The New York herald., 1879-09-21

Felicity III heaven that the authorities or that dream
land have been compelled to open divorce courts.
Lizzie Harque for instance. who departed this life
few years ago. has discovered that her spirit hus-
band is not all she expected. and has withdrawn
her affections and bestowed them on a young vir-
ginian whom she found careering through space and
who is known as G. Washington Whether she is aware
that he is the father of his country not
told. and whether George returns the devoted love
OF Lizzie is yet unknown. or one thing, no viewer.
the young lady with the angel wings may be as
sured-vz.. that the family of George find out how
the stands she will change her ideas about
heaven very quickly or else come to the conclusion
that she has mistaken the locality and got into the
other place. In sober truth it would seem that we
have bosh enough in this life without throwing the
dirty water Of our loose theories over the next.
BISMARCK AS A CHRISTIAN STATES
MAN.
AN INSIDE VIEW BY THE REV. DR. scHAPF, OF
NEW YORK, OF THE GERMAN CHANcELLoR's
RELIGIOUS LIFE.
1t is not supposed that politicians statesmen
very much troubled with personal religion. and
there thousands of persons in Europe and
America who doubt If the German Chancellor has
any claim to be called Christian, seeing that
through his influence SO many individual Christians
and Christian societies have been ex,led from the
German Empire and SO large part Of nominal
Christendom has been offended and injured thereby.
But DR.. Philip Schaf. Of this city. who has
been visiting Europe during the summer as
delegate to the Evangelical Alliance writes to the
Independent. giving what may be called interior
view of Bismarck's religious lire The Chancellor,
DR.. Schaf says. seldom goes to church. because he
works at night and sleeps in the morning. He gave
this excuse to the Protestant pastor. DIR. Vie
singer. at Kissngen. whom he invited to dine with
him twice during the summer past. and to whom he
openly confessed his Christian sentiments. He
reads the New Testament and the collection Scrip
ture texts annually issued by the Moravian Church
under the name Of the "Lcsungsbuch."
When lately he asked q friend to recon-
mend him a new Minister Of Public Worship in the
place of Dr. Falk and the friend the
of two or three persons who were thoroughly
versed in Catholic and Protestant Church history and
ecclesiastical law. Bismarck rejected each one. say
ing he did SO, II want man who knows nothing
about these things. but is thoroughly intelligent
and upright" On another occasion the Chancellor
remarked to this friend:-"You. like other people.
consider q long headed, shrewd, calculating
politician; but that is great mistake. The first
thing always do, in any critical moment, is to
certain the will Of Providence and then halt be-
hind,it as well as 1 can; otherwise I would have
made the greatest mistakes ana done incsicuisble
BIsMARcK's PERSONAL APPxARANcE.
Before he went into the Austrian campaign in Bo-
hemia he sent for his pastor and said 81 feel very
return se wsh o
take the holy communion but privately at home. to
avoid the appearance Of political demonstration in
public" And he partook OF the sacrament in the
bosom Of his family. This incident was related to
DR.. schaf BY the aforesaid pastor. bismarck. says
DIR. Schaf is beginning to look old, being sixty
five years OF age. But he is still imposing figure
and looks like Jupiter. His Herculean frame. his
ata mi 0f tnarv For
majesty and self-repose reside his brow.
He is unquestionably the greatest statesman
Luther. His achievements will assign him the first
place among all the statesmen Germany ever had
OF all its enperors and General Moltke 1.-THE thinker
of battles, who is silent in seven languages, the
ablest Of its military heroes. Such combination of
genius and exhibited in this trio dur
ing the Austrian of 1866 and the French war of
1870 history has never seen before, and an empire
which rests such foundation cannot soon pass
away. 1t is remarkable fact that these great men
also OF faith in the midst OF scepical gen.
eraon The able leader of the Catholic party in the
German Parliament (Windhorst) said recently to
friend of DIR. Schafs. in Berlin. that Bismarck
unwllingly the greatest benefactor of the Catholic
Church in Germany-hrst because, by expelling the
Jesuits from the Empire he had Jesuitzed the whole
Catholic Church OF Germany; second. by trying to
destroy the power OF the Pope he had made
Plus TX. the most popular of ali the Popes and,
third. by prosecuting Roman Catholicism he had
destroyed the prospects of Old Catholicism. which
contained important elements OF truth aud might
have done great injury to Romanism. The recent
appointment of Herr Won Putkamer to succeed Dr.
Faik indicates change DR.. Schaf thinks more in
favor OF orthodox Professionalism than OF Romanism
The political ambition of the Roman Church, he
says. will always be checked under the present EN-
peror OF Germany aud his
After the Chanceuorls escape from death at the
hands of assassin the people of Kissingen erected
statue near his summer residence, thus anticipat-
ing the honors reserved for the dead They are
mostly Roman Catholics. but they cannot help feel
ing attered by the annual visit Of the great Chan
celior. He may still have several years of active
service before him. and devote his power as hereto
FORE to the consolidation and unity Of the German
Empire.
DIR. TAYLOR ON THE ENCYCLICAL.
Notwithstanding the generally very favorable COM
ments Of the press the Popes recent Encyclical
on education the editor Of the Christian at Work
does not think very highly of 1t as production
OF its educational suggestions. He says clock
ought to be constructed and set up In the Vatican
Palace bearing q legend the of that at Fon-
tanebleau. and reading 81 only be turned back
ward" That. he says, would exactly show up the
fashion OF the pontiffs which fnds fresh ilustra-
ton the Encyclical Just put FORTH The Encycli-
cal is not warning against any particular form Of
heresy of doctrine or evil practice; 1t is simply
tedious. long. drawn plea for discarding the
science of to-day and return to the minute scho-
lasticism OF the Dark Ages. Especially does Pope
Leo XIII. commend the study OF st. Thomas Aquin
lance without parallel, the prince and master of
all" But IL takes more than pope's recommends
ton to set any very huge body OF men ut work pom
derlng the hair-splitting reasoning. the Aris-
totelian discussion and the refined subtle
ties of st. Thomas twenty dusty folio vol
umes. voluminous writer st. Thomas was
almost ~ much Lope de Vega; but he is te-
dious in his excessive tenuity and endless divisions
and subdivisions Bacon would be in the hands of
the late lamented Dora Copperfeld. Singularly
enough the Pope recommends the reading OF
Aquinas, when st. Thomas was especially conspicu.
Gus for tho position he took against the
immaculate conception OF the Virgin Mary
q position which no Roman Catholic could
hold to-day without being amenable to the
charge of hercsy On the whole we opine. says this
editor, that st. Thomas will remain undisturbed
on the library shelves. save when some forlorn old
antiquary takes down ponderous tome TO find out
what St. Thomas thought about the Aristotelian
idea of enddmoaid the relation of enfeecheid to
materiaized molecules. Most people have other and
better business on hand.
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