Baptist was sent to prepare the way for His coming to preach. And the valleys are being exalted, and the hills are being made low; the crooked are being made straight and the rough places plain; and the glory of the Lord is about to be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. All flesh did not see the glory of the Lord together under the administration of John the Baptist, but all flesh will see it together under the administration of this second great forerunner.
Our third proposition is that this angel's face was, as it were, the sun. Now, what are some of the general characteristics of the sun? The primary object of the rising sun is to dispell the darkness, and it is true, as the poet says, that
"The night of the ages
Was weary and long,
And darkness gave cover
And shelter to wrong;
But the wearisome night
Of oppression is past,
And the shadowing darkness
Has lifted at last."
Uriah Smith says, in his book on the United
