Ohl 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 GIFT OF 1 
 THE FAMILY OF REV. DR. GEORGE MOOAR 
 
 Class & " 
 

THE 
 
 SONG OF COSMOLOGY 
 
 OR THE 
 
 VOICE OF GOD 
 
 IN THE 
 
 SCIENCE OF NATURE, 
 
 COMPLETED BY EIGHTY THOUSAND YEARS IN 
 STAR-DATES OF HUMAN HISTORY. 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. J. M. WOODMAN, 
 
 Teacher of Natural Science in Clu co Academy, Cal.; Author of 
 "God in Nature and Revelation." 
 
 Poetry is tho NaturaTVoico of Prophecy, 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year A . D. 1880, by 
 
 J. M. WOODMAN, 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 Moses divides all time into six days or 
 ages. These days are subdivided into 
 epochs, called evening and morning. In 
 these six days all the work of creation was 
 finished, wherein rocks were formed, trees 
 grew, and life was begotten; wherein sans 
 give light, and planets revolve; and at the 
 close "God rested from all his work 
 which he had made." The seventh day, 
 without epochs, periods, or changes, is 
 supposed to be the unmeasured duration 
 
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iv Preface. 
 
 of eternity. As an index of creation the 
 weekly Sabbath was given. Ex. 20:11. 
 Man, under a covenant of law, was to 
 look back from tlie close of the week to 
 take his reward. This was to be strictly 
 measured to him by justice. "A pair 
 of balances in his hand " was the em 
 blematic groundwork of his reward. Rev. 
 G:5. Hence, in commemoration of the 
 law covenant, in addition to the moral 
 and physical necessity of a seven-day 
 Sabbath, it was highly important to se 
 lect the seventh day as appropriate. For 
 this reason God declared by Moses that 
 He gave this day. It was given with 
 just the limitations that special or local 
 legislation would give to a law covenant. 
 Rom. 7:0. 
 
Preface. v 
 
 Isaiah spoke of the departure of 
 such special legislation under the fig 
 ure of the old heavens and old earth. 
 Isa. G5:17. Tho Christian covenant is 
 emphatically one of hope, looking for 
 ward through the resurrection. Ketain- 
 ing the moral part of the fourth Com 
 mandment, and "forgetting" as com 
 manded the local part, which is the par 
 ticular day in establishing the Gospel, it 
 was important to give man as Sabbath 
 the first day of the week; that from the 
 first day of the week he should look by 
 hope to the faithful accomplishment of 
 his week s labor. In tiiis he is assisted 
 by the concrete Ideal of human obliga 
 tion, in Christ s example, wherein the 
 scales are balanced by his blood, mak- 
 
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vi Preface. 
 
 ing the new way to life possible through 
 the grace of God, vouchsafed to all who 
 honestly attempt to follow the Ideal. 
 
 This view of the new covenant seems 
 to have been so evident, that Christ and 
 his Apostles entered so quietly upon the 
 habit of meeting upon the first day for 
 worship, as they had once met on the 
 seventh, that no discussion was needed. 
 All, believing in the resurrection of Jesus 
 Christ, readily concurred. Both days 
 signified that there " remains a rest to the 
 people of God." The former, as a reward 
 of works after the ages are past; the lat 
 ter, as a gift of grace, crowned by and 
 entered upon through the resurrection 
 from the dead. 
 
Preface. vii 
 
 The first and second days of Moses 
 have no corresponding ages in written 
 Geology, as during these long periods of 
 time planetary matter was passing through 
 its gaseous, vapory, and liquid states. 
 Neither of the three clocks of the heavens 
 by which we measure time was in exist 
 ence then. The evening epoch of the third 
 day includes the liquefaction of our globe 
 of water, and the submarine deposits, 
 represented in Geology by the Azoic age. 
 
 And God said, " Let the waters under 
 the heaven be gathered together unto one 
 place, and let the dry land appear; and 
 it was so." The morning epoch of this 
 age, giving the " grass whose seed was 
 in itself," corresponds with the so-called 
 primary rock, reaching to the Carbonif- 
 
viii Preface. 
 
 erous. Following the "old Eed Sand 
 stone" was an age in which immense 
 quantities of carbonic acid gas was de 
 posited, and afterwards gradually reduced 
 to coal. Some call this the " intermediate 
 age between the Primary and Secondary 
 rock." They divide the ago into numerous 
 epochs, and each epoch into a burning 
 ancrnon-buruiiig period. 
 
 These periods have been counted by 
 means of strata of coal alternating with 
 gravel. Of these Hugh Miller enumerated 
 nearly two score, while Sir F. Lyell gave 
 one hundred. The earlier scries of these 
 epochs gave the material for anthracite, 
 and the latter for bituminous coal. It 
 
Preface. ix 
 
 was only for short intervals between these 
 periods that the sun first shone on the 
 earth. Hence, under a figure of speech, 
 these effects are brought out in the crea 
 tion of the heavenly orbs. Here the 
 "swaddling band," to which Job alluded, 
 was removed, and light and increased heat 
 was let in on the face of the earth. Moses 
 was scientifically right in making the Car 
 boniferous age a distinct day, divided 
 into morning and evening epochs. 
 
 The fifth day of Moses commences the 
 animal kingdom, and ends with the crea 
 tion of the whale. The evening of this 
 epoch was very long. It includes the 
 long morning of the third day, both morn 
 ing and evening of the fourth day, all the 
 
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 so-called secondary rock, also the tertiary 
 to the Myoceue. Gigantia of mammals 
 make the morning. " And God created 
 great whales." The sixth day includes all 
 time since. It is naturally divided into 
 historic and pre-historic. Man s exist 
 ence is placed by all in the last great 
 epoch of this age. This morning is to end 
 the work of God, connected with matter. 
 Notwithstanding Moses used the strong 
 language of vision, placing all creation 
 in the past tense, yet our Saviour said: 
 My Father worketh hitherto, and I 
 work/ The two harmonize on the prin 
 ciple that Moses, in vision, went through 
 all measured time, beholding the changes 
 
Preface. xi 
 
 and tho being of matter as a thing of the 
 past. We are now in the midst of tho 
 creations of the sixth age. Time and crea 
 tion have thus far kept even pace. Both 
 are relative, and hence not eternal. They 
 will doubtless cease together. 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 First Causes Sought After. 
 
 God, in order, before nature. God in 
 revealing, with, and beyond nature. 
 
 Section First. The Line of Inquiry 
 Selected. 
 
 Section Second. Matter and Power 
 Spoken into Being The Song of Chaos. 
 
 Section Third. The Deep Found in 
 a Compass, or Planetary Matter Revolv 
 ing in a Circle The TracklessWay of 
 the Gases and Liquids. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 The Grand March of Time through 
 Geological Deposits. 
 
Index of Subjects. xiii 
 
 Section First. Submarine Rock. 
 Section Second. The Origin of Life. 
 Section Third. The Carboniferous 
 
 Age The Young Earth Dressed in Sun 
 shine. 
 
 Section Fourth. The Fifth Day of 
 Moses, being the First of the Animal 
 Kingdom The Evening Epoch The 
 Morning Epoch. 
 
 Section Fifth. The Glacial Period. 
 
 Section Sixth. The Introduction of 
 Man. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Grand March of Time through Or 
 ganic Changes. 
 
 Section First. The Antediluvian Posi 
 tion of the Earth. 
 
 Section Second. The Change Wroiight 
 by the Flood. 
 
 Section Third. God s Ability not 
 Bounded by Nature s Power Introduc 
 tion to Star Dates. 
 
xiv Index of Subjects. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Grand March of Empire through 
 Pictured Events of History. 
 
 Section First. The Succession of Five 
 Universal Kingdoms. 
 
 Section Second. The Fate of the First 
 Four The Feast of the Fowls. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Prophecy Beholding the Grand March 
 of Science. 
 
 Section First. The Angel of Civiliza 
 tion The Song of the Engine. 
 
 Section Second. The Great Clock 
 Dating the Telegraph The Song of the 
 Lightning s Record. 
 
 Section Third. The Beast of Per 
 verted Science The song of the Dragon. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Grand March of Time among the 
 Stars. 
 
Index of Subjects. xv 
 
 Section First. The Little Book. 
 
 Section Second The Fate of Jerusalem 
 followed by that of her Besiegers. 
 
 Section Third The Testimony of Jesus 
 vs. The Dragon The Vision of Euling 
 Principles. 
 
 Section Fourth. The Doom of Amer 
 ican Slavery hung in the Stars The Wo 
 man in Scarlet. 
 
 Section Fifth. Euling Principles Dra 
 matized on Horseback Change of Horses 
 at Mazzaroth s Stations. 
 
 Section Sixth. The Feast of Magog 
 The Supper of the Great God. 
 
 Section Seventh. The First Resurrec 
 tion The Song of the Millennium. 
 
 Section Eighth. The Great Religious 
 War. 
 
 Section Ninth. The Seen must give 
 place to the Unseen The Closing Scenes 
 of Prophecy. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Language was invented for material 
 purposes. Man, meeting his fellow, in 
 connection with material objects, must 
 define and express their use. This out 
 ward necessity would establish a lan 
 guage of objective ideas. Hence all hu 
 man languages known, are essentially ob 
 jective in nature and mode of application. 
 Man is also a creature of subjective 
 thought and spiritual intuitions. To 
 rightly express these with objective lan 
 guage, he naturally lifted language up 
 into the realm of figure in poetry. Hence 
 poetry is naturally no less the language of 
 
Introduction. xvii 
 
 prophecy, than the voice of the soul. The 
 approaches of Deity to man are clothed 
 in poetry. The world are agreed that 
 natural, well expressed figures of speech 
 are essential ingredients in good poetry. 
 The world not only ask and expect figures 
 here, but when conscious that the lan 
 guage read is poetry, they make all 
 due allowances for strong figures of 
 speech. 
 
 The prophets have given us the grand 
 outlines of Cosmology, the steady flow of 
 Time s changes with the great march of 
 empire, in the ever changing political, 
 religious and social .condition of man, 
 in poetic language. Of Hebrew poetry 
 it has been well said, " Translated into 
 verse, and read by a matter of fact peo 
 ple, with objective modes of thought, its 
 
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xviii Introduction. 
 
 beauty is nearly lost." The literal mode 
 of interpretation, therefore, natural for 
 such a people, renders the text false to 
 nature, and unlike the sublime truths 
 stated. 
 
 All the prophets spoke in figures, and 
 scarcely without a parable spoke Jesus 
 unto the multitudes. The Bible exceeds 
 all other books in sublimity of concep 
 tion, grandeur of figure, depth of sub 
 ject, and breadth of meaning. It abounds 
 in poetry ; not only in the Psalms and 
 Canticles, but also in much that is usually 
 called prose. Our people have departed 
 a long way from the habit of the people 
 of the Orient, who poetized their best 
 thoughts. Hence large portions of the 
 Bible, originally given to the world in 
 poetry, have become sealed to our read- 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xix 
 
 ers. Of this species of composition are 
 the first chapters in Genesis, the books of 
 Job, Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation. I 
 need offer, therefore, no other apology for 
 dressing the comments here made upon 
 these books in verses. I have chosen the 
 dactylic, as better meeting the form of 
 Oriental language as given to us. Whole 
 verses, and sometimes nearly whole chap 
 ters, in Moses and Job, may, without any 
 material alteration, be brought into 
 rhythm. Should the reader of these 
 lines, through this means, be led into 
 close relations with nature, and nature s 
 God, the author will feel himself abund 
 antly rewarded. 
 
THE SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 First Causes Sought After. 
 
 God in order, before nature. 
 
 God, in revealing, with, and beyond nature. 
 
 SECTION FIRST. 
 THE LINES OF INQUIRY SELECTED. 
 
 O where Understanding, true Wisdom of 
 causes, 
 
 Shall mortals enshrouded in darkness be 
 hold thee; 
 
 Or how shall our knowledge of changes 
 in matter, 
 
 Yet link with the cause, first beginning 
 the series. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 21 
 
 A line is suggested unknown to the lion. 
 Nor viewed by the vulture, though keen 
 
 his perception; 
 
 That way we must find so select and re 
 fining, 
 
 The path that s unknown to the fowls of 
 
 the air; 
 Unseen by the ken of the sharp-sighted 
 
 eagle, 
 
 Not trodden by beasts, found unclean in 
 
 their emblem; 
 Unread in the changes, unfolding the 
 
 flora, 
 
 Unheard in the record of fauna expiring; 
 Not known in the crystal, beneath the old 
 
 fossil; 
 Not valued with gold or weighed against 
 
 silver, 
 But cast up in place for the ransomed of 
 
 thinkers. 
 
22 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Too deep for the eye of the sage with his 
 
 hammer, 
 So vague are results of the scientist s find 
 
 ings; 
 While tli deep neath the earth in its 
 
 pressure proclaimeth, 
 ilf< 
 White th sea, that is rolling above on its 
 
 surface, 
 
 Solutions to first cause are found not in 
 nature. 
 
 As ling ring for guidance to th path f 
 understanding, 
 
 We pause to reflect on the voice of the 
 ocean; 
 
 The changes in liquids leave seldom a 
 record, 
 
 And gases but mock with unceasing con 
 tortions, 
 
 While tracing their changes in process of 
 forming. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 23 
 
 Like deltas which hold the strange bur 
 den of rivers, 
 
 Now showing the seasons in regular 
 series, 
 
 The crust of the earth is imprinted with 
 fossils, 
 
 That herald the epochs, in series of 
 changes, 
 
 In three, of the four, geological ages. 
 
 Like placers, that sparkle with crystal- 
 ized carbon, 
 
 Cohesions of earth are all teeming with 
 wonders; 
 
 Yet di monds conceal the true cause of 
 formation, 
 
 As jewels in root-truths are notably want 
 ing. 
 
24 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Then where is the place and the way f 
 understanding ? 
 
 Destruction and death, in their fossil re 
 tirement, 
 
 Entombing the life and the motion, once 
 given, 
 
 Eeply We have heard of the fame of 
 causation, 
 
 Inhering as hidden, unseen, yet the real, 
 
 But know not the way, or the manner of 
 acting." 
 
 Bewilder d by nature, who hints in with 
 holding, 
 
 That sh points to the Master, in rever 
 ence, saying 
 "The way and the place is in God thy 
 
 Creator;" 
 
 " Go turn to the God of your fathers for 
 wisdom, " 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 25 
 
 "He bringeth to light the desir d under 
 standing, " 
 
 " He search cl it out, saw it, and declar d 
 it fully." 
 
 We look with relief from the laws of 
 mere sequence, 
 
 To Him who in wisdom ordained the 
 heavens; 
 
 Yet here, we can see only the finite and 
 temp ral 
 
 The Author is veiled in infinity s great 
 ness. 
 
 All terms when applied to Eternal Om 
 niscience, 
 
 Seem meagre, and lacking infinity of 
 meaning; 
 
 Tis th poets descent to the mortal and 
 
 lowly, 
 
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26 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 To raise them to Him, the Ideal Divin- 
 itr, 
 
 Unseen, as a Spirit, by mortals or angels. 
 
 Let man but approach the August, and 
 Eternal, 
 
 Attempting to note his best thought, of 
 Jehovah, 
 
 Infinitely viewed through the finite, by 
 finites, 
 
 A host of paradoxical words shall con 
 front him. 
 
 Art thou the Invisible ? "Tis Thy fashion 
 Inform, that we speak of ; art thou the 
 
 observ d ? 
 Tis action, and light, co-relation of 
 
 forces, 
 That speak of Thy life-giving power, in 
 
 contrast. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 27 
 
 Declar d by the heavens the Lord, the 
 
 One Maker 
 Of all that is made nor less God when 
 
 by earthly 
 Disclosures proclaimed the Almighty, as 
 
 First Cause, 
 In qual ty supreme, and approachable 
 
 here, through 
 The feelings of mortals redeem d, while 
 
 ascending 
 In thought, by a ladder of means, to the 
 
 goodness, 
 And mercy, and fullness of Christ, so ex- 
 
 haustless, 
 Though studied by angels or men, but in 
 
 being 
 So great as in length of Thy days the 
 
 Eternal, 
 That we may but look in th direction 
 
 Almighty, 
 
28 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Beholding the finite, revealing one God; 
 
 Who 
 For aye must remain thus unknownable, 
 
 God in 
 One essence of self-known Infinity 
 
 Thee we 
 Adore and here sing. 
 
 As the competent teacher 
 
 Will spread out large fields of rare beauty 
 and profit; 
 
 Before the more competent pupils at 
 tending, 
 
 Observing their habits, ability, mode of 
 approach 
 
 To principles, giving due share of atten 
 tion 
 
 To general wants, more especially those, 
 which 
 
 Will baffle their efforts in faithfulness 
 given; 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 29 
 
 So thou hast before us spread heaven 
 
 and earth, that 
 We should them regard as one field for 
 
 reflection, 
 
 Developing pupils, up nearer angelic 
 Conceptions of Deity, essence infinite, 
 Abstract in supremeness, and glorious 
 
 oneness. 
 
 The Bible and Mature bespeak but one 
 
 Author; 
 Not changed since giving the one, but 
 
 new wants thus 
 Supplying, by giving thyself in concrete 
 
 relations ; 
 Where cloth d in a garment of poetry 
 
 grandest, 
 Thy name and thy nature are found as in 
 
 proph cy. 
 
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30 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Since each is essential to set forth com 
 pletion, 
 
 May much of thy Spirit and wisdom be 
 given 
 
 The Muse in his fancy, nor less in his 
 reading 
 
 These books that proclaim to the thought 
 ful thy cov nants. 
 
 As sequel to nature the Bible is given, 
 Just meeting those wants not supplied 
 
 before to 
 The student, while delving in earth for 
 
 his knowledge; 
 Yet here it is given, conjointly with 
 
 nature, 
 To hold man in rev rence retrieving his 
 
 errors. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 31 
 
 The prophets, in giving the parts which 
 
 appear in 
 Brief poems to sing the grand outlines 
 
 of kosmos 
 In figure, have brought forth the key to 
 
 responses 
 To questions in nature, not answer d by 
 
 laws of 
 Her showing. 
 
 These books, to us rightly expounded, 
 
 Conflicteth no more; but as harmony in 
 spheres, once 
 
 Gave music to angels, so these are pre 
 pared 
 
 To thrill the true soul with the fullness 
 of God, now 
 
 With man, ever present to help as of old, 
 when 
 
 Thou madest the cloud Thy concealment 
 and darkness 
 
32 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Of primitive night Thy pavilion, or 
 ridest 
 
 Upon the unmarshalled heavens, bestow 
 ing 
 
 Great treasures of power, not lost in 
 their changes; 
 
 Or speaking the sun from the darkness 
 of Eld., and 
 
 Forecasting thy shadow in light that was 
 given. 
 
 The skeptic, while , looking but earth 
 ward for causes, 
 
 Has seen such a world of true forces in 
 waiting, 
 
 That doubt of all power beyond has re 
 sulted; 
 
 Still, causes like these but effect are, and 
 cannot 
 
 Be cause that s uncaus d, or resolve those 
 unwieldly 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 33 
 
 Yet strangely imperious questions, all 
 
 proper, 
 As whence all this matter, now form d 
 
 into systems? 
 Whence power, that gives co-relation of 
 
 forces ? 
 Whence motion, and what were the first 
 
 forms resulting ? 
 
 In what state was Earth there, ungather d 
 in chaos ? 
 
 What makes up its centre, now form d 
 in a sphere ? and 
 
 W r hence life? What its form? In the 
 germ of a cell, or 
 
 Matured condition, before it evolved its 
 
 Own likeness ? In seed, or in rootlet ex 
 quisite ? 
 
34 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 What seasons were earliest given to 
 Earth? and 
 
 How changing the day, to alternate with 
 night, has 
 
 Uplifted the bow of the cloud for a 
 token ? 
 
 What power has changed our times and 
 our seasons? 
 
 Shall substance in motion exist on for 
 ever ? 
 
 Or power survive the grand wreck of all 
 matter ? 
 
 These questions, suppress d not by being 
 ignored, 
 
 Must find a solution e er science s com 
 pleted, 
 
 For here is the field of hypotheses wild 
 est, 
 
 Where science is made to conflict with 
 the prophets. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 35 
 
 With seeming regret, have our scientists 
 spoken 
 
 Of cosmos of Moses, unlike that of 
 science; 
 
 Tis theory starting, not science as fin 
 ished, 
 
 Hypotheses change as the winds of the 
 heavens. 
 
 Ye students of nature, in pride of your 
 
 knowledge, 
 Deriv d from God s essay, the earth and 
 
 the heavens, 
 First read and explained by friends of 
 
 our Saviour, 
 Appeareth it well in your delving for 
 
 truth, to 
 Forget the kind care of the Author of 
 
 nature ? 
 
36 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Hypotheses cleave to the wildest of 
 fables, 
 
 In giving plutonic relations with na 
 ture, 
 
 And shall we not give the Old Bible a 
 hearing ? 
 
 From lovers of truth, where the cause 
 stands so nobly 
 
 Inviting the world to behold the hand 
 writing, 
 
 Where destinies turn on the tone of a 
 sentence, 
 
 Where truth will be welcomed with poetic 
 rapture, 
 
 The people have reason to look for assur 
 ance; 
 
 While reading your claim to the fullness 
 of nature, 
 
 Expect from the laws, which inhere with 
 our fabrics, 
 
 Good reasons, in answers most clear will 
 be given. 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 37 
 
 Long waiting to hear the right sequence 
 to reason, 
 
 While asking solutions from nature s in 
 structors, 
 
 Content, if a part of these questions were 
 answer d; 
 
 Perplex d with your wrangling on ques 
 tions at issue, 
 
 We turn disappointed from masters of 
 science, 
 
 To prophets of God, in the sweep of their 
 vision, 
 
 While singing the truths, that Jehovah 
 has given. 
 
 Here, reading full answers in order all 
 placed, 
 
 While leaving the province of reason still 
 open, 
 
 In painting these touches of cosmos in 
 figure, 
 
 They serve as a sequel to science as 
 given. 
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38 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Comparing with nature, they prove their 
 
 correctness ; 
 Endorsing, though lips may yet curl at 
 
 the mention 
 Of God, and still more at the thought 
 
 that e er he has 
 Inspired a man, to retrace the long steps 
 
 of 
 Old Time, or go forward to th end of all 
 
 substance 
 Now seen, that this knowledge might b 
 
 given to mortals, 
 Still hold we the Scriptures, as though 
 
 not eluded. 
 
 But what of the answers, returned by 
 man s wisdom, 
 
 To causative questions of primative na 
 ture? 
 
 Ignoring those questions not answer d in 
 nature, 
 
 They deal in specifics, through laws that 
 are given. 
 
THE LINE OP INQUIRY. 39 
 
 Deciphered, their language would show 
 this position: 
 
 * We deal in known facts and can demon 
 strate all " 
 
 " Our positions, by ref rence to phenom 
 ena present," 
 
 "Or past, but beyond this we cannot 
 go safely," 
 
 Nor care we to know any more on this 
 subject", 
 
 "Than nature in science of law has pre 
 sented ;" 
 
 "All notions of man s inspiration, on 
 subjects" 
 
 "Pertaining to nature, we hold as a 
 dogma." 
 
 Since science, so called, is content to 
 
 ignore them, 
 And Scripture allusions to cosmos in 
 
 building, 
 
40 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Are figures of po try in snatches of 
 
 vision, 
 Beheld by the prophet as nature was 
 
 forming, 
 We haste to the sequel of nature as 
 
 given. 
 
 Then back to the past, far away with the 
 
 prophet 
 Of Israel s God, we must go, the first 
 
 causes 
 To note, and the Earth s many changes 
 
 of motion 
 To learn. 
 
 O thou prophet of God with man s 
 
 first gift 
 Of sight, and of insight, and foresight 
 
 unstained, 
 
 Has God to the given, and power im 
 parted 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 41 
 
 In vision, to sit near the Infinite First 
 
 Cause, 
 While speaking the substance of matter 
 
 in being ? 
 
 Then have we good reason to return to 
 
 the study 
 
 Of Scriptural reference made to crea 
 tion, 
 
 Ashamed of skeptical dullness in feel 
 ing, 
 
 On subjects, Jehovah has thought so im 
 portant. 
 
 "Tis seldom the Scriptures allude to crea 
 tion, 
 
 And then, with a dash of bold figure in 
 vision ; 
 
 The " Book " is so " small," yet all teem 
 ing with action, 
 
 That few are aware of its grandeur of 
 meaning. 
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42 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The morsels of Scriptural cosmos, ar 
 resting 
 
 Our notice, are little remov d from 
 axioms 
 
 Appearing self evident since we were 
 never 
 
 Without them. Deductive conclusions 
 gave them not ; 
 
 The prophet records the true source of 
 this power. 
 
 " I know that thou canst do all things, 
 
 and no thought is 
 " Witholden from Thee ; for I uttered 
 
 these things, not 
 " By my understanding, as they are too 
 
 mighty 
 "For me, but Thy Spirit hath taught me 
 
 these secrets." 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 43 
 
 The Bible, as th highest and best source 
 of ref rence, 
 
 Has wrongly been robbed of power in 
 statement, 
 
 It once held o er patriarch prophets, as 
 giving 
 
 The voice of the Lord on the subject 
 revealed ; 
 
 Not as the tradition of the ancients, re 
 corded 
 
 By superintendence of honesty only, 
 
 But by inspiration of prophecy in vis 
 ion. 
 
 The measure of God s inspiration to 
 man, in 
 
 Historical time, has been, wants to meet 
 only, 
 
 The which, from their nature precluded 
 all efforts 
 
 By mortals to satisfy; things, that in fit 
 ness 
 
44 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Forbid his embod ing in nature s crea 
 tion, 
 
 These, God did reserve for his special 
 assistance. 
 
 As providence in nature evolving through 
 law, is 
 
 The rule of God s mingling with planets 
 or mortals; 
 
 So special assistance e er voices emerg 
 ence, 
 
 For which no provision in nature is wait 
 ing. 
 
 The movements of nature, so vast in her 
 
 changes, 
 Unmarked by the foot-prints, since left 
 
 by her power, 
 Have all been thus measur d by special 
 
 beginnings ; 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 45 
 
 So, science completed, must bow to the 
 
 Bible, 
 Where prophets have given the origin f 
 
 matter. 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 MATTER AND POWER SPOKEN INTO BEING. 
 
 A few years since, a few scientists were 
 found bold in declaring the eternity of 
 matter. Setting God aside, their argu 
 ment was a short, and doubtless to them, 
 a conclusive one. " From nothing, some 
 thing cannot come." We now have the 
 word of Prof. Huxley, publicly expressed, 
 that No scientist will for a moment in 
 dulge the proposition." "Should any 
 professed scientist affirm it, he would in 
 stantly be turned out of court as incom 
 petent to testify." Thus science, in this 
 case, has wrought out its own cure, by 
 establishing this syllogism : 
 
46 SONG OP COSMOLOGY. 
 
 That which is eternal admits of no 
 
 changes ; 
 
 Matter is undergoing a series of changes, 
 Therefore matter is not eternal. 
 
 The doctrine of special providence, is 
 not confined to revealed religion. It is a 
 necessity of science as well. 
 
 The existence of matter in any form, 
 or without form, establishes the special 
 providence of God. The existence of 
 power, motion, and life, are so many ad 
 vanced steps in the same direction. Thus 
 God, even in science, is represented as 
 having special watch-care over the uni 
 verse, supplying at different intervals of 
 
THE LINE OF INQUIRY. 47 
 
 time, any needed power, bej^ond that pre 
 viously existing in nature. Christians 
 claim the like of Him in the interests of 
 humanity. 
 
 THE SONG OF CHAOS. 
 
 space ! how thy negative nothingness 
 
 baffles 
 My efforts t conceive of thy being in 
 
 duration ; 
 Unmeasur d by nebula, systems, or 
 
 planets, 
 A blank unshapen, unceasing, nonentity. 
 
 In that one beginning, did God then 
 
 create the 
 Whole heavens and earth the true 
 
 whence of all substance ; 
 
48 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Suffused in space, was all matter in 
 
 gases ; 
 
 The womb of the ether was pregnant with 
 systems. 
 
 We haste to inquire, in what form was it 
 
 given ? 
 In globes or in fields, of unique kinds of 
 
 liquids? 
 
 Or gases, primeval, as virgins, unwedded, 
 Throughout all the regions of space then 
 
 in waiting. 
 
 Hypotheses only our scientists show us ; 
 "All void with no form" quick replies 
 
 the old prophet, 
 Dame nature was holden by laws of her 
 
 own, in 
 The stillness of night-fall ; inertia there 
 
 reigned 
 
THE CREATION OF POWER. 49 
 
 The monarch of all it survey d, and the 
 darkness 
 
 Was scribe, then becalm d o er the one 
 vast connection 
 
 Of space. This appalling repose of all 
 matter 
 
 Was called, by the prophet of God, in 
 poetic 
 
 Refinement of figure, the night of crea 
 tion. 
 
 Philosophy would here inscribe with 
 
 dogmatic 
 Assurance, perpetual rest ; but the 
 
 prophet, 
 In love, is here sent to our aid ; c And 
 
 the Spirit 
 Of the Lord on the face of the deep " did 
 
 then move, and 
 First motion, including all power, with 
 
 light, was 
 Eesultant. As n light, analyzed, now is 
 
 brought forth 
 
50 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 A triune of parts, all arising from 
 
 powers 
 Dinamic in form ; so our students of 
 
 nature 
 Find force of two kinds ; to recount them 
 
 as given, 
 We note here that power at rest is 
 
 potential 
 In name ; and that power in action is 
 
 dinamic 
 In name ; so we hear from the scientist 
 
 stately 
 Discourses, of forces at rest, and of 
 
 forces 
 
 In motion, and each in its turn was re 
 sultant 
 From power. They speak of the action 
 
 of Sol on 
 Organic remains as dinamic effect, while 
 
f w or THE X 
 f UNIVERSITY ) 
 
 ^^^S 
 
 THE CREATION OP POWER. 51 
 
 On substance with life, as potential 
 effect. Then 
 
 All action of forces discourses the hid 
 ing 
 
 Of power, from whence it evolv d, in due 
 course of 
 
 Its action ; approaching no nearer to 
 cause of 
 
 This power, than nature in sunbeams 
 may give us. . 
 
 The agents now seen are but forces in 
 
 changing ; 
 Far back of all physical showing a 
 
 power 
 Unseen, must exist, though unmeasured 
 
 by the flight of 
 These years, and that force is in the 
 
 bosom of the Father, 
 "Who spake, and great treasures of power 
 
 stood waiting. 
 
52 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Then back to the speaking of light out of 
 
 darkness 
 We go, there to learn the First Cause of 
 
 this hiding 
 Of power, potential, embraced yet in 
 
 nature ; 
 
 And used in a series of changes in 
 
 forces, 
 Without the least increase or loss of its 
 
 nature. 
 
 There mightily moved the Spirit of God 
 
 on 
 The face of the deep, and God said let 
 
 there light be, 
 
 And light now awoke at the mandate 
 
 divine, as 
 It swept the abyss ; and all matter was 
 
 rous d from 
 
THE CREATION OF POWER. 53 
 
 The night of its sleep, as the sun took 
 
 its motion ; 
 And evening and morning were day now 
 
 beginning. 
 
 Connections in science are notably want 
 ing, 
 
 Perplexing alike to teacher and scholar ; 
 
 While showing the weakness of mere 
 speculation, 
 
 They fail in relations that give us com 
 pletion. 
 
 Uniting the Bible to nature as given, 
 
 Solutions of science, that own a be 
 ginning, 
 
 May rest in a helper, still greater than 
 nature, 
 
 As forward we press from the whence of 
 beginning. 
 
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54 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 But what wilt thou say, O bewilder d of 
 
 mortals, 
 Still seeking in nature for lost links of 
 
 science ? 
 We call your attention to these grand 
 
 solutions : 
 Of twelve of the leading suggestions in 
 
 physics, 
 Not answer d in nature, all puzzling, all 
 
 needed 
 To make your cosmogony whole ; and 
 
 though quoting 
 But few, of the many expressions, which 
 
 cover 
 This subject, yet five out of twelve of 
 
 these answers 
 Are given. Shall we look to the prophet 
 
 for answers 
 To those still unsolved, or implicitly 
 
 follow 
 
THE CREATION OF POWER. 55 
 
 Your scatter d inductions, agreeing n 
 
 this only 
 To quickly reject the whole statement of 
 
 Moses. 
 
 To law as a basis, we turn as a witness, 
 To God, as the Author we turn for a 
 
 Teacher, 
 Thy Word still, O God, is our help, as a 
 
 light to 
 Our pathway; and shall henceforth teach 
 
 our dependence 
 On Thee, not for culture of soul in right 
 
 morals, 
 Alone, but for science complete. The 
 
 few scatter d 
 Inductions from science, arrang d in the 
 
 light of 
 
 Our sequel to nature, prepar d with re 
 spect to 
 
56 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Our wants and ability to meet them, are 
 pebbles 
 
 To th ocean of truth, undiscover d be 
 fore them. 
 
 As th special creation of power result 
 ing 
 
 In light, was the second grand point, 
 which, in vision, 
 
 Was gained by Job, as he travers d the 
 past, and 
 
 What formed the basis of song when the 
 1 Morning 
 
 Stars sang there together," and th " Sons 
 of Jehovah 
 
 Eejoic d to behold those bright sentinels 
 keeping 
 
 Prompt time to the march in the foot 
 prints Almighty ; 
 
 So Moses in giving his song of crea 
 tion, 
 
STARS OF THE MORNING ONLY IN FORM. 57 
 
 Beginning with night that preceded for 
 mation, 
 
 Now known as the rest of primeval 
 inertia, 
 
 And closing with morning that ends the 
 creation, 
 
 Beheld this grand era, beginning in dark 
 ness,. 
 
 Resulting in light from the centers of 
 systems, 
 
 Perfected in power, imparted to matter. 
 
 Uniting the periods evening and morn 
 ing, 
 
 Recalling conditions adverse in their 
 nature, 
 
 The age geologic, reads day in the 
 vision, 
 
 All one in their meaning, creation be 
 ginning. 
 
58 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 SECTION THIRD. 
 
 The deep bounded by a compass, or 
 Planetary matter revolving in a circle. 
 
 Concerning the events of the second 
 day it is well that we contemplate the ne 
 cessary condition of planetary matter 
 after the foci of suns." All the unoccupied 
 matter of a system must either fall to the 
 center or revolve about it. In a gaseous 
 state this would naturally assume the 
 shape of an immense ring. 
 
 Such is believed to have been the con 
 dition of things, as described by Moses, 
 in his prophetic view of " Waters above 
 
STABS OF THE MORNING ONLY IN FORM. 59 
 
 the firmament, not separate from those 
 beneath the firmament." So Solomon 
 personifying wisdom, Prov. 8:27, "When 
 he prepared the heavens I was there ; 
 when he set a circle upon the face of the 
 depth." All planetary matter, in the 
 form of an immense ring of primary gases 
 swung about the sun, at a great distance, 
 in a circle. This is called the evening 
 epoch of the x second day. The chemical 
 union of oxygen and hydrogen gave a 
 field of superheated steam, so much 
 
60 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 lighter than the gases composing it, 
 that it must take its place, in the voids 
 of space, still farther from the sun. 
 Since matter, left free in space, seeks 
 the globular form, except where by a 
 primary position it is balanced in a ring, 
 this field of steam, will seek the shape 
 of an immense globe. This was the 
 morning epoch of the second day. The 
 cold ether must liquefy this globe ; and, 
 as it gathers, its orbit will change toward 
 the sun. Passing back through the ring, 
 from which it was evolved, it will attract 
 an atmosphere of its own. In such a 
 
THE STARS OF THE MORNING ONLY IN FORM. 61 
 
 state it passed into its present orbit ; 
 and out of this atmosphere came the de 
 posits. Thirty miles depth of water will 
 bear a column of rock to its surface. 
 Here the lower Silurian rock appeared ; 
 and animal and vegetable life were 
 formed. 
 
62 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE TEACKLESS WAY OF THE 
 GASES AND LIQUIDS. 
 
 Details of the scene were now given the 
 prophet, 
 
 As there in free space he beheld its sur 
 roundings ; 
 
 And cosmos was sleeping in primitive 
 gases, 
 
 Revolving in circle without a horizon. 
 
 He saw there the earth in choas was 
 resting, 
 
 The half of a circle above, then in lan 
 guage 
 
 Recorded as "firmament," met the half 
 circle 
 
 Beneath it, so giving the circle comple 
 tion. 
 
THE TBACKLESS PATH OF THE LIQUIDS. 63 
 
 Horizon of waters above, met horizon 
 
 Of waters beneath, and the deep by a 
 compass 
 
 Was bounded. The primitive gases of 
 space, in 
 
 Extent, whose diameter sixty-one tril 
 lion 
 
 Of miles was in measure, were gathered 
 in circle 
 
 And focus of system, round which they 
 revolv d. 
 
 The general division of matter in sys 
 tems, 
 
 With ref rence to space, was the emblem 
 of morning ; 
 
 With ref rence to Earth, it was night still 
 in emblem. 
 
64 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 A spark and two gases in circle combine 
 
 in 
 Close chemical union, expanding in 
 
 making 
 To steam, superheated, forth flying from 
 
 orbit, 
 Still farther from th sun ; till in globe it 
 
 is gathered, 
 And morning of earth has now dawn d ; 
 
 and the evening 
 And th morning is second division of 
 
 ages. 
 
 The globe born of chaos, began there in 
 vapor, 
 
 All ready to gather its waters in one ; 
 and 
 
 The morning, the second, resigned its 
 strange day, while 
 
 Enclosing its vapors mid waters sur 
 rounding. 
 
THE TRACKLESS PATH OF THE LIQUIDS. 65 
 
 Condensing to liquids, its grav ty in 
 creasing, 
 
 Its orbit must change, as liquefaction 
 proceeds, and 
 
 In passing the primitive circle of gases, 
 
 Will draw to itself, as a belt of thick 
 clouds of 
 
 Aerial liquids, a circle enwrapping 
 
 The primitive seas, and containing the 
 elements 
 
 Of future deposits. With ref rence to 
 solids, 
 
 The prophet made mention of evening 
 the third day. 
 
66 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE GRAND MARCH OF TIME THROUGH 
 GEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS. 
 
 Rock, with respect to origin, is usually 
 divided into Plutonic and Aqueous. The 
 modern developments of science have 
 yearly diminished the relative quantity 
 of the former, and will doubtless yet show 
 with Job, that all primitive rock was 
 originally made under water, from the 
 deposits of the sea. We have rock, 
 that has once been melted, which now 
 
GEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS. 67 
 
 may be termed fire-made. The best test 
 for this is fire. Will it bear without 
 disintegration, to be carried back to its 
 heated condition. If heat sets free a set 
 of confined gases, destroying its strength, 
 the argument is plain, the rock was never 
 heated before. Such a test shows gran 
 ite, gneiss, lime rock, and the slates, to 
 have been made without heat. 
 
68 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 SECTION FIEST. 
 
 SUBMARINE ROCK. 
 
 The night of the solids, now fairly com 
 mencing, 
 
 Its orbit must lessen as vapor decreases, 
 
 Accelerate speed the new forces must 
 balance, 
 
 As shrouded in swaddlings it sped into 
 orbit, 
 
 With pole, not to place of the north, 
 then quite empty, 
 
 But pointing directly to the sun by at 
 traction. 
 
 Here work of deposits in earnest com- 
 menc d, 
 
 The gases must liquefy, changing, com 
 bining, 
 
SUBMARINE BOCK. 69 
 
 The liquids solidify, gravitating down 
 ward, 
 
 While laying foundation of earth in the 
 waters. 
 
 The noblest of metals with gravity 
 largest, 
 
 Adown the blue ocean to level the deep 
 est, 
 
 First sank in their pulpy and liquid con 
 fusion ; 
 
 Still ready to press through the fissures 
 in solids, 
 
 As grav tating downward the pressure is 
 greater ; 
 
 Where crystallized quartz oft bespeak 
 the deposits, 
 
 In Beams of Jehovah s fix d chambers 
 now placed. 
 
70 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Thus God in the sea hath so settled the 
 
 earth, that 
 It rests on the waters, on floods there 
 
 establish d ; 
 ""With stone did He cover the waters" 
 
 of yore, and 
 "The face of the deep in its darkness 
 
 was frozen ;" 
 "In th water and out of the water " did 
 
 God of 
 Old make the deposits. Some thirty odd 
 
 miles of 
 The Earth s crust was made neath the 
 
 sea, and the Lord had 
 Not caus d it to rain on the earth," nor 
 
 was life there 
 But dry land appear d as earth show d in 
 
 islands 
 Her surface now ready to cherish the 
 
 life, could 
 The germ but be found. 
 
THE OBIGrIN OF LIFE. 71 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 
 THE OBIGIN OF LIFE. 
 
 Here the muse on the laws of 
 Dame nature did call, for the whence of 
 
 the life, by 
 What power to rise ? The air whisper d 
 
 in meekness, 
 We have no germ floating here. Seas in 
 
 turn showed 
 The rock as their voice in reply, free in 
 
 cleavage, 
 Without fossil, its birth submarine, no 
 
 life germ is 
 
 In us, no potential life power is steep 
 ing 
 In beds, submarine, all so cold and so 
 
 pulseless ; 
 Spontaneous life is not taught by the 
 
 strata. 
 
72 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 All nature thus blushing to sit as our 
 
 teacher, 
 Whenever First Cause is announced for 
 
 solution 
 Then haste we to sequel to nature for 
 
 answer ; 
 Here learn we that life cometh from the 
 
 Lord, let his praises 
 Be sung, as He made the live plant e er 
 
 its seed in 
 The earth was, each, after its kind. From 
 
 the prophet 
 Alone, can we gain the true answer to 
 
 question 
 Whence life ? Eight here stands the true 
 
 record where science 
 May gain all her knowledge of life-cells, 
 
 so pregnant 
 With power ; and add to her table of 
 
 partial 
 
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 73 
 
 Inductions, this link, to Deistical 
 science 
 
 Now lost. Here the life as a bride 
 groom, rejoicing 
 
 In strength, was united in marriage with 
 earth ; they 
 
 Will cherish, and nourish, and multiply 
 life-cells, 
 
 Each after its kind. This grand union 
 was shown by 
 
 The prophet to hold the relation of morn 
 ing 
 
 To solids ; the night of deposits now 
 past, while 
 
 Up through the Silurian forests of grey, 
 the 
 
 True morn of the strata was steadily 
 
 building. 
 G 
 
74 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The forests of yore sung the day to its 
 
 close, still 
 The Earth held her swaddlings, undeck d 
 
 yet with flowers ; 
 While cryptogans all, as the ferns and 
 
 the rushes, 
 The flags and the reeds, wav d o er 
 
 batrachoid dwellings. 
 
THE CARBONIFEROUS AGE. 75 
 
 SECTION THIRD. 
 
 THE CAKBONIFEROUS AGE. 
 
 [The Earth was si ill surrounded by a 
 deep belt of purple gases. By a bold 
 and beautiful figure of speech, Moses 
 puts cause for effect. The radical 
 changes made in the atmosphere, during 
 this age, opening the way for the creation 
 of phenogamia, and the warm-blooded 
 animals, is noted by allusions to second 
 ary causes, producing them. These, in 
 turn, are traced to First Cause. Hence 
 the creation of the heavenly orbs is here 
 introduced. ] 
 
76 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE YOUNG EABTH DKESSED IN 
 SUNSHINE. 
 
 This belt of sulphurous anhydride, with 
 
 acid 
 Carbonic, will find its way into the earth, 
 
 through 
 Gigantia of trees, and the nitrates of the 
 
 ocean ; 
 Where stored till Earth shall, divesting 
 
 herself of 
 This bandage by which she was swaddled 
 
 in childhood, 
 Eeclothing herself, for a time, in pure 
 
 sunlight, 
 Keveal the pure air in true type of the 
 
 flowers. 
 
EARTH DRESSED IN SUNSHINE. 77 
 
 Too rich yet in oils to escape quick com 
 bustion, 
 
 The fire will unlock these deposits, in 
 volving 
 
 The Earth in surrounding dark robes of 
 thick gases, 
 
 To wait the long years for the flora to 
 gather. 
 
 The scenes in deposits, enacted again, as 
 The gases are hanging o er lakelet and 
 
 river, 
 Give strata, that tick forth the time of 
 
 these measures, 
 And tell us the forming of anthracite 
 
 fuel. 
 
 Returning by cryptogams, ferns and the 
 
 moss, to 
 The swamps of the earth, as a strata for 
 
 fuel, 
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78 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The air revolutionized, gives a new era; 
 
 In beauty of speech, through metonymy, 
 sunlight 
 
 Is put for effect on the flora of nature; 
 
 The periods of burning, in figure were 
 called 
 
 The evening the fourth, or the age inter 
 mediate. 
 
 One hundred of burnings, and th gases 
 
 are hidden 
 In rock; and new class of phenogamous 
 
 plants, now 
 Come fresh from the hand of the Lord 
 
 in creation, 
 Combining the beautiful n nature with 
 
 th useful, 
 
EARTH DRESSED IN SUNSHINE. 79 
 
 Now showing the emblem of flora when 
 blooming, 
 
 This age of deposits was ended in sun 
 light. 
 
 The plant now no longer is mantled in 
 
 darkness, 
 But many ten thousand of shades in 
 
 bright colors, 
 Eeflect the sweet homes of the angels 
 
 above us; 
 While Earth in her new dress was 
 
 juvenate, under 
 The kiss of the sun-beam, as the touch 
 
 of the holy. 
 
 The fourth night, in progress of chang 
 ing, took fr m Earth all 
 
 Her wrappings of childhood, and brought 
 in the sunlight, 
 
 In beauteous wealth of resplendent- 
 adorning. 
 
80 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 That age of the plant, pale in darkness, 
 
 all void of 
 The flower, would answer the seer as an 
 
 emblem 
 Of night; while that age which gave 
 
 bloom n sun -light 
 And shadow, would answer the seer as 
 
 an emblem 
 Of Morn; where the highest perfection 
 
 in th flora, 
 Produced in type, through first blooming 
 
 of flowers, 
 Might speak of the finished world of the 
 
 future. 
 
 No withering age will e er close in upon 
 
 them, 
 To open a way for a change to the 
 
 higher; 
 Hence, morning of flowers continues. 
 
EAETH DBESSED IN SUNSHINE. 81 
 
 Not so in the kingdom of animals, living 
 Where changes in progress must mark 
 
 the great epochs, 
 And such, as to throw all the previous 
 
 formations 
 In shades of deep night; where the 
 
 changes were mighty 
 In habits and size, as in modes of their 
 
 breathing, 
 Where th ages succeed, as they build to 
 
 the higher. 
 
82 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 SECTION FOUKTH. 
 
 The fifth day of Moses, being the first of the 
 animal kingdom. 
 
 THE EVENING EPOCH. 
 
 Progressive in types, there the fish, and 
 the mollusk, 
 
 Were sporting in lakes of silurian de 
 posits, 
 
 Gigantia of birds, on the sands of the 
 Perm an 
 
 Inscribing a language, since read in the 
 strata, 
 
 Where saurian s bask d in the warmest of 
 sunbeams. 
 
 The Ichthyosaurus, with eyes like the 
 
 day-spring, 
 There plough d the strange seas e er the 
 
 chalk was prepared; 
 
THE FIFTH DAY. 83 
 
 Then huge Pterodactjles, with leathery 
 
 wings, through 
 The Eocene waters were gliding; and 
 
 birds of 
 Strange plumage, there flew in the night 
 
 of the fossils 
 Lone dwelling. 
 
 THE MOKOTNG EPOCH. 
 
 Marsupials herald the waning 
 Of night-watch; and mammals, thick 
 
 skinned, the many 
 Bold rivers then quaffed, as climbing the 
 
 mountains 
 The streams must be forded : Behemoth 
 
 of Job, e er 
 High mountains were reared, gigantia of 
 
 mammals 
 E er bovines appeared, once held the rich 
 
 slopes of 
 
 The Tertia forests, but yielded to fate, as 
 The ice fill d the seas, and the morning 
 
 was ended. 
 
84 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Thus tracing the proph cies of Job and 
 
 of Moses 
 Comparing with nature as seen in the 
 
 strata 
 The days of creation are the ages f 
 
 geol gy 
 Referring to th greatest division of 
 
 changes. 
 
 The Morn of the fifth saw the end of its 
 day, as 
 
 The looming of rock piled the grandest 
 upheavals ; 
 
 Submerging the marshes, the hills, and 
 low mountains, 
 
 Destroying the tropical fauna then liv 
 ing, 
 
 While ninety and six per cent, sank in 
 the ocean. 
 
THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 85 
 
 SECTION FIFTH. 
 
 THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 
 
 [It is a fact, well established in the 
 surface appearance of the strata, that 
 our earth has been nearly covered with 
 ice-bergs, many times, and for long 
 periods in duration. The cause is best 
 seen on the assumption that the crust of 
 the Earth rests on the waters, and at that 
 time one pole pointed directly to the 
 sun.] 
 
 Then ice-bergs in fields from the home 
 
 of the night-house, 
 Came crowding and scouring the rock in 
 
 their pressure, 
 The coal and the sand-stone, the slate 
 
 and the pebble, 
 Were mix d in confusion with ruck of all 
 
 The soil of the uplands long wash d by 
 
 the rain-fall, 
 Was hurl d to the ocean, and mountains 
 
 were less ning, 
 H 
 
86 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The sea took the remnants, in grains not 
 as heavy, 
 
 Less weight of the continent left it to 
 rise, as 
 
 The tops of the mountains were rounded 
 in outline, 
 
 Till hills of the Eocene graded to val 
 leys, 
 
 And beds of her rivers, quite fill d with 
 th drift rock, 
 
 Appear d with new surface denuded and 
 changed. 
 
 Dry land once again gave a welcome to 
 
 rain-storms; 
 New wants unprovided appeal d to the 
 
 heavens; 
 These lands must be stocked for past 
 
 fauna are drowned; 
 
THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 87 
 
 Then beasts, and the snake, with the 
 horse and the cattle, 
 
 Were sung as the night of historic crea 
 tion. 
 
 The fauna of earth, here a maximum 
 
 showing, 
 In strength and agility sporting in 
 
 beauty, 
 
 Yet wanting in planning and moulding, 
 Suggesting creation of mind in its full 
 ness, 
 Where guided through wisdom, may help 
 
 to completion. 
 
 So these with mute tongues, while fore 
 telling a morning 
 
 In progress, presenting the real ideal, 
 Of mind in its strength, as of motion 
 continued, 
 
88 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Uplifted their eyes at the crowning crea 
 tion 
 
 Of him, who should light up the morn 
 ing historic. 
 
 SECTION SIXTH. 
 
 THE INTEODUCTION OF MAN. 
 
 Premising a little the post of this lord, we 
 Will seek to prepare for the statement of 
 Moses. 
 
 The one to be given, must harvest the 
 
 furrow, 
 Must grasp the true principles, moulding 
 
 all matter, 
 Eelations of the fit, and the just, of the 
 
 right, and 
 The wrong, he must know, and t insure 
 
 the right action 
 He must comprehend the results of his 
 
 motives. 
 
THE INTKODUCTION OF MAN. 89 
 
 Unlike those, who looking to earth, till 
 
 the soul, and 
 Its God are forgotten, the prophet saw 
 
 no one, 
 From whom the true lord could evolve; 
 
 as between them, 
 The highest of animals known, and the 
 
 needed, 
 
 A gulf not unlike to infinity seemed. 
 To th lord of creation more mind must 
 
 be given, 
 Endow d with the sense of the seen and 
 
 unseen ; 
 Of earth, and to earth must so feel his 
 
 relation. 
 
 Such morning was call d for, and man 
 
 stood before him, 
 Above all the living, a sample of grandeur; 
 
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90 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 In image of God, he was made then im 
 mortal, 
 
 For souls may not perish while th breath 
 f God continues. 
 
 This likeness of God, as the seal of the 
 
 morning, 
 Twixt brutes and the man must as sharply 
 
 distinguish; 
 While man is the last, as no evening may 
 
 follow: 
 The earth, with her people may change 
 
 or be broken, 
 "Yet climax of all that is earthly is given. 
 
 Bo lofty a being, so God-like and noble, 
 Could mate with no being, unlike him in 
 
 soul ; so 
 To give him an unction of oneness in 
 
 beauty, 
 
THE INTRODUCTION OF MAN. 91 
 
 The rib of his side must be bride of his 
 
 wooing, 
 Not better, but equal in rights, as in 
 
 maker, 
 Now bone of his bone and her flesh of 
 
 his taken; 
 In image of God, as created he him, 
 
 male 
 And female created he them, on the sixth 
 
 day; 
 
 And ours is the morning historic pro 
 gressive, 
 But destined to close the grand drama of 
 
 changes. 
 
92 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 CHAPTEE III. 
 
 The Grand March of Time through Organic 
 Changes. 
 
 SECTION FIKST. 
 
 THE ANTEDILUVIAN POSITION OF 
 THE EARTH. 
 
 It is quite certain that the deposits 
 were first made upon one end, or hemis 
 phere of Earth. Even now we have es 
 sentially a land and a water hemisphere. 
 The center of the land is near England. 
 Bring back the continents and islands to 
 one side, and place the pole near the 
 Strait of Gibraltar, pointing directly to 
 
ANTEDILUVIAN POSITION OF EARTH. 93 
 
 the sun, and you have just such circum 
 stances as answer the phenomena of coal, 
 suroids, pachyderms, and the ocean-girt 
 volcanoes. And what is still better, it 
 alone answers the description of inspira 
 tion; so graphically giving the home of 
 light, and the house for darkness, with 
 set bounds between them, and the absence 
 of the rainbow. Job 38:19, 20. 
 
94 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Then turn d to the sun but one pole of 
 our planet, 
 
 Man s home was begun the most happly 
 and lovely; 
 
 The climate of Eden gave always one 
 greeting, 
 
 Unchang d by position in orbit or mo 
 tion. 
 
 The trop cal menag ries, now floating in 
 seas of 
 
 The polar environs, discourse to us cli 
 mates, 
 
 With fauna and flora, unlike the condi 
 tion, 
 
 Presented there now; all removed by 
 changes 
 
 Of times and of seasons, most rapidly 
 given. 
 
ANTEDILUVIAN POSITION OF EAETH. 95 
 
 The shells and the suroids, the coal and 
 
 the contour 
 Bespeak preoccupied dwelling, unseen 
 
 by 
 
 The boreal starlight, unswept by the win 
 ter s 
 
 Fierce blast, and unchill d by the absence 
 of sun-light. 
 
 And such once was all the land portion 
 
 of Earth, as 
 
 Attested by relics of tropical forests, 
 And tropical animals lying in state, and 
 Exumed in zones, now the coldest and 
 
 warmest; 
 The coal of pure carbon now shows where 
 
 the heat of 
 
 The tropics once sported mid forests un 
 failing; 
 
96 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 And suroids, gigantia, then play d on the 
 sands, where 
 
 The swallow might bask in perpetual 
 summer. 
 
 Siberian pachyderms, rank d with Amer 
 ican, 
 
 But render d extinct by the breaking f 
 the deep, and 
 
 O erflow of the waters, where man, with 
 these animals, 
 
 Must have coexisted in climate and 
 labor, 
 
 Attest the historical flood of the Scrip 
 ture. 
 
 Sin placed the race in a new and ab 
 normal 
 
 Relation to God, and the Earth as our 
 Mother; 
 
CHANGE WROUGHT BY THE FLOOD. 97 
 
 Controll d more by fear, than by love in 
 
 true honor, 
 The Eden mast vanish to point man to 
 
 heaven. 
 Because of this state, For the sake of 
 
 the man, I 
 Will smite all the Earth with a curse;" 
 
 this, or hope lost. 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 
 THE CHANGE WROUGHT BY THE 
 FLOOD. 
 
 Our times and our seasons have greatly 
 
 been changed; 
 Man s life was then newly arrang d on 
 
 probation ; 
 The Earth was then riven, its pole far 
 
 removed, 
 Much " more than twice ten full degrees," 
 
 right away from 
 The sun; for that "more," we subtract 
 
 the one score from 
 I 
 
98 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Some sixty and seven. Thus chang d, 
 still the morning 
 
 Progresses apace in its building and 
 moulding. 
 
 The Lord of Dame Nature, not rested 
 from labor, 
 
 The rock will deposit for gas to unlock; 
 so 
 
 Philosophy speaks of correlation of 
 forces, 
 
 And matter in changing defying destruc 
 tion. 
 
NOT BOUNDED BY NATURE S POWER. 99 
 SECTION THIRD. 
 
 GOD S ABILITY NOT BOUNDED BY 
 NATURE S POWER. 
 
 Such measure is founded in forces im 
 parted, 
 
 Unspent by her changes, potential, 
 dynamic ; 
 
 To power imparting no bounds can be 
 given, 
 
 For th mandate of Jesus all matter 
 obeyeth. 
 
 The Shepherd of Midian saw the morn 
 ending, 
 
 Eternity past, with immortality blend 
 ing; 
 
 The song of Cosmology, noting Earth s 
 changes, 
 
 Still showing creation, will end with the 
 finale. 
 
100 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Combining their many allusions to mat 
 ter, 
 
 The prophets have given in substance the 
 changes 
 
 Beginning, and end of all things now 
 seen, for 
 
 Things seen are but mortal, immortal the 
 unseen. 
 
 Man reads from the laws that inhere now 
 
 in nature, 
 A period resting of all that is made. 
 
 They 
 Discourse of green planets, now worn out 
 
 and sere, of 
 Conditions of worlds, obsolete by her 
 
 laws. To 
 
 The seen is affixed an appointment of 
 season, 
 
 Beyond which existence in space is pre 
 cluded; 
 
NOT BOUNDED BY NATURE S POWER. 101 
 
 Deductions of science have typified 
 plainly, 
 
 The rest of Jehovah by prophets fore 
 told. 
 
 Thus nature, unfolded by mortals, has 
 given, 
 
 A subject for song, most replete with be 
 ginnings; 
 
 As ranking all others in pathos and 
 grandeur, 
 
 Yet wanting in fullness of sequence to 
 finish; 
 
 This God hath supplied through proph cy 
 in figure. 
 
 i2 
 
102 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 INTRODUCTION TO STAR DATES. 
 
 The prophet Daniel was a natural 
 mind-seer. He was more than this; he 
 was often put in direct communication 
 with the Spirit of God through the 
 "Ministration of angels." Had Nebu 
 chadnezzar retained his wonderful dream, 
 or vision of empire, the mind-seers of 
 Chaklea might possibly have related it, 
 by following the thought of the King. 
 Having the imagery before them, they 
 might possibly have guessed a plausible 
 solution, at least, satisfactory to the 
 tyrant, who was now threatening their 
 lives. But as the king had forgotten his 
 own dream, there remained no connec 
 tion with the dream, except through him, 
 who originated this descriptive view of 
 change of empire, till he should come, 
 whose right it is, "And he shall reign 
 from the rivers to the ends of the 
 earth." 
 
 When Daniel was called upon for this 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. 103 
 
 interpretation, he was but a mere youth, 
 a child from twelve to sixteen years of 
 age, Dan. 1: 17. It is not probable that 
 so young a person understood anything 
 of the measurement of time, by means 
 of the precession of the equinoxes. Yet 
 even then, he succeeded to gain a correct 
 view of the succession of general empire, 
 under Chaldean, Persian, Grecian, and 
 Eoman dominion. Also that the fifth 
 universal dominion would be subversive 
 of the bad influences of the preceding 
 four, and would be continued. He saw 
 this rule, as a stone, taken without hands 
 from the mountain, filling the whole 
 earth. 
 
 We have, by the apparent motions of 
 the stars in the heavens, three clocks, 
 viz. : the daily circle, the yearly circle, 
 and the circle by the precession of the 
 equinoxes. The time of the latter is 
 about twenty -five thousand years. Here 
 
 [The reader will not fall to notice that these succes 
 sion of events are here left wholly without dates.] 
 
104 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 the motion is eastward. In the two for 
 mer they are westward. In precession 
 the circle is divided into quadrants. Of 
 course, we shall always find colure lines 
 just ninety degrees apart. Meridian one 
 is where the sun each year passes the 
 vernal equinox, and the others are regu 
 lated by it. The earth presents the half 
 of both her poles to the sun fifty seconds 
 of space earlier each year. This causes 
 a moving of the four lines westward, leav 
 ing the stars, before in line, eastward. 
 The rotation of the Earth on its axis, its 
 revolution around its orbit, and the pre 
 cession of the equinoxes, constitute the 
 three clocks alluded to by Moses in 
 Gen. i:14. 
 
 Moad, translated seasons here, means 
 an assemblage as of lines, planets and 
 stars. This is the term used in Dan. 
 12:7. Upon this clock, the prophets 
 usually marked events, and then reduced 
 them to years. In this quotation from 
 Dan. they are left unreduced. Seventy 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. 105 
 
 years are usually reckoned to one de 
 gree of space. If we know how many 
 years since an event took place, it is easy 
 finding what star was in either colure 
 line. Again, if we knew what star was in 
 either colure line at any given event, we 
 can readily give the time. It is by this 
 means that we can arrive at the correct 
 time of certain authors, whose dates are 
 otherwise lost, as the writings of Homer 
 and Job. 
 
 So if we had a prophet s gift to look 
 forward to some future event, and the ad 
 ditional gift of noting the identical star, 
 in colure line at that time, we could state 
 the time that the event will take place, 
 with the greatest accuracy. We shall 
 show you how gradually this rare gift 
 came to some of God s prophets. 
 
 After Daniel had served, for nearly 
 forty years, as Prime Minister of state; 
 in the first year of Belshazzar s reign, he 
 had the vision of empire repeated, under 
 
100 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 a new set of symbols. These symbols 
 were evidently designed to bring out the 
 educational, or "Mystic" influence of 
 these kingdoms, which influence was to 
 continue long after these literal powers 
 should have been subverted. In this 
 vision one date only is given, and that is 
 concerning the "Mystic" power of 
 Borne. Dan. 7:25. We have here three 
 and a half circles or 1260 degrees, some 
 times translated days. As this, subject 
 had already been in part explained in 
 Ezek. 4, where a day was placed for a 
 year, it was natural to carry out the 
 symbol, when the Mystic influence of the 
 same power was to be dated. The vision 
 closed, leaving Daniel in the dark as to 
 when this date commenced. The com 
 mencing point was given as an event, but 
 yet not dated, in a vision two years later. 
 Subsequent as developments in five hun 
 dred and forty years, showed this com 
 mencing date to have been 70 A. D. Con 
 sequently the 1260 years would end 1330 
 A. D. It is significant that the art of 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. 107 
 
 printing was invented this year. That 
 it is the " Mystic" power of Home, which 
 we think is commercial selfishness, or the 
 sixth head of the Dragon, that is here 
 brought forward as being in the zenith 
 of its power, is evident, when we reflect 
 that the temporal power of Borne did not 
 exceed the year 476 A. D. 
 
 The vision on this subject, in the third 
 year of Belshazzer, gave not only the 
 event for commencement of colure dates, 
 but a third date, which Daniel called 
 "Cleansing of the Sanctuary." Dan. 8:14. 
 Called by John the "Fall of Babylon." 
 Kev. 14:8; also the introduction of the 
 purely "white horse" into the cavalcade 
 of heaven. Rev. 19:14. The symbols 
 in this vision were new, and the one 
 pertaining to Greece was adapted to get 
 the date of Alexander s invasion of 
 Persia. This was the Goat, or Capri- 
 cornus, whose horns showed the invasion 
 to have been 329 B. C. Still Daniel 
 lacked the requisite knowledge to handle 
 
108 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 the subject. Dan. 8:27. Six! een years 
 later, in the first year of Darius, Daniel 
 had gained the knowledge. He learned 
 how Jeremiah through "Reading of 
 books" had found that seventy years 
 were determined upon God s people in 
 captivity. Dan. 9: 2. Again he sought 
 for the return of the thrice-repeated 
 vision, that he might apply this mode of 
 dating the events most affecting his peo 
 ple and the " Holy mountain of God." 
 
 Assuming that these dates depended 
 in part upon his newly gained astronom 
 ical knowledge, Jeremiah had found that 
 when the Jews were carried captive into 
 Babylon, the winter solstice was in a 
 small star in the bow of Antinous in the 
 sign Capricornus. Meridian one lacked 
 just one degree of reaching a small star 
 in the right foot of Aries. This was the 
 sixty-second year of the captivity. Daniel 
 traced the coJure to the star in the foot 
 of Aries as had Jeremiah, and they both 
 saw in that star, the event of the return 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. 109 
 
 of the Jews to their native land. This 
 one degree measured seventy years. 
 From this date with which to start, 
 Gabriel is about to take Daniel through 
 four leading events of Israel s history, viz : 
 The building of the second temple to its 
 completion, occupying 49 years; the 
 baptism of Christ which dated forward 
 483 years, leaving but the one prophetic 
 week, for Christ to confirm the covenant, 
 reaching the crucifixion before the week 
 fully ended; and the "Taking away of 
 the daily sacrifice." The first three 
 events were to be indicated by colure 
 lines. The finishing of the temple placed 
 the winter solstice in the star Dabih in 
 Capricornus, having moved about five- 
 sevenths of one degree, or 49 years. 
 Looking forward to the Baptism of Christ, 
 when He should be manifested to Israel 
 as Messiah, the colure line had passed six 
 degrees, and thirty-two thirty-fifths of 
 another. The fall colure was now noted 
 in Muphride in Bootes, giving 69 weeks 
 or 483 years. Looking forward to the 
 
110 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 event noted by Isa, "He was led as a 
 lamb to the slaughter," the lines had 
 moved one-twelfth of a degree; and me 
 ridian one was in a small star in the upper 
 part of the left horn of Aries. This gave 
 a little over six years, in which Jesus 
 labored as the Christ, before the crucifix 
 ion. The event of Jerusalem s destruc 
 tion, and the unprecedented trouble are 
 seen, but no colure position with it; 
 hence the date could not be given. 
 
 Ten years after this vision, and two 
 years after the decree to restore and re 
 build Jerusalem, Daniel had his last 
 vision. He was now between eighty and 
 ninety years of age. The first effort, of 
 the angel, clothed in linen, was to duly 
 impress him that the time that he was 
 about to give him was " long." The sub 
 stance of this vision was to show that 
 from fotne future date indicated by" the 
 te Taking away the daily sacrifice, and the 
 setting up the abomination that maketh 
 deso^te," there should be three and a 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. Ill 
 
 half circles of human history, measured 
 on the great clock of precession. This 
 gives at the present rate of precession 
 87,500 years. Allowing for a slight in 
 crease in precession, now taking place, 
 we have left 76,000 years, reaching the 
 period when the dead shall be raised. 
 He still failed to see the line indicating 
 the "Taking away the daily sacrifice," 
 consequently the * Little Book " of Star 
 Dates, now " written within," was sealed. 
 In such a state Christ received this 
 "Book." It was still sealed. John saw 
 him open it, as the "Lion of the tribe 
 of Judah." Our Saviour freely com 
 mented upon this "Book," but its con 
 tents at that time could only be explained 
 by the Father. Christ also told them 
 that there were some standing there that 
 should not taste death, till they had wit 
 nessed his coming. The whole that 
 Daniel saw, would take place within that 
 generation. Now there are two ways 
 that events may happen; the one is by 
 their actual and literal occurrence; the 
 
112 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 other is to pass in panoramic view before 
 a prophet as though a reality. The 
 Transfiguration was not sufficiently gen 
 eral to fulfill even in figure all that 
 Daniel saw, but the visions of John in 
 Revelation are ample; and our Saviour s 
 promise was fulfilled. To do this the 
 constellations indicating the great 
 changes of time must be pointed out with 
 the events which are to take place in 
 them. 
 
 Jesus had been born in Aries. As 
 Meridian one was still here, it was natural 
 to select this as the "Throne;" selecting 
 the necessary figures on either side. 
 Seven main figures are found and num 
 bered. Number one, was Leo. The 
 great change pointing to this constella 
 tion is denominated by Daniel the 
 "Cleansing of the Sanctuary;" by John 
 the "Fall of Old Babylon." Number 
 two gave the flood in Taurus. Number 
 three gave the creation of man, and his 
 fall in Orion. Number four gave the de- 
 
HOW DATES WERE GIVEN. 113 
 
 struction of Jerusalem, which event hap 
 pened when the salstitial colure was in 
 Alta,ir of Aquila. The fall colure was in 
 Benetnasch, of Ursa Major, in line with 
 the left limb of Bootes. Consequently 
 three and a half circles will bring the 
 spring colure in the same star. After 
 what Daniel had written all that was 
 necessary to show the time of the end, 
 was to show the time of beginning. The 
 event itself did this. Nor was it known 
 to any But the Father " before. These 
 signs are freely called angels, or mes 
 sengers of God, giving information to 
 the prophet. Orion invites him to "come 
 and see" the "fountains made bitter." 
 Taurus invites to "behold a mountain 
 thrown into the sea and death following." 
 So each angel has its voice for some 
 controlling event of history. From the 
 sand of the sea he saw four more. Num 
 ber five was Scorpio in line with Htr- 
 cules, the Altar and Serpentaria. Num 
 ber six was Bootes, whose limb was the 
 same as Benetnasch in number seven, or 
 
114 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Ursa Major. These, with Taurus, may 
 be seen now about the 15th of September 
 at 9 o clock, as the " four angels standing 
 on the four corners of the Earth." The 
 "Key of Hell" is Cerberus, in the hand 
 of Hercules, and definitely marks two 
 dates. The Dolphin is spoken of as an 
 angel in the sun, preceding the Eagle as 
 in the "Feast of the fowls." Ezek. 89. 
 Capricornus is in line with the Dolphin, 
 and dates the invasion of Persia by 
 Alexander. 
 
 But the above numbered angels are 
 the seven figures in which the "Little 
 Book " gets unsealed, and the world s 
 history, both good and evil, for eighty 
 thousand years, finds a record. 
 
THE SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS. 115 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Grand March of Empire through Pic 
 tured Events of History. Some of which 
 have been hung on the Stars. 
 
 SECTION FIRST. 
 
 THE SUCCESSION OF FIVE UNI 
 VERSAL KINGDOMS. 
 
 Asleep in his chamber, mid royalty 
 lavish, 
 
 With power unmeasur d except by Je 
 hovah, 
 
 The king lies unconscious of all that sur 
 rounds him, 
 
 But that in a vision he sees a great 
 image. 
 
 Now rous d from his slumbers, with 
 
 memory sleeping, 
 His feelings inspired with the lingering 
 
116 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 He ask d of his readers of mind for a 
 
 version, 
 Of all that had past in his slumbers of 
 
 midnight. 
 
 <( Assemble ye wise men from every na 
 tion, 
 
 And show me a man that may tell me the 
 dream, and 
 
 The meaning thereof to exactness, or 
 perish." 
 
 Mind seers are vanquish d, appall d, and 
 
 confounded; 
 Then rose up a Daniel, with trust in 
 
 Jehovah ; 
 Give time for our prayers to the God of 
 
 our fathers, 
 And He may restore the lost vision in 
 
 mercy." 
 
 The vision returns with its meaning ex 
 plained; 
 
 The form that was seen was the vision of 
 empire; 
 
THE SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS. 117 
 
 Proud Babylon, decked in gold and in 
 
 purple, 
 Like Lucifer rais d to be star of the 
 
 morning. 
 
 The first in the chain, as the strongest in 
 
 fortress, 
 He ravages earth in the might of his 
 
 power; 
 The prey, as a lion, he drags to his 
 
 cavern, 
 Jehovah he scorns, with the boast "I 
 
 have gotten " 
 "These honors, these riches, dominion, 
 
 and power." 
 
 Like the eagle that mounts on the strength 
 
 of his pinions, 
 Before the rude tempest, the bolt s glare 
 
 defying; 
 Secure in his gains, he has parted with 
 
 virtue, 
 Unconscious of th lash of Jehovah s 
 
 sure Justice. 
 
118 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Full homage lie gives to his gods in de 
 votion, 
 
 The parent of harlots in worship of 
 
 idols; 
 , Proscription, irreverence, riotous living; 
 
 And each in its turn so mark d the vile 
 nation, 
 
 While riches, dominion and spoils had 
 been gath ring. 
 
 The kingdom is lost in the arms of the 
 image, 
 
 Now weaken d in power but increas d in 
 its riches; 
 
 The sword of the Lord may be slow in 
 unsheathing, 
 
 But drawn in defense, it is slower return 
 ing. 
 
 Darius is king now, with Babylon de 
 pendent, 
 
 Six kings give the number th dominion 
 shall govern, 
 
 Controlling the nations through force of 
 tradition; 
 
THE SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS. 119 
 
 Blind rev rence for law, once plac d on 
 
 the statutes, 
 And caste, so repulsive to reason and 
 
 feeling, 
 Is fourth head of Dragon, as king o er 
 
 the people. 
 
 A semblance of beasts is seen by the 
 
 prophet ; 
 A bear, all its movements are cumber d, 
 
 ungainly; 
 " Go search for tradition," was Persia s 
 
 injunction, 
 Their rulers obey, though gainst reason 
 
 and int rest, 
 Their action, so cramp d by tradition and 
 
 caste, shows 
 A nation in weakness, and destin d to 
 
 perish. 
 
 A ram, to the northward, the westward, 
 
 and southward, 
 Is pushing in envy, in weakness and 
 
 choler; 
 
120 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 It swells with its riches, its numbers 
 
 and power, 
 To yield to the bound of the goat from 
 
 the west; for 
 The horns in the sign Capricornus, shall 
 
 date the 
 True time Alexander makes Persia his 
 
 province. 
 
 Death breaks the great horn, that is 
 waxing so mighty, 
 
 When four of his generals set up a king 
 dom; 
 
 A government shown to the prophet as 
 Southern, 
 
 " The Northern, the Eastern, and Land 
 of the holy." 
 
 The fortunes of war must alternate a 
 
 seasoD, 
 A Hannibal gather the spoils of the 
 
 Romans; 
 
THE SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS. 121 
 
 A Carthage surrender to Romans aveng 
 ing; 
 
 Whenlo! from the North comes a "Beast 
 of great power." 
 
 A Caesar is ruling, and Greece has ex 
 pired; 
 
 The mystic and literal are seen in this 
 kingdom ; 
 
 The life of the literal is brief in dura 
 tion ; 
 
 The life of the mystic is long and seduc 
 tive. 
 
 These powers are spreading in ev ry 
 direction, 
 
 The lit ral is ruling by power of armies, 
 
 The mystic seduces through hope of en 
 riching, 
 
 And each is endowed to rule universal. 
 
 The "Isles of the seas" he will visit, 
 
 subduing; 
 With violence perish* in the home of his 
 
 fortress; 
 K 
 
122 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Succeeded by one who will tax the whole 
 world, for 
 
 Expenses at home, and the army subject 
 ing. 
 
 By th rule of the Caesars, the Sacrifice 
 
 ceases; 
 Through greed of the army the temple is 
 
 burned; 
 Through dint of persistence the city is 
 
 taken ; 
 
 Judea subdued to Eoman dictation, 
 Gives "Time of the end," in the time of 
 
 beginning. 
 
 Uprises a "vile one" demanding to wor 
 ship 
 
 The gods of the Eomans, and Image of 
 Cassar; 
 
 Confiscating all, where obed ence was 
 doubtful; 
 
 A Trajan is shown to the eye of the 
 prophet, 
 
 Whose kingdom is doomed in " A time " 
 to destruction. 
 
THE SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS. 123 
 
 The life of the mystic was seen to con 
 tinue, 
 
 Seducing the masses, by power of habit, 
 
 And dark ning the sun, through perver 
 sions of gospel; 
 
 A time, times, and half time, gave print 
 ing discover d, 
 
 Enlight ning the people, who check his 
 dominion, 
 
 While th angel is flying in th midst of 
 the heavens, 
 
 The gospel to give to the Ties of the sea; 
 till 
 
 In twenty-three hundred of years, the old 
 Babylon 
 
 Of Mystery falls, by the Lion of Judah. 
 
 O er wrecks- of these kingdoms there rides 
 
 forth a king, 
 A "Lion" for boldness, and dress d in 
 
 pure linen; 
 The crown on His head, more like radiant 
 
 stars, shows 
 The voice of the nations who make him 
 
 their ]eader; 
 
124 SONG: OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 A King of all kings, in the strength of 
 his wisdom, 
 
 Our God, to recTeem us from all our trans 
 gressions. 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 
 THE FATE OF THE FIRST FOUR 
 UNIVERSAL KINGDOMS. 
 
 When Ezekiel wrote the * Feast of the 
 fowls," the solstitial colure line was in 
 the Dolphin. Ezek. 39. It also touched 
 the tip of the right wing of Aquila, pass 
 ing through the Fox and the Swan. 
 Babylon was in the zenith of her glory. 
 
 In following the line into the Eagle 
 before reaching the star marked delta in 
 the left wing of the bird, four nations, 
 claiming universal empire, had arisen, 
 had their day, and departed. The terri 
 tory about Judea had been many times 
 taken and retaken. Indeed, it had been 
 but little else, than a great slaughter field 
 of nations. The prophet saw Jerusalem 
 
FEAST OF THE BIRDS, OR FOWLS. 125 
 
 besieged and destroyed in Aquila. His 
 tory has since confirmed its destruction, 
 the colure line being in Altair of Aquila s 
 neck. 
 
 He further saw that in three hundred 
 and ninety years from that event, the fate 
 of her besiegers, the Roman power, 
 would be sealed. Ezek. 4th and 5th Chap 
 ters. Daniel saw that from the reign of 
 Trajan, the " vile one," it would continue 
 but a "time." Dan. 11:24. Hence 
 Ezekiel sung what is called the 
 
 "FEAST OF THE BIRDS, OR FOWLS." 
 
 In th sun stands an angel cetacean of the 
 ocean, 
 
 Beneath rolls a world all absorb d in 
 idol try; 
 
 Pro ad Babylon leading the van unre 
 strained, 
 
 And th kingdoms that follow, intent 
 upon conquest. 
 
 K2 
 
126 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Ezekiel beholding a line of these powers, 
 Made fat by their prowess in sifting the 
 
 nations, 
 Beheld them exhausted, and wasted in 
 
 battle; 
 On " Mountains of Israel " doom d to 
 
 destruction, 
 By falling as victims to the sword that 
 
 they cherished, 
 He saw them in slaughter, defil d in their 
 
 blood; and 
 Sung th " Feast of the fowls " from the 
 
 Dolphin to Eagle. 
 
 E er colure line passed the wing of 
 
 Aquila, 
 These nations were tried, and their days 
 
 were all number d. 
 
 On mountains of Jacob, remaining un- 
 buried, 
 
 The bones of these kings lay promis 
 cuously heaped; 
 
FEAST OF THE BIRDS, OB FOWLS. 127 
 
 They call for the birds of the air to as 
 semble, 
 
 Inviting to dine at the sacrifice of Ma 
 gog. 
 
 Four kingdoms, in turn, universal do 
 minion 
 
 Attempting, by conquest of power through 
 numbers; 
 
 Four heads of the Dragon, appearing and 
 falling, 
 
 Give force to the figure of * Kings in 
 Euphrates," 
 
 Who rise at the call of the Dragon s last 
 gath ring. 
 
128 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 CHAPTEB Y. 
 
 Prophecy beholding the Grand March of 
 Science. 
 
 SECTION FIRST. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF CIVILIZATION, OR THE 
 
 ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE IN THE 
 
 USE OF THE LOCOMOTIVE. 
 
 (Ezek. 1 and 10.) 
 
 Twenty-three hundred years previous 
 to the invention of steam power, applied 
 as a means of travel, Ezekiel, sitting on 
 the banks of the river Chebar, in Chal- 
 dea, beheld in the distance a whirlwind, 
 and a bright light, moving toward him. 
 To the prophet this light had the ap 
 pearance of Amber. As it approached, 
 the moving creatures, four in number, 
 seemed enveloped in a cloud. The ap 
 proaching light now had the appearance 
 of infolding upon itself. These four- 
 sided creatures were resting each upon 
 four wheels, which seemed set as within 
 
PROPHECY BEHOLDING SCIENCE. 129 
 
 wheels, and inseparable from the crea 
 tures themselves. As they neared the 
 court where Ezekiel was seated, a noise 
 was heard as the noise of a host; as the 
 voice of speech when swelling in passion. 
 Ranged along the sides was the appear 
 ance of men s faces and hands. The 
 leader of these creatures had the appear 
 ance of polished brass, with wheels like 
 Beryl. 
 
 They came to a halt on the right side 
 of the building, and their wings were let 
 down; but a noise was still heard from a 
 firmament, or half circle above, while a 
 cloud filled the inner court. 
 
 The appearance of fire, as a lamp, now 
 moved up and down in the center of these 
 creatures, while the hand of a man, 
 similar to the one which had guided the 
 spirit of the living creature to the wheels, 
 "For the spirit of the creature lay in 
 the wheels," now, through local means, 
 scattered fire over the city. Poetically, 
 
130 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 these creatures had four wings, or two 
 motions; but they moved not sidewise. 
 Their wings were straight and ranged 
 down at either side, two on a side. They 
 everywhere had the appearance of a 
 man s hands under them, or working 
 them. One dressed in pure linen was 
 seen to go in between the wheels, and 
 take the fire with his hand. There was 
 a glowing furnace in front of the man, and 
 a canopy overhead; upon which a man 
 could walk. 
 
 In the general appearance of this train 
 of four, there was a combination of cour 
 age, strength, and flight. It had the 
 boldness of the lion, the strength of the 
 ox, the flight of the eagle, and the office 
 of an angel, bearing messages to the 
 people. 
 
 An angel spoke to the wheel, and it 
 started again, and a noise went forth as 
 the voice of Almighty God. It went as 
 the lightning and as the lightning re- 
 
THE SONG OF THE ENGINE. 131 
 
 turned; and it sent forth the lightning. 
 What may all this mean but a description 
 of an evening train of cars, heralded by 
 telegram, arriving at the depot, from 
 which passengers alight, to be conveyed 
 by local trains to their homes. 
 
 THE SONG OF THE ENGINE. 
 
 By th river of Chebar, the prophet is 
 
 sitting, 
 With face to the northward, beholding 
 
 the future ; 
 When lo ! in the distance, like Amber in 
 
 glowing, 
 Appeareth the head-light, of something 
 
 in motion. 
 
 The cherubim hasten to give explana 
 tion ; 
 
 This likeness of Amber is running as 
 lightning, 
 
 Infolding itself, as it nearer approacheth; 
 
 And th noise of its coming gives signal 
 of warning. 
 
132 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Now halting at the right of a building, 
 or station, 
 
 While waiting adjustment to finish the 
 journey; 
 
 Its wings are let down, as the cloud is 
 diverted, 
 
 To scape, as its spirit, through firma 
 ment upward. 
 
 Four wheels have these creatures, four 
 
 sides in completion, 
 And each has appearance of hands, and 
 
 of faces, 
 All ranged at their sides, which were 
 
 straight in appearance, 
 Now ready for movement in any direction. 
 
 The cloud now ascending, in ringlets is 
 forming, 
 
 With voice of the whirlwind when mingled 
 with thunder; 
 
 Oar civilization is dancing before him, 
 
 Oasis of desert where Jacob has wan 
 der d; and 
 
 The throne of the Lord seems o er hang 
 ing in glory. 
 
THE SONG OF THE ENGINE. 133 
 
 One creature was head of the others at 
 tached, 
 
 As wending his way, so the others must 
 follow; 
 
 His wheels were like Beryl, all brilliant 
 and even, 
 
 Four wheels to this creature, in grooves 
 they are running. 
 
 An angel! an angel! now cryeth the 
 prophet, 
 
 The cherubim visit us, beckoning us on 
 ward, 
 
 A lion for boldness, an ox in his power, 
 
 An eagle for flight as by storms he is 
 driven ; 
 
 With wings to move forward, and wings, 
 to move backward, 
 
 A cherub in heralding civilization. 
 
 O wheel ! cried the angel, now move the 
 great burden, 
 
 And th wheels, and the creatures, were 
 lifted together. 
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134 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Again it is moving with voice like a host, 
 
 in 
 The storm of their passion, when joy is 
 
 unbounded; 
 It runneth, it flyeth, nor moveth once 
 
 sidewise, 
 With foot like a calf, and a firmament 
 
 sounding, 
 
 It lifteth itself to the line of its passage. 
 
 / 
 
 As th whirlwind increasing in th height 
 
 of the tempest, 
 It vies with the eagle in scaling the 
 
 mountain; 
 It swoops through the valley, nor turns 
 
 for the river, 
 Bight onward for home it is bearing the 
 
 loved ones, 
 The Glory of God, in the form of man s 
 
 power. 
 
CLOCK DATING THE TELEGRAPH. 135 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 
 THE GKEAT CLOCK DATING THE 
 TELEGRAPH. 
 
 Four thousand years previous to the 
 invention of the telegraph, a Chaldean 
 prophet was tracing the position of the 
 Pleiades in the heavens, in different ages 
 of the future. At that time they stood 
 meridian one, and consequently rose to 
 the zenith on the tenth of November. 
 He beheld them in a future period in the 
 zenith, over the softening of winter, fol 
 lowed by the belts of Orion, over the 
 sealed rivers. This points to the Janu 
 ary thaw, which generally happens about 
 the first of the month, lasting from one 
 to three weeks. The Pleiades stand in 
 the zenith on the second day of January 
 at 9 o clock P. M. The belts of Orion 
 are only eighteen days behind. Hence 
 they reach the zenith on the twentieth. 
 The prophet beheld them in these rela- 
 
136 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 tions while under the plenary inspiration 
 of God, in refuting his antagonists, 
 Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu. He 
 was putting them to silence by a well 
 known figure of speech, so annihilating 
 in argument at the present day, viz. : the 
 figure of interrogation, as the art of 
 swamping the antagonist with questions, 
 the answers to which you well know, but 
 he does not. He had in these men re 
 presentatives of venerable Superstition, 
 Special Providence as a rule of action. 
 Ignorance, and Secular Education. In 
 keeping with the mythological under 
 standing of his age, he alludes to these 
 constellations as follows: " Canst thou 
 bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, 
 or loose the bands of Orion ?" Eight 
 here, as a prophet, beholding the achieve 
 ments of science in the use of lightning, 
 which to his opponents would be equally 
 unaccountable as the government of the 
 stars, he spoke as follows: " Canst thou 
 lift up thy voice to the clouds that 
 
SONG OF THE LIGHTNING S RECORD. 137 
 
 abundance of waters cover thee ?" Canst 
 thou send lightnings, that they may go 
 and say unto thee, Here we are ?" And, 
 lest they should think that he was allud 
 ing to the action of Deity only, and to 
 show that this skill would yet be pos 
 sessed by man, he adds, "Who hath 
 put wisdom in the inner parts? who hath 
 given understanding to the heart?" We 
 have the telegraph invented at the pre 
 cise time corresponding to these dates. 
 Is it not farther possible that we live 
 upon the eve of that period when man 
 shall speak to the clouds, and they shall 
 give him abundance of rain ? 
 
 THE SONG OF THE LIGHTNING S 
 KECOED. 
 
 In th sun stands the angel first seen by 
 
 the prophet, 
 As backward he traced the flight of Maz- 
 
 zaroth ; 
 The belts of Orion are colure stars, 
 
 marking 
 Creation of man in the Garden of Eden. 
 
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138 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 From th line through the Pleiades the 
 prophet is looking, 
 
 Four thousands of years to the future of 
 science; 
 
 When lightning, as messenger, scribe 
 and reporter, 
 
 Should trip o er the earth as a sun beam 
 of morning, 
 
 Yet guided by man to return at his bid 
 ding. 
 
 In th zenith stands the Pleiades, o er 
 
 the soft ning of winter, 
 The belts of Orion o er the binding of 
 
 rivers, 
 The dates of Mazzaroth are true to the 
 
 prophet, 
 O er earth, and mid ocean, the lightning 
 
 is talking. 
 
 The prophet is dealing with figures of 
 
 question, 
 
 In meeting Elihu s defiant assertions; 
 Comparing assumptions of science with 
 
 truth, as 
 
SONG OF THE LIGHTNING S KECOKD. 139 
 
 In providence f law and in mercy re 
 vealed, 
 He hung forth the dates in the heavens 
 
 above them, 
 Who scoff at the Scriptures through 
 
 secular knowledge. 
 
 Canst thou give the softening influence f 
 
 Pleiades? 
 The belts of Orion canst loose at thy 
 
 pleasure ? 
 C anst thou lift thy voice to the clouds 
 
 for the shower ? 
 Canst thou say to th lightnings, "You 
 
 go," and returning, 
 They say to you " here," with report in 
 
 hand ready ? 
 
 Who gave to man wisdom, these powers 
 
 to govern, 
 The elements bind to his hand as a 
 
 servant ? 
 Who whisper d these thoughts to the 
 
 prophet in sadness, 
 
140 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 As rising from th ashes, he worded our 
 
 hist ry, 
 And click d forth the signals of lightning 
 
 recording ? 
 
 We harness the lightning for work, light 
 
 and easy, 
 God makes it prime minister, guiding 
 
 the storms in 
 The wildest of tempests that plough the 
 
 deep ocean, 
 Or gentlest of breezes that fan the gay 
 
 flowers. 
 
 It rendeth the mountain, the infant it 
 
 lulleth, 
 It burneth the village, the flower doth 
 
 open; 
 It turneth the Earth on its axis, gainst 
 
 currents 
 Of ocean and air, that are sweeping its 
 
 surface. 
 
 The guardian of life mid the kingdoms 
 of nature, 
 
THE B,< AST OF PERVERTED SCIENCE. 141 
 
 It buildeth the forest from atoms of gases; 
 The guide of the vine in search of the 
 
 oak, and 
 The strength of the oak, in support cf its 
 
 consort. 
 
 SECTION THIRD. 
 THE BEAST OF PERVERTED SCIENCE. 
 
 Prophecy describes perverted science 
 as a "Beast rising from earth." Science," 
 in the hands of a good man, is an angel 
 of blessing. Developed through a bad 
 man, it may be a scourgiDg demon. 
 Diplomas and degrees conferred by the 
 school, are designed to confer additional 
 power upon the holder. Used for legiti 
 mate purposes in elevating the race, 
 they are lamb-like^ in appearance and 
 meaning; but used to oppress the human 
 mind with unbelief in God, or his Word, 
 or for purposes of human caste, they 
 speak like a dragon. Rev. 13:11. 
 
142 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 It is a curious fact that the Greek 
 letters corresponding with the leading 
 degrees conferred by our colleges, when 
 combined in single degrees, and added 
 together, make the mystic number in 
 Kev. 666. Thus A. B.=3, A. M.^41, 
 D. D.=8, B. D.=6, M. D.=14, LL. D. 
 =64, F. E. S.=500. 
 
 THE SONG OF THE DEAGON. 
 
 A Beast of great titles arises from earth, 
 with 
 
 Its horns like a lamb, but a voice like a 
 dragon, 
 
 A prophet of power it promis d the na 
 tions, 
 
 A dragon in scorn it became to the peo 
 ple ; 
 
 Personification of secular knowledge, 
 
 Perverted in power to damage the skeptic ; 
 
 By use of degrees to repudiate the Scrip 
 tures. 
 
THE SONG OF THE DRAGON. 143 
 
 The guess-work of science, is sounded 
 
 from rostrums, 
 As th knell of the gospel, and Zion s full 
 
 ruin. 
 
 The work of the ages, in lifting man 
 higher, 
 
 Perverted in schemes of mere self exulta 
 tion, 
 
 Is ask d to destroy the sole power that 
 raises 
 
 Lost man from the darkness of sin and 
 pollution. 
 
 The Bible must leave, so Elihu can enter, 
 
 Who bringeth his knowledge from nature 
 unaided; 
 
 Who useth degrees with the power of 
 tyrants, 
 
 To crush out the hope of the humble de 
 pendents; 
 
 On Jesus, as guide, and his gospel as 
 anchor. 
 
 Tis th voice of the Beast, in full tyranny 
 
 reigning, 
 While fast ning his name on the youth of 
 
 the nation; 
 
144 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 In doubt and proud scorn f revelations 
 
 known power, 
 They read their description, by prophecy 
 
 given, 
 Six hundred and three score and six in 
 
 its number. 
 
 This prophet is calling the fire from the 
 
 heavens, 
 The lightning he catches and tames as a 
 
 servant; 
 Great wonders he doeth in th sight of 
 
 the people, 
 Yet false to his God, he is false to his 
 
 mission. 
 
 % 
 
 Mazzaroth is holding the time of these 
 changes, 
 
 These wrongs have been hung on the 
 stars, as a record 
 
 Of mercies abused, of good long per 
 verted, 
 
 While that which the prophets have seen 
 is unfolding. 
 
 Time s hist ry involved in the changes of 
 
 nature, 
 By prophets in diagram given in figure, 
 
THE SONG OF THE DRAGON. 145 
 
 Shall make up the years still allotted to 
 matter, 
 
 And finish the journey of man on pro 
 bation. 
 
 "But I will shew thee that which s 
 
 noted in th Scripture:" 1 
 "Thou madest Orion" 2 the coluro line, 
 
 marking 
 
 Creation of man in the Garden of Eden; 
 " Arc turns," or Bootes, that marketh the 
 
 end of 
 Creation, where man is arraign d for the 
 
 Judgment. 
 
 Come look to the Angel who lif tetli his 
 hand to 
 
 The heavens, and sweareth by him that 
 is living 
 
 For ever and ever that time shall be 
 Mo ad, 
 
 Two Moads and half Moad;" 3 or three and 
 a half rounds, 
 
 Or circles, upon the great clock of pre 
 cession. 
 
 1. Dan. 10:2. 2. Job9:9. 3, Dan. 12:7. 
 
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146 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Grand March of Time among the Stars. 
 
 SECTION FIRST. 
 
 THE "LITTLE BOOK." 
 
 [Five figures of the zodiac, presented 
 at one view of the firmament, are made 
 to speak as mnemonic signs of events in 
 history and prophecy. Time is indicated 
 by the passage of colure lines in the 
 precession of the equinoxes. As Jesus 
 was born when meridian one was in 
 Sheratan of the Lamb, and at the moment 
 when this star reached the zenith at nine 
 o clock P. M., Aries becomes the central 
 figure of all history, and the mnemonic 
 sign controlling the heavens and the earth. 
 Four thousand years B. 0. meridian one 
 was in Orion s belt. At the time of the 
 deluge, it was in the neck of Taurus. At 
 the time of Jerusalem s destruction under 
 Vespasian, the solstitial colure was in 
 Altair of Aquila. Meridian one hundred 
 and eighty, or the fall colure, will reach 
 Leo in the year 2370. During this 2300 
 years from A. D. 70, time is passing over 
 the Flying Angel" Virgo.] 
 
STAR DATES OF HUMAN EVENTS. 147 
 
 A small book of star-dates just hinted to 
 prophets, 
 
 Beheld in the colure behind and before 
 them, 
 
 Unfolding the progress of piety s con 
 flicts, 
 
 While couch d in the language of figure 
 the grandest, 
 
 Still marking the epoch s in historic 
 changes, 
 
 And giving the finish to matter in being, 
 
 Was pass d by the judge to the hand of 
 the Saviour, 
 
 But seal d from the knowledge of all but 
 the Father. 
 
 One servant of Jesus should taste not of 
 
 death, till 
 All things by the prophets related in 
 
 symbol, 
 Should pass as a drama, fulfill d to the 
 
 letter. 
 
 Invited to rise, by the spirit of proph cy, 
 To regions of space far above the hori 
 zon, 
 
148 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 To look on the atmosphere, now as a 
 
 mirror, 
 Reflecting the stars, as a "sea of glass" 
 
 molten, 
 The prophet beheld one, enthroned as a 
 
 Sovereign, 
 In Aries-muemonical sign of the Saviour. 
 
 This "Book 5 will be open d through 
 
 human progression, 
 By prophets all given in signs of the 
 
 heavens. 
 
 "Four beasts" of the heavens, as signs 
 
 of the Zodiac, 
 Eecord the grand passage of colure lines, 
 
 showing 
 The dates of great changes effecting the 
 
 pathway 
 
 Of mortals th most, in historical annals; 
 And giving the triumph of Christ o er the 
 
 Dragon, 
 "Who tramples with power, and rules as a 
 
 tyrant, 
 O er nations, and peoples, and tongues, 
 
 by oppression. 
 
STAR DATES OF HUMAN EVENTS. 149 
 
 Six wings had these angels, three ways 
 
 they are moving, 
 Three clocks of the universe, one by 
 
 precession. 
 
 Now Leo records the full triumph of 
 preaching, 
 
 As Babylon falls in the cleansing of wor 
 ship, 
 
 Mnemonically stated in the passage o er 
 Leo; 
 
 And Jesus becomes the acknowledged 
 
 Lion 
 Of Judah, in twenty-three hundred and 
 
 sev nty. 
 
 The second in Taurus records the spring 
 
 colure, 
 Pronouncing the time on the clock of 
 
 precession, 
 
 That ended the Eden of man s first sur 
 roundings. 
 
 The dragon, through deism, had ruled as 
 a monarch, 
 
 The cup of iniquity fill d to the fullest; 
 
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150 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Jehovah appear d in a trumpet of warn 
 ing, 
 
 As th vial of wrath was outpour d in the 
 ocean; 
 
 Destroying the contour of earth as exist 
 ing, 
 
 And giving the day that alternates with 
 nightfall, 
 
 The summer and winter that make up our 
 seasons; 
 
 Thus placing the rainbow as sign of the 
 cov nant, 
 
 Securing exemption from flooding of 
 earth, but 
 
 Subjecting us mortals to death less re 
 stricted. 
 
 A " Star falls from heaven, "effecting the 
 fountains; 
 
 Our parents in Eden have lost their up 
 rightness, 
 
 Removing them far from the bliss, to 
 which earth was 
 
 Adapted, while sinless devotion con 
 tinued. 
 
STAR DATES OF HUMAN EVENTS. 151 
 
 The head now polluted, the waters are 
 
 " wormwood," 
 The sea with its minions, is turn d into 
 
 blood, and 
 The rivers are teeming with death in their 
 
 passage; 
 
 Depravity enters, and man is now fallen; 
 This colure date heads in the belts of 
 Orion. 
 
 An " Eagle " is flying in the midst of the 
 
 heavens, 
 Preparing to feast on the kings of the 
 
 Or ent; 
 Jerusalem culminates the slaughter of 
 
 nations; 
 The "Feast of the fowls" was thus 
 
 strictly fulfilled, 
 As colure, here dates in Aquila, year 
 
 seventy. 
 
 Thus signs in the heavens, personify 
 movements, 
 
 When seen by the prophets in order pre 
 cession, 
 
 That date the great changes of time in 
 its passage. 
 
152 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 SECTION SECOND. 
 
 THE FATE OF JERUSALEM, FOLLOWED BY 
 THAT OF HER BESIEGERS. 
 
 [A miniature city is besieged in em 
 blem. The prophet must lie 40 days on 
 his right, and 390 on his left side. Each 
 clay indexed a year. Forty gave the time 
 from the coming of Messiah, to the tak 
 ing away of the daily sacrifice. The 
 three hundred and ninety showed the ex 
 tent of Roman ability to oppress them. 
 Ezek. 4 and 5. The Roman power quietly 
 expired in the Western Empire on or 
 before A. D. 476.] 
 
 Engrav d on a tile is a figure in symbol, 
 
 Portraying a city of gorgeous propor 
 tions; 
 
 A role is enacted, as warning to Ephr im; 
 
 The prophet is showing the part of be 
 siegers, 
 
 Close watching the wall that enclosed the 
 city. 
 
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM. 153 
 
 To signify those who are doomed to wan 
 der. 
 
 Dejected, and homeless, and far among 
 strangers, 
 
 The seer must turn on his left for a 
 season; 
 
 His face look afar from the home of his 
 childhood, 
 
 To th ruling by aliens, the scepter de 
 parted. 
 
 His bread, now by weight, was repulsive 
 
 and meager, 
 His water was given in the scantiest 
 
 measure, 
 
 His sleep quite disturbed through vigil 
 ance of watching; 
 
 He turn d not for rest till three hundred 
 and ninety 
 
 Were number d in days, but symbolic of 
 
 seasons 
 Of Koman oppressions in literal power. 
 
 A razor is pass d o er the head of the 
 prophet, 
 
 Made bald now in symbol of Judah re 
 jected; 
 
154 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Two score of dark days, by Ezekiel in 
 sadness, 
 
 Were number d as years that precede its 
 defilement; 
 
 As turn d on his right to the siege he is 
 looking, 
 
 While showing oppression before its de 
 struction. 
 
 Jerusalem reads the sad fate of her 
 
 children, 
 
 Yicar ously laid on the heart of the seer; 
 As weighing the hair that is parcel d in 
 
 portions, 
 
 To index the sorrow awaiting this people; 
 The shepherd is smitten, and th sheep 
 
 are all scatter d. 
 
 As th prophet is looking to th walls of 
 
 the city, 
 One-third to the fire is consign d, as a 
 
 token 
 Of pestilence, famine, and flame that 
 
 consumeth; 
 One-third to the knife, as a symbol of 
 
 slaughter, 
 
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM. 155 
 
 Awaiting the Jews, as they turn d to their 
 
 bondage; 
 One-third to the winds, as they swept the 
 
 doom d city, 
 Conveying the moans of God s chastened 
 
 people. 
 
 A few in his skirt s tell the story of 
 
 hidings 
 From wrongs and oppressions, that 
 
 shadow their pathway; 
 The whole is of God, who gives hist ry 
 
 in profile, 
 Four hundreds of years, from their final 
 
 dispersion, 
 And forty, preceding destruction of city. 
 
 Jerusalem sack d by the Romans in 
 
 power, 
 The thunder of war through the temple 
 
 resounding, 
 
 The "sacrifice ended," as Michael pre 
 sented, 
 
 Gave th " time of the end," through the 
 time for beginning. 
 
156 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Here colure dates open, to run their 
 
 fulfillment, 
 
 As def uitely given by Daniel in proph cy; 
 And tli fourth of the " seals of the book" 
 
 was here lifted. 
 
 The power that wasted Jerusalem, lastly, 
 Was clestin d to vanish, as th ? clew of the 
 
 morning; 
 The Goths and the vandals her name 
 
 shall demolish, 
 The "Empire of th West" shall depart 
 
 without struggle. 
 
 These years did suffice to engulf the 
 "vile kingdom," 
 
 Which sent forth th "horn" still more 
 dreadful in power; 
 
 The horn that yet tramples, enticing the 
 nations, 
 
 With riches, and honors, through selfish 
 ness gained. 
 
 This Bab lon of selfishness, rear d as a 
 
 monarch, 
 Receiving the homage of merchants of 
 
 th ocean, 
 
 And holding the scepter of every nation, 
 Must fall at the coming of the " Angel in 
 
 Leo." 
 
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. 157 
 
 SECTION THIRD. 
 
 THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS vs. 
 THE DRAGON. 
 
 There are two sets of influences trace 
 able to all organized movements. These 
 are noted in Scripture as the Literal and 
 the Mystic. The four leading kingdoms 
 presented in vision to Daniel, and each 
 in turn denominated universal, had their 
 literal and mystical, or educational in 
 fluence over the world. Literal Babylon 
 was destroyed by the Medo-Persians, 465 
 B. C. "Mystic Babylon," lives on, with 
 greater or less influence over the world 
 till the end of time. Literal Rome dies 
 in the sinking of the Western Empire 
 A. D. 460. It is an acknowledged fact 
 of history, sixteen years later, but the 
 "Mystic Power," with its seven heads 
 and ten horns, unites with "Mystic Baby 
 lon," in ruling the world in commercial 
 selfishness. "Covetousness, which is 
 idolatry," is the dragon of commerce, 
 politics, and all too many forms of re- 
 
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158 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 ligion. The few who really belong to the 
 kingdom of Christ, make but a feeble 
 dissent to the rule of this monster. Sel 
 fishness is king. His image is coined 
 money. Men worship money, when they 
 bend all their ability to its acquirement. 
 
 To diagram and trace the influences of 
 the Mystic, through successive ages, re 
 quires a more vivid imagination, a more 
 highly figurative language, with the inner 
 soul of poetry to portray. The educational 
 influences of opposing and contrasting 
 principles, are first placed in colure line, 
 in Orion s belts. Kev. 6. The one is 
 likened to a beautiful woman called "The 
 Spirit of Prophecy," the other to a great 
 "Red Dragon." 
 
 This Woman, has one simple, honest 
 line of dealing, called the Testimony 
 of Jesus, or the Spirit of Prophecy." 
 Rev. 19 : 10. The Dragon has seven lines 
 of policy, heads or mountains, on which, 
 society at large will rest opposition to 
 Christ s kingdom. Rev. 17:9. 
 
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. 159 
 
 These figures personify ruling princi 
 ples opposed to each other, in colure 
 lines of the heavens for more than six 
 thousand years. When the gospel shall 
 have placed the Dragon s influence in the 
 minority, he ceases to occupy any prom 
 inent position in the prophetic view of 
 colure lines, and he "falls as the light 
 ning out of heaven." After the fall colure 
 strikes the constellation, known as Leo, 
 the prominence of the dragon is wanting 
 for more than seventy thousand years. 
 To the reported success of some of the 
 first gospel laborers, Christ replied as a 
 prophet, "I beheld Satan as lightning 
 fall from heaven." Lu. 10: 18. 
 
 In the latter tine of man s history, he 
 feebly appears in colure line in Hercules, 
 in the figure Cerberus, or key of hell, now 
 conquered by the gospel, chained " and 
 locked up in hell. He figures again with 
 a sort of resurrected life, with the risen 
 kings of Euphrates, in the last great 
 battle of Armageddon. His works cease 
 under the "seventh vial." Rev. 16: 19. 
 
160 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE VISION OF EULING PEINCI- 
 PLES, 
 
 A Woman is cloth d in the brightness of 
 sunbeams, 
 
 All pregnant in symbol of th coming of 
 Jesus; 
 
 This Spirit of proph cy " in colure line 
 plac d, was 
 
 Revealed in the worthies through differ 
 ent ages; 
 
 Twelve stars on her head and the moon 
 at her footsteps, 
 
 Give time of creation in th Garden of 
 Eden. 
 
 This " Spirit of prophc y " as the Mother 
 
 of th child, was 
 Delivered of Christ, in the language of 
 
 figure. 
 
 Then destin d to flee to the wilderness 
 lonely, 
 
 Where selfishness, foil d in its greed to 
 devour her, 
 
 May pour forth its rage in most vile per 
 secution. 
 
VISION OF RULING PRINCIPLES. 161 
 
 Oppos d to this woman in contrast of 
 being, 
 
 Yet trav ling abreast through historic 
 probation, 
 
 A Dragon is standing, compos d of false 
 motives, 
 
 And principles, leading the world in re 
 bellion. 
 
 Deism, Caste, Idolatry, Bev rence in 
 
 Tradition, 
 Ambition, each in its turn, had subjected 
 
 the nations, 
 In kingly authority, through public 
 
 opinion, 
 Before the arrival of colure in Hi eagle. 
 
 The Dragon has rear d the sixth head of 
 commercial 
 
 Aggrandizement, selfishly pushing au 
 thority, 
 
 As Jung of the world, while old time is 
 recording 
 
 Through Virgo to Leo, in missions of 
 gospel, 
 
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16*2 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 A struggle between th " Old Dragon nd 
 
 his angels," 
 And Michael leading his ministers t 
 
 vict ry. 
 
 The church that is worldly, and th 
 " church round the corner," 
 
 Is marking the dif rence, tween worship 
 in spirit, 
 
 And worship for purposes selfish, com 
 mercial. 
 
 The gospel must hurl from the altar these 
 powers, 
 
 Old Satan must fall to the earth out of 
 heaven, 
 
 Jerusalem cleansed from all her defile 
 ments, 
 
 Be bride to the Lamb in his work of re 
 demption; 
 
 Like lightning out of heaven this Satan 
 is falling, 
 
 Beneath the swift wing of the angel in 
 Virgo. 
 
THE DOOM OF SLAVERY. 163 
 
 SECTION FOUKTH. 
 
 THE DOOM OF AMERICAN SLAVERY HUNG 
 IN THE HEAVENS. 
 
 In eighteen hundred and fifty four the 
 " Little Giant of the West," the acknowl 
 edged leader of the Democratic party, 
 Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, offered a bill 
 in Congress for the organization of 
 Kansas and Nebraska into territories. 
 
 This bill was three-headed. In other 
 words, in the language of its author, it 
 had ostensibly three designs, viz. : One 
 to appease an angry South, one to rebuke 
 a fanatical North, and one to place the two 
 sections, in their contest for more free, 
 or slave States, upon democratic equality, 
 under the plausible name of "Squatter 
 Sovereignty." 
 
 The solstitial colure line at this time 
 run directly through the hand of the Giant 
 of Mythology, Hercules. In his hand is 
 Cerberus, the three headed dog; the 
 
164 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 poetical emblem of which is the " Door 
 keeper of hell." He is falling head down 
 ward, with the dog in hand. Our his 
 torians record "that on the passage of 
 this bill, a great revolution in the safe 
 guards of liberty took place, and the 
 nation was convulsed." John, viewing 
 the great struggle by the prophetic eye, 
 records that "A star fell from heaven, 
 to whom was given the key of the bot 
 tomless pit, and there arose a great smoke. 
 Out of the smoke came an army as lociists 
 for number." This immense army were 
 all sovereigns, and each wore a "crown." 
 There was in this uprising also the " sting 
 of Scorpio." The tail end of this up 
 rising retained the virus afflicting the peo 
 ple with torment five months, or if pro 
 phetic time, one hundred and fifty years." 
 Hev. 9:10. It had been the aim of the 
 defenders of slavery to get it acknowl 
 edged as a Christian institution; It was 
 dubbed Abrahamic and Apostolic Now 
 as John had personified the " True spirit 
 
THE DOOM OF SLAVERY. 165 
 
 of prophecy in the testimony of Jesus," 
 as a woman in the sun, dress in a spot 
 less robe of the sun itself, it was natural 
 in viewing this commercial, selfish, blas 
 phemous greed of gain, to give it a dress 
 of another color and kind, and to seat 
 her on the Dragon. This he did. He be 
 held this claim, as a scarlet colored Wo 
 man, seated upon a Dragon in the wil 
 derness. She was dictating with great 
 effrontery when there rose up ten horns 
 claiming to be "sovereign," "receiving 
 power for an hour, but no kingdom." 
 During this struggle the seventh head 
 of the Dragon, " Apollyon," was reared. 
 Eev. 17:10. For awhile he was called 
 king, but it was wounded by the sword, 
 and the power of the Lamb ruled this 
 people. Kev. 17. 
 
166 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE WOMAN IN SCARLET. 
 
 The "Woman in scarlet" has made her 
 way westward; 
 
 The Beast that she rides is the Dragon of 
 hist ry ; 
 
 The right to enslave she defends from 
 the Bible; 
 
 American slavery usurps the new 
 wild ness, 
 
 Blasphemously claiming to be most re 
 ligious. 
 
 Sev n mountains as seats of false princi 
 ples ruling, 
 
 Are set forth as helps to this mode of 
 enriching; 
 
 Sev n heads had the monster, ten powers 
 
 to wield them, 
 And each, but an hour with a kingdom 
 
 in prospect, 
 Must look on a cause that will be lost in 
 
 the struggle. 
 
 These heads were historic, in marking 
 
 great changes; 
 Cold Deism, that wrapt the whole world 
 
 in its slumbers, 
 
THE DOOM OF SLAVERY. 167 
 
 While Eden was strewing man s pathway 
 with flowers; 
 
 Proud Caste, that arises from centraliza 
 tion, 
 
 Idol trj, Revered Tradition, Ambition, 
 Commercial Idol try through avarice 
 
 . madden d, 
 
 Destruction, in bitterness of hate, and 
 malignant revenge. 
 
 " One is," but "The five there, had fallen 
 
 already;" 
 These five, in their tarn, had control of 
 
 the nations, 
 
 But changes in custom left these super- 
 ceded; 
 
 Self-interest school d to assert its domin 
 ion, 
 
 Was seated on Cotton, long worshipp d 
 as sov reign. 
 
 This head universally follow d as mon 
 arch, 
 
 By nations, and people, and tongues in 
 their commerce, 
 
 Must yield to the seventh till th struggle 
 is over; 
 
168 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The Head " which with emphasis "was, 
 but is not, yet 
 
 It will be the eighth," still be th same 
 with the seventh; 
 
 This head is the king in the heat of the 
 contest; 
 
 Now all are revived in support of this 
 monster, 
 
 As born out of time to endure for a sea 
 son, 
 
 Till wounded in war, to the sixth it sub- 
 sideth. 
 
 A star falls from heaven, with key of old 
 hades; 
 
 The smoke of the pit has deluded the 
 
 people; 
 The destiny f slavery hangs in the 
 
 balance, 
 The pit is unlock d, and the Dragon gives 
 
 orders, 
 To push the rough contest, regardless of 
 
 honor. 
 
 The smoke now ascending, the sun be 
 comes darken d, 
 Theology humbled in aid of this monster; 
 
THE DOOM OF SLAVERY. 169 
 
 While armies assemble, as locusts in 
 number, 
 
 Resisting the orders of liberty s man 
 dates, 
 
 Show "crowns," as of sov reigns in 
 battle arrayed. 
 
 Ten horns had the Dragon, ten States 
 are in cov nant, 
 
 With "power that lasts a brief hour" 
 
 in its passage; 
 A king is now ruling, unlike that which 
 
 christ ned 
 The monster in swaddlings, and shap d 
 
 its beginnings; 
 
 The right to destroy is made the great 
 issue, 
 
 Apollyon is sov reign, renouncing al 
 legiance. 
 
 Old self is abandon d, in course of the 
 contest, 
 
 Destruction is rampant throughout his 
 dominion; 
 
 The head of malignance of Dragon is 
 reared 
 
 As king, prematurely attempting a king 
 dom. 
 
 
170 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Subdu d by the sword, it will live under 
 cover, 
 
 As th head of the " Beast," that in battle 
 
 was wounded; 
 The seventh, that will number the 
 
 eighth, yet be th seventh " 
 "While leading the host t Armageddon s 
 
 last battle. 
 
 "Sev n mountains" as seats of false prin 
 ciples reigning, 
 
 Are set forth as fallen in shame and con 
 fusion; 
 
 The harvest is gather d in slavery s ruin, 
 
 While Scorpio marks the tail end of re 
 bellion. 
 
 Thus foil d in the work of destruction 
 and vengeance, 
 
 Necessity turn d to the sixth for protec 
 tion; 
 
 For selfishness holds the great balance of 
 power, 
 
 Yet reigning as king by the voice of the 
 many. 
 
THE DOOM OF SLAVERY. 171 
 
 Not always will avarice cling to this peo 
 ple, 
 
 The Lamb will yet lead them by the side 
 of still waters; 
 
 These horns will unite to give glory and 
 blessing, 
 
 To Him who in wisdom hath conquer d 
 the nations. 
 
 Yet still darts the sting of Old Scorpio s 
 
 vengeance, 
 Beneath th Lord s altar lie the souls of 
 
 the martyrs; 
 Now calling in justice for vengeance on 
 
 dwellers 
 
 Of earth, who in haughty defiance, con 
 tinue 
 
 Menacing the nation, in scorn of its man 
 dates. 
 
 The "fifth of the Beasts" has here 
 
 sounded, inviting 
 To come, and here see the fifth seal, by 
 
 this struggle, 
 Kemoved from proph cy, and star dates 
 
 decipher d, 
 
 While Hercules tolls forth the death 
 knell of slav ry. 
 
172 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The "Book that was written completely 
 
 within," but 
 All seal d to the world, till by "signs" 
 
 they re explained, 
 As history shows the true likeness to 
 
 proph cy; 
 Now opes to the student the ruling 
 
 events of 
 Six thousands of years of our hist ry s 
 
 beginning. 
 
 Here following John in Mazzaroth s slow 
 journey, 
 
 The heavens reveal God s own handy- 
 work, writing 
 
 The changes of hist ry and triumphs of 
 th gospel, 
 
 Till colure line, sweeping the sickle of 
 Bootes, 
 
 Shall swear with the angel that time is 
 there ended. 
 
RULING PRINCIPLES DRAMATIZED. 173 
 SECTION FIFTH. 
 
 EULING PRINCIPLES DRAMATIZED 
 ON HORSEBACK. 
 
 [In poetic beauty, the prophet con 
 ceived the sublime thought of dramatiz 
 ing the ruling principles of the better 
 class of society in different ages, by 
 giving them a ride on horseback, down 
 the pathway of the stars, in order pre 
 cession, from the commencement to the 
 close of historic time. This journey 
 started in Orion, with four riders, ninety 
 degrees apart. It occupies three and a 
 half circles around the zodiac, after pass 
 ing a station in Urso Major. Dan. 12:7. 
 The stations, showing the first 7,000 years 
 of human history, are indicated in four 
 constellations of the heavens, viz. : Orion, 
 giving the fall of man; Taurus, giving the 
 changes following the Noachian flood; 
 Aries, giving the changes begun by the 
 advent of our Saviour; and Leo, giving 
 the triumph of the gospel in the more 
 complete inauguration of the kingdom 
 of Christ. From Orion, where the "star 
 fell from heaven making the fountains and 
 streams bitter," to Taurus, the Dragon s 
 head deism, prevailed, called a king. 
 o2 
 
174 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Rev. 17:10. As a rule then, man was 
 ignorant; a disbeliever in any special 
 providence of God. The "Horse was 
 black." Rev. xi:5. Passing the flood, 
 man vibrated to the other extreme. He 
 believed in "Special Providence as a rule 
 of action," and the toleration of Caste. 
 Idolatry was the mystic king in Babylon s 
 day. Reverence in tradition in Persia s. 
 Ambition in Grecia s; but Rome inaugu 
 rated Commercial selfishness, which still 
 remains king. From Taurus to Aries, 
 twenty-five hundred years, the horse was 
 red. In Aries Jesus was born, and the 
 horse was pale. He will triumph in Leo 
 and the horse will be white as the sanc 
 tuary is cleansed in 2370 A. D. Thence 
 an army follow up their leader past three 
 circles, by precession, on white horses, 
 halting with the fall colure in the Dol 
 phin, parade and sup in Aquila, Rev. 
 19:17; rise to the Zenith of triumph, 
 with spring colure in Serpentaria, Rev. 
 20; meet the hosts of Armageddon in 
 Bootes, Rev. 20:8; arriving home with 
 spring colure in Benetnasch of Urso 
 Major, having accomplished a journey of 
 80 thousand years.] 
 
CHANGE AT MAZZAROTH s STATIONS. 175 
 
 CHANGE OF HORSES AT MAZZA 
 ROTH S STATIONS. 
 
 The Gospel is mounted on steeds in the 
 
 heavens; 
 First, riding the "Pale horse," in symbol 
 
 of mixture, 
 
 Of principles good in themselves, but 
 
 perverted; 
 
 Misguided in zeal for opinions, inher ted; 
 The world must be taught by succeeding 
 
 ages, 
 The power of love in the Gospel of 
 
 Jesus. 
 
 Not "Black," as when man, as a "Star 
 out of heaven," 
 
 Descended on th fountains of manhood, 
 as waters 
 
 Made bitter by sin, and perverted in 
 judgment; 
 
 When justice in law, with its sword of 
 two edges, 
 
 Turn d man from the garden, with dark 
 ness his future. 
 
176 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 While holding the scales as the emblem 
 of justice, 
 
 The ought all unbalanc d, no guiding ex 
 ample, 
 
 And mercy reserv d, as no part of law 
 given, 
 
 He henceforth must look on his life as a 
 failure; 
 
 For scales of strict justice must weigh 
 his condition, 
 
 And th darkness of ignorance frown on 
 his future. 
 
 Not "Red," as when man left the Ark, 
 
 to re-people 
 The Earth, mid excitement in conquest 
 
 of cities, 
 Where war was the rule and true peace 
 
 the exception; 
 Not "White," as when colure line 
 
 traverses Leo, 
 
 The idols of paganism cast from the altar; 
 But "Grey," with a prospect of whitening 
 
 with cen fries, 
 Till th horse of the church shall be pure 
 
 in its symbol. 
 
CHANGE AT MAZZABOTH S STATIONS. 177 
 
 As th Dragon was fighting for mast ry in 
 
 heaven, 
 The darkness was gross, and the people 
 
 contented; 
 New thoughts came to rescue, and new 
 
 ways now of utt rance, 
 As angels, ordain d for defense of the 
 
 gospel, 
 Good reasons, through printing, shall 
 
 give to the people. 
 
 The c Art " of type printing is born to 
 
 the nations, 
 
 Arousing the many in sympathy fully 
 With Jesus the Leader, now come to de 
 liver, 
 
 Through conscience and piety, wak d 
 from their slumbers. 
 
 The forty-two months in prophecy given, 
 Were past in one thousand three hundred 
 
 and thirty; 
 When th "Woman," recall d from the 
 
 wilderness homeward, 
 Show d th gospel unharmed, though long 
 
 kept in darkness. 
 
178 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The blindness had told on the church and 
 
 the nations, 
 While rivers of blood mark d the path 
 
 of their leaders; 
 The press, as an ange], now came to 
 
 deliver, 
 
 By lifting the masses from th thralldom 
 of error. 
 
 A Wickliff is preaching the gospel to 
 
 many, 
 The people enlighten d now thirst for the 
 
 Bible, 
 Where truth may be found by the lowliest 
 
 servant; 
 And th church from the "Wilderness" 
 
 takes her departure. 
 
 The Horse that was pale, " through the 
 
 reign of thick darkness, 
 To th " Grey" or the "Mottled" in color 
 
 is changing; 
 
 With principles mix d enfeebling the 
 
 army, 
 Hevealing slow growth, and weakness in 
 
 members, 
 
CHANGE AT MAZZAROTH S STATIONS. 179 
 
 Yet whit niDg as th ages of th gospel 
 
 roll onward, 
 Till Satan, as lightning, shall fall out of 
 
 heaven. 
 
 The "times that made desolate" in 
 Daniel is yielding, 
 
 The time for the Scripture in English is 
 hast ning, 
 
 Still th proph cies are seal d till the voice 
 of the people, 
 
 Like th waves of the ocean, in strength 
 of their power, 
 
 Shall welcome the reign of our King uni 
 versal. 
 
 A Huss is expiring, while four score of 
 
 thousands 
 Who counting their lives, not too clear 
 
 to themselves, are 
 Keady to stand in defense of the gospel. 
 
 In view of the darkness, from which 
 we re escaping, 
 
 Tis good to be born not too early in 
 hist ry; 
 
180 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 How blessed is he, who shall wait to ex 
 perience 
 
 The period two thousand three hundred 
 of days, as 
 
 In symbol, it giveth Elihu " defeated. 
 
 The Sanctum now cleansed, the armies of 
 
 heaven, 
 All dress d in pure linen, are following 
 
 boldly; 
 On horses most "White," that continue 
 
 unchanged, 
 
 "While Christ rides the circles in triumph, 
 Henceforth to be known as the King of 
 
 all kings, and 
 The Lord of all lords, true and faithful 
 
 in vict ry. 
 
 The Dragon yet lives, but he rules not as 
 sov reign, 
 
 The kingdom of Christ leads the world 
 in religion, 
 
 In government, business, and social rela 
 tions, 
 
 While colure line passes through three 
 of its circles. 
 
CHANGE AT MAZZAROTH S STATIONS. 181 
 
 Now seeing the last time of colure lines 
 
 passing, 
 Christ ruling the nations through love of 
 
 the Spirit, 
 Old Satan shows signs of marshaling his 
 
 forces, 
 The Colure of Autumn in th figure of 
 
 th Dolphin, 
 Meridian one in the figure of Cancer. 
 
 Here hist rv repeating itself, but in 
 
 spirit, 
 Eecalls the great struggle of forces in 
 
 Magog; 
 The Angel in reaping, now calls for the 
 
 eagles, 
 To gather to th supper which God is 
 
 preparing; 
 And th sickle shall speed through the 
 
 harvest so golden^ 
 Which signals the triumph from Cancer 
 
 to Bootes. 
 
 In grandeur increasing, they sweep 
 through the heavens, 
 
 The kingdom of Jesus is ruling the na 
 tions; 
 p 
 
182 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 They halt at the gate of Jehovah s own 
 
 palace, 
 To hear the approval " Well done my 
 
 good servants." 
 Now enter forever the praises of 
 
 heaven." 
 
 SECTION SIXTH. 
 
 THE FEAST OF MAGOG. 
 
 The description given by John, in this 
 last circle of precession in the Zodiac, 
 places the fall colure line in the figure of 
 the Dolphin. Rev. 19:17. Ezekiel had 
 indicated a colure line approaching the 
 eagle in the time of the reign of Nebu 
 chadnezzar. This was the "Winter" 
 solstice. It indicated the " Feast of the 
 fowls," or the revolutions of civilization 
 in the destruction of the four great king 
 doms. Ezek. 39. Between the two in 
 dications, there are two and three-fourth 
 circles passed in the heavens, measured 
 upon the great clock, or the precession 
 of the equinoxes. This distance indicates 
 a period of not less than sixty-five thou 
 sand years. As the fall colure was in 
 
THE FEAST OF MAGOG. 183 
 
 Benetnasch, of Ursa Major, at the de 
 struction of Jesusalem, under Vespacian, 
 three and a half circles, will place the 
 spring colure at the close of time in the 
 same star. Now with the fall colure in 
 the Dolphin, the spring line must be in 
 Cancer. This is two hundred and eighty- 
 one degrees from Benetnasch. The 
 spring colure must pass two hundred and 
 seventeen degrees to reach the key of hell, 
 in the laud of Hercules. Rev. 20:1. Mean 
 while the fall colure has passed Bootes. 
 Now as John has made a point of de 
 scribing the final judgment, on the pas 
 sage of every equinoxial line through 
 this figure, so in this passage the last 
 religious war which is to happen under 
 the spring colure at this place, is noted 
 in the nineteenth verse of Rev. 19, while 
 the next verse depicts for the sixth, and 
 last time, before the final consummation 
 of time, the general judgment. The clos 
 ing verses of the twentieth chapter with 
 the spring colure in this figure gives the 
 final resurrection and last judgment. The 
 reason why Job measured time from 
 Orion to Arcturas, the lifted hand in Dan. 
 and Rev. are now explained. 
 
184 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE SUPPEK OF THE GREAT GOD. 
 
 Two times the spring colure has passed 
 
 through Bootes, 
 Three times the fall colure has passed 
 
 Benetnasch, 
 Near three has precession encompass d 
 
 the circle, 
 In th sun stands the angel cetacian of 
 
 the ocean, 
 Beneath rolls a world, now preparing for 
 
 harvest; 
 The Beast, and the Prophet, awaiting 
 
 their sentence, 
 Revive their old scorn and contempt of 
 
 redemption. 
 
 The King and his escort, are marshal d 
 
 on horses, 
 All white in appearance and cloth d in 
 
 pure linen; 
 And grandly in triumph they sweep 
 
 through the heavens, 
 An army of conquest by the sword of the 
 
 spirit. 
 
SUPPER OF THE GREAT GOD. 185 
 
 The Saviour now rides in the triumph of 
 vict ry, 
 
 Unfolding the banner of reign universal, 
 While leading a host of angelic brightness, 
 To witness the spirit of martyrs reviving. 
 
 Jehovah has conquer d the hosts in the 
 
 Dolphin, 
 Inviting the birds to behold the great 
 
 supper, 
 
 Where God makes the off ring revealing 
 
 true progress, 
 In drawing the world to the uplifted 
 
 Saviour. 
 
 These figures once spoke of the seed, yet 
 a handful, 
 
 As corn on the mountains of Lebanon 
 planted, 
 
 W r hich felt the rude blast, neath the yoke 
 of state bondage, 
 
 Chaldean and Persian, the Grecian and 
 Roman; 
 
 But now the true knowledge of God, uni 
 versal, 
 
 Has cover d the earth, with his presence 
 and glory. 
 
186 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The angels are reaping while passing the 
 
 Eagle, 
 To th garners of heaven they gather the 
 
 harvest, 
 As onward through Bootes the colure is 
 
 pushing; 
 The war with the saints and the judgment 
 
 described, 
 The harvest is noted from Aries to th 
 
 Altar. 
 
 SECTION SEVENTH. 
 
 THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 
 
 "When the colure line first reached the 
 " key of hell," in the laud of Hercules 
 (R. 270), American slavery claimed to be 
 a religious institution and a political ne 
 cessity. This " key " marked the nation s 
 struggle, in which was poured out the 
 fifth vial of wrath, or first great woe; and 
 slavery was driven to the wail. Then 
 "the key" was emblematic of the open 
 ing of hell, or stirring up the worst pas 
 sions of men. Rev. 9:2. Now its emblem 
 seems to be to hold back, and to lock 
 the door against the base passions of men. 
 The Dragon is cast into hell. Christianity 
 
THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 187 
 
 is described as prevailing in the spirit 
 and power of Elias. The souls of the 
 "martyrs beheaded" are living in the 
 spirit and power of full consecration. 
 Christianity has shown itself a power, not 
 only to take the Dragon out of colure 
 line in heaven, as it did in Leo, but to 
 bind him with a chain, and lock him in 
 hades, while the colure line is passing 
 fourteen degrees over Serpent* ria, leav 
 ing the earth almost a second Eden. Not 
 that temptation is entirely removed, but 
 the strong influences of evil are revolu 
 tionized, giving preponderating influ 
 ences to the right. It seems to describe 
 a millennium of constant revival of true 
 religion. The number converted to God 
 comparing w r ell with the number born 
 into life. This is the same line with the 
 southern Altar, from which four angels 
 bring out coals of fire to scatter over the 
 earth. All of these figures are in the sign 
 Scorpio. Here is where the angel from 
 the Altar comes forth with the bottled 
 tears, and prayers of all who have wept 
 between the porch and the altar, where 
 souls have been pressed as a cart under 
 sheaves. 
 
188 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 THE SONG OF THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 Rev. 20. 
 
 An angel descends out of heaven with 
 
 power, 
 
 Commission d to seize and to chain the 
 old Dragon; 
 
 The "key of the bottomless pit" he is 
 holding; 
 
 Old Satan he captures and places in 
 Hades, 
 
 Till colure line passes the serpent de 
 stroyer. 
 
 The power that once held the world by 
 its customs, 
 
 That promis d great riches, dominion, and 
 power; 
 
 That dug in the earth, to establish col 
 lisions 
 
 Twixt God in great nature and God in 
 the Bible; 
 
 That scorned at the mandates of Jesus in 
 Scripture, 
 
 Is held in subjection through love of the 
 gospel. 
 
THE SONG OF THE MILLENNIUM. 189 
 
 Four angels appear from the horns of the 
 Altar, 
 
 Preparing to fill all the earth with the 
 spirit, 
 
 Live coals they are casting among the 
 good people, 
 
 That burn on the hearts of the penitent 
 masses. 
 
 Forth comes from the Altar an angel with 
 incense, 
 
 The prayers of the good of all ages he 
 beareth, 
 
 The feeble to help and the wayward to 
 gather, 
 
 The worthies to stimulate onward to 
 vie fry. 
 
 The "souls neath the Altar" have risen 
 in spirit; 
 
 The "martyrs" of old through the living 
 returneth; 
 
 Serpentaria seizes the Dragon of history 
 As colure line passes o er Hercules 
 lastly. 
 
190 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 The angels are holding the door-key of 
 Hades, 
 
 While passing through fourteen degrees 
 in the heavens; 
 
 So blessed and holy is he, of this era, 
 
 Who hath some good part in the first re 
 surrection. 
 
 So mightily triumphs the spirit of Jesus, 
 As colure line passes to the sign of the 
 
 angel, 
 Who lifteth his hand to the heavens, in 
 
 token 
 That time in its measurement soon must 
 
 be ended. 
 
 SECTION EIGHTH. 
 
 THE GEEAT KELIGIOUS WAE. 
 
 Rev. 16: 16. 
 
 The " Beast" that was chained in hades 
 
 a season, 
 Is felt in the earth in revengeful malig- 
 
 nance; 
 The good of the past seems ignored in 
 
 the issue, 
 As now to the field he is gath ring an 
 
 army. 
 
THE GREAT RELIGIOUS WAR. 191 
 
 The head that was wounded by the sword 
 and yet liveth, 
 
 Is king o er a portion of earth s unre 
 pentant; 
 
 Destruction, his name, and malignance, 
 his nature, 
 
 He gathers the kings of the east to his 
 councils. 
 
 One scheme, and his mission on earth 
 
 must be ended, 
 Four heads of the Dragon, that reign d 
 
 in the Or ent, 
 As kings, then subdued and bound in 
 
 Euphrates, 
 Are rous d to unite with the seventh, in 
 
 opposing 
 The Master, despising the kingdom of 
 
 Jesus; 
 Malignance has sent forth its red hand of 
 
 Kes rectioa the second, contrasts with the 
 first; as - 
 
 Two million are marshal d on horses for 
 battle, 
 
192 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Four corners of earth have a representa 
 tion; 
 
 The sword that has slept for some hun 
 dreds of cent ries, 
 
 Is called to destroy the new beauty of 
 Zion; 
 
 Apollion is king, and red vengeance the 
 
 watch-word, 
 The second of " Woes" must here cease 
 
 to be proph cy. 
 
 The last of the seals that in time may be 
 broken, 
 
 Reveal in the angel that pointed to heaven, 
 
 The trumpet, the vial, and seal are one 
 number, 
 
 And each by a different symbol is show 
 ing, 
 
 The anguish and woe of Armageddon s 
 last battle; 
 
 That th good must be tempted to make 
 them efficient, 
 
 Conversion must follow the birth of the 
 waters, 
 
 And each generation must do for itself, or 
 
 Reaction must gather the forces of evil. 
 
SEEN MUST GIVE PLACE TO UNSEEN. 193 
 
 SECTION NINTH. 
 
 THE SEEN MUST GIVE PLACE TO 
 
 THE UNSEEN. 
 
 Matter, in any form, fails to show 
 eternity. The indestructability of matter 
 by its own laws, argues nothing for its 
 eternity. There was a duration, not to 
 say time, when matter was not. There 
 was an order of intelligences existing at 
 creation s dawn; and of course independ 
 ent of matter. There came an existing 
 need for matter. "In the beginning God 
 created the heavens and earth." Its mis 
 sion ended, worn out or otherwise, it 
 may cease to be. No such, contingencies 
 belong to things eternal, or to created 
 intelligences in God s image. They cannot 
 cease to be. Matter is but a series of 
 means for the development of the spiritual 
 and eternal. Man is dependent on matter, 
 only so long as his soul is on probation, 
 in the body. The resurrection of man in 
 Q 
 
194 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 a " Spiritual body, like unto Christ s 
 glorified body," where man " Is like unto 
 the angels of God, "by no means depends 
 upon matter. Scientists tell us that worlds 
 are wearing out, and will all, sometime, 
 become useless wa&tes. It is possible 
 that they are so ordered, that when they 
 arrive at the waste period, they will have 
 developed sufficient spiritual beings in 
 God s image, that God will have no more 
 use for them. Such at least appears to 
 be the reading of the prophecies of the 
 Old and New Testaments. 
 
 " The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous 
 palaces," 
 
 " The solemn temples, the great globe 
 itself," 
 
 "Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dis 
 solve;" 
 
 "And, like an unsubstantial pageant 
 faded," 
 
 "Leave not a rack behind." 
 
CLOSING SCENES OF MIOPHECY. 195 
 
 THE CLOSING SCENES OF PBO- 
 PHECY. 
 
 In th sun stands the angel with emblem 
 
 of reaping, 
 While th Earth neath his feet is already 
 
 to harvest; 
 
 Her clusters of grapes hang awaiting the 
 sickle, 
 
 The sign of Christ s coming appeareth in 
 heaven. 
 
 The angel of power enlighten d the peo 
 ple, 
 As th kingdom of Jesus was ruling the 
 
 nations; 
 The ages have wrought out the grandest 
 
 solutions, 
 
 All pointing a prodigal world to the 
 Father. 
 
 The sickle has spec! through the ripening 
 
 harvest, 
 A thousand grand years of swift reaping 
 
 are number d; 
 
196 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 Jehovah has conquer d, and Jacob re- 
 
 turneth, 
 As Bo tes is pointing to Benetnasch in 
 
 colure. 
 
 A John with a Job, and a Daniel with 
 
 Moses, 
 In noting the changes connected with 
 
 his fry; 
 
 As those in the strata denoting creation, 
 Have shown the grand footsteps of time 
 
 in its journey, 
 
 By th help of the Bible in mercy thus 
 given, 
 
 "With th speed of a thought we precede 
 the refrain of 
 
 The " Stars of the morning," where na 
 ture was singing, 
 
 As join d in a chorus of heavenly praises; 
 
 To nature in darkness where matter was 
 sleeping, 
 
 Mid chaos in space equilibrium show 
 ing, 
 
 A stranger to centers, to motion and 
 power. 
 
CLOSING SCENES OF PROPHECY. 197 
 
 The Book of great Nature and that of the 
 
 Prophets, 
 Thus join in sweet harmony one with the 
 
 other, 
 
 Uniting the teachings of both of these 
 volumes, 
 
 Engrav d on the mind is this vision of 
 cosmos. 
 
 I saw the chief angel preparing to gather 
 All matter to orbits, all movements of 
 space, to 
 
 A system of order, as tones on a harp- 
 string, 
 
 A harp of the universe held by his 
 power. 
 
 Upon tli w r ell-tun d strings circled a 
 trin ty 
 
 Of movements, the orb of one th whole 
 including; 
 
 The squares and the cubes, geometric ly 
 
 reckon d, 
 Show plan in Jehovah s great work of 
 
 creation; 
 Q2 
 
198 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 And planets with systems, in nebula 
 
 journeys, 
 Make harmony ages preceding the Sabbath. 
 
 One chord long the pathway of nebula 
 trembled; 
 
 Another responded from cycles of sys 
 tems; 
 
 The highest in chorus resounded from 
 planets; 
 
 While all in their parts gave the music 
 of spheres, till 
 
 Mazzaroth swept eastward the many full 
 circles, 
 
 A clock of the universe marked by pre 
 cession; 
 
 And man from the mountains of selfish 
 conceptions, 
 
 Through faith had returned to welcome 
 the Saviour. 
 
 As th angels deft fingers were sweeping 
 these octaves, 
 
 Benetnasch of th Bear, in the colure 
 then blazing, 
 
 One strain far above all the others re 
 sounded, 
 
 "The Seen must give place to the Unseen 
 and Real." 
 
CLOSING SCENES OP PIIOPHECY. 199 
 
 The angel in line with Benetnasch in 
 Ursa, 
 
 Here lifted his hand to the heavens, ex 
 claiming, 
 
 That time as once measured should now 
 be no longer. 
 
 As chas d by the winds of the buffeting 
 
 tempest, 
 The earth and the heavens now roll in 
 
 confusion, 
 As leaves of a fig-tree, when frosted in 
 
 Autumn, 
 The mortal had gone, disappear d at one 
 
 mandate; 
 And man, now in form of the glorifi d 
 
 Jesus, 
 
 Alone tells of forces once given to matter, 
 As joining the angels in song and in 
 
 He enters anew on the study f Jehovah. 
 Here God, as the Alpha, stands forth as 
 
 Omega; 
 "The First is the Last," and the song 
 
 now is ended. 
 
200 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 AND WHAT BEYOND? 
 
 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, 
 and it dotli not yet appear what we shall 
 be; but we know that, when he shall ap 
 pear, we shall be like him; for we shall 
 see him as he is." 
 
 John having through vision traced 
 matter through its changes to its final 
 rest, was prepared to appreciate the force 
 of the symbol used by Isaiah in a vision 
 of the New Covenant in contrast with 
 Old. 
 
 "For, behold I create new heavens 
 and a new earth; and the former shall not 
 be remembered nor come into mind." 
 Isa. 65. 
 
 "The wolf and the lamb shall feed 
 together, and the lion shall eat straw like 
 the bullock;" "and a little cLild shall 
 lead them." The abiding nature of the 
 
AND WHAT BEYOND. 201 
 
 New Covenant was now placed in sym 
 bol of a new heavens and new earth. 
 Kev. 20. 
 
 In his first vision, he saw it as a taber 
 nacle home, which the church militant 
 may afford the soul while here passing 
 our probation. "And I heard a great 
 voice out of heaven saying, Behold the 
 tabernacle of God is with men, and he 
 shall dwell with them, and they shall be 
 his people." 
 
 And he that sat upon the throne said, 
 "Behold, I make all things new." "I 
 will give unto him that is athirst of the 
 fountain of the water of life freely." 
 "He that overcometh shall inherit all 
 things; and I will be his God, and he 
 shall be my son." 
 
 In a second vision, he beheld the 
 church of Christ under the figure of a 
 Bride to the Lamb/ She is entering 
 
202 SONG OF COSMOLOGY. 
 
 the "New Jerusalem city" as her final 
 home. "And he carried me away in the 
 spirit to a great and high mountain, and 
 showed me the great city, the holy Je 
 rusalem, descending out of heaven from 
 God." 
 
 "And there shall be no night there." 
 
 "There shall in no wise enter into it 
 anything that defileth, neither whatsoever 
 worketh abomination, or rnaketh a lie; 
 but they that are written in the Lamb s 
 book of life." 
 
 His third and last vision, and that 
 which was to seal the visions of God in 
 prophecy, was to symbolize the purity of 
 all true covenant principles, to a river 
 flowing as a healing river past each man s 
 door, inviting all to drink, without money 
 and without price. "And he shewed 
 me a pure river of water of life, clear as 
 crystal, proceeding out of the throne of 
 God, and of the Lamb." "In the midst 
 of the street of it, and on either side of 
 
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 the river, was there the tree of life, 
 which bear twelve manner of fruits, and 
 yielded her fruit every month; and the 
 leaves of the tree were for the healing 
 of the nations." 
 
 "I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to tes 
 tify unto you these things in the churches. 
 I am the root and the offspring of David, 
 the bright and morning star." 
 
 "And the Spirit and the Bride say, 
 Come, and let him that heareth say, 
 Come. And let him. that is athirst 
 come. And whosoever will, let him take 
 the water of life freely." " The grace 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you 
 all. Amen." 
 
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