Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-05-19
Religious intelligence.

PERSECUTION or PRoTFsTANTs ~ SA'R-
DINGA.-The good intentions of the Sandman
government, in point of religious liberation,
are often bal1led by the fanaticism of subal-
tern officers. This is especially the case in
the province Of Savoy, one of the most ul-
tramontane districts in Europe. One of the
ultra'hontanc papers Of that province, lie
Bon Sens, of Annecy, reports on n recent
case of persecution as follows:
"0ur readers know that Protestant school
teacher had established himself Mt Aigue-
blanche, near Monitors. where he was teach
ing Professionalism. and distributing anti Cath
olic books. The Superintendent of Public
Instruction ordered his school to be closed,
because his trarhing ,rcs not coatjFmaHe 10
| The doctrines Of the Gsth4olic Ui7uth; but the
government Of Turin, by a telegraphic dis
patch, authorized forthwith the rc-opening
of the school, or the condition, however, that
he shonld not speak of religion. A short
| time after the District Attorney ordered that
| all his books be seized, and instituted an III
vestlgation on his conduct and his outrages
on religion. Finally after n judicial uyesti-
CATION, which had lasted six months, lie was
summoned before the Tribunal Correctional
of Monitors. rs guilty of attacking the re-
ligion of the state in public instruction, in
conversation, and in sermons, Of distributing
Protestant books end tracts, of scofling at
the frnmaculate Conception, indulgenccs, con-
iession, purgatory, etc, and of saying that
the priests did not preach the TRUTH that
they interpret the Gospel wrongly, and so
forth. Three of his neighbors had to appear
under the same charge of Protestant prose-
lytism. On December 80 the teacher was
condemned TO pay fne of two hundred
francs, hs accomplices to pay one hurdred
frapcs each. besides the costs.
If any addi,iona! proofs were wanting Of
the intentions of the Ultramontane party.
this article, which has been extensively copied
by the Catholic papers Of Europe, could leave
no doubt aboat it.
THE Oneida Conference Of the H. L.
Church has adopted the following resolution
on the slavery question:
That though convinced Of the unconst-
tutionality of slaveholding, and believing it
the right and duty of the general conference
to exclude all Shareholders from the Church |
yet, to unite all true anti-slavery men. and |
to avoid the charge of having defeated pro-
grcssivc action in reference to slavery, we
concur with the action of the Providence
Conference. in changing the general rule on
slavery, so that it will reaG-Shveholdnr
the buying or selling of men, women or chill |
drcn with an intention TO enslavc them"
y petition was adopted for general circu- |
lation III the Conference, praying the Gene
raj Conference at its session in Buffalo, next |
year. to take such action as shall specifically /
prohibit the future admission of Shareholders /
into the church; and shall require those al |
ready in either to emancipate their slaves or |
retire from the church and in case they re- |
fuse TO do either, TO provide for their trial |
and expulsion, as in other cases Of immoral |
ity.
A memorial to Gov. Hicks, of Maryland |
was also adopted, praying him to exert his
executive clcmcncy, in the dcliverance of |
Samuel Green from prison, free colorcd
man, and al eXh ,rttr in the NJ. l.. Church. |
from Dorchester county, Maryland, who is
now incarccrated in the penitentiary of that
State, for having copy of Uncle Toms
Cabin in his possession.
a New CHURCH TROUBLE IN PRussIA.-
Professor llenstenberg, the spiritual chief of |
the orthodox Lutheran party in Prussia. has |
been formally accused Of insulting the Obcr- /
kirchcn-Rat or highest constituted author
ity of the established Church of this country.
The circumstance is most remarkable in its /
way. Under tho old ICgime the Obcr-Kir- /
chen-ltath tSuprcme Council of the Church |
was almost exclusively composed of men |
sharing, and even cxaggerating the pietist |
creed Of the learned professor These. on the |
fall of the Mantcuilel Ministry, resigned. |
Their places were taken by men differing |
from the religious principles Of their prede-
cessors about in the same proportion as the /.
present llohonzolern Cabinet is more liberal |
than the eX-Manteuiiel administration. One |
proof Of this is the mildcr practice adopted
by them relative to the marriage of parties !
divorced. It is against what is called their
unchrotian behavior, in this respect. that
Professor llcngStcnberg protested in his cler-
ical paper. AS he was not over particular
to refrain from personal offence. the Ober-
Kirchcn- -Rath, though the insults were Of
tered in the name Of God avaled thcmsclvc,
Of the opportunity thus afforded and resortcd
to judicial prosecution. They at the same
time, by circular addressed TO the whole
clergy, notified the event in the most public
manner, thus indirectly admonishing the
friends of HengstenbcrS to refrain from in-
dulging in similar steps.
THE LORDS PRAYER.-In the Gazette" Of
Tuesday of last week is given a translation
of a Saxon version Of the Lords PRAYER.
made by Alfred, Bishop of Durham, circ.
4. D. 900, in which the modern doxoorv
at the end is omitted As an opposing au
thority, older by more than 500 wears, there
are given, below, the concluding words with
the Latin translation of version made in
the latter half OF, the 4th century. (circ. A.
D. 360l in the Mnso- Gothic dialect. bv u
phllas, Bishop OF Mnsia, 4 D. 36O-3so:
MGso-ooTHIc. LATIN.
Unto Theina ist thin Nam Thum est req
dangardi, jah mahts, man, ,et potentia ct qio-
jah vuthus, in aivins. -tG, IL, s0c,,lo. Amen
The original Mnso- G othic, with its Latin
version, is given--lst, because it will add
doubly to the weight of the authority; I'd,
that the learned editor, and others equally
learned, may verify the genuineness Of the
extract, and assure themselves that they are
not imposed on and Sd, that the import
, ance of tho question demands yDr,atment
not less dignfcd than This ?.