Catholic Testimony Against Sunday Keeping
By Editor
IN the Catholic World of the present month the noted Paulist priest, Walter Elliott, sharply criticises "one of the oldest and most respectable Catholic journals" for commenting upon the fact that Sunday observance has no Scripture authority. He does not assume that there is any basis in the Scripture for such observance, but he regards the publication of the fact as "bad policy," because it gives an argument to the Seventh-day Adventists against the position of Sunday-keeping Protestants. He states that he has been "almost everywhere assailed" with these quotations from Catholic authority, and pleadingly begs, "Let us not favor those among our adversaries who hate us most, . . . all the more hopelessly wrong if consistently logical with their Protestant premises." But while our critic thus chides his brethren for throwing the weight of Catholic evidence in the scale to favor Seventh-day Adventists as against other Protestants, he himself adds materially to the weight on that side. Although intending a slur, he really does us honor in the expression, "I thank God that 'consistent Protestantism' is narrowing down into this concentrated essence of bigotry; and I am very sorry that they can quote a Catholic 'organ' in praise of their 'consistency.'" Hereafter we can quote Mr. Elliott as Catholic authority that Protestantism, outside of the Seventh-day Adventist people, is making such satisfactory progress toward Rome that it must not be discouraged by references to its inconsistency.