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THE STONE KINGDOM 
 
 OR THE 
 
 UNITED STATES AND AMERICA 
 
 AS SEEN BY THE PROPHETS. 
 
 BY 
 
 Rev. S. C. Alexander, A. M. 
 
 WE HAVE WRITTEN ONLY ON THE FULFILLED. 
 
 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, 
 and keep those things which are written therein : for the 
 time is at hand." — Rev, i.j. 
 
 ST. LOUIS: 
 
 FARRIS, SMITH & CO. PRINT. 
 
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by 
 
 S. C. ALEXANDER, 
 
 In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 
 
DEDICATED 
 
 TO 
 
 Who first pointed me to the field of hidden treasure, and said : 
 " Search the Scriptures ": 
 
 ALSO 
 
 TO THE RULERS OF OUR COUNTRY, 
 
 "That search may be made in the Book of the records" 
 
 of the nations, and they "shall tell thee what 
 
 thou oughtest to do." 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 This little work is sent out in behalf of the Inspi- 
 ration of the Bible. Infidels try to avoid the point of 
 the argument, drawn from the fulfillment of ancient 
 prophecies about Babylon, Jerusalem, Egypt, and scores 
 of others, by saying they were " fixed-up jobs," away 
 back in the ages, to support the claims of Christianity. 
 But here, in our own America, is a great country, more 
 than 2500 years removed from the writers of prophecy, 
 which has filled, and is now filling the prophetic pro- 
 gramme with astonishing exactness in numberless par- 
 ticulars, even as the shadow fits the substance. 
 
 This country, so far removed from the prophets, fur- 
 nishes no possible chance for collusion or deception. 
 Prophecy tells us why this country was not discovered 
 before it was — " Surely the isles shall wait for me ; " 
 and the " undiscovered lands in the Atlantic " waited 
 till the set time. Prophecy tells us what nation should 
 discover this land, and open the way for immigration. 
 " The ships of Tarshish — or Spain — shall be first to bring 
 thy sons from afar." And it was so. The time of the 
 setting up of the United States government was accu- 
 rately given, and it was set up on the very day men- 
 tioned by the prophets. Prophecy tells us that this 
 
 V 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 government should be set up in thirteen States. And it 
 was so. Prophecy tells us that these States should " ex- 
 tend from the sea on the east to the great sea on the 
 west." And it is so. Prophecy tells us that this 
 V " Stone shall fill the whole earth." And is it not 
 / accomplishing this prophecy most wonderfully, by giving 
 civil and religious liberty to the nations. 
 ^ The example of our country is a living, eloquent 
 herald, proclaiming to the peoples, what they may be, 
 and what they ought to ht—free men — free from the 
 bondage of monarchs, hierarchs, and despots ; and are 
 not the nations hearing, heeding, moving ? The peoples 
 long oppressed are now clamoring for their rights as 
 men. The example of our providential government, 
 the growth and prosperity of the " Stone " is the dis- 
 turbing cause of unrest among the autocracies and 
 kingdoms of earth. As a demonstration of this truth, 
 every crowned head in Europe is a prisoner to-day in 
 his own palace. These royalties are afraid of the 
 people : and well they may be, for it is written, " The 
 thrones shall be cast down." 
 
 In confirmation of these truths, we quote the opinion 
 of John Bright, England's great Commoner, July 2, 
 1885 : '' The real interests of the masses are trodden 
 under foot, in deference to false notions of glory and 
 national honor. I cannot help thinking that Europe is 
 marching towards some great catastrophe of crushing 
 weight. The military system cannot indefinitely be sup- 
 ported with patience ; and the population, driven to 
 despair, may possibly before long sweep away the royal- 
 
PREFACE. VII 
 
 ties and pretended statesmen who govern in their 
 names." 
 
 Then go little work, and tell the people that the God 
 of prophecy is the God of providence. Tell them that 
 His plans reach through all time, and through all 
 countries, and that they are daily being realized in the 
 ceaseless march of His providences. And by this little 
 volume may the people see more clearly than ever, that 
 " the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth," and " doeth ac- 
 cording to His will in the army of heaven, and among the 
 inhabitants of the earth ; and none can stay His hand, 
 or say unto Him, ' What doest thou?' " 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " The Scriptures must be fulfilled." 13 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 
 THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 
 
 "The Stone cut out of the Mountain," and its Mission. — 
 Daniel ii 18 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 A SYMBOL OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 The Man-Child of the Winged Woman.— Rev. xii 36 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 WHERE WILL ISRAEL BE RESTORED ? 
 
 Or where will the Stone Kingdom be set up ? Answered by 
 
 the Prophets 5' 
 
 IX 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE TWO AMERICAS, 
 
 Or the " Land Overshadowed with Wings." — Isaiah xviii .... 75 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL RESTORED, GIVEN. 
 
 Its Division into Thirteen States. — Ezekiel xlvii : xlviii. ...... 88 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE CHURCH, 
 
 And the Land of her Restoration. — Isaiah xlix : 1 1-26 loi 
 
 CHAPTER VIH. 
 
 THE SETTING UP OF ISRAEL "THE SECOND TIME," 
 
 Isaiah xi : 10-16 120 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 " THE ANCIENT OF DAYS." 
 
 A symbol of Israel Restored. — Daniel vii : 9-27 144 
 
CONTENTS. XI 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 "THE WAITING ISLES," 
 
 Or our Country Described by the Prophet.— Isaiah Ix i6o 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 "BEHOLD I DO A NEW THING," 
 
 Or the Primal Curse RoUing Back.— Isaiah xHii : 18-21 194 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE STONE KINGDOM A POLITICAL POWER. 
 " SHALL NEVER DESTROY ITSELF." 
 
 Confirmed by one of the endings of the 42 months, which 
 points with exactness to May 26th, A. D. 1865, when the last 
 of the Confederate forces were surrendered 207 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 OUR COUNTRY AFTER THE PROPHETIC PATTERN. 
 
 And what our Rulers " Ought to do." 217 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 "The Scriptures must be fulfilled." 
 
 ^N the study of the prophecies, there are 
 ^ certain great principles that ought to be 
 adhered to with the sacredness of a divine 
 injunction. 
 
 1st. Students of God's word should sit as 
 children at the Masters feet, willing and 
 anxious to be taught, but never attempt to 
 teach the Master. This would be unpardon- 
 able presumption and impudence. To search 
 the Scriptures and to find out what the Lord 
 has said, is the duty and legitimate work of 
 the student. " Blessed is he that readeth 
 and they that hear the words of this pro- 
 phecy and keep those things which are writ- 
 ten therein ; for the time is at hand." 
 
 2nd. We should never study the Word 
 with yreconceived notions as to wliat the 
 
 13 
 
14 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Lord ought to liave said. We should never 
 make up a verdict, and then try to prove its 
 justness from a part of the testimony. But 
 first hear all the testimony of 'pro'plieGy and 
 providence^ and then righteously make up the 
 verdict as the result of such testimony. 
 
 3rd. The testimony of God's Word should 
 never be ignored, or tioisted from its true 
 intent. Either of these would be a great 
 wrong and thereby " darken counsel by 
 words without knowledge." 
 
 4th. Human precedents, however numerous, 
 great or learned, should never be quoted as 
 correct or authoritative against a direct 
 " Thus saith the Lord." In other words, old 
 ruts through the swamps of error should not 
 be followed, simply because they are old, 
 when the Lord hath opened " anew and living 
 way which He hath consecrated for us." 
 
 5th. In order to a correct interpretation of 
 Old Testament prophecies, a radical examina- 
 tion of the Hebrew words is absolutely nec- 
 essary, in order to get the meaning of the 
 Spirit. And generally I have found the main 
 root, or principal meaning of the word, the 
 one that expresses the true sense of the 
 
INTRODUCTION. 15 
 
 propliecy. Very rarely a tropical meaning is 
 selected, unless it be in some minute detail. 
 
 Observation 1st. I rise from these studies 
 tliorouglily confirmed in tlie belief of tlie*^ 
 ipsissima 'oerha theory of insj)iration. For 
 the prox)hets wrote about and described things 
 which they never saw realized, and about 
 things scores and thousands of years ahead 
 of them, with astonishing exactness. This 
 would have been utterly impossible, had the 
 Lord not told them the loorcls to write and ^ 
 speak. The Bible is made up of the words 
 of God ; man only Avrote them down or de- 
 livered them, but the Spirit told His prophets 
 what to write. The Lord made the vision 
 pass before the prophet, then He told him 
 how to tell the vision. This truth is demon- / 
 strated in the fulfillment of every prophecy. 
 The astonishing fitness of every word in the 
 prophetic description as is manifested in the 
 fulfillment, is evidence of the divine origin 
 of the words. Especially is this fact exhib- 
 ited in some of those prophecies written 2,500 
 years ago, and now fulfilled before our eyes 
 with amazing exactness. This is demonstra- 
 tion that the Bible is God's Word. 
 
16 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Ohservation Qnd. We do not ask scholars 
 to accept our inter^Dretation of these proph- 
 ecies as correct, until they are satisfied of 
 their truthfulness. But we do most solemnly 
 protest against the publication or expression 
 of adverse opinions, until they also have 
 prayerfully and carefully examined every 
 word of these prophecies in the inspired 
 original: then if they can "show unto you a 
 more excellent way," or a more truthful and 
 consistent interpretation of these prophecies 
 fulfilled, such a showing will be gratefully 
 received. 
 
 Observation Srd. The prophecies treated 
 upon in this book, have been fulfilled, or are 
 now in the process of fulfillment. We have 
 scrupulously avoided speculations on the 
 unrealized. Our aim is to speak of that part 
 of the divine programme which is now history 
 and past ; and also of that part which is now 
 passing. 
 
 SOURCES OF INEORMATION. 
 
 We have obtained valuable suggestions 
 from Addison Alexander, from Lowtli on the 
 prophecies, from Thomas Scott. One sugges- 
 
Il^TRODUCTION. 17 
 
 tion from Sir Isaac Newton gave encourage- 
 ment, and threw light over the whole field. 
 Many hints from S. D. Baldwin, an independ- 
 ent and original thinker, have been valuable. 
 In fact, he was a great man, but he " dealt 
 too much in futures " and failed. His dis- 
 covery of the " ke}^ " to " the times " of the 
 prophets, in the word liatliak^ "to cut off," 
 " to abbreviate," is absolutely wonderful, when 
 ajDplied to prophecies fulfilled, where he has 
 history to guide him. But his " key " utterly 
 fails in the unfulfilled, for the lack of a guide. 
 The great mass of commentators only 
 furnish negatixe help, by showing the unfit- 
 ness and unsatisfactoriness of their exposi- 
 tions of these prophecies which lead the mind 
 to seek for " a better way." But by far the 
 greatest help is obtained from a critical 
 examination of the inspired words in the 
 original. From them, volumes of information 
 and floods of light burst uj)on the astonished 
 mind. The student there beholds the grandeur 
 of truth as he never saw it before. Also like 
 other students, I have kept my eyes open 
 and tried to pick up information wherever I 
 could find it. 
 
CHAPTER 11. 
 
 THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 
 
 The Stone cut out of the Mountain" and its Mission. — Dan. ii.^ 
 
 f-HE novelty of our subject naturally tends 
 to awaken incredulity and to arouse 
 opposition. Any departure from the beaten 
 track of centuries must be fortified witli 
 truth and armed with demonstration, or fall 
 ingloriously before the terrible onset. Pride 
 of opinion, and especially religious opinions, 
 hoary with age, will muster all their forces for 
 the fray both real and imaginary. Reason 
 and learning will whet their swords and burn- 
 ish their armor for the conflict. But truth all 
 
 * The principal part of chapters IL, III. and IV., was first written 
 and delivered as a Lecture on the " Stone Kingdom " This was 
 subsequently enlarged into this little volume. Its size coul I easily 
 have been doubled, but the writer desired only to unfold a 
 few of those great and unmistakable | ictures of our country, 
 to point to the gold "cropping out " on the surface, and thereby 
 direct the Bible student to rich veins of unexpected truth. 
 18 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 19 
 
 alone, like tlie son of Jesse, conscious of his 
 strength, moves forward with unfaltering step 
 and hurls with deadly aim the stones gathered 
 from the brook of revelation, at giant error, 
 till he who had defied the armies of Israel an^l 
 hindered his progress, lies dead at his feet. 
 Ridicule and sophistry, clothed in the Avorn- 
 out garments of the cast-off tawdry of sages, 
 will combine to laugh at and to overthrow 
 that which history, facts and argument never 
 will attempt. This much we expect. But all 
 we ask is a candid hearing of the testimony, 
 before your verdict is rendered. We ask you 
 to listen to facts, not theory — to truth not 
 fanaticism — to the testimony of divinely ap- 
 pointed witnesses. Then, for these reasons, I 
 demand that you hear me for my cause. 
 
 There is a divine reason assigned why these 
 prophecies were not correctly interpreted at 
 an earlier period. When Daniel asked earn- 
 estly to find out more about the revealed pro- 
 gramme of the nations, the Lord said : " Go 
 thy w^ay, Daniel, for the words are closed uj) 
 and sealed till the time of the end." Hence 
 all those w^onderful prophecies relating to the 
 United States, were not only closed up, but 
 
 / 
 
20 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 sealed, and that seal could not be broken by 
 human astuteness or wisdom, until the time 
 sj)ecified, a period called "the time of the 
 end." Then the God of prophecy and provi- 
 dence Avill Himself break the seal and open 
 the book. That j^eriod of " the time of the 
 end" has arrived. The divine testimony of 
 this fact is, that " many shall run to and fro, 
 and knowledge shall be increased." This is 
 the inscription, written on a mile-post let 
 down from heaven and set up on the great 
 highway of prophecy, to show pilgrims where 
 they are, as they wend their way along the 
 track of time, and to tell them how far they 
 are on their journey. Was there ever such a 
 running to and fro since the world was made, 
 or such an increase in knowledge as now is ? 
 By this we know that the period of " the time 
 of the end " has arrived, and that the seal has 
 been broken, and the book has been opened, 
 so that, he that runneth may read. That 
 which once was profound darkness to the 
 great and learned, may now be as clear as 
 noonday to children in the Scriptures. 
 
 Another reason why these wonderful proph- 
 ecies have always been wrongly interpreted, 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 21 
 
 and a false and forced application given them, 
 is because all the old standard and accepted 
 commentators, venerable names, were Euro- 
 peans. They would place one leg of the com 
 pass of prophecy in their own land, and with 
 the other sweep round the horizon of the old 
 world, and leave America — one- third of the 
 earth's surface — entirely ou-tside. Their map 
 of prophecy is very much like a Chinese map 
 of the world, in which the Celestial Empire 
 occupies the whole space, except two little 
 spots away up in the northwest corner about 
 the size of a dime, to represent Europe and 
 America, and these are called " Barbarian 
 Isles." 
 
 The eternal plans of the Great God extend 
 from eternity to eternity, and embrace all time 
 and all things. Is it probable, therefore, is it^ 
 reasonable that our great country, with its 
 teeming magnificence — now the dread and 
 glory of all lands — should have no place in 
 the divine prophecies ? Is it probable, is it 
 reasonable that our country, with its scores of 
 millions of immortals, and room for untold 
 millions more, where mind is making its 
 grandest triumphs over matter, where eternal 
 
22 THE STONE KIIS-GDOM. 
 
 truth, and tlie Churcli of the LordJesus Christ 
 are gaining unprecedented victories, wliere 
 civil and religious liberty flourish unre- 
 strained, where time's noblest off'spring brings 
 her choicest gifts into the temple of God — is it 
 reasonable that this land should have no place 
 in the divine programme of nations, when 
 Edom and Moab and Tyre and Sidon, and 
 scores of other places, but mere specks on the 
 earth, whose prophecies now fulfilled are their 
 histories ? Yes, our country now performing, 
 and yet destined to perform, so glorious a part 
 in the drama of nations, has its full share as- 
 signed it, as we shall presently see. 
 
 The first prophecy which we invite 3^ou to 
 consider, as foretelling the rise and mission 
 of our country, is the fifth government, or the 
 " Stone Kingdom " of Daniel, 2nd chapter. 
 The Bible student will remember that the term 
 " kingdom " in the prophecies, is a convertible 
 term with government. In the dream of Nebu- 
 chadnezzar, he saw a great image whose bright- 
 ness was excellent, and the form thereof was 
 terrible. It represented all of monarchy from 
 that time henceforth. " This image's head 
 was of fine gold, his breast and his arms Avere 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONAECHY. 23 
 
 of silver, liis belly and thighs of brass, his 
 legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of 
 cla}^ Thou sawest till that a stone was cut 
 out witliout hands, which smote the imao-e 
 upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and 
 brake them to pieces." The interpretation 
 of this dream is. Thou, O King, art this head 
 of gold, in whom the Babylonian Empire cul- 
 minated. The two arms and breast of silver 
 represented the Medo-Persian Empire which 
 culminated in Cyrus. The belly and thighs 
 of brass represented the Macedonian Empire, 
 which culminated in the reign of Alexander 
 the Great. The legs of iron represent the 
 Roman Empire, which stood for 1,000 years, 
 on the legs of her trained legions, and culmi- 
 nated in the twelve Csesars. Thus far there 
 is no dispute. European and American ex- 
 positors all agree in this interpretation. The 
 fulfillment perfectly coincides with prophecy. 
 The terrible programme thus far has been fully 
 enacted, amid the crash of Emj)ires, and the 
 groans of millions. "And whereas thou saw- 
 est the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and 
 part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, 
 but there shall be in it of the strength of 
 
24 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 the iron, forasmucli as tlion sawest tlie iron 
 
 mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of 
 
 the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so 
 
 the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly 
 
 broken." The feet and toe governments were 
 
 formed out of the territory which the legs of 
 
 iron, or Roman Empire, stood upon. And as 
 
 the toes grew out, a new element of weakness 
 
 was incorporated with them — iron mixed with 
 
 miry clay. So that their governments were 
 
 partly strong and partly broken. This we 
 
 think forcefully represents the Union of Church 
 
 and State. As there can be no chemical amal- 
 
 "^ gam between clay and iron, so there never has 
 
 been, and never can be, any happy and j)roS' 
 
 perous union between Churcli and State. 
 
 " Whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry 
 
 clay — tliey shall mingle themselves with the 
 
 seed of men — but they shall not cleave one 
 
 to another, even as iron is not mixed with 
 
 clav." Here we have a plain statement that 
 ■\ " ..... 
 
 a superior order of men, will join an inferior 
 
 order — or the Church shall be joined to the 
 
 State. Such a government must, from its want 
 
 of cohesion, from lack of affinity between its 
 
 j)arts, and great dissimilarity, from its per- 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONAROHY. , 25 
 
 version of the ends of one, and tlie prosti- 
 tution of the aims of the other, always be 
 partly strong and partly broken, a politico- 
 ecclesiastical concubinage that would curse 
 the nations of the earth. These toe govern-v 
 ments and their successors, as represented in 
 the image of Nebuchadnezzar, have stood for 
 many centuries, and are still standing in the 
 territory of monarchy and absolutism, and 
 still continue the illegitimate and unnatural 
 union of iron and miry clay, still cramj)ing 
 freedom of thought and the progress of truth, 
 and still hindering the growth of civil and 
 religious liberty. Such is the image of mon- 
 archy, and its interpretation. 
 
 It is necessary to the j)roper understanding 
 of the fifth government or Stone Kingdom and 
 its great mission, to read what saith the Lord. 
 Dan. ii: 34, 35. "Thou sawest till that a 
 stone was cut out without hands, which smote 
 the image uj)on his feet, that were of iron and 
 clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was 
 the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the 
 gold broken to pieces together, and became 
 like the chaif of the summer threshing-floors, 
 and the wind carried them away, that no place 
 
26 THE STONE KIIS^GDOM. 
 
 Avas found for tliem. And the stone that smote 
 the image became a great mountain and filled 
 the whole earth." The interpretation of this 
 sublime symbol was revealed to Daniel, chap, 
 ii : 44, 45. "And in the days of these kings, shall 
 the God of heaven set u]3 a kingdom, which 
 shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall 
 not be left to other 2)eople, but it shall break 
 in pieces, and consume all these kingdoms, 
 and it shall stand forever. Forasmuch as 
 thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the 
 mountain without hands, and that it brake in 
 pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver 
 and the gold, the great God hath made known 
 to the king what shall come to pass hereafter ; 
 and the dream is certain, and the interpre- 
 tation thereof sure." 
 
 " In the days of these kings, shall the God 
 of heaven set up a kiDgdom." What king- 
 dom has the God of heaven set up? Almost 
 all European commentators say it was the 
 setting up of Christianity. But this cannot 
 be the meaning of the j)ropliet, for four rea- 
 sons : 1st. Because the kingdom or govern- 
 ment to be set up, was to be set up "in the 
 days of these kings " — these ten-toe kings. 
 
THE IMAGE OF MOT^ARCHY. 27 
 
 But Christianity was set up in the reign of 
 one 'king— one Augustus Csesar. Therefore 
 this old interpretation will not fit the time, 
 and of course cannot be true. 2nd. The Stone 
 Kingdom did not rise in the proper place for 
 Christianity. Jesus w^as Iborn in Bethlehem 
 of Judea, at that time a Roman province. 
 But the Stone Kingdom was to he set up 
 entirely outside of the Roman Empire, and 
 outside of all her subsequent ten-toe king- 
 doms. It was to strike from without, upon 
 the image of monarchy. It was to be hurled 
 with mighty force against the feet of the 
 image and crush it to atoms, so that it would 
 fly like chaff before the winds of the summer 
 threshing floors. 3rd. The Stone Kingdom 
 could not have been set up at the time Chris- 
 tianity arose, for then the Romans claimed 
 all the known world: ''There went out a 
 decree from C^sar Augustus, that all the 
 world should be taxed." But there was a 
 land, my countrymen, ''where the Roman 
 cohorts were never marshalled." A land 
 which the God of providence had concealed 
 from Rome's cupidity and her conquering 
 armies. That land is our own America. The 
 
28 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 only portion of tlie globe that suits, in every 
 repect, the rise of the 23romised, great nation- 
 ality^ that fully meets the geography, ^^lace, 
 and time of the fifth kingdom which the God 
 of heaven would " set up." 4th. The king- 
 dom of Christ is a s])iTitiial power, and con- 
 quers by love. But the Stone Kingdom was 
 to be clothed with great political and military 
 power, and the enginery of battle, to crush, 
 to destroy, and to break to pieces the nations 
 of earth that oppose its progress. For this 
 and all these reasons, it is perfectly clear 
 that Christianity is not, and cannot be, the 
 Stone Kingdom. 
 
 But this fifth government is to be a great 
 Christian E-epublic, where Church and State 
 are each independent, and yet each dependentj 
 where each enjoys the largest degree of 
 liberty consistent with conscience and right, 
 where the Church may put on her beautiful 
 garments and shine forth in all her glory, 
 where every man may worship God according 
 to the dictates of his conscience and none 
 dare disturb him or make him afraid. This 
 land, my countrymen, is yours, wdiich God 
 gave to our fathers and to us. 
 
THE IMAGE CF MONARCHY. 29 
 
 Let US examine more definitely as to the 
 time of the setting up of the Stone Kingdom. 
 It will be, Dan. xii : 7, when " the power of 
 the holy people," or the friends of civil and 
 religious liberty " shall cease to be scattered," 
 when " many shall run to and fro and knowl- 
 edge shall be increased," when ''the time of . 
 the end " shall come : then Avill the Stone 
 Kingdom, or fifth nationality, be set up. 
 
 In Dan. xii : 7, it is said that it will be " a 
 time, times and an half" from the taking away 
 of the daily sacrifice, or from the burning of 
 the Temple by the Romans under Titus, when, 
 after 1,260 symbolic years, from this date, 
 during which the persecuting power shall have 
 accomplished to scatter the power of the holy 
 people, all these things shall be finished. Now 
 the burning of the Temple occurred, according 
 to'the most accurate calculation, on the 189th 
 day of A. D. 68. From this date onward, 
 1,260 prophetic days or years will bring us to 
 the beginning of " the time of the end," or the 
 setting up of the Stone Kingdom. Now how 
 to count this time accurately, or satisfactorily, 
 has been the problem of ages. But we think 
 the key has been discovered. The words that 
 
30 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 were closed up and sealed so long, are now 
 opened and the seal broken. The Lord 
 sealed np this knowledge until "the time of 
 the end," a period that would be signalized 
 by great locomotion and amazing increase in 
 knowledge. IN'ow since the time of the end 
 has come, God in His providence, has broken 
 the seal and given us the long hidden "key " 
 to the times of the prophecies. This key is 
 found in the 70 weeks of Daniel, Chap. ix. 
 " Seventy weeks are determined upon tli}^ 
 people and upon thy holy cit}^," etc. The 
 word translated determined in Hebrew is 
 neclitack from the root liatliak which means 
 to "cut off, to abbreviate, to shorten." Then 
 the 70 weeks are "cut off" or abbreviated 
 time, to which sacred time must be added, 
 to fill ont to solar time. These 70 weeks 
 are to begin at the time Cyrus gave the com- 
 mandment to restore and to build Jerusalem. 
 This decree was published in the last month 
 of the year 537 B. C, about December 6th, as 
 ascertained by historic records and also by 
 an eclipse of the sun predicted by Tliales of 
 Miletus. The crucifixion of Christ occurred 
 on March 25, A. D. 29 (vulgar era.) This 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 31 
 
 date is also ascertained by historic records, 
 and an eclipse of the moon from which dates 
 are reckoned. The 70 weeks have two end- 
 ings, one at the crucifixion of Messiah, and 
 the other at the burning of the Temple and 
 destruction of Jerusalem. 
 
 Let us see how this calculation is made. 
 The 70 weeks are 70 weeks of years, or 490 
 years. Add one-seventh for sabbatic time, 
 and we have 560 symbolic years of 360 parts. 
 And since a symbolic year may stand for any 
 Hebrew year of 3"ears, it may stand for one 
 of 364 parts. Then we have the equation 360: 
 364:: 560:566f years composed of 364 days 
 each. Now, reduce this to solar time of 365 
 days, 5 'hours, 48 minutes and 47iV seconds ; 
 and we have exactly 564 years and 109 days, 
 as the fulfillment of the prophecy shows, from 
 the decree of Cyrus " to restore and build 
 Jerusalem " to the crucifixion of Christ. The 
 other ending, is to be at the burning of the 
 Temple and the taking away of the daily sac- 
 rifice. This may be found by several differ- 
 ent calculations, but one is sufficient, and is 
 as follows. Forty- two weeks may re|)resent 
 an abbreviated Hebrew year of 364 parts. 
 
32 THE STOiN-E KINGDOM. 
 
 Then we liave the following equation 42: 
 364::70:606|. The text gives no intima- 
 tion of what Ivind of a year the 70 weeks Avere 
 to be realized in. That only can be deter- 
 mined by the fulfillment. Then as 366 days 
 make the longest year, w^e will try it and see. 
 By reducing the 606J symbolic years, to 
 solar time, we have the following: 366:364:: 
 6061=603 years and 129 days — the exact 
 solar time from the decree of Cyrus to the 
 burning of the Temple, and taking away of 
 the daily sacrifice. A part of a Hebrew day 
 is taken for a whole. 
 
 Having found the key by which to solve the 
 "time, times and an half," or the 1,260 days — 
 the length of time that lies between the burning 
 of the Temple and the setting up of the Stone 
 Kingdom, w^e proceed, thus : 3^ times is equal 
 to 1,260 symbolic years: to this we add j- or 
 sabbatic time, which is equal to 1,440 : again, 
 add to this result Sabbath day time or ^, and 
 we have 1,680. Now, since 360 may represent 
 any Hebrew year, it may represent the year 
 of 366 days, then we have the equation 360: 
 366:: 1,680=1 ,708 years or 623,833 days. 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 83 
 
 whicli, added to tlie 189tli day of the year 
 A. D. 68, when the Temple was burned, brings 
 us down exactly to July 4, 1776, when "a ^ 
 nation was born in a day," when the Stone 
 Kingdom was set up, when our own great ^ 
 nationality began, when the United States 
 declared themselves independent, threw off 
 the yoke of tyranny, and put absolutism 
 under foot. This marks the beginning of 
 " the time of the end," when civil and relig- 
 ious liberty would begin their growth, to bless 
 the crushed millions of earth. These figures 
 are astonishing. These facts are startling, ^<^^'' 
 and the truths brought out are grandly sub- 
 lime. As the four great empires, represented 
 in the image of monarchy, must be succeeded 
 by a fifth government, entirely different in 
 character, and as the United States of 
 America is the only great nation that ever has 
 risen, or ever can rise, to fill the great mission 
 of the fifth government as to U77ie, geograrpliy, 
 and character, we are forced to the inevitable 
 conclusion that our glorious Christian Repub- 
 lic is the Stone Kingdom that " the God of 
 heaven should set up." 
 
34 THE STON^E KINGDOM. 
 
 Bishop Berkeley, of Ireland, about 200 
 years ago, seemed to catch a glimpse of the 
 coming kingdom, when he wrote — 
 
 " Westward the star of empire makes its way : 
 The first four acts are already past, 
 The fifdi shall close the drama with the day ; 
 Time's noblest offspring is the last." 
 
 "Next, observe that the Stone " smote the 
 image upon his feet," Dan. ii : 34. And 
 "the kingdom shall be divided." "And as 
 the toes of the feet were part of iron and part 
 of clay," there could be no possible amalgam 
 between the iron and the clay. " TJiey shall 
 mingle themselves with the seed of men." A 
 higher order of men shall be joined to an 
 inferior order. In other words, the Church 
 shall be joined to the State. " But they shall 
 not cleave one to another, even as iron is not 
 mixed with clay." It is upon this divided 
 part, or upon the ten- toe kingdoms of Church 
 and State, which is " partly strong and partly 
 broken," that the Stone is to strike with 
 crushing effect. The chief mission of this 
 great fifth nationality, is the utter destruction 
 of Church and State union, as well as all 
 ecclesiastical and political despotism, from 
 
THE IMAGE OF MONARCHY. 35 
 
 tlie face of tlie earth. Does not the constitu- 
 tion of our government forever separate be- 
 tween Church and State ? And however much 
 our people may be divided on political mat- 
 ters, tliey are unanimously and forever 
 opposed to Church and State union. And 
 does not the whole genius, historj^ and charac- 
 ter of our people exactly meet the require- 
 ments and character of the Stone Kinoxlom ? 
 The chronology of our government exactly 
 synchronizes with the Stone, Dan. ii : 44. 
 '^ In the days of these kings " of the ten-toe 
 kingdoms, " the God of heaven shall set up a 
 kingdom" or government. Our own United^ 
 States, and no other nation on earth, was set 
 up in the time specified^ and capable of doing 
 the work assigned to the Stone Government 
 Avhich was cut out of the mountain of Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 A SYMBOL OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 The Man-Child of the Winged Woman. — Rev. xii. 
 
 ^N order to confirm the wonderful truths in 
 ^ the preceding chapter, let us examine 
 and see how astonishingly the Man-Cliild of 
 the winged woman in the wilderness, sym- 
 bolizes the United States. 
 
 Rev. xii: "And there appeared a great 
 wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the 
 sun and the moon under her feet, and upon 
 her head a crown of twelve stars. And she 
 being with child cried, travailing in birth 
 and pained to be delivered. And there 
 appeared another wonder in heaven, and be- 
 hold, a great red dragon having seven heads 
 and ten horns and seven crowns uj)on his 
 
 heads And the dragon stood 
 
 before the woman, which was ready to be 
 delivered, to devour her child, as soon as it 
 
THE UNITED STATES. 37 
 
 was born. And she brought forth a Man-^ 
 Child who was to rule all nations with a rod 
 of iron, and her child was caught up unto 
 Grod and to His throne. . . . And to the 
 woman were given two wings of a great eagle 
 that she might fly into the wilderness into 
 her place ; where she is nourished for a time 
 and times and half a time from the face of 
 the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his 
 mouth water as a flood after the woman, that 
 he might cause her to be carried away of the 
 flood ; and the earth helped the woman and 
 the earth opened her mouth and swallowed 
 up the flood which the dragon cast out of his 
 mouth, and the dragon was wroth with the 
 woman," etc. It is generally agreed that the / 
 Church of Christ is represented by the woman 
 in this symbol. And the Man-Child is the^ 
 off'spring of the Church, and symbolizes a 
 great Christian nationality that was to be a . 
 child of the wonderful providence of Almighty 
 God, to whom an iron rod was given to rule 
 all nations. Here we are reminded of the 
 crushing of the stone. Ruling with " a rod 
 of iron," is emblematic of great political 
 power. 
 
88 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 The birtli of the Man-Child after long tra- 
 vail and distressing pains, most graphically 
 represents the birth of the United States. 
 This interpretation seems to accord with the 
 prophecy of Isaiah. "Before she travailed, 
 she brought forth, before her pain came she 
 was delivered of a Man-Child. Who hath 
 heard such things ? Who hath seen such 
 things? Shall the earth be made to bring 
 forth in one day ? Or shall a nation be born 
 at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed she 
 brought forth." The term " Zion " means the 
 Church of God, and fixes the symbolic mean- 
 ing of the "woman clothed with the sun." And 
 the Man-Child is in apposition to " a nation 
 born at once." Does not this wonderful 
 symbol in Revelation most graphically fore- 
 shadow the rise of our nationality ? 1st. The 
 Man-Child was the offspring of enlightened 
 religion. 2nd. Its destruction was deter- 
 mined upon by the great red dragon of despot- 
 ism. 3rd. A "rod of iron" or political 
 authority was given to the Man-Child to rule. 
 4th. The Man-Child and his mother were 
 helped by the " earth " (that part of the earth 
 covered by the old Roman Empire is called in 
 
THE UTTITED STATES. 39 
 
 prophecy the " EartlV') when floods of ar- 
 mies were ready to sweep the Man-Child into 
 destruction. The " earth," or that part of the 
 old Roman Empire, now occupied hy Spain 
 and Holland, wanged war with Egland, at the 
 time of the birth of the Man-Child, and swal- 
 lowed up much of the flood of the armies and 
 thereby helped the woman. While France 
 came directly to our assistance, and Russia 
 declared neutrality. Thus in various ways v/ 
 the " earth " helped the woman, and the Man- 
 Child was rescued. 5th. " The Child was 
 caught up to the throne of God," means that 
 the wonderful providence of God was mani- 
 fested towards our new-born nation — almost 
 without arms, without resources, without 
 money. The God of providence and the God 
 of battles gave us the victory. Truly the 
 God of Washington was on our side, and the 
 Man-Child or the United States was not 
 destroyed, but now lives to bless the nations 
 of earth. It opens a wide door for and wel- 
 comes the oppressed of all lands to a home of 
 civil and religious liberty. The coincidences 
 between the Man-Child and the rise of the 
 United States are so numerous and so won- 
 
40 THE STOXE KINGDOM. 
 
 derfuUy accurate, that tlie conclusion is a 
 forceful demonstration. 
 
 This " great wonder " that John saw, is 
 '/almost a photographic likeness of the Church 
 and our country. 
 
 1st. The '' sun " is a symbol of civil gov- 
 ernment, exercising superior power. See Gen. 
 xxxvii : 9 ; Ps. Ixxxix : 36 ; Isa. Ix : 20 ; 
 Jer. XV : 9 ; etc. So does the government of 
 the United States exercise a superior or con- 
 trolling power over the States. 
 
 2nd. The "twelve stars" also represent 
 governments shining in connection with the 
 sun. Notice here the striking likeness of the 
 symbol that there were " twelve patriarchs," 
 and twelve Jewish tribes often called " the 
 twelve tribes of Israel." But every one 
 knows there were thirteen patriarchs and 
 thirteen tribes of Israel. There were twelve 
 apostles, often so called, but it is a fact, there 
 were thirteen apostles — Paul was the thir- 
 teenth and the greatest. So there were 
 " twelve stars " or States in the woman's 
 crown. And when William Penn surrendered 
 that part of the charter of Delaware in 1703, 
 so that he allowed Pennsylvania and Dela- 
 
HIE UNITED STATES. 41 
 
 ware separate organizations, but still were 
 united under tlie same proprietary until 1776, 
 then there were also thirteen States that 
 adorned the woman's crown, on the great day 
 of Declaration : corresponding to the thirteen 
 tribes of ancient Israel. See Ezek. xlviii. 
 
 3rd. " And upon her head a crown of twelve 
 stars." A '"crown" is a symbol of executive 
 authority ; and is so accepted and acknowl- 
 edged among the nations. It represents the 
 ruling and controlling power in civil govern- 
 ment. So that the "crown of twelve stars," 
 or thirteen States, as we have shown, was 
 an ornament to the woman and gave to her 
 beauty and power under executive authority. 
 It was a symbol of her liberty and inde- 
 pendence, and not of tyranny and oppres- 
 sion. This " crown " was not a part of the 
 woman ; it was separate and distinct from 
 her ; but was only a part of her adornment 
 with which she was " clothed." So that in, 
 through, and under this "crown" of protec- 
 tion, she could more effectively accomplish 
 her great mission. 
 
 We all know that the government of the/ 
 United States is the outgrowth of the Bible 
 
42 THE STOKE KINGDOM. 
 
 and is a patron, friend, and protector of true 
 religion. Yet wliile tlie Church and State are 
 entirely separate, the " crown " represents 
 our civil government, and is a perpetual pro- 
 tection to the Church in her spiritual work of 
 moral elevation and enlightenment of the 
 masses, and in her work of giving liberty to 
 the nations. 
 
 4th. " A woman " in symbolic language 
 represents a system of religion or Church. 
 And since this " great wonder" that appeared 
 in heaven, was a woman with " the moon 
 under her feet," we are not left in uncertainty 
 about its meaning. The Cliurch of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ is graphically symbolized. As 
 the life of this symbol was " the woman "; so 
 tlie life of the government represented by her 
 symbolic crown, is tlie religion of the Bible, 
 or the Cliurch of the Messiah. The Bible, 
 with its life and liberty, forms the great 
 corner-stone of our body politic. Upon its 
 laws and principles of eternal truth and right 
 stands the grand fabric of our government. 
 
 5tli. " The woman fled into the wilderness 
 for 1,260 days " or symbolic years. And so 
 it came to pass that the Church was under 
 
THE tlNlTED STATES. 43 
 
 persecuting powers for that length of time. 
 Tlie 1,260 symbolic years reduced to solar 
 time is exactly 1,451 years and 17 days — fill- 
 ing up the space exactly between the time 
 that Constantine the Great took the political 
 headship of the Church, June 17, 325 A. B., y 
 to July 4, 1776, when the Man-Oliild was 
 born, or "a nation was born in a day." That 
 was the birthday of the United States. On 
 that day " the woman " came out of the wil- 
 derness, came out from the dens and caves 
 where she had been hiding for so many cen- 
 turies from her persecutors and destroyers. 
 Thank God, the Church will no more be com- ^ 
 pelled to fly into the wilderness to hide from 
 her bloody pursuers. The days of the Inqui- 
 sition and Martyrdom are past. The Man- , 
 Child or this great government, the offspring 
 of the Church, will forever defend its mother. 
 Its constitution, its oaths and promises, yea 
 its very nature compels it to defend the prin- 
 ciples of eternal truth and right against all 
 the combined powers of darkness. 
 
 6th. " The great red dragon " of despotism 
 stood before the woman to devour the Man" 
 Child as soon as it was born. But the 
 
44 THE STONE KIN"aDOM. 
 
 Almighty providence of God defended it, and 
 saved its life. It is now a young man of an 
 hundred years, full of strength and increasing 
 power; and has already become the dread 
 and glory of the nations and the hope of the 
 world. 
 
 7th. " And there was war in heaven," i. e., 
 the place of the Church. "Michael and his 
 angels fought against the dragon; and the 
 dragon fought and his angels." Michael is 
 the type and leader of the angelic hosts bat- 
 tling in God's name against the power of 
 Satan. He was the guardian of the Jewish 
 people in their antagonism to godless power 
 and heathenism. So here, in this prophecy 
 he is represented with his angels as standing 
 up with God's people, the friends of civil and 
 religious liberty, and fighting against the 
 "great red dragon" of despotism and their 
 forces in the dreadful eifort to destroy the 
 Man-Child or the establishment of the United 
 States Government. "But they prevailed 
 not ; neither was their place found any more 
 in heaven," or in the place of the Church. 
 Despotic power was entirely overthrown in 
 this government, never to be exercised here 
 
THE UNITED STATES. 45 
 
 any more. When our forefathers gained the 
 victory over tyranny in the Revolutionary 
 war, there was unequaled rejoicing all over 
 our country and among oppressed Christians 
 in other lands. I have no doubt it was this 
 grand shout of thanksgiving and praise that 
 John heard, when he heard them saying, 
 " Now is come salvation and strength and the 
 kingdom of our Grod, and the power of his 
 Christ." This shout would have been nothing ^ 
 in itself, but it was the beginning of that vic- 
 tory which God's people are to gain over the 
 despotic powers of earth, and it is to extend 
 from nation to nation, until the kingdoms of 
 this world are declared to be the kingdoms of 
 our Lord and of His Christ. Tlie reason of /v 
 tliis great rejoicing and shouting of triumph 
 was because, 
 
 8th. " The acGuser of our brethren is cast 
 down, which accused them before our Lord 
 day and night." Ecclesiastical liierarchy and/ 
 civil despotism went hand in hand for more 
 than a thousand 3^ears. The hierarchy only 
 had to accuse God's j)eople to the civil mag- 
 istrate, of Protestantism, or simply noncon- 
 formity to any of their slavish superstitions, 
 
46" THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 wlien the severest penalties were inflicted. 
 Times Avitlioiit number blood flowed, and 
 martyrs Avere crowned. Millions and millions 
 perished in this manner. No wonder that 
 heaven and earth shouted together, " when 
 the accuser of our brethren Avas cast down." 
 When " the time of the end" came, such ter- 
 rible cruelty to God's people could no longer 
 be practiced. These are only some of the 
 coincidences which the careful student may 
 find between the symbol of the Man- Child 
 and the United States. 
 
 There is only one serious difficulty in 
 understanding this symbol, and that vanishes 
 before the light of fulfillment, viz : the birth 
 of the Man-child is put he fore the flight of 
 the woman into the wilderness, instead of 
 afterwards. This puzzled commentators all 
 through the interdicted ages. But this is now 
 only a seeming difficulty, and not real. The 
 Lord had sealed up the vision until " the time 
 of the end." And if the chronology of this 
 symbol had been strictly and consecutively 
 followed, then the seal would have been 
 opened, and that would all have been plain 
 hundreds of years ago, which the Lord did 
 
THE UNITED STATES. 47 
 
 not intend to be known and understood ariulit, 
 until " the time of the end." Now it is as 
 clear as the noonday, so that he that runneth 
 may read. "And there was Avar in heaven," / 
 does not mean in the third heaven, but the 
 place j^rovided for the Church and the friends 
 of human liberty. " Michael and his angels 
 fought against the dragon ; and the dragon 
 fought, and his angels, and prevailed not." 
 This is graphic, symbolic language, to repre- y 
 sent the terrible conflict that was waged 
 between the Man- Child and his friends, on 
 the one side, and the dragon of despotism 
 and his forces, on the other side ; as was fear- 
 fully manifested in the war of the Revolution, 
 Avliich resulted in the establishment of Ameri- 
 can independence, and the development of the 
 Man-Chihl of the United States. Take away 
 the gorgeous symbolism of spiritual conflict, 
 and we have the plain history of the war our 
 fathers waged for human liberty and eternal 
 right. This must be the correct interjjre- 
 tation, for there can be no war in the tlilrd 
 heaven. No dragons, no devils, are there — 
 no, no — pJl there is joy and peace forever 
 and ever. 
 
• y 
 
 48 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 IS'ow let US see what facts figures can tell 
 us about tills " wonder in heaven " which 
 John saw. " The woman," or the Church of 
 God, fled into the wilderness for a time, times 
 and an half, or for 1,260 days, or years. What 
 was the occasion of tliis flight ? Was it not 
 the union of Church and State, or when an 
 earthly potentate was made head of the 
 Church, instead of having the Lord Jesus 
 Christ for head. When did this accursed 
 politico - ecclesiastical concubinage begin ? 
 Was it not at the Council of Mce, in Bi- 
 tynia, June 17th A. D. 325, when the Chris- 
 tian religion was made the religion of the 
 Eastern and Western Empires, under the reign 
 of Constantino the Great. This at first seemed 
 a God-send to the Church, but soon the beau- 
 tiful simplicity of the Cliurch was lost in 
 pompons rites and ceremonies, and in worldly 
 honors and emoluments under imperial patron- 
 age, and soon the outside kingdom of Clirist 
 was converted into a kingdom of tliis world. 
 It was then the woman fled into the wilder- 
 ness, where she was " nourished " in hidden 
 and retired places for 1,260 symbolic years. 
 It was then again in the wilderness that she 
 
THE UI^ITED STATES. 49 
 
 had "trial of cruel mockings and scourgmgs, 
 of bonds and imprisonment." It was tlien 
 again " tliey were sawn asunder, were tempted, 
 were slain witli the sword, they wandered 
 about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being 
 destitute, afflicted, tormented, they wandered 
 in deserts and in mountains and in dens, and 
 caves of the earth," until tlie Man- Child was 
 born. Long had the mother travailed in pain 
 to be delivered, and at last the glorious de- 
 liverance came. It was exactly at the time 
 appointed, at the end of " the time, times and 
 an half," or 1,260 symbolic j^ears — '''neclitack^^ 
 cut-off, or abbreviated years. 
 
 Let us count and see. The 70 weeks of 
 Daniel furnishes us the key. 360 always 
 represents a prophetic year. It may repre- 
 sent a Hebrew year of 364 parts ; then 364 X 
 364, is equal to 132,496 : then add -f , or Sab- 
 batic time, and we have 151,424. And since 
 360 is contained in 1,260, three and a half 
 times, then three and a half times one " time," 
 or 151,424, is equal to 529,984 days in solar 
 time, or 1,451 years and 17 days — exactly the 
 time of the sojourn of the woman in the wilder- 
 ness. Now add 1,451 years and 17 days to June 
 
50 
 
 THE STOIVE KINGDOM. 
 
 17tli, 325 A. D.j and it brings us down exactly 
 to the setttng np of tlie Stone Kingdom, or to 
 J tlie Ibirtli of tlie Man-Child on July 4tli, 1776, 
 when "a nation was born in a day." 
 
 These are astonishing facts revealed to us 
 with the accuracy of the mathematics of 
 heaven. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 WHERE WILL ISRAEL BE RESTORED? 
 
 Or, Where will the " Stone Kingdom " be set up ? 
 ANSWERED BY THE PROPHETS. 
 
 HE Scriptures manifestly teach that, in 
 " the latter times,"- Israel will be restor- 
 ed in a glorious nationality. It has been a 
 favorite notion, both with Jewish and Chris- 
 tian waiters, that all these grand proj)liecies 
 relate to the return of the Jews, and the resto- 
 ration of Israel in old Palestine. We are not 
 surprised at this notion, because this nation- 
 ality, to be restored, is called "Israel" by the 
 prophets. This was the best term they had to 
 convey the great idea. They did not say that ^' 
 that nationality was to be made of the friends 
 of civil and religious liberty ; not even of 
 Christians. But they said it was to be " Is- 
 rael." 
 
 G-esenius interprets " Israel " to mean " sol- 
 dier of God." This, then marks the character 
 
 61 
 
52 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 of that people who shonkl possess the kingdom 
 in tlie latter days, or the fifth government. 
 ^They were to be " Israel," or soldiers of God. . 
 Only disrobe these prophecies of their Jew- 
 ish paraphernalia, and the proportions and 
 sublimity of Christian rejpublicanism are per- 
 fectly delineated. Our blessed Savior has 
 given us a key for their interpretation, Matt, 
 xvii : " His disciples asked him saying, ' Why, 
 then, say the Scribes that Elijah must first 
 come?' And Jesus answered and said unto 
 them that Elijah is come already, and they 
 knew him not. Then the disciples understood 
 that He spake unto thetn of John the Baptist.^'' 
 ]^ow, when we tell you that the United States 
 is the Stone Kingdom, or Israel restored, sup- 
 pose you ask the Master by what construction 
 of language do you make out that John the 
 Baptist was Elijah which was for to come, 
 seeing he was altogether another man. John 
 was " the Elijah, which was to come," not be- 
 cause he bore the name, but because he came 
 "in the spirit and power of Elijah." He was 
 therefore declared by the Savior to be indeed 
 the Elijah. If, therefore, a great nationality 
 is promised to arise in the latter days, and the 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 53 
 
 United States of America exhibits the charac- 
 ter, and fills the description, both as to the 
 geography, time, and place of rising, and 
 comes with the spirit and power of Israel, and 
 no other nation under heaven ever has, or ever 
 can answer the description, then we claim that 
 perfect coincidence is perfect fulfillment, and 
 the United States is the nationality promised 
 to Israel in the latter da3^s. The term '' Israel " 
 has belonged to the people of God ever since 
 Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord. 
 And the Church of God will be called " Israel" ^ 
 till the end of time. Both Jews and Gentiles, 
 when born of the Spirit, become members of 
 God's "Israel." This is triumphantly shown 
 by the Apostle Paul in Rom. iv, and Gal. iii, 
 iv. 
 
 It has been suggested that there is one fear- 
 ful difficulty in the way of this interpretation, 
 i. e.^ we are too wicked and unworthy a nation 
 to be honored with the title of " Israel." Alas, 
 my brethren, heaven knows our awful wicked- 
 ness — wickedness in high places and in low 
 places. The Sabbath is desecrated and God's 
 law is despised by millions. But wicked as / 
 we are, we are the best people as a nation on 
 
54 TPIE STOISTE KII^GDOM. 
 
 /the earth. It is the ugly outside of our body- 
 politic that is daily flared before the world. 
 Our papers tell of murders, robberies and 
 high crimes committed all over the continent. 
 These black parts of history are picked up as 
 choice morsels to satiate the depraved appe- 
 tite. The ten thousand acts of kindness, of 
 benevolence and heroic sacrifice to truth and 
 duty, are never heard of, and our great throb- 
 bing heart of humanity, in sympathy with 
 human woe all round the world, flnds no 
 heralds, no adequate expression, while loud- 
 mouthed crime tries to drown the praise and 
 hallelujahs which ascend from the hills and 
 plains of these " mountains of Israel." Here 
 the virtuous stranger flnds a home and a wel- 
 come. Here the oppressed of all lands may 
 find a safe retreat, throw ofl" the yoke of bond- 
 age, and enjoy the inheritance of freemen. 
 Then away with the objection. It is as true 
 to-day as of old, that " they are not all Israel, 
 that are of Israel." In " Israel " restored to 
 ^ nationality, possessed of the true religion and 
 civil and religious liberty to the full, the 
 righteous and the wicked, the tares and the 
 wheat, the wise and the foolish, will be found 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 55 
 
 together, even unto the judgment day. After 
 the Lord had led His ancient Israel, a nation of 
 three millions, from the brick-yards of Egypt 
 out into the wilderness, with a pillar of cloud 
 by day and a pillar of fire by night, and they 
 were gathered around Mt. Sinai to behold the 
 glory of God, when the lightning rent the mantle 
 of the sky, and the thunder waxed louder and 
 louder, when the mountain trembled from its 
 glowing summit to its granite base — when 
 from amid such awful grandeur God was giv- 
 ing to Moses the Tables of the Law, where was 
 Israel ? And what was Israel doing ? At the 
 foot of the mountain, making a golden calf ! ! 
 and shouting in their idolatrous worship. 
 
 Wherefore b}^ the term "Israel restored," 
 we mean a providential nation, possessing the 
 only true religion and a divinely sanctioned 
 form of government, and possessing territory , 
 sufficient for that great people which is to 
 have the headshi23 of the world, or leader- 
 shi]3 in pure religion and civil liberty : a nation, 
 before whose moral and physical power, mon- ^ 
 archy, tyranny, and absolutism are to be 
 driven away, like chaff* before the winds from 
 the summer threshing floors. 
 
56 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 The old notion that " Israel restored," means 
 that the Jews will go back to Palestine, and 
 set lip their government in ancient splendor, 
 and turn back the wheels of progress three 
 thousand years, is as false as it is absurd. 
 Many of the Jews will doubtless go back to 
 Palestine, and set up a little republican gov- 
 ernment. For we think that land was promised 
 to them. But that little, far-off, secluded, 
 part of earth, does not and never can till the 
 civil, historical, commercial, and geographical 
 description of Israel restored, or the mission 
 of the Stone Kingdom, or the empire of the 
 Man- Cliild, who is to rule the nations with a 
 rod of iron. But the United States of America 
 ^does till all the requirements as exactly as the 
 shadow fits the substance. That old notion 
 dishonors the great apostle, when he says 
 " the blindness that has happened to Israel " 
 will continue " until the fullness of the Gen- 
 tiles is brought in." The Gentiles will be 
 brought in first, and the Jews last — fulfilling 
 what the Master said, " the first shall be last 
 and the last first." In the true Israel, " there 
 is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond 
 nor free, there is neither male nor female, for 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 57 
 
 ye are all one in Christ J.esus." "And if ye be 
 Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs 
 according to the promise." In view of all this 
 array of testimony as to who Israel is, it is 
 strange, passing strange, that learned Ameri- 
 can divines, should hold to that old, fitless 
 notion, that "Israel restored" means there- 
 turn of the Jews to old Palestine : that notion 
 bespeaks more faith than works. 
 
 There are a multitude of passages of Scrip- 
 ture, which, as the learned and judicious 
 admit, foretell the rise of a great nationality 
 in the latter times. These predictions cannot, 
 by any just laws of interpretation, be applied 
 to the rise of such nationality in the land of 
 Palestine. But they do most wonderfully apply 
 to and tit the United States of America and no 
 other land under heaven. Let us select a few 
 out of the multitude of descriptions and coin- 
 cidences that are realized alone in our own 
 great country. 
 
 1 St. The land of the promised nationality, 
 was to lie hetioeen two seas. Ezek. xlvii : 18, 
 20. "From the border unto the east sea. And 
 this is the east side. The west side also shall 
 be the great sea from the border. This is 
 
58 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 tlie west side." These are exact boundaries 
 of our country. " The west side also shall be 
 the great sea," or Pacific. 
 
 If Ezeldel is correct in his geographical 
 description of the land of Israel restored, he 
 certainly cannot refer to Palestine, for there 
 is no sea on its eastern border. And this 
 description must forever prove fatal to that 
 old notion, that the promised nationality is to 
 be in the land of Judea. It lacks an ocean on 
 the east side. 
 
 2nd. Israel was to be restored, in a land 
 that had always been loaste. — Ezek. xxxviii : 
 8. " The land that is brought back from the 
 sword, and is gathered out of many people, 
 thou shalt come against the mountains of 
 Israel, that have been always waste." — 
 This Scripture is an exact description of our 
 country, and especially that part that speaks 
 of it having been " alioays waste.''^ A coun- 
 try that had never been cultivated, or im- 
 proved. This cannot be said of Palestine, for 
 it, in ages past, has been as the garden of the 
 Lord. But our country fully answers the 
 description. When our fathers came to Amer- 
 ica, they found it a vast wilderness that had 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 59 
 
 been " aUoays loaste^ The 35tli chapter of 
 Isaiah seems to l)e a grand anthem of praise, 
 and hearty congratnlation on their arrival. 
 The earth is represented as shouting for joy, 
 when our forefathers came to take possession 
 of the wilderness. " The wilderness and the 
 solitary place shall be glad for them ; and the 
 desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 
 It shall blossom abundantly, and rej oice even 
 with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon 
 shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel 
 and Sharon ; they shall see the glory of the 
 Lord, and the excellency of our God." 
 
 3rd. Our wonderful country is further de- 
 scribed, in the same prophecy as having its 
 inhabitants gathered out of the nations, or 
 from many peoples. Not the scattered Jews, 
 gathered from the ends of the earth, — as one 
 nation gathered together. JN'o, no : but it is 
 the description of a land filled with immigrants 
 from all parts of the earth. This is so con- 
 spicuous a characteristic of the glorious 
 nation alit}^, that the prophet Isaiah dwells 
 upon it with inspired eloquence. "Lift up 
 thine eyes round about and see ; all they 
 gather themselves together; they come to 
 
60 THE STON^E KIT^GDOM. 
 
 tliee ; thy sons shall come from far, and thy 
 daiightei's shall be nursed at thy side." " The 
 abundance of the sea shall be converted (or 
 turned) unto thee; the forces of the Gentiles 
 shall come unto thee .... Who are 
 these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to 
 their windows? .... Thy gates shall 
 be opened continually ; they shall not be shut, 
 day nor night." Truly Isaiah must have seen 
 our country as it now is : with immigrants 
 coming like clouds from all the nations of 
 earth. The whole description is sublimely 
 grand because its fulfillment is the demonstra- 
 tion of truth. '*The sons also of them that 
 afflicted thee, shall come bending unto thee 
 and all they that despise Thee, shall bow 
 themselves down at the soles of Th}^ feet." 
 The children of those very soldiers that in- 
 vaded our country, burned our towns, and 
 murdered our people, now come to make our 
 country their home ; and those who sneered at 
 our experiment of popular freedom, and said 
 that our Republic would be buried with \¥ash- 
 ington, now gladly come and cast in their 
 lot with us, and invest their all under the pro- 
 tection of that banner which they scoffingiy 
 
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 ISRAEL RESTORED. 61 
 
 said would be the winding-sheet of American 
 indej^endence. How graphic the picture 
 drawn by the pen of inspiration more than 
 2,500 years ago ! As time rolls on, the pro- 
 gramme is literally and astonishingly ful- 
 filled. 
 
 4tli. Extension is one of the characteristics 
 of the promised nationality, Dan. ii : 35, 
 " And the Stone that smote the image became 
 a great mountain and filled the Avhole earth." 
 Its benign influence, exerted through the 
 transforming power of civil and religious lib- 
 erty on the nations, will destroy monarchy 
 and absolutism and ultimately fill the whole 
 earth with its heavenly blessings. This will 
 be accomplished, in a great degree, gradually. "^ 
 The leaven of the gospel and human freedom, 
 will work by the power of a divine chemistry, 
 until the whole world shall be leavened. 
 Isaiah, . speaking of this government, shortly 
 after its establishment, says, '' For thy ruins 
 and thy wastes and thy land of desolation 
 shall even now be too narrow by reason of 
 the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee 
 up (the autocracies of the old world) shall be 
 far away (beyond the sea). The children 
 
63 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 which thou shalt have (in this land) after thou 
 hast lost the other (ancient Israel) shall say 
 again in thy ears, ' The place is too strait for 
 me, give place that I may dwell.'" Extension, 
 ^ expansion and elevation is the genius of our 
 institutions. From thirteen States, we now 
 y y have thirty-eight States and nine large terri- 
 tories. Mexico, the West Indies, and all South 
 America are biding their time to form part of 
 the great confederacy. Monarchy and mis- 
 rule melt away in proximity to a glorious re- 
 public like icebergs under a tropical sun, 
 while their natural interests impel them to 
 seek annexation and to share in the rewards 
 of a higher development. The magnetism of 
 human liberty will draw all nations towards 
 it ; while the gospel of Christ adorns it all 
 with the halo of salvation. 
 
 5 til. Another famous prophecy to be fulfill- 
 ed in Israel restored, is in Isaiah xlix : 12, 
 '' Behold these shall come from far, and lo 
 these from the North and from the West, and 
 these from the land of Sinim." The learned 
 generally agree that " Sinim " is China. Sin- 
 im, or China, lies due west of our country. 
 The prophet seems to be astonished at this 
 
ISKAEL KESTORED. 63 
 
 wonderful fact, that the Chinese, also, are 
 coming to the land of Israel. China has been 
 a shut-up nation, almost from tlie days of 
 N'oah, and never before, in modern times, 
 mingled with otlier nations. Now, behokl 
 them breaking over their enclosure, and com- 
 ing from the West. The prophet is amazed 
 at the multitudes coming from every quarter, 
 and especially that the land of "Sinim" 
 should join in the wonderful migration. Hun- 
 dreds of thousands of them have already 
 come to our hospitable shores, astonishing 
 and startling our people as much as the 
 prophets of old. Now, since these, from the 
 land of Sinim, were to come from the \Yest, 
 how could they have ever reached old Pales- 
 tine ? Palestine never could have been reach- 
 ed by them from that direction, demonstrat- 
 ing that the land of Judea is not to be the 
 place of Israel restored. And since they 
 come from the land of Sinim, and from the 
 West, to our country —in the time appointed 
 — we behold in this a fulfillment of prophecy 
 on a magnificent scale, declaring to the world 
 that the United States of America is the land 
 of Israel restored. Perfect coincidence being 
 
64 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 perfect fulfillment, our position is demon- 
 strated. 
 
 (3tli. Gog is represented in Ezek. xxxviii : 
 as going up to attack and destroy the glory 
 of Israel restored. Gog says, "I will go up 
 to the land of unwalled villages, I will go 
 to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all 
 of them dwelling without walls, and having 
 neither bars nor gates, to take a spoil, and to 
 take a ]3rey." Read the whole chapter, and 
 see almost a perfect picture of your own land. 
 I suppose Ezekiel never saw an unwalled city 
 in his life. This description cannot be applied 
 to Judea, for all her cities were walled, from 
 Dan to Beersheba. This famous photograph 
 of pro23hecy finds a perfect fulfillment in 
 our own prosperous country, where the cities 
 are Avithout walls, gates or bars ; where all 
 dwell safely. It finds its perfect fulfillment in 
 the United States, and in no other country on 
 earth, i. e., when we observe all the pointings 
 of prophecy. 
 
 7th. Great intelligence should mark the 
 progress of the promised nationality, and 
 also a general instruction in divine things. 
 Isaiah liv: 13. "All thy children shall be 
 
ISIJAEL IIESTORED. 65 
 
 taught of the Lord; and great shall be the 
 peace of thy children." Is not this an exact 
 foreshadowing of our people ? Our system of 
 free schools is rapidl}^ improving. Academies 
 and Colleges are multiplying all over the land. 
 And our system of Sabbath-school instruction 
 is raj)idly becoming a golden net-work in the 
 counties of the States, so that " all thy chil- 
 dren shall be taught of the Lord." The minis- 
 ter of the Grospel lifts up his voice in every 
 community. The Bible is unchained and 
 given to the masses, as a light to their feet 
 and a lamp to their path, while the 2^^^ss 
 pours forth its countless millions of pages, to 
 teach the people things about the world, as 
 well as about the higher spiritual life. Great 
 intelligence among the masses is certainly a 
 characteristic of the people of the United 
 States. 
 
 8tli. The nationality of Israel restored 
 must be settled in thirteen distinct States, 
 like ancient Israel, only " Joseph should 
 have two ]3ortions." Ezek. xlvii : 13. " Thus 
 saith the Lord God. This shall be the 
 border whereby ye shall inlierit the land, 
 according to the twelve tribes of Israel : 
 
66 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Joseph shall have two portioned. '^ That made 
 thirteen tribes, or States, for ancient Israel. 
 jS^ow it is a remarkable fact that there were 
 twelve States in early colonial times. William 
 Penn held the charter of Pennsylvania and 
 Delaware. And for twenty years the whole 
 territory was governed as the State of Pennsyl- 
 vania. But in 1703 Delav^are obtained a sepa- 
 rate organization, while one Governor pre- 
 sided over the Provinces nntil 1776. Thus the 
 thirteen States were formed. And when we 
 remember that prophecy gives the geographi- 
 cal boundary, and that the eastern border 
 should be on the eastern sea, and the western 
 border should be on the great loestern sea, 
 and when wq remember the old colonial char- 
 ters granted from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
 we are astounded at the exactness of the pro- 
 phetic foreshadowing, and the present fulhll- 
 ment, clearly showing that our country, and 
 no other land on earth can fill the .entire pro- 
 gramme. It is both sad and amusing to see 
 with what stuhhornness and self-satisfaction 
 many hold to the old ruts of interj)retation, 
 riglit or wrong. Adam Clarke drew a map of 
 the land of Israel restored, and located it in 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 67 
 
 Palestine, of course. He made the States all 
 border on the Mediterranean, or western sea, 
 but he could find no eastern sea for the boun- 
 dary which the prophet called for. Hence 
 the unfitness and absurdity of his position, 
 because it had no " eastern sea " for a 
 boundary. 
 
 9th. Our country seems manifestly to be 
 the land lying westward from Judea that the 
 prophet saw, in Chap. 18th, and joyfully/ 
 saluted. "All hail to the land shadowing with , 
 wings, which is bey on i the rivers of Ethiopia." 
 Where is that land? Let the prophet stand 
 somewhere in Judea, say about Jt^rusalem, 
 and look beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, beyond 
 the Mle, and its mouths, and we find nothing 
 but a barren desert and the roving Bedouins. 
 Surely that is not what the projphet saw and 
 saluted. Then we must look on in the same 
 direction — for that is specifically given. And 
 we find no other land, or people, on that line 
 of latitude, until we strike the coasts of the 
 Carolinas, in our own country, that could 
 warrant the salutation of the prophet, "All j 
 hail to the land." So much for the direction 
 in which the prophet tells us to look. 
 
68 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 IN'ext, he describes the land as " Shadowing 
 with wings." The geographical map of North 
 and South America resembles very much two 
 great wings — or, perhaps his description re- 
 ferred to the national standard of that people, 
 which is an eagle, with his wings outspread 
 from shore to shore. Whatever the prophet 
 v^ meant, the whole chapter is a wonderful de- 
 scription of our country, and fits it with 
 astonishing accuracy. Many learned com- 
 . mentators, never dreaming that America had 
 any place in jjrophecy, or in God's plans, 
 acknowledge, as Adam Clarke does, that " this 
 is the most obscure passage in the whole book 
 of Isaiah." These learned men look in an 
 opposite direction from the prophet, and of 
 ^ course can see nothing. Our interpretation is 
 certainly legitimate, and the fulfillment should 
 awaken attention and enkindle our admi- 
 ration. 
 
 10th. There are strong intimations in Scrip- 
 ture that the Stone Kin2:dom was to be a Re- 
 public. Hos. i : 11. The peojDle should be 
 " gathered together and appoint unto them- 
 selves one head," or chief magistrate, ap- 
 pointed by the people. Isaiah i : 26. "And I 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 69 
 
 will restore thy judges, as at the first, andtliy 
 counsellors as at the beginning." ' Ancient 
 Israel was at first a theocratic republic. And 
 the government of " Israel restored," from 
 these passages, would, have the right to elect 
 their own rulers. Also, when the Stone King- 
 dom was set up, it, at the appointed time, 
 would break into shivers all forms of mon- 
 archy. Also, when ancient Israel asked 
 Samuel to appoint them a Jciiig, like the 
 other nations, the Lord told him to "^^roi^t^,^^ 
 solemnly unto them, and show unto them the 
 manner of the king that shall reign over 
 them " and rob them, and degrade them, and 
 oppress the n. So we see kingly forms of 
 government exist under the solemn protest of 
 Almighty God. He alone should be King. He 
 claims that right among the nations of the 
 earth. Our conclusion from all this testi- 
 mony is, that the form of government of the 
 fifth, and greatest nationality, must be a Re- 
 public. 
 
 11th. The " Availing isles " of Isaiah is a 
 sublime announcement of our great country. 
 " Surely the isles shall wait for me," or the 
 undiscovered lands shall wait for the develop- 
 
70 THE STOI^E KINGDOM. 
 
 ment of Grod's providence, " and the ships of 
 Tarshish first to bring thy sons from far, 
 their silver and their gold with them unto the 
 name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy 
 One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." 
 Tarshish, or Tartessus, formerly a seaport in 
 old Spain. " This opinion," says Mr. Ben- 
 son, " is now generally adopted by the 
 learned." Here we have the startling an- 
 nouncement that the waiting isles, or undis- 
 covered lands, had been concealed and hid 
 from the avaricious and bloody struggles of 
 the nations, until the set time to favor Zion 
 had come. Then the ships of old Spain would 
 be ''^ first to bring thy sons from far." And 
 were not the sliiT)s of Spain first to discover, 
 and first to open the way for immigration to, 
 the new world ? After Columbus had been 
 repulsed from every court in Euro]3e, did not 
 Ferdinand and Isabella furnish him with the 
 necessary outfit, and thus fulfill their great 
 mission in " first bringing thy sons from far," 
 and so opening to the knowledge of the 
 world our great country ? This never can 
 apply to Palestine ; for it was not then an 
 undiscovered country. And the ships of 
 
ISRAEL RESTORED. 71 
 
 Tarshisli or Spain could not be "first" to 
 bring immigration into it. When the minions 
 of monarchy first came to Mexico and Pern and 
 toolv possession of those countries, they did 
 it in tlie name of tlieir sovereigns and for the 
 sake of gold. But when the Huguenots, the 
 Quakers, the Puritans and the Covenanters 
 came, it was for conscience's sake, and for 
 the privilege of worshiping God. " Unto the 
 name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy 
 One of Israel," they came. To write the ful- 
 fillment of all this glorious prophecy, would 
 fill a volume. The footsteps of God's provi- , 
 dence in all our history from its discovery to 
 the time when "a nation was born at once," 
 July 4, 1776, and on through all our struggles 
 to the present, are as visible as was the pillar 
 of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night 
 which led old Israel into the promised land. 
 
 12tli. The infancy of restored Israel should 
 receive "royal patronage," Isa. xlix : 23. 
 " And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and 
 their queens Ihy nursing mothers." Nurs- 
 ing applies to infancy, and all through our 
 early history the various sovereigns of 
 Europe gave a fostering hand to colonization. 
 
72- THE STONE KIN^GDOK. 
 
 In our helpless infancy, their kings were our 
 nursing fathers, and their queens were our 
 nursing mothers. And in honor of them, 
 several of the old thirteen States were named, 
 and numberless counties and towns an.d places 
 — Virginia, Georgia, Maryland and the Caro 
 Unas among the States, and of counties. King 
 William, Prince George, Prince Edward and 
 a multitude of royal names, that will forever 
 jDerj^etuate the fulfillment of prophecy that 
 royalty should be our foster-parent. 
 
 13th. Coining extents cast their sJiadoios he- 
 fore tliem. The Continental Congress, in 1782, 
 adopted a device for the great seal of the 
 United States, and re-adopted it in 1789. The 
 obverse side is familiar to all, but the reverse 
 side which was adopted, we have no evidence 
 that it was ever made or used. But in its 
 adoption we see the liand of Providence fixing 
 in the aegis of our country its glorious ]3rox)h- 
 ecy — telling great truths which its framers, 
 Daniel-like, wrote but did not comprehend. 
 In the centre there is an unfinished j)yi'amid 
 of thirteen layers of large hewn stones, on the 
 base of which is inscribed " 1776." High 
 above this p3a\amid is a triangular apex, in 
 
ISRAEL RESTOREB. 73 
 
 the centre of which is represented the all-see- 
 ing Eye, overlooking all. Above it is this in- 
 scription — " Annuit Coeptis," and underneath 
 the circle — '• Novns ordo sector nm." All of 
 wliich may be translated, "Providence favorsv 
 the beginning of the new order of the ages." 
 Could a more beautiful, appro23riate or befit- 
 ting device have been made for the Great Seal 
 of State for the Stone Kingdom, which was 
 then set up ? We see in it the symbolic Stone 
 cut out of the mountain. We see in it tlieu/ 
 symbol of God's wonderful providence. And 
 we have in it the sublime announcement of 
 the beginning of" the new order of the ages," 
 when men would be free, when the Bible would 
 be unchained, and when religion Avould be un- 
 trammeled by popes and priests and civil des- 
 pots. Truly 
 
 " God moves in a mysterious way 
 His wonders to perform." 
 
 And now, my countrymen, with such a his- 
 tory as ours, guided in every step of our prog- 
 ress by the hand of Providence ; in the pangs 
 of the birth of the Man-Child, a safe deliverance 
 granted; when the dragon of despotism en- 
 deavored to destroy us. His providence saved 
 
74 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 US ; then such men as He gave us, in Cabinet 
 and Camp, for those times of trial, in the form- 
 ative period of our government, " Their lil^e 
 we ne'er shall see again " — then an hundred 
 years of unequalled prosperity, marred only 
 by a few years of civil war ! Your country 
 
 ^now moves forward with a giant's tread to the 
 first place amongst the nations of the earth. 
 Her divine programme is written, and her des- 
 tiny is glorious. See to it, my countrymen, 
 that you act well your part. Do honor to 
 yourselves — to your country — and to your 
 God. " Then Gentiles and kings shall see thy 
 glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name. 
 
 ^ Thy sun " (or civil government) " shall no 
 more go down ; neither shall thy moon " (the 
 blessings of the Church) "withdraw itself; for 
 the Lord shall be thine everlasting Light, and 
 the da_YS of thy mourning shall be ended." 
 "A little one shall become a thousand, and a 
 small one a strong nation ; I the Lord will 
 hasten it in His time." 
 
CHAPTER Y. 
 THE TWO AMERICAS, 
 
 Or " The Land Shadowed with Wings." — Isaiah xviii. 
 
 ^^llf-HIS cliapter has been a puzzle to com- 
 f]^ mentators through all the ages. Dr. 
 Scott says, " This is one of the most obscure 
 prophecies in the Scriptures." Adam Clarke 
 says, " It is the most difficult chapter in the 
 whole book." Addison Alexander says, 
 ''IN'early every word and phrase of this diffi- 
 cult verse, (he might well have said, chapter) 
 has been the subject of discordant explana- 
 tions." 
 
 There are two reasons why this prophecy 
 could not be understood at an earlier time. 
 1st. The Lord had sealed it up till " the time 
 of the end." Dan. xii. 9. All through the in- 
 terdicted ages the seal could not be broken, 
 and this prophecy could not be understood. 
 
 No wonder that King James' translators could 
 
 75 
 
76 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 make no sense out of tliis cliapter. The seal 
 then had not been broken. 2nd. The learned 
 theologians and commentators of Europe nev- 
 er could see any of God's plans or prophecies 
 reaching to America. This third part of the 
 earth's surface is left outside of His dominions 
 — especially outside of His prophecy and the 
 programme of the nations. And still the 
 sharp-cut and distinctly-drawn prophecies of 
 this chapter coukl find no counterpart any- 
 where in the Old World. Hence European 
 commentators, aud those who follow in their 
 tracks, are puzzled. After Herculean labors 
 to interpret it satisfactorily, they gave it up 
 in despair. God's prophet looked across the 
 Atlantic and saw glorious things. But these 
 learned theologians looked in another quarter, 
 and of course could see nothing that the 
 prophet saw, and described so graphically. 
 
 But by looking on in the same line with tlie 
 prophet we find an interpretation that fits the 
 prophecy as substance fits tlie shadow. Per- 
 fect coincidence is perfect fullillment. Let us 
 examine and see what saith the Lord, and 
 what say His works and providence. 
 
 y. 1. "Ho! to the land shadowing with 
 
THE TWO AMERICAS. 77 
 
 wings, wliicli is beyond the rivers of Etliio- 
 pia." "Ho," in this connection, is an inter- 
 jection of exhortation or saintation, eqnivalent 
 to tlie Latin Salve! Hail! and not a "woe," 
 as in the English Version. The prophet was 
 somewhere in Palestine, probably in Jerusa- 
 lem, as he looked out west across the rivers of 
 Ethiopia — the Mle or its mouths (anciently the 
 river had seven mouths, ninety or a hundred 
 miles in length) — and saw the land described. 
 Surely this land is not in Africa, for beyond 
 the Mle he could see nothing but the sandy 
 desert and the roving Bedouins. But the 
 course is sj)6cific : therefore we must look on 
 in the same direction, on the same ^^arallel of 
 latitude, across the Atlantic, and the first land 
 we find is North America, about the coast of 
 the Carolinas. This land corresponds exact- 
 ly with the prophet's description. Take a 
 large map of North and South America, and 
 you will find that those two great divisions 
 wonderfully resemble two huge wings. And it , 
 seems evident that this is the land shadowed 
 with wings which the prophet saw, and no oth- 
 er. Also the ensign or fiag of the United ^ 
 States has an eagle with its wings outstretch- 
 
78 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 ed from shore to shore. Truly America is the 
 land shadowed with wings Avliich Isaiah saw. 
 It lies in the direction pointed out, and cor- 
 responds exactly with the description given. 
 Y. 2. " That sendeth on the sea vessels of 
 revolvings, and that drink wp upon the face of 
 the waters." Tlie word translated " ambassa- 
 dors " in the common version in Hebrew is 
 tserem, and means to go in ar circle — to re- 
 volve — and the noun derived from it means "a 
 hinge," with the idea of revolving. Then in 
 the plural it means " writhings " — throes— or 
 groanings — as of a woman in travail. Now 
 this word describes sometliing that goes on 
 the sea. The next descriptive word is go- 
 onea, translated '' bulrushes." But this He- 
 brew word is singular and means '* a bulrush." 
 It is therefore manifest that this translation is 
 not the proper one, for surely the 2)roj)het did 
 not mean to say " vessels of a bulrush." But 
 the word gomea is derived from ga-ma^ which 
 means ''to absorb" — "to drink up" — "to 
 swallow." l^ow put the two words together, 
 and see what sort of vessels are to sail on the 
 seas to this land of prophecy. " That sendeth 
 on the sea vessels of revolvings, and that 
 
THE TWO AMERICAS. 79 
 
 drink up." An3^0De who lias traveled on a 
 steamship or on a steamboat knows how the 
 escaping steam groans as if in pain, while the 
 great wheels or screw-propeller revolves. 
 " And vessels that drink up." The engine 
 must be constantly drinking water to supply 
 the steam. Do not these two words, "tse- 
 rem " and " gomea," so pregnant with mean- 
 ing, give an astonishingly accurate description 
 of steam vessels, as they now go on the face 
 of the waters ? 
 
 " Go ye swift messengers to a nation tall and 
 naked, to a peoj^le terrible from their begin- 
 ing, and far away, to a nation most mighty, 
 treading down their enemies." This is a re- 
 markably life-like picture of the* aborigines 
 of our country. "To a nation tall and 
 naked." The Indians are notable for their 
 erectness of stature. They also have little or 
 no beard — smooth-faced. " Naked" may also 
 refer to their having little or no clothing. 
 "To a people terrible since they existed " 
 fierce and war-like " and far away." Ya-lia- 
 le-aJi. This word is strangely left out of 
 King James' translation altogether. It is con- 
 nected in the clause by the copulative con- 
 
80 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 junction vav to give emphasis to further de- 
 scrij^tion ; and it most significantly points to 
 the land and the people that were " far away " 
 beyond the sea. '' To a people most mighty, 
 and treading down their enemies " — uncom- 
 promising and relentless. Three hundred and 
 fifty years ago, there were countless thou- 
 sands of this people in America. The Aztec 
 dynasty was immense under the reign of the 
 Montezumas. Also, there were many other 
 powerful tribes in North America, and the 
 empire of the Incas in Peru, and other mighty 
 nations in South America. So that the de- 
 scription of the prophet is not only graphic, 
 but astonishingly accurate, as the fulfillment 
 has shown. The history of the aboriginal 
 nations of America is a thrilling commentary 
 on this 23ortion of proj)hecy. 
 
 " Whose land the streams (or Hoods) 
 divide." What land ? The land " shadowed 
 with wings." The land occupied by " a peo- 
 ple tall and naked, and terrible from their 
 beginning and far away." It is North and 
 South America that the '-'' streavis dlmdey 
 Please remember that if you draw a straight 
 line, North and South, along the western coast 
 
THE TWO AMEKICAS. 81 
 
 of Florida, South America lies entirely east 
 of that line, and the Grulf of Mexico west. 
 What " streams " or floods divide these lands ? 
 The great oceanic current of the INTorth Atlan- 
 tic, called the Gulf Stream, flows in a north- 
 easterly direction, along the coast of North 
 America, south of Greenland and Iceland, 
 and then east to the western coast of Europe, 
 then deflecting south by Spain, and then by 
 the north-western coast of Africa and the 
 Canary islands, then southwest across the 
 Atlantic, by the mouth of the Amazon, then 
 north-west along the coast of South America, 
 where it strikes the West India Islands, and 
 divides into two great parts, or halves. The 
 south part flows through the Carribbean sea, 
 and sweejDS round the entire coast of the Gulf 
 of Mexico, and out at the Straits of Florida, 
 fifty miles wide, 3,000 feet deep and at a ve- 
 locity of four miles per hour, and thence up in a 
 north-easterly course, where it joins the other 
 half, that flows north of the West Indies. And 
 thus on and on, in an everlasting stream, and 
 round and round, forming a vast circuit, ^^art 
 of which forever divides " the land shadowed 
 with wings." You perceive one half of this 
 
82 THE STONE KINGDOiAI. 
 
 " stream " is doubled like a great looj:)^ as it 
 Hows into the Gulf of Mexico at one place 
 and out at another. Hence — na-ha-rem — 
 streams^ is plural, so that in going from North 
 America to South America you must cross 
 the " stream " twice. Hence the projohet 
 said " whose land the streams (or Hoods) 
 divide." Who can doul)t the inspiration of 
 God's Word, when he reads this description, 
 given 2,500 years ago, of " the undiscovered 
 lands " ? To-day we find the land and the 
 '^ streams ^^ exactly as the prophet described 
 them. 
 
 y. 3. " All ye inhabitants of the world and 
 dwellers on the earth, when he lifteth up a 
 banner on these mountains, ye shall see, and 
 ye shall hear when he bloweth the trumpet." 
 
 This verse invites the attention of the world 
 to some great event. In the preceding verses 
 the land and its inhabitants were minutely 
 described. Now the great event referred to, 
 is to take place when a banner is "lifted up 
 upon these mountains " of Israel restored, and 
 when the trumpet is sounded. By this we 
 understand that a great civil and military 
 movement will be inaugurated, that will so 
 
THE TWO AMEEICAS. 83 
 
 change tlie face of the country, and, through 
 a long series of years, will constantly sweep 
 away the aboriginal inhabitants, until '' the 
 inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the 
 earth shall see " and behold with astonish- 
 ment the wonderful results. In the days of 
 Cortez and Pizarro, the banner was first 
 "lifted up," and from that day to the present 
 time, the trumpet of war has often sounded 
 long and loud among the mountains and 
 plains of North and South America : until the 
 countless millions that once claimed this land 
 as theirs, are now gathered with the j)ale 
 nations of the dead. Only a few thousands 
 are left, to tell how fearful and fatal the war 
 has been, for more than 350 years. As when 
 Joshua led ancient Israel into old Canaan, 
 the land of promise, and swept away the in- 
 habitants, took possession of their towns and 
 country, and established the thirteen tribes 
 in the conquered territor}^, and became a great 
 nation for more than a thousand years — so 
 when " the time of the end " had come, when 
 the Pilgrims, and Huguenots, and Quakers, 
 and Covenanters, and all the persecuted for 
 conscience's sake were flying to these shores, 
 
84 THE STO^^E KINGDOM. 
 
 " the banner was lifted np" on these moun- 
 tains of Israel restored, and the triim23et was 
 sounded for relentless war. Then the Lord 
 gave us Washington, to lead our forces 
 through trials and blood on to victory. The 
 thirteen States of Israel were restored and 
 established. Thus the great Republican Con- 
 
 V federacy began, and for a hundred years has 
 been growing in power and influence, until 
 " all the nations of the earth " are now behold- 
 ing with astonishment the wonderful results. 
 This seems to be the true meaning of this hith- 
 erto difficult passage, now so clear, so plain. 
 4tli. " For thus saitli Jehovah to me ; I will 
 rest, [or remain quiet] and will look [as a mere 
 spectator] on my dwelling-place, as the bright 
 heat of the sun, as a cloud of dew in the heat 
 of harvest." As the bright heat of the sun 
 and dewy clouds ripen the various crops 
 which require time to bring about maturity, 
 so the Lord said " I will rest and look upon 
 my dwelling-place " for more than 2,000 3- ears : 
 that, during all those ages, my purposes may 
 be accomplished, and my plans brought to 
 
 / full maturity. Hence America was undis- 
 covered for so many centuries, until the set 
 
THE TWO AMERICAS. 85 
 
 time to favor Zioii had come. When mon- 
 archy had done its best, or worst, and utterly 
 failed to elevate, enlighten, and bless the 
 masses of mankind, then America was dis- 
 covered, and the "Stone Kingdom" was set 
 np, to be a blessing to the snffering millions 
 of earth. All through the long ages of the 
 world — ages of experiment in monarchy — 
 ages of failure to bring forth the ripe fruit of 
 civil and religious liberty — ages of despotism 
 — ages of martyrdom and blood — ages that 
 were necessary, it is true, to teach the world 
 the glory of the Christian religion and human 
 freedom — all through these ages, God's eternaU 
 plans were being fulfilled, preparatory to the 
 setting up of the government of Israel Re- 
 stored^ in the Fifth Nationality. 
 
 Y. 5. "For before the harvest, when the 
 bloom is full, and before the blossom becomes 
 ripened grapes, he cuts off the twigs with pru- 
 ning knives, and the tendrils he casts out that 
 he cuts off." With this treatment of a vine- 
 yard, no fruit could ripen. Notwithstanding 
 the bloom is abundant, and . the outlook most 
 hopeful, yet if pruning knives cut off all the 
 twigs bearing grapes, the vineyard is, and 
 
86 THE STOI^E KINGDOM. 
 
 must be, fruitless. So with this land, during 
 all the long ages that it was '^ waiting," un- 
 discovered. N'otwithstanding its vast re- 
 sources and blooming prospects, it brought 
 forth no fruit to maturity — no ripened offer- 
 ings to the praise of Almighty grace. 
 
 Y. 6. " They shall be left together to the 
 wild birds of the mountains and to the wild 
 beasts of the land, and wild birds shall 
 summer thereon, and all the wild beasts of 
 the land shall winter thereon." This is ex- 
 pressive of utter neglect, and desolation. This 
 place of the Church, in " the land shadowed 
 with wings," was left for ages to the wild 
 birds of the mountains and to the wild beasts 
 of the land, waiting the march of Provi- 
 dence and the fulfillment of prophec}^. 
 
 V. 7. ''At that time a gift shall be offered 
 to Jehovah of Hosts — a people tall and naked, 
 and from a people terrible from their begin- 
 ning, and far away — a nation most mighty, 
 and treading down their enemies, whose land 
 streams [or floods] divide, to the place of the 
 name of Jehovah of Hosts — Mount Zion." 
 
 ^'At that time " — when His banner is lifted 
 up upon these mountains, after countless wait- 
 
THE TWO AMERICAS. 87 
 
 ing ages — when the Stone Kingdom is set up, 
 a gift shall be brought to Jehovah of Hosts of 
 " a people tall and naked." Thus one nation 
 is represented as bringing another nation in 
 its arms and offering it to Jehovah of Hosts. 
 And have not the Churches of the United 
 States sent out the Gospel to the Indian 
 tribes, from the earliest times, and whole 
 tribes have been civilized and Christianized? 
 Thus fulfilling the prophecy of one nation 
 offering another as a gift to Jehovah of 
 Hosts. And then the}^ in their turn are 
 represented as bringing gifts to the Lord of 
 Hosts. In this ancient Israel differs from 
 Israel restored. Whereas, the one was ordered 
 to drive out all the Canaanites, and make no 
 alliance with them, the other offers some of 
 the tribes as a' gift to the Lord of Hosts — " to 
 the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts — 
 Mount Zion," /. e., to the place of His Church, 
 and where His glory is manifested. 
 
CHAPTER YI. 
 
 BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL RE- 
 STORED GIVEN. 
 
 Its Division into Thirteen States. — Ezek. xlvii. xlviii. 
 
 " JffTHUS saitli the Lord Jeliovali. This shall 
 f]^ "be the border whereby ye shall inherit 
 the land according to the twelve tribes of 
 Israel. Joseph shall have two portions — (/. e., 
 in all thirteen States.) And ye shall inherit 
 it one as well as another; concerning the 
 which I lifted up my hand, to give it nnto 
 your fathers ; and this land sliall fall unto 
 you for inheritance. And this shall be the 
 border of the land toward the north side from 
 the great sea." . . . Then follows a number 
 of names on this north border, that corres- 
 pond in part with the Mosaic division in 
 Numbers. These names in Ezekiel's division 
 must be symbolic, for this line extends to the 
 east sea : but in the Mosaic division there 
 was no east sea for an eastern border. "And 
 
 88 
 
BOUNDARIES. 89 
 
 tlie east side ye shall measure .... 
 from the border unto the east sea. And this 
 is the east side. And the soiith side, south- 
 ward from the palm-tree, tamar, even to the 
 waters of strife, (south of) the consecrated 
 possession to the great sea. And this is the 
 south side, southward." IS'otice how definite- 
 ly this south boundary is given. " The west 
 
 side also shall be the great sea 
 
 This is the west side. So shall you divide 
 this land unto you, according to the tribes of 
 Israel. And it shall come to pass that ye 
 shall divide it by lot, for an inheritance unto 
 you, and to the strangers that sojourn among 
 you, which shall beget children among you : 
 and they shall be unto you as born in the 
 country, among the children of Israel; they 
 shall have inheritance with you among the 
 tribes of Israel. And it shall come to pass 
 that, in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, 
 there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith 
 the Lord God." 
 
 Then, in the 48th chapter, we find the names 
 of all the thirteen tribes, with their portion of 
 land assigned to each,running from east to west. 
 The portion of Levi lay between Judali and 
 
90 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Benjamin. The insj^irecl writer, in drawing a 
 map of the country, mentions the course of 
 each portion, stating that it must run from 
 east to west. This fact is expressed with 
 great emphasis. So that all the portions 
 extended from the sea on the east, to the 
 great sea on the west. Dr. Scott says "As 
 no such division took place after the captivity, 
 this must be understood of future events. 
 This division of the land differs entirely from 
 that which was made in the days of Joshua ; 
 and it is not probable that it should ever lit- 
 erally take place." Of course this division of 
 the land can never take place in old Palestine, 
 because it will always lack borders. It will 
 always lack an eastern sea for a boundary, 
 and also a sea on the south side. But there 
 is a country that Ezekiel and Isaiah and 
 Daniel and John saw, that tills the bill exact- 
 ly ; that furnishes an "eastern sea, and the 
 great western sea." And " the south side, 
 southward from the palm-tree [or place of 
 palm-trees] unto the Avaters of strife [or the 
 stormy Gulf of Mexico south of] the conse- 
 crated possession unto the great sea. And 
 this is the south side, southward." The 
 
BOTTKBAMES. 91 
 
 south boundary of the United States is aston- 
 ishingly accurately given. And on the north, 
 " the border from the sea shall be surrounded 
 with clouds, liazar-enon^ the border of the 
 traffic, damaseli^ and north northward, and 
 the border a fortress, liamatli^ and this is 
 the north side." The Hebrew names used in 
 the boundaries of Israel restored, must be 
 symbolic. It would not have done to have 
 given the literal names of the present borders, 
 for then the prophecy would have been under- 
 stood before the seal was broken, and before 
 the period of '' the time of the end " had come. 
 But now " the time of the end" has come, and 
 we may legitimately inquire for the symbolic 
 meaning. 
 
 Next let us point out some of the coinci- 
 dences between Israel restored, as described 
 by Ezekiel in chapters xlvii : and xlviii : and 
 the United States, and see how the descrip- 
 tion fits our land. 
 
 1st. The north boundary of the United 
 States, beginning on the Pacific coast : this is 
 specifically mentioned " from the great sea " 
 on the west, and coming east the border is 
 " surrounded with clouds " for more than a 
 
99 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 1,000 miles through the Rocky Mountains. 
 This may mean political clouds, as the fulfill- 
 ment shows, as well as clouds of vapor. Then 
 "by " the border of traffic." This may mean 
 the limit of trade and commerce on the North, 
 as it is in some parts of the line ; or it may 
 mean " the border of traffic " on the great 
 Lakes between British America and the United 
 States — then on through " pine forests " to 
 " the east sea," or Atlantic : this fully corres- 
 ponds with " the pine forests " of Maine, and 
 all that region. But there are other Hebrew 
 words named in this border, to the roots of 
 which lexicographers fail to give us any clue, 
 or any satisfactory signification : which re- 
 minds us that the north border is " surrounded 
 with clouds," which may not be cleared awaj^ 
 till after the coming storm, spoken of by the 
 prophets. And as the north boundary, in 
 Ezekiel's field notes, is " surrounded with 
 clouds " and much uncertainty, so was the 
 north boundary of the United States for a 
 long time a subject of great perplexity. In 
 V these and other points, the shadow and the 
 substance coincide. 
 2nd. The south side of the United States, 
 
BOUNDARIES. 93 
 
 beginning at Florida, or place of " the palm 
 tree." Tamar, is a generic term, and has many 
 species, some of which grow in Florida, and 
 probably all might be cultivated successfully. 
 From thence along the coast of " the waters 
 of strife," or the stormy Gulf, which bounds 
 on the south, " the consecrated possession/* 
 and then on to " the great sea," or Pacific 
 ocean, I presume on the same latitude, since 
 all the tribes had their portion marked out. 
 side by side of each other, from the east to 
 the west. The southern boundary must also 
 be correspondingly straight from east to west. 
 This is a remarkable coincidence. On the 
 south side, the Gulf of Mexico is graphically 
 described as " the waters of strife," or stormy, 
 lying south of '' the consecrated possession," 
 or land of Israel restored. 
 
 3rd, '' The east side ye shall measure from 
 the border . . . unto the east sea. And 
 this is the east side." In like manner, the 
 Atlantic ocean lies on the east side of our 
 country, and corresponds to '"" the east sea," as 
 seen in Ezekiel's vision and map of survey. 
 
 4th. '• The west side shall also be the 
 great sea." This corresponds exactly with 
 
94 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 the Pacific ocean on the west border of 
 America. Tlie shadow and the substance fit 
 witli wonderful exactness. " Tlie great sea '-' 
 and the Pacific ocean coincide. 
 
 5tli. Tlie hand in all the thirteen tribes, as 
 written in the prophecy, must be laid out 
 from east to west. And as shown from the 
 field-notes of the boundaries, the portion of 
 land for each tribe must be measured from 
 "the east sea" to "the great sea" on the 
 west — from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This 
 plan of division, for each portion, is specifi- 
 cally giveii. Now let us behold with wonder 
 the coincidence between this vision and our 
 own thirteen States, in their beginning. In 
 1663, Charles II., King of England, granted the 
 province of Carolina to eight noblemen. It 
 lay between 29' and 36' 30' north latitude. 
 This embraced all of N'orth Carolina, South 
 Carolina and Georgia, three of the oldtliirtee:i 
 States. And the territory of this grant ex- 
 tended east and west, "from the Atlantic 
 to the Pacific," coinciding with the divine 
 pattern, although the contracting parties cared 
 nothing and knew nothing about the divine 
 programme. 
 
BOUNDARIES. 95 
 
 111 1609, James I., King of England, granted 
 the province of Virginia to the London Com- 
 pany. The grant was to reach 200 miles north 
 of Old Point Comfort, and 200 miles south, 
 and to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
 This embraced Virginia and Maryland, two 
 more of the old thirteen States, and brings 
 them in for a full share of the territory. 
 
 About 1615, King James I. granted a patent 
 to Captain John Smith for a colony, called 
 "New England." It was all that territory 
 lying between 46^ and 48^ north latitude 
 Joining the grant to the " London Company " 
 on the south, it extended from the Atlantic to 
 the Pacific, covering all the territory of the 
 other eight States of the old thirteen — and 
 extended " from the east to the west." There 
 were other charters granted which lapped and 
 interlapped. But enough has been written to 
 show that the grants to the original thirteen 
 States, extended from " the east sea " to " the 
 great sea " on the west, coinciding perfectly 
 with the division of the land that Ezekiel saw 
 and surveyed. However strange these coin- y 
 cidences may appear, they are no less strange 
 than true. " Man's heart deviseth his way, 
 but the Lord directeth his steps." 
 
96 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 6tli. Another remarkable coincidence is, 
 the i^ortions of all the thirteen tribes of Israel 
 began their settlements on the east side, and 
 moved on to the west, according to the vision 
 of Ezekiel. And just so in Israel restored, 
 they all began on the east side, on the Atlantic 
 coast, and moved on with settlement and 
 civilization to the west, or Pacific. Surelj 
 this is not the work of chance, but the exe- 
 cution of a grand plan, directed by the hand 
 of Providence. Here we see multitudes of 
 men of different nationalities, unwittingly 
 carrying out the divine programme, revealed 
 more than 2,500 years ago. Truly the Bible is 
 God's word, written by omniscience. 
 
 7th. Another coincidence is, there were 
 twelve tribes in Israel, but Joseph had two 
 tribes, making thirteen. So in the United 
 States there were twelve States. But Pennsyl- 
 vania and Delaware, William Penn's two 
 States, were under one governor, or pro- 
 prietary, although they each had a sej)arate 
 and distinct Assembly, from 1703 to 1776, 
 Then they became se^^arate and independent 
 States, which make up the thirteen. This 
 wonderful coincidence was not of chance, but 
 
BOUNDARIES. 97 
 
 tlie workings of an eternal plan. " So shall 
 ye divide the land unto you, according to the 
 tribes of Israel." And so it has been. The 
 divine pattern has been followed and realized 
 in the great Restoration. 
 
 8th. "In Avhat tribe the stranger sojourn- 
 etli, there shall ye give him his inheritance, 
 saith the Lord God." This pointed to an 
 enlarged condition from one family, to all the 
 families of earth under the Christian dispen- 
 sation. When men become Christians, then / 
 they become Israelites, and children of 
 Abraham, and are entitled to their inheri- 
 tance. In whatever tribe [or State] the 
 stranger sojourneth, there he may have his^ 
 inheritance. And so it is in the United 
 States ; strangers may come from all parts of 
 the world, and cast in their lot with us, and 
 purchase for themselves an inheritance, and 
 be j)rotected by the laws of the country. 
 ''And ye shall inherit it one as well as an- 
 other": there can be no difference between 
 the Jew and the Gentile in Christian Israel. 
 This prophecy clearly describes the resto- 
 ration "in the latter days," under the ex- 
 panding glory of the Gospel dispensation. 
 
08 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 when the children of Shem, Ham and Japheth, 
 shall become by faith the seed of Abraham, 
 true Israelites, and heirs according to the 
 promise. Thus the Land and the Church 
 are strangely connected — the civil and the 
 religious seem to go hand in hand all through 
 the enlarged condition of the great resto- 
 ration. So in this prophecy there is a par- 
 ticular land assigned to Israel, with metes 
 and bounds given it, and the number of States 
 specified, to 'begin witli. And this last vision 
 of Ezekiel corresponds with the Stone which 
 was cut out of the mountain without hands. 
 It was to increase and increase, until it became 
 a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 
 This last vision also corresponds with " the 
 ancient of days,''^ who came after the four 
 beasts which Daniel saw. When he came he 
 had but 3,000,000 to minister unto him, but he 
 had "a rod of iron given to him, to rule all 
 nations," and to fill the earth with his glory. 
 In like manner, this wonderful vision of 
 Ezekiel closes with a small beginning of thir- 
 teen States, to start the world on a higher 
 plane of development. But small as its 
 beginnings were, its mission is to reach to, 
 
BOUNDARIES. 99 
 
 and bless the ends of the earth with liberty 
 and life. 
 
 The power of the Gospel through this 
 people is demonstrated in the same chapter, 
 by the water which Ezekiel saw flowing from 
 the house and the altar, small at first ; but 
 further down, the stream became deeper, even 
 to the ankles ; and further on, it came to the 
 knees ; still flowing with an increasing swell, 
 "the waters were to the loins"; still flowing 
 witli a widening sweep and a rising power, it 
 became " a river that could not be passed 
 over." So with the unnoticed and despised 
 waters of life and liberty, which flowed flrst 
 from the land of Israel's restoration. This 
 stream of influence is widening and deepening 
 in its flow\ There is a divine power about it 
 that elevates the human mind, and gives it 
 higher aspirations. And the trees that grow 
 on either bank of this river, bear fruit for the 
 nourishment of the people : and their leaves 
 are '' for the healing of the nations." This 
 stream has powder to bear down and sweep 
 away all tyranny, oppression, and every 
 thing that opposes civil and religious liberty. 
 When this government was not half a century 
 
100 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 old, the stream of its influence shook terribly, 
 either directly or indirectly, every throne in 
 Europe. If such was the eff'ect of this stream, 
 when so small, what will the surging floods 
 do ? Surely the beginning is hopeful, but the 
 ending will be the glory of the world. The 
 prophet tells us "the greatness of the king- 
 dom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
 to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
 whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
 and all dominions shall serve and obey Him." 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE CHURCH 
 
 And the Land of Her Restoration. — Isa. xlix. 11-26. 
 
 W^ this chapter we have some most cheering 
 ^ prophecies of the Church, of her de- 
 liverance from oppression, of her wonderful 
 enlargement and glorious triumphs ; also, of 
 the land of Israel, or the place of the Church's / 
 restoration — our own United States — of her 
 great development of physical resources and 
 political power : all these are graphically fore- 
 shadowed by the prophet, and their reality is 
 demonstrated by fulfillment. 
 
 Y. 11. "I will appoint all my mountains for a 
 highway, and my roads shall be made high." 
 The language here implies that gathering ar- 
 mies would soon be on the march to this land 
 described. The preparations were vast, but not 
 greater than necessary. As " the mountains 
 
 of Israel " is an expression frequently used 
 
 101 
 
103 THE STOT^E KIISTGDOM. 
 
 for the whole land of ancient Israel, so in this 
 prophecy we take " all my mountains " to 
 mean all my mountains of Israel restored, or 
 the whole land. The word umslllotha means 
 a way cast up — a causeway — built with tim- 
 bers across the road. May this not mean the 
 system of railroads which the prophet saw in 
 these times, then "far off," that is now form- 
 ing a network all over our country from sea 
 to sea? Are not these pre-eminently high- 
 ways, over which all the armies of immigrants 
 pass which come to us from every quarter of 
 the globe ? 
 
 " My roads shall be made high." There will 
 be ample room for Christians of every name 
 to come without fear of persecution. They 
 need no longer hide in dens and caves and in 
 secret places in the wilderness for fear. But 
 here they may travel openly on the great high- 
 ways, fearing no more the blood-hounds of 
 cruelty which so often yelped on their tracL:. 
 Here they may worship God as they please. 
 
 The Church and the land of the Church seem 
 intimately connected in all these prophecies. 
 Not that all the people in this land are or will 
 be Christians, any more than that all the Jews 
 
THE CHURCH. 103 
 
 in ancient Israel were Israelites. For in Is- 
 rael restored, as well as in ancient Israel, 
 millions of devils in human shape may be 
 found. Ancient Israel, in the days of Ahab 
 and Jezebel, was almost entirely swallowed 
 up in idolatr3^ Elijah described those times 
 plaintively : " For the children of Israel have 
 forsaken Thy. covenant, thrown down Thine 
 altars and slain Thy j)rophets with the sword ; 
 and I, even I, only am left, and they seek my 
 life to take it away." This is indeed a sad 
 picture. The objection that this country is 
 too wicked to be Israel restored falls to the 
 ground when compared and contrasted with 
 ancient Israel under such rulers as Ahab and 
 Jezebel and Manasseh and Jeroboam and 
 others of like character. 
 
 Y. 12. " Behold these shall come from far off, 
 and behold these from the north and from the 
 west, and these from the land of Sinim." 
 
 The prophet had just declared that '' all my 
 mountains" shall be appointed for "a high- 
 way." And now he calls the attention of the 
 world to " behold these shall come from far off, 
 and behold these from the north [of Europe] 
 and from the west [of Europe]." The fulfill- 
 
104 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 ment sliows this, and the facts in the case are 
 better interpreters of the Scripture than vague, 
 a priori theories. Behold great multitudes 
 coming from every quarter of the compass to 
 the Land of restoration. Multitudes fleeing 
 
 v/ from tyranny and oppression and coming to a 
 land of civil and religious liberty, to a land of 
 an open Bible and great physical prosperity 
 and of inexhaustible resources, to a land 
 where the Lord alone is King of the con- 
 science. What land on earth can this be but 
 
 "^our own United States ? To no other land on 
 earth is so great a migration directing the 
 march of its moving millions — to the Stone 
 Kingdom, to the great fifth nationalit3^ or to 
 Israel restored, just as the prophets foretold. 
 " And these from the land of Sinim." Com- 
 mentators are generally agreed that Sinim, or 
 ^ Sina, is China. The prophet beholds with as- 
 tonishment vast multitudes coming from every 
 quarter but especially " these from the land 
 of Sinim," or China. That great country has 
 been exclusive and shut uj) to itself for thou- 
 sands of years, not mingling and commingling 
 with other nations in religion or commerce, 
 but behold, even its people are breaking over 
 
THE CHUECH. 105 
 
 their barriers and by some strange impulse 
 are joining the great migration. Hundreds of 
 thousands have already come to our shores 
 from the west. Their coming has startled our 
 people even more than was the propliet. These ' 
 are times of wonderful fulfillment of wonderful 
 prophecies. " These from the land of Sinim," 
 coming "from the west" shows that old Pales- 
 tine never could be the land of restoration 
 spoken of, because the Chinese never could 
 reach that land from that direction ; but com- 
 ing from the west, across the Pacific, of course 
 they must land on our western coast, as they 
 have done by scores of thousands. All this\/ 
 prophecy points to the United States as re- 
 stored Israel with unerring accuracy. Its ful- 
 fillment is its own demonstration. 
 
 V. 13. "Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, 
 earth, let the mountains break forth into joy! 
 because Jehovah has comforted His people, 
 and He will have compassion on His afflicted." 
 The prophet saw the panorama of God's prov- 
 idence passing. It seemed to him as already 
 realized. He saw the Church coming out of 
 the wilderness, from her long afflictions and 
 horrible persecutions. He saw God's Church, 
 
106 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 or Israel, restored to more than ancient glory- 
 in tlieir own land, together with millions of 
 the oppressed of earth who had longed and 
 prayed for civil and religions liberty to devel- 
 op their resources according to their convic- 
 tions of right. He saw them coming from 
 ^ every quarter to build up their own great 
 nationality — the fifth and last form of govern- 
 ment which was to be developed with increas • 
 ing glory from age to age. They were flushed 
 with hope and joyful expectation. The pros- 
 pect was transcendently glorious in the histo- 
 ry of earth. Hence he calls upon the heav- 
 ens to shout and the earth to rejoice and the 
 mountains to break forth into joy, " because 
 Jehovah had comforted His people and had 
 compassion on His afflicted." 
 
 Y. 14. " And yet Zion said, Jehovah hath 
 forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me." 
 How natural for us to complain in the midst 
 of affliction. Zion, or the Church of God, had 
 been sorely tried and terribly afflicted for 
 many long centuries. She had been tyrannized 
 over, robbed and oppressed so long ; her beau- 
 tiful garments had been so often torn or burned 
 with fire or bespattered with her own blood ; 
 
THE CHURCH. 107 
 
 and all lier brightest earthly hopes seemed 
 so utterly blasted, that she said, " All these 
 things are against me" — "Jehovah hath for- 
 saken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me." 
 The glorious change described above was not 
 the result of the Church's confidence in her 
 God, for she said, " The Lord hath forgotten 
 me," but it is a grand illustration of the divine 
 sovereignty in carrying out His eternal pro- 
 gramme for His own glory and for the infinite 
 betterment of His people, both as to civil 
 government, to bless the world thereby with 
 larger liberty, and also in an infinitely 
 greater manner to promote the glory of His 
 redemption. 
 
 Y. 15. " Will a woman forget her sucking 
 child, from having compassion on the son of 
 her womb ? Also even these will forget, and 
 yet I will not forget thee." The unfailing and 
 constant affection of God for His children is 
 here eloquently expressed. A mother may 
 forget her child, but " I will not forget thee." 
 The tenderest ties known on earth may be 
 broken, but " I will not forsake thee." 
 
 V. 16. "Behold, upon both palms I have 
 engraven thee ; thy walls are always before 
 
108 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 me." 'It is impossible for me to forget thee 
 or tlie promises I have made to thee. Both 
 my blood-bought Church and the land of her 
 restoration are ever before me. My promises, 
 though extended through thousands of years, 
 are not forgotten. Their fulfillment, though 
 long delayed, shall gloriously and literally 
 come to pass.' 
 
 y. 17. '' Thy sons hasten to thee. Thy 
 wasters and thy destroyers shall go out from 
 thee," /. e., depart from thee. " Thy sons hasten 
 to thee " is another announcement of the great 
 migration that has set in to the land of the 
 promised restoration. Has not this prophecy 
 been, and is it not now being, wonderfully 
 ^realized ? Many thousands are hastening to 
 our shores from all parts of the world. " Thy 
 sons " does not imply that all the host of im- 
 migrants are Christians, or ever will be, any 
 more than that all the ''sons of Israel" were 
 pious. For the country must be developed 
 and the government must be made powerful. 
 Both Churcli and State, though separate and 
 distinct, must flourish in this land to accom- 
 plish their great mission ecclesiastically, po- 
 litically and revolutionary among the nations. 
 
THE CHURCH. 109 
 
 An absolutely lioly nation will never be found 
 on this eartli, not even in the noontide of the 
 millennial reign. Such an ideal nation is 
 without precedent or prophecy and is subli- 
 mated utopianism. 
 
 " Thy wasters and thy destroyers shall go y 
 out from thee." The British armies that wast- 
 ed our people for so many years and oj)posed 
 the establishment of our government and our 
 matchless system of civil and religious liber- 
 ty, have gone out from us. They fought 
 against the j^rovidence of God, and tliat prov- 
 idence was too strong for them. The fierce 
 and warlike Indian tribes that wasted our 
 forefathers and destroyed their property, have 
 gone out from us. They have wasted away, ^ 
 until now scarcely a shadow of their former 
 greatness is left to witness the astonishing 
 fulfillment of this part of the eternal pro- 
 gramme. 
 
 V. 18. "Lift up thine eyes round about and 
 see, all of them are gathered together, they 
 are come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, 
 that all of them as an ornament thou shalt put 
 on and bind them as a bride." This seems to 
 be a glimpse of the promised country further 
 
110 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 on in its history than was seen in the preced- 
 ing verses. It represents the land as already 
 occupied by many thousands, with all the 
 equipments of the Church and a well-regulated 
 government. " As I live, saith Jehovah, that all 
 of them as an ornament thou shalt put on, and 
 bind them as a bride." Thus by this great mul- 
 titude of forces all parts of the land of the 
 Church shall be made beautiful, by improved 
 agriculture, by a thrifty population, by 
 schools and churches, by sobriety and virtue, 
 while the land and the peoi3le enjoy their 
 Sabbaths — all, even all these, '' shall be put 
 on and bound to her, as doeth a bride her 
 beautiful ornaments." Then the Church with 
 her propitious surroundings shall " look forth 
 as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the 
 sun, and terrible as an army with banners." 
 
 Y. 19. "Then thy ruins and thy wastes and 
 thy desolated land, even at this time, thou 
 shalt be too narrow for the inhabitants, and 
 the}^ that swallowed thee up shall be far 
 away." This difhcult passage seems to 
 mean ; instead of a land that was once for 
 untold centuries, waste and ruins and desola- 
 tion, now, because of the great intlux of in- 
 
THE CHURCH. Ill 
 
 habitants, is too narrow. Its prosperity is so 
 great, more territory is demanded. It is no 
 longer wastes and ruins and desolation, but 
 crowded witli millions and enlivened with the 
 bustle of labor and commerce : more room and ^ 
 more territory are needed for its increasing 
 and prosperous multitudes. "They that 
 swallowed thee uj) " — the autocracies and 
 armies of the old world, " shall be far away " 
 — beyond the seas, so that they cannot hinder / 
 thy growth or impede thy progress. 
 
 Y. 20. " Again the children which thoushalt 
 have after thou hast lost the other [ancient 
 Israel] shall say in thine ears, the dwelling- 
 place is too narrow for me, give place to 
 me that I may dwell." Enlargement, exten-^. 
 sion and exj)ansion, is a prominent charac- 
 teristic of Israel restored. " The Stone that 
 smote the image, became a great mountain, 
 and filled the whole earth." The adjoining 
 countries and nations will see the light of 
 Israel's growth and partake of its nature and 
 character. And thus the leaven will work,^ 
 extending her borders further and wider, 
 while the aggressive cry of conquest will be 
 heard in every direction, '* Give place. Make 
 
112 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 room for me, that I may dwell." The clwell- 
 ^ing place of the Church is to be co-extensive 
 with her conquests ; and ultimately to em 
 brace the whole world. Such is the divine 
 programme. All " the thrones are to be cast 
 down," and " the saints of the Most High 
 shall take the kingdom and possess the king- 
 dom forever, even forever and ever." 
 
 Y. 21. "And thou shalt say in thy heart. 
 Who hath begotten for me even these, seeing 
 I have lost my children, and am barren, an 
 exile and driven out, and who hath brought 
 up these, behold I was left alone, these, where 
 were they ?" 
 
 This passage seems to represent ancient 
 Israel as soliloquising, saying, Who hath be- 
 gotten for me even these, seeing I have lost my 
 children and am barren, an exile and driven 
 out, a cast-off family, and who hath brought 
 up these — these Christians, children of Shem, 
 Ham and Japheth ? Behold I was left alone, 
 but these where were they, and whence came 
 they — this great nationality of Israel restored, 
 greater in numbers, greater in power, and 
 greater in learning, more progressive and 
 aggressive than all the children that I have 
 
THE CHUKCII. 113 
 
 lost ? They claim to be, and are, leaders of 
 tlie world in tlioughfc, in invention, in civil and 
 religions liberty, in all the higher graces of 
 Christian life ; '' who hath bronght nj) these," 
 and whence came they ? " Refrain thy voice 
 from Aveeping and thine eyes from tears, . . . 
 there is hope in thine end, saitli the Lord, that 
 children, \_L e.^ spiritual cliildren of Abraham 
 or Christians,] shall come again to their own 
 border," in the day of their great restoration. 
 Jer. xxxi : 16, 17. '' For if the casting away 
 of them [of Ancient Israel] be the reconciling 
 of the world, what shall the receiving [of 
 Israel restored] be but life from the dead ?" 
 Rom. xi : 15 — life to the dead nations by the 
 purifying, exalting and saving power of the 
 Gospel. The influence of the government of y 
 Israel restored, Avill be life to the land of dead 
 monarchies and autocracies. Their people 
 will rise up and shake off the grave-clothes of 
 despotism and start on higher planes of devel- 
 opment. And in this manner the nations will'^ 
 "receive life from the dead." 
 
 y. 22. " Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Be- 
 hold I will lift up to the nations my hand, 
 and I will set up my banner to the peoples, 
 
114 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 and they will bring thy sons in their arms 
 and thy daughters shall be carried on their 
 shoulders." The Lord is here represented as 
 beckoning with his hand to the nations, and 
 as setting up his banner to the peoples, sum- 
 moning them to start on the great migration 
 to their promised land. Their sons should be 
 carried in their arms, and their daughters on 
 their shoulders. They would not wait for 
 expensive preparation : but as soon as God 
 would point out the way and their duty, they 
 would leave all and start as prom23tly as pos- 
 sible, following the banner of His providence, 
 and the pointing of His hand. Has this pro- 
 phecy not been fully realized in the discovery 
 of America and in the movement of the mul- 
 titudes from the nations to this country? 
 7 The discovery of America was the "banner 
 lifted up " to attract the attention of the 
 nations and people, while its vast resources, 
 with its social, civil and religious privileges, 
 was " the hand " of God that pointed them 
 hither. 
 
 y. 23. " And kings shall be thy nursing 
 fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers ; 
 face to the ground shall they bow to thee and 
 
THE CHURCH. 115 
 
 they sliall lick the dust of thy feet, and thou 
 shalt know that I am Jehovah, whose waiters 
 [L e., those who wait for His help] shall not 
 be ashamed." 
 
 , This prophecy is now our history. Did not 
 tlie kings and queens of Europe encourage 
 colonization in America for near two centu- 
 ries, by their money, by grants of land, by 
 charters, and in various ways? It was an 
 immense undertaking. It required brave 
 hearts, strong arms, and the wealth of kings 
 and queens to sup23ort and maintain the early 
 colonization of our country. And so it became 
 the pet scheme of royalty to colonize and 
 settle this land. This was God's plan to 
 establish Japheth on these shores, to plant 
 the Church here and to roll back the heathen 
 tribes that occupied the territory. A multi- 
 tude of names in our country will forever 
 remind us that kings were our nursing fathers 
 and their queens were our nursing mothers. » .^.^'^ 
 Maryland, Virginia, Carolina and Georgia, y ' 
 among the old thirteen States, and King Wil- 
 liam, Prince George, Prince Edward, Queen 
 Anne and dozens more counties will forever 
 bear testimony to the fulfillment of this proph- 
 
116 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 ecy. As time rolls on, and as God's eternal 
 plans are unfolded in providence as tliey are 
 in propliecy, tlie latter 2)art of this verse will 
 be as literally and as astonishingly fulfilled. 
 " And thou slialt know that I am Jehovah, 
 whose waiters shall not be ashamed." They 
 are not ashamed ; and they even now see, in 
 part, what wonderful tilings He has done ; 
 and they confidently " wait " for the rest to 
 be hastened in its time. 
 
 Y. 24. " Shall the prey be taken from the 
 mighty, and shall the captivity of the right- 
 eous be delivered V As the hawk swoops 
 down upon the dove and feeds upon the help- 
 less, so have popes and priests and merciless 
 tyrants preyed upon the humble followers of 
 Christ, and the captivity of the righteous has 
 been drawn out through many centuries of 
 blood and torture. But now, tliank God, 
 there is a land whose Constitution guarantees 
 freedom and the full enjoyment of all relig- 
 ious privileges to His people. Thank God, 
 the prey has been taken from the mighty, and 
 the captivity of the righteous is ended. 
 ^America is not only " the land of tlie free and 
 the home of the brave," but the, heaven- 
 
THE CHURCH. 117 
 
 appointed place of IsraePs freedom, deliver- 
 ance from oppression and restoration. 
 
 Y. 25. " For thus saith Jeliovali, also the 
 captives of the mighty shall be taken and the 
 prey of the terrible shall be delivered, and 
 with thy adversaries I will contend and I will 
 save thy sons." 
 
 And has the Lord not contended with our 
 adversaries and overthrown them ? And has 
 He not established this great providential 
 government, to which His people may flee, 
 and have fled by scores of thousands ? And 
 here He hath " saved his sons," saved His 
 people from the rack, from torture and despot- 
 ism, and hath furnished them a home, where 
 God alone is King. Truly " the Lord shall 
 comfort Zion, he will comfort all her w^aste 
 places and he will make her wilderness like 
 Eden and her desert like the garden of the 
 Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found there- 
 in, thanksgiving and the voice of melody." 
 Isa. li : 4. Strange that this wonderful pro- 
 phec}", and still more wonderful fulflllment 
 have not been understood by the Church. 
 Strange that this long-sj)read feast of heaven- 
 ly love has never been uncovered before. It 
 
118 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 furnishes bread to strengthen and wine to 
 cheer. Let it be read from the mountain tops. 
 Let it be heralded from shore to shore. Let 
 the nations know that " tlie Lord is Jehovah 
 whose waiters shall not be ashamed." 
 
 Y. 2(5. '' And I will make thine oppressors 
 eat their own flesh, and, as with new wine, 
 they shall be drunken with their own 
 blood." 
 
 I take this to be a metaphorical expression 
 to show the deep chagrin and drunken rage 
 of oppressors or tyrants, when they have lost 
 their prey and when they have lost large ter- 
 ritory and dominion. It was a bitter pill for 
 England to give up all right and title to the 
 United States, and to acknowledge our inde- 
 pendence and nationality. After more than 
 an hundred years, she has hardly forgiven us 
 yet. But she could not help herself. It was 
 the Lord's own doing for the glory of His 
 Church, and for a blessing to this sin-cursed 
 world, that " all flesh shall know that I Jeho- 
 vah am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the 
 Mighty One of Jacob." The covenant-keep- 
 ing God is Israel's God, and He will make all 
 His promises true. 
 
THE CHURCH. 119 
 
 " Praise ye the Lord. Praise Him for His 
 miglity acts: praise Him according to His 
 excellent greatness. Let ever^^tliing that 
 hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the 
 Lord/' 
 

 CHAPTER YIII. 
 SETTING UP OF ISRAEL 
 
 "The Second Time." — ha xi. lo-ib, 
 
 HE first part of tliis chapter relates to 
 ^ the coming of Messiah, to the right- 
 eousness of the Gospel, to its peaceable con- 
 quests and wonderful moral transformations. 
 The prophet here seems to give a general view 
 of Messiah's reign, calling attention to grand 
 results ratlier than to the means of their 
 accomplishment. TJie idea of His spiritual 
 reign in and over the children of men is 
 mainly intended. But in the latter part of 
 this chapter, the prophet describes another 
 development of the Rod of Jesse more defi- 
 nitely and concisely. As Messiah, or the 
 Lord's Anointed, ruled in ancient Israel, so 
 Christ, or His Anointed, rules in the N'ew 
 Testament Israel, the same Lord over both 
 
 dispensations. The Church of God was "Is-^/ 
 120 
 
SETTIJS-G UP OF ISRAEL. 121 
 
 rael," and is '' Israel," the same in ancient as / 
 in modern times. The Church under this dis- 
 pensation is marked by an enlarged develop- 
 ment and change of dress. In the ancient 
 econoni}^, one family was developed in types 
 and symbols, both as to the true religion and 
 the true government, giving ample instruction 
 in every department symbolically. In the ^ 
 new economy, we have, or are to have, the 
 realization of this divine religion in all the 
 families of earth. In ancient Israel, in the 
 days of the Judges, there was a divinely ap- 
 pointed theocratic-republican government, as 
 a beautiful symbol. In the new economy, we 
 must look for its realization in grander pro- 
 portions, in the setting up of Israel " the 
 second time." As the religion of ancient Israel / 
 is to be develojDed into the world-wide religion 
 of the new economy, so the symi)olic, theo- 
 cratic-republican government of ancient Israel 
 is to be realized in the government of Israel 
 restored, under the world-embracing Christian 
 dispensation. As ancient Israel had a place -^ 
 on the earth assigned it, with metes and 
 bounds, in which territory it accomplished its 
 symbolic mission, so Israel restored has a 
 
122 THE STOKE KINGDOM. 
 
 place on tlie eartli assigned to it, tliougli 
 vastl}^ larger, with metes and bounds, in wliicli 
 it is to begin its work of restoration : but its 
 mission, unlike ancient Israel's, is to expand 
 and enlarge, until it embraces all nations. The 
 V " Stone " is to grow larger and larger, until " it 
 fills the whole earth," until " the thrones shaU 
 be cast down," until monarchy and despotism 
 are crushed and " driven away like chaff 
 from the summer threshing-floors," and the 
 world shall be blessed with truth and the 
 largest share of civil and religious freedom. 
 
 V. 10. " In that day, the sprout of Jesse, 
 which is to stand up, shall be a signal to the 
 peoples : unto it the nations shall tread — [go] 
 — and his place of rest shall be {cwGodtli) 
 abundance." "In that day"— in the day of 
 the triumphs of the Grospel, " in the time of 
 the end " " jvhen the power of the holy people 
 shall cease to be scattered," when the " Stone 
 shall be cut out of the mountain without 
 hands," when " the ancient of days came, 
 and judgment was given to the saints of 
 the Most High, in that day " the sprout of 
 Jesse " shall be set up. 
 
 " The Rod of Jesse " is different from " the 
 
setti:n^g up of isbael. 12B 
 
 Sprout of Jesse." The words are different. 
 Separate and distinct words are employed to 
 convey separate and distinct ideas ; and the 
 objects spoken of are different. " The Rod of 
 Jesse " refers to Christ in the Church ; but 
 " the Sprout of Jesse " refers to Christ in Israel 
 restored. This we learn from the subsequent 
 description. There are two potent reasons 
 why Israel " set up the second time " should 
 be termed "the Sprout of Jesse." 1st. Jesse 
 lived in the last days of the divinely ap- 
 pointed government of the Judges. In his 
 day the government was changed from Judges 
 to Kings, against the divine protest. Jesse 
 stands as a representative of theocratic re- 
 publicanism. 2nd. Jesse also stands as a 
 representative of political power. For from 
 him came David and Solomon, the two most 
 powerful kings of Israel. Thus " the Sprout 
 of Jesse " is a most befitting symbol of - 
 the divinely chosen system of government, 
 clothed with political power. This " Sprout 
 is to stand up as a signal to the peoples, and 
 to it the nations shall tread " — or go. This 
 famous signal to which the nations are " to 
 seek," " to go," " to come," " to assemble," 
 
124 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 is the government of Israel set up " the second 
 time," or the United States of America, as has 
 been demonstrated by a number of prophecies 
 fulfilled. 
 
 "And his place of rest — or residence — shall 
 be (cavodtJi) abundance." This describes the 
 land of Israel's restoration — large, abundant 
 in wealth and resources of all sorts, and ac- 
 cessible to the commerce of the world, for the 
 nations shall go thither. 
 
 " Shall be a signal to the peoples." Our 
 y government is diiferent from all other govern- 
 ments on the earth. The religion of the Bible 
 is its corner-stone, the Church and State, like 
 twins, are separate and distinct, yet each is 
 bound to the other by the strongest cords 
 and tenderest ties. Their mutual strength is 
 increased by their mutual growth. Like good 
 neighbors, they each attend to their own 
 affairs, without either intermeddling with the 
 other's rights. Here, no one lords it over God's 
 heritage. Here, our constitution requires us 
 to render unto Csesar the things that are 
 Caesar's and unto God the things that are 
 God's. Here, a generous soil yields abun- 
 dantly to honest toil. Hence, truthfully, it is 
 
SETTING UP OJT ISKAEL. 125 
 
 called the land of " abundance." Here, every 
 man is free. Here, the humblest citizen may 
 be promoted to the highest offices of honor 
 and trust. To such a " signal " it is no 
 wonder the nations come. "It is the Lord's 
 doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes." 
 
 y. 11. "And it shall be in that day, the Lord 
 shall add His hand a second time, to set up- 
 right the remainder of His people which shall 
 be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and 
 from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, 
 and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from 
 the islands of the sea." 
 
 "And it shall be in that day " — at the time 
 appointed, at the end of the woman's sojourn 
 in the wilderness, at the end of the 1,260 sym- 
 bolic years, " the Lord shall add his hand a 
 second time to set up the remainder of His 
 people." The first time the Lord " set up " 
 " His people " in a national capacity was in 
 the Promised Land, after they were brought 
 out of Egypt. He divided unto them the land 
 according to the thirteen tribes. He gave 
 to each tribe its portion. There they lived 
 through long centuries, in prosperity and in 
 adversity, until their times had been tilled. 
 
126 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Then " the sceptre departed from Judah," 
 and then they were hopelessly scattered to 
 the ends of the earth, as unwilling monuments 
 of the truthfulness of God's Word. For more 
 than eighteen centuries they have been wan- 
 dering as exiles and strangers in strange 
 lands, and must still wander on " until the full- 
 ness of the Gentiles be come in." In the mean- 
 time, Israel will be restored — not the Jews 
 — not the carnal seed of Abraham : no, no ; 
 they do not noAV constitute Israel ; but those 
 who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are 
 born of the Spirit — these constitute the true 
 spiritual Israel. "If ye are Christ's, then are 
 ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the 
 promise." It is this spiritual, believing Israel, 
 \/v which will be restored to a second nation- 
 ality, in all the grandeur programmed by 
 the prophets, even in this land, which God 
 has promised and given to them. It is this 
 
 V Christian Israel which is to revolutionize the 
 nations and bring them back to the control of 
 King Jesus. This is the glorious destiny of 
 
 ^ the Church, working in, through, and with the 
 fifth nationality, as its great co-worker, in 
 the complete restoration of Israel, when " the 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 127 
 
 thrones shall be cast clown " and Jesus shall 
 be "Lord of all," king of nations as He is 
 now king of saints. This is what is meant by 
 Israel restored, and not the return of the Jews 
 to Palestine. It is sad to see whole volumes 
 of learned ignorance on this subject. Let the 
 sad fact be remembered that the Jews, as a 
 people, are not Israel at all ; for they cast off 
 Jesus, their Messiah, and He cast them off. 
 As the great Apostle tells us, "because of un- 
 belief they were broken off." The true Israel 
 of God, in all ages, are those who love and 
 fear Him, and who walk in His wa3^s, whether 
 they be Jews or Grentiles. The Israel under ^ 
 the Jewish economy, has had its day and it 
 is past. The next development is still tlie^ 
 Israel of God, under the Christian dispen- 
 sation, on a world-e nbracing 23lan. 
 
 As the "Stone" was small at first, with a 
 definite location, and ultimately filled the 
 whole earth ; so Israel set ui3 the second time, 
 must be expected to have a definite location, 
 with boundaries w^ell marked. These bound- 
 aries had been found, and definitely de- 
 scribed, in the field-notes of Ezekiel, the in- ^ 
 spired surveyor. Also Isaiah, ani Daniel, 
 
128 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 and John, all point with astonishing directness 
 to the United States, as the chosen territory 
 Avhere the Lord should '' add His hand a 
 second time, to set up, erect, or establish the 
 remainder of His people, which shall be left 
 from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pa- 
 thros, and from Cusli, and fromElam, and from 
 Sliinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands 
 of the sea." 
 
 These countries are all put metonymically 
 for the countries into which Christians have 
 been driven, and from which they come, and 
 are to come, to the land of their restoration. 
 Because the nations mentioned in this verse 
 have long ceased to exist, and have passed 
 away. 
 
 "And from the islands of the sea." Addison 
 Alexander says, this does not mean "merely 
 islands in the strict sense, but the shores of 
 the Mediterranean, whether insular or conti- 
 nental, and substantially equivalent to Europe, 
 and here put last, as being thd most import- 
 ant." And is it not an historical fact that the 
 first settlers of our country, and the founders 
 of our government, came from England and 
 Scotland, and Ireland — literally "from the 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 129 
 
 islands of tlie sea " ? And since then multi- 
 tudes have come from all parts of Europe, 
 and of the world. The word translated 
 " left " from Assyria, etc., is very expres- 
 sive, it is {slia-ar), and means "left over," or 
 that which " remains ; " implying that there 
 was no room for them in those countries, that 
 they Avere crowded out by ojDposing forces, 
 by oppression, or ^persecution. This interpre- 
 tation is fully confirmed by the next verse. 
 
 y. 12. " And he shall set ujd a signal for the 
 nations and assemble the outcasts of Israel, 
 [or those thrust out of Israel] and the dis- 
 persed of Judah shall gather together from 
 the four corners of the earth." The '^ signal 
 set up for the nations," was the setting up of 
 the Stone Government, or fifth nationality. 
 It would be a safe retreat for all the perse- 
 cuted for Christ's sake. It would become so 
 famous a retreat for the " worn-out saints," 
 that it would appear as "a signal for the 
 nations " of the oppressed, where the outcasts 
 of Israel and the scattered of Judah should 
 gather together. Israel and Judah are Hebrew 
 names for the people of Gfod, and mean the 
 thrust-out or exiled: scattered Christians 
 
130 THE STOIS^E KINGDOM. 
 
 should be gathered in this "place of rest, in 
 Israel a second time set up," from the four 
 corners of the eartlu" And has not this 
 prophecy been literally fulfilled ? It and its 
 fulfillment stand to-day as a signal to the 
 nations of the truthfulness and of the divine 
 inspiration of God's Word, showing, as clear 
 as the sun in the heavens, that His prophecy 
 and providence move along, side by side, 
 through the ages. At the same time, they 
 are two. living and uncorruptible witnesses for 
 God and for His truth, before the sinful and 
 God-forgetting generations. 
 
 " Shall gather together from the four cor- 
 ners of the earth." Are they not and have 
 they not been, coming to this country from 
 every nationality ? There is no other nation 
 on earth that has risen like it. Its time and 
 place and circumstances all fill and fit the 
 divine photograph of j)i'ophecy, just as the 
 shadow fits the substance. Whether men will 
 see it, or close their eyes against it, the truth 
 will stand forever the same. God's Word is 
 an infinite store-house, filled with rich provi- 
 sions for the saints. But alas, how many will 
 not partake of its bounties ! • They are poor, 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 131 
 
 lean and starving. They say " our soul loatli- 
 eth tliis light bread." All such had better 
 watch out for " the fiery-flying serj^ents." 
 For the Lord hath spoken. And " he that 
 hath ears to hear, let him hear." 
 
 V. 13. " And the envy of Ephraim shall 
 depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be 
 cutoff: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and 
 Judah shall not vex [press upon] Ephraim " 
 The entire abolition of the old grudge between 
 Ephraim and Judah, is used metonymically 
 to show the harmony which will exist between 
 all Christians in Israel restored, or " in the 
 place of his rest." Addison Alexander says : 
 " That this prophecy was not fulfilled in the 
 return from exile, is sufficiently notorious. 
 That it had not been fulfilled when Christ 
 came, is plain from the continued enmity 
 between the Jews, Samaritans and Galileans. 
 The only fulfillment it has ever had, is in the 
 the abolition of all national and sectional dis- 
 tinctions in the Christian Church, to which 
 converted Jews as well as others must sub- 
 mit." But the prophet is here speaking 
 about '' the sprout of Jesse," — about when " He 
 shall set up a signal for the nations," when 
 
132 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 " the Lord sliall add His hand a second time 
 to set u}) the remainder of His people." He 
 is speal^ing about the times in Israel restored. 
 Then all national and sectional jealousy shall 
 be done away, when all peoples shall gather 
 round the cross. There will be different 
 denominations at that time, but they will 
 form the different parts of that grand anthem 
 of praise, saying " Unto him that loved us and 
 Avashed us from our sins in His own blood and 
 hath made us kings and priests unto God 
 and His Father, to Him be glory and domin- 
 ion forever and ever. Amen." 
 
 V. 14. " And they shall fly upon the shoul- 
 ders of the Philistines towards the west; 
 together they shall spoil the sons of the east, 
 and they shall lay their hand upon Edom and 
 Moab and the children of Ammon shall obey 
 them." It has been customary for many 
 commentators to translate the verb liiijpli in 
 this verse, " to fly " as an eagle flies upon its 
 prey, making Ephraim and Judali fly upon 
 the Philistines as their prey. But this trans- 
 lation is not supported by the sense or by 
 Scripture precedent. This word simply means 
 "to fly" without any " prey" connected with 
 
SETTma TIP OF ISRAEL. 133 
 
 it, as birds fly. See Job. v : 7. Prov. xxiii : 
 5. Dent, iv : 17 : also, of locusts flying. Nah. 
 iii: 17, etc., conveying the idea of rapid loco- 
 motion. Epliraim . and Judali stand metony- 
 mically for Christian people "in the latter 
 days." The Philistines represent the people 
 of " the islands of the sea," or western 
 Europe. " Upon the shoulder," is the place 
 where burdens are carried. 
 
 Now let us read this verse with common 
 sense interpretation. " And at that time," 
 when the Lord would "set His hand a second 
 time " to restore His people, the}^ shall be 
 carried on ships, for this is the only means of 
 transportation across the ocean, and must be 
 the meaning of that symbolic expression, 
 "borne on the shoulders of the Philistines 
 towards the west," to America, to the United 
 States, to the place of His rest that is 
 " abundance." Truly the Philistines [Western 
 Europe] have mightily assisted in gathering 
 together His people to this land of the second 
 setting up of Israel. I cannot see how any^ 
 sense can be made out of this passage, with 
 any other interpretation. With this interpre- 
 tation, it is all clear. It is in accordance with 
 
184 THE STOJ^E KIKOBOM. 
 
 the right meaning of words, and with the 
 facts in the case. Did not our persecuted 
 forefathers, who were the outcasts of Israel 
 and the scattered of Judah, did they not come 
 in ships from Western Europe, or " on the 
 shoulders of the Pliilistines towards the west," 
 and first people the eastern coast of the 
 United States and set uj) this government, 
 which is to-day, and has been for an hundred 
 years, " a signal to the persecuted of the 
 nations -'? And are not " the peoples " fleeing 
 to our shores from the nations of Europe, by 
 hundreds of thousands every year ? This 
 ^ prophecy must mean our country. It can't 
 refer to old Palestine, for then they would 
 have to fly to tlie east, instead of the west, 
 and thereby reverse the whole order of the 
 prophecy. How simple ! How plain and 
 easy to be understood is God's Word when 
 rightly interpreted ! We should humbly 
 search the Scriptures to find out what the 
 Lord hath said, and not dictate to Him what 
 He ought to have said. 
 
 ^' Together they shall spoil the sons of the 
 east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom 
 and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall 
 obey them." 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 135 
 
 The peoples mentioned here have passed 
 away, and are all dead thousands of 3^ears 
 ago. So it is perfectly clear this pro]3liecy 
 does not refer to those dead nations. But as 
 Edom and Moab and Ammon and the children 
 of the East were enemies to the progress and 
 prosperity of Ephraim and Judah ; and as 
 Ephraim and Judah were promised that they 
 should conquer and bring into obedience their 
 enemies, so by metonymy the Christian Israel, , 
 " set up a second time," in the fifth national- 
 ity, would " in the latter days," as " the 
 Stone," crush and utterly destroy all of 
 monarchy and autocracy ; and as the ancient 
 of days would ''cast down the thrones," in 
 like manner all Israel, united under the fos- 
 tering care of a free republican government, 
 will overthrow and subdue Edom, Moab, 
 ximmon, or all powers opposing the growth, 
 expansion and universal dominion of civil 
 and religious liberty and the world-wide 
 extension of human freedom. These enemies 
 to the highest attainments of human excel- 
 lence, under the gospel dispensation " in the 
 latter days," are to be utterly overthrown, 
 destroyed and scattered to the winds like 
 
136 THE STON^E KINGDOM. 
 
 cliaff from the summer tlireshing floors, so that 
 no place shall be found for them. The nations 
 must submit to, and obey, the government of 
 the king of nations. Such seems to be the 
 programme marked out in this prophecy of 
 the triumphs of the Church under the reign of 
 King Immanuel. 
 
 Y. 15. *' And Jehovah will utterly destroy 
 the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and shake 
 his hand upon the river in the strength of his 
 v^ind, and smite it in the seven streams and 
 cause his people to tread it in shoes " [or, pass 
 over dry shod.] 
 
 Y. 16. " And there shall be a highway for 
 the remainder of my people, which shall be 
 left from Assyria, as there was for Israel, in 
 the day of his coming up from the land of 
 Egypt." 
 
 These two verses are retrospective and 
 prospective: and tell how these wonder- 
 ful results are and were brought about. The 
 " tongue of the Egyptian Sea," or Red Sea, 
 was the first great difficulty that the children 
 of Israel met on their way to the Promised 
 Land. It is prophesied that this difficulty 
 shall be utterly destroyed, and shall be no 
 
SETTIT^G UP OF ISEAEL. 137 
 
 obstacle to the march of the Lord's people, in 
 the great restoration. In the providence of 
 God, has not the Red Sea been converted into 
 a great highway for the nations ? By the 
 opening of the Snez Canal, " the tongne of 
 the Egyptian Sea " has been utterly destroyed 
 as a difficulty or obstacle ; it opens a way 
 several thousand miles the shortest and best 
 from Europe to India and to all seaports of 
 Asia. Thus the facilities for travel have been 
 greatly increased, thereby bringing the ends 
 of the earth nearer together. So that '^ the 
 children of the east," as well as '' the Philis- 
 tines " of the west, may see the '' Sprout of 
 Jesse " set up as an " ensign for the nations," 
 and " the outcasts of Israel " may be " gathered 
 together from the four corners of the earth," 
 " to the place of his rest," or place of his 
 residence. 
 
 " And shake his hand [in a threatening 
 manner] upon the river, in the strength of his 
 wind [as much as to say, ' you will not always 
 be a terror and a hindrance,'] and will smite 
 it in seven streams and cause his people to 
 pass over dry shod." I am not sure that we 
 should confine " the tongue of the Egyptian 
 
138 THE STONE KINODOM. 
 
 Sea,'' to the Red Sea, or " the river to be smit- 
 ten in seven streams " to the Euphrates. 
 These famous obstacles to migration, in an- 
 cient times, I think are here mentioned meto- 
 nymically for all great difficulties and obsta- 
 cles to migration that must and will be over- 
 come by improved modes of locomotion : such 
 as steamboats, steamships, and railroads that 
 now laugh at difficulties. What once were 
 regarded as impossible barriers to travel, are 
 now passed over like a bird on the wing. 
 Oceans and seas, instead of separating 
 nations, are now great highways by which 
 they are brought nearer together. And as 
 for rivers being difficulties, they are now 
 crossed in cars on our great highways, as if 
 they were not there. Thus the prophecy is 
 ^ fulfilled, because the deep water obstacles of 
 former times are now "utterly destroyed," 
 and the many thousands that migrate in these 
 times may " pass over dry shod." 
 
 "And there shall be a highway for the 
 remainder of my people which shall be left 
 from Assyria." Assyria of course has passed 
 away thousands of years ago ; but the name 
 is used here to represent those countries from 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 139 
 
 wliicli tlie Lord's people shall be gathered. 
 As His miraculous providence opened a way 
 through the Ked Sea for His ancient people, 
 so His wonderful providence has opened a 
 highway of travel for His people to gather 
 themselves together into "the place of His 
 rest," or place of His residence. As ancient 
 Israel offered thanksgiving and praise on the 
 other side of the sea, for their escape and 
 deliverance from Egypt, so our fathers in this 
 land of Israel's restoration, have often offered 
 thanks, and sung hymns of praise, for their 
 deliverance from tyranny, oppression and 
 persecution. After ages of Avrongs and exile 
 and martyrdom, they were permitted to enter 
 their own land of liberty and " abundance, 
 with hearts overflowing with gratitude. They 
 shouted His praise for their wonderful deliv- 
 erance. Their song was written in prophecy 
 2,500 years ago. And when the appointed 
 time came — when Israel was delivered and 
 restored — there was a people prepared and 
 ready to sing the song of deliverance. And 
 they shouted it with their lips from overflow- 
 ing hearts, saying, " Lord, I will praise 
 Thee; though Thou wast angry with me, 
 
140 THE STONE KIT^GDOM. 
 
 Thine anger is turned away and tliou com- 
 fortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I 
 will trust and, not be afraid; for the Lord 
 Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also 
 is become my salvation. Sing unto the Lord, 
 for He hath done excellent things ; this is 
 known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, 
 thou inhabitant of Zion ; for great is the Holy 
 One of Israel in the midst of thee." 
 
 The coincidences in this prophecy with the 
 United States are many and remarkable. 
 
 1st. " The Sprout of Jesse," which is the 
 " signal to the peoples " that was to be " set 
 up," corresponds to the setting up of this gov- 
 ernment on a Christian basis. 
 
 2nd. "Unto it the nations shall tread." 
 And have "the peoples" not come hither 
 to these States " from the four corners of the 
 earth " ? 
 
 3rd. " The place of his rest shall be abun- 
 dancey And is not this a land of abun- 
 dance — abundance of everything ? There is 
 no country like it. No other word could have 
 described it so -well. 
 
 4tli. "The second setting up of Israel" 
 literally coincides with the " setting up " of 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 141 
 
 this government, chronologically, geographi- 
 cally and prophetically. 
 
 5th. " The outcasts of Israel, or perse- 
 cuted Christians, were to come to their " place 
 of rest." And did not the persecuted Hugue- 
 nots, Quakers, Covenanters, Pilgrims, and 
 multitudes of oppressed Christians lind " a 
 place of rest," or residence in this land? 
 
 6tli. They, " the peoples," should come to 
 this land '' from the four corners of the 
 earth." And has not this prophecy been 
 fulfilled to the letter ? 
 
 7th. "And they shall liy upon the shoul- 
 ders of the Philistines towards the west." 
 And did not Europe, and particularly West- 
 ern Europe, or " the islands of the sea," send 
 the great multitude of the early settlers to 
 this country ? And the cry is, " still they 
 come," daily by thousands. 
 
 8th. "And Jehovah shall utterly destroy 
 the tongue of the Egyptian sea." And has 
 not the utter destruction of the difficulties 
 and hindrances to migration taken place at 
 the time appointed, and in the right manner ? 
 We behold the fulfillment of this prophecy in 
 the increased powers of locomotion andfacili- 
 
142 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 ties for transportation. All this lias been 
 done since the setting np of the Stone king- 
 dom, and has greatly conduced to its develop- 
 ment and prosj)erity. 
 
 9th. "And there shall be a highway for 
 the remainder of my people " to *come to 
 " the land of their rest," or residence. This 
 prophecy is partly fulhlled, in the modern 
 improvements in travel, both on land and 
 sea, and also in the civil and religious liberty 
 of our people. All may come, who please. 
 
 10th. The song of thanksgiving and praise 
 for deliverance, which closes this prophecy, 
 has met a wonderful coincidence in the grati- 
 tude and songs of praise, sung by our fore- 
 fathers for their great victory and deliver- 
 ance from tyranny and oppression, and for 
 their own land ! of liberty and abundance. 
 
 These are some of the remarkable points 
 of coincidence of these prophecies in our 
 country. The shadow fits the substance. 
 Other points in this prophecy, " in their 
 ^me," will be even more astonishing in their 
 coincidence than those that are now history. 
 The providences of God are on their grand, 
 ceaseless, onward march, to accomplish, and 
 
SETTING UP OF ISRAEL. 
 
 14^ 
 
 g, the fullillment 
 
 now are daily acconiplisliin 
 of ancient proj)liecies — tlie ancient pro- 
 gramme of the nations and of the Clmrch — 
 witli astonishing exactness. Let all the world 
 behold with wonder, and know that "the 
 Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. 
 
 A Symbol of Israel Restored. — Daniel vii. g-sy. 
 
 u 
 
 BEHELD till the thrones were cast 
 ^ down, and the ancient of days did 
 sit, whose garment was white as snow, and 
 the hair of his head like the pnre wool : his 
 throne was like the fiery flame, and his Avheels 
 as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and 
 came forth from before him ; thousand thou- 
 sands ministered unto him, and ten thou- 
 sand times ten thousand stood before him : 
 the judgment was set, and the books were 
 opened." 
 
 We noAV approach a subject of more than 
 ordinary difficulty, because its true meaning 
 is enveloped in such gorgeous drapery. Who 
 is the ancient of days ? This is the first 
 question to be answered. Many commen- 
 tators and poets have attributed this name to 
 
 144 
 
THE AITCIENT OF DAYS. 145 
 
 the first person of the adorable Trinity — to 
 God, the Father. But this opinion cannot be 
 correct, for ^ve reasons — 
 
 1st. Because God the Father is nowhere 
 represented in the Scriptures as incarnate, or 
 having bodily shape. 
 
 2nd. Because " the Father judgeth no man ; 
 but hath committed all judgment unto the 
 Son." (John v : 22.) 
 
 3rd. Because God the Father is the ancient 
 of eternity, and not the ancient of days. He 
 is without beginning of days or end of years. 
 
 4th. Because Daniel's interpretation is very 
 explicit. He says : " these great beasts, which 
 are four, are four kings [or kingdoms] which 
 shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of 
 the Most High shall take the kingdom, and 
 possess the kingdom, forever, even forever 
 and ever.'" So the flaming chariot throne of 
 the ancient of days represents the conquering 
 government of the saints — the fifth great na- 
 tionality of earth, clothed with political power. 
 
 5th. Because "the judgment shall sit, and 
 THEY shall take away his dominion." TJiey, 
 the government of the saints, " shall take 
 away " the dominion of '' the little horn " 
 
146 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 wliicli " spake great words against the. Most 
 High," and " wore out tiie saints of the Most 
 High." " J'/^e?/" — the saints, the friends of 
 civil and religious liberty, " shall take away 
 his dominion, to consume and to destroy it 
 unto the end." 
 
 As " the Stone cut out of the mountain 
 without hands," that crushed the image of 
 monarchy, represents a new kingdom, the 
 fifth great government of earth, which Avas to 
 arise after the other four kingdoms, and to 
 conquer all nations, and to continue until the 
 yCnd of time ; so the kingdom of '' the ancient 
 of da^^s," another symbol of the fifth govern- 
 ment, was to arise and rule after the four 
 kingdoms had passed away, Avhich Daniel 
 saw in his vision of the "four beasts." As 
 the Stone government arose entirely outside 
 of the limits of the Roman Empire, so the 
 y kingdom of the " ancient of days " was to 
 rise outside of those limits also : for it is the 
 same fifth government, in a different vision, 
 with some additional revelations. Both of 
 these symbols are synchronal, and point for- 
 ward to the universal dominion of Christi- 
 anit}^ under a pure civil government. 
 
THE Al^CIENT OF DAYS. 147 
 
 The judgment scene, at wliicli the " ancient 
 of days " presides, is described in glowing 
 colors, because of the grandeur of the occa- 
 sion. The majesty of the Most High had 
 been insulted, and must be avenged, as well 
 as the wrongs and injuries of the saints, 
 whom '• ' the little horn ' thought to wear 
 out." His garment was white as snow, and 
 his hair "like the pure wool," emblematic of 
 purity. His ermine of judicial authority was' 
 of sj)otless whiteness. His chariot- throne of ^ 
 flaming fire, signified that nothing but truth 
 and eternal right could stand before it. All 
 the chaff and tinsel, as well as the cruel 
 wrongs of monarchy, and monarchy itself as 
 essentially evil, will be consumed and de- 
 stroyed together unto the end. 
 
 "A fiery stream issued, and came forth from 
 before him." A stream of influence, a stream 
 of prosperity and happiness among the masses, 
 a stream of human liberty, also a stream of 
 periodicals, books, and literature of various 
 kinds that kindle in the soul a fiery love of 
 freedom ; also streams of light and truth — all, 
 all issuing from the government of " the an- 
 cient of days," and constantly diffused among 
 
148 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 the millions of monarchy, is like lire to 
 kindle revolution, to overthrow, and burn 
 up the foundations of absolutism. This 
 ''fiery stream" wakes up the slumbering 
 millions, produces a state of unrest, and a 
 desire for independence and human progress. 
 For an hundred years this "fiery stream" 
 has been flowing with an increasing swell, 
 and behold what eff'ects ! What wonderful 
 results have already been produced ! And 
 still this " fiery stream " is constantly swell- 
 ing with our increasing prosj^erity, now flow- 
 ing like a flood, soon to accomplish its divine 
 mission of revolution, overthrow, and destruc- 
 tion of civil and religious bondage and des- 
 potism. The hand of Providence is directing 
 all these things to the accomplishment of His 
 eternal plans. 
 
 There is a deep significance in the expres- 
 sion " The ancient of days did sit." Away 
 back in the ages, there was a little Republi- 
 can-Democratic theocracy, in the days of the 
 Judges of ancient Israel, when the people 
 chose their own rulers under the divine direc- 
 tion : it was so small, and comparatively 
 short-lived, and so far in advance of the 
 
THE A^^CIETTT OF DAYS. 149 
 
 times, that it jDrodnced no commotion among 
 the surrounding despotisms. It felt lonely 
 and despised. But it was a great fact. It 
 was pure seed, planted deep in the pages of 
 eternal trutli. The people were happy and 
 prosperous under their government, and the 
 Lord was their King. That government served 
 its purpose as a splendid type, and passed 
 away. Its history was written, and is now 
 read by millions. It lived just long enough 
 to show to the nations what had been, what 
 should be, what could be, and what Avould be 
 accomplished in God's own time, under the 
 transforming world-wide Christian dispen- 
 sation. And so it came to pass, when " the 
 time of the end '' had come, when "the power 
 of the holy people had ceased to be scat- 
 tered " — when the 1,260 symbolic days were 
 ended, after " the taking away of the daily 
 sacrifice," when " the time, times and an 
 half" of the woman's sojourn in the wilder- 
 ness were ended ; then the Stone Kingdom v 
 was set up ; then the ancient of days came, 
 exactly at the time appointed, and Avas re- 
 established on a scale, the grandeur of which 
 is adequate to the necessities of its wonderful 
 
150 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 then justice was rendered to tlie 
 saints of the Most High ; " and the time 
 came that the saints possessed the kingdom," 
 or dominion. America, so long hid, was dis- 
 covered, the United States government was 
 established, and " a nation was born in a 
 day." 'Now we are living in the land of Israel 
 restored, under the re-establishment of the 
 government of " the ancient of days," in the 
 
 /fifth nationality, the last and noblest form 
 of government the world will have ; where 
 men and mind are free from the tyranny of 
 superstition, and free from political slavery ; 
 for " the saints of the Most High shall take the 
 kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, 
 even forever and ever." Bl essed truth, cheering 
 hope, as the promised da}^ dawns into a glori- 
 ^ous realit}". As the ever- widening circles of the 
 government of " the ancient of days " extend 
 from point to point, in its ceaseless march of 
 conquest, diffusing light and truth, liberty of 
 soul and true manliness, it leaves forever the 
 
 ^ history of the past to tell its sad story of op- 
 pression and wrongs — the dark and bloody 
 history of almost 6,000 j^ears, filled with the 
 wrecks of human greatness, with tears and 
 
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. 151 
 
 blighted hopes, while the groans and sighs of 
 uncounted millions made the sad and doleful 
 monotone of the passing generations. All 
 this, and infinitely more, makes up^the dark 
 background, upon which the increasingly 
 glorious government of " the ancient of days " 
 is^to shine with greater and greater light, even 
 with an heavenly splendor. This sounds like ^ 
 swollen language, but it falls far below the 
 predicted reality. 
 
 Another remarkable statement is here made : 
 when '' the ancient of days did sit," when he 
 first came to his seat, " thousand, thousands," 
 ministered unto him ; that is, three " thou- 
 sands," as there were three '' times." Now if 
 we multiply 1,000X1,000 we have 1,000,000; 
 then, " thousands " is equal to two more 
 " thousand," multiplied in like manner ; then, 
 by adding the results, we have just 3,000,000, 
 the number " that ministered unto him." This 
 was the number that went with Moses from / 
 Egypt to Palestine, as near as can be counted, 
 when ancient Israel was first set up as a 
 nation, or with an independent government of 
 their own. In like manner, after more than 
 3,600 years, it was also the number of the \J 
 
153 THE STOT^E KINGDOM. 
 
 inhabitants of the United States, when onr 
 government was first set nj), and declared 
 indei3endent, in 1776, when Israel's restoration 
 was begim. As Joshua led his three millions 
 into the land of promise, and gave them lib- 
 erty, and a country for their home and for 
 their development, in like manner, Washing- 
 vton led his three millions from political 
 slavery into a land of liberty — which was 
 also a land of prophecy and of providence — 
 for their own country, and for their children's 
 children, to the latest generation ; for " the 
 saints," i. <?., the friends of civil and religious 
 liberty, " shall possess the kingdom forever, 
 even forever and ever," or through the ages. 
 Daniel said, " I saw in my vision by night, 
 and behold the four winds of the heaven 
 strove upon the great sea " of the nations 
 and 23eoples. "And four great beasts came 
 up from the sea, diverse one from another. 
 The first was like a lion ;" this represented 
 the Babylonian Empire, which culminated in 
 the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The second 
 was "like to a bear"; this symbolized the 
 Medo-Persian Empire, which culminated in 
 the reign of Cyrus. The third was like a 
 
THE AXOIENT OF DAYS. 153 
 
 leopard ": this was a symbol of the Macedonian 
 Empire, which cnlminated in the reign of Alex- 
 ander the Great. The " fourth beast was 
 dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly ; 
 and it had great iron teeth ... it was di- 
 A^erse from all the beasts that were before it ; 
 and it had ten horns." "And another little horn 
 came up, before whom there were three of the 
 first horns plucked up by the roots ; and be- 
 hold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of 
 man, and a mouth speaking great things." 
 . . . "And he shall speak great words 
 against the Most High, and shall wear out the 
 saints of the Most Hio'h, and think to change 
 times and laws : and they [the saints] shall 
 be given into his hand, until a time, times, 
 and the dividing of a time." The "fourth 
 beast," all commentators agree, was the Ro- 
 man Emj)ire, which culminated in the reign 
 of the Caesars. The " ten horns " represented 
 the ten kingdoms that rose up after the Roman 
 monarchy and occupied the same territory. 
 And the " little horn " that rose U23, " before 
 whom three " of the first horns "fell," repre- . 
 sents the illegitimate union of Church and 
 State, that developed into the Papacy. This 
 
154 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 politico-ecclestastical concubinage brought 
 forth a terrible progeny. They spake blas- 
 phemous words against the Most High. They 
 persecuted, imprisoned, and martyred the 
 saints by millions. Their hellish purpose was 
 to " wear them out." For more than a thou- 
 sand years, the history of this " little horn " 
 is stained with innocent blood, and filled with 
 loathsome dungeons, and all sorts of devilish 
 torture. Its choice music was the groans of 
 dying Christians, their waitings on the rack, 
 and their lamentations in prison ; and the 
 tears and sobs of heart-broken saints, wander- 
 ing as exiles and homeless in strange lands, 
 afforded fiendish delight. But let God be 
 praised forever, because He is true to His 
 promises. At the end of the 1,260 symbolic 
 
 yyears, exactly at the time appointed, " the 
 ancient of days came," and justice was ren- 
 dered to the saints of the Most High ; govern- 
 
 V mental authority and a great country were 
 given to His people, where the horns of mon- 
 archy can never hurt them any more, and 
 where the "little horn," all gory with the 
 blood of saints, can never touch them 
 
THE AjSTCIET^TT OF DAYS. 100 
 
 The Constitution and laws of tlie United / 
 States are founded on the Bible, and on the 
 principles of 'equity and " everlasting right- 
 eousness," reminding us again that our 
 government is "the ancient of days," or the 
 " stone cut out of the mountain " of Christi- 
 anity. Here all Christians can feel at home, 
 for it is their home, and their land, reserved 
 in God's providence for this purpose, and for 
 these times. So that from henceforth, under ^ 
 the aegis of this government, the Church may 
 unfurl her banners for the conquest of the 
 world, in accordance with the divine pro- 
 gramme, and no horns of monarchy, or of the 
 devil, can gore them any more, and no one 
 dare disturb them any more, or make them 
 afraid in their worshi23 of the Lord of Hosts. 
 
 In order to remove all doubt about the 
 truthfulness of our interpretation of " the anv 
 cient of days," we have shown that it is only 
 another symbol for " the Stone kingdom," — 
 that it is " Israel restored," that it is the fifth 
 nationality — that it is, and is being realized,'' 
 in the United States of America. Now to 
 demonstrate the truthfulness and correctness 
 of the interpretation, the very time is speci- 
 
156 THE STOKE KINGDOM. 
 
 fied wlien " the ancient of da^^s " should 
 come. It is written in the 25th verse of this 
 chapter. "And they," the saints, or friends 
 of civil and religious liberty, " shall be given 
 into his hand " — the hand of " the little horn," 
 " until a time, and times, and the dividing of 
 a time," that is, for three and an half times, 
 or 1,260 symbolic years. Now at what time 
 was the Church (or the saints) given into the 
 hands of the little horn ; or when were Church 
 and State first united ? From history we learn 
 that Constantino the Great was made head of 
 the Church, or the Church was placed under 
 political control, at the Council of Mce, in 
 Bithynia, about June 17th, A. D. 325. ]N"ow 
 let us count from that Council — from the day 
 when political power was given to the Church, 
 3^ " times," or 1,260 sjnnbolic years — of cut- 
 off, or sliortened time : remember that this is 
 the " key " to the " times " of the prophets. 
 Since 360 always represents a prophetic year, 
 it may represent a year of 364 parts. Then 
 364 multiplied by 364 is equal to 132,496 : to 
 which add ^, or sabbatic time, and we have 
 151,424. And since 360 is contained in 1,260, 
 just 3^ times; then 3 J times one " ^m^," or 
 
THE ANCIETTT OF DAYS. 157 
 
 151,424, is equal to 529,984 days, in solar time ; 
 or 1,451 years and 17 days — the time that the 
 saints Avere given into the power of " the little 
 horn." Now add this 1,451 years and 17 days, 
 to June 17th, A. D. 325, and it gives us exactly 
 1,776, July the 4th, the year and the day, that 
 the United States were declared independent, 
 and the time exactly when '' a nation was 
 born in a day," when " the ancient of days 
 came," and established his dominion. This 
 calculation is astonishing, audits truthfulness 
 is startling. The glory of ancient Israel, under ■ 
 a Republican theocracy, has been restored 
 and re-established, on a vastly grander scale 
 than in the days of the Judges. " The an- 
 cient of days " has come, and is in the 
 strength and beauty of his youthful man- 
 hood; his dominion has been set up in the 
 United States. But his work has only begun, ^ 
 in comparison with the grandeur of his mis- 
 sion. We stand at the beginning ; the end is 
 far in the future. In this little book we only 
 speak of facts — of things that have been, or 
 that now are. We deal not with vague theo- 
 ries and unproved hypotheses, but with eter- 
 nal truth and solid, substantial facts. 
 
158 THE STONE KI]NrGDOM. 
 
 Of the nnfiilfilled prophecies, in the inspired 
 programme of " tlie ancient of days " of his 
 universal conquests, and establisliment of 
 rigliteousness among the nations, we will not 
 speak. That must be left to the future his- 
 torian and commentator. How these glorious 
 triumphs will be brought about, God knows, 
 and that is enough. He will see that the 
 whole j)rogramme will be j)erfectly" fulfilled. 
 Let God be praised, we have seen the begin- 
 ning. It is sufficient for us to know, as we 
 stand at the threshold of promised glory to 
 the Church and to the nations, " that the 
 saints of the Most High shall take the king- 
 dom, and possess dominion forever, even for- 
 ever and ever." It is legitimate for us to 
 close this chapter by quoting the divine pro- 
 gramme, in which we catch a glimpse of what 
 are to be the grand results which are yet far in 
 the future, verses 26 and 27. " The judges 
 were seated to take away his dominion," i. e., 
 of " the little horn " — or ecclesiastical and 
 State domination — " to consume and to de- 
 stroy it unto the end. And kingdom and do- 
 minion, and the greatness of the kingdom, 
 under the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
 
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. 159 
 
 people of tlie saints of tlie Most High, whose 
 kingdom is an' everlasting kingdom, and all 
 dominions shall serve and obey Him." This 
 is the Lord's doing ; what He has done ; and 
 what is yet to be done. 
 
 Truly " it is marvelous in our eyes." Mon- 
 archs and kings have always worn their crowns 
 under divine protest, and ever will, " until the 
 thrones shall be cast down." Until this set 
 time in the march of Providence, those na- 
 tions so ruled, will continue to be enslaved, 
 in a greater or less degree, because they know 
 not the truth as to the rights of government 
 and of the governed. The truth alone wilL 
 make them free. Then the masses of the 
 people will arise in their majesty, and their 
 iDill expressed will be sovereign law. Then 
 royal error, hoary with age, will topple to the 
 ground. And the people will be free. Then 
 the old tyrannical dogma — the divine right of 
 kings — shall find a grave from which there 
 will be no resurrection. Republicanism, or / 
 the ancient of days, as great High Priest, 
 will perform the obsequies, without a tear : 
 while the j)eoples and nations will chant the 
 chorus — " The truth hath made us free." 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 " THE WAITING ISLES," 
 
 Or our County Described by the Prophet. — Isaiah Ix. 
 
 Land and the Church in ancient 
 
 ^ Israel are always connected. The Holy 
 Land was God's gift to His holy people, for 
 their possession, in order to their develop- 
 ment. This they held by a divine title, until 
 their mission was completed — nntil their/' first 
 principles" and typical condition were fin- 
 ished. Then they were scattered to the ends 
 of the earth, at the time when " the daily 
 sacrifice Avas taken away." They had acted 
 and finished their part in the great drama of 
 theological instruction. But when Israel is 
 restored, it must be, according to the prophets, 
 on a grander scale than ever before. Ancient 
 Israel was but one family, settled in a very 
 small and limited territory : but Israel 
 restored is to be gathered from all nations 
 
 160 
 
161 
 
 and languages, and is to be set up in a vastly 
 larger territory. Israel restored is to have/ 
 tlie headship of the world, in the work of 
 reformation, in civil and religious liberty, in 
 overtlirowing all despotism, in purifying the 
 currents of social life, by a general diffusion 
 of the religion of Jesus Christ whicli will then 
 be felt to be the salt of the earth and the light 
 of the world. Ancient Israel furnished the / 
 world with the Bible, and with tlie only plan 
 of salvation. Israel restored is its expounder . 
 and exemplification, to show to the nations 
 and peoples its heavenly teachings by which 
 man may be freed from the bondage of sin, from 
 the bondage of superstition, and from all sorts 
 of slavery. It is to show to the world man'sy 
 highest status attainable under the Gospel, 
 both as to Church and State, and that form of 
 government best suited for human develop- 
 ment and religious prosperity. Truly, a 
 glorious mission ! 
 
 It is this land of prophecy and providence, 
 this land of the restoration, Avliich Isaiah saw 
 and describes so glowingly in this chapter. 
 As he looked across the ages and saw that 
 country which the Lord had kej^t hid for His 
 
162 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 people until the appointed time, with .the 
 glory of the Lord shining upon it, he bursts 
 out with a grand shout of admiration and 
 wonder at what he saw, saying : 
 
 Y. 1. " Arise ! be light, for thy light is 
 come and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon 
 thee." 
 
 V. 2. " For behold, the darlvness shall 
 cover the earth and a gloom the nations, but 
 upon thee shall Jehovah rise as the sun and 
 his glory upon thee shall be seen." The 
 "but" in this verse is the j)roper translation, 
 for the Hebrew vav is put before adversative 
 clauses, and means "and yet" — "but" — 
 " since." The antithesis lies in the thought, 
 rather than in the vav, as in Gen. ii : 16, 17, 
 "of every tree of the garden thou mayest 
 freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of 
 good and evil, thou slialt not eat of it." Also 
 Gen. xvii: 21, xlii: 10. 
 
 " The darkness shall cover the earth," 
 means the darkness of sin, the darkness of the 
 fall that put everything out of joint, both civil 
 and religious. 
 
 " And a gloom the nations." They had 
 some idea of reli2:ion and some notions about 
 
"the avaiting isles." 163 
 
 human government ; but nothing was clear. 
 It was all foggy, cloudy and indistinct — more 
 dark than light, more wrong than right. This 
 was the gloomy pall that covered the nations. 
 
 "But upon thee," upon Israel restored, 
 " shall Jehovah rise and his glory upon thee 
 shall be seen." The Sun of Righteousness will 
 dispel the darkness which had settled down 
 upon the Church and dimmed its light. He 
 will give new life and new light : new life to 
 the Church in her great mission of salvation 
 and redemption ; and new light to the govern- 
 ment of the nations. Indeed, upon Israel 
 restored, Jehovah shall rise as the sun, and 
 scatter rays of light, "and his glory shall be 
 seen upon thee." Then the Church shall 
 "look forth as the morning, fair as the moon, 
 clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with 
 banners." 
 
 Y. 3. "And nations shall walk in thy lights 
 and kings in the brightness of thy rising." 
 This translation is apj)roved by the highest 
 critical authorities, and expresses exactly the 
 mission of the fifth nationality. Its clearer 
 and purer light will have a transforming 
 influence upon the nations, so that they shall 
 
164 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 walk in its light. Their entire organization, 
 social, religious and civil, will be so changed 
 as to conform to Israel restored. It will be fol- 
 lowed as the highest and best form of human 
 government. This seems to be the meaning 
 of the prophet, for he says, "Nations shall 
 walk in thy light," or follow thy example. 
 
 Y. 4. "Lift up thine eyes roundabout [i. e., 
 in all directions] and see ; all of them are 
 gathered together ; they come to thee ; thy 
 sons from far off shall come and thy daughters 
 at thy side shall be supported." The prophet 
 looks round about in every direction among 
 the nations of earth, and he beholds the peo- 
 ple gathered together as if in consultation 
 concerning that wonderful country where a 
 great light is shining and where the glory of 
 God is seen, in the extent of the land, in the 
 freedom and prosperity of the people, and in 
 the liberty and triumphs of the Church. 
 Their minds are made up. They are deter- 
 mined to go. " They come to thee ; thy sons 
 from far off shall come." And then the prophet 
 adds another thing of astonishing interest 
 that he had not seen amons: the nations — 
 "Thy daughters shall be supported at the 
 
''the WAiTi:vrG isles.'' 165 
 
 side." " Daughters," is in apposition with 
 
 and the " daughters " are the women. That 
 old interpretation which represents the daugh- 
 ters or the women as infants, carried on the 
 sides or in the arms of men is false, and not 
 consistent witli the prophecy, or with the 
 glory of that country described. I think the 
 prophet saw the men of that country in all the 
 dignity of manhood and the women supported 
 at their side, that is as equals in society, as 
 helps meet for them, and companions in life. 
 " Thy daughters shall be supported at the 
 side" — not at "the head," to rule overmen, 
 as some fanatically contend; nor at "the 
 feet," to be tramped upon, as in many heathen 
 countries — but supported at " the side " as 
 equals, as companions, to be cherished and 
 loved. The pro]3het saw woman's true posi- J 
 tion and remarked npon it, as one of the 
 attractive features of that country, that was to 
 have an elevating and purifying influence 
 upon the nations of earth. 
 
 V. 5. "In that place, thou shalt see and 
 rejoice, and thy heart shall throb and be 
 enlarged, because the abundance of the sea 
 
166 THE STOKE KINGDOM. 
 
 shall be turned upon tliee ; a liost [nations] 
 shall come to thee." 
 
 Az is a demonstrative particle, originally 
 of place, and means here "in that place," in 
 the land of Israel restored, thy heart shall 
 throb with joy because of great prosperity. 
 "The abundance of the sea," or the wealth of 
 commerce, " shall be turned upon thee." This 
 land with the Atlantic on the east, the Pacific 
 on the west, the Gulf on the south, and the 
 great lakes on the north, furnishes amj^le 
 room for the commerce of the world. More- 
 over, " a host, [nations] shall come unto thee." 
 Even now more than a thousand immigrants 
 daily come to our shores. How accurately 
 the prophet has described this land ! 
 
 V. 6. "Abundance of camels shall cov^er 
 thee ; young camels of Midian and Ephah ; 
 all of them from Sheba shall come ; gold and 
 frankincense shall they bear and the praises 
 of Jehovah as good news." 
 
 y. 7. " All the flocks of Kedar shall be 
 gathered for thee ; tlie rams of Nebaioth shall 
 minister to thee ; they shall ascend with good- 
 will my altar, and my house of beaut}^ I will 
 beautify." This is a political description of 
 
167 
 
 great commercial prosperity. The terms and 
 names used are oriental, but deeply impress 
 us with the idea of the wealth and piety of 
 the land and people described. With all the 
 cargoes of earthly products, they also bear 
 the praises of Jehovah as good news wherever 
 they go. Their flocks and herds, sources of 
 wealth, minister unto the Lord. "And my 
 house of beauty 1 will beautify." May not 
 this all beautifully describe the vast physical 
 resources of our country with its commerce 
 and manufactures, with its untold agricultural 
 wealth, and flocks and herds counted by mil- 
 lions ? May not tliese make up the ornaments 
 with which the house of the Lord, or the land 
 of Israel, is to be beautified and made attrac- 
 tive in the eyes of the nations ? And when, 
 through the "good news" of the Gospel, 
 "Holiness to the Lord" shall be written on 
 all our pursuits, the beauty of His house or 
 land will be complete. 
 
 Y. 8. "Who are these that fly as a cloud 
 and as doves to their windows ?" The prophet 
 looks again, while the panoramic vision is 
 passing and beholds shii3S of commerce and 
 transportation with outspread sails like fleecy 
 
168 THE STOITE KINGDOM. 
 
 clouds, coming in mnltitndes to our shores. 
 He must have seen our country at the time 
 we are now living, and further on, when immi- 
 grants and trade are coming from every land. 
 The evident meaning of the prophet is that 
 the people were coming here to the land he 
 saw in vast multitudes to live and traffic. 
 
 y. 9. " Surely the isles " [or distant lands 
 beyond the sea, or maritime regions very 
 remote] " shall wait for me and ships of 
 Tarshish [or Spain] foremost [or first] to cause 
 to come in thy sons from far oif [countries] 
 their silver and their gold with them, for the 
 name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy 
 One of Israel, because He has honored thee." 
 
 Diodorus Siculus, an ancient historian who 
 lived about the time of Ca3sar Augustus, says 
 the term, "isles," in his day, meant "undis- 
 covered lands supposed to lie in the Atlantic 
 Ocean." This also accords with the Hebrew 
 word [eyyeni] "isles" which means distant 
 lands beyond the sea. In this verse we have 
 a sublime announcement of our great country, 
 definitely pointed out. " Surely the isles 
 shall wait for me." The undiscovered lands 
 of America were lying hid for thousands of 
 
"the waiting isles." 169 
 
 years, far off in the uncrossed Atlantic. It /^ 
 was waiting the set time in Grod's purpose 
 and providence. It was waiting for monarchy 
 and despotism to act their part and show 
 what they could do, or rather to show wliat 
 they could not do, to elevate and amel- 
 iorate the condition of men. They had a fair 
 chance, and a long time to bring forth ripened 
 fruit, but behold, sour grapes. Their effort 
 was a failure, and worse than a failure. Hence 
 they are to be broken to i3ieces and driven 
 away like chaff before the wind. " The isles 
 were waiting " for every form of autocracy to 
 show its utter insufficiency to work out man's 
 highest political destiny. They were waiting / 
 till the Reformation would give the human 
 mind a new impetus and broader views. They 
 were waiting until the great principle of self- 
 government should move the masses to seek a 
 new theatre, in which to realize the blessings 
 of popular freedom. They were waiting for ^ 
 the leaven of the Gospel to do its great pre- 
 paratory work, for the printing press to dif- 
 fuse general intelligence and thus educate a 
 people intellectually and morally, until well 
 fitted to set up an enlightened republican 
 
170 THE STOKE KINGDOM. 
 
 government. The isles were waiting till the 
 set time to favor Zion should come. 
 
 "And the ships of Tarshish [or old Spain] 
 foremost [or first] to cause to come in thy sons 
 from far oiT" [countries]. This prophecy has 
 
 vibeen literally fulfilled. Did not the ships of 
 Spain first discover this country and open the 
 way for immigration to the new world? 
 After Columbus had been repulsed from every 
 court in Europe, did not Ferdinand and 
 Isabella lend him the necessary aid, and 
 America was discovered ? This was the divine 
 programme, revealed 2,500 3^ears ago. It was 
 enacted in the right time and by the divinely 
 appointed parties. It is passing strange that 
 
 \/the world of Bible readers have not recognized 
 this great prophecy and its fulfillment long 
 ago ! This prophecy cannot refer simply to 
 the spread of the Gospel, for missionaries are 
 sent out to the heathen ; but here the sons of 
 
 "^God are represented as being hrouglit in from 
 diff*erent and distant homes to a newly dis- 
 covered country. This prophecy cannot refer 
 to Judea, for it was not then an undiscovered 
 country. And the ships of Spain ]iever could 
 bring the first inhabitants to Palestine, 
 
''TH15 WAlTITCa ISLES.*' 171 
 
 because that old country was inhabited before 
 Spain was born. Hence the ntter unfitness of 
 all these interpretations. 
 
 ''Their silver and their gold with them." 
 They came with the intention of making this 
 land their home. They brought their treasure 
 with them. But why did they come? This 
 is an interesting question. The prophet 
 answers it. " For the name of Jehovah thy 
 God, and for the Holy One of Israel." Our 
 sainted ancestors Avere persecuted for their 
 religion. Because they dared to worship God 
 according to their convictions of truth, they 
 were driven out and found homes in the IS'ew 
 World. They came here " for the name of 
 Jehovah their God." When the Portuguese 
 came — when Pizarro and Cortez and the min- 
 ions of monarchy came to America, they came 
 for gold, and took possession in the name of 
 their respective governments. But when the 
 Huguenots, the Quakers, the Puritans and the 
 Covenanters came, they came for conscience's 
 sake and "for the name of the Holy one of 
 Israel." And when they took possession of 
 this land it was not in the name of an earthly 
 
172 THE STON-E KINGDOM. 
 
 sovereign, but "for the name of Jehovah their 
 God, and for the Hol}^ One of Israel." 
 
 *' Not as the conquerors came, 
 They the true-hearted came : 
 Not with the roll of the stirring drum, 
 Or the trumpet that sings of fame. 
 
 " Ah, call it holy ground, 
 
 The spot where first they trod : 
 They've left unstained what there they found, 
 Freedom to worship God." 
 
 '' Because He has honored thee ": this seems 
 to be the grand reason why He has so dealt 
 with " the waiting Isles." He has honored 
 thee in making thy land the scene of Israel's 
 restoration. He has honored thee with that 
 government, symbolized by the " Stone," 
 which crushed monarchy and drove it from 
 the earth. He has honored thee as the agent 
 whose mission is to bless the nations with 
 civil and religious liberty. Ten thousand 
 blessings are thine, " because He has honored 
 thee." 
 
 y. 10. " And strangers shall build thy walls, 
 and their kings shall minister unto thee ; for 
 in my anger I smote thee, and in my favor I 
 had compassion on thee." 
 
173 
 
 The prophet continues his address to the 
 land saying, "strangers shall build thy 
 walls." The white man was a stranger in 
 the first settlement of this countrj^ He was 
 so called and considered by the Aborigines ; 
 and more forcefully still, he felt liimself to be 
 a stranger in a strange land and surrounded by 
 a strange people. Hence they began to build 
 " walls " or forts or fortifications for their safe- 
 ty, to defend themselves against the sudden 
 and bloody attacks of surrounding savages. 
 
 '' And their kings [the kings of these stran- 
 gers] shall minister unto thee." The kings of 
 Europe ministered unto this land by sending 
 out colonies and sustaining them in their 
 feebleness ; by encouraging emigration ; by 
 granting charters ; by establishing govern- 
 ments ; and in various ways " the kings " of 
 these strangers ministered unto the settlement 
 and development of the land. 
 
 "For in my anger I smote thee." During 
 uncounted centuries the land was occupied by 
 savages. All its greatness amounted to noth- 
 ing. It brought forth no ripe fruit. Its deso- 
 lation amid such mafirnificence showed that its 
 
 "iD' 
 
 God in anger had smitten it. But now how 
 
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174 THE STOIS^E KINGDOM. 
 
 changed the scene ! Civilization and the gos- 
 pel have come to give life to the dead — life to 
 the dead resources of the land, and life to the 
 hearts of the people. Now, the praises of the 
 Holy One of Israel are echoed from the moun- 
 tains and the plains, while the busy hum of 
 millions tells of a prosperous and happy 
 people. Grod's anger is exchanged for love. 
 Of a truth " In my favor I had compassion on 
 thee." 
 
 Y. 11. "And thy gates shall be open con- 
 tinually; day and night they shall not be 
 shut, to cause to come in unto thee a host 
 [nations], and their kings drive them off." 
 
 The prophet looked forward 2,500 years 
 and saw things just as they now are and have 
 been. " And thy gates shall be open contin- 
 ually " means the sea-ports of our country are 
 o]3en to the ships of all nations, to bring in, 
 not only their articles of commerce, but emi- 
 grants seeking homes in a more congenial 
 clime, where their prospects are brighter, and 
 life may be made more desirable. The 
 " nations " have heard of this land and its 
 " open gates," and they are coming in " hosts." 
 The boundless prairies and the oj)en country 
 
175 
 
 of tlie West invite tliem to come, and they 
 are coming by thousands and tens of thou- 
 sands. These arguments are causing to come 
 unto thee " a host," yea, even " nations." 
 
 " And their kings drive them off," by tyran- 
 iiy? ^y oppression and by persecution. How 
 many thousands in tlie early settlement of 
 our country came hither for conscience's 
 sake. They were not allowed to worship) God 
 as they pleased, and they chose expatriation 
 rather than religious servitude. " Their 
 kings " stirred up their nests in their father- 
 land, and " drove them off." By the Revoca- 
 tion of the Edict of Nantes, 500,000 Huguenots 
 left France for foreign countries, and many of 
 them came to our shores. Protestants were 
 excluded from office and places of trust. If 
 they were not married in the Catholic Church, 
 their marriage was illegal and their children 
 were called bastards. Not only in France, but 
 in other kingdoms, by wars and bloody per- 
 secutions and annoyances of less magnitude, 
 "their kings drove them off." And multi- 
 tudes of them directed their way to this land 
 of " open gates," where liberty may be 
 enjoyed to the full. And they have come 
 
176 THE STON-E KINGDOM. 
 
 and are now coming by "hosts" and by 
 ''nations." In the single State of Texas, the 
 Bible is published and sold in thirteen differ- 
 ent languages. And the cry is, still they 
 come at the rate of a thousand a day. A feel- 
 ^ing of unrest among the nations is a bountiful 
 source that keeps the stream of emigration 
 flowing with an increasing swell upon these 
 shores. The high claims of monarchy and 
 autocracy will always be a disturbing ele- 
 ment, to drive off their people to that country 
 where the highest offices may be obtained and 
 iilled by men from the humblest walks of 
 society ; where true merit alone is, or ought 
 to be, the badge of promotion. 
 
 Y. 12. '' For the nation and the kingdom 
 that will not do work for thee shall be de- 
 stroyed ; yea, those nations shall be utterly 
 desolated." 
 
 V This is what the prophet saw after looking 
 down the track of our history. He has simply 
 recorded great facts that he has witnessed. 
 
 y " The nation and the kingdom that will not 
 do work for thee," /. e., co-operate with thee 
 in the work of civil and religious liberty, in 
 promoting human freedom, spiritual freedom, 
 
" THE WAITING ISLES." 177 
 
 mental freedom, and the gosj)el of salvation, 
 and in exalting Christ as King of nations — 
 all those nations which oppose the progress ' 
 of the march of truth, " shall be destroyed, 
 yea, those nations shall be utterly desolated." 
 This is the grand mission of the Stone gov- 
 ernment, as revealed by Daniel, to crush 
 and destroy all forms of absolutism, and 
 to establish in their place free governments, 
 in which Christ alone is King. "For the na-^ 
 tion and the kingdom that will not do work for 
 thee," in scattering seeds of truth, in diffusing 
 light among the masses, in promoting popular 
 freedom, in elevating man to his highest tem- 
 poral condition, and in giving free course to 
 the Gospel to accomplish its holy mission, 
 "shall be destroyed; yea, those nations shall 
 be utterly desolated." 
 
 V. 13. " The glory of Lebanon shall come 
 to thee; the pine, the hard oak, and the 
 box together, to adorn the place of my 
 sanctuary; and the place of my feet I 
 will adorn." As the cedars of Lebanon 
 helped to adorn Solomon's temple and Jeru- 
 salem, the place of His sanctuary, so in this 
 great land of Israel restored, we have vast 
 
178 THE STOXE KINGDOM. 
 
 forests of pine and cedar, and liard oak 
 and cypress, and all sorts of timber, for 
 groves and ornamentation. Thousands of line 
 clmrches, adorned with pine, and hard oak, 
 and cedar, and cy^jress, all over the land, 
 beautify the place of my sanctuary. ''The 
 place of my feet I will adorn": the whole 
 country, the place of His feet, is being rapidly 
 adorned with residences, academies, towns, 
 cities, and adornments of all kinds made from 
 the rich profusion of building material. Truly, 
 " the place of my feet I will adorn." The huts 
 and cabins of primitive life, have been substi- 
 tuted by a vastly imjDroved architecture. 
 
 V. 14. " The sons of thy oppressors, [or those 
 ^ho afflicted thee,] shall come bending to thee, 
 and shall bow themselves down to the soles of 
 thy feet ; all those who despised thee ; and 
 they shall call thee the city of Jehovah. Zion, 
 the holy of Israel." 
 
 Has it not already come to pass that the 
 sons of those who oppressed and afflicted us, 
 yea, the descendants of the very soldier}^ that 
 murdered our citizens, burned our towns, and 
 distressed our people, have come by thousands, 
 to submit to that government which they at- 
 
179 
 
 tempted to destroy ? Yea, tliey acknowledge 
 its success, and cringingly beg for office, or 
 places of profit. Tliey have come and cast 
 in their lot with us ; have invested their 
 wealth under the protection of the govern- 
 ment they tried to crush. They now honor 
 the experiment of human freedom they once 
 despised. They scoffingiy said our boasted / 
 independence would be buried with Washing- 
 ton. But now they are w^illing to venture 
 their all under the protection of that flag they 
 sneeringly said would be the winding-sheet 
 of American libert}^. God's ways are higher 
 than man's Avays, and His thoughts than our 
 thoughts. 
 
 Truly, " there is a divinity that shapes our/ 
 ends." This Stone government is His own 
 providential establishment. Even those who 
 once despised our political experiment now 
 acknowledge its power, and behold with aston- 
 ishment the grandeur of its success. 
 
 ''They shall call thee the city of Jeliovali,'' v 
 so manifest are His dealings with us. In "^ 
 fact, He is our great Governor, and exercises 
 executive authority in the afl'airs of the na- 
 tion. "Zion, the holy of Israel" shalt thou 
 
180 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 be called; that is, this people and land will 
 be sacred to Him, for it is the home of millions 
 of God's people, and it is the grand centre 
 ^ from whence pure rays of light, from the sun 
 of civil and religious liberty, are going out, 
 and will go out, with increasing brightness, to 
 bless the nations of earth with new life, and a 
 higher development, spiritually, politically, 
 and in all the departments of human progress. 
 '^ This is the divine mission of the "Stone," — 
 also of " the ancient of days," — of '' theMan- 
 Cliild," — of "Israel set up the second time." 
 
 V. 15. "Instead of being ruins, and ugly, 
 and none passed through, I will make thee 
 a perpetual excellency, a joy from age to 
 age." 
 
 This is a cheering statement. Our country 
 lay in ruins for thousands of years, unim- 
 proved and ugly ; and none passed through ; 
 no commerce with the nations, no one to beau- 
 tify its mountains, or cultivate its plains. The 
 whole land lay in rubbish and ruins, undis- 
 covered and unknown to Japheth, the leader 
 of the world. Instead of this desolation and 
 neglect, " I will make thee a perpetual excel- 
 lency from age to age." Here, the Grospel is 
 
181 
 
 preached. Here no mitered priest or kingly 
 crown directs tlie affairs of Church or State. 
 Here, every man is free to vote or worship as / 
 he pleases. Our simple system of republican/ 
 self-government gives the largest range to 
 human capability. A man's own will and 
 capacity alone limit his attainments. He may 
 reach high, and obtain all the wealth and po- 
 sition he can. This is every man's right and 
 privilege, and none dare rob him of it. The 
 Constitution and laws of the country protect 
 him in every honorable and praiseworthy avo- 
 cation. Here, every man is a king, and his / 
 house is his palace ; he bows only to sove- 
 reign law, for the public good. Verily, the 
 Lord hath made this land '' a perpetual ex- 
 cellency.'' And when He tells us it shall v 
 be "a joy from age to age," it should in- 
 spire us as a peojDle, and especially all our 
 law-makers and rulers with a holy zeal and 
 a deep devotion, to accomplish its grand ^ 
 mission among the nations. For this govern- 
 ment is to continue "from age to age." It 
 will pteadily improve in morals and man- 
 ners, as it grows in years. Its legislation 
 will be purged and purified. Whatever is 
 
182 THE STOT^E KII^^GDOM. 
 
 rotten in the body-politic will slough off, as 
 having no sympath}^ or vital connection with its 
 vital growth. Our legislators will gradually im- 
 prove in moral courage, so that golden argu- 
 ments will have no power to turn them from the 
 vvay of right. Then the cess-pools of iniquity 
 and vice, which are now a stench in the nation, 
 will be removed or dried uj) and cleansed, be- 
 cause no longer protected by law. Then a 
 purilied and healthful atmosphere will minis- 
 ter to a healthful growth and to a vigorous 
 and virtuous development. This is not a 
 fanciful forecasting, but directly in accord- 
 ance with the teaching of the prophets For 
 
 '^this government is not to share the fate of 
 other governments that have jDreceded it. The 
 
 >/ history of its rise and progress will be written, 
 but never that of its fall. It will be more and 
 more perfectly developed, until it rests under 
 the bright light of millennial glory. To this 
 end, may the Lord rule among our rulers, and 
 " teach our senators wisdom." 
 
 Y. 16. " And thou shalt suck the milk of na- 
 tions, [/. e., get their wealth] and the breast of 
 kings thou shalt suck, and thou shalt know that 
 I, Jehovah, am thy Savior, and thy Kedeemer, 
 the Mighty One of Jacob." 
 
183 
 
 Tlie propliet here tells liow tliis land of/ 
 Israel will grow in wealtli and power. Suck- 
 ing is a drawing process to obtain the milk. 
 So the attractions of this country have drawn 
 hither the milk of the nations. And in the 
 early settlement of our country, when the 
 Huguenots, the Quakers, the Puritans, the 
 Covenanters, the Scotch and the Scotch-Irish 
 came, we not only sucked the milk of nations, 
 but we got the cream — the ver}^ class of men ^ 
 our country needed, who were trained in the 
 school of Providence and best fitted for laying 
 the broad foundation of this great govern- 
 ment. And since then, millions of brawny 
 arms have come, and are still coming, to de- 
 velop the limitless resourced of the land, to 
 cultivate the soil, to open the mines, to build 
 our railroads, even from ocean to ocean. 
 Truly "thou hast sucked the milk of the ^ 
 nations." 
 
 "And thou slialt suck the breast of kings." 
 Some of our learned commentators seem to 
 think this clause is a catachresis — a rhetorical 
 blunder — where the sense overleaps the style. 
 But not so. God makes no blunders, rhetori- 
 cal, or other ; but commentators often do. 
 
184 THE STOT^E KINGDOM. 
 
 when tliey don't know what they are wri- 
 ting about. This i^ropliecy means just what 
 it says. For just in proportion as we " suck 
 the millv of the nations " and absorb tlieir 
 wealth and power, in the same proportion we 
 increase our own wealth and greatness. This 
 sucking of the milk of the nations comes first, 
 by which we are made more powerful and the 
 better able to " suck the breasts of kings," 
 i. e., take from them their tyrannical power 
 and iron rule, and suck from them the starch 
 out of their stiffening, and make them more 
 like other men — suck from their autocratic 
 domination, and take from them the power to 
 persecute the Church, to shed innocent blood, 
 and to trample God's people under their feet. 
 So wonderful shall be the growth of this 
 country in wealth, in power, in true religion, 
 and general intelligence ! And its rellex in- 
 fluence on kings shall be so amazing in soften- 
 ing, moderating, and changing their rule, and 
 compelling them to regard the rights of their 
 subjects, that '' thou shalt know that I, Jeho- 
 vah, am thy Savior, and thy Redeemer, the 
 Mighty One of Jacob." Men shall see and 
 know that such mighty results are brought 
 
185 
 
 about by the band of God, and not merely by 
 bnman wisdom. His band is and has been so / 
 manifest in tlie affairs of this country, that 
 even tlie wicked see it and profanely say, 
 *' there is a strange providence that takes care " 
 of children, negroes, and the United States." v 
 
 y. 17. "Instead of the brass, I will bring 
 gold; and instead of the iron, I will bring 
 silver ; and instead of the wood, brass ; and 
 instead of the stones, iron ; and I will make 
 thy officers peace, and thy rulers justice." 
 
 Israel restored, is here described as being 
 vastly richer than ancient Israel. The con- 
 trast is minutely made. The Hebrew definite 
 article expresses it. " Instead of tlie brass of 
 ancient Israel, I will bring gold to Israel re- 
 stored ; and instead of the iron, I will bring 
 silver ; instead of the wood, brass ; instead of 
 the stone, iron. The difference betA^een the 
 two estates is not in Mnd^ but in degree. In 
 the first estate Israel was confined to one 
 family ; in the second, Israel is to bless all the 
 families of earth. If it took all the silver and 
 gold mentioned concerning ancient Israel, to 
 me^t her demands, it will now, in the dispen- ^ 
 sation of the Spirit, in the world-wide work, 
 
v^ 
 
 186 THE STONE KII^GDOM. 
 
 take millions more. If it took one-tentli of 
 tlie income of every man in ancient Israel to 
 support the Tabernacle, what will it take now 
 to support the Gosj^el, and to send its heavenly 
 news to the ends of tlie earth? The Lord has 
 given us a land equal to the tax, and with that 
 tax paid promptly. He guarantees unfailing 
 prosperity. With increased responsibility He 
 has increased our resources. During the iirst 
 300 3'ears after America was discovered, it 
 furnished 3^ *time more gold and 12 times 
 more silver than all the world besides. Our 
 hills are burdened with iron, more than enougli 
 to build a network of highways from ocean 
 to ocean, and our ships and palaces. Our 
 resources are absolutely inexhaustible. 
 
 "I will make thy officers peace and thy 
 rulers justice." We have no knighted herald- 
 ry, no pomp and power of privileged classes 
 to trample on the rights of the people. All 
 our " officers are j)eace." No military trap- 
 pings to tyrannize over us, but every man is 
 ]peaceably tried by his peers. " I will make 
 thy rulers j ustice." Our Constitution requires 
 the laws to be executed with justice. Fre- 
 quentl}^ justice is robbed of its aim, not be- 
 
"the waiting isles." 187 
 
 cause of defect in organic law, but because of 
 human corruption, incident to fallen man. The 
 civil code of the States is based on the princi- 
 ples of eternal right. So that it is true ours 
 are "officers of peace and rulers of justice." 
 
 y. 18. " Yiolence shall be heard no more in 
 thy land, desolation and ruin within thy bor- 
 ders, and thou shalt call thy walls Deliverance 
 and thy gates Praise." 
 
 For long centuries the Church had a baptism 
 of blood. Yiolence seemed to be her heir- 
 loom, handed down from age to age. " I came 
 not to send peace, but a sword" has been 
 fearfull3^ realized. The names of Smithfield, 
 Piedmont, St. Bartholomew, Inquisition and a 
 score of others will tell to the latest generation 
 of the violence endured by the Church. But, 
 thank God, there is now a land where violence 
 shall be heard no more. Desolated homes 
 and ruined fortunes for Christ's sake shall 
 never be seen within thy borders. " Thou 
 shalt call thy walls Deliverance and thy gates 
 Praise." Here the Lord's people are delivered 
 from the blood- hounds of cruelty. They are 
 free and safe, forever safe, and " thy gates 
 shall be praise." 
 
188 THE STONE KITTGDOM. 
 
 V. 19. " Thy sun sliall not be to thee any 
 more for a light by clay, and for brightness 
 the moon shall not shine to thee ; but Jehovah 
 shall become tliy everlasting light, and thy 
 God thy glory." 
 
 In this verse we have another of those 
 adversative clauses where v,av is translated 
 "but." The peo]3le of God for many 
 centuries had been driven from country to 
 country by terrible persecution. They had 
 been hiding in dens and caves of the moun- 
 tains. Their life had been made a living 
 death. For hundreds of years the Claver- 
 houses of Satan had turned loose their hell- 
 hounds on the track of Christians. But, in 
 the good i^rovidence of God, a country was 
 discovered in which the Stone Kingdom was 
 set up — where Israel should be restored. The 
 persecuted ones see it, and come by thousands 
 and scores of thousands. Here, they are free 
 to worship God as they please, free from 
 oppression and from persecution. In this 
 land "violence shall no more be heard." 
 They are so happy that the light of the sun 
 by day and the moon by night is considered 
 no light at all in comparison with the good- 
 
189 
 
 ness of God experienced by tliem and tlieir 
 great joy of heart, " for Jeliovali sliall be thy 
 everlasting light and thy God thy glory."" 
 The Sun of Righteousness shone upon them 
 so brightly, so cheeringly, that the shining of 
 the sun and moon are nothing to be compared 
 to their sj)iritual iUumination, to their appre- 
 hension of the goodness of God in giving them 
 peace^ glorious peace, peace that flows like a 
 river'. Truly '' their God was their glory." 
 
 y. 20. " Thy sun shall go down no more, 
 and thy moon shall not be taken away, for 
 Jehovah shall be to thee for an everlasting y 
 light, and the days of thy mourning shall be 
 ended." 
 
 The sun is a symbol of civil government. 
 Seelsa. xiii : 10 ; xxiv : 23 ; Jer. xv : 9 ; Ezek. 
 xxxii : 7 . Joel ii : 31 ; Amos viii : 9. " Thy 
 sun shall go down no more," as in ancient 
 Israel. That people accomplished their mis- 
 sion, and were scattered among the nations. 
 Their government was utterly destroyed. 
 Their political sun went down in blood, andv/ 
 their peoj)le became exiles and fugitives. But 
 in Israel restored, thy sun, i. e.^ thy civil 
 government, shall go down no more. " I will 
 
190 THE STOI^E KINGDOM. 
 
 make tliee a perpetual excellency, a joy from 
 age to age." 
 
 " Tliy moon shall not be taken away." The 
 
 "^moon is a symbol of the Chnrch. Ancient 
 Israel rejected the Savior. "He came nnto 
 His own, and His own received Him not," 
 therefore they were cast off. " The daily 
 sacrifice was taken away," and their govern- 
 ment and Church went down : but in Israel 
 restored, their civil and religious privileges 
 and blessings shall continue forever ; her 
 " moon shall not be taken away ; for Jehovali 
 shall be to thee for an everlasting light, and 
 the days of thy mourning shall be ended." 
 The Church is no more to take refuge in the 
 wilderness ; racks, stakes and gibbets are no 
 more to be the death places of the saints. 
 These horrid monuments of torture crowd the 
 pages of the past ; but now, let all praise to 
 
 y Jehovah's name be given, because "the days 
 of thy mourning are ended." 
 
 Y. 21. "And thy people all of them just 
 [/. e. doing and loving justice] shall possess 
 the land forever, the sj)rout of my planting, 
 the work of my hands, to glorify myself." 
 
191 
 
 To tlie just aud upright man tlie Hebrews 
 attributed also Tiindness and liberality. See 
 Ps. xxxvii : 21 ; Prov. xii : 10 ; xxi : 26. This 
 then being the meaning of the word '^just " 
 in this connection, it gives an exact descrip- 
 tion of the people of our country. Their kind- 
 ness of disposition, and liberality to all, are 
 notable characteristics of American citizens. 
 
 "Shall possess the land forever." It will/ 
 not be given to other peoples. Great changes 
 may take place, and must take place. Great 
 progress and improvements in every depart- 
 ment will be made ; but the government willy 
 always remain an elective, representative 
 government. For all of monarchy is to be 
 utterly destroyed ; because kings have always 
 worn, and now wear, their crowns under the 
 divine protest ; and when autocracy is swept 
 away, there will be no other form of govern- 
 ment left to manage or control the masses 
 of mankind, except representative republi- 
 canism. 
 
 " The sprout of my planting, the work of 
 my hands." These are love- words which the 
 Lord hath spoken to His people. They contain / 
 a soul-cheering promise of perpetual posses- 
 
192 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 sion ; His people " shall possess the land for- 
 ever." This country is the spront of His 
 planting, the work of His hands to glorify 
 Himself." By this we understand the provi- 
 dential settlement of God's people in this 
 country, under a form of government divinely 
 approved, under the government of "the 
 sprout of Jesse "; where Church and State are 
 mutually dependent for the progress and pros- 
 perity of the whole. The Church cannot do 
 without the State, and the State cannot do 
 without the Church ; while they are separate, 
 and each indej)endent, their prosperous and 
 harmonious co-operation plainly shows that 
 this country, so pointedly described by the 
 prophets, is the " sprout of the Lord's plant- 
 ing, the work of His hands." 
 
 "To glorify myself." Where the great 
 principles of truth and righteousness are culti- 
 vated, where the divine law is respected and 
 honored, where light and liberty are diffused 
 among the nations, where love to God and be- 
 nevolence to our fellow-men abide, there truly 
 the Lord is glorified in His wonderful love to 
 the children of men, nationally, socially and 
 ecclesiastically. 
 
193 
 
 Y. 22. "A small number shall become a 
 thousand, and a few in number shall become 
 a mighty nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it 
 in its time." Our country in its beginning 
 was " a little one," but now it has become a 
 mighty nation. And 3^et, it has only com- 
 menced its growth. Truly the Lord is with 
 us. He is marshaling His forces for grander 
 conquests. For He has said, " I, the Lord, 
 will hasten it in its time." 
 
 ■-^^^riri/i^--^.^u-irLf(y-'^^yijyi/ 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 "BEHOLD I DO A NEW THING," 
 
 Or the Primal Curse Rolling Back. — Isaiah xliii. 18-21. 
 
 ^^^§ 18. "Rememlber not former tilings, and 
 ©11(9% tilings of old shall not be rebuilt." 
 As if the prophet had said, ' Why should I 
 refer to ancient instances of God's almighty 
 intervention in behalf of His peoj)le, when 
 others quite as remarkable are to come ? 
 Remember not the former condition of ancient 
 Israel. Set not your heart upon the land of 
 Judea, nor think to restore it to its former 
 glory.' It had served its purpose in the econ- 
 omy of grace ; it had been the cradle of the 
 Church ; it was well suited for its home in 
 infancy ; its territory was admirably adapted 
 in all respects in which to accomplish its 
 divine mission. But now the Church is 
 " God's warrior " to conquer the world, and it 
 must have another land, more accessible, 
 
 194 
 
A NEW THING. 195 
 
 vastly larger and better fitted every way to ^ 
 be the headquarters of the Lord's conquering 
 host. 
 
 "Old things," or the former estate of they 
 Church, "shall not be rebuilt." This is a 
 positive statement that ought for ever to set 
 at rest that false interpretation which says, 
 " Israel restored" means that old Judea is to 
 be re-inhabited, and all the tribes of Israel 
 must return to Palestine, the temple must be 
 rebuilt, and I know not what other things are to 
 be done ; this interpretation is all gratuitous 
 and as fanciful as it is false. This theory is not 
 consistent with the teaching of God's word, 
 nor with the glorious development of the 
 Church "in the latter days." For the proph- 
 et expressly says the " old things," or things 
 of old "shall not be rebuilt." This is an 
 astonishing statement, nevertheless it is true, 
 because the Lord liath declared it. The word 
 translated "rebuilt" is the hithpael of the 
 verb danalt " to build." I cannot see how it 
 can be consistently translated " consider," 
 and thereby change the whole meaning of the 
 verse. That translation, or rather that substi- 
 tution, is without foundation — without a cor- 
 
196 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 responding word in the original and entirely 
 gratuitous. It brings to this passage a cloud 
 of smoke instead of a flood of light. This 
 word, hanali^ is one of the great decisive 
 words in the Bible whicli must be translated 
 correctly. Gesenius gives the meaning of this 
 word '' to build " in all its forms but never to 
 "consider." The commentators areas silent 
 as the grave on this word. They did not know 
 what to do with it and retain their notions 
 about the restoration of Israel in old Pales- 
 tine. This whole passage is irreconcilable 
 with that old theory and declares directly 
 against it. 
 
 V. 19. "Behold I do a new thing. At this 
 time it shall spring forth ; shall ye not know 
 it, [or shall ye know what it is] ? I will even 
 place in the wilderness a way [or a going] 
 and streams in the waste place." 
 
 " Behold I do a new thing," for the Church 
 and for my people. Something that the world 
 had never seen before — something on a grand- 
 er scale than were the former things and the 
 things of old, so great that the former things 
 will not be remembered. 
 
 "At this time it shall spring forth," at the 
 
A KEW THINO. 197 
 
 time when "I do a new thing." All this im- 
 plies that this "new thing" was far in the 
 future, or at least not then developed. 
 
 " Shall ye not know it, [or do you not know 
 what it is] ?" This seems to be a divine chal- 
 lenge for inquiry and investigation. 
 
 " I will even place in the wilderness a way 
 [or a going], and streams in the waste place." 
 This is the answer to the question just asked. 
 This is the " new thing " I will place in the 
 wilderness, in this country that had been 
 "always waste," in that "land shadowed 
 with wings," in the land of Israel restored, 
 in our own America — " the wilderness," " a 
 way," or "a going," I will build. The form 
 of this expression is singular, but the sense 
 is collective, doubtless referring to the great 
 system of railways that now form a net-work 
 of " goings " to and fro : the highways on 
 Avhicli millions travel. And was it not in this 
 country that steam was first successfully ap- 
 plied to navigation ? This interpretation is 
 confirmed by the next expression, " and 
 streams in the waste j)lace." What sort of 
 streams ? Does it not mean the vast current, 
 or streams of population now flowing into our 
 
 V 
 
* 198 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 country, tliat was for tlionsands of years a 
 wilderness and a waste place. Our country at> 
 present furnishes a literal, a wonderful fulfill- 
 ment of this prophecy. Truly it is " a new 
 thing " that has come to pass, a new country 
 and a new people, gathered from all lands, by 
 a new mode of transportation and locomotion ; 
 such as the ancients never saw. Ancient Is- 
 rael had its day, and did its preparatory 
 
 thing " in Israel restored ; in comparison 
 with which former things shall " not he remem- 
 bered." The setting up of the Stone kingdom 
 marks a new era in the world's history, civilly, 
 socially, religiously, and mechanically. Small 
 sailing vessels and old time wagons and ox 
 teams are now substituted by floating palaces 
 and lightning express trains. That was a slow 
 age of plodding — this is the steam age of 
 locomotion. This makes a new page in his- 
 tory and a new epoch in the world. Truly, 
 this is a new thing the Lord hath done. As 
 '' the glory of the latter house shall be greater 
 than the former," so Israel restored shall be 
 greater than ancient Israel. The next verse 
 also confirms this interpretation. 
 
 V 
 
A IS-EW THING. 199 
 
 V. 20. "The living thing of the conhtiy^ 
 shall honor me, the great serpent and the 
 daughters of shouting, because I have placed 
 waters in the wilderness, streams in the waste 
 place, for the watering of [or refreshment of] 
 my people — my chosen." 
 
 What is " the living thing of the country ?" 
 It is something that has power and motion. It 
 passed in vision before the prophet, unlike 
 anything he had ever seen before. He had 
 no name for it. He saw its extended and 
 varied operations, and its wonderful doings. 
 Hence he called it " the living thing of the 
 country." It is all clear to us ; we meet it in 
 our every day experience. It is so common 
 that it has almost lost its novelty, but none 
 of its truthfulness, as a great realization. It 
 is the ai)plication of steam to macliineryy 
 This unseen, mighty power turns our mills, 
 rolls the wheels of commerce, prints our pa- 
 pers, furnishes employment for millions. It 
 comes on a mission of mercy to oxen, horses, 
 and men, and relieves them of the hard bond- 
 age of burden-bearers ; it takes their place in 
 locomotion and transportation. In thousands 
 of ways, it honors the Lord, in the develop- 
 
200 THE STOXE KINGDOM. 
 
 ment of the "wilderness" wliicli He gave to 
 His people in making it beautiful and to 
 blossom like tlie rose. One illustrious ex- 
 ample, showing how it honors the Lord, is in 
 the buildings of the American Bible Society. 
 It strikes off the Word of God with almost 
 incredible rapidity, and that, too, in many 
 different languages, and scatters it broadcast 
 over the world. Thus in many ways " the 
 living thing of the country " honors the Lord. 
 " The great serpent, and the daughters of 
 shouting." This is a graphic description, but 
 not more graphic than true, of a long railroad 
 train, drawn by a hissing, snorting locomotive : 
 as it glides along, bending with the curves of 
 the road, it looks to a distant spectator like a 
 great serpent, bent on some mission of terror. 
 In our thoroughfares of trade, and great 
 manufacturing centres, the perpetual noise of 
 screaming and yelling engines forcefully re- 
 mind us of the proi3het's description, "daugh- 
 ters of shouting": they, too, are honoring 
 Him, and shout His praise in various ways, 
 by developing the resources of His land, and 
 building up His people in power. The words 
 translated, "daughters of shouting" have 
 
A ]^EW TIIITTG. 201 
 
 been translated "jackals, or wolves," also 
 " owls, and ostriches. " There is some reason 
 for this last translation, for the word {yalia- 
 nail) that means an ostrich, is identical with 
 the word in the text, that is derived from 
 the word {lianali) " to cry out," " to shout." 
 The learned expositors came very near the 
 meaning, without reaching it. The pio^Dhet 
 is here describing something that he had 
 never seen or heard before, by things and 
 terms that were familiar and best suited to 
 convey his meaning. Dr. Livingstone, the 
 great explorer of Africa, says he never could 
 distinguish at a distance, the roaring of an 
 ostrich from the roaring of a lion, only by this 
 fact, the ostrich roars in the day, and the lion 
 roars at night. This explanation satisfactorily 
 fixes and defines the prophetic description of 
 "the living thing of the country" and "the 
 daughters of shouting" to mean locomotives, 
 and various noisy steam powers, as you will 
 see presentl}^ 
 
 " Because I have placed waters in the waste 
 places." " Waters," in the Scriptures, is often 
 used as a metaphor, to represent multitudes 
 of people. So we think here it aptly repre- 
 
202 THE STONE KITsTxDOX. 
 
 sents the vast population that is flowing, and 
 will continue to flow, into our great country ; 
 Avhicli was so long a " waste place." 
 
 " Streams in the wilderness." It is not 
 {iihariiii) streams, currents, floods of water, 
 but {nliarotli) with a feminine termination, 
 signifying streams of various sorts — streams 
 of population, streams of Avealth, streams of 
 learning, and streams of influences that 
 will make glad the city of our God, " for 
 the watering, or refreshment of my j^eople 
 — my chosen." J^otice the vast preparation 
 He has made for His people, for His chosen : 
 that their temporal wants may be abun- 
 dantly supplied, that His chosen may lay 
 aside forever their soiled and tattered gar- 
 ments of exile and imprisonment, and that 
 their souls may be refreshed with the waters 
 of life, that they may honor Him in the sal- 
 vation of men, and also in the liberation 
 and elevation of the nations. 
 
 Y. 21. " This people I have formed for my- 
 self; they shall declare my praise." 
 '^ " This people," formed for the great work of 
 glorifying God, in the development of civil 
 and religious liberty, for the utter overthrow, 
 
A KEW TJtrma. 203 
 
 and entire destruction of despotism, and po- / 
 litical slavery, for the promotion of human 
 freedom among the peoples, for the elevation 
 of the oppressed millions of earth to a higher 
 social, civil and moral status. 
 
 " They shall declare my praise." This is 
 their mission — to declare the praise and glory 
 of their great Master, both at home and 
 abroad, until the ends of the earth shall unite 
 in ascribing " Blessing, and honor and glory 
 and power, unto Him that sitteth upon the 
 throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever." 
 This seems clearly to be the meaning of this 
 prophecy. This is the neio tJdng that the v 
 Lord of Hosts would do. He would restore ^ 
 Israel to nationality " the second time," to 
 great honor and worldly power in that *' far- 
 off" land, that had " always been waste :" 
 and through its iniiuence revolutionize the 
 nations ; throw them out of the old ruts of au- 
 tocracy and non-progress, and give to the 
 tribes and peoples liberty of thought, liberty v 
 of speech, and liberty to worship God accord- 
 ing to the dictates of their conscience. 
 
 It is certainly no '^ neio tiling^' for wolves 
 to howl, for ostriches to run or roar, nor for 
 
204 THE STON"E KINGDOM. 
 
 owls to lioot, as some have interpreted a part 
 of this prophecy. Neither would it be a new 
 tiling for rivers of waters to flow throngh the 
 wilderness, where they had been flowing for 
 thousands of years. There is no "new thing" 
 about this ; and yet the Lord declares, " I 
 will do a new thing," and He meant wiiat He 
 said, and He has done it. He has done a 
 new thing on a grand scale, in the establish- 
 ment of the flfth nationality, in the setting 
 up of the Stone Kingdom, in setting up Israel 
 the second time in this "far-off" land, that 
 He kept hid for ages. " This people have I 
 formed for myself; they shall declare my 
 praise," in a manner never done before. 
 Through them, in a great measure. He has 
 rolled back the curse of Eden. " The living 
 ^ thing of the country " is honoring Him in a 
 thousand ways that cannot here be recounted ; 
 but especially does the " living thing " furnish 
 to the peo]3le astonishingly rapid and easy 
 locomotion. Instead of men and women 
 plodding on foot over long and wearisome 
 journeys, as in times of old, we can accom- 
 plish pleasantly in a few hours what once re- 
 quired weeks and months. Instead of the old 
 
A NEW THING. 205 
 
 stage-coach, we now have express trains drawn 
 by '' the living thing of the country," to carry 
 the mail and passengers. But greater yet, the ^ 
 telegrarph carries a message around the world 
 in a moment of time. This work of praise has 
 just begun; astonishing things in every de- 
 partment have been accomplished, and vastly 
 greater triumphs are just ahead, now laughed 
 at by fools, but soon to be sublimely realized. 
 In the agricultural department of "toil and 
 sweat," with the present improved implements 
 one or two men can do more than a dozen in 
 times of old. Once Ruth, ]N"aomi and a num- 
 ber of others toiled for days in the burning 
 sun of summer to reap and bind the wheat in 
 the fields of Boaz. Now* women are spared 
 that pain. Two or three men with a reaper 
 and binder drawn by horses or by " the living 
 thing of the country " can accomplish in a few 
 hours what once took all the men and women 
 on the plantation weeks to do. Once Dorcas 
 had to toil with her needle all day, and far 
 into the "wee sma' hours of the night," 
 straining her eyes by the dim light of a tallow 
 candle ; now she can do ten times more work, 
 and ten times more pleasantly, with a sewing- 
 
206 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 macliine by tlie bright sunliglit, and read or 
 rest at night as she may please. 
 
 Thus in numberless ways in these " latter 
 days " God has given freedom from the 
 drudgery of toil. Behold in these and other 
 blessings the primal curse rolling back, as the 
 light of the gospel advances, as liberty is 
 given to the mind and men, as the Church 
 rises upon a higher and wider plane. 
 
 These are some of the "new things " which 
 the Lord said He would do, which He has 
 done and is now doing, for that people whom 
 He has formed for Himself, that they might 
 more gloriously " declare His praise." 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE STONE KINGDOM A POLITICAL POWER. 
 
 " SHALL NEVER DESTROY ITSELF." 
 
 Confirmed by One of the Endings of the "Forty-Two Months," 
 which Points with Exaclncss to May 26, 1865, when the Last of 
 the Confede7'ate Forces iva'C Surrendered. 
 
 ^||AN. ii : 44. "And in the days of these 
 •J^^ kings [/. e., these ten-toe kings] shall 
 the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which / 
 shall never destroy itself {Idtlipael)^ and the 
 kingdom shall not be left to other people, but 
 it shall break in pieces and bring to an end 
 all these kingdoms, and it shall stand through 
 the ages." 
 
 Daniel is the only one of all the prophets/ 
 who has given us a chronological view of the 
 rise and fall of the, great world-powers from 
 his day to the end of time. He was prime 
 minister in two of these — in the Babylonian 
 and Medo-Persian. His position through a 
 long and changeful life eminently fitted him, 
 
 207 
 
208 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 both as a man and a propliet, to map out the 
 great political powers that should succeed 
 each other. It is true the Church was con- 
 nected in some way with all these successive 
 kingdoms, as the great centre of attraction and 
 observation. Daniel saw her oppressed, 
 wronged, martyred, exiled and suffering un- 
 righteously under all these political domina- 
 tions, until the Stone Kingdom, or fifth gov- 
 ernment, was set up. He sympathized with 
 the Church ; his heart yearned for her, but 
 yet you can see the influence of his life-long 
 education as a statesman in the prominence 
 he gives to political matters. How minutely 
 he traces the rise and fall of kingdoms with 
 chronological accuracy and has mapped the 
 nations, is demonstrated by subsequent histo- 
 ry. The Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the 
 Macedonian and the Roman empires have all 
 j)assed away, and the ten-toe kingdoms have 
 been standing for a thousand years. 
 
 '' And in the days of these [ten-toe] kings 
 
 shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom 
 
 that shall never destroy itself." This last 
 
 "^ verb is not passive but in the lililipael and 
 
 means " shall never destroy itself." All the 
 
THE STONE KINGDOM. 209 
 
 preceding kingdoms had destroyed themselves 
 by their own weakness and wickedness, bnt 
 this fifth nationality, he foresaw, would not • 
 share the fate of its predecessors. The great 
 colossus with its golden head, with its arms 
 and breast of silver, with its belly and thighs 
 of brass, with its legs of iron, and with its feet 
 and toes of iron and clay, Daniel interprets 
 to be different political governments, and the 
 history of the world confirms the truthfulness 
 of his interpretation. So also the stone cut/ 
 out of the mountain without hands must sym- 
 bolize a political government different from 
 all the rest as stone is different from metal. 
 This must be the true interpretation, for it is 
 to crush and to destroy with great political 
 and military power all these other kingdoms. 
 It is to be hurled against them like a tornado 
 with the destructiveness and enginery of bat- 
 tle till they be driven away from the earth 
 like chaff from the summer threshing-floors. 
 This clothes the Stone with terrible military v/ 
 and political power. Again, since Daniel gave 
 a view of all the great political powers from 
 his day to the end of time, and since the 
 Stone, the last in the series, has a revolution- 
 
210 THE STOXE KINGDOM. 
 
 izing, over thro win c^ and destroying power, it 
 must also be political in its organization. 
 
 '' This great image whose brightness was 
 excellent and the form thereof was terrible," 
 was metallic and represented all of monarchy 
 and autocracy that would ever exist on the 
 earth. The Stone was constituted of an entire- 
 ly different mineral and symbolized an entire- 
 ly different kind of government, as has been 
 ,shown. It symbolizes a government of repre- 
 sentative republicanism. Also the time of its 
 rise "in the days.of these [ten-toe] kings" is 
 specially mentioned and corresponds exactly 
 with the setting up of the United States. Also 
 this wonderful providential government which 
 was cut out of the mountain of Christianity, 
 that the God of nations hath Himself " set 
 up," is astonishingly demonstrated to be the 
 United States by its corresponding history. 
 
 The next great truth to which special atten- 
 tion is invited, is that the Stone government 
 " shall never destroy itself, and the kingdom 
 shall not be left to other people." This is 
 different from all other kingdoms and govern- 
 ^ ments. They have risen, have flourished 
 awhile, and have fallen, and have been left to 
 
THE STOXE KINGDOM. 211 
 
 other j)eople. There is no exception to this 
 universal ruk^ found in tlie history of the ages. 
 All the nations of the past, like men, have had 
 ''a time to be born and a time to die :" not so ^ 
 with the Stone Kingdom. It had a time to be 
 born specially marked and pointed to, and it 
 was born on the exact day and year foretold 
 by the prophets : but it is to have no end, as 
 other nations have ended ; " it shall never be 
 destroyed." Ancient Israel destro3^ed itself 
 by wickedness, by secession and division, and 
 passed away Avlien its work was accomplish- 
 ed, but Israel restored must enlarge and ex- 
 pand until all the nations have been brought 
 under its benign influence. Its march is ever^ 
 onward and upward. Its mission, through the ^ 
 gospel, is to give civil and religious liberty 
 to the nations and freedom to the peoples, 
 also truth and light for su|)erstition and spir- 
 itual darkness. The Stone Kingdom is the ^ 
 United States, and as its course, as marked 
 out by the prophets, is ever in the ascendant, 
 reaching on from conquest to conquest, not so 
 much with garments rolled in blood as with 
 the olive-branch of peace bestowing upon the 
 nations liberty, happiness and truth, we can- 
 
212 THE STOI^TE KIT^GDOM. 
 
 not detect in its course with the. largest pro- 
 phetic glasses any declination. 
 
 " But the saints of the Most High shall take 
 the kingdom and possess the kingdom forev- 
 er, even for ever and ever." This much we 
 ^ know, the Stone Kingdom " shall never de- 
 stroy itself " l)y secession. That terrible ex- 
 periment has been made at a loss of a million 
 of men, according to the estimates of Horace 
 Greeley and Alexander Stephens, and eight 
 thousand millions of dollars. And, as a dying 
 soldier asked at the lirst great battle of Ma- 
 nassas, " What was all this for ?" We for- 
 bear to answer. But we know it is written in 
 God's eternal plan tliat this Stone government 
 " shall never destroy itself, and the kingdom 
 shall not be left to other people." Our country 
 
 V needs to be cleansed and purged of much in- 
 dwelling wickedness and corruption, both po- 
 litical and civil ; it must be done, and will be 
 done, however drastic the medicine. But woe 
 
 ^ to the man, or to the party, that attempts its 
 destruction, or wars against the perpetuity of 
 this government : terrible remedies may be 
 necessary for its purification and healthful- 
 ness, but never an effort for its destruction ; 
 
THE STON^E KIIS^GDOM. 213 
 
 such will be warring against tlie providence 
 of God, and that providence will be too strong 
 for them. Let ns see what emphasis facts and 
 figures can give to these Scripture truths 
 about the perpetuity of the Stone govern- 
 ment. 
 
 We have shown in a former chapter that 
 " from the taking away of the daily sacrifice," 
 to the setting up of this government, was ex- 
 actly 1,260 symbolic years. This is an indis- 
 putable identification. We have shown in 
 another place, from the flight of the woman 
 into the wilderness, " where she is nourished 
 for a time, times, and an half," that her wil- 
 derness sojourn began on the 17th June A. D. 
 325, and ended after 1,260 symbolic days, on 
 July 4, 1776. This is another indisputable 
 identification. 
 
 The 42 months that the holy city shall be 
 trodden under foot, is an expression of " the 
 time, times, and an half." It must be remem- 
 bered that all these periods have several dif- 
 ferent endings, pointing to different great 
 events. We now desire to call attention to 
 one of the endings, or rather to one of the 
 fingers of the 42 months that points to one cf 
 
214 THE STOT^E KIl^GDOM. 
 
 the greatest events in our political history — 
 to the close of the war between the States — to 
 the last surrender ; when the Stone with all 
 its parts was united again. Let us count and 
 see whither the divine index points. By add- 
 ing Sabbath-day time, to 42 months, or i, 
 we have 49 — then add other sacred time of 
 3 months, and we have 52 months — corres- 
 ponding to the 52 weeks in a year. These 
 52 months have 30 days each, making 1,560. 
 Now 70 weeks — the key to all these '* times " 
 and " years "—or, 490 divided into 1,560 gives 
 us 3-/9. A Hebrew year of 3^ears is 364 multi- 
 plied by 364,— equal to 132,496 : add to this } 
 for Sabbatic time, then add to that result i for 
 Sabbath-day time, and we have 176,661^. This 
 is one symbolic " time " — then multiply this 
 " time " by 3-4-9, and we have 562,432 days. 
 This reduced gives 1,539 years and 324 days. 
 The student must remember that the Julian 
 Calendar, which is still in use in the Russian 
 Empire, and was in use in all Europe until 
 1582, makes the civil year 11 minutes longer 
 than the solar j^ear, which now amounts to 
 about 12 days too much, and must be sub- 
 tracted from the previous result, which leaves 
 
THE ST01S"E KINGDOM. 215 
 
 in solar time 1,539 years and 312 days ; or, in 
 months, it will be November 9. A fraction of 
 a day is counted a whole day. The reader 
 will remember that A. D. 325, June 17, was 
 the day when Church and State were united, 
 was the time when the woman lied into the 
 wilderness, and the time from which these 
 42 symbolic months, or 1,260 days are counted. 
 The reader will also remember that the iirst 
 ending of these 42 months, has been shown 
 in a previous chapter to be on July 4, 1776, 
 the birthday of our nation ; and the second 
 ending points to some other great event, fur- 
 ther on, in our national history. 'Now to 
 A. D. 325, June 17, add 1,539 years and 312 
 days, or IS'ovember 9, and we have exactly 
 A. D. 1865, May 26. This is the second end- 
 ing of these 42 months, and points to the' 
 second great event in the history of the Stone 
 kingdom — to the very year and day, when 
 Gen. E. Kirby Smith surrendered the last of 
 the Confederate forces to Gen. R. S. Canb}^ of 
 the Federal army. On that day the Stone was 
 no longer divided ; on that day prophecy had 
 a wonderful fulfillment ; and the truthfulness 
 of the divine programme was confirmed before 
 
216 THE STOI^^E KIN"GDOM. 
 
 tlie eyes of tlie nations. These figures are 
 startling, and the facts revealed are aston- 
 ishingly sublime. This great colossus of 
 prophecy stands in the dignity and eloquence 
 of silence, with eyes fixed, looking across the 
 ages, and with his arm outstretched, and his 
 finger pointing to May 26, A. D. 1865, and yet 
 he speaks not a word, but with a look of 
 warning and re2:)roof, he reminds us of what 
 had been spoken ages since, the government 
 " shall never destroy itself, the kingdom shall 
 not be left to other people." Thus these 
 figures and facts have given a powerful em- 
 phasis to the truthfulness of God's word, 
 which declares that the Stone kingdom 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 OUR COUNTRY AFTER THE PROPHETIC 
 PATTERN. 
 
 And What our Rulers Ought to Do. 
 
 "Ij^OIl tlius saitli the Lord God, Behold I, 
 •jEfe even I, will both search my sheep, and 
 seek them out as a shepherd seeketh out his 
 flock in the day that he is among his sheep 
 that are scattered ; so will I seek out my 
 sheep, and deliver them out of all places 
 where they have been scattered, in the cloudy 
 and dark day. And I will bring them out 
 from the people, and gather them from the 
 countries, and will bring them to their oion 
 land, and feed them uj)on the mountains of 
 Israel, by the rivers, and in all the inhabited 
 places of the country." This is their oion 
 land that the Lord had '' kept hid " through 
 the ages, so that, ''in the latter days" He 
 should " set them up a second time," or re- 
 store His Israel, in the fifth nationality, for 
 217 
 
218 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 the conquest of the world for King Jesus. " I 
 will feed them in a good pasture, and upon 
 the high mountains shall their fold be : there 
 shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture 
 shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 
 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to 
 lie down, saith the Lord God."" Ezek. xxxiv: 
 24 ; xxxvii : 21 ; xxxviii : 8. 
 
 In this little volume I have called atten- 
 tion to a few of those marked and wonderful 
 prophecies that point to and describe our 
 country, as the land of Israel's restoration ; 
 to those prophecies that have been fulfilled, 
 or are now being fulfilled, with astonishing 
 accuracy ; and to those prophecies that never 
 can have their fulfillment in any other land on 
 earth ; for no other land corresponds so per- 
 fectly with the prophetic description as this, 
 even as the shadow fits the substance. The 
 t^ time of the rise of our country coincides ex- 
 actly with the time mentioned by Daniel and 
 John. Its geography, boundary and division 
 into thirteen States, at its birth, coincide ex- 
 actly with the description given by Ezekiel. 
 The direction of this promised land, from old 
 
OUR COUNTRY. 210 
 
 Palestine, lies exactly in tlie conrse pointed 
 ont by Isaiali. And the land lie described as 
 " sliadowing with wings," and having a people, 
 wlien discovered, that were " tall and naked, 
 and terrible from their beginning, and far 
 away," coincides exactly with the geography 
 and aboriginal history of the two Americas. 
 Here in this land of the Stone, a multitnde of 
 prophecies have a perfect fullillment. Even to 
 enumerate them would be tedious, and to re- 
 capitulate, would be like telling the story over. 
 There are scores of other prophecies that re- 
 late to this country, many of which have been 
 fulfilled ; and many that are exceedingly glori- 
 ous, point to periods further on in our history ; 
 but as they belong to the future, we say nothing 
 about them : their exposition will be given in 
 God's own time. We have endeavored to write 
 about facts and only those prophecies that 
 have been realized, so that, in contending for 
 the truthfulness of our expositions, we would 
 be able to point to the prophecy as the shadow, 
 and to our country as its substance, and show 
 their divine fitness, their perfect coincidence, 
 and, of course, perfect fulfillment. When the 
 reader has finished these pages, I protest 
 
220 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 against his saying, " it is an ingenious work," 
 because such a criticism doubts the truthful- 
 ness of God's word, and tlie wonderfulness of 
 His providence. When tlie Lord lias declared 
 a series of prophecies, extending through thou- 
 sands of years, and then, in His own time, and 
 by His own providence, fulhlls these prophe- 
 cies, and when a servant shows their fulfill- 
 ment to his countrymen, shoukl that expo- 
 sition be called ingenious ? Should we not 
 
 ^rather admire the wonderful works of God, 
 whose sleepless providence fills the eternal 
 programme minutely, even from the falling of 
 a sparrow to the rising and falling of king- 
 doms and nations, exactly in their appointed 
 times ; that our faith may be strengthened, 
 and our hearts encouraged. We must throw 
 
 \lour prejudice to the winds, and bow before 
 the God of truth, however astonishing His 
 truth may be, or however wonderful His ways. 
 "Let God be true, though every man be a 
 liar." 
 
 Since this is the land where Israel is " set 
 
 up the second time," and since the evidence of 
 
 this great fact is so manifold and indisputable, 
 
 v it behooves the people of God, who are Israel- 
 
OUR COUNTRY. 221 
 
 ites indeed, to " arise and build tlie walls " 
 of the spiritual Jerusalem ; for Sanballat, To- 
 biali and Gesliem are here, with all their forces, 
 to oppose and hinder the work. Let every 
 man of Israel, who is " a soldier of God," 
 gird on the sword of the Spirit; yea, let him 
 put on the whole armor of the Gospel, and go 
 forth to the conflict, " for the work is great." 
 Intidelity, false philosophy, and all sorts of^^ 
 error must be overthrown. Millions among 
 us need '' tlie washing of regeneration, and 
 the renewing of the Holy Ghost." The time 
 has come when truth and righteousness should 
 unfurl their banner on all the high places of 
 our country. The destiny of the world is^ 
 placed in our hands, according to the divine 
 programme. Then let the light of truth, re- / 
 ligious and political, shine forth with increas- 
 ing brightness on this generation and upon 
 those that follow. 
 
 I hope it will not be considered impertinent 
 or presumptuous to speak a word to the rulers 
 of our country ; to all those Avho are ''in au- 
 thority," from the highest to the lowest ; to all 
 who have charge of the aifairs of government. 
 The long looked- for " Stone has been cut out 
 
222 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 of the mountain without hands." " The an- 
 cient of days " has come, and its political 
 authority has been restored on a vastly larger 
 scale. These graphic symbols of the fifth 
 nationality, are, and are yet further to be, re- 
 alized in the United States. This government 
 is to expand in territory and to develop in 
 power, until its glorious mission has been 
 fully accomplished. We will not dweil upon 
 that part which is not yet realized ; it has 
 been minutely delineated by the prophets ; 
 and God's providence will fit the substance to 
 the shadow, " in its time." This great pro- 
 phetic country is yours — God has given it to 
 you ; and you are its rulers. It is your prov- 
 ince to make its laws, and it is yours to exe- 
 cute them. More than twent}^ centuries are 
 looking down upon you, with unabated inter- 
 est, to see into what manner of people and 
 government you will be developed. And as 
 yours is, and is to be, the highest type of na- 
 tional develoi3ment the world has ever had, or 
 ever Avill have, your every step in the march 
 of progress will be closely scrutinized by the 
 nations. Hence it behooves you to cling to 
 eternal justice and right; justice in legis- 
 
OUR COUNTRY. 223 
 
 lation, and righteousness in the execution of 
 law, as the sheet-anchor of your safety. Then 
 will " mercy and truth meet together, right- 
 eousness and peace will kiss each other." 
 There are certain great wrongs that demand / 
 righting by your hands, as rulers in the Stone 
 government. 
 
 1st. Great crimes too often go linpunlslied^ 
 especially where gold is the defense of the 
 criminal. This is a great wrong to the State 
 and to society, for it is a license to crime ; its 
 tendency is to lawlessness and bloody revo- 
 lution. The only remedy to secure an abso- 
 lutely impartial and righteous administration 
 of law, is for the people to return to the an- 
 cient custom of electing all judges for life, . 
 or during good behavior ; and require merit 
 alone to be the elective qualihcation. Then 
 the argument of votes can have no weight in 
 the decision of causes, or power to pervert 
 justice. When great crimes go unpunished, 
 and the people submit to these wrongs without 
 protest, they thereby become ijarticeps crjmi- 
 nis. Then the whole community, or State, 
 thus sympathizing with crime, becomes rij)e 
 for pestilence, famine, or some terrible pun- 
 
224 THE STOXE KINGDOM. 
 
 isliment, as a righteous visitation of provi 
 deuce. 
 
 2iid. The Sabbath law is too seldom en- 
 forced. This is a great wrong to the State. 
 The God of hiw reserved the Sabbatli for 
 Himself, and the man who appropriates that 
 lioly day to his unholy purposes is guilty of 
 robbery. If a man plows on the Sabbath day 
 he is liable to be indicted : but a hundred rail- 
 road trains may go thundering along on the 
 Sabbath, and disturb religious worship, and 
 destroy the quiet and peace of the holy day. 
 And besides all this these thoroughfares of 
 traffic and travel keep one million of men from 
 going to church on the Sabbath by their cease- 
 less occupation, and thereby damage the 
 morals of the country ; and yet these railroad 
 magnates and officials are not indicted for 
 their accumulated violation of law. Also the 
 country through which these Sabbath-break- 
 ing railroads run, by submitting to, and aid- 
 ing and abetting in this wrong, become parti 
 ceps Griminis. All those countries that have 
 despised and desecrated the Sabbath, have 
 sooner or later brought upon themselves the 
 curse of heaven, as the history of ancient Is- 
 
OUR COUNTRY, 235 
 
 rael and other nations abundantly testifies. 
 Tlie Lord will not allow His Sabbaths to be 
 trampled npon with impunity. Works of ne- 
 cessity and mercy are all right ; but the con- 
 stant violation of the Sabbath is all wrong. 
 And since this is to be the great model 
 country for the nations, our rulers should 
 rectify this wrong before some terrible curse 
 befalls us. For the Lord of the Sabbath is 
 the God of all forces, and He will punish 
 guilty nations, as well as guilty men, for the 
 willful violation of His law. 
 
 3rd. The general Gfovernment and State au- 
 thorities license the manufacture and pro- 
 miscuous sale of intoxicating liquors. 
 
 This is a great national wrong, authorized 
 by law. A horrible sin against heaven and 
 humanity legalized. The drink-shops all over 
 the land are the altars to Baal, which Jero- 
 boam hath set up to turn away the heart of 
 Israel from the service of the Lord of Hosts. 
 And the 600,000 drunkards in our land, are 
 finished jobs, out on exhibition. About 75,000 
 die annually, and go out in disgrace. But the 
 recruits are more than the slain. Think of 
 the oaths and blasphemies and profane bab- 
 
226 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 Mings that ascend from these altars of Baal, 
 like the smoke of the bottomless pit: also 
 think of the wail of woe constantly ascending 
 from countless widows and orphans and 
 desolated homes. But I will not enlarge. 
 The evil is enormous, and on the increase. It 
 not only destroys the soul, but it damages 
 society, and the best interests of the State. 
 Also the rulers of the country should remem- 
 ber that they are shaping a government that 
 is to be a pattern for all the nations of the 
 earth, sooner or later. This is the divine pro- 
 ^ gramme of the Stone, the great Christian re- 
 publican government that is "to fill the whole 
 earth," This tlien being the heaven-appointed 
 mission of our nation, it behooves our rulers 
 to right these great wrongs which bring and 
 will bring a blasting and a curse upon our 
 people. The Congress of the United States 
 have the interest and well-being of this nation 
 in their hands, and whatever opposes its well- 
 being should be removed. The promiscuous 
 sale of intoxicating liquors is op^Dosed to the 
 well-being of our country — it is an immeasur- 
 able curse, and ought to be removed. This 
 can be most effectively done by congressional 
 
 V 
 
OUR COUT^TEY. 227 
 
 legislation ; by prohibiting the manufacture 
 and sale of distilled, intoxicating liquors in 
 the United States. Then make the violation 
 of this law a felony ; because it involves the 
 life and happiness of millions. The good '^ 
 people of the land will sustain such a law, 
 and demand its enforcement. Tliese are some 
 of the many wrongs that your superior wis- 
 dom must grapple with and remove. The 
 rulers of all countries have great responsi- . 
 bilities, but yours are vastly greater, because 
 of the part you play in the drama of nations, 
 and because of your matchless destiny, as 
 written by the prophets. Therefore " Be 
 strong and quit yourselves like men," *' and 
 keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk 
 in His ways, to keep His statutes and His 
 commandments." ''And who knoweth whether 
 thou art come to the kingdom, for such a time 
 as this." "That search may be made in the 
 book of the records " of the nations, and they 
 " shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do." 
 
 A word of exhortation to the citizens of our 
 country may here be in order. Since the 
 whole is made up of all its parts, and since 
 each citizen forms a part of the Stone king- 
 
228 THE STONE KIlvrGDOM. 
 
 dom, and must assist in giving it its fore- 
 ordained impetus, in order to accomplisli its 
 great mission : and since your lot has fallen 
 in Israel Restored, in tlie fifth nationality, that 
 should arise " in the latter days," spoken of 
 by the prophets, upon whom the eyes of the 
 world are now turned, " what manner of per- 
 sons ought ye to be in all holy conversation 
 and godliness." It is yours to beget and 
 cherish a sound and virtuous public sentiment 
 'on all matters of government and social life. 
 
 /For the government of the Stone is of the 
 people, and proceeds from the people, and 
 since a stream cannot rise higher than its 
 source, it is necessary that the people be 
 
 ^ truthful and virtuous ; then their rulers will be 
 compelled to reflect their sentiments, by the 
 
 ' enactment of virtuous laws ; then our statute 
 books will be pure and white, a bright reflec- 
 tion of righteousness, justice and truth. How 
 
 ^ glorious will be that end — and it will certainl}^- 
 be attained — in comparison with tlie statute- 
 books of to-day, whose leaves are pure and 
 white indeed, except here and there are pages 
 as black as hell, while others are of a darkish 
 gray, on which are written legal compromises 
 
OU.l COITNTRY. 229 
 
 witli sin. While necessity, dressed in the 
 livery of heaven, stands witli saintly bearing, 
 and pleads the part of, and oifers excuses for 
 legalized crime, these black pages must be 
 washed and made white and clean, and the 
 people alone can have it done. And, thank 
 God, from the signs of the times, the washing 
 day is near at hand when it will be done. 
 Already the people are groaning under a bur- 
 den of wrong — physical and moral Avrongs — 
 and are longing to have all their laws the 
 counterpart of eternal truth and right. Your 
 statutes, like common law, should be the ex- 
 pression of justice and righteousness, and 
 when they are less than this, the people are 
 particeps crlmmls^ and are guilty of the 
 crimes legalized. But as light and truth be- 
 come brighter and purer among the people by 
 increased intelligence, legislation will be cor- 
 respondingly improved. Therefore trim the 
 lamps of learning, and '' let there be light," 
 both to head and heart. The necessity for 
 a steady growth, for constant development 
 and improvement in all things, social and 
 civil, is manifest from your divinely-marked 
 destiny : for your country must have the 
 
230 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 ^lieadsliip of tlie world, i. e., it must give to 
 the nations a model government, where the 
 people shall be free, and Christ alone shall be 
 king. ISTot only will this country have such a 
 government, and offer such for adoption to the 
 nations, that they may enjoy civil and re- 
 ligions liberty to the full, but it will compel 
 
 ■^the nations to adopt a representative republi- 
 can government, by the power of moral sua- 
 sion, or otherwise ; for " the Stone must fill 
 the whole earth." In confirmation of this 
 great truth, we know from the signs of the 
 times, and from God's revealed plan of pro- 
 , cedure, that monarchy shall be driven away 
 from the world, '' and no place will be found 
 
 ^ for it." This then being 3^our high destiny, it 
 becomes the duty of each and every citizen to 
 perform faithfully the work assigned him, 
 socially, politically and religiousl}^ A strange 
 and wonderful providence has presided over 
 the birth, and directed the amazing develo]3- 
 ments of our country up to the present mo- 
 ment. And we are assured that the same 
 
 ^ pro^^idence will direct the affairs of our 
 country " through the ages," and all along 
 their widening and ascending scale, to the 
 
OUK COUl^TRY. 231 
 
 exact and glorious fiiHillment of the Stone's 
 wonderful mission. And now may the citi- 
 zens of these United States realize that they 
 are indeed '' that happy people whose God is 
 the Lord," and direct their steps accordingly. 
 To this "let all the people say, 
 
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