Answers to Queries by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 32.

Answers to Queries.

By Editor

D. C. S.—1. Rand, McNally & Co.'s "Indexed Historical Atlas of the World," published in 1883, gives the number of Catholics as 202,367,858; Protestants, of various denominations, 108,629,906; of the Greek Church, 70,482,000.

2. The Greek Church is in no sense Protestant. It has no similarity to Protestantism, but in belief and forms of worship it is essentially Catholic, yet the two bodies are antagonistic. They were formerly one, but became divided on account of the rivalry between the bishop of Constantinople and the pope of Rome.

3. There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that would prevent an atheist from being inaugurated president, if he were elected.