Too Far

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

The Christian Advocate says: “Cardinal Gibbons, Monsignor Chapelle, and the Archbishop of Manila are about to meet in Rome with the purpose of trying to remove the conflict that has arisen between the Vatican and the United States regarding the sequestration of monasteries in the Philippines. . . . If the United States sustains all the previous contracts and impositions of the friars in the Philippine Islands, and if the administration escapes being Roman Catholicized in spirit, in its dealing with those countries, it will be highly to its credit and an occasion for devout thankfulness. Justice should be done to all concerned; no Protestant who is not a bigot would wish it otherwise, but justice in this case looks into the right of the titles, as well as to the legal form in which they are found.” One difficulty is that the government has gone too far already; so far that it will be difficult to extricate itself.