Miraculous Conversion and Instruction of Cornelius

“In refutation of the theory of Indifferentism I would ask you to turn with me to the tenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, wherein we will find recounted the ‘conversion’ of a certain man of Cesarea, called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, e.g., Roman soldiers, and whose virtues, prior to him seeing St. Peter, the stern uprightness with which he had acted up to the light hitherto received, the succession of miraculous circumstances which led up to his ‘conversion,’ make it clear to everyone that indifference in matters of religion cannot be reconciled with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You will observe that the history of his instruction, baptism and reception into the Church occupies some forty-eight verses of the chapter referred to, and it looks as if the Holy Ghost had penned this lengthened description of the conversion of this man, to stand as a record with which to demolish the flimsy sophistries of this day and generation, with their would-be unrestricted liberty of religious creeds. — Millennial Star 62:29”