They are the spirits of devils working miracles,’ gathering men for Armageddon.

Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  July 15, 1897 Reprints p. 2189

And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring into the fight and exchange crown for helmet, and palm branch for weapon, and come down out of the King’s galleries into the arena, crying: ‘Make room! I must fight in this great Armageddon.’”

Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  October 1889 Reprints p. 1156

One under the caption, “The Coming Armageddon,” says:–

“There is no issue before the American people so insistent for solution as the relation between labor and capital. Daily it becomes more evident that we will have to rearrange the methods which have done very well and very ill for a number of centuries, as long as the power lay upon one side and the weakness upon the other. The times are changing, and we must change with them. Out of this ruinous and suicidal conflict between the workers and the corporations we must come, at the end, to a settlement which will recognize the altered industrial condition of the people. We are drifting away from feudalism socially as surely as politically. Our progress has not stopped. ‘The stream of tendency whereby all things make for righteousness’ seems to be now hurrying us to utter ruin. But this is a seeming, not a reality. Out of this ebullient cauldron will be crystallized sooner or later a compromise that will stand as long as it is worthy, and will dissolve away again, as our present system is dissolving, when it becomes unworthy. The pity of it is that we can only reach peace through a bitter and disastrous struggle, of which the present strike is simply an affair of outposts –a skirmish in the dark. Upon the one side is ranged class prejudice, vested rights, and the money of the land. Over against these stand arrayed a multitude, but dimly awake to the possibilities of its power, an army outnumbering the hordes that followed the Asiatic conquerors. An Armageddon is to be fought, fraught with ruin to both victors and vanquished.”

Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  April 1886 Reprints p. 841