America’s Advance Toward the Papacy
THUS the Advance, a leading Congregational journal, speaks of Satolli, the Papal Legate, now in this country: "If he is indeed as liberal, as American, and as sensible, as his address on the school question seems to indicate, we shall wish him the utmost success." This from a Protestant journal! Liberal, American, sensible (in a way) the Papacy is fast becoming—in America. It is policy to be, and as a matter of course America is advancing toward the Papacy in her great liberalism. At least the great churches, excepting, perhaps, their views on the school question, are looking toward Rome with ever-increasing kindness of aspect. But Rome will yet fix up the school question so as to suit our half-hearted Protestants. The governments of earth are represented in the prophetic word by the insensate, stupid horns of a beast, but the Papacy is symbolized by a horn that had the eyes of a man, indicating its shrewdness and farseeing policy. The shrewdness and the blindness are both manifest in America.