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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 27.

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Protestant Inconsistency

By Editor

In the Catholic Citizen (Milwaukee) for June 22, 1912, this paragraph appeared:—
“We clip the following from the Chicago Advance (Congregationalist): ‘Rev. A. C. Moses, pastor of West Pullman Congregationalist Church, Chicago, has consented to become a candidate for representative to the Illinois State Legislature, from the thirteenth senatorial district. Mr. Moses has behind him the religious forces of the district, comprising seventy churches with the various organizations.’ What a howl would go up if a Catholic paper were to publish such an item about a priest!”
It is just this apparent willingness on the part of some Protestants to use the influence of their church or churches in politics which weakens their hands in the controversy with Rome. When Rome obtains control in politics, she can find a precedent in the record of professed Protestants for many violations of the principles of the separation of the church from the state, and she will be sure to make the most of them.