)RDING to aur seating ofthe Prophet Word, Egy. once powerful. mpi snl afierwarde degraded toa ture Alependent npon other Stats, all be fe great nd powertal mation in Ue Tatter aye In the great eontsts which stand the Antichrist “era 2h will aya insortant pest. No student cn afford to oer Took her prevent late on contrasted with fst. The rent Reypian vie egypt Past and orice in the Soudan will sult Present. in compelling, oth “istoran tnd prophetic student to nota the trad of events in hat Ind. That country, one ‘of the ole dn atlement and civilisation, 1 not the ‘ls nthe worl i tikingly sfutng the ie chat the ruined empire of he yast can never be reall tate? Out of her sate of paralysis she is rapidly ring to propeiy, increased population, and growing treslth and thew ane esents polndes to. pliel inainces. Not ft, the increase of popilation ‘Two hundred yuss ago, under the Aaelabes, the sues had fallen to thes malign. Uader Mebonet| Ali aud his sucess there var some improvement, ‘nd the sno ol of 1815 was nerd toxins, tk which figure itl lw 5 too in 182. Now fice serely visoen yore of Blt ral, the pepe Iuton is about tem millions. ‘That means an ines ff 66 per cent. in sateen years, ora ile more than our per cent. por your! ‘That i «sgnifeant itm. ‘Twormner. ‘Now note its induatrial changes. It nan once the ranty of Europe i not sono, becave oer lade five taken ite place.» Wasa longer beara the wheat thipy of Alenandrin?” Bat if we meas ita ootton, Ste ruin, ite ri an all te prot if in yelding more {han tn the tt yrs of Toeph has naw sotte 1400 ies of salou, or more than Spun, or Portngal, or evn Atracltaagary.enty peat ngo thine as st ‘nly a mile of good wegen voud inal he Land, apd trel and tramportetion bad to he afoot oon me- Jack or eaeliae Zn the last ox yrs nate than @ Mound males of fine roods have been Uy and the son is proceeding mpi material Brosperity Bk what of sla atte politically ? Sys the Naw York Tribune: Typ ia how, and wil nein, «part of the British aupire, and that in euch an empire ae tha greatest ofthe Pharos mover acon dead of pom Seasng- So, a tha potent snd ‘ts Political vital senso, th politi! repasence Position. of Haypt is ally: comparable wrigh its popslows and ts in Aisa). An the fat init Own vindaton, One ‘as nly to ane himslt if thee woald have been any seh growth in population and prosperity and wealth Sil eny ench advance im dation and an anal husitration of jute and developmenL. af Tight gore ‘amen, i Heypt al renined wader native or "ark ih contol orien, had sed under any ater cone tho tan tha of Great Brita, The sone cannes tating ad emphatic nepali ad Stee alc Great rtsn'e mora ile de to Egypt ard the whole Valle ot the Nile? ‘The case of ote question, lst paragraph puts fre us an Tf Bgypt isto pay her pert in theInst days, and we may Took upon the evidenow of present revival a preparations for those event, ow wil Britain be acted? Many veriters on prophecy sm snsiour¢9 finn plac for her in the prophet outline We have never boon able to diseover In the “young Hone of Tush’ so clear am allusion to Britxn at seem to stsfactory to athens. If Tithn os come actively into th acess atthe Inter day, and thi clom Gon ection with ype contin, then it will ben thie rant that abe plays a past in the rest coterts thick ebw the sory of he dispensation. ‘There ie ‘ho gst plea in the onto, ht t maybe tht, | ‘me pases on, the prevent coalition may he dale, fn, Raving been odin thew earlier stagoe of 2 tira, the Ringo of Hyp may bo enable to walk hoe ith pathvay to power which, in the ltr fase, the gent knglom of the South, apoken of in Dar 3, will ocnpy. ‘Uat of the Suture? ‘the doesine of soukimmoraity hoe ansmpsted sod uncomfortable famoe for Protestants For long] ‘he Remish Chr fa tang hat prayers, and ther sovthy cla are unt only desirable, tt imperative, for ‘the wellbeing of the dad Te ravers for tbe. ie common thing to ee upon Dead, the tombstone of «Roman (Ceol, “OF your ehaity pa for the son ot PA certain section of the Anglo Cherch, tending Bamevards, hae alo in- ited spon the doctrine of prayers for the dent. Bat the Chere ofthe Reformation bas repudiated th iden ‘The Kepstory Times paints oat thet Bishop Weldon, in his bosom “The Hap of Tumoral” teaches tha ee right and necosary tht me peay for the deal Whence does he derive this sourince ? “He docs not eat apn elated pasnges” of Sevigtnr, he rss itn the doctrine ofthe comzsnian of suns. Wid tok payer forthe dead he Aoetting of the emnion St ants he thinks, a nothing in. Tee prayer for the dow that crotes and energies tho usteance that the dou are wi he living If we do not pray for them, we donot belor that they ary les have tonmoaon with them, The practi of prayer fr the ed does nol et on aoe psa” of Seip, Jt Ht doce rs bo ang, om the whole cancion of| imnatality there” +1 was not taught by Olt bt the dotrine of the contain of ante as taut by Chris” an feo | Dat dectine owe the pista sympathy of which Inenetaory prayer i he expression betwen th Ting til the dead, Tf he te hers ‘enunciated be sound, hen be-| Tiers in the ‘peewent_ pss don an imaoeta soul mnt Bn Tnsound Basis. ‘TH BIBLE STANDARD, (itaxen, dopt the Homish doctrine of payers for the ‘kad. “Te Bishop Welldan he eps eeam per Testy sound. He starts trom tho roi, “T belove inthe communion of sins” end then apparently en Ales the Catholic potion, whidh "he mitral ‘numing of tit delration Dwing that we ae i com ‘union of prayes wth the mins wheter in eaves, tn purgatory, or on earth, Ho sows clearly that this ‘ramen tampon nets pom fh maton of soe inact, tt hia vw i an Sndienble 1e- sult af, What will ont Prototantrende say? To fur thinking there ie no safe ground short of the re padiation of the popular belief on nan's nature ant tn enti secepanoe of he plain dections of Serpe ture on the matter "There ie no ste thing tanght ors am immortal sal aman thee i, therefore, 1 lugtory, no eoscious interment state, ant, Uhereore, no ocesty for prayers for the den. ‘The controversy regarding the posbity of miaclee is ays with nm, Dnt tr seldom shat we get ange fhing new pom it, The altitude of tho. sceptical esi plop does aot change meh, nor do the setoninge of the defenders Bbilosophp and of Biblical minelee dear from ‘MBeaeLeS, the ok positon However ond the lator may be there is somthing teking in them which prevents that ae eptancc as vali anewers tothe objetions, A racent Jeper by Dr Denison ie notion Yy the Beptory ‘Temas, which weeks o how the bolita the miraculous to hese eaunable at ever, untmbel by sence, an fantivchedby_philwophs. "He argues "that eiense hae nol ye covered the whole beat of nature, in nde to exo mile it anaet euamon philosphy to its ay tthe fact that philosophy has not Towed the miacnlons does not wateant te postulate that tires do not ocwne?” ‘The fet i, that philomphy has not approche hie matter from the wight sds Te soul int of all, Invatgnte the present state of ‘an na fhe world. Tun, ving atked the impor fone which exist in bot, note De mace oF eas, tn coneder so the possible removal af oth cause tht let For ont own pan, we hasitata not to de ‘hve thod if ever the il are 4p be removed which tow afc: hommnity, end enue cfering and sor- oy miracles ast he inteydaced, a} eles of tho ‘leer ae thee which the Stipe declares have felualy eared. Lat it also ie mata tat the mi les of Sipe were wrought wit thi pee ele ject in viemy—an ernest of thy ponere which shall fare for mane Betterment and at clonnsing, {ht yer have bere you the Bible pilosophy of suit tales Movements anongat dhe Jews ar being. watehed toely hy peopheie students. Whatever importanceMaxest, 1899.) ‘hy say have tthe sone of Ataban, the student of Dophacy ee to joie of them i seferene to the "Wont which deals thet ai te inthe “latter dye’ Sing the erveitixion of Chri the name of Jens hit been held i sbbormence or contempt Uy the Talmud The ume of hatred applied 49 Hin ie “Tho Hung 1 Revised Trial, fod the Ohrittns ary called. “servants of the Hung?” Ofte, today, the missionaries amongst the Tews are" met with appotiious epithets Acted agunat the, Christ A signin evant ue occured in Roa, which ahows how a ea investigation, freed fom the passion of proj, wll make ‘uth’ promineat. Pastor Gusland,” Sepern tealnt in asin ofthe work of distributing leew New Testaments, writes tothe Ber. John Wilkins, ‘That «committee of infwatial Jows has unt to a vestigate the evidence ageinot Jesus of Marae, in luc, carey out eveison of He trintThe eal sion to whlch they have come ater an inparial ad lew serting feat think ye? Why, nothing won| ‘or test than Thi, “That the cruisin of Jesus of | Nacareh by fhe Jevieh ope and their valers wae 2 Sui mer of d's intl”? The wa Patas Roding innately aftr the event. May it be that the earnest seckere may tke the next step, and ao Inwnlolge the Crusted One athe sen Lar In the Obrstion World recently appeated «later from 2 "Pastor ander the bending "Am Ansioas En sqiy? Hays that be ie preaching the reasonable tnosge of the therkeod of Go, "bat somchow it oes ot lay held af the mane Ii the ole, even harder, Gow el Tang tee sole saved Vat thous rowde comet uae ot aprenly ve ao power a may Gospel to svn!" io ake what de the oxprince of ib bec ile a similar meemge. ‘The Brporitory Timer fies summary ofthe iter which appeared in r Diy 10. thin, and it ie mtoworthy thatthe espe ce of the writes seems ienteal with that of the ‘ers, ne ofthe Ietens in ply i from the Rev UCP. AteKay, author of Tnmerlality om God Terma td he goes te the oot of the mater when be mys ‘As it eonfeoslly found Uy anne that there is el auch eaaverting power in the dodtine of God's Uaiver ‘al Fotherbond, it ight be well to enquire wheher Tew true” Me. MeKay does not believe that its tron, He bole that *y their faite yo shall now th? applies to datsines ag well at me. The frit ‘tthe dine i diflernce, Toth tha The Tivnsal Fatherbod ie bound 9p with aniversl se ation, Yor if al ave children of Cod, all are par ‘An guetfcient Gospel tiene ofthe Divine nature; thew all mat ve as long THR BIBLE STANDARD, tho Universal Fathor lives, and all aut Live with the Father, forthe hoart rely agaist the teaching that any of them wil live fo ever in hel? I, for fone, belore that sich preching account for meh ff the dry ot” ofthe peat day pulp? ‘The vogavce of certain prophetia writer serve to ‘wing contempt upon the sty of prophesy. OF the there is no mare forefalinstance than i presente inthe weting of Mr- Basler, itr of the Prete Neen With him, apparenty, ‘The Mapoleonic the mane * Naplecn” is thy ‘Ceaje. great Ley to prophey- Has he Sot found nit the namie of fhe Last? Trug,the mame bas. Lo learned Into Grovky and then atin into the dative ewe ; but, no santo, the thing i to ote th when the Rae hat tundrgono ite tranafruaticne the nuuber i thee eloce the FrantePronian wer, the Napaeon thet ‘on the thre of Featce was ccarding o Mr. Baxter, tie ‘Man of Destiny” Till 1899 the young Prince nyerial was th selected coming man. Bie dat in Sten cotpellod« change, no Prine Jerome was then Thomo by Me. Baxter, and stadente were urge to Tepe eys epe i selene, Unto Tomes pars, his brothes, alo eecived sharo of attontion Pines derome died in 1891, ana the Cardinal in 389%, Tut stil the Napoleonic bogey eontinoes But Me sto, the Jannay nto of ha mgasine devon the rmajor part of it pages to the two som of Prince ‘Tvonc aaa nang letters The Pines Vitor ‘al Tauin Napleon. Wi ethor be empuor over the ten Roman ations—ranes, Briain, Spun, Tay, Avira, Groves, Rvp, Soria, Turkey, and Balkan ‘Slater? So far or our twig gue, tie all ouside the Tile. "The moter of Ms Baste onfer Bret ‘ve dlr ture ad hen aue the iia wh fe to play pat ins, And the facty with which the luge ea he totde fon one perso to eather sls the remariable agility of the wetes ; and the fecepavee of te prions they give forth, the 30 few remarkable gully of thi flower here is great sae Eanes at the present tne “The Dress eae oil Auge om, ad aloe eons a if iv-vould ing the death Rll of the nepali 10 ie Tatler hy eompetontobzervers dhl Hoag ie on the (ve of another change from re bliss to inperalian ‘The Osieanist party ay ative Sn puting forwnod thepoiey af he prsent Duke of Oro, a the supporters of the Naeleoni djunty ane not idle, Prine Vstor Nepo Ikon ie an exile, Dut he reenty refuel to Pais, where he oa to hare had interviews vith sveral ‘antest in ‘France. Yroinant generals, Nu stepe wore taken to arrest* 1m, “or? says the Daily Chronile correspondent, AE Dupuy, the Premier, bad season to eller Cat the Smprizonment of the imperial protender—vho expected it ruld have heen the signal for a rine, abd he Je he could rely nether an the plie nor the trope ‘commanded by General Zevtnden Te wer fared that the deth of Present Paare would bring about the Degnning of the ge, but would seem that forthe rent i ie tava of A new theory Ia been started nogtding the cro thy oman rca. Unally 10 1e tight by bolder of the theory af Adanie origin that the ede of the aman onc ie Avi, tM. Seton-Kare, «grat ter, ‘aims that he as acoered the wle of Ran in Somaliland | Inthe heart of AGior Some| ‘voationiats hve eld pbb tht mun exited fon the Ain Continent, nt the aificuty in the trey ma that hitherto no ancient stone implanens had Teer found there, Mr, Seton-Karr lame chat th Aifclly exit no lnger fr he ha foun the very tucla Qt Ain waed—dhe aaall tone axes, atone Innmmers, grinding stones for pulrering reeds die lapel woraprs for drecing hile slo ores fr eeing the akine together with sinew” Surely the cers wll be silenced Uy sc evidence a this 1B ew Eden. 1 will doubtless aceur to smo atabbom scopic to ‘nk, "Suppose the implements have boon dscoverd,| Tow can he shown that they belongel we wil not sy to Adin, Dut to ely man 7” Tt insist that the peril uit be about Demanding tbe “vo Hunted Hrowsond yrs root, ago! Bot why? An Am (ican writer apes ‘When T amived on this const (British Colambis) in 1854, the Tndiane gencrlly made and use. inplements fi edone, sock. at artow and sprr points ive, alas, and “ros nd_ continued. to-make then for years afterearda” Look in any of ‘ote noreune ab the stone Inplements, sed by Che Saore ful South Sen Tolandere but a shor tno sinc, an ‘hen ark tzain how dace the dscoery of thew tone inplenents in Ai prove geet antiquity.“ We no tice? ye a writer, that where the. poop are al ‘kad et three body to dispute it to stone age trast ve bon ke unded hosed year go, but fn olher cau only thisty or forty genre ago"* Pro Aiglons! AIL the apostolic exhortations oni conslatons are so elany connected ith the prospct of the persons] Jetumn of the Lord that whoever contrat this ln ‘heey lakes away the rot ani comic from the strc: tie of apototethelogy.—Van Onsterse, THR FIBLE STANDARD. {otanen, 1859. /m merciless 3conoclast Defending the Bible. al en ure or Dest teachers, Unease the pore jn bart sce Ged. TE good man ie ds ent maa the groans adde macht his anthosty. Great an twhovare et good are not safe Teader ; they may be ry dangerous, Jean Christ mbalion good rot an rentnes in their hight fom. 1 « eat fad an is eniellto eonidenes, Now mach more ‘hse ooh eto listo to Tin who iz God inthe form af mmm—the man Christ Jes’—that we many Tat and Ten $0 live; that we ty let Hix doe tin, fsth, and patience be the lat of our Hives sal een He ent, et ou Hie be rveronty se, ery psengeaph of Christ’ sermon om the Mint it tripchanmars blow om some false Jctine of fle enue, “I any unto yon? the everscureing ‘halenge. Christ stood alone again! the doctors of Tis day. le was ¢ Sheol reformer adv merc less ‘conosco tore into shrels the doctine hich wae preached jm the synagogue No wonder They fated Him and dander Him and prseuted im aad Ailled Him | Me oaled them Hypocrites ind Taders of the ind, wolves in sheey’s thing, Inling and erzing the gates of the Kingiom of Gol site soles, a gonemtion of viper Of sonst Shey rugs goad heir tot, ood crud Hi! Yel Me was areal to state fat He ha not come to Astro the ler and the prophet, It tofu Chem fo neewe and inake plein thelr mening. And Fle vas careful, to, fo ald that not one Jot or title of Its Divine merge could eer perish oF pet mea tht not one ef is Hest conumandiextseauld be ret tide, He fore of the Iundager fra the fee and form of truth ie left not one mick upon it tie Indy. He didnot lay His Hilo yer upon st lp To ote Moves, and David, and Tanink. | Thair Tans He aeped. Alone He loxd against the ee, but all dhe prophets were on Hie ide, and gsi them, Te vasa thoy seformer, bul He was at he samme me Hheoogiasecoverer. He went back to the great crip "The steam hal been polled; $e fet men tack to fhe fountain, ‘Truth bad been put inky chsiae and throst ito m dengoon ; He tore fhe ats eeonder and tote the manele hy the word St Hie power. ‘The work which Fija, and Toi, find Pas, and Lather, and Calvin, and. Wesley aid in thee omparatively narrow sphere, Toros aid wil fYatdd fold more intensty ad canprebensivenes, ie broke the path for them all, and they have su- cold in portion a8 they have folloved in Tis ay. line, Jesus was at once the moat radial and the rot compreiive of fathers. Kis taching was toto The Ge, bu Ht a from eveasting, and thatMaxest, 1896) {evs it competent power, He had vomething ty, fn He said it with a burning earnetnos, with fash ing ee ard cuierwtahed hand—an earnestnes whieh vas spantancons, end which exnaot be emlated—s| (hat He heures ai, Never man spake ike thie man? (Other men quote the mies He mil,“ aay unto No wonder that men Hstood and gave thant, Iisa blesed tng Unt in Jesus Christ Got spe Sy homan ips an in @ bunan tongue. Such spec Ss invented with guazy and pens athorty, a ‘un do well to bot wher God incarnate in the fess ‘fain cyens His mouth, Lt ne take or place with Mary at Is fct, and learn an Utena ab di ‘The Power of the Wore. Heinich Hsing the gest German Jew, ie ald to have sas the depthe of onli nd stccnded he heights of lian eynicim, but ve copy fom « com fomporary jotral the velontary enafesgn he made A the see of his life to isotrate the transforming ower of (rth belived.” He said >— ‘Tn truth it wan neither x ton nor 8 serphic ve elation, nor Tight fom howven, nor any siange roam, ner other ngtery which beonght me into the tray af elation, Tee may imination ently to ind imply to the nding of « book, A Book ? Yer ‘hemalylooking Book, modest ar nature, and as she Dereon whi as a workday a ungscune ing look, lke the aun which warms us; « Book whit ems to lok af ne ax codalty wn Dleagly as te CAL geandnthee who sows daly with oer fey Ting ip, and with spectacles on her moe. -And hie ‘Book i alll shorty, the Bus,—tho Bible. ighily ‘do men cal it the Holy Seipture, Ie wh las lost his God iy fad Him agri $n this Book, and to vende hist who Ie never known God tens forth T'breath. of the Divine Word. Why do the British fain foothold in ao many lande? With them they fring the Tike, that grand democracy wherein enh ian tl not nly he ng in his own howe, nt also shop.” The are demanding —hey are founding the rot power ef the Sint, he power of raligions ene tions, sod the Jove of humanity, of party, of tre Imeralty, which "cannot be taught hy "dogma formulas, tet ly parable, nd by example ch ae ane ontined in tat bunutifl, sare eduction. Book for the young and ol,—the Bible” [Never far to ing the eublinest motive into the smallest duty, and the moet infinite eomfore to the alle teole—Tr "A mun who is child of God snubs walked wil in for some yeas, Keeping step, ought to so got int! his Father galt that he can be told oom oer flke brit ‘learness. AC a man cannel coe cealy wo got tim gases it aman cannot hear ditinely, we have a maltpied varity of phones; if = man cannot wats dvtinetly, sre ive a typersterO, that our ganas would (Boa sop darter ant invent forall of some Bind fan opparit for lear thinking and olan peak fing. There ie plo i which thi sw much nowed ts theology. We are sare my congegtions woud Invest imnestelyin some ach thing for tains it itrvoe eval. Then sm mich mga preehings fo greats the lak of clas, defnito taching. Dr. Muro Giteun tle ofan ol Sovteh minder who was fo deeply wiped up in sbstruse metaplyien! quer ‘lone tat he pool sod to aay tht he was invisible Tor es das of the wee, and ineomprchesible om the seventh Tet ts st i don, when we spatly or fem, oF proich, that our gents enemy ie vaguone. Nothing bat we can sy ena be ofthe slightest vue ens I ieandersoad, Ne niet contatly boware of running Indo'a fog. Elaborate the old proverb Ito bit, and it yom le anything toy, ety Tt ny it wo thal it vl Be head, and cay i 0 that i¢ il be understood. 31's on the Fside. ‘While watking dow the soe one day T pasa store when lle poopletor vse washing the nrg pate fase indo. ‘There var ome rede spot which defied efforts to renyre i Aor rong band a it sing much comp al woter am slling to remove it, he found the lneuble “san the ide’ ho called’ to romeone in the sore Many ar striving to cleanse the soul frm its lane. ‘ty wash it wth tars of sorrow; hey crab it with fea af gw taules5 they rut with cham of eoralty tat lll the conaioumen of is not r= moved, The trouble ‘Its om the ise? Te the jieort which je bad. IE tho fountain i biter the ‘Mau vill not bo awe ‘Suihing bat the blood of Jesus, applied by the nuigty band. of the Holy Spin cam cleanse the jae ‘ine, for Gol’ Spit alone ean nel ths “sie” mistakes. People who make mistakes aro those who quarsel vith one another before their ehildren, ot who allow The later fo sto wp in Alene two win ak about {hate troubles efor strangers he father rho tls his children to-go tho way he dws at go inwlf, and the SJoung worn who dose not make © consdant of ber ‘utr lesen OberBS, ‘THE QUESTION STATED, {In the opening paper T wrote hve words: “1 trust thal Tahal note aeeused of inimising the evil in fence of Hhowe dupe fate) SET here put on record my solemn entvcton that the application of the pre Aitine reguring the Anticrit and the fourth ing dom to the prwer of Rome, adit 9 mistake stake mith has heen of the astute of a heery clog to progee if prophele adie? Tt in quite pose that come eadents of prophecy, rang’ these words ‘ill frm aay ne ones, md complain thatthe write Intiting lrmlf against feet belived hy the mt feminen. protic expository, ani etablched yond IM poeity of eaviy thatthe fourth expire of pro Dhogy isthe Honma.” Y earnestly ogy however, tha that ay fellow ell Ye gondwieh nopen an un Tima mind, eve condemsatory judgment be passe Tonly ak thatthe nader wll bear ith me vist 1 rnvour to prsent the evidence which compels me te ‘Rasen from amack which bas bees writen y leaders in prophetic sien IF wat sll bo presented farcfly compared with the Seiptre 1 shall have Ite fr far the sort. One writer thos diner the maior: allan, Peri, Grece, and Rome ar lmoetniverslly admitted to be the four monarhiee ‘Some y the sage in Denil Any contrary ‘pinion i a0 elingly bes ae ot to require dsc fon? Thiceconfersing but sant courtesy upon oxy ‘ew save thet wich be adopt bu, after giving the Toner meh considera, Lhave weasel the option ‘al the weight of testimony Hes againat the popelar iow. But Tcctanly do uot wis to cain ny ene Tp the fenco of mete anertin. But T proce tomar stal the esidee “Kany years ayo 1 eld the lew thet the fourth en iw af pronhcey. ie the Rowan, aceping. tho stati feats which ere aude 20 condently by student, find which ove & be found sll in the majority of sro lating to the abject, olor invention | Or the exbject togeer wih a camparison of historical facta: bs Tod tothe coneloon that te ew 0 lox eld jw anak, whieh leds to sevioos minder nndingh ofthe Sate. Kemnay neem a snes tk lo attempt to show that the etext lew isnot well foamed, flat it rete upon asumption, amd not worthy of Veing svceted even aba supposition; bal {he tony hough not afar, cave abit reals t better nvceetaning of the Word fenpted ‘THR BIBLE STANDARD, ataxcn, 1898 Th the days when the Roman Binire was actually existent ond in the haya of ie power iti quite com Seimble that those ko were impress by I nears {ts syndy, crushing asthonty, should gel the fonction that thr allyowertal and al-pervsce ‘opie, with ita cruel persecution of tho sins, mist te the grt espn af proper but 0s who lve in fw dap when that empire as Toag cased. to ey a whe ve ean easly compre the facts of bistory Uy tho writen Wond, there t-a0 mecucity fora 60 Io bined yon things Tots shares, at whatever sage this fourth em- pite comes upon the age of history it wil online El the advent of the Chee im pover. There ie no eed Et thie should he here supported by Seripture ‘Gttiony he fat Se adit by al Ssrptre stent Bot the Reman Eanpive has cred to eit jit enn ht, therfore, be the fourth empite of prophecy. Tt ‘wont neem that mo fat capa of Deter isorcal Sintiction than this. One of the ables isi ‘orks we poss bears the tl, The Decline and Fall tthe Maman Laie? ti thie fet of ite eomplte Aieappeorance wich too strangely overlooked. Let ft be repeated, and te sguileeee veghol, Tome a» fy enpine har long oracol to exist The hasharians Toe her omer, divided her territory, overthrew er Fuori she bessme non-eitet. "Tho who fre haviepresse by the exigency of sytem may np to make a show of «nominal empite, ard by Tom Dubie th ‘tile and readers of commenti fm the prophecis fav come to give and receive thei tavellons infervetatona with eat gravity jut erly tho Tonsn Empirethe expire founded. hy Temvg, and led hy Augusta and. Constantine — fs ped through ogee deli ani fall to ly ‘elute extnetion—Bfaitand. "There are some writers who boldly esi thatthe coi is sigtnt, Cv in dormant sate ‘Then Slbente to aor ter deny the facts of soy {ive them a strange interpretation. Let Uh caer {Eke a lance ut the tesitory “once cover bythe Toman ‘Ppie eas and wes, and put his finger om the pot where thre in a rule or ale crying fr tend in any aenee, ative or doruant, the. anelent ‘Stee, vain, bold fhat when he empire was ivided, the vaio rovereigntes vero considered. to fhe perpetuation ofthe Roman pore andthe spread iE and awe af Roman lw illgstrata the continuance If Hoan per? Bat the adoption or perpetuation “Toma hw with soc modesto ae were deemed hitale tothe vrs matin, nd the earring fr svat of the Roman Riine. Tf powerful kingdom Tn dhe ileior of Agsea were to adopt the astnian nd caer eae whicb goto. mke up. Roman jie fradenee, no ee wal be 30 foolish as to imagineMaxest, 18994] {Cit Dhneby boone a pat ofthe Roman Emit "The definion of the werd “Empire” shoo bey nme. A teiery oe mon ene yo epee con atl feral otros oe neji = ‘my coe tin Th the ight of tha! defaiion review the felloning| histvie facts: In the year AD. 286, the Roman Bn fees divide into eastern and wostern. The eat fe divkion ha a epital at Constantinople, and the Westen at Me end Haven ‘The esters emp ntl by the Oltmaa eonqust in 1458 5 the western ‘ened to exit y the fall of Rome in 400 "The s-alled Holy Romaa Kimpire? was composed ‘of cviain portions ofthe formar empine of the wes, hited with the Fronkih poseasions of Chiclamagoe tho was cowed Euperor by the Pope in 600. I $6! the ral "Holy Honma German Empire” beg Ie Teas estinct in 1606, when Francis IL resigned. he joctive imperial row for the ereilary crown of ‘Sores, in view of thee fats, there should be xo c gral tity i desing whether or not the Toman empire has ecoed tobe. Were it ol for the exigen fies of «prophets thors, there would be no diste iuhe subject All wll agro that there is now x0 ck empire. "Kosanee same expositors ia the past haul themselves te the interpretation, wo are Sw required to lire that x aupire may be il in Tons ater it has on deprived, not erely of pow, Jaron, and domme, but cron of «ile bead eter, fom which it would follow éhat no men diy ca br extn slong ae the consis over wich re tore sway entnua eo. be inhabited, and to be ftowened by any Jaws, In soch a vanes this, the ination of Belcan, at woll a¢ ht of Angus, ug nod be ato exist intis ay, Dak ome Tehich Inthe tsaal siguiteaion of the words, i seventy extineton, For, suey when we xp of Tngdom, we donot mean Mat the counsie ore ‘eater ane depopiatd or without inhabitants Tren Hat the sceson of He Kings or governor Te scaed—that i ewer and thority feo Toner vogue or exe ; Ut its name i 80 Longer man Honad among the monarchs of the earth’ —Toid "We may tly an up thus: ‘The fourth best i to bo alive af the wound coming of the Tord, and i thon to be desired by He righloots judgment? pet the Toman Hrpine hae long ago ceased‘ eit “rhesefer, the Konan Bmpire cannot Ye momay fret in the popes Toa ie yt another view, which astumee that the ‘Papey es becmve the fomth power, bat whatewt Prk he might have had Ln days pst there m0 ‘ym RUBLE STANDARD. Tor it no, Sor the Pope hae lost the tango foes, and (here is no tatination in the sropheey That agthing bt « oer Baring temporal eeregnty ie Gauttniated, To sasome that religion dom Fanon, Mowevee cateaive and) yowerfl, working within the terol Lite of eoalar powers a be The forth eit, oto eothe mere religous authority trith ideas which de not slong to religion ws ech, tint hick an im Seviptar, carefully aliseled sly or ucaal cathy tle aid dominion. Ab 8 mater of oval interpecation, we havo 20 Heh whatever to {epart feem the Hear of “Kingdom which ee au lel by tho Spans. isoical eeferenes to. Kingdows of Babgien and Medo-Pend To adit the itew of the Fag ay ath fourth cmt i to lr {de altgother, and to import a wholly difrent st tt ideas, which eve Bo warranty, an oll, i the Sexipare. "rn idea tht Kom ix tho fourth kingdom bas zon und im hail. wilh the soopptance of the year-lay fbooy, bet at a seango anomaly to find mest thunigiewho have discarded the yeae-oyintrpretation fll ulingt he Roman sew. For obra tho it day ew be correct, then the past existance ofthe eu enpve a ite pee continuance isa male GE no cammeguence whstever. "The ations of Ua em: foe ohidh ae ths ejects of wopbec, ae confined Me tthe iter days Gh te of he ends an ite ‘Morena power tn the short period of 1,200 days Shing vtever i guna by' te acceptaue of the “Geen lerpreation—rather, diiaties are piled pon iy for we are then burdenod with the past i= tag, the press exstace in a trange fom, of em tinvl of whiehtTing in known as yet in the Za flgent of gropheey, and whic, acording fe history eneeato Bean anda am organised Nigom, bas Completely yused aay nithout having done anything nha be empbetially sid ¢0 anseer the ro Tie tere We sy empatcaly, inthe Tight of Phase fata Home never wat and it uot te four inet af rena, Ta any next artic = ell (levour to yrewt the Srpture objection EDITOR, rueDded fo the Trutd. ‘eying to amke other baliove as me do im pont buccas Te avery ferent busines frm trying to Wn ors fo the tath, Tho mn who pints another TE°a tar tony lp i towasd the Tight sed, im belp fue ny get near the ight bil; bot tho man Tak, Putte others merely to his own opin is with ate fr iret, ands nol now tut that the or he pints ou fo there ea fey’ amp. A lover ee ite ot meddle hi opinions; he wedded to fhe tt. Tie