The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

Testimony on Babylon

L. D. Mansfield, who was laboring at that time in Oneida, N. Y., said: “I am more fully persuaded than ever before, that the religious organizations of the present day constitute no small portion of that Babylon which is to be thrown down with violence, and found no more at all.... It seems to me, however, that in some of the organizations, the resemblance to the little horn is most striking.” To show animosity of the churches against the doctrine, he spoke of a class leader in the place, who said, “If a man should come into my house and say he believed Christ would come this year, I would turn him out of doors.” COOD 86.2

How like the experience of Paul and Silas while they were laboring at Thessalonica, when “the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason.” Acts 17:5. COOD 86.3