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,cnn.|sr's sscozm comxo. 279"ta the end of these wonders." And now, the anti-Christian beast will nolonger be able to deceive thenations with her false miracles, or make the ofthe earth acknowledge her power as supreme. heyhave eaten her Bah; have made her drink herown blood; they her great men ave departed from her; theyare casting dust on theirheads,crying, " Alas! alas! thatgreat city Babylon, that mighty city ! for in one hour is thyjudgment come." "And when she shall have accomplised to scatter the power of the people, all thesethings holy shall be finished," Da.n. xii. 7. his beast has butone more work toperform-"toscatter the power of theholy people ; to divide, that she may It is the lastgasp of conguer.the expiring monster; it isthe struggle ofthe man ofsin. And, for a little moment, Laing ey will succeed.For the church must be hmnbled; she has departedfrom her Lord, she has grown proud of her worldlyconnections, she has become haughty, andlording itover the. heritage of the Lord. She must be divi ed.She is already. She must be scattered, shaken likegrain in theshaken may remain. winnowing-fan,that that which cannot behe will be delivered when herLord returns to the wedding, and sends forth his angelsto gather his elect ti-om the four winds of heaven., wherehave been scattered in the dark and cloud day.theyThen will he destroy the man of sin by the brightnessof' his coming. Then, tno, will'the little horn ceasemaking war with the saints, and no longer prevailagainst them. The Ancient of days will come, andjudgment will be given to the saints of the Most High;and the time will ave como when the saints, in unionwith their spiritual Joshua., will enter into that etemalSabbath of rest which remains for the people of God.Nothing can he more clear, or selflevident, than thatthe church is combating the natural and moralevils, which men in this state o'greatsin are prone to commit.What shall we make of all these societies which thechurch have instituted since she came out ofthe wilderness,but so many attacks upon the enemies ofthe land?The Bible soeuhty, instituted since 1798 This hasproved a powerthl weapon to expel the mon! darkness_li