TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY
We, the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland convened at Glasgow this twenty-third day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-four years, desire most humbly to present this renewed expression of loyalty to Your Majesty’s person and throne.
We feel called upon to acknowledge the abounding goodness of God in so favourably maintaining the health of Your Majesty and that of your Majesty’s consort and of the Royal Family and in securing to Your Majesty’s dominions the return of a measure of economic prosperity which makes the position of our nation exceptional in these troublous times.
Being firmly persuaded that the interests of this nation, civilly as well as otherwise, are bound up with the maintenance of the Protestant religion, we take occasion to acquaint Your Majesty with our feelings of grief and alarm on account of the tendency in official circles to resile from Reformation principles and constitutions—a tendency which appears to us clearly enough evidenced by the recent actions of Your Majesty’s Government in appointing a royal salute in honour of the Pope and in sending a new envoy to the Vatican. We would most humbly but most earnestly implore Your Majesty to use the influence of Your Majesty’s exalted station to correct so baneful a tendency, and to conserve for our nation the liberties which our forefathers procured for us at great cost.
We would anew express our heartfelt sympathy with Your Majesty in view of the difficulties of the present international situation, which we believe continues to burden Your Majesty’s mind, and we pray that the Most High would graciously uphold and guide Your Majesty in all the duties of Your Majesty’s responsible position.
In name and on behalf of the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
JAMES A. TALLACH, Moderator of Synod.