one of another;’ i.e., endeavor to receive.  Rom. 2:4:  ’The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance;’ i.e., endeavors, or tends, to lead thee.  Amos 9:3:  ’Though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea;’ i.e., though they aim to be hid. 1 Cor. 10:33:  ‘I please all men;’ i.e., endeavor to please.  Gal. 5:4:  ‘Whosoever of you are justified by the law;’ i.e., seek and endeavor to be justified.  Ps. 69:4:  ’They that destroy me are mighty;’ i.e., that endeavor to destroy me.  Eng., ’That would destroy me.’  Acts 7:26:  ‘And set them at one again;’ i.e., wished and endeavored.  Eng., ‘Would have set them.’”

So in the passage before us:  He causes all to receive a mark, and all who will not worship the image to be killed; that is, he wills, purposes, and endeavors, to do this; he makes such an enactment, passes such a law, but is not able to execute it; for God interposes in behalf of his people; and then those who have kept the word of Christ’s patience are kept from falling in this hour of temptation, according to Rev. 3:10; then those who have made God their refuge are kept from all evil, and no plague comes nigh their dwelling, according to Ps. 91:  9,10; then all who are found written in the book are delivered, according to Dan. 12:1; and, being victors over the beast and his image, they are redeemed from among men, and raise a song of triumph before the throne of God, according to Rev. 14:4; 15:2.

The objector may further say:  You are altogether too credulous in supposing that all the skeptics of our land, the spiritualists, the German infidels, and the irreligious masses generally, can be so far brought to favor the religious observance of Sunday that a general law can be promulgated in its behalf.

We answer:  The prophecy must be fulfilled; and if the prophecy requires such a revolution, it will be accomplished.  But we do not know that it is necessary.  Permit us to suggest an idea, which, though it is only conjecture, may show how enough can be accomplished to fulfill the prophecy without involving the classes mentioned.  This movement, as has been shown, must originate with the churches of our land, and be carried forward by them.  They wish to enforce certain practices among all the people; and it would be very natural that, in reference to those points respecting which they wish to influence the outside masses, they should see the necessity of first having absolute conformity among all the evangelical denominations.  They could not expect to influence non-religionists to any great degree on questions respecting which they were divided among themselves.  So, then, let union be had on those views and practices which the great majority already entertain.  To this end coercion may first be attempted.  But here are a few who cannot possibly attach to the observance of the first day, which the