The age-herald., 1901-03-24

is being flercely debated by friends and opponents of the enterprise. Pastor Schneider, author of many able works on Palestine, has written an article In which he says by way of concluston
 'The experiences of the Jewish colon ists, as also of the Christian Templars, who have been established in Palestine for half century and more, go to show that even agricultural colonies in that country can count only on meager re- turns. even If system and industry pre- vail in the management. The coTonist in Palestine can never become rich man. At most, he can gain by hard industry a fair living"
 In discussing schneller's views Profess sor Delitzch an eminent Jewish writer expresses his full agreement, but adds that 1t Is probably a blessing in disguise that Palestine is not a promising land for the colonists. otherwise it would at tract the fortune-seeker from all direc- tlons while now 1t appeals only to those strong in religious sentiment and aiming to realize high ideals and for this very | reason may be reserved for the Jewish resettlement sooner or later.
 At the next General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal church the ques- | ton of divorce will be pressed for final | action. Among other questions that Will | have the attention of the body is that or | ritualism or a return to Catholic usage
 The ritualistc party in the United States | is making some headway but the moder- ate ehurchmen continue strongly In the | lead and no formal concessions VIII De made to the ritualists.
 In the Church of England the Catholic
 party is highly organized and, led by
 Lord Halifax, Is growing steadily The | word 'mass' may not soon reappear In | hn hut in Anglican
 churches the full ceremonial of the mass l Is seen. It Is said that in London alone
 no less than fifty churches belonging to
 the Church of England have mass reg
 ulary. At the Church of St. Matthew. | Westminster a "solemn requiem mass | for Queen Victoria was sung, which the | Living Church describes in detail.
 Ferdinand Brunetiere Frances most
 eminent man of letters, who recently | withdrew from the ranks of the agnos-
 tics and joined the Catholic charch. has
 proved to be a most forceful acquisition
 to the "household of faith" A Protest
 ant editor says: Not sinca the conVer-
 sion of Newman has the Roryan Catholic
 church made so important ap individual | conquest as in the case of Brunetiere. | The event Is a sensation among literary
 folk all over the continent. for aside | from his position as a sort of literary dic- | tator of France, he Is an acknowledged master of French prose and the ablest critic since Taine'
 Another non-Catholic editor in discuss l ing Brunetiere says:
 l His declaration that he has come to | believe. and believes as profoundly as | the humblest neophyte. has caused as much curiosity. if not controversy. in continental Europe as Newmans conver- sion a half a century ago. He took the occasion of the annual congress of Cath olics at I.ille in the North of France. to make his public confession in an address entitled The Actual Reasons for Believ- ing The text makes a pamphlet not quite so ample as Newman's 'Apologia pro sua Vita but it is marked by almost as much philosophic profundity, and, if anything, by clearer reasoning"