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whom he had not the good fortune to hear , is said to be decidedly evangelical . WILLIAM HARRISON .
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namely , Rev . xi . 7 . We have seen the slaughter of the witnesses , and by what power it was accomplished . We have also seen the exact time of the exposure of their cause to the ridicule and rancour of their enemies , who were most numerous ; and we have
witnessed the exultation and triumph on this occasion . On the other hand , we begin to perceive the resurrection of the dry bones ; that they not only stand upon their feet , but we have actually heard the great voice which has called them into power , and this
too , in the very sight of their enemies , whose fear , no doubt , will be equal to their surprise . Compare the words of this prophecy , with what has recently taken place in a neighbouring nation , and we need not desire a clearer or stronger proof of the administration of a Divine Providence
over the affairs of men , than is exhibited to our view in this most extraordinary and unlooked-for event . Let Christians then look forward to the grand closing scene of human depravity , to the sounding of the seventh trumpet , as mentioned in Rev . xi . 15 ,
and to its most happy results , when the kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ . Shall the heavens rejoice , and shall not the earth be glad 1 Rev . xi . 16 , 17 ; xv . S , 4 . PHILALETHES .
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BR . JOHNSON has said in his Life of Gilbert West , that he was one of the few poets to whom death might not seem terrible . This sentiment , though it proceeds from a
great and good man , I suspect is a proof , in this instance , of superficial thinking . What was there in the life of Gilbert West to put Ms moral principles to any severe trial ? He whose situation is such , that the
requisitions of morality impose upon him little or no voluntary suffering , is entitled to no very deep veneration . Gilbert West was in most easy circumstances ; a plentiful income , mi affectionate wife arid family , a literary
taste ; he indulged a pleasing : life , and when a little fatigued by study , mounted his horse , and rode for an appetite for dinner . Tihis is . a virtue doubtless which may put all the poets and all other men to the blush I If this most superficial remark of John-
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2 $ 6 Prophecy fulfilled in passing Events . —Morality of Human Characters
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Sir , March 18 , 1810 . IN such a period of the world as this in which we live , and which appears to me as interesting and awful as at any former period of its history ; if it be consistent with the plan
of yonr Repository , I wish to point out and introduce a few remarks on the passing events , as connected with the toord of God , or prophecy . It may be consolatory to some , and animate the drooping spirits of those conscientious Christians who suffer
from 1 he prevalence of political or religious despotism , known in Scripture by the name of Antichrist . As an illustration of my meaning , I send you my thoughts on the signs of the times . We now live in that period of the Christian calling , which may be
denominated the evangelizing * See Rev . xiv . 6 , where the angels or wi « - uisters of the gospel are authorized by their respective superiors to spread the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures , and " to proclaim unto those who dwell on the earth , and unto every nation , and tribe , and language , and
people , saying , with a loud voice , * fear God , and give glory to him , for the hour of his judgment is coming . Observe , we are here commanded by the heavenly messsenger , not only to fear God and give glory to him , but to worship him who made heaven and earth , and the sea and the springs of waters . Does not this seem to
imply , that the worship of the one only Creator of heaven and earth had not been strictly attended to by the Christian as well as the Heathen world ? Even to this said time , the prophetic denunciation , which immediately follows in vcr . 0 , may be a
subject of awful consideration in some future Number of your Repository , after the awful event has taken place . Thus , then , we have seen the fulfilment of this part of the prophecy , in the general spread of the gospel , in all parts of the habitable globe , perhaps Africa only excepted .
1 come now to the consideration of another not less conspicuous accomplishment of the word of God , than that which we have been remarking ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/14/
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