New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-07
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| and the Portuguese Government are in a crit
! ical state. For some considerable time past q
number of Sees bave been vacant, the Nunclo
| refusing to accept the nominees of the Govern
ment, whu were all of decidedly liberal ten
denotes Among other Sees was the Patriarch
! ate of Lisbon the present Patriarch, Cardinal
| CardOso, wished to resign on account OF his
| age and intirmities, but as 1t was Impossible TO
arrive at any determination as to his successor,
his resignation was withheld, and the patriar-
chate has been administered by the Nlcar-Gen-
era himself an Archbishop. The present
Nuncio, MOnsignor Masella, succeeded the late
Cardinal Sanguini in 1879, and has ever since
in vain attempted to arrange the difficulties.
AS neither party would give way, the Sees have
remained vacant. The Government has now
suppressed ak of the bishOprics, and threatens
to give the Nuncio his passports should he con-
time to refuse to accept their nominees 7" the
remaining ones. A few days ago when il EX-
cellency called OH the Minister. OF Grace and
Justice, that official received him sitting and
smoking. The sentry at the door called INN
one of those disgusting names 80 often appneu
by the Lisbon rOughs to priests. This Will
give some idea of the treatment received Dy
the Nuncio, against which it is said that
protest will be made by the Corps Diploma
tique. The probable result of the whole al
far will be the suppression OF the hierarchy
in Portugal, and the establishment OF vicar
iates Apostolic thus declaring Portugal to be
missionary country This. would be
severely felt by the great bulk of the people,
as the Portuguese bishops have always en-
jOyed great ecclesiastical privileges. The Pa
triarch of Lisbon has more than anyone eX-
cept the Pope; and the Archbishops of Braga
have always claimed the primacy, not OF
Portugal only, but of the whole peninsula.
The Nuncios of the Court of Lisbon have al
ways been the protectors OF three lnsutu-
tions belonging to English subjects, to VITA
college for the education OF Roman Catholic
priests for England, which has about fifty IN
mates and two converts belonging TO the
Irish province of the Dominican Orders, one
for monks and one for nuns. These irish
DOminicanesses have the education OF the
daughters of the elite of Portugal.
In his sermon last Sunday Professor Swing
uttered q great thought when he called upon
woman to leave the frivoltles OF fashion
and to live for something higher. lie SAID
that wOmans power in the domain OF
higher morality and higher life Is ore of the
needs of the age. One could estimate better
the advance of the next year could one only
count upon any approaching decline OF
wOman's attachment to mere fashions and
upon her espOusing the world of perpetual
morals and perpetual good and perpetual
happiness. 1t is a deep injury to our country
that thousands of women OF wealth and edu-
cation are leaders IN perlshable fashion, and
not in any of those things which make nations
great and which lead millions along an
cending path. II the modern man IL nothing
but a money making instrument, such calam-
lfy COulu nB turned lutO ROou III lHc NOHlHu vi
the same period only turned this money along
the channels where flow the clearest and
sweetest waters but the subsection OF man
10 money is an awful impeachment If 1t is ac-
companied by the subsection OF woman 10 lash
ion and tc all barbarian glitter. Some blessed
results have been reached in morals and law
and bene violence by means of n few women
whose nObleneSs is now seen above the heads
of those who once held them In derlsOn What
is needed by our age is that the intercession
a an ltta toa ni NJ H.
Versal. Her education and taste and money
and liberty should seek wider field of con-
quest and usefulness than lay around those
who ither wore gorgeous robes mt feast or
else performed hard service in the field Thou
sands of women now living separated from
toll by abundance, and separated from child
ishness by education, have only one domain OF
possible triumph, but 1t Is "a sublime one, that
of art and morals and cbarity-three divisions
of a vast empire.
The Rev. Washington GLADDEN. in his arti-
Gle on the Christian League oil Connect
CUT quotes DIR. strickland in favor OF Kin
dergaF,ens as a means of religious and moral
training. No other work." lie says, prom
ises such results in the salvation Of the
poor If you can get the little children out
of the squalid homes into clean ana bright
place, and keep them there four or live hours
a day. under the care of patient, cheerful,
loving women, who never beat nor scOld them
who teach them the first principles OF cour-
tesy and kindness and sei-cOntrol, and keep
them happy with pictures and games and
marches and songs-if you can keep them
under such influences until they arc six or
seven years old, impressions are likely to be
made upon their characters that VIII never be
erased The memory Of these happy years
will be a daily blessing TO them. Besides,
through the children you get such access To
their parents as YOU could secure in no other
way; and the children themselves carry the
gospel o. neatness and gcntieness into their
hOmes-thc best missionaries you can lind.
One kindergarten is worth more in the way
OF civlIzing and Chrlsianizlng these Arabs
in embryo than SIX mission sunday schools.
One hour a week doesn't amount TO much
four hours day really tells on Il chllds he
Much is said nowadays about the gOdiessness
of the press and the secular press is always
referred to, the suppOsitiOn being that the
Iigious papers arc what tier name implies.
This may be doubted. Many of them contain
more patent medicine advertisements Than re-
liglon. SOmG give the greater part Ot Their
snace TO the chronicle of local church news III
obscure districts, which few read and.nOne en-
10Y. Others I'LL their columns with profound
but uurcadablc sermons and disquisiticns Oh
moot DOiuts If systematic divinity. Others are
full of narrow and bitter EigOtTy, and once IN Il
while some of them treat their opponents III
way that is neither Christian nor charitable.
As an instance OF this, a controversy has been
going on between two religious papers abOut
that nlS1NDlJ Dlulltul hbOhh 40
Rahab the harlot." Ana one of these papers
ediloray uses tbs language Of the other: II
misrcpresents and perverts both the facts and
the teachings OF Scripture and 1t incidentally
shows more sympathy with the prevalent prac-
ticcs of Rahabs day, than with the principles
which Paul and James declared for their day
and for all days" the editors of these papers
are presumably clergymen, aud 1t is as.ound-
ing that one of them could usc such language
concerning brother. The gOdlessless oil the
press is not all found in the secular papers.
The Wdtchnldn speaks hopefully of the mis-
sion work done in the Turkish dOninions by the
American missionaries I" The seven churches
in Asia, renowned by the Apocalypuc letters,
have vanished away; but a radiance goes
forth from the Bible House which visits the cite
of all these churches and kindles a light in all