vernments of Europe and the memories of Mazzini and Saffi?

_Answer_. I do not. I think Mazzini was of more use to Italy than
all the popes that ever occupied the chair of St. Peter--which, by
the way, was not his chair. I have a thousand times more regard
for Mazzini, for Garibaldi, for Cavour, than I have for any gentleman
who pretends to be the representative of God.

There is another objection I have to the Pope, and that is that he
was so scandalized when a monument was reared in Rome to the memory
of Giordano Bruno. Bruno was murdered about two hundred and sixty
years ago by the Catholic Church, and such has been the development
of the human brain and heart that on the very spot where he was
murdered a monument rises to his memory.

But the vicar of God has remained stationary, and he regards this
mark of honor to one of the greatest and noblest of the human race
as an act of blasphemy. The poor old man acts as if America had
never been discovered--as if the world were still flat--and as if
the stars had been made out of little pieces left over from the
creation of the world and stuck in the sky simply to beautify the
night.

But, after all, I do not blame this Pope. He is the victim of his
surroundings. He was never married. His heart was never softened
by wife or children. He was born that way, and, to tell you the
truth, he has my sincere sympathy. Let him talk about America and
stay in Italy.

--_The Herald_, New York, April 22, 1890.

THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH.

_Question_. What do you think of the sacredness of the Sabbath?

_Answer_. I think all days, all times and all seasons are alike
sacred. I think the best day in a man's life is the day that he
is truly the happiest. Every day in which good is done to humanity
is a holy day.

If I were to make a calendar of sacred days, I would put down the
days in which the greatest inventions came to the mind of genius;
the days when scattered tribes became nations; the days when good
laws were passed; the days when bad ones were repealed; the days
when kings were dethroned, and the people given their own; in other
words, every day in which good has been done; in which men and
women have truly fallen in love, days in which babes were born
destined to change the civilization of the world. These are all
sacred days; days in which men have fought for the right, suffered
for the right, died for the right; all days in which there were
her