Popery Losing Its Hold

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 15.

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Popery Losing Its Hold

POPERY LOSING ITS HOLD.—In another column will be found an article under this heading, in which is shown the evident decay of Popery in its strongholds. We might expect this according to the prophecy of Daniel. Speaking of the Little Horn, he says: "They shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end." Dan. vii, 26. Viewed in their proper light, therefore, all facts like these afford us encouragement as signs of the times. But while it is decaying in some of its old dominions, it is evident that it has a strong hold in our own country; and in this very fact we can see material for those dregs of bitterness which Sheshach shall be made to drink. Jer. xxv.