ense had bred such a character and temper in the
peoples that it became a menace to all order.

All this was part of Satan's organized plan, for, when the moment of
the crushing out of this licentious, abominable religious system
arrived, his plans, as regarded Lucien Apleon, The Anti-christ, were so
perfected, by the ripeness of the world for the Anti-christ rule, that
all else seemed plain sailing.

The poor, duped world knew Apleon only as the great SUPER-MAN, "long
looked-for, come at last," the World's Deliverer, who was presently to
be universally acclaimed as the World's Dictator.

The world had long been familiar with the system of private chaplains
attached to great men's households. It was familiar knowledge to them
that Dan, the Free-booter, (in the days of "The Judges") must needs
have a renegade, runaway Levite for a priest, his salary thirty
shillings a year, a suit of clothes and his victuals (as much as a
renegade was worth). Absalom could do little, in his revolt, without
the religious brand, so must needs have Ahithophel. And down to their
own times, the World, at the period of Apleon's coming, was familiar
with private chaplains.

Apleon's chaplain, a swarthy-skinned Jew (to all outward appearance,)
was undoubtedly like Apleon himself, a Satanic resurrection, or if not
a resurrection, certainly energized by the same infernal power. The
Holy Ghost calls this man "The False Prophet." He exercised all the
authority of Anti-christ, "_in his presence_," as well as in his
absence. _Eight_ times the emphatic word "_he causeth_" is written of
him, by the Holy Spirit, and a more hideous, lying, extraordinarily
wicked catalogue of deeds is no where else to be found in the world's
history:

"_He causeth the earth, and those that dwell in it_," (does that refer
to the foul spirits who dwell in that awful under-world, from which we
believe the Anti-Christ, as Judas re-incarnated came, or does it refer
only to dwellers on the earth? It may well mean _both_!)--"_To worship
the first beast_."

As well as his co-associate, Apleon--The Anti-christ, the false Prophet
not only claimed the power to work miracles, but he _did_ work them,
showing a baleful but powerful supernatural control over the forces of
nature. "_And he doeth great miracles . . . And he deceiveth those
that dwell ON the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him
to work in the presence of the Beast_." In Egypt, three thousand