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Intemperance arrayed under the banner of Antichrist, “Come out, come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

Let it never be forgotten, that "the love of money is the root of all evil," by whatever means it may be obtained. Although it be honestly acquired, still it works death to the souls of all its worshippers. And, if it be obtained by dishonesty, robbery, theft, murder, piracy, or other Satanic devices, both the object and the unlawful means of obtaining it, will, doubtless, be rewarded by the powers of Antichrist, when they shall have wrested from the Almighty the dominion of this earth !!!

The anxious haste to be rich, even by industry in the use of lawful means, while the "love of money” is the predominant passion of the soul, is connected with evils which God has denounced as precursors of inevitable and eternal destruction. The love of money forms the basis of the principle, in the germ, which, when matured, stands out in bold defiance of every Divine Law requiring benevolence and virtue. The rich, covetous miser, in the daily idolatrous worship of his hundreds of thousands, or tens or twenties of millions, hoarded, or at use on usury; or the rich, voluptuous, self-indulgent worldling, who is clad in princely robes of the finest texture, and lives sumptuously every day, is as sure of perdition, if he dies in impenitence, as the most abandoned wretch that subsists on robbery and murder. For thus testifies the word of God:"The works of the flesh are manifest-murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like and that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

But, look again. In fulfilment of the predicted woe of Satan's presence and wrath among the inhabiters

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of earth, another anti-Christian banner is unfurled, exhibiting the following inscription in flaming capitals.

BANNER OF ANTICHRIST, NO. II.

SPEND MONEY.

SPEND MONEY. SPEND MONEY.

Money that has been earned and saved by ancestors; or won by gambling; or obtained by picking pockets from the living or dead; or by robbery, stealing, lying, cheating, juggling, murder, or piracy, comes easy, and is good for nothing but to spend. Spend it then freely for intoxicating liquors; for tickets at the theatre, ball, cotillion party, or play. Put it at risk to win more, at the horse-race, card-table, wheel-of-fortune, shooting-match, or any other game where signs are displayed like those near the pools of cure-all. Spend your money in "famed" houses of every description, from the hovel of filth, to the tinselled tenement for public prostitution. Spend your money for the gratification of any sensual pleasures, without a thought of future sickness, want or death. Let the gasping scene of a dying hour be driven from the mind. Spend money; and if your purse fails, never fear, I will help you to get more in our way.

Given under my hand, and the Purgatorial seal of Antichrist, at the Council Chamber of Pandemonium. For, and in behalf of

DIABOLOS THE GREAT

U. S. L. F.,

i. e. Unclean Spirit Like a Frog, General

issimo of all anti-Christian Powers.

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And, like

It will be perceived, that on the presentation of this banner, the floodgates of all the immoralities peculiar to man's fallen nature have been hoisted. the overwhelming current of a river, in a tremendous freshet, swollen from ten thousand tributary rivulets of muddy water, sweeping to desolation every thing in its course; so the desolating evils of immorality, from innumerable tributary streams of every description, have swollen into a river of immoral desolation, and the flood is rolling, foaming, and dashing its surges of filth, and froth, and fearful destruction, through streets, lanes, by-ways, and public places in cities; along every thoroughfare, public highway, cross-road, and lurking-place, in old towns, and new settlements; in villages, and wildernesses, throughout the world. This tremendous deluge is sweeping away the ancient landmarks of morality; and the fair inclosures which once bounded the lines of industry, frugality, and economy of life. Also, on the surface of the impetuous torrent, from the open floodgates of immorality, may be seen floating, houses, barns, out-houses, furniture, vehicles, domestic animals, stock, flocks and herds; produce of lands, stores, factories, mechanic shops; and every thing valuable, that has been the hard earnings of past industrious generations, is wafted with fury, down to the regions of desolation, where the Powers of Antichrist deposit their stores, for the safe keeping of the recruits who enlist into their ser

vice.

The plain import of the above figure is, that the inhabitants of city and country throughout Christendom, are poisoned with immoralities from the schools of Infidelity. Immoralities of the basest kind are risng into popularity and fashion, in proportion to the increase of anti-Christian population and influence.

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Drunkenness, profane swearing, Sabbath-breaking, dishonoring of parents by disobedience, theatrical obscenities, professed popular scientific dancing-schools, lying, cheating, stealing, juggling, gaming, systematical licentiousness, dishonesty, murder, adultery, and every other immorality that can be named, are committed among the recruits of Antichrist, with bold impudence and audacity, which most fearfully evinces the fulfilment of that apostolic prediction,—“ In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."

Truly, the present times have become perilous indeed! If a man sets his face against the immoralities of the times, as a public officer, or monitor, he is in danger not only of "making himself a prey," and of "getting to himself shame and a blot ;" but he is in danger of the loss of property by the torch of the incendiary, the death of his cattle, and various other measures of private injury; and in many instances, life is in danger of the deadly weapon of the inveterate assassin, whose guarantee from the powers of Antichrist, is his security from detection, from conviction, and from Capital Punishment, if condemned to death. Thus, immorality triumphs in Infidel security.

And it is with no small degree of painful emotions, that the following designations of the works of darkness are delineated. Happy indeed should we be if no necessity was laid upon the conscience to expose the works of the adversary for the destruction of

IMMORALITIES PREVALENT.

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souls. But the truth must be told, lest the blood of lost souls is required in account. In populous cities, not only tippling hovels, and inferior bawd-houses are unavoidably tolerated, because the owners, or lawful tenants, are drunken, lewd, licentious, and worse than worthless pests in community; but elegant, well-furnished houses of assignation, constructed purposely in style and convenience for the business of licentious accommodation, are abundantly fitted up by capitalists, To Let, on rentable terms; and are thus rented. and kept in order by the tenant for the purpose of making money, (honestly, of course,) by accommodating licentious customers at their call.

Such houses of popular ill-fame, in style, are visited by the polished, the fashionable, the beaus and belles of high life, play-actors in theatres, attendants on theatrical exhibitions, and by thousands in disguise and incog., who are careful to shun suspicion of licentious works of darkness. But they have enlisted under the banner of Antichrist. The mark of the beast is on their bodies under disguise. Spirits like Frogs are their directors. And preparation for an onset to abolish Capital Punishment for murder, by human legislation, to rid this world of Bibles, and Bible religion, is the tendency of their immoralities.

Panderers are employed, and under pay for their services, to visit arrivals on thoroughfares and places of public resort, for the purpose of decoying unwary strangers into the above-described dens of infamy. And although the mask of disguise, under which the whole business is conducted, cannot screen them from the eye of public scrutiny; yet, no city laws, nor police authority can uproot them, because every person is legally constituted lord of his own house or tenement. "I would give $50, (said a city gentleman to