in its natural form, since the church, as ancient Assyrian. Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Gentilism, was the natural form of civilized heathenism before her. It is only the church that introduces into the world another than a heathen element; remove her, and nothing but heathenism does or can remain. The essence of all heathenism, whether before or since the Christian church, is in the emancipation of the flesh of the secular order, and the subjection of the spiritual. Protestantism, whatever its pretensions, is therefore really heathenism, and nothing else; or if it please its friends better, since it professes to believe in the Messiah, we will consent to call it carnal Judaism. which holds the Messiah to be a temporal instead of a spiritual prince, the founder of an earthly instead of a heavenly kingdom, places the secular above the spiritual, and puts the creature in place of the Creator -the essential principle of all heathenism and of all idolatry. It bears the same relation to Christianity that carnal Judaism bore to spiritual Judaism.

“We wish our readers to bear in mind that it is not religious bigotry, that it is not zeal for religion. that chiefy lights the fires of Protestant persecution, but zeal for the world, and determination to subordinate religion always and every where to the secular power. And, therefore, we lose all the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance, and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of every man to be of any religion or of no religion, as best pleases him, which some two or three of our journalists would fain persuade the world is Catholic doctrine. Such declamations only tend to render Catholics indifferent to their faith, or to inoculate them with a false and fatal liberalism, as experience every day proves.

They produce no effect on Protestants, save so far as they may be regarded as indications of a tendency among us to abandon our religion, and turn Protestant or infidel. It is always folly to talk or reason of Protestants, taken as a body; as if they had religion, or cared a pin's head for religion of any sort. Set them down always as modern heathens, and go and preach to them as the fathers did to the Gentiles, or you will never touch them. They will persecute you if they have the power, and regard you as of sufficient importance to be persecuted, until you succeed in convincing them that heathenism is false and Catholicity is true, and that they are to live for heaven and not for earth. The great error into which we fall is that of considering Protestantism as a form of religion, and adhered to from religious motives. If such was ever the case, it is not now. With here and there an individual exception, Protestants constitute not a religious, but a political and social party; and what they say in reference to religion, is said only in furtherance of their secular movements or desires, whether they themselves are distinctly conscious that it is so or not.

"Our first work should be to unprotestantize ourselves a thing we shall not very readily do, if our popular writers take care to deny or suppress Catholic truth, as applicable to the secular order. Atheistical politics are well nigh universal, and, till we abandon them ourselves, we shall make poor headway against Protestantism, when we ourselves are afraid to assert the supremacy of the spiritual order. As that unity and Catholicity are effected and secured by the papacy, the real object of attack is the pope, and his spiritual authority, under God, over the whole secular order. The whole question is here. Give up or deny that

authority, and you give up or deny all that Protestantism really opposes, and embrace practically all that is living in it, and are Protestants in the only sense in which Protestants are worth counting. We must, therefore, if we mean to be Catholics, be truly-we like the word -Papists, and fearlessly assert the Papal supremacy."

Sentiments like these show that even in our land the great battle between freedom and tyranny is again to be fought, and the question of individual opinion, freedom of conscience, and the right of self-government, which our fathers supposed was settled long ago, is to be again contested on the very soil where they poured out their blood. What its result will be, no one who has faith in man, and in the progress of society, and in the strong arm of God, can doubt,—

→For freedom's battle once begun,

Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,

Though baffled oft, is ever won."

No intelligent person can travel through Europe, we think, without being forced to the conclusion, that Romanism is destructive to the best interests of every community. He cannot fail to see evidences of its degrading, enslaving spirit, and he will trace the woes of many an unfortunate people to that great organization which ought to stretch out its hands and drop blessings upon the millions who fly to it for protection. His heart will be heavy, and his spirit will be sad, as he finds the professed church of God placing the iron fetters upon the limbs of the disciples, and crushing the energies of the people of God. As he approaches the Eternal City, he will behold new causes of grief, as he finds the glory of Rome gone, and all its shame and guilt yet remaining. He will leave the old man of the Vatican, who wears a

paper cap, and is surrounded with a guard of foreigners with striped breeches; who rides on the shoulders of men, and requires the people to kiss his toe; who stands there amid the dead mummies from Egypt, and the dumb idols from Nimrod, and casts his bulls across the mountains and the seas, he will leave this old man, and go out to the ruins of the past, and sit down alone, to wonder why Rome should exchange paganism for popery, the emperor for the pope.

The part which is to be taken by our great confederacy of states none can misunderstand. It is the example of our own nation which has inspired the downtrodden people of continental Europe with the holy desire to be free; and in the light which emanates from our institutions are they to march forward, until the last chain is broken, and the last tyrant has been disenthroned. We are not called to descend from the high position we occupy to contest a few feet of land, or battle for an empty name. Our flag need never float in the breezes of Italy, or be torn upon the plains of Germany, or flap in the wild and fitful blasts of an Alpine storm. The oppressed masses of the old world need our Bible more than money; our missionaries will conquer faster than our soldiers; the glad notes of salvation will be more effectual than the thunder of cannon. The greatest foe to human freedom is the church of Rome. It is her heel which is now on the prostrate form of liberty, and vain is every hope until her power is broken. The only weapon which can be used against her is the Bible. That she fears; that she hates. She trembles more when a few colporters find their way into her territories, than when a hostile army is thundering at the gates of the Vatican. Our mission is to set the nations of Europe an example, and send them light.

The conquests we are to make are bloodless; our victories are moral and mighty. No fire, no sword, no blast of war, but a calm, steady light, shining upon the blackness of the world's long night, and a holy stream of information and truth, continually flowing forth to the world's drear and desolate abodes.

I bid adieu to my kind reader, with many thanks for his patience in following me through so many scenes of joy and sorrow; and if I have related any thing to instruct or please, I shall be repaid for having transferred from the pages of my journal to the printed volume these hasty observations, which, I trust, may not be found to any considerable extent incorrect.