A WARNING shows two things: one is danger, the other is hope of escape if the warning is heeded; and in worldly affairs, even a false alarm is not offensive, unless purposely so; but in spiritual things how different; instead of thanking the kind friend who troubles himself to give the warning, eyes are averted, ears are closed, hearts are barred, and, Stop! stop!! they cry, do not talk so about prophecies which neither we nor our fathers, nor our learned and wise could, nor ever will, understand. J. CLARKE.