The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-28
From the London Times, June %.
Prophetic Destruction Of Russia.

Prophetic Destruction Of Russia.
The Rev. DR.. Cumming addressed a very
full audience on thi interesting subject on
Tuesday, the 29ih uli, in Halkin street, Bel
grave square, London.
The lecturer began by observing he had
no desire 10 fiji predictions on the Scripture
TO any present and passing events, however
stirring. He desired imparially 10 ascertain
whether anything was said in Scripture in re-
alton to The Muscovile empire and its future.
and 10 explain such references as he might.
discover fairly and without fear /; misht
be a contribution Of some light to those aw.
fol subjects on which all parties felt SO deep.
ly, and mosl parties iorsee so little. Our du.
w. he had no doubt, was 10 meet and repel.
if able, The colossal power which for years
lad been making preparation to overshadow
and enslave Europe. Whether We or Russia
should eveDtually Succeed might, perhaps,
be inferred from prophecy more clearly than
seems probable 10 those who have not stud
led the subject. The chapter from which he
~ ito tiCho AZ OOtl Vi CEth l6t. III
would first identify the names in that chap
ter as the names of nations destined 10 play
a momen'ous part in the last Gays. The
names Of the nations therein given that were
10 form themselves into a confederacy in The
last lines, were Cog, Magog, Meshech, Tu-
bal, Gomar, Togannah aud Tarshish.
He referred TO the first map of The ancient
world: in Bass,er's Polyglol Bible, as a very
fair picture of The distribution of these races.
He showed the descendants OF Cog aud Ma.
cog as inhahiling the east and northeast of
the EuxIne, OH tile Don, the Dnieper, and the
Caucasus. Josephus says, "The Scythians
were called Magog by the Greeks" Cau-
cases is Gog-chasan, i.e. Goe's fort. Mes
chech is settled amid the Moshic Mountains,
east Of The Black Sea. The river Araxes is
Rosh in Arabic, and the people on its banks
were frst called Rosh. Rosh was the Rus.
sian. Tubal wasthe origin Of Tobolsk Mes
hech The source of Muscovy. II is the Prince
of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal who is to head
The last confederacy: Conner first settled in
Asia Minor, spread into The Crimea, formerly
Cimmera-a work originating in Conner,
then extended into Germany, or Gomerland.
These are 10 be united in pre- occupying Pal
e%s,ine, now a portion of The -Sullan's domin-
ions, aud preventing the predicted return of
the Jews.
From the express prediction in Ezekiel,
xxxviii. be gathered thai this c~onfederacy, of
which The Prince of Rosb, Tubal aud Mes
hech was the leader 4. 6. the Gar, J had now
begun its career. Fiom one pat of The chap
ter he gathered it would be arrested in It's
course for a little by a quiet, supposed by us
to be a piece but only to accumulate again
as a gigantic a~valanc he, driven by ~irresIsla-
BILE force towards Palestine. Conner, in Ger
many, would unite with Russia, and swell
It's bulk and add to its imaies. Bulhe show
ed after Chamberlain, that " Tarshish, and
its lions, described as a commercial, warlike
natl on, having ships, and wealth, and usffic
with the East, which wasio oppose and meet
The Prince OF Rosh with great power, was in
all probability the type and symbol Of Great
Brilain.n
The lecturer quoted from Bishops Lowth
and Horsey, and showed that these great d.
| vines concurred in this. From all these and
many other grounds, he came TO the concur
sion that Russia would sooner or later pos
sess the Mediterranean, sieze Palestine, and
on It's plains, in The language Of the prophet,
finally perish amid the judgments OF Heaven.
He saw in our country's present course
were only what should be our whole ava&la-
BILE resources pitched and pointed against
Russia with all our energy-ihe line and du-
ty of destination also, and, therefore, her and
our immunity, as a nation, amid the desola-
lions soon TO sweep broad Europe. While
precepis alone were 10 regulate our conduct,
it was nevertheless cheering 10 see ii indica-
led and approved in the page OF prophecy.
He did mol dogma,ise on uniulfllei pfophe-
cy, still less dare 10 predict. All he sought
10, do was 10 ascertain If Scripture had spoken
on The subject, and what il had said. Il is
clear that statesmen are at their wits end
the nailon is perplexed no solution of com.
rlicalious is given by any one. The student
of prophecy may breathe a free air, live on
a lofiier level and bring down from The sa.
cred oracles lights of no transient or misgui.
ding tendency. He did not ON so difficult a
subject give forth dogiuaiicaI judgments, or
denounce those who differed from him. Flo
leit what be had submitted as data fof others
TO ascertain, and arrive at Or reject his con-
! c%lusions.