TH E K ING ’S B U S IN E S S =@ Vol. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1917 No. 9 0 = E D I T O R I A L In Los Angeles recently I was called on the phone by Saved by a Sunday a Christian woman whose heart was full of joy and School Lesson. gratitude over the blessing that had come to her daughter through reading the Sunday School lesson of May 27th, in T h e K ing ' s B usiness . The lesson was upon the Holy Spirit, and the part of the lesson from which she derived especial blessing was that which dwelt upon the personality of the Holy Spirit. While reading this, a wonderful sense of His presence with her, and such a marvellous peace as she had never known, came over her and led to prayer and peace in great peril, and the deliverance, which her mother describes. I asked her to write it out, and it will be found on page 829 of this magazine. the Heart? Catholic priesthood, and of the veiled falsehoods by which they keep their hold upon credulous and unthinking masses of men, and especially women. This advocate of papacy and priestcraft says: “Among the older people especially, in quiet communities, one meets really conscientious and pious non-Catholics who have apparently never felt any sense of inadequacy in their religion; and Catholics, knowing how much they themselves need the sacraments and all other aids and means of grace that their own religion affords, and knowing of the many who have found the sects incapable of supplying their needs, are puzzled by the apparent satisfaction of those who have so little.” We will not take time to dwell upon the quiet assumption that Protestants do not have the sacraments. But the fact is that, as any one knows who has had any very wide experience with both Protestants and Roman Catholics, true Protestants, that is those Protestants who have really been born again, have a deep and abiding satisfaction in their faith in a Saviour whom they can approach and commune with without the mediation of a man-made priesthood, that Roman Catholics do not know. Indeed this is one of our great points of advantage in leading Roman Catholics out of the snare in which they have been entangled; they see for themselves that we have a heart-rest and peace arid assurance that they know nothing about. Roman Catholicism cannot satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart: Jesus Christ Himself, a personal Christ and not a mere system of ordinances, does satisfy the deepest longings of the heart. An article has recently appeared in the Catholic Regis- ter that would be amusing if it were not such a sad revelation of the amazing effrontery of the Roman Does Roman Catholicism Satisfy
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