t, _see_ Waldenses.

Pilate, 164.

Pilate's staircase, 125.

Pilgrim Fathers, _see_ Puritans.

"Pilgrim's Progress," 252.

Pius IX., pope, 564.

Plagues, of Egypt, 627, 628.
of last days, 628, 629.

Plan of salvation, revealed in Bible, 81.
under the guidance of God, 343.
culmination of, 486.
to be study of redeemed, 651.

Pleasure-seeking, 387.

Policy in religious matters, 460.

Political corruption, 586, 592.

Pope, arrogant claims of, 50, 51, 56.
authority claimed by, 50, 57, 261, 580.
acknowledged as God's vicegerent, 51, 53, 102, 140.
faith transferred from Christ to, 55.
impeachment of, 237.
led into captivity, 439.
_see also_ Papacy; Roman Catholic Church.

Popes, great schism of, 86, 87, 103, 104.

Prague, Reformation in, 99, 100, 104.
placed under interdict, 100, 101, 104.

Prayer, necessity of, in Bible study, 132, 599, 600.
Luther's belief in, 156, 157, 209, 210.
power of, 210.
lack of, 373, 488.
necessity for, 525, 530, 601.
in time of trouble, 621, 622.

Preaching, of Luther, 152.
of Zwingle, 174-177, 180.
of Farel and Froment, 232.
of Joseph Wolff, 359-362.
of children in Scandinavia, 366, 367.
of advent truths, in 1844, 400-408.
of unpopular truths, 458-460.
_see also_ Ministers.

Predestination, 261.

Present truth, in days of Luther, 143.
in our day, 143, 144.

Presumption, 59.

Priests, at bar of God, 668.
_see also_ Friars; Monks.

Priests and rulers, rejection of Christ by, 595.
ministers of to-day compared with, 596.

Printing, art of, 61, 88, 288.
of Tyndale's Bible, 247.
_see also_ Books.

Prison-house of Satan, 659.

Prizes, offering of, a species of gambling, 387.

Probation, close of, 428, 429.
no future, 662.

Procopius, 116-118.

Prophecy, importance of study of, 341, 342, 344, 345.
consolation in, 391-394.
study of, by William Miller, 320-329;
by prophets, 344;
by Gaussen, 365;
by Adventists, 391, 423.
fulfilled by Miller and his associates, 405.
of 1260 years, 54, 266, 439.
of 2300 years, 324-329, 351-353, 398, 409, 410, 417, 429, 457, 486.
of the "two witnesses," 266-287.
to be understood, 340, 341, 521.
of first advent, not understood by disciples, 346, 347.
_see also_ Beasts; Chronology; Prophecies; Signs.

Prophecies, of destruction of Jerusalem, 21, 22, 25-27, 30.
of second advent, 299-302, 310, 311, 320-329.
failure of Jews to understand, 3