fathers, on the authority of Gelasius; so Justin, Basil, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen, Chrysostom, Ambrose, Augustin.

VI. This new earth will become the habitation of the just, and of those who have taken part in the first resurrection. St. Paul hints also at a future habitable world in Heb. ii. 5..

VII. The ancient Jews held similar opinions on the burning up of the earth by fire. (See Aben Ezra, D. Kimchi, and Josephus.) The Levitical law of the Sabbatical year was a type of the 1000 years after the 6000. [Called by St. Paul oaßßarioμos.-TR.]

VIII. Many of the ancient profane authors, (among them Cicero and Sophocles,) some more, some less distinctly, speak of the future burning of this globe. Bishop Burnet, in his "Sacred Theory of the Earth,' traces the foundations of all these various traditions to their Scripture origin,

το τελος.

THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN.

"The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."—

2 Cor. iv. 18.

I.

HA! yon burst of crystal splendour,
Sunlight, starlight, blent in one;

Starlight set in arctic azure,

Sunlight from the burning zone!

Gold and silver, gems and marble,
All creation's jewelry;

Earth's uncovered waste of riches,
Treasures of the ancient sea.
Heir of glory,

What is that to thee and me?

II.

Iris and Aurora braided,

How the woven colours shine,-
Snow-gleams from an Alpine summit,
Torchlight from a spar-roofed mine.
Like Arabia's matchless palace,
Child of magic's strong decree,
One vast globe of living sapphire,
Floor, walls, columns, canopy.
Heir of glory,

What is that to thee and me?

III.

Forms of beauty, shapes of wonder,
Trophies of triumphant toil;
Never Athens, Rome, Palmyra,
Gazed on such a costly spoil.

All readers of the Journal are most earnestly besought to give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honoured and his truth advanced; also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp unbrotherly disputation.