Notes and Comments: England's Downfall

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Poor England! so richly blessed with a noble race of martyrs who Downfall. were tortured at the stake to give us an open Bible and freedom from clerical and ecclesiastical tyranny. A little band of earnest, even if unwise, Christian men and women are now languishing in Maidstone jail for gathering a little group of people in the street to seek their well-being both in this world and the next.
Drunkards had been saved and blessed, and the whole neighborhood uplifted morally, as the police themselves have testified; but never mind, to prison they must go for obstructing the thoroughfare. But look at London on 13th September 1908―the whole police force set in motion to clear the streets and divert all traffic so as to allow the papal legate in his robes of scarlet (Rev. 17:44And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (Revelation 17:4)) to carry his wafer god through the streets in contravention of all law and custom since the glorious Reformation. And is God unmindful of all this? Nay, verily, idolatry sits enthroned in highest places in the land. England’s day of doom is fixed— “except thou repent.”