Holy Sepulchre, by which some interruption was threat ened to the Catholic service by the Greeks, he says "At these words, I dashed down Calvary, forced my wa with some difficulty through the crowd, and penetrated into the Holy Sepulchre, determined to lose my life rathe than suffer a sacrilegious profanation! I found mysel alone: luckily the Turkish guard succeeded in its effort to keep back the most head-strong, and by its energeti resistance afforded time to finish the holy ceremonies," (by the Catholics!) "The sanctuaries were not given up to the Greeks till all the Catholics had retired." Quite heroic for an humble Trappist handling Godfrey's sword and dashing down Calvary to lose his life to defend "four Catholics"" a Polish shoemaker and his wife, another Pole, and your humble servant," against the inconsiderate ness of " ten thousand Greeks, Armenians, Maronites," &c These quotations are introduced here to show in miniature, the actual state of the Christian church in the East. The spirit of the Baron is an epitome of the feelings and intentions of the whole Romish church today. Patient perseverance has turned up a powerful prince, who "for four stones," or for one throne, is willing to" turn Europe and Asia topsy-turvey." Louis Napoleon, the perjured President, to aggrandize himself, has "recommended to the Ottoman ministry" a measure which is in a fair way to do the desired work.

The sympathies of the civilized world are on the side of the Turkish Emperor; and well they may be, for, after all, he is a truer friend to Christianity and to human freedom and improvement than the Pope or the Czar. That his people are far behind the times, all admit, and Islamism may be unfriendly to progress, but is not popery and the Czar equally so? Virtually free toleration has existed in the East for years; at least so far as royal firmans could make it. Protestant missionaries have encountered less hindrances from Mussulmen than from Greeks, Catholics and Maronites. The Armenians are quite liberal, because better informed, and less intriguing. The Sultan has not given, simply because he could not give, to Protestants the privileges enjoyed by other sects. They are so various in opinions and names that they have

no real concentration or government among themselves but he gives them full liberty to build houses, establish schools, preach, and pray, and believe, as they choose. Does the Pope allow that in his dominions? Here is an authentic account recently received from the Papal States:

"The number of arrests at Ancona and Baglona, of persons suspected of having embraced the Protestant faith, is over 400. Ravenna and many other places on the Adriatic are visited by an inquisitorial commission" appointed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, to search out and punish heresy.

"As strange as it may appear to the civilized world, if a person is found praying, without having a rosary in her hand or a crucifix before her, and if she can not prove that she accomplishes regularly her religious duties, (mass, confession, etc.,) she is in a state of suspicion. A man named Thomas Dotari has been arrested upon the accusation of having been seen 'six days successively, reciting his prayers on his knees without making the sign of the cross.' The accused can not be released unless he can prove that he has been recently to confession."5

Nor is the Czar much more tolerant. Peter the Great was at Moscow when the bishops were congregated to elect a patriarch of the Russian church in the place of one recently deceased. Peter entered their council unasked and said: "I am your patriarch; you need choose no other." Since that time the Czar, though the chief of military affairs, has ruled the church. There are two great parties in Russia, the conservative or Muscovite party, seeking the triumph of Pan-slavism, and the party of progress, which accepts light from the West. As a large share of the people are nearly barbarians, the priests all came from the West, from Poland and the borders of Germany, and partook largely of the spirit of intellectual and social progress; and, in preaching, they, of course, exhibited the advantages of education, the comforts and refinements of civilization, and, as far as they dared, the doctrines of equal justice, mercy and love, rising above the accidental distinctions of birth, property, rank, and condition. The people began to have a taste for liberty; the poor serf dared to ask for justice in God's name, and for the sake of Him who who tasted death for every man. The gov ernment became alarmed, and forbade all preaching, 5 Semaine Religieuse.

commanding the priests to confine their labors to the rea ing of the ritual service. Since then little progress h been made in the intellectual and religious culture of t common people.

These are the two powers now leading off in the com motions of the East, each jealous of the other, and bot striving for the ascendency; one openly proclaims a cru sade in the name of God and religion to sustain an protect the Greek Church; the other secretly hoping an diligently laboring to accomplish the triumph of Roma Catholicism, which has long and ardently sought universa dominion, and, since the reactions of 1848, thought much nearer than ever before. One would lengthen th cords of his dominion and spread off a wing southwar over the Levant and the Holy Land; the other would strengthen the stakes of his doubtful empire by making his power felt over Europe, and securing the prayers o the papal church. The former has the greater strength the latter the more cunning; both would like to borrow help by fair promises; but Romanism has more influence than the Czar, of whom all the nations stand in fear, and can make larger bids for allies.

It is a curious sight, one which the world never saw before-Romanism, Protestantism, and Moslemism, in rank and file, on sea and land, warring to the knife against the Christian church of the East! The Millennium of nations would seem to be approaching, were not the characters in the coalition so well understood, and their past actions so distinctly remembered. One can not refrain from thinking that pride and self-interest are at the bottom. No great principle is involved, no everlasting rights are at stake, no serious wrong has been done. Has Nicholas, has Aberdeen, has Louis Napoleon, given to the world a sufficient pretext for their bloody butchery of God's children? One can hardly ascertain that either party has malice prepense in his heart. Neither owns up; but all begin to make excuses beforehand for what they are compelled to do voluntarily! Kings and prelates can do as they please; the people must stand and be shot down at their bidding! It is glorious to die a martyr for religion and monarchy!

Abd-ul-Medjid has shown himself the greater and bet

ter man so far in this whole affair. He has received and treated with courtesy and candor every proposition coming from the rival Christian factions, and accorded privileges to opinions his fathers and his religion pronounced to be infidel; such as neither Greek nor Roman Christians will accord to each other, much less to those who espouse the cause of Islam or of Protestantism. Until his dominion was invaded by a hostile army, he made no serious preparation for war, and then he accepted every proposition for peace, till the combined diplomacy virtually asked a surrender of his sovereignty, when he sent his army forth, like an honest ruler, to defend his empire. Still he assented to the persuasions of Christian advice. Step after step he has suffered himself to be led into the meshes of the diplomatic net cast about him by the intrigues of designing nations, till he finds it difficult to extricate himself, and will find it more so hereafter. The bold demand to expatriate all his Greek subjects, while those who assent to the Catholic domination are to be retained, came from a quarter, and at a time, which indicated the cloven foot of the Papal hierarchy to be treading in its old paths. Should the firman to that effect be every where executed, nine millions, or more than one third of the entire population of Turkey, would be driven out, homeless and penniless, upon the world. Catholics are up to such tricks; it is not the first time they have tried starvation to make proselytes to their church. They know the convincing power of the argument based on the love of life, of homes, and of kindred, and are ever ready to apply it to remove dangerous heresies. Six or eight millions saved by this means from perdition out of the bosom of their old rival, is certainly an object worthy the "nephew of his uncle ;" and in honor of such a glorious act, no doubt Pio Nono will order a Te Deum in St. Peter's, after the fashion of St. Bartholomew's Eve.

The Sultan does not pretend to be governed by the Christian standard of morality, and is not, therefore, responsible for such acts demanded by Christians themselves towards their brother Christians. He has only yielded to the enlightened counsellings of his loving Christian advisers, voluntarily urged upon him—the banishment of subjects born and bred in his dominions, and, politically,

no more rebellious nor half so dangerous as those w make the request. Their removal or farther subjecti will give complete ascendency to Romanism in the Ea and the Pope and Napoleon will be content. It will on remain for them to work their way out of the attenda difficulties with the least delay possible, without enda gering the safety of the advantages gained. Almost a terms with Russia will suit them. But for the dread .Russian influence against their church, and the balan of power they hope to exert, the Sultan would be fors ken of his allies so soon as England had made sure Egypt.

The course pursued by the allies in reference to t attempt of the Greeks of Epirus, Thessaly, Macedon, & to throw off the Turkish yoke and join themselves to the brethren, should not be forgotten here. For attemptin to do what the Greeks of Attica and the Morea did thir years ago, they now crush what they then helped to su tain and defend. Wherefore this inconsistency in t conduct of France and England? Are Greek Christia of the north now less worthy of freedom from oppressio than those of the south were then? Why do those ver conscientious and patriotic and enlightened nations find in the line of duty, as Christians, to send their fleets to t Piræus and their armies to Athens to prevent what the went there before to sustain? For the same reaso doubtless, that Capo d'Istria, a native Greek, was assass nated at Nauplia when President of Greece, and a Rom Catholic prince from Bavaria made king in his stead. H was well known to be opposed to the wiles of the Jesui in his endeavors to restore the Ionian Republic, and f that he lost his life. France would not see the borders Greece extended even with a Catholic king to rule ov it, because the Greek constitution provides that the ne king shall be baptized into the Greek religion. We smi at these petty intrigues of politico-religious diplomac and sometimes doubt whether it can possibly be so. Je uits watch and pray and labor in such intrigues, and n tions are crushed or rise, and thousands bleed, to preve the prevalence of truth and freedom among men. never was a clearer case of Jesuistic intrigue and wicke ness than in the threatening attitude assumed by the alli

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