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THE POPE'S ANNIVERSARY SPT:EC:I.

kFROJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDVT:i

ROME, Jtna 21.

The Pope received the felicitations of the Sacred College
and of the Senate on Saturday, the anniversary of his
election to the Pontificate. In reply to an address from
the Cardinal Vicar his Holiness said :

"Arrived as I now am at the twenty-fourth year of my
Pontificate, my first duty is to render thanks to the Lord,
who has sustained my weakness in the midst
of numerous and cruel trials, and to admire the protection,
so full of wisdom, which He has granted to the Church.
No doubt He has allowed her to be exposed to fearful
tempests, but at the same time He sustains her, and
raises up in defence of her rights Christians animated
with holy courage. I address, in the next place, my thanks
to the Sacred College, and to all those who surround me, for
the noble share they have taken in the struggle, and for
the good wishes they have expressed through you.
"The world appears divided into two societies: one nume-
rous and powerful, agitated and restless; the other less nume-
rous, but calm and faithful. My illustrious predecessor,
Pope Gregory the Great, has compared these two bodies
to those once gathered—the first on the Plain of Shinar,
where men raised the Tower of Pride, and were
visited by God with confusion of tongues and dispersion ;
the second in the Cenacolo, on the day of Pentecost, where
Peter the Apostle and thousands of the faithful of dif-
ferent nations heard and understood one and the same
language.

"Then we see to-day on our side the revolution, bringing
socialism in its train, which condemns and denies religion,
morality, and God himself ; and, on the other hand, the
true faithful, who, calm in national faith, 'I vait patiently
till good principles regain their wholesome influence, and
till the designs of God are accomplished.
"Ah ! if sovereigns would adopt these good principles,
how easy would it be for them to govern their people !
What good might they do to their people and to them-
selves ! The future is in the hands of God. As He
defeated the first revolutionaries, He will overthrow those
of our day ; and we may, and ought, to desire that the
haughty persecutors of the Church should be humiliated
and confounded.

"In the meantime let us accomplish our sacred duty.
'Ego auton exercebar,' says the Psalmist, and let us give
God thanks for having preserved peace in this slip of
earth so wonderfully privileged, and from which we can
extend our tears and our prayers over the whole
Church. How great are the evils which weigh her down !
Everywhere we meet with ruins and with tears. Perhaps
at the very moment I am speaking a kingdom is being
deprived of its last bishop, thrown, like his brethren, into
prison, or driven into exile." (Here the Pope's voice was
broken by emotion, and he lifted his eyes, streaming
with tears, to heaven. All knew that he was referring to
the exile of the Polish bishops, of which intelligence had
just reached the Vatican.)
" Certainly," resumed the Pope, " God might permit
that we ourselves should share the fate of these bishops
The plant which plunges its roots into the soil, where we
still find security, may be struck, as was the mystic plant
of the prophet Jonali. But the perils which menace us
will be turned asirle by the Divine mercy, and this plant
has the word of ;,he Lord that ensures its stability.
" I invoke the Almighty protection of God on the
Sacred College, on the prelates, on this beloved city, and
those who represent it (the Senate was present). I pray
especially fc r two sorts of persons—those who are in tribu-
lation, tha'. God maybe their helper; and those still more
unhappy, who live in sin, that God may give them
victorious grace. Even in Rome there are some few souls
a.bane.oned of God, who mistake the shadow for the sub-
stani;e, falsehood for truth, and who, leaving the path of
justice, lose themselves in the forest with ravenous beasts.
Woe to such, for to them is owing the loss of all good.
May God save you from such a fate, and may He, by the
intercessions of Mary, bless you as I desire with all the
fervour of my heart."
I need not say that all overtures with Russia which
Lave been reported as existing are mere fictions. They
may all be traced to Russian sources, and have been cir-
culated with the object of detaching the Catholic Poles
from Rome.