shall there be any more pain." "And he that sit upon the throne said, behold I make all things new, and he said unto me write, for these words are true and faithful." Rev. xxi: 4, 5. Is it not clear that the _City_, and the _King_, and _Saints_, are here distinctly described. Why, then, all this shouting about a figurative fulfillment, while yourselves and the world are groping through the "_snow storm_." THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. The old Prophets looking down through the vista of time to the coming of this heavenly city, break forth in language like the following: "And it shall come to pass that he that is left in _Zion_ and he that remaineth in _Jerusalem_ shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in _Jerusalem_." "Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount _Zion_ and in _Jerusalem_--(why? because John says they will 'have no need of the sun nor the moon,') and before his ancients gloriously." Who are they? Noah, Abraham and the Prophets. Again: "Look upon _Zion_ the _City_ of our solemnities; thine eye shall see _Jerusalem_ a quiet habitation, a _Tabernacle_ that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed." "Break forth into joy, sing together ye waste places of _Jerusalem_ for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed _Jerusalem_." "Give no rest till he establish and till he make _Jerusalem_ a praise in the earth." Do they mean old Jerusalem? The Saviour's prediction is against it, "left desolate," its inhabitants "carried away captive and trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Luke xxi. Further: "But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create, behold I create _Jerusalem_ a rejoicing and her people a joy, and I will rejoice in _Jerusalem_ and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying." Isa. iv: 3; xxiv: 23; xxxiii: 20; lii: 9; lxii: 7; lxv: 18, 19. Also read xl: 1; lii: 1; lx: 14, and xxxv: 10. "At that time they shall call _Jerusalem_ the _throne_ of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered into it--neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart." "In those days shall Juda be saved and _Jerusalem_ shall dwell _safely_ and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. For thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to set upon the throne of the house of Israel." Jer. iii: 17; xxxiii: 16, 17. "The Lord also shall roar out of _Zion_ and utter his voice from _Jerusalem_, then shall _Jerusalem be holy_, and there shall be no stranger pass through her any more." Joel iii: 16, 17.