Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

116 The Difficulties of Re-union.
it may be seen how true it is to say, that his
cross comes from the Cross. He is the chief
cross-bearer of Christendom, and hence his
troubles. But when all political strife shall
have ceased with the last remnant of political
power ; when the College of Cardinals shall have
become more cosmopolitan, and less Italian ;
when the Primate shall belong to the whole
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Church, and not so specially to Italy ; then,
with the pure, unmixed, spiritual authority
will come clearer light, and a simpler course of
duty.
The motto ascribed to the next is "Lumen
Pope
de Coelo"
from Heaven."
"Light
If that hold
as good as this, we shall see glorious times in
deed. As Solomon followed David, the sage,
the warrior, the builder of the temple him who
was so often driven from Jerusalem, the
philosophic Preacher him, who, with whatever
failings, was the man after GOD S own heart ;
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so may it be again ; and when this true Soldier
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of the Cross shall be called to rest from his
long and weary warfare, then, with peaceful
times may come the counsels of peace. With
the East opening her heart once more to her
sisters ; with England prepared by her long
training of a hundred years ; with the Priest
hood of Italy purified by persecution ; with
old superstitions, both of priest and people, in
France and Germany, and perchance even in