The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-12-31
stands at the right of the altar in the
cathedral Of Cologne, the capital Of

stands at the right OF the altar IN the
cathedral of Cologne, the capital Of
Rhenish Prussia.
Huguenots, name of uncertain
origin, was applied in the 10th century
by Roman Catholics of France to ad.
herents of the Calvinistic Reformation.
Professionalism in France came not from
Germany. Calvin was born in l5O9 at
Noyon, France, within the present rag
ing battle zone. In southern France,
where the Visigoths settled, there had
long been dissenting elements In the
Gallican church, and sects arose against
Roman Catholic doctrines. In the time
of Calvin many mobiles and people of the
middle class embraced the reform and
defended it in arms, at times securing
royal tolerance, but not permanently:
Hence sword and fagot did their dread
work. which eliminated in the "Mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew. Under
Henry of Navarro the tide of liberation
again set in, and the Edict of Nantes
resulted in peace for twenty years: but,
under the iron heel of Richelieu, the
party lost ground, though freedom Of
conscience and liberty of worship still
held. 1t was in the reign of Louis XIV
that the Edict of Nantes was revoked,
and cruel persecution of the Huguenots
again ragged. Sire" asked an old at
tendant of the King one day on the
palace grounds, ''do you remember
what used to be on that hill?" "a wind
mill. to be sure, but | ordered it cut
down." "And l cut it down, but, Sire,
the wind blows there STILL So the
spirit of the Huguenots, though the
Lords host" were scattered to the AL,
pine mountains, to Holland, England and
America. Hosts of them, fleeing to the
Cevennes, were slaughtered like sheep.
In the Revocation of the Edict France
lost a million of her best blood. Louis
XIV did worse. He ordered the annul-
ment of protestant baptisms and marrl-
ages. This outrage reused Catholic op-
position. At last came the great SOL
der, Napoleon, trampling alike on Papai
supremacy and on the divine right OF
kings. In Republican France today Pro-
testantism rests on secure basis. MOST
women are Catholics, but the men are
termed apostate. Note the new Pope's
late encyclical. Not word about tenn
poral power, or Papal infalibility - a
clear appeal to the warning nations for
Christian ethics.
Through ages of struggle the cherish.
ed dream of the rights of 1.-The citizen"
has come to be reality IN the Republic:
To be sure, it surged to the extreme OF
the Commune as late as the seventies of
the last century, and practiced then some
of the savagries of the Revocation. that
time on Catholics. Our American Minis
ter of State, Mr.. Washburn, Maine
Washburn by birth, with great difficulty
in those trying days in Paris, at length
got a terse note from the Commune,
which read, "Permit Citizen Washburn
to see Prisoner Daboir. He found prls-
oner Daboir in low, dark, damp cell,
sitting beside little wooden table. He
had been a good Catholic Friar through
a long life, spending his time minlsterlng
to the poor and the lowly. He said: "Mr.
Washburn, do not fear death: it is but
a transition. l am praying that this
terrible storm may pass away from my
unhappy country" The next day they
led him out, stood him against the gray
wall, and fired a volley; and he, making
the sign of the cross, fell.
The Republic of France has come to
stay. No military hegemony, proclaim
ing Flaw makeshift, and might the
true rule" will crush her. The intel
lectual, the brilliant, the chivalrous, the
dashing, has learned its terrible lesson:
1t, too, can face the baptism of fire and
death unfinching. In late desperate
encounter, French colonel, hearing
that gutteral Ge:man "Vorwarts, :"
wreathed his arm into that of his near
est captain, and advancing to meet the
enemy's deadly fire, turned and calmly
asked his men, "Mes enfants, etes vous
venant?" Oh, yes, his children were
coming, Gaul, Roman, Goth, Bergundlan,
Frank, all coming. just beyond that
line of gray and that biting storm OF
death were the serene stars of peace for
ever. Vive France! F. F. PHILLIPS.
Cambridge, Dec. IL, 1914.