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Show A Timely Question. (From an address of Lord Macaulay he-fore he-fore the British parliament in lMD.i "Two hundred and eiglitv-fiva years has the Protestant chinch been t work. What could have been done for it in the way of authir.y, privileges, endowments, which has not been done? - . - And what haw we to show f-.-.r all this lavish exp-r.i.lir ere? What, hut the most zealous Roman Oatholi? people peo-ple on the face of the earth? On the great mass of thi Roman Catholic population pop-ulation you have made no impression whatever. There they are. as they were ages ago. ten to one against the members mem-bers -of jour established church. Explain Ex-plain this to ine, I speak to you. the zealous Protestants on the other side of the house. Explain this to me on Protestant principles. If I were a Roman Catholic I could easily account for the phenomenon. If I were a Roman Ro-man Catholic I should content myself with saying that the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm had been put forth according to the promise, in defense of i the unchangeable Church: that He who, in the old time turned into blessings bless-ings the curses of Balaam, and sinote the' host of Senacherib. had signally confounded the arts and the power of heretical statesmen." |