p. 16 | The Crisis Before Us by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 6, 1912

The Crisis Before Us

By Editor

The great crisis that lies before is seen by people of every class and character, even tho they do not know the outcome. For instance, in the 'London Letter' in the Western Watchman of October 12, 1911, the writer says: 'The extraordinary unanimity with which Europe may be said to be going mad can not but fail to convince us that we are daily drawing nearer to that crisis in the history of Christendom when so-called modern progress and false education will wage their last desperate fight against faith and spirituality. Martial law in Vienna and in Spain, Socialist congresses in Germany, strikes in Britain and Ireland, murder in Russia, and the insolent triumph of atheists, Freemasons, and Jews of France and Italy, have brought our boasted civilization to a pretty pass.'

But, after all, it would be well for this writer to inquire whether these conditions which so appal him are not the result of the dominance of the Roman Catholic religion for centuries.