The Messenger, 1903, Vol. 39

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Excerpt from The Messenger, 1903, Vol. 39: Monthly MagazineFrance has been the chief battleground of the Church during the past year. Both on account of the interests involved and the conta gion of religious persecution. For more than a year now the French Republic has employed its time and power in waging war on the Catholic religious orders. The absurdity and bad faith of the origi nal pretext. That there was danger to the republican form of gov ernment from the teaching. Wealth and number of the religious orders, have long since been made evident. The forms and ordinances of law have been arbitrarily thrust aside. To push the work to the end, as the Premier, Combes, expresses his purpose. It has been very clearly shown, especially by M. Frache (see messenger. Sep tember, p. That all the recent anti-catholic legislation of France was traced out beforehand in the Masonic Lodges. One measure has followed another. Growing progressively worse and directly tending to provoke civil war, averted hitherto by Catholic long-suffering and lack of political union. By skilful organization. And by availing themselves of all the anti-catholic in¿uences and all the indifference, in France, by availing themselves. Particularly. Of the vast army of oth cials who depend on the government, the secret societies have suc ceeded in maintaining in pou er the ministries of waldeck-rousseau and of Combes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.