THE KAISER AND THE BISHOP OF METZ.
TO Tin? KDITOH OF THE PRESS. Dear Sir, —Last November dinary speech, alleged to have-been dolivered by : the Kaiser of- Germany to.lhe Catholic Bishop of Metz,' was •f&ajjjod < Jo t> >he^eoioflie J circulatecL ''OTOa3oasr"tiii'odgHl--tlie'.;'!SM}dium of the Press. Amongst'other'.things the German Emperor was reported to have reBuked the Bishop, adding of my Bubjects are Protestant's. I havedone everything in my power to fulfil the desires of my Catholic subjects: without heeding the dissatisfaction of men, of my faith, with the single idea' of enabling all to co-operate in unity arid' personal esteem. See to it that Ido not arrive at the conclusion that my efforts and sacrifices have'been in vain —that the Roman Catholic Church does not desire* peace; but submission. V my attempts at conciliation fail owing to the intolerance and presumptuousness of the Roman Catholjcs, the wind may possibly blow from another * quarter. Serve God to the best'of your knowledge but do not forget that you must also serve your country and your King, and that although your King rules with a gentle hand, that. hand may, in a moment, be turned into a mailed fist." One of the Australian prelates now on his way to New Zealand for tho opbui ing of our Cathedral, the Right Rev.' ■ Bishop Corbett, ; efSalb,. wrote td*mo. yesterday evening. Knowing your unwillingness to disseminate untruth, I am sure.jcpu will be glad to hear frbin a reliable'source the truth, the same known to those who reai| jthe false assertion. Speaking of the scandalous cables his Lordship of Sale ■ says:—• ■ : ■ • "We have it on'most reliable authority that there is not an iota of truth in the report. This authority is the - Bishop of Metz ; who, when •it was brought under his notice, wrote as.,fol-'° lows:—«Metz, November 13thv 1904>All the Catholic papers in: Germany Have aUeadyv protested against the.BOcalled utterances of the Emperor to the Bishop of Metz. Not one iota of tho expressions is true. These perfidious falsehoods show the spirit in which the agitation against the* Catholic Church i» • carried on. (Signed) XW, Bonzlor, Bishop. A German priest; states: —The Bishop was appointed to' Metz by desire of the Emperor himself J tho feeling between the two is of the Best. Tlie Emperor- would not-make a fool of himself; a/fepeechc Everybody in Germany knows" report is untrue. .. Some time ago those, falsehoods were refuted in the GermanPress by the Bishop of Metz and Tho whoje thinj» is a, piire' concoction. Tho Berlin special correspondent of the London "Daily News," who gave wings to the report conld not be ignorant that his story was devoid of trntli. \Vith weapons such as this do - the enemies or the Catholic Church fight against her. The same correspondent of the ' Daily Nows' has written on Catholic matters fii Erance ;with* anignorance that can hardly b#'paralleled.—X J. P. Corbett, Bishop of Sale.'NYours, etc., X J. ,T. GRIMES, Bishop of ChristchilTii. Christchnrch, January 11th; 1905.
THE KAISER AND THE BISHOP OF METZ.
Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12091, 13 January 1905, Page 5
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