Gain From Loss by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 8, 1912

Gain From Loss

By Editor

SPEAKING of the question, which is being raised in many quarters, "Is America to become Catholic?" the Christian Witness and Advocate of Bible Holiness says:—

It is undoubtedly a danger which threatens our nation. Indeed, it is more than a hope upon the part of the Catholic Church itself; it evidently is purposing to make the United States of America "the first Catholic nation of the world."

This paper, however, feels that there is little to fear from this danger. It adds:—

If the American Protestant church will welcome back the Holy Spirit, she can easily reach these Romanists who have come to our shores; in any case she can take care of our own home-born people, and save the balance of power to God and the true church. All depends on the attitude of the church to God.

This is indeed true. If the great Protestant church would be true to its profession, if it would cry out against Roman abuses as it did in the days of Luther, if it would hold aloft the banner of the cross of Christ and proclaim the liberty there is in him, there would be very little danger that America would become Catholic. But with a lowering of the old-time standards of Christianity, with a lessening of spiritual power, with a truckling to Roman principles and patronage, Protestantism itself is becoming the prey of its erstwhile enemy. It can not give to others what it does not possess itself. The giving of God's message for to-day, as found in Rev. 14:6-14, will bring healing to the church. This is the work to which God calls it.