Eternal Vigilance Required

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 16, 1911

Eternal Vigilance Required

THE experience of ex-Vice-President Fairbanks in Rome several months ago has served to awaken an earnest discussion in the columns of some of the leading Methodist journals of the country, on the question of the character of the Papacy. They feel that the efforts of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States need careful watching. Of this the Christian Advocate of September 14, speaks as follows:—

“A year ago the American Federation of Catholic Societies passed a resolution condemning the National Educational Association as an organization ‘to set up in this country an educational trust as a menace to individual liberty, and to the primary right which every citizen enjoys of choosing the kind of education he may wish to give to his child.’ The fact is that this year, when the federation met at Columbus, and action was about to be taken on the resolution, it was represented by one sensible person present that such action was somewhat precipitate, inasmuch as more than half of the public-school teachers of Chicago and New York are Roman Catholics, and nearly all are members of the National Educational Association! This is right. Nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church will never be satisfied until it gets hold of the public money for its denominational schools. The public should watch lest unawares church and state become interwoven. Watch, we say, for war was once the power that united them; now cunning and persistence are the weapons, and by these is secured a third weapon; namely, party politics.”