The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-27
shall Spain Have Freedom or WOr-
Rhin2

The following petition is placed In
the hands of all the priests of Spain,
who are enjoined, as speedily as pos
sible, to secure the largest number of
signatures possible:
We, the subscribers. pray the
Constitutional C0rtes to pass a decree
that the one. true, Roman Apostolic
Catholic Religion shall continue and
forever be the religion of the Spanish
nation, EXCLUDING ALL OTHER WoR-
SHIP, and that the enjoyments of all
the rights. and privileges. and prerog-
atives of the Church, according to the
laws of God and the holy laws OF
said Church. in all their force, be per-
PetH0Ly guaranteed
In this last third of the nineteenth
century, it can hardly be considered
possible that the Cortes will establish
such a law. The right to worship
God according to the dictates of con-
science, is nov conceded to be one of
the inalienable rights of the indiYid-
ual mans Will this revolution in
Spain turn back again towards the in
tolerance of the dark ages2 We
think not.
A WRITER in the Boston Pilot, al
ludiug to the recent conversions"
to the Roman Catholic faith in Eng
land, says: "Puseyism and Ritualism
are fast producing good fruit. On
speeds the good work bravely and
we'll. A few years more, and the
whole of England shall have under
gone a change, such as has not been
witnessed during the last three centu-
ries at least" 5a5 a@s1
The Roman Catholic est. Martin's)
Church of Baltimore makes its
vespers approach more nearly to a
concert than any Protestant Church
of which we have heard. The pro-
gramme for a religious service two
Sabbaths ago began with an overture
and closed with a march, and sand
WICKED between were selections from
ST. Paul, Moses in Egypt" and
Lombardil"
FATHER DoANE is very successful
in his effort for the endowment of the
American Roman Catholic College at
Rome. Newark has added $1,000 to
the fund, which now amounts to $lO3,-
500. OF this amount New York has
given even purses Of $1,000 each,
1dAJ1lAOIG bulOCt AlAd4CARhAd WV
Boston one, Hartford one, and New
ark one. The balance is in sums of
s. 1000, $500. etc.
RoMANIsM claims that in Pennsyl-
vania she has a population of 5000;
| Colleges, 8; Female Academies, SO;
Select Schools, 26; Parochial Schools,
rs; Asylums, g.; Churches, 348;
Priests. 352. In Pittsburg, Allegheny,
and Birmingham, 16 Parochial
Schools, with 1000 scholars in them.
In Select Schools, 300 more.
THE Watchns0n and Reflector says
that within about fifty years the Bap-
fist Churches of Boston, Mass, have
increased from three to fourteen, and
within q radius of ten miles round
that city, from ave to thirty-fve.
AT a late communion in st. Paul's
Church. Syracuse, N. Y. ten Indians,
of the Onondaga tribe, participated.
One of them. q squaw, afterward pre-
sented Bishop Coke, at the Church, a
miniature Christmas tree, with won
derful exotic fruit of the peculiar
beadwork of her people.
FOREIGN papersa the death
of DIR. +. w. Krummacher, of Ber-
lin, the court preacher of the late
King Of Prussia, and one of the most
distinguished members of the Ger
man Pietists or E~Vangelicals. He was
the author Of " Elijah, the Tishbite,"
=" The Suffering Saviour" and other
works.
THE Presbyterian states that the
Second c Presbyterian Church of
Princeton, N. j., has abolished the
pew rent system; and instead of as
sessing upon the hearers the amount
which each n is expected to pay for
the support of the ordinances of Gods
worship, it is lett to every mans CON-
science and heart in the sight of God.
DEATH OF r. G.. PARDEE.-We
write with heart felt sorrow the death
of r. G.. Pardee, Esq, the eminent
Sunday School worker. He had been
iii of jaundice but a short time, and
fell asleep in full assurance of faith,
at his residence, New York city,
Thursday evening. February 18th.
aged 81, His two volumes, the Sun
day School Worker, and the Sabbath
School Index, are widely known and
priced. A more gentle, genial, loving
spirit we never met. From early
manhood Mr.. Pardee was an elder in
the Presbyterian Church. The last
twenty years he has resided in New
York city, acting, most of the time, as
an agent of the New York Equitable
Life Insurance Company, in which
he had his life insured for $40, 900.
He also had a policy in another COM
pany for 5000. His home in Thirty
fourth Street, New York, is free from
incumbrance, and his family are left
in easy worldly circumstances. We
deplore his sudden removal from labor
to reward4 but his rest is glorious
Woaforn fH~Gnn AInnnuA