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ROME AT THE TOP The London “Daily Express” makes the following comments: “There is one feature about the appointment of Sir Eric Drummond to the Secretary-Gen eralship to the League of Nations which will attract attention here. Sir Eric is a Roman Catholic. While he was private secretary to Mr. Balfour at the foreign office this fact aroused consider able adverse criticism in ultra-Protes tant circles in Great Britain. Roman Catholicism is very strongly represented in the high posts of the foreign office, and it was alleged at a time when the attitude of the Vatican was notoriously luke-warm or hostile to the Allies, the foreign policy of this country was sub ject to i Catholic influence. The feel ing against Roman Catholics in high office in England has been due in the past, and is due now, not so much to religious antagonism as to the belief that a Roman Catholic owes some kind of allegiance to a foreign power as well as to the crown, and that the two allegi ances may Conflict. This sentiment, in fact, ante-dates the reformation, and was directed originally against the pa pal nominees to British bishoprics.” By his will, recently proved, the late H. J. Heinz, of Pittsburg, U. S. A., left over a million dollars to religious, edu cational, and charitable organizations and institutions. Mr. Heinz was widely known for his interest in Sunday school work. In the opening paragraph of his will he testified the depth of his faith as a Christian in these words: Looking forward to the time when my earthly career shall end, I desire to set forth at the very; beginning of this will, as the most important item in it, a confession of my faith, in Jesus Christ as my Saviour. : I also desire to bear witness to the fact that throughout my life, in which were the usual ^oys and sorrows, I have been wonderfully sustained by my faith in God through Jesus Christ. This legacy was left me .by my ; consecrated mother; who r was a woman of strong faith, and to it I attribute any success I may have attained during ifiy life. M '£k MR. HEINZ’S TESTIMONY
this is the continual refrain from be ginning to end of the Bible. O givt thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for. his j mercy endureth forever. Let the re deemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath re deemed from the hand of the enemy.—Ps. 107:1, 2. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he ;• is good; for his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks unto the God of gods; for his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his mercy endureth forever.—Ps. 136:1-3. :■ It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good. We are not wise enough to judge as to things whether they are really in their essence joys or sorrows, but we always know that the Lord is good, and that His goodness makes it absolutely certain that everything He provides or permits must be good, and must therefore be something for which we would be heartily thankful, if only we could see it with His eyes. Read the last six Psalms, and see what you think. To my mind, the fact that God so continually commands us to give thanks in everything, is a posi tive proof that, whether we can see it or not, there is in everything a cause for thanksgiving, for He could never be so tyrannical as to tell us to give thanks for things that were, after all, not deserving of thanks. The summing up of the whole matter then is this, that it is the will of God for us to give thanks in everything, and that, therefore, we have no alternative, but to do it. It is not an optional mat ter. Let us begin at once. So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever; we will shew forth thy praise to all gen- erations.H—Ps. 70:13. Do You Believe in God’s I I.W.W.? I Isa. 43:1}— "I WILL WORK and H who can Kinder it?” " 'i
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