ces unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise.

"And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I
saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever."(1194)

The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire
universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the
vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness,
throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the
greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed
beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

APPENDIX.

General Notes.

Page 50. TITLES.--In a passage which forms a part of the Roman canon law,
Pope Innocent III. declares that the Roman pontiff is "the vicegerent upon
earth, not of a mere man, but of very God;" and in a gloss on the passage
it is explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who
is "very God and very man." (See Decretal. D. Gregor. Pap. IX. lib. 1. de
translat. Episc. tit. 7. c. 3. Corp. Jur. Canon. ed. Paris, 1612; tom. II.
Decretal. col. 205.)

For the title, "Lord God the Pope," see a gloss on the Extravagantes of
Pope John XXII., title 14, ch. 4, "_Declaramus_." In an Antwerp edition of
the Extravagantes, dated 1584, the words "_Dominum Deum nostrum Papam_"
("Our Lord God the Pope") occur in column 153. In a Paris edition, dated
1612, they occur in column 140. In several editions published since 1612,
the word "_Deum_" ("God") has been omitted.

Page 52. IMAGE WORSHIP.--"The worship of images ... was one of those
corruptions of Christianity which crept into the church stealthily and
almost without notice or observation. This corruption did not, like other
heresies, develop itself at once, for in that case it would have met with
decided censure and rebuke: but, making its commencement under a fair
disguise, so gradually was one practice after another introduced in
connection with it, that the church had become deeply steeped in practical
idolatry, not only without any efficient opposition, but almost without
any decided remonstrance; and when at length an endeavor was made to root
it out, the evil was found too deeply fixed to admit of removal.... It
must be traced to the idolatrous tendency of the human heart, and its
propensity t