Show the pope rope and archbishop aski tho the following is a translation from a german vers verc version lon ion of the text of the popes letter to archbishop Led referred to in a recen t telegram tele 0 giam REVEREND BROTHER greeting and apostolic blessing if at any ally time it has been gods pleasure to show to men that the fabric of the church is of divine building and that on that acco attacks directed against it by the powers of hell and the malice of man must be in vain surely it is now reverend or dro oro drother other lher while this truth is forced upon the sight even of those who do not cot wish to see it for ho he has permitted all to conspire for the destruction of the church we see contempt calumny laws and temporal superiority arrayed against z it the effect of resolutions lon ion long iong formed brought to realization by protracted labor and developed by the most exasperated sect which has almost everywhere secured supreme power its professors are designated rebels its bishops aro are condemned balay by lay courts as agitators persecuted with fines deprived of their offices and expelled tile the country the spiritual orders are prohibited the clergy is gagged an and by arbitrary measures prevented from exercising gi ng its office education of tho the youth in tile tilo spirit of the church is forbidden in order that on the one hand the population may not be confirmed in the principles ples plen of religion and that on the other the hope hac may vanish of able and faithful servants of the altar being trained up in order to undermine the glory of god the property dedicated to god is robbed even the chief helmsman of the church is kept in bondage in order that though utterly despoiled lie may not govern tilo the church with freedom according to his powers all this reverend brother in makes kes your heart bleed but it likewise lse ise rends our own for though weare grieved at the heavy portion of woe out specially to you so heavy that by the weight of your persecutions your health lias has been endangered we see on the other hand and nd beyond this the tho evil aprea spreading hanla hauha inc over tile the whole of europe to its full length and bread breadth th and moreover over other continents likewise nevertheless the very magnitude of the evil and the uncommon breadth of its dif dlf diffusion ruslon raise the sure hope that deliverance is close at hadd hard for if god at a former time when he desired to save the world permitted so many devilish perversities that even his own son was not spared wo we have cause to infer that the same god is now by the tire unbridled efforts of hell liell preparing the tile only eventful regeneration and for a triumph of the church at this moment deprived of all idman human assistance and that by the visible manifestation ife of his power ho he will compel even the proudest hearts into obedience furthermore reverend brother you make the tokens of your love the tile dearer to us the more you aro arc afflicted with troi trot troubles 1 b lesy less and magnanimously sacrifice e e everything even life itself to the tile execution of your office and the more resolutely and staunchly you fight for the cil eli church the more does our desire gain in intensity that you may bo be quickly restored to all the more complete health the gifts from your cioce diocesans ians lans which you have forwarded to us have forced us to admire their fervent love but have at the same time occasioned a certain regret because bacso these alms are offered by those who are themselves hemmed in on or all ali 11 sides by a severe tribulation receive therefore the tile lurance assurance of tho the deep gratitude of our heart you as well as your clergy and your people on behalf of whom we pray fervently to god that ile ho may give lve ive them tho the same samo spirit which ho he has given their pastor and like perser verance in the great groat per peril perli in which they find themselves say may jay god sod grant them and you that ailing unanimity which annihilates and exhausts all the power of tho the ho adversaries in order thus to provide a fresh victory for the just cause ause and fresh glory for the church meanwhile as herald of the giace of god and in proof of our particular attachment wo we pronounce upon you and both your archdioceses our apostolic blessing given at rome st Peter peters 9 on the ard of november 1873 tile the twenty eighth of our rel rei rein reign u plus PIUS P P axi |