p. 8 | Going Over to Rome

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 21, 1908

Going Over to Rome

From a press dispatch recently sent out from Philadelphia we take the following statement:—

Fifty Episcopalian clergymen in different cities have agreed upon a certain day on which they will renounce Episcopacy as a preparatory step toward embracing the faith of Rome, according to Rev. Alvah H. Doran, formerly a prominent Episcopalian rector of this city. Ten of these ministers have charges in Philadelphia, seven in New York, eight in Chicago, and six in Fond du Lac, Wis. The others are scattered throughout the United States.

There is not so much significance in this defection from the Episcopal Church as might at first be supposed. These clergymen belong to what is designated as the “high church” wing of the denomination, whose views differ so slightly from Roman Catholicism that the step from the one to the other is a very short one.