R.C. Plan in U.S.A.
According to the July issue of the Ulster Protestant, the Council of the Knights of St. Columbus (U.S.A.) have launched a propaganda campaign by advertisements to explain Roman Catholic teaching to those who will not enter an R.C. church to hear it. Pamphlets are being offered without charge and a free course of R.C. instruction by mail is also obtainable. It is stated that care is being taken to avoid offending non-Catholics. It is obvious that the Papacy feels the urgency for such a campaign to make up, to some extent, for the tremendous losses she is sustaining in numbers and prestige throughout Europe. Is this advertising a tonic for an “ailing body”? As to the hypocritical care to avoid offending non-Catholics, we need but study the information coming from Spain as to the persecution of Protestants and also the oath taken by the Knights of St. Columbus which contains the following, “I do further declare and promise that I will, when opportunity presents, make and raise relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics.” And, of course, non-Catholics are heretics in the U.S.A. as elsewhere. The deplorable fact remains that so many people today in the U.S.A. and in Britain are unacquainted with the doctrines of God’s Word and therefore unfitted to meet such bold and subtle campaigns.
Remember the Sabbath Day.
The B.B.C is notorious for its disregard of the sanctity of the Lord’s Day, and in its endeavours to pander to the tastes of all kinds of people, it, in the midst of a whole host of secular items, gives a so-called religious service. According to the ‘Radio Times’ for 9th September, there was a Gaelic Service to be broadcast by Rev. A. D. MacLeod, Secretary of the Lord’s Day Observance Society, on Sabbath, 11th September. Most of our readers know very well that, in order to make these broadcasts possible, a certain number of people are deprived of the weekly day of rest, by being engaged in work which does not come under the category of works of necessity and mercy, but is in the same class as the printing of newspapers on Sabbath, and, therefore, it is neither to the credit of the Lord’s Day Observance Society, nor to Mr. MacLeod as its Secretary, that he should be engaged in this way. Mr. MacLeod, it will be remembered, was one of those ministers who left the Free Presbyterian Church because their consciences were supposed to be embarrassed over certain decisions of Synod and, therefore, it is quite a relevant question to ask, ‘What has his conscience to say with regard to this flagrant desecration of the Lord’s Day on his part?’—J.C.