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BHEWING ALSO .# m THE IMPORTANT POSITION BRITAIN WILL OCCUPY DURING, AND AT THE END OP, THE AWFUL CONFLICT. m i1 A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND COKKECTED BY THE ORIGINAL AUTIIOIl, DR. THOMAS^ IsLJ'li TOEONTO: THOMAS MACLEAR, 45, YONGE STREET. ^ 1853. %^ ^ >*■■ 'it.}' 1 ■<--:^ « i ^'■Z ■*H #- **«.; ,>.■-"»■>■*?■, f ■ =<^;; BfliNKtittiiiNEO Ehr T. MASiai P0OIEI1T YOK ■,;W*- f iJS^^ AND T Mil CBICfc Revised «&< '(M^ietl^ll, o» Eti>fi^#fif^i}; V ■; P« I . «i <^.ii,.. m il *■■ "The most Qone^ B«i^f JMiMraoir^^liNF^iM^tttK^ I . " ' • I i i '■ I II I "I I I I ifi t I , ill . ! * » I I > , 11 > ■ I j « ' " AND IWHSNCk OF BHUISKILLEN IN BY JOHN GitAt AM, A.M > lilM ndimd *t» In M. tiji:; /■ 5'? •^ / '.■' TilK ■its:-.- I %' m^f^-'^ COMING STRUGGLE AXOKG dflje Rations 0f tfj^ ^«rt| : OR, THE POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE NEXT THIRTEEN YEARS, DESCUIBED IN ACCORDANCE WITH I ../ \ PROPHECIES IN EZEKIEL, DANIEL, AND THE APOCALYPSE, SIIEWINa ALSO THE IMPORTANT POSITION BRITAIN WILL OCCUPY DURING AND AT THE END OF THE AWFUL CONFLICT. ■<■••• ^ . TORONTO: THOMAS MACLEAR, 45, YONGE STREET. 1853. .y ,..tMi!: .% M»M!mJ.-' -«««'■ ■'"?(*■■ ,4#*' i.. ««-.. 1 '^'.^? AUTHOR'S PREFACE. y The above is the title of the pamphlet already referred to in our strictures upon the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. There are several vulnerable positions assumed by the 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 is "like priests, like people ;" all are in the fog, and the errors of Tlie Coming Stniggh have escaped detection. 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 doiug 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 the 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 the 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." ..^■' IV Some have stilcd him tlio learned Dr. Cumming; others, "the eloquent Mr. Wyliei" others, "a journeyman printer in Edin- burgh;" others again, "a disciple of T>r. Thomas," &c. Be he whom he may, he must he greatly astonished at the success of his doings. Seventy-three thousand sterling six-pcnces must have afforded him a wonderful profit on the copy of Elpis Israel, out of •which he fabricated his pages. I should have no particular ob- jection 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 notwithstan^Iing the errors In this, therefore, I rejoice ; but hope that no mose of the original may be soljJ jtfter this revise shall appear in Britain.j - _| Mott Barm, Weaichester, N. T., June 24, 1853^?. / V jokn/jhomas. 2? V ^> ^. THE *<► COMING STRUGGLE AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. Never was there a time in the past liistory of the world when such a terrible and iinivereal excitement prevailed regarding political affairs, as at this moment exists in the social mind. Wherever we turn, or into whatsoever society we enter, the same restless anxiety is apparent, the same question passes from circle to circle and from fiiend to friend, but no reply comes forth to cheer or satisfy the alarmed interrogators. " What is about to happen?" is murnnu'ed in all the assemblies of men; and whether the sound floats along the noble halb of the great, vibrates among the rafters of the straw-roofed cottage, or wanders through mazes of tobacco smoke in a village ale-house, echo only answei-s. What ! Coujoctures, indeed, are made and opinions delivered, but as those rest solely on the shifting sand of political appearances, and .'issunic the various aspects with which faction and party-spirit in^ est them, they are uttered only to be rejected ; tlie same (question is again asked by tho same individual on the morrow, and with like suc<^css. I That such an excitement should prevail at the present time 18 not at all wonderful. The position in which the jjowers of Eur(>i)e and Asia are placetl, renders it evi lent to every thinking mind — and in this age of boosted intelligence all should be thinkers — that we are on the very eve of a crislj, and a crisis unparalleled in the annals of the past. It is not at one part merely, or in one or two nations, that we discern the signs of an approaching siorm; but from one end of Europe to the other, the ominous cloud has gathered, and when it bursts, as soon it must, the deluge will not only be overwhelming, but universal. Such a prospect us 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 no\\' hover above our Avhole 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 fully 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 sus- pense, 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 misunderetand — is to be found a series of visions jmd 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, fis we have said, these prophecies have been, and are, sadly mis- uiulerst(3od. 27ie authorized interpreters of God's revelations i I .111 •i t -f I ■I i t tiino kvers of [hiiiking uld be a crisis no part signs of to the ursts, as ing, but shadows urricaues re not so ur whole at reality •ppressive 1 with all mg for its a our sius- it. is, in the isary that 'ding the remain; fly under- ill that is le despise, e found a olised the lire down an family 3wever, as ladly mis- ?velations have hitherto failed in Jiiidin'j a key to unlock their m»sterie8; but of this we do nut complain, as wo are told that the vision was to be sealed until tiie time of the en1 1 whic ten] Tlie w hea> durf thei the ton up; spei up don % boc an? oft ten thu thfi ! Mm »» [eless de- |iown )dof ill T tion hIiouIcI bu given ; accordingly, after the tleath of Nebuchad- nezzar, Daniel was favored with a more extended view. In this second vision, the four dynasties were nymbolised by four beasts, and an outline of the history of each given. The fourth power which in the first vision was described as iron, and divided into ten parts, is in the second shadowed for^^h by a beast of ten liornft Tlie causes of the destruction of these ten powers by the God ot 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 desjwtism,. — crimes which can never ia the moral government of Jehovah pass unpunished. After the ten horns had been for some time established, a Uttle horn came up among them, in which were the "eyes of a man and a mouUi speaking great things." After making room for itself by plucking up three of the large honis, this little horn Avaxed 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 ton horns were ten kings that should arise out of the fourth dominion; that another should rise after them, diverse from all the othere, that he would "sul)due three of the firat kings, speak great words against the Most High, wear out the Saints of the Most High, and think to change the times and laws ;" but after continuing thus for "a time and times, and the dividing of time ^^ his domi- nion would be taken away, and he would be utterly destroyed. In future visions a still more detailed reprvisentation of certain portions of this first vision was given to Daniel, and many of the prophecies of Ezekiel contain important developments of the same history; but God's determined measure of revelation was not yet full. Indeed, the ehief part remained behind, and con- sisted of an an)ple view of the operations of the fourth beast and his ten horns, especially of that little horn which subse- (^uently sprung up and became so projninent. Many huudrQ<.l 10 years after Dauid'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 iEgean Sea. To this pltice 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 of 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 shadov»ing 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 Roman 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 us in Daniel's vision. The beast, waxes great ; the dragon gives him his power, and his seat, and great authority ; 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 im- prisonment 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 tis yet unfulfilled ; but it was only a faint glimpse ho obtained of the truth; the # f 1 88 of Ithero the abed * 4 11 elements that were to bo engaged in the final conflict had not, at the time he wrote, assumed the position, by %vhich the time of the end could be recognised, and this, together with his adherence to the stereotyped but false theories of commentators, let him far astray. All, however, are agreed as to the general meaning of the prophecy.* The gold, silver, brass, and iron powers of the image, and the four beasts of the vision, are the Babylonian, Persian, Grecians, and Roman empires. The seven heads and ten horns are the various forms of government and kingdoms of this latter power. The first beast of John is the civil and eccle- siastical system of Roman-Europe ; and the second, or two-horned beast, is the Austro-Papacy grafted upon it. Thus far the his- tory 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 are. With regard to the time of the end, and the nature of the events wliich must take place previous to it, there exists an almost endless diversity of o])inion, — the greatest union lying in a imiversiil misapprehension of both, particularly of the latter. The great cause of misapprehension, besides that to which wo 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 the worltl. They do not undei-stand, or rather they refuse to believe, that the Jews will bo restored to their own land, and that the * No interpreters has succeeded in correctly expounding Ncbuchad- uezziiv's Image. They have ovei'looked the fact that it is composed of Jive elements instead «»f "tbui\" The fifth is '-the chiy," or Kusso Assyrian, styled by Ezekiel " Oogue of Magogue's land, tlie I'rlnoo of llosh, Mosc, and Tobl." The interpretation of the clay element lias been brought out for tho firot time iu the Herald of the Kingdom. — JUiUlor of the Herald. 1 kingdom of Israel will once more l>e esluMislictl, tlnnigh not pre- cisely after its ancient model or with its former inferior splendor. With a very restricted partiality, they have construed all those glo- rious promises of a political restoration, which ha>e lighted up with hope the heart of the Avandering Jew, into nothing more and Hothing else than a spiritual conveision, and they claim for the Church all the glory of the latter-day. This Ave apprehend is a fatal mistjike. 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 awful events of the coming yeare. 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 inscription. Another class, in the extremity of their fondness for spiritualism, say that at the moral destruction of Popery, wherever Protestantism encounters and overcomes Romanism there will Armageddon be. In the sequel of this pamjihlet, we shall show how erro- neous are both of these conjectures. Another great error, and one which has led to a host oi 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- takes the toes of the great metallic image. This i": a complete mistake. Thougii once a part of the Roman dominion, she is not within the boundary of the image territory ; and none of the countries beyond that territory will bo overthrown with Papacy,* except those who have continued to worship the beast, such as # i*a I)ro- indor. |eglo- with and )!• the Id is a Iforms 'orld, lawful ion of it is God ^# i i Austria and otliois. And this is just an evidence of tho evil otTects of a premature iiiti taken by Mehemet Ali, and this led to sanguinary and bloody strife in that direction. Be- sides these reverses at the hand of man, the country was scourged with cholera and plague for eleven years; and thus wasted and weakened, she is in daily fear of being totally overthrown by a ibreign power. But why, it may be asked, is such a vial of wrath poured upon the Turkish Empire? Ah! Ood had a long and heavy account to settle with this nation t Wly>t iniquity and injustice did it not perpetrate against the Jews, God's own peculiar people ; and though permitted to succeed in its cruelty for the ex- press purpose of punishing the Jewish nation for their transgressions against the Most High, yet such is Ood's jealousy with regard to this race which he has chosen, that even the instruments with which he 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 ammig the Gentiles. For this and other causes, enumerated in the 1 1th 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 b^an in 1830, when the whole political atmosphere, as if charged with democratic electricity, gave forth flashes, 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 are 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- k 2 18 Illation. i» given in the following worcU : — " And I saw tbrefl unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of th") mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet They are spirits of demons working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole habitable, to gather them to the war of that great day of Qod Almighty." The demons that represent the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet powers, are the Sultan, the Kraperor of Austria, and the Pope ; and the frogs, or frog-power, is France — ^frogs being the original heraldric symbol of that nation. When, therefore, we perceive the French government causing "unclean spirits," or evil policy to emanate from these three incarnations of power, then are we to recognise the immediate appix>ach of the end ; for this, says the prophecy will cause the kings of the earth to be gathered together to "the war of that great day of God Almighty." This period has 710W come. We are living in it. France has at this moment the Pope, the Emperor, and the Sultan, in a very critical position. By occupying Rome and forcing its protection on the Pope, it has obtained the power, to some extent, of dictating the policy of his holiness, — ^now, alas for him, robbed of his imperial dignity, and reduced to the position of a "false prophet" — and is, by its policy, causing him to contribute to the involvement of other governments in war. By this move it has also placed itself in inevitable antagonism to Austria, and brought foiih an unclean spirit from tLence, which in a little time will create an open war between the powers, involving many other kingdoms in the strife, and ultimately producing consequences of a fatal nature to the whole ten kingdoms. France is also causing an unclean spirit to proceed from the Sultan, by its diplomacy connected with the Holy Places and demonstration of support in case of a Russian invasion, and thus involving him in a war with that mighty power, when he would otherwise quietly yield to it Thus we see in full operation that agency which was. toJndicaite the time of the end, and produce the terrible 19 events which must precede and accomplish that period. Let ui now, by the light of the prophecy, try to discovor the nature of these, and thus be able to read the political history of the next thirteen years, and learn something of the events which will take place from that time till the millennium. From what we stated at the outset, our readers will perceive that we have no sympathy with that system of wholesale spiritualizing, which our commentators have pursued in treating of the future part of this Bible history. That large portion of it which has been illustrated in the past, gives us no warrant to believe — far less to assert — that its future predictions are but emblems of the changes and occurences that will pass over the church, and that the wars spoken of are inoral, not literal. Hitherto it has been most accurately illustrated by real wars and political events, and until we have a better authority to go upon than Origen and his followers, we prefer to construe the language of the Bible in a literal manner, and doing so, we believe that the following will be the principal coming events : — I. The seizure of Constantinople, and overthrow of Turkey by the Emperor of Russia, In following Daniel's version of the prophecy, which is more detailed than John's, we find, that the unfulfilled part begins at the first colon of the 40th verse of the 11th chapter. That verse opens with the declaration, that " the King of the South," or Mehemet AH would *' push" at the Sultan. This was acomplished in 1839, when that monarch wrested Egypt and Syria from him, and endeavoured to seize Constantinople itself, and probably would have done so, had not the other powers prevented him, or rather, had not God determined that he should only pu^h, not overthrow. The next part of the verse is, however fraught with dire calamity to the Moslem Dynasty of the dragon. *« The king of the north," or Russia, it is stated, " shall o«me against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overthrow and 20 pass over." Here, we read at once the doom of Turkey, notwith* standing the assurance of assistance 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 ofif 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 his 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 suceed it, and the short space allowed tor their performance, it must of necessity be almost immediately. II. War between France and Austria — Overthrow of the former, and subsequent destruction of the Papacy. Leaving for a time the sixth vial to run its course on the Tur- kish 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 wordb, on Roman Europe. For, let it be observed, that the Papal powers as well as Turkey, are doomed to hard experiences before the ten toos of the image are finally smitten with the Stone. As the Dragon had yeilded 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 the other powers, and therefore shall suffer a more signal punishment. Indeed, we find this dominion, which is in the *i I ^ I ■ ^-i- I ■■ - — I.—. I ,11— , 1,-1^ . ■ ■ .1 .1 — ._. .1., .,, .— . I.. .,._.„ * Sir Stratford Canning. Since the First Edition of this work has been published, he has been again appointed Ambassador to Turkey. 21 prophecy Rtyled the two-horned beast, identified with, and aasimi- 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 Idth 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 exerted itself through Napoleon, tho iron hand of a stern 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 much longer averted. The Austrian horn's Roman Dominion was at that time only temporarily taken away, but hereafter it must be " consumed and destroyed unto the end." And the earnest of this will doubtless be initiated by the same power that punished him before, France, though her- self one of the doomed toe kingdoms, will be the scourge of this horn, and preparation is being speedily consumated for the acom- plishment 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 disastrous to the "bloody house of Austria;'* ')ut premillennially and temporarily its occultation in the shadow of the Czar. Jesus appears as a thief, and the saints are raised from the dead. The power of Russia is broken and the obscuration ends. Then comes the fall of Babylon. The Austrian and its cotemporary horns, the supporters of the False Prophet, now become confederate against the Destroyer of the Czarocracy. But Babylon must of necessity fall. The time when the ten horns "shall hate Rome, and make her desolate and 22 ii > naked, and sliall eat her fleeh and bum her with fire," obtains in the preadventural contest between France and the Northern Powers. The account of her overthrow 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 accompany her death. These 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 de- solation. III. The occultation of the Horns or Continental Powers by the Emperor of Rmsia: By the time the above occurrences have taken place, the thirteen 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." xhis 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 overflo'v and pass over, we find that Ezekial, who gives a most minute and gi-aphic account of the great battle introductoiy of the war of Armageddoj, styles him " Gog, of the land of Ma- gog, Prince of Rosh, Mosc and Tobl," and enumerates Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, and the bands of Gomer, in those that follow hina. Now, it can be satisfactorily proved that Magog and Gomer mean Germany and France. These countries he must therefore conquer; and having conquered them the whole continental Europe is within his grasp. The metallic image will thus be joined in all its parts, the territory comprehended in the Baby- ,\ S3 Ionian, Pereian, Grecian. Roman, and lattor day Assyrian Empires, will be ruled by one majesty, and that autocrotic, or a majesty ruling by its own will. Events will now hurry forward to the mighty catastrophe. The heart of the emperor will be lifted up by success, and in his pride and arrogance he Avill endeavour to make the world his slave. But at last the Stone rejected by the builders descends heavily or his feet; the Roman iron, and the Russian or Assyrian clay separate ; the brass, the silver, and the gold are broken to pieces, and " become as the chaff of the summer threshing floors," and ,the whole is scattered by the winds of heaven. But what it will be eagerly asked, is Britain about all this time ? Surely she must have an important part to play in this dire- ful game of war. Yes, but after an exceptionable type, so far as we have yet gone, BritL a is exempted from catastrophe, through her proximity to the scene of the unequalled struggle will keep her in a state of alarm, and her rulers anxious and watchful. But yet, though beyond the eddies of the whirlwind vortex of the Continent, she must not, can not, will not be idle. She has a mission to fulfill, and sho must feel straitened till it is accom- plished — 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 the head and representative — is the task assigned of carrying forward the religious, moral, and social preadventural progress of the world, and in this she may well be assisted by her children in the west and south. America may be united with her in the work, and Australia must grow in strength for the same pui-pose ; and thus supported on each side by a strong and stalwart son th<3 brave old empire will be enei'gized to the task. Talk of America and Britain going to war ! the thing is incredible ; natme forbids it, and the Bible forbids it, too. When they do fight it will be on one side, and against a common foe ; but they have a far different battle to fight in tnese coming ^;3ars, than the swo»d or cannon 24 can acoomplislk The great moral contest of spirititpl freedom and social morality must be suBtained, 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 be — rV. Britain extends her Eastern possessions westward, pre- vents the immediate occupation o/Judea by Mussia, and initiates its colonization by the Jews. The many and severe wars which our country has had to sus- tain, in order to preserve her Eastern territories, have by many been considered as too dear payment for their possession. We do not Iiere however, enter on this question, but beg to inform such, that a far higher purpose than commercial interest or ex- tended 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 a path open to it, Britain will strive much and do much ; but while her rulers may think they are merely serving the nation, they are really accomplishing one 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 fa-^ilitate the great design 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 hA the finite is from the infinite. While Britain thought only of wealth and conquest, God thought of his ancient people, and of his covenant, and placed the British Lion in the East to prepare a way for his ransomed, and to become their protection ■i--- 25 ledotn unite must when with to be order, i, pre- itiates to 8US- many I. We inform , or ex- British icemed, in poB- em will irvo the ill strive ley are one of jy cause part of ich will Britain ritory to bure and thought t people, East to protection in the infancy of their restoration. 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 one 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 restoration 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 v ill be subsequent to their partial re-establishment in Palestine, and by a divine agency little sus- pected by " Christendom." 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. 'J he 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 saith the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I will open your gi-aves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and briny you into the land of Israel Then ye shall know that I am the Lord." — (Ezekial xxxvii. 12.) It is needless, tlierefore, to look for the conversion of Israel as 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 wo can imagine with what surprise 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 ? Ii this very simple manner : When Britain sees the Emperor of Russia in possession of Turkey, and over- throwing the hosts of continental Europe, she will become alarmed 26 for her Indian possessions, and seek to strengthen her position in the Mediterranean Sea to prevent the autocrat dominating there. Having succeded 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 f(»rms 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 prophecy, 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 tlie 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 determiution, 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 iiius the soil of the land of Canaan would become part and parcel of another nation, its peculiar character as an inalienable possession Avould 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 he sold for ever, for the land is mine.'''' It is therefore impossible that it can ever bo finally occupied by a power that would at once incorporate it with other territories. An attempt since the expiry of the 1290 yeai*s, has already been made to do this, but, as wtis to be excepted, it fiignal;y failed. Shortly after Mehemet Ali established himself as " king of the south," he attacked and conquered Syria, and, as wo before stated, "pushed at" the Sultan's throne. The powers of Europe, however, intci-ferred to prevent him from gaining his ix)int, 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 hisfor- euer by right of conquest. lie was, however, at lengtliVompelled i-s. 27 to yield to the demaiicl, and the land of Israel was given hack to those \vl>o30 creed will not allow them to claim the soil. They have indeed " divided the land for gain," hut 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, Avhat ever doctrine of the Koran is false this is true. The Jews cannot even sell any part of it from one to another, far less can the uncircumcised 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 favor the formation of a Jewish colony in Palestine ; 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 pretection over it, and holding out every induce- ment for the sons of Abraham to reptiir 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 degredation and desolation is associated and contrasted ! But how, it may be asked, do we identify the " land widely over-shadowing with wings ?" We are tola that it is from beyond to the rivers of Cush. Now, going east, from Judea, across the Euphrates and Tigris, we reach totike 28 " beyond," that is, to Hindostan, tlio most important of our Indian possessions, and therefore goveraecl 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 short time, when our empire is greatly extended in that quarter, and when the lion-flag waves o'er many an island and country, proving as much its protector as its ruler. There can then be no doubt as to the fact that tliis country will open up a way for the des- pised 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 bi-ought about in some such manner as we have indicated. But, first of all, this country must seize a great amount of territory adjacent to the Holy Land. In the present state of affaire, there would neither be peace nor safety for the Jews in their own country. The Sultan has •' divided it for gain," and his pachas lay it waste, &ud hold it waste at their pleasure. It will, therefore, be neces- sary to occupy ICgypt, Ethiopa, 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 — " / gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee" By pcisessing these she will also lay her hands upon Edom, Moab, Ammon, and other places on the Red Sea, till at length shad- owing " to the rivers of Cush," and on every side the new colony, under the wings of this great maratime power, will grow and prosper, like a ceder on their own mountain of Lebanon. But by this time the autocrat of Russia has got the nations of continental Europe beneath his feet, and, like Alexander in ancient, and Napolean in later times, he thirets for universal conquest. For the history of his career from this point, onward to its close, we turn again to the regulai- couree of the prophecy. If the reader will, bcxbro going any further, take up his Bible, and read care- fully the last f ■ verses of the eleventh of Daniel, and from the beginning of . thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel to the twenty- lU 29 third verse of Uio thirty-ninth chapter, he 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 entei*s " the glorious land." So overwhelming is the invadinij forco, that the British armies retire before it towards the souLh-ejist, and Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya fall into his hands. But tidings out of the East and North shall ti ouble him. '• Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto him. Art thou came to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey ?" How em phatically does the language identify Britain as the belligerent 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 thoreof ;" w hat an appropriate designation is this of the Hon • orable East India Company, in its peculiar relation to the British Government ! This constitution oi things, as is well known, is both civil iind military, commercial and imperial. The former is represented by the miirchants, the latter by the young lions, or the oflicials of the iinpeiially -controlled Company, which receives its authority from the Lion of Britain, and may therefore be fitly termed thus, oven aa the representatives of the Persian and Macedonian sovereigntie? 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 quarteringa of which are filled with youn(/ 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 en&t and out of the north shall trouble him." Tlie news that the Ando-Saxons ao have resolved to oppose liis despotic progress will annoy and in- furiate hin>. It is possible he may think of a time when another man, ambitious like himself, endeavoured 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 fear ; he looks proudly at the heaving army that follows at his back, and his 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 make away many." Proceeding onward, he seizes the unwalled villages and gateless cities, till at length his huge and multifarious army pitch their tents before Jerusalem. He lays seige to the Holy City, which soon surrenders to his power, and enables hira to " plant the tabernacle of his j)alace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain." He baa now reached the farthest limit of his conquering mis- sion. The degree peals forth from the eternal throne, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther;" 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 blood, and ready to be devoured by the birds of ^ ;ey Avhich hover over the scene. But no such vision crosses his spirit, and he passes on to his tented palace to slumber in pride. Meanwhile Bi-itain has been making strenuous efforts to stop the progress of this gigantic Napolean ; and every soldier that can be spared is sent away in the direction of the rising sun. But what can the British army do against such a host as the Kussian autorat has around him? Brave as the officers and men may be, what success 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 31 mpire y this lought place s at his thwart great eecling , till at before renders of his _—---« common, and the struggle n ust be common too. " We arc coming, brother John, wo are coming," is the noble reply ; and almost ere it is delivered, a fleet of gallant vessels is crossing the Pacific, with the stars and stripes gleaming on every mast 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 tho sacrilegious usurper, and he leads forth his army towards the mountains that rise in glory 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 drawn 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 offspring, 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 ancestors 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 battallions of bleeding and quivering flesh, a strange sound — ** The voice of the Archangel and the trump of God " — outroar the din of battle.* The 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 all his moun- tains. 'Tis this roarino- voice of Jehovah that breaks forth with terror and confounds the assembled armies. The scene that follows baffles description. Amid earthquakes and showers of fire the bewildered and maddened multitude of the autocrat rush, sword in hand, against each other, while the Israelites and * Jocriii. 10; Isai. xxix. 5—8; xxx. 30, 31. 32 I their Anglo-Saxon allies become unwittingly Jehovah's sword upon the enemy. The stono cut without hands falls on the Image 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 summer threshing-floor, and the wind shall carry them away. The various descriptions which we have of this battle all intimate that Jehovah of armies is the mighty foe that shall contend with the autocrat in Armageddon. John terms it " the battle of that great day of God Almighty," and a principal in. strumcntof their defeat will be mutual slauijhter. The carnage will be dreadful. Out of all the myriads that came like a cloud upon the land of Israel, only a scattered and shattered remnant will return ; the great mass will be left to rot upon the land and fill the valley of Hamongog 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 Assyria, Persia, and Britain will bo 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. They will certainly become sword »n the n, the laffof them battle t sliall t " the )al in. 88 greater than any of the nations, and that in virtue of the cove- nant of Jehovah with their fathers. For the preparation of a race for sucli a mission as that com- mitted to the Anglo-Saxons, it was necessary that they should burst those cliains of ci\'il and ecclosijistical despotism, which priestcraft had forged tor, and fastened around the human soul; and with considerable eti'ect have Britain and America performed this duty ! Must we remind the reader of Bruce and Wallace and the Covenanters, in Scotland; of Cromwell and Milton, Hampden, and the Puritans, in England, or of Washinglon 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 qualify 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 tiicir 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 etforts 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 never will 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-disj^eling influence pass across the gloom, than, as sun-light from on high, the answer comes, which amply satisfies the grieved doubting heai% 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 Hungary'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 tall, and though their wrong's shall one day be righted, for the present their noble-hearted patriots 84 I I I must resign tliemselvcs nnd their cause to the will of Heaven. And liere, thecy, do we understand the p.ost and learn the future of Ireland. The titate of this country has long made it a puzzle to the world, and many have been the attempts, both witliin and without, to discover the cause and the cure of its evils. The prevalent feeling is, that its union with liritain constitutes the Alpha and Omega of its misery, and ft)r many years it has sought to have the union rei)ealed. Its patriots have even endeavoured 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 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 i)oint 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 pro])hecy that we can discern their full extent or 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 years hence? 'Tis true, Ireland is not on the image territory, and, though not probable, it is still possible, that she might escape being conquered by one of the toes; nevertheless, she will be legitimately within the dark region of the curse. She is among those who worship the image of the beast. 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