Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism

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SPIRITUAL SABBATHISM
teacher, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation records
as the will of God!"
This burst of righteous Indignation against Protestant
inconsistency is something too ardent; it is
not of the right breed. But It betrays the writer
into
disclosing the genuine antinomianism which at
bottom has characterized Rome ever since the Sunday
festival found its way into the church. "What
Protestant can continue to
disobey the command of
God?" asks the Mirror, the obvious Implication being
that only Catholics can continue to disobey the
command of God. It is an unenviable privilege.
In a later article the same journal remarks:
"The
Catholic church, as Father Zahn remarked in his
recent admirable volume, has ceased to contend with
Protestants, because there is no need of it.
Sagacious
men in the Protestant ranks themselves admit that
as a representative system It is so rapidly disintegrating
that before long it must cease to exist. . . . The
drift Is
directly away from faith In the divinity and
teachings of Christ. Is it not, indeed, away from
belief in God?"
Perhaps the Mirror overestimates
the weakness of divided Protestantism, but the vital
fact remains that unless Protestantism takes a
stronger grasp on an authoritative Bible as over
against an authoritative church, the keystone to the
Protestant arch is gone.