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The Root 
 
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 War Concluded 
 
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 In writing this book, it was necessary to write part of it 
 as an allegorical story, based on biblical history. The au- 
 thor has sipent a great deal of time in presenting facts and 
 dates in the great world events, so that it can be readily 
 understood by the reader. The balance of the comments are 
 simply assumptions based on developments of the world 
 war, and he trusts the reader will keep this in mind in 
 reading the conclusions as stated in the various comments. 
 
 Revelation has been a mystery to the world since it was 
 written in A. D. 96. In past centuries theologians have 
 filled libraries, commenting on it, but all that has been said 
 or written has been guess work, from the fact that no con- 
 ditions in past times could be made to apply to Revelation, 
 thereby heaping mystery upon mystery. It was evidently 
 dictated to John, by the Savior, on the Isle of Patmos, so 
 that when the awful times and conditions should actually 
 come, no intelligent people eould be mistaken in the times 
 and conditions as revealed by Revelation. 
 
 Our great writers on Revelation have unfortunately been 
 prejudiced, as have the clergy, against its application to 
 the world war of today, and if the war had not come in 
 the manner it did, and unlocked the mystery, it would still 
 remain as such. In past wars there have been no aeroplanes 
 to rain fire and brimstone down from heaven; there hare 
 been no submarines to destroy one-third of the world's 
 shipping and cause the oceans to run red in blood. No man 
 has lived since A. D. 96 that the nmniber 666 could apply 
 
to, but the Kaiser. There has been no nation that the 
 twelfth chapter could apply to, until our nation entered the 
 war in the year 1917. In fact, as the war develops, it is 
 simply revealing Revelation. A person of ordinary mind 
 who carefully followed the events of the world war from 
 the beginning, can then read the first twenty chapters of 
 Revelation and understand it. It will no longer remain a 
 mystery. 
 
 In making the comments on Revelation, the writer be- 
 lieved it would be criticised by at least fifty percent of the 
 clergy. Theologians have tried to make this great mystery 
 apply to everything conceivable prior to the world war; 
 now, since the war is here, they must either accept the 
 reasonable application of the author, or acknowledge the 
 millions of books they have written are wrong. The reason 
 the clergy differ in its application as to times and condi- 
 tions, is that most of the theological books written concern- 
 ing Revelation reject the mystery and try to prove that it 
 was not dictated to John by the Savior, or not even written 
 by John, thereby undermining the whole basis of the 
 authenticity of the Bible. 
 
 In officiating on earth as the Son of God, it was abso- 
 lutely necessary for Christ to appear as God's represent- 
 ative, as He did to Moses in the burning bush, and when 
 He came in A. D. 1 as the Paschal Lamb for the great 
 sacrifice for the world, wherein the prophesies of Daniel, 
 Joel, Isaiah and others were fulfilled by his birth, death, 
 resurrection and ascension. 
 
 The world war, the symbolical figures, the rulers of the 
 various nations, the times and conditions cannot possibly 
 apply to them, between A. D. 96 and 1914. 
 
 I will give good proof, as I see it, that Revelation does ap- 
 ply to present times, and conditions ; therefore, in dispute, 
 *t is necessary for the "doubting Thomases" to try and 
 ^,take these various figures apply to Nero, Caesar, the Pope 
 or nations, whom they may think it can apply to, rather 
 than the author's application. In so doing, they will fail. 
 The author feels certain that no other times, nations, per- 
 sonages, or conditions can be made to apply to Revelation 
 
except at this time during the present world war. Neither 
 can the number 666 apply to Nero, Caesar, Napoleon or 
 Popes in the past, but it unquestionably does apply to the 
 Kaiser. Conditions prove that we are now seeing the ful- 
 fillment of Kevelation as shown from the third to the 
 nineteenth chapters, inclusive. If we are, we will certainly 
 see the Savior coming in a cloud as King of Kings and Lord 
 of Lords, in Europe and Asia in 1920, and close the war 
 with His own sword as stated in Eighteenth Chapter, then 
 will rule as a visible, literal King of earth for the next 
 thousand years. His second coming as King of Kings, and 
 Lord of Lords, will probably be in or near the year A. D. 
 4000, thereby completing His great plan of B. C. 4004, 
 namely : to people the earth ; then to bring them all back to 
 Him for His Great Glory ; then to be with Him throughout 
 the ceaseless ages of eternity. 
 
 The question has been asked of the writer : Wliere do you 
 get the proofs of your conclusions? And my answer is, I 
 fully believe in the Bible, and I get my proof from its 
 pages, basing all on the application of the numlDer of the 
 Beast, 666. 
 
 ' ' God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten 
 Son, to the end that all that believe in Him should not 
 perish, but have everlasting life. ' ' — John 3 :16. 
 
 "The first tree of liberty was planted in the world when 
 Jesus was raised on the Cross of Cavalry and from it 
 preached the doctrine of equality, fraternity and brother- 
 hood." And from that hour — the most momentous hour in 
 human history — began in earnest the age-long contest be- 
 tween democracy and autocracy, the two opposing princi- 
 ples in the life and governments of peoples. Jesus, the Son 
 of Man, proclaimed the principles and practiced the virtues 
 of democracy, and these were not buried with Him in His 
 tomb, but rather He exalted them on His Cross. In the 
 absolutism of Rome, the programme of "peace with the 
 sword" was set forward to enforce the philosophy that 
 "might makes right." The principles of democracy, as 
 taught and practiced by Jesus, exalted self-sacrifice for the 
 good of others, and made a virtue of social service, while 
 
absolutism only fixed the mind of the brutalizing practices 
 of force. 
 
 "Jesus taught that there are spiritual treasures in life 
 worth saving, but the sword arm of absolutism was its only 
 standard of moral law and moral right. Albsolutism in- 
 flated men's ambitions and hardened their hearts, while 
 Jesus spoke directly to their souls. Through the centuries 
 that have intervened since the first Service Flag — the Cross 
 of Christ — ^was raised on Calvary, the opposing principles 
 of democracy and autocracy have each sought to dominate 
 the realm of thought and experience in the development of 
 the race. And democracy since the beginning of the Chris- 
 tian era, though often restricted bj) ai^bitrary rule, has 
 gone steadily forward to the present day, when from the 
 'Tower of Time' has sounded the crucial hour of this 
 world's pain. 
 
 "In 385 A. D., the cry of the Emperor Julian, the 
 Apostate: '0 Galilean, Thou hast conquered!' proclaimed 
 the first surrender of the insatiate power of autocracy to 
 the spiritual forces of light. Then, in long years after, 
 came the Constitutions of Clarendon, the Magna Charta, 
 American Independence, and the Revolutions in France, 
 each and all decisive battles against militarism, and yet no 
 one a final triumph. The present war is the logical and 
 inevitable outcome of this strife of principles. It is not a 
 Ibattle of nations, but a holy crusade against militarism, 
 which is now making its last stand for life and power. 
 
 "The most insatiate of human lusts is that for power 
 unchecked by a sense of responsibility and accountability. 
 Such lust for power is the grand passion of the despot. 
 And where the despot becomes a conqueror, as Napoleon, 
 there is the ever present menace to civilization that, like 
 Napoleon, 'the lean, hungry conqueror swells into a 
 sovereign, and the sovereign into the sovereign of sov- 
 ereigns.' He then becomes a scavenger and scourge of 
 mankind. Such is the present Kaiser. And we must not 
 merely check his power: it must be destroyed forever! 
 Otherwise, democracy will always be in peril of its life. 
 
 ' ' Let me speak for a moment of the spiritual and religious 
 
significance of this war. There are, doubtless, those who 
 are perplexed and have painful speculations about God. 
 How can lie let such things come to pass? 
 
 "This war is giving us a fresh and vivid interpretation 
 of the sacrifice of the Cross of Christ, There are millions 
 of people in the world today who never before understood 
 what St. John meant when he said : ' God so loved the world 
 that He gave His only begotten Son, that all that believe in 
 Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' And 
 perhaps, some of you have only just now begun to appre- 
 ciate the tenderness, strength and unselfishness of such a 
 love. God gave His only Son that men might not perish, 
 might not become the vassals and slaves of the tyranny of 
 sin, but might live and enjoy their franchise as sons of God. 
 Oh, wondrous love!" 
 
 In the year A. D. 35, St. Paul, the great apostle, states 
 (Acts, 9th Chapter, 4th and 5th verses) : The Savior ap- 
 peared to him on his way to Damascus and said to him : 
 "Saul, Saul, why persecuti.st thou me?" Saul said to the 
 speaker, "Who are Thou, Lord?" and the Lord said to 
 him, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutist. 
 
 In the year A. D. 96, St. John the Divine and most be- 
 loved disciple of Christ, states in first chapter of Revela- 
 tion that the spirit of Christ also appeared to him and 
 clearly proved to St. John that He was the Risen Christ, 
 and then proceeded to dictate Revelation to him as written. 
 
 Both appearances of the Savior occurred years after His 
 ascension in A. D. 30. St. John was just as truthful and 
 reliable as St. Paul; therefore, if the theologians accepted 
 St. Paul's experience, they must also accept St. John's, or 
 reject both. 
 
 You who doubt both the author and writer of Revelation 
 should keep in mind that John was the only Apostle who 
 did not meet a violent death from the hands of the enemies 
 of the new Christian religion, and should be another 
 striking proof that God preserved him for this special mis- 
 sion, namely: to write Revelation at Christ's dictation. 
 
The Root 
 
 and the 
 
 War Concluded 
 
 PART I. 
 
The Root 
 
 and the 
 
 War Concluded 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 EXPLANATORY. 
 
 I will endeavor to prove that the "World War" is the 
 fuLfillment of Revelation up to the 20th chapter. The three 
 remaining chapters probably refer to the time between 
 A. D. 2920 and A. D. 4000. Evidently the kindred tongues 
 and nations John is to prophesy to, are the people who will 
 live at that future time. 
 
 In studying Revelation, in conjunction with the war, keep 
 the following facts and figures in mind: 
 
 1st — It was the Risen Christ who dictated Revelation to 
 John. 
 
 2nd — The things "that are" (1-18) means the seven es- 
 tablishes churches and conditions fully described in second 
 and third chapters. 
 
 3rd — The things which shall be hereafter, evidently refer 
 to the present times and conditions from 1914 to the close 
 of the war. 
 
 4th — The seven stars in the right hand of the speaker are 
 the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks 
 
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 are the seven churches. 
 
 5th — The scene Jahn describes in heaven is evidently the 
 heavenly Supreme Court, wherein God is trying the world. 
 
 6th — The Judge on the throne is God. 
 
 7th — The Lam'b in the midst of the throne is Christ, the 
 attorney who represents and pleads before the throne, for 
 the world. 
 
 8th — The twenty-four elders aibout the Throne comprise 
 the jury. 
 
 9th — The four beasts before the throne are four nations, 
 namely: England, Russia, France and Italy. 
 
 10th — The great Angel evidently is the same as the sheriff, 
 before the throne ; the seven angels are deputies or messen- 
 gers between heaven and earth, representing the seven 
 churches. 
 
 11th — ^The one angel from the East (in seventh Chapter), 
 is the angel of the Zionist (Jewish) Church. 
 
 The "come and see" means, John sees three nations on 
 earth ready to begin their awful mission of death and de- 
 struction, namly: 
 
 "The white horse" represents Austro-Hungary ; "The 
 Red Horse" Germany, and "the pale horse" Turkey. 
 
 The protest of "the black horse" represents Russia. The 
 "Voice" of protest against the invasion of Belgium evi- 
 dently means England. 
 
 12th — "The two witnesses" evidently means America and 
 England. 
 
 13th — ^^The Beast No. 666 means the Kaiser (Satan Rein- 
 carnated). 
 
 14th — "The Red Dragon" means the German war ma- 
 chine. 
 
 15th — The woman figure in the twelfth chapter means 
 American (the Mother of Liberty). 
 
 16th — ^The child born to the figure evidently means the 
 United States Government in 1917. 
 
 17th — The harlot's figure in the seventeenth chapter evi- 
 dently means the Berlin government. 
 
 18th — ^The three and a half days' battle of the eleventh 
 chapter will be the first manifestation of the first coming of 
 
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 Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 
 
 After sealing the Zionist Church into His kingdom, 
 (seventh chapter), the 144,000 delegates to the Zionist con- 
 vention in Asia will convene prohaibly in 1920. 
 
 The Savior and His seven angels (let loose from the Zion- 
 ist Convention Tabernacle) will fight the Battle of Arma- 
 geddon (somewhere in Asia) against the Army of the three 
 frogs or unclean spirits (drive secretly planned by Luden- 
 dorf, Hindenburg and the Turks against our Asiatic forces), 
 and the whole central army will be annihilated by an earth- 
 quake. (See 16th Chapter.) 
 
 19th — The last and final battle will be fought near Essen, 
 or in Berlin, by the Savior and the Allied army, mostly 
 U. S. forces. (See 19th Chapter.) 
 
 This final battle of Essen or Berlin will terminate the 
 war, and Christ's first personal reign as King of the world 
 will begin, and continue for the next thousand years, or 
 from the year the war closes, probably in September, 1920, 
 to A. D. 2920. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 EGYPTIAN HISTORY. 
 
 In order to give to the reader some of the important 
 events of Egypt noted in the allegorical section of this book, 
 the following facts will be essential in conjunction with the 
 biblical facts mentioned in the story. The dates being ap- 
 proximately as follows : 
 
 B. C. 4400 — ^King Menes, founder of Memphis, Egypt, 
 who ruled the upper and lower Nile district, also built the 
 the first canal to regulate the water of the Nile. In 1902 
 A. D. the English completed the Assouan dam to do prac- 
 tically the same as the Egyptians did, 6402 years before. 
 
 B. C. 4004 — Adam and Eve were the occupants of the 
 Garden of Eden in Persia, lying about 1600 miles northeast 
 of the Nile country. 
 
 B. C. 3970 — Cheops builds the great pyramid. 
 
 B, C. 2100 — ^Invasion of Egypt by the Shepherd Kings of 
 Asia, who ruled Egypt until about B. C. 1700. 
 
 B. C. 1921 — God called Abraham, which was during the 
 reign of the Shepherd Kings. 
 
 B. C. 1707 — Jacob finds his long-lost son, Joseph, a ruler 
 in Egypt, and he moves to Egypt. Welcomed by the Egyp- 
 tians under Pharaoh, the most liberal of all of the Egyptian 
 rulers. 
 
 B. C. 1520— Thothmes III subdues the Hittites. 
 
 B. C. 1491 — The Children of Israel, under the leadership 
 of Moses, are freed from Egyptian bondage. 
 
 B. C. 1451 — ^The Children of Israel take possession of the 
 land of Caanan. 
 
 B. C. 1355 — Seti, King of Egypt, builds a canal connect 
 ing the Nile with the Red Sea. A. D. 1869 France com- 
 
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 pletes the Suez canal over the same course, 3224 years later. 
 
 B Q 925— The Egyptians, under Shishak, plunder Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 B. C. 722^Shalmanesa, King of Assyria, takes the ten 
 
 tribes captive. 
 
 B. C. 608 — Nebuchadnezzar defeats Nicho II. 
 
 -Q Q_ 607 — Two tribes of the Children of Israel taken to 
 Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. 
 
 B. C. 538— The Angels tell Daniel (in 9th Chapter) that 
 in seventy weeks the bondage of the Children of Israel 
 would be at an end. 
 
 B. C. 537— The Children of Israel set free by Cyrus, King 
 of Media, fulfilling the seventy years of bondage from B. C. 
 607 to B. C. 537, fully verifying the statement made to 
 Daniel by the angels. (Daniel, 9th Chapter). 
 
 B. C. 525 — Cambyses, son of Cyrus of Persia, conquers 
 
 Egypt. 
 B C. 490— The Battle of Marathon between Greeks and 
 
 Persians. 
 
 B. C. 332— Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and 
 founds Alexandria, Egypt. 
 
 B. C. 330— Alexander the Great overcomes the Persian 
 government at the battle of Aribella thereby bringing the 
 land of Caanan under the Greek government. 
 
 B_ C 40 — Herod the Great made ruler of Galilee. 
 
 B_ C. 4— Christ (a Jew) is born. The promised Messiah 
 
 of the Jews. 
 
 ^ J) 30— Christ is crucified at Jerusalem, under au- 
 thority of the Roman government. 
 
 j^ J) 30— The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit sent to the 
 earth, first manifested on Day of Pentecost, thereby estab- 
 lishing the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 
 
 A. D. 66— St. Paul beheaded by order of Nero. 
 
 A J) 96— The risen Christ dictates Revelation to John 
 the Divine, on the Isle of Patmos. 
 
 A. D. 220— The Christian Church divided. 
 
 A. D. 739— Turkey overpowers the Roman government 
 and captures the Holy Land. 
 
 A. D. 1000 — The Pope rules Europe. 
 
 A. D. 1000— The world was supposed to end. 
 
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 A. D. 1492 — America was discovered. 
 
 August 14, 1914 — ^War declared between Austro-Hungary 
 and Serbia, the beginning of the World War. 
 
 April 6, 1917 — The United States declares war on Ger- 
 many. 
 
 December 10, 1917 — The Allies capture Jerusalem, whicli 
 has been controlled by Turkey for 1178 years. The capture 
 of Jerusalem is preparatory to the sealing of the Zionist 
 Church into Christ's Kingdom at Mt. Zion, shown in 
 Seventh Chapter of Revelation, possibly in June, 1920. 
 
 1917-18 Winter — Greatest winter of cold and snow in a 
 century, assuring great grain crops for 1918, owing to the 
 protection of the snowy blanket, and also the great fertil- 
 izing qualities (nitrogen, etc.), brought down from the air 
 by the heavy fall of snow, verifying the Sixteenth Verse of 
 Twelfth Chapter of Revelation. 
 
 The author is positive in his belief that the Allies will 
 win the war, and that it is so ordained by the King of Kings 
 and Lord of Lords ; but we, as a blest nation, must not only 
 sacrifice but economize in our food stuffs, in order to help 
 put bread and meat in the mouths of the Allied soldiers, as 
 well as the millions of innocent victims in the stricken coun- 
 tries. There should be a prison sentence imposed on anyone 
 who kills calves, pigs or lambs until maturity, thereby sav- 
 ing millions from ruthless slaughter, and doubling our meat 
 supply. The making of candy should also be stopped, 
 thereby conserving sugar for our allies. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 AN AI.LEGORY ON THE 12TH CHAPTER OF REVE- 
 LATION. 
 
 For centuries our Martian scientists had been debating 
 the question of the habitation of the earth by man, and in 
 order to settle this question, I was selected to make a trip 
 to earth and to learn the facts about its inhabitants. 
 
 In the spring of 4601 B. C, I left Universal City, Mars, 
 in our Liberty aeroplane, to go to the World. This 
 aeroplane was equipped to burn up the electrical forces of 
 space, as it traveled toward the earth. Thus I was assured 
 of plenty of fuel for the trip. 
 
 The trip from Mars was uneventful. As I neared the earlh 
 I made a close observation through my telescope and discov- 
 ered what seemed to be a seething mass of insects, but as I 
 came nearer the earth, I found it was a people in some kind 
 of a conflict. I landed on the earth, near the River Nile, in 
 the spring of B. C. 4600, and found the commotion I had 
 seen was a battle between the forces of the kings of the 
 upper and lower Nile. They were fighting for its rich pos- 
 session. 
 
 In order to study the country as well as the people, I de- 
 cided to remain here for a few centuries, and later I learned 
 that King Menes of Upper Egypt had made an alliance 
 with the King of Lower Egypt and became the King of both 
 districts in B. C. 4500, better known as first Pharaoh of 
 Egypt. 
 
 Near the year B. C. 4450, this king founded Memphis, 
 Egypt. He also built a great canal to regulate the Nile 
 River, in order to bring down the rich products from the 
 Upper Nile districts. 
 
i8 THE ROOT 
 
 In the year B. C. 4005, I was informed that there was a 
 wonderful garden at the junction of the Euphrates and 
 Tigris Rivers, northeast of Egypt, in the country now 
 known as Persia; and having now a fair conception of the 
 Nile country in Egypt, I decided to take a trip to this gar- 
 den, and arrived there in the year B. C. 4004. This garden 
 in Asia is situated near the junction of the Euphrates and 
 Tigris Rivers. It contained all kinds of fruit-bearing trees. 
 The bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle were heard near 
 the walls of the garden. In fact, everything that man could 
 desire was either in or near the garden, so that the occu- 
 pants could either pluck fruit from the trees or kill the 
 sheep or cattle at will, to satisfy their every desire. 
 
 "Within the garden I saw a man picking fruit. He asked 
 my name and where I came from, and I told him I came 
 from Mars, his next-door neighbor, and that my name was 
 Joseph Dowen. " I had walked quite a ways and was 
 hungry, as well as thirsty. In crossing a rough section of 
 ground, coming to the garden, I had fallen and severely in- 
 jured one of my limbs, losing quite a lot of blood by the 
 accident; consequently, I was weak, hungry, thirsty and 
 wounded. He offered me some fruit and I began eating, and 
 became strong at once. My appetite was soon fully satis- 
 fied and my thirst quenched by the fruit the man had given 
 me. He pointed to my wound and began plucking the 
 leaves from the same tree, and showed me, by example, how 
 to apply them. I did so and in a few hours the wound was 
 healed. I then continued my stroll to the farthest part of 
 the garden, about one mile from where I first met the man, 
 I saw a woman in all innocence and purity nearby. I 
 did not approach near her, as I saw she was conversing with 
 a serpent. I noticed the serpent had her spellbound, like our 
 common black snakes charm birds, causing them to fly right 
 into their mouth at will, having witnessed such a scene 
 myself. The snake was of an extraordinary large type and 
 was purple in color, intermixed with leopard spots under- 
 neath the transparent purple covering. His voice was of a 
 low, sweet, deep, purring nature that would charm either 
 man or beast. His eyes were like two great diamonds. In 
 fact, he was no doubt the most beautiful creature to be 
 
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 found in or near the garden. 
 
 I returned to the place of entrance, having decided to 
 explore the country surrounding the garden. I started 
 around the garden and found everything that could be 
 imagined ; I went to the rivers and found they were full of 
 all kinds of fish. All animals around the garden, includ- 
 ing the lion, panther and leopard, were as harmless as the 
 lambs themselves. 
 
 After my trip, which took me a week, I became exceed- 
 ingly hungry, so I returned to the garden and started for 
 the same tree from which the fruit was plucked by the man. 
 Before going far into the garden I saw the man and woman 
 under another tree far larger than the former one. They 
 both now had clothes on, made of the leaves of the trees, 
 and were earnestly conversing with each other, and as the 
 man seemed excited, I concluded not to molest them, and 
 went back to the tree from which I had eaten the first fruit. 
 After eating to my satisfaction, I decided to go back to a 
 listening distance, as I was interested and wished to know 
 what had so excited the man. As I neared the spot, I heard 
 the voice of a person talking to the man and woman. From 
 the tone of the voice, he seemed to be very angry, and the 
 couple seemed to be dodging from every sentence. I heard 
 their names mentioned as Adam and Eve in the conversa- 
 tion. When the conversation was over (see Genesis 3-9 to 
 22), I saw a man (apparently the o\vner of the garden) 
 point his finger to the gate and order them out. Aftep go- 
 ing a short distance from the entrance I looked back and 
 saw cherubims with flaming swords at the entrance. 
 
 I decided to explore the surrounding country and found 
 wherever I went the soil was very rich. In fact, all nature 
 seemed to be trying to blend and make the land rich for 
 cultivation. Being curious as to what became of the man 
 and woman, I decided to find them, and came back (after 
 a year's search) to near the garden, and saw a rude log 
 hut; and as I approached the hut, the man met me at the 
 door and recognized me. I noticed he had a great smile on 
 !his face, as fathers only can have, and upon my entry, I 
 realized the reason for his smiles, for in bed lay his wife, 
 Eve, and a little baby just born. I inquired his name and 
 
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 was told they had named him Cain. After paying them 
 a short visit, I decided to explore farther east. This trip 
 covered about twenty-five years. After I had satisfied my 
 curiosity in the Great East that seemed to be as rich as milk 
 and honey, I decided to visit my old friends, the Adams 
 family, and found quite a large family of boys and girls. 
 The second older boy was Abel, and the youngest was Seth. 
 I inquired where Cain was, and they said he was farming 
 just east of the garden. After I had spent some days vis- 
 iting my friends, I started north on an extended trip and 
 did not get back for about one hundred years. Upon my 
 return this time, I found most of the Adams family scat- 
 tered all around the Garden of Eden and all doing well. 
 
 In talking with Cain, I found he was very jealous of Abel, 
 and learned later the jealousy had become so great that it 
 had terminated in the murder of Abel. I further learned 
 that the same Lord God, whom I had seen drive Cain's 
 parents out of the garden, had driven him entirely away 
 from the garden district. Cain, in his fear and hate, fell 
 down in his flight and broke his nose, thereby setting the 
 peculiar Jewish mark on his nose, so that all would recog- 
 nize him. (See Gen. 4 and 5 verses). 
 
 Later on, I returned to Memphis, in Egypt, and found 
 Cain there. He had married a beautiful woman, and from 
 this marriage, Enoch was bom ; and from this lineage, 
 Lemech was born, who was the father of Noah, the ark 
 builder. Enoch was also the father of Methuseleh, who 
 lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Having known 
 Methuselah's great-great-great-grandfather, Adam, I at- 
 tended his funeral and decided to rest from further re- 
 search, owing to the corrupt condition of the world. 
 
 I learned that an old man was building an ark about fifty 
 miles from where I was stopping, so I went over to see it, 
 and found it some ark. I introduced myself to Noah and 
 said I would help him if he wished me to, and he was overly 
 pleased at my offer; and by the time we had finished the 
 ark, owing to the corruptness of the earth, I saw the point 
 of building it. During this time I had told him of former 
 visits to Adam's house and of our great friendship. 
 
 My own existence puzzled him, and he asked me where I 
 
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 came from, and I told him I was a universal traveler but 
 made my headquarters on Mars. Shortly after our conver- 
 sation, all kinds of animals began to arrive, and in less than 
 a year the ark resembled one of our leading country fairs. 
 Having worked so faithfully on the ark, he took me in as 
 one of his sons and shut the door. Then I heard it begin 
 raining. It did not rain as we understand it, but simply 
 poured down in sheets and kept it up for forty days. 
 
 We had plenty to do during the time in feeding the ani- 
 mals. After the flood was over, Noah and I became fast 
 friends. In fact, I made his home my headquarters, the 
 same as I had done with the Adams family. 
 
 In course of time I decided to continue my searcli and 
 exploration, and was gone about one hundred years. 
 One day I decided to pay my old friend, Noah and family, 
 a visit, and did so, finding that all had located in the land 
 of Caanan. The three boys, Shem, Ham and Japheth, had 
 taken up different sections of the country. Keep in mind 
 that Noah was now the sole heir to that part of the v/orld. 
 for his faithfulness in building the ark as the Lord God had 
 told him to do, being God's sole heir as payment for faitu- 
 fulness to him. "And God blessed Noah and his sons, ajid 
 said unto them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the 
 earth." (Gen. 9-1). 
 
 This great blessing was to fall on Ham, Shem and Japh- 
 eth, the three children ; but owing to the little respect Ham 
 had for his father (showing it by not covering his nakedness 
 in his drunken state), when Noah came to himself and saw 
 Ham's lack of parental respect he cursed him, thereby 
 legally taking Ham's possessions from him (being the 
 land of Canaan), and gave Ham's heritage to Shem and 
 Japheth. However, Ham retained possession of the land of 
 Canaan from the time Noah cursed him, until the time the 
 descendants of Shem and Japheth took actual possession, 
 which was eight hundred and ninety-seven years after. 
 (Ham was a good second to Cain, and encouraged the 
 worshipping of idols in Canaan.) 
 
 Adam and Eve were both perfect in form, and both had 
 the straight Greek nose. I compared the features of Noah 
 with ray former friend, Adam, and saw that Noah had a 
 
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 very pronounced hooked-bill Roman type of nose, whereas 
 Adam's nose was straight. I compared the features of 
 Shem, Ham and Japheth, and found Shem had a Roman 
 nose, whereas Ham and Japheth had the straight Grecian 
 typed nose like Adam, which recalled to my mind Cain's 
 flight from God for killing his brother, A<bel, causing tiie 
 Roman-nose mark to be placed upon him and his future 
 generations as a mark made by God for Cain's sin. 
 
 The long lapse of time between Noah's taking the herit- 
 age away from the generation of Ham in B. C. 2348, gnd 
 giving it to the generation of Shem, in B. C. 1451, wherein 
 Abram was of his lineage, ought to be pretty good proof 
 that this land of Canaan still belongs to God's chosen peo- 
 ple. First, God made Adam and gave that part of the world 
 to him and his posterity. After the flood, God gave it to 
 Noah as a heritage for his faithfulness in building the ark. 
 Noah first divided the heritage into three parts as follows : 
 To Ham he gave the choicest and richest part, the land 
 formerly ow^ned by Cain and his generation before the flood. 
 To Japheth, the rover, who had a straight Grecian nose, 
 and whose inclination was to live in a tent, he gave the land 
 now known as Egypt. (The gypsy bands now seen roving 
 over the country are descendants of Japheth.) To Shem, 
 Noah gave the land of Shinar, lying east of the ark. Shem 
 was a very homely man with a very pronounced Roman 
 nose like Enoch's, his grandfather who "walked with God," 
 and Noah's, his father who built the ark in face of the de- 
 rision of his surrounding friends. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 JEWISH HISTORY. 
 
 In order to study Jewish history intelligently, it is neces- 
 sary to keep the lineage clear in mind, as well as the herit- 
 age, as follows : 
 
 First — The Lord God gave Adam that part of the world 
 without the Garden of Eden. 
 
 Second^O'wing to the corruptness of the earth, the Lord 
 God destroyed the earth in B. C. 2348 ; and for his faithful- 
 ness in building the ark, the Lord God gave that part of the 
 world to Noah and his generations. 
 
 Third— Then Noah divided it into three parts and gave 
 it to Ham, Shem and Japheth, his sons. It is absolutely 
 essential to keep in mind that from the lineage of Shem, 
 Nahor was born; and from Nahor, Terah was born, and 
 from Terah Abram was born. Also keep in mind the 
 Amorites, the Perizites, etc., occupying the land of Canaan 
 at the time the Lord God called Abram in B. C. 1921, 
 were descendants of Ham. Seeing the rich lands of Canaan 
 and Egypt occupied by the descendants of Ham and 
 Japheth, corrupted by idol worship, the Lord God planned 
 to to take it away from the idolators and give it to a cer- 
 tain select people later known as the Jews. 
 
 Abram was living in the land of Syria, his native country, 
 in B. C. 1921, but God told him to get out of this country, 
 as follows : Genesis 12-1 to 3. 
 
 Now, the Lord had said unto Abram, "Get thee out of 
 thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy father's 
 house, unto a land that I will show thee." 
 
 Second— "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will 
 bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee 
 
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 and in thee shall all the families of the earth he Nest. 
 
 Gen. 13 :1 — And Abram went up out of Egypt he and his 
 wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south, 
 showing Ahram's absolute o'bedience to the Lord G:)d as 
 Noah his great-great-grandfather had done in building the 
 ark 427 years before this time. 
 
 Gen. 14 :12 — Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot 
 dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward 
 Sodom. Having established Abram in this new land of 
 Canaan, God proceeds to make a covenant (or deed) with 
 him for this land wherein he is now residing. 
 
 Gen. 17-14 — As for me, behold my covenant is with thee, 
 and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 
 
 Gen. 17-7 — And I will establish my covenant between me 
 and thee, and thy seed after them in their generations fu.' 
 an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy 
 seed after thee. 
 
 Gen. 17-8 — And I will give unto thee and to thy seed 
 after thee, the land wherein thou ar ta stranger, all the land 
 of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I ivill be their 
 God. 
 
 In view of this great, solemn covenant between God and 
 Abraham does it seem possible that God will allow the Jews, 
 the descendants of Abraham, to be forever dispossessed of 
 this land that he gave them as an everlasting possession, and 
 be eternally and forever kept out of this great possession by 
 an avowed set of idolators like the Turks? Assuredly not. 
 The capture of Jerusalem on December 8th by our allies is 
 the first great step taken to repossess this land of Canaan. 
 
 The only thing that kept the Jew out of this land wad 
 the fact that they, as God's chosen people, refused to accept 
 his son, our Lord Jesus Christ, as their promised Messiah. 
 "When our forces have cleaned the Holy Land of the filth of 
 pagan Turkish rule of twelve centuries, then God will so 
 manifest himself to the Jews on the battle front (see Rev. 
 II chapter) that they will accept him as their risen Lord, 
 the same as we do, then the Zionist Church will be the same 
 as the rest of his other churches. 
 
 Hearing that Abram had moved into the land of Caanan 
 I decided to visit him, and arrived at his home in B. C. 
 
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 1918. I introduced myself as Mr. Dowen, telling Abram I 
 had personally known his fonner relative Noah, and he 
 surely made things pleasant for me during my visit, as he 
 was immensely wealthy. (Having planned another tour I 
 left for parts of Europe and did not get back until B. C. 
 1897). 
 
 I again visited Abraham and he met me at the door smil- 
 ing, and he said, a son had just been born. (Gen. 21). "And 
 the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto 
 Sarah as he had spoken," 
 
 iSecond — For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son 
 in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to 
 him. 
 
 Third — And Abraham called the name of his son that 
 was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, ISAAC. 
 
 The reader must keep in mind that Abraham by a mutual 
 agreement with Hagar, Sarah's hand-maiden, had a son 
 named Ishmael. If God would have permitted, Abraham 
 would have divided this great possession with Ishmael, a 
 Egyptian, a descendant of Ham, the very idolaters God 
 was planning to oust from this land of Canaan. Gen. 21, 
 part of 12th : "In all that Sarah has said unto thee, harken 
 unto her voice; for in ISAAC shall thy seed be called." 
 I studied the features of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael and 
 I found Abraham and Isaac had very pronounced Roman 
 noses, whereas Ishmael had a straight Grecian nose. 
 
 I again decided to visit the Abraham family in B. C. 1860 
 and upon entering the house I found Sarah had just been 
 buried and Isaac, a man about 38 years old, was standing 
 near his father's bedside. 
 
 I saw that Abraham's death would not be far behind 
 Sarah's and he stated he was aware of the fact. He was 
 exceedingly glad I came, as he wanted to make a will giving 
 all his property to his son, Isaac, and wanted me to witness 
 the document. As I rememlber the will it was in substance 
 as follows: I, Abraham, sole owner of the land of Canaan 
 and all cattle, and gold and other valuables that I possess, 
 given to me by the covenant of my Lord God in the year 
 B. C. 1918, recorded in the book of Genesis, the thirteenth 
 volume, records of heaven, do hereby bequeath the 
 
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 same to my son, Isaac, providing he will not take 
 unto himself a wife of the Canaanites, but will marry 
 one of my relatives in Haran. In my presence he made his 
 oldest servant swear that he would personally go to Haran, 
 his native home place in Mesopotamia and select a wife for 
 Isaac, also making a vow that he would not let him mairy 
 any native of the land of Canaan. He requested me to see 
 that the provisions of the will were carried out. 
 
 I was very much amused over the request, but in study- 
 ing Isaac's disposition I found he was awfully nice, and 
 I imagine our girls of today would call him a "sissy." 
 
 We made immediate preparation for the long journey 
 and arrived in due time at Nahor, Abraham's native town. 
 While watering our camels we saw a beautiful girl coming 
 for water. Realizing our time was precious we inquired who 
 she was, and she gave her name as Rebecca, who was born • 
 to Betheul, son of Abraham's brother's wife, Mileah. 
 
 By a sign given us about the maid, offering to draw water 
 for us, we knew she was the one, and told her of our mission. 
 She invited us home. She consented to the marriage, and 
 we started for home with the intended bride of Isaac. 
 
 After much persuasion we finally got Isaac to legally ask 
 for Rebecca's hand in marriage. After the ceremony was 
 over I witnessed the will. After which I left on a further 
 tour of discovery and was gone for one hundred years. 
 
 At the end of this time I decided to visit Isaac again ; this 
 being my first visit since Abraham deeded the land of Ca- 
 naan to Isaac. Upon entering Isaac's house, Rebecca and 
 Isaac both knew me, and I also found two men in the family 
 and inquired their names, and learned one was Esau, a 
 straight-nosed, red-headed, I-don't-care sort of a man, and 
 Jacob the twin brother (who had a very pronounced Roman 
 nose) , and was of a very determined character. 
 
 In further conversation with Rebecca I learned that Esau 
 had sold his birthright to Jacob for a morsel of meat, there- 
 by transferring to him his great possessions of the land of 
 Canaan for a mere song. 
 
 Owing to Esau's lack of appreciation of this land of 
 Canaan, the Lord sanctioned this illegal deal of Jacob's, 
 well knowing that Jacob was a shrewd man, capable of 
 
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 handling the possession, God realized that if Esau became 
 the legal heir to it, he would sell it to idolators for a morsel 
 of meat. Keep this fact in mind : While God gave Abra- 
 ham this rich possession, still he had his eye on it, as it was 
 intended for a higher object, than a Jewish passession, 
 for out of this land would grow a principle that would 
 eventually rule the world, namely: Liberty. Theret'.u'e 
 God did not intend that such a possession should fall into 
 Efuch hands as Esau. 
 
 In B. C. 1760, I again visited the Isaac family and found 
 there was quite a family contention between Esau and 
 Jacoh, as Isaac, who was old and almost blind, had ble^ed 
 Jacob instead of Esau, thereby legally transferring this 
 great heritage of the land of Canaan, as well as God 's bless- 
 ing to Jacob. And the Lord God reaffirmed the blessing to 
 Jacob (Genesis 28-13 to 15), being now the fifth legal trans- 
 fer of the Land of Canaan from Adam to Jacob and h;s 
 posterity. 
 
 I was called away on^ some business matters, and after 
 assuring Isaac I would return, I went away, and did 
 not again return until B. C. 1732 and found Jacob was 
 married and had twelve sons — ten sons by Leah and two 
 by Rachel, sisters, whom he had married in Padanaram. 
 
 A short time after this visit, I learned that through jeal- 
 ousy the sons of Jacoib had sold their youngest brother, 
 Joseph, into Egypt ; and the father, now known as Israel, 
 was very much grieved for Joseph whom he loved, (bom 
 from Rachel). 
 
 In B. C. 1707, I learned that Israel had found his long- 
 lost son, Joseph, who was now a ruler in Egypt. Israel and 
 his eleven sons had moved to Egypt, so that he could be 
 near his most beloved son. 
 
 While down in Egypt the children of Israel (or Jacob) 
 grew to such an extent that Pharaoh became alarmed at 
 their wealth and number, and placed them in bondage, 
 and they remained there until B. C. 1491, when they were 
 delivered by God, who ordered Moses and Aaron to lead 
 them to a place near Mount Sinai. In the meantime, they 
 had been divided into twelve tribes, and these tribes owned 
 the Land of Canaan, being the campers I found near the 
 
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 base of Mount Sinai on my visit in B. C. 1491. 
 
 I made inquiry of one of the oldest men in the camp as 
 to who these people were, and where they came from, and 
 he said, "These people are the descendants of Abraham, 
 who have been led out of Egypt from bondage, wherein they 
 had been held for the past seventy years." I further in- 
 quired as to how they were freed from Egypt, for I had 
 learned that King Pharaoh was a regular tyrant, and he 
 said to me : " The God of our Father Abraham, b^^ the hand 
 of Moses and Aaron; led us out of this foreign land." In 
 what way, I inquired, and he said : ' ' Our God caused 
 numerous plagues to be visited upon the King and his land ; 
 two especially, one plague was that of turning the rivers 
 of Egypt to blood, and last was God's Death Angel slaying 
 all the first born of their families and stock of all Egypt, in- 
 elubing the King's own son. Then he consented to let us 
 go, and it is by and through our father, Abraham's God 
 that we are here as you see us. " I inquired as to what they 
 existed on? seeing a vast wilderness on all sides, and he 
 said: "Our God rains down manna from heaven every 
 night and you see the forests are alive with quail, sent to us 
 since we encamped here within the past three months." 
 
 In 992 B. C. I again decided to visit the land of Canaan 
 now owned by the campers I had visited in the wilderness 
 on my first journey. On my journey across Asia I stopped 
 at various capitals and inquired about the exact location of 
 this land of Canaan, the objective point of my journey, and 
 my informant gave me directions and he said to me, "Do 
 you know that these people who own this land are now the 
 richest nation on earth? Besides they have such a wise 
 king on their throne, who knows more than all other kings 
 of the earth." I inquired his name and he said his name 
 was Solomon. I passed nearer to this land and stopped at 
 various capitals, and all said the same thing about this rich 
 land as well as its king. At last I came to this great land 
 and entered its capital. It was a beautiful summer day and I 
 immediately began a sight-seeing visit around various parts 
 of the city. I came near the palace of the great king and 
 saw a crowd of people going up the palace steps carrying a 
 woman in a golden carriage. I inquired who was this com- 
 
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 pany and who this person carried ? And was informed the 
 person was the Queen of Sheba, the queen of one of the sur- 
 rounding nations,come to pay homage to the king in his rich 
 country, now considered by her as well as all other nations 
 to be the greatest and richest nation on earth. The man I 
 talked to was a very old man and I said to him, "From 
 whence came all this great wealth, and how became it the 
 greatest of all nations ? ' ' And he said, ' ' This is the heritage 
 that our God gave to our father, Abraham, by a will made 
 to him in B. C. 1918, and we are his heirs." I inquired 
 about the king, I had learned so much about, and he said, 
 * ' That not one-half had been told, but we are expecting an- 
 other King that will be greater than King Solomon, who will 
 know all things and live forever." "Why are you expecting 
 a better and wiser king than the one you have?" And he 
 said, "Because our God who gave our father, Abraham, this 
 great land of Canaan, also promised a Messiah to rule this 
 great possession, but he has not come, but we are expecting 
 him in the future." 
 
 In the year B. C. 580 I again decided to visit the land 
 of Canaan and found the capital had been changed from 
 Jerusalem to Babylon. I visited Babylon. As I came into 
 this great city, I saw a great image of gold, and all were 
 bowing and worshiping the image, except three young men 
 whom I saw standing near watching the scene. I inquired 
 wliat this image meant and they told me the king had signed 
 an edict compelling every one to bow their knees to the gold- 
 en image under penalty of death, but their father, Abraham 
 had promised our God, whom we serve, that neither he nor 
 his children would bow their knees to any other God than 
 him, adding that they were expecting an arrest any minute. 
 I inquired the name of the king who passed the decree 
 and they said his name was Nebuchadnezzar. I later 
 learned that the three young men were Shadrach, Meshach 
 and Abednego. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 THE ROOT OF THE TREE. 
 
 Being interested in the king and his image of gold I again 
 made a visit to Babylon in B. C. 570 and found the whole 
 nation worshiping idols. I inquired of the king's health and 
 my informant said he had just learned the king was ill from 
 the effects of a dream. My curiosity was aroused over the 
 peculiar thing that would affect this great king, especially 
 an apparently harmless dream, so I began inquiring and 
 learned its interpretation; in substance, as follows: (Dan, 
 4-14.) The king dreamed he saw a great tree, the tree was 
 so tall that all other outside nations could see it. In fact, 
 it kept on growing until the top reached to heaven, and the 
 sight thereof to the end of the earth. The leaves thereof 
 were fair and the fruit thereof, and in it was meat for all. 
 The beasts of the field had shelter under it and the fowls 
 of the heavens dwelt in its boughs and all flesh was fed on 
 it. The thing that caused the illness of the king was its 
 destruction, as follows : In the dream he saw a great Per- 
 son ' ' ONE ' ' come down from heaven with a man known as 
 a watcher, and the "Great One" ordered the watcher to hew 
 down the tree, cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and 
 scatter his fruit, and drive the beasts away from its shade, 
 shelter and nourishment as well as the fowls. 
 
 The most singular thing about the king's dream was that 
 the "Great One" instructed the watcher to cut the tree 
 down to the grass roots and place brass and iron bands 
 albout the "Root." 
 
 I remained in this great city until B. C. 538. During 
 these intervening years I found the whole nation worship- 
 ing idols — every night was crowded with revelry and de- 
 
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 bauchery. Wine halls, dance halls, lewd shows, and all the 
 most hideous scenes that could be seen in a modern city 
 made up the day as well as night of this great city. 
 
 Remembering the former visits to Mt. Sinai in B. C. 1491, 
 also the visit to Jerusalem in 992, wherein my first inform- 
 ant had stated that through the power of God, given to his 
 father, Abraham, they had been led out of bondage and 
 "were being fed from His hand. Then remembering the con- 
 versation in 992 B, C. with my informant, that through the 
 heritage of their father, Abraham's God, they had this great 
 wealth, I wondered at this contrasted scene of this same sead 
 of Abraham, who at this time had forgotten Abraham's God 
 and were now worshiping this great golden image in a for- 
 eign land. 
 
 The word went out from the throne that King Belshazzar 
 had made a great feast to a thousand of his lords (being in 
 the year B. C. 538), and luckily I was intimately associated 
 with one of the lords, and was therefore invited with him 
 to the feast. In viewing the scene there that night, it com- 
 pared well with many of our up-to-date dinners given by 
 some of the elite, within the past ten years, which have 
 been a national disgrace. 
 
 During the feast we were startled by a hand writing on 
 the wall, and believing it God's hand, I advised my lord 
 to go home. The next morning we were awakened by a body 
 of soldiers ordering us to dress and go with them. I soon 
 found I was a prisoner, but as soon as they found I was a 
 Roman citizen, they released me. The next day I saw tons 
 of gold, many diamonds, pearls, and all kinds of wealth 
 loaded on camels starting toward Media, led by Darius the 
 Median King. 
 
 In the death and destruction in Babylon, I saw the ex- 
 planation of the fallen tree. It occurred to me that the tree 
 Belshazzar 's father had seen in his dream also applied 
 to the Children of Israel (Abraham's seed). However, I 
 could not at this time see the significance of the "ROOT" 
 and the iron and brass band around it. Remembering that 
 the great tree was not located in any particular spot of tlie 
 world, I determined at some future time to try and locate it. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 JERUSALEM. 
 
 I went back to Jerusalem after witnessing these terrible 
 scenes, as well as the fall of this great city, Balbylon, in 538 
 B. C, fully realizing the purport of the King's father's 
 dream of the great tree and its destruction by Darius, King 
 of Media, thus punishing the children of Abraham and tak- 
 ing from them this rich heritage that had been handed 
 down by the Lord God in 1491, simply because they per- 
 sisted in worshiping idols, so God withdrew himself from 
 them, and that gave these nations the golden opportunity 
 to act and conquer wherein the Jew's were made captives. 
 
 I started on my way to Jerusalem, but was delayed and 
 did not arrive until B, C. 168. I thought it would still be 
 the magnificent city I had formerly visited in B. C. 992, 
 but, instead, I found a dirty, filthy, unsanitary city with 
 low buildings, not fit for decent people to live in except a 
 certain part of the city which retained part of its former 
 grandeur. I inquired of different people who lived in this 
 section, and they informed me that this section of the city 
 was occupied by the Greek ruler of this land. Being sur- 
 prised at the change in government again since I left Baby- 
 lon, I inquired of an old man and he said that in B. C. 
 330 Alexander the Great conquered the Persians at the bat- 
 tle of Arbela, and they had been ruled by the Greeks from 
 that time to now. While we were talking, I saw a runner 
 coming up the street, saying that Matthias, a priest at 
 Modin, in the hill country of Judea, had fought a battle and 
 overcome the Greek authority of Palestine. This brave 
 priest was slain a few days after this first battle and his son 
 named Judas Maccabees, continued the guerilla warfare 
 
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 around Jerusalem. Realizing that it would be dangerous to 
 search for the "ROOT" of the great tree at this time, I 
 decided to come back later, feeling certain I would find it 
 near where the battles were now being fought, and again 
 left Jerusalem and visited a friend in Damascus. 
 
 I remained there two years. Hearing the war was over, 
 I again started for Jerusalem in search of the "Root" of the 
 tree and arrived in B. C. 166, and found Judas Macca- 
 bees, son of the brave Matthias, had set himself up as king 
 on the Judean throne. I began searching again and re- 
 mained in the hills on the search, for five years. Upon my 
 return I met a former friend who stated the brave Judas, 
 the king, had been killed and Jonathan, his brother, was 
 now king ; so having failed in my search, I decided I might 
 find the "Root" somewhere in India. I took the journey, 
 searching as I went. After I had searched all over India, 
 I gave it up as hopeless. 
 
 In B. C. 4 I heard there had been a king bom in Bethle- 
 hem of Judea, where I had formerly searched, and remem- 
 ibering what my informant had told me in B. C. 992 albout a 
 king that had been promised to the children of Israel, I 
 decided again to visit Jerusalem in the hope of getting some 
 information through the birth of this king. I arrived at 
 Jerusalem and upon my arrival I saw women running from 
 their homes carrying babies and crying at the top of their 
 voices; soldiers were running after them, taking their chil- 
 dren from them ; then holding them up with one hand, and 
 piercing their little hearts with their swords with the other ; 
 my heart almost bled at the sight and I inquired the cause 
 of the awful slaughter of these innocents, and was inform- 
 ed that King Herod the Great, had ordered them killed. 
 
 I inquired how came it that Herod the Great was now 
 king, and was told that Jonathan had been killed in B. C. 
 144 and was succeeded by Simon, his brother, who had died. 
 Two societies known as the Pharisees and Sadducees had 
 taken over the last semlblance of the former Jewish king- 
 dom, and held it up to B. C. 63, then the Roman govern- 
 ment placed Hyrcanus on the throne and he ruled Jeru- 
 salem up to B. C. 40. Then Herod the Great was placed on 
 
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 the throne as ruler, being the one who had issued the decree 
 to slay all male children two years old and younger, Herod 
 ralized that if a Jewish king was born, it would mean that 
 he would lose his throne, as he well knew these Children of 
 Israel had a good title to this land of Canaan, and he there- 
 fore tried to destroy their king and end all future trou'bles. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 CHEIST CRUCIFIED. 
 
 Hoping the Boy King could tell me about the "Root" 
 of the tree, I decided to go to Rome and remain until He 
 reached young manhood, and then come back ; which I did 
 in A. D. 30. Upon nearing Jerusalem, I saw a great crowd 
 seemingly all mad or drunk. I also noticed three crosses on 
 a Imoll in the center of the crowd, with three men on the 
 crosses. I pushed my way through the crowd near enough 
 to read the superscription over the head of the person on 
 the center cross, and found it read : "This is Jesus, the King 
 of the Jews." Not forgetting the scene of thousands of 
 little ones slain at His birth and seeing Him dying on the 
 cross, I realized that my hopes about getting any informa- 
 tion about the * ' Root ' ' from this King, who was now hang- 
 ing on the cross in such great agony, had flown. I wept at 
 the scene and decided never to return to Jerusalem again 
 until I had found the "Root" of the tree. As I turned 
 away a flash of lightning almost blinded me. The thunder 
 roared like our French 75 's are now roaring on the western 
 front ; and while dodging the lightning, the earth began to 
 tremble and I saw great rocks roll from their beds. The 
 graves of the dead flew open and thousands came forth. It 
 began getting dark, and in less than a minute it was as dark 
 as pitch; in fact, you could feel the blackness. Among all 
 this confusion, I heard people crying and begging the rocks 
 to fall on them ; some gnashing their teeth, saying the world 
 was coming to an end. There were others in the crowd, 
 praying, and some cursing the God of this King. All at 
 once everything was calm ; it immediately became light, and 
 when I recovered my senses I looked at the One hanging 
 
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 on the center cross and saw that He was dead, but a stream 
 of blood still flowed from His side. 
 
 I shuddered at the scene and ran away toward the near- 
 est gate of the city, and in passing through, I saw great 
 crowds in and around the temple — some praying, others 
 wringing their hands and tearing their hair out, and as I 
 passed into the temple, I informed the doorkeeper that the 
 King was now dead. I noticed the veil of the temple and 
 found it was torn into two pieces. I then left the temple, 
 and as I went out of the city, everything was confusion. I 
 left Jerusalem for Rome, as I had had enough nerve-racking 
 scenes from these last two visits to cause me almost to go 
 insane. 
 
CHAPTEE VIII. 
 IN THE AIVIPHITHEATRE. 
 
 Realizing that the city of Rome was the seat of learning, 
 as well as a great world power, I decided to go there and 
 end my days. I arrived at Rome in A. D. 70 and found a 
 new sect of religion had been established there, known 
 as the Christians. Being interested, I began inquiring about 
 them ; I found thej^ had established seven churches throug'h- 
 out the Roman empire and were a determined sect of 
 people. 
 
 I decided to go to the great amphitheatre and see the per- 
 formance. Emperor Nero having announced some special 
 new features at this day's special entertainment. I got a seat 
 near the Emperor and saw that he was in a very pleasant 
 mood over this special feature. The performance began in 
 the usual way, by letting loose a number of animals, and I 
 saw numerous ones killed as well as their tormentors. 
 
 This, however, seemed to be only the introduction to the 
 performance. The animal gates were thrown open and I 
 saw a number of fierce lions come forth ; 1 also noticed that 
 the gladiators' gate was open, and presently a great crowd 
 of peculiarly dressed people were forced into the arena. I 
 inquired of a person sitting near me as to whom these people 
 were, seeing that they were going to certain death, as I 
 heard that the lions had not been fed for days. He said 
 they were Christians. Realizing this fact, I was deeply con- 
 cerned. I especially noticed that all these people had smiles 
 on their faces. I could not understand, but I remembered 
 the bright, shining countenance of the old man at Jerusa- 
 lem in 992 B. C. telling me about Israel's great wealth. I 
 
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 saw these people had the same deep smiling satisfaction he 
 had, when giving me the information about Abraham and 
 his seed who had occupied the land of Canaan. When the 
 company neared the center of the arena, the slaughter 
 began, and I turned my back on the awful scene. In so 
 doing I noticed the Emperor was simply drunk with the 
 carnage, laughing in his Satanic way over the blood spilt, 
 clapping his hands; in fact, you would have imagined he 
 was a little boy at the movies seeing Charlie Chaplin. When 
 the first lot was all slain, I heard the Emperor order more 
 in the arena, and saw another crowd go to their doom, and 
 the more that came, the more drunken this beast became 
 over the blood of these innocents. When the performance 
 was over I stepped into the arena and noticed the slain 
 persons that were strewed over the whole place, and all 
 seemed to have the sweet smile on their faces in death as 
 when they walked alive 'into the arena. I left the amphi- 
 theatre with a very heavy heart, but my curiosity was 
 greatly aroused. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE NEW SECT. 
 
 I learned that this sect were the followers of the King 
 whom I had seen die on the cross at Jerusalem. Realizing 
 they had a something — a support out of the ordinary, I 
 watched them and their doings, hoping that I might get a 
 clue to the "Root of the tree"; and I began searching 
 in and around Rome for this "Root of the tree." Having, 
 failed in the search around Rome, I decided to go to Ephe- 
 sus, in Asia Minor, as I had heard that Paul, the greatest 
 apostle of this new Christian religion, had established a 
 church in that city. 
 
 I sailed from Rome in A. D. 53 and arrived at Ephesus 
 two weeks later. I inquired if any one knew a person by 
 the name of Paul of Tarsus, and my informant told me Paul 
 had just preached the most startling sermon on Mars Hill 
 that had ever been preached in Ephesus (Acts 17). In fact, 
 he had stirred up the people to such an extent that the whole 
 city was in an uproar over the new doctrine about the ' ' Un- 
 known Grod. " I learned later that he and his followers 
 had left for Corinth, Greece, consequently I missed seeing 
 him. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 THE SCROLL. 
 
 I continued my search in Asia Minor, as Paul had es- 
 tablished churches at Sardis, Philadelphia and other cities 
 in this district. While I did not get any definite clue to 
 the object of my search, I did learn that John the Divine, 
 one of the leading apostles of the Christian Church, had 
 been banished to the Isle of Patmos. Hoping I could get 
 some clue from him, I decided to go and see him, and ar- 
 rived at the island in A. D. 96. After introducing myself, 
 I told him of my travels and of the many things Paul had 
 done until he was executed, for preaching the new religion, 
 in A. D. 67. He was deeply interested in my conversation, 
 but told me he could not give me any light on the subject of 
 my search, but stated that the Risen Christ had appeared to 
 him a few days before and had dictated a wonderful mys- 
 tery to him, and had also requested him to send it to the 
 churches of Ephesus, where I had visited. He further 
 stated that part of the writing might give me a clue to the 
 object of my search, referring to that part of Revelation 
 now knowTi as the Twelth Chapter. In leaving, he requested 
 me to take the scroll to the Church of Ephesus, and I will- 
 ingly granted his request. 
 
 While going back, I copied the scroll, as the reference 
 he had made about a part of the scroll deeply interested me, 
 and might help in my search. 
 
 After delivering the original to the Elders of the Church 
 of Ephesus, I again sailed for Corinth on a further search, 
 and finally landed in Rome in A. D. 220. At this time I 
 found this new Christian religion had grown to be a great 
 
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 church, but found ther e had arisen strife to such an 
 extent that there had been a division, with one side known 
 as Eoman Catholics, and the other side as the original Chris- 
 tian Church. The Roman Catholic side established their 
 permanent headquarters in Rome, Italy, and the organiza- 
 tion had become a great power. (In fact they became so 
 powerful that later they ruled Europe up to the tenth cen- 
 tury, ) The other side of the church, known as the original 
 Christian Church, was divided up into different denomina- 
 tions, but the numerous divisions, as well as church and 
 state persecutions against the Christian side of the church, 
 caused it to retrograde. 
 
 After searching among these churches and leaders for the 
 mystery of "the Root of the tree," I despaired of finding it 
 either in Italy or through these churches. 
 
 Owing to the intolerable conditions the original church 
 had passed through in Europe, and the terrorizing tragedy 
 of St. Bartholomew, it really seemed almost impossible for 
 it longer to exist. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 THE NEW WORLD. 
 
 I therefore decided to leave Rome and go to Spain, hoping 
 to get at least some religious relief in that country. 
 
 I left Rome in A. D. 1491 and came direct to Spain and 
 remained there until the spring of 1492. 
 
 While I was standing on one of the streets of Madrid, 
 I saw an old man pass by. The boys were following him, 
 calling him crazy and other derisive names, but the old man 
 said nothing to them, but went on down the street. With 
 my curiosity aroused, I decided to follow him. He came 
 to the Queen's palace and entered. Realizing I could not 
 enter without a permit, I went to the Roman ambassador for 
 an introduction to the Queen of Spain, and after receiving 
 it, I went to the palace and was received. I found the 
 Queen listening to the old man's story. He said that Grod 
 had revealed to him that the earth was round, and by trav- 
 eling west about four thousand miles, he would arrive at 
 the East Indies, making the trip in less than one-fourth of 
 the time by the eastern route. The Queen seemed to be 
 interested, and carefully examined the maps and charts on 
 the table before her and at last said : ' ' Here is money, my 
 jewels and everything of value ; go and fit out such as you 
 need for the voyage and I will pay the expenses." 
 
 I saw the old man leave the palace with a smiling face 
 and immediately walk to the docks when he began bartering 
 for ships to go in search of the passage. The owners of the 
 ships hesitated, realizing the dangers, but finally loaned the 
 ships because their Queen was interested in the expedition, 
 and consented to take the risk. They let him have three 
 
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 seaworthy ships. 
 
 "When the ships were provisioned and ready to start on 
 the unknown journey, I believed there might be some hope 
 of finding the "Root of the tree" somewhere in Japan, so I 
 decided to go with the expedition, for the scenes I had 
 witnessed had intensified my desire to find the "Root," 
 that being now my greatest desire in life. I felt that if I 
 could find the "Root," the balance of life would be all 
 sunshine and my every desire met. 
 
 We sailed in 1492, and everything went along smoothly 
 until the end of the second week, then I began to hear 
 murmuring because we had not found Japan. It kept up as 
 we drifted and sailed along, hoping every day to reach our 
 haven, but at the end of the third week no land was in sight. 
 In the rear end of our iship I noticed a number of men talk- 
 ing, and afterwards I saw them approach Columbus, and 
 heard them tell him that if they did not find land within 
 thirty-six hours they would east him overboard. Instead of 
 this threat disheartening Columbus, it seemed to make him 
 feel more confident of an early discovery of the new route 
 to Japan. In fact, I myself felt a deep unexplained confi 
 dence that we would reach Japan Mdthin the thirty-six 
 hours. 
 
 Two days later someone startled the crowd by saying, 
 "Land! Land!" and we all strained our eyes to see the 
 sight, and as we neared it we saw before us a beautiful 
 shore. We landed on the beach and I saw Columbus kneel 
 on the shore and thank God for deliverance as well as dis- 
 covery. We also saw an unbroken forest as far as we could 
 see. We realized it could not possibly be Japan. After 
 searching through its great forests for weeks, we decided it 
 was an unknown land, and so we raised the flag of Spain 
 over the land, naming it Columbia, and started on our 
 return home to tell the news to our Queen. 
 
 As soon as it became known that we were back, great 
 crowds greeted us. Soon great expeditions were planned 
 by various parties. The Queen was greatly pleased with 
 the discovery and decided to send Columbus on another 
 voyage. I decided not to go with him on the second trip. 
 
CHAPTER Xll. 
 AMEBICUS VESPUCCI. 
 
 Later hearing that another great expedition, being 
 planned by a man named Amerieus Vespucci, a noted sea- 
 man as well as a great captain of wealth, would offer greater 
 opportunities, I planned to go with him, 
 
 I remained in Madrid awaiting the sailing of Amerieus 
 Vespucci's expedition, hoping yet to reach Japan, In the 
 meantime I learned that Columbus was on his second voy- 
 age to the new world. 
 
 In talking to Amerieus Vespucci, I saw there was quite 
 a deep-seated jealousy existing between him and Columbus, 
 and felt that evil would fall on Columbus if his rival found 
 new land, for wealth and power was back of Amerieus 
 Vespucci, the merchants and ship ownere having offered 
 him everything he could desire, necessary to fit out his ex- 
 pedition. The sailing day came and we again started on the 
 same course, and after weeks on the high seas, we landed at 
 a point now known as Dutch Guinea. Believing this was 
 not the same land Columbus had found on his voyage, we 
 raised a flag over the new land and named it America, and 
 returned home. This time I felt a deep satisfaction that 
 somewhere in this new land I could find the great object 
 of my world's search. Finding that this new land was in- 
 habited by some heathen race, unknown to the world, I re- 
 turned home with the expedition, with the full determina- 
 tion to return again when it was more safe. I waited and 
 watched first one expedition after another come and go ; not 
 only Spain, but England, France, Portugal, the Norweg- 
 ians, and in fact, every nation realized that a new world 
 
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 had been found. 
 
 Columbus returned from his last voyage, but through 
 the Satanic jealousy existing against him, owing to 
 the honor of discovery, the controversy became equal 
 to the Cooke and Perry discovery of the North Pole. 
 Having few friends amd no money to back him, Columibus 
 was thrown into prison and I later learned that he had 
 died in prison, penniless and with a broken heart. This 
 was the end of the great career of a discoverer of in- 
 exhaustible w^ealth. No doubt God's hand led him, and in- 
 fluenced Queen Isabella to aid in the great discovery. 
 
 In that first voyage, I felt like there was some unknown 
 power holding the flag ship all the time, with the winds 
 favorable to us as well as so few storms molesting us on 
 the journey. No douM God's hand was over this ship, 
 guiding it to this fountain of inexhaustible wealth — the 
 future birthplace of Li'berty. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 LIBERTY. 
 
 Owing to the tyranny in Spain, influenced by the Roman 
 Church, I decided to go to Leydon, in Holland, where I 
 landed about A. D. 1620, and finding a secret society 
 formed, whose object was to find Liberty in America, I be- 
 came one of the active members. (The numerous voyages 
 of discovery and flattering reports of wealth in iron, gold 
 and rich lands created a desire for this new world). We 
 collected sufficient money and provisions for our jour- 
 ney in search of religious Liberty, the thing the people 
 of all Europe and Asia were longing for. We sailed Sep- 
 temiber 16, 1620, but our trouble had just begun. There 
 had been differences of opinion among our company as to 
 where to go. Some ships turned back, as the sea was rough. 
 After we had been on the journey nearly two months, 
 someone, through trickery, made one of the ships leak and 
 it had to turn back, but the balance vowed that they would 
 continue even though all drowned. After bidding the re- 
 turning party farewell, we proceeded on our journey and 
 the next day the sky became black and a great storm came 
 up, so we committed ourselves to the hands of God whom we 
 had learned to love. We drifted during the worst part of 
 the storm. We heard a great crash, and upon examination 
 our captain found one of the main masts had broken off. 
 The beam was raised and fastened with a great iron screw 
 and a post put under it for support ; besides which, we had 
 to make other minor repairs. We then proceeded on our 
 journey, encountering other storms, but none so serious. All 
 felt that if we ever did reach port, it would be by the 
 
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 mercy of God,, whom all now worshiped, except one young 
 man, a profane young fellow who ridiculed the balance of 
 us, especially our seasickness, and further insinuated that 
 he would form a plot and throw us overboard. There were 
 only two deaths on the voyage, one of which was that of 
 this blasphemous young man. It seemed to all that his 
 threat fell back on his own head. 
 
 On November 19, 1620, we sighted land, now known as 
 Cape Cod. The next day we came into Cape Harbor and 
 landed. As soon as we reached the shore we fell upon our 
 knees and thanked God for our deliverance from the perils 
 of the deep, and for bringing us safely to land. There we 
 established ourselves on a Weak, wintry day, in the heart 
 of a great forest with roving bands of Indians all around 
 us. While we built our log houses, part of the company 
 were compelled to keep their guns at their side, for protec- 
 tion against the wild animals that infested the forest. 
 
 We lived in our ship, the "Mayflower," during that 
 winter. However, we were kept T^usy building houses 
 neartby, and when they were completed in the spring we 
 moved to our permanent homes in the forest, which we 
 named Plymouth, now in Massachusetts. 
 
 While our trip across the ocean was trying beyond 
 human description, still, I felt I was nearer my goal than 
 ever before and decided to remain in this wilderness the 
 balance of my life. 
 
 •One night as I lay asleep in my log cabin, I dreamed I 
 saw the "Root" of the great tree surrounded on all sides 
 by a forest. The hills were of medium height surrounding 
 the root, there was a beautiful river flowing by. I ex- 
 amined the root closely and found it had two bands around 
 it, one iron, the other brass. There was a small tree (or 
 shrub) growing between the tree and bands. I also noticed 
 that it was on the east side of the root. The dream awak- 
 ened me. 
 
 For the next hundred years the colony put all their efforts 
 to farming the new lands, and found they yielded two^fold 
 over the soil in the old country, and at the end of these 
 years our colony was well supplied with all they needed. 
 
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 In the meantime other colonies had also been formed along 
 the Atlantic coast. 
 
 In 1691 England gave us a new charter including Ply- 
 mouth, Massachusetts, Maine and Nova Scotia. We then 
 banded ourselves together for our own mutual protection 
 and being known as the first four original colonies with 
 headquarters in Boston, i\Iass. After this time our colonies 
 beeeame wealthy through bountiful crops harvested. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. 
 
 In 1700 A. D. I again took up the search for the Pearl 
 of Great Price. My dream indicated it was near a river 
 and the shrub was growing on the east gide of the stump, 
 which fully convinced me it was somewhere near the At- 
 lantic coast. I sailed around the coast to Chasapeake bay, 
 going up to its head. I noticed the mouth of a great river 
 flowing into the bay. I decided to go up this river. In so 
 doing, I saw small towns had sprung up along its shores. 
 I landed at a town now named Alexandria, Va. I inquired 
 about the conditions further up the river and was informed 
 it was nothing 'but a wilderness. Realizing the dream 
 showed a wilderness as well as a river, I proceeded on my 
 journey. As I neared the river where the "Washington 
 Monument now stands, things looked familiar to me. I took 
 quite a stroll over to where the Capitol buildings are now 
 located, which gave me a fairly good view of the landscape. 
 Upon examination, I found the river and rolling conditions 
 to fit exactly into my dream. I searched for the exact spot 
 of the ' ' Root of the Great Tr>je, " but I found nothing ex- 
 cept forests. Feeling certain I had found the location, I 
 made a eross out of a small green tree and placed it on 
 the spot which I judged to be the site of the "Root." 
 
 I made a chart of the location for future reference. The 
 only thing I did not find was the root and bran<jh, but de- 
 cided to watch this spot and await further developments, as 
 I had done in the case of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar on 
 my first visit to Babylon in B. C. 538. I went down the 
 river, which seemed to me was the very River of Life. As T 
 passed over its crystal waters the great forests seemed filled 
 
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 with peace, liberty and contentment. The voices of the 
 wild animals that had struck me with terror goin? up, now 
 seemed like the bleating of sheep and lambs. The rocks 
 seemed to cry out in their perfect satisfied state, the birds 
 were singing their song of praise to their Maker : the per- 
 fume of the flowers blended in sweet harmony with the mil- 
 lions of songsters in the forest. In fact, the waters, for- 
 ests, rocks, animals, hirds, flowers and all nature seemed 
 to be singing the song of Liberty in their forest home. It 
 was now noon and I noticed a wigwam on the bank of the 
 river and decided to stop for nourishment. During the 
 years I had been in America, I had learned the dialect of 
 the Indians; so as I neared the shore (now Alexandria) 
 and saw an old Indian come out of his wigwam, I gave him 
 the sign of peace and he answered in the same spirit by 
 holding out his pipe to me, assuring me of his f nendship ; 
 therefore, I landed, and after I had partaken of his hos- 
 pitality, of combread and venison, I inquired of him who 
 gave him his great hunting ground, and he said: "The 
 Great Spirit. ' ' I asked him if all the Indians he knew be- 
 lieved the same thing, and he said they did, and that when 
 they died they would go to the Happy Hunting Ground pre- 
 pared for them by the Great Spirit. I asked him how long 
 his people had worshiped this Great Spirit, and he showed 
 me Tby making marks on the side of his wigwam. Each 
 mark represented "100," and I found seventeen marks. 
 Figuring it back to the scene I had witnessed on my visit 
 to Jerusalem, it 'brought it back to the birth of the Boy 
 King, at which time I had seen thousands of little toaby 
 hearts pierced by cruel soldiers. 
 
 Having spent most of the afternoon with the Indian, I 
 proceeded on down the river. I eame again into Chesa- 
 peake bay and stopped over night at a settlement now knoAvn 
 as Annapolis, and learned that these settlers had also left 
 the old world in search of Religious Liberty, having the 
 same object in view as had our colony. Leaving there the 
 next day, in due time I arrived at Plymouth. 
 
 In starting on the journey, I went away with a half 
 doubting spirit, realizing that it was only to unravel a 
 
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 dream; but knowing liow King Nebuchadnezzar's dream 
 had affected him, and how its fulfillment had caused him to 
 eat grass like an animal, and to slay his son in the midst of 
 his great feast, I felt the same unseen Hand that had so 
 miraculously brought us across the storm-tossed deep in 
 1620, was also guiding me to the place of the "Root" that 
 I had spent ages in trying to find, but in vain. Now, after 
 I had found the spot but not the stump, I decided to await 
 future developments of the King's dream. 
 
GHAPTEiR XV. 
 LIBERTY—THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 In the meantime, thousands of new settlers came over 
 from all parts of the old world, hut to our discomfiture, we 
 began to be burdened by England's taxes, and restrictions 
 in buying and selling goods. 
 
 One of her many unreasonable demands was, that no one 
 in her colonies should buy from any nation but herself, and 
 she sent soldiers over to enforce her decree. In 1773 we 
 handed togther, and one night we threw overboard a cargo 
 of tea in Boston Harbor. In after time this was known as 
 the ' ' Boston Tea Party. ' ' England then sent thousands of 
 soldiers to enforce these numerous restrictions that had be- 
 come intolerable. The first Continental Congress was called 
 to meet in Philadelphia in 1774. Congress, 'by resolution, 
 demanded the right to levy all taxes. It organized the 
 American Association, which bound all the colonies to stop 
 just laws and establish a Bureau of Information to keep 
 using British goods until Parliament should repeal its un- 
 the colonies posted. The answer of the Crown to the Reso- 
 lutions, was to send more British regulars to enforce the 
 laws, with orders to destroy the colonists' supplies at Con- 
 cord and Lexington. 
 
 Paul Revere, hearing that the regulars were coming, 
 made his famous ride through the country and collected the 
 farmers at Lexington, where the first blow was struck for 
 Liberty on April 19th, 1775. 
 
 The second Continental Congress was called on May 10, 
 1775, the object being to raise means to further defend our 
 rights. Meantime, Ethan Allen had taken Fort Ticon- 
 
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 deroga with plenty of militaiy supplies, iwhich we sorely 
 needed. 
 
 During the year 1775 we won many battles. On July 
 4th, 1776, Congress, at Philadelphia, signed our Declaration 
 of Independence. 
 
 In order to convince you that God raises up individuals 
 as well as nations to do His will on earth, I wish to cite two 
 instances in the life of Washington, the great commander of 
 the forces of the colonies, to prove that the Divine Hand 
 was protecting him : 
 
 In 1753 Washington was ordered to take a message from 
 Williamsburg, Va., to Presque Island on Lake Erie, which 
 necessitated his crossing the Potomac River. The river was 
 running full of ice, so Washington decided to cross on the 
 floating ice. 
 
 In going over he saw that it was necessary to jump from 
 one cake of ice to another or lose his life. He figured the 
 distance was sixteen feet, so he committed himself to God, 
 and with all the force within him made a successful leap. 
 This escape from death by drowning is to my mind a miracle 
 performed by Divine Providence to save him for the great 
 work before him, the same as Joseph was saved from tho 
 pit and sent down into Egypt to save his father and his 
 brotners. (See Gen. 37 Chap.) 
 
 Go with me to the ibattle of Braddock and watch the 
 battle; the soldiers are falling on all sides, practically an- 
 nihilated by the Indians. When the battle was over, one 
 man was uninjured and that man was Washington. In con- 
 versation with one of the Indian chiefs, I asked why they 
 did not kill the young lieutenant pale-face, and he said that 
 he had shot at him sixteen times and could not hit him, and 
 lie knew that hundreds of arrows 'had been aimed at his 
 heart, but all had missed their mar'k. He said that the 
 Great Spirit protected him and they knew he could not be 
 killed. (A proven historical fact). God's hand surely pro- 
 tected Washington. 
 
 Ajfter the close of this seven years' war, Washington was 
 elected President of the first and only great Republic in ihe 
 world up to this time. 
 
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 After the close of the war, I saw our new Republic rise 
 'by leaps and bounds. Our crops were so great that it be- 
 came necessary to get a foreign outlet for our goods, so we 
 formed a company and began building merchant ships, and 
 in a few years we carried our goods to the Old "World, in 
 our own bottoms. The only thing that hampered us was the 
 Mother Country, who now tried to control the high seas; 
 she would stop our ships, confiscate what was wanted, and 
 then let the vessels proceed. If she saw a number of good 
 husky seamen among the ship 's crew, they would be forced 
 into service on her own vessels. In fact, she was trying to 
 make it as intolerable on the seas as she had formerly on 
 land, so we decided to stop it, and declared war against her 
 in 1812, for the freedom of the seas and sailors' rights. 
 
 The war was of short duration, and from that time every- 
 thing went smoothly. 
 
OHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE FINDING OF THE ROOT. 
 
 After the close of the war, Congress, at Phila- 
 delphia), found the hall, then used for meetings, to 
 be inadequate for the increasing demands made upon it. 
 Being now a member of Congress, I was luckily appointed 
 on a committee to select a site for the capitol buildings. 
 We examined numerous locations offered, but none seemed 
 to suit; and remembering w^ere my dream had taken me, 
 and the inexplicable satisfaction it gave me, I suggested it 
 as a prospective site to our committee. 
 
 We set April 18, 1801, as the day to meet in Baltimore, 
 to view my prospective capitol site. We arrived in An- 
 napolis as previously arranged, and took the same route I 
 had taken. Arriving at my proposed location, we landed 
 at the same spot at which I had landed before. After we 
 had prepared a lunch composed of bread and fish (the 
 Potomac then heing full of fish), and heing a Catholic by 
 past profession, I refrained from eating meat, as this was 
 Friday. 
 
 Feeling that my old church in Rome had prostituted the 
 Catholic faith, which was really the cause of my being here, 
 I therefore did not hold to the old faith and have now no 
 certain religious ties, but I realize how holy Friday is to the 
 Catholic world ; and as I think of the awful scene I wit- 
 nessed on Friday, A. D. 30, on Mt. Calvary, at Jerusalem, 
 the day will always be sacred to me. My aim in life will 
 be to follow the Cross; my quest, the ''Root" of the tree. 
 
 After partaking of our repast, we proceeded to make an 
 examination of the country. One of our committee sug- 
 
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 gested that we view the landscape from a knoll, so we went 
 to the IcQoU, and there before us stood the cross I had 
 erected years before. Everyone was silent. All seemed to 
 be spellbound ; no one said a word. We all, with one accord, 
 kneeled at the cross and thanked God for bringing us to 
 this sacred spot, and there dedicated the spot as the legal 
 place for the National Capitol of this glorious nation. 
 
 After this unanimous decision w^e started on our return, 
 and I noticed everyone had a deep expression of satisfaction. 
 We talked of the beautiful stream, and forests lining its 
 sides, and all seemed of the same mind as I was when I first 
 gazed upon its crystal waters. 
 
 We stopped over night at Alexandria, Va., and before 
 leaving, I showed them the Old wigwam where I was the 
 guest of the Indian chief and where he told me about the 
 Great Spirit. Having seen the various interesting sights, we 
 proceeded on our journey to Philadelphia and laid before 
 Congress our conclusions relative to the new capitol site. 
 The report was taken up by hoth Houses and passed with 
 sufficient appropriations to build it, the same being placed 
 in the building committee's hands and the work commenced. 
 I was placed on the building committee, and when the foun- 
 dations were completed, we were authorized to make an 
 estimate. Later the committee met, viewed the work so 
 far done, and made an estimate of the cost. It was during 
 the examination for the estimate that I saw my long-looked- 
 for-pearl — the "Root" in the cross (here in America!), 
 which, as you know, I had been searching for since B. C. 
 536 ! My happiness overcame me. In fact, my ecstatic emo- 
 tion frightened the committee. They thought that I had 
 suddenly gone insane; ibut I soon recovered my normal 
 calm, and in a non-committal manner explained the cause 
 of my emotions. We started on our return journey, and 
 realizing that my life's dream had become a glorious fact, 
 with increased pleasure I devoted my days to seeing that 
 the capitol was huilt according to specifications. 
 
 Having all the world's good I needed, and time between 
 my duties, I concluded to consider the great events (and 
 their connection) in my long life. 
 
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 Realizing that England had controlled most of the colon- 
 ies I reasoned that her colonial possessions represented the 
 long-looked-for "Root" of the tree. I was at this time puz- 
 zled as to how it could in any way apply to the great tree 
 hewn down and scattered, as described in Nebuchadnezzar s 
 dream oi B C 538. I am often amazed at the intricacies 
 of Providence, here on the opposite side of the world from 
 the place where the tree was destroyed, in a country settled 
 by a people principally of the old English stock, and from 
 which stock a tree was grown, that in after time budded and 
 bore the fruit that God intended_ should be fed to the world, 
 as seen in my own dream in 1625. 
 
 The building committee was ordered to make the second 
 estimate on the construction of the -capitol, and when I got 
 to the capitol grounds, I found the walls had been com- 
 pleted, and further noticed that the small tree I had formed 
 into a cross had taken root and was growing. It had been 
 placed in front of the main capitol entrance, facing the pro- 
 posed White House, with the cross section pointing directly 
 between the entrance and the White House. It seemed to 
 me that the cross indicated that it was to direct both the 
 White House as well as Congress in the future years. 
 
 By the time the dome of the Capitol was completed, the 
 small limbs which had grown from the upright part of the 
 cross were now higher than the dome ! and upon our return 
 on our final trip of estimation, preparatory to accepting 
 the Capitol building, I found the tree so tall that no other 
 tree in the near forest equaled it in height. I began com- 
 paring our national growth to the tree, namely: our pur- 
 ehase^of Louisiana at three cents per acre; the Florida pur- 
 chase and others seeming to correspond with our growth of 
 the gi-eat tree in front of the Capitol. 
 
 After Congress moved to the new Capitol, the nati^on 
 seemed to grow in wealth by leaps and bounds. In 182o I 
 decided to visit Washington, and as I came up the river, 
 even so far down as Alexandria (17 miles), I could see the 
 tree, but the top of it was scarcely visible. 
 
 I 'visited Congress and heard men like Clay, Webster, and 
 other noted characters, debate on various questions. Con- 
 
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 gress being over, I again returned home. 
 
 In 1848 the census showed over 40,000,000 souls within 
 our borders. Besides which, our imports and exports were 
 bidding fair to rival other nations in the world's trade. I 
 also noticed the cross, but could not see its top at all, so I 
 purchased a spyglass and found the tree had not only grown 
 out of sight, but it was sending out a phosphorescent light 
 from its branches, lighting all of the possessions within our 
 borders which now reached from the Rio Grande to the 
 Great Lakes, with the western boundary on the Pacific 
 Ocean and the eastern boundary on the Atlantic Ocean. 
 
 Having become rather feeble, I decided to go to Washing- 
 ton in my automobile, and drove over on a Saturday in 
 October, 1912; and as my former religious scruples had 
 blended into the new church of liberty, realizing that it 
 meant Catholics, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, etc., I there- 
 fore decided to visit the first church of Washington, and 
 found they had the whole day set apart for praying to the 
 Almighty God for the overthrow of Turkey, as well as all 
 other Pagan and Mohammedan nations who were killing 
 the Armenians by the tens of thousands, and I joined with 
 them in the day's devotion. I further learned that all 
 Methodists throughout the world were devoting the day 
 to prayer for the same purpose. I had wondered to myself 
 if the Methodists would realize the greatness of God's plan 
 if He used His means in answering their prayers, remem- 
 bering that His former punishments and His answers to 
 the prayers of His people had often been through the in- 
 strumentality of war. It really seemed to me they were 
 praying for something they would not believe, even if their 
 prayers should be answered, and their present lukewarm- 
 ness proves it. 
 
 I noticed the Great Tree had now sent its light clear 
 across both oceans, as I learned by cabling Paris, France, 
 as well as Canton, China. I also wired the mayor of Toronto, 
 Canada, and they had seen the light. I cabled the Mayor 
 of Melbourne, Australia, and found they had seen the light 
 of the Great Tree. In fact, I found the light now reaching 
 practically to all parts of the world. 
 
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 I purchased the best telescope I could find in Washington 
 and found I could not see the top of the tree. After visit- 
 ing 'Congress now in session, I returned home with the idea 
 of visiting the observatory upon my return, which I did 
 a few days later. In making observations I finally located 
 the top of the tree beyond the sun and on it I saw 
 a great Court Room. (First chapter of Revelation) . I also 
 saw a name written between the Throne and earth as fol- 
 lows: "Jesus, the King of the Jews." 
 
 [Below this name, I also saw "Liberty, Freedom and 
 World Democracy." Around the King's name was a circle 
 of twelve stars. The \v^hole tree shone like the sun at high 
 noon. 
 
 I_saw the fruit falling on the grass and found it the same 
 kind of fruit as described in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of 
 B. C. 538. The leaves were falling by the millions in the 
 crystal Potomac, and from its mouth all nations were gath- 
 ering the leaves, owing to their great healing qualities. 
 
 Note the semWance of this picture to the 12th chapter of 
 Revelation as explained in comments relative to this chap- 
 ter. The iron and brass bands always puzzled me until I 
 found the Root of the Great Tree represented 'by England in 
 the new world in the form of the Thirteen Colonies she 
 controlled prior to the Revolutionary War, and from this 
 Root with Christ (a Jew) as King, would spring a new 
 branch of the root in the form of our govemment,that would 
 excel the first tree which you will remember was cut down, 
 representing the Jewish nation from B. C. 1491 to B. C. 
 538, for, in this year God caused strife in this great nation, 
 (because the children of Israel worshiped idols, causing God 
 to cut this great Jewish nation down and scatter it as they 
 are today scattered. 
 
 In 1492 Columbus started over the seas to discover 
 America, through God's power and guidance, so that the 
 Jewish root of a former nation, as seen on my visit to Jeru- 
 salem in B. C. 992, could again grow and become great; 
 and that through the power of Christ, the root of David, 
 this nation would heal and ibless all nations of the earth, 
 as promised Abraham in B. C. 1918. 
 
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 'The iron and brass bands around the root also puzzled 
 me as to their significance, but now it seems plain. They 
 represent the ties of relationship that hold the English 
 speaking people together as they do today, to the extent 
 that they are pouring out their life blood on the battle 
 fields in a common cause for world Liberty and freedom of 
 the Land of Canaan, so that the Savior can direct the con- 
 clusion of this war and rule the world for a thousand years 
 to come as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 
 
 Grod raises up nations as well as individuals to greatness, 
 in order that they shall perform some certain duty in His 
 great plan of world redemption. Had our wealthy men so 
 influenced governmental affairs that they could have caused 
 us as a nation to worship gold idols, as Solomon's wives 
 caused that nation to do, we as a nation would have been 
 as another fallen tree; for the chopper (the Kaiser) had his 
 ax in his hand ready to begin his deadly work, but God 
 stopped him by His four beasts (Rev. 4, 7 and 8), and we 
 are a part of one of these beasts — the Lion. 
 
 Our nation was conceived in the wilderness of America 
 in 1620, and in the fullness of time matured in 1917, 
 through the guidance of the Almighty, in order that we 
 might step in at the opportune time and save Liberty from 
 the submarine menace. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 THE COURT IN SEiSSION. 
 
 Having discovered the court in session at the top of the 
 tree I decided to take a trip to this great court and upon 
 entry into the court room found it filled with countless 
 millions of people. Being very curious to see what this 
 great assembly meant I took a seat in the auditorium, whera 
 I could both hear and see. 
 
 The Judge called the court to order with twenty-four 
 jurors in their seats. There were four beasts (nations) 
 before the Judge to give testimony. There was a Prosecut- 
 ing Attorney at the right of the court, with seven deputies 
 (angels) nearby. The audience of countless millions sit- 
 ting around rae in this vast throng were from all nations, 
 kindreds and tongues. 
 
 The first witness was called; one of the four beasts came 
 forward to the witness stand. The attorney asked him his 
 name, and he said "England, from Europe on Earth." 
 
 The attorney inquired of him about the Earth's condi- 
 tions, and the beast replied: "There is a beast living 
 near us who has been secretly (building up a national ring 
 around him to such an extent, that all nations now fear 
 him," and he stated that he had recently attacked his 
 neighbor, France (in 1871) and took two of her most val- 
 uable provinces from her, as well as a billion dollar in- 
 demnity. The attorney further inquired as to who were the 
 beast's chief conspirators, and he said: " Austro-Hungary. " 
 He further inquired if this nation had done anything 
 unfair against other nations. He said she had attacked 
 Serbia and had practically annihilated her as a nation. He 
 
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 also inquired about the beast; the witness replied that he 
 also attacked Belgium and had also annihilated her in 
 order to get to France and again attack that nation. 
 
 The second beast was called and the attorney inquired 
 his name ; he stated his name was France from Europe on 
 Earth. 
 
 The attorney said to the second beast, "You have heard 
 the testimony of the first beast," and "Do you verify all 
 the testimony of the first beast? " And he said he did. 
 
 The attorney then called the third beast and inquired his 
 name and address, and the beast replied: "My name is 
 Italy, from Europe on Earth. The attorney also asked 
 him relative to the conditions on earth and he verified the 
 testimony of the first two beasts. 
 
 The attorney then called the fourth and last beast and he 
 stated his name was Russia from Europe and Asia on 
 Earth. 
 
 The attorney said to him: "You have heard the testi- 
 mony of the three beasts, do you verify the testimony of 
 these beasts against this beast on earth and his associates?" 
 The fourth beast answered in the affirmative, stating that 
 he had already ordered mobilization of his army to help 
 defend Serbia against this beast and his assoeiates. 
 
 Then I heard the Great Judge say: "The evidence is 
 sufficient against the beast on earth and I hereby detail you 
 four beasts to declare war on this dragon, and use all means 
 within your power to overcome him and his associates, 
 with full assurance to you and your associates that this 
 Court and all power in Heaven and earth is yours to use 
 against him, as this Court will direct by its deputies as the 
 war progresses, but this Court assures you final victory in 
 1920, but you must exhaust almost your national wealth 
 which I gave you for this purpose, as well as your man- 
 power; and when that is done, I will then gain the final 
 victory for you by my great power, and I will then re- 
 plenish your treasuries for services rendered in overcoming 
 these beasts of earth, with the further assurance to you 
 and all nations that My Son will chain this beast and his 
 associates for the next thousand years; and He will esta/b- 
 
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 lish my principle and you will be governed by My Golden 
 Rule, namely: (Luke 6-31: "As ye would that men 
 should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.") 
 
 The Judge then called for witnesses out of the audience, 
 and I heard my name ealled. I arose and went to the wit- 
 ness stand, and the Judge inquired my name and I stated 
 that my name was Joseph Dowen, formerly from Mars, 
 now of America. 
 
 He inquired of me the conditions of Mars before His 
 Son's reign began there, and I told Him I found a fair 
 comparison between Mars and Earth in B. C. 4500 to A. D. 
 1914, wherein different kings and emperors had taken all 
 power out of the hands of the people and were simply build- 
 ing a great war machines to destroy each other. He further 
 up great war machines to destroy each other. He further 
 inquired as to what I thought of His Son's reign on Mars 
 between B. C. 6000 and 5000, and I told the Judge that 
 Mars seemed to be a continuous heaven during that period, 
 as there were no war expenses to meet, no menace from 
 kings, or individuals, trying to usurp power from the people 
 that the eurse of rum was removed with its thousands o.' 
 ills, leaving the poorer Martian elasses free from danger 
 and without taxation; that very few people worked over 
 four hours a day for a day's work, yet all lived well. 
 
 The Judge further inquired: "How were the conditions 
 of Mars prior to the coming of my Son to rule in B C. 
 6000?" And I replied: 
 
 "Our Martian history is full of the rise and fall of em- 
 pires similar to the history of earth as found from B. C. 
 4500 to A. D. 1914." 
 
 "How were the conditions of earth on your first visit?" 
 
 I replied that I had visited earth in B. C. 4500 and found 
 the kings fighting over the rich districts of the Nile country 
 in Egypt. 
 
 "When you left earth in A. D. 1914, how were the con- 
 ditions on earth at that time?" 
 
 And I replied that when I left the earth our nation 
 (United States of America) had ibeen advised that the 
 Austro-Hungarian government had just declared war on 
 
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 Serbia in Europe, backed by the Kaiser of Germany ; that 
 President Wilson had come to the conclusion that it was 
 the beginning of a world war, with the Central Powers on 
 one side and the Allied Nations on the other side of the 
 conflict. 
 
 "What seems to be the trouble?" 
 
 "The main trouble seems to be a commercial rivalry be- 
 tween England and Germany, but the world thinks the 
 real cause is a covetous desire of Germany and Austro-Hun- 
 gary for a piece of Serbian territory, in order to give these 
 nations a commercial expansion, so as to build out of the 
 countries of Europe and Asia a mighty German empire, 
 constructed as follows : 
 
 "Austria a kingdom with a Hapsburg as king; Bohemia 
 with, say the second son of the Kaiser as king; Hungary 
 with a king ; Dalmatia-Croatia, a Slav kingdom for all the 
 Serbs, say with the third son of the Kaiser as king; Al- 
 (bania, Greece, part of Serbia and all of the Greek islands, 
 the kingdom of Greece. 
 
 "With the greatest war machine ever built, with the ban- 
 ner of 'Might Makes Right' at its head, with the purpose to 
 defeat France, England, Russia and Italy, exacting enor- 
 mous indemnities; and from these countries, to organize 
 and discipline, under the German method and financed by 
 money wrung from the suffering nations and from America 
 (wliich she intends to conquer), she means to form such 
 armies as Rome in her greatest days never thought of. 
 And so she intends to conquer the world and cultivate it 
 under German ' Kultur. ' The amount of indemnity America 
 is to pay, as planned by Germany, is $149,850,000,000.00." 
 The Judge asked, "Who is going to the assistance of 
 Serbia?" 
 
 I replied that Russia was mabilizing her forces to help 
 Serbia when I left earth in A. D. 1914. 
 
 Other witnesses were then called and I left the court 
 room and came back home. And I now anxiously await the 
 Savior's coming in Asia in 1920, fully believing that His 
 reign on earth for the next thousand years will be under 
 the same heavenly conditions that our Martian citizens 
 
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 enjoyed between B. C. 6000 and B. C. 5000. 
 
 Now, in calmer moments, I clearly see that the commis- 
 sion of the four beasts is also our commission as one of the 
 two witnesses. 
 
 RemenDbering about the copy of the scroll of A. D. 96, I 
 decided to compare it, and I found it was a copy of Reve- 
 lation. I also found that the 12th Chapter was written 
 solely concerning our great nation, defining our duty in 
 the war. I likewise found that the 17th Chapter's figure 
 referred to Germany. In the 16th Chapter the Savior is 
 directing the Zionist convention. In the 19th Chapter 
 Christ assumes His first personal reign. 
 
chaptkk:xviii. 
 war is declared. 
 
 On April 6, 1917, I visited the Capitol and heard the 
 debate relative to our nation's entering the world war. 
 
 I heard a report of our crops and found that they ex- 
 ceeded by far the greatest crop of any nation on earth. 
 Treasurer sent in his report, showing that we were almost 
 out of debt, owing less than two billion dollars. Our ex- 
 ports as well as our imports had doubled themselves over 
 the former year. In fact, the various reports of April 
 1st, 1917, showed that we were by far the greatest and 
 richest nation on earth, fully capable of supplying every- 
 thing the world needed. After the various committees had 
 made their reports, the President arose and in a clear, 
 complete, concise way, recommended that Congress declare 
 war on the Imperial German Empire, for the protection 
 of Liberty and freedom of the seas for the world. 
 
 After a few short addresses, the Foreign Relations Com- 
 mittee reported, favoring war, and both Houses passed on 
 the bill declaring war, by a large majority. The President's 
 signature was attached on April 6, 1917, there/by complet- 
 ing God's plan of saving Liberty, as the 12th Chapter of 
 Revelation indicates. 
 
PART 11. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 REVELATION REVEALED. 
 
 (A copy of the Scroll of A. D. 96.) 
 
 In the year A. D. 96, John the Divine, the writer of 
 Revelation, was on the Isle of Patmos, a small island in the 
 Aegean Sea, banished there by the Roman government for 
 preaching the new Christian religion. 
 
 It was the Sabbath day and he heard behind him a 
 ' ' great voice, as of a trumpet, ' ' saying : " I am Alpha and 
 Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which 
 is and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty" — as 
 stated in 1st Chapter, 8th and 11th verses, showing the clear 
 undeniable fact that the speaker was the Risen Christ talk- 
 ing to him ; also saying, " I am Alpha and Omega, the first 
 and the last, and what thou seest, write in a book and send 
 it to the seven churches which are in Asia. ' ' 
 
 After the Savior had finished speaking, John turned to 
 see the Voice that spake to him, and saw seven golden 
 candlesticks, and in the midst of the candlesticks, One like 
 unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the 
 feet, and girt about the breast with a golden girdle. 
 
 14th Verse : His head and His hairs were white as white 
 wool ; white as snow ; and his eyes were as a flame of fire. 
 
 15th Verse : And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they 
 burned in a furnace ; and His voice as the sound of many 
 waters. 
 
 16th Verse : And He had in His right hand seven stars ; 
 and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; 
 and His countenance was as the sun shineth in His strength. 
 
 17th Verse: And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet 
 
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 as dead, and He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto 
 me, fear not ; I am the first and the last. 
 
 18th Verse : I am He that liveth, and was dead ; and 
 behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen; and have the keys 
 of Hell and of death. 
 
 19th Verse : Write the things which thou hast seen and 
 the things which are, and the things which shall be here- 
 after. 
 
 20th Verse : The mystery of the seven stars which thou 
 sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks ; 
 the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and 
 the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven 
 churches. 
 
 In the study of Revelation, I have tried to show Christ's 
 identification, (by quoting the Savior's own words; also His 
 object in appearing to John at the time he did (sixty-six 
 years after His ascension) ; and in quoting His words in 
 the first chapter, I want to make it aJbsolutely clear to the 
 reader that this is the Risen Christ who is deeply con- 
 cerned about "the things that are," meaning the seven es- 
 taiblished churches at this time (A. D. 96) represented by 
 the seven "golden candlesticks" and "the things which 
 shall be hereafter." 
 
 T wish to further emphasize the seven stars in His right 
 hand, and the two-edged sword that went out of His 
 mouth, as these are the agents and the implements that 
 God is going to use in the "things which shall be hereafter," 
 .showing that the Christ was not only interested in the things 
 that menaced the established Christian churches, but looked 
 down throngh the centuries to 1914 A. D., and saw the 
 menace to His churches due at this time ; and He appeared 
 to John, ordering him to write to the seven churches, 
 thereby warning them. 
 
 Before the final victory is won by our Allies, it will be 
 proven that it is obtained by the two-edged sword that went 
 out from Christ's mouth. The two-edged sword evidently 
 represents the sword of Liberty as embodied in our Nation 
 with one edge representing our army, the other edge our 
 navy, which will be used by the King of Kings, more fully 
 
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 described in Ninteenth Chapter. The victory will be won 
 on the final battlefield on the western front by Christ over 
 the central powers, as shown by the 10th Chapter of Reve- 
 lation. This is fully explained in St. Matthew, 10th Chap- 
 ter, 34th verse, wherein it says: '' Think not that I 
 am come to bring peace to the world, but a sword, ' ' mean- 
 ing that His mission is to separate the righteous from the 
 wicked, and this war will continue until this is done, and 
 the deep-seated des5re for Liberty by all nations and 
 tongues of the world, who have at last gotten a taste of this 
 freedom and equality which Christ gave to the world, is 
 satisfied. 
 
 Matthew, 7th Chapter, 12th verse: The Golden Rule: 
 Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should 
 do to you, do ye even so to them ; for this is the law and 
 the prophets." This rule is the principle of Liberty. Had 
 nations, and individuals representing nations and church, 
 followed this Golden Rule, this war would not have oc- 
 curred. And as a warning and advice to the seven churches 
 "that are," the halance of Revelation is dictated to John in 
 figures of beasts and persons to represent the world at this 
 time, or the "things that shall be hereafter," so that when 
 the war has progressed to a time beyond the calculations of 
 the hest guessers, and apparently the end is just as far off 
 as ever, then the world will stop guessing, and will turn to 
 the Bible for the answer as to the final termination of the 
 war, which I will endeavor to show by Revelation, is the 
 time of Christ's first coming as King of Kings and Lord 
 of Lords which will be in 1920. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 Fourth Chapter of Revelation : 
 
 1st Verse: "After this I looked, and behold a door was 
 open in Heaven, and the first Voice which I heard was as 
 it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up 
 hither and I will show thee things which must be here- 
 after." 
 
 In the invitation, we see John being invited to take a 
 spiritual visit to Heaven in order to give him a clear con- 
 ception of what is meant by the "seven churches" on earth, 
 and the future menace that would endanger the greater 
 church of the future, as well as the agencies that God had 
 around His throne to help overcome the barriers which 
 would be used against the Christian churches. 
 
 2nd Verse: "And immediately I was in the spirit, and 
 behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and One sat on the 
 throne." 
 
 3rd Verse: "And He that sat was to look upon like a 
 jasper and a sardine stone ; and there was a rainbow round 
 about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. ' ' 
 
 In this verse we see the description of Jehovah, who made 
 the covenant with Noah (Exodus 9:13th and 18th verses), 
 wherein He assures the world that it never will a:?ain be 
 destroyed by a flood, and as a pledge therefor, setting his 
 rainbow in the cloud, as all have seen many times. And 
 this rainbow that John saw about the throne of Ood is 
 sufficient proof that it is God on His throne, H'S described 
 
 4th Verse: "And round about the throne were four 
 and twenty seats ; and upon these seats I saw four and 
 twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they 
 had on their heads crowns of gold." 
 
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 The Elders of Israel were a Senate of the people in Moses* 
 time, and continued to be so through all the vicissitudes 
 of Hebrew history. The Edlers as a distinct body are often 
 mentioned in the New Testament. Their office was to act 
 co-ordinately with Chief Priests. (Matt. 21 :23 ; Matt. 16 :21 ; 
 Gen. 50 :7 ; Lev. 4 :15 ; Heb. 11 :2) . The twenty-four Elders 
 John saw before the throne of God were evidently com- 
 posed of men like Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Samuel, Elijah, 
 Daniel and such other Biblical characters, and composed 
 the World Jury before the throne of God, to sit in judg- 
 ment, with the Christ pleading, as Moses did on Mt. Sinai 
 when he saved the Jews in the Wilderness from God's 
 wrath. So Christ's pleadings will save. 
 
 5th Verse : "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings 
 and thunderings and voices ; and there were seven lamps of 
 fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits 
 of God." 
 
 The lightnings and thunderings described, proceeding 
 out of the throne of God, represent the power of God as 
 was represented on Mt. Sinai. (Exodus 19:16th and 17th 
 verses). "And it came to pass on the third day in the 
 morning that there was thunders and lightnings, and a thick 
 cloud upon the mount, and the Voice of the trumpet ex- 
 ceedingly loud, so that all the people that were in the camp 
 trembled, and Moses brought forth the people out of the 
 camp to meet with God." Showing clearly that the Cloud 
 and Thunderings and Lightnings represent God Himself 
 on His throne. 
 
 The seven lamps or spirits before the throne of God are 
 seven angels or messengers, whose offices are to carry out 
 and execute judgment upon the earth as God wills; and I 
 will show in the succeeding chapters their awful missions, 
 made necessary by the Dragon who is trying to overthrow 
 God's authority on earth. 
 
 6th Verse: "And before the throne there was a sea of 
 glass like unto crystal, and in the midst of the throne and 
 round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before 
 and behind." 
 
 The sea of glass evidently refers to the infinite space 
 
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 •between God's throne and earth, the same as space appears 
 to us as a crystal sea of g^lass on a clear day, showing that 
 incalculable space exists between the earth and His throne; 
 also that the Heaven Christ ascended to is far beyond this 
 •earth, in other parts of God's universe. 
 
 The four beasts around and about the throne are the 
 four leading nations of earth at the present time, waiting 
 at the throne of God, ready to execute any mission that He 
 may assign them here on earth ; and the description in the 
 next verse plainly shows who they are: "The eyes of the 
 the beasts ' ' refers to the different smaller countries through 
 the world that each of the four nations rules. 
 
 7th Verse : ' ' And the first beast was like a Lion, and the 
 second beast like a Calf, and the third beast had a face as 
 a Man, and the fourth beast was like a flying Eagle." 
 
 The first beast represents England, known as the Lion 
 of Nations I The second beast evidently means Russia, for 
 two reasons, namely: she was second to England in power; 
 the Czar used just about as much judgment in ruling a 
 great nation like Russia as a calf would if it were put on 
 the Russian throne. The third beast referred to, represents 
 Italy, from the fact that in this country is the seat of the 
 Pope, and the face refers to him and his authority. The 
 fourth beast evidently represents France, and is indicative 
 of her sudden change of heart and government, evidenced 
 by the fact that in less than two hundred years she turned 
 from a despotic monarchy. At one time she was so low 
 spiritually that in the early part of the Eighteeth Century, 
 she, as a nation, declared that there was no God; and to 
 add force to this declaration, they collected all Bibles to be 
 found in Paris and burnt them in the street. "While they 
 were doing so, a man stood up among them and told them 
 that for this act against God, the streets of Paris would run 
 shoe-top deep in blood. It was not many years after, that 
 that blood did run as prophesied, and France sent word to 
 America to pray for her. Note the flying changes : Today 
 France is a Republic, and a nation who has been bled white 
 in blood and treasure in defense of God and His principle — 
 Liberty — and the Bible, Christ, and all that He represents. 
 
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 Realizing this sudden change of heart from an avowed 
 enemy of God to the champion of His cause on earth, I am 
 fairly safe in saying that this nation represents the heast 
 described as the "flying Eagle." 
 
 8th Verse: "And the four beasts had each of them six 
 wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and 
 they rest not day and night, saying Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord 
 God Almighty, which was and is, and is to to come. ' ' 
 
 The six wings each of these four beasts represent Bel- 
 gium, Portugal, Roumania, Montenegro, Greece and Al-^ 
 bania — being the six smaller nations about these four larger 
 nations, looking to them for protection, as they do today. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 Fifth Chapter of Revelation : 
 
 1st Verse: "And I saw in the right hand of Him that 
 sat on the throne, a book written within and on the back 
 side, sealed with seven seals. 
 
 This book in God's right hand was the mystery of the 
 Nineteenth Century, as John saw it. The four toeasts were 
 four nations who would represent the Christian world (before 
 the throne of God at this time; and Christ's death and His 
 teachings of the Golden Rule, for which we are fighting, 
 made Him the only Person in Heaven or on earth that was 
 eligible to oen the seven seals, because of His Great sac- 
 rific on Calvary. 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with 
 a loud voice, who is worthy to open the Book and to lose 
 the seals thereof?" 
 
 3d Verse : ' ' And no man in Heaven nor in earth, neither 
 under the earth, was able to open the Book, neither to look 
 thereon." 
 
 4th Verse : ' ' And I wept much, because no man was 
 found worthy to open and to read the Book, neither to look 
 therein. ' ' 
 
 5th Verse: "And one of the Elders saith unto me, weep 
 not; behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Boot of 
 David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the 
 seven seals thereof. ' ' 
 
 6th Verse: "And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the 
 
 throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the Elders, 
 
 stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns 
 
 and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth 
 
 into all the earth." 
 
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 The Lamb referred to is Christ, represented as the Spot- 
 less Lamh, whom the Jews caused to be reared up and sacri- 
 ficed on Calvary. 
 
 Upon his entry, John saw the company around about 
 the throne as follows : God sitting on the throne ; the 
 twenty-four Elders, the four beasts, the seven candlesticks, 
 the seven spirits or messengers, and lastly the Lamb of God, 
 or Jesus Christ, which completed the Court of Heaven, 
 ready to execute God's will. 
 
 Th seven horns referred to in this verse, mean the seven 
 established churches of earth, with each church having a 
 messenger in the form of an angel, connecting heaven di- 
 rectly with the earth by these messengers. 
 
 So it is today ; the Christian churches are connected with, 
 and are a part of Heaven through the Heavenly Messengers. 
 
 7th Verse : "And he came and took the Book out of the 
 right hand of Him that sat upon the throne. ' ' 
 
 14th Verse : ' ' And the four beasts said, Amen ; and the 
 four and twenty Elders fell down and worshiped Him that 
 liveth forever and ever." 
 
 From the 7th to the 14th verses, John shows that not only 
 the four beasts and Elders fell down and worshiped Christ, 
 but the whole company of Heaven worshiped him, saying. 
 Thou art worthy to take the Book and open the seals thereof, 
 for Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by Thy 
 blood out of every kindred and tongue, people and nation. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 SEALS. 
 
 The Opening of the Seven Seals. 
 
 Sixth Chapter of Revelation : 
 
 1st Verse: "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of 
 the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one 
 of the four beasts saying, come and see." 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And I saw, and behold, a white horse ; and 
 he that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was given unto 
 him; and he went forth conquering and to conquer." 
 
 The white horse in this verse represents Austro-Hungary 
 going out to conquer poor little Serbia, who had been bled 
 white trying to hold her own national existence in recent 
 wars. The bow represents the flimsy excuse sUa used to 
 conquer this little nation when she issued the impossible; 
 ultimatum, as will be more fully explained later. The crown 
 that was given to him, meaning the late Emperor Francis 
 Joseph, was given to the Hapsburgs by the Hohenzolleins, 
 now dominated by the Kaiser. 
 
 3d Verse: "And when He had opened the second .ieal, 
 I heard the second beast say, come and see." 
 
 4th Verse : "And there went out another horse that was 
 red, and power was given to him that sat thereoa to take 
 peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another : 
 and there was given unto him a great sword." 
 
 The red horse (symbolical of blood) very plainly repre- 
 sents Germany, and he that sat on him is the Kaiser. The 
 power he exercises was given to him by the German nation 
 as a representative of the HohenzoUern family. So much 
 power had he given him that he has been able to take peace 
 
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 from the entire world, and has forced brothers to fight 
 brothers, and the Church to fight its own memlbers. Such 
 is the Kaiser's absolute power. 
 
 5th Verse: "And when He had opened the third seal, I 
 heard the third beast say, come and see. And I beheld, and 
 lo ! a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair dl 
 balances in his hand." 
 
 The iblack horse evidently refers to Russia, from the fact 
 that she was elected as the protector of Serbia; and when 
 Austro-Hungary struck Serfbia, this black horse and rider 
 was in plain view, and represented justice to this little 
 nation. Austro-Hungary disregarded the Russian warning, 
 and, relying upon Germany to help her win, even over 
 France and Russia if they should side with Serbia, made 
 war on Serbia, which state served as a buffer between these 
 two nations and was also a barrier to the Dardanelles ; the 
 contral of the Dardanelles being the real European bone of 
 contention between these nations. 
 
 6th Verse: "And I heard a voice in the midst of the 
 four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a penny and three 
 measures of barley for a penny ; and see thou hurt not the 
 oil and the wine." 
 
 The ' ' voice ' ' mentioned in this verse alludes to the voice 
 of England against the German invasion of Belgium, warn- 
 ing her to give her just measure by not entering on her soil ; 
 and the "oil" and "wine" refer to her rich products that 
 Germany so much coveted; likewise northern France, 
 wherein are great quantities of coal, iron, and fine wines. 
 
 8th Verse: "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse; 
 and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed 
 with him; and power was given unto them over the 
 fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword and with hunger 
 and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." 
 
 It is very plain to be seen that Turkey is represented as 
 Death in this verse. For the past thousand years this 
 pagan nation has been slaying in Armenia, and other parts 
 of Europe and Asia are strewn with her victims of the 
 sword and of starvation ; and since she has entered the circle 
 of the company of murdering nations known as the "Cen- 
 
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 tral Powers," she has slain and starved to death over 
 600,000 poor, helpless Armenians alone, just because they 
 would not give up their Christian religion. Realizing these 
 awful acts committed by this nation, could God give her a 
 more appropriate name than ' ' Death, ' ' with Hell following 
 her as it does wherever she goes ? But her days as a nation 
 are numbered, and when this war is over, she wil beg for 
 mercy, but there will be no one to help her in the great day 
 of reckoning. 
 
 (In describing the power that was given to the riders of 
 the three horses, remem'ber: the power was not given by 
 God, but by the people of the nations they represent. John 
 simply got a glimpse of this present time through the light 
 of Christ thrown on the future, as shown to him by the four 
 beasts before the throne of God.) 
 
 9th Verse: "And when He had opened the fifth seal, I 
 saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the 
 Word of God, and for the testimony which they held. " 
 
 The souls mentioned are the first of the Belgians and Ser- 
 bians killed in the (beginning of this world war. Their tes- 
 timony refers to the principle of freedom they fought and 
 died for on the battlefield. 
 
 10th Verse : ' ' And they cried with a loud voice, saying, 
 how long, Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and 
 avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth ? ' ' 
 
 The ones crying out to God are the victims of the Lusi- 
 tania, Essex, and the innocent victims of Belgium, Serbia, 
 northern France and England, who feel the awfulness of 
 the Dragon's heel on land, on the sea and in the air. They 
 who are committing these atrocities are the Central Powers ; 
 and not only are the souls of the departed asking God this 
 question, but the whole world also. The answer is plainly 
 set forth in the next verse. 
 
 11th Verse : "And white robes were given unto everyone 
 of them ; and it was said unto them that they should rest 
 yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and 
 their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be 
 fulfilled." 
 
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 miad that while this is God's war for supremacy of the 
 earth, yet He did not cause the war, nor in any way plan 
 such an awful ealamity ; but He knew that when the people 
 of the earth, at this time, would get enough insight into the 
 Liberty that Christ brought to earth through His great plan 
 of salvation, it would bring a sword to the earth instead of 
 a peace that has existed under the various despotic govern- 
 ments that have ruled the world by force since the beginning 
 of the Christian Era. They who make such a mean asser- 
 tion as "God caused the war," utter the very essence of 
 blasphemy against Him. On the other hand, the people 
 have been given a real conception of Liberty through Christ 
 (and by our national example), and neither does God nor 
 our Allies want peace until the world is free from autocracy. 
 Autocracy has been the cause of this and most all other wars 
 in times past. 
 
 Another thing we trust the reader will keep in mind — 
 that this chapter represents the very first acts in the be- 
 ginning of the war in 1914. As the war progresses, it brings 
 in new nations and figures, as shown in succeeding chapters. 
 
 The answer our government gave to the Central Powers, 
 through the Pope, is practically the same answer given the 
 souls that were slain, who asked the question in Heaven 
 (Rev. 6:10); and the answer is, that until the world is 
 absolutely free from Autocracy, our Allies will not make 
 peace upon any terms the Central Powers can offer, except 
 in conformity with God's plan as shown in Revelation. 
 God's plan is to let the allied world do their very best and 
 apparently fail at the "three and a half day battle" (11th 
 chapter) ; then God will manifest Himself and convince all 
 that He rules, as I will more fully show in describing the 
 battle and its results, in the proper place. 
 
 12th Verse: "And I beheld when He had opened the 
 sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun 
 became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as 
 -blood." 
 
 In this verse John sees a picture of the world war in 
 progress. He hears those great guns of the Central Powers 
 throwing their awful death and destruction on the Liege 
 
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 forts, causing the very earth to quake ; the smoke rolling up 
 from the battles against the Belgium armies, causing the 
 sun to become blackened with the battle smoke, and the 
 moon as blood, in continuation of the battles at night. 
 
 13th Verse: "And the stars of Heaven fell unto the 
 earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she 
 is shaken of a mighty wind." 
 
 "The stars represent the shells and other missiles of death 
 hurled through the air, and the bombs from the aero- 
 planes, which resemble stars falling. 
 
 14th verse: "And the Heaven departed as a scroll 
 when it is rolled together and every mountain and island 
 were moved out of their places. ' ' 
 
 Had you been in the battle of the Marne, you would have 
 thought that Heaven had been rolled away as a scroll — 
 meaning that Heaven and all it stood for was no more and 
 did not exist, but Hell reigned supreme in this battle- 
 searred field of carnage. The guns that are being used, 
 like the "Big Berthas" and the latest French guns, will 
 throw shells weighing over two tons, and when they ex- 
 plode, they actually blow shell holes in the earth to a depth 
 of over thirty feet. In fact, they will blow the tops off 
 mountains, having done so in this war. 
 
 In imagination go with me during a naval battle near 
 Jutland Islands and watch the big guns on both fleets 
 hurling tons of missiles at each other. Or, from an aero- 
 plane a few miles aibove these islands, witness the destruc- 
 tion, and you will soon come to the conclusion that the 
 islands as well as the mountains were being removed by 
 these great weapons of war. 
 
 15th Verse : "And the kings of the earth, and the great 
 men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the 
 mighty men, and every bondman and every freeman hid 
 themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains." 
 This verse plainly shows that the awfulness of the war is 
 no respector of persons, from the fact that King George 
 and his family are compelled to seek a den of safety from 
 the German air raids, the same as the poorest and lowliest 
 person in England; and no doubt kings as well as people 
 
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 have actually prayed to God for rocks to fall on them, 
 rather than endure the awful artillery duels going on along 
 the battle fronts today. 
 
 As stated in the 16th verse: "And said to the moun- 
 tains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of 
 Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the 
 Lamib." 
 
 17th Verse : ' ' For the great day of His wrath is come, 
 and who shall be able to stand?" 
 
 Don't interpret the language in these two verses to 
 mean that God is saying these things. That was what John 
 heard the people of the earth saying. So be careful, Read- 
 er; don't charge God or Christ with the responsibility of 
 this war. 
 
 "When the people begin to see the light of Liberty 
 through the Risen Christ, and fight for its possession, then 
 this light will bring Liberty to the earth as God intended, 
 when He made His great promise to Abraham, B. C. 1918, 
 as heretofore quoted. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 Seventh Chapter of Revelation : 
 
 1st Verse: "And after these things I saw four angels 
 standing on the four corners of the earth holding the four 
 winds of the earth, that the winds should not blow on the 
 earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." 
 
 The four angels mentioned in this verse are the four an- 
 gels commissioned to hurt the earth (The 8th Chapter, 7th, 
 8th, 10th and 12th verses) in conjunction with the other 
 plagues to be visited upon the Central Powers, in the four 
 parts of the globe, in order to bring them to their knees, 
 for the plagues they are showering on our Allies on all 
 fronts, as well as upon the poor innocents residing on the 
 various battle fields. 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And I saw another angel ascending from 
 the east, having the seal of the living God, and he cried 
 with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to 
 hurt the earth and the sea. ' ' 
 
 3d Verse : ' ' Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea 
 nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God 
 in their foreheads.' 
 
 The angel ascending from the east is the spirit of che 
 Jewish race, requesting the four spirits of death not to 
 hurt the earth until the twelve tribes have been sealed with 
 God's seal, for they have been rejecting Christ for two thou- 
 sand years; but through America, the Mother of Liberty, 
 the principle that Christ brought to the world has awak- 
 ened the Jewish spirit, who is ascending from the earth 
 ready to have God's seal, through Christ, placed on the 
 foreheads of the Jews, the same as all who have received 
 His seal of acceptance, thereby coming into the full bene- 
 
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 fits of the Risen Christ, as originally assured M)ram in 
 Ood's promise to him and his generations to be horn, that 
 through their lineage a Christ would be born to redeem a 
 lost world. 
 
 From the 4th to the 9th verses in this chapter there were 
 sealed one hundred and forty-four thousand, .being the 
 elected representatives of the twelve tribes of Israel, who 
 will be the official representatives of the Jewish race in the 
 world, to acknowledge Christ sometime during, or at the 
 close of, this war; for God will surely manifest Himself to 
 them sometime during the war, and they as a nation will 
 accept Christ as their promised Messiah. 
 
 9th Verse: "After this I beheld, and lo, a great multi- 
 tude, which no man could number, of all nations, kindreds 
 and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, 
 clothed with white robes and palms in their hands. ' ' 
 
 10th Verse: "And cried with a loud voice, saying, sal- 
 vation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto 
 the Lamb." 
 
 This great multitude referred to are the elect, such as 
 Enoch, Ezra, Joshua, Jdb, Daniel and others of the old 
 Jewish churches, which are represented hy the "angel 
 ascending from the east." And the staunch supporters of 
 Christ's early church are represented by the seven candle- 
 sticks, such as Stephen, Paul, Peter, James, John the Bap- 
 tist, and later ones such as Wesley, Luther, St. Joseph, 
 St. Patrick, Lincoln and other Christians, many of whom 
 lost their lives by being burned at the stake, as Lattimer 
 and Ridley were, for not rejecting Christ in the face of 
 death. 
 
 This multitude is fully explained as follows: 
 
 14th Verse: "These are they which came out of great 
 
 tribulation and havo washed +^^'^ir robes and made them 
 
 white in the blood of the Lamb." 
 
 17tli Verse : For the Lamib which is in the midst of tlie 
 throne shall feed them, and shall lead them untT living 
 fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears 
 from their eyes. 
 
 As explained toy one of the elders to John in interven- 
 ing verses. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Eighth Chapter of Revelation: 
 
 In studying this chapter the reader must keep in mind 
 it shows the Jewish Church is officially sealed or brought 
 back into God's active Church by some miracle that he is 
 going to perform on some of the battle fronts and abso- 
 lutely convince them that Christ is their promised Mes- 
 siah, thereby coming into the company of others of his ac- 
 tive Churches throughout the world. 
 
 In studying this chapter in conjunction with progress 
 of the war rememher it is after God's seal has been put on 
 his reclaimed Jewish Church : — 
 
 1st Verse : And when he had opened the seventh seal, 
 there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour. 
 
 2nd Verse : And I saw the seven angels which stood 
 before God ; and to them were given seven trumpets. 
 
 The angels are the spirits (or messengers) of God repre- 
 senting his power, more fully explained in Joshua, 6th 
 Chapter (and spirits of the seven Churches). 
 
 3rd Verse : And another angel came and stood at the 
 altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto 
 him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers 
 of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the 
 throne. 
 
 The angel mentioned in this verse is no doubt the angel 
 officially representing the reclaimed Jewish Church and his 
 sect before the throne as shown in the fifth verse, and as will 
 be more fully explained. 
 
 4th Verse : And the smoke of the incense which came 
 with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out 
 of the angel's hands. 
 
 Sometime in the latter part of 1912, the Christian 
 
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 churches throughout the world set a day aside for prayer, 
 to pray to God that He in His infinite wisdom would de- 
 vise some plan whereiby the Jews would be reclaimed and 
 the Turkish nation would be overthrown, for this nation 
 represents the pagan world of over 250,000,000 of the 
 earth's population, and to stop the massacre of Christians 
 and Jews in Armenia and other parts dominated by this 
 nation. 
 
 The ])rayors of the saints referred to in the 4th verse are 
 possibly the prayers that ascended up before God, just as 
 the angels did, the world praying in 1912 that the Turk 
 as a menace to Christainity be destroyed forever. 
 
 5th Verse : ' ' And the angel took the censer and filled it 
 with fire of the altar and east it into the earth ; and there 
 were voices, and thunderings and lightnings, and an earth- 
 quake. ' ' 
 
 6th Verse : ' ' And the seven angels which had the seven 
 trumpets prepared themselves to sound." 
 
 Note carefully, the angel was given the power to answer 
 the prayers, and the seven angels the announcement of 
 their fulfillment. Through the Jews was to come the 
 Lamh they sacrified on Calvary, to be a remedy for that 
 whic^h was prayed for in 1912, and through the Church of 
 Christ (represented by the seven angels holding the rem- 
 edy), the earth will be cleansed of Turkish atrocities, 
 through Christ and His plan of redemption. 
 
 7th Verse : * * The first angel sounded and there followed 
 hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon 
 the earth; and the third part of trees were burnt up and 
 all green grass burnt up," 
 
 This verse illustrates the actual condition of the forests 
 today in France and Belgium, destroyed by the progress 
 of the war. 
 
 8th Verse: "And the second angel sounded, and as it 
 were, a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the 
 sea; and the third part of the sea became blood." 
 
 Showing that one third of the sea will be menaced in the 
 war against Liberty, evidently referring to the immense 
 ships that are being used, and the great destruction to life 
 on the seas, caused by the war. 
 
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 9th Verse: "And the third part of the creatures which 
 were in the sea and had life, died, and the third part of 
 the ships were destroyed." 
 
 Note the assurance God gives us that not more than one 
 third of the world's shipping will be destroyed by the sub- 
 marine and naval battles during this war, assuring the 
 world that Germany cannot possibly sink over one third of 
 the world's shipping. 
 
 10th Verse : * ' And the third angel sounded, and there 
 fell a great star from Heaven, burning, as it were, a lamp ; 
 and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the 
 fountains of waters." 
 
 11th Verse : "And the name of the star is called Worm- 
 wood, and the third part of the waters became wormwood, 
 and many men died of the waters because they were made 
 bitter." 
 
 The name of Wormwood given this star seems to indi- 
 cate Germany and her condition as a nation. 
 
 Our President, in his message to Congress, stated that 
 the German Empire was "drunk" — as a nation running 
 amuck with absinthe. This drink is made from a tree that 
 grows in Palestine, commonly known as wormwood, and 
 from which the beverage is made, called "Artemisia Ab- 
 sinthium." It is very bitter in its natural state (similar 
 to the common cherry tree in this country, from which is 
 made a tonic used extensively). Absinthe is the most 
 deadly drink sold over the American bar today. France 
 absolutely prohibits its being sold at all. 
 
 The name of Wormwood further indicates the misuse 
 made of God's wealth by nations. He has placed great 
 wealth on the earth for all nations, to be used for the up- 
 building of His kingdom here on earth, and for the heal- 
 ing of the ills of the world, as this tree should be used. 
 From its bark a beneficial medicine can be made, to cure 
 the ills of mankind, but instead of being used as God 
 intended, it has been manufactured into a deadly "war 
 machine" drink, and it has not only made this na- 
 tion drunk, but they insist upon all other nations on the 
 earth drinking the bitter cup with them, whether they de- 
 
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 sire it or not. The name they give it is "German Kultur," 
 and already have one-fourth of the people of the earth 
 drunk of it either by force or persuasion. So it can be 
 plainly seen why the third part of the waters of the world 
 are bitter with this "German Kultur" drink, as well as 
 the foujitains of God's wealth throughout the earth. The 
 thousands of men dying by the submarine today is evi- 
 dence that "many men died" because of the bitlernesf, of 
 the waters. 
 
 12th Verse: "And the fourth angel sounded, and a 
 third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of 
 the moon, and the third part of the stars ; so as the third 
 part of them was darkened and the day shone not for a 
 third part of it, and the night likewise." 
 
 "We see clearly the aeroplane here dominating one-third 
 part of every place where the sun or moon may shine ; and 
 while it does not literally mean that the sun and moon 
 only shines one-third of the time, it does clearly show that 
 wherever Germany dominates, she uses this instrument to 
 darken that part of the earth where her aeroplanes oper- 
 ate; and it may mean, too, that the places like London 
 must be kept dark on an average of one-third part of ths 
 nights, owing to this menace. 
 
 13th Verse: "And I beheld, and I heard an angel fly- 
 ing through the midst of Heaven, saying with a loud voice, 
 Woe, Woe, Woe to the inhabitents of the earth, by reason 
 of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which 
 are yet to sound." 
 
 In this verse can be plainly seen the duty of the churches 
 represented by another one of the angels of the seven 
 churches which are, or should be, crying out from every 
 pulpit today, telling the people of the world why this war 
 exists, and its ultimate termination, namely: that through 
 Christ's coming to earth as he did in establishing the prin- 
 ciple of the Golden Rule, commonly called Democracy or 
 Lfiberty, and through America's example, the natioons of 
 the earth have a full conception of this principle and they 
 have raised up as a body, and have declared war on Autoc- 
 racy, which has kept them in bondage since the Christian 
 
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 Era. 
 
 "While God is in this war, He did not bring on the war, 
 but through Revelation, the Savior tried to prepare the 
 world for the TERRIBLE conditions that now exist, and 
 we have His assurance of our final victory over the Ger- 
 man war dragon that did cause the war. 
 
CHAPTER VIJ 
 
 Ninth Chapter of Revelation : 
 
 1st Verse: "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a 
 star fall from Heaven unto the earth, and to him was 
 given the key of the bottomless pit." 
 
 The star referred to seems to indicate China, represent- 
 ing the Mongolian race. The light of America's Liberty 
 and protection reflected its rays over China and they feel 
 the warmth of its embrace. The nation and people stand 
 ready to enter into active participation in Liberty's battle, 
 when the Allies in their wisdom ask it. 
 
 2d Verse: "And he opened the bottomless pit and there 
 arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great fur- 
 nace ; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of 
 the smoke of the pit." 
 
 China is the oldast government on earth. Paganism, 
 her national religion for thousands of years, has brought 
 her to the bottomless pit of religious superstition, viewed 
 from a Christian light. Therefore it is fairly safe to as- 
 sume that the pit represents her religious state. Keep in 
 mind that the Church of Christ here on earth has been 
 given the key to the bottomless pit through our govern- 
 ment, who, by using this key, opened the door to China 
 and Japan. The Mongolian race compose about one-fourth 
 of the population of the earth. The "smoke as of a great 
 the seal of God in their foreheads." 
 
 When the Chinese and Japanese are given the privilege 
 furnace" seems to indicate the color and greatness of the 
 people represented, which, being so extensive in volume, 
 when loosened will darken the whole earth. 
 
 3rd Verse: "And there came out of the smoke locusts 
 
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 upon the earth, and unto them was given power as the 
 scorpions of the earth have power." 
 
 The locusts evidently mean the Chinese soldiers who will 
 finally be allowed to take their places beside our own sol- 
 diers in the fight for Liberty, if we, as their greatest na- 
 tional friend, wish them to help in this world war. "Whea 
 let loose, they will be like locusts, covering the earth, as it 
 were, by their great numlbers. 
 
 4th Verse : "It was commanded them that they should 
 not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green 
 thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not 
 of active participation in the war, it will be distinctly un- 
 derstood that they are not to spoil, or to hold any of the 
 riches of the other nations' wealth, represented by the 
 grass and other green things of the nations to be con- 
 quered. When they are let loose, it will be for one purpose 
 only — to fight in the world war for Liberty, with no hope 
 of indemnity or territorial gain. The power to be given 
 will be to hurt only the men who have not accepted the 
 Christian principle of Liberty, such men as represented 
 by the Central Powers. 
 
 The Chinese have no army, nor navy, that amounts to 
 much, 'nut \vb(!n the proper time cemes to unloose this 
 population of 400,000.000, they will hurt the Central Pow- 
 ers by their great army, which will be trained in the mod- 
 ern modes of warfare. 
 
 5th Verse: "And to them its was given that they 
 shonk: not kill them, but that they should be tormented 
 five months, and their torment was as the torment of a 
 scorpion when he striketh a man." 
 
 Before consenting that China and Japan fight with us, 
 it will be forcibly impressed upon them before they are 
 allowed to help, that it is not to kill and destroy other na- 
 tions that they are in the war, but to hurt them to such an 
 extent that they will give up the idea of "World Kultur 
 domination." The time of five months mentioned in this 
 verse evidently means that the Mongolian race will not be 
 let loose until the last five months of the war, doubtless the 
 beginning of 1920. 
 
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 6th Verse: "And in those days shall men seek death 
 and shall not find it ; and shall desire to die, and death 
 shall flee from them." 
 
 The day China and Japan enter the war it will be 
 at its zenith of frightfulness, for almost the whole world 
 will be represented on the various battle fronts, which will 
 cause men to seek death but will not find it, for they will 
 be needed to fight for Liberty's sake (God planned). 
 
 7th Verse : And the shapes of the locusts were like unto 
 horses prepared unto battle ; and on their heads were as it 
 were, crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces 
 of men. 
 
 Representing the Chinese and Japanese soldiers riding 
 on horses symbolical of the old style knight going into bat- 
 tle for sake of honor, only. The crown of gold represent- 
 ing the purity of the purpose of the locusts' mission. 
 
 8th: And they had hair as the hair of a woman, and 
 their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 
 
 By the locusts having hair like a woman is fairly good 
 proof this chapter refers to the Chinese and Japanese for 
 they worship their hair (or queue ( more than women do, in 
 fact they have made it part of their religion up to the 
 times we opened their doors to Christ. Their teeth were 
 as the teeth of lions and that shows they will participate 
 on the side represented by England (the lion nation) as 
 they have already offered to do, through our government. 
 
 The breastplates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone repre- 
 senting God's power and implements being used by us and 
 our Allies to subdue the Dragon. 
 
 9th : And they had breastplates as it were breastplates 
 of iron and the sound of their wings was as the sound of 
 chariots of many horses running to battle. 
 
 The soldiers of both armies fighting in Europe are now 
 wearing breastplates of iron and no doubt the Chinese sol- 
 diers will be equipped with breastplates also. The wings 
 as of many chariots evidently means the aeroplanes they 
 will use, and the noise of the latest aeroplane motors and 
 planes can be heard for miles and far more distainetly than 
 dozens of chariots. 
 
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 lOth Verse : And they had tails like unto scorpions, and 
 there were stings in their tails; and their power was to 
 hurt men five months. 
 
 The tails refer to the Chinese throughout the world who 
 will aid the Mother country in finance and soldiers when 
 she enters the five months' war as mentioned and more 
 fully explained in the fifth verse. 
 
 11th Verse: "And they had a king over them, which is 
 the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew 
 tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his naiue 
 Apollyon. ' ' 
 
 The names of Abaddon and Apollyon both mean destinic- 
 tion and at the time of their participation in the war, De- 
 struction will be King wherever they go to fight, as this 
 five months period will be the most horrible time of the 
 war, when both sides are exhausted in money and man- 
 power. The world being in the second dark age. 
 
 12th Verse : ' ' One woe is past, and, behold, there come 
 two woes more hereafter." (Evidently meaning the Chi- 
 nese woe.) 
 
 13th Verse: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard 
 a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is 
 before God. 
 
 14th Verse : ' ' Saying to the sixth angel which had the 
 trumpet. Loose the four angels which are bound in the 
 great river Euphrates." 
 
 The four horns on the four comers of the Golden Altar 
 of the throne seem to indicate four other nations that are 
 governed and ruled under the four great powers, England, 
 France, Russia and Italy, showTi doing God's will, with 
 their spiritual strength compared by the horn only as to 
 the whole beasts that stand before the throne ready to do 
 God's will on earth, as he may direct, represented by the 
 four nations more fully described in comments on 4th 
 Chapter. 
 
 The horns evidently mean four nations. Each one, how- 
 ever, is governed in part or as a whole by one of the four 
 'beasts. 
 
 15th Verse: "And the four angels were loosed, which 
 were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a 
 
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 year, for to slay the third part of men." 
 
 The preparation of these four nations (represented as 
 the four horns on the altar) for thirteen months and twen- 
 ty-five hours, evidently mean the time it will take England 
 to prepare and equip them with modern guns, as she no 
 doubt will do before England will loose them to active 
 participation in the war. Up to the present time England 
 has been afraid to equip the Indians or Egyptians with 
 modem guns, etc., for fear they would overpower her au- 
 thority and have her own guns turned against herself, this 
 being one of the greatest hopes of the Central Powers, and 
 the greatest obstacle in the way, up to the present time. 
 However, when we get two or three million men fighting 
 on the western front it will relieve England of men and 
 guns so that she can equip the Indians (of India) and 
 Egyptians sufficiently. The mission of all four nations is 
 the same as the Chinese and Japanese, i. e., "For to slay 
 the third part of men," of the Central Powers, as illus- 
 trated by the White, Red, Black and Pale horses in sixth 
 chapter. 
 
 16th Verse : "And the number of the army of the horse- 
 men were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard 
 the number of them." 
 
 17th Verse: "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, 
 and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and 
 of javinth, and brinmstone; and the heads of the horses 
 were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued 
 fire, and smoke and brimstone." 
 
 The number of 200,000,000 represents the man-power of 
 these four nations, who will not only fight as soldiers but 
 civilians as well. 
 
 Those that sat on the horses having breastplates of fire, 
 jacinth and brimstone are symbolical of God's power, and 
 guns and other late implements which England will later 
 equip them with, will be the same as the balance of allied 
 forces used against the Central Powers. 
 
 And ' * the heads of the 'horses were as the heads of lions. ' * 
 This description again indicates nations governed by Eiig- 
 land, known as the Lion of nations. 
 
 18th Verse: "By these three was the third part of men 
 
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 killed by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, 
 which issued out of their mouths." 
 
 "These three" represents the following forces used to 
 overcome Satan's one-third of his powers and forces — i. e., 
 the fire and smoke represents God and his power back of 
 agencies being used on earth to overcome the Red Dragon 
 or German "War ^lachine ; the brimstone represents the 
 various implements and explosives used that are making 
 the war so awful, brimstone being the basis of most of the 
 explosives used. 
 
 The ''power issued out of their mouths" means that 
 God 's power is back of the allied forces used by Him, which 
 are to carry out His will to overcome the war machine, 
 and to advance the progress of Christianity on earth. 
 
 19th Verse: "For their power is in their mouth and in 
 their tails; for their tails were like unto serpents, and had 
 beads, and with them they did hurt." 
 
 In this verse I wish to emphasize the importance of the 
 tails that "do hurt." The tails are the various angels 
 pouring out their plagues, and the religious clans within 
 India and China. For instance, the Maharaja of India is 
 governor of a province, and is given power to control the 
 various factions within and without, not confined only to 
 India proper, but controls their religion, their very life, 
 wherever they reside. Therefore, the pagan religion of 
 India and China reaches to the farthest parts of the world 
 today, and through this "tail" influence in money and 
 propaganda, their tails do hurt as well as their heads. 
 
 20th Verse: "And the rest of the men which were not 
 killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their 
 hands, that they should not worship devils and idols of 
 gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which 
 neither can see, nor hear, nor walk." 
 
 21st Verse: "Neither repented they of their murders, 
 nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their 
 thefts." 
 
 People of today generally feel that the Pagan Idol wor- 
 shipers are the only worshipers of wood, stone, iron, gold 
 and silver, but they are mistaken. While we as a na- 
 
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 tion are supposed to be practically free from Idol wor- 
 ship, we are not; for the citizens of this nation are to- 
 day worshiping wealth and dressy, almost to the same 
 extent the poor heathen Pagan of India or China worships 
 his wooden or metal Idol, and had this war not have come 
 at this time the whole world would have been practically 
 on the same plane in God's sight as idol worshipers, 
 namely, we as a nation worshiping mammon ; England as a 
 nation worshiping expansion of World influence, and 
 Germany, with her double Idol, Her War Machine and 
 "German Kultur." 
 
 The rest of the men who were not killed repented not, 
 and who worshiped idols, evidently refers especially to 
 Turkey, with her hands stained with the blood of inno- 
 cents in Armenia. Sorceries, thefts and idol worship would 
 make the 20th and 21st verses seem reasonable to suppose 
 that Turkish people not killed by the plagues are the ones 
 alluded to in these verses. 
 
 The 21st verse speaks about fornication as well as theft; 
 nations commit these two sins as nations the same as indi- 
 viduals, and both pay penalties to God for these sins and 
 we will endeavor to make these national sins very plain 
 to the reader when considering Seventeenth Chapter. 
 
CHAPTEE VIII. 
 
 Tenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse : ''And I saw another mighty angel come down 
 from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow was upon 
 his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as 
 pillars of fire." 
 
 In the description of this mighty angel he was the great 
 angel Michael or Gabriel whose special mission on earth 
 will be to finally pronounce the doom of the world on Judg- 
 ment Day, for his description is almost equal to the descrip- 
 tion Jehovah made in covenant with Noah, sealed 
 with the rainbow promise: Gen. 9-13; the burning bush 
 in Ex. 40-34, the description of Jehovah showing conclu- 
 sively this angel had special power over other angels, that 
 had been doing his will, relative to God's interest on earth. 
 
 2nd Verse: "And he had in his hand a little book 
 open ; and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left 
 foot on the earth." 
 
 Millions of people today really believe the world is com- 
 ing to an end, because they draw the wrong conclusion 
 from this chapter. 
 
 The little book in the angel's hand and its disposition 
 sets the end of the world theory aside entirely as far the 
 the present age is concerned, as it is an exact parallel. 
 
 NOTE the position the angel takes — supreme power upon 
 land and sea above all other powers on earth. 
 
 The little book is evidently the verdict of God, against 
 the world and included full authority to execute his final 
 decree against the world. The world stands today in the 
 same position as the children of Israel did — Exodus 32 — 
 10-11 — wherein he decided to destroy al the children of 
 Israel, but through Moses' intercession God's hand was 
 
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 stayed. 
 
 3rd Verse: "And cried with a loud voice, as when a 
 lion roareth ; and when he had cried, seven thunders ut- 
 tered their voices." 
 
 The seven thunders represent God setting His seal of 
 approval on the destruction of the world. 
 
 4th Verse: "And when the seven thunders had uttered 
 their voices, I was about to write ; and I heard a voice from 
 Heaven saying unto me, seal up those things which the 
 seven thunders uttered, and write them not." 
 
 As Moses pleaded before God to spare the Children of 
 Israel on Mount Sinai, even offering his own life to ap- 
 pease God's wrath against them, so the Savior ("A Lamb 
 as it had been slain," Rev. 5-6) stands in the midst of the 
 throne in Heaven,, interceding to God to save the world and 
 not to destroy it, as the great angel evidently had full au- 
 thority to do by closing the little Book. But through 
 Christ's intercession, God's wrath is appeased and the deci- 
 sion is arrested by the Voice of God (Seven Thunders) to 
 the angel on earth not to destroy it. 
 
 5th Verse : ' ' And the angel which I saw stand upon the 
 sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to Heaven." 
 
 6th Verse: "And sware by Him that liveth forever and 
 ever, who created Heaven and the things that therein are, 
 and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea 
 and the things which are therein, that there should be time 
 no longer." 
 
 This was the decision that God made for the destruction 
 of the earth. The authority was in the right hand of the 
 angel, represented by the "little Book open." And the an- 
 gel swearing by Heaven, by the earth and sea and all 
 things therein, is very evident proof that the destruction 
 of the world would have occurred at this time, but through 
 Christ's intercession, the world was saved. He not only 
 offered to give His life (as Moses did), but He actually 
 gave His life on the cross, and by His death the world was 
 redeemed, for He was the only One worthy to open the 
 Seven Seals. (See Rev. 5.-6th.) 
 
 7th Verse : ' ' But in the days of the voice of the seventh 
 
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 angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God 
 should be finished as he hath declared to his servants and 
 the prophets." 
 
 8th Verse : ' ' And the Voice which I heard from Heaven 
 spake to me again, and said, go and take the little book 
 which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon 
 the sea and upon the earth." 
 
 Just as the angel was ready to "sound the mystery," to 
 carry into execution and destroy the earth, the Voice of 
 God arrests the hand of the angel by telling John to "go 
 and take the little book" out of the destroying angel's 
 hand. 
 
 9th Verse : ' ' And I went unto the angel and said unto 
 him, give me the little book. And he said unto me, take it 
 and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall 
 be in thy mouth sweet as honey." 
 
 By John carrying out the instructions of the "Voice" 
 and getting the little book from the angel and eating it up, 
 is sufficient proof that the authority for the destruction of 
 the earth was taken from the angel, for the "little book" 
 was the decree against the world, and by John taking this 
 decree out his hands, even in the face of his oath (6th 
 Verse), it made him powerless to act, and he stood shorn 
 of authority, through the intercession of Christ before the 
 throne. Who, through His pleadings, saved the world. 
 
 10th Verse: "And I took the little book out of the an- 
 gel's hand and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as 
 honey; and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter." 
 
 It was a bitter cup that our Savior drank by His crusi- 
 fixion on the cross, which made Him worthy to stand be- 
 fore the throne and plead our cause; but it was as sweet 
 as honey to Him, that through the bitter draught He swal- 
 lowed on Calvary He could plead our cause and save the 
 world. 
 
 11th Verse : "And he said unto me, thou must prophesy 
 again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and 
 kings." 
 
 The assurance that John's Revelation will be read by 
 other nations, tongues and kings, is another assurance that 
 
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 the world will not come to an end at this time, as it plainly 
 shows that the nations, tongues and kings will be after this 
 present generation. (Note Chapters 20, 21 and 22.) 
 
 In fact, we need not worry over the world's destruction 
 earlier than A. D. 3500, but 1920 will see the end of the age 
 of autocracy. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Eleventh Chapter of Revelation. 
 
 1st Verse: "And there was given me a reed like unto 
 a rod; and the angel stood, saying, rise and measure the 
 temple of God, and the altar and them that worship there- 
 in." 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' But the court which is without the temple, 
 leave out and measure it not ; for it is given unto the Gen- 
 tiles; and the HOLY CITY shall they tread under foot, 
 forty and two months." 
 
 The temple of God means the great international Supreme 
 Court which will be established somewhere near Jerusalem 
 at the close of the war, with all power given to the mem- 
 bers of the court, who are sent there to make and enforc 
 international law, and arbitrate the contentions of all na- 
 tions great and small. 
 
 The time of forty-two months means from the time 
 Liberty flew into the wilderness, when the United States, 
 her great champion, joined the Allies in the war for Liberty. 
 The capture of Jerusalem from Turkey is but preparatory 
 to the Zionist convention to be held at Mt. Zion. 
 
 3d Verse: "And I will give power unto my two wit- 
 nesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand, two hundred 
 and three score days (1260), clothed in sack-cloth." 
 
 The two witnesses referred to are America and England. 
 The two olive trees signify the hope each is holding out to 
 the world, and the two candlesticks represent Liberty being 
 offered to the world by each of these powerful nations, 
 through the Spirit of Christ as represented in John's vision. 
 The sack-cloth means that owing to the awful loss of life, 
 during the war, these nations will be in deep mourning 
 over their loved ones lost in battle. 
 
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 5th Verse: "And if any man (referring to the Kaiser) 
 will hurt them (England and America), fire proceedeth 
 out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if 
 any man will hurt them, he must in this manner he killed." 
 (Kaiser's death predicted). 
 
 England and America have toeen the chief sufferers 
 through this world war hy not only loss of life through 
 battles, but by submarine and Zeppelin raids. The guns 
 and other implements these nations are using, and will 
 use, against the Central Powers, will finally devour them 
 as stated in this fifth verse. 
 
 6th Verse: "These have power to shut heaven, that it 
 reign not in the days of their prophecy; and have power 
 over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth 
 with all plagues as often as they will. ' ' 
 
 In this verse we plainly see the power back of these 
 two nations, given to carry out the task of destroying Autoc- 
 racy and establishing Democracy. On account of this war, 
 famine stalks over nearly the whole world, being equal to, 
 or worse than, the droughts of Old Testament times. These 
 nations are given the privilege of using all power or imple- 
 ments they need to bring the dragon (German war ma- 
 chine) to their feet; and no doubt before it is over, some 
 of the rivers of Germany will run red in blood. The west- 
 ern front will have to be contested foot by foot, clear to 
 Essen, before the German nation will be conquered. 
 
 7th Verse : ' ' And when they shall have finished their 
 testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit 
 shall make war against them, and shall overcome them and 
 kill them." 
 
 The testimony refers to the protests of England and 
 America against the atrocities committed in Belgium and 
 in other small nations now trodden under foot Tby the Cen- 
 tral Powers ; also the testimony of both nations against the 
 "dragon," and the submarine, inhuman, piratical warfare 
 he is waging. 
 
 8th Verse : "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street 
 of the Great City, which spiritually is called Sodom and 
 Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. ' ' 
 
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 This verse refers to the far eastern front, in and around 
 Jerusalem, where the main fighting is now going on, des- 
 tined to become the chief battle ground before the war is 
 over. 
 
 9th Verse: "And they of the people and kindreds and 
 tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days 
 and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put 
 in graves." 
 
 The people, kindreds and tongues referred to, represent 
 our Allies of all nations, who will help to fight this battle 
 in this district. During this battle, a temporary victory 
 will be won over our Allies. The carnage will be so great 
 that the dead cannot be buried during these three and a 
 half days. 
 
 10th Verse: "And they that dwell upon the earth 
 shall rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send 
 gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented 
 them that dwelt on the earth." 
 
 "They" are the Turks and their armies who control this 
 district. "When the battle has been temporarily won over 
 the Allies at the beginning of the three-and-a-half days, 
 the Turks will make merry and send gifts to the Kaiser, over 
 their supposed permanent victory. 
 
 11th Verse: "And after three days and a half, the 
 spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood 
 upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them which saw 
 them.'' 
 
 Christ will be the personal Commander-in-Chief at this 
 three-and-a-half days' battle, which will be fought in Asia, 
 and will be seen by all Jews fighting in the various armies 
 engaged. Christ's personal appearance, and His great 
 power manifested in raising the members of this fallen 
 army to life, and allowing them to ascend to Heaven, will 
 be two-fold, namely: 
 
 First, to convince the Jews (the Jewish soldiers in all 
 armies) that their looked-for Messiah is our Risen Lord, 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Second, when the final battle is fought near Berlin, and 
 the Kaiser and Loidendorf are burned up, the petty kings' 
 
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 bodies, as well as the bodies of the Central armies, will he 
 feasted upon by the fowls of the air. Then the iSavior will 
 again personally appear, leading the fallen soldiers of this 
 battle in a triumphant march of victory through the streets 
 of Berlin (as recorded in Chapter 19), being the final bat- 
 tle of the war, and will probably occur in -September, 1920. 
 
 This final battle will be fought at a time when all the 
 Allied nations have exhausted the bulk of their wealth and 
 their man power. Then Christ will take command and win 
 this final battle for us, which will simply repeat what He 
 did for the Jews when battling against the Midianites in 
 B. C. 1249, as recorded in the 7th Chapter of Judges, as 
 well as numerous battles He won for this Jewish race, 
 thereby convincing the whole world that He is King of 
 Kings and Lord of Lords. 
 
 'The great fear mentioned in the 11th verse, is the realiza- 
 tion by the Central Powers that they are fighting against 
 God, and they will begin to doubt the sanity of the idea 
 that the Kaiser and the German people now hold, namely : 
 that through God's partnership with them, they are elected 
 to force their "German Kultur" on the world, holding 
 which, is blasphemy against God and His whole plan of sal- 
 vation. When the Central Armies see tens of thousands 
 of dead allied soldiers rise up and ascend into Heaven then 
 will great fear come over their armies. This will prove that 
 God still reigns and rules the earth— not a Kaiser, King, 
 Potentate or any other person who may set himself up as a 
 mediator between God and man. 
 
 12th Verse: "And they heard a great voice from Heaven 
 saying unto them, come up hither. And they ascended up 
 to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them." 
 
 This will be practically a repetition of what occurred 
 when the Savior died on the Cross in A. D. 30. The dead 
 were raised by thousands ; the earth quaked and the sun re- 
 fused to shine on the scene. It is said that the darkness 
 was so intense that it was actually felt. The veil of the 
 temple was rent, and numerous miraculous things occurred 
 to prove to the Jews, as well as to the Gentiles, that they 
 had crucified Christ; and thousands of Jews were converted 
 to the Christian faith by God's miracles on the day the- 
 
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 Savior died. When the hosts of God are contending for 
 Liberty on the field of battle, and the ibattle seemingly is 
 going against them, then Christ will manifest His power 
 before the pagan world and the Central Powers, to prove to 
 these enemies of God and His plan of salvation, that He 
 is the ruler of the world ; and I feel very confident tliat this 
 resurrection will be aJbsolutely literal, and some of our own 
 soldiers will be in the resurrected army, as well as in the 
 triumphant march of victory in Berlin in 1920. No doubt 
 many will be recognized hy friends who are so fortunate as 
 to witness the scene in Berlin at that time. 
 
 13th Verse: "And the same hour was there a great 
 earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the 
 earthquake were slain of men seven thousand, and the rem- 
 nant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of Heaven." 
 
 The hour mentioned in this verse is the same hour of the 
 ascent to Heaven of the resurrected armies. Think of the 
 scene on that day, which will literally occur ! "Will not such 
 a scene prove to the pagan world, as well as to all mankind 
 throughout the world, that God yet lives and rules this 
 earth, and not the Kaiser? Is it any wonder that the rem- 
 nant of the army of the Central Powers will be affrighted 
 ^■edir) dv{} JO orai; s^iC^p auo ut anooo sSuiqj asaq^ uaqAv 
 War ? Then they will give God glory by acknowledging to 
 the world that He does rule and reign on earth. 
 
 14th Verse: "The second woe is past, and behold, the 
 third woe cometh quickly. ' ' 
 
 15th Verse : "And the seventh angel sounded, and there 
 were great voices in Heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this 
 world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His 
 Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever" (after this 
 battle.) 
 
 16th Verse "And the four and twenty elders which sat 
 before God on their seats fell upon their faces and wor- 
 shiped God." 
 
 17th Verse: "Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God 
 A-lmighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because 
 -thou hast taken to thee thy Great Power, and hast reigned. 
 
 These are the same twenty-four elders who were fully 
 described in 4th Chapter of Revelation and includes the 
 
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 description of the four beasts that fought the three an*, 
 a half days' battle against the Dra.9;on or Central Powers. 
 NOTE — The elders representing the Christian Church on 
 earth before the throne are saying, We give thee thanks, 
 iiord God Almighty, which art (exists and which was be- 
 fore He came to earth in A. D. 4. See Daniel 11) , and which 
 are to come, meaning that He will take the reins of govern- 
 ment of the world in his own hands, on the day of the final 
 battle known as the battle of Berlin. From then Christ 
 will rule the earth by the rod of Ar'bitration, through the 
 International Supreme Court, that he will establish in Asia, 
 causing the Turk and Pagan world to acknowledge him 
 King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 
 
 The lightnings, voices (heavenly) and thunderings, the 
 earthquake and great hail (no doubt more and larger than 
 was ever seen before) will fall at conclusion of this battle, 
 as further proof to the heathen world that he will reign 
 and rule for the next thousand years. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 Twelfth Chapter of Revelation. 
 
 1st Verse: "And there appeared a great wonder in 
 Heaven : a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under 
 her feet, and upon her head a crowTi of twelve stars." 
 
 This woman means America, the Mother of Liherty, illus- 
 trated by the Statute of Liberty, 197 feet high, at the en- 
 trance to New York harbor, given to us by France who 
 recognized in us the champions of Liberty. France is now 
 pouring out her very life blood on the western front for 
 Liberty's sake. 
 
 The statute is clothed with the sun, representing the 
 Light of Christ who ligtens the world. And the "moon 
 under her feet" shows that this principle of Liberty is so 
 extensive that, figuratively speaking, with her feet on the 
 moon, her head would reach to the farthermost parts of the 
 universe ; showing the extensiveness of this principle repre- 
 sented by the woman's figure, meaning Liberty. 
 
 "A crown of twelve stars." This description takes us 
 jback to the 12th Chapter of Genesis, 2d and 3d verses, 
 wherein God promises us a Savior and a world Redeemer 
 through the twelve tribes of Israel. In this declaration of 
 God to Abraham, we see a promised Christ, and through His 
 death and resurrection all nations of the earth are to be 
 blessed. This promise was handed down through the twelve 
 tribes now represented by the twelve stars in the crown of 
 the woman, showing that this principle is crowned by Christ, 
 with blessings to all people and nations who accept the prin- 
 ciple of Liberty and the Golden Rule, He gave the world. 
 (Matt. 7:12th verse). Therefore all things whatsoever ye 
 would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them 
 likewise ; for this is the law and the prophets. ' ' Meaning the 
 
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 whole Mosaic law and all prophecies concerning Him and 
 His great mission on earth as emhodied in this principle of 
 the Golden Rule. Had the nations, individuals and the 
 churches of past centuries abided 'by this Rule, there would 
 have been no wars after His coming, and the Bloody Nigbt 
 of St. Bartholomew would not have blotted the pages of 
 history. 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And she, being with child, cried, travailing 
 in birth, and pained to be delivered." 
 
 We as a nation whose conception of this principle of 
 Liberty dates its birth in 1620 in the wilderness of America, 
 (began to grow in this principle until it had fully matured. 
 Our nation stood on April 6th, 1917, the greatest and richest 
 nation on earth, shown by the "Root" allegory, with the 
 whole world pained ; anxiously, sorrowfully, tearfully await- 
 ing the arrival of the child (United States), and what it 
 would do when delivered. The "child" was born on April 
 6th, 1917, and the world (allid) was relieved because the 
 child had elected to fight the "dragon" instead of being 
 devoured like Belgium, Serbia, Poland and other countries. 
 
 3d Verse: "And there appeared another wonder in 
 Heaven; and behold, a Great Red Dragon, having seven 
 heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. ' ' 
 
 The dragon is evidently the German war machine, from 
 the fact that it is "red," meaning blood dragon. The pur- 
 pose for which it was built up was to shed the blood of 
 other nations, and from the awfulness of its mission, John 
 describes it as the "Red Dragon." (Viewing past atrocities 
 of this war machine against innocent Belgians and other 
 more helpless nations, could God conceive any better name 
 than is given this war machine?) 
 
 The description of seven heads and ten horns refers 
 to the German Empire originally composed of seven small 
 parcels of land such as Hesse and other sections of Germany 
 brought in under her either by her force or persuasion in 
 past years. The ten horns mean Austria, Hungary, Bul- 
 garia, Turkey, Poland, Serbia, Belgium, Montenegro, Al- 
 bania and Roumania, which makes the ten horns. 
 
 The seven crowns upon his heads means that the crowns 
 
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 or power which governs these countries are subject to the 
 one great head, the Kaiser's crown, who absolutely dictatees 
 to them, being the power the Allies are fighting to over- 
 throw. 
 
 4th Verse: "And his tail drew the third part of the 
 stars of Heaven and did cast them to the earth ; and the 
 Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be de- 
 livered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born." 
 
 The tail of the dragon drew the third part of the stars; 
 refers to the German spies or propagandists in the form 
 of people and nations who openly and secretly give aid and 
 help to the dragon by blowing up our factories, furnishing 
 supplies to her as does Norway and Sweden. Christ knew 
 that we would have aibout one-third of the world tt) contend 
 with in this class, and has therefore warned us through 
 John of the power in his tail as well as in his heads. The 
 Red Dragon waits at the feet of Liberty to devour the Man 
 Child. The United States, the child born of the figure, 
 means that the Dragon waited at the feet of Liberty to de- 
 vour us through their propaganda. There is seven and one- 
 half per cent of German spies in this country, who tried to 
 instil in our hearts the fear of their war machine and sub- 
 marines. They sent submarines across the Atlantic on a 
 supposedly innocent mission, yet the very act was a national 
 insult of the rankest type under the conditions they came; 
 but the real mission of these submarines was to scare us by 
 this feat and keep us from entering the war, being one of 
 the ways she had planned to devour us as a nation. Thanks 
 to our patriotism, we elected to fight the Red Dragon, and 
 the fight between the Child and Dragon will last until 1920, 
 when the Dragon will finally be overcome and will be 
 chained for a thousand years. 
 
 This verse also states, "It cast these stars to earth," and 
 surely Belgium, SerTsia, Roumania and northern France 
 were not only cast to earth, but trodden under foot, and 
 tens of thousands of their citizens murdered in cold blood 
 by this awful Dragon's war machine. 
 
 6th Verse: "And the woman fled into the wilderness 
 where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should 
 
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 feed her there a thousand, two hundred and three score 
 days." 
 
 Owing to our nation (the Man child) electing to fight 
 the Dragon (as declared in our Declaration of War on the 
 6th of April, 1917„ for Liberty— the very embodiment of 
 Peace, crowned with the principle of Christ, the Prince of 
 Peace — when America went to war (America being 
 the only real home Liberty had on land or sea), it 
 was necessary for God to prepare a resting place for her 
 somewhere in His universe, and nourish her there during 
 the fight between the Man Child and the Red Dragon. 
 
 The "one thousand, two hundred and sixty days" means 
 the length of time the fight will continue between the 
 Dragon and Child. 
 
 7th Verse: "And there was war in Heaven; Michael 
 and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon 
 fought and his angels." 
 
 The "Heaven" mentioned in this verse means that the 
 main hattles will be fought and won from the air as well 
 as the earth. We are now sure that "Michael, the Great 
 Angel, and his angels fighting with him" means our Allies 
 against the Red Dragon German War Machine and his 
 angels, meaning the angels of Satan, 
 
 'The place referred to as Heaven is near the earth or in 
 the air above the earth. The fact is, we all know that this 
 war on earth is the war referred to in this 12th Chapter. 
 When we stop to think of the beauties of this earth in 
 spring time, and hear the birds in one accord singing 
 praises to their heavenly Lord, and note the millions of 
 beautiful flowers under our feet, we then see the heavenly 
 beauties of this earth. But men and nations, grasping for 
 God's wealth, have turned it into Hell instead of into a 
 Heaven, and are, in a way, doing as the Dragon is doing 
 today. Sometime in the future history of this old world, 
 it will be cleansed with fire and made a fit place for our 
 spiritual Heaven by the elimination of all sin and corrup- 
 tion. 
 
 8th Verse : ' ' And prevailed not ; neither was their place 
 found any more in heaven." 
 
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 This verse plainly shows that at the conclusion of the 
 war, our Allies will prevail. Satan and his angels will be 
 defeated and probably three small nations will be made from 
 the German Empire. 
 
 10th Verse: ''And I heard a loud voice saying in Heav- 
 en, now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of 
 our God and the power of His Christ, for the accuser of 
 our brethren is cast down, which accused them day and 
 night." 
 
 The "salvation" referred to in this verse, means being 
 saved from the doom of Belgium, a fate that was hanging 
 not only over the heads of the European and Asiatic na- 
 tions, but our own nation as well. All the world was un- 
 conscious of the menace, except France and Belgium, who 
 withstood the first shock of the Dragon's wrath, until Eng- 
 land, as well as ourselves, awakened and prepared to fight. 
 
 "The "Strength" means the various military prepara- 
 tions that will be made in future to overcome the Dragon. 
 
 The assurance of the "Kingdom of God and the power 
 of Christ" shows conclusively that God, through Jesus 
 Christ, will reign and rule over this earth in some form. 
 
 11th "Verse: "And they overcame him by the Blood of 
 the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they 
 loved not their lives unto the death." 
 
 There are three forcible things seen in this verse : 
 
 First, the overcoming of the "Dragon" by the "Blood of 
 the Lamb." This is being done by our Allies fighting for 
 Liberty and all the things Christianity stands for. In shed- 
 ding His blood on Calvary, Jesus Christ is the one great 
 Paschal Lamb sacrifice for the world. 
 
 Second, our "testimony" or example, as well as that of 
 our^ Allies, relative to fair and equitable dealings between 
 nations, as our records show in our troule with Spain, over 
 Cuba. 
 
 Third, our refunding over $18,000,000 to China, indem- 
 nities allotted to us ; also our protest to the Cz.r." of Russia 
 in 1912, against his treatment of the Jews, causing him to 
 cancel the commercial treaty of 1827 with our nation. 
 
 Should not these acts be pretty good proof of that prin- 
 ciple the Blood of the Lamb stands for? 
 
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 12th Verse: "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens and ye that, 
 dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and 
 of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having 
 great wrath, 'because he knoweth that he hath but a >hort 
 time" (showing the end of the autocraic age). 
 
 We see the Elders before the throne, saying to the world : 
 "Rejoice and be glad, because through God's power you 
 will win over the "German war machine ! But woe unto the 
 poor Belgians and the people of northern France, Serbia, 
 Poland, Armenia and other .sections overrun by the Dra- 
 gon during these forty-two months. When we put into 
 commission twenty-five thousand aeroplanes against the 
 Central Powers, Woe ! nor no words can justly express its 
 terribleness ! ! " 
 
 As the war progresses, we see the "Dragon" getting more 
 brutal because of his wrath. We are becoming more con- 
 vinced each month that his doom is fast being sealed. His 
 first hope was to over-run Belgium and France, and take 
 Paris in less than thirty days, and the whole world praises 
 Belgium for her efforts in frustrating this plan. 
 
 The "Dragon" placed his hopes on the Zeppelin and in- 
 human gases, liquid flame, etc., and these failed. His next 
 hope was centered in the siibmarine, expecting by this 
 means to bring England and her Allies to his feet ; but that 
 failed. Lastly, he struck the greatest blow of the war at 
 Italy, but thanks to Italian valor, supported by the Allies, 
 his hope of bringing Italy into an enforced peace, failed. 
 
 Knowing that in 1918-1919 America will do all she claims, 
 that is, put at least five million soldiers in the field, as fine 
 and brave as any of the veterans of Napoleon's time, it is 
 no wonder the "Dragon' is trying to do desperate things 
 to conclude peace before our strength begins to be felt, as 
 it will be within the next two years, because he now realizes 
 that he has but a short time to live. 
 
 13th "Verse: "And when the Dragon saw that he was 
 cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought 
 forth the child." 
 
 This verse plainly shows that as long as there was hope 
 of winning the war on land, as Germany was trying to do, 
 
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 between August 14th, 1914, and February 1st, 1917, she 
 would carry out her plan of warfare ; but if she saw she 
 was losing on land, despite the protests of America, she 
 would throw national honor aside and begin her inhuman, 
 piratical submarine warfare. The latter turned out to be 
 the case, and Germany pursued the course that caused 
 Liberty to flee from the seas as well as the land, making 
 April 6th, 1917, the beginning of time when Liberty flew 
 into her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, 
 the 6th verse). 
 
 14th Verse: "And to the woman were given two wings 
 of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, 
 inter her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, 
 and half a time from the face of the serpeant. ' ' 
 
 The "wings of a great eagle" given to the woman (Lib- 
 erty) were given to her by our nation, symtoolical of our 
 American eagle, for when we entered the war we had no 
 present use for these wings (symbolical of the Peace this 
 nation stands for), and was therefore compelled to cast our 
 peaceful wings to the winds and roll up our national sleeves 
 and fight the dragon, as we are doing today. Therefore we 
 loaned Liberty our eagle wings to fly therewith to some 
 other realm beyond this earth, to some place Grod had pre- 
 pared for her, near Him, where she could be "nourished" 
 for 42 months from April 6th, 1917, or three and a half 
 years. 
 
 15th Verse: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth 
 water as a flood after the Woman, that he might cause her 
 to be carried away of the flood." 
 
 The "serpent" means not only the Kaiser but the whole 
 German nation, who universally sanctioned the starting of 
 the ruthless submarine warfare against neutrals, as well 
 as against the Allies. Keep in mind each figure rep- 
 resented as follows : The ' ' Dragon ' ' means the German 
 war machine. The "Beast" is the Kaiser, or the Devil 
 reincarnated, and his numiber is 666, as I will later prove. 
 
 The "mouth of water" here refers to the submarine base 
 in Belgium, at the mouth of the Yser River at Ostend ; and 
 through the flood of submarines she is sending out through 
 this base, Germany hopes to overcome Liberty (the "Woman 
 
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 figure), that he (the Dragon) may overcome England, his 
 nearest commercial rival. 
 
 16th Verse: "And the earth helped the "Woman, and 
 the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood 
 which the dragon cast out of his mouth." 
 
 The way the earth helped Liberty was plainly seen in 
 1917. In February our government reported that, owing 
 to the severe winter and other conditions, there would be a 
 general shortage of crops; but, believing that I saw God's 
 hand in this war, and with this verse as my guide, I stated 
 to hundreds of people that we would have greater crops in 
 
 1917 than ever before — solely basing my predictions on this 
 assurance, even against our government's report — and now 
 all the world knows that we have had the greatest crops of 
 any nation in the history of the world. Through our won- 
 derful crops, inexhaustible mineral resources, coal, oil, for- 
 ests and the greatest wealth of any nation on earth, we can 
 build ships and carry these products to our Allies, and 
 Liberty is assured. The eighth Chapter of Revelation, 9th 
 verse, assured us that not over one-third of our ships will 
 be destroyed by the "Dragon," therefore, if Germany can 
 not possibly sink more than one-third of the world's ship- 
 ping, she cannot possibly overcome us, and consequently 
 the flood of submarines will not do the intended harm. In 
 
 1918 and 1919 the earth will again help Liberty, by her 
 great crops. 
 
 17th Verse : "And the dragon was wroth with the Wom- 
 an and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 
 which keep the commandments of God and have the testi- 
 mony of Jesus Christ. ' ' 
 
 This verse very plainly shows that the "Dragon" is very 
 wroth with our Allies, especially with Italy, for ancient 
 Rome was the very seat of the early Christian religion, and 
 in Ephesus Paul preached the immortal sermon to the Ro- 
 mans alDout the Unknown God. In fact, Rome became the 
 center of the Christian religion shortly before Revelation 
 was written in A. D. 96. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Thirteenth Chapter of Revelation, 
 
 1st Verse: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea and 
 saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and 
 ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his 
 heads the name of Blasphemy." 
 
 The beast with the seven heads is fully described by com- 
 ments of his description in 12th Chapter, 3d verse. The 
 "Blasphemy," in further describing the beast, refers to his 
 secret arrangement with his chief under Ally Austro-Hun- 
 gary, with reference to the pretext for starting the war, 
 giving an ultimatum of thirty-six hours to iSer'bia. The 
 ultimatum was purposely conceived and concocted by Ger- 
 many and Austro-Hungary, knowing the task demanded 
 of Seribia was impossible. They tried to convince the world 
 that they were justified in striking Serbia, knowing that 
 the alliance between England, France and Russia woald 
 compel them to enter the war on the side of iSerbia, owing 
 to the Entente Treaty. Germany's starting the war under 
 this pretext was the very embodiment of blasphemy in its 
 rankest form. The seven heads and ten horns have the 
 name of Blasphemy written upon them, and all her Allies 
 were cognizant of these facts when they allied themselves 
 with the beast making all crowns on the head of the dragon 
 equal in blasphemy in the crucifixion of Serbia, and giving 
 them the pretext to start the world war they planned 
 shortly after their victory over France in 1871. 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And the beast which I saw was like unto a 
 leopard and his feet were at the feet of a bear and his mouth 
 as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power, 
 and his seat and great authority." 
 
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 The beast referred to, is the Kaiser; the German War 
 Machine gave him his power and his body is spotted like a 
 leopard, for the cat-like species represented by the leopard 
 will pounce on you from some lofty unlooked for place and 
 tear your heart out so quickly that assistance is impos- 
 sible, as it was with Belgium and Serbia. Many times 
 during the Colonial days, the days of our forefathers, this 
 animal had been knowTi to jump from trees and kill its 
 victims and eat their hearts out before their friends even 
 knew of their presence, and viewing the German War 
 Dragon 's action against Belgium and Serbia is surely a true 
 action of the wild animal of this name. This verse further 
 states it had feet like as it were a bear, meaning that the 
 sister of the Kaiser, the Czarina of Russia (known as the 
 bear) could control the actions of the Russian nation 
 by her power over the Czar. 
 
 The mouth of the beast was as the mouth of a lion, and 
 means that through King George of England, who married 
 the eousin of the Kaiser, he hoped to control his mouth 
 and the English nation by his relationship. 
 
 It is very evident that the War Machine gave the beast 
 his power — his seat as Kaiser with full authority. Today 
 the Kaiser has absolute power and authority over not only 
 the German War Machine, but over all the people in the 
 German Empire, as well. 
 
 3d Verse: "And I saw one of his heads as it were 
 wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed, and 
 all the world wondered after the beast." 
 
 The head that was healed refers to Hungary. While this 
 nation has not existed, as a state for nearly a century, be- 
 ing nationally dead, through German and Austrian wars, 
 she still lives as a nation in the hearts of her people, 
 and is ever in hope of becoming a separate and distinct 
 nation, although now absolutely dominated by the Beast 
 (the Kaiser). The sword by which she was wounded was 
 the German sword. 
 
 Through international marriages among royalty of the 
 German states, secret agents and spies, the Kaiser ex- 
 pected great help and influence from nations such as Vene- 
 zuela, Mexico, Norway and Sweden, who "wondered after 
 
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 the Beast" at mightiness of his power. 
 
 4th Verse: "And they worshipped the dragon which 
 gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, 
 saying, who is like unto the beast?" Who is able to make 
 war with him?" 
 
 "They" means the German nation, who worships her 
 war machine and makes it her idol. In talking to any Ger- 
 man subject five minutes, you will find that the Germans 
 place enough confidence in their war machine to believe 
 that they can conquer the whole world. They also equally 
 worship the Beast (the Kaiser), and exalt him even above 
 God Himself ; and they fling the challenge into the face of 
 the world by the question : ' ' Who is able to make war 
 against the Kaiser?" 
 
 The Allies answered the challenge and now we will see 
 who is victor in September, 1920, for the "forty-two 
 months" means that the Beast will retain his power from 
 April 6th, 1917, to September, 1920, then it will be taken 
 away from him after the battle of Essen. 
 
 6th Verse: "And he opened his mouth in blasphemy 
 against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle and 
 them that dwell in Heaven." 
 
 By the Kaiser's saying, as he openly stated on various 
 occasions, that he represents God on earth and that "Me 
 and God" are in partnership in crucifying Belgium he ex- 
 presses the very essence of blasphemy against God, as well 
 as against the angels and all saints in Heaven. 
 
 7th Verse: "And it was given unto him to make war 
 with the saints and to overcome them ; and power was given 
 him over all kindreds and tongues and nations." 
 
 The German people gave the Beast power to fight the 
 saints (representing not only the Allies but the whole 
 world), and the submarine warfare was evidence of the 
 final authority given the Beast to do as he pleased. 
 
 We see again in this statement that he will overcome 
 us in the battle mentioned in the 11th Chapter (the three 
 and one-half days' battle), at the end of which battle Christ 
 will so vividly manifest His power and authority by rais- 
 ing up the dead soldiers, destroying one-tenth of the people 
 
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 in the city, that no douht will be left in the minds of the 
 Jews that He is the Christ, and is going to rule the earth 
 after the war is over, for one thousand years. 
 
 8th Verse: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall 
 worship him, whose names are not written in the book of 
 life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." 
 Our Lord made it very plain to the world in his teachings 
 while on earth that the people cannot serve "God and 
 Mammon" at the same time, so we are with him in this war, 
 and all who are at heart as well as action on the Allied 
 side today, and have accepted Him as their Savior, have 
 their names written in the book of life, but those who do not 
 accept him as the Christ and show it by secretly and openly 
 aiding the Dragon by works and sympathy are the wor- 
 shipers of the Dragon and Beast. 
 
 The Lamb referred to, in this verse means, the Lamb 
 that was raised up through the Jewish race symbolica!. 0'' 
 innocence and perfection, for the Mosaic law required the 
 Jews to slay a perfect animal without spot or blemish for 
 their various sacrifices, before Christ's time on earth; the 
 Jewish race raised up this perfect Lamb, Christ, through 
 the lineage of Abraham, to be slain on Calvary, as the one 
 and only great sacrifice for the world, that, through this one 
 sacrifice "all nations of the world would be blest" and this 
 great promise by God to Abraham will be fully realized at 
 the close of this war. 
 
 The mission of the Jewish race was to raise up this per- 
 fect Lamb and slay him on Calvary, which they did, be- 
 cause of his lowly birth and just teachings. Yet the Jews 
 were simply carrying out the great plan of salvation for the 
 world, not realizing what they really were doing, making it 
 possible for all the world to receive a Risen Christ. This 
 great thing done by the Jews in raising up and slaying 
 Christ for the salvation of the world, simply carried out 
 God's plan to redeem mankind, and the Jews should have 
 credit for performing this mission, fulfilled to the letter. 
 10th Verse : ' * He that leadeth into captivity shall go into 
 •captivity; he that killeth with the sword must be killed 
 with the sword. ' ' 
 
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 Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Turkey 
 and Bulgaria have been led into captivity by the beast with 
 the promise of possession of other territority, but in that, 
 they will find they are deceived. This verse also states 
 they who kill by the sword must be killed by the sword; 
 plainly indicates not only part of the German nation will 
 be killed in this way, but the Kaiser himself, from the fact 
 that he personally drew the first sword of war. 
 
 11th Verse : "And I beheld another beast coming up out 
 of the earth ; and he had two horns like a lamb and he 
 spake as a dragon." 
 
 This beast coming up out of the earth means Austro- 
 Hungary, plainly enough, because she is two nations in 
 one, being the reason John saw her raise up out of the earth ; 
 the other beast is distinguished by rising up out of the sea, 
 identifying Germany as a sea power beast (with single 
 head), or the German Empire. 
 
 Like a lamb, meaning that apparently this two-headed 
 beast is like a lamb in her outward dealings among her 
 fellow nations, thereby deceiving us and allowing her min- 
 ister to remain on cur shores and secretly, by underhanded, 
 mean, contemptible ways deceive us through her spy system. 
 
 12th Verse : "And he exerciseth all the power of the first 
 beast before him, and eauseth the earth and them which 
 dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound 
 was healed." 
 
 The Austria-Hungary government is in heart and prin- 
 ciple with Germany. Our government has been led to be- 
 lieve that she was practically forced to join the German 
 Empire against her will. Our declaring war against Ger- 
 many and not against Austria-Hungary shows, clearly that 
 the Kaiser successfully deceived our government, by keep- 
 ing this nation as an imaginary separate nation, when in 
 reality she was one and the same as the German Empire, 
 the "Dragon" exercising the same power over Austria- 
 Hungary as he does over Germany. 
 
 This "two-horned beast" is just as earnestly at heart 
 and actions, trying to force the world under German 
 "Kultur," as Germany herself, by making shells, aeroplanes 
 
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 and other implements of war rain dowTi deadly missiles on 
 Belgium and Sei^bia; so it is plain where this two-faced 
 beast stands at heart, namely : a wolf in disguise. 
 
 13th Verse: "And he doeth great wonders, so that he 
 maketh fire come down from Heaven on earth in the sight 
 of men." 
 
 Austria^Hungary started war against Serbia without 
 any cause whatever, but through her inhuman act, she has 
 not only made fire come down from Heaven on the Serbians, 
 but practically on the whole world. Her soldiers are con- 
 sidered the most brutal fiends on the battle fronts today; 
 the Turk is a credit to him ! She is not content in overcom- 
 ing her adversary, but hundreds of instances can be cited 
 where her soldiers went over the battle field and killed all 
 the wounded. Is it any wonder that the world is amazed 
 at her dreadful acts of barbarity? 
 
 14th Verse: "And deceiveth them that dwell on the 
 earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to 
 do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on 
 the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, 
 which had the wound by a sword and did live." 
 
 How plainly John warns the world of this two-homed, 
 two-faced beast ! And for over three years she posed before 
 us as a lamb, but was a "wolf in sheep's clothing" of the 
 worst type, secretly aiding and abetting Germany by pro- 
 paganda put out in this country since 1914, causing untold 
 loss of life. Not only has she been doing this work here, 
 but in Mexico and every South American country she could 
 turn against us. Her "cloak" is the Austrian cloak, and 
 through our known sympathy for Austria — "the under 
 dog" — she takes advantage of this sympathy and sets it up 
 as an argument (an image) to prove that we should not 
 declare war on her, and I am sorry to say it worked to per- 
 fection on our nation up to the 65th Congress. 
 
 This verse further mentions that this lamb (beast) has 
 power over the wounded beast, Austria, who had the deadly 
 wound yet lived. 
 
 Keep in mind these facts : The beast in the first verse 
 means the Kaiser. The two-horned beast, in the fourteenth 
 
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 Chapter, means Austria-Hungary, and their power given 
 them as follows : The Kaiser inherits his crown and power 
 through the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg families, and their 
 inter-marriages in other European nations. The Austria- 
 Hungarian Emperor obtained his power and crown through 
 Germany, and the only national life Austria owns is given 
 to her by Germany. 
 
 16th Verse: "And he causeth all, both small and great, 
 rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their 
 right hand or in their foreheads." 
 
 Th'e ^^mark" referred to is "German Kultur" — 'born, 
 >bred, educated and forced into her subjects from infancy, 
 to such an extent that even some of those who come over 
 here and now enjoy the freedom of America, having become 
 wealthy through our rich resources, and free from the 
 bondage of the German people, will j-et say that there is no 
 place as good as Germany. This is the national mark al- 
 luded to; however, this "mark" is also their money (mark) 
 standard of exchange and all goods exported from Germany 
 must be labelled "Made in Germany" hefore it is permitted 
 to leave the German ports. 
 
 THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME IS 666. 
 
 17th Verse : ' ' And that no man might buy or sell save 
 he that had the mark or the name of the Beast, or number 
 of his name. ' ' 
 
 This condition is literally so in Germany today. The 
 Kaiser compels all mills and factories to have his trade mark 
 put on all goods, and all factories are run under his dis- 
 tinct orders, which are enforced by his soldiery. 
 
 18th Verse: "Here is wisdom, let him that hath under- 
 standing count the numtoer of the beast : for it is the num- 
 iber of a man ; and his number is six hundred three score 
 and six. 
 
 There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet: A the 
 first letter, Z the twenty-sixth. In spelling the Kaiser's 
 name by these numbers you take the corresponding number 
 of the letter in its alphabetical progression and add six: 
 namely K is the 11th letter and add six making 116 ; A the 
 first letter add six equals, 16; I is the ninth letter, add six 
 
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 equals, 96; S is the nineteenth letter, add six equals, 196; 
 E the fifth letter, add six equals, 56 ; R the eighteenth let- 
 ter, add six equals, 186. Adding these totals together you 
 will find they total 666, the number of the beast. This num- 
 ber evidently means the Kaiser. It has also been proven 
 that in August, 1914, the Kaiser, was 666 months old. These 
 numbers cannot be applied to Nero (his double in action 
 and deeds) who ruled Rome in the first century, but evi- 
 dently is Nero (the devil) reincarnated. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Fourteenth Chapter of Revelation. 
 
 1st Verse : ' ' And I looked, and, lo ! a lamb stood on the 
 Mount Zion, and with him an hundred and forty and four 
 thousand, having his father's name written in their fore 
 heads." 
 
 John evidently takes a visional journey to Mount Sinai. 
 The montain known as God's and on and around it occurred 
 the most wonderful things in the history of the Jewish race. 
 
 About three months from the time the children of Israel 
 left Egypt (where they had been in bondage for eighty-two 
 years) God lead them out of Israel by Moses to Mount Sinai, 
 and on this mountain God Reviews to Moses what he has 
 done for this people, as stated in Ex. 19, 4th verse: "Ye 
 have seen what I did to the Egyptians (referring to the 
 plagues sent on them to compel them to let the children of 
 Israel go) and how I bare you on eagles' wings and brought 
 you unto myself (to Mount Sinai) and made the promise 
 to the children of Israel on this mount. (Ex. 19-5) ; now, 
 therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my 
 covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above 
 all people: for all the earth is mine." 
 
 Exodus, 19th Chapter, 6th Verse : ' ' And ye shall be unto 
 me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are 
 the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of 
 Israel." 
 
 In view of this covenant made with the Jews, is it any 
 wonder John 's visionary trip takes him to this Mount Sinai 
 whereon God made this covenant with his people, that are 
 now scattered all over the world. 
 
 There was a Zionist movement (Jewish) on foot about 
 a year ago for a great Jewish reunion to be held in the holy 
 
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 land (near Mt. Zion), but our President discouraged it, 
 xbecause it would have been done before God put his seal 
 of approval upon the convention. (Millions of dollars are 
 now being raised among the Jews at this time throughout 
 the world preparatory to this convention in Jerusalem, 
 probably in 1920). 
 
 After the battle has been fought (Rev. 11th Chap.), 
 Christ will personally manifest Himself to the Jews (who 
 will be fighting on all sides), to convince them that He is 
 their Messiah, proving it by raising up an army of dead 
 soldiers and allowing them to ascend to Heaven before the 
 eyes of the Jews. Besides, He will rock with an earthquake 
 that part of the Holy Land to such an extent that it will 
 cause the people to believe the world is really coming to an 
 end, and cause all to hide and cry for the rocks to fall on 
 them. 
 
 When this awful manifestation occurs, the word will be 
 taken to all parts of the world by Jewish eye-witnesses of 
 what has occurred as written in the 19th Chapter of Exodus, 
 wherein it is stated that God manifested Himself to this 
 people, and after they had seen His wonderful works, they 
 accepted Him and became just what He wanted them to 
 be — a peculiar people, through whose lineage a Messiah 
 was born, and slain on Calvary for the one and great Pas- 
 chal Lamb sacrificed for them as well as for the whole 
 world. While the world has evidently forgotten these rich 
 promises, He has not ; and when God deems the proper time 
 for the three and a half days' battle has come, it will be 
 fought. After this battle there will be held a convention 
 of the Jews, composed of one hundred and forty-four 
 thousand Jewish delegates assembled from all parts of the 
 world the object of which will be to formally accept 
 Christ as their Savior, thereby being sealed with God's 
 seal, as mentioned in the 7th Chapter of Revelation. This 
 convention will not be held until the Land of Canaan is 
 free from the Turk. Jerusalem is now in our Allies' hands. 
 
 From the literal scenes that have occurred in the past 
 centuries, on and around Mount Sinai, of which dozens 
 could be mentioned, the most noted one is wherein Moses 
 
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 received the Ten Commandments from God's own hand. 
 
 Reviewing the wonderful things that have occurred near 
 Mount Sinai, is it not reasonable to suppose that God will 
 again manifest Himself in this region in order to convince 
 the millions of Jews throughout the world that He is their 
 Messiah ? 
 
 From the trend of natural events, that is, the delayed 
 Zionist movement, the city of Jerusalem captured, and other 
 equally important things pending, relative to the war, one 
 is led to believe that this is going to be an actual convention 
 which will he held by the Zionist sometime during this war. 
 
 The first verse of the 14th Chapter further states that 
 John saw a "Lamb" also standing in company with the 
 delegates, evidently meaning that when the convention is 
 in session, Christ will actually ie there and preside over 
 the convention; and when the convention is over, then 
 Christ will loose the forces of Michael, and Hell will reign 
 on earth in the form of war on all sides, as the eighth and 
 ninth Chapters describe. 
 
 This first verse further states that this assembly had 
 "the seal of His father in their foreheads." This 
 being a fact, the different plagues will not occur until 
 after the three-and-a-half-days' battle, near Jerusalem, from 
 the fact that the angel in the third verse of the Eighth 
 Chapter said to the four angels described as standing on 
 the four corners of the earth, as follows: "And he cried 
 with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given 
 to hurt the earth (3d verse), saying, hurt not the earth, 
 neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the ser- 
 vants of our God in their forheads." 
 
 The sealing of the 144,000 delegates at the Zionist conven- 
 tion will occur during the convention. It is rather evident 
 that the plagues mentioned in the eighth and ninth chapters 
 will not come until after our Allies cleanse the Holy Land 
 of its filth of the idol worship of centuries. 
 
 2nd Verse: "And I heard a voice from Heaven, as a 
 voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: 
 and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps." 
 
 The majority of Bible students get Jehovah (or God), the 
 
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 Savior, and the Holy Ghost, or the Holy Spirit mixed up 
 as one ; while the three are one, yet each have their special 
 separate offices. When we speak of Congress in session, we 
 mean, first the President, his Cabinet, the Senate and 
 House of Representatives composing the Congress. When 
 we speak of our County Court in session, we mean the 
 Judge, the Jury, the Prosecuting Attorney and Sheriff, who 
 compose the County Court. So it is in heaven : God or Je- 
 hovah sits on his throne as the Great Judge of the Earth. 
 John in the 4th Chapter describes him as having the ap- 
 pearance of "Jasper and a Sardine Stone," "with a rain- 
 bow around about the throne, in sight unto like an emer- 
 ald," "and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and 
 thunderings and voice of many waters," probably compared 
 to the Niagara Falls in noise. 
 
 Let us go back to Ex. 19th Chapter, part of 16th verse : 
 "There were thunderings and lightnings and a thick cloud 
 upon the Mount and the voice of a trumpet exceedingly 
 loud ; 18th : And the Mount Sinai was altogether in smoke, 
 because the Lord descended upon it in fire, and the smoke 
 thereof ascended as the smoke of a great furnace, and the 
 whole Mount quaked greatly." These citations ought to 
 be pretty good evidence it is God whom John describes as 
 the Great Judge on the throne. I will now try to make 
 plain to the reader the description of the office the Savior 
 held before and after he came to earth as the Christ, 
 or Paschal Lamb. 
 
 Go hack with me in imagination to the evening Adam 
 and Eve heard the voice speaking to them in Genesis 3-10, 
 i. e. they heard the voice of the Lord God, walking in the 
 Garden in the cool of the day. Keep in mind that before 
 our Lord came to earth in flesh, there were only two per- 
 sons composing the Godhead, namely. Father and Son, or 
 Jehovah or Lord, or God and The Lamb. In order to dis- 
 tinguish one from the other we must keep these descrip- 
 tions fully in mind: Gen. 15-1: After these things the 
 "Word" of the Lord came unto Abraham and said: I 
 am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward (Our Lord) ; 
 Exodus 18: And the Lord said to Moses, depart and go 
 
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 hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out 
 of the land of Egypt unto the land which I sware unto 
 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, unto thy seed will I give 
 it. (Our Lord). 
 
 Hundreds of instances can be cited to further prove 
 that before His coming He was fulfilling His office as Lord 
 of the God-head in the gentle, meek way He talked to Adam 
 and Eve, the way He talked on various occasions to Noah 
 the numerous ways He and His messengers (angels) talked 
 to Abraham and Sarah, then to Moses in the burning bush, 
 introducing Himself in different ways to those mentioned as 
 Lord God, "The Word," ''I am" "Emmanuel" and other 
 names and instances we could cite to prove the Savior 
 performed the ordinary functions of the Godhead on earth 
 before His coming, in His quiet earnest, gentle way, as He 
 did to Adam, Abraham, Moses and others; proving the 
 Savior and his special office before coming to earth in B. C. 
 4, in flesh, but after He, by the hand of Moses had led the 
 children of Israel out of bondage to the borders of the 
 promised land, the children of Israel doubted and mur- 
 mured, even in the face of manna falling every night and 
 millions of quail for food among them, yet they doubted. 
 To convince the children of Israel that God did live, and 
 through His power they had been led by the cloud and 
 pillar out of bondage. He saw that it was necessary to make 
 a personal demonstration of Himself, and He told Moses 
 to prepare them to see Him on Mount Sinai, and evidently 
 stepped from His throne to Sinai and gave these poor, half- 
 doubting Jews such a full conception of Himself that they 
 never have forgotten; however it will take another such 
 demonstration to convince the present Jews that Christ has 
 already come. 
 
 Keeping in mind the difference between God and the 
 Lord, it is very plain why John, in 1st John, states: "In 
 the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God." 
 2d: "The same was in the beginning with God." 
 
 One of the most important things in studying the Old 
 and the New Testaments is to keep God and the Lord sepa- 
 rate, so far as the two offices are concerned, the same as 
 
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 judge and advocate. Before the Lord's coining, His office 
 was to create and people the earth; later, to select a man 
 like Abraham and test him out as He did ; to will to him and 
 his posterity great wealth and possessions and high honor; 
 and further. He promised Albraham that a Savior would be 
 bom. And various other things the Lord's high office 
 involved. For instance, in making the fire harmless to the 
 three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace ; causing the fire 
 to fall from Heaven and consume Elijah's sacrifice; shut- 
 ting the lions' mouths, making them harmlesss to Daniel; 
 sending Joseph down into Egypt to save Israel; and hun- 
 dreds of other things which he did through the power of 
 His office, in preparing the Jewish race so that through 
 their seed He could become flesh, as the great Paschal 
 Lamb to be slain on Calvary — as the one ond only sacrifice 
 for the Jews ; and not for them alone, but for the whole 
 world. 
 
 The Jews were expecting a Messiah through their people, 
 bom of a prince of Judea. Instead, He was born of the 
 lowliest, without wealth or position, so that the Jews would 
 temporarily reject Him, and by their rejection make it pos- 
 sible for all to claim Him as their Risen Lord. Owing to 
 this fact, the Jews are still rejecting Him. It will take 
 a second scene on Mt. Zion, with the Savior (the Lamb in 
 their midst), to convince them that their promised Messiah 
 is our Risen Redeemer. 
 
 The greatest reason why the Jews rejected the Lord, was 
 that they were expecting a king to come and make their 
 nation a world power, and when the Savior rejected their 
 earthly kingdom, offered him by Jonas of Samaria, their 
 representative on the Mount, they not only rejected Him 
 but plotted to kill Him, as they later did on Calvary. In 
 crucifying Him, they fulfilled His great mission for the 
 redemption of the world. 
 
 3d "Verse: "And they sung as it were a new song 
 before the throne and hefore the four beasts and the Elders ; 
 and no man could learn that song but the hundred and 
 forty and four thousand which were redeemed from thn 
 earth." 
 
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 4th Verse : ' ' These are they which were not defiled with 
 women, for they are virgins. These are they which follow 
 the Lamb withersoever he goeth. These were redeemed 
 from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the 
 Lamb." 
 
 Evidently, these are the earliest Christians like Mary, 
 Stephen, James, Paul and thousands of other worshipers 
 of the Savior before as well as after His crucifixion. Keep 
 in mind, these are not the one hundred and forty-four thou- 
 sand as mentioned that John saw sealed, in the seventh 
 chapter, for the number in the fourteenth chapter are the 
 Jews who threw sectarianism to the winds and defied the 
 Jewish Sanhedrim, and not only accepted Him as their Mes- 
 siah, but worked and gave their lives for Him, and today 
 are counted among the other millions before the throne of 
 God, as the occupants of the Heavenly Court Room in the 
 Heavenly Court, as John saw it at that time. 
 
 The "144,000" mentioned in the seventh chapter evi- 
 dently means the representatives of the present Jewish 
 Church, who will be sealed between now and 1920, when 
 the Zionist movement is complete, and our President has 
 set his seal of approval on the movement, which will not 
 be done until our Allies clean Jerusalem (captured Decem- 
 ber 9, 1917), of the filth of the Turk, as they are now work- 
 ing to do. 
 
 The song that they are to sing will be a new song to the 
 Jews, and no one will understand it but the Jew himself. 
 His song in past centuries has been the wailing song, hope- 
 ful of a coming Messiah, but when they see Him in the 
 great Zionist convention, in person, then they will sing the 
 new song to their Messiah and King — the One they have 
 been expecting for thousands of years. 
 
 I fully believe this will be an actual occurrence when the 
 Zionist Assembly meets, which will occur before the be- 
 ginning of the plagues mentioned in the eighth chapter, 
 because the angel in the seventh chapter (3d verse) 
 warned the four angels holding the four corners of the earth 
 not to hurt the earth until God had sealed His servants 
 (the assembled Jews) on their forheads, convincing them, 
 
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 by the presence of the Savior at the Assembly at Mount 
 Zion, that He is their promised Messiah already come. 
 After which, God will let loose the plagues (eighth chapter) 
 and overcome the Turks and Central Powers; and in the 
 battle which will follow, known as the Battle of Armaged- 
 don, through God's forces, the Allies will overcome Satan 
 and his forces (the Central Powers), and Peace will then 
 reign on earth. 
 
 6th Verse: "And I saw another angel fly in the midst 
 of Heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto 
 them that dwell on earth, and to every nation and kindred, 
 and tongue and people." 
 
 This angel seen by John in the midst of Heaven, repre- 
 sents the clergy who today are preaching these facts con- 
 cerning this war. 
 
 The "things which shall be hereafter" (Rev. 1-19) very 
 evidently means that the fourth to the twentieth chapters of 
 Revelation, dictated to John by the Risen Christ, were to 
 enlighten the world, through the clergy of all denomina- 
 tions, concerning the war to come and the result at its 
 termination. 
 
 This war was not brought on by God. Christ, coming 
 and proclaiming the Golden Rule to sinful nations guilty 
 of continued disobedience, brought a correcting "sword" 
 to the earth at this time (Mat. ll-34th), instead of peace. 
 Further, the people of the world have seen enough of the 
 "light" of Liberty, through our national example, that 
 they are overthrowing their despots (as Russia is doing), 
 and fighting, as well as dying by the thousands, to gain these 
 principles of Democracy and Liberty ; hence the sword that 
 God has placed in the hands of these poor, down-trodden 
 bondsmen, with which to fight the Liberty battle. And God 
 has assured His people that He will help them win by 
 letting loose the awful plagues on the Central Powers. The 
 fifth angel, in the ninth chapter, will unloose China, Japan 
 and Indian to join against the Central Powers, as more fully 
 described in this chapter, within five months of the close 
 of the world war. 
 
 7th Verse: "Saying with a loud voice, fear God and 
 
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 give glory to Him : for the hour of His judgment is come r 
 and worship Him that made heaven and earth and the 
 sea the fountains of water. ' ' 
 
 These are the things the clergy should preach because 
 God is to come and cleanse Heaven (the air) of the Zeppe- 
 lin and aeroplane scourage; the sea of the hideous sub- 
 marine, as well as the fountains ; and the world of the 
 German war machine (Red Dragon), so that Christ can 
 come and reign and rule over the earth, making the Golden 
 Rule fully operative for the first time on earth. 
 
 While the enlightened people of the earth can see the real 
 advantage of His coming, as come He will at the close of 
 the war, it is now the duty of the clergy to send the glad 
 tidings to all nations, kindred, tongues and peoples, that 
 Christ will rule and reign on earth, and there will be no 
 more crowned heads such as have stolen the national life 
 of Poland, Armenia, Serbia and other nations now extinct. 
 The clergy should prepare the world for His coming in 
 1920, as John the Baptist did in A. D. 27. 
 
 8th Verse: "And there followed another angel, saying, 
 Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she 
 made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her 
 fornication. ' ' 
 
 Berlin, Germany, the city referred to, symbolical of Baby- 
 lon, the most wicked city in the world at that time, because 
 she like Berlin (or the power represented in Berlin) made 
 all nations drink of the wrath of her fornication. 
 
 9th Verse "And the third angel followed them, saying 
 with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his 
 image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his 
 hand." 
 
 10th Verse: The same shall drink of the wine of the 
 wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into 
 the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with 
 fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and 
 in the presence of the Tamb." 
 
 The "man" referred to means that any king, person or 
 nation, who will lay aside all national or individual re- 
 spect as did Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, and 
 
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 join Berlin in her awful mission of world conquest, is 
 abetting the Beast, they shall be made to drink of the wine 
 of the wrath of God in the form of plagues he will pour out 
 on them as illustrated in the ninth chapter. 
 
 11th Verse : "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth 
 up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, 
 who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever re- 
 ceiveth the mark of his name." 
 
 This verse indicates that all who are actually aiding and 
 abetting the Central Powers in their awful work against 
 God and man, are committing blasphemy, an unpardon- 
 able sin, and will lose eternal life in so doing, but that 
 does not mean all people fighting against us. There 
 are thousands today in the armies of the Central Powers 
 who are compelled to fight against us, knowing that if they 
 did not, they would be shot. These soldiers against us are 
 those who do not have the mark on their foreheads, includ- 
 ing Jews, Belgians and Americans forced into the German 
 armies against their wills. 
 
 The image referred to in this verse is "German Kultur," 
 and "the mark" is the seal of the Kaiser they worship. 
 
 12th Verse: "Here is the patience of the saints; here 
 are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith 
 of Jesus." 
 
 The "patience of the saints" refers to the nations and 
 individuals who are not only facing the frightfulness of the 
 German war machine, but must endure until victory comes, 
 or lose their lives in fighting on the side of Michael (our 
 Allied side), and who keep the commandments of God, and 
 fight and die in the faith of Jesus. They are the ones who 
 are assured of eternal life, as the next verse plainly states. 
 13th Verse: "And I heard a voice from Heaven say- 
 ing unto me, write : Blessed are the dead which die in the 
 Lord from henceforth; yea saith the Spirit, that they may 
 rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." 
 
 This very verse assures all who are Christians and are 
 fighting on the Allied side for Liberty, that if they accept 
 Christ and lose their lives in this great world battle for 
 freedom, they shall be justified and will gain eternal life. 
 
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 Christ gave His life on Calvary to save you and the whole 
 world. Father, Mother, are your sons or son's life more 
 precious to you than Christ who died for you, to bring this 
 great principle to earth ? 
 
 Through this great principle of Liberty, the world is to 
 be freed from war and the awfulness attending it. 
 
 "With these facts plainly before you, can you not say, 
 "God's will be done on earth! Go, son; go, daughter, and 
 help win God's battle 'over there' " — in view of the great 
 honor and the assurance of eternal life ? All honor to you, 
 parents, who made such a noble sacrifice ! 
 
 14th Verse : ' ' And I looked and behold, a white cloud, 
 and upon the cloud 'One sat like unto the Son of Man, hav- 
 ing on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp 
 sickle." 
 
 In this vision of John, we see the Lamb (Christ) appear 
 in a cloud somewhere near Jerusalem and take actual com- 
 mand of our Allied forces in preparation for the decisive 
 battle of Armageddon, which is to be fought in this district. 
 
 15th Verse: "And another angel came out of the 
 temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the 
 cloud : thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time is come 
 for Thee to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 
 
 Evidently the angel of the seventh chapter. The scene 
 here indicates that just prior to the Battle of Armageddon, 
 our forces will be overcome, apparently, even while our na- 
 tion is pouring in billions of dollars as well as millions of 
 soldiers to help win the war. Then Christ will personally 
 appear and take active command of the whole army and 
 win this Battle of Armageddon by His own power, and 
 in such a way that the whole world will know Christ and 
 recognize His power to save the world at this time, from a 
 second Pharaoh bondage, and will lead His people into a 
 new land of Canaan, as he did the children of Israel. 
 
 Another reason why the harvest of the world was ripe, 
 ready to be reaped, will be the fact that the Central Powers 
 will overcome us by using the Dragon Steam Roller, the 
 same as they did in the beginning with Belgium, later Rus- 
 sia, Serbia, Roumania and the "big push" against Italy. 
 
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 No doubt the same kind of tactics will be planned against 
 our forces during 1920 in Asia, which will inake it neces- 
 sary for Christ to become commander-in-chief. 
 
 16th Verse : "And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his 
 sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." 
 
 In B. C. 1491 God hardened the heart of Pharaoh, in 
 order to prove to the children of Israel their utter help- 
 lessness against the monster who held them in bondage. 
 (Ex. 7-3). And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply 
 my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. (7-8). And 
 the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, so 
 that he could pour further plagues on the Egyptians which 
 was more evidence of the utter helplessness of the children 
 of Israel, to deliver themselves from bondage. 
 
 So it will be in God's planning of this last battle. 
 Through the plan, yet unknown, he will harden the Kaiser's 
 heart and induce him to marshal his full strength against 
 our forces in the Holy Land, the same as Napoleon did 
 at Waterloo, and the same as Lee did near Richmond m 
 1865 So God puts in His sickle of inducements and reaps 
 the major strength of the Central Powers, and casts it into 
 the "wine press" mentioned in the 19th verse. 
 
 17th Verse : ' ' And another angel came out of the temple 
 which is in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle." 
 
 18th Verse: "And another angel came out from the 
 altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud 
 voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: thrust m 
 thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the 
 earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. " 
 
 The angel in the fourteenth verse states to the One m 
 the cloud, that the world conditions are ripe for Him to 
 reap His great reward for the sacrifice He made on Calvary 
 to redeem the world, because of the helplessness of the Allies 
 against the "Dragon"; and the second angel instructs 
 Him what to reap. The "clusters of the vine" means the 
 several individual armies within and composing the Central 
 Powers. God will offer some inducement to the Central 
 Powers that will cause them to come with their major 
 strength to this district. God is planning the battle and 
 
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 He alone knows the inducements that will be made to the 
 Central Powers to fight this battle of Armageddon. 
 
 19th Verse: "And the angel thrust in his sickle into 
 the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it 
 into the great wine press of the wrath of God. ' ' 
 
 It is very plain that the sickle used in reaping the earth 
 is some material inducement held out to the Central Powers, 
 enough so, that they decide to stake all on this new thrust 
 to be made in the Holy Land, mentioned in this verse as the 
 "wine press of God." 
 
 20th Verse: "And the wine press was trodden without 
 the city, and blood came out of the wine press even unto 
 the horsse' bridles by the space of a thousand and six hun- 
 dred furlongs." 
 
 This verse indicates that during the drive the Central 
 Powers will make against our armies in or near this Asiatic 
 city prior to the final battle the blood shed will run 
 approximately a foot deep during the carnage of battle, 
 proving the war has not yet reached the zenith of its awful- 
 ness and will not until our nation is prepared and ready to 
 help our Allies pour out the plagues of sixteenth chapter. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Fifteenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse: "And I saw another sign in Heaven, great 
 and marvelous. Seven angels having the seven last plagues, 
 for in them is filled up the wrath of Grod." 
 
 Note carefully these seven angels with the seven last 
 plagues that are to be showered upon the Cntral Powers in 
 the future and when this is done the war spirit will he en- 
 tirely crushed out of them. 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled 
 with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the 
 Beast and over his image, and over his mark, and over the 
 number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the 
 harps of God." 
 
 The sea of glass mingled with fire evidently means the 
 victorious armies with their great guns, aeroplanes, tanks 
 and other weapons represented as fire just after the final 
 battle of Armageddon. The victory gained over the 
 "Beast," over his image "German Kultur," and the thing 
 he worships, the German mark. 
 
 3rd Verse: "And they sing the song of Moses the ser- 
 vant of God, and the song of the Lamb. * * *" 
 (Read Exodus Chap. 15th corresponding to this same fif- 
 teenth chapter of Revelations). Showing our song of vic- 
 tory will be sung, for the same reason Moses sang it because 
 of victory over Pharaoh through God's power, same as our 
 armies will sing it. Realizing also that through God 's pow- 
 er alone they won the victory at the battle of Armageddon, 
 which is to be fought as stated in the sixteenth Chapter. 
 Our song will be as follows: 
 
 3rd Verse : "Saying, great and marvelous are thy works. 
 
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 Lord God Almighty. Just and true are Thy ways, Thou 
 King of Saints." 
 
 4th Verse: "Who shall fear Thee, Lord, and glorify 
 Thy name ? for thou only art holy : for all nations shall 
 come and worship before Thee for Thy judgments are made 
 manifest," 
 
 Moses sang his song of deliverance within three months 
 after the children of Israel had been delivered out of the 
 hand of Pharoah ; but it took forty years in the wilderness 
 to prepare them to receive the reward, the promisd land 
 of Canaan, and learn the laws God intended them to be 
 governed by, after they had taken possession of this land 
 flowing with milk and honey. 
 
 So it will be with the world after this great conflict. It 
 may take forty years to fully establish international laws 
 applicable to times, conditions and positions of different 
 nationalities. 
 
 5th Verse : "After that I looked, and behold! the temple 
 of the tabernacle of the testimony in Heaven was opened." 
 This temple evidently means the World Supreme Court 
 (something like The Hague temple in Holland) that will be 
 built somewhere in the world ; but I firmly believe it will 
 be the Old Jerusalem purged and cleansed of all the filthi- 
 ness of the past centuries, and will be the New Jerusalem 
 where all nations as well as individuals can come and drink 
 of the waters of its River of Justice, which will proceed 
 from its throne and flow through all nations throughout the 
 world, as God originally intended when He sent His Son 
 to this district to die on the cross, that through His death 
 and resurrection, the fountains of life could flow through- 
 out the whole world. 
 
 For nineteen hundred years, Satan and his hosts have 
 kept the fountains of life stopped, and it is taking the very 
 life blood of the world to open this fountain by the over- 
 throw of the "Red Dragon" (or German war machine;, 
 and let this river of life flow to all nations; and its waters 
 to carry the leaves of the Tree of Life to heal them of the 
 ills of world autocracy. 
 
 6th Verse: "And the seven angels came out of the 
 
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 temple, having seven plagues, clothed in pure and white 
 linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles." 
 
 7th Verse: "And one of the four beasts gave unto the 
 seven angels, seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, 
 who liveth forever and forever." 
 
 The one of the four beasts evidently refers to England 
 from the fact that her forces are now in this district ready 
 to pour out these vials of wrath against the dragon (from 
 the golden coffers of wealth that she has (vials) as they are 
 now doing in a small way, but later it will be done as 
 shown in Chapter 16, by England and our Allies) . 
 
 8th Verse : ' ' And the temple was filled with smoke, from 
 the glory of God and from his power; and no man was 
 able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the 
 seven angels were fulfilled." 
 
 This verse plainly shows the presence of Christ, the King 
 of Kings, but owing to the Red Dragon being between 
 the temple and the nations of the world they cannot enter 
 the temple until the Dragon is removed. In order to clear 
 the barrier, it is absolutely necessary for the Allies to rain 
 these last seven plagues down on him and his people, to 
 bring him to bay, so that he can be chained in the manner 
 shown in the 20th chapter. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Sixteenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse : ' ' And I heard a great voice out of the temple 
 saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the 
 vials of wrath of God upon the earth." 
 
 In this verse, in imagination I can see the two great 
 armies arrayed against each other with the eyes of each 
 army in the air (areoplanes) watching with eagle eyes every 
 move made by the enemy. "We see the great guns like the 
 French 75 's and Big Berthas grinning death and destruc- 
 tion at each other, waiting like two opposing tigers for the 
 first move. We see the Kaiser and Hindenberg in the far 
 distant part of their armies planning their first blow. We 
 see the cloud (as of old) hovering over the tabernacle, 
 asssuring our armies of God's presence and power. We see 
 thousands of our aeroplanes watching and waiting to do 
 their part when the battle is begun. Everything is quiet 
 for a moment and our forces are startled by hearing a great 
 Voice coming out of the temple — a Voice greater than the 
 roaring of a Niagara — the Savior's Voice, giving the first 
 command to the seven angels to "go your ways and pour 
 out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." This 
 being the beginning of the Battle of Armageddon. 
 
 2d Verse: "And the first angel went and poured out 
 his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and 
 grevious sore upon the men which had the mark of the 
 Beast, and upon them which worshipped his image." 
 
 This plague may be in the form of boils or even leprosy 
 (common in the Holy Land) and will be visited only on 
 soldiers of the Central Powers, who really and truly have 
 "German Kultur" at heart. But, as stated before, there 
 
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 are Jews and other nationalities fighting in their ranks 
 .against their wills — forced to, under penalty of death. 
 These, no doubt, will escape the first plague. 
 
 3d Verse: ''And the second angel poured out his vial 
 upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, 
 and every living soul died in the sea." 
 
 This sea referred to, will probably be some sea near where 
 the Central armies will be, thereby cutting off their water 
 and fish supply. 
 
 4th Verse: "And the third angel poured out his vial 
 upon the rivers and fountains of waters and they became 
 blood." 
 
 The fountains in this verse evidently mean the streams, 
 springs and small fountains in the earth, so that the Cen- 
 tral armies cannot get water from this near sea, the rivers, 
 brooks, springs or wells, absolutely cutting off their water 
 supply by making it so filthy that the thoughts of drinking 
 a dead man's blood will prevent them. 
 
 5th Verse: "And I heard the angel of the waters say, 
 Thou are righteous, Lord, which art and wast, and shall 
 be, because Thou has judged thus. ' ' 
 
 6th Verse: "For they have shed the blood of saints 
 and prophets, and Thou hast given them blood to drink for 
 they are worthy." 
 
 These verses evidently refer to the blood that has made 
 all seas red with the blood of the victims of the submarines, 
 that neither respected neutrals or belligerents, but destroyed 
 them by the thousands, even hospital and Red Cross ships 
 on errands of mercy. Well can this angel of the water say, 
 Thou art worthy to give them blood to drink from these 
 Asiatic waters during this battle, for they have been con- 
 taminating the waters of the world with blood of innocents 
 ever since the war began, the Lusitania being their first 
 victim. 
 
 7th Verse : ' ' And I heard another out of the altar say, 
 even so. Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Thy 
 judgments." 
 
 8th Verse : ' ' And the fourth angel poured out his vial 
 upon the sun ; and power was given unto him to scorch men 
 
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 with fire." 
 
 This battle will prohahly occur in July or August, 1920, 
 and at a time when the sun will be nearest the direct point 
 of its strength. It will also be timed so that the water sup- 
 plies of this country will be low, owing to drought. The 
 contaminated waters and the direct rays of the sun's fierce- 
 ness will make it almost impossible for the forces of the 
 Central Powers to make a quick, effective drive, owing to 
 these barriers which God will place in front of them. 
 
 9th Verse: "And men were scorched with great heat, 
 and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power 
 over these plagues; and they repented not to give Him 
 glory." 
 
 The Central army will be composed principally of the 
 Turks, owing to the hate they feel toward our forces inyad- 
 ing this country which they control. And when, with sores 
 all over their bodies, they find all the waters like blood, 
 with the sun's rays intensified, then will they blaspheme 
 God and call on Allah to help them against our armies. 
 
 10th Verse: "And the fifth angel poured out his vial 
 upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full of 
 darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain." 
 
 Realizing the barriers the four named angels will set up 
 against the Asiatic army, we will follow the fifth angel to 
 Berlin, in order to see what kind of plagues he is adminis- 
 tering to the Central armies on the western front. Standing 
 at a distance, we behold a scene equal to thousands of vul- 
 tures over dead carcasses. We hear millions of explosions 
 from the thousands of aeroplanes raining down bombs on 
 Berlin, the "seat of the Beast," with the whole German 
 Empire in total darkness, owing to these thousands of aero- 
 planes that hover like a cloud and pour out God's wrath 
 in the way of bombs. No one in Germany, especially in 
 Berlin will dare to light a lamp at night, fearing to attract 
 a bomb, and this fear will be constantly hanging over the 
 heads of all in the Empire. No doubt this actually will 
 occur, as our nation alone will have at least twenty-five 
 thousand aeroplanes on the western front, to say nothing 
 about the number our Allies will have. When this is a 
 
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 reality, then the Beast and the people of the Central Powers 
 v.iil !?naw their tongues for pain. 
 
 11th Verse: "And blasphemed the God of Heaven be- 
 cause of their pains and their sores, and repented not of 
 their deeds." 
 
 Yet, they, by their own acts in trying to rule the earth, 
 brought their own punishment on themselves. 
 
 12th Verse: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial 
 upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was 
 dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be 
 prepared." 
 
 The emptying of this vial would seem to indicate the con- 
 clusion of this battle fought west of this river, somewhere in 
 Asia, from the fact that the angel dried up the Euphrates 
 river and made it easy for our armies to pass over on dry 
 land, as was done when God led the Children of Israel out 
 of bondage from Egypt, when they crossed the Red Sea. 
 
 The "king of the east" alludes to King George and other 
 heads of our Allies fighting on the side of Christ ; and the 
 drying up of the river will be to help our Allies strike a 
 quick, decisive, unlooked-for blow against the Central Pow- 
 ers, which will take them by surprise, owing to the protec- 
 tion they imagined this great river would give them. 
 
 13th Verse : "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs 
 come out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth 
 of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." 
 
 The unclean spirits represented as coming out of the 
 mouth of the Dragon evidently means Von Hindenburg, 
 worshiped by the German nation as their hope of victory. 
 The unclean spirit represented as coming out of the Beast 
 (the Kaiser) is Von Ludendorf, the chief adviser and 
 spokesman for the Kaiser. The unclean spirit of the false 
 prophet is no doubt the Turkish general who practically 
 holds the power of the movements of the Turkish armies on 
 all three fronts. The name, false prophet, means Moham- 
 med, the false prophet. 
 
 14th Verse: "For they are the spirits of devils, work- 
 ing miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and 
 -of the whole world to gather them to battle on that great 
 
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 day of God Almighty." 
 
 These three representatives, whoever they may be, will 
 have the plan and execution of the proposed "Big Push" 
 in their hands ; they will plan to wrest control of the Holy 
 Land out of our Allies' hands, but God has planned for us 
 and is ready to let loose these seven angels with their seven 
 plagues whenever the proper time comes, as the great Voice 
 coming from the temple will direct, as stated in first verse. 
 
 15th Verse: "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he 
 that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, 
 and they see his shame." 
 
 This verse is a solemn warning to our Allies to be watch- 
 ful and ready at any moment, to hear the summons, to pro- 
 ceed to battle when the great Voice proceeding from the 
 temple will give the command ; not only to the seven angels 
 but to all of our forces that fight on the side with Christ, 
 to forward march, and cautions all of our Allies to be with 
 garments and sword in hand ready, as his voice may be 
 sounded "as a thief in the night," to fight any moment. 
 
 16th Verse : ' ' And he gathered them together into a 
 place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." 
 
 The word "he" in this verse does not mean that God 
 gathered them together, but it does mean the beast (Kaiser) 
 by his three unclean spirits known as the three frogs, gath- 
 ered his Turkish forces at a place called Armageddon ready 
 to pounce on our army like a tiger. At this time God lets 
 loose the seventh angel, as follows : 
 
 17tli Verse : "And the seventh angel poured out his vial 
 into the air ; and there came a great voice out of the temple 
 of Heaven, from the throne, saying it is done." 
 
 18th Verse: "And there were voices and thunders and 
 lightnings and there was a great earthquake, such as was. 
 not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earth- 
 quake, and so great." 
 
 The last clause of the 17th verse explains the earthquake 's 
 effect as "it is done," meaning the whole army of the Cen- 
 tral Powers has been swallowed up by this awful earth- 
 qaak'i, the greatest earthquake in the history of man. Then 
 what think ye Kaiser? Are you and your war machine^ 
 
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 more powerful than God, who has destroyed your whole 
 eastern army in less than one hour's time? Do you now 
 think you and God are in league to destroy Belgium and 
 other helpless nations? Are you not now convinced that 
 God is against you instead of with you in your awful 
 work? What think ye Austria-Hungary? What think ye 
 Bulgaria, is your idol the Beast now able to save you agains*- 
 the wrath of God? What think ye 'Turkey, is your false 
 prophet, Mohammed, able to save and deliver you from the 
 wrath of God? 
 
 19th Verse : "And the great city was divided into three 
 parts, and the cities of the nations fell ; and great Babylon 
 came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup 
 of wine of his wrath. 
 
 Drink it, ye murderers of Armenians, ye desecrators of 
 the Holy Land for centuries — ye dark blot on God's rich 
 earth — drink ye all of it, for your false prophet Moham- 
 med sleepeth and cannot be awakened to help you. 
 
 20th Verse : ' ' And every island fled away and the moun- 
 tained were not found." 
 
 Do you Central Powers not see your valuable possessions 
 throughout the world, including your African possessions 
 and islands that you held so dear, melt away before the 
 wrath of God, because you were not only trying 
 to steal more and more land, islands and seas from help- 
 less nations, but their national life as well? And yet in 
 view of these awful tjnngs ye as nations have banded your- 
 selves together to steal from other nations. God's wrath has 
 been kindled against you and I now ask you the question : 
 Will you be able to stand when these things eome upon you? 
 God purposes to give you another taste of his wrath in the 
 21st verse. 
 
 21st Verse: "And there fell upon men a great hail out 
 of Heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and 
 men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for 
 the plague thereof was exceedingly great." 
 
 Again, I ask you, Turkey, to call upon Mohammed and 
 have him stop these awful hail stones; but you will find 
 that he is dead to your plea for help against the wrath 
 
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 of our God. Now, with your falsa Prophet asleep and your 
 idol ally, the Beast, chained and helpless, are you willing 
 to let the poor innocent Christian Armenians worship the 
 God who has destroyed your army, made your rivers filthy 
 with dead men's blood, divided your beautiful city into 
 three parts, with hail stones the weight of a talent falling on 
 your lands by the millions? Now are you convinced that 
 the Armenians' God is more powerful than your ally, the 
 Kaiser, or your Mohammed? 
 
 Do you see God's hosts crossing the great Euphrates 
 on dry land, made so by God's sixth angel so that His army 
 can march triumphantly to Constantinople and dictate 
 terms to you? You have no army that can defend you 
 against God's hosts marching on your capital. Your false 
 Prophet, Mohammed, is asleep and you cannot awaken him 
 to help you. God's fifth angel is raining so many tor- 
 ments on your idol, the Kaiser, that he cannot help you. 
 God's fourth angel has made the sun to pour the heat down 
 on your vassal neighbor, Bulgaria, to such an extent that 
 she cannot help you. So it seems that the wise thing for you 
 and your people to do is to get down on your knees before 
 Almighty God and beg for mercy for the way you have 
 desecrated God's Holy Land, as well as the graves of His 
 patriarchs, for commercial purposes; and ask forgiveness 
 for your awful sins committed in the murdering of millions 
 of God's children. Down on your knees, Turkey? and beg 
 for mercy, lest our God, the commander-in-chief of our 
 armies, orders another earthquake that will utterly destroy 
 your whole nation in Europe and Asia. 
 
 Down on your knees, Bulgaria! For your Kaiser is 
 chained and cannot help you against God's wrath; neither 
 can he deliver you that slice of Serbia you have been covet- 
 ing, and for which possession you scorned God and threw 
 all principle of humanity to the winds, and fought for your 
 idol fthe Beast 666). You see what God's seventh angel 
 has done to your allies' armies by the earthquake! God's 
 hosts are shaking the very earth by their heavy tread across 
 Turkey's possessions, to make her beg for mercy; and her 
 Prophet, Mohammed, is asleep and cannot help her! The 
 
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 triumphant armies of Italy are invading your allies' coun- 
 try; God's fifth angel is also raining down so much fire on 
 Austria-Hungary (your second idol) that she cannot help 
 you. Your great idol, the Beast, is gnawing his tongue 
 with pain. God's fifth angel is pouring down awful tor- 
 ment on his people, and there will be no help from either 
 Austria-Hungary or Germany. What will you do, Bul- 
 garia? There can be only one answer. Down on your 
 knees! Don't you hear the roar of God's guns already at 
 your borders, with no one to help you? Down on your 
 knees, and beg for mercy before Almighty God for the in- 
 human, ungodly deal you made with the Kaiser over a piece 
 of poor, little Serbia's territory that you, Austria-Hungary, 
 and the Kaiser proposed to steal in order to get an outlet 
 to the Dardanelles, thus through to India, for all of you ! 
 
 Austria-Hungary, do you feel the tread of the triumph- 
 ant Italian army marching across the plains ready to take 
 your capital? Who will help you against this invading 
 host ? Do you realize that the whole Turkish army has been 
 destroyed by God^s angels, and that their Prophet is asleep 
 and cannot be awakened? 
 
 Do you realize that God's triumphant army has crossed 
 the great Euphrates, which was turned to dry land by His 
 sixth angel, and is marching on the capital of Turkey and 
 Bulgaria? Do you realize that your great idol, the Kaiser, 
 as well as the whole nation, is gnawing his tongue out be- 
 cause of God's fifth angel pouring out his wrath? The 
 triumphant army of the west is now at the gates of Ber- 
 lin ! What are you going to do? You started the war 
 against Serbia, on the assurance that the great German war 
 machine was back of you, solely to get a little slice of ter- 
 ritory by force. You knew the ultimatum you served on 
 Serbia in August, 1914, was utterly impossible to fulfill. 
 You knew it was simply a pretext to start the war, but it 
 did not turn out as you expected. You have lost the flower 
 of your manhood on the various battle fronts ! You have ex- 
 hausted your finances! God's armies of the western front 
 are surrounding Berlin ; your idol cannot help you. With 
 your forces depleted, you cannot stop the invading Italian 
 
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 Armies, near your capital. I ask you this question : Will 
 your deep-laid, inhuman, murderous scheme, secretly en- 
 tered into with the Kaiser, pay you for declaring war on 
 little Serbia, which has cost the world over twenty mil- 
 lion lives and over $250,000,000,000— all for one little 
 morsel of Serbia's territory? What kind of punishment do 
 you think our God is going to mete out to you ? You realize 
 what He has done to your Turkish ally for killing the mil- 
 lions of God's families, the Armenians, and desecrating His 
 holy places in His sacred land in Palestine; yet you have 
 caused the loss of twenty-five-fold more life and treasure 
 than this poor Mohammed-ridden nation caused! Yet in 
 the very light of Martin Luther's teachings of God and all 
 He stands for, you did this unspeakable wrong ! 
 
 We hear the great guns now at the outskirts of Vienna, 
 and you see there is no help possible to save you ! So down 
 on your knees, Austria-Hungary, and beg God that He will 
 not wipe you entirely off the map of Europe, for your awful 
 murderous scheme that, although it failed in its purpose, 
 caused all this untold misery and loss of God's wealth to 
 His children. Beg for mercy ; for His wrath is kindled and 
 you now get a glimpse of it in the earthquake that destroyed 
 the Turkish army. So prepare for the sentence ; and there 
 is only one hope for mercy, and that is that America will 
 do all she can to appease God's wrath against you. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 BERLIN'S DOOM. 
 
 iSeventeenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse: "And there came one of the seven angels, 
 which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto 
 me, come hither ; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the 
 great whore that sitteth upon many waters." 
 
 2d Verse : ' ' With whom the kings of the earth have com- 
 mitted fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have 
 been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." 
 
 3d Verse : " So he carried me away in the spirit into tht 
 wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured 
 beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and 
 ten horns. ' ' 
 
 Think of this sight. The woman sitting on this scarlet 
 covered beast. 
 
 In the twelfth chapter I gave the reader a fairly good de- 
 scription of the beast and why he has seven heads and ten 
 horns. In the thirteenth chapter I surely proved the num- 
 ber of the Beast the woman sits on (666), is the Kaiser. 
 
 The beast therefore is the Kaiser and the woman repre- 
 sents Berlin or the power sitting on the beast, who sits on 
 a scarlet cover over the beast, the red cover representing 
 the blood spilled in obtaining the wealth Germany has. 
 
 In further considering these three things in the scene, 
 don't forget that each is a key to the mystery of this chap- 
 ter. We tried to make it plain why the Kaiser has blas- 
 phemed God in saying ''Me and Gott," in crucifying Bel- 
 gium. This was the very essence of blasphemy, for he did 
 this awful murder for "military reasons" under the cloak 
 
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 that God was with him, forcing "German Kultur" on the 
 world. He said God justified this awful murder for "mili- 
 tary reasons, ' ' and claimed it was approved ; yet the awful 
 scenes ensuing at the invasion must have made God rage 
 with wrath, and the angels of Heaven weep and the redeem- 
 ed from under the altar cry out in agony. Rev. 6-10 : "How 
 long, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge 
 our blood on them that dwell on earth?" In doing this 
 awful act and trying to make the world believe that he and 
 God were in partnership, do you now doubt that this beast 
 being ridden by the woman is the one who is full of blas- 
 phemy ? 
 
 4th Verse : ' ' And the woman was arrayed in purple and 
 scarlet cover and decked with gold and precious stones and 
 pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abomina- 
 tions and filthiness of her fornication." 
 
 Note particularly the robe the woman wears — purple and 
 scarlet — representative of the blood she shed in invading 
 France in 1871, taking Alsace-Lorain from France with a 
 billion dollar indemnity, on top of France's loss of two of 
 her richest provinces ; and the blood she and her allies shed 
 in the Polish War of 1875, wherein Germany, Russia and 
 Austria-Hungary split into three parts this Polish nation, 
 dividing it among themselves, thus taking her national life 
 entirely away from her. 
 
 Are these two blood examples alone not fairly good proof 
 that she is covered with the blood of innocent, helpless na- 
 tions, as her robe illustrates? 
 
 The cup in her hand represents the "strong chest" of 
 Germany that held the billion dollar indemnity wrested from 
 France, which rested in this chest (the cup in the figure's 
 hand) from 1871 to 1914. (An actual fact). The gold, the 
 precious stones and other ornaments she is decked with, is 
 symbolical of ill-gotten land possessions, such as the one- 
 third part of Poland and precious things from Poland's 
 robbed treasury, and possibly represents the rich iron de- 
 posits of Alsace-Lorain, as well, 
 
 5th Verse: "And upon her forehead was a name writ- 
 ten, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots and 
 
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 abomination of tlie earth ! ' ' 
 
 In a secret, two-faced way, she was deceiving the world 
 in posing as the very highest possible example of a Chris- 
 tion nation, even producing a Martin Luther within her 
 borders, yet at the same time she was building up the great- 
 est war machine ever known before in the history of the 
 world, right under the very eyes of all nations, and they 
 apparently knew nothing about it. Is it any wonder God 
 stamps her with "Mystery" and "Babylon the Great "^ 
 For the old Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar's time was nothing 
 to compare with this modern Babylon, built up in the midst 
 of nations by her war dragon. In 1914 she throws all na- 
 tional respect, international law, all commercial and terri- 
 torial treaties to the winds, and invades Belgium. Is it any 
 wonder she is named "Mystery" as well as "Babylon"? 
 
 Germany secretly planned this war of moral filthiness. 
 now in its fourth year. Can anyone doubt the she is an 
 abomination to the earth? 
 
 Think this name over, which was given to her by God him- 
 self, through John the Divine. 
 
 6th Verse: "And I saw the woman drunken with the 
 blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of 
 Jesus ; and when I saw her, I wondered with great admira- 
 tion." 
 
 Our President evidently saw her drunk with the blood 
 of innocents in Belgium; he saw the ocean red with the 
 blood of our own citizens killed by her submarines ; he 
 saw Serbia wiped off the map as a nation ; women and chil- 
 dren slain by the tens of thousands. Is it any wonder that 
 our President saw Germany as a nation drunken — a nation 
 running amuck — as he stated in his war message to Con- 
 gress in April, 1917? Could you doubt for a minute that 
 she in her awful work of destruction on land and sea was 
 drunken with the blood of saints and martyrs? 
 
 7th Verse: "And the angel said unto me, wherefore 
 didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the wom- 
 an and the Beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven 
 heads and ten horns." 
 
 8th Verse: "The Beast that thou sawest was and is not; 
 
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 and sliall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into per- 
 dition : and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, 
 whose names were not written in the book of life from the 
 foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that 
 was, and is not, and yet is. ' ' 
 
 This verse seems to indicate the Kaiser is Satan reincar- 
 nated in the form of a man, for the angel in the seventh 
 verse says this ' ' is the beast that was ' ' : clearly showing he 
 "was" before A. D. 96; that being the fact, he evidently 
 is the spirit of Cain reincarnated, for through the crying 
 of Abel's blood from the ground, caused the Lord to ask 
 Cain the question, "Where is thy brother?" and in his 
 Satanic spirit he answers: "Am I my brother's keeper?" 
 
 The angel further says "and is not," meaning that 
 through the coming of the Savior the Kaiser did not 
 exist at this time, refruiting the idea some writers set foi*th 
 that he is Nero reincarnated, "but shall ascend out of the 
 bottomless pit, ' ' and God w^arns us of his number and name 
 so that when he comes in the form of a man, that all of 
 God's elect will recognize him. not only by his number in 
 the thirteenth chapter, but can figure him out hy his kingly 
 lineage. No historian can apply the time of Nero to make 
 it fit. 
 
 Our present times and conditions leave this war and its 
 time the only reasonable application of Revelation. Since 
 it was written in A. D. 96, John made it plain that Nero was 
 not the "beast" mentioned, for he was living in the time of 
 Nero and plainly said to the world, "and is not," meaning 
 that Revelation did not apply to his time, but to a time in 
 the future history of the w^orld, which he further illustrates 
 in the next verses. 
 
 When we compare the acts of Cain to the acts of the 
 Kaiser, we see the same thing done by each : Cain slew his 
 brother and spilt his blood simply through jealousy. So did 
 the Kaiser, owing to jealousy against England, slay his 
 brother nation. It seems reasonable that the "was" meant 
 Cain, and "one who shall ascend from the bottomless pit" 
 is Satan reincarnated again in the form of the Kaiser 
 (being his second time here on earth, the first and last of qjs 
 
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 doings for the next thousand years) . The same Satan that 
 influenced Eve, and caused her first offspring to be a devil 
 in the form of Cain, with his first thought of shedding blood, 
 also influenced the mentality of the mother of the present 
 Kaiser, and she brought forth a son with a satanic mind. 
 Is it not reasonable to believe that the "was" used by John 
 meant Cain ; and that the phrase, ' ' and shall ascend out of 
 the bottomless pit," refers to the Kaiser at this time? 
 
 Note the sentence of the Beast by the angel in this eighth 
 verse: "And go into perdition;" meaning that when he is 
 captured by our forces, he will either be killed or banished 
 to some remote island of the seas. When the Kaiser's 
 power is gone, his ally, Turkey, "will wonder" whose names 
 are not written in the book of life from the foundation of 
 the world, because her nation is composed of Mohammedans 
 who have been avowed enemies of Christ for hundreds of 
 years, and never had their names written on the Christian 
 side of life either as a nation or individuals, and no doubt 
 they will wonder at the scene of destruction being meted 
 out to Germany for her role of hypocrisy and deceit. 
 
 9th Verse: "And here is the mind that hath wisdom. 
 The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the wom- 
 an sitteth, viz: Hartz Mountains, Germany; Carparthians 
 in Hungary; the Alps, the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria; 
 the Vosges Mountains in Austria; Caucasus Mountains in 
 Turkey and Kiolen Mountains, Scandinavian Mountains be- 
 tween Norway and Sweden. 
 
 10th Verse : * ' And there are seven kings, five are fallen, 
 and one is and the other is yet to come and when he cometh 
 he shall continue a short space." 
 
 10th Verse : ' ' And the beast that was, and is not, even 
 he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth forth into 
 perdition." 
 
 In order to understand the meaning of the five fallen 
 kings it is necessary to go back to the fourth chapter of 
 Daniel wherein he interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream of 
 the great tree, as follows: Dan. 4-10. Thus were the vis- 
 ions of mine head in my bed; I saw and behold a great 
 tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was 
 
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 great. 11th : The tree grew and was strong and the 
 heighth thereof reached to Heaven, and the sight thereof 
 reached to the end of the earth. 12th : The leaves thereof 
 were fair and the fruit thereof much, etc. 
 
 13th Verse : "I saw in my visions of my head upon my 
 'bed, and, a watcher and an holy one come down from 
 Heaven." 
 
 14th Verse: "He cried aloud, and said thus: hew down 
 the tree and cut off his branches ; shake off his leaves ; scat- 
 ter his fruit; and let the beasts get away from under it 
 and the fowls from his branches." 
 
 15th Verse: "Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots 
 in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass in the 
 tender grass of the field. ' ' 
 
 The interpretation of the dream was, in substance, that 
 God had builded the Jewish nation up until it out-towered 
 all other nations in richness and greatness, as it was in B. C. 
 922 ; but owing to the grievous sins of idol worship com- 
 mitted by the Children of Israel, God permitted Nebuchad- 
 nezzar to come up to Jerusalem and besiege it in B. C. 607, 
 and take the Children of Israel, with all their great wealth, 
 as captives to Babylon. In B. C. 538, Babylon was the rich- 
 est and greatest city on earth, in a great measure like Ber- 
 lin was a great and wealthy city in 1914. 
 
 After God had given Nebuchadnezzar these nations into 
 his hands, then he, like the Kaiser, set up an idol and de- 
 creed that all must worship it or be killed. The Babylonian 
 king set up his golden idols for the Children of Israel, as 
 well as his other subjects, to worship ; and the Kaiser set up 
 his idol — "German Kultur" — for the world to worship; 
 and because Belgium, like the three Hebrew children, re- 
 fused to worship his image, he decided to annihilate her as 
 a nation, claiming it to be for her own good. 
 
 After Nebuchadnezzar had set up his golden image, God 
 showed him in a dream (Dan. 4th Chapter), his kingdom 
 cut down to the grass roots, as was done at his son's feast 
 fifty years later — God's verdict as shown by the hand- 
 writing on the wall. No doubt the Kaiser will also see the 
 handwriting on the wall in 1920. 
 
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 However, the root with two bands around it was pre- 
 served by the Great One, and the root we found, as written 
 in our allegorical travels. 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar was made to eat grass like an ox. His 
 son, Belchazzar, was killed, and Judah also came under the 
 rule of Darius, B. C. 538, which completed the hewing of 
 the great tree of Babylonian wealth down to the grass roots, 
 as told in the dream. (From B. C. 538 to the coming of the 
 Messiah, five kings ruled the "Root" of Judea up to B. C. 
 4). 
 
 Keep in mind that God had withdrawn His power from 
 the remnant of the Jews, from B. C. 538 to the Christ's 
 coming. In the meantime, Mattathias of Modein, a Jewish 
 priest, wrested part of Palestine from the Persians in B. C. 
 168, by his personal bravery, but was killed shortly after- 
 wards. Then his son, Judas Maccabeus, captured Jerusalem 
 in B. C. 166 and set up a form of government — ^the "stump" 
 or "root" of Judah— but in B. C. 161 he was killed in bat- 
 tle, and his brother Jonathan took the reins of government 
 (Judah Root), but was taken prisoner in B. C. 144; then 
 his brother Simon assumed the title of King, and from his 
 death up to B. C. 40 the crown was in name only. In B. C. 
 63, the Roman government took away from the relatives of 
 Simon the last semblance of authority and placed Hyrcanus 
 on the throne as ruler; later, Herod Antipater was placed 
 in power ; and finally, Herod the Great was made King of 
 Judea, making the fifth king spoken of by John as the "five 
 kings fallen," as follows: Mattathias of Modein, Judas 
 Maccadeus, Jonathan, his brother, Simon, his last brother, 
 and Herod the Great, being the five kings alluded to up to 
 the birth of the Savior in B. C. 4. In this year the new king 
 is born out of the root of the tree as seen by Nebuchadnezzar 
 538 years before this time. The birth of this sixth king is 
 more fully described in the second chapter of Matthew. 
 Owing to jealousy at his birth all boy babies were killed 
 in all Palestine, because Herod had heard that a boy king 
 had been born. Matt. 2:2, saying, "Where is he that is 
 bom King of the Jews?" Thirty-three years later this King 
 stands before the High Priest (Matt. 27-63) and the high 
 
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 priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the 
 living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the 
 son of God. Jesus saith unto him: ''Thou hast said," 
 Matt. 27-37, and they sat up over his head his accusation 
 written, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." 
 
 "With these facts before you can you doubt that this was 
 the sixth king of the Jews represented as the root of David 
 (Rev, 5-5) described by John in Eev. 17-10 as the ''One is?" 
 
 Eev, 17th-12th Verse: "And the ten horns which thou 
 sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as 
 yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast. ' ' 
 
 The ten kings spoken of are probably kings that the 
 Kaiser may appoint over the countries he has captured, and 
 whose kingly powers will be one hour with the Kaiser. 
 
 13th Verse : ' ' These have one mind, and shall give their 
 power and strength unto the beast. ' ' 
 
 14th Verse: "These shall make war with the Lamb, and 
 the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of Lords and 
 King of Kings; and they that are with him are called 
 chosen and faithful." 
 
 I have proven conclusively that the Allies are the ones 
 God called to overcome the Beast, and God assures us 
 that he will finally overcome the Beast, because we are 
 fighting for Him and He is King of Kings ; and upon this 
 assurance, we as a nation must fight the Beast until he 
 is subdued and chained, so that he cannot be a further* 
 menace to the world for the next thousand years. And had 
 we not been faithful to our King and entered the war as we 
 did, our doom as a nation would have been sealed. 
 
 15th Verse: "And he saith unto me, the waters which 
 thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people and multi- 
 tudes and nations and tongues." 
 
 16th Verse : ' ' And the ten horns which thou sawest upon 
 the beast, these shall hate the whore and shall make her 
 desolate and naked; and shall eat her flesh and burn her 
 with fire." 
 
 Keep in mind that this figure represents the German 
 nation centralized in Berlin — the great Babylon, as I showed 
 you in my visit to that city in B. C. 538, wherein the whol« 
 
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 city was given over to worshiping the golden idol, Mam- 
 mon. By "making her desolate and naked" means that 
 she as a nation will be boycotted by all nations, and they 
 will torment her with the awful fire of her indebtedness. 
 
 17th Verse : "For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill 
 His will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the 
 beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." 
 
 The actions of these kings are in exact parallel with the 
 actions of the Persians in B. C. 607, who did God's will by 
 taking the Children of Israel captive, for their sin com- 
 mitted in idol worship. Then God raised Cyrus up, seventy 
 years later, to rescue them from their captivity, with Ezra 
 as their leader. 
 
 18th Verse : "And the woman which thou sawest is that 
 great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. ' ' 
 
 Undoubtedly the figure means Berlin ; for that is the only 
 city in the world today wherein ten kingdoms are con- 
 trolled. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 Eighteenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse: "After these things, I saw another angel 
 come down from Heaven, having great power; and the 
 earth was lighted with his glory. ' ' 
 
 2d Verse: "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, 
 saying Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become 
 the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit, 
 and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." 
 
 3d Verse : ' ' For all nations have drunk of the wrath of 
 her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed 
 fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are 
 waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." 
 
 The third verse surely hits every nation on earth, our owu 
 not excepted. For the past fifty years we have been buying 
 German made goods, doing so because we thought anything 
 stamped "Made in Germany" was the best. We thought we 
 could not manufacture dye stuffs, hence let Germany supply 
 that very important product for our needs; yet we had 
 everything essential to the manufacture of dy? stuffs, but 
 did not wish to make the little things among which this 
 important article is of great value. If we needed a fine 
 piece of machinery, we were under the impression that their 
 machinery, gas engines, etc., were better, and hence allowed 
 them a monopoly. In fact, the same thing happened in 
 professional matters. If we were in a serious condition and 
 needed a surgical operation performed, we would send 
 to Germany for a special surgeon, yet we had far better 
 surgeons at home, whom we could have procured at half 
 the expense. If we wanted to give our children a fine musi- 
 cal education, we thought it was necessary to send them to 
 a German professor. 
 
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 In fact, it became a fixed habit with us and all other 
 nations to look to Germany for things of value, thereby- 
 building Germany up to the zenith of richness and great- 
 ness, and in turn she was using our money, spent with her, 
 to build up this awful war machine to cut the throats of all 
 nations who opposed "German Kultur." 
 
 Is it any wonder Christ, through Revelation, tells us of 
 our sinful commercial fornication with her? 
 
 4th Verse : ' ' And I heard another voice from Heaven, 
 saying: Come out of her, my people, that ye be not par- 
 takers of her sins that ye receive not of her plagues. 
 
 5th Verse : ' ' For her sins have reached unto Heaven and 
 God hath remembered her iniquities." 
 
 6th Verse: "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and 
 double unto her double according to her works: in the cup 
 which she hath filled to her double." 
 
 This verse shows an absolute opposite spirit our Lord 
 advocated in normal times as stated in Matt. 5-38-39, "Ye 
 have heard that it has been said: an eye for an eye and d 
 tooth for a tooth, but I say unto you that ye resist not evil ; 
 but whosoever shall smite you on the right cheek turn to 
 him the other also." 
 
 The sixth chapter of Revelation refers to the world at 
 this time under God's world-wide martial law, wherein the 
 sacrifice of peace was withdrawn on April 6th, 1917, not by 
 God, but forced away from the earth by Satan in the form 
 of the Beast, by the notice to the world that the submarine 
 warfare would begin Feb. 1, 1917, 
 
 From the sixth to the twentieth verses John gives further 
 description of her awful sins as well as the consequences. 
 
 20th Verse: "Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye 
 holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on 
 her." 
 
 21st Verse: "And a mighty angel took up a stone like 
 a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with 
 violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and 
 shall be found no more at all." 
 
 This chapter absolutely seals the doom of the Berlin 
 government as a world menace, and Germany will probably 
 
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 be divided into three parts, so that she cannot possibly rise 
 again as a world war machine under a thousand years. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 JESUS CHRIST CO'MMANDS— VICTORY. 
 
 Nineteenth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 In studying this chapter, it is a song of rejoicing over the 
 great victory, over the destruction of the Berlin government, 
 wherein our Savior actually takes the reins of world gov- 
 ernment as King. 
 
 11th Verse: "And I saw Heaven opened and behold a 
 white horse ; and he that sat upon him was called faithful 
 and true; and in righteousness he doth judge and make 
 war." 
 
 12th Verse: "His eyes were as a flame of fire and on 
 his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, 
 that no man knew but he himself." 
 
 These verses plainly make it clear that Christ will act- 
 ually assume the office of King of the earth, as the world 
 will be in 1920. 
 
 13th Verse : "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped 
 in blood, and his name is called the word of God." 
 
 (See John 1, Chapter 1st to 15th verses), who became 
 flesh and dwelt amongst us in B. C. 4 to A. D. 30. 
 
 14th Verse: "And the armies which were in Heaven 
 followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white 
 and clean." 
 
 The armies mentioned evidently refer to the army the 
 Lord raised up from the three and a half days' battle re- 
 corded in Eleventh Chapter, and ascended to Heaven, 
 which was done to convince the Jews that he was their Risen 
 Lord. 
 
 Whoever is fortunate enough to see this great sight on 
 
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 the western front near Krupps, Germany, no doubt will 
 recognize some of our own soldiers in the triumphant parade 
 of victory; soldiers who fell in the battle mentioned in 
 Eleventh Chapter, and who ascended as stated. 
 
 15th Verse : ' ' And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, 
 that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule 
 them with a rod of iron ; and he treadeth the wine-press of 
 the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." 
 
 The sharp sword protruding from the mouth of the King 
 of Kings seen in the cloud (mysterious) evidently means the 
 sword of "Liberty" with one edge representing the allied 
 army and the other edge the navy, and will be used by the 
 King of Kings and Lord of Lords to subdue the Beast and 
 chain him, as shown in the Twentieth Chapter. 
 
 16th Verse: "And he hath on his vesture and on his 
 thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords." 
 
 For the past two thousand years, God has waited pa- 
 tiently for the churches to redeem the world with the help 
 of the great wealth placed in the hands of the nations. In- 
 stead of using it for this purpose, they have let His churches 
 go begging, and have built up great war machines with 
 which to cut each other's throats (though commercial riv- 
 alry) and left no hope in the future for a world's redemp- 
 tion. Is it any wonder God proposes to assume lordship 
 over His own wealth, and become King in person, after 
 the rank failure the people have made in the past centuries ? 
 
 Remember that after the close of the war in 1920, the 
 world will only know one King, as this chapter plainly tells 
 us, namely : our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Then the different menaces hanging over our heads as 
 nations will be things of the past. The rum traffic will also 
 be wiped out of existence — this being the second greatest 
 curse to the world today, along with all other minor evils 
 that has kept the world in bondage and away from Christ. 
 
 All crowned heads, either of church or state, will be a 
 thing of the past, and all persons high and low, will fall 
 down before this mighty King and acknowledge Him, in 
 humble obeisance, as their King and Savior. 
 
 17th Verse : ' ' And I saw an angel standing in the sun ; 
 
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 and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that 
 fly in the midst of Heaven, come and gather yourselves to- 
 gether unto the supper of the great God." 
 
 18th Verse : ' ' That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and 
 the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the 
 flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of 
 all men both free and bond, both small and great." 
 THE FINAL BATTLE NEAR BERLIN. 
 
 20th Verse : * ' And the beast was taken, and with him the 
 false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which 
 he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast 
 and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast 
 alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." 
 
 21st Verse: "And the remnant were slain with the 
 sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword pro- 
 ceeded out of his mouth ; and all the fowls were filled with 
 their flesh." 
 
 Many people will read these statements of conditions that 
 will occur before the war closes, but will continue to be- 
 lieve they are to come to pass ten thousand years hence. As 
 the war progresses, everything indicates that within the next 
 three years all these things will literally, absolutely and 
 undeniably occur. 
 
 The Beast (Kaiser) and his false prophet (the Sultan) 
 will be literally burned up at the close of the war. There 
 will be kings of small nations, with those fighting in the 
 army for the "Beast," who will be destroyed with the 
 sword of the Lord in such a way that no one will doubt that 
 it was by His great power alone that the final battle near or 
 in Berlin was won. The vultures of Germany will feast on 
 kings and subjects, after this final battle. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 Twentieth Chapter of Revelations. 
 
 1st Verse: "And I saw an angel come down from 
 Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great 
 chain in his hand." 
 
 2d Verse: "And he laid hold on the Dragon, that old 
 Serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a 
 thousand years." 
 
 So endeth Autocratic Governments, the Beast and the 
 Kaiser and his followers, for the next thousand years, dat- 
 ing from October, 1920. 
 
 6th Verse: "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in 
 the first resurection ; on such the second death hath no 
 power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and 
 shall reign with him a thousand years." 
 
 Between the time that Easter morning, A. D. 30, and the 
 Savior's ascension. He talked to the two Marys and His 
 disciples, but it took the Savior's pierced hands to prove to 
 doubting Thomas that He had really arisen and was still on 
 earth. Forty days after his resurrection, thousands saw Him 
 ascend to Heaven in His immortal form, and no doubt His 
 next coming will be the same ever-living form. 
 
 The fourteenth chapter of Revelation makes clear that 
 He will be seen at the Jewish convention, held near Mt. 
 Zion, near the close of this war, probably in July, 1920, and 
 after He has sealed the Jewish (Zion) Church into His 
 kingdom. He will then take active control of our armies on 
 all fronts, and annihilate the Eastern Central Powers' army 
 at the battle of Armageddon, as described in this chapter. 
 
 The next place He will visit will be Germany, as recorded 
 in the nineteenth chapter, and there He will personally 
 smite the "Western army and utterly bum up the Kaiser 
 and LudendorfT. Power will be taken away from what re- 
 mains of these nations, and the Savior will rule them with 
 ar od of iron, known as arbitration. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WAR. 
 
 1st: The Savior dictates Revelation to John. 
 
 2nd : The Kaiser is the Beast, Number 666. 
 
 3rd: America represents the Woman figure in the 
 Twelfth Chapter of Revelation. 
 
 4th : Our government is the Child that is bom to the 
 figure. 
 
 5th: On April 6th, 1917, we were delivered, as men- 
 tioned in this chapter; thus setting a positive date from 
 which to count the forty-two months from April 6, 1917, 
 to the close of the war. The probable date of the closing 
 of the war is September, 1920. 
 
 6th : The Jewish (Zionist) Church will formally accept 
 Christ as their Messiah at the Jewish convention to be held 
 at Mt Zion. (Two miles from the old city.) 
 
 7th : The Battle of Armageddon will be won by the Sa- 
 vior Himself and His angels, and He will direct the battle 
 from the Jewish Temple. 
 
 8th : The Battle of Berlin will be won by the sword of 
 the Savior. After this battle, His resurrected army shall 
 triumphantly march through the streets of Berlin. 
 
 9th : The stump of the great tree seen by Nebuchad- 
 nezzer in his dream, is Christ, the Root of David ; and from 
 this Root, Liberty grew and became as great as our nation 
 is today. 
 
 10th : That Christ 's first reign will begin some time in 
 1920, and He will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords for 
 the next thousand years to come. 
 
 11th : That had not John figuratively eaten the little 
 
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 book, recorded in the tenth chapter, the mighty angel 
 Gabriel would have destroyed the earth at that time. 
 
 The sixth verse of the Twentieth Chapter clearly shows 
 that whoever may be fortunate enough to fall in the battle 
 of the Eleventh Chapter, and are resurrected and ascend to 
 Heaven, as stated, will be priests unto God and Christ, and 
 will officiate with Christ during His reign of a thousand 
 years here on earth, known as the first resurrection, over 
 which the second death has no power. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 THE OIL MAN. 
 
 Our allied nations now concede the winning of the war 
 depends upon the farmer; however, the author is equally 
 convinced that the producer of oil and gasoline is as essen- 
 tial to final victory. It requires far greater risk and tenfold 
 greater determination to produce oil and gasoline than 
 farm products. 
 
 Without oil no machinery could run and produce muni- 
 tions. The engines on all railroads would stop; no ships 
 could carry our soldiers or farm products to the battle 
 fronts; no aeroplane could rise above the earth. In fact, 
 we would be at the feet of the "German Dragon" in less 
 than three months, were it not for oil and its by-products. 
 
 Th3 author and associates spent years and a fortune, in 
 trying to discover three oil pools in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
 by tracing the source of immense gas pools into prospective 
 oil pool districts. After this had been done to a point of 
 discovering oil in paying quantities, the leases expired and 
 the land owners refused to extend the block of leases. The 
 question therefore arises : Is a land owner who refuses to 
 farm his land a greater barrier to the allied cause of world 
 liberty, than the land owner who refuses to lease his lands 
 for oil and gasoline purposes? We emphatically say, he is 
 not only a barrier, but an enemy to the allied cause, and a 
 secret friend to Germany in refusing to allow this all-essen- 
 tial commodity to be discovered and produced to help win 
 the war. 
 
 There should be laws enacted compelling landowners to 
 lease their lands when oil men can reasonably prove that a 
 
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 prospective oil pool exists, as the writer can do in this 
 instance. 
 
 The author is ready to sacrifice every dollar he has, and 
 give his all on the altar of Freedom, in any way our govern- 
 ment calls him to service. He is fully convinced that the 
 oil men who risks his money and devotes his time to helping 
 produce oil and gasoline for the allied cause during the 
 war, is doing real service for Christ as much so as if he 
 were on one of the battle fronts, or in an aeroplane, or 
 on one of the allied ships, offering his all for Him who is 
 the embodiment of Liberty, as explained in the preface of 
 this book. 
 
 In this world war against the hosts of the devil, the 
 Great Commander expects real active service instead of all 
 prayers and no service. A person's Christianity is meas- 
 ured by the real sacrifice he or she is making during the 
 war. The business of the world today is war, and if we 
 fail to do our part in active service, we are Christian 
 slackers. 
 
 The real Christian password today is SERVICE ; so let 
 us all do service for Him, in farming, as though our eter- 
 nal salvation depended on our best service in the produc- 
 tion of the farm, in producing oil and gasoline, in building 
 ships, engines, guns, aeroplanes — down even to the com- 
 monest labor essential to their production; then we are 
 doing real service for Christ, as the world now understands 
 service for Him. Or if not in this channel, buy bonds, W. S. 
 Stamps or Thrift Stamps until it hurts, until the war ends, 
 or until Satan is chained ; for each link forged in the 
 mighty chain that the angel mentioned in the Twentieth 
 Chapter will be used to chain Satan, each link of the va- 
 rious links that compose this chain must help forge on the 
 anvil of democracy, with the hammer of Righteousness, 
 and each lick we help strike will cause a spark to fly which 
 will help finally to start the fire that will burn the Kaiser 
 and Ludendorff up, and end autocracy on earth. 
 
CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL. 
 
 •The following is a chronological list of Leaders and 
 Judges chosen by God to lead the children of Israel from 
 
 B. C. 1491 until their request for a King in B. C. 1095. 
 Moses called by Lord God in B. C. 1531, died 1451. 
 Joshua, leader by Lord God in B. C. 1451 to 1426. 
 Ruled by God under Judges as follows : 
 
 The Lord God called various leaders from the twelve 
 tribes to conquer different parts of Canaan between 1420 
 and 1141. In the year 1141 the Lord called Samuel to be 
 Judge as well as jury of the twelve tribes. He exercised a 
 great influence over all the tribes of Israel. 
 
 The three Kings of all Israel were as follows: 
 
 Saul reigned from B. C. 1095 to 1055. 
 
 David reigned from B. C. 1055 to 1015. 
 
 Solomon reigned from B. C. 1015 to 975. 
 
 Israel was divided into north and south kingdoms in B. 
 
 C. 975. 
 
 The Kings of Israel who ruled the ten tribes after divis- 
 ion, were as follows: 
 
 Jereboam 974 to 954 
 
 Nadab 954 to 953 
 
 Baasha 953 to 930 
 
 Elah 930 to 929 
 
 Zimri 929 to 918 
 
 Omri 918 to 918 
 
 Ahab 918 to 897 
 
 Ahaziam 897 
 
 Jehoram, (son of Ahab).... 896 
 
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 Jehu 997 to 884 
 
 Jexahaz 884 to 856 
 
 Jehoash 856 to 839 
 
 Jereboam 839 to 825 
 
 Iterregnum of eleven years. 
 
 Zachariah 784 to 773 
 
 Shallum 773 to 772 
 
 Pekahiah 772 to 761 
 
 Pekah 761 to 759 
 
 Hoshea kills Pekah 739 
 
 Hoshea settled in kingdom with reign of anarchy, 739 to 
 730, B. C. 721 kingdom of Israel overthrown by the Assyr- 
 ians. 
 
 Shalmanesar, King of Assyria came against Samaria in 
 B. C. 724 and after a siege of three years took the city and 
 carried the ten tribes captive to Assyria. Having removed 
 the children of Israel to the cities of Halah and Ilabor by 
 the River Gazon and into the cities of the Medes, the Assyr- 
 ian King then re-populated Samaria with his native peo- 
 ple. Keep the two captives separate, as follows : 
 
 The Kingdom of ten tribes of Israel (known as the North- 
 ern Kingdom for their idolatry) was taken captive in B. C. 
 721 by the Assyrians. The two tribes composing Judah, for 
 their idolatry, were taken into captivity to Babylon in 
 B. C. 607 by Nebuchadnezzar. Thus we find the twelve 
 tribes of Israel in Babylonia and Assyria at this time. 
 
 The following are the Kings of Judah (two tribes) who 
 ruled the southern Kingdom until taken into captivity by 
 Nebuchadnezzar in B. C. 607 (Daniel's time of reckoning). 
 Rehoboam, King of Judah from B. C. 975 to 957. 
 Abijam, King of Judah from B. C. 957 to 955. 
 Asa, King of Judah from B. C. 955 to 914. 
 Jehshaphat, King of Judah from B. C. 914 to 889. 
 Jehoram and father. King of Judah from B. C. 889 to 
 885. 
 Ahaziah, King of Judah from B. C. 885 to 884. 
 Alhalaliah, King of Judah from B. C. 884 to 887. 
 Johash or Joash, King of Judah from B. C. 878 to 838. 
 Amaziah, King of Judah from B. €. 838 to 810. 
 
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 Azariah or Uzziah, Kingo f Judah from B. C. 810 to 758. 
 
 Jothan, King of Judah from B. C. 758 to 742. 
 
 Ahaz, King of Judah from B. C. 742 to 726. 
 
 Hezekiah, King of Judah from B. C. 726 to 698. 
 
 Manassen, King of Judah from B. C. 698 to 642. 
 
 Amon, King of Judah from B. C. 642 to 641. 
 
 Josiah, King of Judah from B. C. 641 to 610. 
 
 Jehoiakim, King of Judah from B. C. 610 to 599. 
 
 Zedekiah King of Judah from 599 to 588. This South- 
 ern Kingdom carried to Babylon in third year of the reign 
 of Zedekiah. The following leading prophets of God proph- 
 esied and warned both kingdoms that their sin of idolatry 
 would lead them into captivity as follows : 
 
 Abijah prophesied between 974 and 918. 
 
 Michiah prophesied between 918 and 897 
 
 Elijah and Joel prophesied between 897 and 884. 
 
 Jonah prophesied between 884 and 839. 
 
 Hosea prophesied between 839 and 825. 
 
 Amos prophesied between 825 an d759. 
 
 Isaiah prophesied between 759 and 698. 
 
 Jeremiah, Habakuk and Nuham prophesied between 629 
 and 588. 
 
 Ezekiel, Obediah, Zachariah prophesied between 588 and 
 574. 
 
 There are 17 years' variation in time between Biblical 
 writers. B, C. 607 (Daniel's time) verified the seventy years 
 of captivity to release by Cyrus and B. C. 537 ; then Mal- 
 achai the last of the prophets up to the coming of the 
 Savior in B. C. 4. 
 
 Between B. C. 395 and B. C. 4, the world was left in 
 darkness and known as the Dark Ages. 
 
 The coming of the Son of Man brought the light, but it 
 was so hidden by Nero, the Caesars, the Kaiser and great 
 despots like them that it had no chance to shine to its full 
 strength, and so it seems in the workings of God's provi 
 dence that this world's war planned centuries ago (see 
 Revelation) was necessary that the world be flooded (as 
 it will be )by the saving light of Christ. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE LEADING BATTLES OF THE 
 
 WORLD. 
 
 The following is a partial list of great battles fought 
 in past history, wherein the destiny of the world was 
 changed; also showing the forces used in comparison with 
 forces used in the present struggle now going on, on the 
 western front. 
 
 B. C. 490, battle of Marathon, between the Persian in- 
 vaders, under King Darius (see Dan. 9th Chapter) with 
 100,000 Persians on one side and 10,000 Greeks, under Mil- 
 tiades, on the other, which resulted in the utter defeat of 
 Darius, which so incensed him, in his failure of bringing 
 Greece under the Persian government, that he planned a 
 second great invasion, which took him over three years to 
 prepare for it. He died, however, before he had completed 
 his plans. Xerxes, King of Persia (husband of Esther, see 
 Esther 2nd Chapter), successor to Darius, completed the 
 plan of invasion of Greece in B. C. 477. Before entering 
 Greece, the king in person devised a plan of counting the 
 the army by grouping it into squares, and by this process 
 it proved that he had 1,600,000 fighting men. 
 
 He also had 3,200 ships. 
 
 The second great defeat came at Salamis, where the Per- 
 sians lost 200 of their ships ; then in a land battle at Platia 
 it was equally disastrous, and completed the series of de- 
 feats of the Persian invaders, who returned home, leaving 
 Greece as well as the world free of the Persian menace, 
 as we are now fighting to free the world of "German 
 Kultur." 
 
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 B. C. 330, Alexander the Great plans the invasion of 
 Persia with a million men, and defeated the Persians in 
 the battle of Arbella. At this battle, the Persians were de- 
 feated and Alexander brought the Persians government 
 under the Greek rule, thereby bringing practically the 
 whole civilized world under the rule of this one man, 
 
 B. C. 325, death of Alexander. Alexander vs. God — with 
 death as conqueror, thereby destroying one man world 
 power, for God will not allow any individual to rule this 
 earth but himself, therefore He cut this great autoerat 
 off at the age of thirty-five years, in the prime of his life. 
 
 1805, battle of Austerlitz, between the French and Aus- 
 trians, with 65,000 French and 82,000 Austrians engaged. 
 
 1809, battle of Wagram, French 181,000, Austrians 
 128,000. 
 
 1812, battle of Bordoino, French 72,000, Prussians 75,000. 
 
 1815, battle of Waterloo, French 130,000 under Napoleon 
 Boneparte and English and allies with 72,000, the Duke of 
 Wellington commanding. 
 
 1866, battle of Sadowa, Prussians 260,000 against 200,000 
 Austrians, utterly defeating the Austrians, thereby giving 
 them the wounded head that was dead, yet had life, abso- 
 lutely verifying the third verse of the Eighth Chapter of 
 Revelation. (Read it.) 
 
 1870, battle of Sedan, between the German invaders of 
 134,000 and French of 90,000, the Germans being the con- 
 querors, with their spoils taken back home in the form of the 
 two rich provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, and one billion dol- 
 lars indemnity taken from the French, but paid by Roth- 
 childs in person for the French government, which is yet 
 owing today. These provinces and indemnity represent 
 the filthiness in the cup of the woman figure in the Fourth 
 Vers'? of Seventeenth Chapter of Revelation, represent- 
 ing Germany. 
 
 1865, battle of Richmond. The surrender of Lee to 
 Grant (Appomattox Court House) represented the great- 
 est and most bloodly conflict that was ever waged by the 
 sharp sword of Liberty for Freedom. There were 72,000 
 Confederates under Lee, and 110,000 Unionists under Grant. 
 
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 After a continuous struggle of four years of the most fright- 
 ful, bloody war that had been fought in the civilized 
 world, the principal of Liberty won, and forever cemented 
 this nation together so that we could fight the Great Red 
 Dragon (see 12th Chapter) for the same cause for world 
 freedom as we fought the Civil War (from 1861 to 1865), 
 the freedom of the black man. 
 
 The battle of Ypres began on March 21st, 1918, with 
 1,600,000 men under Von Hindenberg on Central Powers 
 side, and 1,147,000 on the allied side under Foch, with 
 both armies about evenly matched on May 1st. The final 
 termination of this struggle, plainly stated in the Nine- 
 teenth Chapter of Revelation, which will probably be a 
 series of battles and end near Essen, the same as our war 
 ended at Appomattox Court House, Va., in 1865. 
 
CHAPTEiR XXni. 
 
 THE HOPE OF REDEMPTION. 
 
 In order to arrive at a reasonable conclusion as to the 
 hope Christ will redeem the world through the churches 
 now existing I made a visit to seven of the leading denomi- 
 nations, and found their condition as follows : 
 
 I visited the Zionist Church and found its members very- 
 much devoted to God, and living fairly up to the teachings 
 of the Mosaic Law, but absolutely rejecting Christ as their 
 personal Messiah. (John 10-9: "I am the door; by me 
 if any man enter in, he shall be saved.") 
 
 (John 10-16 : "Other sheep I have which are not of this 
 fold ; them also must I bring in and they shall hear my voice, 
 and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.") 
 
 Showing plainly that Christ expects to bring this Zionist 
 Church unto Him at some future time. This sealing will 
 occur at the Zionist convention probably in 1920, as stated 
 in Revelation, 7th Chapter. 
 
 I visited the Roman Catholic Church and found its mem- 
 bers very much devoted to the Savior and His teachings, 
 according to the rules as laid down by the church. I per- 
 sonally interviewed a number of its leading members, and 
 found they were permitted to read certain parts of the 
 Bible prescribed by the church. I found the membership of 
 the church fairly well organized against the liquor traffic 
 but the church government very lukewarm on the temper- 
 ance question. 
 
 I also found that they were still aspiring to world dom- 
 inancy in Church and State. These false aspirations prove 
 that a reform is necessary, to be in a position to meet condi- 
 
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 tions Christ will expect this Church to meet at His first 
 coming at the close of the war. 
 
 I then visited the "M" and "P" Churches, and found 
 them very much devoted to Christ's cause; but found too 
 much dress and social worship in these churches, which will 
 not be approved by the Savior at His coming. I also found 
 that these churches were constantly begging for their run- 
 ning expenses, and at the same time part of their member- 
 ship was composd of millionaires, yet their churches went 
 begging. 
 
 My next visit was to the "E" Church, and I found they 
 were a very devoted class of Christ's followers, but it 
 seemed I could see much lip service instead of heart wor- 
 ship. I also found them begging for money, the same as 
 the "M" and "P" Churches. 
 
 I next visited the "S" Church, and found they were ex- 
 pecting to go to Heaven by an after-death, scientific, theo- 
 transformation process, but they could not explain it. Their 
 religion seemed to be an after death progress type — pro- 
 gressing from one stage to another until finally developed 
 into a scientific unredeemed saved soul, without the blood of 
 Christ being applied in the transformation. No doubt the 
 new King of Kings will convince this church of its foolish 
 idea, at His first coming. 
 
 I next visited the "Unt." Church, and found its member- 
 ship trying to get to Heaven by rejecting Christ as the 
 Risen Redeemer, because they could not understand His 
 miraculous conception and birth ; hence for this reason only 
 they reject Him and are trying to get to Heaven by some 
 other way ; but the Savior makes it very plain in John 10-1 : 
 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the 
 door of the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the 
 same is a thief and a robber." 
 
 John 10-7: "Then said Jesus unto them again. Verily, 
 verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep." 
 
 8th : All that ever came before me are thieves and rob- 
 bers." 
 
 9th: "I am the door; by me if any man entereth in, he 
 shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture." 
 
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 If the members of this church will read all of this chapter 
 of John, they will see that there is no possible hope of 
 eternal life in such a belief as theirs. 
 
 No doubt when the Savior comes, He will have quite a 
 grievance against this church, especially on account of a 
 leading member sneaking into our national Presidential 
 Chair, before the Savior's followers were aware of his 
 church's anti-Christian doctines, and this President was a 
 leading member. 
 
 My next visit was to a "L" Church and here I found 
 a very clannish membership, I also found a number of its 
 members owning great breweries as well as saloons, and 
 other accessories that go hand in hand with this Satanic 
 business. I also found them more devoted to "Kultur" and 
 its author, than they were to our Redeemer, and no doubt 
 Christ will have a few things to say to this church after His 
 coming. 
 
 In conversing with the ministers of the seven churches 
 (selected as a general average) I found there was only one 
 minister of the seven churches who would even converse 
 with me on Revelation relative to the war, for they said that 
 Revelation was a deep mystery of the Bible, and as great 
 theologians had written volumes on this book, and had 
 guessed wrong, they were afraid they would mis-construe 
 the Bible and preferred not commenting on this most im- 
 portant book. 
 
 Yet the angel in the fourteenth chapter and sixth verse 
 plainly shows the duty of the clergy, and if they do not 
 begin teaching God's side of the war, no doubt the Savior 
 will show them their duty at His coming. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 ABIDING PEACE SUMMED UP IN A NUTSHELL. 
 
 If individuals and nations will adopt the Golden Rule 
 and cause it to be taught to all the pupils in the schools of 
 the world, there will be no occasion for wars between na- 
 tions, nor will there be use for penitentiaries. 
 
 CHARACTER. 
 Weigh the gold of all great nations, 
 Add the honors of a King, 
 Then these riches and such honor 
 Is not equal to one thing! 
 
 That of character, rich in blessings 
 And within the reach of all. 
 But without it life 's a failure, 
 If you lose it, you've lost all. 
 
 Set your mark of highest standard, 
 On character you will ever find 
 Is the rock to fame and honor, 
 Such as Clay and Franklin climbed. 
 
 — Joseph Dowen. 
 
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