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ly, (as an apostle would say) there is utterly a fault among us! Whereas there is among us division, and the spirit that causes it : are we not fleshly," and exhibit ourselves as wanting in the adhesive heaven-born principle, love? "Love is of God; he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." And until the congregation return to her first love, she is not ready for the marriage. Human traditions, by which the congregation has been, and is defiled, must be put away. By the traditions of men, has the very constitution of the Christian community been subverted -the door of faith turned into a door of flesh, and wood, hay, stubble, substituted for the solid and legitimate materials that build up the walls of the house of the Living God. All such buildings, that cannot stand the fire, must be burnt up, and what of of the precious metals that are in them collected together as material for rebuilding the temple after its original fashion, and wherein God may dwell.

But not to fill up your paper in exposing the disorders of foreigners, whose eye or ear this may never reach, we shall confine our concluding remarks to the faults and deficiencies that are but too apparent among ourselves who would like to be called "The Reformation." To be worthy of such an appellation, we ought to exhibit a MORE PERFECT ORGANIZATION than we do more love, more unanimity and harmony of action. Our strifes and divisions testify against

us.

We have the theory, the true knowledge of the constitution of Messiah's kingdom, but we seem wanting in the spirit of Christ. The demons of pride, of domination, and self-will, must be cast out, ere we can be an example worthy of imitation, or a nucleus to gather around us from all sects and parties, all who are for "keeping the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." This, then, is what we should think immediately

concerns us, and what lies at our door to do, in preparing ourselves for the marriage supper of the Lamb.

J. D.

THOUGHTS ON REV. XIX. AND XX.

Brother Wallis-As you have mistaken, and consequently misrepresented my views in your last Harbinger, in your remarks upon my paper contained in it, I beg leave to explain—

I. "The false prophet" (Rev. xix.) does not refer to Mahomed, but to the 2nd beast: compare verse 20 with chap. xiii. 11-17.

II. The ruling of the nations with a rod of iron, refers particularly to the kings, the harlot's allied powers, described in the xixth chapter, see ver. 15, though it includes the heathen also: see Psalm ii. 8-12.

Yours in the truth,

J. B. ROLLO. P.S. You will oblige by giving the foregoing a place in your next Harbinger.

REMARKS BY EDITOR.

Brother Rollo - Not professing to be prophetically wise in reference to the future developments of Divine Providence, it is possible that I misunderstood your paper on Rev. xix. and xx. and have, consequently, unintentionally misrepresented your meaning. The Apostle Paul, you know, informs us, that when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, it will be to destroy those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel; but, at the same time he comes to be admired in all them that believe. Now, as this includes those who were living in the apostle's day, it follows that they must be raised from the dead, and called to judgment. The Apostle John would never contradict this doctrine. The question, then, forces itself upon the mind—If all the wicked are to be destroyed at the coming of Jesus Christ to raise the

dead, to burn up the present world with flaming fire, and to create all things anew, who are the parties to be ruled with a rod of iron for one thousand years ? You now say this ruling refers particularly to the kings, the harlot's allied powers, and the heathen, Rev. xix. 15, Ps. ii. 8-12. But if these parties are to be in existence for one thousand years after the dead are raised, we are impressed with the thought that the whole creation will still groan and travel in pain to be delivered. This is but a dreary prospect for the resurrected saints-it is even worse than the beloved Lazarus dying a second time. But

it is possible that I may still misunderstand the subject; and therefore I shall subscribe myself one who lives in hope of being completely liberated from the bondage of a perishing state, and brought into the glorious liberty of the sons of God when the Lord returns from heaven.

Yours, &c.
J. WALLIS.
Nottingham, August 14, 1848.

FLEMING ON PROPHECY.

(Continued from page 379.) Now follows a threefold woe, which makes up the subject of the three following trumpets, which are therefore called the woe-trumpets, because of the remarkableness of these judgments above the former. Therefore, The fifth trumpet (chap. ix. 1-11) brings forth the first woe. The description of which is long, and the figures many, so that I cannot be supposed to say much on so large a head here: let a short account satisfy you. In the first place, therefore, we are to understand that no other than the Bishop of Rome can be meant by the star that fell from heaven; for this is the symbol of the gospel ministry (chapter i. 20), and agrees not, therefore, with Mahomet. Neither can the place this star fell from, viz. heaven, which denotes the glorious and holy state of the church,

agree to any other than one that apostatizeth from the service of Christ to the service of the world and Satan. So that, as ancient Babylon is said to fall from the heaven of temporal glory, as Lucifer, or the morning star of the nations (Isa. xiv. 12), so is the Bishop of Rome said to fall from the spiritual heaven of his primitive glory and purity, being degenerated from the first angel of light in the church to the grand angel of darkness, and becoming thus the prince of incarnate devils-the key of the bottomless pit (which he and his followers boast of as the keys of St. Peter) being put into his hand by the old Serpent, for carrying on the black designs of hell. 2. The dark pitchy smoke that came out of the pit upon his opening it was certainly designed to signify the ignorance that did then prevail in the world, and the gross and horrid errors that were spread abroad and vended for Divine truths by the sottish monks that then swarmed abroad under various names and leaders, and particularly the idolatry that then began to prevail universally in the world. For about that time, though several of the Greek emperors did stiffly oppose image worship, yet the Popes did at length prevail, though multitudes on both sides lost their lives in this quarrel.

3. The locusts that came out of this smoke were the Saracens that followed Mahomet, who compiled the model of his religion by the help of Jews and Christian heretics, especially of Sergius, a Nestorian monk, whom the Arabian and Turkish writers call Bahira. These Arabian locusts (whose hegyra, or era, is dated from Mahomet's flight from Mecca, A.D. 622, a little after the Pope got the title of Universal Bishop, A.D. 606) did in a little time so increase, that they conquered or overran a great many countries in a very little time; for they overflowed Persia, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, and other places, about the year 729. They extended their arms into India in

divinities and sacred animals. We humiliating, are found in these rooms, have wooden figures dug out of their of which it would be not only tedious, tombs. We have their bronze offer- but disgusting, either to write or ings-objects of private devotion- speak. porcelain and small figures of stone, perforated for net-work and for necklaces for mummies. First of their divinities stands Amen, or Amouenna, the Egyptian Jupiter on his throne, with his cynocephali and lotus sceptre. On his rear stands Amoun, between Rhons and Joh, another deity, in sandstone, 7 feet high.

Of these gods we have many antique figures. Thoth, or Thout, walking in a boat; Rhem, the Pan of the Egyptians, and many others too tedious to tell. We have Net, or Neith, their Minerva; Sate, or Seti, their Juno. We have them in every position, and in every monstrous combination; their Chous, or Hercules, with a lunar disk-a mystic lock of hair; another standing on two crocodiles, with a jackall's and a ram's head, the back formed by the body and tail of a hawk; Athor, the Egyptian Venus, with head overshadowed by a vulture supporting the disk and horns; his body is a shrine placed upon a wheel of eight spokes, with a figure of her godship dancing. Athor stands cow-headed, with disk and plumes; Pasht, the Diana of Egypt, cat-headed, standing in a striated garment, with an ægis in her left hand. Again, we have this divinity standing, human and hawk-headed, holding two swords, reeds, or feathers, two hands passing from the mouth to the shoulders. Many of these are standing in porcelain, green, blue, grey, variegated. Taur, hippopotamus, standing on its hind legs, with pendant arms, and breasts of a female, back covered with the tail of a crocodile; a Pharaoh, too, standing, having on his forehead a place for the Uraeus.

We have given but a specimen of these Egyptian superstitions and Pagan idolatries. Hundreds of these, and other fancies equally gross and

The sacred animals of Egypt are as curious, imaginative, and barbarous as their deities. Among their sainted quadrupeds stand conspicuous the jackall, cynocephalus, or dog-headed baboon, decorated with a lunar disk; a wolf, a shrew mouse, an apis, and an ibex on one knee; a gazelle and an ibex kneeling; lions couchant, a lion and a bull in one figure, sphinxes, monkeys, cats, rams, swine, hares, dogs, cows, mystic animals, head and neck of a viper, and the body of a quadruped.

Household furniture and other large objects; stools inlaid with ivory, four-footed and three-footed; high-backed chairs, on lion-footed legs; others double-backed, with seats of platted cord; concave seats, formed of four flat bars; cushions, stuffed with feathers of water-fowl; three-legged tables or stands ; model of a house, of a granary and yard, with a covered shed, in which a man is seated; in the yard a female making bread. There are also vases, ampullæ, mirrors, combs, shoes, and sandals, some with round and some with peaked toes; vases of all shapes and sizes, some conical, others resembling fruits, fish, lambs, gourds, &c.; spoons, chests, lamps, cups, baskets, knives, tools, nails, musical instruments, &c.

To notice in detail a hundred other cases filled with various furniture, agricultural implements, weapons, fragments of tombs, coffins, boards, inscriptions, instruments of writing, painting, playthings, tools, weaving tools, mummies, animal and human ; sepulchral ornaments, amulets, &c. would be to write a volume; and but for the guide furnished us in making our too hasty tour through this miniature world, I could not, from either my notes or my recollections, have given so much as I have done

in this letter with an accuracy to be relied on.

I shall only add a few remarks on this grand national Museum, and dismiss the subject. But on opening another page of my memoranda I discover, to me, one of the most interesting departments of this grand repository of some of the remains of worlds passed away. There is the collection of organic remains in room first, wholly pretermitted. In this, too, because of its relation to the science of geology, I took more interest than in any of the treasures of the rooms already noted. I must state a few of its more prominent fossil treasures, vegetable and animal. And, first, of the vegetable.

These are not so valuable as the animal. There are in room 1st fossils of submerged Algae, Tucoides, Conservites, &c. On some coal slate, in the same case, are displayed very striking impressions of plants with verticillated leaves, usually called asterophyllites annularia, &c. There are, besides these, some nondescripts, whose nature is yet mysterious.

There are also calamites, of the species Equiseta. These come from the rocks of the coal formation of the highest antiquity. Ferns (filices) impressions on the clay state of the carboniferous strata, and some specimens of the Lepedodendron. There are also perfect specimens of the Clatharia Lyelli, from the Weldon, with some remains of real Palmae. There are many beautiful specimens of polished fossil wood, found in the red sandstone formations of Saxony.

Greenfield, Massachusetts, has contributed some recent red sandstone formations, covered with very singular impressions of various dimensions, resembling the feet of birds, called Ornithichnites. There are sundry specimens in Room 2nd, not yet arranged.

In Rooms 3rd and 4th are some very interesting osseous remains of reptiles. There are the Batrachian,

the Chelonian, and Emydosaurian reptiles. The gigantic Salamander, of Scheuchzer's dissertation, belongs to the Batrachian race, first named. One whole case is filled with the bones of the Iquanodon. In these rooms are arranged the order Enaliosauria, or Sea Lizard, of which the genera Plesiosaurus and Ichthyosaurus are principal types. These, together with the casts of the Deinotherium, a most gigantic quadruped, found at Eppelsheim, including those of the Megatherium, are amongst the greatest curiosities in this Museum.

In contemplating these huge lizards, inhabitants of climes that have been, but are not, and the casts of those huge animals already named, to which may be added the skeleton of the American Mastodon, we cannot but assent to the revelations of geology, and admit those deductions which assert the long series of ages that passed away during the preparation of the materials of our terraqueous domicile, which were at the commencement of the present epoch, in a single week, new modified, developed, and replenished for the comfortable residence of man.

I fear that these details will be rather tiresome than edifying to yourself and others. My apology for them is the large space that Egypt holds in sacred and profane history; indeed, in the history of the literature, science, art, and religion of the world. It was once the greatest, the most learned, and the most admired nation in the world. The place which it occupies in the Louvre in Paris, and in the British Museum, is in good keeping with the large space it once occupied in the esteem and admiration of mankind.

In the arts of architecture, sculpture, painting-in mathematics, astronomy, and hieroglyphics-in all that pertains to the science of numbers, magnitude, and proportion, they stand out upon the canvass of time the most prominent and remarkable people of

643, and into Spain in 711, and ravaged several parts of France from 721 to the year 726, till they were routed at length, with great slaughter, by Charles Martel, about the year 728. However, they continued after that to be a scourge to the Christians, especially under the reign of the great Almanzor, about the year 772, when the Turks began to grow famous. So that the five months, or 150 years, wherein they tormented the Christians (though they had no power to destroy their empire), was from A.D. 622 to 722. But we must not imagine that these five months, or years, are the period of this trumpet; for this must be reckoned from 758 to 1067, or thereabouts, when Trangrolipix, the Turk, put an end to the Saracen empire by conquering the Caliph of Persia. Now, therefore, in the fourth place (to pass by the other things observable in this Saracen woe-trumpet), let it be considered, that the apostate Bishop of Rome is called the angel or messenger of the bottomless pit, so Mahomet, the king and prophet of these Saracen locusts, is called Abaddon, or Apollyon (ver. 11), i. e. a destroyer, as carrying on his religion by sword and violence; from whence his locust-followers are said (verse 10) to have stings like scorpions, by which they poisoned the souls of men, if they did at all spare their bodies; for they were, in other respects, swift and strong as horses, and had faces like men, in their reasoning, as well as fighting, for their superstition; adorned with hair like women, appearing soft and insinuating at first view, though armed with lion's teeth, as being fierce and cruel. By reason of which qualifications they got many victories, and are therefore represented as crowned with crowns of gold (ver. 9.) But, upon the whole matter, this trumpet, as it supposes the rise of the Saracen empire from the era of the Hegyra 622, and the begun rise of Popery from the year 606 or 608; so, after five months,

or 150 years, i. e. to the year 772, the Saracen preparations continued, and the papal from 606, or 608, or 755, or 758. So that the duration of this begins with 758, and expires, in relation to that part of it that concerns the Saracens, about the year 1060. But in as far as it relates to the Popish antichristian party, it is continued down through the next trumpet, and the last. But seeing the Saracens are brought in here as a scourge to the worshippers of the beast, the Turks succeeding them in this work, therefore, the trumpet is denominated from this visible scene of affairs, and we must accordingly suppose that it ends with them.

The sixth trumpet, therefore, which is called the second woe, brings in the Turks upon the stage of the Roman empire, who are represented as four angels, or messengers of judgment, (chap. xiii. 13-15, &c.) which were found on the other side of the river Euphrates for a time, but are now let loose to pass that river, and make their inroads into the Roman empire, and to erect themselves into a monarchy upon the ruins of it. Now they are called Four Angels, because they were then divided into four Sultanies, or principalities, as their ambassadors told the emperor Justin in the year 570, as is related by one of the Byzantine historians, and taken notice of by all writers on this head. For, at their remarkable passing the river Euphrates, they were under the command of Solyman Shahum and his three sons; and when he was drowned in the passage, they brought themselves under four other captains, viz. Otrogules and his three sons, of whom one was the famous Ottoman, who a little after laid the foundations of that great empire, over which his family keeps the sceptre to this day. They are described as horsemen, for so they generally were, fighting on horseback for the most part, of which the horse's tail is still a monument, being used as their chief ensign of

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