Excerpt from The Christian World, 1867, Vol. 18: The Magazine of the American and Foreign Christian Union Italy has now taken her place among the free nations of the earth In a political sense, she has been born again. Her great statesmen hesitate not to denounce, in unmeasured terms, the Papal hierarchy, and look forward to its complete humiliation as a foregone conclusion. Men who love the souls of their countrymen look to the Church of this land for aid, and they tell as if we will help them now in their endea vors to Christianize that beautiful land, it will soon place itself beyond the point where pecuniary assistance will be needed. This Society has now in that field three American missionaries, who have under their care nearly fifty Italian assistants, ministers, evangelists, colporteurs, and Bible-women. They need hundreds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.