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

532 GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.Kegistry for the whole World, shows how fast new cathedrals,convents, and schools are rising up in many parts ofthe United States, This body had in 1850, 4 archbishops,SO, bishops, 1073 churches, 1081 priests, and a population ofone and a half million, according to the Roman CatholicAlmanac* In British America they foment divisions, toobtain concessions and grants from government. Theirgrand maxim, both in Ireland and in Canada, is, agitate!agitate ! and such will be their practice wherever and wheneverthey become sufficiently numerous. They have sistersof mercy, who offer their services to emigrants, and thus enlistthem in the support of Popery the moment they arriveon the shores of the New World. Some of their priestshave small salaries from the state, under pretext of doingcertain official duties, as the Rev. M. Diiguesney in Jamaica,who attests the Catholic soldiers in the camp barracks.*f*In Gibraltar the Romanists have five hundred pounds annuallyfrom government.The chief increase of Papists inAmerica is owing to hordes of Irish continually pouring intoCanada and the States. Ireland, in fact, is a vast popishpropaganda for both the western and southern hemispheres.The Ilomanists are vigorously working the press in America.In the United States they have one Quarterly Review, oneMonthly Review, and twelve weekly newspapers, almost allof which are edited by priests.^To return to the old world. An attempt was made inMarch 1850, in Malta, by the popish governor, Mr MoreO'Ferral, to make the Romish Church in that importantcolony nominally what it is in fact, the' dominant Church,According to one article of the Amended Code, the RomanCatholic Church in Malta was styled the " Dominant* Evangelical Alliance, 1851 ; American Statistics, by Dr Baird.t Battersby's Registry for the whole World (1850), p. 422,J The writer has seen it stated' in the" New York Evangelist," and otherAmerican journals, that Pojjish omigi-ants, located in the manufacturingdistricts of the United States, seldom continue Papists beyond the thirdgeneration.