Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

Unity of the Faith

ROME'S method of preserving the “unity of the faith,” and binding the faithful into one bundle, under one head, is definitely set forth in the following paragraph from the recently published Motu Proprio of Pius X:—

Wherefore, we again and most earnestly exhort the ordinaries of the dioceses and the heads of religious congregations to use the utmost vigilance over teachers, and first of all in the seminaries; and, should they find any one imbued with the errors of the modernists and eager for what is new and noxious, or lacking in docility to the prescriptions of the apostolic see, in whatsoever way published, let them absolutely forbid the teaching office to such. So, too, let them exclude from sacred orders those young men who give the very faintest reason for suspicion that they favor condemned doctrines and pernicious novelties.

Certain Protestant schools, under denominational control, have gone to the other extreme, and under the plea of liberality in belief, are paying men to teach the tenets of unbelief and skepticism to young men preparing for the ministry. The one method makes mechanical religionists, the other licenses infidelity to practise in the pulpit.