us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands."
Now the remainder of this book of Revelation is given under the symbols of the opening of seven seals, and the sounding of seven trumpets, and the pouring out of seven vials. It is not our purpose to follow the opening of the seven seals, nor the sounding of the seven trumpets, any more than to say that at the opening of the seven seals, and at the sounding of the first six trumpets, there followed one continued train of desolation, of woe and death. There were plagues, and famines, and earth-quakes, and pestilences, and war. It seemed as if there would be no end to woe and disaster; but between the time of the sounding of the sixth and the seventh angel, a turning-point is reached. Between the time of the sounding of
