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DEDICATION. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. Madam, The weighty subject treated of in my Essay encourages me to lay it before your Majesty. The interests of the whole realm are concerned in it ; and, if my views of the Dream of King Nebuchad- nezzar are correct, there breathes not one who claims kindred with the Anglo-Saxon Race — of whatever decree — to whom the theme is not fraught with the most momentous and absorbing interest and importance in the glorious and logical results to which it leads. Ever since the day your Majesty was called to the Throne I have, in a. true spirit of loyalty, watched the progress of events, and have seen the rapid advancement of the interests of my fellow- subjects under your Majesty's gentle and beneficent rule ; and I have noted with extreme pleasure, that from a condition of lamen- table disaffection and disquiet, the People of your Majesty's vast Empire — both at home and abroad — have become universally loyal, prosperous and contented. In addition to the foregoing considerations, knowing as I do the largeness of your Majesty's heart, and how widespread have been and are your sympathies towards even the meanest of those who owe allegiance to your Throne, I have ventured to dedicate to your Majesty this Essay, demonstrating the impregnability and perpetuity of the Empire over which your Majesty reigns as a lineal descen- dant from King David, the sweet singer of Israel. I remain. With profound veneration, Madam, Your Majesty's most faithful Subject and dutiful Servant, JOHN GILDER SHAW. Leeds, Nov., 1878. rfy PREFACE. In the following pages it has been the writer's aim and endeavour to exhibit truth to his fellow-countrymen, and in his humble way to appeal to those whose duty it is to lead public thought in matter^ of religion and Bible teaching, particularly with regard to Prophecy — a thing very seldom touched upon by them, but quite as essential at this era of the world's history as it was when the Messiah said, ** If they believe not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." If there was not another incentive in the whole of the Word of God to the study of the prophetic utterances this is amply sufficient ; and yet as a rule — I am glad to say there are a few honourable exceptions — our Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, and the Ministers of our holy religion, of every denomination, either make no attempt to elucidate Pro- phecy, or do it in such a manner as to impress their hearers with the idea that what our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has laid so much stress upon is of little or no consequence. The f lowing Essay is an earnest appeal to our Religious Guides especiaio and to Englishmen generally, who have not already done so, to recon- sider the whole matter. The writer does not complain that at a time when no special attention was directed to the subject, our teachers were content simply to accept what had been handed down to them as tradition. He does not condemn them for the fact that in consequence of following too closely the opinions of our Commentators and Divines, who, writing at a time when mental and moral darkness were prevalent, have often been misled and have consequently misled others, not on the subject of our Identity with Israel alone, but on a host of other subjects of a doctrinal nature which have only recently been by them reconsidered and rectified, or greatly modified. The writer b, therefore, warranted in recommending to those concerned, that as ministers and teachers they should reconsider and reinvest!- gate the subject of Prophecy in that spirit of thoroughness which has marked their progress on the points just alluded to. Let them in the prosecution of their duty, " Prove all things and hold fast that which is good." He is fully persuaded that, under the guidance of the Spirit of Truth, if they will begin their researches with a set determination to believe the whole of God's gracious declarations, there is no fear as to the result. At the very commencement of the Word of God, they will see that there were no conditions attached to the prophetic promises made by God to our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the very honour of God is at stake with regard to their literal fulfilment. In this statement the writer boldly challenges any to show that he is wrong, or to prove from Scripture that we can logically or fairly arrive at any other conclusion than this — that we ^re the real (flesh and blood) and not merely the " spiritual seed" of Abraham. " The truth is mighty and will prevail," whether ministers shirk their duty or not — but shirking duty on the part of our Teachers involves serious consequences. The odium must rest with those who do so, and the danger — which God forbid ! — is that they may be numbered with the "unprofitable servants," and come into judgment as such. J. G. S. Leeds. . I CONTENTS. Introduction ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Israel's Return ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 Prayer for Israel's Restoration ... ... ... ... ... 10 Prophecy and History ... ... ... ... ... ... 11 Nebuchadnezzar's Dream ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 The Scope of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream ... ... ... ... 14 The First Empire — Babylon ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 The Second, or Medo-Persian Empire ... ... ... ... 15 The Third, or Grecian Empire ... ... ... ... ... 16 The Fourth, o> Roman Empire ... ... ... ... ... 16 The Four Empires — Tempond, Tangible, and Successive Empires ... 18 T^e Roman Empire has ceased to be ... ... ... ... 19 Is there a Predominant Empire now?... ... ... .. ... 19 Two Distinct Kinds of Prophecy ... ... ... ... ... 21 No Precedent for the Spiritual Fulfilment of a Temporal Prophecy ... 22 Undiscovered Truth in the Word of God ... ... ... ... 22 THE FIFTH EMPIRE. The Setting-up of a Kingdom ... ... ... ... ... 23 The Fifth Empire a Temporal Empire ... ... ... ... 24 The Kingilom of Christ not yet established ... ... ... ... 24 Christ will not come to Destroy Empires ... ... ... • ... 25 The Stone cut out of the Mountain without Hands — the Whereabouts of the Stone . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 Where would the Feet of the Image be? ... ... ... .. 26 An Allegory ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 27 The Smiting of the Feet of the Image — Britain the Kingdom of the Stone 27 viU. i British Victories over France and Spain (the Feet fif Nehiichai1ne7.7;ar'ii Image) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 British Victoriea over Xations in Etirope forming no part of the Itnap;e 32 The Number of Blows on the Feet of the Imago ... ... ... 34 The Long Period during which the Smiting was in process ... 35 The Growth of the little Stone that Smote the Image ... ... ... 35 Will tho Roman Empire be Restored P ... ... ... ... 36 The Grand Future Destiny of the Stone ... ... ... ... 37 What about Israel? ... ... ... ... ... ... 38 More about the Stone ... ... ... ... ... ... 39 Additional Evidence that Britain and Israel are Identical ... ... 39 The Spiritual Aspect of the Fifth Empire not revealed to Nebuchadnezzar, but to Daniel ... ... ... ... ... ... 40 Conquest does not make an Immediate Change in the Religion of a People 41 The Seal of Christ on the Fifth Empire and its People ... ... 41 Recapitulation ... . . ... ... ... ... ... 43 Cyprus, or Song of Praise fur Israel's New Gate, with Music ... ... 46 APPENDIX. I. Britain (or Israel) the "Ancient of Days."... ... ... ... 49 II. Prolonijation of the Lives of the First Three Beasts. Daniel vii, 12. ... 55 ERRATA. Page i8 — line 14, for "Norman strength," read "Roman strength." >i 24 „ 5, M "who settled," read " and settled.'' »> 35 >' 27, „ " seems impossible," read " seemed impossible." I N T 11 D U (Vr 1 O N . ezzar, ... 40 People 41 ... 41 .. 43 ... 45 49 2. ... 55 A REMONSTllANCE Addressed to the Anglo-Saxon race in Greit Britain and her Dependencies / the United States of America, and everywhere throughout the world. Dear Kinsmen and Kinswomen, — The object of the writer of this essay is to prove by the direct evidence of Scripture, And demonstrate by the simple facts of history (wit'i.out strAining the truths either of Bcrlp- tare or history), that Britain (or Israel) is tlie last Empire, and by so doing to narrow the Anglo-Israel cdntroverBV. In carrying out this intention, the writer is perfectly awaro that his opinions are likely to conflict With the religious prejudices of many whom he has the gfeatest reason to esteem for their abundant and successful laboulr in thd caostt of God. and the advancement of the glorious truths of Christianity ; but in making this admission the writei* does not tliink it desirable to cover up their errors with the mantle of charity. All error, flrom whottisodTer it may proceed, must be exposed to the searching rAys of truth ; and it is from ad«ep conviction that ministeirs of our holy religion, eothmentators of Scripture, and the writefs on prophecy hkve grievously erred in failing to recognise the fact that God will assuredly fulfil all His promises, both temporal and spiritual, that the author now takes up bia pen in oraer to point out some of these errors. Probably this attempt may be deemed presumption on the part of the writer ; if so, he can only say to those who thus characterise his efforts that it is in no vain or contradictious spirit that he has done this, but in the belief that " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and GOd hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which art mighty ; and the haie things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Qod chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are.^' It is further the duty of God's ministers not only to proclaun the tilith, and the whole truth, but also to refute error of every lund from whatever qttarter it may come. If they in their wisdom think the author mistaken in his views, let them, in the faithful prosecution of their sacred trust, prove the con- trary, and no doubt the author will cheerfully rettact his opinions. If, on the other hand, they cannot go against the hard logic of the facts placed before them, with equal candour let them embrace the truths here set forth. The age in which we live has been called the Age of Discovery. We are all ready to acknowledge that this is true, and it would be contrary to the evidence of our senses to say the reverse. To those who believe in the truth of God's Holy Word, it is equally evident that we are living at the " time of the end" — that is to say, the end of the present dispensation of sin and iniquity— and that we are rapidly approaching the advent of a new epoch, when " all shall know the Lord from the least to the greatest.*' Tliere are many signs of this being the " time of the end." Most assuredly the time of God's long silence draws near to a conclusion, and the time is fast approaching when His voice will be !n>libly heard, and His great power visibly put forth amongst the Nations of the earth for the restora- tion of His chosen people Israel. The prophet Daniel asked the Lard when these things should be, and God replied by giving him two signr— 80 evidently having their fulfilment now that I must lay them before you. Ton will find them recorded in the 4th verse of the last chapter of Daniel— " But thou, Daniel, shut up the words and sefd the book, even to the time of the end; many ahaU run to and fi-o, and knowkdge shall be inereaaed." That " many run to and fro " in our days cannot be denied ; it has, in fact, become an established custom for many (especially of the Anglo-Saxon race) to have an annual excursion, varying in length and duration according to the ability and inclination of the travellers, extending from a single day^ trip to a week, from a week to a month, and from one month to a vear or more. A friend of mine who recently returned from one of Cook 8 " Excursions on the Continent," and stayed one night with me on his way home, informed me that he met with a pai-ty of gentlemen on the plains of Waterloo, who set out from England with the intention of havmg a three years' excursion, or tour, and about half of the time had expired when he saw them. Then, as regards distance, our holiday makers vary tiieir excursions from a score or two of miles to a few hundreds, and from a few hundreds to thousands of miles, and this they do at a rate of travelling whichcan only ^e likened to " running," and which would astonish our ancestors who died not more than forty years ago, could they re-visit the scenes of their childhood. I can fancy how their hearts would palpi- tate if they could only re-u)pear in the flesh, and witness the movements of the present generation. No one having a due regard for truth will say that this " sign of the end " is not now staring us in the face ; and if the Bible be true, we are even now living at the " time ot the end," the time when God has declared that He will " finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness ; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." As to the other sign, that " knowledge shall be increased, it is '^aite as evidently^ fulfilling now as that " many shall run to and fro " applies to the present times. Few individuals, I thmk, would have the temerity and the unreasonable contempt of truth to deny that " knowledge is increased." ShiJl I say that knowledge has increased during the present century in a ten-fold, an hundred-fold, or a thousand-fold degree ? I am not guilty of exaggeration, but in my own estimation, looking back to the time of dark- ness which existed only forty years ago, I shall not go beyond the mark if I say that, since the advent of the 19tn century, knowledge has increased a thousand-fold ; and even now the rate of increase, in every field of knowledge, is advancing with rapid strides and accelerated speed. Most assuredly we have the two signs given to Daniel for our instruction, that " the time of the end " is here I "With proof so palpable before them, if men will close their eyes and ears, if they still venture to disbelieve it, they do so at their own personal risk. We are not the fools that some suppose for believing, with such positive evidence before us; but th^ are certainly not included amongst " the wise," whom the Word of God expressly declares " shall understand these things." The false teachings of Spiritualists, Ritualists, Christadelphians, and other professing Christians, whose name is " Legion," is another expressive sign of the " time of the end;" for it is written, "There shall be false teachers among you, who shall creep in with heresies of destruction." So, In.' ** when the fie-tree putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near, even at the doors.'" This is so plain that he who runs may read. On every hand, at home and abroad, we have evidence of the fulfihnent of prophecy. The unsettled state of the European Nations, who are our more immediate neighbours ; France almost on the verge of another great revolution, and the pent-up volcano of Ultramontanism gathering up its forces for another outburst to prop up the Roman anti-Christ, and to regain for her the temporal power which she has lost, and which she may never more possess. Divested of tliis stinff, although she may still have, and really does possess, the will, she totally lacks the ability to coerce or even injure those of a purer faith, a faith more truthful and God-like than her own. So impotent has she become under the management of her present venerable Pope, who by all accounts is d;^ing one day and recovenng the next — true emblem of the rotten infallibility which she claims ; so impo- tent has she become, that Father Gavazzi informs us a Protestant chapel is built close to the Vatican, and the feeble old man can any day put on his three crowns (tiara), ana, led by his attendants to the window, he may look helplessly down i^on the phenomenon every day. O, what a sight for the holy father! Why, only eight years ago such a thing would have been deemed impossible. At that time no Protestant chapel had been erected in Rome for centuries ; and our own noble Prince of Wales when in Rome, not choosing to do as Rome does, had to go for worship to a very humble sanctuary that had formerly been a stable, outside the city gates. Surely we may say with our fathers^ " What hath God wrought ? " Going back to survey the Contmental Nations, we see them arming themselves on an unprecedented scale, and looking askance with iealous eye upon each other, and ready for the fray (Armageddon) which must shortly take place amongst the Nations of the earth. England alone, from her " little sanctuary,^' looks calmly on, knowing that they will be utterly confounded and dispersed. Turning our eyes to the South-easternmost ^oint of Europe, we see another form of anti-Christ drawing near its close in fulfilment of jprophecy. We see that the resources of Turkey and the Turks themselves have been drying up ever since the year 1826. In that year Turkey destroyed her Janizaries, and since that suicidal act, internal war, famine, pestilence, fearful earthquakes, and awful conflagrations have been steadily, rapidly, and surely hasteuing on the fall of Turkey, represented in prophecy as the " Drying up of the Euphrates." Her mountains and valleys are now covered witn her slain. She will assuredly come to her endf, and none shall deliver. The fate or doom of Russia is deferred for a season ; but the complicft> tions arising out of the present war may lead to her final overthrow and that of her allies at Armageddon. That Russia will ever be allowed to lay her hand upon Constantinople is very improbable, for she calls it the door of her house. Russia is the inveterate enemy of God's people Israel, and being such, it is impossible that Constantinople, if it reaUy be her door or ^ate, can ever come into her possession. Russia, in fact, being Israel's bitterest enemy, will never have Constantinople — 1.«., if it reidly be her gate or door, it must fall to Israel. In the fall of Turkey, Israel has a keen interest, for it shows the time is near when her power *' shall have accomplished t^ scatter the power of the holy people, and all these things shall be finishM." Then "In those days the House of Judah shall walk with the House of Israel, and they shall come together out of the North to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers." This passage of Scripture is alone sufficient proof of the fact that the two Nations of Israel and Judah bImU remain Sflpamte uid distinct up to the time when they are to be restored to God'i favour and to their own land. It it) also very plainly shown that, instead of Israel being mixed up with the scattered Jews, or found in the midst of China or India, or stowed away no one knows where, Israel shall be found to be a Nation so powerful that the " House of Judah " will go to them, •ud " walk with them to the land of their fathers." Already there are indications of the approach of the " ELingdom of God." Already little but increasing bands of men and women in various parts of the Empire of Britain are manifesting great reverence and regard for the "Word of Ood. They have determined no longer to merit the reproach which the Redeemer applied to those with whom He had to deal. He called tliem " fools and slow of heart; " and what for ? simply because they would not " believe all the prophets have spoken." Some ministers of Christ i^pear to think that their hearers are playing with edge tools or trifling with fire when they try to understand prophecy ; but it is evident that Jesus Christ did not think so, or He would not have said, " If ye believe not Moses and the i)rophets neither will ye believe though one rose from the dead." A Christian is simply doing his duty in studying Srophecy in connection with history; and as all prophecy in the past has eeu fulfilled by the development of history, and m the most convincing and literal manner, he cannot fail to understand it when the time is r|pe. It is this implicit reliance upon the sure " Word of prophecy " that has caused the scales to fall from the eyes of some of God's people Israel. May the time speedily arrive when all shall see as clearly. O welcome day when Christians as a bodv will begin to search the Scriptures for themselves, in humble dependence upon the " Spirit of truth," who is able to guide us into all truth. The " wondrous things " of God's Word will then be revealed to them, and many of the secret and deep tilings of God will greatly expand and enrich their mental vision. But, alas I this glad epoch has not yet arrived I The great bulk of profebtting Cliristians as yet believe not Moses and the prophets. They are told by their unerring Guide that "every jot and tittle of what the prophets have spoken must be fulfilled, and yet with strange persistency they promulgate doctrines which, if true, would show that the greater portion of the prophetic utterances are just so many words without meaning, or, if the words have a meaning, they dishonour God by the implication that He has not fulfilled, and never will fulfil, what He has promised over and over aud over again. Thus (by their ignorance or unbelief) they make God do tlie very thing which He has said He never will do. Has God not said that He " is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent ? " Has He not said, " So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth : it shall not return unto Me void ; but it shall accomplish that which I please, and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sout it." Well might good King David say, concerning the perversity of man in this respect, " It is time for Thee, Lord, to work : for they have made void Thy law." The fact is, because God has seen fit to visit His people witli a punishment of seven times' duration — extending over vuarr cuiituries— men have been led to believe that God has not and never will f uUil Ilis promises to His chosen people. They take not into account that • tliousand years are but as one day with Grod. The term of punishment is very sliort in God's view ; but in the estimation of man it is so long that men Itave come to the conclusion, and grown up in the belief, that God has cuit iifi' His people for ever, aud this in face of God's repeated declarations that He " has not cast them off." Christians ! go back to your Bibles dutuiTniiied to believe evei-y promise which the Lord your God hath given IVheu (Slid speaks onoe, that ought to suffice, for God is the God of truth. fiut meti have Teiy short memories ; like children, they mast be told the same things over and over again. And the great and merciful Father of mankind, knowing our feeble frame— remembering that we are but dust — in compassion to our weakness, has repeated the same promises over and over — and other and greater promises of mercv and favour have been added. Since the Ten Tribes went mto captivity, Goa in His tender pity has renewed all the promises given to their fathers. It was necessary to ponish them in order to bring them into that condition or state in which the blessings could be bestowed by God and received by His chosen neople — chosen to be a SPECIAL people unto Him — not for one generation, out for tdl aeturo' tions : they were chosen, not for a limited period of time, but for all time. God has said it and it must come to pass 1 " This people have I formed for Myself ; they shall show forth My praise." It is only the Infidel or Atheist who would say, " God has tried His hand with Israel BsaA^aiUd; Moses has tried his hand with Israel and failed ; and Jesus Christ has tried His hand with Israel, and even died for their redemption, and/aiML" Blasphemy I daring impiety I God cannot fail I He is perfect and can make no false experiments. That the punishment of Israel should only be for a season, and then terminate, is the whole tenor of the Word of Ood. That Israel is the prodigal son (spoken of in the parable of our Lord) who is again to be restored to favour, and ready to obey all the commands df Qtoa, I have not the slightest doubt. The punishment of God's people, both of the House of Judah and also of the House of Israel, must be of limited duration. " God will not be angry with them for ever," and "in the midst of wrath He will remember mercy." Isaiah saith of Israel, " Except the Lord had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah" (Isaiah i. 9). David truly says, " He sheweth His Word unto Jacob, His statutes and His iudgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any Nation" (Psalm cxlvii. 19, 20). Other Nations have been annihilated for their sins; but God hath not, and will not, utterly make an end of Israel, for He remcmbereth " His covenant," confirmed with an oath to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. God says to Judah, " If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments : if they break My statutes, and keep not My comiri-\ndmcnts ; then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovin^kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter [? spiritualise] the thing that is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, his throne as the sun before Me. It shidl be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven." Now what God has so emphatically sworn with regard to Judah, and the perpetuity of David's seed, h juet as solemnly and as faithfully promised as to the succession and increase of all the Tribes of Israel. Notwithstanding their many transgressions, God's promises to their fathers concerning them are certain of fulnlment. At the restoration of Israel all the Tribes are to be represented by their legitimate descendants, and the land of their inheritance is to be portioned out to each Tribe in strict accordance with God's holy will, as recorded in the last chapter of Ezekiel. Already there are indtrations of the apprcach of that time. Our engineers have just returned from Palestine after taking the most accurate and patient survey and measurement of the country, and the Government survey maps are now in hand, and will shortly be published. Another indication is the returning fruitfulness of the Promised Land, caused by the restoration of the " latter rain ; " and a third indication is God's judgment on Mount Seir (or Turkey), plainly depicted in Ezekiel xxxv., and is now bemg fulfilled. *' Therffere, i M I live, saith the Lord God, I will pro])are tlice unto blood, even blood lihall pursue thee. Then will I make Mount Scir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that retumeth. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men, in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain by the sword." That bv Mount Seir Turkey is meant, is evident from the context (verse 12) : " And thou ehalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, sayings They are laid desolate, they are given us to cotuume." This must mean Turkey, for no other Nation is in a position to say, " they are given us to consume." If there were still any doubts on this pomt, the last verse ought to remove them. " As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the House of Israel because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee : thou shalt be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it ; and they shall know that I am the Lord." If you will look at the 8th verse of the following chapter you will aee that these events most be closely followed by the restoration of Israel : " But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield yonr froit to My people Israel ; for they are at hand to come." But how can Israel retutti, as God has plaibly said they shall, if the Nation of Israel (i.e., the Ten Tribes) are entirely blotted out of existence, or inseparably mixed with the Gentiles, as some of our ministers teach? It is not true ! We have seen one of the special promises to Judah ; let us look at one, only one, of the many special promises to the " House of Israel." Let those w)io thus teach mark this solemn and flat contradiction of their theorv of " Israel's extinction," and hide their diminished heads. " Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for a light by dav, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar ; the Lord of hosts is His name." Sjisten, ye blind teachers, and believe, lest the Lord rebuke you). " If ese ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a Nation before Me for ever. Thtu saith the Lord, If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out from beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord." The sun, the moon, and the stars are not yet removed from the firmament : they still remain as God's faithful toitnesses that He will perform all the promises to the seed of Abraham. The great world of waters, which occupy about two- thirds of the surface of the earth, are not yet stagnant ; therefore, if God's Word be true — as true it is — Israel is still a Nation, existing at the present time, and has never ceased for a single moment to be a Nation. For the same reason, and attested by the same " faithful witnesses," Israel is not only a Nation down to the present time, but is under a monarchy, and that monarch (king or queen) must be, and is, a lineal descendant from King David, the " man after God's own heart." If our blind guides are still of the same opinion, let them measure the heavens, and dig down to the foundations of the earth, to show us they are right, and we are wrong! The labour will strengthen their sinews, brace their nerves, enlarge their muscles, and, better than all, keep them from actual mischief and from doing further harm during the term of their natural lives. We, who believe in the truth of the Identities, have long been the sub- jects of contumely — in dome cases of scurrilous — abuse, and in other instances of pity — because of our faith in the promises. We could, if we wished, return scorn for scorn — ^we could not descend to scurrility — and our pity is superior to theirs, for we continue to labour, in season and out of season, to bring them and all professing Christians back to the reverential belief and investigation of the truths of God's Holy Woro. For mv own pwt, I care not whether men, who will not take the trouble to search for tnemselyes, call me a fanatic or not ; the loss is thdra, not mine. I should certainly be a lunatic of the worst stamp were I to believe them rather than God. Noah was thought an old idiot for the very same reason. But they of the old world— the world before the flood— were less guilty for disbelieving Noah than we are for disbelieving "Moses and the prophets," for there were no signs of the approaching deluge, and they possessed not the " oracles of God." If you who do possess these " sacred oracles " will only take the trouble to examine them for yourselves, with the set deter- mination to believe all God's promises, both temporal and spiritualj and that every "jot and tittle " must be fulfilled, you can only arrive, logically and fairly, at the same conclusion with ourselves. The only difference between them and us is, that we have thus searched, and our disbelief has vanished ; they have not done so, and remain in 8tatu quo — ^that is, in their former state. The venerable patriarch Noah was right after all, and all the rest of the world, with their collective wisdom, were fatally wrong. The following remarks (taken from " Headley's Sacred Moun- tains," pp. 14 — ^20) are so pertinent, that I do not hesitate to quote^ them. While the ark was being built, the incredulous world enjoyed their loud laugh. There is less of fancy than of truth in the following graphic description : — " Noah, whose head was whitened by the frosts of six centuries, laid the foundations of his large vessel, on a pleasant day, when all was serene and tranquil. The fields were smihng in verdure before his eyes, the perfumed breezes floated by, and the music of the birds and sounds of busy life were about him, when he, by faith alone, laid the first beam of that structure which was to sail over a buried planet, When men, in inquiring the design of that laige edifice, were told its purpose, they could hardly credit their senses, and Noah — though accounted by all a very upright and respectable man — ^became a jest for children. As the farmer returned at evening from the fields, and the gay citizen of the town passed by, they called it Noah's Folly I Those more aged and sober shook their heads wisely, saying, ' The old man is mad 1 ' Even the workmen engaged upon it laughed as they drove the nails and hewed the plank, yet declared they cared not as long as the foolish old man was able to pay. Still the ark went up, and the day's wonder ceased to be talked about. When it was finished and curiosity satisfied, it was dismissed from the mind as a passing folly. ... At length the patriarch with his family entered, the door was shut in the face of the world, and he sat down, on the strength of a single promise, to await the issue. . . . Day after day passed on until a week had gone by, but still the faith of that old man never shook. At length the s^ became overcast, and the gentle rain descended — to Noah, the beginning of the flood ; to the world, a welcome shower. The farmer, as he housed his cattle, rejoiced in the refreshing moisture, while the city never checked its gaiety, or the man of wealth his plans. But as the rain continued day after day, and fell faster and fiercer on the drenched earth, and the swelling streams went surging bv, men cursed the storm fh&t seemed determined never to break up. The lowlands were deluged ; the streams broke over their banks, bearing houses and cattle away on their maddened bosoms. Wealth was destroyed and lives lost, till men talked of ruined fortunes, famine, and general desolation ; but still it rained on. Week after week it came pouring from the clouds, till it was like one falling sheet of water, and tne inhabitants could no longer stir from their doors. The rich valleys that lay along the rivers were flooded, and the peasants 1« ;tii: ii •ought the eminences around them, till all through the T«lleyi nothing but little black inlands of human beings were to be seen on the surface. Oh, what fierce stniprgles there were for life among them 1 ... No one yet dreamed of the high grounds being covered, least of all the moun-. tains. At length a oound was heard that sent paleness to every cheek, and chained every tongue in mute terror. It was a far-distant roar, faint but fearful, yet sounding more distinct and ominous every moment till it filled idl the air. The earth trembled and groaned under it, as {f an earthquake was on fts march, and ever and anon c*me a crash, as if the ribs of nature were breaking. Nearer and nearer and more terrible it grew, till men, forgetting alike their pleasure and their anger, rushed out in the storm, whimpering, ' The flood ! The flood ! ' And lo ! a new sea, the like of which no man had ever seen before, came rolling over the crouching earth, stretching from horizon to horizon as far as the eye could reach, losing itself like a limitless wall in the clouds above ; it came pouring its terrible and massive waters onward ; while the continual and rapid crash of falling forests and crushed cities and uptom mountains, that fell one after another under its awful footsteps, and the successive shrieks that pierced the heavens, rising even above the deafening roar of the on-rushing ocean, as city after citv and kingdom after kingdom disap- peared, made a scene <^ terror and norror inconceivable, nndescribab^ Tlie fountains of the great deep were broken up. Bnt the lait cry of human agony was ^.t length stopped, ocean met ocean in its flow, and the waves swept on without a shore. Oh, what a wreck was there I — the wreck of 2,000 years, with their cities, cultivated fields, and mighty popu- lation 1 Not smvered ibasta and broken timbers, the remains of some gallant vessel, were seen oq the turbulent surface, out the fhigments of a eruAhed and broken world." This is an a.vful picture of the infatuation of the antediluviaaa ; but we may ceai^onably asK, Are mankind, as a nde. any different in this respect now to what they were before the flood? we can unnesitatindy answer No! for we hvre the authoritv of Scripture for averring most emphatically, They are not. Men have refused to Asteu to the voice of Ood in aU ages, and assuredly will do so untilthe second advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; and it ia Himself^ of whom it is written, " Never man spake like this Man," who is my authority for this statement You cannot charge me with ilUherality for reiterating the words of the Mavfiah* Tou cannot even cidl it a mere assertion without dishonouring Christ. '. I neeq no higher authority than His, and He solemnlv tells us, " As the ^avs of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinlung, martring ^nd giving in marriage, until the dav that Noah entered the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the eoming of the Soa of Man be" (Matt. xxiv. 37—39). Qod never sends His juagments upon mankind without sufficient warning. We have the warning now. May the Lord increase our faith, and give us yA»a and understanding hearts. We shall then rei^ the reward that never fails to rest upon those who put their trust in God. All His belieinng secvants, in all ages, have been thus rewarded, and so it was in the case of Noah. " By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as. vet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the aaving of hit houte : by whiea he condemned the world and became heir to the righteousness wbiohisbyfaUh." We, too, shall reap the reward, and " condemn the world," if we will diligently read God s Holy Word, and believe its teachings. Let us Maceb, tkea, m tat hid treasure, and, leaving found the truth, let us, according to the talents which God has given ns, endeftTOnrto com- municate that truth to others. The time draws rapidly nearer when the parable of the ten virgins will be fulfilled to tne letter. Christians, awake I Awake and trim your lamps. Be watchful, be vigilant, be on your guard, be not taken by surprise. See that you have " (nlin your vessels with your lamps." *' Watch, as if on that alone, Hangs the issue of the day ; Pray that help may be sent down. 'Watch and pray.'* Jesus Christ when on earth said to the young lawyer, " What fs written in the law ? How readest thou ? " He expects us to read it attentively under the direction of His Holy Spirit, which He has promised to those who ask it. Each and all may have this infallible guide, for it is written. " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of Qod, and it shall be given him. May our Heavenly Father incline us to ask and have for Christ'i sake. Amen* Yours tnily, JOHN a. SHAW. 30, Park Ron, Leedt, 187S> 10 ^ ISRAEL'S RETURN. Tune-" Hold the Fort." LORD, we wait Thy promUed blemog, Lead us by the nand ; Give Thy people full poueuion Of the Froraiied Land. Chorus— Men of Israel, men of Judah, ^ Raiae the standard hi^h ; Be not faithless, but believing, For that day is nigh. Day when BuirrinK shall be ended, fiauishment shall cease ; Day to usher in the epoch Of eternal peace. Peace, and joy, and wealth shall crown thee, Widowed Palestine I When the everlasting Saviour On thy land shall shine. Then the men of two-tribed Judah To their laud shall come, With the men of ten-tribed Israel To their destined home. Jacob's sons shall rest securely. Ne'er plucked up again ; For the Lord Hiraselfshall surely O'er His people reign. rH PRAYER FOR ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. Tune—" / hear Thy weleome vuke," OGOD, we trust in Thee, Thou art our fathers' God ; . We shall Thy full salvation see, Though we deserve Thy rod. Chorus — To Jerusalem We our eyes now raise ; Lord, make Thy people joyful, And make her gates a praise. Thy promises are sure. None of Thy words shall fail ; Thy ]icople's hearts are turned to Thee, And Israel shall prevail. We now enquire of Thee ! Forgive Ijiy people's sin ; Restore us to our land again ; Lord, bring Thy peo})le in. , We thank Thee for the rain Restored to Israel's land : The milk and honey soon will flow Again at Thy command. Verdure shall crown the place Where now is barrenness ; And fruitfulness for ever hide. The sterile wilderness. J BBITAIN (OR ISRAEL) THE FIFTH AND LAST EMPIRE, AS DEPICTED BY S«4w4»^M^2gi«;*8 Swum anir iU $x\Ut^xMmt Prophecy is the foretelling, or, in other words, a declaration before- hand of something which is to happen in the fntare. Prophecy in the Bible is the foretelling of events which shall happen in the futnre history of the world, bat chiefly or primary as regards the liistory of God's chosen people Israel. History, then, is the key wherewith to unlock all prophecy — that is to say, when any event recorded beforehand in the Word of God either has ha{)pened, or is in course of fulfilment, it is as plain to see and recognise to those whose eyes the Lord has opened, as it is to see and recognise the unclouded sun at noonday. This penetration is the " gift of God " to those only who believe in all His promises. The principal reason why men have failed in the past to under- stand prophecy is because they have not had patience to wait for the development of history, and consequently have based their ideas more upon fancy than upon fad. These errors might have been less mischievous had the authors merely discussed their opinions with men of acknowledged learning and piety like themselves. The most flagrant error has been, as in the case of the dream of Nebuchad- nezzar, to spiritualise away all they could not clearly see and under- stand. These ideas have been handed down by our commentators, and many of our present divines set it all down as Gospel, thinking it next to an impossibility that men so celebrated for their learning and piety could go wrong. If they (our divines) would take the trouble to investigate the matter for themselves, they would find a very different solution to what has been termed " the spiritual fulfil- ment of prophecy." Another reason why our authorised teachers have failed to under- stand prophecy is, that they have given much time and attention to the study of ancient and remote history, and little or none to the history of the times in which we live. That this is a faot is apparent, for both themselves and their commentators can fully see and appreciate the striclly literal fulfilment of prophecy by the history of the past. Why they should not compare the events which are form- ing present history with the predictions contained in the Bible, I know not; for we are commanded to " prove all things, and hold fast that which is good." 1« The result of my own personal stiuly of God's IToly Word is tho deep conviction that we are not only living at the " time of the end," but also that the British Empire is the last great Empire — identical witli Israel, which is clearly shown in other parts of the Bible will be the last great Empire. T arrive at this conclusion after a close and careful stndy of the " Word of God," taken as n whole, and the evident fulfilment of prophecy in the hietory of l^Ations in all ages. I am now, in the exercise of tho right of private judgment— which, I am proud to say, is the privilege of every Englishman — about to demonstrate — from the prophetic dream of King Nebuchad- nezzar and ita interpretation, as recorded in the second chapter of the Book of Daniel — that Britain and Israel are identical, and, under tho gaidance of the Spirit of truth, which "maketh wise the simple," I humbly hope to make the fact so evident that none will be able to gainsay or resist, who will fairly weigh the arguments I shall produce in its favour. The story of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, is familiar to all Bible readers. You remember he dreamt a dream, and, when he awoke in the morning, all the incidents of that dream had escaped his memory. He was eo troubled about this that he sought amongst the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers of Ghaldea, not only the recovery of his dream, but also the interpre- tation thereof. After frcc^uent failnres, his Majesty was so angry that he threatened to exercise the despotic power which hepossessedf, to " cut tliem in pieces, and to make their nonses a dnnghill," unless they did the thing he required of them. They all failea to do this, and the despotic king prepared to carry out his threat by command- ing the total destruction of the wise men of Babylon. Now, God's servant Daniel was not a Chaldean, but as he was by reputation a wise man, they sought him and his fellows to be slain. This was Daniel's emergency when the executioners arrived, and God gave him courage and wisdom equal to the occasion. We read:— Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captftin of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon : he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation. Tlien Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariali, his companions : that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret ; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said. Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; for wisdom and might are His. And He changeth the times and the seasons ; He removetlt kings, and sctteth up kings : He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding : He revealeth the deep and secret things : He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him. I thank Thee, 1* tnd prahe Thee, Thoa God of my fathen, who hast given me wiidbtt aad might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee : for Tlion hast now made known unto us the king's matter. Tlierefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy tlie wise men of Babylon : he went and said thus unto him : Destroy not the wise men of Babylon : bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation. Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazou-, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said. The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king ; but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy drMm, and the visions of thy head u^on thy bed, are these ; As for thee, king, thy thouglits came into thy mmd upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter : and He that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not re sealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the liing, and that thou mightest know the tlioughts of thy heart. Thou, king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee ; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, oroken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them : and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream ; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings : for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath He given into thine hand, and liath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron ; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all tilings: and as iron that breaketh all these, shsJl it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, p!ut of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the streugtli of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the lungdom shall be partly strong, and partlv broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men : but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch M thou sawest that the stone was cut out.of the mountain without bands, and '17 u that u .unh. .n pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and tht sold ; the great God hath made known to the king what sliall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and tlio inturprutation tiiereof sure (Dan. ii. 14<-45). Before proceeding to apply this remarkable prophecy, with the view of showing how much of it lias been already fnlfiUed, the Author would observe that he will not be guided so much by what othen have said on the subject as by the following considerations — viz., The truth of historv, the evidence of reason, the analogy of Scripture, and the plain and literal fulfilment of all prophecy, in all the generations of the past. Bearing this in mind, the first thing it is necessary to remark upon is, What is the scope of this dream and the interpretation thereof? The Scope of Nebuohadnezzab's Dbbam. If the reader will refer to the 29th verse, he will find that Nebuchadnezzar was troubled in his mind as to " what should come to pass hereafter!" It is upon this word " hereafter " that the whole thing hinges. If, by the word "hereafter," all the ftttnre history of the world is meant, then, as a natural consequence, this prophecy regarding the succession of Empires must be in course of fulnlment now — t.e., in our own times — and it must be easy to see where we are. I am fully persuaded in my own mind that the dream has. reference to events extending from the night the king saw it down to the end of time; and from a careful review of the whole subject, I am as fully convinced we are now living under the fifth and last Empire. In laying the result of my researches before the reader, I can confidently say, if we are guided in our investigation of the subject by the truth of history, the light of reason, and the analogy of Scripture, we cannot go very far astray. In this manner let us review the subject, and, under the supreme direction of the the " Spirit of truth," whose office it is to guide His people into all truth, our quickened perceptions will perceive the trutn, and the truth will make us free indeed. Oh, that the Lord, the God of our fathers, may open the eyes of our understanding, that we, like the disciples of yore on their way to Emmaus, feeling " our hearts bum withm us," may behold the " wondrous things " contained in God's Holy Word. The First Empire— Babylon. There can be no dispute as to the signification of the " head of the image," for Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, " Thou art this head of gold;" thereby shewing to a certainty tlmt the Babylonian Empire was the first of the Empires symbolized by the image, answering to the " head of gold." Daniel addressed Nebuchadnezzar as a great and powerful monarch — the ruler of an extensive Empire (verse 87) — ** Thou, king, art a king of kings." No doubt the king himself was conscious of his greatness, and, in the pride of his heart, imagined 15 that it WM by his own ttreogth and wisdom that he had leonred to himBelf bo large an Empire. The inspired prophet diwbmea hino of that idea by aBsnring him that the Bccret of his succeBB waa to be imputed to the God of heaven ( fnes 87, ..d>-"For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and Btiength, and glory; and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasta of the field. and the fowls of the heaven hath He given into thine hand, and hath made thee raler over them all." Historians inform us that he held in subjection Egypt, Phoenicia, Arabia, and by his exploits snrpassed all the Ohaldeans who reigned before him. Philostratus says that Nebuchadnezzar excelled Hercules in fortitude, and greatness, and exploits, and subdued the greater part of Lybia and pain. Strabo says " he was more celebrated than Hercules;" that he " proceeded as far as the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), and led his army out of Spain into Thrace and Pontus." His Empire, however, was not of long continuance, as it terminated about seventy years after the utterance of this prophecy, and only twenty-three years after the death of Nebuchadnezzar. That the " head of the image" represented the Babylonian Empire, I fhlly believe; and, havmg conceded that — a point on which all commentators are agreed— I merely wish the reader to note that the Empire was a temporal and not a spiritual one. Thb Second, ob Mboo-Febsiak, Empibb. It is almost universally allowed that the Medo-Persian Empire—* which arose out of the ruins of the Babvlonian Empire — is repre- sented by the " breast and arms of silver, which Daniel interprets thus: " And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee." It is well known that the Medo-Persian Emi)ire arose after, and in immediate succession to, the Babylonian Empire. Josephus says that the two hands and shoulders signify that the Empire of the Babvlonians should be dissolved by two kings — the Kings of Media ana Persia — whose powers were united under Cyrus, and who was the son of the King of Persia, and the son-in-law of the King of Media. Gyrus besieged and took Babylon, and put an end to that Empire, and established the Medo-Persian Empire, which, according to the words of Daniel, was " inferior," or less than the Empire which preceded it, inasmuch as neither Gyrus nor any of his successors ever carried their conquests into either Africa or Spain. It was also " inferior " because, as Dr. Prideaux says, " the Kings of Persia were the worst race of men that ever governed an Empire." The duration of this Empire was a little over two hundred years. As before stated, I am not going by commentators (except so far as the evidence accords with my own reason, and the truth of history, and the analogy of Scripture); in this case, however, they all seem to accord with one another, and they also are all agreed as to the fact that the first two kingdoms, or Empires, represented in Nebuchad- nezzar's dream by the " head of gold " and by the " breast and arms of silver" were, first, the Babylonian, and, secondly, the Medo- 16 Persian Empires. I qaite coincide in this view, bafc,in thas agreeing with them, I must again request the reader to note that this second Empire — the Persian, or Medo-Persiau, Empire — ^like the first Empire, was a teniporal and not iu any sen^^e a spiritual Empire. TflE Thiud, o» Gbecian, Empire, We now come to the third Empire, represented by the words, "his belly and his thighs of brass " (v. 32), which Daniel interprets (?. 89), " And another third kingdom of brass wl»ich shall bear rule over all the earth." There can be no doubt, if history is reliable, that the Grecian Empire was the Empire represented by the " brass " of the ima^e, for Alexander the Great subdued the Persian Empire, and carried his conquests into India. The Grecian Empire was fitly represented by " brass," for the Greeks were famous for their brazen armour. Josephus says, " Daniel's interpretation of this passage is, that another would come from the West completely armed in brass." This kingdom is said to " bear rule over all the earth." Alexander commanded that he should be called ** The King of all the World," and it appeared to himself and to those about him that he was the master both of earth and sea. The " thighs of the image " repre- sented the Seleucide, who reigned in Syria; and the Lagidae, who reigned in Egypt. Both of these were the successors of Alexander, and they who governed were still Grecians — tlie metal was the same, and the nation was the same. All anciont authors speak of the kingdom of Alexander and ins successors. Jose^jhus says, "Alexander being dead, the kingdom was divided among liis successora." He does not say two new Empiies were elected. Justin says, "After the death of Alexander, the kingdoms of the East were divided amongst his successors."' Grotius says, '* Even now the Hebrews call those kingdoms by one name— the kingdom of the Grecians." Thus tlie reader will perceive how acuuiately the Grecian Empire was represented by " his belly and his thighs of brass." 1, too, hold that tlie third Empire was the Grecian Empire — a literal, tangible, iempwal Empire, and not a spiritual Empire. The Fouktu, or PtOJiAN, Empire. The fourth Empire now claims our attention, symbolized by "his legs of iron, his leet part of iron and part of clay " (v. 33), thus interpreted by Daniel (v. 40 — 13), "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh iu pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in jieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, 3art of potter's clay and part of iron, the klugdom shall be divided; )ut there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed witli miry ciay. And as the toes of the feet were i)art of iron, and pp't of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly bro'"Ji. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." 17 ass" of the an iron is We see in these verses that the fourth kingdom or Empire in its rise was to be stronger than the Empires which had preceded it. It was afterwards to exhibit signs of weakness, as was symbolized by the admixture of clay, which will not combine with iron. To those who have studied history, this is a vivid description of the Roman Empire. We find this Empire was stronger and larger than any of the preceding ones. The Romans brake in pieces and subdued all the former kingdoms. As Josephus said that the two " arms of silver " denoted the Kings of the Medes and Persians, so the two legs represented the two Roman consuls. The feet of the image represented the same Power, but deterioration had taken place. " The iron was mixed with miry clay," and the Romans were defiled with a mixtnre of barbarous nations. The Roman Empire was at length split up into ten lesser kingdoms, answering to the ten toes of the image. On this point, I find myself at variance with com- mentators and those who have written on the fulfilment of prophecy. If some of them had been living, now that history is more developed, probably there would have been little divergence between their conclusions and mine. The Rev. M. Baxter, however, takes these expositors as infallible guides, and commits the great mistake of representing Britain as one of the Roman kingdoms into which the Empire was divided in its ten-toed kingdom state. In his pamphlet, Britain is shown as the little toe of the image. I contend that Britain never formed any part of the image — not even a little toe — for the simple reason that Britain was never really subdued by the Romans. She gave them more trouble than any of their conquests. It took them seven years to take possession of Kent and the country South of the Thames. During their stay, they never went beyond the Grampian Hills, and in England the Welsh were unsubdued. All they could do was to endeavour to keep the barbarians within their mountain fastnesses; but their efforts were rain, for, as they did not find much food and many comforts in their elevated position, they had to make raids in order to supply their necessities, and generally succeeded in carrying away with them much spoil. The Romans built forts and walls to hold them in check— one of their walls, of which I have seen some of the foundation stones, stretched across the whole breadth of the kingdom. But all was in vain; the natives were invincible. The Romans were wearied out with their resistance. Well may Sir James Mackintosh, and other historians, tell us that the Roman conquest of Britain was merely a nominal one. At length the Romans left the Britons to manage niatters for themselves — the country still unsubdued. This would be about the middle of the fifth century, about 400 years after the time when their first legions landed on our shores. We are told that before the Romans finally left our island, the Emperor of Rome formerly apprised the cities and townships of that portion of Britain where his soldiers had gained a footing, that he (the Emperor) absolved them from their allegiance, and could no longer afford them protec- tion. Thus the reader will readily perceive that Britain cannot I t\ 18 fonn any part of the grand and terrible image whose fate it was to be smashed to pieces, for two good reasons: — 1st, Because she was never really subdued by Rome; and, 2nd, Because Rome voluntarily relinquished what they did possess of Britain before the division of the Empire into ten kingdoms. I will, therefore, take Britain away for the present from any connection with the image, and just put Portugal in its place — i.e., instead of it. The ten toes, representing the ten minor kingdoms into which the Empire was eventually divided, will then stand thus: — The toes on the right foot, beginning with the little toe, symbolize France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Austria ; those on the left foot shall remain as Mr. Baxter and his authorities have given them — namely, Tripoli, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Syria. Some of these kingdoms, even in their divided state, retained much of their old Norman strength, and manifested it upon several occasions, so that " the kingdom was partly strong and partly broken." They " mingled themselves with the seed of men by their marriages and alliances one with another after their separation into ten kingdoms ; and also many of them formed alliances, as the French, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards have done with Indians, Africans, and American savages. The Roman Empire is, therefore, represented in a double state: — 1st, With the strength of iron conquering all before it, " his legs of iron; " and then divided and weakened by the mixture of barbarous Nations, " his feet part of iron and part of clay." There is a vast amount of evidence that the Roman Empire was the fourth Empire. Mede says, " The Roman Empire to be the fourth Empire of Daniel was believed by the Church of Israel both before and in our Saviour's time: received by the disciples, and the apostles, and the whole Christian Church, for the first 800 years without any known con- tradiction." I, too, subscribe to this view, and must once more say that the Roman Empire was a temporal and not a spiritual one. The Foub Emfibes — ^Temporal, Tangible, and Suogebsive Empires. We have now seen that the four Empires were literal, tangible, and temporal, and also successive in their rule — i.e., as one fell, another ai-ose: — First. The Babylonian kingdom (or Empire), then the Persian, then the Greek, and lastly the Fourth or Roman Empire, all following in immediate succession without a fraction of a gap between. The Erophetical image was the figure of a man. There are no gaps in the uman figure, and therefore the " gold " of the image must have fitted as close to " silver " of the image as the stones of the Great Pyramid; so with the silver and the brass, so with the brass and the iron, and so with the iron and the iron and clay. Is there a gap now ? When God caused Nebuchadnezzar to see this prophetic vision of the future — extending from that time to the second coming of the Messiah — did He intend there to be a gap? Away with such a thought so dishonouring to our Creator, who saw the end from the beginning, and to whom all events, past, present, aud ftiture, axe alike l^iowu f iHi UCOEBSIVB Thb Bouan Empibb has Ceased to be. Where is the Roman Empire now ? Echo answers, " Where ? ** We know, by the evidence of car reason, that the Empire is extinct, and consequently " the gold, the silver, the brass, the iron, and the clay are broken in pieces," and, as far as the image is concerned, the prophecy is already fulfilled. Now all expositors of prophecy allow that when prophecy is fulfilled, it is an easy thing to see, and to know, and to describe how it has been fulfilled. Had we lived in the age when Babylon was in all its glory, it would not have been easy for us to have foreseen the succession of Empires, to have known their names, or to have imagined how strikingly they would answer to the symbolic representation of " the gold, the silver, the brass, the iron, and the mixture of iron and clay." But now that all the four Empires have had their rise and fall, and more than four-fifths of the prophecy is fulfilled, it must be an easy thing to see where we are. Holding these views, in reliance on the God of heaven, who revealed the secret of the dream and its interpretation to Daniel, and who has promised to quicken the perceptions of His people in the " latter days," let us investigate the matter and endeavour to ascertain the point at which we have arrived in the history of the world and the fulfilment of the prophecy. Is THERE A Predominant Empire now,? Is there an Em{)ire now that will bear comparison for extent, and gower, and dominion with those which have passed away ? Let istory speak for herself in answer to this question. I (juote from the " System of Geography " by Mr. Jas. BelL Speaking of the British Empire, he says : — The British Empire comprehends the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, with the adjacent smaller islands in the surrounding seas, and many colonies, which, in point of extent, far surpass the mother country. Although " ' I,' the world's volume, Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it ; " yet she exercises a more extensive influence in the affairs of the world, from which she appears almost " cut ojf," tlum any other single country has done in ancient or modem times. Her Monarch commands a host of subjects, more numerous than that which owns the sway of any other crowned potentate. " On our Sovereign's dominions the sun never sets." Her authority extends over two-thirds of the globe, in reference to longitude ; and it may, therefore, without hyperbole, be said that the sun never sets upon her possessions, for, within that vast range, various places have noon and midnight at tlie same moment. Stretching also, with the exception of a few intermediate spaces, from the Arctic circle in the 33rd degree of South latitude, the four seasons are experienced in the dominions of Britain at the same time. M. Dupin, in his " Force Comerciale de la Grande Bretague, 1826," says, as regards the extent of our Empire and our great power over the Nations of the earth : — In Europe the British Empire borders at once towards the North upon Qermany, upon Holland, upon France ; towards the South, upon Spain, .90 npon Sicily, upon Italy, apon Western Tnrkey. It holds the keys of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean ; it commands the mouth of the Black Sea, as well as the Baltic. In America it gives boimdarles to Kussia, towai'ds the Pole, and to the United States towards the temperate regions. Under the torrid zone it reigns in the midst of the Antille, en- circles the Gulf of Mexico, till, at last, it meets those new States, which it was the first to free from their dependence on their mother country, to make them more surely dependent upon their own commercial industry, and, at the same time, to scare, in either hemisphere, any mortal who might endeavour to snatch the heavenly fire of genius, or the secrets of its conquests, it holds, midway between Africa and America, and on the road which connects Europe with Asia, that rock to which it chained the Prometheus of the modem world.* In Africa, from the centre of that island devoted of yore, under the symbol of the cross, to the safety of every Christian flag,t the British Empire enforces from the Barbary States that respect which they pay to no other Power. From the foot of the Pillars of Hercules, it carries dread into the heart of the remotest provinces of Morocco. On the shores of the Atlantic it has built the forts or the Gold Coast and of the Lion's Mountain.^: It is from thence that it strikes the prey which the Black furnish to the European races of men ; and it is there that it attaches to the soil the freed men whom it snatches from the trade in slaves. On the same continent, beyond the [tropics, and at the point nearest to the Austral Pole, it has possessed itself a shelter under the very Cape of Storms. Where the Spaniards and the Portuguese thought only of securing a poi*t for their ships to touch at — ^where the Dutch saw no capabilities beyond those of a plantation — it is now estab- lishing the colony of a second British people, and, uniting English activity with Batavian patience, at this moment it is extending around the Cape the boundaries of a settlement which will increase in the South of Africa to the size of those States it has founded in the North of America. From this new focus of action and of conquest, it casts its eyes towards India ; it discovers, it seizes the stations of most importance to its commercial progress, and thus renders itself the exclusive ruler over the passes of Africa from the East of another hemisphere. Finally — as much dreaded in the Persian Gulf and the Erythrean Sea as in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Archipelago — the British Empire, the possessor of the finest countries of the East, beholds its factors reign over eighty millions of subjects. The conquests of its merchants in Asia begin where tL se of Alexander ceased, wA where the terminus of the Romans could not reach. At this moment — from the banks of the Indus to the frontier of China — from the mouths of the Ganges to the mountains of Thibet— all acknow- ledge the sway of a mercantile company shut up in a narrow street in the City of London. This glowing description of oar Empire was written more than 50 years ago by the Connt abeady mentioned — a man not at all likely to have the slightest bias or partiality for Britain— our French admirer, Oonnt Dnpin. We all know how mnch our Empire has increased since, and that our Indian inheritance has recently been transferred to our gracious Queen — whom God preserve — who now rules as the " Empress of India." Is it possible that this magnificent Empire could have been left out of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of what was to come to pass here- * St. Helena— the island prison of Napoleon. f Malta. % Sierra Leooe. lierra l4eoik9> after ? No, no — emphatically, no ! To entertain such an idea for a moment is most dishonouring to God, as it would indicate failure on His part. However man may stumble and jump to false and irrational conclusions, God cannot fail, and the dream and its inter- pretation, being from God, most certainly included Britain's Empire of Empires. We haye seen the passing away of the four Empires symbolized by the image, but that is not the conclusion of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Let us now attentively consider the remainder, and we may be rewarded by the discovery that our Empire is not only described, but that it is far more strikingly portrayed by the finger of God than any of the Empires which have preceded it. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing ftoors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was foiind for them : and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth (Dan. ii. 34, 35). This last portion of the dream is thus interpreted by Daniel :-^ And in the reign of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest thcut the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in Eieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, the gold, the great God ath made known to the king what shall come to pass hei'eafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure (Dan. ii. 44, 45). Two DisTDTOT Kinds op Prophbot. In considering these remarkable words, I intend to apply to the fullest extent the mode of interpretation which has been followed up to the succession of the Eoman (or fourth) Empire. Up to that point I can thoroughly understand and endorse much that has been said on the subject. After this, the commentators and prophetical writers have made a perfect hash of it — ^built up such a mass of spiritual theories, each contradicting or taking an opposite view of the subject, that it is perfectly sickening to attempt to riddle the rubbish in order to pick out the little grain that is worth retaining; and after the strictest and most patient investigation, I confess it requires more brains than I possess to arrive at a satisfactoir con- clusion. One thing is clear enough, and that is the illogical character of their reasoning, for they leave the literal and' obvious meaning of the prediction, and fly to what they term the "^iritual fulfilment." I do not deny that there are both tempered and spiri- tual predictions, but I do contend that both must have a literal fulfilment. The two kinds of prophecy are as distinct as oil and water, and it is just as easy to mix the one as the other. Ton cannot mix oil with pure water, neither can you mix the temporal with the Bpiritual. As an illustration of my meaning, the firtrt fiS prophecy in the Bible — the promise that " the seed of the woman shoald braise the serpent's head " — was a strictly spiritual prediction, and was fulfilled to the letter by our Redeemer ; on the other hand, the first temporal prophecy was the promise to Abram, that the land, of Canaan should be the inalienable possession, or inheritance, of himself and his seed for ever, and this not having been fulfilled, must in the future be literally fulfilled. Again, when our Redeemer wept over Jerusalem, the words He spake about its destruction waa truly a temporal prediction : " For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " (Luke xix. 48, 44). We all know how this prophecy was literally fulfilled by Titus. But our Saviour also uttered prophecies of a spiritual nature, as for instance, when abont to leave His disciples, He said, ** But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name. He shall teach yon all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you " (John xiv. 26). This was also literally Ailfilled by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Thus literally has all prophecy been iUfilled, and will be so fulfilled to the end of time. No Preobdbnt fob the Spiritual Fulfilment of Temporal Prophecy. Men, with commendable caution, talk of precv-^dents. Etic[nette stiffens her majestic form, and will not move a single inch without precedent. Diplomatists, legislators, administratoxs of the law, and public men do the same; I too, go by precedent, and my precedent IB the simple and literal fiilfihnent of all prophecy in the past. I will not, for that reason, accept a spiritual fulfilment of a temporal prophecy, for which I have no precedent. It is therefore, my intention — gnided, as 1 have already said, by the truth of history, the evidence of reason, and the analogy of Scripture — to consider the subject we are investigating in its logical bearings, and this can only be done by rejecting what spiritual theorists have advanced. As we have seen that the first, second, third, and fourth Empires were literal, tangible, and temporal Empires, so (in accordance with logic and common sense, and with due regard to precedent) the fifth Empire, which is eventually to become so large as to fill the earth, must, in the nature of thmgs, be a temporal, and not (as some have said) a spiritual Empire. Ukdisoovered Truth in tte Word op Got^. I am aware that this method of viewing the subject will bring out results that will have the appearance of a new discovery. This i» no valid objection, for nearly all Christians are agreed that fV; d's "unspeakable gift," His dear Son, shall be the Supreme Ruler of the universe. The Stone out out of the Mountain without Hands. THE whereabouts OF THE STONE. We now come, as a natural consequence of the extinction of the Roman — or the last of the four Empires — represented by the different metals of the image, to the consideration of the cause and the par- ticulars of its destruction (ver. 45); "Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold." That the stone is the symbol of Great Britain is apparent from the follow- ing considerations : — 1. We are undoubtedly the fifth Empire, and the way in which we have become so accords with the prophecy. 2. We are isolated or detached from tiie countries represented by the image. 3. Oar island is small and insignificant, and to all appearance as unlikely to become the head of a mighty Empire as it is for a stone to swell to the proportions of a mountain. 4. Our growth has been very rapid. 5. Our influence and pqwer aro greater than that of any other country which now exists — or ever did exist — on the face of the earth. Sir Richard Philip, in his book entitled, " A Million of Facts," published in the year 1880, says, " That Britain formerly jooined the 11 I ! T' S6 Continent hns been inferred ftom the similar cliffs of the opposite coasts of the English Channel, and from the encroachments of the of the sea in still widening the Channel." If this statement is true (and it is given as fact in a book of factsj, we are literally " a stone cut out of the mountain " — that is, viewmg the hugeness of the Continent in comparison with our island. There is something, too, that is very significant in the name " Channel," for to channel a thing means " to groove or to cut out." I believe, personally, that England did once form part of the Continent, and that its separation was effected for a special purpose which will become more obvious to the reader hereafter. I can say, with the poet, — " This precious gtone set in the silver sea, . Which serves it in the office of a wall ; ' ^ " ; Or, as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happy lands ; This bleMcd spot, this earth, this realm, this England." But lest this cutting away of Britain from the Continent «thould be deemed an ingenious fancy, not capable of proof, I will ba?e my argu- ment upon an undeniable fact, and that is the isolation of I!ritain. Great Britain was described by Rome, in her palmy daya, as — " Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos " — that is, the Britons cut off from intercourse with the whole world, and we have seen, as before quoted — " ' I,' the world's volume, Out Britain seems as of it, bi'.t not in it." We are, in fact, so effectually separated frc.n the mainland by the German Ocean and the English Channel, ua to be virtually '' cut off" from the Continent. Nevertheless, cut off though we are, we have always been, and particularly since the arrival of the Normans in our island, an influential factor amongst the Nations of Europe and the world; and since that time, that influence has ever been on the increase, in spite of the sneers of our enemies. The historical reader will remember that England was spoken of to Napoleon I. as but a small garden in comparison with the rest of the world. The characteristic reply was, " True, sire, but in that garden grows many a bitter weed." His attempts to invade our coasts (as were those of Spain, 200 years previously) were futile. The rapidity of our growth, or expansion into our present magnificent Empire, may be judged by the fact that it is only 223 years, on the 7th of May last, since we became possessed of Jamaica — our first colony — which was taken from Spain, by Commander Penn, in the year 1655. Where would the Feet of the Image be ? It will be necessary for us to go to history if we would ascertain where the blows were struck, when they were struck, and what power it was that strack the blows on the feet of the image, and, by so doing, caused its destruction. In order to arrive at the truth (for it is the truth we seek), we must first ask ourselves the question, 97 Where wonld the feet of this symbolicnl imago bo? Now this cannot be a very difficult problem to solve when we know for a certainty that the head of the image waa Babylon. It is not a mathematical question, involving almost endless calculation, and employing hundreds of figures ; neither is it an abstruse question of science, which is nearly as diihcult to understand, to those who have not studied science, after the answer is given, as it was before. The answer must be natural, easy, and as free from obscurity when it is given, that a child may understand it; and precisely such an answer I proceed to furnish when I say, the feet of tho image would be the furthest away from the head. This answer commends itself to onr reason ; it is so simple that a mere child can understand it ; it is so true that the oldest and wisest cannot gainsay it— simple but mighty truth ! I will now endeavour to point out — in the rorm of a short allegory— the two countries which are in reality the feet of the image : — An Allegory. Methonght (whether in waking or sleeping vision I will not say) that I was favoured with a sight of the same terrible image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. As my eyes rested upon him, I saw him move, and, probably, tired of standing throughout the long centuries which have elapsed fh>m Daniel's time to this, he proceeded to bring his colossal form into a recumbent position. At length he settled down and all was still : so I approached near enough to take note of him as he lay. He was reclining on his back, with his golden head pillowed on Babylon ; his breast rested on Syria, and both of his gigantic arms were raised above his head, the right arm rested on Media, and the left on Persia, and as I gazed thereon, the arms and breast shone like polished silver in the dazzling rays of tho Eastern sun. I next turned my attention to the brazen body and thighs of the giant, and noted that these portions of his massive frame covered Greece (including Turkey, which formerly was a part of Greece). The iron legs covered the Roman Empire — the right foot rested on France and the left foot on Spain; and as they lay, I noted that they were a strange componnd of iron and clay. Thus the recumbent figure covered the kingdoms, which the gold, the silver, the brass, the iron, and the mixture of iron and clay represented or symbolized — the head was in the extreme East, or Babylon, and the feet in the extreme West, resting on France and Spain. The Smiting op the Feet of the Image. — Britain the King- dom OF THE Stone. Let us now — taking France and Spain as the feet of the image on the one hand, and Great Britain as the little stone on the other hand — en- deavour to ascertain from the undoubted facts of history whether or no we have fallen upon the feet of the image and brought him down. As it was the prowess of the people of each succeeding Empire that enabled it to subdue and supplant the one before it, it is only fair to conclude that it is by the prowess of the Anglo-Saxon race — who belong to the fifth Empire—that the overthrow of the image has been il 28 aobiered. There is nothing so likely to convince men as the hard logic of facts, therefore I will let our victories over the Eoropean Powers speak for me, without further comment : — BRITISH VICTORIES OVER FRANCE AND SPAIN. (The Fbbt of Nebuohadxezzar's Imaqb.) Ko. Montr; 1 August 26 2 August 4 8 September 19... 4 October 26 5 April 26 6 August Ifi 7 September 14... 8 July 21 9 May 7 10 December 4 ... 11 May 10 12 May 19 18 August 19 14 October 29 16 December 17 ... 16 July 2 17 July 24 18 August 13 19 NoTcmber 6 ... 20 July 18 21 September 28 22 May 23 28 August 6 24 May 27 26 July 11 •26 September 18 27 September 11... 28 September 20... 29 FebruarvS 30 August 12 ... 31 August 18 32 November 22 33 March 25 34 November 14 36 December 27 ... 36 May 30 37 May 31 38 June 26 89 June 16 40 July 20 41 January 31 42 May 8 43 October 7 ... 44 April 1 45 June 27 46 September 24... 47 June 10 48 November 2 ... YiAR Pi.Acis or Battlk. 134G Cressey 1347 Calais OrriciitoaQRNCRAl .... Edward III. ... .... Edward IIL ... If ATVBl Of ViCTOKT. Battle Taken 1350 Poitiers .... Black Prince ... Battle 1416 Agincourt 15)3 HrcHt 1618 Spurs 1644 Boulogne 1688 Armada .... Henrv V Battle .... Howard .... Henry VIII .... Henry VIII .... Howard Sea fight Battle Taker Sea fight Taken 1656 Jamaica .... Penn 1664 Bordeaux .... James II Sea fight Sea fight Sea flght Sea fight Taken 1667 St. Christopher 1692 La Hoirue .... Hnrmann .... RuBROll 1702 Carthagena 1702 Chartreuse .... Benbow .... Marlboro' 1703 Guilder .... Marlboro' Taken I704 Donawcrt .... Marlboro' Battle 1704 aibraltar I704 Blenheim .... Rooke .... Marlboro' Taken Battle 1704 Gibraltar .... Kooka Sea flght Battle I7O6 Tirlemont .... Marlboro' 1706 Barcelona 1706 Ramilies 1707 Newfoundland .... Peterborough .... Marlboro' .... Undordown Taken Battle Sea fight Sea fight Battle Taken Battle Sea flght Taken I7O8 Oarthagena 1708 Oudenurd 1709 Minorca I7O9 Malplaquet 1709 DcadAan 1710 Ouadaloupo I7I8 Pesoaro 1739 Lagos 1739 Portobello .... "Wager .... Marlboro' .... Stanhope .... Marlboro' .... Haniray .... Bcckwith ........ .... Byng .... Boscowen . Sea flght . Sea fight Taken .... Vernon 1740 Oharires .... Vernon Taken 1741 Paita . Taken 1742 Old Gibraltar .... Pii'»*oel . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken 1743 Windward .... Anson 1743 Spiritu Santo.. 1743 Dettengen 1746 Cane Breton .... Anson .... George III .... WaiTcn Battle . Sea flght [ Battle 1747 SdSeld .... D.of Cumberlanc 1748 Cape Cantin 1748 Cuba 1748 Havannah .... Harvey .... Knowles .... Knowles . Sea fight Taken . Sea fight . Battle 1753 Trivady 1753 Louisbourg 1753 Veycondals 1756 Newfoundland .... Lawrence . Taken .... Lawrence . Battle .... BoBcowen . Sea fight . Sea fight 1766 Martinico .... To\vn8head " The Chronological Chart of British Victories Over the Continental Powers," ranging from the battle of Cressey to our last victory over Russia in 1866, price 34.1 may be had of the Author, J. G. Shaw, 20, Park-row, Leeds. ii 29 \ as the hard he European » SPAIN. ... ITATVK«Or '*'• VlOTO«T. ... Battle ... Taken ... Battlo .... Battlo ,... Sea fight ... Battle .... Taker ... Sea fight .... Taken .... Sea fight .... Sea fight .... Sea fight .... Sea fight .... Taken .... Taken .... Battlo .... Taken .... Battle .... Sea fight Battle Taken Battle Sea fight Sea fight Battle Taken Battle Sea fight Taken Sea fight Sea fight Taken Taken Taken Sea fight Sea fight Taken Battle Sea fight Battle Sea fight Taken Sea fight Battle Taken Battle Sea fight Sea fight Continental )ver Russia in ■ow, Leeds. !h id No. MOMTH. 40 January 2 CO March 1 Bl April 4 C2 April 23 63 April 24 64 May 1 6*) June 12 66 November 24 ... 67 December 7 ... 68 December 9 ... 69 January 24 60 April 18 61 May 2 62 July 7 63 July 81 64 September 10... 66 September 16.. , 66 November 3 ... 67 November 20... 68 January 29 69 February 9 70 February 98 ... 71 April 18 72 Julys 73 September 1 ... 74 January 15 76 February 7 76 February 13 ... 77 July 18 78 October 6 ... 79 December 5 ... 80 December 16 ... 81 December 16 ... 82 December 20 88 May 13 84 May 26 85 JnneO 8C October 16 ... 87 October le- ss March 17 89 April 17 90 January 6 91 April 16 1)2 November 27 93 December 1 ... 94 January 7 ... 96 January 26 96 April 12 97 April 23 98 April 29 99 June 13 100 Julys 101 August 30 ... 102 September 3 ... 103 September 13 104 October 81 105 December 25 ... 106 March 4 107 May 24 TiAB Plaoi ov Baitli. OrriomoiiO>KnAi. 'v*o'oiit!' 1757 Calcutta Watson. 1758 Cape of Oat Osborne. 1758 Aix Hawko . 175H Coromandel I'ocook 1758 1758 Fort Louis Cummhig.. Senegal Cummiug ., 1758 Lorembcc Wolfe 1768 Fort Duquesno Forbes 1758 Glapool Ford 1758 Condore Ford 1759 Quadaloupe Hopson 1759 Bergen Ferdinand 1759 Guadalonpo Clavering ., 1759 Crown Point Amherst ., 1759 Mindcn Ferdinand 1759 Point Pedron Pocock ..... 1759 Quebec Wolfe 1759 Montserrat Tyrell ..... 1759 Bellisle Hawke 1760 Chillappee Coote 1760 Arcot Coote , 1760 Isle of Man Eliott 17«() Waldore Gordon ..... 1760 ChaleurBay Byron 1760 Carroor Smith .. ., 1761 Pondicherry Coote ..... 1761 Bellisle Hodgson ., 1762 Martinico Rodney 1762 Havannah Albermarle 1762 Minilla Drapier 1764 Dieppe Dorvme 1778 Vigie Meadows 1778 Carenage Barrington ... 1778 Savannah Campbell ... 1779 Cancnlif' I'.iiy Wallace 1779 Cape Finisterro Ducic 1779 Laselva Peard 1779 Cape Pinisterre ... Young 1779 Omea Luttlwell ... 1780 Capo Henry Arbuthnot , 1780 Martinico Kodney , 1781 Jersey Fierson 1781 St. Yago Johnson , 1781 Gibraltar Elliott , 1781 Charlestown Pascoe , 1782 Cape St. Vincent... Rodney , 1782 St. Christopher Hood 1782 Dominica Rodney 1782 Ushant Maitland 1782 Martinico Hood 1782 Cuddadore Stuart 1782 Negapatam Hughes 1782 ~' 1782 1782 1782 Black River J.Campbell Trincomali ... Hughes Gibraltar Elliott Chiuglaput Clive 1782 Basso Terie Hood 1791 Plymouth Ownslow 1793 Famars Duke of York Tiikcii Sea fight Sea fight Hca fight Taken Takoii Taken Taken Buttle Battlo Taken Battle Taken Taken Battlo Battle Battlo Sea fight Sea fight Taken Battle Sea fight Battle Sea fight Taken Taken Taken Sea fight Taken Taken Sea fight Sea figlit Sea tight Taken Sea fight Sea fight Sea fight Sea fight Taken Sea fight Sea fight Taken , Sea fight Battle , Sea fight , Sea fight , Sea fight , Sea fight . Sea tight . Sea fight , Battle . Sea fight , Taken , Sea fight . Battle . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Battle \\ 1 i; i i! i ' 1 Noii MoNin; 108 July 26 109 August 23 110 October 1 111 October 20 112 October 22...... 113 November 18... 114 January 23 115 February I'J ... lie March 22 117 March 28 118 Aprils Ill) AprU 21 120 May 5 121 May U 122 May 22 12.S May 29 124 Junel 125 June 4 126 June 15 127 July 6 128 January 4 129 March 14 130 April 7 131 May 17 132 June 23 1.S3 August 81 134 February 6 135 April 20 136 April 26 137 May 25 138 June 11 139 July 16 140 August 22 141 November 26... 142 December 2 ... 143 December 12... 144 February 14 145 February 18 140 March 9 147 January 13 148 July 15 149 July 17 150 August 1 151 September 8 ... 152 October 12 153 November 15 154 February 29 ... 155 March 10 1.50 March 30 157 May 9 158 June 14 151) August 9 100 August 28 101 September 8 ... 102 September 29... 103 November 22... 104 December 24 ... 105 December 26 ... ICG Maick 31 80 TEikR FuoE OF Battle. 1793 Valenciennes 1793 rondichcrry 1793 Toulon 1793 Cherburg 1793 Cape Nicholas 1793 B.ay of Biscay 1794 Channel 1794 San Florenzo 1794 Fort Bourbon 1794 Jamaica 1794 St. Lucia 1794 Guadaloupe 1794 Mauritius 1794 St. Pierre 1794 Bastia 1794 Atlantic 1794 Ushant 1794 Cadiz 1794 Brest 1794 Maliens 1795 Point-a-Petrc 1795 Cape Corse 1795 Mediterranean 1795 Chesapeok 1795 Groix 1795 Ostenburg 1796 St. Domingo 1796 Lizzard Point 1796 Morne Chabot 1796 St. Lucia 1796 St. Vincent 1796 Helvoet 1796 Saintes 1790 Aguilla 1796 Foulpoint 1796 Cadiz 1797 Cape St. Vincent 1797 Trinidad 1797 Brest 1798 Ushant 1798 Carthagena 1798 Ushant 1798 Nile 1798 Ballina Muc 1798 Ireland 1798 Minorca 1799 Sandhead 1799 Orpesa 1799 Porto Rico 1799 Acre 1799 Riviglano 1799 Gibraltar 1799 RieuveDiep 1799 Guadaloupe 1799 Civita Vecchia 1799 Lowestoft 1799 Dodman 1799 Fort Royal 1800 Malta OFPICEROaOESEaAL ^*cX0KY°' Duke of York ... Taken Braithwaite Taken Mulgrave Battle Saumarez Sea light Whitclock Taken Thomborough ... Sea fight Warren Sea fight Dundas Taken Grey :... Taken Suridge Sea fight Grey Taken Grey Taken Newcome Sea fight Ogilvie Taken Hood Taken Howe Sea fight Howe Sea fight CoUinwood Sea fight Howe Sea fight Moira Taken Faulkner Sea fight Hotham Sea fight Hotham Sea fight Cochrane Sea fight Bridport Sea fight Stuart Taken Duckworth Sea fight Exmouth Sea fight Moore Taken Abercrombie ... Taken Abercrombie ... Taken Trollope Sea fight Warren Sea fight Barton Sea fight Spranger Taken Bowen Sea fight Jerris Sea fight Harvey Taken Neale Sea fight Pellew Sea fight Dixon Sea fight Keppel Sea fight Nelson Sea fight Lake Battle WaiTen Sea fight Stuart Taken Cooke Sea fight Markham Sea fight Otway Sea fight Sidney Smith ... Battle Foote Taken Brenton Sea fight Mitchell Sea fight C. Boyer Sea fight Trowbridge Taken Searles Sea fight Pengelly Sea fight Rowley Sea fight Di&oa Sea fight -4, '■'-.': -J-iVjVitjr^a 81 u. Natubs of VlCTOKV. Taken Taken . Battle Sea light Taken Sea figbt Sea fight Taken Taken Sea fight . Taken , Taken , Sea fight . Taken , Taken , Sea fight , Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight , Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken . Taken . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Battle . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Battle .. Taken .. Sea fight . Sea light . Sea fight . Taken . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight '*'W ;:w-«| ir«. HOKTU. 167 April n KiS Seiitember 5 ... M'j October 27 ... 170 January 27 171 March 8 172 March 21 173 March 24 171 April 8 175 July 2 170 July 13 177 September 2 ... 178 November 4 ... 179 June 22 180 November 29 ... 181 February 4... 182 March 7 183 October 21 184 January 20 185 March 13 186 June 24 187 July 4 188 January 3 189 Januajy 21 190 February 3... 191 December 28 ... 192 August 17 193 August 21 194 December 20 ... 195 January 2 196 January 16 197 January 30 198 Februarys 199 February 24 ... 200 April 11 201 July 27 202 July 28 203 October 2 ...... 204 October 30 205 March 10 206 May 8 207 July 10 208 Augusts 209 September 27.., 210 September 30... 211 November 10... 212 February 1 213 March 11 214 March 23 215 April 15 21G April 27 217 May 11 218 May 16 219 May 21 220 June 20 221 September 21... 222 September 25... 223 October 4 224 October 28 825 December 31 ... Tbab Place OF Battle. OFFICEnOnOENEBAL Natvbs or VicToaT. 1800 Gorec , Hamilton Taken 1800 Malta Pigott Taken 1800 Malaga Beaufort Sea fight 1801 Cape Finisterre , Barton Sea fight 1801 Maadic Abcrcrombio ... Baltic 1801 Alexandria Abcrcrombio ... Battle 1801 St. Martin T. Trigg Taken 1801 Rosetta Hutchinson Battle 1801 Cairo Hutchinson Battle 1801 Algeziras Saumarez Sea fight 1801 Alexandria Hutchinson Taken 1802 Ferrol Strachan Sea fight 1808 Mome Fortune Grinfield Taken 1803 Cape Finisterre R. Wintyop Sea fight 1804 Cadiz Moore Battle 1805 Gibraltar J. Leake Sea fight 1805 Trafalgar Nelson Sea fight 1806 St. Domingo Duckworth Sea fight 1806 Martinico Warren Sea fight Buenos Ajrres Popham Taken Maida Stuart Battle Maitinico Selby Sea fight La Caraccas Sawyer Sea fight Monte Video Auohmuity ... Taken Benevente Paget ,.. Sea fight 1806 1806 1807 1807 1807 1807 1808 1808 1808 1809 1809 Rolico Wellesley Vamiero 'Wellesley , Saliagum Paget ... Cayenne L. Yeo ... Corunna Moore ... Battle Battle Battle Taken Battle 1809 Cape Salomon Maitland Taken 1809 Barbadoes Betterworth . 1809 Martinico Prevost ... 1809 Aix Gambler 1809 Porteus Breton Dilkes ... 1809 Talavera Wellesley 1809 Zante Oswald ..., 1809 Rosas Halowell , 1810 Quiberon Prescott , 1810 Naples Brianton 1810 Bourbon Keating..., 1810 Pillan Robinson 1810 Busaco Wellington Sea fight Battle Sea fight Sea fight Battle Taken Sea fight Sea fight Sea fight Taken Sea fight Battle 1810 Annapolis Nicholson Taken 1810 Groa Leyman Sea light 1811 Guarda Grant Battle 1811 Pombal Wellington Battle 1811 Lissa W. Hoste Sea fight 1811 Olivenza Cole Taken 1811 Corfu Otway Sea fight 1811 Almeida Wellington Battle 1811 Albuera Beresford Battle 1811 Madagascar Scomberg Sea fight 1811 Toulon Blackwood Sea fight 1811 Boulogne Anderson Sea fight 1811 ElBodon Wellington Battle 1811 Equakla Laccy Taken 1811 Arroyo Molinos Hill Battla 1811 livriffa Skeriit Battle w. 9 No. 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 236 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 Monto: January 14 January 19 Feljruary 28 March 27 April 6 May 18 ;... July 22 August 7 November 9 ... February 20 ... February 26 ... June 6 June 21 Julys July 30 September 9 ... December 10... December 30... February 15 ... February 23 ... February 25 ... March 12 March 20 March 26 April 10 April 14 June 18 June 26 March 5 Teas Place of Battle. Officeb or Gbnehal Natttrb or VlCTOET. 1812 St. Francisco Harcourt Battle 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo Wellington Taken 1812 1812 1812 1812 1812 1812 St. George Talbot Sea fight Dieppe Harvey , Badajoz Wellington Miravcte Hill Salamanca Wellington Segovia Wellington 1812 Alba Hill 1813 Begar HUl , 1813 Ponsa Napier 1813 Belaguer Prevost ...... 1813 Vittoria Wellington Sea fight Taken Taken Battle Taken Battle Battle Taken Battle Battle 1813 Molehead Freemantlo Taken 1813 Ostiz Pakenham Battle 1813 St. Sebastian Graham Taken 1813 The Nive Hill Battle 1813 Black Bock Riall Battle 1814 Garris Hill 1814 Adour Hope 1814 Orthes Wellington 1814 Bordeaux Beresford ... 1814 Tarbes Wellington 1814 Isle of Bas Seymour ... 1814 Toulouse Wellington 1814 St. Etienne Hope 1815 Waterloo Wellington 1815 Cambrai Colville 1819 Barossa Graham Battle Battle Battle Taken Battle Sea fight Battle Battle Battle Taken Battle Britain has never struck a single blow at any other of the Nations forming the image, except the following No. Two ViOTOEIES OVER THE TUEKS : — Month. Tear Place of Battle. OffickrorGeneral 1 February 27 ... 1807 Prota Duckworth 2 October 18 1827 Navarino Codrington Natitre of VlOTOBT. Battle Sea fight BRITISH VICTORIES OVER NATIONS IN EUROPE FORMING NO PART OF THE IMAGE. Victories over the Dutch: — No. 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 Month; Tear June 29 1652 June 3 1665 July 19 l(Ui6 May 28 1671 November 25... 1759 November 12 ... 1781 August 5 1781 January 11 1782 July 14 1795 Place cf Battle, Officer oB Qs» eb al Dover . Blake Harwrich James II Cape of Holland Albemarle..., Southwold Bay James II.-..., Chincery Ford Negapatam Moni'O Dogger Banks Parker Ostenburg Hughes SimouTown Elphinstone, Natdbb of Victory. , Sea fight . Sea fight . Sea fight Sea fight Taken Taken Sea fight Taken Taken S8 I EUROPE No MOMTBi Teaa FiACB OF Battle. 10 September 16... 11 February 16 ... 12 April 22 13 October 11 14 August 20 15 September 12... 16 July 29 17 September 22.., 18 January 10 19 November 30... 20 January 1 21 February 17 .., 22 Augusts 23 August 10 , 1795 Cape of Good Hope. 1796 Ambojma 1796 Demarara 1797 Camperdown 1798 Surinam. OfficehobQemeeal ^yJ^H^^ Craig Taken Remier Taken White Taken Duncan Sea fight Trigge Taken 1799 Fly Islands Portlocke Sea fight 1800 Port Louis Coglan Sea fight 1803 Berbice Grinfiel.d Taken 1806 Cape of Good Hope... Popham Taken 1806 Sunda Exmouth Sea fight 1807 Curacoa Brisbane Taken 1810 Amboyna Cole Taken 1810 Banda Cole Taken 1811 Gomelis Gillespie Taken No; VlOTORIEB OVBE THE RUSSIANS: — Momth; Yeab Fi.Aca or Battle, OfficeborOenibal ^i^obt!' 1 ATigast26 1808 Baltic Sea Hood Sea fight 2 September 20... 1864 Alma Raglan Battle 3 October 25 1864 Balaclava Raglan Battle 4 Novembers ... 1864 Inkerman Raglan Battle 6 September 8 ... 1865 Sebastopol • Simpson Taken VlOTOBIEB OVEB THE DANES: — NOi MOMTB. Tear Flaox op Battle. Offioeb OB Oenbbal NATimB OF Victobt, 1 April 2 1801 Copenhagen Nelson Sea fight 3 September? ... 1807 Copenhagen Gambier Taken Victory over the Swedes: — No. Momte; Tsae Place of Battle. Officer obGsnebai. ^'5*"^' 1 September 4 ... 1807 Heligoland Russel Taken History cannot lie ! I have now placed the record of our victories by land and sea over the Powers of Europe before you, arranged in chronological order, giving the name of the place where the victory was achieved, and the name of the commander who signalized himself on each occasion. No other country in the world can produce anything to compare with it! The total number of victories are exactly 287. In analyzing these victories, we have the following result: — 219 distinct victories over France — the right foot of the image. 35 do. Spain — the left foot of the image, that is, 254 victories over France and Spain, only leaving 88 as the number of victories which we have gained over all the other European Nations, and showing significantly that we have gained between seven and eight times more victories over France and Spain than we have done over all the other European Powers put together. In again analyzing the 33 remaining victories, we find that we have gained |.i!: 84 23 distinct victories over the Dutch. 2 do. do. Danes. 1 distinct victory over the Swedes. 5 distinct victories over the llussians ; 2 do. do. Turks. and Total 38 None of these Nations — with the single exception of Turkey— ever formed any part of the image or of the four Empires. This result to me is most astounding, and certainly proves in the most con- vincing manner the literal and exact fulfilment of this part of the prediction. Truly, Britain is the little stone which, by fall- ing UPON the feet op the image, has buoken it in pieces I The Number op the Blows on the Feet of the Image. Wishing to meet every difficulty that may embarrass or i>erplex the reader, and desiring to entertain any or every fair objection to the proofs I have given regarding the smiting of the image, and as some may reasonably think the language of Scripture only warrants the idea that the imago was to be prostrated by a single crushing blow ''as might be effected by a stone becoming detaehed and rolling down a mountain), I must refer such objector to an undoubted authority on the subject. I refer to Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of the Gospel, Philadelphia, whose commentaries on the Scriptures are highly valued by Evangelical clergymen and Dissenting ministers alike, and are well known and appreciated by Sabbath school teachers and lay preachers throughout the land. Speaking of the smiting of the image, Mr. Barnes says : — The word here used (^(^tD) nieans, to strike, to smite, without reference to the question whether it is a single blow, or whether the blow is often repeated. The Hebrew word (J^n^) ^^ uniformly used as referring to tho clapinng of the hands — that is, sinitiug them togetlier (Psa. xcviii. 8 ; Isa. Iv. 12 ; Ezek. xxv. G). The Chaldce word is used only here and in ver. 35, referring to the smiting of tlic image, and in chap. iv. 35, where it is rendered " stay " — " none can stay His hand." The connection here, and the whole statement, would scorn to demand tlie sense of a continued or prolonged smiting, or of repeated blows rather than a single concussion. The image was not only thrown down, but there Avasa subsequent process of comminution, indei)endent of wliat would have been produced by the fall. A fall would only have broken it into large blocks or fragments ; but this continued smiting reduced it to powder. This would imply, therefore, not only a single shock, or violent blow, but some cause con- tinuing to operate until that which liad been overthrown was effectually destroyed, like a vast image reduced to impalpable poAvder. The first concussion on the feet made it certain that the colossal frame would fall ; but tiiere was a longer process necessary before the Avhole etVect should be accomiilisliod. " And brake them to pieces." In ver. 35, the idea is, " they became like chaft' upon the summer threshing-floors." The meaning is not that the image was broken to fragments, but tliat it was beaten Hne —reduced to powder — so that it might be scattered by the wind. 85 Mr. Barnes follows this admirable exposition by various quotations from other portions of Scripture, all bearing upon the point and strikingly confirming this view of it. The safe and only reasonable conchision in, tliat as it required a number of blows to reduce the image, so the number of our victories prove the literal fulfilment of the prophecy. The Long Period during which the Smiting was in Process. It is evident that a long period must elapse between the first and the last blow on the feet of the image, from tht words, " consume all these kingdoms" (ver. 44). The meaning of the word "consume" here is to waste slowly or gradually — as the burning of touchweod, or some other material which smoulders away without bursting into a flame. Cyrus the Persian — ^Alexander the Greek — the Generals of Adrian the Roman, and Napoleon the Corsican, accom« plished the subjugation or destruction of the kingdoms through which they passed with rapidity, Uke some great conflagration, or prairie fire, carrying all before it ; they gained victory after victory m quick succession. This could not be expected of the kingdom which was eventually to become the fifth Empire, symboUzed at its rise by a " little stone." A considerable period must transpire in order that the kingdom of the stone might have sufficient time to grow; and as it grew and its population increased, that each suc- cessive blow on "the feet of the image" might become more effective or heavier than the previous ones. This is exactly the way in which Britain has succeeded in eventually accomplishing a task which at first seems impossible. Her population mcreased at a much greater ratio than that of France and Spain. In fact, the rate of increase has been more than twofold, as has been proved by the most careful computation, until, at the present time, the Anglo-Saxon race are more numerous than any of the European peoples. There is another consideration, and that is, Britain being no part of the image — the kingdom of the stone being represented both in the dream and in its interpretation as totally different in character to the other Empires — so different, indeed, are we, that our mode of pro- ceeding has been entirely original ; the other Empires grew by the victors taking possession of the kingdoms which they subjugated, and adding them to their own. On the other hand, our work has been merely to consume them, or weaken them. We are as distinct and separate as a Nation to Jay as we were when we struck the first blow, not having retained possession of the countries which formed part of the image. So long as the work has been brought to a suc- cessful termination, the long period which has been taken up is of no consequence whatever. There was no hurry ! The result will more than compensate for the time expended in bringing it about. The GiiowTH op the Little Stone that Smote the Image. But what is of more importance, as a further and still more con- vincing proof that our Nation is the " little stone " that wag I\ i; I I i ii predestined to smite the image on the feet and cause its destrnction, the growth of the British Empire has kept pace with the " smiting of the image," thus fulfilling that part of the prophecy which declares " the stone that smote the image * should ' become a great mountain and fill the whole earth." Our Empire has been growing ever since we struck the first blow, and is growing now ; and although (as I have shown) we have not taken possession of the countries which formed the image, we have received ample com- pnsation by wresting from them the rich colonies in which they had planted their flag, but which could not remain in their possession because of God's promises to Israel. Our very first colony was taken from Spain shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the acquisition of many of the other possessions resulted from our victories over France and Spain. Several others, as you will see by referring to the record of our victories — already given — ^were taken from the Dutch, and Heligoland from the Swedes. The last two additions to our Empire have been obtained without striking a single blow — they have been given to us by the people themselves in order that they might be secured from the attacks of their enemies, and flourish under the guardian wing and paternal government of Great Britain. I allnde to the Fiji Islands and the Transvaal, the latter of which forms a colony much larger than the vhole of France. Philo-Israel (Mr. Bird, of Bristol) sums up our colonies as follows: — The Dominion of Canada, the six States of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the South African States the West African Settlements, the Fiji Islands. Britisli India, with its sixteen distinct Nations, constitutes an Empire attached to the crown of Britain. The United States of America ftre of Great Britain, though now independent. Truly the " little stone " has become a " great monntain and is filling the earth." The whole time occupied in smiting the image is just 227 years, dating from the first effective blow — that is, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588— to the last decisive blow at Waterloo in 1815. Will the Roman Empire be Bestobed? Having shown that the fourth, or Roman, Empire no longer exists, and the image is destroyed, it seems anomalous, and even ridicnlous, to ask the question, " Will the Roman Empire ever be restored ? " Nevertheless, ridiculous as it may seem, it is absolutely necessary to entertain the question, for it is generally known that gigantic efforts are being made to demonstrate to the public that this impossible thing is to happen. Amongst the rest, the Rev. M. Baxter, the editor of the Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times, is going about the country propagating his views of prophecy, and asserting in the most positive manner that the Roman Empire will be restored. Now, whilst I commend his zeal and give him and others full credit for the honesty of their intentions, I deeply deplore their want of disQeroment and the perfectly illogical and untenable statements M t7 which they make, and which are only calculated to mislead us as to the real facts. What are the facts ? Is there any word or sentence in either the dream or its interpretation to warrant the conclusion that the Roman Empire will be restored ? I unhesitatingly affirm that there is not. Quite the contrary. If you will turn to verse 36 of this chapter (Dan. ii.), you will find these words : " Then was tht iron, the clay, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together "— and what follows ? — " and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that noplace wa» found for them." I have shown that the image was to be so thoroughly beaten and ground — that it was to become like some impalpable powder — ^light as chaff. How can the Roman Empire be restored when the pieces composing it — and the other Empires — are thus represented as oeing blown away like chaff before the wind ? Who shall gather up the scattered dust and re-model and re-mould it ? Suppose they suo- ceeded in gathering the particles (a very great stretch of the imagi- nation), where would they put them when we are plainly told '* no place was found for them ? " I have heard of men " building castles in the air ! " This is precisely what Mr. Baxter is doing when he talks of the restoration of the Roman Empire. Our children have a very expressive nursery rhyme that we used to think a great deal about in our own juvenile days, about " Humpty-Dumpty " and his sad fate, which (slightly altered) will apply with admirable force in the present instance : — There once was an image, majestic and tall, Which clearly foreshadowed four kingdoms in all ; These kingdoms (or Empires) have each had their day (Gold, silver, and brass, and iron, and clay) ; At length there arose a fifth kingdom of stone. Very small at its rise, and almost unknown ; But it came near the image, and fell on his feet, Which from that first moment it failed not to beat ; And as each blow was struck, the little stone grew. Till as large as a mountain it rose to our view ; Still it struck with fresh vigour the image, so tall, On his ponderous feet, and, at length, caused its fall ; Yet, anon, rained its blows on the metals and clay. Till it ground them to dust, which the wind blew away. Not all the king's horses, nor all the king's men. Could put that great image together again. Of course, vhe conjectural anticipations and fantastic ideas of the editor of the Christian Herald concerning Britain's loss of India and Ireland, and of the restored Napoleon, and other like fancies vanish into thin air when the stubborn logic of facts — the facts of history — are placed side by side with prophecy. The Grand Future Destiny op the Stone. The next point for our consideration is the grand future destinj of the " stone that smote the image ; " you will find it recorded in 4. I . M \i m ilio last clause of the 35th verse : " And tho stone that emote the iiiiiigc became a grcnt mountain, and filled the whole earth." I have already shown that we — the " fifth Empire " — have been growing in the past two centuries : and have we not the assurance given in the infallible "Word of prophecy that we shall continue to grow ? Our rulers have frequently been alarmed at our rapid growth and increasing responsibilities ; and our legislators have pasard resolu- tions and transmitted them to the governors of the Indian Empire and elsewhere not to increase our territorial possessions. Nay, the Marquis Wellesley, and other successive Governor-Generals of India were sent out " with the most solemn injunctions not to engage, if possible, in hostilities with any native Power ; and not to add by conquest a single acre to our territory." Yet each successive governor was compelled, " by current circumstances, to act in direct opposition to their own intentions, and the strict injunctions they had received." We did not want the Fiji Islands. We endeavoured to avoid the responsibility of annexing the Transvaal. It was the decree of the Almighty, and He made it impossible for ns to disobey without either endangering the colonies we already possessed, or in other instances leaving those who expressly supplicated us to rule over them a prey to anarchy and misgovernment. We have never done wrong in accepting rule where it was offered, but we have done wrong — as in the case of Tihiti — in refusing to plant our flag when requested so to do. I have wept as a child when I read of the sufferings of Queen Pomare and her people by the action of the French, arising from our refusal to take them under our protecting wing. Y/hat have we to fear ? Our destiny is to grow, and grow we must ! Why should we shrink from doing that which God has plainly decreed ? Count Beust has said that we are the only European Power which has not been conquered during the present century. We could go further back than that — even to the reign of William the Conqueror. And we u.a absolutely unconquerable, for our Empire cannot be succeeded by any other Empire to the end of time. It is a glorious destiny — or rather heritage — described in verse 44 : " The God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and it shall stand for ever." What about Israel? The question naturally arises, if our kingdom is to " stand for ever," what about Israel ? Are the promises of God to Israel to become null and void ? God forbid ! for Scripture expressly declares that Israel is to become the last great Empire — the Gentiles are to come to the brightness of her rising ! The law by which the Nations are to be governed is to go forth from Jerusalem ! How is this ? There cannot be two last great Empires both of which, taken separately, are to fill the earth. When Britain has become the "great moun- tain " and filled the earth, and is to fill it for ever, what room will there be upon the earth for Israel's Empire ? There is only one solution to this question — only one way to reconcile the apparent 89 irapoBsibility — and that is, hy siinply viewing tlio Im'o peoi)lo ms identical with each other. Daniel anyn : " The kinf,'(l()in sliiill not lio left to other people." If this is so, and it bo verily true that God will fulfil every jot (i.e., every letter) and every tittle {i.e., every comer or part of a letter), there is no other alternative — the inevit- able conculsion is, that Britain and Israel are synonymous terras. More about the Stonk. There is a passage in Gen. xlix. 24 in which these remarkable words occur, " From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel." I cannot help thinking that it is this very stone of Israel which I have been describing. The blessing was bestowed upon Joseph by his father, and from Joseph was extended to his younger son Ephraim, and the name Ephraim is synonymous with " All Israel," or tht; " House of Israel." I am more confirmed in this view by noting that Philo-Israel has discovered the following rendering from Calmefs dictionary: " Hence he became the shepherd to govern the family of hia father; he became the rock to protect and establish Israel." This has been literally fulfilled, I think, in Britain ; for if tho British and Ephraim, or the House of Isi'ael, are identical, we aio Israel in Britain — the Lost House of Israel — whom God says shall be found a righteous Nation (therefore a Christian Nation), speaking another language and called by another name. ADDiTiojfAL Evidence that Britain and Israel are Identical. We obtain no light about the fifth Empire from the works of Josephus, for the simple reason that, had he dared to foretell the destruction of the Roman Empire — then in the height of its glory — he would have given deep offence to those ^vho had dominion over the whole of the known world, and might even nave suffered death as the penalty for so doing. But we are not left altogether in tho dark on this point by ancient writers, for a Jewish Rabbi, Jonathan Ben Uzziel by name, speaking of the fifth Empire, says:— For the kingdom of Babylon shall not continue nor exercise dominion over Israel, the kings of Media shall be slain and the strong men of Greece shall not prosper, the Romans shall be blotted out, nor collect tribute from Jerusalem. Therefore, becnuse of the sign and redemption which thou shalt accomplish for thy Christ, and for the remnant of thy people, they who remain shall praise thee. I think this fairly connects us with Israel, and, taken together with the facts I have already advanced, is satisfactoiy proof that Israel and Britain are identical, and it is necessary also for the reader to re- member that Lost Israel must be found in the Islands of the Went and of the North; nothing is plainer to the careful student of God's Holy Word than this, and Sharon Turner — who is an acknowledged authority on the subject — proves that the Anglo-Saxon race came from the very localities where the Ten Tribes were located during the first few centuries of their captivity. If you take the blessing of Balaam upon Israel, and place it side M by Bide with the opinions of Diipin regarding the Empire of Britain — which 1 have ah-eady quoted — you will fiud a startling similarity between the two. Both these men were foreigners — the enemies of onr countries (or country), and would rather have had to witness otherwise. I will now gi;e you the words of Balaam, as I have already done those of Count Dupin, and 1 think you cannot fail to see the wonder- ful resemblance between the prospective description of the one, and the retrospective history by tne other. Josepnus says— speaking of Balaam— Then he said : — Happy is this people on whom God bestows the possossion of innu- merable good things, and grants them His own providence to bo their assistant and their guide : so that there is not any Nation among mankind but you will be dtomed superior to them in virtue, and in the earnest pi'osecution of the test rules of life and of such as are pure from wickedness, and will leave those rules to your excellent children, and out of the regard that God bears to you, and the provision of such things for you as may render you happier than any other people under the sun ; you shall retain the land to which He hath sent you, and it shall ever be under the command of your children ; and both all the earth, as well as the sea, shall be filled with your glory, and you shall be sufficiently numerous to supply the world in general, and every region of it in particular, with your stock. However, blessed army I wonder that you have become so many from one father ; and truly the land of Canaan can now hold you, as being yet comparatively few ; but know ye that the whole wobld is proposed TO BE THE PLACE OF YOUR HABITATION FOB EVER. The multitude of your posterity also shall live as well on the islands as on the continent, and that more in number than the stars of heaven. And when you have become so many, God will not relinquish the care of you, but will afford you an abundance of good things in times of peace, with victory and dominion in times of war. May the children of your enemies have an inclination to fight against you, and may they be so hardy as to come to atuis, for they will not return with victory, nor will their return be agreeable to their children and their wives. To so great a degree of valour will you be raised by the providence of God, who is able to diminish the affluence of some and to supply the wants of others. The Spieitual Aspect op the Fifth Empire not Revealed TO Nbbuchadnbzzae, but to Daniel. It is evident, from what has been already advanced, that God did not reveal to Nebuchadnezzar whaL would be the spiritual nature of the fifth and last Empire. He was too gross and sensual; so wicked that every reader of the Bible knows that his punishment was to be driven out from the society of rational beings, amongst the beasts of the field, and Me are told that his nails became like birds' claws, and the hair of his head like eagles' feathers. It would have been " casting pearls before swine " to speak of " spiritual things " to Nebuchadnezzar. But, on the other hand, it is reasonable to suppose that God would reveal to a man of sterling worth and devoted piety, like Daniel, whom the angel addressed thus, "0 Daniel, a man greatly beloved," the more secret and spiritual purposes of the Almighty; therefore, it is not surprising to find that Daniel also had 41 a dream concerning the same Empires, bnt nnder a totally different aspect. The dream of Nebuchadnezzar had to do with the temporal view, and the temporal view only, but the dream of Daniel had to do with the spiritual or religious element of these Empires mainly. It only touches the temporal in a subordinate degree — that is, only just sufficiently to indicate the Empires spoken of. Any earnest Christian, who will take the trouble calmly to read both the dreams, will be convinced that this is no fancied description, and he will acknowledge that the distinction I have drawn is Btrikingily clear and true. Conquest does not hake an Imuediate Ohanob in the Religion op a People. The religion of a people remains unchanged — for a great length of time— by the rise and fall of Empires. Conquest does not alter men's convictions in any way with regard to morals, politics, or religion. We found this to our cost in India, when, contrary to the religious prejudices of the people, we tried to force the Sepoys to bite the " greased cartridges " for the Enfield rifles. They were so tenacious of their inbred convictions that they mutinied, and the fearful massacre of Cawnpore and other atrocities were the result. If any change does take place in the moral, political, and religious convictions of conquered races, it mnst be of very gradual growth — it must re in the remote fntnre, and not immediate. Thus we find, after a lapse of two thousand six hundred years since the time of Nebuchadnezzar, the result of the succession of Empires is the production of a religion which is rightly named Babylon — not mystical Babylon — ^but Babylon simply and truly, because its errors are the natural growth or outcome of all the beliefs of the successive Empires, Thus we find Christianity mixed up with the erroneous doctrines, the blind notions, and the heathenish teachings of all the Empires— symbolized by the image— all Bommed up in one in Papal Rome, rightly called Babylon. Speaking of Rome, I am reminded that human infallibility is nothing more than a corpse in one of the chambers of the Vatican. The Pope is dead, and all the infallibility he possessed — if he had any— must have left the earth with his spirit. There is not at the present moment a man on the face of the earth who claims infalli" bility. But Babylon is so corrupt that if we could gain access to the Conclaves of the Cardinals in the Vatican, we should witness this band of men — fallible like ourselves — squabbling and, perhaps, quarrelling, over the vacant chair, each of them ambitious to obtain a seat thereon and become infallible; not one of them having the remotest idea how fast the day of doom is approaching, when the fearful words will be heard: "Babylon is fallen, is fallen r' The Seal of Christ on the Fifth Empire and its People. Let us now consider what Daniel has to tell us about this fifth Empire (Dan. vii. 13, 14): — " I saw in the night visions, and behold, one lib3 the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came u 19 to the ancient of days, and thoy bionglit him near before ITii.i. And there was given liim dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages shonld serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." It is c^uite certain that the "Son of Man," here spoken of aa "coming m the clouds of heaven," can he no other than Jesus Christ, and that He comes to the "ancient of days." How some of the expositors of Scriuture can have been so foolish as to tell us that the "ancient of days means Jesus Christ, I have not the remotest idea. I do know this, that Jesus Christ could not come to Himself, and give the kingdom to Himself, any more than you or I could come to ourselves and give ourselves something. The very idea of such a thing is ludicrous in the extreme. Let ns read the 18th verse according to this mode of teaching, and see the effect. If the " Son of Man " and " the ancient of days " both and separately mean Jesus Christ, the verse would read thus: "And behola Jesus Christ . . . came to Jesus Christ .... and they brought Jesus Christ before Jesus Christ." Speaking for myself, I cannot sit down and rest satiefied with such unqualified nonsense as this, and therefore, taking the words " Son of Man " to mean Jesus Christ, I must try, by the analogy of Scripture, to find out who or what the " ancient of days " really is. With the aid of my good friend, Cruden, I am not long in finding that the " ancient of days " really means God's people Israel. See Isa. xxiv. 23: "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the snu ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before His ancients gloriously." By God's " ancients " in this verse Israel is plainly intended, and as a further proof, out of the many that might be given, I will refer you to Isa. xliv. 6, 7: " Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and His Redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last ; and beside Me there is no God. And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people?" We will now take the "ancient of days" to mean God's ancient people Israel, and see how the verse reads: " And I saw in the night vision, and behold Jesus Christ came with the clouds of heaven, and came to His ancient people Israel, and they brought Israel before Jesus Christ, and tnere was given to Israel dominion," &c. If yon will take the whole of the seventh chapter, and read it for yourselves, you will find that the kingdom — that is, the temporal power — is to be given tv the " people of the saints of the Most High God." Surely this rausi mean God's people Israel, whom He deigns to call His "inheritance," His "elect," His "chosen," His "people." This view of the giving of the kingdom to Israel is in full accord with our Saviour's declaration, " My kingdom is not of this world;" it is also in accord with the decree of God to our first parents, that man should have temporal power and dominion; and it will also 48 florvo oa a "boncon li,n:ht" to prevent us falling Into Iho Bamc error thiit our Iirclhron oV ilio " IIouho of .Tndiih " fell into when thoy rcjoctoii tlio iMcsBiiili hccauao No did not come hh u temporal kinj». No d()nl)t, Christ, at His cominp, will ho crowned hy the lovo, the service, and tlio liomaRC of His people. All the people will be righteous, and under the direct influence of the Holy Spirit, nnd the temporal power will bo so subservient to the heavenly influence that it cannot fail to meet with the approval of the " Kinj? of kings and Lord of lords, the only Ruler ol princes, by whom kings rule and princes decree justice. I have shown that the drcnm of King Nebuchadnezzar denoted the temporal aspect of the succoFsivc Empires solely; there is not a single word either in the dream itself, or in its interpretation, concern- ing the spiritual or religious aspect of these kingdoms. What is really shown is, that the first kingdom would bo very extensive, and glorious, and strong; that the second kingdom would bo inferior to the first ; that the third kingdom would be more powerful than tho two which preceded it; and that the fourth kingdom would bo the strongest ot all. It also clearly shows the fifth kingdom, or Empire, would be very small and insignificant at first, but would grow until it filled the earth ; and, though it would utterly consume all nations, no power would arise to destroy it, but, on the contrary, it would stand for ever. With regard to the fulfilment of tho prophecy, I have endorsed what has been written by others respecting the first three Empires, and also with respect to the fourth Empire in its primary and united condition. My first point of divergence is where the Roman Empire became deteriorated, and was split up into ten kingdoms. I have shown why Britain ought not, and never should have been included in the number of the ten kingdoms, in.ismuch as our country was not subjugated. I have therefore withdrawn Britain, and substi- tuted Portugal, as she was certainly completely conquered by the Romans, and afterwards became as independent as any of the others. By removing Britain, we escape the anomaly of having; eleven king- doms, instead of ten., and avoid the absurdity of making the image the possessor of eleven toes. As to the fifth Empire, I have shown that it was God's design, in the reign of all these kings connected with the four Empires, to set up .1 kingdom that should endure to the end of time. That the fifth Empire, as revealed to Nebuchadnezzar, was to be, and is, a tempoial kingdom, and not the ** Church of God," or the " kingdom of Christ," in an abstracted sense, and applying to all Christians, whether Jew or Gentile. I have also expressed my deep conviction that when Christ comes it will be the " King of kings " and the " Lord of lords," not to destroy Empires, but to reign. I have also clearly demonstrated that Britain is the stone cut out of the mountain which has fallen upon the feet of the image, and by repeated blows on the feet alone the Roman Empire is broken in pieces. During the 230 years in which we have been, engaged iu w " 44 smiting the feet of the image, our Empire has been increasing in size and importance until it haa become the most glorious and exten- sive Empire that ever existed from the creation of the world until now. I have illustrated the fulfilment of this prophecy by the simple facts of history — the history of the four Empires and the accurate record of our victories over the Powers of Europe — arranged in chronological order. These are amply sufficient, without any com- ment of mine, to prove the fulfilment of the prophecy down to our own times has been as literal as the fall of Nineveh, the destruction of Jerusalem, the prophecies regarding the Messiah, and all other accomplished prophecy. I have further shown the utter impossibility of the restoration of the Roman Empire, or that our Empire will go to other people; and as Israel is to be the last Empire, and there cannot be two last Empires, both filling the earth, therefore, as we are found to be the fifth Empire, and the proofs from history show that we come from the very place of Israel's captivity, it is reasonable for us to acknow- ledge that we are Israel — Israel in Britain. Taking the proofs that we are the final and enduring kingdom— or Empir©— which I have furnished, I hold that they are far more convincing that we are the fifth and last Empire than any of the special characteristics of the four previous Empires. Added to this, I have shown that Jesus Christ — the Redeemer of Israel at some not far distant time — will set His seal upon this Empire as Israel, and confirm the kingdom to us for ever. Of our Empire, in comparison with other Nations, it haa been truly said : « The Nations not so blest as thee May in their turn to tyrants fall, But thou shalt flourish great and freo^ The pride and envy of them all. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to hurl thee down Will but arouse thy gen'rous flame, Will work their woe— but thy renown. To thee belongs the rural reign, Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore encircle thine I " But the time will come when the Nations will no longer envy but love us, and gladly pour their riches into our lap, for we shall free them from oppression and tyranny when they come under our gentle sway in the day when God shall make Jerusalem a praise in the whole earth, and the laws to govern the Nations shall emanate from Jerusalem, the city of the Great King. -15 SONG OP PRAISE FOR ISRAEL'S NEW GATE—THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.* I Britoks, awake I from your slumber arise I Surely God's wonders should open your eyes I See, ye whose hopes on His promises wait, Qod onto Israel hath added a gate t Sound, sound the timbrel in Cyprus' Fair Isle t Glory to God who on Israel dotb smile I Proudly the Lion of Thine Israel doth rest Couchant o'er Syria, for ages oppress'd ; "Kings of the East," God hath opened your way, Canaan, bright Canaan, is under our sway. Sotmd, sound the timbrel in Cyprus' Fair Isle ! Glory to God who on Israel doth smile t Russia, beware ! though the Lion is still, Dare not to rouse him his task to fulfil ! Ha who contendeth with Israel shall fail, Israel must conquer though hosts should assail I Sound, sound the timbrel in Cyprus' Fair IsIk < Glory to God who on Israel doth smile I Glory to God ! for He hath ordained peace I Glory to God ! for His love will ne'er cease ! Glory to God I who our cause will maintain i Glory to God ! He'll restore us again t Sound, sound the timbrel in Cyprus* Fair Isle ! Glory to God who on Israel doth smile I Britons, awake I for throughout the wide world, Soon shall the standard of old be unfurl'd ; Judah with Israel united shall be, As one grand nation God's glory will see. Sound, sound the timbrel in Cyprus' Fair Isle 1 Glory to God who on Israel doth smile i Glory, thrice glory, unto God let us sing f Glory, thrice glory, to Israel's Great King f "No one good thing He has promised can fail," God swears it ! Who doubts it I Who dares assail ? Sound, sound the timbrel in Cyprus' Fair Isle t Glory to God who on Israel doth smile I Leeds, July 10th, 1878. John Gilder Shaw. The word Cyprus slgnlflca fair or fairnen- !>t 46 lis (Si^vma, xft SortQ ot ^vmez fox ierael'a ^eto Sate. Words by John Gildbr Shaw, Leeds, Music ly George Stbll, Shipley. i w 3 jKIiE R5z: ^ Idrzzi. li IE i 9 3! nz .0 tU w^-r- P=P g^g^ _a_ i ^^^^m Sn - tons a - wake, from your slum - bers a - me I J. J. A ^ J. J. J. J J. ^ Of m ^ '^^^^- i-^k m 2=p: Z2: i :^: ^Cl^. TSL i ^^ i -le- =«? ei Sure - ly Cod's won - ders should o ■ pen your eyes 1 J. 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