Rome and the Bible To-day

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1912

Rome and the Bible To-day

IN the greater part of the Austrian dominions, in the beautiful Tyrol, in magnificent Vienna, and in Bohemia, with its Carlsbad and Prague, the circulation of the Bible is practically prohibited. In a word, the sale of the Bible is treated as some American States treat the sale of intoxicating liquor. No sale of Bibles is permitted without a license. After weeks of delay, if this is granted at all, a colporteur slowly trudges through the country, from door to door, exhibiting Scriptures, but never allowed to do more than take orders for them. Next, he goes over the same route, to fill these orders, only to find that a priest has in most cases succeeded in getting each purchaser to cancel his order, thus frustrating all his labors. In some provinces, even such licenses are forbidden altogether. This barbarous tyranny is not known in savage Africa, over vast areas of that Dark Continent, nor in China, nor in Russia, nor in Turkey, nor in Italy. But here it is, in Austria, in the very heart of European civilization.

Romanism still has a strangle hold on Austria.

Spain is even now attempting to throw off the yoke.

How long will Austria bear it? — Lutheran Witness.