. Christian herald and signs of our times . s nothing but uncertainty andinnumerable opinions — opin-ions, too. which rareiy claimto be derived from the revela-tion of God, but are avowedlv based uponhuman authority, whether ancient or mod-ern, whether ecclesiastical or secular. The Protestant sects, as communities,attracted by human traditions and philos-ophies, are ceasing to hold fast the Head,and becoming less and less able to with-stand the powerful influx of principles which used to character-ize them are, like houses surprised by aninundation, already tottering, and thr
. Christian herald and signs of our times . s nothing but uncertainty andinnumerable opinions — opin-ions, too. which rareiy claimto be derived from the revela-tion of God, but are avowedlv based uponhuman authority, whether ancient or mod-ern, whether ecclesiastical or secular. The Protestant sects, as communities,attracted by human traditions and philos-ophies, are ceasing to hold fast the Head,and becoming less and less able to with-stand the powerful influx of principles which used to character-ize them are, like houses surprised by aninundation, already tottering, and threat-ening every moment to fall through theviolence of the floods; so that shortlynothing will be seen but the tumultuouswaters out of which Satan will evoke thelast great enemy of Christ. The scarcelynoticed summer stream has swelled intoa broad and foaming river, and is bringingdestruction with it from the those who are in the ark will be safe. f -90- mm ing. .11 74- THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. OCT. 7) ,i6. BOOK SHELF Tyre and Jerusalem. IT was the misfortune of Tyre that shehad no son among all her merchantprinces with genius universal and deepenough to hear to distant ages a record ofher inner life. Lite in Tyre took the formof sails which were spread to every breeze,and the strokes of oars heard in the watersat every sea. Her life stood in manystoried houses, rustled in the silk of Tyri-an purple, and uttered itself in the ears ofthe world. But what the people of Tyrethought about death, or immortality, orduty, or righteousness, or religion, or phil-osophy, or poetry, or literature, or farm-ing, or plowing, or cooking, or even sea-faring or trade, we can never know. Her life simply lifted itself into the mam-moth and unparalleled products of themerchandise of ancient times. It took theform of wharves, of ships, of purple awn-ing, of revelry, of eating, of drinking, oflow sensual pleasure; hence it has beenutterly swept away. It stood only in
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