new commission of cardinals will carefully ponder the reasons set forth by Russian and Anglican divines against the decision of Pope Leo X. The friendship of the Anglican church is appreciated by Rome, for she may be as a link of union between Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy.’ ” (Z. ’17‐52.) We assume that the foregoing plan of the pope will succeed. “This is the supreme chance for Christianity ‘to assert her authority and guide the world out of the darkness enshrouding it,’ observes _The Northwestern Christian Advocate_ (Methodist, Chicago), and it wonders whether the organized Christianity that ‘failed—ingloriously failed’—in 1914 will again ‘miss her golden opportunity.’ ” (Literary Digest.) “An old writer has observed that the Beast reappears from the Abyss (see on ch. 11, 7) without his diadems, as though, in this last stage, he would symbolize rather the violence of popular rage than the prescriptive sanctity of monarchical supremacy.”—Cook. And go into perdition.—Be utterly destroyed at the hands of the masses it has so persistently and outrageously deceived.—Rev. 17:11. And they that dwell on the earth.—All independent Christians, not entangled in the systems of either the beast or the image. See Rev. 13:13, 14. Shall wonder.—Be astounded, perplexed and dismayed, “At the reappearance of the beast.”—Cook. Whose names.—As a class, not as individuals. Were not written in the Book of Life.—But not necessarily in so‐called Church books, kept here on earth, for collection purposes. From the foundation of the world.—“The book or scroll covenanting life to an elect number was prepared from the foundation of the world. The names in it have been written as the individuals have made consecration of themselves, coming under the terms of the Divine call. In this view of the matter the book or scroll would represent the original Divine purpose—God’s intention to have a Church, of which our Lord Jesus would be the Head.—(Rev. 3:5.)”—Z. ’99‐265. When they behold the beast that was, and is not, and [yet is] SHALL AGAIN BE PRESENT.—The Papal Empire restored. 17:9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom.—A problem requiring the aid of the Lord.—Rev. 13:18. The seven heads are seven mountains.—The kingdoms enumerated in Rev. 12:3.