Statesmen’s Retreat Toward Popery

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1880

Statesmen’s Retreat Toward Popery

A story is told of a man standing on a quay bowing to his friends, who with each bow took a step backwards, bowing and receding till he unconsciously took the last fatal step which plunged him into the depth below. The London Rock says that this is what some English statesmen have been doing with regard to popery: they have been bowing and receding till a few more steps back will plunge them into the depth of subserviency to popery from which England was rescued 300 years ago, and into the thraldom of being priest-ridden like some continental nations.