No other nation, therefore, can be the one represented in the prophecy; but this one so far answers to it most accurately.

It has always taken the lead of all European settlements in this hemisphere.

It was "coming up" at the exact time indicated in the prophecy.

Like a lofty monument in a field all its own, stand the United States on this continent, grand, unique, unexplainable.

So far as God's providence works among the nations for the accomplishment of his purposes, it is visible in the development of this country as an agent to fulfill his word.