Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-01

people OI Jle WOTlu. ne Will De OnS-
armed, but his army which will be as
the sands of the seashore, will take
for their device, God with US" For
a long while he will carry out his pol
icy, by ruse or by felony; his spies
will cover the countries of the world,
he will be master of the decree of the
powerful.
He will have in his pay doctors and
professors, who will prove and certi-
fly his celestial mission. War will give
him an opportunity to disclose himself
This will be so violent that in two
weeks the armed conflict will be-
come universal. 1t will draw in all
Christian people, Mussulmans, and ev-
en- men from distant lands.
The armies will gather from the
four quarters of the world, for the an
gels will open the souls of men, and
i'll the third week they will realize that
Antichrist has come and that slavery
will be the fate of the conquered. He
will be recognized by several traits.
He will massacre, above all, priests,
monks, women, children and old men,
To none will he show mercy Torch
in hand, he will pass like a savage,
invoking the name of Christ, while his
words are those of a Christian, his acts
will be the acts of Nero and his Ro-
man prosecutors.
He will have an eagle for his arms,
and an angel will be the crest of his
accomplice, the other wicked monarch.
This latter, however, is a Christian,
and will die with the curse of Pope
Benedictus, who will be elected at the
outbreak of Anticrist.
No more will priest and Monk con-
TESS and absolve the combatants; for
the first time in the worlds history
they will take their place in the com
bat with other citizens, and Pope Ben
edictous having pronounced his NAL
ediction upon Antichrist, his holiness
will proclaim that those who fall in
battle will rise as martyrs.
The hell will resound throughout the
world, giving courage to the soldiers,
and sounding the knell Of Antichrist's
accomplice. To yanquish antichrist
will require more men than Rome ever
held. The efforts of every kingdom,
the cock" the leopard" and the
white eagle" will not avail, without
the prayers Of the Christian world as
sist them. Never will the human race
have met so great a peril. for the tri-
umph of Antichrist would be the vic>
tory of the devil.
1t will come to pass in the twentieth
century, after the incarnation of the
Word, that the beast will menace the
earth with its scourse. Toward the
two-thousandth year the great army of
Antichrist, numbering in its ranks
some who are Christians, will oppose
the armies Of the Lamb, with whom
will fight. Mohammedans and "say-
age soldiers. All will be blood red,
the heavens, the earth, the sea, the air,
for blood will flow in all the elements.
The "black eagle" will hurl itself
. oaiDst the cock" and rob it of many
nlumcs. but the cock will. fight gal
lantly with it's talons. 1t would be
totally crushed but for the claws OF
the leopard" The black eagle will
surprise and invade tue land of the
cock" covering almost half Of its ter
ritory: while the white eagle" in its
turn will oyerrun the realm Of Anti
christ from boundary to boundary
Then the black eagle" to engage the
white eagle" the cock" will pursue
it to give aid to its ally. When the
"black ca Gle" sees all is lost it will
grow furious and the white eagles
beak, the "leopard's claw, and the
cocks" talons will be buried in its
flesh.
Rivers will run blood and only the
princes and the great captains will be
buried. The dead, piled high, viii
seem like hills and divert the streams
from their course. In the carnage
the brave will fall, and those who sur
vive the battle will succumb to pesti-
lence and famine. Several times viii
Antichrist seek to make peace, but the
seven angels that march before the
Lamb have decreed that only with his
determination can peace be restored
He shall be crushed like straw un-
der the fail" He shall lose his crown
and his kingdom shall be split into
twenty-five states, and none shall pos,
sess either arms, or. ship or .--strong
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The white eagle" shall trace tht
lcresrent ont of Europe and install