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The Protestant Oak Is Dying

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 1, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 27.

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The Protestant Oak Is Dying

Rhode Island started under Roger Williams a preeminently Protestant state, founded on purely Protestant principles, absolute separation of church and state. According to the Western Watchman (Catholic) the state census of 1905 shows that "more than half the population is Catholic; and the proportion of Protestants are dwindling gradually." And the item closes by saying: "The Protestant oak is dying at the root."