The prophet declared that the dominion of the papacy should be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed unto the end. The Home Journal, a Roman Catholic paper published in Detroit, Mich., in its issue of Dec. 25, 1875, gives the following encouraging and cheering account of how this prophecy is being fulfilled:— “The following statistics concerning the spoliations of the monastic establishments are very remarkable. Since 1825, 154,000,000 francs’ worth of church property has been confiscated in Piedmont alone; in the province of Geneva, 316 houses have been closed since 1858, and property to the amount of 5,250,000 francs sold. In Lombardy, since 1859, 2,900 houses have been closed, and 275,000,000 francs’ worth of property sold; in Venetia, 715 houses closed, and 930,000,000 francs’ worth of property sold; in the Marches, 699 houses, and 28,000,000 francs; in the Abruzzi, 2,508 houses and 19,000,000; in the Puglia, 1,247 houses, and 28,000,000 francs; in Calabria, 547 houses and 95,000,000; in Sardinia, 158 houses and 4,000,000; in Tuscany, 252 houses and 142,000,000; in Rome, 475 houses, and 63,000,000 francs’ worth of property sold; in all, 18,453 ecclesiastical houses have been suppressed, and $220,000,000 worth of property confiscated.”