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To-day's lesson

The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revela-

tion of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connec- tion with the nineteenth century. In the opening of the sixth seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, the distinctive feature has reference to the present age.

Revelation xii. 1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.