The San Francisco call., 1896-09-28
Talks of "Romanized Protestant.
ism" and Asks What Shall
Be the Remedy"
QU1Tzow's CAUTIOUS REMARKS.
Not Ready to Announce the Policy of
the American Protective
Association.

Chairman Outflow, in his opening re-
marks before the Good Citizenship meeting,
held at Metropolitan Temple yesterday
afternoon, said that in due time the polit-
ical policy of the American Protective
Association would be announced. There
was no need to hurry, he said, because
when the policy was finally defined it
would be so emphatic as to at once attract
the attention of all good citizens.
"a Romanized Protestantism-Wh
Shall Be the Remedy2'' was the subject
selected by Major T. C. Ryan, the regular
speaker for the occasion. He prefaced his
remarks by saying that he believed in per-
feet religious liberty in whatever form it
might come, whether as Methodist, Bap-
tist, Presbyterian or Catholic. Con-
tinuing on this line, be said among other
things:
Our original immigrants to this country
brought with them the principles OF Protest
antlsm, mingled quite little with the intol-
Grant principles of Romanism, and because of
the ha bits OF thought formed by them while
under the dominion of Romanism they mani
tested 10 some extent intoierance upon these
shores, but when the test came they entered
heartily into the establishment of govern
ment guaranteeing the highest civil and re-
nglous liberty. They at once gave up their
Intolerance in order TO make sure the triumph
OF Protestantism in its most comprehensive
sense
nizes its own system of faith and excludes all
others. 1t is only a form OF Christianity.
There is not a church in the world to-day that
has the right to say 1--WE are q Protestant
church, but rather we are the fruits of Prot
estantism. In its proper signitcation Protest.
antism embraces everything springing from
the Reformation-that is, all principles, civil
and religious, have their buth in that great
movement.
Guizot says: ''The leading cause of the Re
formation was q sudden effort made by the
human mind TO achieve its liberty; great in
surrection OF human intelligence" IL had to
contend against everything IN church and
State that put restraint on liberty. 1t saved
religion by separating it from the corruptions
of the Papacy. Wherever and whenever free
thought, free speech and free press abound it
Is exclusively OF Protestant origin. The de-
struction OF Professionalism m means the destruc-
ton of these rights.
1 believe in the Son of God, and yet 1 believe
God has given me modicum of common
sense and capability TO understand some
things in the Holy Word, whose power and in
fuence Rome seeks 10 destroy. tits purely an
American idea, emblazoned in the Declaration
OF independence, that Government derives
its just powers from the consent of the gov
erned." And that too, is the Bible doctrine,
couched in the tatement "The powers that be
are ordained of God" This does not mean the
persons whom we place in power, but the
powers that are lodged in the person.
The patriotism of our fathers must not be
sion of a zeal without knowledge, or who are
the slaves of mere sentimen talism." These
God-inspired men when they were construct
ing our form OF Government gave not only the
Deity himself, but the people, home in their
hearts, and with these they commenced. See
their wisdom in drafting the constitution.
They framed IL so that religion can never be
made a test in the authority of the Govern
ment. No government can OF any right as
sumo any responsibility in matters of religion.
1t is written every knee shall bow to me-
"every tongue shall confess to God" Does
that mean that can delegate you to bow and
confess and account to me? Away with such
nonsense, for it is but another scheme by
which the ecclesiaStical experts seek to su bor-
dinate the civil power.
The men who founded our Government
placed themselves on the height overlooking
the battlefelds OF the world, and counted the
multitudes that had gone down in blood under
the various forms of ecclesIastcism, and when
they had finished the count of $4,000, 900 tn at
had gone to death under papal oppression
alone, they closed the pages of record and said
Religion is matter between man and his God
we viii establish here Government in which
every man shall have the liberty of worship
ing God according to the dictates of his own
conscience, and no man shall modest or make
him afraid.