"Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." The time will come when, through our preaching, the nations of men will be converted into nations of preachers, Rev. xix. 6, a voice of a great multitude, the voice of many waters, which are many nations, the voice of mighty thunderings, saying Alleluia. Then, Dan. xii. 4, "many shall run to and fro, from the central seats of spiritual government, in the typical model confined to one family, and knowledge shall be increased." Every tribe will find its own Levites. No monster mobs needed.

The particular language employed in ushering the Prince of Peace to his dearly won throne, is copied literally from one of the most interesting passages in typical history, King David's resignation of the throne in favour of Solomon, 1 Chron. xxix. 11, Solomon's inauguration in that throne, and the engagement of the people's representatives to contribute for the building of the temple. For these combined blessings, closing the father's reign and opening that of the son, old David, in his last public address to the people's representatives, a house of commons more liberally constituted than any that has since met in gospel times, concludes with blessing God, in the words copied into our text, "Thine, O Lord, is ihe greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord: both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.”

All this language of praise and joy, and all such language whereof this is only a sample, is to be understood of Christ, now seated on that church-throne, which David and his sons only typically filled, Christ's numberless accessions and returns to his church is therefore and mainly to be illustrated by the recurring calamities and prosperities of his model church, a model of equal and imperishable importance to all gospel ages, without regard to time or place, age or nation. Whenever, after a long winter of spiritual absence from his church, Christ takes to him his great power and reigns, the scene now described will be not formally but substantially enacted.

Finally, if we would have a complete view of Christ, as governor among the nations, especially as king of his church, the candlesticks on his right hand, Fig. X., we must study all the typical princes, good and bad. Evil princes are Christ's rod, good ones his blessing, never bestowed till likely to be appreciated. Was it Christ that made Solomon a temple-builder, he also made him a chapel-builder for every idol in his neighbour's lands. Christ alone is thus the rewarder and punisher of all his subjects. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, in both its halves, and the power, and the glory for ever, Amen!

There is, says John, an interesting and all-important parallel between the doings of David and Solomon on that occasion, and the present inauguration of the Son of David in his long-promised throne. What David addressed from the typical throne is ever addressable to him who sits upon the real throne, and who is actually, in David's address, admitted

to be upon the real throne. over all.'

"Thine is the kingdom, and thou reignest

Verse 13. "And every creature which is in the heaven, and in the and earth, and under the earth, and the things which are upon the sea, all things in them, heard I saying, To Him sitting on the throne, and to the little Lamb, to Christ as king and victim-priest, be blessing, and honour, and glory, and strength for ages of ages." When any resolution was passed in the central court, Fig. VIII. 25, it was carried by the duly appointed officers, the Levite-herald angels, to all parts of the surrounding circle, and more or less obeyed and relished "by the earth," the twelve tribes composing the spiritual land; but it went no further, it was confined within the manna-ring. Every creature in the Levite heaven, and on the encircling land occupied by the twelve armies, welcomed the tidings if thought joyful, or bewailed them if sad; those under the earth, the external Gentile world, looked down upon, despised by those who composed the rings which were so high that they were dreadful, Fig. IV. and Ezek. i. 18, could have little share in their glad tidings of great joy, purchased at the expense of Gentile annihilation; but sometimes these under the morally elevated earth caught the voice of alarm, which from time to time warned them that they were to be trodden down and supplanted by the chosen seed. Exod. xv. 16; xxiiì. Every creature in the moral heaven, the 27; Deut. ii. 25, et passim. kingdom of heaven on earth, are the dii superi, and those under the earth are dii inferi of Latin myth, the cursed Canaan of Gen. ix. 25.

Now, all tidings, joyful or sad, are in the universally extended church communicated by similar parties, the angels of the churches; the highest, those nearest the seat of central rule, hearing those varying tidings first; but they rest not here, they are carried to all parts, or at least to parts of all parts of the earth, the inferior or Gentile earth, the lands of the nations, once looked down upon by the original favourites of heaven, and still looked down upon in pity and love by the Christ-inspired affection of the good Samaritan, the supplanter of his Levi type. Now the deepest sunk in ignorance, barbarism, vice, and misery, at home or abroad, the filthiest swamps of the moral territory, the very Sodomites sunk in the Azotic brine, to bury the smell of their putrefaction, from polluting the atmosphere even of the Gentile world, the antipodes of the heavenly Jerusalem, are reached by the glad news of the gospel; and those portions of them, the favoured few, that are through mere grace, and that not of themselves, ordained to eternal life, those of them, upon whom the agency of the Holy Ghost, as well as the instrumentality of the word, co-operate with the herald-angel in family, school, or church, these convicts, these converts, whether robed in clerical garments, or painted with the filth of both bodily and mental wretchedness,-whether marching from the chamber of secret and soul-destroying lust to the cathedral duties, discharged in well masked hypocrisy, or crushed under the car of idol suicide; every creature, or at least every such creature, the most desperate, when reached by the river of the water of life, Ezek. xlvii. 9, Rev. xxii. 1-2, flowing from the high place of the sanctuary, Fig. I., an ever enlarging flood, destined of heaven to revive the Dead Sea, will

become parts of that life-giving stream, will be converted into heralds of a long unknown or mis-improved gospel, and will publish to all around the praises of their and our common Redeemer, saying, " Blessing, and honour, and strength, for ages of ages, be unto Christ the king and victim priest."

We have said that only portions of all parts of the earth will welcome the glad news of the gospel, or be savingly and eternally benefited by it. The important modification of the terms, "every creature," and "all things," being distinctly laid down by Ezekiel in the proper place, namely, when treating of the blessings brought within the reach of all by the river of life, is in its corresponding place laid down in the Apocalypse. Ezekiel having, in xlvii. 11, said, that while the worst parts of the moral land were regenerated by the river of life, even to the revival of the Dead Sea, takes care to add, "But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be given to salt." John accordingly, in chap. xxii., after quoting Ezekiel with sparing alteration of a passage so divine, adds his corresponding modifications in verse 11. "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still;" and verse 15, "Without (the fold) are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." Parts of every such creature, and parts of all such things, are from time to time converted into the sheep of the flock, and the unworthy sheep are ejected into their place, some for a longer, others for a shorter period, others for ever. Virgil, the faithful Isaiah of the Mock Ruamah, in his abridgement and appropriation of the true Isaiah to his own land and times, speaking of the remnant of iniquity which will ever remind us of the hole of the pit whence we are dug, says, "Pauca tamen suberunt priscæ vestigia fraudis," which will prompt men from improper motives to brave the sea in ships, enclose towns with battlements, and plough the earth into furrows from the mere greed of gain. Si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri.

Verse 14. The prevailing echo, however, of the glad tidings of great joy, returns to the central seat, or seats of spiritual government, whence it originally issued. The four leading princes, in typical language, the church-court leaders, the missionary conveners in modern phrase, joyful at the success of the gospel on Christ's account as its sole author, on man's account as the subject of its blessing, on their own account as the honoured instruments of conveyance, lead the supreme court, by whatever changing name in gospel times expressed, in thanksgiving to Him who alone has enabled them to teach, savingly and to profit, every nation under heaven. "The four beasts said, Amen. And the twenty-four presbyters fell and worshipped Him, living unto ages of ages." Psalm cx.

(To be continued.)

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"OH! SEE WHAR YONDER BURNIE RINS."

By W. S. DANIEL.

Oh! see whar yonder burnie rins
Glenturit's bonny braes amang,
Noo jinkin' rocks, noo loupin' linns,
And liltin' aye it's mountain sang;
Oh! see whar, by the breezes swayed,
Low bends yon auncient rowan-tree,
Wi' that green bank aneath its shade,
Sae dear to young heart-luve and me!
My Jamie there, wi' me alane,

First said, "Oh! Jean, I loo but you”—
Syne kist me ower and ower again,

Tho' aye I turnt awa my moo;

Like twa wee daisies, cheek to cheek,
We looed, as bairns, on yonder brae,
Played 'mang the whins at hide-and-seek,
Or sang some hamely mountain lay:
Neist time we met, as years rowed by,
Oh! what a change on baith was seen,
A man was he, a woman I,

Yet nae change in the luvin' een!
But noo, tho' yonder burn rins clear,
Oh! dowie is its sang to me,
And nae bricht berries noo appear
On yonder auncient rowan-tree;
For cled in kilt and martial plaid,
As lion bauld, as fleet as roe,
Like lad that's worth a Hieland maid,
My Jamie fronts the Russian foe;
He lookit owre a gairden wa',

And said, "Yon rose shall Jeanie's be!"
Syne clamb the wa' mid steel and ba',
And here's the rose-leaves sent to me.

But he'll come back to bless my sicht,
And, as we stray yon braes amang,

The rowan-tree will sune be bricht,

And blithe the burnie's mountain sang!

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE,

25TH OCTOBER 1854.

Oh! weep for many a brave
Heroic British son,

Whose meteor race is run,-
Side by side they sleep in one
Bloody grave.

'Twas morning of the day,
On Balaclava's plain,

O'er scattered heaps of slain,
Rode a messenger amain,
On his way.

"Let the Light Brigade advance,"
Was the hasty summons brought,
Each warrior, quick as thought,
The echoing accents caught,
"Men advance."

Hark! a murmur faint and low,
Devoid of aught like fear,
Is heard, their hour is near,-
They rush on with a cheer,
On the foe.

As when wrathful tempests roar,
And toss the billowy deep,
Drifting onward to the steep,
The vessel at each sweep,
So they bore.

"Lost! lost is every one!"

Muttered many gazing on,

Where the Light Brigade had gone,

And their gleaming sabres shone
In the sun.

Unerring is the course

Of many a deadly ball;

Thick, thick the deathshafts fall;
They clear the battery wall,
Man and horse.

And as through the foe they dash-
Hark! the ringing British cheer,—
Lo! already in their rear

See their sabres' sheen appear,
As they flash.

But can that little band,

Who like Autumn's rushing gale,
Lately swept along the vale;
'Gainst a countless host prevail,
Or withstand?

No, demigods would fail

In what ye failed to do ;-
Back, back then gallant few
Your bloody pathway hew,
Up the vale.

With a frenzy madder still,

E'en than rude barbarians shew;

Alike on friend and foe

In conflict linked below,

From the hill,