mpounded for money.

Tetzel, one of Rome's travelling merchants, told the people of Germany
that for "a quarter of a florin" they might "receive letters of
indulgence," by means of which they might "introduce into paradise a
divine and immortal soul, without its running any risk." _Hist. Ref._, pp.
56, 242.

He also said "Indulgences avail not only for the living but for the dead.
With twelve groats you can deliver your father from purgatory." "At the
very instant," said he, "that the money rattles at the bottom of the
chest, the soul escapes from purgatory, and flies, liberated to heaven."
This is but a specimen of her vile traffic.

Responding to the command, are heard the voices of much people in heaven,

Rejoicing Over Babylon's Destruction.

"And after this, I heard a loud voice of a mighty crowd in heaven,
saying, Praise ye Jehovah! The salvation, and the glory, and the
power of our God! For true and righteous are his judgments; for he
hath judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her
fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her
hand! And again they said, Praise ye Jehovah! And her smoke
ascendeth for ever and ever. And the twenty-four elders and the
four living beings fell down and worshipped God, who sat on the
throne, saying, So be it! Praise ye Jehovah!" Rev. 19:1-4.

Daniel, in vision, saw the same persecuting power symbolized by a "Little
Horn," having "eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great
things;" and he beheld, "and the same Horn made war with the saints, and
prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was
given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints
possessed the kingdom," Dan. 7:8, 21, 22. And Paul testified of "that
Wicked" who was to be revealed, that he was the "Man of Sin," "whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming," 2 Thess. 2:3-8. The destruction of that
which was thus symbolized and predicted, must, consequently, be at the
epoch of Christ's second coming and of the establishment of the kingdom of
God.

It is also at the epoch anticipated by "the souls of them that were slain
for the word of God and for the testimony which they held," who, from
under the altar, on the opening of the "fifth seal," "cried with a loud
voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not jud