CHAPTER VIII.
OF all titles ever assumed by prince or potentate, the proudest is that of the Roman pontiffs: "Servus servorum Dei"-- "Servant of the servants of God." In former days it was not admitted that the devil's servants could by right have any share in government.

They were to be shut out, punished, exiled, maimed, and burned.

The devil has no servants now; only the people have servants.

There may be some mistake about a doctrine which makes the wicked, when a majority, the mouthpiece of God against the virtuous, but the hopes of mankind are staked on it; and if the weak in faith sometimes quail when they see humanity floating in a shoreless ocean, on this plank, which experience and religion long since condemned as rotten, mistake or not, men have thus far floated better by its aid, than the popes ever did with their prettier principle; so that it will be a long time yet before society repents.
Whether the new President and his chief rival, Mr.Silas P.Ratcliffe, were or were not servants of the servants of God, is not material here.

Servants they were to some one.