An American Smelter in the Rocky Mountains

history of the United States was separated by a beneficent Providence far from the wild and cruel history of the rest of the continent, and like a silent seed we grew into empire [italics ours]; while empire itself, beginning in the South, was swept by so interminable a hurricane that what of its history we can ascertain is read by the very lightnings that devastated it. The growth of English America may be likened to a series of lyrics sung by separate singers, which, coalescing, at last make a vigorous chorus; and this, attracting many from afar, swells and is prolonged, until presently it assumes the dignity and proportions of epic song."

A writer in the Dublin Nation spoke of the United States. as a wonderful empire which was "emerging," and "amid the silence of the earth daily adding to its power and pride."

In Martyn's "History of the Great Reformation," Vol. IV, p. 238, is an extract from an oration delivered by Edward Everett on the English exiles who founded this government, in which he says:

"Did they look for a retired spot, inoffensive from its obscurity, safe in its remoteness from the haunts of despots, where

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the little church of Leyden might enjoy freedom of conscience? Behold the mighty regions over which in peaceful conquest victoria sine clade - they have borne the banners of the cross.

We now ask the reader to look at these expressions side by side,―"coming up out of the earth," "coming forth from vacancy," "emerging amid the silence of the earth," "like a silent seed we grew into empire," "mighty regions" secured by "peaceful conquest." The first is from the prophet, stating what would be when the two-horned beast should arise; the others are from political writers, telling what has been in the history of our own government.

Can any one fail to see that the last four are exactly synonymous with the

first, and that they record a complete accomplishment of the prediction? And what is not a little remarkable, those who have thus recorded the fulfilment have, without any reference to the prophecy, used the very figure which the prophet employed. These men, therefore, being judges,- men of large and cultivated minds, whose powers of discernment all will acknowledge to be suffi

ciently clear,

it is cer

tain that the particular manner in which the

Royal Gorge, Colorado

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133 the symbol, would be but to repeat the evidence there given. When was the wonderful national development indicated by the two-horned beast to appear?- In the very era of the world's history where our own government has appeared. Where was it to be witnessed? In that territory which our own government occupies. We call the attention of the reader again to the wonderful facts stated in Chapter II. Their significance is greatly enhanced by the representations of that portion of the prophecy we are now considering. Read again the statement from Macmillan & Co., on p. 35, showing that during the half century ending in 1867 the United States added to its domain over fourteen hundred thousand square miles of territory more than any other single nation added to its area, and over eight hundred thousand more than was added to their respective kingdoms in the aggregate by all the other nations of the earth put together. Its increase in population and all the resources of national strength during the same time were equally noteworthy. And this marvelous exhibition has occurred, be it remembered, at that very epoch when the prophecy of the two-horned beast bids us look for a new government just then arising to prominence and power among the nations of the earth. According to the argument on the chronology of this symbol, we can not go back of the nineteenth century for its fulfilment; and we submit to the candid reader that to apply this to any other government in the world but our own during this time, would be contrary to fact, and utterly illogical. It follows, then, that our own government is the one in question; for this is the one which, at the right time, and in the right place, has been emphatically "coming up."

The only objection we can anticipate is that this nation has progressed too fast and too far,- that the government has already outgrown the symbol. But what shall be thought of

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Sunset on Lake Macdonald, Glacier National Park, Montana

those who deny that it has any place in prophecy at all? No; this prodigy has its place on the prophetic page; and the path which has thus far led us to the conclusion that the two-horned beast is the prophetic symbol of the United States, is hedged in on either side by walls of adamant that reach to heaven. To make any other application is an utter impossibility. The thought would be folly, and the attempt, abortion.