Above God | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1904

Above God.

Rome is continually setting herself above God in one way or another. It is not only in thinking to change times and the law, or in setting up a Sabbath in opposition to the Sabbath of the Lord, or in assuming to forgive sins and to dispense indulgences, or in declaring the infallibility of the pope; it crops out on every side. A recent incident in that line is told in a press item from Madrid, Spain. Cardinal Herrero of that city recently died, and in his will there is a provision for $10,000 to the first Spanish general who shall land on territory of the United States with an army sufficiently strong to avenge the defeats of Spain in Cuba and the Philippines.

Laying aside the absurdity of the proposition, there is in it the spirit of revenge that illy becomes a "prince of the church," one who claims to be a disciple of Him who says, "Resist not evil." "Avenge not yourselves." One who assumes to avenge wrongs, steps above God, who has declared, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay."