Identifier: ourcountrymarvel00smit (find matches)
Title: Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Uriah, 1832-1903
Subjects: Prophecies
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. (etc.) Review and herald pub co. Oakland, Cal. (etc) Pacific press publishing co.

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igious and political ends. It hasattained such a degree of influence that it is only by a mighty effortof Protestant patriotism that any measures against which the Romishelement combines its strength can now be carried out. And corruptand unscrupulous politicians stand ready to concede its demands, inorder to secure its support for the advancement of their own ambi-tious aims. Rome is in the field, with the basest and most fatalintentions, and with the most watchful and tireless energy. It isdestined to play an important part in our future troubles; for it issymbolized by the very beast which the two-horned beast is to causethe earth and them that dwell therein to worship, and before whoseeyes it is to perform its wonders. Rev. 13: 12, 13. And in Protestant churches there is that which threatens to leadto most serious evils. On this point one of their own popular min-isters, who is well qualified to speak, may testify. A sermon byCharles Beecher contains the following statements : —
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AN OKLAHOMA TORNADO THREATENING SHADOWS 171 Our best, most humble, most devoted servants of Christ, are fostering intheir midst what will one day, not long hence, show itself to be the spawn of thedragon. They shrink from any rude word against creeds with the same sensi-tiveness with which those holy fathers would have shrunk from a rude wordagainst the rising veneration of saints and martyrs which they were fostering.. . . The Protestant evangelical denominations have so tied up one anothershands, and their own, that, between them all, a man cannot become a preacherat all, anywhere, without accepting some book besides the Bible. , . . And isnot the Protestant Church apostate ? Oh i remember, the final form of apostasyshall rise, not by crosses, processions, baubles. We understand all that. Apos-tasy never comes on the outside. It develops. It is an apostasy that shall springinto life within us,— an apostasy that shall martyr a man who believes his Bibleever so bolily; yea, who may

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