external evidences could be referred to as a proof of it. We have no doubt that they are the real effects of that phenonemon, and that the world, in due time, will be led to see and to acknowledge it.
Here then we close our remarks on these points, earnestly recommending what has been said to the serious notice of the reader. He cannot doubt that he is living in a remarkable period of Christian history; he sees that old things are being broken up and that all things are becoming new. Such events prove most decisively to our minds that there is present in the world an activity of the Divine Providence before unknown; this we take to be among the evidences in proof that now is the time of the second coming of the Lord: and to what other adequate cause can they be reasonably ascribed? We feel that in urging attention to this view of the subject, we are doing something to assist in promoting that better understanding of the Word by which piety, truth, and goodness will be seen as the inseparable handmaids of a pure, precious, and imperishable religion—a religion which demonstrates that men are to love God by an increasing endeavour to add something to the wisdom and happiness of each other.
