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The opposition to the Bible by the Roman

Catholic Church has continued through the

centuries and was increased particularly at

the time of the founding of Bible societies. On

December 8, 1866, Pope Pius IX, in his

encyclical Quanta cura, issued a syllabus of

eighty errors under ten different headings.

Under heading IV we find listed: “Socialism,

communism, clandestine societies, Bible

societies.... Pests of this sort must be

destroyed by all possible means.”

Page 276. The Reign of Terror.—For a

reliable, brief introduction into the history of

the French Revolution see L. Gershoy, The

French Revolution (1932); G. Lefebvre, The

Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton,

1947); and H. von Sybel, History of the

French Revolution (1869), 4 vols.