Bringing the Millennium.
By Editor
A MISSIONARY in an Eastern city (all cities are Eastern from here), writes as follows concerning his field:— "Lager beer, tobacco, and Roman Catholicism are eating out the morals of society in this city. The Y. M. C. Association is going to bring on the millennium by uniting with all sects. So papists and Protestants work hand in hand here, and woe to Father Chiniquy or Pastor Seguin if they come here to slander the Jesuits! The churches as a body here think the pope has lost his teeth, and that popery is no longer a foe to liberty, but its friend. Still we hope to find some here who are not defiled by these abominations." If Catholicism is a friend to religious liberty it is because she has radically changed since Pius IX. published his "Syllabus of Errors" in 1864. And we say just the same if she believes in civil liberty, uncontrolled by the Roman church, for Pius IX. condemned such liberty as not to be tolerated. But all the world is still wondering after the beast, Rev. 13:3, and the Protestantism of the United States, as well as that of England, has started on a pilgrimage to Rome. We do not give the name of the city, because it might be injurious to our brother's work there; and the description will answer for more than that one.