The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-18
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1874.
THE COMING CONTINENTAL
STORM.


Predictions of a coming relig
Gus storm in Europe have beer
by no means wanted of late years
MIR. Disraeh has put upon record
his belief that in its light all pas
connections will lie hut summer
showers. Evidences that Europe
is rapidly nearing the clashine
point Of struggle continue to &C.
cumulate. The war will, like the
Reformation and the Thirty Years
war, have its religious and its pol.
itical phase. Prof Draper, in his
just published work, recognizes
the situation, and attributes it, in
its last analysis, to what he calls
the dual system OF government"
which has prevailed in Europe.
So long as every nation has two
soVereigns, a temporal one at
home, and a spiritual one in a for
eign land, so long, he alleges,
there is a probability OF strife.
This state OF things now exists in
Prussia. Bismarck hos resolved
that there shall be an absolutely
undivided allegiance in the Ger
man Empire. The Catholic
Church seems resolved to advance
rather than recedc from its claims.
1t is, says Prof Draper, the final
struggle which began with Luther,
and which was left unfinished in
North and Central Germany.
Just SO with France. There ex-
lists in that country the same dual
government, and the same strug-
gle is in progress. In Prussia
there is a prospect that the party
of the government will win; in
France the indications are that
the Catholics will hold the govern
ment, and will be the winners.
The result promises to be that
Prussia will be the head and the
front of the Anti-Papal party in the |
Continental struggle, and |
that France will lead the hosts of |
religions and political conserva-
ism. 1t will not be entirely q
cong enial position for France to
hold; but the enminty to, and de-
sire OF revenge upon, Germany,
would seem, If nothing else, to
force her To it. Moreover, the
great majority of the French pop
llation are still good Catholics,
and, though that country has done
80 much in days past for an abso-
ute freedom of thought and per-
son; though she has even stood in
he very front rank of the army of
coaoclasts; though her name has
been u watchward of revolution
t seems almost certain, that, in the
expected struggle, she must, per-
IOrce, reverse her position. 1t re-
mains To be seen whether the
French Republicans can give their
enough to do at home,
or whether they will be swept
along the torrent of the national
Try for vengeance.
The proceeding in the French
Assembly, and the debates in the
German Reichstag, within the last
week, have seemed to say that the
outbreak may be much nearer
han we have supposed. The
naughty and determined bearing
Dr Bismarck, his open defiance of
Rome and OF the Roman party of
The Empire indicate that he de-
sires to hasten rather than delay
Lhe conflict. And, in France, the
Catholic revival, the conservative
of Mcmahon, the evil
dent favor OF, and reliance of, the
Vatican upon him, seems to have
found u tongue in the recent ut
Lerances OF the Bishop OF Orleans
in his debate with the Radicals in
the Assembly.
Thus the contest thickens, each
leading power DIVIDED within it
self, hut each showing clear signs
which party will prevail, and each
swiftly, of late to its posi-
tion of leader on opposing sides in
the contest which Europe is await
ing. and can by no possibility long
avert.