The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

should emanate right principles concerning the
relations which should exist between man and man,
and man and his Maker. But Jerusalem apostatized,
and left the true faith and love of God, so that when
the Saviour came, he was denied and rejected,
instead of being acknowledged and received. Then,
and not till then, was it given over to the armies of
Rome, and the devastating principles of Rome.
Jerusalem had passed the unseen line of her
probation, and only desolation and destruction
could come.
Now in this latter day the Lord set the nation of
the United States for a light in the world, that from
and through it there should go forth to all the world
the right principles of government both concerning
the relation of the state to the church, and the
relation of the state to the citizen. As long as the
United States held fast to these two principles,
Republicanism and Protestantism,--government by
the consent of the governed, and no interference by
the civil magistrate in the things of the church,--as
long as the United States remained true to these
things, she was impregnable in the rocky strength
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