The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-12-07

The latest ensation is that Methuee-
lab was drowned in the food.

The latest ensation is that Methuee-
lab was drowned in the food.
Sister Loretto. the nun who smoothed
the pillows OF the dying Thaddeus Ste
vens, died last week.
An Indiana girl succeeded in commit
ting thousand Bible verses to memory,
and she laid ill of brain fever for three
months.
The latest advertising dodge is to get
ont supplimeut Of q promin ent relig-
ious journal, containing the twaddle of a
distinguished preacher on one page and
advertisements on the others. - -
A Southern exchange tells Of q negro
who insisted that his race was mention
ed in the Bitle. He said he heard the
preacher read about how .Nigger De-
mus wanted to be born again.
A pious old lady was asked why she
named Ter dog Moreover Why said
she putting on her specsacles to 6nd the
place in the Bible, 1T is Bible name.
Here. Moreover, the dog came and
licked his sores 900
Polygamy among tire Mormans will
never be uprooted until the women can
be thoroughly dsabused of the belief
that it is a religious, Or divine institu-
ton. They submit to it. uphold it, and
even glory in it, because they are con-
vinced that 1t lneureS their eternal Sal
yation. -#s 7s8 81 ~ sHf 81
The Society of Friends, in Great
Britain, has just held an annual meeting
and instead OF loosing ground. as usual.
gain was reported of ninety-six mem
I ohu n
1896 fem ales; total, Is. .984. They com
to the world in dress and manners, and
are in danger of loosing their distinctive
peculiarities There is movement on
foot sinilaf to that under the leadership
of Elias Hicks, in this country, that may
rend the church in twain.
At q recent anti-secret society con-
yention inMassachusetts, the following
resolutionwasa adopted
sResolned, That in onr deliberate iudg-
ment the Pilgrim Society ought at once
take up the corner stone of the Pilgrim
| mon ument at Plymouth. and remove
from the cavity in tue same, the plate on
! which the names Of the Grand Lodge Of
masons in this State, with its grand Of
| ficers appear above the Governor of
Massachusetts and the President of the
United States; and that all imprints and
| inscriptions of tho sect of Free Masons
should be eraced by law, from all our
public buildings and monum cnts, as
subversiye of the idea of popular gov
/ ernment, and tending to make Free Ma
sonry the religion of the State
The Ecumenical Council at Rome,
which will probably open its sessions on
the Sth of December next, will not by
any means be CON posed of as many
bishops as is popularly expected. There
are in the whole church Of Rome but one
thousand and nine bishoprics, and of
these one hundred and forty are vacant.
Of the occupants of the remainder, fif-
| ty-nine have been excused because of
their age and ill-heaith. and about one
hundred will stay voluntarily; so that
not many more than seven hundred
will attend the Council. If the prece-
dents OF the past age are followed, the
proceedings of the opening day will oc,
cupy twelve hours. Every one Of the
bishops will have to take an oath per-
sonally, aud receive the sacrament at
hauds Of His holiness. Besides ther g
will be various religious exercises, a
procession, singing and sermon.
The successor of st Peter has rlenty
of work marked out for the Council
which be has called, and his faith IL US;
be fully adequate to remove mountains
if he expects to realize his claims upon
mankind. The following statemen: sets
forth these claims and what they involve
The world moves but it does not NOV,
backwards, as his holiness ought tc
have discovered some time since.
Accompanying the Encyclical Letter
in the nature Of q schedule, or bill @
particulars was the now famous sSylIa
bus i'll which the various errors tc
which the Encyclical referred were se
forth in their order, under eight,
heads Of articles, each specifying
| 'damnable heresy:' but the eighty damn
| able heresies were distributed under ter
general heads, or chapters as follows
l. PantheislD, Naturalism; 2. Moderate
Rationalisn; 3. Indifference, Latitudina
rianism 4. Socialism, Communism, Sc
cret Societies, Bible Societies, Libera
Clerical Associations; 5 Errors concern
the church and her rights; 6. Errors con
corning the civil society in itself, and il
it's relation to the Churh; T. Errors con
cerning natural and Christian ethics; s
Errors concerning Christian marriage
9. Errors concerning the temporal pow
er of the Roman Pontiff, 10, Errors con
cerning modern Liberalism. OF this
Encyclical and Syllabus, or the charges
and SPECIFICATIONS, to use the language
of ofcourts-martial, it is sufficient 70 say
that they conclude and condemn the
whole structure of modern society; they
condemn as damnable the views held by
all civilized States in our days as to tht
nature of marriage. the education O
children, the objects and sanctions o.
legislation, the relations cf governor:
and government, the source of politica
power, the relations of the Church to the
State. of the clergy to the laity, and the
views held by nearly all educated mer
as to the functions and limits of human
reason, the objects, powers, and results
of scientific investigation. In othe,
words, they pronounced the state of So
ciety which existed in the tenth century
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