The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-16
NEW oRLEANs, SUNDAY, JANuARY 10. 1s7o
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.

to repeal the gambling act. 1t provides PEN
atty, on conviction of the first offence, Of fine
of not less than $1,000 nor more than $4,000, and
conviction for second offence of not less
than $4,000 more than SO, 600, and mpris-
onment at hard labor of not less than one year
nor more than five years. 1t provides for
rest by any public officer, aud makes it the
duty of the Attorney General, District Attor-
ney, Sheriff and deputies, and police oficers~tU'
expose and prosecute offenders. Committing
magistrates are requested to inquire into and
commit parties offending for trial. One-half
of the penalty is to go to the informer
DANGER FROM KERosENE.--We copy the fol-
lowing from the New York Ne,os. Now that
our own Legislature is in session, some steps
Should be taken to control the sale of an article
which has caused the destruction of life and
property in our own city:
One hundred and twenty-nine fires, more
than one-tenth of the total number in New
York and BrookIyn during the past year, were
caused by keroseIfs> and other products of pc
troleum, used for ilnminating and other pur-
poses by these fires ten persons were burned
TO death and thlrty-hve more or less injured.
The damage to property from, this cause is esti-
mated at $50, lJO--S12,72O in New York and
S9430 in brooklyn. The recklcsS>lisregard for
life and property, evinced by the mariner in
which these dangerous fluids are manufactured
and sold, calls for the most prompt and strin-
gent action on the part of the Legislature.
PURIrANIsM oN TIE WANE-We publish in
another column remarkable article from
Massachusetts paper relating to the decay of
population in that State. From reliable evil
dence the other View England States share in
this decadcnce. TIE observation and expert
of physicians trace this degencracy to
disregard of the sacredness of the marriage
relation-divorces and the immortality conse-
qnent on theories peculiar to Puritan morality.
'In some places the people have forgotten
assembling themselves the Sabbath--in
many towns ministers preach to lean congre-
cations" "There thirty-three Congrega-
tional churches in one county and only four
teen settled pastors. Five of these churches
have no regular service, and fourteen hire
clergymen for stated time" DR.. Allen states
the Yankee race of New England is running
out, and the reason ''the fashion to have fewer
Children This is "Romish" fiction, but
the acknowledged reality of Puritans them
selves. Yet these people are held up as models
in theology by certain editors-for the Congre-
gationalists and Presbyterans for the most
part differ only in Church government-in this
region! For have they not Bibles by the hun
bred thousand aud tracts by the million!
How LIBERAL.-From one of our exchanges
we learn that Baptist in Sweden named Juan
Ambrosus Errson, has been fined seventy five
dollars. for expressing his opinion on infant
baptism. The fine not being paid in due time,
the authorities seized goods belonging to the
Criminal" equal to the amount of the penalty.
The State religion in Sweden, as all know, is
Observation-Disclosures or something of that
kind OF course, told, it is the peculiar
privilege and happiness of all Protestants to
read. and construe the Bible without note or
comment. But, mind you, this high preroga-
tive, some way or other involves n fine or con
fiscation of goods in this enlightened age.
SHEPHERDS WITHOUT FLocKs.-It is report
ed that one-half of the ordained ministers in
the Cate) New School Presbyterian Church arc
without regular charges, and of the $500 IN the
Old School Church, 1000 are not settled pastors.
OF the 1000 Lutheran ministers in this country
only about 1900 engaged pastors. Yet
how often is heard the cry when money is
needed, " the harvest truly is great, but the
laborers are few" How often these Rev.
laborers are engaged in more profitable secular
pursuits we have heard frequently lamented.-
The following paragraph which we copy
from the Pail Mall Gdzettc, is too good not to
be true and far too absurd not to be preserved
as a record of English folly:
So soon as liberty of worship proclaimed
in Spain, the Bible Society sent out four mag
-nifcently bound Bibles, in English to Prim;
Topete, Serrano aud Gorilla. 1t quite i'm
material to the society that, being Roman Ca
tholcs, these gentlemen could not use the Pro-
testant version any more than our Queen
Princes would use the Douai version, if sent to
them bv Antonelli the Pope himself; still
more immaterial that, being Spanards, they
probably could not understand word of the
English text. The use of the gift counted for
nothing; "bearing testimony" at the cost of,
say, G5 Bible, all they cared for. We
are sorry to grieve these Jealous proselytisers
by informing them that not one of their Bibles
reached its ultimate destination-the private
house of the Minister. They taken to the
respective offices over which these gentlemen
presided, and left there monument of Eng
lish sagacity. Prim gave his to an English
lady, who has it now in London-a gorgeous
affair, all crimson and gold, which had lain at
the Spanish War Office as an occasion for the
ridicule of the employees till orderly can
tered with it through-sthe streets. of Madrid,
and so caused it to be returned to the place
and the people whence it had come.
s. =,
r,,r,,,,, ErrvD VIZ {sl-a tLa fo1lo1,yiT,r FroY,