did not want to bury the past, but to draw attention to it, since it was an injustice still to be redressed. The same council fathers who did not want a reference to deicide also wanted to exclude any message of past persecution by the church or of Christian guilt for them. They won on all three issues. So you can go in. My point is here, you can go into the Catholics' own historical records and see that they recognize that they need to make apologies. But their internal struggle, because of their doctrine of infallibility, prevents them from doing it. So when you understand that and you go back to this quote where Sister White says that Rome would be covering her past persecutions with apologies, you see how farsighted that was, that that was written 120 years ago. That wasn't simply a book. And it wasn't simply a book about history. It's a book about present truth right now. Now, hopefully back on track here, not only during this time period when the papacy is covering her past with apologies, and Protestantism is having far greater favor for the papacy, but this spirit of apologies and asking for forgiveness is coming from the Protestant world as well. This is from National Catholic Register, April 2000. A recent meeting of Pentecostal scholars turned out to be the site of an impromptu confession of sins and pleas for forgiveness. Pleas for forgiveness and ask for forgiveness of sins from Pentecostal leaders regarding Catholic-Pentecostal relations. They were asking forgiveness from the Catholics. National Catholic Register, once again, May 2000. In a message to Pope John Paul II, the United Methodist Church has asked for forgiveness for instances of misunderstanding, insensitives, and harm against Catholics that have been caused by Methodists. The action was adopted at the church's recent general conference. Great controversy, 581. We'll close on this one. Not with a statement, but with some comment on it. God's word has given warning of the impending danger. Let this be unhated, and the Protestant world will learn what the purposes of Rome really are. Only when it's too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influences in legislative halls. And brothers and sisters, that statement there is just so profound. This book I'm going to recommend to you in a couple days, it shows how her doctrines were introduced into the United States.