Where the Authority Comes From.
By Editor
WE have no sympathy with Catholic doctrines and traditions, or with their perversion of Scripture, but they are far more consistent in their error than the majority of Protestants. The former teach error, and boldly claim it as of their own devising; the latter take up the same errors second hand, and try to make the Bible responsible for them. The San Francisco Monitor (Catholic), in reply to an article arguing against the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, because the doctrine is not to be found in Scripture, turns the tables on the Protestant writer and asks him where in the Scripture he got his doctrine of a Sunday Sabbath. "Almighty God said, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy;' but the Catholic Church, the seat of God's wisdom on earth, defined that the first day of the week, and not the seventh, should be observed as the Lord's day, and the majority of the Protestant world meekly acquiesces in this purely popish festival." Hence it argues that "even from a Protestant standpoint, other doctrines of the church may be just as binding upon Christians, although not specifically set forth in the sacred Scriptures." Can any Sunday-keeping Protestant prove the Monitor's charge to be untrue?