The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-24

pei was supposed to DC meant especially for the
poor, hut the gospel of the nineteenth century
unatiOn. III the Pope does not control more
souls among Us, he certainly controls more
acres"
MR.. GLADsToNR's INTENTIONS IN THE FU-
IURE.
This can be borne. however. There remains
the question of general policy. First, as regards
the great imperial settlement, achieved by slow
degrees, which has admitted men of all creeds
subsisting among as TO parliament, that he con-
ceives 10 be so determined beyond all doubt or
question as TO have become one of the deep fot n
u uaeIoA seouSs Vi Tue eAls'i ing constitution. But
there are other matters. imp RANT though mi
nor, and upon these, and indeed as the conclu-
sion OF the whole question, and OF the pamphlet,
OF great significance and weight, which
smallest significance But, % if the 'a arguments m
have here offered make IL my duty TO declare
them, lsay al once the future viii be exactly as
the past; in the little that depends on me,
shall pe guided hereafter, as heretofore, by the
rule of maintaining equal civil rights irre-
spectively OF religious differences: and shall re-
sist all att empts TO exclude tn members of the
Roman Church from the benefit of that rule.
Indeed, may say. that have already given
conclusive indications of this view by support
ing in Parliament, as a minister. since $50, the
repeal of the ecclesiastical titles act for what
time has not yet come when we can assume the
consequences of
THE REVOLUTIONARY MEASURES
of 1870 to have been thoroughly weighed and di-
gested by all capable men in the Roman COM
muniOn, Not only because so great numerical
proportion are, as have before observed, neces-
sary incapable of mastering, and forming their
personal judgment upon, the case. Quite ir-
respective even of these considerations | hold
that our Onward even course should not be
changed by follies. the consequences of which,
II the worst came TO the worst, this country will
l.sw slwr
VIII TO control. The state will, trust, be ever
careful 10 leave the domain of religious con-
main; and to allow neither private caprice nor
above all, foreign arrogance to dictate TO ii in
the discharge OF lis proper office: England ex-
pecs every man TO do his duty" and none can
be 20 well prepared under all circums ances to
exact its performance as that liberal party which
has done the work of Justice alike for non.con-
formists and for papal dlssidents, and whose
members have so often, for the sake OF that
work, hazarded their credit with the markedly
Protestant constituencies of the country. Strong
the state of the United Kingdom has always
been in material strength: and its moral pano-
is not, then, for the dignity of the crown and
people of the United Kingdom to be diverted
from a path which they have
DELIBERATELY CHOSEN,
and which it does not rest with all the myr-
midons of the apostolic chamber either openly
to obstruct or secretly to undermine II is right
fully to be expected. it is greatly to be desired.
that the Roman CatnOllcS OF lnIS country should
do in the nineteenth century what their fore
fathers of England, except a handful of ennis
Saries, q d in the sixteenth, when they were
marshaled in resistance TO the Armada, and In
the seventeen tn, wnen, in despite OF the paral
chair, they sat in the House of Lords under the
oatn of allegiance. That which we are entitled
10 desire, we are entitled to expect; indeed,
TO say we did not expect il, would, in my judg-
meni be the true way of conveying .'insult'
to those concerned. In this expectation we may
be partially disappointed. Should those 10
whom appeal thus unhappily come TO bear
witness in their own persons to the decay of
id, manly, life in their church, 1T will
oe their Joss mora than ours. The inhabitants
of these islands; as a whole, are stable though
sometimes credulous ana excitable :; res0lute,
though sometimes bOastful: and a strong
headed and sOund-hearted race VIII not be him
dered either by latent or by av0wed dissents,
due to the foreign influence of a caste, from the
accomplishment of its mission in the world"
My summary and extracts have been too copi-
Gus to leave space for comment. ladd only that
the appearance at such moment of such a
manifesto seems to me an event OF which the
importance can scarcely he overIated. Mr..
Gladstone is no longer prime minister, but he Is
still the most powerful man In England. He
might have remained silent. but he has chosen
to come forward at most critical moment TO
throw all his influence against Rome in the con-
fiict she is waging, not in England only or
mainly, but on the contiDent-and elsewhere.
Such an act is not done without a clear aim and
a careful weighing Of consequences, and this
pamphlet has, / believe, far more than mere
arpumentatiVe purDOSe.