the angel told Daniel when to commence them, viz: with the command to restore and to build Jerusalem. These events received their fulfilment before the "overspreading of abominations" commenced. The 70 weeks must be a part of the vision which extended to the cutting off of the Messiah, by which the vision was sealed, or made sure. Seventy weeks of the vision are determined, &c. The word determined originally signifies to cut off, or separate. The question might be asked, cut off The answer must be, from the vision; for there is no other subject in Daniel from which seventy weeks are separated. from what? - The seventy weeks, which we believe to be a part of the whole vision, commenced with the decree delivered by Artaxerxes Longimanus. It is the opinion of some, that this event immediately followed the decree of Cyrus. But Prideaux says, "that the state of Judah and Jerusalem "only" began to be restored. And that it was not until the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, under the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, that the church and state of the Jews, by virtue of several decrees, were thoroughly restored. With this fact agrees Ezra vii. 14, which plainly shows that the command, in Daniel, to "restore and build Jerusalem," though repeated, sucessively, under the reigns of three different kings, did not go into force only by the authority of Artaxerxes Longima nus. - The next event, in the order of time, is in Daniel ix. 26. "The people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary." This leads us to notice the history of Pagan Rome, which commenced its power with the Jews 158 years before Christ, and, according to its age, (Rev. xiii. 8.) lasted till 508, A. D., when the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the abomination which makes desolate was set up. The thirty years intervening from this period, to the time when the Bishop of Rome was made head over all the churches, brings us down to 538, which is the period for commencing the time, times and a half, or the 1260 years. We say years, because this interpretation is strengthened by reference to the same events, under similar expressions of time, in Rev. xi. 2. The holy city is given to be trodden under foot, forty and two months—thirty days to a month 42-|301260. The witnesses were to prophecy in sackcloth a thousand two hundred and three score days The 1260 years: Rev. xii. 14. persecuted woman fled into the wilderness, that she should be "nourished for a time, times and a half time." Here is evidence that these events and periods of time are identical, in which the true church should be oppressed, and the religion of Christ "despised and rejected of men." The 1260 years from the time of its commencement, 538, brings us down to 1798, What happened then? The French monarchy was shaken to its foundation, and fulfills, by decisive evidence in the history of that era, that the judgment to consume and destroy the dominion of Papacy began to sit, and, consequently, 1260 years have elapsed the period during which the saints, times, and laws of the church were in the hands of the Papal power, is past and must have closed at this time. In a volume entitled "An Introduction to Christianity," dated 1808, published in this country, by J. Soule, [now bishop] and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, second American, from the improved English edition, is the following pas sage: Page 151- "The two thousand three hundred days; that is, years, of Daniel, for the God of heaven to set up an everlasting kingdom, and cleanse the sanctuary, are expired, or nearly so: Dan. viii. 13, 14. Likewise the fall of the tenth part of the city by a great earthquake, and the slaughter of the seven thousand men, seems to have been STRIKINGLY ACCOMPLISHED by the French revolution. Their bidding defiance to the powers of the Pontificate was sudden and unexpected, as an earthquake, and attended with the slaughter of more than a million of men. The aggrandizement of this empire, and the titles assumed by Bonaparte, Emperor of France, and King of Italy, are declarations to the world that THE TEMPORAL POWERS OF THE POPE EXIST NO MORE!" "The Directory [who were Napoleon's tools at Paris] feeling or affecting to feel a high degree of indignation at the insult offered to their ambassador, and at the loss of their General, transmitted instructions to General Berthier to march to the Roman capital. On the 10th of February, 1798, the French army arrived at that place, and the castle of St. Angelo, containing the Pope, and the greater part of his cardinals, surrendered on the first summons. The inhabitants, freed from restraint by the captivity of their rulers, and encouraged by the presence of the French army, assembled in the campo Vaccino, the ancient Roman Forum, and, at the instigation of two of the nobles, and an advocate of some reputation, planted the tree of liberty in front of the capitol, proclaimed their independence, and instituted the Roman Republic. All the splendor and magnificence, of which the Catholic worship is susceptible, were employed to celebrate this memorable victory over the head of its faith. Every church in Rome resounded with thanks to the Supreme Disposer of events, for the glorious REVOLUTION that had taken place; and while the dome of St. Peter's was illuminated without, fourteen cardinals, dressed in the gorgeous apparel appertaining to functions. which they were fated soon after to abdicate, presided at a solemn Te Deum, within the walls of that superb basilic. The DEPOSED PONTIFF, exiled from his country, was conveyed, by order of the Directory, first to Braincon, and afterwards to Valence, in France, where the infirmities of age, and the pressure of misfortune, terminated his existence, on the 29th of August, 1799, in the 82d 'year of his age, and 24th of his Pontificate." The History of the wars of the French revolution. By Edward Baines, of England. Book II. Chap. 4. pp. 222, 223. The Hon Gerard Noel says, "Can the |