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23 of the Legislature, who will read this version of Holy Scripture, with a prayerful desire to search for truth as it is before God, and with confidence that I would not willingly deceive them; cannot but feel that very many Members of each House of the Legislature have repeatedly been guilty of very great "wickedness" by the votes they have given in respect of this subject; albeit, the same may be required of the souls of Dr. McCaul and Dr. N. Adler, and other like panderers to incest, whether for filthy lucre's sake or otherwise, by whom they may have been deceived: and feeling, as they must, the awfulness of the situation, unless they be very ignorant of sacred prophecy, they may see the dire necessity of endeavouring to appease the wrath of Almighty God by some solemn affirmation by every member of each House respectively, with their sign-manual, to a suitable document to lie on the table in their respective House for that purpose, putting on record their solemn pledge before the Lord God Omnipotent, that they will never again give their vote for, or pair in favour of, any Bill or Measure whatsoever, to legalise the marriage of a man with his deceased Wife's Sister; or with his Aunt; or with his Niece; nor in any other manner whatsoever render assistance to such a Measure: that the prayers of the Nation for the blessing of the God of battles upon our armies and upon our Country be not hindered, and His blessing alienated from us.

Acts xix., 35. It is known that Nimrod (Gen. x. 8-12) (whence the city Nimroud), Asshur, The Mighty One alias Ninus, King of Assyria and his Queen Semiramis were worshipped, after death, by different nations under different names. They were the Osiris and Isis of the Egyptians. In symbolical language heaven represents regal power and status, the Sun represents the king and the Moon the queen. As Zeus by the Greeks, and as Jupiter by the Romans, Nimrod was called The King of the Gods; while among the Assyrians Semiramis was worshipped under the name of Astarte, The Shining-one and was called The Queen of heaven, while by the Romans she was worshipped as Venus. Zeus by Leto, or Jupiter by Latona, is stated to have begotten the twins, Apollo or Phœbus represented by the Sun, the worship of which Nimrod introduced, and Artemis, the Diana of the Romans, represented by the Moon.

To suppose that a nation that produced Solon and Archimedes, the sculptors Phidias and Praxiteles, and others who could carve the Apollo Belvedere, and the Venus de Medecis, and that life-like head of Apollo in the British Museum (though there ignorantly named a woman), could