Why Rome Loves Darkness by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 50.

Why Rome Loves Darkness

By Editor

THE reader's attention is called to the short article on another page, entitled, "Why Rome Loves Darkness." From that he will find that "doubt on the truth of his religion" is counted in a Catholic as an immeasurably greater calamity than either idleness, frivolity, gambling, or sensuality, or all of them combined. A person may be addicted to all these vices, yet if he unquestioningly believes all the dogmas of "Holy Church" he is, in the estimation of "the church," sure of Heaven at last. We would not underrate the sin of skepticism, but we would like to know how far removed from skepticism that