The New York herald., 1879-02-03
DIR. FULTON AND THE BEAST.


HIS SATANIC MAJESTY AND THE PRESS IN PART
NERsHIP.
The Centennial Baptist Church. in Clinton avenue
Brooklyn. held a large and somewhat enthusiastic
congregation yesterday morning. DR.. Fulton the
pastor. continued his descriptions of the Beast of
Prophecy" and If his people had any doubts before
concerning the originals of the inspired painter of
the Apocalypse those doubts must have been re
moved by the discourse of yesterday. The Doctor
read the thirteenth chapter of Revelations. and his
morning comments thereon almost exhaus-
tive his sermon, which based
and of that chapter. The question, he remarked in
opening. whether there is power that be called
the beast Of prophecy is occupying the thoughts of
men.
Satan is very wise and very smart know that we
sometimes picture him with horns and hoofs; but
he has neither Next to God he is the greatest poten
tate earth. He is called the god of this world. the
prince of the of the air He never works with
fools; he never did and will. He IL too smart
for that. The press of New York. controlled by him,
the greatest and the smartest press in the world The
Doctor read little from the Apocalypse concerning
the devil going forth to deceive the world-not
part of the world. he added but the whole. "He
the means of those miracles which he had
power to do in the sight of the beast
wrought by Christ or his apostles. The
spirit Of the beast is determined between the devil
aud the dragon The beas. neither the devil
the dragon but both beast and dragon are agents of
the devil And may say, added DIR. Fulton that the
misleading minister would not have called this spirit
OF ant,Christ principle" an influence, &c, had
he read the word OF God Alright. This the spirit
that infected pagansm but the beast of prophecy did
not exist before In the time of Christ The beast
H local character and his purpose IL to continue the
fight that the devil began in Eden. The beast OF
prophecy els but of the agents of the devil. He
uses Mohammedanisn Confucanisrn, Hndooism,
&c., but the beast In his agent for special purpose
namely, to caricature Christianity.
DOOM RoMANfsM.
Now consider said the Doctor, the doom of Ro-
mansm. II In TO be destroyed of the victories
of truth. 1t IL the masterpiece of Satan that power
which cxalts itself above all that is called God. II IN
the DEVILS grandest work. Romanism TX the religion
Of nature II meets the wants of the human heart.
A man can be good Romanst without conversion.
This is why many good Romanists striped
clothes Blackwclis Island who yet are too pious
10 cat meat on Friday. tScnsation.) The mission of
Romanism Is to keep the world from receiving the
Lord Jesus Christ cares not what becomes of men
II they do not come TO Christ. IL cares more for
the negro the Italian than for any Others If these
be kept from learning of and loving Jesus Christ
The civil power of RoInanism was destroyed at the
end of the 12G0 days years, but the spiritual re-
| MAINS Is Roinanism to give place to the truth IL
must. How do know Because the word OF God
says But you say IL Is rooted in the affections
aud hearts of men IL cant be destroyed. You
must remember that the beast gives his power to tho
Papacy. In 1868 said DR. Fulton was IN Paris. and
stood in the little Baptist Church and declared that
Louis Napoleon the beast OF prophecy and that
he would be destroyed and the Papacy would go down
after him. In January, 1870 Louis Napoleon was tho
greatest power In Europe In 1868 Rome occupied it's
nobcst position. The Pope was carried on the
shoulders of the people into st. Peters. Two days
after he exalted above all that is called god or
that is worshipped. The "bcast' and the ''harlot"
in ecstacies; but was God beaten Napoleon
declared war with Prussia in the month of July. He
was cast down, aud more than worm in the
hands of Bismarck and Won Moltke II was impossible
for him to do thing wise TO make any progress
! He was no more than thistle down In the tempest