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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 45.

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THE news from Belgium, for some time past, has appeared to be somewhat surprising. The Roman bishops persistently opposed the school law, and the life of the king was threatened, if he did not yield to their demands. On the other hand the authorities were assured that the Pope did not approve of the course pursued by the bishops. But why, then, did they persist in their course? The latest reports say that it has been ascertained that the papal nuncio has been sustaining the bishops in their course, at the same time that he was assuring the king that their course was not approved. Such a work of duplicity would bring any other power but the papal power into contempt; but it will not have that effect in this case, because the world has become so well acquainted with the tactics of the Jesuits that duplicity is expected.