Does Dr. Frank Strong forget that when
Rome, was beseigcd, taken and sacked by-the
Army of the Emperor Charles V., and the
Pope had to flee for his life ?
The Emperor was a most devout Catholic,
and we must assume that the Pope was.
What made them fall out and fight?
The same that has always made men fall
out and fight, towit, a conflict of interests
and ambitions.
Religion has never prevented a war.
On the contrary, religion has been made
the pretext for the bloodiest of wars; and the
Roman popes have caused more of them than
all other heads of churches combined.
This very war that now deluges Europe
with the blood of men, women and children,
who had no part in causing it, was precipi
tated by the forcible attempt of the Pope and
his Jesuits—through the Hapsburgh princes—•
to force the Roman Catholic religion upon
the Greek Catholics of Servia.
If we had Christ in k person to act as the
head of a universal church, we would cer
tainly have world-wide peace, for He would
live by the Golden Rule, and would say to
the War Lord,
“Put up thy sword?"*
But as long as human beings are what they
are, it will be a deadly thing to trust any one
man, or any set of men, with too much power,
either in church or state.
As to the possibility of a universal agree
ment, about religion, that’s all bosh.
Men are never going to agree about any
thin ep much less about religion, which, after
all. ,is a matter of faith concerning things
unseen.
As long as God makes different kinds of
brains, those brains will take views in accord
ance with their own peculiarities.
