ous was this delusion,
that many have actually made him out to be Anti-Christ, but those who
thus reason take the shadow for the substance, and do violence to all
true Scripture exegesis. Antiochus Epiphanes could not be Anti-Christ,
for he was out of time, and meets but few of the special conditions of
Anti-Christ. History records the appearance of not less than twenty-five
Anti-Christs, or persons who have claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews.
How unbelief exposes a man or a people!

Some have laboured to make it appear that Mahommed was Anti-Christ, but
with all his badness, he is not bad enough to be Anti-Christ. He reviled
not God, he never sat in His temple, he did not die in Jerusalem. He had
an honourable burial.

Some have tried to prove that Romanism and the Pope were Anti-Christ, but
this cannot be, you will see at a glance. The beast has its own
character; that was long ago written out by the prophets, and up to the
present time it has filled in the outlines with a marvellous minuteness.
In these things many good and wise men have erred in making prophecies
fit certain persons, and nations, and times, instead of waiting for these
things to fit on to prophecy. Let us not be prophetic forgers. Let no
one deceive you in these matters. Adventism, Millerism, Shakerism,
Spiritualism, are untimely excesses. As systems they are, as yet, out of
place. This subject of Anti-Christ, as to who he will be, and when he
will appear, I shall be obliged to leave for next Sunday evening, as my
time is up. May the good Lord guide us into the ways of truth and peace.

ANTI-CHRIST AND LITTLE HORN.
DISCOURSE X.

SECOND DISCOURSE OF THE MONSTER--WHO HE WILL BE AND HIS NAME--HOW HE WILL
OBTAIN POWER--TROUBLE FOR GERMANY, FRANCE, AND
RUSSIA--COMMUNISM--ROMANISM--SHAKERS--MATTHIAS, WEST--CHESTER PROPHET.

"Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he, as
God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God."--2 Thess. ii. 3, 4.

We may reasonably ask why Paul gave the Thessalonians this caution, and
the answer will appear at once if we read his first epistle to this
people. There you will find Paul writing to them about the second coming
of Christ, which writin