the Prince of the kingdom, and be disposed to withhold the worship which He demands, which however by His judgment will soon be reduced to obedience. Zech. xiv. 16—19, “And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the KING, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the KING, the LORD of hosts, even upon them there shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not that have no rain," being watered by the Nile," there shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." And while there will be thus some wicked men upon the earth; so also will the unholy, cursed dust of the dead bodies of the wicked be mingling with the dust of the earth ; and death the last enemy will not be completely destroyed; so that much as sin, and the effects of sin, may be diminished, yet they will not be utterly removed during that age of the kingdom.

During the millennial reign there will be three classes upon the earth: CHRIST with his risen and changed glorified saints; the saints in the flesh, and the few sinners that mingle with them. The resurrection, and the changed glorified saints will be immortal,

their bodies fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body. "Having been counted worthy to obtain that world," or age," and the resurrection from the dead; neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of GOD, being the children of the resurrection." Their happiness is perfect, it has reached its ever enduring consummation. The law of sin is destroyed in them; their bodies redeemed from corruption and the grave, they trample the vanquished enemy, death, under their feet. They are kings and priests unto God: they are his ministering servants to rule the nations, and occupy in that kingdom high, useful, and responsible stations. The saints in the flesh, or the mortal saints, are they who, during the days of the kingdom, marry and are given in marriage; multiply and replenish the earth. During that age longevity will be greatly increased. The lives of the mortal saints will not be measured by tens but by hundreds of years, as was the life of the antediluvians, for then as the days of a tree, or an oak which may be a thousand years, will be the days of Jehovah's people, and His elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor "bring forth for trouble" (or generate a short-lived race), "for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them." And during that long lifetime the effects of sin may, and doubtless will be so greatly removed that disease will not affect or afflict the body at all; “the

inhabitant shall not say the head is sick or the heart is faint." And then when they come to die life will not ebb away slowly under protracted sickness and severe suffering; soul and body may and probably will part without a pang. They may die like Moses on the top of Pisgah by the command of Jehovah, or " at the mouth of the LORD," or as the Jews say, "with a kiss from the mouth of the LORD." It is highly probable from the language here used, that Moses died without any suffering; and so may the saints of God, the blessed of the LORD in the flesh, die in the millennial age. The putting off the body may be to them like the putting off of our garments when we are about to lay ourselves down to repose; and the fear of death will in like manner be taken away, because they will have the unclouded and indubitable testimony that they are God's chosen, sanctified, and beloved ones, and that the spirit stepping out of the body for a season will be attended with no pain and no danger to them, but will only be a transition into higher, greater glory and happiness. And then there is the third class, and a sorrowful class it is a few sinners in the flesh, still cherishing their enmity against the glorious KING, whose influence will scarcely be felt; who, though they should live to the age of a hundred years, which in that dispensation is but infancy and youth, "shall die accursed."

Such, according to the sure word of prophecy, will be the blessed state of things during the millennial age;

but when it comes near a close, suppressed wickedness will begin to burst forth, and the KING'S holy influence that controlled it being in a great measure withdrawn or suspended, it will spring up in other hearts, and manifest itself more openly, and in more terrible and furious form. Bitter enmity to the Holy Glorious PRINCE, whose gracious and blissful reign, it might have been expected, would have won and secured the love of every heart to himself; which has long been smothered in consequence of his presence and the terrible judgments wherewith he visited its open manifestations, shall begin to burst out wherever it exists, and burn more fiercely according to the time it has been pent up, and the intensity of its suppressed desires to work out its diabolical purposes. Men will manifest a spirit of open rebellion, and meditate the overthrow of the PRINCE of peace, and his glorious kingdom and government; preferring rather to rule in wickedness, than be ruled in holiness--the old satanic feeling coming up in mighty power, rather reign than serve. At this time the seal set upon Satan the arch-deceiver, will be broken by Him who "hath at his girdle the keys of Hell and of death :" the great chain wherewith he has been bound for a thousand years will be loosed, and he will be released from the bottomless pit. Feeling himself once more free, and at large upon the renewed earth where righteousness has long dwelt-raging in awful fury against Him, who so long confined him in the abyss; and having some faint hope of success, and

determined upon another desperate trial to vanquish his much hated enemy, the KING who sits upon David's throne he goes forth into the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, determined upon mighty deeds, upon glorious victory, who in their spirit of enmity, and hatred against Israel's KING, are waiting for his coming. In this state of readiness he appears before them willing and prepared to lead on the battle. Full of enmity-inflamed zeal, he encourages them to engage in the warfare. Their views and his, being in unison, and both earnestly desiring the accomplishment of the same end, they are pleased with him as their leader, and willing to be under his command. At his bidding, and by the working of his mighty power upon the hearts of the children of disobedience, the vast hosts are soon gathered, "the number of whom is as the sand of the sea," and in terrible battle array, the leader and his armies, urged on by desperate fury, and strong but false hopes of victory, hasten up as on eagle wing to Jerusalem, against the LORD the KING, and "compass the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city." Satan rejoices in antici pated slaughter, and cherishes some forlorn, desperate hope that he may yet vanquish the army of Israel, the hosts of the LORD, and see their leader, Jesus of Nazareth fall and die on the battle-field, as he saw Him die on the cross.

But he has performed the last high-handed act of daring rebellion reached the loftiest summit of