pity on the poor folk; stab, smite, throttle, who can.’ The German rulers took Luther’s advice with terrible literalness, and avenged themselves upon the peasants, whose lot was apparently worse afterwards than before.”—Brit. And they were cast upon the earth AND THE THIRD PART OF THE EARTH WAS BURNED UP.—Luther’s teaching had the effect of transforming the order‐ loving German people into anarchists. And the third part.—The German part. Of trees.—Trees are symbols of saints. “St. Paul gives us the picture of a tree, the roots of which push down deep into the knowledge of the Divine Plan, while the tree of character grows higher and higher, developing and maturing the rich fruits of the Holy Spirit of God; for instruction is a form of _construction_.”—Z. ’14‐312; Isa. 61:3. Was burnt up.—Hindered from standing alone, and absorbed into the Lutheran system. And all green grass.—Natural men of independent thought.—Isa. 40:6, 7. Was burnt up.—Similarly absorbed into the Lutheran system, a welcome substitute for papacy’s intolerable yoke. 8:8. And the second [angel] sounded.—The Anglican church movement began. And as it were a great mountain.—England in the time of Henry VIII. Mountains symbolize kingdoms.—Dan. 2:35; Jer. 51:25. Burning with fire.—Aflame with another great movement destructive to the papacy. Was cast into the sea.—Was suddenly thrown into a condition of isolation from the papacy—no longer placed under religious restraint to it. And the third part of the sea.—The English part. Became blood.—The much‐married Henry VIII., founder of the Anglican Church, and the second great sect‐founder, has some slight blemishes on his escutcheon also. “Henry VIII. himself stoutly maintained the headship of the pope, and as is well known, after examining the arguments of Luther, published his defence of the Seven Sacraments in 1521, which won for him from the pope the glorious title of ‘Defender of the faith.’ By 1527 the king had become hopeless of having a male heir by Catherine. He was tired of her, and in love with the black‐eyed Anne Boleyn, who refused to be his mistress. The king’s agents secured the opinion of a number of prominent universities that his marriage was void, and an assembly of notables, which he summoned in June 1530, warned the pope of the dangers involved in leaving the royal succession in uncertainty. Henry’s next move was to bring a charge against the clergy, accusing them of having violated the ancient laws of praemunire in submitting to the authority of papal legates (although he himself had ratified the appointment of Wolsey as legate _a latere_). The clergy of the province of Canterbury were fined 100,000 pounds and compelled to declare the king their singular protector and only supreme lord, and, as far as that is permitted by the law of Christ, the supreme head of the Church and of the clergy.