to-day; a very singular looking personage, shining with a radiance such as I have never seen before, came to this Daniel, and said some words to him about these Jewish people which seemed to concern their future.” There is a great deal of the study of prophetic truth, and a great deal of the hearing of the exposition of prophetic truth which has no effect upon conduct or character, simply because it is heard or studied without faith. We bring to it a sort of vulgar curiosity. We desire to know what