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of words between the respective priests.
No doubt both parties traversed the En-
ence. and respectively advanced and repu-
dated the bull Unigenitus, when mad
been the instrument of Suppressing the
French Jansenists in the former century.
Napoleon, for the moment, seems TO
have felt himself in his own element, and to
have enjoyed the strife, albeit it was of
into the arena, and willingly 1--WE read,
took a share in this dispute. But he
speedily assumed his judicial attitude, and,
dismissing this subordinate question,
summed up the Roman Catholic position
in the following terms: That the Roman
Catholics must understand that the power
OF the Pope, to which they appeal, Is not
greater than that of other bishops; that
1t is. confined to spiritual matters, and has
nothing to do with worldly affairs; that
the appointing of bishops belongs TO him,
the Emperor; that, therefore when he the
Emperor, sends a pastoral instruction they
must submit to this power. as regards
bishop Roman Catholics and old Roman
Catholics stood silenced. If not convinced.
1T was now the turn of the. Protest
ants. and their speaker, a French pastor,
made respectful, if not flattering, adj
dress which appeared to crafty the En-
peror. His reply is remarkable as throw
ing light on his own religious feelings; he
appears at this stage to have spoken very
seriously, and from his heart. After prais-
ing the Protestants as his best subjects.
he declared that If the Romish churches
Of his empire had not entered into his
views he would have embraced the faith of
the Professionals; that he now professed the
faith of the RomiSh church, but, attentive
TO the precepts of the gospel among the
Protestants, he placed in the foreground
the moral doctrine, do to others what
you would wish others to do to you,' and
he concluded by declaring that the Prot
estant party, which he found acting In op-
position to this principle, and waging an
displeasure and lose its privileges
The LutheranS now stepped forward,
and the Emperor informed himself regard
ing the points Of difference between them
and the other reformed bodies. This as
pect of Professionalism seems to have pre-
sented itself to his mind as fact not TO
be got over, for he dealt with Lutheranism
otherwise than he had done with Jansen
ism. The existence of Lutheranism re-
called to his mind the Jansenist question,
and he again urged the consolidation of
the latter with the Roman Catholic Church.
But in what regards the Protestants,' he
observed, 1T is now long time since they
have gained their cause, and they them
selves make their own religious societies;
the various sects in which they are sub
divided I shall leave to themselves. Their
difference has to do with opinions upon
deep subjects which the human under
standing cannot fathom. opinions which 1t
is thus not proper TO force upon each
other There is a pensive air about this
speech. 1t was succeeded by a flash.
Have you, Also, he said to the Protest
ants, "a zeal TO make proselytes" No,
SIRE answered their spokesman, this
has never been our spirit The rejoinder
of Napoleon has a true ring in it, and the
dignity that belongs to piety and convic-
ton. 1t is unfit he Immediately re-
marked, that child adhere to the relig-
ion of his parents; and he who abandons
it inconsiderately is. in my. opinion, no
honorable man. \ return of the British
congregations was then made. Did they
belong inquired the Emperor to the
Church of England, and We're they thus
erly there had been such church here,
but that those in question were Presby-
terians. There was no one to inform him
that the English Episcopalian Church, to
the building of which Queen Anne and
Marlborough hundred years before had
largely contributed, had been despoiled by
receptacle for prisoners of war. was at
that time an artillery magazine. CTwo
years later the Russians completed the
dissertation by turning it into a stable.)
1T would almost seem from his last re-
corded utterance on this occasion that the
chord of good feeling which had somehow
Napoleon returned from the sincerity and
plain speech, to which for few moments
he had abandoned himself. to the ironical
and self-repressive tone of Gallo. The
Jews lastly We're presented to him. Did
they carefully and punctually observe the
law of Moses III regard to usury? he in
Quired, and appeared to be satisfied with
their prompt affirmative reply.
-" In this manner, and with other dis
course of less importance, we passed three
quarters of an hour with the. Emperor
and then that singular church congress
was dissolved. 1t must be confessed that
the report concludes with a certain little
ness unworthy of the occasion and the
man. Upon a sign given by him We along
with all the other clergy, left the hall of
audience highly pleased with the honor he
had conferred upon us and the affability
with which we had been received and
listened to by his Imperial Majesty
But perhaps it needed the hues of dis
lance and the knowledge of his whole ca
reer to feel the pathos. of this exhibition of
the movings of a mighty mind in worlds
which he had not given himself the leisure
nor the freedom from ambition to realize,
which yet he touched with power,
Nor appeard
Less than Archangel ruind, and tn excess
OF glory obscurd.''