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 city, be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." How perfectly does this description correspond with that of the Prophet Daniel—(Dan. ii. 34, 35.)

"Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof, that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's thrashing-floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them." And then presently the Prophet adds: "But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."

Now I believe the Babylon of the Apocalypse, and Nabuchodonozor's metallic statue in Daniel, represent the same thing. And what is that? They represent, as I think, the whole secular organization of mankind from the very beginning of nations, until the period when the Catholic Church is to assume her grandest development, and to take possession of that universal dominion which is promised to her.

The destruction of Daniel's metallic statue is succeeded by the establishment of the kingdom of the stone cut out of the mountain without hands; and the destruction of the