A POEM;

WITH

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES

ON PROPHETIC SYMBOLS:

PORTRAYING THE LAST GREAT CONFLICTS WHICH RESULT IN THE

DOWNFALL OF PAPAL DOMINATION

THE DESTRUCTION OF POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL DESPOTISM, AND THE

BUFFALO:
BREED, LENT AND COMPANY.

1872.

57119

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

Rev. C. R. BURDICK,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

WARREN, Johnson & Co.
Stereotypers, Printers and Binders,

BUFFALO, N. Y.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE,

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INTRODUCTORY LECTURES :

I. The Great War in Europe in 1870,

II. The French Revolution in Prophecy,

III. England and Italy in Prophecy, ..

IV. Napoleon Bonaparte in Prophecy,

V. The City of Rome, the Seat of the Beast, in Prophecy;

or, Despotism as a hindrance to Christianity,

VI. The same, continued,

VII. America in Prophecy,

VIII. The same, continued, .

IX. Paris, under the Fifth Vial,

X. The Sick Man of Constantinople in Prophecy,

XI. The Seventh Vial, .

XII. The Darkness and Tempest before the Dawn,

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Canto I. Night and Storm,

Canto II. The False Prophet,

Canto III. The last Premillennial Conflict,

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