The Change in Protestantism
The "Western Watchman," Catholic, tells us that a Methodist minister was dismissed from his pulpit in St. Louis recently for persistently attacking the Catholic Church. He defended himself by alleging that he never said anything about the Church of Rome that the Methodist standards and leaders of this church did not say before him. And that doubtless is true. The Watchman says that Methodism has changed, and the same Watchman tells us that the Church is not changed. Protestant ministers are fancying that the Church of Rome is changing and coming nearer to Protestantism. The change, however, is not in the Church of Rome, but in Protestantism. Whatever may be her error, Rome consistently holds to her standards; the departure is on the part of Protestantism.