CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX.
AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST . . . . . . . . 105-114
CHAPTER X. THE
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UNITED STATES
CHAPTER XI
THE BEGINNING OF THE END . + . . « » 180-186
IN THE
LIGHT OF PROPHECY,
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Cha ple Ore.
PROBABILITIES CONSIDERED.
TT is but a little more than one hundred years since
the nation known as “The United States of
America” began to exist. Rome, when it had at-
tained the age of a hundred years, was scarcely
known outside the few provinces of Italy which com-
posed its territory. Not so with this new empire of
the West. Ere a hundred years had elapsed, its
fame had encircled the earth, exciting the wonder
and the envy of aged and stagnant kingdoms.
It began with a few small settlements of earnest
men, who, flecing from the religious intolerance of
the Old World, occupied a narrow strip of coast-
line on our Atlantic border. Now, a mighty nation,
with a vast expanse of territory stretching from
ocean to ocean, and from regions almost arctic on the
north to regions cqually torrid on the south, em-
bracing more square leagues of habitable’ land than
Rome ruled over in its palmiest days, after more
than seven centuries of growth, here holds a position
jo