![A colorful Fraktur depicting Christians ascending a steep path to a New Jerusalem that resembles a medieval German city. Some souls almost reached the throne of God (in the center), but wavered at the end. Their fate is the hellfire where soldiers, musicians, a Jewish peddler, and other sinners are marching to meet the devil after passing "die Babylonische Hure"[FIX ME ’–"“”]the whore of Babylon–who is holding the Pope's crown.](http://explorepahistory.com/kora/files/1/2/1-2-4F3-25-ExplorePAHistory-a0b8o6-a_349.jpg "A colorful Fraktur depicting Christians ascending a steep path to a New Jerusalem that resembles a medieval German city. Some souls almost reached the throne of God (in the center), but wavered at the end. Their fate is the hellfire where soldiers, musicians, a Jewish peddler, and other sinners are marching to meet the devil after passing \"die Babylonische Hure\"[FIX ME ’–\"“”]the whore of Babylon–who is holding the Pope's crown.")
Credit: Ammon Stapleton Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Department of the Paterno Library: Penn State University, University Park
This hand-colored Pennsylvania German Fraktur from Lancaster–its English translation is "Eternal Life and Eternal Damnation"–offered pious admonition to the faithful.
