seventy times has the State wrung from the .Church her little temporal dominion necessary for the right exercise of her spiritual authority. Forty-five Popes have been either driven out or kept out of Rome. Hildebrand and the three Popes, Pius VI., VII., and IX., languished for years in exile; -and behold our own Leo of to-day robbed of his states and city, a prisoner in his last and only possession, his house; his priests and churches despoiled, his monasteries thrown down and their inmates cast out into the world, nay, his very life in danger — and all this from a beggarly government that has beggared itself in paying its minions for crying "Down with Catholicity! Death to the Pope! " There is the past record of Church and State — the Church, the highest power on earth; the State, which is but her lowly auxiliary. The Church, next to God, mankind's greatest friend; the State a perpetual dog in the manger, frustrating duties it was itself incapable of. The State claiming all for Caesar; but the Church mildly but firmly proclaiming the law of equity: "Thou shalt render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God and God's Church the things that are God's."
Brethren, the question comes home very close to us. If a member of the A.P.A., or one of our music-hall brethren, were asked America's greatest enemy to-day, he would answer: "The Catholic Church." And you know, if a fool only repeats his folly long enough and loud enough, wiseacres will begin to believe him. Well, then, where did the Catholic Church ever teach to give to God the things that
