has been admitted, and is a member of the Catholic Church, owing
allegiance to the Holy Father at Rome, a bond from which only the
Papal excommunication can absolve him."



VIII.--"See how these Christians love one another."

A mass-meeting of Protestants had been summoned for three o'clock
on the day designated in the letter of the Papist attorneys, to
be held in the Philopragmon Hall. That was the favorite centre
of countless movements, both well-meant and well-executed, and of
others as futile as they were foolish. Yet one could not say
that a larger proportion of the latter were connected with the
Hall than existed in as many other human enterprises of any sort.
The concession of the Romanists at first dashed the managers of
the demonstration. Their grievance was gone. Still there
remained topics for a meeting: they would rejoice over victory,
and consult about the future of the Protestant Baby.

The Secretary was an old hand at these meetings. He planned to
import into this one a sensation. Ginx's Baby, brought from the
convent, stripped of his papal swathings and enveloped in a
handsome outfit presented by an amiable Protestant Duchess, was
placed in a cradle with his head resting on a Bible. I am afraid
he was quite as uncomfortable as he had ever been at the
convent. When, at the conclusion of the chairman's speech, in
which he informed the audience of their triumph, this exhibition
was deftly introduced upon the platform, the huzzas, and
clappings, and waving of handkerchiefs were such as even that