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!CREATION GROANING. 551of God for Italy, and the object is achieved. This wouhl bean expense of but a few pence to each professing Christian.We want nothing but a plan and organization for an efforton an adequate scale. What we propose, then, is, that thisplan, or some similar one that is definite and adequate, beput before the country. Let the Christian public be toldthe greatness of the crisis, the desire of the Italians forthe Word of God, and how small an effort on the part ofeach can achieve all that is wanted ; and let Italian committeesbe formed all over the country,—a small one inevery town, or perhaps in every congregation. Were machineryset a-going, the sum needed would be easily andspeedily realized. We ought to aim at a large and specificobject, in which we will more easily succeed than in a smalleraim.Sixpence a-head from the professing Christians of Britainwould furnish the requisite copies of the Word of Godfor an effective blow at the Papacy in Rome. Nothing iswanting but concentrationand organization among BritishProtestants. Let no one stay back. " Curse ye Meroz,"said the angel of the Lord, " because they came not forth tothe help of the Lord, tothe help of the Lord against themighty." Let British Christians be told that it is a unitedeffort they are to make for the overthrow of the Papacy, forwhich they have long been praying, and which the blood ofthe martyrs, still unavenged, the groans of enslaved nations,and the commands and promises of the living God, call uponthem to essay. The cry is now loud ; creation itself travailsand is in pain for the hour. The very earth whichPopery has cursed and blighted cries to Heaven against her!The cities she has depopulated, the kingdoms she has barbarized,supplicate the awards of doom on their destroyerThe cretin of Switzerland, as he utters his idiot whine,—theserf of the once rich Lombardy, and the beggar of the onceproud Venice, as they ask an alms, — protestagainst a tyrannywhich has crushed them intowretchedness and idiotcy! The murdered liberties of Hungary,—the clankingchains of the twenty thousand captives of Ferdinand,—the