A Theological-Political Medley

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 18, 1912

A Theological-Political Medley

THE Republican National Convention was a medley. Mr. Rosewater, a Jew, was chairman of the national committee and opened the convention. "Father Callaghan, a Roman Catholic priest, led the opening prayer with 'In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen!'" And then after four days of steam rolling, bickering, denunciation, and charge and counter-charge of "thieves," "liars," a wing of that convention nominated Mr. Taft, a Unitarian; the other wing bolted and nominated Mr. Roosevelt, an Episcopalian. The Jew, who did not believe in Christ, invited a Romanist to pray, who professed to believe in him, and this priest performed an act in the name of the Holy Trinity which that Holy Trinity nowhere authorized, and then a wing of the convention nominated a man for President who does not believe in the divinity of Christ! No wonder the thing split. Such contrary and contradictory principles are enough to split anything that is splittable.—The Liberator, July 4, 1912.