"Let us then look a little further at this symbol of Rev.13:11-17, and see if our government has developed any features in its past history, or present character, which answer to the specifications brought to view in the symbol.
5. When first brought to view, it was “coming up.”That is, it was in a state of visible, tangible growth and expansion.
And it was also coming up in a quiet and peaceful manner, for the words “coming up” (in the Greek, anabatnon) mean “to grow up like a plant out of the earth.”
In just this way the United States has arisen.
Expanding as it has when its independence was declared, in 1776, it presents an instance of national growth that has no parallel in the annals of the world......contrasting the rise of this country with that of the other nationalities in the western hemisphere, Mr. Townsend says, “Like a silent seed, we grew into empire.”
Uriah Smith
