Church of Rome.

Christianity came from the hands of Christ and his apostles in all its
perfections, and as long as infidels stop short of the New Testament
itself, and short of Christ and his apostles, in their warfare, we may
well believe that all their efforts to blot out Christianity will be vain.
Protestants themselves have demurred as much as infidels against the
errors of the Roman Catholic Church, and fully as much against the errors
of each other as denominations. "Truth stands true to her God, man alone
deviates."

The greatest difficulty that Christianity ever encountered is the
ignorance and imperfections of its own friends. Protestant errors are many
and serious. But why should the genuine be discarded on account of the
existence of the counterfeit? And why should we shut our eyes to the
importance of the great work of establishing truth, to the destruction of
all Catholic and Protestant errors of faith and practice by becoming the
advocates of false charity through the adoption of "broad-gauge religion,"
in a "broad-gauge church?" Infidels who, like Col. Ingersoll, assert that
"no man can control his belief," had better look in a glass and see
themselves as others see them, before they _strive to_ conquer a victory
for the _black __ demon_ of despair, by fastening the absurd philosophy of
_fatalism_ upon all the world. If men can not help their belief, who is to
blame? Surely, neither Roman Catholics, nor Protestants, nor those who
managed "thumbscrews" and "hot irons," and other condemned instruments of
the dark ages, nor yet those who now live to be the "butt" of Colonel
Ingersoll's satire and ridicule. A kind feeling for all, and
unfaithfulness to the truth--never!

PAPAL AUTHORITY IN THE BYGONE.--THE INFIDEL'S AMUSING ATTITUDE.

The doctrine of papal infallibility amounts to this: that the decisions of
the Pope on faith and morals, being divinely inspired and infallible, are,
when placed upon record, so much more holy Scripture. This infallibility
dogma has been a great source of mischief and of unbelief. It has
accomplished no good, but a great deal of harm. Some Roman theologians
claim that the Popes have _only once_, up to the present time, spoken with
the formalities necessary to make their utterances "_ex cathedra_" and
infallibly binding, and that was when Pius the Ninth, on December 8, 1854,
decreed the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary; which, if true,
belongs to the realm