Read the following from 1929 and compare it to Recent Years!!
From “The Impartial Reporter and Farmers’ Journal” in Ireland:
“Their one constant worry was their past.”
“These men were overcome by their authority, position and place, but their one constant worry was their past. The fear that someone would ask their foundation, their beginning, their Spiritual Father, their genealogy, and oh, what a past.
He (Irvine) made them what they were, and except for him, they may be what and where they were when he discovered them. How would they explain to the young converts?
And so started a great sifting.
Those that knew too much were gradually done away with, frozen out, persecuted until they went out.
People were forbidden to visit friends, and some had been ex-communicated on that miserable ground. Letters were being intercepted and destroyed, and the persons to whom they were addressed, never saw them.
Pressure had been brought to bear on struggling souls to compel them to deny the truth that was in them, even bodily violence had been done, that through pressure or pain they may be brought under their will.”
"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms." ---C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
