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Show LORD MACAULEY ON THE CHURCH. The Salt Lake Herald, in a sympathetic review of the Catholic Church in Utah, the day after the dedication of the Cathedral, quoted a sentence from Macauley's Essay on Von Ranke's. "History of the Popes." Coming from a Protestant pen at a time j when in Great Britain, hostility to the Catholic Church was a national virtue and sympathy with I Rome treason to the state, this wonderful tribute 1- rftm a wonderful man has no parallel in English lit erature. Here is, in its entirety, the great essayist's personal pronouncement on the unchangeable Catholic Cath-olic Church: "There is not, and there never was on earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination examina-tion as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together "the two great ages of human civilization. Xo other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when canu-lopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken scries from the Pope who crowned Napoleon Na-poleon in the nineteenth century, to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the Un(V,f th aut dynasty extends till it is X !',!:t 1,1 the twilight of fable. The Republic of Ven- - i-e is gone, but the Papacy remains. The Papacy plains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but fuil Me and youthful vigor. The Catholic Church is slil. sending forth to the farthest ends of the world ini?onanes as zoalous as those who landed in Kent with Augustine, and still confronting hostile Kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila . The number of her children is greater than J m any former age. I . "Irr "tions in the New World have more j llian compensated for what she has lost in the Old I Her spiritual ascendancy extends over the vast coun tries which lie between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn, countries which, a century hence I ' . Z T lmp,robaHv COntain a Population as large as that winch inhabits Europe. The members of j . her communion are certainly not fewer than a hun- . 1 "' dred and fifty millions; and it will be difficult to show that all other Christian sects united amount to a hundred and twenty millions. STor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion do-minion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and all the ecclesiastical establishments es-tablishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when the Grecian eloquence still- flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped wor-shipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from Xew Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, sol-itude, take his stand on a broken arch of London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Again he writes: "Four times since the authority of the Church of Rome was established on Western Christiandom has the human intellect risen up against her yoke. Twice that Church remained completely victorious. Twice she came forth from the conflict bearing- the marks of cruel wounds, but with the principle of life still strong within her. When we reflect on the tremendous assaults she has survived, we find it difficult dif-ficult to conceive in what way she is to perish." |