APOCALYPTIC SKETCHES;

OR

LECTURES

ON

THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

DELIVERED IN THE

LARGE ROOM, EXETER HALL, IN 1847-48.

BY

THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, D. D.'

MINISTER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL CHURCH,

CROWN COURT, LITTLE RUSSELL STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

'Surely I come quickly: Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

REV. xxii. 20.

SIXTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY HALL AND CO.,

25, PATERNOSTER ROW:

SHAW, SOUTHAMPTON ROW.

ΤΟ

MISS CLARA BURDETT.

DEAR MADAM,

I FEEL it no ordinary gratification to be allowed to dedicate these Apocalyptic Sketches to you. I do so not merely because you have expressed a deep interest in the subject, or liberally contributed, in common with others dear to you, to every appeal I have made in the course of their delivery, alike for the object to which the proceeds of the sale are devoted, and for others no less important, but, primarily, because you belong to a family associated for nearly a century, more or less directly, with the Church in Crown Court, in which you have so long worshipped.

Your maternal ancestors were members of it long before my day. Your dear mother and her sisters, the Countess of Guildford and the Marchioness of Bute, were baptized within its walls. Above all, the large, benevolent, and open heart of him

whom the world

itself pronounced to be the noblest specimen of "the old English gentleman," expressed itself in frequent and liberal contributions to its poor-contributions not blazoned before the world, but detected by the minister of the gospel in his errands of love.