America Abandoning Protestant Principles
How often history repeats itself in principle, in individual as well as national life. Amaziah king of Judah went to war against the Edomites, and gained glorious victories; but he returned from that victory and set up to worship the gods of Edom, which did not elevate and could not save the Edomites. Under the principles of Protestantism — absolute separation of Church and State — the United States has made remarkable progress. At war with a once proud mistress of the seas, Spain was shown to be without strength and easily vanquished — Spain, behind whom is more than four centuries of Roman Catholicism. In the subversion of Protestant principles, manifest especially in Sunday laws, in its manifestation of friendliness to Roman Catholics as such, not as private citizens, but as religionists, members of a religio-political organization, the United States is turning from the principles which made her all she is that is worthy, and is turning to those principles, that religion, which has left Spain what she was at the time of her defeat. And the worst thing is, a great many of professed Protestants do not see it. They are as blind as Amaziah.