FULFILLING PROPHECY by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

FULFILLING PROPHECY.

By Editor

THE prophetic Word says of this nation that it should say "to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev. 13:14-17.

The beast is the Roman power, in which

Church and State are united. An image to the beast involves the same evil union. The mark of the beast is the spurious sabbath which the man of sin has sought to elevate to the place of the Sabbath of the Creator, and its reception is receiving it—in the light of the knowledge that it has no place in God's Word.

This government is doing these things. By her present attitude she is saying to the nations of the world that separation of religion and State is not a matter of importance. She is committing herself to Sunday laws, the very beginning of the Dark Ages, the foundation of the persecutions of the Papacy. She has in this present year of grace appointed through Commissioner Peck three delegates to the International Sunday Rest Congress, held in Paris under the auspices of the French Government. Among these is Dr. W. W. Attebury, secretary of the New York Sabbath Committee, and one of the most ardent Sunday-law advocates in the United States. His associates we believe stand with him. What is this but saying to the nations of earth, Receive the mark?