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

evil, and transgressed the principles which God has
laid down for the guidance of all nations, he has
taken another and purer nation with which to visit
punishment upon the guilty one. Thus it was that
he took the armies of Medo- Persia with which to
punish Babylon; thus it was that when Medo-Persia
became corrupt and departed from the path he had
marked for her feet, that he took Greece and her
armies, and through them brought punishment
upon the Medes and the Persians. And when the
“iniquity of the transgressors” was “full” in
Greece, God took the Romans, and they were an
instrument in his hand to chastise this dissolute
people; and when in their turn the Roman nation
rejected the ways of the Lord, when the figures of
their account had reached a certain limit which
God had fixed, he took the barbarous Germans of
the North, unlettered and ignorant, but knowing far
more of the true principles of government, and with
them brought the Roman empire to an end. The
nations of Western Europe to-day are the
descendants of these Germans, and from their loins
have come forth the people of the new nation, of
the United States. This nation above them all has
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