fully,
winning over some of the finest families of Fifth Avenue, and the richest
and best merchants of this city. His followers furnished him with plenty
of money, carriages, a mansion in the city, and one in the country.
Finally he was accused and detected of the worst crimes, and at last was
sent to Sing Sing. While in jail he issued the following proclamation:
"As I live, there shall be no more sowing in the earth until I, the
twelfth and last of the apostles, am delivered out of the house of
bondage." For fear of this proclamation many of the farmers refused to
sow, and they set to work to deliver him, and succeeded. He left the
jail, and may be living yet to read what we now state to you.

It is really wonderful how easily men are deceived in religious matters.
Let us study the Word, ask God's guidance in knowing and doing His will.
Time is gone. I have said but little, much more might be said. In my
next discourse I will introduce you to two old men who will visit
Anti-Christ.

THE TWO WITNESSES.
DISCOURSE XI.

TROUBLOUS TIMES--APPEARANCE OF THE WITNESSES--WHO ARE THEY?--HOW THEY CAN
BE IDENTIFIED--THEIR MISSION, WORK, AND SUFFERING--THE TIME AND
CIRCUMSTANCES OF CHRIST'S COMING.

"And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy
a thousand two hundred and three-score days, clothed in
sackcloth."--Rev. ii. 3.

We will all agree that the person and work of Anti-Christ are yet in the
future. For while Anti-Christ is ruling in Jerusalem, and battling with
the saints of the Most High, having conquered and plucked up by the roots
three of the ten-horned kingdoms by his victories and cunning craft, and
his alliance with the beast or the Church of Rome, he will become proud,
blasphemous, and arrogant, and will at once try to force the people to
worship the beast. He will claim to be the promised Jewish Messiah. He
will enter the new Jewish Temple and actually sit enthroned as God
incarnated, commanding the people to worship him. He will be so received
by the Jews, some of the Israelites and the Romish Church, by the
Communists and scientific infidels, and by "such as do wickedly against
the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries," men of understanding shall
fall; indeed, Christianity will seem to be about destroyed.

Russia will aid by her influence his pretensions with a secret purpose to
take the spoils and gain her long-desired object, Jerusalem and
Palestine.