I pull thy skirt off, and thou shalt see thy shame, till the mountains teach each other; and thy hills shall echo, till other nations hear thee mourn; for a remnant I must have out of thee before I shew thee thy nakedness.

"And for Ashton, I will shew it its nakedness; and those that have risen up against my word there -that where they have tried to slay my messenger, may be a place for their dead bodies to lay in; for I will not own them again until the resurrection, neither shall they be called after my name, but after the name of the dead: for my servant shall reside no more within them borders."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by Joseph Churchward.

Sunderland, 9th of 10th month, 1832.

"I WILL permit Satan to set all the congregations against their shepherds, to see if they will search for the truth of my Scriptures; and as the children lock their tutors out of the schools, and burn and destroy their weapons, that they may have their rest and play, so will the congregations turn their preachers out of their churches and chapels; and I will open the eyes of a part of their hearers, so that they shall see the truth of my visitation; for the year of Jubilee of my visitation is come, and Israel knows

it."

"The days of visitation are come the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. But the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God." Hosea ix. 7, 8. "I will recompence the iniquity of both Jew and Gentile upon their own heads; for the prophet shall appear as a fool unto them, and Israel as madmen, because they turn my Scriptures to their own ways. Written from John Wroe's mouth by Robert Mattinson.

Whitby, 4th of 11th month, 1832.

"THOU shalt return, that they may chase thee to and fro, that they may know that I am with thee; though thou hast appeared as a foolish instrument to the eye of the world, yet I will have my honour on them.

"In the months of March and April the weather shall be prepared, the sails shall be set-the winds shall blow and carry my servant whither he would not go. At that set time the children's heads, in England, shall be lifted up, and the world shall mourn, and seek unto them for an interpretation; for in whatever nation whereunto they flee, they shall find death; and those that serve me and obey my laws shall have favour in their eyes, and my protection shall rest on them as a mantle."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Fortune.

Wakefield, 3rd of 12th month, 1832. "THERE shall be winds, thunder storms, mingled with fire; they shall destroy a part of the fruit next year, and destroy the cedars, though the crops be in great abundance."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Muff, Senior.

The gale which took place in the 8th month, 1833, made great destruction in England, in houses, gardens, hop-grounds, &c., to an incalculable degree; also many timber trees were tore up by the roots, and much corn destroyed.

Wakefield, 6th of 12th month, 1832.

"THUS saith the Lord: Distress from this day of every kind-plague, famine, earthquakes, storms, fires, people setting houses and stacks on fire, lunatics breaking out of the asylums, and going into many places and setting houses and stacks on fire, and many will become lunatics."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Muff.

For about five years previous to the date of the above prophecy, a very few instances of burning houses and stacks had occurred, but since that time a most remarkable increase appeared, they were in point of number more than ten for one to those anterior to that date, and this has taken place in many nations, many towns and villages having been almost entirely destroyed.

There has been a similar increase in the number of storms and earthquakes, as well in the seriousness of their character. Witness the famine, in the Cape de Verd Islands, in 1833, in which not less than 18,000 persons are said to have perished: in the East Indies in 1834; in Russia in 1833, 1834; in the Shetland Isles 1835; in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, in 1837; and the destitution in Ireland in 1846-47, and to shew its effects in some districts, we insert a letter which appeared in the newspapers of the 21st of 1st month, 1849.

Destitution in Galway.-The annexed letter from the parish priest of Clifden, sets forth a frightful picture of the state of the people in that remote disstrict:"The quarter-acre clause, exterminating and inhuman as it is, has ceased to be a test here. Ninetenths of our population have no land, no houses, (for I will not so designate their wretched hovels), no beds or bed clothes save their tattered rags-not even fuel. The workhouse is filled to suffocationthere are 800 in a house built for the accomodation of 300. There is also an auxiliary one, where there are 300 females huddled together, for the most part without beds of any sort; and, as a substitute for a warm fireside, they are driven out in squads on the road to exercise, to guard against the benumbing effects of the cold they endure. Cold and comfortless as these abodes of misery are, yet every day hundreds are crawling to them enfeebled and emaciated, carrying their almost naked skeletons of children on their backs, craving admission, and denied it, until other receptacles are prepared, and in the

meantime no food given to them. Of the 9,000 receiving out-door relief in August last in these parishes, there are only 3,300 at present on the lists. In the district of Kingstown, containing a population of 1,090, there were, from Feb. 1st to May 14th last year, 201 deaths from starvation. Now, of the remaining 890 there are not 100 provided with food for a week; and of the entire number not 50 who will be able to make any sowing in the ensuing spring. The other districts in these parishes are almost as destitute.

Wakefield, 12th of 12th month, 1832.

"NEXT summer it shall come to pass that honey shall be so abundant that bees shall come out of other countries and alight on the hedges and trees, and people shall take honey from the hedges."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Muff.

In the summer of 1833 we received the following information in a letter from Nancy Anning, of Chard, Somerset: "I was informed about three weeks ago that a swarm of bees came into this place no one knew from whence, and settled on an apple tree in an orchard; the whole hung one upon another about a foot in depth. A similar occurrence happened at Lime, about a month ago."

Also, in some part of the north, we have been informed that the like circumstance has occurred. From a newspaper of the 16th of 9th month, we copy the following:

"On Friday_se'nnight, during the dreadful gales of wind, an old willow tree, of considerable magnitude, was blown down at Lavender Hill, Surrey; the centre of it being much decayed, a hive of bees had taken up their abode therein; and upon cutting it up, upwards of forty pounds of honey was taken out of it." Also in the west a quantity of honey, about thirty pounds weight, was in the same summer found in the top of a chimney; the accounts of which appeared in the newspapers.

CHAPTER VIII.

Divine Communications, partly concerning himself and partly others.-1824.

Ashton, 12th of 4th month, 1824.

"I HAD eleven in the days of my flesh, but they were not one greater than another; but he who leaned on my breast, with whom I left my last testimony, bore testimony for all; so shalt thou bear testimony for all that have been before thee; and I will make known by thee those that shall follow. And I will cause this communication to be printed; and I will let all the earth know that it is I who have given it, who was slain that I might manifest the same by Shiloh, Immanuel, the Branch, revealed in his day." Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Ashton, 31st of 8th month, 1824. "Now, the Lord's sheep shall prophesy as well as thee, at various places; so that those sheep which belong not to the fold, though they are joined in this covenant, one will say I'll follow him, and another, I'll follow her; and the world will say they are all prophets. But when they have prophesied they shall not be able to go on; they shall still wander."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Ashton, 5th of 12th month, 1824.

A DREAM of Thomas Stone, 1st of 10th month:— "I dreamt that I was looking up at the moon, which shone very clear for a long distance, from the south to the east, from whence a woman advanced with a rod in her hand, apparently behind the clouds, and touched the lower part of the moon, which seemed to me as if it had been cut open; and when she pointed her rod the moon seemed to burst, as though it was boiling metal, and illuminated the whole world, and

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