The strongest proof ever been adduced to prove that the earth or Canaan was the _sanctuary_, is found in Exodus xv: 17. Now what place is this which the Lord has made to dwell in? The answer is, "in the sanctuary O Lord, which thy hands have established." Paul says this sanctuary is in the heavens which the Lord pitched and not man. Heb. viii: 1, 2. The only other passage for proof of the land is Psalms lxxviii: 54, both of which go to strengthen the testimony before adduced. "And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased." Does he in either text say that the mountain is the sanctuary? If I can understand him, he says that the mountain is the _border_ of his sanctuary; just as Ezekiel has shown where his guide measured the land, and then said that the sanctuary of the Lord should be in the midst of it. Now the word _sanctuary_ is mentioned more than seventy times in the bible, and the whole of them,--with but a few exceptions, represent it a dwelling place, a building. The Psalmist says, that the "Lord looked down from his sanctuary from heaven to the earth." Not to his sanctuary. But let us see what Daniel and the angel Gabriel called a sanctuary. Dan. viii: 10-12. Is it not plain here that Popery took away the daily (i. e. destroyed Paganism) by arms or armies that stood on his (Popery's part, or side)--xi: 31. The taking away his sanctuary or polluting it is the same; for it would be absurd to say that the _land_ was taken away, (11 v.) or that by this transaction the land was _now_ polluted--xi: 31. Now read ix: 17, 19. Is not Daniel praying for the restoration of old Jerusalem, the city and _sanctuary_ (the temple where God's people worshipped) which had been desolated, _burnt up_, by the king of Babylon's army, about seventy years before? (see Jer. lii: 12, 14) and remained a burnt district until the commandment by Cyrus to Ezra, and afterwards to Nehemiah, to build the temple and city. Now in answer to this prayer, God immediately despatched the angel Gabriel from the court of heaven, to give Daniel "skill and understanding"--22d v. In the 26th verse he informs him that Messiah shall be cut off, (crucify the Saviour) and the people of the prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the _sanctuary_. How was this accomplished? Josephus who was an eye witness and historian, informs us that Titus the son of Vespasian, the Emperor of Rome, about A. D. 70, (five hundred and sixty years after the temple and city had been rebuilt by Nehemiah) came with his mighty Roman army and took Jerusalem, and burned up the city and temple (the sanctuary) and it was soon after "ploughed as a field," (Micah iii: 12) "and not one stone left upon another." This, then, was the very circumstance, Prince, and people, alluded to by the angel Gabriel. I believe no one undertakes to dispute this point.