Confederated Republics, under the counsel and example of the United States, will arise in the former "habitations of dragons," and the deserts" of cruelty "shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. And, like an elder brother, our Republic will kindly instruct them in the principles of popular freedom. Now dawns that glorious day so often referred to in the Holy Scriptures-the millennium morning. Talk of converting the nations of the earth to God while monarchy lasts! What a mistake! Never can the Prince of Peace hold universal sway upon earth until the last vestige of earthly royalty is destroyed for ever. But after the casting down of the thrones, the smiting of the great image, the taking of the beast and the false prophet, the reaping of the vintage and harvest of the earth, the overthrow of the dragon and his armies, the fall of the willful king, and the slaughter of the armies of Gog at the battle of the great day of God Almighty, that bright day shall begin, long the theme of so many promises to the good and true of every age, the hallowed hope of the Christian Church, and the song that made Judah's sacred mountains shake with expectant joy. The cloudless splendor from "a new heaven a new heaven" will beam upon the inhabitants of " a new earth" in that hap

py millennium-a thousand years-when there will be but one kind of civil government known, and that will be Republicanism, and but one religion known, and that will be Christianity. Not that every man will be a holy man, for the final judgment will come when wise and foolish virgins, the righteous and the wicked, will both be upon earth; but a long circle of ages called the millenniuma certain given for an indefinite number of yearsin which the means for the elevation of the world will be multiplied, commerce and trade, agriculture and manufactures, science and art, will extend, the gospel of the Son of God have universal welcome among the nations of the earth, and "nations learn war no more." Then will the apocalyptic angel, having the everlasting gospel to preach to every nation and people and tongue, sweep the breath of heaven, and as his silvery pinions of light shave the level horizon, every island and continent shall bow obsequious to his message: "Fear God, and give glory to him; and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."

Then shall righteousness and peace among the nations walk, Messiah reign,

"And earth keep jubilee a thousand years."