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Show MORAL OF LISBON TRAGEDY. Referring to the recent appalling crime in Lisbon, Lis-bon, Father Bernard Vaughn, in a sermon in his Church in London, took occasion to point the moral of the tragedy in connection with the question of education, lie said no thoughtful man. with his hand upon the pulse of Europe could be surprised by any crime, no matter how diabolical it might be. Those who had followed the course of events in Portugal knew that King Carlos, by the exceptional excep-tional and fearless policy which he had adopted in order to redeem his country from corruption and bribery, was exposing his own life to the knife of the assassin, .or to the bomb of the revolutionist. Xo one would have believed until it had actually happened hap-pened that in the twentieth century, in the very center of civilization, there could be murderers to slay the whole of a royal family driving through their capital in the light of day. It was by a miracle mira-cle that the Queen and Prince Emmanuel has escaped a horrible death. The assassination that had put Europe into mourning (Father Vaughn continued) was an object ob-ject lesson from which they ought to learn that tho weapon of knowledge, without the directing force of religion, was an instrument of destruction in the hands of any people. They had heard a good deal lately of the charms of science when divorced from religion, but science that was divorced from religion was only too often allied to assassination at home as well as abroad. The deadly deeds with which they were becoming daily more and more familiar were the work of those who boasted that it was their mission to show to the world what a purely secular education could do in the case of humanity. human-ity. The lesson was a ghastly one, and he hoped it would bear fruit in legislation. New York Freeman's Free-man's Journal. |