ÒSon of the Republic, the
end of a century cometh; look and learn.Ó At this, the dark, shadowy angel placed
a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three
distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, sprinkled it out
upon Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Then my eyes looked upon a fearful
scene. From each of these coun-tries arose thick, black
clouds, that were soon joined into one.
And throughout this mass
gleamed a dark-red light, by which I saw hordes of armed men,
who, moving with the cloud, mar-ched by land, and sailed
by sea, to America, which country was presently enveloped in the
volume of the cloud. And I dimly saw these vast armies
devastate the whole country, and pillage and burn the villages,
towns, and cities that I had beheld springing up.