Joining Hands with the Papacy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 8, 1916

Joining Hands with the Papacy

In its issue of Dec. 11, 1884, the Christian Statesman said editorially:— “Whenever they [the Roman Catholics] are willing to cooperate in resisting the progress of political atheism, we will gladly join hands with them.”

Five years later, Nov. 10-12, 1889, in a congress of Catholic laymen held in Baltimore, Md., this response was made to Protestant proffers of cooperation:— “There are many Christian issues on which Catholics could come together with non-Catholics and shape legislation for the public weal. In spite of rebuff and injustice, and overlooking zealotry, we should seek alliance with non-Catholics for proper Sunday observance.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean, Nov. 13, 1889.

The same report adds that “the planks of education, labor, and Sunday observance were received with the greatest demonstrations.”