1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

flrictly accordin to the letter Witneea Great Britain,
Germany, and e& natione. And to tbi day she haa
not been able to bring into subjection any of the Proteetant
states, and is only permitted to dwell among them by
toleration. And dthough within a few years past she
seems to be making aa effort to regain her lost power
and authority, yet it is but a last etruggle, a dying gasp ;
hr soon she mwt wd will fall, to to in civil power no
more forever.
10th verse, Because thou hast kept the word of my
patience, I dso will keep thee from the hour of temptation
which shall come ugon all the world to try them that
dwell upon the earth." This part of the prophecy wag
fulfilled on or before the French revolution, when Athe-,
ism dnd Deism made such rapid progress through
Europe or the Roman evernmenf which in pro hecy is
called the eerth %e%ev. xii 9. And it is a &t, that
through this age of profligacy and cormphon, the church
retained her principles as pure and with as little defection
as any age in modem times ; although men of the
world were led away by the plausible wntinga of Voltaire,
Hume, Tom Paine, and others, yet it had no effect
on the Christian church : and the yomise, U I will keep
thee from the hour of temptation, was fully and faithfully
accomplished; and the very means that Satan used
to destroy the religion of Jesus Christ, or L' the twelve
fishermen," was the means of bringing the church out
of the wilderness. And those governments of the world
which had for more than twelve centuries persecuted
the children of God, now granted free toleration for all
men to worship God accordin to the dictates of their
own conscience. And from tfis period re mag see the
cLsngel flying through the midst of heaven having the
everlastin gospel to preach to them that dwell on the
earth." #ow the church began to awake to the subject
of missions ;'and while the world was tempted and tried,
the kingdoms of the earth shaken to their centre, (yet
not destroyed ;) while the civil power of the mother of
harlots, the inquisition of Spain, and the homble means
of torture, persecution, slavery, and cruelty, were all
wept away in one revolution, -the church, by the power
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