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Show A PROTESTANT APPEAL We do not wonder that the "open letter'' to the King of Saxony published by the Dresden Journal is signed by people who were formerly in favor of the ex-Princess, now Madam Toselli. Principle and duty appear to be very slight affairs in their eyes. They are of the type of our own Thomas Cranmer, spiritual counsellor to King Henry VIII. Frankly avowing that their own morality mor-ality is adjustable to circumstances, they recommended recom-mended the example to the King. "If the Pope will not dissolve the marriage which the courts have annulled, make sacrifice for your country and people who are indissolubly bound to you. Enter the Evangelical church of your country. All obstacles will then disappear and you will be able to give a Queen to vour people. peo-ple. I 'rince Augustus of Saxony became a Catholic Cath-olic to obtain a crown; do you now make a sacrifice abandon Rome and give your people a mother." How like the language of Cranmer, who was chief instrument in making the much-married King Henry the head of the Church of England. Mac-aulay Mac-aulay observes that he was eminently fitted for the task. "Saintly in his professions, unscrupulous in his dealings, zealous for nothing, bold in speculation, specula-tion, a coward and a time-server in action, a placable placa-ble enemy and a lukewarm friend, he was in every way qualified to arrange the terms of the coalition between the religious and the worldly enemies of Popery." The authors of the "open letter," the modern Cranmers. are equally qualified to expound the duties of the King of Saxony. But the King of Saxony is not another Henry. Frederick Augustus Au-gustus is a dutiful son of the Catholic church, and as such does not believe it is permissible to trifle with religious principle. London Catholic Times. |