Luke 9: as-30 
" Search me, 0 God." 
The Psalmist prayed, Search me, 0 God, and 
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WAKE WITH NATURE. 
Would you know a pure delight? 
Would you feast the sense of sight ? 
Would you breathe fresh, balmy air? 
Would you gushing music hear? 
Would you feel a thrill of life, 
Full of peace, with rapture rife? 
Rouse you with the rising day, 
View calm nature's grand display. 
Would you like to gain an hour ? 
Would you rob sloth of its power? 
Would you cheerfulness obtain ? 
Would you cheat toil of its pain ? 
Would you duty make a pleasure, 
And insure an hour's leisure? 
Rouse you at the break of day, 
Wake with morning's twilight ray. 
Would you free yourself from care? 
Would you find a time for prayer? 
Would you take your cross each day? 
Would you walk in " wisdom's way ?" 
Would you feel God's grace within, 
Helping you-to conquer sin ? 
Rise, and at the dawn of day 
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The More Excellent Name. 
HEBREWT 1 :4. 
(FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY.") 
(Concluded.) 
His name is healing, yea, it is full of health. 
What Peter testified concerning the poor crip-
ple who lay so long at the gate of the temple, 
may also be said concerning millions 'of healed 
souls, " His name through faith in his name 
bath made this man strong whom ve see and 
know ; yea, the faith which is by him hath 
given him this perfect soundness in the pres-
ence of you all."—Acts 3:16. Sin is a terrible 
disease, all the maladies to which the human 
body is incident are types, and only types, of its 
fearful triumphs in the soul of man. Sin takes 
the forms of raging fever, fiery madness, de-
bilitating palsy, loathsome and incurable lep-
rosy. It is blindness, deafness, lameness ; yea, 
all that is hideous and painful. It deforms the 
soul, and robs it of all strength and beauty, and 
is ever dragging it down to the eternal putre• 
faction of the second death. All human means 
fail to arrest its ravages ; men have produced 
what they called infallible medicines, but noth-
ing has succeeded, they have proved " physi-
cians of no value." The pestilence hath still 
progressed, and must have done so for ever, 
had not the great Phineas stood between the 
dead and the living, and stayed the plague. 
His name is heaven's sovereign remedy. Mill-
ions of sick and dying creatures have stood 
around his cross, and sung, " By his stripes we 
are healed," and while they exult in their own 
spiritual cure, and rejoice in health restored, in 
the possession of peace, of joy, and a desire to 
glorify Him, and all his gifts, they herald his 
name and delight to tell its sovereign virtues. 
Believer, thou art in a convalescent state, bless 
God for this ; but daily live on the name of Je-
sus, or your wounds will break out afresh, your 
strength will decline, your spiritual senses will 
all be weakened. You have a conflict to wage, 
and may be wounded sorely; you have a wil-
derness to pass through, and may be torn by its 
briers or bitten by the serpents and savage beasts 
which roam there : make constant use of this 
healing name. If guilt is contracted, if temp-
tation prevail, if cares gall your soul, if human 
unkindness wounds you, fly to the name of Je-
sus, and from his merit. strength, sympathy, 
and. 
 faithfulness, you may obtain strong con-
solation. 
The name of Jesus is fragrant. Hark to 
the testimony of one who loved him : " Because 
of the savor of thy good ointments, thy name 
is as ointment poured forth." The Saviour is 
here presented to us as the Anointed One, and 
as the result of his anointing, his name is lik-
ened to a sweet perfume. God bath " anointed 
him with the oil of gladness above his fellows, 
and all his garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and 
cassia." He was anointed at his baptism, and 
what a name did he soon obtain, a name still 
full of fragrance. Immediately after the Holy 
Spirit had descended on him, we find him vic-
torious over Satan (Matt. 4:1-11), distributing 
all blessings among the sick and sorrowful (vs. 
23-25), and then teaching the most consolatory 
truths, showing who are blessed ; and inviting 
the wretched to share that blessedness (Matt. 
5:1-12). For more than three years his name, 
as a conqueror, physician, teacher, was " poured 
forth" like a rich ointment. "A good name 
(says wisdom) is better than precious ointment." 
But the same authority tells us " that dead flies 
cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth 
a stinking savor, so doth a little folly him that is 
in reputation for wisdom and honor."— Eccles. 
10:1. But in Jesus there was wisdom without 
folly, holiness without sin, tenderness without 
unkindness, sympathy without forgetfulness, and 
love without the possibility of a change. How 
fragrant is his name ! As Mary's ointment 
filled the house, so does the name of Jesus fill 
that noble temple of truth which the Holy Spirit 
reared by the hands of the four evangelists. 
" Sweet is the breath of early morn," sweet in-
deed must it have been in the bowers of an un-
fallen paradise, but sweeter still to the spiritual 
senses of God's people is the savor of the name 
of Jesus in the field of inspired truth. Blessed 
are those who love to trace all his sayings and 
doings, and who abide among them in loving 
meditation as the bee in the fragrant bower. 
When Jesus ascended up on high he was 
again anointed, and .the savor of his name as 
our great High Priest fills the upper sanctuary, 
and also the tabernacle below. The sweet savor 
of his atoning sacrifice (Eph. 5: 1, 2), of his 
much incense (Rev. 8 : 3-5), of his unbounded 
sympathy and unutterable tenderness (Heb. 4: 
14), is indeed most pleasant. 
Oh, to have this name so poured out before 
us by Him who glorifies Jesus as to "count all 
things but loss for the excellency of the knowl-
edge of Christ Jesus our Lord." Oh, to have 
it so poured out upon us that " our heads may 
lack no ointment," that others may take knowl-
edge of us that we have been with Jesus. Let 
us aim to be holy and chaste, and seek grace 
to be " vessels to hear his name ;" yea, to mani-
fest the savor of his knowledge in every place. 
In thus .acting we shall imitate the blessed 
(Rev. 5th), and be followers of God. (Heb. 1st.) 
If we would act thus, let us seek to know him 
as the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valleys, 
the Branch, the Tree of Life, and Plant of 
Renown. 
His name is an enriching name. How suited 
is it to those whom He came to save ! The 
sinner is rich in misery, and poor as regards 
happiness. Rich in wrath, but destitute of all 
claim on the Divine goodness, and this because 
he is rich in guilt, and poor in righteousness, 
rich in enmity, and destitute of love. Yet 
before this destitute and desolate creature the 
whole choir of prophets stand, and they all tes-
tify concerning Jesus, "that through his name 
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remis- 
sion of sins." (Acts 10:43.) Yet again, a solo, 
grand as the voice of the archangel, is heard, 
‘. God is in Christ reconciling the world unto 
himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. 
For he bath made him to be sin for us who knew 
no sin that we might be made the righteousness 
of God to Him." (2 Cor. 5.) Higher yet rises 
the testimony !—" As many as received him to 
them gave he power to become the sons of God, 
even to them that believe on his name." (John 
1:12.) Once again, hearken : He who spake 
as never man spoke confirms and consummates 
the whole, and invites all the sons and daugh• 
ters of poverty, every bankrupt child of Adam 
to whom the tidings came, to share the blessed- 
ness. " If any man thirst, let him come unto 
me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the 
Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow 
rivers of living water." (John 7:37, 38.) Who 
can reckon up these treasures ! reconciliation, 
remission, righteousness, relationship, reception 
of the Holy Spirit ; how wonderful ! And 
then think of the firm friendship established, 
the joys of pardon in the heart, and the know-
ledge of salvation,—what it brings, of the privi-
leges of adoption, the claim upon infinite arid 
paternal love, the witnessings of the Holy Spirit, 
and his outflowings from the heart and charac-
ter for the good of others, and all without money 
and without price, all in the face of the greatest 
unworthiness, all to God's highest glory, all 
through the name of Jesus, and all in believing 
on his name. 
The name of Jesus is a joy-inspiring name. 
It is said of the blessed people who know the 
joyful sound, " In thy name shall they rejoice 
all the day." It is his name which makes the 
Gospel a joyful sound. The Gospel is the re-
cord of his mighty acts, an exhibition of his 
glorious person and spotless character, a procla• 
mation of .the blessings which dwell in him, and 
an announcement of his coming glory and ever-
lasting reign. Here is complete harmony, and 
blessed are the ears which are attuned to delight 
in the same. " The God of hope tills them with 
joy arid peace in believing." 
Believing in Him 
whom now we see not, but whose name we may 
study, " we rejoice with joy unspeakable and 
full of glory." In all seasons and under all cir-
cumstances, this name can fill the heart with 
joy. He who wears it is the true Noah. " the 
consolation of Israel." The followers of Christ 
are sometimes brought into the wilderness of 
gloom and sorrow, in order that they may more 
fully know the virtue and the value of the name 
of Jesus ; and often when bereft of all, when 
called to dwell solitary, or to be familiar with 
scenes of trial and death, the name of Jesus has 
peopled the wilderness with joys, and turned 
" the shadow of death into the morning." " Re-
joice in the Lord always," is God's gracious 
command, and having given it, He reveals the 
name of his Son,—his beloved One, and our 
Brother, and then amidst all life's sorrows, and 
death's terrors, the believer's heart responds to 
the Divine command, and sings sweet " songs 
in the night " to the praise of the name of Jesus. 
This joy is an earnest of that overflowing rap-
ture and triumph which shall be realized when 
the name of Jesus shall be read in the light of 
glory. His name shall be the procuring and 
sustaining cause of all the joy of eternity. 
In order for it to be a joy-inspiring name, we 
must know it as a justifying and sanctifying 
name. " This is his name whereby he shall be 
called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." And 
again it is written, " Ye are washed, ye are 
sanctified, ye are justified, in the name of the 
Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." (1 
Cor. 6:11.) How glorious is that righteousness, 
how completely are those justified who are ar-
rayed in it ! How real is that sanctification ! 
His name is a fountain most pure, most cleans-
ing, and withal incapable of pollution, and ever 
accessible to the guilty and filthy. Those who 
rest on it for acceptance, and who make use of 
it for cleansing, shall be washed from all stain 
of sin. and he presented faultless before the pres-
ence of God's glory. On such He will write 
his own name, yea, the inscription on his priestly 
mitre shall be placed on their foreheads, and by 
the virtue of his name, " HOLINESS TO THE LORD " 
shall be inscribed on their entire nature, body, 
soul, and spirit. 
Such will testify that his is " a worthy name." 
(James 2:7.) When on earth He won a worthy 
name, but man did all he could to rob Him of 
his glory, and injure his fair fame. Men called 
Him what Satan bid them, and in so doing, con- 
tradicted God, and turned the Rock of Ages into 
"a stumbling stone, and a sign to be spoken 
against." Through life He was hunted by re- 
proach ; He was maligned in death ; and his 
memory loaded with scorn. He was crucified 
as a deceiver, and his name became among the 
nation a synonyme for imposter. Mark the 
contrast ! " He was . led like a lamb to the 
slaughter," amidst the jeers of the nation ; but 
hark ! what sound is that, mightier than many 
waters, louder than ten thousand thunders, yet 
sweeter than the softest melody ? Clearly and 
distinctly, from ten thousand times ten thou-
sand voices, rolls the glorious anthem, " WORTHY 
Is THE LAMB." This is the unanimous verdict 
of the heavenly world ; saints redeemed by 
blood, and angels upheld by omnipotence, all 
unite in it ; arid their concurrent testimony is 
not only in complete contrast with that of earth, 
but is an echo of the testimony of God. How 
cheering the thought that the Almighty Spirit, 
the glorifier of Jesus, bath engaged to lift up 
on high his vilified name, and to espouse his 
slighted cause ; and that He is training up on 
earth a goodly company to witness from age to 
age, that Jesus is worthy, and to swell at last 
into a fuller burst of harmony the praises of the 
upper sanctuary. May all who lisp his worthy 
praise show that they count Him worthy of 
their trust, their confidence, and service, as well 
as of their testimony. 
Well may that name, from which such bless-
ings flow, and where such beauties shine, be 
called "wonderful." It is such, for it is infinite. 
" Thou shalt call his name Immanuel ; God 
with us." (Isa. 7:14.) He in whom the divine 
and human natures are united ; He who can fill 
up all relations, sustain all offices, and be at 
once a fountain of glory, grace, and govern-
ment ; filling heaven with joy, saving sinners 
on earth, and overruling the rage and malice of 
devils, is indeed WONDERFUL. His name is 
comprehensive of all knowledge ; " in Him are 
hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." 
His name has been termed " God's encyclopae-
dia," and furnishes matter for eternal study. 
His name effects the greatest wonders. It was 
the Holy Spirit who taught the Church to pray, 
" that signs anti wonders might be done in the 
name of the holy child Jesus" (Acts 4:30) ; and 
this prayer has been largely answered. Moun-
tains of guilt has it rolled away. It has dried 
up seas of pollution, and stilled the tempest of 
angry passions in millions of bosoms. Hosts of 
devils have fled before it, and Death himself 
has been conquered by it. And soon we shall 
see greater things than these. That name shall 
destroy the last enemy, death ; forever crush 
the power of the old serpent ; and fill this groan-
ing earth with the glory of God. Would you 
behold Jehovah as a God doing wonders ; study 
Him whose name is Wonderful, Surely then 
the name of Jesus is a glorious name. It tells 
of what He is, bath done, is now doing, and will 
yet perform. In it we see God revealed ; by it 
God is communicated, and through it God 
works. Look at that name, and what do you 
see ? GLORY. Mild, majestic, heart-melting, 
soul-transforming glory. What flows through 
it ? Life and salvation, including pardon, peace, 
holiness, adoption, and eternal joy. What does 
it effect ? It frees, it quickens, it beautifies, it 
cheers through life, and solaces in death. Is it 
not glorious ? If sinners are saved by it—if 
God is manifested in it, and glorified by it—if 
it gladdens all heaven and conquers death and 
hell—is it. not glorious—a name above every 
name ? 
Rejoice we then that this glorious name is 
an everlasting name. Many names once great 
and renowned have faded from remembrance ; 
but the name of Jesus lives, and must forever 
flourish. Some names are remembered only as 
terms of infamy ; but HE is remembered by "his 
virtues. Time makes it shine with still brighter 
lustre,and through the cycles of eternity it shall 
increase in glory. Are we identified with it—
have we life there ? Is his name our refuge, 
our home, our treasure, our all ? Join we then 
our song with that of the sweet singer of Israel : 
" His name shall endure forever, his name shall 
be continued as long as the sun, and men shall 
be blessed in Him : all nations shall call Him 
blessed." 
That there are strange things transpiring at 
the present time—whether it be effected by some 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
know my heart. Did he comprehend the im-
port of that prayer ? Do we comprehend its 
import when in our most pious frames we repeat 
the petition ? To come to the knowledge of 
ourself, to go down to the foundation of one's 
character and hopes, ,to fathom the depths of 
eternity, this is a mote serious and earnest mat-
ter when God answers the prayer, than we ima-
gine when we utter it. It is like descending 
the shaft of a mine ; your first descent is by an 
easy flight of steps, and the novelty enlivens, 
and the coolness refreshes you ; but at the bot-
tom of these you come to a narrow archway, 
through which you must creep to the next de-
scent, which is by a slender perpendicular lad-
der that trembles beneath your weight ; you 
grow dizzy and wish yourself safely out again ; 
the air grows more chilly and damp, and you are 
wet and soiled with the drippings of the vari-
colored strata through which you pass ; again 
you crawl through a yet narrower passage, tear-
ing your flesh at every motion, and now you 
are on the verge of a deep well into which you 
must be lowered by crank and bucket ; you look 
down into the awful unbroken gloom, you cast 
in a pebble and listen nervously for the distant 
plash. You ask the guide, " Are there ever 
explosions there ?" His affirmative answer does 
not nerve your courage. You ask again, " Do 
rocks ever fall there ?" Again the answer is in 
the affirmative, accompanied with the details of 
a recent accident. " Does the rope ever break ?" 
" Yes," again. Your knees smite together as 
you launch into the abyss ; the bottom reached, 
you here find countless avenues with mystery 
on mystery. Now your breath is stifled ; now 
your frame is chilled ; now your flesh is wound-
ed ; now your sight has gone ; again and again 
you wish yourself at the surface, yet cannot 
brave the perilous ascent. Who would have 
imagined that under the smooth grassy mound, 
the fragrant clover, or the teeming orchard, such 
wonders and such dangers lay concealed ? 
It is even so with the heart of man. Yet 
must we at such times take the candle of God's 
word, or better still, the guidance of God's Spirit, 
and fathom its utmost depth. Though it chill 
our blood, and palsy our nerves, and sicken our 
brain, yet must we go down, down into the cav-
erns of the heart. What find we there ? 
Self-examination is apt to he an occasional 
and very superficial work. We look into our- 
selves enough to see that there is evil there, 
and in the gross we make confession of sin and 
purpose repentance. But we shrink from the 
details. To tell the number of our sins is an 
unwelcome task ; we avert our eyes from them, 
we seek to cover them, we hope to outgrow 
them, and feel assured at least that death will 
emancipate us from them and make us pure. 
This is a wretched policy. " He that covereth 
his sins shall not prosper." We cannot get rid 
of sin by any such process. It cannot be con-
cealed ; it will not die out ; it cannot he out-
liven ; death will not cancel it. Where sin is 
harbored in the soul, suffered to live on without 
repentance or correction, what is there in death 
to destroy it? Nay, the soul that comes to 
death with cherished sin must needs go to judg-
ment without repentance and without pardon. 
Death works no such miraculous transforma-
tion. Let me not delude myself with such a 
thought. 
Search me, 0 God 
Sometimes God searches us by an array of 
providences that exposes us to ourselves ; he 
holds up on every side a mirror, and whichever 
way we turn some phase of our own heart is re-
flected upon us. Sometimes he deals directly 
with the heart, and probes it gently, but to the 
quick ; sometimes he tears it open with one 
gaping wound, and as it lies quivering in its 
black deformity, we must look on while con-
science guided by his hand lays bare this evil 
.motive, this self-interest, this idolatrous affec-
tion, this impure imagination, this envious de-
sire, till as in the chambers of imagery that 
Ezekiel saw, we discover within us every abomi-
nation. Such a searching is like the attempt to 
cleanse a well whose waters have become turbid 
and foul. You draw out a few buckets, arid 
give time for the pure water to flow in and set-
tle ; you then draw again, but to your surprise 
it is still turbid ; you empty bucket after bucket 
till a deluge of slime is heaped around you; the 
pure water is flowing in, but so foul is the well 
that it is continually discolored ; and again and 
again must you empty it before it will send up 
a limpid pail, and reflect the clear azure of the 
overhanging sky. Blessed be God, if in the 
heart blackened by sin there is a deep well-
spring of life, that after all this wearisome and 
loathsome emptying of self, will bubble up pure, 
and from its placid depths mirror forth the light 
of his countenance. 
Search me, 0 God, and 
know my heart ; try me, and know my thoughts ; 
and see if there be any wicked way in me, and 
lead me in the way everlasting. 
N. Y. Independent. 
were made always 
consistent ; these are contradictory. 
Divine communications were always true ; 
these are generally false. 
Divine communications were not made at the 
option of men in general ; these are made at 
the option of men without respect of character. 
The whole affair, beginning, middle, and end-
ing, is unlike anything God ever did. The re-
moving of tables and chairs, and the " raps," ra-
ther indicate " the spirits of devils working mir-
acles," than the work of the " finger of God " in 
raising the dead, healing the sick, and doing 
good to fallen humanity. The work of God is 
like himself ; the work of the devil is like him-
self. By their works we know them. The 
Christian's Lord is not in all this. Let Chris-
tians beware, lest being led away with the error 
of the devil, they fall from their own steadfast-
ness. There is a passage from the apostle to 
the Gentiles, that 1 conceive pertinent to the 
present time, Now the Spirit speaketh ex- 
pressly, that in the latter times some shall de-
part from the faith, given heed to seducing spir-
its, and doctrines of devils."-1 Tim. 4:1. 
As his time grows shorter, his wrath will 
become greater, and his wiles become more art-
ful, and his agents, seen and unseen, will be 
more vigilant in the work of seducing souls. 
May God speed the day, when he and his min-
ions shall be bound, and God's saints shall reign 
in peace ! 
Christian Evangelist. 
" Consulting witches or diviners of any kind, 
real or pretended, is a malignant or ignorant at-
tempt to gain intelligence or assistance from 
some creature, when it cannot be had, or is not 
sought from the Lord in the path of duty ; and 
is, therefore, essentially idolatry, and virtually 
the worship of the devil." 
Dr. Scott. 
Divine Authority of the Scriptures. 
" If Jesus goes to dwell at Capernaum, it is, 
says St. Matthew, " That it might be fulfilled 
which was spoken by Esaias the prophet," chap. 
4:14; if He reads in the synagogue the words 
of Isaiah, wherein the prophet speaks of Him, 
" sent to heal the broken-hearted," Jesus closes 
the book, and says, " This day is this scripture 
fulfilled in your ears," Luke 4:21. If He " hath 
need of " the colt of Bethphage, this is done, 
" that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by 
the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of 
Zion, behold thy King cometh unto thee, meek 
and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of 
an ass," Matt. 21:4. If He cries, "I thirst," it 
is, " that the scripture might be fulfilled," John 
19:28. If a spear is thrust into his side, it is 
because Zechariah, the prophet has seen and 
foretold this in the Scriptures, John 19:37. The 
life of the Lord, we might term fulfilling of the 
Scriptures. All that the Scriptures prescribed 
He accomplished ; this He carefully points out, 
and his disciples also remark it. 
But still further: It was in the Scriptures 
that the Lord caused His disciples to read His 
own history, " beginning at Moses and all the 
prophets, He expounded unto them in all the 
Scriptures the things concerning himself," Luke 
24:27. This point He urged on their minds, 
that in order to comprehend all that concerned 
Him, it was enough for them to believe the 
Scriptures : " 0 fools, and slow of heart to be-
lieve all that the prophets have spoken," Luke 
24:25 ; and if, by his Spirit, he opened their 
understanding," it was, "that they might un-
derstand the Scriptures," Luke 24:45. If the 
Scriptures were at first His directory, they were 
afterward His manual. It is from the written 
testimony, that He, who is Eternal Wisdom, 
Himself draws the instructions he delivers. 
Moreover, the Lord establishes the perfect 
sufficiency of the testimony of the Scriptures to 
give eternal life. On their authority, it is His 
will that faith should rest: " Search the Scrip-
tures ; for in them ye think that ye have eter- 
nal life : and they are they which testify of 
me," John 5:39. And when, in His sublime 
teaching, He transports us into the invisible 
world, wishing to give men a striking lesson, 
He makes father Abraham, into whose bosom 
the angels have carried the beggar Lazarus, de-
clare : " They have Moses and the prophets ; 
let them hear them. if they hear not Moses 
and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, 
though one rose from the dead," Luke 16:29, 31. 
But more : the Lord declares, that truth, ab- 
solute and eternal, is found in the Scriptures, 
and that they can never lie. " The Scriptures 
cannot be broken," John 10:35. On this he in-
sists, " One jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass 
from the law, till all be fulfilled," Matt. 5:18. 
Recurring to the same point, He cries : " It is 
easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one 
tittle of the law to fail," Luke 16:17. And he 
affirms this, not only of the words of the Old 
Testament, but of those of the New Testament 
likewise. " Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
but my words shall not pass away," Matt. 24:35. 
More than this: the Lord has recourse to the 
Scriptures to prove the doctrines which He 
teaches. If it be required to establish this point, 
that, although rejected, He is the Corner-stone 
of salvation, and the Head of the Church, He 
says : " Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 
The Stone which the builders rejected, the same 
is become the Head of the corner : this is the 
Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes ?" 
Matt. 21:42. And when the Lord wishes to 
convince heretics, when He desires to prove the 
resurrection to the incredulous Sadducees, to 
what authority does He appeal ? To the Scrip-
tures. " Have ye not read that which was 
spoken unto you by God, saying, 1 am the God 
of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God 
of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but 
of the living," Matt. 22:32. Yes, this rule of 
Holy Writ bore, in the eyes of Jesus, an au-
thority so great, that He was not ashamed to 
prove His own doctrine by the Scripture, He, 
who was the Truth, who was God Himself ! 
Still more : the Lord declares that the source 
of error is the neglect of the Scriptures. As, 
when the sun disappears man mistakes his road, 
so does the mind of man go astray, when the 
Scriptures are no longer at hand to illume his 
path : " Ye do err," He said unto the Saddu-
cees, " not knowing the Scriptures," Matt, 22:29. 
And when He desires to justify the acclama-
tions of the children, it is still to the Scriptures 
that He appeals : " Have ye never read," says 
He, " Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings 
Thou bast perfected praise ?"—Matt. 21:16. 
Finally : the Lord shows us why He appeals 
incessantly to the Scriptures ; it is because it is 
God, even the Holy Spirit himself, who has 
spoken through its authors : " How then doth 
David in spirit (that is, through the Spirit) call 
him Lord ?" said Jesus, in Matt. 22:43 ; and 
again, according to St. Mark, " David himself 
said by the Holy Ghost, the Lord said to my 
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make 
thine enemies thy footstool."—Chap. 12:36. 
Merle D'Aubigne. 
had doubtlessly been advanced by Providence to 
that exalted station to act as the advocate of 
her people. Esther (signifying the star Venus, 
called also Hadassah, meaning a myrtle) was 
evidently a true daughter of Abraham. She 
was a model of filial piety. An orphan, yet 
she obeyed her uncle with all that loveliness of 
affection and devotion, and with the same ex-
actness, while on the throne of the Eastern 
world, and while adored by all the females of 
the empire as a goddess, as she did in her 
childhood under that uncle's roof. Such piety 
in little children may never go unrewarded. 
Either in this world or the next, each obedient 
child fearing her Maker will wear a crown far 
more brilliant than that which pressed the brow 
of the Queen of Persia. 
Her piety was not laid aside when she be-
came rich and received many honors. Her 
family properly consisted of her maidens, and 
with them she used her influence to avert the im-
pending dangers, and secure the Divine protec-
tion for herself and people. 
The cruel edict of Haman leads the writer of 
this delightful book to behold a rare thing in 
this world, 
FAMILY PRAYER IN A PALACE. 
The sacred record is plain. 
I, also, and my 
maidens, will fast likewise She had just 1.4 
quested her relative, Mordecai, to unite with 
all the Jews in that vast city to FAST, AND NEI-
THER EAT NOR DRINK THREE DAYS, NIGHT OR DAY ! 
Now we ask, if any one doubts whether the 
queen prayed with her servants, to point us to 
a solitary individual who ever humbled himself 
for three days and nights without touching food, 
who failed to bend the knee in prayer ? He 
that has the moral heroism to fast will never 
neglect the less duty of asking for blessings at 
the mercy-seat. 
What a picture of splendor and royalty is 
glanced at in the first chapter ! Amid the gor-
geous draperies—" where were white, and green, 
and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine 
linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of 
marble ; the beds were of gold and silver upon a 
pavement of red, and blue, and black, and white 
marble "—might have been seen the Queen of 
the East, bending in lowly, fervent prayer with 
her servants. There was also an angel sent in 
mercy to that palace, in answer doubtless to the 
fervent prayer of that holy female.• He suffered 
not slumber to approach the eyes of the mon 
arch on that night, when captive Judea cried to 
God for help. He pointed the king, not, like 
Saul, to a minstrel, for music to lull his troubled 
spirit, but to the chronicles of the empire. That 
angel directed the reader to the passage which 
disclosed the plot. Thus the queen and her 
maidens are saved, and a nation rescued from 
impending ruin by the listening ear of God, at-
tending to the voice of supplication as it ascends 
from the mourning but heaven-trus ing FAMILY 
Christian InCelligencer. 
AT PRAYER IN A PALACE, 
Witchcraft. 
undefined principle in electricity or magnetism, 
or by real spirits, cannot be denied. The testi-
triony of truthful witnesses is too strong to ad-
mit of doubt. I am undecided as to which of 
these it should be attributed. 
But if it really is the manifestation of spirits, 
we have but one key in the Bible with which to 
unlock it. It is witchcraft—an abomination. 
I shall not affirm that those who pretend to be 
mediums now, are wizards, witches, but if 
they are what they pretend to be, I am unable 
with the light of truth to guide me, to assign 
them any other place. 
It would be well, perhaps, to consider the dif-
ference between Divine communications, and 
the supposed commnnications of the present 
time. 
Divine communications were made through 
" holy men of old, who spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Spirit ;" these are made, 
through infidels, knaves, and prostitutes. The 
witch of Endor was certainly no match for some 
of those engaged in this holy (!) business. 
Divine communications were made about mat-
ters of importance, these about matters the most 
insignificant and trifling. 
Divine communications 
The Purpose of the Roman Catholic 
Church. 
A week or two since we said, in our Mis- 
Family Prayer in a Palace. sionary Department, that an alliance had been 
forming during the last fifteen years, and has 
The city of Shushan was the winter palace recently been completed in Europe, between the 
of the Persian monarchs. The Ahasuerus of absolute governments and the Roman Catholic 
the Bible is probably the Xerxes of profane his- Church. We stated that the object was to use 
tory. This feast which introduces the reader of all political and ecclesiastical power jointly for 
the sacred writing to this monarch, is supposed the extinguishment of liberal principles in gov-
to have been the dedication of the city of Shu- ernments. and the Protestant religion, which is 
shan as a royal residence. There was amid the fountain of these liberal principles. We 
the gay scenes and brilliant pleasures of that gave an example or two. And we stated, that 
metropolis one sad heart. It has been the lot we alluded to this subject, because it was di-
of the people of God in almost every age, whether rectly connected with the great cause of Prot-
like Ezra, Daniel, David, Nehemiah, or Morde- estant missions throughout the world. 
cai, all of whom dwelt under the shadow of pal- We recur to it again, because we see increas- 
aces, to go through life as weeping pilgrims. ing evidence in Europe and America, that the 
The season of festivity to the Persian king and alliance, mentioned above, is beginning to Le 
nobles proved to one of the elect of God, who felt in the social and most intimate circles of 
sat at the king's gate, probably as an officer of society, and in the domain of common educa-
state, an hour of darkness. He had maintained tion in the form of public schools. That the 
an erect mien when a certain nobleman daily people of this country may become sensible of 
passed by. That proud lord was an Amalekite, what is going on, we allude to two or three 
and his fierce nature, kindling his passions things which have recently transpired. The 
through mortified pride, converted all his hon- only constitutional government on the continent 
ors, all his treasures, all his power, and all his of Europe is that of Piedmont. The whole 
splendor, into naught but bitterness and ashes. power of the Roman Catholic Church is brought 
What a picture of the lover of earth ! How to bear upon this government to crush it. By 
many there be—for their name is legion—who the laws of the State, marriage is a civil con-
cannot rest, cannot smile, cannot live in peace, tract, as in England and the United States, and 
until their vindictive pride sweep their course is under the protection of the State. This takes 
of every rival ! But Haman did not know that away from the Church one of her so called sa-
to put Mordecai out of the way he must put the eraments, and greatly reduces her power in the 
ONE he served aside, and paralyze the arm of family. In the extract below, from a Turin 
the Almighty. 
(Italy) paper, we see how the Church conducts 
His plan was, however, humanly speaking, herself towards the State. An American natur-
well laid, and promised all the success the ally asks the question, Will she not so con- 
bloodiest monster could have desired. The duct herself in the United States, if she should 
child of grace, notwithstanding, bowed himself ever obtain the power? But to the extract : 
in fasting and prayer that the counsels of the " The archbishop of Chambery, and the bish- 
crafty, cruel Amalekite might be defeated. The ops of Aosta, Tara ntasia, Moriana, and Annecy, 
Jewish race remaining in Persia, to the number, have followed the example of the high clergy of 
it is estimated, of seventeen thousand, were Piedmont, and published a declaration, which 
doomed to perish They had a representative in has been posted up in all the parishes under 
the palace itself. The fair daughter of the their jaiisdiction, iu which they condemn the 
Captivity, selected for her beauty and her grace, civil marriage bill as unconstitutional, immoral, 
323N 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
But the Church of St. Ursula is the place for 
relics ! It is a quaint old church, whitewashed 
within arid hung with very grotesque and an-
tique paintings on wood—of the History of the 
Virgin and her companions, and higher up 
around the walls, are glass cases of the legs and 
arms of the " Blessed Eleven Thousand," look-
ing in the distance and dim light like bundles 
of dried herbs and huge poppy heads in an In-
dian doctor's shop. In an inner chamber—the 
" Golden Chamber "—are preserved, as the 
guide books state, the mortal remains of St. Ur-
sula and a " select few." These " few " prove 
to be seven hundred and thirty skulls, arranged 
on shelves around the room, some reposing on 
velvet cushions, some in velvet caps, and all 
with a bit of tinsel or an artificial flower. There 
were many gilt and silver busts too, and some 
of carved wood, the crown of whose heads lifted 
off and revealed some precious skull in each, 
wrapped in a red silk handkerchief. Then 
there was a table spread out with various fancy 
boxes and cases, all containing relics. Two 
stiff silver casts of arms, containing St. Ursula's 
arm bones, stood erect like candlesticks, and a 
little glass cylinder held bits of her dress and 
linen. Quite a large box was filled with the 
" Eleven Thousand's" blessed teeth, which I 
first mistook for popped corn. Another box had 
Stephen the Martyr's bones ! When the old 
sexton came to this and to an alabaster vase, 
which he said had served at the marriage in 
Cana of Galilee, I could not take in any more, 
so we turned away, agreeing that we had seen 
marvels enough." 
Gospel Messenger. 
" The Iron Cross." 
In a city where remaineth 
Still the customs of gone time— 
One whose calm old age retaineth 
All the glory of its prime— 
Once my wayward footsteps wandered ; 
And, while gazing day by day, 
Oft my chastened spirit pondered 
On the ages passed away. 
Not with weak and vain lamenting 
O'er the splendor passed away,— 
For Time's hand, though unrelenting, 
Sheds a halo o'er decay : 
Calm, majestic, grand, yet holy, 
Rise old towers and temples grey, 
Far surpassing all the glory 
Of their youth-time, bright and gay. 
Little knew I of its hist'ry, 
But of legendary lore 
I had sought to read each myst'ry 
Handed down from days of yore ; 
And methought the garden's radiance 
Mocked the gloomy college walls, 
And the blossom's breeze-born fragrance 
Fainted in the dim old halls. 
All things real, all things present, 
Faded in the shadowy past, 
And with hosting step, incessant, 
Ancient sages gathered fast, 
Poets—painters—mythic teachers 
Of the power of human love, 
Mingled with the martyred preachers 
Whose calm hearts were set above. 
And great sculptors—those expounders 
Of each fleeting thought and mood— 
Knights and priests and kings and founders 
In a strange commingling stood. 
But the One great lesson, flowing 
From their teachings manifold, 
Still within my heart is growing, 
Nurtured with a love untold. 
* Near Mage.., 
" in Church, in the city of Oxford, 
stands the ma -'3'' Memorial," an exquisitely pro-
portioned monunent, 
a mpillar, seventy-three feet high, 
erected in 1841, 
`-lor of the martyrdom of the 
three Reformers—Cran,er
y
, Ridley, and Latimer. 
And in Broad suet, 
" 
abet. a hundred yards from the 
Memorial, a shall ir„, 
ross let into the ground, 
marks the very sot where those Christian heroes 
suffered. 
II 
Oh ! it was a grand old city : 
Domes, and towers, and cupolas—
Like we read in ancient ditty 
Of some country fabulous,—
There were sculptors old and hoary, 
Knights and warriors laid in state : 
And a solemn shadowy glory 
Streamed on pavements tessalate, 
Glanced o'er grotesque faces grim,—
Glean 'neath groined arches dim,— 
Fell from windows quaint and olden—
Ruby-tinted, blue, and golden. 
Since, awakened from the dreaming 
Which their influence o'er me cast, 
Now my busy brain is teeming 
With dear memories of the past ; 
Lt., of all its scenes of beauty, 
'le most oft doth meet my view, 
Lig-why up my path of duty 
' fresh impulse, strong and new,— 
oth dwell my heart the nearest, 
Fra`ht with counsel—wisest—dearest. 
Lo! a solemn monument, 
Calmly rising towards the skies, 
Tells, in language eloquent, 
Of the martyrs' victories : 
And, into the broad street turning, 
Seeking low, we find a cross,—
Hence-from rose the martyrs' burning—
Here was silver freed from dross,—
On this earth-stained cross so lowly 
Died three spirits, pure and holy. 
And not all the silent splendor 
Of this city famed of yore— 
Not its paintings sweet and tender, 
Nor its piles of sacred lore,— 
Not the sculptors laid in state, 
Nor the pavements tessalate,— 
Not its stained widows fair, 
Nor the carvings quaint and rare, 
Chain my heart and memory 
Like that voice that speaks to me 
From the clear and cross-crowned height 
Of the Martyrs' pillar bright. 
And the ivy-mantled towers, 
Arches dim, and fragrant flowers, 
Are not half so dear and holy 
As that iron cross so lowly—
Whence—like voices of the angels—
Ever soundeth life's evangels. 
EMMA S. MATHEWS. 
Bristol, May, 1852. 
Downfall of the Papacy. 
• 
In the Aug. number of the Protestant Maga-
zine there is a characteristic letter from the Rev. 
G. S. FABER, from which we give the follow-
ing passages. It will be seen that Mr. FABER 
supposes that the year 1864 will be an evenful 
one in the history of the Papacy. Mr. F. is a 
veteran student of Prophecy. No man in Eng-
land has written more than he on this great and 
exciting subject. But let us read his remarks 
on the signs of Rome's approaching downfall. 
American and Foreign Christian "Union. 
So far as respects the progress and grow-
ing insolence of Popery, the circumstance itself 
is only an indication that we now witness the 
last efforts of the irreclaimable monster. 
" Unless it experienced a considerable revival 
before its ultimate extinction at the close of the 
1260 years, I see not how prophecy could re-
ceive its due accomplishment. 
" In close alliance with the secular powers of 
the Apostate Empire, the Romish False Prophet, 
evidently in possession of great strength and 
influence, is finally consigned to utter destruc-
tion. (Rev. 19 : 19, 20.) 
" Now this could not be, unless the False 
Prophet, shortly before his destruction, had re-
acquired such an amount of domination as to 
make him an important and influential ally of 
the Roman Wild Beast, then acting under his 
sword-slain but revived Seventh Head : a domi-
nation, plainly enough, from the very terms of 
the prediction, extending over the banded kings 
of the Latin Earth, or World, no less than over 
their Feudal Imperial Chief. 
But such a re-acquisition of power and 
influence, on the part of the False Prophet, we 
not only see in actual progress, but we also be-
hold its occurrence about the very time when it 
might have been anticipated. Here, facts con-
cur with chronology. 
"We have much reason to believe, that the 
fated 1260 years will expire in the now rapidly 
approaching year 1864: and the recent porten-
tous growth of the Papal Power we may see 
with our own eyes. 
Nor are these two the exclusive signs of 
the times. 
"The principle of God's moral government 
appears to be, never to execute judgment in-
stantaneously, but to give the offenders ample 
time for repentance and reformation. Thus we 
read, that, in the days of Abraham, the Amo-
rites were still spared : and the reason assigned 
is, that their iniquity was not yet full. (Gen. 
15 : 16.) 
" Popery having been spared so long in its 
career of cruelty and idolatry, we may con-
clude, that the fulness of its iniquity had not as 
yet arrived. Nevertheless, when we now see 
such evident tokens, in the two points of facts 
and of chronology, that the time of its final ex-
tinction must be at hand, we are naturally led 
to ask, what that particular deed can be, by 
which its long-permitted iniquity is brought to 
the full, 
" Nor have we far to seek for an answer. The 
villainous principles and practice of Jesuitism 
were long since exposed by a member of the 
Church of Rome itself, the inimitable Pascal: 
but, though the Pope was ready enough to avail 
himself of the services of this unscrupulous Or-
der, still, on the part of the Romish Church 
there was no direct adoption of their principles; 
and their practice, in foreign missions, was more 
than once even reprehended. They at length 
became such a perfect and intolerable nuisance, 
that the Order was formally suppressed by the 
anti-social, and anti-Catholic, and declare, 1st, 
That every Catholic of their dioceses who shall 
dare to contract matrimony under a form differ-
ent from that prescribed by the Church, shall on 
that sole account incur excommunication in the 
highest degree ; 2.11y, That he shall be deprived 
of the sacraments during life and in the hour of 
death, unless he take the course of rehabilitat-
ing his matrimony canonically, or of sending 
away from his home the person whom the 
Church cannot consider as his wife ;' 3dly, That 
if he die without effecting his reconciliation 
with the Church, he shall be deprived of eccle-
siastical burial ; 4thly, That the offspring of 
such unions shall be considered illegitimate for 
all canonical purposes." 
Some years since the Roman Catholic Church 
in Europe commenced her opposition to the pub-
lic school system, which has been regarded the 
brightest star of the nineteenth century. Far 
from the centre of her authority and power, she 
acts slowly and cautiously. Hence, she began 
in the United States, by objecting to the Bible 
in the public schools, then proceeded to forbid 
the children of Roman Catholic families to at-
tend these schools, and now she unofficially at-
tacks the whole system, and will shortly be in 
open and professed hostility to it. As evidence 
of what we say, we quote from the Freeman's 
Journal, of New York, August 28. This Jour-
nal is known to speak the sentiments and fore-
shadow the policy of the Roman Catholic 
Church in the United States on Church ques-
tions. It is under the immediate influence of 
the Catholic Archbishop of New York. In an 
article in the number of August 2S, headed, 
" Who shall have the child ?" the Journal says, 
the simple qne,tion is, Whether Roman Catho-
lics shall send their children to their own schools 
or to the public schools, which are called, 
" Schools of the world and of the devil." Then 
come the following sentences, which the people 
of this country ought to read and ponder well : 
"Think of this you Catholics who even yet 
suffer your children to frequent schools against 
which the Successor of St. Peter has warned 
the Church ; and which the Bishops of this 
country, as well as of every other, have pro- 
nounced to be hostile to the faith. Think of 
this, and act on the thought quickly, or harsher 
epithets will be due you than those of sleepy 
Catholics, ignorant Catholics, stupid and short-
sighted Catholics. 
" Once more let us be up and doing. The 
work that is before us to do for ourselves, for 
sur children, and for our country, is perfectly 
Pain. Infidelity, if it triumph, will be the ruin 
of our country as well as the perdition of our 
children. But infidelity now reigns supreme in 
the State education of this country. What we 
Catholics must do, and must do now, is first to 
gee our own children out of this devouring fire. 
At any cost, at any sacrifice, we must deliver 
the 'hildren over whom we have control from 
thosenits of destruction which lie invitingly in 
their \Aly under the name of Public or District 
Schools. We must, wherever there are enough 
of Cathoics together to render it possible, or- 
ganize Cabolic-Parish schools. Where this is 
impossible, et parents withdraw their children 
from these Aces where they are certain to 
learn evil, andnrobably very little but evil, and, 
if they cannot 1"e them taught elsewhere, let 
them be set to ilnest labor, or kept from the 
ways of the destra .er under their parents' eyes. 
This withdrawal c Catholic children every-
where from the God'.ess schools should be the 
first step--it is lamen,ble that it has not long 
ago been taken. 
"Next we must set to %ark, patiently, calmly, 
resolutely, perseveringly, break off from our 
necks the yoke of State tspotism, put upon 
them by jacobins, in the sh.me of the school-
system in this and other State, This we can 
do if we will." 
Has the reader carefully note and consid-
ered the words " the work before s,—for our 
country ?" Has he carefully noted he closing 
words of the extract, which plainly d' are it is 
the purpose of the Roman Catholic Larch to 
destroy " the school system in this an, other 
States ?" Are the people of this countr,nre. 
pared for this ? Let this he accomplished,rnd 
the lights of the common people go out; td 
our missionary liberty as Protestant will soL 
thereafter be extinguished. 
Romish Reliques. 
A resident of this city has received a letter 
from a friend traveling in Europe. We are 
permitted to make the following extract, which 
may amuse and interest our readers :— 
" We left Coblentz at 8 o'clock this morning 
and had a short and dullish trip down to this 
city, (Cologne,) and have spent the remainder 
of the day in seeing its strange sights. The 
magnificent unfinished Cathedral, where among 
other treasures, are preserved the skulls of the 
three Magi Kings, who went to worship the in-
fant Saviour ! ! These three skulls are in, fact, 
crowned with pearls and enclosed in a richly 
gilt coffer inlaid with all sorts of precious stones. 
Pope himself, who, in recompense of the deed, 
is commonly, I believe, thought to have been 
poisoned. 
" But the vile principles of the dominant Or-
der did not become extinct. In our own days, 
they have been openly revived by the infamous 
Alphonsus Liguori : and to a systematized 
scheme of falsehood and dishonesty, he has ad-
ded a regular plan of conducting the confes-
sional, in a mode so grossly and even so beast-
ially obscene, that no decent controversialist 
would venture to cite it evidentially, if cite it at 
all, save in the disguise of the original Latin. 
" And now, relatively to this disgrace of 
humanity, what has been the conduct of the 
Church of Rome ? 
" Hitherto she was wont, as it might be con-
venient, to disclaim the speculations of any in-
dividual, or any body of individuals; and, so 
far at least, she was not, in her corporate capa-
city, formally a partaker in the guilt. But this 
prudent reserve is now at an end. Her entire 
approbation of Liguori has been publicly shown 
by the worse than ridiculous farce of his ca-
nonization : and, as if that were not sufficient, 
she has regularly declared, through her own 
constituted authorities, that, after a diligent pe-
rusal of the new Saint's very remarkable works, 
twenty times repeated, she fully approves, and 
thus makes her own theological property the 
whole of their contents. 
" Under such circumstances, she unblush-
ingly stands forth, in her own person, as the 
avowed patroness of systematized dishonesty and 
brutish obscenity : in the graphic language of 
prophecy, she openly appears the Mother of 
Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.' 
" How she can advance beyond this last step, 
it is not very easy to conceive. He that run-
neth may read, that her iniquity is now full. 
"Let this third note be added to her remark-
able recent progress and to the near termina-
tion of the 1260 years; and the devout student 
of prophecy will scarcely hesitate to pronounce 
that the predicted day of her final destruction is 
close at hand. 
" It must be admitted, that the germ of that 
immorality of falsehood, which has been brought 
to full maturity by Alphonsus Liguori and the 
Jesuits, appeared long before the present time, 
in the Sixteenth Canon of the reputed infallible 
Third Council of Lateran. 
" Oaths which are contrary to ecclesiastical 
utility, are not oaths, but perjuries. 
"In this Canon, ecclesiastical utility ' not 
being defined, it is obviously left to the authori- 
ties of the Romish Church to pronounce any-
thing which may cross their purposes contrary 
to ecclesiastical utility, whence, at their option, 
they may determine any oath that displeases 
them to be ipso facto null and void. 
" Such a regulation, no doubt, involves a prin-
ciple of convenient dishonesty. But still, this 
limited treachery prepense, in the first place, 
respects only what may be called theological 
questions ; arid, in the second place, no person 
is bound to take an oath of this description, 
when he is amorally sure beforehand that its va-
lidity would not be allowed by the Popish 
priesthood, as being contrary to what they 
deemed ecclesiastical utility. 
"For instance, when an oath to refrain from 
every attempt to injure or destroy the Church of 
England is imposed upon each Romanist as the 
condition on which he takes his seat in Parlia-
ment, he is not bound to take it; and as being 
quite sure that it is contrary to the Popish esti-
mate of ecclesiastical utility, he ought, as an 
honest man, decline any such perilous obliga-
tion. In willingly taking the oath, therefore, 
and afterwards in deliberately breaking it, he 
showed himself, on his own principles, to be 
doubly a knave. 
" Hence, it is only just to say, that, under 
the Sixteenth Canon of the Third Lateran, no 
person either born or elected to be a member of 
the Legislature, needs to be perjured, save by 
his own free and deliberate choice. To this ex-
tent, therefore, so far as that canon is concerned, 
we must admit Rome to be blameless ; for, in 
truth, by a fair construction of the words of the 
canon, she only cautions her members against 
taking any such oath, as must, on her princi-
ples, whether kept or broken, involve them in 
the guilt of perjury. The whole double-dyed 
rascality of taking such an oath and then break-
ing it, clearly appertains to the Honorable Gen• 
tleman who thus by his own free-will binds 
himself to the commission of inevitable perjury, 
however he may chose to act ; and on this very 
ground a really honest Romish gentleman, as I 
have been incredibly informed, broadly declared 
that Catholic emancipation left him as much 
excluded from Parliament as ever ; for if he 
took the oath he must inevitably be perjured, 
whether he kept it or broke it. 
" So much for the Sixteenth Canon of the 
Third Lateran. But no such explanation can 
serve the well-calculated and minutely-defined 
rascality of Alphonsus Liguori. in the ordi-
nary concerns of life, where there is no suspi-
cion and no warning, he elaborately teaches 
how falsehood and trickery between man and 
HARNIONICAL PHILOSOPHIC LOGIC. tions, is admitted ; and with,his admission the ques- 
tion is narrowed down to oy of mere repeal i. e., whe- 
Dbes or does not the Bible forbid, such manifesta- 
tions and practices as those claimed by the "Spirit- trier it be now binding. 
The first reason give why it was binding then, is 
ual rappers?" 
that that was an age revelations, and that the peo- 
f 
To justify themselves in attempting to communi- 
siven were chosen of GOD for 
ple to whom it wasp 
cate with the departed, they must either deny the 
hose revelations. This was evi- 
authenticity of the Scriptures, or deny that they pro- the depositories ootill ; 
for the surrounding nations 
dently not the re' 
hibit such communications. Accordingly a writer, 
reecause they did consult with familiar 
were destroyed' 
who signs himself " Didyrnus," in the piritual The-spirits, and ei resort to wizards and charmers, and 
graph, attempts to show that necromancy is not now d
ese abominations ; and none of those na-
prohibited. He commences with the proposition that dtii o n ds-o w alle e 
l favored with any special revelations, nor 
"'The Bible contains no passage condemnatory of were iy made the depositories of GOD'S revelations. 
these manifestations, but many which predict and are As iii,e prohibitions were equally binding on them, 
fulfilled by them." 
He adds : 
witHt being 'possessed of those peculiarities, as 
" It is undoubtedly very sincerely believed by many the were on the Jews with, it follows that those 
 
that the Bible is strong in its condemnation of these elditiees were not reasons why such a prohibition 
things. They understand Dent. 18:10, 11, as pro- gas binding on the Jews, and not on us. 
hibiting all intercourse with the dead. At least, / In addition to the above, the fact that the former 
have seen it in the public prints so quoted." 
inhabitants of the country were destroyed because 
To show the relevancy of this scripture we fie they practiced those abominations, shows that they 
it i,n W
fulhl 
full, 
nvizthou art come into the land wh'i the 
to
Jews, but were addressed to all. 
GOD declared them 
were not prohibitions addressed particularly to the 
after the abominations of those nations. 
Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt notrIcie s it
hasi(l) to be abominations, whether practiced by heathens or 
not be found among you, any one that matt'hh alt h
liussse(t)e by Jews. 
or his daughter to pass through the firen`. enchanter, The only enactments which have ceased to be 
divination, or an observer of times os 
operative, by the cessation of the reasons for their en- 
Ora witch, or a charmer, or a con ' ''I' with famil- 
iar spirits, or a wizard, or a necrc neer. For all actment, are those which either had only a national sig- 
that do these things are an ab ,ration 
the Lord
on unto the nificanee, or then typified future events, which having 
Lord : and because of these a n bEfore thee. Thou since transpired leave the types no longer significant. 
thy God doth drive them out ft' 
shalt be perfect with the Lossi God. For these Among those there was nothing of a moral charac- 
r 
nations, which thou shalt bs 's.ly ess hearkened unto ter. Whatever was abominable to GOD at one time, 
observers of times, and orts diviner : but as for thee, was so in all ages. Lying and stealing and necro- 
the L 
hee so to do. "- 
tnancy being alike abominable in the sight of GOD, 
Dent.or
1d8:t9h-y14G.od bath tit suffer° 
they alike continue to be prohibited by him. It may 
Didymus grants this the aboveicripture " did for- 
324 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
and two others with him, on either side one, and JE- bid the Jews from seeking unto those that had famil-
sus in the midst."-Jno. 19:16-18. As he thusdied iar spirits, or unto the dead." But he inquires, 
a reproachful death without the gate, to bring the " What then? Will it follow that it is wrong for 
people to GoD, 
us to receive communications from glorified spirits if 
V. 13-" Let is go forth therefore to him without the camp, bear-
ing his reproach.", 
The early followers of CHRIST rejoiced " that they 
were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name " 
-Acts 5:41. They suffered shame because they 
would not partake of the Jewish sacrifices. For this forbidden it. And even Didymus anticipates the ob- 
: 
cause they were " punished oft in every synagogue jection thus 
 
man may be most advantageously practised, 
and how far cheating and stealing on the part 
of tradesmen and servants may be venially car-
ried on without incurring mortal sin. 
" The whole of this system of scoundrelism 
the Roman Church has now formally made her 
own ; and at the same time, she has no less 
formally given her infallible sanction to the 
monstrous obscenity propounded by Liguori, 
and by him recommended to the practical adop-
tion of the priests, and in conducting the vile 
mysteries of the confessional. 
" Some most awful disclosures of the work-
ing of this Mystery of Iniquity ' are given in 
a small pamphlet recently published by Mr. 
Connelly, in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 
under the title of Reasons for Abjuring Alle- 
giance to the See of Rome.' This gentleman, 
under the not uncommon delusion of the neces-
sity of an infallible judge of doctrine, found no 
difficulty in receiving all the dogmatism of 
Popery ; but when its shameless dishonesty and 
gross immorality, now made the Church's own 
property, were revealed to him, he rightly judged 
that, although points dogmatical might admit of 
eintroversy, points moral could allow no dis- 
pute ; and the happy result was, a secession 
from the incurably depraved Church of the 
Apostasy. 
" To conclude : if such an utter abandonment 
of all moral obligation as that inculcated by 
Liguori and the Jesuits ; an abandonment now 
formally adopted by the Church of Rome, after 
a perusal of the *Saint's instructive writings 
twenty times repeated, amusingly enough a pre- 
cise double of the Decies repetita placebit ; if, I 
say, such a shameless abandonment does not 
prove that the Iniquity of Popery is full, it is 
hard to pronounce what ulterior drop can be ad-
ded to the cup of the Harlot's abominations and 
filthiness." 
e[lie 2truent Acratb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, OCT: 9, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may he hon-
ored and his truth advanced ; also, that it slay 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, unbrotherly disputation. 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
cEIAPTEIt XIII. 
(Continued from the Herald of Sept. 2515.) 
7. DIVERS AND STRANGE DOCTRINES. 
V. 9-" Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines : 
for it is n good thing for the heart to he established with grace ; not 
with meats, which have not benefited those, who have been busied 
with them." 
and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the 
firstling of your herds, and of your flocks : and there 
ye shall eat before the LORD your Gon, and ye shall 
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your 
households, wherein the LORD thy GOD hath blessed 
thee."-Deut. 12:5-7. Some of the Jewish zealots 
would have adhered to these, and they condemned 
those who refrained from them. And so PAUL writes 
to the Colossians : " Let no man therefore judge you 
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, 
or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which 
are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of 
CHRIST."-Col. 2:16, 17. These did not profit those 
who were occupied therein, " for the law having a 
shadow of good things to come, and not the very 
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices 
which they offered year by year continually, make 
the corners thereunto pertect."-Heb. 10:1. " For 
the kingdom of Gon is not meat and drink, but right-
eousness, anti peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."- 
Rom. 14:17. These were no longer to be observed ; 
they were superseded by " a better covenant, which 
was established upon better promises."-Heb. 8:6 
Therefore PAUL adds : 
8. THE CHRISTIAN ALTAR. 
V.10--" We have an altar, from which those, who serve the tab-
ernacle, have no right to eat." 
The " altar," is a metonymical expression for the 
sacrifices offered on it of which those who served the 
tabernacle partook. " Behold Israel after the flesh : 
are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of 
the altar?"-1 Cor. 10:18. As those offerings ty-
pified good things to come, longer to observe them 
was to deny that the things which they typified had 
come. As those who served the tabernacle, thus 
denied the Christian sacrifice they could not partake 
of the Christian altar, which was done by feeding on 
the emblems of CHRIST'S broken body and shed 
blood. " The cup of blessing which we bless, is it 
not the communion of the blood of CHRIST The 
bread which we break, is it not the communion of the 
body of CHRIST! For we being many are one bread, 
and one body : for we are all partakers of that one 
bread."-1 Cor. 10:16, 17. " For 1 have received 
of the LORD, that which also I delivered unto you, 
That the LORD JESUS, in the same night in which he 
was betrayed, took bread : and when he had given 
thanks, lie brake it, and said, Take, eat : this is my 
body, which is broken for you : this do in remem-
brance of me. After the same manner he also took 
the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the 
new testament in my blood : this do ye, as often as 
ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as 
ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show 
the Loan's death till he come."-Ib. 11:23-26. This 
was instituted by the SAVIOUR, who " took bread, 
and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the dis-
ciples, and said, Take, eat ; this is my body. And 
he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to 
them, saying, Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood 
of the new testament, which is shed for many for the 
remission of sins."-Matt. 26:26-28. Those who 
partook of meats offered on heathen altars, also ex-
cluded CHRIST, and therefore could not worthily par-
take of the Christian altar. " What say I then? 
that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in 
sacrifice to idols is anything ? But I say, that the 
things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to 
devils and not to God : and I would not that ye 
should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink 
the cup of the LORD, and the cup of devils : ye can-
not be partakers of the LORD'S table, and of the table 
of devils."-1 Cor. 10:19-21. 
While the meats offered in certain sacrifices were 
eaten by the offerers, yet the flesh of the sin-offering 
might no man eat : 
V. it-" For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought 
into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without 
the camp." 
The law commanded that no " sin-offering, where-
of any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of 
the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy 
place, shall be eaten : it shall be burned in the fire." 
-Lev. 6:30. " The skin of the bullock, and all his 
flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his in-
wards, and his dung ; even the whole bullock shall 
he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, 
where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the 
wood with fire : where the ashes are poured out shall 
he be burnt."-Ile 4:11, 12. " And the bullock for 
the sin-offering, and the goat for the sin-offering, 
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the 
holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp ; 
and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their 
flesh, and their dung."-Ib. 16:27. 
V. 12-" Therefore Jesus also, that he might make atonement for 
the people with his own blood, antlered without the gate." 
The sin-offering which in the wilderness, was 
burned without the camp, was, when the temple was 
located in Jerusalem carried " without the gate of 
the city "-hence the change in the form of expres-
sion. Therefore when JESUS was to suffer, they " led 
him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into 
a place called the place of a skull, which is called in 
the Hebrew, Golgotha : where they crucified him, 
and compelled to blaspheme," and they were " per-
secuted even unto strange cities."-Ib. 26:11. But 
like MOSES, they chose " rather to suffer affliction 
with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures 
of sin for a season ; esteeming the reproach of CHRIST 
greater riches than the treasures in Egypt : for he 
had respect unto the recompense of the reward."-
Heb. 11:25, 26. PETER said : " Beloved, think it 
not strange, concerning the fiery trial which is to 
try you, as though some strange thing happened unto 
you : but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of 
CitaisT's sufferings ; that, when his glory shall be 
revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If 
ye be reproached for the name of CHRIST, happy are 
ye ; for the Spirit of glory and of Gon resteth upon 
you. On their part he is evil spokon of, but on your 
part he is glorified. But let none of you stiffer as a 
murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a 
busy-body in other men's matters. Yet if any man stif-
fer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed ; but let him 
glorify Gon on this behalf."-1 Pet. 4:12-16. And 
the SAVIOUR has said : " Blessed are they who are 
persecuted for righteousness' sake : for theirs is the 
kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall 
revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all man-
ner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, 
and be exceeding glad : for great is your reward in 
heaven : for so persecuted they the prophets which 
were before you."-Matt. 5:10-12. 
V. 14-" For here we have no continuing, city, but we seek one 
to come." 
" They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem 
with iniquity."-Micah 3:10. " For our conver-
sation," i. e., our citizenship " is in heaven ; from 
whence we also look for the SAVIOUR, the Lord JE-
SUS CHRIST : who shall change our vile body, that it 
may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, accord-
ing to the working whereby he is able even to sub-
due all things unto himself."-Phil. 3:20, 21. Gon 
" bath raised us up together, and made us sit to-
gether in heavenly places, in CHRIST JESUS : that in 
the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches 
of his grace in his kindness toward us, through 
CHRIST JESUS."-Eph. 2:6, 7. Thus ABRAHAM" so-
journed in the land of promise, as in a strange coun-
try, dwelling in tabernacles Wilh ISAAC and JACOB, 
the heirs with him of the same promise : for he 
looked for a city which bath foundations, whose 
builder and maker is GOD."-Heb. 11:9, 10. These 
and the other worthies " all died in faith, not having 
received the promises, but having seen them afar 
off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, 
and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims 
on the earth " (lb. v. 13,) desiring " a better coun-
try, that is, an heavenly : wherefore GOD is not 
ashamed to be called their Gon : for he hath prepared 
for them a city."-16. v. 16.-(To be continued.) 
Gon pleases to grant them ?" 
This last interrogation is perfectly useless,-the 
question at issue not being whether it is right to do 
what Goy sanctions, but whether GOD has, or has not 
" But God would not grant what he has forbid-
den ; and, therefore, these things cannot be a grant 
from heaven ; if there is anything superhuman in 
them, they must be from the evil one. This is sound 
logic, and I think the following equally sound ; if 
God has permitted glorified spirits to communicate 
with their friends on earth, he has not forbidden it, 
and those who apply this passage to these things mis-
apprehend its spiritual design . . . . But let us look 
a little more closely into the bearing of this passage 
upon spiritual manifestations. The question is not, 
did it forbid the Jews from seeking unto the dead ; 
but does it forbid its from receiving communications 
from disembodied spirits? I am not one of those who 
suppose, simply because a precept was given to the 
Jews, that therefore it is not binding upon us ; for 
that would do away with the greater part of the Old 
Testament. Nor do I believe, because a precept is 
found in their law, that, therefore, it is binding upon 
us. For then I should not dare to eat swine's 
flesh, nor leavened bread on certain days, nor to do 
many other things which I in common with all Chris-
tians am in the daily habit of doing. We are to 
look into the moral reasons of those laws, and if they 
are now the same as then, they are binding upon us. 
If not, they have passed away as contrary to us,' 
and are of no more force. The bulk of the Jewish 
law has ceased to be of force, not by direct repeal, but 
by the cessation of the reasons for its enactment. The 
question then recurs, What were the reasons of this 
command ? And are these reasons existing with us ? 
If not, the law has passed away. We may not be 
able to develop all the reasons of that law, but we 
think the following are plain : 1. The age in which 
this command was given, was an age of revelations ; 
and the people to whom it was giver, the people 
chosen to he its depositories ; during the continuance 
of this age God dwelt sensibly among them ; and could 
be directly appealed to on all questions, mid answers 
received by Urim, and Thummim, and Prophets. 
There was, therefore, no need of communications 
from the disembodied, yet finite. The infinite was 
there, speaking through the mouths of the prophets, 
the breast-plate of the High Priest, and from between 
the wings of the cherubim. 2. The people had as 
almost unconquerable tendency to idolatry. This in 
written upon almost every page of their history. And 
notwithstanding all the demonstrations of the supreme 
godhead and power of Jehovah, how often did they 
forsake him, and go in pursuit of other gods ? This 
tendency was so strong that God even hid the botY 
of Moses, lest his bones should be deified by than. 
Is it likely that, in a people so given to this come 
all the wonders of Jehovah wrought among .1iem 
could not restrain them from it, they could have been 
restrained front paying supreme homage to glorified 
spirits, had they been sent to communicate ming 
them? It seems to me the character of that peiple 
was such, as we gather it from their history, that 
such manifestations would have completely d,leated 
their object, and instead of leading them .0 God 
would have led them farther away from hiA• God 
fully understood this, and therefore, 3. Vould not 
allow good spirits to communicate with tiern • 
And 
hence if they had any spiritual cornmuesations, they 
would be from wicked, lying spirits, syled in Scrip-
ture 
familiar spirits ' 
How tnrcibl,then, the rea-
sons for this command upon them, ,id how evident 
that it is wholly inapplicable to us; 
onimunica Of 
It cannot follow that if the fire position is sound, 
the other is also ; for the secodsiiss,uch c 
the converse 
 
the first. That GoD has 
forb,ten 
These are variously rendered, mixed, or foreign 
doctrines, such as are new to those who promulgate 
them, and are sustained by no apostolical authority. 
" Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the 
spirits whether they are of GOD : because many fake 
prophets are gone out into the world."-1 Jim. 4:1. 
" That we henceforth be no more children, tossed 
to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doc-
trine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, 
whereby they lie in wait to deceive."-Eph. 4:14. 
" Let no man deceive you with vain words : for he-
cause of these. things cometh the wrath."-1b. 5:6. 
" Arid this I say, lest any man should beguile you 
with enticing words. . . . As we have therefore re-
ceived CHRIST JESUS the LORD, so walk ye in him : 
rooted and built up in hies, and stablished in the 
faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with 
thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through 
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, 
after the rudiments of the world, and wafter CHRIST. 
For in hint dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead 
bodily."-Col. 2:4, 6-2. 
Some of the doctrines which PAUL alludes to more 
directly, are those pertaining to the Jewish rites, 
which though entirely superseded, some of the Chris-
tians were disposed to adhere to. Those he terms 
meats-i. e., those offered on Jewish altars, which 
are contrasted with the grace, i. e., the doctrine of 
the gospel. Those who offered Jewish sacrifices 
were permitted to eat of some of the meats offered. 
" And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings 
for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it 
is offered ; he shall not leave any of it until the morn-
ing."-Lev. 7:15. " Unto the place which the LORD 
your GOD shall choose out of all your tribes to put 
his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye 
seek, and thither thou shalt come : and thither ye 
shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, 
and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-Awsisseffikssirsamstmoss,"
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MASSACHUSETTS SECTIONAL CONFERENCE.—A Con-
ference will be held at Haverhill, Mass., commencing Octo- 
ber 19th, at 10 A. M. (Far the brethren.) L. OSL ER. 
be objected to the foregoing, that the penalties for 
the commission of penal offences were greater then 
than now. That is true. Necromancy was then 
punishable with death, and we have no reason to sup-
pose that GOD requires us thus now to punish. But 
while the punishment being made lighter for other 
offences, does not make them any the less heinous 
in the sight of GOD, it does not follow that this is 
less an abomination now than then. 
The second reason advanced for supposing it was 
prohibited only to the Jews, is the proneness of the 
people in that age to idolatry. 
To this we reply that the idolatry of that age took 
this precise direction. " All Pagan antiquity affirms," 
says Dr. CAMPBELL " that from TITAN and SATURN, 
the poetic progeny of CcsLus and TERRA, down to 
IESCULAPIUS PROTEUS, and MINos, all their divinities 
were the ghosts of dead men ; and were so regarded 
by the most erudite of the Pagans themselves." The 
familiar spirits which they consulted, they consulted 
as their gods, instead of worshipping JEHOVAH.—
They sacrificed to demons and not to GOD. They 
sacrified to demons in preference to GOD, because 
they would not recognize GOD ; and one great reason 
why they knew not GOD was because they substi-
tuted the worship of demons for that of Him. 
As the prevalence of and tendency to idolatry in 
that age, was a prevalence of and a tendency to these 
very manifestations ; it follows that if that was a 
reason for its prohibition then, that the same reason 
exists for its prohibition now. And the greater the 
tendency, so much greater would be the obligation 
to have no fellowship with it,—it being a fellowship 
with demons, which GOD hates. PAUL testifies that 
" The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sa-
crifice to demons, and not to GOD :" and he adds, " I 
would not that ye should have fellowship with de-
mons. Ye cannot drink the cup of the LORD and the 
cup of demons ; ye cannot be partakers of the LORD'S 
table, and of the table of demons." 
At the present day we find the prevalence of these 
manifestations, cause the receivers of them to speak 
disparagingly of the GOD of the Bible. They often 
refer to him as a hard, cruel, capricious Being (A. 
J. Davis) ; and as they are thus led away from GOD 
now, the very reason which then existed, exists now 
for the prohibition of necromantic and pythonic prac-
tices. And thus the third reason, that GoD would 
not let good spirits communicate, is still in force ; so 
that if there are any communications, they are from 
" familiar " " unclean " or " lying spirits " 
THE GODS OF THE SPIRITUAL RAPPERS. 
" If the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him." 
—I Kings 18:21. 
At a meeting at the Melodeon, in this city, one 
Sunday in August last, according to the Spiritual 
Telegraph of Sept. 4th, ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS 
preached to a large audience. Mr. A. J. DAVIS is 
one of the more prominent of the new school ; and 
where does the reader suppose he took his text ? In 
the Gospels ? or Epistles ? In the Law ? or the Proph-
ets? In the Old Testament ! or in the New ? Nay, 
dear reader, do not suppose that so antiquated a book 
as the Bible, would afford a text fur the new the-
ology ! He took his text from Shakspeare ! and spoke 
from these words : " All the world's a stage." 
His object was to prove a future existence, which 
he thought the " old theology " i. e., the Bible, 
" had never satisfactorily done." " He was im-
pressed to say, that the world, so far as it has be-
come good or Christianized, is altogether indebted for 
the same to philosophical developments, scientific dis-
coveries, music, and painting, in spite of the skillful 
preaching of theologians for the past 1800 years." 
Thus the Bible he entirely ignores. " The most 
popular theological idea of GOD, he said, made him 
a fiendish monster." The" Quaker God " he thought 
was a different idea ; the " Universalist God," was 
" a more heavenly character still ;" but his idea of 
the true GOD is these spiritual rappings. 
In a review of Dr. BUSHNELL DAVIS speaks of the 
Scriptures, as " the paper and in/c relics of Christi-
anity " p. 21 ; and he there speaks of GOD as, " the 
cruel and capricious God, generally worshipped by 
Bible Christians."—p. 47. " The Jewish Goo," 
he says, " is cruel, capricious, and tyrannical," 
whose " kingdom is more despotic and more con-
tracted in principle, than the present government of 
the Russian empire."—p. 61. He adds : " The Old 
Testament idea of a Deity, is the outgrowth of the 
despotic stage of human mental development," and 
" a superannuated monotistic conception."—p. 62. 
Thus rejecting the Goo of the Bible, there remain 
only the demons which the heathen worshipped, for 
Mr. DAVIS and those who believe with him, to re-
ceive for their gods. These are what the " Harmo-
nial Philosophers " would substitute for the GOD of 
the Bible ! Is it possible that we live in a Christian 
country ; and that such worshippers in it pass for 
Christian teachers? 
When our holy religion is undermined by such 
blasphemies, and men and women by hundreds and 
thousands are embracing such Pagan views, need we 
wonder that Christians are alarmed at the prevalence 
of such teachings. 
Definition of Bible Names. 
Elijah the Tishbite—Signification—God the Lord, 
that turns back. 
Ahab—The brother of the father. 
Gilead—The heap, or mass of testimony. 
Cherith—Cutting, piercing, slaying. 
Jordan—River of judgment. 
Zarephath—Ambush, or crucible. 
Zidon—Hunting, fishing. 
Samaria—His lees, his prison, his throne. 
Obadiah—Servant of the Lord. 
Jezebel—Island or dung-hill of habitation. 
Carmel—Harvest or vineyard of God. 
Baal—He that rules or subdues. 
Jezreel—Seed of God, God spreads the evil.. 
Beer-sheba—The well-fountain of the oath, or well 
of satiety. 
Horeb—Desert, solitude, destruction, dryness. 
Damascus—A sack full of blood. 
John—He that is, or exists. 
Elisha—Salvation of God. 
Shaphat—Judge, or judging. 
Ben-hadad—Son of noise, clamor, or cry. 
Syria—Sublime deceiver. 
Gilgal—W reek, revolution, or heap. 
Bethel—House of God. 
Jericho—His moon, or month. 
A MISSIONARY'S DESCRIPTION OF NEW 
MEXICO. 
At the Baptist Missionary Convention, held at 
Cleveland, a statement was made by Rev. Mr. REED, 
who had been in New Mexico three years as a mis-
sionary. His account will be found interesting. 
He left three years ago last April, with his wife, 
as a missionary to California. After meeting with 
the many hardships, trials, fatigues and sufferings—
surmounting the ten thousand obstacles which at that 
time obstructed his path, he reached Santa Fe, New 
Mexico. Upon his arrival he was visited by the 
chief men and women of that city, and was sent for 
by the commander of the United States troops sta-
tioned there, to visit him, who held out all the induce-
ments possible for him to remain there and labor in 
that wide-spread field. After taking everything into 
consideration, and finding that the road there termi-
nated, he concluded to remain, as it was totally im-
possible for him to go on at that time. 
He found there some 6,000 Mexicans who had 
never heard a gospel sermon. There were numbers 
of American traders there, and a host of gamblers. 
The state of society was most deplorable and alarm-
ing. It does not materially differ from the society of 
some of the other heathen territories. Ignorance, 
superstition and idolatry were prevalent in such a de-
gree as he had never before heard of in any uncivil-
ized country. There never had been a school-house 
or institution of learning of any kind for the instruc-
tion of the youth, neither were there any school-books 
of any description. 
He remembered while in Boston, of hearing a gen-
tleman assert that there was not more than one of 
every three persons in New Mexico that could read, 
but he could tell him with equal truthfulness, there 
was not one out of three hundred that could read a 
single word, or tell their own age. It was lamenta-
ble and deplorable, but such was the fact. 
The population of New Mexico is divided into 
three classes. There are about 100,000 Mexicans, 
200,000 Indians, and a few Americans. The Indians 
were like other tribes, uncivilized and warlike. He 
had had conversations with the chiefs of the tribes, 
who expressed a willingness to be ruled by their 
great father, the President. He also found they 
were not destitute of religion. They believe in a 
Great Spirit, and expect when they die to enter a 
beautiful paradise, where there are wide plains, large 
forests anti hunting grounds, and beautiful lakes and 
rivers adorned by everything that is lovely in nature. 
For this reason they bury with their dead their hunt 
inn and fishing, implements, thinking they will be 
wanted in their pilgrimage in the land beyond the 
skies. 
THE DARK DAY OF MAY 19, 1780. 
A friend recently placed in our hands a letter, writ-
ten more than seventy years ago by Dr. CALEB G. 
ADAMS, of Exeter, N. H., to General NATHANIEL 
FOLSOM, of that town, who was at the time a member 
of the Provincial Congress at Philadelphia. In the 
following passage, that well-known'phenomenon, the 
" Dark Day," which spread alarm, and in some•cases, 
consternation through this part of the country, is de-
scribed, with details which must prove deeply inter-
esting to many of oils readers. The letter is dated 
Exeter, May 27, 1780: 
Boston Journal. 
* * * " We had a very extraordinary phe- 
nomenon the 19th day of this month. In the morn-
ing it was rainy, till about nine o'clock, when the 
clouds broke away and the sun appeared, but very red. 
-•' 
After nine the clouds grew very thick, with the wind 
from southwest, in light breezes ; at half past ten it 
was uncommonly dark, the clouds appearing of a yel-
lowish hue. At eleven the public school was dis-
missed, it being so dark that no person could read or 
write. It continued to grow darker till twelve, when 
it was so dark that we could not tell one person from 
another in a room with three large windows. In 
short, it was midnight darkness at noon-day ! The 
fowls went to roost, and there was a strong smell of 
smoke. It had been very dry for a long time before, 
the wind having been at east for four or five days, 
which drove the smoke back to the westward, and 
when the wind shifted it brought it all down in a 
body, which, together with the dense clouds, caused 
the darkness, which lasted till three o'clock P. ar. be-
fore it begun to grow light." 
" Thousands of people who could not account for it 
from natural causes, were greatly terrified, and in-
deed it cast a universal gloom on the earth. The 
frogs and night-hawks began their notes. At four 
o'clock the wind shifted to the north-east, which 
brought the clouds back, and at sunset it was again 
very dark. At nine o'clock it was darkness to be felt 
by more senses than one, as there was a strong smell of 
soot. Almost everybody who happened to be out in 
the evening got lost in going home. The darkness 
was as uncommon in the night as it was in the day, 
as the moon had fulled the day before." 
Mohammedanism in Western Africa. 
A French resident upon the Cazamance, in West-
ern Africa, states that since 1830 a religious war has 
been raging, in which time Futa-Djalos, at the insti-
gation of the Mohammedan Mandingoes, have en-
slaved the heathenish Mandingoes, and intend to ex-
tend the area of their kingdom to the sea. They 
have sent requisitions of tribute to several trading-
houses in the country. The whole region was ap-
palled at the rumors of their terrible valor. At first 
the heathenish Mandingoes sought to make a stand 
against the onset ; but they were scattered by the 
Futa-Djalos, who retain possession of the whole Man-
dingo country, excepting a few villages near the 
French fort Sedhiou. Before their arrival, no Mo-
hammedan village was palisaded or defended. The 
pagan inhabitants of any district had generally only 
one or two family names, which were universal. 
Among the Mohammedan inhabitants, each had his 
peculiar family name ; so that, apparently, the coun-
try was inhabited by many families under one head, 
and did not extend—while the Mohammedan religion 
was recruited by numbers attracted to trade for amu-
lets, &c., of the Mohammedan faith. Thus they in-
creased and extended, and this is the general method 
of the advance of Mahomet's religion in the interior 
of Africa. The Futa-Djalos have been long of that 
faith, and are now masters of all their fellow-believers. 
They have extended the villages of the true faith, and 
destroyed those of the heathen. Upon the banks of 
the San Domingo Rio Gela there are multitudes of 
Mohammedans, but depending upon the Sanniques or 
Pagans. Yet all the people brought in contact with 
the Mandingoes, gradually assume their customs and 
language, arid are finally entirely mingled with them. 
So the nation accumulates its numbers at the expense 
of the neighboring tribes, and so the faith spreads. 
It is noticeable that this faith is propagated by ava-
rice, and not by a desire of proselytism. The Futa-
Djalos were attracted by the hope of plunder, and 
threatened, unless the orthodox Mandingoes paid 
heavy tribute, to desert to the heathen. If Moham-
medanism has benefitted religion here, it is less by 
any direct influence, than by the advanced civilization 
which accompanies it. The trading Mandingoes push 
in among the Pagans wherever they can make a bar- 
gain. 
N. Y. Tribune. 
Not in My Seat. 
" I shall not be in my seat in church to-morrow," 
said a brother lying on a sick-bed to his pastor who 
visited him on Saturday ; and he added, " what a 
privation !" Ah, thought the pastor, if all the mem-
bers of the church only appreciated the ordinances of 
GoD's house as does this afflicted brother, what en-
couragement there would be to preach the Word ! 
Then he would never say despondingly, " Who bath 
believed our report ?" Alas ! that in this land of 
precious privileges there should be so few who can 
say with the devout Psalmist, " One day in thy courts 
is better than a thousand !" Religion must indeed 
be in a very low state in the hearts of those who can 
rarely find time to attend the weekly services of the 
sanctuary, and who are constantly prevented by tri-
fling obstacles, or by a vain curiosity to hear sonic 
new thing, from being in their!place on the LORD'S 
day ; or who feel that when they have attended once, 
they may be excused from the duty of going a second 
time. How little there is in such a heart that indi-
cates preparation for the constant, delightful service 
of GOD in heaven ! How beautifully the revival of 
true religion is exhibited by the prophet Isaiah, when, 
looking forward to the latter day, he represents many 
people as saying one to another, " Come ye, and let 
us go up to the mountain of the Loan, to the house of 
the GOD of JACOB; and he will teach us of his ways, 
and we will walk in his paths." 
Presbyterian of the West • 
How Quick Passages are Made. 
The following professes to come from a passenger 
by the Pacific on her last trip from Liverpool : 
In order to make the shortest passage that was 
ever made on the great circle,' Capt. NYE took the 
northern route, and run as far north as 52 degrees ; 
he relaxed nothing in his speed when enveloped in 
those fogs off Newfoundland, which must be seen to 
be appreciated. They are like the thick black smoke 
of a furnace. He ran so close to Cape Broyle that 
he crushed to pieces with his wheels a boat and its 
crew, who were fishing in fancied security ; and just 
as he was going bows on ' to those rocks, hundreds 
of feet in height, and thirty fathoms of water at their 
base, a sudden cry of Stop the engine—starboard 
your helm—hard a-starboard !' was all that saved the 
Pacific and her passengers from instantaneous contact 
with a rock five hundred feet in height ; and when 
the helm was put a-starboard, and the bows cleared 
the fearful barrier by a sudden sheer, the hull of that 
immense ship swept, with power that made one gid-
dy, within ten feet of the precipitous rock—and the 
most timid, as well as the boldest, held his breath 
for a time.' " 
The following extracts are taken from the Cate-
chism of the Council of Trent : 
" The voice of the priest, who is legitimately con-
stituted a minister for the remission of sins, is to be 
heard as that of CHRIST himself, who said to the 
lame man, ' Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are tor-
given thee.' "—p. 180. 
" The form of absolution is this, I absolve thee." 
—p. 181. 
Unlike the authority given to the priests of the 
old law, to declare the leper cleansed from his lep-
rosy, the power with which the priests of the new 
low are invested is not simply to declare that sins are 
forgiven ; but as the ministers of Gon really to ab-
solve from sin."—p. 182. 
" The penitent must submit himself to the judg-
ment of the priest, who is the vicegerent of GOD." 
—p. 183. 
BRO. HIMES :—I would be very glad to know your 
views on vs. 1 and 2 of the 32d chapter of Isaiah. 
The question arises in my mind, Shall we need 
Christ as a hiding place from the winds, and a covert 
from the tempest, when he comes to reign ? And 
what must we understand by princes ruling in judg-
ment? In giving your opinion upon these verses, 
you will confer a great favor upon D. V. 
Chicopee, Sept. 28th, 1852. 
Ares.—We regard those expressions as similes, 
teaching the entire absence of anything to hurt or 
destroy in all GOD'S holy mountain. 
NOISY CHRISTIANS.—Uncle Jack, a colored divine, 
said to his hearers, '• You noisy Christians remind 
me of the little branches after a heavy rain. They 
are soon full, then the noise, and as soon empty. I 
had a great deal rather see you like the broad river, 
which is quiet because it is broad arid deep." Again 
he said, " When the wind blows hard, the dry leaves 
make a great deal more noise than the green ones." 
" The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment.—Job 
20:5. 
TELEGRAPH FIRE-ALARMS.—A beautiful and wonder-. 
ful system of fire-alarms has been invented and put in opera-
tion in Boston. The city is divided into seven fire-districts, 
and numerous signal stations are provided, from each of 
which telegraphic wires extend to the city buildings. At 
each of these stations is a small cast-iron box placed on the 
side of a building, the key of which is kept by a responsible 
person near by. When a Sae occurs, the crank in the box is 
turned, and instantly the intelligence and precise locality is 
registered in the city buildings, when the operator there, by 
the same wonderfull agency, strikes all the nineteen bells in 
the alarm circuit. It seldom requires a m;nute to convey the 
alarm of fire to the centre, and fimn there to the circumfe-
rence of the city ; and with the same facility notice is given 
that the fire is out. By the same means, a person in any part 
of the city can ascertain the number of the station in any 
district from which the alarms proceeds, and can thus know 
the position of the fire within fifty rods. 
A SINGING MOUSE.—A family having rooms in the 
American Hotel, lately left town for a few weeks. On their 
return, they found that a mouse was in the habit of con-
stantly visiting the cage of a canary bird which had been left 
in the room during their absence, having taken the opportu-
nity of forming the acquaintance during the unusual stillness 
of tile apartment. To the surprise of the members of the 
family, it was soon discovered that the moose had taken les-
sons in singing of its musical friend, and would constantly 
give forth notes .in exart imitation of the canary's tones, but 
low and sweet. The little creature now nightly visits the 
cage, eats of the seed, and endeavors by its singing to excite 
the attention and call forth the notes of the bird.—Buffalo 
Commercial. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
genealogy before him is " spoken of on account of 
faith." " By faith Enoch was translated, that he 
should not see death." It would seem from this 
text, that " faith " was both the reason for, and the 
direct cause of his translation. It was no easy thing 
to believe God in the midst of the infidelity of those 
times, without a single companion, at least so far as 
the Bible informs us. His faith therefore rendered 
him worthy of this distinguished privilege, hut it also 
ENOCH'S TRANSLATION—A SERMON 
seems clear, that he had faith in respect to this speci-
fic thing. As the faith of Abel related to his offer-
ings, the faith of Noah related to the necessity of 
" By faith Enoch was translated, that he should preparing an ark, and the faith of Abraham to his 
not see death ; arid was not found, because God had going out into a strange land ; and as the same form 
translated him : for before his translation he had this of expression is used—" by faith Enoch was trans- 
testimony, that he pleased God."—Heb. 11:5. lated," it would seem that Enoch's faith was not 
The only authentic record of the antediluvian age, only general, but that it related specifically to his 
which has come down to our times, is that which is translation, as much as the faith of those just named, 
contained in the Holy Scriptures ; and these only related to the subjects specified. 
contain the briefest outlines of biography, and the On another point, this position will be further illus- 
most meagre sketches of history. 
trated. 
For a thousand years from creation, we have 3. Enoch " pleased God."—When we consider 
scarcely the name and deeds of one to a century, the holiness of the Divine character, we are impressed 
placed on record, while the pages of post-diluvian with the exalted tone of piety in Enoch which led Je-
history sacred and profane, are loaded with the re- hovah to furnish him with the " testimony that he 
cords of noted characters, and great and important pleased God." 
events. 
How this testimony was given we are not in- 
We look back therefore to the era before the flood, formed ; whether by open revelation or by the " wit-
as into a land of darkness, illuminated by four great ness of the Spirit," no matter indeed—it was a reality 
lights ; where the poetic conception of John can al- to Enoch. How it must have sustained him in the 
most be realized—" a land of darkness . . . without midst of abounding wickedness and persecution to 
any order, and where light is as darkness." have been assured that God was pleased with him. 
By the aid, however, of the Bible we are able to Those who are seeking happiness by endeavoring 
see the glimmers of a few stars in the remote dis- to please others and not God should be admonished 
tance, whose scintillations redeem that period of time by Enoch's example. 
from its otherwise cheerless and impenetrable gloom. It was by Enoch's faith, that " he pleased God," 
The mind naturally longs intensely for a knowledge as we read—" For before his translation he had this 
of that period, which was inaugurated at the epoch of testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it 
the world's creation and man's introduction upon it ; is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to 
but God has for wise reasons declined to gratify our God must believe that he is, and that he is a re-
unbounded curiosity, and yet, has revealed enough warder of them that diligently seek him." 
to lead us to anticipate our union with the saints of How vain are all the efforts of moralists and formal- 
that age, with delight when we shall talk with the ists to please God, while they do not confide in him!! 
persons who were then actors on the stage of life. Outward obedience without "faith " is mere hy- 
Among the illustrious characters which illumine pocrisy 
those obscure times, that of Enoch shines forth as a 4. Enoch was a prophet and teacher.—In the Epis- 
star of the first magnitude—though little is said of tle of Jude, 14th verse, we are informed that " Enoch 
him—that little contains volumes. We shall notice— the seventh from Adam prophesied—saying, Behold, 
Enoch's genealogy.—Jude speaks of him as the the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy (an-
seventh from Adam, to distinguish him from Enoch, gels), to execute judgment upon all, and to convince 
otherwise called Chanoch the son of Cain. all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly 
He is the seventh from Adam including Adam, as deeds which they have ungodly committed, and (of 
will be seen by the genealogical account in Genesis all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have 
5th, and Luke 3d. Adam—Seth—Enos—Cainan— spoken against him." 
Malaleel—Jared—Enoch. 
This graphic and alarming prediction of the judg- 
Adam was still alive when Enoch was born, and went, no where excelled in the Holy Scriptures, for 
they lived contemporaneously more than two hundred its adaptation to arouse men from their sins, and 
years. Enoch could therefore have known from Ad- check them in their vituperation of the character of 
am himself, the whole history of his residence in God ; was enunciated by the seventh man from crea-
Paradise ; and their temptation, sin, banishment, and tion 
agony—were perhaps the theme of discourse, which This is the earliest announcement of the judgment 
might have served to produce in Enoch the fruits of of ungodly men ; and so far as we are informed, 
holiness which were so remarkably developed. Enoch was the first to preach that doctrine which 
He was still on the earth when the progenitor of has been derisively called " Millerism ;" but if 
our race paid the penalty of his disobedience in Para- priority of publication gives the right to affix the 
dise, and expired at the venerable age of 930 years ; name to a doctrine, it is plainly a misnomer to call 
the first man who died a natural death. 
the doctrine of Christ's coming to judgment by the 
Enoch is honored too, by being in the direct line ge- name of Mr. Miller—it should rather be called by 
nealogy from which our Lord Jesus Christ descended. the name of Enoch. 
But he is not chiefly remarkable in respect to his From what source Jude obtained this fact, we are 
birth and its attendant circumstances :—let us there- not informed, as the record of this prophecy is not 
fore consider those particulars, which have made his found in any part of the Old Testament. He might 
name illustrious, and have redeemed it front the have received it from our Lord Jesus Christ in some 
oblivion which covers his contemporaries. of his discourses on that subject, as Jude was one of 
Enoch's character.—It is worthy of remark, the apostles, and Christ said so much, that, " the 
that no one of the first seven names mentioned in world would scarcely contain the books," if all were 
the genealogical chapter, is designated as religious, written, which he spoke. Or Jude might have re-
but Enoch ; while the language employed to charac- ceived it by inspiration ; or possibly by tradition sus-
terize him shows him to have been a man of extra- mined by inspiration. No matter which way it was 
ordinary purity. 
received, it is sufficient for us that it is true. 
" Enoch walked with God " (Gen. 5:22-24.)— 
Enoch stands forth as the first of the prophets, and 
What volumes of commendation are contained in this 
sentence ! God has inquired in his word—" How his prophecy has survived the deluge, and the lapse 
of five thousand years has not defaced it, and it is 
can two walk together except they be agreed ?" and now thrown across the pathway of atheistic revilers 
the question conveys its own answer, that it is impos- of God, as it has intercepted the same characters, for 
Bible. 
five millenaries, and endeavored to check them in 
Enoch was therefore at one with God,—there was 
no clashing—no jarring—no want of acquiescence in their pride and blasphemy. 
 
While every material relic of antediluvian skill 
God's plans—no antipathy to any of God's attributes. or power has been lost in the chaos of the past, this 
All was harmony ! 
While the mass of his contemporaries were fast thrilling prophecy from the inspiration of God and 
verging towards that appalling state of wickedness, the lips of Enoch, has been preserved to add its in-
which is described in the 6th chapter—this man stood fluence to the numerous other similar predictions of 
 
forth as a friend of God, his own character of course God's word, to deter men from " rushing upon the 
 
corresponding to the Divine, for God, who has corn- bosses of Jehovah's buckler." 
minded us not " to walk in the way of the ungodly," And the thought is one of deep solemnity, that we 
 
would not walk with Enoch were he not holy. are now living at a period, when, w e may confidently 
Noah is the only one of the ,antediluvians besides look for the fulfilment of this ancient prediction, and 
when we may say, " Behold the Lord cometh !" with 
Enoch whom the Bible thus describes : " And Noah 
walked with God . . . and was just and perfect in his more emphasis even than was given by this holy man ! 
generations."—Gen. 6:9. 
We shall consider what were probably- 
Enoch was a man of faith.—In the 11th chapter III. The reasons why Enoch was translated. 
of Hebrews, he is mentioned as the second " man 1. The particnlar design of God in translating or 
of faith." Abel precedes him, but no man of his taking Enoch, was to secure hint from death. "Enoch 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
BY L. D. MANSFIELD. 
LETTER FROM J. T. LANING. 
beings were, to whom Enoch was assimilated, where 
he might be exempt from death, that great appalling 
curse, which hung portentously over the whole hu-
man family after the apostacy of man, and which, as 
we have observed, now seemed to be impending, by 
the hand of his enemies. 
Enoch might have been translated also to admonish 
his wicked contemporaries.—Had they killed him, his 
voice of admonition would have soon been forgotten, 
and they would have become more callous and desper-
ate. But when God translated him, he set the seal of 
divinity to his denunciations ; and when those old 
veterans in crime, who were developing into giants 
in stature, riot only, but into giants of depravity, 
asked derisively, " Where is that prophet who has 
been wont to denounce such judgments upon us I" 
they would stand aghast, when informed that God 
had taken him up bodily into the heavens. 
The influence of such an occurrence, can hardly be 
realized unless we endeavor to place ourselves in the 
midst of the darkness of the antediluvian age. 
It has also an important influence upon the 
world, by punishing an instance of that very phe-
nomenon, which shall occur to a whole generation of 
living saints, at the period of the Lord's coming—
when " we which are alive and remain shall be 
caught up . . . to meet the Lord in the air." 
As the resurrection of Christ fortifies the faith of 
the church in reference to the resurrection of all his 
people, so the translation of Enoch and the suhse- 
CONSUMPTION. 
BRO. BLISS :—I observe in the Herald of September 
25th, an article headed Consumption, on which subject 
I wish to present a few observations. 
Some medical men have long supposed that Phthis-
is Pulmonalis might, and often did, originate from 
Scrofula, but even now it is riot considered the only 
cause, although the effect is of the character of serosis, 
or accumulations in the glands of the serous mem-
branes. Rheumatic affections may also be classed 
in the same list, only that the effect is on the serous 
membranes which envelope the fibres of the muscles 
instead of the membranes of the lungs. These ac-
cumulations of matter in the small glands of those 
membranes are now thought, perhaps, to be scrofula, 
and those accumulations called tubercles. They may 
affect any organ, even to the brain. But my object 
is to speak of the effect of climate, &c , as remedial 
agents for consumption. 
Europe has long sent her consumptives, for sum-
mer to the different Baths, especially those of the 
Pyrenese ; and, for winter, to Italy, Madeira, and 
the Isle de Hires in the Mediterranean. From the 
damp climates of England and the northren coasts 
the changes are probably beneficial from a dryer at-
mosphere independent of the change of temperature. 
But times and seasons change—physicians, and 
patients, must have something new. I recollect hear- 
was translated that he might not see death."—Heb. quent translation of Elijah, furnish to the whole 
11:5. The account in Genesis 5:24 says : " God world an evidence of God's ability to translate his 
took him," i. e., God conveyed him away bodily. saints according to his promise. 
It is common now in speaking of the death of 6. The record of Enoch's translation and the testi- 
saints—to say, " God has taken them," but this molly of God to his exalted piety, seem to admonish 
seems to be without Scriptural precedent. God those who look for the Lord's coming and expect to 
" took " Enoch, " that he might not see death," not he translated, that they:also must " walk with God," 
by death itself. Again it is often represented as a " must please God," and must he men of " faith." 
desirable thing, to get rid of the body, and emerge Yes, my brethren ; we who cherish that most sub-
from this prison of clay a pure spirit ; but if this be lime hope—that we shall be translated without see-
the case, then Enoch's translation was a curse rather ing death, should see to it that we " walk not after 
than a blessing to him personally, being still tied up the flesh " nor after the course of this world," but 
to a material body, rather than allowed by death to " WITH GOD." Amen. 
expatiate in the purely spiritual world, divested of 
the " mortal coil." 
But as this holy man was translated because lie 
" pleased God " and as a " reward " for his faithful- BRO. RIMES :—I have been permitted to enter the 
ness, it is but just to conclude that,—translation was field again, arid to engage in the work of preaching 
the greater good. 
the gospel of the kingdom. 
Enoch knew that death was God's curse for man's I left Philadelphia on the 27th of last May, and 
disobedience, and not God's stepping stone to a spending two Sabbaths in the city of Newark, N. J., 
higher sphere of existence, and whether it came by and three in Morris and Yardleyville, I started for 
violence as in the case of Abel, or by the slow Centre enmity, whence I had received a call from the 
though not less certain process of corruption, by churches. 
which Adam was brought to " the dust from which I arrived here safely on the 3d of July, and was 
he was taken," it was equally appalling,—and he delighted to rneet again with the brethren and sisters 
" diligently sought " the Lord for exemption from with whom I had formerly spent such pleasant sea-
this calamity—and found that his faith in " the re- sons. The churches here, I finind to stand in need 
warder of those who diligently seek him " was not much of pastoral labors, and I think that attention to 
misplaced. 
this department is quite essential in some places. 
But there is much reason to believe, that Enoch Bro. Litch has furnished you with a report of our 
was in danger of a violent death from the hands of camp-meetings, in this and Elk counties, up to the 
the wicked. 
time of his departure for home, which was the Sah- 
There was no immediate occasion for his transla- bath evening over which the camp was held in this 
tion to save him from death, and he was only three county. This meeting continued to increase in in-
hundred and sixty five years old, only about one third terest from that time until it was closed. Numbers 
the age of his predecessors most of whom still lived, were converted. Some were buried with Christ in 
and his son Methuselah lived longer than any other baptism, among whom was Emiline, eldest daughter 
man, nine hundred and sixty-nine years. 
of Bro. Gates. Two new societies were formed, one 
Abel the only man spoken of on account of comprising sixteen members, near Unionville, (the 
faith " before hint, was so hated for his righteous- principal part of the ground affected with a spirit of 
ness, that not even the ties of fraternity could save division, consequent of the late troubles here,) while 
his life, and he died by the hand of violence, and our brethren and sisters were quickened, and permit-
Enoch, being at a period even more degenerate, ap- ted to rejoice in prospect of near redemption. 
proximating the time when " the earth was filled The second Sabbath after the close of our camp— 
with violence," had reason to fear the same result. I spent in Cooper's Settlement, Clearfield county, 
The bold and startling tone of prophetic denuncia- where I found an interesting little society, and was 
tion, in which he delivered his message, indicates three times permitted to address as many as the house 
that there was, in the circumstances by which he would contain. The people there seem anxious to 
was surrounded, something alarming. 
hear Scripture truth, and listen with respect and at- 
" Behold the Lord cometh with myriads of his holy tention to the presentation of it. 
angels to execute judgment upon all, and to convince After an experience of seven years, since I em- 
all that are ungodly of all their hard speeches which braced the doctrine of the Advent, I can say that I 
ungodly sinners have spoken against him !" have not lost my interest in the least upon the sub- 
Surrounded by blasphemers and haters of God, and jest, but the more I reflect upon it, and the more I 
hated himself because " he walked with God," he understand of God's word, the more am I convinced 
would be likely to give utterance to the prophecy of of the safety of the position which we occupy, and 
a coming judgment—in the abrupt and graphic lan- the more do I love that cause, which above all others 
page of this text. 
has for its object the maintenance of those truths, 
They spake " hard things " against God, and of that are so essential to the formation of a perfect and 
course would speak hard things against his friend, consistent system of Scriptural theology, or to afford 
who " walked with him," and as they could not the suffering, down-trodden followers of Christ a 
harm Jehovah, they might vent their malice toward ground of consolation adequate to their present groan-
Him, upon his faithful servant. 
ing condition. 
Enoc was translated, because" he pleased God.".
h 
 
I love the Advent doctrine, and the more I test its 
God could not deny the request of one who walked sustaining efficacy the more I love it, and the more I 
with him as Enoch did. It was doubtless true then, feel my interests blended, and identified with those 
that—" whatsoever we ask we receive, because we of the cause which defend it. I believe that 1 was 
keep his commandments and do those things which providentially called to this part of the vineyard, and 
are pleasing in his sight."-1 Jno. 3:22. trust that 1 shall be useful while I remain, so that in 
God wanted him with himself, or at least if not in the day of Christ I may rejoice that I have not la-
his immediate presence, (for the Saviour said, " No bored in vain. Yours in that blessed hope. 
man bath ascended into heaven ") yet were holy Milesburg (Pa.), Sept. 20th, 1852. 
No more, when earth and sky and sea 
Resound with Gabriel's minstrelsy, 
When sun and moon and stars, shall cease 
To shine in their accustom'd place, 
Shall man, in pleading accents say 
Lift thy heart and pray. ABBIE. 
OBITUARY. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who helieveth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he will LIVE: and whoever liveth 
and believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
DIED, in Southboro', Sept. 20th, ALANSON SHEP-
HERD, only son of HARRISON and HARRIET OUTHANK. 
The afflicted parents deeply feel their loss, and it is 
hoped that this afflictive dispensation of God's provi-
dence will be blessed to them for their spiritual arid 
everlasting good, so that at the coming of the Lord 
they may be prepared to meet their little son, to be 
separated no more forever. The funeral services were 
attended by the writer, and a short discourse given 
from the words of David arid Jeremiah, 2 Sam. 12: 
23 ; Jer. 31:15-17. 
c. R. G. 
ELMIRA B. wife of ASA WIGGINS, died in this city 
en the 24th ult., of dyspepsia. She was born in 
Stratum, and converted in Wolfsborough, N. H.—
She connected herself with the Christian church in 
W. After her marriage she came to Salem, and as- 
sociated with the Christian society of this place, arid 
continued a member until the dissolution of that so-
ciety. In July 1851 she became a member of the 
Advent church of this place, and remained an honor-
able member until her death. She was 48 years old. 
Her health had been failing for six years, but since 
the 4th of last July, she has been confined to her 
room. She leaves a husband, two daughters, bro-
thers and sisters, to mourn her loss. The hope of 
the gospel was hers while living, and it did not fail 
her when dying. She has taken God as her rod, and 
staff into the valley of the shadow of death with her, 
and when she has travelled its dark abode through, 
she will come out leaning upon the power of him who 
is the resurrection and the life. L. OSLER. 
Salem, Sept. 25t1r, 1852. 
DIED. at North Scituate, R. 1„ July 2311, 1852, 
WILLIAM BRADFORD, eldest son of Bro. James C. and 
sister Mary R. Pray, aged six years eight months 
and thirteen days. Little Wm. B. was a very intel-
ligent boy for one of his years. He had an earnest 
desire to acquire a knowledge of things around him 
which led him to be almost constantly asking ques-
tions, that he might understand the why, and where-
fore, and purpose, of every new object that came to 
his view. Ile haul also a very high estimate of truth, 
honesty, and moral integrity, very certain to notice 
a wrong, or wicked word, or act, in his playmates, 
and others around hitn. In short he seemed to be fit-
ted for a holier clime than this. And I would say to 
our beloved brother and sister in the language of the 
poet, 
" Cease to mourn, 0 parents dear, 
For this your little son, 
Our blessed Saviour will appear, 
And call his children home. 
" 0 then refrain from weeping more, 
For he will rise again, 
May we prepare with him to dwell, 
When he with Christ shall reign." 
0. R. FASSETT. 
BRO. HIMES :—It becomes my painful duty again to 
inform you that another member of the little church of 
Advent believers in thiscity,Bro.JAmEs TEWKSBURY, 
has fallen a victim to death the 7th inst., quite sudden-
ly, ee 59 years. Though he had been complaining some-
what of indisposition for some weeks previous, and 
had one or two ill-turns, yet he was able to attend 
to the ordinary duties of his avocation, and on the 
morning of said day he went to his workshop after 
breakfast, apparently as well as usual, and shortly 
after, at nine o'clock, a person having occasion to 
pass through the room where Bro. T. had been work-
ing alone, he found him lying senseless on the floor, 
having died probably about twenty minutes before 
from a disease of the heart, without a struggle or 
pain, according to the opinion of the physicians that 
examined the body. Bro. T. was a native of Hopkin-
ton, N. H., but a resident of this place for the last 
nine years. He had enjoyed the witness of his 
acceptance with God for thirty-eight years, and 
since 1842 was a firm believer in the speedy and 
personal coming of the Lord, which formed the fre-
quent theme of his conversation. He also delighted 
much in meditating and conversing about the glori-
ous resurrection of the just as the object of his hope 
through faith ill the Son of God. ]'hough not able, 
from the peculiar circumstances of his death, to leave 
any dying testimony, he gave, what is even far bet-
ter, a constant living one of his attachment to the 
cause of God, and of his sure hope of a blissful im-
mortality ; and thus, thought dead, he yet speaketh. 
A most affectionate husband, modest and unassuming, 
gentle, kind, and faithful in all the various relations 
he sustained. Bro. T. was loved and respected by 
all who knew him in life, and much lamented in 
death. His surviving widow, (with whom he had 
spent thirty-seven years of joy and sorrow in love) 
thought most deeply affected by this sore bereavement, 
yet chrishing the same faith of her beloved compan-
ion deceased, feels supported by the grace of God, 
and mourns not as those that have no hope, but re-
joices in the blessed assurance that soon " death shall 
be swallowed up in victory," when she will meet 
again all she loved before, that have fallen asleep in 
Jesus. The Lord speed that blessed day, and prepare 
us by his grace for a participation in its glorious 
felicities I 
J. F. HUBER. 
Middletown (Con.), Sept. 29th, 1852. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up bethre all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, front the familiar 
letters of those wino have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the tluick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
IIis Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
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Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in Cie Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel "QUICKLY :" "The sec-
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11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning, consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
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of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the fitture. We shall en-
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every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed tine Kingdom of 
Gon is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re- 
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of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ing a Professor remark, in a lecture in one of our 
medical colleges, " There is fashion in medicine as 
well as in everything else," and after enumerating 
the various professed specifics formerly used for con-
sumption, said he, " Now it is the fashion to cure 
every species, and, in all its stages, with cod liver 
oil." At last it seems true that fashionable treatment 
is expected to the consumptive. But that treatment 
often varies with the times. When the great water-
ing places of Europe, or even their resorts for inval-
ids, become so easy of access, and the terms of accom-
modation such that the mass can visit them, they lose 
their charm to the more wealthy and aspiring on 
whom it confers no distinction above others, and 
those places are wholly forsaken for others less ac-
cessible to the mass. So with resorts for consump-
tives, when the mass of them have access to the same 
remedy or resort, it is often forsaken by certain classes 
that something different may be done for them from 
what is done for the poor invalid. The poor, ready 
to copy their example, soon render another change 
necessary. 
A consumptive of New Brunswick visited Eng-
land, and was told by physicians he could not recover, 
but might prolong life for six months or a year by a 
visit to the south of France. He visited de Hires, 
and for the first few months his principal diet was 
rose leaves. He returned in strong health. A con-
sumptive from Chili died on her passage to Liver-
pool. A person in Vermont, far gone with consump-
tion, started on horseback for Boston, arid by the ex-
ercise, the change, or physicians there, he recovered, 
though with the loss of one lung. A consumptive in 
Michigan came to Rhode Island, and was cured by 
the change or the treatment. Bro. Jones left New 
York for Charleston, S. C., and was cured. A con-
sumptive from Massachusetts visited the country back 
of Charleston, and recovered. A consumptive from 
Charleston died on his passage to Cuba. One from 
Buffalo to Florida returned to die at home. One 
from New Hampshire to Georgia returned and ex-
pired in the embrace of friends—and most deeply do 
we lament his loss. Another visited Georgia with 
the latter and yet survives. A consumptive at St. 
Jean de Luz, on the Biscay, dieted on brown sugar, 
and recovered. One in one of the British hospitals, 
had a tumor gather in the throat which nearly suffo-
cated him, and the effbrts for breath caused great ex-
ertion of the lungs, and, when the throat recovered 
from the tumor, the lungs were found recovered. To 
imitate the action of the tumor, the physicians pre-
pared a hand of silver, with a ball of ivory upon its 
inner surface, and placed around the neck of consump-
tives so as to press the ball upon the windpipe so as 
to obstruct the respiration as the tumor bad done. 
This caused much expansion of the chest and lungs, 
and the patients recovered. From this originated the 
inhaling tube, which has also relieved many. 
Prof. Mapes remarked, in one of his philosophical 
lectures, that a case of consumption was never known 
in the city of Mexico. He assigned as a reason that 
from its high elevation, the air was so rarified as to 
contain so little oxygen, that thejungs were required 
so much exercise to oxygenate the blood that they 
were kept so constantly expanded that tubercles could 
not form in them. Some have recommended a cold, 
and the extreme cold, dry air, drawn through a tube, 
from outside the window to the patient, at least for 
some little time three times a day. Because the air 
being more dense, contains more oxygen, and does 
more in purifying the blood. 
The causes of tubercula of the lungs are vari-
rious, the effects various, and various the required 
treatment. Causes may be external or internal, and 
even mental or physical. Where the causes are ex-
ternal, the whole system, except the lungs, may be 
in health. When the cause is internal, the whole sys-
tem may also be diseased. So also with mental and 
physical causes, and the physician should understand 
both cause and effect. 
Tubercula from compression of the lungs may be 
benefited by respiring cold air, because as it expands 
by the warmth of the lungs it expands the lungs also. 
Tubercula from an impure state of the blood may also 
be benefited by the density of cold air, as it contains 
more oxygen, and does more to vitalize the blood, 
and purify it. In the former case mechanical treat-
ment may be of great service. In the latter, the 
sea-board, or a sea voyage may be of service, espe-
cially if we admit that there are any particles of saline 
matter held in solution in the sea-air. Salt produces 
the same visible change in the blood as oxygen—
changing the color of the veinous to the arterial. If 
salt is brought into the lung, in solution, in the air, 
it serves to give vitality, activity, and nourishment 
to the blood. 
If the disease produce irritation, or susceptibility to 
iritatation of the lungs, or spasmodic, or nervous 
cough, breathing cold air may do great injury, es-
pecially if it is also damp. In such cases a soft at-
mosphere is very desirable, and even though it be 
damp, it relieves the irritability of the lungs and re-
lieves the severity of the cough. But, other cir- 
cumstances being equal, a dry atmosphere is decided-
ly to be preferred. Some may require a warm, and 
others a cool climate. 
The animal system generates heat proportioned to 
its necessities from the temperature of the surround-
ing atmosphere, when it is not brought too suddenly 
into that temperature. Consequently an invalid, who 
remains North until the cold of winter has set in, and 
then goes suddenly South, to any extent, may expect 
to feel the heat there and its relaxing effect. An in-
valid who goes from the Canadas or New England 
to Florida, or New Orleans, must expect to find the 
change severe upon his constitution, but might find a 
location at Philadelphia, or even the Carolinas desir-
able. (Some now think Philadelphia about the most 
steady arid healthful climate of our country for the 
consumptive.) While one from those places might 
profitably visit Florida, or even farther south. 
Invalids going South should avoid the crowded cit- 
ies to prevent the effect, upon the nervous system, 
of the jar, noise, and confusion, and to escape their 
unhealthy atmosphere. They should avoid a loca-
tion on the coast, especially on low lands, to avoid 
the damp atmosphere caused by the evaporations from 
the water in a warm climate. In land, they should 
avoid the rice regions, which are always marsh or 
swamp, and all sections marshy, swampy, or even a 
clay soil. From these there is not only a constant 
damp atmosphere, but the gasses produced by decay-
ing vegetation and from other causes are unwhole-
some. 
They should seek an inland location somewhat 
elevated, upon dry or sandy soil, in evergreen, or 
black timber. In such a location the atmosphere is 
comparatively dry, while the exhalations of black 
timber give it also a healthy influence. 
From the absorption of oxygen from the air by res-
piration, it would soon become unfit to sustain animal 
life were riot the deficiency supplied by the respira-
tion of vegetation, whose leaves perform functions 
similar to those of the lungs of animals, only that 
they inhale carbon and impart oxygen, while it is 
the reverse with animals. 
The forest trees cannot breathe without their lungs 
or leaves, and, of course cannot when leafless in win-
ter supply oxygen to the air, thus a residence is pref-
erable where the forests are of such trees as do not 
cast their leaves in autumn. 
Major Shadd, of Florida, recommends to the peo-
ple of the North to prepare a southern residence for 
their invalids, and he offers to furnish grounds gra-
tuitously for that purpose. Its advantages may be in- 
fered from the fact, that Northerners often suffer 
much, (and doubtless many lives are lost that might 
otherwise have been spared) from want of the com-
forts of a home while they have the benefits of a 
southern climate. There one does not find northern 
friends, nurses, waiters, cooks, diet, house conven-
iences, and society, all of which are very essential to 
the recovery of the invalid. These he cannot obtain, 
unless he furnish them, and these would be furnished 
with much less trouble and expense if his location 
and residence were previously arranged. 
C. B. TURNER. 
P. S. By the kindness of sister Murray, who has 
done what could he done for my recovery, 1 have 
spent near three months in the most lovely location 
which I have seen in Newport. My health has im-
proved slowly, and I have so far regained the power 
of speech that 1 can converse a little with careful-
ness, in a low tone. As cold weather advances I 
must seek a warmer climate. 
C. B. T. 
LIFT THE HEART AND PRAY. 
When night's grim vail is drawn aside 
To welcome the Amorian bride, 
And her first glad streaks of light unfold 
A radiant sky of burnished gold ; 
And a myriad voices hail her ray, 
Lift the heart and pray. 
And when the noon (lay hours come round 
With busy life and bustling sound, 
Filling the heart aid head with care 
To draw the soul from God and prayer—
Lest from the path of right you stray 
Lift the heart and pray. 
When the first p-ile star peeps from the west 
Trembling on twilight's shadowy vest, 
And all is hush, save brook and rill 
That ripples when man's voice is still—
And spirit tones chant, the dirge of day 
Lift the heart and pray. 
Where afflictions deepen day by day, 
And the loved are borne from earth away 
To silent chambers of the dead—
And sad and lone life's paths we tread, 
Look unto Christ, the Life—the way, 
Lift the heart and pray. 
When love's light dims in friendship's eye, 
And friends once loved—pass coldly by, 
And cast contumely on our name 
To satitate (lark envy's flame,—
To win them hack—without delay 
Lift the heart and pray. 
When in the moral atmosphere 
Terrific clouds are hovering near, 
Arid earth seems reeling to and fro 
Drunken with crime and human woe,—
Then turn to God while 'tis to-day,— 
Lift the heart and pray. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
England. 
The English papers are filled almost exclusively with biog-
raphies of the late Duke of Wellington, whose sudden death 
front epileptic fits took place at Wanner Castle on Tuesday 
afternoon, Sept. 14th. His son Marquis Donro, has been 
sent for from Germany. The public are calling for additional 
funerals, and extension of the patent of nobility to the female 
heirs. Lord Mahon is understood to be his literary executor. 
By the Duke's demise, a number of valuable officers fall into 
the gift of the Ministry. Prince Albert, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and Lord Fitzroy Somerset, are already named in 
connection with the appointment of Commander-in-Chief. 
Military men would rather see the office bestowed on Lord 
Harding, or some other soldier. 
Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business early in 
November. 
A new palace for the Queen is to be built, at a cost of one 
hundred thousand pounds, at Balmoral, Scotland. 
There is a great scarcity of silver coin in England, as 
large shipments continue to be made by emigrants to Austra-
lia, and also for India and the Continent. The deficiency is 
to be net immediately by a new issue from the Mint. 
Harvest, generally speaking, is over, and fulfils the ex- 
pectations of plenty. 
France. 
Louis Napoleon left Paris on his proposed tour to the 
South and West. The papers contain little else than ac-
counts of his receptions, which have all the resemblance, at 
least, of being enthusiastic. Along the whole route he was 
received with cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" with which it 
is stated he appeared much pleased. When last heard of, 
he was at Nerves. 
- In Paris, a petition to the Senate is circulating among the 
Poorer classes, purporting to he the memorial of fathers of 
families and laborers, for the re-establishment of the empire 
in the person and family of Bonaparte. In reply to an ad-
dress of the Council General of Neva, in favor of a new im-
perial regime, Louis made the significant answer, " When 
the general interest is at stake, I will try to anticipate public 
opinion, but I follow it in the case of an interest which may 
appear personal." 
The Constitutionnel has an article on the present state of 
the French steam navy, in which it assumes the possibility 
of a successful invasion of England. 
As a matter of curiosity it is worthy of note, that the Pa-
ris Patrie and the Presse, in announcing the death of the 
Duke of Wellington, indulge in remarks deprecatory of the 
deceased. The Debats gives his biography, without com-
ment. The Constitutionnel praises hitn. The Pays takes a 
middle course. The Union, the Assemble Nationel, and other 
papers, merely announce his death. 
The Akbar, Algerian paper, has an article, evidently put 
forth as a feeler, respecting the liberation of Abdel Kadir, on 
condition that he shall reside at Mecca. The Akbar insinu-
ates that it would be dangerous to liberate him at all. 
There is no truth in the reported conclusion of a free trade 
treaty between France and England. 
Italy. 
The intrigue of Sir Henry Bulwer in Italy caused the Aus- 
trian Government some anxiety. 
The garrisons of Florence and Bologna are to be rein-
forced. It is announced in the Italie Papulo, that the Demo-
cratic Mazzinian committee of Tuscany and the Roman 
States have formally united. 
Letters from Catinia of the 30th ult., describe the damage 
done by "Etna. One stream of lava had flowed towards 
Zaffaroni, fifteen miles from the crater, and another towards 
Multi, devastating the vineyards in both directions. Prayers 
had been offered in all the churches. 
At Milan, two girls of the ballet have been whipped for 
their politics, and sixteen Milanese shot. 
Turkey. 
The correspondent of the London Dailey News states 
that. the Porte is exerting itself with much earnestness to 
procure a modification of the jurisdiction now exercised by 
foreign consuls in Constantinople over citizens of their re-
spective nations. 
The difficulty with England respecting an attack on the 
ship-of-war Modesta has been adjusted. 
Spain. 
Five of the Madrid papers have ceased to appear, their 
publishers being in prison. The Giaro announces that hence-
forth it will appear only as a literary sheet. 
Nothing later regarding Cuba. 
ADVANCE OF THE CHOLERA IN EDROPE.-The ac-
counts front Warsaw are of the most distressing character. 
The cholera has raged there with unprecedented violence. 
On one day the number attacked was 402, of whom 207 died, 
and 1,474 cases were under treatment in the hospitals of the 
city. From the first appearance of the disease, about one 
half of the attacks had proved fatal ; but a slight improve-
ment in the returns gave some hopes that its fury had abated. 
But, however distressing these accounts are, it is far more 
alarming to learn that this frightful malady is advancing 
westward. From Landsberg it seems threatening Breslau, 
and its progress towards Berlin is watched with deep anx-
iety ; whilst northwards, along the.whole course of the Vis-
tula to the Baltic, the inhabitants of the numerous towns and 
villages have been carried away in great numbers. In some 
villages, two-thirds of the inhabitants have perished. At 
Berlin the alarm is very great, and medical men have been 
despatched to the frontiers to use theirefforts to stay the pes-
tilence. As the course of this destructive disease is pre-
cisely that which marked its track in former years, the next 
accounts are looked for with great anxiety. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c. : A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.' "-Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single-
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. for each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
'Phis is the title of a pamphlet published at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
arid the three chapters next following-ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Vial.-16;17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17;l, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaves.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylon.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial-
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decent-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon-
worship is common to those three religions-that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Deut. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instriimental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon-that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God-that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, OCT. 9, 1852. 
SUMMARY. 
What a Little Light will do. 
J. V. HIAIES-DEAR SIR:-While I resided in -
county, N. Y., I subscribed for your paper six months, and 
paid one dollar ; but the paper was sent to me nearly or quite 
two.years, as near as I can recollect. I left that place three 
years ago next month, and have Neglected remitting you the 
pay from time to time, notwithstanding nay own conscience 
has often reminded me that I ought to delay no longer. I 
hope you will pardon my neglect. 1 enclose you three dol-
lars, which I suppose to he about the amount your due. If 
there should be any error in this footing, you will please no-
tify me, and it shall be rectified, for I design to be prompt 
and just in my dealings ; and I exceedingly regret that I 
have not been in this case, and the only apology I can offer 
is, that I have not been in the enjoyment of the religion I 
have long professed. But I have reason to thank God that 
his light has again broke into my benighted soul. 
Yours in the love of Christ. 
Sept.23d,1852. 
[We hope that a few more of the same sort, tnay lie simi-
larly enlightened. We suppose that the majority of those 
who withhold pay, are actuated by the cause referred to in 
the foregoing.] 
POSTAGE.-Subscribers will' remember, that by paying at 
the Post-office where they receive their paper, in advance, 
they will receive the Advent Herald for four cents a quarter, 
seven cents a volume, or thirteen cents a year anywhere in 
the State of Massachusetts ; and for seven cents a quarter, 
thirteen cents a volume, or twety-six cents a year, anywhere 
in the United States out of Massachusetts. 
THE RAPPING SPI R Frs.-The second edition of this 
being exhausted, we have not yet filled several of the late 
orders sent us. The third edition will be out the present 
week, when we shall immediately send to those ordering. 
We find that this work is attracting the notice of those who 
are not Adventists. 
The Old Farmer's Almanac for 1853 is still published by 
Jenks, Hickliog & Swan in Boston, and sold by booksellers 
generally. It is the 6lst edition, and presents the same old 
familiar face, and its usual variety of sound and useful in-
formation. 
The October number of the Christian Parlor Magazine has 
been issued by Jas. H. Pratt & Co., 116 Nassau-street, New, 
York. 
- Daring the last quarter, more than one million of 
dead letters were been opened by the Post Office Department 
at Washington, and in which more than $11,000 were found. 
- Five deaths from yellow fever were reported in 
Charleston, for the twenty four hours ending at noun on the 
28th ult. 
- The late heavy rains, together with the army worm, 
have done considerable d:tmage to the cotton crop in Loui-
siana and Mississippi. 
- On the 22d ult., an engine drawing a passenger car, 
was thrown from the track of the Georgia State Railroad, 
near Chickamanga Creek, and the two firemen instantly 
killed, and the engineer badly scalded. 
Dr. Allen, of Northfield, was committed to jail in knocked off by the bucket striking the rim of the shaft, an d 
Greenfield on the 25th ult. for stabbing Clark Cutting, of he fell a distance of one hundred and sixty feet, upon the 
Northfield, during a fracas. He stabbed Cutting in four dif- jagged rocks of the tunnel's bottom, from which his mangled 
ferent places. He will be tried in November. 
body was afterwards gathered and buried .-W heeling Times. 
- A woman named Jane Kelly was found dead in her 
bed at a house in Lee Place on Sunday. Coroner Smith held 
an inquest MI the body, and the jury returned a verdict of 
died in a fit." Rum did it.-Journal. 
- 
It may not be generally known, that the common 
house-fly and cockroach are not natives of this country. 
'They were originally imported from the West Indies. 'rite 
former have spread over the country, and become as nume-
rous as the sands of the desert, but the latter are still con-
fined to the sea-board cities. 
- wife of John Stafford, who resides in Lancas- 
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Her face, arms, and body were covered with bruises, clearly 
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showing that she had been most cruelly beaten by some one. Fifty copies 
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Officer Spoor arrested Stafford and committed him to jail, 
upon suspicion of having caused the death of his wife. 
- A letter from California says :-" A man from Illi-
nois has just arrived front Independence, having driven the 
entire distance two thousand turkies, all hale and hearty. 
They cost him about fifty cents a-piece in the States, and the 
cost of feeding them was nothing-they fed themselves. He 
has been offered eight dollars a-piece." 
- Mr. Frederic Kregur, of Shelburne Falls, in the em-
ploy of Lamson, Goodnow & Co., was instantly killed in 
their new cutlery building on the 1st inst. Ile was drawn 
round the drum, and thrown with great force about twenty 
feet against the side of the building, dislocating his neck, 
breaking his limbs, and badly crushing his body. He was a 
German, a good citizen, and industrious. His age was 27. 
He has left a wife. 
- A telegraph dispatch from Rochester, New York, 
dated the 28111 ultimo, states that the cholera had dis-
appeared, as an epidemic, front that city. The Board of 
Health had discontinued their reports a week previously. 
The " American" says, that " at least four hundred citizens 
have fallen before it ; for weeks, silence and inactivity have 
prevailed in our streets, and business sutlered to the amount 
of more than $1,000,000." 
- A writer from Parisburg, Giles comity, Va., says :- 
" At a distance of some three miles from this place, where 
some workmen were blasting rocks, having made an excava-
tion of ten or twelve feet, the earth gave way, and all were 
plunged into a large room, apparently dug out. At the fur- BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
ther extremity of the room, a human skeleton was found in a 
leaning posture, reclining, as it seemed, against the side of 
the cavern, and seated upon something resembling a chest. 
No clue, as yet, is known to get at the history of the human 
Special Notice. 
relic." 
We would say to all subscribers and agents, who are indebted 
- By a letter received from Mayaguez, P. R., dated to this office, that see are in PRESSING NEED of the monies due 
the 10th ult., we learn that on the 5th, after a day of inces- by them. They have received bills of the various amounts they 
sant rain, the river rose to such a height, that many of the 
stores were inundated, and a good deal of the property de- owe, and we hope that this notice trill ensure an IMMEDIATE 
stroyed. The accounts from Ponce, and other southern parts response to the same. There is due on the Herald about $2000, 
of the island, state that much property and many lives had in sums of from $1 to $5, the payment of which would relieve 
been lost in those vicinities from the satne. cause ; arid con- 
sequently, that the crops of corn, rice, and plantains have us from much embarrassment. Those indebted, will find the sum 
been destroyed. A scarcity of provisions will no doubt be they owe marked on the margin of their Herald of June 26th. 
felt all through the island.-Phd. North American. 
- A Welchman named Reese Evans murdered a man 
by the name of Lewis Reese at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 2d 
inst. The former had purchased some clothing of Reese, 
and on being pressed for payment by the latter, told hint if he J. Wilson-The Postmaster sent back Mrs. Shepherdson's paper. 
How should it have been directed e 
would cross the river with hint (Evans), he should have his 
Wm. 7'. Moore, $3-Sent books. Your own and Mrs. Graham's 
pay. While on the way in the woods together, it appears Herald are paid a year ahead. The others that go to your Post-of-
that Evans shot Reese with a pistol, and then beat hint to fice will owe $1 each the 1st of Jan. 
death ; after which he took from his person about $100, and H. L. Smith-Have sent the Guide regularly, and again send the 
attempted to escape, but was arrested at Carbondale, and is last two numbers. Have no such books. 
now in jail. 
M. C. Butman-Sent you books the 1st, as directed. 
T. M. Preble-The postage on papers will be the same if paid at 
- Mr. William Colwell, keeper of the Almshouse in your otlice as here That letter must have been mislaid. 1 recol-
lect it but can't find it. cannot you repeat it ? Have sent Y. G. 
West Bridgewater' 
 was struck by one of the paupers on the 
head with a hoe last week, while they were. at work to-
gether digging potatoes. The assault was repeated, and be• 
lure any one could come to the rescue, the unfortunate man 
was bruised in a horrid manner. It is thought by the physi- 
cian that he cannot survive. Mr. Colwell was a very worthy It we have by mistake published any who have paid, or who are 
poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being apprised of 
and kind-hearted tnan, and his loss will be deeply felt by his the fact. 
;i- 
friends and the community. 
nn M. DAVIS, of Charlestown, N. H., returns his pa- 
per, owing 
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- A strange will case was on trial last week before the 
'flue Postmaster at Vineyard, Vt., sends back the paper 
Vigo (Indiana) Circuit Court. The testator had been a firm of DAVID GEORGE. who owes 
5 50 
believer in witches, declared his children all wizards and 
witches, and that they had sought Isis life, and the destruc- Total delinquencies since Jan. 1st, 1852 
 105 70 
tion of his property. Under the influence of this delusion, 
he disinherited his children. The testimony was conflicting. 
The judge charged the jury that if they believed the testator 
FOR THE DEFENCE. 
was influenced by that delusion in making his will, it was void. Previous Donations 
The jury could not agree-one for the validity of the will, 
and eleven against it. 
St. Louis, consisting of Mr. Menkens and his wife, their 
brother, and a young lady, a visitor at the house, were re- 
three children, their niece, Miss Kate Menkens, with her 
cently poisoned by arsenic, of which they partook in soup 
which was served up for dinner. At the last accounts, al- 
most all the sufferers were in a fair way of recovery, with 
the exception of Mrs. Menkens, whose situation svgs consid- 
ered yet critical. The poison was put in the soup by a ser- 
vant, whether accidentally or designedly is not explained. 
telegraph companies liable for error in dispatches, either in 
transmission or in writing out, to the amount paid for its 
transmission to its destination, both in and out of the State. 
In case of unreasonable delay to transmit or deliver, affect- 
died dollars. Operators, agents, clerks, and other officers, 
ing the value of the dispatch, the amount shall lie refunded. 
Damages for falsifying a dispatch, from twenty to one hun 
are held liable for any fraud committed or attempted by means 
of a telegraph. 
- The family of Mr. Anthony Menkens, jeweller, of 
- The last Legislature of Maine passed an act, making 
paid till after threelmonths from the commencement of the volume, 
Single copy, 5 cents. To those who receive of agents without ex-
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Herald and the American postage, which our English subscribers 
cents to any part of the United States. If not pre-paid, it will be 
half a cent a number in the state, and one cent out of it. 
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The Adrent Herald. 
- 'The traffic in ardent spirits is said to lie almost uni-
versally attended with such fraud as would disgrace and de-
stroy the followers of any other calling. Gin is improved by 
the use of sweet oil and vitriol, which give it a "bead." Ir-
ish and Scotch whiskey are made of American, by the intro-
duction of a little creosote, to give it the smoky twang. Pale 
and dark brandies are made of whiskey, by the introduction 
of a little more or a little less of the coloring matter, &c. &c. 
We read lately in the papers that one of the delegates to the 
Cold Water Alliance, recently assembled in Utica, N. Y., in 
the course of a narrative of his experience, informed the 
delegates that lie was once engaged in the distilling business, 
and had frequently made and placed on sale good brandy, 
rum, gin, and wine, from whiskey, in the short space of four 
hours, and could at any time make sparkling brandy ti.orn 
whiskey, which would deceive the palate of the upper ten.-
Philadelphia Telegraph. 
- An Irishman working at the Pettibone tunnel, on 
the 13. and 0. Railroad, last winter, went to the magazine 
for powder, with a firebrand to light his way. An explosion 
of the four kegs of powder therein destroyed the shanty, and 
he picked himself up some one hundred and fifty feet down 
the hill, on which he started. He was but little bruised. A 
few weeks after be fell down a shaft, caught partially by a 
wall sixty freet from the surface, and then fell thirty feet 
more, receiving no injury but torn hands and a sprained an-
cle. Two weeks ago a heavy shower broke away the data 
at the mouth of the tunnel, and the water came in a flood. 
Part of the men escaped over the embankment, or bottom cot 
of the tunnel, and others leaped into the bucket and were 
drawn up. Our unfortunate was too late to get in, but he 
seized the edge of the bucket with his hands, and swung up 
the dizzy heights, whirling in the darkness. His hands were 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Oct. number (No 6, Vol 6) of this interesting and beautiful 
little monthly paper is now out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chaps. 6, 7.) Whaling Adventures. 
A Child's Influence. 
A Painful Story. 
The Snake and the Crccodile. 
The Human Voice. 
Sale to Do Right. 
A Metrical Grammar of the Eng- 
lish Language. 
Engaging Manners, &c. 
A Drop. 
Drowning the Squirrel. 
For Parents. 
Large Plates of Glass. 
Tricks of Animals. 
Work lined. 
Appointments, &c. 
NOTICE. -As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes 
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Bro. Himes will preach as follows n 
Derby Line, Sunday, Oct. 10th. 
Barnston, C. E., Oct. 11th, at Li o'clock. 
Sugar Hill, P. H., Oct. 13th, evening, and continue over the 
Sabbath. 
Bro. Orrock will accompany Bro. Elms, amid do part of the 
preaching. 
I wpreach at Cabot, Vt., evening of Oct. 20th, and continue 
over the Sabbath.-J. M. ORROCK. 
I will preach in Portland, Me., the third and fourth Sabbaths In 
October. My Post-office address is Roxbury, Al ass.--N. BILLINGS. 
A Conference of believers in the second personal advent of Christ 
at hand, will be held at Sugar Hill, N. H., commencing Wednesday 
evening, Oct. 13th, and holding over the following Sabbath, day 
and evening of each day. ttrn. J. V. Dimes and .1. M. (mock will 
 
be in attendance to preach the word, which, by the blessing 01 God, 
we hope will make. our meeting of unusual interest and profit. e 
cordially invite all who wish to avail themselves of hearing the 
word of God duly dispensed, to participate with us. Vs e shall ex-
pect a large representation of the hiesils from abroad. W e ask an 
interest in the prayers of the tainitul, that our meeting may be 
blessed to the reviving of the church, and the conversion.
01;is,minnNer. 
.s 
If the Lord will, thtefrneewl•lilel chheuarcchoJnlerence in the brick meeting 
house In isowdoininint Ridge, Me., is commence Thursday even-
ing, Oct. 25th, and hold over the Sabbath. Ben. Bench and Couch 
are expected to attend.-GEo. W.131towzr. 
Business Notes. 
Delinquents. 
931 91 
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ROOKLYN HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACY, No. 50 Court-
street, Brooklyn, L. I. 
.1. T. P. SMITH has for sale an assortment of Homeopathic 
Triturations, Tinctures, Dilutions, and Pellets, including the higher 
attentmatio»s. 
Cases for Physicians and Family nse, of various sines and prices. 
Pure Sugar of Milk, Alcohol, and thunellicatcd tenets, constantly 
on hand. 
tioniceopathic Arnica Plaster, a substitute for the ordinary Court 
Plaster, and anexcellent application for Corns. 
Country orders promptly and carefully executed. [s. 18-3m.] 
Receipts from Sept. 28th to Oct. 5th. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see how far he is in 
advance, or how jar in arrears. No. 554 was the closing No. of 
last year. No. 580 is to the end of the first six months of the 
present year ; and No. 606 is to the close of this year. 
Barns, 612 ; L. Gale, 619 ; .1. Barry, 612 n Dr. 1. Colby, 609 ; G . 
Russell, 612 ; D. Iiix, 606 Z. Russel, 606 ; R. Starkweather, 594, 
annul A. B. Brant, 572 P. V. West, 612 ; Geo. Gay, 599 ; E. Brew-
ster, 614 ; 1'. M. W iffen, 620 ; N m• S. Miller, on acct ; D. W . 
Johnson, on acc't ; Elder B. Locke, 606; J. Stoddard, 626; J. Mur-
ray, 625 ; E. Ward, 618-each $1. 
S. liewith, 588 ; S. Geer, jr , 630 ; Dr. F. A. Cutter, 684 ; E. 
Treadwell, 632 ; D. Bosworth, on acct ; A. P. Nichols, 616, and 
tract ; R. Miller, 634, and tract; N. Miller, 612 ; R. Slayton, 646 ; '1'. 
Wheeler, 632 ; L. Robbins, 645 ; J. P. Watson, 645 ; S. Cawkins 
2111(11) Whitcomb, 645-each $2. 
Chatterton, 606, and Y. G. to 72 ; A. II. Higgins, 446 ; A. C. 
(leer, (25 for J. H. on Y. G.) 580-each $3 J. Wilson, on acc't-
$5. Elijah Root, 586-i7 ens. due Jan. 1st-$6. J. Linn, 513-52,25. 
M. L. Clark, 606-$1,17 W. Gilman, 632-$2,17. Z. Reynolds, 
643-82,62. i11. L. Lawrence, 621-$1,17. S. B. Munn, on acc't-
$4,25. C. L. Diossy, 6116-60 cts. R. K. Diossy, 606-$1,40.