Roman Catholic Influence in Sunday Movement
By Editor
At the Washington Convention of the National Sunday Association, the chairman, Col. Elliott F. Shepard, said that he was "glad to welcome the Roman Catholics in any work in which they could be induced to join." Some will be moved to ask whether the Sunday movement is a Protestant movement or not. If it is Protestant, then is there any difference between Protestant and Catholic? If professed Protestants are glad to welcome Roman Catholics in any work in which they can be induced to join, do they not thereby cease to be Protestants? We commend to those who are courting Roman Catholic influence and help, the following editorial utterance from America, under date of December 6, 1888:— "If anyone believes that there has come a change over the policy and purposes of the Vatican, because the Pope indorses the President's Thanksgiving proclamation, he must forget the motto of the church, Semper idem, and that history proves that Rome never changes. It modifies its means, but it never surrenders its aims. It stoops to conquer. Woe to the republic which accepts its patronizing condescension as significant of approval of republican institutions!"