The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-09

and the woman's Board and their as
sociations suggested by such notable
names as Gulick, Damon, Bishop and
Emerson.
MISS GRAYDON'S PAPER.
Mrs. Andrews then announced the
"event of the day" and introduced
Miss Graydon, who read with dramatic
power forceful paper on the decline OF
Catholicism and the rise of Protestant
ism in France.
Miss Graydon started her essay by
reverting to the thirteenth century
when the greatest and youngest of the
Popes, Innocent, so named by the car
dnals for his blameless life, held sway
over France. striking Photograph of
the man was given by the reader. In
|, nocent, a man apart from human fail
ings and equally apart from human
. sympathy, whose moderation of the
church's enemies was ruthless as it was
dspassionate, whose unrelenting search
for papal power and whose calm and
evenly balanced judgment, casting
aside all merely human sympathy; act
ed as a blightng frost upon the lands
he governed as the Head of the Church
, of Rome The unfitness of man for
divine power was exemplified in his
life.
Federation under Innocent was yet
. unbreathed, unthought of. Auricular
confession, recognized as mighty weap-
|, on by the far-seeing Innocent, was now
made obligatory. The church ruled SUI
preme and peoples, kings and nations
raised up or brushed aside by the i'm
|, mutable will of Innocent, stainless alike
of passion, remorse or pity. However
the Spirit of Inquiry was astir and
the wide difference between the denv-
ing lives of the early apostles and the
pomp, pride and wealth of the church
not unnoted.
Down by the shores of the Mediter-
ranean, between the Pyrenees and the
Rhone. in the land of Languedoc, where
the Roman influence fingered longest
and the Jews refinement with the
Moor's artistic impulse yet held sway,
in the land of the troubadour, the Coun-
try of Romance, reigned an atmosphere
where religious liberation lived I'M
checked and license was allowed. There
the translated Scriptures We're read and
their readers soon protested against the
Pope and the priesty prerogative of
coming between man and his God. The
unbrided lives of the priests themselves
famed this unrest until the flame was
perceived at Rome. Soon unrest hover
ed over Languedoc, persons prominent
for the broadness of their religious
4 views or their condemnation of the
priests, disappeared or We're imprison-
ed. Arms We're taken up against the
See of Rome and then came retaliation.
A NEW CRUSADE.
The Pope proclaimed a new Crusade.
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/, crusaders against these apostates but
the lands captured were to be distribut-
ed to those taking part in the holy war.
Here was an easier way of gaining
heaven and avoiding eternal punish
ment than the long voyage to Acre.
and war against the savage infidel
France lay ready to the sword and
spoliation invited massacre. So the first
Inter-Christian war between those
equally acknowledging the Son of God
as their Savior commenced. For for
ty years the red harvest was reaped,
for sixty more intermittent persecution
went on until at the end of a century,
the gallant, romantic race was obliter
ated.
Two hundred years later the Church
was again aroused by the preaching of
Luther and of Calvin but despite the
inquisition and the terrors of persecu-
ton, Professionalism grew until the fatal
dawn of St Bartholomew.
In 1872 when Charles the Ninth reign
ed came the accomplishment of the
Church's wish. Professionalism was
massacred. Ten thousand dead lay in
the streets of Paris and with the flying
remnant of the Huguenots, departed the
flower of the land
Then came the deluge. One hundred
years ago Benjamin Franklin, standing
amid group of prominent Frenchmen.
said, IT have not yet seen an Atheist"
"All here are Atheists" was the reply.
Atheism reigned. The Age of Reason
was at hand. Religion was dead in
France For the next hundred years
France. engaged in a century of bloody
wars, was alternately the terror, adj
miration and the pity of the world.
Napoleon is said to have attempted to
, revive religious impulse as did Louis
the Eighteenth but the people had too
long listened to the preaching that ex-
pressed the thing they said in their
hearts. "There Is no God" The country
indeed revived but the moral growth
was not equal to the material renais-
sance. The Spirit of Independence, the
Spirit of Indifference ruled France.
Paris. the most beautiful city in the
world. abandoned herself to a frenzy
of pleasure. until the Age OF Reason
eliminated in 1871 with the Communists
when blood once more flowed on Paris
pavements.
PRoTEsTANTIsM'S BIRTH.
In that year. in those troublous times,
visiting English clergyman and his
wife endeavored to instil the peaceful
tenets of Professionalism into the hearts
of these Communists. The work of the
Mccall mission was undenominational
and It was also effective.
In France in 1885 there were ten
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