The record of history witnesses that this time prophecy of the 1260 years of papal supremacy was exactly fulfilled. The Lord speaks in prophecy that men may know that He is the living God. In these time prophecies of His Word, He gives assurance not only that this troubled world has not escaped from the hand of its Maker, but that its times are in His hand also; and that when the time of His divine purpose fully comes, He will surely cut His work short in righteousness, and end the reign of sin on earth. As the prophetic period of Dan. 7:25 meets its fulfilment in the history of the Papacy, even so, we shall see, the work of the Roman Church answers to the further specifications regarding the doings of this "little horn" of Daniel's prophecy. [Illustration: THE TRIPLE CROWN The Pope's Tiara, from a photograph taken in the Vatican at Rome.] [Illustration: HUGUENOTS IN PRISON FOR THEIR FAITH "Others had trial ... of bonds and imprisonment." Heb. 11:36.] THE WORK OF THE "LITTLE HORN" POWER The prophetic picture of the rise and work of the "little horn" finds its exact counterpart in the history of the Roman Papacy: _The Place._--The little horn was seen by the prophet rising in the field of the Roman Empire. That was the very place where the great kingdom of the Papacy appeared, taking the name of Roman. _The Time._--The rise of the ecclesiastical kingdom of the little-horn power in the prophecy followed the breaking up of the Roman Empire into the ten kingdoms. Just so the ecclesiastical kingdom of the Roman Papacy rises to view in history immediately following the division of the empire. _The Period of Supremacy._--The prophecy allotted 1260 years to the full supremacy of this power. History responds that from the beginning of the papal supremacy, in the days of Justinian, a period of 1260 years brings us into the stirring events of the last decade of the eighteenth century, that gave to the Papacy a deadly wound. [Illustration: THE LOVE OF POWER "He shall speak great words against the Most High." Dan. 7:25. THE POWER OF LOVE] One further set of specifications remains for study: _The Work._--Of the nature and work of the power represented by the little horn, the prophecy declares: "He shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25. Do we find in the record that the Church of Rome has fulfilled these specifications also? The Scripture prophecy is absolutely a word-photograph of the workings of the papal church. Look at the main features: 1. Speaking great words against the Most High. 2. Wearing out the saints of the Most High. 3. Thinking to change the times and the laws of the Most High. Every count in the indictment may be clearly proved, and that by testimony from Roman Catholic sources