The Current Setting Romeward by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 17.

The Current Setting Romeward

By Editor

The First Congregational Church of this city celebrated Good Friday this year, "the first time," says the Examiner, of San Francisco, "that Good Friday has ever been observed in Oakland by any sect except the Catholics and Episcopalians."

This is only another straw which shows that the current is setting Romeward. Easter is generally observed, Good Friday is growing in favor, and many of the leading religious papers outside of the ritual churches are advocating a modified sort of Lent. And the end of the journey is Rome. She advocates no compromise. The compromise is all on the side of the Protestant churches, so called.