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STATISTICS AuEAD.-The Rev. ]. De
launay. convert from The Roman Cafho ic
faith, preached in the Presbyterian Church
Of Naiehez. On Tuesday evening lat, on
The errors of Roinanism. The R1veFn-d
gentleman (who is u native oi Irdncrl
gave bis audience in The fri part M hi-
Address, sketch of his birth, early for
tunes ard education, with the circumstances
attending his convers rsion in Italy and hi
coming 70 The United States with the VII. "
to inin such Protestant denomination a.
lie thought, most strictly CONFIRMED to the
scriptnral model.


Whilst towards the close, he was awsa-
ening his hearers To a sense Of The increase
Of Papal influence in this country, be made
a calculation that startled us by the asso-
Citations that voluntarily sprang Up around
il in our minds. The Reverend gentle
man informed Us that, ten years ago, there
were only five hundred thousand Roman
Catholics in the United States, but that in
the last census, upwards Of TWO millions
were reported; and iha; in 1886 there
would be more Than forty millions Of Ro-
man Catholics in this country.


Fory millions az one religious seer TO-
ting for one President Our impression,
On the moment. was iLnt the gr.f eman
was wild III his statistical reckoning unless,
indeed. he anticipated that the Roman
Catholic worship, like The rcd Of Aaron,
would in process Of time, swallow up all
others. But when we reflected upon The
length Of time that he looked ahead, and
the conjecture arose within us, what ex-
tent of the Earth's surface il nigh; take
TO constitute Tins COUNTRY" hundred
years hence:-when we tried 10 lima gine
how far. in all directions, (in the language
Of Col. Claiborne oflhe N. o. Jeffersonian)
'',he destiny Of the Anglo Saxon race
might have s'nrged il onward within thai
time:-when we pictured California, as a
''middlc state" and fancitd ourself reading
4 Congressional Report wherein the
Member from Arkansas eloquently ad-
vocaied the interests Of the East" we
began to think that the l1riy millions Nigh;
be a very moderate calculation indeed and
that the Roman Catholics with their popu-
lation Of forty millions might find them
selves, then as now. bnstling and speeding
on amongst oversiiadowing millions ot
pro,esiants while the s-halance Of power
still remained unshallcn and undisiurbed
by the convulsions of time. or the sirug-
giles of the contestant sects for supremacy.


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