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Show A QUESTION OF MORALS. (Rev. Dr. Lambert, in the Freeman's (Journal.) In hi3 article in the Independent on the religious problem in the Philippines, Dr. Schurman says; "it would be highly impolitic to send missionaries of different differ-ent denominations to confuse the minds of the (Philippine) people. I do hope that when we send missionaries we will decide on some form of Protestant Christianity. Send onlv one type of missionaries. The Filipinos will then have Catholic Christianity and Protestant Protest-ant Christianity presented to them, so they can take their choice." Perhaps the most striking thing about this proposal is that it is made without any apparent sense of sliame. It is a deliberate proposal to deceive and mislead the Filipinos, made in utter ut-ter disregard of the principles of moral integrity by one who peses as a teacher of a higher morality than that taught by the Catholic Church. Besides the moral obliquity it evidences, evi-dences, the proposal is absurd. The Methodkds or Presbyterians, for instance, in-stance, who profess belief in the divinity divin-ity of Christ, could not consent to the sending of the Unitarian type of missionary, mis-sionary, who denies the divinity of Christ. Nor would the Unitarians agree that the Methodist or Presbyterian type should be sent as the exclusive representatives repre-sentatives of Protestahtism to the Filipinos. Fili-pinos. The Baptists would object to all of these, as none of them insists on immersion. im-mersion. If it were Dr. Schurman's purpose to give the Filipinos a correct idea of Protestantism, Pro-testantism, he should advise representatives represent-atives of every sect to be sent. Only in this way can the Filipinos get a correct idea of Protestantism. Of course it would shock them and determine them to have none of it; but it is necessary, if you would give them a proper and true data for a comparison between Catholicity and Protestantism. Dr. Schurman's plan is immoral, because by its very nature it must deceive and mislead the Filipinos. It would represent repre-sent to them that Protestantism is a united body believing the same doctrines, doc-trines, whereas it is the very opposite of this. Dr. Schurman would begin the enlightening of Filipinos by deceiv ing and misleading them as to a very important fact. This is why we have said above that the strangest thing in his proposal is that it is made without any apparent sense of shame, or without with-out anything to indicate that he had the most remote suspicion that there was anything in it to be ashamed of. ; '.'Hundred Oaks," the family seat of the late Governor Marks of Tennessee, has been acquired by the Paulist Fathers Fath-ers of New York, who in the spring will establish there a missionary house. "Hundred Oaks" is situated near the southern boundary line of " Tennessee, and is in the summer resort region of that state. "It is plain," said one of the Fathers, "that the South must take a leading economical place in the America of the twentieth century, and it will maintain its intellectual and social so-cial prestige. No part of the country is more seriously interested in religious problems. Realizing this, Bishop Byrne of Nashville asked for the new mission mis-sion and we have promptly responded to his request." . New Haven, Conn., Feb. 24. Edward Downes, of this city, who was Consul to Amsterdam during the second administration ad-ministration of President Cleveland, I will be ordained into the priesthood of the Catholic Church at Rome on Sunday, Sun-day, June 10. Mr. Downes, like his brother Alfred, who is private secretary to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City, is a native of this city.. He is about 33 years old, and was at one time City Clerk. During the Presidential Presiden-tial campaign which resulted in Cleveland's Cleve-land's second election, Mr. Downes stumped New Jersey for the Democratic Demo-cratic party, and soon after was ap- ' pointed Consul. While In Amsterdam I he announced to his friends that it was his intention to become a priest, and at the expiration of his duties in office he went to Rome, where his time has since been devoted to study. Bishop j Tierney,' of this diocese, has accepted Mr. Downes. He will come here immediately imme-diately after being ordained, and will receive a parish. There was an impressive scene in St. Peter's recently, when tne Pope gave his blessing to 15,000 Italian pilgrims, who filled the vast Basilica. The appearance ap-pearance of Pope Leo, borne on a j sedia gestatoria, evoked tremendous i outbursts of enthusiasm. The air re-! re-! sounded with "vivas." After praying ( at the high altar, the Pope, carried in St. Peter's chair, listened to the sing-' sing-' ing of anthems, in which the congrega- tion joined. The Pontiff was then 1 borne through the midst of the crowd and pronounced the benediction. 5- The youngest officer, in point of army seniority, to be ordered to the front, is j Second Lieutenant Charles J. Vaughan, 1 who is a nephew of the Cardinal, and has been commissioned in the Seventh Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant Vaughan is Captain in the Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia, a regiment in which his father is Colonel, as also was his , grandfather, who, as a volunteer, served his country with distinction in the Crimea at the time of national distress. |