WHAT EX-CATHOLICS SAY OF “THE SUPREMACY OF PETER.”
“As long as Roman Catholicism endures, the subject of Peter’s primacy and supremacy will be of prime importance. The doctrine of Peter’s supremacy and his establishment as Bishop of Rome is the foundation upon which the entire fabric of the Roman Church rests. M. E. Kellogg has just published a volume of 290 pages, entitled ‘The Supremacy of Peter, or Did Christ Establish a Primacy in the Church?’ “This is the latest and clearest refutation of the Roman claims and pretensions, for busy readers, that we have ever seen. It ranks with Rev. Dr. Mason Gallagher’s admirable work, ‘Was the Apostle Peter Ever at Rome?’ and, like it, is just the book to be in the hands of persons who are ignorant of Romanism. “There is no feeling of hatred toward Catholics manifested by the writer. The work is directed against the system. The author believes the Roman Church has contained and still contains many devout Christians, whose right of conscience he would not trench upon in the least. The papacy as a system is objected to because it represents and embodies an unscriptural and dangerous abuse of power—dangerous to both civil and religious liberty.”—Father O’Connor, in the Converted Catholic. “I have carefully read the book, ‘The Supremacy of Peter,’ by M. E. Kellogg. It is, in my opinion, the best book of its kind ever published in English. I have recommended it, and shall recommend it in the future, to any Roman Catholic inquirers after truth. The manner in which all Scripture texts generally adduced by Roman Catholic theologians as proofs of papal primacy, supremacy, and infallibility are examined, and shown to prove nothing either separately or collectively as to the headship of Peter, is clear, conclusive, and exhaustive. “As former teacher of Holy Scripture in the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Seminary in Colombo (Ceylon), I have had an opportunity of studying many works on this essential doctrine of ‘a falling or standing’ Roman Catholicism, and I hesitate not to pronounce it the best I have seen.”—William Tucker Harding, of New York. This is a very important publication, and it should have a general circulation. The price has been reduced from $1.00 to 50 cts., and special terms will be made with those who will take an agency for this book. It is neatly bound in cloth, 5 × 7½ inches in size, and contains 290 pages.