New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-14

PROF. Busn's LEoruRrs.-The closing Lecture
of the excellent series Prof Bush has been deliver
ing Tor some weeks past al the University Chapel,
was listened to on Sunday evening last by a select
and most respectable audience. HIS subject was
the End of The World and the principal aim oi
his remark, was to show that We nave warrant
for interpreting any ScrpturIl prophecy to import
the physical destruction of this earth. He exam
ined the several passages in Scripture which are
generally regarded Z, implying the consuming OF
the earth by hre, the passing away oi the heavens
with a great noise &c, with a view to SHOW, both
by comparing thrm with other passages in which
the same words are employed, and by their agree
ment with the general import of Scripiural predic
tons, that ,hc.c fore>hadowed revolutions refer t.
morolinstcad of physical changes. The phrase 'erd
ofthr world, lac said isuanslated more slrctviaac -
cordancc with the impou9, the original by the word>
consummetien Of the ages and he also estab-
li'hcd by copous rciercncc, that the words Earth
Heaven, &C., are often employed to signif,
moral or civil goycrnmcntsE and that the change.
here predicted in such srous and terrible language
may well be held 10 imply sraa, revolutions in The
religious. moral and political relations of the differ
en-; nation, of the Earth These changes he be-
hcyed would be gradual and marked by none Of
those wonderful phenomena which are very gene.
rally sarled As their harbinger. All the pro.
phccic, of Scripture thus far have been fulfilled IT,
this way; natural agents are employed ard IL
whole change Is brought abou, by the operation a.
natural law..
Prot. Bush dis not believe tina, We have an,
warrant IN Scripture for believing that this Earth
will ever be hy>ioally destroyed. The real ir,.
port of all the prophetic passage, which aludc 10
tins point at aii-and he maintained tina, the Bible
never spoke directly Of the physical character or
relations OF the Earth-according to hi, appre hen
SON. Is that planet is to be the scene of tho,
s'"'''S attendant upon the new Jerusalem s;a,c
ana mat ITS duration - indcfnitc-cntjrcly M.
limited ~ any thing in tho Sacred Record And
II we nave reason to believe that the Earth y.n
erer have physical cnd-wn no, he ,,o...n
existent (and he believed We hsvcA !, 49,.
found in Science and not in Revelation. h,
announced IN the Apocalypse Of Laplacc and He.
>chcll. and not Ia that Of 81. John in the Isle a
Patmo,.
Whatever NIGH, be lie real character of the..
predicted ChauSe>--.n t,r as the closest study uf
toe prophetic number, could throw light upon Ii,
Suhicc,hc believed that the time Cor their accom-.
ph>hmcnt is close a, hand. He REGARDED it as e>-
cccdinsly Prcsumptuous Ia attempt 10 hN upon an,
precise time but though, that the great and a,
,onishns revolutions now in progress all over the
world, in all departments OF actlon and of thought
confirm the LANGUAGE of nrnph,t,, rrt an
made il evident thai We are now standing anon IA,
very borders Of that period. II the passage. cited
really refer 10 the physical destruction OF oar
siohe-in his judgement the period a, which thai
great event l. to occur Is close at hand
Prof h. announced his in,eE,ion-which We arr
sure will be especially gratifying 10 all who baVr
heard the tr--,o deliver a second serie. Of Lee
turc. upon kiudrcd subjects, such A. the kesur
r,ction Of the Dead, the Locality OF Heaven. Sc