As a Catholic Sees It by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 21, 1912

As a Catholic Sees It

By Editor

A CURRENT view of Protestantism from the Roman Catholic standpoint is expressed in these words: “It is plain to all that Protestantism in the United States has fallen to pieces; but what is more astounding, the ministers look complacently out upon the ruins. . . . There never was much religion in Protestantism, but hatred of Catholicity stood these deluded people in stead of supernatural faith. It gave a raison d’être for their existence, and an objective for their activities. But even hatred of Catholicity is dead, and nothing now remains but the somber duty of burying the dead.”

Using the same plainness of speech, we express it as our well-grounded conviction that Roman Catholicism is ancient paganism refined and adapted to modern times, that it has lost all claim to be regarded as a Christian system, and that it is the apostasy of Protestantism which renders it possible to make such serious charges against much which now passes for Christianity.

The situation demands a protest against both the Roman and the Protestant apostasy, and a return to the original truths and practises of the apostolic church.