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The Pope and Mr. Fairbanks

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 1, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 9.

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The Pope and Mr. Fairbanks

Does it not seem such a little thing for the pope to refuse to see Ex-vice-president Fairbanks, after all arrangements had been made, and the time fixed, because, and only because, Mr. Fairbanks spoke at a meeting of his Methodist friends first? Catholic papers tell us that it is because the Methodists in Rome are too zealous propagandists. Well, what of that? From a Roman Catholic point of view Mr. Fairbanks all the more needed soul-saving labor. Altho uttered by His enemies, it was said to the everlasting praise of Jesus, “This man receiveth sinners.”