Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-06
RECEIPTS FOR MARCH. 1854.
SLAVE STATES.
- EducAtng Heathen
.............. SO,g24,64 children, receipts in
March, 1903, O.

l mus IL Will be seen that Massachusetts a.
lone, paid into the Treasury in the month of
March, more than fifteen times as much as all
the slave States. Yet, SO long as the pittance
continues to be received from those states, the
Missionaries of the society are in the employ
ment of those who rob their fellow men ofthe
fruits Of their toll, who have annulled the
marriage institution among three millions of
their countrymen, and, who uphold and per-
petuate system, which many of the hea-
then, among whom the missionaries are sent,
have repudiated as unjust and wicked. Can
Missionaries, who draw their support from
such a source, labour faithfully and effective
ly against such iniquities where they goi-
We ask the question for the serious consider
| alton of our christian readers.
| The RIGHTs OF THE JRws-No religious
| body has been so prosecuted as the Jews
| Ever since the crucifxion, the curse that they
! invoked upon themselves and their children
has rested upon them, as though God would
| take vengeance into his own hands. They
are intelligent, moral, and enterprising, and
everywhere maintain high character in these
respects. The greatest brokers in the world
are Jews; the first merchants of the world
are Jews; and some of the most celebrated
| scholars have been Jews; and yet they are
| without admission TO civil rights in any
| land except the United States. Even the
British Parliament has refused to admit one
of the first men of that Kingdom to a seat in
the House of Commons, after repeated cleo
tons by the people, because he was Jew
Since they are wealthy, and very valuable
class of citizens, who are not propagandists
and proselyters, but quietly waiting till the
prophecies shall be fulfilled, as they under
stand them, and the tribes be gathered once
more in the promised land, under the expect
ed King, there can be no reason for these per-
secutions, but the most cruel prejudice, and
the most stubborn ignorance. They are the
most numerous in the East of Europe; in
Turkey, where there is not less than eighty
thousand in Constantinople alone in Austria
and the German States; in Poland and Rus
STA, where they number not less than ten mil
lions. 1t is not surprising that they should
be numerous in despotic countries, for there is
little in the circumstances around them that
would go to prove that Christ had ever come,
or the kingdom that he had promised was
commenced. To the United States, with the
German emigrants especially, they have come
in large numbers. They are found in all the
large cities of the West; their synagogue is in
Boston, and whole streets of them are in New
York. They cannot fail, Of course, to feel
deep interest in the movement now making,
under the lead of Gen. Cass, to secure the
rights of religious worship to our citizens
abroad and accordingly they are preparing
petition to the United States Senate, setting
forth their disabilities when called to foreign
parts, and praying 60 that the attention of the
Government may be directed to the want of
reciprocity in the rights accorded to foreigners
among us, and those extended to our citizens
in other countries, end that, in its wisdom, it
will endeavor to obtain for every American
citizen abroad, of every creed, just degree of
civil and religious freedom"
The FRENCH ARMY.-An Imperial decree
organizes body of chaplains for the army Of
the East, Sin order that the soldiers may have
encouragements and consultations of religion
according to their creed" Adequate stipend
and all conyeniences reprovided We learn,
this day, that Father of the Society of Je-
suits has been commissioned to make selec-
ton Of priests the most eligible by their zeal
and other qualifications. The chaplain ap-
| pointed chief Of the corps is jesuit, who
served in Algeria with Marshal Saint Arnaud,
| and whose signal efficiency recommended him
| to the Marshals patronage. The French re-
| ligous Catholic organs favor the war; they
1 relate that the Catholics at Jerusalem on in
the Turkish rejoicings and all hope for the
reduction Of the Greek church, when the as
cendancy of France by arms shall be further
felt at Constantinople. @
Cons EARTHQUAKES TO THE MARTYRS
| DEscENDANTs.-T Waldensian church. in
| Turin, was opened in December, to the great
| joy of all the inhabitants of Piedmont. ex-
| cept the priests. Some of the liberal papers
stated the faith of the Waldensians, deploring
the prosecutions of the past, and rejoicing
that they were no longer possible. The Wal
densians have bought an old Roman catholic
church in Genoa, which for more than fifty
! years has been used as a storehouse, and are
repairing it for house of worship, greatly to
the scandal of the priests.
| HEATHEN ABoLIsHINa ONE OF THEIR
| CRUELTIEs.-More than two thousand of the
| chiefs and leading men among the Rajpoots in
India, with the English commissioner, recent
| ly met in the Punjaub to adopt measures for
putting an end to the evil of female infanticide,
| which prevails among them to a great extent.
| The proposition was received, by general con-
sent, with acclamations, that no one should
be allowed to continue the custom.
| BooDHIsr SUPERsTITIoN.-Rev. Mr.. Gran
| ger of Providence, R. l., one of the deputa-
IlOn 10 the missions OF the American Bartist
Missionary Union in the East, writes from
l Rsngoon, that the captain of steamboat. on
which he was travelling, bought fine fat bull
| lock for five rupees, about S., 25 while rice.
| which ordinarily is one rupee or less basket,
was selling at eight rupees, thus putting it be-
| yond the reach of thousands, who are com
PEELED to live on plaintains, roots, and wild
| fruit. Their religion forbids the act of killing
but not the use of animal food, and multtudes
| will suffer famine rather than take life.
| By a ukase of Nicholas Of the ID of Janu
airy, 1889. he offers an absolute pardon to all
| Roman Catholics condemned, for murder or
| theft, to capital punishment, on condition of
embracing the Greek faith.
| A ukase has been issued by the Russian gov
! eminent forbidding Jewish women in Poland
to wear any kind of head-dress under their.
| bonnets. The rabbis are forbidden to marry
] any woman who refuses to obey the new
| law.
/ The public. prosecutor of Stockholm has
/ commenced the prosecution of seven women
in that city, for having abandoned the Luther
| an faith, and embraced that of Rome.
SUDDEN DEATH OF CLERGYMAN. = The
4 Rev. John F. Russell, a Baptist Clergyman at
| Jackson, Miss, died in that city ON the eth
On the evening Of his death, he was present
at the meeting of the jackson Bible Society,
delivering a very eloquent and impassioned
address. He dwelt on the fact that the Bible
was tried book; he said "millions who are