Sound Advice by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1912

Sound Advice

By Editor

The necessity of using care that only authoritative documents and reliable quotations should be employed in the controversy with Rome is emphasized by the Continent (Aug. 29, 1912) in these words:—

"Protestants who wish to curb the power and extension of the Roman Catholic Church can very well assure themselves that they will never 'get anywhere' so long as they are content to deceive themselves with lurid forgeries which are alleged to be incriminating Romanist documents."

In the same article there appears a statement from Dr. Juan Orts Gonzalez, formerly a Roman priest but now a zealous Protestant, who expresses himself thus:—

"It seems to me a very great pity that there are some Protestants who indulge in misrepresentations, hoping thus to prevent the encroachment of the Roman Catholic Church, when there are so many very real and solid reasons that may be offered to show the errors, absurdities, and inconsistencies of the Roman Catholic Church in the past as well as in the present. If these were carefully examined, nothing could be more convincing, and nothing appear more useless than misrepresentation."

Those who write or speak concerning Romanism would do well to remember the caution and suggestion here offered.