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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 13.

Teaching France a Lesson.—

A despatch to the New York World, under date of February 19, states that on February 21, a consistory would be held at which nineteen bishops would be appointed to fill vacancies caused by the enforcement of the church-and-state separation law. The pope proposes to do this without consulting France. Some look upon the act with misgivings, and it is stated that when these prelates reach France, they will find the episcopal residences closed to them. If church and state are truly separate in France, why pay any attention to the priests. But France knows the priest, doubtless knows that he is in politics to stay, and that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”