Home Rule in Ireland by S. B. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1912

Home Rule in Ireland

By S. B. H.

For many years the question of home rule for Ireland has engaged the attention of Great Britain to a greater or less extent. At times the controversy has assumed formidable proportions, and murders and assassinations, with many breaches of the peace, have followed in the wake of this controversy. Recently the Presbyterian Synod of Belfast passed resolutions deprecating home rule for Ireland, in the following language:—

“That this synod reiterates its condemnation of the proposal of the government to grant what is called ‘home rule’ to Ireland, as such a measure would (1) violate to the uttermost the solemn league and covenant by which Great Britain bound itself to God in the year 1643; (2) make the ‘man of sin’ the real king, or rather ‘tyrant,’ of Ireland through the Irish majority, who are superstitious enough to confess and glory in political and religious fidelity to that popery which nearly every other Romish people has patriotically rejected; (3) surrender the Protestant minority in Ireland to an admittedly and ‘conscientiously’ murderous ascendancy; and (4) supply Jesuits with a new lever for promoting civil and international war in order to further the development of their fatal power and the corruption, humiliation, and destruction of Protestant Britain.”

S. B. H.