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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... Protestant theological literature of Europe. The article on public instruction in the United States, by J. Meyer, presents a very large number of statistical facts, chiefly derived from Hippeau's VInstruction Puhlique aux Etats Unies, and finds many things in the American school sj'stem to admire, and a few to regret. The statement of the general features of our school system are, on the whole, correct, though in the details there are some amusing blunders; thus we read (p. 427) that Ilaward (the author always writes this way) College owes its origin to the liberality of Ezra Cornell. Art. VIII.--FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. OLD CATHOLICS. The old Catholic Church has now completed its organization in Switzerland as fully as in Germany. The Federal Council having sanctioned the establishment of a Christian Catholic Bishopric for Switzerland, (the Swiss having adopted this name in preference to Old Catholic,) the National Synod of the Church convened at Olten, in the Canton of Solothurn, and elected Dr. Edward Herzog, pastor of the congregation of Berne and Professor of Catholic Theology at the university of the same city, as first bishop. Dr. Herzog at first declined the offered dignity, but finally yielded to the urgent and unanimous entreaties of the Synod, lie is only thirty-four years of age, ami regarded as a man of great scholarship as well as executive ability, and it is hoped that he will succeed in infusing new life into the movement, and in settling the differences which have manifested themselves in Geneva, and greatly injured the progress of the cause. Father Hyacinths, who had withdrawn in disgust from the movement in Geneva, which he reproved as being political rather than religious, has offered his services to the bishop elect. From the s...
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