The Portland daily press., 1896-04-02

| the Pope free to proclaim himself the uni
versal head of the church. Without the
help ofMahomet this might not have been
possible. AS it was there was no one left
to say him nay.
Mr.. Higgins repeated in a somewhat
changed form his question regarding the
comparative destructive effect of the
Moslem and Papal systems.
Mr.. Woodward said that the hour had
arrived for adjourning the convention.
He would, howeevr, say to Mr.. Higgins,
that both had been destructive enough,
but he thought that the term, "abomina-
tion of desolation," spoke of by Daniel,
had special reference to the Moslem pow
er, and had been very exactly fulfilled.
Rev. Mr.. Long, pronounced the bene-
diction.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Rev. Mr.. Long of Jay, conducted the
devotional exercises which began the af
teroon session.
The subject Of the study ''To What Do
the Prophecies in Revelations 9 1-2 and
Is 11-1S refer"
The subject proved to be very fruitful
of discussion and there was consider
able variance of opinion among the
speakers as to just what those prophecies
meant and how far they had been full
filed by the sequence Of events.
The two verses that evoked the greatest
discussion were these: Rev. 10, u and
Rev. 10, H.
Mr.. Woowdard claimed that Reyela-
tions revealed a perfect forecast of the
Mohamedan power both religious and
civil and MIR. Higgins differed from him
in his point very radically claiming there
was nothing in Scripture which could be
construed in any way as indicating any
thing but the civil power of Mohame-
danism and not the religious side in any
sense
Mr.. Woodward was very earnest, in his
theories and MIR. Higgins equally conf
dent OF his deductions Mr.. Woodward
said that the greatest debts owed by the
Roman church for its present existence
and tremendous power were to Mohame-
danism and the Devil. II am not pes
simist," said he, ''as one of the brothers
seemed to think yesterday, but tell you
brethren, you will need all the help and
strength you can get out Of the good
Book IN the bitter conflict which isIjust as
surely approaching as the sun shines in
the Heavens. The conflict with
the devilish system that has
grown to be suon a terrible power. The
| two most potent powers of the devil are
the Sultan and the Pope. l believe the
! grace of God will bring us safely through
the greatest battle, but we must be pre-
pared"
EVENING SESSION.
There was a large attendance at the
evening session. Rev. T. S. Samson
presided and Rev. Mr.. Campbell offered
prayer.
The address of the evening was deliv-
cred by Rev. r. r. Woodward, his sub
jeot being 'Mohamadanism in Proph-
ecy.'' Back of the platform was a large
missionary map of the world.
He said that for more than 1900 years
the politico- religious system of Mohame-
danism has been in the world. 1t has
overturned empires, and at one time
threatened the very existence of the
Christian religion, and the civilization of
Europe seemed likely to go down before
1t. He said that it appeared to him that
Mohamet was largely responsible for
Rome itself. Today Turkey holds the
world at bay because statesmen dread
what may come when war is joined be-
tween the crescent and the cross.
| Mr.. Woodward sketched the history OF
dred years from ~ time when Mohamet
said, II am the prophet oe God,'' the sys-
tom Of which he had been the head was
established, and none we've able to stand
before his successes, and to day Mohame-
danism holds in it's firm -Srasp the very
centre of the world.
! He then called attention to Daniel s.
and claimed that it is to be regarded as
relating to Mohamet. The system he es-
tablished rested, Is has been said on an
eternal truth. where is but one Cod"
and on an eternal lie "Mohamet is his
prophet" Mr.. Woodward went over the
ground covered at the morning session of
the convention. His general line of ar.
gument went to show the destructive and
desolating power of the Moslem empire.
Daniels words, ''He shall prepare and
do his pleasure" was literally true In
the case of this great system.
Mr.. WoodwarS spoke in rapid and in
teresting way of the present empire of
the Sultan and pointed out the many
points of resemblance between the de-
structiye and desolating power Daniel
saw, and the religious system established
by Mohamet, and said that practically his
political system snrAng into existence in
day.
Following out this line of thought he
took up the prophecy of John and point
ed out the points in which the Moslem
system secRls to fulfill that wonderful Sc
ries of symbols.
He then polluted out the points of re-
sem blance between Mohammedanism and
the Roman Catholic church Even the
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