OW SHALL WE REACH the PAPISTS in C

WE have multiplied Sabbath-schools, and they are t can scarcely be estimated. We have appointed porteurs, and they are scattering wide-cast leaves fi

The effect of their labors eternity alone will unfol There is another agency which we believe is to becc at as either of the two mentioned. It has been trie d has put his seal upon its work. It has been empl ent in this land, and with good results. We refer nt of Bible-women.

Yes, an army of such laborers.

Let some of our wealthy Christians, who love immort um or sums like to the one given by Mr. STEwart o erest of which shall be expended in sending ten, tw ble-women into every city and village; and who wi imate the fruits of their labors! If one woman in 1 exert an influence which reaches almost every house t a large number of them accomplish!

The great, sympathetic, affectionate heart of a wom e of the fittest agents in reaching the millions of poor, es swarming to our shores. Her influence will be li ll almost imperceptibly pervade the masses.

The Romanists know the power of woman, and are mu sters of Charity. You can scarcely turn a corner wi ne of the train.

That Rome is at work, and that too with gigantic ene appear to those who will peruse the following articl Rev. Dr. EDDY, who has done a good work for the S

ng statistics and laying them before the churches of o

d in danger of losing their souls in consequence, have im on our Christian benevolence as the heathen of H ohamedans in Turkey.

Is Society has a further claim, not common to all our eties. It is directly opposed to the only system of r at is at all aggressive. Heathenism and Mohamedar aying systems. There is no danger of their spreading sent limits. We have no fear that they will ever mal our own soil, or any where else where Christianity n Our work is simply to reclaim as many as possible of the to hasten the downfall which has already begun. Rom ther hand, is still an aggressive system. We mus t defensive as well as offensive warfare. We must st e it, to prevent it from subjugating us. Though decay World, that decay is more than balanced by its progress t is still sending out its missionaries all over the world, in the wake of Protestant missionary effort, and seeking t faith our own converts from heathenism and Mohameda wonderful vitality and power of the Romish Church pr ther claim. It is not only aggressive, but most powe e. It has the wisest and the best compacted system of sed by man. It has something of that genius for rule, essed by the Roman Empire, upon whose ruins this c . For ages this policy has been perfecting itself, until n engine of almost infinite adaptation, and of tremer There never has been a society of men in the world so ersed in the art of ruling the masses of mankind as thos trolled the destinies of the Romish Church. They know ve every opportunity for enlarging the sway of the hiera w how to work by silent methods. We often see their fr

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secure the political as well as the religious salvation The most prominent feature of the foregoing remark rthy of our most serious consideration: the aggressi manism. "Four times," says Mr. McCauley, "sing the Church of Rome was established in Western C e human intellect risen up against her yoke. Twi mpletely victorious. Twice she came forth from the emarks of cruel wounds, but with the principle of thin her." "The Catholic Church is still sending f the earth, missionaries as zealous as those who land gustin. The number of her children is greater tha e. Her acquisitions in the New World have more th what she has lost in the Old. The members of her rtainly not fewer than a hundred and fifty millions fficult to show that all the other Christian sects unit ndred and twenty millions. Nor do we see any sign at the term of her long dominion is approaching. S encement of all the governments, and of all the eccl shments that now exist in the world; and we feel no e is not destined to see the end of them all. She wa ected before the Saxon set foot on Britain-before assed the Rhine-when Grecian eloquence still flouris -when idols were still worshiped in the temple of M ay still exist in undiminished vigor when some tra ealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his roken arch af London Bridge to sketch the ruins of S Nothing has yet arrested the aggressive march of Ro he battle-ax of Luther struck the portals of Whittem he whole world of evangelical Christians, and the lover o the cause of truth and freedom; but it also sum tivity all the energies of the Papacy. The Romish C

so far as religious at all, to the Roman Catholic inte this does not appear to excite the fears of our Americ why it does not, is almost unaccountable. It is sai igence as we possess, and surrounded by our free instit not live. But it has lived, and it does live, with ever nd power, both moral and political. We make no aggr hile it makes formidable aggressions upon us. It is de ceiving more and more every day. No one who has no ation has any idea of the numbers which have gone circles to the Catholic Church, and who have come fro us ?

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ften hear," says Mr. McCauley, "that the world is bec more enlightened, and that this enlightening must be rotestantism, and unfavorable to Romanism. We w But we see great reason to doubt whether thi nded expectation." "During two hundred and fifty tism has made no conquests worth speaking of. Na o far as there has been any change, that change has be he Church of Rome." This is high authority, and sho

hat is there now indicative of the slightest check; any rest of the aggressive movement of the Papacy? Sh pped from her unstable throne; suspended her civil func enjoined upon her by the sagacious Napoleon III, as di ner spiritual power. And is it not? As at the Reforma he entire Romish Church is roused to new energy, and unwearied activity to enlarge her borders; and in the telligence and freedom she is planting the symbols of her he Universities of England, and the monuments of Amer She makes no disguise of her triumphs at Oxford; and

our entire country is silent; and to ner polɑ ɑemana patronage our Chief Magistrate favorably responds, son, encircled by Bishops and Archbishops, sanctio posing Roman Catholic clerical assemblage, save two r seen. This assembly talks as if the interests of the re in its hands, the Pontiff and all. It proposed to Sees among us; would take under its special charg s of freedmen, and regard our entire land as the pe its august head and ruler.

And as the spiritual head and ruler of one hundred an souls, who bow to his authority as to the authority o Roman Pontiff was never more powerful than at this believe never more proudly bent on his aggressive m ever had in prospect possessions more inviting to his mulating to his lofty and ambitious designs. Instead veler from the crumbling arches of London Bridge, ins of St. Paul's," I fear we shall see the Roman Por altars, and burning incense in the chairs of Westmin May we never see this country meanly courting the fa g at the altars of Papal pretentions.

Jan. 1867.

A WAGER was once made in London, that by a single osed to an Englishman, a Scotchman and an Irishman, a ply would be elicited from each of them. Three repres s were accordingly called in, and separately asked: ke to run round Russel Square, stripped to the shirt? nglishman unhesitatingly answered, "A pint of porter as response of the Irishman was, "A mighty great an of the North, however, instead of condescending up consideration," cautiously replied, with an eye to a What will your honor gi'e me ?"