MORE ROMAN IMITATION by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 2, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 14.

MORE ROMAN IMITATION.

By Editor

"Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain." Gal. 4:10, 11.

The context shows that the "days," etc., to which the apostle referred were such as were observed by the heathen. The Roman Church has a famous list of such occasions, many of which are made-over heathen festivities, and many others having grown out of that church's own idolatry; for it is well known that she has, in this respect, gone far beyond the "weak and beggarly elements" of the heathen. When the Church of England seceded, she carried with her this peculiar feature of the "mother church," and still holds to it. Protestantism, after having "known God," has become so weakened by divisions and the adoption of human traditions, as to manifest an ardent "desire again to be in bondage" to the festivals and other outward forms of Rome. But there comes to the front a suggestion, from a professed Protestant source, to go even beyond Rome in the matter of observing "times and years," altho the proposed innovation is to stand on a Roman foundation. The proposition is so strikingly in keeping with the general trend of apostate Protestantism toward Rome that we give it in full, as it appears in the New York Observer of February 20:—