p. 615 | Apostasy from the Faith

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 39.

Apostasy from the Faith

hundreds of thousands—all the monks and clergy—by men and women strangers to God’s grace, salutary, for they brought all confusion into family relations. And “spiritual affinities” worked then as now. It is blind infatuation and desperation to say that the minds of the people were not as by an epidemic turned to a belief in miracles as wrought by dead heroes, whose bones were “resplendent with miracles and terrific prodigies” (Gregory), and that this was not demonolatry pure and simple. And finally no one can affect not to recognize in this a wonderful and complete fulfillment of the Spirit’s express declaration in the monkish portrait given in 1 Tim. 4: 1-3, that “some should apostatize from the faith.”