The Second Angel’s Message and Rome
The World's Crisis will be obliged to modify its views of the second angel's message as applying at the present time to the city of Rome. In our issue of Jan. 29, we called attention to the fact that the Crisis found a fulfillment of the message, “Babylon is fallen, come out of her my people,” in the fact that foreigners were leaving Rome for fear of civil disorder. But W. W. Paton, D. D. writing to the Independent from that city, Jan. 14, 1867, states that no revolutionary attempt was made, owing probably to the pacific counsels of the Italian government; and that “now Rome overflows with tourists, among whom Americans predominate.” So the Crisis must look for some other “second angel” by whom the “Lord's people,” shall be called out of Rome.