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THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE OF WALES: THE LATEST PORTRAITS.

(From a photograph by Messrs. Russell and Sons.)

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LONDON, July 2nd, 1894. The Pope's Once more the aged Muezzin from the Appeal to "Princes and topmost minaret in Christendom has

Peoples." proclaimed aloud in the hearing of all the nations, "There is no God but God, and the Pope is the vicegerent of God." This time his sonorous cry is addressed no longer to the bishops and clergy and laity of the Catholic Church. The Pope, in his new encyclical on Christian unity, appeals directly to the princes and peoples without distinction of religious faith. And the good old man, standing in the shadow of another world, lifts up his voice and pleads with passionate eloquence for the restoration of the unity of Christendom. He adjures the Oriental Churches to return to the Roman fold, and promises them that, if they do, the privileges of their patriarchates and the rites of their liturgies shall never be abrogated. Turning to the Protestant world, he exhorts it to seek for safety in the shelter of the authority of the Roman See. Protestantism, he thinks, is drifting through rationalism to a denial of the inspiration of the Bible and the Divinity of Christ, and from that to the abyss of naturalism and materialism there is but a short step. Return, oh ye backsliding children, return to the one fold whereof the successor of St. Peter is the one shepherd, so that we may all have one faith, one hope, and one charity, based on the same Gospel! And all the people do not say Amen.

Road to Christian Unity.

The True "The old, old story," growls the man in the street. The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb must be inside the lion. But even the man in the street is beginning to recognise that the restoration of the union of all moral forces is the indispensable condition of social

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amelioration-see in passing Mr. Dearmer's remarkable paper on this subject in "The New Party." If the Pope could give us this unity, we would gladly receive it from his hands. In great things as in small it is not well to look a gift horse in the mouth. If the Pope would but help us to do the work that lies ready to our hands, he might keep his dogmas as Kaiser Wilhelm no doubt keeps the weapons and armour of his ancestors. They are quite authentic, no doubt. They were in their time the best that could be forged; and they are interesting relics with romantic associations. But to safeguard the Fatherland and to maintain the unity of the German Empire, the Hohenzollerns had to have recourse to more up-to-date weapons. And to reconstitute the Unity of Christendom, it is as necessary to forget the things which are behind and press forward to overcome modern foes with modern weapons as it was to ignore archæological differences about crossbows and drawbridges when reconstituting the unity of Germany.

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distinctions. The commanding influence of a common speech in harmonising all forms of thought and feeling can hardly be over-estimated, and vast regions of the earth are now welded into an intellectual unit by this engine alone. But particularism in religion is inconsistent with England's great mission to the world at large, and its fulfilment would be enormously hastened and facilitated by her re-conversion to the Catholic faith.

By which of course the Tablet means the Roman dogma and ecclesiastical system, which, whether true or false, unfortunately at this moment divides men

most.

No one can cast a glance over England An Object Lesson in or America without seeing how terribly Dis-Union. the Roman Church itself bars the way to union, and hinders all manner of good works by the jealousy and alarm which its absolute and arrogant assumption excites among the nations. In the United States the anti-papal spirit is attaining dimensions which seem to some observers not unlikely to result in bloodshed, and in the United Kingdom the dread of Rome Rule is at the bottom of most of the opposition to Home Rule. Why, to refer to a very small instance of this evil spirit, just look at the bitterness and waste of power that this sectarian feud between papists and anti-papists causes at our very doors. Dr. Barnardo twenty-eight years ago with a couple of hundred pounds began to try to save the neglected waifs and strays of our streets. No work more distinctively Christian could be conceived, and no work has been more magnificently successful. Last year he received £134,000 for the maintenance of his orphanages, and no fewer than 5,000 helpless little ones have found in Dr. Barnardo a father in their need. But because of a miserable wrangle over the souls of some half-dozen gutter-snipes, the Roman Church and Dr. Barnardo have been and still are at cross purposes, and instead of the Pope co-operating as he ought to do with Dr. Barnardo and rejoicing over the success with which he has done Christ's work for 28,000 destitute orphans, there are probably few Catholics in England who would not rejoice if Dr. Barnardo came to grief. And all for the sake of half-a-dozen street arabs who, but for Dr. Barnardo, would in all probability have gone to the devil without let or hindrance. The A.P.A. fanaticism is detestable, and Dr. Barnardo's Ulster Orangeism is pitifully absurd. But if the good Pope could but make all his clergy practise the charity which he preaches, and allow no ecclesiastical and dogmatic differences to impair the cordiality of their recognition of all works done for the service of man, we should be appreciably nearer Christian reunion

and even of an organic reunion with the Roman See. But there must be a good deal of give and take on both sides before that comes to pass.

The Ottawa

While the Pope is exhorting to unity, the Conference. English-speaking man is setting to work to achieve it. The Inter-colonial Conference, which is this month assembled at Ottawa, is in many ways one of the most remarkable manifestations of the aspiration after unity that this generation has seen. What more startling illustration of the extent of the British Empire could we have than the fact that Ottawa, in the Dominion of Canada, is regarded as the most convenient centre for the discussion of the joint concerns of Australia, South Africa, and North Ame rica? And what more cheering spectacle could the old country desire than this assemblage of her stalwart

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sons from the uttermost ends of the earth in the capital of the Canadian Dominion, to consult as to their common interests and the promotion of a closer union and a quicker communication between each other? The proceedings at the opening of the Conference seem to have been harmonious and enthusiastic. Nothing was more significant than the reception accorded to the South Africans and the enthusiasm with which every reference to Mr. Cecil Rhodes was received by the delegates. The merits of Mr. Rhodes as an Empire builder are evidently not unappreciated in the other colonies. The Conference has just settled down to business, but it seems indubitable that it will contribute materially to the common sentiment of a common race, and that the exchange of experiences between repre

sentatives of the different colonies cannot fail to contribute to the more intelligent and more har monious administration of all Imperial affairs.

The Great

On Saturday, June 23, at five minutes to Grandson of ten o'clock at night, a baby boy was born the Queen. in Richmond Park, whose advent must be counted among the many other collateral securities for the maintenance of the union of the British Empire. The birth of a son to the Duchess of York has placed the succession of the Crown as far beyond the risk of casualty as is possible in these mortal things. After the Queen, we have in the direct line of succession the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the new royal baby, whose horoscope has already been calculated by the astrologers, and declared to promise excellent things, for the stars, as long experience shows, can play the courtier when they please. If the York marriage had been childless the daughter of the Duke of Fife would have been next in succession, and for some reason or other it is the fashion to pretend that this would have been unpopular, although it is difficult to say why, seeing that England has prospered always more under her queens than her kings. It is curious to note in these democratic days that the monarchy is one of those few institutions which seems to increase in popularity with its age. Like some great oak it strikes its roots deeper and deeper each succeeding century, and even the most advanced Republicans admit that the golden circlet of the Imperial crown is one of the most potent of the influences which keeps our empire together. Romance and antiquity count. for much even in the Old World, whereas in the New, where distance lends enchantment to the view, it is difficult to over-estimate their potency.

The Opening

At the same time it is difficult to conceal of the Tower one's irritation at the persistence with Bridge. which royalty muffs its chances. Here, for instance, was the opening of the Tower Bridge, a magnificent work which has given an adequate gateway to the port of London. It was opened on Saturday, June 30th, by the Prince of Wales and a bevy of royalties. Traffic was stopped for a couple. of hours on Saturday morning in order to allow the princes and princesses with their archbishop in waiting to drive through the City, and when the ceremony was complete they returned by the river. It was a glorious day in June; the sun was bright, the tide was high, and if ever there was an occasion which lent itself to an imposing pageant on the Thames, this was the day. Even the most unimaginative of chamberlains might for once

have risen to the occasion, and have utilised the scenic properties of the monarchy for a great river fête. All London would have turned out to see the royal barge leading an aquatic procession from the Tower to Westminster amid the thundering salutes of cannon, the joyous pealing of bells, and the clash of military music. But, instead of such an imposing pageant, royalties came up the river on board a penny steamboat which, but for the fact that it carried the royal standard and was somewhat profusely adorned with flowers, differed little from any picnic party on the river. One of the duties of monarchy is to relieve the dull drab of democratic monotony by the radiant colour and glittering brilliance of royal pageantry. But, so far from realising this, royalty is year after year beaten by the Lord Mayor of London.

Industrial

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When one section of the English-speaking War in race is drawing closer together and rethe United joicing in the additional security that is afforded against any interruption in the line of succession, the other section of the race is exhibiting a very different spectacle. Hardly has the prolonged and embittered dispute in the bituminous coal trade been settled by a patch-work agreement than another dispute has arisen which has assumed in a moment far more gigantic proportions. The Pullman Company, the owners of the town of Pullman in the neighbourhood of Chicago, and the manufacturers of the well-known Pullman Palace cars, have for some months past been in dispute with their workmen. They differed about wages. The Company declared that they could prove that they had been working without profit merely to keep their establishment going. When, however, a demand was made that they should submit their books for inspection they refused. Their employés declined to accept the wages offered them, and a strike took place. For several weeks it was fought quietly and without incident. Finding that they were making no headway, the men applied to the railway employés, and appealed to them to make common cause against the Pullman Company. After some negotiations the railway men agreed, and the end of June witnessed a general strike on two-thirds of the railways of the United States against the Pullman cars.

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