A New Kingdom.- | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 27, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 38.

A New Kingdom.—

With the loss of the kingdom of Korea from the map comes the little new kingdom of Montenegro, elevated from a princedom. King Nicholas I, formerly prince of Montenegro, assumed his throne and crown Sunday, August 21. The Te Deum was sung by the parliament, and proclamations were sent throughout the country announcing the event. The little kingdom is situate on the Adriatic Sea north of Albania; its area is 3,630 square miles (half way between Delaware and Connecticut); its population, 228,000, a little less than that of Vermont. The Montenegrins are Servians of the purest blood, and mostly belong to the Greek Church. When Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 Montenegro gave notice that the Berlin treaty would no longer restrict her. Hence the kingdom. The capital city is Cettinjé, population 4,000.

Special Privileges.—

In his recent speech in Kansas City Colonel Roosevelt said:

"I believe that the great issue before the people is the doing away of special privilege in all its forms."

It is at least one of the great issues, and the principle is even more far-reaching than Mr. Roosevelt contemplates. His present application is to the great trusts, combines, "interests," railways, etc. But the worst trust and usurping overlord the world has ever known has been religio-civil in character. We have in this country to-day the church trust, or Church Federation, which is demanding special legislation for some of its tenets, among which is a sabbath established by civil law. They are demanding "special privileges." Will they be denied or granted?