NOTES.—The harassing invasions and conquests of Attila, the Hun, are foretold here. His conquests were characterized by fire; sword, and pillage along the Rhine, in Gaul, and northern Italy. He claimed descent from Nimrod, styled himself the “Scourge of God” and the “Dread of the World,” and boasted that grass would never grow again where his horse had trod. His greatest battle was at Chalons, in Gaul, 451 A.D., where of his 700,000 men from 100,000 to 300,000 are said to have been left dead on the field. See Gibbon’s Rome, chapter 35, and “Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,” by Sir Edward Creasy, chapter 6. Says Gibbon (chapter 34), “In the reign of Attila, the Huns again became the terror of the world;” and he proceeds to describe “the character and actions of that formidable barbarian, who,” he says, “alternately insulted and invaded the East and the West, and urged the rapid downfall of the Roman Empire.” 6. What was to occur under the fourth trumpet? “And the fourth angel sounded, and _the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars_; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.” Verse 12. NOTE.—This trumpet brings us to the fall of Western Rome, in 476 A.D., when the Herulian barbarians, under the leadership of Odoacer, took possession of the city and scepter of Rome; and the great empire which had hitherto been the empress of the world was reduced to a poor dukedom, tributary to the exarch of Ravenna. Its luminaries, or civil rulers, were smitten, and ceased to shine. “Italy now became in effect a province of the empire of the East. The Roman Empire in the West had come to an end, after an existence from the founding of Rome of 1,229 years.”—_Myers’s __“__General History,__”__ page 348._ 7. What was to be the character of the last three trumpets? “And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, _Woe, woe, woe_, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!” Verse 13. [Illustration.] The Seven Trumpets. 8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West? Mohammedanism, commonly known as the Turkish or Ottoman power, which arose in Arabia, with Mohammed, in 622 A.D. 9. How is the fifth trumpet, or first woe, introduced?