The foregone forms a refutation, no matter how late sceptics would date the writing, or the compilation of the Bible, for the fulfilment has been seen for ages, and is still visible upon the rocks of Tyrus. Why should we wonder then that another proof of the truth of Sacred Prophecy should only have been discovered in our own day, and upon the Western Continent? But mankind may well wonder, and they will so continue through all posterity, at the mysterious and inscrutable ways of The Almighty,--in the contemplation (we dare not say contrast) of whose ever-fruitful Power, the high soaring mind of man seem not only uncultured, but inarable! The grand, yet silent majesty of GOD,-- His vivid, brilliant, and rapid Mind,-- Are figured in the lightning's piercing flash,-- When darting through the world's chaotic night, It penetrates and illumines all time and space! But mind of Man,--is like to the sequent thunder, Loud reverberating from cloud to cloud, Harmless, yet noisy; so from clime to clime He sends his loud sounding mandates,--no thought Giving, that his power ne'er had been, had not MANITOU'S eye-flash first oped the Time-cloud! Thus merely following as _effect_,--direction From a _Cause_,--of a Creation,--which he Can neither--(with all his loud thunder-talk)-- Increase or diminish,--tarnish or illumine![17] [17] MS. Tragedy "Tecumseh." The discovery and identity of the _Tyrian_ Ruins in Ancient America must give a complete annihilation to the impious argument of the atheists, for ISAIAH wrote 256 years _before_ Ezra, 380 before the Tyrian Siege by Alexander, and 712 before CHRIST. The first part of the newly-applied Prophecy was accomplished at the Macedonian massacre, and the rescuing of the "remnant" by the Sidonians,--this was in 332 B. C., consequently 204 _years after the Biblical translation by Ezra_:--while the last line of that Prophecy,--viz.,