The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-02-12
ROME DURING THE COUNCIL. &"

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ROME DURING THE COUNCIL"
| correspondent sends some extracts from a
work with the title above By Louis Vuillot, editor
of the 4" UniUs s." published in Paris His ultra
montane, extreme komanism is well known
These extracts about what said in the great
| Romish Council, are lively and pungent. They
serve not only TO show what Popery is but also cut
keenly into European radicallsm or Red Repub.
canism and it will not be surprising il the reader
may think it requires no great stretch of fancy to
make them applicable to ONE things nearer home.
Our correspondent accompanies them with syme
very practical ideas of his own, which may be use
fully considered.-CEN Pres.
Page A. 81 heard this word from a
bishop, notable among the most moderate
and cOnciliatory; People have been repeat
ing for many long years, that ultra ,montan-
ism is party: We shall make them see
that it has been, and is, tie Church; and
this point, forthwith established, will facili-
tate everything; because there is nobody in
the Church who will be willing to refuse to
recognize the Church"
page a. remark which has much more JUS
tice in it than American radicals will like to admit
81 return to the ella Borghe8e, where
this review" (of the papal troops occurred,
Of which ISaid word The uilLa is crea-
ton truly patrican, and the owner, like a
veritable patrician, puts it at the service Of
the public festivals. Thus others of the
Roman princes have done, and do, who be-
STOW upon the public garden, sacred edifceS,
galleries, Libraries, &c, founded and main
tanned at their own expense. These spon-
taneous institutions of the aristocracy realize
"cOmmunism, which, SO far as regards
the general utility, is worth at least as much
as that which We are ii ho wayof creating,
and which respects far more, two things
which the new communist threatens to de-
stroy; liberty and property; which'used to
be united like twin sisters, but are now
hitched together like galley slaves. Under
the Christian constitution of society, the
aristocracies were proprietors for everybody
the modern demOcracieS, departing from
that generous order, are tending to become
proprietors Of everybody. Everybody shall
possess everything, and nobody will be any
thing, or have anything 1t was hardly
worth the trouble of the change, to come at
last to this result; to put everything into the
hands of the town-sergeant; who, for all that,
will be none the less mortal, and no richer
or more happy than the rest"
Introduction, page Goth, having admitted land re
probated the evident approach Of the sundering Of
Church and State all over Christendom; the editor
of H. URiUerS thus toreshadowS the future mission
of the Pspacy.l
cit is not in order to establish this divj-
sion, that the concordats" will be destroyed,
but to reGstablish unity. The concern will
not hereafter be about uniOa it will be
about conquest" And if one may dare to
cast his eyes farther into the future, across
beyond the lingering smoke Of combat and
the desintegration, he will have glimpse of
construction gigantic and unheard of, the
work of the Church; who will respond, by
creations the most splendid and marvellous,
to the Internal genius of destruction. He
will foresee the Christian and Catholic
organization Of democracy. Upon the frag-
mentS of the unbelieving empires, he will
see the multitude of the nations born again
in greater number, equal among themselves,
free, forming universal confederation in
the unity of the faith, under the presidency
of the Roman Pontif, who will equally pro.
tect and be protected by all the world. As
there used to be a "Holy Empire" (referring
to the Austrian which the House of Haps
burg called the "Holy Roman Empire
there will then be " Holy People" And
this democracy, baptized and consecrated,
will do what the monarcbies never were
able or willing to do; it will abolish idols
everywhere, it will uake Christ reign uni
versal; 'et fet ssnum Ovae ct anus pastor. ,"
Infdel man has unclaimed the tempest
(meaning democracy "and wishes it to up
root the tree of life. God gives the tempest
another commandment: He ordains that il
shall lift up the fruitful grains, and scatter
them over the whole earth. The tempest
shall obey. Against mans expectation, ii
shall only be more powerful sower of the
truth"
have no doubt that these words of Vuil
lot disclose the real design of the Jeauit8
equally astute and audacOu8. When legiti
macy and de8potiSm were in the ascendant
in Europe, they were its staunch advocates
Their plan was to share with the secular
de8pot8 the fruits of domination, by close
alliance of the secular and spiritual powers
Those therefore, were the days of union O.
Church and State, of 'cOncordats, of perse
cution. Now, the Jesuits are shrewd enough