Appeal to Religion by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

Appeal to Religion

By Editor

Appeal to Religion.—It is stated on what seems good evidence that one of the auxiliaries of the great political parties now in the field, namely, the McKinley and Hobart Business Men's National Campaign Committee, has made an appeal to the Roman Catholic clergy for help in this campaign on the ground that the financial question is a moral question. Well, this is to be expected. Protestants, so called, have been clamoring in our legislative halls for years for help from the state in religious matters, why may not the political parties appeal to the church? And why not to that church preëminently that knows what politics means? This is but another straw, which shows the trend of national affairs. It is through political expediency that the church is becoming and will become dominant. And then we will have the middle ages repeated. Through pseudo national reformism, Christian citizenship, and political expediency and exigency, the nation is rapidly rushing on to ruin. Men of principle are now the country's need; but alas, how few they are!