The Republican journal., 1896-02-06

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with it for the prosperity of the French
army" Taking into consideration the rich
appropriations and acts of devotion eX-
tended to this strange new god, it places ii
/ beyond all doubt that atheistical France
is the power here referred to.
39th verse Thus shall he do i'll the
most strong holds with a strange god,
WI om he shall acknowledge and increase
with glory and he Shall cause them to
rule over many, and shall divide the land
for gain
BY these worshippers OF the Cod
dess of Reason pushing out ana taking
many fortified places in Europe did
increase their glory. The last part OF
this verse had a remarkable fulhliment; for
when the revolution broke out the land
property was largely owned by landlords
/ in large estates. and many of these estates
We're contiscated and sold in lots to suit
/ the purchaser, the government receiving
something like 500, 600, 900 sterling from
! such sales
How wonderful We're the events OF this
prophecy foretold. They came at the
| time and in a place that no one would
! have expected. Nothing like it had ever
taken place before OF since. This ire
| ligous power springing up in the midst
of the most powerful and thoroughly or
! ganized opposition could not be stayed.
! 1t swept everything before it, everything
i sacred and dear to enlightened society
melted away. Deity was claimed to be
dethroned and the Bible burned.
40th verse. "And at the time of the end
shall the king of the south push at him:
and the king of the north shall come
against him like q W hirlwind, with charots,
and with horsemen. and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and
shall overflow and pass over
| We will notice first that the prophetic
utterance in this verse must come in in
certain period of time called ''the time of
| the end - 1t is the same period as men
toned in the 3ath verse. which began
when the papal persecution ceased, and
covers all time between that and the end
of the world OF age. AS this time of the
end was to begin at the close of the papal
persecution. all the events that have tran
spired since then have been i'll that period
called ''the time OF the end, and this end
is the same that Christ speaks of in the
24tll OF Matthew when he says, land tins
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
i'll all the world for witness unto all ma
tions: and then shall the end come and
we can easily SEE what he was talking
about by referring back TO the question
ne was answering in the 3d verse, when
/ lie was plainly asked What N0uid be the
sign Of his coming and the end of the
would, and he gave them this 18th verse
in answer to their question.
We have already learned that when the
\ king uf the south is mentioned in this
pruphesy it refers to the ruler over Egypt,
and when the king of the north is men
toned it refers to the one that rules over
Syria. and SO we could proceed to inter
pref this 40th verse without the aid of the
history. We could understand by the
prophet $ words that soon after the papal
persecution France and Egypt would
engage in war and that Egypt would make
bat feeble resistance against France, as
shown by the words ''push at" Then
the government that ruled Syria, called
''the king of the north, shall march a
| large army against the French and be vic
| toTiUuS.
| it is useless to trace this verse out in
| history, for the historian cannot improve
upon the language of the prophet. SO we
will simply notice the fact that the French
ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1898 went
down into Egypt and conquered that coun-
try, they not being able to offer much re-
sstance. Then Napoleon turned his at
tention toward the east, with an eye on
| Constantinople, the seat of the Turkish
government, but the Sultan met this
mighty conqueror who was intruding on
his dominion and defeated him. The
! Sultan was assisted by the English and
1 Russians. The decisive battle was fought
! at Acre in Syria in A. D., 1899. The com
/ bined fleets of the three powers made the
many ships spoken of by the prophet and
when we understand the important part
I they played in deciding this victory in
favor of the Sultan we can see why they
were mentioned by the prophet.
| We find that the prophet said that the
king of the north shall come against him
! (the French under Napoleon). SO we will
turn to history and see who ruled Syria at
this time and we find that it is the Sultan,
SO he must be the one spoken of as the
! king of the north. The following out of
his movements confirms this statement,
for we find that when the French retreat
. ed the Turks pursued them into Palestine
| taking all the places before them and pur-
suing the French down into Egypt and con-
quering that country, and the Egyptians
were made tributary to the Sultan and
were compelled to pay him a certain
amount of gold and silver, beside wheat
barley and other things.
| And SO we see that the Sultan did as the
prophet said he would in verses 41-43,
which reads: Gle shall enter also into
the glorious land; and many countries
shall be overthrown; but these shall
escape out Of his hand, even Edom and
Moab, and the chief of the children of
Ammon.
He shall stretch forth his hand also
upon the countries land the land of Egypt
Shall not escape.
But he shall have power over the treas
ures of gold and of silver, and over all the
precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans
and the Philippians shall be at his steps,
TO BE CONTINUED.
Matinicus Porkers.
A correspondent of the Rockland Opinion
reports the following weights of hogs and
pipS slaughtered at Matinicus the naSt Gao