Spite of all this awful suffering, heretics and Jews remained antagonistic to the church, and in March, A.D. 1492, the edict of the expulsion of the Jews was signed.  “All unbaptized Jews, of whatever age, sex, or condition, were ordered to leave the realm by the end of the following July.  If they revisited it, they should suffer death.  They might sell their effects, and take the proceeds in merchandise or bills of exchange, but not in gold or silver.  Exiled thus, suddenly from the land of their birth, the land of their ancestors for hundreds of years, they could not in the glutted market that arose sell what they possessed.  Nobody would purchase what could be got for nothing after July.  The Spanish clergy occupied themselves by preaching in the public squares sermons filled with denunciations against their victims, who, when the time for expatriation came, swarmed in the roads, and filled the air with their cries of despair.  Even the Spanish onlookers wept at the scene of agony.  Torquemada, however, enforced the ordinance that no one should afford them any help....  Thousands, especially mothers with nursing children, infants, and old people, died by the way—­many of them in the agonies of thirst” (Ibid, p. 147).  Thus was a peaceable, industrious, thoughtful population, driven out of Spain by the Church.  Nor did her hand stay even here.  Ferdinand, alas! had completed the conquest of the Moors; true, Granada had only yielded under pledge of liberty of worship, but of what value is the pledge of the Christian to the heretic?  The Inquisition harried the land, until, in February 1502, word went out that all unbaptized Moors must leave Spain by the end of April.  “They might sell their property, but not take away any gold or silver; they were forbidden to emigrate to the Mahommedan dominions; the penalty of disobedience was death.  Their condition was thus worse than that of the Jews, who had been permitted to go where they chose” (Ibid, p. 148).  And so the Moors were driven out, and Spain was left to Christianity, to sink down to what she is to-day. 3,000,000 persons are said to have been expelled as Jews, Moors and Moriscoes.  The Moors departed,—­they who had made the name of Spain glorious, and had spread science and thought through Europe from that focus of light,—­they who had welcomed to their cities all who thought, no matter what their creed, and had covered with an equal protection Mahommedan, Christian, and Jew.

Nor let the Protestant Christian imagine that these deeds of blood are Roman, not Christian.  The same crimes attach to every Church, and Rome’s black list is only longer because her power is greater.  Let us glance at Protestant communions.  In Hungary, Giska, the Hussite, massacred and bruised the Beghards.  In Germany, Luther cried, “Why, if men hang the thief upon the gallows, or if they put the rogue to death, why should not we, with all our strength, attack these popes and cardinals, these dregs of the Roman