The Hight of the New Jerusalem.
THE common version of Rev. xxi, 16, declares that the length, breadth and hight of the holy city, the New Jerusalem above, are equal. The city is said to lie four square, and the length is expressly declared to be as large as the breadth, and the measure of the city to be twelve thousand furlongs, which according to the lowest computation would give us 375 miles each for the length and breadth of that holy city. To make it as high even as this, would seem unnatural and out of order. But if we may understand the word equal in reference to the hight, to mean proportionate, the subject is freed from all difficulty. We should then have a city the hight of whose gorgeous structures and palaces, would be such as would be appropriate for a city covering so vast an area. But there is another conjecture on this subject which we have to lay before the reader. It is, that the true reading of that text would say nothing of the hight of the city, at all. Says C. F. H. in the World's Crisis of Dec. 20, '64: "It is certainly no very rash conjecture of Granville Penn, when he thinks the true text would read thus: 'And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth of it are equal. And he measured the hight of the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.'" Read the article in another column entitled "The Interval," a criticism on Thurman's Chronology. This chronology is the basis of the new-time movement, and the discovery of so grave a mistake as is there pointed out, should lead the abectors of that theory to abate a little their tone of confidence. THE Quarterly Meeting in Minn., reported in No. 3, was held at Oronoco.