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95:1.6 The early [[progress]] of the [[Melchizedek]] teaching was highly gratifying until ''Nabodad'', the leader of the school at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish_(Sumer) Kish], decided to make a concerted [[attack]] upon the prevalent [[practices]] of [[temple]] [[harlotry]]. But the [[Salem]] missionaries failed in their [[effort]] to bring about this [[social]] reform, and in the wreck of this failure all their more important [[spiritual]] and [[philosophic]] teachings went down in defeat.

95:1.6 The early [[progress]] of the [[Melchizedek]] teaching was highly gratifying until ''Nabodad'', the leader of the school at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish_(Sumer) Kish], decided to make a concerted [[attack]] upon the prevalent [[practices]] of [[temple]] [[harlotry]]. But the [[Salem]] missionaries failed in their [[effort]] to bring about this [[social]] reform, and in the wreck of this failure all their more important [[spiritual]] and [[philosophic]] teachings went down in defeat.

95:1.7 This defeat of the [[Salem]] gospel was [[immediately]] followed by a great increase in the [[cult]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar], a [[ritual]] which had already [[invaded]] [[Palestine]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtoreth Ashtoreth], Egypt as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis Isis], Greece as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite Aphrodite], and the northern [[tribes]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Astarte]. And it was in [[connection]] with this revival of the [[worship]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar] that the Babylonian [[priests]] turned anew to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astrology stargazing]; [[astrology]] experienced its last great Mesopotamian revival, [[fortunetelling]] became the [[vogue]], and for centuries the [[priesthood]] increasingly [[deteriorated]].

95:1.7 This defeat of the [[Salem]] gospel was [[immediately]] followed by a great increase in the [[cult]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar], a [[ritual]] which had already [[invaded]] [[Palestine]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtoreth Ashtoreth], Egypt as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis Isis], Greece as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite Aphrodite], and the northern [[tribes]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Astarte]. And it was in [[connection]] with this revival of the [[worship]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar] that the Babylonian [[priests]] turned anew to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astrology stargazing]; [[astrology]] experienced its last great Mesopotamian revival, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunetelling fortunetelling] became the [[vogue]], and for centuries the [[priesthood]] increasingly [[deteriorated]].

95:1.8 [[Melchizedek]] had warned his followers to teach about the [[one]] [[God]], the [[Father]] and [[Creator|Maker]] of all, and to preach only the gospel of [[divine]] [[favor]] through [[faith]] alone. But it has often been the [[error]] of the [[teachers]] of new [[truth]] to attempt too much, to attempt to supplant slow [[evolution]] by sudden [[revolution]]. The [[Melchizedek]] missionaries in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] raised a [[moral]] [[standard]] too high for the people; they attempted too much, and their [[noble]] cause went down in defeat. They had been commissioned to preach a definite [[gospel]], to [[proclaim]] the [[truth]] of the [[reality]] of the [[Universal Father]], but they became entangled in the apparently [[worthy]] [[cause]] of reforming the [[mores]], and thus was their great mission sidetracked and [[virtually]] lost in frustration and oblivion.

95:1.8 [[Melchizedek]] had warned his followers to teach about the [[one]] [[God]], the [[Father]] and [[Creator|Maker]] of all, and to preach only the gospel of [[divine]] [[favor]] through [[faith]] alone. But it has often been the [[error]] of the [[teachers]] of new [[truth]] to attempt too much, to attempt to supplant slow [[evolution]] by sudden [[revolution]]. The [[Melchizedek]] missionaries in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] raised a [[moral]] [[standard]] too high for the people; they attempted too much, and their [[noble]] cause went down in defeat. They had been commissioned to preach a definite [[gospel]], to [[proclaim]] the [[truth]] of the [[reality]] of the [[Universal Father]], but they became entangled in the apparently [[worthy]] [[cause]] of reforming the [[mores]], and thus was their great mission sidetracked and [[virtually]] lost in frustration and oblivion.