flee away and be at rest." And this dove, this undefiled one, has at last found her rest in the bosom of God; and though she has "lien among the pots" yet is she now, with wings covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold, winging her happy flight above the earth, and far removed from the din and uproar of the distracted world.

These are they who have kept the hour of Christ's patience, and who are therefore kept from that “hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Because they have walked in the Spirit, the trial of their love has come in the Spirit, and they have been found faithful, and it is now past; and they stand with the Lamb on the Mount Zion perfected in love, and exempt from all the horrors of that fearful day.

Oh, eye! wilt thou not see? Oh, ear! wilt thou not hear! Oh, heart! wilt thou not feel? Or, must it be that thy spiritual organs can only be roused through the sufferings of the flesh? God would win thee in love and not in judgment, for judgment is His strange act; but win His bride He will listen then to the melting accents of love, lest His jealousy awake: and though wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, yet who is able to stand before jealousy?—for "jealousy burneth like fire."

APPENDIX.

It may appear a very remarkable but it is nevertheless a`literal fact, that scarcely one hour after the words were written which refer to this appendix, the author's attention was drawn to a French print representing the resurrection of Napoleon from the grave. This is the second print he has seen exhibiting Napoleon as having just risen from the tomb, and surrounded with all the emblems of supernatural glory. If the author of these prints had designed them from the prophecies of Isaiah, Daniel, St. Paul and St. John, he could scarcely have presented a more exact resemblance to the original, as described by these prophets. The print is entitled, "Entouré des Personages Illustres qui l'ont Combatter,” and is evidently one of a complete series. Napoleon himself is of course the principal character, and he is represented as having risen from the tomb with all the outward emblems of its prison house broken and scattered at his feet; whilst he himself is elevated above the earth, seated upon a throne in the region of the air, emblazoned with all those supernatural appearances which usually accompany artistical efforts to pourtray the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. An eagle supports the throne, and upon Napoleon's head is a wreath of victory, which is surmounted by a halo of supernatural glory; and above him a representation of the morning star, encompassed around with brightness and light evidently expressive of that radiance, inaccessible and full of glory, the immediate presence of Deity himself. Beneath and around his throne, which is elevated in the VOL. II.-F

air, are arranged his numerous warriors in wondrous amazement at his re-appearance; and, as if to complete the representation and to provide against any discrepancy between the pictorial design and the original description in the prophecies, two Asiatics offer the enthroned king their worship-bringing to our recollection the words of the prophet Daniel-"The Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps." And the assembled warriors appear by their gesture to be saying, through the lips of one whose attitude and person it is impossible to mistake, "Behold, the beast that was, and is not, and yet is! Who is able to make war with him?"

It is the mark of an ill-regulated and superstitious mind to elevate every incident of common life into the region of the supernatural: we would carefully guard against the slightest approach at compromising the grave solemnity of our present enquiry by attempting to extract arguments in support of it from insufficient data; but there is a deeper truth contained in such popular forms of expressing that which is concealed in the heart of mankind than enters into the philosophy of most men to conceive.

It is an argument of a celebrated metaphysical writer, that any thing it is possible for man to suppose may exist-can exist; and we have the testimony of Revelation itself that things which shall be hereafter are beyond and above the heart of man to conceive. We may, therefore, be assured that the realities themselves will far exceed man's power of conception: nor can we detect any thing contrary to the philosophy of human nature in the conclusion that previous familiarity with any extraordinary phenomena is

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the sure preparation for its reception into the mind of The abuse of a truth, so far from constituting any argument against the truth itself, is the strongest confirmation of its existence; and, though it be true that it is the indication of a heated and unbalanced mind to attempt extracting from every common event in life indications of the supernatural, it is also equally true that God does speak by outward and oftentimes apparently inadequate signs, and that it is a legitimate exercise of the spiritual discernment in the Church to point the attention of the unspiritual to their existence, and to declare their true signification; and, moreover, that such powers of interpreting visible signs is one aspect of the prophetical character of the Church. Many of our readers may have been startled at the exposition given of the prophecy in the Revelation, that the false prophet should have power to endow the image of the infidel beast with vitality, and yet may themselves have gazed upon its fac simile in the speaking automaton. Nor does the supposition that this extraordinary exhibition is only the effort of mechanical contrivance affect our argument-the exhibition remains the same-and the object is gained by making men's minds familiar with the ultimate fact.

Our readers will not attach less interest to the above note by the following extract of a letter from a clergyman of the Church of England, received by the author some days after it was penned: he avails himself of the writer's permission to publish the intelligence on condition of suppressing the name. The fact to which it refers needs no comment; and, from the high respectability of the parties through whom it is communicated

to him, requires no additional authentication. The letter to the writer was occasioned by the perusal of No. IV. of the "Retrospect:"

"I may just mention one curious fact stated to me not long since by my relation, —

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namely, that she saw in Paris, in May last, a picture which was secretly exhibited of a man rising from the tomb in glory with a veil thrown over his face; but through which you clearly discerned the striking and unmistakeable features of Napoleon: and underneath was written 'LE VERBE.'

This appendix would be extended beyond its proper limits if we were to refer to all the curious circumstances communicated through other correspondents, corroborative of the correctness of the interpretation that Napoleon will be the eighth head as well as the seventh; but it is highly satisfactory to find that a witness is thus spontaneously proceeding from the bosom of the Church, as well as the world, of the soundness of this exposition of the mystery of the beast that "was, and is not, and yet is." The following extract from one letter may, however, be interesting to those who are not acquainted with the facts to which it alludes:-"Are you aware that the mesmerists in Paris are openly avowing their expectation of being able to raise Napoleon from death by mesmerism? Such is the fact, and the French are ready enough to rejoice in his reappearance, if one may judge by a very restricted observation of a general feeling. It is said, also, that the magnetisers are in the frequent habit of calling up spirits from Hades, or devils which personate them, for the one is more likely than the other."