p. 120 | J. H. WAGGONER by J. H. WAGGONER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1874

J. H. WAGGONER

By J. H. WAGGONER

A. W. C.: Redemption from death does not mean saved from dying, but, raised from the dead. If, as you infer, faith was to prevent God's people dying, then there could be no resurrection of the just, or of the blessed and holy, for none such could die. Those scriptures which speak of being saved from death refer, of course, to “the second death.”

W. M.: I have never changed my mind, nor the manner of my preaching, on the two-horned beast. It is presented in Rev. 13 as a power which acts inconsistent with its profession; and on this I have often referred to the profession of the Pilgrims, and to the persecutions in New England; also to the Declaration of Independence and the toleration of slavery, and I do so still. But I have always held and preached that the speaking like a dragon has especial reference to the persecution when the image shall be made and the mark shall be enforced. And so far as I have had opportunity to know, I have, in this, always been in harmony with my brethren on this point. I do not know of any one of our ministers who has changed his views on the two-horned beast.