t worship the image of the Beast shall be
killed," they fled Jerusalem.

[1] The Author, in common with every other public speaker, and writer,
on these themes, has been so often asked the question, "What of my
loved ones who are out of Christ, how will they fare when we are gone,
and the Church is gone?" Let me say that the more I study the
Scriptures of the times of which this volume speaks, the more I am
convinced that of the many who are brought to accept Christ (in the
Gospel of His coming to reign, "the Gospel of the Kingdom,") through
the sudden translation of the Church, even though they be ill-taught,
perhaps only half-hearted, they will, under the preaching of the TWO
WITNESSES, be wholly brought into fellowship with Christ, and will,
themselves in turn, become faithful witnesses to the TRUTH. There is
nothing in Scripture to warrant the belief that the preaching of the
TWO WITNESSES will be confined to Jerusalem, and it is surely
reasonable to suppose that London, Edinburgh, New York, Chicago,
Berlin, and all other chief cities, will hear their voices in witness
and warning. They will doubtless have thousands of converts, Jew and
Gentile alike, or where will the great multitude whom John saw, come
from. But all those left behind when Christ comes, who may be won to
Him afterwards, will not only miss the glories of _the Heavenlies_ with
Christ, but will suffer persecution, and many of them death at the
hands of Anti-christ and his emissaries. (Author.)

CHAPTER XIV.

DEATH OF THE "TWO WITNESSES."

Apleon had been on the Temple mount for two hours. Part of that time
he had been in the Temple itself, in and out of which there passed
continually, streams of people, all curious to see the wonderful image
of Apleon, the image that had spoken, and that had slain "unbelievers."

Apleon had watched the ever-moving crowds of dupes, and noticed how
every one of them bowed, or prostrated themselves before his image. He
noticed, too, whenever his own presence had been realized, that the
worshippers, while bowing _before_ the image faced him, Apleon, so that
they really gave _him_ the worship.

In spite of all that Romanists, and others of a similar cult, may say,
the _worship_ of an image or of a statue, means the worship of the
person imaged or sculptured--this is the very essence of all
image-worship. The great Chrysostom, in one of his records of his
time, says:

"_When the images of the Empe