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trends for their sympathy aud for the kind invi-
tation, am, with Christian ioTe YOUR brosher in
Christ D. L. MOODY.


his see. Tbs accused prelats did not appear
person
The case has been proceeding for e1actly 81
montha, although from the first it w1s perfectl
well known what would be the issue. Tn Esstt
Monday, Goth March list, the Prince-Bishop va
served with an "invtation" from the Geyerno
(Oberprasident) Of the Province Of Silesia to re
e,gn his BlEhopric. The grounds alleged for thi
proceeding were his ''known antagonism to th
May Laws, and The fact Of his Vicar General ha,
ing, III q pastoral instruction addressed to th
Papal Encyclical ct the 9Th OF February, III
Bishop replied to this '' invitation 80 uncom
monty like tho weli-known "Wiil yo
walk into my varlor that he lei
the administration Of his Diocese from God, wh
had confided it to him through the Pope. en-
until the Pope bade him retire he would stag a
his post. a formal suit for his Opposition Va
then instituted, under the May laws, before th
Court for Ecclesiastical Affairs at Berlin ard tn
Supreme Provincial Court at Bresau was direct
ed to make the preliminary inquiries,-in othe
words, to find evidence. Great attention va
directed everywhere in Germany to the case
Or. Foerater WAS the only Prclate within tht
German Empire who retained the old feudal IT'LL
Of Prince Bishop, and, previous to the genera
0outererse4nea which followed upon the Frencl
Revolution, he would haye exercised all tue at
tributes OF independent sovereignty. He was
individually, special fnvorito ut the Court oi
lcIAD. 8uO pA11lE0tK[lF VIII LIE LuDFe6H, luI II
is we'll known that frieuditners with the Eou
Chancellor and with tho Court circle are By no
means synonymous,
1t the beginning OF the ycsr. parish in the
Diocese OF posen had been declared BY tho civil
courts vacant, on account OF some ofense which
the parish priest had committed against the
May LAWS. The local District Governor Issued &
notice which was practically an adrlrtiaement
for priest. One came from the Diocese Of
BresIau. by name Kick. and he wss appointed bF
The Civil Governor to the pastoral charge Of the
vacant parish. When Dr. Foerster learned what
Kick had done, he wrote to him, reminding him
that, according to the usages OF the Roman
Catholic Church, no priest can leave the Diocese
to which he belongs and tske al engagement IN
another Diocese without haFing pteT,ouslr 1e-
ceivcd the leAve Of his own Ordinary. KICK,
however, thought the salary Of
untarily rellnquisbed. Toward the end Of
February the PTince-Bishop wrote again to the
1ecalcitr1ut priest, plainly telling him that ac-
cording to the Papal declarations as set forth IN
the Encyclical. be had incurred the ceusure Of
the Church. and begging him to return back. to
Breslan. THIS appeal likewise was vain. On
Sunday, the l1th Of April stranger mysterious
" entered the pulpit OF the church Of Kwilcz,
the parish adjoining that where Kick had beea
excommunieation. with ceremonies which seem
to hare made profound impression on the aim
pie congregation. He WAS quite unknown, and
although the police have been ineessant in their
Inquiries and prosecutions in connection with
shis mysterious exoommun.cxslon they have not
been able to discover the p1omuIgator.
In the course OF their inquiries they heard Of
DR. Foerster*e letters to Kick Ttey seem to
have jumped at the conclusion that it Was he
Nho had Illuminated the sentence, and that in !
Iacs. he had for whole year been secretlv exer-
:!siuE Episcopal functions in the Diocese of Po-
ten, gove1nlug it as = Secret Delegate " for the
tmpr7soned Archbishop Ledochowski, who had |
lust been made Cardinal By the Pope. The j
R,Sh m 1.afor I'm to,.
sourt OF Birnbaurn. in the s*3'royinco OF Posen.
!" to be examined touching Kicks excommunica~
ion-" Hs did not eppear. He was then sum-
noned to appear before the Court Of Appeal ut
aniaed concerning various matters" The Dish- /
sp did rot appesr. He denied the ju-
1sdicsion Of lie Court, as civil tri- !
bunsl. to .iud 80 his ecclesiastical con-
aunse!f to an examination without either max
mg awkward admissions, OF declining with equal
A1kxafdness to answer the interrogasories of
The Judges. The Court waa pernle1ed. They
telegrspsed to Berlin for Instructions as to
khcther they should order his arrest. Next day
the 6sh) WAS great Church holiday, the festi-
Fai Of the Ascension. An orde. cane BY cipher
,eiegraph from Berlin in the course Of that day.
ordering that the Bishop should be arrested at |
so'clock in the morning OF Friday. 7th May. Bv
ZONE means which have never been discovered
iue intention to arrest lhe Bishop Oh the Friday
secaae known in Berlin early on Tuesday to
'ome ono connected with the Court, and this |
,erson teles, aEhed the intelligence also in
npher to a t.usty friend ut Bresiau, who lest no
line in appfssing the Bishop of the Intentions |
II the P1uasiau Government. The rest is soon |
Did.
i nobleman, . resident OF Bres1su, called 1T
be palace = little after noon, and took the |
Bishop in his cartlago ior . drive Dr.. Forester
Eore his usual dress, had no servants. aud there
sas nothing to Indicate thst it was not An ord
aly drive They went to rural tailxay station
bout 10 miles from Bresiau. Here the venera-
lie old man Che is nearly Is years OF age), took
he train and proceeded to point about Is miles
from the Austrian frontier. Here no was met By 1
khe equipage Of another nohlemnn which con- =
geyed him by mountain road to his own castle
Of Jobaunisperg, where Preparations had been !
lnade for his reception. So quietly was tho bus-
ness managed that this latter cuachmnn did not {
NOV who whs his 1lustrious passenger. Hero :
he Prlnce~Bishop has resided in his own prince
> castle surrounded by those domains the
sppapaze Of bis episcopal see, which are famous
I'll over the world for the glorious vintage, the (
wine, which they bear. It is
soEh remembering thAt the Diocese OF Breslau | ,
es.braces not only the greater part Of Pfuseian ,
siIesx, but ALSO some couterminouB districts OF
Austrian 6iesia and Moravla- Hence the Bishop +
las never stirred during III those mouths outside
he boundaries Of his ecclesiastical change.
For some time the TIuBsian Government I
seemed paralyzed by the disappointment But E
he proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court wcre a
'esumed and have at length been brought to . t
lose by the sentence OF deposition. It is worth c
,o:ing that while legally Dr.. Henrich Foerster i
aas now ceased to be Bishop OF Bresau within Il
he Pr1ssian districts OF his Diocese his au- Ii
bority remains unassaiied within the Austrian +
districts. t
All along it has been assumed that in the event y
# his deposition he would eude2sor to govern
rom JohAnnisberg the prussian ~ well as the 4
AUSTRIAN portion OF the Diocese. We shall now A
60 whether this anticipation will prove correct; L
|, SO, some curious complications, even of an o
International character, are not unlikely to arise
II. Foe1eter is the third Prussian Bishop Who Il
as been deposed by the Berlin Court for Ec- 1
Affairs; the others we're Count {now q
'srdinar LedochoWBh, Archbishop of Posen, t
nd DR.. Conrad Martin, Bishop OF Paderborn Il
mike them, however. DR.. Forester hsd been
ortunate enough to escape making acquaintance b
18th the i4telor Of either P1ussian prison or | Il
nperial taEeteas' 4 i
LOUIS BLANC AND THE cLERlcALS. d
CONCESSIONS ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION. d
The following ia translation Of the speech y
e1ivered by II. Louis Blanc at a "private"
'eeting recently held to advance the claims OF
{ Englehsrd, q candidate for the municipal
lection in the Fifth A1rondissement Of Paris -,