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And kindreds and tongues and nations.— Ofother parts of Europe.[Shall] see their dead [bodies] BODY.— "As ifthough silenced in death they continuedwitnesses still." (Cook.) Take note of the horribleeffect upon France of their effort to exterminatethe Scriptures. "The more deeply the FrenchRevolution is considered, the more manifest is itspreeminence above all the strange and terriblethings that have come to pass on this earth.Every ancient institution and every time honoredcustom disappeared in a moment. The wholesocial and political system went down before thefirst stroke. Monarchy, nobility andFM176church were swept away almost withoutresistance. The good things of this world,—birth, rank, wealth, fine clothes and elegantmanners,— became worldly perils, and worldlydisadvantages. The people waged a war of suchextermination with everything established, as toabolish the common forms of address andsalutation, and the common mode of reckoningtime, abhorred ‘you' as a sin, and shrank from‘monsieur' as an abomination, turned the weeksinto decades, and would know the old months nomore. The demolished halls of the aristocracy,the rifled sepulchres of royalty, the decapitatedking and queen, the little dauphin so sadly doneto death, the beggared princes, the slaughteredpriests and nobles, the sovereign guillotine, therepublican marriages, the Meudon tannery, thecouples tied together and thrown into the Loire,and the gloves made of men's and women'sskins: these things are most horrible." (T. H.Gill, The Papal Drama.)— D537.Three days and an half.— See Rev. 11:11.And [shall not] suffer NOT their dead bodiesto be put in [graves] A GRAVE .— On thecontrary, this very attempt "served to arouseChristians everywhere to put forth new exertionsin behalf of the Bible."— Smith.Revelation 11:10.