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Show 238 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISATAH., PROPHET THE OF ADDRESS erage of the Nile, which enter from Egypt into the south side protection realm of peaceful to all of the Mediterranean. ‘This probably was the farthest boundary i) that direction then koown to the Jews. And no doubt it was the most noted of any in that eavle protects her nest fromallharm. point of compass. When a landscape of a western continent then, was presented in vision to the prophet on the Jews, precisely in that course, he would to describe the direction of this region of the It world. when them. the friendly address to.a people of the But could here. The prophetic eye glanced beyond all Jands then It must have known; and hence no land is named. Atlanttec. the and been a land over the Mediterranean The above diThou land “ shadowing with wings.” rection lands the prophetic vision at the point of the western continent, where the two great wings of North and South America meet, as at the body of a great eaThis at first might furnish the prophetic imagery gle. As though the mof a land “ shadowing with wings.’? spiring Spirit had whispered; / Phe continent of those two great wings shall be found at last most interestingIn i relation to your Hebrew brethren. } And those two great wings shall prove but an emblem of a great nation then on that continent; far se- of ty ranny _questered from the seat of anti-christ, and liberty, and blood; and whose asylum for equal rights, nationa such by and religion, shall be well represented eagreat a of rs 0 arms,—the protecting wis; al coat of fr, le; which nation in yonder settiug of the sun, through m the last days, judgments shall be thundering free from such cruelty, protecting wings and ready to aid ® called to restore his people. What could be done across such mighty waters? The difficulty at once vanishes, by the prophet’s being ascertained of this characteristic of the people addressed. ‘They would be most expert in navigation. They could traverse restoration of the Hebrews, is found in those horrid re- or toa hospitable people. found found to have shall be Yea, a land that, found to have trampled present itself to the prophet’s view, when beholding in vision this western continent, over the mighty waters ~of the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic, aud about to be on those barbarous Mohammedan shores? Surely not. No land “ shadowing with wings.”’ or that would aid the western continent; fly from the, Verse 2; ‘“ Who sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the face of the waters.”’ It is to be supposed that a great difficulty would at once last days, hight gions. No; the point of compass and the address must have been designed for a new world, seen in that This address of Heaven must be to our direction. shall be other lands all for them, is then as though the prophet had said; Thouland heheld in vision away over the mouths of the Nile. Where would such a line strike? It would glance over the northern edge of the States of Barbary. who abodes of despotism to its peaceful retreat ; even as an naturally fix upon the place most notable and farthest distant, by which found al continent,) shall be the nations of the eastern the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and be able to send missionaries to Jerusalem, or to the ends of the earth, in those last days. or convey the Hebrews from one continent to another, with an expedition similar to that with which the Nile (beyond which this new world is beheld) used to be navigated with the skiff made of the \ — / bulras orh, the rind of the papyrus.* e s . Verse 2, concluded. “ es Saying, go ye swift messen§ers, to a naiion scattered and peeled, to a people terrible | |- from the beginning,hitherto ; a nation meted out and trod4 den down, whose land the rivers have spoiled.” ‘Saying, eine the command Go, is interpolated in our transla- lon, and destroys the sense; | this to her swift messengers; “Our states may claim the as though the nation said whereas it is what God characteristic of expert navigation equal at least to any people onearth. Consider our steam. Sant) iaat sation, and such accounts as the jolleowine; found in Niles aie, act pn Ho distance ee 1823.“ oi re es of 19 Our of her she. the Baltimore vessels. —The brig Thessali- Saturday evening last, in 79 days from sight of the city of Pernambuco, in | STaZli; a a . miles; averaging the stocks way his r as Y 239 ISAIAH. six and a quarter miles e1 ery vessel was, less than eight meoaths ago, oy 3 |