An Admission

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 15, 1910

Our brethren in the intensely Catholic countries where the Church of Rome still holds its power must read with interest some of the admissions which the prelates of that church are making in other lands. In the current North American Review, Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, attacks the methods of the Methodist Church in Italy. He claims it is not the presence of that church in Italy, but their methods, that he complains of, and adds:—

Efforts at self-expansion are legitimate in any organization; to preach its tenets is a right none will deny to any church that believes it has a mission to humanity.

That is a good word for the freedom of religion from state control or repression. Yet there is not a land on earth where the Roman clergy have the power to-day, where the representatives of Protestant missionary societies are not subject to persecution and attack merely for exercising this right which the archbishop so readily acknowledges—in America.