p. 265 | CHARITY RUN WILD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

CHARITY RUN WILD.

HERE is a specimen of the “liberality” that is beginning to be taught and to prevail in the Protestant world. Dr. A. A. Hodge, of Princeton Theological Seminary, preached recently in the First Presbyterian church of New Brunswick, N. J.; and in giving out a hymn composed by a Roman Catholic, said: “We may well sing Christian hymns composed by Catholics; for the Roman Catholic Church is a part of the Church of Christ. This is the doctrine we teach and preach.”

If Daniel, and Paul, and John, writing by inspiration, did not hold a different view from this, what did they mean by representing the papacy by a little horn that rose up against God; by calling it “that wicked, the man of sin, the son of perdition;” by setting it forth as a beast full of names of blasphemy; and finally by a debauched woman, having on her head the name, “Mother of Harlots, and abominations of the earth”? Dan. 7:25; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4, 8; Rev. 13:1–7; 17:5, 6. And how shall we interpret the instruction of Rev. 18:20: “Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her”?

Is such an organization a part of the church of Christ? Will Christ avenge his servants on a part of his own church? Shall apostles and prophets rejoice over the destruction of a part of the church of Christ? Abominable! To degrade the church of Christ in that manner, is not charity but treason.