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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 20.

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Note and Comment

DURING the organization of a branch of the Lord’s Day Alliance at Knowlton, Quebec, April 29, Judge Foster, chairman of the meeting, declared that the most beautiful thing about the purpose of the Lord’s Day Alliance was that “all denominations were united in it, both Roman Catholics and Protestants meeting on common ground.” The Roman Catholic has never been willing to unite with the Protestant on any but Catholic ground. It is only reasonable that Protestants knowing this should look with suspicion upon a movement wherein Catholics are willing to join hands with Protestants. Rome never changes. She supports the Sunday law and encourages those who are working for it because the Sunday institution is hers by virtue of creation and appointment. She made it, and she smilingly approves of all efforts by Protestants to bind it upon the people. Speaking for the great mass of Christendom, it is true that “all denominations are united in it;” and yet there stands a “remnant” in the earth, so small that it is generally overlooked just as Judge Foster overlooked it,—a remnant that ‘can not join with Rome nor with that kind of Protestantism, because to do so it must turn its back upon the requirements of the Almighty. That remnant will be a thorn in the side of the movement for a universal Sunday observance, exasperating it to the end of the chapter. In the language of Luther it will say, “Here I stand; I can not do otherwise; God help me.” And God will hear and help. The “beautiful” combination between Protestantism and Romanism will condemn that remnant to death (Rev. 13: 14-17); but the revelator sees the members of that company on the sea of glass, with harps in their hands, singing the great chorus of final victory. There is no true beauty in a combination of men set against the purpose of God. It is better to be in the smallest minority withhim than to stand supported by the whole world against his design, and in violation of his law.