markable that all these times should converge to that very same year, the year 1836?
From a table of figures that we find in Mr. Wesley's notes we take the following. Comparing the prophecy and history together, Mr. Wesley says that they seem to begin and end nearly thus: "The non-chronos extends from about 800 to 1836; the little time from 947 to 1836; the time times and a half from 1068 to 1836." Now what are the inferences to be drawn from, or the conclusions to be arrived at, from this train of reasoning? There is but one logical conclusion to come to, and it is as plain as that two and two make four, and that is, that in or about the year 1836 the time had arrived for the child that had been born to begin to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and the time had arrived for the mighty angel with the rainbow upon his head to make his appearance. Now in view of the terrible woes that have be-fallen the human race in the past, the burden of devout and enquiring minds has been what this ruling with the rod of iron could really mean. And the question has arisen as to whether it
