The American Protective Association
By Editor
The Harbinger (Disciple) of March 31 has the following:— "Father" Gleason wishes us to understand that the American Protective Association is the "ghost of Know-nothingism," and that it will quickly pass away. The "father" is not well posted. And the trouble with Know-nothingism was that it came before the hands of the Jesuits were so clearly seen as now, and before their arrogance, intolerance, and persecuting spirit were fully known. The association, being the child of necessity, will be very likely to live long enough to vanquish those who attempt to stifle free speech and overthrow American institutions. And why were not the "arrogance, intolerance, and persecuting spirit" of the Jesuits, and, for the matter of that, the Papacy, fully known? Why did God permit an object lesson of the working out of its principles for 1260 years? What was the Reformation but a recoil, a protest against these very principles? What have the Jesuits done of late years that they did not do a hundred times worse during those 1260 years? And God has foretold it all in his word. But the A. P. A. will not succeed, because it has adopted the armor of Goliath in order to fight him. Rome is mistress of her own weapons, and her enemies will so find it when too late.