The United States in Prophecy.
THE question whether the United States are a subject of prophecy, is forcing itself upon many minds at the present time. Apparently too powerful and important a nation to be overlooked in prophecy, people seem to conclude that it must be somewhere referred to. Hence every nook and corner of the prophecies is searched for some available testimony; and there is even no hesitation to wrest the scripture to this end if it cannot be accomplished without. A correspondent of the Advocate and Journal comes out unblushingly with the absurd position that the Stone of Dan. ii, which smites the image upon the feet, symbolizes the United States! It was cut out of the mountain (Great Britain) without hands, and is to smite the image upon its feet, and become a great mountain and fill the whole earth! Then the millennium comes in, and peace and righteousness rule the world! If people want the truth on this subject, why will they not go to Rev. xiii, where the prophecy comes in, in its easy and natural order? Why can they not see that verses 11-17, bring to view a most apparent and appropriate symbol of our government, as regards all the essential particulars of time, locality, manner of rise, character, acts, and end?