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hem to do. The scene of the d fight is near Bagraria, a in Viterbo. The latter is a ne Papal States bordering on Sea, having an area of about future.-Methodist. 1 square miles, and a populaut one hundred and thirty success of the Garibaldian's day, Oct. 6th, when a body of smarched from Rome and enat Frosinone, southeast of the

of the weakness of the Church o which is the grand result of the e the past week-a result which m raise the most sanguine hopes as

ached Florence hourly stating Oman territory was being insides from Italy. Prussia, it -s Victor Emanuel's plan of an e great Powers on the Roman will support the Italian deome. A most significant item ection is that the Commander forces has applied to Italy for Italy refuses to send them.

Evangelist.

APPEARANCE AND HABITS OF THE -The French journals contain son interesting particulars of the pope's life, character, and habits, as portra correspondents who were present at cent ceremonies in Rome:

The holy father is now in his se fifth year. He is of the middle heig slightly above it. The air of Rome a sedentary habits have given him an point, not, however, enough to inco ence him, and which disappears und ecclesiastical costume. His hair is though thick; his forehead large and inent; the eyes are deep-set, and fla strongly marked, but in harmony with with a strange light; all the feature other. There are no wrinkles on that the complexion is slightly colored, transparent. The mouth, somewhat inent, gives to his whole physiognom expression of gentleness and of extra nary benevolence. Had Pius IX. be prince instead of holding the highest in Catholic hierarchy, it might be said tha visage was marked by that good na which Stendhall declares he has neve met with in Italians. His health is e lent. During the winter of 1863 t were serious fears for his life; but the bust constitution of the pope triump easily over these complications; the f went off, and health soon returned.

r of France is too great, and nation of Louis Napoleon, to complete overthrow of the poral power, is too certain, to his time, all doubts of the imcess of the Roman revolution. all the hopes which throughout world have been raised by the -inning of the Garibaldian camThe correspondent of the Liberte sa st the Papacy should, for the I met the pope yesterday outside again doomed to disappoint- Angelica gate. He was on foot, acc sting result of one week's com- 'panied by one of his camerieres. It g

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herbs, and he had befo

arm stretched forth, the eye lighted the gurnets of Italy ne solemnly protested against the spoilof the Holy See. The lines of the Eh on these occasions assume a strange

a plate of French bea apples. This excessive in gentle gayety. He

arance; the lips become thin and com-ingly during his walk a sed, and lose that expression of goodness h all have remarked in his portraits. E the habits of his holiness he says: he pope always rises at five o'clock. at once goes to his prayers. At six a de chambre is in attendance to shave after which he is visited by his doctor. seven he says mass. He rarely break-our fellow creatures.

at which his intimates a larly M. de Merode, obliged to sacrifice, bu sees with great pleasure of a sprightly mind, bu and the pope is often o in the name of the cha

Receipts

IN BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION, SEPT., 1867, TO THE 1ST OF OCT., 1867.

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2nd Pres. Ch. in part---Union Meeting Bap't Ch.---15

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Wellington. 1st Cong. Ch. by Ja's Ogden..

Oberlin. Friends and Students for Mr.
Gulick's work in Mexico---

Springdale. Mr. Patterson for Greece.
Bloomingburg. Pres. Church__68
Hamilton. 1st Pres. Ch., J. Robertson,
$5; Messrs Falconer, Potter, Mrs.
Tapscot, $2 ea; Conklin, Ross-
man, Jacobs, Skinner, Hannaford,
Anderson, Falconer, Giffin, Stew-
art, Dick. Mrs. Harper, Lewis,
Garner, McFarland, Brittain, Mil-
liken, $1 ea; Snyder, Davies, Ear-
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U. Pres. Ch.; Messrs. Becket
and Laurel, $5 ea.; W. E. Brown,
$3; Maj. McClung, $2; Giffin,
Mrs. Moore, McClung, Harrison,
$1 ea.; Mrs. Curtiss and Miller,
50c. each..

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for the education of Italian boys, $74 90; 8. Betts, $6; W. B. Estep, $5; F. A. Harris, $3; Goldsworthy, Gibson, Hollister, Nelson, Mrs. Richardson, $2 ea.; Mr. Peal, Mrs. Hull, Stow, Haughton, $1 ea. Mrs. Jones, Webb, 50c. each....------103 9 Tallmadge Benev. Ass'n by L. V. Bierce, Jr., Tr., to constitute Mrs. Julia Bronson, L M----36 00 $ MICHIGAN.

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Union Meeting, in part......15 85 $18 Amount received for the Month.....$8,69

HERE are other grounds also why the name "Cathol given to the Church of Rome, except when qualified Coman."

The name "Catholic," as implying universality, has ribute of the Church of Rome at any period of her hi fourth century, the Roman Church, so far from b hidden in the catacombs of Rome. During the pe rth to the eleventh century, the Western Church w ent, power, and influence to the Eastern Church, as i fact that of all the general councils of the Church t eight were held in the East, until the Council of Lat D. 1215.

everal of the churches of the West, as the Gallic, the Scottish, and the Irish Churches, retained their in Church of Rome for some centuries after the culm pal power in the west of Europe. The Reformation be of one-half of his dominion at the time when he w e father of fathers, the pontiff of Christians, the vi head of the body,—that is, of the Church- the four ding of the Church, the father and doctor of all th r of the house of God, the keeper of God's vineyard, t he Church, the ruler of the apostolic see, the univ -Cardinal Bellarmine, "Treatise on the Roman Por 1. At the present time Rome has less claim to the than she has had for some centuries. In Asia, the E holics, in the sense of being universal; in Africa, th s; in the United States of America, in the north of Great Britain, the Protestants are the Catholics, a bers of the population. Even in Italy, in the Pap holics have become so anti-Catholic under the Pa e father of fathers," "the universal bishop," has bee reign army of occupation for his possession of the ital of Christendom.

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alteration of the canon of Scripture at the Council of , and in teaching that "more harm than good" would c al reading of the Word of God (Rules of the Index new ways of salvation, opposed to the Gospel of Chi masses, indulgences, and purgatory, thus ignoring th he atonement of our Lord and Saviour-by teaching" y works" instead of by faith in Jesus Christ-by cr and religious liberty in every country where her influen -by encouraging and promoting persecution, more tha ews or Pagars-by the assumption of civil and ecclesia such an extent, that in other days the Popes of Rome scourges of the Church of God, the tyrants of king and the terror of the nations; and, finally, in her last g (Trent) by fencing, as with ramparts, her newly-inv nd sacraments with one hundred and twenty-six curses g the proceedings of that council with an "anatehma [Protestants,] from all which it is manifest that the Church of Rome is decidedly opposed to the Catholic e spirit of Scriptural Christianity. To bestow the 1 e" upon the Church of Rome exclusively, without qual o deny the title to all other Churches, and to brand the n he Reformed Churches as schismatics and heretics. "Ca any proper sense of the term, the members of the Ro ion certainly are not. Roman Catholics they may be, in t of charity.

t's in a name?" Much more than is generally supp ell understands the value of a name. Why, otherwise, w s have changed their names on assuming the pontifica olydore Virgil, a Roman Catholic writer before the Refor erves: "The Bishop of Rome has the peculiar privilege, t

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