and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant." (Jer. i. 10.) It will then be seen whether the Pope is to root out, or to be rooted out; to pull down, or to be pulled down; to destroy, or to be destroyed; to throw down, or to be thrown down. In the full-blown pride of Papal arrogancy, Innocent III. could excommunicate the whole world, and select for his text the words, "Even say thou, the sword, the sword is drawn-for the slaughter it is furbished.' (Ezekiel xxi. 28.) The Papacy, which has so delighted in the sword, "shall perish with the sword."

In the year 1987, the theme of so many prophecies, the Papacy receives its death-blow. Since the Pope was "the Eighth" Head of Rome in the year 727, the 1260 years allotted to his empire must terminate A.D. 1987. Let Roman-Catholics keep in mind the figures 1-9-8-7. There is a remarkable fatality connected with these figures. Let us transpose the three figures 9-8-7, placing 7 for the first figure. We have thus two permutations, 7-8-9, and 7-9-8. Have Roman-Catholics forgotten the years 1789 and 1798? Have they forgotten the vials which were poured out in those years?

In the year 1789, the French Revolution broke out, and "the first Angel poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a grievous and noisome sore upon the men which had the mark of the Beast, and upon them which worshipped his image."

In the year 1798, the Pope was in the extremity of distress. Buonaparte invaded Rome and plundered his Holiness; nor could the picture of Christ, nor

the picture of the Virgin, nor the chains of St. Peter save him, though he was the Vicar of Christ, the Worshipper of the Virgin, and the successor of St. Peter. "The fifth Angel poured out his vial upon (Rome) the seat of the Beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness;" it was darkened and confounded, "and they gnawed their tongues for pain."

In the year 1987, the 1260 years, the time allotted for the Pope to practise, terminate. The seventh Angel will then pour out his vial into the air; and great Babylon shall come up in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath."

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It is not improbable that as France was the instrument made use of by Providence in pouring out the first, the third, the fourth and the fifth vials, so France will be again employed in pouring out the seventh. The finger of Providence is to be seen in this for France was the horn or kingdom which enabled the Pope, in the commencement of his dominion, to "pluck up three horns by the roots." is not improbable that Spain also will perform her part in dethroning the Pope, since Spain has gloried in exterminating the Reformation.

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The years 1789, 1798, 1987, are remarkable as being the epochs in which the three most remarkable vials are poured out; and the Papacy has no more the power to avert the vial of 1987, than it had to avert those of 1789 and 1798. It is not improbable that the years 1879, 1897, 1978, will be fatal years to the Papacy.

II. The battle-field, in which this final conflict is to take place, is called in the Hebrew tongue ARMAGEDDON, (Rev. xvi. 16.) Various interpretations have been given of this name. Mr. Faber believes that it is a crasis for ARMA-MAGEDDON; or more correctly, HORMAH-MAGEDDON.

ARMA, or more properly HORMAH, in the Hebrew П, denotes UTTER DESTRUCTION; and HORMAHMAGEDDON is equivalent to UTTER DESTRUCTION AT MEGIDDO. We are told by Daniel that the Pope shall "go forth with great fury to DESTROY AND UTTERLY TO MAKE AWAY many: and shall plant the tabernacles of his palace (or camp) BETWEEN THE SEAS in the glorious holy mountain." The Pope shall "go forth with great fury" threatening HORMAH i. e. UTTER DESTRUCTION to the tribes of Judah and Israel, but his HORMAH shall return upon his own head. The Curse causeless shall not come. He will plant the tabernacles of his" camp at Megiddo, BETWEEN THE SEAS." Megiddo is a town between the two seas in the half-tribe of Manasseh at a small distance from the shores of the Mediterranean. At Megiddo the Pope shall "come to his end, and none shall help him." The name of the place will ever after be HORMAH, or HORMAH-MAGEDDON to distinguish it from the HORMAH of which we read in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Numbers :--"And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM; and he called the name of the place HORMAH."

That was an awful command of the Most High against Babylon, DESTROY HER UTTERLY let nothing of her be left." (Jer. 1. 26.) The same command will go forth against the modern Babylon. Instead of the above interpretation of the word ARMAGEDDON, Calmet reads HOR-MAGEDDON, THE MOUNTAIN OF MEGIDDO, from the Hebrew a Mountain. In this case we should think that there is an allusion to the Mountain of dead bodies which will be heaped up in the valley of Megiddo. The most simple interpretation, perhaps, would be to read AR-MAGEDDON without any variation, from the Hebrew River. From the Hebrew or AR comes YAR, the name of a River in England, whence YAR-MOUTH. The meaning of AR-MAGEDDON would thus be THE RIVER OF MEgiddo, i. e. thE RIVER OF BLOOD AT MEGIDDO. We are told by St. John, that "blood will come out of the wine-press, even unto the horsebridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs," which is the length of the land of Palestine. This last interpretation is the most simple, but we leave to the intelligent reader to decide.

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There seems to be a fatality connected with the RIVER OF MEGIDDO, as if its banks were destined to witness the discomfiture of the enemies of the children of Israel. This was the very spot, where “the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots with the edge of the sword before Barak ; for we are expressly told that "the kings of Canaan came and fought in Taanach by THE WATERS OF MEGIDDO." (Judges v. 19.) It was here that "the horse-hoofs

were broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.' It was here that " they fought from heaven:" it was here that "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." The river Kishon flows not far from MEGIDDO. "The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon." That was indeed "the battle of ARMAGEDDON the battle of the great day of GOD ALMIGHTY : " for "the LORD GOD of Israel fought for Israel."

But, dreadful as that battle was, it is as nothing to the battle, which yet remains to be fought " by the waters of Megiddo." The slaughter will be so tremendous, that it is called "the Supper of the Great GOD." (See Rev. xix. 17-21.) The army of Antichrist will be entirely destroyed, and "all the fowls filled with their flesh." The Infidel Pope shall be "taken, and with him the False Prophet (False Teacher) that wrought miracles before him, and shall be cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

III. The commencement of the battle of Armageddon coincides with the return of the Ten Tribes to their own land. "The water of the great river Euphrates will be then dried up, and the way of the kings of the East prepared." (xvi. 12.) "It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the