Catholics and Roman Catholicism
By Editor
Our Catholic friends sometimes think, in the language of a letter recently received, that we are "pretty hard on Catholics." But we wish again to repeat that we have naught but the most friendly feelings toward Roman Catholics from Pope Pius X to the Protestant proselyte. We will do by them, by God's grace, as we would have them do by us. But the teachings of Roman Catholicism, the system of the Papacy, that is quite another thing. We believe it to be an awful perversion of Gospel truth. We wonder if our Catholic readers know what Catholic papers say. Here, for instance, are some expressions taken from one editorial page of the Western Watchman of February 22, 1912, the editor of which is called "the dean of Catholic editors" in this country: "You may rattle the old Protestant bones as you will; they will never live again." "Evidently he [a Presbyterian preacher] looks forward with terror to the possibility of an American Inquisition. Why, bless his timorous soul, there is not enough religion among the preachers of this country to furnish a victim for an Inquisition." And an article besides of over a column starts out with this sentence: "The Protestant pulpits are become geysers of blasphemy." And these are not exceptional.