THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY. "NOT THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD."-1 COR. II. 6. SCIANT IGITUR, QUI PROPHETAS NON INTELLIGUNT, NEC SCIRE DESIDERUNT, JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21 BERNERS STREET. 1855. BOD THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY. JANUARY 1855. ART. I. THE FINGER OF GOD IN PRESENT EVENTS. EVERY event, great or small, has its meaning and its lessons. But some events have deeper meaning and contain more solemn lessons. One tree differs from another; one mountain differs from another; so does one event differ from another. Some are the low shrub; others the towering palm or spreading banyan. Some are the mere swell of the hillock; others the majestic stature of the Andes. In every event God is to be found. His voice is heard in each. His finger is seen in each. We cannot separate him from the commonest; we cannot separate the mightiest from him. He is in all. Yet in some we hear him speak more audibly. In some we recognise his hand more intelligibly and beyond the possibility of ambiguity or mistake. Each slight malady that troubles us is from him. But more signally and solemnly does he utter his will to us in the disease that lays us prostrate and brings us to the gates of death. He speaks to us in the death of the neighbour, whom perhaps we hardly miss. But he speaks more loudly and terribly in the slaughter of the battle-field, or the shipwreck that plunges three hundred souls at once beneath the "non-sparing" wave. Our day is one of stir, and noise, and anxiety, and hurrying to and fro. Mighty events are coming up like dark shadows from the abyss. The commonplace of life is, at least for a |