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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1909

Note and Comment

Not a Sham

That Roman Catholics regard Protestantism as a force which must still be reckoned with is shown by their estimate of Protestant missions. From a paper on foreign missions, read at the recent Catholic Missionary Congress at Chicago, we take this paragraph:—

Let us not delude ourselves with the idea that Protestant missions are a mere sham. With their enormous outlay they are obtaining remarkable results, and, above all, they are raising a powerful obstacle to the planting of the true Christian faith. There are nations that would to-day be far on the road toward Catholicism were it not that when our missionaries arrived, they found that Protestantism had already, there as everywhere, done its work of dividing the minds of the people and leading them toward incredulity and indifferentism.

If Protestantism had remained true to its original principles, its triumphs would have been far greater, and it would have raised a much more powerful obstacle to the planting of Roman Catholicism. There is need to-day for a revival of the first principles of Protestantism.