The editor quite agrees with H. B. that, without looking for signs of the approaching rapture of the saints to meet the Lord in the air, the earthly ground is being rapidly taken for the closing conflicts. Even the newspapers ring with men's projects, which, we know, will end in a revived empire of the west and a vast eastern power, (the beast and Gog,) both of which are destined to meet their judgment successively from the hand of the Lord, and that in the holy land. May our loins be girded about and our lights burning!