800 THE K I NG ' S BUS I NES S Illinois said of this ecclesiastical power in the League of Nations: “ Catholic nations outnumber those of the Protestant faith, the influence of the Vatican will dominate and control the league. He said that of the original 32 members of the League, 28 are Christian nations and four are of other faith, and of the 28 Christian nations, 17 are Catholic and 11 are Protes tant.” Including the other nations which aré invited to join the League, Senator Sherman said, “ Twenty-four of the 40 votes of the Christians are spiritually dominated by the Vatican.” “ Although there has been separation of Church and State,” he said, “ the divorce of spiritual affairs of mankind from the temporal has never met with the approbation of the papal authority.” The visit of President Wilson to the Pope, and the statement issued from the Vatican praising the League of Nations, after the President’s visit, was referred to by the Senator as having a “ preconceived purpose.” The Trium controversy, in the Senator’s opinion, showed that the Vatican was not in sympathy with the civil government of Italy, and “ tended to connect President Wilson with influence unfriendly to the temporal power of Italy and inimical to the future welfare of the United States.” In the light of these facts and figures it is well to remind ourselves of the c o n d i t i o n of the people in any country, past or present, where Rome holds sway; from the priest-ridden mining town to the South American countries and Europe. The following figures ought always to be kept before statesmen lest they put the authority again injto papal hands. “ Between the years 1481 and 1808 A. D. over 341,000 persons were con demned by the Inquisition, of whom 31,912 were burned alive, and nearly 300,000 were tortured and condemned to severe penances. Gigantic enter prises for the extermination of Christian confessors were from time to time undertaken by the Pope of Rome. Witness the bloody ‘crusade’ against the Albigenses, described by Sismondi, and the religious wárs against the Waldenses, narrated by Monastier and others. . . . The fierce and blood thirsty cruelty with which these were carried on has added to history one of its very darkest chapters.” The motto written over Rome down through the centuries has always been “ Rome never changes” . “ And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” is the testimony of Scripture.—W. H. P. C A N Inspiration be Proven Scientifically? Growing out of the article by Rev. Ivan Panin published several months ago in this magazine, a number of inquiries have been received. Prominent ministers were interested in the study and wrote to ask if the system of numerics as set forth in the article was authentic and if other Bible scholars had»made the same discovery regarding the mysterious construction of the Bible. ' ' # The discovery seems to have been made by several thorough Bible students at about the same time a comparatively few years ago. Mr. Panin seems to have made the most exhaustive study of the subject, counting back wards and forwards many times, every Hebrew and Greek character in the
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