OUR MARVELLOUS TIMES: BEING A SEVENTH SERIES OF SERMONS, BY THE Rev. T. DE WITT TALMAGE: AUTHOR OF "Crumbs Swept Up," "The Abominations of Modern DELIVERED IN THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, LONDON: WILLIAM NICHOLSON AND SONS, TALMAGE'S SERMONS. OUR MARVELLOUS TIMES. "I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth."-JOEL ii. 30. DR. R. CUMMING-great and good man-would have told us the exact time of the fulfilment of this prophecy. As I stepped into his study in London on my arrival from Paris just after the French had surrendered at Sedan, the good Doctor said to me: "It is just as I told you about France; people laughed talked about the seven horns and the saw all this from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation." Not taking any such responsibility in the interpretation of this passage, I simply assert that there are in it suggestions of many things in our time. at me because I vials, but I fore Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens its pulsation as we read of events in the third century, the sixth century, the eighth century, the fourteenth century; but there are more far-reaching events crowded into the nineteenth century than into any other, and the last quarter bids fair to eclipse the preceding three quarters. We read in the daily newspapers of events announced in one paragraph and without any especial emphasis-of events which |