Mussolini and the Vatican.—The rise of Mussolini to such commanding power in Italy has attracted the attention of the civilised world. His attitude to the Vatican is a question of much interest to Protestants, and from an interview given to a French correspondent and quoted in the “Times,” we are left in no doubt as to his deferential attitude to the power that would crush Italy as effectively as ever Socialism threatened to do when the Fascist blow fell upon it with such crushing effect. “What an absurd mistake,” says Mussolini, “it would be to ignore such a moral power as that, a power two thousand years old, and with an influence, daily increasing, over four hundred million souls.” Whatever keenness of political vision Mussolini may have, it is evident from the above that his spiritual vision is dim and uncertain.
As the old, so the new creation begins in light; the opening of the eyes is the first work of the Spirit.—Flavel.
No stone, nor steel, nor diamond is so hard as the impenitent heart of a man.—Luther.