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I' I > ?• TORONTO : MACLEAR & CO, 16, KING STREET EAST. 1854. * ^ - .-.nTvn-" t *1 strict aro 8 pages I in del tains, safety that t dark, peopl have In as it what conv pampi Butnl to sai satis could and t riall; shoul • •relati I work I ^TU^?7S AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 4 Tho above is the title of the pamphlet ahreadj referred to in our Btriotures upon the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. There are several vulnerable positions assumed by tho compiler of its pages, which it is remarkable the reviewers have not seized upon in demonstration of the supposed unscriptural conclusions it con- tains. But critical orthodox ignorance has been the compiler's safety. *' Theology" has blinded the eyes of the " ministry" so that they cannot see afar off. " Divines," therefore, being in the dark, and the people being led by them, it ia " like priests, like people ;" all are in the fog, and the errors of The Coming Struggle have escaped doteotion. In the following pages this renowned pamphlet is not reproduced as it came from the Edinburgh press. I have expurgated it of what I consider its untenable assumptions, and in so doing have converted it into a brochure properly my own. The original pamphlet undertook to present my views of the next fifteen years But no one can present the views of another with sufficient precision to satisfy tho original thinker. " The Coming Struggle" does not satisfy me. I have therefore revised and corrected it as well as I could without re-writing the whole. I have made three hundred and twelve corrections on the thirty-two pages, which have mate- rially altered the sense of the compilation in many places. I should not, however, have presumed to do this, but for the peculiar • relation I sustain to tho original. I am not able to say who the artist is that has undertaken to work up my published ideas of things into "The Coming Struggle." I IV Somo havo stlod him tho learned Dr. Cumming ; othore, " the olo- quont Mr. Wylio ;" othorR, " a journjumn printer in Edinburgh;" others again a " Uinciplo uf Dr. Thumas," «Sbo. Bo he vrhuui he may, he must he greatly astonished at the suooesB of his doings. Seventy-three thousand sterling six-pences must have afforded him a wonderful profit on the copy of Blpis Israel, out of which he fabricated his pages. I should have no particular objection to inheriting a dividend ; but hitherto the case has strictly fulfilled the saying, that " One sows and another reaps." But perhaps good has been accomplished notwithstanding the errors. In this, therefore, I rejoice ; but hope that no more of the original may be sold after this revise shall appear In Britain. ( JOHN THOMAS. Mott Haven, Westchester, N. Y., June 24, 1853. r. > N sucl polil Wh( sami circl fort abov and vibr thro only opin whi( tob indi le olo- irgh;" )m he oings. dhim ch he ion to ilfiUed )rhaps i this, I may iS. ^'•^T^. --•'■" THE COMING STRUGGLE t} AMONa THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. • • 9f*^>^*'^>^'^^'>^^^*^^0^^^^i0^^»^^^s^^^i^t^^»i^*^>» Never was there a tfme in the past history of the world when such a terrible and universal excitement prevailed regarding ^^ -am political aflFairs, as at this moment exists in the social mind. Wherever wo turn, or into whatsoever society we enter, the same restless anxiety is apparent, the same question pupses from circle to circle and from friend to friend, but no reply comes forth to cheer or satisfy the alarmed interrogators. " What is about to happen V is murmured in all the assemblies of men ; and whether the sound floats along the noble halls of the great, vibrates among the rafters of the straw-rooftd cottage, or wanders «- through mazes of tobacco-smoke in a village ale-house, echo » only answers — What! Conjectures, indeed, are made, and opinions delivered, but as these rest solely on the shifting sand of political appearances, and assume the various aspects with which faction and party spirit invest them, they are uttered only to be rejected ; the same question is again asked by the same individual on the morrow^ and with like success. 6 That such an excitement should prevail at the present time is not at all wonderful. The position in which the powers of Europe and Asia are placed, renders it evident to every thinking mind — and in this age of boasted intelligence all should bo thinkers — that we are on the very eve of a crisis, and a crisis unparalleled in the annals of the past. It is not at one part ineftly, or in one or two nations, that we discern the signs of an approaching storm; but from one end of Europe to the other, the ominous cloud has gathered, and when it bursts, as Boon it must, the deluge will not only be overwhelming, but universal. Such a prospect as this is entirely new. The shadows which preceded the advent of the most devastating hurricanes that swept over the world in the ages that are gone, were not so ^ gloomy or portentous as those which now hover above our whole horizon ; and as the image must resemble the reality, that reality * must be awful indeed. We are in the midst of that oppressive calm which reigns when the elements are fiiUy charged with all the ingredients of a storm, and, like the' mariner, we long for its inevitable outbreak, in order that we may escape from our suspense, and learn at once how we are likely to cope with it. But while the painful anxiety, every where visible, is, in the circumstances, extremely natural, it is not at all necessary that the equally manifest uncertainty and ignorance regarding the extent and duration of the coming struggle should remain; and were the prophetic declarations of the Bible properly under- stood, the inhabitants of Britain would comprehend all that is about to take place. In that Book — a book which some despise, many neglect, and nearly all misunderstand — ^is to be found a series of visions and prophecies, under which is symbolised the political history of the world, from the Babylonian empire down to the Millennium, that happy era to which the human family have long looked forward with delight. Unfortunately, however, as we have said, these prophecies have been, and are, sadly mis- understood. The authorized interpreters of Qod^s revelations ^0 have hitherto failed in finding a key to unlock their mysteries; but of this we do not complain, as we arc told that the vision was to be sealed until the time of the end. What we regret, however, is that in the face of this declaration, our divines should have attempted an explanation of these mysteries, before God's time for their solution was come. They have done this, and the result is, that, by their erroneous interpretations, a mass of obscurity, contradiction, absurdity, and error has been heaped upon them, which serves completely to mystify both its authors and the world. Had Fleming and others contented themselves with tracing those parts of the prophecy which were fulfilled in their day, and left those s'iuJime consummations mentioned in the Apocalypse to be disclosed at " the time of the end," the present generation would not now be under the necessity of throwing off a host of commentaries and opinions, which from early childhood they have considered unening. This, however, must be done. The position of the world clearly intimates that the end has come, and events now furnish an explanation of the hitherto dark visions of Daniel and John, and by a careful examination of these and other prophets, the political history of the next twelve years is spread out before us, nay, we are enabled to pass beyond that period, and trace almost accurately the regular course of events down to the beginning of the thou- sand years. Dr. Thomas, of America, was the first to find the key, and they who have read his book will at once be able to understand the following description of the period mentioned. For the sake, however, of those who have not seen Dr. Thomas' work — and we believe this applies to the majority of general readers — it will be necessary to give a rapid and connected sketch of the prophecy on which the whole hangs, and point out the errors into which fonner interpreters have fallen. The first intimation we have of the prophecy is in the second chapter of Daniel, where we are told that one morning during the palmy days of the Babylonian empire, Nebuchadnezzar, its 8 head, awoke from a troubled sleep, in which ho had a strango and unaccountable dream. Being fully awake, ho endeavoured to call to mind the particulars of the vision which had paased across his sleeping spirit, but the " thing had gone from him," and do what he could he was unable to recall it. Nevertheless his " spirit was troubled to know the dream," and this ho de- manded of his magicians, who being of course unable to comply, Daniel, a young Hebrew captive, volunteered to make it known and interpret it. Having " desired the mercies of the God of heaven concerning the secret," Daniel had it revealed to him in a vision, and with a joyful countenance went with it to the king. He informed the monarch that in his sleep he hjid seen a great image standing before him. The head was of gold, the breast and arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet partly iron and partly clay. After the king had gazed on this giant of metal for some time, he beheld a stone poised in the air, unsupported by hands, slowly descending to the earth. Falling at length with a heavy crash upon the feet of the image, it " brake them to pieces," and the whole super- structure was hurled to the ground, where the wind carried it entirely away. The stone which smote it, howevci, grew into a great mountain, and filled the earth. The interpretation given by Daniel to the king, was to the effect that the golden head, silver arms, brazen thighs, and iron legs denoted a succession of four dynasties in the Babylonian empire. The iron kingdom, which was the last, was at first to be dividod into two parts, and latterly into ten, temporarily cemented to the feet by clay, and these were finally to bo destroyed by the establishment of a kingdom of God upon the earth, a kingdom which should never be moved. This was a dim, yet true outline of the future history of the great empire which was at that time aptly termed the whole earth ; but it was only a rough sketch, and the purpose God had in view, in dis- closing it required that a more detailed representation should bo -•. # •»t 9 -% # given J aooordinply, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel was favoured with a more extended view. In this second vision, the four dynasties wore symbolized by four beasts, and an outline of the history of each given. The fourth power, which in tho first vision was described as iron, and divided into ten parts, is in tlio second shadowed forth by a beast of ten horns. The causes of tho destruction of these ten powers by the God of heaven is in this vision also accounted for, and the time of their duration determined. They were to be destroyed on account of their civil and spiritual despotism — crimes which can never, in the moral government of Jehovah, pass unpunished. After the ten horns had been for some time established, a little horn came up among them, in which were the " eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things." After making room for itself by plucking up three of the large horns, this little horn waxed insolent and domineering, and continued so " till the beast was slain, and his body given to the burning flame." Daniel was extremely anxious to find out the meaning of this, and having asked " one of them that stood by," he was informed that the ten horns were ten kings that should arise out of the fourth dominion ; that another should rise after them, diverse from all the others, that he would " subdue three of the first kings, speak great words against the Most High, wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change the times and laws j" but after continuing thus for " a time and times, and the dividing of timey" his domi- nion would be taken away, and he would be utterly destroyed. In futui*e visions a still more detailed representation of certain portions of this first vision was given to Daniel, and many of the prophecies of Kzckicl contiiin important developments of tho same history j but God's determined measure of revelation was not yet full. Indeed, the chief part remained behind, and consisted of an ample view of the operations of the fourth beast and his ten horns, especially of that little horn which subse- quently sprung up and became so prominent. Many hundred ^^U^M^ " 10 years after Daniel's time, when the gold, silver, and brass of Nebuchadnezzar's image had given place to the iron power, there lived an aged man on one of the desert islands that dot the bosom of the ^gean Sea. To this place he had been banished for adhering to, and promulgating, the gospel of the kingdom in the name of Jesus Christ, emanating from the land of Judea, but now almost entirely unknown to the professors o^ Christianity. In this lonely spot, and to this persecuted follower of the despised Nazarene, God gave his concluding revelation to man, and wound up the whole by shadowing forth the history of the beast, and the horn, under the emblems of seals, trumpets, and vials. The iron power of Nebuchadnezzar's Image, or fourth beast of Daniel, is here represented by a dragon with seven crowned heads and ten crownless horns ) and the system of governments of the Boman West is at first called a beast, with seven uncrowned heads and ten crowned horns — the one being thus exactly the reverse of the other — ^and afterwards Daniel's Little Horn power of the west is represented as a two-horned beast covering the area of three of the horns. The same distinguishing features are apparent here as in Daniel's vision. The beast waxes great ; the dragon gives him his power, and his seat, and great autho- rity ; he makes war against the saints for a time, and times, and half a time, till the judgment sits and his dominion is taken away, and he is cast with the Little Horn into a fiery lake, and the dragon into imprisonment for a thousand years. Such, then, is a brief outline of this important prophecy — a prophecy which has occupied the attention, and engaged the interest, of Bible readers for many generations. The language in which it is couched has hitherto rendered it impossible for interpreters to agree concerning its fulfilment ; and indeed, in past times the occurrence of the events it foretells was the only guide to its course. Fleming is thought to have verged upon a correct interpretation of a part that was as yet unfulfilled ; but it was only a faint glimpse he obtained of the truth; the f ■% « i I M i ■% • w dements that were to be engnprcd in the final conflict had not, at the time he wrote, assumed the position by which the time ot the end could be recognized, and this, together with hia adherence to the stereotyped but false theories of oommentators, led him far astray. All, however, arc agi'eed as to the general meaning ot the prophecy.* The gold, silver, brass, and iron powers of the image, and the four beasts of the vision, aro the Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and lloman Empires. The seven heads and ten horns are the various forms of government and kingdoms of this latter power. The first beast of John ia the civil and ecclesiastical system of Roman-Europe ; and the second, or two- horned beast, is the Austro-Papacy grafted upon it. Thus far the history of the past might have enabled our divines to expound and agree could their theologies have permitted them to interpret the prophecy by the things that aro. With regard to the time of the end, and the nature of the events which must take place previous to it, there exists an almost endless diversity of opinion — the greatest union lying in a universal misappre- hension of both, particularly of the latter. The great cause of misapprehension, besides that to which we formerly alluded — ^viz., a premature interpretation — is owing to the fondness of theologians for the allegorising method of Origen. Following this early father, they assert that the events to' take place at the time of the end, are less physical than moral, and will consist of a series of spiritual changes which will usher in the universal triumph of the Church and the regeneration of tho world. They do not understand, or rather they refuse to believe, that the Jews will be restored to their own land, and that the * No interpreter has succeeded in correctly expounding Nebuchad- nezzar's Image. They have overlooked the fact that it is composed of five elements instead of "foui*." Tho fifth is *• tlio clay," or Russo- Assyrian, styled by Ezekicl " Ooguo of Magoguo's land, the Prince of Rosh, Mosc, and Tobl." Tho interprotatiou of tho clay clement has been brought out for tho first time in tho IlorolU of the ICingdom. — Editor of the Herald. 12 kingdom of Israel will onco more be established, though not pre- cisely after its ancient model, or with its former inferior splendor. With a very restricted partiality, they have construed all those glorious promises of a political restoration, which have lighted up with hope the heart of the wandering Jew, into nothing more and nothing else than a spiritual conversion, and they claim for the Church all the glory of the latter day. This we apprehend is a fatal mistake. The restoration of the Jews to Palestine forms the very keystone to the whole political structure of the world, and is the principal object to be accomplished by the awfiil events of the coming years. It is the grand consummation of which Hebrew prophets spake and Jewish bards sung ; it is emphatically " the hope of Israel," and the word of Judah's God is pledged to its accomplishment. Having done away with a literal restoration, our interpreters have necessarily erred in deciding regarding the many minor parts of the prophecy. Hence the locality of the final conflict has been a matter of much dispute. The general notion is, that Italy will be the scene of the great battle of Armageddon, and one individual has actually measured a large valley in that country to see if it answers the inspired description. Another class, in the extremity of their fondness for spiritualism, say that al the moral destruction of Popery, wherever Protestantism encounters and overcomes Romanism, there will Armageddon be. In the sequel of this pamphlet, we shall show how erro- neous are both these conjectures. Another great error, and one which has led to a host of miscon- ceptions, is the belief that Britain is one of the ten horns, and that consequently she will be involved in the destruction that over- ly takes the toes of the great metallic image. This is a complete mistake. Though once a part of the Roman dominion, she is not within the boundary of the imacre territory ; and none of the countries beyond that territory will be overthrown with Papacy, except those who have continued to worship the beast, such as -^ * ■^ - , >-^ ^ • \ -« # --%'^ - 18 Austria and others. And this is just an evidence of the evil effects of a premature interpretation of the prophecy. At the period when many of our commentators wrote, it was actually necessary to include Britain in the toe kingdoms, in crder to make up the number required. Up to the year 1820, there were only eight independent powers within the Roman empire, but in that year the Greeks rebelled against the Sultan, and after several years' war, succeeded in establishing a new kingdom, which became the ninth horn. Still another was wanted to complete the prophetic symbol, and it did not come up till 1830, when the revolution of Paris divided the kingdom of the Nether- lands into two, and Belgium became a separate power, to defeat the calculations of divines, and pluck Britain from the anomalous position in which they had placed her. We say anomalous, for how is it possible to reconcile the past history of Anglo-Saxon progression — of which she has been the mover and sustainer— with sudden and complete destruction? The very thought is a libel an the eternal law of development and the wisdom of the moral government j but it is false ; nud we will by-and-bye show how different is the destiny of this country, and what the part that has been assigned her in the last act of the mighty drama. The powers which really answer to the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image are Bavaria, Lombardy, Hungary,Greece, Sardinia,Naples, Portugal, Spain, France, and Belgium j and if we understand the prophecy aright, these kingdoms will be brought to thp verge of their final subversion at the end of the next twelve years. The next great error of our interpreters, and the last to which we will particularly advert, is in regard to the " time, and times, and half a time," or the duration of the beast. They do not understand that it means a period of 1260 solar* years, and thoy _ , . * In the days of Moses, the servant o^ Jehovah, on founding the CoramonvFCalth of Israel, and in arranging its time, the Hebrew years were solar, of twelve months, each month having tbirty days, excepting the twelfth, which had thirty-five daya. By the enumeratioQ of the \ ' 14 havo failod to find tho true commcnoemont of the era. Tho gonoral theory dates it from the year 606, when Phocas pro- chiiined tho uiiivursal supremacy of tho Bishop of Komc. Thia fixes the secondary termination of the 1260 years in 1866. But tho " time, and times, and half a time" began by its primal epoch earlier than this. The year 606 is the period of the ecclesiastical constitution of the beast, or the time when the dragon gave to its Lion-mouth his authority. Its civil constitution dates 75 years earlier, or from 531, when the Justinian code was com- pleted and published. These two epochs were the real beginnings of the 1260 years. The victorious reign of the beast ought,then, io terminate about the years 1791 and 1866, or two years earlier or later. The resurrection of the two witnesses (or civil and ecolesiaatical class-antagonists to the Powers), which were slain by Louis the Fourteenth, took place in 1789, or at the period of tho first French revolution, and this was the first time any successful opposition was made to the Papal power after 1685. Then wrath began to pour out, and the civil dominion of the Pope was taken away, to be " consumed and destroyed unto the end." And as 75 years elapsed between tho imperial concession of a new code, and the acknowledgement of the Roman Bishop as tho universal Father of the western dominion, or beast, so 75 years must elapse as the transition period, endingin the arrival of" the Hour of Judgment." This period is represented by the seven vials, the mission of which is to pour chastisement on the beast and his followers, till at the end of the combined sixth and seventh tho whole will meet with a wonderful and signal de- struction. It is a mistake to suppose that the 1260 years limits tho existence of the beast — ^it merely limits his unwaning power. Tho full term of his civil and ecclesiastical pre-judicial existence as days of the deluge, it ia evident that the Hebrew yeor consisted of 305 days. A time of years, however, is limited to 300 solar years, being reduced from 805 to 300 by the explanatory phrase, •« forty and two montiis."—J3(iUor of Ucrald. 15 Tho ^ • t ' 1 a Roman power is 1335 years,* and this terminates in 18G6, or about 12 years from this period. But what a number of awful events must take pliioeiii thiit.sliort tiinr; wliatrcT(>lution8,ands(rirc,a|^l bluodished must be witnessed on the Continent, and in many parts of Asia ! No wonder that tho political sky is black and lowering, charged as it is with the elements of a storm, which, for tremen- dous force and severity, has never been equalled. The people of tho present age have come to the very border of a thrilling epoch, and they know it not. The newspaper press laughs at the cry of war which has risen on every hand. It points to the progress of railways and electric telegraphs, and ask if these are signs of war. Railways and telegraphs, steam engines and copper wire, can these overturn the purpose of God, or falsify His word ? A few hours of strife will sufl&ce to tear up every vestige of these so-called pledges of peace, and their component parts may yet form efficient instruments to carry on the conflict. In these days of scepticism and intellectual supremacy, it may be a hard matter to get such Bible truths borne home to the hearts of men ; but in a very short time they will be compelled to acknowledge the reality and genuineness of that revelation they now despise or neglect. Ami J the terror and confusion of tho approaching hurricane, when men's hearts are failing them for fear, they will be glad to turn to its long-forsaken pages, to learn the nature and extent of the fearful calamity. If the people of Britain and America are wise, they will make themselves ac- quainted with this beforehand, and thus enjoy that tranquillity which the knowledge will impart. It is, even on other grounds than personal comfort and mental peace, extremely necessary that they should do so. Though for the present they will, by caution and prudence, keep free from the struggle, they have a high and holy mission to fulfil, and are as yet ignorant of it. * This period of 1335 years is the diagonal of the rhomboid 1260, initiated by the civil and ecclesiastical epochs of A.D. 629 — 531, and A.D. mA—m^.—Editor of JleraUl 16 i \ ! ! To thorn has boon committed tho task of conducting tho moral progresHiou of the world, and preparing it for tho coming mil- lennium. While other nations aro murdering and devouring each other, and gnawing their tongues and blaspheming under tho iron rod of Jehovah, tho Anglo-Saxon race will bo opening up the pathway for the entrance into this sin-cursed and strife- torn world of the reign of peace and love. Blessed, indced| aro they that wait, and come to tho thousand, three hundred and five and thirty days. But it is now time that we enter on the principal part of our present work, to which the foregoing forms a necessary intro- duction. And before speaking of what is about to occur, let us see the exact portion of the prophecy that has been fulfilled. By going back along the history of the past, we could clearly trace tho course of the prophecy, from its first beginning to the present time, but this is unnecessary. It will suffice if we make tho reader understand where we are at present. We are, then, under the sixth and seventh vials. The gold, silver, and brass of Ne- buchadnezzar's image, in their imperial ascendancy, have passed away j three of Daniel's beasts have, in this sense, departed ; and John's seals have been opened, his trumpets have been sounded, and five of his vials have been exhausted. By turning to the 12th verse of the 16th chapter of Revelation, the reader will find a description of the sixth vial. It was to be poured out on the Euphrates, — or the Turkish Empire, — and began in 1820, when the Greeks rebelled against the Sultan and established a new kingdom. From that time Turkey has been subjected to incessant trouble with neighbouring powers, distraction and strife from civil rebellions and ravaging pestilences from tho hand of God. Six years after the succtssftd revolt of the Greeks, tho Janisarics attempted to withstand the will of the Sultan, but their fanaticism was repressed, and by the despot's command thousands of them were butchered. The next year she lost 110 ships in the battle of Navarino, and in the following season had '* 17 the moral )ming roil- * devouring ling under be opening and strifo- indced,aro undred and part of our Qssary intro- occur, let us ilfiUed. By / clearly trace the present > we make the 5, then, under 1 brass of Ne- j, have passed se, departed; its tave been . By turning on, the reader 3 to be poured -and began in and established been subjected distraction and mces from the It of the Greeks, [ of the Sultan, spot's command ^ear she lost 110 jying season had i BO sustain a double conflict, in a Russian war and an Albanian insurrection. Then iullowod tlic lone; war of Franco against Turco- Algeria, which resulted in the separation of that province from the Moslem empire, and its annexation to that kingdom. In 1839 Egypt and Syria were taken by Mehcmct Ali, and this led to sanguinary and bloody strife in that direction. Besides these reverses at the hand of man, the country was scourged with cholera and plague for eleven years ; and thus wasted and weak- ened, she is in daily fear of b< ing totally overthrown by a foreign power. But why, it may be asked, is such a vial of wrath poured upon the Turkish empire ? Ah I God had a long and heavy account to settle with this nation I What iniquity and injustice did it not pei-pctratc a^fKust the JeWs, G od's own peculiar people ; and though permitted to succeed in its cruelty for the express pur- pose of punishing the Jewish nation for their transgressions against the Most High, yet such is God's jealousy with regard to this race which he has chosen, that even the instruments with which ho chastises them are made the objects of His retributive vengeance. It was so with the Babylonian nation who carried them into captivity, and it is so with the Ottoman empire, which has now the seat of the dragon, which in former days dispersed them among thfe Gentiles. For this and other causcs,[enumerated in the 11th chapter of Daniel, the Lord has a controversy with Turkey which will never cease till its power is destroyed unto the end. The seventh vial began in 1830, when the whole political atmosphere, as if charged with democratic electricity, gave forth jBashes, and appeared to be on the eve of an explosion. These two vials are therefore both going on at this time, and will end together, at the beginning of the thousand years. It is at this critical period that the vision is to be unsealed. In other words, the Roman powers are to be placed in a certain position, and to be actuated by a certain agency, which, we arc told, is to indicate the time of the end, and warn the inhabitants of the earth to prepare for the coming of the kingdom. This important infor- 18 mation is pivon in tlio followinp^ words : — " And I saw throe nncluan spirits like fro}»s como out of tho month of the drapon, and out of tho mouth of tho beast, and out of tho mouth of ^ho false prophet. They arc spirits of demons working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of tho earth and tho whole habitable to {gather thorn to tho war of that great day of Ood Almighty." The demons that represent the dragon, the beast, and tho false prophet powers, aro tho Sultan, tho Emperor of Austria, and tho Pope ; and tho frogs, or frog-power, is France — frogs being the original heraldic symbol of that nation. When, there- fore, wo perceive tho French government causing "unclean spirits," or evil policy to emanate from those three incamati'^ms of power, then we arc to recognise the imiiftdiate approach of tho end ; for this, says the prophecy, will cause the kings of the earth to bo gruthered together to " tho war of that great day of God Al- mighty." This period has no%i} come. Wo arc living in it. Franco has at this moment tho Pope, tho Emperor, and the Sultan in a very critical position. By ( ;upying Home and forcing its pro- tection on the Pope, ith:m obtained tho power, to some extent, of dictating the policy of his holiness — now, alas for him, robbed of his imperial dignity, and reduced to tho position of a " falso prophet" — ^and is, by its policy, causing him to contribute to {ho involvement of other governments iu war. By this move it has also placed itself in inevitable antagonism to Austria, and brought forth an unclean spirit from thence, whicli in a little time will create an open war between the powers, inv^'inir many other kingdoms in tho strife, anii ultimately prodrrL ;.!; en sequences of a fatal nature to the whole ten kingdr ^^r . .ce is aLo causing an unclean spirit to proceed from the Sultan, by its k^'Dlomacy connected with the Holy Places and demonstration of Bu^ )r! in case of a llussian invasion, and thus involving him in ,4 ,'ar with that mighty power, when he would otherwise n, outh of ^l>o icles, which le habitable Ahnighty." id the false of Austria, •anco — frogs Vhcn, thcrc- g "unclean carnati'^^nsof iroafh of the } of the earth • ay of God Al- in it. Franco ' Sultan in a rcing its pro- me extent, of im, robbed of i of a " false itribute to flie is move it has 1, and brought ittlo time will ii"; many other ; c naequenccs J'j .'ice is aluo Sultan, by its imonstration of involving him ould otherwise on that agency id produce the I «v* terrible events which niu.'^^ precede and accomplish that period. Lot U.S n(»w, by th(5 Iijj:ht of the propln>cy, try to discover the nature of thoHC, and thii be able tu f^ad the political hi.story of the' next twelve years, and learn sometKiufjj of the eventn which will take place from that time till th»< millonniTim. From what we stated at the outwet, our readers will perceive thj* we have no sympathy with that system of wl'oloHnlo H!»ii'^nali8ing which our commentators have pursued in treiiting of tiie future part of this Bible history. That largi' portion of it which has been illustrated in the past, gives us no warrant to believe — far less to assert — that its future predictions arc but emblems of the chances and occurrences that will pa.«5a over the church, and that the wars spoken of are moral, not literal. Hitherto it has been most accurately illustrated In real wars and political events, and until we have a better authu ity to go upon than Origon and his followers, we prefer to eonh t rue the language of the Bible in a literal manner, and doin;. so, wo believe that the following will be the principal coming i vcnt 20 f} pass over." Here we read at once the doom of Turkey, notwith- standing the assurance of assi.stance from France and England, the Ottoman empire will soon be no more. It is very probable that these allies will be deceived by professions of peace, which the autocrat is holding out, and when they are off their guard, he will suddenly invade and conquer the kingdom. Evidence of this consummation is already apparent. Notwithstanding the presence of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, Britain has been so far deceived as to recall the only man* who could have pur- sued efficient measures, in the event of an invasion. The country is thus left open to the inroad of the northern emperor, and ere long the news will doubtless come that he is at the gates of the Sultan's capital. We have no date by which to determine the exact time of its occurrence, but considering the number and character of the events to succeed it, and the short space allowed for their performance, it must of necessity be almost immediately. II. War between France and Austria — Overthrow of the /ormeVj and subsequent destruction of the Papacy. Leaving for a time the sixth vial to ran its course on tho Turkish empire, we must follow the seventh in its operations on the horns. After the angel had poured it into the air, where it caused a world of dire commotions, the apostle was carried away into the wilderness to see the judgments these would cause to fall on the beast and his image — in other words, on Roman Europe. For, let it be observed that the Papal poAvnrs, as well as Turkey, are doomed to hard experiences before the ten toes of the image are finally smitten with the Stone. As the Dragon had yielded to the Western Beast its secular and ecclesiastical power, so Austria, a secular imperial element of that beast, has supported this twofold authority more than any of the other powers, and therefore shall suffer a more signal punishment. Indcerl, we find this dominion, which is in tho * Sir Stratfor*! Canning. Since the First Edition of this work has boeu published, ho has been again appointed Ambassador to Tui-key. ^^ "VWiii'illiOBilBllinii 21 notwith- ' England, probable e, which lir guard, Evidence ading the I has been have pur- le country r, and cro ites of the irmine the imber and '* lcc allowed mediately. ' ow of the irso on the operations air, where as carried cse would words, on al powers, before the l>ne. its secular |ial clement more than lore signal kh is in the Lis work has I to Tui-key. prophecy styled the two-horned beast, identified with, and assimi- lated to, the Papacy in all its more damnatory features. The history of its rise and progress is given in the last eight verses of the 13th chapter of Revelation, as well as in the seventh of Daniel, where its fate is particularly described : " They (the saints) shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it unto the end." In that dark history of cruelties and crimes perpetrated by the horns against the saints, or friends of truth and liberty, Austria occupies an unenviably prominent distinction. The blood of the two witnesses lies heavily on that country, and has long cried for vengeance from on high. Nor has it cried in vain. When these witnesses were raised, and their power ex- erted itself through Napoleon, the iron hand of astern retribution was laid upon Austria, and this horn's dominion over the imperial west was for a time taken away. The conflict was temporarily suspended by the removal of the ambitious Corsican ; but though vengeance has been delayed it cannot be mtich longer averted. The Austrian horn's Roman dominion was at that time only tcmpf>rarily taken away, but hereafter it must be " consumed and destroyed unto the end." And the earnest of this will doubtless bo initiated by the same power that punished him before. France, though herself one of the doomed toe kingdoms, will be the scourge of this horn, and preparation is being speedily consummated for the accomplishment of the work. Already are the two powers adversely situated, and their position will not fail to ultimate in war. The result of this will be presently disas- trous to the " bloody house of Austria ;" but premillennially and temporarily its occultation in the shadow of the Czar. Jesus appears as a thief, and the saints aro raised from the dead. The power of Russia is broken and the obscuration ends. Then comes the full of Babylon. The Austrian and its cotemporary horns, the supporters of the False Powers, now becomes confederate again.st the destroyer of the Ozarocracy. But Babylon must of necessity fall. The time when the ten horns ^' shall hate Rome, 22 and make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire/' obtains in the preadventural contest between France and the Northern Powers. The account of her over- throw is contained in the eighteenth of Revelations, and is one of the most fearful and awe-inspiring nature. It is not for us to describe in detail the events which will produce and accom- pany her death. Thcso are but partially indicated in the prophecy ; we are only told that the people of God will be the agents, and that the powers of Europe will be filled with fear and wonder when they behold her desolation. III. The occultation of the Horns or Continental Powers ly the Emperor of Russia. By the time the above occurrences have taken place, the twelve years will have expired, and the Hour of Judgment come. The whole ten horns will be greatly weakened by the war, and in this condition will manifest " one mind, and give their power and strength to the Beast." This power is Russo- Austrian, which is temporarily consolidated by the overthrow of many countries into the image of Nebuchadnezzar standing on its feet of iron and clay. It is necessary that the original Roman territory become subject to one majesty, bicrurally displayed, in order that the image of Nebuchadnezzar may be manifested in its latter-day apparition to that king ; and though we have not an exact description of their occultation by Russia, further than being informed that he would overflow and piiss over, wo find that Ezekiel, who gives a most minute and graphic account of the great battle iutrodiiotory of the war of Armageddon, styles him " Gog, of the land of Magog, Prince of Rosh, Mosc, and Tobl," and enumerates Persia, Ethioyia, Libya, and the bands of Gomer, in those that follow him. Now, it can be satisfactorily proved that Magog and Gomer mean Germany and France. These countries he must, therefore, con<(nor ; and having con<|uered tlieiii the whole continental Europe is within his grasp. The metallic image will thus be joined in all its parts, the VJ- I I V' 23 esh and between icr ovcr- id is ono [>t for 118 i accom- l in the ill be tho witli fear I Powers plftCC, tlio Judgment 3d by tliO and give * ' is Russo- crthrow of anding on (lal Boman splayed, in [lifcsted in have not ivther than r, we tind account of don, styles Mosc, and tho bands itisfactorily id France, nd having n his grasp, parts, the i territory oomprchondcd in tho Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, Roman, and latter-day Assyrian Empires, will be ruled by ono majt'sty, and that a\itoeratic, or a majesty ruling by its own will. Events will now hun-y f»)rward to the mighty catastrophe. The heart of the Emperor will be lifted up by success, and in his pride and arrogance ho will endeavour to make the world his slave. But at last tho Stone rejected by the builders descends heavily on his foot j the Roman iron and the Russian or Assy- rian clay separate ; tho brass, the silver, and the gold are broken to pieces, and " bcccnno as tho chaiF of the summer threshing floors," and tho whole is scattered by the winds of heaven. But what, it will bo eagerly asked, is Britain about all this time ? Surely sho must have an important part to play in this direful game of war. Yes, but after an exceptionable type, so far as wo havo yet gone, Britain is exempted from catastrophe, though her proximity to the scene of the unequal struggle will keep her in a state of alarm, and her rulers anxious and watchful. ]5ut yet, though beyond the eddies of the whirlwind vortex of tho Continent, she must not, can not, will not be idle. She has a mission to fulfil, and she must feel straitened till it is accomplished — a mission of the strongest necessity, and she cannot evade it — a mission of the noblest nature, and she will not shun it. To her — to the whole Anglo-Saxon race, of which she is tho head and representative — is the task assigned of carrying forward the religious, moral, and social preadvcntural progress of tho world, and in this she may well be assisted by her children in tho west and south. America may be united with her in tho work, and Australia must grow in strength for the same purpose ; and thus supported on each side by a strong and stalwart S(Ui the brave old empire will be energized to the task. Talk of America and Britain going to war ! the thing is incredible ; nature forbids it, and the Bible forbids it too. When tlu>y do ligljl, it will boon one side, and against a common fue 3 but thoy havo a iar diltercut battle to light in these coming f • r u 24 years, than the sword or cannon can accomplish. The great moral contest of spiritual freedom and social morality must bo sustained, and the cause must unite them and us in a hearty bond of brotherhood. A people must be presented to the Lord, that his domain may be populated when the time to establish the kingdom shall come ; and Britain with her sons is called on to cherish and protect them. But to be more definite ; the next event, though not in chronological order, will bo — IV. Britain extends her Eastern possessions westward^ prevents the immediate occupation of Judea by Bussia, and initiates its colonization hy the Jews, The many and severe wars which our country has had to sustain, in order to preserve her Eastern territories, have by many been considered as too dear payment for their possession. Wo do not here, however, enter on this question, but beg to inform such, that a fjir higher purpose than commercial interest or extended empire is to be served by the presence of the British power in the East. So far indeed, as she herself is concerned, this may have been the real aim ; and now that she is in pos- session, the commercial advantages which accrue from them will be a sufficient incitement to their retention. To preserve the East India market, and keep an open path to it, Britain will strive much and do much ; but while her mlers may think they are merely serving the nation, they are really accomplishing ono of the grand designs of God, and evolving events, while they cause her to take measures for the preservation of this distant part of her empire, will really and only produce occurrences which will facilitate the great designs of Jehovah. Both God and Britain had a special design in the annexation of the Indian territory to the lion power, but these designs were as different in nature and object as the finite is from the infinite. While Britain thought only of wealth and concjucst, God thought of his ancient pciople, and of his covenant, and placed the British Lion in the East to prepare a way for his ransomed, and to * i U The great ity must bo in a hearty to the Lord, to establisli )ns is called lefinitcj the [be— s ivestward^ Bussiaj and has had to ■ies, have by ir possession. " 1, but beg to ercial interest of the British is concerned, she is in pos- ue from them To preserve it, Britain will ,iay think they mplishing one its, while they of this distant occurrences Both God 1 of the Indian ■re as different finite. While od thought of ;cd the British loiucd, and to I ^ • fh «* I 25 becdme their protection in the infancy of their restoratibn. Such is God's design, and he has enlisted the energy of the Anglo-Saxons in its accomplishment, by making it their interest to bring it to pass. The value of these lands to the nation is the inducement he has given it to retain them at all risks ; and ond means of their retention, which will by-and-bye become very obvious, will be to do that which will tend to introduce the accomplishment of Jehovah's long promised purpose — the resto- ration of the Jews. The idea has long been held by those few who do believe in a restoration, that it must be preceded by a conversion. This is erroneous. The Jews, to some extent, will return to their own land as faithless in Jesus as the Christ as when they left it. They will be converted — of this we are assured ] but it will be subsequent to their partial ro-^stablishment in Palestine, and by a divine agency little suspected in Christ- endom. In the many passages of Scripture which speak of this people acknowledging the Messiah, we can never identify the agency to be employed in bringing about the change as merely human. The Lord invariably speaks of it as his own work, and to be done, as only divinity can do it, in one day. The veil is to be taken away, the blindness is to be removed, and this after Judah is in part returned to the hill of Zion : " Thus saitb the Lord God, Behold, my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Then ye shall know that I am the Lord." — (Ezekiel xxxvii, 12.) It is needless, therefore, to look for the convei*sion of Israel aa an indication of the coming of the latter days. It is the pread- ventural partial colonization of Judea that becomes an evidence of this ; and we can imagine with what surpriMC the conversion theorists will witness the approaching colonization of the land of Israel by its former inhabitants. But how, it is asked, will they be colonized there, and how does Britain become the principal agent in the work ? In this very simple manner : When Britain Bees the Emperor of Russia in possession of Turkey, and over- 26 throwing the hosts of continental Europe, she will become alarmed for her Indian possessions, and seek to strengthen her position in the Mediterranean Sea, to prevent the autocrat dominating there. Having succeeded in dethroning the Sultan,and annexing much of the Turkish dominions to his sway, he will naturally endeavor to take possession of Palestine, as that country forms a part of the Ottoman empire. This, however, Britain will not consent to. To let him occupy this territory would be a virtual relinquishment of the Eastern market, because the road to it by the Red Sea would be shut up. What course Britain will actually adopt to prevent this we cannot learn from the pro^'iecy, but that she will for a while prevent it we are sure. Not only will her own in- terests demand it, but the word of Jehovah is concerned in the matter, and demands it too. These political and commercial interests are but the means employed by God to cause this great nation to perform his long expressed determination, to preserve the Holy Land for the elected, eldest born of his children. Were the Russian Emperor to succeed in taking possession of it, he would carry the land tenure of the north along with him, and thua the soil of the land of Canaan would become part and parcel of another nation,its peculiar character as an inalienable possession would be gone, and being " common," it would no longer be called sacred or " holy." But this final alienation of the land cannot be. Jehovah hath said, " the land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine.'' It is therefore impossible that it can ever be finally occupied by a power that would at once incorporate it with other teritories. An attempt since the expiry of the 1290 years, has already been made to do this, but, as was to be expected, it signally failed. Shortly after Mehemet Ali established himself as " king of the south," he attacked and conquered Syria, and, as we before stated, " pushed at" the Sultan's throne. The powers of Europe, however, ir terfered to prevent him from gaining his point, and in negotiating terms of peace between the two coun- tries, ordered Mehemet to restore Palestine to Turkey. This the king of the south refused to do, and claimed the land as his for % 9 \l I 27 ae alarmed '■ position in ting there, jxingmuch iy endeavor ipai-toftlie consent to. uquishment he Red Sea illy adopt to that she will her own in- lerned in the . [ commercial * ase this great 1, to preserve lildren. Were sion of it, he nth him, and >art and parcel ible possession onger be called le land cannot Id for ever, for ; it can ever be orporate it with the 1290 years, be expected, it iblished himself ed Syria, and, as ne. The powers from gaining his en the two coun- urkey. This the e land as his for £■ I u ever by right of conquest. He was, however, at length compelled to yield to the demand, and the land of Israel was given back to those whose creed will not allow them to claim the soil. They have indeed " divided the land for gain," but those pashas who occupy it hold it by no tenure, and may be and indeed often are, deprived of their possession, without having the right to complain. According to the Mahommedan creed, the land is » God's ; and though it may be occupied, cannot be owned by any mortal ; and certainly, whatever doctrine of the Koran is false, this is true. The Jews cannot even sell any part of it from one to an- other, far less can the uhcircumcised Gentiles get it for a prey. The only way that seems likely for Britain to preserve her Eastern market open in this emergency, will be to favour the formation of a Jewish colony in Palestine j and thus it will appear, that the Euphrates is drying up in order " that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared." The drying up of the river, which is in part the destruction of Turkey, will render it necessary for the British power, which then extends to the Euphrates, to promote the return of the Jews to their own land, by extending its protection over it, and holding out every induce- ment for the sons of Abraham to repair to it. Be this, however, as it may, it is Britain that favors the return of the sons of Judah, as we learn from the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet is furnished with a command to " the land shadowing with wings, that sendeth ambassadors by the sea,*' enjoining it to render service in the presentation to the Lord of " a nation scattered and peeled, a nation terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation rooted out and trodden down, whose lands the rivers have spoiled." What a powerful and graphic description is this of the present and past state of the Jews ! How their former greatness and present degradation, and desolation is associated and contrasted ! But how, it may be asked, do we identify the " land widely overshadowing with wings ?" We are told that it is /rom beyond to the rivers of Cush. Now, going east from Judea, across the Euphrates and Tigris, we reach to the ■■j i\ 28 *< beyond," that Is, to Hindostan, the most important of our Indian possessions, and therefore governed by a power that *' sendeth its ambassadors by the sea," in other words, by an island state, which shows that the reference is to Britain, and to her alone. The allusion will, however, become more apparent in a phort time, when our empire is greatly extended in that quarter, and when the lion-flag waves over many an island and country, proving as much its protector as its ruler. There can, then, be no doubt as to the fact that this country will open up a way for the despised and persecuted race of Abraham to stand once more in their father-land, and raise anew the songs of David upon the holy hill of Zion, and it is probable that the event will be brought about in some such manner as we have indicated. But, first of all, this country must seize a great amount of tenritory adjacent to the Holy Land. In the present state of affairs, there would neither be peace nor safety for the Jews in their own country. The Sultan has " divided it for gain," and his pashas lay it waste, and hold it waste at their pleasure. It will, therefore, be neces- sary to occupy Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba, besides other places, in order to make these a wall of defence for the Jewish colony, and hence the language of Jehovah to his restored people — " / pave Egypt for thy ransom^ Ethiopia and Seba for thee.*' By possessing these, she will also lay her hands upon Edom, Moab, Ammon, and other places on the Red Sea, till at length ehadowing " to the rivers of Gush," and on every side the new colony, under the wings of this great maritime power, will grow and prosper, like the cedar on their own mountain of Lebanon. But by this time the autocrat of Kussia has got the nations of continental Europe beneath his feet, and, like Alexander in ancient, and Napoleon in later, times, he thirsts for universal conquest. For the history of his career from this point, onward to its close, we turn again to the regular course of the prophecy. If the reader will, before going any further, take up his Bible, and read carefully the last five verses of the eleventh of Daniel, and from the beginning of the thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel i i 29 ir Indian mdeth its md state, ler alone, ill a ghort arter, and y,proving ! no doubt e despised re in their le holy hill jight about of all, this sent to the uld neither ntry. The ly it waste, e, be neces- ther places, rish colony, people — " / for thee.*' pon Edom, ill at length jide the new 51-, will grow of Lebanon, le nations of Jexander in ■or universal oint, onward he prophecy, iip his Bible, th of Daniel, ^r of Ezekiel to the twenty-third verse of the thirty-ninth chapter, .^e will clearly understand the following, which is but a paraphrase of it. Turning his eyes eastward, on the wealth and prosperity of the countries under British protection, the triumphant conqueror of Europe will conceive the idea of spoiling them, and appropriating their goods and cattle. Scarcely is this idea formed than its execution is begun, and sudden and terrific as a whirlwind from the north, he enters the " glorious land." So overwhelming is the invading force, that the British armies retire before it towards the south-east, and Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya fall into his hands. • But tidings out of the East and North shall trouble him. " Sheba I and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young I « lions thereof, shall say unto him. Art thou come to ttike a spoil ? t hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey ?" How ^ emphatically does the language identify Britain as the belligerent ^ t opponent of Gog, the king of the north, and corroborate our former statements regarding the extension of her empire in the East ? We would particularly point our reader's attention to the *' merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof)'* what an appropriate designation is this of the Honorable East India Company, in its peculiar relation to the British Govern- ment ! This constitution of things, as is well known, is both civil and militay, commercial and imperial. Tie former is represented by the merchants, the latter by the young lions, or the ofl&cials of the imperially-controlled Company, which receives its authority from the Lion of Britain, and may there- fore be fitly termed thus, even as the representatives of the Persian and Macedonian sovereignties were called young rams and young goats. Indeed, the applicability of the title is admitted by the Company itself, whose arms are a shield, the quarterings of which are filled with young lions rampant. The Anglo-Indian government, alarmed at the inroads of the autocrat, and the loss of Egypt, will adopt vigorous measures for opposing him. Hence " tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him." The news that the Anglo-Saxons i • i 80 have resolved to oppose his despotic progress will annoy and in- furiate him. It is possible he may think of a time when another man, ambitious like himself, endeavored to possess the empire of the world, and went forth conquering till he was met by this same power, and overthrown; and no wonder that such a thought should fill him with trouble. But quickly rage takes the place of Ibnr J he looks proudly at the heaving army that follows at his back, and is enraged at the presumption which dares to thwart a will and power like his, " therefore he goes forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to take away many." Proceeding onward, he seizes the uuwalled villages arid gateless cities, till at length his huge and multifarious army pitch their tents bofore Jerusalem. He lays seige to the Holy City, which soon surrenders to his power, and enables him to " plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain." He has now reached the farthest limit of his conquering mission. The decree peals forth from the eternal throne, '* Hitherto shalt thou come, but no furtlc^;" and could he but look a little forward, as he paces with proud and haughty step along the brow of Zion, he might see that large and spacious valley, which stretches itself out before him, filled with a mangled mass of dead and dying, swimming in blcod, and ready to be devoured by the birds of prey which hover over the scene. But no such vision crosses his spirit, and he passes on to his tented palace to slumber in pride. Meanwhile Britain has been making strenuous efforts to stop the progress of this gigantic Napoleon j and every soldier that that can be spared is sent away in the direction of the rising sun. ]5ut what can the British army do against such a host as the Russian autocrat has around him ? Brave as the officers and men may bo, what mccess or what renown can be gained in such an unequal conflict ? In the critical emergency the parent island may send a cry across the Atlantic, " Come over and help us." Swiftly is the sound borne over the waves, and soon an answering echo is wafted back from the shores of Columbia. The cause is m ( 1 1 81 y and in- 1 another le empire et by this a thought the place ows at his to thwart with great 'roceeding ities, till at ;nts huforc surrenders lacle of his ft ain conquering nal throne, md could he md haughty it large and n, filled with I blood, and over over the he passes on jfforts to stop y soldier that ;he rising sun. a host as the Hicersandmen led in such an ; parent island and help us." nan answering The cause is I. common, and the struggle must be common too. " We arc coming, brother John, we are coming," is the noble reply ; and almost ere it is delivered, a fleet of gallant ships is crossing the Pacific, with the stars and stripes gleaming on every uiAst. Another force is on its way from the far south, and soon the flower and strength of the Anglo-Saxon race meet on the sacred soil of Palestine. The intelligence of their approach reaches the sacrilegious usurper, and he leads forth his army towards the mountains that rise in gloiy round about Jerusalem. The Jews within the city now arm themselves, and join the army that has come from the east and west, the north and the south for their protection, and thus these two mighty masses meet face to face, and prepare for the greatest battle that ever was fought on this struggling earth. On the one side the motley millions of Russia and the nations of Continental- Europe are draAvn up on the slopes of the hills and the sides of the valleys toward the north ; while on the other are ranged the thousands of Britain and her oftspring, from whose firm and regular ranks gleam forth the dark eyes of many of the sons of Abraham, determined to preserve their newly-recovered city, or perish, like their ancestois of a former age, in its ruins. All is ready. That awful pause which ensues before the work of death begins, is broken by the clash of arms ; and while yet the contending hosts are plunging incessant fire upon battalions of bleeding und quivering flesh, a strange sound — "The voice of the Archa igel and the trump of God" — outroar the din of battle.* Th^^ time for the visible manifestation of God's vengeance has arrived, his fury has come up in his face, and he calls for a sword against Gog throughout ail his moun- tains. 'Tis the roaring voice of Jehovah that breaks forth with terror and confounds the assenbled armies. The sccae that follows baffles description, j^ mid earthquakes and showers of fire the bewildered and maddened multitude of the autocrat rusb, sword in hand, against each other, while the Israelites and * Joel iii. 16 ; Isa. xxix. 5 — 8, xxx. 30, 31. J their Anglo-Saxon allies become unwittingly Jehovah's Bword upon the enemy. The stone cut without hands fall upon the Imago feet and breaks them to pieces ; after which the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, become like the chaff of the swniraer threshing-floor, and thewirtd shall carry them away. The various descriptions which wo have of this battle all inti- mate that Jehovah of armies is the mighty foe that shall contend with the autocrat in Armageddon. John terms it '' the battle of tliat great day of (Jod Almighty," and a principal instrument of their defeat will be nmtual slaughter. The carnage will be dreadful. Out of all the myriads that came like a cloud upon the land of Isnicl, only a scattered and shattered remnant will return ; the great mass will be left to rot upon the land, and fill the valley of Ilamongog with graves. We pause at this point of the prophecy, considering it un- necessary at the present time to enter into a minute examination of the nature or duration of the millennial period. We have already followed the subject beyond the limits indicated by our title page, and it would swell this pamphlet far beyond its in- tended size, to enter into a discussion of these points. A great obscurity rests on the events that immediately follow the battle of Armageddon, so that although we might come pretty near the reality, our remarks would be essentially conjectural. It is probable that Assyijia, Persia, and Britain will be the only three powers that will exist in the old world, besides the kingdom which the Most High will establish in Jerusalem ; for it is stated by Daniel that "the rest of the beasts" lived for a '^season and a time," after the destruction of the dragon. It is very natural to suppose that Britain will continue to hold a high place among the nations, though what that position will be, or how long she will retain it, the compiler of this pamphlet cannot say. The Anglo-Saxon race must, from the very nature of their constitu- tion, be a notable people ; but it is evident that the Hebrews will have the chief place during that glorious era which these stirring changes are to usher in. These will certainly become f ( * ■i ( 88 h'B Bword i upon the 5 iron, the e chaff of licm away. ,le all inti- ill contend ' the battle instrument ftge will be cloud upon innnant will Q land, and 3ring it un- sxamination We have lated by our lyond its in- ts. A great w the battle pretty near iectural. It be the only the kingdom or it is atated "season and very natural place among how long she ot say. The heir constitu- the Hebrews 1 which these ininly become (• greater than any of the nations, and that in virtue of the cove* nant of Jch(»vuh with their fathers. For the preparation of a race for such a mission as that com- mitted to the Vnglo-Saxons, it was necessary that they should burst those chains of civil and ecclesiastical despotism, which priestcraft had forged for, and fastened around, the human soul j and withconsiderablo effect have Britain and America performed this duty. Must we remind the reader of Uruco and Wallace, and the Covenantors, in Scotland ; of Cromwell, and Milton, Hampden, and the I'uritans, in England; or of Washington and the war of independence, in America ? Those fierce and fiery furnaces through which this renowned people struggled in years gone by, were intended to purify and (jualify them for the work of the latter days ; and the result is, that at this moment they are free, and ready to assume their Heaven-appointed mission. Hence the difference between their fate and the fate of those ancient nations whom they imitated, or the modern nations who imitated them. How often have the generous and noble-hearted gazed with indignant wonder at the gallant yet abortive efforts of patriots to save their country from bondage and oppression, and as star after star of liberty was blotted out by the blood-red sun- of despotism, turned a reproachful eye to heaven, as if to ask why truth and justice was denied its own ! And neverwill this dark enigma be explained, till the light of this prophecy, of which we have all along been speaking, shine upon it; but no sooner does its mist-dispelling influence pnss across the gloom, than, as sun-light from on high, the answer comes, which amply satisfies the grieved doubting heart, and vindicates the justice of the Eternal. It is only while tracing the windings and developments of Daniel's vision and John's revelation, that we learn the secret of Poland's downfall and Hungju'y's degradation. Those nations who stand upon the image territory, and are involved in its destruction, therefore all efforts to save them must be in vain. As powers they are doomed to fall, and though their wrongs shall one day be righted, for the present their noble-hearted patriot* f i ! i i m ■: 4 i 84 must resign themselves and their cause to the will of # Heaven. And here, too, in the light of this truth-diffusing prophecy, do we understand the past and learn the future of Ireland. The state of this country has long made it a puzzle to the world, and many have been the attempts, botli within and without, to discover the cause and the cure of its evils. The prevalent feeling is, that its union with Britain constitutes the Alpha and Omega of its misery, and for many years it has sought to have the union repealed. Its patriots have even endeavored to identify their cause with that struggle which America successfully maintained " with the mother country, and the idea has taken root in many hearts, both in Scotland and England, which cry shame against < the injustice. Now, nothing can be more erroneous than this * idea. The Irish struggle can never be identified with the western colonial emancipation, neither can it, on account of the absence 7 of the religious element, be compared to the Scotch or English wars of independence. But without going into the vexed question of the justice or injustice of forcibly perpetuating the union, we would ask the question : What would be the consequences to Ireland herself were she to become an independent nation ? These, in a political and social point of view, stand clearly forth to the eyes of many of those who steadily oppose the repeal agitation ; but it is only when observed through the medium of this Scripture prophecy that we can discern their full extent or I awful magnitude. Passing by those moral and political evils which appear on the surface, what, we ask, would be the fate of * the country, thirteen yearn hence? 'Tis true, Ireland is not on the image territory, and, though not probable, it is still possible, V that she might escape being conquered by one of the toes ; y L nevertheless, she will be legitimately within the dark region of the curse. She is among those who worship the image of the beast. She has received its mark in her forehead, and if standing alone, and in these circumstances, when the hour of judgment comes, how shall she escape? We hesitate not to assert that 35 the Will of * prophecy, do LAND. The 3 world, and t, to discover it feeling is, nd Omega of ve the union dentify their y maintained root in many shame against ious than this < th the western >f the absence 7 ch or English exed question the union, we asequences to ident nation ? d clearly forth ose the repeal the medium of full extent or political evils d be the fate of •eland is not on is still possible, le of the toes ; dark region of le image of the and if standing ur of judgment 3t to assert that Ireland's union with Britain is the only thing that stands between her and utter ruin, and that while Poland and Hungary failed in their effort for freedom, because they were doomed to be rooted up by the Little Horn, Ireland has failed to gain her indepen- dence, because she is destined to a better fate with Britain. We cannot here specify the means to be employed for her regeneration. This the future will show, but regenerated by Israel's King she will be, and by milder measures than those visited by the conti- nentals, owing to that very union which she would so rashly sever. In the preceding pages, we have seen that Britain's island will be kept comparatively free from the war and strife that will soon rage on the continent ; how the late past harmonizes with this decision ! While nearly the whole of Europe has been con- vulsed, our sea-girt isle has remained in peace, and kept so far aloof from the oppressors and oppressed, that many generous but mistaken minds have charged her with coldness and pusillani- f mity. She has indeed given shelter to both when exiled from I their own lands, but she has hitherto been kept from entangling herself with the commotions of the times, and while strife and feud have raged around, peace has been in all her borders. This course she will continue steadily to pursue ; though, as we before stated, the doings on the continent will keep her in continual alarm and watchfulness. This feeling of uneasiness and anxiey will, however, be greatly dispelled by a knowledge of the truth j and the author of this pamphlet hopes that, for this very pur- pose, it will be widely circulated. What a sublime position does that individual occupy, who can stand at a distance and gaze upon such a thrilling spectacle as Europe will soon present, with calmness and assurance, "seeing the end from the begin- ning." Can anything indeed be more sublime than this ? It is like one of the ancient prophets of Israel, gazing from some far-off mountain side on the fulfilment of one of his own prophecies. As he gazes on the scene — perhaps a city staggering into the bosom of an earthquake, or the progress of a battle between Israel and her enemies — it is possible to imagine the calmly «k'J«t-'i^ieiAdam3 (!«• >» 86 ■ glowing feelings of his soul, as, privileged beyond all mortals, he contemplates what has already been pictured to his mind, and can tell the next dwelling-place that shall go crashing down, or the next enemy that shall " lick the dust V Still greater, if possible, is the position occupied by one who can pass the boun- dary of the everlasting present, and boldly map the events of the future. God-like, he sits on the edge of the thick darkness, and resolves the mystic shapes that flit and gambol there into regu- larity and order. The dense mist which has hitherto overhung this end of the " bridge" rolls slowly upward, and the things it concealed loom forth, dimly it may be, but still visible enough in their outlines and lineaments to enable him to recognize them when the wheels of time bear him slowly past thorn. The very idea o t" superiority of position like this is enrapturing. To think that it is only a select few that are thus highly privileged — that those whom the events so nearly concern are ignorant of them — to witness the terror and astonishment with which they are met by those they came to destroy, and, above all, to know that he and his kindred are beyond the reach of their sweeping embrace, is to occupy a position never before reached by any, save the inspired of the Lord. Such a position may Britons and Americans occupy, if they can but speedily arrive at the knowledc of it. In a very short time the conflict will begin. The " powers that be" can- not long remain in their present relative positions, and the moment approaches when the dreadful moral volcano must burst. Al- ready is the sound of the storm heard among the tree-tops. The Russian army is gathering on the frontiers ; France has fallen back to that form of government, whoso only tradition is war and conquest ; the new Emperor is fast increasing his naval power ; Turkey is trembling, and all Italy is in a smothering flame. The sooner, then, that a knowledge of the political future is obtained, the better; and while Anglo-Saxons congratulate themselves on v.their present advantages, and the prospect of a less severe judg- ment than that of other nations, let them learn their destiny, and prepare to meet it with humility and godly fear. w " ,1 mortals, lie \a mind, and ing down, or 11 greater, if vass the boun- i events of the darkness, and Lcre into regu- icrto overhung d the things it visible enough recognize them c>m. The very ring. To think )nvilcged— that rnorant of them lich they are met jnowthatheand ng embrace, is to save the inspired mericans occupy, of it. In a very rersthatbe" can- 3, and the moment must burst. Al- ong the tree-tops. • France has fallen y tradition is war nghis naval power; u>ring flame. The future is obtained, xilato themselves on a less severe judg- Icarn their destiny, odly fear. EXTKACTS FROM TORMIXG A SUPPLEMENT TO THE " COxMING STRUGGLE." NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S IMAGE. This was a colossus in human form, which appeared to the king of Babylon in a dream. The head was of gold ; the breast and the arms of silver ; the belly and the thighs of brass ; the legs of iron ; and the feet part of iron and part of clay. While the king continued to behold it, a stone poised in the air, unsus- tained by hands, fell with great force upon the feet, and broke them to pieces. After they were smitten, the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, were all broken to pieces together, and became like chaff, which the wind so completely swept away, that no vestige of the image remained. The image being thus destroyed and abolished, the stone that smote it became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. The interpretation given to the king informed him that the iead of gold represented the dominion of which he was the head j hat the silver part symbolized the monarchy which would suo- ,ceed his ; the brazen part, a third power which should bear rule ver all the earth ; and the iron part, a fourth dominion, strong ' 38 as iron, that should subdue everything before it. This fourth kingdom, he was told, should be divided, inasmuch as there were two iron legs and ten toes. But as the toes of the feet were part of them iron, and another part of clay, the dominion represented by the ten toes would be partly strong and partly broken. But as there was a mingling of iron and clay in the structure of the feet, while the toes constituted unitedly the iron dominion, they should not clea\re to one another, but should be independent and antagonist kingdoms. Lastly, the king was given to understand that the smiting of the image by the stone on the feet, represented the breaking in pieces and consumption of all the toe-kingdoms by the God of heaven ; who should set up in their place a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor left to other people. * Such was the prophetic interpretation, which was given with the dream about twenty-four centuries and a half ago. I shall ' now briefly outline the historical interpretation, and then con- sider what yet remains to be accomplished. The interpreter has determined the commencement of the image. It goes no further back than the time of Nebuchadnezzar, whose dynasty was superseded by a two-armed monarchy, in the reign of his son's son, Belshazzar, B.C. 538. This was the silver dominion of the Medes and Persians. After 208 years, this was overturned by Alexander of Macedon,B.C. 330. His dominion exceeded that of Babylon and Persia, extending from the remote cod fines of Macedonia to the Indus, or as it is expressed, " bearing rule overall the earth." This was the do- minion of " the brazen-coated Greeks/' answering to the brazen part of the image. After a few years, the empire of brass was divided into four kingdoms, two of which had especial relations with the land of Canaan upon which the kingdom of the stone is to be established. These two, therefore, are alone represented in the image. They answer to the brazen thighs ; and are known in history as the Syro-Macedonian kingdom of the north, that is, from Jerusalem ; and the Greco-Egyptian kingdom of 39 This fourth ^ 3 there were le feet were 3 domini>n ; and partly clay in the dly the iron t should be J smiting of breaking in ' the God of ;dom which given with ;o. I shall ' d then con- nent of the chadnezzar, anarchy, in 'his was the 208 years, 330. His inding from , or as it is was the do- ) the brazen f brass was ial relations )f the stone represented IS ; and are the north, kingdom of I -re a new pope rule, he said, 18 deceived the gdoms. When sure to be con- dy, Bud tended lination to free lopes of the de- id ''the earth" IS shaken to it« ire too recent to require to be chronicled in this place. It will be enough to say that the democracy broke loose, and commenced a movement, which, though it has been r • trained to prevent it progressing too rapidly, cannot be suppressed until the little horn, or two- horned beast and his prophet, be destroyed to the end, and the dominion of the ten-horned beast be taken away. The events of. February 1848 have originated the " great earthquake" of the seventh vial. It is the same earthquake as that of the eleventh of the apocalypse, and nineteenth verse. Its first shocks have been terrific, but they are only the premonitions of worse to come. The earthquake, or political convulsion which followed the resur- rection and ascension of the witnesses in 1789,* was awful, as all know who are versed in the history of the time. But that fell far short of what God is preparing for Europe. The tumult of the people, and the tempest whose howHugs are heard in " the air," are thus intimated by the prophet, saying, " There shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation to that same time j and at that time Israel shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."f " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to evLrlastinpflife, and some to everlasting shame and contempt."t This " time of trouble is contemporary with the resurrection of a portion of the dead. It is the epoch of Israel's deliverance, * Note. — The masFocre of St. Bartholomew in 1572 marka the epoch of the terminat- ing of the testimony of the iwo witnesses. From 1572 till 1685 wa« a period of war, during which unnumbered u ousands fell in defence of the.r civil and relii;iouB rights. — Elpis Israel, p. 310. Oct. 7.8, 1685, marks the epoch of the death of the witnesses. — Elpis Jsrad, p. 313. Now, "after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into the wit- nesses ;" that is, after three months and a half of day-years had fully expired, " they stood on their feet.'' The death-period elapffed on February 18, 1789, and in two months and fourteen days after, being May 4, they accepted the invitation of " a great Toice from heaven," saying to them, "Come up hither 1" This great voice was the royal proclamation by which the States General were convened, and in which the wit- nesses took their seat."! as the third estate of the realm. They doon proved their exist- ence there by the events which followed. They ascended to power in a portentous cloud, which burst on the devoted heads of their enemies ; and in the earthquake which followed they shook the world. — Elpis Israel, p. 330. t Isaiah iv. S. t I>auiel xii. 1, 2. ; I \ Si 44 both of the Ishmael and Isaac seeds; and of the casting down of the thrones of the beast. * The convulsion which eflfects their overthrow is described by the apostle as '' a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great."f Ascertain the calamities of former ages, and however terrible they may appear, this will exceed them all. The Flood, Sodom, Egypt, Jerusalem, the fall of the Roman Empire, were all judgments which chill the heart, and niii'-e the blood run cold to contemplate ; but times have now come over the world which will have been hitherto unsur- passed. The wrath of the sixth and seventh vials which remains, is about to :»'-\.i'whdm the nations with " torment and sorrow," for the cup of their iniquity is full. The more immediate effects of the shocks of the past year will bo the subdivision of Roman Europe, styled " the great city," into " three parts." The division will be the result of war, for which the governments are now preparing themselves, perhaps unwit- tingly. The tripartite division is attended by the fall of the cities of the nations, as it is written, " The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell." That is, as I take it, that in consequence of the approaching contett, growing out of the democratic insurrection of 1848, the ten kingdoms will lose their independence ; by which a new partition of the Roman world will ensue ; and that when this is brought to pass, events will flow more directly eastward. But before " the cities fall," or, as Daniel expresses it, the " thrones are cast down," Rome comes in for her final overthrow. I say " before," because these kings are to be parties to her destruction, and are to " be- wail and lament for her," to them, unexpected doom. "Judg- ment hath again to be given to the saints;" for as yet they have only in part performed their mission. They then prostrated the horn, the little horn, and the image of the beast, and con- sumed their dominion ; but in connection with this earthquake of the last vial, they have " to destroy it to the end." They are I ^i * Daniel vii. 9. t Rev. xvi. 18. S 46 isting down effects their ' earthquake, migh.y an icsoflbrmer 3 will exceed the fall of the le heart, and aes have now iherto unsur- hich remains, and sorrow," 5 past year will reat city," into • war, for which perhaps unwit- ' the fall of the ity was divided Ihat is, as I ante»t, growing c ten kingdoms partition of the brought to pass, fore " the cities are cast down," before," because and are to " he- doom. "Judg- for as yet they J then prostrated B beast, and con- ,liis earthquake of endr They are >n I 1 • repressed for the moment; but things arc progressing in such a direction as to bring the power of the democracy to bear against Austria and Rome, perhaps through France and Prussia. When they have done their work the saints will be again repressed and suppressed, as they were in 1814 and 1815, by a power, how- ever, that will subdue all for itself. There will be no more re- suscitation of the old governments, but all things will be absorbed into one continental dominion upon the old Roman domain. In the midst of this great commotion, Britain pushes westward from India, and promotes the colonization of Judea, which is an event pertaining to the sixth vial. By this time Turkey is no more ; and Constantinople acknowledges the sceptre of the Autocrat. England and the Russian lead on the world to the day of doom. They advance their hosts to " the wine-press without the city," (Rev. xiv. 20) which is called Armageddon (Rev. xvi. 16) in the Hebrew tongue, and geographically situated in the land of Israel. (Ezek. -"xxix. 4 ; Dan. xi. 41, 45.) There " as a cloud to cover the land," the armed multitudes arc assembled and preparing to decide the fate of Asia by the sword. But there falls upon them " a great hail out ol heaven." This power is broken ; Judah is saved; Messiah appears '' as a thief ;" the Roman Dragon is bound ; and the restoration of the kingdom and throne of David is commenced. Such is an outline of the results to be brought about by the " mighty earthquake," whose shocks have already revealed the earnest of what is hereafter to come to pass. In the coming tumult, " great Babylon comes into remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island disappears, and the mountains are not found. And there falls upon men a great hail out ot heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent ; and men blaspheme God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof will be exceeding great." (Rev. xvi. 19 — 21.) But the mighty earthquake having commenced in 1848, and the democracy which caused it having been repressed to a con- siderable extent, what agency remains, as revealed in the scrip- 46 i tures of truth, by which m to bo brought about the wonderful consummation wo have been eonsiderinp ? The answer to this question is contained in the following words: •' I saw," says the apostle, " three unclean spirits like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the boast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of demons bringing to pass remarkable events, and they go forth to the kings of the earth, and of the whole habituble, to assemble them to the war of that great day of God the Almighty. And he gathered them to- gether into a plaoe called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon." (Rev. xvi. 13 — 16.) In this passage we have to consider tho " three unclean spirits like frogs," the three mouths out of which they proceed, the parties to whom they go forth, and the fruit of their mission. There are three spirits and three mouths, that is, one spirit proceeding out of each mouth ; but as they are all three like frogs and unclean, though proceeding from three dif- ferent mouths, they are in nature, origin, and tendency, the same. They are called '' the spirits of demons," not because of their uncleanness, or wickedness j but because tho mouths from which they issue are the demons, or chiefs, of the dominions represented by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. Now the throne of the dragon Ia Constantinojile ; that of the two-horned beast, Vienna; and that of the inin<^e of the beast, Home. The thrones being in those cities, it follows that the demon of the dragon is the Sultan; the demon of the two-horned beast, the Emperor of Au.stria ; and the demon of the image, the false prophet himself. It is worthy of observation here, that the text says, " out of the mouth of the false prophet," and not " out of the mouth of the imago of the boa.st." In the beginning of the chapter, while the first vial is supposed to be pouring out, the Papal Jupiter is styled the beast's imago ; but in the thirteenth verse of the same chapter, while the spirits are at work, he is termed the false prophet ; and in verse twenty of chapter nineteen also, where it .speaks of his perdition. This change of style is by no means accidental. If the reader take a view of the papal Sil 47 wonderful awer to thii «r," sayBtho louth of the f the mouth ms bringing iinps of the ;o the war of red them to- luageddon." consider the 3ut of which nd the fruit nouths, that they are all im three dif- jy, the same, use of their i from which i represented ; that of the of the beast, ows that the 8 two-horned le image, the lere, that the nd not " out beginning of pouring out, he thirteenth t work, he is pter nineteen of style is by of the papal • ( dominion at the close of the last century ; then view it as it is now, and compare the views together; he will doubtless come to the conclusion, that the Pope is no lunger the image of the imperial head of the beast. lie has no dominion really, for il is so far consumed, that what remains is of little or no account. He has good will enough to make terrible examples of the demo- crats who caused his flight from Rome; but he cannot carry it into effect, because the French will not permit him. lie is a fugitive in exile, and though pressed to return to Rome, he is afraid to go.* lie is then no longer imperial, and consequently, has fallen from his Iconism, and become a simple prophet. Protestant and papal scribes are in the habit of applying the epithet '^ false prophet " to ]Mahonimcd, and therefore do not perceive its applicability to the Roman bishop. But neither Mahommcd, nor his successors, are termed " the false prophet," in the apocalypse. The Arabian was false enough, doubtless ; but he was a fur more respectable character than any pope that has ever reigned ; and were I to choose between the two super- stitions, I would rather be a Moslem than a papist. It was the glory of Mahommed to destroy idolatry ; it is the infamy of the popes to be the high priest* of the " queen of heaven." The Saracens were God' njcusts to torment, and the Ottomans God's cavalry to slay wiih political death the catholic image-woi-shippers of the Asiatic third part of the Roman dragon. Mahommed was the star, and his jiuccessors the " commander.s of the faithful," the " angels of ihe bottomless pit ; whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." (Rev. ix. 1, 11.) These names in English signifv 'hstroy2r, which is indicative of the raiswion of those who mtiishalled themselves under the standard of the Arabian. The epithet " false prophet" is singularly applicable to the Roman bi.shop. It is a a part of his function to preach or prophesy ; that is, to " speak unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort." 1 Cor. xiv. 3. From him these blessings arc supposed to flow to all ^* his children." This was writtou in IS 19. 48 Aaron was given to Moses to be his prophet because he could speak well. As Aaron, then, was speaker, mouth, or prophet, to Moses ; so the pope is now mouth, or prophet, or speaker, of the papacy, and no more. He is virtually stripped of his do- minion ; he can prophecy, but his rule is a thing of name, and not a fact. A false prophet is he ; truthless as Satan ; sport- ing himself with his own deceivings, and thereby provoking a speedy fate, which is " capture and destruction. But before he and the two-horned beast before whom he is now working, perish in the fiery European lake they are blowing into a flame, they must fulfil the mission to which they are ap- pointed under the sixth and seventh vials. The Sultan, the Pope, and the Emperor, are the demons of the crisis, and the mouths, or speakers of the systems to which they belong. Forth from them are to proceed such measures of policy as will produce a general war. These political measures are symbolized as " un- clean spirits." They are ''spirits" or influences exerted through the policy of the three governments ; and " unclean" because nothing clean can proceed out of such mouths. Rome, Vienna, and Constantinople are so many centres of intrigue, whence proceeds the evil that is to ruin the beast. I say Rome, which, however, is not strictly correct. It should be, wherever the false prophet is for the time being, whether atGaeta or at Portici ; for it is exceedingly questionable if ever he again reside in Rome. Then from Vienna, Constantinople, and the locality of the false prophet are to go forth to the "kings of the earth," and to " the kings of the whole habitable," the results of these Jntrigues, which will stir up all their propensities to w«»,r. The " kings of the earth" are here distinguished from the •' kings of the habit- able." The former are the kings of Germany and Russia, &c. ; while the latter are the kings of Roman Europe, such as of Bel- gium, France, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Naples, and Greece. They are all to be involved in war by the " unclean spirits" of the three demons, whose policy will bring about results that will ruin themselves, and astonish the world. •> # I le could )rophet, laker, of his do- vae, and ; sport- oking a m lie is blowing r are ap- tan, the and the ;. Forth produce as " un- through because Vienna, whence , which, the false tici ; for n Rome, the false to " the itrigues, kings of le habit- Ac. J s of Bel- Greece. )irits" of ilts that 49 But why fire these three political influences likened to frogs ? " I saw," says the Apostle, " three unclean spirits like frogs come out of these mouths." The interpretation, I conceive, is this. The frogs are the heraldic symbol of a power, which at the pro- phetic crisis is to be the proximate cause of the several policies which characterize the demon-mouths. That is to say, if this frog-power had not struck out a new course of operation which deranged everything, there would have been no ground for the Sultan, the Emperor, and the pope, to change their policy, and all things would have gone on as usual. The frogs, therefore, and " the spirits," stand related to each other as cause and eflfect, the demons being only the media through which the frog-power brings about the destruction of the two-horned beast and the false prophet; thd at the same time brings upon the arena a power which is to unjewel the horns, repress the frog-power itself, and build up the image of Nebuchadnezzar, preparatory to its being shivered to pieces on the mountains of Israel. In other words, the scenery of the thirteenth and fourteenth verses of this chapter is a symbolical representation of the working of things, when "the judgment sits, and the]/ shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it to the end" (Dan. vii. 26.) Who "they*' are to whom the work of destruction is committed is obvious from the twenty-second verse, where it is written, "judgment was given to the saints,'^ that is, of the Median class, who do their work previously to " the people of the saints," or saints of the holy city, assuming the ruling-judgment "under the whole heaven." Now, from the evidence I am about to adduce, I think, I shall be able to convince the reader, that "the Frogs" are the symbol of the French democracy, the old enemy of the Beasts and their Image. The testimony to establish this is as follows : — 1. Montfiiucon, in his Monumens de la Monarchic Franoaise, p. 4, plate vi., gives a Frog as one of the monuments of the French king, Childeric; thus, writing respecting it, "3. Another c 50 medal (see frontispiece) representing aftogy which was also an Egyptian symbol." This was found A.D. 1623, at St. Brice, near Tournay, with other things belonging to Childeric. He reigi:ed A. D. 456. That is, before the Franks acknowledged the Roman Bishop. 2. In the " Monde Primitif, compare aveo lo Monde Moderne," par M. Court de Gebelin, Paris, 1781, the author thus writes, p. 181, "Nous venons de voir que les Armoiries de la Guyenne Bont un leopard, celles des Celtes (surtout lea Belgiquos) etoient un lioTiy et celles des Francs un crapaud. Le crapaud dof igno les marais dont sortirent les Francs." And again, on p. 195, " Jja Cosujogi-aphie de Munster (1. ii.) nous a transmit un fait tres remarquable dans ce genre. Marcomir, Roi des Francs, ayant penetre de la Westphalie dans le Tongre, vit erfllonge une figure 9 ttois ^Hes, 1' une de lion, I'autre d'aigle, la troisieme de crapaud. II consuUa \i dessus, ajoute on, un celobro Druide de la contree, appel6 Al Runus ; et celuici I'assura que cetto figure designoit les trois puissances qui auroient regn6 successivemens Bur les Gaules; les Celtes dont le symbole etoit le lion, les Romains dtsigncs par Vaigle, et les Francs par le craptaxid, a cause de leur marais."* 3. In the sixth century, xlvi of the prophecies of Nostra Damus (p. 251) translated by Garenci^ies of London, 1672, occur the following lines :^ — XJnjusto sera un cxil envoye Par pestilence aux contins de non-Mlgle; Response au rouge lo fern desvoye, ' Roi retirant a la llano et a 1' alglo * The following translation will serve for those who do not UTidnrstand Frojich.— In M. Court de Gebelin's work, styled " The Primitive World foiuparwl with the Modern World," ho says, "The armorial boariugn of Uuyonne are a liojmrd; those of the Celts (especially of the Belgians) are a lion ; and of the French a frag. Tlie Krox represents the marshes whence the French originated." And again, "The Cosmography of Munster has transmitted to us a very remarkal)lo fact of this kind. Marcomir, king of the French, having penetrated from Westphalia into Tongres, saw in a dream a figure with throe heads, tlie ono of a lion, the other of an eagle., and the third of a fr(Hj. He consulted there, it is added, a celebrated druid of the country, named Al Ru'uuh; who Msured him that this figure represented the throe powers widcli lind reigned sue- cessively over the Rauls; the Colts whoso symbol was the lion; the Romans designated by the Eagle, and the Francs by ihcfrog, bocuuso of their mnrshos." p I L also an t. Brice, Ic. He wledged oderne," writes, p. Juyenne ) etoient d^igne p. 196, L fait trea ;3, ayant le figure icme de ruide de to figure sivemens lion, les qiaiidy a 1 Damus <2cur the rouch. — In lio Modern if llio Celts represents );irtti)liy of ilr, king of lui a figure fnig. He iuuh; who 1(1110(1 RUC- designated 4M 61 On which, Goronci^res observes: "by the eagle he meaneth the emperor ; and by the frog, the King of France ; for, before he took the fleur de hice, the French bore three frogs.^* 4. In Pynson's edition of Fabyan's Chronicle, at the bej^nning of the account of Pliaramond (the first king of the Franks who reigned at Troves about A. D. 420) there is a shield (see fron- tispiece) of arms bearing three frogs, (p. Si, Ellis edit) ; with the words beneath, "This is the Olde Arrays of France." ^ The baimer engraved on our frontispiece, having upon it the three frogs, is from ancient tapestry in the cathedral of Rheims, representing battle scenes of Clovis, who is said to have been baptized there after his conversion to Romanism. The fourth engraving (see frontispiece) is from the Franciscan church at Innspruck; where is a row of tall bronze figures, twenty-three in number, representing principally the most dis- tiuguished personages of the House of Austria; the armor .^ ■ ' ^stumes being those chiefly of the 16th century, and the T r u;*iianship excellent. Among them is Clovis, king of France, and on his shield three fleur de Us and three frogs, with the words underneath, " Clodovceus der i Christenlich kunig von Frankrekh; " that is, Clovis the first christian king of France. 1. Uptonus de Militari Ofiicio, p. 155, states that three frogs were the old arms of France, without specifying what race of kings. 2. Professor Schott supposes the three frogs to have been distinctly tlio original arms of the Bourbons ; bourbe signifying mud. This may have been the case. When their family be- came the dynasty of France, they probably assumed the frogs as tlieir arms, being kings of the Franks, whose symbol it had been so long. Th« Bourbons arose out of the mud which is natural to frogs, and by the revoluiion of 1848 are deep in the mud again ! 3. Typoticus, p. 75, gives as the device on a coin of Louis VI. , the last French king before Hugh Capet, the first of the 5 » I I 53 Bourbons, a frog with the inscription M.ihi terra lacusque, land and water are mine. 4. In the " Encyclopcedia Metropolitana," on Heraldry, it is stated that "Paulus Emilius blazons the arms of France, argent three diadems gules;" others say, they ,jear t/wee toads, sable in a field ve (ap. Gwillim, c. 1.) v»hich, if ever they did, it must have been before the existence of thj present rules." Such is the testimony I have to offer in the case befrre us. The conviction produced on my mind if, that the Frogs in the prophecy are the symbol of the French democratic power^ It will be seen from the armorial shield of Clovis, that the frogs and the lilies were both used as symbols. They are both indi- genous to wet or marshy lands, and therefore very fit emblems of the French, who came originally from the marshes of West- phalia. But on the shield of Pharamond, so far back as A.D. 420, the/ro<7s without tlie lilies appear in the armorial bearings of the Franks; and in the medal of Childeric I. ,there is no lily but the frog only. It would therefore seem from this, that the lihes were not in the original arms, but superadded many years after; and at length adopted by the Bourbons as the symbol of their race in its dominion over the frogs. These, then, represent the nat.on, and the lilies, or fienr de lis, the ruling dynasty. Now, if the apostle had said, " I saw three unclean spirits like lilies come out of the Mouths," he would have intimated by such a similitude that the French Bourbons were the cause of the ** unclean spirits" issuing forth from the sultan, the emperor, and the Roman prophet. But he does not say this he says they were Wee frogs. The truth, then, is obvious. In A.D. 96, when John was an exile in Patmos, the F -inks were savages in an unnamed country, living by hunting anu ashing like American Indians. But the Holy Spirit revealed to him, that this people would play a conspicuous part in the affairs of nations; and, foreseeing by what symbol they would represent themselves, he symbolized their nation by it, and styled them "i^Voy^." He • ih !^, land / [ry, it is , argent sable in it must frre us. s in the ver, It le frogs • )th indi- ;mblems if West- , * as A.D. bearings ^ i no lily that the ny years pibol of epresent dynasty, irits like ated by cause of emperor, he says A..D. 96, .vages in .ra eric an s people ns; and, elves, he t\ s:* Hq 53 informed him, that under the sixth vial their influence \^ouId be remarkably apparent. That the Frog-nation would have much to do with the dragon, beast, and false prophet; in fact, that so intimate and direct would their dealing bo with them, that its effect would be perceived in the warlike tendency and influence of the measures proceeding from the sultan, the emperor,- and the pope ; who being so completely entangled in the complica- tions created by the policy of the Frog-power, would in their en- deavours to extricate themselves, involve the whole habitable in war, which would end in the destruction of the two-horned heast, and the false prophet, and in the subjugation of the surviving horns to a new Imperial dominion for a time. In regard to the Sultan, the Frogs are seen exerting their influence upon him. They have assured him of their support in case of his being attacked by Russia. This promise is sure to bring on a war between the Porto and the Autocrat. If the Sultan had been left to himself, being weak, ho would have yielded and so have avoided war ; but being energized by France and England, two strong military and naval powers, the Sultan feels himself a match for Russia, and prepared to assume a bold and warlike attitude. But those assurances will only luro him on to ruin. No powers, however strong, can save dominions fore- doomed of God. Their friendship for the Sultan will be as fatal to liim, as the friendship of England for Austria and the Pope were to them in the days of Napoleon. The autocrat, being God's sword upon Turkoy, v/ill bo too strong for them both; for in the tumult and confusion created by iho mci sures of the Sultan, the Emperor, and the Roman bishop, their several do- minions will be abolished, and the auiocrat renimn lord of the aijccndaut. If the reader take a survey of Europe as exhibited in the events of the last two years, ho will sec the view I have presented still farther illustrated. The Pope and the Emperor have been the principals who have brought about the wai-s on the continent. 64 The unclean spirit of the Little Horn went forth to Eussia and brought down its hosts upon Hungary; it is also going forth to Prussia in opposition to the democratic constitution it is develop- ing at Erfurt ; and, in concert with Russia, it has gone forth to the Sultan, with whom it has interrupted its former amicable relations. Before the Pope consented to be restored by France, an unclean spirit went forth from him likewise, and brought the Austrians, Neapolitans, and Spaniards, into his states, when he found the Frogs could not be excluded« I pointed these things out to thousands of people in my lectures, and told them that in regard to Hungary they were deceiving themselves if they imagined the Magyars would succeed in their war of indepen* dence. That Hungary was a brittle toe-kingdom, and one of the three horns which were to be "plucked up by the roots" by the Little Horn. Meetings of sympathy for the Hungarians were being held throughout England ; and news arriving every week of Austrian defeats, and Magyar victories. StUl, I said, if I have fallen upon the true principles of interpretation, it is impossible for the Hungarians to triumph. So certainly incoiTect did some regard this view of the matter, that they said, when I returned to London I should have to expunge what I had advanced about Hungary from the manuscript before I published this book. A pr'^acher who had listened to mo at one place, was so convinced of my error, that in his next discourse he predicted the certain triumph of the "brave Hungarians" over all their enemies. But, alas for him. Men should never prophecy of the future from present appearances. T'.ough these were against my exposition, I was persuaded it would turn out in the end as I had said ; and I added furthermore, that ** an unclean spirit " was to go forth out of the mouth of the dragon, as well as from the mouths of the beast and of the false prophet ; but that while we could discern "the spirits" issuing forth from these, we did not yet perceive one issuiiig from the Sultan: nevertheless, though then calm and tranquil, we should soon see a warlike # 4 J 55 r lussia and g forth to s develop- oe forth to emicable jy France, rought the when he lese things em that in es if they )f indepen- i one of the jts" by the arians were every week id, if I have s impossible ect did some 1 1 returned anced about lis book. A 50 convinced I the certain eir enemies, f the future against my the end as I clean spirit" well as from lit that while these, we did nevertheless, see a warlike it <' disposition manifest itself ia his policy growing out of the Hun- garian war. The unclean spirit of the Little Horn had brought the Russian into Hungary, which would only whet their appe-^ tites for Turkey, whom they would prepare to devour next. In two or three weeks after making these statements, wiiich as I have said before, were not whispered in a corner, but spoken before thousands, all Eu"ope was astounded by the news of Gorgey's surrender, and the ruin of the Magvar cause. The details are known to every one. And as I had said, so it came to pass, Turkish sympathy with the Hungarians, and hospitality to the refugees, was made a casus belli by the autocrat; and on the refusal of the Sultan to violate it, diplomatic relations were broken ofif between Russia, Austria, and Turkey ; and the ** unclean spirit" energized by the Frogs, exhibits even the Sultan as a belligerent. The mission, then, of these three demons for the brief period which remains of their political existence, is to stir up the nations to war, which will redound to their own destruction. The press is prophesying smooth things, and persuading the world of the moderation of the Autocrat, and of the good intentions of Austria and the Pope ! It has told us several timej that the extradition affair was composed and that peace between Russia and Turkey will not be interrupted; and jften it unsays what it had before affirmed. But the reader need place no reliance upon newspaper speculations. Their scribes know not what God has revealed, consequently their reasonings are vain, and sure to take a wrong direction. As records of facts, the journals are invaluable ; but if a person permit his opinions to be forrued by the views presented in leading articles, and the letters of "our own correspondents," he will be continually misled, and com- pelled to cat his words for evermore. The Bible is the en- lightener. If men would not be carried about by every wind that blows, let them study this. It would unfold to them the future, and make them wiser than the world. The coming .iiife* 5« years wtll noi be years of peace. The policy of the Autocrat Trill be to throw his adversaries ofif their guard, and take the Sultan by burprise. He is to " come against him like a whirl- wind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he will ent^' InUi the countries, and overflow and pass over. And many countries shall be overthrown." (Dan. xi. 40, 41.) This is the career marked out for him ; which neither France, nor England, nor the world combined can obstruct, or circum- vent HOLY LAND.—DANIEL'S TIME.— AUTOCRAT OP RUSSIA. —ENGLAND AND THE JEWS.— GOGUE AND MAGOGUE, &c. Is the holy land to continue for ever as it is at this day ? Is the Little Horn of the (jti,?i (Ottoman Power) always to divide it for a price among his pashas? These are questions of great interest to all who believe the gospel of the kingdom of God and his Christ. The reader, I doubt not, will be ready to answer in full assurance of faith and hope, with an emphatic " No, it is impossible." Yea, verily, it is impossible that it can always be desolate and subject to the horns of the Gentiles. If it were, the kingdom of God could never be established ; for the Holy Land is the territory of the kingdom. To all, then, who believe "the things of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesua Christ," how intensely interesting must the future destiny of this country be ! Well may it be said by the prophet, " Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in thet earth. (Isaiah hii. 6, 7.) i> •V ' t ! ♦ ' I* 57 A.utocrai take the a whirl- ly ships; ass over. 40, 41.) France, : circum- RUSSIA. iay? Is to divide of great 1 of God o answer ' No, it is Ivvays be it were, the Holy o believe of Jesus estiny of "Ye that ) him no ise in thet • But when and how shall the land of Israel be wrested from the Little Horn of the Goat.^ As to the when, the prophecy contained in the last six verses of the 11th chapter of Daniel, plainly informs us, that it shall be in the Time of the End; ' "for at the time of the end shall be the vision." (Dan. viii. 17, 19.) This period is also termed, " the lusji end of the indigna- tion; for at the time appointed the end shall be." (Dan. viii. 17, 19.) In other words, the winding up of the vision shall be ai the expi-^uction of a given time. The next question is, what given time is this, and when does it expire ? In reply to this, I re- * • marik, that the only time given in connexion with the vision of the Ram and He-Goat, and the prophecy connected with it, is a t « long interval of 2300 yeare from the evening to the morning of ? ^ * • that says 2300, as in the common version. Assuming, then, that ; this is correct, the question is still before us, when does this period expire ? A similar inquiry is made in the text, namely, T I • " How long the vision T " At," or till, " the time of ihe end shall be the vision." Then the 2300 years are to reach no fur- ^ ^ ther than the time of the end, the durdftian of that end being defined, not by the time of the vision, but by other times given in the twelfth chapter. Thus, 2300 to the beginning of the time of the end; 1290 to the commencment of the pouring out of that that is determined upon the Little Horn of the Goat; and 1335 years (which close at the conclusion of "a time, times, ' ( « and a half,") to the termination of the time of the end, when "the sanctuary, or holy, shall be cleansed," by the seven months «^ burial of tho slain in Hamon Gog. (Eaek. xxxix. 11-16.) To repeat the question, then, " How lung the vision (concerning the taking away of) the daily, and the treading down by that which maketh desolate, to give both the holy (land) and the host (of '• ♦ Israel) to be trodden under foot?" To this question it was replied, "Unto 2300 days; then shall the holy (land) ho 58 cleansed." Wo arc not to understand by this, that the holy land would be cleansed in the 230l8t year; but that the 2800 years being expired, the subsequent event to be brought about would bo the cleansing of the land of Israel. This is a work that requires time, and cannot possibly be accomplished till after the battle of Armageddon* I say then " the cleansing of the sanctuary" is the cleansing of the land of Israel ; and I cannot conceive how any other in- terpretation can be put upon it in the face of Ezekiul's testimony as quoted below. He predicts the fighting of a great battle in the land of Israel "in the latter days,*^ which is synonymous with "as8cd, the numbers of Daniel, and of John's apocalypse, will have all come to an end. But before the world is brought into subjection to the sceptre of Jesus Christ, 40 years more will have passed away. During this time the nations are being subdued by Israel, who are at the same time being disciplined •' us in dat/s of old^'* when they came out of Egypt under Moses, preparatory to their being planted in Canaan, and re-constituted the kingdom of God, of David, and of Christ their son. I have represontod this period in the diagram by adding on a parallelognim which ])r()jects from that enclosing the time of the end, and 1805; then comes the kingdom of God which absorbs everything. Now, if my computation be correct, namely, that the 2300 years terminated in that commonly termed 1843, and that this was the beginning of the time of the end, wo ought then to find on the political map a "king of the south," a "king of the north," and the Little Horn of the Goat, all contemporary. Besides this, wo ought to find the king of the south making war on the Little CI ate with ' >f time" }5 years, Kvorltictlnfj ,lt'!f the end; "for at the time oppointed tli Israel on the n.-t-^ *I ppell these names as they should lio ptYinounced. ■ 08 '■:■■:-■':■.:::.:.' . 'i^ IF- doutb, east, and west; wlvo, being. Reduced from, tKelr al\eghmee^ revolt and invade Canaan, and lay siege to Jerusalem, but are destroyed by fire from heaven. They are styled Goguo and Magogue because the confederacy is similar to that of Dzakiol's prophecy; being a condjination of the posterity cf the sama populatTons to invade tho; same land, to take possession, of the same city, and for ihe sauio purpose, namely, to seize the srnptj'r of universal empire, whicli has becx^ the maiier of C(»ntest since God first put enmity betwcor; the seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman. If the reader compare the two prophecies he wi^l discern tlie following diver&iticF, which prc^e them to be coufederacies be- longing to (Il&rent (Epochs. 1. The >= :)'j,DiC of Ezekiel invades Judea " in tht latkr days;''* but the apccalypi;.:; (i'>giic does not invade the land till 1000 years after ihf '.»J iding of the dnigon; 2. Ezekit^h Goguy goes fortli from the north ; John's, from the four coi'ners of the earth; 3. The Ezekiel-Gooue's invasion is the occasioj; of the Lord's appearance, and therefore pre-raillcnnial; but that of John's is after the Lord ha:5 reigned with his saints on earth 1000 years, and therefore post-millcnia], 4. The Lord himself brings the Ezekiel-Gogue against his land; but soYne arch-rtbel stirs up hitherto loyal nations against the government, and as ihb apocalyptic Gogue and Magoguft defy the king already in Jerusalem ; 5. The Lord brings the Ezekiel-Gogue up to battle against Jerusalem, that he may be made known to the nations; but John's Gogue has known him for 1000 years; and 6. A sixth part of Ezekiel'r, Gogue escapes destruction, and the dead are buried ; but Jolm's Gogue is entirely destroyed by fii'e. The prophecy of Ezekiel concerning Gogue ' ' ntly relates to a power that is io arise hereafter; lor the I.o. jays in liis i'r-- :',k-.. ti m ieir allegiance^ alem, but are d Goguo and at ufEzriliicl's of tVie 8amo session of th»3 )v:J5 of the Lord's it of John's is th 1000 years, gne against his nations against and Magoguft. battle against le nations; but ind lestruction, and ily destroyed by "• ' ntly relates J. . jays in his ^'^. 69 c address to its chief, " In the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people^ against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste : but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them." In another verse of this chapter, the " latter years" are termed " latter days," as it is written, " And thou shalt come up against my poople of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land ; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land." This testimony shows, tliat there will have been a o-atheriiio- of the Jews to some extent before nttle on contends ael, and lominion )lish the ultitudes "all na- Lther to- with a the car- le Lord, and who ho pass he sea:" by the ^e upon liphanes, es of the type, or c monn- set thy ince of \^ his title n to tlie prophecy, the antagonists are indicated, namely, the Son of Man on one side, and Gugue on the other. But, while it is^ quite clear wlio the Sou of Man is, it is but little understood what poAver is represented by Gogue. It will, therefore, be my endeavor in the fallowing pages to identify this adversary of Is- rael and their king; so that the reader may know which of" the powers that be" is chosen of God to personate the serpent's head when it is crushed bv the woman's Seed. The Jews appointed by Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, to translate the Old Testament into Greek, gave a difi'erent rendering- of the above title to that which appears in the English version. They rendered the original by Gor/ne, jnince of Hos, Msfioch, and Thohel; so that the difference of the two transla- tions turns upon the Hebrew word rosh being regarded as a proper, or common, noun. The Seventy were sensible, that in this place it was not an appellative noun, but a proper name; and they rendered it accordingly by JRos, But Jerome not finding any such proper name among the nation-families men- tioned in Genesis, rather disputed the septuagint reading, and preferred to consider the word Bos as a common noL • ; and his interpretation, established in the ijatin Vulgate, hgs uni/'^'' i^'y prevailed throughout the west. Jerome, liowever, was Mij^^e scrupulous than the editors of later versions, who have unqual- ifiedly rejected it as a proper n*ime ; for although he inclined to the other rendering, he did not feel authorized to reject altogether one so ancient, and Lo has therefore preserved them both, trans- lating the passage thus — " Gogue, ierram Magogiie, principem capitis (sive lios) Mosoch, et Thubal.^\ But the question between the phrases "the chief p'.i>'," iind "the prince of Ros," has been long set at rest by tlie concurring judgment of the learnetl, who have adopted the primitive inter- pretation of the Alexandrine Jews. And although the common English version bus iiot the benefit of their decision, yet the title of tV'^ prophecy has ^ mi generally received among the erudite dH^:i.i^^^ ^"/•■> t ^r n I 1 portion of the western nations for nearly 200 years, according to the ancient Greek interpretation ; that is to say, as uniting tho three proper names of nations lios, Mosc and Tobl. By the insertion of vowels, or vowel-points, these words have been made to assume tho d'f^'< cont forms of Mvshech, Mesoch^ Tubal and Thobcl; b'l , ;'3 1. 1', teaniiig of Hebrew words depends not on the points, but upon the radical consononts, or letters, it may be as well tu express these names by the forms and elements of the original words, for by so doing we keep nearer to the original idea, and are less likely to be '>iV-''^*ed by hypothesis. "Ros," says David Levi, " is not an appellative, us in the common trans- lation of the Bible, but a proper name." The word " chief* ( light, therefore, to be replaced by the proper name Bos, or j.osh. But what nations are signijied by these three proper names? This question has been long since determined by the learned. The celebrated Bocliart, about the year 1640, ■ observed in hia claborarj researches into tho Sacred Geography, that Ros, is the most ancient form under which jiistory makes mention of the name of Russia; and he contended that Ros and Musc properly denote the nations of Russia and Moscovy. " It is credible," says be, " that from Rlios and Mesech (that is the Rliossi and Moschi) of whom Ezekiel speaks, descended the Russians and Moscovites, nations of the greatest celebrity in European Scj-thia." AVe have, indeed, ample and positive testimony, that the Russian nation was culled isJo*', by the Greeks in the earliest period in which we iiud it mentioned, as, "the Ros are a Scythian nation, bordering on the northern Taurus." And their own historians say, " It is related that the R'lssians (wb.om the Greeks called iJo.v, and sometimes Mosos) deiived their rame from Ros, a valiant man, who delivered his nation from the yolce of their tyrants." Thus, when, we difc-ceu. the iiodern names of Russia and of Moscow, or Moskwa, in tte ancient names of Ros and Mosc, or m ^; 73 , according to uniting tlio M. By the re been made , Tubal and peuds not ou ii's, it may bo ements of the the original }sis. « Ros," )mmon trans- ^ord " chiefs ime jRos, or jjjer names? tho learned. erved in his it Ros, is the ntion of the ' >sc properly edible," says and Moschi) Moscovites, ^■tUifi." We the Russian st period in hian nation, n historians reelcs called from Ros, a jiie of their ssia and of id Mosc, or « l> Muse, It is not difficu. .0 recognize in Tobl, Tubl, or Thobel , a name which naturally connoctii itself with them; and which, in conjunction with them, tends, in a very remarkable manner, to determine and fix the proper ohject of the prediction. The river Tubol gives name to the city Tol>oi««ns of Jupbct; Mvi it im to an- cient IIv'broNT autl)oiity alone lltiU we can resort tu lenrn mIu'ic, Accurding to iho comiuon repute of the It^rnelites, ibn nxiiuns which desccndi-'d from those two hciuis of families, and which lonfjf retained the proper namet of lh«»se lioaids, wcie spread and established. Josephud says, *'lhul Japhct, thu son uf Noali, i)ad seven sons; who, proceeding from iheir primiiivo scats in the mountains of Taurus and Anuuius, usccndtd Asia to the liver Tanais (or Don); and there entering Europe, penetrated a» far westward as the Straits of Gibraltar, uceupsitig the hiids \>hich they successively nut with in their progress; ail of wl»ich were uninhabited; and bequeathed their names to their ditlerei.t fiinilies, or nations. That Gomer founded tho Goiuari, whura the Greeks, at that time, called Galatse: — and that M:ue founded the Magogse, whom the Greeks then called Scyihse.'* It unly, therefure, remains for us to ascertain, which were the nations that the Greeks, in the time of Josephus, called Siythaj, and which tiicy then called Gutatce; and to observe whether the geographical affinities of these nations are such as answer to those wliich are plainly recjuired by the prophecy for Mag»)guo and Gomer. Herodotus, the most ancient Greek writer accesRil)lc, acquaints us, " that thu name Scylhte was a name given by the Greeks to an ancicUit and widely extended people of Europe, w ho had spread themselves from the river Tanais or Don, w< stwurd, along the banks of the Ister, or Danube." " The Greeks," observes Major Rennel, "appear to have tirst used the term Scythia, in its ap- plication to their neighbours, the Scythians of the Euxine, who were also called Getce or Qothi; and were those who afterwards Bubdued the Roman Empire: and from which original stock the present race of people in Europe seem to be descended." And a;^ain, "the Scythians of Herodotus appear to have extended themselves in Length from Hungary^ Transylvania, anci Wul- lachiOf on th« westward ; to the river Don on the eastward." I ^ I it iM to an* enin wlu-ie, ibi) luiiiuns iind ^hich spread and ' NuhIi, l)ad scats in the lo ihf liver ruled n» far ui.ds ythkU wlticl) were ;ir ditlmi.t QHri, whuin t M^uouutt \ iScyihsB.'* ;h were the cd Siyiliae, ■a whetlier » answtr to r AJagoguo , acquaints Gieeks to licid ^p^ead , along the rvcs Major ill its ap- ixine, who afterwards stock the Id." And extended and Wal- I 75 Thus the testimony of Herodotus and Josephus is in perfect ngieenient concerning the progress of Magogue and (ionoor. In these same regionH iho 8c} lijcccoiitiiiuud umny agrs after the time of Josepiius; for Dio Casbins, who lived 150 years after Herodotus, and even long after Josephus, and above 200 after Chiist, relates, that Pompey, in his return into Europe from Asia, "dcterniitied to pass to the later, or Danube, through the Sc) th.'e ; and so to enter Italy." Those were theoriginal iScy thac. iiut Herodotus states fur- ther, that a portion of the same people, in an after age, turned back upon the European seats of thtir fathers, and establislied them- selves in A^a; and from these sprung the Asiatic Scythre, who, in process of time, almost engrossed the name to themselves. Since the name of Sc) tlue, i. e. Magoguo, is to« be considered not by itself, but in geographical connexion with Gaintre, or Gomer, we have only to inquire, whether any geographical affinity is really ascribed by the Greeks to the Scyihie and Galatte? and to ascertain to what regions of the earth those names, so associated, were applied. If we can discover these two points, we ought thereby to have discovered specifically the Magogue of the pro- phecy, which is to be associated with the region, or people, of Gomer. Diodorus Siculus, who lived about a century before Joseph aS, traces them much further into Europe than the Danube; even to the shores of the Baltic, and to the very confines o-' *lt; Gcdatce of the Greeks. In speaking of the amber found ^i^.tk the shores of that sea, lie there places the region expressly dt nominated, "Scythia above, or north of, Galatia." In which description we at length find the Scylhee, or Magogue, in the immediate neighborhood of the Galatse of the Greeks, or Gomer. GiUatia, is the common and familiar name used by all the earlier Greek historians for Gaul, the Gallia of the Latins; and Galatse, is the common Greek name for Gauls, or the Galli of the Latins. Thus, "all the Galatae," (or Gauls) says Strabo, <' were called Ceitse by the Greeks ;" and the converse is equally 1 76 true : " the Celtee were called Galatce by the Greeks, and Galli by the Latins." To ir'juire, who were ** the Galatse of the Greeks?" is, therefore, the same, as to inquire who were the Galli of the Romans? A colony of these Galaiw, or Galli, indeed, in the third century before Christ, emigrated from Gaul and es- tablished themselves in Asia Minor; where they were ever after called by their Greek name, Galatians. Diodorus' "Scythia above Gaul extending towards the Baltic," accurately describes that large tract of Europe above the Rhine, or northern boundary of Gaul, through which flow the rivers Elbe, Ems, and Weser. Here, and in the countries immediately adjoining were the ScYTH^E bordering upon the GALAXiE on the north; that is to say, a considerable part of Maoogue, geographicaltij associated with Gomer.* Diodorus elsewhere describes the northern part of Gaiatia, or Ciul, as confining upon Scythia. " The Greeks," says he, "call those who inhabit Marseilles and the inland territory, and all thoie who dwelt towards the Alps and the Pyrenean Mountains, by the name of Celts; but those who occupy the country lying to the northward, between the Ocean and the Hyr- cy'nian mountain, and all others as fiir as Scythia, they de- nominate Galatte; but the Romans call all those nations by one collective appellation, Galatoe ; that is Galli." These geographical affinities unite in the name of Celto-Scythie, mentioned by Slrabo. "The ancient Greeks," says ho, "at first called the northern na- tions by the general name of Scythians; but when they became acquainted with tl)e nations in the West, they began to call them by the different names of Celts, Celto-Scythie;" and aoain, "the ancient Greek historians called the northern nations, col- lectively, Scythians, and Celio-Scythue: " which latter name plainly denoted the most western portion of the Scytiiie, ad- joining Gaul; of the number of whom were the Scythae on the north of the Gah'.taa. • "Comer, ex qwo Cfnlatre. id cat, Galli." tlint is to Pnv. •' Gomer, from wliom rrorcedeu tho Galatw, that in, Uie QaulB." leidor. Origia lib.' ix. Ue wrote about AJ). 400. and Galli itse of the > were the Hi, iiideud, kul and es- I ever after thia above eribes that mndary of id Weser. were the t is to sny, iated with •n part of seks," says terriiorv, Pvrenean ccupy the \ the Hyr- tlicy de- ns by one )graphical 3y Strabo. rthern na- y became call them nd again, tions, col- ter name ytliffi, ad- jiE on the im prorccdett : A J). 400. I 'i s I T7 In this general description may easily ha discerned, that ex- tended portion of the West of Europe^ comprehending ancient Gaul, Belgium, and the countries bordering upon them, which constituted in our day the Napoleon empire. Gomer, then, points immediately to France. It is a curious coincidence that Louis Philippe paid his visit to England in the Gomer; when this vessel was thus named, did they adopt it allusively to their country being originally peopled by the descendants of Gomer? " Scythia above Gaul," or Magogue above Gomer, or to the north of it, through which flowed the Elbe, Ems, and Weser, was the country from whence proce<^(led principally that rei\o\vned people, who, in the early ages of R Dm mism, formed an extensive con- federacy with tlioir kindred nations upon the Rhine, which had migrated successively thither from the regions of the Danube; and who, under the common denomination of Fuaxks, overran Gaul, and subdued it; and finally establishing their power and population in the conquered country, permanently superseded the j|ame of Gaul by that of France. " As for the seats of tho Franks," says the "Universal History," "it appears from their constant excursions into Gaul, that they dwelt on the banks of the R/iine, in the neighbourliood of Mentz. All historians speak of them as placed there till their settling in Gaul. Their coun- try, according to the best modern geographers and historians, was bounded on the north by tho Ocean ; on the west by the Ocean and the R.hine ; on the south by the Maine ; and on tho east by the Weser." These, therefore, were the Celto-So'thians, or Scythians on the northern confine of Gaul; that is, Magogue in contiguity with Gomer. Tho Chaldean interpreter applies the name ot Magogue to the Gerniana, in shjrt all the ancients looked foi- the Magoguo of scripture in the West. The Scytlue of Asia, who, as we have seen, were only a partial emigratit)n, or reflux, from their ancient stock in Europe, cannot, with any soundness of criticism, be taken account of in this argument. P ■ iill MM I 78 "Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands," is also to f*)rm a part of the Gogue's confederacy against I lie Holy Land in "the lime of the end." There is little said abciut To- garmah in history beyond conjecture. He was a son of Gonier, therefore his posterity would migrate originally from the same locality as Gomer's other descendants — namely, from the moun- tains of Taurus and Amanus; but, instead of going westward with their brethren, thev diffused themselves over '"the north quarters^^ tliat ift, relatively to Judea. Ezekiol says, "the house of Togarmah traded in theTyrian fairs with horses, and horsemen* and mules." (Ezek. xxvii. 14.) Hence doubtless they were a nomadic people, tending flocks and herds in the [)asture lands of the north, where nature favored their production with little care and expense. Russian and Independent Tartary are the countries of Togarmah, from which in former times poured forth the Tur- coman cavalry, *' which," says Gibbon, " they proudly computed by millions." Georgia and Circassia, probably, are "bands of Togarmah's house." These, then, are the regions which are to supply the numerous and formidable armies with which their arrogant and mighty emperor, prophetically denominated Gogue, is hereafter "to ascend as a cloud'' against the Holy Land, not long after he shall have gone, "like a whirlwind," against the Little Horn, Let us now consider, as briefly as possible, the applicability of this word to the Prince of Ros, Mosc, and Tobl. "Gogue of the land of Ma-Gogue," that is, styling the ruler of Magogue by the laiter syllable of the name of the country over which he rules. We have seen that Magogue is the region extending from the Ros, or Russia, to the Rhine, comprehending Wallachia, Transylvania, Hungary, and Germany. Of course the prophecy must be future, because the Prince of the Ros, is the Gogue of Magogue ; and as yet no emperor of Russia has been also emperor of Germany, kc. But, why is the future autocrat of Gomer, Magogue, Ros, Mosc, Tobl, and Togarmah, styled Gogue ? v> fe 70 ds," is also I he Holy about To- of Gonier, I the same the moun- westward the north "the house horsemen) cy were a re lands of 1 little care le countries ;h the Tur- computed " bands of ! numerous nd mighty • "to ascend shall have Let us now liis word to .he ruler of untry over the region )rehending Of course the Ros, is ia has been re autocrat led Gogue ? «i There is no nime in the Bible which has more puzzled the critics th;tu this of Gogue, The depths of Hebrew etymology Lave boon explored in vain, and the versatile efforts of ingenuity ill vaiu exerted, in the search of a mysiical sense which might attach to this name. But (Jogue is a Gentile, and not a Hebrew naino; and Michaelis has correctly remarked, that the origin of a barbaric, or foreign name, ought not to be sought for in tho Hebrew, uor in any of its kindred tongues, as many have erro- nejusly done." A writer some thirty-tive jears ag(s who very incorrectly applied the name to Napoleon, refers to Fredegarius' History as the only sativ^jractory account of any person of tho naiuo of Gogue. Without adopting his application of it to the French emperui-, I will give the substance of wl-,ai he says con- cerning lU It is a proper name well known to continental history; and borne iu one notable instance, by an ancient ruler, which answera immediately to the Magogue of the scriptures. Gogue was the proper n;in»e of the Major Domus Regico, or chief of the palace, who, after having been exalted by the voice of the nation lo tho highest authority, fell by a violent and sanguinary death. The name of tliis personage ajipears ii\ the history whicli is written in Luiin under the double lorni of Oogo {onis) and G^o^us (i); these dilfereiit term i nations and inflexious having been suffixed to the original name. But akhough modern authors have followed those Latin tbrms, ihe nauie has neverthelet'S been preserved in the vernacular tongue, with its genuine, original, and suuple enunciation of Gogr.!'. About s-ixty years after the death of Sigebi-rt, king of Aus- trasia, A.l). o7i>, Fredegarius undertook to write the history of li.s reign; iu which he gives the following account of Gogue: — "Wlien Sigebert (giand.-^on of Clovis) saw that his brothers liad contracted marriages wii.h women of inferioi condition, ho Geul liogue on an embassy to the king of Spain, to demand his d.iu^^hter, Bruna, iu marriage. The king s.'ut her, with great $^ !l 1 reasures, to Sigebert; and in order to add greater dignity to her same, it was changed to Brunechildis. Sigebert received her for his concert, with great rejoicings. "Prior to this event, and during the infancy of SigeWt, the Austrasiaiis had made choice of the Duke Chrodinus, to be Major Bonius Regiie, or chief of the palace; because he was a rratieiiee, ?ar both to k1 to him ; for all the blood ; and hem, or of figainst me that their . Cliocse pprove.' ', the tutor jor D^: mii» paired the his neck ; And brought im odious TiH of the imentary oitiers, a following selection, nneeting agogue. )le Sfly, with what health his Tahiod Uft Is Mwt ; ■\Vhat peaceful cares cnjjngo hU trainiuil br >tt»t. If on the banks of I{/iiuf awliUo lie stay, ■\Vherc the rich .xnlinon ylclJH itself » |irey. Or where Mosdk tlirtuigh vineynrtlu j?uitleM her ntream, While gentle brei-zcK cool the sultry jjleain, Or llowinp waters initl;;ate the liOHt And with fresh waves the bowery uiiirKin prpot. Or where the Meut^r in nuirmiirs soft Is hcnnl, Jlid threefold wealth, of vessel, fish, and bird, Or where the Aunt through grassy b;uiks is borne, IVhose waters nourish pasturage aiul corn. Or if by Oise, by Si(r>; by n,n\ by Sdirhi. Somme, fkimlre, i&iur, the loitering Chief beheld. Or when the Stilk, with mouth expanded, laviw Mtz' stately bulwarks with her coi'lous wuvos. Or if in fore.it .shades he .-eeks his prey, Vith toil, or spear, to capture, or to tdny, ^ Or if on Ardf^uic's wild, or lavY/c's height, # The echoing w(X)ds resound his arrow's flight. Or if. return'd beneath his pju.nci.lv domk, Their lord, a zealous people wekouie hoiuo." « Of the origin, or family of Gogue, the first Maire du Palais, or Dux Francorum, of the kingdom of AuvStrnsin, no mention is made in history; but it is plainly to be collected from the words of Chrodinus, that he had noconsaniruinity with either the nobles, or the gentry — the "primates," or "liberi," of that kingdom; and it seems equally implied in the words of Fredegarius, that he was not a native of the kingdom, since he was elected to his dig- nity, because the Austrasians could find no one among themselves. Thus, it is evident, that Gogue is an liistorical character, and that he was Regent of a part of Magt^mio. Now, it is probable, that, because of certain ])eculiarities in his luRtc^ry in relation to Magogue, God selected his name as the |)roi)helic title of one Avho should rule over the same <^'ountry in ''[hi?, time of the end." The resemblances between the l.istoiiciil, and piophetic, Gogues may be stated as follows, i shall ilislinguish them as Gogue I. and Gogue II. • 1. Gogue I. was a foreigner; Gogue 11. will be one likewise, belonging to the Ros, and not to the Germans. I ^ 2. Gogue I. became sovereign in factf though not de jure; Gogue 11. will become sovereign in tact by conquest. 3. Goiriie I. l)t.'C!ime ruler in a time of confusion, because tlio native princes could not ii aintain order; weakni'ss of the sove- reigns, and anarchy of the people, will precede the de /ado sovereignty of Gogue II. also. 4. Gttgue I., though exalted to the higliest post of honor and power, short only of the legitimate sovereignty, was precipitated, from his high e>tate by u violent death. 'Jhis is also the destiny of the profhetic Gogue, who is to "come to his end, and no ono shall help him." With these premises before us, I have no doubt that the fol- lowing paraphiase will present the n,'ader with the true import of the e.xordium lo the jtrophecy of Ezekiel concerning Gtigue. t "Son of Man, set thy face against Gogue, the emptror of Germany, Hungary, &c.., and autocrat of Russia, Moscovy, and) Tobolskui, and prophecy against him, and say, Thus saitli the Lord (iod; Behold Ian against thee, O Gogne. autocrat of Russia, tMoscovy, and Tobolskoi: and I will turn thee about, and put a bit into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth from the north pans, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them accoutred with all sorts of armour, even a gr^jit cora- p:my with bucklers and sliields, all of them handling swords: among whom shall be Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans; nil ol them with shields and helmet: French and Italians, ia, when he shall have attained to the plenitude of his power and dominion, is the sub- ject of the projjhecy contained in ihe thuty-eighih and thirty- ' ninth of Ezekiel. This personage at present is only "Autocrat * ^ « -m^. *• ■"•* il % -^ not de jure; St. 1, because the 18 of the sove- thu de fudo of honor and IS precipitated Isu the destiny d, and no one that the fol- e true import ning Gogue. e emptror of Moscow, andi bus snith the \ autocrat of ee about, and e forth from lorsemen, all a gr-'iiit coin- ling swords: 'yans; all o{ s, (fee; Cir- ck, tVc. ; and )u prepared; e asscmblt'd the shpdow shall have , is the sub- and thirty- j "Autocrat 89 of All the Russias," thnt is, of Ros, Mosc, and Tobl; while tha emperor of Austria holds the position of the Gogue of Mjigogue. But, as we have seen elsewhere, the Au>triiUi and (Jerman empire is dcomed to extinction by fire and sword; so that when ihis is broken up the (logueahip will be assumed by the autocrat, or "prince of Ros, Mosc, and Tobl." Having proved, as I thitdi, that the phrase "Gogue of the land of Magogue" signifies Emperor of Germany, and that the par- ticular emperor referred to will also be the "prince of Ros, Mosc, ^ and Tobl" — that is, that at some time heieafter, and that not far |k off, Nicohis, or a successor, will be both Emperor of Germany and Autocrat of All the Russias — I proceed to remark that, |« although the Son of Man is his conquen^r, he is to be antagonized # by another power before he conjes to lig- t hia last battle, in which he loses both his life and crown. According to Daniel, this «cnemy hails from the north and east of Judea, but he does not tell us his name. Ezekiel, however, supplies the deficiency : he informs us that Gogue's earthly adversary occupies the countries of Sheba, Dedan, and Tai-shish; and that when the Autocrat (for Gogue is an autocrat, riding hy his own will) invades the Holy Land for tlie purpose of spoiling the Jews, the Lion-power of these countries assumes a threatening attitude, and dares him to execute his purpose. " Art thou come to take a spoil ? Hast thou gathered ih«- company to take a prey ?" Thus it speaks to Gogue: as much as to say, "Thou shalt not spoil Israel and subdue their country, if we can help it." The prophet Daniel, however, shows that the only effect of these threatening tidings is to make him furious; for he says, "Therefore shall he go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many." But furious as Daniel represents him, Ezekiel testifies thiit ho meets with one more potently furitms than himseif. Hut this is not the Lion-power of Tarshish, but the Lord God himself "whoso * fury comes up into his face," when he beholds the extortinuer and spoiler (Isaiah xvi. 4.) ravening upon his prey. The liou« l;M.M^-/-«ti¥.^WA«J^#_rf-^<«?*^VlI«t'-^-St.V■^<^MiVS^ 84 a t I I i: nnd-mGrclinnt-powpr of Tarsliish will not be permitted to usurp ' the glory of the IJon of tiie tribe of Judah. It is to the latter that Jehovah haih assigned the work of delivering liis people from the destri)yer. Tlie Lion-power of Tarsliish, which will possess Edom and Moab, and Ammon, as well as Sheba and Dedan, will be indeed a covert to Jehovah's outcasts; (Isaiah xvi. 4.) and therefore will " Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon escape out of his hand :" but it is only Michael the great prince, who commands the artillery of heaven, that can " break in pieces the oppressor." The men upon the face of the land shall shake at his presence; and the solid earth itself will be convulsed. He will turn their swords ao-nnst themselves; and Judah shall fall upon them, and augment the slain. (Zech. xiv. 14.) Mutual slaughter and prstilcrnce will be* aggravated by terrors from above ; for " the Lord of hosts will visit them with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,* "With storm and tempest," (Isaiah xxix. 5-8.) and "an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone." (Ezek. xxxviii. 18-22) "Thus," saith he, will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I (Jesus) am the Lord." But what is the lion-power of which Ezekiel speaks? To ascer- tain this we must direct our altention to the countries named in connection with "the young lions." Of these, Sheba and Dedan are districts of Arabia, The men of Dedan are in the list given by Ezekiel of the traders in the Tyrian fairs. The Dedanim carried thither the ivory and ebony which they pro- cured from *' the many isles " to the eastward, and '• precious clothes for chariots." Sheba carried the "chief of all spices, precious stones, and gold." Dedan and Sheba were those parts of Arabia which lay convenient to the ivorj-, gold, precious stones, and spice countries of Africa and India. The Sultan of Muscat now rules the country of Dedan ; while the British have planted their standard on the soil of Sheba, at Aden, the Gib- *ji' " I " ' ■' ^''^■i\^«*^"^^^ 85 Ltcd to usurp * to the latter 5 liis people , which >vill ; Sheba and fusts; (Tsaiah the cliief of ut it is only ry of lieavcn, .•n upon the G solid earth irds agninst jUimient the •• l^ncQ will bo* of hosts will great noise,* overflow ino: Izek. xxxviii. and sanctify nations, and ? To ascer- itrics named Sheba and are in the fairs. The they pro- 1 " precious all spices, those parts d, precious e Sultan of 3ritish have n, the Gib- tfik .1 raltar of the Red Sea and Ucy of I gypt. Victoria may therefore be said to be the Queen of Sheha, v, ho may possibly live to lay her crown and treasures at the feet of the "greater than Solo- mon," and to fall back into the ranks of " the common people ;'* and, if not a pris.. ;. - of State, (IV ilm cxiix. 8. . to sink at least into an undistinguib'n J member of the community, The British power, then, is the lion-power of Sheba. As to Tarshish, lliere were two countries of that name in tho geography of the ancients. Jehoshaphat built ships at Ezion- geber, a port of the Red Sea, :iii-se products point to India as the eastern Tarshish — a country vl'icli has always conferred maritime ascendancy on the power .vhich has possessed its trade and been its carrier to the nations. But there was also a Tarshish to the north west of Judea. Tl>is appears in the case of Jonah, .ho embarked at Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Mediterranean, *'to tit-e unto Tarshish from the pi'essence of the Lord." It is evident he must have sailed west- ward. It is not exactly known where the western Tarshish was situated. It was a counirv, however, not a citv, whose "mer- ffliants" frequented the Tyrian fails. Addressing Tyre, the prophet says, "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the 5^M4t!'-'<'J'''*'"^ *■ •^"'' \ I ! I 86 multitudes of all kinds of riches ; with silver, iron, tin, and lend, ' they tr-'.Jed in thy f:iir8." These metals are tlie products of Brilain, celebrate - '• the Plioei'icians as Haratanac, or *'the land of tin,'' as •oinc f^(»n8true it. The merchandise ra Uie northern Taitihiiili, and of the eastern, identities Britain and India >Tith the two countries of that name; and Sheba and Tnishish in the pn)phecy of Gogue are manifestly indicative of the Lion-power of the Anglo-Indian empire. But, in corroberation of this, I remark furtlier, that the lion- power is represented also as a. merchant power, in the words, "the Merchants of Tarsiiish shall say unto Gogue." Havitjg ascertained the geography of Tarshish, it is easy to answer the question. Who are its merchants? This inquiry will admit of but one answer, namely, the Brilinh East India Company, which * is both the merchant and ruler of the elephant-tooth country of the east. But the association of "/Ae young lions of Tarshish"* with the "merchants of Farshish," makes this still more obvious; for it represents the p jculiar constitution of the Anglo-Indian government. As every one knows, this government is neither pur. ly a m ;-rt hant sovereignty, nor a purely imperial one like that of C 1. iiii, but a combination of the two. The Honorable CoUipany hus no power in Canada, but, with its imperial partner, the firm is omnipotent in India. Now the imperial member is represented in the prophet by "young lions:" tliat is, the lion is chosen to represent the imperial British power, as the Ram and the Goat, the self-chosen emblems of the nations, were adopted to symbolize that of the Persians and Macedonians. Young rams and young goats were civil and military officials under the ram and goat sovereignties; so also "young lions" are the same under the old Lion of England. This, the lion-power, is repre- sented in the government of India by "the Board of Control,'' and the imperial forces which serve with the Company's troops in the Indian army. The merchants of Tarshish govern India under the control of the lion-power — a constitution of things well #4 1 md lead, > ducts of the land northern dia with )h in the )n-power the lion- le words, Having swer the admit of y, which • juntry of 'ars/iish"* obvious ; o-Indinn , neither one like onorable partner, ember is ic lion is Ram and iulopted Young mder the the same is repre- Control," ''s troops rn India ings well #. yet attained the limit The conquetjt of I'cisia ngland to conqut-r Aflf- she may command the • 87 » represented in the Compnny's arms, which are a shield whose quaiteiiiigH are liliod with younp; lions rampant, with the mutt), ^^Aunpicio Senuius Anrjlioc.'''' From these facts, it may be con- chidcd, thiit the united impeiial power of Biiiain and merchant* power ot' India, is the power of the hiiter days, dcHiincd of God tu contend with the Autocrat, when, having laid all Europe prostrate, his ambition prompts hicn to grasp the sceptre of the east. But the lion-power of Britain h marktMl out for it by the finger '^'' by ihe Autocrat will doubilrss a ghani>tan, and to seize upon Dedai entrance to the Persian Gulph, and so prevent him from obtaining • access to India either by land or sea. Possessing Per*.iH and Mesopotamia, the apprehension of his pu>hing still further (ftijuihward, and perhaps establishing himself on the north-eastern coast of the Red Sea, and so taking them in the rear and gaining access to India by the slrails of Babelmandeb, will also be a powerful motive for the merchants of Tarshish and its young lions to take possession of all the coast from ilie Gul[)h of Persia to the Straits, and thence to Suez, by which I he lion-power will not only became the Sl^eba and Dedan, but also the Edom, Moab, and Ammon, of " the latter days;" for in speaking of the events of these days, the prophets refer not to races of men, but ti» powers on territories designated by the names of the people who anciently inhabited them. Hence, for instance, the Lion- power planted hereafter in the ancient territory of Moab, becomes the Moab of the latter days; so that when the countries before- named are possessed and settled by the Biitish, they will be men of Dedan in Muscat, men of Sheba in i^den and Mociia, and Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites in their several territories. Thus, the prophecies concerning those countries in their latter-day •developments have regard to the power to which they then belong, and which, I have no doubt, will be the British ; which, % ^^% IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^^^ :/. % 1.0 Si^ II I.I 1.25 1^ ^ us. 1.4 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.6 V] VI A .^^ 4"^? ^ ^ ^-K*^ ^ ^v^' ^ °w /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 A^ I v^ together wilh the Autocrat^s, though henceforth alveajs rival domiuions, will endure until both powers be broken up by the Ancient of Days. It may be as well in this place to recall the reader's attention briefly to the vision of the four Beasts. (Dan. vii.) The Lion, the Bear, and the Leopard, the symbols of the Assyrian, the Persian, and of a greater dominion than that comprehended in the four heads of the Leopard, or horns of the Goat; therefore, I will call it Alexandrine: (Dan. xi. 4.) these three Beasts are represented in the vision as outliving the destruction of the Fourth Beast, or Roman Dragon. Speaking of this, the prophet says, '' I beheld till the beast was sliiin, and hia body destroyed, and given to the burning flame." Having seen his violent deatli, he goes on to say, " As concerning the rest of the beasts they had their dominion taken away; yet a prolon^ng in life was given them for a season and a time." The meaning of this is, that at the consummation of the judgment, the territories com- prehended in the dominions of the four beasts to their full extent VfiW be divided between two independent dominions of the Latter Days, namely, that of Gogue, and that of the Lion of Tarshish. Goguc's will include so much of the territory as to entitle his dominion to be represented by Nebuchadnezzar's Image. As- syria proper, Persia, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia; Egypt, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Sar- dinia, Naples, Lombardy, Bavaria, Hungarj', and Greece — countries all included in the catalogue given by Ezekiel in his prophecy of Gogue — are symbolized by the head, breast, body, thighs, legs, and toes of the Image. These are at the crisis united together in one dominion, which is broken to pieces as the result of the battle of Armageddon. Gogue's yoke being broken oflf the neck of these nations, Assyria, and Persia resume their independence; but they do not retain it long; for it is *' taken away," yet ihey continue separate states for 1000 years, only ruled by the saints, whom the Lord may appoint over them. v^ #1 1^ mmmmm th always rival rokea up by the fader's attention vii.) The Lion, ic Assyrian, the [)iiiprehended ia Goat; therefore, three Beasts are itruction of the this, the prophet body destroyed, his violent death, the beasts they ging in life was aning of this is, < I territories com- ) their full extent ons of the Latter jion of Tarshish. r as to entitle his ir's Image. As- id Mesopotamia; n, Portugal, Sar- , and Greece — ly Ezekiel in his !ad, breast, body, \XQ at the crisis ken to pieces as jue's yoke being id Persia resume t long; for it is s for 1000 years, ipoint over them* tik # i »' I 89 The Lion of Tarshish is Alexandrine in its dominion, and will then possess much of the territory represented by the Unicorn Goat and the Leopard, all indeed not included in the Image. Alexander the Great extended his conquests over AfFghanistan, the Punjaub, and into India beyond the Indus. The Lion of Tarshish has already annexed much of his tenitory, indeed quite sufficient to confer upon it Unicorn and Leopard attributes. Its supremacy over the Ionian Republic still further approximates it to the Macedonian character; which will become still more conspicuous, when it beholds ^the prince of Host MosCy and TobV possessed of Constantinople, and contending for the Gogueship of Magogue ; it will then, doubtless, make extensive seizures of the isles of Greece, to strengilien itself in ' the Mediterranean, and to antagonise as much as possible the power of the Autocrat in that direction. Thus, then, answering •io the Leopard of the latter days, the Lion of Tarshish survives the destruction of the Image. But subsequent events will affect it in common with the Lion and the Bear; for though it may, in alliance with Assyria, and Persia, hold out for a time against the Stone of Israel, its "dominion will be taken away;" for the kingdom he is to establish will "break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms;" yet Assyria, Persia, and Britain will continue to exist as peoples for "a season and a time," being subject and obedient to the King of Israel, in the light of whose government they will walk with joy, and lay their wealth and honor at his glorious feet. BRITAIN, THE PROTECTOR OF THE JEWS.— THE BRITISH POWER IN THE SOUTH, &c. There are several strange fancies in the world concerninnr the restoration of the Jews. Some deny it in toto, anil yet impose upon themselves the imagination that they believe the gospel of the kingdom ! If any such have followed me through this work, tliey will, I think, long since have concluded that they havo Ir I . f 90 been ia errofr. Others advance a little further, and regard H as an "open question" — a position that v. ay be disputed, but for which more mny be said than against it, but concerning which they are not able to decide. This is tantamount to saying that the gospel is an open question, and that they really cannot say ■whether the kingdom of God will have subjects, or not. There are others who believe that Israel will certainly be restored, but they clog it with a condition which i i effect makes its fulfilment impossible, or eternally remote. They tell us that they will not be restored until they are converted lo christianit/! i3y Chris- tianity they mean the inanity preached from the " sacred desks" of the apostacy — the pulpit-gospels of the day ; *' for," say they» " if they abide not in unbelief they shall be grafted into their own ohve again." This is quite true ; but the fallacy consists i in construing this to mean, that their restoration is predicted on their believing what the Gentiles teach. The Gentiles them- * selves are in unbelief. How then can they convert the Jews? "Because of unbelief they were broken o ", and thou Genti ft stsvadast by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare rot thee;" for " thou also shalt be cut otFif thou con tine not in his goodness." (Rom. xi. 20 — 2 Both Jews and Gentiles are faithless in the gospel of the u^i.^dom in the name of Jesus, The Jews believe one part of it, and the Gentiles another part of it, but even these several parts they adulterate with so many traditions, that neither Jews nor Gentiles believe anything as they ought. Therefore, as he broke off Israel. by the instru- mentality of the Romans, so he is now about to break off the Gentiles by the judgments soon to be poured out upon them. The woi k of grafting Israel into their own olive belongs to God, who, as the scripture saith, " is able to graft them in again." No one, I presume, will dispute his ability. As I have shown elsewhere, he has assigned the work of restoration to the Lord Jesus, who will graft them in again upon principle of faith. I 1 ^ I (1 regard H as luted, but for lerninjj which saying that ly cannot say r not. There e restored, but IS its fulfilment t they will not /! By chrif!- ' sacred desks" for " say they» fled into their allacv consists ' is predicted on jrentiles them- • ert the Jews? thou Genti e r: for if God he also spare contine not in i and Gentiles name of Jesus. another part of with so many e anything as by the instru- break off the upon them, ive belongs to them in again." 1 have shown in to the Lord Qciple of faith. # r^ ¥ « . • 91 He will brinjj their unbelief to nn end in n way peculiar to the emergency of the case. "When the fulness of the Gentiles is come in, then Israel's blindness will be done away, The restoration of the Jews is a work ol lime, and will require between fifty and sixty years to accomplish. When Go^'uo comes to be lord of Europe, like Pharaoh of old, ho will not permit Israel to remove themselves and their wcalih beyond his reach. His dominion must, therefore, be broken before the north will obey the command to "give tip," and the south to " keep not back;" and even then Israel must fight their ^^ay to Palestine as in the days of old. The truth is, there are two stages i'l the restoration of tlie Jews, the first is before the battle of Armageddon ; and the second, after it ; but both pre-millenial. God has said, " J will save the tents ofJvJahJirst." This is the first stage of restoration. Jesus has already been "a stone of stumbling and rock of offence" to Ji'dah and his companions for 40 years, that is, from the day of Pentecost to the destruction of the temple, so that they need not to be subjected to a like process any more. But the word saith, " He shall be a stone of stumbling and rock of offence to both the houses of Israel;" (Isaiali viii. 14.) now it is well known that this has not been fulfilled in rtlation to the ten tribes. They did not inhabit Canaan at the lime Jesus sojourned and ministered there. The gospel of the kingdom has never been preached to them in his name; hence, they are only acquainted with him as they have heard of him by the report of the Jesuits, and the priests of Gentile superstitions — a report which is incapable of making men responsible for not believing. It remains, then, after Judah's tents are ?aved, to make use of them as apostles to their brethren of the other tribes, to preach to them a word from Jerusalem, (Isaiah ii. 2.) inviting them to come out from the na- tions, and to rendezvous in" the wilderness of the people," pre- paratory to a return to a land flowing with milk and honey, in which Judah is dwelling safely under the sceptre of the Seed v^ 93 promised to their fathers. Judah's submission to the Lord Jesus, as the result of seeing him» will give them no right to eternal life, or to the glory and honor of the kingdom. It; just intities them to the blessedness of living in the land under the government of Messiah and the saints. So with the Ten Tribes; their faith in the word preached will intitle them to no more than an union into one kingdom and nation with Judah ; and a participation in the blessings of Shiloh's reign during iheir natural lives. If any of them attain to eternal life and glory, it will be predicated on some other premises than those which precede their restoration. There is, then, a partial and primary restoration of the Jews before ihe adverit of Christ, which is to serve as the nucleus, or basis, of future operations in the restoration of the rest of the tribes after he has appeared in the kingdom. The pre-adventual colonization of Palestine will be on purely political principles; and the Jewish colonists will return in unbelief uf the Messiaship of Jesus, and of the truth as it is in him. They will emigrate thither as agriculturists and traders, in the hope of ultimately establishing their commonwealth, but more immediately of getting rich in silver and gold by commerce with India, and in cattle and goods by their industry at home under the efficient protection of the British power. And this their expectation will not be deceived; for, before Gogue invades their country, it is described by the prophet, as "a land ofunwalled villages, whose inhabitants are at rest, and dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bare nor gates; and possessed of silver and gold, cattle and goods, dwelling in the midst of the land." (Ezek. xxxviii. 11, 12, 13.) Now any person acquainted with the present insecure condition of Palestine under the Ottoman dominion must be satisfied from the testimony, that some other power friendly to Israel must then have become para- mount over the land, which is able to guarantee protection to them, and to put the surrounding tribes in fear. This is all that rv ^ jfMM' 93 tlie lord > rigbt to \. It just under the :en Tribes; a no more lah; and a lieir natural ', it will be recede their )f the Jews nucleus, or ^ rest of the re-adventual ^ 1 principles; le Messiaship ill emigrave ti ultimately mediately of ndia, and in the efficient pectation will jountry, it is illages, whose ,em dwelling and possessed e midst of the on acquainted ne under the stimony, that become para- protection to This is all that ^ # is needed, namely, security for life and property, and Palestine would be as eligible fur Jewish emigration as the United States have proved for the Gentiles. But to what part of the world shall we look for a power whose interests will make it willing as it is able to plant the ensign of civilization upon the mounuiins of Israel? The reader will, doubtless, anlicipnte my reply from what has gone before. I know not whether the men, who at present contrive the foreign policy of Britain, entertain the idea of assuming the sovereignty of the Holy Land, and of promoting its colonization by the Jews ; their present intentions, however, are of no importance one way or the other; because they will be compelled, ^y events soon to happen, to do what, under existing circumstances, heavrn and eartli combined could not move Ihem to attempt. The present decisions of " statesmen" are destitute of stability. A shooting star in the political firmament is sufficient to disturb all the forces of their system; and to stultify all the theories of their political astronomy. The finger of God has indicated a coui-se to be pursued by Brittiin which cannot be evaded, and which her counsellors will not only be willing, but eager, to adopt when the crisis comes upon them. The decree htis long since gone forth which calls upon the Lion of Tarshish to protect the Jews. Upwards of a thousand years before the British were a nation, the prophet addresses them as the power which at " evening-tide'* should interest themselves in behalf of Israel. In view of this, '• the time of the end," he says, " The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters : but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off> and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind ;" or as it is expressed by another, " and they became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; ar»d the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them:" (Dan. ii. 35.) "behold," says the former prophet, concerning Israel at this time, " at evening-tide 94 trouble: and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us" (Isaiah xvii. 13.)— referring doubtless, to the overthrow and destruction of Gogue. -Vow, the invasion of th^/ir country by n spoiler at " evening-tide," who robs them, implies their previous return. This primary restoration Isaiah styles, " a present unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled;'' for, speaking of "the time of the end," he says, " In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled * * * to the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts, the Mount Zion," (Isai. xviii. 7.) But, then, the question returns upon us, by whom is the present to bo made? The prophet answers this question in the first vei-se, saying, "Ho! to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Khush: that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift messengei's, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto : a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers (invading armies, Isai. viii. 7.,) have spoiled." Now, the geo- graphy of this passage points to the Lion-power of Tarshish as to " the land shadowing with wings." Taking Judea, where the prediction was delivered, as the place of departure, the word *^ beyond'* points to the east; that is, running a line from Judea across the Euphrates and Tigris, "the rivers of Khushistan," it passes into Hindostan, where " the Merchants of Tarshish, and its young lions," rule the land. But the British power is still further indicated by the insular position of its seat of government; for the " sending of ambassadors by the sea" implies that the shadowing power is an island-state. Ambassadore are sent from the residence of the Court, and if they proceed to their destina- tion by sea, the throne of the power must be located in an island. The text, therefore, points to the north and east, to England and Hindostan, as the land shadowing Israel with its wings. To Britain, then, the prophet calls as the protector uf the Jewish 95 i the portion us" (Isaiah ,d destruction n spoiler at vious return, into the Lord ;aking of " the e present be i;d and peeled of Hosts, the estion returns The prophet lo ! to the land rs of Khush: lis of bulrushes ition scattered * ning hitherto: and the rivers Now, the geo- )f Tarshish as idea, where the ;ure, the word le from Judea hushistan," it Tarshish, and power is still of ffovernment; iplies that the rs are sent from ? their destina- Led in an island. St, to England ill wings. To of the Jewish nation in the evening-tide trouble, and commands it tosend its mes- sengers in swift vessels because the crisis is urgent, and to plant Israel us "an ensign upon the mountains;" ^Isai. xviii. 8.,) as it is written in another place, saying, " The Lord shall set nn ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." (Isai. xi. 12.) When this is accomplished to the required extent it becomes a notable sign of the times. It will then be seen thrft the political Euphrates is evaporated to dryness, and that Israel is walking in the way of the kings of the east. In view of this, the prophet addrc-ses mankind, saying, " All ye inhabitanta of the world, and dwellers on the earth, secyc, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye." The ensign being planted on the moun- tains of Israel by Britain, the Lord will cause the Assyrian Autocrat to " blow a trumpet," summoning the hosts of his nations to war; for he has said, "I will bring thee, Gogue, against my land." They will "ascend and come like a storm from the north parts, and be like a cloud to cover the land :" (Ezek. xxxviii. 9, 15.) but "they shall be loft together unto the fowls of the mountains, aixl to the beasts of the earth ; and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them," foi their carca^>se''> will lie exposed for ''seven months" upon the field. (Ezek. , v:.ix. 14.) Then shall " the present " be brought in full of all the tribes of Israel not previously assembled by "the land slmdov.ing with wings." But from the subjugation of the Jews for a short time after they have boen restored, the protection of the shaduwing-power would seem to have been inefficient. So it will as far as the mountainous parts of the land are concerned; but, then, it is testified by Daniel, that "Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon, shall escape out of the hand of the king of the north." These countries will be a place of refuge for those who fly from the face of the spoiler, as Turkey has recently been r /•^ 96 for the HungnrUns, vfho have fled from the same power. The Lion-power of TarshiBh being in military occupation of the coun- triys that escnpe, i* cnahleJ to continue their protection efliciently. Hence, the prophet nddrcsses it, sayinnr, '*Take counsel, execute judgmoitt; make thy shadows ns the night in the midst of tho noon-dtiy; hide tho outcasts: beway nut him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the Spoiler." The context shows that that liHs reference to a future time; for, having shadowed them from tho spoiler, who, duriitg their coverture in Moab, has met with his overthrow at the hand of Michael, the great Prince of Israel, — the prophet goes on to announce tlie good news, saying, " Tho extortioner is ut an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land." This cannot be said of any period of Jewish history since the prophecy was delivered; nor can it be said of the land in its present state, for the extortioner and oppressor still keeps it in subjection. But what follows shows conclusively, that the time referred to is yet future; for, as soon as the deliverance of the land is declared, and The spoiler is no more, the prophet directs the reader's attention to the setting up of the kingdom, as the next event to come to pass, saying in tlieso words, *'//i mercy shall the throne be established: and Hk shull sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of Davidj judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness." (Isaiah xvi. 3-5; Jor. xxiii. 6; xxxiii. 14-17.) But Moab's population is vanished, and the country a mere wilderness, whose solitude is only disturbed by the howl of beasts, or the occasional tramp of the Be Jouins. For Moab, therefore, to respond to the prophetic cxiutrtation, a power must take possession of the country capable of outstretching its wings for the defence of a people, " whose latid the rivers have spoiled," and that power, I believe, is Britain's, the Moab of the latter days. As I have said elsewhere, the Lion-power will not interest itself ia behalf of the subjects of God's kingdom, from pure i 07 vver. The * f the coun- efliciently. icl, execute iclat of tlio wnnckreth. a covert to shows that lowed them ,ab, has tnet it Prince of »ews, saying, le oppressora said of any jUvered; nor e extortioner ' ^hat follows future; for, ,d Ihe spoiler intion to the :ome to pass, e established: cle of David^ hteousnesa." But Moab's erness, whose Lhe occasional espond to the jssion of the defence of a that power, I 1 not interest , from pure generosity, piety towards God, or love of Israel ; but upon the principles which actuate all the governments of the world — upon those, namely, of the lust of dominion, self-preservation, and self-aggrandizement. God, who rules the world, and marks out the bounds of habitation for the nations, will make Britain a gainer by the transaction. He will bring her rulera to see the desirableness of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba, which they will be induced, by the force of circumstances, probably, to take pos- sebsioD oi". They will, however, before the battle of Armageddon, be compelled to retreat from Egypt and Ethiopia; for "the king of the north shall stretch forth his hand upon the land of Egypt, which shall not escape ; and the Libyans and Ethiopians shall be at his steps." Hence, these will become the battle- ground for a time, until the seat of war is removed to the mountains of Israe?, where, by the Autocrat's discomfiture, the war is brought to an end between the image-giant of Assyria and the Lion of the north and east. The possession, or ascendancy of Britain in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba, will naturally lead to the colonization of Palestine by the Jews. Thus the proverb will be verified which saith, "The wicked shwll be a ransom for tlie righteous, and the transgressor for the upright." Though generations of the Jews have been " stiff-necked and perverse," yet their nation is a " holy nation,' which other nations are not, inasmuch as Israel is the only nation God has separated to himself for a peculiar people. In view of what I have b». en presenting, Jehovah saith to them, " Fear not, Israel : for 1 have redeemed thee : I have called tliee by thy name: thou art mine. When thou passest through Ihc! waters, 1 will be with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall not over- flow thee ; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour ; / gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and 98 I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not ; for I am with thee : I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth ; even every one that is called by my name : for / hav$ created Israel for my glory y I have formed him ; yea, I have made him." (Isaiah xliil 1-7.) Thus the Lord disposes of nations and countries as it pleases him. To " the land shadowing with wings," which shall proclaim their return to the dust of their fathers, he will give Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba as their ransom ; and enable them, through its power, *' to lay their hands upon Edom and Moab;" and to obtain the ascendancy over "the children of Ammon." Thus they will settle in these countries of the Red Sea; to which they will be attracted by the riches to be acquired through their connexion with the commerce of the east ; which , will then resume its channel of the olden time, when Israel and the British, like Solomon*8 servants and the men of Tyre, will drive a thriving trade between the Indian and China seas, and the nations of the west DR. THOMAS' TRANSLATION OF ISAIAH. From Chapter xvii. 12, to xviii. V. Hai'k ! a multitude of many peoples making an uproar as the noise of seas. Hark! a tumult among peoples, roaring as a tumult of mighty waters ; they rage against peoples like a roar of many waters : but He shalt rebuke him, and he shall flee afar ofif ; and He shall chase him as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as stubble before the whirlwind. Behold also at evening time sudden destruction; and before dawn he is not This is the portion of our spoilers, and a lot for them who scatter us. Ho! land of widely o'ershadowing wings extending from beyond to rivers of Cush; which sendeth by sea whirling things b2 *Hk i S r p ti al tc 01 th fri an lu: for Ian bei oil ter tro pl£ v Ha] hor pro eac som whf that the mali )eople g thy say to igray earth; reated shim." 18 and vings,*' lers, lie enable Dm ftnd Idren of ;heRed „ icquired ; -which „ rael and yre, "will eas, and H. ar as the ing as a e a roar I flee afar ns before d also at le is not. ho scatter ing from ing things ^ <• 90 even upon vessels of fleetness on the surface of waters 1 Go swiftly, ye fleet messengers, to a nation carried away and op- pressed ; to a people terrible from this and onward ; a nation prostrate and trodden down, whose lands rivos have spoiled. All the inhabitants of the world, and dwellers of the earth, at* the lifting up of an ensign on the mountains, shall tremble, and at the sounding of a trumpet shall hear. For thus said Jehovah to mo, " I will be still (yet in my dwelling place I will bo with- out fear) as dry heat impending lightning, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For before harvest as the perfecting of fruit when sour grapes are ripening, there shall be a blossom : and He will cut (it) ofl" as vine-shoots by prunning-liooks, and luxuriant twigs are lopped away. They shall be left together for the carrion-bird of the mountains, and the wild beast of the land ; and the bird of prey shall desti'oy upon it, uad every wild beast of the land shall ravin upon it. At that time a present shall be diligently brought to Jehovah of armies, u people carried away and oppressed even of a people terrible from this (time) and onward : a nation prostrate and trodden down, whose land rivers have spoiled; to the dwelling- place of THE Nake of Jehovah of armies, Mount Zion. ANNOTATIONS. Hark! — Hui, pronounced Masoretically, Ao, is the interjection with which Isaiah, xvii. 12 and xviii. 1, begin. It signifies Ho! Hark ! Woe ! Alas ! a word of threatening, of grief, and of ex- hortation. In the common version it is rendered *'woe.'' The prophet's exclamation evidently arises from a different cause in each case. In the first, he is like one who catches the sound of some distant uproar, and that he may discern more perfectly what is to do, exclaims with a listening ear, Hark! What is that? Having ascertained the nature of the tumult, he turns to the standers by, and says, "It is the multitude of many peoples making an uproar as the noise of seas." There is great sub- ^a"'* 100 limity in this. The prophet in Jerusalem upwards of 2500 years ago, being " in the spirit," hears the loud-sounding uproar of na- tions, rushing from far distant realms to battle in Israel's land, in the eventide of Gentile times. <'Hark!'' says he, "do you hear that roar of mighty waters ?" It is the last conflict of the nations ere the dawn of Israel's glory. I hear them approach the Holy City. Onward, and nearer still they come 1 The roar is. terrible. The flood no barrier heeds: our land is deluged* and the city falls before it. But 0, the majesty and power of Israel's King ! I see him robed in glory and might, and hurling, sudden destniction upon the foe! He pursues the enemy, and overtakes them. They cry, but there's none to save them, even to Jehovah, but he answers them not How terrible the chase 1 He beats them small as the dust before the wind, and tramples them in the fury of his power ! Thus doth he tread the wine- press alone, and bring down the strength of the destroyer to the earth. Compare Ps. xviii. 37 — 42, with Isai. Ixiii. 3 — 6, and the text before us. The victory being thus gained by the x^ame of Jehovah who comes from far (chap. xxx. 27.) he takes up his abode in the City of David on Mount Zion. The din of battle, and the tumult of i^eoples, is all hushed into the st'llness of a sultry at- mosphere impending a threatening storm. There is no uproar now to cause the prophet to exclaim "Hark!" The time of proclamation has arrived, especially to a power whose services are in requisition at the crisis. I do not therefore render hui in the second place by " hark," but by "Ho!" as calling to the land. — I have repeated " hark " after " seas, " as emphatic in- stead of wav, which should otherwise be rendered and. "But He shall rebuke him — ugar ho, pronounced ve-gah-ar ho. The common version reads, "but Ood shall rebuke them." The Holy One of Israel, who bears the name of Jehovah, is doubtless the rebuker,a8 appears from the Psalm already quoted ; and the additional testimony of Micah in chap. iv. 3, and c, v -m 101 % ar bo. hem.''* ah, is uoted ; lid c, V 4 2, 5, 6 : — " He shall rebuke strong nations afar oflF. " " Out of Bethlehem Ephratah shall he come forth unto me to be Ruler in Israel. And he shall stand and feed in the strength of Je- hovah, in ihe majesty of the name of the Lord his God : and they (Israel) shall abide : for now shall He be great unto the ends of the earth, And this (Ruler) shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land. " This ruler for Israel is ad- mitted by all professors, except Jews, to be Jesus of Nazareth, who was born at Bethlehem : but while this is conceded, what is here affii*med of him is rejected. We, however, believe it ; and maintain that though Jesus has never encountered the Assyrian in battle, he is yet to do it. Jesu Christ who is soon to stand on Mount Zion in the majesty of the name of Jehovah, is the re- buker of uproarious nations, who follow the Assyrian's standard. He is to bo the p^noe when the Assyrian invades the land of Israel. The testimony of Micah shows that it is the Assyrian which is the power to be rebuked in Judea at the second ap- pearing of the Lord Jesus — the Assyrian styled " the King of the north," by Daniel: " Gog " by Ezekiel; and " the Autocrat of all the Russias " by the moderns. The translators not understanding the teaching of the pro- phets concerning the Assyrian of the latter days, could not dis- cern tlie propriety of ho in the text, as no single individual had been mentioned, or alluded to in the context. Instead, there- fore of rendering the words gahar ho, rebuke him, they nullified the prophet's significant allusion of Israel's enemy of the latter days, and converted ho into " them. *' In my rendering, I have restored the idea they suppressed. Jesus, the stone the builders refused, shall rebuke the Russo-Assyrian Head of the Serpent and he shall flee afar off: Jesus shall chase him as stubble, and destroy him suddenly. " At evening time * * * and before the dawn. " This interval between the evening and the dawn is styled in Daniel ** the time of the end. " We are now in the evening time of the 102 day of salvation — the '* to-day" of the times of the Gentiles. About half an hour of the period remains ere the Assyrian obtain Jerusalem and is suddenly destroyed. The evening time before the dawn is the " time of trouble " foretold by Daniel, when Jehovah shall come with his holy ones. " But," saith Z^charlah, ** light shall not be, the splendid on^s draw themselves in. But it shall be one day, this is known to Jehovah, not day nor night but it shall be at evening time there shall be light. " This is a remarkable passage. Yiquahroth yiquiphahon, the splendid ones draw themselves in. Though they that b« wise are to shine as the sun, as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars, in the kingdom^ we learn from this text in Zechariah, that when they appeal* with Jesus " before the dawn,'* before the kmgdom is set up> that they restrain their splendor, as it may he supposed Christ did during his forty days sojournings with his disciples after his resurrection and before his ascenuon. This leads to the conclusion that while Christ and the saints are carrying on the war of Armageddon against *' the Beast, the False Prophet, and the kings of the earth and their armies, " during the evening time, they will appear like other men. They will draw themselves in, restraining the manifestation of their brightness until they have fully executed the judgement given them to do. At evening time brightness shall shine forth. That is at the close of it. When the light shines, the dawn has passed, and the darkness chased away. The day of glory shines upon the world, and the earth becomes full of the knowledge of it. The interval between the rebuke of the Assyrian by Christ Jesus, and the shining forth of His day, will be, I take it, about forty years. This will be the most extraordinary period of the world's history. The reappearance of Christ, the i-esm-rection of the saints, the dashing in pieces of the goat-governments as a pot- ter's vessel, the restoration of Israel, the manifestation of Para- dise in the Holy Land, and the regeneration of the nations, are V* lOUt tain fore hen :iab, But light lis a mdid re to i the that 3 the imay with nsion. ts are if the lies," They their given is at )assed, s upon e of it. Christ about of the ition of J a pot- fPara- ins, are u » "P 103 the c nts characteristic of the period. Who would not pray, " T]; ingdom come? " " Before the dawn he is not, " heterem boqtier ainennu. In answer to the question. " Who is not ? " we have, " lie whom the Rnler of Israel rebukes, and chases like chaflf before the wind. " The fate of this Assyrian awaits all the powers that oppress Israel. " Land of widely o'ershadowing wings, " eretz tziltzal kenaphahyim Eretz and tziltzal^ are both in regimen, and should therefore be literally rendered, land of the widely oe'r shadowing wings* This seems to bring out more forcibly the wings as the over- shadowing agents. The proclamation is to a land of wingSf not folded up as a bird at rest; but spread out, or extended widely, and therefore capable of affording protection to peoples inhabiting countries far distant from the throne of its power " A land of wings " is a figurative expression, like that of "wings of the God of Israel. " Isaiah, predicting the invasion of the Holy Land by the king of Assyria, says, " The stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, Immanuel! " That is, his dominion shall ovei-shadow it from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. This is a beautiful allusion to the eagle-winged lions of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian power. A winged lion is used in Daniel as the symbol of Assyria under its Ninevite dynasty. W hen the soveriegnty was transferred from Nineveh to Babylon, the prophet represents the wings as being plucked. Nineveh lost its wings, and could, therefore, overshadow no more. It was once a City of Wings, and Assyria a luJid of wings; so that if the prophet had any message to proclaim to it from afar, he might have exclaimed, " Ho, land of the overshadowing of wings ! " A city or land of wings, then, is a city or land having dominion ; and if the wings are wide-spreading, which is indicated by a widely extended shadow, the dominion is exten- sive, perhaps very extensive, if an intensive word be used to ex- 104 pres8 tho idea of shadowing. But all lands have not wings, because all lauds have not dominion. Canada and the West Indies, Hungary, and Lombardy have no wings. The wings of the mighty overshadow them all. They have no dominion over their own lands, even ; hence none dwell under their shadow. Austria on the other hand, is a land of overshadowing of wings. So are Russia, Turkey* France and Britain. Belgium is a lion with- out wings. Its dominion is restricted to its home-laud — a land which overshadows none but its own people. But we need add no more under this head ; for by this time, the reader will cer- tainly perceive what is meant by the figurative expression, " land of widely o'ershadowing wings.'' "Extended /row beyond to" — ashr maivr-ley pronounced asher mai-aiver-h. Asiier is the relative pronoun ivhot loMchy that singular and plural, masculine and feminine; and agrees with its antecedent Jcenahphahyim, wings. Hence, literally, wings that from beyond to, that is " wings extending from beyond to, " as I have given it in the text. Maivr comes from the root ahvar; without the points ovr<, pronounced over; from which originates our English word over. Hence, as a verb, •** over with you," that is, pass over or beyond, which is the import of the root ahvar. With the pre- fix wi, from, it becomes a preposition, as m-ovr, masoretically mai-aivery and sUgm^esfrotnover or from beyond; and followed by le meaning to. " Extending from beyond to,'* is a geographical phrase. To understand it aright, we must remember that it was not penned by one in London, Constantinople, or New York ; but by the prophet in Jerusalem. " From beyond" is used in Scripture in reference to the east and west from Jerusalem ; or inreference to the Euphrates alone, if the writer were sojourning on the east of that river. The phrase aiver hyyardain, " beyond Jordan " signifies the country east of that river : be-aiver hyyom, literally in beyond the sea^ that is, " in the country beyond the Mediter- t» \ usher , that with * sthat '% 105 ranean " or west from Judea. In the text before us, it is not "from beyond to the Sihor." If it were we might look for the wing dominion as extending from, perliaps the Atlantic coast of Africa to the Nile. " From beyond" leaves the how far beyond undefined. It may be one degree beyond the " 3 SAIAH. vessels of -pni-mim lis is the *^en upon my thing spectator iring with r with re- r the first Iness and which he et under- maritime in India, It is a waters of ch before ■ Solomon Tarshish. 11 of the tly to the False Pro- nations in ►sts will no will have sport then* ay be dis- ;ek. xxxvi. wings will willingly rn to their yeyance of ♦^ ti ♦i 109 "a 2)i'ese)it to Jehovah of armies." Those of the scattered nation, that are inaccessible to ships, will bo brought home by the usual means of transportation by land. This present brouglit by sea and land to Mount Zion is termed by the prophet "an oftering unto Jehovah out of all nations.'' His words are, " They shall bring all your brethren, an offering unto Jehovah out of all nations upon horses, and chariots and litter vehicles, and upon mules, and dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, as the children of Israel bring the offering in a clean vessel to the house of Jehovah." (Isai. Ixvi. 20.) This "present" is not brought before the return of Jesus, the bearer of Jehovah's njime from the right hand of power. It can- not be brought until he comes "Jehovah of armies," and is en- i > throned in Zion ; for it is brought by strong nations as an offering to him dwelling in Zion. Were all Israel now sent back to Pal- Kstine by existing powers, their restoration would be no offered present to the Joliovah-name, because Zion is not yet the actual abode of Jehovah-Jesus. The "present" will be freely offered, because the offerei-s will have come to the recognition of the true nature of things. Jesus whose prophetic name is " Jeiiovaii our riyhteousaess, (Jer. xxiii. 6.) will have convinced them of his pow- er, and right to the world's allegiance, by his skill and prowess in arms. The south will no longer keep back, nor the north refuse to give up ; for the Dragon, and the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Kings, with Ml the armies that now give effect to their wickedness, will have been destroyed ; and all obstacles to the full return of Israel from the four winds of heaven, completely removed. "They shall bring my sons from ftir, snitli God, and my daughters from the ends of the earth ; every one that is called by my name : for I have created Israel for my glory." (Isai. xliii. 1,6,7.) But before the free-will offering of this present of Israel to their King by the nations no longer hostile, and before Zion is deliv- ered of the man-child, Palestine will be occupied by a Jewish i ff I \ \ 110 population, respeotoble for numbora, industry, and wealth. This is e^ ident from the following testimony : " In the latter years, Gog, thou shalt come into the land brought back from the sword and gathered out of many people, against the mountains ol' Israel, which were (a«A*r-Aa/*yM)for desolation continually : but is b.ought forth out of tiio nations, and they dwell safely all of them. " ^'Thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land ; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be glorified in thoe, Gog, before their eyes." This proves a par- tial return before Gog's invasion. The following text shows their prosperity in their land before he disturbs their peace. Jehovah addressing himself to Gog says, " Thou shalt think an evil thought ; and shall say, I will go up to the land of imwalled villages; I , will go to them that aro at rest, that dwell safely all of them dwell- ing without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, to take a^ spoil and to take a prey ; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places now inhabited, and upon the people gathered out of the nations who have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of tiio land." He accordingly invades Palestine with a mighty army ; and that this invasion preceeds the appearing of Jesus in Zion is clear from the consideration, that the invasion of God's unoflfending people is made the occasion of that appearing; as it is written, " And it shall be at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face * * and there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel, * * and all the men that are upon the face of the land, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall bo hurled over, and the towers shall fall * * * and I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains ; and I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood ; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I mag- Ill Tbia I ears, 5 Bword i" Israel, }.'0\lght them. " sloud to ing tliee shall be )s a par- )W8 their Jehovah thought; llages; I « im dwell- ,0 take a< desolate lit of the 11 in the le with a jaring of ivasion of jpearing; len Gog God, that hall be a men that 3, and the * * * all my ence and lands, and fing rain, 1 I mag- 11 nify myself and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I Jehovah (Ezek. xxxviii.) am J esub bearing the name. "And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee. Thou shalt fall on the mountains of Israel, and u]X)n the open field : and I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured " — " a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that they may cat flesh and drink blood." Thus falls the blossom from the vine. Sudden destruction at evening-tide de- scends in storm and tempest, and sweeps him as mountain-chaft' or stubble before the blast. Thus Zion is redeemed with judg- ment. Prostrate under the heel of the Autocrat; and none of all her children to draw a sword for her deliverance ; her voice is stifled by the throat grip of the destroyer. She hath no strength to give birth to a deliverer; and nought seems to impend but the ^ final extinction of all her hopes ! But what doth the prophet hear at this crisis of her fate ? " voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recom- pense to his enemies !" "Jehovah roaring out of Zion, and utter- ing his voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth shall shake ; but he will be the hope of his people, and the streogth of the children of Israel. So shall ye know, that I, Jehovah your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain : then shall Jeru- salem be holy; and there shall no strangei*s pass through her any more.'" (Joel iii. 16.) Thus, " before Zion travailed she brought forth ; before her pain came, she produced a male," even a man of renown. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. "spirits of demons doing wonders." The text at the head of this article occurs in Rev. xvi., 14, and signifies the same thing as " unclean sphits" in the preceding verse. An unclean spirit is a power., or political jurisdiction 112 or inilucnco paramount in a country. I do not moan to »ay that ** unclean spirit" would be correctly defined thus in all texts where it occurs ; but this I do say, that when the phrnse occui» in a pi-ophecy that treats of things political, it signifies a potential influence belonging to some particular governmeiit. This use of tho phrase is manifest in Zechariah's prophecy of the deliverance of Israel's land from tho desolating abomination at tho time when Judah " shall look on him whom they have pierced and mourn for Him," (Zech. xiii., 2. His words ar** '• And it shall come to pass in that day, saitli the Lord of h .*t., that I shall cut off the names of the idols out of the land, :in .re thr" j^olitical emanations or policies proceeding iTOiii those several govern- ments exercising jurisdiction over the territory of the Great City, known in history as the Roman Empire, Rome, Constantinople, and "Vienna, are the seats or thrones of these dominions, sym- bolizcjJ by tlie Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet. Their b till 113 heads, or chiefs, uro tho dremons. (not devils) who enunciat* the "spirits" chftract. risod as "unclean." They are evil demons because the sttirits that iMim from them are unclean, md con- sequently unhol\ . The Emi>eror of Turkey, tho Em|>oror of Austria, and the Pupo, are the genii or d<'mon8, who preside over the utterances of the flymbola indicated; and if the reader have been observant of old-world affuirs for tlie last four years he will not have failed to remark, that tlieir " siurits," or several policies, havo boon and continued to be, originated and shaped by the movements of the French nation, the symbol of which I have before shown to be three progs. For this reason John styles them, lihe to Froys — policies, Turkish, Austrian, and Papal, adopted in oonsei^uence of events in France. These three Frog-liko Spirits of Demons f\ro said by the apostle to bo miracle-workers ; that is, poiouni t semeia, demon- spirits, effecting prodigies. In Rev. xiii., 13, tlie Two- Horned Beast is sjud to " do great wonders," which in tl e next veree are termed " those miracles which he had power to dci in the presence of the Beast" with ten horns. This power of the two-homed dominion to work prodigies was manifested in its ' causing fire to descend from the heaven," by which it compeliet the dwellers upon the earth out of which it arose, to set up an 1 lage of the Sixth or Imperial Head of the ten-horned doraiilion; which image is so energized by its power as to enable it to ^peak, and cause to kill the rebellious, History shows that this u as effected by prodigious wars — the fire descending from the heav- n ; which is tLc apocalyptic mode of representing war originatin _ from the powore that be. Paul refei-s to semeia of this kind in ^speaking of the app<;aring of the lawless power, when he says ith coming is according to the energy of the Satan in all authority, and prodigies, and false miracles, political authority, wars, and false- ^ hood of every kind, emanating from the civil and ecclesiastical Satan, • >r adversary of the saints, are the well-known historic energy which has established the two-horned and image, or E 3 114 Little-Horn-of-the-West, dominion existing upon the ear conjectural. Indeed he does not, or he would not trouble you with it. When Cyrus, King of Persia, saw what was written about him and his mission in Isaiah, he published a decree, saying, " the Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him a Temple in Jerusalem, which is m Judah;" Isaiah xliv. 28; 2 Chron. xxxvi. 23. This pagan prince, you perceive, acknowledged that what 118 was written in the Prophet was a mandate of the Lord God to him, and he acted accordingly. He had faith in what was re- corded there. He formed his policy according to its dictates; acted like a wise prince, and became the protector of the Jetoish Nation, A hint to the wise is enough. I trust that your Lordship, with all the advantages of the 19th century at command, is not less enlightened, or less sagacious, than Cyrus or Nebuchadnezzar. The same writings they recognized in their Foreign Policy, reveal to your lordship, and to all men of mind, what the mission of Russia is, in regard to Europe and the Holy Land; so that by taking heed thereto, you will be in no danger of being victimized by the cunning of its diplomacy. The Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel (the latter, Grand Vizier to five of the greatest monarchs of antiquity,) have recorded the destiny of Russia in relating to Europe and the JEast; and also the part which Britain is destined to play as its antagonist in the approaching contest for the dominion of the Old World. Does your lordship care to know what they declare shall "purely come to pass' in relation to these powers? If so, then inquire where it can be shown what has been revealed through them upon the subject. *' The wise shall understand." Seek the interpretation they can give, and your search will not be in vain. With due respect for your lordship, .1 subscribe myself, ' JOHN THOMAS. 3, Brudenell Place, New North Road, London. June 6, 1849. G. E. Thomas, & Co., Prmters, 16, King Street East, Toronto. II ii n \ u i\ M0M ii PITBIISHEI) B7 MACLEAR & CO., TOROlTrO. 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