The Road Back to Rome by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

The Road Back to Rome.

By Editor

The Christian Advocate of November 1 makes note of another Roman convert from the Episcopal Church, converted by Rev. Walter Elliott, the Paulist preacher. He was the son of a Baptist deacon, but entered Rome by the way of the Episcopal High Church. The Advocate truly says:—

The logic of Protestant Episcopal High Churchism is Romanism. A steady procession is going into that church from the Episcopal Church. That body is very much inclined to boast of its accessions from other Protestant denominations, but has little to say of the additions to Roman Catholicism from it.

And we may add that just as long as the other Protestant churches continue to hold to Roman Catholic dogmas and institutions, adding to them year by year, they will prove stepping-stones to the High Church. Among these Sunday is most prominent, and, having adopted Sunday, they are fast adding all the other rags of popery to their continually increasing papal vestments. The simplicity of old times is sadly lacking in our Protestant churches.