HIRAM S. CASE, of Michigan, 49Biographical data lacking. had also preached the advent message during the 1844 movement, and later was won to the Sabbatarian faith by Samuel W. Rhodes. But before long he developed a highly critical spirit, and later dropped out of the movement. He is doubtless to be credited with clearly expressing the conviction—perhaps the first to be placed in print by a Sabbatarian Adventist—that the two-horned beast is Protestantism, with its republican features. However, various men were studying the same symbol at the same time, and were simultaneously coming to similar conclusions. Here is Case’s November, 1850, pioneering statement on the two-horned beast power of church and state, an image of the papal union of church and state under the preceding Beast symbol: PFF4 1089.3
“The two horned beast is the power of Church and State. It is an ‘image’ of the Papal Beast, to whom the dragon gave ‘his power, and his seat, and great authority.’ The Papal Beast was church and state united. An image must be like the thing imitated; therefore, the image-beast is composed of church and state united-Protestant churches and Republicanism. The word of the Lord is plain.” 50H. S. Case, Letter, Sept. 15, 1850, in Present Truth, November, 1850, p. 85. PFF4 1089.4