Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-20
Anti Christianity In Paris.


A London correspondent, writing TO
the New York Sun, says: 1t is rather
remarkable that the funeral services of
the unfortunate project, 81. Barreme,
should have been permitted to take
place in the cathedral of Evreux, for
the zeal of the actual authorities in
France against Christianity often vents
itself after the grave. Only the other
day, while was in Paris u foreign lady
resident there had some experience of
this in connection with q benevolent
effort which she made to secure Chris.
tian burial for the remains of a poor
girl, an English maid servant, who
died at the Hospital Laeunee, one of
the laicizad hospitals of Paris. As she
was the only person who knew or cared
about the dead girl, the aris dc deces
was sent TO her. That the girl was a
Catholic she knew. and she according
ly, though herself u Protestant, drove
at once to the hospital to ascertain
what should be done in order to have
the girl buried with the rites of the
church.
There she was informed that the
bodies Of the unclaimed dead are in
yariably sent at nee to tho amphi-
theater, where, unless they are re-
CURED for dissection, they are sewod
up in canvas bags and tossed. uncof-
E-n1 .tt, Al a.,n,,t,Np yt,hl,n ,It HA
rescue the object of her womanly ten
derness from this fate, she was direct
ed to drive to the marie OF tho arron-
basement, where the officials kindly
permitted her to pay for o grave Tor
the girl and for q coffin, and, after in
curing whether the funeral was to DO q
civil or religious one, gave her the ad-
dress of the nearest Catholic church.
She found the church, saw the priest,
made all necessary arrangements with
him, paid for the mass to be performed,
and then, returning to the hospital, she
was told that the bo0y would be ready
for removal at - certain hour the next
morning. The religious ceremony was
thereupon fixed for q quarter OF an
hour later.
At the time appointed next day my
informant drove to the church OF 81.
Francis Xavier. She found the priest
prepared, and there with him and a
few casual attendants awaited the
body. Half an hour having passed she
became uneasy, and drOye to b hos
pital, there to be informed very cody
that las madame had not been present
when the bodies we're taken out OF the
amphitheatre, the body she expected
had been taken to the cemetery, and
there Inferred" When she remon-
strated against this proceeding the
f%iuctionary in charge calmly said that
.'no mention could be made or account
taken Of religious ceremonies in
churches by the administration of the
hospitals" and to this the marie, N
whose Office, remember. all the ar
rangements had been made and the
money paid for the intermcnt. quietly
added that ''he was strictly forbidden
to give any orders respecting services
in churches
No word of all this had been said to
the lady who was taking all this pains
for the peace of the soul of a poor and
~friendless girl while she was making
her arrangements. She was deliberate
ly defrauded Of her pious purpose to
swell the local propaganda OF pagan
ism b. adding another to the list OF
''civil buriais'' recorded ms expressing
the anti Christian sentiment OF eman-
cipated Paris and the progress OF free
thought.
Prof. G. A. Donaldson, of Louisville,