Protestantism in Winnipeg.
It is somewhat refreshing in these days of disloyal political coquetting with Rome, to read in the columns of our leading daily papers, despatches bearing that the Papal Church has been made to understand, in a striking manner, recently in the city of Winnipeg, that there is a limit past which, if she seeks publicly to press her arrogant and anti-christian claims of temporal as well as spiritual primacy, she must come into conflict with the Civil Magistrate. At a banquet, described as Roman Catholic, to which were invited, among others, the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, the Mayor of Winnipeg, and the Minister of Justice of Canada, the pope was given the place of honour above the King on the toast list. Against this affront to His Majesty these officials—and the last-mentioned is himself an ardent Roman Catholic—protested in an effective manner by cancelling their acceptance of the invitation, when the much-boasted loyalty of representatives of the papacy failed to prove itself in the practical way of their giving our King his due honour. This incident is of greater interest, following as it does so closely upon the refusal of the Winnipeg School Board to become parties to a crafty plan, whereby Roman Catholics would have given to them in effect the much-sought-after special privilege of State-supported separate schools. The secret, silent, and undermining process, so diligently pursued by the Church of Rome through her accredited agents, in connection with legislation being placed on the statute books in Canada, as elsewhere, needs only to be brought to light that any earnest, inquiring mind may see that that body bears no real resemblance to Christ, the Head of the Church who did no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Such incidents as the above should help to draw attention to the deceit, by opening up to the light some of the ugly facts of papal designs.
“Life in Mexico.”
This is the title of a book containing fifty-four letters, written during a residence of two years in Mexico by a Roman Catholic lady, named Madame De La Barca. The revelations she gives of the life of monasteries and convents in that country are startling in the extreme, and very extraordinary to come from a Roman Catholic pen. The “Protestant Alliance Magazine” publishes a number of extracts which should prove highly useful in opening the eyes of lukewarm Protestants to the horrors of the Church of Rome, and in stimulating them to seek the inspection of these so-called religious houses in our own country.
A Family Leave the Romish Church.
The Protestant Alliance is taking an interest in a family consisting of husband wife, and five children, in Ireland, who have recently left the, Romish bondage. The husband was a Papist to begin with, but the wife a Protestant. For the sake of peace, she embraced the Roman faith, but now bitterly regrets that ever she did so. Through the torture of insults and threats, the husband is suffering in mind and has lost grip of himself. A touching letter from his wife appears in the “Protestant Alliance Magazine” for April. May the Lord prove their light and strength, and stay in the time of need!
New Tracts.
A correspondent has sent us copies of a new series of Tracts consisting of interesting extracts from Sermons of the late Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Dingwall. The Tracts may be had from the Northern Chronicle office, Inverness, at the rate of 5/- per thousand.
“SEEING death is said to have woollen feet, that none can hear it when it comes, and it comes speedily, were it not good then to prepare us in time to die daily, that when it comes ye need not to fear it, having thy peace made sure with God; but if thou lyest not down in peace and the assurance of mercy subscribed in thy conscience, and sealed with the spirit of God, Oh! then terrible shall be thy rising in that great day.”—John Welch.