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 The number sealed.

thoosand seal’t ; eat 0’ Reuben’s tribe, twal’ thoosand; oot o’ Gad’s tribe, twal’ thoosand ;

6. Oct 0’ Asher’s tribe, twal’ thoosand; out o’ Naphali's tribe, twal’ thoosand; out o' Manasseh’s tribe, twal’ thoosand.

7. Oct 0’ Simeon’s tribe, twal’ thoosand; oot o' Levi’s tribe, twal’ thousand; out o’ Issachar's tribe, twal’ thoosand ;

b‘. Oot o’ Zabulon’s tribe, twal’ thoosand; oot o’ Joseph’s tribe, twnl’ thoosand; oot o’ Benjamin’s tribe, twal’ thoosand seal’t.

9. Eftir this I lookit, and see! an unco number, that nae man could tell, oot 0’ a' nations and kith, and folk, and speech, etude afore the Thron, and fornent the Lamb, dink’t in white, wi' palms i’ their beans.

10. And cry’t oot heigh, “Salva- tion to cor God, wha sits on the Thron, and to the Lamb l”

11. And a’ the Angels war stannin i' the compass o’ the Thron, and roond-aboot the Elders and the fowr leevin-anes; and fell doon afore the Thron on their faces, worshippin God,

12. And quo’ they, “E’en sae: Blessin, and glorie, and wisdom, and gieau 0’ thanks, and honour, and pooer, and micht. be to cor God, for evir and evir mair I"

13. And ane o’ the Elders answer’r, and quo' he tae me, " Wha are thir, buskit a’ in white? and whaur cam they free 1 ”

14. And quo' I tae him, “My lord, ye ken!” And quo’ he tae me. “Thir are the anes that cam eat 0’ sair and unco ,tossins-aboot, and has made their cleedin white i' the blnde o’ the Lamb.

15. “ Sae are they i’ the presence 0’ the Thron 0' God, and ser' him day and nicht in his Temple: and the Ane that sits on the 'I'hron sal unfauld his tent ower him.

16. “And they sal hunger nae mair, and gang drouthie nae mair ;

REVELATION, VIII.

The aeeventh seal.

nor sal the sun smite them, nor any heat-blast.

17. “ For the Lamb free the mids 0’ the Throne sal herd them, and eel airt them to the watirs o’ the waal-ee 0' Life; and God sal dicht awa' ilka tear frae their e’en !”

CHAPTIR AUCHT. The seeventh seal lowud. Four buglehorm aoend : and the ekaith that follows.

ND whane’er he open’t the

seeventh seal, a quateness fell in Heeven as it was for half-an-’oor.

2. And I saw the seeven Angels wha staun i’ the presence 0’ God; and thar war giean to them seeven buglehorns.

3. And anither Angel cam and stude at the altar, wi’ a gowden censer ,' and thar was giean to him muckle incense, that he micht pit it wi’ the prayers o’ the saunts, pittin them on the gowden altar that is for- nent the Thron.

4. And the reek o’ the incense gaed up, wi’ the prayers o’ the snunts, oot 0’ the Angel’s hauns, afore God.

5. And the Angel took the eenaer, and ﬁll’t it wi' the lowin coals o’ the altar, and cuist it on the yirth ; and thar cam thunners, and voices, and lichtnins, and a yirdin.

6. And the seeven Angels, thae haein the seeven buglehorns, made theirsels ready that they send soond.

7. And the 1 ﬁrst ane soondit: and bail and lowe, mix’t in blude, war cuisten on the yirth; and the thin]- pairt o’ the yirth was burnt-up, and the third-pairt o' the trees was burnt up, and a’ green foggage was burnt up.

8. And the second Angel soondit ; and as it war a great mountain, lowin wi’ fire, was cuisten into the sea; and the third-pairt o' the sea becam blude.

‘ V. 7. Thir fowr trumpets aiblins refer to the invasion 0' the Roman Empire, and the terror and skaith free the hordes u’ barbarians, under Alaric, Geneseric, Attila and Odoacer.

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