was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them."
Power was given unto this beast to make war with Wycliff, and to overcome him; power was given unto him to make war with Luther, and to overcome him; power was given unto him to make war with Latimer and Ridley, and to overcome them; power was given unto him to make war with Knox, and to overcome him; power was given him to make war with John Huss of Bohemia, and to overcome him. It is estimated that no less than fifty millions of people perished in Great Britain and Ireland, in France and Germany and Bohemia through the agency of this horrible beast.
But the American Revolution gave the dragon that gave power unto the beast (that is, it gave the devil) a deadly wound that will never be healed. And when what is known as our "Bill of Rights," as contained in the first article of
