AS promised in the foreword, we treat of a specialized antitype, i.e., Athaliah and Joash. From this standpoint Athaliah (whom Jehovah afflicts) represents the American Romanist Church from about 1881 to 1928; Jehoiada (Jehovah knows) usually the Christ, Head and Body, but sometimes the Head only, from about 1881 to 1932; and Jehoash, or Joash (God-given), the American policy of separation of state and church. The American Romanist Church, by riots, boycotts, intimidations, by securing the cancellation of leases for auditoriums, by censoring the press and by denunciation and misrepresentation of anti-Romanist propaganda, greatly limited the exercise of the freedom of press, speech, assembly and propaganda (2 K. 11:1; 2 C. 22:10). To save space we abbreviate 2 Kings to 2 K. and 2 Chro. to 2 C., as, for the same reason, we will not refer to the words commented on, but only to the number of the chapter and verse, even omitting the chapter number after its first mention, giving the Kings citations first, when used, and, if it or a Chronicles citation is lacking, indicating it by a semicolon. Therefore our brief comments will have to be studied with constant reference to the Bible, which should be kept open at the chapters and verses commented upon. Or, better still, two Bibles may be used, one opened to the pertinent passage in 2 Kings, the other to the pertinent passage in 2 Chronicles. But the doctrine of the bill of rights in the U.S. Constitution, united as a symbolic wife with the Lord Jesus, through its supporters preserved by stealth from such limitation the religious exercise of the policy of separation of state and church, which with its supporters had, however, to be protected by more or less secret methods, and thus preserved it despite the threats of the 

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American Romanist Church, which was in the meantime (1881-1920) in ever-increasing ascendancy (2; 11). But from 1920 to 1928 the Christ, Head and Body, strengthened the Body for the overthrow of such a condition. To this end the Christ enlisted the cooperation of the leading warriors among the four bad and the one good Levite groups, i.e., (1) the Societyites, the P.B.I'tes, the Standfasts and the Olsonites, and (2) the crown-losers in the Epiphany movement (4; 23:1). These five warrior leaderships enlisted for this purpose among the American Truth people all the crown-losers of the various groups that they could get and brought them in thought to civil, financial and ecclesiastical America (4; 2); the Christ, through the articles on Romanism in the 1922 Herald of the Epiphany coming to a solemn agreement with them as to America, civil, financial and ecclesiastical, on standing faithfully for the doctrine of the separation of state and church, which was truly expounded to them in those articles, all gathered up in the Double Herald, i.e., the Sept., 1922, issue, whole number 14, which we will reproduce in the last part of this Appendix, and which He guaranteed should come to the ascendancy (4; 3). 

(2) The Christ divided these into three groups, i.e., (1) those who should watch and fight as to the political aspects of the questions at issue, (2) those who would be public speakers on the subjects, and (3) those who would support the Epiphany brethren in their part of the fight, with those outside of the Truth movements doing their part among the outsiders, the chief and subordinate leaders being the only ones permitted to serve in a most public capacity (5, 6; 4-6). This especial care of God's House, the Church, in connection with the pertinent doctrine was to be with the main and subordinate leaders (7;). These were especially to guard with their Truth arguments the doctrine of the separation of state and church and to refute everyone who would attempt its injury (8; 7). The five 

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leaderships, even the main and subordinate leaders, did as the Christ, Head and Body, charged, including all who served in the Church, whose spiritual ministries were not interrupted during this quasi-secular and religious conflict (9; 8). The Christ, Head and Body, gave to the five leaderships the pertinent offensive and defensive writings (spears and shields) of our Pastor and the pertinent writings based on our Pastor's writings (Double Herald, Elijah's Letter and John's Rebuke [bucklers], 10; 9). The Epiphany brethren, the only ones fully equipped for the conflict, as the guard of God's House, covered in their part of the conflict the full features of the controversy as it involved the Church, its sacrificial humanity and the doctrine of the separation of state and church (11; 10). The participants in the fight so placed, the Lord Jesus, as Head of the priesthood, set forth the Truth on the separation of church and state, gave it the right and power to be in the ascendancy, and with the underpriesthood qualified it thereto, expressing their hearty approval by their services and the desire of their heart that it would prosper (12; 11). The pertinent proclamations of the Epiphany brethren and of outsiders, e.g., anti-Romanist orders, societies, etc., and anti-Romanist authors, editors, lecturers, etc., came to the attention of the American Romanist Church; and in hostility she came against these, even in their religious standing (13; 12). Here she witnessed the doctrine of the separation of state and church set forth as starting out to be in the ascendancy, even as was customary in such cases, the Truth leaders and their announcements in support of the pertinent ascendant doctrine and many secularist defenders of the pertinent doctrine rejoicingly proclaiming it. Thereupon she grossly violated Truth and righteousness in her protests; and she who was traitorous to the Constitution's bill of rights charged with treason those who defended its provisions against her treasons against them (14; 13). 

(3) Thereupon the Christ, Head and Body, charged 

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the Truth leaders not to refute her on religious, but on secular grounds, her dabbling into politics, i.e., to refute political Romanism, and charged them to refute with their religious and secular Truth everyone that arose to support her (15; 14). This charge was carried out, the leaders and their followers avoiding to attack her religious doctrines, and thus letting her pass beyond these to her secular politics, and in relation to such secular doctrines they refuted her (16; 15). The Christ, Head and Body, united the people and the doctrine of the separation of state and church into an agreement with the Lord to stand as His people on this matter, as He also united the people and this doctrine into an agreement (17; 16). These events marked the years 1922-1927. It will be recalled that the American hierarchy, led therein by the pope, sought in the person of Al Smith to seize the American presidency, and thus its governmental machinery, and thus get more political power, but the consequent anti-Romanism agitation of real Americans—"the religious issue"—of the 1928 presidential campaign broke up the hierarchy's elaborated religious structure in its power-grasping and lording aspects over the American people, made impotent its exponents in their propaganda, shattered their pertinent political doctrines and killed the hierarchy in its pertinent ambition and activity (18; 17). This was followed by the Lord Jesus' arranging for more servants of the general Church to be put into the office of pilgrims, auxiliary pilgrims and evangelists, according to the Bible and according to the Lord's arrangements made through that Servant, as can be seen in the ever-increasing numbers of such reported in our annual reports (; 18), and He also set up in official positions brethren to keep unclean Levites away from the fellowship of the Faithful (; 19). The Lord used the fivefold Levitical leaderships, the refuters and the faithful Epiphany brethren, all of whom were in the places of prominence and influence in their respective groups, and also participating non-Truth

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people, to take the doctrine of the separation of state and church from its ascendant religious position, by way of the Epiphany brethren, to its proper ascendant secular position, which it thereupon occupied (19; 20). This happy result, occurring during Mr. Hoover's administration (1929-1933), caused real Americans joy and thus on secular ascendant grounds these by the pertinent secular truths refuted the American Romanist Church, and on this subject peace prevailed (20; 21). These four years were indeed famine years for the Romanists so far as gaining special privileges in American political offices and influence are concerned. 

(4) While the starting of Joash's reign is put chronologically in the seventh year of Jehu's reign, and while in the antitype this time feature is true in the two parallels above mentioned, yet we are not to understand the relation to be such from the standpoint of the separate and unrelated fulfillments, one of which we are now studying, and others of which have this same peculiarity in common with it. The policy of the separation of state and church had a particularly trialsome time as its ascendancy period; it grew out of that doctrine implied in the Oath-bound Covenant which requires that the Church be separate from the world (21; 2 K. 12:1; 2 C. 24:1). This policy was by its adherents well administered as long as they continued under the teaching influence of the World's High Priest (2; 2). Nevertheless, the sects of Christendom were not during its ascendancy taken away, and the multitudes continued to perform their religious services in these sects (3;). As helpers of this policy the World's High Priest gave it two supporting classes: (1) sympathetic Truth people and (2) sympathetic non-Truth people, through whom it developed stronger and weaker supporting movements (;3). The disposition of this policy in its adherents was to restore the privileges and powers of the Church from the desolations wrought by the adherents of the wicked American Romanist Church in diverting these privileges and 

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powers to the Romanist hierarchy's structure (; 4, 7). The World's High Priest and this policy in its adherents suggested to the main and subordinate Truth leaders whom they had assembled for this purpose that they enlist the human all of the consecrated and seek to win other believers to consecration, so that as many as possible would bestow of their human all to restore to the Church its desolated privileges and powers, a thing that they were charged to hasten with fitting zeal, this feature of the work being mainly committed to the main leaders to superintend, but the main and subordinate leaders, lacking the necessary zeal, did not hasten this work, with the result that it lagged (4, 5; 4, 5). Indeed, during a long period (1922 to about 1929) there was gross lack of zeal displayed by the main and subordinate Levite leaders among Truth people; and, resultantly, the others were grossly lacking in zeal to repair the true Church in the indicated respects (6;). 

(5) Noting this lack of zeal, the policy of the separation of state and church, in its adherents, gathered the World's High Priest in His Body members and the main Levite leaders and asked them why they were not inciting the consecrated to carry out their consecration and the justified to consecrate according to the Lord's Word on behalf of repairing the breaches in the Church (7; 6). It, in its adherents, forbade these to take for their own advantage of the human all of the consecrated; instead it charged them to make their own and the other consecrateds' own available to recover the Church from the ill effects of the American Romanist Church's ascendancy (7;). Thereupon the main Levitical leaders agreed not to make selfish uses of their own and their brethren's human rights and privileges, and agreed to refrain from attempting to do the work that belonged to the Little Flock specifically (8;). According to the pertinent doctrine's demand, they set forth the doctrine of consecration in harmony with the thought of the sacrificed humanity

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of Christ and the Church, connecting it with the doctrine of justification as it belongs to the prospective Youthful Worthies; and the main leaders, who occupied themselves with the doctrines of justification and consecration, induced responsive ones to consecrate (9; 8). This led to a general proclamation of consecration and a winning of Youthful Worthies (; 9). This resulted in a joyful consecration of the abler and less able of the responsive ones, even to a completion (; 10). And as these consecrations greatly increased, the special representative of the antitypical king and the special representative of the Church's High Priest took these consecrated ones into their special charge, set them in their ecclesias and continued to present the doctrine of consecration in its relation to that of justification, continuing this course right along, with the result that many consecrations were made and carried out (10; 11). The antitypical king and the High Priest made the human all of the consecrated available for the use of the repairers of the breaches in the Lord's house, by enlisting the services of those who wrought in matters of doctrine and ethics and of refutations and corrections for the repair of the Church (11, 12; 12). The Levitical leaders, however, did not develop the doctrinal, preceptorial, refutational, correctional or proclamational Divine truths (13;), since they superintended the consecration works on the Church (14;). Nor did they require a strict accounting from the workers, who, put upon their honor, wrought faithfully (15;). But the main leaders accepted for their needs such parts of the consecrations as were given them for their personal needs, which, therefore, did not go to the general upbuilding work of the Church (16;). 

(6) In this way the work on the Church progressed to a completion as to repairing the Rome-made breaches; and the true Church was set forth properly and in strength (; 13). The parts of the consecrated human all, e.g., mental acquisitions and abilities, not so used were presented before the antitypical king and 

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the High Priest, who through His Epiphany messenger developed the doctrinal, ethical, refutational and correctional Divine truths for the use of the Church and the antitypical Levites in the ministries given them severally to perform; and under the superintendence of the World's High Priest all ministered with these in the Church continually during the pertinent activities of the World's High Priest (; 14). But these activities came to an end, about the Summer of 1932. And the pertinent activities of the World's High Priest in relation to the separation of state and church were honored by the believers as being in harmony with that Servant's ascendant teachings, because of their inherent and active goodness for God's people, for God and the true Church (; 15, 16). But after such activities had come to an end, American political and religious leaders gave the doctrine of separation of state and church lip service merely, and advised a course that corrupted it. This set in during the 1932 presidential campaign, when political leaders, like Messrs. Roosevelt, Morley, Tugwell, etc., and religious leaders, like Cardinal Mundelein, Hughes, priest Coughlin, etc., as representatives of the Romanist hierarchy, corrupted and undermined the practice of the separation of state and church (; 17). Consequently these and their supporters pursued a course that abandoned the true Church in its pertinent principles and works, practiced symbolic harlotry between the State and the Romanist Church, and accepted certain of the latter's doctrines, particularly autocracy in the state and hierarchical influence over the officials of the state, which has been resulting in the Lord's displeasure coming upon America and its civil and religious powers because of these sins (; 18). Our longsuffering and loving God did not utterly forsake America for these wrongs; but through the Epiphany movement, the antitypical Elisha (the good as distinct from the Rutherfordian Societyites) and other Truth people's movements the Lord has sent pertinent teachings, rebukes and corrections to America,

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to bring it back to the proper practice of the separation of state and church, but, alas! America in its ruling, political, financial and religious classes has refused to heed these teachings (; 19). 

(7) Our exposition has now brought us up to the present; and from here on we will in this study take up things that are to occur in the very near future. Under the influence of God's Spirit the Epiphany messenger in his office as such will write and publish in the form of an Extra Edition of the July 15, 1940, Herald of the Epiphany, Whole No. 121, an exposure of the pertinent evils, an expostulation against them and an announcement that America's forsaking the Lord in this matter has brought a continuance of the depression upon it, and, worst of all, its forsaking by God for its forsaking Him (; 20). This will result in the American Romanist Church conspiring with the American Federation of Churches (in this general act these seem also to be pictured by Herodias and Salome), and, at the charge of the state (in this general act it seems also to be pictured by Herod), hurling false teachings and charges at him, e.g., charging him with being an intolerant bigot, a stirrer up of religious prejudice and strife, an evil-doer, a false prophet, a fifth-columnist, a traitor to his country and to Christianity, and thus will effect the suppression of his influence and activity as a Divinely-used mouthpiece to the public (v. 25 shows that the rest of the priesthood will at the same time be cut off from public mouthpieceship, thus likely completing the picture as typed by the beheading of John the Baptist). This will be done publicly, before the nominal people of God (; 21). Thus will be proven that there will he forgotten the Lord Jesus' goodness to America in its policy of the separation of state and church, when the corrupted and misled adherents of that policy cause to be cut off His special representative from his mouthpieceship to the public. The latter while being so cut off will call attention to the fact that the Lord is regarding this

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matter, and will make requisition therefore [see Dr. Young's better than the A. V. rendering] (; 22). Quickly will the Lord's wrath express itself for the cutting off of the true Church from public mouthpieceship; for after antitypical Hazael has defeated antitypical Jehoram (Hazael giving Jehoram many wounds, 2 K. 8:28, 29), it will require antitypical Joash (Jehoash) to pay for its support of antitypical Jehoram against antitypical Hazael by everything short of war; and after the latter's overcoming the papacy for similar support of antitypical Jehoram, it will set its face against political, financial and ecclesiastical Joash (17;) and make a campaign against these ruling classes in their disloyalty to the practice of separation of state and church. They will come against antitypical Judah and Jerusalem and cut off their political, financial and ecclesiastical leaders from among their adherents (; 23). 

(8) In antitypical Hazael's paganism he will devastate the good religious things of America benevolently independent, America evilly reactionary, America apostately autocratic and America properly separate from church. Furthermore, antitypical Joash, ecclesiastical, financial and political, will be required to pay to antitypical Hazael an immense indemnity, which will undoubtedly include its immense gold and silver reserves*, to bribe antitypical Hazael to raise its siege of antitypical Jerusalem, political, financial and ecclesiastical, by compliance with which the latter will secure the former's raising of the said siege (18; 23). With only a small host will the former by God's retributive justice accomplish these things, despite the latter's immense opposing resources in men and materials, all because of the latter's apostasy from pure Americanism on the separation of state and church and its cutting off of God's mouthpiece—the true Church—from 

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* Later, we found that the American people were deprived of many of their liberties by the bureaucrats, forced thereto by conditions arising from antitypical Hazael's war course, and they thus paid the indemnity.

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its public ministry for protesting and expostulating against, and forecasting Divine retribution for, that apostasy (; 24). And when antitypical Hazael will leave these apostates from true Americanism, these will be in greatest distress, disunion and impotency. Yea, former supporters of these apostates in their apostasy, the Lord raising them up thereto to wreak vengeance for their cutting off the true Church from its public ministry, will conspire against them, while they, greatly wounded, will be taking a rest on some fortified theory of theirs, and will overthrow them (20; 25). These conspirators will be certain clericalistic members of the Federation of Churches and certain autocratic members of the Romanist Church, but the policy of separation of state and church will be respected as one in harmony with that Servant's teachings, but not with all due honor on account of its apostasy in its adherents (21; 26, 25). The historical acts of this policy, especially of its various subdivisions, of its furthering the work of the Lord's people before its adherents forsook it and of the great indemnity put upon its adherents, in some cases are and in other cases will be recorded by American historians (19; 27). Another American policy is typed by Amaziah, the successor of Joash (21; 27). We now reproduce Herald No. 121, which was used to give a testimony against the cooperation between the state and the Romanist Church in America. 

IS THERE A QUASI-ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE 

ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION AND 

THE ROMANIST CHURCH? 

Do you know that, next to Israel during the Jewish Age, America has been God's national favorite? 

Do you know that the Bible in one of its prophecies addresses America—"Ho! land of shadowing wings [land of God's special protection], which is beyond [west of] the rivers [the Nile's mouths] of Ethiopia [Improved Version]"—in language that indicates its being a special object of Divine care (Is. 18:1)?

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Do you know that America's history demonstrates that of all modern nations, it has been the one most favored by God in material, social, international, civil, political and religious respects? 

Do you know that the special favor of God upon America has been due to the fact that America's principles of human liberty in harmony with the law, and of human equality before the law, believed in and acted out by Americans generally as the fundamental principles of Democracy, more nearly than the principles underlying any other form of government express God's highest ideal of the principles that should underlie government, as can be clearly seen in God's making these principles the expression of Israel's government between man and man under the Mosaic law, and as was exemplified in Israel's history until, rejecting God's highest ideal of government for them, they insistently demanded from, and were reluctantly given by, God a monarchy? 

Do you know that America, apart from the government in Israel before the Israelitish monarchy, has had the most noble, righteous, beneficent and glorious government ever instituted—a government of the people, for the people and by the people? 

Do you know that it was because America lived truer to these ideals than any other modern nation, that God made her His special ward among the modern nations, and that this accounts for His giving her independence from Britain, His freeing her from the destruction of the Napoleonic wars and from Europe's racial and national envies, rivalries, grudges, hatreds, revenges, suspicions, self-aggrandizements, imperialisms, etc., His bringing her safely as a nation, made wholly free, out of the trying experiences of the Civil War, His making her a beacon light to the nations, a refuge to the oppressed, a helper to the helpless, a cornucopia to the industrious, and the headquarters and the main field of activity for the greatest religious 

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work ever carried on in this earth since the days of Christ (Is. 18:1-7)? 

Do you know that among these ideals are those expressed in the Bill of Rights embodied in the U.S. Constitution, and that not the least of these ideals is the Constitutional provision guaranteeing the separation of state and church, which implies the prohibition of everything involved in, or smacking of the union of state and church? 

Do you know that this principle was maintained, generally speaking, inviolate up to the time of the Arthur administration (1881-1885), since when, and up to 1921, gradually and increasingly there arose a working cooperation, a quasi-alliance, between our public officials and the Romanist church? 

Do you know that the Romanist church's acts toward and of that quasi-alliance, and her ambition "to get America," with her ultimate design to effect an actual union of the state and herself in America, are seen in the following things increasingly done during the years 1881-1921: (1) training her American members to believe in the union of state and church, (2) contrary to her history and principles expressing great admiration for Democracy and the institutions of American Democracy, (3) influencing her members to vote as a bloc, as she directs, (4) putting her members as such into political office, (5) putting her dependables, whether Romanists or not, into strategic positions in all kinds of public capacities, (6) using her orders, political clubs, societies, etc., to secure her pertinent ambitions, (7) entering into deals and bargains with statesmen, politicians and officials, (8) creating an atmosphere compelling aspiring statesmen, politicians and officials to recognize and advance her designs, (9) using national, state and municipal officials to give her favors, publicity and prestige, (10) seeking through legislative, judicial and administrative agents to overthrow her opponents and their use of the freedom of press, speech, propaganda and assembly, (11) manipulating 

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for her interests, prestige and designs the instruments of publicity—newsgathering agencies, the press, movies, radio, lecture platform, professorial chairs, etc. (12) wheedling from national, state and municipal funds financial aid for her hospitals, schools, Indian missions, etc., (13) stimulating Romanist immigration, urbanizing and citizenizing her immigrants rapidly and sending them to the polls to vote in her interests; and (14) cultivating her parochial schools, and attempting to de-Americanize and devitalize our public schools with a measure of success? 

Do you know that sensing the drift of these fourteen things, patriots from 1922 to 1928 set into operation counteractive measures, culminating in the agitation against the Romanist hierarchy's 1928 presidential candidate, A1 Smith, whose defeat they accomplished, because they believed that the hierarchy sought through his election to seize control of the U.S. governmental machinery? 

Do you know that the four years, 1929-1933, of Mr. Hoover's administration were famine years for the Romanist hierarchy, during which years the hierarchy would, at the political trough, "fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him"? 

Do you know that the hierarchy, starved as to special U.S. political privileges during Mr. Hoover's administration and from their experience with Mr. Roosevelt's favoring them during his N.Y. governorship, knowing that with him as president they would "come to their own," as they put it, gave him the Romanist vote in a practically solid bloc in the 1932 election, as they did again in 1936 and would do it a third time, if he runs? 

Do you know that the pertinent facts of Mr. Roosevelt's administration and those of the Romanist church during it prove that that church has "come into its own" in and from a quasi-alliance with him and certain members of his administration, i.e., a working 

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understanding, a close cooperation, between them, more patent by far than the earlier quasi-alliance between that church and American statesmen, politicians and office-holders? 

Do you know that after priest Coughlin, who vouched for the fact, had interpreted to him the labor encyclicals of popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, he in his Detroit speech during the 1932 campaign, in giving his views of a new deal for labor, asserted that they were sanctioned by these popes, "the highest religious authority on earth," which statement solidified the vote of the hierarchy and their following for him? 

Do you know that his course abounds with acts that prove that the American Romanist church through its main representatives, e.g., Cardinal Mundelein, has been his chief adviser since 1932? 

Do you know that at the advice of the hierarchy he advocated the New Deal in both of his presidential campaigns, and has since his first election introduced various forms of it into Congress and made a subservient Congress enact them as "must legislation," both in its autocratic features and in its benevolent features, the former of which are plainly unconstitutional, and the latter of which are very praiseworthy? 

Do you know that he appointed many prominent Romanist university professors and priests to high and influential offices on various of his boards and administrations, particularly on certain boards that have to do with labor matters, e.g., Walsh, Ryan and Haas, a thing that was formerly unheard of, he doubtless reasoning and that rightly, that they, as priests and Romanist university professors, would have commanding influence in conciliating striking or near-striking labor, whose leaders often are Romanists? 

Do you know that he has appointed to key positions (from Rome's standpoint) Romanists, like Mr. James Farley as postmaster general, Messrs. T.J. Walsh and F. Murphy as attorney generals, the latter to the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. J.P. Kennedy as the 

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ambassador to Great Britain and priest O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University, as a U.S. delegate to the Pan-American Congress at Lima, Peru? 

Do you know that he has advanced to various political offices, particularly to various of his bureaus, a disproportionate number of Romanists, as gestures to the Romanist church? 

Do you know that he told "Elder Statesman" C. Michelson that if he did not appoint a Romanist (F. Murphy) to the Supreme Court in the place of deceased Romanist P. Butler, the Romanists would raise tumultuous protests? 

Do you know that to appoint fit persons, regardless of denominational affiliations, to public office is unobjectionable to one imbued with real Americanism; but that to appoint any one to public office because of his denominational affiliations, particularly if the appointment is urged or given as such because of that denomination's past or future support or boycott, is highly objectionable, since it smacks of the union of state and church? 

Do you know that he has lost no opportunity to praise, and that in over-eulogistic terms, the Romanist church, members of her hierarchy, priests and prominent laymen, e.g., Cardinals Mundelein and Hayes, Archbishop Curley, Bishops Sheil and Walsh, priest Coughlin, Messrs. Smith, Kennedy, Walker, etc., the Franciscan Fathers for their work in the Mississippi Valley, the Catholic Notre Dame, Carroll, etc., universities, etc.? 

Do you know that he has especially honored and continues especially to honor Romanist hierarchists, priests, university professors and prominent laymen as Romanists on many occasions, e.g., Cardinal Mundelein, whom he entertained as house guest at the White House and at his Hyde Park mansion, often closeting himself with him, seeking his counsel, causing U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Mr. Philips, his counselor and the U.S. naval attaché to meet him on his 

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steamer at its arrival in the Bay of Naples, taking him off the steamer before it reached its wharf into a U.S. naval boat, taking him to the flagship of the U.S. fleet where its U: S. Rear-Admiral and other naval officers and crew stood at attention as he came aboard, having the Rear-Admiral entertain him at a feast on his flagship, after which he boarded the train at Naples for Rome, accompanied by the U.S. ambassador, his counselor and naval attaché as his escort of honor all the way to Vatican City, and arranging for similar honors at Rome for him and Cardinal Dougherty on the occasion of their arrival for the election of Pius XI's successor? 

Do you know that often he entertains such at White House meals, and not infrequently attends their functions? 

Do you know that he, a Protestant and a president of a country whose constitution frowns upon a union of state and church, frequently sends personal representatives of his to special Romanist occasions, e.g., he sent Mr. Farley as his personal representative to the jubilee of the New York archdiocese, where Cardinal Hayes presided, whose ring was kissed by the kneeling Mr. Farley while the latter acted as the president's personal representative; that he sent an aide as his personal representative to Cardinal Mundelein's funeral; that he sent Mr. Farley as his personal representative to the New Orleans' Eucharistic Congress, where Mr. Farley, while acting as such, kneeling, kissed Archbishop Rummell's ring, and knelt before Cardinal Mundelein seated on a throne as a prince of the Vatican state and that he also sent our Romanist Ambassador to Britain, J. P. Kennedy, as his personal representative, to the coronation of Pius XII, where, while acting as the president's personal representative, he, kneeling before the pope and kissing his ring, got the pope's blessing? 

Do you know that, at the hierarchy's and other Romanists' urging, he approached Mexico diplomatically 

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to seek amelioration for the Mexican Romanist hierarchy and church from the Mexican government, that, at the urging of the hierarchy, he, under the coaching of Dr. Walsh, vicegerent of the Jesuit Georgetown University, insisted on Russia's making certain concessions to the papacy before he would enter diplomatic relations with Russia, and that, at the demand of the hierarchy, knowing that the Spanish rebels could get all needed munitions from Germany and Italy, and that the Loyalists could get such only from America, and that only if the embargo were lifted, he prevented the lifting of the embargo on arms for Spain, and thus in part occasioned, as per the American hierarchy's plan, the overthrow of a Democracy, the Spanish Republic, by the Fascist rebels? 

Do you know that at his and Mr. Hull's blessing, as "amateur diplomats" with a quasi-mission for the U.S., Romanist Bishop Ryan of Omaha and Dr. M. S. Sheehy, head of the religious educational department of the Catholic University (Washington, D. C.), made a quasi-diplomatic trip to the South American republics, after which Dr. Sheehy submitted to the U.S. State Department a confidential report of their "amateur diplomacy"? 

Do you know that it has been widely reported in the U.S. press, e.g., The New York Times, that in 1932 he promised the hierarchy that, if elected, he would open diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Vatican as soon as public opinion in America could be brought about to it? 

Do you know that, conditions not warranting it during his first term, he was reported to have promised it again during his 1936 campaign for re-election? 

Do you know that he has been reminded of this promise as a political debt by various members of the hierarchy, especially by Cardinal Pacelli, now Pius XII, who, according to The New York Times' Rome correspondent, Mr. Arnaldo Cortesi, visited the U.S. during the 1936 campaign to secure from Mr. Roosevelt

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the fulfilment of this promise (mark the psychological time chosen for the cardinal's visit); and the press reported that this was one of the things discussed by him and Mr. Roosevelt when the former visited the latter at his home after his election? 

Do you know that one year later, in 1937, Cardinal Enrico Gaspari, nephew of the Cardinal Gaspari who with Mr. Mussolini negotiated the Vatican Treaty in 1929, according to a wireless dispatch from Rome to The New York Times, the information having been "learned from good sources at the Vatican," came to America to prepare "the juridical status for the possible opening of diplomatic relations between the State Department and the Holy See"? 

Do you know that the press reported that Cardinal Mundelein, during his last stay at the White House as house guest, just before his last visit to Pius XI, urged Mr. Roosevelt to fulfill his long-standing promise to effect diplomatic relations with the Vatican, in anticipation of which the pope built a $550,000.00 mansion in "embassy row" at Washington for his nuncio? 

Do you know that the secular press announced, and the papal press in America and Rome hailed the appointment of Myron Taylor as his personal representative to the Vatican as a step toward the U.S. entering diplomatic relations with the Vatican? 

Do you know that, in harmony with his promise, this appointment seems to be a feeler, a trial balloon, to enable him to weigh how public sentiment would react to the thought of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Vatican? 

Do you know that, if this is his thought, he has learned that his course of appointing Mr. Myron Taylor as his personal representative to the Vatican has met with the official protest of the president of the Federation of Churches as such and of the supreme governing bodies of the Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Evangelical, Adventist, etc., churches, as

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well as of very numerous secular and religious publications and of multitudes of men and women prominent in public life? 

Do you know that his claiming to send Mr. Taylor to cooperate with the pope in peace efforts is unreasonable, since the pope's strong partisanship against Germany and for the Allies disqualifies him in the estimation of informed people from being an influence for peace with Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini? 

Do you know that, among many others, Dr. G.A. Buttrick, the world-renowned president of the Federation of Churches, and Dr. C.C. Morrison, the able editor of the Christian Century, charge him with wanting to make Romanists think that Mr. Taylor is his ambassador to the Vatican, which lists him as such in its schedule of ambassadors accredited to the pope, and at all times treats him as such, and to make Protestants think that Mr. Taylor is his personal representative, not ambassador? 

Do you know that the following acts prove that he furthers the Romanist schemes to draw financial help from the government: he secured financial grants for the National Youths' Administration, which has been created at the advice of, and largely in the interests of that church; he allocated huge sums to help the churches, the Romanist church being the only one to accept such, while Protestant denominations refused them; in an address at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1936 he stated that he had allocated $400,000,000.00 for education, which sum was distributed mainly among Rome's parochial schools, colleges and universities; he secured, through a commission, the end of the hierarchy's opposition to the U.S. allocating money to the public schools, by its promising them money from the same source for their parochial schools; he favored in 1937 the Harrison-Fletcher bill, so drawn as to include parochial schools, authorizing $350,000,000.00 to be allocated to education in the U.S.; and he sent a bill to Congress in 1939 asking 

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for $1,000,000,000.00 for public and private (which includes Romanist) schools? 

Do you know that in carrying out the autocratic features of the New Deal, which the hierarchy advised, he sought to force, likely at the hierarchy's advice, the adoption of a code on the press that would have largely destroyed the freedom of the press, a thing greatly desired in her interests by the Romanist church, an effort that was finally dropped only after years of unrelenting resistance from the press? 

Do you know that on likely occasions he elaborately advertises the Romanist hierarchy and church, as can be seen from his pertinent addresses, letters of felicitation and informal sayings? 

Do you know that he showed that he put the judgment of the hierarchy and the Romanist church above that of the Supreme Court, as can be seen from his scolding it for its decisions against autocratic features of the New Deal advised by the hierarchy? 

Do you know that it is inexpressibly painful to be compelled, though in the interests of America, to detail the above matters disparaging to our president, deservedly beloved because of his kind heart, generous deeds and other noble characteristics? 

Do you know that prominent members of his administration work hand-in-glove with him in this quasi-alliance with that church? 

Do you know that, above all others, Mr. Farley, his postmaster general, cooperates with him in this course? 

Do you know that in pursuance of this policy Mr. Farley has dismissed thousands of non-Romanist, and appointed Romanist postmasters in their place, otherwise very largely Romanized the U.S. Post Office service and caused a bill to be introduced into Congress, which passed it, making it almost impossible to remove such Romanist postmasters, by exemptions in their favor as to civil service examinations, etc.? 

Do you know that he makes the dedicatorial ceremonies for some new post offices Romanist celebrations,

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as can be seen in the case of the dedication of the Philadelphia post office? 

Do you know that he assured the Romanist members of the New York City post office that his first concern as postmaster general was to care for them and their fellow-Romanist post office employees, and that his acts prove that he has kept his word? 

Do you know that he has built the Democratic National machine largely after the model of Tammany Hall, which is the New York hierarchy's political machine? 

Do you know that he makes it a point to be present at all the more important Romanist occasions, like visiting popes, partaking in hierarchical celebrations, funerals, congresses, conferences and honoring popes and other hierarchs, even by kneeling and kissing, as the U.S. postmaster general, their rings? 

Do you know that a similar course has marked other members of Mr. Roosevelt's inner circle of colaborers, like Messrs. Kennedy, Walker, Tugwell, Hopkins, Welles, (James) Roosevelt (as his secretary), etc., e.g., having private audiences with popes, taking prominent places at Romanist celebrations, etc? 

Do you know that Mr. Sumner Welles frequently, but secretly dines with the pope's ablegate at Washington, claiming in justification that he gets from him very valuable information, especially, on South American affairs, a thing kept up despite the protests of defenders of the principle of separation of state and church. 

Do you know that Senator Wagner at a Romanist function stated that he drew his inspiration for the Wagner Labor Act from the labor encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI?

Do you know that out of respect Congress adjourned at the death of Pius XI, a thing that resulted in widespread protest, and that members of Congress as such attend high Romanist functions, are given prominent

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places there, and certain Senators accepted membership on a Romanist anti-Communist committee. 

Do you know that the above acts of the Roosevelt administration prove that there is a quasi-alliance, i.e., a working understanding, a close cooperation, of it and the Romanist church? 

Do you know that acts of the Romanist church, especially of her hierarchy and others of her leading representatives, prove that on her part there is a quasi-alliance—working understanding with the Roosevelt administration? 

Do you know that the hierarchy and other leading mouthpieces and organs of that church vociferously, widely and uncontradictedly have claimed that the New Deal originated in the labor encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI, and that it was by them recommended to' Mr. Roosevelt as originating in these encyclicals? 

Do you know that that church has repeatedly and successfully exerted pressure on the Roosevelt administration to further its policies in international matters, e.g., in matters as to Mexico, Russia, Spain and the embargo; as shown above? 

Do you know that that church, as a church, dabbles in national, state and municipal politics, as is seen from her course in elections, her introducing through underlings bills into Congress, the appearance of her representatives before Congressional committees and her introducing through underlings bills into state legislatures and municipal councils, patent examples of which are her New Deal recommendations, her making candidates declare their stand on state support of her parochial schools, and her course through Tammany in New York City? 

Do you know that she systematically, wherever possible, seeks to make raids on national, state and municipal funds to support her parochial schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, orphanages and old folks' 

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homes, which also smacks of a union of state and church? 

Do you know that in very many states and municipalities she has succeeded in getting such support, as well as free bus rides, text-books (of her own creation and selection) and special health service for her parochial schools, as she has, as shown above, succeeded in getting very much financial help from the national administration in certain of these respects? 

Do you know that she demands pledges from candidates for such support and threatens to, and actually does, boycott at elections candidates who will not promise such aid, especially in state and municipal elections, e.g., in Ohio and New York City? 

Do you know that she carries on propaganda in America in favor of union of state and church, not only in her schools, colleges and universities, as her text-books prove, but in press, pulpit and platform, and that at times by her highest mouthpieces, e.g., Pius XII in a recent letter to the American hierarchy advocated this doctrine and his ablegate in the U.S. did the same thing in an address recently? 

Do you know that she causes her-members to vote in a bloc in elections, e.g., her hierarchy, other leading mouthpieces and press boasted of electing Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, and for his favoring her, will doubtless do it again, if he runs again? 

Do you know that the fact that she controls the vote of the vast bulk of her members causes many a politician to dance at the crack of her whip, and to fall all over himself to do her will? 

Do you know that if it is in her interests, she flaunts the Constitution's Bill of Rights in its pledges of freedom of speech, press, propaganda, as can be seen in her tacit approval of Mr. Hague's flaunting these in Jersey City, in her boycotting papers, magazines, etc., that print anything objectionable to her, in her members, with her tacit approval, breaking up meetings where anti-Romanist lectures are given or are to

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be given, and in her underlings introducing many bills and ordinances against the exercise of liberty of press, speech and propaganda, as witness recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? 

Do you know that anent the unconstitutionality of the autocratic features of the New Deal, the Jesuit magazine misnamed America, one of the ablest and most influential Romanist organs in America, editorially set forth the thesis that "the Constitution should be junked to legitimate the New Deal"? 

Do you know that the public press reported that through her hierarchy she secured from Mr. Roosevelt during the 1932 campaign and again during the 1936 campaign the promise to establish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Vatican, a promise that the press reported he was to fulfill as soon as public opinion in America could be brought about to it? 

Do you know that she praises Mr. Roosevelt on all possible occasions, e.g., claiming through Cardinal Mundelein that in two years he did more for her than other presidents in 60 years? 

Do you know that the pope sent him his blessing in 1933, congratulated him at his election in 1932 and 1936, and assured him that he prayed for him, his family, mother and administration, which blessings and prayers, we trust, will not have the same results as had the popes' blessings and prayers for the two Spanish armadas, Austria in the Thirty Years' War, royalty, aristocracy and clergy in the French Revolution, France in the Franco-Prussian War, Poland, Belgium and France in the present war, Spain in the Spanish-American War, especially Cervera's fleet, and the Central Powers in the World War, which results seem to prove the popes' blessings and prayers to be a liability? 

Do you know that the Romanist church seeks to make it appear that she is the one prop of the U.S. government and the one indispensable church in America, by having the most prominent statesmen, politicians,

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office-holders and unofficial but outstanding citizens present as conspicuous guests, with pertinent press notice, at her special functions, which she advertises widely? 

Do you know that she advertises herself by over-weeningly large, laudatory, illustrated and widespread publicity, and thereby seeks to make the impression that she is the one and only worthwhile religion in America, worthy to be united with state? 

Do you know that she, in her hierarchy, struts about in state at congresses, conferences, political gatherings and patriotic celebrations, as the special guest of honor, where she expects and gets special attention, e.g., at the recent Republican National Convention, at Philadelphia, where and after Cardinal Dougherty delivered the invocation, the temporary chairman began his address as follows: "Your eminence, the Cardinal Dougherty, Mr. Chairman, Convention delegates and ladies and gentlemen, etc."? 

Do you know that she worms her way into reading masses as integral parts of special celebrations, e.g., at various places where the Centennial of Texas was celebrated, at the Sesquicentennial of the Constitution at Philadelphia, where in the stadium, preceded by a parade of 100,000 Romanists, Cardinal Dougherty solemnized a mass before 100,000 Sesquicentennial celebrants? 

Do you know that the insincere and self-seeking character of such performances appears when it is remembered that Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors, an ex cathedra ecumenical utterance, hence from the Romanist standpoint, infallible, condemns as erroneous every one of the principles of the Constitution's Bill of Rights, and that the hierarchy and Romanist church favored the Romanist Mexican oppressors against the Texan patriots in their war? 

Do you know that for self-advertisement the Romanist church capitalizes on the reputations of great and prominent Protestants by offering them university degrees 

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and honors, to impress upon the public her greatness and liberality, e.g., the president, secretary of state and other cabinet members, ambassadors, great scientists, inventors, educators, etc. 

Do you know that she specializes on seeking to place her priests, educators and prominent laymen into prominent governmental positions, e.g., in cabinets, administrations, political committees and bureaus and legislative, judicial and executive offices, whereby to further her designs on America she has honeycombed political America with her dependables in strategic positions? 

Do you know that she systematically boycotts unfavorable radio stations and programs and movies by worked-up, packed, chain phone calls, wires and letters, e.g., Judge Rutherford's broadcasts, the New York movie on the Spanish war exposing Franco's butcheries, and the movie at Providence, R. I., called Strange Cargo, all this to fasten her control on radio and screen? 

Do you know that now that Cardinal Mundelein, her liaison officer with the president, is dead; she is grooming Archbishop Spellman for her liaison officer with him? 

Do you know that, following the lead of Cardinal Mundelein, she has been loudly advocating support of the Roosevelt policies, most of which originated in her according to her claims? 

Do you know that she claims to be his special adviser? 

Do you know that she in many ways puts herself above the law, even as Archbishop McNichols of Cincinnati declared at a meeting of the National Catholic Welfare Conference a couple of years ago—that there is no obligation to obey unreasonable laws, she reserving the right to decide which laws are reasonable? 

Do you know that in the interests of parochial schools she as a fixed policy has sought to injure the public schools, e.g., fought the reading of the Bible 

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and the offering of the Lord's prayer there, and then, after accomplishing these purposes, has denounced them as "godless," "irreligious" and "sink holes of hell"; for years forestalled the national government's helping support the public schools, only lately relenting thereon after being promised a part of the money granted therefore; for years fought, and that successfully, various bills authorizing the creation of a secretary of education as a member of the president's cabinet; among other things, sought to forestall it by the arrangement of a secretary of welfare in its stead; denounced public schools as infidel, dangerous, inefficient and wicked, a thing that she especially does at the opening of each school year; bores from within by filling boards of education and teaching staffs with her dependable adherents, who, in their double allegiance as to the U.S. and the pope, a foreign king, have given her the preference therein and lowered the standards of the public schools, e.g., by providing in many cases inferior text-books and freak and unfit courses that divert time and attention from vital matters? 

Do you know that she greatly resented the Supreme Court's decisions against the autocratic features of the New Deal, as a repudiation of the labor encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI? 

Do you know that it has been widely reported that she by her special mouthpieces advised the president's court-packing plan? 

Do you know that she is responsible for the introduction of very many similarly-worded bills in Congress, state legislatures and municipal councils intended to abridge the liberty of the press, mails, speech and propaganda, to silence criticism of her? 

Do you know that she causes to be introduced into legislative bodies bills intended to cripple her opponents and benefit her? 

Do you know that to pave the way for her coveted union of state and church her mouthpieces doll her up 

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as supremely beautiful and attractive, invent Romanists as participating in or doing alone great feats in American history and in general doll her up as the one prop and indispensable church for America? 

Do you know that by subtle manipulation she has succeeded in placing her adherents or dependables as a majority on national and state committees, to her great advantage? 

Do you know that she has gotten immense influence with the executive and legislative branches of our national government and with the legislative, executive and judicial branches of many state and municipal governments? 

Do you know that she pretends to regard highly the U.S. Constitution, with which, especially in its Bill of Rights, papal principles and history are in violent opposition? 

Do you know that she seeks to intimidate all who displease her by their activities, e.g., our first lady for becoming a patroness of the movement that sought American homes for Loyalists' children made homeless and orphaned by Franco, The Catholic News voicing her opposition to Mrs. Roosevelt's pertinent activities in this threat: "If she does not disavow such activities, she will find herself in an embarrassing situation"? 

Do you know that she seeks to intimidate the press, lecture platform, radio and movies by boycotting and worked-up, packed, mass phone, wire and letter propaganda on the part of her adherents and dupes along lines mentioned above? 

Do you know that she seeks to dominate the labor movement and veteran organizations and the army and navy chaplaincies by advancing her dependables to key positions therein? 

Do you know that, contrary to her former policy in America, she even seeks to control secret societies by boring from within? 

Do you know that she has been seeking to organize a Romanist political party of her own in America, as 

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she did in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, etc., though her influence in the Democratic party has decreased her pertinent activity? 

Do you know that she is seeking to mould America after her ideas, to which end her hierarchy issued a 9,000-worded plan embodying, among other things, the following: (1) bringing back God into the government (her way of wording a union of state and [Romanist] church), (2) organizing capital and labor into the closed-shop guilds of the dark ages (under clerical control) and (3) regulating by Romanist theories property, labor, security, wages and the social order, i.e., she seeks to put the U.S. government and social order into the papal straitjacket. 

Do you know that her above-mentioned acts not only prove that she is in a quasi-alliance with the Roosevelt administration, i.e., a working understanding, a close cooperation between them, but also that she performs in America acts that smack of a union of state and church, and that she is definitely working to create in America a union of state and church with herself as the church united with the American state? 

Do you know that the Bible designates as symbolic fornication such a quasi-alliance and church activities that smack of a union of state and church, as well as an actual union of state and church, and sets forth the Romanist church as typed by the profligate, idolatrous and persecuting Jezebel, who was, contrary to God's law, united in marriage with Ahab, the type of autocracy (Rev. 17:2-16; 18:3, 9; 19:2; 2:20-23; 1 Kings 16:30, 31)? 

Do you know that the Romanist church is under God's abhorrence and special condemnation (Rev. 2:20-23; compared with 1 Kings 21:23-25; 2 Kings 9:30-37; Rev. 18:3-24), which will during the fast-approaching Armageddon be shortly consummated in her complete and eternal destruction, and that all that support and further her are heaping guilt upon themselves

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before the Lord, which must bring Divine retribution (Rev. 2:20-23)? 

Do you know that the Bible designates the papacy by the following names: That Wicked One, The Man of Sin, The Mystery of Iniquity, The Son of Perdition (2 Thes. 2:1-9), The Antichrist, i.e., counterfeit Christ (1 John 2:18; 4:3), The Abomination that Maketh Desolate (Dan. 11:31; 12:11), The Abomination of Desolation Spoken of by Daniel the Prophet (Matt. 24:15) and The Beast (Rev. 13:1-8) and that, therefore, they sin greatly who support and further it? 

Do you know that, therefore, the Roosevelt administration and all who support its supporting and furthering the Romanist church are sinning greatly before the Lord? 

Do you know what makes this sin especially detestable to the Lord is this fact: that the Church is Christ's Espoused, who is to keep herself symbolically chaste, i.e., separate from all worldly alliances, as she so waits to become His Bride at His Second Advent (2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 19:6-8; 21:9, 10), that the Romanist church has forsaken such chastity, i.e., separation from worldly alliances, and has in symbolic fornication become united with the state in some cases, and in others has joined a quasi-alliance with governmental administrations, and thus as Christ's Espoused has become a symbolic harlot, rejected by Christ as His prospective Bride (Rev. 17:3-6, 15, 16, 18; 19:2, 3)? 

Do you know that the Roosevelt administration by the guilt of symbolic fornication with the Romanist church has incurred God's disapproval, which, among other ways, has punished it by the failure of most of the New Deal policies, by giving it up, unhelped by Him, to its ill-advised Romanist advisers and by prolonging the depression in America unto the present, long after Britain, France, Germany, Italy recovered from the depression? 

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Do you know that its persisting in this course of symbolic fornication means that it has forsaken the Lord, evidenced by its forsaking certain Divinely-pleasing ideals of government that America formerly cherished, and that its forsaking God has resulted in God's forsaking it (2 Chro. 24:20)? 

Do you know that, its having forsaken God in these particulars and God's having, as a result, forsaken it, it has by Him been abandoned to papacy's counsels, which with others have prevailed upon it to take such an unneutral stand toward the totalitarian powers as has aroused great resentment in them against it? 

Do you know that such a course toward the totalitarian powers might naturally result in one or more of them attacking America, if and after they defeat Britain, and that if they do attack America and are victorious, which its present abandonment by God, we fear, presages, America will, as a Divine punishment for its above-mentioned sins, doubtless have to pay that power or those powers an indemnity so huge as to stagger imagination? 

Do you know that for over 18 years THE HERALD OF THE EPIPHANY, by exposing Rome's worldwide political doings, but especially her political dabblings in America, has sought to draw away our beloved country—America, so long God's favorite among the nations, but now, alas, abandoned by Him—from entanglements with the Romanist church, in which activities over 4,000,000 copies of its issues have been circulated, and that by these protests, as well as by those of other magazines, papers, books, booklets and pamphlets, God has been expostulating against the evil, and must resort to the rod, if reformation sets not in? 

Do you know that ultimately by God's returning favor on repentance, good will come from these misfortunes to America and to all other countries, which, after recognizing the Romanist church to be a human source of their evils, will forever destroy it out of their midst in the fast-approaching Battle of Armageddon 

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(2 Thes. 2:3, 8; Rev. 16:14, 16; 2:20-23, compared with 2 Kings 9:30-37; Rev. 17:5, 16—18:24)? 

[Editor's Note: Do you know that our exceedingly able, gifted, practical, God-fearing and mother-honoring President Truman has followed in President Roosevelt's footsteps in his dealings with the Vatican?] 

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Having published the first part of Herald No. 14 in the form of Extra 23 under John's Rebuke in EC 446-467, we omit it here. We start with the second part of the Double Herald (whole No. 14) subheaded: 

ANTI-CHRIST'S IDENTITY AND RISE 

Do you know that the Scriptures refer to the one and self-same character by the following terms: "That Wicked One," "The Man of Sin," "The Mystery of Iniquity," "The Son of Perdition" (2 Thess. 2:3-8), "The Anti-Christ" (1 John 2:18; 4:3), "The Abomination that maketh desolate" (Dan. 11:31; 12:11), "The Little Horn" (Dan. 7:8, 21), "The Abomination of Desolation" (Matt. 24:15), and "The Beast"?—Rev. 13:1-8. 

Do you know that it was to be during the Gospel Age—the last period of "the present evil world"—that Anti-Christ was to be revealed?—2 Thess. 2:3—8; 1 John 2:18, 19. 

Do you know that according to prophecy the second coming of Christ was to be preceded by Anti-Christ's appearing, prosperity and withering?—2 Thess. 2:3-8. 

Do you know that some believe that Antichrist is an individual, and that his coming is yet future? 

Do you know that Antichrist—having had his small beginning—his begettal—in Apostolic times, and coming to his great end at Christ's Second Advent—a period of at least nearly nineteen hundred years cannot be an individual and literal man, since no individual 

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and literal man lives so long?—2 Thess. 2:7, 8; 1 John 4:1, 3. 

Do you know that this fact, that Antichrist has existed from the days of the Apostles—at which time he was begotten—until now proves that Antichrist is some self-perpetuating System, whose successive members have represented him before the successive generations of the Gospel Age? 

Do you know that the word Antichrist is compounded from the Greek words anti, meaning instead of, and Christos, meaning Christ, and that the word Antichrist literally means instead of Christ, i.e., a substitute Christ, hence a counterfeit Christ? 

Do you know that the Antichrist is, therefore, a counterfeit of the true Christ? 

Do you know that there is a great Antichrist and many lesser antichrists?—2 Thess. 2:3-8; 1 John 2:18. 

Do you know that the True Christ consists of Jesus the Head and the Church His Body—a company that has in its successive members been present in the world during the Gospel Age, and that is set forth in the Bible as a "new," a "perfect Man" in implied contrast to the "Man of Sin"?—1 Cor. 12:12, 14, 27; Gal. 3:16, 29; 1 Cor. 15:23; Rom. 12:4, 5; Eph. 1:22, 23; 2:15; 4:4, 14. 

Do you know that the Church—Christ's Bride—shares His name, Christ, according to some of the passages just cited, for the reason that a bride shares her husband's name. 

Do you know that unless we understand The Christ to be one Body, consisting of many members—Jesus the Head-member and the Church the Body-members—we are unprepared to understand, as a counterfeit of The Christ, the great Antichrist, who, as we have seen, must be a System, consisting of many members, having a head-member and many body-members? 

Do you know that as the true Lord is the Head of 

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The Christ, so a false lord must be the head of the Antichrist—the counterfeit Christ? 

Do you know that as the true Church is the Body of The Christ, so a false, an apostate Church, must be the body of the Antichrist—the counterfeit Christ? 

Do you know that it is just because a false lord is set forth as the true Head, instead of the true Lord Jesus, the true Head—and that it is just because a false church is set forth as the true Body, instead of the true Church—the true Body of Jesus Christ, the true Head—that the counterfeit head and body constitute the Antichrist—the counterfeit Christ? 

Do you know that we must therefore search for one false head who is put in the place of Jesus as Head of the Church, and for one false church which is put in the place of the true Church as the Body of Christ, if we would find out just what is the great Antichrist? 

Do you know that the Bible, History and Reason prove that the Antichrist already has come, and has sat in the temple of God, and has been revealed and smitten, though his final destruction is yet future? 

Do you know that there is especially one System in the world whose workings reach back from our times to those of the Apostles, whose head falsely claims to be the head of the true Church and whose body members falsely claim to be the true Church?—2 Thess. 2:7; 1 John 4:3. 

Do you know that this System must be the Antichrist? 

Do you know that this System is the Papacy, in which the pope as its head is the counterfeit of Jesus the true Head of the true Church, and the Roman Catholic Church as its body is the counterfeit of the true Church, the Body of Christ? 

Do you know that the Bible, History and Reason prove that the Papacy is the great Antichrist? 

Do you know that this does not mean that individual Roman Catholics are antichrists, many of whom are godly people and real children of God; but it does 

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mean that the Papal System as such—not an individual—is the Antichrist? 

Do you know that the Bible teaches that the Antichrist would have its rise out of, through and amid a falling away—an apostasy—from the true Christianity, introduced by Christ and His Apostles?—2 Thess. 2:3, 7; 1 John 2:18, 19; 4:1, 3. 

Do you know that it started in the unholy ambition of certain leaders to gain the position of preeminence and power in various churches, even while the Apostles lived?—3 John 9-11; 2 Thess. 2:4, 7. 

Do you know that the zeal of the Apostles and their faithful helpers to maintain the true organization, teachings and practices of Christianity greatly curtailed the unholy ambition and influence of such leaders? Acts 20:20, 24, 27-31; Gal. 2:4, 5; 2 Pet. 1:12-15. 

Do you know that these ambitious ones became more successful after the Apostles fell asleep?—Acts 20:29, 30; 2 Pet. 1:14, 15, compare with 2:1-3, 15; Matt. 13:25. 

Do you know that during the second century they undermined the organization of the true Church, especially by two things, the first of which was the dividing of the Church into two classes: (1) the clergy, as the ruling class, and (2) the laity, as the subject class? 

Do you know that during the second century they also undermined the organization of the true Church by a second thing—the dividing of the clergy into two classes: (1) the ruling clergy, to whom, contrary to apostolic usage—according to which the words elders and bishops, or overseers, apply to the same persons and office (Acts 20:17, 28; Phil. 1:1)—they limited the name bishop; and (2) the subordinate clergy, to whom they limited the name elders, presbyters, which latter word was later corrupted in form and meaning into the word priest? 

Do you know that during the third century the bishops gained more power, and began to be considered 

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the successors of the Apostles, and that it was especially through the influence of Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in Africa, who died in 258, that the doctrine of apostolic succession was introduced? 

Do you know that late in the third century the more powerful bishops became known as archbishops and metropolitans, having under them all of the clergy of their respective districts and provinces? 

Do you know that in the fourth century the five most powerful of the metropolitans—those of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Rome—developed into patriarchs—first, or chief fathers—and the superiors of all bishops in their respective sections of the world? 

Do you know that during the fifth century the position of supreme ecclesiastical authority became an object of rivalry and contention between the bishop of Rome and the bishop of Constantinople? 

Do you know that the Roman emperors during the sixth century, beginning with Justinian, 533 A. D., acknowledged the supremacy of the bishop of Rome as Pope, over all the clergy and churches of the Roman Empire and of the world? 

Do you know that this fact and certain events occurring within six years from its beginning "set up" the Papacy in power as the Man of Sin, in the year 539 A. D.? 

Do you know that the above-described gradual apostasy from the original organization of the Church completely perverted the Divine organization of the Church? 

Do you know that the falling away—the Apostasy—affected not only the organization, but also the teachings that Jesus and the Apostles gave the true Church? 

Do you know that during the second century, mainly through the teachings and activities of certain converted heathen philosophers, the doctrinal truths of the Church began to be corrupted through the introduction of heathen philosophical views? 

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Do you know that during that century they began to introduce the Pagan doctrine of the condition of the dead, and to undermine confidence in the Millennium? 

Do you know that during the third century the philosophical theologians and ambitious clergy began to undermine the Scriptural teachings on the relation and unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, by introducing an unscriptural view of their relation and unity; continued to corrupt and deny the Scriptural doctrine of the Millennium; perverted the present mission of the Church, which is to gather the Elect from the world for joint-heirship and rulership with Christ after His Second Advent, for the conversion of the world, into the mission of converting and reigning over the world before Christ's Second Advent; and introduced into the Church from heathendom its views on the punishment of sin and began to teach errors on various phases of baptism? 

Do you know that during the fourth century they rejected the true doctrine of the relation and unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and established by aid of the civil power the false teaching on that subject; wholly rejected the doctrine of the Millennium as following Christ's Second Advent, and the true mission of the Church during the Gospel Age, in favor of its converting and reigning over the world before Christ's Return; united Church and State in an unholy and, to the Church, degrading alliance for the conversion of the world and the Millennial Reign before Christ's Return; and developed further the previously mentioned errors and the magical effect of external rites? 

Do you know that during the fifth and sixth centuries, in addition to placing increased emphasis on the above-mentioned errors, further errors on the person of Christ were introduced; purgatory, and the mass, as a sacrifice for sins committed after baptism—the greatest of Catholic errors—began in their first principles to be taught; errors on grace, free will, predestination,

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and the Lord's Supper began to spread; and errors on the Second Advent, the end of the world, the Judgment Day, the resurrection of the dead, the rewards of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked increased? 

Do you know that in addition to these organizational and doctrinal corruptions, during these six centuries there set in very many corruptions in, and evil additions to the practices introduced into the Church by Christ and the Apostles, all of which corruptions and evil additions led to dead formality instead of living spirituality in the Church? 

Do you know that these corruptions of, and evil additions to primitive Christian practices include auricular confession, penances, monasticism, asceticism, fasts, feasts, worship of saints and their relics and images, pilgrimages, processions, and that they include elaborate and heathenish ceremonies in worship, regalia, vestments, buildings, festivals, weddings, deaths, funerals, lustrations, incense, crucifixes, etc., etc., etc., and that they fostered increasing ignorance, superstition, credulity, etc., etc., etc., none of which are traceable in the Bible, but all of which were more or less present before the end of the sixth century? 

Do you know that all of these features of the apostasy led to a terrible lowering of the standard of life in the Christian Society, Church and Family? 

Do you know that out of, through and amid all of these corruptions of Church organization, doctrine and practice, i.e., out of, through and amid the above-described great apostasy from primitive Christianity, the Papacy—the Antichrist—developed, even as St. Paul and St. John declared it would develop out of, through and amid an apostasy?—2 Thess. 2:3; 1 John 2:18, 19. 

Do you know that the above-mentioned facts of the great apostasy are authentic History's corroboration of the fulfilment of St. Paul's and St. John's prophecies respecting the rise of the Antichrist—the Papacy, as 

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the counterfeit Christ—out of, through and amid a great falling away from primitive Christianity? 

Do you know that Reason assents to the conclusion that a System with the nature, origin, character, doctrine and history—harmonious with the Biblical forecast—of the Papacy's rise has all of the earmarks of the Antichrist? 

Do you know that, additional to the Scriptural, Historical and Reasonable evidence respecting Papacy's rise, showing it to be the Antichrist, there are many other lines of proof for the same fact derived from Scripture, History and Reason respecting Papacy's course after it was set up in 539 A. D.? 

Do you know that at is necessary for us to acquaint ourselves with at least an outline of these facts in order that we may properly take our part in the Drama of the Ages now being enacted on the stage of ominous World-events in their relation to Christ's Second Advent, the Deliverance of the true Church from the world, and the establishment of God's Kingdom throughout the earth? 

Do you know that Christ's Second Advent cannot now be delayed because of Antichrist's coming, since the latter has already come? 

Do you know that in harmony with Biblical usage, both in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and in the Greek of the New, human notables and rulers are sometimes meant by the Hebrew word elohim and the Greek word theos, both of which are usually translated by the word God?—Gen. 23:6; Ex. 7:1; 21:6; 22:8, 10, 28, compare with Acts 23:5; Ps. 82:6, compare with John 10:34, 35; 1 Cor. 8:5. 

Do you know that the following is the literal translation of 2 Thess. 2:4: "Who opposes himself against, and highly exalts himself over, every one called a God [human ruler] or an augustused one [one treated as an Augustus, the highest title of the Roman emperors, i.e., any one to whom fealty is sworn and homage is given as the highest civil ruler], so that he seats himself

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[as an intruder and usurper pushes his See] into God's Temple [the Church, 1 Cor. 3:16, 17] exhibiting himself that he is a God [a mighty ruler]? 

Do you know that in 533 A. D. Justinian, the Roman Emperor, publicly and by an imperial rescript recognized the Bishop of Rome as the head of all the clergy and of all the churches? 

Do you know that he sent in 535, to Sicily, and in 537, to Italy, his army under Belisarius, who in his war with the Goths in Italy was so successful that by 539 he had freed Rome and Italy from their power, which resulted in the Pope's becoming in civil, as he had already been in religious affairs the chief power in Rome and its adjacent territory? 

Do you know that accordingly from 539, the year of the Gothic empire's fall in Italy, must be dated the beginning of the civil power of the popes as temporal rulers? 

Do you know that from shortly thereafter with, ever increasing emphasis various popes as the head of the Antichrist, supported by the clergy, the body of Antichrist, came, while grasping for civil power, into conflict with civil rulers—"opposing himself against … everyone called a god [civil ruler] or an augustused one?" 

Do you know that this manifested itself first against the Roman Emperors' Italian exarches whose capital was at Ravenna, then for several centuries against the Longobard rulers, then for centuries against the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, and then for centuries against every other European ruler who would not be subject to the Papacy? 

Do you know that in such activity the Man of Sin fulfilled the prophecy of 2 Thess. 2:4: "Who opposes himself against … every one called a god [civil ruler] or an augustused one … exhibiting himself that he is a god [civil ruler]? 

Do you know that gradually from 539 onward the Antichrist claimed higher and higher prerogatives for 

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himself, until he claimed the supreme place on earth, not only in religious, but also in civil matters? 

Do you know that these claims and their realization reached their summit especially in the reign of Pope Innocent III., 1198-1216 A. D., and that they were clearly set forth as a matter of faith necessary for salvation, in the infamous bull, Unam Sanctam, issued by Pope Boniface VIII., 1294-1303 A. D.? 

Do you know that in these claims and their realization the Antichrist likewise fulfilled the prophecy of 2 Thess. 2:4: "and highly exalts himself over every one called a god [civil ruler] or an augustused one …, exhibiting himself that he is a god [civil ruler]? 

Do you know that the meaning and realization of Antichrist's claims to supremacy in political matters over all secular rulers are best illustrated in the activities and successes of Pope Innocent III, who brought back to Papal control the temporarily freed Papal States, brought Sicily under the Papal suzerainty, interfered in the elections of German emperors until his tools and partisans were elected, compelled the King of France to regulate his domestic life according to his views, induced the Spanish king to pay him tribute as his political superior, sanctioned the overthrow of the Greek and in its place the establishment of a Latin empire at Constantinople, subject to him, ordered the king of France to enforce his interdict and commands against England, forced England under John Lackland to become a Papal fief, paying tribute twice annually to him, formerly protested against the cornerstone of civil liberty, the Magna Charta, additionally gained political control in Portugal, Poland, Livonia, Sweden and Bulgaria, and finally, a few months before his death, received homage at the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 A. D., from over 1500 assembled prelates and from the ambassadors of almost all the kings, princes and free cities of Christendom, not only as head of the Church, but also as 

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supreme lord and judge of all kings, princes and peoples? 

Do you know that these claims and their realization are in most striking contradiction to God's Word and the example of Jesus and the Apostles, which inculcate the subjection of all of Jesus' followers in secular matters to the civil powers until the end of "the present evil world"?—John 18:33-37; Matt. 20:20, 21, 24-28; Mark 10:42-45; Luke 22:24-27; Matt. 22:21; Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-15. 

Do you know that when the Mystery of Iniquity—he Antichrist—first began to work, and for several centuries afterward, there was something in the way that hindered the self-exalting and power-grasping clergy in the early Church from gaining what proved to be the goal of Antichrist-religious and political supremacy over mankind?—2 Thess. 2:6, 7, see Revised Version. 

Do you know that the hindering thing was the Pagan Roman Empire, with a heathen Roman Emperor at its head? 

Do you know that one of the official titles of the Roman Emperor was Pontifex Maximus—greatest, or chief priest? 

Do you know that the Roman Emperor had this title because he was the supreme head of the religion, as he also was of the government, of the Roman Empire—things implied in his official titles? 

Do you know that as long as the Roman Emperors had and used these powers as the head of the Pagan Roman government and religion, there was a hindrance in the way of Antichrist's obtaining supremacy in State and Church? 

Do you know that Antichrist could gain such power only if the hindrance was taken out of the way, i.e., if Pagan Rome would become what proved to be Papal Rome, and if the heathen Emperor would become what proved to be a Papal Emperor subject in religion and government to Antichrist?—2 Thess. 2:6, 7. 

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Do you know that the self-exalting and power-grasping clergy in the second, third and fourth centuries increasingly as time went on made most extraordinary efforts at the so-called Christianizing of Pagan Rome? 

Do you know that they greatly lowered the standards of Christian doctrine and practice, and adopted many heathen views, practices and customs to facilitate the conversion of Pagan to what was growing into Papal Rome? 

Do you know that when the size of their following warranted it they made special efforts to win over rulers and to impress upon them their need of the clergy's support? 

Do you know that this sometimes led to their winning the confidence, favor and support of certain rulers, and sometimes to their stirring up the fears, envy and opposition of other rulers, up to 313 A. D., when Emperor Constantine openly espoused the side of the self-exalting and power-grasping clergy and their party, by which Antichrist experienced his birth? 

Do you know that such a course on the part of the clergy was one of the causes of arousing certain Pagan Roman emperors to persecute all Christians? 

Do you know that by 313 A. D. Antichrist succeeded in putting a so-called Christian emperor on the throne of Rome in the person of Constantine, and thus took out of the way one of the features of the hindrance (a heathen emperor as the head of the State) to Antichrist's supremacy in government and religion?—2 Thess. 2:6, 7. 

Do you know that shortly afterward Constantine made a partial counterfeit of Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire, by uniting Church and State, and thus a second part of the hindrance (the Pagan religion as the religion of the Empire) was taken out of the way?—2 Thess. 2:6, 7. 

Do you know that when Emperor Justinian in 533 decreed the pope to be the head of all the clergy and 

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the Church, as a direct consequence a third part of the hindrance (the right of the Emperor to the office of Pontifex Maximus—Chief Priest) in the way of Antichrist's ambition for supremacy was taken out of the way?—2 Thess. 2:7. 

Do you know that when in 539 Belisarius, Justinian's general, freed Rome and Italy from the control of the Goths he not only removed the final part of the hindrance to Antichrist's exercising political authority, but also laid the foundation upon which immediately the Pope began to build that temporal power which in due time enabled Antichrist to exercise supremacy in governmental matters? 

Do you know that many, yea, the majority, of those who wrought on the development and in the interests of Antichrist did so piously and conscientiously, under the delusion that they were thereby enhancing God's glory and gaining His approval? 

Do you know that Antichrist's phenomenal success in attaining supremacy in Church and State, so perseveringly and cunningly sought after for many centuries, was at every step favored and furthered by Satan?—John 14:30; 2 Thess. 2:9, 10. 

Do you know that of all devices formed for deceiving, enslaving, oppressing and injuring mankind Antichrist is easily the chief, and as such is the very climax of Satanic cunning and ingenuity? 

Do you know that Antichrist is thus proven to be the supreme product and the highest representative of Satan's Empire among men?—John 14:30. 

Do you know that Satan first offered the faithful Christ the supremacy in the earth on sinful conditions; and failing to win Him thereto, sought and won the unfaithful Antichrist on those conditions for that position?—Luke 4:5-8. 

Do you know that Satan was one of the most attentive listeners to the teaching and preaching of Jesus and His Apostles, and that after having learned all that he could from them he very diligently studied

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every part of the Old and New Testaments, even as a counterfeiter scrutinizes every part of genuine money; and that from such study he constructed his counterfeit of The Christ, His teachings, practices and organization, and palmed off his counterfeit: the Papacy, its teachings, practices and organization? 

Do you know that it took centuries for Satan to work out and palm off the Papal religion as the counterfeit of the true Christian religion? 

Do you know that among other things he had to work out a theory of the primacy of the Pope, in the Antichrist, as a counterfeit of the primacy of Jesus, in The Christ, Head and Body? 

Do you know that he began the work of palming off his counterfeit primacy during the second century, through the Judaizing heretics called the Ebionites, through whose Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles he set forth the fable of a Bishopric of St. Peter for 25 years at Rome? 

Do you know that there is no sure evidence that St. Peter was ever at Rome, much less that he ever was the Roman bishop? 

Do you know that this fable of the Ebionites was adopted as a part of Roman Catholic tradition, and that early in the third century the seat of the Roman bishop began to be called the See of St. Peter? 

Do you know that in the fourth century the Roman bishop was considered, in his capacity of being one of the five patriarchs, as the first among equals? 

Do you know that in the fifth century Satan began to spread misinterpretations of Matt. 16:16-19; Luke 22:31, 32; John 21:15-17, to the effect that they taught that Jesus conferred the primacy of authority among the Apostles upon St. Peter, despite the fact that apart from the keys—(1) the power of opening an entrance for the Jews, at Pentecost, and (2) the power of opening an entrance for the Gentiles, in Cornelius' home, into the Church, Jesus conferred upon all the other Apostles the same authority as upon 

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St. Peter (Matt. 18:18), and despite the fact that Jesus taught that none of the Apostles was to be over any other Apostle?—Luke 22:24-26. 

Do you know that when the claim was made that the Bishop of Rome was the successor of St. Peter as the prince of the Apostles, and therefore was the chief of the patriarchs, the other four patriarchs disputed the claim? 

Do you know that when for the first time the claim was in the fifth century set forth that not as the first among equals, but as the superior over the four other patriarchs and all other prelates, the Roman Bishop was the head of the Church, this claim was disputed on all sides as an entirely new teaching? 

Do you know that gradually this claim gained adherence for assertions and reasons like the following: The Roman Bishop was the successor of St. Peter; he was Bishop of Rome, the most famous city of the world; he had charge of the graves of Sts. Peter and Paul; he was independent of the court intrigues at Constantinople; he was always orthodox; he was usually able and active; he had the solid backing of the Western churches against the rival and divided claimants in the Eastern Church; each group of controversialists in the theological conflicts of the Eastern Church sought his favor and decision against their opponents; his clients always in the end won out in these controversies; the continued growth of the Western and decrease of the Eastern Church; the abandonment of the Western Christians to their fate by the Government at Constantinople during the wandering of the nations; and the paternalism of the Roman Bishop toward the people amid the sufferings due to the wandering of the nations? 

Do you know that none of these assertions and reasons is of Divine sanction? 

Do you know that Innocent I. (402-417), Coelestin I. (422-432), Leo I., the Great, (440-461) and Gregory I., 

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the Great, (590-604) were the most influential Roman Bishops in effecting the acceptance of the primacy of the Roman Bishop as head of the Church? 

Do you know that Leo I., the Great, in 445 succeeded in securing the legal recognition of the primacy of the Roman Bishop over the Western Church, and that in 451 he protested not without effect against the 28th canon of the Council of Chalcedon which declared the Bishop of Constantinople and the Bishop of Rome to be equals? 

Do you know that it was in the sixth century that the Bishop of Rome arrogated to himself the title of Pope—Papa—as exclusively his, though this title had for several centuries been common to all bishops? 

Do you know that in order to prove the primacy of the Pope as head of the Church the following unprovable propositions must be proven: (1) that St. Peter was the head of the Church; (2) that St. Peter was Bishop of Rome; (3) that both as Apostle and as Bishop of Rome St. Peter was head of the Church; (4) that St. Peter was to have a successor as head of the Church; (5) that St. Peter's successor as head of the Church had to be the Bishop of Rome; and (6) that the Pope, as Bishop of Rome, is St. Peter's successor as head of the Church? 

Do you know that Satan not only counterfeited The Christ—Jesus the Head and the true Church His Body—by the Antichrist, in which the Pope is the Head and the Roman Catholic Church the Body, but also in the Papacy he counterfeited almost everything else that is a part of genuine Christianity? 

Do you know that in doctrinal matters Satan through the Papacy set forth a counterfeit teaching for almost every doctrine of the Bible? 

Do you know that in harmony with this procedure Satan through Antichrist has set forth counterfeit doctrines on the Bible, on tradition, on God, on the relation of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, on Jesus Christ, 

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on the Holy Spirit, on angels, on man, on sin, on man's fall into sin, on the penalty of sin, on death, on hell, on purgatory, on the Ransom, on the Abrahamic Covenant, on the New Covenant, on repentance, on faith, on justification, on consecration, on self-denial, on sanctification, on baptism, on the Lord's Supper, on confirmation, on penance, on matrimony, on ordination, on extreme unction, on the Church, on the Gospel Age work, on the priesthood, on the saints, on their sacrifice, on the last day, on time, on eternity, on the last judgment, on the Millennium, on the resurrection, on the end of the world, on heaven, on eternal life, and on eternal death? 

Do you know that the ascetic practices of the Papacy, as seen, for example, in monastic life and the celibacy of the priesthood, are some of Antichrist's counterfeits of the self-denials inculcated in the Bible? 

Do you know that the bulk of Papacy's saints are Antichrist's counterfeits for the faithful Body members of The Christ? 

Do you know that the Papal sacrifice of the Mass is Antichrist's counterfeit of the true sacrifice that the faithful Body of Christ has been making of themselves throughout the Gospel Age?—Rom. 12:1; 1 Pet. 2:5; Heb. 13:15, 16. 

Do you know that the infallibility of the Pope is in Antichrist Satan's counterfeit of the infallibility of our Lord Jesus? 

Do you know that the college of cardinals is in Antichrist Satan's counterfeit of the more prominent servants of Jesus among men as the antitypes of Israel's seventy judges—the Sanhedrin? 

Do you know that the Papal reign from 799 to 1799 is in Antichrist Satan's counterfeit of the Millennial Reign of The Christ? 

Do you know that as the Pope and the hierarchy counterfeit Jesus and His Church, so monks and nuns, as the intermediaries between Antichrist and the Catholic

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laity, counterfeit the Ancient and Youthful Worthies as the Millennial intermediaries between The Christ and the world of mankind? 

Do you know that the Papal laity are in Antichrist Satan's counterfeit for the Millennial subjects of The Christ? 

Do you know that Purgatory is Antichrist's counterfeit for the Millennium, when The Christ will purge the earth from the curse and obedient people from all imperfection and sin? 

Do you know that Papacy's doctrine on the penalty of sin is Antichrist's counterfeit for the symbolic lake of fire—the second death? 

Do you know that counterfeitedly many of the true saints and martyrs of God (Rev. 17:6; 18:24) have been in Antichrist treated by Satan as the Millennial incorrigibles? 

Do you know that the tortures to which the true saints and martyrs of Jesus were subjected are in Antichrist Satan's counterfeit of the judgments of the Lord that will in the Millennium teach earth's inhabitants righteousness?—Is. 26:9. 

Do you know that the above discussion does not dilate on clerical immoralities and other wrongs since these, having existed in all ages and classes, cannot prove Papacy to be Anti-Christ? 

Do you know that if the Roman Hierarchy were as chaste and good as angels, Papacy would yet be the Anti-Christ because of counterfeiting the Christ in His organization, doctrines and practices? 

Do you know that it is just because Antichrist in his teachings, practices and organization is so complete a counterfeit of The Christ in His teachings, practices and organization that Satan has by Antichrist attained his greatest power, influence, and success in the world? 

ANTI-CHRIST'S DARK REIGN 

Do you know that after 539—when the Ostrogoths were overthrown in Italy—the Italian exarch, the political 

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representative of the emperor in Italy, having made Ravenna his capital, the Pope gradually began to assume the functions of a civil ruler at Rome and in its suburbs? 

Do you know that Gregory I., the Great (590-604), said that the one who occupied his office as Bishop of Rome discharged the functions of a civil ruler and of an ecclesiastical shepherd, and that at times it was difficult to determine to which of these capacities some of his acts belonged? 

Do you know that Gregory II. (715-731) successfully encouraged the revolutionary remnant of the Exarchate of Ravenna to come under his political leadership? 

Do you know that the Popes' controllership of this territory was through the gift of Pepin, the king of the Franks, legally confirmed in 755? 

Do you know that Charlemagne in 774 renewed and enlarged this gift of his father Pepin, and thus confirmed the Pope in his temporal power over the Papal States as a fief of the Frankish Empire? 

Do you know that in this way the Papal States rose? 

Do you know that the Popes were not content thus to be subject to the Frankish Empire? 

Do you know that the aim of the Papacy was absolutism, in State and Church? 

Do you know that it is a doctrine of Antichrist that of Divine right every human being should be subject in all things to the Papacy? 

Do you know that in the ninth century there were only two hindrances to Papal absolutism—the supremacy of the Frankish emperors over the Papal States in matters of State, and the claims of the Frankish metropolitans to independence in the Church? 

Do you know that through the greatest forgery of all history—the forged decretals among the so-called Isidorean decretals—the Papacy overcame the Frankish metropolitans' opposition to Papal absolutism in the Church? 

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Do you know that it was also through these same forged decretals, especially through the part of them that treats of the so-called donation of Constantine—which sets forth the fable that Constantine the Great, 330, out of gratitude for Pope Sylvester's curing (?) him of leprosy, surrendered to the Pope as a gift the whole of the Western part of the Roman Empire as the Pope's civil domain, placing upon the Pope's head the imperial crown, and thereupon left Rome and built Constantinople as his capital over the Eastern part of the Roman Empire—that gradually the Popes overcame the supremacy of the emperors and kings and became the chief civil power in the earth? 

Do you know that Papacy's contentions for supremacy in civil matters caused many conflicts and wars? 

Do you know that to secure such supremacy among other things the Papacy excommunicated unsubmissive kings and emperors, placed interdicts—prohibition of all rites of the Church—over entire countries, absolved subjects from their oaths of allegiance to their kings and emperors, and aroused the former to revolution against the latter, resulting in some of the latter losing their thrones? 

Do you know that one of the most drastic cases of Papacy's acts along these lines occurred when Hildebrand, as Gregory VII, 1073-1085, excommunicated Henry IV. of Germany, released his subjects from their oath of allegiance, and compelled him, when penitent, to do penance by fasting and standing almost naked for three days in the bitter cold of January in the court of the castle at Canossa, where Gregory was then visiting, before that haughty and self-willed pontiff deigned to receive into his presence and absolve the royal penitent? 

Do you know that even Catholic, theologians now admit that the Isidorean decretals are forgeries in those parts of them that make these extravagant claims of power in Church and State for the Pope? 

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Do you know that a good and true cause does not require or have forgeries as its basic credentials? 

Do you know that powers secured by such fraudulent claims and used for such fraudulent purposes must have been invented by Satan and intended by him for use in his own interests? 

Do you know that the powers so gained were used more effectually than other powers ever were used against God, His servants and mankind? 

Do you know that such uses stamp them as of Satan's invention, and therefore prove that Papal absolutism in Church and State is of Satanic origin? 

Do you know that Antichrist still claims by Divine right the authority to reign in secular and religious matters over all rulers and peoples of the earth? 

Do you know that according to the International News Service the present Pope, Pius XI., on Sept. 9, 1921, shortly after his elevation to the cardinalate, publicly made, at Milan, Italy, the following declaration: "The Vatican must be considered, not an international power, but a supernational power. … The world must consider Italy as the second country in importance and Rome the universal capital, because the Pope resides there." 

Do you know that the reason why the Pope does not now do to the nations and rulers what among others Gregory VII. did to them in the eleventh century, and what Innocent III. did to them in the thirteenth century, is not for lack of will so to do, but only for lack of power to enforce his will so to do? 

Do you know that the Scriptures treat of the desolating abomination as an especially wicked thing?—Dan. 11:31; 12:11; 8:13; Matt. 24:15. 

Do you know that this desolating abomination is Antichrist—the Papacy? 

Do you know that the expression of Matt. 24:15: "the abomination of desolation … stand in the holy place," is practically synonymous with the expression 

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of 2 Thess. 2:4: "he sitteth in the temple of God"—the true Church? 

Do you know that St. Matthew's expression, "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation… stand in the holy place," is synonymous with St. Mark's expression (Mark 13:14): "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation … standing where it ought not," and that this latter expression proves Antichrist to have no right whatever to be in the Church—that he is there only as an intruder and usurper? 

Do you know that Papacy, the Antichrist, teaches that the sacrifice of Jesus atones for only the original sin of man and his actual sins committed before baptism? 

Do you know that Antichrist teaches that the sacrifice of the mass atones for all actual sins committed after baptism, whether those who have committed such sins are now living or dead? 

Do you know that Papacy teaches that when in the mass the priest in the consecration service utters over the bread and wine the words, This is My body—this is My blood, the bread and wine are changed into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, which the priest then offers as an unbloody sacrifice to God for the sins of the living Catholics and of the dead in Purgatory? 

Do you know that by the doctrine of the Mass the daily—the continual—sacrifice, the continual efficacy of the one Ransom sacrifice of our Lord Jesus to cleanse us from all sin (1 John 1:7), was taken away by the Antichrist?—Dan. 8:11-13. 

Do you know that the Ransom-Sacrifice is the place, or foundation, of the Sanctuary—the Church—Dan. 8:11. 

Do you know that the doctrine of the Mass is the most abominable feature of the Papacy, because it is subversive of the foundation of Christian doctrine and practice—the Ransom? 

Do you know that the doctrine of the Mass with 

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its concomitants of Purgatory and indulgences has been the mint whereby Antichrist has coined inexhaustible treasures through the fears and superstitions of its deluded adherents?—Dan. 8:12, margin. 

Do you know that it is Antichrist's doctrine of the Mass which makes Antichrist the "desolating abomination"? 

Do you know that the Bible also calls Antichrist—the Papacy—a "little horn"?—Dan. 7:8, 11, 24, 25; Dan. 8:9-13, 23-25. 

Do you know that in Biblical symbols a horn represents a power—a kingdom or a king?—Dan. 7:7, 8, 24; Dan. 8:3, 5, 8, 9, 20-23; Rev. 17:3, 12. 

Do you know that the two-horned ram of Dan. 8:3, 4 represents the Medo-Persian Empire?—Dan. 8:20. 

Do you know that the one-horned he-goat of Dan. 8:5-8 represents the Grecian Empire under Alexander the Great the conqueror of Medo-Persia?—Dan. 8:21. 

Do you know that the four horns which took the place of the one great horn (Dan. 8:8) represent the four kingdoms into which the Empire of Alexander was divided?—Dan. 8:22. 

Do you know that one of these four divisions was Alexander's original kingdom—Macedonia—and that the Roman ambassadors acknowledged the subjection of Rome to the victorious Alexander as a part of his Empire—at that time especially Macedonia? 

Do you know that it is for this reason that the "little horn" of Dan. 8:9-13 represents first Pagan and then Papal Rome as having come out of one of the divisions of Alexander's Empire—that of Macedonia? 

Do you know that the waxing great against (margin) the host of heaven and overthrowing them (Dan. 8:10) represents the conflict in the ecclesiastical heavens whereby the Pope contended with all rival religious claimants, and gained the victory over them in the contention for the primacy? 

Do you know that the expression (Dan. 8:11), 

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"He magnified himself even to the Prince of the Host," means that the Pope would exalt himself to Christ's place as the Head of the Church, and as the rightful Ruler of mankind?—Rom. 14:9. 

Do you know that Dan. 8:23-25 treats of the Papacy and is an explanation of Dan. 8:9-13, even as Dan. 8:19-22 is an explanation of Dan. 8:3-8? 

Do you know that Dan. 7:7, 8, 19-26 gives a more minute picture of the Papacy in its relation to the Roman Empire than is given in Dan. 8:9-13, 23-25? 

Do you know that the four beasts of Dan. 7:3-8 represent in their respective order the four universal Empires—Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome?—Dan. 7:17; 2:31-35, 36-43. 

Do you know that the ten horns on the head of the fourth beast-the Roman Empire—(Dan. 7:7) represent the ten nations that would establish a seat of government and exercise rulership on Italian soil—the original territory of the Roman Empire? 

Do you know that those ten nations, with the year of the end of their rule on Italian soil, are the following: (1) the Western Empire, 476 A. D., (2) the Heruli, 489, (3) the Ostrogoths, 539, (4) the Exarchate of Ravenna (representative of the Eastern Empire), 751, (5) the Longobards, 774, (6) the Franks, 870 (the French in later periods ruled more or less on Italian soil), (7) the Austro-Germanic Holy Roman Empire, 1806 (Austria later ruled in parts of Italy), (8) the Normans, 1194, (9) the Spaniards, 1714, and (10) the present Italian kingdom?—Dan. 8:24. 

Do you know that apart from these ten nations the Papacy is the only other government that had a seat of government and exercised rulership on Italian soil? 

Do you know that Papacy, therefore, must be the "little horn" of Dan. 7:8, 11, 20, 21, 24-26? 

Do you know that the three horns (Dan. 7:8) that were plucked up by the roots—utterly destroyed— 

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before the Papal horn came up were the Western Empire, which fell in 476, the Heruli, who fell in 489, and the Ostrogoths, who fell in 539, on whose ruins Papal civil power was built? 

Do you know that the Papacy conspired successfully for the successive overthrow of each of these three governments?—Dan. 8:24. 

Do you know that as symbolized by the eyes and mouth of the "little horn" the Papacy—Antichrist—is especially marked by his deep and subtle knowledge (eyes) and great utterances (mouth)?—Dan. 7:8; 8:23. 

Do you know that Papacy in his scholars is deeply learned, as evidenced in their many books, in subtle, Satanic perversions and in minute accuracies of all branches of human knowledge, especially in those serviceable to his interests, as symbolized by the manlike eyes of the "little horn"?—Dan. 7:8. 

Do you know that Papacy's utterances (the mouth of the "little horn") are great—self-exalting—in their teachings, claims and objects?—Dan. 7:8. 

Do you know that some of these great claims for the Pope as Papacy's head are set forth in the 62 blasphemous Papal titles which were arranged by Monsignor Capel, one of Papacy's prominent writers, and of which we submit a number as samples: Most Divine of all Heads, Holy Father of Fathers, Pontiff Supreme over all Prelates, Overseer of the Christian Religion, the Chief Pastor, Pastor of Pastors, Christ by Unction, Heir of the Apostles, Abel in Primacy, Noah in Government, Abraham by Patriarchate, Melchisedec in Order, Aaron in Dignity, Moses in Authority, Samuel in Judicial Office, Peter in Power, High Priest, Supreme Bishop, Prince of Bishops, Key-bearer of the Kingdom of Heaven, Pontiff Appointed with Plenitude of Power, Vicar of Christ, Head of the Holy Churches, Chief of the Universal Church, Bishop of Bishops, that is, Sovereign Pontiff, Ruler of the House of the Lord, Apostolic Lord and Father of 

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Fathers, Chief Pastor and Teacher, Physician of Souls, Rock against which the proud gates of hell prevail not, Infallible Pope, Head of all the Holy Priests of God? 

Do you know that among other "great things" that the "little horn" has claimed as the Pope's titles the following are some examples: Prince of the Universe, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Priest and King who is to be adored by all people, and who is very like unto God? 

Do you know that Ferrari's Ecclesiastical Dictionary—a standard Roman Catholic work—says the following of the Pope under the word Papa, article second: "The pope is …, as it were, God and the vicar of God …, is crowned with a triple crown as king of heaven, of earth and of hell. … He is above angels. … Angels … could be judged and excommunicated by the pope. … He occupies one and the same tribunal with Christ … The pope is, as it were, God on earth, the only prince of the faithful of Christ, the greatest king of all kings, possessing the plenitude of power, to whom the government of the earthly and heavenly kingdom is entrusted. … The pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, declare or interpret the Divine law. … The pope can sometimes counteract the Divine law by limiting, explaining [away], etc.?" 

Do you know that their canon law in the gloss denominates the Pope—"our Lord God?" 

Do you know that next to Satan Antichrist has exalted himself more than all other beings and systems combined? 

Do you know that the Revelator (Rev. 13:5, 6) prophetically describes the Papacy—Antichrist—as having a mouth speaking great things, and that he declares that in such speaking he blasphemes God and God's name—character, plan, works and office—agreeing on this point with the prophecy of Daniel that we have just been considering?—Dan. 7:8, 25. 

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Do you know that Papacy's—Antichrist's—claims in teaching, practice and ambition, some of which we have briefly mentioned, are these blasphemies? 

Do you know that such high self-exaltation must some day meet the deepest humiliation, and that such blasphemies must some day be repudiated?—Luke 14:11; Rev. 18:1-24; Jer. 51:44, compare with Rev. 17:5. 

Do you know that the Bible also prophesies that the Papacy—Antichrist—would change—pervert God's times and laws?—Dan. 7:25. 

Do you know that according to this passage the times that Papacy changed are certain dispensational periods of God's Plan? 

Do you know that in fulfillment of the prophecy of Dan. 7:25 the Papacy claims that the period of her power and reign over the nations—approximately from 799 to 1799, which was a part of the Gospel Age—was the Millennial reign of Christ and His saints mentioned in Rev. 20:4-6, whereas the Bible teaches that this reign will follow the Gospel Age and Christ's Second Coming?—Acts 3:19-21; 15:14-17; Dan. 7:13, 14, 18, 22, 27. 

Do you know that in fulfilment of the prophecy of Dan. 7:25 the Papacy—Antichrist—teaches that the period of the breaking and removal of its power to reign over the earth is the "little season" of Rev. 20:7-9, which the Bible teaches is to come after the Millennium? 

Do you know that in Papacy's changing these times—dispensational periods of God's Plan—it has given us a counterfeit Gospel Age, a counterfeit Millennium, and a counterfeit "little season" following the Millennium, thereby again furnishing proof that the Papacy is Antichrist—the counterfeit Christ? 

Do you know that in Dan. 7:25 God has given a prophecy that the Papacy would change—pervert—God's laws?

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Do you know that this means that the Antichrist—the Papacy—would pervert God's doctrinal, preceptorial, promissory, hortatory, prophetical and typical ordinances and arrangements, to many of which perversions we have previously referred? 

Do you know that in fulfilling this prophecy Papacy—the Antichrist—has perverted—counterfeited—practically every feature of true Christianity? 

Do you know that this prophecy proves God's fore-knowledge of Papacy's terrible perversions of Truth and Righteousness? 

Do you know that the Bible foretells the great craftiness, hypocrisy and cunning of the Papacy?—Dan. 7:8; 8:25; 11:27. 

Do you know that by the two kings of Dan. 11:27 the ecclesiastical power and the civil power in Christendom, prior to 539 A. D., are meant? 

Do you know that at that time both of these rulerships sat at the table of power, each ambitiously seeking to deceive the other as to its real intentions, and to take to itself supremacy in the other's sphere? 

Do you know that by such a course the Papacy introduced the usually mendacious practice that is now called diplomacy?—Dan. 8:25. 

Do you know that no system ever caused craft to prosper so greatly as did the Papacy?—Dan. 8:25. 

Do you know that Papacy's dealings in dark expediency and secret diplomacy with rulers and nations, individually and collectively, have been more hypocritical, cunning, deceitful and selfish than those of all other similar dealings combined? 

Do you know that the craft, hypocrisy and cunning of Papacy have created Jesuitism, than which nothing more deceitful and unconscionable was ever invented among men by human or Satanic ingenuity? 

Do you know that as Jesuitism is the child of Papacy's craft, cunning and hypocrisy, so is it the truest representative of Papacy's spirit and practice?

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Do you know that by such hypocrisy, cunning and deceitfulness Papacy has counterfeited Christian tactfulness, which Jesus said should always be harmless? Matt. 10:16. 

Do you know that the Papacy—Antichrist—has always degraded individuals in proportion as they have come under its influence?—Rev. 17:2; 18:2, 3; 19:2. 

Do you know that Papacy's degrading influence has also been national, in that in the same proportion as nations have been under Papacy's influence they have been lowered in civilization, education, freedom, prosperity, and other elements of national greatness? Rev. 18:3. 

Do you know that the thoroughly Catholic nations Spain, Mexico, the Central and South American countries, Austro-Hungary, Poland, Bavaria—are examples of Papacy's degrading national influence?—Rev. 19:2. 

Do you know that even in preponderantly Protestant countries the great majority of murderers and other notorious criminals are subjects of the Papacy? 

Do you know that the Papacy prospers in proportion as it keeps nations and individuals in ignorance, and that therefore the countries of Christendom where illiteracy is greatest are Papal countries? 

Do you know that Papacy educates the laity only where Protestant competition forces it to do so for self-protection? 

Do you know that Papacy by teaching its people numberless superstitions has deeply degraded them mentally and religiously?—Rev. 17:2. 

Do you know that by teaching the principle of unquestioning obedience to its commands and by inculcating blank, unreasoning acceptance of its teachings Papacy has greatly degraded its subjects mentally, morally and religiously? 

Do you know that in the very nature of the case Papacy by its exaltation of the hierarchy and subjugation of the laity cannot but degrade its subjects, as all history attests that it has done? 

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Do you know that many Papal institutions, like the confessional, pilgrimages, indulgences, masses, purgatory, monastic vows, asceticism, the celibacy of the priesthood, monasteries and nunneries are from the nature of the case directly degrading in their influence on the majority of their users? 

Do you know that the Papacy by having taken the Bible and its teachings away from its people has taken from them the greatest incentive to mental, moral and religious elevation (John 17:17), and by teaching them its own errors gives them the most effective means to their degradation?—Rev. 17:2; 19:2. 

Do you know that the Papacy, since 539 A. D., has incited more wars than all nations combined? 

Do you know that by arousing the nations of Christendom to enter the crusade against the Mohammedans to recover the so-called Holy Sepulchre the Papacy caused many millions of people to lose their lives? 

Do you know that for centuries after the kings of Christendom saw the folly of the crusades the Papacy sought, happily in vain, to arouse the nations to further crusades against the Moslems? 

Do you know that the Papacy, to further its own political and religious ambitions has embroiled nations in war? 

Do you know that the Papacy was directly responsible for the wars against the Waldensians, Albigensians, Hussites, the Huguenots and the Netherlanders, because of their relinquishing the Papal faith? 

Do you know that the Papacy aroused Charles and Philip of Spain to war against many Protestant countries, like England, Holland, Germany and Denmark? 

Do you know that the Papacy, to crush Protestantism, instigated the Thirty Years' War, in which many millions of people perished? 

Do you know that for about 125 years after the Reformation began there was scarcely a war in Europe that the Papacy did not incite? 

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Do you know that Papacy then sought—unsuccessfully in some cases—to incite still other wars? 

Do you know that since that time the Papacy has had more or less to do in occasioning and inciting other wars? 

Do you know that Papacy's intrigues with Austria respecting the Romanizing of Servia's state religion occasioned the World-War? 

Do you know that its doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings contributed mightily to the starting and continuing of the World-War? 

Do you know that, leaving the World-War out of consideration, careful historians charge the Papacy with the responsibility of destroying 50,000,000 lives through the wars that it has fomented?—Dan. 8:24. 

Do you know that this proves that Papacy—next to Satan, who through introducing sin into our race (John 8:44) murdered the whole human family—is the arch-murderer of all history, and has by its course regarding war greatly degraded the peoples? 

Do you know that Papacy would now foment any war that it thinks would result in its interests or in the overthrow of its enemies, and that this means that it would be glad to cripple by war every Protestant country-including America and Britain? 

Do you know that by such a course as to war Papacy has in part fulfilled the prophecies which speak of its cruelty and destructiveness?—Dan. 8:23-25. 

Do you know that Papacy—Antichrist—is the chief foe of civil and religious liberty on earth?—Dan. 7:21, 24, 25; 8:10, 12, 13, 23-25; 11:33; Rev. 13:6, 7. 

Do you know that, in the passages cited after the previous question, by the expression "saints" and "sanctuary" the faithful followers of Christ are meant; that by the expressions "host of heaven" and "stars" religious teachers are meant; and that by the expression "the host" the remainder of the people of Christendom—the laity—are meant?

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Do you know that these passages foretell Papacy's antagonism to civil and religious liberty and its persecution of its opponents and its oppression of its subjects? 

Do you know that Papacy's claim of being the final authority on religious and civil questions, and its demand of absolute obedience to its teachings and commands, from their very nature are destructive of religious and civil liberty and are promotive of religious persecution and civil oppression? 

Do you know that Papacy—Antichrist—as such must be subversive of religious and civil liberty, oppressive to its subjects and murderous to its opponents, especially its religious opponents—the so-called heretics? 

Do you know that in the Dark Ages through Papacy's influence and teachings religious and civil liberty were non-existent? 

Do you know that with fierce and unrelenting hatred and unexampled and demoniacal cruelty it sought to crush every effort to obtain civil and religious liberty? 

Do you know that Innocent III., the most powerful of the popes, protested against the Magna Charta—the palladium of civil liberty? 

Do you know that the Papacy is the greatest foe of a free press, free speech, free assemblage, free opinion, free conscience and free schools? 

Do you know that through the cruel, so-called "Holy" Inquisition, Papacy for centuries sought, and that with temporary success, to destroy religious and civil liberty? 

Do you know that by many wars, assassinations and other monstrous crimes fomented by the Papacy it sought to destroy religious and civil liberty? 

Do you know that by almost every other dishonorable and criminal method it likewise sought to stifle religious and civil liberty? 

Do you know that the Bible is the greatest Charter 

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of religious and civil liberty and the Beacon-Light of civilization?—John 17:17; Ps. 119:130; Matt. 5:13-17. 

Do you know that in proportion as the principles of the Bible prevail, in that proportion religious and civil liberty and a noble civilization prevail?—John 8:31, 32. 

Do you know that Papacy's doctrines, practices and organization have been completely refuted by the Bible?—2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 13:3, 12. 

Do you know that for this reason the Papacy has relentlessly sought to suppress the reading of the Bible among others than her mouthpieces?—Dan. 8:12. 

Do you know that in harmony with this principle the Papacy has hindered and persecuted the translation of the Bible into living languages? 

Do you know that so far as possible the Papacy kept the Old and New Testaments—God's two Witnesses—covered with the "sackcloth" of dead languages during the long period of her power?—Rev. 11:3. 

Do you know that by dark crimes the Papacy hindered the translation and spread of the Bible until, during the last century, through the Bible Societies, backed by the spirit of true liberty, fraternity and equality, it was effectually prevented from further successful hindrance of the good work?—Rev. 11:3-13. 

Do you know that for the common people to have been found with Bibles in the vernacular during Papacy's ascendency meant persecution, and frequently death, through the "Holy" Inquisition? 

Do you know that the Papacy has made bonfires of multitudes of Bibles on the plea that the Bibles of heretics were mistranslations? 

Do you know that the standard Protestant Bibles are better translations than the standard Papal translations? 

Do you know that within the last twenty-five years Papal priests in the Philippines, under the jurisdiction

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of Arch-Bishop Dougherty—now Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia—publicly burned thousands of Bibles as a warning to their flocks? 

Do you know that the Papacy, has cursed with bloodcurdling imprecations the Bible Societies for translating and spreading the Bible? 

Do you know that the Papacy never gives the common people the Bible unless forced thereto by Protestant competition? 

Do you know that the Catholic laity may have the Bible only by special clerical permission, and then usually only when annotated with grossly misleading Papal comments? 

Do you know that these facts prove that the Papacy fears the Bible as its greatest foe? 

Do you know that the Papacy has not only proscribed the Bible, but all other books that, more or less deriving their light from the Bible, teach differently from the Papacy? 

Do you know that the Papacy keeps a double list of such books—called the index of prohibited books and the index of expurgated books—the former being totally prohibited to its adherents, apart from special dispensations, and the latter permitted only after certain papally disapproved parts are deleted? 

Do you know that the above are only a few of the ways in which the Papacy has "cast down the Truth to the ground" and trodden down the saints and the laity?—Dan. 8:12, 13; John 17:17. 

Do you know that the Bible repeatedly and emphatically prophesies that the Papacy would oppose and persecute God's faithful people—the true saints?—Dan. 7:21, 25; Dan. 8:11-13, 24; Dan. 11:33; Rev. 13:6, 7; Rev. 17:6; Rev. 18:24. 

Do you know that especially for 1260 symbolic days, i.e., 1260 literal years—539 to 1799 A. D.—Papacy, in harmony with prophecy, did this very thing?—Rev. 11:2, 3; Rev. 12:6; Rev. 13:5; Dan. 7:25. 

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Do you know that the Papal persecutions of the saints were from every standpoint immeasurably more severe than were the Jewish and Pagan—Roman—persecutions of the saints? 

Do you know that the Jewish and Pagan persecutions of the saints were intermittent, more or less lenient, restricted usually to individuals, often perfunctorily carried out, more or less humane in methods, and usually largely escapable, whereas Papal persecutions of the saints were continual for many long centuries, cruel in the extreme, diabolic in method, directed not only against individuals, but also against whole communities and nations, fanatically systematic and in most cases entirely unescapable? 

Do you know that the longest non-papal persecution—that of the Roman Emperor Diocletian—lasted ten years, while Papal persecution lasted for more than twelve hundred years? 

Do you know that Papal persecution began, on the basis of information pried out of penitents in the confessional, with a persistent worrying and annoying of the dissenting saints along religious, social and civil lines, in ways calculated to wear them out?—Dan. 7:25. 

Do you know that as Papacy gained more influence with the rulers it increasingly induced them to persecute the dissenting saints, whom it caused to be stigmatized as heretics? 

Do you know that Papacy used this ever-increasing influence with the State to cause laws to be passed making it a civil crime to hold and spread what often was Truth struggling to maintain a foothold, but what Papacy was pleased to call heresy? 

Do you know that in this way the Roman Catholic Church caused the Civil Power to persecute saints. 

Do you know that in such doings that Church antityped the heathen and wicked Queen Jezebel, and that the Civil Power antityped King Ahab of Israel, through whom Jezebel persecuted Jehovah's prophets, 

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and that the persecuted saints antityped those persecuted prophets?—Rev. 2:20; 1 Kings 16:29—19:14. 

Do you know that even before the year 539 Papacy influenced the Emperors Constantine, Valentinian, Gratian, Theodosius, Arcadius and Honorius to pass penal laws against heresy, Constantine passing two, Theodosius fifteen, Arcadius twelve, and Honorius eighteen, all of which are to be found in the Theodosian, or Justinian codes? 

Do you know that while from 539 onward the civil powers, incited thereto by the Papacy, persecuted dissenting saints, it was especially since early in the thirteenth century, through Innocent III., 1198-1216, who authorized the so-called "Holy" Inquisition, 1204, that the persecution of the heretics—usually God's saints—by the so-called "Holy" Inquisition and by national crusades took on a form of ruthlessness unequaled in human history, not excepting the ruthlessness of the World-War? 

Do you know that Papacy, sometimes by threats, sometimes by flattery and sometimes by rewards—bribes—aroused the persecuting fury of rulers, armies and civilians? 

Do you know that the Papacy offered these prospective murderers of God's saints plenary indulgence—full release—from purgatorial sufferings, if they would make some who actually were God's saints suffer even unto death? 

Do you know that the most cruel and revolting tortures were applied to the saints by the Inquisitors in their efforts to induce them to "recant"? 

Do you know that the following are some of the things that the "Holy" Inquisition did to exterminate God's saints, and with them God's Truth—scourging them; stretching them on racks 6 and 8 inches longer than their natural sizes; disjointing their bones; breaking their teeth with hammers; cutting out their tongues; slicing off their cheeks; cutting off their ears, lips and noses; gouging out their eyes; pouring melted 

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lead into their empty eye-sockets, into their ears and down their throats; pulling out their nails with hot pincers; cutting off their fingers, toes, hands and feet; cutting off the breasts of women; ripping open pregnant women and tearing from them their unborn infants, which they sometimes would then burn at the stake with their prospective mothers; torturing with special instruments the most sensitive parts of the human body; skinning, boiling, roasting and burning them alive; forcing urine and excrement down their throats; breaking their arms by sudden raising and letting them fall not quite to the floor with chains attached to pulleys in the ceilings and tied to their hands, which were forced back of them, while 300 pound weights were attached to their feet; forcing them to submit to the embraces of a machine called the "kissing virgin," which was covered with horseshoe nails and knife blades whose points entered the bodies pressed against the machine; applying thumbscrews and Spanish boots to them, the former crushing their thumbs and the latter lacerating their feet and legs up to the knees; impaling them; pulling their bodies apart by tying their feet with long ropes to two horses which were then made to run at full speed in opposite directions; stripping them and tying them to fleet horses which dragged them until dead over rocky fields; casting them off of eminences upon spears below; beheading and disemboweling them; burying them alive; torturing and murdering their nearest relatives before their eyes, etc., etc., etc.? 

Do you know that the victims of the "Holy" Inquisition, under 45 of its "Holy" Inquisitor-Generals, totaled 347,704 men and women, besides many others tortured by other "Holy" Inquisitor-Generals? 

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convalescence the tortures could again be applied to the partly cured and highly sensitive victims? 

Do you know that not only did Pope Innocent III. authorize the "Holy" Inquisition, but he offered a plenary indulgence—full release—from purgatorial sufferings to all who would join in the crusade against the Waldenses and Albigenses of France and Italy? 

Do you know that in response to his call a half million men from France, Germany and Italy joined the crusade and devastated entire provinces? 

Do you know that at Beziers, 1209, they slaughtered 60,000 men, women and children; that at Lavaur, 1211, they slaughtered thousands of others; and that in one day in the province of Languedoc alone they devastated cities, towns and country, slaughtering over 100,000 Albigenses? 

Do you know that on that day the crusaders attended mass in the morning, and throughout the rest of the day devastated Languedoc and murdered its inhabitants? 

Do you know that the Papal clergy publicly thanked God for the "victory" over these "heretics"? 

Do you know that under Charles V. and Philip II. of Spain, in the Netherlands alone 100,000 Protestants were martyred by Papal instigation? 

Do you know that following the example of Charles and Philip of Spain, and instigated thereto by the Papacy, the French kings, Francis, Henry, Charles and Louis XIV., fiendishly persecuted the French Protestants—Huguenots—in various provinces of France, slaying them by the hundreds of thousands, and exiling over a million of them, sparing neither men, women nor children, and that with indescribable tortures? 

Do you know that among others of these massacres that of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572, begun by treachery to the Protestants, carried out with extremest cruelty and destroying approximately 70,000 people, was instigated by Papacy?

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Do you know that both the Pope and the French king had medals struck in commemoration of this infamous massacre, as if it were something of which one should boast? 

Do you know that the Pope had a picture of the St. Bartholomew massacre hung in the Vatican, bearing the inscription, "The Pontiff approves the fate of Coligny"—the French Protestant leader and French Admiral, who was treacherously invited to a royal wedding ostensibly arranged for the reconciliation of the French Catholics and Protestants, but really intended to bring all the prominent French Protestants to Paris for what turned out to be St. Bartholomew's massacre? 

Do you know that Coligny's head was severed from his dead body by the French queen's order, then embalmed and sent by her as a trophy to the Pope, while the Parisian populace dragged the trunk of the body through the streets of Paris? 

Do you know that after receiving Coligny's embalmed head the Pope had the above-mentioned picture hung in the Vatican? 

Do you know that Antichrist in 1641 called upon the Irish to enter a war of religion to kill or exile Protestants, and that in Ulster alone 154,000 Protestants, men, women and children, were either killed or exiled, amid utmost barbarity? 

Do you know that O'Neil, the Irish primate, called the massacre "a pious and lawful war," and that Pope Urban VIII. granted plenary indulgence to its executors as "gallantly doing what in them lay to extirpate and wholly root out the pestiferous leaven of heretical contagion"—Protestantism? 

Do you know that the above facts as well as hosts of others almost as atrocious are so well authenticated that even Papal historians are forced to admit their truth, though trying to mitigate the force of them? 

Do you know that by these massacres during 1260 years the Papacy forced the faithful followers of Christ into the symbolic wilderness—isolation—out of 

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which the faithful emerged with large and sure freedom only from 1799 onward?—Rev. 12:6. 

Do you know that by these as well as by other methods of Satan "it was given to him [the Papacy] to make war with the saints and to overcome them" and to "wear out the saints of the Most High"?—Rev. 13:6, 7; Dan. 7:25. 

Do you know that it is for these reasons that Antichrist—the Papacy—is described as "drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus"?—Rev. 17:6. 

Do you know that this blood is now on Papacy's hands and calls for vengeance, which very shortly will be executed in the destruction of the entire Papal system?—Rev. 6:9-11; Rev. 18:24. 

Do you know that the Papacy—Antichrist—would reenact these persecutions here in America, if it only had the power, as within the last 50 years in Mexico, Central and South America it has aroused mobs to kill Protestant missionaries? 

Do you know that the Papacy curses every one to eternal torment who teaches or practices contrary to her theories and practices? 

Do you know that the Papacy has cursed the faithful followers of Christ with blood-curdling curses? 

Do you know that in the Romish Pontifical the following is only one of Papacy's authorized curses against Protestants: "May God Almighty and all His saints curse them with the curse with which the devil and his angels are cursed! Let them be destroyed out of the land of the living! Let the vilest of deaths come upon them, and let them descend alive into the pit [of eternal torment]! Let their seed be destroyed from the earth-by hunger and thirst and nakedness and all distress let them perish! May they have all misery and pestilence and torment! Let all they have be cursed! Always and everywhere let them be cursed! Speaking and silent let them be cursed! Within and without let them be cursed! From the crown of the head to the 

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sole of the foot let them be cursed! Let their eyes become blind; let their ears become deaf; let their mouths become dumb: let their tongue cleave to their jaws; let not their hands handle; let not their feet walk! Let all the members of their body be cursed! Cursed let them be, standing or lying, from this time forth forever; and thus let their candle be extinguished in the presence of God, at the day of judgment! Let hungry wolves devour their corpses! Let the devil and his angels be their companions for ever! Amen, Amen; so be it; so let it be"? 

Do you know that it was not God's Spirit that dictated this curse?—Matt. 5:43-45. 

Do you know that only Satan and his chief earthly representative—Antichrist—could pour out such a curse? 

Do you know that a religion whose spirit draws up and authorizes such a curse must have been invented by Satan and must be the basest kind of a counterfeit of true Christianity? 

ANTI-CHRIST'S REVELATION—SMITING—END 

Do you know that some of the Scripture passages that treat of the development of the Papacy to its greatest height of exaltation speak of its being revealed later in its true character and of its being then smitten by the Truth?—2 Thess. 2:6, 8; Rev. 13:3, 10; Dan. 7:26; Dan. 8:25. 

Do you know that the time for Papacy's revealment as the Antichrist of the Bible was the period of the Reformation?—Dan. 11:32-35; 2 Thess. 2:8. 

Do you know that the Reformation proceeded through two phases, the first being characterized by unorganized, or undenominational movements, from 1309 A. D. to 1498 A. D., the second being characterized by organized, or denominational movements, from 1517 A. D. to 1846 A. D.?

Do you know that both of these phases of the Reformation emphasized, and proved from the Bible with historical corroborations, the fact that Papacy is

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the Antichrist of the Bible, and thus they revealed the Man of Sin as such?—2 Thess. 2:6, 8. 

Do you know that St: Paul, by the expression, "spirit of His mouth," in 2 Thess. 2:8, meant the power of the Truth as given in the Bible, which is God's figurative mouth—that through which He speaks to us?—2 Thess. 2:8, compare with Rev. 1:16; 2:16; 19:15, 21; Is. 49:2; Eph. 6:17. 

Do you know that St. John by the second use of the term "sword," in Rev. 13:10, also means the Truth given in the Bible?—Eph. 6:17. 

Do you know that the Truth as contained in the Bible is the great weapon by which the Lord according to prophecy has revealed and smitten Antichrist as such? 

Do you know that History proves that such a predicted revelation and smiting of Papacy has taken place? 

Do you know that Marsilius of Padua, one of the ablest men of the fourteenth century, began in 1309 to learn the Biblical principles that enabled him to recognize the Papacy as Antichrist, usurping power in both Church and State? 

Do you know that by 1324 he had so thoroughly learned these principles as to have written in 90 days a large book entitled The Defender of the Peace, which from Scripture, Reason and History disproved Antichrist's claims of power and authority in Church and State? 

Do you know that even to this day Marsilius' book is a standard on the subject that it discusses? 

Do you know that Marsilius had as colaborers certain of the ablest scholars of his day, including men like John of Jandun, Michael of Cesena, general of the so-called schismatical Franciscans, and William Occam, the foremost theologian and philosopher of his time? 

Do you know that in the literary war waged by these 

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against the defenders of the Papacy the latter were thoroughly refuted, and thus Papacy began to be revealed as Antichrist? 

Do you know that John Wiclif of England, the ablest theologian and philosopher of his day, especially from 1378 to the end of 1384 attacked the Papacy as Antichrist with unanswerable power, and greatly added to the Scriptural arguments on this subject advanced by Marsilius? 

Do you know that he started from the basis that no religious doctrine or practice should be permitted in the Church unless it be proven to be Biblical? 

Do you know that this principle moved him to reject most of Papacy's doctrines and practices as erroneous? 

Do you know that multitudes in England under his teachings rejected the Papacy and its chief doctrines and practices? 

Do you know that Wiclif increased greatly the revelation of Papacy as Antichrist, and assisted in its smiting? 

Do you know that in 1391 John Huss of Bohemia became interested in Wiclif's writings and shortly afterward began his career as a reformer, sealing it in 1415 with a martyr's death at the stake, to which a Papal council condemned him? 

Do you know that he manifested the Papacy as Antichrist to hundreds of thousands in Bohemia? 

Do you know that John Wessel of Holland was used by the Lord to make still more manifest as of Antichrist not a few of the Papal doctrines? 

Do you know that he laid down as basic the four cardinal principles of the Reformation by sects as it was developed from 1517 to 1846? 

Do you know that Jerome Savonarola in Italy likewise wrought fruitfully in the work of manifesting the Papacy as Antichrist and shared in its smiting until his death as a martyr in 1498? 

Do you know that all of the reformers hitherto 

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mentioned led unorganized—undenominational—reformatory movements which, one and all, contributed a share in the work of revealing the Papacy as Antichrist and in smiting it with the Word of God?—2 Thess. 2:8. 

Do you know that this class of Reformers are a part of those referred to in Dan. 11:33 as "they that understand among the people shall instruct many, yet shall they fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil?" 

Do you know that the next verse, by the expression "They shall be holpen [assisted] with a little help," refers to the Reformation by sects begun in 1517 by Luther, and ended in 1846 by Miller in the Second Advent movement? 

Do you know that the following are the four fundamental principles of the Reformation by sects—usually called the Protestant Reformation: (1) The Bible is the sole source and rule of faith and practice; (2) Justification is by faith alone through the merit of Christ; (3) Christ alone is the Head of the Church; and (4) all and only the Faithful are Priests. 

Do you know that the Lutheran church placed the chief emphasis on justification by faith alone as against the Papal doctrine of justification by faith and works? 

Do you know that the Presbyterian church placed the chief stress on the Bible as the sole source and rule of faith and practice as against the Papal doctrine of tradition as a source and rule of faith and practice? 

Do you know that the Episcopal church placed the chief emphasis on the sole Headship of Christ in the Church as against the headship of the Pope? 

Do you know that the Baptist church placed the chief stress on the exclusive priesthood of the Faithful as against the Papal doctrine of its priesthood? 

Do you know that the Congregational church stressed the doctrine of the equality of all the brethren in the Church as against the Papal doctrine of the superiority of the priests to the laity?

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Do you know that the Methodist church stressed the doctrine of consecration and heart religion as against the formalism of the Papal religion? 

Do you know that the Disciple church emphasized the doctrine of the Apostolic organization of the Church as against the doctrine of the Papal organization of the Church? 

Do you know that the Advent church stressed the doctrine of eternal life to be gained in the resurrection of the dead at Christ's Second Advent as against the Papal doctrine of eternal life being inherent in man? 

Do you know that other denominations stressed other important truths? 

Do you know that the above-mentioned churches wrought out the Reformation by sects, or denominations, from 1517 of 1846? 

Do you know that each of them stressed an important truth as against a Papal error? 

Do you know that it was by the truths that they emphasized against Papal errors that they both revealed the Papacy as Antichrist and smote it with the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God? 

Do you know that this smiting was the means by which the Lord consumed much of the Papal power in Church and State?—2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 13:3. 

Do you know that before this revelation and smiting began the Papacy was almost omnipotent in Church and State? 

Do you know that when it was finished the Papacy's power in Church and State was very largely consumed? 

Do you know that the advocacy of the principle of liberty in the Church from the Papacy led to the advocacy of the principle of liberty in the State from the Papacy? 

Do you know that as sisters Religious Liberty and Civil Liberty supported one another against Papal absolutism—the ancient ravisher of both? 

Do you know that with the support of Protestantism many nations cast off the Papal political power, 

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e.g., Britain, all Scandinavia and Holland, and most of Germany and Switzerland? 

Do you know that other countries and certain provinces obtained temporary freedom from Rome politically, but were later by bloody wars and Jesuitical intrigues forced into subjection to it by Austria, Spain and France? 

Do you know that as the principles of religious and political liberty gradually spread, the Papacy's political power, even in Papal countries, gradually diminished? 

Do you know that it was the French Revolution and especially Napoleon—1789 to 1809—that broke forever the spell of Papal political authority over the nations? 

Do you know that France was for a thousand years Papacy's most dependable ally? 

Do you know that through France above all other nations Papacy exercised its political power to the subversion of Truth and Righteousness throughout Europe? 

Do you know that France above all other nations at Antichrist's instigation persecuted and warred against movements protesting against the Papacy, like the Waldenses, the Albigenses, and the Huguenots? 

Do you know that the Papacy could depend on France when it could depend on no other nation? 

Do you know that France was as drunken by Papal doctrine as any other nation on earth?—Rev. 17:2; 18:3; 19:2. 

Do you know that this extreme subserviency to Papacy on the part of France prepared the latter to strike Papacy the hardest blow of all history, once France learned that she had been deceived, wronged and exploited by Papacy? 

Do you know that the wrath of revolutionary France poured itself out in stripping the Papacy of all its vast French wealth and privileges, in abrogating its services, in massacring or banishing those of its clergy who refused to wed, in freeing its monks and 

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nuns from monastic life and institutions and in banishing from social and political life everything derived from Papacy? 

Do you know that Napoleon Bonaparte more than any other individual broke Papacy's civil power? 

Do you know that he and his generals four times, from 1796 to 1808, invaded the Papal States, exacting the first time a large indemnity, the second time a still larger indemnity and a part of the Papal territory, the third time abrogating entirely the temporal power of the Pope, setting up a Republic in its stead, and, taking Pius VI. to France as a prisoner, where he died the next year, 1799, and, when later the Pope received again a part of his temporal power, at the fourth invasion taking away every shred of it from him, in 1808-1809? 

Do you know that Napoleon's disregard and defiance of the Papacy's anathemas and claims of Christ's Vicarship and his rough handling of and trampling upon the Papacy not only broke the temporal power of the Pope, but also the superstitious dread of the Papacy which the bulk of Europe had felt? 

Do you know that despite a precarious assumption of temporal power by the Papacy, which it arrogated to itself, as a ward either of France or of Austria, and which was finally ended by Italy in 1870, the Papacy has scarcely since Napoleon's time dared breathe aloud the claims of supremacy over the kings of earth of which it formerly boasted? 

Do you know that when the final settlement of the Napoleonic wars came the Papacy despite its wishes was not even invited to send representatives to the Peace Congress at Vienna, in 1815-1816, as it also was snubbed in the same way by the Peace Congress at Paris in 1919-1920? 

Do you know that this proves that the civil rulership of the Papacy is broken, despite Papacy's political intrigues to have it restored?

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Do you know that almost all the States of Europe that had been united with the Papacy as the State religion have in their midst separated Church and State and have destroyed Papacy's civil power in their lands? 

Do you know that the curtailment of Papacy's civil power and the casting off of their union with it on the part of the European States is what is meant by the "ten horns" of the symbolic "Beast" making the Catholic Church desolate and naked, and eating her flesh?—Rev. 17:16. 

Do you know that before long these same nations will "burn her with fire"—destroy the Papacy entirely?—Rev. 17:16; 2 Thess. 2:8. 

Do you know that Papacy's present diplomatic activity and increased influence among the nations is her final boasting—"I sit as a queen," etc.—immediately preceding her final and complete destruction?—Rev. 18:7. 

Do you know that Napoleon was an unconscious instrument in God's hands to ruin Papacy's temporal power and break the spell of superstitious dread of the Papacy that hung like a dark cloud over the nations, and that his activities in this and other respects are described in Dan. 11:29, 30, 36-45? 

Do you know that in Dan. 11:2-45 there is a prophecy of world events from the days of Cyrus of Persia, 536 B. C., until Napoleon's death, 1821 A. D.? 

Do you know that in this section of Scripture the King of the North stands, first for the Grecian Empire in its Syrian subdivision especially, then for its successor, Rome, and then for Rome's successor—the European Concert of Powers? 

Do you know that "the King of the South" is Egypt? 

Do you know that Dan. 11:5-17 treats of the conflicts between Alexander's successors, especially in Syria, and the Egyptian rulers until the time of Cleopatra?

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Do you know that from there onward the prophecy touches only on the more prominent persons and events of history connected with the two great invasions of Egypt by the King of the North before Napoleon's invasion—the third great invasion—also on the conflict between the civil and clerical power in Christendom, on the activities and the persecution of the saints and on the Reformation until, apart from verses 29 and 30, which are thrown in parenthetically, it describes Napoleon's activity in verses 36-45? 

Do you know that verse 17 treats of Rome's occupation of Egypt by Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony and of their relations with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt? 

Do you know that verses 18 and 19 treat of Augustus' and Antonym's quarrel as Rome's and Egypt's representatives, verses 17-19 describing the first great invasion of Egypt from the North? 

Do you know that verse 20 refers to Augustus Caesar, the tax-gathering Roman Emperor (Luke 2:1-3), and that verses 21-24 refer to Tiberius Caesar, under whom Jesus Christ—"the Prince of the Covenant" (verse 22)—was crucified? 

Do you know that verses 25-28 treat of the second great invasion of Egypt from the North, that under Emperor Aurelian, when Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a descendant of Cleopatra, claimed and exercised authority over Egypt? 

Do you know that verses 29, 30 treat of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt—the third great invasion of Egypt from the North—and are thrown in parenthetically to give the connection and contrast between the first and second invasions, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the third great invasion of Egypt from the North? 

Do you know that verse 36 treats of Napoleon's wilfulness, his ambition to outstrip every other ruler "god"—his commands, proclamations, indignities, etc., against the Papacy—"the god of gods," ruler of rulers

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—his marvelous prosperity until he would complete the ruin of Papacy as the thing determined by God? 

Do you know that verse 37 describes Napoleon's disregard of the Papacy—"the god [ruler] of his fathers"—and his disregard of the Protestant denominations—symbolic "women"—his disregard of all civil rulers and his exalting himself above all other rulers? 

Do you know that verse 38 describes military power as Napoleon's "god," and describes the rewards he gave those who manifested great military ability and success? 

Do you know that Napoleon, though a great administrator, was, according to verse 39, especially noted for his military power and for the rewards and positions he gave his successful military supporters? 

Do you know that his Egyptian campaign, 1798, 1799, is described in verse 40, when not only Egypt fought him with their horsemen, but almost all Europe declared war on him, and Nelson, the great English Admiral, destroyed his fleet, Aug. 1, 1798, in Aboukir Bay, as shown in verse 30? 

Do you know that verses 40 and 29 and 30 enable us to fix the date when the "time of the end" began as 1799—which is by these verses shown to have begun on Napoleon's return to France, Oct. 9, 1799, from Egypt's third invasion from the North? 

Do you know that verses 40-43 show his victorious invasion of Palestine, his keeping close to the Mediterranean Sea coast, his humbling Egypt and its contiguous countries? 

Do you know that the "tidings out of the East and North" (verse 44) refer to the news that Napoleon received in Egypt of a coalition of Britain, Russia, Naples, Austria and Turkey declaring war upon him? 

Do you know that this news, according to verse 44, caused him to return to France "at the time of the end," and to begin his series of wars to subjugate all Europe to himself? 

Do you know that verse 45 describes his temporary

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residence in Palestine in 1799, his ultimate defeat and his abandonment on the part of all? 

Do you know that Napoleon as the man of destiny (Dan. 11:36) was the Divinely appointed instrument in pouring out Divine retribution on the Papacy, in making the world safe from its political power and the people free from its persecuting fury and from its "Holy" Inquisition, which he destroyed? 

Do you know that from this standpoint Napoleon's work as a political reformer—despite his evident infidelity, barbarous ruthlessness and insatiable ambition—resulted ultimately in great good for religious and civil liberty? 

Do you know that the Bible prophesies the duration of the period of Papacy's power to persecute the Lord's people and to oppress its enemies and opponents? 

Do you know that the Bible gives this period in symbolic language in which a day stands for a year, a month for 30 years, and a "time," a year, for 360 years?—Dan. 7:25; Rev. 11:2, 3; 12:6; 13:5? 

Do you know that so understood these passages prove that the duration of Papacy's power to oppress and persecute would be 1260 years, and that this would be the period of her power? 

Do you know that the Papacy was "set up" in power in 539 A.D., and that its power ended in 1799 A.D., when Pope Pius VI. died a captive of Napoleon in France—period of 1260 years? 

Do you know that the fact that independent Papal civil power ended in 1799 was acknowledged by Pius VII. who, succeeding Pius VI., became Pope in 1800, and who immediately issued a statement declaring it to be the Divinely imposed duty of every human being—therefore of the Pope also—to be subject to the civil rulers of his country? 

Do you know that the period from 539 to 1799 was the Biblically foretold time—the 1260 years—of Antichrist's reign over the nations? 

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Do you know that since 1799 the Pope's rule—intermittent at most—has been merely nominal, because whenever after that date he exercised the-semblance of political power it was as the ward of France or Austria, and not as a fully independent political sovereign? 

Do you know that the end of Papacy's long period of power synchronized with the beginning of "the time of the end," as shown above, and that before the "time of the end" is completed Papacy will be out of existence?—2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 17:16, 17. 

Do you know that one of Papacy's doctrines is that it is semper idem—always the same? 

Do you know that, though facts disprove this doctrine in many particulars, it certainly means that if Papacy had the power it would do again what it did to the kings, nations and saints from 539 to 1799? 

Do you know that the semper idem doctrine of the Papacy means that it is plotting for a restoration of its temporal power? 

Do you know that Papacy's efforts at making the nations feel that it is their indispensable bulwark against radicals is a part of its intrigues to regain temporal power? 

Do you know that Papacy still agitates for the restoration of the States of the Church to its power? 

Do you know that these aspirations of the Papacy will never be realized?—Rev. 17:16, 17. 

Do you know that Papacy's present political and diplomatical prominence and influence are the immediate precursor of its annihilation?—Rev. 18:7, 8; 2 Thess. 2:8. 

Do you know that "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished?"—Rev. 18:20.