and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly."
Of the wondrous pillar that led this people in their journeys in the wilderness, Sir Walter Scott says:
"When Israel, of the Lord beloved,
Out from the land of bondage came,
Her father's God before her moved,
An awful guide in SMOKE and flame.
By day, along the astonished lands,
The CLOUDY pillar glided slow:
By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands
Returned the fiery column's glow."
If we were standing where we could look out over the waters, and one of our great steam-ships was approaching, perhaps the first evidence we should have of its approach would be its cloud, or its smoke; and as it drew nearer, we should see it clothed with a cloud. It was undoubtedly under this aspect that St. John saw it upon the Ægean sea.
Linen is an emblem of triumph and victory, hence, in the nineteenth of Revelation we read, "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called
