Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-11-18
Destiny OftheUnited States
as Indicated in Prophecy.

remarkable lecture on the above subject, and
his audience, though Of mixed creed and pol
itics, seemed greatly pleased.
The vision of King Nebuchad.
neezzar Of the great image spoken
of in the second chapter Of the
prophet Daniel, was taken as the
basis for the lecture. Points made;
l. The head of the god symbol.
lied the Babylonian Empire.
2. The breast and arms of silve"
symbolized the PERSIAN
Empire.
3. The brass portion of the i'm.
age symbolized the Grecian EN-.
pire.
4. The iron portion of the image
symbolized the Roman Empire.
8. The ten toes of the image,
composed partly of iron and partly
of potter's clay, symbolized the
ten kingdoms into which the Ro-
man Empire became divided. To
this extent the lecturer said the
scholarship of the world is agreed;
but as to the kingdom symbolized
by the stone cut out of q noun.
tain without hands, there is not a
unity of opinion, even among men
who have made prophecy a study.
Our lecturer said the most gener.
ally accepted opinion as to the
meaning of the stone is that it
pointed to the establishment of a
kingdom of Christ upon earth.
He, however, said this opinion
seemed to have been assumed
without an adequate reason. The
points he made against the inter.
probation are these:
l. The vision, being one con.
tinued vision, ii should apply
either to spiritual things, or TEN,
pOral, as q whole; and, since all
admit the image symbolizes TEN.
poral kingdoms, so also must the
cast ont stone for the vision TO be
in reasonable harmony with itself.
2. The stone was cut out of a
mountain without hands Tor, as he
explained it, without force and
that since the said mountain, used
as a symbol, means government,
for the stone to represent the
church of Christ, it would have to
have been separated from some
government upon this earth, which
never happened and could not
happen; and therefore the stone
did not symbolic the kingdom OF
Christ.
3. 1t was during the days Of
these kings represented by the
image, that Daniel said in his in
depreciation, the God of Heaven
would sit up a kingdom, and since
the church of Christ was set uI
during the glory of the Roman
Empire under its emperial head
centuries before the ten toe king
doms had an existence, in fact
the church of Christ could no
have been symbolized by thu
stone kingdom.
4. The stone kingdom is repre-
scented as destroying the image
kingdoms and occupying thei
place to the end of time; and sine,
the church of Christ is Il spiritua
kingdom, and since it is not tn,
Office of the church of Christ t,
destroy political governments an,
occupy their place, the stone king
dom did not and cannot symbol
.ize the church of Christ.
The lecturer then said: Sine
it unquestionably appears that t
imagine the cut out stone pointe
to the kingdom of Christ is error
eous, we as reasonable being
must look into political histor
after the ten toe kings came int
being, and see if the God of heave
by His providence separated will
out force material from some 90,
eminent that formed another. An
he said, | am happy to inform 70
my friends that our forefathel
were separated from the mouI
tain or government of Englan
not only at the right time. but
the right way.
The material that formed OF
glorious government of the Unite
States came to America of the
own free will and accord, large
for the purpose of escaping reli
ious persecution. Others came
benefit themselves financially, br
all came voluntarily, SO that
their coming the stone was CT
out of England without hand
And surely no one in this count
doubts the evident fact that &c
was on our SIDE III the war for i
dependence; so that the esta
lishment Of this stone into su
stantial government, acknowled
ing God as our King, may be mo
unquestionably attributed
Almighty God, since we know Il
works in such things throua
human agency. Even upon OF
beautiful silver coins, the hone
money of the common people, "
say, "In God we trust"
Yes, beloved friends, our glo
ious government is based upc
the principles enunciated in God
book-the Holy Bible; and Il