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Show PRINCESS ENA'S CHANGE OF CREED. As has been already published, the Princess na of England, in order to marry the King of Spain, renounced the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic church. This has pretty nearly made a religious war in the Protestant and Roman Catholic press of England and the Continent. It all seems very, foolish to an outsider. It is said that the marriage which is to be between the King and Princess will come of a real love match. If that is true, the sin of a marriage for "convenience" "con-venience" or "for reasons of state" will be avoided, which is an example to both Protestant England and Catholic Spain. And we fancy that it would be good for every "churchman and churchwo'man who has grown excited ex-cited over this affair, to stop and ask himself or herself whether, were the Master to como- again to earth, he would join either of their churches. He on earth gave a definition of true religion which was to love the Lord and one's neighbor. Some one has said that "God and Allah are the. same," and we have a conviction that no man will be judged by outwardorms, but by what theiieart reveals. - If Princess Ena is sincere, she did not change her God when she changed her creed, and we suspect sus-pect that when at. last her spirit seeks the mansions above, there will be no sentinel' to report at which door she enters. ' ' |