In the N. Y. Independent of July 12, 1860, Horace Greely, speaking of the political aspects of this country, makes the following remarks: "People are planting and sowing, spinning and weaving, building and improving, as if Millerism and Disunion were two very remote and dubious contingencies." Mr. Greely does not believe in the dissolution of the union; and he links it with Millerism to give an impressive idea of the improbability of the event. It is not often that we have so striking a commentary upon the language of Inspiration, from so high a source. Are not these the very things that the Saviour said the world would be engaged in, when sudden destruction was ready to burst upon their heads? "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." Luke xvii, 26. This is what we expect to see. It therefore throws confirmation and not doubt upon our position, when we see men more intently than ever engaged in these pursuits. The prediction that the world would ever come to an end, might seem like a strange prophecy; but the prediction that so stupendous an event would come, and the world be all ignorant of it, is stranger still. This would seem the more improbable of the two. It would be natural to suppose that the faintest intimation of this event, or at least anything that might be interpreted as a sign of its approach would arrest the attention of the world, and that none would be in ignorance in regard to it. But the prophetic eye saw them careless and unconcerned, blind to the manifold signs fulfilling all around them, and deaf to earnest and oft repeated warnings until, suddenly and unexpectedly, as in the days of Noah, destruction comes and takes them all away. What plainer prophecies or more striking signs of the great event men could want, it would be difficult to conceive; yet they are all going on, in the language of Mr. Greely, "planting and sowing, spinning and weaving, building and improving, as if Millerism was a very remote and dubious contingency." And thus they will go on, asserting with strange infatuation, that all things continue as they were from the beginning, and blindly, foolishly, presumptuously inquiring, "Where is the promise of his coming?"