Page 23 - 15 The Bible and the French Revolution

The same master spirit that urged on the St.

Bartholomew Massacre led also in the scenes

of the Revolution. Jesus Christ was declared

to be an impostor, and the rallying cry of the

French infidels was, “Crush the Wretch,”

meaning Christ. Heaven-daring blasphemy

and abominable wickedness went hand in

hand, and the basest of men, the most

abandoned monsters of cruelty and vice,

were most highly exalted. In all this, supreme

homage was paid to Satan; while Christ, in

His characteristics of truth, purity, and

unselfish love, was crucified.

“The beast that ascendeth out of the

bottomless pit shall make war against them,

and shall overcome them, and kill them.” The

atheistical power that ruled in France during

the Revolution and the Reign of Terror, did

wage such a war against God and His holy