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Under the heading, ‘A Wonderful Demonstration,’ the English Churchman for April 19 gives an account of a meeting held at the Albert Hall nine days previously, announced as a ‘Great Protestant Appeal against the proposed Royal Visit to the Pope and to demand the withdrawal of the Envoy to the Vatican.’ The gathering ‘was a magnificent one.’
‘It was an inspiration to look upon that great sea of faces and to hear the stirring cries of ten thousand voices as they manifested their eager desire for the unequivocal preservation of the principles of freedom secured to this Protestant realm. . . People were only waiting and longing for a suitable opportunity of demonstrating the thoughts that were burning within them’ :
and according to another authority, the Protestant Woman, the announcement of the royal visit ‘has stirred them to their depths.’
Judging from the speech of Mr. Kensit, the Secretary of the United Protestant Council who organised the demonstration, the stirring was highly successful. All the Orange Lodges of Great Britain and Ireland sent messages of support; and although the old Orange threat to kick the King’s crown into the Boyne was not repeated, the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland
‘pointed out respectfully that the King should remember that he holds his crown by virtue of being a Protestant’
and that
‘thousands of loyal Orangemen and Orangewomen will be forced, if this ongoing is continued, to reconsider their position, in’ that respect.’
One would have thought that a matter which had stirred Protestants to their depths and elicited ‘the prayers and longings of millions of loyal hearts’ would
2 See Children of the Horse-leech (Month, September, 1910), and Protestant Mendicancy and the War (Month, October, 1914).