The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Mansfield’s Testimony

L. D. Mansfield, writing from Oneida, N.Y., March 21, 1844, thus testifies:— GSAM 176.3

“God is moving upon the minds of his dear children who are waiting for the Lord from heaven, and leading them not only to heed the angel ‘having the everlasting gospel to preach, saying, The hour of his judgment is come,’ but to obey the subsequent command, ‘Come out of her, my people!’ 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. Some instances will illustrate the matter. GSAM 176.4