THE
EUROPEAN SPHYNX
()O
SATAN'S MASTERPIECE.
LOUIS NAPOLEON,
THE PERSONAL ANTI-CHRIST ANI THE MAN OF SIN.
THE COMING OF THE LORD AT HAND.
Address, P. 0. Box 1199, Philadelphia, Pa.
1866.








LOUIS NAPOLEON,
THE PERSONAL ANTI-CHRIST.
Brethren in the Ministry, and all who love Jesus!
We earnestly beg your candid attention to facts of the
very highest importance! We beseech you in the name of our
Lord, do not hurriedly cast this tract aside without consideration. As you glance at the caption, do not with a secret and
instinctive imputation of fanaticism to the writer, instantly dismiss the subject as beyond the sphere of legitimate inquiry.
Interests the most momentous are associated with developments
now daily and rapidly progressing. Let not prejudice prevent
attention, for never since the ascension of Jesus to His Father's
Throne, has an obligation so pressing and imperative rested on
the church to possess a right understanding of prophecy, and
its fulfillment in events of stupendous magnitude within the observation of every vigilant and enlightened mind. The coming
of Jesus draws near, the day of the Lord hasteth greatly. To
possess a correct apprehension of the import of events infallibly
indicative of the great proximity of Messiah's advent, candor,
vigilance, prayerfulness, are incontrovertibly requisite, neither is
there a month, or a week, or a day to be lost! The current
period yet allotted for the acquisition of most important prophetic knowledge, is rapidly passing, and time is precious!




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Is prophecy mysterious?  Is it incomprehensible? Yet it is
a "revelation," and this certainly for the benefit of the church,
and peculiarly in the hour of her extreme peril, and in the prospect of those inevitable throes incident to a change of dispensations. Is not all scripture profitable for doctrine and instruction
in righteousness? Why then should prophecy be excepted?
Neither is it now incomprehensible, since great impetus has been
lately given to investigation, followed by marked and most important attainments in knowledge and interpretation. Indeed
almost everything needed for present necessity, is already known,
if we will receive it, and that development is now advancing,
whose practical issue we certainly know from inspiration.
That development is the personal antichrist, and that issue his
destruction at the coming of Jesus.  Surely this is a matter of
interest to the church. Who can rightly estimate its magnitude? Will we precipitately dismiss the matter with an emotion
of displeasure, or an ejaculation of incredulity? Let us rather
carefully observe, what we will endeavor briefly and clearly to
elucidate.
The position of Louis Napoleon in prophecy. By far the
most explicit information given in the Bible on this subject is
found in the Apocalypse of John, and especially the thirteenth
chapter. The eye of the revelator is riveted upon the figure of
a prodigy rising out of the sea, a therion or beast, having seven
heads and ten horns. With what a strange interest he must have'
scrutinized the proportions and aspect of this monster! With
great unanimity in evangelical exposition, this beast is defined
to represent the Roman Empire, the secular power that for a
long period supports the papacy.  The seven heads certainly
represent seven successive forms of government. It is so expressly affirmed in the seventeenth chapter which exhibits the
same enormous symbolic creature in the last phase of his manifestation, and at the closing stage of his career. The first five




headships or forms of government ale generally agreed to have
been-kings, consuls, dictators, decemvirs, and military tribunes.
The sixth is agreed with great clearness and unanimity to have
been the Roman Emperorship.    This had a very protracted
duration, and this is a point of great importance to be remembered, for it constitutes the basis of an argument of the utmost
importance in connection with a right understanding of the prophetic position and destiny of the present French Emperor.
Let it be distinctly understood then, and constantly borne in
mind, that the Roman Emperorship (symbolized by the sixth
head), commencing in B. C. 31, continued for 1837 years.
The common and current interpretation fixes the end of the
Roman Emperorship, or the fall of the sixth head, at the exile
of Augustulus, the son of Orestes, in A. D. 476. But the fact
is most unmistakably otherwise, and it is exceedingly important that we should realize the error of this interpretation, as it
is freighted with issues of the greatest magnitude. Even so
able an expositor as Barnes affirms that "under Augustulus, the
empire ceased until it was revived in the days of Charlemagne."
But "Dioclesian so modelled the constitution that several persons were simultaneously emperors of the Romans," and it
is a most serious mistake to forget "that principle of the
Roman law, that the territorial Roman.Empire and the gubernative Roman Emmperorship were each alike a unit."  The
Roman Emperorship therefore did not become extinct with
Augustulus in 476, for Zeno, another Roman Emperor, was
then reigning in Constantinople, and an unbroken line of successors to Zeno continued there until the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. Meanwhile another Roman Emperor appeared at the West in the person of Charlemagne, in
A. D. 800, who was crowned by the Pope, Emperor of the
Romans, and the emperorship continued to be represented on
this stage for 162 years, when it was transferred to Germany.




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And the succession there was continued until 1806, when the
last incumbent, Francis, surrendered the title, which became extinct. This is a very brief account, but all which our limits
will reasonably allow. And we humbly suggest that the most
searching scrutiny be applied to examine the general statement
of this long duration of the existence of the sixth head. Let
every avenue of information in impartial history be sought, with
a single aim to apprehend the truth. Nor should we unconditionally confide in any popular expositions, which upon
thorough investigation in the light of God's word and passing
events, fail to be substantiated.  Here are needed candor and a
teachably intelligent attention. Here is the substance of most
important truth, which should have its appropriate place in the
understanding, to the removal of that so unhappily prevalent
error which locates the decadence of the sixth head so far back
as almost 1400 years ago. This epoch of fourteen centuries is
indeed a matter of some consequence in such a momentous connection! For the Roman Emperorship, symbolized by the
sixth head, has continued just so much longer, than the more
current interpretation had certified.*  We are conducted a step
further, then, in the progress of inquiry, to discover and observe
the transition of the headship of the Roman beast, from the
sixth to the seventh, and our attention is directed to the development and identityOf the seventh head, in the first Napoleon. Is it possible to
contemplate such an identification with indifference? Can we
summarily dismiss the discovery and the evidence of this prophetic fulfillment? Napoleon I. was crowned Emperor of
France, by the Pope, in 1804, and shortly after, King of Italy
and Rome, with the iron crown of Charlemagne. This was that
* For further information on this subject see Shimeall's Political
Economy of Prophecy, p. 59; and Baxter's Napoleon, p. 16.




head "wounded by a sword," or "wounded as it were unto
death," in the overthrow of Napoleon at Waterloo. This was
he that must continue only a short space, viz., until 1815.
Here is the beast that was, and afterwards is not and yet is.
Here is a head of the Roman Empire with a change of title,
combining a French Emperorship and a Romish Kingship.
This is the man of restless energy, of vast ambition, of indomitable will, of rapid and astonishing military achievment, of iron
endurance, of imperial mould, of whom Junot impiously said,
"I love Napoleon as my God," to whom Kleber protested "you
are as great as the universe," who filled the world with the
fame of his astonishing exploits. This is he who seemed to give
token of his prophetic predestination, in that profound attention
and indefatigable persistence with which he cherished and pursued the grand idea of "destiny."  A Napoleonic quality indeed, yet characterized by unconquerable self-seeking! The
short-lived, clearly defined, and wonderful seventh head! Is it
a dry theme? Is there nothing in such an evolution of prophecy to interest and admonish the Christian? Is it unmeaning, is it incomprehensible, is it incredible? It is true, it is
startling, it is most significant and important; for immediately
upon the full and unerring identification of this headship, we
proceed logically and unmistakably to another and yet more
notable prophetic evolution; and that isThe seventh headship revived and finished in Louis Napoleon. Of the Roman beast, one of whose heads was "wounded
as it were to death," it is added that "his deadly wound was
healed, and all the world wondered after the beast."
The beast that was, also is not. Accordingly from 1815 to
1852, the seventh headship was practically defunct. Napoleonism was by a great regal ostracism of European sovereignties devoted to perpetual impotence. But not so the historic
sequel, or the irrevocable decree of God's prophetic word. The




beast which is not, yet nevertheless is. There is a political resuscitation and resurrection. Wound up in the cocoon of fate
there is life, and it emerges. The image and likeness of the
dead appears. Louis Napoleon rises from the sea of political
agitation and revolution in 1848. He is in many respects like
his banned and banished uncle, but more ambitious, more cautious, more mysterious, and in the end far more powerful. The
fame and the fate of his relative he has profoudly studied. He
is instructed by his errors, while adopting and developing his
ambition of conquest and power by a different scheme of procedure, and on a much broader area of operation.
Now, mark the singular circumstance, that during the interval from  1815 to 1852, several learned interpreters, Faber
among the rest, asserted the speedy and inevitable re-appearance of Napoleonism, as a power in European politics. Was it
a random guess? No! it was a distinctly implied affirmation
of Scripture. The wounded head must be healed. Another
Napoleon must arise. It was a true prediction. It was duly
verified. Such an evolution, we may say, was wonderful, but
it is more than that, it is ominous and portentous. It is pregnant with the mightiest consequences, as we shall shortly see,
being an infallible sign of the close of the present dispensation,
which will be marked by throes, and tribulations, and afflictions
to the careless and ungodly, and from which the only deliverance possible to the righteous, is an intelligent waiting for Jesus
Christ and salvation by the Arm Omnipotent. The stupendous
scenes which are about to mark the expiration of the great prophetic period, included in that term of the Roman Empire in
which it is leagued with the papacy, (the 1260 years), should
serve to rouse the church from her incredulous and awful slumber, and admonish her to be arrayed with the apparel, and fortified with the armor of preparation. Prophetic knowledge
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ignorance comport with the necessities of the impending exigency? Shall we repel instruction, and advance comparatively
unarmed to the tremendous crisis of affairs? Will a condition
of resolute and chosen imperception be the secure intrenchment,
and incredulity the panoply which shall serve our preference
and our protection?  Does not Jesus say, "Behold I come as
a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments?"
And can we feel certain that an armor is impenetrable, in whose
composition the word of God is not a well defined element of
strength? And by God's word, we mean certainly, the Bible
rightly interpreted; prophecy, so eminent and so integral, so
grand and so copious-prophecy!    Yet, alas, how neglected!
How ignored! How humiliated by the strangest reticence in
public and oral interpretations!  But nevertheless, the time is
short. But a very small remnant remains! Neither ignorance
nor inattention will alter the fact, nor retard nor prevent, the
almost completed revolution of the wheel of the Almighty's
providence concerning this age.
But there is another specific evidence furnished by inspiration
in this same 13th chapter, by which we may unmistakably
know the prophetic place and character of Louis Napoleon as
the seventh revived head of the therion. Nay, it is the peculiar
mark which is expressly given and noted, by which to designate
that personage which fills the position and functions of this headship. And here we observe, that the Roman beast is discovered to our notice more especially with reference to its latest developments. Its diabolical enormity as an apostate political
power, is particularly revealed in respect to the last stage of its
existence. Its peculiar series of assumptions, of oppressions, of
promotions, of blasphemous arrogances and merciless despotisms,
are characteristic of its climacteric, its final hours, before utter
destruction. Hence Louis Napoleon, as the last head of the Roman Empire, is comprehensively taken for the beast. The




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principal part of the career of the beast, in this chapter, therefore, is the career of Napoleon, who is the inspiring intelligence,
the governing will, and imperial power of the mammoth which
he animates. Napoleon is thus taken for the beast. Here then
is the test which is given for the detection and identification of
the ruling head. "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding compute the number of the beast, for it is a man's
number, and his number is 666."  Now, it is not the papacy,
but a head of the Roman empire, which is denoted by this numerical prophetic test. The explanation of the manner of computation is simply this: Anciently, letters were used for figures.
Hence, by knowing the numerical value of each letter, it is but
a simple process of addition to determine what is the number in
a name. One of the supposed verifications intended of this numerical test, is familiar to many, viz: Lateinos, or a Latin
man. To this there is no objection,-nay, it is appropriate to
Napoleon as the energetic re-organizer of the Latin empire, ambitiously studious to concentrate in himself that sovereign honor
and authority proper to a headship of vast dominion. We dismiss various words, in some of which this number is rather fancifully found, of which a list may be seen in Calmet's Dictionary, and in Barnes' Notes on Revelation, p. 374.
Now the unerring certainty with which Louis Napoleon is in
this manner identified, does not consist in barely a single instance of the fulfillment of this number in his name, but in the
number and variety of methods, nor this in one language only,
but at least in three-Latin, Greek and Hebrew.   Hence it
cannot be for one moment maintained that the verification is a
mere accident or coincidence.  Inspiration, which has furnished
the method here given of defining the man, would not, and
could not trifle with the student of its glorious mysteries, nor
with the church. The argument, then, is cumulative. Every
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name but strengthens previous testimony of the same kind.
Will any have the boldness or presumption to intimate that this
is a puerile study, or a feeble argument? It is enough to answer that it is precisely that which God himself has been pleased
to give to His people. That which He characterizes as wisdom
surely cannot be unworthy of our interest, nay, but from the exceedingly vast issues at stake, it is in the highest degree entitled
to our consideration.
Let us look more particularly at this " number of a man," or
" number of his name."
First in Latin, we have Ludovicus or Louis. But in Latin,
only a few letters have numerical value, viz., I V X L C D M.
U and V are synonymous. The numerical letters in this name
are in italics, viz., L V D V I C V, which being added, make
666. It is very doubtful if there is a name of any person of
eminence in any age of the world which thus meets this number
in Latin. I am able to affirm, from personal examination, that
there is not a single one of the popes, from Boniface III. to
Pius IX., nay even from Victor, the first bishop of Rome, whose
name either in Latin or Greek will contain this number. Vigilius (a Roman bishop, A. D. 537), a Latin name, unnaturally
counted in Greek, and only by dropping the first letter, can be
made to count 663. This is the nearest approximation, I believe, in the whole line of popes. Another name of Napoleon
is Charles, which in Latin is Carolus. Napoleon himself is
suspected to be of (remotely) Jewish origin. At all events, his
physiognomy is peculiarly Jewish. And, besides, it is confidently expected from plain intimations in Daniel, that he will
devise and accomplish a plan for the restoration of the scattered
Jews to Palestine, for which distinguished favor, he will be recognized by them as their Messiah. Hence he may be denominated a Jew,-Jewish by patronage, if not by lineage-by alliance, if not nativity.  Hence we have (J and I, synonymious)




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(Caroluts Juzdaetus * or Charles, a Jew=666. Here are exactly the same numerical letters as in Ludovicus. Of less importance is a third case in Latin —L. Napoleon III. Infidelis rex,*
or Infidel King=666. Now in Greek. We give first, the
Greek alphabet with corresponding values, and English form of
letters:
a, b, g, d, 6, st, z, e, th, i, k, 1, m, n, x, 6, p, koppa, r,
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80      90    100
s,  t,  u,  ph," ch,   ps,, sampi.
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
First, we have Lois XNap6leon=666. Thus, L=30, o=70,
i=10, s==200.   N=50, a-=l, p=80, o=70, 1=30, e —5,
o —70, n=50. Total 666. The contraction of the diphthong
ou to 6 is a perfectly permissible abbreviation.
Second. Npap6leSnti=  66. This is the name of Napoleon
in the dative case, and the propriety of this form is noteworthy,
not only because it so perfectly contains the number, but from
the very significant fact asserted in revelation, that Napoleon
will receive honor which belongs alone to Deity, and this is the
inscriptive form of his name, as the expression of homage by
millions, to Napoleon!
Again, it is worthy of note, that the ancestry of Louis Napoleon was Greek.  Constantine Comnene emigrated, in 1675,
from Mania to Italy.  Calomeros Comnene, subsequently settled in Florence, in Tuscany.  Calomeros is a name of precisely the same signification as Bonaparte, one being a Greek, and
the other an Italian word. The perfect form of the Greek word
is Calonmeros. Hence we have, L. V. Calonmeros*=666,
or if preferred, L. Nn. Calomeros, the same. Again keeping
* The verifications, accompanied by an asterisk, were noticed by the
writer of this tract.




in mind the ancestral Greek family name, Comnene, we have
Comenen Ellenikos* —666. Comnene, a Greek. Again, with
the addition of two words, to the name, comprehensively designating the apocalyptic position of Napoleon, we have, L. Napoleon III., therion dka*-=666, or Louis Napoleon third, wild
beast (of) ten (horns.)
Yet again we find, by the common abbreviation of a name
to the first two letters, as Ed. for Edward, or Ob. for Obadiah,
Na. Bonaparte 1t.* —  66.
Still again, we remark that the mother of the first Napoleon,
the beautiful Corsican wife of Charles Bonaparte, and the grandmother of the present French Emperor was Letitia Raniolini.
Hence the name thus genealogically expressed, Lois ek Raniolini*=666, (Louis descended from Raniolini). There are still
other verifications of less importance, which we omit, though
we may mention the following, Louis III., deificatus* (or deified) in Latin=666.
Lastly, there remains a verification in Hebrew, taking the
whole name, thus, Louis Napoleon Bonapart=-666.
So we find in all not less than ten or eleven distinct correspondences in Napoleon's name to the number indicated in Revelation. Shall we reject or disparage this exceedingly important test furnished by the spirit of inspiration, by which we may
identify that prophetic behemoth in its seventh headship, on
which Jesus will execute judgment unto destruction at his coming? What avail the expedients of evasion? We are trying
the anti-christian potentate by God's test? Is it given for
nought?  Can another monarch be found on earth whose name
NOTE.-Besides the name of the empress Eugenie, (expressed in
Greek) by dropping the first letter e, thus, Ug'enes*=666. So, also,
thecousin of the emperor, and President of the French Imperial Senate, Count Walewski, by dropping the first letter, contains the number
in his name, thus, Aleuski*=666.




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thus answers this numerical requisition? If so, who and where f
Among all living princes, identify the person. We venture the
intimation that this number does not exist even once in any head
of a nation or kingdom on earth. (Of course we except the name
Louis, which in Latin always contains the number.)  And yet
we find this variety of evolutions in Napoleon's name, and at the
very time of the grand prophetic crisis of the last third of
earth's 6000 years I At the very time when the seven trumpets are about to end their apocalyptic resonances, and the diferent prophetic periods to culminate together! Is faith, then,
infatuation? Is conviction, credulity? Is full and animated
assent to the power of testimony, derangement? Is obedience
of the mind to the force of logic, intellectual debasement and
bondage? For what, we may inquire, are faculties of reasoning
conferred? Is not that an exalted exercise of the understanding
which contemplates with intense interest and close attention the
administration of God's providence, according to the sure premonition of His word? Surely prophecy is no ignoble sphere for
the mind of man to range. We thank thee, O Lord, for thy
wisdom and wonderful works, and that benediction in thy book
of resplendent excellence and perfect truth,' Blessed is he who
reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and observe the things which have been written in it; for the time is
near."
There is evidence also establishing with great clearness and
force 
The identity of Napoleon with the wilful king in Daniel.
The appearance of this character on the theatre of earth's affairs,
has long been anticipated by readers and expositors of God's
prophetic word, with peculiar interest. In the eleventh chapter
and twenty-first verse, the portraiture seems to begin. The accomplishment of the prophecies following, could only have been
shadowy and very imperfect in Antiochus Epiphanes.  "The




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vile person, who shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries," is strongly indicated to be Napoleon. But
if this is a position which by any possibility events now transpiring do not completely sustain, we may dismiss all uncertainty as to his correspondence with the account commencing at the
thirty-sixth verse: a The king shall do according to his will."
He shall have an inflexible and all-absorbing purpose of selfaggrandizement. He will, amid some possibly apparent vacillations, and in the depth of characteristic secrecy and mystery,
follow his aim unthwarted. What he resolves to do, he will
tenaciously pursue. His enterprises thoroughly studied, with all
contingencies foreseen and probabilities balanced, shall flourish.
He will wonderfully rule the human mind. Powerful intellects
will recognize in him the imperial element of command. Such
in good degree was Napoleon I. But a profounder, and more
artful, and more dangerous character is found in the nephew.
Accordingly we perceive the issue of his political studies and
devices in success. Nor is this without the permission of a
sleepless Providence, who suffers for His own ultimate glory,
this success to be promoted by a peculiar concurrence of favoring circumstances, that the inevitable and incarnate evil may be
developed. The prince of the fiends, too, is with every artifice
and available resource, inciting, and enhancing, and aggrandizing the eminence which shall visibly represent the fallen but yet
ever-aspiring dc mon powers.
Now what do we see in fact. Napoleon is almost never
baffled; his schemes are prospered; his studies are successful;
and this visible and uniform prosperity continually promotes
his advantage in the wonder it excites. But yet it may be suggested, "How about Mexico? Will he not be balked in this
scheme? Nay, is he not already diplomatically and otherwise
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he will manage to retain this territory in his hands, as a base of
future operations. Whether by the expedient of Maximilian's
election by suffrage, or by the agency of a faction of the Fenians,
or the actual concession of the United States, we would not attempt to indicate. Fenianism, however derided, is very far
from having failed of some mighty agency which it will yet
develope. That Napoleon is really the head of this powerful
and restless element in the world's politics, may be very wisely
concluded. That the head-quarters of Mr. James Stevens are
at Paris, that Napoleon most earnestly intends the humiliation
of England, which a revolt in Ireland would greatly assist, and
that as Mr. Kinglake asserts, Napoleon himself is a Fenian, are
doubtless facts, and pertinent to present and pending events.
But there is another important characteristic of the "wilful
king."  "He shall have power over the treasures of gold and
silver."  It is important to observe the fulfillment of this prophecy in the case in hand. We beg to mention:
1. The vast amount of precious metals annually coined by
the French government into money, exceeding, according to
published statistics, the combined coinage of America and Great
Britain.
2. The frequently reported large accessions of bullion in the
Bank of France.
3. The enormous increase in the value of property in the
French Empire. In the report of a committee of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, it is recommended to contribute
specimens and products of the industrial skill of the people of
the United States to the great Paris Exposition in 1867. As
one consideration mentioned to justify the contribution, they say
— t We are interested to study the processes of statesmanship by
which the Emperor of the French has succeeded in increasing
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years,from  124,000 millions of francs, to 249,000 millions of
francs."
4. The policy which will undoubtedly be adopted by Napoleon as the arbiter of Europe, with great promptness, in accordance with the explicit declaration of prophecy, for the relief
of the heavily burdened European nations.    In their financial
distress and extremity, aggravated by the expenses of the present
war, they will appropriate the property of the Catholic Church.
Italy, according to a statement by a Florence correspondent, is
already commencing to abolish religious corporations, and
mortgage the property the government appropriates, as a security for a foreign loan.  This will be but the commencement
of a series of confiscations, to which extreme necessity will compel the national authorities and ministers of finance in Catholic
countries.  Here, indeed are resources of almost incalculable
richness. For illustration we introduce an extract
RICHES OF THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS.
"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold,
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup," etc.
Some of the Riches of the Chv'rch of St. Salvador, (Saragossa, Spain.)
" The front of the altar's table is made of solid silver, the frame gilt,
and adorned with precious stones. In the treasure of the church they
keep sixteen bodies of saints of pure silver; one of which, who had
held office in that church, is adorned with rich stones of a great value.
Besides these, they keep twelve half silver bodies of other saints, and
many relics set with gold and diamonds. Forty-eight silver candlesticks for the altar's table, two large ones, and the third for the blessed
candle, three hundred pounds weight each; thirty-six small candlesticks of silver, and six made of solid gold, for the great festivals. Four
passenetts of silver, two of solid gold, with the handles of hyssops of
the same. Two large crosses, one of silver, the other of gold, ten feet
high, to carry before the processions. Ten thousand ounces of silver'in plate, part of gilt, to adorn the two corners of the altar on great festivals, and when the archbishop officiates and says the great mass.




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Thirty-three silver lamps, of which the smallest is an hundred and fifty
pounds' weight; and the largest, which is before the great altar, gilt
all over, is six hundred and thirty pounds' weight. Abundance of rich
ornaments for priests, of inexpressible value. Eighty-four chalices,
twenty of pure gold, and sixty-four of silver, gilt on the inside of the
cup, and the rich chalice which only the archbishop makes use of in
his pontifical dress.
" All these are but trifles in comparison with the great custodia they
make use of to carry the great host (consecrated bread) through the
streets on the festival of Corpus Christi. The whole custodia is five
hundred pounds'weight, and this is placed in a gilt vase. * i  *
Several goldsmiths have endeavored to value this piece, but nobody
could set a certain sum upon it. One said that a million of pistoles
(three million six hundred thousand dollars) was too little."-Great
Red Dragon, p. 120.
He alludes to the church, Lady del Pillar, in the same city, as being
nearly as rich in her adornings. Lord Stanhope (General of the English forces) visiting this church, remarked that, "' if all the kings of
Europe should gather together all their treasures and precious stones,
they could not buy half of the riches of this treasury.' He speaks of
one hundred and ninety-five silver lamps in this church. Five of these
are about five hundred pounds' weight, each, sixty of four hundred
pounds, sixty-five of two hundred pounds, and sixty-five of one hundred pounds."-Ibid, p. 122.
The poet Addison made a visit to the Pope's palace at Rome, and
in describing the riches which he saw there, remarked: "Silver can
scarcely find admission, and gold looks but poorly among such an incredible number of precious stones."-Selected
The system of spoliation thus begun, is plainly foreshown in
inspiration.  "The ten horns (i. e. kingdoms), and the beast
(the Napoleonic headship), these will hate the harlot, and will
make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn
her with fire."
5.  It is sufficiently evident that an effect so instantaneous
and powerful as Napoleon's Auxerre speech on European,
especially English, financial interests, is in confirmation of the
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ties of the great firm of Overend, Gurney & Co. were reported
at $60,000,000, and of that of Peto & Betts at $20,000,000.
6. There is considerable likelihood that Napoleon will enlist
the co-operation of those wealthy Jewish bankers, the Rothschilds, in promoting the scheme of Jewish restoration and colonization in Palestine.
This great influence over capital, and the vast and varied
monetary interests of nations and corporations, is both an index
and element of power, which cannot easily be over estimated.
Add to political strategy, and military prowess, the power to
influence national and individual revenues, and to affect the very
life and existence of systems and organizations, the most popular and prosperous and venerable, and you have a combination
of forces, a concentration of strength, indeed!
But we have still further in Napoleon the revelation of St.
Paul's " man of sin."  It is not in popery merely or mainly
that we are to look for this delineation, in its development. Concerning the day of the Lord, "the apostacy must come first,
(in part Romanism), and there must be revealed that man of
sin, that son of destruction (the personal antichrist as well as
the papal), the opponent who indeed lifts himself above every
thing called Divinity or Majesty, so as to seat himself in the
temple of God, exhibiting himself that he is a God."  And
there will be revealed the lawless one whom the Lord Jesus will
consume with the breath of his mouth, and annihilate by the
appearing of his presence." (Emphatic Diaglott.)
But the Romish Church is designated by the appellation of
a harlot, and the papacy with all its associated ecclesiastical and
official dignities, does not properly come comprehended in the
predicted man of sin, who will and now indeed already does
hold the destiny (in a certain sense) of this tremendous system
in his hand. The man of sin, we understand to be the last
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period of this dispensation, Napoleon!  The power which exalts itself into blasphemous eminence on earth as Pope Emperor. He is the completed fabric of evil, the final impersonation
of the popery of ages, a man!  His number is the number of a
man-666. Is it declared to be incredible?  But every word
of God is pure, and every purpose fixed and firm. Is such a
development too near to be believed? But it must be accomplished in its time. And the epochs culminate. The periods
run out!  The argument of chronology is imperative. And
why should not the Christian rejoice? If he be not a prisoner
in the bondage of worldly vanity, if he is not charmed with the
poor trifles of time, or assiduous to get gain, what richer inheritance is he called to contemplate, what far nobler destiny to
pursue?  In the coming of Jesus is his supreme joy, his everlasting gain. We are brought next to contemplateNapoleon as the head of ten kingdoms. In the light of
previous observations, brother and believer, does it not plainly
appear what a period is this? What an epoch of extraordinary
interest in which we live! What activity of evil organizing and
inevitable! And what gratitude we owe to God, that he permits us to observe and instructs us to apprehend the processes,
and the phenomena of this maturing iniquity! If we will be
forearmed, shall we not be forewarned? Let us attend to the
further circumstances of this gigantic development. Besides
the seven heads of the beast, are also ten horns, denoting ten
nationalities into which the Roman Empire is divided, and
which are confederate with the supreme controlling head.
There has been a certain conformity to this, for more than a
thousand years, in the various territorial adjustments of the divided Roman Empire. But we wish to call attention particularly to the statement in the 17th chapter: "And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings, one hour with the




beast. These have one purpose, and they give their power and
authority to the beast." This denotes a strict compact of confederation with the head, a compact not faltering, or interrupted,
but absolute, and active, and determined. Hence we are not to
look for the chief fulfillment of this prophecy in the long ages of
the past. The ten kingdoms (more or less), on the territory of
the Roman Empire, instead of being firmly united, have frequently been engaged in desperate and desolating wars. Besides,
the boundaries of nations have frequently shifted, and a considerable part of the original territory of the empire has been alienated in sympathy and system from the dominant Romish religion. England has been Protestant, and Turkey and Egypt
Mahomedan. This confederation is to be short, but firm and
powerful.  Hence, the unquestionable issue of the present great
conflict in Europe, will be the geographical reconstitution of the
Roman earth. Controverted boundaries will be definitely determined so as to form ten kingdoms, each as complete and symmetrical, as reasonably possible, and covering the entire old
Roman territory. These kingdoms will be a unit in devotion
to the imperial Napoleonic head, and also, a unit in alienation
from the papacy. Here then is the solid constitution of power
at which Napoleon is steadily aiming. Here is the foundation
of that fabric of power, which he contemplates, a unified and
compact array of people and resources-a body obedient to the
head, animated by one mind, electrified by the one will, whose
impulses thrill through a thousand electric lines into every part
of this mighty dominion. This is the secret aim of the European arbiter, and also the clear designation of God's Word.
This is that engine upon whose mechanism Napoleon is now
busy, and by which he will so greatly dominate the earth. War
and revolution now fully begun, he expects so to conduct by the
means of his "vigilant neutrality," or so to influence in the issue,
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in this grand mechanism. When the formation is finished, then
not alone by political influence or moral power, but by mate-.
rial weight he will rule the nations. Yet only for a short season. Such enormous concentration in one man, and that, Satan's
last mighty representative on earth, will be suddenly and irretrievably destroyed by the intervening arm of the Divine King,
-by the glory of that Jehovah, who is observed amid the investment of indescribable glories, himself, the central glory.
Jesus, the Son of Man. This leads us to the consideration of
another feature in this development, viz:
Napoleon's advancement, as Satan's delegate on earth, to the
eighth or pope-headship of blasphemy. There is hardly a word
in the English language which can precisely express the peculiar
character of this bad eminence. Approximately, it may be
called an apotheosis, or an infidel pope-ship. It is the official
incarnation of the satanic spirit, the fallen fiend's idea of eminence, embodied. It is indicated in that part of the portraiture
of the wilfutl king, where it is written, "he shall exalt himself,
and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods." It is also exhibited in
the character of the man of sin, "who exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or worshipped." Notwithstanding all the
arrogancy of popery, it does not meet the awful height and
meaning of this outline. Here is arrogance, which overtops the
most daring pretensions of the successors of Boniface or John.
Yet the enormities of popedom were required to -prepare the
way for the greater and final enormity of that eminence, which
ends not only the course and the curse of religious despotisms,
but of every system of evil on earth forever! Here is the
glimpse of that coming radiance of glory which gilds the blackness massing in the sky.
The same character is represented in Rev. xvii. 11-"And the
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the seven and goes into destruction."  Mr. Shimeall, in his
" Political Economy of Prophecy," fully develops the subject of
this transition from the seventh healed to the eighth headship,
showing the distinction between them in character. On page
120, he says, "The revived seventh head, relinquishes its merely
secular power for that of an absolute politico-religious headship." And again, "(the Holy Spirit points us to the eighth
head, through whom Satan will openly manifest himself as the
last antichrist, or the devil incarnated, alias, humanity deified."
The strange and startling exaltation thus sought by Napoleon,
will be freely accorded to him, by the mighty confederation of
kingdoms, and possibly even in advance of any declared assertion
of prerogative by himself, on this point. It is very likely to be
the overture of the devotee-powers, the testimony of their homage to that genius and fortune which have so astonishingly aggrandized him.  Mr. Shimeall also points out the character of
the "beast arising out of the earth, having horns like a lamb,
and the mouth of a dragon," as the same Napoleon in his last
development, after the coronation of his secular imperial power,
with a religious apostatic eminence, or in other words, in the
religious phase of his career, to which he has advanced from a
merely political exaltation.  All corrupt and heaven-insulting,
indeed, but yet the eminence to which the nations will impetuously press to elevate their favorite.  And what admiration will
not do, awe, and fear, and power will supply.  Last awful error
of infatuated humanity!
But this is not all.  Certain peculiar systems of recent origin,
organizations, which had their inspiration from the under world,
will conspicuously contribute their might to promote this result.
Spiritualism, unquestionably will give the impetus of its homage to this chosen idol of their restless and aspiring ranks.
Seeking for an earthly deity, looking abroad for their coming
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upon this, their great representative.  They will rejoice in his
successes, magnify his genius, and rally around their selected
centre.  Nay-this they are really beyond doubt already doing.
With cautious steadiness, with secrecy not the most perfect, and
instinct which nothing can counteract or repress, they approach
their climacteric.  They will deify Napoleon!   And their
part, unless we greatly err, will be that of leaven and leadership, in this business. Permeating all.classes and ranks through
the civilized world, spiritualism will engage its votaries with
zealous energy and unbroken unity, to extol the imperial head
of their system. That man, so prosperous and powerful upon
the throne of France, who avows the inspiration of the spirit of
his dead uncle is clearly the imperial elect of their body. A
spiritualist, who thus practically demonstrates the efficacy of their
principles, will serve their want and their desires! The dreadful
error of their doctrines will not prevent their calamitous diffusion
and influence in the world, when their time is come. When the
force of evil reaches its apex, its crisis, when the good is withdrawn from earth or overshadowed in it, when Satan has come
to the frenzy of his last hour, before bolted in his prison of a
thousand years, then the black cloud of tribulation will overspread the earth.
Mere protestation of impossibility, will not prevent this inevitable eventuality. Instead of unavailing asseverations of incredible, or preposterous! it were a thousand times better to be
prayerfully acquiring that fortified state of mind, which will be
the best attained through the illuminations of God's truth.
Why not then give heed to the coming judgments which are
already on the wing, and hurrying swiftly to overtake the derisive and unready neglectors of revelation? Why not see if
there is not some alternative of deliverance, some avenue of
escape? Why not look for Him alone, who cominng suddenly
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-from the darkness, the trial and the affliction of the season of
judgment, when antichrist will afflict his enemies, and God also
shall empty the vials of his wrath on the great confederation of
Satan. Our humble hope and prayer should be, if according
to God's will, that we may be in that number, whom Jesus shall
keep out of "that hour of trial which is about to come on the
whole habitable, to try those who dwell on the earth."
We understand the proposition, let us see further how it is
made perfectly evident by inspiration,-Napoleon will receive
Divine honor, or which only belongs to Deity. It is said, Rev.
xiii. 8: —"And all who dwell on the earth shall worship him
whose name has not been written fiom the foundation of the
world, in the scroll of the life of that lamb who was killed."
Has this ever been fulfilled in the past ages? Has any official
head of the Roman beast been thus universally and idolatrously
worshipped? If so, when? Is it the pope who has been worshipped? Even if this could be shown, it is certain that no reference is made to the pope or any ecclesiastic of the Romish
church, in this prophecy concerning the beast. It is therefore
an event, a development, an idolatry yet future. But as the
present is the seventh healed and last head of the Roman Empire, therefore beyond contradiction, the object of this wicked
homage is Napoleon, who will have no successor to the throne
of France, the headship of the beast, or the vicegerentship of
Satan, for with his demolition and that of his confederacy, ends
the present dispensation. And still more, the application of this
prophecy to 1Napoleon is made evident, from the cry of the third
angel in Rev. xiv., who loudly proclaims the doom of those who
are entangled in this snare, who accept the wrong alternative,
and render worship to the beast. The reverbating echo of the
angelic cry bids the world beware! For whoever is compliant
with the exaction of the enthroned apostate power, " shall drink
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of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur, in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of
the lamb."  Here is sin unpardonable, and doom irrevocable.
But when, or how, or where, is it the sin and punishment of
fealty to the Romish church, and her august bishop, the pope?
Is catholicism a crime of that magnitude in its entire membership, through all ages, that it is utterly impossible to be forgiven?  Where then will be the redemption and resurrection of
those penitents who have abjured her austerities and follies, and
renounced her authority? Into what heaven can Luther, the
converted monk, be ever admitted? And who shall raise and
restore from the bondage of corruption the dead dust of ten
thousand worthies, who having detected the abominations of the
papacy, have striven with might and main to build up the pure
and simple religion of Jesus, which they formerly despised? It
is impossible to make such an application of this passage. The
time has not yet come. The evil is not yet matured. The exaction is not yet imposed. The iron dynasty of the coming lordship of blasphemy is not yet ushered in. But it is rapidly
advancing, and mark it well! it will very soon have arrived,
and wo to those hitherto incredulous people who shall now fall
under the stress of a test, which by prayer and faith they should
have previously been preparing to endure without succumbing,
or to escape through the favor of Jesus, sending out his angels
to catch and gather them away from the thunder-laden cloud!
Wo to those who shall weakly and easily fall a prey to the
snare of the adversary, and deify with voluntary homage the
creature of Satanic craft, set on high to curse the earth! Better
any and every misfortune than this. Better poverty, contumely, exile, any most trying exigency, than the slightest concession
to the evil, which is ruin incurable; to the transgression which
is sin unpardonable.  And the time has come when christendom
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derstood. Who then will presume to decry or repel the proclamation, whose very express tenor and end is for good, to rob
the prince of the fiends of a booty, and destruction of a prey?
As the sign of homage and allegiance, a mark is imposed on
the forehead or right hand of every devotee. This probably
consists in an engraving by puncturation, or a brand mark of the
initials of Napoleon's name, or some equivalent, perhaps the
Greek letters which numerically make 666.   This will be
the revival and enforcement on a gigantic scale of a usage, of
which mention is made in history, "as in the case of a servant
on whose hand or arm the name of the master was impressed,
or of a soldier on whom a mark was impressed to denote the
company or phalanx to which he belonged."-(Barnes' Notes.)
The tattooing on a sailor's arm is an instance of such engraving.
It is seen, that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Here is a ukase reaching to the vitals of every nation and community, an appeal to self-interest, an argumentum ad hominem
indeed! Every species of traffic is prohibited to all who do not
acknowledge the supremacy of antichrist!  This is a test to try
men's faith to God, or whether they will worship the Iyfidel
Pope!   "This mighty power would claim jurisdiction over the
traffic of the world, and endeavor to make it tributary to its
own purposes, and it is clear that where this power exists of
determining who may buy and sell, there is absolute control
over the wealth of the world."-(Barnes.)  And this is in
agreement with the prophecy of the wilful king "who shall
have power over the treasures of gold and silver."
"And it was given to him to make war with the saints and
to overcome them; and authority was given him over every
tribe, and people, and language, and nation."  So then the
operation of this Napoleonic tyranny will be remorseless against
those Christians, who through their own folly of unreadiness,
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are not translated away from the coming tPial to meet Jesus in
the air. Though it is true many will escape the persecuting
search of the tyrant's emissaries, by flying to distant and rarely
visited regions, yet other many will be overtaken, and if at last
by grace, firm to refuse the overture and exaction of the man of
sin, will be slain. But their firmness will be to their everlasting
honor, and they will reign with Christ.  Better though, we
should say, had they been so looking and waiting for the Lord,
as to have previously been kept fiom this hour of trial by translation. From the 20th chapter and 4th verse, we learn that the
method of martyrdom is by decapitation, doubtless by the guillotine. John saw "the persons of those who had been beheaded
(ppelikismenoi), even those who did not worship the beast,
nor his image, nor receive his mark."  Nor is this all. There
is a villainous mechanism brought into requisition.  The apostate Emperor (the beast with horns like a lamb), or else an
official co-adjutor, introduces an infernal contrivance, to enforce
on a great scale, the worship of the secular headship.  Here is
a construction to be noted! A grand conclusion of all the works
of mechanical skill, of this age of artisan-ship! An image is devised of the beast, or a cunning automaton, with a semblance of
lungs, and the power of speech. Breath is infused into it. Ingenious internal connections render it capable of strange manifestations. Electrical agencies are united to it, so that it can
(at least appear to) bring fire down from the atmosphere above.
And these detestable devices are multiplied through the world,
and made to serve an instrumentality to awe the hesitating into
the idolatry of a living man  And by some diabolical enginery
(electrical or not will soon appear), the image emits an energy,
whereby the person disobeying its cruel mandate, is slain. And
this is the elaboration of the last times. This the conception
and argument of the man of mystery, when he throws off every
mask, and discloses the pitiless fierceness of his real nature.
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of John.  Here is the evolution of that ferocity which marks the
therion, having the three-fold leonine, ursine and feline qualities
in his composition, and substance in his proportions.  Satan is
indeed the animating spirit of such unparalleled elaborations as
these!
And now what are the facts in respect to any yet visible
index of the appalling development? So far as we are able
to judge, it is spiritualism through which this artifice is to be
brought forth, and fiom which it is first to emanate.  For it is
from authority, respectable and reliable, we learn that the mechanical genius of spiritualists is actively enlisted, and their inventive energy taxed, to produce an instrument, which shall
serve the convenience of spirits, for far more successful communications. And so great progress has already been made in
this directicn, that the spirits are greatly delighted! And what
spirits then, are these, whose entertainment and exultation are
thus promoted, and whose social instincts are accommodated?
Spirits of the dead?  Souls of once animated human dust?
Certainly not! But yet spirits of some kind. Energies invisible, trying some avenue, whereby yet more effectually to influence
mankind.   Be sure, they are the demons and seducing spirits,
concerning whose pernicious and officious intermeddlings with
human affairs in the last days, Paul, by inspiration, long ago, so
plainly notified Timothy, his son in the Gospel, and through
him, the Christian world. Yes! such are the developments of
our times. Say not, that they are long ago past, or reserved
for some dim and distant future.  The germ of the death-dealing image of prophecy is already in existence; and when it is
perfected, it will bear in its visage, the chiselled lineaments of
Napoleon! *
*We introduce in this connection the following excerpt from a daily
paper:
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Again, and again will the exclamation arise, "Impossible!
Incredible! "  But there is no contending against the word of
God. The honor and veracity of Jehovah is involved in the
which has been a good deal of a riddle, ever since it was first talked
of, is to be introduced to the public on Thursday evening next for the
first time. The following interrogations and replies in relation to it are
issued, and serve as far as they go to remove the mystery which has so
long enshrouded it.
"Is it a miracle?
No! Because it is the result of natural causes.
Is it a mechanical contrivance?
No! Because it is intelligent, and has the power of speech.
Is it a living thing?
No! Because it has no body, no viscera, and is confined within a
very small compass.
Is it a mere shadow?
No! Because it is " palable to feeling as to sight."
Is it an inanimate thing?
No! Because it has the power of vision and motion.
Is it animate?
No! Because it is inert, and neither eats nor sleeps.
Is it human?
No! Because it is a head without a body, and an intelligence without a soul.
Is it a block of stone?
No! Because its features are mobile and flexible.
Is it flesh and blood?
No! Because it has neither fibrous tissue nor blood.
Is it of supernatural nature?
No! Because none but legitimate causes produced the mysterious
result.
Is it to be explained by any popular theory or by any generally
known cause?
No! Because it is a paiadox.
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fulfillment of prophecy. We would earnestly and carefully
avoid every rash interpretation. But why should we err in the
other extreme, of refusing to recognize those things which the
Word and Providence and Spirit of God make obvious. But
one may say, if obvious to some, why not to all? Our answer
is, that a proper discernment in advance of the full development,
is by a wise necessity united to an unbiassed and prayerful attention! And in view of such an imminent future, how exceedingly important that the premonition should begin. Shall this
era of consternation and tyranny burst on Christendom, without
a previous cry of alarm? A Christendom, which so far as unwarned and uninstructed may exclaim and protest in sadness
and anguish, "why have not our watchmen warned us? Why
have not our teachers instructed us?"  Shall reticence in the
ministry then be excusable? Will this be approved of the Master? What an obligation is now resting on every organ and
instrument of religious information! What a duty devolves on
the pulpit and the press! Why are our avenues of Bible instruction so shut against the expositions of prophecy? What
means this hesitation, this unwillingness to admit or encourage
the faithful and thorough presentation of the precious things of
God, the sublime revelations of things to come? Are there no
means? Is there no remedy? Shall the power of public sentiment, the dread of popular odium or disfavor, intimidate the
servant of Jesus? Shall he refuse for such a reason to do his
duty?  Surely God requires of his servant fidelity. But by
what arguments are the verities and sublimities of prophecy neglected? Why are the rapidly hastening and tremendous confederations of evil so ignored and kept out of sight? And why
the near and hastening great day of the Son of God kept so invisible, as an event to be constantly and earnestly looked for?
Should it not be anticipated when it is about to arrive? Is
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flections? Then we should incur an interruption of tranquility in the occurrence of the event, and the coming of the
day. Do we deprecate an injury supposed to be threatened to
the peace of the church? But what is the nature of that quiet
that cannot endure transcendently important truth, without derangement? Do we dread disquiet more than we love the
knowledge of the truth? Or is the coming of Jesus an innovation on our calm, a menace to our composure, an inconvenience
in our theology, as a practical fact, and an impending event?
Do we hesitate through fear of being involved in miscalculations
and mistakes? Does a feeling of uncertainty constrain to silence? But the time has arrived when knowledge is attainable
as the result of prayerful scrutiny.  On what ground shall uncertainty be so preferred, or ignorance so justified, as to exclude
these matters of imperative concern?  And by what logic can
we justify an evasion of that, which Mr. Shimeall very justly
insists to be "the great theological question of the day!"  Yes!
let it be re-written and remembered-the great theological question of the day!  With every principal topic of Divine truth,
the attendants on Gospel ministration are every where familiar,
except this!  But there is with slight exceptions a bant upon
this theme!  And he who will courageously and resolutely
strive to repair the prevalent omission, must be content to be
frequently regarded as an innovator, a disturber, a fanatic!
Nay, even fidelity to the most important truth, and most imperatively pertinent to our times, will be stigmatized as an abet ration. But all this can be endured. And most cheerfully for
Jesus' sake!  And sooner than refuse to testify, rather than to
maintain silence, in order to avoid inconvenience, it were better
to incur an inundation of affictions.  And the great era of
change is already at the door! The day of God draws ominously near! Welcome day to the waiting believer! Direful, deprecated, and disastrous to all who are rooted to this present




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world, and enamored of its fickle delights, and deceitful vanities!
The question will occur in view    of preceding observations: Will Louis Napoleon acquire power and jurisdiction
over these U'zited States?  In answer, we will beg to introduce
as bearing on the inquiry, some scripture testimony, which if not
entirely conclusive, at least is relevant to this point. A question
of so much interest to us, passing events also will rapidly help
to determine. It is impossible to over-estimate the impbrtance
of being first prophetically posted, if I may use the term, so as
to appreciate rightly every political phase and change of affairs,
and apprehend its significance.  We are notified that "'authority
was given to the beast over every tribe, and people, and language, and nsation."  And although this may refer primarily to
the prophetic earth, or all territory comprehended in the old
Roman Empire, yet in view of the prodigious power conferred
by the allegiance of a solid compact of ten kingdoms, and the control of their resources, we can easily see that no country on the
globe would dare oppose such a display of concentrated strength.
And it is therefore highly probable, that every country permeated by the channels of intelligence, telegraphs, railroads, etc.,
will become practically subject to Napoleon. These so-called
civilizing agencies, thus will be compelled to subserve the ambition and convenience of the man of sin. We may here remark in passing, that the Greek word ge translated earth,
certainly cannot in every case be limited to Europe, or to the
properly prophetic earth. Without extended comment, it is sufficient to refer to this passage, "And he who sat on the cloud,
cast his sickle on the earth (ge) and the earth was reaped."
This by common consent we suppose will apply to the universal
pre-millennial gathering of the righteous throughout the whole
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spicious or flattering, either politically or financially? It may be
said, " our faith sustains us in respect to the future." But the basis
of our faith should be alone God's word, and not any mere personal
preference or pro-possession. We honestly submit that the doctrine of our national predestination to prosperity and power is
a radical error, so far as concerns the present dispensation.
Whatever distinction and prosperity America is to enjoy, with
wide-spread felicity of her population, must be under the personal
administration of Christ, inaugurated at his coming before the
millennium.  Hence the fervors of patriotism  (noble as they
may be), will be comparatively unavailing in respect to every
picture of national grandeur and eminence, which excludes this
elementary and vital idea of the personal administration and
kingdom of our Lord. Bells and gunpowder, rockets and artillery, though the vehicle in some sense of a laudable patriotic
enthusiasm, seem to the writer somewhat inapt and untimely in
view of such a future as prophecy presents! Nor will any political
system or aspiration possess permanence, or in a practical sense,
virtue even, which does not include respect for the glory and
coming of Christ, and his intervention to rectify the disorders of
the world. His coming, therefore, is as well a great necessity as
a great truth, and wo to the persistent refusal to recognize it!
The means by which Napoleon will probably dominate America, will be not alone however his headship of the Kingdoms of
Europe, but other and special agencies, of which Fenianism
may yet prove to be one; the possession of Mexico may be
another; a revolution in Canada, with the aid of the French
element of the population, as well as by Fenian machination or
revolt, may be another.  Spiritualism  is likely to be a powerful co-adjutor in the same direction.  Besides, there is a
strong probability of Napoleon's complicity with the war on
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when the chief combatant is imperial Brazil. But there are
other dangers to America. We have a government ominously
inharmonious (at this critical juncture) in its congressional and
executive departments. We have a large territory desolated by
war, and a population suffering more or less inconvenience from
social derangements and disorders, and from a scanty supply of
the necessaries of life.*  Lastly, we are encumbered with an
enormous national debt, to say nothing of the obligations
and liabilities of States, and counties, and communities on account of the war. We import recklessly and extravagantly from
abroad much that tee do not need. And is it the mere cry
of au alarmist, is it a shallow and baseless apprehension, to predict
an inevitable financial convulsion in America? As relevant to
this statement, and the expression of eminently impartial and
competent opinion, we would mention a speech of Hon. Justin
S. Morrill, of Vt., on the Tariff Bill in the House, June 28th,
1866. In the course of his remarks occurs the following: "We
are vulnerable to the attacks of any body from any quarter who
has anything to sell. Foreign artificers of brass and iron, and
even of clay, we cannot resist. Our present amount of circulating currency is vast, amounting in all to $91 7,000,000. I do not
cite these figures as a reproach to any body, but as a fact, and a
monstrous fact, attended by evils increasing every day, and the
longer contraction, the true remedy, is withheld, the more difficult will be found its application.  *  *  For the past year we
have received from California, but a little over $29,000,000,
and yet our exports of gold and silver at New York alone, from
May 12th to June 16th, amounted to more than $36,500,000.
* The writer supposes that in the recent revolt in the Southern States,
occurred ONE (at least) markedfulfillment of the prophecy,-"And his
tail (of the dragon) draws the third of the stars of heaven and cast them
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Clearly it is the course of government to moderate if it cannot
control this reckless course of trade, before bankruptcy ensues."
Nor is it out of place to point out the immense losses by
conflagrations and other extraordinary casualties in the United
States during the year past, and the injurious and depressing
effect of a serious deficiency (should it occur) in the agricultural
products of the Northern States at the present critical juncture
of affairs.  The apocalyptic "earthquake" of our times, without parallel for severity and universality, which has already shaken America, has not finished its convulsive rocking, nor
exhausted its subterranean energies. And when we consider
these and other perils, I am free to say that we may
begin to question our national predestination to safety and
glory. The king who "shall have power over gold and silver," will probably extend over America a jurisdiction, accepted
by some as a supposed relief from the pressure of growing embarrassments and perplexities, and by others as the only grand
realization of greatness and security. And this is one of the
snares of which we ought to beware. The Emperor-chief in the
German representation of a crowned spider inveigling into his
artfully extended net the European insect kings, after all, will
overcome the chief obstacle to success, by the incorporation of
the democratic element into his system. Accordingly, by this
expedient will the restless and clamorous European multitudes
be pacified. Tired of hereditary despotisms, they will gladly receive a system of king-ships, or royalpresidencies, established
by ballot. The great placebo of the acute French potentate will
be the gift of elective franchise.  And the voice of exulting
acclaim rising throughout the world, will include a tribute of
"honor to the great democratic Emperor."     And by the
promised or accomplished insertion of this great principle into
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position of these United States. By this compromise, or act of
deference or consideration to the American democratic idea
of election by ballot, the man of mystery will have accomplished
much toward a universal acknowledgement among statesmen
and politicians of his fitness for pre-eminence. Here is a snare
of Satan.   Beware! Here is the subtlety of evil hid in a guise
of accommodation. Remember! This is the net for the genius,
the diplomacy, the senatorial wisdom of the age! It will take
the unwary with wonderful success, in spite of every reputed attribute of wisdom. The statesmen, at first displeased and indignant at foreign innovation, will relax their hostility, will suspend their denunciations, and gradually and surely succumb to
the insinuating and pacificatory genius of the imperial deceiver.
Do you say? t"lMost unlikely!   Inconsistent and untenable
anticipation!"  The simple answer is-WATCH!
The chief specification in prophecy which indicates the adoption and inherence of the elective system in the last constitution
of the political Roman earth is believed to be the clay mingled
with iron in the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's image. This denotes apparently royalty chosen by ballot, a cunning expedient
in a period of transition from monarchy to democracy, but
seemingly too incongruous to be made a permanent institution
of nationalities. But it is otherwise impossible of permanence,
for with its brief prevalence, ends this dispensation.  It is in
this last form, of the last government denoted by the image of
Daniel, that the Lord from heaven intervenes. It is "in the
days of these kings," chosen by popular suffrage, that the
kingdom of Messiah is set up. But how common and how unjustifiable is the impression, and how erroneous the teaching, that
this Divine Kingdom will be ushered in by present instrumentalities!  That the world will be converted through the preaching of the Gospel, and through Tract, and Missionary, and




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Bible societies! *  Surely not by a gentle and gradual process, is
the image of Daniel removed, but it is instantly and utterly demolished by "the stone cut out of the mountain without hands,"
descending not with aimless and innocuous motion like a snowflake, but with abrupt and terrible power and lightning-like
velocity, crushing the image to atoms.  And the point of impact is the feet of the metallic statue.  Christ, eminently the
stone of Israel, the rock of God, will, at his coming, thus
suddenly destroy the antichristian confederate governments of
earth,  And this agrees with that preaching of the Apostle
James, who said, "tSimon has related, how God first looked"
(not to convert the world, but), "to take out of the Gentiles
a people for his name."    This is the great achievement of
missionary and all religious Gospel agencies in this age, distinctly this!  "And with this the words of the prophets harmonize, as it is written."
And now let us see the next development in God's majestic
plan. Is it the conquest of earth to Emmanuel by means and
machineries, so confidently cherished in the church? Ah! No!
The next step is this. "After these things, I will return, and
Iwill rebuild THAT TABERNACLE OF DAVID, which has fallen
down, and I will rebuild its ruins, and will re-establish it."
Jesus will then sit on " the throne of his father David, to order
it and establish it with justice and judgment, henceforth, even
for ever."  "His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives," and
such will be the material impetus of his advent to that illus" Let no one suppose that by this we suggest in the slightest degree
a relaxation of effort to diffuse the Gospel, and save the largest number
possible from ruin. The Gospel is to be preached for the great twofold object of a testimony to the nations, and to call in the whole number of the elect.




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trious Jerusalemic eminence, that it will cleave asunder, and
there will be a great valley. And the next event in this comprehensive summary of James, following the advent of Messiah
to the earth, and his accession to the kingship and kingdom of
David, and a very particular object to be attained by it, is "tthat
the remainder of men may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles
upon whom my name has been invoked."   This is that "gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done," the recovering of a
remnant after the wave of Divine vengeance has swept every
system of iniquity fiom the earth, to form the commencement of
a new race, holy unto the Lord, with which the earth shall be
rapidly repeopled. By no system or exposition, are different
and otherwise difficult scriptures, in regard to the condition of
the renovated earth and the people that inhabit it, so admirably
reconciled and adjusted. I refer to the exposition or system of
the Millenarians (not Millerites). The righteous dead having
been raised, and the righteous living translated in the glorious
presence and exalted joint-heirship of Jesus Christ, they begin to
exercise the functions of their kingship under Jesus. But is it
a mere nominal royalty? No! the righteous redeemed shall
"rule the nations."   But wzhere?   In some distant world,
some remote and unknown realm?    They will unquestionably
rule nations born, and diffused in vast numbers over the territory
of-this earth. They are the progeny of that remnant, an afflicted and poor people which having survived the terrible judgments and tribulations which have attended the cruel dynasty of
antichrist, are called and constituted to form the parentage of a
mighty host, and over this countless population are placed the
redeemed of all ages, in the offices of a beneficent administration under Jesus. These subject nations are therefore in a state
of blessed union and universal peace. Having obtained the holiness of our first parents, the earth becomes a universal Eden,
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of God. It is therefore the advent of Jesus, which not only
cuts off vast multitudes of the wicked, but which renovates
a remnant, who perhaps in the extreme anguish of nature, and
not so remote fiom the operations.of the Roman Pharaoh, as
not to feel an apprehension of some unparalleled crisis, have
blindly groped after a Deliverer. Those who mourn with penitential grief, as they "look on him whom they have pierced" at
his coming, are Jews, but heathen also shall be called and converted, and it is then that the inhabitants of distant islands, or
in other words, the still surviving "abundance of the sea, shall
flow in grand confluence for the worship of God toward Jerusalem."  "Then it shall come to pass that every one that is left
of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go
up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts."
Only a brief allusion can be allotted to this subject in these limits. For a complete synopsis, the reader is referred to a treatise
in Rev. R. C. Shimeall's "Coming of Christ," entitled " Handbook for Millenarians."
To revert to the main subject, we remark that in evidence of
the vast and extended sovereignty of Napoleon on earth, we may
find a significant prophecy in the tenth chapter of Isaiah. Antitypically, he seems to be characterized in the address: "O
Assyrian, the rod of mine angel!"  For he saith " my hand
hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have Igathered all the earth.  Wherefore it shall come to pass, that I will punish the fruit of the
stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks."
The prophecy represents the power and dominion of antichrist,
the perfect soverignty of God, and the judgment of Jehovah on
the evil person and dynasty. "And the light of Israel shall be
for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame, and it shall burn and
devour his thorns and his briers in one day."  This potentate in
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How significant such a soliloquy in the light of the ten-horned
kingships of the wild beast! As the typical Sennacherib invaded Israel, so also the antitype will do.  It is variously intimated that the Jews, regathered in their own country, and established in their old home, will be afterward invaded by the very
~power that patronized and promoted their new nationalization.
This seems to be in consequence of Napoleon's exasperation at
their conduct, probably in refusing to comply with an edict to
renounce their recognition of God on high, or to receive his mark
on their persons, although it appears they have gone so far as
to accept him as their Messiah. We do not wish to indulge in
mere conjectures.  The progress of events will evolve the details
which we cannot now with certainty or precision indicate.
Perhaps it may not be out of place to insert a brief article by
the writer, and published in the Examiner, New York, on the
subject of the Jewish restoration by Napoleon, though perhaps
we ought not unconditionally to insist on the propriety of
the application of the passage in Daniel, concerning the "covenant for one week " to Napoleon.
RESTORING THE JEWS
To the Editor of the Examiner and Chronicle.
A recent article in your paper, in relation to the condition and prospects of the Jews, is very suggestive, and with your kind permission I
will add something further concerning this exceedingly interesting and
important subject. That the Emperor Napoleon is fully committed to
the enterprise of superintending and consummating the restoration of
Israel to Palestine, and will give his great influence and energy to the
undertaking, it seems impossible to doubt. Dr. Zimple states, in a
pamphlet recently published in London, that the Emperor pledged his
imperial word, three years ago, to the Israelitish Alliance in Paris, to
restore the Jews. at the proper time for so doing. A Bavarian Jew,
writing from London to the Israelite Indeed, observes that " there have
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with all possible means, money, implements and tools of every kind, to
commence the cultivation of the long desolated land at once, and with
the utmost vigor. I am one of the leading members of a society forming here in Bavaria, which numbers already over nine hundred heads
of families."
Napoleon, not long since, said to an Algerian Jewish Rabbi, "Soon
I hope the Algerian Israelites will be French citizens."
All authentic information bearing on this subject is believed to be of
a character to warrant the expectation that this great movement will
soon be accomplished. The Napoleonic Congress at Constantinople,
embracing representatives from various nations, ostensibly to deliberate respecting the origin and prevention of cholera, is understood to
be a semi-political conference, and doubtless designed by its originator
to prepare the way for intervention in Mohammedan affairs; and its
proceedings and decisions may be regarded as involving, in no small
degree, in the issue, the great question of the Jewish restoration. Still
more emphatically is it reasonable to suppose that the approaching European Congress, at Paris, will have the Imperial proposition for the
speedy regathering of the dispersed Israelites brought to their attention.
That the Jews, in every country, are looking for the intervention of
an earthly potentate to promote their re-nationalization, seems to be a
marked element in their calculations. In a copy of "Israel's Creed,"
rhymed in English paraphrase, occurs the following:' And surely the time of Messiah shall come,
To lead Israel back to their long-promised home."
But alas! that Messiah they still refuse to recognize in Jesus of Nazareth, crucified by their fathers 1800 years ago on Calvary. There is
the strongest reason to believe that they will commit the stupendous
error of recognizing in Napoleon the Messiahship which they refused to
acknowledge in Jesus, and that this recognition will be virtually implied, if not stipulated, in the compact of restoration, which the Jews
will so eagerly welcome as the fulfillment of their most ardently-cherished hopes. The well-remembered passage in which the author of the
new life of Caesar applies to those who fail to apprehend the mission of
the Coesars and Napoleons, the guilt of "crucifying their Messiah," is
significant in the light of recent developments, and those arrangements
which are maturing for an achievment of the greatest interest, not only
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It is evidently an inquiry of no small importance, to trace, if possible, in these momentous transactions, a fulfillment of prophecy. Especially relevant to this subject, would appear to be the declaration of
Christ to the Jews who were seeking to kill him:'I am come in my
Father's name, and ye receive me not: ift another shall come in his own
name, him ye will receive." But the prophecy which is by far the most
explicit, and pertinent to the present epoch and pending developments,
if we do not misapprehend its purport, is contained in the last verse of
the ninth chapter of Daniel. A prince "shall confirm the covenant with
many for one week." If, as some of the ablest interpreters of our age
believe, this passage denotes a league between an anti-Christian earthly monarch and associate princes and powers, in behalf of dispersed
Israel for their restoration, we see that the terms of the prophecy expressly require that the treaty or compact shall embrace a period of
seven years, or one prophetic week. Accordingly, if we find in the
event, that precisely this period is defined, for guarantying and maintaining the re-settlement of the Jews in Palestine, and consolidating
their nationality, we shall have the most cogent evidence of the true
intent of the passage, and the peculiar prophetic value of such a momentous transaction. The inevitable sequal appended to the inauguration of this measure is distinctly before us. This earthly anti-Chiistian restorer, after encouraging the resumption of the ancient sacrifice
and rites of Judaism, in the midst of the week, or in about three and a
half years, ordains that the system newly resuscitated shall be discontinued, and industriously enforces the worship of himself, in " the overspreading of abominations," until' that determined shall be poured
upon the desolater."
A passage also in Ezekiel xx. may be quoted in this connection.
"And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of
the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched-out arm, and with firy poured out. And I will cause you
to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant." From which it would appear that the true restoration, under
God's propitious and prosperous superintendence, must be briefly preceded by an ill-ominous and calamitous convocation by Napoleon.
This is, indeed a subject of great importance, and it is well worthy
the prayerful scrutiny of Christians. Let the progress of this great proceeding be narrowly watched, and if at any time we are greeted with
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to the coming and Kingdom of Messiah. It may be mentioned. as
perhaps a shadow of the league with the Jews, that the French Emperor is making a kind of covenant with all nations, in respect to the
Grand Paris Exhibition, the duration of which is to be seven months,
commencing with April 1, 1867.
But observe how this identical prophecy, to recur to the chapter in Isaiah, represents anti-christ's destruction by that light of
Israel which is for afire, and the holy One for a flame.
The 185,000 dead of Sennacherib's army are a vivid type
of that sudden and far greater destruction which shall befall the
anti-christian myriads, at the flaming advent of the Son of
God, arresting the fell purpose of the enemy. "And the rest of
the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel
and such as are escaped of the House of Jacob, shall no more
again stay upon him  that smote them, but shall stay upon
the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in truth. The remnant shall
return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God." The
reader is invited to study this instructive chapter at his leisure.
We have thus briefly indicated some of the principal prophetic applications to the rising man, the "man of sin," the
man of mystery, the man of destiny, the man of the " numbered"
name, the vile person, the democratic emperor, the sovereign
pope and apostate, the last headship of the beast, the man deified, the vicegerent of Beelzebub, and Satan's masterpiece, the
elect of spiritualism, the anomos, or lawless one. This is the
potentate who governs Rome in the crisis of the papacy, and at
the epoch prophetically fixed for the denudation and desolation
of the harlot.  Napoleon third!   The last great head of the
confederation of evil! The last headship of the Holy Roman
Empire! The king who exalts himself above every god!    To
be met, to be confronted, to be overthrown by the King of
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consummation. So near and yet so unbelieving! So near, and
yet so unwilling to apprehend the simple and yet exceedingly
earnest logic of events in evolution of Gods prophetic word!
So near, and still so deprecative of precious light of inspiration
for the Christian's greatest benefit in the prospect of such a rapidly advancing finis to this age? So near, and yet so dull?
Shall we unyieldingly cling to the great error of the conquest of
earth by the gospel, without the personal presence and universal Kingship of Jesus on this earth? Shall we inexorably avert
our observation of facts or willingly misapprehend the truth?
I trust not.
How kindly Jesus teaches us by prophecy! How plainly
shows us things to come! Is revelation then indeed given merely
to mystify? Is it an inexplorable and incomprehensible deep?
Does the Lord simply furnish his people a perpetual puzzle, does
he perplex them with insoluble enigmas? Sav not so, my brethren. Was the seal on Daniel's visions unremovable forever?
How erroneous the assertion, or the supposition, if we consider.
For the seal was to have force and effect only unto the time of
the end.  And moreover, the angel said expressly to John.
t" Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is
near."  What means, my brethren, the encomium of our Almighty Saviour upon the diligent appreciation of his communications to John? What a blessing on the love and the study of
this book! " Blessed is he who reads! "  "Blessed are they who
observe the things written in it!"  Can it be possible then that
the Author and giver of such an inestimable treasure is pleased
with the neglect of it, with ignorance of it, with practical aversion to it?  Is it right and true, to allege that "the volume of
prophecy, is a structure inaccessible, a temple whose solid portals cannot be shaken," with the slightest hope of admission to
the humble wayfarer and inquirer? Where then is the key of
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candid, competent and scholarly men, who have by prayerful investigation, so far overcome previously existing difficulties that
we may understand the burden of this word. But I know the
very common objection, cherished, if not expressed, that the
majority of learned men do not endorse but rather refuse and
deny the validity of interpretations like those of Millenarians or
Adventistg. But does the truth always lie on the side of the
majority?   Is it not intimated by high authority that "great
men are not always wise?"  We do seriously and solemnly insist that it is imperatively important for every upright mind to
inquire and search for itself, search without bias, and with
patient, earnest and praying diligence. And besides, there is
no time to lose.
Yet it will be said, "we have no particular concern about the
time of our Lord's appearing, or events foregoing-our great
concern is lo be ready, and doing his will." Yet how thus
ready? The great consideration commonly urged, the great
event anticipated is death, but not in the Bible;-nay rather
the coming of the son of man.  The wise servant is diligently
and faithfully giving to his household "meat in due season."
Shall prophecy be left out in such a dispensation of heavenly
food?   And that, when inspiration says, "The testimony of
Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy"? When it is revealed as a
light shining in a dark place"? When it is so large a part of; scripture profitable for instruction"?  But there is another
passage to which I wish to invite particular attention. It is in
the address of Christ to the church in Thyatira, the promise
of special honor, to him who overcomes and keeps my works
to the end." This language is somewhat peculiar, for it is the
works and not alone the words of Jesus specified, and the keeping mentioned, (though the rendering in the common version
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nations" seems to apply to such as watch the works of God,
in their process of accomplishment, and with special reference to
the infallible and grand eventuality of the advent of Jesus, to end
the dispensation.  This implies an interest in God's operations,
as lie has foretold them, sympathy with the scheme so gloriously closing with the coronation of A" David's greater son," admiration of the thoughts of Deity in their evolution in events.
In what grander channel can the human mind be impelled? To
what more exalted exercise can it aspire? What more sublime
companionship should it covet? It is no small thing then with
the most animated spirit, with the keenest appreciation, with devout gratitude, and an intelligent understanding, to watch the
works of God!    Yes, and this in their great movement to completion! In their progress, in our own times, and in full view,
and as they concentrate, and culminate, until the stone from the
mountain, crushes the colossus of evil, and ends the desolating
sway of Satan.
But to recur, a little. Respecting the anticipated event of
death, let me inquire, are we sure that we shall die? Is it so
certain that the believer in Jesus will yield his body a prey to
corruption? Is it an event inevitable that they who "look and
wait for the coming of the Son of man," will return to dust?
This much we know that there are thousands thus waiting (not
for death but) for Jesus to appear.
And they do not expect to die, but to be translated. Yet
if other Christians are immovably fixed in the expectation of
death, there is great reason to think they will die, in harmony
with that principle of the event, which corresponds with the
faith.  Of the large number who will pass into the impending
tribulation, certainly multitudes will die, in the pressure of that
fearful period. But such as are previously removed, and thus
kept out of the comning trial, will not die, "no! never die,"
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There is but one more quotation which we will make from
God's book for the purpose of the identification of Napoleon, as
the last day Satanic potentate of this dispensation, and that is in
Daniel. It is the antitypical "King of fierce countenance."' When the transgressors are come to the full," he appears on
the earth's arena of affairs. It is at the world's acme of wickedness, when the evil among men is at it greatest elaboration, and
it is the time of greatest sin against greatest light.  This expression is thought to represent the inscrutableness of Napoleon's
visage, which no eye can read, the perfect mask of his mysterious thoughts.  The adjective fierce, is in the septuagint Greek
anaides, which signifies that cannot bluzsh, and that does
neither fear nor spare.   "Understanding dark sentences,"that is penetrating with subtle craft.  Here also seems to be
reference to the modern art of spiritualism, and the sub-mundane
revelations of demonism. To what extent Napoleon uses the
dark and secret expedients, and accepts in private seances, the
instigation of Satan in the guise of the dead uncle, we have not
much positive knowledge, but more is doubtless true than the
world imagines of this partly Ifume-taught mystery.  " His
power shall be mighty, but not by his own power," but by demonassistance, and popular applause, and national confederations.
"And he shall destroy wonderfully " not so much by war, as by
strategy and flattery, and political manoeuvring; "and shall prosper and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people," probably, though not certainly, the Jews in their body
politic.  "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to
prosper in his hand." This is a short and graphic daguerreotype of
Louis Napoleon.  Master of the art of deception, proficient and
unrivalled in unfathomable guile, he certainly "prospers by his
policy;" throwing his spider-like lines with an alerness which
entangles the rulers less adroit and profound in the mazes and
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world's geography! East and west, on land and sea, he has
sought and seized his strategic positions.  Europe, Asia, Africa
and America, have felt the impression of his footsteps, through
his deputies and agents. He mines gold in Senegal. He spans
the Suez isthmus with his ship canal. He infuses the ardor of
hope into the scattered Jews. But this is not all. He advertises
and prepares his grand world's exposition. And he so artfully times the great display as to make it come opportunely,
in all its imposing greatness after the battle storm of the nations,
the wrestling of the giants! Every nation, kingdom, and tribe
under leaven is solicited to participate in this great festivity of
art.  Not alone in every part of Christendom, but into the vast
interior of heathen countries, has the Gaelic message of invitation
penetrated. Not a latitude nor a continent is forgotten. Neither
the burning tropics, nor the frozen poles, are passed by. Not
even the islands of the sea, not the meanest, nor remotest, nor
obscurest organized community of human beings, neither despotisms nor republics, are overlooked.  Protestant and Catholic,
Brahmin and Mohammedan, European, African, and Indian,
are summoned to send tribute of their most cunning workmanship, and the strangest and most varied productions of nature,
to enhance the magnitude and the miracle of this jubilee of seven m    lonths of seeing and wondering. Every most experienced
faculty and most adroit art of description, will be tasked to report through every territory and community of the habitable
globe, the splendor and extent of this mighty aggregate of wonders. Thus will the Causar of the nineteenth century be cggrancdized. Thus will the way be prepared for the subtlest
and most danCgerous of all monarchs of all ages to attain the
coveted supremacy in influence and power.
"And he shall magnifv himself in his heart and by peace shall
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the Prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hand."
Here is the overthrow. The tyrant perishes, and his dynasty
ends. Jesus the Conqueror comes to reign. He must put all
enemies under his feet. HEe dashes the kingdoms to pieces like
a potter's vessel. He confuses the counsels and baffles the audacity of the despot.
To the same effect, is the description of the capture and destruction, in Revelation. John says, "and I saw the beast and
the kings of the earth and their armies assembled together to
make war with Him who sits on the horse and with his army.
And the beast was captured, and he who was with him, (Napoleon's grand deputy and coadjutor) that false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, with which he deceived those
who received the mark of the beast, and those who worship his
image; these two were cast alive into that lake of fire which
burns with sulphur. And the rest were killed with that broadsword of Him who sits on the horse, which went forth out of
his mouth, and all the birds were satiated with their flesh."  Thus
shall the Napoleonic headship, and all its myrmidons perish, by
the coming and presence of Jesus. Thus shall the judgments of
Heaven be executed. Thus will God destroy them that destroy
the earth!
It may be asked, when chronologically will this occur? In
what year, I do not propose to indicate, for it may not now with
certainty be known. But the time is short, and the denouement
cannot be distant. Napoleon is 58 years of age. Eminent expositors consider hisWelevation to supremacy to occur about 1868.
Meantime the ablation of saints may occur in any year. John
saw 144,000, having the harps of God in their hands, and his
name in their foreheads.  These were redeemed from men,
a first fruit to God and the Lcamb. This earlier evection of
saints may at any time occur, for it precedes the fall of
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of the bhast, and the proclanmation of the tremendous penalty
in the same chapter.  The seven vials also in another chapter,
which have been nearly all effused in the year-day fultillnent,
in the juldment of eminent expositors, have their literal effusion
yet to occur, constituting a series of special Divine judgments on
the antichrist and his leagued kingdoms and powers, during the
term of his short and tyrannous exaltation.*
Before concluding we will refer to one subject further, and
that isThe Great Tribulation.    Nor is this a myth, a mere phantasv,-the invention of a inorbid melancholy, studying relief in
exaggerated or baseless pictures of evil.  Nor will any such
derisive characterizaition prevent it, as has invested an earnest
and eloquent Christian brother and minister of the Gospel-a
faithful monitor of the advancing crisis,-with the title of" Tribulation Cumming,"  The event is prophetic, therefore it is inevitable.  Jesus truly and kindly notified his disciples of that
" great tribulation, such as never happened from the beginning
of the world till now, no, nor ever will be."  The first or typical
fulfillment, was accomplished at Jerusalem's destruction; the
second, or antitypical, is accomplished in the universal affliction
that accompanies the expiration of this age. The earth so long
oporessed with the incubus of sin, does not emerge into liberty
without a pang of augmented anguish. Nature before her regeneration shrieks amid the fearful throes of her great transition.
Satan, the enemy and invader, so many ages raging malignant
through the atmosphere, and stimulating by countless expedients
*According to Dr. Seiss of Philadelphia, who has profoundly studied
the volume of prophetic inspiration-' The whole career of antichrist
comes after the translation, as demonstrated in Revelation, every whit
of which in its true and proper fulfillment after the third chapter, remains to be fulfilled in the fioture."'
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the activity of the infection of sin, which he introduced and
infused into our race and world, does not surrender his territory
nor abdicate his dominion without a desperate struggle. Rousing every possible energy among his subject legions to a frenzy
of resistance, he essays to retard or embarrass the last advance
of the crowned king of the heavenly hosts to final and perfect
conquest. So earth is shaken with multiplied agitations. The
air is strangely electric with the excitement of those incessant
activities that precede the coming tempest. There are unwonted
omens in nature, and there is darkness and delirium  in the
nations.
One of thle elders explained to John who wondered at the
spectacle of that multitude glittering in white attire, "These
are those coming out of the'reat affli:ction (or tribulation),
and they wasbed their robes and whitened them in the blood
of the Lamb."   If any will interpret this trial by the extreme
sufferings of the multitude of Christians who have been tortured
by the pitiless and ingenious cruelties of Romanism, we only can
answer, 7Tis mnay be, bute only in pcrt.  For the martyrdoms
of those ages were not so much by any mea ns by " beheading,"
as by fire and a thousant diverities of studied and lingering
torture.  And besides, ourt L'rd promised to the faithful disciples at, Sard-is — "Because thlou hast kept the word of my
patient endurance, I will keep thee from that hour. of tricta
which is about to come on the wh/ole habitable.'  Here is a
pledge of pre-exemrption from a coming woe, in all probability
by tranzslation?. And the (duration of it is short, only for an
hoair, co-incic7nct, probb:ddy with the samcie hour during which
ten Kings give their power and authority to the beast. But
yet again, and mnoA.t significantly, this " affliction" is foretold in
Daniel. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and ther'
shall be a ti;7.e of tfrol,/e.  s'.-lh as nerwor i'w4a, since there was




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a nation even to that same time."  Now, there are two importl
ant circumstances to observe in connection with this tribulation,
which unerringly mark the time of its occurrence. First, it
is synchronous with the career of the wilful King, especially
the closing events of his career, just previously mentioned in
another chapter.  Hence, having identified Napoleon as that
prophetic character,* we know beyond a possibility of mistake,
that the last great trial of earth, is at his climacteric.t  Second,
"1 And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book," the wise virgins, probably
about the commencement and the remainder of Christians, at
the end of this affliction.  The duration of this trial is thought
by some to be a little more than three years.
"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake."  So then we are at the resurrection!  How then is
the resurrection (at least of the righteous) post-millennial?
What an inexplicable blindness that does not recognize this stupendous event as inseparably associated with those events
in which the wilful King is conspicuous! The tribulation
and the resurrection pertain to the time of this last potentate.
It is a positive necessity. No argument can overthrow it, no
sophistry obscure it. But it will again be said, "Such momentous events can not occur in our day. Yet why not as naturally in our day, as any other?  They must Occur in some
period of duration, and what guaranty of exemption can we find,
or what authority for postponement, either in sound philosophy
or in the Bible? In correct interpretation or chronology? If, as
* Before the accession of Napoleon I. to the first consulship, he said:
"The Republic is in danger. We must save it. IT IS MY WILL."
+ We use this word in a comprehensive sense, not intending of course
the strict lexicographic signification, as denoting either the sixty-third or
Pighty-first year.




the wicked instinctively feel, the coming of Christ be a calamity
to them, blighting their prospects, deranging their calculations,
arresting their enterprises, curtailing their enjoyments, and ending their probation, if it be an innovation and affliction to the
nations of earth, then what abstract or philosophic necessity
must assign these calamities to other generations, and not to us,
to a future age and not to this?  No! Merely our preference
or aversion will avail nothing. Our private opinions, or personal.feelings will change nothing, will prevent nothing. The
imagination of safety ever ready to occur to the mind, and the
security of the present time, always such a welcome refuge to
the troubled spirit upon the suggestion of a coming day of trial
and judgment, at best is but a most treacherous and transient
expedient, and will in the hour of ordeal, in the day of decision, utterly give way.
Let us for a moment contemplate this season of trial, ending in
the consternation of the wicked, at the flaming advent of the
King in glory. The " tribulation" comprehends, we shall see, not
alone the temporal trials of the righteous who remain on earth,
but the judgments of God on antichrist, by the series of vials, in
the closing hours of time. After the ascension of the "man
child," denoting the translation of the 144,000, the revelator
saw signs of a " war in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting
with the dragon and his angels."  How comes this? The abreption of saints introduces a new era and element in celestial
affairs. As they are borne with irresistible power aloft to the
presence of Jesus, who has descended from the highest heavens,
and thenceforth occupy with him the aerial spaces in the vicinage of earth, the hosts of Satan find their ground untenable.
The prince of the power of the air, and his companion fiends,
cannot be llowed to hold their long-traversed territory in the
atmosphere. They must be ejected. The necessity is imperative, for a first fruits from the earth are joined to their Lord in




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the air. The onset begins, and the legions of God press their
enemies with the most determined vehemence. The conflict is
short, and the demons, routed and enraged, are dejected to earth.
The shout of victory rings through the skies, glorifying the grace
of God, and ending in this apostrophe:'Therefore rejoice,
heavens, and those who tabernacle in them!"  (Observe that
rthese "tabernaclers" are inferably not angels, but saints.)  But
there is also a different form of address to the subjacent earth.
<" Woe to the earth and to the s-a!  Because the enemy has
gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has a
short season."  Here we see a greatly altered posture of affairs.
The sphere of demon operations is suddenly contracted. They
no more roam at will along their innumerable lines of volation.
They are hemmed and confined to the earth.  At this irrecoverable loss, and impassable limitation, they are inflamed with rage.
Think! now what must be the condition of mankind thus inundated with a flood of wicked spirits thrust down among them!
Has Satan before dominated the earth? How will he not now
tramp with furious strides around, and vent his indignation at
the loss of' the bad eminence" he has maintained in super-terrestrial space for sixty centuries!  Henceforth, his activity is as
much intensified on earth, as his space is narrowed. What a
scene of evil follows! In vain, humanity (un-anctified) would
struggle to escape the impact of this diabolism driven down
upon the living population of the globe. Nothing but the
armor of God, burnished and compact, can endure unscathed,
the vehemence, the virulence, the concentration of these incorr;gible hosts.
How now, will spirltualism thrive! Conceive who can, the
confusion and tumult of innumerable rappings, the disquiet of
demon invasions, against which no finite skill or power can erect
a harrier, which audacity or persistence will not overcome. Is
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wish to dwell upon it, but any disbeliever in the tumultuous pertinacity of the spirits (demons), and their power to manifest their
presence to the ear, or eye, or touch, is invited to read a series
of intensely interesting articles published in the World's Crisis
(Boston), and communicated by H. S. Chapman, a reformed
spiritualist. One of the articles may be specified, as occurring
in the issue of June 27, 1866. A narrative developing such
facts, as are there recorded, will shake the skepticism of the
most incredulous.
But why enlarge? Earth, thus demonized cannot be otherwise than a terrestrial pandemonium. Besides, it is possible that
Romanism will be transformed into this spiritualistic system, or
supplanted by it. In support of this view may be mentioned
the proclamation of the angel, crying " Fallen! fallen! is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a
hcaunt of every inmpure spirit!"  At the same time another
celestial voice loudly importunes those persons nominally included in the devotee-ship of Babylon, but who are nevertheless
truly the disciples of Jesus, to forsake the falling edifice of
Romanism, and so escape the judgments of Heaven.   Along
with all the other iniquities and enormities of the tine, we behold the blasphemy of Napoleon, who in self-magnified audacity
and pride, "opens his mouth in blasphemies against God, to
blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and those who tabernacle in Heaven." In vain the language of invective uttered by
this man of sin against the pavilion cloud, and all its praising
throng of ransomnd inmates. Impotent the anger of man, vexed
and incensed at the first grand act of grace, that snatches a
trophy into the skies!  It cannot disturb the felicity of the redeemed in their not distant but yet inaccessible assembly with
Jesus. The man of destiny but hastens to his end. The cloud
of j idgment gathers, and scarce restrains its innumerable javelins,
its arrowy volatilities of fire. Forged by an invisible hand, the




thunderbolt of destruction waits the moment when at the mandate of its Maker, it shall strike the proud Assyrian down to
rise no more.
But we must draw to a conclusion. Nothing is more evident
than the steady advancement of Napoleon to the future acme of
power.   Almost every newspaper attests it.  The numerous
corps of foreign correspondents, with perhaps only the slightest
interest in prophetic subjects, or knowledge of their purport,
are constantly writing to the same effect. We have not space
for extracts which are daily accumulating.  One would think
only such need be blind, as are either willingly or wilfully blind,
who read the record of passing events.  How noteworthy the
policy of caution and reserve, by which he avoids the embarrassment of precipitate or irrevocable committal! Most careful he
to see that he loses none of the advantages of untrammeled
action, of independent and unfettered neutrality. He wastes no
energies, he squanders no resources in ill-judged expeditions or
exhausting wars. He strikes only where his blows will tell, in
the very direction of his selected aim. He fights the less, and
strategizes the more. Ile moves his army when he gives the
signal with the impetus and momentum that quickly wins, and
then suddenly pauses in the great aim and labor to secure and
keep the advantage he has won. What he seeks he gains,
what he gets he holds. His mighty army and finished engines
of -war he keeps as near as possible to the point of perfection,
abundantly content to let others worry and exhaust themselves
in expensive conflicts, that he may be the gainer.
But we bid adieu to this theme, and close with a few suggestions of practical application.
1. It behooves us to beware of certain besetting and mistaken
expectations. The idea of the conquest of earth by the genius
of American liberty, however dearly cherished, is fallacious.
Christ alone shall rule the world. Yet because the principal of!elc'tive fralnhise galins )re.valence in EuroIJ,, it, will be said that




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a new era is begun. A new era indeed, but of a very different
character from the interpretation put upon it! It is a snare of
Satan to infer, that because Napoleon takes the democratic element into his empire, therefore ihe millennium  of republican
glory is at hand. These political changes, so far from denoting
the Americanization of the world by liberal ideas, denote the revolutions that precede the Advent of Heaven's King. The successful laying of the Atlantic Cable will be hailed as an omen of
the quick coming of a new and glorious international unity.  But
there is reason to fear, lest it may be a unity in the interest of
evil, in the interest of Satan, and his cause, except as Providence
may employ this and kindred agencies, to sound one quick and
loud and universal alarmi-to beware of the beast!  Whether
to interpret the swift flying angel in mid heaven, by a momentary and prodigious activity of human messengers, crying "beware of worshipping the beast," or by an agency as it were
commissioned from heaven at the instant of the culminating evil,
we may not yet know. The Paris Exposition, an instrument
designed and adapted for Napoleon's aggrandizement, is another
cunning weft in the same Satanic web.  Instead of peace and
liberty, everywhere extending and triumphant, we have war, and
peril, and perplexity. Human philosophy may deduce from
the terrible conflict just over in America, and the overthrow
of Slavery, a new era of progress. It will affirm, as the necessary fruit of so much expense of treasure and blood, of such
herculean efforts and the victory achieved, a millennium  of
popular liberty, in which commerce, art, science and statesmanship shall flourish. But the Bible teaches that these gigantic
cotflicts precede the corning of Christ! Wars shall never cease
till then! Nay, prolhecy announces;hat "the Lord iath a controversy with the nations, he will plead wth all flesh, evil shall
go forth from nation to nation, and the slain of the Lord shall
be at that day fiom one end of the earth, even unto the other
Pn?d of the earth. They shall not be lamented, neither gathered




nor buried, they shall be dung upon the ground."  Of like tenor,
is the angel calling to the birds in mid-heaven —" Come assemble
yourselves to the great supper of God." A feast of eagles and
vultures and ravens,-to celebrate the dawn of a political unity
and human glory on earth? No. A feast of feathered swarms
summoned by the scent of blood, and hovering in a black and
hungry cloud over ensanguined battle fields and innumerable
heaps of the dead! "That they may eat the flesh of Kings
and Commanders, and powerful men, and horses and riders, free
and bond, small and great."
2. My dear brethern and sisters in Christ. Let us look for
his appearing! Out of forty-one prophets of every kind in God's
book, six only spoke of the first advent of Jesus, but all the
rest have testified of the second, and the whole have in some
manner referred to it. (Shimeall's second coming, p. 27.) Is
this of no significance? We really need to look in earnest for
this blessed day of jubilee to waiting saints. First, because it
is exceedingly near, and second, it is a proper and truly gospel
faith in the heart, a power where it exists. It is but poor
looking, to look unbelievingly,-to set this sweet consummation
far away in almost infinite distance, and veil it in a cloud of
dimness. The rapture of the man-child, the hymning of the
144,000 on Mount Sion, the convocation of the eagles, the moving array of the wise virgins at the signal of the coming Bridegroom, these are the pictorial and prophetic hints, of deepest
significance, which our Lord has given-every one an argument
and an admonition! Do we hear, do we behold, do we believe?
A voice in olden time, ( nor is its echo yet expired) ordained"If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established."
But how is it possible to believe? I know not any but the
three-fold means which God both gives and blesses, when used,
and these are study and prayer and the Holy Ghost. Faith
comes by hearing.
But in the case stated, what will become of our colleges, soci



eties and churches, our government, our institutions, our property, all we hold moot dear on earth?  How is this?  Is aught
of earth more dear than Heaven's King and His glory!   And
will he not give far richer, nobler and grander possessions in substitution for that which he removes?
But there are our children, and our nearest friends. Well,
then we must teach them to be good, and to look also for Him
who will come and not tarry, committing all interests, contingencies and eventualities into His hand, not doubting that He
cares for those who faithfully uphold his truth.
But "Millerism" failed in 1843.   Yet it was doubtless in
God's order that Christendom should be premonished, and although a time was then erroneously given, yet the twenty-five
years that have nearly elapsed since, have brought us to an epoch
far more critical, and stored with signs and authentic portents,
all eloquent of the advance of Christ and his "( white robed cavalry " to this scene illustrated with those mighty acts of his suffering humanity.
But, the sentiment of learned men is adverse to this faith.  Is
this true?  Have we forgotten that Luther, and John Wesley,
and Cotton Mather, and many of the noblst of earth now dead,
were looking earnestly for the day quickly to arrive?  And such
men as Fleming. Faber, Tyng, Cumming, Seiss, Shimeall, Duffield and many others, give and have given their testimony earnestly in this direction.* It would be well if we had the inquir-'We see a reference to one of H. W. Beecher's sermons lately, in
which he says he does not understand the Advent! Well! there are
some very small saints, here and there, up and down, who humbly think
they understand it a little, so far as that Christ will. come very soon, and
come in person, and take up the ready saints, and reign over the earth
and renovate it. Mr. Spurgeon does not exactly understand it either,
we conclude, from some observations imputed to him, and a good many
others who ought to be searching the great subject, and giving the trzm



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nyg mind, even, of Dr. Archibald Alexander. A fiiend entered his
study one day, during the last months of his life, and taking up
his Greek testament, found it most thumbed in the book of Revelation. " How is this, doctor?  Do you read this book the
most? Do you understand it?"  "No sir, I don't understand it,
but a blessing is pronounced on the man that readeth the words
of this prophecy, and I am axious for the blessing."  In the
kind providence of God, however, we may understand that which
study and events are now developing.
3. Consider the startling suddenness of a translation of first
fruits.  What a revelation to a hitherto unbelieving church!
Saints inexplicably and instantly gone! Eagles sped aloft with
unembarrassed flight! Waiting heirs of glory caught up by
angels in a twinklitlg! Two in a field, two in a bed, ote taken,
the other left! Here, and thus, is demonstrated the meaning of
Christ, under the sixth vial, exclaiming —" Behold, I come as a
thief! "  "Blessed is he," (not that derideth instruction, insisting
that nothing can be known, but,) "that watcheth. and keepeth
his garments." It is something then to be premonished, and
believing and waiting.  It is something, to have the mind
clothed with thoughts and knowledge of Christ's coming, as well
as with the apparel of his righteousness. What an astonishment
to the Church to find her truly waiting ones in an unsuspected
moment withdrawn! A rebuke to the unbelief of those who
are left, which will come with power!  A shock, and a revelation, which the prevailing post-millenarian fallacy will not long
survive! God will speak by this act of elimination, in a manner to inspire unspeakable solemnity, except among hardened
sinners, and world-serving professors.
4. Read good books on these great themes.   There are
Baxter's and Shimeall's works on Napoleon, Shimeal's ( Cnoming
pet a cert tin sound, in view of the greatly hasting consummation, the
near kingdom and glory of our Sovereign and blessed Lord.




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of Christ," Baxter's " Coming Battle," besides the able works
of Dr. Seiss, of Philadelphia, and many other excellent volumes.
The Prophetic Times, (Phila.,) $1 a year, is an important
serial. There is no lack of instructive and powerful books, and
therefore all the less excuse for ignorance. Whatever is needed
may be had by writing to Mrs. A. P. Jolliffe, box 1199, Philadelphia.
5. Who should not feel intensely interested in the impending
downfall of popery? Is it not a wonder that Christians are not
thrilled with emotion, in such a prospect? Why is not Christendom animated with the most unwonted sympathy with the
works of God, now in process of execution?  Who should not
watch and appreciate the impoit, the magnitude, the certainty,
the issue of events? Does not Jehovah promise to arise and
shake terrzbly the earth? It has come. Popery will not escape! 0, the wonder, that Christians can be indifferent! What
a lethargy must that be that is not aroused, what incredulity
that will not believe, what unconcern that cannot care!
6. Sinner! Unbeliever! This is to you. Are you ready
for the coming of Christ? Then beware! Prepare! Lose not
a day or an hour! Be not like the sons-in-law of Lot! In
what fearful jeopardy every moment is your life, if you are
not converted-if you do not come to Christ!
7. Our limits compel the omission of many things. If what
is here written is in some respects at valiance with an article
by the writer, published five years ago, under the title of Armageddon, the only answer or explanation needed, is the great increase of li'ht shed on prophetic subjects, by investigations and
events. May the Lord help in all things with His counsel, to
the everlasting glory of His great name.
CLINTON COLEGROVE.




ADDENDUM.
AN EVENT IMPENDING.
An event believed by earnest Christians, to be imminent, is a
translation of Saints.  An event of unspeakable interest to
every believer in Jesus! This is a matter of intelligent faith, and
far removed from the region of idle speculation. And it behooves every pious mind to be suitably pervaded with that settled expectation, most becoming, as the mental and moral attitude of such as Christ shall with ihe instant interposition of His
power, bear upward to their rest.  Yet the slumber of Christendom on the subject is on the whole awfullv profound.  The
suggestion of such a stupendous incident in the world's routine
of events, will be almost universally dismissed as irrational and
fanatical. And so persistent and inflexible is the general incre-dulity, that only the event itself will overcome it. Suddenly,
silentl\, and mysteriously, Iere and there, a saint will have vanished!  A first fiuits will be caught into paradise.  By this
event, doubtless, the sc ffing and skeptical will only be hardened,
and the secular journalism of village and metropolis, outdo all
precedent in the varied ingenuities of derision. But the Church!
What an electric shock will she feel at this testimony of a living
God, about to effect a change of dispensations! Her whole organism will be thrilled with an emotion of surprise. It is quite
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tion, will be the signal for that mighty cry resounding through
Christendom, " Behold! the bridegroom comreth!"  Wars, famines, pestilences, political commotions, with augmenting uneasiness on account of the rapid and unparalleled vicissitudes of the
time, will perhaps scarcely arouse more than a small minority to
a state of actual and lively expectation of Christ. But a translation of saints may move the church, and mightily startle her
from her apathy respecting the Lord's advent, as nothing else
had done before. Far be it from us to merely guess or theorize
on these stupendous themes. Let us search the subject diligently. In such on hour as ye think not, the SON OF MAN COMETH!
Amen, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!
Inexpressibly welcome.   And what a blessed anticipation,
if cherished in earnest! What an exhilarating hope!  What
an electrifying prospect! Only that we can feel it is authentically guarantied in God's word, and not hidden in the labyrinths
of some remote future, but actually at hand! How greatly
more to be desired, a rest with Jesus, than any possible triumph
of earthly ambition! Than any rest or refreshment in this
mortal state! This is not our rest. It is a season of trial. All
things are full of labor.  Creation groans under the incubus of
sin. Nature sighs amid her manifold oppressions. Who shall
administer a perfect and permanent relief? Only Jesus can do
it. It is the will of God that His anointed Son shall perfectly
achieve the predestined restitution.  Reader, fix your heart on
Christ and his coming, if you will escape the evils that will
shortly menace and environ earth!
The prophecy of transactions in the eleventh chapter of Daniel, we suppose, gives an outline of the career of both Napoleons,
first and third, uncle and nephew.  Here, and also in Revelation, there is a reference to both in respect to things in which
they aie and are not alike. But the third Napoleon is quite the
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able resemblance in some chief features of his character and
policy to his great predecessor and relative. In illustration we
give some historical items:
1. The Napoleonic reticence. Napoleon I.  " He would be
indeed a shrewd man who could extort any secret fiom him.
He could impress a marbie-like immovableness upon his features
which no scrutiny could penetrate."-(.1. S. C. Abbott.)  "His
searching glance has something singular and inexplicable which
imposes even upon our directors. Never does he d;sclose his
real thoughts."-(Letter of Josephine.)  Napoleon III.  " I
cannot say whether Prince Metternich has performed his duties
in a satisfactory manner, but it would be unjust to punish him
for not telling what the intentions of the Emperor Napoleon
are, seeing that not a member of his own Cabinet can say what
they are, and if they happen to guess what he may think to-day,
I defy them to guess what he may think to-morrow. If a penalty of the kind be adopted as a precedent, we would soon be
without a single diplomatic agent in the French capital."-(Paris
cor. London Times.)  "I confess that all these questions are
more easily asked than answered. 1 have studied the problem
at London, then I went over to Paris, to see if its bright skies
and champagne atmosphere would enlighten me, or if I could
read something in the face of the emperor.  1 might as well
have, studied Col. Stodare's Sphinx, or the face of Nelson on his
column in Trafalgar square."-(('or. N. Y. Times.)
2. The Napoleonic idea of Turkey.    Said Napoleon I.:
"From these different posts, we sh1 command the Mediterranean,-we shall keep an eye on the Oitoman Empire which is
crumbling to pieces."  No consideration could induce Napoleon
to permit Russia to take possession of Constantinople.  Constantinople," said Alexander, "is the key of my house."  " Constantinople!" exclaimed Napoleon, "It is the dominion of the
world!"




"Let one imagine the Russians masters of Constantinople,
and let one dare to affirm that they will not be masters of all Europe, not at some remote period, but almost immediately, since
they will leave a supremacy incontestable both upon the land
and the sea."-(Reponse a Sir Walter Scott par Louis Bonaparte frere de 1' empereur.)
"The only hypothesis that France and England will ever be
allied with sincerity, will be in order to prevent the possession of
Constantinople by Russia. I see into futurity further than
others."-(Napoleon I. to O'Meara.)  This is very relevant to
the operations of the late Crimean campaign. The present alliance of France and England is unquestionably maintained to
subserve the self-interest of Napoleon. England's humiliation
and subjection to the latter is doubtless as certain as any inevitable event whatever. Waterloo will be overwhelmingly avenged
by a membership of England in the confederation of ten kingdoms with Napoleon, or more properly by those bereavements
of territory and other embarassments which Napoleon's policy
will promote, developing her inferiority and necessitating a sort
of vassalage. England will be infallibly taken in the imperial
spider-web.
Nor is it probable that Russia will gain the point she has so
long coveted, viz, Constantinople.  It is at least possible that
there is a secret understanding between Napoleon and the Czar,
by which the latter is encouraged to extend his Asiatic conquests,
to the detriment of British foreign supremacy, while the great
Turkish sea-port will fall to the possession of the French Emperor. At all events Napoleon's headship of ten kingdoms
will enable him to dominate other states, territories and kingdoms, and rapidly consummate his long cherished scheme of
vastly extended empire. Said Napoleon I., " Once mistress of
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nean, marches off to India an army of 70,000 good soldiers,
and 100,000 canaille, and England loses India."
3. The Political re-constitution of Eurpe.  Napoleon in
a communication to his enibassador Abbe de Pradt, whom he
sent to Warsaw, said, —" The centre of Europe ought to consist of nations unequal in their power, each of which would have
a system of policy peculiar to itself, and which from their situation and their political relation, would look for support to the
protectorship of a preponderating power."
" Napoleon wisely, therefore, while he preserved the essence
of the democratic spirit of France, endeavored to blend with it
the aristocratic and monarchic tendencies of Europe. His object was the re-construction of the social fabric which had been
shattered by the French revolution, mixing with the new materials all that remained of the old, sufficiently broken to build
with again."-(Napier.)
This is a shadow of the programme, which the nephew has
resolved to carry into practical accomplishment. It is certainly
agreeable to prophecy. It is a hint of those adjustments denoted
by the ten-horned conformatin of the beast, and the clay-iron
constitution of the feet of the Nebuchadnezzarian image.
4. Fetianism.  Louis wrote to his brother Napoleon I.
"' There are only three modes of attacking England with effect,
-detaching Irelandfrom her, capturing her Indian possessions,
or a descent on her coast."
Napole,n said to O'Meara, "If I had succeeded in my project I would have abolis-hed the monarchy, and established a
republic instead of the oligarchy by which you are governed. I
would have separated Irelarnd from England, and left them to
themselves, after having sown the seeds of republicanism in their
morale."
The disjunction and independence of Ireland seems to be a
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further prophetically implied, by not being originally comprehended in the boundaries of the Roman Empire.
5. The wounding of the seventh head. This is considered
to have occurred at Waterloo. "I feel," said the Emperor to
Caulaincourt, in low tones of utter exhaustion, "that I have
received my death wound. The blow that has fallen upon me
at Waterloo is mortal.  My abdication leaves the state without
a heAd, and without political existence."  Revivificaiion predicted. "My son will yet reign over France, but his time has not
arrived."  This son proves to be a nephew (through Louis), and
a grandson (through Hortense.)
But the wounding by a sword was not alone in the Waterloo
catastrophe.  Not to mention the awfully disastrous Russian
campaign, Napoleon's career toward the end was but a succession of reverses, occasioned by the pressure of overwhelming
numbers and the defection of allies. After the battles of Dresden and Leipsic, he was compelled to abandon aggressive operations. "All is lost," he exclaimed in anguish,  I am vainly
contending against fate."  "I shall never" says Caulaincourt,
"forget these scenes at Fontainebleau. There is nothing in
history to be compared to these last convulsions of the French
empire, to the torture of its chief, to the agony of its hours, its
days."
" Do you know," said the Emperor to Caulaincourt, "what
that is which pierces the heart most deeply? It is the ingratitude of man. I am weary of life. Death is repose. What I
have suffered for the last twenty days cannot be comprehended."
And these calamities and suffeiings were prior to the first abdication and departure to Elba. We may here remark, that
Gustavus, king of Sweden, ever insisted that Napoleon was the
beast described in Revelation.
Miscellaneous.  "The limits of France are in reality the
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in Ancona suffering under the most intolerable oppression,
and immediately relieved them from all their disabilities."(Abbott.)
"How singular" said Napoleon, "if a little Corsican officer
were to become King of Jerusalem!"   Let us occupy Egypt.
We shall be in the direct road to India. It is in Egypt that we
must attack England."
During his occupation of Egypt, the route was surveyed for
two ship canals, one connecting the Red Sea with the /Nile at
Cairo, the other uniting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean.
The estimated expense was five millions of dollars. Louis
Napoleon has carried this latter project into effect. The purposes thwarted or broken off in the short and wounded headship,
are resumed and finished in the re ived. "On my return to
France Paris would have been the capital of the world."-(Napoleon I.)
Barras in the name of the Directory said, "Nature has exhausted her energies in the production of a Bonaparte."  Junot
said to Lanusse, " One of us must die. I hate you, for you
have abused the man I love and admire, as much as I do God,
if not more."  Impious excess of devotion to man! Junot perished miserably. Kindred to this was the homage of Lannes,
of whom his master said,-" Lannes adored me as his protector,
his superior being, his providence."
"Napoleon wished to establish a European Code, money of
the same value, the same weights, the same measures the same
laws." - (Abbott.)  Significant, we think, are the measures
pending and doubtless ready for adoption in Congress to unify
these conmmercial standards in adaptation to French models,
such as the franc, the gram, and the metre, as units of value,
weight and measure.
Of vast importance is a correct understanding of the rise of
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sixth continued to the commencement of the nineteenth century.
Says White in his History of the World,'"The main result of
the victory of Austerlitz was the establishment of the confederation of the Rhine, under the protectorate of the French ruler,
and this eventput an end to the old German or Roman Empire."
From an article published in the NV. Y. Times, we quote:
"(The Germanic Confederation has lasted for half a century,
and it may now be assumed to be extinguished. It sprang out
of the battle of Leipsic, as it were a logical result, and the results
of the battle of Leipsic are now lost.  The Hilly Roman Empire, weakened in the last century, by the aggressive movements
of Prussia, fell in 1806."  Barnes, who locates the wounding
of one of the heads of the beast far back in the past, nevertheless
seems to question the absolute correctness of his interpretation.
"This," he says, "has been among the most perplexing of all
the enquiries pertaining to the book of Revelation. None of the
current solutions are wholly free from objection. I confess I am
not able wholly to solve this difficulty."  This acknowledgment
confrms the unreliableness of the long prevailing and various
views on this very important subject. There is no alternative.
We have in Napoleon I. the seventh head, powerful, short-lived,
and wounded to death. In the grandson and nephew, we find
the mortally wounded head revived. Momentous fact! and inevitably involving another,-for this is the antichrist (personal,)
whom Jesus will destroy at his revelation in glory!
A writer in Blackwood's Ma azine, says:' America dares to
hold language to France, that all Europe combined would not
utter. There is no denying it, no qualifying it. If we had a
continental coalition to-morrow, we could not venture to say
what America has just said. We would no more dare to provoke the T'rileries by an insolent desp teh, than we w~ uld go
into one of Van Amburgh's cages, and kick the li, n."  "Monadnock" writes from London to the N. Y. Times,-," France would




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be, and perhaps is, at this moment, the arbiter of Europe, where
in my o.,inion not a gun can be fired without being subject to
the emperor's veto."
A caricature in Germany represents Austrian and Prussian
soldiers in obeisance to Napoleon, and exclaiming, "Ave Ccesar!
Mor'itari te salutant."  Hail, Cesar! They who are devoted to
death, salute you!"
The following from the Religio-Philosophical Journal, of
Oct. 14, 1865, an aole Spiritualist piper, published in Chicago,
will give the reader some idea of the views of Spititualists, and
the doctrines taught by the spirits. The writer says: —"The
world in all ages and nations has been befooled, beft;oged and
bedeviled by a religion of fiction; it calls for a religion of fact.
The God of Christendom and heathendom is but the hero of a
stupendous romance.  Angels, men and devils are minor characters of the romance; and eternity the great stag- on which
they have performed, and are still lo perform. The human soul
is fast outgrowing the religion of romance. It is calling loudly
for a reality; for a simple matter of fact, every day practical
God, and an immortality that shall come to it as a living reality.
The progressive human soul calls lor a God of immortality, that
shall come to it and be made manifest in living men and women,
and in all living:elations.  Millions are calling for a God to live.
with them, to care for them in going out and coming in. Millions are looking and longing for a flesh and blood God, whose
presence and endorsements they can see and feel."  The writer
goes on to say that Spiritualists should "organize," and make
themselves "a power that shall be felt in every relation of life,
a power competent, in a measure, to meet the demands of the
hour."  Again he says: —( Let man be the one holy, invisible
object in the universe, and all else second and subsidary to him.
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A Spiritualist medium, by the name of Chadwell, in Springfield, Mass., said to G. W. Davis about 1863,-"- If you live ten
years, you will have to acknowledge Spiritualism, or have your
head cut off."  Better to lose the head than to take *" the mark
of the beast."
The following is from a late speech of a well known orator:" I know what practical statesmanship means in ordinary times; I
know how much party organization is worth in ordinary times;
but these are not ordinary times; it is a revolution. The waters
are out, and flood the globe; the political depths are broken up;
the heavens themselves are obscured; there is no star visible but
the North Star of Justice."
There is a great responsibility resting on those to whom God
has entrusted the means of doing good. Exceedingly culpable
must be esteemed a spirit of supreme self-indulgence and selfaggrandizement in such an exigency as this. Let Christians earnestly consider their duty. Should we folm and prosecute costly
enterpiises from a motive of ease, of ostentation, of enjoyment?
Should we give sparingly, and hoard insatiably?  What a misnomer, what an absurdity-now and always —a covetous Christian!   Rather than live sordidly to enjoy, or ambitiously to build,
when antichrist may soon ravage our territory, and confiscate
every dollar not inpiously consecrated to his honor, rather than
all elaborate and wasteful outlays, far rather-the Christian
should hold every acre of land, and every penny of his possessions in constant and active consecration of God. Not only should
missionary effort be sustained, in order to save instrumentally a
multitude of heathen during the season of mercy (mingled with
judgments) yet retnaining, but in a very special manner, should
the necessary aid be given for the rapid dissemination of prophetic truth.  Christians should give actively of their means,
(while yet holding a stewardship) to spread abroad the knowledge of the character of antichrist, and all the solemn interests




and issues of this crisis. If this duty is persistently neglected,
what must be the judgment of our Lord upon such dereliction!
Instead of building costly private residences, or splendid church
edifices, it were far better to help extend everywhere, that knowledge so imperatively appertaining to our time.  Thousands upon
thousands of tracts should be immediately scattered over the
South, that the people, before accepting a protectorate from
Napoleon, or revolting to his standard, may understand his prophetic character. Neither is there any sophistry that can palliate
procrastination.  We say kindly but yet emphatically, that it is
a perilous business (for such as could, but would not apprehend
the duty which is laid by the Lord on this generation,) to remain willingly uninstructed, unbelieving and inactive.  Is it not
hazardous to repel and discourage those whom God has raised
up to sound the trumpet of this alarm?  Yet there isfrequently great reluctance on the part of ministers to allow this class
of topics to be introduced into their pulpit at all. Will it be
best to perpetuate this barrier, until it is overthrown by the logic
of necessity, by the inexorable argument of events? How luuch
precious time and means for doing good will then be lost? There
is a great work to be done, a work which should not be delayed
-and which, whatever temporal loss or sacrifice it may involve,
will be richly rewarded by our coming Saviour. And those ministers of the gospel who are indetftigably emplo-ld in endeavoring to arouse attention to the momentous themes of prophecy,
will not be forgotten in a coming day. Though compelled to
encounter an opl)osing tide of sentiment in the world, and in the
church, and to labor with but the scantiest pecuni:ry comlpensation, they can well afford to endure a momentary inconvenience,
that they may magnify their honorable office.
Another word to Christians,  If some more self-denial than is
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And those who are faithless of such an event, who are looking
for peace and the perpetuity of the present order of things, should
the), pass on into the hour of tribulation, will need every possible grace and moral courage to endure the ordeal.  To be guilty
of defection to Jesus, who cou'd endure to imagine? Yet for
those days of trial, present victories are needful. Therefore to
possess endurance, patience, courage and superiority to suffering,
it is time to commence a discipline of conquest.
We have reached an epoch of change.  Let us beware of illusions. The whole system of things terrestrial and temporal, is in
the incipient throes of parturition. It is no time for dreams of
earthly prosperity and glory.  May we speedily participate
through grace, in the felicities of the coming Kingdom of Jesus.
NOTE.-The formation of ten kingdoms confederate with Napoleon,
is not expected to follow instantly, but rapidly, as a result of the European war.
ERRATUM.-On page 31, instead of pre-millennial, readfinal gathering of the righteous.
FINIS.