Why We Are Protestants by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1915

Why We Are Protestants

By Editor

This is a subject that every Seventh-day Adventist family should fully understand and be able to explain. At special request, Prof. W. W. Prescott, editor of the Protestant Magazine, prepared an article giving many extracts from both Protestant and Catholic writings, noting minutely the wide difference between the mystery of godliness and the mystery of iniquity, the genuine and the counterfeit. This article is the principal one in the June number of the Protestant Magazine. If you are missing the good things that appear in this magazine from month to month, we recommend that you send ten cents for a copy containing this excellent article, and save it for future reference. It deserves careful study.

Ministers Appreciate the “Protestant Magazine”

We are presenting to the readers of the Review this week a few of the many testimonials we are receiving from clergymen in favor of the Protestant Magazine. Be sure to read them.

Congregations numbering hundreds may hear the truths of the third angel’s message as the result of our sending the Protestant Magazine to their pastors.

Clergymen, doctors, lawyers, etc., are sending in recommendations for the Protestant Magazine.

What we want is that more ministers shall receive the Protestant Magazine. How can it be accomplished?

We suggest that our churches secure the names of the ministers in their cities and send the Protestant to them for six months or a year.

We will send ten copies of the Protestant to as many clergymen for six months for $3.00; or for one year for $6.00. Or to five, if you desire, at the same rate—30 cents for six months, 60 cents a year.

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“I can heartily recommend the Protestant Magazine. It is clean, scholarly, and helpful, in a remarkable degree. To all who wish to be informed in regard to Protestant principles and keep in touch with the progress of events, I am commending this magazine, being a subscriber myself.”—Rev. Charles Schweikert, pastor Union Avenue Baptist Church, Paterson, N. J.

“For several months I have been a reader of the Protestant Magazine. It is ably edited, deeply spiritual, and revert toward the great eternal truths of God’s Word. Its articles are worded with dignity, and are free from abuse and flippant language. Still it searches the best authorities for its facts, and prints only what can be depended on as authentic. Its criticisms are all the more powerful because certainly true. One need not fear successful contradiction when he quotes from its pages any matter relative to the Roman Catholic Church. It should be in every pastor’s library, and in all homes of Christian workers.”—Rev. C. E. Hall, pastor Christian Church, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

“I have much pleasure in recommending the Protestant Magazine. It speaks out candidly, clearly, fearlessly, and truthfully concerning the various phases of the monstrous claims of the Papacy. It puts in bold contrast the manly, simple, and fundamental teachings of Christians who hold the Bible as their only and sufficient guide of faith, and the domineering, debasing, preposterous claims of the Papacy.”—Prof. E. Oldum, M. A., B. Sc., chairman Carnegie Library, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

“As a regular and interested reader of the Protestant Magazine, I want to congratulate you most heartily for your noble and righteous stand. Your magazine has already done much to arouse the American people to a sense of their danger. I wish you abundant success in exposing the political activities and the doctrinal errors of the Roman Catholic Church.”—Samuel A. Wallis, professor in P. E. Theological Seminary, Fairfax County, Virginia.

“I am a reader of the Protestant Magazine. In my opinion, and as far as my knowledge goes, it is the best anti-Catholic journal in the United States.”—Prof. Otto C. A. Boeckler, Concordia College, Springfield, Ill.

“I value your magazine for the conservative and safe manner in which you handle the difficult and burning questions of political Romanism.”—Rev. Martin Walker, pastor of the Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church, Buffalo, N. Y.

“Let us recognize everything that is good and true and fair in our opponents, and let us be careful not to exaggerate. I think the Protestant Magazine is a very good example of the line we ought to pursue. It seems to me that that magazine is edited, not only with an able scholarship, but with ability, sanity, fairness, and justice in dealing with the Roman Catholic situation.”—Rev. Randolph H. McKim, D. D., rector Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C.

“Your magazine is doing a glorious work. No Protestant pastor should be without it.”—Rev. R. Graebner, Lutheran pastor, Australia.

“I have read the magazine with great interest, and find myself in perfect harmony with what it states concerning the origin and ambition of the Papacy. I believe that the Protestant Magazine is in position to render a distinct service to the citizens of the North American Republic.”—W. H. T. Dau, professor of Church History, Concordia Seminary, Missouri.

“I have become so much impressed with the exceeding value of the Protestant Magazine that I have obtained a complete bound set from the beginning. It is so fair, so just, so courteous, so able, so eminently scholarly, and so thoroughly reliable, that it carries its own commendation to all who are fair-minded and want to know the truth. It affords also a splendid arsenal from which to draw ammunition in the present conflict with the encroachments of papalism. It ought to be in the hands of every Protestant minister in the country.”—Rev. William H. Bates, pastor Bethany Chapel, New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C.

“I am a regular subscriber to the Protestant Magazine, and take pleasure in recommending a periodical that is run along the lines of a sane, sound, and clear-cut evangelical Protestantism. I have found the articles that it contains to be thoroughly reliable, and have been able to use many of them in connection with my work. A dollar invested in a year’s subscription is money well spent.”—J. W. Whiteley, provincial organizer of the Grand Orange Lodge of British Columbia.

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