Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-20
SUNDAY READING.

about to fling her legions against the senled
hosts of the Prophet The days of the cru
sades are done. 1.-The good Knights swords
are rust" Mail-clad men no longer seek the
holy grail nor fight for the possession OF
Christ's sepulchre. Paynim towers no longer
hold captive christian knights who sigh for
the presence of their lady loves. Slrs Bede-
we're and Launfall are no more, and King Ar
thur hath not returned to verify the conditions
of his passing. But that there is enough OF
pious zeal to hold great bodies of men true to
. cause like the cause of religious freedom IN
Bulgaria, and induce Mohammedan blgots to
rally to the standard of the False Prophet
NAV not be doubted. We may say what we
will of the transparency of Russias preten-
sions, or the hypocricy of the Sultan Of Tur-
key; behind the Gar stand millions of I'M
questioning worshippers i'll the faith whose
symbol is the Greek cross and behind the
throne of the Sublime Porte stand the vast
and fierce forces of Islam. But we need not
90 so far to find evidences of the strength and
effect of religious zeal The telegraph has
but Just assured US of the safety of ship
whose many passengers are faithful pilgrims
from the United States and Canada to the See
of Rome and France is stirred she has
not been stirred since the obliteration Of the
bloody rule of the Commune, by a popular
resentment of McMahon's well-suspected in
trigues with the Ultramontane schemers of
the Roman church. Not in the old way then
by the crusades of belted Knights and the
wild enterprises of the age of chivally-but
moved by not less powerful impulse, the
peoples Of eastern and western Europe are
but too well prepared to light the torch of re
ligious warfare 1t is to be noted that in one
form or another the Church is a party to all
these vast troubles OF the three factions
Roman, Anglican and Greek-the latter, sec
ond in numerical force-opposes itself, sinsly,
against the Infdel In the name of England
commercial interests, if at all, the temporal
power which lies behind the Anglican estab
lishment seems likely to side with the armies
whose standard is the crescent and whose bat
tie cry is the faith of the Prophet But
Rome, busy in another direction, pushes her
parallels not only under the Tuilleries, not
only, with the very audacity of fanaticism,
under the Imperial palace of Berlin, but with |
no weak endeavour, toward the palace of st. |!
James, as we'll Never since the days of the |
Stuarts have the aristocracy Of Great Britain |
leaned so tolerantly toward the ancient faith !
of the Popes as at this present time. Man !
ming and Newman, second to no churchmen |
in England in learning and genius, represent .
no insignificant following among the nobility
of that country. As to the clergy of the
English establishment, it seems only too evi-
dent that they presume upon the temper of
the times to assert an independence of de
meanor which is anything but indicative of
spirit of submission to tenets and forms and
rubrics. Not many months since Dean Stan
ley invited free thinker into the sanctuary
whose custodian he is; the most distinguished
members of the established church engage in
open and not at all unfriendly discussions
with pronounced skeptics; the friendly assO-
citation of scholars of the school of Darwin
and Huxley and Tyndall with the high lights
of the church is notorious; and Cardinal Man
ming and Mr. Gladstone speak to the English
public through the columns of the same mag
azine-rightly named 'The Nineteenth Cen
tury." All this time the Roman church
abates nothing of her discipline, her power,
her pretensions or her zeal When 500 bish-
ops assembled in Rome III 1862 they united
with one voice in an address to the Pope in :
which they babe him go before them as the E
Good Shepherd For as they said to him, I
- you are to us the teacher of sound doctrine, .
the center of unity, the unfailing light to the
nations kindled by divine wisdom. You are
the Rock, the foundation of the Church "
against which the gates of hell shall not pre- "
all When you speak we hear Peters voice,
when you decide, we obey the authority of )
christ" 1t must be remembered that none -,
# the papal Bulls have ever been cancelled h
II withdrawn. They are as valid now as upon t
he day of their emission. Among them is e
hat one wherein the present Pope d" con- l
emned the attempt made in Germany by u
ertain professors to withdraw politics and a
cence from the cognizance and guidance of a
evelation, as Cardinal Manning puts it. 81
'hese reminders are necessary to keep alive
n intelligent understanding of the vigor and
ersistency of the exertions constantly max CT
lg not only to sustain the Church but to ex- b,