BUT SHE GOES ON JUST THE SAME.
SAYS the Christian Enquirer (Baptist) of New York:— The Roman Church itself can see, if it is not stone blind, that it cannot go much further in the grasp for office and power, and in its demands on the public treasury for money for its schools and charities, without creating a public opinion which will end in revolution, and the withdrawal of the assistance now given by municipal, State, and federal governments so lavishly. When the people do awake from the long and guilty sleep, the public indignation will be so great that the whole relations of the State to this foreign church will change. The time is not far away when 40,000,000 Protestants will no longer allow 8,000,000 Romanists, led largely by foreign priests, taking their politics from Rome, to hold so much power and draw so largely on the public treasury as at present. The Church of Rome in America is overdoing the thing altogether, and the reaction is as certain as the revolution of the seasons. When the inevitable conflict comes, it will be short, sharp, decisive. Whether it will be at the ballot box or in the streets, it will soon end. It will be 40,000,000 against 8,000,000. It is a shame that the city of New York should be wholly in the hands of Romanists, from the mayor down. But Rome goes on just the same. The Protestant element as represented in their politicians cannot check Rome; and many "Protestants" have had all the Protestantism taken out of them by their unprotestant position in upholding, and their unprotestant methods of enforcing, the papal Sunday. Rome does not stop.