The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-03-14

King Edward II. has once more ex-
11ibited his marvellous faculty for doing
the correct thing, and at the same time
going as near to pleasing everybody as
any mortal can hope to Go, says the
London Catholic Weekly.
His attendance at the Requiem for
Don Carlos and his son has ELECTED a
universal chorus of satisfaction and
sympathetic appreciation from the
press, and cheers which greeted the
progress Of the King and Queen to the
Catholic Church, Spanish Place, re-
vealed how congenial this graceful tol1-
en- Of respect for the memory of his
royal ally was to the mind Ct the Eng
lish people.
OF course, the Protestant Alliance
has displayed it's usual bigotry, ignor-
ance, insolence and bad taste in con-
nection with the presence OF the King
at this Requiem Mass. Its council
has passed the following resolution:
1.-The Protestant, Alliance, represent
Jig Protestants of all denominations,
views with establishment and distress
his Majesty's attendance at a Mass for
the dead at st. James Roman Catholic
Church, Spanish Place, W., such an ac-
ton on the part Of his Majesty being
inconsistent with his position as head
of this Protestant nation and a viola-
tion of the spirit Of the coronation and
accession oaths. While deeply SYM
pathizing with the Portuguese nation in
their great sorrow, the Protestant AL
lance would humbly point out to his
Majesty, that, by act of parliament,
1859, all and every person and persons
that is, are or shall be reconciled to
or shall hold communion will, the
See or Church of Rome shall be ex-
cluded, and be forever incapable to in
herit, possess or enjoy the crown and
government of this realm, and the peo-
pie Of these realms shall he, and are
hereby, absolved of their allegiance"
Referring to this resolution, the
''Daily Telegraph" the leading news
paper of London, says:
IF this is the first time that an Eng
fish King has paid the last tribute to q
loyal ally by worshiping both in Ro-
man Catholic Church, and in a cathe-
dral Of the State Church of which he
is the head, the innovation is one
which all broad minded Christians
will applaud. For ourselves, we find
it uncomfortable that he attendance Of
the King and Queen at q Requiem
Mass should offend the conscience of
any one. Such a resolution as that
passed by the Council Of the Protest
ant Alliance, which declares that this
action on the Kings part is inconsist-
ent with his position as the head Of
this Protestant nation, ana a. violation
of the spirit Of the coronation and ac-
cession oaths,' is conceived III the
very patriest spirit Of religious intol-
GRANGE and bigotry. The name of Prot
estant is a name Of honor: those who
support such resolution degrade 1t to
a name of shame. 1t would be a sorry
commentary, indeed, on cur common
Christianity if the supreme head of
Anglican church can not c.lte1 church
of another Christian communion on
such an occasion as that of Saturday
without calling forth such a pitiful ex-
hibition of uncharitableness from those
who claim to speak in the name Of the
Christian religion. 1t is the same blue
sky which bends over all, and II, as it
is declared to be, this is the first oc-
casion for more than two hundred
years that an English sovereign has
heard Mass said in this realm of Eng
land, we are glad that King Edward,
the most constitutional monarch in
the world, has thus publicly recog-
nized that the age Of narrow bigotry
has passed forever. Intolerance of this
sort is hateful and repellans by what