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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 25.

The Miracle
Earlier text: A Visit to Basutoland Missions

Council of City Evangelists

By Arthur G. Daniells; Thaddeus Legg

Personal Efforts, or House-to-House Work by Gospel Laborers

THE great value and importance of personal, house-to-house work by gospel workers was one of the topics that received thorough discussion in the council of city evangelists. In introducing the subject, the chairman said:—
“A subject of vital importance and of great value in our ministerial work is the personal effort, the house-to-house work. Its importance is emphasized by every writer on the question of reaching souls. H. Clay Trumbull makes an astonishing statement in speaking of the comparative results of his public and his personal work. For ten years he addressed gatherings of persons numbering from ten or fifteen to five or six thousand each. Twenty-five years he was editor of a religious periodical that had a circulation reaching more than a hundred thousand a week. Meanwhile he published more than thirty volumes. In his little volume “Individual Work for the Individual,” he says:—
“‘Yet, looking back upon my work in all these years, I can see more direct results of good through my individual efforts with individuals than I can know of through all my spoken words to thousands upon thousands of persons in religious assemblies, or all my written words on the pages of periodicals or of books. And in this I do not think that my experience has been wholly unlike that of many others who have had large experience in both spheres of influence.’
“This is surely an impressive statement. That this able public speaker and great writer, having addressed many thousands, and spoken to millions of people by his pen, had directly won more people to take their stand for Christ by working with the individual alone than he had in all his public efforts, seems almost incredible. This certainly emphasizes the value and influence of personal effort.”
“The Lord has blessed us with very great advantages for carrying on house-to-house work. In addition to our ministers, we have city Bible workers, visiting nurses, colporteurs, and magazine sellers. Nearly all these gospel workers carry on their work by house-to-house visitation. In this way they come in direct personal contact with the people. In view of the great number of house-to-house workers who are engaged in the giving of our message, it is very important that we emphasize the value of personal labor with individuals, and study with great care how to do this work most effectively. Especially should our ministers understand this. As a rule, people are pleased to receive visits from ministers and gospel workers. A great many in their trials, disappointments, and sorrows are glad to be prayed with, and directed to the true Source of consolation and help. Those who do this work faithfully and sympathetically, readily work their way to the hearts of those for whom they labor. This gives gospel workers the confidence of people, which is very necessary in order to lead them to take a firm stand for the Lord and his truth. This subject is now before you. It is hoped that it will receive a very free discussion in all its phases.”
A. V. Cotton: “To my mind, there is nothing that will approach the value of the personal touch of the minister with the people. I have found that visiting the people is our greatest resource. Praying with them in their homes brings a personal blessing to both the people and the worker. It meets with response, taking hold of hearts as nothing else can. It is an effectual chord that binds people to the truth.”
B. E. Miller: “Last winter we gained a new experience in this matter. We decided not to hold so many meetings during the week, but to put in more evenings visiting, when the men would be at home. We held meetings on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, and all other evenings we devoted to visiting. We had most encouraging results. Five heads of families requested baptism.”
B. G. Wilkinson: “We can draw lessons on this question from the advancement of our work in the foreign mission fields. The work done there is carried on not so much by public efforts as by personal, house-to-house labor. In Austria, our ministers are not allowed to hold regular religious services. They may give addresses and lectures, and in this way explain many features of our message, but their strongest work is done by personal interviews and studies. In this way, scores and hundreds of people in that intensely Catholic country are being led to accept our message. I believe that one of our weaknesses here in America is our neglect of personal effort. No preacher who does not draw the theme of his discourse from his personal contact with the people can be as good a preacher in the public desk as he ought to be. Some of the best material for sermons is gathered by visiting the people in their homes, praying with them, and learning their personal conditions. I believe that our work in America will become stronger and progress more rapidly if we will learn the secret of getting hold of one soul at a time.”
M. D. Wood: “My heart is stirred through and through by the remarks upon this subject. For years I was sick and tired of the system of religion I knew, and longed for something else. I did not know where to go, but felt that God would help me step out, and that he would lead me in the future. I resigned from the pastorate of two churches, and from my denomination altogether. I had seen Seventh-day Adventist literature, but was much prejudiced and would not read it. I feared I should imbibe poison, so always avoided the literature. Therefore, I never could have been converted to the truth as I find it in the third angel’s message through Seventh-day Adventist literature. I had never been where any of our workers were conducting a tent effort or a camp-meeting, and, with my false opinion of Seventh-day Adventists, would have felt myself too proud to join such a denomination. When I came in contact with a young man who was doing this personal work, and who knew his Bible from cover to cover, having been in training in one of our schools only three years, I was impressed as never before in my life, but still was so prejudiced I would not at first allow him to talk to me about Seventh-day Adventists. But the time came when my curiosity got the better of me, and I really wanted to know why he kept the old Jewish Sabbath. With this spirit of inquisitiveness, I really stepped out, while he unraveled to me this blessed story, and I have been reconverted. I believe there are a great many who will not read our literature nor attend meetings, but who may be won through this personal effort.
“I was converted under D. L. Moody, and was in his school at Mount Hermon three years, and at once I was initiated into this personal work. Three hundred students in that school spent their spare time visiting the people from house to house. Many persons repented of their sins, and gave their hearts to Christ. I know from personal experience, not only in this country but in India, that hand-picked fruit is the best. I thank God for the emphasis that is being placed upon this method of gospel work.”
L. S. Wheeler: “I feel that in my ministry this personal work has been the most successful part. A few years ago, while working in Beverly, I visited the home of a girl who came to my tent-meetings, and found that she was much interested in what she was hearing, but conditions in her home were such that it was with great difficulty I could help her. I felt almost discouraged about repeating my visits, but something seemed to say to me, ‘Don’t give her up.’ So I talked with her personally, and prayed with her. To-day she is firm in the truth, and is a very capable young woman. She has just been graduated from one of our academies, and is now engaged in editorial work. So I have looked back upon that experience in helping that girl, and said, ‘I will not become discouraged.’ While in that same field, I learned of a woman who had come from Nova Scotia and settled near Boston. I took her name and address and visited her. I found her living in a very humble home, in Charlestown, near Boston. Circumstances were not the most pleasant nor inviting; but before I left her, I had prayer, and took her subscription for the REVIEW. She began immediately to come to our meetings. When my tent work opened in the summer, she came bringing her little girls night after night, and from that time to this she has been one of the pillars in the church and the Sabbath-school.”
K. C. Russell: “I think we are all agreed that personal work is the thing. There are one or two features that I want to touch, which I consider quite vital in connection with the city effort. In my experience I have met Bible workers who have told me that they have regretted very much the reticence on the part of ministers to help them in making their work effective. I believe that the work of many of our Bible workers in a tent effort would be much more effective if the minister would help them at the right time. I have found that a little time well spent with the people who come into the tent before the services, ties them to the meetings. We should shake hands with the people, and answer some of the questions they may have in mind.”
W. H. Heckman: “I believe that this personal work will solve the problem of city work. I do not believe that we ever can secure the masses through great preaching. I believe that several smaller efforts, where the preacher can come into close contact with those who come to the meetings, would produce much better results than one large effort.”
M. H. Serns: “It is my opinion that the most substantial believers we have in our ranks are those who have been labored with and brought into the message by personal effort. In reviewing my own work, I find that those with whom I have labored personally, far into the night sometimes, praying with them and visiting them week after week, are the strongest among those who have embraced the truth under my labors.”
A. G. Daniells: “The spirit of prophecy speaks very plainly with reference to the importance of engaging in personal effort outside of the pulpit. In ‘Gospel Workers,’ pages 73, 74, we find the following statement:—
“‘The minister’s work is but just begun when he has presented the truth from the pulpit. He is then to become better acquainted with his hearers. Many a laborer greatly fails in not coming in close sympathy with those who most need his help. With the Bible in his hand, he should seek in a courteous manner to learn the objections which exist in the minds of those who are beginning to inquire, “What is truth?”’”
“‘On pages 76, 77 we have another important statement:—
“‘The duties of a pastor are often shamefully neglected because the minister lacks strength to sacrifice his personal inclinations for seclusion and study. The pastor should visit from house to house among his flock, teaching, conversing, and praying with each family, and looking out for the welfare of their souls.’”
“‘Charles L. Goodell, a very successful minister in New York City, has this to say of the value of personal effort: “We are now come to the very citadel of soul-winning. Here is the entrance into the full reward of evangelistic effort.”’”
“‘Mr. Pattison says: “There is no need that we lower the standard of the preacher, but there is need that we raise the standard of the pastor; and of the two, we believe that greater spiritual power will be exercised over the members of his church by the pastor than by the preacher.”’”
“‘President McCosh makes this statement: “The minister will not be able to reach the hearts of his people unless he visits among them. When I began to preach, I had about twenty carefully prepared sermons, but some fifteen of them I would not preach. They were not fitted to move men and women, and I burned them. I never learned to preach until I visited among my people.”’”
“‘Dr. Jefferson says: “A preacher of Christianity must live as close as possible to men. Isolation to him is fatal. If he has a disposition which shrinks from the society of others, his disposition must be born again. . . . Knowing men is the preacher’s first and most important business. To know them he must be with them.”’”
“‘Thus the united testimony of all experienced gospel workers emphasizes the importance of engaging in direct, personal, individual work for those whom we wish to win to Christ.’”
At the close of the discussion, Brethren B. F. Kneeland, B. E. Miller, L. S. Wheeler, and M. D. Wood were appointed a committee to bring in resolutions regarding the importance of personal effort in gospel work. The following report was adopted by the council:—
“Whereas, Our Master, the Great Teacher who went about doing good, has left us an example of personal ministry in the call of the first disciples, the instruction to Nicodemus, and the woman at the well, and—
“Whereas, The results of personal work are made prominent in the call of Nathanael, the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch, and in the work of Paul, who labored publicly and from house to house with great success, and—
“Whereas, Those evangelists who have had the best results in modern times have ascribed their success largely to the personal touch, therefore—
“We recommend, That all our ministers make special efforts to reach as many as possible by personal contact, both at the meetings and in house-to-house visitation, and thus, by example as well as precept, encourage all believers to engage in personal soul-saving effort.”
A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman; THADDEUS LEGG, Secretary.

Gospel Workers' Department

By A. G. Daniells

Their divine calling, qualification, and preparation. Methods of labor, plans, etc.
Conducted by A. G. DANIELLS

Graduation Week at Union College

By A. T. Robinson

EACH year at the close of school some go out from their alma mater having completed their chosen courses of study, and it seems fitting that the event should be marked by special exercises appropriate to the occasion. The graduation exercises in connection with Union College this year were of considerable more than usual interest, due chiefly to the fact that in connection therewith the college celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the institution.
The class-day exercises were held in the College View church on Thursday evening, May 16. The graduates, numbering thirty, gave a program that was highly instructive, and devoid of anything of a light or frivolous character. Several of the addresses reflected credit upon the members of the class, as well as upon a school whose mission is the training of Christian workers.
The baccalaureate sermon was preached by Prof. Frederick Griggs on Sabbath morning, May 18, based on the words of the apostle: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him.” The subtle deceptions of vain philosophy, and of science, falsely so-called, were shown to permeate the very warp and woof of society. The ideals of true Christian education were shown to be the demand of the hour, and in accord with the great gospel message for this time. A strong and impressive appeal was made to the class of 1912, as they go out from Union College, to maintain the great principles for which the institution stands.
The graduation exercises proper were held on Monday, May 20. In connection with a fitting program, Prof. H. R. Salisbury delivered an able and instructive address to the class, his subject being “The Place of Education in Protestant Reforms.” It was replete with instruction, admonition, and counsel. The presentation of diplomas was made by President Griggs.
Sunday afternoon and evening and Monday afternoon were devoted to the Founders’ day program. Several addresses were delivered Sunday afternoon, among the speakers being Prof. W. T. Bland, a former president of Union College; Dean Sherman, of the Nebraska State University; and several of those who were connected with the establishment of the college. On Sunday evening an able and very appropriate address was given by Senator Burkett in the church, his theme being “Exultation and Exhortation.” He congratulated Union College on withstanding the storms that beset the early years of a denominational educational institution and gaining her majority. He spoke of the high appreciation in which Union College is held by the citizens of Lincoln, and expressed the hope that as she has now entered upon an advanced career, the work of the institution may be still more successful.
Following the close of the graduation exercises at twelve o’clock on Monday, two hundred seventy-five guests were seated at the college anniversary dinner in the college gymnasium. A model vegetarian dinner was served, with musical selections interspersed between the courses, and followed by short addresses on such topics as “Union College; Its Accomplishments;” “Union College in the Home Field;” “Union College in the Foreign Field;” “Union College; Our Duty to It;” “Union College; Its Alumni.” Words from “Old-Timers” brought out some very interesting reminiscences of the early days of Union College. This was an occasion that was highly enjoyed by residents of College View and visitors from abroad who participated therein. All felt that it was an occasion that will serve to bind Union College closer to the hearts of the constituency from which students are drawn.
On Monday evening the members of the board of trustees accepted an invitation to attend the annual meeting of the College Alumni Association. The college alumni number nearly four hundred, about one hundred of whom are members of the Alumni Association. It was a source of satisfaction on the part of the members of the college board to become better acquainted with the aims and purposes of this association, and the desire was expressed that a stronger bond of affiliation between the board and the alumni might be brought about. A resolution was adopted by the association to the effect that the board of directors of the college be invited to cooperate with the Alumni Association in an organized effort to secure the attendance of four hundred students in the college during the year 1912-13. It was voted that the association take steps to raise an equipment fund of ten thousand dollars with which to provide the different departments of the college with better facilities for its work. Over fifteen hundred dollars was subscribed to this fund at the meeting, and since then they have secured other subscriptions. One brother also subscribed one thousand dollars to a scholarship fund. There are great possibilities in a strong, united effort on the part of this association of graduates from Union College, in an organized effort to build up the work of the institution.
The presence and counsel of Prof. H. R. Salisbury for several days at the college were very highly appreciated by the board and faculty, and by all who had the pleasure of listening to the talks he gave on different occasions.
Union College was established in 1891. The enrolment the first year was about three hundred, and the second year it was raised to over six hundred, the highest in the history of the institution. Then followed the years of terrible drought which brought great financial depression to the Middle Western States, and very materially affected the attendance, and consequently the financial condition, of the college. It has always been considered due very largely to the careful, conservative management of Brother Joseph Sutherland, business manager of Union College during the first fifteen years of its history, that it was able to survive the stress of those trying years. Somehow we all felt that as long as “Uncle Joe” was at the helm, all was safe.
The indebtedness incurred in the erection of the buildings, and increased during the hard years that followed, amounted to nearly $80,000. During the “Christ’s Object Lessons” campaign this indebtedness was reduced to about $29,000, and later, through the sale by the Nebraska Sanitarium of its present property, the debt was reduced to about $12,000. From about 1903 the financial conditions of the country greatly improved, and the attendance of students steadily increased until, during the college year of 1908-09, the enrolment reached 594. With this large attendance the college was nearly able to meet running expenses. About three years ago the movement to separate the foreign departments from the college was set on foot, which resulted in the establishment of the Danish-Norwegian Seminary at Hutchinson, Minn.; the Broadview Swedish Seminary, at Chicago; and the Clinton German Seminary, at Clinton, Mo. This greatly reduced the attendance of students, and with the greatly increased cost of living, resulted in quite a large increase in the indebtedness of the institution.
At the last session of the Central Union Conference, held in College View last January, the affairs of Union College were studied into in a close and searching manner, and the two union conferences, the Northern and Central, nobly pledged their support to Union College by making provision for taking care of its interest-bearing indebtedness. Provision was also made for the payment of the salaries of several teachers by the different conferences in the Central Union Conference. With the carrying out of these arrangements the board of management is under instruction to keep the operating expenses of the college within the limits of the income from year to year.
If we should look upon the work of Union College simply from the standpoint of having created several thousand dollars’ indebtedness that must be taken care of, we might draw the conclusion that the college has not very well served her day and generation. But we must not forget to look at another side of the picture. There are assets to be taken into account which can not be estimated in dollars and cents. The college counts a family of over twelve hundred children who have gone out from her walls, and to-day are actively engaged in some branch of work connected with this ever-expanding, world-wide third angel’s message. One hundred thirty-five of these workers are in countries outside the United States. The institution has sent out about four hundred graduates, men and women trained for service, many of whom are occupying positions of trust and responsibility in this cause. The group of Union College workers in China, shown in the illustration accompanying this article, shows the part this institution is acting in supplying workers in foreign fields.
Union College appreciates the opportunity that is now open to her, of sending many of her advanced students to the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington, where they may receive a special training for service in the foreign fields. It is the policy of the board of Union College to encourage as many as possible to avail themselves of a course of training in the Seminary before entering upon work in other countries.
The establishment of schools in the various conferences in the Northern and Central Union Conferences serves to hold a large number of students in the lower grades who have heretofore attended Union College. While the college has suffered a temporary financial loss because of this, she is beginning to realize gain in another direction, which will be increased as the years go by. The holding of students in the lower grades in the conference schools, many of whom receive an inspiration for a higher education, is certain to result in the attendance at Union College of a more mature class of students, and this is seen already. The young men and women in attendance at Union College during the past year were of a more mature age than those of any former year, and did a higher grade of work.
It is believed by those who have studied the situation most closely that if all our conference schools would adopt the courses of study recommended by the Department of Education of the General Conference, doing the strongest possible work in those grades, and then turn many of their students to our training-schools, it would immensely strengthen the work of our denominational educational system. It is only by compromising what seems to be local advantages for the more common good of a system as a whole, that the highest and best results are obtained. Our educational system, which is ordained of God as an important factor in the third angel’s message, will suffer loss, and we shall not realize the full benefits from the system, until a uniform basis is adopted. If all our intermediate schools and academies would bring their grades into harmony with the recommendation of the General Conference, doing strong work in those grades, all these schools would be filled to overflowing; they would be meeting their operating expenses, would be turning hundreds of students who finish these grades toward our training-schools, thus enabling them to meet operating expenses, and the world would be attracted by the beauty and harmony of the educational system connected with this third angel’s message.
UNION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHINA
UNION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHINA
A. T. ROBINSON.

Christian Education

By H. R. SALISBURY

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
H. R. SALISBURY . . . . . Secretary

Bibles Distributed in Persia

IN the last ten years 5,400 Bibles in seventeen different languages have been distributed in Persia by the American Bible Society through Presbyterian missionaries. Political disturbances have interfered with the progress of the work, and at times the importation of Persian and Turkish Scriptures has been prohibited.

Strength, Not Happiness

Things that never could make a man happy, develop a power to make him strong. Strength, and not happiness, or, rather, only that happiness which comes by strength, is the end of human living. — Phillips Brooks.

Changed Conditions

WE have received the first number of a new publication entitled “The Church Protest,” edited by an ex-priest, who declares its purpose to be “to protest against ecclesiastical abuse, and to demand its abatement through public exposure and opinion.” The following extracts are taken from the leading article in this first issue:—
“Time there was when criticism of the Catholic Church affairs found an only too welcome column in the secular press. Bitter controversies with non-Catholics, as well as among Catholics themselves, and mutual accusations filled, day after day and for long periods of time, the pages of the local press with bitterness of feeling, often to the supreme satisfaction of a religiously antagonistic community. But the conditions have changed. The preponderance of the Catholic population in many parts, and its influence in most sections, have made the medium of public opinion and expression, both by and against Catholics, a very delicate affair. Social, political, and commercial interests have become of more importance than the cause of religious public opinion, be the cause just or unjust. This situation is both shielding the church against public criticism and giving her a great degree of immunity from investigation and arraignment of her abuses and disorders. Under this régime of both private and public protection she is free to both administer and neglect her affairs as she sees fit, and can defy both her members and the public from interference. That abuse in church affairs must flourish under these conditions is not hard to see. . . .
“It is the rule of all private organizations that their differences should be settled within the organization, rather than before the public, which can be at most disedified, if not scandalized; and the very end of the organization, its extension and efficiency, crippled and defeated. But when an organization becomes a powerful factor in the community; indeed, when it aspires to become identical with the community itself, such as the aspiration and plan of the Catholic Church is to-day, its affairs no longer remain private affairs of a contingent body; they affect the community at large, and this community obtains a corresponding right to inquire into the credentials of such an organization, and into its claims to public patronage and protection. . . .
“Shall the influence of the church be permitted to become so great, so telling upon the community, that her injured and dissentient members shall be practically at her mercy for their temporal prosperity, if not their very living and civil liberty? or shall not a sane and reasonable halt be called against her all too liable presumption and aggressiveness? The true faith is the rightful possession of every man, and its blessings and advantages dare not be publicly withdrawn from him through the aggressions of unworthy ecclesiastics, or the helplessness and incompetency of presumptuous superiors. The public has rights which the church must respect, or suffer the account she will be called upon to give.”
This is one more voice added to the many that are now protesting against the course of the Roman Catholic Church in this country.

Ohio Constitutional Convention

By John Francis Olmsted

INTENSE interest marked the convention hall as the place in Ohio where delegates from all parts of the State were altering and adding to the organic law ratified sixty-one years ago.
During the sessions several so-called reform measures were introduced; namely, three for the enforcement of Sunday rest; one to insert the name of God in the preamble, and to declare this a Christian State; and another to have the Holy Bible read in the public schools.
Memorials and protests from those who love liberty were promptly sent to the members of the convention. These were read, and recorded in the Convention Journal. A great deal of personal work was done by the opposition, and we feel that the hand of the Lord still rules in the affairs of men.
Religious legislation is designed primarily to curb conscience and restrict religious liberty, so this class of legislation was vigorously opposed and defeated.
There is great need of educating the public mind on the subject of religious freedom, as sentiment is being created to sway the masses in favor of legalizing religion, and making it fundamental in the administration of law in both the State and the nation.
JOHN FRANCIS OLMSTED.

The Man of Lawlessness

It has been claimed by some, not from disinterested motives, that the whole Protestant movement is in the direction of anarchy, that it both began and persists in a rebellion against law. This is based only upon the assumption that the church from which many revolted was invested with supreme authority. Such an assumption itself creates anarchy more than the denial of it. It degrades law by making a human organization its giver and exponent rather than the divine Being. There is no anarchy in getting away from a lesser authority to a higher, or from a merely claimed to a real authority, from man to God, from the edict of a council or a priest to the direct Word of the living God. The anarchy is in the repudiation of the higher. Therefore it is that, as a matter of fact, lawlessness has always prevailed more in Romanized lands, along with the other evils of illiteracy, concubinage, illegitimacy, and the like, than in Protestant lands. Enthrone the Bible, and the Creator rather than the creature is adored. Take away the Bible, whether by the priestly denial of it to the people or by the processes of minimizing its supernaturalism and inspiration and divine authority, and you take away the very palladium of law and liberty.—The Presbyterian of the South, May 29, 1912.

The Menace of Roman Catholicism

THE Roman Catholic question is being more widely discussed now than at any previous time in many years. Leading publications, daily, weekly, and monthly, are giving space to this subject. This indicates that the public mind is being stirred, and that there is great interest in this matter.
Among those journals that have spoken most plainly concerning the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church upon public questions, is the Independent (New York), and yet, in its issue of June 6, in an editorial entitled “The Menace,” it takes the ground that no danger is to be apprehended from the work and influence of the Roman Catholic Church in this country. We quote from this editorial:—
“In the decade before the civil war a great scare shivered the country with the fear that the Roman Catholic Church was about to capture the nation and overthrow our liberties. It culminated in the organization of a secret political party known as the Know-nothings, which captured State after State, and ended with the destruction of the Whig party. It was a short madness, and the menace has not yet made our people vassals of Rome. We have absorbed many millions of Catholic immigrants, but our liberties yet remain to us, and a plethora of primaries, initiatives, and referendums assures us that our freedom is yet intact.
“But of late a new shiver shakes a section of our population, and it finds expression in a journal we hear of, named the Menace, which adds a new fright of Rome to that which is uttered by one or two Irish journals of the Scotch variety. Questions like this come to us from a few subscribers: ‘Is Roman Catholicism a menace to the United States?’
“It appears to us that one does not need to sit up nights to worry about the menace of Roman Catholicism. Indeed, that church is worrying a good deal more about the menace of Protestantism. . . .
“To regard the Catholic Church as a menace is to fear the valency of the truth. Who ever saw the truth put to the worse in a fair encounter, and a fair encounter it is in this country, with the chances in favor of the majority, which is quite as intelligent and quite as earnest and quite as religious as the one-seventh minority. What show of peril there is pertains to the ultramontanism that just now rules in Rome, and that is not a real peril except to the church which suffers from it and shuts the mouths of its scholars by its edicts and its system of espionage, which requires every suspicion of modernism to be reported by the bishops of Rome.”
All this may be reassuring to those who wish to be persuaded that there is no danger. But one who views all the facts in the light of the history of the Roman Church, can hardly fail to see that the history of other countries is to be repeated in this country. A small army, well drilled and used to the best advantage, can overcome an unorganized force of many times its own size; and while the Roman Catholic Church is still largely in the minority in this country, its solidarity and its unity of purpose, directed by a hierarchy sworn to be obedient to the Pope, is a constant menace to both the civil and religious liberty of this country. The future will demonstrate the truthfulness of this statement.

State and Church

By W. W. Prescott

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of Religious Freedom, and the Campaign "to Make America Catholic."
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Association.
W. W. PRESCOTT - - - - SECRETARY
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