p. 173 | CHARITY RUN WILD by Uriah Smith

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 1, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 22.

CHARITY RUN WILD.

By Uriah Smith

In one of his recent meetings in N. Y. city, Mr. Moody is reported to have said that “if there was anything during all these meetings he had to be thankful for it was the utter want of any feeling of sectarianism. Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, all sects met at these meetings on one common footing, the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, and, therefore, as Christians, and he hoped it would always be so. ‘I hope,’ said Mr. Moody, ‘I will see the day when the Roman Catholics will join with us, for they are as good Christians as any among us, and that all who stand by that blessed Name will advance in solid column against the works of the world, the flesh, and the devil.’”

He has a very poor conception of the spirit of Roman Catholicism who does not know that it is a cardinal principle with them never to unite with anything that is not a complete concession to themselves; and we know that the characteristic doctrines and the corruptions of that church are from the pit of darkness. Yet men in the honied phrases of the pseudo-union which they are seeking, will talk of uniting with that church. This is one of the items which clearly show the tendency of these times.

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