WHAT ROMANISTS THINK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 14, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 24.

WHAT ROMANISTS THINK.

COMMENTING on the "Fast Day" proclamation of Governor Rollins, the Ava Maria, a Roman Catholic paper, says:—

"The lament of Governor Rollins should serve as a trumpet-call to the Catholics of America. Protestantism is failing of sheer inanition; its vitality has not been greater than that of other sects that fretted and fumed upon the world's stage for three centuries and then retired into the background of history. In America, as in England, the church's opportunity has come; and to meet it there must be a larger interest in Catholic education, greater zeal in preaching the Word of God to both Catholics and non-Catholics; liturgical devotions, virile piety, and a powerful Catholic press. The complexion of this country is far from Catholic, as yet; but Protestants are beginning to realize and to regret that they have lost the religion of their fathers, and it will not be long before they begin to yearn for the religion of their grandfathers."