Second advent library

ucruu1%_xn.nations; (called great sea,)nor on individuals or smallsocieties of men, trees;) and this has been remarkably$_ca.lledfulfilled or twenty years past. Not aparticleof opposition has been experienced against the ti-ansla~tion and spread of the Bible, or the missionary cause.Kings have been nursing fathers, and queensminingnipthers, to help forward the cause of God. The winoPapacy has been klept down by the angel,so that allthe opposition they co d raise has been weak and ineilicient.The Mahometan wind has not blown a bla!for twenty years; the idolatrous and pagan nations ofthe East have, b some invisible power, been kept incheck; the iniidel' and deisticnl principles of the Westhave been held in complete subjection by the sameinvisible hand, until the servants of God should besealed. Therefore, since the French revolution, noneof these four winds of opposition to Christ have beenpermitted to use any physical force, as formerl to , suppressthe spread ofthe gospel through the earth. "Andsaw another angel ascending from the easghaving theseal of the livino' God; and he cried with a loud voiceto the four angels to whom it wasgiven to hurt the earthand the sea." The angel here spoken of as ascendingfrom the east, is the angel standingon the land andonthesea, with a little book open, and the same that is representedin another place as dying through the midst of heavenhaving the everlasting pei to preach to them who dwellon the earth. Coming tgriiin the east,the place of list, ami',having the seal of the living God, shows plainly t it hFe angel of the gospel. The four angelsare the fourmelengersGod, who suppress those four opposition principges,until the sealing time shall be over, " Hurt note earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, sayin? til we hansealed the servants of God in their foreheads." Thefour angelsare here commanded not to let these fill!winds of opposition hurt the earth, sea, or trees, und]fha sealing time is past, which is the same time spokenot] Daniel xii. 1, "Then shall Michael stand up, thegreat Prince which standeth for the children of thyle." "And I heard the number of them 'which waaed; and there were sealed a hundredthousandofallthetxibesofthochildrand'"fertannld