By REV. JOHN P. MACQUEEN.
It is the clear and definite duty of a professed watchman on the wall-towers of Zion to give warning as to the approach, movements, and intrigues of the enemy in one’s day and generation. In doing so, he thereby gives the Lord’s true praying people an opportunity to plead with the Most High to forestall the deep-laid undermining plots, intrigues, and machinations of a cunning, ruthless, sleepless adversary. Knowing that his time is short, till he shall be bound a thousand years, Satan to-day, as probably never before in the history of our fallen race, has every iron in the fire in his ceaseless characteristic efforts to ruin as many precious immortal souls as possible. While he leads unregenerate men and women everywhere captive at his will, suiting his plans and craftiness to their several tastes and sinful propensities, he has evolved in the papal system, for the fatal deception of our fallen race, what the justly-renowned Calvin called “the masterpiece of Satan.”
On the other hand, the prayer of faith is the most potent weapon that the Most High has ever placed in the hands of righteous men and women; for prayer, when in accordance with the will and purpose of a covenant God, actually moves the heart and hand of Him who rules the universe. Concerning, for instance, the great and precious promise of the taking away the heart of stone, and implanting the grace-softened impressionable
penitent heart, the promise-fulfilling covenant-keeping God puts Israel under obligation to plead its fulfilment:—”I will yet for this be inquired of by the House of Israel to do it for them.” The Scriptures of truth exhort the Church of Christ that “men ought always to pray and not to faint,” and the Psalmist, next to the Saviour Himself, is the outstanding example and living embodiment of obedience to this divine exhortation, for there is no situation in which he found himself, however desperate from the mere human viewpoint, but he had recourse to prayer. This surely is the proper exercise, in view of the fact that the prayer-hearing, prayer-answering, soul-delivering God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. It is consequently unreasonable, this side Hell, to indulge despair. Let the 17th and 18th verses of the fifth chapter of the General Epistle of James serve for ever as a demonstration of the truth that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Such God-fearing praying people as passed through the terrible fiery ordeal of the aerial bombardment of London, had also ocular demonstrations, up-to-date, of the fact that prayer is no mere beating of the air, but a divinely-taught, efficacious, not-disappointing cry for help to God in time of need. Let us gratefully and prayerfully remember that at this moment we owe our marvellous undeserved immunity, from the inconceivable horrors of an atomic war, solely to the blessed fact that “the Lord God omnipotent reigneth,” who delighteth in mercy; as otherwise Hell, the Vatican, the Jesuits, the Romanist Hierarchy in the U.S.A., and the Kremlin, would have the world in the unspeakable throes of an international shambles. Recently, a Romanist bishop in the U.S.A. declared publicly, according to The Converted Catholic, with its meticulous regard for accuracy of statement, that if any people in the world deserved a papal dispensation, to feign atheism in the interests of “Holy Mother Church,” they were the people who went out into the wilderness as Communists, self-denyingly dispensing, some of them for years, “with the blessed rites of the Catholic Church.” Those who do not realise and believe that Popery is led by the evil spirit, Satan, as the Church of Christ is taught and led by the Holy Ghost, will never understand Romanism. Papal Rome occupies much the same relation to Hell that the crater of the volcano occupies to the internal boiling lava; it is the aperture through which belches forth the international intrigues of Satan on a sin-deluded world.
It is, therefore, with the earnest, sincere, solemn purpose in view of urging and stirring up the Lord’s praying people, among readers of our Magazine, to plead with Heaven, importunately and solemnly, to thwart and utterly defeat the plots and schemes of Hell, the Vatican, the Jesuits, the Romanist Hierarchy in the U.S.A., and the Kremlin, that we have been at pains to set before them the following information. Before doing so however, let us emphasise that after defeating the Pope-blessed so-called invincible Spanish Armada and the setting up of the Reformed Church of Christ in Britain, God gave this nation the greatest and most distinguished empire the world has ever known. Since we officially linked ourselves to “the man of sin and son of perdition” by appointing an envoy to the Vatican in 1914, that empire has degenerated, and is continuing rapidly to disintegrate, and it will continue doing so as long as we, as a nation, continue that envoy at the Vatican. We are thus nationally linked officially with Satan’s masterpiece, in the teeth of the
Bill of Rights of this Protestant nation. Let the Lord’s people, therefore, continue wrestling, with more holy violence than ever, at a Throne of Grace, till Britain officially terminates this God-dishonouring embassy at the Vatican, for “the kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” Satan and the Pope have a perpetual controversy with Britain, vowing vengeance, because of the blow given to their dark kingdom of lies, hypocrisy, and deception, at the Reformation, and because there are still too many of the Lord’s praying people, too much Christianity, too much Bible, and too much Sabbath observance in Britain, while the Most High has a totally different controversy with us, as a nation, because of the increasing lack of these. The Lord is to-day saying, in effect, loudly and solemnly to Britain:—”Thou hast preferred the Pope, and consequently Satan, to Me, and thou hast gone to Egypt for help, except for the small remnant according to the election of grace, therefore, in righteous judgment, in the form of increasing judicial blindness, I will, in a lamentable measure, give thee over, in degraded captivity, to the tender mercies, which are terribly cruel, of the Pope and the Jesuits, under Satan.” That that is the language of the Most High’s providential dealings with Britain to-day, no right-thinking intelligent Christian should deny, as the following facts and information will prove:—
During the Second World War, Papal Rome, characteristically, took advantage of Britain’s commitments, to indulge in clamouring for the so-called nationalisation and expropriation of the oil-wells of Mexico, where millions of British capital had been sunk, with a view not only of enriching Romanist Mexico at Protestant Britain’s expense, but especially on set purpose to deprive the British Navy of much-needed oil. The leader of this so-called industrial group in Mexico was actually a Romanist priest, who refused to pay a penny compensation. Britain weakened in oil, the British Navy is weakened, and so our national defences are weakened to prepare Papal Rome, in course of time, to dictate its Satanic Heaven-provoking “religion” to a reduced and degenerated Britain.
Having thus succeeded in Mexico, the Jesuits moved the Romanist dictator, Peron, to try the same methods of nationalisation and expropriation with the British railways in the Argentine. He has recently boasted in the public press that as he had no money he sold wheat to Britain, through Socialist Government bulk-buying, at four times the price he paid the farmers of Argentine, who expressed themselves as highly satisfied with their share. Thus Peron, in the Jesuitic name of nationalisation and expropriation, got the British railways in the Argentine for a song. The Jesuits, thus successful, are now carrying out similar methods in Persia, to which country a Papal envoy was recently sent from the Vatican, while Mr. Stokes, a Romanist Socialist millionaire, is negotiating at the time of writing this article, with the Persian Government, with a view to the dissolution of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and the handing over of its assets to the tender mercies of the Persian Government, to give what so-called compensation the latter thinks fit. If this is not an instance of daylight robbery, I have yet to learn what is.
Papal Rome is now allied to Mohammedanism, with envoys from the Vatican, for the first time in history, in almost every Mohammedan nation in the world. During the Second World War, Cairo was the world’s most
outstanding hot-bed of Jesuit intrigues, and Britain is now, as a consequence, to be forced from the Suez Canal, while Egypt, allied to the Vatican, continues to insult Britain. Franco Spain is clamouring for Gibraltar, and thus the Most High is making Britain pay dearly for our alliance with the Vatican. How clearly verified in our national case is the truth, “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
Rome thus, urged by Hell, is feverishly planning and plotting, day and night, through world-wide Jesuit intrigues, to disintegrate and destroy the British Empire. France has already asked the U.S.A. if her object in offering to help Franco Spain, by arms and money, is to retire, in the event of a Third World War, behind the Pyrenees, leaving France and Britain as proving grounds for atom bombs. Mr. A. J. Cummings, the well-known political correspondent of the News Chronicle, has already publicly revealed in that paper, that an American War Department document stated that, in the event of the Third World War, Britain must expect the first onslaught of atomic bombs from Russia, while General Sir Frederick Pile, the war-time defender in charge of Britain’s anti-aircraft defences, has declared that five atomic bombs dropped on Britain, and scattered proportionately, would knock us out as a war-waging nation. Thus we see what Satan, Papal Rome, the Jesuits, and the Hierarchy in the U.S.A., are planning for much-hated Britain, but “the Lord that is on high is more of might by far, than noise of many waters is, or great sea-billows are,” so let the Lord’s praying people “give Him no rest till He make Jerusalem a praise and a joy in the earth,” as assuredly and infallibly He will.
In conclusion, let it be noted that the U.S.A. and Britain, urged on by the Hierarchy in the U.S.A., pressed Protestant Holland to part with the Dutch East Indies, the best governed colony in the world, while Romanist France continues to govern French Indo-China. This is all revealed in the book recently published by the war-time Prime Minister of Holland, resident in Britain. To-day, Mr. Foster Dulles, the U.S.A. Far-Eastern roving ambassador, is doing his utmost to get very favourable peace terms for brutal, ruthless, savage Japan, at the bidding of the Romanist Hierarchy in the U.S.A. Was there ever so much need of prayer and national evangelical repentance?
The late Mrs. James Macuish, Sollas.
THE above was one of our members in North Uist. The writer made enquiries as to when the good work began in her, but all that could be ascertained was that she feared the Lord from her youth. Her father was a noted Christian. So it is likely she would have been brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This seems to have been blessed to her, unlike some who saw a good example in their homes, but who became apostates from all religion. It is said that one would not be long in her company when she would make known by her conversation that she was one who feared and obeyed the Lord. Not only was she very circumspect in her personal life, but she commanded her family to be good to the Lord’s people and the ministers.
Unlike many parents, she was concerned about the souls of her children. She would like them to get Christ as well as herself. Being a good singer, she taught them to sing the songs of Zion. As regards steadfastness and loyalty to the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and all that it stands for, no one could find fault with her. Having obtained a ripe old age, she had seen better days in Uist than these in which we live.
Before 1893, the constitution of the Free Church was unimpaired, resting solidly on the Word of God and the Westminster Confession of Faith, as her subordinate standard. Thousands used to congregate at Craig Hastie, from as far south as Barra, and from Bernera and Harris. Now the crowds can only be gathered by a pipe-band from Barra, and the annual Highland Games, which are held on Hosta Machair.
Mrs. Macuish was one who ‘washed the saints’ feet.’ She counted it a privilege to show hospitality to strangers. The writer was under her roof, and experienced the warm, Christian atmosphere of her home. The congregation at Sollas was quite large originally. Mrs. Macuish was the last of our female members there, so there is great need that the Lord would raise others to fill her place as a witness in the ‘cloudy and dark day.’ The North Uist congregation was very large in 1893, when about 300 came out of Paible Free Church, to maintain intact the Reformed Church of Scotland as by law established in 1560. Many went to eternity. Some went to the New World as emigrants. Not many retraced their steps to Paible.—D. J. Macaskill.
The late Mrs. Annie Ross, Hilton.
WE have to record the death in December, 1950, of Mrs. Annie Ross, 10 King Street, Hilton, Fearn, widow of the late Donald Ross, who was for many years an elder in the Fearn congregation.
Mrs. Ross was a faithful witness on the side of the Free Presbyterian Church testimony during many years of her earthly pilgrimage. She was one who had the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, and until a month before her death, she was a regular attender at the means of grace. For many years she walked to the church at Fearn, and amid all the afflictions and sorrows which were her lot in the world, she never failed in her attendance at God’s House.
On the last Sabbath evening before she lay down on her death-bed, she was as usual at the meeting in Hilton. Her sweet voice could be heard that evening as the service concluded with the words of Psalm ii:—
Kiss ye the Son, lest in His ire
Ye perish from the way,
If once his wrath begin to burn:
Bless’d all that on him stay.
It was a great consolation to those who watched over her during her illness, for a month previous to her death, that preparation had been made by her during her life-time for eternity, and that it was true of her that she was staying herself on the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as her Saviour
and Redcemer. Her illness was such that, had that not been the case, there would be no opportunity to talk with her on her death-bed, as perfect quietness and no conversation were ordered by the doctor.
The Fearn congregation is very much the poorer for her death, as her prayers for the Cause will be greatly missed. We tender our sincere sympathy to the members of her family—two sons and two daughters—who have lost a loving mother. May they be enabled to make choice of their mother’s God and Saviour.—J. H. M.