Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 111
are most successfully to wage war upon the enemies
of God, and the contemners of the faith, is indeed a
grave question, and one which it becomes us duly to
consider. It is not an infant power, feeble and unresisting,
that we are commissioned to bind; but a
giant, strong and resolute I The time has not yet
come, when we may meet Protestantism in the open
fieldof battle; such an attempt would be madness, and
result in certain defeat I Some of our number are
anxious that we unmask ourselves and boldly assert,
and to the last defend the claims of the mother church.
The folly of such a course, we can scarcely fail to see,
upon the cool reflection of a moment I To illustratesuppose
anyone of you should think of capturing
that imperial bird, the American Eagle, what would
be your plan 1 Surely not openly to rush upon him
in his eyrie 1 What would be the result of such
temerity 1 why, with his terrible talons, he would
grapple your flesh, and rising on his mighty pinions,
swoop from the mountain's brow and dash you headlong
down the rocky cliffs to frightful depths below I
No, you would have more discretion and pursue a
wiser policy: taking opportunity, when the proud
bird was soaring aloft, with his eye fixed' upon the
Bun,you would spread your toil, and silently await his
coming-when unawares, he would find himself ensnared
and within your power.
" A similar policy shall we find it necessary to pursue
toward this great nation. Let not America see
the papal ~hains that Rome sends to bind her with,