Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . beast, and to sj^erikof his acts in such ;i, maniieras clearly 1o indicaU- hiscfiaract(jr, b(;th apparentand real. I^^very si)ecifica-ti(jn thus far examined h;iscon lined the applicationimperatively to the UnitedStates, and we shall hndthis one no stron;^ inth(^ same direction. This symbol has twohorns like a land;. Tothose who liave studiedthe prophecies of Daniel and John, liorns upon a beast are nounfamiliar feature. The ram (Dan. 8 : 3j had two The he-goat that came up agai
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . beast, and to sj^erikof his acts in such ;i, maniieras clearly 1o indicaU- hiscfiaract(jr, b(;th apparentand real. I^^very si)ecifica-ti(jn thus far examined h;iscon lined the applicationimperatively to the UnitedStates, and we shall hndthis one no stron;^ inth(^ same direction. This symbol has twohorns like a land;. Tothose who liave studiedthe prophecies of Daniel and John, liorns upon a beast are nounfamiliar feature. The ram (Dan. 8 : 3j had two The he-goat that came up against him had at first one notable horn betweenhis eyes. Verse 5. This was broken, and four came up in its placetoward the four winds of heaven. Verse 8. From one of these cameforth another hfjrn, which waxed exceeding great. Verse 9. Tfiefourth beast of Daniel 7 had ten horns. Among these, a little horn,with eyes and mouth, far-seeing, crafty, and blasphemous, 7 The dragon and the leopard beast of Revelation 12 and13, denoting the same as the fourth beast of Daniel 7 in its two 159. A Landmark in Massachusetts i6o THE MARVEL OF NATIONS df^^^Mh phases, have each the same nnmbor of horns, sij^nifyinj;- the samethinj;. And the symbol nnil(>r (?x)nsi(l(M-ation has two horns hke alamb. From the use ol the horns on [ho other symbols, some factsare apparent which may guide us to an understanding of their useon this last one. A iiorn is ust>d in the Scrijitures as a symbol of strength andl)ower, as in Dent. 33 : 17, and of glory and honor, as in Job16: 15. A horn is sometimes used to denote a nation as a whole, as thefour horns of the goat, the little horn of Daniel 8, and the ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel7; and sometimes some par-ticular feature of the govern-ment, as the first horn of thegoat, which denoted not thenation as a whole, but the civiljiower, as centered in the firstking, Alexander the Great. Horns do not alwa}s ilenotedivision, as in the cas
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