complete and unmistakable, that this monstrous Beast is meant
to set before us an image of earthly sovereignty and dominion. And if
any further evidence of this is demanded, it may be abundantly found in
Rev. XVII. 9-17, where the same Beast is further described, and the ten
horns are interpreted to be 'ten kings.'

"This Beast is therefore the embodiment of this world's political
sovereignty in its last phase, in the last years of its existence.
Daniel's beasts were successive empires, the Babylonian, the
Medo-Persian, the Graeco-Macedonian, and the Roman. But the lion, the
bear, the leopard, and the nameless ten-horned monster, each distinct
in Daniel, are all united in one in Revelation.

"This Beast appears to be, undoubtedly, an _individual_ administration,
_embodied in one particular man_. Though upheld by ten kings or
governments, they unite in making the Beast the one sole Arch Regent of
their time.

"This he--the Beast, the Anti-christ--gets a grip of the nations, who
willingly submit to his rule, being under the spirit of delusion,
'believing _the_ lie' of the Anti-christ.

"Already, we see that this confederacy of nations is being called into
an almost sudden existence. The seers of our nation, before this
strange order of things that has arisen in our midst, since the taking
away of the church, were wont to say to certain political changes--'at
the back of all the known forces that have helped to bring so-and-so to
pass, there almost _seems_ to have been some unseen, unknown
Master-mind at work.'

"'Tis so now, and the startling events that are following each other so
rapidly, are the product of a master-mind, the 'Man of Sin,'
Anti-christ, the Beast who has been energized by Satan, the Old Dragon,
who though he has not _yet_ avowed himself, may be expected to do so
any day or hour now.

"It will hardly be news to any one who reads this column regularly,
that the building of the Temple which is to be reared in Jerusalem, by
the Jews, who have largely returned to the 'Promised land' in unbelief,
is being pushed on with the utmost celerity. The fact that, for some
years previous to the Translation of the Church, all its parts, made to
perfect scale, were prepared and fitted, enables the builders to erect
this wonderful structure with almost magical speed.

"Simultaneous with this work, there has just appeared in Jerusalem, two
remarkable men, who would appear to be Enoch and Elijah of old. These