Church and State in Hungary.
The long tense relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the state in Hungary has become open warfare. The Vatican has told the bishops to look after their clergy, and keep them at high standard; the teachers of religion in the colleges are to especially train the young in the doctrines of the Catholic Church; teachers of secular branches must teach in the same spirit; the bishops are to insist upon having the selection of text-books even for secular branches of study; and to use all their power to gain control of the University of Pesth, and to make it a Catholic institution. Upon this program the Frankfurt Zeitung, "an exceptionally well-informed journal," says the Literary Digest, remarks:— "Strictly to carry out the injunctions of this decree would divide Hungary into two camps engaged in a life-and-death struggle with each other, namely, a Catholic-Rumanian party and a Hungarian-Protestant party. Every single item in the decree is fraught with danger to the state and to Protestantism in Hungary." The struggle is on, as it is in all countries, but Rome will win—for a little while—and then—God and right and liberty will triumph. So we read his prophets.