| Show PROBABLE destruction OF MODERN HOME many authors have asserted as their interpretation of some parts of the apocalypse Ke se that rome will be destroyed by fire fro from m heaven eaven or swallowed up by earthquakes or overwhelmed with destruction by volcanoes as the disable punishment of the almighty for its popery and its crimes I 1 am unwilling having had so BO many books on the interpretation of prophecy to deduce any argument of this kind from the prophecies 0 which are unfulfilled but I 1 beheld bere 1 everywhere in rome home near rome and through the whole region from rome to naples the most astounding proofs not merely of the possibility lity but the probability that the whole region of central italy will one day be destroyed by such a catastrophe the soil of rome is tuya 1 of a volcanic 6 subterranean action still go ingon at naples the boiling sulphur is to be bling near the surface of af the earth when I 1 drew a stick along upon the ground the sulphurous p harou S smoke followed the indentation and it would never surprise me to hear of the utter litter destruction of the southern peninsula of italy I 1 Town tour in italy in 1850 |
