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Rh yet, we are only in the dawning of the day. The book in this angel's hand is open; no more sealed-up mysteries. Knowledge is free to all, and the means of acquiring it brought within the reach of all.

Our ninth proposition is, that St. John says that this mighty angel was clothed with a cloud, and the prophet Daniel says that this man was in linen. Cloud is an emblem of trouble and commotion; and the steam-engine set one foot upon the sea and the other upon the earth in a time of trouble and commotion. In the order of revelation, when the sixth angel sounded, there were four angels loosed which had been bound by the great river Euphrates, which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year, to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horse-men was two hundred million, the revelator says: "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and