How a Politician Applies the Prophecy.
By Uriah Smith
ACCORDING to the following item, Adventists are far behind the times. They believe the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which is to smite the image upon the feet, denotes something that is yet future, and are waiting patiently though anxiously for the event. But, if we may believe it, it seems that that stone has already appeared, being no other than the famous Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims landed. In a speech by Wm. A. Wheeler at Montpelier, Vt., Aug., 1876, as reported in the St. Albans Messenger of Aug. 19, appears this item:— “I believe in New England; I believe in Plymouth Rock, for they are convertible terms. As one of the most gifted women of New England has said: ‘Plymouth Rock is no piece of quartz or feldspar, but a rock which was cut without hands and which will become a great mountain, filling the whole earth.’” In this case we cannot help wondering what the image is which the rock smites upon the feet. How is the smiting to be accomplished? Has it begun? or is it yet future? The prophecy says the stone represents the Kingdom of God. Is Plymouth Rock, let it represent what it may, the Kingdom of God? O politician, O gifted woman, how is this? U. S.