The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-22

TO heretics, those who offend or intimidate
the inquisitors, denouncers, witnesses, and
other ministers of the Holy Office, and hosts
of others. The bull has fallen like thun-
de1bolt on the assembled prelates, most of
whom find that by its sentences it, sps0 fdcto,
excommunicates the governments of the
countries to which they belong.
The advocates of Papal infallibility have
circulated n petition among the bishops of
the council in favor of that dogma. Over
three hundred fathers have refused to sign it,
and the opposers OF the project intend to get
up counter petition. But the London Tao
let (Catholic) says the maj jority in favor of the
plan will be enormous. A commission of the
council has been appointed for the purpose
of receiving, and, if thought best, presenting
to the council any proposition that shall be
made by its members. This is a very impor
tant commission; and the fact that it is COM
posed of such men as Antonelli, Manning,
and Deschamp is regarded as proof that mo-
thing will be presented against the Pope's
Wishes especially as he has the power to veto
any proposition which they might wish, if
less subservient to the Pope's infallibility, to
present.
THE JEWS
The Universal Israelitish Alliance is pre-
pairing to send large number of poor Rus
sian Jews to this country. The American
Jews protest against the plan as most unwise.
A German paper, the ISrdeSt, says Polish
Jews have no wish to emigrate, as they fear
their children will lose their religion, since
''in America there is no ATub (that is, no
cities which are enclosed by wires, and by
that constituted q city in the jewish legal
sense); no MSGueh Gan establishment for TAX
ing the ritual bath); no Beth hGmn1tdrdSh
(no institution where they receive reguler
instruction in the Talmud, and where men
spend all day in studying it); no StecItjtab
(nO regular supervision Of those who are
appointed to kill animals according to the
ritual code); no regular observance of the
Sabbath and holidays"
MISSIONARY NEWS.
Intelligence from Rotumah, one of the
Fiji Islands, represents two chiefs of import
ance as having Just become worshippers with
the Wesleyan converts. Popery, with two
priests, was not strong, nor gaining ground.
--Dr. Maclay, Superintendent of the Me-
thodist Missions in Fuh Chau, China, says
that the past year has been one of great pros
perity. He thinks over 200 souls have been
converted, and the prospect for the future is
very cheering.
The Presbyterian Mission has o female
normal school in Mynpure, Northern India
1t has Just sent out its first male teachers,
| At first the girls refused to teach as it was
to read, not to speak of teaching. But the
lady principal instantly expelled the recusant
! parties, and that brought them to terms.
The progress of opinion in Portugal in
reference to religious freedom is very marked
in decisions of courts and articles of the
press. An employe of the government was
tried at Fayal for teaching Protestant doc
trines. The inferior court acquitted him. An
appeal was taken to the superior court; and
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also has been acquitted at Oporto, and has
resumed teaceing the Portuguese. A native
of Madeira-the Rev. Manuel Pires, from
America-an ordained minister of the Old
School Presbyterians, has just begun preach
ing to his countrymen.
During October Chilian Reformed
Church was organized in Valparaiso Five
native Christians confessed the Lord Jesus
Christ in a congregation of so to 100 persons,
most of them natives. At public meeting
lately held in Santiago for the purpose of
raising funds for new Roman Catholic semi
nary, the United States Minister, General
Fitzpatrick, was present, and in his address
said:-
'There q time in the worlds history when ig-
norance and superstition went hand in hand, when
education existed only among the clergy and a GER
tain aristocracy, and when the masses knew OF the
Bible merely what others taught them sparlngy.
HSpply, those times of ignorance have gone by In
this work, gentlemen, | am with you. With the
open Bible with universal education ana suffrage
can eXcaim, with all my heart, Forward, Chilli
Advance in the path of glory!"
This sentiment was received with prolonged
manifestations of applause. Two colporteurs
are employed in selling Bibles and tracts in
| Chill.
The IHd6pendeRt has received quite full
accounts of the destruction of the royal idols
| of Madagascar. These were the property of
the royal family and of the Government. The
idols of the chiefs and of the villages were
not disturbed; although the Queen answered
to those who asked if she meant to require
the destruction of other idols, that nothing
could give her creature pleasure, but that she
| did not command it. Orders were given
some time ago for their destruction, but the
keepers refused to obey, and intimated that
the idol possessed a power to poison its ene-
mics. When they came to the capital to
assert their rights as mobiles, she took adj
vantage Of the opportunity to send q
force of soldiers, who, on arriving
at the place, read the proclamation and
proceeded to execute their orders. After
burning the appendages and robes of the
idol, they proceeded to burn the idol itself,
when the people sad:-"You cannot burn
him; he is a god" To which the Christian
officer replied:-"If he be god, he will not
burn; we are going to try And when ell
Veloped in flames one of them held it up on
stick to show it was burning. This removes
one great obstacle to the spread of Christi
anity. One effect was the immediate increase
of the village congregations. After thirty
years of severe persecution, during which a
least 200 died and thousands suffered fol
their faith the numbers of the Christian,
during that period had increased from les