Excerpt from The Bulwark, or Reformation Journal, 1855-56, Vol. 5: In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery To such, the curate must become what the missionary is to the heathen or the Romanist. He must use the weapons of aggression. He must bring contrast and controversy to bear upon their error and ignorance. Unquestionably, he must exhibit the Gospel in its plainest and broadest outline, but the Gospel alone, however explicit, will not suffice; it will be received with a mistaken apprehension of the terms used, or will obtain only a cold assent, so long as the heart remains untouched by the power of those thoughts which can be stirred within it by nothing short of the clearest views of eternal truth. With the Gospel there must be a controversy with the prevailing phase of self-deceit, the arrows of conviction pointed, as our Lord pointed them when He employed the medium of the law to expose the self-complacency of the young ruler, or confounded the men of the Pharisees' with the necessity of regeneration, even for him who was of the seed of Abraham. This was to controvert the dominant false principle, the proper object of missionary work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.