By Rev. JAMES MACLEOD, Greenock.
MANY of the readers of the Free Presbyterian Monthly Magazine will be anxious to know what is the religious position of the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and others in the Government, and in Parliament in a general way. It would be out of the question to enumerate the various views (although known) of all the members of the House of Commons, and House of Lords. The Roman Catholic members returned, the half of them were returned in the Labour interest, and half Conservatives. The most of them from English counties. The Anglo-Catholics of England would send up to Parliament a Romanist before any Protestant representative, however otherwise qualified the Protestant might be!
Mr. Attlee, like Mr. Churchill, is on the side of the advanced Romanisers of the Church of England. They both voted in 1928 for the Jesuitical “prayer-book” which shews clearly enough that Attlee, and Churchill are of the same mind as regards the cause of Christ, and religion in general! They are of the Halifax school. That may in part account for Mr. Churchill’s visit for rest, peace, and painting in Italy just now. Mr. Attlee is not a Roman Catholic, but he is a supporter of the Romanisers of the Church of England. It is therefore obvious that the present Prime Minister is just a protestant in name only, like many others of the same school in England. They never did accept the glorious Reformation as a blessing, but simply as an expedient to advance political aims. They retained their “lords spiritual,” in co-operation with their “lords temporal” as a barrier against the proletarians, who might seek, and by vote demand that the political Church of England be abolished.
Mr. Attlee stands four square with Mr. Churchill, Eden, and Halifax; and so does Messrs. H. Dalton, A. Greenwood, Pethick Lawrence, all of them out and out Anglo-Catholics. Lord Halifax is their lay spiritual head in England irrespective of what party is in power!
The Lords spiritual (bishops in the House of Lords) and the Anglo-Catholic Peers are in absolute harmony as far as their religious-political aims are concerned. There are far more labour members in this House of Commons who voted in 1928 against the “prayer-book,” than Conservative members. Let me also point out in this connection that there are far more Labour members in this House of Commons who are (some of them strong Protestants) out and out Protestants in direct opposition to the Anglo-Catholic tendency of the Conservative members: to name a few A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty; Barnes, Minister of Transport; J. Westwood, Secretary for Scotland, etc., and many others are truly, and we believe, sincere Protestants.
The Labour members of England in Parliament are quite different from the “Clydeside” Labour members from Scotland. There are far more Protestant members among the Labour members of England than are to be found among the Conservatives for the simple reason that the Conservative party are led by Anglo-Catholics such as Halifax, Eden, Churchill: associated with men like Brenden Bracken, etc. It was Labour members (English members) who led the fight against the opening of Music Halls and Theatres in England. The Scottish members both Labour and Conservatives were dumb, and indeed some of them refrained from voting, who are now out, and no wonder. Mr. Churchill was the prime mover in that wicked attack on the liberties of the people. The object in view was to add to the dividend of the people whose money was sunk in the theatres, and music halls bombed and burned out in the city of London! They were to be opened for the “poor people” who were engaged in the factories and could not attend very well through the week! What naked hypocrisy! Was this part of the cause why Churchill and his party were turned out so ignominiously?
I am not a politician, and not a party man, but facts, are facts; and no doubt whatsoever, the army of Jesuits at the White House in Washington D.C. were painfully, and deplorably disappointed that the Churchill-Eden-Halifax clique were not returned to power, hence, the slap in the face to the Government of Attlee by cancelling the “lease-lend” arrangement between Britain and the U.S.A.
Let us wait upon the Lord. He has granted wonderful deliverance to us against the vile attempts of Romanists in Italy, France, Spain, Eire, Germany, and the Isolationists (Romanists) in the U.S.A., to destroy the British Empire. They failed. God be praised for His great mercy to us, and to our children. Let us praise His holy name, and take courage in the Lord God of our fathers for His mercies!
The Lord will destroy pope, popery, atheism, and idolatry but the gospel will prevail, and its spirit will convert and regenerate the nations according to His own eternal purpose and promise.