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

go. The facts are well known to all, and the
boundary lines of to-day might be all upset by
some fresh move upon the part of one of the great
powers to-morrow.
And now, into the East, as one of the “kings of
the East,“ the United States has gone. For this
nation is not in the Philippines as a republic, but as
a king. The United States is in the East as one of
the kings of the East, and with all the others only
waiting one event, and that event every day
threatened,--to be gathered together to the great
day of the battle of God Almighty, into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
The event for which all the nations are waiting
before they can be gathered together to this great
conflict is stated in the Scriptures as being the
drying up of the waters of the great river
Euphrates. No one, upon a moment’s thought, can
entertain the proposition that by the term “the great
river Euphrates” here used, the literal river is
intended. In the first place the book of Revelation
is a book of symbols, for it is “the revelation of
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