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President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — It is with very high satisfaction I find myself in tliis place this evening ; for I desire to thank God for every opportunity of bearing my humble testimony against the Mystery of Iniquity, and arousing my friends and brethren to a sense of their dangers and duties. And I have to thank you for tho honour you have done mo in so arranging as that I should deliver the preliminary lecture to the Protestant Alliance of this Province ;— a compliment to which I could have laid little claim, save on the ground of being one of the warmest and most anxious friends of Protestantism. I beg to congra- tulate you. Ladies and Gentlemen, most sincerely on the nob? way in which this Alliance has acquitted itself ever since its formation ; and on the success which has hitlierto attended all the action it has taken agai.ist its enemies. I earnestly trust that the example which the inhabitants of this City have set, in the way of organizing and working such an institution, may soon be followed by the Protestants of all tho other Colonial Cities of British North America, so that in St. John, New Brunswick ; Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island ; Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, and Hamilton, in Canada, we shall find a Protestant Alliance as manifestly in existence and activity as either tho bench of Justices, or the regular Municipal authorities. "■■n. 1.0 ha, teen J "!' 1'"' '" """'"'K ""•"« »' pr,.,™ , tak of L. givin. ™?„ :";"","'■" """•■'■ ™ "'« i'i™-»s Ac char, of tim„,Is3r, r ""; "'"" ""'^''^ '» ^'^ ™ "oti«g what i. i,^ Xr,n2: 7, "'"'"'■ ""' """"^' "«•»■■ The. oo«,,, it " :„ " t"™'"'''^' •'""•"■"' '«e each of „1 ^oi™* J « oL"" ""^ *'" "'^ »"™- .io'tf th?;w::rR:t:i'"'' '" r °^^ "■» ^°-™«- driven o.,. of i 1 Meail *'"''"•■> ■■" '"«"«- " ■"«i.t bea,„„„e„t .0 tz; rvr''"''^'''^''' Constantino's day, had l«rd«l 7 n ' ^'"«°"' •'"f'™ ^P ...0 Pa,iy to be ?, tl*r:f^;;f.t"»''^'!'- "« ■™»ed Tlie riso of the iufluenee 7T t ^'"""»""y '" i'-' stead, "ttributod. First, .o",e„,tl t '' "' ""™ '« "^ >» f-1 infenW to t„« T'S "S °'C™7*«- '» «ircurastance that R„n,e hnd ,. ,l . , """'"'"j'. to the fan «side„t in i, ,„ hW h' ,L "^ /'' ''" »" ^"- "■» 1-..-0 of i„ a„d,i,i„r:i,'°;:''™-"f l'--H„,,e. ™""""'"- I'rohilo ; and, Th ifdlv, to the eu'- v... •stantiwn may we/i enemy i,s perhaps : faros at proserif, <^ file Kvy of tho lio free has heen ing Uj) .shoots all Ijiit lively, c brought in at ■r on the i)leasiii(v rif^e of Poi'tKi^ respect to it, on 'early the .Scrip. •7*. and thinlly, akably dreadful will also stimu- er tho destruc- > be traced to 'le this period ho had been t down upon iuthority, that '■agon, before ?li the influ- ed, he raiised in its stead, ne is to be try clergy to "IJy. to the ')() ; the year, counting from which, the celebrated Koiikkt Flkmino determined (more than (»ne hundred and fifty years ago) that a blow would fall upon Papacy in the year 184S which would exceedingly weaken its influence and lead to its ultimate destruction. You will perceive that the period of twelve hundred and sixty years is that whic'.i the Scriptures allot to the beast as the time of his {wwer, and there are just twelve hundred and sixty years, reckoning the year a period of SGO days instead of 30;"), as the prophecies warrant us to do, between the years GOO and 1848. The reckoning by Pro- phetical instead of Julian years makes tho time appear shorter l)y eighteen years that it otherwise would. Had the Scriptures warranted us to count by ni' .ns of Julian instead of Pro- idietical years, tho events of i?5t8 would have been deferretl till [the year 1800. But, my friends, although there is no doubt of tho fact that the Bishop of Rome became Primus inter pares in 600, ho did not liecome a temporal King till 7.')8, when Charlemagne's father, l»epin, who had rebelled against the reign of France and supplanted him, (ami whom tho Pope iiad favored), made him King of Homo. To tho dominion of Rome and tho adjoining dukedom given to him by his father, Charlemagne afterwards added that of Lom- bardy and the Exarchate of Ravenna ; and in as much as it is plainly told us in Daniel's prophecy that the little horn before ^'IlKWI t(in>f> L-iiiir>. »MI / I • 1 "V"",' """' ''..: l;;r"T"; •-' '■'•■■""•-' "V' ■•'--i>";. I ,:;;:;. '"- ''^ <''"iiito.| fmi„ flK. von- --.K .' "•'^'.^ >''»«•>* wen. j„ ^ »'i ";.t iH. ..ally takon awav f.;r,.i ,•,'';; ''"'^ '^'^•"• '•^* ^-tl. the glories of the ll, "'" " '""'"' ^" ^'"'' *'.V' ^'"-"^'1, in on-tai,, of it. ,H.i;^ ; '""'" ^""""^ ^-^^ '^•••e.. ^t.p. .0 certain of H.e,C^:::^';^- '77' -iH^ «".^|H3C.ally those of the IJev elafi ,, "'' V^"''^''' '^^"ks. ,„„l without a knowh.1^ of otho. . T ^' ^"""P'-'^^lH.n.le.i ti'e books which K^hl tn i'r '^- .' "^' '••"''^'-^' -- --gn.ng to the f„,fi,.„,„, ,, ^^^ J"^^"^ - fi-' I'i." because we are not wiser than ,/ '™" ' ""^1 '^ iV just proter of the Pro,Jy2ZJr ''"" "' "^ ^"'-- than Fleming, that J K , > T'" ^•^■" ^'"-'^ "">re skilful Andi«itnot i„,,oe,l Tvov • "'"■/•''"'""J'^t'ieal figures. tion which point, to th ;: :;';:t "^, 'z' f '" '"'^^ ^'"'^•"'"•• Perio,! of the destn.otion of' the > "? *'''''^ ^'^'"•' "^^ ^^^^ "^^A">"ing to rount th e t "I'lve inuiclred and t; lui.-t'n sixty W(l(. ,s(|CccC'(lf(( ((/ "iiiioiiN niirl f|,f,,^. '"">* x|,|ui,i,s . •« I'o|>o's jtfiwcr tilt" year L'( )()(», 'fl' t>f liis iiioiitl) hat Daniel wn.H tJ«' ni('aiiin,r „f fa IN of JsracIV "• |«'i>niis who 1^ "oino; iHHik.s. v<'lafi..ii «»t* St. voal f(. t|„, ,.y,. •'t' the fiifiin? aiinot bo Ncoii 'W»l f«» it l.y ''1 J»ook.M, ,„„| 'oinprohi'iidci •iiittle.ss, wore •le so undoi-- wc find him rl it is just, of no Inter- more skilful . and osjKJci- ieal fi;>;ures. his ealcula- year, as the haw ari.-en 1 and .sixty yours at til." year Tf.S. M^ si.v ln,n,he(l and nirti/.sixfh yrnr. as he himself mentions, from th<' period wh.'ii John in all likelihood beheld the visions of the ApoialypseV Tin' ninn- ber of th(. IJeast, my friends, we presume* you are awaro is SI J' Jlnndrvil and Slaiy-Slr. We have no time to >n, into details in nr)tie;njr the periods of the outpourino; „f „ll the vials, but to any one who will give duo attention to thi' matter it must be eviih'iit from tlx; very eveiitu wliieh have haj)pened within the memory of the oxistinn; ^^neration. that the Jiflh vial was indeed iM)urod out in 17!);{ or 17!»4 u|H.n the seat of the Heast ; and ran dry in IH4S, the period whieh closes the twelve hundred and sixty years, eountinn; from (IOC. Ib.w feaifully did .\.\|.oij;oN tiik (Irkat disturb Kume the seat of the jiasf, during the first portion of that perio.l ! «nd how low did the glorious revolu- ti..n at Home in 1S4S brin- the fope, when (ten years a-o fmm the date <.f my arrival in this eity) Ik- was olad 'to cxehanrre his triple crown for the lunnble covering of u flunkey's hat. Ladies and CJentlemcn, it is a somewhat singular fact that ten years ago, on Tuesday eight days, we .saw the anniversary of the siege of the Vatican, and on the ..ext day the third Centenaiy of the ascent of gueen Elizabeth to the throne of England. The Itith and 17th of November are allw dies; dies notand;o meliorc lapiUo ;— days to be marked with a white stone. It seems to have been on the 24th of Novend)er, ten years ago, that the dregs of the sixth vial were found by hi.s Holiness to bo particularly bitter. Alas ! that tlio French Kepublio should have disgraced itself by restoring him. t cannot see any explanation of the sueoess of Napoleon the Third on the day of hi.s celebrated coup d' etat, and his suIh seciuent .stability as an Emperor, if not in the circumstance that he was the in.strument by which the Lord, apjiarently in His righteous indionati on, avenged tlio wrongs of the 1{ »e pnl> 8 or l{oi„o, is i„ a ,„a„„c,. f,„.„„ttci, ,l,,rm„ ,!,„ ^ ' vi«i; which, „h,» ,„, «„,,;,, '?;*,'';:';,:=;■''"; OS. Thai 1 • . ■' — ' "^ "Kt'iv to nil) fii L,hrou.l,,„u i ;: ',, r"'',''^'' '' "' '"' •-■•"P'""' Ac .ain.,„f ,■ ,,, an „ , '-iZ'"' 1° T "'""'^' '" "" out of tl.o mouth of the dragon (tl '"'" who gave the heiist hi.s seal and i"i f^pirits like frogs 'i"t is out of the mouth of l>ower and great antl 10- md blotted out iving under the niii jihoiit ten on lioiHunisls, •lio second part the kSfi'iptureM ' the WxiMwy, been runniiio- x^>n Popery cr iltrah's, or the i-oat liabjloii, liming of tliis ' f*»r a imifli lives. That i-ing tin's vial, s^piiod words nth vial was tilings it \fi RAXCK before fierceness of liieh as the is to be left ihe were fbr- he expected peculiar dili- ials, and, if Lii'ing out of 'attle to all ii.'^erjueiitly, ■ tlie Great « like frojrs 3 mouth of I'eat autho- rity,) which is the dovil acting probably througli France, (for it was Pepin and his son Charlemagne that gave the Pope his throne and civil jwwer in Home) three unclean spirits like frogs out of the Uiouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the Beast, that is Rome, and out of the mouth of the false pro- phet, that is the Pope, shall go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them unto the battle of the great day of God Almighty ; — and we think there cannot Itc a doubt that all this signifies, as Flennng shows, that the emissaries sent forth by the Pope and his suppcjrters, to con- vert the nations that had been p ^ "ously Maliomedan, shall be so successful that hk, i. e. the J*ope, rather than the Mis- sionaries of the Protestant Churches, shall succeed with tlie Eastern Kingdoms ; converting them to Popery, making thei Kings the pup[Kjts of Kouie, whom the Pope shall rally around him when, at the close of this vial, he shall go forth to contend against the armies of the Lamb. And has not every thing that has transpired, either abroad or at home, since 1848 declared to us as with trumpet tongue the correctr ness of the interpretation V What are the nations that are preeminently Mahomedan ? Is not Turkey one 'i and did it no'i suffer terribly, both in its soldiery and in its finance, in the late Russian war ? But al)ove all did not its Mahomedanism srffer when a treaty of peace was conchided which established Christianity on an equal footing with it throughout the dominions of the Sultan ? Was not this Treaty as it were the drawing of a mighty sluice, that the waters of the Great River Euphrates might flow to their ebb 't Secondly, — Is not Persia a 3Iahomedan nation, and was not it the very one with which Great Britain entered the lists and eventually iriade an advantageous treaty immediately after the Russian War was ended V And what country can be named, in the third place, as a more 3Iahonie- dan [Kjrtiou of the world than the North of India, that ilLs- 1 10 Mosul, ami wlii,.?, i *"™<"''^ Won"c°' "•■" of „ J, ^ , ';' ™ »«o„ » ,„„-i,ty ,i.i„ fit „T r r 7" ■■'■' ^^*:^"^T-j''"- " "x; «;«vo »,,„,,„;, ™* «... IW, „,„„^^* ^a. Slam bv Hin n- ■'^^st Ijn]i.i f^^ , * "'o «ovt.„^Gt r '■' "°"" "« >^^o Tr»"»l»■■ '"° "« 'WillStfJs to K-«d to the Great '««'gnated tJ,e Bengal ; t''^''> idol 3Jahomefe '^f'»? Has not a ^ /"dia. and almost '^^''\ the Brahmins ^ns Imve at all so 'I' we are told that '^ Armj which was thousand of the omj'any have been ' who knows wJiat «'-f« of India may > emptied? B^,t ^^o;^/^ of India. "y ioavened with 'iridia now open ^i"nk you that will NOW think ' to the natives om mighty dig! s before Indi^^ "their ranks y- ^^K my 'iilst sorrowful '«'Jer that the 'ian successes, It and Woody <^ more open •re been also ^' in part a J a treaty of ministers to 11 have perfect liberty to proclaim their faith Here f hnn h -.evidently another sluice drawn of the miXy ^V "^^^ «ujce whose opening will so drain its waters Ih LTas;7^ will be made over its bed fnr +1,^ j • • - passage wncl, Flcmmg regardcl a, tl,o one i„,lic„w by J„l,„ to 1 b«g,nm„g of the Sued, Vi.|. events have hapLediu" ^ nngk have been e>.peoeed, a„,l p™bably a, Cof h «,ple, ,„ „„ very s„all par. ,1M coLen,pi._™l sir y tbe man who p„««s that wonjerfnl lit.le vo „„,e SZ faeu t,e, enaWing lim .„ „ad will, u„den,.an.li„; " „„ Bne alas my Wends, these signs have as yet been only P^rtmHy »d,eated. Hitherto all seems onlyfavorUe to I £r.thr:hi-c::ftt;^:nt'^^^^^ ntrft" M *° r;; "^ '-»' "■'■■' 'S-^ »I"S i^-" nnrang fathers and tlietr queens her nursing mothers and thcr am„es shall follow her as her ehildren, and sen-Her "s her sp,r,tu,d slaves. And what is .„e» Evident a7 he" age of ho treaties wo have just been noticing. I, 2 twenty thousand Kon.a„ Ca.hr at a y'i '" e'^ Tf Smyrna ? Do not periodieals of all kinds, givin. jSis^lrV «el gence respeeting Turkey, eonour iti Luring "th^ Rome . "«,nsta„.Iye„nstructi„gedificesinoyer,lar^ eity Turkey where she ha. not a footing, ye. and ta Jm to™ m 12 to tnTl ,T "^ *'" ^'^*' ^''^" ^'^^ Sultan is obligo.1 to lend .or h.s soldiers to escort l,er priests and defend then f-m molestafon even at tl>e hands of his own subjer w.en offonng then, sacrifices on the pnUic streets oppC tlh" own palace ; and oven hoisting as their manifesto the blaslh mous inscription " Our God is Mary ! " I Wned fZ! h Missionai^ofthe F.0 Chu.h of thfs Provin" J^ee t the other day «' that the handsomest churches in the citi s o Turkey wen. invariably not Mahomedan hut Roman Catho- lie, and every thing seems to intimate that Turkey is on the very verge of deeming it ,K)Iitic to pnH3laim Po^ t Z dominant persuasbn. And what is Protestantism dS Z inake it pause V Why. we find that while Smyrna is teemin! with not only P.^.Ve orders, but Popish chlpels, here Tf but TH„^ places of Protestant worship theVe or al the Protestant residents from Britain, Holland, Germany, and the United States together. Masse, of priests, nuns a^d sistlr of mercy are to be seen moving about in all directions, b'uh" Protestant Missionaiy is rare as the black swan, and his ^ pie few as the flowers of winter. And how many ChuX thmk you, have we Protestants built in Constantinople where I before remarked the llomanists have scores ? Not a single on., or It must have been built within the last few months Wo hav. not one, although, thank God, we are not altogether without preachers ; .ad hei^ I „i„«t pause to state how highly I and all m St John who saw Mr. Constantinides. the nfti I Gi^ek whom the Presbyterians of this Pn,vince have so wisely sent out to Constantinople, rejoiced to find in him a young man of splendid talents, fine appearance, sterling cour- age, and, what is best of all, true devotion. I need not say how much amazed we were to find him preach in English more hk. a Scotchman than a fo„.ignor. One of my eon^- gation thought that "surely he maun originally hae spoL f eady be her influence ho Sultan is obliged 8t« and defend tlieiu own subjects, when leets opposite to his anifesto the blasphe- I learned from the vince to the Greeks ehes in the cities of at Homan Cat/to- that Turkey is on roclaini Popery its estantism doing to Smyrna is teeming chapels, there are there for all the Germany, and the . nuns and sisters directions, but the iwan, and his peo- ^ many Churches, istantinople where s ? Not a single last few months. »re not altogether ) state how highly inides, the native 'rovince have so to find in him a ce, sterling eour- I need not say reach in English le of my eongi-e- lally hae spoken 1:5 Gaelic;" but the rest did not oven intimate to this extent their want of full appreciation of his eloquence. How strange, my friends, that .vhilst Home is sending her hosts, not of men but of women also, to Turkey, that we Protestants should have but one or two such Missionaries even in Con- stantinople, and not a mother's ,son of them provided with a church to preach in ! But I believe that all this has come to pa.ss that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, — the three unclean spirits must rally the kings against the great day of God Almighty. And now let us look at India and see how Rome there tor* i« watching and improving her opportunity. She has her agents and her orders there already, but will soon be mightily adding to them. Hear how Dr. CuHen addresses his dearly beloved in his last pastoral : " We cannot, dearly beloved, consider the state of darkness and destitution to which the inhabitants of India have been reduced without feeling the greatest pity for their unhappy lot, and thanking the Almighty for the blessings of Christianity which he has so abundantly spread among us. Of the one hundred and eighty millions of human beings who inhabit the vast and splendid regions of the East, subject to the British Crown or under its protection, al)out one hundred and seventy-nine millions are still sitting in the darkness of infidelity and enveloped in the shadows of death. AVhat a vast harvest is waiting for the sickle. What a wide-spread field is open for cultivation." From the Mis- sionary RecoKl for April of this year, we gather that the Boman Catholic staff in India consists already of twenty Bishops or Vicars Apostolic, eight hundred priests, several schools for females condncted by religious ladies, and several convents of nuns : also schools for boys, and some colleges destined to prepare Levites for the service of the altar, and that the Romish inhabitants exceed one million. This, howi ever, Is probably alwve the nmrk. •> u I if liut it Js to Ckina that we look with ti.e «t the present nio.nTnt '"'cIZ"' T? *'" ^''*''* '"**^'-««' almost henneticali;:::,;/ r„;^^^^^^ ver,h.e„was from Eome as it is if ;« „i f ^''^^^' ^"r away -nOer h„. ba:; i l^tt^ '""f'^ «' being b,„„,k^ "lie vigilance of CI,i„!T '",*''""""'• "» «« (oM that lion,.; fna .l,a:u,e';„L" "l™ .'t''' '" l'" *^'"«^^ "^ pretension,, h„d alroadv tanfea,L^ ,'"/,"'' ''" ""«"»' "nd that by teacdirr *" "'"«''«■' "' «'» l™* " "' the root of ,,,0 cSlTT °« ' "' P«"e«a„.i,„ «, ?»n wa. a false c'LLT'liTlX: 1""* """ '^'■■ inycntore of capons of war ™f . ^- '•™"'' "' "'« mending Prance and !„l ' , '°''""''" "' «>>»sia-eom. •lamaged the cause of StLTr"""" "''=™" ""^ «"««y Soeie.J' of the Csh n T,""" "" •'"™""<' M»»nanr 000, a'd sent ^^,"o;t S "1„ rt"' """'^ "* ^^ ^w' *Hren," a„d tbuZ^J! '° *^?"^ "^ % ^i bring up Chine. chil" beiug bulorof this astounding piece of tf ""^ ""= ™'"- ™=g.-ne,vhat.p„dig,wS°f " r""""'''' " ™ ""y them in a few yeare " t 7 . ™ "^'^ "-is will give *e enemy is ^2^ ta^'f^^f '^t '""^ "'™ ''-" 'ia 1804, and have at pre- e greatest interest '1 very lately was >spel. Far away r of being brought year, before the » were told that '>y the Church of mtl his aiTogant favor on the side n of the truth," Chinese religion Western Scholars rotestantism waa i*apists would oeing their reli- priests as the Kussia — coin- remarks to suit it has greatly ytislng is now lile Missionary ist year £40,- uid bring up than 329,338 h faith — that ^e now being 's AND Cate- y the contri- d " we may this will give t men sleep seems only have at pre- 15 sent but 400 Missionaries of both sexes (of whom only one- half are ordained ministers) in all that mighty empire. It might be thouglit that already we had exhausted consi- deration of the events that indicate we are now living under the out-pouring of the sixth vial. But we have not done thus early. For the unclean spiritij like frogs were not only to go forth to the Kings of the Earth, but of the whole world to gather them, &c. — and whilst Popery is busily engaged in fitting out Missionaries for Turkey, India and China, (the great Mahomedan nations) that if possible the drying up of that river may instead of leading to Great Babylon's ruin, be her gain ; she is also keeping a vigilant eye upon all the other nations of the earth, and making her arrangements to meet what she considers to be their spiritual necessities. See first how by concordats with Austria and the King of Wui^ temberg, she is mightily strengthening her hands and multi- plying her hosts in Germany. Germany tliat noble land which in God's good providence was tho cradle of the Refor- mation. See how by her enactment with regard to mixed marriages in Hungary, she is not only laying snares for adding many to her fold, but familiarising men's minds to such confusion (wrought in the name of religion) as may enable them to go on without blushing to more flagrant inter- ference. It is of no use speaking of her doings in France and Spain, for the liberty accorded to the Protestants of the former country is merely nominal, and the latter is altogether sealed against the Gospel. France is the very focus and hot bed of Romish missionary enterprise. She supplies nearly half the number of Popish missionaries whose field is the world. In her are to )je found the greatest number of the contributors to the Society for the Propogation of the Faith ; and in her a new society of a missionary character has been formed within the last few years. But oh I how passing black iij 16 Are Ihoy ashamod to demand for tho truth winl ,, ° . *•' " It surely cannot bo thur are afiaH ■' Tho »l 7 T- ' .ur J^ngdon. aUonld be ap^rent,, going back again tn^g tkren,, tKen. Lt o.^ Sl^-Me t^d tt^f 1( lings, from which to prison for life, ine of transub- ig hoard that a sviiiil had blown ro does Uritain ler toleration of rotostant chapel ik, that the flag for Protestant in the flag that the breeze I" ' of courtesies ? t Konie is not yy arc stupid f thing seems ) Apocalypse. 10 12G0 years of the Kings and alas that again among ! what efforts mpires — and ?ress ? See, schools, and of hosts of them with, she lias got persuading 10, how she 1 of Romish the consci- 'i/ to be our defenders. Is it not well suggested in a Missionary periodical that all this looks very like a scheme to rear, not soldiers for Victoria, but soldiers for the PopoV When we think, Ladies and Gentlemen, how many of our soldiers are Roman Cutholics» and what an access to them and theirs the priests are now to have ; wlicn we consider the miglity influence which the priests words, yea very look, have upon the nund and heart of a votaiy of Rome ; have we not ground to fear, that other nmtinies may yet arise even more to be apprehended than that which has just been crushed ; and all the more terrible to us and ours, that they break out soon in our own streets and at our own doors V ]Jut this is by no means all that Rome is doing in England, —•she has got government to circulate school books, leavened with Romanism, — she is getting Popish Inspectors of schools appointed, — she has Ronmnising historians writing books most likely to be read by the nobility, — as the Book of the Royal families of England and the lives of the Princesses thereof, (which I cannot imagine to be written by a sound hearted Protestant, if by a Protestant at all) — and what a dead set she is making on the nobility otherwise, — well knowing what an influence the nobility have, not with their tenants and under- lings only, but with the votaries of fashion and those who would be thoroughly accomplishe.S Uivy tliciiisolvf.s wouM not like t In Seotlai..! I fiu.l thu liomaiiiHt.s .onsiMor that thcy gainm- a footing more rai.i.l than in any other land at ' ni'o and 8urely this nniKt l)o th thi present ; caw, when, besides finding that T arc getting their priests endorsed as chaj.huns in the army, and thus sotairing them u station tl even to the Presbyterians of the Kstablished VA liat is not granted lureii : wo «Md that even m such a Protestant place as Aberdeen, tl ; present iH a Cathedral risinj; at nitieent kind. whiel icnj 1 Ih to bo of a most niag- ferc In England, we doubt not, tl 10 priests arc busy in every dif- '"•ont trade an.l profession (tho clerical profession not ex- cepted.) Who can doubt this, when tho confessional is now lonnd to bo at work oven in tho church of England? And what . fl,..d of Jesuits is yearly being .sent forth fro.n IJon.e. I W skd ul aro their tactics ! How dangerous their approach ' How evidently is their connng with all dccoivablonosj of un- righteousness in thein that iwrisli ! Hut. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Kings of Euro,)o, who are the Kn.gs of tho Apocaliptic Earth, are not the Kings of .,// f/>e world. The Pope, however, is to aim at gathering the kings 0^ the earth and the whole loorld into a place, called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. This term toachc8 us even in America to fear, that living under tho sixth vial, we are (tho' far removed from the judgments against Mahomedanism) by no incans out of danger at tho hands of Popery. And is not liome sendmg her emissaries even to these Colonies in shoals v And Ks she not practising and prospering wonderfully even w.th Colonial Govemmeufs ? How much pnver has she not already got (considorh.g her votaries are but one-iifth part of the population) in this fertile Colony of Nova Scotia. And .00 too how they aro seeking in tho other Colonies of the iintish Lmpne to drive tholiiblo out of our schools; to have (ilii not like t th.1t they nro 1 at jirt'st'nt ; findiiitr that ih»ii)s ill tlio not granted (-hm-ch ; wc jnlut'ii, tliere a mofit mag- in every rlif- wiun not ex- iional is now anil V And from lionie. ir approach ! !nes8 of uu- [X!, who are gs of all the g the kings ailed in the us even in e are (tho' li.sm) by no And is not in shoals V ifully even las she not ifth part of tia. And lies of the ' ; to have agents in the Post and Telegraph offices; to have their Hishops exalted above the Uishops of the Clunrh of England —and to intimidate pastors who would be faithful and ery aloud. Mark how they pant after separate schools, and charge their people (on pain of cursing) to withdraw their children from connnon schools. See how Jesuitical panoramas under venerable and Protestant names (such as Bunyan's Pilgrims IVogress) are intnKluced to familiarise our I'rotestant chiMren with tho crosses and scarlet dresses of the nation (.f harlots. See how sales of books are sometimes made, whereat cata- logues are distributed, wherein certain books are set down as foreiffu and certain as CathoUc ; from which the simple l)uyer would imagine, that uU the foreif/u are not CnthoUc, as a.n- Hurcdly as that all the Catholic are not foreign, and may therefore be safely purchased. See what trading there is in Orphans, and how each colony is becoming familiarized with the dismal figures in most old fashioned dresses that are an- n«)unced to the world as sisters of juercy, but whose pale faces and famished figures proclaim them more loudly to be sisters (»f misery and despair. See how not degrees only, but even titles of iiobilitg are conferred most liberally on the Priests and Bishops. Yea, even on tho.se that like Jeroboam's priests have been taken froTu the meanest of the jx'ople ; whilst pur- blind niggardly Presbyterian Universities keep their paltry honors beyond the seas, careless howe\'er much by means of them they might elevate the station of their clergy, and thus increase their influence even with the powers that be. But Ladies and Gentlemen— how wearisome is this review ! Let us now in the third place look forward that we may have relief Thanks be to God. the time of Rome is short. In little more time than that in which the ark was building, it will be without a local habitation or a name. Ble.s.scd be God the rider on the white lior^e who was fir.-st seen when the first seal was broken, and who was then behold going forth con- 20 qucrInK ancl to cc.,K,Mor. w'» u,k.„ eho ,K>,„.i,.^ out of tl.o ^^ onth VU.1 U WMl vo.un.in,. an.l that not „lo,.... but fo/lowcUy fho annics .,f hoavon to give I, at tie to tl.o n.any .annorcHl too „t Ann..ga.l.|o„. UK.,..! l,o ti.e Lonl. (Jroat ihihyhu, wi„,.h for upwanl. of a lunulml years 1,„,| .eomcnl to be forgotten. Hhall then cou.o again i„t„ rJn...„,branco before God. t.. give unto i.er the cup of tl.o wino of the tiorcones*, of H.8 wrath-an.l sho who i. the vino of the earth, whoso gra.Kis aro gall, an.l whose. ch..ste,-s «,x. bitter, whoso wino is tho wmo Sodon,. and whose clusters aro those of tJon.orah, « .all bo cust into tho Great wine prc.s.s of the wrath of Ho.! «n.l the wme pre.s« «hall bo trclden without tho city, and .h.ojl shall con.0 out of the wine ,,n,ss. even unto tho horses bndlc.8, by tlie space of a thousand and .ix hundred furlongs." " For sure the Lonl ,v 11 „ot cast ofT Those that His people he, Neither His own Inheritance- Quit and forsake will He ; But judgment unto righteousness Shall yet rt^turn again; And all shall follow after it That are right hearted men." Ternble indeed are the visitations that the Lorf will inflict «lK.n Great «abylon-after tho words tV u do„e s> all bo uttered-death and mourning a,;.l fan.ino shall come «p.„ ),.. tn one day, una she shall be utterly burned vnth l-r^-f^ «h-ong .s the Lord God who .judgeth her. With violence shall she IK3 Unown down, n.oroover. and be found no n,oro at all, even ^ was the stone hke unto a groat millstone which the .ui-vhty . -vel took up and cast into the sea. And oh how great l.o; wu. ,v ^ I aud how lamentable will the wailing be that 'shall c...e. -can^. of her destruction ! IJutwbot .aith the Spirit out of tho 1 alone, but » tlio inaiiy liord, (jlroat lad woniiid unco ht'foro ioa'cneuM of i<)s« gra]H3H vino is the (lonioruh, Uh of(Jo70, and that from ♦'"^t date to the year 2000, tho things that are written eon- cormng Great Babylon's destruction will ho fulfilled. Th W.11 connnenco tho n.illenial rest, that period of a thousand yoars dunng which tho saints shall take tho earth and reirn. w Chnst. Wo d<.uht not that this Interpreter ^^ ru h-wo can scarcely think that one. who was «, taught iu Ood s 1 rovidenco as to he able to interpret prophc-v correctly even when .t affected n.atters distant by upwards Jf a ce ,^ da halt fron. h.s date, can fail to be right u,.n tho n,ain' an to In gue,s.ses conccrnnig tho events that are not so far off feocn,g then n,y fncnds that this is tho stato of the nmtter let us now briefly consider what wc arc to do. Ought we to continue sleeping on until Popery shall have taken such a hold of our governn.ent, as that wo shall find ourselves some fine morning perhaps robbed of our liberties, or fileM of our children, or in such fear and terror of ou lives that we shall not dare to s,K,ak but in whispers, nor to put confidence even in the partners of our boson. V Oh no ' e us now awake, for surely we have slept too long already ' let us awake and act as wise men whose eyes are in thei; heads, and not as the fool who walketh in darkness. Let us come out fr<.n an.ong them and be separate-let us diligently aud faithfully make use of our political influence against them. Let us beware of bringing around us .us domestics or governes.os those who may in.til false doctrine into our child- i^ms minds, and for ought we know secretly baptize them. «« l>c very guai-,lcd who we a.s,soclate with at home, and still more whom wc talk to abroad, for the Jesuits now 0») come to the aid of .!,.., " •'" "'"'j' '"">' »"d iH.tween Pn)testantism and Popery and W u! J .t '"'' and anon considering this nntter T ! J^<:«P tl^e-n ever before our .inds i r^ons": 2 ^^1^ most part cularlv annlv tn *],„ , . • * ^^" "** one : .U„ J/lr^llTlrr' ^ Iho wrath of 'a It ° "■"'' "*■ "" "'"° of *e c„p„VL'M;':„:a::i'r,r;:r''""''r'"'" firo and brimstone i,, tho n;^^™ of ,1 , """^ '''"' a.™„Jelh up fo,. ever and ov" . 7 ? , ^ """' """""" amcrs, nnd ^ our child- mix>.sing on •wt into our oiyof Eng. let us take i couipani- front and 3ving that Bxhibitinor — Let us I not only s as 3Icr- h but lot iinierce a rish oven the Bui- !mrch of ipaey. — ih books s. Let ffbrenco em ever Ij keep God as lot this T man on his fine of re into i with md in )rinent St tlay -I hat this exhortation is e«nPf.;^li,r * u who live during tt„ o„,p„ J„': " rstahT^^'K^ "' from tho circumstance th,. ;, '^"''' '" »l>™us, ".0 Kovcl„«„„ of St i' 7"";" ''""''■ C"-"'"- «f -'.Vol, precede, .ho riji'; '^:! !;« f ;' -oh im- givon under tho li^™ Jr™'",^™'"^'"!'}'!™, which is ea«hM, i„„,,^^;;7;J-j."^g^of the vino ef.ho -untenance it, f„ LT tTT. '" T'™ '" ~* "• rf'nll lend it aid ! „„e o ev™, '^ «°vemment that »■«- than it i, ourdutyTd*; or n T °" '"'™* ""^ fmught with peril a, wd 1 1 ? .'^''"''°'' •" » «''»<' «> hemote wo have roc. od To-' In' " •? """I "'™'-' ''' "o'teonsowithusJotu^now!,! '""fl""""; a-d if it hatli i'and ^pamto o„«o ™ "w- "" ™ "" ''°'""°' '""' It i» boeau,o of ourTTdrlt ' '" ™' °°'' "» PlaS»«»- -», that wo icran;: oSr^:^ '■»™»'^ bead again so haughtily • let n. f " *'"^ "^ '*« apathy henceforth di'pl.y^ 'J^ J^, If 3"^ '' ""^ ^^^^ our Province may regain itTr., T. ""'"" ^"*^^« '^"^ yet 0< John did notrth :L;: f^^^^^^^ -^ ^^a^nk lyings of the earth gathered t!Lt 7 ' ^"^^^^^ «'« the Rider on the wS Hn. ^ . ""'^'^ '^' ^«««* ^^en May there not er! fa tok " f""' 'T"^^ ^'^ ^^-fi' ^^^ to Britain also ? Oh t lat ! ^''^ ^*^' ''^ ^™^"^^' ^ "^t desirable might be one th'uhor'r?''""'"" ^« ^PP«^««% to bring round !^Ye as dl .h T"''^ ^^"^^^ ^« P^-^^^^^^ -altation. let it be ours olv T ''^^" '"^"^ ^"^ - J- be done, for ihon.CZnZ\ T\ 7 "^'^ ^ ^'^'^ ^^"* ^hino in Thee. ° '" '''""^^^^'«* '^'J "s still will we trust