The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30
Record of German Persecution, etc.

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Record Of German Persecution, etc.
COMMITTEE OF THE UPPER HOUSE NAMED Fo
THE DISCUSSION OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL LAWS.
The new projects of the law regarding tn
Church are now under elaboration in tn
Prussan Upper House, which has named
committee of twenty members for that pnr
pose. One member Of the House, Won Patio W
wished that the preliminary proposals for al
tering two nrticses of the constitutional oh ar
| ter should be discussed by the whole House
| the laws were opposed by kleist-Retzow ant
Snaf-Pilsach rs being attacks, by the State, OIL
tho laws Of tho Church regarding the admins
tration of the Sacramento. Tbs Minister TO-
relig ious affairs, DR.. Falk, protested again
this Wow of the projected laws. Finally voI
between the Right and the left of the House
each party is to choose ten members of the
committee.
! DIR. Won GERIACHs SPEECH IN COMMITTEE ON
ECCLESIASTICAL. LAWS.
/ Deputy Won Gerla,h. who is q Protestant
| and. as he opened bis speech by asserting. mot
only Protestant, but a member of that branch
| of the Evangelical Church which is directly
| under the ecclesiastical rule of his Majesty the
King" attacked the projected laws as being
arbitrary and UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and warned
the House not to allow, for q merely temporary
interest, the arbitrary interference of the State
with their own any other religious rights.
And he ended by saying, = Let US Professionals
pray for our king, and allow others to pray for
their Pope, and God, who is good and all pow
erful, will see that the Church's interests are
our Church service we pray that God may
grant us good government b"th in things
spiritual and in things temporal. Very WE'LL
then, that IS u far safer thing to rest upon
than the votes of this House."
ovER-MUcH ZEAL.
The civil authorities of Vilsburg have re-
ceived from the Government of the lower Ba-
varian province, al order to expel tho Redemp-
torist Fathers from the Vilsburg poor schools,
by force if necessary"
TIE AHcuBIsuor OF MUNICH's IRNT PASTORAL.
The Archbishop of Munich has tnkeu occa-
sion in his Lenten Pastoral to retrace the origin
and growth of the Forty Hours Devotion and
reminds his flock that the population of Munich
and that of Bavaria generally have always had
q special devotion to the Blessed Sacrament
and that "the Forty Hours Prayer was actually
introduced into Bavaria together with the first
Bavarian Confrnternity Of the Blessed Sacra-
ment, and that Of the Perpetual Alteration, by
the princes of the royal house, the ancestors of
tho reignng sovereign, and" he goes on to say,
lit was with deep emotion that, on our first in.
spectlon of the registers of the Coufraternity
Corpus Christi in Munich, we saw anon Sst the
first names Of members, the autographs of our
then reignng sovcreigns, accompanied by OBJ !
servatops which showed the most lively faith |
and devot on, and we then exclaimed, Happy |
the country and tho people to whom God has |
been pleased to give such princes" He goes on |
explain how, at the time of the expulsion of to |
the Religious Orders i'll tho last century this |
devotion (the Perpetual Adoratior) had come
to an end, save in some small and humble par |
ishes where the pety of the faithful had Kent |
it up: how he. the Archbishop, had always
longcd to see IL re-established all over the do
ccSc and finally says: We can give Won the
glad assurance that, from the first SUNDAY in
this Lont, tho Perpetual Alteration will begin
again. after nearly seventy years cessation,
and !; be continued as before" AS the present
king can hardly be said to walk in his nnces-
tors steps in the matter of devotion, it is
doubtful how far such recollections will DO
pleasing to him.
JOE Is TOLD TO "MoyE oN."-( Eide Dickens }
1t is perhaps irrevercnt, but this comparison
was torcibly suggested to our mind on reading
The following in the Mains Gd.ehc (Main.er
JonrnaD of tho 22d February. 1878: The
father of the Rev. Michael Zoller, S j., Mr..
Conrad Zoller, has addressed the folio wing pc.
tition to His Royal liighness "the Graud
Duke (of liesse Darmstadt "we must pre.
mise, as our readers may have forgotten tho
Fact, which wo mentioned some time ago that
,he Jesuit father in question had been forbid.
len to live at his fathers house in Seligenstadt
md had had Herbstein assigned to him as a
iomicilc, Mt the tiGe of the expulsion of the
society: The Mainz paper then gives tho peti.
ion, which is perfectly respectful it is head
or the protection of his paternal rights." And
Ierr Zoller represents that his son has com
nitted no crime, is utterly without means of
wing Mt his own expense, and 'has had closed
natural and most lawful refuge open to a man
IN earth-his fathers house." The poor father
goes on to say that, =" in this extremty.n he ,
las "rccourse to the Justice of his natural SOW
'reign and protector, and that he looks with
confidence to his Prince. TO whom he (Zoller1
md his have always been loyal aud dutiful
subjects" The answer to this petition was I
ninist erial rescript, forwarded to the Mayor of
>eliGcnstadt, which runs rs follows:
"DARMsTADT, February, 1873
1.-THE Grand Ducat Minister of the Inter;or
% the Grand-Ducal district magistrates of
)ffenbach. His Royal Highuess the Grand
Duke hereby signifies, that he rejects the peti-
ion of Conrad Zoller, of Seligenstaft, and his
as uutouuded; II. r. H. is further
pleased to decide that it be signiGed
o tho petitioner, that his son, the J,suit
Michael Zniior, is ordered to conform himself
o the arrangements made by the authorities
n virtue of the lately passed aw-with regard
o his place of abode. This is to be forwarded
y you to the petitioner as the answer to bis
eqnest of the 22d Of this month.
(SigneG) NoN SrARcE
Won GAGEKN"
T'his was followed, tho same day. bv nm
to the Mayor of Selirsnstndt from
he district authorities of Offeuhach, as to the
nodD of dealing with Father Zoller, S. ]. By
ms document, which is headed, ION the exc
luton OF the Imperial laws concerning the 1
rider of the Society (Sic) of jesus" the Mavor
5 authorized to send the Jesuit Father to his