Says the Watchman (Baptist), as quoted by the Christian Work: "Never did Roman Catholic prelates in Washington speak to our national government with quite the authoritative tone they used last winter. The results of the war with Spain have added enormously to the prestige of the Roman Church in the United States, and no one realizes it more deeply than the higher ecclesiastics. Cardinal Gibbons now speaks to the great officers of the government at Washington as the representative of at least 10,000,000 more American citizens (in the making) than he did previously to 1898." Roman Catholicism brought Spain to the lowly position she has occupied for years. The United States conquers the decadent nation, and is now yielding to the same influences that made Spain what she is. Amaziah of old conquered the Edomites, and then brought home, to worship, the gods of the Edomites, which had no power to save.