tetßspM&£ttCß + ((INCLUSION OF THE REIGN OF • CHARLES V—1550-55. Flion THE HISTORY OF THE REFOR MATION IN THE NETHERLANDS. BT H. S. If the establishment of the inquisition caused tumults and insurrections in countries as abject as Italy and Spain, and even in Home itself, what wonder that the free people of the Low Countries rose against this last and most hateful exhibition of religious Already they had suffered incalculable woes from the virtual establishment of the institution among them. Pour years before, a Yenetian Envoy had put the_ number of victims of Charles’s persecut ing rage, in the northern half of the ter ritory only, at thirty thousand. If, even under some measure of restraint, this inquisition had wrought such bloodshed and misery, what could they expect but utter destruction from its open establish ment and unrestricted operation ? Some of the cities, indeed, not perceiving in the placard of 1550, any substantial change in the policy of the Emperor, and perhaps believing the case already about as bad as possible, made no resist ance, but published the placard as they were bidden. But Antwerp, the most flourishing commercial town in the Netherlands, the New York or Liverpool of that age and country, frightened by the disastrous effect which such an odious policy immediately produced upon its trade and all itß interests, was aroused to a resistance which it never ceased to make. The great merchants packed up their goods and prepared to be gone; all trade was at a stand; there 'wasneither buying nor selling nor corres pondence with other partß, except to inquire for a place of refuge. Kents fell; handicrafts decayed; mechanics and laborers could get'neither work nor pay. The magistrates took sworn testi mony from the principal citizens, and laid the whole matter before the Em peror’s sister Mary, who was acting as Regent of> the provinces, begging her in tercession with her brother. She was a ' woman of great natural kindness, said she took so much interest in the petition of the alarmed people, that she went to Augsburg in Germany, where the Em peror was holding the German a Diet; and represented to him the great damage inflicted by his last placard upon the interests of the country. It is difficult to see that she gained any concession from heir barbarous and tyrannical brother, although he consented to issue a new placard, with a slight modification of the old. This modifier tion consisted in requiring a civil judge from the Emperor’s courts to sit with the inquisitors.and superintend the pro ceedings against any suspected persons. Hut as the judge was to'be selected by inquisitors, and from those of the Emper or’s employment, the difference consisted pretty much in adding another inquisitor to those already on the bench. The placard was particular in repealing, as before, the operation of all. rights and privileges of the'towns which stood in the way of the summary execution of heretics and inspected persons. The burghers of Antwerp were as ill satis fied as before. Not until the Chancellor of Brabant assured them that they should - :< iot be saddled with the Inquisition in any form whatever, did they, consent to the publication of the their cfty; and then they aceomp&nied'itwith a solemn written instrument, in which they declared that, notwithstanding the threatening words at the' close of the placard, they insisted rights and privileges, laws, customs and usages, from whence they would not admit of any derogation. The bloody work of the Ihquisition, however, went on, and so the years rolled by, with their fresh accumulation of victims; until Charles, its author, much admired and praised by historians, and ranked as one of the worlds heroes, but worthy of everlasting infamy as one of the most dangerous enemies that ' ever civil or religious liberty had, re signed his imperial crown and put . the control of the Netherlands and of Spain into the hands of his son Philip. How the great, Emperor, when not much above fifty years old, could be led to resign all the pomp and glory of his position, and pass the remainder of his life as a mere monk, in the quiet and se cluded joutine of a Spanish convent, is a question which has been much debated and variously answered. Some regard the act as a proof of piety, of greatness of soul, of a becoming sense of the ne cessity of preparing -for the eternal world. These persons tell of one of Charles’s old gCnerals, who asked to be dismissed from his position in the army' that he might all active li<e. On being asked the Emperor what induced him to take so strange a resolu tion, he answered, that there ought to intervene some space between the hurry of life and the day of one's* death. This saying seems to have made a deep im-; pression on Charles; as he was often heard to quote it afterward; and some see in his own conduct the proof of a similar regard for the interests of his soul. Others give very different rea sons. The Catholics say that be was uneasy in conscience for various acts of hostility to the Pope, whom he.once took prisoner. But if a disturbed troubled the great Emperor and made 1 his crown a burden and public life intol erable, doubtless his long-arid bitter cru sade against religious and civil' libCrty, his murderous placards againsfrthe Ne therlanders, his persevering efforts to stifle the Reformation in that and other coun tries, and his purpose to set up the bloody Inquisition among them, partially carried out, would amply explain such a re morseful state of mind. To have rest ing upon one’s soul the blood of one person slain under a cruel edict, with no accusation against him but that he sought to follow Christ more closely than the priest, and regarded the word of God of higher authority than the word of man; to know that only one person had been put to death by the most ago nizing torture, although of innocent life and a faithful, loyal subject; to allow one man, in a wide empire, to be de prived of life without any protection from the forms of law, ought to be enough, to burn the awful consciousness of murder into the ruler’s soul. But Charles had upon his soul the guilt of fifty thousand such we might well believe them enough to drive him from a loftier throne to a far deeper voluntary debasement. But we cannot affirm that he abdicat ed under, any such feelings. On the contrary, the scene upon his withdrawal from the government of the Netherlands was like that of an indulgent father when leaving the circle of the family which he had iong sustained and pro tected. He assured the dignitaries of the people assembled in honor of the occasion, that the welfare of his people and the security of the Roman Catholic religion had been the leading objects of his life. He claimed that true affection for his subjects required one unfitted, as he professed to be, by bodily infirmity fbr active duty, to give place to a younger and more vigorous ruler. With deep emotion, he begged pardon for his errors and offences, and assured them that he should unceasingly remember them in his every prayer to that Being, to whom the remainder of his life was to be dedicated. Tears and sobs were heard through every part of the hall. Brave men were melted at the strange spectacle of great ness humbling and renouncing seemingly from generous regard for the good of others. Far distant from this magnificent assembly of courtiers, seemed the thought of the myriads of murdered Protestants, burned, drowned, buried alive and tortured to death in a thou sand nameless ways; far distant the remembrance of the venerable free institu tions of towns and States swept' away like cobwebs; far distant the remem brance of the introduction of the inqui sition, and the publication of placards black with the most tyrannical and cruel purposes,—all, all the work of this prince, whose tender farewell expressions were mingled with the sighs 1 and sobs of his principal subjects. There was no re morse here, where, from strange infatua tion under the spell of power, there seemed no sense of wrong. Could a single phantom have risen from one of the many thousand graves, where human beings had been thrust alive by his de cree, perhaps there might have been an answer to the question propounded by the Emperor amid all that piteous weep ing. Perhaps it might have been told the man who asked his hearers to be forgiven, if he had ever unwittingly of fended them, that there was a world where it was deemed an to tor ture, strangle, burn and drown one's in nocent fellow-creatures. But'now there seemed no sense of such coming justice in any breast. Another proof, if proof were needed, that Charles was not driven into retire ment by remorse, is found in the spirit he manifested in the place of his retreat. There he became a greater bigot and showed amors cruel and unscrupulous temper even than before. It has been recorded to his honor that, having given his word to Luther at the Diet of Worms, he refused to betray him and put him in the hands of the blood-thirsty emissaries of the Pope as they desired, and, as his predecessor Sigismund had done in the case of John Huss, a hundred years be fore. But, now in the convent, Charles uttered bitter regrets • that he had kept tis word with Luther, and had omitted to put to death the man whom he re garded as the cause of all the mischief of the age. He was not satisfied with the rate at which his successor labored in suppressing the Reformation, but thundered fierce instructions from his re treat to the inquisitors to hasten the ex ecution of all heretics, including particu larly his own former" friends. He even sent furious exhortations to his, son Philip—-as if Philip needed a prompter in such a work—that-he should set him self to “cutting out the root of heresy withrigor and rude chastisement: ” Little proof of self-reproach did the author : of such explosions of savage bigotry give,- mingling them with exhibitions of re volting gluttony, with surfeits of sardine omelettes, Estramadura ‘ sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, quince syrups, iced beer* and flagons of Rhenish wine; relieved by copious draughts of rhubarb and senna, to which his horror-stricken physician doomed him, as he ate. Such, says Motley, is the true portrait of the cloistered Charles ; and not that romantic picture of philo sophic retirement, of profound and pious contemplation, oh which former writers lavished their powers of embellishment. And the true cause of Mb retirement is stated by this writer to-be, the failure of many of his great'projects in the latter part of his life, the combination of Turk and Protestant and Catholic that was rising to crush hiinj the rise and progress of the Reformation, in spite'of the defeStS Ke had given it. Disap pointed in his schemes, broken in for tunes, with his income anticipated, es tates mortgaged, all his affairs in confu sion ; failing in mental powers, with a constitution hopelessly shattered, he felt that to remain behind on the stage of action would but expose him to mortifi cation and perhaps uttei overthrow. And so, being warned, as he thought, while lingering at Brussels, by the ap pearance of a comet, he shrunk away to the monastery of St. Juste, on the borders of Placentia, in Spain, where, three years afterward, he died. LETTER FROM “AMBROSE.” STATISTICS OF CHUECH Dear Presbyterian :—We notice va rious paragraphs on their 'rounds in the papers, going to show the great failure of our people to attend chtrch on the Sabbath. The statistics are made in this way : On a given Sabbath, in a city like Chicago, for instance, the occupants of all the churches will be cointed. The city consists, say of 200,000 people. In all the churches together there! are found present, say 40,000 ; and the inference is drawn that all the other 160,000 are not in any sense church-goers, jbut ab solute heathen. Some do not press the inference so far; but lighten the picture with certain ameliorating considerations. And yet, in the way in wiich such statistics are usually given, I have never seen the case properly ’ stated But to guard against misapprehensim, I will say, in advance, that it is ljmentably true that a large population in our land do not hear the Gospel, eitherlas a habit or with any frequency. But do not believe that the worst heathenism is found where it is usually located—in the cities. I believe it to ae, on the other hand, in the rural districts; and often in the older States, instead of the Western destitutions. I had a letter from a rural district in Massachusetts, the other day. The writer remarks: “ I have never seen heathenism, pare and absolute, as here. People Vo not pretend to keep the. Sabbath or to go to church. Nor do they break it for amuse ment ; or-as' if-from-temptfttion It*or|'ißad vertence; but from pure, sordid ca eola tion. They keep on their work jr st as other days.” In the cities, on 1 the other hand,there are so many churches, so convenient, that people, through various motives, do sometimes attend, though, not habitual church-goers. \ But to our statistics.' Counting’the .people in a church, especially in a‘ city, gives you scarcely a proximate bapisof calculation. In the first plaoe, of the families belonging to a congregation, only a. proportion are present on any one day. Some families—commonly a considerable proportion—will 'be wholly absent on the pleasantest day. One is out of town; one has sickness; and an other, some other cause of ■ absence. Then, of the families present; all are not there at once. A fifth or a third of the church-goers will be out Sabbath, to exchange places with others the next occasion. And then; of the whole population, a proportion are small childrenanother, aged or infirm people, not able! to attend worship. So that, from theie causes named, it is doubtful if, in thelbest con gregations, you can count on more than half of your-people being presept on any one Sabbath ; and, taking congregations together, I doubt if more thafi a third. But it,is a great mistake to ijount all .these absentees as non-church-goers. ' -Here in our cities, especially,'there tis a of whom neVer seen much mention made ; but whichjl know, from personal examination, to be. very large. They are not members df« any church, though hundreds, yes, thousands of them, have been such; they are not connected with any congregation. They are not identified anywhere. But they are floaters. Many of them change their residences every quarter; and some of them once a month. But they go to church, nevertheless. They float around the city, some of them visiting every church in it. Many of them.igo even ings, when a shabby dress able; and' they slide in and slidetout un known. I once made it my endeavor for some years to identify and fix these people in church, and, in a few] cases, succeeded. But, as a general j thing, they, do not wish to he identified,., or fixed in a church. Perhaps they.have come to the city to hide. Or, in the city for work or business, they do not care to be known as members of a congregation, from various motives!; some—many —that they are poor, and cannot dress as they think they ought, 'to be recognized as members of society. Or, their homes are... poor, shabby, and out of the way—up stairs, perhaps, or in some alley; and are ill-provided, etc,, etc. Now, to go to a church and' bet recognized, is to go into society, for which they do not feel thtemselves pre pared. It is to bring the minister and the eld!ers, perhaps—if you have-elders will do anything beyond meeting m session and voting—or even the elders’ wives, and perhaps other ladies, into their dirty, ill-provided or unfurnished houses. And that they shrink from. Others are swayed by a different mo tive. If they get recognized as members of a congregation, they will be expected to bear a share of its burdens. Money will be wanted; or duty—-worse yet; and they cannot think of it, By-and-by all these people ’intend to do differently. They wilt be better off, get better houses, better furniture, dress better, or feel able to pay; and having sown, as they tMnk, enough of wild oats, settle down to sober church-goers. And some do reach it. and carry out their intention. But J have driven dozens of such fami^ 3 from my church by simply visiting * lem ■ Yet such people go to church, some tol erably steady, yet taking ca*® not to go too often to one place; some half the time; and some occasionally, from once to twenty times in a year. Of course, such church attendance is but poor stuff often, or commonly. It is mixed with attendance at the theatre, museum, and minstrel and other concerts. It allows a man to do what he likes, without too much observation. He Can be at the saloon and billiard-room as he likes, without question. But such, after all, hear the Gospel. They are not such heathen as they are often taken to be. Perhaps you think I overrate_their num bers. But I count them many more than the regular attendants at the chur ches. If you will canvass carefully the attendants of the churches, you will find from five to a hundred, and even two hundred on extra occasions, of such people. Five persons, in a congrega tion of a hundred or two, are unnoticed. Yet five different persons, for fifty Sab baths each, are two hundred and fifty in a ye'ar; ten each Sabbath, are five hundred; twenty are a thousand; thirty are fifteen hundred, and fifty are twenty five hundred. Of course, these people do not exhaust the city. There are still Germans who are infidels—to say nothing of infidels not Germans; at stables, saloons, beer gardens, etc., etc. ; not forgetting novel readers, sleepers, strollers; and heathen, pure .and simple. The facts modify, but do not obliterate, the statistics. SALARIES, ETC. The newspapers are at their annnal and kindly work of stirring up the churches to the paying of adequate salaries, presents, etc.; all of which is doubtless called for. All I wish to say is, as to one point. I think, were you to collect all the ministers together and get their complaints, while you would find many speaking of inadequate sala ries, you would hear of many more com plaining of ill-paid salaries. A salary to a minister does hot seem to be like an ordinary debt to anybody else. It is paid by many, if and when convenient to themselves, and often not as the wish or intention of the congregation; but simply by the remissness of those, to whom the duty of it is committed. And congregations often show their good will to a minister by giving him presents, while their agents wholly neglect to pay him his salary. I have known very munificent presents to a man, when five hundred dollars of his annual twelve "werein arears. Now, I think that nearly every “ charge” to a congregation, on installing a pastor, ought to enforce the duty of promptly paying Salaries. Yet I have known a Charge to dwell on the giving of presents, and say no word about pay ing ; while the very danger was as to the thing omitted. Yours, LETTERS FROM A COUNTRY PAR SONAGE. 111. In the government of this rebellious world :by the Redeemer, war may be come as appropriate and necessary an agency as peace itself. Violence may prove the only adequate power to over come that which stubbornly resists the truth, urged through reason and persua sives. Bayonets and Minnie bullets are radical- arguments.. So convincing may they become, that thereby the most obstinate problems in human affairs are not only speedily but permanently solved. Many, a tightly-drawn knot, beside .the Gordian, has been severed by the sword. The thunder and the lightning, the hurricane and .storm, become as needful for maintaining an earthly equilibrium as the sunshine, the heat and the rain. Picks, drills, sledge-ham-’ mere,- and even the explosive powder, may be needful agents for removing the hillock or the massive rock from the course where the steam engine is des tined to sport along with a velocity of thirty miles per hour. War, in like manner, is a breaker-up of a highway for the nations. Plainer and mere practical paths for human progress are .opened by the shock of .contending armies. The human race has been wont to breathe easier and make more rapid progress after each great war struggle. Such pre-eminently ‘have been the results which have fol lowed our late grand national convul sions. . For an entire generation, a still in creasing ' number of earnest, honest, eloquent men and women talked, rea soned, pleaded, prayed, printed and preached against human oppression with its cognate'evils; yet, in proud defiance, even in disdain of all this, the evil grew and yearly became more arrogant. Jeshurun-like, it waxed fat and kicked. The great Mart of the nation was averse to war, and beat strongly for peace at almost anyprice. Few expected war, and none on a grand scale; yet did it come, stern, relentless, bloody, and on a scale almost without a parallel. The pltyiks, bars, bolts and screws, which avarice, cruelty, pride and despotism had been fastening down for ages, were not to be torn up without a very con siderable amount of violence. General Grant is reported to have said, and if not, he evidently should have said: “ That the late rebellion ended a year too soon.” The present semi-bel ligerent attitude of the rebels manifests j ioo plainly that theypw ere no: suflicient- I lvbroken and scattenjai- Id jnstice and merer/, a sufficent nujjS.ber of the oppres sors and leaders in ffle revolt were not destroyed in the conpet of arms. Trea son against God ajpd his ordinances seems so interwovefc into the frame work of Southern scSliety as not to be purged out withou| a large flow of blood. Judi adiciai Jindness', ~ty ag those discontented agitators into new acts of treason and violence, when, as a merciful result, the remaining plotters and afeettors thereof will perish in a tur moil of blood. The land would then, and most likely not till then, enjoy her desired and lasting peace. Should a spurious charity and mock philanthropy charge such sentiments as cruel and vindictive, let the caviller con sult the oracles' of God with respect to the manner in whieh Christ is te be “in augurated as Prince of Peace The son of Jesse, in his jubilee hymn of peace, sings with emphatic distinctness, that ere “ The righteous shall flourish, and there be abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth : He, Christ, shall break in pieces the oppressor.” And this, as is His wont, by taking two potsherds, nations, and dashing them violently together, until one or both are broken to pieces. The evangelical prophet also notices the same introductory to a lasting peace. Ere the good time coming, when the “wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, Jesus shall smite the earth' with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.” God is full of compassion and tender mercy, yet just and righteous in all His ways* A. M. 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