ROMANIZED | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1900

ROMANIZED.

(Advent Christian Messenger.)

ARE we becoming Romanized? It would seem so from the way we are following in Rome’s steps in forms and ceremonies. Many of Rome’s festivals, festal days, and observances were borrowed from pagan idolaters, such as Christmas, Easter, etc. These are now celebrated by Protestants with as much enthusiasm as by the Romanists. Not long ago Massachusetts abolished our “Fast Day,” so long observed by the people of this country as a holiday; now the press is agitating the question of making one of Rome’s festal days a legal holiday, as the following from the Worcester West Chronicle will show:—

There is a growing sentiment in the public press, for the setting aside of Good Friday as a legal holiday, not for sports, but, if possible, with such restrictions as legally apply to Sunday, so that those who revere the day as one consecrated by the death of Christ for the salvation of the world, may spend it in such religious service and duties as will best bring men to a realization of their obligations to their Creator. In five States in the Union the day is already a legal holiday, and others may soon be expected to follow their lead.

When will this nation become fully awakened to see that Rome is rapidly tightening her coils around this government, and that we shall soon be fully within her grasp, unless the influence she is now exerting upon our government officials shall be thrown off by those who are fully aware of our danger?