Foolish Protestants

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1913

Foolish Protestants

An almost incredible statement was made last week by Dr. Struthers, the chief medical inspector of Toronto's public schools. According to Dr. Struthers, a number of parents who objected to medical inspection transferred their children from the public to the separate schools. The presumption is that these parents are Protestants. They must be Protestants by chance and not by conviction. No man who has a proper appreciation of the principles of liberty and communion with the Deity without the intermediary of a priest, for which Protestantism stands, would subject his children to the influence of the Roman Church schools. Even if he did not believe the physical well-being of his child would be served by medical inspection, he would not risk its spiritual welfare and introduce a discordant element into his home by sending the child to a school conducted by priests and nuns, in which it would be taught the dogmas of the Roman Church. Rather than that, he would submit to what in a moment of indignation he might have considered a humiliating inspection, or send the child to a private school.

Orangemen have a duty in this regard. They are under an obligation to show fellow Protestants the danger of allowing their children to come under priestly influence. Did people rightly estimate the work of the Roman hierarchy they would sacrifice their all rather than allow their children to pass under its control. A little more knowledge, not more backbone, is what is needed by most Protestants who trust Rome. Our watchword should be, “Spread the Light.”—The Sentinel (Toronto), Jan. 9, 1913.