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child of God ought to get out of them as quicklyas he can. If they are but one-quarter as bad asMr. Sunday tells, then the only safety on the partof one who wishes to retain his faith is to get outof such spiritual pest-holes."— Z.'15-207.And a cage of every unclean and hatefulbird.— "How true it is, that the most execrableof society seek and wear the garb of Christianprofession and ceremonialism, in some of thevarious quarters (sects) of Babylon.Of all the defaulters, and deceivers of men and ofwomen, how many are professedly members ofChrist's Church! and how many even use theirprofession as a cloak under which to forward evilschemes! It is well known that a majority of eventhe most brutal criminals executed die in theRoman Catholic communion.Babylon has contained both the best and theworst, both the cream and the dregs, of thepopulation of the civilized world." (C162.) Aparliamentary report of the status of society inEngland and Wales in 1873 showed that therewere then no Jewish criminals, 1 of every 20,000infidels was a criminal, 1 of every 666Dissenters was a criminal, 1 of every 72 Churchof England, and 1 of every 40 Roman Catholics.(C163.) "The great system in which the ‘fowl ofheaven' delight to roost, and which they havegrievously befouled (Luke 13:18, 19), and whichhas in fact become ‘a cage of every unclean andhateful bird,' is to be hewn down, and shalldeceive the world no longer."— C187; Isa.34:11; Jer. 50:39; Zeph. 2:14.Revelation 18:3.For all nations have drunk of the wine of thewrath of her fornication.— "The stimulatingpower is not the spirit of a sound mind, but thedelusion of a false doctrine; as the Prophetdeclares, they are ‘drunken,' but not with wine.(Isa. 29:9-13.) The people in general have losttheir taste and appreciation for the water of life,the Truth; and false teachers warn them against itas poison. The wine of false doctrines now beingmanufactured at all the Theological Seminaries