New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-02
Saints Militant.

1t will be seen by the following, which
we clip from the Morning Star, that feelings
| OF deep seated hatred are not confined to
secu lar journals, but crop out in intense
bitterness in those professedly devoted to
| disse minaling the doctrines of divine love
and chanty. Such exhibitions show that
| there Is more envy and spitefulness than
brotherly love between the severed divisions
| Of the army of Christ:
IFrom the Memphis Tennessee Baptist
TIE FINAL BLOW IN ITALY.
By c.ble telegram we learn that the
Italian Chamber of Deputies has at last
passed the bill abolshing all religious cor
pOrationE The corporations in the church
have BEEN broken up; the societies that
have heretofore been free in the exercise of
their enormous power have now found
themselves shOrn of their traditional pres
tlge anG strength; the convents-some of
them ara the growth OF a thousand years
are thrown open to Victor Emmanuels
government, and the wealth that has been
gathering through the centuries, suddenly
becomes the property of the State. The
real meaning of the measure is that
Roman Catholicism has no longer
any exclusive rights in any part of the king
dom, that all confessions stand equal before
the law, and the government will no more
permit the existence of organized bodies of
men for he perpetuation Of a sentiment
hostile at once to its own measures and the
interests of the people. We rejoice in the
success Of this important procedure. Its
final passage has for long time been con-
sidered doubtful. All the terrors of the
Fatican-ven eternal damnaton 10 all who
should voc for the bill-were threatened
by the imbecile Pope; but all in vain. This
is the mos wonderful event that has trans
pired in or age. and fultills to the letter an
important prophecy that points to the near
close of tbs dispensation. But who heeds
it
[Frcm the New Orleans Morning Star
The above we clip from the Baptist, a
journal published in Memphis, and violent
~ devoted to dipping heads into water for
haptismal purposes as an Indispensable
condition of salvation. and none the less
devoted to dipping into Catholic subjects
with ignorance aud ejudice as an inds- |
pensable condition of Baptist orthodoxy.
The Baptist rejolces IN the successful rob- |
berries OF the Italian government; rejoices |
that Fictr Emmanuel has BY force and |
against justice, taken possession of the |
property of monks and nuns; rejoiees |
that nuns have been driven out OF their |
homes mo the street; rejoices in the |
breaking OF that commandment which saws
Thou shalt not steal" Brother Graves |
answer a question. Do you believe that
Catholics have Iight to their own prop
erty! Oh do you believe that political con
sideratiors Justify the infraction of moral
law! L. everything right against the |
Catholic Church! Now, Brother Graves,
if President Grant were to summarily take
possession of Baptist churches and colleges
on grouncs of political expediency would
he or would he not be guilty of breaking
the command which forblds stealing!
God says: Thou shalt not steal Victor
Emmanuel says II shall" The BaDtist
says Bravo" We congratulate the BaptiSt
for its trakness.
How the fur would fly if these saints mil
liant wer' to fall afoul of each other and
no Metropolitan in the wav