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The Pope’s Advice

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 25, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 52.

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The Pope’s Advice

THE Northwestern Christian Advocate for Dec. 10, 1913, contains the following:—
A compendium of Christian Doctrine prescribed by Pope Pius X and published in 1906 contains the following question and answer, the head of the Roman Catholic Church being author of both:—
Question.—“What ought a Christian [a Roman Catholic, of course] to do if a Bible is offered to him by a Protestant or by an agent of Protestants?”
Answer.—“If a Bible is offered to a Christian by a Protestant, or by any agent of the Protestants, he should reject it with horror; and if he should happen to have taken it without being aware of it, he ought to throw it into the fire or consign it to his parish priest.”
These are pretty straight orders and need no comment. It might be remarked that the Roman Catholic Church cannot burn Bibles fast enough to destroy the issue. The Book is being printed in four hundred and fifty dialects and languages, and more copies are being printed today than at any time in the history of the world.