A Misapplied Text at a Jesuit Altar

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

A Misapplied Text at a Jesuit Altar

Rev. J. H. Williams, missionary among the French Canadians,—on visiting Montreal, went into the church of the Jesuits and there saw, blazoned forth from its walls in golden letters over the altar of St. Joseph—(the Joseph to whom this altar was consecrated was the husband of Mary, a scrap of a text from the Latin Bible, “Ite ad Joseph”—go to Joseph. Now this proof text for the worship of Mary’s husband is taken from the Old Testament, and is part of a direction to go to Joseph in Egypt and purchase wheat!—Watchman & Receptor.