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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CAL., KANSAS CITY, NEW YORK · Nov 28, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 48.

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We do not ask the public to read any one of the articles in this issue because of the greatness or prominence of the author. We know the writers as able servants of God, who believe in the mission of Christ, and are anxious to see it accomplished. But each and all, even as the writer of this note, ask for no recognition because of name or position. This number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES deals with great, vital, and important questions, questions which are made prominent in the Word of God. And our readers are earnestly entreated to weigh these matters, as they are herein set forth, in the balances of God's truth. Read them in the light of His Word. Consider them as we would wish to do if we stood literally and visibly at the bar of God. Men should be nothing now, only as they are used of God. God and His truth are everything.

Not Men but Principles.

In presenting some of the plain truths in this number, our hearts are sad. God is our witness that we hold naught against Papists or Protestants as such or against any Roman Catholic or Protestant. We desire the salvation of them all. But, to be true to God and our own conscience, it is duty to say that there is no salvation in the papal system. Those in it who find salvation, and we believe there are many, are saved not because of it, but in spite of it. The system is evil, because subversive of the Word of God, deluding poor souls to hope in humanity, which is exalted to the place of God. Professed Protestantism is leaving the Rock of the Word and wandering in darkness. Would God that these things were not so. But we do feel glad that we are able to point all to Jesus Christ and the everlasting Word, in which is sure salvation for every soul through personal faith in Him. We entreat all to read and listen to what God says in His Holy Word. His warfare is against principles of evil, not against man. But He saves man from sin and error, but not by them, or in them, or through them.