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Clergymen in Parliaments

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 49.

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Clergymen in Parliaments

In the British Parliament clergymen must not sit; only ex-clergymen can do so. But not so in other lands, as Russia, Italy, Germany, and France. In the German Reichstag no fewer than thirty-three Roman Catholic priests have seats; consequently the tremendous influence of what is called “The Center” or the clerical contingent of the Reichstag; and the clerical influence in the parliaments of Europe is having a tremendous effect in these days.