By the Rev. J. P. MACQUEEN.
*This article was written at the beginning of October during London’s terrific aerial bombardment, but owing to pressure of space we were not able to publish it before now.—J. C.
NOT since the beginning of the blessed Reformation in this country has vital godliness been at such a lamentably low ebb as is the case in our day and generation. As reflecting the moulding influence of the professing Church on the State, in its home and foreign policy, and consequently on society world-wide, not only in any particular generation, but on posterity for ages to come, it may not be unprofitable to consider our own nation, and its foreign policy at the present time, in this light. It will then be seen, perhaps, what a potent influence for good or evil the professing Church can be, and how much of its blessed usefulness, or otherwise, is dependent on ministerial fidelity to ordination vows, and on a consistent practice in its members, and Scriptural discipline within its courts.
One of the most sinister and outstanding features of international diplomacy and politics in our day is the extraordinary lack of moral honesty and fair-dealing noticeable everywhere in the international sphere. This is not only manifest in the uniform perfidy, and consequent ruthless savagery, of the totalitarian States, but in the immoral appeasement policy, based on unrighteous compromise and expediency, which defiled the notorious Chamberlain-Halifax Government during the premiership of Mr. Neville Chamberlain. Its evil influence is still noticeable in some of the international actions of the present Government, due, we believe, to the unwholesome power still exercised by Lord Halifax, the Anglo-Catholic admirer of the Pope, on British foreign policy.
However ill it becomes an American to pass strictures on such matters, in view of their own nation’s immoral and selfish isolationist and neutrality policy at such a critical and decisive hour in world history, one feels morally bound to agree with Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the American President, that “appeasement does only work, where ethics do not exist.” It is a policy based entirely on Jesuitic casuistry and technique, and its adoption, with such disastrous consequences to our nation and Empire, by the Chamberlain-Halifax Government, is a clear indication of the potent influence wielded by the Jesuits behind the scenes. Mr. Neville Chamberlain has been supported with a blind sheep-like enthusiasm that has probably been unparalleled in our history, because a Jesuitically-controlled Press and B.B.C. imposed upon an unthinking credulous public, by eulogising a Premier, whom the subtle followers of Ignatius Loyola found a facile tool in yielding to and adopting policies favoured by the Vatican, and wholly in the interests of Romanism. It is but the gradual development towards culmination and consummation of the evil flood introduced by the passing of the sinister Emancipation Act of 1829. The Divine punishment following this immoral appeasement policy is a bitterly-taught lesson that the Eternal God can never be made a party to crooked expediency and unrighteous compromise.
The Hoare-Laval scandal, connected with the Italo-Abyssinian massacre, is still fresh in our memories, and it affords another clear indication of Jesuitic influence in high places in the British Government that such a man would still be employed in the service of this country. The so-called Non-Intervention Committee set up by the Chamberlain-Halifax Government was purely Jesuitic, and that it has proved a most disastrous policy to Britain our present relationship to Spain sufficiently emphasised. The same Pope-pleasing British Government was responsible for sending Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, for a month, in an effort to brow-beat that brave democratic people into submission to Hitler. Mr. Chamberlain’s contemptuous reference to Czechoslovakia as a “nation which we know very little about” is an unforgettable historical instance of callous brutal indifference in one seeking to please the Jesuitic agents of Popery. During the whole month of Lord Runciman’s sojourn in that land he, significantly enough, stayed with wealthy Romanist families. President Hacha, who was supposed to have had fainting fits when in Berlin, and who signed away the political independence and territorial integrity of his native land, is a Romanist. “Father” Tiso, who acted similarly relative to Slovakia, is a rank Jesuit.
The late Pope Pius XI. never forgave Czechoslovakia for its rebuff in remaining indifferent to his gesture of removing his Nuncio from Prague when two million Czechs left the Church of Rome. He publicly vowed vengeance. Hitler, with the help of the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain-Halifax Government, gratified the Pope’s thirst for revenge, before the latter went “to his own place.”
The same appeasement tactics, with similar disastrous results, have been applied by the same Government to the Japanese blood-thirsty aggressive policy. The explanation is to be found in the fact that the Vatican has all along supported Japan in its ruthless “undeclared” war against China. The Japanese Government, on the advice of the leading Admiral of the Japanese Navy, has adopted, for its own ends, Jesuitic technique and casuistry as the basis of its international diplomacy, while the Pope, in turn, has presented, through the papal Legate in Tokio, a map of the world to the Emperor of Japan, as a token of the part his Empire is expected to play in the Papal-Jesuit-Nazi-Fascist Gangsterdom, involving the complete extirpation of the British Empire Protestant Constitution. The Halifax foreign policy, operating in this instance through the appeaser, Sir Robert Craigie, our Ambassador in Japan, must accordingly coincide, where at all possible, with that of the Vatican.
The Italian rape of Albania was a clear violation of the Anglo-Italian Pact, which included a clause forbidding the entrance of Protestant missionaries into Abyssinia, and which was signed on behalf of Britain by two Romanists, yet the Chamberlain-Halifax Government continued the false friendship with Italy as if no such violation of a solemn treaty obligation had occurred. Sir Patrick Hannan, M.P., an Eire Romanist, and Convener of the sham Anglo-Italian Parliamentary Committee, dissolved on the outbreak of war with Italy, is a close personal friend of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, as is also Sir Martin Melvin, the proprietor of the R.C. “Universe,” the leading Romanist newspaper in this country.
The fact that it was Von Papen, the notorious German Jesuit diplomat (who did more than anyone else to put Hitler in power), who framed the Russo-German Pact, without being excommunicated, or even mildly rebuked by the Pope, with whom Von Papen is persona grata, shows how little importance need be attached to the Pope’s professed abhorrence of Russian atheistic Bolshevism. It may be mentioned that Von Papen was actually caught red-handed by the Canadian-U.S.A. authorities with designs to blow up Canadian and U.S.A. bridges to retard their war efforts in the last war.
The foregoing incontrovertible facts prove to the hilt the paralysing grip Jesuitic technique and intrigues have got on the higher Governmental departments of the British nation, especially since, in 1926, Mr. Stanley Baldwin (now Lord Baldwin) sanctioned the establishment of the Jesuit Order in London. The same influence, we believe, is responsible for assigning to our present Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, as his private parliamentary secretary, an Eire Romanist.
It is a well-known fact that these private secretaries wield a powerful influence over their masters, and as, in the case of a Romanist, his primary allegiance is to a foreign Italian potentate, in the person of the Pope, we may rest assured that the most intimate secrets of the British nation and Empire reach the Pope, through the usual Jesuitic diplomatic channels. Let it be remembered in this connection that the Pope, the inveterate enemy of British Protestantism, can, at any moment, grant a dispensation disannulling a Romanist’s oath of allegiance to King George VI. The R.C. “Universe” has noticed, with undisguised glee and satisfaction, the influence this private secretary can wield in high places at the present critical juncture, and that it more than compensates for the fact that there is no “Catholic” in the present Cabinet.
How, now, are we to account for this lamentable state of degradation to which the foreign policy of the greatest Protestant nation in the world has been brought? It is the reflection as well as the reaction in the life of the State to the lamentable spiritual condition prevailing in the professing Church in our nation to-day. When vital godliness is the outstanding feature of the national professing Church it is reflected, in turn, in a high standard of moral integrity in the life of the State, in all its aspects and activities, political, diplomatic, ambassadorial and consular. On the other hand, when the professing national Church is at a low ebb spiritually, its immoral repercussions in the home and foreign policy of the State soon manifest themselves. “On every side-walk the wicked, when vile men are high in place” in Church and State. When the professing Church is worthy of the description, “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners,” the legislative Parliament at Westminster dare not introduce or pass a Bill, contrary to Scriptural and Christian ethics.
In our day and generation, however, ministers solemnly swear at their ordination before God that they believe the doctrines of the church to which they belong, and then, with manifest dishonesty, preach something else. The so-called Protestant ministers in England and Scotland, who have ceased their witness-bearing against papal blasphemy, superstition, idolatory and tyranny from their pulpits, have a lot to answer for. When it is thus considered, what a blessing on the one hand, and what a curse on the other, the professing Church may be to a community, nation, or generation, and, in view of the part ordained ministers play in the Church, what an extraordinarily solemn and tremendous responsibility, in the national and international life of the world, is the sacred office of the Christian ministry.
True Christianity, however, knows no compromise. It is the outstanding blessing and precious privilege of belonging to the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland that when better days dawn on a sin-benighted world our denomination will not have to move, for it is already broad-based on the eternal rock-bottom of the infallible Word of God. This—the truth as it is in Jesus—is the only basis on which the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, will build a united Church. “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Psalm cxxvii. 1).
Let us, therefore, hold fast our distinctive Scriptural denominational testimony without wavering, till this indignation and these sad calamities, do wholly overpass. Let our praying people wrestle fervently, importunately, and perseveringly for an outpouring of the Spirit’s blessed supernatural influences on ourselves, individually and denominationally, and on the nation and Empire, and the generation world-wide. “The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force.” Give Him, therefore, reverently but diligently, no rest till He establish and make Jerusalem a joy and a praise in the earth. “Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion,” and then “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
David was apt to think all was gone, help would never come more to him, and in that very season God delivered him.—Dr. Manton.