The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-24

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There is quite an unusual religious inter
est being felt in the congregation Of St.
Pauls VI. E. Church of this city. The
members are very much quickened in re-
ligious life ana quite number Of young
people are seeking religion-fye or six rose
for prayers on last Thursday night The
pastor Rev Mr.. Olmsted has been working
earnestly and faithfully since conference
and it is very evident thatGod is rewarding
him for his faithful labors.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.-Archbishop Purcell
is the possessOr OF very remarkable copy
of the Bible, which bears the date Of l412.
The Rev. John j. Conway (who is sue
ceeded as assistant pastor Of the Church Of
the immaculate Conception, Washington,
D. c., by Rev. Joseph Ganen) has been
assigned to a new and urdeve]oped field OF
labor. lie is charged with the spiritual
care of all Calvert county, Md, which has
hitherto been destitute of priest and church.
His residence will be for the present at
West River Came Arundel county,, Dor
dering on Calvert county.
Dr. O'Connell of Richmond, Va, being
in Rome, has received the paiiium for Arch.
bishop Gibbons. This act constitutes DR..
O'Conncli official delegate on the part of
the Holy Father to Archbishop Gibbons,
and he is expected in Baltimore immediate
ly with the pallium. The date for its de
livery has not been fixed, but will be on the
arrival Of the Doctor. The palium is the
Archbishop's official badge of office, and
confers upon the prelate full metropolitan
powers. 1t is made of white WOOL woven
by the Sisters Of St. Agnes in Rome
When it is cOnferrei upon the Archbishop
be will be fully installed as the Archbishop
of Baltimore and Primate of the Catholic
Church in America.
His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey has
appointed the Rev. Father John Barry, Of
Rossville, S. l., to the pastorate Of the New
Brighton Church, made vacant by the death
of the late Father COnron. Father Barry
nineteen years ago was sent to ROssville,
remote aHd scattered district, where,
through his energy, be has succeeded in
building three churches. Father Barry
" i'll celebrate his first mass this morning at
the New Brighton Church.
PREsBYrERIAN.-The growth of the
Presbyterian Church in Kansas has been
very rapid. In 1856 she first white mans
church was found in Leavenwcrth; now
the whole synod contains 207 churches.
Eight new church buildings have been oc-
cupied this year, making list of SO in the
ITALY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY,
1t was an age Of cOnspiracies, and the only
wonder is, when we consider the causes,
that they were not multiplied hundred
fold, The principal Italian cities were
PROSTATE under foreign yoke, and Venice
only remained as a city Of refuge for politi
cal exiies. Italy, every where overrun by
foreign soldiery, whose stipend was paid by
sack aud pillage. one horde of invaders on
Iy expelled BY another, presented the mel
ancboly spectacle of entire districts, ready
to bloom like Eden, reduced by fire and
sword to the condition Of desert, without
house, or inhabitaut, or any living thing.
Every conceivable outrage was committed:
churches were sacked, cities destroyed; over
two hundred thousand persons killed in war;
fire and sword followed by famine and pes
thence, in which persisted uunumbered
thousands more. Blood cancelled blood.
What the battlefield failed to absorb was
reserved for the scaifold In the midst of
this carnival Of death, Rome was given
over to sack and pillage. Its streets and
public squares, encountered with corpses
and breeding disease, c9ntagion, and death
! became the scene OF wild Saturnalia o!
shameful excess. Drunken soldiers, dis
guiSei as bishops and cardinals, paradet
the principal thoroughfares in mock relig
Gus procession, or trailed their priestly vest
ments in lmmodest, lasciyious dances a,
they rioted in their bacchanalian orgies
while episcopal mitres, metanorphoscd in
to fools caps by staggering dragons, ex-
cited the laughter Of pimps AID the deris-
ion of courtesans.
1t is disheaitening 10 reflect that these
denominations were committed for the mos
part By protesting Christians. While tht
Council of Trent was discussing the doe
trines Of original sin, predestination, enc
the seven sscraments, Spanish Catholics
and German Protes tants were wing Will
each other in outragng every law, totl
human and divine, while the yoke of tn,
Sultan OF Turkey was invoked as prefera-
| bic to tina. of the "Sul.an of Christianity,
: and both to the Spanish despot, who dream
ed of universal empire.-O. N. SPExcER
in Ha1pers Magazine.
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