Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-14
MEMPHIS APPEAL
TUESDAY. MARCH IA, 1876.
ANOTHER RELIGIOUS CRUSADE.


ANOTHER RELIGIOUS CRUSADE.
The news by telegraph in this morn
ing's APPEAL is of more than usual in.
terest. Among the items that will at
tract attention is one suggesting another
religious crusade by the opponents of
Disrseli's administration in England.
The government is shortly to be interro-
gated in regard to the conduct of the
Duke Of Norfolk, England's premier
peer, who q few weeks ago collected q
large sum for the German Roman Cath
ole priests who are resisting Bismarck;
and inquiry is to be made touching the
assumption Of certain university honors
by Cardinal Manning,who, whatever he
may be as religious zealot, is one of
the pUrsst and best men in England.
These inquiries are to be prelimina-
ries, we are given to understand,
TO a warm and brisk contest, which
there can be no doubt will be caught up
by the 'no popeIyn bigots outside the
houss OF commons, who will hail with
eagerness any opportunity for display
Of Intolerance and the hate and fury
VIII ca is its popular interpreter. Such
il the result Of the.religious establish
ment, and such the result of an attempt
to compel conformity of faith. The gen.
tlsmen who profit by the established
church" cannot afford TO see their dig
mites eelipsed by those Of the representa-
tive Of Rome; they cannot view in
peace the rapid inroads upon the aristo.
cratic ranks made by Manning and his
handsome and learned coadjutor, who
was immortalizad by the present Brit
ish premier ia his novel, Lothdir. Two
of the privileged ones who wear titles,
and whose wealth is, perhaps, little
less than that of Bute's, were this week
caught in the net of these Roman fish
ermenr and the dread of surrender" to
the "scarlet woman" has again seized
upon the average high-chufch tory.
The old leven is again working, and the
establishment" is, by the folly of lite |
friends, TO be once more put upon trisl
For this is what this threatened war will
amount to. The dissenteTs will be slow |
to take an active part in it. They have |
nothing TO lose, but all TO make by it. |
Indeed, in view of recent insolences by |
recSors and deans, we should say they
have all TO make by waiting, and watch
ing an opportunity to bin with their Ro- |
man Catholic countrymen in demand |
for church disestablishment. For, do
what they may, and say what they
will, that must come before there can be |
peace between the sscis and the natien-
al lie yislature can be freed from the en-
barrassment cf legislating for faith |
that does not find believers in more
than one-third the population of Great |
Bri .sin. There must be an entire sepa-
ration of the church from the State be- |
fore there can be peace-there must be |
in matters religious as in all things else
perfect equality, otherwise there
will be jealousies, chickering's, riots, per-
haps, and blOodshed between men |
whose hearts and souls and brains |
should be linked In efforts in behalf of |
the State. Wherever system the con-
uary of this is maintained persecution Is |
sure to crop out now and then, and is |
certain 10 be at least q spssmodic |
complaint. Fer instance, only few
weeks since, actuated no doubt by |
honest religious exclusiveness, the |
council Of Geneva, the city famous
as the headquarters Of Calvinism, en-
forced an edict-s cruel and vindictive |
edict-suppressing all religious-thst is,
Cstholic-corporatiOns, schools, and ssy-
lums, and banishing those pestilent dis
tuTbers OF peace and order, the Sisters of
Charity, and that dangerous and intrigu-
ing organization, the " Little Sisters of
the Poor" 1t went into effect, to the
great dismsy Of great number OF good
people, both Catholic and Protestant.
"Grsce Greenwood writing OF this
crowning disgrace to modern civiliza-
ton, says that six hundred Protestant
ladies and forty physicians petitioned
against the execution of a meas.
ure which would deprive the
young Of the best instruction
in music and the languages,
and the sick Of the beet attendance.
The council simply noticed that such q
petition had been preferred, and took no
sction upon it. The Little Sisters had
two little cOws-animbls OF extraordi-
nsry giving-down capacity, should
ssyr for they not only provided milk for
the sisterhcod, but for all their poor old
men and women. These miraculous
cows were, we were tod, confiscated by
the city fathers, though 1t was not that
sort OF lscteal fluid they lacked, but the
milk OF human kindness They re-
tanned slio ali the household goods Of
the humble offenders, when they ex.
PEELED them from their quiet quarters,
in Calvin's house, by the way. As they
went sorowfully forth they took several
Of their aged pensioners with them to |
an asylum on the mountain side, |
where, it is TO be hoped, they were
and bovineIy provided for by
that Providence which is neither Cath
olic nor Cslvanistic. The council, in
this act Of intolerance and petty perse-
cution, doubtless thought that they
we're doing God seryice;' but it seems !
o me it were 3 service fit only for the J
sod Of the Scribe and the PhaFisse. The s
Iod Of the Good Samaritan was probs-
by on the eide Of the Little Sisters. The
is that just three hundred 6
'ears, to month, back from the time v
II the execution of this edict Of ppress- n
on and Punishment, there was a similar e
exodus from Gsneys-a y
nmnanv NJ sovrn,,f,,t ,,ot $780,. - | :,