The Vienna correspondent of the Morning Post gives an interesting
account of a Conference of the Roman Catholics of Bohemia held at Leitmeritz to protest against the "Los von Rom" movement. The Conference was supported by large numbers of the Bohemian nobility, and the Emperor s daughter and the future Emperor's mother sent telegrams expressing sympathy. The proceedings, we are told, began with divine service, at which Prior Schachleiter preached against Protestantism. Protestants,' he said, desired to drag down the nation to their own level of religions bank- ruptcy. Protestants were heathens and enemies of the Christian religion. Roman Catholics should avoid all inter- course with Protestants, and guard their children from con- tamination with the unbelievers. Only by strong measures could they combat the " Los von Rom " movement.' Those who think that two wrongs can make a right if only they are both sufficiently wrong may consider this proof of Roman Catholic intolerance as an argument for keeping
denunciations of the King's Declaration. To us it seems but another reason for the necessity of showing how entirely different is the spirit of true Protestantism. As we have said before, its essential spirit is that of toleration... up the
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