The Beginning of the Century.
By Editor
In our issue of Dec. 27, 1899, we quoted from the Sunday School Times, a paper generally reliable, that Pope Leo XIII. had "announced to the world" "that the twentieth century is to be reckoned as beginning Jan. 1, 1900." It appears that the S. S. Times was mistaken. What the pope does say, as reported in the Baltimore Sun, is as follows:— "Since, moreover, at midnight of the last day of December of the coming year the present century will come to an end and a new one begin, it is very appropriate that thanks be given to God by some pious and solemn ceremony for the benefits received during the course of the present century, and, owing to the urgent necessities of the times, that greater favors be implored in order to begin auspiciously the new era." This is good common sense, and we are glad the pope possesses it. We now wonder if those Protestants so willing to follow him into error, will be willing to begin the century where it should begin.