Ceasing to Protest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 22, 1909

Ceasing to Protest

PROTESTANTS have largely ceased to protest against the erroneous doctrines of the Church of Rome. In fact, many so-called Protestants are anxious to adopt the title, “The Catholic Church,” discarding entirely the word “Protestant.” This tendency is thus tersely expressed by the Watchman, a Baptist periodical published in Boston:—

During the last twenty-five years there has been a decided rapprochement of public opinion in the United States toward the Roman Church.

The genius of Romanism falls in subtly with a very strong tendency of our times. Men crave the voice of authority and the note of certainty. We call this the age of free thought, of inquiry, and investigation, but it is also the age of credulity and superstition.

Protestantism, with its right of private judgment, is not to-day striking a universal note. Many people are tired of inquiry and investigation; they do not want to discover the truth, they want to be told what is true, and they believe what they are told if the speaker is dressed like a prophet and talks like one. All this works directly in the interests of Romanism.—Quoted in Literary Digest, Aug. 22, 1903.