Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 29, 1910

Protestantism Disappearing

That the spirit of true Protestantism is fast disappearing must be admitted by every sober student of the times. Many Protestant workers admit, and at the same time deplore, this fact. The Roman Church recognizes, and stands ever ready to make the most of, the changed sentiment. This is illustrated in the following remark at the recent Eucharistic Congress at Montreal, as published in the Woman’s National Daily of September 12:—

“From what I hear of conditions in the United States, the Catholics will soon control that country through force of numbers,” said Father Bernard Vaughan, most famous of England’s Roman Catholic prelates, who is a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress. “The battle for the possession of the world,” he continued, “will soon be narrowed to the Roman Catholic Church and the destructive forces of agnosticism. Protestantism is disappearing. The empty cradle and the empty church are the great problems of modern life. Racial suicide and religious suicide act and react upon each other. The Roman Catholic Church stands alone in its enforcement of the law of God concerning marriages, and the Roman Catholic Church alone has no complaint to make of empty pews.”

Would that professed Protestants were as quick to discern the trend of human events, and take warning from the signs of the times.