Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-10
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Ihe ProVidences of God.

The Providences of God.
| No. B.
Els universally agreed by histori-
ansthat the vision of Nebuchadnezzar,
of the image composed of different met
ais, and the one of Daniel, of the four
beas@ refer to the four great Monarch
ies;Mhieh were to succeed one another,
and we're successfully to destroy each
Other and the last of them (the Roman
Twas 70 be destroyed and give place to
the utiversal reign of Jesus Christ
Among the group of figures by which
the various Monarehies are represented
in the great visions, the Kingdom of
Heaven is peculiar, being represented
as cone like the son Of man." or one in
human form; hence its principles are
righteousness, temperance and love,
while the others are represented by
great beasts, lions, bears and leopards,
whose chief attribute is to tear in pieces
and devour-aptly representing the
strength, majesty and power of great
warriors and conquerors, whom nothing
could withstand whose principles are
easily condensed into the short sentence
"might gives right
But how cane Daniel to foresee the
succession Of these great Empires, and
their order and characteristics? Who
could reveal such national revolutions
to him except He only, who is the ruler
of Empires, who, by His infinite knowl-
edge and power, can foretell future
events ud infnitum, and who, by super
natural revelation, imparts knowledge
of them to his holy prophets.
Blessed be the name of God, for he
semoveth kings and setteth up kings;
lie revealeth the deep and secret things.
Dan. ID, 21. 22.)
If God has revealed these mighty
changes Of Empires, and four out Of five
of then have already taken place, may
we not reasonably conclude that the re-
naming one is certain to be fulfilled.
Is it not as certain that the little stone
cut out without hands, will become a
great mountain and ell the vhole earth
as it is that the other changes spoken
Of have taken place?
But, the visiion says that Gin the days
of these kings shall the God Of Heaven
set upa Kingdom, in fulfllment OF
which, III the days Of Augustus Caesar
our Savior was born, Luke I'd, l. III
aud as he grows to manhood, various in :
lcideuts of the Providence Of God trans
pire fo~ his safety, and preparatory to
the establishment of his Kingdom. In
the meantime Tiberius Caesar succeeded
Augustus, as king of Rome. Thus full
filing the expression, The days OF
these kings"
In those days the voice of one in the
wilderness announced that the Kingdom
| Of Heaven was at hand-Christ at the
age Of about thirty years (Luke b was
baptized of John-was tempted in the
wilderness and overralue TIE subtle in
situations Of the arch ementy-sast mul-
! titudes follow him to the mount-he
there delivered his inaugural address,
which, containing SO many sublime
truths and noble precepts, is, Of itself, a
great proof of the divinity Of his au-
thority. In short, our Saviour, by his
cye.L, wisdom, and occasional exhibitions
of his superior power, grad dually strength
ened the faith of his disciples in the di-
vinity Of their great teacher, until they
were somewhat prepared for the solemn
announcement that was made on the
mount of TRANSPORTATION, where the
''God of Heaven, in the presence of the
three representatives of the human race,
Peter, James and John, announced to
the world, that, JESUS WAS HIS SON
and confirmed his kingly authority by
saying, HEAR YE HIM. Jesus, how
ever, charged them to tell no man until
after he was risen from the dead. BY a
series of incidents, He was brought be
fore PLATE and Herod, was condemned
and put to death on the cross, and was
buried in Joseph's new tomb. A great
stone was put at the door of the sepul.
cher, and by authority of Plate the sea
Of State was put upon it, and strong
guard was placed around it, yet by the
Providence of God the stone was rolled
away-the guards became as dead mer
and on the third morning our Saviour
AROSE from the dead, which was attesteo
by miraculous demonstration, as con
frmed by many witnesses. For the
space Of about six weeks, Christ was
with his apostles and deciples at vari
Gus times, at one of which he commits
stoned his apostles to GO and teach al
ations"-"Go preach the Gospel te
every creature the father hatl
sent me, even SO l send YOU and aftes
they were endued with credentials frou
the throne of Heaven, they announced
to the world that this same Jesus wa
both Lord and Christ-that he was til,
anointed Prophet, Priest and KING.
Thus, in the days Of those kings, b,