New-York daily tribune., 1843-06-22

r.uces and we soc not how it should fail to be
considered Invaluable by Biblical students
The reader may be sure of d thorough ana search
no ;nvest;oation of every pcifit which Prol. -.
d;sc,sses This is most strikingly evnced in
.be article continued in both these Nos. on the
Vision of Daniel relative TO the final destiny Of
the Roman empire figured out by the fourth OF
,bat series of wild, fierce, and formidable Beasts
that rose out of the sea and made war with the
Saints. This empire Prof B. shows is considered
As still subsistng in the eye of prophecy, though
brought near to the period of its extinction by
the desolating wars i'll Europe Of the last two or
three centuries. The wars arising out Of the
French revolution he considers as probably con-
stituting the last act in the drama of dominion
Dror to the prevalence of brighter and better
davs, which he thinks are gradually developing
themselves out of the troubled clements Of the
Present era.
The following extract will be read with inter
est as giving view, equally original and strlk
ipp. of the doom of the mystic Beast as destroyed
BY the judgements of fire and brlmstonc.' AZ
ter proving the identity of the Beast of Daniel
and that of John in the Apocalypse, he remarks,
as in illustration of the following text Of the for
ner prophet - beheld till the Beast was slain,
and his body destroyed, and given TO the burning
Hames:'
We have found them by this process OF investigation the
BODY of the Beast which, according TO Ddnie Is to be
given to the burning flame aud according 10 john TO be
cast into the lake OF fire burning with birthstone Tins is
the same catastrophe with that repeatedly Indicated by
the phrase Cneth INTO perdon
Its the doom ordained for the body Of the Beast, that
adless assembagc of political sovereges which constr
the Roman empire IN It's latter periods 1T The doom
which Is the result Of the celestial, the terrestrial judge
meu that sits for long Of III the ro'dence o
God upon this rampant and desolatng dominion And in
what form shall we suppose this dire calamity to be visited
uaon the Beast, but that o! ,car Is not TACT Known
and read Of all men, that the history OF Europe for cen
mes hack has been mainly history OF revolutions,
d bloodhed Has there been in this way process OF
constant consumption and destruction gong ON among
those that constituted the integrity OF the Ola omah
empire Aud suppose that this peculiar mode OF niiiction
were designed TO gned by appropriate device
would it not be apt be By emblem that should striking
" correspond with that tremendous agent OF modern
warfare which it scarcely figure OF speech to denomi'
nate fire and birthstone
The use OF sunpowdcr carrying the wars oi modern
times is fact Of great importance TO be overlooked by
the spirit OF prophecy It's mystic oreshadowinss In an
times weapons of IRON brass and steel were the only
implements of death the battlefield FIRE. an element
of desrucon unknown But in latter ages deadly
composition, of which brnson. of the principal
Ingredients has the place of ts ancient weapons,
and had been left fix upon symbolic device by
which represent centuries before IT invented could
any thing appropriate have been conceived than the
very emblem which the Holy Spirit has employed Tor the
purpose Had person taken his stand on Al elevated so
OF ground in the vicinity OF the battle OF Waterloo ior IN
stance and witnessed the terrible OF that held oil death
,b linz ,,u have
pycpitated into lake OF fire aud birthstone but what
happened there has happened IN hundreds Oh other instances
where similar scenes of conflict have taken place ana o"
saud, have fallen this deadly element Aud who
can count the millions of human beings that during the last
,e. centuries have been uS wasted away from the oou
of the beast This conceive, Is no other thah the
burning flame which that doomed body was TO be
,ven not Indeed at time, but from age 10 age,
through long lapse of time As the power TO b. udSed
temporal worldly power the judgement sell IS TO be
temporal judgement. beast is the symbol OF body polite,
extended corporations secular empire iio" IS an en-
pire TO wasted and DESTROYED but by series OF
judgements acting upon empire To represent such
power into he the punishment proper to men as
ndtidua,s strange confusion Of literal and symboiical
language. Ii the Beast the representative oi worldly
system of deSpOtic cruel atchristan umnl0n then the
burning flame or the lake of fire and brimstonc into
which he be some kind OF World!y catastrophe
BY which DESTROYED and what 50 perfectly answers 10
This gua,iye mode of extinction the ne and hrinstone
Of modern warfare If any more appropriate probable
At present, If the principle OF srGdunhsm IN
the accomplishment Of prophecy, for which we contend IS
admitted, do well see how TO avoid the conclusion TO
which we have
We cannot but repeat our conviction, that the
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