True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-01-25

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But one thing is clear, thatthe whole Ro- '
nan world confidently expects great things
is the consequence of the honor now put '
On Mary. The decree, wenre given to un-
lerstand, is to inaugerate an era of peace
md love among the nations; in short, !
whole millennium of blessings. The world
has been badly managed of late. Wars,
pestilences, earthquakes, and revolutions,
have been permitted to break in among
the sheep of the true fold, and have been
making sad havoc amongst them, while we
heretics have been enjoying an immunity
which we did not merit. All this comes,
says the Pope, of not giving Mary her due
place. Let us putthc reins into her hand,
and all will go well. 1t is clear (such is
the Popc's logic that He who created the
world has lost the control of it; hence
those escape who ought in fairness to be
punished, and those are miserably afflicted
who are the only good people the world
contains; but now that Mary is on the
throne, all these errors will be rectifed. |.
The Bishop of Nantz says, that "on the
day of the proclamation mercy will take
the place of justice, inefable sweetness
will succeed to the present sorrows, and
all these good things will be the more
previous, that they pass to us through the
maternal hands of Mary" "Itis expected"
says the Bishop of Rodes. " that wars COM
menced on all sides will cease; that con-
spiracies and plots will be dispersed; that
contagious diseases, every where appearing,
will disappear; that harvests withered up
in so calamitous and inexplicable manner
will prosper; the earth will llrcnder her new
and hitherto unknown homage, and she
will pay her debt to the world in way
worthy of herself. Nor will this be the
first benefit the Virgin will have conferred
of late on the Roman world Did she not
deliver the Pope, when other help he prayed
for in vain? Did not Plus TX, in 1S49,
in his reply to the bishops assembled at
Imola, to feliciate on his restoration, praise
them for having taken care, above all, to
acknowledge that that event had been due
to the protection of the Virgin !" from
which we can only infer, that God might
probably, but for Mary, have left the Pope
at Gaeta and Mazzini at Rome. And this
too, explains "the tears of his pious people,
of which the Tablet speaks. Yes when
they heard Mary's divinity proclaimed,
they recolected that it was to Mary they
owed Plus; and, oh. how fervcntly, but
for these nasty French bayoncts, would
they have Rugged the dear old man
"You might steal God from them with
out their knowing it, said one in speak,
ing Of Romanism. Blot out the name Of
God from some Latin prayers, where it still
remains, and would any void or alteration
ensuc in the worship ofthe Roman Church
!, We do not say that this decree formally
enacts that there is no God > but we main
tain that its effect is to obliteratc God from
, the minds and beliefs of the people of the
Roman Church. The decree bids them
not to pray to God, nor look for any bles
sing from God, nor cherish any love tc
: God, nor even think Of God. 1t is We
strongly suspect, the filling up of the cup
for it is the last truth of the Bible left
!, standing now blotted out. 1t is not the
manner of that Church to deny truth il
the way of leaving its place blank, bu
to deny it in the way of displacingi it by
the antipodial error. In this way has
she gone the whole round of revelation, ex
, tinguishing one light after another; ant
now all is dark, k,-darkness that may bt
felt. She denied the atonement by sub
5 stiuting the sacrifice of the mass; she de-
, MED the existence and angency of the Spirit
by substituting the sacrament; she denied
s Holy Scripture by substituting tradition
e There remained only the belief in God
S and now the Church of Rome has blottet
t out that last truth by decree which fixes
< her, in the feelings and beliefs of the mem
: bers of that Church, as the supreme ant
: only God However divergent their cour
e ses and diverse their forms, all error has
= common point of meeting: and thus th
y Tnfde1ity of Voltaire and the superstition
: of the Popes have found at length the.
: eliminating point in Atieism.-" There i
t no Cod" said the French Convention
r when they celebrated the apotheosis of
: female in Notre Dame and Plus XII. ant
e his bishops re-echo the cry from boyon'
e the Alps, in the apotheosis of Mary in St
D Peters, There is no God"
9 STATISTICS OF THE PAST YEAR.-Th
i papers in various directions, are filed witt
statistics of the past year, giving the re
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