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found stank to the skies with a fathom's depth of dead 

 locusts. It was the difference between discomfort and 

 starvation, mischief and ruin. And Joel says, " The appear- 

 ance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horse- 

 men, so shall they run/' The translation probably is in 

 error, and, I should think, should read, " and their coming 

 is as the coming of horses and as horsemen, so shall they 

 run." 



Their passing was like the rush of infinite cavalry at a 

 distance, the air all rattling with harness and glinting with 

 sparks of silver and steel and scarlet. "And the Lord 

 shall utter His voice before His army" that voice of the 

 whirlwind with which Jehovah spoke in the desert to Moses ; 

 the voice of nature real, earnest, indisputable, and authentic. 



