p. 840 | The Impending Religious Confederacy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 28, 1913

The Impending Religious Confederacy

MANY of the conditions which the religious world is today compelled to face are revolting and intolerable; and the great religious bodies feel that they are unable to cope with these conditions without a federation of all religious forces. Many feel that the utter disintegration of Christian society is impending unless this federation of all Christian bodies takes place without delay. Zion’s Herald of August 20, depicting the fearful drift toward the immoral in amusement places and advocating a party Christian crusade against these conditions, says: “Good Catholics can unite with good Protestants in this crusade. All over the land the issue today is joined between a stark and brutal naturalism, and a decorous and reasonable use of the good things of this life in the interests of the life eternal.” The adversary would make conditions so intolerable in this last generation that Christendom will think it necessary to unite for its own protection. Never in this world has there been such a throwing of modesty to the winds, and such a cultivation of the vulgar and suggestive. When fashion-mongers have gone to such lengths, one wonders what new thing can be invented in that line and how any lower step can be taken. All who think recognize the evil and its power to breed depravity. The only remedy Christendom sees is confederacy ; but when that has been accomplished in its fulness, the head of the Roman hierarchy will be the head of that confederacy. That is the purpose of the adversary in forcing these intolerable conditions upon this generation; and when that confederacy is effected, we shall see a professedly Christian world forcing its will upon subservient states, and speaking with the voice of the dragon against the people of God.