THE IMPENDING CRISIS.

INDICATIONS OF THE APPROACH OF A RELIGIOUS CRISIS .-- THE PREDOMINATING CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE ROMAN, PERCEIVES THIS, AND MAKES PREPARATION FOR IT .-- PIUS IX CONVOKES AN OECUMENICAL COUNCIL--RELATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS TO THE PAPACY .-- RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO SCIENCE, AS INDICATED BY THE ENCYCLICAL LETTER AND THE SYLLABUS.
Acts of the Vatican Council in relation to the infallibility of the pope, and to Science .-- Abstract of decisions arrived at.
Controversy between the Prussian Government and the papacy .-- It is a contest between the State and the Church for supremacy--Effect of dual government in Europe--Declaration by the Vatican Council of its position as to Science--The dogmatic constitution of the Catholic faith .-- Its definitions respecting God, Revelation, Faith, Reason .-- The anathemas it pronounces .-- Its denunciation of modern civilization.
The Protestant Evangelical Alliance and its acts.
General review of the foregoing definitions, and acts .-- Present condition of the controversy, and its future prospects.
PREDOMINANCE OF CATHOLICITY.

No one who is acquainted with the present tone of thought in Christendom can hide from himself the fact that an intellectual, a religious crisis is impending.
In all directions we see the lowering skies, we hear the mutterings of the coming storm.

In Germany, the national party is arraying itself against the ultramontane; in France, the men of progress are struggling against the unprogressive, and in their contest the political supremacy of that great country is wellnigh neutralized or lost.

In Italy, Rome has passed into the hands of an excommunicated king.