Rome and the Public Schools
REV. W. W. CASE (Methodist), of San Francisco, thus referred in a recent sermon to the aggressive attitude of Rome:— “The political lines have been sharply drawn by the attempt of Archbishop Riordan to regulate the public schools of this city. We believe that our children should know the truth whether it tells the scandals in the life of Mrs. John Wesley or the dark history of the Roman Catholic Church in the ages. Indifference is not a safe attitude to take toward Romanism. The Papacy is bending every effort to make America the bulwark of its church. The objections to Rome are—first, it is the great apostasy of the man of sin, predicted in the Old and New Testaments. It claims infallibility. It is a species of idolatry. It rests upon popular ignorance and degrades mankind. It is a system of falsehood and a persecuting power. The Roman hierarchy means to subjugate this country to the foreign Papacy. It is a political machine, determined by fair means or foul to give office to its own number. Rome aims to destroy the public schools. They say our schools are godless, when they themselves caused the Bible to be expelled from the schools.”