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The foPowing Lecture was prepared 'uy his Lordship the Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Ncwfo'indland, at the rc(iucst of the Irish Voluafcc-« of Charlottetown, and was delivered fur their benefit rt the Cathedral of the latter City on Thurs- day evening, the IGth August, ISGC, i'l the presence of the .Uight ilev. l)r, Mclrityre, Bis'iop of Charlo'/elOTU, the li'ght llev. Dr. llogcrs, Bishop of Chatham, Miramichi, both of whom were consecrated Bishops on the preceding day. IJis Grace the Archbishop of Halifax, his Lordship the Right Kev. Dr. 3IcKinnon, Bishop of Vrichat, his Lordship the lliglit llev. Dr. y wocney. Bishop of St. Jolin, New Brunswick, tiiid his Lordship the B:ght Kov. Dr. Daltor,, Bishop of llaibour Grace, together with a n'lmerous body of the Clergy of this Island and of the adjoining Provinces, also graced the ocouLion by tlieir presence. The Lecture having created much interest, partly on account of the groat popularity of its distinguished author, and partly owing to the desire generally felt to obtain a knowledge of the auaiis of Italy as tho seat of Catholicity, the Publisher of i'ni: Ei:.\MiNi;u— in which paper the Lecture fir^t appeared —has, in compliance nith lii3 :olicitation> f many person?, thought [>roper to nn .c the Lecture more generally known, as it can be, in its present lorm. Tho large amount ct in- iurmation which it coi^tains, and the lucid and elegant niann'^r in which it i^ conveyed, rcnJcr this Lecture a valuable prn- dcetion; and tho Publi.-her lias no doubt that it will com- mand a very extensive circulation. lie has only to say, in conclusion, tl-.at it is published with tho entire apprcval of his LorJ>liip the Bi.-hop of St. John's. Charlottetown, October, lb<'0. ■■ EOME, PAST AND PRESENT. Ladils and Gentlemkn ; The subject on which I am about to address you is one at all time's most iutercsling, but at present, I may say, all absorbing. It is " Home, past and present," and especially in coanection with the Papal power. I regret, indeed, that I had not more timo to prepare a lecture on this important subject, as it was only on Monday evening the gentlemen called on me and suggested the subject I am obliged, there- fore, to depend entirely on memory and on personal obser- vation. 1 can, however, promise that I will state no fact of which I am ujt perlectly sure, and that the observations I will make on placet", men and tilings, are the result of close, and I hope, impanial observation, carried en through a period of over ol years, whin I first visited the Eternal City — resided there ior some time, and hubscqucntly visited it again six time.-;, generally remniuing there for several months. The dreams of my boyhood were realized by the sight of the im- perishable monuments of ancient pagan Home, and by the glorious edifices and institutions of the Christian Capital of the woild; and I can a.-^suro you, in all sincerity, that age bus brought no disencliantinent. Home, the city of the soul, is a place of which no one can tire. Home! who does not feel his heart throb at the very name of the Eternal City — tlio mother of nrts, arms and civilization — the mistress of nations. From her all the nations of Europe and America have received their religion, for even the great nations who have rebelled against her authority have been and arc still her children, though they may have for a time turned against their mother, and have outraged her, which she, however, forgives with all a mother's love ; for the ungrateful conduct of the child never can destroy in the breast of the mother that un- dying love which is stronger than death itself. From Rome all modern nations have learned their civilization. Municipal institutions, laws regulating life, property and personal honor, arc all in a great measure derived from Roman Institutions. The people of the <:reater portion of Europe, of -.11 North America, still speak the language of Rome, though corrupted by the intermixture of the Northern dialects ; for the Roman I ^' J iauguagos, Italian, Spanish, rurtagaoo, and (m en i'V-jmn, bro but cff^^hoots of the rrrcat Latiu tonjrue. like the vi'un.' shools v.-hich sprout up fruui tlie rools of a great tree afti° the trunk h cut dowa ; nnl oven our ,j',Tn Teutonic ion-'-w that copicu.i and nervous langua^ro, tlw p]D:dish, is alr^^ady Lai. Pioriian or Latiu, and is daily, by assilnl'miop (o th,; cultivated languages, bccomin^v niore ?!o. MoJerii .rarfaro, though carried on with different instrnments of destruction, •ind with modern EcientiS;! appliances, instill but an improve- mcut on that system by wliich tsio iloman l.'giors conqucrea Lie v.orld. Our marriage and funeral coremonios are Koman. Tho very measuieinent of tirao, months and days, is almoFi altogether Ilom.in in fact and nomcneiaturc. (Jr.r public fejiirals are but the contiuuatiou of the liomnn f-.' feet from tho Capitol. Komu- Jus; who appears to have been a sort of iiiibu ter cr General Walker in his d;»y, seized on the Capitoline hill, and estab- Jisued there the city wo know as Uo.nic, wliich soon absorwd its more ancient sis:cr into its ample circuit. From tho day the first rude ensign of llomulus was planted on the Capitol- inc mount, it novor cca'oi to adv.mco until tho whole civilized world wa.s subject to it.s sway, and t:c world bccaaie the 0}-f,is Uomaims. For over 4UU ytara was the Infant ropubi:c— for it soon ceased to ! a kingdom — struggling with the peoples who surrouadoc! it, before it bmst tlirou;^h the narrow encioauro [TJ 01 I:;i!v, li'.A nbscibed tlio WOl .1. w;,a( wn^ 'U'J.* the s: - and vrcNt. secret of tluir success, uirl \vhii:h v/o, tlio founders of greu*. uutions that vrill Inha'dr, tliose luoviii'X^ 1,'jreaft. r, ?hoiil ! !oav!'. ? — Self reliance and Por^overfiucc. 'J li^ir c!'/ii\"oter has bncn 'j:.'\uti fully described by (he puct — '■ Tt' uc 'd'c maUs sed conira audacms If.o" v.hich I may iranilutc m our tra^^s- allaniiu* vorii.i<".dnr — " Doiri be cast di -.vii by any diflkr.lf. s. rut a'v.'.iy^ .) ahead." AVlien tho I'unio enemy was cn- cam[v<'. i;if ido tlio walls, the very gi'ouiid o^;cupicd^y their tents w 1- "^'d. lor the linperi:d people h id such self rcli.iuco, ; in (heir own cuergio.H, that they knew tiiat • -..ouij ncvor permani;i.t!y occupy lb' ii- honica. M" the Imperial eagles of Keino, nortli, south. ca?t The cffeiiiinatc but civilized cities of A:?ia fell one ttfter anollicr, until the fVomiersi of tbe cnipiro ro;ifhed tht? dcscit-: 3f XAii\ and the Nile, and t!io Euphrates, and the Jordan bccaiao ilonian rivers. All alot; c the AiVican ^■horc9 of the Modit.rrancan — on past the p'-.Uars of licroulja to tlie borders of tne riaharu, Qiillioi,^ hi lloaiaa citizens dwelt in splendid c''ie? — some of thcni, iiko Carthage, almost rivals of Koine horse: I — cities which jiroducod St. Cvnrian and St. Au^u?tiue — a region formerly tl'.o seat of over G(JO JJidiopri -ks, and tliea through horesy nnd dissension?, and the coijqucst of MahonuneJan barbariai;.", reduced alincht to a deceit. Now, thank God, the light of faith is dawni) g over that darkened region again. Franco has one j more raised the chair of a Bi'hop ou the ruins of the See of .':^t, Augustine — Julia t.'c-sarea, uow called Algiers, is once nioro a living Liocese of tho Oatbolio Church; and O'Donne'.l, the dcf^cendant (..f our old Miles-ian K-ngs, has, at the head of bis bravo aririy. planted the cross on the towers of Tctuan, and c?tabli.shed freedom for the Catholic Church auiongit tho Mograbbin Arabs, tho most ignorant and fanatical of tho foUowcis of i\Iabom- 1. Thu.T the renovator of llcman and Christian civilization in the ancient province of Africa, Tingitana, is one of our own old Celtic race and blood. Norttiwuvd 'ho trontier^ arc extended among the rugged inhabitant:; of Germany, Batftvia and Hungary. Tho undisciplined valour of thcs'-i o'iildren of the forest cannot re^ii't the •advance of tho Roman legions, and the Uhine and tho Danube are stud- ded with ilotuan citici;-. Westward the uaglo takc:^ liis flight, and fi'um Cape rinistcrre oi' the Land's End, in Spain, looks over the great Atlantic, not knowing that there [8] I*' was the great western woiM beyond, awaitinj; the time when God would send Columbus, under tho banner of the Ulessed Virgin, to open thia magnificent hemisphetc to the descen- dants of Japbcth, Westward again the cau'le flics liil it reaches the western shores of Britain, and louks over to the green isle be>-ond— Terra llibernia, our own beloved Ireland. By the njyaterious providence of (Jod, here the Imperial eagle paused in his flight— he nevir alighted on the shores of IrelanJ.,. For his own wise purposes, the Almighty wishcJ to keep the Irish people apart ironi lloman civilization, and, at the same time, from llomau i.'olatry and vice— a virgin people, declined, in a lew eontiuies alterwanl^-', to become The apostles of Christianity and civilization to the energetic but barbarous vation^ who subvoited the Roman power, and, af'er conquering the Koman arms, yielded to the Ujnian taith. The position of Home, in the ancient worM, was peculiarly adapted ;is l!ie centre of univcr.-al empire. All the great events of the ancient world— wore, I may ay, grotiped round that great central lake, the MeJiicrrancan. The ancient seat of civilization, the Kast, ,-ent, fortii its colonies all abng its shore.-. There Homer sung and Virgil poured out his melodious strain.^— there, in Judea, ;he,irrea°t mystery of man's redemption was accouplished. Italy'thcn occupy- ing the centre of this great basin, and Home the cei.tro of Italy, It was exacMy placed where it ought to be lor a con- quering people, destined to luiM up an empire like that of Never before, and in all probability never again, will thcro be seen on the earth anytliin^^' like the Roman empire, of which the cty of llome was the centre and the head. Tho whole civilized wcrM was subject to the Roman Kmneror. One thousan-i|ed that he would erect a I'antlioun, not on eaitb like the idolatrous one, but in th olouds of heaven, as befitted the Catholic fiiilh ; ami he realized tl.f .'-u!,lime eoiieeption in the ilome of St. P'^ter's. In different parts of the City, overtopping the other bui!ding-i, were creeti;d the (^ireuse-^, where man was liulehcred 1 y his follow mar. ibr the aiuu-ement of tlie popuhiee ; and where, soon alter, the greatest cdiliee o\' I'-e aneiont world was to be built lor the same ](Urpose, Imt to become ulso the glorious arena where the Chri'^tian m.iriyrs expired in tor- m<.nts before an infuriated po[ulace, wlio r<\garded tliem 08 the enemies of the hitman race. Th(5 stupendous ruins of this amphitheatre— .-till the CoUisscum— .-^tand the gratnlcpt moniimeot of Imperial Home; but llu blood-stained arena H now decorate 1 with the station.-' of the Cro ■ , and is tri- umphant ovor the rains of Uoman power. H'hile Home is thus at the summit of it.^ grandeur— the most wonler[ul creation of hum ui power, energy, inti-lli- geuco and wickedness that the world ever .-aw ur ever will Bee— llio great JJabylon, as St. John calls it -an humble wny-woru traveller — one of the thousands who every day If [10] pasa in anJ out of the City — enters by one of the gates. He is unnoticed by the millions who throng the streets and public places. We may suppose that the sentinels on the gates did not notice the humble Syrian emigrai t, who came, like thousands of others who sought their bread by labour in the City. He passed oc, as we may supoose some poor emigrant in our own days lands in some of the great seaports of the western continent — unnoticed, or pitied, or, perhaps, despised by the people he meets. Ah, little did they think that that poor S>rian emigrant— the fisherman from (Jalilce— was the Vicegerant of God on earth ! Little did the Pagan Piiests imagine, as windii):» along in gorgeous procession through the Via Sacra, about to sacrifice to thoir gods in seme of the numerous temples which adorned the Forum, th-it that poor man bore the death warrant of all their pomp, of all their power — that their reign froin that day was past! Little, above all, did the haughty Senators and Magistrates — Kurroundcd by their lictors, who wou.d have struck to the earth the poor Syrian strartger if ho impeded tlic march of thfir patrons for ft moment — imagine that he was the only Hiwiour, the only leiiovator of Home — that all the pomp and power of the Imperial City would, in a few centuries, pass away, and its very existence depended on the selection made by that stranger of the City as his residence ' Liitle did the enthusiastic llomm citizen — when pointin;^ out to some provincial iiiond the magniliceuce of the loinplos and palaces — the golden roof of the Capitoline temple an 1 the golden house of the L'lvsars — imagine that all these would be crumb- led into ruins by the barbarians ; and that tiie top-l) of the poor Syrian, tlieri crossing their j).ith, wouM surpass in graiidourall ihut the world tversaw butbie, and put to shame the givatrst of their temples! Wonderful are the wayH of •jud ! All this we havt) seen acooniplished ! The Syrian fi-hernian was St. Tete.-, the tir.-t I'ope. His tomb is S». I'cter's Church — the greatest edifice ever erected by human hands ; and for filtecr; centuries his successors have been the sovereigns, the fathers, the preservers of the Croat Im- perial City, which, but for them, would bo like IJabylou or Nincveli — a great heap of ruins, and merely a :ianio in his- tory. Truly the finger of (Jod is here ; and if there was no other proof of the divinity ; f tlio t'liurch than the i'apacy, I firmly believe that no disintore-ted man, who «woulil arguo fairly and logically, could refu>e to believe it. We have now, Ijadies and Centleiuen, seen the Papacy If giammm ["1 established in Rome, but it is still like the acorn briicd in the ground before the snows ot winter, apparently lost for- ever, but destined to sprout out in the Spring, become a spreading oak, and for ages bo the monarch of the foresi, de- fying the storna. While all forms of error are not only tolerated but encouraged, and temples erected to the idols of every nation, truth is persecuted. The few Christians — persecuted and calumniated as adorers of a man with an ass's head and devourers of children — rally round their leader. St. Peter, and hear with joy that be, the founder of the Church, has finally left Antioch, and chosen their City as the scat of the Primacy of Christianity, in a litllo time their meetings are found out. St. Paul is already in prison, and about to sanctify the Imperial City by his blood. lie dies the honorable death of a Roman citizen, by the sword; but St. Peter, the Syrian fisherman or peasant, is not en- titled to such an honour. No — for him is reserved the dis- graceful and cruel death of a slave, such as was inflicted on liiis Master, who, though 'Jod, took on himself for our re- demption the form ot a slave. He i", therefore, crucified. Rut such is the humility of the first Pope, that he accounts himself unworthy to suffer as his Divine Master did ; and ho is, tliercfbro, nailed on the cross with his head towards the ground. " Now at least,"' said the Pagans, " wo have put an cml to the Nnzarcan superstition. ^Vc have caught their head, and we served him jn-t as our Governor Pontius Pilate served his Master. We gave him the death of a slave. Ila was but an ignorant, poor, Syrian pcasai.t, and of course that sect of fiintifiea will now give us no more trouble." Little did tl.L'y know that the we;ikneps of Goi' is stronger than Ihestrongtli of man ! Linos steps upon the bloodythrono of the Api'stles, while another tyrant puts him to death. Clotus succeds him and is executed. Clement follows ; and thus for tin CO centuries, one Pope alter another, \ itti,as far as I can re- collect, one or two cxcci.t.jns, ill died the bloody death of martyrs; and still the Popedom is not extinguished. No — tlu,ie throe hundred years of persecution only strengthen tho Papacy. Tbe root is deep in tlic earth in tho Cutacorabs, ami every time you cut oft tbe shoots that appear abo?e tho ground you only strongihcn it. Paring the greater part of this time there is no Church visible above ground. Extending under, but in general out- side Rume, for miles and miles in every direttion, and pas- sagos cut la tho tufii rook of which tho soil is formed — a {' [12] reck 01 a t'olt description, very similar, cxcvi.t lu colour, for It IS (hrk- g.-ey. to that soft red sundjloue i have soon hero m yuur own Lland. These p.issaccs which aro called Cata- eomls appear to liavo Leon origii);dly excavated to procure thu tufp., wiucii, wIuMi pjurxled and mix d with lime, forms t].o cc'lobratud Komaii ccmont. These passages >.-orc onlar'-ed. and t;.kcn posso-.-^ion of, by tiie Chri.-tians. Tliey aro° so tt.rtuouA, and extc;,u so lar under ground— in one case, it is .said, twenty milc=, that no on- could vouturo into them with- out a guide; and it would t;ike half a liib-tim.. to hecomo a;;quuntcd with all (heir intricacies. Here and there larger reee-&c3 are excavated, cupalde of cont;iining twenty oi' thirty persons, and one of tliem served :..s Calheiral to the Pop^. ^heio ycuyet seo the i.itar, and the leniainii of the rud=i fresco painting, lor even in these caverns iho Christians as l.T as they could, adorned the Iluuse of God. jjerc, in Icar and in (rcml.iiug, the divine sacridee was ollercd up— thi' Pucied hymns, ginothercd in iho bowels of the earth, wci' not heard by the blaspheming Pagan overhead, though they pen 'traled to (ho throne of (Jed ; tind when IVequentiy they were interrupte.i by tiie trjmp of tiie soldiers, led, perhaps by sonio la!.e broiiier,. the terriaeu (lock would disperse iheniselvcs through the orookd passages among tiie tombs cf th,: martyrs, and t' j Pontiff would'bc drairg-l houi his humble throne be'oro the iMagislrale, theio to' proless Iv.a iaith and seal it with hio blood. ^ llow ir.any hours have i spent in my youthful day.*! in tt;^' Catacomb ol 8'. t:^eb;;.->tain, nu.-'.ng anicng the iuiliow niches, and the sojulchies of the martyrs, or iti the humble recess Whieli served as a Cathedral, and coaiparing that with tb<' Jou:o of Sf. Pcter':^ and th.' splendours oi' 'the Vatican! I merely speak of the impression thoso scenes made on my . wn muid. i cannot answer for otters; but on me they alwuvs had the eillv^ of exciting th.; most; lively emotions of Iaith, and a mo^t a.-dent d. -ire— would to Cod that the inipres.sioii were perniaiicnt !— of l.tbourin^ until doalh lor tho giory of that Church wiii^e ImmMe child i was. 'i'iie-o days p.i; -cd away. Constantino invokes Christ ; and the Itotnan Lmperor, from Ining the por.>-ccutor, becomes till' protector of the V'liurch. The I'opc.s now lorsaku tho Ctttaconi!,s, and are enthroned in tho JiUterau pa'aeo; tho ashes of tho ApostL:H arc enshrined in the Vatican; and if appeals that Peter and C';osar cainjot dwell together in tho suiue City. Couftlantiuo i'orsukcs ilume, und trauilers tLo • » [13 1 seat of empire to thtf shores of tbe Boiphorus, to BjMn- tium, now called Coostantiuople. Tbe Popes remain as the guardians of Rome. They do no* follow the Emperors. They watch by tbe tombs of the Apostles. The vices of ages have now undermined the colos-al empire. The huge statue of iron has feet of clay ; the blo<)d of the saints is to be avenged ; and God calls from the forests of tbe North the mi- nisters ot his vengeance. Thus, then, the Popes lecomo the fathers of their people. The Byzinfine Emperoirs forsake the Romans in their distress. St. Lou goes forth to meet Attilla, and divinely protected by St. Peter and St. Paul, disaims the vengeance of the barbarian con(iueror, and saves Jlorae. The gratitude of the Uuman [.eoplc soon made their father their sovereign. Tlie iiomhards attacked the Holy City, ar.d the Popes sumriK.ued the Franks to their aid, and rewarded their fidelity to the Holy See by oouferring the Imperial down of tbe Western Empire on the great Charlewagae. Al! filon-T, flurina the dark period of who.t ara called the Iron Age^ a>-d the .Middle Age.-*, the Popes faithfully dis- '.'uargeJ, amid.'^t maay, and, to all appearance, insuperable difficulties, Ihi- duly of falheis, of civilizers, of protectors of ^. ; anu people. Yuu always find the Popes on the side of J. cr - .0 I'lH side of liberty — on the wde of the weak people wfi«a taey require to b« protected from the tyranny or" their wicked sovereigns. When many times their wicked princes broke through every clause of thoii coronation oatb — abused the power thoy received from Go ncro is Pius IX.. who, if pcrmittca by the inliaei B dr fs h p rdoned to pr'oceeS with the necessary re- i- nn'r^ould hive rendered'the Papal . States as perfect m (Jovernment us anything human can be. Terhaps it would not be out of the way, as a prefuce to thoditui^itionon theform of Government, to say something •U.ou- tho Saverei-rn himself. Born in his own States, some Ity odd y rs.go.of the noble house of Mastai. the present Vol received, ot" course, the best education that Italy.could f r^l In his youth he wished to follow tb« P/o --" ^ a, >n< if it can be called ho, by becoming one of the 1 ope s n b'e fU.edaggcr;^',;t^:,K be was stabbed on .he te 1 ^h. .^I rf'^! """^ '''^^'-^ and the act-i„stead of fi C tie "/ , '^'^ ^''^P"^''''"'-*; and arousing them to vind at th >^^^ '"'"^ horr,,., iaoredness of the law- hr.r ''T *'°"°" ""^ «b« and when their PrS^r.r''° ""''f'' ""'''' "^^^d ; moved the order of thp'f-^'" """ «onapartes- cowardly ertwsltln' et^^p 3 Z^H' ''' '"^■"^«^' ^''« raised in defence of deceuc?itl f nr 1 T "°' '^ ^"'"^ nature. ^ ''*''^' ^"^ ^' ^^o rights of human [17] Sacb were .ho n,e„ Plus IX 'f J°^f»\:";,re the House of Eepresentotives sent to him to regc "°Su,, however, couW diminish tbc 10- of liusfo^^^^^ peopte. He loved tbem wUh more J^^Jf =' M„'-,,, l,i. h" "■'•''HX'e e" e r-Ro J^wr 2de ul oC b, tho.e palacL-. tli9 preitin^e m Accordinslv, out ot Liters Bs . sanction to Ihevr »'=■'; f^f^.j^fej by the „„cy to Ws people, ho Sed w d,s|U se »^« J^ ,„ French and acco.opan,ed hy h» J'™ ^ „, ,,, ,„, .W tiaein ra ^'^f'i'- J^ZZTlZ ealumnkled Sov.rcigo ,n late Ktng ol ^;'f '*^„ ' ,,"°|ived and died a king.. and 2:;S't;Tn:iih;r7ace nor truce with the n,en o. the ;?,CKre.,ehr.nperororra^^^ ?"T^^7!n^^,^d°ert'"^tt:^r^<:i^;:■!'.i|^-' "olh S . ; a^ S0l"aL,„.. disappeared fr„n, ord,„avy ^:;r;,ce: and »e,.l,le.s notes or ^g^:^:,,t perieneed >he ;ne„..ve„,enee ol ,^'^^J^^ J} „,,„„>■ p„yl,,ga prennnn, ,.r siK . 11- 1' °I > „.„„g,, , at.ne ' »".<"'^;»'"^' ;'';°,, House >.ilh their parliXH„s „„s.ral,K. ■";"" '^, °.,7„ ";l'iin«t;o„, the dagger be.ng l,rincip«|ly hy ine ".»-"• "' •" ' . i,,,|.._„,ovcJ them- Ho is a ..an otTor.ly ^^P^""" '.J^.houa tLv give the Tho numentus portraits wo ece ol '""' ^J^ "S^ J' ^..ion ol" general outline of his face, do not cat h t '^ t^I ^ ^ 1 1 ,..n^ «liu.1i like a '^utniner cloud, perpciuau^ I'luj Lfnfvolcnco nsIkcIi, like a u agreeable in rr::a^i;r:T:;.!;r"a.rio;Xcvr:\^^^^^^^ t-.l, their rc.ep.ion,. and seo,n ...^i.aU y fo.get ^^e Sovcic cn in the laVucr. L know ae iws ,„.„■ _, qj Lnnor ' for he has sometimes reminded "- •;; ^'^ ^ a.uhcnces 1 had ssith 1^"» J'*'"^ *^°^°'^°^., V oc3ul he ro»c- .nomics ; and though there are many bitter fot3ol the of. m u [18] doM, in Italy, a.s elsewhere, I do not believe (hat Pius IX lius ever made a single enemy « 'nai i lus lA lightest in Europe. The salary of the Our^-JJ , 40on ii.,^o ,1 '"*"*ij' ui lue taramals is on v 'ivvv dollars a year, t lou" i ihev nnl- wi.k • i ■' then recollect thit they ha^o no^i^l^^^^-, - banaCfcr '^^'^^^^^"^"^ ^"- »- daughters to rroourc hu" ^on^n"V'"" *?.' English an J F.ench, and .some of .he Italian education and habits of sdf restJainVa rl^t atuXdi" luahfy hnn for governing; and ,hc only g oatT inilte s' Aimencs in bpain, K.chiueu in France, and WoIm^v in Kng and. But waiving that question, it is not tr, th t^ e Government ,s a pnestiy one. b. cause the }>ope is a rriest no more than the Govcrnm nt of England 'or Spain is 1' womanish one because the Sove.oigns are women. 'A late Jrench Ambassador, Count Ilayncv:d, published a reno' derived from the most authentic s.u.ce.. which ^hows w'^.; very httle share Ecclesiastics have in t.o' Civil GovernJet Of course, he Penitentiary, the Data, v for i.suin. S Bulls-all to.se purely religious cTiccs aVe filled b/pi-icSs he same a.s legal office, are filled b>- lawje.s ; avAuolC testant E.shops in the House of Lo^ds, not to ..pe, k of - e W ^al magistrates -nn .nom.Iy not tolerated in the r.lnmn btates-are more numerous in proportion to the population United Kinnrdnm »linn .....^ ♦!,„ __:. , • ^ ,' . . . lay rf.h„ TT •» 1 T'- "7""'^7 '" fuporuon to the popu al of tno United Kingdom than arc the prie.^ts in 1 i.h la, r^nH '"r ?. ^,?i' ^^^r'^^^ ^'^y "^'^re, the Consistoria Courls of the Bishops of the Protestant Church of England and Ireland have or had, within the last few years a far rnore extended jurisdiction than was ever possessed by any Een^esiastical Court in the Papal States. There is no Poor "T.aw there. The Charitable and Religious Foundations and llic Convents relieve every want. Poverty i, not a crime .4 I 119] . \ „ nnnisbed by iroprisonment in a poor law bastile In " t-Ee whole admimstration of Charity is too Chnstmn ; '' .litrcal economists must, according to the-r principle ot :rii weiirandt^^ application of the workhouse test. '°°AlTn]';il the tyrannical systems ever established, there i. trZ tlTeZ the ConLriptioH. It takes away the I n f n^ ThP Durent and at the most dangerous period of bii ill exposes' to all the demoralization of the coup, his hie e'^P^^'-r^ ■' , ■ - but only a trifling tux on I'^'^rl exanple byTayn? '"'^'^e Military Chest ,n 1' ranee -""V'" '; , ^i,^ State provides a substitute. 500 dollars or f-^^^ f ;';S;;'\ . ^,„t^he son of the poor and the '^^^^"^^".f^^^" ' jiou. which represents more than „an-to whom A80 ^^ ^^^^^^ u„at.iinable as u million aouble thesum ui th. ou^ry^^ a^_^ of bis rulers may send -must go to whe ever tiie ^^^^ .^ .^ ^^^^^ .^ 'T.^^::^rfi^h^^^Z^^ exists, the people deterio- wl.at ever count y , .,^,1, f,,^ natural causes ; and ''Iturv - c H^tiL^wili, ^ persovered in, produce a , TVrue In the Pope's States all the army are volun- .tuutedia e h U P ^^^^^^. .^^ ^^j^,, . ^he tax S is mL:T;dly enforced but the Father of the Faithful '^ ^ ^^ ll:^::' thfn^r^y other European country^ The taxes =i^^ = ^ , ^ ^ \^^ l^f^dcr of the French and woulu be^|- 1?/^'^ ^^^'^"t^,, J r,^, ,,iiUons pounds In th« tunc of Pius ^ L, ^J^en . ^^.^^^ ^..^^ sterling was nupo. > ^^\'^l^^''- j/^^a the jewels of the ,,, altuv. wue ""-''- ^^^;^" .t^le'il^rpose. ^ The subse- l.oj,c-stuuu --;;^.^,\^.j7,j'i"iJv A., and the various '''^^T :^[:r S:.n, :^lh :L for their own vile ends- ,evolu» ,n. .xc, . ^ J Government. .^mno Will toil }ou |-'^J^ y ^y ,, i^^t i, the fact? ,, nut pay .t. ;-- ^.^^^^^ ' ,,;ordh>ary tax like any ^.rri';i:::';^ia?^;^'i-°f-^-tS:pai ^V'"- ' II- .1 1 ul.rds that property has its duties ''■'' ;'"'"' ";,,n„ ,har account.. ISO. the Contaaini ''^ "' '' "; ; : UU .lu.hed to th*e Papal Government ; aud if uuivoi.ul culitagc vva« not a rarcc as lon„ ■K ■i !f ■i ;' [20] given under the dagger the r..»l r^^r be easilj known. But neoniri °?f ""^ "'^ P^P'« ^^o^U good men vote and du dnl^. ' '"'l'^^ ^''^ ^« ^ot the robs them of al tl.ev hjd d ' T""*^^'' '"^""^'♦^' ''^ich are .evoral re..o^^'tt,fS::'feT'"^" '"'''• ^'^^^ - an, otK\"f":[:iTr" '"'■"« '^^" --^*-^j They do not want to vo^'Sevdn ''?"■'?'• "'"^ "P^"'^"'^- ings or value of voting : and Y ♦K ^'"'^^"^^^^ '^e bear- should attempt to instruct or ■• fl Pf ^sts, for example, crime against liberalism t^ '""' *'^''"' '' ^^^'^ be a death b?assa.si,2 ' " "^'"^ '"^^^ '° ^^ P^^-'^^^d with Ca:to^^^:^^J,«-;ti- ^--|^ -^ed b, ^•^e name of on mankind, the Carbonari or I aHan« ^ « '""• "'^'''''^' greatest. Once a m-in il 1 V . ^ " ^''°''''' Societies is the i-or him. espc Sly .f he bo d ot V^'"" '^'^^ '^ "« '^^^o He must be^ai hfu or he jt?bv 7'^'^'"' '" '''^■''- ^--^^- Jor e..„p,e, , about^to crel' ^ tS" ..^-J/T^'^"' nave an interest. An nrA^r „„« r , • '""^ t.irbonun Committee of tLe locieft ,fT. l'^ '"darkness from the Two or three v etims Til L! /'" !.''" ^^""'^^^ P"0'. the ancient o 'de ^e mlkr 5"" ^^eir attachment ,o ordered to dispatch the^i T' T^.'^' ^^«'''''' "^o «^nder pain of ^deati. T^o ,1 ' "''^^^ "^"^' ^^^ ^^ejed opposition eeases a reiiof t"""-""'^"' *'"^ .victim-all at all; bu^ all who do fnU . '.'' '^^'^''^'''^'^ ' ^'-'^ vote tbeir assassinated friend 'and tl-rF *?• P-'^^'^^o the fate of other papers in the Ty of Z.. ^^ u',^' '"^ ^''''''^'' «"d result of the electirns^or hoP^^ ^' ?"^''^^^ '^'^ triumphant d^^randno^thr^Lfl^XKri/''^"^'''^'^^^ cannot make t^ajers of people ar'^."'' '^'.^'vernmont their nature. The Italians have ', "'l'— "f^^^'-'.^t wealth which urgc^ on ho F .M? i""" '"' ''"'"'■^'' ^-^''•^ of alwap aceumulal n.lnevei' S^^^^^^ or American ,o oe "lore rational view of life and do Tf^' "'. ""-^ '"'^" '•* other earthly blessings TJuMh^n -P"' ^'^"^'"^ ''^ovo all try supports i,^ hSncH; f ' ''^''"' '°"''^^«'-' ^''^^ «o""- Take/foVexampleT own of H^'*''" "''j''^^"^ ^^ P^«l''^- ~ - »?nti'a^wfc3 [21] few other trifl'Hig articles. Their bread and wine— the staff of lifa— are produced at their own doors,— their olive groanda give them both light and food,— their little patch of town forest, fuel or charcoal,— meat, poultry, vegetables and fruit are produced in the greatest abundance ; so there is not that necessity for foreign commerce that exists in leas favoured lands, where a great part of the necessaries of life are only tu be procured by exchanges with other nations. The administration of justice, I acknowledge, labours under one defect. As far as 1 could learn, it is too merciful. Tnals are too long, it is said; but. after all, nercy is an error on the right side, though I think it is better for society that justice should be sharp and quJ-^k. Political offences, including high treason, are, I may say, .3ver punished with death in the Papal States; and if the Maiziniana were not nefariously protected by governments, who. by this system of fostering rebellion, are working out their own speedy ruin,— and if they were not assured of an amnesiy. it de- feated, but had to pay the penalty of their treason with t\ .'r lives, as is invariably the case in England— witness Ireland and India— there would be less revolution, and honest men could sleep in peace. However, we must now pass through the crisis. I say we, for onoe this revolutionary epidem.o attacks one or two nations, like the cholera it is sure to spread ; and it is only a question of time how soon the seed va are sowing will germinate. . „ ri * Whatever defects there mav be in the Roman Government, there is no doubt but that if the P i^J and his peo.)le were left to themselves, they would be eliminated; bu: the inter- ference of foreign powers, and the encouragement given to revolutionists, paralyse the Pope in the power of ameliorating the condition of his people. Iloweve.-, I have never heard of any formal grievance put forward by the Popes enemies We hear of no titha question— no land question-no Irish question-no Ionic or Indian question. A sickly sentiment. ality-a union of all Italy to become what it never can be m IL3 .resent state of the wurld-a first-rate power-this is all they require or complain of. The mi U.0P8 are happy and contentJl or have been so. till they fell under the dagger rverumeut of the Mazzinians-men who allow no opposition fnder pa n of assassination. The hundreds of bn^ess bar^ rioters, unfecd doctors, and the idle and beggarly scions of a debased and decayed nobility-these -ro the agitators ; and the mobs of the great oities-tbeso arc their abettors. li HI ii [22] Keinember, also, that the Pope has no Colonies where the aJven.urous may push (heir fortunes-no great army to ab 7^"T P°''"" '^ '^' ''^'^ population at the expe e of |he mdustnous-no p.nal Colonies to banish his convicts to who, theroforn, niu*f be disi-hirirp.l mw.- „. v.un 11.1B lo, t!u-r tim« r.r ■ ■ '^'"'^"'^rgG^ oncb mure on society when he r ,me of imprisonment has expired, and you nny see tut there are difficulties to contend\vith that ie hav^o no I have now ^iven you a rapid sketch of the advantages of he 1 .pal Governmen., and the weak points of it al.o. ^Vny npartial man _ with a knowledge of the government; of I'^urope wuh then heavy taxes. oon^TiptionsAontinu. X prosecut.ons, per>„nal restraints, and all other p-c-a ia t r n "oK uh.ch, perhaps England can at present - ispen. wiU -.Jg^proj.t,.dir,,„for^^^^^ Ita wul an unurmed populace-will, I am sure, prcfe? ;s;.:t',e;r'^^^ Leaving or/one s de the spiritual power of the Pope, which s g.ven by C,.,.. ,u St. IVer and his .successors t'^, 'the en i '"^■^ w. knou-, as an art,, le of fauh, cannot be inter.r.red vuh-l have nut ihc l,:,.t Jouht of the permancn.y of his w 'ieh'hii'.T''' ""' ^'^''^^ reoccupation of those provinces i • 0, '■% '^''"'""•"■'■"-y "^"-'"Pi-i I'J 'He King of Sar- vl ™ ; V"''' '"''"■■' =^'"' '"orally degraded men that n.ao s r .uracter. and I would blush to relate before Ills own sii: j,'ct> regardiii_r luin. Hut llu. p opie of the Ko,n:,gna -cowardly as ihey are or lH7 w U.I 1 not l,.t th.Mns.lves be .ran.plod on by adv n.uVer irom other ,.rovu>co,s-will at la-t rile up a.ain^t thoi , " f ,lT '■ . r'""' •'"^'■^ '"■'-' ■""'■'^ "'-' •l^^"bl..,i_e.n..r.ptio , unown before, ,s ,ntroduccd-.!.e,r holiest (oelin.s L in- bbert^l ;'r^ '"'Pn^oned and lin.d. Such h S udinian t'cty. I vcauso tb..y will not insult (iod by p,:;,.,, . H,,., .^r the success of their revolutionary scoundrel ..last- rv • .^•. ..i; ^ he very worm w,l! t„rn wh-n trodden on, ihe Il„... -uule^ w,ll. unb.,s.s they have lust ail manly spirit, ri.o against'their |{'H J will toll you the curse of Italy, want of ..e, -reliance" always looking to others, the Ivu.ch or the ICng-.l, to a^sl il; [ 23 I It i3 a remarkable fact which wc can trace through th. jLcolrle of history, that all who have oppo.eloppre^P.i Tr i. iured the Pope have been made examples of God s ven- , " even in Ihi. world. What became of the Emperors ^ancieJt 11 mc'the 6rst persecutors of the Church? All penshdn some dreadful iay. Where are the Hoh.nstau- fe. of nermany-thal race of emperors who always oppressed tens ot "er™^ j' , ^, i kinj'dom passed away— they :;; ,>:S'-: dor tl:^Hght of the l>^.al .- if etio„ a^hi. rv has '■ewer .->dder pages thao those which record the futo 7h titman C.-ars. See the Bourbons-the defenders r t Trhu h for^ a.'cs-lcd on by the false glare of what ^; . n^^e n^n!osophy-they mo>tifiod the I'.^pes. and ^rihelr ktc in'tho g^eat K^volu-ion and the -W-v-^t nn... i;.t lot us oome down to t..o '"-^ '"^'1;^, "/^ .*;^' ^;^; ,1 n uhi.h I dare say is known to you all. Iho g eates : ' node.n .i.ne^the gro.tost conqueror »!- woHd^ver • . M,.v,.>,l,n- o,ra..- up Voni tho drog^ofthe Jlf;\o- :;;:;'''V'^^u:^ io'i;^,; inhouo hand, with ^ ,; <.d l>e p.oMrate .Itars of ^^ aneo ; and .s .1 (.od wnh.! vaul him. h,. soon o',.ainod the mo.r s.lend.d ero.n m L u.nvc..s.. The I'upe hims.lf crowned hm,. as d:d us ,;':;:;:;r 1.0 ..row,, ^har!em.,gne one .ho,,.u. y.us be- „,, P.ido ar.d .nd.i.ion, however, l.hndod hnn. 11">"^'' .t 11 St tuld \u. (Jonerals to t.e.t w,th .ho I'opc as wuh a H.t e power. .. .f he h.d two 1, •, ired .hons.nd nrm.d ';■. W s o„ forgot his obligations tu hun -nn,,n.oned hun ' '.; • ,,.,,-s--^ized -n his estates, -uul was exonmmmu- '.;, ^\Vh.;•sa.d,oeLordot■Kmgs, .'wilhmex..om. ,„,u'ation nuke the arn.s drop Ironi the hands of my ?■' II.. ueihn)« fortjot the word, hut it was romeni- rr; I v:;';:;^t.h.^iodra..dh.dra,niii,on,. „,„„ ,U..:.-h;s army ,,er,shed hy thousands ay by !andrcds of th.n^ands. in tl>e snoW. and ho pn >h-lu. a hu - u . the world in vvhieh h. says : " N\.- could do no.hn., -;,.,,. ;H. on; the |.ndso..n^^^^^^^^^^ ;;;;n:^a.ti:;tow!;'h;;:i Napoleon migi.pro,.la.,n L;: 1,1, lu- dreadful power al a Papal cxcommuo.ca.ion^ . Kv thob.pot,cd 8.r Areluhald Alison .-•;'«•; ^^ -^^J.^. m ae Wdl ho dispose, as he thouuht, ol ,h.. I'-pal power ■te 1 . vaslJperorof the We^t amMu.sonwa, V,. of llome-a lalal kingdom. The Lmp.ror lu you U v.deda ,u,.,uluu. pti.n.cr uoder the ., .-or^h.^, .1 uu I [24] English Colonel at St. Helen. ; and the King of Home nfirr an inglonoua life of about twenty voZs ZfTv' Pacing th,oagh the vaults of th'e 'c "uchin'c nl^ "i" Jn^fS-^.K^'i '^""S place of the cLrs-I have be " po nted out the bronze coffin of the young King of Kome persecute Pi;.« lY .?«"° ^''.^^l^^' »hat those who now J-ho p"rl uS ht ^^"'" '" ^'''''^ ^'''^^''^ ''"^^ those ♦"lo pcTac jted his preJccessors. Tou have, of course, hoard, over and over, the beautiful an,^ of.en used quotation from an e..ay of the late I ord Mao^ >l . descriptive of the traveller from Vew Zea an 1 ,, .^""'l'^ "l^^r wS\S^ ^"^^" i^r^ietli^th ^h^^.!- -— korr ' ^''' '^' ^'*P"*'J' "'" ^^ «till flourishing* the liae .f the Supreme Pontiff^ T.^i ^'.^'"' '=""'i'ared huU broken aeries, fro.^ thTpo h S", en wnni"v *''/'''"''" '^"''^ *" "" """ coDturr. to the Xm who onl,. . I -^"l-'^"" '» Ihe ninetoenth twilight ol Uble. Therennl,lip„f ^/"'.''^^'A' "'ends, till it i. i^st lu tint the republic .f Ve„ior?„» ''",'"'' """"' '"'^' '" "'""luity. Hut .nd z re^ubliArCio? L"gi"\fd^';K: 7''';r' ^^■'"* "'- ^'^--^ pacy remain*, not in deoav r . , . ' ''"^ reii.au.i. Tlie Pa- youthful vigour The Cath^'ii';. ^ ""'",'"" '' ''"' '"" "^ •'^^ aud thegt end. o* tKe world miw onaH ">'"" "■'"'*"« ' ""' '" ^he fur? Keut with AufJtT^XZ','-' ''' """" '"*'" '""'^"•^ '" .pint with wb^ch L'^nl n ,d":"S;:;''''=rt''''''' \*"«« -'ti" the h«u.. i« greater than in an/lurmer aze l!', „, ° ':"'^^:' "' '"■' "'""J'-'"' have more than coinnengaM hef l.,r ih , ? f'"""' '" ''"' ^'^■*'' ^^"'U spiritual a8cenda.;;7ex emls 5 cr ho lat' "..,?'"' '." '!"' ''''■ "" the plain, of the wLuri and C^p 'ri^i '"J';,:: wh':: h '" '""^"" he^oo. may n.,t improbably contu n a p.-nulat nlH ' u' """'"'^ now inhabits Euro,M,. The metuUr- , h«r '"'««•:• that which uot fewer than a hundred an 1 fifty ,,; " ^^'"/""""^ "'« crtainly »tow that all the othpr rhr .? ^ ""'"•■•u; and il will be difficult Co twent/minion'' I^^^r do w rar L"?':';' rT "' "^ """"^^ -^ of bor long d.min.o„ t a^^ ;t^; « l^ '^ ;- ■-'7 "-' the t.ru. all the governuientu and <,t all ii, „ 1 ^"*,""' '••""lucnocnjenl • f now.,ifli„ thrwo;id and wi "1 ,::"•'"''''' '^•'"'"i^ "«•">-, that tined to see the end ort'hei^ a7l Sh """"'"'^" "'"t 'he i. n.t de.. the Sa,on had a^? fjo '^irr taini^r: C^r'Vr'r''''' '"••"« Khine-when Urrcian cloo were .till wor.hipSTiu the , ,n • . V. '"'^ ".' Anti.cU- when idol. ' the tuiUtto, a v.uf." ituSitaWh'u 7 :'■'", r '""'?'' ^''•"' '» >*« Pop*,, Ed,nb:agK R^^^, oau.r, im. "' ^'"""■* "^ [25] 'an<.iful as the Idea is. it i« perfectly borne out by histori^l ^DaVoiy Wherever Peter /eaide.. there is power-not rna- :;.al V' but ideal, spiritual, intellectual .VO^^^^-^-^^ Ilwavs draws material power after it. .^ »n the days or e«l7pe.aecution the Po^ea possessed a gr ^ ^^^^^l was one of the principal reasons also why luo WJ Caesais Irsecuted them St' Xystus was offered his life if he gave Tn the wealth, which, through the hands of h.s deacon St. LawrenZhe had already converted into treasures m heaven by Suung it to th/ poor. We read of ^ P^g^ -^^ ridiculing ihe Christian religion on the stage, ^ut oflfenng to b«!orae a Christian if the Christians would make him their pS. We read in the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great That he had such enormous states under h.s controulm Europe, Asia and Africa, that he was all but in °ame a So^ vereien prince. And I wish to mention one curious fact I have read i^lhese Epistles. One of the Mag strates, whom fhe Pope had placed over one of his towns ^lispos^'f^Sj Jews of their Synagogue. Tjiey «°f°P;-'*t Jal of hfa ^t he at once not only reproved the indiscreet zeal of his ser vant. but ordered that the building should oe '-^^ediately restored to its former owner, Brst removing the swn^ images, for it had been dedicated as a Church, Thus, from the earliest ages the Popt has been alwavs a great power. He was the father and the «^''«f o^/^^"; barcus people who settled ia the Provinces or the Boman Emoire. He was either a Sove-eign or the father of Sove- reS He alone survived the wreck of the Roman Empire S the fierce contests of the Middle Ages Jhe ^'^7;;'';''. left his power even greater than .1 was before the Reforma- tion commenced. Though he suffered great losses in Europe, hi3 spiritual subjecta in the New World more than counter- balanced the losses in the Old. u.„„„i. v„ No ore can afford tc despise the Tope. The French En eyclopxdists attempted it. but .he .haft of their wit fel pointless. He passed through all the upheaving of he great French Revolution unscathed. For the thousand time the infidels clapped tboir hands, and said, the Popedom is dead at last-it was buned with Pius VI. .n the prison of Va- lencicnncs. Still it survived. It penshed when I lua VIL wa« dragged from Rome a prisoner by Radet. Pius return^ to Rome triumphant, while Napoleon, his jailor, was on biB way to the dreary p:liou of St. Helena. k No. people may hitc the Pope with an unutterable hatred i ' rf. I [26] -they cannot despise him. He is called by two hundred milliona of people the Vicar of Christ^^the Head of the ..uT . ,^'' '°"« ^""^'^ 'f^^'"- teeth with rage at what the^ oal thia basphrmoas assumption.-their terror breaks out Q the most violent inveclivea against him ; but thev cannot laugh at him. The Greek Patriarch cali; himseriike the Pope the Ecumenical Bishop-in other words, the Head of tne Church. Except among his own followers, ♦his lofty title only provokes a smile of contempt. Not so with the Pope. Undying love from two hundred millions, and undying hatred trom some millions of separtists-either is his nortion-cou. tempt never. ^ It is undubitable that the feeling in favour of the Papacy i> stronger now among Catholics tb.,. it has been for ages Ihe universal manifestation of feeling through Europe and America was quite unexpected by the enemies of St. Peter. Ihe French Er.peror. commanding six hundred thousand men marks out a new map of Italy, covered with the blood of thousands m co.ferino and Magenta. Everything appear* to yield to his power. Austria is defeated, and for u time paralysed. England, or rather the English Government, ecccurage bim-stupidly hoping to put down by his aid the rapacy Pms, when certain propositions are made to him replies hynon possumus, and arms and diplomacy fail before the venerable old man of the Vatican. The Episcopacy of France spoak out in favour of their father, and join their voices to those of the Bishops of the world. In vain does brute force at'.mpt to silence them. They are the mouth- pieces of ihirty-six millions of French Cutholics-the men who placed the Sovereign o.i the throue-and Imperial power bnds that conscience will not be rcstraiued by police regula- tions. No, thank God, there is something yot in the world superior to brute force-the power of mind and conscience represented by the successor of St, Peter. What was the material power of the Koman Eupiro in its palmiest days compared to the spiritual power exercised by the ^ ope ? Have you not ye:-terday seen a proof of it here lu this Cathedral ? With whut willing obedience was not the apostolic aundute. appoi -ting your vei. ' ' . IJishon received I Peter speaks, and all obey. " (, ..e says to v)ur {.shop, "take charge of the flock of Prince h:dward island lou are their Pastor, and your name and title is heuceforrard to be that of their capital City, Charlottetown." i ue decision is accepted as coming Irom God himself. •• (Jo," i\ -con- [27] M ..,s to anolber youthful H''»; 'j" ^..^'S Tu. Iook5' "---e;, - ■' "'"i ^ 'turrouoTog dismct is now . l)ioce.e of Ibe tamo ^ Chatham, lite the .ucieut Dioceses of Earope, '-'^' °« 3.^ ^^^ rr'te'Tu: r« "" » ;*» .'« word' E,gh., Peter has bO traoea u uu r , . j Amenoaa je.,» ago bat ooe D»«e ex.t^ -^''^t iaore.«d .t rr'o?"lw o'o:T,ear': Sioh i's .poatoiic power u exercised by the Pope. Tnatitution, the Papacy We kuow. then, that as a D'Vine In Ut . ^^ ^^^^ ^P^^^ never can perish, ^f^.'^fj^m^^^ Bpiritualthrone of can prevail *f'-^;^f"J/er accompanies it. For eighteen ^suU the only 1^'"^^— 1-r 1^^^^^^^^^ the beg--«g 0^ he ^t" f • ^^/^^^ ^,, ^l^eed in Rome. «ted m the worl.. when i kingdoms, but rveTt" tlxemstlvtle v'ery nations t en known tne very jji-ui" „,u„- r!>(v>a have talcen their place. thing "^^""^"^^^ .^^^^^,i' Srthe Ireat Gregory. Gaul ha. converted an^ij^^'^f ^^^^f/ 'Z^l^, Pannonia, Hungary; becomo K ranee b.rmaua i'o, , ^^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^^ 'T 'it. wl ch leTpCarUy overshadows it than it was ;q :i;"tacr ago EnturiL of centuries will pass away; ZVm^ ittu'o 00 earth, eod ,ho l«t Pope w,ll Jo,u the loug eeae. of his prcjccoasori ui he.»ou. i I [28] -«.t .rf«tif.iVr ,h Is of 8. Z.^ ""^' '°,."'° — wK;«k • 11 '^^' *°° millions of men r*" Irish blootl indS ?n V T' *^''' ^""''^ »>« but few Catholics hnl *K r^^'' P^'"*'^" °f t*'® Western HemisDh-e S th"y w !■ Lot «h .k'^* ^r° ^^' °^'«'^*^ Sardinian ar.:c. jf soldiers 'Itopearthe'nr'* l^' ^"^f"*^' are the first .sea the sons o? Ta he e n^ hrAl ^^.^ ^ '•'" ^^''^^^'^^ '' ini BX 1756 Cop. 1