Great Words of the Little Horn.
From Dan. 7:11, we can easily infer that the presumptuous and blasphemous utterances of the Papal power would continue till very near the point of its utter destruction at the second coming of Christ. Its horrid presumption was bad enough in the blackest period of the dark ages. How it sounds in this age of light and freedom! And what a commentary upon the state of the world, even at the present time, is the fact that nearly one hundred and eighty-six millions of the human race will receive it all as the voice of God. A late New York paper has this paragraph: “Archbishop Manning has a high opinion of ‘His Holiness’ the Pope. In speaking of him recently he used the following language: ‘The Roman Pontiff—that is, the whole church of God, for it is all contained in him—and where the head acts, all act with him.’ A very comprehensive individual is this Pope. Further on, in the same discourse, he quotes him as saying, ‘I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men—of the peasant that tills the field, and the prince that sits on the throne; of the household that lives in the shades of privacy, and the legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the sole last supreme judge of what is right and wrong.’ Verily, history is repeating itself. These sentences read as if they might have been written in the fourteenth century instead of in these days of light and religious knowledge, and civil liberty. But still, it is but the outspeaking of the sentiments which lie at the foundation of the Romish system.”