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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 29

this day from all the families of the earth to their heavenly Father.

" For who, except that Father, * whose tender mercies are over all His works,' could thus cause His light to shine in darkness, for the deliverance of His people from evil, from error, and from destruction, and, at the same time, for the guidance of their feet into the ways of righteousness, truth, and salvation? To his praises and most unfeigned thankfulness on this occasion, the author is lastly urgent to add his ardent prayers, that the above glorious light may shine in every corner of the habitable globe, until the whole earth becomes that blessed tabernacle of God which was announced to be with men, in which ' God will dwell and be with them their God, and wipe away all tears from their eyes.' Rev. xxi: 3, 4.

" Nor can he entertain a doubt but that, sooner or later, this prayer will be fulfilled, inasmuch as the Almighty pledged Himself for its fulfilment, when the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, ' The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever.* Rev. xi: 15.

" In the full persuasion, then, that all these glorious things are coming to pass, and, indeed, in some degree are already come to pass, the author cannot express

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