gs and feet, stand for the great
Roman Empire, which in its day was so solid and grand with its law and
order, its soldiers and statesmen. This Empire that tried the hopeless
experiment of mixing clay and iron--that is, Church and State as
inaugurated by Constantine. This nation that tried to fuse together
Paganism and Christianity. This nation that tried to stand on two equal
feet, and to encompass the whole of man, body and spirit. Well might
Daniel say of this brittle Empire that it should be partly strong and
partly weak. In conscience and the empire of the soul Christ alone is
King. No wonder that the Roman Empire has disappeared. The iron part is
now entirely gone. The Pope and the Church of Rome foolishly arrogate to
themselves to be this kingdom. They still try and believe in mixing the
iron and clay--they yet claim authority in the spirit realm. Obedience
to Christ and the Pope cannot be on the spiritual or clay side. No man
can supremely serve two masters. On the iron side no man can be loyal to
his country and the Pope at the same time. No man can serve two masters
at the same time, both of which claim and demand supremacy. These things
cannot be mixed. "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay,
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not
cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

How true the prophetic utterances of the prophet! The Catholics and
Protestants do not mix easily, not socially, not politically, nor
educationally. How are we to mix freely with those who think we are
heretics and damnable? How can we socially mix with a people so lordly
in their claims and deficient in character as many are--a people who,
when true to their profession, must be our secret or open enemies--who
sink their manhood and parental claims, so as to depend upon the priest
for forgiveness and on him for instruction? Thus, at the priest's
command, the coming generations are divided and embittered in the fact of
separate schools for Catholics and Protestants. These men of clay and
lordly air, claim rights superior to the State, despising the State
provision for education. Daniel said, "The dream is certain, and the
interpretation thereof sure." If so, as sure as the iron part has
disappeared, so will the clay.

Now a clearer view, a purer faith and greater liberty are dawning upon
our Catholic friends, which is making many of them feel too manly and
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