The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-08-26


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United States in the Light of Prophecy.
Text, Rev. KILL. "And I beheld |
another beast coming up out of the
earth, and he had two horns like a |
lamb, and he spake as a dragon"
A large and attentive audience, at |
the tent, listened with deep interest |
to this all-important subject.
The last part of Rev. xiii brings to
view the very agents against which |
warning is uttered in the third
angels message. A beast with two
horns like a,lamb makes an image 70
a preceding beast, and enforces the
worship and mark of that beast.
This antecedent beast is described in
Rev. kill, 10, but this beast receives
his seat and power and great auth Or
ity from symbol still preceding
him-a great red dragon, described
in Rev. xii-3, 4, with this chapter
the vision opens. John beholds a
woman 1.-THE gospel church) clothed
with the sun (entering the light of
the gospel dispensation), the moon
1.-THE typical dispensation), under his
feet Gust past), and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars 1.-THE twelve
stars the twelve apostles). To the
expectant church appears man child
who was to rule all nations with
rod of iron, and who was caught up
to God and his throne. This can be
none other than Christ. The dragon
endeavored to devour this child as
soon as he was born. This Rome
tried to do when Christ was born.
The dragon is therefore symbol of
Pagan Rome
The dragon gave his seat, power,
and great authority to some other
power represented by the following
beast like leopard. Rev. kill, 10.
To what power was the dragons
seat, ancient Rome, given up? To
the Papacy. The seat of empire was
moved to Constantinople, and the
Bishop of Rome soon assembled, in
the city of Rome, a higher throne
than her Pagan emperor had ever &C.
eupied. This decree was carried out
by jurisdiction, in 53S. The parallel
between this beast, Rev. kris, 10,
and the little horn of the fourth
beast of Dan. WILL, Is, 81, conclus-
lively shows that it repres ents the
Papacy. This being SO, the time of
his captivity, verse 10, was at the
end of the 1860 years in 1898.
At this time another beast is in
PRODUCED upon the scene. 81 beheld
another BEAST This was therefore
no part of the Papal beast. 1t was
no kingdom or nation of western
Europe: for had it been. it would
have been one, or part of one, of the
ten horns of the first beast. ALI the
territory of the Old World had been
appropriated, SO we are obliged to
look to the Western hemisphere for
the territory of this power. And we
must look to leading power which
has arisen here, which is our own
government.
The chronology is equally decisive
in fixing The application to our own
country. This power was seen COM
ing up when the previous one went
into captivity, which was in 1898. If
we look the earth over what new
power do We find coming up in a
manner to attract the attention of
the world, at that time? None but
our own government.
1t comes up out of the earth, IN
contrast with the sea out Of which
the preceding beast arose that is,
it arose in the territory previously un-
known and unoccupied by the peo-
pie, nations and tongues of civiliza-
ton. This is true of our govern
ment, but of no other one equally
prom inent.
John saw this two-horned beast
coming up in 1898. Our own nation
was just then coming up" and has
continued to come up since that
time, in manner that finds no par
allel in any nation on the earth.
Look at few items of it's progress
in hundred years. The population
in 1775 was 2,803, 900; now. over 55,-
100000. Territory in 1888, 815,615
square miles; now, over 81 millions
squire miles. The Dublin nation
speaks of it as a most wonderful
American empire emerging" Can
anyone doubt what nation has been
coming up during this time? And
euO OhO CouiiuS up huoG uO tuC OH0
symbolized by the two-horned beast
Of Rev. xiii.
And all this has been accomplish
ed in quiet and peaceful manner.
The symbol arose out of the earth
This nation has not been establish
ed by the conquest and overthrow of
other nations, as the nations of
Europe have been, but simply. by
standing up in defense of its rights
against the mother country. The
words translated coming upn in
Rev. KILL, means to grow like a
plant out OF the earth. The Dublin
Nation says: s'No standing army
was raised, no national debt sunk, no
great exertion was made, but there
they are" G. A. Townsend speaks
of "the mystery of orr coming forth
from vacancy, and like silent seed
we grew into empires" Mark how
this language harmenizes with the
prophecy.
This power bad two horns like a