Then shall the desert Then the tree of life the end of despotism on the part of the rulers, and of insubordination in the subjects; the end of the toils of slavery, and the sufferings of martyrdom; the end of Popery, Puseyism, Paganism, and Mohammedanism, the Missal, the Breviary, the Shaster, and the Koran. That great rainbow of the covenant, that starts from the cross, vaults into the sky, and sweeps over the throne, shall complete its orbit, and rest again upon the ground, and Christ and Christianity shall be all and in all. rejoice and blossom as the rose. shall be where the cypress is. Then shall nations sing God's praise, and Sion recount God's marvels. Then shall history retrace with new joy God's footprints. Then shall the glory of Jesus sparkle in the dewdrop, and in the boundless sea; in the minutest atom, and in the greatest star; and this earth, restrung, retuned, shall be one grand Eolian harp, swept by the breath of the Holy Spirit, pouring forth those melodies which began on Calvary, and shall sound through all generations. |