The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-05

with her ten wards includes practically
ST Of Europe; aud Mother and Daugh-
ters az this same family name include
ReArsy all Of The Protestant denomina-
sseOS. as well SIS the Catholic Mother
ChcreS
MAst 10 Meant by iarotry7
n Should De remembered in discuss
Ing this subject that the language is
tsurStive- that il does not signify that
either the Church of Rome or her
Protestant Daughters are immoral
The thought is that the Church of
Christ was primarily a virgin" com
fany of persons, called out. separated
from the world and its aims and ambi
rions-called to be saints and joint
heirs with Christ in His Kingdom
To whatever extent systems arose
amongst the followers Of Jesus and be
came affiliated with any of the king
doms of this world-to that extent
Scripturally. fguratively. they commit
tel harlotry-because they were espous
ed TO the King of kings and the Lord
of lords, and were to wait for Him.
that at His second coming they might
become His Bride and become associ
ated with Him in His Throne
1t will not be questioned that Papacy
became affiliated with the Roman En-
pire and sat down on the throne of
Rome. nor that the Church of England.
as one OF her daughters. became affili-
ated with the British Government. and
now sits. representatively. in the
House of Lords. 1t would not be ques
toned that the Greek Church expert
enced similar betrothal and marriage
to the Russian Government. the Lu.
theran Church to the German Empire
etc, etc. 1t is on this account and in
this sense that the Church of Rome
and her Daughters mother and daugh
tiers, organizations of Professionals. are
figuratively called by the family name
of Babylon.
BabyIon's Golden Cup.
Under the figure of woman clothed
in purple and scarlet the Mother Sys.
tflu VI DuDy lOn. louS ttuluilcS dSo
made all the nations drunk with her
wine.' the doctrines which she had in
her golden cup" Revelation xvii.
1-G) The golden cup" represents the
Bible. the Divine Standard. or authori-
ty. 1t was mlsused when the wine of
false doctrine was put into it-when
the Bible was claimed as authority for
various erroneous teachings Of the
Dark Ages The intoxicating wine
which made the nations drunk, and
which led them to support the won,
an" and to call themselves Christian
nations. Papacy still holds In her hand.
and still offers to all who will receive
It. But the nations are gradually So
bering mp. and becoming less and less
inclined to take more Of the wine.
1t is not necessary to suppose that
every doctrine presented by Papacy
was false and intoxicating. The
thought is rather that of commingled
wine-that stupefying potion was
put into the wine already In the cup.
AS the golden cup represents the Word
VI NTou ulu llS NltNNuSt. tnC Stut'GlN If,
potion may well be understood to be
some of the doctrines--for instance
that Gods Kingdom had already been
set up. and that the papa throne in
the world is the Throne of Christ. that
the Pope reigns as Christ's vicegerent.
or substitute. and representative. 9th
er poisonous elements threatened the
people with purgatornI torture. or eter
nal torment. If they failed to keep
In line with the Papal authority this
claimed Nicegerent authority of Christ
The Protestant denominations were
all born Under these Intoxicating nf1u-
enceS and false theories. While they did
separate from the Mother system. and
did denounce her nevertheless they
held doctriully to many of the intoXi
eating errors of her cup. Consequently
they too claim thit somehow. they
know not how. Messiah's Kingdom is
set up and is reignng They, too. join in
giving the nations some of the same
dope that the Mother gave them. telling
them TINT they are Christian nations,
even though they have anything but
the Christian spirit. and are building
great guns and dreadnaughts to blow
each other Off the face of the earth.
So strong is the power of this intoXi-
cation that the Inconsistencies of such
theories are not discerned by the in
toxicated ones Only the few who are
gradually getting free from the stupefy
ing potion are able. by Divine assist.
ance to see some of the mistakes along
this line. These see that neither the
Church of Rome nor any of her Daugh-
ter systems are the rue Church of
Christ. These see from the Divine
standpoint that these systems are thar
lot" systems Each of them processes
10 be the Bride of Christ. yet each
knows that "the marriage of the
Lamb" Is to take place ut the second
coming OF Christ. They have therefore
very generally lost sight of the fact
that the true virgin" of Christ. "it
tie flock" who will be accounted
worthy TO share the marriage and be
come the Bride of Christ must wait
for the Lord from Heaven"-must live
separate from the world. keeping her
self unspotted from the world. pir0in,
that she may be accounted worthy to
enter into the Joys of her Lord. become His
Queen ana joint-heir in His Kingdom.