The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

Babylon, the head of gold, was the first of the
universal empires; and when the day of Babylon
passed away, Medo-Persia occupied her place. For
a while Babylon had been true to her trust, and had
done the work required at her hand by the Lord;
but when she neglected this, and turned from it,
God took the Medes and the Persians and through
them brought punishment upon the guilty nation.
Then the power of Medo-Persia filled the world;
but she also apostatized from the task assigned her
by the Lord, and her place and her station was
taken by Greece, the kingdom of brass. And when
the iniquity of the transgressors in Greece was
come to the full, God took the Romans, and, evil as
they were, used them to punish Greece. But they,
instead of turning to the Lord, only increased in
their wickedness, until in 476 a. d. the empire of
the Romans fell into ruins; and from her ruins and
ashes arose the ten kingdoms represented by the
ten toes of the image, part of iron and part of
potter’s clay, partly strong and partly brittle. Of
these, three were plucked up by the roots, as
brought to view in Daniel 7, and the remaining
seven stand till the present day as the kingdoms of
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