The Second Number of the Protestant Magazine Now Ready
By Editor
In the year 1903, M. Urbain Gohier, of Paris, a prominent French writer, said in his book on the American people (quoted in the Literary Digest, August 22): “The Catholic question in the United States is one of extreme interest. Within a few years it will be the Catholic peril. . . . The Catholics, it is true, are a minority; but they are a minority that is homogeneous, organized, and disciplined. They form a solid block in the midst of a heap of crumbling Protestant fragments. . . . When there shall be an army of fifteen or twenty millions of Catholics, firmly united, by a tyrannical faith, trained under the régime of the confessional, blindly committed to the will of their priests, and directed by the brains of a few high Jesuits, we shall see how much of a showing there will be for American liberty.”
and other Protestant lands, and clearly shows the urgent necessity for turning on the brilliant rays of a strong, clear searchlight such as the Protestant Magazine.
FACSIMILE OF COVER PAGE. ORIGINAL PRINTED IN TWO COLORS
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Noteworthy Commendations
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Contents of Number Two
Favorable comments are heard everywhere regarding our unique cover design. The front page contains Christ’s own definition of “The Fundamental Principle of Genuine Protestantism.” On the second page will be found “Our Theses,” a series of nine declarations of Protestant principles that have been much commented upon, and favorably. A notable sentiment on what constitutes “The Center of Protestantism,” by D. Alcock, appears on the third page of cover. On the last cover page appears a striking picture of “The Book of God,” and Cowper’s famous poem beginning with these words:—
“A glory gilds the Sacred Page,
Majestic like the sun;
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.”
EDITORIALS.—Ceasing to Protest, or The Failure of Protestantism—Old-Fashioned Religion—A Suggestive Reminder—The Effective Protest—Simple and Wonderful—Fulfilling Righteousness—The Gospel of War, or the Militant Attitude of the French Catholic Church—Destroying the Protestant Foundations, an array of most valuable admissions from decadent Protestantism—The Papacy in Prophecy, or Is the Pope Anti-christ? (conclusive proofs from history, needed by every Bible student)—The Readjustment of History.
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES.—The Papacy in Politics, by J. O. Corliss, containing some valuable history—Evolution: Its Relation to Sin and Salvation, by Franklin Johnson, D. D., Professor in the University of Chicago—Is Truth Essential? by Rev. Smith Baker, D. D.—Luther at the Diet of Worms, by Eugene Lawrence, the famous historian of the papacy—The Romanizing Movement, by H. Grattan Guinness, D. D., author of “History Unveiling Prophecy”—The Limits of Christian Toleration—A False Master, by C. M. Snow—The Daniel Foreview of Romanism, by H. Grattan Guinness—The Church of Rome and Religious World-Empire, by Percy T. Magan.
NEWS NOTES AND EXTRACTS.—Fifteen separate items, from Catholic and Protestant sources, without comment, relating to Romanism and decadent Protestantism. These give some indications of “the falling away” from Bible standards, and of the declared purpose of the Roman Church to make America a Catholic country. This department is a veritable arsenal for Bible Protestants.
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