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Then he tells of the damage : 



3. A fire devoureth before them : and behind them a flame burnetii : the land in as the 

 Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, yea, and lothing shall 

 escape them. 



He portrays the foe : 



4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of hosses : and as horsemen, r .o sh ill they 

 run. 



5. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains shall they leap, liVe the noise of 

 a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, a strong people set in battle array. 



He speaks of the terror they excite : 



.6. Before their face the people shall be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness. 

 He describes the assault : 



7. They shall run like mighty men : they shall climb the wall like men of war : and they 

 shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks : 



8. Neither shall one thrust another : and they shall walk every one in his path : and. when 

 they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 



9. They shall run to and fro in the city : they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up 

 upon the houses : they shall enter in at the window like a thief. 



Then he recapitulates : 



10. The earth shall quake before them : the heavens shall tremble : the sun and the moon, 

 shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining : 



11. And the Lord shall utter His voice before His anny : for His camp is very great : 

 for he is strong that executeth His word : for the day of the Lord is great and terrible : and 

 who can abide it ? 



And then he gives the lesson : 



12. Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with 

 fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning : 



13. And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God : for 

 He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentetb Him of the evil- 

 Irresistible indeed is He who holdeth all things in His keeping, who can mar- 

 shal the base things of the earth to confound the mighty, and things that are despised 

 to bring to naught things that are. The nations well may tremble when He gatheretb 

 His great army, the locust, the caterpillar and the palmer-worm, to make the fruitful 

 lands barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 



Mr. Harrington said that he was much interested in the paper which had just been 

 read. Residents of northern temperate regions like Ontario could form little idea of the 

 vast numbers of locusts which visited south-eastern Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa. 

 Dr. Sharp, in a volume of the Cambridge Natural History, stated that in bulk the 

 insects in existence in the world exceeded all other forms of animal life put together, and 

 mentioned in illustration a swarm of locusts that was seen passing over the Red Sea in 

 November, 1889. It was estimated to extend over two thousand square miles, and tak- 

 ing the weight of each individual locust at one-sixteenth of an ounce, the whole swarm 

 was calculated to weigh the enormous amount of 42,850 millions of tons ! The steam- 

 ship from which it was observed, was sailing beneath the swarm at the rate of twelve 

 miles an hour in the opposite direction and took between seven and eight hours to pass 

 from under it. 



Mr. Law spoke of the light thrown upon God's dealings with man by Mr. Fyles's 

 paper and expressed the pleasure with which he had listened to it. 



