Catholicism and Christian Liberty

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 22, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 37.

Catholicism and Christian Liberty

That there have been and are Roman Catholic Christians, Roman Catholic patriots, Roman Catholic lovers of liberty, we will not deny. Nay, we freely grant it. But they were not and are not Christians, patriots, and lovers of freedom because they were and are Roman Catholics, but notwithstanding their Catholicism. They had imbibed less of Roman Catholicism than of Christianity. They absorbed the light which came to them in that system instead of the darkness which there abounds. They looked to Christ instead of the man who claimed to be Christ’s vicar. In thus doing they were better Christians than Catholics.