Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-14

that has lain on our table for some DAYS
unnoticed, for want of time, but having
taken it up for perusal, we found it impos-
sible to lay it down till thorough peru
sal had richly rewarded us for our time
Aud we cannot forbear laying some of the
more prominent points before our readers.
The discourses clearly evince that the rev.
erend gentleman is entirely free from ia
naticism, which has always characterized
the majority of those who have assumed
to open up the sublime mysteries of proph-
ecy- He has approached the subject with
awe stricken wonder, and he has recogni-
zed the voice of Almighty God, saying that
he and we stood upon holy ground. He
has not sought after forbidden knowledge,
he has entered no field of thought where
man may not come; he derives his encour-
agement from the stit is written" blessed is
he that readeth and he that heareth this
prophecy. He shows that the prophecies
concerning the nations, down to the de-
struction of Jerusalem, were literal his
tory of the people. From that period to
the birth of the American Republic, 'sthe
time of the end" all attempts to explain
the prophetic visions of Old Testament or
New, have been futile-tho expounder's
blind leaders of the blind wandering in
the deeper midnight of Egyptian darkness.
After showing that every other country in
the world had been mapped out, the rise
and downfall of its government portrayed,
he pertinently asks, ''has the inspired pen
man no account, no place for nation,
that is at this very moment telling more
upon the intellectual and moral destiny of
the world, than any other under the heav-
ems" and yet Che says) We must believe SO
if his theory is q fable. The prophecies
quoted by the reverend gentleman in sup
port of his theory, portray our country so
yiVidly, that the American reader cannot
but be startled, yea terrified with the sub
Unity of the thought that ours may be
the land of "Restored Israel" He takes
the chronology received by all the learned,
and from the one hundred and eighty-ninth
day of the year 6s A. D., at five o'clock,
A. NJ, the hour of the daily sacrifice, to
the Fourth day of July, 1875, at three
o'clock, P. NJ, the time of the Declaration
of American Independence, and makes the
cycle of the twelve hundred and sixty
symbolic days complete, and nation was
born at once.
In commenting upon the prophetic de-
scription of the land of "restorcd Israel"
from his premises, he shows that no other
land but ours can ever, in all its length
and breadth, fill up the measure of gran
deur portrayed in the splendid visions of
the prophets. A nation springing into
existence in day, its people drawn from
every nation, living in unwalled villages,
possessed of great military resources, yet
not warlike, but peaceful, busily engaged
in bringing their country out of this hith-
erto wild desolation which had always
prevailed. By his theory he shows that
the magnificent boundaries ascribcd to the
land of restored Israel" in the prophetic
vision, cannot apply to the most extensive
country in the world, much less to Pales-
tine. A land reaching from sea to sea,
and from the river to the ends of the earth,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
Mississippi heading away in the North to
Cape Horn, the end of the earth. The
glory of tho cedars of Lebenon cannot
compete with the splendor of our grand
old woods. Jordan and Kedron wend
their way through the land of miracles
and of hnllowed memories, but they are as
silken strands to the mighty rivers of pro-
phetic vision, whose waters roll in ire
sistable majesty through the land of ire
stored Israeli" by the unwalled cities into
either sea. BE makes the prophetic de-
scription of the original inhabitants of the
country, to apply with peculiar force to the
Aborigines of our country, IA people
hitherto terrible from the beginning, a
people scattered and peeled" He shows
that it is utterly impossible that the Stone
Kingdom, or Commonwealth, should be
monarchy, for God, in the protest of the
prophet Samuel, has set the seal of his
condemnation upon that form of govern
mcnt, and the history of all monarchics
has been literal vcrifcation of tho truth
of the prophecy: that the government of
ancient Israel was theoratic republic,
and the prophetic vision indicates that the
Stone Government, as far as its earthly
form is concerned, should be exactly of the
same type, "their mobiles shall be of them
selves, and their governors shall proceed
from the midst of them, the people shall
be gathered together, and appoint unto
themselves one head" And finally he
makes the "waiting Isles" of Isaiah to be
sublime announcement of our glorious
country. and quotes the anthnrit,. os .ho