Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 5, 1904

ACCORDING to authorities quoted by the Literary Digest, there is a revival of Romanism in Norway. Of all European countries, Scandinavia has since the Reformation been most free from the grasp of Rome, but in the lapse from true godliness which is characteristic of the times the world over, the way is prepared for new triumphs of the papacy everywhere, since it is faith alone that can overcome the papal power. In Norway out of a population of 2,300,000 about 2,000 people profess the Roman Catholic religion, of which number nearly one half are in Christiania. The minister of education, Dr. Sverdrup, is a Catholic, and through him Rome exerts a considerable influence upon the nation.