The image was then smitten upon the feet. The wound was mortal. The tyrant that had governed the world from the days of Nebuchadnezzar till that hour was slain. His spirit was subdued, and his whole physical organization, consisting of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and clay, was then broken into fragments. Since that time Charlemagne, Napoleon, and many others, have attempted to revive the spirit and reunite the scattered fragments of this fallen image. But all such attempts have been in vain.... It is true, the spirit of war still exists: blood is often shed for the most trivial causes. But let any prince or potentate now attempt to revive the spirit of this fallen image; let him attempt, like Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar, to subdue the world, and to govern it on the principle that “might makes right;” and if not treated as a maniac by his own subjects, he will, at least, find arrayed against him the combined powers of Christendom. In view of what happened to the Kaiser when he tried to conquer the world, the last statement of Brother Milligan looks almost like prophecy. But it was not a prophecy, but merely a statement based on Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. I invite the future-kingdom advocates to consider the following: 1. The image, as it stood before Nebuchadnezzar, represented four world empires. That is, of course, admitted. 2. The kingdom of God was to be set up while that image stood, and was to destroy the image. On that point no one can mistake what Daniel says. 3. That image has been destroyed—there has not been a world empire since the days of Rome. 4. It is certain, therefore, that the kingdom of God has been established, and that the principles of that kingdom have broken down and destroyed world empires. It is a pity that a man will become so obsessed with a speculative idea as to say that the image has been destroyed, but the kingdom of God had nothing to do with its destruction. To me it looks like a flat denial of what Daniel says. A LEADING DOCTRINE OF THIS CURRENT REFORMATION