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AT THE GOSPEL TENT

Professionalism is following in the
tacy, apostacy, is written over the
doors of many a church. Great relig-
ious organizations are seeking to Sc
cure the power of the state to enact
laws in benaIf of the dogmas of relig-
ion in order to coerce all to yield at
least a feigned obedience TO the man
dates of the church. Such are Sunday
laws" said Carlyle B. Haynes, the
evangelist and lecturer, in his con-
GLIDING address last night at the Cos
pei tent on the subject, "Will Rome
Rule American" He said in part:
The prophecy which we are study
ing in Revelation 1871, II, reveals
clearly that there will be set up in
this country an image or likeness TO
the papacy This means that there
will be here a union of church and
state. as we learned last night. In
fulfllment of this prophecy we now
see great religious organizations en-
deavoring to secure the power OF the
state to enact into law certain relig-
ious requirements such as the matter
of Sunday keeping And when this
image OF the beast, as the Bible
calls it. is fully formed, we are told in
the 10th verse that it 'causeth ALL
both small and great, rich and poor
to receive a mark in their right hand,
or in their foreheads.
Now, what is the mark Of the
beast?' It must be some institution
of the beast. The beast We have
found to be a symbol OF the papacy.
Therefore the mark of the beast
must be some act or profession by
which the authority of that power is
acknowledged This mark of the
beast, or of the papacy, is the change /
which the papacy has attempted to
make in the law of God. This change |
is the change of the Sabbath, and |
therefore the keeping of the first day |
must be the mark of the beast This |
will be clear when it is considered |
that the Seventh-day Sabbath is still
the Sabbath enjoined in the fourth |
commandment; the observance of the
first day of the week has no founda
ton whatever in the scriptures; this
has been brought in as
Christian institution, and designedly
put in the place of the Sabbath of
the law of God by that power repre-
scented by the beast of this prophe-
cy and placed there as token OF
it's power to 'legislate for the church.
Therefore, it is certainly the mark
of the beast
The mark of the beast or Sun
day observance, is now being enforc-
ed in the United States. On the stat
ute books of nearly all the states are
found Sunday laws; agitation on the
part of religious zealots for their en-
forcement, especially upon seventh
day observers continually increases.
More than two hundred arrests of
seventh-day observers have already
been made, some of them under cir
of great oppression. As
Rome prosecuted those who did not
accept her views, so Professionalism is
nof prosecuting those who dc not &c
cept the false and spurious tirst-day
Sabbath And this work will go on,
Tor the prophecy so declares.
But at the time when this perse-
cution is on the increase, God sends
4 great messenger of warning to the
world This will be found in the 9Th
TO the 18th verses of the 18th chap
-er of Revelation This is a warning
against the worship of the beast (the
papacy) or the image of the beast
(apostate Professionalism or the re-
ception of the mark of the beast,
(the Sunday institution) At the
same time this message viii include
the teaching of the true Sabbath Of
Jehovah. the seventh day of the
week, and the principles OF religious
liberty and the second coming Of the
Lord.
REPORTER.