should be submitted doubt would have brought our souls under the 
away." He who cannot learn something from the 
to any test whatever)—you forget to tell your read- fearful guilt of blasphemy—of attributing to Sa- 
experience of the past, must be a dull scholar in- 
ers that in the same paragraph we referred to evi- tan the works and words of the Holy One ! 
deed ; and he who will hastily embrace, and with FROM THE AUTHOR OF " LETTER TO 
 
THE EDWARDS CHURCH." 
 dente already before the public, in relation to these Such is our position. Call us °' deluded " or 
vehement assuredness advocate specific time thrice, 
well attested cases ! The books and other publica- " insane," if you choose—believe that we are ei- 
knowing, as we do, its consequences and effects, EDITOR OF THE ADVENT HERALD AM indebted lions of the New Dispensation, for the last two ther if you can—but do not let your readers rest 
can have but little real concern for the well-being to you for a copy of your paper containing a re- years have abounded with this " evidence," giving under an impression so foully false, as that in this 
of this sacred cause. Uncharitable.? " I love Cm- view of two publications lately issued by me, re- both " dates, places, persons, and names of wit - matter we have impiously disregarded the will of 
sar, but l love Rome snore!" I love my brethren, eating to modern spiritual phenomena. I thank flosses." It surely ought not to be expected that our heavenly Father, or swerved from a most de-
and undoubtedly some good Christians have fallen you for the evident good intention and courtesy these should be collected in that brief pamphlet, voted loyalty to his loving heart. You will not 
into this snare, but I love Christ and his cause manifested in your criticisms ; but I regret to he when they were within the reach of all who cared wonder that we feel some sensibility on this point, 
" more," therefore, I speak with unmistakable obliged to say that your representations have placed to be informed ; and if' you and others have re- when you look within your own heart, and inquire 
plainness, and with deliberate decision. me before your readers in a very unfair and unjust mained in ignorance of them, I leave the question how it would affect yourself to have your deepest, 
After having carefully read and examined the light. I wisn not to charge you with intentional for you and their consciences to settle, whether you truest, devoutest sincerity, flippantly misrepre-
arguments fixing 519 A. D. for the date of the corn- wrong, for I am fully aware of the difficulty of have properly " come to the light " in this import- sented as foul impiety and outrageous wickedness ! 
mencement of the 1260 years, and 1809 A. D. for forming a fair and just estimate of the position of ant question. You will not fail to perceive, more- Yet such is the bitter cup we are often compelled 
the date of the close of the 1290 years, there re- another, especially when so novel in its character, over, that your omission to state the reference to receive from the hands of former religious as-
mains no doubt in my mind, that it is a flimsy and so averse to one's cherished belief, as is that I alluded to, placed us in a false light before your sociates, and nothing but a deep and thorough 
structure built of baseless assumptions, and such have been compelled to tike. Perhaps it is need- readers, and gave you an advantage which you consciousness of rectitude, and a sweet and cheer-
being my honest convictions, it would be culpable less for me to seek to put myself right with your have used most unfairly. And you will see, too, ing realization of the Father's approving smile, 
in me not to speak in accordance with what I deem readers, as I may presume that all of them whose that all the reasonings by which you endeavor to could sustain us under the imputation. 
to be the truth in the case. 
opinions are of any consequence, in the matter, nullify these statements, based as they are upon I am aware, nevertheless, that this claim of de- 
In order to give that year (519) a due copse- will examine the publications for themselves before misconceptions, are as ridiculous as they are un- vout and prayerful sincerity on our part, is a most 
quence and prominence in the history of the Ro- forming their opinions. Possibly, however, under founded. For example, you come to the conclu- difficult one for you and other sectarians to con- 
man Empire, and the rise of the Papacy, it requires the guidance of your remarks, they may be led into sion that to cast out an undeveloped demon is to cede-80 accustomed have you become to imagine 
laborious, straining, unnatural effort ; whereas, in the same misconceptions and strange oversights as kill a person ! when you must have known that I that the Father can be acceptably worshipped only 
a sound, logical argument, particularly in a scrip- yourself, and I therefore throw myself upon your had no such meaning ; and you represented the in your temple, or your Gerazim, and that lie can 
tural one, the effort to establish the premises is well-known liberality for a brief hearing. speaking in unknown tongues as •‘ the utterance speak only through your oracles your and inter- 
easy and natural, and the conclusions harmonious. 1st. You represent the authors of the Letter to of a jargon which no one can understand," where- preters. I have only to remark, however, that I 
We will explain. In order to sustain this new the Edwards Church, (myself and wife,) as asking as the accuracy of language, both spoken and writ- wish no one to believe that God speaks through 
time theory, the following proposition and deduc- the public to " assent " to certain extraordinary ten by those to whom it was utterly unintelligible, these modern manifestations, until he finds in them 
tion is first advanced : " For mark—we are not to statements " as facts," without presenting any has been often tested by those to whom it was ad- evidence of divine origin and authority at least as 
look exclusively to 'Western Borne for the rise of adequate or precise detail of these facts; you say dressed, or others who were competent to do it. great as in anything that he has ever spoken, to 
the ten kingdoms, hut, as in the divisions of Alex- that our statements are " expressed in so general But you have done us another and still deeper the world. This evidence, as has already been in- 
ander's empire, the four horns represented the en- and loose a manner, that little weight can he at- wrong, in your representation of our " solution of timated, I believe is abundantly sufficient to con-
tire kingdom over which that monarch reigned ; tached to them," and that " instead of giving us the problem, how to communicate with good spir- vince any honest and appreciative mind, that dares 
likewise the eleven horns that were to arise out of [the public] the means of proving the thing, they its, and to avoid evil intelligences." In professing to look at it ! 
this fourth kingdom embrace the entire territory ask us to permit them to prove it for us ;" and to state our position on this point, you saw fit to There are other, minor points in which your 
over which the Caesars reigned." Is it positive that you add, " the deficiency in this particular [of pre- omit the most important part, and carefully to representations are equally wide from the truth, 
because " the four horns represented the entire cise and detailed statement] is very marked,''— avoid all allusion to the facts, so abundantly indi- but I must pass them by. Having thus shown 
kingdom over which Alexander reigned," therefore thus leaving the reader to infer either a reprehen- cated in the " Letter," that all our investiga_ that some of the most important matters in rela-
" we are not to look exclusively to Western Rome Bible unwillingness or a total inability to submit tions were pursued with devout, earnest, agoniz_ tion to the Letter to the Edwards Church, have 
for the rise of the ten kingdoms," or that the eleven the alleged facts to the scrutiny of the public. ing prayer to Him who says, " Ask, and ye shall been most erroneously represented to your readers. 
horns will" embrace the entire territory over which It is hardly conceivable how, with those publi- receive,"—that our chief and constant reliance I might proceed to demonstrate, as I think, that 
the Cmsars reigned?" On what authority is such cations before you, you could have made a repre- has been upon God " who giveth wisdom to all most of your reasonings and Scripture interpreta-
a direct assertion made ? Where does it say, be- sentation so much at variance with the truth. The men.liberally, and upbraideth not "—and that, so tions are equally faulty, and that they are wholly 
cause four horns represented one entire kingdom, Letter to the Church did not undertake to give a deep and thorough is our consciousness of recti- inconclusive against a single point in that pam-
therefore ten or eleven horns shall embrace the en- detail of facts. Such was not its scope or design, tude on this point, if it shall prove that we have phlet. But as this communication is already far 
tire territory of another? An inference? 'Well, My companion and myself had embraced opinions been given up to the machinations of evil beings, too long—and as the fate of the " seventeen and a 
then say so ; and let it be understood that the so- which we presumed our brothers and sisters of the we shall be obliged from our inmost souls to re- quarter pages " of another " reply " is not yet 
perstructure stands upon a presumption, and not church would not wish to fellowship if known ; we gard God as utterly faithless to his promises, and quite forgotten, I must leave your readers to ex-
upon a positive declaration. Better, far better sought frankly to lay before them those opinions, to believe that when we ask bread he will give a amine, think, and interpret for themselves, under 
would it be if it could be said, " we not only pre- accompanied only by a general outline of the na- stone, when we ask truth he will give a lie, when the guidance of that ever-present Spirit whose de-
sume it may be so, but we actually find it so," but tare of the extraordinary facts which had led us we ask lqisdom, he will send only folly and delu- light it is to lead teachable minds " into all truth." 
alas, the Scriptures do not even admit us to pre- to adopt them. We distinctly stated (page 7th,) sion ! (See p. 17, etc.) 
A somewhat extended acquaintance with your 
sume it may be so ; they teach otherwise. that we could not go into the details in that corn- Passing by all, testimony on this point, which is paper in past years, Mr. Editor, has led me to he- 
Upon this mere inference, a line is drawn around munication, since an elaborate volume would be as worthy of evidence as anything else contained lieve that you do not belong to that class of jour 
the extreme limits of the Roman territory, in order required to present them adequately ; and so far in the " Letter," you leave your readers to infer nalists who conceive they hare a right to say all 
that ample room may be had, in which to find a from asking them to " assent to " these facts on that we have been guilty, in direct defiance of the manner of harsh things, true or false, of one who 
sufficient number of kingdoms, to furnish the re- such testimony, we repeatedly intimated that we alleged command of Jehovah, of " consulting with differs from them ; and then deny him any claim 
quired catalogue for the year 519 A. D. could not expect them to do so, or even on any familiar spirits," of " seeking unto wizards and for space in which to reply. You acknowledge 
This extent of territory to roam over, for that testimony that we could give—though we suggested witches," of " talking with the dead," and of ask- your " obligation to canvas the merits of whatever 
purpose, is not permitted by prophecy ; for not that our testimony might be equally worthy of ing and accepting instruction from doubtful and receives the assent of any considerable number of 
only the descriptive and explanatory language con- evidence with that of persons who testified to shni- even damnable sources. You even attribute to us thinking minds, or which presents claims of possi-
cerning those kingdoms, but the symbols employed, ear facts (and with no greater precision of state- a form of expression which we did not use, fbr the ble truthfulness." I submit whether you can can-
forbid such an inference. To the four horns are ment) eighteen hundred years ago—but on the purpose of bringing us into apparent collision with vas the claims of this subject in any more rational 
distinctly given universal territorial occupancy, but contrary we frankly and openly invited all to a an alleged Divine command ; inasmuch as you sub or satisfactory manner than by a personal investi-
not to the ten or the eleven. Of the former, it is personal investigation of the facts for themselves. stitute " communicate with the dead," for " inter- gation of the facts themselves. And to test the 
said, " the great horn was broken ; and for it came More than this, in my reply to the congregational- course with spirits." We have never professed to sincerity of your professions, I tender to you the 
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven ; ist, (p. 21,) I used this emphatic language " I " talk with the dead," but with " spirits " which same offer that I made to the editors of the Con-
of the ten, no such language is used ; it is simply ask no man to believe on my testimony, where the are living beings—" for all live unto him." And gregationalist, (and which they have not seen fit to 
written of them, " and it had ten horns," " the same evidence is accessible to all. 1 ask all to see as to all these intimations and imputations of foul avail themselves of)—viz., any assistance that it 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE DISCUSSION. 
THE GREAT TRIBULATION. 
MR. EDITOR :—In your reply to my remarks on 
the identity of the " time of trouble " spoken of 
Dan. 12:1, and the " great tribulation " foretold 
by our Saviour, Matt. 24:21, you say, that al-
though the tribulation began when the Romans in-
vaded Judea for the overthrow of Jerusalem, it 
did not end there. 
I do not think this a sufficient answer to my ar-
gument. It does not meet the point. My posi-
tion was that the time of trouble predicted by Dan-
iel is clearly placed in connection with the resur-
rection and glorification of the people of God ; and 
is to be such a time of trouble as never was since 
there was a nation to that same time. But our 
Saviour foretold "- great tribulation such as was 
not from the beginning of the world to that same 
time, no nor ever shall be." [Note 1]. Now how 
can that predicted by Christ be in the past, and be 
such as never was before and never shall he again, 
and that predicted by Daniel be in the future and 
yet be such as never was before ? What does it 
matter whether it began at the destruction of Je-
rusalem, and lasted a long or a short time, pro-
vided there was never such before and never shall 
be again, so long as according to Daniel, in con-
nection with the resurrection there shall be such a 
time as never was before ? If what Christ calls, 
such as never was and never shall be again, is past, 
whether it began at Jerusalem's destruction and 
ended there, or whether it began there and ended 
in the last century, is immaterial to my argument ; 
there cannot, as according to Daniel, is predicted, 
he another such as never was since there was a 
nation to that same time, just in connection with 
just Christ s coming. This is clear. 
To regard them as identical is the only way of 
harmonizing the two passages; and they can only 
then be referred to the future. For such are the 
attending circumstances in Dan. 12th, that it is 
impossible on any just principles of interpretation 
to place it at the destruction of Jerusalem, or in-
deed anywhere in the past. Let us look at those 
preceding and attending events, as recorded by 
Daniel. 
1st. The 11th chapter begins with the Medo-
Persian dynasty and extends over the whole Gen-
tile reign, until he, the last great Gentile mon-
arch, comes to his end and none shall help him. 
This is clearly to the end of the times of the Gen-
tiles. 
2d. In chap. 12:1, we are told. " At that time 
shall Michael stand up, the great prince which 
standeth for the children of thy people." The 
usus lopendi of this phrase, " stand up," in Dan. 
11th chapter, is, to assume royal power or come 
to the throne to reign. Thus : " There shall yet 
stand up three kings in Persia." " And when he 
shall stand up," " then shall stand up a raiser of 
taxes, in the glory of the kingdom." " In his 
estate shall stand up a vile person." All these in-
stances of the use of the term, settle its import. 
It is therefore at that point where Christ leaves 
the mercy-seat to assume his royal dignities. 
3d. " There shall be a time of trouble such as never 
was since there was a nation to that same time ; and 
at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one 
found written in the book." The argument which 
makes a distinction between a time of trouble, and 
great tribulation, appears to me most unsatisfac-
tory, if not puerile. I have not a copy of the Sep-
tuagint in Greek at hand, but Thompson's transla 
tion of the passage from the Greek, is as follows : 
" And there will be a time of tribulation—a tribu-
lation such as there hath not been since there was 
a nation on the earth even to this time." 
But it is said, " The tribulation spoken of by 
Matthew, is one through which the children of God 
must pass, but before this trouble predicted by 
Daniel they are to he delivered." I reply, this is 
an entire assumption. The text does not affirm 
their deliverance before the trouble, but intimates 
that they will go through it, and be delivered from 
it. Nor is it any more conclusive to say that Dan- 
iel predicted trouble which will befall the wicked, 
and it is in the future ; but Christ foretold what 
would befall his people, and it is past. 
Christ foretold what would befall all flesh ; for 
he said, " Except those days should be shortened 
no flesh should be saved. But for the sake of the 
elect those days shall be shortened." The exist-
ence of the wicked as well as the righteous, there-
fore, would be jeopardized by the protraction of 
the trouble. 
But will Matthew harmonize with the idea that 
the tribulation is future, any better than Daniel 
will that it is past 
is in my power to render in the investigation of 
these facts. For truth, love and goodness, I am 
ever yours, 
A. C. NEWTON. 
Boston, Oct. 17th, 1853, 
There are but two important arguments that 
can think of, which bear against its being iii the 
future. 
1st. That Christ directed his disciples that when 
they shall see the abomination of desolation spoken 
of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, 
then those who are in Judea should flee to the 
mountains, for then shall be great tribulation, &c. 
What that abomination is, there are two opinions, 
which place it in the past. 1st. That it was the 
Paganism of the Romans that destroyed Jerusa-
lem. 2d. That it was the Papacy or Papal abomi-
nations. But when they or it was so set up in the 
holy place or land, so as to constitute a sign for 
Christians to flee from Judea, we are not told, and 
therefore I am unable to meet the point, for the 
want of something tangible to meet. To the other 
I have already replied by showing that Matthew 
and Luke have recorded each the same direction to 
be observed on two different occasions. Luke giv-
ing directions what- should be done when Jerusa-
lem should be compassed with armies prior to its 
destruction, and Matthew, what shall be done when 
the abomination of desolation shall stand in the 
holy place, in the end of this dispensation. 2d. 
The other argument is, that the great tribulation 
is to precede the darkening of the sun, &c., and 
that those signs have taken place. 
I am aware of the prejudices and prepossessions 
I shall have to meet here. But nevertheless I am 
bound to write what I believe to be the truth irre-
spective of consequences. When in 1842, I pub-
lished the prophetic expositions, I expressed my-
self on the subject of the dark day of 1780, thus : 
" Such a day of darkness has never been known, 
so far as I can learn from history, (and I have 
searched for it most diligently,) since the crucifix-
ion of our Saviour. There have been several such 
events since in different countries. If any one can 
produce evidence of such an appearance before 
1780, I will thank them most heartily for the in-
formation, and correct this statement. 
Such evidence was subsequently produced in the 
columns of the Herald, I think in 1847, (for which 
the editor will please accept my hearty thanks) ; 
but at the time of its appearance the foregoing 
pledge had escaped my recollection. But when in 
1850, it was re-called to my mind, I gave a course 
of lectures on the 24th of Matthew and made the 
correction, by giving the facts, and my present 
views ; and the substance of them was published 
in the Herald. It appears from the facts referred 
to, as given by Noah Webster, that there has, dur-
ing the Christian dispensation, been a large num-
ber of darkenings of the sun. My premises have 
failed me, and I was compelled to give up may argu-
ment. 
I do not deny that the sun was darkened in 1780, 
nor that it produced wide-spread consternation. 
But I doubt its being a sign spoken of by Christ ; 
let, because it was confined to the northern portion 
of the United States, and hence, was not sufficient-
ly universal. 2d. It is not in the order of time and 
events in connection with which that specific sign 
was to come. 
The order of events as recorded by Luke is as 
follows : " Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the 
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the 
moon, and in the stars ; on earth distress of nations 
with perplexity, the sea and waves roaring," &c. 
From this it appears that the events are to take 
place after the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled, 
and that they will constitute the convulsion of na-
ture which will precede and accompany the advent 
of our Saviour. When it comes it will be a pe-
riod of such universal darkness that the whole 
race will feel its effects. 
Hence, regarding the darkening of the sun pre-
dicted by Christ as a future and not past event, it 
does not stand in the way of my considering the 
great tribulation a future event. 
The positive arguments in favor of considering 
Matt. 24: 21 future, and identical with Dan. 12: 
1, are these : 
From Matt. 24 : 4 to 14, we have a prophetic 
history of the whole gospel period, bringing us, 
in the 14th verse, to the end. 
The 15th verse has a logical connection with 
the 14th,—" When therefore ye see," &e. 
The great tribulation which is to follow the 
standing of the abomination of desolation in the 
holy place, is to be short, and immediately fol- 
lowed by the darkening of the sun, &c. I quote 
Dr. Campbell's translation. Verse 22—" For if 
the time were protracted no soul could survive ; 
but for the sake of the elect, the time shall be 
short." It is not the cutting short of an appoint- 
ed time, but the determining beforehand that it 
shall be but a short time. But from A. D. 70 to 
1780 is a long time. So is 1260 or 1290 years a 
long time. This tribulation will be short. 
Lastly : The convulsions of nature and corn- 
ing of the Son of man immediately follow this last 
great tribulation. Therefore Dan 12 : 1, and 
Matt 24 : 21 are identical. J. LITCH. 
REMARKS :—Note 1.—We formerly supposed that 
a similarity of expression in Daniel and Matthew, 
made some kind of a connection between those pas-
sages ; but on examining the nature of the phrase-
ology, we are satisfied that it is an oriental idio-
matical mode of expressing the magnitude of the 
thing described. The following note of Whitby 
on Matt. 24:21, we think takes a correct view of 
it. He says 
There shall be then tribulation, ow, ov yiyoyEv cow 
alone; ,coo-tf.ov Etc5 'rev 11,./1/ OV toe "yeire,rect, such as 
never was from the beginning of the world, no, nor 
ever shall be. These words seem to be a familiar 
form of expressing a thing that is exceeding great, 
or perhaps the greatest in its kind, rather than a 
prediction that no future calamity should be like 
it. So Ex. 10:14—" Before them there were no 
such locusts, neither after them shall there be 
such ;'.' and Joel 2:2—" A day of darkness and of 
gloominess ; there bath not been ever the like, nor 
shall be after it." Now Josephus, speaking of the 
same destruction, saith, iayrE eroT,ty et.T.T.Ei? TomuTa 
7t-E7royeEvcct, " No other city ever suffered such 
things ;" and again, fra youv 7rcotrcey co= atom; 
czervxqt,aTct. 7rpo5 Ta Iovktici, ryTTcoo-aat too; hx.E
t 
,ociTct. rrvroptcriy, " All the calamities which have 
ever happened to any from the beginning, seein not 
to be comparable to those which befell the Jews." 
—Whitby's Corn. 
confinement. He had been from home about six 
months, and while friends were expecting his re-
turn to make them a visit, he comes laden with 
disease, which, after a few days, causes a most 
trying separation ; but they believe it will be 
short, being supported with the hope of the resur-
rection. His kindness and affection won for him 
the respect of those knew him. 
" 0 there the loved of earth shall meet, 
Whom death has sundered here ; 
The prophets and patriarchs there will greet, 
And all shall worship at Jesus' feet, 
No more separation to fear. 
" Though trials and griefs await us here, 
The conflict will soon be o'er ; 
This glorious hope our hearts shall cheer, 
For we know that the Saviour will soon appear, 
And then we shall grieve no more." 
J. G. SMITH. 
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Since I came to this place, I have enjoyed some 
very good meetings with our Advent brethren here ; 
though there are circumstances existing which are 
not so pleasant, and which, no doubt, might meet 
with a favorable change in their complete removal, 
if every one more fully sought to possess " the 
spirit of Christ, without which, we are none of 
his." 
But, notwithstanding the great lack which exists 
among us in regard to interest and activity in the 
cause, it is believed there are some good souls—
some who are really pious at heart, and who have 
devotedly sacrificed a great deal of labor and prop 
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toiled to sustain the cause of the Coming One, in 
endeavoring to obtain the ministration of the 
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The movements in Europe seem to indicate that 
the " Great Battle " will soon commence ; and it 
behooves us all to be in readiness for the still more 
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assigned us by the Master, that we may be honored 
and blessed with the joyful announcement when he 
shall appear—" Come ye blessed of my Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world." 
As ever, yours in hope, 
Oct 3d, 1853. 
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LABORS IN OHIO. 
Oct. 61/I.-Took the cars for Cleveland, Ohio, 
to fill my next appointment. On my arrival Messrs. 
Beckwith, Penfield, and Livingston, met me at the 
depot, and gave me a hearty welcome. I put up 
with Mr. Beckwith, as they had made provision 
for me to do so. I was most cordially received 
and had every attention. We have a little rem-
nant here, only, of a large company which for a 
time were under the care of our late brother C. 
Fitch. They once had a fine chapel. On my 
former visit to this city with Father Miller, we 
preached in it. But by the apostacy of J. D. 
Pickands, and other leaders in this region, the 
cause was well nigh destroyed, and the chapel 
sold. With a sound and judicious ministry, a 
large and useful church would have shed its light 
in this city and vicinity. But we are left to weep 
over the desolation of Zion. Brother Penfield pro-
cured a hall for one evening. We had but a lim-
ited notice, yet a few gathered in to hear, and I 
trust the service will not be in vain. On my re-
turn I hope, by the will of God, to visit them again 
and make a longer stay, so as to give a series of 
lectures. 
During my short stay, I called upon a number 
of old friends. Among this number was Dr. G. C. 
Perry, of the Episcopal church. We had not met 
for twenty-three years. Then he was an eminent 
minister of the Baptist order. I found him most 
pleasantly situated, and useful. Within a few 
years he has by his industry built up a flourishing 
society, (St. Paul's) which is now committed to 
other hands. He is preaching now to another 
church, which is filling up. He gave me a hear-
ing ; and I also had an interesting conversation 
with him on subjects connected with our faith. 
He does not yet see the full force of our literal in-
terpretation. I hope he may yet see it. 
I also called upon Mrs. Fitch, widow of brother 
Charles Fitch, who resides here. I was received 
with great kindness. I found her well, with her 
children, who are quite grown up, industrious and 
prosperous. My interview was one of solemn in-
terest, as this was our first meeting since the death 
of brother Fitch. It called up past scenes both 
pleasant and painful. The family attend at St. 
Paul's church, of which Dr. Perry was late pastor. 
Brother Livingston, formerly of Oberlin, resides 
about ten miles from the city. He came in to at- 
tend the meeting. I had a very pleasant interview 
with him. He is firm and faithful, still looking 
for the " blessed hope." 
Oct. 8th.-In company with Mr. Beckwith, went 
to Shelby station, on the Cincinnati road, where 
we parted. 'I he Lord reward him for his kindness. 
After waiting a couple of hours, in company with 
brother D. Boon, of Norwalk, I took the cars for 
Mansfield, Ohio. On our arrival I found brother 
Snyder in waiting, who received us to his hospi-
talities. 
Oct. 9th.-Sabbath, gave three discourse in the 
Baptist chapel. As but few had heard on the sub-
ject before, I began a regular course of lectures on 
the great doctrines of the Advent faith. I had 
good audiences, made up of the sober and intelli-
gent part of community. Scarcely a light-minded 
person attended during the whole course. Nearly 
all the clergy, lawyers, and judges were in attend-
ance at these meetings. 
Oct. 10th.-Gave two lectures, one at 2 P. M. and 
one at seven in the evening. I explained Dan. 2:44. 
During the discourse I spoke of the error which 
many teach for truth, viz., that the " stone," Dan. 
2:34, " smote the image on the feet," in the in-
troduction of the gospel, in the apostolic age. I 
showed to the audience that the feet did not come 
into existence until the fall of Imperial Rome, in 
the fifth century. It could not smite them until 
they came into existence,-and certainly not five 
hundred years before they existed. At the close 
of the lecture the Congregational clergyman rose 
and replied. He gave up the ground that is usu-
ally taken, that the " stone smote the image " in 
the beginning of the gospel ; and fixed the date of 
the " smiting " in the days of Constantine ! His 
ideas were not very clear, and I think he did not 
1.1MINIO1 
of the plot was to assassinate the Emperor, and to 
destroy the form of government. 
A Parisian paper has the following :-It appears 
by the last accounts from Constantinople that a 
portion of the Turkish fleet had proceeded to cruise 
in the Black Sea, for the purpose of protecting the 
movement of Abdi Pacha's army, and to keep in 
check the Russian ships, which are supporting 
their army and are preventing any communication-
with the Circassian tribes. Should the Russian 
army cross the Danube and menace the provinces 
adjoining Constantinople, the remainder of the 
Turkish fleet will be commanded to proceed to the 
Black Sea to prevent the Russian fleet front sup-
plying the army of Prince Paskiewitch with mili-
tary stores or provision. 
From the Danube we hear that Omar Pacha has 
organized a regiment of pontoniers, under whose 
instruction they are making rapid progress. He 
has nearly completed all the material for throwing 
a bridge across the river, but it is not expected 
that lie will make any movement before next 
spring. 
Prince Gortschakoff, it is said, has ordered 3000 
huts to be erected on the left bank of the Danube. 
The Commissariat of the Russian Army is des-
cribed by the Times as being so infamously man-
aged that sometimes there is no bread for the troops 
to eat-and that from 10,000 to 20,000 men are 
constantly in the hospital with dysentery and ty-
phus fever. Generals Gortschakoff and Daunanberg 
are also ill. 
A thing hitherto unheard of in the Russian ser-
vice has occurred. Generals Satler and Kotzebue 
have written to St. Petersburg, and declared that 
in consequence of the nonchalance of Prince Gorts-
chakoff, the army will be ruined before the cam-
paign begins. 
.Prince Paskiewitch is loudly demanded by the 
army. Things are going on well in the Turkish 
army. 
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna says, that 
the following was the reply of Prince Gortschakoff 
to the summons of Omar Pacha to evacuate the 
Danubian principalities : 
" My master is not at war with Turkey, but I 
have orders not to leave the Principalities until 
the Porte shall have given to the Emperor the moral 
satisfaction he demands. When this has been 
obtained, I will evacuate the Principalities immedi-
ately, whatever the time or season. If I am 
attacked by the Turkish army I will confine myself 
to the defensive." 
Voluntary gifts of all descriptions continue to 
flow into the Turkish treasury ; jewels, money, 
horses, houses and lands, to an immense amount, 
were offered for the national service. 
Eight thousand rediffs were armed, clothed and 
equipped from the proceeds of one day's offering. 
Military preparations continue with unabated 
spirit. 
The Turkish steam frigates Feridie,Talf, Feridje, 
Medjedie have been sent to Beyroot, to take on 
hoard 12,000 regulars of the army of Syria. 
Orders have been given to call out 50,000 more 
rediffs, exclusive of the reserves. Of these 50,000, 
18,000 were armed and equipped by the city of 
Constantinople. 
The Paris correspondent of the Times says : 
" Something additional has, I am informed, been 
demanded of the French, and I suppose of the 
English government, namely, that the fleets of both 
shall cruise in the Black Sea to prevent the Rus-
sians from drawing their provisions and stores from 
Bastoral. The demand is occasioned, at least such 
is the reason alleged, by the necessary reduction in 
the Bosphorus of the Turkish fleet ; many of the 
ships having been employed as transports for the 
troops." 
EDWIN BURNHAM will hold a conference in North Haverhill, N. II., 
to commence the Thursday evening before the first Sunday in 
December, and hold over the Sabbath. Also one at Whitefield, 
N. II., to begin Thursday evening, Dec. 8th, and hold over the 
Sabbath. (In behalf of the brethren.)-W. H. EASTMAN. 
W. M. INGHAM will be in Portsmouth 11th, evening, where the breth-
ren may appoint ; Rye, N. II., the 15th, where the brethren may 
appoint ; Wilton, Me., (in the hardy school-house), Sunday, 20th, 
and remain some days ; Mount Vernon, Sunday, 27th; Portland, 
Sunday, Dec. 4th. 
A MEETING will commence at Loudon, N. IL, Thursday evening 
Nov. 17th, and continue over the following Sabbath, on which oc-
casion our recently erected chapel will be dedicated. Elders T. 
M. Preble and L. Oster will be present. (For the brethrbn.) 
JOHN LOCK. 
D. I. ROBINSON will preach in Rochester, N. Y., Sunday, Nov. 13th ; 
Seneca Falls, 20th to 27th ; Auburn, 29th and 30th ; Syracuse, 
31st ; Brewerton, Dec. 4th. 
A CONFERENCE will commence at Newfield on Thursday before the 
third Sabbath in November, at 10.', o'clock, and continue over the 
Sabbath.-EDWIN BURNHAM. 
L. D. THOMPSON will preach. in Meredith Centre, N. H., Sunday, 
13th ; Bristol, Vt., Sunday, 20th. 
Enwrs BURNHAM will preach in Rockville Sabbath, Nov. 13th, and 
in Blandford, Sabbath, 20th. 
L D. MANSFIELD will preach in Chardon-street chapel, Boston, Sun-
day, Nay. 13th. 
BENJAMIN WEBB will preach in Stanbridge, C. E. (Stone settlement), 
Nuv. 25th, and remain over the Sabbath. 
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ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 12. 1853. 
make many converts to his views. I put into hisl 
hands some publications, which I think he will read 
with candor and profit. 
The last kingdom in this prophecy is an un-
changing, eternal and boundless kingdom. This 
was not set up when Christ first appeared. When 
it is set up, the Roman kingdom will be utterly 
destroyed ; and this must take place at the second 
advent of Christ. Why do the ministry overlook 
this ? 
Oct. 11th. and 12th.-The services continued with 
increasing interest. Two discourses were given on 
each day. The interest had now increased to such 
an extent that the audience desired the meetings 
continued over another Sabbath. A goodly num-
ber expressed their full confidence in the views, 
and will advocate them. There were several per-
sons deeply convicted, but we had no means of 
reaching them, so as to get them to make a public 
confession. I doubt not the church will reap a 
harvest, if faithful. Brethren Snyder and Wilken- 
son were the only brethren on whom we could rely, 
when we went to this place. They have our thanks 
for their attention and kindness. They will now 
have others to aid them in the good work. 
Since I left them, brother Snyder wrote to me, 
" Your effort here will tell on the consciences of 
your hearers • at that day.' You have left a last-
ing impression of the truth delivered. I have not 
heard a dissenting voice. Those who hung upon 
your lips from day to day, are anxious to hear you 
again-they want more light." 
Brother D. Boon, of Norwalk, rendered me much 
aid, and was useful in the work. He ought to be 
wholly given to the work of the ministry. 
Oct. 13th.-Took the cars for Norwalk, 0., in 
company with brother Boon, and arrived in the 
evening in season for service. I was kindly re- 
ceived and entertained by brother and sister Ross. 
The Court House had been obtained for the meet- 
ings. As this was a. town where there had been 
much preaching on the subject of the Advent, as 
also a variety of views promulgated, I did not ex- 
pect much of an audience. But in this 1 was 
greatly disappointed. There was a large turn out, 
and the most solemn attention. I gave two dis- 
courses, and was very kindly received by the 
friends, and the citizens generally. I called upon 
brother Ailing, and several other brethren, who 
received me cordially. I am glad to know that 
my visit was not only agreeable, but profitable for 
the spiritual interests of the cause. Here also I 
was greeted by my old friend R. T. Rust, formerly 
of Waitsfield, Vt. He is well, and doing well in 
his new home in the West. 
Constantinople, Oct. 13th.-The combined fleets 
have not entered the Dardanelles yet, but it is mo-
mentarily expected. The fleet in our harbor which 
had gone into winter quarters has been ordered to 
prepare for sea with all possible despatch. 
St. Petersburg despatches state that preparations 
for war are proceeding rapidly. The Emperor had 
returned from Berlin on the 12th. 
Two hundred ships were lying at Odessa load-
ing with grain. 
The steamer Andes arrived out on Saturday, the 
21st. The Washington arrived out at midnight of 
the same day. 
Eastern affairs are unchanged. 
Omar Pacha's summons to the Russians has 
been published. It is temperate and manly ; whilst 
Gortschakoff 's reply is short and boorish. 
Hostilities were expected to commence about the 
25th instant, in Asia probably. 
Abdel Kader has been offered a command by the 
Turkish government, but awaits permission from 
the French government. 
The Turks are voluntarily pouring immense trea-
sures into the treasury. 
The combined fleets are ordered to the Darda-
nelles, but are not to enter the Black Sea except on 
the hoitile advance of the Russians. 
The Sultan had granted a firman to an English 
company to construct a ship canal from Bassora 
to the Black Sea, thus superseding the mouth of 
the Danube. 
The French Transatlantic Mail Steamship Com-
pany of Dieppe have ordered twelve screw steam-
ers from London builders. 
Statements are in circulation that Kozsta is not 
released. 
The import duty on wheat into Sardinia is re-
duced to fifty centimes per hectolitre. 
A bread riot had occurred at Turin. 
Another earthquake had been experienced in 
Greece. 
The trial of the persons concerned in the conspi-
racy of the Opera Comique has been postponed to 
next month ; twenty-seven of the accused are in 
custody. According to the indictment the object 
To Correspondents. 
CORRESPONDENTS are exhorted to a degree of pa-
tience respecting the appearance of their favors 
if we are unable to accommodate them as early as 
they wish, they will consider that it is owing to a 
crowd of matters which are pressing upon us at the 
present time. 
We have received a reply to that portion of our 
reply, to the time of the advent, which had respect 
to the rise of the ten kingdoms-endeavoring to 
confute our position. We shall give it as soon as 
we can get to it. 
J. GRIEVE-WE do not know that one portion of 
the pamphlet was less intelligible than another. 
We find nothing in it of sufficient interest to open 
a discussion respecting it any way. 
" EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES ON ROMANS Xl. (the 
Two Covenants) and Rev. XX., with other impor-
tant Scriptures ; showing the true relation of the 
Jew to God, and the covenant of his mercy in 
Christ ; and the Scriptural character of the Mil-
lennium. By 0. R. Fassett." 
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the preface of the author, which was published in 
the _Herald of the 29th ult. Price, 33 cents, with 
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N. BILLINGS will preach at Kingston Plain, N. IL, Nov. 15th ; New 
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Meredith Neck, Sabbath, 20th-will some brother Call for me at 
the depot on the arrival of the first train from Concord on Satur-
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over the Sabbath, as Elder Thurber may arrange ; Calais and vi-
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