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"CHEER UP." 
Never go gloOmily, man with a mind, 
Hope is a better companion than tear; 
Providence, ever benignant and kind, 
Gives with a smile what you take with a tear; 
All will he right, 
Look to the light 
Morning was ever the daughter of night ; 
All that was black will be all that was bright. 
Cheerily, then ! cheer up. 
Many a the is a friend in disguise, 
Many a trouble a blessing most true, 
Helping the heart to he happy and wise, 
With love ever precious and joys ever new ! 
Stand in the van, 
Strive like a man , 
This is the bravest and cleverest plan; 
Trusting in Cod while you do what you can, 
Cheerily, then ! cheer up. 
Ganes is—Chapter III. 
FROM THE " LONDON QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continued from our last.) 
Vs. 14, 15—" And the Lord God (Hcb. Jehovah 
Elohim) said unto the serpent, Because thou hast 
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above 
every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou 
go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 
and between thy seed and her seed ; it shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.'' 
Though both of these two verses refer, in a 
measure, to Satan himself, yet they do embrace 
separate subjects, the former pointing more es-
pecially to the curse upon the literal serpent, 
the latter predicting the curse upon the great 
Tempter. They seem but one prophecy, and 
yet they take it, two objects,—the near and the 
distant, the literal and the figurative. Com-
mencing, like ail double prophecies, with the 
near and the literal, they end with the distant 
and the figurative. As in the Seventy-second 
Psalm, the singer begins with the actual Solo-
mon and ends with the greater Solomon ; and 
as in several burdens, the prophet Isaiah begins 
with the Babylon then in being upon the plain 
of Shinar, and ends with Babylon the great, 
upon the seven hills ; so is it here. He begins 
with the serpent, he ends with Satan. The 
figure used is taken from the serpent ; but the 
prophetic picture thus given concerns a far 
greater personage. For it is evident that one 
main object gained by employing such a figure 
in such a way as is done here, is to bring before 
us the personality of that being who is here in-
troduced to us. The words, no doubt, arefig-
ures, but they are figures of what is literal,— 
precise and personal. They are not figures of 
abstractions or principles or truths, but of a per-
son. They do not set forth God's condemna-
tion of error or of evil, but his judgment upon a 
person. They do not denote the mere conflict 
between evil and good, with the triumph of the 
latter after a brief depression, hut they foretel 
the battle between two persons. The nature of 
the combat is not declared, but the personality 
and literality of the combatants is vividly, and 
beyond mistake, set forth. 
This much is plain. Let us now look at the 
words themselves. 
God had, in his dealing with our first parents, 
proceeded in the way of judicial inquiry, step 
by step. He had taken nothing for granted, 
but had calmly questioned them, allowing them 
fallopportunity of defending themselves ; loth 
to condemn, nay, giving out his accusations 
simply as questions, no more. But when he 
comes to deal with the serpent and with Satan, 
we find nothing of this. They were dealt with 
as already condemned, and only waiting their 
sentence. Such is his grace to man, and such 
the intimation of his purpose to deal with him 
in grace, not in judgment. Wondrous contrast 
between the two races of creatures and His pur-
poses concerning them ! With the one all is 
grace, with the other all is righteousness and 
wrath ! Even in the lower creation this differ-
ence is shown. That animal that had sided 
with Satan, and become his instrument in ruin-
ing man is cursed with Satan's curse, and for 
Satan's sin; while the other animals are cursed 
with a less heavy and less abiding curse, and 
that for man's sin. As if God would thus from 
the beginning proclaim the pre-eminent guilt of 
every ally of 
 Evil One ; and the swift doom 
of all that, in the day of doom, shall be found 
upon his side, The serpent was but the invol-
untary agent, yet he was cursed ; how much 
more they who have " yielded their members 
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin " (Rom. 
6:13), nay, " run greedily " in the way of the 
Evil One. 
Though the serpent was but the instrument, 
yet he is cursed. And the words, "above all 
cattle," &c., imply that the rest of the animal 
creation were made to share the curse which 
had come down upon it as Satan's special agent 
in the plot against man. And why this uni-
versal curse ? 
To show the spreading and contaminating 
nature of sin. One sin is enough to spread 
over a world. There is something in the very 
nature of sin that infects and defiles. It is not 
like a stone dropped in a wilderness, upon the 
sand, there to lie motionless and powerless. It 
is like that same stone cast into a vast wave-
less lake, which raises ripple upon ripple, and 
sends its disturbing influence abroad, in circle 
after circle,' for miles on every side, till the 
whole lake is in motion. We do not under-
stand the activities and energies of sin. We 
are slow to credit them. Still less do we un-
derstand or believe the strange connection be-
tween one sinning creature and another ; so 
that it seems unrighteous to us that one should 
involve another in evil. Yet it is evident that 
there is such a thing as a union, not only of na• 
ture, but of responsibility. 1 do not profess to 
explain this. But God proceeds upon it as a 
law of being. The passage before us takes it 
for granted ; nay, the whole Bible assumes it. 
It is not some casual or some arbitrary proceed-
ing. It is the law, the righteous law of crea-
turehood, which unfolding itself first in the 
curse, has consummated its development in the 
blessing, when " He was made sin for us, who 
knew no sin, that we might be made the right-
eousness of God in him." 
To show how all the manifold parts of crea-
tion hang together and depend upon each other. 
One being displaced, all are ruined. There is 
a unity in creation which we have not yet 
learned to understand,—a unity of the closest 
kind, yet quite compatible with individual re-
sponsibility and separate action. The arch is 
not more dependent on the keystone than are 
the different parts of creaturehood dependent on 
each other for stability and perfection. It is as 
if the unity of the Godhead had its counterpart 
in the unity of creation. And, strange to say, 
it is the fall that has so fully discovered this 
oneness and made us acquainted with its mani-
fold relations. 
To be a monument of the evil of sin. Sin 
needs something visible, something palpable, to 
make known both its existence and its " exceed-
ing sinfulness." It must exhibit itself to our 
senses. It must stand forth to view, branded 
with the stroke of God's judgment, as the 
abominable thing which he hates. Thus he 
has strewed the memorials of sin all over the 
earth. He has affixed them to things animate 
and inanimate that we may see and hear and 
feel the vileness and bitterness of the accursed 
thing. Before God can proceed to unfold his 
purpose of pardon, he must rear upon the soil 
of earth art enduring monument of sin, that 
thereafter there may be no mistake on the part 
of man ; that it may never be supposed that in 
being gracious to the sinner he was trifling with 
the sin. 
While the serpent is thus cursed above all 
the rest of creation, he is made to understand 
the reason why he is so dealt with. " Because 
thou hast done this." God takes care that there 
shall be no mistake. The curse is no acciden-
tal and no arbitrary evil ; it is traceable to one 
distinct cause, The serpent has beguiled man, 
therefore judgment lights upon it. " The curse 
causeless shall not come." „Because thou hast 
done this," is God's preface to his sentence on 
the serpent. It is his preface to the judgment 
pronounced upon the sinner. Because thou 
hast done this, are the awful words with which 
he will be sent into the everlasting fire. 
Such is the visible curse on the serpent. Let 
us now mark (v. 15) the invisible curse on Sa-
tan. There was to be from that moment, war 
between Satan and the woman, enmity between 
his seed and her seed. Nay, there was to be 
warfare,—open warfare. This warfare would 
consist of two great parts or stages. In the first, 
the woman's seed would be wounded ; in the 
second, the serpent would be destroyed. The 
length of this warfare is not stated ; or how near 
its two great parts might be to each other. 
They might be near, or they might be far off,—
we are not told, for it was not needful that we 
should learn this at first. Simply the two 
things are presented to us, but the question of 
time is kept out of view, that, from the very 
first, there might be not merely a looking for 
the arrival of the woman's seed, but also a 
watching for him. We get here but the far-off 
glimpse of a great mountain-range. Its lofty 
peaks seem all clustered together, as if there 
were not a step between : yet, when we reach 
them, as now in their last days we have done, 
we find them separated from each other by val-
leys, and plains, and precipices of vast extent 
and height. We could not gather from the 
brief words of this verse, whether the battle was 
to be the conflict of a day or of ten thousand 
years. After-ages were to unroll the detail ; to 
reveal to us the suffering and the triumph, the 
shame and the glory. So closely are the first 
and second comings of the Lord here brought 
together, that we should have supposed that 
there was no interval between them. 
But though the times and seasons were hot 
given, and therefore much was hidden from 
man, yet enough was told to let him know that 
God had taken his part against his enemy ; that 
Divine love had interposed and pledged itself to 
the final discomfiture of Satan, and the final 
blessedness of the victim which he had counted 
his own. Here sounds the first note of glad-
ness in the ear of man. It sounds in many re-
spects indistinctly and inarticulately ; but in 
this respect, at least, it is most distinct and ar-
ticulate, that it announces the free love of God, 
and that free love, not simply as displayed in 
the sending of a deliverer, but as making for 
itself a righteous approach to man through the 
sufferings of that deliverer himself. Now the 
great thought of God's heart, the idea of grace, 
began to be unfolded, not only to man but to 
the universe. But, Oh, what a mighty appara-
tus requires to be constructed ere that one idea 
can be made plain, and man trusted with it ! 
What an apparatus must he raised (and that 
gradually, age after age) for carrying out as 
well as for exhibiting the whole adjustment of 
righteousness and grace, holiness and grace, 
wrath and grace, punishment and grace, ere the 
sinner can be made to comprehend the new, the 
strange idea, or to distinguish it from mere in-
difference to sin, or be trusted with the appli-
cation of it to himself. This was the first step 
to the unfolding of the " mystery which was hid 
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ; 
that now unto the principalities and powers in 
heavenly places might be known by the Church 
the manifold wisdom of God, according to the 
eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ 
Jesus our Lord."—Eph. 3:9-11. And it is in 
reference to this that the epistle concludes, 
'6 Unto him be glory IN THE CHURCH, through-
out- all ages, world without end. Amen."—
Eph. 3:21. And at the consummation of the 
glorious mystery shall this song be sung, " 0 
the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and 
knowledge of God !"—Rom. 11:33. 
Having briefly sketched the meaning of these 
two verses, let us now look at them more in de-
tail. They are too important to be slightly 
passed over. They contain the root of all re-
demption-truth. 
Let us mark how God proceeds in his inqui-
ries after sin. He first traces it out step by 
step, tracks it in all its windings, ere he utters 
one word of judgment. His dealings hitherto 
had been with Adam, as the head of creation. 
Therefore he speaks first to him. Then from 
Adam sin is traced to the woman, then from 
the woman to the serpent. By this process it 
was brought solemnly before the conscience of 
the transgressors, that they might see what they 
had done. In this process God takes no ad-
vantage of the sinner. He does not make use 
of his omniscience or omnipotence to convict or 
overawe the sinner, or to extort confession from 
him. He proves all by the sinner's own admis-
sion, that his mouth may be stopped, and that 
the Judge may be acknowledged as righteous 
in all he does; that he may not only be the just 
God, but that he may be seen to be so by his 
creatures. (See Job 34:23; Psa. 51:4; Rom, 
3:4.) And as is the process of inquiry, so is 
the judgment. The sentence is judicially an-
nounced, not in anger, but in righteousness. 
Having traced the sin to its source, God begins 
with the serpent, the source of the evil, or rather 
with Satan and the serpent jointly, as the two-
fold source. He began with the transgressor 
in his inquiry, he begins with the Tempter in 
his judgment ; for the first word of condemna-
tion must be directed against the originator of 
sin, the first stroke of wrath must fall on the 
prime mover of the deed. Thus, even in the 
minutest things, showing his truth and justice ! 
Even in the order of his judgment, how careful 
to mark his sense of the different kinds of crimi-
nality ! Such is a specimen of the way in which 
He will judge the world in righteousness ! 
Let us mark the circumstances in which the 
sentence was given. It was given in the hear-
ing of our parents. It was not specially directed 
to them. They were but hearers. Yet the 
scene was designed for them. This curse on 
the serpent was spoken in their ears, because it 
contained in it God's purpose of grace towards 
them. God's design was, that they should 
learn his gracious intentions without delay, and 
thus their fears be quieted and their confidence 
in God restored, but still that they should learn 
them in a way which should completely hum-
ble them, and make them feel that the grace 
did not arise from anything in themselves. 
They learn this grace of God in a sort of side 
way, as if God turned away his face when mak-
ing it known. They get it in the form of a 
curse against the serpent for the evil done by 
him, thereby learning that the evil done must 
all be undone before man can be blest ! This 
awful curse against the being that had ruined 
them intimated such things as these ; (I.) That 
God meant to save them, and not to give them 
up to the snares of their enemy ; (3.) That they 
could only be saved by their enemy being de-
stroyed ; (3.) That this destruction would be at-
tended with toil, and conflict, and wounds ; (4.) 
That it was easy to ruin a world, but hard to 
save and restore. How affecting the thought, 
that God could not preach the Gospel directly 
to Adam, but that he must be left to gather it 
from the curse against the Evil One,—as if he 
could not be trusted with the full glad tidings 
of grace till he had learned the exceeding sin-
fulness of sin ! How different now, with us ! 
God preaches the Gospel directly to the sinner 
in all its largeness ; saying to each of us, There 
is grace enough for thee, come thou and be rec-
onciled, come thou and be saved ! 
Let us mark how God hated that which Sa-
tan had done. " Because thou hast done this," 
are the words of awful preface to the sentence. 
God had no pleasure in the snare or the ruin it 
had wrought. He had no satisfaction in the 
marring of his handiwork, no pleasure in the 
death of the sinner, no joy in the desolation of 
his world. His words are the expression of 
deep displeasure against him who had done-the 
horrid deed, and at the deed which had been 
 
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done. And let us not forget that all which Sa- by the simple word of God is very great, and I sioner seems well instructed how to prepare, I His language is uniformly adapted to the sub-
tan has since then been doomed to suffer, as I that its lessons are communicated with a large and which the priestly hand will promply ap- 1 jects of which he treats. In narrative he ex-
well as all that he shall hereafter suffer, has its I amount of humanity, ministering to the neces- ply. But to fortify himself, he brings forward hibits the utmost simplicity and perspicuity ; in 
origin here. " Because thou hast done this !" sities of the poor creatures whom Popery has the declarations of certain priests, who succes- I announcing the divine oracles, his tones are 
No doubt he was ruined and doomed before for bereft of everything, and reduced to. rags and sively testify " that they became Protestants for !marked by a singular degree of solemnity; in 
his own transgression ; but now he is to be sunk helplessness. The Popish commissioner, how- what they could get ; but, having been convinced his descriptions he is minute, discriminating, 
to a lower level of coridernnation, and loaded ever, has made a statement to the effect, that of their great error, now return to the bosom of frequently cumulative, and highly graphic; in 
with a weightier curse for being the Tempter of large numbers, in spite of the food and the the holy Catholic Church, where they hope to 1 menacing foreign enemies and the wicked among 
man, the destroyer of a world. This is the clothing, have returned to the Catholic Church live and die." The chief of these is a late the Jews, he is full of vehemence and force. His 
brand upon his burning forehead ; this is the during the recent visitation of the Archbishop Bible reader, called McGrath, who declares he expostulations are urgent and pathetic ; his hor-
millstone round his neck. God will have him of Tuam. He was especially struck with the left the Roman Catholic Church against the tatory addresses earnest and powerful. Nothing 
understand how he abhored that which he had appearance of " a large porridge-boiler, erected solemn convictions of his own conscience, and can surpass the sublimity of those passages in 
dune. And when hereafter he is seized, and at the end of the school-house, which has been that he would not have continued a " pervert " which the sovereignty and infinite majesty of 
bound, and shut up by the strong angel in the recently licensed as a church by Dr. Plunkett, but for the constant temptations which were Jehovah are set forth, or the severe irony and 
abyss, shall not these words ring in his ears as whilst the pulpit stood over against it at the op- held out to him. 
satire with which he attacks the worshippers of 
he is thrust down into his dwelling of darkness, posite end of the room." The conclusion to The conclusion, then, we draw from the whole idols. Nor is he equalled by any of the other 
" Because thou hast done this ?" His sin, by which the commissioner has come for the corn- matter is, that a deep and general impression prophets in thp magnificence, variety and choice 
means of which he succeeded in casting man fort of his employers, is this, " that, so far from has been made by the Protestant movement, of the images which he employs, especially when 
out of Eden, shall be the sin by which he him- making good Protestants, it is merely1calculated and that it is being conducted wisely, steadily, predicting the reign of the Messiah, and the fu- 
self shall be cast wholly out of earth, to deceive to produce habits of idleness, dependence, and and with large success.
British Banner• ture happiness of the Church. 
the nations no more.—(To Le continued.) hypocrisy—to generate infidelity, and cause its 
The poetical structure of his sentences is ex- 
dupes to regard religion as a thing of necessity." 
 
This is thoroughly Popish. Nothing can be The Proffered Gift. 
quisitively graceful and elegant. Their flow is, 
The New Reformation in Ireland, more perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the 
in most instances, soft and pleasing ; at times 
they roll onward like the majestic billows of 
system, and the habitual language of Popish When Summerfield, wascharming the churches 
What is called the New Reformation, in Ire- scribes when smarting under the progrees of by his unrivalled eloquence, a gentleman in Bal- the ocean. He not only abounds in the simpler 
con-
land, is exceedingly troubling the priesthood. Protestant principles. This said commissioner timore, who was not a professor of religion, pre- or
, cognate parallelism of members, which 
They are very anxious to prove the whole has bestowed special attention to Oughterard, sented him a fine coat. His acknowledgment stitute one of the most prominent features of 
Hebrew poetry, but in the varied forms of the 
thing a delusion and a lie, and with this view which is the key to Connemara, and the first of the present beautifully exemplifies his char- antithetic, synthetic,and introverted parallelism. 
the Telegraph has sent a special commissioner, stronghold to " jumperism." So far back as acter arid the love of his heart to all whom he Many of his sentences are highly artificial, 
who is publishing a series of weekly letters, the 1846, the work of proselytism began in this could address. 
and so rythmically combined as to produce the 
object of which is to pour contempt upon the ill-fated place, when some sixty children were " Your very agreeable present, and the man- happiest effect. He is fond of paronomasias, 
"dumper churches and the jumper schools." He gathered together in a proselyting school. The ner in which it was bestowed will never be for- apostrophes, comparisons, emphatic forms of 
does not deny that such things exist. His only commissioner went to see this school, and dis- gotten. But what shall I render to you for this words, and iterations of the same ,word. His 
object is to prove that those who attend them do covered to his dismay that the only class-book benefit ? I have, I confess, scarcely anything images are dignified and appropriate. They 
so for a consideration. To each of the " jumper was the Bible, and that the poor starving chil- within my gift. if I could transmit to you the are, likewise greatly diversified, and very often 
of 
schools a boiler is attached for supplying Indian- dren began the business of the day by a break- garment of salvation, I should indeed he able to 
meal stirabout to the pupils, who are'' 
Not 
fed like fast provided them in the school ! He examined recompense you fully ; though not half so fully 
the boldest and most sublime description. 
swine, out of small wooden troughs or platters." the most advanced class, consisting of boys and as it you received it from the Author of salva- 
unfrequently he proceeds with a rapidity 
which leads the reader to suppose that he in-
He
tends to carry out the subject to a much greater 
asserts, that they receive a larger supply, girls, averaging about twelve years of age, and, tion. This is a gift which is enhanced by the 
and a better quality of rations than they would of course, found them " extremely deficient in dignity of the Giver, and he has therefore re- 
 
get in the poor-house ; and the more destitute everything except controversial texts of Scrip- served to himself to bestow it. 
length; when, all at once, by an abrupt tran- 
sition, he takes up a fresh subject, which he 
receive, in addition to what is got in the school, ture," This is good. We are at no loss to in- " This gift, however, will not be yours in the again as suddenly drops. This is specially ob- 
a half pint of meal to take to their places of terpret the import of the assertion, that there is same way in which your gift became mine, for servable in cases in which there is some idea or 
abode. This is tolerably well for the " jumping " nothing of which Popery stands more in dread he requires that you shall ask in order to receive 
boys and girls ; but what of their parents, who than the proper understanding of those contro- it, and has promised His Holy Spirit to them expression in the discourse, which leads his 
thoughts to the future Redeemer. us corn- 
attend the " jumper churches ?" We are told versial texts. They constitute the people's pro- that ask him. My coat indeed becomes me 
Groti 
they are " induced " to attend church on Sun- tection against priestly imposture. The corn- well ; it fits me better than any coat I ever had, pares him to Demosthenes, of whom, in point 
of time, he had the precedence by nearly four 
days by small donations of money, distributed rnissioner discovered that the Protestant clergy and its texture is super excellent ; but my dear centuries 
imm 
try, who
ediately after the conclusion of the service. regularly visited the Sunday-school, and labored friend, the garment I would recommend to you 
;
have been capable of relishing his 
and by men of taste in every coon-
The begging-box is sent round, which is rather to indoctrinate the minds of the children with would become you still more, and would adorn beauties, he has had awarded to him the highest 
an unusual thing in the Protestant Church, and their peculiar religious views. This is good you better than any garment you ever wore.meed of 
Henderson on Isaiah. 
the collection made from the respectable portion again, and a sorrowful fact for the men of the As to its texture it is emphatically said to be 
praise. 
of the congregation, and the money thus realized missal and the crucifix ! We are further told, ' fine,' not comparatively so, but positively fine; 
is doled out to the miserable perverts. The Pop- " It is lamentable to observe how the young this material alone is ' fine, clean and white.' 
ish commissioner proceeds : 
minds of those children are perverted on the I could have dispensed with your present, inas- 
" The few adults are induced to attend most sacred subjects." This is the best of all. much as my former dress would have fully an-
church on Sundays, by small donations of mon- The probability is, that the bulk of those chil- swered all the purposes for which this was in-
ey, distributed immediately after the conclusion dren are gone from the clutches of those catch- tended ; but my dear friend cannot dispense 
of service. The begging-box is sent round, ails, the priests, forever. The commissioner me, with the garment I am recommending him, for 
which is rather an unusual thing in a Protest- a boy, of about thirteen, proceeding to schoolt the man who has it will not be turned out from 
aut Church, and a collection made from the front whom he learned, that he had been attend- the marriage supper, and cast into outer dark-
respectable portion of the congregation ; and the ing it about three years, " and during that time ness ! 
money thus realized is doled out to the misera- had read no book except the Bible." He told " Suffer me to speak freely,sincerely, loving- 
ble perverts in sums of twopence, threepence, the commissioner, " that he hated the Papists ly, on this subject. What is the cause ? Why, 
and sometimes sixpence. The distribution of because they would not give him either Bible or amid all the kindness that you ever show and 
food and clothes in the schools, and money in breakfast,—but he would not go to school for delight to show to the meanest servants of my 
the churches, constitutes the principal items of the Bible alone." We need scarcely point out Lord—why, 0 why is it that you have not so 
bribery which I was able to discover beyond the truth and the falsehood of the allegation ; fallen in love with the ' Altogether Lovely,' as 
doubt or question. To each of the schools both and it will be seen that the part of it which is to give him full possession of your heart ? You 
a master and a mistress are generally attached. obviously true indicates the hold that the sacred give him your money, you give him your tongue 
Their salaries amount to £36, and £26, res- page has taken upon the young heart. to speak of his goodness, your feet employed in 
pectively. There are also one or two Scripture The commissioner next proceeded to Glatt, tracking the way to his sanctuary, and you de- 
teachers, or Bible readers, in connection with where he found a school of fifty children, in light to be seated among the flock of Christ. 
every school, and their business is to expound which, as before, the Bible was supreme. Here But then your heart ! ' My son, my son,' says 
the word, explain difficult passages, clear up con- the pupils get breakfast every morning at the God, ' give me thy heart !' Seek the kingdom 
troverted texts of Scripture, and above all school, and the orphans receive an additional of God first, rather, and then bring every other 
things, to point out ' the errors' and ' idolatry ' meal. On examining the children at the school, consideration into a state of inferiority. Let 
of Rome. On those Bible readers, also, devolves he found them " most expert in quoting contro- me ask you, my dear brother—for such I call 
the task of training the ' readers,' who are paid versial texts of Scripture." " They stated that you in anticipation of my very soul—is he not 
according to the number of persons they can they understood nothing about any other reli- worthy of your heart ?"che language of angels 
procure to listen to their instruction. The low- pion save that of the Church of England and is,' fhou alone art worthy.' He has purchased 
est salary of those readers averages eight shil- the Church of Rome." They further told him, you at the price of blood, and he claims you as 
lings per month. They are generally selected that " they believed all Roman Catholics were his own. Will you continue to resist the claim ? 
front the elder pupils of both sexes, and they idolators, and that they would riot be saved un- Has he not long been striving with you to yield 
spread themselves over the district in search of less they came forth from darkness." This is yourself a willing sacrifice ? Though he could 
persons who will permit them to read in their capital ! The commissioner is terribly afflicted use force, he prefers submission ; he would hon-
presence a verse or two of Scripture. The at the kindness which is mixed up with the or you by proposing himself to your choice. He 
names of such parties are duly entered by the Protestant lessons, and has no manner of doubt is an honorable lover. He woos, he supplicates, 
b 
young ' readers,' who make a return of them to that it will generate an army of slothful beings he stoops to ask your love ; can you keep him 
their Scripture teachers, and they are set down that will live by beggary to the end of their out any longer ? 0 no ; your heart says no! 
either as ' converts,' or approximating to con- days ! In a land where Popery has made every Then answer him this moment, 
version; and the ' readers' are rewarded in pro- fourth man a beggar, this will he no very great " ' Come in, come in, thou heavenly guest, 
portion to the number of hearers they can ob- calamity. 
And never hence remove; 
tain. The church mission has a direct treasur- But these Protestants were not the only But sup with me, and let the feast 
er, who pays the staff once a month ; and if schools in the district examined by the commis- Be everlasting love!'" 
there be any flagging in zeal, falling off in sioner. There were some other under the Pop-
' faith,' or any remissness whatever in the dis- ish priesthood, with which, of course, he was 
charge of the appointed duties, the amount of exceedingly gratified. There everything was 
remuneration is measured accordingly. The right, and as it should be. The children were 
schools are frequently visited by laymen who taught just what they ought to be taught, and 
have a stake in proselytism ; and they are also nothing else. There was no " heresy "—no 
regularly inspected by the Protestant minister Bible there ! In one of the districts " there are 
in whose living the school is situated. The edu• established three tnale and three female Chris-
cation in all the schools which I have visited is tian doctrine societies in different divisions of 
of the most wretched kind. The Bible is the the parish." This shows some zeal, and be-
sole class-book, and out of it they are taught to trays not a little fear. The objects of these so-
spell and read. The greater number of the pu- cieties is to instruct the people in Christian doc-
classes read very badly." 
pils cannot read a word, and the more advanced trine,—tha*. is, the doctrine of Rome. According 
to the commissioner, large numbers are daily 
Now, this is not amiss. Abating the false- returning to the Catholic Church, who had been 
hood, it contains a portion of real merit. It con- induced to change their religion from selfish 
fesses to two things,—that the space occupied motives. This is a plaster which the commis- 
Style of Isaiah. 
While Isaiah possesses much in common with 
other prophets, there are many peculiar features 
by which his compositions are distinguished. In 
character he is energetic, bold, and uncompro-
mising; of a lively and fertile imagination, yet 
full of serious feeling and deep thought ; zeal-
ous for the honor of the divine perfections, the 
spirituality of worship, and the purity of the 
theocracy ; undaunted reprover of sin, of every 
kind, and in whomsoever found ; the tender-
hearted patriot, who took the deepest interest 
in the circumstances and prospects of his peo-
ple ; and the compassionate friend of the Gen-
tile world. 
" Never be Triflingly Employed." 
Mr. Wesley in his admirable rules for his 
preachers says, " Never be Triflingly Em-
ployed." 
That good man understood the philo-
sophy of happiness and usefulness. He knew 
that life, to yield its proper fruitage, must be 
actively expended in pursuits worthy of the 
high ends for which it was given, And he knew 
that a life of useless activity was possible ; there-
fore he very wisely wrote, " Never be triflingly 
employed." 
The profound wisdom of this advice is illus-
trated in the history of that strangest, maddest, 
most monstrous fact of the times—MossioNism. 
For Mormonism owes its birth to the trifling 
employment of time by a minister of the gos-
pel! Its book of Mormon, on which it was 
built, was written by Rev. Solomon Spaulding; ' 
of Cherry Valley, New York, during a period 
of delicate health. To beguile the time, he 
composed a religious fiction, designing to pub-
lish it as a romance. This was certainly a 
trifling employment for a man of God—a min-
ister of Christ, solemnly consecrated, by pub-
lic and private vows, to the work of saving 
souls front death, What was the result? He 
died without sending his manuscript to the 
press. That child of Satan, Joseph Smith, by 
some means not known to the public, gained 
possession of it, and conceived the daring 
scheme of publishing it as a revelation from 
heaven. He executed his plan : published the 
book, founded a sect, and became the apostle of 
the most successful and dangerous imposture of 
modern times. 
Is it affirming too much to say, that if Mr. 
Spaulding had observed Mr. Wesley's rule there 
had been no such thing as Mormonism ? Had 
he employed his time usefully—in writing bene-
ficial truth—aiming directly to preach Christ 
with his pen, assuredly his productions could 
never have filled the place of that burlesque on 
revelation, the book of Mormon. The idea of 
becoming the apostle of a new religion would, 
in all probability, have never entered the obtuse 
mind of Smith, who was too illiterate, and had 
too little genius to produce such a work him• 
self. To Mr. Spaulding's failure, therefore, to 
keep the rule " Never be triflingly employed," 
the world is indebted for all that it suffers from 
that strange Mormon heresy. 
How seriously then should this rule he ob-
served by the child of God, and especially by 
Christian ministers ! A strange importance may 
be given to some hour of trifling occupation, 
which will make its product deadly and des-
tructive to thousands of minds, and terrible to 
its author in the day of accountability. JOANNA. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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BAILLIE seems to have had a similar idea in her 
mind when she said : 
" A. sound, a simple song without design, 
In revolutions, tumults, wars, rebellions, 
All great events, have oft effected more 
Than deepest cunning." 
Knowing this who will refuse a profound, pray-
erful regard for the rule ? Who will fail to re-
solve with firm intent that he will henceforth 
" NEVER BE TRIFLINGLY EMPLOYED ?" 
Zion's Herald. 
Impending Pall of the Turkish Em- 
pire. 
We have been favored by a Liverpool mer-
chant with the following extract of a letter just 
received from a correspondent long resident in 
the Levant : 
" Constantinople has recently been the scene 
of very many extensive and destructive confla-
grations—no less than eight in the same num-
ber of days—by which property to the amount 
of 450 millions of piastres is said to have been 
destroyed. 'Die cause of these terrible fires, 
which entail ruin on thousands, is undoubtedly 
discOntent at the mal-administration and extrav-
agance of the Government. A change in the 
Ministry is announced, but by no means a satis-
factory one, as it consists of men of the same 
opinions as those set aside; and it seems very 
questionable if some more serious means be not 
ere long resorted to by the suffering people. 
Surely those hitherto put in force can but tend 
to increase their misery and ruin. Ottoman rule 
is fast drawing to a close in Europe ; and unfit-
ted as they are to adopt the new order of things, 
it is high time they were set aside altogether. 
The question seems alone to be, who are to re-
place them in possession of their splendid coun-
try ? but this fear of their removal cannot much 
longer continue to prevail. The Greeks, I 
fancy, will not be tolerated by civilized Europe, 
looking to their incapacity to govern, exempli-
fied by a quarter of a century of flagrant mis-
rule. Who, then, is to come ? This is consid-
ered to be of little moment, seeing that a change 
can be hut for the better ; still European jealous-
ies will be put in motion. 
Nous verrons. 
" The French are peremptory in their de-
mand for immediate satisfaction on seventeen 
different subjects. With thesCharlemagne screw 
liner on the Bosphorus to back them at Tripoli, 
the French Admiral, La Susse, gave the Pa-
sha short time to reflect ; and had satisfaction, 
or threatened to bombard the place ; and the 
French Admiral, La Susse, is supposed to have 
proceeded for the Dardanelles. The present mo-
ment is a critical one for the Turks, and may 
embroil the political horizon of Europe. 
Liverpool Journal. 
10111110116! 
AMIE! 
The Three Wishes. 
I asked a student what three things he most 
wished. He said.,:" Give me books, health, and 
quiet, and I care for nothing more." I asked a 
miser, and he cried, "Money—money—of( n 
ey !" I asked a pauper, and lie faintly stain, 
Bread—bread—bread !" I asked a drunkard, 
and he loudly called strong drink. I asked the 
multitude around me, and they lifted up a con-
fused cry, in which I heard the words '• wealth, 
fame, and pleasure." I asked a poor man, who 
had long borne the character of an experienced 
Christian : he replied, that all his wishes could 
be met in Christ. He spoke seriously,and I asked 
him to explain. He said, " I greatly desire 
these three things—first, that I may be found 
in Christ : secondly, that I may be like Christ : 
thirdly, that I may be with Christ." I have 
thought much of his answer ; and the more I 
think of it the wiser it seems to be. 
"May I be found in Christ," not having 
my own righteousness, which is of the law, but 
the righteousness which is of God by faith. If 
I shall be found in him, I shall not be under 
the curse of the holy and terrible sentence of 
the law. For there is no condemnation to them 
who are in Christ Jesus. If I am in him, the 
storm of wrath which shall beat on a guilty 
world will not reach me ;- for he is an hiding-
place from wind, and a covert from the tempest, 
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 
If found in him I shall thirst no more ; for he 
is as rivers of waters in a dry place. Christ 
himself said : " Whosoever drinketh of the wa-
ter that 1 shall give him shall never thirst ; but 
the water that I shall give him shall be in him 
a well of water springing up into everlasting 
life." If found in him, I shall hunger no more, 
" for the bread of God is that which came down 
from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." 
If found in him I cannot perish ; I cannot be con-
demned ; I cannot want any good thing. He 
is my Shepherd, my strong habitation, my Ad-
vocate, my Eider Brother, my Intercessor, my 
Righteousness, my all ! 
May I be like Christ. He is like the Fa-
ther, and I would be like God. 0, that I had 
his image now ! I hope I have the outlines of 
it on my heart. But I would be in my measure 
wholly like him, He who is like Christ has the 
beauty of holiness ; has neither spot nor wrinkle, 
nor blemish, nor any such thing. 
" My grief, my burden long has been, 
Because I could not cease from sin." 
Nothing grieves me, nor makes me so 
ashamed, as to find my heart deceitful above 
all things and desperately wicked. I do loathe 
and abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 
I have wept and prayed over my sins. Tears 
have been my meat day arid night. The sweet-
est thought I have of heaven, as growing out of 
my experience here, is, " there I shall never 
sin." Sometimes 1 fear that I shall never be 
like him. Then I cling to the promise : 
" Blessed are they that hunger arid thirst after 
righteousness, for they shall be filled." Would 
God have given me this longing after holiness, 
if he had riot designed to supply it ? May I 
not hope yet to be like Christ ? If I shall ever 
be, it will be enough. Blessed Saviour, " 
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy like-
ness." 
May 1 be with Christ. I hope I am with 
him now by faith and through the power of his 
Spirit dwelling in me. But I wish to be with 
him where he is, that I may behold him in his 
glory, which he had with the Father before the 
world was. Here I hear him often derided ; 
and I weep that my Master should thus be vili-
fied. Here most men reject him ; and I am 
sad that he should thus be rejected of men. 
Sometimes 1 am with many who seem to love 
him. Then 1 rejoice. But I should love to 
be where I know all honor him as he deserves. 
Besides I wish to see him for myself. He is 
precious to me now ; at least, I hope he is. I 
should delight,to see him as he is. He was full 
of grace arid truth on earth ; but he is full of 
glory now. Once he wore a crown of thorns ; 
now he wears the brightest crown in the uni-
verse; yet he is full of kindness. He is the 
same yesterday, to-day, and forever. He is as 
tender as when he wept at the grave of Laza-
rus. He has done much for me ; but if I can 
but be with him, he will do far more for me 
yet. It does not yet appear what we shall be ; 
but %-.7hen we shall see him and be with him, 
we shall learn better what is the height, and 
depth, and length, and breath of his love. 0, 
that exceeding weight of glory !—shall I ever 
share in it? Gracious Redeemer! with thee 
any place is heaven. Without thee any place 
is like hell. May I he forever with the Lord ! 
Blessed is he, who, like the poor man of whom 
I write, longs after Christ. The more I think of 
it, the more do 1 wish that I was like that same 
poor man. He is wise, he is safe, he shall be 
blessed forever. Christian Penny Magazine. 
Duties of Religious Editors. 
We recently opened a religious journal, and 
on a single page found not less than a dozen edi-
torials, of greater or less length, in which a 
brother editor was assailed and ridiculed, by 
name, in terms which could not find admission 
into the columns of respectable secular papers. 
We make no complaint of similar treatment 
which we have sometimes ourselves received; 
we are not apt to be personally aggrieved by 
such attacks, it being our fixed opinion that they 
injure most those who made them. That which 
troubles us in the matter is the damage done to 
the cause of Christ, and to the souls of men. 
Most religious newspapers are conducted by 
ministers of the Gospel, and received into the 
thousands of families with special confidence 
and respect on that account. The obligations 
assumed by the professions of such men, demand 
of them that they should be " ensamples," in the 
matters of integrity, fairness, courtesy, kindness 
and truth-loving, and these traits are not unrea-
sonably looked for in whatever proceeds from 
t icir pen. The minister, who in his character 
as a minister, should go into the families of re-
ligious people, and pour out language of reproach 
and abuse against his ministering brethren, or 
other fellow Christians, treating their arguments 
with unfairness and them with contempt, would 
not be tolerated. No Christian parents would 
allow their children to be corrupted by the pres-
ence of such ministers, nor would congregations 
tolerate such ministers in their pulpits. But he 
who abuses his brethren in the columns of a 
newspaper perpetrates a greater wrong, and in-
flicts a wider damage. He enters, not the lim-
ited number of families found in a single parish, 
but thousands of families ;—so far as in his pow 
er he spreads distorted or false views, wicked 
prejudices, jealousy arid hate, over this broad 
extent; he multiplies and reproduces his own 
bad passions indefinitely. It is dificult to con- 
ceive the mischiefs accomplished by an editorial 
pen which yields itself to such purposes. The 
duty of the Christian editor is to remember that 
he is a Christian ;—that he has no more right 
to utter opprobrious and revengeful words in his 
paper than in the intercourse of the most sacred 
private relations ;—that he is a minister of the 
Gospel still,—still to be an " ensample to the 
flock," and to such things as may carry to the 
homes of his readers the savory influences which 
should attend the steps of a Christian pastor. 
True, he may be involved in controversies ;—
but controversies do not necessarily involve dis-
ingenuousness and personal reproach. These 
things the Christian editor should avoid, always 
remembering that personal triumphs are nothing, 
—that there is no real interest but that of truth, 
and that the triumph of truth is as much the in-
terest of others as of himself. What a dread-
ful spectacle, when the Christian press, estab-
lished for the purpose of the world's more rapid 
evangelization, becomes surcharged with bitter-
ness and hate, and instead of conning to the 
household of its readers as the welcome messen-
ger.of love, comes to exhibit and to awaken the 
worst emotions of the human heart ! We be-
lieve it time for thorough circumspection on the 
part of all who conduct the religious press ; that 
we should be specially careful to write no line, 
which " dying we should wish to blot,"—noth-
ing which can damage Christianity and the souls 
of men. Our mission is rather to win the world 
to Jesus Christ, by illustrating the power and 
b ,atity of his grace. Christian Watchman. 
Complaining Christians. 
Some Christians, in ordinary times, do little 
but complain of coldness. But who ever heard 
of a man's getting warm by complaining that it 
was cold ? What if you should find a man on 
a cold winter's day, sitting on a snow-bank, com-
plaining in doleful strains that it was cold, and 
everybody would freeze to death, unless it 
should grow warmer? " Why, sir," you would 
exclaim, " no wonder you are cold, to sit there 
idle on a snow-bank. if you would not freeze 
to death, go to a fire and warm yourself, or else 
go to work and stir your blood." Very well. 
If you are a Christian, complaining of coldness, 
go to a fire and warm yourself—the fire burns 
on God's altar, in your secret place ; and then 
go to work and keep yourself warm. There is 
enough to do in the Lord's vineyard. If you 
sit idle, doing nothing, but complaining of your-
self and brethren, your spiritual good will stag-
nate, your graces will wither arid die, and you 
will have nothing left but the miserable ossified 
carcass of a dead profession. But, if you bestir 
yourself, and enter with your whole heart into 
the Lord's work, you will not have time to think 
of being cold. 
There is a dreadful tendency, in spiritual as 
well as natural coldness, to produce torpor and 
stupidity. When a man is on the point of freez-
ing, he feels this torpor coming over him, and 
is strongly inclined to sit down and make no 
more effort. But yielding to this feeling is cer-
tain death. His only hope is to keep striving, 
to keep up the vital warmth, arid prevent the 
stagnation of his blood. So in the case of one 
who has taken an overdose of opiates. It is cer-
tain death for him to keep still. He will fall 
into a dead sleep, from which he can never be 
awakened. And, in like manner, coldness in 
religious affections induces spiritual sloth ; spir-
itual sloth indulged leads to spiritual slumber, 
and spiritual slumber to spiritual death. 
If Christians would " strengthen the things 
which remain, and are ready to die," they must 
use what strength they have. Labor increases 
a man's strength, while indolence enfeebles the 
body. When a man is recovering from disease, 
if he would regain his strength, he must use 
what strength he has. And, if you would in-
crease your spiritual strength, or recover what 
you have lost, you must use what you have. 
If you would have your graces strengthened, you 
must give them exercise. If you would have 
your love of souls increased, you must use what 
you have, in prayer and efforts to save them. 
If you would strengthen your love to the breth-
ren, you must use it in seeking their spiritual 
welfare, and in holding communion with them 
concerning the things of the kingdom. If you 
would increase your love to God, you must ex-
ercise it in the contemplation and admiration of 
his glorious perfections. Would you increase 
your faith ?—use it by trusting in God, laying 
hold of his promises, and resting on Christ. 
Would you increase your spirit of prayer ?—use 
it in communing with God and interceding with 
others. Would you increase your patience ?— 
use it in bearing affliction ; or your meekness ?—
in suffering injury without resentment. Would 
you increase your spiritual joy ?—use it by di-
recting it towards those objects which call it 
forth. Would you strengthen your hope of eter-
nal life ?—exercise it by contemplating those 
unseen joys which so often filled the apostle 
with. rapture, and gave him a hope " full of im- 
mortality." 
Chris. Treas. 
Materials for Building. Houses. 
Mr. Fowler, of the firm of Fowlers & Wells, 
of this city, with his real practical mind, has 
built a house near Fishkill, on the Hudson River, 
the walls of which are made of prepared gravel. 
The cheapness of the material, the unique char-
acter and comforts of the building have engaged 
much attention. Walls 256 feet in circumfer-
ence, and 11 feet 4 inches high, cost seventy- 
nine dollars to put up, and this amounts to as 
many feet as are embraced in a house 45 feet 
long, 25 feet wide, and 21 feet high—two stories 
and a-half. The materials of which the walls 
are made are compounded of 8 bushels of slacked 
lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and about sixty 
bushels of fine and coarse gravel. This is thor-
oughly mixed up together in a bed to a proper 
consistency, and laid up in walls with standard 
guide boards, braces, &c., to lay the wall solid 
and straight. This wall has stood summer 
heats and winter frosts well. It is plastered, 
inside and out, and is both comfortable and 
solid. The inside walls are made of studs 
lathed and plastered, but we only refer to the 
outside wall as being made of a cheap material, 
which is asserted to stand the weather perfectly, 
and is getting harder and better every day. 
Scientific American. 
Filial .4,ifection. 
As a father considers the little servies his 
children do to him, not so much with regard to 
the value of these services, or of the advantages 
which he finds from them, as of the affection 
which they express in their little attempts and 
offers to serve him ; so our Heavenly Father 
considers more our hearts and affections than 
the things themselves which we have done, or 
indeed can do, of which he stands in no need, 
but accepts of them as demonstrations of our 
love and duty. Thus all we have done with 
a sincere mind for his honor, either in private 
or in public, will be put to our account, and 
will be separated from its dross. The imper-
fections will be forgiven, and what was good in 
us, or our actions, will be valued and rewarded, 
not according to the thing itself, but to the in-
finite bounty and goodness of Him with whom 
we have to do. 
Bishop Burnet. 
Pulpit Ostentation. 
How little, says the eloquent Dr. Chalmers, 
must the word of God be felt in that place, where 
the high functions of the pulpit are degraded 
into a stipulated exchange of entertainment, on 
the one hand, and of admiration on the other. 
And surely, it were a sight to make angels weep, 
when a weak and vaporing mortal, surrounded 
by his fellow sinners, hastening to the grave 
and to the judgment along with them, finds it 
a dearer object to his bosom, to regale his hear-
ers, by the exhibition of himself, than do in 
plain earnest the work of his Master, and urge 
the business of repentance, and faith by the im-
pressive simplicities of the gospel. 
 
 b;tur nava 
Affectionate Preaching.'th. 
There is something in an affectionate state-
ment of gospel truth which is peculiarly calcu-
lated to find its way to the heart. Christianity 
is a religion of sympathy. It is founded on the 
principle of human wretchedness. It meets man 
in every species of sorrow and affliction. It takes 
him by the hand when deserted by human sup-
ports. It pierces the clouds which throw a melan-
choly gloom over the path of life, and opens be-
fore " the wayworn traveller " a " hope full of 
immortality." Let us reflect upon this pecu-
liarity of our holy religion, and consider what 
an advantage it gives us in our public addresses. 
By far the greater part of our congregations are 
suffering in one way or the other. We cannot 
enter a family, and be permitted to know what 
is passing within it, without perceiving that 
there is a worm corroding the root of their com-
forts ; some poisoned arrow drinking up their 
spirits ; some intolerable burden subduing their 
strength. To such, how suitable is the invita-
tion of the compassionate Saviour : " Come 
unto roe, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, 
and I will refresh you !" How appropriate is 
the character of the great High Priest who 
" is touched with the feeling of our infirmities !" 
To such, how adapted are the consolations of 
the Spirit, the promises of the gospel, and the 
resting-place of the saints ! To overlook such 
circumstances, and to discuss abstract truths in 
a cold, and formal, and heartless manner—Oh, 
what a loss of opportunity ! what a mocking of 
human misery! what a dereliction of duty ! 
what a prostitution of office ! what a fearful re-
sponsibility ! Let us, my reverend brethren, 
pray for the heart of a shepherd, for " bowels of 
compassion." Let us take the sufferer by the 
hand, and conduct him to the Saviour. Let us 
lead him to the wells of salvation. Let us pour 
the healing balm into his bleeding heart, and as-
sure him that there is One who sympathizes 
with his sorrows, and who " is able to save to 
the uttermost all that come unto God by him." 
Forgive my earnestness, and permit me to say 
that Christ is the only subject which meets the 
wants and wretchedness of man ; Christ, in his 
person and offices ; Christ, in his doctrines and 
atonements ; Christ, in his spirit and in his gov-
ernment ; in his love, his condescension, his mer-
cy, his salvation ; as the guide and support and 
comfort of his people, as their Redeemer, their 
Friend, their Advocate, their Forerunner, their 
Representative, the Fountain of all blessedness, 
both in time and eternity ! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I 
QIke fluent torah. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, NOV; 27, 1852. 
All reader of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be hon-
ored and his truth advanced ; also, that it man be conducted in 
faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and ditscernment of the 
troth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or 
sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE TALKERS WITH THE DEAD. 
" SPIRIT MESSENGER " is another of the many new 
periodicals which are springing into existence to en-
lighten us poor mortals with communications from 
pretended spirits. As a specimen of their papers, 
and of this new theology, or rather demonology we 
copy the following article and shall comment on it. 
" AN ANCIENT PROPHECY.—In the infancy of the 
human race, there lived an individual who loved the 
ways of righteousness and feared not to speak the 
truth. This individual was the ruler of a nation. 
and his name was Abraham. The spirits will reveal 
what has not been revealed, Abraham was a medi-
um for the spirits of the heavenly world ; and in the 
silence of the night when dreams are wont to visit 
the wearied brain, the spirits came and whispered 
things which he understood not. And where he 
heard the voice of spirits, he thought within his 
mind that the Lord had spoken, and he arose to seek 
a new land which had been pictured to him in the 
metaphorical language which the spirits used. Thus 
Abraham was a prophet, inasmuch as he sought and 
beheld that which should be established ; but he saw 
as through a glass darkly, riot knowing, that the Ca-
naan which was spoken of to him, represented sim-
ply the spiritual blessings which are enjoyed in the 
plesent age. 
" But the truth which the spirits unfolded to the 
soul of the patriarch is beginning to be realized on 
the earth. The blessings of rest and peace are being 
revealed to the advancing spirits of men as the un-
folding flowers of the regenerated world. Sweetly 
bloom the beauties of the approaching day which is 
dawning on the brightening bosom of humanity. 
There has been given to ancient prophets the voice 
of the coming glory ; aril the light which was beheld 
even amid the darkness of the past is rapidly flowing 
from the upper spheres to bless, and cheer, and ele-
vate the world. Thus shall the prophecy of the 
olden time be fulfilled in the unfoldings of the New 
Dispensation. 
 SPIRITS." 
The above, it will be seers, purports to be dictated 
by spirits. The believers in the doctrine therein ad-
vocated, receive it as such. See how it contradicts 
the Bible! GoD has said that " The LORD had said 
unto ABRAHAM, Get thee out of thy kindred &c." 
Not so say these pretended spirits, not the LORD, but 
spirits spoke to ABRAHAM, and when he heard the 
spirits, lie thought the Loire had spoken ! 
In this way why may they riot proceed respecting 
any other scripture,—until all that the Loeb hath 
spoken is declared to have been spoken by spirits? 
If they may take this liberty with one scripture, they 
may with any other, until the LORD is entirely set 
aside. We have no doubt, but that it is the design 
of these pretended teachers, thus gradually to substi-
tute spirits for GOD, in all our approaches to the in-
visible. 
" Sublime Pagan Divinity " is the heading to one 
article in the same paper. It is an extract from CI-
CERO, attributing the creation to the hands of gods,—
in the plural—i. e. to heathen gods. Such is sublime 
divinity in the estimation of the worshippers of spir-
its! It may be a sublime sentiment, but it is most 
untruthful divinity. 
We have been thought unfair by some of these 
spiritualizers for speaking of their regard for their 
new divinities as a denial of Jetossa. But nothing 
is plainer, as we have repeatedly shown, than that 
these pretended spirits, are identical with the pre-
tended gods of the pagans, and that worshippers of 
these show the same regard for their divinities that 
the pagans did for theirs. 
The ideal gods of the heathen, were recognized by 
the Platonics, agreeably to the doctrines of all their 
older poets and philosophers as pretended spirits of 
dead men. DAVID said of the rejecters of JEHOVAH 
in his day, " They joined themselves to Baal-poor, 
and ate the sacrifices of the dead."-106:28. 
The worship of Baal-poor is that into which Israel 
fell when they " abode in Shittim, and the people 
began to commit whoredom with the daughters of 
MOAB. And they called the people unto the sacri-
fices of their gods : and the people did eat, and bowed 
down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto 
Baal-peor : and the anger of the Loan was kindled 
against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take 
all the heads of the people and hang them up before 
the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the 
Loa's may be turned away from Israel. And MOSES 
said unto the jodges of Israel, Slay ye every one his 
men that were joined unto Baal-peor."—N urn. 25:1-5. 
ISAIAH refers to such worshippers when he speaks 
of those which " remain among the graves, and lodge 
in the monuments."—lsa. 65:4. " And when they 
shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have famil-
iar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that 
mutter : should not a people seek unto their Gon ? 
fur the living to the dead ?"—lsa. 8:19. 
When PAUL preached the true GoD to the Atheni-
ans he seemed to them a setter forth of strange dui-
monioon—demons or gods,"—Acts 17:18, 22. " The 
things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to 
demons, and not to Goa."-1 Cor. 10:20, 21. 
PLATO world have " the souls of men that died 
valiantly in battle to be accounted for demons after 
death, and their sepulchres and coffins to be visited 
and adorned as the sepulchres of dcemons." 
And 
EUSEBIUS applies this sentiment to the Catholic wor-
ship and says, " Whence it is our custom to go into 
their tombs, and to make our prayers at them, and to 
honor their blessed souls."—Eusehius, Evang. Prce-
pan 13:11. 
THEODORET addressing the Pagan Greeks, says : 
" If the poet call good men, after their decease, 
guardians arid preservers of men from evil,' (he had 
just quoted Hesiod's lines about dcemons) anti the 
best of philosophers hath confirmed the poet's say-
ing, anti would have their sepulchres respected and 
honored, why then find fault with what we do? For 
such as were eminent for piety, and for the sake 
thereof suffered death, we also call preservers and 
physicians. We do not call them danions ; God for-
bid we should be so mad ! but thefriends and kindly 
disposed servants of God. . . That the souls of holy 
men, even when out of the body, are in a capacity of 
taking care of men's affairs, Plato affirms in the 11th 
Book of his Laws. . . . He bids men believe even 
the vulgar reports [evidencing] it. But you not only 
disbelieve us but are unwilling to hearken to the loud 
voice even of the events arid effects themselves, . 
The martyrs' temples are famous for their beauty 
and greatneSs. They that are in health (there) pray 
for the continuance thereof: they who have long been 
sick with any disease pray for recovery : the child-
less pray for children, they that are entering on a 
journey for companionship and guidance : . . . not 
going to them (the martyrs) as Gods, but making 
application to them as to divine men, and asking them 
to be advocates on their behalf. ((as arrow a•yopw-
7rovE cci-rtgoXoveTE; scut yeeErrOat aepErri3Evact5 tnrip 
G144 irapC4X•CGX0V0TES.)—Now that they who make 
faithful prayers obtain their petitions, appears fiom 
the offerings made by the votaries in acknowledg-
ment of their recovery. For some present [i. e. to 
be hung up in the churches] effigies of eyes, others 
of hands ; some of gold, some of silver... In truth 
the martyrs have abolished, and wiped out of the 
minds of men, the memory of those who were called 
gods. The Lord hath introduced his own dead (the 
martyrs) into the place of your gods ; and the latter 
he hath dismissed, and bath given their honor to his 
martyrs. For instead of the feasts of Jupiter and 
Bacchus, and other such, there are now celebrated 
the feasts of Peter and Paul, Thomas and Sergius, 
&c., arid other holy martyrs Wherefore, seeing 
such advantage from the honoring of the martyrs, 
flee, my friends, from the error of dcemons; and, 
using the martyrs as lights and guides, follow the 
way which leads to God.' "—Elliott's Horce Apoc. 
v. 2, pp. 488-9.. 
EPIPHANIUS, in a different tone, in rebuke of they 
who offered cakes to the Virgin MARY as Queen of 
heaven says, " That saying of the apostle : ' Some 
shall apostatize from the sound doctrine, giving heed 
to fables and doctrines of demons,' is fulfilled in these; 
for, saith he, they shall be worshippers of the dead, 
ES dead men were worshipped in Israel." — Mede, 
636. 
Thus the Pagan and Romanist both worshipped 
the dead in the same sense that these worshippers 
do. The pretended wonders they could perform 
were also fully equal to these ; for JOSEPHUS says : 
" I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose 
name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal, in 
the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, 
and the whole multitude of his soldiers A•nd when Elea- 
zar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he 
had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full 
of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the 
man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know 
that he had left the man. "—Ant. Jews, p. 198. 
Disguise the thought as people may this converse 
with thedead, whether real or a pretence, is precisely 
the same as the real or pretended sorcery of the an-
cients ; and sorcery is a deadly sin tinder the New 
Testament. It was by the sorceries of the apocalyp-
tic Babylon that all nations were deceived. (Rev. 
18:23.) Sorcerers are among those with the dogs 
without the holy city (Rev. 22:15), and they, with 
other sinners have their part in the lake of fire and 
brimstone (21:8). 
Christians do not realize the consequences, or the 
nature of the delusion, when they permit their sons 
and daughters, to run after these rappings and tip-
pings —" seeking for the living to the dead." Said 
Gon to MOSES," There shall not be found among you 
" a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or 
a wizard, or a necromancer "—one who talks with the 
dead.—Deut. 18:11. 
Spirit Rappers. 
Keep away from them. Keep your children away 
from them. Do you ask why 1 Because, 
They certainly do no good. They teach noth-
ing that is worth knowing, they relieve no pain, they 
cure no sickness, they forgive no sin, they sanctify 
no heart, they save no soul. If they rap on tables, 
they do not supply them with food ;- if they shake 
and lift them, they do not servants' hire in moving 
them nor washing dishes. A man might have forty 
thousand such spirits in his house, yet be no better 
off, either in soul, body, or estate. 
They have done much mischief. Many have be-
come insane by running after these spirit rappers. 
The young have been led to trifle with serious and 
sacred things. The Bible has been brought into con-
tempt. Some who professed to be disciples of Ca aisr 
have avowed infidel sentiments, by the influence of 
these rappings. Their tendency is to turn the mind 
from Goo, the concerns of the soul, and eternity, 
Let them alone, because it is wicked and dan-
gerous to meddle with them. Gon has forbidden us 
to " seek unto familiar spirits that peep and mutter," 
or to have anything to do with witches, necroman-
cers and devils. He has, in all ages, allowed devils 
to do some strange and wonderful things, to try and 
prove men. He has forewarned us of this. If he 
has given " lying spirits " leave to tempt this gene-
ration, will you run into the temptation ? No. Let 
all who value their own peace and safety keep away. 
Do not invite the devil to ruin you. 
Western Watchman. 
IS ROME BABYLON, AND WHY! 
FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continued from our lost.) 
In the Helleun and Barber creeds I cannot spare 
space to enter, as it would be going much over the 
same ground. Suffice it to observe, however, that 
this apostasy of the virgin worship never seems to 
have infected the fierce and warrior tribes of the 
North, who, pouring down from the Caucasus, des-
troyed Nineveh in B. c. 560, and seizing on Babylon 
in B. c. 538, made it the capital of their empire. The 
Chaldeans, finding their creed at first patronized but 
ultimately rejected by their conquerors, rebelled, and 
set up as a king one of their own number, SMERDIS 
the magi, but who pretended to be and passed himself 
off as legitimate heir of the last great Northern 
King ; he was slain by a Perso Median revolt. The 
Babylonians again rebelled during their new king's 
absence, and set up a man of Babylon. Their city 
was taken and its king slain. They again revolted, 
their city was taken and sacked, and the people 
slaughtered by XERXES, B. c. 487, and the conqueror 
then removed his residence to •Shushan or Sura in 
Persia. 
The defeated virgin-worshippers rallied upon the 
Greek cities in Asia Minor, making Pergamos their 
centre. Here they removed the palladium of Babylon, 
the cubic stone, the image of the IDEAN goddess (the 
mother of the gods) called CYBELE, perhaps to elude 
Persian wrath. Here, protected by the municipali-
ties which, as in modern Turkey up to 1821, were 
independent of state control, they carried on their 
worship in secret. Here they caballed with the 
Greeks and brought forward ALEXANDER at last as a 
re-incarnation of Niamey), or the true Messiah.—
Chaldean craft had more than Grecian gallantry to 
do with Persian overthrow, and with the defeat of 
those who, in much darkness, and with many errors, 
still had some glimmerings of the one true Gon. 
Nor were the Egyptian priests less criminal. They, 
too, accepted the conqueror as an incarnation of their 
God. 
The death of ALEXANDER defeated the schemes of 
the Chaldeans, and prevented the Hebrews from ap-
pointed massacre ; and the Persian empire recover-
ing its independence not long after his death, drove 
the Chaldee priests and Greek soldiers into Asia 
Minor, where they fully established themselves, but 
combined with the Ionian party against the Dorians 
of Sparta and Macedon, and caballed at length with 
the Romans fur support. Accordingly we find Scr-
am, in preparing for the Greek war, moving that the 
Senate of Rome should, in lieu of its old divinities, 
place itself under the protection of the IDEAN god-
dess ; that this was agreed to ; that SCIPIO, with a 
number of conscript fathers, was sent ; that the 
priests agreed ; that a voice appearing to proceed 
from the image expressed its readiness to remove to 
Rome ; and that it was accordingly installed in the 
capitol, as the secret and tutelar divinity ; that an act 
was passed organizing and incorporating an order of 
monks, and another of mendicant friars, the only beg-
gars allowed by law in Rome, and also forming a se-
cret lay brotherhood in her honor, in which a vast 
number of the aristocracy enrolled themselves, and 
of which SCIPIO, SYLLA, and JULIUS CESAR succes-
sively became chiefs ; but from which the vulgar 
were as rigidly excluded as from the Greek myste-
ries of Elcusis. Alnost at the same time the Ro-
mans obtained admission to the Eleusinian or lesser 
mysteries, till then closed to them as foreigners. The 
organization thus carried on was ultimately supported 
by the Egyytian and Chaldean priesthood throughout 
the empire. By them Csesaa was put forward as 
born in no human mode,* the Son of God. As such, 
he and his mother, VENUS APHRODITE, or ASTARTE 
were jointly worshipped, and their joint images set 
up in the temples dedicated to hint ; and that he was 
preparing to march on Persia, to restore the Chal-
dees, when Isis career was cut short by murder. He 
first celebrated his entrance upott the office by that 
fearful sacrifice of one hundred nobles, one hundred 
knights and citizens, which-only cue before him had 
been able to perform, thus ratifying his inauguration 
as High Priest of Satan with human blood. 
From the very first emigration of the Etrurians 
into Italy, they brought with them a religion and 
mysteries corresponding with the Chaldee, and had 
set up a Pontiff, or Pontifex Maximus or Pope, as 
head of their priesthood, who was with them ; a 
noble, inviolate and above all law, who by his fiat 
could forbid the presenting any measure to the peo-
ple, or carrying out any election as displeasing to the 
deity, and had the power of excluding any individual 
from the rights of the citizenship. He was the head 
of the priesthood, possessing over them the power of 
life and death. From the time of NITIMA the Romans 
had accepted this Pontiff as their civil chief. lie 
was called King of the Ages. He could neither by 
Senate or people, be called to account. His royal 
costume is still worn on all state occasions by the 
reigning Pope. Before the one as before the other 
is always borne the mystic fan, the badge of BAC-
CHUS, or Nimiton, and of BOODH. On his mitre was 
engraved as on that of MASTAI FERRETTI, now the 
name of his GOD, Xpyr, the Greek mystic appellation 
fur Buddha, or Horns of the Mystery. His rights 
and his powers were precisely the same as those of 
the Pope, save that they extended only to the citizens 
of Rome, and he claimed no power over any but 
those;who sought to share in Roman privileges. Still 
he had been hithertoa separatist from the old Chaldean 
priesthood. The ecclesiastical validity of his appoint-
ment might be doubtful. Juelus CESAR, however, 
becoming heir to all the rights and powers of AT-
TALUS, the Pontiff King of Pergamos, became head 
of the Oriental priesthood. Did he, by accepting the 
Pontificate of Rome, combine the two Was he 
supported in this by the Etruscans, forming two 
thirds at least of the Roman people, and by all the 
Orientals? Was it as Pontiff, rather than as Em-
peror, that CESAR differed from preceding generals 
and kings ? Was he thus a secret person, a direct 
representative of the deity, a person above all human 
law ? Was he the first in whom the powers of Pon-
tiff and Imperator had ever been combined ? Was it 
as King of the Ages, that he changed the calendar, 
and reformed the law, as GREGORY since. 
ANTONY, on the murder of Csesaa, attempted by 
aid of the Egyptian priesthood, to perform the same 
part ; and OcTavius, therefore, was;compelled, whilst 
appropriating to himself the rank of Pontiff, to fall 
back upon the Roman nationality, and the old poly-
theutic creed. 
TIBERIUS, however, lent himself to the influence 
of the Chaldean magi. Under his influence they 
governed Rome. Then were introduced the lamps 
burning in mid-day, the long processions with lighted 
skiers, the mysterious incense of the old Chaldees, 
The higher classes on one side were led by the mys-
teries of Chaldea, the lower by those of Isis. The 
Egyptian priesthood, after the union of Egypt with 
Rome, flocking to the capital, differing not more than 
the Dominicans and Franciscans now. The middle 
classes, however, inclined to remain attached to their 
old national form as a bond of union, whilst practi-
cally doubting its truth, and only restrained from 
throwing it off altogether, by national vanity. 
NERO followed and became a proselyte of the 
higher, and ultimately of the left hand mysteries, the 
direct worship of Satan. Can we consider that the 
aspirant to. these horrible rites, which none could en-
ter save by murder, real or pretended, of a human 
victim, sought to destroy the enemies of that Prince 
of Darkness whom he knowingly worshipped ? Was 
it not to screen his own partizans from the hands of 
the people, that he directed against the people of 
CHRIST the wrath of the populace, and saved the fol-
lowers of his and of MITHRA and of ASTARTE, from 
that sxposure of their awful rites, which might have 
sooner proved fatal to him? 
After a' time, however, the Chaldeans became 
alarmed at the general prejudice excited against all 
Orientals ; and the Egyptian priesthood in particu-
lar, astonished at the miracles, and surprised at the 
martyrdom of the apostles, became half persuaded 
that the Christians were even higher magicians than 
themselves, and although not converted, believed. 
According to. ADRIAN, real faith in Egypt—there was 
none. The Christian bishops, in secret, joined in 
the mysteries of Serapis, whilst the priests of Serapis 
admitted the incarnation of CHRIST. 
Fur long previous to the destruction of Jerusalem, 
in the revolt of BAR COCHAB, there grew up in the 
deserts of Engaddi and Nitria two vast communities 
—one the Essenes, the other the Therapeum ; both 
deep students in magic, having all things in common 
under control of their chiefs, abstaining from mar- 
His mother dying previous to his birth, Caesar was taken from _ 
her womb by cutting, and thus gave more to the tasarian opera 
tion.-kSee Dictionary.) 
A 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
381 
riage ; but there is reason to suspect, not unconscious 
of the gratification which can be obtained from opium, 
sheerheesh, hyosogamus, and Bella donna, and other 
forbidden things. These men devoted their whole 
time to that contemplative quiet without which these 
drugs lost their power. They were great mesmer-
ists and miracle workers. They had regular grades 
of initiation, corresponding with modern Freemas-an-
ry. They had a college at Mount Carmel, founded 
by the Chaldeans, settled in Palestine by SuAtavrats-
MR.. The worship of the Virgin there was carried 
on in the same way, as it is by the monks of Motint 
Carmel now. In the second century a man named 
BASILIDES became the high priest of this brotherhood. 
He had previously been initiated in the higher Chal-
dean mysteries. He was a man of vast attainments, 
am id especially in that magical and mesmeric knowl-
edge which enabled him to work false miracles, and 
to impose on men's minds. Scorning the control of 
Rome, he formed a scheme for uniting all the Orient-
al sects, Jew, Christian, Essene, Chaldean, in one 
C immon alliance against the Roman proselytism, al-
lowing each to retain his own belief, yet framing a 
common formula in which all might join. To effect 
this, he pretended to possess a secret revelation, 
handed down direct from St. PETER, and also in some 
degree from MATHIAS. He taught .that Holy Scrip-
ture had a twofold meaning, like the works of 
HOMER, one literal, for carnal men—one spiritual, 
known only to those to whom it had been handed 
down, as to him, direct from the apostles, and re-
served for the verbal teaching of those who should be 
found worthy. Thus, then, it became easy for him 
to adapt the gospel to the views of the Chaldean, and 
whilst perhaps preaching it in its purity, where by 
so doing he could deceive, privately to neutralize its 
purport, and to lead men into his toils. In fact, he 
played the same part as certain Jesuits did, who in 
the seventeenth centuty pretended to be Episcopa-
lians, Presbyterians, and Independents, in order to 
disseminate their own views without suspicion. Are 
there no such men amongst us now ? 
Here, I conscientiously believe begins the turning 
point in the history of that great apostasy which was 
soon to swallow up the Christian Church through 
Asia and half Europe, and which, from the secret 
religion of the higher, became now the avowed creed 
of the humble classes as well. Of this, BASILIDES 
and AMMONIUS SACCAS were the first promoters; 
CLEMENT of Alexandria, BASIL, GREGORY Of Nys-
sa, ORIGEN, and GREGORY the Great, the successful 
chiefs. 
Before entering upon the history of BASILIDES, that 
arch-heretic, it is necessary to consider for ourselves 
the state of mankind at the period in which he lived. 
There exist great errors upon this subject, and good 
men have taken the forgeries of fanatical friars and 
indorsed them by their names as indisputable facts. 
The civilized world then, in the second century, 
was separated, as from the days of JuLius CJESAR 
till now, into four divisions, alienated by difference 
of origin, of language, of religion, and of moral 
character. Of these the first and most ancient was 
the Persian Empire, then including Affghanistan, 
'Canary, with Northern India, and restored under its 
native sovereigns in renewed magnificence. Ruled 
by a dark-eyed, but Aite-complexioned aristocracy, 
combining the mingled blood of SHEM and JAPHETH, 
it was flushed with invariable victory over the Ro-
mans in war. The ruling castes worshipped a Good, 
an Evil, and an Intermediate Spirit dwelling in the 
sun. They sternly prescribed image worship, and 
above all, that of the queen of heaven. As warriors 
ruling by the sword a conquered population, they 
despised the contemplative aad contemned the ascetic 
life. But they governed a vast and a mingled peo- 
ple. In Iran there were many 'races, arid whilst 
the dark Hindoo submitted outwardly to the will 
of his conqueror, and the yellow Tartar chafed 
against his yoke, the conquered tribes clung secretly 
to the creed of BRAHMA or of Bimini. The Khoord 
population again, occupying the Assyrian range, 
inaccessible for horse, remain unmolested, uncon-
quered, arid practically independent. There the fear-
ful mysteries of CYBELE and MernaA. were retained, 
their rites kept up, their magical knowledge trans-
mitted, and sacrifices offered to Satan and the Queen 
of Heaven ; to the Queen of Heaven the unbloody 
sacrifice of the unleavened wafer, to Satan the bloody 
sacrifice of the crucified and quartered man. Occupy 
ing a position which commanded all the passes into 
the empires, the Persian shrank from forcing them 
ihto rebellion, the Roman from assailing and thus 
driving them into alliance with their Persian masters. 
From their Mesopotamian hills there ran several 
chains of mountains through the Greek territory, the 
Taurus, Lebanon, the hills of Engaddi, and others, 
all more or less inhabited then, as now, by the same 
fierce race, with whom, although nominally under 
Greek government, the Roman military authorities 
rarely meddled. Physically they appear a mixed 
race, combining the two great families of JAPHETH 
and HAM, intermarried in the west, with a mixed 
race of apostate Hebrews. Through the hills the 
worship of SEMIRAMIS remained the national faith, 
and at Antioch, at Entesa, and at Mount Carmel, 
were the three great seats of her worship. And 
through the hills of Lebanon, and Koordistan, we 
still have the Ansayrii, Druse, and Ismaylian wor-
shippers of the female principle.—(To be continued.) 
AN EXPLANATION.--... 
DEAtt SIR :—In the excellent description which 
the apostle PAUL gives of Christian charity or holy 
love he says : " It thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in 
iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all timings, 
believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all 
things." While it does not countenance or regard 
with indifference palpable essential errors or wrong, 
it is disposed to think the most favorably in any par-
ticular case which the circumstances will allow. The 
contrary so much appears in the conduct of men, and 
even of many professed Christians as to be heart-
sickening and fraught with untold mischief. How 
frequently are false reports originated by some evil 
minded person, and then they are taken up and prop-
agated by others; and thus one and another, nay, 
thousands are most wickedly wronged : and not un-
frequently the cause of righteousness or important re-
ligious truth is reproached or hindered on its pro-
gress by this means. Every man is under solemn ob-
ligation imposed by his Maker to be cautious against 
originating or giving currency to falsehood. 
Whether it is customary for editors of papers to 
select and insert in their columns articles from other 
publications which contain erroneous sentiments, and 
tend to promote error and make an injurious im-
pression on the mind, especially of those who love 
error, without being accompanied with explanatory 
remarks, I have not taken sufficient pains to know. 
But it appears to me to be unwarrantable, and of the 
nature and tendency of slander. 
I notice inserted in the Advent Herald 6th inst., 
remarks from the Star in the West on an expression 
in Dr. HAWES' sermon before the Gen. Con. of Con-
gregational Ministers of the U. S., which I think are 
unreasonable and groundless, and of very hurtful ten-
dency ; and being inserted unqualifiedly I feared they 
they had your sanction. 
Dr. H. said, " This sort of preaching which 
abounds at this day may fill churches, but it will va-
cate heaven. Dr. CHALMERS for twelve years preached 
morality without any visible good effect." 
The Star in the West added : 
" So then, the bestowment of heaven depends not 
upon God's free grace, but 6pon Orthodox preaching. 
On this principle what will become of the heathen 
world who cannot hear such sermons? Where will 
all the Catholics go at death ? and heretics in general ? 
Alas for tile world, if a particular style of preaching 
is essential to get souls into heaven ! Heaven will 
be vacated indeed if Partialism be true—not enough 
people will gather there to make up a social circle. 
Only think of it ! God has suspended the immortal 
weal or woe of the human family upon a particular 
' sort of preaching.'" 
Is it not the evident tendency of these remarks to 
disparage the great truths of God's word ? Dr. H. 
makes not the slightest allusion to different denomina-
tional preaching. He only speaks of a certain kind 
of preaching which fails to present the essential prin-
ciples of Christianity. Is this " Partialism r Did 
not the apostle PAUL say, I am determined to know 
nothing among you save JESUS CHRIST, and him cru-
cified Are gospel truths and the grace of GOD in op-
position! Or must they or may they be separated ? 
Because GOD'S free grace is the efficient cause of con- 
version is truth needless Is it of no consequence 
what is preached or how it is preached ? Is not gos-
pel truth the instrument which the Spirit makes use 
of in the conversion and sanctification of souls? 
" Born not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, 
by the word of GOD which liveth and abideth for 
ever." " Sanctify them through the truth ; thy word 
is truth." The remarks inserted in your paper carry 
on the very face of them a blow aimed directly at 
sound preaching, or the faithful presentation of the 
leading truths of the gospel scheme of salvation. I 
was therefore sorry to see them without comment. 
In the same number of the Herald are contained 
observations of Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER, in striking 
accordance with that of Dr. HAWES, only stronger. 
" If clergymen in our days," says he, " would re-
turn to the simplicity of the gospel, and preach more 
to individuals arid less to the crowd, there would not 
be so much complaint of the decline of true religion. 
Many of the ministers of the present day take their 
text from St. PAUL, and preach from the newspapers. 
When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own thoughts 
rather than to listen. ALVAN UNDERWOOD. 
West Woodstock (Conn.), Nov. 17th. 1852. 
REMARKS.—The above comments are, we conceive, 
most just, and express our• views fully. This case 
needs a word of explanation. The Star in the West 
is a Universalist paper, with which we do not ex-
change. A single number found its way onto our 
table, and in looking at it, the remarks of Dr. HAwEs, 
to whose preaching we have often listened with plea- 
sure, caught our eye and struck us as being very just. 
We drew our pen around them and gave the paper 
to our compositor, who copied not only the remarks 
of Dr. HAWES which we marked, but also the com-
ments of the Universalist which we dissented from, 
and which we had no idea of copying—much less of 
endorsing. On receiving the paper from the press, 
we saw to our chagrin, that the judicious remarks of 
Dr. HAWES were accompanied by the slur of the 
Universalist. We called the attention of the com-
positor to it and he was confident that we marked 
the whole ; but on finding the copy, only the first 
was marked. It was however too late to remedy it. 
We thank our correspondent for bringing up this 
subject, and giving us an opportunity to disavow any 
sympathy for the comments of the Universalist editor, 
and to explain the cause of their appearance in our 
columns. We suppose it is generally understood 
that editors and printers make some mistakes occa-
sionally, as well as other people. 
WILL LOUIS NAPOLEON INVADE ENG- 
LAND! 
The " invasion panic," excited by the movements 
of Lours NAPOLEON, continues to exercise sensible 
influence over English journalism—the President's 
" peace " speech at Bordeaux, to the contrary not-
withstanding. Whoever recollects this wily gentle-
man's profession of loyality to the Republican Con-
stitution immediately before the December coup d'etat 
will now be able to appreciate fitly his inordinate de-
sire to preserve the peace of Europe. The Times thus 
leads the van of scepticism : 
" Louts NAPOLEON, however, has no sootier her-
alded his triumph and his title to empire, than he 
distrusts his " own peace." The idea must be sus-
tained. Brilliant as was the achievement of the 2d 
of December, it was hardly sufficient for the founda-
tion of an eternal dynasty. An army of half-a-mill-
ion of men will contain a large proportion of lofty 
and restless spirits whose daily study and hourly medi-
tation is on the wars of the Republic, and the career 
of NAPOLEON and his Marshals, all of whom were 
once men like themselves. Their field, their talents, 
their hopes are in war. The morality, the necessity, 
and the utility of war are to them matters of utter in-
difference. All that they ask is to be led against a 
foe. As far as they are concerned, it is the duty of 
the Government to designate the capital to be occu-
pied, or the fortress to be taken, and it is their place 
to do it. It may be reasonably apprehended, there-
fore, that after a few years of incessant excavation, 
shipbuilding, housebuilding, and taxation, the half-
million soldiers backed possibly by the sympathy of 
the people, may ask what they are to do, and why 
work is not to be found for them as for the rest of the 
people. True, they will wait for art opportunity but 
an opportunity will soon he found in some one of those 
petty misunderstandings which are sure to occur every 
now and then between two great and jealous powers." 
The Liverpool Journal thus reiterates its warning 
against the designs of the " avenger cf Waterloo " : 
" Louis NAPOLEON'S belief in his exalted destiny 
knows no diminution. Ile will be Emperor ; and 
what then ? Some daring and desperate act must 
justify tile movement, or, at least, divert the national 
attention into a new channel. The military no longer 
utter a word,' their taciturnity is ominous and when 
they think, there is danger to those who have only 
dubious right to their service. If they speak not, 
they will act ; and the usurper, to prevent their act-
ing against himself, must lead them against others. 
A. Corsican never forgives—and, of course, never for-
gets. A family feud is as long in that island as a 
Chancery suit in England ; amid the feud with us is 
recent—for a Corsican fell by the arms of Great Brit-
ain. The hereditary hatred is, therefore, backed by 
the abiding desire of revenge encouraged in a great 
nation—for Waterloo is a name never mentioned with-
out angry emotion in France. At Toulon, the Prince 
President had repeated before him a sham of the bat-
tle between Soult and Wellington, fought on the spot 
—the foolish French claiming the victory for their 
marshal ; and, as Waterloo lies in Belgium, when he 
visits that place, he contemplates, probably, the per-
formance of more than a sham." 
The Despatch is of opinion that the great metropo-
lis itself is destined to be the scene of conflict : 
" If Lours NAPOLEON thinks of war, and besides 
his own slip of the tongue at Marseilles, there is other 
testimony to show it, his aim is London. Our auto-
cratic allies are urging him on to such violence, when 
they try to defeat his marriage, and put obstacles in 
the way of that destiny,' which would give him an 
interest in peace. A word on this other testimony, 
that we may clear as we go. The French press is a 
permitted, tolerated press, punished by sheer confis-
cation if it offends the Government. We find one of 
Louts BONAPARTE'S own writers declaring that, as 
soon as a few more screw steamers are launched, Eng-
land will be called upon to show her title to Gibral-
tar and the Ionian Islands. This agrees tnarvellously 
with the notion of making the Mediterranean a 
French lake.' M. Louis BONAPARTE, President or 
Emperor, should be made answerable for these words, 
Facts are stronger still. That Napoleon, on which he 
makes his triumphal entry into the harbor of Toulon, 
is especially contrived, though a line-of-battle ship, 
for short voyages. Her storage room is for six weeks' 
provisions ; such a ship generally carries six months.' 
The Napoleon can carry 5,112 men, including her 
crew, for a short voyage, such as throwing soldiery 
upon the nearest beach that is left dry,' instead of 
1,500, as the Constitutionnel boasted. Look at the 
fleet that escorts the Emperor-to-be in Toulon. 
Ville 
de Paris, 120 guns, Vainly, 120 ; screw ship Monte-
bello, 120 ; Henry IV., 100 ; Jena, 90 ; Bayard, 90 ; 
Jupiter, 86 ; Charlemagne, 90 ; four steam frigates of 
450 horse power ; and 12 steam vessels of war. The 
Napoleon is not on the just quitted list, nor the screw 
line-of-battle-ships (first rates), Jean Du Bart and 
Austerlitz, just launched at Cherbourg. Have we 
such a fleet, concentrated or at hand? 'What does 
France want with this armament? It is true that our 
Windsor Castle and Agamemnon, and other such ves-
sels, are getting ready ; but our security depends on 
the command of the seas. We ought not to be easy 
enough to laugh down the idea of making the Medi-
terranean a French lake. It is really no laughing 
matter. We are perparing a land force that will be 
able to repel incursions ; but are we ready where we 
should be, at sea, to prevent anything beyond an in-
cursion ? Should we be at all more surprised to find 
ourselves foiled at sea than the French were to find 
their armies foiled by WELLINGTON I" 
Even the Morning Herald (Government organ) ad-
mits a Cassandrian communication from an individual 
signing himself" JOHN BULL SLICK," which carries 
this warning to the country : 
" I assure you, Britishers, it is high time you set 
your national defence in order, as the Duke of Well-
ington told you. It is impossible to foretel what step 
the new Emperor may be compelled to take, in order 
to manage that Colossus, the French army—a dash-
ing, enterprising set of men, ready for anything, and 
who must be employed. England is vulnerable, and 
no mistake—and it is easy for Louts NAPOLEON to 
find out the place, if he is driven to act hostilely 
Suppose a French force made a dash at Liverpool 
and Manchester, and sacked them both—which could 
be done in no time, the inhabitants would have to 
thank the press for the ruin ; nay, more, London it-
self might he sacked ; there is very little to prevent 
such a catastrophe. The red coats have been seen 
in Paris, and the French forget it not." 
But that the panic is by no means confined to timid 
journalists, the warlike preparations on every side 
amply testify. Fur example : 
" It is in contemplation by the proper authorities 
to construct a battery of guns in the immediate vi-
cinity of Swansea, as a defence against foreign ag-
gression. It is said that the site has been fixed upon. 
With the exception of the fortifications at Milford, 
which are in course of construction, there is not on 
the western board of England a battery or fort worth 
the name from the Land's-end to Liverpool." 
A LONDON LODGING HOUSE.—The following facts 
were testified to by a police officer at an examination 
in London. We can hardly conceive of such desti_ 
tution :—" There were five beds on the floor in the 
room, and no bedsteads. The first contained the de-
fendant, his wife, and three children, aged eight, 
seven, and five years respectively. The second bed 
contained three Irishmen, named Cornelius Toomey, 
John Shea, and Peter Shea, who said they paid Is. 
per week each. In the third lied were John Sulli_ 
van and wife, who declared they paid 7d. a week ; 
in the fourth bed were Cornelius Haggarty, a boy, 
aged 13, and a girl, aged 11, who said they paid ls. 
per week ; and in the fifth bed were Patrick Kelly 
and his wife, who paid is. per week—making in all 
HI persons. They all lay closely packed together, 
and the floor was covered with them." 
The Paris Univers has this startling criticism on 
PROUDHONS new book : " The author is not con-
tent with insulting, according to his custom, the cler-
gy, Christianity, and God himself ; he goes further 
—he insults the Emperor and the Empire " 
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. 
The following letter from a friend at Beverly, 
Washington county, dated November 12-10 P. an., 
describes one of the most terrible steamboat explo-
sions that has ever occurred. We have no time for 
comments : 
MR. BASCOM :—I hasten to inform you of one of 
the most awful catastrophes that has ever been the lot 
of any one to witness—the explosion of boilers of the 
Buckeye Belle, this afternoon about four o'clock, at 
the guard lock, just above the town, in the canal. 
The boat is the most complete wreck that was ever 
seen. Even the lower deck and hull are so completely 
torn to fragments, that there hardly remains a whole 
plank forward of the wheel house, and the cabin pi-
lot house, and every thing back of the wheel house 
shivered to atoms, and strewn to the four winds, cov-
ering the ground and water for a great distance around 
with kindling wood, furniture, trunks and baggage, 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the captains of American vessels on the Pacific, had 
been published. 
The Peruvian Minister at Washington has given 
effect to this intention of his Government. He had 
also addressed a note to the Secretary of State in 
which he engages that the Peruvian Govermneot will 
on its own account freight at $20 per ton on all ves-
sels which have left the United States for these 
islands between the 5th of June and the 25th of Au-
gust, anti that the Peruvian Government will buy at 
a fair price the implements and utensils carried by 
those vessels, to be used in procuring guano ; and 
also that vessels on the Pacific chartered ender or-
ders sent previous to the 25th of August, and which 
could not he countermanded, shall be included in the 
arrangement on condition that they report to the agent 
of the Peruvian Government within the United States 
before the first of January 1853. 
Michael stand up," &c. Here the prophet brings 
to view the resurrection of the dead, and in the fol-
lowing part of the chapter refers to the book being 
sealed till the time of the end ;—an increase of know-
ledge ;—that many shall be purified ;—that the wise 
alone will understand, &c. But it would be unreason-
able to interpret the chapter in consecutive order, 
and argue that all the events predicted must receive 
their accomplishment after the resurrection, simply 
because the resurrection is first mentioned—while in 
the following verses the events which lead to it are 
brought to view? 
In Matt. 24:30, 31—" And then shall appear 
the sign of the Son of man in heaven : anti then 
shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall 
see the Son of man corning in the clouds of heaven 
with power and great glory." And he shall send 
his angels," &c. In these verses the coining of the 
Son of man in glory—the consternation that will 
seize the ungodly, and the gathering of his elect front 
the four winds„ are brought to view ; and in the con-
cluding part of the chapter the premonitions to mark 
the nearness of this event, the resemblance of the 
wicked living at that time to the antediluvians ; the 
faithful servant giving meat in due season, and the 
evil servant smiting his fellow servant. Would it 
he reasonable to suppose that these things will occur 
after the advent of our Saviour, because the coming 
is first mentioned"! 
in Rev. 21st, John sees in vision the new heav-
ens and the new earth, and also the descent of the 
holy city new Jerusalem. While in the 5th verse 
we read, " He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, 
I create all things new." Ili this verse John refers 
to that Almighty Being by whose power and word 
the new heavens and new earth that he saw will be 
brought into existence, and not to the creation of 
another new earth in addition to the one he saw ! 
Several days differing in their nature are contained 
in the Scriptures : " the day," that day," " the day 
of the Lord," to some of which it is difficult to at-
tach an uniform and demonstrable meaning, and ab-
stractly considered it would be difficult to dertermine 
the period of time they signify or the dispensation to 
which they belong. The day of temptation in the 
wilderness was not a natural day of twenty-four 
hours, but forty years. Sometimes in the Old Testa-
ment but generally in the New Testament, " the day 
of the Lord " signifies that solemn period when God 
will judge and reward all men according to their 
works. The phrase " that day," not unfrequently 
refers to the same period, and sometimes to the " gos-
pel day." 
limbs and- bodies of men, in the most awful manner 
that the imagination could possibly conceive. 
There were about 40 passengers on hoard, (beside 
the boat's crew,) among whom were seven or eight 
ladies from this town, some with their children, every 
one of whom escaped with their lives, and with only 
one or two slight injuries, which was most remarka-
ble, as the ladies' cabin was completely broken up—
even the floor fell almost to the lower deck ; the cabin 
deck did not fall to crush them—they remained on 
the stern of the boat (outside of the cabin), until they 
were rescued by their friends in skiffs. From among 
the passengers and crew, seven were killed outright, 
and two have since died, and probably one or two 
more will die before morning. Their names could 
not be ascertained except Mr. Barbour, from Pitts-
burgh. 
Among the wounded are your friend Lealand Mur-
ray, who is badly scalded, and somewhat bruised, but 
I think not dangerously ; Mr. C. C. Covey, formerly 
of McConneilsville, right leg broken below the knee ; 
Mr. Okey, representative from Monroe county, badly 
scalded ; Mr. Bartlett, representative from Washing-
ton county, do.; Mr. Whisson, clerk, leg badly bro-
ken ; Calvin Stull, pilot, leg broken; Mr. Evans, do. ; 
Mr. Daniels, engineer, badly scalded ; the mate, arm 
broken ; Capt. Hahn, scalded inwardly, and arm in-
jured, and five or six more that have broken limbs, 
or are scalded more or less. And there are from six 
to ten or twelve that are missing, who are probably 
among the ruins of the wreck, or in the water. 
The boilers were completely blown to pieces. The 
largest piece (about one half) was thrown more than 
fifty yards over the boat, down the canal, (the boat 
was going op.) another piece upon the guard lock, 
and other pieces more or less in size strewn in every 
direction—one large piece alighting near the top of 
the hill, some three or four hundred yards from the 
wreck, and some of the bricks of the flue were found 
in the lot on the top of the highest hill about town. 
The attempt to describe the scene that presented 
itself at the boat when we arrived, would be impo-
tent and futile. Imagination is hastily lively or pro-
lific enough for the task. The scene was too horrid 
for description. We almost doubted the sense of 
sight, so like a dream it seems. - 
The explosion was undoubtedly occasioned by car-
lessiess of the engineer in letting the water get too 
low, and the moment the engine was stopped to let 
the boat pass the guard lock, it exploded with such a 
shock as to shake the houses all over town. 
E. H. s. 
A telegraphic dispatch received has the following : 
—" Nu ladies were injured. The killed, so far as 
known, are John Barbour, of Pittsburgh, produce 
dealer ; James Daniels, of Harmer, engineer ; John 
West, of Coalrun ; S. S. Butler, colored ; Edward 
Atherton, of Beverly ; Wm. Stull, and ten others. 
The injured are Captain Hahn, arm broken, and badly 
scalded ; Mr. Whisson, first clerk, one leg broken 
and both feet anti ankles mashed, probably will die ; 
Calvin Stull ; Senator C. Covey has his leg broken, 
Edward Blackmer, and many others, names not 
known. The boat is torn all to pieces. Every flue 
collapsed in one boiler,—the other boiler cannot be 
ltund." 
Ohio State Journal. 
New Troubles with Mexico. 
The recent quarrel on the Rio Grande, between 
Can ales, the Mexican revolutionist, (as he is some-
times called) and General Avalos, the Mexican Gov-
ernor and Commander of Tamaulipas, has bequeathed 
new troubles to the United States in its relations 
with the Mexican Government. During the hos-
tilities, it will be remembered, Avalos, in the exer-
cise of his authority—Matamoras being in a state of 
siege—so modified the Mexican tariff as to allow the 
importation of a large quantity of American goods, 
which could not otherwise have come into her coun-
try. The goods were entered and paid duty at Meta-
moras, and were sent by the owner, one Moritz 
ers, to Monterey. There, however, die goods are 
said to have been embargoed by the authorities of the 
Mexican Government who resided there, tinder the 
pretext of being contraband and subject to detention, 
and were at last confiscated. Subsequently, a por-
tion of this merchandize, consisting of 1,224 bales, 
(not considered contraband) was given up to Speyers 
by order of the Custom House authorities, but for 
which he had to give security—the remaining 1,559 
bales being detained under the aforesaid pretext of 
being contraband, anti subject to confiscation. They 
arestill in the custody of said authorities, and a claim 
is now made to have the duties that have been paid 
refunded, together with the losses to which the own-
er has been subjected. The protest of Speyers had 
been laid before the Mexican Minister of Foreign 
Relations, by Mr. Letcher, lent he not obtaining the 
satisfaction required, Mr Rich, Secretary of the 
American Legation, in Mr. Letcher's absence at 
. home, was instructed to prosecute the claim. Mr. 
Speyers says that he has, in effect, done all that he 
can do in the premises, but without obtaining a retri-
bution of the claim, and adds that he " does not know 
how the Mexican Government can pay the claim, 
having neither money nor credit, and threatened 
moreover with revolutions from all quarters." 
And so the matter stands. But the claim, mani-
festly a very just one, we have no doubt will, with 
some perseverance, be prosecuted to a favorable issue. 
N. Y. Express. 
The Cloves of Commerce. 
The article known in commerce as cloves, are the 
unopened flowers of a small evergreen that resembles 
in appearance the laurel or the bay. It is a native 
of the Molucca, or Spice islands, but has been carried 
to all the warmer parts of the world, and is largely 
cultivated in the tropical regions of America. The 
flowers are small in size, and grow in large numbers 
in clusters at the very ends of the branches. The 
cloves we use are the flowers gathered before they 
are opened, and whilst they are still green. After 
being gathered, they are smoked by a wood fire, and 
then dried in the sun. Each clove consists of two 
parts, a round head, which are the four petals or 
leaves of the flower rolled up, inclosing a number of 
small stalks or filaments. The other part of the 
clove is terminated with four points, and is, in fact, 
the flower-cup, and the unripe seed-vessel. All 
these parts may be distinctly shown if a few leaves 
are soaked for a short time in hot water, when the 
leaves of the flower soften, and readily enrol. The 
smell of cloves is very strong and aromatic, but not 
unpleasant. Their taste is pungent, acrid, and last-
ing. Both the taste and smell depend on the quan-
tity of oil they contain. Sometimes the oil is sepa-
rated from the cloves before they are sold, and the 
odor and taste in consequence are much weakened by 
this proceeding. 
A Rat Story. 
A neighbor, entitled to explicit credence, relates a 
story of the cunning intelligence of a rat, more re-
markable we think than any we have listened to. He 
says, being plagued with rats about his barn, he 
made various attempts to secure some of them with a 
trap, but without success. The trap used was made 
of wire, and was so constructed that on a rat enter-
ing arid nibbling at a bait, the trap would spring and 
catch the intruder. The man, upon frequently find-
ing the bait gone, concluded he would watch the 
trap. Soon half a dozen rats made their appearance, 
and among them one that seemed to have more years 
than the ethers. He advanced slowly and cautiously 
towards the trap, and when the others would make 
a move as if intending to rush to the bait, the old 
fellow would wag his tail, and they would fall be-
hind him. After viewing the trap closely, the old 
fellow approached the back part of it, and getting on 
it shook the raised part until the trap sprung, and 
then put a paw through one of the openings between 
the wires, and taking the bait off made his retreat 
with it. The same thing was repeated the second 
time the same afternoon. Our neighbor determined 
not to be outgeneraled by a rat, and set a common 
trap in a keg, and covered it with Indian meal. In due 
time the old culprit entered the keg and was secured. 
Williesbarre Gazette. 
Langnage of the Law. 
If a man would, according to law, give to another 
an orange, instead of saying,, " I give you that or-
ange," which one would think would he what is called 
in legal phraseology, " an absolute conveyance of all 
right and title therein," the phrase would run thus—
" I give you all and singular my estate and interest, 
right, title, and claim, and advantage of and in that 
orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp, and pips, 
and rights and advantages therein ; with full power 
to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give 
the same away, as fully and effectually as I, the said 
A. B., am now inclined to bite, cut, suck, or other-
wise eat the same orange or give the same away, 
with or without its rind, skin, juice, pulp or pips, 
anything heretofore or hereinafter, or in any other 
deed or deeds, instrument or instruments, of what na-
ture or kind soever; to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding ;" with much more to the same effect. 
Such is the language of lawyers; and it is gravely 
held by the most learned men among them, that by 
the omission of any of these words, the right to the 
said orange would not pass to the person for whose 
use it was intended. 
Mexican Affairs. 
The latest dates from Vera Cruz are to the 3d 
inst., and from the city of Mexico to the 28th ult. 
Vera Cruz was still in a state of revolution, and the 
insurrection at Mazatlan had not been suppressed. It 
was also rumored in Mexico that the Michoacan in-
surgents had entered Morelia, and that the govern-
ment troops had pronounced in their favor. The 
revolution of Guadalajara seems to be gathering 
strength, and presents a inure formidable aspect. A 
change of its plan has been made. All the public 
authorities who have forfeited the confidence of the 
people are disarmed. An extraordinary Congress, 
composed of two deputies from each State, is con-
voked, which shall proceed to the election of a Presi-
dent ad interim, and a reformation of the constitution. 
Gen. Santa Anna is called upon to return to the 
Republic, and Gen. Uraga is invited to place himself 
at the head of the movement. 
The condition of Mexico is most unfortunate. Dis-
tracted by internal dissensions, and no money in the 
treasury, nor means to prolong the government, noth-
ing but anarchy and national extinction seems to await 
the Republic, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
MOURNING AT THE CRUCIFIXION. 
EY J. W. BONIIA:Yl. 
" And I will pour upon the house of David, and 
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace 
and of supplications : and they shall look upon me 
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn fur 
him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be 
in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for 
his first-born. In that day shall there be a great 
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hada-
drimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land 
shall mourn, every family apart ; the family of the 
house of David apart, and their wives apart ; the 
family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives 
apart ; the family of the house of Levi apart, and 
their wives apart ; the family of Shimei [or Simon] 
apart, and their wives apart.—Zech. 12:10-14." 
Great care is necessary whenever we attempt to 
explain the predictions recorded in the Old Testa- 
ment, anti especially those which refer to the work 
of the Messiah. His first and second advents are so 
frequently blended, also the events to transpire in 
connection with each ; in view of which it is some- 
times difficult to determine time events which belong 
to the first advent from those connected IA ith time 
second, and the true order of their accomplishment. 
The sufferings of Christ and the glory that shall fol-
low are so intimately connected, that it is not to be 
wondered at that some have supposed that the glory 
referred to received its aceomplishment in the days 
of our Saviour and his apostles. The two events are 
not unfrequently connected in their scriptural record, 
without the slightest intimation of the period to 
elapse from the fulfilment of the one to the accom- 
plishment of the other. Such being the case the ne- 
cessity for receiving the testimony of other scriptures 
which bring to view the intermediate period and the 
work to he accomplished during the same is obvious. 
Notwithstanding the existence of the difficulties 
referred to there is one very encouraging and inter- 
esting feature which should lie borne in mind, viz., 
the first advent is in the past, and the events to be 
accomplished in immediate connection therewith have 
received their fulfilment. The New Testament is 
the sacred record of the work then accomplished 
through the death of the Saviour, with many impor- 
tant events which then occurred. Some of the New 
Testament writers, through God's grace, were en-
gaged in the important work of showing the fulfil- 
ment of those events predicted to occur in immediate 
connection with the death of the Messiah. They 
called attention to the prediction, and placed by its 
side the event which was its fulfilment ; and they 
adopted this course in so many instances that it ap-
pears almost marvellous that the Jews were not con- 
vinced that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Mes- 
siah. If we can, therefore, show that certain proph-
ecies received their accomplishment at the first ad- 
vent, the contrast between the nature and the events 
of the first and second being so striking, and at the 
same time so similar, it will remain for certain 
Christians to prove that events which literally took 
place at his first advent will be acted over again after 
his advent in glory. 
 
In the Old Testament prophecies great events 
are boldly brought to view, while the mode and 
means which lead to their accomplishment are after- 
wards revealed. If this be not borne in mind there 
will be danger of reading the first bold statement, or 
climax, and because the events which lead to the 
same are afterwards recorded—of concluding that 
such will follow, instead of viewing them as those 
which preceded, and ,ushered it in. Much contro- 
versy has been the result of teachers crowding to-
gether things which differ, and should have been 
separated ;—supposing events to be identical which 
were not ;—placing afterwards what should have been 
placed before ;—and especially through interpreting 
the discursive prophecies its the chronological order 
in which they are written. A few examples will il-
lustrate this point : 
In Isa. 53:1 the prophet inquires—" Who bath 
believed our report ? and to whom is the arm of the 
Lord revealed ?" The fulfilment of this is recorded 
in John 12:37, 38—" But though he had done so 
many miracles before them, yet they believed not on 
him : that the saying of Esaias the prophet might 
he fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed 
our report ? and to whom bath the arm of the Lord 
been revealed I.' This prophecy therefore, as to the 
order of its fulfilment belonged to a period subsequent 
to the birth of our Saviour, and yet the prophet 
mentions the effect first, and afterwards the partitu-
lams relative to our Saviour's birth, sufferings, and 
death. 
In Dan. 12:1, 2—" And at that time shall 
" The way of the symbolical language in expres-
sions determining the space of time may be yet set in 
a plainer light from the manner of predictions, or the 
nature of prophetical visions. For a prophecy con-
cerning future events is a picture or representation of 
the events in symbols, which being brought Irons ob-
jects visible at one view or cast of the eye, rather 
represent the events in miniature, than its full pro-
portion, giving us more to understand than what we 
see."— Weinyss' Spur. Diet. 
In Zechariah and other books it will lie necessary 
to pay particular attention to the events brought to 
view, which step will aid us considerably in our en-
deavors to determine the period referred to in such 
expressions as "that day." 
The first verse of our text directs on] attention to 
the purpose of Jehovah to punish those nations who 
have fought against Jerusalem. It does not, how-
ever, necessarily follow that this punishment must be 
inflicted in immediate connection therewith. 
In Dan. 9:27 we learn that Jerusalem will remain 
desolate from the period of its destruction until the 
consummation, at which period that that is deter-
mined by God will be poured upon her desolator—
" And Iwill pour upon the house of David, and the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of 
supplications : and they shall look upon me whom 
they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as 
one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitter-
ness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-
born." 
Some have considered that this mourning, &c., 
will be fulfilled after the second advent of our Sa- 
viour. And, but for the principle of retrogression 
that occurs so frequently in the prophecies, this view 
would, from the fact that it is recorded al ter the men-
tion of judgments to come upon those who have 
fought against Jerusalem, appear more reasonable. 
But this interpretation has been given through being 
governed by its consecutive order. Should those 
who adopt this mode pursue it through the whole of 
this and the following chapter, they would be com-
pelled to admit that v. 7 ch. 13 must be fulfilled in 
the future : " Awake, 0 sword, against my shepherd 
and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord 
of hosts : smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be 
scattered," &c. But according to Matt. 26:31 it re-
ferred to and was accomplished at the first advent. 
The gazing at the pierced Saviour, and the conse-
quent mourning literally occurred in connection with 
the crucifixion. It is more natural to suppose that 
this effect should have been produced among those 
Settlement of the Lobos Difficulty. 
The Intelligencer contains a statement of the final 
settlement of the Lobos island difficulty. President 
Fillmore atad Cabinet, after examining various docu-
ments, came to the determination that it was just 
and proper to withdraw the objections taken by the 
late Hon. Daniel Webster regarding, the rights of 
Peru, and accordingly acknowledged unreservedly 
her sovereignty over the Guano Islands on the Peru-
vian coast. 
It was known from a communication addressed by 
the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Mr. Clay, the U. 
S. Consul, that the Government of Peru was willing 
to freight on its own account, the American vessels 
that had already been chartered in accordance with 
the letter of Mr. Webster to load guano on the 
islands, and a notification to this effect, addressed to 
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383 
who were acquainted with him as " the man of sor-
rows," and who witnessed his agony, grief, suffer- 
ings, and death, than among those who, after his sec- 
ond advent, will gaze upon him as King of kings and 
Lord of Lords, in glory brighter than the noon day 
sun ! This point must he determined by an appeal to 
the Scriptures. John 19:34, 36, 37—" But one of the 
soldiers pierced his side, and forthwith came there 
out blood and water. . . For these things were done, 
thut the scriptures should be fulfilled, A bone of him 
shall not be broken. And again another scripture 
saith, They shall look upon him whom they have 
pierced." 
That tt.ere was great mourning at the same period 
may he learned from Luke 23:27, 28, 48—" And 
there followed ,:him a great company of people, and 
of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 
But Jesus turning unto them, said, Daughters of 
Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, 
and for your children . . And all the people that 
came together to that sight, beholding the things 
which were done, smote their breasts and returned." 
Consider the solernnitiesof the scene which they be-
held, and inquire what more calculated to produce such 
an effect, and cause such an anguish of soul that they 
manifested it externally by smiting upon their breasts 
and returning to their homes! Although many cried 
out against him and demanded his crucifixion, when 
they saw the wonderful displays of almighty power, 
they were constrained to acknowledge him ; yea, 
some said, " Truly this was the Son of God."—
Matt. 27:54. 
Hearts of adamantine hardness not wholly seared, 
could scarcely see the Saviour forsaken of his dis- 
ciples, and standing alone the object of the bitterest 
malice and most inveterate hatred even of those he 
came to save and remain unmoved ! And when they 
saw the cross upon which he was doomed to die ; 
the rough handling he was receiving from those ap-
pointed to put him to death ; to see them boring his 
hands and his feet, and the ponderous hammer raised 
to fasten him immovably to the cross ; when they 
saw him writhing in paroxyms of agony, his brow 
scratched and torn with the thorny crown, and the 
blood trickling into his eyes as he raised them to 
gaze towards the throne of his heavenly Father, and 
streaming from the holes in his hands and feet—
how, we ask, could they but weep ? And then again, 
although surrounded with enerni, s, and bathed in 
tears, and writhing in agony, when he looks towards 
the realms he had left and seeks strength and sym-
pathy there, 0, how his soul was crushed to find the 
heavens as brass, and the face of his Father for a 
time obscured ; and when they heard him cry in 
tones before unheard and unearthly : " Eloi, Eloi, 
lama sabachthani," how could they remain un-
moved ? And when they observed the conduct of 
those who could pass before a scene so solemn wag-
ging their heads and tauntingly saying, " Ah, thou 
that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three 
days, save thyself and come down from the cross," 
watched him in his sufferings for three long hours— 
amid the darkness that added to the horror of the 
scene, heard him cry, " It is finished !" saw his head 
droop—heard him utter his last expiring sigh—com- 
mend his spirit to God, and close his eyes in death— 
how could they prevent the throbbing of their hearts, 
and the gushing forth of tears? How could his mur-
derers, when they saw the darkened sun, and felt the 
upheavings of the earthquake, and perceived that even 
the graves were opened to resign some of their sa-
cred deposits, refrain from dreading the consequences 
of what they had done, and at the same time look on 
him whom they had pierced 
at And all the people that came together to that 
sight, beholding the things that were done, smote 
their breasts and returned." And after leaving the 
solemn scene they mourned doubtless at their homes, 
in fulfilment of the words : " In that day shall there 
be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning 
of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And 
the land shall mourn, every family apart ; the fam- 
ily of the house of David apart, and their wives 
apart ; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and 
their wives apart ;" &c.—(To be continued.) 
Co-operation of Brethren in Vermont. 
Resolutions passed at a meeting of Adventists, at 
Montgomery, Vt., on the 6th inst., in reference to the 
Conference at Waterbury at the same time. 
Whereas a Conference of Adventists from all 
parts of the State had been called at Waterbury, and 
undesignedly at the same time of our meeting in this 
place, by which many of us that have come to this 
meeting have been prevented from attending the for- 
mer ; and whereas we fully approve the object of the 
Conference at Waterbury : 
Resolved, That we sympathize with our brethren 
in their labors to promote the interests of the Advent 
cause in the State, and pledge our support to any 
measures they may adopt to advance it. 
Resolved, That we think the time has come for 
united and energetic action, not only to sustain the 
churches, but to advance the cause by extending the 
knowledge of the Advent near into new places. 
And we believe the time has come, when we should 
lay aside every hinderance to this work, and engage 
anew for a revival of religion in our own souls, that 
we may promote the conversion of others, and in-
crease the number that will hail the return of the 
Son of God. 
Resolved, That we hope a general meetino• will 
he held soon,—if need be, in which we may fix upon 
the best means of united action to build up the cause 
of Christ among us. 
At the meeting at Waterbury aforesaid, at which 
were present Elders limes, Orrock, Stone, Cole, 
Watkins and, Merrill, besides a good number of 
brethren ; Bro. Stone was called to the chair, and 
Bro. Merrill appointed Secretary, when the above 
preamble and resolutions were introduced and unani- 
mously adopted. A. STONE, Chairman. 
ADDISON 'MERRILL, Sec'y. 
THE HARVEST IS PAST. 
" The harvest-time,—the harvest-time"—
Most glorious season in our clime, 
" Hath pass'd," the wind-gods proudly chime ; 
Her gorgeous hues, and sunset glows 
Have faded like the summer rose. 
The fields and meadows naked lie 
All open to the northern sky ; 
And the forest leaflets dry, 
Quail before the shiv'ring blast, 
On the earth's cold bosom cast. 
Pass'd the grand autumnal days ; 
No more list we harvest lays, 
And the sheaves of golden maize 
All are garner'd, snug and fast, 
Secure against Boreal's blast. 
The shining nuts of brown and red, 
Have the squirrel species hid 
In their nests 'gainst time of need,— 
And they toil'd steady and fast, 
To gather them ere harvest pass'd. 
The prudent husbandman now stands 
And looks with transport on his lands, 
All glean'd with caution by his hands,— 
Nor murmurs he, that winter's come, 
But feasts with joy within his home. 
But the sluggard,—he that stood 
With folded arms, in careless mood, 
Whose hands no summer seed had sow'd. 
Among his neighbors (loth complain 
That he's no garner fill'd with grain. 
He lived to while away the hours 
Of summer 'neath her rosy bowers, 
Plucking the evanescent flowers 
At pleasure's beck,—we ever thought 
He'd beg in harvest having naught. 
Unlike the slothful tiller, may 
We labor on from day to day, 
in Jesus' vintage earnestly,— 
So, when that day shall come--the last, 
We'll not lament " the harveet past." 
For God's true vintagers shall stand 
High up within the "promised land," 
With golden sheaves in either hand,-- 
And then shall His all-dazzling dome, 
Re-echo to the harvest-home. 
ABBIE. 
One of our respected subscribers writes :—" As I 
was born in the memorable year 1780, you must see 
that the sands of life must be nearly run out. This 
solemn fact is so deeply impressed upon my mind, 
that the subject is never absent from my mind a day, 
and seldom one hour in that day. Under such a deep 
impression, and a review of my long and unprofita-
ble life, I feel further from what some call Christian 
perfection than ever. I have really thought whether 
it may riot be possible after thirty-two years profes-
sion, I may be a cast-away. My only hope and plea 
is, that Jesus died for one of the chief of sinners, and 
can feelingly say with our pious poet : 
mat In thy fair book of life and grace, 
May I but find my name 
Recorded in some humble place, 
Beneath my Lord the Lamb." 
" I can now assure my dear brother, that the Sec-
ond Advent doctrine has lost none of its interest in 
my mind, but deepens daily. And on looking round 
upon an ungodly and scoffing world, and a slumber-
ing church, I am led to ask myself' the serious ques-
tion, t Who made thee to differ ?' The only answer 
that I can give to this important question, is found 
in the revelation made to good old Simeon, as he 
was assured, that he should not see death before he 
had seen the Lord's Christ, so I trust that I can say, 
that the Lord will not send the pale messenger to my 
dwelling, without giving me to see by faith, and 
feel that the same Jesus will soon return to conse-
crate his Bride, destroy the wicked, and introduce 
us into the newt heavens, and the new earth where-
in dwelleth righteousness.' " 
Fredericton, Oct. 28th, 1852. 
Bro. LEVI DUDLEY writes from Perry's Mills, (N. V.), Nov. 
2d, 1832. 
BRO. HIMEs :—I would say for the encouragement 
of those that love the Lord " in deed and in truth," 
and love to hear that sinners are repenting of their 
sins and turning to the Lord with all the heart, that 
the Redeemer's cause is prospering in some portions 
of this section. We still have interesting meetings 
in Oldtown. I have preached with them once in two 
weeks through the season thus far. We have a good 
attendance and a candid hearing, but I want them to 
have a better shepherd. I have also preached at 
Swanton Falls, Vt., once in four weeks since last 
winter ; we have had very interesting meetings, some 
souls have been converted, and one baptized. The 
congregation is increasing in numbers, and give the 
best attention to the preaching of the word. The 
brethren in this section are anxious to have Bro. 
[limes make them a visit this winter. Come if pos-
sible. 
Note. I cannot possibly come to your aid, at pres-
ent. You will call on Bro. Taylor, and others who 
can. May the Lord still bless and prosper you all 
in the Lord.—J. V. H. 
OBITUARY. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE : he who believeth in 
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and betieveth in me, will never die."-John 11:25, 26. 
BRO. IIIMES :—The " generation," to whom the 
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of my aged father, SAMUEL KIMBALL, of Groton, N. 
H., who died Nov. 9th, 1852, aged 81 years, nine 
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Christ forever in his kingdom. Yours in hope. 
LEONARD KIMBALL. 
Groton (N. 11.), Nov. 15th, 1842. 
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Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief- 
I. The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
11. The Personal Advent of CitaisT at the commencement of tha 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
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The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
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V111. The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
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The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
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The Senate met on Thursday, for the purpose of settling ers in port. 
the preliminaries for the establishment of the Empire. About The Captain-General is moving the 20 or 30,000 men now 
all that the public know is, that ten members voted that the in the army of Cuba front point to point, and organizing 
people should be consulted. M. Fould, Minister of State, them for immediate action. Four companies of the regiment 
declared that the Government did not oppose the proposition, of Naples, with a company of lancers, have just been sta-
which was referred to a special committee, whose report dotted at Cardenas. 
worth! be presented on the 6th. 
It is stated its Paris as certain, that the Senatus Consults 
will declare the imperial crown hereditary in the person of 
Louis Napoleon and his male descendants ; and in the event 
of his not leaving male heirs, then in the person of his 
adopted son ; should the latter die childless, afterwards in 
BOSTON, NOV. 27, 1852. 
the person of ex-King Jerome and his family. 
Abdel Kader continues to he the lion of the day. He had 
a second time visited Louis Napoleon, and was entertained 
with a review of cavalry. 
We have in progress, intending to issue them about the 
The Russian and Prussian Ministers have received sudden 1st of Jan. prox.— 
orders from their respective Governments, no longer to ab-I. "ABRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE," 
sent themselves from their posts at Paris. 
by S. BLISS. 384 pages. Price 50 cts. 
 
The Government has made an offer to purchase the Journal This embraces, besides expositions on the other portion of 
des Dehats, with a view of getting rid of its influence. the Apocalypse, that which has already been published in 
The Council of State has lately had a number of questions the tracts entitled the "Approaching Crisis," and " 
brought before it relative to legacies besmeathed to the clergy, nomena of the Rapping Spirits." 
and in particular to Jesuits. One point appears decided on, Its including those portions already published, enables us 
that whatever gifts or legacies may be authorized, the Gov- to put it at the low price of fifty cents, which we should not 
eminent will not sanction any donation of real estate. otherwise be able to. 
The following paragraph occurs in the message which In the introduction it presents the Elements of Prophetic 
was sent by Louis Napoleon to his Senate on the 4th inst. Interpretation, the nature and laws of tropes and symbols, 
It is explicit, to say the least :—" Indeed, in the re-establish- for which the author is much indebted to Mr. Lord. And 
ment of the Empire the people finds a guarantee for its rights while aiming to follow these laws in the interpretation, the 
and eatisfaction to its just pride ; this re-establishment is a various expositions are illustrated by showing their harmony 
security for the future, closing, as it does; the era of revolu- with parallel scriptures and history. 
tions, and consecrating again the conquests of 1789. It sat- 'While making no pretensions to originality, it is believed 
isfies its just pride, because, raising again freely and delibe- that a more consistent and harmonious view of the following 
rotely what all Europe thirty-seven years ago destroyed by subjects, is there presented, than in any other work issued 
force of arms amidst the disasters of the country, the people from this office, viz.: 
nobly revenges its reverses without making any victim, with- 1. The Seven Churches of Asia—that they are the seven 
out threatening any independence, and without disturbing the literal churches natured. 
2. The Sealing of the Servants of God—that they are 
peace of the world " Miscellaneous. 
those alive on the earth at the coining of the Lord, it being 
The Ministerial crisis in Sardinia has not advanced a step, under the sixth seal. 
but M. de Reval, head of the Constitutional party, has been 3. The Rainbow Angel—that it symbolizes the Reforma- 
summoned by the King in all haste from Chambery, Tuscany• Lion under Luther. 
The learned Imantrel Repeletti, author of the Geographical 4. The Two Witnesses—that they are the Scriptures and 
and Historical History of Tuscany, died on the 24th ult. the Church—the latter sustaining a relation to the formdr 
Sir Henry Bulwer had returned to Florence from Rome. like that of the candlesticks to the olive trees in Zechariah's 
A correspondent of the London papers states, that nine of vision. 
Edward Murray's fellow prisoners were shot at Ancona on 5. The River Euphrates—that is a symbol of the people 
the 25th ult. 
on which the Mystical Babylon is seated. 
A violent storm raged on the northern coast of Sicily on 6. The Mouth of the Beast—its religious hierarchy. 
. the 19th ult., and caused much damage to the shipping. 7. The Image of the Beast—the Papacy. 
The eruption of Mount Etna has increased in intensity, but 8. The Two-Horned Beast that gave life to the Image— 
causes little apprehension, as the lava follows in the old the Eastern empire. 
tracks. 
9. The Angel of the Everlasting Gospel—the Gospel dis- 
• 
SP AIN.—The Council of Ministers met on the 29th, to pensation. 
decide the question of a Colonial Department. 
10. The Unclean Spirits—a symbol of the Rapping Spir- 
'Fhe Government, it is reported, is about to sell all the salt its, &c. 
mines belonging to the State. 
Gen. Concha has declined to attend the Wellington fume-
. ral. The Spanish army will therefore be represented by the 
Doke of Ossima. 
The Catalina sailed from Barcelona on the 25th, having 
on board 500 men, to reinforce the garrison in Cuba. 
RUSSIA.—Dates ft.oin the Baltic of Oct. 26th, state that 
the ice is beginning to form towards St. Petersburg. 
The Trieste Gazette states that Russia has rejected the 
protest of Turkey against the independence of Montenegro. 
GERMANY.—The Austrian Premier, Count Buolschawen-
stein, opened the Zoll Congress at Vienna on the 2d. 
The Darmstadt Allies have decided that they will enter 
into a Customs union with Austria, leaving the path open to 
a re-union with Prussia till 1st January, 1854. 
The King of Sweden is so dangerously ill, that it has 
been deemed necessary to appoint an interim regency for 
Norway and Sweden. 
Count Pulszky has written to the Cologne Gazette, indig-
nantly denying that he had sought a reconciliation with Aus-
tria. He says : " Austria does not treat with rebels, and I 
do not treat with despots." 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
NEW WORKS. 
its choice selections and chastely written original articles. 
SUMMARY. 
II. " Mrmotas or WILLIAM MILLER," with a like-
ness. 
This wall include the fifty-four pages of the Life of Wil-
liam Miller published two years since, and will complete the 
original plan respecting the publication of his life, which, for 
causes not necessary td name, has been so long interrupted. 
It is designed to trace his journeyings to all the different 
places he visited, with extracts of letters written to and by 
him, (many of them never before published) and numerous 
sketches of interesting incidents connected with his preach-
ing, notices of the press &c. 
It will probably contain between 300 and 400 duodecimo 
pages ; and we hope to furnish it for 51,00. 
We are prompted to the publication of this, by a sense of 
justice to Mr. Miller and to the cause identified with him. 
And we hope the friends will aid us giving these works a 
general circulation. 
" Christian Ladies' Parlor Magazine for Dec. Rev. F. 
Janes, Editor. New York : James H. Pratt & Co., 116 
Nassau-+f eel." 
This well-conducted periodical maintains its character for 
— A few days since, as Mr. E. F. White was at work 
on a building in Charlestown, he fell with the staging, a dis-
tance of twenty feet, and Was severely injured. 
— One day last week a lady named Jipson was knocked 
clown by an omnibus in 'Fremont Row, and lucidly bruised. 
She was conveyed to her residence at South Boston. 
— A house in New York, under which repairs were 
going on, fell to the ground with a tremendous crash on the 
17th, instantly killing Daniel Linn, and badly injuring one or 
two others. 
— A lad named John Doit was killed in Buffalo Fri-
eay afternoon, by the house in which he resided falling down. 
His sister, the only person with him, ahnost miraculously es-
caped injury. The house was of brick, one and a half sto-
ries high, annul situated on Pratt-street. 
— In Philadelphia, the 17th inst., Mrs. Margaret Mil-
ler was shot in the streets by an insane man named John 
Diamond, who accused her of having bewitched him. The 
wound will prove fatal. 
— A person, answering the name of J. B. Green, and 
hailing from the North, has been arrested in Washington for 
obtaining nearly $3000 from Messrs. Corse & Co., of Alex-
andria, and Daniel Rowland, of Washington, by means of 
altering lottery tickets. 
— It is stated that a Judge in Vermont was recently in. 
dieted for selling liquor, pleatif d guilty, and was fined at the 
very session of the Court in Burlington where and while he 
was sitting on the bench. 
— Prairie fires have been prevailing to a great extent of 
late, and have swept the plains of Iowa, Wisconsin, and 
Minnesota With the besoin of destruction. Immense quanti-
ties of agricultural produce have been burned, as well as 
fences, stables, and out-houses. The Gallena (ill.) Adver-
tiser, and the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette, give melancholy 
pictures of the losses sustained by the farmers. 
— David Cochran, a boy about ten years old, was be-
fore the Police court last week, as a stubborn child—refusing 
to obey the lawful commands of his parents, and the fart 
being proved, the boy was ordered to be committed to the 
State Reform School at Westboro' for one year. Boys who 
do not obey their parents should take warning from this case. 
— A young man named Edward Waite, son of Captain 
Alfred Waite, of Freeport, fell from the fore-toptnast head 
of the new brig Ohio, lying at Union wharf, Portland, on 
Monday afternoon, 15th, and was very severely, but it is 
hoped not fatally injured. The distance of the fall was 
nearly fifty feet. 
— A distressing casualty occurred at Grand River har-
bor, C. W., on Saturday last. The second engineer of the 
steamer Mohawk got into the box in which the wheel re-
volves to grease the machinery, when steam was put on to 
give the wheels a turn ahead, the chief engineer being igno-
rant that the man was in the box: The poor man was 
whirled around with the wheel annul terribly mangled. He 
survived but a short time. 
— The Messrs. Russell, the pioneers in the California 
oyster trade, some time since planted over 3000 bushels in 
the bay of San Francisco. On a recent examination of them, 
it was found that the oysters had been totally destroyed—
having the appearance of being pounded into the mud, broken 
up, and their meat gone. It is supposed to be the work of 
some numerous marine fish. The loss is a very severe one 
to the gentlemen who thus undertook to introduce our North-
ern oysters into California. 
— A few mornings since, a curious sight was seen a 
short distance from Boston, being a drove of turkeys, not 
driven, but led or coaxed by a man with a basket of corn. 
He occasionally threw out a handful, and the turkeys followed 
after, not reflecting on the many hungry appetites they were 
destined to satisfy on Thanksgiving. There were 750 in the 
drove, and they came in that novel manner all the way from 
the northern part of Vermont, where live turkeys are worth 
from eight to ten cents per pound. 
— The Tot•onto North American says, that a female re-
siding on Mill Creek went home one day recently, and found 
that her brother-in-law had severely cut tier foot with an 
axe. She fainted on seeing the wound, but immediately re-
covering, she returned to Galt on some other business, and 
then went home. When she passed by the spot where her 
brother-in-law had been- wounded, and the blood was lying 
in a clotted heap, her heart sank at the sight ; she got 
home, but the recollection was too much for her, and she fell 
on. the threshold of the door, and when taken up life was 
extinct. 
_ 
A man was found dead upon the track of the Boston 
and Providence railroad, in the town of Mansfield, on Satur-
day morning, supposed to have been killed by the express 
train. On his right arm, which was cut off, were impressions 
with India ink, of the following letters, in capitals, " M. I. 
S. 1821," which is supposed to be the initials of his name 
and the year of his birth. He had a wallet about him con-
taining seventy-one cents in change, and a bill of goods, 
headed "Thomas Wilson to M. Tarr," to the amount of 
$65. A check for baggage to New York was also found 
upon hint. He had formerly lost one joint from the middle 
finger of the right hand. 
— One day last week a laborer named John Evans, em-
ployed in repairing the track of the Providence railroad near 
the depot in this city, was struck by the cow-catcher of an 
outward-bound train, and carried a short distance, when his 
feet caught underneath and he was thrown talon the track—
the whole train passing over him and injuring him so se-
verely, that he was conveyed to the Massachusetts General 
HoSpital, where he died the next morning.' Coroner San-
born held an inquest urn the body, and returned a verdict in 
accordance with the above facts—exculpating the persons 
having charge of the train from all blame, as it was shown 
that the usual alarm was sounded. 'Flue deceased was about 
forty years of age, and leaves a wife and five children in 
Lismore, Waterford county, Ireland.—Boston Journal. 
— Very destructive prairie fires raged during the latter 
part of last month in various parts of Minnesota anti Wis-
consin. Nearly all the hay in some sections has been swept 
away, as well as large quantities of provisions of various 
kinds, fences, stables, &c. A very hard winter is antici-
pated. Supplies are very high, and money not to be had. A 
letter from Stillwater says Mr. Doe, a teamster in the 
employ of Mr. Gox, at the Falls, had gone to the meadow 
with-a wagon and a yoke of oxen for hay ; after he had 
loaded, he discovered the fire corning, and before lie could 
escape he found himself surrounded by flames. He unhitched 
his oxen from the wagon, and holding on to the bow of the 
nigh ox, dashed through the flames, which he says were 
twenty feet high." 
THE CHEROKEE NATION.—John Ross delivered his 
annual message to the Council of the Cherokee Nation 011 the 
4th of October. The document is brief, concise, and inter-
esting. The Chief says :—" The past year has been of 
general harmony and unusual prosperity. The earth has 
yielded its fruits in rich abundance. Industry has been richly 
rewarded, and new life and activity have been infused into all 
the walks and pursuits of life. This has been owing, doubt-
less, in some degree, to the partial payment by the Govern-
ment of the United States, of the money so long due the 
Cherokees under the treaties of 1835-46, but chiefly to the 
evident progress which our people have made in the pursuits 
and knowledge of civilized life. The benefits resulting front 
the former source having diffused throughout the community, 
its effects must remain permanent, and will give, it is to be 
hoped, an impetus to business and enterprise that shall be 
felt for many years to come. A judicious development of 
the resources of the country, and a wise improvement of the 
manifold social, intellectual, and political privileges we are 
permitted to enjoy, cannot fail to place our happiness and 
prosperity upon a sure and exalted basis." Satisfactory re-
ports are presented in relation to the schools and seminaries 
of the nation. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Nov. imniber (No. 7, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
ittle monthly paper is now Ot1t. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 8.) Life in the Arctic Sea. 
A Dog Story. 
Yankee Ingenuity 
A Wonderful Clock. A Little Boy's %A ish. 
The Sabbath School Scholar. Little Things. 
The Voyage of Life. 
A Child's hand. 
How the Rack was Abolished. Politeness. 
Simeon Glieen, or the Man that The Young Tobacco Chewer. 
Cured his Bad Neighbors. The Kind of Fruit Indigestible. 
Adventure with a Snake. For the Curious, &c. &c. 
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Dec. 2d-Pittsfield, evening. 
" 4111 and 5th (Sunday) - Allenstown meeting-house, three 
times each day, at 10 A at, 1 e at, and evening. 
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NOTE-It is not possible for Elder H. to visit other places in New 
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WEST INDIES.—Intelligence of the dreadffil ravages of 
the cholera at Nassau, N. P., had reached Kingston, and 
the Government was taking measures to send relief to the 
sufferers, who were represented as panic stricken. 
The vessels in the harbor were being crowded with per-
sons fleeing from the scourge. It is feared that famine will 
follow. 
The House of Assembly was opened on the 9th, with a 
speech front the Governor General. 
The epidemic fever was spreading at Barbadoes. At 
Bridgetown, a whole family from St. Thomas had been cut 
off by it. 
A terrible hurricane occurred at St. Christophers, Mont-
serrat, &c., about the 28th, doing great damage both ashore 
and in the harbor. On one of the islands five persons were 
killed by lightning. 
The yellow fever had considerably abated at Martinique. 
The Kingston Colonial Standard, in alluding to Cuba, uses 
the following words :—" There is a strong fleet assembling 
at Port Royal, and England has more than one reason for not 
being quite indifferent to the fate of the finest possession of 
one of the most faithful of her allies." 
Coaa.—A correspondent of the Cologne. Gazette writes 
from Madrid, under date of 20th October :—" I can inform 
NoncE.-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. 
ProVidence permitting, I will preach at Hartland, (Densmore 
Iii11,1 Vt., Sabbath, 20th-will some brother call for me at the Hart-
land depot on the arrival of the first train from Claremont the 27th ? 
Waterbury, 30th : Stow, Dec. Ist--where lire Tracy may too ono; 
Burlington, 2d ; Rouses Point, 3c1; Champlain, Sabbaths, 511, and 
12th, and with labor in the vicinity a few days, us' doors may open. 
Evening meetings at 7 o'clock•-N. BiLLisios. 
Providence permitting, I will preach in Ilatley, C. E., Friday 
evening, Dec. 10th ; Derby Line, Vt., Sunday, 12th ; Foster's Mills, 
14th, 6 e M ; Outlet, ir,th, and continue the meetings over the Salt-
bath • Waterloo, 25th, evening, and Sunday 26th-in the forenoon 
and afternoon, and at West Shefford in the evening ; Lawrence-
ville, 28th, evening. Bro. S. W. Thurber may be expected with 
me at the Outlet.-J. ORROCK. 
The Lord willing, Brn. N. Smith and I. C. Wellcome will hold a 
meeting in Hope, lie., in the Town Ball, or where lire. Went 
worth shall appoint, commencing Dec. 3d, evering, and continue 
over two Sundays, and during such a portion of the intervening 
time as may be thought best.-1. C. WELLCOME. 
Providence permitting, I will preach in Hingham' Mass., Nov. 
28th, as Bro. Moses Tower may arrange ; Scituate Harbor, 29th, 
evening, as tiro. Asa Curtis may appoint, and continue my lectures 
evenings until Dec. 3d -CtissE TAYLOR. 
H. L. Hastings will preach at Witisted, Ct., Nov. 28th ; Bland-
ford, or Granville, Dec. 1st, 'instead of previous dates)-Bro. Bates, 
appoint. 
Bro. 0. R. Fassett will preach in Springfield (in Bro. Currier's 
hall, nit Spring-street,) Sabbaths, Nov. 26th and Dec. tith. 
Elder B. Locke will preach at Hillsborough, N. H., Sunday, Nov. 
28th.-T. 1VI. PREBLE. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at 'Westford, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 
28411; Tuftonboro', N. H., Sunday, Dec. 13th.-J. WESTON. 
Settlement of Accounts. 
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for your past promptness, and will thank you to nudge your 
neighbor to whom it does, and who may be troubled with a 
short memory. 
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It is reasonable. 
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