Significant Items

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1875

Significant Items.

“THE emperor of Russia has granted to the London Society for Promoting Christianity among Jews, permission to send its agents to Poland and other parts of Russia inhabited by Jews. This Society, which has stations in most of the countries of Europe, in Palestine, and in Northern Africa, has not been allowed to enter Russian territory since the Crimean war.”

The Spanish government has commenced to redeem its promises to the pope for his prompt recognition of Alonzo XII. Liberty of worship is threatened, and the Protestant clergy have made an appeal to Germany and other European powers upon the matter. Complications will soon result, if injury is done to any subjects of Germany or Great Britain. The toleration which Rome desires is of a very one-sided sort, but it is “polite,” of course, to pretend through her organs in this country that charity and forbearance ought to be extended to all religious denominations. But while there is no need of such deception, we see what Rome really is.

The Herald finds this sneering excuse for Mr. Gladstone’s latest publication: “A retired statesman must do something else than chop wood, and in England it is always safe to assail the pope.” It is just because men of statesman-like ability, like Mr. Gladstone, have assailed the pope, when occasion called, that the freedom of discussing religious matters is preserved in Great Britain. But if Rome is permitted to go on with her work, unchecked, in this country for a few years longer, it will not certainly be “safe” to criticize the pope here.—New York Weekly.