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December 29.

REVELATION, XIX.

December 29.

costliness! for in one hour| whatsoever craft he be, shall is she made desolate. Re- be found any more in thee; joice over her, thou heaven, and the sound of a millstone and ye holy apostles and pro- shall be heard no more at phets; for God hath avenged all in thee; and the light of a you on her. And a mighty candle shall shine no more angel took up a stone like at all in thee; and the voice a great millstone, and cast it of the bridegroom and of the into the sea, saying, Thus bride shall be heard no more with violence shall that great at all in thee: for thy mer­city Babylon be thrown down, chants were the great men and shall be found no more of the earth; for by thy sor­at all. And the voice of harp- ceries were all nations de­ers, and musicians, and of ceived. And in her was found pipers, and trumpeters, shall the blood of prophets, and of be heard no more at all in saints, and of all that were thee; and no craftsman, of slain upon the earth.

CHAPTER XIX. to ver. 11. December 29, Morning.

All Saints' Day, Evening, to ver. 17.

A ND after these things I waters, and as the voice of heard a great voice of mighty thunderings, saying, much people in heaven, say- Alleluia: for the Lord God Let ing, Alleluia; Salvation, and omnipotent reigneth. glory, and honour, and power, us be glad and rejoice, and unto the Lord our God: for give honour to him: for the true and righteous are his marriage of the Lamb is judgments: for he hath judg- come, and his wife hath ed the great whore, which made herself ready. And to did corrupt the earth with her was granted that she her fornication, and hath should be arrayed in fine avenged the blood of his linen, clean and white: for servants at her hand. And the fine linen is the right­again they said, Alleluia. eousness of saints. And he And her smoke rose up for saith unto me, Write, Bless­ever and ever. And the four ed are they which are called and twenty elders and the unto the marriage supper of four beasts fell down and the Lamb. And he saith worshipped God that sat on unto me, These are the true the throne, saying, Amen; sayings of God. And I fell Alleluia. And a voice came at his feet to worship him. out of the throne, saying; And he said unto me, See Praise our God, all ye his thou do it not: I am thy fel­servants, and ye that fear lowservant, and of thy bre­him, both small and great. thren that have the testimony And I heard as it were the of Jesus: worship God: for voice of a great multitude, the testimony of Jesus is the and as the voice of many spirit of prophecy.

CHAPTER XIX. ver. 11. December 29, Evening.

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ND I saw heaven open-| upon him was called Faith­ed, and behold a white ful and True, and in right­horse; and he that sat leousness he doth judge and