YOUR GRACE, SIR!

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 5

YOUR GRACE, SIR!

(To the Editor.) Sir, — The news that King Edward knighted the Archbishop of Malta oh Juno 2nd (which, by the bye happens to be my birthday) seems a proper subject for comment in Danrievirke ■on. tlio eve of the opening of the largest and most modern church Darinevii'ke has ever seen. ' ; . . :' ;. . - I refer to the Salvation Army bifer- ■■• racks, or fortress. Religious excitexiient is, I suppose, at. its culminating point. My fertile imagination (and I belong, so far, to thejAnglican Church) took mo at.oncejj^a chess board, and I* found' a bishop*posscssed of a knight's move, was a neiy creation. There are just four texts come up for consideration: "Is Saul also among the prophets?-"- "What doest thou here, Elijah?" "My kingdom is not of this world." "They who take the sword shall perish with the sword." . I have wandered all over the Mediterranean Sea, and I know and saAv the fortifications at Rhodes, 1 ; ilfe an- ; ciont Patnios, Ayhere" The Beyelations :: were written, made by the knights of St. John's, j& sort of military, religious ordter now. Rhodes means -in ..Goroekj. ; . "The Island of Roses.". |thodod«n-' ,' dron is a shrub so rianied from its likeness to a rose. These crusaders occupied Rhodes to protect' pilgrims ■'< going to the Holy Land, ages ;; ago. But the Turks got them out of it, and they settled in Malta, and their armours and names occupyACbig ,gory, ridor in the Governor's palace: Malta is like Gibraltar, a spec^of British laud, surrounded by foreigners, and army or navy : alone inhabit it. The motto over the fortress entrance toValetta, is: "Duffi Punica, Praelinfc in Hao Sede Consto," which means, "While the Carthageniansf earcy on war ou all sides in this fortress, I will, preserve myself. I . After all the pros arid eons, it does not seem 1 to me likely to advance the Kingdom of Heaven. I fear theEnglish Church has too many big guns already, instead of becoming as a- little child- in order to claim entry into the kingdom. The great men, 4£ev, 6, la, says, are the ones who will call on the rock to cover them-; — I am. etc., •:; : , MATTHEW- 18rv .-,