s letter follows:

"_The teachings given by the Apostolic See, whether contained in the
syllabus and other acts of our illustrious predecessors, or in our
encyclical letters, has given clear guidance to the faith as to what
should be their thoughts and their conduct in the midst of the
difficulties of time and events. There they will find a rule for the
direction of their minds and their work._"

The reader will see from this letter from Pope Leo XIII that he
reiterates to his followers the "Canonistic Law" laid down by his
predecessors, making it obligatory upon the followers of Catholicism
to put in practice to-day the hellish doctrines of Roman Catholicism
of the past.

If Catholicism depends upon numbers and physical strength to
accomplish her ends, then what must this country expect when such a
time arrives, as Catholicism can govern by the power of physical
strength?

Will we have any one to blame for what Catholicism does to this
country when such time arrives? Ah, No! No one but Protestantism,
for if America, which is a Protestant country, sits idly by and
permits Romanism to reach a point where she can control the affairs
of this government, it will be on the account of the lethargy and
imbecility of Protestantism, as we have it within our power to-day to
halt this Emperor of Darkness before that time arrives, but the
question is, will we do it?

The history of other nations which have been controlled by
Catholicism should be enough, not only to frighten the Protestant
hosts, but to paralyze them with fear, as the pages of history teem
with the awfulness of Rome's rule, wherever she has been permitted to
become master.

France, which has been priest-ridden for centuries, is now at this
time in the throes of a national convulsion, brought about by the
tyranny of Romanism.

Now, if Rome is such an abominable master and such a tyrant that
France has to deport the priestcraft and close up her institutions,
is it not time that the United States was taking some step to
protect her offspring from this vulture of human rights!

This country is undoubtedly a Protestant country, and if it is a
great country, which no man dares to deny, she surely owes her
greatness to Protestantism.

Our soul is poured into this chapter, as we never were more in
earnest than we are at this time, as we can shade our eyes and look
down the avenues of the past and behold naught but skeletons of
protestant despair on every bywa