Excerpt from Uncle Sam or the Pope, Which? By Rev. L. L Pickett She is the Mother and Mistress of all churches. This is true or false. If true, there is no place for or need of any other religious organization or church. If her pretensions are false we may well repudiate them and label her, The Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth. I shall attempt to prove in these pages that she is not only false in h-er claim to be the true and only Church of God, but that she is in no proper sense a church at all. I shall seek to prove that she is merely a 'politico-ecclesiastical system of tyranny and oppression, and is the great Apostasy spoken of in inspired truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.