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membership can De obtained Will De found In
Religious Revivnls.
Rev. F. G. Clark, D. D., received tw enty- three
persons into the membership OF the Tompklns
avenue Presbyterian church. Brooklyn, at the CON-
munion last Sabbath, OF whom seventeen joined
by letters from other churches and six profess
sion OF their aith This makes total of seventy
six persons received into this growing cOngrega-
tiOn in the first month or Dr. Clark's pastorate.
Important Address-The Expulsion OF the
Jcsuits from Germany and the Xavier
Alumni SodaIity.
cor ununc ct unt,no Una.
At meeting Of the Xavier Alumni Sodality, held
on Sunday, October g. 1872, it was unanimously re-
solved that an address should be prepared and
published and q copy forwarded to the Superior
General Of the Jesuts, expressing the indignation
OF the Sodality at the recent prosecutions OF the
order In Germany. The committee appointed have
prepared the following address,
TO the Very Reverend PETER BECKX Superior Gen
cral Of the Society of Jesus:-
VERY REVEREND FATHER-The religious persecu-
tons inaugurated by the government of Germany
and liberty-lOvng men Of whatever creed or ma
tonality. AS Catholics we feel particularly moved
to Indignation and sorrow at these blows directed
ut our Holy Church. eliminating, as they so re-
Gently have done, in the decree expelng the So
ciety OF Jesus, and In the language of the act all
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character
without alleging specific charge and permitting
opportunity OF refutation without consulting the
desires OF the people, but in opposition to the
wishes Of at least, large proportion, thus to pro-
scribe, at moments warming, an entire class on
account OF religious opinion, Is surely a despotic
step, unworthy of European civiiNatlon and pro-
phetic of danger to the future liberties OF Germany.
In the hour or complete and unquestioned
military triumph, with no need to fear internal
dissensions, with people eager to resume the
relations OF peace, and TO cement fraternally the
m in IA nat hou ua
undertaken to assail the religious faith OF more
than twelve millions of the people, depriving the
thought and Speech and exiling them from their
homes from their churches and schools, and all
their benevolent institutions.
The guarantees OF the constitution are disre-
garded the natural ana inalienabe rights OF every
man overridden; the faithful and patriotic services
and sacrifices OF the Catholic community during
the late war are ignored-their youth are deprived
OF their best instructors the people OF their most
valued spiritual consoers-and institutions de-
voted by private free-wl offerings to the uses OF
education and religious worship, to the of the
sick, the poor and the uniortunate-the rearing
OF conscientious and useful citizens the preven-
ton OF crime and the cultivation Of virtue, are
closed by the State towards whose welfare they
OF the decree even orders Of holy women, devoted
70 works OF charity, have been broken up and ex-
lied to other lands.
These are already the actual results of the unjust
and indefensble measures OF the imperial govern
ment, in their endeavors to strike ut the Catholic
Church. and to establish the new doctrine that
States have the right to define and reconstruct the
religious faiths OF their inhabitants. Frederic the
Great who laid the foundations OF the present Ger
man Empire. was wiser far when he declared, in
speaking. particularly Of the Jesuits:-'In the
Treaty OF Breslau guaranteed the status quo OF
the Catholic religion, and have never found better
priests In every respect. l am determined to re-
| tain them In my state"
We feel, indeed, that in the trials of the Church
the Society OF Jesus has well deserved the testi-
mony of truth and gratitude from every Catholic.
| Founded simultaneously with the s0-called Re-
| formation, 1t has been strong arm OF defence Of
the CnurCn IN Its resistance TO the growing
lief and materialism OF the subsequent centuries
down to this very hour It has borne the brunt Of
parently annihilated; yet, with the eternal vig0r
OF truth. though crushed to earth, 1t has always
again arisen. Its missionaries have penetrated
beyond all others to the most remote recesses OF
the globe, carrying with them to barbarian nations
the knowledge OF Christianity the iluminations Of
science and the improvements OF the useful arts.
What country owes to the Jesuits greater debt
than our own To Its farthest limits, in many
Throughout its broad extent everywhere are
found the evidences Of their peaceful progress
their missions their churches and their schools.
The early history OF America relates on many a
page. the tolls and sacrifices of these inspired
pioneers.
philosophers, numbering the profoundest thinkers
and most learned writer's, have educated and ele-
the cna f the
and everywhere zeal0usy carried forward the
work OF the sanctifcation OF souls. opposed
with calumny, exled, put to death, this heroic
order has given testimony as none other, In mod
ern times or It's unsesh sincerity and its devoted
ardor wherever the glory OF God was at stake Re-
| jecting, as they 0bge themselves to do, earthly
distncti0ns-teachng, as they can only do that no
end can justify the slightest offence against the law
OF God, they have yet been slandered as the repre-
| sentatives or the most INSCRIPTIONS craft and
hated revied ana prosecuted, by turns on every
| hand.
The people OF this land can Judge the Jesuits by
| their own experience. II they have ever uttered
| doctrines subversive OF our government, II they
have ever taught that crimes are justified by the
end to be attained they can claim no sympathy, no
| remonstrance from our people. But IT, as they
| have surely done beneath the weight of 0d-tlme
! misstep or an Objectionable word, they have la.
/ bored dev0tedy and uncomplaningly towards the
material and spiritual welfare OF the land, spread
| ing the truths OF Christian faith and Christian
/ knowledge together, restraining, In quiet ways,
the commission OF crime, enforcing those restraints
| OF conscience and implanting those principles OF
| virtue which alone can make good citizens and
insure the perpetnity OF libertyif they have done
| aught OF this, they have well deserved that the
/ American people should raise, as they have done
so many times when other lands and peoples have
| been oppressed cry OF Indignation and re-
monstrance at this latest outrage on universal
| liberty Itself
| For ourselves we know that they have done this
and 81, faithful teachers, wise counselors-c0nsol
ers our hours or afilictioD. While, then, we lift
! our feeble voices In their behalf In the hope that
we may arouse mghtcr echO we feel assured
that, In the good time Of tnat Master for whose
! names sake they are hated and revlled by all men
they that go forth and weep, bearing precious
! seed, Will come again with rejoicing.
WILLIAM LUMMIs President.
/ WILLIAM DEvLIN,
| EDWARD r. SLEVIN,
JOHN A. MOONEY, }Committee,
X. DUNCAN HARRIS,
| JOHN c. MCLOUGHLIN.I