Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE PROTESTANT CHURCH IN IRELAND: ITS PLACE AND MISSION. We now approach the point at which the heads of the Roman Confederacy had long been aiming. Through great difficulties, and obstacles intervening both in England and Ireland, they had at last gained the end of their labours, and were near the walls of the Protestant Church. They had placed their mine under its weakest part, and were putting forth their torch to kindle it. Their army was composed of various sections, whom they had combined in their ranks. And their leaders could not regard, without a flush of satisfaction, the opposite parties whom they had induced to act with them. There were the philosophers, who laughed at the fables of the Church of Rome; there were the Liberal politicians, who insisted on freedom of conscience and liberty of thought. There were the most advanced among gtate of affairs the Dissenters, who had for years denounced Rome as the type m 1868. of every abomination. There was a large section of the Free Church of Scotland, who had for thirty years been the loudest in denouncing the idolatries of Rome. It was impossible that Drs. Cullen and Manning should look without a smile of satisfaction at the troops enlisted under their banner. To see Mr. Spurgeon, who had thundered against them in his Tabernacle, Dr. Morton Brown, and Mr. Newman Hall, walking under the Papal flag; to find Dr. Candlish and Sir Henry Moncrieff lead up a section of the Free Church into the ranks of the Roman army, and assist the leaders of the Inquisition, was a new pleasure--an evidence of their consummate skill. Respecting the Parliamentary leaders, there was, indeed, no longer difficulty or doubt. Sir Robert Peel was dead; Lord Palmerston was gone; Earl Russell had sunk into a subaltern...
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