gone down under every blow that has been struck upon the sea since his satanic majesty's time thereon has come to an end.
We shall now return to the child that was born, who should rule all nations with a rod of iron, and also to the mighty angel that St. John saw come down from heaven clothed with a cloud, and with a rainbow upon his head: and stood upon the sea and upon the earth and lifted up his hand to heaven and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever, that there should be time no longer.
The Rev. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, says in his notes on the book of Revelation, that the swearing of this angel is peculiarly for the comfort of holy men who are afflicted under the third woe. Now to get some definite idea as to who or what this angel is, and what he is intended to symbolize, we shall here quote just what Mr. Wesley says in his note on the sixth verse of the tenth chapter of Revelation.
Mr. Wesley says: "The six preceding trumpets pass without any such solemnity. It is the trumpet of the seventh angel alone which is con-
