[Footnote 45: See the Travels of Wheeler and Spon, of Pocock
and Chandler, and more particularly Smith's Survey of the
Seven Churches of Asia, p. 205 - 276. The more pious
antiquaries labor to reconcile the promises and threats of
the author of the Revelations with the present state of the
seven cities. Perhaps it would be more prudent to confine
his predictions to the characters and events of his own
times.]