een years of age, for having spoken in
favor of human liberty, are now working in Siberian mines. That is a
Christian country. Only a little while ago a man shot at the emperor
twice. The emperor was protected by his armor. The man was convicted,
and they asked him if he wished religious consolation. "No." "Do you
believe in a God?" "No;" if there was a God there would be no Russia.
Sixteen millions of Christians in Spain--Spain that never touched a
shore except as a robber--Spain that took the gold and silver of the
new world and used it as an engine of oppression in the old--a country
in which cruelty was worship, in which murder was prayer--a country
where flourished the Inquisition--I admit Spain is a Christian country.
If you don't believe it I do. Read the history of Holland, read the
history of South America, read the history of Mexico--a chapter of
cruelty beyond the power of language to express. I admit that Spain is
orthodox. If you will go there you will find the man who robs you and
asks God to forgive you--a country where infidelity hasn't made much
headway, but, thank God, where there is even yet a dawn, where there
are such men as Castelar and others, who begin to see that one
schoolhouse is equal to three cathedrals and one teacher worth all the
priests.

Italy is another Christian nation, with 28,000,000 Christians. In
Italy lives the only authorized agent of God, the pope. For hundreds
of years Italy was the beggar of the earth, and held out both hands.
Gold and silver flowed from every land into her palms, and she became
covered with nunneries, monasteries, and the pilgrims of the world.
Italy was sacred dust. Her soil was a perpetual blessing, her sky was
an eternal smile. Italy was guilty not simply of the death of the
Catholic church, but Italy was dead and buried and would have been in
her grave still had it not been for Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour.
When the prophecy of Garibaldi shall be fulfilled, when the priests,
with spades in their hands, shall dig ditches to drain the Pontine
marshes, when the monasteries shall be factories, when the whirling
wheels of industry shall drown the drowsy and hypocritical prayers,
then and not till then, will Italy be great and free. Italy is the
only instance in our history and in the history of the world, so far as
we know, of the resurrection of a nation. She is the first fruits of
them that sleep.

Portugal is another Christian country.