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The Threefold Union of Religion, July 1
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth
of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole
world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Revelation 16:13, 14
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By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the
law of God, our nation [the United States] will disconnect herself fully from
righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to
grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to
clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold
union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a
Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the
propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the
time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.
Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday
sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the
former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of
sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost
in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism;
they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and
under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the
steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience....
Papists, Protestants, and worldling will alike accept the form of godli-
ness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement
for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected
millennium.
When our nation [the United States] shall so abjure the principles of
its government as to enact a Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act join
hands with popery; it will be nothing else than giving life to the tyranny
which has long been eagerly watching its opportunity to spring again into
active despotism.
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