Roman Catholicism in the Metropolis.
The New York Christian Advocate gives an interesting item in connection with certain remarks anent the great Protestant Episcopal cathedral soon to be built in that city. The Advocate says:— “Notwithstanding the narrow views of the Protestant Episcopal Church at present—so different from those held by many of its founders in this country, and hardly known in the early days of the Protestant Reformation in England—in view of its claims, customs, and methods, it should certainly have a cathedral. It is necessary to assist it against the growing power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which is to become a more potent rival in fashionable society than the Protestant Episcopal Church has yet encountered, and whose pope has recently declared fully as derogatory an opinion of the succession in the Protestant Episcopal Church as the extremest high churchmen in that body have affirmed concerning the orders in other religious communions. As that church has an imposing cathedral on Fifth Avenue, the Protestant Episcopal Church, without a cathedral in this great metropolis, seems indeed, notwithstanding its many fine churches, poorly furnished.” We have italicized the important part. It has been said over and over again that if the people were educated there would be no danger of apostasy to Roman Catholicism. It is being demonstrated that an age of boasted education is favorable to the Roman Church when that education cuts loose from the Gospel.