201 The Revelation of Jesus Christ drals, on the streets, in their homes, what God had recorded in Paul's Epistle to i.he Romans; and as a result, the Reformation began. But mysticism did not end there. It still continues in that part of Christendom that has rejected the truth of the reformers. Go to Latin America today; that is, to Mexico, Central America, and South America; and you will find super stition and ignorance and fear comparable only to the wretchedness of the Dark Ages--all in the name of Roman Catholicism. The Catholic Church as we know it in our own country has been influenced by the open Bible, has been held in restraint, so far as such evils as the sale of indulgences and certain superstitions are concerned. But that is the result of the Protestant Reformation. The Reverend Harry Strachan, zealous missionary to Latin America, once told the story of how the drunken, im moral, ignorant Catholic priests of a certain South American city sought to kill a young native evangelist because he was teaching his people to read the Bible. Suddenly the lights in the tent where the young man was preaching were put out, and a would-be assassin struck at him with a dagger. But, by the grace of God, the native Christian saw the raised weapon, by a faint glimmer of light from without. Just in time he jumped aside, but the deadly weapon fell upon his open Bible, which lay upon the pulpit. Mr. Strachan had this Bible in his possession, the torn pages a solemn witness to the bitterness of the papacy toward the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It was this same system that persecuted John Wycliffe because he gave to the English people the first complete trans lation of the Bible in their own tongue. It was this system that strangled and burned at the stake William Tyndale because he gave to the world the first printed Bible. I am glad to admit that there are born-again souls in this system; but theirs is not the Catholicism that would be, except for the open Bible of the Protestants. And even though they are saved because they put their faith in the crucified and risen Son of God, yet they are bound by error that has been handed down through the centuries; they are kept in ignorance of many of the blessed truths of the Gospel of the grace of God. The day will come when every child of God, Catholic and
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