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in faith (Jas. 2:5)— of the reform element whosince 1878 have been withdrawing fromecclesiasticism and close to God.Ezekiel 7:21.And I will give it into the hands of thestrangers for a prey, and to the wicked of theearth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.—The nominal jewel, churchianity, has become theprey of clerical and social anarchists.— D550.Ezekiel 7:22.My face will I turn also from them, and theyshall pollute My secret place; for the robbersshall enter into it, and defile it.— The secretplace is the condition of consecration, which anapostate clergy pollute by misrepresentations,such as that bravery in battle, suffering in thetrenches, devotion to a falling order of things(Heb. 2:13), win a place in Heaven— won onlyby loyal devotion to God's Word, and by thespirit-begotten alone. "I am the Door. He thatentereth in by another way is a robber."— John10:1.Ezekiel 7:23.Make a chain: for the land is full of bloodycrimes, and the city is full of violence.— Bind,unite them together, let the Divinely (!)appointed clergy and the governments for whichthey stand sponsor, make common cause.(D550.) Christendom is full of the beastly crimesof the most barbarous warfare ever known. Acity symbolizes a government.FM408God loves all His creatures; His tender mercies7:24.Wherefore I will bring the worst of theheathen, and they shall possess their houses: Iwill also make the pomp of the strong tocease; and their holy places shall be defiled.—Macaulay, the English historian, spoke ofAmerica as destined to be destroyed by its ownHuns and Vandals, the unassimilated, uncivilizedelements, especially of the cities. The anarchistic