Le church of Christ will march triumphant when w great hosts of the living God and hurl them agains Es with some grand uplifting of Antioch, Woodstock Old Hundred. _n opposition to the bigotry of the Romish church I platform of Christian brotherhood. All outside their ch as heretics. We oppose that procedure by offering all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, be they Pro man Catholic, Calvinist or Arminian, sprinkled or immer -one faith-one baptism-one cross-one Holy Ghostseat-one doxology-one heaven! hren! we cannot afford to quarrel about non-essentials. "That song of love now low and far, as large a contingent as the Roman Catholic Chu ed States, the expectation may be realized; for we sh the departures mentioned in our political papers, that alf of all the American prelates are on their way to R 'he meeting of so many dignitaries, attired in strang and vestments, is of course most likely to inflame th of devout adherents of the Church of Rome, or to fur o the correspondents of newspapers that eagerly ca sensation, whether it be a race or a religious meeting, mmedan, or Pagan. The most sensational of our da only a few days ago mockingly offered to do the Po gratuitously if the latter would send in payment gence, has already given an article on the subject, ri sanguine champion of ultramontanism in admiration g character of such a meeting. 'On the map,' says a single country can be found which will not send o one bishop to this mighty gathering at the centre of world. The lately appointed Vicar Apostolic of the meet there dignitaries from the South, West, and Ea riental churches in communion with Rome will come prelates of the Catholic Americans, of the Catholic xs, of the Catholic Syrians, the Maronites, the Chal Copts. All these differ from each other in ritual, and ers of discipline, as in language; they wear vestments own to the Western churches; but, nevertheless, or acknowledge the Pope as the Chief Bishop, and they of faith and practice with the See of Peter. Americ and Africa will be duly represented at the splendid a pectacle which Rome will witness in an assembly co various and more remote nationalities than those whic lay of Pentecost at Jerusalem.' n the Protestant press there are some well-meaning e come to the conclusion that the Church of Rome is m tanding all the threats of excommunication. In Aus protector of the temporal interests of the Papacy, the inister is a Protestant, and the government has appoin ts of the two Chambers of Parliament, two of the lon f the Liberal party, who not only have manfully batt toleration in the past, but who, even a few days ago, of Parliament, expressed themselves very strongly in fa the principle of religious liberty through all Austrian 1 hey, of course, meet with the unanimous opposition Catholic Bishops, and all the ultramontane papers of th t this opposition merely serves to show that in Austria man Catholic countries, the majority of the people have he least regard for the teachings of their Church. As ar the declining power of Rome, we can also point to the s t that Rome has never made, in any Protestant count ogress as Protestantism is now making in every R country which concedes to Protestants freedom of worsh ism, moreover, is changing all the time. The immense the ultramontane papers of every country would never m courage to defend the reintroduction of the Spanish In No one who has studied the history of medieval Roman pared it with the opinions of Roman Catholics of our o be struck with the difference. The change is greater in han in the others, but some change is observable everyw sagreement with the antiquated forms of Romanism exte places, even to the incumbents of the episcopal sees. S , in Germany, a Bishop of Breslau, one of the largest dioc untry, turned Protestant; and a few weeks ago the same n by Dr. Leopold Schmidt, a professor of theology at y of Giessen, who a few years since was elected Bisho though the Pope refused to ratify the election. We co 70 LITTLE PAIRS OF BOOTS. little pairs of boots to-night efore the fire are drying; little pairs of tired feet trundle-bed are lying; track they leave upon the floor se little boots with copper toes, walk about the new-ploughed ground Where mud in plenty lies: yroll it up in marbles round, nd bake it into pies; then at night upon the floor every shape it dries. day I was disposed to scold; in a trunk up-stairs I've laid wo socks of white and blue; alled to put those boots away, God! What should I do? ourn that they are not to-night hree pairs instead of two. Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn, 1864. Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn, 1865. Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children, St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Buffalo. St. Joseph's German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Rochester. St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Canandaigua. St. Mary's Boys' Orphan Asylum, Rochester. St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Dunkirk. St. Patrick's Fémale Orphan Asylum, Rochester. St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Albany. St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, Buffalo. St. Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum, Utica. St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Clifton, (Special Appropriation.) SPITALS, AND OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OF A SECTARIAN CHARACT Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of Charity. Jew's Hospital, and Hebrew Benevolent Society, New York. Rochester St. Mary's Hospital, (Additional Special Appropriation.) St. Mary's Church and School, New York. |