raise supplies specially for itself. It will in reality be in two
parts--one called by the prophets the profane; here will the commercial
business be done. The other part will be sacred. Into it strangers will
not enter; it will be holy--a quiet habitation. "There the glorious Lord
will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no
gaily with oars, neither shall gallant ships pass thereby." The city
proper will be some thirty miles North of the present city of Jerusalem.

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN.
DISCOURSE XVI.

"SIGNS OF THE TIMES"--THE RETURN TO JERUSALEM--FORCES OF RUSSIA AND
ENGLAND--PRESENT LOCALITY OF ANCIENT NATIONS--ORIGIN OF AMERICAN
REPUBLICANISM--FEDERATION OF THE NATIONS COMING--EVOLUTION AND
DEVOLUTION.

"Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred
and five and thirty days."--Daniel xii. 12.

So according to the prophet Daniel there is a time to come in which it
will be blessed to live. The prophecies of Daniel are generally of a
material character--that is, they have special reference to this world
politically, and to this end he had direct and special reference to
certain kingdoms in existence at the time of writing, as well as others
that were to come into being. Of all the prophets he concerns himself
the most with positive data of the rise and fall of nations. The figures
of the data used, we freely confess, are difficult to understand and
interpret. The Church and times are greatly in need of some man
competent on this point. All prophetic students know the diversity and
confusion in this department of theology. Of all the difficult
departments of theology none exceed the numerical. The numerical
symbolism of the Bible is as yet but little understood. True, indeed, we
are improving. Aided by Providence, we are enabled to interpret some
dates by data--that is, certain events occurring locate us and point out
the prophetic period we are in. Like the captain who is unable by his
certain and usual modes of calculating to find his whereabouts, does so
by currents, the Gulf-stream, islands, colour of waters, &c., did we know
the exact quantity of Daniel's two thousand and three hundred days, his
times, time, and half a time, his seventy weeks, his thousand two hundred
and ninety days, and the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days,
then we could deal with the prophecies with a definitiveness to which as
yet