Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . prophecy represents,— an image to the papalbeast, endowed with life by the two-horned beast, to speak and actwith power. And are there any indications of such a movement ? The prelim-inary question, that of the grand union of ail the churches, is now,and has been for years, in-ofoundly agitating the religious world, 194 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS A Mr. Havens, in a speech delivered in New York a few years ago,said:— For my own part, I wait to see the day when a Luther shall spring up in thiscountr
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . prophecy represents,— an image to the papalbeast, endowed with life by the two-horned beast, to speak and actwith power. And are there any indications of such a movement ? The prelim-inary question, that of the grand union of ail the churches, is now,and has been for years, in-ofoundly agitating the religious world, 194 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS A Mr. Havens, in a speech delivered in New York a few years ago,said:— For my own part, I wait to see the day when a Luther shall spring up in thiscountry, who shall found a great American Catholic Church, instead of a greatRoman Catholic Church; and shall teach men that they can be good Catholicswithout professing allegiance to a pontiff on the other side of the Atlantic. There are indications, as will be shown in a subsequent chapter,that at no distant day such a church will be seen, not, indeed, raisedup through the instrumentality of a Luther, but rather through theoperation of the same spirit that inspired a Fernando Nunez or Y. M. C. A. Building, Philadelphia, Where the National Federation ofChurches Was Organized CHAPTER XIII THE SUNDAY QUESTION HE principal acts ascribed to thetwo-horned beast, which seem tobe performed with special refer-ence to the papal beast, are,causing- men to worship thatbeast, causing them to make animage to that beast, and enforc-ing upon them the mark ofthat beast. The image, after itis created and endowed with life,undertakes to enforce the worshipof itself. To avoid confusion, wemust keep these parties distinctin our minds. There are threehere brought before us : — /. TJic Papal Beast. Thispower is designated in Revelation13 as the beast, the firstbeast, the beast which had the\\ound by a sword, and did live,and the beast whose deadlywound was healed. These ex-pressions all refer to the samepower; and wherever they occurin this prophecy, they must beunderstood as having e
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