Protestants and Catholics Unite for Sunday
An indication of the readiness of Protestants and Catholics to join hands in the cause of Sunday enforcement, appears in a recent issue of The Defender, organ of the New England Sabbath Protective League, which quotes from a strong “pastoral letter” against Sunday desecration, written by Archbishop Bruchesi, of Montreal. Among the reasons given by the archbishop and published by this Protestant journal against such desecration is the following:— Do you not see that these amusements organized by greedy speculators lead hundreds of people to the desertion of the mass, the abandonment of the sacraments, to ignorance of the truths of faith, to the destruction of the family tie, and to the weakening if not extinction of good morals? The class of Protestants for whom The Defender speaks are apparently ready to indorse the papal institution of the mass and the religious system centering around it, if the cause of Sunday observance is to be served thereby, and Roman Catholics are ready to co-operate with them upon this basis.