NOTICE.

FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,

February 24, 1857.

SERVICES AT THE CAPITOL. In place of the Rev. Mr. Waldo, Chaplain of the House, Rev. F. E. Pitts, of Nashville, Tennessee, appeared agreeably to previous announcement, and delivered a discourse on the fulfillment of prophecy, with reference to the United States. With no leaning to cant or fanaticism, and with no tendencies to a politico-religious sermon, the reverened speaker entered upon his task of unfolding the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testaments. The events which he detailed with reference to our own country, were made to fit with such surprising chronological accuracy to the predictions, that it was by the almost unanimous desire of a large and attentive audience that his lecture was continued in the afternoon. At the appointed time, three o'clock, P. M., it was no easy task to find a seat in the great hall of the Capitol, so deeply interested were the people to hear the sequel of the morning discourse, a brief outline of which we are herewith enabled to present to our readers:

His introduction to the investigation indicated with what reverence and discretion any attempted elucidation of the meaning of prophecy should be conducted; that the prophecies touching the nations, down to the fall of Jerusalem, were but a literal history of Syria, Edom, Moab, Egypt, and Judea; but from the destruction of the Jewish capital down to a certain period called "the time of the end," a vail was on the prophets, and no interpretation of the sublime visions during that interdicted age could possibly be correct; for God had repeated the announcement to Daniel, the prophet, that "the words were closed up, and the vision was sealed till the time of the end." That this was not the end of the world was evident, for in the time of the end "many should run to and fro, and knowledge be increased;" that then "the wise should understand, but the wicked should not understand." Not only was the vision itself sealed, but the time or end of these wonders, and especially the theatre of these wonders, or the land of their realization, should be unknown till God was prepared for their accomplishment. That "the time of the end"-an age of great intellectual energy, adventure and locomotion -was the age in which a great nationality would arise; that the United States arose at the end of 1290 symbolic days from the destruction of Jerusalem; that Daniel's 70 weeks being equal to 603 years and 129 days of solar time, according to the eclipses of the sun, gave an infallible rule to determine symbolic time; so that if 70 symbolic weeks eqnaled 600 years and 129 days, 1290 symbolic days reached from the burning of the temple on the 189th day of the year 68, A. D., to the 4th of July, 1776; and that, making the starting-point at the occasion of the daily sacrifice. which happened, according to astronomy, at sunrise, three minutes past five o'clock, A. M., on the day the temple was burnt, the 1290 days run out at a quarter to three o'clock, P. M., on the 4th day of July, 1776; and, from the best sources of information, the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed at that hour on the glorious Fourth. That the United States was the fifth Government represented by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands. The image ef Nebuchadnezzar represented the successive kingdoms of Assyria, Medo-Persia, Macedonia, and Rome; that the iron and clay in the feet and toes of the image, symbolized the union of Church and State under Constantine, June 19, A. D. 325; that the antagonism of the stone to the image smiting it on the feet, symbolized the genius of our great nation in its opposition to the union of Church and State; that while the stone-kingdom, or government, were not Christianity, the mountain out of which the stone was cut was Christianity. That the winged woman of the wilderness was an emblem of Christianity, and her man-child, to whom was given "a rod to rule," was an emblem of our government, arising from a pure

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religion; that this man-child, being "caught up to heaven in the clouds," showed the providential protection of our infant Republic. That our nation, answering the moral portrait of the nationality which was to come, was Israel restored. That God would constitute such a nationality out of a people who would acknowledge his Son Jesus Christ, and not of the Jews, who, from the beginning, have denounced Christ. That perfect coincidence being perfect fulfillment, our nation and no other on earth swered the picture. That the nationality to arise was to be gathered out of the nations. That they were to go westward That the country they were to inhabit was a land between the eastern and the great western seas. That the land was one "that had always been waste." That it was to be located in thirteen distinct States. That these States should be bounded on the east by the eastern sea, and on the west by the great western sea. That the people gathered out of the nations should build and dwell safely in unwalled villages and cities, having neither gates nor bars;" "a land of broad rivers and streams;" a Republic where the people "should appoint to themselves one head," and their rulers and governors "should be from among themselves." That the United States was "the isles that should wait" for God, and that the ships of Tarshish or Old Spain should be first to open emigration. That our country was "the land shadowing with wings" which was beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, which, from Judea beyond the Nile, was the United States, and no other country. That our great country was divinely protected in its beginning, and, answering the predictions precisely of the nationality that was to come, is the "nation born to God in a day"-born on Independence Day. That the United States arose in the providence of God, as the model political goverument; and that its great mission was the overthrow of monarchy, and the utter destruction of political and ecclesiastical despotism.

His subject in the afternoon related more especially to "the last great battle between civil and religious liberty on the one hand, and political and ecclesiastical despotism on the other, termed in Scripture the "Battle of Gog and Magog;" the battle of "Armageddon," and the battle of the "great

day of God Almighty." That the United States would be invaded by monarchy. That Russia would be the leading power, and England, and all the autocracy of the world, would be allied with Russia against the United States, except France; that France would be with us in the end as she was with us in the beginning. That an armament such as the world never saw, composed of millions, would invade our country. That the battle-field was the valley of the Mississippi. (See Ezekiel xxxix, 11.) That Heaven would be upon our side. But in this last dreadful fray there would be trouble such as never was. That the United States, being the exponent and representative of Republicanism, extending its borders from sea to sea, and from the lakes to the gulf, arose as the formidable defiance of autocracy; and that Russia, embracing an area of one-seventh of the earth's terra-firma, and arising in dreadful grandeur must, in self-defence, attempt the extinction of popular freedom; and that these two formidable powers, lowering and culminating to the heavens like dreadful clouds surcharged with the elements of ruin, would shock the world with their collision and drench the earth with blood. That our great country would never be divided. That our Union, like a noble ship, though her live-oak timbers would bend and quiver in the tempest, would ride the storm in safety. That monarchy would be overthrown for ever, and Republicanism every where prevail, and nations learn war no more. Then sets in that millennial day, when science, commerce, manufactures and the arts would spread, the religion of the Son of God have sway, "righteousness and peace among the people walk, Messiah reign, and earth keep jubilee a thousand years."

But an imperfect sketch of these lectures is here presented. They certainly created a profound sensation. True or false, the clearness and conclusiveness of the arguments, as presented by the intelligent speaker, we think it would be difficult to answer. Surely, the theme is startling and sublime. The appropriate allusion of the speaker to the portraits of Washington and Lafayette that hung on the walls in the Capitol, in his allusion to France being with America in the final struggle, was deeply affecting

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FORETOLD IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

In entering the sublime arcana of inspired prophecy, we are deeply impressed with a scene that is laid in the land of Midian, where, from the burning-bush, the voice of Almighty God arrested the attention of the wondering prophet: "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."

No subject presented to the human mind imposes profounder reverence, greater caution, and deeper research, than an elucidation of prophetic truth; and yet no theme has been more prolific of fanaticism among the incautious and adventurous in almost every age.

We must look to the Scriptures themselves for direction to a true and legitimate interpretation of their own meaning. It is important also to discriminate between "secret things that belong to God, and things that are revealed, which belong to