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s, now flourii^hing in health ; for the sake of this land, now clear of epidemical disca»ca; oh! to binder the ravages of another typhus, which rung the knell of thou, sands, and wrote its hiMory in the annaU of many III.] OOD'9 CONTEOVERSr WITH THE LAND, 963 thousand families ; for the sake of human life and human happiness here at home, no less than there abroad; for the sake of the well-condittoDed, as well as of the miserable ; for every sake of God and man, of religioa and nature, of hope and of fear, do what you can at this opportunity to suc- cour the distressed, — and bring unto our country- men once more, the character, the enjoyment, and the condition of British subjects, and of Christian men. 964 DISCOURSE IV. ((JLIACKKD At Tlt£ riMT OF A tCRSS* Off FAOHiSTIO DU* CaUmKS, III TKt NATIONAL flCOTCH CtfU&CU. iMKKDtATUT cmm 1T» onvtmo, Ttu juirc, 1897,) lUE DRV15G UP OF THE CUPLtRATES. /Ae s/j'M tf/i^f / jwund i>ut his vial upon tfit rrcer Euphrctes; mid the water ifKreof was dried up, that the woy of the iing^t of thi €aH mit^lU be prxparcd. AmOGST the students of prophecy, who alooe^ have a right to aay ear in prophetical issueig, aod^| amongst all the writers upon prophecy who hare in such numbers published their opinioD3 withia^^ these few years, there i^ a universal ugreeuiciit ia^^ this one pointy however theymay differ in oLfaera, that we are now livinj^ unJer the influeDce of thii sixth vial, waiting daily for the pouring: out of the scvcntli. which is to couflummatc the wrath of^ God, and bring bis iodiguation to an end. And«^| even to &piritual men, who have not made prophecy ^^ asttidy^ and are wont to.^et light by it altogether, fio observable since the peace hath the procesuon andactmtyofthreediverseevil spirits ID the churdl upon the coDiincnt bccoac, that alier their rctuni I IV.] TBE DliritfO VF OF THE EUPUKATEA. 96^ Uiey have said to me. * Do'nt you think this ts the tiiiir t)f the Hue.^. unclean &}>irlt&?' And nrMine t)iHt hearetfa me is ignoraai how every polittciaa. and statesman, and among others the man who attract- eth most eyoa at present, continually declarcth that the next war which brcakcth out will con- vulse Europe to its centre, and prote, like to no other war that tiatK hcren belbr« it, a war not of offence or of defence, hut a wasting and oonvulfi- in^; war of opinion; a war not of kin^i4 goinj; out to battle for glory, and ambition, and dominion, and spoil, but a war of the people^ on the one hand, rising to exterminate tyranny