Led Out of Darkness by Attending a Protestant School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 11, 1914

Led Out of Darkness by Attending a Protestant School

The head master of our school at Nazareth, South India, Brother A. Gnanasigamoni, tells this interesting experience of how he came to love the Bible:—

"Again and again I think of the wonderful way in which the Lord prepared me to receive the pure Word of God. Having been born of Roman Catholic parents, and educated in one of that church's institutions, I should have had no chance of becoming a convert if it had not been for the fact that while I was yet a boy I studied awhile in a Protestant school. The impression I received there about the Bible has never been fully effaced. Though I was instructed to hate the Protestants and not have any intercourse with them, I could not bring myself to do it. Having come in contact with several Protestants whose lives were better than most of the Roman Catholics I had known, such doctrines as 'There is no salvation out of Rome' did not satisfy me. With all my belief in the Roman Catholic Church, I could not help questioning some of its ways, and these became clear to me when I accidentally read some Protestant literature, which a 'true child of the church' would not do intentionally for anything in the world. I was shocked to find all the cherished dogmas of the Romish Church tottering and falling one by one in the light of church history, and finally the study of prophecy removed even the atom of faith I had in that church. In spite of the anguish and trials I had to undergo by separating myself from my family to follow the truth, I have found peace of mind, which the world could not give me. I thank the Lord, who has 'taught me from my youth' to 'forget not all his benefits.'"