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The " Old Catholics , " with Dr . Dollinger ' s reluctant acquiescence , have resolved to supply their congregations , everywhere , with priests and services , and to demand for them Jegal recognition , and their

proportion of Church property and of ecclesiastical edifices . They will transfer priests from place to place , if necessary , and will invest in the congregation , lay as well as clerical , the general government . This

is , to ' all intents and purposes , a new Establishment . The " ' Old Catholics" have ceased to be a portion of the Roman Catholic Church ; they have become a new religious denomination . In Munich and

other Bavarian cities large congregations of the new Church-have been constituted , and it appears likely that within a few months every important town of the German empire will have its own congregation . And the

government of Bavaria is supporting the Council and the new churches , which have also the sympathy of a large portion of the Roman Catholics in Germany . This new Reformation , as it promises to be , which , as

in Luther s time , conies forth out of the Church itself , was anticipated by many bishops of the Church , as the result of such pretensions being put forth by the Papacy as those which obtained the vote of the socalled GEcumenical Council . The

Archbishop of OtiTiutz declared that "he trembled because he foresaw that the faithful would not only have to endure an intolerable scandal in the imposition of the novel dogma , but also because the Church would

be exposed to the most imminent shipwreck . " Another prelate told the Council that "the dogma would be rejected by most people as an unheard-of novelty ; that henceforth the doctrines of the Church

would be assailed as changed and falsified ; and that the authority of the Pope and the Council would perish together . " Another declared , before heaven and the assembled fathers , that " with fear he felt that the

mystical Body of Christ would be rent asunder by the promulgation of such a dogma ; that , if it were passed , peace and charity in the Church of the faithful would henceforth be continually disturbed ; that

the ingenuous love which the whole Catholic world then bore to the Holy See of Rome would be everywhere weakened , or , rather , smothered , and that even the Council itself would be subject to the pain and suspension

of having been assembled merely for the securing of temporal ends . " Lastly , the Bishop of Mayence , Dr . Kettler , who was a moderate Ultramontane , prophecied that if

the doctrine passed the Council , the certain outcome would be . that " it would cause schism within the Church , and , outside of it , the bitter and irreconcilable hatred of all non-Catholics . "

ihus has "vaulting ambition o ' er-lcapt itself , and fallen on t ' other side . " The Papacy had already lost the temporal States , of which it had from time to time taken possession , and called its " Patrimony . "

and indispensable to the exercise of its spiritual rule ; and , now , from the depths of what Pio Nono calls his " Vatican prison . " in which , as it has been said , he has his choice of as many gilded and . sumi ) '

dungeons as there arc days in the year , he hurls anathemas against the members of his Church , who , foreseeing the calamities which must necessarily follow from the maintenance of the monstrous pretensions

put forth under the sanction of a Council , falsely called ( Ecumenical , refuse to accept them , and protest against their sacrilegious character . The Germans , our Saxon kinsmen , have again the distinction of awakening the church and the nations to a sense of

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the dangers by which they were menaced , and of bringing to the light of day the ambitious designs and crooked devices of

the Papacy , whiclvstul cherishes the notion it has for so many centuries clung to , of finally establishing an universal spiritual and temporal despotism .

I am not apprehensive that any of my Roman Catholic brothers will take offence

at the freedom with which I have treated the ambitious policy and corrupt practices of the Papacy , and of the approving tone in which I have spoken of the hostility exhibited towards it by the Saxons of Germany

and England . I offer no judgment here on the purely religious doctrines of the Church of Rome . I speak only of the abuses grafted upon it ; of the secular power arrogated by the Papacy , and of the way in

which it wielded its authority to enslave the minds and the bodies of men , making them passive instruments of its ambitious designs , which embraced nothing less than universal dominion . There are

comparatively few Roman Catholics in the present day who approve of those gigantic abuses which were begotten by the exercise of an ecclesiastical power which has for centuries struggled to hold the human intellect in a

state of bondage , and to reduce all virtue and religion to a superstitious reliance on , and passive obedience to , clerical power . The great majority of Roman Catholics , in these times , no more approve of the

political machinations , nor submit their understandings to the condemnatory fulminations of the Papacy of the middle ages , than they do to the anathemas it now pronounces against Freemasons and Freemasonry .

1 hey regard them , alike , as an unauthorised and reprehensible exercise of spiritual tyrrany . Whatever they mav think of the

Reformation in Germany , England , and other countries inhabited by the Saxon race ; whether they be satisfied or dissatisfied with the circumstances attendim / its

advent , the means employed for its establishment , or the religious changes effected by it ; they will not deny that it operated a change in the intellectual and moral character of Europe , transforming it from a

condition of darkness , mental slavery , and debasing superstition into one of intellectual activity and moral hcalthfulncss , the benefits of which are spreading themselves throughout tiie world .

Israelitish Origin Of The Anglo-Saxon Race.

ISRAELITISH ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE .

A . prolonged absence from home , and other causes , have prevented me from soener reverting to the above subject , and also from noticing the observations of Bro . Carpenter on my former article . In the latter I find a very stupid

blunder occurring m the paragraph commencing at line 25 from the bottom of column 3 page 664 , as follows " Nothing is more natural than that both Israelites and Assyrians should be involved in one common ruin " czc . It should

have been Israelites and Pheniciaus . The conclusion of the paragraph , which says that " numbers of the former . should escape ' in the ships of the latter , " is by the correction rendered intelligible , which it was not before . I am glad

to see that Bro . Carpenter has not been misled by the blunder , and it is gratifying to me to find that he and I differ only in degree on the subject under discussion , and that the points nf difference are only such as would incite a thoughtful

reader to examine more deeply into the subject ; this no doubt being the object that Bro . Carpenter mainly has in view . I must still , however , be permitted to say ( the texts quoted by Bro . ; Carpenttr not n-i ^ landing ) that i adhere to the opinion that tac cntirv nation of Israel

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was not earned away by Shalmanezer ; and I must take exception to Bro . Carpenter ' s attempt , to explain away the number of men engaged and prisoners taken in the war between Ahaz and Pekah king of Israel . It may reasonably be

admitted that we are not always to take the numbers mentioned in Scripture as literally correct ; sometimes they are manifestly erroneous , and absurd ; but I see no reason to doubt the substantial correctness of the numbers given in the Scripture narrative in reference to the war

between Ahaz and Pekah . As a proof that the numbers mentioned in reference to this event ¦ are not greatly exaggerated it may be stated , that about fifty years previous to this time Amaziah , king of Judah , hired 100 , 000 men of Israel to assist him against the Edomites , and therefore there was no lack of inhabitants in the

land of Israel . Bro . Carpenter appears to me to rely too much on the literal correctness of some texts , while he throws some doubt on others and utterly ignores many which do not exactly bear out his conclusions . In reference to the great

Passover celebrated by Josiah more than 100 years after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel ( an account of which is given in 2 Chron . chap . 35 . ) , it is distinctly stated that Judah and Israel were present . By this I do not mean to assume that more than a " remnant" of Israel

attended the feast . It is sufficient for me to show that such a number of Israelites were present as to warrant the sacred historian in noticing the fact . It may be urged perhaps that these Israelites were residing in the cities

of Judah , but in 2 Kings chap . 23 we have an account of Josiah ' s visit to Bethel and other cities of Samaria , where he broke down and burned •the high places and zealously endeavoured to root out idolatry from Israel as

well as from Judah . Now \ f all the children of Israel had been carried away , so that none were left ( as has been erroneously supposed ) and if in Jnsiah ' s time the inhabitants of Samaria were all Chaldeans , Babylonians , Assyrians , Medes

and other strangers , it will be obvious that Josiah would have had neither reason or inclination to interfere with them any more than he would with the Pheniciaus , Edomites , Moabites or Philistines . I must therefore ( with all respect

for Bro . Carpenter ) adhere to the opinion , that what the Assyrians did was to destroy Israel as a nation and kingdom , and that they carried away " the llower of the people , ' and sent in their place a miscellaneous lot of strangers , who

probably intermarried with those Israelites who remained , and thus formed a mixed people whom the Jews would not recognise as true Israelites . Before this happened there is no doubt that many Israelites escaped into ludah ,

others to Egypt ; a large number also doubtless escaped with the Pheniciaus to the island of Cyprus ( from which we learn they were subsequently driven by the Assyrians ) and to the Phenician colonies of North Africa and

Spain . Some centuries later we know that the Phcnicians were driven by the Romans from Africa and Spain and probably they ultimately settled in the British Islands and Ireland , as mentioned in my last article . It may be asked

why should these people go to so remote a place as Great Britain ? I have already shown that they were driven out of their own country westward by the Assyrians , and subsequently still further west by the Romans , who , after the fall of

Carthage , overran Spain and Gaul , no restingplace was therefore left for them but the distant islands of Great Britain and Ireland , which were then scarcely known to and certainly unvisited by the Romans . We must also remember that

the Pheniciaus were not only acquainted with the British Isles , but that for hundreds of years they had traded there regularly for tin , and must therefore have founded colonies at least on the coasts of Cornwall and Devonshire . What is therefore more probable than that this

maritime nation ( including many from the neighbouring tribes of Aslier , Ephr . tim , Dan and other coast tribes of Israel ) should endeavour to escape the ravages and oppressions of the . Assj-rians by emigrating to these distant foreign lands where many of their countrymen were