The New York herald., 1851-12-22

The Rev. MI. Mathias's Lecture.
lecture was delivered yesterday morning by the
Rev M Matthias at the Hall in Grand street on The
slgrs OF TIE 1es In relation to the present political
sate Of the word and the prospect of coming events
Tie Rev. gentleman took for his text the ID chap
Daniel s4th vee" And In the days OF those kings shsl,
the God Of heaven fet up Kingdom which shall never
be dtfeyed-a kingdom which shall not left 10 other
people but which shall break in pieces aud consume al,
those kingdoms, and which shall stand forevern He
raid there had been uncertainty and mutation ATTENDING
all established kingdoms which had nourshed in the
world. They had all been founded upon doubtful ba.
sis and the wisdom Of men had been employed in cor
structng them, and the judgment and power of men
had been brought into requison to them in their
position; but prophecy had declared and history re
vesled this world had been scourged by kingdoms They
had been an intolerance to Their history showed
that mankind had not benefited by them. The best ot
them had only served for whis If they had virtue at
the they had Fifty thirty
years would fufhce to corrupt any institution.
other thaa the one. God had proposed to establish
This made Martin Luther say that there ought to be
reformation every thkty years He knew the tendency
Of mankind to degenerate Man weak and imperfect
in all his attributes becsue Of his transgression against
God They knew the connection in which ths text stood
with other matters 1t the last kingdom in the great
succession. There were the Kingdoms OF gold Of silver o
brass and Of iron and clay There division Of
the great kingdom Of iron and clay and when the king
doms Of this world should be in broken and fallen
diuon- standing exceedingly doubtful bass-the
God of heaven to set up kingdom Nebuchadnezzsr
Represented the Lead Of gold the Medes and Perssn.
the silver the Grecaus the brass and the Romans ans
subsequent nations the iron and the clay The kingdom
Of iron lad ,eigned for while, and had been In the
hands Of royal honors but they would degenerate.
and come into tae hands Of men-nto the hands,
Of democrats tor in explanation, it was said
partly Of clay, &c The aristocracy IconaYchs ant.
kings would give their Kingdoms to the seed Of men
or they would mingle themselves with the seed o.:
men. They would nave to do so, because iron and
clay would not cesve. Now any the force
otthat prophecy 1t taught us that the time would come
when the idea Of vested in man, ir
single house would be- disdained and THAI the common
people would assume the sovereignty and it would
afterwards be Inspiration declared that the
disaecen would be final and eternal and Christ said
that kingdom divided against itself could not stand
30 when the kingdoms Of this world hould be in this
predicanent the God Of heaven would establish his
kipgdom-the same that would stand forever, ana
not be transmitted from enc house TO auother That
kipgdom would be one of glory and prrpetaitv In
another passage in the 7h chapter IL raid that the
be given 70 the people and the saints of High
1t was haypintss for the people Of the present time
who took the Bible the rule Of their fxith able
10 arrive at explanation Of the times which they
redtinss Of interest to every onet in anticpa-
tion by Kossuth-an estmable man. doubts maa
pectation Of that gentleman and OF ali Lie frends who
pathizRg with him. that through their instru-
which al monsrcbs would tuccumb and before the
power OF which all the thrones would be demolished.
1t the anticipation of democrats and ublcsns
aspiring after liberty, that the great resats divine
promises should be brought about by the power which
they thought they welded. They were mistaken The
Dtle showed that plainly To prove the OF
the Bible they had only to look to its internal evidence
1t clear that the chapter from which had taken
his text written before the destruction f the Medes
and Psrtiaps. ard that 1t written the DAYS of
NebucEa dnez the existence OF whom one coula
doubt. who would get rid Of his irf3 3elity need
but 10 read that chapter the prophecy With
the events recorded In history The history the world
snce Neouchadnezzar was striking reflex of the pro-
phecy That ought to settle thei minds during the
pretent con hict Of opinions. The kingdom Of which
he spoke had been the subject Of promise all
through the Bible. There q declaration by the
apostle Peter, which showed how generally thi,
kingdom was believed In. The apostle said that
Christ lad gone TO heaven where he would be retained
nn the time arrived fer pisbiue al the things
spoken ty tie prophets The Rev gentleman referred
TO various passsges in scripture to chow The purity
eternity Ct the final kingdom, and comp sred with 1t
Kingdoms established by human efforts and entered at
length into the subject Of the happiness purity that
Inauguration be would perform great act-he would
arraien the common enemy OF mai Kind VINO had tri-
umpbed 60 ationswho bad sxcended thrones
and laid them in sshes II evident ths all previous
hngdoms had not been set by God bot he had
rated them for wise ends. The revolution which would
tske place 10 Europe would he con;erded) be carried
into frenzy by red repubicAnism aud deceptive pc
Icy With references to the kingdoms OF iron aud clay
only what be had heard lately had satisfied him te
that prophecy The princes to witt
the seed Of men In 1e48 constitution given 10 the
people on the European connen and result
OF obtaining those cons.itutiops' n Dging Of the
princes with the peasantry and what This mngling
the ruling wisdom Of the scriptures the Rev gentleman
concluded his discourse