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Calvinism, the French form of Protestantism, has the systematic logic characteristic of the French spirit, and that system accounts for its success with other nations. The principal reason for Antiprotestantism is that certain Protestants took part in the war directed by political parties against the Catholic Church. Most clear-sighted Protestantsin France are against this attack, feeling that Anticlericalism under present conditions threatens Christianity and all religion...
...initiative in social affairs, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, comes more often from members of the Roman church than from its head, the Pope. During the reaction which followed the French Revolution all trade guilds and labor organizations were suppressed. The Count de Mun opposed the extinction of such unions and founded "cercles Catholiques" of mechanics and laborers...
...priests and laymen, including M. de Mun, formed a sort of socialist party called the "Democrates chretiens." The bishops and the Holy See feared the outcome of this party's tendencies, and it failed to gain political power because the more radical democrats had a repugnance toward the church...
...principal aim of Leo XIII was to obtain religious peace and convince Europe that there need be no antagonism between the church and modern society. Even in 1843-46, while nuncio in Brussels, he saw that constitutional liberty was not opposed to the rights and interests of the church...
...Floyd W. Tomkins '72, rector of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, will deliver an address on "The Bible in Every-day Life" before the Christian Association in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The address will be a practical talk on the service of the Bible to men, dealing with its helpfulness and strength-giving power...