The Favorite Daughter

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 45.

The Favorite Daughter

“The Favorite Daughter.”—Before leaving this country Cardinal Vannutelli, in an interview to a Hearst syndicate reporter on October 6, printed in the San Francisco Examiner October 7, assured the people of this country that “the holy father is commencing more and more to regard your wonderful United States as the favorite daughter of the church. Catholicism has here made more wonderful strides than anywhere else in the world. Your bishops and priests and teachers have built up a magnificent church organization. Under your government of freedom and personal liberty, the church and its individuals have prospered splendidly. Your country is amazing to a stranger, but no less amazing is its Catholicism.”

But what has given Catholicism its liberty to grow in this land?—Protestant freedom. What apart from its natural resources has made the nation and government great?—Its civil and religious liberty inherent in primitive Protestantism. The sad thing now is that nominal Protestants are repudiating these principles.