J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
OFFICE, No. 8, Chardon-stroet. 
" When the Sheriff proceeded to arrest Seth 
Paine, he found him engaged in writing an ar-
ticle for the next Christian, Banker. He showed 
Mr. P. his warrant to take his body. Seth made 
a novel and characteristic resistance. He pro-
ceeded as fast as he could, to reduce himself to 
the condition of our first parents, before they 
sowed the fig-leaves for aprons, and had actually 
commenced vigorous operations upon his nether 
integuments, when Sheriff Bradley seized him 
and put a stop to further proceedings in that di-
rection. Paine evidently thought if he could 
only reduce himself to a state of nature, the 
Sheriff would not have the audacity to take him 
through the public streets. Having refused to 
walk to the jail, it was found necessary to carry 
him bodily, which was very quietly done." 
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ROMISH DOCTRINES. 
HEADSHIP OF CHRISTIANITY. 
4 
Tins claim was the first of the Romish er-
rors, and the fount from which they all flowed. 
But this claim was first formally made in the 
sixth century, (A. D. 533) and was established by 
the Emperor Justinian. But no mortal power 
had the right to give or assume this title. The 
headship of the universal Church belongs to 
Christ alone, who has been made " head over 
all things to his church." No human being, 
could be competent to the high duty of govern-
ing a church spreading, and to be ultimately 
spread, through all nations. The government is 
also spiritual, of which no human being of this 
earth can have a comprehension. Its seizure by 
the Bishop of Rome was an enormous usurpa-
tion. In about sixty years after, the title was 
disclaimed by the Bishop of Rome, in indigna-
tion at its seizure by the Bishop of Constantino-
ple ; but it was solicited again in the reign of 
the Emperor Phocas (A. D. 606), and has been 
ever since retained. It is not to be presumed 
that this usurpation was universally allowed. 
God has not left himself without witnesses in 
any age. Successive opponents of Rome, preach-
ers of the gospel, the true Protestants, arose dur-
ing the dark ages ; and a continued resistance 
to superstition was sustained for the thousand 
years of the Popish assumption ; until, in the six-
teenth century, the recovery of learning, the re-
newed intelligence of the human mind, the trans-
lation of the Bible, and, above all, and acting 
through all, the mercy of God, restored Chris-
tianity to the world in the glorious German 
Reformatiom, (A. D. 1517.) 
INFALLIBILITY. 
This was too monstrous a conception to be 
adopted, but in the utter prostration of the gen-
eral mind. It was, accordingly first made an 
article of faith in the very centre of the Dark 
Ages, (A. D. 1076.) But this claim is so repug-
nant to reason, so contradictory to the common 
sense of man, and so palpably overthrown by 
the vicious conduct of Popes, and the contempti-
ble quarrels of Councils, that, even among the 
Papists, it has been the most dubious of all doc-
trines—some of the Popish parties placing in-
fallibility in a General Council, some in a Gen-
eral Council united with the Pope, some in the 
Universal Church. But those disputes, which 
no human understanding could ever decide, show 
only the repugnancy of the doctrine itself to the 
human intellect. Infallibility was, at length, 
by the mere ignorance of knowing where to place 
it, quietly delivered into the possession of the 
Pope. He is now presumed to be the acting in-
fallibility of the Roman world. Yet, immeas-
urably absurd as this doctrine is, it is the espe-
cial and favorite one on which the Tractarians 
insist, and by which the apostates attempt to 
justify their guilty desertion to Rome. Infatu-
ated as they are, they have fixed on the very 
point where infatuation is most infatuated, and 
where perversion most degrades the character of 
the understanding. 
AURICULAR CONFESSION. 
By this doctrine, the forgiveness of sin must 
be preceded by confession to apriest. In con- 
tradiction to the whole tenor of Scripture, which 
declares the forgiveness of sin to depend on 
sincere prayers for forgiveness through the atone-
ment of Christ, and on the determination to 
sin no more : " Come to me, all ye that are 
heavy laden., and I will refresh you," " Re-
pent ye, and be converted, that your sins may 
be blotted out." But auricular confession, with 
its subsequent absolution, actually increased 
crime, by disburdening the mind of remorse, 
and by substituting absolution far repentance. 
This practice was established, as a portion of 
the acknowledged system of Rome, scarcely be-
fore the thirteenth century. 
PURGATORY. 
This doctrine was unheard of in the first 
four centuries. It crept in about the seventh 
century, the period of the chief corruption of 
worship. It was not sanctioned by any Council 
until the fifteenth century, (A. D. 1438.) Its 
first establishment was by the Council of Trent. 
This doctrine, which is wholly, contradictory to 
the redemption declared in the Gospel, as re-
sulting from the sufferings of Christ alone ; de-
clares that every sinner must be qualified for re-
demption in part, by undergoing sufferings of 
his own; that he must be personally punished in 
Purgatory for his temporal sins, to be purified 
for heaven. The doctrine is evidently borrowed 
from the heathen ideas of Tartarus. It has not 
the slightest ground in Scripture, and is totally 
opposed to the whole spirit and bearing of Chris-
tianity. 
POPISH APPEAL. 
WOULD our readers like to see a specimen of 
Popish appeal for money? They may have a 
very fair sample supplied by the Rev. John Bo-
nus, of Acton-green, Middlesex. That gentle-
man, with the aid of the Virgin, is trying to 
raise the wind. For this purpose he. designates 
Mary " our Ladye of Grace of Acton," and, un-
der her auspices, he issues the following adver-
tisement : 
" Our Ladye of Grace of Acton has well nigh 
100 poor children, but she has no funds for ei-
ther school or teacher. Our Ladye of Grace of 
Acton has a priest with a cure of 1,500 souls, 
chiefly poor laboring men and women, dispersed 
through the villages of Acton, Ealing, Turn-
hamgreen, Chiswick, Sutton, and part of Brent-
ford ; but she has neither church for her people, 
nor rectory for her priest. Our Ladye of Grace 
of Acton sits in her poor damp cellar, weeping. 
Such the sole shelter she has for herself, her chil-
dren, her people, her priest—aye, even for the 
glorious presence of her Son ! Oh !—' vos om-
nes qui4ransitis par viam '—can you 'do nothing 
for our Ladye of Grace of Acton, noble and rich 
ladies and gentlemen, with pleasant houses, and 
bright, fair, happy children—converts who owe 
your happiness to this same sweet Ladye—good 
Christian people all, who profess yourselves ser-
vants of Marye ?, 
" Money will console her—money will teach 
her poor neglected children—money will build 
a church for her people and a tabernacle for her 
son—and nothing but money will do these things. 
Ah ! send, then, some aid, even though the most 
trifling—even a postage stamp! Never was need 
more dire than this." 
The Ladye of Grace of Acton is an inveterate 
gambler, the patroness of the raffle, which, on 
the present occasion, she calls to her aid. Mr. 
Bonus intimates that, 
" The raffle will be completed in 3,000 sub-
scriptions at a shilling each, for upwards of ten 
prizes, all useful, and many valuable." 
What say our readers to this? There is an 
example for them ! But, seriously, such is the 
melancholy state Of things at this moment . car-
ried on in great, glorious, free, and Protestant 
England! 
We much regret to have to report, from time 
to time, the progress of Popery in the land of 
JOhn Knox. It was once supposed, that wher-
ever there might be a resurrection of that invet- 
crate enemy of everything good, it would not b 
in Scotland. Scotchmen, with decent pride, and 
not without substantial reason, quoted the me-
morable saying of-Knox. The great Reformer 
being apprised, that while the nests remained 
the rooks, though driven away, would one day 
return, at once replied, he would prevent the re-
turn of the rooks by destroying the nests, and 
accordingly, over all the land, he demolished 
the cathedrals. The quarries, however remained, 
together with. the mortar holes and the lime pits, 
and " Money answereth all things." Money 
has been forthcoming, and cathedrals have been 
reared afresh, and, if less sumptuous than those 
of ancient times, they .are more commodious and 
suitable to the taste of the passing day. We see 
at a recent meeting held in -Glasgow, that steps 
were. taken to fortify Popery in the regions of 
Caledonia.. It turns out, in the account given 
of the meeting, that Mr. Brown, once an Oxford 
student, is destined for a Popish mission to the 
Cape of Good Hope, at a salary of £1,500 per 
annum. One of the reverend speakers, on the 
occasion, dealt with the subject of statistics, while 
arguing in support of what is called the Glas-
gow Catholic Association.. That gentleman lays 
claim to no fewer than 120,000 persons as ad-
herents of the Romish Church in Glasgow, which 
will somewhat exceed one-third of the entire 
population. Allow that there is a little bounce 
in the boast, still it must be taken as not greatly 
wide of the fact, and as a most serious circum-
stance, in relation to the best interests, both re-
ligious and social, of the people of that great 
commercial city. 
British Banner. 
RULES FOR WRITERS. 
BE brief. This is the age of Telegraphs 
and Stenography. 
Be pointed. Don't write all round a sub-
ject without hitting it. 
State facts, but don't stop to moralize. 
It's drowsy, business. Let the reader do his own 
dreaming. 
Eschew prefaces, Plunge at once into 
your subject, like a swimmer in cold water. 
If you have written a sentence that you 
think particularly fine, draw your pen through 
it. A pet child is always the worst in the family. 
Condense. Make sure that you really have 
an idea, and then record it in the shortest possi-
ble terms. We want thoughts in their quintes-
sence. 
When your article is complete, strike out 
nine-tenths of the adjectives. The English is a 
strong language, but won't bear too much " re-
ducing." 
Avoid all high flown language, The plain-
est Anglo-Saxon words are the best. Never use 
stilts when legs will do as well. 
Make your sentences short. Every period is 
a mill-stone, at which the reader may halt, and 
rest himself. 
Write legibly. Don't let your manuscript 
look like the tracks of a spider half drowned in 
ink. We shan't mistake any one for a genius, 
though he writes as crabbedly as Napoleon. 
Never employ abbreviations in writing 
for the printer. 
PRAYING TO SAINTS. 
ADAM CLARKE thus comments on the account 
of the rich man calling upon Abraham : " He 
cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on 
me," &e. There was a time when he might 
have prayed to the God of Abraham, and have 
found mercy; now he dares not approach that 
God whom in his life-time he had neglected, and 
he addresses a creature who has neither power 
nor authority to bless, 'This is the only instance 
in the Bible of praying to saints; and, to. the 
confusion of the false, popish doctrine, which 
states it to be necessary and available, let it for-
ever be remembered that it was practiced only 
by a damned soul, and then without any success. 
CONTENT—DISCONTENT. 
Some murmur when the sky is clear, 
And wholly bright to view, 
If one small speck of dark appear 
In their great heaven of blue ; 
And some with thankful love are filled, 
If but one streak of light, 
One ray of God's great mercy gild 
The darkness of their night. 
In palaces are hearts that ask 
In discontent and pride, 
Why life is such a dreary task, 
And all good things denied., 
And hearts in poorest huts admire 
How love has in their aid, 
(Love that not ever seems to tire) 
Such rich provision made. 
SPIRITUAL BANKING. 
WE learn from the Newark Daily Advertiser 
of the arrest and indictment of a party of believ-
ers in spiritual manifestations, who, in obedience 
to the spirits' commands, had established a bank 
at Chicago, and administered its affairs upon a 
system not generally recognized in the mercan-
tile community. The following account of the 
affair will be read with a melancholy interest : 
" A new development of the spiritual rapping 
mania has taken place at Chicago, Illinois. It 
seems that soon after the passage of their free 
banking law, sundry persons connected with the 
rapping delusion undertook to establish a bank, 
all the operations of which were to be conducted, 
as they averred, on the principles of Christiani-
ty ; but it would appear that it was to be Chris-
tianity as understood and promulgated by spir-
itual rapping mediums. Accordingly, the Bank 
of Chicago was established, bills were issued, 
and what seems more strange, many credulous 
people were found willing to take them. The 
operations of the bank were controlled, as it was 
given out, by the spirits of George Washington, 
Andrew Jackson, and Alexander Hamilton ; but 
whether the bill-holders were afraid that An-
drew Jackson would be likely to have his own 
way, as he did when President of the United 
Siates, and in some sudden freak of fancy re-
move the deposits,' we cannot say; but one thing 
is certain, viz.: that it was given out that the 
spirits had directed that no bills should be re-
deemed for those who used tobacco ! which of 
course created dissatisfaction on the part of 
smokers and chewers, eventually leading to a 
row, and the arrest of both rappers and mediums. 
" At the examination, G. Goodrich, Esq., 
moved that the defendants, with the exception 
of one individual, be bound over ; and, in the 
course of his speech, spoke of the bad influence 
of their spiritual manifestations; that they should 
be stopped if possible ; that all that could be 
'done, should be, and that the high priestess es-
pedially, should be deprived of her influence 
over her victims. At this part of the speech, 
the report says, Mrs. Herrick exhibited symptoms 
of the spiritual influence, and made several de-
monstrations towards interrupting the speaker. 
The Court immediately ordered the Sheriff to 
confine her in the jail, which was accordingly 
done, and she was removed from the room after 
an attempt at resistance, by Sheriff Bradley and 
Deputy Sheriff Dexter. 
" The Court, after hearing the counsel, dis-
charged three of the less culpable female bank-
ers, but bound over all the others, except Mrs. 
Herrick, in the sum of $500, to appear before 
the Court on the charge of exciting to a breach 
of the peace. 
" The Democrat of the 11th inst. says that 
Mrs. Herrick, who was connected with the Spir-
itual Bank, as cashier and principal medium, 
was brought up again before Judge Rucker, and 
appeared very quiet, and inclined to penitence. 
The confinement in the jail had evidently pro-
duced a favorable change. The Judge bound 
her over in the sum of $200, in default of which 
she was recommitted. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
66 
God in History, 
(Continued from our last., 
THE RATTLE OF HASTINGS, Ai Di 1066: 
ON this battle field was decided the destiny 
of England. 
WILLIAM the conqueror was vic, 
 
toriousi and the Normans became the sovereigns 
of England. 
No less true than eloquent is Thierry's sum, 
 
ming up of the social effects of the Norman Con, 
 
quest on the generation that witnessed it, and 
on many of their successors, He tells his reader 
that " if he Would form a just idea of England 
conquered by William of Normandy, he must 
figure to himself—not a mere change of politi-
cal rule---not the triumph of one candidate over 
another candidate--of the man of one party over 
the man of another party, but the intrusion of 
one people into the bosom of another people—
the violent placing of one society over another 
society which it came to destroy, and the scat-
tered fragments of which it retained only as per-
sonal property, or (to use the words of an old 
act) as " the clothing of the soil ;" he must not 
picture to himself, on the one hand, William, a 
king and a despot—on the other, subjects of 
William's, high and low, rich and poor, all in-
habiting England, and consequently all English ; 
he must imagine two nations, one of which Wil-
liam is a member and the chief—two nations 
which (if the term must be used) were both sub-
ject to William, but as applied to which the word 
has quite different senses, meaning, in the one 
case, subordinate—in the other, subjugated. He 
must consider that there are two countries, two 
soils, included in the same geographical circum-
ference—that of the Normans, rich and free ; 
that of the Saxons, poor and serving, vexed by 
rent and toilage : the former full of spacious 
mansions, and walled and moated castles ; the 
latter scattered over with huts and straw, and 
ruined hovels : that peopled with the happy and 
the idle—with men of the army and of the court 
—with knights and nobles ; this with men of 
pain and labor—with farmers and artisans : on the 
one side, luxury and insolence ; on the other, 
misery and envy—not the envy of the poor at 
the sight of opulence they cannot reach, but the 
envy of the despoiled when in presence of the 
despoilers." 
Perhaps the effect of Thierry's work has been 
to cast into the shade the ultimate good effects 
on England of the Norman Conquest. Yet these 
are as undeniable as are the miseries which that 
conquest inflicted on our Saxon ancestors from 
the time of the battle of Hastings to the time of 
the si`gning of the Great Charter at Runnymede. 
That last is the true epoch of English nationali-
ty ; it is the epoch when Anglo-Norman and 
Anglo-Saxon ceased to keep aloof from each 
other—the one in haughty scorn, the other in 
sullen abhorrence ; and when all the free men of 
the land, whether barons, knights, yeomen, or 
burghers, combined to lay the foundations of 
English freedom. 
Our Norman barons were the chiefs of that 
primary constitutional movements ; those " iron 
barons," whom Chatham has so nobly eulogized. 
This alone should make England remember her 
obligations to the Norman Conquest, which plant-
ed far and wide, as a dominant class in her land, 
a martial nobility of the bravest and most ener-
getic race that ever existed. 
It may sound paradoxical, but it is in reality 
no exaggeration to say, with Guizot, that Eng-
land's liberties are owing to her having been 
conquered by the Normans. It is true that the 
Saxon institutions were the primitive cradle of 
English liberty, but by their own intrinsic force 
they could never have founded the enduring free 
English Constitution. It was the Conquest that 
infused into them a new virtue, and the politi-
cal liberties of England arose from the situation 
in which the Anglo-Saxon and the Anglo-Nor-
man populations and laws found themselves 
placed relatively to each other in this island. 
The state of England under her last Anglo-Sax-
on kings closely resembled the state of France 
under the last Carlovingian and the first Cape-
tian princes. The crown was feeble, the great 
nobles were strong and turbulent ; and although 
there was more national unity in Saxon England 
than in France—although the English local free 
institutions had more reality and energy than 
was the case with any thing analogous to them 
on the Continent in the eleventh century, still 
the probability is that the Saxon system of poli- 
ty, if left to itself; would have fallen into utter 
confusion, out of which would have arisen, first, 
an aristocratic hierarchy, like that which arose 
in France; next, an absolute monarchy; and, 
finally, a series of anarchical revolutions, such 
as we now behold around, but not among us. 
* * * * * * 
JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH AT OR-
LEANS, A. D. 1429. 
" THE eyes of all Europe were turned toward 
this scene,ithere it was reasonably supposed the 
French were to make their last stand for main-
taining the independence of their monarchy and 
the rights of their sovereign."—Hume. 
Seldom has the extinction of a nation's inde, 
pendence appeared more inevitable than Was the 
case in France when the English invaders com-
pleted their lines round Orleans, four hundred 
and twenty,two years ago: A series of dreadful 
defeats had thinned the chivalry of France, and 
daunted the spirits of her soldiers. A foreign 
king had been proclaimed in her capital ; and 
foreign armies of the bravest veterans, and led 
by the ablest captains then known in the world, 
occupied the fairest portions of her territory. 
Worse to her, even, than the fierceness and the 
strength of her foes, were the factions, the vices, 
and the crimes of her own children. Her native 
prince was a dissolute trifler, stained with the 
assassination of the most powerful noble of the 
land, whose son, in revenge, had leagued him-
self with the enemy. Many more of her nobili-
ty, many of her prelates, her magistrates, and 
rulers, had sworn fealty to the English king. 
The condition of the peasantry amid the general 
prevalence of anarchy and brigandage, which were 
added to the customary devastations of contend-
ing armies, was wretched beyond the power of 
language to describe. The sense of terror and 
wretchedness seemed to have extended itself even 
to the brute creation. 
" In sooth, the estate of France was then most 
miserable. There appeared nothing but a hor-
rible face, confusion, poverty, desolation, soli-
tarinesse, and feare. The lean and bare labor-
ers in the country did terrific even theeves them-
selves, who had nothing left them to spoile but 
the carkasses of these poore miserable creatures, 
wandering up and down like ghostes drawne out 
of their graves. The least farmes and hamlets 
were fortified by these robbers, English, Bour-
guegnons, and French, every one striving to do 
his worst : all men-of-war were well agreed to 
spoile the countryman and merchant. Even the 
cattell, accustomed to the larume bell, the sign 
of the enemy's approach, would run home of 
themselves without any guide by this accustomed 
misery."—De Serres. 
In the autumn of 1428, the English, who were 
already masters of all France north of the Loire, 
prepared their forces for the conquest of the 
southern provinces, which yet adhered to the 
cause of the dauphin. The city of' Orleans, on 
the banks of that river, was looked upon as the 
last stronghold of the French national party. If 
the English could once obtain possession of it, 
their victorious progress through the residue of 
the kingdom seemed free from any serious ob-
stacle. Accordingly, the Earl of Salisbury, one 
of the bravest and most experienced of the Eng-
lish generals, who had been trained under Hen-
ry V., marched to the attack of the all-import-
ant city ; and, after reducing several places of 
inferior consequence in the neighborhood, ap-
peared with his army before its walls on the 12th 
of October, 1428. 
The Orleannais now, in their distress, offered 
to surrender the city into the hands of the Duke 
of Burgundy, who, though the ally of the Eng-
lish, was yet one of their native princes. The 
Regent Bedford refused these terms, and the 
speedy submission of the city to the English 
seemed inevitable. The Dauphin Charles, who 
was now at Chinon with his remnant of a court, 
despaired of continuing any longer the struggle 
for his crown, and was only prevented from 
abandoning the country by the more masculine 
spirits of his mistress and his queen. Yet nei-
ther they, nor the boldest of Charles's captains, 
could have shown him where to find resources 
for prolonging the war ; and least of all could 
any human skill have predicted the quarter 
whence rescue was to come to Orleans and to 
France. 
In the village of Domremy, on the borders of 
Lorraine, there was a poor peasant of the name 
of Jacques d'Arc, respected in his station of 
life, and who had reared a family in virtuous 
habits and in the practice of the strictest devo-
tion. His eldest daughter was named by her 
parents Jeannette, but she was called Jeanne by 
the French, which was Latinized into Johanna, 
and Anglicized into Joan. 
From infancy to girlhood, Joan had heard 
continually of the woes of the war, and had her-
self witnessed some of the wretchedness that it 
caused. A feeling of intense patriotism grew in 
her with her growth. The deliverance of France 
from the English was the subject of her reveries 
by day and her dreams by night. Blended with 
these aspirations were recollections of the mi-
raculous interpositions of Heaven in favor of the 
oppressed, which she had learned from the le-
gends of her Churc. Her faith was undoubting ; 
her prayers were fervent. " She feared no dan-
ger, for she felt no sin," and at length she be-
lieved herself to have received the supernatural 
inspiration which she sought. 
According to her own narrative, delivered by 
her to her merciless inquisitors in the time of 
her captivity and approaching death, she was 
about thirteen years old when her revelations 
commenced. Her own words describes them 
best. " At the age of thirteen, a voice from 
God came to her to help her in ruling herself, 
and that voice came to her about the hour of 
noon, in summer time, while she was in her fa-
ther's garden. And she had fasted the day be-
fore. And she heard the voice on her right, in 
the direction of the church ; and when she heard 
the voice, she saw also a bright light." After-
ward St. Michael, and St. Margaret, and St. 
Catharine appeared to her. They were always 
in a halo of glory; she could see that their heads 
were crowned with jewels; and she heard their 
voices, which were sweet and mild. She did not 
distinguish their arms or limbs. She heard them 
more frequently than she saw them ; and the 
usual time when she heard them was when the 
church bells were sounding for prayer. And if 
she was in the woods when she heard them, she 
could plainly distinguish their voices drawing 
near to her. When she thought that she dis-
cerned the Heavenly Voices, she knelt down, 
and bowed herself to the ground. Their pres-
ence gladdened her even to tears; and after they 
departed, she wept because they had not taken 
her with them back to Paradise. They always 
spoke soothingly to her. They told her France 
would be saved, and that she was to save it. 
Such were the visions and the voices that moved 
the spirit of the girl of thirteen ; and as she grew 
older, they became more frequent and more clear. 
At last the tidings of the seige of Orleans reached 
Domremy. Joan heard her parents and neigh-
bors talk of the sufferings of its population, of 
the ruin which its capture would bring on their 
lawful sovereign, and of the distress of the dau-
phin and his court. Joan's heart was sorely 
troubled at the thought of the fate of Orleans ; 
and her Voices now ordered her to leave her 
home ; and warned her that she was the instru-
ment chosen by Heaven for driving away the 
English from that city, and for taking the dau-
phin to be anointed king at Rheims. At length 
she informed her parents of her divine mission, 
and told them that she must go to the Sire de 
Baudricourt, who commanded at Vaucouleurs, 
and who was the appointed person to bring her 
into the presence of the king, whom she was to 
save. Neither the anger nor the grief of her 
parents, who said that they would rather see her 
drowned than exposed to the contamination of 
the camp, could move her from her purpose. 
One of her uncles consented to take her to Vau-
couleurs, where De Buadricourt at first thought 
her mad, and derided her ; but by degrees was 
led to believe, if not in her inspiration, at least 
in her enthusiasm, and in its possible utility to 
the dauphin's cause. 
(To be continued.) 
Spirit Manifestations. 
WHILE ever error is fostered and inculcated 
among men, it will be the bounden duty of Chris-
tians faithfully to point it out and try to correct 
it. It is presumed none will deny that it is es- 
pecially the duty of Christian ministers to re-
prove, rebuke, with all long-suffering and doc-
trine, those who are unruly and vain. While it 
must be admitted, that the ministry, in very many 
instances, has been foremost in heretical doctrines 
and practices—yet, it is a fact, which always 
will hold good, that it has been appointed by 
the Lord Jesus to defend the doctrines laid down 
by himself in his holy word. 
As there are those who have of late sought to 
" spoil, through philosophy and vain deceit, af-
ter the traditions of men, after the command-
ments of the world, and not after Christ," those 
who have fallen under their teaching, it is es-
pecially important that the unstable be guided 
in the right way. As spirit manifestations pur-
port to rest upon a Scripture foundation, as is 
generally true with all newly discovered systems 
of religion, it is worth while to inquire into the 
facts of the case, so far, at least, as to ascertain 
how much credit is due those who so auspicious-
ly plead its claims. But, before we proceed, 
let us remark that, within the present century, 
the cry has often been raised, " Lo, here is 
Christ ! and lo, He is there!" 
The latter-day saints, headed by one of doubt, 
ful morals, rose up, with a new revelation to 
guide them in the line of duty. The Bible, 
God's revelation to man, was not enough for 
these restless spirits. Although, in the Bible, 
it is said that the " Word is able to save our 
souls;" yet, another revelation is quite indis-
pensable for the accomplishment of he opening 
era. When this system obtained, none would 
have dreamed of an increase, until scores of 
thousands would reverently bow at its shrine. 
Attested by the concurrent evidence of men and 
angels; the Mormon Book receives the rever-
ence due the Holy Bible ; and, meantime, a 
credulous public rally around the light of the 
newly found book, and with long and solemn 
sound proclaim, " Behold ! He is here !" Soon 
the floating breeze bears the news to the shores 
of our own land, and even to the bosom of Eu-
rope, where many hail its melodious sound with 
more than human delight. 
And now; as Mormonism is not likely to com-
plete the work of destruction throughout the . 
world with lightning speed, the enemy adds to 
his devices to accelerate the work of death and 
hell. He conceives, and lo ! he brings forth the 
free and fair born child, " Spiritualism!' Ris 
very name is full of. delight----spiritualism; how 
happily does this name contrast with the carnal 
state of the world ! Infidelity, Universalism, 
and suchlike, could never supplant the religion 
of Christ, as the enemy designs to do ; and, there-
fore, he employs under the new titles, those who 
profess to be more than ordinarily devoted and 
pious, to make the work more sure. As the liv-
ing cherish great reverence for the departed pi-
ous; and as a message from the spirit world, 
through the agency of our departed ftiends, is 
likely, above almost anything else, to enlist 
sympathy from the credulous, he has struck the 
right cord at last. Like wild fire, the flame 
runs to and fro, and the sober minded only are 
left to look on with wonder and astonishment. 
But, that the measure may be more successful, 
it is declared that spirits from the interior have 
always communicated to the living. The patri-
archs, prophets, and apostles, saw spirits and 
visions, and why may not the same be seen in 
this age of the world ? What better the inspired 
apostles than the inspired leaders of the move-
ment, which is to supercede their dispensation ? 
Spiritual mesmerism is the medium through 
which the communication is received from the 
interior ; and through which, the epoch is to be 
entered upon the pages of history, as one of the 
most strange and curious of all events: It is 
truly appalling to see the sophistry with which 
modern errorists gloss their respective theories, 
to make them harmonize with the Scriptures of 
divine truth. Unitarians, Universalists, Mor-
monites, and Scottites, all tenaciously cry out, 
the Bible ! the Bible ! Well may the great 
Teacher cry out, " Take heed that ye be not de-
ceived." '' Many shall come in my name, say-
ing I am Christ; but go not after them, for they 
shall deceive many." " If it were possible, 
through their great signs and wonders, they would 
deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told 
you." Now, how plain is it that these are the 
deceivers set forth in the passages above ! If 
there should not arise such as these, the prophe-
cies would not be fulfilled; and hence, the ex-
ternal evidence of the truth of revelation would 
not be visible to us. What Christ and the apos-
tles have said on this subject, prepare us to with-
stand the false teaching of deceivers, of elo-
quence rarely surpassed. 0, false prophets ! let 
the blush of shame continually perch upon your 
brow ! Spirit manifestations declare that, " in 
the impending destruction, all will be destroyed, 
who do not see God in the divine unfolding;" 
that the order of things predicted in the Scrip-
ture, in which death with the righteous, is done 
away, is now already begun in the formation of 
the New Jerusalem at Mountain Cove. Oh ! 
most favored and holy place, the picture of dark-
ness and distress, the bitter fruits of sin are no 
more to mantle the forms of thy favored chil-
dren ! Death, the burden under which all crea-
tion, from the fall of man, has groaned, no more 
eclipses the bright morn of life ; his long train 
of misery, developed in the most relentless cru-
elty is staid, until the respite be enjoyed. 
But are there no other fruits gathered from 
the prolific tree of spiritualism ? 0 yes, there 
are. The manifestation of the New Jerusalem 
era, with all its attendant blessings, follow in its 
train. The faithful spies, under spiritual guid-
ance, sent forth to spy out the Eden, where the 
holy city is to be erected, report the place to be 
Mountain Cove ; and there the gathering of the 
people is now begun. But it is hard to distin-
guish any decided benefit, as attaching to this 
new movement of spiritualism that does not be-
long to Mormonism. It is true, that the distin-
guishing features of sectarian identity are trod-
den down under the union flag, but it is ques-
tionable if a more galling yoke is not to be sub-
stituted. 
We must now come to the conclusion, that 
spiritualism is one of the deformed children, con-
ceived in illegitimacy, brought forth at an un-
timely birth, rocked in the cradle of worldly 
hope, taught in the school of human invention, 
fed and clothed by the unsuspecting credulous, 
and worshipped by the simple dupe. But it does 
not appear likely that any array of truth against 
the deformed creature is likely to adjust the dis-
tended parts. Resistance and evasion appear to 
be his native elements. He inflates himself by 
snuffing the wind, which make the darts of truth 
fall harmlessly at his feet. His thirst prompts 
him to drink of metaphysics, and a new philoso-
phy, until plain Bible truth is esteemed only an 
auxiliary to the great scheme of salvation. 
Religious Herald. 
The World's Regeneration. 
NO. III. 
IN the Nicene Creed we profess our belief in 
the personal coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
in glory, to judge the living and the dead ; and 
of the perpetuity of his kingdom. In our advent 
services great prominence is given to the second 
coming of our Lord. And in the collect for the 
sixth Sunday after Epiphany we pray, " that 
( For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
(Resumed from the Herald of August 14th, 1S52.) 
NO. XXVIII. 
FLORENCE--ITS PALACES, GALLERIES, AND CHURCHES. 
" BUT Arno wins us to the fair white walls 
Where the'Etrurian Athens claims and keeps 
A softer feeling for her fairy halls. 
Girt by her theatre of hills, she reaps 
Her corn, and wine, and oil, and Plenty leaps 
To laughing life with her redundant horn. 
Along the banks were smiling Arno sweeps 
Was modern Luxury of Commerce born, 
And buried Learning rose, redeemed to a new 
morn." 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the judgment of the kingdom of Christ. For it 
is written, Enter into thy chamber for a little 
space, until mine anger and indignation shall 
pass away.'—Isa. 26 : 20. And I will re- 
member the good day, I will raise you up out 
of your graves.'" 
From such considerations, we look for the 
coming of our Lord from heaven to establish a 
visible and glorious kingdom upon earth. We 
believe that at his coming the righteous dead 
will be raised, the living saints changed; and 
that with their Lord they shall live and reign 
forever. (1 Thess. 4 :15, 16 ; Rom. 8 :17, 18; 
Rom. 20 : 1-4, &c.) 
We believe the subject Moreover to be one of 
great practical importance to the Church, and 
hence if any shall be led to examine it with a 
desire to know the truth, that our labor will not 
be in vain. 
Witness and Advocate. 
FLORENCE, (Italian, FIRENZE,) the capital of 
the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, has a population 
of about 100,000, and is situated upon the river 
Arno, about fifty miles from the sea. Its shape is 
an irregular pentagon, about six miles in circuit, 
enclosed by walls having eight gates. Three 
" quartieri," (i. e., '' quarters,") are on the 
north and one on the south side of the Arno. 
The bed of the river is from three hundred to 
four hundred feet wide, and in the dry season 
contains very little water. It is very variable 
however. Heavy rains, or the sudden melting 
of the snows upon the Apennines, will sometimes 
raise the stream to a great height in a few hours ; 
so as to inundate the country and carry all be-
fore it. On the north and north-west at the dis-
tance of a few miles across the fertile plain, rise 
the naked and barren ridges of the Apennines to 
the height of three thousand feet. On the north-
east is the hill of Fiesole, covered with gardens 
and country houses. On the south the prospect 
is bounded by the gardens of Boboli, extending 
along the declivity of a steep hill, crowned by 
the Fort of Belvidere upon the summit. 
Within the city, the Arno is crossed by four 
stone bridges : the Ponte Belle Grazie, built in 
1235, which has several dwelling houses upon 
it; the Ponte Vecchio, a century later, which is 
a street of shops, principally jewellers, gold-
smiths, and workers in metals, and over which 
runs a covered gallery connecting two of the 
Grand Duke's palaces on opposite sides of the 
river ; the Ponte de Sta Trinita, (i. e., Bridge 
of the Holy Trinity,) built in 1569, adorned 
with four marble statues, representing the four 
Seasons ; and the Ponte alla Carraja, the most 
westerly. 
We entered Florence by the Porta Romana, 
and crossing the Ponte de Sta Trinita, put up at 
the Hotel du Nord. After seeing to our rooms, 
we sallied forth into the streets, and had hardly 
stepped upon the pavement before we were sa-
luted by a young and pretty flower-girl, in the 
becoming costume of the country, with a broad 
trimmed Tuscan hat tied under her chin, and set 
back upon her head, who insisted upon furnish-
ing us all with bouquets. She would take no re-
fusal, but actually forced them upon us, arrang-
ing them with her own hands in our button-holes, 
and would receive no compensation ; at which 
we greatly wondered, till we learned the customs 
of the place. There are three of these flower-
girls who make it their business to keep visitors 
supplied with flowers during their continuance 
here, and with the expectation of a remembrancer 
at the time of departure. As you are about to 
get into the diligence, your favorite greets you 
with her sweetest smile, and hands you her part-
ing bouquet, the choicest of all, and you hand her 
perhaps a scudo, (about a dollar,) in return. 
After breakfasting at Doney's famous cafe, 
where one can get a cup of excellent coffee, the 
nicest bread and butter, and a boiled egg, for a 
paul, (about ten cents,) we commenced our tour 
of exploration. We were struck by the massive 
character of the buildings, crowned with heavy 
cornices, the smooth flagging of the streets, and 
the general air of leisure and courtesy which 
seemed to pervade the city. Our first visit was 
to the 
PALAZZO PITTI. 
This is the chief residence of the Grand Duke 
of Tuscany. It stands upon high ground, with 
an open square before it, and presents a vast ex-
tended front of solid massive architecture. At 
the time of our visit the Grand Duke was ab- 
please thee, of thy gracious goodness shortly to 
glory we may be made like unto him, in his eter- 
nal and glorious kingdom." 
In the burial ser- 
when he shall appear again with power and great 
vice of the Church of England, but omitted in 
our service, we find the petition, " that it may 
raise up Christ to sit on his throne."—Acts 2:29-
the throne of David, but to sit on the right hand 
stool. (Acts 2:34, 35.) And from thence he 
32. He ascended into heaven, not to occupy 
of the Father until his foes are made his foot-
shall come again, even as he ascended, (Acts 
1:11) as king in glorious majesty to rule and 
accomplish the number of thine elect, 
and to reign, King of nations, as King of saints. (Ni- 
hasten THY KINGDOM ; that we, with all those that 
cene creed. Rev. 11:15 ; Psa. 2d, &c.) 
are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, 
Again, we believe that Christ will come from 
may have our perfect consummation and bliss, heaven to establish his kingdom before the mil-
both in body and soul, in thy eternal and ever- 
 lennium, because Daniel in the second and sev-
lasting glory ; through Jesus Christ our Lord." enth chapters of his prophecies distinctly teaches 
But although the sentence in italics is omitted 
that the kingdom of Christ or of God, is to be 
in our service, yet in the prayer which follows, 
an inheritance in Christ's kingdom is connected founded on the ruins of kingdoms now in exist- 
ence, and that " the kingdom and dominion and 
with the resurrection. 
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven 
Thus in the Liturgy of the Church, as in the shall be given to the people of the saints of the 
services, the coming of Christ is connected with 
Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting 
the establishment of his kingdom. 
But some may ask, " Is not Christ's kingdom kingdom, and all dominions (rulers) shall serve 
already established upon earth ?" Has not the and obey him."—Dan. 7:27. Also, Dan. 2:34, 
kingdom of God come nigh unto us in the preach- 35, 44, 45 ; Dan. 7:13, 14, 27. 
ing of the gospel; and in the transforming power From the testimony of our Saviour, we also 
of the gospel on the hearts of men ? Was it not believe, that he will return to establish the king- 
set up at the first advent? 
dom promised unto him as the seed of David. 
To inquiries of this kind we answer, that in a His disciples thought the kingdom of God (or of 
preparatory sense his kingdom has come nigh the Me3siah) should immediately appear. (Luke 
unto us. He that is born of water and of the 19:11.) To correct this erroneous impression he 
Spirit, is made an inheritor of it. He has the compared himself to a nobleman .going into a 
promise and the foretaste of future blessedness, far country to receive for himself a kingdom, 
in present peace, and hope, and joy in the Holy and to return. He entrusted talents to his ser-
Ghost. We are living under the dispensation vants, for the improvement of which they were 
of the Spirit. During the Saviour's absence, to render an account, at his return. Having 
the Holy Spirit is to abide with the Church, received the kingdom, and returned, his faithful 
and to administer the kingdom. Still it is only servants are rewarded, his enemies destroyed. 
in a preparatory sense that it can be said the (See also 2 Tim. 4:1, 8.) 
kingdom of Christ, or of God, has come. The Again, when our Lord speaks of his coming 
believer has the promise of an inheritance which in glory with the holy angels, he says, " Then 
is incorruptible, if faithful unto death, but he shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and be-
enters not into possession until his Lord's return. fore him shall be gathered all nations. And the 
Thus, when Jesus was about to leave his disci- King shall say to them on his right hand, Come, 
pies, he said, " 1 go to prepare a place for you, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
and if I go and prepare a place for you 1 will pared for you from the foundation of the world." 
come again, and receive you unto myself'; that —Matt. 25:31, 34. 
where I am, there ye may be also." John Again, to the twelve, " Ye which have followed 
14:2, 3. 
me, in the regeneration "—the Syriac translates, 
Bickersteth, in his " Practical Guide to the " in the new age,"—" when the Son of man shall 
Prophecies," (chap. 18th, on " the kingdom of sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit 
Christ ") a work I would recommend to all who upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of 
are willing to investigate the subject—argues, Israel."—Matt. 19:28. See also Luke 22:29, 
and we think proves, that at the second coming 30 ; Rev. 2:26 ; 3:21; 20:4. 
of our Lord he will establish a visible and glo- Observe moreover that after his resurrection he 
rious kingdom as the grand result of God's pur- conversed with his disciples of the things per 
poses ; that this and preceding dispensations taining to the kingdom of God ; and when they 
are introductory, and that from the very begin- inquired, " Lord wilt thou at this time restore 
ning, the Scripture prophecies not obscurely in- again the kingdom to Israel ?"—are the prophe-
timate this kingdom in such predictions as these, cies now to be fulfilled, of Messiah's glorious 
" The seed of the woman shall bruise the head reign ? " And he said, It is not for you to know 
of the serpent." " In thee and thy seed shall the times or the seasons which the Father hath 
all the kingdoms of the earth be blessed." (Also put in his own power," (Acts 1: 3-7.) " Of the 
Gen. 49:10 ; Num. 24:19.) 
day and the hour of my coming knoweth no man, 
That In the Psalms of David, and in the no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father on-
promises made to him, we have a clear develop. ly." (Matt. 25 : 36, &c.) It is yet future, it 
ment of this kingdom. (See 2 Sam. 7:10-16 ; will come suddenly upon a wicked world, and 
Psa. 89:3, 4, 29, 36, 37 ; Psa. 2d ; Psa. 72d ; therefore wait and watch. Be instant in prayer, 
Psa. 110th, &c.) These promises assured the and let the burden of your prayer be, " Thy 
throne of Israel to David's posterity forever, kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as 
They show, moreover, in connection with the it is in heaven." 
New Testament Scriptures, that Christ is the And in obedience to their Lord's instructions, 
promised seed in whom the nations are to be as thus interpreted, we find his followers in the 
blessed." That in the Prophets we have still days of the apostles, and in the first and purest 
farther display of the glories and extent of the ages of the Church, looking for the coming and 
kingdom. (See Isa. 32:60, &c.) 
reign of the Saviour to introduce the millennial 
When our Lord was about to be born, the period. The great motive held forth by the 
promise was by the angel directly applied to apostles to faithfulness and diligence in the di-
him as his right, " The Lord God shall give vine life, was the " glorious appearing " of their 
unto him the throne of his father David : and he ascended Saviour. It was, that an abundant en-
shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and trance might be ministered into the everlasting 
of his kingdom there shall be no end."—Luke kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
1:32, 33. 
that St. Peter exhorted believers to give all dili- 
That these promises yet remain to be chiefly genre, to make their calling and election sure. 
fulfilled we judge from the following considera- It was to this " blessed hope," that St. Paul so 
tions : 1. Christ has never sat on the throne of often refers in his Epistles to warn and encour-
David. 2. He has never reigned over the house age us in the Christian warfare. 
of "Jacob. 3. Daniel predicts that his kingdom I might also show from the writings of the 
should be established on the ruins of the ten early Fathers, that, as Bishop Newton says in 
kingdoms of the Roman Empire. (Dan. 2:42, his work on the prophecies, the doctrine of the 
44.) 4. The apostles were told that the time personal reign of Christ during the millennium, 
for restoring the kingdom to Israel was reserved " was generally believed in the first three and 
in the Father's power. 5. All Christ's disciples purest ages of the Church :"—that it was also 
have daily to pray, " Thy kingdom come. Thy revived at the time of the reformation ;—and 
will be done on earth as it is in heaven." that the now prevailing idea of a spiritual mil- 
These positions are all capable of extended il- lennium, before our Lord's return, is compara-
lustration, but the limits proposed in these arti- tively of modern origin. Whitby, so far as we 
cies will prevent it. A few suggestions in sup- are aware, being its earliest modern supporter. 
port of the position that the kingdom of Christ And yet even Whitby shows (as we think) that 
is yet to be established, that its manifestation is the early Fathers did believe in the personal 
yet future, and that it is to follow the ancient coming and reign of Christ before the millenni- 
dispensation, is all that will be attempted. urn. In Bishop Henshaw's eighth lecture the 
And we believe that Christ will come to reign reader will find some facts as to the voice of 
as king before the millennium, because the Scrip- the Church on this point. (See also " Element 
tures teach us that he is the seed of David, to of Prophetical Interpretation by Rev. J. W. 
whom pertain the promises of kingly rule. At Brooks."—Vol. 3 of the Literalist, published 
his first advent he came in humility. As a in Philadelphia, 1841.) 
prophet and a priest he fulfilled his mission, but I add, however, an extract from the Epistle 
as a king, save as he rules, in a spiritual sense of Clement to the Corinthians, not, I believe, 
in the hearts of his people, the prophecies are referred to by either of these writers, and by him 
unfulfilled. (See Isa. 9:7 ; Luke 1:32, 33; 2 incidentally introduced in sec. 50 of his Epistle, 
Sam. 7:10-16 ; Psa. 132:11.) As the seed of which sustains my position. " All generations 
David, he was raised from the dead. (2 Tim. from Adam until this day have passed away ; 
2:8.) He was raised from the dead in order to but they who have been made perfect in love, 
fulfil the oath God made to David, " that of the according to the grace of Christ, have a place 
fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would among the righteous, and shall be manifest in 
sent in the country, and through the kindness of 
one of our company, we obtained admission into 
the private apartments. Some of the rooms are 
magnificently furnished. One was lined with 
white satin. embroidered by the former Duchess, 
But the chief attraction of the Palace is the 
collection of pictures, which is considered on the 
whole as the finest in the world. They are con-
tained in a series of splendid apartments, (fifteen 
or sixteen in number,) which are generally named 
after the subjects painted in fresco upon the ceil-
ings. Five of them were painted ty —Pietro da 
Cortona, the nephew of Michael Angelo BU011al, 
 
rotti, about the year 1640,. and each of these is 
denoininated from the plarfet'Which denoted one 
of the virtues of Cosmo I., the founder of the 
Grand-ducal dynasty of Tuscany. The first of 
these rooms is the Hall of Venus, representing 
the triumph of Reason over Pleasure, Minerva 
rescues a youth (who stands for Cosmo I.) and 
conducts him to Hercules. Among the pictures 
are a fine allegorical painting by Salvator Rosa, 
representing Falsehood, by a man holding a 
mask ; two very large and magnificent Coast 
views, by the same artist ; two fine landscapes, 
by Rubens ; and the portrait of a lady in a rich 
dress, by Titian. 
Nest is the Hall of Apollo, the ceiling of which 
represents the tutelary deity of Poetry and the 
Fine Arts, receiving Cosine, guided to him by 
Virtue and Glory. Some of the pictures are, the 
Supper at Emmaus, by Palma Vecchio; a Vir-
gin and child, by Murillo ; the Deposition from 
the Cross, by Andrea del Sarto ; a portrait of 
himself, by Rembrandt ; two fine portraits, by 
Raphael ; and a noble picture by the same ar-
tist, of Leo X. with two Cardinals. 
Next is the Hall of Mars, the ceiling of which 
illustrates Cosmo's success in war. Here is 
Raphael's celebrated Madonna della Seggiola, (i. 
e.; " the Madonna of the Chair,") so often copied 
and engraved ; a noble portrait of Cardinal Ben-
tivoglio, by Vandyke ; Raphael's Holy Family, 
(" dell' impannata,") and a fine picture by Ru-
bens, of his own portrait, with that of his broth-
er, and the two philosophers, Lipsius and Gro-
tius, and the Consequences of War, a large and 
impressive picture, by Rubens. 
The Hall of Jupiter conies next. The ceiling 
depicts Hercules and Fortune introducing Cos-
mo to Jove, from whom he receives a crown of 
Immortality. Here is the Cataline Conspiracy, 
by Salvator Rosa, a company of fierce and dis-
solute men with a great variety of expression ; a 
grand picture of the Three Fates, by Michael 
Angelo, one of the three painted in oil, by this 
great master ; a lovely portrait of a female, by 
Leonardo da Vinci, &c., &e. 
The Hall of Saturn represents Cosmo, now 
in mature age, conducted by Mars and Prudence 
to receive the crown offered by Glory and Eter-
nity. Here is a fine portrait of Charles I. (of 
England,) and Henrietta his Queen, by Van-
dyke ; Pope Julius II. by Raphael ; the Death of 
Abel, by Schiavone ; Mary Magdalene, by Do-
menichino ; the Descent from the Cross, by Pe-
rugino ; the Madonna del Baldacchino, by Ra-
phael ; the head of an old man, by Annibale Ca-
racci ; Raphael's Vision of Ezekiel, and many 
others. 
Next is the Hall of the Iliad, representing on 
the ceiling many of the scenes of the Homeric 
poem, and containing pictures by Salvator Rosa, 
Titian, &c., and two fine Assumptions, by An-
drea del Sarto. 
Adjoining this is an elegant cabinet, the walls 
of which are painted with allegories of the four 
ages of man, and the four ages of the world, and 
the vaulting with the Virtues and Fame. 
Next conies the Hall of the Education of Ju-
piter, containing some Raphaels, a Carlo Dolce, 
and others ; next the Hall of Ulysses, which has 
a very fine portrait of Oliver Cromwell, by Sir 
Peter Lely, painted expressly as a present to the 
Grand Duke of Tuscany, and sent by the Pro-
tector in his life time ; next the Hall of Justice, 
next the Hall of Flora, which contains Canova's 
Venus ; next the Hall " dei Putti," which has a 
fine picture by Salvator Rosa, representing the 
story of Diogenes throwing away his cup on see-
ing a boy drink out of his hand ; next the Gal-
lery of Pocetti, then the Music-room, the Pavil-
ion, and the Gallery of Hercules. 
This visit to the Palazzo Pitti, seemed more 
like an enchanting dream than an actual reality. 
There was nothing to break the spell. No grim 
sentinel withstood our progress. Every door 
opened at our bidding. No troublesome custode 
hurried us from one apartment to another, or ex-
tended his hand for the customary fees. Luxuri-
ous seats invited to repose, when tired of stand-
ing, and strains of delicious music came floating 
through the open windows from the Austrian 
band in the court below. I carried away with 
me from that gallery of pictures images of 
beauty and majesty, which have been my cher-
ished companions ever since, and for which I 
owe a debt of lasting gratitude to those masters 
of the olden time. 
S. J. M. M. 
(To be continued.) 
TRUTH is in order to goodness. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
." Ibuent ficratb.. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 26, 1853. 
THIS readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discern:nein of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER II. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : 
For wherein is he to be accounted of t—v. 22. 
JOR 14:2—" HE cometh forth like a flower, and is 
cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continu-
eth not." How vain then it is to look to man for 
help. Psa. 146 : 3-5—" Put not your trust in 
princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is 
no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to 
his earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish. 
Happy is he that bath the GOD of JACOB for his 
help, whose hope is in the LORD his GOD." Jer. 
17:5—" Thus saith the LORD GOD ; Cursed be the 
man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his 
arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." 
In the following chapter the reason is given why 
they should cease from man. 
CHAPTER III. 
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
Doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff, 
The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, 
And the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the hon-
orable man, 
And the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent ora-
tor.—As. 1-3. 
Having shown the ultimate fulfilment of GoD's 
purposes, the prophet returns to the generation 
then present, and announces the judgments which 
will overtake them and their descendants. 
" For." It is a continuation of the prophecy of 
the preceding chapter. In verse 7, of that chapter, 
they are affirmed to abound in wealth ; and with 
their riches, they were bowing down to idols. But 
they are to experience judgments, which will make 
their silver and gold of no avail. In the close of 
Isaiah 2, they were cautioned against trusting in 
man. Now they are shown why they should not ; 
" for, lo," that on which they place their depend-
ence, is to be removed. 
It is from Judah and Jerusalem, that the things 
- enumerated are to be removed. Consequently the 
fulfilment of this prediction, is in the history of 
that people. 
" The stay and the staff." Says Dr. BARNES, 
" In the Hebrew, the words, translated stay and 
staff are the same, with the exception that the for-
mer is in the masculine and the latter in the femi-
nine gender. The meaning is, that GOD would re-
move alll kinds of support ; he would take away 
everything in which they relied." 
Dr. CLARK understands from this distinction in 
the gender of the word, that it signifies the removal 
of all things necessary for the support of both man 
and woman. 
As a person leans on a staff in walking, this act, 
by a, hypocastastasis, is used for the analogous 
supports, which the prophet proceeds to enumerate, 
on which the Jews relied—i. e., on their means of 
sustenance, their mighty men, their eloquent ora-
tors, cunning artificers, &c. 
" The whole stay of bread." This is an elliptical 
metaphor, equivalent to the current expression, 
that " bread is the staff of life." It is one of the 
means of sustaining, or upholding our animal life. 
Thus ABRAHAM said to the three who stopped at his 
tent door in the plains of Mamre, (Gen. 18:54 " I 
will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort (margin, 
—stay) ye your hearts." Jud. 19:5—" Comfort 
(margin, stay) thy heart with a morsel of bread." 
Lev. 26:26—" When I have broken the staff of your 
bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one 
oven," &e. Pea. 105:16--‘ Moreover he called for 
a famine upon the land : he break the whole staff 
of bread." Ezek. 14:13—" When the land sinneth 
against me by trespassing grievously, then will I 
stretch out my hand upon it, and I will break the 
staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine 
upon it." 
" Stay of water." As bread is a stay, so by the 
same figure is water. The taking away of these is 
their literal removal, which would reduce them to 
obsolute want, and bring famine upon them. 
The famine predicted is, doubtless, that which 
followed the subsequent invasion of the land by 
NEBUCHADNEZZAR. It is referred to in a portion of 
the prophecy of EZEKIEL delivered, in the 30th year 
(Ez. 1:1,) from JOSIAH'S passover, and the 5th of 
JEHOIACHIN'S captivity—B. C. 593. Ezek. 4:16, 17—
" Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, behold, 
I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem ; and 
they shall eat bread by weight, and with care ; and 
they shall drink water by measure, and with as-
tonishment : that they may want bread and water, 
and be astonished one with another, and consumed 
away for their iniquity." Lam. 4:4—" The tongue 
of the young sucking child cleaveth to the roof of 
his mouth for thirst : the young children ask bread, 
and no man breaketh it unto them." 
" The mighty man," &c. The removal of these 
was accomplished in the time of NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 
when all the men of note were carried out of the 
land. 2 Kings 24:14, 16—" And he carried away 
all Jerusalem, and all the princes,. and all the 
mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, 
and all the craftsmen, and smiths : none remained, 
save the poorest sort of the people of the land . . . 
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, 
and craftsmen and smiths a thousand ; all that were 
strong and apt for war, even them the king of 
Babylon brought captive to Babylon." lb. 25:12 
—" But the captain of the guard left of the poor of 
the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen." 
" The prophet." 
DANIEL and EZEKIEL were car-
ried captive to Babylon, and JEREMIAH was re-
moved to Egypt ; and those left had no one to 
cheer them with words of consolation and hope. 
JEREMIAH said : (Lam. 2:9,) " Her kings and her 
princes are among the Gentiles ; the law is no 
more ; her prophets also find no vision from the 
LORD." And EZEKIEL said : (7:26,) " Mischief shall 
come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon ru-
mor ; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet : 
but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel 
from the ancients." Thus they could say, in the 
language of the Psalmist : (74:9,) " We see not 
our signs : there is no more any prophet : neither 
is there among us any that knoweth how long." 
" And the prudent." This word, says Dr. BARNES, 
" in the original, properly means a diviner, or a 
soothsayer. But it is sometimes used in a good 
sense." It seems here to refer to such as could 
give prudent advice and sagacious counsel in times 
of perplexity. 
" The ancient." Such was the old men, the 
fathers of the people, who were esteemed peculiar-
ly qualified to give judicious counsel. 
GOD Said to 
Israel : (Lev. 19:32,) " Thou shalt rise up before 
the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, 
and fear thy GOD : I am the LORD." The division 
of the kingdom in the days of REHOBOAM followed 
his forsaking (1 Kings 12:8,) " the counsel of the 
old men, which they had given him," and his con-
sulting " with the young men that were grown up 
with him." In the destruction of Jerusalem by 
the Chaldees, (2 Chron. 36:17,) " they slew the 
young men with the sword in the house of their 
sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young 
man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for 
age." 
" The commander of fifty." This was probably 
a military officer—one of the lower rank. 
" The honorable." Dr. BARNES renders this, 
" The man of elevated countenance. The man high 
in office "—so called because of the aspect of dig-
nity which those high in office, naturally assume. 
The " counsellor," is understood to be the states-
man, of wisdom and experience, competent to ad-
vise in times of perplexity ; the " cunning artifi-
cers," are skilled in the mechanic arts ; and the 
" eloquent orator," one skilful in persuasion. By 
the use of the synecdoche, one of each is taken for 
the several classes referred to. 
By the Babylonish captivity was the nation de-
prived of all human aid,—as HosEA also said, 
(Hos. 3:4,) " For the children of Israel shall abide 
many days without a king, and without a prince, 
and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and 
without an ephod, and without teraphim_" 
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule 
over them.—v. 4. 
When all the eminent persons, referred to, 
should be removed, the consequence would be that 
persons without the necessary qualifications would 
be the only ones to succeed to their places—those 
given to rule them, being children in understand-
ing, and babes in experience.. Eccl. 10:16—" Woe 
to thee,. 0 land, when thy king is a child.." 
And the people shall be oppressed, 
Every one by another, and every one by his neighbor 
The child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, 
And the base against the honorable.—v. 5. 
When there was no king in Israel, (Jud.. 21:25,). 
" every man did that which was right in his own 
eyes." Such a state of things always begets anar-
chy, and confusion ; for the " sons of Belial," 
when unrestrained, will " do wickedly." The weak 
and defenceless are at the mercy of the strong ; the 
proprieties of life are disregarded ; and the ignoble 
will not hesitate to insult the honorable. A state 
of anarchy, where each one may oppress the other, 
is worse than a mild despotism. 
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, 
saying, 
Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy 
hand : 
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer ; 
For in my house is neither bread nor clothing make me not a ruler 
of the people.—vs. 6, 7. 
" To take hold of another," is a gesture of en-
treaty. By a metonymy, " house " is put for the 
family of his father. The wealth of the ancients, 
was indicated by a multitude of changes of rai-
ment. Those who had clothing were more rich, 
and might better support the dignity of a ruler. 
To such would they desire to commit the ruined 
state of their affairs, hoping to gain relief. But 
their times would be so bad, that none competent 
would accept office, but would protest that they 
were destitute of the requisite .means to support 
the dignity of the station. None would attempt 
the task of relieving them—which is expressed by 
the metaphor of a " healer." 
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen 
Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to pro-
voke the eyes of his glory.—v. S. 
Here is given the reason which would prevent 
any from wishing to assume that position. Jeru-
salem and Judah would be so utterly ruined that no 
one would be induced to attempt their restoration. 
The word " fallen " is a metaphor, showing a 
condition of the nation, analogous to that of a 
fallen building. By a metonymy, their " tongue " 
is used for the words spoken by it ; and " eyes," 
for what the LORD recognizes as due to himself ; 
but which is disregarded by them, and set at naught 
by their speech and acts. 
The show of their countenance doth witness against them ; 
And they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. 
Woe unto their soul ! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 
v. 9. 
The thoughts of the heart are often indicated by 
the expression of the countenance. " The show of 
their countenance " is rendered by the LXX. " The 
shame of their face." Their true character is there 
pictured, and is evidence of their wickedness. 
In addition to this they make no attempt to con-
ceal their vileness, but boldly proclaim their sins, 
not in words, but, by a metaphor, in deeds. 
" As Sodom." By a simile, their conduct is 
likened to that of Sodom ; which, by a metonymy, 
is used for the people of that city. The boldness 
of the Sodomites in the practice of iniquity is re-
corded in Gen. 19th. By a similar boldness the 
Jews declare their sins—glorying in their own 
shame. But as evil awaits sinners, they bring the 
wrath of GOD upon themselves. 
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him 
For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 
Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with him : 
For the reward of his hands shall be given him.—ts. 10, 11. 
It is a true saying of PAUL, (Gal. 6:7, 8,) that 
" whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap 
corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall 
of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Says JOB (4:8) : 
" They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, 
reap the same." And SOLOMON says : (Prov. 11: 
18,) " The wicked worketh a deceitful work : but 
to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure 
reward. As righteousness tendeth to life, so he 
that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death." 
The " fruit " of their doings, is a metaphor ex-
pressive of the results which will follow. To eat 
this fruit, is to enjoy these results. By a metony-
my, " hands," also, are used for the works of the 
wicked. Their reward will be in accordance with 
their works. 
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule 
0 my peooivneer, tthheem' 
they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the 
way of thy paths..,..v. 12. 
Dr. BARNES says that the original word, rendered 
children, is in the singular number, and means a 
child. It was for the sins of MANASSEH, that Judah 
was carried captive to Babylon. 2 Chron. 33:1, 2, 
9—" MANAssEu was twelve years old when he be-
gan to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in 
Jerusalem : but did that which was evil in the 
sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of 
the heathen, whom the LoRrl had cast out before 
the children. of Israel . . . So MANASSEH made 
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, 
and to do worse than the heathen, whom the 
LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel." 
Although not recorded, it is not unlikely that 
MANASSEH was greatly controlled in. his govern-
ment of Judah, by evil disposed women, as wicked 
AHAZ of Israel was by the corrupt JEZEBEL. 1 
Kings 21:25—" There was none like unto A.HAz, 
which did sell himself to work wickedness in the 
sight of the LORD, whom JEZEBEL his wife stirred 
up." As HEZEKIAH, the father of MANASSEH, was 
a good king, had the mother of MANASSEH been a 
good woman, it is very unlikely that he would 
have been such a wicked prince. And he being so 
young, she and her female companions could exert 
a great influence over him. Thus they and the 
child MANASSEH, so led Judah astray, that the way 
of their paths perished before them. 2 Chron. 33: 
10, 11—" The LORD spake to MANASSEH, and to his 
people : but they would not hearken. Wherefore 
the LORD brought upon them the captains of the 
host of the king of Assyria, which took MANASSEH 
among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, 
and carried him to Babylon." " Surely at the com-
mandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to 
remove them out of his sight, for the sins of MA-
NASSEH, according to all that he did ; and also for 
the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Jeru-
salem with innocent blood,) which the LORD would 
not pardon." 
By a hypocastastasis,* Mr. LORD says : '° The Is-
raelites are exhibited as proceeding from one place 
to another, under the direction of guides who lead 
them aside from the right course, and cause the 
paths in which they walk, like a quagmire, to ab-
sorb them ; and that representation is employed 
to illustrate the manner in which they were mis-
led by their rulers,,and kept from a knowledge of 
the course by which the blessing of GOD was to be 
obtained."—Theo. and Lit. Journal, vol. 2, p. 230. 
This is what is meant by the words, " 0 my peo-
ple, they which lead thee, cause thee to err, and 
destroy the way of thy paths." 
The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, 
and the princes thereof : 
For ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor is in your 
houses.--vs. 13, 14. 
The acts common to men, when a criminal is to 
be adjudged, and condemned, are here imputed to 
GOD—illustrative of the manner in which he was 
about to manifest his judgment of the people. 
Their sin was not to go unpunished, but they were 
to be brought to a righteous judgment, and were 
to receive exemplary and deserved chastisement. 
Mr. LORD notices the hypocastastasis, both in the 
Loan's rising up, and in his entering into judgment. 
The vineyard, by a metonymy, is put for its 
fruits, which they had eaten up. " The vineyard," 
is rendered by Dr. LOWTH and Dr. BARNES " My 
vineyard,"—in which they are sustained t‘lay the 
Septuagint and Chaldee versions. To " eat up the 
vineyard," then, would seem to be a hypocastas-
tasis, expressive of their having consumed and 
destroyed those results, which the LORD had a right 
to expect from the house of Israel ; which, in Isa. 
5:7, is affirmed to be " the vineyard of the LORD of 
hosts." 
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, 
And grind the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord God of hosts.-v. 15. 
This must be a recurrence of the same figure, to 
indicate the manner in which the " ancients " and 
" the princes of Israel had oppressed the people of 
the nation. The same idea is similarly conveyed 
in other scriptures. Pea.. 94:5—" They break in 
pieces thy people, 0 LORD, and afflict thy heritage." 
Micah 3:2, 3—" Who, hate the good, and love the 
evil ; who pluck off their skin from off them, and 
their flesh from off their bones ; who also eat the 
flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off 
them ; and they break their bones, and chop them 
in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the 
caldron." 
(To be continued.). 
MEXICAN AFFAIRS. 
OUR New Orleans papers contain further particu-
lars of the revolution in Mexico. We have had by 
telegraph the particulars of the deposition of the 
Mexican Congress. The following account of the 
taking of Guadalajara is interesting, and shows 
that there has been some hard fighting : 
" The revolution, which commenced in the State 
of Jalisco, has spread over the entire Republic. 
Sr. ROBLES, with a commission of officers, had been 
deputed to treat with the insurgents at Guadala-
jara, under Gen. URAGA, and had left the capital 
for that purpose. The Orden, however, predicts 
that nothing will be gained by this mission, as 
URAGA will listen to no terms short of an entire 
compliance with his original plan,, that of Jalisco, 
which originated in Guadalajara, the capital of 
that State. URAGA has recently defeated Gen. 
MINON, before the city of Guadalajara, with a heavy 
loss.. 
" MINoN is said to have brought against the city 
a very large force, together with twenty pieces of 
artillery, of different calibre, from six to twenty- 
* In the editor's "Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse," on p. 
15, in the example there given of the " Hypocastastasis," he has 
failed to illustrate it—not having then caught the idea of the fig-
ure. The error consists not in the statement of the figure, but in 
the illustration. Reference is made to the text here quoted, but to 
the wrong part of it. We make this statement, lest any may be 
misled by the illustration, because we wish to correct all mistakes, 
and to confess all errors. As no subsequent reference was made to 
that figure, it does not affect the exposition at all, and will be cor-
rected in the next edition. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
69 
 
four pounders. With this tremendous armament, 
he, on the 25th of December commenced an attack 
on the city, which lasted, with all the horrors of a 
terrible bombardment, until the 30th, when MINON 
was forced to retire. The principle edifices of the 
city seem to have been the chief mark for the guns 
of the enemy, many of which have been entirely 
demolished. It is said that the once beautiful city 
of Guadalajara now presents a sad picture of ruin 
and desolation. The loss on the part of the insur- 
gents is not stated, but the government troops are 
represented as far the greatest sufferers. Gen. MI- 
NON has retired from before the city, and petitioned 
his government for additional resources, of which 
he has been sadly crippled. The success of the in- 
surgents may now be reckoned as complete, as the 
general government is entirely without resources. 
" The Orden of the 15th states that Gen. SANTA 
ANNA was expected to be in Havana between the 
25th and 30th of December, and to reach Vera 
Cruz early in January. 
" The first use made of the extraordinary power 
granted to President CEBALLOS was to release a 
number of political prisoners, incarcerated by the 
order of ARISTA. 
" Assassinations seem to be the order of the day 
at present in Mexico. Soon after the murder of 
RonmenEz at Tampico, the Governor of the State 
of San Louis Potosi was publicly assassinated in 
the streets of the capital by six masked men, and 
the rumor is current that the Provincial Governor 
of Tamaulipas, RAMON PRIETO, had been killed at 
Victoria. 
" The cities of Monterey and Saltillo have pro-
nounced for the popular plan, so that the entire 
frontier is now in the hands of the insurgents." 
From the Rio Grande we have the following ac-
count of a successful pronunciamento at Matamo-
ros, and other interesting intelligence : 
" It appears that on the 28th, while nearly all 
the citizens of Matamoras were engaged in celebra- 
ting the funeral obsequies of RUFUS RODRIGUEZ, a 
portion of the military, who had secretly decided 
to join the revolution and support the Jalisco plan, 
availed themselves of the opportunity to carry their 
plans into effect. Accordingly they had parties of 
men secretly posted at strong points of the city, 
and succeeded at once in confining Gen. AVALOS, 
the commandant, to the single square in which his 
quarters were situated. He retained all the artil- 
lery and the majority of his troops, but the insur-
gents under Col. QUINTONA hemmed him in, and 
after several hours of sharp firing, about 11 o'clock 
at night a parley was sounded, and there was a 
cessation of hostilities. 
" On Saturday and Sunday the parties were ne-
gotiating, and it was finally arranged that AVALOS 
'was to resign the command at Matamoras to Col. 
BASAVE, who was to hold it until the arrival of 
Col. CRUZ from Camargo, the latter to have the 
command on the frontier. AVALOS was to have the 
privilege of leaving the city with his arms and an 
escort of one hundred men. 
" Matamoros was the only point in the state of 
Tamaulipas that held out for the general govern- 
ment. That city having successfully pronounced, 
the entire state has now adopted the Jalisco plan. 
" Col. CRUZ published at Camargo on the 22d of 
January, a proclamation declaring the port of 
Matamoras closed to foreign commerce from the 
25th ult., and that all goods imported there would 
be confiscated. The successful pronunciamento at 
Matamoras probably rescinds that order." 
IS ROME BABYLON, AND WHY I 
FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continued from our last.) 
Now in the Eastern Empire things had taken 
the opposite course. GREGORY the Thaumaturgas, 
a distinguished member, it may be, a chief of the 
Isiac mysteries, suddenly proclaimed that the Queen 
of Heaven had appeared to him, and miraculously 
instructed him to go forth, preaching her worship. 
He did so with all manner of signs and lying won-
ders. He cured the nervous, he healed the sick, 
he read men's thoughts, he revealed the future, he 
performed all the miracles of a CAGLIOSTRO or a 
DUPOTET. His name was trembled at. The Pa-
gans followed him, for he explained to them the 
creed but imperfectly disclosed in the lesser mys-
teries. The Christians admired, for he spoke to 
them of the Trinity with confidence and faith. 
The Alexandrian Church trembled. All the world 
was gone after him. One course was easy,—to 
make him a Bishop. He accepted the offer. He 
agreed to teach that the Son of GOD should be 
called in public worship JESUS CHRIST, instead of 
Horns, as before. The Church received him un-
baptized, ignorant of, and without instruction in 
Scripture. He was received, baptized, confirmed, 
ordained, and consecrated in one day, and by his 
wonder-working powers the worship of the Virgin 
was everywhere set up. His example was followed. 
BASIL and the two other GREGORIES aided him, and 
Gnosticism itself had now disappeared through the 
gradual departure of the Arian Goths for western 
conquest, and the worship of the Virgin alone re-
mained. 
The Imperial Guards seem, however, to have 
been recruited from the North, or in Britain. They 
were impatient at this new worship. It did not 
please them to fast one hundred and sixty days in 
the year, the necessary condition for communion 
with the invisible world. They had no taste for 
self-flagellation nor hair shirts. The idea of clean-
liness being sinful was not consonant to the regu-
lations which sent a man to drill for the slightest 
speck on his appointments ; and it is at least pos-
sible that the young guardsmen, as they contrasted 
their bright silver helmets and glittering attire 
with the costume of the filthy and frouzy friars, 
who vaunted that they had never washed or changed 
their clothes for twenty years, felt very dissatis-
fied at finding every boudoir pre-occupied by these 
dirty demoniacs of the desert. Certain however it 
is, that between the Imperial Guards, officers or 
men, and the Carmelite friars, there was small sym-
pathy. 
The Emperor at length, seeing the danger of the 
superstition so widely diffused, appointed NESTO-
Rims head of the Antioch School to the patriarchate 
of Constantinople. It is not our business to argue 
in defence of NESTORIUS'S personal piety. He may, 
if an unconverted man, still have been right in re-
sistance to idolatry, as HORSLEY was right in re-
sistance to TOMLINE. 
Let us, however, simply imagine an intellectu-
ally enlightened, daring, strong-headed, somewhat 
passionate Arab gentleman, adhering almost ser-
vilely to the literal words of Scripture, placed at 
the head of a Church of which the priests were mere 
panderers to vice and superstition. He strives,—
whether spiritually minded or not we do not pre-
tend to say,—to direct men's minds from the Vir-
gin to her Son. He declared that she was not the 
procreatrix of GoD, that her Son derived only his 
human nature from her, and that she, although 
blessed above women, was but a woman still. In 
other words, he denied that GoD had become incar 
nate in the Virgin. He denied the Chaldean doc-
trine that the Virgin, and not her Son, broke the 
serpent's head. 
A storm was preparing. The populace was ex 
cited, the bishops were moved, the clergy clamored. 
The Emperor called a Council. It was at Ephesus, 
a place carefully arranged, as easy of access by 
the Egyptians and Italians, who came by sea,—
difficult of access to the Arabians, who must travel 
by land. The Pontiff of Venus and High Priest of 
Rome presided. NESTORIUS refused to yield. The 
monks were violent,—the guards chastised them. 
The stones and filth showered on the troops were 
returned rudely with the lance-shaft, and the vine-
branch. The Emperor's feelings were worked upon. 
Ought laymen to interfere ? The Council was left 
to itself. The bludgeons of BASIL and the cutting-
knives of CYRIL'S followers prevailed over the ar-
guments of the godly. NESTORIUS was excommuni-
cated,—expelled,—murdered ; all who adhered to 
him cast out, and solemn curses were evoked on all 
who refused to worship the newly-created goddess. 
At the same time the festival of the Assumption of 
the Assyrian Goddess into heaven, hitherto cele-
brated in the mysteries, was now imposed upon 
the whole Church, and the goddess was thus repre-
sented to have risen from the dead, and to be the 
bride of GOD. Since that time it has been observed 
throughout the Apostasy, and none who decline 
worshipping the holy Goddess,—MARY, the geni-
tress of GOD,—can hope to be saved. 
Now here we must fix attention to the facts of 
the case. Whoever, in the words of St. BASIL, in 
his Liturgy, refused to address their prayers to 
Divm Sanctm Marini genitricis Dei, as the media-
trix between GOD and man, was declared no mem-
ber of the established creed. Could Christians re-
main in communion with a Church that would im-
pose such terms of communion I Were the Church 
of England to do this, would Mr. ELLIOTT, or Mr. 
BIRKS, or MY. FABER, subscribe to its articles any 
longer? Were the Free Church of Scotland to do 
this, would it not universally be rejected by all 
Christian communities We ask a decisive an-
swer. If every man who denied the godhead of 
the Virgin, and refused to regard her as the sole 
hope and fountain of salvation, was forced out of 
the Church ;—if the scourge, the prison, and the 
rack, were the portion of all who protested for 
truth ;—if the mountains of Wales, of the Alps, of 
America, and of Kourdistan, alone afforded a ref-
uge for the persecuted saints ;—if those, scattered, 
divided, cut off, and broken as they were, preferred 
death to communion with the apostasy ;—if they 
adhered to the same pure, unblemished, scriptural 
worship addressed to CHRIST alone of the early 
times ;— if their descendants have sustained the 
never-ceasing persecutions both of Greece and 
Rome, and have preserved their existence only by 
their mountains and by GoD's blessing on their 
swords ;— if the most benighted amongst them, 
after fourteen hundred years' seclusion, retained 
so much Gospel light that even American Congre-
gationalists thought it a duty to commune at their 
table, whilst their bishops opened their pulpits to 
the American Congregationalists ;—if even Eng-
lish Tractarians can specify nothing as held by 
them which the Church of England, as exemplified 
in JEWEL and Hooaxii, and even HORSLEY and VAN 
MILDERT, does not hold too, what right have we to 
presume them heretics, or to conclude those ac-
cursed from the faith who have suffered so nobly 
for the faith of CHRIST 
We rejoice that the. British Church, Scotch, 
Welsh, or Irish,—Pict, Celt, or Caledonian,—had 
no representatives at the Council of Ephesus. The 
British probably never knew its decision. It is 
doubtful if they even inquired into its existence. 
They had thrown off all connexion both with the 
Court and the Church of Rome. 
Can we say more ? Could apostasy go further 
than when the worship of the Queen of Heaven 
was made the test of orthodoxy ? We cannot doubt 
that the Council of Ephesus filled up and completed 
the utter apostasy of the Church ; that it set up 
the Chaldean worship for that of CHRIST, just as 
the Israelites became apostate when JEZEBEL caused 
men to bow before Baal instead of JEHOVAH. 
(To be continued.) 
MY JOURNAL. 
TOUR IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MASSACHUSETTS. 
Jan. 20th.—After spending a few days in Boston, 
I took the cars and stage for Pittsfield, N. H. I 
found a home at the house of brother TASKER. This 
pious and intelligent family are an honor to the 
Advent cause. They have lately been afflicted with 
sickness, but they demean themselves under it in 
patience, as the children of GOD. 
Pittsfield is a town of some importance, though 
it is not large. There are several religious socie-
ties in the place and neighborhood, which are well 
supported. The Advent society is small, and has 
not been prospered of late years, there having been 
but little united effort to build it up. Elders HAR-
VEY and MORRILL, who reside in the vicinity, hav-
ing labored chiefly elsewhere, the flock here has 
been left quite destitute a great portion of the 
time. But, I am happy to say, a new interest ap-
pears to have sprung up recently, and a united ef-
fort has been made to build up the cause. In fur-
therance of this object, a conference was called in 
P., which was held on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of 
January. Elders W. BURNHAM, MORRILL, HARVEY, 
and many lay brethren, participated in the services 
of the occasion. Although the weather was in-
clement, the attendance was good, and the LORD 
revived his saints. Many hearts were cheered and 
comforted by the precious promises of the gospel. 
They believe that " the kingdom of GOD is noir, 
even at the doors." Tile regular meetings have 
been revived, and it is the intention of the breth-
ren to continue them with more regularity and ef-
ficiency. I delivered six discourses during the 
meeting. 
Jan. 24th.—Rode by stage and car to Claremont, 
N. H., a distance of about fifty miles. Bro. J. A. 
WINCHESTER met me at the stage office with a cor-
dial welcome, and conducted me to his house, 
where 1 put up. On my arrival there I was un-
expectly greeted by brother I. H. SHIPMAN. The 
meeting was one of unmingled joy. His eldest 
daughter, who promised, with tears, in October 
last, when I parted with her, that she would give 
her heart to CHRIST, was with him. In the late 
blessed revival at Sugar Hill, she did so, together 
with two of her younger sisters, all of whom a 
fond father has had the happiness to baptize. We 
all rejoiced in the mercy and love of GOD. 
The Advent doctrine was introduced into Clare-
mont about ten years ago, by a course of lectures 
in the large tent, delivered before the largest meet-
ing ever held in that region. Subsequently, the 
doctrine was more fully presented in a course of 
lectures by Father MILLER, when a general revival 
followed in all the churches, and large numbers 
were converted to CHRIST. The Advent cause, as a 
distinct interest, however, has not been very pros 
perous from the beginning ; and the course of some, 
who were its early friends and devoted laborers, 
has been, to say the least, very injudicious. I may 
allude to one, who was formerly a worthy and de-
voted preacher of the M. E. Church. This indi-
vidual espoused the Advent faith, and for a time 
was a useful laborer ; but entertaining the notion 
of a kind of perfection that consists chiefly of " ef-
feminacy," (see 1 Cor. 6:9,) by which the heart is 
corrupted, was led into the " spiritual-wife " ini- 
quity, and fell from his position of usefulness, and 
was discountenanced by the Adventists. From 
this and similar things, the cause has suffered much, 
from which, it is feared, it will never recover. 
There are a few faithful ones left, however, who 
meet together and sympathize with each other in 
their trials. I had the happiness of meeting with 
them in their place of worship, which was filled, 
many strangers being present. I delivered one dis-
course, in which I endeavored to present and vin-
dicate the Advent doctrine, and to comfort the lit-
tle flock. May GOD sustain them. 
In 1849 I received the following unique docu-
ment, (post-marked Claremont, N. H.), which I 
give here by special request : 
" Brimstone Hill, Tophet, Oct. 30th, 1849. 
" MR. DEAREST JOSHUA :—It is with feelings of 
gratitude and unspeakable delight, that I have the 
honor and pleasure of addressing the most faith-
ful, the most ingenious, and, in short, the best, the 
most devilish of all my servants on yonder earth. 
" I cannot and will not attempt to express my 
satanic gratitude to you for your unheard-of ser-
vices to me. But suffice it to say, the records of 
my old Pit fail to find your equal. I have spread 
heathenism in the land ; I have covered the earth 
with infidelity, and deluged it with ardent spirits ; 
yet I must confess, that I cannot accomplish what 
you can, and I begin to fear that he whom I con-
sidered to be my faithful son, will drive the old 
man from the throne, and take possession of my 
kingdom. 
" Now, Joshua, this would not be fair play. I 
have never attempted to injure you, on account of 
your unheard-of services to me, and now would it 
he fair play for me to have to knock under to you ? 
" But, Joshua V., 
You are too much for me. 
I do not consider myself safe to be in partnership 
with you any longer. Now, I will do for you as I 
never have done for mortal man—I will give you 
good advice, for my own interest requires it, and I 
am determined to be clear of you, for the great Pit 
is not large enough for us both ; and besides, you 
send so many here I have my hands full, and begin 
to be weary. I would advise you to repent and go 
to heaven, if you possibly can, which I very much 
doubt ; but go if you can, and I will not hang on 
to your skirts, I assure you, but would gladly see 
the last of you. It is a delightful place : I have 
been there, and would gladly go again, unless you 
go ; but it is impossible for us both to be there. 
But if .you will not do that, rather than to bring 
my legions upon you, we will settle it by honora-
ble single combat. Choose your time and weapons, 
and we will meet on Mount Atna, in sight of 
Rome, which was my seat for ages, and the con-
queror shall decently bury his antagonist in the 
bottom of the crater, and take possession of the 
great Pit ! ! You may be victorious, but you may 
expect a terrible conflict before your subjects can 
sing 
"Joshua V. has done very well, 
He has killed the devil, and reigns in hell. 
" Will you have the goodness to inform me in 
the next Herald, which I always peruse with de-
light, which way you will choose ? I must draw 
to a close, as you have caused a large extension of 
my business of late. Yours, &c. SATAN, 
 
"'To his beloved Joshua V. Himes." 
I answered the above epistle in the _Herald at the 
time, and requested a personal interview, which, it 
is hardly necessary to say, was not complied with. 
But since then, I have met the " legions " referred 
to, and the result is known to all. 
Jan. 25th.—Came to Concord, and put up with 
brother G. CUTTING, who kindly received and enter-
tained me during my stay. Bro. C. and compan-
ion have been greatly afflicted of late by the death 
of an amiable and beloved daughter. But the con-
solation of the blessed hope sustains them under 
this bereavement. The hope of the resurrection, 
and a re-union, is a spring of constant joy ; for 
"There friends will meet again, who have loved." 
I had not visited Concord for some time ; indeed, 
but few times since I pitched the large tent there 
in 1842, when the Advent doctrine was introduced 
to that community. A meeting of some kind has 
been kept up there ever since, with various degrees 
of success. Latterly the brethren have built a 
chapel, since the opening of which they have had 
good congregations and some conversions. Not-
withstanding some of the religious teachers that 
have visited them have but little sympathy for me, 
or for the Herald, many of the congregation were 
kindly disposed, and I was heard with deep atten-
tion. The house was full, and a sensible impres-
sion was made. There was no interruption, and I 
can but hope that some good will result. 
Jan. 26th.—Went to Nashua. The little flock 
here have passed through many severe trials for 
several years ; but in the midst of the fires, they 
have not been consumed. A part of their number 
left them some time ago ; but they are stronger 
and in a better condition than they were before the 
division took place. They have but little preach-
ing, but possessing good gifts among themselves, 
they maintain regular meetings, which are inter-
esting, and are abundantly able to " meet the 
enemy in the gate." I delivered but one discfurse, 
but shall visit them again as soon as it is in my 
power to do so.. 
Jan. 27th.—Went to Haverhill, Mass. Arrived 
just in season for the service of the dedication of 
the Advent chapel. Went directly to the house, 
which was filled with an intelligent and interesting 
audience. I was sadly afflicted with sick head-
ache and cold, and much fatigued. But there was 
no release for me. I gathered up my energies and 
threw myself into the work, and was sustained ; but 
was confined to my room for two days after, breth-
ren Sherwin and Pearson filling my appointments 
on the evenings of the 27th and 28th. The services 
were performed by Elders Plummer, Sherwin, Pear-
son, Farrar, and myself. Brother Plummer offered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
 
 
the dedicatory prayer, brother Sherwin read the 
Scriptures, and I gave the discourse. Brethren 
from Newburyport and elsewhere assisted in the 
singing, which was good. 
There are some facts connected with the history 
of the Advent society in Haverhill, to which I may 
allude in this connection. Elder H. Plummer, 
their pastor, is a native of H., and became the pas-
tor of a Christian society upwards of twenty years 
ago. He continued thus until 1844, when on ac-
count of his views on the second advent and reign 
of Christ, the relation was dissolved. A large 
number of the church who sympathized with him, 
left the society and formed a new one, and invited 
Elder P. to continue with them. They put up a 
new, cheap and convenient chapel in one week's time, 
in which they have worshipped till within a few 
months, when they resolved to build a new one, 
which has just been dedicated. The present house 
is much larger and more substantial than the first, 
but since it was finished they find it is quite too 
small to accommodate all who wish pews. 
During the last eight years brother P. and his 
little flock have had to meet many discouraging 
things ; but in the dark and trying hour they have 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LECTURES ON ROMANS XI. 
BY 0. R. FASSETT. 
LECTURE H. 
" WHAT then ? Israel bath not obtained that 
which he seeketh for ; but the election bath ob-
tained it, and the rest were blinded, (according as 
it is written, God bath given them the spirit of 
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that 
they should not hear ;) unto this day. And David 
saith, let their table be made a snare, and a trap, 
and a stumbling-block, and a recompense unto 
them : Let their eyes be darkened that they may 
not see, and how down their back always."—Rom. 
11:7-10. 
In commenting upon the previous verses, we 
have shown that the apostle, instead of teaching 
that all the Jews were the peculiar and favored 
people of God, taught rather, that as a nation they 
were rejected by him for their disobedience, (chap. 
10:21,) and that only " a remnant " in each gene-
ration, and that " according to the election of 
grace," constituted his people, the true Israel. 
Verse 7th seems to contain the result and conclu-
sion of what the apostle had before said : " Israel " 
as a nation had " not obtained " the blessing which 
they sought for, " but the election " a " remnant " 
had, and " the rest were blinded." The " elec-
tion " were the " remnant " of which the apostle 
speaks in v. 25th, those who were of faith. 
The blessings, which the Jews as a nation sought 
for were justification, acceptance and favor with God, 
and the reward of the kingdom. They did not ob-
tain the faith because they did not seek in the right 
way. " They sought it not by faith, but as it were 
by the works of the law." (Chap. 9:32.) They 
did not obtain, the latter, because they wanted it 
without the King and the essential moral qualifica-
tions when the King comes. They said, " This is 
the heir, Come, let us kill him, and let us seize on 
the inheritance. And they caught him, and cast 
him out of the kingdom, and slew him. When the 
lord therefore of the vineyard cometh . . he will 
miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out 
his vineyard unto other husbandmen." " There-
fore say I unto you," says the Saviour, " The king-
dom of God shall be taken from you, and given to 
a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."—Matt. 
21:38-44. 
But these blessings, " the election," " the rem-
nant " do obtain. 
They obtain justification, pardon, and accept-
ance with God. (Rom. 5:1, 2.) 
They obtain the kingdom, as their reward." 
—Luke 12:32. 
"The rest were blinded," (margin, hardened.) 
These are the vast majority of the Jews, those left 
when the " remnant " are taken out. In verse 8th, 
Paul appeals to the prophets in support of his 
statement : " According as it is written, God hath 
given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they 
should not see, and ears that they should not hear 
unto this day." This quotation may be found in 
many parts• of the sacred writings. First, Moses 
says, " The Lord bath not given you an heart to 
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto 
this day."—Deut. 29:4. And the prophet Isaiah 
says, " Make the heart of this people fat, and make 
their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they 
see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and 
understand with their heart, and convert, and be 
healed."—Isa. 6:10. 
Our Lprd himself, when on earth quotes these 
passages in support of the fact that such was the 
case of Israel in his day. (Matt. 13:13-15.) And 
the apostle in the text as proof that it was true in 
his. " Unto this day." In fact, so " blinded" and 
" hardened" was that nation that they rejected 
" God's Son from heaven," though he came among 
them in fulfilment of the law and the prophets, 
and gave incontestable proofs of his Messiahship ! 
So " blinded " and " hardened" as to crucify him, 
and afterwards even to reject his resurrection though 
abundant proofs were given them that God had 
raised him from the dead ! So " blinded " and 
" hardened " as in the face of these facts, to start 
a false report in respect to it, and bribe the soldiers 
to confirm the falsehood by paying them large sums 
of money, and to still perpetuate the same to the 
present time ! So " blinded " and " hardened " as 
to reject the miraculous outpouring and descent of 
the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, and to ac- 
cuse the apostles of being filled with " new wine," 
when they knew better, and while they saw the 
Spirit " upon each of them as cloven tongues of 
We had a good hearing, but little effect however, 
was produced in the town. A few however, em-
braced the faith, and have kept up a meeting most 
of the time since. The chapel of the Freewill Bap-
tists was procured for me, which was filled by a 
large concourse of all denominations. They lis-
tened in almost breathless silence for near two 
hours, to a discourse on the " Nobleman's " de-
parture and return. 
There are a few faithful and true Adventists in 
this place, who are desirous of sustaining the 
cause ; and would be glad to have a permanent 
minister. I can but hope that after so long a trial 
they may soon be favored with the labors of a 
faithful minister, and see the pleasure of God pros-
per in their hands. 
Feb. lst.—Went to Great Falls, N. H. In the 
evening I gave a lecture in the Bapist chapel, to a 
large audience. I could not have had a more fa-
vorable hearing on the Advent doctrine. The minis-
ter, and many of his people, with many of other 
denominations, were in attendance. Doors seem 
to be open on all sides, and people are interested 
as in former times, to hear on the subject. 
There are only a few believers in this place. They 
held fast the faith and hope, and are now rewarded hold a meeting regularly, with or without a preach-
for their devotion to principle and duty. May the er. Many of these are bold and consistent advo-
blessing of heaven attend them, and still make cates of the Advent faith. 
them a blessing to the community. 
I was hospitably entertained by brother Nash, 
Jan. 29th.—Took the cars for Exeter, and on my and I made calls with him on most of the brethren, 
arrival found the congregation waiting. Before I to comfort and encourage them. 
 
entered the house, I prepared to excuse myself from Feb. 2d.—Took cars for Newburyport, Mass., by 
speaking till evening, not having fully recovered way of Portsmouth, N. H. Called on Elder Crow- 
my health. But on entering the house my excuse ell and family, who have been afflicted of late, with 
was gone, and I soon found myself speaking with the sickness of their children. But they are cheer-
my usual strength. I spoke again in the evening, ful in hope. He had labored with the Advent so- 
and three times on the Sabbath. We had good au- ciety here to good acceptance, but I learn that he 
diences, and the word was well received. The meet- proposes to change his field of labor. I fear the 
ing on the last evening was a very solemn and society will not do better. Bro. C. is worthy the 
searching one. 
confidence and generous support of the Adventists, 
While in this place some touching recollections and I trust there will be an open door for him. 
 
were recalled in reference to my first introduction I dined with brother Tullock, in company with 
and acquaintance with Father Miller. It was in Prof. Rust, of this place, and another Methodist 
this place that I first heard him preach, and was preacher from Great Falls. We discoursed upon 
introduced to him. He preached on Dan. 8:13, 14, Methodism as it was, and as it is, temperance, &c. 
" Then I heard one saint speaking, and another Had a pleasant interview. Methodist preachers 
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, are not what they were in John Wesley's day, ei-
How long shall be the vision concerning the daily ther in this country or Europe. They need more 
sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to of what Wesley aimed to diffuse and establish in 
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden the Church—the life of God in the soul—entire 
under foot ? And he said unto me, Unto two consecration. 
Viousand and three hundred days ; then shall the In the evening took the cars for Newburyport, 
sanctuary be cleansed." Although I had read his and arrived in season for service. I was warmly 
written discourse on this subject, I was not im- greeted and entertained by Elder J. Pearson, the 
pressed with its harmony and strength until now. pastor of the Advent society. We had a very good 
He poured forth a flood of light from other scrip- and attentive audience. I was worn down to the 
tures upon every part of his subject, and fully shut lowest ebb, but gave them a clear view of the 
me up to the faith, both as to the manner and time character of the " meek," and the nature of their 
of our Saviour's second advent. And although inheritance. As noise is not esteemed by them an 
the time has passed without the event being real- essential part of acceptable preaching, they made 
ized, I have never been able to solve the mystery. no complaint about the dullness of my preaching. 
 
The connection of the seventy weeks with the 2300 I visited several families with brother P., among 
days vision still looks clear, but it cannot be liar- them some that were sick. They were triumphing 
monized with the light we now have on chronology ; over pain and disease, and the fear of death. 
 
but having done our duty we wait patiently for the " Oh what a blessed hope is ours." 
 
clear light of heaven upon the subject, in expecta- The cause here has had its perplexities and 
tion of the full and speedy realization of all we trials as elsewhere ; but has outlived them all. 
ever hoped for in the fulfilment of prophecy, both They are united, and live in peace and love. 
 
as to the nature of the events, and the time of their Feb. 3d.—Went to Lawrence, Mass., and spoke 
realization, at the end of the days. And we are in the evening. We had a full house, and a very 
exhorted in view of this not to " cast away our interesting service. Brother Farrar is laboring 
confidence which hath a great recompense of re- here to good acceptance. 
ward, for we have need of patience, that after we 
Feb. 4th.—Preached in Lowell, and had a very 
have done the will of God we might receive the kind reception, (as always) by Elder Sherwin and 
promise." So we watch and wait in hope. his happy flock. Had a full house, and good lib- 
I look upon my connection with this man of God erty in speaking. Brother S. is much esteemed, 
as an event fraught with much good. I have never and his labors are profitable to his people. He is 
neglected it for a moment, notwithstanding it has upright and consistent, and may be relied upon, 
subjected me to many sacrifices, hardships, and which is a good deal to say in these days of change. 
much hitter persecution. I have always felt un- 
Feb. 5th.—Went to Manchester, N. II. The Ad-
worthy of the blessings conferred, and especially, vent cause in this place has passed through a se-
have I felt most unworthy to fill the place that ries of changes. Sometimes quite prosperous, and 
Providence seemed to assign me. But I have done then again in adversity. Since brother Bentley 
the best I could, in the light of a final retribution. closed his labors with them they have not had regu-
Father Miller has finished his work, and rests lar preaching. But they have now procured a 
from his labors. But he still speaks, and will be convenient place of worship, and intend to keep up 
heard until the end. I have since his death Bath- regular meetings. They are desirous to obtain a 
ered every fact and circumstance possible connect- pastor, with the hope of sustaining and building 
ed with his life and work, in order to present the up the church. Our meetings were well attended, 
Church and world a true history of his life and and we had a very candid hearing from the public, 
mission. I felt the more anxious to do this, because to whom I gave four discourses, and brother Hawks 
he, like other reformers, was greatly misrepresent- and Sherwin gave three. The church were much 
ed and misunderstood. William Miller is yet un- revived and encouraged. The prospects of the 
known to the great mass. In justice to him, and cause are good. 
the cause of God, with which he was connected, I Thus I have been able by the favor of God to 
have at length published his Memoirs. By these complete one more tour among the churches ; hav-
he will, though dead, clearly speak once more to ing lost only two meetings by sickness, and preach-
the world. I need only say that it was prepared ing most of the time twice a day. I returned Feb. 
by brethren Bliss and Hale, who spared no labor or 7th, in good health, though much worn and fa- 
pains to make the work what it purports to be. tigued, yet full of joy and hope. The prospects of 
Jan. 31st.—Went to Dover, N. II. I visited this the Advent cause are truly encouraging. We do 
place about ten years since with Father Miller, not labor in vain, or spend our strength for naught. 
who gave a course of lectures on the Prophecies. 
J. V. HIMES. 
fire." So " blinded " and " hardened" as to reject 
the apostles' ministry, though accompanied " by 
signs and wonders and divers miracles and gifts of 
the Holy Ghost !" And finally, so " blinded " and 
" hardened " have they been in every succeeding age 
as to reject the Saviour, his atonement, the New 
Testament, and the faithful ministry of God's word ! 
What " blindness " and " hardness " is this ; and 
in a nation, too, schooled in the law and prophets 
as they have been ! 
The apostle now quotes frompavid to show that 
the very blessings conferred on them in the past 
as a people, is to prove to them in the future a 
curse : " And David saith, Let their table be made 
a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block... 
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, 
and bow down their back alway."—vs. 9, 10. The 
whole quotation reads as follows : " They gave me 
also gall for my meat ; and in my thirst they gave 
me vinegar to drink.. Let their table become a 
snare, and a trap before them : and that which 
should have been for their welfare, let it become a 
trap. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see 
not ; and make their loins continually to shake.. . 
Add iniquity unto their iniquity : and let them not 
come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted 
out of the book of the living, and not be written 
with the righteous," i. e., " Let their table," &c. 
This is another and more forcible way of saying 
" their table shall be." And mark the fearful 
prophetic declaration ! After they have rejected 
Christ and given him " gall " for his " meat," and 
in his " thirst " " vinegar to drink," then " their 
table shall become a snare, and a trap," &c. 
" Their table," 4c. was the law and the covenants 
and promises included. This did thus become and 
is such to them to the present time. For instead 
of its leading them to Christ to be justified by faith, 
it has led them to seek to fulfil its requirements 
and become " justified by the works of the law." 
The design of the law was to give a knowledge of 
sin, that all might see themselves sinners and: es-
cape to sovereign mercy for forgiveness. But they 
rejected Christ and the atonement, did not under-
stand the ,nature of the covenant, nor the true 
nature of the kingdom of God, and what was es-
sential to inherit it. Thus, " that which should 
have been for their welfare," has " become a snare 
and trap," and they " despise, and wonder, and 
perish." 
To this very day, their former blessings prove to 
them a curse. They make their boast that they 
are the peculiar, special, and favored people of 
God, and trust in this and their own righteousness, 
rather than that of God's. They make their boast 
of being the descendants of Abraham and the fa-
thers, and that to them were given the prophets and 
the law, and expect God's blessing still by virtue of 
this. And yet at the same time they reject Christ 
and his gospel ! In the confession of faith drawn 
up by one of theil chief rabbis, Maimonides, we 
see the following : 
" Art VII. Moses is the father of all the wise 
men previous to, and subsequent to his time." 
Moses was given them in mercy, as the Mediator 
of the Old Covenant, but he never was designed to 
supercede Christ. And while he held the law in 
in his hands he pointed to a still greater Lawgiver, 
Christ, and tells them that if they do not " hear 
him " they shall be " cut off from among the peo-
ple." But even Moses and his mission now prove 
a curse to them. They can see no greater than 
he, and they will adhere to no other,—they will 
look to no other. And in their hostility to Christ, 
they will have it, that " Moses is the father of all 
wise men," not only " previous to his day," but 
through all " subsequent " time ! They say as did 
their fathers, " We will not have this man to reign 
over us." 
" Art. VIII. Every part of the law, at present 
in our hands has been transmitted to us by Moses." 
Does that make it of higher authority than the 
laws of the new covenant, given by Christ himself, 
and especially obligatory on the New Testament 
Church 1 So they would have us think. 
" Art. 1X. This law never will be changed, or 
superceded, by any other record of the Creator's 
will." 
Why do they not hear Moses if he is their prophet 
and lawgiver I He says to them : " The Lord thy 
God will raise up unto thee a Prophet, &c... . 
unto him ye shall hearken," &c.—Deut. 18:15-19. 
By rejecting Christ and the laws of the New 
Testament, they virtually reject Moses, and will 
not hear him_ And " if they hear not Moses, and 
the prophets," what hope is there in their case 
How true it is that " that which should have been 
for their welfare," has " become a snare and trap." 
" And bow down their back AWAY," adds the 
apostle. " Their loins CONTINUALLY to shake," 
says David. 
Such is the fearful prophetic declaration respect-
ing this nation ! Ever after they have crucified 
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and " vinegar " for his drink. " Their table," 
their blessings will prove a snare and a trap to 
them : a curse ! " ALWAY." Will not the pro-
phetic declaration be fulfilled? We have seen its 
fulfilment now for a period of nearly nineteen cen-
turies, and will it not be fulfilled as assuredly to 
the end? Where, then, is there the hope of a uni-
versal restoration and salvation of the entire na-
tion in any future time There is none ! Moses, 
David, Isaiah, and other prophets quoted by the 
apostle, have predicted this fate ; Christ confirmed 
the same faithful record in his day; and the apos-
tle repeats, and re-affirms the same in his, and so 
now after eighteen hundred years and more, we 
see" their table " and blessings " a snare and trap " 
to them ; and we repeat, so it will be to the end : 
" ALWAY." 
It was this fearful fate of that nation, which 
wrung from the bosom of the Saviour such words 
of lamentation as these : " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusa-
lem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 
them which are sent unto thee, how often would I 
have gathered thee together as a hen gathereth her 
chickens under her wings, and ye would not ! Be-
hold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I 
say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye 
shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of 
the Lord." It was this fearful fate of his own na-
tion which led the apostle to exclaim in bitterness 
of soul : " I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my 
conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy 
Ghost, that I have great weariness and continual 
sorrow of heart. For I could wish myself were ac-
cursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen 
according to the flesh." 
IMPROVEMENT. 
In view of this subject, what is our duty as Chris-
tians, and as Christian ministers to this people ? 
It is the same with that of the apostle, to do all in 
our power to save " some of them " from the fear-
ful " blindness " into which they have fallen. And 
what a motive to Christian effort is this ! We are 
not to go to them with the syren song of " peace 
and safety," and tell them we " see visions of 
peace " concerning them and " Jerusalem," for 
there " is no peace, saith the Lord God." " Woe 
unto the foolish prophets that follow their own 
spirit and have seen nothing ! they say, " The Lord 
saith : and the Lord hath not sent them," &c.—
Exek. chap. 13th. Not to go to them and pamper 
their Jewish pride by telling them that they are 
the peculiarly favored of the Lord, and that he will 
in his own good time, miraculously visit and save 
them, and distinguish them above all the nations 
of the earth, because they are the favored descend-
ants of the fathers ! But go to them as did John 
the Baptist, Christ and his apostles, as well as the 
prophets of ancient time, and show them their sins, 
and exhort them to repentance lest they be destroyed 
with an everlasting destruction. Say to them : 
" Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repent-
ance : and think not to say within yourselves, we 
have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, 
God is able of these stones to raise up children unto 
Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the 
root of the trees : every tree that bringeth not 
forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the 
fire," &c.—Matt. 3:8-10. 
2. Let us learn from this subject that God can 
turn our greatest blessings into a curse. Some 
there are, and have been among us, who, like the 
self-righteous Jew, boast of their superior light, 
and superior blessings, and in a spirit of pride and 
self-confidence have laughed at and ridiculed the 
ignorance of others. And they have supposed that 
because they were peculiarly favored with superior 
knowledge and experience that it was because they 
were esteemed of God, forgetting that they stand 
by faith. Such have been left, and will be left of 
God ; and this very light will be turned into dark-
ness. Hence how many have made shipwreck of 
faith among us and been left to embrace and pro-
mulgate the most erroneous views. The Lord never 
gave us a knowledge of his word and of the king 
dom of God at hand, or any other truth, that we 
may laugh, and jeer and take advantage of the ig-
norance of others, or to use it as a cudgel to beat 
out the brains of others, or to show our superior 
skill and gladiatorship in theological discussions ; 
but to enlighten others with a spirit of " meekness 
and fear," and to sanctify us and prepare and fit 
us for the kingdom of God. The Lord forbid that 
we should experience the fate of the blind Jew in 
consequence of pride, self-righteousness and sin. 
PRAYER FOR LABORERS. 
" THE harvest truly is plenteous, but the labor-
ers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the 
harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his 
harvest."—Matt. 9:37, 38. 
Thus spake Jesus, while " he beheld the multi- 
L
tudes, and was moved with compassion on them, 
because they fainted, and were scattered abroad as 
sheep having no shepherd." And that have many 
good servants of Christ felt, under the influence of 
the same spirit that dwelt in the heart of the com-
passionate Jesus. While looking upon the flock 
which Christ has purchased with his own blood, as 
they are " scattered," and torn in pieces, " faint-
ing " and halting, it must touch the heart of 
every true lover of Zion. But what can we do in 
such extremity ? Jesus has told us to " pray the 
Lord of the harvest for laborers." And can we 
pray in confidence, believing they will be sent 1 1 
think we can, when we are faithful in the dis-
charge of our duty to those already sent. But if 
we are not co-operating with the faithful servants 
already in the vineyard, then we may pray, but in 
vain, for our God does not grant us all our bless-
ings, without making us responsible for the im-
provement of them. I have quoted the above text, 
on this occasion, because it bears an important re-
lation to some things I am about to say, and be-
cause at this moment " the harvest is truly great," 
and although faithful " laborers are few," and 
many who see the door opening daily, for labors 
in new fields, and who hear the cry, " Come over 
and help us," and seem to feel much interested 
about the Lord's " sending laborers into the har-
vest," but do not remember that a large number 
of those whom God has sent, have been under the 
necessity of returning to their former work for sup-
port, or of spending a large portion of their time to 
provide for themselves and families, thus keeping 
them constantly in trial, and in an unsettled state 
of mind. But some will say, " If the Lord sends 
men, he will support them." But the Lord works 
by means, and the means he has usually taken to 
sustain his ministers, has been to require his 
Church to supply the needs of his servants. In-
deed many are forward to do this, but there is a 
lack still, and to such an extent that I hesitate not 
to say that not one half the labor is expended to 
gather the lambs of the flock, and to lead perishing 
sinners to Christ, that might be successfully done. 
I should not speak thus, did I not know that there 
is some responsibility resting on us in this matter. 
Some may plead that they do not know how to act 
in this thing for want of system. This may be 
valid in many cases, and it should lead to serious 
consideration, on the part of those who are over-
seers of the flock,—to set things in order, and 
teach sound doctrine in discipline as well as other 
things. But as little system as we enjoy, if the 
love for Jesus and his cause, and for sinners, was 
as fervent as it has been among us, we should not 
see one half of the number of those whom the Lord 
would have in the field, now turning their atten-
tion to mercantile, mechanical, or farming pur-
suits, to maintain their families, while they suffer 
all the feelings of an exile. There is fault even 
without system, for much more might be done 
for the cause where there is no organized system. 
But that there should be a more efficient course 
taken to labor successfully, and to feed and 
strengthen the weary children of the kingdom, be-
gins to be felt by many, and although it is late in 
the day, and the end is near, we should no longer 
leave undone an important duty, the neglect of 
which in many places has proved the total loss of 
labor. I mean the duty of united organized system 
of action in sections where such can be had. We 
may expect some who do not fully understand what 
gospel order is, and who have seen and felt the 
evils of anything and everything but gospel order, 
to demur, and perhaps to oppose. But this should 
no longer keep us from the performance of one of 
the most plain requirements of the gospel. I wish 
here to give a few thoughts of a class of Chris-
tians in the Provinces and the Canadas, called 
" Disciples," who have seen and felt the evils of 
the present forms of society, and have been labor-
ing arduously to affect a reform. In a report of 
the " Committee for the Provincial Co-operation," 
the Committee say : " They cannot properly close 
without directing attention to certain difficulties 
or objections presented by brethren who are solicit-
ed to labor among them. Those brethren are de-
voted to the Lord, and are willing to spend and to 
be spent in his serviee." They reason thus : " We 
desire to serve the Lord not simply for a few 
months, or a year, but for life, so long as God shall 
grant ability. We stipulate for no monthly or 
yearly allowance. If the brethren will say the 
Lord hath need of you,—do the work of an evan-
gelist, and we will provide for you and yours the 
things that are needed—we will leave all and labor 
to the extent of our ability. But to labor for a 
few months as ministers of the gospel, then to re-
sume our secular pursuits with diminished ability, 
but increased necessity arising from the derange-
ment of our business, and again to serve as evan-
gelists—our affairs meantime becoming more and 
more and more entangled, this appears like a 
fruitless attempt to serve two masters. We must 
therefore decline accepting the calls of brethren, 
until a more scriptural system is introduced." 
Again they say : " What is required is a system of 
co-operation, so efficient and practicable that it can 
be vigorously carried out from year to year until 
the Master shall appear." 
The sentiments expressed in the above extracts 
on this point, are worthy of our notice, and al-
though we may not be able to decline all calls to 
labor without system, yet we should strive to be-
stir ourselves to bring about a more healthy state 
of action among us. I. C. WELLCOME. 
LETTER FROM TRURO, Mass. 
BRO, HIMES :—Since I came to the Cape I have 
been cheered with what God has been doing, and I 
doubt not but your heart will be made glad to hear 
of the prosperity of the cause in this place. I found 
the brethren united on all essential points of doc-
trine, and desiring to get ready and keep ready for 
the coming • of Christ, which they believe is at 
hand. I found them ready to engage for the up-
building of the cause and the salvation of the sin-
ner. To this end a meeting was to commence Jan. 
25th, and to continue as long as it seemed duty. 
There was interest enough to bring out a good as-
sembly, who heard with attention and apparent in-
terest. The interest increased, sinners were pricked 
in their hearts, and called upon God for mercy, 
who is faithful to answer the pragr of the peni-
tent. A week ago last Friday, seven followed Christ 
in baptism. The meetings continued through the 
week and over the Sabbath, and evenings of the 
next week. Yesterday we repaired to the water 
where six were buried with Christ by baptism. 
Next Friday, I go (by request) to Wellfleet, to 
preach in the Town Hall, and to baptize some there, 
who have been believers sometime, but never 
obeyed the command to be baptized, but now feel 
it important to follow Christ down into the water. 
My heart swells with gratitude while I write, and 
I shall look up to the Giver of every blessing and 
pray that the good work begun may continue and 
spread through this vicinity, for I do believe what 
we do will be done quickly. May God increase 
our interest for the poor sinner who will in a little 
while stand before the Judge of quick and dead at 
his appearing and kingdom. Our success depends 
upon the confidence we have in God, for if we trust 
to ourselves we shall fail to accomplish any per-
manent good, but if we look to God for strength 
and wisdom we shall through him accomplish pelt 
good. Pray for us that our faith fail not. I re- 
main as ever, 
M. L. BENTLEY. 
Feb. 9th, 1853. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
G. W. CRISMAN writes from Aurora, (Indiana,) 
January 26th, 1853 :—" The Herald still continues 
to pay us its weekly visits, and the doctrine it ad-
vocates is still cheering to our hearts, and though 
we are where we seldom ever hear any Advent 
preaching, there are very few in this section of 
country who believe with us that we are living in 
the last days ; therefore we are called fanatics, but 
we read, when these things begin to come to 
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for 
your redemption draweth nigh.' Well, have not 
these things begun to come to pass ? If so, we may 
know that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 
The accounts of revivals in different places, and 
the work of God in the Advent churches, is cheer-
ing to our hearts ; especially in Illinois, under the 
labors of brother Chapman. We would like very 
much if we could have him or some other Advent 
preacher to give us a call. Yours as ever, looking 
and hoping for redemption." 
M. II. CASE writes from Bristol (Vt.), Feb. 7th, 
1853 :—" The Lord is very gracious to his little 
church in this place. Although not rich in this 
world's goods, we enjoy the rich blessing of his 
Holy Spirit from time to time, lighting up our patl - 
way more and more as we advance, and we expect 
this will continue until we reach the perfect day. 
Our numbers are not decreasing, but rather on the 
increase, and our social meetings are most refresh-
ing. Love without dissimulation pervades our 
ranks. We have seen some backsliders reclaimed 
of late, and we hope to see a more powerful work 
of God in our midst. We have been greatly cheered 
and encouraged by reports from brethren abroad, 
of the outpouring of God's Spirit in different 
places. I feel that all such good news should be 
communicated to the scattered flock through the 
Herald, for their encouragement. The blessed hope 
of our Saviour's speedy coming is worth as much 
to us to-day as it ever was, and we cherish it as 
fondly. We are hoping soon to meet all the fam-
ily in our bright and beautiful home, where 
adieus will Dot be spoken." 
J. EATON writes from Little Falls (N, Y.), Feb, 
8th, 1853 :—" I feel like a pilgrim in this world. 
In these trying times how important it is that we 
give ear to none other than the voice of the true 
Shepherd, There is no safety but in the Rock, Je-
sus is that Rock. Although so often disappointed 
in my expectations of seeing my Lord, and al-
though instead of being the proper one to exhort 
others to watchfulness, needing that exhortation 
myself, I am still expecting my Lord with unshak-
en confidence, and shall so expect him till he comes. 
Could I speak to brethren abroad I would say look 
up, be not doubting, but believe and rejoice, for 
the time of our deliverance is near. A little more 
trial, a little more suffering, a little longer to en-
dure the scoffs of the world, which only serves to 
fit us for our Master's use, and we shall reach the 
desired haven. To each one I would say, Hold 
fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy 
crown.' May the Lord sustain you in your ardu-
ous labors for the spread of the truth till the work 
of faith is done. Yours in hope of a speedy re-
demption." 
P. B. MORGAN and E. W. Case write from Bris-
tol (Vt.), Feb. 7th, 1853 :—" Brother Powell, of 
Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass., has lately been ob-
liged to leave this field, and return to his home 
on account of ill health, and knowing him to be 
needy (and in embarrassing circumstances,) we 
have taken this upon ourselves to say to his friends 
and all of the Lord's stewards who have his goods 
in store, and who feel for the truly needy preacher 
of the gospel, we trust they will remember this 
our afflicted brother after a godly sort. And re-
member, brother, sister, friend, that in that day 
Jesus will say, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto 
one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done 
it unto me.' All remitances may be forwarded di-
rectly to brother Powell." 
NOTE.—I heartily join in the ab9ve expression 
of sympathy and confidence. I have just read a 
letter from brother P., but the above makes it un- 
necessary to give v. n. 
?4,5jri.4. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEK / ,,5 r
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FOR TUE YEAR 1553. 
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names and number of each work wanted should be specified on a 
line devoted to it. This will avoid confusion and mistakes. 
Communications for the Herald should be written with care, in 
a legible hand, carefully punctuated, and headed, "Far the Herald." 
The writing should not be crowded, nor the lines be too near to-
gether. When they are thus, they often cannot be read. Before 
being sent, they should be carefully re-read, and all superfluous 
words, tautological remarks, and disconnected and illogical sentences 
omitted. 
Everything of a private nature should be headed "Private." 
6. In sending names of new subscribers, or money for subscrip• 
tions, let the name and Post-office address (i.e., the town, county. 
and state) be distinctly given. 
Between the name and the address, a comma (,) should always be 
Inserted, that it may be seen what pertains to the name, and what to 
the address. 
Where more than one subscriber is referred to, let the business of 
each one constitute a paragraph by itself. 
43. Let everything be stated explicitly, and in as few words as will 
give a clear expression of the writet"s meaning. 
By complying with these directions, we shall be saved much per-
plexity, and not be obliged to read a mass of irrelevant matter to 
learn the wishes of our correspondents. 
AUSTRIA.—At Vienna, NAPOLEON'S manifesto an-
noupcing his marriage has caused a sensation. 
Great offence is taken at the use of the word " bri-
goer," with reference to Austria's share in NAPO-
LEON First's marriage. 
THE Royal mail steamship America arrived at 
this port on the 18th inst. 
ENGLAND.—Excepting a few miscellaneous items, 
we have nothing to report, politics and general 
news being alike dull. 
Viscount MELBOURNE, ex-Premier of England, 
died on the 28th. The title becomes extinct. 
Dr. NEWMAN has been fined £100 for his libel on 
ACHILLI. 
FRANCE.—The Queen of Spain proposes to pre-
sent the Empress with an Imperial Crown, and the 
Duchess of ALBA, EUGENIE'S sister, sends an offer-
ing of eight beautiful Andalusian horses. 
Paris has resumed its wonted quietness. The 
Emperor and his wife remain at St. Cloud. 
Meantime, the Ministers are each in his turn giv-
ing fetes in honor of the nuptials. Nothing can 
exceed the magnificent style in which the royal 
couple commenced housekeeping. Instead of the 
customary purse among the presents to the bride, 
NAPOLEON placed in her hands a portfolio contain-
ing a quarter of a million of francs. This sum the 
Empress devoted to charity—one half to the Ma-
ternity Society, and the remainder to the Hospital 
for Incurables—the Emperor endorsing the gifts 
" in behalf of our much-loved wife, the Empress 
EUGENIE." Tliere seems to be no bounds to his pro-
fuseness. Among the rest he proposes purchasing 
out of his private funds a diamond necklace worth 
six hundred thousand francs, which the Empress 
declined from the city of Paris. He proposes to 
build a palace in Marseilles, and they say one in 
each of the principal towns of France, and reside 
at each alternately, commencing next summer at 
Versailles, where, on account of the expense, no 
sovereign has resided since Louis XIV. 
The coronation of the Emperor and Empress will 
take place in May -next, if not sooner. 
Congratulations continue to flow in from the de-
partments, and many horrible poetic effusions have 
been published by way of epithalamium. 
The opinion is universal that the Ministry will 
be so far modified that of the present Cabinet only 
DucAs, Minister of Marine, and FOULD, Minister 
of State, will remain. The changes are looked for 
to-day.. 
A letter purporting to be from CHANGARNIER, ex-
pressing his opinion that a European war is in-
evitable, has been circulated in legitimist circles, 
but its authenticity is questionable. 
The Emperor has bestowed a first class medal on 
JEAN DOURE, of Newfoundland, for saving the lives 
of several French sailors. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWTS. 
It is believed that a treaty of commerce for 
twelve years between Austria and Prussia, to-
gether with reconstruction of the customs union, is 
actually settled. 
The Vienna .Lloyds announces the definite ar-
rangement of the differences which have for some 
time existed between Austria and the United States. 
PRUSSIA.—The Augsburg Gazette publishes a des-
patch dated Berlin, Dec. 28th, from MONTEUFAQUE 
to HALEZEFELDT , Prussian ambassador, giving quite 
a new color to the terms in which Russia, Prussia, 
and Austria recognized the French Empire. In-
stead of recognizing it simplement et purement, as 
the French journals said, the powers emphatically 
call for the observance of existing treaties, and the 
maintenance of the present territorial limits in Eu-
rope. 
RUSSIA.—Large bodies of Russian troops are 
moving towards the Turkish frontiers. 
C. RIVER & CO., St. Petersburgh, have suspended 
payment—liabilities small. 
TURKEY.—The Turks commenced active opera-
tions against the Montenegrins Jan. 12th. During 
the day three villages were destroyed by fire. OMAR 
PASHA, with 24,000 troops, was pushing on towards 
the capital. 
Later accounts state that the Turkish troops 
have entered Montenegro by the defile of Astroga. 
Austria had despatched JELLACHICH to the fron-
tiers with 18,000 troops. 
The Count SAXE LEININGEN was to go on a private 
mission to Constantinople, which was supposed to 
relate to Montenegrins affairs. 
Although accounts are contradictory, enough 
transpires through the Dalmatian papers to show 
that fighting is going on, and with the atrocity of 
Turkish warfare. Prince DANIEL pays two ducats 
for every Turk's head brought in. 
In a night attack on OMAR PASHA, the mountain-
eers took eighty horses, and three hundred head of 
cattle. To 16th ult., the Montenegrins were vic-
torious in the south and east, but were very hard 
pressed in the north. The odds against them were 
too great to permit hopes of ultimate success. 
Austria has given permission to all unarmed fu-
gitives from Montenegro to cross the frontiers into 
Austria. 
ABDEL KADER had a private interview with the 
Sultan. 
INDIA.—The letters and papers to hand by the 
Indian mail bring details of news already tele-
graphed, but offer nothing remarkable. 
THE MARRIAGE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON., 
THE state ceremony of the marriage of NAPOLEON 
and EUGENIE took place on Saturday evening, Jan. 
30th, at the Tuilleries, about eight o'clock. The 
following are the ceremonies observed on the oc- 
casion. 
" The Grand Master of ceremonies proceeded 
with two carriages to the Elysee, where the bride 
stood, to conduct her to her future lord. Accom-
panied by the Grand Master, the Spanish Minister, 
two ladies of honor, and the Countess (her mother), 
Mademoiselle Montijo was conveyed to the Tuille-
ries, where she was formally received by the Prin-
cess Mathilde and her ladies, who ushered her into 
the salon du famille, where the cardinals, marshals, 
and officers were assembled. 
" The Minister of State, as officer of the L'Etat 
Civil, then declared his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 
III. by the defence of God and the will of the peo-
ple Emperor of the French, united in holy marriage 
to Mademoiselle Eugenie Montijo. All parties 
then signed the requisite documents, and a salute 
of artillery announced the fact. 
" The Empress was soon afterwards re-conducted 
to the Elysee, with the same formalities. On her 
way, her Majesty was received with respect, and 
occasional cries of Vive l'Emperatrice, but in half 
an hour Paris had resumed its wonted Saturday 
night aspect. 
" The religious ceremonial at Notre Dame, Sun-
day, 31st, being a holiday, the streets were early 
crowded with almost the entire population, and 
along the route of the marriage cortege the only va-
cant spot was a lane kept by double lines of troops, 
extending the whole way from the Palace to the Ca-
thedral. At noon the Empress was conducted from 
the Elysee to the Tuilleries, with the same state 
as on the previous evening, and was received with 
more enthusiasm by the crowd, who manifested 
the liveliest curiosity to catch a glimpse of the 
lady of whose beauty they had heard so much. Her 
Majesty seemed somewhat agitated, as she drove 
along, bowed gracefully in acknowledgment of the 
vivats. 
" A few minutes after her arrival at the Tuille-
ries, the Emperor appeared, leading her by the 
hand, and having taken their places in the carriage, 
the procession moved forward from the Place de 
Carrousel, through the Court of the Louvre, the 
Fetes St. Germaine, Rue Dervole, Place del Hotel 
de Ville, Quay Pelletier, across the bridge of Notre 
Dame, and thence to the great door of the Cathe-
dral. The invited guests had been assembled for 
two hours previously, and not long before their 
Majesties' approach, the corps diplomatique ar-
rived, attended by a grand military escort. 
" The scene within the Cathedral was extremely 
brilliant, and at the moment when the Archbishop 
of Paris went forward to meet them, and the whole 
assembly arose, the effect was certainly gorgeous. 
Napoleon seemed to be in first rate spirits, and it 
was admitted that the bride looked very beautiful. 
Their Majesties proceeded straight to the throne 
erected for their use, and the Archbishop of Paris 
at once proceeded to celebrate the marriage cere-
monial in strict accordance with the ritual of the 
Roman Church. A canopy of silver brocade was 
held over the heads of the pair by two Bishops. 
The choir repeated the Domini Salvum. The Arch-
bishop presented the holy water, and chanted the 
Te Deum, at the conclusion of which Napoleon III. 
stepped from his throne a married man. 
"This interesting fact was forthwith promul-
gated by salvos of artillery, the roll of drums, 
flourish of trumpets, shouts of the people and the 
army, and above all, by the boom of the Bordon, 
or great bell of Notre Dame. 
" The wedded pair returned to the Tuilleries amid 
increased acclamations. In the evening, Paris was 
illuminated.' It is interesting to place on record, 
that Napoleon wore the uniform of Lieutenant-
General, and that Eu,enie's bridal dress was of 
white velvet, termed Essingle, richly ornamented, 
and on her head a diadem of brilliants, and a large 
veil of pointe d'Alencon lace." 
THE MADIAIS.—The Buona Novella, an Italian 
Protestant journal, publishes a letter from FRAN-
CISCO MADIAI, dated Nov. 20th, in which he says he 
is in bed, very ill, but thinks he shall not die ; and 
another from his wife, without date, in which she 
speaks of the sufferings to which she and her hus-
band have been subjected, but adds : 
" Let God be praised, and let us praise him to-
gether for having made us victors by our Lord Je-
sus Christ. They have struck and they strike, but 
Christ replies, none shall take from me those 
whom the Father has given to me.' . . . . My hus-
band is very unwell, and that is my greatest afflic-
tion. For myself, I am very thin, but better in 
health by the grace of the good Jesus. . . Let the 
church pray for us. We hope that, with the bless-
ing of God, who gives strength to weak mortals 
like us, that if any one should be called on to suf-
fer for his cause, that he will call to mind how 
much Jesus has suffered for us." 
D. F. LEAVITT, is our agent at Loudon Ridge, 
New Hampshire. 
" THE MILK TRADE OF NEW YORK AND VICINITY, &C. By John 
Mullaly. With an introduction by It. T. Trail, M. D. New York 
Fowlers & Wells, Publishers, Clinton Hall, 131 Nassau-street. Bos-
ton, 142 Washington-street. London, 142 Strand." 
WE have received a copy of the above pamphlet, 
whiCh gives a very graphic picture of the stuff 
which the New Yorkers call " milk." Cows are 
fed on distillery slops till they become diseased. 
Their milk, which is the slop of the distillery 
leached through. them, is mixed with water, so that 
two quarts become three. By the aid of chalk, 
magnesia, molasses, a few eggs, and other com-
pounds, it requires a very respectable consistency, 
taste, and color, and is then sold as genuine " Or-
ange," or " Westchester county " milk. The pam-
phlet referred to goes fully into the matter. But 
we would not advise any who live in New York to 
read it, lest it should cause them to diminish their 
coffee ! 
ADVENT •HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 20, 1853. 
New Works.—Just Published. 
" MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM MILLER."-430 pp. 12 mo. 
Price, in plain binding, $1,00 
II gilt 1,50 
Postage, when sent by mail, if pre-paid, 20 cts. 
" A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE."-
384 pp. 16 mo. 
Price, in plain binding, 60 cts. 
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Postage, when sent by mail, 16 cts. 
" PHENOMENA OF THE RAPPING SPIRITS."—With 
this title, we shall issue in a tract form the thirty-
two pages of the Commentary on the Apocalypse,—
from p. 254 to 286—which treats of the " Unclean 
Spirits " of Rev. 16:13, 14. It comprises only 
what was given in the former pamphlet with this 
title from pages 22 to 54, which is all that was es-
sential to the argument then given, and will be 
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JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE—
" THE SAINTS' INHERITANCE, OR THE WORLD TO 
COME." By HENRY F. HILL, of Genesee., N. Y. 
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" in gilt binding, $1,38. 
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I RETURNED from Alton on Tuesday, after an in-
teresting meeting there. I shall leave home for the 
West on Saturday A. M. Friends may address me 
on any business relating to the cause, at the places 
where I have appointments. 
I shall visit Lowell on my return. J. V. H. 
Appointments, &c. 
0. R. FASSETT will preach in Bristol, R. I., Sunday, Feb. 27th and 
March 6th, inclusive, and the 8th, if possible ; North Attleboro', 
(where the brethren may appoint,) 11th ; Providence, Sunday, 13. 
D. T. Tenon will preach in Morrisville, Yt., March 1st, evening, 
and in Stow (on the West Branch), the 2d, evening. 
Elder I. R. GATES' Post-office address is Savoy's Creek, Lycoming 
county, Pa. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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so we sent the Guide to him at Cabot ? 
Win. K. Stamp—Sent book. 
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bers of the Guide, to J. Foss, to whom the 12-', cts. was credited. 
Sending those, he now stands credited to No. 73, instead of 79. 
Have charged S. Foster $12,671. Sent tracts to S. Foster the 21st. 
J. J. Perkins—Sent tract. 
Dr. E. S. Loomis—In Sept. 1851 M. A. 0. was credited $2 on her 
Herald, besides the C. H. How much should she have been cred-
ited at that time ? 
C. R. Williams—Have sent to N. W. 
W. Baker, $2-11ave sent books, and re-sent the Crisis to D. H. 
F. Davis—The $1 for J. W. was received and credited to 632. 
R. Robertson, Esq.—Your letter was received, but not in season to 
be attended to this week. 
J. G. White—$1,16 to 606 and for tract, $2,84 on acc't—due, $1,63. 
TO WHOM IT MAY INTEREST.—The subscriber wishes to dis-
pose of a Grist Mill, a Shingle Mill, and a Card and Fulling Mill. 
Also a small Farm. They will be sold together, or separately, on 
the most favorable conditions, a small part of the payment only be-
ing required at the sale, or a share Of the income of the mills will be 
taken till the whole is paid for. The Clothing Mill would furnish 
one of the best opportunities for a deer-skin tanning mid manufac-
turing establishment, the opportunity to purchase hides being the 
best in the United States, as probably also is the demand for the 
manufactnred article. More than 10,000' hides were sold at one 
market, but a few miles distant, the past year, and yet not one is 
known to be tanned or manufactured in the State. The mills are 
about five years old, and are in good repair. They are situated 
within a few miles of the best market town East. The property will 
be sold on account of the ill health of the owner. Any person of but 
moderate means, but with energy of mind and body, will find this a 
rare chance. Any one in New York acquainted with the deer-skin 
tanning and manufacturing business, will find the above the best 
chance, perhaps, in the world. Those wishing to purchase, will be 
proniptly answered by addressing (post paid)' BARNARD NEWHALL, 
East Eddington, Me. 
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The London Morning Advertiser says a package 
of eighty letters have been stolen from the Emper-
or's private apartments. Suspicion rested on Mrs. 
HowAnn, and the letters, which implicate first men 
in France, are thought to be in possession of the 
Orleans Princes. Three hundred thousand francs 
are offered for their recovery. 
It is said that the Empress refuses to allow the 
Senate to settle any donation upon her. This, 
coupled with the previous refusal to receive the 
jewelry from the Municipal Council, has produced 
the most favorable impression in Paris. 
The Municipal Councils all over France were 
voting congratulatory addresses to the Emperor. 
The Emperor's speech announcing his marriage, 
created a prodigious sensation in Vienna. It was 
reported that French officers had been employed in 
surveying and mapping Piedmont and Lombardy. 
The French Minister at St. Petersburgh had pre-
sented his credentials to the Emperor, and was very 
cordially received. 
It is said that the answer given by the French 
Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Austrian ambas-
sador, in answer to a communication as to the Em-
peror's allusion to MARIA LOUISA, in his speech to 
the Senate, had not been found satisfactory. 
A difficulty also exists between the two govern-
ments concerning the time the Roman States are to 
be occupied by the French troops. 
M. CONSIDERANT, ex-member of the Legislative 
Assembly, is about to embark from Belgium for 
America. 
The Asiatic cholera is said to have broken out 
in Paris, and causes some uneasiness. 
Future Labors. 
THE calls made upon me are so numerous, that I 
have been greatly perplexed as to what course I 
should pursue in responding to them. The state 
of the cause in New England seems to demand the 
most of my labors ; but I must go to Western New 
York for a season. I shall visit Low Hampton, 
Bristol, Champlain, &c., as soon after I return as 
may be possible. 
Albany, N. Y.—Sunday, Feb. 27th. 
Clark's Mills—Feb. 28th, evening, and March 1st. 
Syracuse—March 2d. 
Romer—March 3d (conference), and Sabbath. 
Auburn—March 7th and 8th, evening. 
Seneca Falls—March 9th and 10th, evening. 
Rochester—Sabbath, March 13th. 
Lockport—March 14th, evening. 
Lewiston—March 16th. 
Buffalo—March 18th and 19th, evenings, and 
Sabbath, 24th. 
I wish to say to brethren and friends who feel 
henefitted by my labors, and are interested in my 
missionary work in the Advent cause, that I am 
dependent on the free-will offerings of my friends for 
support. In some places, where I consider the 
cause needs assistance, the people are able to con-
tribute but little. This much I feel it necessary 
to say, not only in my own behalf, but also in be-
half of those whose services I require in special 
cases. 
J. V. Hums.