at us as Adventists, and post us as fanatics, and have a hundred conclusive reasons why we should not be listened to, even though we have for witness the plain and explicit words of Christ and his apostles. They say we quench the spirit of missions and Christian enterprise; that we de preciate Christianity's power; that we dishonor the Holy Ghost and the virtue of God's truth; that we undermine the faith, betray the Christian cause, dampen people's enjoyment of their religion, cut off all hope from the efforts of men and the progress of things, and play the part of eroakers, religious cowards, and theological imbeciles, too insipid and diseased to be considered right Christians! Their idea is that men of genuine metal must stand fast in the hope of better times, looking and working in Church and State for a grand triumph and glorious millennium in this world yet before the day of judgment. The only trouble they see is, that the old ways of doing things are superannuated and effete. What they call for is simply a new departure. Only let the old churchism be abandoned! Let the laymen have a chance! Let the women preach! Open prayer-meetings in the theatres! Give the helm to men of 'snap' in place of consecrated drones! Cast off creeds, and isms, and sacraments! Let there be liberty, equality, fraternity, and all join shoulder to shoulder for one grand conflict with the aliens, shouting the watchwords 'God and Victory,' deaf to everything beside! And they are sure the world, from one end to the other, shall soon ring out the jubilee of gospel triumph and millennial glory! Such is the spirit and such the popular belief and inculcation of those who call themselves advanced Christians. And so it will continue, the spirit of the Jewish zealots re-enacting itself in the great city of Christendom, the blasphemous conceit and apostasy increasing every day till the consummation comes and blots the base fraud from the face of the earth.

"But, although such is the prospect before us, and although it would seem as if we had verily fallen on the times foretold as those in which the great day of judgment is to come, we are not therefore left without hope, or without consolation. There was an elect who escaped the destruction when Jerusalem fell. They felt the tremor which shook the land, but, heeding the words and forewarnings of their Lord, they were safely out of reach when the great crash came. They were told to watch, and wait, and endure, and pray, and not suffer themselves to be turned aside for anything, however specious, till God should give the signal, and thus transport them beyond the scene of the dread disaster; and they obeyed, and they were saved. And so there will be an elect of God, and witnesses for God, and children of his who sigh and who cry for the abominations that are done, and waiting and watching ones, who will not be overlooked or forgotten of Heaven, however despised and contemned on earth, as the last dread catastrophe draws on. Jesus knows them, and how they cry day and night unto him, and will see that they

are not left to perish with the wicked world. They have no lights, no oracles, no guides, but those accessible to all; but they see, and hear, and read them differently. They take their faith from the books, in place of reading their own thoughts and imaginings into those books. They take God at his word, and have no further questionings or hopes. They do not pretend to know everything, but are satisfied that God does, and needs no helping out with man's reasonings or fancies. They are not afraid to read what is 'spoken of by Daniel the prophet,' and, reading, to believe that he means what he says. They are content to accept the divine prophecies as something more than a sternlight, to be seen only when the vessel has gone by; and on those prophecies they are willing to venture their faith and hope respecting all that is to come. They sit loosely in their present habitations, free as possible from all earthly entanglements, that they may be in momentary readiness to answer the signals of their Lord, sure that there is no remedy for this world against the destruction that has been decreed concerning it and all the works that are in it. Other Christs may present themselves, with their new gospels, their fresh oracles, their better hopes, their mighty demonstrations, their' signs, their wonders, their convincing proofs, and what may perfectly satisfy the shallow credulity of those who know better than God and his Christ; but, like Lebanon against the sea, these stand fast on the old foundations, never once moved or shaken by all the turbulence of the dashing waves, calmly waiting till God himself shall signal to them from the skies, and say: 'Come up hither!' And when the wicked perish, they shall see it; see it from the solid fastnesses of their everlasting security with that Jesus whose glorious coming they so anxiously await. And our privilege it is, my brethren and friends, to be among them." We cannot but commend the two volumes to our young brethren as excellent models of the Expository Lecture.

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Revelation Explained. "Breve et punctatim.' "Breve et punctatim." "Et multum in parvo. Et simpliciter. By Rev. J. M. CONNELLY. Houston, Texas: E. H. Cushing. 1876. Pp. 217, 18mo.

The Apocalypse of John has been the subject of commentary from the days of Victorinus, A. D. 303, down to our own times. Some of its expounders have been found in the Church of Rome, but more in the several branches of the Protestant Church. Of these last, Joseph Mede, Campegius, Vitringa, and J. Albert Bengel, were the most famous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the nineteenth century, the names of scholars have not been few who have employed their talents and scholarship

upon the elucidation of this book, so replete with prophetic mysteries. Much of it is easy to understand, and a blessing is pronounced upon him "that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein." But there is much that will always remain veiled, with the covering wrapped by the divine hand around it, till the developments of the future shall reveal it, when the fulfilment will add new testimony to the divine origin of these and other Scriptures.

The author of this little book seems to have followed the views of Newton, Faber, Scott, and Fleming, and believes the opinions he has adopted are right, as indeed they are worthy of thought, and though not claimed as original, should be well pondered. They were doubtless edifying and instructive to those before whom they were delivered. We notice some colloquialisms in style not drawn from the pure "well of English undefiled;" some errors of the type in certain foreign words, which should have been corrected. Whether the praise bestowed on Calvin by Joseph Scaliger, so often quoted, was itself wise, when he says, "Calvinus sapit, quod in Apocalypsin non scripsit," we would not undertake to say. The great Reformer had his hands full of other labors.

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