OFFICE, ]V®. 8 Chnrilon-strcet 
WHOLE NO. 679. 
20,1854. 
YOLUME XIII. NO. 20 
J. V. HIMES, 
Proprietor. 
FABLER." 
It occurs once again in Jeremiah 41:5 ; 
but though inhabited, perhaps as a village, it 
still bore every -mark of desolation, as we shall 
see when we quote other words of that prophet. 
In short, Shiloh had been a scene of formallity, 
profanity, superstition, and by forsaking it the 
Lord taught Israel what judgment he would 
bring on such sine. 
The forsaken Shiloh was the Judaea Capta of 
those days. 
To its ruined aspect, Israel was 
pointed by Jehovah when he wished to warn them 
of the consequence of will-worship, and of mak-
ing his house a den of thieves. 
As we now 
point to Jerusalem and its temple, so they did 
in other days point to Shiloh. 
It would seem 
that in the days 'of David, Solomon, Asa, Hez-
ekiah, Josiah, down to the era of the king of 
Babylon's invasion, Shiloh was the standing 
warning of judgment to which prophets referred. 
That well-known hill was pointed to, as " Ich-
ahod." 
The words of Psalm 132:6, may have 
this meaning ; " We have heard of it in the re-
gion of Ephriam "—its past history there is well 
known to us. 
We may not be far wrong in describing its des-
olate aspect by what appears at this day. 
" The 
main site" (says Bobinson) "consists of the 
ruins of a comparatively modern village, cover-
ing a smaller tell. 
Among the ruins, on the 
larger eminence, are many large stones, and 
some fragments of columns, shewing the place to 
have been an ancient site. 
At the southern 
foot of the tell is a small ruined mosque, stand-
ing partly beneath a noble oak-tree." 
Substitute 
for the modern village, some few houses of an-
cient date, and take these large stones as indica-
ting where the tabernacle once stood, and that 
old oak as waving its boughs over some ancient 
dwelling of Levites or priests, and you have the 
scene of desolation that was witnessed by those 
who turned aside to gaze on the past judgments 
of the Lord. 
Many excavated tombs, too, are 
close by—where, it may be, the bones of Eli 
rest, and the bones of her who prophetically ut-
tered that remarkable " Ichabod." 
All these 
were to be seen in the days of Israel. 
Wilson 
tells us of another building whose walls, nearly 
four feet thick, enclose an area of twenty by 
fourteen yards; on the lintel, above the door, is 
the figure of a jar, in the shape of " the pot of 
manna," as seen in Jewish coins of Simeon the 
Just. 
There are circular wreaths of flowers, too, 
as on the tombs of the kings at Jerusalem ; and 
a friend of ours tells us he has copied from an-
other a very distinct figure of such a trumpet as 
the Levites are represented as blowing. 
With a 
few mdre such reminiscences of ancient days, let 
us suppose Shiloh visited by godly ones of Israel, 
in the days when, in awful threatening, Jeremiah 
thus spoke: 
" But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, 
Where I caused my name to dwell at the first, 
And see what I did unto it 
On account of the wickedness of my people Israel! 
And now because ye have done all thfcse works, 
saith the Lord, 
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Therefore I will do to the house which is called by 
my name, 
In which ye put your trust, 
And to the place which I gave to you and to your 
fathers, 
As 1 have done to Shiloh."—( Jer. 7:12-14.) 
Or when again, as if standing on Ebal, or on 
Sinai, he thundered in their earst that heavy 
curse— 
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" And thou shalt say to them, saith the Lord, 
If ye will not harken unto me, 
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, 
And this city I will make a curse to all the nations 
of the earth."—(Jer. 26:4-6.) 
The threatening was well understood. 
The 
prophetic woe was uttered in terms that no Is-
raelite could misapprehend. 
Who did not know 
desolate Shiloh ? The priests, the prophets, and 
the people were enraged. 
Wh?it! Solomon's 
Temple become like Shiloh 1 This house of 
favor and glory in all lands, so exceedingly 
magnificent, shall the " Ichabod " of Phinehas's 
wife ever be written thereon ? They ask him— 
" Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the 
Lord, saying. 
This house shall be like Shiloh ? 
And this city be laid waste, without inhabitant.— 
(28:29.) 
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Alas! it was with them as with Israel in Sam-
uel's time. 
When Samuel (2 Sam.'2:32) fore-
told the ruin of Eli's house, it had no effect on 
the people at large*; but it came to pass. 
And 
so with the prophetic warnings of Jeremiah. 
Jerusalem did become, and at this day remains, 
like Shiloh. Shiloh once " pointed fhe prophetic 
moral," and "adorned" (so to speak) "the 
tale " of threatened woe" but now, Jerusalem 
has superseded it by the greatness-of her desola-
tion. 
Jerusalem is ruined—her glory departed; 
she is what Shiloh'had long been; and^'TAc 
place of Wailing," 
wet with the teats of her 
sons, is one of the few ruins that remain to testi 
fy her former greatness. 
Instead, however, of forgetting 'Shihh's deso-
lation in Jerusalem's, let us call up both. 
See! 
two witnesses remain in IsraePs land, to proclaim 
God's judgments on will-worship, profanity, for-
mality, superstitions. 
One witness is the first 
and most famous site of the Tabernacle; the 
other is the renowned site of the Temple, which 
was once " the Almighty's See," 
The desolate 
site of the tabernacle once furnished an emphatic 
illustration of a prophecy that hung over Jeru-
salem ; and that prophecy, though often forgot-
ten in connexion witb its example and sign, came 
to pass. 
And now, what have we ? Jerusalem 
is to us Gentiles as truly a sign and a prophetic 
warning as Shiloh was to Jerusalem. 
Read 
Romans 11:18-22,—"Boast not against the 
branches; but if thou boast, thou bearest not 
the ropt, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, 
The branches were broken off, that I might be 
graffed in. 
Well; because of unbelief they were 
broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not 
high-minded, but fear: for if God spared not 
the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare 
not thee. 
Behold, therefore, the goodness and 
severity of God : on them which fell, severity; 
but towards thee goodness, if thou continue in 
his goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut 
off." 
This much for the neglected prophecy, of which 
desolate Shiloh was the sign and seal. 
(To be continued.) 
Religious Aspect of the Turco"Rus-
sian Struggle. 
Blackwood's Magazine has an able article on 
the comparative merits of the Greek'Church as 
it appears in St. Petersburg and in'Constantino-
ple, with strictures on the-Czar's pretentions to 
a protectorship of that church in Turkey. 
Such 
protection, it appears, is'not very much coveted 
by the Greek Christians of the Turkish Empire. 
We give some extracts—and first of the Greek 
Church in Russia, of which Nicholas claims to 
be the temporal Head : 
" Though the war between Russia and Turkey 
has not yet a remote date, we-still fear that the 
public is beginning to lose sight of the primary 
grounds of quarrel between fhe Czar and the 
Sultan, which has led to the present state of 
things. 
The pretext put forward by Jtussia for 
intervention in the Ottoman Empire is her de-
sire to ' protect' the ten millions -of Christians 
of the Greek Church who are subjects of the 
Porte; these ten millions professing the same 
faith as the subjects of the Emperor of Russia, 
and living under the tyrannous rule of an infi-
del government. 
We admit the plausibility<of 
that claim, and we are aware how easily the 
generous sympathies of a Christian people can 
be roused in favor of such a cause. 
We can 
appreciate the feelings of those^who are persuaded 
that the moment has at length arrived when the 
cross shall be planted on the-mosques of Stam-
boul, and the orthodox believer take the place 
of the Mussulman. 
The claim to.a protectorate 
over ten millions of suffering-Greeks in the .Eu-
ropean territory of the Sultan has been described 
as a cover under which-Russia at the possession 
of Constantinople, and, in fact, at the.extension 
of her dominions from the Carpathian to the JM 
Shiloh and Bethshemesh: 
FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
So rich in all that honors God, and gladdens 
man, is the gospel, that there can be no reason 
why the publishing of it should cease, or why 
any other instead of it should be proclaimed to 
man ; and hence it is " the everlasting gospel." 
But not so with the types and rites, the ceremo-
nies and shadows, that preceeded its full devel-
opment; these may all be abrogated and disap-
pear. 
And even so with the places at which 
shadows of that gospel were exhibited, and 
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glimpses given of the glorious truths which Beth-
lehem, and Calvary, and Olivet, were to reyeal 
in noonday brightness. 
The places where these 
shadows were shown for a time may be altered 
or even obliterated, without prejudice to the 
truth. 
The scaffolding by which yonder tower 
was raised stone by stone, to its commanding 
height, not only may be, but must be, removed, 
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if the tower is to stand forth in proper majesty 
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and graceful strength. 
One ot these spots that had much typical sig-
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nificance, and where for several centuries the 
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symbolical tabernacle stood, with its altar and 
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ark, was Shiloh. Aben, Ezra, and others have 
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absurdly enough supposed Jacob in his prophecy 
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to refer to this spot, not to a person. At the 
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same time, whatever be the true meaning of 
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Shiloh in Gen. 46:10, whether " the peaceful 
one,-" or, which is much the same thing, " tran-
quillity "—the abstract for the concrete—we 
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have grounds for believing, that one special 
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reason why the tabernacle was fixed at Shiloh, 
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in the district of Ephraim (whence, perhaps, the 
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" Ephratah," or " district of Ephraim," in 
Psalm 132:6). was the signification of' the name, 
and its fitness to remind Israel of Jacob's pro-
phetic words. 
Shiloh stood on a gentle height, 
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and there might be seen far off the smoke of the 
altar, and the white fine linen curtains of the 
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courts, attracting notice and exciting inquiry. 
Was not this the unfurling of the banner of Him 
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who was to come from Judah ? was it not as if 
here he displayed his ensign to Israel, to gather 
them and the nations ? was it not as if here, at 
Shiloh, he whose name is Shiloh beckoned on 
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men to come and see the grounds of rest, and 
tranquillity, and peace, in that altar and that 
mercy-seat ? 
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Joshua fixed the Ark there (Josh. 18:1), as 
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soon as the land was subdued. 
Let us suppose 
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two worshippers going up to this spot. 
They 
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talk of the Lord's design in leading Joshua to 
pitch the tahernacle there. 
"It is a retired 
spot, is it not ?" says the man of Judah. " Yes," 
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replies his companion of the tribe of Ephraim; 
" but that is surely well for us who go to wor-
ship. 
We retreat from the highway of the bustl-
ing world, and fiijd ourselves calmed into re-
freshful quiet as we approach the spot." 
The 
man of Ephraim expatiates on the pleasantness 
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of the locality, and expresses, somewhat boast-
fully, his sense of the honor conferred on his 
tribe by -the fixing of the tabernacle there. 
" But," says the man of Judah, " you and 1 
may boast together. 
If you have the place 
Shiloh, to our tribe belongs the person whose 
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name is Shiloh. 
It seems to me as if by this 
double Shiloh, the Lord meant us, who are alike 
tribes of Israel, to dwell together in unity. 
The 
Lord distributes his favors, giving one of us the 
place that proclaims in type rest and peace; and 
to another of us the prophecy of the person who 
j* shall bring in all we look for, while every one of 
; ; us may freely gather together in these courts, 
and enjoy their rich provision." 
At this mo-
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ment a godly Levite appears. 
He calls their 
attention to J acob's prophecy of Shiloh, and then 
pointing to the tabernacle at Shiloh now in sight, 
reminds his fellow-worshipers that it is in a true 
believing apprehension of what yonder altar sig-
nifies, and yonder laver, and yonder mercy-seat 
' sprinkled every year on the atonement day with 
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blood, that their present and future peace and 
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rest depend. 
"Shiloh," says he, "will be 
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Shiloh to us according as we believe in Him who 
'is fo come, of whom Jacob prophesied, and who 
alone it is that can really be the sacrifice that 
atones for sin, and magnifies the law." 
Many a year—from the days of Joshua onward 
till the times of Eli—Shiloh was the centre 
point of Israel's thoughts; for there was the 
ark of the covenant. 
At this day the spot is 
well known, and called " Seiloun" 
It is rather 
lonely, " and yet " (says Mr. Anderson, a recent 
traveller) " it is one of the sweetest and most 
sequestered spots in Palestine ." 
You turn off 
the highway "that goeth up from Bethel to 
Shechem " (Judges 21:19), and find yourself on 
a side-road that seems to be the bed of some 
former brook. 
Up this ravine you go for mote 
than a mile, at the end of which the eminences 
on either side open into a wider space, and you 
see before you a hill or rising ground, in the 
midst of higher ones, the spot where stood Shi-
loh, when it was Jehovah's residence—" his 
bright sanctuary." 
There are many springs and 
a fountain of water near. 
The eminence or tell, 
whereon it stood, has a wady running down to-
wards the north on its east and west sides, so 
that its position was a remarkable one; and in-
asmuch as it is commanded by surrounding hills, 
we can, without any great stretch of fancy, sup-
pose that often on these eminences pious wor-
shippers sat, as afterwards they would do on the 
Mount of Olives and look down on these happy 
courts of their God and King. 
Once that bles-
sed spot was like the valley of Megiddo, at the 
mourning of Hadad-rimmon \ for somewhere 
there the assembled people (gathered at the 
voice of the true Shiloh) wept over sin till the 
region was called 
Bochim ," 
Often there did 
Hannah worship, and then Samuel j 
till the 
dismal hour when the ark moved down that ra-
vine on its way to the battle-field, never to return 
to Shiloh ! Up that ravine-like road that turns 
off from the highway, the messenger came in 
breathless haste, to tell old Eli that " the glory 
was departed." 
And here it is that we stay to call attention 
to prophecy. 
Not that there was any prophecy 
about this place itself, but it became the sign of 
a prophecy to be fulfilled regarding another spot. 
As soon as Israel, in the days of Eli, led on by 
Hophni and Phinehas, had become superstitious-
ly attached to the ark, resting on its supposed 
virtue, although they had revolted from the Lord 
himself, then did the glory of Shiloh disappear. 
On her death-bed (1 Sam. 4:21), Phinehas' god-
ly wife, in a prophetic strain, proclaimed " Ich-
abod!" in regard to Israel at large. 
That 
" Ichabod " might have been specially written on 
the walls of Shiloh. 
The ark never returned 
thither—carried captive by the Philistines, it 
remained with them a season, to re-appear (as we 
shall see) at Bethshemesh. Meanwhile let us go 
to Shiloh. 
Its old priest Eli is dead! 
Its courts 
are silent and sad, for it is known now that yon-
der holy of holies has no ark! 
No more will 
God dwell there, between the cherubims ! The 
glory is departed! 
The daughters of Shiloh 
shall no more dance before the Lord there 
(Judges 21:19) at the yearly feast; for the Lord 
has left the place. 
" He was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel! 
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, 
The tent which he placed among men."—Ps. 
78:59, 60.' 
Before and from that date— 
" He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, 
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, 
But chose the tribe of Judah."—Ps. 78 
Now, this event in Israel's history was a far 
more marked one than we generally notice. 
It 
was quite a crisis in her history. 
It was the first 
occasion on which the Lord had ever forsaken a 
spot wtiich he had chosen. 
But now he had 
really forsaken his long-favored place, and would 
not return. 
The place remained forsaken-like, 
probably onward from that date. 
It is only once 
noticed in the history of the kings, and then it 
is on a melancholy occasion, when the wife of 
Jeroboam visits the prophet Ahijah (1 Kings 
14:2), who dwelt in the forsaken town, and who 
announced from it a doom on Jeroboam and his 
house as steru and severe as had befallen Shiloh 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
Danube, and from the Danube to the Sea of 
Marmora 
but the Ozaf has solemnly and re-
peatedly declared that he had no such ambition, 
and that the sole motive which actuated him 
was to protect a population who professed the 
self-same religion as himself, he being the visi-
ble head of the Eastern Church, and recognized 
as such by the Eastern or Greek Christians'; 
and the refusal of the Porte to grant that pro-
tectorate is the primary cause of the war. 
With-
out examining whether, any or'what conditions 
would' justify a foreign government in imposing 
its protection on the subjects of an independent 
state, we inay be permitted to say something of 
the nature of the religion whose champion the 
Czar professes to be-—-of the alleged homogeneity 
of the Eastern and1 Russian Churches, for on 
this the whole question turns—and of the ad-
vantages likely to accrue to the Greeks from 
Russian protection. 
'' Among the many errors likely to be dissi-
pated by the minute discussion which the East-
ern question has undergone in the public press 
of this and other countries, not the least is that 
which has reference to the Emperor of Russia 
as the natural protector of the*Christian commu-
nities of the East. 
The hardihood with which 
this claim has been constantly put forward, and 
the silent acquiescence with which it seems to 
have been admitted by those who should know 
better, have imposed upon the world. 
Even 
now, they who resist the formal establishment 
of the influence of Russia over the internal af-
fairs of Turkey, do so more by reason of the po-
litical consequences of that usurpation to the 
rest of Europe, than with the thought of disput-
ing the abstract right of the head of the ' ortho-
dox faith ' to the protectorate he lays claim to. 
These pretensions, like many others we could 
mention, will not stand the test of examination. 
We do not learn, on any satisfactory evidence, 
that the Christian populations of the Ottoman 
Empire have, during the last ten months, re-
ceived with sympathy or encouragement the pros-
pect of Russian protection; nor have they, so 
far as we know, exhibited any very earnest long-
ing for the production of the knout as an ele-
ment of government. 
The population of inde-
pendent Greece may, and we have no doubt do, 
indulge in the harmless dream of a new Byzan-
tine Empire, to be raised on the ruins of that 
which Mohammed II. won from their fathers; 
and they would doubtless rejoice that the domi-
nation of the Osmanlis were put an end to by 
Russia, or any other power, on condition of be-
ing their successors, as they were their predeces-
sors. 
We believe that to this sort of revolution 
the aspirations of the Greeks are limited. 
But 
that people dispute the claim of the Czar to the 
pontificate of the orthodox faith, and reject the 
idea of a temporal submission to him. 
The 
Greek Church, however", does not constitute the 
only Christian community of the Ottoman Em-
pire. 
Other congregations are to be found there, 
subject also of the Porte, and who have not less 
claim to the protection of the various states of 
Europe, when protection is needed, but who still 
less desire that Russia should be their sole pro-
tector. 
" The points of difference between the Greek 
and Latin Churches are faniliar to the world— 
but it may not be so generally known that while 
the Russian branch of the former professes to 
preserve the Byzantine dogmas as its basis, the 
condition of its hierarchy, and the mechanism 
of its discipline have become so altered with the 
lapse of years, that at the present day there ex-
ists-no identity, in this respect that would justify 
the- head of the Russian Church in his preten-
sions- to a temporal or spiritual protectorate over 
that Church whose administrator and head is 
the Patriarch of Constantinople. 
Besides the 
difference of language, is not without import-
ance—the one speaking Greek, the other Scla-
vonic—the Church of Constantinople boasts that 
she has still preserved her patriarch, who is in-
dependent of secular interference in spirituals, 
while no such privilege belongs to Russia. 
A 
serious difference too, exists between the Rus-
sian and Greek Churches (and one which would 
create new schisms and new convulsions) on the 
important subject of baptism; 
Converts are ad-
mitted into the pale of the former from other 
communities when they have been already bap-
tized., without the obligation of again receiving 
the sacrament, while the Church of Constantino-
ple makes the-repetition of the sacrament indis-
pensable in similar cases. 
The difference of 
Church government is of the greatest import-
ance:: the Greeks have never admitted that the 
Holy Synod of St.. Petersburg, established by 
Peter the Great, represents in any sense the 
spiritual authority which he forcibly overthrew. 
The; substitution of the chief of the state for it 
was never pretended to be otherwise than for 
political purposes, and as a means of realizing 
the ambitious and aggressive designs of the Czar; 
and while we do not deny the success it has met 
with, w-e- believe that, since that event, the Rus-
sian. clergy as a body, has become the most ig-
norant and the most servile of any ecclesiastical 
corporation that now exists. The edict of Peter 
the Great admits the merely temporal object he 
had in view. 
' A spiritual authority,' it states, 
1 which is represented by a corporation or col-
lege, will never excite in the nation so much 
agitation and effervescence as a single chief of 
the ecclesiastical order. 
The lower classes of 
the people are incapable of comprehending the 
difference between the spiritual and secular au-
thority. 
When they witness the extraordinary 
respect and honor which encompass a supreme 
pontiff, their admiration and wonder are so ex-
cited, that they look upon the chief of the Church 
as a second sovereign whose dignity is equal, or 
even superior to that of the monarch himself; 
and they are disposed to attach to the ecclesias-
tical rank a character of power superior to the 
other. 
Now, as it is incontestible that the com-
mon people indulge in such reflections, what, 
we ask, would be the case if the unjust disputes 
of an arbitrary clergy were added to light up a 
conflagration?' 
At the time this edict was is-
sued, the Russian Church had already lost its 
patriarch. 
Full twenty years had elapsed since 
that event; and if ever the mitre of a prelate 
rivalled the diadem of an emperor, it was not in 
the reign of Peter that such an instance was to 
be found. No serious antagonism of the kind 
did or could exist in Russia; and the real ob-
ject of the abolition of' the patriarchs was, to 
combine with the absolutism of the sovereign 
the prestige of spiritual supremacy—that the 
Czar might not only say, with Louis XIV., 
'The state!—I am the state; but also, 'The 
Church !—I am the Church.' " 
(To be continued.) 
Shipwrecks on the British Coast. 
THE following extract from the official report 
of a Committee, gives a fearful picture of the 
loss of life and property in the British waters 
during the last two years : 
'.'-The committee lament to state that the de-
struction of human life from shipwreck has been 
very large on the coasts of the United Kingdom 
during the past year. 
It is, however, a'source 
of satisfaction to the committee to find that pub-
lic attention, as also that of Her Majesty's Gov-
ernment, has been directed to this important sub-
ject, and to the consideration of means for pre-
venting shipwrecks, and for saving life on occa-
sions of disasters at sea. 
They believe that, by 
the introduction of improved descriptions of life-
boats, and their general adoption on the coasts, 
an increased number of life-boat, rocket, and 
mortar stations on the land, and more especially 
by the adoption of measures on board merchant-
vessels themselves, to diminish the danger on 
those occasions, that this frightful loss of life 
may be materially lessened in future years. 
" The committee had occasion to observe in 
their last report, that the year 1852 had been 
the most disastrous, as respected shipwrecks, on 
record ; the large number of 1100 wrecks, with 
the loss of upward of 900 lives, having taken 
place during that period on the coasts of the 
British isles. And they regret to have to state 
that, as far as could be ascertained from Lloyd's 
List and other authentic sources, nearly 800 
wrecks, with the loss of about 870 lives, occurred 
on the coasts and within the seas of the United 
Kingdom in the year 1852. 
In the awful gale 
of last January, 257 wrecks occurred on our 
coasts, accompanied by the fearful sacrifice of 
486 lives. 
Who can contemplate the vast 
amount of misery which such a loss of life must 
necessarily entail, without asking himself the 
question—' Can I not, directly or indirectly, 
assist in lessening or mitigating such calamities, 
by contributing towards providing means for sav-
ing life from wrecks ?' The aid solicited 
comparatively small, and the recompense, if but 
one life Be saved, is incalculably great." 
engaged in his duties, in the midst of his pupils, 
and who came forward on being called. 
Mat-
thew Ward told Butler he had come for an ex-
planation as to his having whipped his brother. 
Butler asked him to step into his private room, 
where he would explain it to him. 
Ward re-
fused, saying that was the place to settle it. 
" ' Mr. Butler nodded; 
Matthew said, What 
are'your ideas of justice ? Which is the worst, 
the boy who begs chestnuts and throws the shells 
on the floor, and then lies about it, or my brother 
who gave them to him ? Mr. Butler said he 
would not be interrogated, putting his pencil in 
his pocket, and buttoning up his coat. 
Matt, 
repeated the question. 
Butler said, there is no 
such a boy here. 
Matt, said, that settles the 
matter; but you called my brother a liar, and 
for that I must have an apology. 
Butler said 
he had no apology to make. 
Is your mind made 
up ? said Matt. 
Butler said it was. 
Then, said 
Matt., you must hear my opinion of you : you 
are a d—d scoundrel and coward.' 
' This statement of what took place thus far 
is from the evidence of Ward's brother Robert, 
who stood by, and who is also under indictment 
as an accessory to the murder. 
It agrees sub-
stantially with that of other witnesses. 
Robert 
Ward proceeds to state that, on being thus 
called a ' d—d scoundrel and coward,' Butler 
struck Matt, twice, and pushed him back 
against the door.' 
He is the only one of all the 
witnesses who swears to any such thing. 
One 
or two of the boys state that Butler put his 
hands out toward Ward; and one says that he 
pushed him. 
All agree that Matt, drew his pis-
tol, placed it against Butler's breast, and fired. 
Butler exclaimed, 
1 My poor wife and child!' 
and fell. There was, of course, a rush of the 
terrified boys, and Robert Ward drew his bowie-
knife, which he brandished, ordering them all 
to stand off. The Wards left the room. 
Butler 
was carried home, and died that night. 
A Ken-
tucky jury has decided under oath that he was 
not murdered!" 
The Kentucky Murder. 
THE sequel is thus told in the New York 
Times: 
" On the 2d of November, at about 9 o'clock 
in the morning, Matthew F. Ward went to 
gun-shop in Louisville, bought a self-cocking 
pistol which ' would send a bullet through a 
two-inch board any how,' as the maker of it tes-
tified, and ordered it loaded. He afterward 
bought another of the same kind, which he also 
ordered loaded. 
Percussion caps were put upon 
both, and they were thrust into the breast-pocket 
of his coat. 
He then went home and told his 
mother that he was going to the school-room of 
Mr. Butler, to demand an apology of him for 
having, on the day previous, punished' his 
brother, Willie Ward, and for having charged 
him with lying. 
His mother advised him to be 
ealm, and to take his brother Robert with him 
as Butler was a larger man than he was. 
Mat 
thew told his brother Robert to get his hat and 
come along, which he did, taking with him also 
a large bowie-knife which.he was in the habit of 
carrying. 
The two brothers proceeded to the 
school-room, and asked for Mr. Butler, who was 
could be rescued. 
He was got out alive, but 
his flesh was so burned and his limbs so badly 
crushed that he died the next day. 
A subscrip-
tion was started by some gentlemen in New 
York for the benefit of the sufferers, and a 
handsoine sum was realized. 
Paul Julien, the 
violinist, generously gave the proceeds of a coil-
cert. 
This disaster is attributed, in part, -to the fall 
of a heavy safe from the upper story, crushing 
through the floors, and burying the firemen in 
the ruins. The funeral of the killed was attend-
ed by the city government and all the fire com-
panies. 
The Dauphin Question. 
THE Philadelphia Courier contains a state-
ment signed by several distinguished medical 
gentlemen, giving the results of a personal ex-
amination of the body of Rev. Eleazer Williams, 
the alleged Dauphin. 
They state that they 
found near the joints of his legs and arms, nu-
merous cicatrices or scars of ulcers, the results, 
probably, of a disease brought on by confinement, 
foul air, filth and poor diet. 
His skin where 
not exposed, is that of a pure white man; his 
hair of a silken fineness; and his hands, feet, 
wrists and ancles, of a very small size—indicat-
ing an ancestry unaccustomed to the laborious 
use of these organs. 
He has several scars upon 
his head and face, which might be the result of 
such blows as Simon, the jailor, is related to 
have inflicted upon the Dauphin. 
He has two 
scars, somewhat crescentic in shape, upon his 
left arm, produced by innoculation. 
Madam de 
Ramband, the Dauphin's nurse, wrote of the 
Dauphin more than twenty years ago, " the 
Dauphin has marks of innoculation which are in 
the form of a crescent." • And the distinguished 
physicians further say, as affording important 
evidence of the truth of Mr. Williams' claim, 
that " his countenance and reception are peculi-
arly benign and gracious." 
This testimony is a 
fair offset to that of the individual who examined 
microscopically, a lock of the hair of Mr. 
Williams, and affirmed that it proved him to be 
of mixed Indian and white blood. 
The question, 
" Have we a Dauphin among us ? " is far from 
being settled. 
SCHAMYL'S 
BELIEF 
IN 
HIS 
INVINCIBILITY.— 
His appearance and his habits confirm the moun-
taineers in their confidence in their leader. 
He 
speaks with the dignity and the elevation of one 
filled with divine inspiration. 
" He has light-
ning in his eyes, and flower on his lips," says a 
poet of Daghestan. 
He has a perfect scorn of 
all obstacles. 
Numbers are nothing to him. 
" Do not believe," he says in one of his ad-
dresses, "that God favors the greater number. 
God is on the side of the good, and these are al-
ways less numerous than the godless. 
Look 
around, and you will see everywhere the proof 
of what I tell you. 
Are not the roses less in 
number than the tares ? Is not mud more plen-
tiful than pearls ? Are there not more insects 
than useful animals ? Is not gold scarcer than 
base metals ? And are we not far more noble 
than'gold and roses, than pearls and horses, and 
all useful animals taken together ? For fell the 
treasures of the earth are transitory, but we have 
the promise of eternal life," 
Things Hoped for. 
THESE are the crowns that we shall wear, 
When all thy saints are crown'd; 
These are the palms that we shall bear 
On yonder holy ground. 
Far off as yet, reserved in heaven. 
Above that veiling sky, 
They sparkle like the star of even 
To hope's far-piercing eye. 
These are the robes, unsoil'd and white, 
Which then we shall put on, 
When, foremost 'mong the sons of light,-
We sit on yonder throne. 
That City with the jewell'd crest, 
Like some new-lighted sun ; 
A blaze of burning amethyst— 
Ten thousand orbs in one:— 
That is the city of the saints, 
Where we so soon shall stand, 
When we shall strike these desert-tents, 
And quit this desert-sand. 
These are the everlasting hills, 
With summits bathed in day ; 
The slopes down which the living rills, 
Soft-lapsing, take their way. 
Fair vision ! how thy distant gleam 
Brightens time's saddest hue; 
Far fairer than the fairest dream, 
And yet so strangely true ! 
Fair vision ! how thou liftest up 
The drooping brow and eye; 
With the calm joy of thy sure hope 
Fixing our souls on high. 
Thy light makes even the darkest page 
In memory's scroll grow fair; 
Blanching the lines which tears and age 
Had only deepen'd there. 
With thee in view, the rugged slope 
Becomes a level way, 
Smoothed by the magic of thy hope1 
And gladden'd by thy ray. 
With thee in view, how poor appear 
The world's most winning smiles! 
Vain is the tempter's subtlest snare, 
And vain hell's varied wiles. 
Time's glory fades ; its beauty now 
Has ceased to lure or blind; 
Each gay enchantment here below 
Has lost its power to bind. 
Then welcome toil, and care, and pain ! 
And welcome sorrow too ! 
All toil is rest, all grief is gain, 
With such a prize in view. 
Come crown, and throne, come robe and palm ! 
Burst forth glad stream of peace ! 
Come, holy City of the Lamb ! 
Rise, Sun of Righteousness ! 
When shall the clouds that veil thy ray 
For ever be withdrawn ? 
Why dost thou tarry, day of days ? 
When shall thy gladness dawn ? 
THE FIRE IN NEW YORK.—By the recent de-
structive fire in New York, there were thirteen 
lives lost and twenty-one persons injured ; most 
of them seriously. 
A fireman by the name of 
John O'Donnell, son of Coroner O'Donnell, was 
buried beneath the ruins eight hours before he 
Foreign News. 
TIIE steamship Canada, from Liverpool, April 
29th, arrived at Boston on the 12th inst. 
The news by this arrival is not very import-
ant. 
No great battles by land or sea have yet 
taken place, and the English press begin to find 
fault that they do not hear of more active move-
ments on the Danube. 
A report on apparently good authority, that 
the same care and interest had not been evinced 
for the health and comfort of the British troops 
at Gallipoli by their own Government as had 
been shown by the French Government for their 
soldiers, created an intense excitement in Eng-
land. 
In answer to inquiries in Parliament, 
the Goverement Ministers denied the statement. 
The state of affairs is summed up by the Eu-
ropean Times as follows: 
" We are happy to state that a convention has 
been signed between France and England to 
regulate their proceedings in support of the Sul 
tan; and a treaty has been executed between 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
155 
Austria and Prussia for an offensive and defen-
sive alliance in the interests of Germany. What-
ever wrong-headed public journalists may write 
about the treachery of Austria, and the duplici-
ty of Prussia, we have now ample proof that 
these Powers, however reluctantly, side with the 
Western Powers. To suppose they have any se-
cret collusion with Russia, hostile to our united 
interests, is simply an absurdity, and, therefore, 
however slowly they may proceed, the Czar must 
view them in the light of enemies, and be pre-
pared to encounter their armies in the field, 
which must be a very serious undertaking. 
" What little we know of the Greek insurrec-
tion asssures us of the utter hopelessness of that 
movement. 
It is said that the town of Arta is 
destroyed, but the citadel and that of Suli hold 
out. 
We, however; have little confidence in 
the reports that reach us. 
'' The Moniteur has announced that the Turks 
defeated the Russians before Kalafat on the 
16th of April. 
The Russians were driven back 
as far as Moglavitz with the loss of 500 men, 
whilst the Turks only had fourteen men killed 
and thirty-three wounded. 
This establishes the 
fact that Omar Pasha holds his ground at Kala-
fat, and, whilst this is the case, it removes all 
sense of danger, by reason of the Russians push-
in» forward south in the Dobrudscha on the 
coast. 
We have had reports of the Russian 
fleet at Sebastopol having put to sea; that Odes-
sa had been bombarded by the Anglo-French 
vessels off that port, and that the entire pity 
was in flames; and, further, that the Russians 
have set fire to the town of Silistria, but that 
the forts which encircle the town were uninjured. 
All these reports not only require confirmation, 
but there is every reason to believe that they 
have no foundation in fact. We, however, do 
believe that the Russian forces are retiring from 
before Kalafat to Krajova. The telegraph de-
spatch announcing this, states that the reasons 
for this movement are unknown,, but a glance at 
the map indicates at once that if the Russians 
remain in Lesser Wallachia they may be cut off 
to a man, if an Austrian army is set in motion. 
We think it very likely that the evacuation of 
Lesser Wallachia by the Russians has been re-
solved upon. 
"We have no further accounts from Kus-
tendje, and we really do not know whether the 
Russians have got possession of this place or 
not; but we have a proclamation from Omar 
Pasha, ordering his right wing to fall back to-
wards Shumla, the wisdom of which step can-
not be doubted. 
" We learn from Gallipoli that 20,000 French 
and 8000 English troops had been landed at 
that place. 
It had, however, been determined 
not to disembark any more soldiers there, and 
the transports had been ordered cm to Constanti-
nople, where one detachment of the British 
troops had arrived. 
The English soldiers were 
heartily welcomed by the Turkish population. 
It is stated that at a Council of Ministers held 
in the Palace of the Tuilleries last week, it was 
resolved that a very large addition, should be 
made to the French contingent of the expedi-
tionary army in Turkey. 
It is expected that 
before the end of the present year the French 
army in Turkey under Marshal de St. Arm and 
will number at least 150,000 men. The people 
in France hope that England will follow the ex-
ample of her ally, and that the English contin-
gent will be increased to 50,000." 
SPAIN.—The substance of the correspondence 
between Mr. Soule and the Spanish Government, 
in regard to the Black Warrior affair, was giv-
en by the telegraph. 
We subjoin an extract 
from the Madrid correspondence of the London 
Times: 
" The general feeling here with respect to the 
conduct of the United States Government and 
its envoy In this business is, that an attempt is 
being made to fix a Wolf and lamb quarrel on 
Spain, and that designs on Cuba are at the bot-
tom of these very abrupt measures and exorbi-
tant demands. Without endorsing such an opin-
ion, one can hardly feel surprised at its being 
entertained by a feeble and jealous nation which 
has already seen its richest colony invaded by 
an expedition from the American shores, and 
which cannot entertain a doubt of the strong 
desire of America to appropriate Cuba. 
It is 
impossible to deny that it shows little generosity 
in a powerful nation thus peremptorily to de-
mand terms which cannot be granted without 
the deepest humiliation to the much weaker one 
with which it finds itself at variance. 
As for 
the demand of an indemnity of $800,000—why 
not ask $3000,000, or $30,000,000? 
There 
would be just as much appearance of reason and 
right in exacting the one sum as in insisting on 
the other. 
" It is not an indemnity that is claimed from, 
but a fine that is imposed upon Spain, because 
her colonial officers are alleged (but not yet 
proved) to have mistaken or exceeded their duty. 
The dismissal of so high a functionary as the 
Captain-General of Cuba is another exorbitant 
and unreasonable pretension. 
As regards the 
third demand, that the colonial authorities should 
in future be authorised to settle such disputes 
without reference to Europe, the Spaniards will 
reply that that is contrary to their system of 
colonial government, and is, moreover, less than 
ever necessary now that steam has so greatly ac-
celerated the communications between the two 
hemispheres. 
Without, however, entering fur-
ther into the discussion of demands which it is 
to be hoped the American Government will feel 
the propriety of abandoning, or at least of great-
ly modifying, persons disinterested in the mat-
ter, and desiring only to see fair play and har-
mony between nations, may be permitted to re-
gret there should not be invariably chosen as 
the medium of such communicatiens diplomatists 
whose good temper, urbanity, and courtesy would 
somewhat diminish their unpalitable nature in-
stead of men who, by a display of tbe contrary 
qualities, make the bitter draught doubly diffi-
cult to swallow." 
The European Times has a severe article on 
the course of Mr. Soule at the Spanish court, 
which concludes as follows: 
" Affairs in Spain are evidently hastening to 
a crisis, but this can be no justification for the 
conduct of the American Minister. 
The unpop-
ularity of the Queen increases daily, and she 
owes her retention of the throne to the difficulty 
which is felt in finding a successor who would 
be at all presentable to the nation. 
In all prob-
ability some serious convulsion in Spain is not 
distant, and, in the present state of feeling in 
England, no great regret would be felt if the 
Americans were to get possession of Cuba in the 
scramble. 
" In its present hands, that beautiful island is 
a source to us of more annoyance and anxiety 
than any other place on the globe—Russia only 
excepted. 
We have shown too often the work-
ing of the system to go over the same ground 
again ; but, if ever a mother country deserved 
to lose a colony, the policy of Spain in Havana 
might naturally be supposed to justify such a 
result. 
In the meantime we cannot help repeat-
ing our conviction that the offensive bearing of 
M. Soule towards the constituted authorities of 
Spain is not one that is calculated to do credit 
to himself or to his country. 
On the contrary, 
it is likely to awaken a sympathy for that power 
which would not otherwise exist; for there is a 
natural tendency in the human heart to refuse 
to a menacing demand, offensively urged, what 
might readily be exacted by courtesy and jus-
tice." 
The Greek Revolution. 
WE copy the following interesting particulars 
of the Greek Revolution from the correspondence 
of the Boston Traveller. 
It dates up to the 
28th of March: 
" In Epirus and Thessaly the insurrection is 
extending rapidly. 
The army of the insurgents 
is daily receiving fresh accessions from different 
parts of Greece. 
The most intense enthusiasm 
prevailed throughout all parts of Greece and 
the Ionian Islands, and fears were entertained 
that on the anniversary of the Greek revolution 
of 1821, the more rash members of their com-
munity might, by their enthusiasm, be drawn 
into acts of hostility against their British pro-
tectors. 
"The insurgents, though exposed to every 
privation and hardship, cheerfully make every 
sacrifice, and were in high spirits, owing to the 
success that had attended their arms in every 
rencontre with their long-hated oppressors. 
The 
garrison of Jannina, amounting to several thou-
sands of redifs, and reinforced by one thousand 
Albanians, was repulsed with a heavy loss from 
the Five-wells, a stronghold in the hands of the 
insurgents, and were pursued as far as Peristira, 
an hour and a half distant from Jannina. 
" Another sortie from the city of Arta against 
another portion of the insurgents army, proved 
equally disastrous to the Turks. 
In this in-
stance, one column of Albanians succeeded in 
surrounding young Karaiskakis and his few men 
on all sides. The Greeks were so few and so 
ill-provided with ammunition that their fate 
seemed inevitable. 
Part of the Albanians, 
however, discovering at some distance below on 
the territory of the Greek kingdom, a small 
village, left their prey and hastened to plunder 
the Greek village. 
Karaiskakis having discov-
ered this, fled soon after towards the same di-
rection, closely pursued by the remainder of his 
enemies. 
Meanwhile the troops of King Otho, 
which were stationed at the boundary line, see-
ing their territory invaded and pillaged by the 
Albanians, hastened to the rescue of the attacked 
village, pursued its spoilers, and in so doing 
met the body of insurgents hardly pressed by 
the Turks. 
A general melee took place, of 
pursuers and pursued, in which the Greeks came 
out victorious, and a large number of Turks lost 
their lives. 
" This unfortunate circumstance adds to the 
complication of the Greco-Turkish question, and 
the two countries having commenced hostilities, 
will not. probably stop here. 
The Greek govern-
ment pretends to have acted on the defensive, its 
territory having been violated by the Albanians. 
The Turks say that they have been attacked by 
Otho's troops, an hour and a half beyond the 
confines, and on Turkish ground. 
The proba-
bility is, however, that the Turks were pursued 
by the Greek troops beyond the boundary line, 
though the first assault was evidently on the side 
of the Albanians. 
" Abbas Pascia, who marched with reinforce-
ments to relieve Arta, found all the passages oc-
cupied by the insurgents, and could not proceed 
to his destination. 
During his absence, Thes-
saly, his own province, took up arms, and it was 
expected he would abandon his expedition to 
Arta and return home. 
" According to the latest accounts, the prov-
ince of Zamuria (Albania) is in arms. 
Chimara 
(Albania) also opposite Corfu has taken up arms 
and driven away the Turkish authorities. 
The 
Albanians who garrisoned Prenesa have com-
pelled the city to give them a sum of money for 
their services, and then disbanded and left for 
their homes. 
"Jannina, the rich capital of Epiras, is sur-
rounded by insurgents, and General Grivas sent 
an order to the Pasha and the Beys of Jannina, 
to evacuate the city if they did not wish to see it 
reduced to ashes. 
" In Thessaly, also, the revolution is extend-
ing. 
The Turks being inferior in number, have 
withdrawn and fortified themselves in villages 
and towns—such as Farsala, Yolo, Larrissa. 
Zardiki, Armiro, and Turnavo. 
A large num-
ber of villages are already in the hands of the 
insurgents. 
At Zamia, great preparations were 
made to supply the insurgents of Macedonia and 
Thessaly with men and ammunition. 
" Zeimel Pascia reached Yolo with 1500 men 
from Constantinople, and Fuad Effendi reached 
the same harbor with 2000 men for the repression 
of the insurrection. 
"General Church, an English philhellenist, 
who occupied a high rank in the Greek army 
during the revolution of 1821, has been appoint-
ed Generalissimo by the insurgents. 
"King Otho's territory, it is reported, is 
threatened with an immediate occupation by the 
allied armies of the West if he does not restrain 
his subjects from taking an active part in these 
movements. 
But this is asking more than King 
Otho or any other king, even if supported by a 
powerful army, can do under existing circum-
stances. 
The torrent of enthusiasm is such that 
no barrier can stop it. 
Were restraint possible, 
Mr. Ward, the Lord High Commissioner of the 
Ionian Islands, would certainly have restrained 
those islanders from rushing to the field of action 
if he could. 
And judging from the cruelties 
perpetrated by him in a less urgent case in 
Cephalonia, in 1849, if martial law, and the 
whip, and the rope, could do anything in pre-
venting the Greeks from feeling for Greeks, they 
would not have been spared. 
As it is, however, 
hundreds are daily leaving their quiet homes, re-
gardless of all governmental restrictions, and has-
tening to fight the battle of ' faith and country.' 
For it must not be forgotten that the Greeks and 
the other Christians have been long looking for 
a chance to redress wrongs of the blackest char-
acter, which have weighed upon them for hun-
dreds of years. 
Wrongs such as no other nation 
in the world has ever suffered by its oppressor. 
Their passion for liberty and independence, con-
densed by the high pressure of the Mohammedan 
rule, has caused a rupture which nothing but an 
iron hand and the most inhuman sacrifice of life 
can quiet. 
It is only the sword of extermina-
tion that can bring these races again under the 
the yoke of their bated despots. 
It may do for 
politicians to dream of the golden age that 
awaits the Christian subjects of Turkey, owing 
to the immunities that have been obtained for 
them. 
Long and bitter experience tells the 
rayah what he is to expect from the Ottoman 
rule. 
" The European powers themselves might by 
this time have known what is to be the result of 
their endeavors to harmonize the Turkish Em-
pire, and how much is to be expected from the 
promised reforms, when Turkey, depending for 
every breath it draws to the allied powers, under 
the very teeth of their fleets, banishes 25,000 of 
the richest, most intelligent, and useful citizens 
of Constantinople, and mostly subjects of the 
Porte, for no other crime than that of originat-
ing from the same stock from which some of the 
insurgents descend. 
This isthe promised quality 
of rights. 
" In the Ionian Islands, also, the excitement 
is intense. 
The Ionians, disaffected as they are 
with their British protectors, would as eagerly 
seize a chance for throwing off their rule, and 
throw in their fate with their free neighbors. 
Though a handful of men, and entirely at the 
mercy of their protectors, they manifested their 
alienation from their protectors in every possi-
ble way. 
" Owing to the failure of the currant crops, 
two of the principal islands, Zante and Cephalo-
nia, are in great misery. 
Several mobs have 
already taken place, and wheat stores and ba-
keries have been sacked. 
Provisions are very 
scarce, find particularly breadstuff's, and their 
supplies from the Black Sea being cut off, they 
have a fair prospect for starvation. 
The failure 
of their crops this year also is considered cer-
tain. 
On the 28th of March, Cephalonia had 
breadstuff's for the consumption of two months, 
and Zante for one only. 
Speculators and phi-
lanthropists would do well to turn their atten-
tion to those quarters. 
A PHILHELLENIST," 
Relations of Greece and Turkey. 
IT causes us no surprise to learn that the di-
plomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire 
and the Kingdom of Greece have been broken 
off, and the Ministers respectively accredited by 
these States to Athens and to Constantinople 
have received their passports and taken their 
departiffe. We had indeed, foreseen from an 
early period in this crisis, that the effect it«must 
produce on the Christian and Mussulman races 
and Governments of the East is a most serious 
part of the question, and that such a contest, 
would infallibly rekindle the animosities and re-
vive the spirit which fought and won the Lattle 
of Greek independence thirty years ago, with 
the applause and encouragement of all "the civ-
ilized nations of Europe. 
But the present state 
of war between Turkey and Russia, and also be-
tween the three protecting Powers of Greece, 
renders this whole question more than ever com-
plicated and embarrassing. 
If war should come 
between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom 
of Greece, it will be assumed that Greece is act-
ing on the side of Russia in the greater contest. , 
although Russia can afford to the Court of 
Athens no material support or protection. 
On 
the contrary, the two other protecting Powers, 
which are within reach of the shores of'Greece, 
and can occupy any part of the Greek territory , 
are in positive alliance with Turkey, and at war 
with Russia. 
The Greek people, caring little 
for either their Northern or their Western Pro-
tectors, have taken counsel of nothing but their 
own love of independence and their hatred of the 
Turk; but such is the excitement prevailing 
throughout the little kingdom on this question, 
that we believe a much more powerful and hon-
est Government than that of King' Otho, would 
have found it impossible to prevent its subjects 
from making common cause with the insurrec-
tion on the Turkish frontier. Yet politically 
speaking, and in the present state of the rela-
tions of the Western Powers with the East, that 
insurrection is likely to prove mischevious to all 
parties. 
Meanwhile, we learn from Constantinople that 
the concessions to the Christian 
populations 
which have been made by the Porte, and which 
might, if made at an earlier period, have pre-
vented much of this mischief, areill-received'by 
the Mussulman party, and have given rise 'to 
important changes in the Divan, even to the 
deposition of the Sheik-ul-Islam himself,-who is 
the head of Turkish law and religion. Entirely 
approving as we do, the spirit of these changes, 
and believing that it is essential for the existence 
of the Ottoman empire, and for'the honor 6f its 
allies that they should be carried into'effect, we 
are nevertheless sensible thatthey are calculated 
to lessen the mutual fear and hatred which un-
happily exist between the several raees^and 're-
ligious subjects of the Porte, that they amount 
to a revolution in the institutions and soeiail 
condition of the empire. 
That is 'the inevitable 
effect of the extraordinary state of things which 
the aggressions of Russia have produced, for 
even the Powers engaged in the protection and 
preservation of the Ottoman empire, are aware 
that their objects can only'be effected by a con-
siderable change in its government and its laws. 
In the task they have undertaken, the 'most-ar-
duous part is to provide not only for'the defence, 
but for the maintainance of authority and • ad-
ministration in such a State, and the internal 
difficulties with which this business is surrounded 
are at least equal to the external dangers which 
have summoned our fleets and armies 'to 'the 
rescue of the Sultan's dominions. 
From The London'Times, April ^th. 
War is Declared. 
To all human reason this is a dreaHful ca-
lamity. 
An unbroken peace existing since 1815 
has at length been disturbed, and, "TFo+Arms, 
to Arms," has become the watch-word of the 
most powerful nations of Europe. 
The " bat-
tle of the warrior with confused noise, and.gar-
ments rolled in blood,"-must now~suceeed>the 
long period of peace and prosperity with which 
the nations have been blest. <The results of ;the 
fearful contest that has just commenced-may be 
speculated upon, but cannot be distinctly seen— 
they are in the future. 
But while the horrors 
of national conflict chills the blood, and the ca-
lamitous consequences of a European war must 
render paleness on all faces; we have one con-
solation,—" The Lord liveth "-—"TAe Lord 
God Omnipotent reigneth." 
And the result 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
says: " The eagle lives to a very advanced age 5 
and in moulting, his youth is renewed with his 
feathers." 
Phile, De Animalibus, said to the Em-
peror Michael Palasologus, jr., " Long mayst thou 
live, 0 king ; still like the eagle renew thy youth, 
and still retain thy vigor." 
And the Psalmist 
said, (103.5,) "Thou shalt renew thy youth like 
the eagle." The comparisqn to an eagle, is a simile, 
and illustrates the freedom from exhaustion and de-
cay, to which the saints at Christ's coming will be 
restored,—when there shall be no more sickness, 
sorrow, pain nor death. 
CHAPTER XJL.I. 
Keep silence before me, 0 islands ; 
And let the people renew their strength ; let them come near-, 
Then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment. 
v. 1. 
This chapter is a continuation of the preced-
ing ; and Jehovah is the speaker throughout the 
chapter. 
In the apostrophe to the " islands," 
they are used, by metonymy, for their inhabitants 
—the word islands being applied in Scripture to 
all maritime countries, or even to lands beyond the 
sea. 
In this connection it appears to be equivalent 
to all lands. 
Their being commanded to be silent before the 
Lord, implies his presence at the epoch brought to 
view, in a manner not ordinarily manifested. 
When a monarch -of earth arises to speak, or to 
perform any act, it is proper that all spectators 
should be silent in his presence. 
And so when 
Jehovah manifests Himself, a due silence should 
be observed. 
Thus Habakkuk said, (2:20,) " The 
Lord is in his holy temple : let all the earth keep 
silence before him." 
Zephaniah said (1:7)," Hold 
thy peace at the presence of the Lord God : for the 
day of the Lord is at hand : for the Lord hath pre-
pared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests." 
And 
Zechariah said, (2:13,) " Be silent, 0 all flesh, be 
fore the Lord : for he is raised up out of his holy 
habitation," or (margin) " habitation of his holi 
ness." 
And so at the epoch here described,—it 
being that brought to view in the previous chap-
ter (40:5), when " the glory of the Lord shall be 
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together,"—they 
are commanded to be silent before him. 
The time of this silence is when the people are 
to " renew their strength." 
Those who are to re-
new it according to v. 31 of the preceding chapter, 
are " they that wait upon the Lord," or expect his 
appearing; and when renewed, " they shall run 
and not to weary, they shall walk and not faint." 
In v. 27, of chap. 40, desponding Israel had la-
mented that their judgment was passed over by 
God; but now, after assuring them that he will 
renew the strength of those that wait on him, he 
commands the nations to keep silence while the 
people come near to him, to judgment, to debate 
the matter with him. 
This is at the great assize; 
and ii is proper that the silence observable in courts 
of justice, should be then observed. 
" Come near," is a substitution for the taking 
of the matter into consideration. 
Lowth renders 
the last clause, " Let us enter into solemn debate 
together." 
THE ADVENT TO BE 
VISIBLE. 
A CONGREGATIONAL clergyman, sustained by the 
Home Missionary Society, in discontinuing the 
Herald writes as follows: [Not knowing that it 
was designed for publication we withhold the name 
and address—our object in giving it being to meet 
the point noticed in it.] 
DEAR SIR :;—It is now some time since T have re-
ceived your paper gratuitously, and I begin to feel 
as if this gratuity ought to be bestowed on some 
other more worthy. 
1 have been very much edi-
fied with your richly laden pages, and I hope ma-
terially profited. 
I have been and am still deeply 
interested in the second coming of Christ, and in 
the latter-day glory of the Church. 
I have for 
some time past, believed that the second advent 
would be visible to all the world, and the millen-
nial administration be introduced suddenly. 
But 
I have recently met with a difficulty that seems in-
surmountable. 
It has been suggested to me that 
Christ's appearance to his disciples after his res-
urrection, was only to their spiritual eyes, as was 
the appearance of angels to the patriarchs, of Mo-
ses and Elias on the Mount, and of the heavenly 
hosts to the Revelator. 
Hence we have no ac-
count of Christ's being seen by any of the uncon-
verted Jews after his crucifixion. 
I infer of course, 
that Christ will never more be seen on earth by 
the natural eyes of mortal men. 
0 that we had 
an interpreter that would let us know the true im-
port of the Bible, and harmonize all its seeming 
variances. 
I am about ready to believe that the Christian 
world will find themselves about as much mistaken 
in regard to the second coming of Christ as the 
Jews were in respect to his first coming. 
The New York Observer is sent to me gratuitously 
as one ot the Home Missionaries. 
Hence I doubly 
feel that your paper ought to be sent to some more 
needy brother. 
I feel very grateful for your paper 
that has come to me so long time. 
Yours very 
truly. 
REMARKS.—We hardly know just what is to be 
understood by " spiritual eyes," but conclude that 
they have reference to an ability of the spirit to 
discern spiritual intelligences which afe invisible 
to our natural vision. 
Should it be admitted that 
the second advent was only to be thus visible, we 
do not see that it would be any the less a rtal 
manifestation. 
An appearance to the mind when 
nothing exists, is a mere phantom : it is imaginary. 
But however seen, Christ's advent is to be real; 
hence it is to be an actual coming of himself, and 
therefore it will be a personal advent. 
The Scrip-
tures however give no intimation that he will then 
be seen by any other than our natural vision ; but 
it does expressly affirm that he will be seen with 
our " eyes," and by " every eye —by the wicked 
as w^ell as by the righteous. 
The following pas-
sages are to this point: 
Job 19:25-27—" For I know that my Redeemer 
liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day 
upon the earth : and though after my skin worms 
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God;: 
whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall 
behold, and not another; though my reins be con-
sumed within me." 
Acts 1:9-11—"And when he had spoken these 
things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and 
a cloud received him out of their sight. 
And while 
they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went 
up, behold, two men stood by them in white ap-
parel ; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus 
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so 
come in like manner as ye have seen him go into 
heaven." 
Matt. 24:27, 30—" For as the lightning cometh 
out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; 
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man 
in heaven : and then shall all the tribes of the 
earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man 
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and 
great glory." 
—26:64—" Hereafter shall ye see the Son of 
man sitting on the tight hand of power, and com-
ing in the clouds of heaven." 
Mark 14:62—" Ye shall see the Son of man sit-
ting on the right hand of power, and coming in the 
clouds of heaven." 
Luke 21:27—" And then shall ye see the Son of 
man coming in a cloud, with power and great 
glory-" 
Rev. 1:7—" Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and 
every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced 
him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail be-
cause of him." 
These scriptures positively affirm that the ad-
vent will be visible to every eye in the assembled 
universe. 
It is a mere assumption that angelic visitors to 
the patriarchs, the scene of the transfiguration and 
Christ after his resurrection, were merely spirit-
ually discernable. 
When the two angels visited 
Lot, the wicked inhabitants of Sodom mistook them 
for men tarrying with Lot for the night.—Gen. 
9:15. 
Even Balaam's ass (Num. 22.23-27,) " saw 
the angel of the Lord standing in the way . . . and 
when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust 
herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot 
against the wall . . . and when the ass saw the an-
gel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam." 
Surely the ass could be possessed of no " spiritual 
eyes!" 
The Lord also " opened the eyes "of Ba-
laam, a wicked man, (v. 31,) " and he saw the an-
gel of the Lord standing in the way." 
The open-
ing of bis eyes to enable Balaam to see, need not 
necessarily be understood as more than enabling 
him with his natural powers of vision to see jvhat, 
without being thus aided, would be invisible— 
though none the less really present. 
But it is more 
likely that his eyes were first holden, to prevent 
his recognition of the angel—as those of the disci-
ples were subsequently, when on their way to Em-
maus. By the aid of the telescope and microscope, 
our eyes are opened to see real things, which oth-
erwise, because of distance, obscurity, or minute-
ness, would be beyond the range of our vision. 
There is a great difference in the ability of differ-
ent persons to discern visible objects; where some 
can see nothing, others can see objects distinctly ; 
and we all now, as it were, see through a glass 
darkly. 
It is not said of the transfiguration that the dis-
ciples spiritually discerned; but we read, (Matt. 
17:3,) " there appeared unto them Moses and Elias 
talking with him." 
And it was not till Peter and 
them that were with hi'm " were awake," (Luke 
9:32,) that " they saw his [Christ's] glory and the 
two men that stood with him." 
Peter, subse-
quently referring to this affirmed, (2 Pet. 1:16,) 
that they " were eye-witnesses of his majesty." 
There is nothing to warrant the conclusion that 
Christ after his resurrection was invisible to mor-
tal vision. 
When he drew near to the two disci-
ples who were on their way to Emmaus, (Luke 
will terminate for his gloty as Surely as the con-
flict has commenced. 
He " will make the wrath 
of man to praise him, and the remainder of wrath 
he will restrain/' 
We do sincerely believe that 
God will make all things terminate to his glory 
—even the destruction of the wicked; and a 
part of his government is to permit the " wick-
edness of the wicked to overthrow them, while 
righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the 
way." 
(Prov. 13:6.) 
While the grasping and 
wicked policy of Nicholas must ineite the indig-
nation of every lover of justice; the dignity and 
the forbearance of England must call forth and 
command the admiration of the world. 
She has 
not engaged in war without an effort for peace ;' 
and we rejoice too, that her ally (the French 
nation) has also piirsued a course in this affair 
deserving the highest meed of praise. 
We be-
lieve they enter' the battle-field with clean hands 
—-the War has been forced upon them, and'that 
an aggressive policy is no part of their motives. 
Wo look for coming events with deep interest— 
we believe the world is rapidly hastening to the 
period when " all the earth shall be filled with 
the glory of the Lord ;" and an indifference to 
presenttransactions, manifests ignorance of God's 
government. Never was there a time when " sup-
plications, prayers, intercession, and giving of 
thanks," were more necessary than the present; 
and we would urge upon the Christian Church 
the importance of that joint admonition and bene-
diction—" Behold, I co'me as a thief. 
Blessed 
is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, 
lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." 
(St. Johns N. B.), Religious Intelligencer. 
BOSTON, MAY 20, 
1854. 
THK readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE 
PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XL. 
To whom then will ye liken me, 
Or shall I be equal ? saith the yoly One. 
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things 
That bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by 
names, 
By the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not 
one faileth.—vs. 25, 26. 
Having shown the impotence of heathen-wor-
ship, and the omnipotence of God, the absurdity of 
any such attempted likeness is apparent. 
It would 
seem as if men should need no demonstration of 
such folly ; and yet Israel had been guilty of it, 
notwithstanding Moses had said, (Deijt. 4:15-19,) 
" Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; 
(for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day 
that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the 
midst of the fire;) lest ye corrupt yourselves, and 
make you a graven image, the' similitude of any 
figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness 
of any beast that i-s on the earth, the likeness of 
any winged fowl that flieth in the air, the likeness 
of any thing, that creepeth on the ground, the like-
ness of any fish that is m the waters- beneath the 
earth : and lest thbu lift up thine eyes unto heaven, 
and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and 
the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be 
driven to worship them, and serve them, which the 
Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under 
the whole heaven." 
The greatness of God is manifested by the works 
of his creation ; and hence the mind is directed to 
these in this connection. 
Even to tell the number 
of the stars is beyond the ability of man ; and thus 
God said to Abraham, (Gen. 15:5,) " Look now 
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able 
to number them ;" but of God the Psalmist said, 
(147:4,)' " He' telleth the number of the stars ; he 
call'eth them all by their names." 
" Lift " up your'eyes, is a metaphor, expressive 
of their being: directed towards heaven ; and there 
is the same figure in denominating the stars of the 
firmament the " host," or army, of heaven. 
God 
has placed them all in their proper order, and they 
each and all keep the station which he has appoint-
ed to them. 
And thus, 
"'When mans hailed on the nightly plain," 
they are apparently led on from east fewest as an 
army is marched under its leader. 
And this being 
by the power of God, he is said to lead them forth. 
God said to Job, (38:31-33,) " Canst thou bind 
the- sweet influences- of Pleiades, or loose the bands 
of Orion? 
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in 
®l)c libmxt §eral&. 
his season ? or canst thoujguide Arcturus with his 
sons? 
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? 
canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" 
But he (Job 9:7-10) " commandeth the sun, and 
it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars ; which 
alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon 
the waves of the sea ; which maketh Arcturus, 
Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the 
south ; which doeth great things past finding out; 
yea, and wonders without number." 
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, 
My way is hid from the Lord, 
And my judgment is passed over from my God f—v. 27. 
These are the desponding words of the people, 
for which God, by this apostrophe, reproves them. 
By a substitution, the hiding of their way is put 
for a disregard of their condition. 
Their "judg-
ment," is their cause, which they desire to have 
vindicated ; and to " pass over " it, is a metaphor 
expressive of its neglect. 
To rebuke the charge of 
indifference, God says : 
Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, 
That the everlasting God, the Lord, 
The Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is he 
weary ? 
There is no searching of his uriderstanding.—v. 28. 
By a metaphor, the remote parts of the earth 
are denominated its " ends "—the ancients sup-
posing that the earth was a vast plain. 
The abundant declarations and testimony of the 
Scriptures leave all without excuse for not being 
aware of God's greatness and wisdom. 
Psa. 147 : 
5—" Great is our Lord, and ot great power : his 
understanding is infinite." Job 11:7-9—"Canst 
thou by searching find out God ? canst thou find 
out the Almighty unto perfection ? 
It is as high 
as heaven; what canst thou do ? deeper than hell; 
what canst thou know ? 
The measure thereof is 
longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." 
He giveth power to the faint; 
And to them that hath no might he increaseth strength, 
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, 
And the young men shall utterly fell: 
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; 
They shall mount up with wings as eagles ; 
They shall run, and not be weary ; 
And they shall walk and not faint.—vs. 29-31. 
God is able to, and will, strengthen the weak, 
who are conscious of their disability and look to 
him who said to the apostle, (2 Cor. 12:9,) " My 
grace is sufficient for thee ;" and which enabled 
the apostle to say, " My strength is made perfect 
in weakness." 
The young are the most vigorous of our race ; 
but unremitted exercise soon exhausts even them. 
In contrast with the weakness to which even such 
are liable, the most feeble of God's children will 
be restored to Adamic vigor—so that no faintness 
or weariness will be incident to the most violent 
exertion. 
" Shall utterly fall," in connection with " young 
men," is a substitution for their exhaustion. 
" The word rendered ' wait upon,' " says Mr. 
Barnes, " denotes properly to wait in the sense 
of expecting. 
The phrase ' to wait on Jehovah,' 
means to wait for his help ; that is to trust in him, 
to put our hope or confidence in him." 
Taken in 
connection with the revelation of the glory of the 
Lord, recorded in v. 5 of this chapter, and the 
preparation of the way for his coming, it is evi-
dent that those who " wai^," are those who look 
for that appearing. 
The Saviour commanded his 
disciples, (Luke 12:36,) that they be " like unto 
men that wait for their lord." 
The apostle said, 
(Rom. 8:25,) " If we hope for that we see not, 
then do we with patience wait for it." 
Gal. 5:5— 
" We through the Spirit wait for the hope of the 
righteousness by faith." 
1 Thess. 1:9, 10—"Ye 
turned from idols to serve the living and true God, 
and to wait for his Son from heaven; whom he 
raised from the dead, even Jesus which delivered 
us from the wrath to come." 
And (Heb. 9:28) 
" unto them that look for him shall he appear the 
second time without sin unto salvation." 
" Renew " their strength, is in the margin, 
" change their strength," i. e., from weakness to 
vigor. 
" They shall mount up with wings," &c., is ren-
dered by Lowth, "They shall put forth fresh 
feathers like the moulting eagle," which would be 
a metaphor illustrative of their renewal of strength. 
This rendering, however, is more based on the 
text of the Septuagint than of the Hebrew—the 
simple meaning of which is, says Mr. Barnes, 
" they shall ascend on wings as eagles "—and is 
derived from the popular opinion prevalent at the 
time of the Septuagint translation, that the eagle 
in old age renewed its youth. 
According 
to 
Bochart, (Heiroz II. ii. 1,) "Rabbi Saadias says, 
Every tenth year the eagle flies near the sun ; and 
when not able any longer to bear the burning 
heat, she falls down into the sea, and soon loses 
her feathers, and thus renews her vigor. 
This 
she does every tenth year till the hundredth, when, 
after, she has ascended near the sun, and fallen 
into the sea, she rises no more." 
St. Ambroze 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
24:16,) " their eyes were holden that they should 
not know him." 
When, (v. 31,) " their eyes were 
<ypened," they knew him. 
When Jesus afterwards 
came into the midst of his disciples (v. 37-40,) 
" they were affrighted, and supposed they had 
seen a spirit. 
And he said unto them, Why are 
ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your 
hearts? 
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is 
I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath 
not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. 
And when 
he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and 
his feet." 
It would not require spiritual eyes to 
see real flesh and bones," any more than it would 
spiritual hands to handle them. 
It is on the evi-
dence that Christ was seen alter his resurrection 
by numerous witnesses, that the reality of that 
event is based. 
Thus Paul argues (1 Cor. 15:5-8,) 
" that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve : 
after that, he was seen of above five hundred breth-
ren at once; of whom.the greater part remain 
unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 
Af-
ter that, he was seen of James; then of all the 
apostles. 
And last of all he was seen of me also, 
as of one born out of due time." 
To set aside the visibility of these manifestations, 
past and future, is to do violence to all recognized 
laws of language. 
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Boston : John P. Jewett& Co. 
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land, O: Jewett, Proctor &Worthington. 
1854." 
This work is an accompaniment to the " Voices 
of the Day," " Voices of the Night " &c by the 
same author. 
The subjects treated of in this vol-
umn, are, 
The Speaking Dead, 
Voices From Glory, 
The Translated One, 
The Illustrious Elders, 
Believing Parents, 
The Choice of Moses, 
Rejected Greatness, 
The Reproach of Christ, 
The Recompense of Reward, 
The Heroic Christian, 
The Great Deliverance, 
A Trampled Flower, 
Blessings, 
The Dying Patriarch, 
A Pilgrim's Footprints, 
The Cloud of Witnesses, ' 
Looking to Jesus. 
The following is the preface to the work, and 
unfolds the purpose of the author in its produc-
tion : 
This volume consists mainly of Voices from 
ancient days, and from the lives of faithful and 
sainted men—especially 
those recorded in the 
eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. 
They overcame through faith, and entered into 
their rest. 
The records of their biographies re-
main for our study and profit. 
Their acts, and 
sufferings, and words of consolation, are still re-
verberating in the church of Christ, 
It is written of a celebrated French regiment, 
that they so loved their commanding officer while 
at their head, and so venerated his memory after 
he had fallen in battle, that they required his 
name to be retained on the regimental roll, and 
called with the names of the living every day ;— 
on the name of the dead warrior being called, a 
living soldier answered for him, " Dead upon the 
field." 
The eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the 
Hebrews is the roll-call of the illustrious and the 
sainted dead, and each of their names, as it is 
enunciated, should stir our hearts as a trumpet 
sound. 
I wish I could have dwelt on every heroic mar 
tyr and patient saint whose name is inscribed in 
this holy calendar. 
But, perhaps, by the blessing 
of God, the few I have considered may 
. . ; . "remind us, 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time." 
The study of such records is the real commun-
ion of saints. 
The sacred page is the only pure 
picture gallery—apostolic portraits are alone ad 
missible into our churches. 
THE Youth's Guide for May has been issued. 
The following are its contents : 
An Oath Reflected on. 
An Elephant Hunt in Sumatra. 
A Walk in the Arctic Regions. 
A Duel. 
Anecdote of Dr. Hopkins. 
Bible Anecdote. 
Dilatory Folks. 
How Canada Obtained its Name. 
Juvenile Reading. 
Jeffreys, the Bloody Judge. 
Lying in Bed with the Head High. 
Russian Wild Horses. 
, 
Spring Time. 
The Glorious Revenge. 
The Law of Love. 
The Philosopher and the Child. 
The First English Bible. 
Will is Power. 
Wolves in Russia. 
FOCR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.—New York, May 
15th—The Collins steamship Atlantic, Capfc. West, 
from Liverpool May 3d, arrived about half past 
one this afternoon. 
Odessa was bombarded on the 24th, and part of 
the city laid in ruins. 
Sir Charles Napier's fleet remains quiet. 
The Bremen barque Favorite, with 180 passen-
gers, sunk in the Channel, all of whom but five 
were lost. 
Russia has imposed a heavy tax on all classes. 
The Russians were making tremendous prepa-
rations for an attack on Silistra about the 1st of 
May. 
The Russian fleet came out of Sebastopol during 
the fight, and threatened the allied fleet, but re-
tired without a battle. 
Details of the bombardment of Odessa are ngt 
received. 
The Russians have completely evacuated Little 
Wallachia. 
The Russian right wing now rests on 
the Aluta river, with the head-quarters at Bucha-
rest. 
Therefore the interest of the campaign is 
again concentrated on operations below Nicopolis. 
The Turks have come out of Kalafat, and are oc-
cupying all the towns in the track of the Russians. 
The Russians are besieging Silistria, and would 
make an attack on it about the 1st of May. 
The allied troops were idle. 
No news of any importance from Asia. 
On the 19th, Sir Charles Napier, with nineteen 
vessels, was at Stockholm. 
Ports in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia are 
in a state of blockade. 
France has ordered Russian Consuls to leave. 
The Preston strike is over. 
BERLIN, Teusday 23rf.—The ratification of the 
Austrian and Prussian treaty was exchanged to-
PARIS.—Bourse very firm, closing at 64.40 and 
91.10. 
BOMBARDMENT 
OF 
ODESSA.—A despatch in the 
Vienna Oeste states that the Woronzoff Palace was 
entirely destroyed during the bombardment, and 
that four frigates were severely damaged. 
Another despatch says that twenty-six sail of 
the combined fleet arrived before Odessa on the 
10th. 
On the 18th the fleet bombarded the city 
for an hour, and during the whole day of the 22d, 
The magazines of the Outer towns were in flames. 
This is ofliciajC^KJ ^.OldallllOD 
The London Times says : " We received intelli-
gence of the bombardment of Odessa with feelings 
which are not unmixed with regret. 
" It was expected that the first operation of war, 
which the combined fleets now in the Black Sea 
would inflict, would be a severe blow on the ene-
my, and would prove with what 
overwhelming 
force the naval armaments of England and France 
are provided ; but we must be allowed, without 
the slightest disparagement to the gallantry of the 
officers of the magnificent fleets under their orders, 
to feel some regret that the first blow in the war 
should have fallen upon a commercial city, rather 
than a military or naval port." 
One statement says that the bombardment was 
over two hours. 
Another, that it continued inces-
santly for ten hours, and only closed with the 
night. 
The Russian account is in these terms. 
" The 
English and French Admirals demanded the sur-
render of the Russian ships in the port of Odessa, 
This being refused, bombardment began from eigh-
teen ships. 
A small part of the city was destroyed. 
An attempt to land 18,000 men failed; the bom-
bardment produced no effect;" 
THE SIEGE OF SILISTRIA.—The important position 
of Silistria is closely invested, but a telegraphic 
despatch of the 26th says that up to that date the 
fortress had suffered no damage. 
-
Accounts from Bucharest April 19th mention 
that Silistria had been hard pressed since the 14th, 
and would ere then have fallen, but for the deter-
mined valor of its defenders, who express them-
selves able to hold out until aid shall arrive. 
The 
Russians, on the contrary, expect to reduce the 
place in a few days. 
The Turks have a strong garrison, but said not 
to be well victualled, or properly supplied with 
ammunition. 
Thefordisin possession of the Rus-
sians, as are also the entrenchments at the junc-
tion of tl^e Drichsda. 
The Russians were intend-
ing to make an assault on the 1st of May, with 
30,000 men. 
They have erected seventeen heavy 
batteries, under cover of which they will cross the 
river. 
The passage to Oltenitza is expected at the 
same time. 
Notwithstanding all these formidable 
statements, Silistria is too strong a position to be 
carried without a severe and perhaps prolonged 
struggle. 
THE 
BALTIC FLEET—The Baltic fleet had been 
further re-inforced, and was awaiting the arrival 
of a French squadron. 
Until the latter arrives a 
British force will cruise off the Gulfs of Finland 
and Bothnia. 
On the 21st nineteen ships anchored before Stock-
holm. 
Sir Charles Napier arrived on the 25th and had 
an audience with King Oscar. 
LATEST NFWS.—London. 
Wednesday 
Morning. 
—Nothing later from Odessa or the Baltic. 
PRUSSIA.—Berlin.—The ratifications of the Aus-
tria-Prussian treaty were exchanged here to-day. 
GREECE.—The insurgents have been defeated with 
a loss of 100 killed, 120 prisoners, 4 guns, and 60 
barrels of powder. 
Grivas had suffered defeat near Metsobo, and fled 
to Thessaly with 16 men. 
Disunion prevails among the commanders, and 
despondency in the revolutionary committees, 
DALMATIA, April 26.—The Pasha of Mostar has 
raised the " laudsturm " against the Montene-
grins. 
VARNA, April 14.—The Frigates Magellen and 
Sedon, cruising before " Kostenje," fired on the 
Russian Cavalry, and thus secured the retreat of 
two officers who had been reconnoitering the po-
sition. 
CORRECTION.—In the article on " Celestial Phe-
nomena, in last week's Herald, on p. 148, 4th col. 
18th line from the bottom, for Mr Gage, read " Dr. 
Gordon," and make the same change in the next 
col'ume, in the 16th line from the top. 
Mr. Gage 
was the author of a History of Rowley Mass., but 
Wm Gordon, D.D., an Englishman was the author of 
the History-of the Am. Revolution which is (there 
copied. 
SUMMER 
WORK.—We shall hold a number of 
Conferences this season in New England. 
Perhaps 
one or more in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 
1 shall be glad to hear from -the friends of the 
cause on the subject. 
We want the meetings in 
central places, and general interest among all to 
attend. 
Let there be glorious gatherings of all 
the tried, true, and 'faithful Adventists. 
Let'us 
shake ourselves frein the dust, and gird on anew 
the " armor ef 'God." 
Let us seek to strengthen 
one another, and seek the salvation of souls, while 
it is called to-day. 
Soon the Master will ceme. 
The day cf the Lord as at hand. 
I expect Elder L. Osier, of Salem, Mass., will 
he able to accompany me, and render efficient aid 
intheBe Meetings. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. 
Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friendsof the 
Herald. 
THE INVISIBLE ARMY. 
IN times of war it is natural for men to specu-
late upon the prospective results. 
Much is said 
ef the relative strength of forces, of different kinds 
of weapons, and of skill in using them. 
When a 
majority of numbers, superior weapons and skill 
are all combined, a general conviction is produced 
of triumphant success. 
But to the man of God 
who takes the holy Scriptures for his guide, all is 
doubt and uncertainty till he receives divine au-
thority relative to the position of the invisible 
army. 
He is taught to believe that " promotion cometh 
neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from 
the south ; but God is the judge, he putteth down 
one and setteth up another." 
(Psa. 75:6,7.) 
He 
has also learned " by the decree of the watchers, 
and by the word of the holy ones, that the Most 
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it 
to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the 
basest oi men." 
(Dan. 4:17.) 
"That the Lord 
hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his 
kingdom ruleth over all." 
(Psa. 103:19.) 
He 
has learned also that there is no power but of 
God : " The powers that be are ordained of God." 
(Rom. 13:1.) 
He has also learned that the Most High has an 
l< army of heaven," composed at least of "more 
than twelve legions of angels;" 
(See Matt. 26:53.) 
They t* excel in strength," and " do his command-
ments, harkening unto the voice of his word." 
They are " ministers of his that do his pleasure." 
(Psa. 103:20, 21.) 
He has learned to his great consolation that the 
angels " are all ministering spirits, sent forth to 
minister for them who shall be heirs ol salvation.' 
(Heb. 1:14.) 
If the blessed Saviour in his temptations and 
trials, stood in need of the comfort and strength of 
angels, his weak, tried, and tempted followers, cer-
tainly need their aid. 
The man of God has also learned that angels are 
employed as God's ministers at the couits of the 
kings of the earth. 
Gabriel informs Daniel, that 
in the first year of Darius the Mede, he stood to 
"confirm and to strengthen him." 
(Dan. 11:1.) 
When Daniel had fasted and prayed three full 
weeks, Gabriel appeared to him and offered as an 
apology for the delay of the answer to Daniel's 
prayer, " that the prince of the kingdom of Per-
sia withstood him one and twenty days." 
He fur 
ther states that Michael came to bless him, which 
implies that the case demanded great skill and a 
strong effort on the part of " God's ministers " at 
the Persian Court. 
(See Dan. 10:12, 13) 
After having strengthened Daniel, and revealed 
the object of his mission, he says, " And now will 
I return to fight with the Prince of Persia ; and 
when I am gone forth, lo, the Prince of Grecia 
shall come." 
He has learned that the angels are sent to pro-
tect God's saints, and to contend with men and 
armies. 
When Balaam was called by Balak to curse Is-
rael, " the angel of the Lord stood in the way as 
an adversary against him." 
(Num. 22:22.) 
When Herod " made an oration " and " the peo-
ple gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God, 
and not of a man," immediately the angel of the 
Lord smote him, because he gave not God the 
glory : and he was " eaten of worms and gave up 
the ghost." 
(Acts 12:21-23.) 
In the reign of Hezekiah, when the Assyrians 
came against Jerusalem, and blasphemed the God 
of heaven, Isaiah and Hezekiah lifted up their 
hands to heaven and prayed. " And the Lord sent 
an angel which cut off all the mighty men of val-
or, and the leaders and captains in the camp of 
the king of Assyria: so he returned with shame of 
face to his own land-" 
(2 Chron. 32:21.) 
The protection of the three worthies in the fiery 
funace, of Daniel, in the lion's den, and Peter's 
deliverance from prison, are sufficient illustrations 
of God's protecting saints by angels. 
But let me refer to one more example of the ex-
istence and agency of the invisible army. 
In the days of Elisha, the Assyrians were at war 
with Israel. 
And. because Elisha, as God's proph-
et, informed the king of Israel of all the plans of 
the king of Assyria, a plot was laid to take him 
captive. 
Elisha was at Dothan. 
The king there-
fore sent thither horses and chariots, and a great 
host: and they came by night and compassed the 
city about. 
And when the servant of the man of 
God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an 
host compassed the city both with horses and chari-
ots. 
And his servant said unto him, H Alas, my 
master! how shall we do f" 
And he answered and 
said, " Fear not, for they that be with us are more 
than they that be with them." 
And Elisha prayed, 
and said," Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that 
he may see. 
And the Lord opened the eyes of 
the young man : and he saw, and, behold the 
mountains was full of horses and chariots of fire, 
round about Elisha." 
The Syrians were struck 
with blindness, led to Samaria, fed by the king, 
and returned to their master. 
" So the bands of 
Syria came no more into the land of Israel." 
A 
bloodless victory! 
Many more instances might be given to show 
that God dealt with kings and their armies by the 
agency of angels ; but these are sufficient to illus-
trate the principle. 
Prophetic declarations may be relied on ; for if 
God has spoken he will fulfill. 
But lurther, that 
the Scriptures teach it is not safe for man to pre-
dict, with reference to present, or future wars. 
The battle is not always to the strong. 
It is 
not by might, or power of man, but by God's 
Spirit, through the agency of the invisible army. 
If we had any warrant to fight, from Christ, or 
the apostles, it would be difficult to know when, 
and where to engage in the conflict, as we could 
only know, by express revelation, on which side to 
find the Lord and the " army of heaven." 
But as 
our tapt ain told one Christian soldier to put up 
the sword, and assigned as a reason, that " all 
they that take the sword shall perish with the 
sword," the man of God is not at a loss to find his 
true position. 
" The weapons of his warfare are 
not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling 
down of strongholds." 
We need not fear while the Captain ot our sal-
vation has all power in heaven and earth, with 
more than twelve legions of angels who go at his 
bidding. 
He will soon come upon the white war-horse, 
followed by all the armies of heaven, to fight the 
final battle. 
Amen. 
H. BUCKLEY. 
Adam, who trembles and fears before him who 
created the Universe! 
Yet, from David to her 
long-promised Messiah, she had little more reason 
to be called Peace than she had during her previous 
history, and she was yet called Thou-shalt-see-
peace ! 
Jerusalem has not received the honors of this 
world only, but heaven itself has paid her rever-
ence : the capital of the restored earth, and abode 
of the redeemed, is named after her. (Gal. 4; 
Rev. 21.) 
And Vhat is more, the capital of 
heaven, the city of the living God, bears her name ! 
(Heb. 12.) 
Jeremiah, who wept over Jerusalem as its walls 
crumbled and its temple was demolished by Nebu-
chadnezzar, looking forward to David's promised 
heir and Israel's future King, declares that at his 
coming the city shall be called Jehovah-tsidkenu, or 
The Lord our Righteousness. (Jer. 33:16.) 
If these names were prophetic of what the city 
might have been, how fearful was her doom pro-
nounced by her long-promised, but rejected Mes-
siah, when he approached the city and gazed with 
yearning heart upon her beauty, and with emo-
tion, even to tears, beheld her devoted to destruc-
tion, and with throbbing heart and weeping eyes 
pronounced her doom ! (Luke 19:42,) " Saying, If 
thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy 
day, the things which belong unto thy PEACE ! but 
now they are hid from thine eyes." 
JERUSALEM. 
[TnE following fragment was commenced by our 
late brother C. B. Turner, but never 
finished. 
In 
its present incomplete state it will be read with 
interest by his surviving friends.] 
Tho origin of this city is lost in the distance, 
and buried in obscurity by the mists of antiquity. 
Josephus, I think, supposes it referred to in con-
nection with the history of Abraham, when met by 
Melchizedek, king of Salem, which, however, Paul 
interprets to mean king of peace, rather than of 
any particular location. 
Many in modern times, 
adopting the opinion of Josephus, embrace the 
same sentiment, and especially because David, 
(Psa. 76:2,) near a thousand years later, calls if 
Salem. But because David calls the fort Zion, Je-
rusalem, it does not prove that all Jerusalem was 
called Salem ten centuries previous. 
* The stronghold of Zion had resisted the siege of 
Israel, and defied her powers, for five hundred 
years, until David came to the throne. 
And, even 
then, he seems to have been unwilling, or at least 
neglected, to attempt its conquest while he reigned 
over Judah and Benjamin only, but when the whole 
nation recognized his sovereignty, he at once mar-
shalled the hosts of Israel against the fort, and 
carried it by storm. 
Jerusalem was then consti-
tuted the capital of the empire. 
Its beauty is 
most pathetically described in the 48th of David's 
Psalms. 
When Israel entered Canaan, under Joshua, the 
city was called Jebusi, explained by the writer to 
be Jerusalem ; (Josh. 18:16, 28 ;) and at the 
time of Benjamin's defection and slaughter, it was 
called Jebus. (Judges 19:10.) 
But the Israelites 
called it JERUSALEM, or Thou shalt see peace! 
If the city was named 
Thou-shalt-see-peace 
prophetic of the exalted position it was afterward 
to occupy, it was not wholly inappropriate. 
And 
when the enemies of Israel had occupied 
this 
stronghold, in their midst, for near five centuries 
and it was taken by David and consecrated to God 
and made the capital and stronghold of Israel, is 
it strange that David, looking at the prophetic 
name and its past history, should now call it 
Peace, or Salem, or imagine that it had attained 
the peace promised to it in its prophetic name ? 
No spot of earth has been so favored of the Most 
High. 
The bare mention of her name fills with 
joy and thrills with emotipn* every devout son of 
OUR HOPE. 
OUR hope is not the darksome tomb ; 
We look not forward to the gloom 
Which hangs above the dead. 
Within those confines chill and gray 
Our joyous footsteps shall not stray; 
Not there we'll rest the head. 
The worldling, when his joys have flown 
And left him cheerless and alone, 
May hope for death's dark shade ; 
May dare to wish the hour to come, 
When shrouded, in that narrow home 
He slumbering may be laid. 
But we, the holy, Christian band, 
Must seek the bright, the deathless land, 
Not slumber or repose. 
No more for us the dying strife, 
For we have passed from death to life— 
A life that may not close. 
We look to see the glory bright 
Burst through the deepest, darkest night 
Upon our gladdened eyes ; 
We hope to see our Lord descend, 
While joyous shouts the heavens rend, 
And echo through the skies. 
We wait to hear the trumpet's swell 
The resurrection morning tell; 
When we who still remain, 
Swiftly upborne on seraph's wing, 
Shall rise to meet our coming King, 
Coming on earth to reign. 
And should He call our souls away 
Before that long-expected day, 
It is not senseless rest, 
Nor death, nor sleep : the spirit freed, 
Quits for a while its earthly weed, 
In Jesus' presence blest; 
Until that hour, when brighter far 
Than sun, or moon, or glittering star, 
That tenement shall rise ; 
And saints shall sing in rapturous strain 
The praise of Him who comes to reign, 
Sovereign of earth and skies. 
ELLEN. 
its present organized state, but could only be ful-
filled when Jesus shall have sent his angels and 
gathered out of his kingdom all things that offend 
and them that do iniquity, who were to be cast 
into a furnace of fire. (Matt. 13th.) 
The views of the temporal millennium were 
met and shown to be inconclusive from this and 
other portions of God's Word. 
During the week 
I lectured in different places, until Friday evening, 
when, by the request of the friends, I met and dis-
cussed with a preacher of the Universalist order 
on the subject of the second advent of the Son of 
God; he maintaining that the coming of Christ 
was not personal nor visible, and was in the 
past; on the other hand 1 labored to show that 
his coming was to be personal, visible, and was 
yet in the future. 
We spoke each half an hour 
and then fifteen minutes. 
I trust that the truth 
of God lost nothing by the investigation of the 
subject. 
The following Sabbath the house was to be oc-
cupied by the Free Baptist, who allowed me half 
the day to speak from 1 Cor. 15:50—" Now this 
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit 
the kingdom of God." 
Among the hearers was 
the Universalist gentleman with whom I had dis-
cussed the subject the Friday evening before, and 
two Free Baptist preachers. 
This text afforded 
me an opportunity of showing that the kingdom 
here spoken of was in the future, and to be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, when 
the Son of man shall come in his glory with all 
his holy angels. (Matt. 25:31.) 
The week follow-
ing I visited Atkinson and Orneville and had some 
meetings of an interesting nature, and one es-
pecially at the house of an Elder Lord, of the 
Christian Baptist. 
This brother's health having 
failed him in ministry, he was under the necessity 
of engaging in temporal business for the susten-
ance of his family, notwithstanding his heart ap-
peared much in the work. He was much interested 
in having me return and preach the Word in the 
towns in the vicinity, in which there was a great 
scarcity of preachers of the Word of Life, and 
withal promised his influence in procuring what 
should be deemed necessary to sustain the preachers 
of the Gospel. 
With a number of others who 
were desirous of Gospel order, I met, that they 
might not be sheep without a shepherd. 
In conclusion I consider that a promising field 
is there open, where fruit may be gathered,<whi.ch 
shall be approved when Jesus comes to make up 
his jewels. 
That many may yet be gathered to 
the great Shiloh, is the prayer of your brother, i^ 
hope of eternal life at Jesus' coming, 
THOMAS SMITH. 
Eddington (Me.), April 19th, 18.54. 
LETTER FROM THOMAS SMITH. 
BRO. HIMES :—Having recently made a tour in 
the county of Piscataquis, in the towns of Milo, 
Atkinson and Orneville, to preach the acceptable 
year of the Lord, together with the day of vengeance 
of our God, I thought it best to report 
my-
self as to the probable success that might follow 
judicious labors in those regions. 
I found but 
very little of the prescriptive spirit among that 
people, which has been characteristic of the most 
of places which I have visited. 
The first Sabbath 
which I spent in Milo, I preached the Word in a 
new and neat chapel, occupied half the time by the 
Calvinist Baptist, one-fourth by the Methodist, 
and the same by the Free Baptist. 
The house on 
that day was to have been occupied by the Rev. 
Mr. Follet, a Baptist. 
This kind brother very 
readily relinquished his privilege to me, and in-
tended to have attended himself as a hearer, but 
was called away to attend a funeral. 
To a very 
candid, careful hearing audience 1 preached the 
" restitution of all things spoken of God by the 
mouth of the holy prophets since the world be-
gan ;" and numbers, I learn, were much interested 
in the prospect of a future and tangible home, in-
stead ot the one so often presented as being " Be-
yond the bounds of time and space," which is no-
where. 
In the A.Mi. I called the people's attention 
to Isa. 11:9 —" They shall not hurt nor destroy in 
all my holy mountain." 
Showed that such a state 
LETTER FROM ROBERT CHOWN. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—Having visited the brethren at 
Genesee Grove, and Pain's Point, incompany with 
brother Cummings, it is encouraging to see that 
there is still an anxiety to hear on the all-import-
ant subject, viz., that blessed hope, the coming of 
Christ. 
It does seem that our position is one of 
deep interest to all. 
Well might the apostle say, 
" What manner of persons ought ye to be in all 
holy conversation and godliness, looking for and 
hasting unto the coming of the day of God," &c., 
(v. 17.) " ye beloved seeing ye know these things," 
&c., (v. 13,) " but grow in grace and in the knowl-
edge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 
It 
seems that there should be a growth of grace and 
knowledge, as we progress toward the perfect day, 
and as we are commanded, to exhort one another, 
and so much the more as we see the day approach-
ing. 
May I be permitted so to do, and as we are 
sanctified through the Spirit and the belief of the 
truth, how careful ought we to be to examine 
ourselves to see that we are in the faith. 
We are 
aware that there is yet amongst us a difference of 
views, that we see through a glass darkly ; for we 
know in part. 
But when that which is perfect is 
come, then that which is in part shall be done 
away. 
It does seem thatf the seventh angel is about 
to sound, (Rev. 10:7,) but in the days of the voice 
of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, 
(not end,) the mystery of God shall be finished. 
What is this mystery that is to be finished ? Col. 
1:27—" To whom God would make known what is 
the riches of the glory of this mystery among the 
Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glo-
ry." 
We are saved by hope, but hope that is' 
seen is not hope, for what a man hath or sfeeth,-
why doth he yet hope for. 
But if we hope for that 
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 
It doth seem that the doctrine of probation after 
tho Saviour comes, is contrary to the apostle's 
teaching. 
If their ever was a time that God'® 
people should watch more than at any other, it is 
now. 
It seems by all the movements of the na-
of things were nowhere promised in this world in tions that the great battle will soon be fought! 
I 
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do not know that the Lord will come this year, 
but I hope that we shall all be found at our post 
when the Master shall be revealed. 
I believe that 
our position should be, always ready, not getting 
ready, and may we be found like the Master, doing 
good to all as we have opportunity, the only ob-
ject that we ought to live for, to glorify God. 
I am glad to see that you, with brother Litch, 
expect to visit the field, it the Lord will. 
As it 
regards definite time, that is to say, that to know 
that the Lord will come this year, is not faith ; 
but I do not see why he may not come to-day, or 
any period in the future. 
I hope by his grace as-
sisting me, that I with you and all the dear saints 
of God, will be enabled so to live by faith on his 
word, that should this year pass, we may so live 
that wer may have an abundance of entrance admin-
istered unto us into his everlasting kingdom, is the 
prayer of your brother; in hope of speedy redemp-
tion. 
ROBERT CHOWN. 
Dixon (111.), April 20th, 1854. 
Thoughts for the Household of Faith. 
WEAK and tempted Christian, listen to a word 
of encouragement. 
Thou art yet in the wilderness 
of this world, and beset with dangers. 
But re-
member that the Lion of the tribe of Judah is 
stronger than the lion that roars against the saints 
of the Most High. 
Trust in Him and he will de-
liver thee. 
" For greater is he that is in you, than 
he who is in the world." 
We consider that a man will not drown while 
his head is kept above water. 
Christ is head over 
all things to the church. 
The church is his mys-
tical body. 
The church, or body, may be in the 
stormy waters of this world, while the waves of 
persecution and temptation dash around her, but 
the Head is safe in heaven. 
No danger then of 
Christianity being rooted out of the earth, nor of 
the church perishing. 
See that stocking in a woman's hand. 
There 
are many loops in it, yet but one thread. 
So in 
the Church of God there are many members, yet 
one cord of Divine love passes through them all, 
their hearts " being knit together in love." 
(Col 
2:2, 19.) 
The lion that Sampson slew afterwards yielded 
him strength and refreshment, for " out of the 
eater came forth meat." 
So from Judah's Lion, 
who was slain by men, we draw refreshment and 
the sweets of salvation. 
" Hold fast that which thou hast that is good, 
that no man take thy crown." 
J. M. ORROCK. 
LETTER FROM SILVA1VUS JUDSOX. 
BRO. HIMES :—Our Saviour taught his disciples 
on the mount, and we have his teachings the same 
as when they first fell from his lips. 
I feel that 
he is teaching me the same lesson, with the same 
promises. 
" Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the 
kingdom of heaven." 
If we must be poor in order to receive this bless-
ing, it would imply that without it we cannot re-
ceive it. 
Is it a fact that we must be poor, and 
mourn, be meek, and hunger, and thirst, and be 
persecuted in order to inherit these promises' 
This opens the door for self-examination. 
This is 
heart-work ; no counterfeit here. 
May we not in-
dividually inquire, have I attained to that state 
of heart by which I can feel a constant witness 
that this blessing belongs to me ? 
If so then con-
tinue in the same way, and there is no failure on 
the part of him who has promised. 
This same 
Jesus who made those promises is soon coming to 
fulfill them. 
He is now waiting to be gracious, 
that his people may do their work till the last 
soul is sealed. 
Happy is that servant whom his 
Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 
It ap-
pears to me that there is no time to be lost; every-
one ought to be at his post. 
And oh ! my dear 
brethren, what responsibilities are resting on us 
who have received this blessed light: better that 
we had not known the way than after we have 
known it to refuse to walk in it. 
God's people should be of one heart in carrying 
on this blessed work, that there be no schisms in 
the body. 
Christ is not divided, neither are his 
people when they have his spirit, for it is only the 
spirit of God that can unite, and that will lead us 
to be co-workers with him. 
There is a sympathy 
through the body, and an interest is felt for each 
other. 
If one gets out of the way, there is a deep 
interest felt that he may return, and we are will-
ing to make some sacrifice for this purpose. 
And 
now let me inquire what is our faith respecting the 
coming of Christ? 
It appears to me if we had 
practical, active faith it would lead us to do all we 
could to apprize a guilty world ; or, if our faith is 
on a more definite time, it is dead faith unless it 
leads to corresponding efforts to save our fellow-
creatures. 
If the good man of the house had known what 
hour the thief would come he would have only 
watched that hour, but as he did not know, it was 
necessary.for him to watch till morning. 
The 
Lord speed us on to perform the work assigned us 
by the Master. 
Yours, waiting for the morning, 
SLLVANUS 
JUDSON. 
Letter from Abel Fletchcr, 
BRO. HIMES :—You have very kindly sent me the 
Advent Herald for nearly two years past. 
I send 
you one dollar, to help a little in sustaining the 
paper. 
I have viewed it as highly worthy of being 
sustained, and hope it will be. 
I have read as 
much of it from week to week as time would per-
mit, with profit and edification. 
It seems to me 
if the Christian community will read the Scriptures 
impartially, they will discover that they teach 
the views advocated by the Herald, rather than 
those held by temporal Millenarians. 
I wish the 
Advent cause all success, and pray God to bless 
their toils and labors to his glory and the salva-
tion of men. 
Yours, with Christian regard, 
ABEL FLETCHER* 
Litchfield (N.. H.), April 18th, 1854. 
"WAR A GOOD WARFARE." 
FJGHT the good fight of faith, 
Eternal life secure; 
'Tis God who bids thee fight, 
And his commands are pure. 
The war is just, and therefore good ; 
Firmly and nobly martyrs stood, 
And thou must do the same. 
Satan is foe to God and man, 
And will oppose thee all he can ; 
Stand thou in Jesus' name. 
Thy Captain sees thy wants, 
And feels for all thy woes ; 
He heareth thy complaints, 
And all thy danger knows, 
For, though he is the Son of God, 
When on earth's battle-field he trod, 
The hosts of hell drew near, 
Yet he compelled them all to flee. 
And now from heaven he looks on thee, 
And bids thee not to fear. 
Put the good armor on : 
The panoply divine 
Which God himself provides, 
And in it brightly shine. 
Girded with truth securely stand ; 
The Spirit's sword hold in thy hand, 
And wear the shoes of peace ; 
The shield ot faith grasp firmly now, 
Salvation place upon thy brow. 
And keep on righteousness. 
The soldiers of the cross 
Have all their wants supplied : 
As long as service lasts 
No good thing is denied. 
Though enemies beset their way, 
They fight in hopes to win the day 
And gain eternal rest. 
Orders on Heaven's bank are theirs, 
And oft to God they offer prayers, 
And have their ills redrest. 
The warfare ends in good, 
For victory is sure 
To those who boldly stand, 
And faithfully endure. 
Though on Truth's battle-field they fall, 
The Captain's eye is on them all 
And he will give them life. 
Day soon will break upon the plain 
And our Redeemer come to reign, 
And that will end the strife. 
Long, long the night has been, 
While foes now proudly boast, 
And champions of the truth 
Have fallen at their post. 
But soon the knell of Time will sound— 
" Six thousand years have rolled around, 
Immanuel is King." 
Then meeting " on the other shore," 
The soldiers shout, their sufferings o'er, 
And praise to Jesus bring. 
J. M. o. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
BRO. D. W. SORNBERGER writes from Stanstead 
(C. E.) :—" BRO. HIMES—Through the providence 
of God I still live, and am trying to do what I can 
to " make ready a people prepared for the Lord." 
It seems to »e that the present commotions among 
the nations (or the toes of the metalic image,) are 
indicative of a change : and as the next kingdom 
belongs to one of David's seed, I think that these 
events, if our positiou be right, or ever has been, 
in connection with the signs given by our Saviour, 
and the prophetic periods all combine to indicate 
the swift approaching day of God. 
But I fear that 
with too many the doctrine has become a mere sec-
tarian principle. 
I judge only by their fruits, for 
when I look back and see the sacrificing spirit this 
people possessed, and see how ready to forward 
the cause of truth by their means which the Lord 
hath given them, and then see how willing some 
are to have preaching now, providing the minister 
will supply his own wants by laboring hard through 
the week and then preach to them and allow them 
to lay up their treasures on earth, or spend them 
for needless indulgencies, which in former days 
were dispensed with. 
When I see these things 
and look but a step and see the scenes of the day 
of God about to burst upon a guilty world, and see 
from the Bible the responsibility that rests upon 
the people of God, I try with the ability the Lord 
has given me, to raise my warning voice against 
the sin of the age; but thank God, there are noble 
exceptions; some look after the wants of those who 
have the woe laid upon them if they preach pot 
the gospel. 
But thank the Lord the scenes of trial 
and conflict will soon be at an end. 
" I have now removed to Stanstead, and perhaps 
some may think that my object has been to accu-
mulate property in this world, but not so ; persons 
that are acquainted with my former circumstances 
can better judge. 
1 am willing to do with the 
ability God has given me what I can to sustain 
the cause of truth, either by preaching the word 
or laboring with my hands as the Lord directs. 
" Yours in hope." 
BROTHER GEORGE LOCKE writes from Loudon (N. 
H.), April 17th, 1854 :—" In regard to the Herald, 
I would say, the six copies you commenced sending 
me about a year ago, I distributed to those who 
appeared to be interested in the literal fulfilment 
of the Scriptures, and coming of the Lord, ' at the 
door.' 
Two only of the six declined paying after 
receiving them gratuitously from three 
to six 
months. 
" One said to me in a note, * As you favor me with 
the Herald to read, I feel under obligation to render 
my sincere thanks, not only to you, but to'the 
Lord, who, I believe hath put it into your heart to 
send it. 
It is a welcome messenger to me. 
May 
God reward you, whether I do or not. 
I feel the 
time is very near when He that is to come will 
come, and will not tarry,—whose reward is with 
him to give to every man as their work shall be.' 
" I will give the expression of one more, a prac-
tical Christian, who received the Herald for a while 
of me, and frequently attends our meeting. 
He 
says,' The personal coming of the Lord at the 
door to destroy his enemies from off the earth, and 
to establish a kingdom under the whole heavens is 
truth 
and said he,' I should publicly confess it, 
if I lived where it was received with favor.' 
" The Saviour has said, ' Whosoever is ashamed 
of me and my words, of him will I be ashamed be-
fore my Father and the holy angels.' " 
corning in '44 or '45. 
Ever after she called the 
Christian's hope the Blessed hope ; she talked much 
on the doctrine of the real, literal resurrection of 
the body, and often in her last moments would re-
peat the 19th verse of the 15th chap, of 1st Cor., 
from which text a very comforting and logical dis-
course was preached on the funeral occasion by 
Elder Cushman,-of Marshfield. 
He followed the 
thread of the apostle's argument on the resurrec-
tion, and did honor to himself and to the doctrine 
he advocated. 
While I see that the enemy is still 
at work, marching with rapid strides through the 
length and breadth of the land my very heart 
says : 
" How long shall death the tyrant reign 
And triumph o'er the just, 
While the rich blood of martyrs slain 
Lies mingled with the dust." 
And when I look into the Bible and read the 
promise :—" That same Jesus is to come again 
in like manner as he went up," my heart cries 
oat—* 
, b:> 
" When shall the tedious night be gone, 
When will our Lord appear? 
Our fond desires would pray him down, 
Our love embrace him here." 
T. E. WILSON. 
BROTHER 
LAROY 
LYMAN 
writes from Roulett 
(Pa.), May 1st, 1854 :—" I am almost alone re-
specting my belief in this place, but I rejoice that 
there are those who are waiting for our Lord's 
coming. 
I hail the Herald as a welcome visitor. 
It is to me a feast of fat things. 
I could not be 
persuaded to do without it on any earthly condi-
tion. 
My prayer is that you may be led by God's 
spirit; and then the gates of hell shall not prevail 
against you. 
The time has come when we should 
have our lamps trimmed and burning, and oil of 
Divine grace in our vessels. 
We can daily see 
evidences of the near approach of our Lord and 
Master. 
Could the wicked realize the shortness 
of time, they would turn [and live. 
They would 
not mock us when we warn them to flee the wrath 
to come. 
' But as the days of Noe were, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of man be.' 
Then 
God will laugh at their calamity, and mock when 
their fear cometh. 
But let us not be in darkness 
that that day should overtake us as a thief. 
Let 
us be the children of light and of day." 
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoeverliveth, and 
believeth in me. shall never die."'—JOHN 11: 25.26. 
DIED, in Cabot, Vt., April 11th, 1854, after 
three weeks of distressing sickness of disease on 
the liver, my mother-in-law, 
JUDITH K. LYFORD, 
widow of the late Fifield Lyford, aged 75 years 
and 11 months. 
She was born in Northfield, 
N. H., in May, 1778. 
She came to this place in 
1785, with her father, Lieut. Jonathan Heath, who 
was the first settler ih town. 
The deceased was 
the oldest resident in this place, having lived here 
sixty-nine years ; she had lived on the very farm 
where she died fifty-eight years. 
It was literally 
a wilderness when she moved on to it. 
With an 
iron constitution she bore with fortitude the pri-
vations and hardships of the first settlers of our 
country. 
She had enjoyed the comforts of religion 
for about fifty years, and on her dying bed it seemed 
as though it was her peculiar stay and support. 
She first heard on the subject of the Lord's speedy 
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HERALD. 
BOSTON ADVENT ASSOCIATION 
Foreign News 
157 
Boston Advent Association.. 160 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Invisible Army 
158 
Jerusalem 
158 
Our Hope fpoetry) 
158 
Letter from Thomas Smith.158 
" 
" 
R. Chown 
158 
" 
" 
S. Judson 
159 
" 
" 
A. Fletcher.;. 159 
Thoughts for the Household of 
Faith 
159 
War a good Warfare (poetry) 159 
Extracts from Letters— 
D. W.Sornberger 
159 
d. LoCke 
159 
S. Lyman...., 
159 
OBITUARY. 
Judith K. Lyford 
159 
ADVENT HERALD 
A PLAN OF THE CHAPEL, 
Appointments, &c. 
D. W. Sornberger will preach in Eaton, C E ,on funJay, May 21st 
NOTICE.—Friends ordering tracts by mail, will 
remember that under the present law each tract, 
however small, has to pay a postage of one cent. 
ELDER M. S. BENTI,Y will preach at Lawrence, Mass., Sabbath, may 
D. THOMPSON wilt preach at Auburn, N, H-, Sabbath, May 14th ; 
at Lawrence, Mass., Tuesday 16th ; at So. Reading, Sabbath, 21st. 
NOTICE 
TO BRETHREN 
CHAPMAN AND 
CUMMINGS.— 
Dear Brethren :—You may depend upon my labors 
from the first of June to the last of July. 
I must 
return so as to be in Philadelphia the first Sabbath 
in August. 
I shall depend on you to arrange the appoint-
ments, so that I can give myself wholly to the 
work. 
I wish in things, to co-operate with you, as 
brother Himes did in his late visit, and to aid you 
in your work and labor of love for the churches of 
your care. 
J. 
LITCH. 
CONFERENCE AT HATLEY, 
C. E.—When invited to 
attend this meeting I had another engagement in 
Pennsylvania, but being released from that I can 
now be with the brethren in Hatley. 
I shall spend 
a little time with different flocks in the vicinity, as 
my time will allow. 
I WILL meet the friends in Rockford, 111., May 25. In Ogle coun-
ty, 26th, and over the following Sabbath. 
Clinton, De Kalb county, 
Monday, 29th. Somauauk, Tuesday, 30th. Ottawa Wednesday, 
31st, and continue over the following Sabbath. 
In Rock Island 
county, where broUier Ruggles may appoint, Monday, June 5, and 
continue over the Sabbath. 
Hancock county, June 12th, and over 
the Sabbath. Brother E. Burnham, I expect, will accompany me. 
Yours, 
P. B. MORGAN. 
THE ANNUAL SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE FOR CANADA EAST AND 
NORTHERN VERMONT, will be held this year, in the ''Old Meeting 
House," in Hatley, C. E., to commence on Thursday, June 8th., 
at half past 10 A. M Meetings will continue over the Sabbath. We 
hope as many ministering brethren as can, will attend. 
Letthere 
be a general gat hering of ail who are "lookiugfor that blessedhope." 
EndeavOr to be present when the Conference commences. The 
brethren will do what they can to accommodate those who come 
from a distance, with board and lodging. Make this meeting a 
subject of prayer, and we hope it will be one of great inter 'St and 
profit. 
J. M. ORROCK, Sec'y of C. E. Couf. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT, 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
" 
MAP 
OF 
THE 
SEAT 
OF WAR—Turkey the King 
of the North—Probable connection of the Present 
War and Soon Coming of Christ, as foreshown in 
Prophecy." 
We have published the above, which appeared 
in the Herald a few weeks since, in a separate sheet, 
for general circulation. 
Price, $1 per hundred. 
R.'Darling—H. 
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N.J. 
MEDICAL 
NOTICE. 
BRO. HIMES :—With your permission, I will say through the Her-
ald, that having for a number of years turned my attention to the 
study of medicine, and availed myself of the privileges of the Medi-
cal Colleges in this city, attending their lectures, &c.. I shall be 
happy during my summer tour, to give advice or medical treatment 
to the afflicted. I would call the special attention of those afflicted 
with Jits and St. Vitus' 
donee, consumptive 
complaints, 
&c., on 
account of their.being as a general thing, considered so greatly out 
of the reach of medicine ; and I have confidence that I can supply 
remedies, which will cure a majority of cases, if not too far advanced. 
And I would say the same of nervous 
complaints 
generally, in-
cluding palpitation of the heart, neuralgia, and general debility. 
Fever and ague also, treated and Cured without the use of quinine 
or minerals. 
J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia, 
May 5th, 1854. 
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