The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-24
THE APRIL MAGAZINES.
"rHBGALAxY."

Journalism, by IL. j. Jennings. Letters
from Havana. Laure dHauterive to Angela
Gaynor Ill. BYE. de NJ. exile, by II, H.
''Ten Years in Rome. The Propaganda. ''An
Editors Tales No. ". The Spotted Dog.
Part /, The Attempt, by Anthony Trollope.
t'Eugenie. Empress of the French, % by Justin
Mccarthy "Pne Plank, by James T. Nc
Kay. "'ihe Case of Hamlet the Younger"
by Richard Grant White. ''The Future of
New York. "The Galaxy Miscellany" "Drift
Wood, by Philip Quilibet. Literature and
Art ''Nebule," by the editor.
From the paper entitled ''Ten Years in
Rome" we quote the following particulars
about the College of the Propaganda:
Surprise is sometimes expressed at the lack
of culture in Romish missionaries. This is
by no means strange. A boy who has never
wandered beyond the enchanted circle Of the
Hartz, being useless for anything else, but
having a talent for saying his beads, is sup
posed to have a vocation TO the priesthood.
His friends interest the cure and the bishop,
and a subscription is got up. enough to send
him in the cheapest way to Rome. He has
his open letter of commendation written in
Latin, which secures him guidance on his
way. He is addressed like a consignment
of goods ''To Cardinal Barnabo." / remem-
ber once seeing four such specimens. They
wore sabots stuffed with straw, coarse home
spun, and carried a general appearance of
grease and lager. 1t would have puzzled
Gall to detect the bump of piety in them: but
these were the raw material of missionaries
whose pattern is Francis Xavier. They are
not learned, except in sufficient Latin to say
mass intelligibly and pass ordination. Their
idea of conversion is TO baptize: their display
of the glory of the gospel is by rosaries, pic
lures and crucifixes ''We like this, said
n n ~.
are becoming Brddhlsts." Any means are at
the missionary 8 discretion, if the gross total
of his converts increases. As to their sim
cerity OF conviction, that is quite another
thing. Equipped with two suits of clothes, a
breviary, vestments for mass. chalice and
paten and crucifx, a cousecrated slab for an
altar, and u warm cloak, the newly ordained
priest is sent wherever the Prefect deter
mines. 1t is question of want of men, not
of the fitness of the men sent. The mission
field is mapped out before him, and he dis
poses of his available forces where he can to
the best advantage numerically. You will
find the phlegmatic Teuton, equally with the
ardent Asiatic, fired by one impulse
success. They will convert, and be
heard of as successful men by their old
tutors and the Prefect. Ignorant, un-
cultivated boorish, unacquainted with
the commonest forms of society, but yet
jealous almost to frenzy, brave, determined,
undaunted, they are the men the Propaganda
can use. Every year, many youth goes to
certain death from yellow fever in Sierra
Leone, to pestilential lagoons in Southern
India, and to the treachery and cruelty of
Japan and China; but he cannot look back or
ask why.
The Congregation of the Index is a choice
engine of the Propaganda. 1t seeks not only
to leaven the Protestant mind with the prn-
ciples of Trent, but to repress any contrary
development in the minds of Catholics. 1t
is opposed to liberalism as to Anglicanism.
Monsignor Maret and "Janus" are on a level
with DIR. Pusey and Henry Ward Beecher.
The reader may not be aware of the naoduS
0perandS of the famous Congregation of the
Index There is prohibition against hereti-
cal books and books considered of danger
GUS tendency to either morals or doctrine.
The catalogue of books prohibited to indis-
criminate reading is called Index Prohibi-
tory." In the case of other books which are
considered partially erroneous, or in need OF
revision, the ''Index Expurgatory" is pro
vided. This sets forth what passages are to be
expunged or altered SO that they shall becom
Innocuous 1t is presided over by cardinal
with staff of secretaries 1t is used gene
rally as a means of fighting liberalism. Wher
abook cannot be answered, and is becoming
popular, it is placed on the Index. ''Sup
pose it is" / hear a Protestant say, ''wha
then?" To read it becomes a mortal sin
which unabsolved will incur damuation
This was the action of the Propaganda in tn,
case of Mr. Ffoulkes, Bishop Maret, an(
3fJanus" 1t is not necessary that bool
should be intrinsically bad, if its author is
hereto or suspected. All books written b
Protestants, from the orthodox version of tn
Holy Bible to the smallest tract of the Methc
dists, are prohibited. 1t takes wider rang
still. 1t suppeses science is secretl
inimical Bossuet describes a hereti
as lone who has an opinion" Th
Syllabus (proposition 13) defines as erroneou
whereby the ancient scholastic doctors cult
waited theology are unsuited to the necessitit
of our time and the progress of the sciences
Casuistry, which at various times has cor
doned every orime conceived by a deprave
imagination, was the principal method of til
ancient scholastic doctors Against thi
science and decency protest. er9O scient
and decency ought to be placed on the Inde
The works of Bacon, Locke, Laplace, Galile
Newton, Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller, Milto
Dante, Leibnitz and nearly all great model
names in science and belles-letters, are on tl
Index. In one compartment-amonga choi
collection of literary filth and NOR
garbage, seemingly gathered by son
one anxious to find how low humt
nature had sunk Il found h
I Bible of King James and Hookers FEcclesia
tical Polity" side by side with the Ocean
ron" and ''Pantagruel." Yet it is by readir
the writings of Protestants that Romans
achieve reputation for learning. If
| priest confines himself strictly to the liter
ture prescribed by the Index, he can nev
l.