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DECEIVED PROTESTANTS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 6.

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DECEIVED PROTESTANTS.

By Editor

JUSTICE BREWER of the United States Supreme Court, said recently, in an address, that “the twentieth century will be noted for greater unity in religious life.” The “denominational rivalry and strife of the present century” will give way to “Christian unity”—a unity in spirit not form, “a putting behind us as of little significance the minor differences of creed and doctrine.”
The Christian Work remarks: “There is much to sustain this view. In this country, at least, a kindlier feeling exists between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and between the different Protestant bodies, than exists elsewhere, or than ever prevailed before.”
Whereupon we are prone to ask that in the coming nearer of Protestants and Catholics, which is coming? It is certainly not the Catholic. Within the last year, as has been set forth in this paper, Roman Catholic papers and prelates in this country have declared again and again that Rome does not change; that she only is the one Catholic Church; that she is the same all over the world. See article elsewhere, “Demanding Civil or Temporal Power.”
The Christian Work says: “And we may add that we quite agree with Justice Brewer that the time is past when the Protestant should look back upon the horrors of the Inquisition and denounce Roman Catholicism on account thereof, or the Catholic, on the other hand, look back at the hanging of witches or the persecution of the Quakers, and denounce Protestantism therefor.” But the last year of grace, October 14, the Catholic Mirror, the chief organ of the Catholic Church in America, published an article in defense of the Inquisition.
We never knew that Protestantism approved of witch-hanging. It has ever condemned it, and should not be held responsible for it. But Roman Catholicism defends the Inquisition, and honors its founders to-day. How long will it be before deceived Protestants are apologizing for or defending the Inquisition?