The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-18
W1scEILAN10Us ToR11eN NEWS.
Q From the London Tablet
PRorEsrANTIsM ABROAD.

other day: "Protestantism 10 deed." sueh
facts rs the following, which We take from
dictun. At the latest s'synod of the Re-
formed Churches of France, !" held iass year;
M. Coquerel thus addressed an assembly OF
which III. Guizot was the most conspicuous
member. 81 know nothing OF ortnoooky.
own father installed by a heterodo1 con
sistory, that of Mines; and have all my
| life taught heterodoxy." In the cores,
ponding Sy nod of the Evangelical Chnrch,
at Berlin, the pastors informed tneiE n' sIa,
in q kind of sorrowful Encyclical, that
"incredulity spreads more and more" ana
that "a great portion of the members OF the
Evangelical Church are Indifferent to its
assaults" We are often assured tnat tne
so called Reformation was a parucuialy
happy event for the Christian religion, out
it is not easy for outsiders to guess at tne
| present tay, upon what considerations, THIS |
once popular conviction was founded.
OPINION IN GERMANY.
1t has certainly received q rude shock in
North Germany, and is very emphaticai'y
repudiated even by some who are stall fro-
testants All the Protestant ministers In
Hanover, to the number of 700, and great
many in Pomerania aud Silesia, have ad-
dressed q remonstranG8 to the Emperor
, against the new ecclesiastical laws, and
their friends tell US the reason why tney
have done so. The Lutheran Ecclesiastical
. Gascite openly warns it's readers not to put
n faith in the State. "Thanks to its friend
o ship with the State" says that journal. the
!. Church has finished by disappearing from
ID among us. "Alas! the people com come , no
"a affairs of the Lord: How is it possible that
~ we should exert any influence over them I"
NJ Ana the people make a very unpleasant
mt response, if we may believe the hrems Aett-
ia ung which thus describes Professionalism IN
to Germany. "It is the hour of divine wor-
"a ship The preacher standing before the
" altar recites the liturgy, and afterwards the
70 Apostles Creed, and reads the words ~ be-
l. lieve in Jesus Christ" etc, and down there,
III in the nave, the crowd is saying to itself
at HE does not believe himself what he is
M reading" The Tolksblatt, of Halle, of
which the conscientious Won Gerlach is one
of the editors, considers that "union
Up with the Catholics" is the only possible de-
10 fence against the brutal tyranny of the
Ut State. :The Catholic Church." it cries,
lis "is not the only one in danger. Liberal.
he ism detests the Evangelical Church also"
lie Then prasing the fortitude Of the Catholic
nd Bishops, it adds: "they will perhaps be-
to come martyrs for their Church: Let us
not forget that their defeat would be dis
on aster for Protestar tism"
tie CATHOLIC OR INF1pEL.
Nd One result of the chaotic state of Protes-
a., tautism,-the contemplation OF whlch mas
81, destroyed in SO many minds all belief In
mt Christianity, Just as in England Katlonaiism
~. Anglican Church,-is this; that thought
ia full men begin to admit that there is no
Ill choice now between Catholicism and nnbe-
,ks lief. Thus NJ. Ernest Naville, in his Jour
nee a Geneue, tells all "orthodox" Protes-
tants, who still cherish certain fragments
~, of Christianity "The Roman system is so
~ perfectly logical, and SO connected in all
ava it's parts, that you must either admit no
~. | part of it, or admit all. PrOtestants will
imn always be beaten on the platform of prin-
ne a., xrh thav rafuaa n admit with
~ out reserve liberty acth all its consequences"
~ DR.. Leo, one of the Protestant professors
.ac at Halle, said not long ago, that 'any at
,psl tempt to obtain unity among Protestants
!, - must always be vain," and that they had
roll, now reached such climax of confusion and
to disorder, that "if the Church of Rome die
To not exist, to serve as counterpoise to the
ome universal dissolution, it would be necessary
Ne, to invent and establish it," When Jear
snt Jacques Rousseau observed, ''if any ont
1h can prove that ought to submit to au
~. thority in matters of faith, l will become
Nv. Catholic Tomorrow" he only anticipates
,rh the dying confession of Augustin Thierry
who exclaimed: Nothing outside th
the estantism and history" added the illustri
,lds ous historian, who resolved to die in tn
the arms Of the Church, " are mutually cor
rem Trajectory. The Catholic Church 10 th
ca Of submit myself TO her. May the example 4
per this great man who abandoned hollow Ra
,eos, tionalism in his last hours, be fruitful i
euce oar own land!
who THE PRUssIAN BIPHOrS.
Kept Kept 1t is announced that the Catholic Bisl
WI, ops of the ki6gdom of Prussia will Assem-
ouio bic in q few days at Fulda, to decide on I'll
hose .s,.. a.. ~. :. $1,000 :, a. ,>.o...k 80:
"0A' An intolerant CGsarism, which proposes
dictate to God as we'll as to man, and
,rv make religion q mere department of poli
pro. naIoGa IT, Thnroh Tts fa;tb2nI ro,..
irely ;.atS ~ tho &C. "A ooatni;a 60
s 'U,~ which baffled all former prosecutors, W
~ -, not fee like hirelings, nor abandon the
20 Master like traitors. Their model is nett
nno-s or Judas nor PLATE, aad it would be impo
90 ~. sible to fnd among them @ Crammer
,m.nt a Parker. They may suffer, but they W
conquer, aud We shall conquer with the
Never have the rulers of the Church be
rest- more amply endowed with the virtu
~ for which ft them for such u combat, and ne
y. for er has the issue been less doubtful.