rapport_ with heaven and in communication with spirits and
spirit-land. Then you will not be surprised at the pretensions, claims,
and success of Anti-Christ. In our calm and unprejudiced consideration
of these organisations, we are bound to admit that they have done more,
and owe more for their success, to deception and error, than to truth and
openness. Each in its turn has been caught in the act of deceiving, and
has been frequently exposed, but of what avail? Truly but little. We do
not mean that in these systems there is no good, for surely there is, but
that the errors and deceptions are of so glaring a kind, that we wonder
that anybody of common sense can be so easily led astray.

With these facts before us, can we wonder any longer that Anti-Christ
shall be so successful? The very occasion and peculiar times and
incidents of the reign of Anti-Christ will call for some special
manifestations on the part of the Divine One that shall soberly and
clearly confront the hollow and hypocritical pretensions of that age.
Hence the appearance of the two witnesses--Moses the Ancient of Days, and
Elijah the Tishbite, who will look like the Son of God.

Allow us to submit further evidence in proof that the two witnesses of
John in Rev. xi. are none other than Moses and Elijah: for many passages
of Holy Writ are sealed to the understanding till we comprehend who the
two witnesses are, their mission and work. We will notice the
attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in
this chapter--that is, Rev. xi.

In the first place, there are two persons or individualities; this
appears plainly from the tenor of the whole record. They are spoken of
as "they, them, their mouth, their feet, as dying and being resurrected."
But, strange to say, after all this plainness of speech, men have become
so accustomed to spiritualise and generalise that Anti-Christ stood for
Rome, and naturally enough, having generalised Anti-Christ, they must do
the same with the two witnesses; hence they found them in the Churches of
the Waldenses and Albigenses. In such an interpretation nearly all the
attributive features of these witnesses are ignored. Such as that they
had power to work miracles, to lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem
for three days and a half. Some have laboured to prove that the Old and
New Testaments were these witnesses, others that they were symbolised by
the law and Gospel. Again, some that t