The foregone forms a refutation, no matter how late sceptics would date the writing, or the compilation of the Bible, for the fulfilment has been seen for ages, and is still visible upon the rocks of Tyrus. Why should we wonder then that another proof of the truth of Sacred Prophecy should only have been discovered in our own day, and upon the Western Continent? But mankind may well wonder, and they will so continue through all posterity, at the mysterious and inscrutable ways of The Almighty,—in the contemplation (we dare not say contrast) of whose ever-fruitful Power, the high soaring mind of man seem not only uncultured, but inarable!
The grand, yet silent majesty of God,—
His vivid, brilliant, and rapid Mind,—
Are figured in the lightning's piercing flash,—
When darting through the world's chaotic night,
It penetrates and illumines all time and space!
But mind of Man,—is like to the sequent thunder,
Loud reverberating from cloud to cloud,
Harmless, yet noisy; so from clime to clime
He sends his loud sounding mandates,—no thought