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Show I THE CHURCH IN FRANCE. ! The French chamber has been dis-j dis-j cussing the separation bill ever since ' the reopening after the Easter holidays. I and remarkably little progress has. been I made with it. The battle is chiefly raging rag-ing round -articles 4 and 6, which deal with the devolution of church property proper-ty and the guarantees necessary to ensure en-sure that that property " shall not fall a into the-hands of unauthorized parties, j The socialists are making a stiff fight to leave such loopholes as may permit ! of the church beipg tricked out of her property, but it i hardly likely that j they will succeed to the extent they de-I de-I sire. Meanwhile Catholics are not the I only ones vho dread and oppose the government measure. The general con-! con-! sistory of the Lutheran churches of the i Confession of Augsburg in France, at j their annual congress last week, passed a strongly-worded resolution expressing dissatisfaction at the government bill, and praying for the continuance of the status quo. which, on the whole, has been found to work well and to offer serious guarantees of security and liberty. lib-erty. Pittsburgfbserver. |