Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1902

CONTRARY to predictions made by opponents of the French law against the Catholic schools, the course of the French premier in closing these schools is sustained by public sentiment in France, and the law continues in full force. Replying to an attack on this point, Premier Combes said, in the Chamber of Deputies: “We have reached a turning point in our history. The country would perish if we yielded to the congregations. We wish to arrest the monastic invasion, and depend on the support of the chamber.” The suppressed schools were not merely religious schools, but were avenues through which Rome constantly sought to get control of the affairs of the nation.