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522 GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.CHAPTER III.GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.The operations of the Roman Catholic Church extend farbeyond the limits of her ancient domain,—the Roman world.Wherever British power or British enterprise have opened apath, there comes the missionary of Rome, to plant hisspiritualand mental tyranny beneath the freeflag of Britain,Let the reader glance over the table in the Appendix, exhibitingthe stations of the Roman Church throughout theworld, and he will see that she has fixed on points so numerous,and these so centrical, either already so or prospectively,that her aim, beyond all peradventure, is to becomemistress of the globe. And the character of that Churchaffords an ample guarantee, that whatever organization,money, numbers of missionaries, and unflagging zeal can do,will be done to realize that aim. She has upwards of sixthousand missionaries at this moment labouring in her service.They are spread over all lands, from the shores ofJapan to the forests of the west. We need not speak ofthe countries of Europe,—the populous, and civilized, andwealthy regions of the globe. There we find her dignitariesin great splendour, and her orders in full force. But if weextend our view beyond, we find her agents planted thickalong the line which divides the civilization of the worldfrom its barbarism,—in the principalities of the Danube,where the barbarism of the east meets the refinement of