The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-27
FOREIGN HAIL NEWS.
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cussion was the Radical victory in the re-
cent Municipal elections. It appears that
| in Paris the Radical representatives mum
| bered no less than So; whereas the Con-
servatives numbered but ] l, and the Mod
crate Republicans but 10. 1t was re-
markable feature in these recent elections
| that the supporters Of order abstained from
voting, at least to very great extent.
Their policy seemed to be to let violence
have its way, so as TO bring about the
the army will fight for them, and that the
Executive will bo all on their aide, when
the real battle for government arrives.
Had the Conservatives been sure Of large
majorities they would probably have all
gone to the poll as it was, it seemed to be
easier to let disorder reproduce order.
THE POSITION IN FRANCE.
There is good deal of whispering in
Paris about the possibility of a coup detat.
produced not little alarm, and if Marshal
MacMahon should appeal to the army, and
place the whole county in q state of siege,
it is possible he might find some sy mpatby
among the classes who have a wholesome
fear of the "Reds."
DESCRIPTION OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANT
SECT.
If Bossuet were still writing his History
of the Variations of Protestant Churches he
French Professionalism to his already very
long list. Politically speaking, that catas-
trophe must date from the time when the
French Protestant sect accepted pay aud
protection from the State. This led,
necessarily, to- the subordinatipg of con-
troversy to temporal ad Tantages and peace,
For more than two centuries what were
called General Synods were suffered to rest
in allegiance, until M. Gaisot prevailed on
NJ. Thiers to permit their convocation once
more. French Professionalism had subsided
aud sort of hard Calviniem, and, like the
state of Eaglish Protestants which pre-
ceded John Wesley, was mere Organism
n.inuS its Gods" Perhaps we may acconpt
for the present scbism as follows: Robert
Haldane resuscitated the Professionalism of
Geneva with the fire of his 90 Evangelical "
oratory; and this spirit spread to Frapee,
which quickly becara imbued with Evan
gelical principles and zest. Bot the very
earnestness OF the revival produced
counter element of Rationalism in its
cOidest yet most obstinate forFs;. hence the
sehism which is DOW 3uite developed, and
which must be fatal to the Protestant sect.
Az long as no one had zsal, it was possible
for Protestasts TO live in good -fellowsb tp
with Rationaists but though Ratiopa3ist Is
might even now hold the olive branch to
Protestants, Protestants will not hotd il to
them If Mr.. Guizot had lived be might
have postponed for u while the aiscu ption
of tbs "Protestant Church )" as it is, she
Protestauts and the Rationalists have dis
solved their partnership for ever.
FRu,UIess MISSIONS.
blessed " might be q description Of Protest
ant Missions. The London Times, in an
article on the sermons OF last Monday in
furtheraAce of Protestant Missions, said
that " the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel was moving Gonvocation so
he n, fho
difficulty of finding Missionaries fop some
of the most important spheres of labor, and
especially for India.o We remember that
not many weeks age the TEnsasSand the Pslt
Mall Gazette had some very bitter writing g
on the unfruitfulness of Missions n India ;
and the two Journals were agreed that what
was called 1.-THE English Gospel !" was q
very miserable failure indeed. The Sn5sr
dGy ReUiess' also remarked. "A Gospel
which rests entirely on self-interess, or or
! the fear of the cord and the cannon sall, ia
clearly deficient in some SmpOrtant @le-
ments." Accordingly, we are not s@npvis- d
that the Itaaes. should take a. view of tle,
very plausible dsconrses of last Monday
which is in keeping with it's former sntrrIc
tions, though guardediy and respectfully
expressed. From India there COMES
nothing but explanations" No COO Eet s,ons
| are so much as pretended, bnt eSpASnssyiODs
are voiumiDOus and drear. Now, what is
the reason of this perpetual baryesDess
and can the Times offer any soiutiSSF We
| think that the IinsSs has summed up the
whole matter when it says= MaEsyrs, oi
| course, we do not want" Ea. otheg words
we expect heretics and imposters to DO the
work of apostles. Hear the whole pas
sage: " Martyrs, of course, we d" not
want,= but theme is not even the ResDle RFuay
of confessops. Our missionaries come ani
see, and are vauqnished; nay, not ever
that; they neither fight noR Fly, but are a;
they we're, while everything else is as 4
was" The Protestant standard of mia
sionary requirement. could hardly issue IL
any other result. The natives, too, IL
India, whe have to be- converted by thes'
tourists, are men whose sagacity is qlitt
capable of distinguishing between apos
tolcity and false. They detect motives
and personal aptness; and, above all they
detect that too ostensible conviction which
the IEntss SO candidldly expresses Mar
tyrs, of course, we do not want" Tha
"the best missionaries have the fewest con
verts to tell of" is inevitable from the fac