BOYCOTT IN PROPHECY AND PRACTISE.
In a forewarning of the last days and the powers that will be operative then, the thirteenth chapter of Revelation tells us there will come a day when certain powers will boycott those who are antagonistic to their aims and objects, so 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." The matter of the boycott has been confined almost wholly to labor unions, but now, since the trouble between France and the Vatican, papers like the "Catholic Mirror," the organ of Cardinal Gibbons, and others thruout the country, are advocating a boycott on French goods. So states the "Mirror" of January 12: "To make a boycott of French goods effectual, it becomes the first duty of every earnest believer in this form of expression of resentment and indignation to ask concerning every product that he does not absolutely know about, IS THIS OF FRENCH MANUFACTURE?" If the Catholic Church can use such weapons as this against Catholics in another country, how long would it be before the same weapon would be used for religious purposes, as declared in the prophecy of Revelation 13?