The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-22
THE MILLS OF THE GODS.

''We have given King Manuel, his mother, ex-
Queen A1neie, his grandmotha~, Maria PA and the
Infante Alfonso. and their beg and baggage, no
ticc to get out and stay on said DR.. Alfonso
Costa one of the leaders of the new Portuguese
republic Just one hundred and sov4nty years ago
lest September, Joseph King of Portugal, ancestor
of the deposed and expelled young Dom Manuel,
who on October 3, 1910 sought refuge in Gibraltar,
ruthlessy drove out the Jesuits from Portugal and
the Portuguese colonies, where, in Brazil partlcu
larly, they had wrought miracles IN converting and
civilizing the savage tribes
Read this extract from "Warderings in South.
America in 1912, by Charles Waterton. ESQ., and
nyte now unerringy and mysterioGsY the law of
rerr:bution accomplishes It's revenge
."One morning all of the fathers OF the college
in Pernambuco (BraziD, some of them very old
and feeble were suddenly ordered into the refec-
tory. They had notice beforehand of the fatal
storm, in pity from the governor but not one of
them abandoned his charge They had done their
duty and had nothing to fear. As soon as they
reached the infmary they all locked up there,
and never more did they see their friends, their
scholars, their acquaintance. In the dead of the
following night a strong guard of soldiers drove
them through the streets to the waters edge They
were then put board ship which steered for
Bahia. Those who survived the barbarous treat
ment they received from King Joseph's creatures
were at last ordered to Lisbon. Their college at
Pernambuco plundered and some time after
elephant kept there Thus the arbitrary
hand of power, in night, smote and swept away
the sciences; to which succeeded the low, vulgar
buffoonery of Snowman and his elephant Virgil
and Cicero made way for a wild beast from An
COLA! and now guard is duty at the very door
of the college where, in times past the poor were
daily fed. When [ visited the parishes where those
learned fathers once fourished and saw with my
own eyes the evils their expulsion have caused;
when [ hear the people telling how good, how
learned, how charitable the fathers were, [ cannot
forbear expressing the fear that great blundar
was committed by Pombal, the Kings Minister"
Reading this extract from Waterron, one is ~
minded of the twentieth chapter Of Exodus, where
God delivers his commands to His chosen people
and them that He is "a mighty and jealous
God. visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon ne
children unto the third and fourth generation
The Braganza dynasty may end with the young
Dom Manuel, but whether it does or not, the
Church of God is under no obligation to it, John
VI Dom Pedro ", Pedro V. Dom Carlos |. the
Fa!saf among the crowned heads of Europe. vho
was foUlly done to death two years and half ago.
gave the Roman Pontiffs many a heartache We
remember Dom Carlos I. well. On June % 1901
lie walked in religious procession from the Church
Of the ''Matriz," Ponta Delgada, the Azorean isl
and of San Michel, to ashrine where the Benedic-
ton of the Blessed Sacrament was given by Padre
first cousin, if we DO Nc, err, OF Rer-
nadine Machado, now Minister of Foreign Affairs,
under the republic.
He a voluptuous appearing man, podgy,
short of stature, overfed and overturned. He was
in his time, cheek by jowl with noble and aristo-
cratic "toughs' and with men of advanced views,
with free-thinkers and scoffers. He was thirty
second degree Mason, and joined the religious pro-
cession for effect, as the Azoreans of San Michel
we're said to be devout Catholics He the father
IF Dom Manuel, just driven out, was murdered by
men, who, like himself, laughed at religion The
royal successors of Joseph I, who in 1859 perse-
:uted and drove out the Jesuit Fathers from his
have been forced to swallow the I'M
oalatable medicine their heartless predecessor adj
to the religious orders
Well it's long lane that has no turning and
though the mills of the gods grind slowly, yet
hey grind to finest dust"