The Fruits of Roman Catholicism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 9, 1906

The Fruits of Roman Catholicism

In those countries where Roman Catholicism has full sway we may see the real fruit of this false system of religion in which there is no salvation from sin. Dr. H. K. Carroll writes thus of Peru:—

Judged by its fruits, the Roman Church here is more of a curse than a blessing. It does not change hearts or transform lives. It inspires a zeal, but it is fanatical; it develops a devotion, but it is outward and mechanical; it has a faith, but it is suffocated with superstition; it has a life, but it is covered with hypocrisy as with a cloak; it has a Christ, but he is either an infantile or a dead Christ. All the honors of worship go to the Virgin Mary. The church is but a whited sepulcher filled with the bones of dead doctrines: it is an impassable wall in the pathway of progress.

How preposterous is the claim that such an organization as this, bringing forth such fruit as this, is the only true church of Christ, or even that it is any part of the church of Christ! This is “that man of sin . . . who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God.”