Show GERMAN persecution OF HERETICS an instance of religious intolerance in germany was waa brought braueht to the notice I 1 of the public publio by the prom pre a few uy days ago go when a young protestant theologian was sentenced to aral months imprisonment heo hao auie in a pam pamphlet phlek tie be had bad unmasked we he fraud that Is 1 belog practiced tirO in tion with the arod acred garment at evv Yr Te his do de ip of the business carried on OB in the ot 0 saw WAS wae called blasphemy hence the severe penalty A A eimzar case ib A now BOW mentioned by the berlin berlia pot josf according to that paper it ia the intention of the authorities illes of the ecclesiastical department to prosecute proBe cute the celebrated professor Pro fewer harlack ack because this gentleman iu in lectured leo turea and pamphlets pamp bleta expressed doubts about the correctness of the doctrine of the supernatural conception of the virgin mary as popularly understood der stood professor harnack in ia no radical on an mustang but a well known who is considered among the ablest and most warned learned of the he country what he 41 says saya Is i the of an opinion at which be has boa arrived after years year of research and not eva hj hi adversaries tiare daxe to blo jave for truth but abs tbs coee not pro pre 1 vent rent them from clamors clamoring ng for h hie Is pu pun n ashment as aa a herst heretic fo it 16 to ia hard to understand on this side aide of the atlantic how any government can feel called upon to tj prosecute its ha subjects tor for the mere expression of an opinion on abstract questions and it is harder still to understand how the country of luther and Melan Molan othon can have departed so much from the tb road of those these great of free thought and free speech as to make the exorcise exercise thereof a crime |