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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 51.

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By William Warren Prescott

Why should such a stir be caused in this country when the head of the Roman Catholic Church elevates three archbishops to the cardinalate?
Why should the papers of this country devote columns of space to this matter, going into the minutest details and dwelling upon the most trivial features of the occasion?
Why should President Taft send a cable message to the new cardinals, assuring them that it will give him pleasure to receive them when they return to America?
Why is it a matter of any more concern to the citizens of this country when certain men are advanced to high positions in the Roman Catholic Churchthan if the same thing were done in the Methodist Church, or the Presbyterian Church, or any other church?
Why is there any more significance in the growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States than in the growth of any other ecclesiastical organization?
The correct answer to these questions can be given only in the light of those prophecies which deal with the immediate future of the Roman Catholic Church, and which reveal what the Papacy is to accomplish in shaping affairs in this country. The student of prophecy in considering the very rapid development of the power of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States can not escape the conviction that things foretold long ago are now coming to pass, and that events are rapidly shaping for the great consummation. It is a time when every one should be laying hold of that personal experience which will enable him to stand in the trying times now so near at hand.
W. W. P.