THE LECTURE X.-p. 447. BLESSINGS PROMISED ΤΟ THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE JUDGMENTS DENOUNCED UPON THE WICKED, AT THE PERIOD AFTER THE RESTORATION OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. BY THE REV. ALEXANDER R. C. DALLAS, M.A., RECTOR OF WONSTON, HANTS. LUKE xxi. 36." Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man!" LECTURE XI.—p. 491. THE GLORIOUS ADVENT OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. BY THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE, M.A., INCUMBENT OF ST. JUDE'S LIVERPOOL. REV. xix. 12.—" And on His head were many crowns." CONCLUDING LECTURE, WITH A PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE WHOLE COURSE. BY THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART, A.M., INCUMBENT OF ST. BRIDE'S, &c. 2 PETER iii. 11, 12.-" Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God." LECTURE I. EXPLANATORY OF THE DESIGN OF THE COURSE ; -OF THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES; -AND OF THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THEIR STUDY SHOULD BE CONDUCTED. BY THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART, M.A. 2 PETER i. 19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. at a Ir is a generally admitted fact that we are living very eventful period of time. The last century closed with one of the most astonishing Revolutions which the annals of History have ever recorded. This was followed by a most destructive war, a war in which every state in Europe was more or less engaged. After five-and-twenty years of dreadful carnage, peace was at length proclaimed: but instead of producing a state of settled tranquillity, it has rather seemed like the lulling of the storm-the deceitful calm which precedes the sweep of the hurricane. For the principles of infidelity and insubordination, which were so widely disseminated during the season of revolutionary bloodshed, left the minds of men in a most feverish state-a state resembling an underground volcano, breaking forth in infidel societies, in plots and treasonable conspiracies, or in acts of open rebellion against lawful authority. These popular tumults which, like the waves of the troubled sea, are continually "casting up mire and dirt," have been accompanied by a very prevalent feeling throughout the world, that some great change is at hand. "Men's hearts are failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth.”* In this state of anxious uncertainty, if we apply to persons of worldly wisdom, or to sagacious statesmen for relief: if we ask them to suggest an effectual remedy, or to provide some sure defence against these apprehended dangers, they can make no reply. They are constrained to confess that the present state of the world confounds alike the philosopher and the politician: that "the wisdom of their wise men is come to * Luke xxi. 26.. |