The Roman Catholic Christians to the south-west of us are having no little trouble this week. This is one of long standing. Some eight or ten years ago, one of the RE. converts made "over to the church somelandon which a temple was still standing. The giver claimed that the land was his to do with as he pleased, and it pleased him at that time to give it to the RE. churel: for the purpose of building a chapel. Thereupon the priests took possession of the land, the temple was torn down, and a R.C. chapel was erected, or at least partially built. This proceeding aroused the other families in the village, and the chapel was demolished, the villagers in turn attempting to erect a temple on the spot. Out of these opposing interests arose a law-suit which though invariably decided in favour of the R.C. Christians, has borne not! but,
arose against the Christians we are unable to bitter trait. How many times the villagers say, but some two or three years ago, matters had got to such a stage that the native Christians could not sow with any expectation of reaping, and a persecution was carried on against them well-nigh unendurable. Then came an outbreak such as I have mentioned, followed by an assembly of all the county officials within reach to consult with the French priests, and the decision reached that the Iand should belong to the R. C. party. Before narrating the recent disturbances, we need to glance at the view held by the copie. Their claim was that both the
ancestors had contributed to building the village for temple purposes; that as their ind and the temple had been given, the
it was the property of all and not of one' individual. Hence as the village had never ceded the property, it still belonged to the village.
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