| Show THE AMERICAN NATION lock into the mirror and abhold sonee fin sunday reading written for the 1 I considered the horns and beheld there came up among them another bittle horn before whom were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots daniel VII 8 vital which are tery important to the amer caa people spring with portent ions significance not fully realized by the maage interests and love of pleasure and gratification barrs their consideration to tho detriment detri meni of the public weal the question haa arisen throughout the land will the government of the united states last one hundred years longer A work in form axa bait been published entitled the stricken ricken Kt nation which is creating borne tremor in tho united states one ig leato enquire why all these startling agitating rumors are corn ang eventa casting their shadow before them are the bigna of the times pro oua it would seem that the of generally feel lik the timid man passing through a grave jard in the da rk haars hoars of tb night every little rustling bound or moving of startles him cading hair to stand erect 01 amarina myn alive land thou art ver dear to m but over thy fair aad broad surface there hangs a crisis dark clouds portending trouble yet darker and still more are the internal elements of destruction that may burst forth volcanic like and sweep over thee as a cyclone cv clone carry ng death and desolation solution de from sea to aea thou haet undertaken to fall upon rock that will break jhc thc into pieces for thou art the little hora alluded to in the text great haa been thy progress amodel thy ten companions no other nation has been so bigby favored the very heavens have been opened and blessings f million times multiplied have been showered down spontaneously upon the land and its inhabitants causing the earth to teem with richest treasures the erected on which were inscribed in golden letters freedom and Liberty an aay lum for alie the oppressed of all nations the homo of the free haa been the guiding star and like doves to their windows have people flocked from all 0 the ten kingdoms thus making the little horn a nation composed coi posed of iron brass and clay being diverse from all other kingdoms thou art the little horn and upon thie fact hinges the theory of our subject we must therefore adduce scriptural on logical r aso ning in support of this otherwise tho fearful doom of the little horn will not apply to the american nation and we shall have to search in some otner part 0 the alobe for a nation to represent it ave presume every christain minister theologian and historian throughout through oat the land will agree ditl the roman empire was the fourth kingdom symbolized by the fourth beast spoken of by daniel W need not go back to prove this from history we take this aa a starting point a sure initial focus from which the prospective facts and con radiate what ware the peculiar characteristics te of this kingdom ao diverse from all others known to man at that and succeeding ages ten aris that i out of the roman empire shall spring ten kingdoms King domi trace the history of the horld in th krouth of alltop kingdoms that hav sprung out of the bo man empire and ee if you observe the characteristics of tha lf horn in any one of them of the american nation neither england franca italy belgum holland portugal austria spain or greean will symbolize for the little born but from among or in the mist of these springs up the nation of america and aadu will the horn did not make ita appearance until after the existence of the tea kingdoms AS bic nuie noni his appearance he seema 0 o possess a disposition and power to root up three of the other kingdoms that ig the three kingdoms which had root in that particular land designed to be occupied by ane little horn were to be plucked up as indicated in th fol lo another shall arie after them and he shall be diverse from the first and ho shall subdue three kinat if this is not the american nation where ah lla we go to find the peculiar kingdom diverse from tb e oters the one that nas subdued three kings and the one that seeks to wear ont the saints 0 the moat high england france and planted their stand american soil and took possession in the names of their respective these standards or root ere ap and ahna we have aul filled completely that part of the great pro gramme the establishment of the american nation upon the fundamental mental principles of freedom and liberty couched in the constitution following this eventful change in the history if the world was another equally important that should arise inthia land viz |
