The Protestant Principle

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

The Protestant Principle

In a recent editorial the Interior (Presbyterian) made the following sound utterance:—

Let descendants of the Reformers who loved the Word of God above any word of man, hold steadfastly to the Protestant vantage-ground. Let us never suppose that we can buttress the testimony of the Bible by the dictum of the church.

This is the platform of this advent movement. A consistent adherence to this principle will result in a return to all those truths which were perverted or lost during that time when human authority took the place of the divine commands. If tradition and the dictum of the church should be set aside, the Lord’s Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, would be observed by every Christian believer. What glorious results would follow if Presbyterians and all other professed Protestants would be true to the Protestant principle!