THE PERSECUTION IN SWITZERLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 106, 8 May 1875, Page 8

THE PERSECUTION IN SWITZERLAND.

Germany is certainly doing all it can to keep ahead, in the race it, is running with Italy and Switzerland, in persecuting the Church. But it looks at present as though Switzerland would come out first. Certainly in the effort to play the part of a " Seducer and of Anti-Christ," the following action taken by the secular authorities of St. Grail, Switzerland, caps the climax of impious assumption of spiritual power : — " Considering that the clergy persist in teaching the doctrine of the Infallibility, the " Catholic" (!) School' Board has decided to entrust the instruction for the approaching first communion to secular teachers. Should the priests of the parish^object to this, and refuse to administer the Sacraments to children thus instructed, the School Board will employ one in their stead." In Germany, the Bureau of Public Instruction, under the decrees of Caesar "Wilhelm is invested with the office of teaching the truths of Divine revelation which Christ committed to His Apostles j the Christian (! !) Government of Switzerland has gone a step farther, and undertake to clothe each School Board of infidels (hypocritically called Catholic) with this Divine authority.

The well-known steamship Great Britain, built in 1843, has no-w completed her 35th voyage to Australia. It is estimated that during that time not less than 30,000 persons have travelled in her.