I call to witness every child of God who has been with the present reformation from its beginning, if there were not three special phases of the development of the truth, as follows:  1.  A wonderful revival of spirituality among a few of God’s chosen ones, caused by the “everlasting gospel” being revealed to them as never before. 2.  The knowledge of the truth and deep experience thus obtained prepared the way for the next step, which was the discovery that the “churches” were a part of the great Babylon of Revelation and were in a fallen condition, “a hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”  Chap. 18:2, 3.  Hence the cry went up, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen.” 3.  Then followed immediately the message to God’s people to “flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul,” warning them that no one could any longer bear the mark of the beast or worship his image without forfeiting eternal salvation and that the fearful judgments of heaven would soon descend upon every one who refused to obey the message and to walk in the light.  The last two phases, which apply to Babylon, are the same and in the same order as the description given in chapter 18:1-4.  First, an angel from heaven cries mightily with a strong voice, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen”; and then “another voice” from heaven says, “COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE.”  The three successive phases of the message are now all combined in one, and God is gathering his holy remnant “out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day” (Ezek. 34:12) into the one body of Jesus Christ.  Halleluiah!  John, also, saw this glorious result of the three messages—­“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:  and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.  And they sung the song of Moses the servant of God [a song of deliverance], and the song of the Lamb [the song of redemption], saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints.”  Chap. 15:2, 3.  Let all the people of God rejoice!

  “Hail the day so long expected,
    Hail the year of full release;
  Zion’s walls are now erected,
    And the watchmen publish peace.

  “Now on Shiloh’s wide dominion,
    Hear the trumpets loudly roar: 
  Babylon’s fallen, is fallen, is fallen,
    Babylon’s fallen to rise no more.”

Those of the Lord’s people who through lack of sufficient light were yoked up with unbelievers in Protestantism, labored faithfully to upbuild the very sectarian institutions that God was against and that were destined to be destroyed, though they themselves were saved as by fire; but from the time this reformation began the redeemed die in the triumphs of a living faith, and their labors in upbuilding the true cause and kingdom of God are still blessed and fruitful, being perpetuated in the works that follow them.