The-papacy-its-history-dogmas-genius-and-prospects-wylie

;PONTIFICAL RAILWAY TRAIN. 127and sabres, and that these are often had recourse to to executethedeterminations of infallibility, how can he help it?He must needs discharge his office as the worWs spiritualdirector ;he dare not refrain from pronouncing infallibly onthose high questions of duty which are brought before him ;and if others will have recourse to material weapons in carryingout his advice, he begs the world to understand thatthis is not his doing, and that he cannot be justly blamedfor it. One cannot but wonder at the admirable distributionof parts among the innumerable actorsby whom the playof the Papacy is carried on. From the stage-manager atRome, to the lowest scene-shifter in Clonmel or Tipperary,each has his place, and keeps it too. When an unhappymonarch is so unfortunate as to incur the displeasure ofmother church, the pontiff does not lay a finger upon himhe does not touch a hair of his head ; no, not he ; he onlygives a wink to the bullies who, he knows, are not far off,and whose office it is to do the business ; and thus thewretched farce goes.