Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1905

LATEST advices from Russia point to the conclusion that the long-deferred day of popular liberty has at last dawned, and that the people of that country are henceforth to have constitutional government. This is really a triumph of Protestantism over the papacy, for it was the Russian orthodox church, the Greek Catholic, which held most strongly to the old despotic regime, and it is the essence of Protestantism that people should be free to think and to believe for themselves, and to govern themselves, subject as citizens only to such laws as are necessary to safeguard natural rights. With the passing of autocratic rule in Russia a change comes which means much for future religious development and the progress of the gospel message in that vast section of the world.