OUR GREATEST PERIL

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 43.

OUR GREATEST PERIL.

It is not the "hush power of Rome" nor the scheming of Catholic prelates that the republic has most to fear from at the present time. It is the manner in which the principles of our government are gradually but surely being subverted by the very men who are loudest in denouncing the Roman prelates. It is a Protestant religio-political combination, at whose instance the Constitution is being overridden, which aspires to exceed in this country even the power and supremacy which Rome has had in some of the European and South American countries. This religious hierarchy has already made subservient tools of the judicial, the legislative, and executive branches of the government. It is seeking to establish a national religion and to compel all people within the borders of the republic to obey laws which, in direct violation of the Federal Constitution, are framed in the interest of that religion. It is time that the people became alive to the dangerous character of this religious conspiracy which strikes at the very foundations of our government.—Duluth (Minn.) Evening Herald, Oct. 14, 1892.