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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 16.

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ABSOLUTION

By M. S. S.

In the “Compendium of the History of the Catholic Church,” by Noethen (revised edition), I find these words: “The form of the sacrament of penance, in which principally consists its virtue and efficacy, is contained in the words of absolution pronounced by the priest; the dispositions of the penitent, which are contrition, confession, and satisfaction, being the substance of the sacrament; and the reconciliation of the sinner with God is the effect.”—Pages 444, 445.
According to the above, there is no efficacy in repentance, as Protestants pretend.
I also learn from the same book that the United States was placed under the special protection of the “Mother of God” by a “solemn decree of the council held in 1846.”—Pages 548, 549. M. S. S.