ABERDEEN; November, 8th, 1844—”I think I perceive a separating process rapidly going forward. God’s people are waxing more decided, and the world is breathing more and more a persecuting spirit; but we are not ripe for persecution—we are not holy enough to make the men of Belial gnash upon us with their teeth, and put us to death. There is a law in the moral and spiritual world, according to which persecution is regulated, that is, as religion meets the eye of the ungodly they are provoked, and as religion becomes more and more heavenly, the hostility of the ungodly approaches nearer and nearer to madness and uncontrollable fury. In this we see that God tempers the breeze to the shorn lamb, and that a hot persecution is drawn forth by the very strength which can withstand it. Suffering at the hand of the world is a crown put upon those who have true dignity to wear it, even though it should be a crown of thorns. The man who does not perceive the hand of a mediatorial King in the public events of our day, must be blind indeed. I am one of those who look for a speedy rise to unprecedented power of the ‘Man of Sin,’ and simultaneous suffering, and, perhaps, martyrdom, on the part of the witnesses. May we be faithful unto death that we may receive a crown of life! How infatuated are men with regard to Popery! One would have supposed that history, if not Scripture, would have taught them its nature. How impudent is the great whore! She holds up her head as if blasphemy were not on her brow, and blood had not made her drunk.”