Why Are You A Protestant? by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 1, 1911

Why Are You A Protestant?

By Editor

You are not a Protestant unless you are actually protesting against the principles and the practises of the Roman Catholic Church.

But, for you to protest against the Roman Catholic Church, you must be familiar with her teachings, and know why to protest against them, and also how.

“There is not, there never was on this earth,” said Lord Macaulay, “a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. . . . It is impossible to deny that the polity of the Church of Rome is the very masterpiece of human wisdom.”—Essay on Von Ranke.

The Protestant Magazine

For the Second Quarter of 1911

JUST ISSUED

Is a very arsenal of timely facts for the use of every Christian soldier. Like the preceding eight numbers issued since May, 1909, it will serve the double purpose of helping to make good Protestants, and also of furnishing the Christian controversialist with good weapons of offense and defense.

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PARTIAL CONTENTS

COVER PAGES.—Final Court of Appeal for Protestantism—Our Theses—Recognizing the Authority of God—A Usurpation of Divine and Human Authority.

EDITORIALS.—Positive Protestantism—One Mediator—Contradictory Statements Regarding Persecution by Roman Catholics—A Live Issue (Episcopalians on Romanism)—Typical and Antitypical Babylon (explains Babylon of to-day)—Comparing Spiritual With Worldly (review of a Paulist sermon)—Need of Gospel Among Catholics in South America—A Horrible Thing (Anglicans and Cardinal Gibbons on proposed changes in decalogue).

GENERAL ARTICLES.—What Think Ye of Christ?—The “Privilege” of Peter—The Bible’s Appeal to “Private Judgment”—A Remarkable Document (Catholic Confession of Faith prescribed to Protestant Converts—in parallel columns of Latin and English)—Rome’s Teaching About Protestants (who are heretics, etc.)—Bible and Modern Criticism.

NOTES AND EXTRACTS.—Boycotting Italy’s Celebration—Rome Versus Portugal—Mixed Marriages—Protestantism as “Anarchist Church”—Catholic Chief Justice—A Catholic Attack Upon the Y. M. C. A.

Are You Aware

1. That Rome plans to rule the world through the United States, according to Bible predictions? That she calls America “the church’s land of promise”?

2. That Rome seeks to control national, State, and city elections in America? That she also largely controls the politics of Germany, England, and Canada through her “center” or “balance of power” party?

3. That the United States Census Bureau reports show that the membership of the Catholic Church in this country had increased 93.5 per cent, while that of the Protestant bodies increased only 44.8 per cent during the years 1890 to 1906?

4. That at its ninth convention, held in New Orleans, La., Nov. 13-16, 1910, the American Federation of Catholic Societies passed the following resolution, aimed at anti-Catholic publications: “Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be earnestly requested to amend Section 3893 of the revised statutes . . . so that the same may include the mailing of books, papers, writings, and prints which outrage religious convictions of our citizens, and contain scurrilous and slanderous attacks upon Faith”?

5. That the chief justice and one associate justice of the United States Supreme Court are Roman Catholics? That an ex-president has predicted the election of a Roman Catholic for President of the United States?

6. That the plans of the Papacy with reference to our country are, as expressed in a letter from the Vatican (New York “Sun,” July 11, 1892): “What the church has done in the past for others she will now do for the United States”?

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