p. 12 | As One Sees Us

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 13, 1913

As One Sees Us

LEST we come to think that the increased enlightenment of this age and a growing spirit of liberality and intellectual and religious tolerance will make it impossible for the decree of extermination ever to go forth against those who keep God's law, it may be well that we hear from time to time such expressions as the following, written to the editor of Signs of the Times by Mr. James Mullowney, a former Catholic priest. He pays his respects to Seventh-day Adventists in this manner:—

There are too many sects, too many creeds, too many fanatics; and the most dangerous of them all, in religion and in the field of labor, are the Seventh-day Adventists. Protestants and Romanists alike hate them, and some day a well-directed inquisition will terminate them. Fanaticism is the greatest danger to our country. I believe that even God hates a Seventh-day Adventist.

Therefore, in “terminating” Seventh-day Adventists by means of “a well-directed inquisition,” such a one would think he was doing God service, giving God pleasure in pouring out his hate upon such a people. There is nothing more bitter than the hate of a fanatic or bigot who thinks he is working under a divine commission when persecuting men and women on account of their religion. Mr. Mullowney is brutally frank, but so will be that decree, when it comes, declaring that all who will not worship the beast or his image or receive his mark, shall be killed.