sang with a loud voice, in full chorus, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and glory, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." ver. 11, 12. And these shouts of lofty praise reached the distant parts of the creation, and induced all the inhabitants to unite in the worship of the Lamb. "And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth; and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard, I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." And the four and twenty elders, in humble prostration, worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. Here we have presented to our view the whole church of the redeemed in heaven and on earth, accompanied by myriads of the holy angels uniting in the praises of God and the Lamb and at the close of the song "the four living creatures said, Amen. ver. 13, 14. THE SEALS, TRUMPETS, AND VIALS SEALS. THE SEVEN SEALS. I. Rev. vi. 1, 2. The Symbol, a white horse, which represents... vi. 3, 4. The Symbol, a red horse, which represents.. ..... III. vi. 5,6. The Symbol, a black horse, vi. 7,8. The Symbol, a pale horse, which represents.. vi. 9, 11. The Symbol, the Souls Christianity. Popery. Mahomedanism. Infidelity. of Martyrs, which represents...... Persecution. VI. —vi. 12—17. The Symbol, an Earth quake, which represents... Judgment. VII. viii. 1, includes the Seven Trumpets. An interval of silence for the space of half an hour, preparatory to the sounding of the seven trumpets. The seven trumpets are The star wormwood. consecutive, and years and an half will commence about three before the second Advent. They will occupy the period called "the time of the end." I think none of them will continue more than five months; and probably, some of them not more than five weeks. THE SEVEN VIALS. VIALS. I. Rev. xvi. 2. A grievous sore upon the adherents of the beast. xvi. 3. A bloody sea, and death of living creatures in it. beast. xvi. 4-7. Bloody rivers and fountains of waters. xvi. 8, 9. Men scorched with the heat of the sun. xvi. 10, 11. Darkness in the kingdom of the xvi. 12, 16. The waters of the Euphrates dried up. xvi. 17-21. Voices, thunders, lightnings, and a great earthquake; also a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done." THE SECOND ADVENT 66 Is the chief subject of the Revelation; explicitly announced, chap. i. 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." But the precise period God has reserved in his own power, verifying that scripture which saith, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing." When an inquiry is made of the Watchman, What of the night? the Watchman replies, "The morning cometh, and also the night; if ye will enquire, enquire ye; return and come again." Isa. xxi. 12. "Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels, neither the Son, but the Father only." Yet the time, as it stands connected with other events, is definitely marked in the scriptures of truth. But it is utterly impossible that the kingdom of God should come, according to the largeness of the promises, and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven, while Satan is the god of this world. He must be bound and removed from this globe, before the kingdoms of it can become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ. Then all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. Psa. xxii. 27. Dan. ii. 44, vii. 13, 14, 27. Rev. v. 10, xx. 4—6. The inspired writers could not give us the precise time of the second Advent, because none of them knew it; yet most of them have foretold that event, among various others, which precede and follow it, and who can suppose they have misplaced the most important event of all! It will be sometime after the Jews are partially restored. Isa. xi. 11, xxiv. 23. Jer. iii. 17, 18. Dan. xii. 7. Zech. xiv. 1-11, 16. Luke i. 31. Acts ii. 30. After the judgment of the Ancient of days, and the destruction of the fourth beast. Dan. vii. 9-13. After the nations are gathered together against Jerusalem to battle. Joel iii. 2. Mic. iv. 11-13. Rev. xvi. 16. After the time of unparalleled trouble foretold by the Joel ii. 2. Mat. xxiv. prophets. Dan. xii. 1. 21. Mark xiii. 19, 24. the appearance of false prophets, and false Christs. Mat. xxi. 24. Mark xiii. 12. After the gospel of the kingdom has been preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations. Mat. xxiv. 14. After the sixth seal. Rev. vi. 16. And after the sixth vial. Rev. xvi. 15. After the signs in the heavens. Mat. xxiv. 29. Mark xiii. 24, 25. Luke xxi. 25. After the binding of Satan. Rev. xx. 1-6. At the close of the 1260 days, when the two witnesses have executed judgment on the nations, and have finished their testimony. Dan. vii. 13, 22, 28. Rev. xi. 6. Mat. xxiv. 29, 30. At the destruction of the four great monarchies, by the stone cut out of the mountain. Dan. ii. 34, 45. At the destruction of the fourth beast, the ten kings, and the little horn. Dan. vii. 19-27. At the destruction of the eighth head of the beast, the ten kings, and the man of sin-Antichrist, that wicked one, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming. 2 Thes. ii. 3, 8. In the latter, or last day. Job. xix. 25. At the resurrection of the saints. Dan xii. 2. I Corinthians xv. 23. 1. Thes. iv. 16. II. Thes. i. 7-10. At the commencement of the Millennium, when he shall come to deliver the Jews from their |