
When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering
to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good.
But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means."
Great Controversy p.234,235 E.G.W.
...........and they worshipped the beast,
saying, Who is like unto the beast?
Revelation 13:4