CHURCH AND STATE SURE ENOUGH.
By William Nelson Glenn
IN connection with a striking illustration on the first page of the American Sentinel (New York), of the 1st ult. there appears the following comment:— "The United States Government proposes to see that the Catholic Churches in Cuba are kept open as they have been under the rule of Spain, and to this end will appropriate whatever funds may be necessary for the maintenance of priests and other essentials of Roman Catholic worship. This will be a 'temporary loan' for such a time as may be necessary before the church in Cuba shall be able to support herself—so say the Catholic prelates which the government has consulted in the matter. It is a support which may be kept up indefinitely, without any compensation in return, besides being in flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of free government. What do the American people think, and what will they do about it?" If this thing should be carried out, which is not at all improbable as a piece of Cuban strategy, many people will be surprised. Not so those who have been noting the fulfilment of prophecy regarding this nation, and the trend of events toward Rome during the past twenty years. Especially the expression of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1892 that "this is a Christian nation," said expression being based primarily on Catholic documents, and the later vote in Congress in the same year that Sunday (a papal institution) is the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, were unmistakable pointers in that direction. In the light of such events, and the efforts of nominal Protestants for several years past to secure religious legislation after the papal sort, we can only look upon the foregoing proposition as a logical sequence, and no occasion for surprise. We have been showing our readers all along that since 1892 we had Church-and-State union in spite of the Constitution, and that the Constitution had come to be only a relic of what our fathers intended.