Note and Comment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 28, 1909

Note and Comment

By Editor

Forecasting Union

IN an editorial on the Federal Council of Churches, the Independent speaks hopefully of a probable union between Protestants and Catholics. We quote:—

To be sure, Protestants are by themselves, and the Catholics by themselves, but the breach between the two is surely not so wide as it was fifty years ago, and a truce is already in sight. We saw it when the Presbyterian Church dropped from its confession of faith its denunciation of the Roman Church as Antichrist; and in a multitude of places the two bodies work together for reforms. What is called in New Jersey been the Bishops' law was drawn up by a Catholic and a Protestant bishop to restrain the liquor nuisance. Only a few of the Catholic journals speak sneeringly of the meeting in Philadelphia. On both sides it is becoming clearer that the believers in the Christ must not waste the strength in fighting one another which ought to be spent in advancing the kingdom of God.

That which only a few years ago was regarded as altogether improbable, if not altogether impossible, is now viewed as “already in sight.” Believers in this advent movement have foreseen this as a fulfilment of prophecy, and the evidence is now constantly becoming clearer that their interpretation of the prophecy is correct.