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Home » Publications » Free Presbyterian Magazine » 1940 » April 1940 » Peace. By Rev. JAMES MACLEOD, Greenock

Peace. By Rev. JAMES MACLEOD, Greenock

THIS word is used in Scripture in different ways—Peace with God through the satisfaction rendered by Jesus Christ—Peace with men through mutual concord and agreement on certain defined principles. “There was peace between Hiram and Solomon.” Christ is called by Isaiah, “The Prince of peace.” It is not my intention to enter into a discussion on this term “peace” in the theological sense. Let me just say that all true believers have peace with God by saving faith in the most precious blood of the Son of God. The true Church of God have no peace with the flesh in themselves, nor with the world that lieth in the wicked one. “And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever” (Isa. xxxii. 17). “But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace saith my God to the wicked” (Isa. lvii. 20, 21.) Peace that is not based upon righteousness will finally and eternally perish! Sinners in their natural state may have the peace of death in their souls. It will not be always so quiet. No sleep in hell! The wicked seek peace but there is no peace. We see in the newspapers a report from Rome that the Pope received Mr. Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt’s special envoy to the Vatican, who handed a letter from the President presenting him to Mr. Roosevelt’s “old and good friend,” the Pontiff.

In this new departure of the President of the U.S.A. we may quote Jeremiah saying concerning others: “The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together!” President Roosevelt says, “he was sending Mr. Taylor in order that our parallel endeavours for peace and the alleviation of suffering might be assisted.” What fallacious logic on the part of the President of the U.S.A.! “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. xiii. 3). And all the Potentates of the earth are fleeing to Rome for peace, consolation, and mutual concord! What madness! One blind man taking a firm grip of the hand of another blind man at the same time walking towards a bottomless abyss! Lady Halifax and her son had an audience of the Pope quite recently. Mr. Churchill may indeed wonder how every little neutral nation snarls at poor Britain! Let him turn to Rome to find out why. We do pray, and hope, that the Protestants of the U.S.A. will manifest to the whole world in the coming Presidential Election how much they disapprove the President’s conduct in seeking counsel at the mouth of the “witch of Endor” sitting in the Vatican. The Vatican blessed Franco’s victory in Spain—a holocaust victory. The Vatican gave his blessing to the “Great Italian Nation” in their murderous war on the defenceless Abyssinians. And the President of the mighty U.S.A. nation says: “I shall be happy to feel that he (Mr. Taylor) may be the channel of communications for any views you and I may wish to exchange in the interest of concord among the peoples of the World.” The fraternity of despair! God shall not be mocked! The Church of Rome has been the Arch-Fiend of causing discord among the nations of the earth since the seventh century of the Christian era. The millions the Vatican was instrumental in killing, and murdering, will never be known on this side of the Great Day of Judgment! The enemy of peace, instigator of murders, slaughter, and bloodshed among the nations of Europe, yea, passed oceans to slaughter, and murder the inhabitants of South America. The Jesuits are as busy now as ever, and their Ambassadorial agents furtively, and openly carrying out the orders of the College of Jesuits in Rome, Paris, New York, London and Berlin. The Vatican is looking ahead to the day she will be mistress in all the Cabinets of the World. The devil is busy! The Anglo-Catholics of England are playing into the hands of the Jesuits. An Anglo-Catholic should be allowed within the precincts of our Foreign Office for one day. He is as blind as a mole the man who will permit an Anglo-Catholic into state secrets. They are double-faced hypocrites. I would trust a Jesuit as soon as I would trust an impious Anglo-Catholic. They are of the same root and branch. Mr. J. Kennedy, the U.S.A. Ambassador at the Court of St. James, in London, took a trip recently to Washington, and the next move was the above, Mr. Taylor to Rome, Mr. Sumner Welles to fish out information for the President, in Rome, Berlin, Paris and London. When Mr. Welles will collect all his information for his President, then Mr. Roosevelt and the Pope will “exchange views” for the good of humanity! The Pope as a member of the Jesuit Order must deliver the “goods” to the College of Jesuits. The Jesuits will deliberate secretly what next move to take, what commands, and fresh orders, they will issue to their Ambassadorial Agents in the various Capitals and nations of the world. The war itself is a Jesuitical gamble. They lost the “Great War,” they are to make sure of this one. Mr. W. Churchill may wonder at the neutrals! If they can manage to embroil the U.S.A. and the British Empire in some dispute that might cause bitter antagonism between the two nations, the Jesuits will be fully satisfied that they have won this war! The present U.S.A. Ambassador in London, and the Pope are very friendly—both working for Mother Church. The President is on the most friendly terms with the Pope, and of course, Mr. Kennedy can pull the diplomatic strings to suit the bow of the Jesuits in Japan, China, India, Africa, Europe, and in the Western Hemisphere. The concord is surely mutual. If the British nation is weakened, and the Empire disintegrated, by fomenting trouble in India, South Africa and Southern Ireland, the Pope, and his Ambassadorial agents, will in their own opinion, gain the end in view, to wit: World dominion for the Church of Rome. They managed long ago to separate Protestant Germany and Protestant Britain. If they can manage to separate U.S.A. and Britain the rest is plain sailing! Japan can then pounce on India, or Australia and New Zealand. The Pope got a Bishop installed in Japan two years ago. The Vatican and Japan are on most friendly terms. May God in His infinite mercy open the eyes of our national leaders to realize their dangers from the conclave of hypocrites in the Palace of the Vatican.

God will destroy the cursed Church of Rome. The lives of many of the Popes have been beastly scandalous. Who with his wits about him could trust, or put confidence in an Italian bachelor, blasphemously declaring and claiming to be the sole representative of Jesus Christ in this world that can pardon sin, and bring peace to the consciences or sinners! The crowd that follows this blind madman will suffer in a lost eternity, if they will not repent of their stupid and criminal idolatrous worship. President Roosevelt has grievously sinned in acknowledging this Italian intriguer. Britain is suffering and will suffer until God will open the eyes of her Rulers in keeping and paying for a Protestant Government Representative at the Vatican. It is a crime! It is a God-dishonouring, Christ-crucifying and a soul-destroying religion. May God grant us the spirit of repentance as a nation.

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