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Rh came thundering along? Our lightning express trains, thundering along a mile a minute, through the blazing light of the noon-day, and through the solemn darkness of the midnight, are divinely symbolized in Holy Writ by seven thunders uttering their voices.

In the ninth chapter of his prophecy, Ezekiel speaks of six men who were coming forth to slaughter the city of Jerusalem for its perverseness; but among them there was a man clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, "and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. And to the others he said, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eyes spare, neither have ye pity: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. And it came to pass, while they were