The Christian Work tells us that contrary to the law of Portugal, and thirty years freedom, the head of the criminal police in Lisbon has summoned the Protestant pastors before him, ordered them to close their churches and discontinue their services, has on refusal compelled this by the police, closing the Scotch Presbyterian, the Y. M. C. A. rooms, the Protestant Episcopal church, even arresting the rector of the Methodist church. “All these things “caused an enormous amount of feeling, not only “because they were outrages, but because they were “in direct violation of the law, which expressly grants “religious freedom to every one. Appeals were “made to higher authorities, but nothing came of “them. Finally the civil governor stepped in and “brought to an end the officiousness of the police.” Just what we might expect. All this is bad, very bad; but the Christian Work’s way of settling it does not help it any. That paper says: “It seems about time to call that miniature kingdom of Portugal to account; and the call should be sounded from Washington.” In the first place the Lord has not made the United States the corrector of the “corrector of heretics.” In the second place, such a demand would come with ill grace from a country where men have for years in different sections been arrested, fined, and imprisoned for keeping the day observed by Jesus Christ our Lord. If the United States will take care to preserve religious freedom in her own territory, she will help all other nations as she can in no other way.