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Show Gladstone on Catholicity. Mr. Gladstone paid the following high tribute to Jhe Catholic church: , She has-marched for 1,.i) years at the head of ciA-ilization and has harnessed; to her chariot, as the horses of a triumphal car, the chief iutpl-lectual iutpl-lectual and material forces of the world. Her art is Jhe art of the Avorld; her greatness, glory, grandeur grand-eur and majesty have been almost, though not at: solutely, all that in these respects the world has' had to boast of. Her children are more numerous than all the members of the sects 'combined,1 and she is every day enlarging the boundaries of her A-ast empire. Her altars are raised in eA"cry. clime, and her missionaries are to be found wherever there are men to be taught the evangel of imrn6rtality and souls are to be saved And this .wondrous Church, which is as old as Christiiinity arid as universal uni-versal as mankind, is today, after twenty centuries of age, as fresh and vigorous-and. as. fruitful as on the day when the Pentecostal fires were showered, upon the earth. Surely such ai vittfS t i'W iojif.iclinl- lenges the attention and demands and ih'serye the most serious examination of those outside -'itV-pale.-' |