In the first edition of this book in 1917 St Manuel stated These pages are aimed at exposing before men of faith and of heart an evil that I am incapable of naming for even if I were to use every noxious epithet on earth I would fail to define it adequatelyThe abandonment of the Tabernacle I am firmly convinced that in practical terms the worst of all evils and the cause of all evil is the abandonment of Tabernacles not only in religious matters ...