Some Pertinent Questions and Answers
By H. A. St. John
1. Question. What does the pope exhort all his subjects everywhere to do? Answer. "All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of States and legislation to be modeled to the principles of the true church."—Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical, 1885. 2. Ques. In what are Catholics exhorted to seek an alliance with non-Catholics? Ans. "In spite of rebuff and injustice, and overreaching zealotry, we should seek an alliance with non-Catholics for proper Sunday observance."—Baltimore Catholic Congress, 1884. 3. Ques. Is there any authority for the change of the Sabbath to Sunday? Ans. "There is authority for the change from the Sabbath to Sunday—ample authority; but it is the authority of the Catholic Church."—Catholic Columbian. 4. Ques. What is your advice to Sunday-keeping Protestants? Ans. "Either to retire from Catholic territory, where they have been squatting for three centuries, . . . commence forthwith to keep the Saturday,—the day enjoined by the Bible from Genesis to Revelation,—or, abandoning the Bible as their sole teacher, cease to be squatters, and accept the Catholic Church in ALL her teachings."—Rome's Challenge, page 35. 5. Ques. What do you think of those Protestants who do not observe Sunday? Ans. "Violators of Sunday laws are the worst of criminals."—Archbishop Ireland. 6. Ques. What kind of law do you Protestant Sunday-keepers want? Ans. "We want a law for the nation that will prevent the desecration of Sunday by any one."—Dr. McAllister (National Reformer), speech at Lakeside, Ohio, July, 1887. 7. Ques. Why do you want to set up Sunday thus? Ans. "We must set up Sunday for the salvation of the nation."—Senators Hawley of Connecticut, Colquitt of Georgia, Frye of Maine. 8. Ques. What do you think of a thief? Ans. "It is right that the thief be punished, but I have more sympathy for that man than I have for him that works on Sunday."—A preacher in Selma, California, 1888. 9. Ques. What do you think of the man who lifts his hand against the American Sunday? Ans. "The man who lifts his hand against the American Sunday is an enemy of the republic. He is an enemy of the race. He is an enemy of God."—Rev. Dr. R. S. MacArthur, Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, Sunday law meeting, March 11, 1890. 10. Ques. What do you think of those who oppose the enforcement of Sunday upon the people? Ans. "It is high time they were either boycotted or crushed."—Methodist minister in Franklin, Manitoba, 1910. "They ought to be in the penitentiary."—Rev. Dr. Hill, of Quebec Lord's Day Alliance, 1910.