roving life. The last message he leaves is for her, his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instils the lesson of piety and filial obligation in the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labour is not in vain. She may drop into the grave; but she has left behind her influence that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its office.'

GRATITUDE IN A MULE.

We were shown a wonderful proof of the efficacy of a little kindness and care in the case of a mule which came to Balaklava in the baggage train of the Sardinian army, and having been terribly knocked about, and very severely hurt on board ship, during a rough passage, was left by them for dead, on the sea-shore. The boatswain of H. M. S. Rodney happened to pass where the wretched animal lay bleeding but still alive, and, with the blessed instinct of humanity, he stopped to help the sufferer. He raised the dying head, and gave the parched throat some water, and by and by he brought some food. In a day or two the mule was able to crawl; and, to make a long story short, when I saw him yesterday he was fat and strong and sleek, still covered with sores, which are in a fair way to heal, and following his friend, Mr. Collins, the boatswain, precisely like a dog. In and out into the huts, among the workmen, wherever his business on shore calls him, may be seen the boatswain and the attendant mule; and when he recovers from his scars he will be one of the finest and handsomest mules that we have out here.-Mrs. Duberly's Campaign in the Crimea.

BLINDNESS OF BIGOTRY.

THE Weekly Telegraph of the 22nd ultimo, records the cases of three delinquent Protestant clergymen, one of whom was transported for forgery; another who was suspended for three years for drunkenness, and a third, who was imprisoned for swindling. We beg the Editor of the Telegraph to note that each of these delinquent clergymen was visited with exemplary punishment, and we also beg the Editor to remark,

that he himself and Dr. M'Hale have recently convicted a Roman Catholic Priest of the grossest lying and swindling, and yet the delinquent priest has not been visited with any punishment, but continues up to the present moment in the fullexercise of his sacerdotal functions. No association is responsible for the crimes of its members, when those crimes are punished. The Church of England is, therefore, clear, in the cases to which the Romish scribe alludes; the Church of Rome is but responsible for the crimes of her priest, whom she still cherishes in his unpunished iniquity.-Achill Herald.

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IN our January and February numbers, we have endeavoured to draw the attention of our readers to the 'Signs of the Times;' which are so prominent and apparent, that one who runs may read; and the most indifferent to these signs can hardly mistake or dispute their reality and significance, after their attention has been awakened and drawn to them.

Amongst the most remarkable of these signs, is the process of fulfilling our Lord Christ's prophecy on the Mount of Olives, when He was graciously pleased to answer, in part, the questions which His disciples put to Him, after he had denounced the utter destruction of that glorious fabric which had excited their patriotic admiration. Three of the Evangelists have recorded His answer; and St. Matthew and St. Mark, in particular when harmonised, give that clause of it with which we are at present interested: And this gospel of the kingdom shall first be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.' end to which our Lord alludes, is until the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled;' until which time He asserted, as all subsequent history has confirmed, that wrath shall be upon the Jewish people; and they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and they shall be led away captive unto all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles.'

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It is the opinion, founded on sufficient data, of almost all the modern expositors of prophecy, that we cannot be very far removed from the end of the great prophetic age, or the Times of the Gentiles, which have been computed to have

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commenced at the birth of Nebuchadnezzar, 656 years before the Christian era. When in the self-glorification of his heart, that great monarch had no sooner said to his courtiers, 'Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? than a voice from heaven resounded in his ears, "The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen; and SEVEN TIMES shall pass over thee; until thou know that the MOST HIGH ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.' Dan. iv. 30-32.

Well, we read in the same Book of Scripture that Nebuchadnezzar was seven years in a state of madness; and during all that time his kingdom was administered by a regency; but at the end of the days he himself, says, my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my councellors, and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me; v. 36-37. And we may here add that during the remainder of his life and reign, that mighty prince and conqueror became the faithful servant of the Most High, to whom he lifted up his eyes in devoted prayer and praise.

The seven times of the Gentiles, or 2520 natural years, are computed from the year in which the king of Babylon was born, which as nearly as can be ascertained was in the year 656 before Christ; and as he who was the golden head of the great metallic Image, was seven years in a state of madness, so the four great monarchies of which he was declared to be the head and ruling principle, were likewise destined to pass through a state of moral madness, during the extended space of Seven Times, or 2520 years; after which, as he was restored to his reason, and served God with a faithful and true heart, so at the end of the Seven Times the church will be restored to its purity, the sanctuary will be cleansed, and the whole host of mediatory saints, and Mahomedan antichristianism will be swept away by the sword of the Spirit, and the 'yoke' of the latter shall be 'broken without hand.' After which the blessed period of the Millennium will commence, when they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God's holy mountain;

for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Isa. xi. 6-10. This measure, therefore, of the Seven Times of the Gentiles, is made the gage or span of the great metallic image, which may be viewed either as chronologically progressive through four mighty successive empires, or as geographically completed in the Roman empire. That the season of Gentilism is not yet passed, we have the assurance of the revealing angel, that the court which is without the temple, or church of God, has been given unto the Gentiles that they may tread the holy city, that is the church, under foot forty and two months.

History teaches us that the actors during the first moiety of the Seven Times, were the Pagan empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome; and the ecclesiastical events were the various trials and persecutions to which the Levitical and Christian churches were subjected. The second moiety commenced in the year A.C. 604, when the first ended; during time, the church has been under a more severe persecution by the Roman and the Mahomedan Little Horns;' or, in other words, the church has been trodden under the feet of a new race of Gentiles, who have restored the ancient Gentile Paganism by the worship of the Virgin Mary and other canonised personages; and the western Little Horn, or the Pope, has maintained and justified persecution as a principle. its unfaithfulness the Eastern Church was given over to the desolating tyranny of Mahomet; but even then, it did not repent of its sins; and the hollow hypocrisy of the Popish religion gave rise to the daring and unheard of infidelity, which sprang out of the grand French Revolution.

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The three disciples asked our Lord on the Mount of Olives: What is the sign, when all things relative to the Temple shall be fulfilled; what is the sign of Christ's coming; and what is the sign of the end of the age? They supposed that the subversion of the Temple would be concurrent with the advent of the Messiah, and with the end of the great prophetic age mentioned by Daniel; but our Lord corrected their error and taught them that the calamities which were to precede the sack of Jerusalem, were to be only the beginning of Sorrows; and that the END, (to which we are now approaching,) was then future. Mr. Faber has paraphrased His language as follows:-The troubles which I am announcing are but the