The Spirit of Protestantism
By Editor
IN noticing "Romanism and the Reformation from the Standpoint of Prophecy," by Rev. H. Grattan Guinness, the Independent says: "There is enough in the general spirit and teaching of the Bible to argue against Rome and her teachings, without forcing prophecy into such definite identification of Rome with the man of sin as Mr. Guinness attempts." Ah, yes; talk against Romanism in a sort of general way, but don't say anything definite about it. That is the spirit of the so-called Protestantism of to-day. But it is a fact that an argument from "the general spirit and teaching of the Bible" never convinced anybody of sin and never converted a single soul. If a system of religion is wrong, any conscientious Bible student can find plenty of passages in the Book for the "definite identification" of that error; and if the Bible is not definitely against anything, its "general spirit and teaching" are not against it. The Bible is the one book that gives no uncertain sound. It is the true Protestant book, for it vehemently protests against all iniquity whether it calls itself "Christian" or not.