Litchfield enquirer., 1870-09-22
Rome.

The settlements of the Franco-Prussian war have taken much from the interest which the movement in Italy would other wise have aroused. The Italian troops have invaded the Papal territories. They have everywhere been received with enthu- siasm by the people and have been oppos- ed only by the Pope's foreign soldiers. These last. driven within the city of Rome, their resistance disavowed, ,as it would seem, by the Pope himself, must soon surrender. Then, at last the great problem of Italian unity will have been solved, and the anom- olies of the temporal power" ended.
 Protestant hallelujahs and triumphant references to Revelations, must not blind our eyes to the fact that temporalities have seldom made church energetic or popu- lar. The better opinion seems to be that Rome is hindrance rather than help to Romanism. The strength of that ancient denomination lies in the faith of it's women, the liberal;ty of its men, and the devotion of its clergy. While it can attract such support. the fall of city or the failure of a Council will not materially lessen its in- fuence.
 We doubt whether Victor Emmanuel and his dynasty gain much additional strength by this movement. It is confessedly the work of the people and not of the govern. ment. The plain tendency of what Napo- leon used to call the Latin races is to re- publicanism. If the French Republic can only hold its own, trans-Alpine and trans Appenine kings will be scarce article.
 
 ~A Courant correspondent who at- tended the Manchester Camp Meeting speaks as follows of the Rev. Mrs. Van Colt:
 GAS preachers of the Gospel, women have not been surpassed in the success at tending their labors: and when it was an. nounced that Mrs. Van Cott, whose name is familiar to many, would be in North Manchester for week or more commencing Sept. 3d, determined to avail myself oi this opportunity and listen to her preach ing. I carried this determination into ex ecution, and after having listened to near ly every one of her sermons, I can but say that she is mighty woman in the work she is doing, and with her powerful pre- sentation of the truth she makes the gospe simple to all. Her sermons have been fol the rich and the poor, the learned and ig norant, and in this very simplicity of pow CT lies her success. On the first Sabbath .o her stay, the church was filled with many who were prejudiced as well as curious, bu of this number all who have heard her tho second and third time have had all theil prejudices overcome.
 Immagine before you noble looking woman of about forty years. stately in form commanding in appearance. with sweet intellectual face, and you have before yor in outline Mrs Van Cott. For severa years she has been preaching here, there there and everywhere, and the amount o good she has accomplished incalculable
 She was very successful in her ministry ct Manchester, as elsewhere, and the a mount of work expected of her is thu stated: "Until the first of next May sh, is engaged to preach, and her preaching means three sermons each Sabbath ant three prayer meetings, while during th week she breaches nightly after having conducted an afternoon meeting," Yet notwithstanding her noble character ant marked success, such is the prejudice a gainst the admission of women to th ministry, that Mrs Van Cott is not allowe' to preach within the limits of several Meth odist Conferencesl