Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-04

might engage in and cast loose at pleasure,
 when their taste was changed or their appetite
 gratifed. -'i h'' If 6ends had set themselves at work to dis,
 cover mode of most effectuaily destroying
 whatever is venerable, graceful or permanent
 in domestic life, and of obtaining at the same
 time an assurance that the mischief which it
 was their object to create, should be perpetu-
 ated from one generation to another, they
 could not have invented more effectual plan,
 than the degradation of marriage into state
 of mere occasional cohabitation, or licensed
 concubinage. Sophie Arnault, an actress fam
 ous for the witty things she said, described
 the Republican marriage as the Sacrament of 1 Adultery"
 The prophet says '.he shah not regard the l God of his fathers" that is the God spelt with capital G. neither will he regard any god spelt with small g, that his fathers regarded,
 and Chaumette, said at the dedication of the God of Reason that, ''that was the first time
 that France had worshipped the true God, to
 wit, the God of reason. The God that France
 adopted after they had discarded all the Gods that they had ever worshipped, the Prophet
 tells us how they will honor this new God in the first place, they will give this God, plenty of jewelry, that the French are very fond of,
 in the next place, pleasant things, pleasing to l the eye. And we always keep such things in sight that are pleasing to the eye. The rose is
 in all of our gardens, in all our door yards an the country towns and in all our cities, the inhabitants expose them in
 the winter, because they are pleasant things,
 and this custom prevails more or less, over the
 entire globe. ~. '~'.-e ' The Atheists that dressed those girls (that
 preceded and followed the Goddess), could not have chosen a filter emblem to full l fill the prophecy than when they crowned them
 with roses ."s 'F.- " 5-.. -. '-
 We have in Daniel the trunk o. thls prophecy that we have examined, and now turn to To ok at some of the branches that the
 Revelator brings to view ln the XI chapter In the third verse, we read that, ''the two
 witnesses shall prophecy 126O years in sack cloth" in the fourth, fifth, and six verses, we
 have description of the witnesses that cores pond with Zachariah " chapt. 1, and verses, except there was but one candlestick, as John saw two. We learn from Zachariah, that God
 took that way to communicate to Zerubbabel
 his purposes We Millerites suppose them to be the Old and New Testament.
 We find in the seventh verse, that after the l26O years of sackcloth are ended, the beast
 out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and kill them !" -- F. >t The Protestant church generally charge the Papal church with putting on this sackcloth
 for l26O years. if so, ought the Papal Church
 to be responsible for the killing of the witnes- ses, after the days of sackcloth are ended. The truth is, that the beast out of the bottom
 less pit was Atheism, as much opposed to one | church as another, as we have seen in their
 acts in France, in their fury to extinguish l God, and his revelation to fallen world. The Roman Catholic church is the last church | to be acused of Atheism, for in every church probably in the world they have represent ed Saviour, in painting or sculpture on the
 cross, and a cross on the outside of their | churches.
 John tells us in the eighth verse where this l killing shall take place, and Dr. Scott the | commentator says, 'that it shall be where they
 have the spirit of Sodom, the spirit of Egypt. | and the spirit of the Jews, that crucified the Saviour at Jerusalem" Thiers tells us the
 way that that they treated the marriage VOWS.
 which were icentious, and the course they took to subdue Lyons, and in burning the Gospel, and in compelling an ass to drink from a communion cup, the consecrated wine of the communion.
 John tells us in the ninth verse, the period that they shall lie dead. It is long enough for people, kindreds tongues, and nations, to see that the prophecy has been fulfilled, and these kindreds and nations shall not suffer their dead bodies to be buried out of sight, until they have seen them dead three years and half. England knew in short time what was going on in France at that time, but we in this country could not be informed of events that occurred in France until six or eight weeks afterwards. aos.a ..s... 7. In the tenth verse, John says, "they will make merry,'' and we have seen some of their merriment at Lyons, and when people are merry they are apt to be liberal, especially if they are under no restraint. .- ...f.,s-...4. The XI verse says, after these three days an half the spirit of God enteredintot them, and they
 stood on their feet, they were not buried at all, as we shall see from Mir. Thiers. Vol 2, page 376 says, when the question was debated in the convention, to abolish the new worship and acknowledge Supreme Being, Robes pierre spoke as follows "what right have men to violate the liberty of religion, in the name ofliberty to attack fanaticisn with new fanaticism. j. '"-.'1 ' e'1'' '~ The idea of great Being that watches over oppressed innocence, and who4punishes guilt,
 is quite popular. "a7 < if E "} .7-~. In closing his remarks on this point he said, "!f God did not erist I aooud 6ehooue man to iaaosnt one.2 The italics are Thiers The convention acknowledged the existence of the Supreme Being. May Eth, 1794e The festival l of the Supreme Being was June 8, 1794. an1 The action of France at this period alarmed | the whole christian world m relation to the Bible, and in 1904 the British Bible society
 was organized to spread the Bible, that is our pole star, to the Celestial City. The American Bible Society was formed in 1916, and other efforts have been made, so fhat every person can have one, with or with out price iaithis country, and perhaps on the whole earth. gs'sa g saa HlEafa za.i !o .h"a In the 13 verse of Revelations XII chapter,
 John steps back and tells us in the last clause the manner that it effected the remnant, and they acted like christians, and probably were. |. < 7sl,-r,4 When they saw them burn the blessed Bible,