The Prayer for Unity.
—Under this heading the Rev. Professor Archibald Main, D.D., of the Church of Scotland, writing in the Glasgow Herald recently puts in a plea for union among the churches. Dr. Main’s conception of union does not seem to rise above what has been pressed on the attention of the people of Scotland for years back. Among the proofs of unity which he finds south of the Border may be quoted the following—”Another minister, a Baptist, was rung up by the vicar of the parish and asked to sign a declaration of Christianity sent to the local press and signed by the Anglican clergy, a Roman Catholic priest, and the ministers of Free Churches in the district.” We are not told if the Baptist minister accepted the invitation but if he did, his Christianity and his Protestantism must have been at a very low ebb when he could sign a declaration of Christianity which could be accepted by a Roman Catholic priest. Dr. Main bemoans the fact that Scotland lagged behind in that we have not yet furnished examples such as these, and asks the question, “Must we await the bombs of Hitler to bludgeon us into the spirit of Christ?” To the reverend Professor, outward unity and the spirit of Christ seem to be synonymous, but we think if he will look about him in his own denomination, and at what passes there for religion, he will find with all their outward union that the spirit of Christ is conspicuous by its absence, for “By their fruits ye shall know them.” We think we know enough of the “contendings for the faith” in Scotland, and of the faithfulness of some to the Cause of Christ to say that Hitler’s bombs will have as little success in bludgeoning us into an outward unity as other means that have been tried, down from the Reformation to the present day. What those who have been stigmatized as schismatics are earnestly desiring and praying for is a union brought about by the power the Spirit of God, but until that power comes, they are in Scotland yet, and we are glad that they are, who will still say to Dr. Main and to every other union-monger in the Church of Scotland, what Jehu said to Joram, “What peace, so long as the whoredoms of the mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?” Let the Church of Scotland return to the Word of God and to a Scriptural practice and we in Scotland can dispense with “Hitler’s bombs to bludgeon us into the spirit of Christ.”
Jesuitic Rome Again.
—According to the June, 1940, issue of the Australian Protestant monthly magazine, The Protestant Word:—”During the controversy over the lifting of the arms embargo by the U.S.A., Mr. Henry Ford, the motor magnate, almost exceeded the late Senator Borah in his opposition to repeal. His public statements were not only ultra-isolationist, but definitely anti-British. The Canadian branch of his firm, with headquarters at Windsor, Ontario, divided its school taxes, giving 18 per cent. to the Roman Catholic schools, contrary to the law. The decision was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada, but is being carried to the Privy Council, by the public school ratepayers of the Province. During the recent labour troubles in Detroit, Mr. Ford sought the assistance of ‘Father’ Coughlin, the notorious U.S.A. ‘radio priest,’ to bring about a settlement. His grandson, Mr. Henry Ford II., son of Mr. Edsel Ford, is being prepared for reception into the Roman Catholic Church prior to his marriage to a Romanist, Ann McDonnell, of New York. This grandson will ultimately have control of the Ford motor firm.” Thus, throughout the British Empire, as throughout the U.S.A., whenever or wherever one finds anti-British sentiment, whether disguised as isolationism, neutrality, pacificism, or any other plausibly euphemistic term, scratch the surface and underneath you will almost invariably find a full-fledged Jesuit anti-British plot. When will Britain, its people and rulers, in Church and State, realize that the most appropriate title for the present war, against our Protestant nation and Empire, is “The Papal-Jesuit-Nazi-Fascist Gangsterdom”? “No aero engines for Britain,” the slogan of the Ford motor works, is easily explained in the light of the foregoing facts.
Scottish Nationalism So-called.
—Ardent Scottish Nationalists, of the Presbyterian persuasion, who attended the celebration of the 635th anniversary of the death of Sir William Wallace, at the Scottish hero’s monument at Elderslie, on Saturday, the 24th August, 1940, have expressed surprise and amazement in the public Press at the manner in which this important occasion was used by speakers to bolster up grossly unpatriotic and treasonable sentiments, pernicious anti-English and anti-Empire doctrines.” When will Scottish Presbyterians realize that Scottish Nationalism so-called may be, after all, a political smoke-screen, to hide the fact that its real aim may be Rome Rule in Scotland? One of the prominent founding members of the Scots National League, since developed into the National Party, is the Hon. Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, who was received into the Church of Rome, or, as I prefer, conscientiously to call it, the Papal System, in the year 1897. Has it not occurred to these men that as most of the key positions in the now notorious British Union of Fascists had been assigned to members of the Papal System, so also are members of that politico-ecclesiastical system prominently associated with so-called Scottish Nationalism? As it is difficult now to understand what was British, in view of recent happenings, about the Union of Fascists, it ought to be equally puzzling to Scottish Presbyterians to know what is really Scottish about the hostile, bitterly prejudiced, anti-English association called Scottish Nationalism. May one be permitted to suggest, as one’s sincere conviction, that the politico-ecclesiastical association, founded by Ignatius Loyola, is by no means uninterested in so-called Scottish Nationalism. There seems to be a close association between ecclesiastical Scotocatholicism and political Scottish Nationalism. Scotland awake!
Popish Propaganda.
—In the News Review for 15th August appears an article which shows how tireless the agents of the Pope are in their efforts to help Hitler to win the war. In the article referred to we get a very clear view of these efforts in the case of John Cudahy who was the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium until the invasion of the latter country by the Germans. After that event took place he went to Berlin, and from thence to the Vatican City, where he had a long audience with the Pope. What took place at that audience was not revealed but after events seem to indicate clearly that it was not for the good of Britain. Cudahy arrived in Britain and became the guest of Ambassador J. P. Kennedy who is an Irish-American Romanist like himself. After some time he gave an interview to fifty newspaper correspondents to whom he said that “the Germans were behaving with restraint; he had no authentic reports of atrocities; there had been no anti-Jew riots, no shooting, no looting.” He then attempted to white-wash the action of King Leopold in surrendering to the Germans, and denied that he did so without telling his Allies. Afterwards he drew a gloomy picture of the starving peasants in these lands now under German rule, and implied that Britain is responsible for Europe’s impending famine. It is noteworthy that he and Kennedy had lunch with the King at Buckingham Palace before he left for America. One is struck with the similarity of his pleadings to that of William C. Bullitt, the U.S. Ambassador in Paris, who is also a Roman Catholic, and who recently said, in endeavouring to excuse the action of the French Premier, Petain, in yielding to the Nazis, that the French people “deserved America’s sympathy and practical help.”
It is extraordinary that these three ambassadors to Britain, France, and Belgium, respectively, should be Romanists, while our own Ambassadors in Sweden, Greece, Hungary, and Bulgaria are Romanists also. Thus the whole atmosphere of international diplomacy is polluted with Jesuitic undermining, intrigue and corruption. In praising the Germans for their restraint, Cudahy was evidently doing it with “mental reservation,” which according to the teaching of his Church is quite allowable. His attempts to whitewash King Leopold is also characteristic of his Church when the truth is that the Belgian King sent General Overstraeton, who has been described as Leopold’s “Jesuit evil genius” to visit the Pope and Mussolini, and two days after General Overstraeton’s return from Rome, King Leopold treacherously surrendered. The Belgian Cardinal, Van Rooy, not only defended but actually eulogised the treachery of King Leopold. It is time for Britain to realise that this war is aimed at the blood-bought liberties procured for us at the Reformation and that the Pope of Rome is the greatest enemy of these liberties. He has before now revealed that it is a small matter in his estimation though Europe should be drenched in blood if he should obtain the suppression of the Protestant religion and the liberties which follow it. This is what the whole army of the Jesuits is working for.
Jesuit Intrigues.
—The English Churchman for 29th August reports the following:—”Mr. Lees Smith (Labour, Keighley), speaking in the war debate in Parliament last week, declared that if Hitler did not beat us by invasion in the next month—and the time of special danger was up to about September 21—he would try to do so by blockade. ‘We are already losing some 67,000 tons of merchant shipping a week,’ he continued. ‘Most of the sinkings are presumably off the west coast of Ireland. If we could use the ports of Southern Ireland which we handed over a few days before the war we could reduce these sinkings to a small figure. The world should realise what we pay for our principles. Scores of ships are being sunk and thousands of seamen drowned because we cannot even within our own Commonwealth use ports for our Navy which, without that Navy, would share the fate of Holland and Denmark.’” This loss may well be ascribed to the industry of the Jesuits in doing everything in their power to bring about the downfall of Britain. They have laid their plans well in getting these ports handed over a few days before the war, so that they could not be used by the British Navy. It is, however, but one part of the machinery which they are continually using against Protestantism in this country, and another proof that this war is but a diabolical campaign engineered by the Vatican. Hitler and Mussolini are but tools in the hands of the Pope and his great army of Jesuits which are to be found in every corner of the world. When will our statesmen realise that in yielding to the extraordinary claims put forward by Eire they are making it easier for the Pope to accomplish what has been the ardent desire of the Papacy since the Reformation?