people." Then God and Christ and immortal Saints, constitute the Temple in this glorious City of Zion. I have been thus particular in quoting the Scriptures, in answer to the questions proposed, to endeavor if possible to dispel some of the thick darkness and mist of Shakerism, Quakerism, Swedenborgianism, and all the Spiritualisms that now seem to be settling down all over the moral world, and shutting out even the very light from the horizon. To my mind this spiritualizing system, when God's word admits of a literal interpretation, and--according to rule--the literal first; is, to use a sailor phrase, like a ship groping her way into Boston Bay in the night, in a thick snow with the moon at full. Nothing could be more deceptive to the mariner; the flying clouds at one moment light up the firmament by the thinness of its vapor, (encouraging the mariner to believe that he shall now see the light house) the next moment it grows darker, and so it continues to deceive them, until of a sudden the breakers are roaring all around them--the ship is dashed upon the rocks--one general cry goes aloft for mercy! and all hope is forever gone--ship and mariners strewed all over the beach! Good God! help us to steer clear of these spiritual interpretations of Thy word, where it is made so clear that the second coming and kingdom of Christ will be as literal and real, as the events that transpired at the first Advent, now recorded in history. When the Saviour comes the second time, it will be with the City, (the Capital of his kingdom) seated upon his throne. Hear him: "When the son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he be _seated_ upon the throne of his _glory_." Matt. xxv. 31. "And the city had no need of the sun--for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof." "But the _throne_ of God and the Lamb shall _be in it_." Rev. xxi: 23, and xxii: 3. This _glory_ is none other than the golden City. When "one like the son of man came before the Ancient of days," in Daniel, he received "_Dominion_, and _Glory_, and a _Kingdom_." Glory, signifies worldly splendor, and magnificence. What, I ask, will be more splendid and glorious than this City of Gold poised fifteen hundred miles into the Heavens. The Psalmist cries out in view of it, in this sublime language, "Let thy Glory be above all the earth!" and so it will be; and as his dominion is from sea to sea, and from the rivers unto the ends of the earth, so I believe his _glory_ will be seen from the uttermost border. Other views of the glory of God and Christ do not destroy this. Saint John has connected in one, the "_Holy City_, _New Jerusalem_, _Tabernacle of God_, _Bride the Lambs Wife_, coming down from God, _out of Heaven_ to dwell with his _people_." PROOF--"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither