March 7, 1895

“‘Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots’” American Sentinel 10, 10, pp. 73, 74.

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THE AMERICAN SENTINEL and Seventh-day Adventists believe and teach that the term “Babylon” of Revelation 17 and 18 applies to the Roman Catholic Church.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.1

All Protestants believed this in the days of the Reformation. In fact, it has been the practically unanimous belief of the popular Protestant churches until within a very brief period.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.2

But a change has been wrought in popular Protestantism, and instead of calling the Babylon of the Bible by her right name, Protestants are now calling her the “Mother Church of Christendom,” “a part of the mystical body of Christ,” etc.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.3

But why this change? Has Babylon become converted? Has the Lord healed her? No, this cannot be, for confession must precede healing, and Babylon stoutly avers that she has never been sick. No, Babylon teaches every abominable doctrine that she taught in the days of the Reformation. Every reason that existed in the sixteenth century for protesting against Roman Catholicism, for denominating her the Babylon of the apocalypse, exists to-day.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.4

Why is it then that the system which the Reformation denounced as the great prophetic apostasy, is now by the descendants of the reformers terms “one branch of the Christian church”? We propose to answer this question in this article, but before we can do it, it is necessary to take a look at the papal church as described in the Scriptures.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.5

In Revelation 17:2, 6, “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots” is spoken of as one “with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,“—one “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” And in Revelation 18:3, it is plainly stated that the reason for the fallen condition of this fallen church is that “the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.” This is the reason she is fallen. She has been intimate with the civil governments of earth. She has failed to heed the warning words, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?” James 4:4.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.6

Not only has she done this, but she is now doing it, and the last of these adulterous proposals is addressed by Pope Leo XIII. to the American Government through the American bishops of the United States. And this encyclical is alone sufficient to brand the Roman Catholic Church as the fallen Babylon of the Bible. In it the pope says:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.7

The church amongst you, unopposed by the Constitution and laws of your nation, fettered by no hostile legislation, protected from violence by the common laws and the impartiality of the tribunals, is free to live and act without hindrance.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.8

Wants More Than Liberty

Is not this all that a Christian church could ask? Isn’t it more than the conquering church of the apostles had? Is it not the scriptural relation which the Church and the State should sustain toward each other? It certainly is, for Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world,” and he separated the Church from the State and asserted the independence of each by the words: “Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21. But this is not all that the Roman Catholic Church has had, and it is not all that she wants in the United States, for the pope immediately condemns this separation of Church and State in the following words:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.9

Yet, though all this is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the church; or that it would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and divorced.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.10

If it is not universally lawful for the Roman Catholic Church to be dissevered and divorced from “the kings [governments] of the earth,” then it follows that it is considered lawful and expedient that the Roman Catholic Church be united and married to “the kings of the earth.” What, therefore, the Word of God declares unlawful and spiritual “fornication,” the Roman Catholic Church in 1895 declares lawful and expedient, thus virtually acknowledging herself the spiritual adulteress of prophecy.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.11

But the pope does not stop here, but continues to still more plainly, if it were possible, proclaim his church to be the fallen church of Revelation. He says:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.12

She [the Roman Catholic Church] would bring forth more abundant fruit if, in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of public authority.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.13

Not the Fruits of the Spirit

That is, if the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, instead of being “dissevered and divorced,” were united and married to the United States Government “she would bring forth more abundant fruits.” The pope is correct; she would bring forth more abundant fruits. She always has brought forth more abundant fruits when committing “fornication with the kings of the earth.” But they have not been the fruits which result from being united to Christ, for the fruits of the Spirit are not the fruits of a union of the Church with the kings of the earth, but the fruits of a union with Christ, who says:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.14

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.15

And now since the only legitimate fruits which the Church can bear are the fruits of a union with Christ, it follows that the “more abundant fruits” which the “infallible” pope declares the Roman Catholic Church bears when united with the governments of earth, must be illegitimate fruits, or the fruits of spiritual “fornication.” Thus plainly does Leo XIII., head of the Roman Catholic Church, confess that the church is the fallen Babylon of Revelation.AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.16

But, again, “by their fruits ye shall know them,” says Jesus. What have been the fruits of the union of the Church with the governments of earth? “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” Have these fruits followed the union of the Roman Catholic Church with the kings of the earth? Listen for an answer from the speaking blood of the martyrs. Ask the silent walls of the convent and dungeon. Ask the “wheel,” the “stake,” the “rack,” the “iron maiden,” and the “torture chair.” Follow the pope’s armies as they march against the Waldenses, the Huguenots, and Albigenses, and see “death and hell” follow in their wake. No, no, the fruits of the union of the Church with the kings of the earth has not been “love,” but hate; not “joy,” but sorrow; not “peace,” but war; not “long-suffering,” but swift and merciless vengeance; not “gentleness,” but satanic ferocity; not “goodness,” but wickedness; not “faith,” but indifelity; not “meekness,” but arrogance; not “temperance,” but drunkenness, made more “drunken with the blood of the saints.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 73.17

Why They Do Not Protest

And now the question: Do not the popular Protestant churches know that these things are so? Then knowing them, why do they not join with the AMERICAN SENTINEL and Seventh-day Adventists in saying so. Why do they not with one voice denounce the encroachments of the papal church on the American Republic? Why have the few criticisms that they have ventured to offer been so cautiously written, so tame and colorless? Why did they not boldly denounce the pope’s plain condemnation of the principle of separation of Church and State? Why did they not deny and denounce the statement that the church in “addition to liberty” should enjoy the “favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority”? Ah, there is a good reason why they did not. They live in glass houses and are afraid to throw stones. In plain English, they want the very thing that the pope wants, and are, and have been working with might and main to secure it, and therefore to condemn the pope’s position was to condemn their own; to condemn the pope was to condemn themselves.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.1

Have not the popular Protestant churches united in demanding the “favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority” in support of the church dogma of Sunday sacredness? And have they not invited the Roman Catholic Church to aid them in securing this demand? Yes, they have, and the invitation was quickly accepted by “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots,” for she knew that the aforetime daughters of the Reformation were compromising themselves in this demand, were violating the Protestant principle of complete separation of Church and State, and were taking the side of the papacy; and she knew that such a course would effectually close their mouths against similar demands of the “mother church.” She knew that after they had compromised themselves, should they dare to utter a protest against her enjoying the “favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority,” charging that such a condition was spiritual fornication with the Government, she could say, If I am the “mother of harlots” because I demand the “favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority” in order to bring forth “more abundant fruits,” you are my daughters because you have demanded and obtained the same thing.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.2

And, just as she anticipated and just as we expected, there are a few Protestants who themselves compromised in this matter, now have the hardihood to criticise their mother. And just as we expected she now replies to them in substance, “You are another.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.3

How She Silences Them

The Catholic Times, of Philadelphia, thus replies to one of these critics, and the Catholic Mirror reprints the reply in its issue of Feb. 16:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.4

He [Pope Leo XIII.] maintains that the action of the church would be more efficacious, if, along with this liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of public authority. Here he passes from an actual condition to a theory and refers to an ideal condition. His reference is perfectly correct. Are not the laws regarding Sunday observance a concession to Christian demands?AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.5

The editor of the Monitor, a Roman Catholic paper of San Francisco, in his issue of Feb. 16, after quoting the pope’s words, “But she would bring forth more abundant fruits if in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of public authority,” proceeds to silence the compromised Protestants who have criticised the “holy mother church,” with the following retort:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.6

This truism is acted upon every day by those preachers and by those societies who are seeking for legislation for the better observance of the Sunday.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.7

It is with these hard facts that the Roman Catholic Church is able to silence the puny protests from compromised Protestantism. No wonder the leading prelates of the Catholic Church helped the apostate Protestant churches to secure a Sunday closing law from Congress. They knew that by such means they would compromise Congress and close the mouths of these Protestants against papal encroachments. The game was successful and popular Protestantism has become particeps criminis in the ruin of the American principle of separation of Church and State, and cannot protest against the encroachments of Rome without confessing her own guilt. However, Seventh-day Adventists and the AMERICAN SENTINEL protested against the iniquity of the whole thing, and are now free to expose the encroachments of Rome, and they are doing it and will do it.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.8

And now we say to the honest, conscientious Christians in the Roman Catholic Church, and there are many of them, and to the consistent Protestant Christians in the Romanized, compromised daughters of the Reformation, to both we say in the language of God’s Word, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.” “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.” “Come our of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:2, 3, 4, 5.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.9

“Persecution in London” American Sentinel 10, 10, p. 74.

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THE Pall Mall Gazette, of February 14, contains the following account of the fining of Mr. John Gibson, of London, a Seventh-day Adventist, for permitting work to be done on Sunday in the printing office of which he is manager:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.1

Tract Society’s Sunday Labor. ON A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE

The International Tract Society, of 451 Holloway road, which carries on a letterpress printing business, was summoned at Clerkenwell police court for having employed two females and one male young person on Sunday, January 27. Mr. John Gibson, secretary of the society, appeared in answer to the summons, and from his statement of defense it appeared that the society, a Christian institution, was established for the purpose of bringing about the recognition of Saturday as the Sabbath, or seventh day, in accordance with the biblical law. They gave a half-holiday on Fridays, and closed their premises on Saturday; and contended that they were doing all the law required. This was a matter of conscience with them. Some forms were given them by the factory inspector to fill up, but they only provided for members of the Jewish faith, and they were not Jews. Mr. Bros said the society would have to obey the law, and to say this was a matter of conscience was no excuse. He imposed fines and costs, amounting to 78s. [$19.00]. Mr. Gibson said he could not conscientiously pay the fine. Mr. Bros said the find could be recovered by distress; but, no doubt, the directors of the society would see that the law was likely to be too strong for them.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.2

Seventh-day Adventists have for many years, by pulpit and press, taught that the enforcement of Sunday observance, especially upon those who observe the Bible Sabbath (Saturday), would become universal. This teaching was based on the “sure word of prophecy.” The State of Arkansas began this persecution, and has been followed by Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts and Florida, in the United States; Canada, on the north; Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and England in Europe; and lastly, by the island continent, Australia. In none of these cases have the Seventh-day Adventists disturbed the public or private worship of anyone; in none of these have they violated the Golden Rule. It therefore follows that these prosecutions are nothing short of persecutions and a fulfillment of the scripture of Revelation 12:17, which reads: “The dragon was wroth with the woman [the Church], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed [the last Church, or the Church in the last days], which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.3

“The Seventh-day Adventist General Conference” American Sentinel 10, 10, pp. 74, 75.

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WE have in the past said much in these columns about the persecution of Seventh-day Adventists in this and other countries, by means of Sunday laws; and it may not be amiss to give a short pen sketch of their thirty-first General Conference which was in session in Battle Creek, Mich., from February 14 to March 4. The meetings were held in their large tabernacle, which is heated by steam and lighted by electricity, and capable of seating 2,500 people.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.1

The delegates to the conference numbered only about one hundred and twenty-five, but the main auditorium was comfortably filled at every meeting, and at the evening services the tabernacle, with its vestries and galleries, was literally packed.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.2

In this conference were men from almost every State and Territory in the American Union; from Canada, from Germany, from England, from France, from Scandinavia, from Turkey, from South Africa, from South America, and from the islands of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. There were men who have suffered imprisonment for their faith, in Russia, in Switzerland, in Turkey, and in several of our American States (the details of which have been told in these columns from time to time).AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.3

Seventh-day Adventists are not an unorganized band of unpractical and visionary fanatics, but have as complete and perfect a representative church government as any denomination in the world; and though they number, all told, less than fifty thousand communicants, their work has encircled the globe. The sun never sets upon their educational and publishing institutions, nor upon their cotton tabernacles—tents—in which their summer evangelistic services are conducted. They have, by the living preacher, planted the standard of truth upon every continent, and their work extends from Finland on the north to the extremity of New Zealand on the south. They have publications in nearly a score of languages, and their colporters, Bible-readers, and ministers, have penetrated alike the busy mart, the wilds of Africa, the jungles of India, and the solitude of lonely Pitcairn. Where the voice of the living preacher has not been heard, the printed page has borne its silent testimony to the solemn truths which make the Adventists a separate and a peculiar people.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.4

The Seventh-day Adventist General Conference is—like all their conferences—a representative body. It is composed of delegates from the several States, provincial and national conferences, embracing the churches of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the sea.AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.5

Having had its rise in the United States, the Seventh-day Adventist denomination naturally has headquarters here, as also its largest membership and the greatest number of its local conferences. The United States alone has thirty-two organized and self-supporting conferences, besides the Southern District—a General Conference mission field. Canada has two organized, self-supporting conferences and a General Conference mission field. The work in Great Britain is under the supervision of the British Mission, with headquarters at London. The other conferences and missions in Europe are: the Central European Conference, the Danish Conference, the Conference of Norway, the Conference of Sweden, the German Mission, and the Russian Mission. The other foreign conferences are the South African Conference, the Australasian Union Conference, the New Zealand Conference and the Polynesian Mission. Work directly under the direction of the Foreign Mission Board is also being carried on in India, China, and the newly-opened portions of Africa. A missionary ship is rapidly spreading among the numerous islands of Oceanica a knowledge of the “gospel of the kingdom.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 74.6

Seventh-day Adventists have no creed but the Bible. They depend for unity not upon written creeds, not upon resolutions of synods or votes of conferences, but upon the Spirit of God which the Saviour promised to send to lead his people into all truth. Hence, while in their conferences they sometimes earnestly discuss doctrine, they never by vote decide questions of faith, and yet they are the most united people upon the face of the globe. Their conferences are models of order and system, being devoted to Bible study, generally in the form of lectures, with privilege of asking questions; to devotional and social services, and to the transaction of business.AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.1

Their local work is supported by tithes voluntarily paid by the members. (This is not made a test of fellowship.) Their foreign work is sustained by special donations, and freewill offerings made for the purpose of sending the gospel into “the regions beyond.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.2

Seventh-day Adventists, as their name indicates, are observers of the seventh day of the week. This day they hold to be “the Sabbath” and “Lord’s day” of the New Testament, as it is admittedly “the Sabbath” of the Old. With them the fourth commandment of the Decalogue stands upon an equality with the other nine; all are to be kept, not outwardly merely, but from the heart; not by human effort, but by divine power received by faith in the Son of God, who, by a life of perfect righteousness, “condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.3

Adventists do not, as is sometimes falsely charged, depend for salvation upon their observance of the Sabbath. They regard all good works not as means of grace, but as the fruit of grace, and teach that the true Sabbath-keeping is possible only to those who are in Christ, and that merely refraining from work and business on the seventh day of the week is not Sabbath-keeping. The law of God they hold to be spiritual and hence can be kept only by those who are spiritual.AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.4

As is also indicated by their name, Seventh-day Adventists are believers in the literal, visible, second coming of Christ. This event they regard as near; but they hold to no definite time, believing that God has not revealed even the year of the second advent, much less the day and hour. And yet, because Seventh-day Adventists teach the near coming of Christ, they are repeatedly, either ignorantly or maliciously, charged with the time-setting folly of other bodies of Adventists. Nothing however could be farther from the truth.AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.5

Seventh-day Adventists are evangelical; that is, Bible Christians, believing all things that are written in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Squaring their lives by the Word of God, they are a sober, industrious, law-abiding people. They are not found in our police or criminal courts, except as they are haled there for fidelity to the law of their God. But it may be asked, Why do not Adventists keep two days and thus avoid this persecution? The answer is that Adventists regard Sunday as a rival of the Sabbath of the Lord; and with them, to keep it would be to deny the Lord of the Sabbath. Even courts of justice have denied that refusing to keep Sunday is with Adventists a matter of conscience, and have branded their fidelity to their principles as mere obstinacy; but so did the Roman emperors and governors the refusal of the early Christians to offer incense to the Roman gods. The Christians were not forbidden, they argued, to worship their God; they were merely required also to honor the national gods. It is the same with the Adventists. It is said: They may keep the seventh day if they will, but they should also keep Sunday. But “no man can serve two masters.” God has set forth the Sabbath as the badge of his authority; it is his ensign: “Moreover also I have them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.” Ezekiel 20:12. To give like recognition to a rival sign would be the same as for soldiers to pay equal honors to the flag of their rightful sovereign and to that of a rebel prince; for that is just what the Sunday is, the badge of antichrist, the sign of sun worship anciently and of the papacy in modern times, and of rebellion against God and his law from the fall until the present moment. It is the “wild solar holiday of all pagan times,” and is to-day flaunted by Rome in the face of the world with the taunt that “by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin,” ^{1“Abridgement of the Christian Doctrine,” by Rev. Henry Ruberville: Imprimatur, the Right Rev. Benedict, Bishop of Boston: Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 2 Barclay Street, New York, 1853, page 58.} and “the observance of Sunday by Protestants is an homage [worship] they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Roman Catholic] church.” ^{2“Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-day,” by Mgr. Segur: Imprimatur, Joannes Josephua Episcopus, Boston: Thomas B. Noonan & Co., Boston, 1868, page 223.}AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.6

Adventists are staunch friends of education, faithfully sustaining their schools where established and continually planting new ones. The educational secretary reported to the conference that there were three thousand students in their schools in this and other lands.AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.7

Believing that it is a Christian duty to present not only the mind but the body a living sacrifice to God, and that all our powers should be sanctified to his service, in obedience to the inspired injunction: “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,” they eschew the use of all intoxicating liquors, tobacco, etc., and adopt a healthful though liberal diet. In short, with Adventists, religion is not something to be put on like a dress coat on the Sabbath and then to be carefully laid away for the “six working days,” but is a living power designed to sanctify the life every day, to make one a better neighbor, a better husband, a better wife, a better father, a better mother, a better child; and eventually and above all, a citizen of that better country “wherein dwelleth righteousness.”AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.8

The success achieved by the Adventists since the holding of their first conference in 1849 is truly phenominal [sic.], especially in view of the fact that they have almost at every step encountered bitter opposition and not infrequently open persecution. But with unswerving faith in God and in the justice of their cause they have moved steadily forward and have seen the work prosper in their hands. Battle Creek, Mich.AMS March 7, 1895, page 75.9

“The Right Thing to Do” American Sentinel 10, 10, p. 77.

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THE Echo, of Darlington, Ind., publishes the following in its issue of February 15:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 77.1

The Echo has a large number of sample copies of the AMERICAN SENTINEL to whosoever wants one, which advocates some principles that every American citizen who is loyal to the free liberty and untrammeled personal rights of each individual and the law of equal rights of our country should be deeply interested in. Don’t get prejudicial and think it is designed to work on your religious or political faith. If you are incapable of reasoning for yourself, you are in bad shape. You don’t want your rights to think and worship your God according to the dictates of your own conscience to become under bondage, do you? Then read and put into acts the right of your suffrage, when it costs you nothing.AMS March 7, 1895, page 77.2

We have noted with please the many favorable comments on the work of the AMERICAN SENTINEL which have appeared recently in the columns of our exchanges, but to know that one of them has carefully preserved copies of the SENTINEL and now offers them to its subscribers with the above recommendation, is indeed cheering. The Echo declares in its motto that it is “No man’s slave,” and its attitude toward the SENTINEL would bear out its courageous declaration.AMS March 7, 1895, page 77.3

“Back Page” American Sentinel 10, 10, p. 80.

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THE general Government is not alone in making appropriations for religious education and religious instruction. Among the items in an appropriation bill recently introduced into the Maine legislature, is, “For Priest’s Salary, $200.” Another bill appropriates $1,000 for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and $3,000 for the Sisters of Charity in Lewiston. The fact that State governments are also involved in this iniquity does not make it any better. It simply shows the extent of the evil and the urgent necessity for educating the people upon the correct principles of the separation of Church and State.AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.1

THE Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic paper of St. Louis, Mo., contained the following editorial in its issue of February 14:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.2

The Protestant papers are indignant at the pope for expressing a hope that the United States might one day become Catholic. They declare that in such event liberty would be no more. Tut-tut men. You are mad. If the United States were to become Catholic to-morrow it would take all the sensible Catholics in the land all they could do to prevent the converts from making the profession of any other than the Catholic faith a penal offense.AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.3

The Watchman is entirely correct in its conclusions, and the reason for the correctness of its deductions can be found in the Word of the Lord. When men who have known the truth, reject it and turn from light to darkness, the Saviour says to them: “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Again, speaking of the tyrannical ecclesiastical system of his time, the prototype of the papacy, he said of its converts: “Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Yes, an apostate Protestantism is more to be dreaded than the papacy itself.AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.4

THE Roman Catholic paper, the Western Watchman, thus defends the pope’s shrewd method of addressing the American people under pretense of addressing the Roman Catholic bishops of America:—AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.5

Bishop Paret, of Maryland, is highly indignant because Leo XIII., in his late letter, addresses himself to the American people. He thinks he should confine his counsel to Catholics. The pope is the spiritual head of the Church; and the Church claims the spiritual allegiance of all those who are baptized.AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.6

So the pope claims the spiritual allegiance of even the editors of the AMERICAN SENTINEL and addressed his late encyclical to them. Well, we have received it, and have made several comments on it. The pope will find some of them on the first and second pages of this paper.AMS March 7, 1895, page 80.7