Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-29

fre1cn army, entered home In
February, 1913, and took Pope Plus
vi. prisoner, who died in exile at
Valence the next year, 1893. At
this time another beast Is seen
coming up. This must be symbol
OF the United States; for this was
the only government coming up at
that time, and the only one that
ever did come up in the manner
here described, lamb-like in it's ap.
pearance. and came out of the
earth. Our agricultural and min
eral resources are the means of our
wealth and strength. Our govern
ment is founded upon the most
lamb-like professions OF granting
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL,
And the privilege to worship
God according to the dictates Of
their own Conscience But this
lamb.like form speaks and betrays
the dragon spirit: Sand he ex.
srciseth all the power of the first
beast before him" Verse IL. To
exercise all the power of the Papa.
cy it would need to dictate relig.
ious tenets to the people and per.
secute for religious opinion. II
'smakes an image" to the beast. To
do this it must have O SIM ilar
form Of government. The form
advocated by the Papaey Is union
of "Church and State" with the
church at the head. There is to.
day a strong party known rs the
"National Reform Association,
that are laboring to this end, advo-
eating an amendment to the Con-
stitution which will "plsce all the
Christian laws, institutions and
usages of our government on an
undeniable legal basis in the fun
damental law of the land" This is
the way they express II in article
2 of their constitution. When this
is done they have fair image to
the Papacy. The next step is for
them to cause men to receive the
"mark" of the Pspaf beast, or the
sign Of his authority. The great
est claim ever made by the Catho-
lie Church Is that of infallibility
and the power to change even the
laws of God. To prove that they
have such power they appeal to the
change of the Sabbath from the
seventh to the first day of the
week, declaring that here they
have proof of their power, seeing
they have made this change. For
evidence of this claim read the
noted Catholic work entitled
"Abridgement of Christian Doc
trine" p. 81, also Buffers Cate.
chism, and many other standard
works Of that church.
THE TENDENCY TO UNITE CHURCH
AND STATE.
This being the work or sign of
Papal power We expect the United
States to enforce it upon men. This
fulfillment OF prophesy is what
We, as people, have been teaching
for the past thirty years. We do
not expect to defend the measure;
but we know that some who are
advocating this Sunday law are
honest in their Intentions, and our
object Is to warn them and show
the facts as they appear 10 the
word of the Lord. We expect to
suffer for our adherence to. the
truth. We cannot unite with the
"League of Freedom as we do
not advocate their principles. We
stand purely upon IA Bible basis
and are conscientious in our course.
Notwithstanding this the advocates
Of the Sunday law are quite prone
to place all who oppose their meas
ure on level with the saloon
keeper, but we need expect nothing
better. They hung Jesus between
two thieves.
The present law for Sunday in
this and other States will quite
probably meet with many backsets,
but this will only cause those who
favor 1t to rally with new strength,
and finally make it q national
question and amend the constitu-
tion, which they will find the only
way to make it a success.