The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-11

Mrs. Amy Bradley (white woman) was intro
duced. She made an appeal for money In
behalf of the forty thousand white people in
North Carolina who can neither write nor
read, and collection for the object suggested
was instantly raised. This, it strikes US, is
practical Christianity. Here, too, although
upon "a glittering generality" the Rev. DR..
Bellows and some others threatened the South
Carolina ultimatum of secession and separate
confederacy, they were appeased BY compro-
mise Once upon time French traveller in
the United States remarked that the Ameri-
cans fare Won people extraordinaire, for I
find while dey have three hundred and sixty
five religions they have only one gravy" The
Unitarian Conference proposes the fusion Of
these religions-excepting, we believe, the
Jews, the Mormons and the Free Lovers
which Is an immense stride towards the Ser
mon on the Mount. Thus, in the pulpit and in
the kitchen, in religion and in cooking, we are
making some wholesome advances on this side
the water.
On the other side her Most Catholic Majesty
Queen Isabella of Spain has come to grief II
was not long ago that she received, as the
most devoted daughter of the Church, the
blessed golden rose from the Holy Father; it
was hardly month since that she offered his
Holiness the security Of thirty thousand Spanish
troops, and yesterday we had the news that she
herself had taken refuge on board ship sent to
take her away to the protection Of the Holy
Father. What misfortunes have fallen upon
Pho Mono! Garibaldi; Victor Emanuel the
unifcation of Italy the dispersion of their in
mates and appropriation by the State of all
those extensive Church properties, converts
and monasteries; the dethroned royal family
of Naples and all those expelled Italian dukes
and duchesses mourning with the Holy Father
and waiting for something to turn up !" the
distracted Empress of Mexico in her sore dis
tress flying for relief to the Vatican the
astounding heresies and remorseless cruelties
under Won Beust of the hitherto faithful house
OF Austria, and now the expulsion of the most
faithful Isabella and all the Bourbons from
Spain, and the devoted Empress Eugene ut
terly powerless to resist this heavy tide of
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the Church. Well may we ask, what is the
world coming to? We fear that under this
Spanish revolution to raise the wind the nu-
merous and wealthy establishments of the
Church in Spain will have to go the way of
those of Italy, and that with Spain the Pope
will lose his last crown among the potentates
Of Europe; for even Napoleon very soon may
have other fish to fry.
Nor is the Church of Rome alone in its
troubles; for in the agitation of the disestablish
ment of the English Church in Ireland revo-
luton is on foot in that quarter which can
hardly be arrested short of radical uprooting
Of Church and State. Political and religious
revolutions go together, and in these latter
days, under the combined powers of the press,
steam and electricity, the work Of hundred
years in times past is accomplished in q single
morning before breakfast. Thus, in both
hemispheres, the true Church, High Church,
Low Church and all the churches, from turrets
to foundation stones, are destined to great
changes for we live in an age Of revolution
and reconstruction such as the world fifty years
ago little dreamed of as possible for thousand
years to come.