From the Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 April, 1999:
'Go to your room'
On March 5, English composer Thomas Arne (1710-1778) died. Some notes:
Arne's father, an upholsterer, intended his son to be a lawyer and he positively forbade the young man to pursue music. However, Arne secretly installed a spinnet in his room and muffled its strings, so he could practice the keyboard instrument at night. One evening, the elder Arne went to a concert and discovered his son playing first violin "most skillfully." He gave up his objections to music. the young man went on to compose such popular works as Rule Britannia and The Guardian Outwitted.
Arne's son Michael was an alchemist and harpsichord player. He built a laboratory in the London house where his father had composed Rule Britannia and used it to fiddle around in search of the philosopher's stone, a hypothetical substance that turned all baser metals into gold. He failed and went bankrupt.
COMMENT: Consider how many times true Britishers have sung, and also thrilled to, the music of Rule Britannia, and what it has done for the cultural and spiritual sense of tradition and unity of the whole British connection throughout the world in subsequent times. What might have been lost, if the young man had heeded the strictures of his father, who had paternal apprehensions that music was a waste of time which must be suppressed!

"The personification of Britannia as a female figure may be traced back as far as the coins of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius (early 2nd century A.D.); its first appearance on modern coins is on the copper of Charles II." The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Ed., Vol. 4. "Copper halfpence were first issued in Charles II's reign. The figure of Britannia first appeared on this issue of copper coins. The original of Britannia is said to have been Frances Stewart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond (Pepys, Diary,, Feb. 25, 1667)." The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Ed., Vol. 21.

From The Weekly Telegraph, No. 402, April 7-14, 1999
Church loses charity status
ANTI-Clinton advertisements during the 1992 election have resulted in a conservative Christian church becoming the first genuine religious organisation in the US to be stripped of charity status.
Legal action was launched after the church at Pierce Creek in Vestal ran advertisements in the Washington Post attacking Mr. Clinton's stance on abortion, homosexuality and sex education, saying it would be a sin to vote for him.
COMMENT: This is evidence that Esau is in control over Jacob, having assumed the status of "the dominion", prophesied by way of a partial mollifying compensation (Genesis 27:40) granted by their father, Isaac, after Jacob gained both birthright and blessing - the latter by subterfuge. This Government tax ruling, however, cannot last forever, as Christ's Return will totally and completely cancel and reverse all such humanistically-based actions.

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