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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 7

The Suez Canal Company has ereceJ, at its own expense, a large hospital at Ismalia. The charge of the hospital will be entrusted to the bisters ot Charity, and tbe plateau ou which it stands will be n .mcd the Tabie-'and 1 1 St. Vincent. A Home dispatch says the convention with Columbia secures to the Vatican the protection of Catholicity as the State religion, the exemption of iLe clergy from military duty. Tne clergy have tntire contiol of the government schools aud universities. A well intormed cleigyman lias bten wiiting in the CongregationalUt about toe gicit gains ot the Roman Catholic Ctiurch iv Oeimaaj. German r/rote^tan \-m is unablo to hold its own against the old Church with us tirmv of zealous and devoted priests and laymen. Even iv that siroughol t of frotesta iti&m, Halle, Catholicism ia gaining. lma is only auothir instance ahowiug tne wonderful iccii| eiutivii | ower pn.sea-ii-d by the Romau C >tuolic Cturcu, ti-Jatively it is alwayn Htiougir iv a I'rotestmt country than ia a. country vsheie v its biipronie. —A. Y. EcangeliM,