The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-09-21


lof Spaips tho Low Countries, Italy and
Germany, retired at the close Of his life to
aquiet retreat in Estremadura. having re-
Signed his power TO his son PmIlP. In
his seclusiou, he spent much of his leisure
in endeayOrjng to make two or more.clocks
keep time alike, The effort was, ofcourse,
fruitIess. e a
The Roman Church has for centuries
endeayored, by persuasion and by force,
by kindness and by force, by kindness and
by torture. TO induce unity Of faith. Des-
potisms are centralized Governments-the
mind and heart of the Monarch being the
standard of right and wrong for millions.
Vain was the effort of the conqueror of en-
pires to make the motion of one Horologue
exactly the same as another. Behold! nei-
ther does the Sun, the work of an AL
mighty hand, move with uniform speed
The power ofthe Popes and Councils, when
exercising unlimited and unobstructed in
auence over the human mind, never could
make men believe alike, NOR even make
them say they believe alike. Popes and
Councils, Jesuits and Jansenists, Francis
cans and Dominicans, argued, persecuted
and slaughtered forcenturies, but all to no
effect, except to prove that unity can only
exist in diversity. Turn we.again to the
work. of the eat.Architcct and Governor
of the Universe.
Behold!-no two faces are alike--men
vary in stature--in color--in mental ca
Pacity-in physical strength--no two
trees are alike-no two leaves are exactly
similar--no two daysor nights are equal to
others throughout the year; and yet with
these great examples before them, puny
men attempt to cast and fashion the human
mind and heart in one mould! Our own
beautiful system of Government exists in
unity and harmony with diversity. Race,
climate, suffrage, religions, constitutions
and laws--all unlike, yet harmonious in
freedom and liberation!
The heart-burnings and strife that now
agitate this republic, come from the fierce
lust of universal dominion and conformity
sought by Papal Rome, whose motto is
''rule or ruin" But, while Rome proclaims
unity offaith, and endeavors to secure it.
what the church has considered of grea
moment in the matter of doctrine has re
mained unsettled for over eighteen cen.
turtles! Hfs,
L'Jnioers, a French paper, saysa grea
Joy is being prepared for the Church, =
Our letters from Rome inform us that 9
meeting Of bishops belonging to the seyera,
nations Of Catholicity is to be convoked by
the, Sovereign Pontiff at the end of the
month of October in the capital of the
Christian world, to assist at tho delbera
tions on the Immaculate Conception Of tho
Most Blessed Virgin, and 70 participate
doubtless, in the proclamation Of the dog
matte definition 50 impatiently expected.
] Its therefore probable that the. 9th De.
cember of this year win see the accom-
! plishment of the universal wish, and thai
Mary will be proclaimed by. tho infallible
voice of the Church, Immaculate in hel
Conception. We know all that the Saints
ofthe latter ages and the general opinion
expect from this definition; the peace o.
the world and the triumph Of the Churcl
must be the recompense of this supreme
honor decreed to the Queen of Virgins
Such sweet hopes will not be deceived
Let us pray with fervor that nothing may
occur to thwart the views of. the Vicar Of
Jesus Christ, and delay a JOY after which
the Catholic world SO ardently sighs.
Somuch for the 'Infallible" and God
inspired Church, which for more than {
thousand years has not been able to settle
the question referred to above We notice
the fact, however, only to say, that in oul
opinion, the convocation is likely to bC
more ofa political meeting, than theologic
al. Look out, next year, for new polh
cal movement the world over--but partc
ularly III reference to this republic. Re
memberthe prediction we this day makel-
Cin.. Times.
I BEThe Philadelphia Lnquircr, speaking
of the false report about the state of the
crops, on account of the drought, says
"But if we give a full crop of corn at7oo,
0oo,0 900 bushels, and take off one-third il