Thou that stupendous truth believ'd, * ART. IV.-The Kingdom of God, JOAN [OANNA SOUTHCOTT's delusion is still continued. She is succeeded in her prophetic office by George Turner, who is an inmate of one of the Lunatic asylums. From his cell, this madman issues his revelations, of which the two pamphlets above described are a specimen, and, strange to say, there is a considerable body of people in the metropolis and elsewhere who give implicit credit to his ravings, and yield entire obedience to his mandates. He is said to have been a man of considerable property, and to have been placed in confinement by his friends, as a necessary measure of security. His disciples regard him as the victim of ungodly persecution. Under George Turner, S. Gompertz, the vender of the pamphlets, is the minister of the Southcottian Church. He is a converted Jew, who has acknowledged the new religion about five years. He preaches in an assembly-room, in Brewer Street, Golden Square, to an audience of several hundred people. The present capacious place of meeting is reported to be too smail to contain the auditors. The principal object of assembling is to receive, from time to time, and to expound George Turner's revelations. These are a law to the church: a recent one commanded the discontinuance of the Lord's Supper, and it has accordingly been laid aside. Many of Joanna's followers were scandalized at the event of her supposed pregnancy, but the persevering It might seem hypercritical, considering the circumstances in which the poem was written, to point out the false concord in this line. believers say that only a spiritual Shiloh was promised, and that there has been no real disappointment. Shiloh is still expected by them, and it should seem that he is to come personally. He is represented as the Son of Jesus Christ. He is to reign on earth for 1000 years; to restore the Jews; to drive the infernal hierarchy back to their dark abodes; and to realize the predicted office and character of a Comforter to the true believers. His kingdom is to be set up in fifteen years from this time. All that will not acknowledge him are to be removed by death. His palace is to be built of pure gold, and adorned with all sorts of precious stones; and he is to have quite an army of singers, no less (so says George Turner) than seventy thousand musical men and seventy thousand singing women. and house and buildings and tools and Every man is to have a wife and land furniture; the earth is to bring forth abundance, and as the people multiply, the seas and lakes are to be turned into dry land. There is to be plenty Shiloh is to have banks (literally so) of wine, but no spirituous liquors. in every city, town and village, and from these the believers are to be supplied with money of a peculiar coinage. 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By James Hawkes. 8vo. 6d. POETRY. EPITAPH ON THE DEATH OF THE INQUISITION. Published at Madrid, March, 1820. With a Translation. Riensi riemuhun jaholon, Wapantehen waelsi, Elæmæstæ surkiasta, Næistæ mailman majoista. Down from heav'n then came a man- From the Universe-Supporter : Grief enough-enough of sadness. The harmony of the Finnish Runes consists not only in their measured syllables, but in the artificial repetition of the same sound, of which there are some striking examples in the above fragment; as for instance, pæællæ pææsin paiwa Pææsæ pæiwista pahoista. In the inhospitable regions of the North, song has been called an "universal element," and many of the Finnish Runes, consisting of several hundred stanzas, have been orally conveyed down to our times, from a period of very remote antiquity, and in a state of perfectness, of which it would be difficult to furnish any other example. Runes, wholly founded on the mythology of distant centuries, are often heard even now from the lips of the Finnish peasants. Kawe, the father of the gods; Wæinæmainen, the spirit of good and the inventor of the harp; Hiisi, the omnipotent principle of evil, and Kiwutar, the divine mother, seem only to have transferred their attributes to other names introduced by Christianity, while in some of their songs the heathenish notions of A Madrileño is an inhabitant of the poet are most strangely blended with Madrid. + Runo is the Finnish name for a song; the singer or poet is called Runolainen. the enlightening influence of a purer system. J. B. |