In another place he says: “You may be assured of the truth of this _approaching crisis_. The world must recognize it, because it will be accompanied with _war_; for politics are inseparably connected, all over the world, with religious systems. Religion will develop reason; but politics will impel the masses to _unsheath the sword, and to stain the bosom of Nature with blood_! Friends of progress! be not discouraged; for the FINAL CRISIS must come; _then the strange interregnum_,” _Ib._ p. 217. “Protestantism as now constructed will first decay; because it is to be divided into two,—the smallest party will go back into Catholicism; the other will go forward into Rationalism. And then, after a succession of eventful years, a political revolution will hurl the Catholic superstructure to the earth, and the prismatic bow of promise will span the heavens. The children of earth will then be comparatively free and happy! for the _millennial_ epoch will have arrived; and there will be something like a realization of peace on earth, and good will toward all men!” _Ib._ p. 221. Such are their delusive hopes, while setting themselves against the Lord, and against his Anointed. The Bible teaches that multitudes will be deceived by them, and, if it were possible, some of the elect; and hence: The Admonition. “Behold, I come like a thief. Happy is he who watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” Rev. 16:15. “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,” 2 Pet. 3:10. The Saviour said to his disciples: “Watch, therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come,” Matt. 24:42. Says Paul: “Yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night; for when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh, ... and they shall not escape; but ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief,” 1 Thess. 5:1-6.