p. 7 | Courting the Favor of Rome

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

Courting the Favor of Rome

REPRESENTATIVE Roman Catholics observe with much satisfaction the multiplying evidences that Protestants are yielding the ground taken by Luther and his associates, and are growing more and more ready to compromise with what the founders of Protestantism did not hesitate to designate as an apostate church. The following editorial note from a Roman Catholic paper illustrates this:—

How happily changed has become the attitude of distinguished public men toward the Catholic Church in recent years. The presence of Vice-president Fairbanks at the dedication of a great Polish Catholic school in Chicago, last Sunday [May 10], is an omen of still brighter days to come. It was a brave thing for the vice-president to do to-day, but twenty-five years ago no vice-president could be found willing to risk such attendance. However men differ with regard to matters of religious belief, it is gratifying to find the hot bigotries of the ancient prophets of Protestantism perishing under the light of civilization.

The desire for popularity and the ambition for political preferment will lead men, prominent in public life, to court the favor of that church which can influence so many votes in a presidential election, but such a truckling policy forebodes evil for Protestantism and Republicanism, the great bulwarks of the American nation.