ism, etc., etc. Methodism has attempted to reform all, but has reformed itself into many forms of Wesleyanism. All of them retain in their bosom-in their ecclesiastical organizations, worship, doctrines, and observances-various relics of popery. They are at best a refformation of popery, and only reformations in part. The doctrines and traditions of men yet impair the power and progress of the gospel in their hands.'-On Baptism, p. 15.

"Again, he says: "The worshiping establishments now in operation throughout Christendom, increased and cemented by their respective voluminous confessions of faith, and their ecclesiastical constitutions, are not churches of Jesus Christ, but the legitimate daughters of that mother of harlots, the church of Rome.' How any man could possess as much light on this subject as did Mr. Campbell, and then build a sect himself, is more than I can understand.

"Lorenzo Dow says of the Romish church: 'If she be the mother, who are the daughters? It must be the corrupt, national, established churches that came out of her.'-Dow's Life, p. 542.

"In the Religious Encyclopedia, Article An

tichrist, we read: "The writer of the book of Revelation tells us he heard a voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and receive not of her plagues." If such persons are to be found in the "mother of harlots," with much less hesitation may it be inferred that they are connected with her unchaste daughters, those national churches which are founded upon what are called Protestant principles.'

"In the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge we read: 'An important question, however, says Mr. Jones, still remains for inquiry: Is Antichrist confined to the church of Rome? The answer is readily returned in the affirmative by Protestants in general; and happy had it been for the world had that been the case. But although we are fully warranted to consider that church as "the mother of harlots," the truth is that by whatsoever arguments we succeed in fixing that odious charge upon her, we shall, by parity of reasoning, be obliged to allow other national churches to be her unchaste daughters, and for this plain reason, among others, because in their very constitution and tendency they are hostile to the nature of the kingdom of Christ.'

"One of Martin Luther's guests remarked that the world might continue fifty years, and he replied: 'Pray God that it may not exist so long; matters would be even worse than they have been. There would rise up infinite sects and schisms, which are at present hidden in men's hearts and nature. No; may the Lord come at once, for there is no amendment to be expected.'

"Mr. Hartly, a learned churchman, has remarked as follows: 'There are many prophecies which declare the fall of the ecclesiastical powers of the Christian world, and though each church seems to flatter itself with the hope of being exempted, yet it is very plain that the prophetical characters belong to all. They all have left the true, pure, simple religion, and teach for doctrines the commandments of men.'

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Says Mr. Simpson, in Plea for Religion: 'We Protestants, too, read the declaration of the third angel against the worshipers of the beast and his image and make ourselves easy under the awful denunciation by applying it exclusively to the church of Rome; never dreaming that they are equally applicable not only to the English, but to every church establishment

in Christendom, which retains any of the marks of the beast. For though the Pope and the church of Rome is at the head of the grand twelve hundred and sixty years' delusion, yet all other churches, of whatever denomination, whether established or tolerated, which partake of the same spirit, or have instituted doctrines and ceremonies inimical to the pure and unadultered gospel of Christ, shall sooner or later share in the fate of that immense fabric of human ordinances.'

"Says Mr. Hopkins: 'There is no reason to consider the antichristian spirit and practises confined to that which is now called the church of Rome. The Protestant churches have much of Antichrist in them, and are far from being wholly reformed from the corruptions and wickedness, in doctrine and practise, in it. Some churches may be more pure and may have proceeded farther in a reformation than others; but where can the church be found which is thoroughly purged from her abominations? None are wholly clear from an antichristian spirit and the fruits of it... And as the church of Rome will have a large share in the cup of indignation and wrath which will be poured out, so all the

Christian world will have a distinguished portion of it: as the inhabitants of it are much more guilty than others. There is great reason to conclude that the world, particularly that part of it called Christian and Protestant, will yet make greater and more rapid advances in all kinds of moral corruption and open wickedness, till it will come to that state in which it will be fully ripe and prepared to be cut down by the sickle of divine justice and wrath.'

"Mr. O. Scott (Wesleyan Methodist) says: "The church is as deeply infected with a desire for worldly gain as the world. Most of the denominations of the present day might be called churches of the world, with more propriety than churches of Christ. The churches have so far gone from primitive Christianity that they need a fresh regeneration-a new kind of religion.'

"Said T. DeWitt Talmage: 'I simply state a fact when I say that in many places the church is surrendering, and the world is conquering.

There is a mighty host in the Christian church, positively professing Christianity, who do not believe the Bible, out and out and in and in.... Oh! we have magnificent church machinery in this country; we have sixty thousand