The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Netos, writing on the 20lh uit.,
says:
The church of the Oratoire was crowded
this afternoon with a fashionable congrega
tion of English re-uderiL , :1m fair . -.x great
ly predominating, to hear Dr. Cumming's
sermon on prophecy, as applicable to Great
Britain. He made out with a force of de
monstration which, backed by many learn
ed quotations, and the free use of Hebrew
, roots, defies any impromptu contradiction,
that within the next seven years the English
i Government will collect together all the
! hook-nosed, dark-complexioned, black-eyed
denizens of Houndsditch, fit. Mary Axe,
iCursitor street, <fcc., give them ; free pas
sage to Jerusalem, and putthem in posses
ision of the Holy Land. To arrive at this
result the reverend Doctor is obliged, tho’
he regrets it, to do considerable violence to
J the authorized version of the Scriptures.—
! He shows that where Ezekiel is made to an
Inounce calamity by the lise of the word
“woe,” he in reality meant “Ho!” a rally
ing cry, that “ships made of bulrushes”
mean steam vessels, that “larshish ’ isEn
dand, that “seven times” means 360 mul
tiplied by 4, and that one of the prophet’s
lions means the British lion on the Queen’s
coat of arms. These interpretations being
granted, it is plain to the meanest capacity
that England is the nation predestined to
“present” them on Mount Zion as an offer
ing to the Lord of Hosts. These things
arc to take place sooner than Dr. Cumming
i would “dare’’ to say in public, but he gives
it t“ be understood,'that 1867, when accor
ding to bis calculation the world will be just
16,000 years old, is the very outside of the
I lime. We are, at this very hour, to use a
poetical expression of his, on the “Saturday
night of the world’s long di 'amed week.
