Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-02
rHE DEeHEss AS aINsr TIA Is JES.
SUITS.
what They Are-severe Police Sur
vefslance-S0me Of the Jesuits Pack
ing Up TO Leave the Country.

Vefslance-S0me of the Jesuits Pack
ing Up to Leave the Country.
A Dusseldorf correspondent sends to the
Guardian the terms Of the German decree
against the JesuiEs, which, as be remarks,
'.are so severe that even Mr. Ne @degste
might sand aghast at them" FIRST as 10
he j suits: Their action in Germany is
brought TO a deadlock; every seminary
is to be broken up; every jesuit Church
given over and a their organizations
are to be dissolved. If within six months
there exists a Jesuit church, school, or
training college in Germany the police step
in ard shut il up, and if any individual
Jesuit remains in the pire he knows I'M
der what terms he lives here-as a suspect
ed person, under constant police Surveillance.
Aud this does not touch the Society OF
Jesus only; all monasiic orders are brough,
In under the terms Of the statute as s'akin
to- or s'ef the ma ure OF The same society.
This works III a most thorough and Ilnex-
pectei m amer There is III Dusseldorf a
tlourshns church and monastery of FraE-
cisc4ns; they have Botice to turn out; the
same with the DOminicars, who
have been laying themselves on
foo very extensive premises
Ii the lower part of the town. About SIX
miles from this is a new establishment OF
French Car,husians, who have bought q
nob.elnaI's seat, and at gfear expense are
erecting a splendid chapel aud monastery ;
they, TOO, are served with notice TO quit.
The 1.s1overnment dis'rict" of Dusseldorf
has also issued notice that for the future no
teachers, male or female, belonging to the
monastic orders, shall be allowed In any
school in the district This will work in q
way most unexampled. cannot quote
from statistical Information, but | SHOULD
say that nearly half Of the primary educa-
ton of the Catholics of the empire is in the
| hands of the monks and nuns. The
number of cnnventaal schools for it,
tie ones is legion. All the young Ro-
man Catholics, especially the girls of the
poorer classes, receive their first training at
the foundation schools of ST. Anna, 81.
Josephine, St. Ursula, etr. | should say
that it viii be hardly possible that the new
Law can be carried out in this severe, literal
Way. The Jesuits. with their dangerous
political activity, aud the lazy monks, who
| 90 nothing but live on the state, or, which
| is the same thing, on the charity Of the
faithful, will be peremptOrily turned out;
| but the Government cannot shut up church
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es and schools, and Danish all the sisterhOOds
with their works of mercy to the sick and
poor. A difference must be made between
monks and monks, and the most useful
| reminded and projected under the civil in
| spectiOn and authori y. The Jesuis at
Laach are packing up to go. Your readers
who have done the Rhine vii remember
| the lake of Laach, which stsnds back from
! the river between Audernach and Brohl,
with It's fine old disused Abbey. and The
Jesuit Seminary, and the swarm of ''black''
priests and candidates always walking two
and two, or in triplets, OF the borders OF
the lake An UltramOntane nObleman or
Westphalia, Graf Hoensbroech, has offered
the establishment refuge on that par: OF
his estate which is just on the frontier Of
Holland, aud so in dangerous proximity to
tae lAnd from which it is exled.