The difficulty with much of the opposition of professed Protestants to Romanism is, that the opposers do not know what Romanism stands for. Many of these opposers are doing the same things themselves, but under other pretexts. When Protestants, so called, urge religious legislation in the name of Christ, the principle is just the same, and the effect must be the same, as when Rome urges the same thing in the name of "the church." Rome always maintained that the prime object of the state is to enforce the interests of "the church;" and when other churches call for state aid and state-enforced religious institutions, they take their stand on Roman ground. When they ask the state to enforce the observance of Sunday they ask the support of that which is distinctly Roman. Rome maintains, and logically, too, that when Protestants acknowledge her authority to ordain a sabbath institution contrary to the law of God, they have no excuse for not accepting her authority in all doctrine.