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Home » Publications » Free Presbyterian Magazine » 1943 » September 1943 » Internationalising British Possessions

Internationalising British Possessions

By the Rev. J. P. MACQUEEN.

AS one who believes that Jesuitised papal Rome is reviving and manoeuvring for its final struggle and certain destruction I would like to take advantage of every opportunity to warn my fellow-Protestants to be prepared for what may yet prove the bloodiest and most terrible struggle in history. Forewarned is to be forearmed, and the struggle will be on a world-wide scale. Jesuitised papal Rome, being a past master in the subtle tactics of euphemistic smoke-screen camouflage, is putting every conceivable iron in the fire to deceive the unwary. It is a well-known fact, though perhaps not as widely known as it should be, that it is the ceaseless aim of the Papal System to dismember, with a view to its final extermination, the British Protestant Empire, or Commonwealth of Nations. To this end, Jesuitised Catholic Action labours, intrigues, and plots, day and night, in every nook and cranny of the Empire, and throughout the world. Mr. Wendell Willkie has become, in this connection, an ardent advocate of the internationalisation of British Colonies after the war, and one can be fully satisfied that in doing so he has an eye to the Romanist vote in the 1944 Presidential Election in the U.S.A. It is well known that Romanists vote en bloc and en masse, like a herd of dumb driven cattle, as their “father” confessor directs in the interests of the Papal System. British administration thus gone, the internationalised colonies would become a “happy” undisputed hunting ground for the propagation of Romanist medieval superstition and idolatry. The preaching of the gospel and an open Bible, with the unspeakable precious blessings and privileges involved, would thus be gradually eliminated.

It is consequently gratifying to be assured by Colonel Oliver Stanley, Colonial Secretary, at a recent Conservative meeting at Oxford, that

there will be no international control or administration of British colonies after the war. It is further gratifying that in this important matter he is only in unison with other members of the Government, such as Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Home Secretary.

Papal Rome uses party politics when and where it suits the politico-ecclesiastical system’s purposes. It was, for instance, a subtle and clever move on the part of the Jesuits when they succeeded in gaining control of the Colonial Immigration Committee after the last war. One result has been that English and Scottish Protestants had every obstacle put in their way to prevent their immigration to Australia, while Romanist Italians and other Romanist Southern Europeans poured into that Island Continent, especially Queensland, in their thousands. The Jesuits have obtained control of the key positions in the Australian Labour and Trade Union Movements, so that whenever there was a suggestion of immigration from England or Scotland a general strike was threatened, ostensibly in the interests of Australian workers, whose standard of living was thus endangered. A blind eye was conveniently turned, however, to the Italian hordes, who introduced much cheaper standards of labour. In Canada the same process has been at work, especially since the last war. Rome uses Conservative, Liberal, and Labour votes as expediency dictates, with the ultimate aim of religious predominance.

The gravest danger to Protestant Ulster comes from the splitting of the Unionist vote, thus playing into the hands of the Ulster Labour Party, who do not disguise their desire for a so-called United Ireland, under De Valera. The Ulster Labour Party “cares for none of these (Protestant) things.” The aim is papal supremacy under a political smoke-screen.

Mr. Brendan Bracken, an Eire Romanist, as head of the Ministry of Information, is faithfully using his position, in the interests of “Holy Mother Church” to fill important positions in the Ministry of Information, not only with co-religionist, but with Romanist compratriots from Eire, though that priest-ridden State is supposed to be neutral. He is actually filling positions in his department with Romanists from Stonyhurst Jesuit College. The number of Romanists and Eire-men on the Staff of the B.B.C. is out of all proportion to their numerical strength in this country. He deliberately refused, in the House of Commons, to consider allowing evangelical ministers to use the B.B.C. for evangelical broadcasts. Thus the ground is being prepared for Romanists predominance in the State Departments of this nation. Let Protestants in this country and elsewhere be aware of newly-fangled euphemistically-labelled political parties. They may be Jesuitically engineered in origin and aim. Papal Rome’s religion is its politics, and its politics its religion.

The most dangerous type of Protestant is the one who adopts the attitude of smug complacency saying that as Romanism is a doomed system we need not much concern ourselves about its multifarious intrigues in Church and State. The Reformers, Puritans, Covenanter, and Martyrs, knew as well as any present-day Evangelical Protestant that the Papal System, like every other branch of the kingdom of darkness, is to be finally destroyed. They also knew, however, that the Most High, as well as Satan, works in this world through human agency, and consequently they witnessed in their day and generation faithfully, fearlessly, and

diligently, to the glory of God, leaving us an example that we should follow in their steps. Their blood was not too precious for them to shed, and shall we withhold the exercise of our tongues and pens in so noble and divine a cause.

May I be permitted to warn Protestants not to take too seriously the periodical denunciations by Romanist bishops in Germany and elsewhere against Nazism. If Pastor Niemoeller must remain incarcerated within a concentration camp for refusing to bow the knee to Nazism, does any thinking person imagine that Hitler, wielding full totalitarian powers, would, for a moment, tolerate such clerical denunciations, if Nazism and Romanism were not working hand in glove? I think we can rest assured that these pretended outbursts are meant for Protestant consumption, in order to throw dust in our eyes, and to be in the fashion. Let us beware of being too gullible, where satanic Jesuitry is concerned. While the blood-thirsty, ruthless dictators in the present life-and-death struggle are human agents of the devil, nevertheless they are iron rods in the hand of God to punish the nations for their iniquities, and their godlessness.

While it is true that it is only the Most High, in the exercise of His supernatural power and sovereignty, by His Word and Spirit, who can bring about a revival of vital godliness in our nation and generation—Britain’s and the world’s deepest need—yet the present writer is firmly convinced that the Most High will continue His controversy with us as a nation, till Evangelical Protestants will do what they can, their duty, in exposing, denouncing, and condemning, fearlessly, faithfully, and consistently, the treacherous practices, false doctrines, and errors of churches, nominally Protestant. Supernatural convictions, with the courage to express them, is the great need of our day and generation.

We must remember that the privileges which Protestants enjoy can only be ours if we are prepared to shoulder their accompanying responsibilities. We must not relax that “eternal vigilance” which so often has been proclaimed the price of freedom. “Let the whole earth be filled with His glory.”

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