WE WISH IT MIGHT BE by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 21.

WE WISH IT MIGHT BE.

By Editor

DISPATCHES from Rome, apparently on good authority, state that the pope has decided to make Mgr. Satolli cardinal at the next meeting of the Consistory. If this should be the case, it is more than likely that Satolli would return to Italy in the near future. His departure from the United States would not be regretted by many of his own church, to put it mildly; and to Protestants there can appear no reason why a papal legate should be sent to reside in a Protestant country. Should a successor to Satolli be appointed, it is to be hoped that no government vessel will be sent out to convey him ashore, as was the case when the present legate came to this country, and that the secular press will have learned by that time that to the American people the chief object of interest is not the doings and movements of an emissary from popedom, which has always been the inveterate enemy of republican forms of government, and has arrayed itself in open hostility to all the progressive movements which have characterized the march of modern civilization.

California Christian Advocate.

But, just the same, more and more honor will be shown the Papacy by the government and the secular press. It is not "expedient" to antagonize the power which controls the politics, and is coming more and more to direct the policy, of this government.