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THE KING’S BUSINESS have long to wait for tangible proofs o f the fulfillment o f this promise. No Sovereign, since theS creation o f the Kingdom of Italy, ever before so honored the Pope, and as a consequence showed such disregard for the feelings and interests o f the Government and people. Nor has any Protestant monarch been honored (or, I should rather say, dishonored) by the Pope as the Kaiser has been; for, to the amusement and disgust of all Italy, the Pope never fails to have a Te Deum sung in St. Peter’s in. honor o f his birthday‘ KA ISER SELLS HIS COUNTRY - . V C Then the Kaiser has done what his father’ and grandfather refused to do, although Dressed to do it : he has bestowed the decoration o f the Black Eagle upon an ecclesiastic. That decoration, the highest a German Emperor has to give, has hitherto only been bestowed upon distinguished civil servants of the Crown. William III. bestowed it on Cardinal Cope, thus honoring the Vatican and the Pope. Lastly, by secret negotiations with the Pope, and as a proof that their interests and policy in certain matters are identical, he secured the election o f one of his own subjects, Francis Xavier Warnz, to the position o f General o f the Jesuits, or to be, what one holding that position is called in Italy, the ‘Black Pope.’ PROPOSED HUM ILIATION OF ENGLAND The result of this unholy alliance, of this union in mutual love o f each other and detestation o f England, is that the Kaiser has become the willing instrument o f the Pope and the Vatican for the humiliation o f England, in order to the ultimate restoration o f the Temporal Power. What Richard Bagot the Roman Catholic novelist wrote during the Boer War, in the number of the National Review for May, 1900, holds equally true today, that ‘The whole campaign against England was due to the intrigues o f the Vatican, .which is working, as it has ever worked and ever will work, to promote and encompass the humiliation o f England.’ ~ HHH p| Italy has long known that the Vatican has been egging on the German Emperor to invade England, and has for years warned us o f our peril. She has done this with all the greater earnestness and persistency that she knows that her turn will come next She has told us that just as the naval and military preparations o f Germany, carried on with such mad haste and to such an abnormal extent, are, in her opinion, directed against England: so the similar preparations carried on in the same spirit by Austria, are directed against herself; and that, in the event o f England s humiliation, Austria will at once, backed by Germany, attempt to recover Venetia and Lombardy; and then as Dr. White’s ‘Eminent Roman Catholic diplomat at the Hague said, Italy will be deluged in blood, in the attempt to restore the Temporal Power.. A good manypeople are wondering what would be the result of the cap ture of Venice by the German forces. Would Venetia be turned over to Austria, or would it be added to the papal state? Doubtless the Pope has great hopes along this line, and that may have had a great deal to do with producing the astonishingly favorable attitude toward the Central Powers that he has shown since the beginning of the war. D DRIVEN OUT OF THE SHOW BUSINESS. One of the most interesting letters that we have received came to Dr. Torrey recently. It reads: _ > “ Some seven months ago I received a copy of T he K ing s B usiness . 1 thought it very good at the time, but put it aside. It would not keep quiet but has been continually crying out not tp be hid away, and here I am tonight writ ing to you to send me T he K ing ’ s B usiness for a. year. “ It seems very strange to be writing to you tonight, for you were partly the cause of driving me out of business, unknown to you. I was in the 10-cent show business when you were in Huntington, W. Va„ and the nights you preached my house was practically empty. Finally I went out of business, and here I am now a ‘Homesteader’ in Western Canada, sixty miles from the nearest railroad.
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