to both Church and State to mitigate its drunkenness or repress its crimes.
At length the problem yielded to investigation, and among other results two gigantic errors presented themselves, sufficient to account for all the difference between the Apostolic Church and our own. The first is the loss of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as an "enduement with power," without which the apostles were forbidden to go out upon their mission. The other is, the abandonment of the Synagogue with its elders as the model of the Church, and the adoption of the Temple with its priesthood in its stead.
The first of these being the more important, formed the subject of a treatise by itself, entitled, "THE EVANGELISTIC BAPTISM INDISPENSABLE TO THE CHURCH FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD," the other forms the subject of the present volume. I propose then to show:
First, That the Church was founded entirely upon the lines of the synagogue with its elders, of which it was in reality the continuation, and not upon the temple with its priesthood.
Second, That the Romish apostasy consisted chiefly in the abandonment of the synagogue with its elders, as the type and model of the Church, and the substitution of the temple with its priesthood in its place.
Third, That at the Reformation of the sixteenth century, this cardinal error escaped detection; and having been incorporated in the constitution of all the Protestant Churches, it has been the cause of almost all the crimes and calamities that have stained the history of the Church of Christ during the last three hundred years.
Fourth, That during the Reformation which has been going on during the whole of the present century, the Church, guided only by the Bible and its own spiritual instincts, has been gradually and unconsciously departing from the temple system, upon which all the Churches of the Reformation were constructed; and, without knowing it, has been gradually but constantly returning to the synagogue system, with its eldership