Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: awful alternative of hopes and fears?that looking- for of judgment, which our Christian faith sets before us. At that day, when time, the great arbiter of truth and falsehood, shall bring to pass the accomplishment of the ages, and the Son of God shall make his enemies his footstool?then shall the deluded followers of the great Impostor, disappointed of the expected intercession of the prophet, stand trembling and dismayed at the approach of the glorified Messiah. Then shall they say, ‘ Yonder cometh in the clouds that Jesus whose religion we laboured to destroy?whose temples we profaned? whose servants and followers we cruelly oppressed ! Behold, he cometh, but no longer the humble son of Mary?no longer a mere mortal prophet, the equal of Abraham and of Moses, as that deceiver taught us, but the everlasting Son of the everlasting Father?the Judge of mankind?the Sovereign of angels?the Lord of all things, both in earth and in beaven ! If we suppose, according to the usual estimate, that the inhabitants of the world amount in number to eight hundred millions, the whole may be thus divided :?Jews, two millions and a half; Pagans, four hundred and eighty-two millions; Christians, one hundred and seventy-five millions and a half, and Mahometans one hundred and forty millions. The Christians again may be thus distributed, into Greek and Eastern churches, thirty millions; Roman .Catholics, eighty millions; and Protestants, sixty-five millions and a half. Or thus, in round figures,which may mate a more permanent impression Ch the minds of the young :? Jews 2,500,000 Pagans …. 482,000,000 Christians …. 175,000,000 Mahomctans . . 140,000,000 Inhabitants of the world . . 800,000,000 Subdivisions of Christians. Greek and Eastern Churches . 30,000,000 Roman Catholics ….
