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History of the Month. 



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the crescent between Aldwvch and the Strand is 

 left over. The great new buildings for the War 

 Office, the Foreign Office, the Ecclesia.stical Coni- 

 roissioners, which have revolutionised the ap- 

 proaches to Parliament House, are slowly nearing 

 completion. By degrees London is being rebuilt, 

 and ere long, with the exception of the Champs 

 Elysee and the Arc de Triomphe, will vie in Iveauty 

 with the Queen of the Seine. 



jhe Even the most bigoted Republican 



Advertising must admit that Royal personages 

 Value have some uses — even although 



of Royalty. j^g ^^y declare that the price we 

 pay for them is excessive. One of the minor uses 

 of Royalty has been illustrated last month by the 

 attention which Princess Ena's change of ecclesias- 

 tical allegiance has drawn to the claims of the 

 Roman Catholic Church. WTiat an advertisement 

 the marriage has been ! A few months since nobody 

 knew anything about Princess Eiia. Now she has, 

 by the mere fact of her betrothal to the King of 

 Spain, become a sandwichman or woman for the 

 Papacy — on parade in all the newspapers of the 

 world. Talk about gramophones ! There is no 

 gramophone like a Royal Princess who abjures her 

 faith. It would have cost the Pope a million dollars 

 to have secured the insertion of the claims of his 

 Church in the world's press, and then they would 

 have appeared among the advertisements. Whereas 

 now, because this young lady is a princess marrying 

 a king, the editors run over each other in their 

 haste to publish, free, gratis and for nothing, in 

 the best position in their news columns, one of the 

 most concise and effective statements of the Roman 

 creed that has met the eye of this generation. 



Henceforth no one need be under 



faith ""y misunderstanding as to what 



of a Roman ? 's the faith of a Roman Catholic. 



Here it is, under the sign manual, 



so to speak, of the future Queen of Spain, for all 



who run to read : — 



I, having before my ej-ea the Holy Gospels, which I 

 touch with my hanci, and. knowing that no one can be 

 saved witliout the faith wliicii the Holy Catholic Apostolic 

 Eoman Church lioUla, believes, and teaches, against which 

 I grieve tliat I have greatly erred inasmuch a^s I have 

 believed doctrines opposed to lier teaching, 1 now, by the 

 help of God's grace, profess that I believe the Holy Catholic 

 Apostolic R'tman Church to 1>e the only true Church 

 established on earth by Jesus Christ, to which I submit 

 myself with my whole heart. I firmly believe all the 

 articles that she propounds to ray belief, and I reject 

 and condemn all that she rejects and condemns, and I am 

 rea ?y to observe all that slie commands me. And €Si>ecially 

 I profess th.at I believe in One only God in Three Divine 

 Persons distinct from and equal to each other — that is to 

 say, the Fatlier, tl e Son, and the Holy Ghost; the Catliolic 

 doctrine of the Incarnation, Passion. Death, and Resurrec- 

 tion of Jesus Christ; and the personal union of the two 

 Natures, the Divine and the Human; the Divine ifaternity 

 of the most holy Mary, together witii her most spotless 

 Virginity: and al.so her Immaculate Conception; 



The True Real and Substantial Presence of the Body of 

 Our Lord Jesus Christ together with His Soul and Divinity 

 in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist; 



The Seven Sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ for the 



-SebeUpalter.] fZurich. 



The "One Touch of Nature" at Courrieres. 



What no diplomacy can do, misfortune can accomplish." 

 International sympathies were freely expressed in con- 

 leotion with the Courrieres mining disaster in Prance. 



salvation of mankind; that is to say. Baptism, Confirma- 

 tion. Holy Eucharist. Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy 

 Orders, Matrimony. 



I also believe in Purgatory, the Kesurrection of the 

 Dead, Everlasting Life; 



The primacy not only of honour but of jurisdiction of 

 the Eoman Pontiff, successor of St. Peter, Prince of 

 Apostles, Vicar of Jesus Christ; 



The Veneration of the saints and of their images; 



The authority of Apostolic and Ecclesiastical traditions 

 and of the Holy Scriptures, which we must interp et and 

 understand only in the sense which our Holy Mother the 

 Catholic Church has held and does hold, to whom alone it 

 belongs to judge of their meaning and interpretation; 



And everything else that has been defined and declared 

 bv the Sacred Canons and by the General Councils, espe- 

 cially the Holy Council of Trent and by the (Ecumenical 

 Council of tile Vatican. 



With a sincere heart, therefore, and with unfeigned 

 faith, I detest and abjure every error, heresy, and sect 

 opposed to the said Catliolic Apostolic and Eoman Church 

 So help me GOD and these Holy Gospels which 1 touch 

 with my hana. 



It is difficult for anvone in Europe 

 SevoS ^° realise the significance of the 

 in America sensational news which has been 



reaching us all last month from 

 the United States. Financially the American Com- 

 monwealth bears a strong resemblance to Europe 

 when the Napoleonic Empire was at the zenith of its 

 power. As Napoleon could fill his pit with kings, 

 and seated his relatives and his marshals on the 

 thrones of Europe, so the gigantic combination 

 known as " Standard Oil " reigned supreme over 

 the manv kingdoms into which American enterprise 

 has parcelled out the business world. As Miss Tar- 

 bell has pointed out in an article quoted elsewhere, 

 the great trjsts of America are wealthier and more 

 pi.werful than many dynasties. They reign with 

 absolute sovereigntv over realms whose titles are 

 not geographical but economical. Over all this con- 

 geries of kingdoms of Beef, Copper, Gas, Railways, 

 iron, etc., towered aloft the Standard Oil, uncrowned 

 master of them all. For years past the word of 



