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68 Church, which is impossible, since we have His pro mise that He will never forsake her unto the end of the world; and to this promise we both are and must continue faithful if we desire to be Catholics and to remain so.

13. Dr. Schulte now passes on to the special practical matter of his pamphlet, and says: 'In order, then, to proceed to investigate with certainty what is the doctrine of the Church in respect to the relations be tween the spiritual and temporal power, we must have recourse to the utterances of the Pope. What these utterances have declared as really proceeding from him, that is the truth, and that must be believed by every Catholic, and must be the rule of his conduct.

Hereupon Dr. Schulte proceeds to represent in the following manner what the doctrine of the Church is in respect of the relations of the spiritual to the temporal power, which the Catholic Christian must believe and follow out, if the infallible teaching office of the Pope is a matter of faith. Well, he may do so. But it must be our business to insist upon this—viz. that in his representation he shall only represent that to be a matter of faith which is really and truly a definition of the Pope on faith and morals. If he does not do this—if he represents Papal rescripts which belong to the province of reversible legislation, or are mere acts of government, as definitions of Popes upon faith and