The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

That made the papacy; that set up the
government of the church, and made the church the
channel of salvation by absolute earthly power and
compelling men into that way.
Now we have read the doctrine of the church
here--the doctrines of the church of Rome in the
way that men must be saved, and it was altogether
man's self. It was altogether the power of self alone
that could save. That is not the salvation of Christ.
Her doctrines are that a man must fit himself, good
enough, and the Lord would take him and make a
regular bargain with him. "If you will do so and so,
then I will be good to you." That is the record itself
there in that book; I have not time to read it
tonight. Her doctrine is that a man must do that, but
there is not power in him to do it, but there is the
argument. If he does it, then he gains all. That is
not the salvation of Christ. That is not the salvation
of God.
Further than this: the professed Protestant
churches of the United States have taken that same
course now, and have also exalted Sunday, the day
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