The Church of Rome by N. Y. Observer

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 17, 1884

The Church of Rome

By N. Y. Observer

The Evening Post says of the Church of Rome:—

"She has called herself the 'Holy Catholic Church' for a good many centuries, and has been able to support her claim to the exclusive use of the title by a large body of very respectable proof. Her failure, nevertheless, to prevent the immense schism known as Protestantism, and to get even a tithe of her male members to pay any attention to her ordinances, is not to be overlooked by any church which proposes to work under a new name."

A curious 'church' it must be that cannot get even a tithe—one in ten—of her male members to pay any attention to her ordinances! But this is the undoubted fact in regard to the Church of Rome, which some still venture to regard as a Christian church. How many more of her members must reject her ordinances before she will cease to be a church?