PLAIN TALK TO PROTESTANTS.
A FEW years since Archbishop Hennessy, of Dubuque, said: "There is no Sabbath except the seventh day taught in the Protestant or Catholic Bibles. The Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation enforce the religious observance of Saturday. Only those who follow the teachings of the Catholic church and apostolic tradition can consistently keep Sunday; for there is not a line of Bible proof for the observance of any other than the seventh day as a Sabbath. Every Protestant who keeps Sunday has imbibed just that much of Roman Catholic tradition." Of the union of the churches and Romanism, he said: "We are praying every day for the return of the prodigal children, and we have not much longer to wait; for they are all coming home. The Catholic Church always remains the same. She has not changed an iota in all the ages of her history. She will never go to Protestantism as much as the least shaving from your finger-nail. The Catholics are apparently doing nothing to hasten this union, for this reason: If you have several chairs in a row, it would be much easier to pull them around if they were all fastened together than if you had a cord to each chair and had to pull each one separately. So when the Protestants all become united, it will be easier to unite them to the mother church than to bring them one at a time." Father Toomey, of Dubuque, in an interview said much the same concerning the Sabbath, adding that "Seventh-day Adventists are the only consistent Protestants in the world, because they are the only ones who do not accept some of the tradition of the Catholic Church."—Workers' Bulletin.