THE MODERN ANTICHRIST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 175, 26 September 1866, Page 3

THE MODERN ANTICHRIST.

We extract the following sensible aud caustic review of " Louis Napoleon the Destined Monarch of the World," from a London paper : — Mr. Baxter fairly takes away our breath. Inured as we have been to the productions of speculators on unfulfilled prophecy, we have not before met with anything so vividly startling a3 the volume before us. Louis Napoleon is the Antichrist of Scripture ; he will very soon acquire supreme ascendency over the whole of Christendom, America included. He will demand to be acknowledged as God, and for tbree years and a half he will employ himself in murdering everyoue who will not make this acknowledgment. " Christendom," says Mr. Baxter, "will then become a slaughter-house or shambles in whioh tens of thousands of Christ's sheep will be butchered, and scarery**>anyone will escape the awful ordeal of being put "to. _ the test whether they will confess Christ and be killed, perhaps with dreadful tortures ; or whether they will acknowledge Napoleon to be God, and thus purchase temporal safety at the cost of eternal damnation." Our author has discovered from prophecy that Napoleon will brand those who thus acknowledge him with some particular mark in their forehead or hand, as cattle are branded with the initials of their owner. About seven years before the Millenium, Louis Napoleon w : II confirm a treaty of seven years' duration with the Jews. As he is finally to perish in the battle of Armageddon, which is to take place " about or soon after 1873." it is clear that he ought to lose uo time in setting about the said treaty. Before 1873, he is to become "completely supreme over England and most of America, aud all Christeudom."' Iu " two years, aud from three to five weeks after" the treaty has been concluded, the Resurrection ol Saints will take place., so that the dwelling of the risen saints on the earth must be contemporary with the terrific slaughter above described. In this way our author goes on through nearly 400 closely-printed pages. Among the signs of the speedy advent of the Lord he enumerates the appearance of the Rev. James Caughey, Mr. Richard Weaver, ~V. and Mrs. Palmer, and Mr. Spurgeon. The author is uo donbt a good man, and notwithstanding his lofty contemplation on futurity, he is a keen man of business, for he reminds us that "it is inexpressibly important duriug the present postal facilities for spreading information, before they are greatly impeded by approaching wars and revolutions, to send this book or the threepenny abridgement of it, or the author's other pamphlets" to everybody within reach. Until every channel for the useful employment of mouey is closed, we shall not advise the pubiic to aid iu the circulation of such fanatical trash as is to be found. iii this volume.