ON THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTS OF THE Schism from the Church of Rome, CALLED THE GERMAN-CATHOLIC CHURCH, INSTITUTED BY JOHANNES RONGE AND I. CZERZKI, IN OCTOBER 1844, ON OCCASION OF THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE BY SAMUEL LAING, ESQ. AUTHOR OF "A RESIDENCE IN NORWAY,' "A TOUR IN SWEDEN," A TRAVELLER," A TRANSLATION OF THE HEIMSKRINGLA,' "NOTES OF SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. PREFACE. THE establishment, and endowment by the State, of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is the great question of the nineteenth century." Religious feeling, raised by principle or prejudice, is already agitating the great mass of the Protestant population. The educational endowments of Maynooth as a seminary for priests, and cf four colleges for the lay community of the Roman Catholic Faith, are considered, whether justly or not, as indications that these are but preliminary steps to a great organic change in the social state and policy of Great Britain-to the formal acknowledgment and endowed establishment of a new body in her social structure, the clergy、 the Church of Rome. The breeze which precedes the storm is already ruffling the public mind. Political expediency, the necessity of conciliating five millions of the population of Ireland, stands on one side of this great question. The weight of the deliberate judgment of many of our |