Second advent library

mind earthly things,44and make slaves of bodiesand souls of men, as do the Catholics.This may be all true, and for aught I cantell, they may be harlots, or daughters ofthe old mother, yet the marks given cannotall apply to oneany Protestant church.Do not, you enquire, the Protestantchurches break the laws of God by theirtraditions? Yes. Do theynot worshiptheir idols as well as Romans? Yes, if youplease to have it so. Where' then is theI answer: she rulesfailure? you enquire.overkings. But does not the Episcopalchurch rule over the king?No.The Kingor Queen rules over the church. Even theyoung Queen Victoria is now the head ofthat church. And no Protestant churchhas reigned over anyAgain, another mark:king or kingdom.-24. And in her was found the blood of propheS,and of saints, and of all that were slain upon theearth.This then is a mark in which we cannotbe mistaken. I defy the mengreat of theearth to show an instance .in the historyof the world, where any church, callingitself Christian, since the days of Christ,has had the power of life and death,even in civil authority, but the church of