The name "Protestant" is a word we seldom hear mentioned by today's Evangelical Church, but after the blessed REFORMATION it was precious, and really meant two things - "to protest against and to declare or witness." Since the Charismatic/Ecumenical/Modernist Movement began to infiltrate the churches, the word PROTESTANT became unfashionable and was scorned and even sneered at. Most of today's professing church believes that "Rome has changed!" Lord Acton said that She was 'THE FIEND, SKULKING BEHIND THE CRUCIFIX." (Jeremiah 13:23)
- A WARNING FROM THE PAST: Let it not go unheeded!
- IGNORANCE REIGNS AND ROME ADVANCES.
by Charles Chiniquy:
Venerable Ministers of the Gospel! Rome is the great danger ahead for the Church of Christ, and you do not understand it enough.
The atmosphere of light, honesty, truth, and holiness in which you are born, and which you have breathed since your infancy, makes it almost impossible for you to realize the dark mysteries of idolatry, immorality, degrading slavery, hatred of the Word of God, concealed behind the walls of that Modern Babylon. You are too honest to suspect them; and your precious time is too much taken by the sacred duties of your ministry, to study the long labyrinth of argumentations which form the bulk of the greater number of controversial books. Besides that, the majority of the books of controversy against Rome are of such a dry character that, though many begin to read them, very few have the courage to go to the end. The consequence is an ignorance of Romanism which becomes more and more deplorable and fatal every day.
It is that ignorance which paves the way to the triumph of Rome, in a near future, if there is not a complete change in your views on that subject.
It is that ignorance which paralyses the arm of the Church of Christ, and makes the glorious word “Protestant” senseless, almost a dead and ridiculous word. For who does really protest against Rome today? where are those who sound the trumpet of alarm?
When Rome is striking you to the heart by cursing your schools and wrenching the Bible from the hands of your children; when she is not only battering your doors, but scaling your walls and storming your citadels, how few dare to go to the breach and repulse the audacious and sacrilegious foe?
Why so? Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.
Faithful ministers of the Gospel! The monster Church of Rome, who shed the blood of your forefathers is still at work today, at your very door, to enchain your people to the feet of her idols.
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Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899) was for twenty-five years a priest of Rome in Canada and the United States, who became a minister of the Gospel after his conversion and departure from Romanism. This article was excerpted from the ‘Dedication’ in his classic autobiography and refutation of Romanism, 50 Years in the “Church” of Rome, published in 1886 by the Protestant Literature Depository in London.
The warning this brave Christian gave over a hundred years ago needs to be heard by all Christian ministers, and indeed all Christians, in our day! Chiniquy saw the danger ahead, and sounded the trumpet; but ignorance of Romanism is so widespread today, that the vast majority will have no idea what he was meaning. He wrote of Protestants in his day, that “they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ”; but today, the situation is far worse: most “Protestants” consider her to be not almost, but altogether a branch of the true Church!
Awaken, ministers of the Gospel! Your ignorance is not bliss, nor is it excusable! Heed the voice that comes to you across the years. Arise, protest, sound the alarm!
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