powers of darkness,-and strong, and deadly, and incessant were the blows dealt by them upon the kingdom of darkness. But, alas! what is the result? All these united, and mighty, and heavenly agencies, after operating so long and so well, have issued in a relapse,-a frightful relapse! This, then, I repeat, is the melancholy feature of the times, which cannot be mistaken, which leaves no hope, which robs the mind of every source of consolation, which makes the case desperate, and leaves us nothing to expect in the way of improvement, until the time, times, and half a time are finished, the Church of Christ emerge from the wilderness, the two witnesses cease to prophecy in sackcloth, and shut heaven that it rain not,—and the great earthquake destroy a tenth of the Great City,-speedily followed by the blast of the Seventh Trumpet, and introduction of the kingdom of God, -the opening of the Temple in Heaven, and the arrival of the time to reward the servants of God. Then will Religion within the Church revive, then will Christianity spread, even while the vials are pouring out on the enemies of God, and the Battle of Armageddon is convulsing the earth, and the Harvest of the earth approaching,-" When thy judgments are abroad in the earth, the inhabitants thereof will learn wisdom."

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