1st. The stone was to smite the image on the feet of Roman power, which gave its power to the second beast or Catholic church, Rev. 13, v. 2, therefore it will strike at that church before it touches the political power of the ten kings, which grew out of the Roman power.

2d. The stone was to break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms—Dan. v, v. 44. To consume does not mean to preach to, for you may preach to and preserve, but if you break in pieces and consume you destroy, therefore, when the power is given, if the saints have any thing to do with those kingdoms, it will be to destroy them.

3d. Dan. 7, v. 21, the Little Horn, or Roman power, was to make war with, and prevail against the saints until the Ancient of Days came. We have as yet received no persecution from the Catholic Church; is there yet such a persecution behind the curtain of time? Or does the devil work in secret, by his church, in persecuting us? Or does the persecution come from her daughters, the sects that have grown out of her?

4th. From the above it is plain that no such a kingdom has yet been established, for when it is there will be no room to doubt, for it is to commence in smiting, not in preaching to the Catholic Church, and end in breaking and consuming all other kingdoms, and to stand for ever.

5th. With these facts before us to curry favour with the old lady, or Kingdom of the Devil, the Catholic Church, as a certain elder (Almon Babbit) did in Cincinnati, it sheer hypocricy; she always has been, and ever will be our bitterest enemy. Even now, in keeping her people from the truth, as she has the world for ages, in suppressing the plain and precious parts of the gospel of Jesus Christ—1st Book of Nephi, 3d chap.—and thereby laying the foundation of error, which has produced all the sectarian churches, who are filled with the spirit of the devil, which brought darkness and an hated to he truth. These facts are perhaps too plain and cutting to be pleasing to this generation, but they are nevertheless true.

6th. Dan. 7, v. 22, the judgment is to be given to the Saints. That is, they are to execute judgment on the Catholic Church, which presupposes an ordination by which the saints shall receive power to enable them to do so.

7th. Dan. 7, v. 21. There is to be a war between the Catholic Church and the saints, in which the Catholic Church will prevail until the Ancient of days shall come. When and where will this war commence?

8th. The devil has two kingdoms on the earth; the one religious, the other political, both of which he will use to destroy the saints. Our Saviour has commenced his religious, and will soon, I trust, commence his political kingdom, which last is to destroy ALL the power of the devil.