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not, each one's imagination may be left to grapple with the
problem, what the condition of the earth would be with
three quarters of it enveloped in this deadly substance.
p. 253, Para. 4, [LOOKING].
The third plague strikes at a still more vulnerable spot,
and the rivers and fountains become blood; as if the earth
in her last agony was pouring forth blood from every aperture,
even as it oozed from the Saviour's pores, as he
wrestled with the world's sin and darkness in lonely Gethsemane.
This plague, as perhaps the preceding, will probably
be of short duration, as it would seem that none could
long survive should this cup of blood be pressed for any
great length of time, continuously, to their lips. p. 253,
Para. 5, [LOOKING].
The fourth plague lights up the sun with an unwonted
flame. Vegetation withers beneath its scorching rays; the
streams evaporate; the heat burns to the very bones of men;
and an air of desolation spreads over the face of nature.
Thus under these plagues the woes of men increase in a
regular ratio: first, sores; then, as a consequence, fever
and thirst; then blood to quench that thirst; and finally,
blazing, glaring, intolerable heat from a sun on fire. p.
254, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The fifth angel pours the contents of his vial upon the
seat of the beast, old Rome, gray and crumbling from its
long years of sin. And the kingdom of the beast, the whole
Catholic world, is full of darkness. The similar plague on
Egypt produced darkness so gross that it could be recognized
by the sense of touch. So here the darkness summons
around the followers of the papal apostasy its legions of
undefinable terrors till they dare not stir, but gnaw their
tongues for their pains and their sores. p. 254, Para. 2,
[LOOKING].
The sixth angel stations himself over the symbolic Euphrates,
and pours his vial upon the Turkish Empire; and its
waters (people), which have for many years already been
growing weaker, or drying up, will then be clean open, that
they may come up to the battle of the great day of the
Lord. Then the spirits of devils from the three great systems
of false or apostate religion, the dragon, beast and
false prophet, -- paganism, popery and a dead and backslidden
Protestantism, -- go forth to gather the nations to the
last strife. And they march up, goaded by their own suffer-