Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ?3v?=ffTE:--:.r=;.-:. THE CHATEAU OF GERBEVILLER a speech before the French senate in 1903 stated that Catholicism survives in France, if not as a religious law,faithfully observed by everybody, at least as a socialstatute respected by the vast majority. M. Goyan de-clares that the French church is indeed a moral power tobe reckoned with, and when the war-tocsin had rungthroughout the land, when the hour of death had beenwelcomed as an old dear friend, all misunderstandingsof the past melted away, and now for fully twenty-eightmonths the church could a
Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ?3v?=ffTE:--:.r=;.-:. THE CHATEAU OF GERBEVILLER a speech before the French senate in 1903 stated that Catholicism survives in France, if not as a religious law,faithfully observed by everybody, at least as a socialstatute respected by the vast majority. M. Goyan de-clares that the French church is indeed a moral power tobe reckoned with, and when the war-tocsin had rungthroughout the land, when the hour of death had beenwelcomed as an old dear friend, all misunderstandingsof the past melted away, and now for fully twenty-eightmonths the church could again place itself at the disposalof France. With emotion and gratitude he relates the patrioticsacrifices made by the Protestant churches and the syna-gogues of France. Out of four hundred and ninetypastors of the Lutheran and Reformed churches, onehundred and eighty are in the trenches: all students ofthe Paris Rabbinical Seminary and more than three-fifthsof the officiating rabbis of the Republic left for the front;two of them were killed, one was missing.
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