Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1874-03-04

manism How could the Kaiser and his
chancellor afford permitting the Catholic
church heretofore to appoint her'own
bishops and professors without any say in
their appointment?
During the many years. unceasingzpr pre-
paration of Germany for the quarrel with
France, amid the drilling, forging and
riveting, were the priests ever charged La
any way with interfering or intoxicating
disloyalty to the Grown or Constitution Of
Prussia ? No, the priests were the guard
ians and inspectors of the schools and ly-
ceums. Throughout the sanguinarystr
gle, did the Church withhold the noble
army of chaplains and nuns from minis
tering to the wants of the wounded and
dying? No. Or were the Catholic SOL
diers of Bavaria less educated and worse
soldiers than their neiplbors of Baden
And who educated the Bavarians, as the
Prussians had no control over their. inter-
nal affairs then? The State; but open to
the supervision Of the priests. Now that
France Is humbled, ard the South Ger
man confederation bound up an integral
part of the German Empire. Bismarck's
zeal for the conquest of the ancient bull
wark of christianity is at fever
heat. intoxicated with unprece-
denied victories, the sole arbiter
in the fate of nations, the fulcrum round
which the liberty of Europe must turn, he
his midst. Hence the strife betweenI Sch
and State in Germany. But the CaJholiC
Church can never permit laymeQ, Nd mat
ter how eminent, even though members
of her own communion, to lntermeddle in
her discipline. And God himself has
manifested in the most signal manner his
disapproval of laymen intermeddling in
Holy things as we see in holy writ. Bis
marck acknowledges and pays homage to
that fanatical assum ption of his Master,
who thinks he rules by "divine right, but
cannot recognize that holy perogative in
the only Institution on earth that can le-
ultimately lay claim TO it. No doubt he
has closely studied the decay of the Lu=
therian church in Great Britain which
has failed in its mission, according to the
testimony of ex-Premier Gladstone, and
who has stripped it of its rich endowments
in Ireland for the same reason. In Eng
land the voluntary churches are crowded
church, with its glittering spires and chok-
ing treasury, are almost neglected. All
the failure is now attributed to the inter-
ference of laymen in its discipline. And
now mix, ~ or more properly "Gaunix, :"
would wish to reduce the Catholic "church
to the same level" He has accorded to
the German schoolmaster the need OF
praise by being mainly Instrumental 10 the
success of the German armies at Sadowa
and Paris, and. establishing one of the
most powerful empires" He might say
more, for the schoolmaster has, by his
progress and enlightenment" without
religion, succeeded in making very large
percentage of the German people inidela
and free thinkers, who do not believe in
the necessity of any form of Christianity.
will venture the remark, that neither
Nix or his great patron, Bismarck, is a
member of any Christian sect of denomi-
nation, and by abolishing the free exer.
else of the Christian religion in Germany
hopes to see all manifesting the same in
American people to sympathize with this
Voltarian and anti Christian doctrine. ]
am sure that all Christians will join me in
saying, God forbid" X.