and understood each other, because they understood truth as it
was.

"And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to
another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had
brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let
us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let
us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth." Gen. 11:2-4.

God's people started on a pilgrimage in the order of God, but they
tarried, they ceased to "go forward." Had God's people continued on
Babylon would never have been built. This has its spiritual import. When
God's spiritual people cease to advance, when they get out of God's order,
they will soon seek some other way to heaven.

This ancient city of Babylon grew until it became a mighty, resistless,
universal empire. For a time in its history it held the people of God in
captivity. The day came, however, when this mighty city passed away
forever. The only dwellers among its lonely ruins are wild beasts and
hissing serpents. The Babylon mentioned in Revelation is the spiritual
antitype. The great tower of ancient Babel finds its antitype in mystery
Babylon, the mother, and the diversified city at its feet finishes its
antitype in the multiplicity of sects and creeds, where they speak a
different spiritual language, as they cluster around their mother's knee.
In this great apostate Babylon the true children of God have long been
taken captive, but the day comes when God's own make their escape and
return to spiritual Jerusalem, their native home. The Revelator beholds
spiritual Babylon in a fallen condition inhabited only by foul, devilish
spirits, and unclean and hateful birds. Rev. 18:2.

There are many prophecies in Daniel and other chapters of Revelation
relating to the dark apostasy of the noonday, which we reluctantly forbear
to consider in this work, but are compelled to do so lest our volume swell
to too great proportions.

In the conclusion of this chapter we desire to make a few quotations from
other authors concerning mystery Babylon and her harlot daughters.

"This woman (popery) is called the mother of harlots and abominations. Who
are the daughters? The Lutheran, the Presbyterian, and the Episcopalian
are all branches of the Roman Catholic. Are not these demonstrated harlots
and ab