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 they do not love. When the physician discovers certain signs or symptoms which constitute the diagnosis of any disease, he regards those signs as the effects of a disease already in existence, and treats the patient accordingly. So it is also in other things. And if men felt the same deep interest in discovering and tracing the connection between cause and effect in spiritual things, they could not fail to regard that new order of things which is now being instituted in the natural world, as the effect of a corresponding new order of things in that portion of the spiritual world, with which the men of this world are more immediately connected.

We have here also the strong testimony of the world's past experience. As Mr. Noble remarks, in the work from which the above quotations were made:—

"As far as the annals of mankind enable us to determine, there never was a judgment performed in the spiritual world, but corresponding effects resulted in the natural World also."******

"We find our most unequivocal example in the judgments that fell upon the Jews. We have seen that a judgment was certainly executed by the Lord in the spiritual world while he abode personally here; and we know that, some time afterwards, the most dreadful calamities overtook the whole Jewish nation; indeed, the whole face of the world was soon afterwards entirely changed. We may conclude the judgment in the spiritual world to have been finished at the Lord's ascension: and thirty years after this event, the troubles broke out in Judea, which issued in the destruction of Jerusalem, the desolation of the whole country, and the end of the national existence of the Jews."

The limits which I am obliged to observe, render it impossible for me to give more than a small portion of the author's remarks in this connection. Having shown that judgments in the world of spirits, have in former ages, been followed by corresponding revolutions in the natural world, he then adds that;—

"We may reasonably conclude, that the performance in the spiritual world of the last judgment of all, would in due time, be followed by the usual visitations in this scene of existence.