The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-22 00:00:00

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22, 1816.

But the end of the world has been supposed by many eminent
men to be by fire—an intert.retation wartanted from some ex-
pressions of our Lord himself, in allosion to that element. " I
am come to send tire on the eardli and what will I if it be al-
ready kindled." Luke xii. 49.-e-For St. John Baptist had
already antionneed him as " It:tilting with the Holy Ghost alai
with tire, and that he slienid burnmp the chaff with mumeneh-
ithletire." Mat. M. it. 1 g.—Ltta • 'I. 17.—St. Prodadopts the
.acne allusion in speaking of the, toe judgement; when, by
the example of a building, he sap; Let every man take heed
how 112 builde!lo they capon; for ter foundation can no man
has, than that is laid. which is Jc 4 Christ. How if any man
build oporeillllw(ounelation gold,, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay. stubble; every maser work AIWA be made manifest. For
the day shall declare it, because it shrill Ire revealed by fire; and
the tine stout try every man's sweet of what sort it is. 1 Cor. iii.
Il.—lf any man's wool< :Aside, valieelt he bath built thereupon,
he shall receive n reward—if any 1117111'S work shall Ine burnt, lie
shall suffer loss, hut he himself shall be saved ; yet, so as by fire,"
r.14.-I'he sante Apostle, in his second epistle to the 'Tess.
ch. i. v. 8. uses the same sentiment in speaking of the second
coming of our Lord ; when lie shall be revealed fre m Heaven,
with Iris mighty angels in claming tire, taking vengeance on
them that know not God, awl that obey not the son of our Lord,
Jesus Christ ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord, and fret,, the glory of his power;
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be ad-
mired in all them that believe in that day !-- —We trace the same
141111,i0n in the epistle to the Hebrews, C. li. 6. %% here he is
eeptobating those who fall away from their tloith, who orucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put. him to an
open shame; fur the earth whirl) drinketh -;tithe min that
cornett) oft apron it, and bringeth Nth herbs meet for them by
sham it .is dressed, receiveth bltllving front God; but that
which heareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto
(nosing, whose end is to be burned." By nature we see that
heat it the governing principle tlf creation.
St. Peter closes this part of etvalation, if' the second of the
Epistles which bear his namc,tiay be adopted as genuine,
ch. iii. 7.; N% here, after mentioning the destruction of the old
world by water, adds, " But the heavens and the earth which
arc now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto
.fivc against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly
Mall. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one
day is with the Lord as a thousand years. and a thousand years
as one day," Psa. xr. 4. The Lord is not stack concerning his
Promise, us some men moat slarknoss; but is long suffering to
us ward; toot willing that any should perish, but that all should
come to retientanee. Pint the day of the Lord will come as a
thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elennielts AO melt with fervent
heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall
be burnt up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dis-
solved, what rummer of persons ought ye to be in all holy con-
versation and godliness, looking for and basting unto time
coating of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fit,
-shall be dissolved, and the elements shall ~lt with ttrvent
heat ! nevertheless we, accordion: to his promise, look for
"-nese heavens and a new earth Wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness!"

These are the authorities on which has been founded both
the revolt-tit opinions, that the eud al' the world is not ::et, for
its signs are not seen, and its salvation not accomplished, for
all its nations must tint become a gospel world ; and that when
the end shall come it will lie by the means of fire; effecting as
ell the dissolution of all tempor.el systems, as also the punish-
ment of past offence., pnrifyinv, by its secreting power,
the whole lin-verse, and asst the frail heart of man, tOr that
peace and rest and thetsaew heaven is whioh it will become
fitted to dnell ter user!

The following is a description of a curious phenome-
non which was observed by the lion. Company's ships
Fairlie and James Sibbald, on their late passage to Cal-
cutta :-

'• On the Ist October our latitude at 14Con was 13 dee. 23
min. S. longitude SI deg. 0. min. E. we obsers (1 quantities of
stuff floating nn the surface of the water, which had, to us, the
appeitrance of sca-weed —but were quite astonished to find it-
burnt cinders, evidently volcanic. The sea was covered with
it 'ln rim: the two nest days: our latitude on the 3d October :a
noun was It) deg. 9 nib,. S. longittme s I deg. 20 Thin. 1. ; the
surf.ree of the ;Watley ;vas so completely covered with the vol-
canic matter, that i should think it very unlikely to has c been
drifted any considerable distance, its it is probable it %onld
Nave brim much more scattered. In an old chart I had on
board, there is a inthmarime volcano placed in the same longi-
tude atwl Irtitioile about N tleg. 30 min. S. and from the ;,;rent
distance from any land where we Mond this curious phenottie-
nod, I think there can be no other ally of accounting for it,
than the probability of a submarine volcano existing in that
lit ighboii rhood."

An article from Vienna, dint..l,lone '29, gives the fol-
lowing particulars of a most dreatlftil Aire :
Accounts trout the circle of Chrilldiite say, that a dreadful
tire which broke outat Holieinuentb, spite of the most active
exertions to e•tingcish it, in which the Ilegistiates greatly di,
tinguisdiert theteselves, has destroyed 211 au!uJu
which %Ivry several public establishments, which, with the
thiesLfruit gardens. were in it new boors the prey of the Omni's.
A violent and contiaile.l rain oil the following dap; increAsed
the distress, by mirletanining a great part of sahat remained
standing. linuaireda-or families io tkis urliappy place, which
oxperitliced a similar visitatiau iu 1;74, ate nun languishinig
without a roof to cover them, and deprived of every hope es.
ceiit from the humanity anal benevolence or thur gent:rota
• como
Considerable .ditimge leas been done at New Orleans,
in i-msequence of the rapid inundation et' the river; the
whole of the suburbs was covered with water; anil the
road was only passable in boats.

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