The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

525271, WHERE BOTH THE LATIN AND THE ENGLISH TEXTS AREGIVEN. FOR DISCUSSION SEE, FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLICVIEW, THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOL. 7, ART."INFALLIBILITY," BY PATRICK J. TONER, P. 790 FF.; JAMESCARDINAL GIBBONS, THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (BALTIMORE:JOHN MURPHY COMPANY, 110TH ED., 1917), CHS. 7, 11. FORROMAN CATHOLIC OPPOSITION TO THE DOCTRINE OF PAPALINFALLIBILITY, SEE JOHANN JOSEPH IGNAZ VON DOLLINGER(PSEUDONYM "JANUS") THE POPE AND THE COUNCIL (NEWYORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1869); AND W.J. SPARROWSIMPSON, ROMAN CATHOLIC OPPOSITION TO PAPALINFALLIBILITY (LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1909). FOR THE NON-ROMAN VIEW, SEE GEORGE SALMON, INFALLIBILITY OF THECHURCH (LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, REV. ED., 1914).THE GREAT CONTROVERSYORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 52. IMAGE WORSHIP.--"THE WORSHIP OFIMAGES . . . WAS ONE OF THOSE CORRUPTIONS OFCHRISTIANITY WHICH CREPT INTO THE CHURCH STEALTHILYAND ALMOST WITHOUT NOTICE OR OBSERVATION. THISCORRUPTION DID NOT, LIKE OTHER HERESIES, DEVELOP ITSELFAT ONCE, FOR IN THAT CASE IT WOULD HAVE MET WITHDECIDED CENSURE AND REBUKE: BUT, MAKING ITSCOMMENCEMENT UNDER A FAIR DISGUISE, SO GRADUALLYWAS ONE PRACTICE AFTER ANOTHER INTRODUCED INCONNECTION WITH IT, THAT THE CHURCH HAD BECOMEDEEPLY STEEPED IN PRACTICAL IDOLATRY, NOT ONLYWITHOUT ANY EFFICIENT OPPOSITION, BUT ALMOST WITHOUTANY DECIDED REMONSTRANCE; AND WHEN AT LENGTH ANENDEAVOR WAS MADE TO ROOT IT OUT, THE EVIL WAS FOUNDTOO DEEPLY FIXED TO ADMIT OF REMOVAL. . . . IT MUST BETRACED TO THE IDOLATROUS TENDENCY OF THE HUMANHEART, AND ITS PROPENSITY TO SERVE THE CREATURE MORETHAN THE CREATOR. . . ."IMAGES AND PICTURES WERE FIRSTINTRODUCED INTO CHURCHES, NOT TO BE WORSHIPED, BUTEITHER IN THE PLACE OF BOOKS TO GIVE INSTRUCTION TOTHOSE WHO COULD NOT READ, OR TO EXCITE DEVOTION INTHE MINDS OF OTHERS. HOW FAR THEY EVER ANSWEREDSUCH A PURPOSE IS DOUBTFUL; BUT, EVEN GRANTING THAT