The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-11-13

the object suggested was instantly raised.
This, it strikes US, is practical christianity.
Here. too, although upon "a glittering gen
-orality." the Rev. DR.. Bellows and some
others threatened the South Carolina ult-
matum Of secession and a separate confed-
eracy, they were appeased by a compromise.
Once upon a time French traveller in the
United States remarked that the Americans
'are Won people extraordinaire, for find
while dey have three hundred and sixty
five religions dey have only one gravy
The Unitarian Conference nooses the fusion
of these religions-excepting, we believe,
the Jews, the Mofmons and the Free Lovers
which is an immense stride toward the
Sermon on the Mount. Thus, in the pulpit
and in the kitchen, in religion and in cook
ing, we are making some wholesome advan-
ces on this side of the water.
On the other side her most Catholic Mai
esty, Queen Isabella of Spain has come to
grief. 1t was not long ago thai she receiv-
ed as the most devoted daughter Of the
Church, the blessed golden rose from the
Holy Father; it was hardly a month since
that she offered His Holiness the security
of thirty thousand Spanish troops, and we
have recently heard that she herself had Ia
ken refuge on board a ship sent to take her
away to the protection of the Holy Father.
What misfortunes have fallen upon Pho No.
mol Garibalda; Victor Emanuel; the unfit
cation of Italy; the dispersion of their in
mates and preparation by the State of all
those extensive Church properties, con-
vents and monasteries, the dethroned royal
family of Naples, and all those expelled
Italian dukes and duchesses, mourning with
the Holy Father and waiting for "some-
thing to turn ups the distracted Empress
of Mexico in her sore distress flying for re-
lief to the Vatican; the astounding heresie S
and remorseless cruelties under Won Beust
of the hitherto faithful house of Austria,
and now the expulsion of ttS most faithful
Isabella and all the Bourbons from Spain,
and the devoted Empress Eugenie utterly
powerless to resistthis heavy tide of dis
asters still accumulatiug against the head
of the Church. Well may We ask, what is
the world coming to? We fear that under
this Spanish revolution to raise the wind,
the numerous and wealthy establishments
of the church in Spain will have to go the
way of those in Italy, and that with Spain
the Pope will lose his last crown among the
Potentates of Europe; for even Napoleon We
ry soon will have other fish to fry.
Nor is the Church of Rome alone in It's
troubles; for in the agitation Of the discs
tablishment of the English Church in Ire
land a revolution is on foot in that quarter
which can hardly be arrested short Of rad
ical uproOtng of Church and State. Poiit-
ical aud religious revolutions go together.
and in these latter days, un der the combin-
ed powers of press, steam and electricity.
the work of hundred years, in time past
is accomplished in single morning before
breakfast Thus, 10 both hemispheres, the
true Church. High Church, Low Church
and ali the Churches, from turret to foun
dation stones, are destined to great chang
es, for we live in an age of revolution anC
reconstruction such as the world fifty years
ago little dreamed of as possible for a thou
sand years to come.