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Satan works through the elements also to garner
his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied
the secrets of the laboratories of nature. and he
uses all his power to contro! the elements as far as
God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job,
how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses,

children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding _ .

another as in a moment. It is God that shields His
creatures, and hedges them in from the power of
the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown
contempt for the law of Jehovah: and the Lord will
do just what He has declared that He would, He will
withdraw His blessings from the earth, and remove
His protecting care from those who are rebelling
against His law, and teaching and forcing others to
do the same. Satan has control of all whom God
does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper
some, in order to further his own designs, and he
will bring trouble upon others, and lead men to be-
lieve that it is God who is afflicting them.

While appearing to the children of men as a great
physician who can heal all. their maladies, he will.
bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are
reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at
work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by
- land, in. great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes
and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cy-
clones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place.
and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his
- power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and
famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a
deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pesti-
lence. These visitations are to become more. and
more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be
upon both man and beast. ‘The earth mourneth and
fadeth away," ‘'the haughty people .. . do languish.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants
‘thereof; because they have transgressed the jaws,

changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting

covenant. 3

lisaiah 24:4, 5.

A Great Religious Backlash |
Wall Sweep America as Men _
B Will Look for a Scapegoat | |
_ for the Nation’s Ts

And then the great deceiver will persuade men that

those who serve God are causing these evils. The.
-. class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven
will charge all their:troubles upon those whose»
_ obedience.to God’ S commandments isa perpetual oe
- feproof to transgressors. It will be declared that |.
men are offending God by the. violation of the Sun: a
: day: sabbath, that this sin ‘has: brought calamities. Js
which will not cease until Sunday. observance shall, a

“be: strictly. enforced, and. that those’ who present the.

everence: for. Sunday, are. troublers ot. the. people
“preventing their restoration to divine favor and tem

| ‘thy father’s house, in that: ye ‘have forsaken the

- cowhich. apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah.

me The. miracle- -working power “manifested through:

Spiritualism will exert: its influence against those ~

who choose to obey God rather than men. Com-..
munications from the spirits will declare that God)

~ has sent them to convince the rejecters of Sunday.
of their error; affirming that the laws of the land

should be obeyed as the law of God, They will la- _—
7 ment the great wickedness In the world, and second

the test timony of religious teachers, that the de-
graded state of morals is caused by the desecration
of Sunday. Great will be the indignation excited

against all who refuse to accept theirtestimony,

" kings 181 7 10.

Spirit 0 of Religious ‘Intoler-

ance Will Engulf America |

God never forces the will or-the conscionce: bul
» Satan's constant 1os0rl10 gain. control of those,

| is compulsion
“by. crualty, Through fear or force he endeavors tO Soe,

~ whom he cnrinot otherwise: Seduced:

rule the conscience, and 10: secure homage to: hime

self. To. accomplish, this, he works through both»
religious and see ular authorities, moving them: fo

the entore emant of hum an. News in dofiancg of the
«Taw of God. 7 ;

Those who: honor. tho Bible. Sabbath wi ba do- 7
nounced as onemiag of law and. order, as: bree aking Y

down the moral restraints of society, causing an-
archy and corruption, and calling down the judg:
monts of God upon the earth, Their conscientious
scruples will ba pronounced obstinacy, stubborn
(ness, and contempt of authority, They will be
accused of disaffection taward ihe goverament.
Ministers who deny the obligation of the divine taw

yyill pracant fran the puelu the nuity fall yintediney

opedience to the civil authorities ds ordained of
God. In lagislative halls and courts of justice, cam-
pvanedment keepers will ha misrepresented and

os condemned, A faluo coloring will he given to thoir
wards, the word at CONS struction will be put upon their,

motives,

claims ¢ of the fourth. commandment, thus’ ‘destroying.

“poral prosperity. Thus the accusation. urged of old:
- against the servant. of God will be: repeated, and :
upon grounds - equally well. -establi shed; ‘'And. it:
S ‘came.to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said Pen pas
unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he. ©]
answered, | have not troubled Israel; but. thou, and...

oO This Last Great Crisis | ie ae
_ Foretold i in the Word of God

~ In Revelation 14, men are called upon to worship. |
the Creator, and the prophecy brings to. view.a Class.) fon.
that, as: the result of the threefold message,’ aren
“keeping the commandments of God. ‘Oneof these
“commandments points directly to God as the Cre- ee
ator. The fourth precept. declares: “The. seventh»...

: day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy. God. . .
_ «days the Lord made. heaven and earth, the sea,and. >
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day;
wherefore the. Lord blessed the ¢ Sabbath day, and.

US the Church; volume 5, page 451.

~ commandments ot the Lord, and thou hast followed. oe
_-Baalim.’* As: the wrath. of, the people | shall be .-
excited by false charges, they will pursue a course are
» toward God's ambassadors very similar ‘to Anat ye

= refras hed, aa eS

As the Protestant churches reject the clear, Scrip-
tural arguments in defense of God's law, they will
long to silence those whose faith they cannot over-
throw by the Bible. Though they blind their own eyes
to the fact, they are now adopting a course which
will lead to the persecution of those who conscien-
tiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian
world are doing, and acknowledge the claims of the
papal Sabbath.

The dignitaries of church and State will unite to
bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the
‘Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied
by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is
destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and
even in free America, rulers and legistators, in order
to'secure public favor, will yieid to the popular de-
mand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Lib-
erty of conscience, which has cost so great a

sacrifice, will no longer be respected. In the soon-
coming conflict we shall see exemplified the proph-
et's words: ‘‘The dragon was wroth with the woman,
- and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,

which keep the commandments of God, and have

the testimony of Jesus Christ."

5Revelation 12:17,

America in Jeopardy-The
Sign of the End of the World

Our land is in jeopardy. The time is drawing on
when its legisiators shall so abjure the principles of
Protestantism as to give countenance to Romish
apostasy. The people for whom God has so marvel-
ously wrought, strengthening them to throw off the
galling yoke of. popery, will by a national act give

vigor to the corrupt faith of Rome, and thus arouse

the tyranny which only waits for a touch to start..

. again-into cruelty and despotism. With rapid steps

are we already approaching this period.» When -

Protestant. churches shall seek the support of the
secular power, thus following the example of that
‘apostate church, for opposing which their ances-

tors endured the fiercest persecution, then will there |

be a national apostasy which will end only | in na- a

tional ruin.

_ By the decree enforcing the institution of the. papacy
in violation of the law. of God, our nation will dis-
~~ connect: herself. fully from righteousness. When
- Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf -

to grasp the hand of the Roman. power, when she i
shall reach over’the abyss to clasp. hands. with ©

‘Spiritualism, when, under the influence of this three- ae
~, fold union, our country shall repudiate every princi-

es ple of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican» nt
nee government, and shall make provision, forthe prop- ©
_agation. of papal falsehoods and. delusions, thenwe- fo
may know that. the time has. come sor the mn marvelous : ed

"measure of our - nation’ s iniquity is ‘full, cand. that the
~ angel, of: mercy, is about t to. take h her flight, never to.
‘ return.’ oo SEAS os ear Ae :

A ‘These last two paragraphs ‘are akan trom, Ellen 1G,

hallowed it)? Concerning the. Sabbath, the Lord
‘says, further, thatitis "asign,.
. nat lam the Lord your God.'"* And the reason given:

8, "For in six days the Lord made heaven: and

sari: and onthe seventh day He rested, and was

Exodus 204044, * Exodus af Vy
ay WErakiol 20-200.

“The importance of the Sabbath as the memorial of:

/ Creation is that it koeps: aver present the true reason .
why worship is due to God," because He is the Cre-.

ite’s, Testimonies tor

.Forinsix..

., that yo may know —

ator, and we His creatures, "The Sabbath therefore. .

great fact can never bacome: obsolete, ‘and mus

“never be forgotten." It was to keep this truth, wari ee
before the minds of man, that God. instituted. the: cies
Sabbath in Eden; and so long as the fact thal’ He foe fos
our Creator continues to be areason why weshould) |
worship Him, so long the Sabbath will continue: AG a

jts-sign and memorial, Had the Sabbath boen uni-

oo les atthe very foundation of divine worship: for ite
. “teaches this great truth In the mos at impressive man wae
sooner, and no other institution does: this. m
ground. of divine worship, nol of that on the: seventh: Hy
day merely, but of all worship, is found in the diss |.
“tinction between the Creator and His creatures, This ee

Tho strue.

versally kept, man’s thoughts and affections would —

have been led to tha Creator as tha object of rave

,orance and warship, and there would never have: ro
been an idolater, an atheist, or an ofidel, The keep:
ing of the Sabbath io a sign af loy any to the true

God, “Him that made heaven anc Cann, anti the
‘sea, and the fountains of waters.” It follows that the |

message which cammands men ta worstip God.

and keep His commandments, will especially call
upon them to keep the fourth commandant.

ine eoritrast te those who keep the conn andmants:
Of God and have the faith of Jesus, Ihe third angal

points to another class. against whose errors a

soln and Jearful werning oo ullered: UW any cian.

Revelation V7 1h :

worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall
drink of the wine.of the wrath of God." A correct
interpretation of the symbols employed is neces-
sary to an understanding of this message. What is
represented by the beast, the image, the mark?

The line of prophecy in which these symbols are
found, begins with Revelation 12, with the dragon
that sought to destroy Christ at His birth. The dragon
is said to be Satan; he it was that moved upon
Herod to put the Saviour to death. But the chief
agent of Satan in making war upon Christ and His
people during the first centuries of the Christian era,
was the Roman Empire, in which paganism was the
prevailing religion. Thus while the dragon, primarily,
represents Satan, it is, in a secondary sense, a
symbol of pagan Rome.

J N. Andrews, Hisdrey of the Sabbath. ch. 27
Revelation 14:9, 10°
Revelation 129

The Papacy in Prophecy

In chapter 13" is described another beast, “like

unto a lecpard.’’ to which the dragon gave “his
power, and his seat, and great authority.” This sym-
bol, as most Protestants have believed, represents
the papacy, which succeeded to the power and seat
and authority once possessed by the ancient Ro-
man Empire. Of. the leopardlike beast it is de-

clared: ‘'There was given unto hima mouth speak- —

ing. great things and blasphemies. .... And he
opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to
blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them
that dwell in Heaven. And it was given unto him tu
make war with the saints, and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all’ kindreds, and

. tongues, and nations.” This prophecy, which is

nearly. identical with. the description of. the little

“norn of Daniel. 7, unquestionably ’ points to the -
— papacy. .

“Power was given unto him to continue forty and
two months.”' And, says the prophet, “| saw one of

his heads as it were wounded to death.”’ And again,

“He that leadeth into. captivity shall go. into cap-

tivity; he. that killeth’ with the ‘sword must be ‘killed
_with-the sword.’ The forty and two months are the

‘same as the ‘time and times and the dividing of :
time,’ " three. years and a ‘half, or 1260 days,. of

Daniel 7,—the time during which:the papal power .
was to oppress God’ s people: This. period, as stated —
_ in preceding chapters, began with. the” establish- 3
ment of the papacy, A.D. 538, and terminated in
“1798. At that time, when the papacy was abolished.
and the pope. made captive by the French army,
the papal power received its deadly wound, and the.)
= ‘prediction was: fulfilled, “He that leadeth into cap:

‘tivity shall go. ‘into: captivity, :

At this point ‘anothel mbol. is introduced. ‘Says th

prophet, aye beheld another: beast. corning: Up out of!
the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb. 4 Both
See the appearance’ of this beast. and the manne “of its cafe
~ tise indicate. that the nation which it represents is. |
as unlike those: ‘presented under’ ‘the: ‘preceding. sym-:
— pols, The great kingdoms ‘that have ruled the.world:
oe were ‘presented to the prophet Daniel as beasts ‘of cea
o ” ‘prey, rising when the “four winds: of the: heaven AS
strove upon the great, sea.""!5 In. Revelation 17, an
"angel explained that waters represent “peoples, and.
-, multitudes, and ‘nations, and tongues." eae Winds. are
oa symbol of strife: The four winds of heaven Strive
ing upon'the great sea, represent the terrible scenes... ue
of conquest and revolution: by. which Kingdoms ay
have attained to power,

“isRavelation 14! 1.

bDariel7:2:

| What nation of the Now World was in 1798 ris ig
ite pawer, GIVING promise of strength and grant

nese and. attracting the attention of. the world?

“The application. of the symbol admits of no. quas

HON. One nator, and only one, meets he speciiaa-

Hons of Ins propt ey; PONS uNMIstAkably to

the United States of America, Age ain and again 1 tha

: thew jae aban ou “+ thar iy nee ta ped a # ade

ra af
dye 4 mi OG thy vag dha ere Lere mie

writer have been UNCOnsCowsly om ployer! hy the

 Otalor and the histonan in describing (he nse and,
arnth mt thie mH ey Thien hee PEt ae Br Mee malay

up out of the earth: and, as cording to tho trang.

lators, the word here rendered "coming op’ ‘titeraily,
SIQMhes fe grow OF spring up asa plant.” Ang,

ee ee ee ee eo ee a a

ee ‘soon “Gorn: te
a. ing up “out cf the: earth: te Instend of ‘overthrowing a
“other powers to. ostablish itself, the: nation: thus. oaks he
represented must arise in’ territory” previously Tien
:  accupiad t, and grow up gradually. and: peacelully, ann
lt could nol, then, arlse among the crowded: and. os
struggling: rationalites sat tha’ Old: World sof hyap
— Aurbulent sea at ‘peanles, arid. multitudes, and oe
nations, and tongues. nea must bes sought | in tho -
Western ‘Continent, eer

_ exercised in’ enforcing: some observance which
i shall, be an act of homage to the papacy, ees

as we have seen, the nation must arise in territory
previously unoccupied. A prominent writer, de-
scribing the rise of the United States, speaks of
“the mystery of her coming forth from vacancy,”
and says, “Like a silent seed we grew into em-
pire.”’'? A European journal in 1850 spoke of the
United States as a wonderful empire, which was
“emerging,” and ‘‘amid the silence of the earth
daily adding to its power and pride.’’'® Edward
Everett, in an oration on the Pilgrim founders of this
nation, said: ‘Did they look for a retired spot, in-
offensive from its obscurity, safe in its remoteness
from the haunts of despots, where the little church
of Leyden might. enjoy freedom of conscience?
Behold the mighty regions over which, in peaceful

conquest, . .. they have borne the banners of the
cross,""'9 :

‘And he had two: horns like a famb."’ The lamblike

horns indicate youth, innocence, and gentleness,
fitly representing the character of the United States

*when presented to the prophet as ‘coming up”’:in

1798. The Christian exiles who first fled to America,
sought an asy!um from royal oppression and priestly
intolerance, and they determined to establish a -
government upon the broad foundation of civil .
and religious liberty. The Declaration of Indepen-
dence sets forth the great truth that ‘‘all men are
created equal,’ and endowed with the inalienable
right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
And the Constitution guarantees to the people the.
right of self-government, providing that represen-
tatives elected by the popular vote shall enact and
administer the laws. Freedom of religious faith was
also granted, every man being permitted to worship
God according to the dictates of his conscience.
Republicanism and Protestantism became the fun-
damental principles of the nation. These principles .

~ are the secret of its power and prosperity. The op-
pressed and downtrodden throughout Christen-
dom have turned to:this.land with interest and hope: --- -

Millions have sought its shores, and the United

States has risen toa place among ‘the most power ao

ful nations of the earth.

‘But. the beast with lamblike horns “spake as. a
“dragon: And he exerciseth all the power: of the —
first: beast before him, and causeth: the. earth and”
“them which. dwell therein to worship the first beast,

~ whose. deadly wound was. healed,

saying to = :
them that dwell on the. earth, that they should make. ge

-an image to the beast, which had the wound 1 by ae

‘sword, and did live. eee

The lamblike | horns and. dragon voice of the symbol oo oS oy
point to a striking. contradiction between the. pro- SPs

fessions and the practice of the, nation ‘thus. rep

oo resented. The ‘'speaking’’ of the nation is the actior

cf its: legislative | and: judicial authorities. By: suc
“action it will give the lie. to those | liberal and. peace

and ‘the Meals beast, And the ‘statement that
the. beast. with: two" horns. ‘‘causeth ‘the earth: and.

~ them’ which dwell therein to worship the first beast,"

indicates that the authority of this ‘nation is to. be

: my UG6A: Townsend; ‘The. Now World Compared with the Old, p. 462.
se The Dublin Nation.”

_ '"? Spaech delivared at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dac. Be. 1R24, 6. 1 ie : ee

20 Rovelation 13:11 “14,

oy a Such action. ‘would. be directly contrary” to. the’

_ principles. Of this government, to the: genius. of.its...
‘free institutions, ‘to-the direct and solemn’ avowals

a ‘of the: Declaration of Independence, and to the.

Constitution. The. founders. of. the. nation. wisely.
-sought to guard against the employment of secular oa.
power on the part of the church, with its inevitable |:
- result—intolerance and persecution. The Constitu- aes

--tion ‘provides that ‘Congress shall make no law

raspecting an establishment. of religion, or pro-
“hibiting the {rae exercise thereof,’ and that “no -

religious test shall ever be required as a qualifica-
“tion to any office of public trust under the United.

“States.” Only in: flagrant violation. of. these safe:

~ guards: to tho” nation's liberty, can any. ‘religious.
- observanca ba enlorced by: civil. authority, But the
“Inconsistency of such action is no ‘greater than:
mat) represented: in the symbol. It is the beast with;
clamblike horns--in protesaian: pure, gentle, and |
_ harmless that spoaks ag a dragon, Ce :

“Saying to them thal dwell on earth, that they should is
“make an imaga: to tha beast." Hare Is clearly pre-
pented a form of government in which the lagis-
tative’ power rests with tha, people; a most striking.

evidence that the United States \s, the. mation

denoted in the: ‘prophecy. "

a ‘he Image Defined —

"But what is the "Imago to the beas 9. ‘and how. Wis oe

“ita be formed? Tha: Image, is mada. by. tha’ two- me

= horned boast, and ig-an: image fo the first heaat, Gy ho

It is also called an image of the beast. Thon to learn
what the image is like, and how it is to. ba formed,

wo must study tho. characteristics of tha beast itsoll, eel : :
the papacy. When tho oarly church became |

coruptod by departing fram the simplicity of the - :
gospel, and accepting heatnen nies and customs,

_ she lost the Spirit and power of God, and in order...

to nontral tha consciences of the poaple, sha
AGM tha suppor atthe easter nower, The recut “
3 the papacy, a church that controlled the power
o ‘the Siate, and omployed it to further her own
anda cesinecially for the piinichmant of “haragy |
In order for tha United States to form. an Image of.
ihe beast, the roliglous power must so control the
“Gil guv@r orient that the authority of the State will

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