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THE LEAVEN SPREADING

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 3.

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THE LEAVEN SPREADING.

By Chas. L. Boyd

The Christian Instructor and Western United Presbyterian contains the following startling announcement:—
“The constant spreading of Romanism in its most wily and dangerous forms, in England, should give solemn admonition to our own country. Word has just reached us that at Oxford four or five under-graduates have, within a short time, entered the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Newman, himself a pervert, long since from the Church of England, received, a few days ago, a minister into the Romish Church. Two others lately joined it in London, and a fourth is now under instruction for the step. What a call there is in this country, and in England, and everywhere, for the gospel to be read and preached, which alone is the wisdom of God and the power of God unto salvation! It is the sword of the Spirit alone that can slay the enmity of the carnal minds of men, and break the power of ensnaring error. Let it have free course.”
Oh that the Protestant churches could see that the Romish leaven is leavening the whole Protestant lump! But, alas, they know it not, and the steel of this all-powerful “sword” has been so corrupted by the mingling of Romish alloy, that it is a powerless weapon in their hands. Mingled with the commandments of God, everywhere that the gospel has been preached, are those doctrines which were to corrupt “all nations.” Soon the cup will be full, and all the wicked who have been filling it with this adulterated wine will be required to “drink and be drunken.”
CHAS. L. BOYD.