THE STARS SHALL FALL FROM HEAVEN.
The star shower expected in this country on the 13th and 14th of November last, it appears was witnessed to some extent on the Eastern Continent. A condensed account will be found in another column. We are well aware that the skeptic will say that these showers are shown to occur at regular intervals, hence are the product of some natural law, and cannot therefore constitute a sign of the near coming of the Son of man. But we ask how it happens that all the principal exhibitions of this kind, even though they do occur at regular intervals, have taken place within less than a hundred years of the present time; none of any importance having occurred previous to the year 1799. The Saviour announced that the stars should fall from heaven as a precursor of his second coming. He did not say that the sign should be confined to one exhibition of the falling meteors; and though there should be a score of such, if they take place this side of the specified time at which they were to appear as a sign, they must all be taken as omens and heralds of the great day. It may be remarked further, that the great display of 1833, was confined chiefly to this country; while the present one was visible on the Eastern Continent. Before the wondering gaze of the principal portion of both hemispheres, this sign has now been fulfilled.