A Coalition for Papal Power
By Editor
REFERRING to the widespread agitation for the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope, the Churchman says:— "According to recent utterances of the Roman Catholic press, the Pope expects that he will find in this country a sort of Prætorian Guard, to decide his contest for the temporal power. We would like to ask what colored sash the members of this guard wore at the late civic procession? A report of the Catholic Congress at Madrid bears witness to a disposition on the part of the Spaniards to have a hand in the same act of 'restitution.' It will be a queer coalition that takes place between the country of the Holy Inquisition and the country of Washington." It would indeed be a queer coalition, but one which is by no means impossible. We firmly believe that this country is the power referred to in Rev. 13:11 and onward, and of that power it is written that he "causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast," and that beast is the Papacy. Who can certainly say that our own country will not join the kingdoms of Europe in giving "their power and strength unto the beast"?