Mr. Primmer’s Triumph.
Pastor Primmer’s persistent exposure of the faults of exalted personages is at length meeting with considerable success. At one time these superior persons thought it a good policy to treat him with amused indifference, but of late there has been a change in the tone of some of the replies he has had in response to well-directed questions. It may be within the memory of some that at the recent Royal Reception in Edinburgh the Roman Catholic Archbishop had precedence of the peers, and the Roman Catholic Bishops had precedence of the ministers of the Church of Scotland. Pastor Primmer brought the matter before the Lord Chamberlain, who has sent an apologetic letter pointing out that the whole business was owing to a mistake, and that care will be taken that it does not occur again. The Pastor acknowledged receipt of the letter and hoped that the Lord Chamberlain would clear his department of the Jesuits who were responsible for this humiliation of the Church of Scotland.
Sympathy with the Pope.
The Roman Catholics of Britain are evidently deeply grieved at the great movement against the Church of Rome in Roman Catholic countries. At the recent Roman Catholic Congress, the Bishop of Northampton said that the present Pope “had to contend with nothing less than an anti-Catholic conspiracy all through the Latin nations of Europe.” It is a conspiracy that would give Protestants real pleasure were it not that it is unfortunately in many countries a movement on infidel lines. Rome has made religion to be a byword among these peoples, and knowing no other religion than that of Rome they have turned with loathing from it. The Duke of Norfolk, at the same meeting, in seconding the Bishop’s speech, said the effacement of the Protestant Declaration from the statute-book had given the utmost pleasure to the Pope. The more’s the pity. It gave anything but pleasure to many a leal-hearted subject of King George.