Recognizing Danger

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

Recognizing Danger

THE rapid increase in the number of adherents to Socialism is causing comment in various quarters. That the advocates of Socialism are winning converts even from the Roman Catholic Church, is acknowledged in the following paragraph, taken from a Roman Catholic paper:—

There is danger ahead, and it must be prepared for in time. The age in which we live is pre-eminently one of isms, and every ism has its journal of propaganda. Socialism is becoming singularly effective in its appeal to Catholics. Its American advocates are strikingly adroit in concealing its darker phases from the public at large, and many of our people quaff its insidious poison until they become the severest critics of the church who was once their mother, and finally are found preferring the ism to the truth.

The luxury of the rich and the poverty and distress of the poor are forcing many to seek for a remedy in some new political philosophy. The disease is too deep-seated, however, to be cured by any human remedy. Human hearts must be changed before the oppression of the weak and the poor will cease.