CORRUPTION OF THE CHURCH.
With reference to the end of the dispensation we are told in 2 Tim. iii, that "in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, dispiscrs of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," these are the characteristics of human society ever since the Church began, ever since Adam fell; but in characterizing these present days, called the latter times it is added -'Having a form of godliness without the power thereof." This is to be the characteristic especially of the latter times. Here then you have Satan watching the actions of those men, who had left his dominion, marking their humility, devotion, earnestness of feeling, and studying how the counterfeit of these could be produced, without the operation of the Spirit of God. We are not speaking of hypocrites, or open and evident liars, we put them aside; they could not poison and corrupt the Church ; they could not act their part well enough ; they would be detected too soon.— The Rev. A. B. C. Dallas M. A.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 December 1855, Page 10
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208CORRUPTION OF THE CHURCH. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 December 1855, Page 10
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