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selves, and that they require this
wholesome, though unpleasant m nu:
they who resent all such mutual interfer.
l ence have to bear i'll mind that they are all
the more responsible for their own lives
| when they will allow NONE tn share their re-
sponsibility. No doubt character and habits
have to do with the choice. The Athcnian
used to. think life must be intolerable at
Sparta, because every man there was watch
! ing every other man, and seeing that he was
not wanting to his duty, or exceeding his
| just measure. No Athe nian would have been
happy Mt Sparta: butthe Spartan system held
! out longer and led to more glorious results
than the Athenian. There arises yet an
otherquestion. Which is the prevailing sys-
ence?: As it is only 4 certain style of char
acter that will submit to the latter, is moth:
ing lost by the exclusion Of those WHO will
| not submit, and have Christians, after all
the right to exclude them?
| PAPAL AGGRESSION.
| ALARM IN ROME AMONG PROTESTANT BIS
| cLEE1CA1.s ATTAINING POWER TO DRIVE
THEM OUT.
Nt,o York Herntd
The we1l-inforIned Roman correspondent
OF the C|lurcI,n,an of this city has a letter in
that paper Of last week giving some interest
ing incidents Of the present attitude Of the
| Vatican toward the Protestant missions in
italy, and especially in the City of Rome,
growing out Of tho late municipal elections
there, which gave the Clerioals seventeen out
Of possible twenty representatives, though
six Of the seventeen, it is said, would hardly
support the Papal authorities III any contro-
versy with the Italian Government. The
monast1c orders in Italy, this correspondent
says, are laboring strenuously to set the edu-
cation Of the young in the pnblic-schools into
their hands, hoping thereby to undo what
the "revolutionists (as they call the Ital-
ians) have DONE The correspondent ex-
presses the opinion prevalent in Rome as
possibility, If not a probability, that a
Cancellation between the, King and the
Pope may take place on the basis Of the ac-
knowledg1nent Of the supremacy Of the one
the other in the civil government with Rome
as the residential city of the Pope, and the
National Parliament sitting somewhere else,
and even in Rome, if such a division Of juris-
dictfon rs indicated should be arrived ut.
Were the Pope to consent TO i Cancellation or.
n,odus vtrcanll without the restoration OF the
temporal power, this correspondent AYERS
that one indispensable condition thereof
would be the sweeping out from within the
Catholic places of worship, from the churches
of England to the Methodist, Baptist, and
other churches. The first thing the Popcdid
after the Clerical victory in the municipal
elections, in glaring contradiction to that tol-
Grafton which he demands and obtains in
Protestant countries, was to issue, through
his Cardinal-Ficar, an arrogant protest ted-
dressed TO the municipality Of Rome on the
subject of the new En- glish church, of which
the foundations are being laid, at the corner
of the Via Jesu Maria and the Babuino.
Anterior to 1870 no Christians Of whatever
name not i'll obedience to ths Roman Catholic
Church were permitted to meet together for
even IN private houses, much less in cdifices
erected tor tile purpose, with the exception
only Of those who assembled in the private
schapels Of their respective Ambassadors.
prohibition fell to the ground, and within
two or three years thereafter a number of
Protestant places of worship were built,
some for the convenience of Travellers, like
that erected by the Eptscopalians Of the
Se'in Is the Incumbent but many more for
prosclyting purposes and for the Waldensi-
ans or the Free Church of Italy of which the
celebrated Father GayazZ is leader. The
cvangclicals Of the Church of England con-
Eregation i'll Rome opened a small church in
1874. but the great bulk of the congregation
continued TO use the granary outside the
Porta del Popolo they were permitted to con-
cession made b Pms t. iHe re;ura S'I[a or png
and great klnttncsses if not signal services
rendered him by the English nation and cs-
pecialiy by King George Nv. and the Duke
Of Wellington in thu. stipulation and execu-
THE affairs: Of Europe after the abdi-
cation OF Napoleon l. III 1914 and the battle Of
Waterloo il, 1915 The question IF building
an English church within the walls was i'm |
medlately opened after 1870. but there was
and other difficulties arose Sn t}nf rntj,int,