THE ORB OF LIGHT.

THE ORB OF LIGHT;

OR,

The Apocalyptic Vision.

BY A LADY.

"Our father Adam's fall

And disobedience came alike on all.

All die in him; and hopeless should we be,
Bless'd Revelation, were it not for thee."

LONDON:

WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH, AND HUNT,
24, PATERNOSTER-ROW,

AND 23, HOLLES-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE.

PREFACE.

In presenting this little work to the public the writer is deeply moved at the position she occupies. One of the seven vials of time to be poured upon the true Church is therein announced, and the result of the third Gospel trumpet set forth, as foreseen and proclaimed by Christ, by his servant John. Is such a commission a trifling one? No; the writer must be a presumptuous, bold fanatic, an evil angel, or God's messenger; and thus it is that she submits it to the patient reading of the public, to be impartially judged. If this be a correct interpretation of prophecy, it must be a very important one to the Church, and the writer asks of her that sympathy which the nature of the work, which the mental

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