203 The Revelation of Jesus Christ the Reformation. As a result of it, literally hundreds of thou sands of men and women were put to death. When the Huguenots were slaughtered, it is estimated that 35,000 men and women were killed in one night. Dr. William Lamb truly says, "This awful system of re ligion has fearfully darkened the thought of God for vast mul titudes. When we remember its teaching concerning indul gences and penances for sin, the salvation of the dead through priestly prayers, how the unbaptised must be damned, and other unscriptural doctrines, we cannot help declaring how false the conception of God given to the world by this system has been. "And when also we look at its fearful history, with the awful tortures of the Inquisition, a name which still makes us shudder, we are filled with horror. We are told that tens of millions were cruelly martyred and done to death in the name of Christ by this Church. These were shot, stabbed, stoned drowned, beheaded, hanged, quartered, impaled, burned, or buried alive, roasted on spits, baked in ovens, thrown into fur naces and put to death by hundreds of other fiendishly con ceived methods. Many were tortured in the most abominable ways. The history of Christendom was one huge horror for centuries because of these dreadful things. "Then again we consider its fearful power. The persistent aim of the popes was universal dominion, and for a time they seemed almost to have it. Great kings, and among them, the King of England, we are told, came to recognize it as a su preme honor to receive their crown from the feet of the pope. What could all this mean but that the mystery of iniquity was already working? It was the power of ancient Babylon re vived." BABYLoN's DooM PREDICTED "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her Besh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put In their hearts to fulflll His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.. (Rev. 17:16, 17). These words refer to the beginning of the latter half of the
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