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Show JZ? JZ? 4 Personal Triumph of the Late Pope. Py William T. Stead. iVIAT tho little Italian lad who was learning his letters when tho T Battle of Waterloo was fought should have succeeded In Impressing Im-pressing tho whole world nt the beginning of the twentieth century cen-tury with a sense of Ids own personality, that he should hnvo towered aloft abovo us nil without exciting envy or provoking 99 dislike, nnd havo demonstrated to a thousand Jarring and liitol- crnllt BCCts n,ul churches the supremo bcnellccnce of his cliarac-fc?9 cliarac-fc?9 ter' ls nn cxl)lolt tl10 llko of wblcli wo havo not seen in our time. ' f No doubt the Ilomnn Church helped. Tho organization which covers Christendom with Us twelve hundred bishops was no doubt essential to his success. But It was necessary for him to capture tho organization. or-ganization. And it must not bo forgotten thnt although tho organization ;helpcd, It also handicapped him badly with nt lenst one-half of Christendom. And tho greatest triumph of the lato l'opo was not that which ho won Svlthln tho Church, but thnt which ho achieved outside its pale. Greek Orthodox, Protestant nnd Freethinker alike learned to leeognlze that Leo XIII., despite all his papistical trappings, was n great statesman nnd a true man. Tho Busslan Government was most nnxious to welcome him to the conference nt The Hague. The German Government repeatedly found occasion oc-casion to appeal to his love of peace to nssuago the bitterness of eccelslnstlcal ptrlfo within the empire. Tho King of Knglnud this Kastcr visited him In the Vatican, nnd In tho United States the press with ono voice has proclaimed him as tho wisest and best of modern men. Thnt Pope Leo XIII. failed In many things Is loss surprising than that lie should have Micceedcd In so many. He has left the chair nt St. Peter surrounded sur-rounded by the aureole of his own virtue nnd his own wisdom, which not even tho bigotry nnd Intolerance of the Itoman Curia can dim. From n Character Sketch of Pope Leo XIIL, In the American Monthly Review of ltovlow |