Empires are raised up and decline under his providential control. The armies of Rome formed those military highways in which the gospel travelled to the remotest nations. British navies, armies and merchants, have penetrated to the most distant Indies, sent thither, under the controlling power of Prince Messiah, that the Bible Society might be furnished with facilities, for the circulation of the scriptures among the people of Borneo and New Holland. He who is Lord of all quickens the march of the sciences, in application to the arts, that the gospel may soon, in all its purity, travel on the wings of the wind over the whole earth. "Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?" Isa. lx. 8.

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