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20 the attitude of the Roman Catholics is concerned, they ought to seek and obtain an authoritative statement of that which their Church requires. But while this may be a very excellent and prudent course for them to take as members of the Church of Rome, they cannot expect that Protestants will submit their claims or position to the tribunal he suggests,—the Roman Pontiff,—at the moment when in the Province of Quebec, we see the interpretation put upon the Syllabus and Vatican Decrees by the Hierarchy. "Ultramontane" writes apparently under the impression that the Bishop of Montreal is the only prelate who has taken up an extreme position, whereas, in point of fact, the difficulty would be to find one who had not. It is true, Mgr. Bourget is the most outspoken, but his opinions are equally acted upon by other Bishops, and have in no respect been condemned by the Archbishop or Council of Bishops.

At the fifth Provincial Council of the Hierarchy, held at Quebec in 1873 (approved by the Pope in