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nscrnaa|68 _n.righteous. It will not be 'sung until the last child isborn into the kingdom-the last enemy conqueredtheelect gathered from the four winds of heaven, andthe cap stone brought forth, when the heavens willring with this general chorus. "Holy, holy, holy is theLord God Almighty: blessing, and honor, and glory, andpower, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, andunto the Lamb forever and ever; and the four beasts willsay, Amen."Ill. I shall now show the reign spoken of in our text,and the place where.There is much speculation at the present dayon thereign of Christ on the earth, which is promised in hisword, and in the text. Some have supposed that itwould be purely spiritual, by the Holy Spirit's induence,when all, or a large share of mankind who then shouldbe on the earth, would be regenerated and become thesubjects of his kingdom;that there would beno tempting devi spiritual to deceive, nor any kingdomson theearth, but what would be subject to Christ's spiritualreign, and the church would enjoy a long Sabbath ofrest; and the long-desired period of some who professto be the servants of Christ would come; when churchand state would be united, and war would cease to theend ofthe world, and the world would increase in riches,arts, and science to an amazing degree, beyond any thingwe have yet conceived; thousands would inha it theearth where there are but tens now, and man would liveto a good old age, and nations be born in a day. Thistheory is the most rational one I have been able to discover,aside from the glorious reign of Christ with hispeople in a state of immortality.To the above theory 1 have many scriptural objections.Although the advocates of this theory call it spiritual,yet a large share, if not all, are temporal blessings othis kingdom, and are exactly the same that the Jewsbelieved they should possess at Christ's first coming.Again : they must suppose, if this he true, that theru ers of the world must all be Christians, or pmfesaedlyso. Then what must we to Christ's words, "Mykingdom is say not of this word" ? and again, "In theU