precious volume more complete, it was placed in the same heap with the worst productions of infidelity and licentiousness. This outrage upon Protestant feeling was committed at a time when it became all men who loved their country to unite in seeking its welfare. Amidst the hardships and dangers of war, and when we were looking forward with hope to see our country fully resuscitated from the dreadful consequences of pestilence and famine. Thus we find in every point of view, and by all its accompaniments, the deed was one of daring impiety and provocation. What judgments may be expected to follow. Can any one suppose that God will not visit for these things? that he will not be avenged for such a deed as this. “Because I called and ye refused; I will laugh at your calamities and mock when your fear cometh.” This seems specially to apply to individuals. “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book; and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” This seems to refer to the Church. “Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, God shall send them strong delusion—that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” This evidently applies to such as knowingly turn from the true to a false system. What God will do unto the nation that turns away from and despises the holy Word of God may be seen in such threatenings as the following: “If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord Thy God, then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sickness, and of long continuance. And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy, and to bring you to nought.” All these judgments are threatened against the rejection of the Word—in fact, the mere neglect of it: public insult never seemed to be contemplated at all. The only instance upon record, in any wise resembling the deed we are speaking of, is that of Jehoiakim, who burned the roll containing the prophecy which God had commanded Jeremiah to utter against Jerusalem. And for this burning God threatened the king with early death; informed him he should have the burial of an ass; should have no man to sit upon his throne, and that the nation he ruled over should be visited with wasting desolation. Now, to all these judgments is the nation liable that can be guilty of a crime like this. All who approve of the deed, or who do not protest