p. 127 | BABYLON IS FALLEN by JACOB WILBUR

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 16.

“BABYLON IS FALLEN.”

By JACOB WILBUR

I am more and more convinced that the popular time-serving churches of our day are mentioned prophetically in the Bible, and that the language found in Rev. 14:8, and placed at the head of this article is now emphatically true. Every child of God within the pale of such religious organizations should know it and “come out” as all are plainly told to do in chapter 18:4.

The following extract, taken from the Gouverneur Times, published in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., is significant, showing how the churches with their ministers join in with the world in fun and frolic.

At a spelling-school in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., “a committee of three ladies were chosen to decide who was the homeliest man—and their united decision placed the Rev. R. J——, D. D., of Richville, N. Y., in possession of the prize, whereupon he was named as a committee to pick out the handsomest woman. After passing once around the room, he put on his ‘spectacles’ and went again, amid the hearty laughter of all present, and the prettiest looks of many anticipating fair ones.

“And true to the taste of all old men, the Dr. selected a young lady, and the exercises closed by a promenade between them. The Rev. Dr. representing one extreme, and his fair companion representing the other, walked side by side, making a pleasant and interesting finis.”

I will only add that the Rev. D. D., mentioned above, opposed the work of proclaiming the “third message” last winter, and made a statement in public (on a funeral occasion when I was not at liberty to make any reply) that we had no Sabbath in this dispensation, and he could find a good many passages of Scripture where Sunday was called the Lord’s day.

JACOB WILBUR.

West Hoosick, N. Y., April 4, 1876.