A Jesuit Priest in Aberdeen.
The Jesuit priest, “Father” Vaughan, recently preached in Aberdeen. From the accounts of the press evidently Aberdeen is not proof against notoriety. About 2500 were present in the Cathedral—of these only 1000 were Roman Catholics. Hundreds were turned away disappointed. The good people of Aberdeen are evidently anxious to play with the trinkets of Rome, and to listen to the teaching of one who belongs to a Society whose sins are ten thousand times worse than the sins of society—bad and wicked enough though these be. The priest expatiated on his favourite theme of the sins of society—he has a splendid field for cultivation in the sins of his own Society.
The Riots in Spain.
There can be little doubt that the recent riots in Spain are decidedly anti-clerical. These have attracted world-wide notice through the Spanish Government’s action of confirming the sentence of court-martial to shoot Ferrer. It is to be carefully observed, however, that the Spanish anti-clerical movement seems to be more atheistic than religious. At least Ferrer’s death has aroused an immense amount of indignation among the leaders of Socialism.
Peace with Rome.
“Make peace if you will with Popery, receive it into your senate, shrine it in your chambers, plant it in your hearts, but be certain that as there is a Heaven above you, and a God over you, that Popery thus honoured is the very Popery loathed and degraded by the holiest of your fathers, and the same in haughtiness, and the same in intolerance, which lorded over kings, crushed human liberty, and slew saints of God.”