Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-25
THI1RsDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1873.

THURSDAY ERkNlNS, Athlh -, 100.
DEANSrANLEY ON THE "PopEs OF ROME"
| On the night of the 18th ult., the Dean OF
Westminster addressed crowded congregation
at the Union Chapel, ComptoI-terracc, lsiing'
ton, on "Thc Popes Of Rome" Treating the
Pope as an historical office, he said that there
| were points connected Herewith which were
of interest to every Chrstian-Roman Cath
Ollie or Protestant, Churchman or Noncontorm-
ist. The Pope could be considered, first,
as the representative Of many customs, OF
| Christian antiquity; secondly, as the repre-
sentative of the ancient Roman Empire; third
ly, as an Italian prince and bishop; tourthly, as
| the Pope or chief oracle of the Roman Church;
and filthy, as head of the ecclesiastical pro
fession OF Western Europe. The Pope had had
the character of an Italian prince and bishop Tor
many centuries, and was such a prince end
bishop as the Bishop Of Durham or the
NIitred Abbot Of Westminster had been. But
whereas these and similar princc,bishops had
disappeared, the Pope remained. Referring
to the election Of the Pope, the Dean sald
that in the carly days that election was in the
hands of the populace, and in the fourth Ger
tury it was conducted with snch violence as to
cause bloodshed. Since the 18th century it
had been conducted by the College Of Cardi-
nails. The title of Pope originally was not
confined exclusively to the Bishop Of Rome,
but belonged to all the teachers. 1t was after
wards applied to all bishops, and in the ec'-
onth century it dropped from The other West
ern bishops remaining only with tho Bishop
of Rome. The claim Of the Pope to iniai-
bility was conceded by large part OF Chris.
tendon. There was no question IN his own
communion--thero vas not much question out
of it--that he was the chief ecclesiastical ruler
of Christendom; this rather than his oraeu!ar
power was the character Of his oiilcc brought
out by Gregory VII, and it was relic OF
state of things that had passed away
The monarchy Of Christendom had now ceased
for all practical purposes as certainly az Rono
ceased upon the expulsion of the Tarqulns.
Even amongst Roman Catholics there were
very few who really believed anything the
more because the Pope said SO, and probably
few thrones in Christcndom had really con-
tributed so little through their personal oceu
pants to the light Of the world. (h1ughtcr)
No Pope had ever exercised the sumo real
amount Of spiritual influence as Augustine, or
Luther, or Erasmus, or Shakespearc-(fp-
plause)- but his secular po"er over them was
very great There YVES no porscnage IL the world
whose office provoked such widely different
sentiments as that of the Pope. 1t Was said
that the lste venerable occupant Of the Pap.l
Sec had two sides to his iacc--one malignant,
the other benevolent. Whether this 'Sa3 truo
or not, it was no napt likeness Of the opposite
aspects which the pal cIil,e presented to TIC
| two sides CT the Christian world. 10 the one
he appeared as the Vicar CT ChEi-t, to the
other as Autichrist The Pope, who, to most
Protcs1anta, appeared as all that %as rctroSradc
and supcrstitions, appeared in the cyca OF iha
Eastern Church as the first ruler. This d.
| versity Of sentiment was certainly not the least
instructive of the characteristics OF The papal
office, Many causes had contributed towards
| it, but the main and simple cause was that the
| Papa Office was mixture OF much good and
evil stained with many crimes, adorned with
| virtues, and with many peculiar temptations,
to be Judged calmly, dispasslonatcy charltably,
and thoug ghtfully by ell who came across it.
TIE JEWS IN RUssIh.-We are told in tho
"Allgemeino ZcituDg dcs JutenIhums' ior
| October last, that the Jewish students In tho
gymuaeicn, OF public classical schools in Rus
sia, make up twenty per cent. Of the entire
number 10 attendance, although the number
of Jews is only three and a h2!f per cent. o:
the entire population. In the province Of
Odessa, the Jews form one third Of the whole
number Of students; in that Of Warsaw, about
eighteen per cent; in that Of wilma, seventeen
per cent. Only few years have passed since
the Jews, with very few exceptions, confined
their studies almost exclusively to the Talnud
and writings Of the Rabbica. The Jews had
scarcely any intercourse With their Christian
ncighbors as to religion ard learning; now they
sat side by side with their Christian ncighbors.
The learned J. j. Schudt, in bis work on
"Jewish Antiquities" states that at the begin.
| ming of the last century, no jews wcrc allowed
to enter Moscow, unless they would promise
| to be baptized in the Greek Church, and that
neither Jews nor Papists wcrc tolerated. Ac-
cording, however, 10 recent statistics, the mum
bcr of Jews in the Russian dominons, which
| now include largo part of Poland, amounts
| to nearly three millions.-Jevish IatelFger,
Ger.
Opening and Closing Of tho Nails.