d to mean the Romish
church. If she be a mother, who are her daughters? It must be the
corrupt national established churches that came out of her."

The great sin charged against Babylon, is unlawful connection with the
kings of the earth. The church should be entirely free from the state. But
now the churches of America, which have for long years borne so noble a
part, are clamoring for a union with the state, calling for a recognition
of God's name in the Constitution, and God's law in the courts, and that
the government be run on Christian lines. Old, antiquated laws which they
find upon the statute books of various States, they are beginning to use
to persecute those who differ in belief with them; and they seek for the
enactment of more stringent Sunday laws for the same purpose. And when
they shall succeed in getting full control of the state, they will have
severed the last link that has held them to their high estate, show
themselves true members of the Babylonian family, and sink in spirit and
practice to the level of the elder Rome.

Rev. 14:8 was fulfilled in 1844.(5) Since then the churches have been
going down in spirituality and godliness, catering more and more to the
world, indulging in carnal amusements, festivals, wife auctions, and
kissing bees, to the very border line of decency, but especially filling
up with the influences mentioned in Rev. 18:2, till the leaven of
Spiritualism is fast penetrating the whole mass. Yet there are a multitude
of God's people connected with these churches, who deplore the situation,
and for whom a crisis is approaching. The cry is again to be raised,
"Babylon is fallen, come out of her my people." We verily believe the time
has come when that call should be made and heeded; for a little further
progress in the evil path upon which we have entered, will surely provoke
the just judgments of heaven. Verses 4, 5.

8. 2 Tim. 3:8: "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith."

The first five verses of this chapter portray a dark list of eighteen sins
which will characterize professed Christians in the last days; for those
who bear the characters described, have a _form of godliness_, but deny
the power thereof. The three following verses plainly describe certain
members of the spiritualistic fraternity; and they are said to be of the
same sort. This prophecy therefore becomes