Value of Catholic History.
By Editor
THE year 1883 brought Luther and his work to the front in all the world, as an anniversary year, and naturally the Catholics must pay some attention to it. The following is a specimen of their notices of the great Protestant:— "Having taken the devil for his leader, Luther immediately goes to work to pull down the Catholic faith and build up the Protestant religion. He declares that all Catholics must be murdered. What! Can a man who was mad with lust; who lived in adultery, and caused others to do the same; who wrote most horrid blasphemy, and corrupted the Bible; who was a notorious drunkard, and companion of devils; who was as proud as Satan himself, a preacher of sedition and murder—what! can this wretch be compared with Christ and Paul? If this man is a Protestant saint, pray what are their sinners?" WE cut this from the Southern Cross, of Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Cook noticed this article in one of his Boston lectures. But we cannot be surprised at this. Even in the United States, about a quarter of a century ago, the wish was expressed in a Catholic journal that some "politic prince" had been found who would have served Luther as Huss was served, and thereby saved so great departures from "the faith." We may pet Romish magnates and do homage to Romish cardinals all we will, but the spirit of the dragon is yet in the Romish church. Rome changes her action for policy's sake, but her policy she never changes.