Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics . ATCH, ye saints, with eyelids waking ;Lo ! the powers of heaven are shaking ;Keep your lamps all trimmed and burning,Ready for your Lords returning. Lo ! the promise of your Saviour,Pardoned sin and purchased favor,Blood-washed robes and crowns of glory ;Haste to tell redemptions story. Kingdoms at their base are crumbling,Hark ! his chariot wheels are rumbling ;Tell, O tell of grace abounding,While the
Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics . ATCH, ye saints, with eyelids waking ;Lo ! the powers of heaven are shaking ;Keep your lamps all trimmed and burning,Ready for your Lords returning. Lo ! the promise of your Saviour,Pardoned sin and purchased favor,Blood-washed robes and crowns of glory ;Haste to tell redemptions story. Kingdoms at their base are crumbling,Hark ! his chariot wheels are rumbling ;Tell, O tell of grace abounding,While the seventh trump is sounding. Nations wane, though proud and stately ;Christ his kingdom hasteneth greatly ;Earth her latest pangs is summing :Shout, ye saints, your Lord is coming. Sinners, come, while Christ is pleading ;Now for you hes interceding ;Haste, ere grace and time diminished,Shall proclaim the mystery Qigbt prominent £ines of pi^opbeei/. [HE accompanying diagram embraces, in condensed form, all the preceding dia-grams shown in this book, which illustrate lines of prophecy. Beginning at the left of the top line, we have B. c. 606, the time when the Baby-lonian empire first appears in the field of prophecy, as brought to view in Daniel,chapters two and seven. This empire was succeeded in 538 by the empire of theMedes and Persians, and this by the Grecian in 331. Rome followed, being rec-ognized by the Bible as a universal power in B. c. 161, when the Jewish peoplecame under its dominion. Passing by the cross, the division of Rome into tenkingdoms is reached between the years 351 and 483, from which point the prophecyof Dan. 2, with a sudden bound, carries the mind to the consummation. Seereading on page 17. 2. But the prophecy of the 7th chapter supplements that of the second, and shows what is to take place between 483 and the time of the end. Beginning at 538, asshown by the short
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