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The Onervatore Romano, the organ of the Vatican, published an article protest.. effect that of December 13th the Czecho

Information has reached London to the ing against the interpretation put by cer- Slovak National Assembly, by the voted visit of the King and Queen of Spain to of all parties excepting the Communists, the Pope, namely, that it signified final passed at the first reading a bill for the renunciation on the part of the Fope of Amendment of the law relating to the tax all dreams of recovering temporal power, on property. By the terms of the first (writes the Rome correspondent of the The Osservatore deniss paragraph, the tax on property and on Morning Post). the increase of property" will be roduçed

that the Vatican, by granting permission by 80 por cent. where the value on March to the Catholic King and Queen to come 1st, 1919, did not exceed 30,000 creas to Rome sequiosced in any way in the In the case of the tax on the increase of abnormal situation created for the Pon- property, the reduction is on a sliding tiff by the unhappy 20th September, scale, and varies from 50 per cent, where 1970, the day on which Italian troops the initial value in 1914 did not exceed entered Rome and the Fope shut himself 30,000, crowns, to 8 per cent, where the up in the Vatican. initial value attained, but did not exceed,

The newspaper quotes the Encyclical 1,000,000 crowns. In accordance with published by Benedict XV. three years ago by which that permission was first paragraph 5, the financial authorities on accorded, and which contains the follow- sapetion & reduction in the tax in special | casus, and according to paragraph & the ing passage. At the same time we tax on the increase in the value of im- solemnly proclaim this concession must morables can, in cort cases, be deduct not be interpreted as tacit renunciation On the DISTILLERS ed from the tax on the increase of pro- of our sacrosanct right.

perty." "The amendment, it is added, contrary, we renew the protests of our COMPANY, LTD. it is to be regarded as an expression of

predecessors." the changes which bare taken place dur ing the last two or three years in the economic affairs of Czecho-Slovakia, a reult of the rise in the crown.” B

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The article concludes: The wound opened on September 20th, 1870, cannot be cured by blandishments. It is and will remain open until such measures are taken as will not only ensure to the Holy See the enjoyment of liberty and indepen- dence, which are, its right, but will also convince the whole world that it really

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Most laymen would appland that say ing of Henry Crawford in "Mansfeld Park

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a thoroughly good sermon, thoroughly well delivered. is a capital gratification,"

Since Henry Crawford's day I fear that educated congregations have sadly dwindled as far as London is concerned. So also ha palpit eloquence. Of the preaching in the larger London churches fashionable churches, as they were once termed hana little knowledge. ns 1 seldom frequent them, though I ELID assured that, in them a sermon not hereft fall merit may still occasionally be heard

is much commented on The general pinion is that it would have been better. to let sleeping dogs lie. According, toʻ the Epoca, the article is so strange and inopportune that one is almost inclined to doubt whether it interprets in any way the thought of the Holy See."

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But of the preaching in the London cathedrals, St. Paul's and the Abbey. I can speak with some measure of confulence" and a large tavanure of freedom. It is sorry stuff; or, at an events, it makes The Corporation undertakes General Banking KOPTY

Indeed, wither at Stand Exchange Business of every descriptae 280. Paul's the Abbey today is there an addition to its Branchea has Agencies in al single divine within the tradition, the the principal Cities of the world. great tradition of English preaching.

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It would be discourteous to mention names, yet both at St. Paul's and West- minster there are certain nons whose appointment to their present posts "must be due to a process of selection 'as in- scrutable in origin es

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they possess not on his voice; they proclaim no big message.

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There must be something very wrong in a system under which obviously middle talented preachers so

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