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 would most urgently commit to the consideration of His disciples, and in these same words does His favourite disciple call our attention to the future destruction {for it was then future, although it be passed now) of the Mahometan Saracenic empire. Verse 10. "He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword, shall be killed by the sword." And so it was, the heathen Turks bore down with resistless force and countless multitudes upon the empire of Mahomet, led his hosts into captivity, and slaughtered them by the sword. St. John then adds, "Here is the patience and the faith of the saints;" as much as to say, that the events that are to ensue upon these victories of the Turkish hordes will give ample scope to the Christian nations to exercise the virtues of patience and faith. The next verse (11th) ushers into ourview the second Mahometan beast in these words: "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns, like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."

Let me here pause for a moment to reply to an objection that the reader may possibly suggest. Why, he may ask, do you cull this second beast a Mahometan beast at all? Is not this a gratuitous assumption? I answer, certainly not; I have already shown my grounds for be-