Rome on the Potomac by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 11, 1913

Rome on the Potomac

By Editor

“Rome on the Potomac.”—We print elsewhere a striking article, with the above title, by Mr. G. Lawson Smith, who has given months of study to his subject, and who declares that the statements in his article may be relied upon. We need not say that we do not anticipate the removal of the papal headquarters from Rome to Washington. Prophecy to us clearly teaches otherwise, but the progress of the Papacy in this country, her hold upon matters in and around the capital of the country, are facts which ought to stir to the depths the lover of liberty. In all her work we freely admit that the Roman Catholic Church is consistent with her creed. Believing as do her followers, they must work as they do. But we believe their theory of church-and-state union to be utterly and absolutely wrong and inimical to religious and civil freedom. The only way to meet this is not by abuse or by the same weapons and means Rome uses, but by the freedom and power of the gospel.