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But the description continues, covering the era of modern sects and leading up to the work of a final reformation. After describing the 1,260-year prophecy of the two witnesses, the narrative continues: "And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
But he treats the discovery of his intended and supposed crime with scorn and contempt! Alas! alas! is this the end of years of suffering and probation? Is this the fruit of that long remorse, from which I had hoped so much for his redemption a remorse without repentance, and barren of reformation! Yet I must save him."
This division of time was so noticable that D'Aubigne, who wrote about A.D. 1835, in his famous History of the Reformation, refers to it in the following remarkable language: "It has been said that the three last centuries, the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and the eighteenth, may be conceived as an immense battle of three days' duration.
The elements of persuasion always come under the headings already given: affirmation, repetition, prestige, and contagion. Mental contagion may affect a whole people instantaneously, but more often it operates slowly, creeping from group to group. Thus was the Reformation propagated in France.
These were probably regarded as relics, and may have been buried here at the Reformation for safety, but it is possible that they were placed here at an earlier period, and that this is an instance of a relic-pit.
I might add that one of our neighbor boys was to decamp with me, and the dime novel had been our guide. From this time on there was a general reformation and reconciliation, and my only regrets were that "hay forks" hadn't been invented several years before, or at least, that this glorious good man with his stock of information hadn't made his appearance earlier.
It is not an evening party, it is a family party, and the suggestion of home enjoyment completes the reformation of the three fast men. We see them marry the three fast women before we leave the house. On another occasion, two suburban friends of the drama beheld a more explicit precursor of the coming burlesque at one of the minor theatres last summer.
In all this, although the monks might curse, he had countenance and encouragement from the great ecclesiastics in all parts of Europe and it is highly curious to see the extreme freedom with which they allowed him to propose to them his plans for a Reformation we seem to be listening to the wisest of modern broad Churchmen. To one of his correspondents, an archbishop, he writes:
"But what would you do, my good Gabriel," said Maximilian, smiling, "if the reformation of the world were placed in your hands? Every man has an Utopia in his head. Give me some idea of yours." "First," I said, "I should do away with all interest on money. Interest on money is the root and ground of the world's troubles.
The Italian invaders augmented and enriched the fare, without, perhaps, materially altering its character; and the first decided reformation in the mode of living here was doubtless achieved by the Saxon and Danish settlers; for those in the south, who had migrated hither from the Low Countries, ate little flesh, and indeed, as to certain animals, cherished, according to Caesar, religious scruples against it.
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