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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 429, 1 July 1881, Page 16

The Fambalapitiya correspondent of the Ceylon Catholic Messenger, writing on the 19th of February, says : " A young girl here was, for a long time, suffering from the attack of an evil spirit, and on the 16th instant, Father Balangero was called, and while sprinkling holy water, the evil spirit cried out with a loud voice ' I am going,' and left her. The whole household and some of the i neighbours will boar witness to this fact." In reprinting the item, the Indo-European Correspondence adds : '• Cases of possession by evil spirits occur frequently in India, and we have heard so from several missioners of experience. Our impression is that the devil has the world so much under his sway just now, that he is quite at home ; and he comes in and goes out with so much undisputed right of way, that his doings are not so much observed as they would be were the door either slammed in his face to keep him out, or a process of eviction begun to get him out." The Western Watchman says : " The new Protestant Bible has the ' Our Father 'as Catholics have it ; the ending, ' for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, amen,' is expunged. According to the scholars, Protestants have been saying the Lord's Prayer wrong for three hundred years." Nathaniel Deering, the last survivor »f the Harvard class of 1810, is dead. It is told of him that when "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was being played in a theatre which he owned at Portland, and the poor black woman was being sold by auction to the villain Legree for 5000d015., he leaned out of his box and excitedly cried, " I'll give 6000dols." One of the most distinguished prelates .it the Court of Ecmf>, Mgr. Vincent Nuni, Canon of St. Peter, and Prothonotary-Apostolic, has been designed by the Chapter of the Vatican Basilica to proceed to Barcelona and crown the images of our Lady of Monserratt. The Bishop of Barcelona, in accord with other pi elates of Spain, has petitioned the Holy Father to proclaim our Lady of Menserratt the patroness o£ Spain.