World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1912-05-16
AS our Text reads:


And | stood upon the snna Of the sen. and saw
4 beast rise up out o. he sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns tea
crowns, and upon his heads he name of bias,
pheny. Rev. Isl.
For ages and ages hack, there
has been thousands Of learned
men who have wildly held the
pen. Describing this great
beast trying TO tell the number
Of his name, And who he is.
and where lis seat is to he found.
And we must say that as far
as We have learned the very best
of them have failed. Tie gen
eral view given is, that this
beast is the Pope of Rome, But
their arguments are so slim;
that the doubts are in tire Pope's
favor. And too, because they
have fal( d to show Bible proof,
fur their agreements. And for
to just say, that he is the beast
spoken Of by John, does not
make ii so. Ald we wish to say
right h re that il we follow what
man says without Bible proof
we will never fin out who the
the beast i, For they Apply the
nun e. of his name (66b) to the
Greek worl Ll'iAous; that is
signifying the Ll,ln man.
Now we must say to oar read
ers, that this is very weak
structure, fer tie man of good
mother wit and good reason to
build on. And We cannot hex ',ut
think, but what the reader will
plainly see in this our WORK, the
great defect there is in the idea
preseh ed by men that the num-
Der 1861 represents the Latin
word LatinouS. Or as it is in
the following explain alton.
Taking the equivalent of these
letters as employed by the Lat.
ms We have just 666, The lettt rs
S + r A and E are not used as
numei as, u was forme'y used
the same as V equa'ing s His
title Vicarius Fiji Del (vice.gerent
of tha Son Of God is easily d IS
cerned as fl lows vs.. Ii,
C-10O, Ii, vs., Ii. L-5O
II, Ii, D 500. Ii; 6G5
The Church Advocate, and
Holine. 9 Banner, April 2? 1912
How foolish. But VIC 81 a |
cause the r ader to see this
more plainly ir the pre- gr SIS
of this or 5ument, and take
from off the mind Of t he Reader,
the dal |! 'oud Of uni elief, resting
their t7ure no fff6f f III The The s ft
Of doubt, in the valleys Of strife;
where the BOAT OF superstition is
rovod b. hands of self-estoem
and the demcn god.
For in following mp the
s.relm of life, with the great
head light in vie =. as it sends its
RAYS ont over the white pebbles
of Diyln. Truth and gladdens
the suui with The flow OF light,
as it enters ia through the chain
of Thought, soothing the heart
and forever siloncing the cues
tioo, Am I rl4ht or not? For
whoever has come and drank II
tn $ fountain of light tt at peals
out up,n the mlnd in tones OF
truth, c,n 70 lorgar say, Know
We tie L,ld for all shall know
him from the least even to the
greatest.
Therefore we say, that it was
this great beast, thet John saw
that come to blind, deceive and
persecute the children of God.
LIT US now advance one step
further, and what do we see:
Why we seq The great beast
seated upon his throne; and his
seat is at Rone: There is where
you will find the great beast
the son of perdition, arrayed in
all his power, and he is the one
that is to be revealed with all
his Icing wonders, and the one
that shall be destroyed at the
brightness of the second coming
Of our Lord and Saviour Je'u US
Christ: aud the one who DAME
calls the vile person.
The question may now DC ASK
ed Does not the above assertlot
l;r,ot rofprpnc s to the