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IHI^

CHURCH OF ROME

THE -B^lVEiMY

THE HOLY VIRGIN

AND OF

CHRIST.

STR/ TFORD :

PRINT KB BY THOMA.S MADPOOKS,

1860.

"v > . \,

THK

CHUUCH OF KOME

THE E]N3^EMY

OF THE

HOLY VIRGIN

AND OF

JESUS CHRIST,

THE mv. CHARLES CIIliNIQUY,

TransMed from llCe Fmcfi^'-

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FANNIE MACPIIEIISON.

STRATFORD :
PRINTED BV THPMAS HADDOCKS.

their brother and friend. ^ ^jjjj^jquy.

Ste. AwiC, 'Kankakee Co., llKnvls.

. . nil vft that labour and are heavy laden
Come unto me all y® J^^f^'^.^"^ xU. v. 28.)

elect? It is God *hat J«8 ifieth, who « ae^^^^ ^^^^ .^

demneth ? It is Christ '^^^ ^l^/haid of God, who
risen again, who 13 even at the rign ^...^_

also maketh intercession for us. (>^

''tL things write I uuto you that y-"j -^^^^tf,
if any man sin, we have au advocate wit
aesulchristtherig teou. 1 obn .^^ his brethren,
It behoved him to **"'.^''f";if"i,i,f„i High Priest, in

that he might be '',"'^„^"f"^l„»^^k*:Veconciu'ationfor 'the
thing, pertaining t" God^to maKe ,f ^^^j, ^^^d

o.mpted. (Heb. c. u. V. 17-18.)

P RE F A. OE*

The sentiment which has suggested this work,
that I offer to the consideration of the Canadian
and French population of America, h fully express-
ed in the title :—" The Church of Rome is the
enemy of the Holy Virgin and of Jesus Christ."

Now, Horn an Catholics will probably be sur-
prised to hear that their church is the enemy of the
blessed mother of the Saviour, accustomed as they
are to believe that the Holy Virgin is honoured
only by them. But let them read this little book
which the most devoted of their brethren offers
them, and they will be convinced that the hon
ours rendered by them to the humble and pure
Virgin of Nazareth, are sacriligious honours with
which she ought to be horrified.

For, if ever the prediction of the prophet
Simeon has had its accomplishment : *^ A sword
shall pierce through thy own soul also," (Luke
II— 35,) this has been especially the case, sine®
the Popes of Rome, forgetting all the love, grati
tude, respect and adoration due to Jesus Chirst,
have dared to say that the Holy Virgin is the only
hope of winners — the gate of Heaven — the sa

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3 S K C

>iii1«il>iMI

IT.

tj? of the world — the only foundation of their hopn
and faith — the intercessor for sinners, &c.

Far from honouring the Holy Virgin, in giv-
ing her titles which belong only to Jesus, they
have insulted her, and loaded her with shame and
grief, if we may use such expressions. To-day,
without doubt, she enjoys in heaven, the happiness
that God promises to those who love him ; and
can only have one thought and one desire, viz :
that Jesus alone may be recognized, blessed and
adored, as the only hope of the sinner — the only
gate of heaven — the only salvation of the world —
the only foundation of our hope and of our faith —
and our only intercessor in heav«n.

The more one studies the tendencies of the
Church of Rome, the more he is shocked with the
skill and formidable perseverance with which she
drags back the world to the idolatry of former
times.

The lloman Catholic Church does not yet find
her people ready to accept her hist expression of
blasphemy against Jesus Christ ; she has not yet
dared to say that the great victim of calvary —
the crucified Jesus is only a weak and feeble man
— an impostcir that we can forget without eiidan-

iir hopn

in giv-
is, they
me and
To-daj,
ippiness
m; and
re, viz :
jod and
le only
vorld —
fViith —

of the

vith the

lich she

former

yet find
ision of
not yet
[vary —
)le man
eiidan-

gering our salvation ; but, it is evident, she is
rapidly preparing the world to receive such doc-
trines without alarm.

The Roman church still speaks of Jesus Christ,
as having a certam measure of goodness^ power
and good will to save the sinner. But hardly has
she made these confessions, when she seems to re-
gret them, and hastens to destroy all their good
impressions, by assuring the sinner that, although
Jesus Christ may be very good, and very merci-
ful, it is not prudent or suitable to go directly to
him to ask a favour, since his holiness and his
inflexible justice compel him to be often, or rather
always angry, with the sinner.

Th? church of Rome confesses still ' '
that there is a Saviour of the world who .
Jesus ; but she assures us that this Jesus .
shocked and wearied with our sins, that he is
every moment on the point cf abandoning us,
cursing us, and casing us into hell! Happy
ibr us, she assures us, that we have iu heaven a
mother, who, being very dilFereat from her son,
nnd much more compassionate than he, never gets
angry with the sinner 1 She is all mildness and
pity to theguilty. W we apply to her, all is well :

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VI.

our salvation is swre ! She goes to her son, whom
she finds always ready to launch forth the thun-
derbolts of his wrath / She utters lat one word
in favour of the sinner ; and, as a good son cannot
refuse the request of his dear mother, the Saviour
of the Romans instantly forgets his wrath, and
consents to spare and pardon the guilty.

It is not from his own inherent love or mercy,
that the new Saviour invented by the Popes, shews
compassion to the sinner , it is from love to his
mother, and in obedience to her orders he pardons

us.

In the system of the Roman church, it is no
longer the blood of Calvary that cries to Heaven
ior mercy towards us sinners ; it is the voice of
Mary that prevails,and assures us of our pardon !
And this horrible blasphemy is preached as evan-
gelical truth m all the pulpits — asserted in all the
books — and propagated by all the prieats, bishops
and popes of the church of Rome. And would to
God that what we say here were but an exagger-
ation or error on our part ! But it is a sad truth :
a truth that not a single priest of the Romish
church will dare deny. To-day in the church
of Rome, the Saviour whom they preach is only
an angry Saviour, irritated against the sirnev

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VII.

whom
I thun-
e word
cannot
Saviour
h, and

mercy,

shews

) to his

►ardons

; is no

leaven
>ioe of

ardon !

s ovan-

all the

bishopvS

ould to

xagger-

truth :

lomish

church

is only

sirnev

— a Saviour whom it is almost "seloss to try to
appease by ourselves, on account of our sins ; he
is a Saviour to whom it is not advisable to go
in order to obtain any favours !

The church of Rome carries her blasphemous
doctrines; on this subject, even to absurdity.
She goes so far as to compare Jesus, the Lamb
of God, to the wicked Ahasuerus, who, irritated
against the Hebrews, could be appeased, only by
the voloe and the tears of Esther ! She compares
the huiLble, mild and merciful Jesus of the gos-
pel, to the ferocious and bloody Roman soldier,
(^oriolanus, who granted pardon to his guilty city,
only 0.1 account of his love for his mother !

Aft 3r having shown us Jesus, o' " Saviour,
angry as Ahasuerus, or furious as Coriolanus, the
Roman church not wishing, however, to throw us
altogether into despair, assures us, that in the
same way as Esther appeased Ahasuerus, and
Yeturia disarmed Coriolanus of his fury, Mary
subdues the wrath of her son, irritated against us.
And for this reason she calls Mary, ^* tJie interces
nor for simiers'' — the gate of heaven /" Thus,
according to the church of Rone, there is in
heaven a heart more merciful towards sinners
tliftvj the henrt of Jesus — it is ^e heart of Mary '

Till.

If the Popes are to be believed, there is, in heav-
en, a soul irore compaesionate to the misery o(
man, than the soul of Jesus — it is the soul ol
Mary ! There is, in heaven, an ear more atten-
tive to the sorrowful ones of the children of Adam
— it is the ear of Mary ! And this is the rea&ou,
why, to-day, all the popes, bishops and priests of
Kome, call to the wicked and the unfortunate,
*' Address Mary ! by her alone you have salva-
tion ! ' vVhat has become of Jesus Christ in this
new religion that the Popes of Rome have invent-
ed ? He is bo more than a secondary being in
heaven and on earth ! He acts no longer by the
impul e of his infinite love ; it is no longer, as
says the prophet '' Because his mercies are infin-
ite," that he pardons and that he loves ; but it is
because his mother wishes that thus, the sinner
shall be saved ! The inevitable result of this
monstrous doctrine is, that Jesus Christ is losing
more and more, his place, in the thoughts, as well
as in the hearts of men. It is no longer towards
Jesus that the hopes of men are turning ; it is to
Mary! it is no longer fiom Jesus, t\mt thoar
who are wear}/ and heavy laden, seek for rest, it
is from Mary !

And if thu3, to dishonour tiie son, is to break

IS.

1 heav-

isery of

soul ol

e atten-

P Adam

rea&ou,

iests of

rtunate,

vsalva-

t in this

invent-

iGiiicf ill

by the

nger, as

•e infin-

}ut it is

! sinner

of this

is losing

as well

towards

it is to

lat thoar

[' rest, it

break

the heart of the motber, have we not a right to
say th^t the church of Rome is the enemy, indeed,
of the Holy Virgin, as well as of Jesus Christ,
and that she pierces her heart with a sword of
grief I

Ah I if from the skies, she sees the sacriligious
incense that smokes upon her altars ; if she sees
the multitudes, so abjectly prostrated at the feet
of her statues; if she hears the blasphemous
praises that are addressed to her from all the
places, where the Pope of Rome numbers his sub-
jects; and if she could make her voice heard, she
would say to our misled brethren of the church of
Rome, ** Cease calling me the gate ot heaven —
«' the refuge of sinners — the foundation of your
*' hope and faith; cease calling upon my name
'^ in order to be saved. Jesas, alone, is, and
t' shall be, throughout eternity, the only door
'^ to heaven, the only Saviour of sinners, the only
* hope of the world, the only joy of the elect. It
''is by hU name^ alone ^ and by none other name
<' that the sinner is saved. To Jesus, and to Je-
f BUS, alone, with his Father and the Holy Spirit,
" shall be, then, all honour, all glory, all thanks,
*' in time and eternity.'

But it Is in studying thp gospel, especially.

that we see that the church of Home, insults th^^
mother of the Saviour, by insulting the Saviour
himself, in the blasphemous worship that she ren-
tiers her. And, therefore; we entreat our breth-
ren of the church of Rome, to ponder with us, the
passages of the holy scriptures that we present
to their notice, in the few chapters which follow.

May the good and merciful Saviour, enlighten,
by his Holy Spirit, each of those who may read
this little work ; and may they perfectly under-
stand that Jesus, alone, is our hope— our interces-
sor—our salvation— our way— our light and our
life, as he is our Saviour for time and eternity,

0. CHINIQTIY.

u
tl

ilts th^
Saviour
she ren-
breth-
us, the
present
>lIow.
lighten,
y read
undcr-
[iterces-
nd our
lity,
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THE e]vem:y

OP THE

MOLY VIRGIN

AND OF

JESUS CHRIST,

IS THE

chxtroh; of kome.

CHAPTER I.

THE «00D SHEPHERD ANT) THE WANDERING

SHEEP.

'« Then Jesus spake this parable unto them, saying :
'• What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if
" he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and
" nine iu the wilderness, and go after that which is lost,
"until he find it? And when lie hath found it, he
" layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he
" Cometh home, he calleth together his friends and
*' neighbours, saying unto them. Rejoice with rae, for
" I hare found il; sheep which was lost." (Luke,
chap. XV.) ^ '

Let us weigh each of these wordc of Jesus, and
meditate on them with the aid of his grace.
The good Shepherd Imth counted hii sheftp ; \,at c\\ !

unfortunately, one of them misses the call, one of
them has wandered awaj and is lost on th^ way !
This discovery is a thorn which pierces his heart; he
can no longer rest ; he is uneasy and troubled, and
he leaves there his ninety and nine sheep that he loves
so much ; he seems no longer to think of them, that
he may think only of the sheep that has gone astray.
He runs after it ; he searches every place regardless of
trouble ; and negleets no measure that may put him
on the track of his dear sheep. He is wearied and
exhausted in the search ; but no obstacle stops or
disheartens him. He loves his dear sheep so much
that he thinks of nothing else. He courageously con-
tinues to seek it until he finds it. He sees it at last !
But in what a state! Half dead with fatigue, lacer-
ated with thorns, its limbs torn by the brambles, and
not able to go another step ! What does the good shep-
herd do at the sight of his guilty but still dear sheep?
Does he load it with reproaches? Does he drive
it with the lash to make it walk and return to the
fold? No! No! The good shepherd has not one
thought of anger, not one bitter word against his
dear sheep. Its error has not in the least diminished
his love for it. . , This guilty sheep has done

much to sadden and grieve the heart of the good shep-
herd ; but his heart, though crushed with grief, has re-
mained full of love and compaHsion. We would

I, one of
hei way !
beart; lie
bled, and

he loves
lem, that
B astrav.
irdless of
put hhn
tried and
stops Ol-
io much
islj con-

at last !
e, lacer-
les, and
od shep-
• sheep ?
he drive
1 to the
lot one
inst his
linished
as done
id Bhep-

has re-
I would

say on the contrary, that the errors and misfortunes
of the poor sheep have only increased the love of the
good shepherd towards it. He sees well that it is too
much exhausted to walk and return to the fold. What
does he do ? He stoops down to it ; he takes it in his
arms ; he presses it to his heart. . . . Then he
puts it on his shoulders, and behold him, bowed un-
der his precious burden, 'carry back his dear deluded
sheep to the fold I But this is not all. The joy of
the good shepherd is so great— his happiness so sin-
cere, that he can no longer contain himself. He shouts,
he calls his friends ; he wishes that the joy which he
tastes may be shared by all the world ; he does not
allow any one to remain indifferent. "Eejoice"
says he to them '* for my sheep which was lost, is
found ! "

Behold the good shepherd of the Gospel ; behold
him described by himself— this Saviour of the world,
whose blessed name makes every knee to bow in
heaven, on earth and under the earth.

The good shepherd — the crucified Jesus, whose
gospel we preach is the juercy of God — the boundless
love and benevolence of the Eternal, incarnate in the
]>erson of the Saviour. The Saviour of the Gospel
is not angry — is not incensed against his flock, even
when they go astray. Ho loves them with a love so
great, so true, that never, no, never shall saint^i, angelf

or virgins be capable of loving them so mucli I The
shepherd — the Jesus of the Gospel, never met
among his friends, any ©ne who conld love his dear
sheep as much as he himself does. He has never
permitted, tither on earth, or in heaven, any one to
put himself between him and his sheep, to stimulate him
to love them.

The modern doctrine of Home, which tells us that
the heart of the good shepherd is so cooled and irri-
tated against his erring sheep, that he would forget
them or cast them oflf, if the Holy Virgin or some of
the other saints were not there, to remind him of what
he had suffered for them, is so absurd and so wicked,
that one cannot understand how so many weople of
intelligence permit themselves to fall into that snare.
For what re-ason does the Holy Virgin interest
herself, in the salvation of sinners, more than Jesus
himself? Why should the heart of Mary, in heaven
be more compassionate towards miserable sinners,
than the heart of Jesus? And why should her ear
))e more attentive to our prayers than that of th«
Saviour ? We can never find answers to these ques-
tions within the laws of common sense, Never shall
we be able to fiud, in the Holy Scriptnie, a single
word, that can, in any manner, serve as an excr.st-
or cloak for this menstrons doctrine. And it cer-
tainly insults the ;?nints in lieaven, ns well as J*>su,

1 1 The
v^er met
his dear
IS never
J one to
ilate him

us that
ind irri-
[d forget
some of
of what
wicked,
)eople of
it snare,
interest
n Jesus
heaven
sinners,
her enr
of th«
96 t|iies-
er shall
k single
excr. Sl-
it cer-

S JfSUf

Christ himself, to believe and say with the church of
RomCj that our salvation does not depend entirely on
the love and mercy of our Saviour ; but that this
love and this mercy of Jesus Christ, being paralyzed
by our sins, must be, as it were, incited and revived
by the compassions and by the more active and the
more efficacious mercy of the saints.

To render the sacriligeous worship which she offers
to the saints acceptable, and to induce sinners to put
all their confidence in the Holy Virgin, the church
of Rome assures us that our sins have the effect of
cooling the love and compassion of Jesus Christ for
us But, then, the church of Rome ought to tell
us how it is that our sins have not the same effect of
cooling the heart of the Holy Virgin and of the saints
who, according to the church of Rome, know all that
we do.

If, as is no doubt the case, the saints in heaven are
united in will and sentiment with God, that which
displeases God, ought also to displease his saints;
tiiat which saddens and cools the heart of Jesus Christ,
ought equally to sadden and cool the hearts of the
saints, (always supposing the system ofRometobe
true, about the pretended knowledge that the saints
have of everything that passes on the earth,) and then,
A? hilst Jesus is excited and angry in heaven, as the
popes of Rome assure us, the saints, and especially

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(ae Holy Virgin ought to partake and approve of this
wi'ath, instead of opposing it and hindering its efifects.

Behold the misfortune of the church of Rome. Having
left the word of God, which is the only guide of the
human mind, to follow the fables and traditions of men,
she has forgotten that Jesus is our intercessor in heav-
en ; not only the intercessor for saints, but for sin-
ners ; she has forgotten that this intercessor is sufficient
and that consequently there is no need of another ;
she has forgotten that thousands and thousands o^
times, Jesus has said to sinners, '' Come to me and ye
shall be saved." . . . And that he never said,
'' Come to my mother, or to such and such a saint,
and ye shall be saved," , . . The church of Rome
has forgotten that the name of Jesus is the only name
that we can call on to be saved. She has forgotten
that St. Paul, or rather the Holy Spirit, by the mouth
of St. Paul, said, '' For we have not an High Priest
" which cannot be touched with the feeling of our in-
" firmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we
" are, yet without sin, let us therefore come boldly
" unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy,
<' and find grace to help in time of need." (Heb. 4
chap., 15 and 16, verses.

The church of Rome, having then forgotten that Je-
sus was always good and merciful , but believing and
preaching to the ])eoph', whom the has deceived, thnt

iJesus
ting thf
and al
ready
then t(
this Je
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other \
whom
mercy
the tr
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their p
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•' fathe
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•' ed all
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** living
•' mighl

>ve of this
its efifects.
fne. Having
uide of the
Dnsof men,
or in heav-
)ut for sin-
is sufficient
3f another;
ousands o^
tne and ye
lever said,
h a saint,
i of Rome
only name
forgotten
:he mouth
gh Priest
of our in-
ke as we
7me boldly
lin mercy,
(Heb. 4

I that Je-
sving and
ived, thnt

fJesus Christ was often angry with the sinner, and see-
ing that sinners need to have a Saviour always good,
and always merciful, a Saviour, in a word, always
ready to receive those who come to him, is bound
then to invent and try to find another Saviour than
this Jesus, whom she tells us is always angry. . . .

vThen she creates other Saviours in heaven ; she seeks
other fiends — other intercessors-— other advocates, to
whom she has sacriligiously accorded all the goodness,

imercy and unfailing kindness, of which she has robbed
the true Saviour!

But let us hope that our brethren of the church of
Rome will soon understand that they are deceived by
their popes, it is not Mary, but Jesus who is the "gate
of heaven, the hope of sinners, and the salvation of
the world."

CHAPTER II.
" THE PRODIGAL SON AND HIS FATHER."

Jesus said to them again, * A certain man had
" two sons, and the younger of them said to his
" father,' • father give me the portion of goods that
*' falleth to me.' And he divided unto them his living.
*' And not many days after, the younger son gather-
*' ed all together and took his journey into a far coun-
*" try, and there wasted his substance with riotous
« living. And when he had spent all, there arose a
^ mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in

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" waul Ana he went and joiaed himself to a cit'zcn
'' of that country, and he sent him into his fields to
'' feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly
" with the husks that the swine did eat, and no man
" gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he
'* said, how many hired servants of my father's have
'' bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hun-
*' ger I I will arise and go to my father, and will say
'* unto him. father, I have sinned against heaven,
'^ and before thee, and am no more worthy to be cal-
" led thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
'* And he arose and came to his father. But when he
" was yet a great way ofi; hig father saw him, and
" had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and
" kissed him. And the son said unto him, * Father,
" I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy sight, and
" am no more worthy to be called thy son.' But the
*' father saiJ to his servants, < bring forth the best robe,
" and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand, and
" shoes on his feet; and bring hither the fatted calf,
*' and kill it, and let us eat and be merry. For this my
" son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and
" is found.' " Luke 15 chap., 11-24 verses.

Is it possible to read this History of the Prodical
Sou, without shedding tears of tenderness and admi-
ration,at the goodness,the kindness and the inexhausti-
ble mercy of this good father! Had not he a
thousand causes of complaint against his guilty son ?
Could not he have loaded him with reproaches well
merited ? Had not the heart of the father cause to
forget his affection, after so long— so cruel an absence ?
Was not the rags with which he was covered sufficient
evidence of his shameful excesies? But nothing of

a cit'zcn

B fields to

his belly

1 no man

imself, he

er's have

with hun-

i will say

t heaven,

to be cal-

servants.

when he

him, and

aeck and

* Father,

ight, and

But the

best robe,

land, and

tied calf,

r this my

lost, and

1 Prodical
id admi-
exhausti-
lot he a
Ity son?
jhes well
cause to
absence ?
sufficient
^thing of

the kind appeared in this divine parable of the Pro-
digal Son, where Jesus wished to paint himself, such
as he is, *' A father always tender, always indulgent,
always patient, always of boundless mercy !' Does it
not seem apparent that our good and adorable
Saviour, Jesus, wished to confound and
destroy, before-hand, the sophistry and blas-
phemies of the church of Rome, in the para-
ble ? Oh ! the poor Prodig-al Son knew well the
heart of his father, when in the depth of his profound
misery, he cried : '* 1 will arise and go to my father 1'*
You see, how it is to his father alone his
thoughts and his heart turn ; how it is to his father
alone he goes ; how it is his father alone that he
meets ; how it is to his father alone he speaks ;
how it is from his father alone he receives his
pardon.

From one end of the Gospel to the other, the
truth, the most certain and the most frequently expres-
bed, I say more, the truth of truths, the grand truth
which sets off each page — each word of the Gospel, is
that Jesus is the personification — the incarnation, if we
may so express it, of the meicy — of the love and infi-
nite compassion of God to man and to sinful man
Each page, each word of the Gospel is irrefragable
proof that Jesus and Jesus aloiie is, par excellence, the
friend, the Saviour of the penitent sinner. And the

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? '*a*#,S':M.-i:iJ«i4:KtVi.,

parable of the Prodigal Son is the most sublime expres-
sion, in words, as Calvary is the most sublime proof
in action, of the infinite and inconceivable love oi
God for guilty man. The great desire of Jesus Christ
is, that men may believe on this love and bound-
less mercy with which his heart and soul abound for
them—Jesus wishes it. I would dare to say that
the great ambition of Jesus Christ is, that men may
understand that they have never been loved by any
one, as they have been by Hinit and that no one ever
c&n lore them as he does.

In reading the history ot the Prodigal Son, one
feels that Jesus Christ wishes entirely xo remove
the monstrous idea that there could be any one, upon
earth, or in heaven, whose heart could be more merci-
ful, more compassionate or more loving than his own,
towards the poor Prodigal Son.

See with what care the Saviour puts, absolutely,
no one between the father and the guilty son ! You
neither see brothers, nor sisters, mother, angels, nor
saints interfere m this divine reconciliation of the
fallen child of M^m with b's Heavenly Father, his
Saviour and his God! Oh! what a fresh outrage
would not the guilty son have caused the heart
of his father to suffer, if he had said : " I have s offend- ,
ed my father, that he will neither wish to receive me
nor to listen to me, . . , I must speak to him

W M1«" » «

le expres-
me proof
B love 01
sus Christ
d bound-
bound for
say that
men may
d by any
3 one ever

Son, oae
CO remove
one, upon
ore merci-
u his own,

absolutely,
on ! You
ngels, nor
on of the
'ather, his
h outrage
the heart
e s oflfend-
receive me
ik to him

through some one ela^. ... I dare not present
myself in these rags ; he would not receive me.
. . . I will plead my cause through some of
his better friends — throughjmy brothtr who has always
so faithfully loved him 1 " Do we not perceive that
such language would have been an insult to the love
of the good father, - - - and in permitting
sentiments of distrust in his kindness to enter his
mind, the Prodigal Son would have rendered himself,
more than by ail his past misconduct, unworthy of
his pardon which he came to implore 1

And yet, such is the deplorable doctrine of the
Church of Rome ; she sees the poor Prodigal Son
overwhelmed under the weight of his misery ; and
instead of pointingr him to the Saviour^ the Jesus of
the Gospel, always ready to receive him in his arms,
always ready to giva him the kiss of peace, always
ready to forget the past at the first cry of grief es-
caping from the penitent heart ; she shows him a
Jesus, a Saviour, totally different, a Saviour always
excited and in bad humour, who can be approached
only by the saints. . , The sinner, in the Church of
Rome, is advised to keep at a great distance from
his angry Father ; he can neither embrace his feet, nor
throw himself into his arms, and sprinkle him with
the tears of his grief, without first getting all the
angels and saints in Paradise to intercede for him.

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If a priest of the Church of Romo had met the
Prodigal Son as he was returning to his Father, what
would he have said to him, if he had spoken as his
Church speaks to-day to the sinner ? " My poor child!
«« Thou dost well to return to thy Father, to ask
« pardon for thy sins, but thy conduct has been so
« blameable that he has every reason to be angry with
*' thee. ... In tiuth you run a great risk of not
•'being heard at all, or at least being badly re-
«« ceived by thy Father. . . . Take my advice,
" thou hast in the house of thy Father, a brother
'< whose conduct has always been irreproachable. .
•' go first to him, and pray him to ask pardon for
^ithee, from thy father. . . . What thou
" wouldaet be refused, on account of thy wicked life,
" and thy black ingratitude, will be easily granted at
<• the prayer of a son, so virtuous as thy brother.''

But the Prodical Son would have answered the
priest of Rome : " Ah 1 You do not know the heart
" of my father, when you use such language ; although.
«« I am unworthy to be called his son, and to sit at his
«« table, he is so good that I am certain he loves me
«« yet. Nobody ever loved me as my father did,
a he is the best, the most tender of fathers. Priest of
«» Rome, do not hinder me from going to him. . . -
i« I go to throw myself at his feet. ... I wish

»» to speak to bim mysoif. ... I kaow there \^

I met the
her, what
:en as his
poor childl
r, to ask
18 been so
vngry with
risk of not

badly re-
ay advice,

a brother
[ichable. ,
pardon for
^hat thou
'icked life,

granted at
other.''

swertd the
w the heart
; although,
to sit at hid
lie loves me
'ather did,
. Priest of
im. . • •
, « I wish

** no one in the house of my father, nor aay where else,
" whose love and compassion can equal his own. —
" Oh! if you knew what a father I have leftl If you
" had seen his tears and his sadness when I was leav-
" ing him 1 If you had heard his sighs ; if you had
*' seen his bitter grief 1 Far from giving me thoughts
" of distrust in his mercy ; far from telling me to
" go to others to prepare the way of return, you would
<* tell me to run to him, and to him alone. " Priest
" of Rome " the Prodigal Son would have said " you
" do not know my father ; go on your way ; leave me
»« to go straight to him ; as for me, I know him 1
" Since you do not know my father better. Priest
** of Rome, cease trying to diminish the confidence I
" have in his goodness ; begone ! If you knew what
"I have suffered since I left my father! how much I
** suffer still each moment that I am separated from
'• him — if you knew how I hasten to see him again, to
" throw myself at his feet, you would not make the
<* way of my return longer than it already is 1 Priest
»< of Rome, do not hinder me from flying to my father
" at once ! Him and him alone I have grieved and
" offended ; from him alone I wish to receive my
" pardon. Oh since the day :hat I said : * I will go
»' to my Father,' and that I tore myself away from
»* the places that were witnesses of my abject misery,
" to return to him, if you knew with what joy ray

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" heart is overwhelmed, in spite of the shame and
" grief that I feel on account of my wanderings, I
'* have this hope in me, that my father will receive
<' me with kindness. Oh ! Priest of Rome, I adjure
"you, do not keep me back, nor lessen that hope
'• that has been my strength and my joy on the
*' way of my return to my father ; do not trouble me
" any more, I beseech you ; I go to my father, and
" nothing in the wodd will hinder me from throwing
" myself at his feet and speaking to him myself 1"

And if the Priest of Rome had wished to press his
sophisms to prove the necessity of seeking some one to
appease the wrath of his angry father, the Prodigal
Son would have shut his ears and kept aloof, with
grief and disgu8t,from a man who knew so little about
the heart of his father ; he would have quickened his
steps in order to make up time which the Priest of
Home had made him lose.

In order to deceive the people and make them swal-
low becter the poison of her destructive doctrines, the
Church of Rome is aonstantly saying that the heart of
woman, a mother, is always more tender and more
sensitive than that of a man, a father. But applied
to the love of Jesus Christ for man, this comparison
is extremely wicked and blasphemous. ... It is
an insult to Mary as well as to Jesus Christ, Whilst
this argument is carefully pondered, there is not a

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mmtmut

ime and
rings, I

receive
I adjure
bat hope

on the
mble me
her, and
throwinjj
Blf 1"

press his
ne one to
Prodigal
»of, with
tie about
ened his
Priest of

em swal-

rines, the

I heart of

nd more

t applied

tnparison

. It i8

Whilst

is not a

Romish Priest who ought not to blosh ; there is not a
single member of the Church of Rome who ought not
to be horrified.

Let us suppose,a8 they wish,that the Holy Virgin dur-
ing her mortal life was good and compassionate towards
sinners — that she desired their salvation with all the
Btrengtu of her heart, so pure and so loving, is it pos-
sible to meet a Roman Catholic so blind as to say or
think, that the compassion or the love of the Holy
Virgin, during her life on earth, was greater, more
sincere, or more eflScacious than the love of Jesus
Christ? No, I will never believe that any man, how-
ever blinded he may be, by the errors of his church,
concerning the Holy Virgin, can thus put her, deliber-
ately, above Jesus Christ, because she was a woman
and Jesus Christ was a man.

The most blindly devoted to the worship x>f Mary in
the Church of Rome, if he will take the trouble to re-
flect, will be forced to confess, that the compassion, the
mercy and the pity of Jesus Christ for sinners, during
his life, were infinitely greater and more efficacious
than that of the Holy Virgin ; well then, if it was so,
that JesuB and Mary were alike upon earth, how shall
it be otherwise to-day ? Is it possible that, since they
are in heaven, the love and the compassion of Jesas
Christ have become less real, less efficacious than that
of Mary i And that the compassion and the love of

■M

the Holy Virgin, have obtained a degree superior to
that of our Saviour, since Jesus Christ is seated glori-
ously, in body aad in spirit, at the right hand of his
father, where the Gospel shows him to us, constantly
occupied in pleading for sinners !

It is true that God has put in the heart of a woman,
and especially of a mother, inexhaustible treasures of
goodness, affection and pity ; but it is, and will be
eternally true also, that the God who has put in the
heart of woman, of a mother, these treasures of com-
passion, has kept for himself & compassion and love for
the fallen children of Adam infinitely greater, than all
the love that ever was, or ever will be in the heart of
woman, even a mother, without excepting the Holy
'/"irgin. We may exalt as highly as possible, the vir-
tues, the admirable qualities, with which God has been
pleased to adorn the heart and mind of the mother of
our Saviour; but there will always be an immeasurable
distance between her virtues and those of the Son o*
God ; there will always be an unfathomable abjss
between her qualities and the divine perfections ©fHI-i',
of whom she has had the honour to be the mother ac-
cording to the flesh, The compassion, the love and the
mercy of Jesus Christ for sinners, have always been,
and always will be, during all ages, more real, more
elevated above those of the Holy Virgin, than heaven
is above the earth. And in the presence of these

-», ■.;*

perior to
ted glori-
nd of his
onstantly

I woman

isures of
i will be
it in the
of com-
love for
, than all
heart of
the Holy
the vir-
has been
loiher of
3asurable
le Son Oi
lie abjss
s ef Hi'i',
Dther ac-
3 and the
lys been,
al, more
I heaven
of these

truths, that hell will never be permitted to destroy,
the pretended superiority of Mary above Jesus Christ,
on account of this quality of a woman, and a mother,
shall fall.

Again, if one wishes to have a just idea of what
Jesus thinks of these pretended privileges, which the
Church of Rome makes the foundation of her worship,
he has only to read what our Saviour has thought, and
thinks yet of them; for he is to-day what he was yester.
day : "While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mo-
" therand his brethren stood without, desiring to speak
*• with him. Then one paid unto him, behold thy
"motherand thy brethren stand withe .t desiring to
'* speak with thee ; but he answered and said unto
*' him that told him, who is my mother ? and
" who are my brethren ? And he stretched forth
'* his hand towards his disciples, and said, ♦ Behold my
" mother and my brethren !' For whosoever will do
" the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same
" is my brother, and sister, and mother 1' " (Matt. xii.
46-50 verse )

Were the teachings of the Church of Rome, in
regard to the pretended power of the Holy Virgin over
Jesus Christ, true—that Jesus Christ always did what
the Holy Virgin commanded him, he would have gone
to listen when she came to speak to him; he would cer-
tainly not have refused to comply with the desire she

had expressed to see him. And above all he would not
have replied to her request in these words, that ^ ill
be an eternal protest of the Saviour of the world
against the sacrilegious worship rendered to his holy
mother : " Who is my mother ? and who are my bre-
thren ? whosoever will do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister
and mother 1"

The Church of Rome accuses the disciples of the gos-
pel, as being enemies of the Holy Virgin, if they are
not prepared to give her all the honours which the
Romanists are accustomed to render to her. But if
this accusation were true, Jesus Christ would have
shown himself the first enemy of his holy mother, in
receiving so coldly before all the world, the request
which she had expressed to see him and speak to him.
But the same mouth which has said : " Render to
Cassar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the
things that are God's," wished to put us on our guard
against the worship of Saints.

It is not Jesus Christ nor his true disciples that are
the CDcmies of the Holy Virgin, and dishonour her
name, ic is rather those who give her the titles and
honours which appertain to Jesus Christ alone.

Let us bless the Lord for the grace and favour be-
itowed upon the humble and chaste Virgiu of Naza-
reth but ,let us recollect that we have only one

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should not
that ^ill
ihe world
his holy
! my bre-
y Father
and sister

r the gos-
they are
rhich the
. But if
uld have
lother, in
» request
i to hJm.
lender to
God the
ir guard

3 that are
>nour her
ities and

^ •

kvour be-
of Naza-
only ono

Saviou?,one advocate in heaven, namely Je8ug,and that
he IS essentially goodness and mercy, and that this
Saviour has said, and still says to sinners, " Come to
me !" It is to him alone that we ought to have recourse
for salvation. Let us never forget that it is his name,
the name of Jesus alone that we must invoke in order to
obtain favour; and that it is in the blood of Jesus alone,
shed on Calvary, that we must trust for the payment
of our debt to divine justiec.

Let us remember that Jesus alone, in one word, is
our hope, our strength, our light, our way, our life and
our Salvation.*

* NoTH BY THE AuTHOR.— When we say that the
Dear Saviour puts nobody between God the
Father and the lost children of Adam, we do
not deny nor forget the mission of Christ
But who is Jesus? He is God himself. He is one with
his Father. "Who sees the son, seeth the Father."
Who goes to Jesus goes to the Father through Jesus,
and who dees not go through Jesus the son of God
aad God himself, cannot go to the Father— cannot be
saved. »'For there is no other name under Heaven
" given among men, whereby we must be saved —
(Acts, IV, 12.)

Jesus the God-man, is the only friend, the only
brother, the only Saviour, the only father to whom the
sinner can go, and whose name he can invoke to be
reconciled to his Creator.

By Jesus, aLd through Jesus alone he can be accept-
able. So the Lord of Hosts has ordained it from
eternity.

And iu affirming that doctrine against Rome,there is
no want of due respect to the memory of the mother

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CHAPTER III.

THE CRUCIFIED JESUS AND THE PENITENT THIEF.

" And one of the malefactors which were handed

" railed on him, saying : ' if thou be Christ, save thyl

" self and us.' But the other answering, rebuked him

saymg : ' dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in

the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly for

we receive the due reward of our deeds,but this man

• hath done nothing amiss.' And he said unto Jesus,

Lord, remember me when thou comest into

thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, verily.

I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in Para'

dise."— (Luke. 23 chapter, 39-43 verses.)

This sublime dialogue, between Jesus, dying on the
cross, and the repenting sinner, is the most touching
summary of the design of the mission of Jesus Christ
upon earth, as it is the measure of the unlimited con-
fidence that the penitent sinner ought to place in the
nercy of the Saviour. A few reflections upon what
passed and was said upon these two crosses, are suffi-
cient, to enable us to comprehend the injury that the
church of Rome does to the Holy Virgin, and to Ine
gospel, in her efforts to turn the thoughts and the

hearts of

dation of

Daring

penitent 1

foot of t

what was

her heart

when she

to the CO

be with m

No dou

infinitely

that thej

from her i

.]§ Ihe 3p€

vary, is oi

will nevei

thoughts j

whilst, in

call to rei

ferers on

I penetratec

I in the Sa^

but with t

or doubt 1

greatest c;

But let

.'»

hearts of sinners towards Mary, as the most solid foun-
dation of their salvation.

During this dialogue between the Saviour and the
penitent thief, St John tells us that Mary was at the
foot of the cross: then we can believe that she knew
what was passing there. And how she must have felt
her heart thrill with joy, in spite of her bitter grief,
when she heard with what loving kindness Jesus said
to the companion of his sufferings "To-day shalt thoa
be with me in Paradise."

No doubt the faith and conversion of the thief, were
infinitely pleasing to the holy mother of Jesus, and
that they brought, for a moment, a happy diversion
from her sorrows.

I'he spectacle which is presented to us upon Cal-
vary, is one of such sublimity and grandeur, that man
will never be able worthily to describe it', Whilst our
thoughts go towards Jesus and the penitent thief; and
whilst, in the stillness of reflection and meditation, we
call to remembrance the words that these two suf-
ferers on the cross interchanged, we feel ourselves
penetrated by such a sentiment of love and confidence
in the Saviour, that we can no longer speak to him,

but with tears We feel that to distiust Jesus,

or doubt his love and mercy for sinners, is one of the
greatest crimes of which man can be guilty.
But let us suppose that the penitent thief, instead of

*,,.

ftddressing the crucified Jesus, and turning all the
thoughts and r.ftections of his heart, towards the Sa-
viour of the world, had turned his thoughts and hopes
towards Mar}'^, as the Roman church advises all sin-
ners, and especially dying sinners to do — puppose the
penitent thief instead of saying to Jesus " Remember
me when thou comest into thy kingdom,'' had said
what all the Popes, Bishops and Priests of Rome put
into the mouths of sinners "Lord Jesus, I have been so
" wicked, that I do not deserve to speak to you, nor
*' to be heard by you. But, behold your mother I Her
" female heart must,naturally,be more feeling and more
" compassionate than yours; 3he,then, will listen to me
" better thaa you will : she will be more easily touch-
" ed with pity for my unfortunate lot than you. Do
" not take it amiss, then, that I should address myself
'• to her, in preference to you, in order to get help, in
" the miseries that oppress me. I dare not speak to
'< yoa myself, for you are the Holy of Holies, and I am
*' a miserable sinner. But I will speak to you, through
<• your mother; she will demand from you, grace and
" mercy lor me. A good son refuses nothing to bis
" mother! You cannot, then, refuse her what she will
'* ask of you for me; for she has an authority over you,
" that you cannot disown. The favour, which, then
*' you would refuse to a criminal like me, will be easily
*' granted to her, to whom you cannot refuse anything

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X all the
33 the Sa-
md hopes
3 all sin-
ppose the
Remember
' had said
[lome put
e beea so
I you, nor
her I Her
and more
ten to me
ily touch-
'ou. Do
3S mytelf
jt help, in
speak to
and I am
, through
afrace and
ing to bis
t she will
over you,
lich, then
be easily
anything

*' You are come into the world, I know, farmed with
*' the inexorable justice of your father, to punish the
" guilty. But whilst God the Father has given to you
<• the mission of justice anu chastisement, he has given
" to your mother, the mission of mercy and pardon. I
*' know that without Mary, I am lost; for it is she

'* that is the gate of heaven, the refuge of sinners

" My chosen advocate is your mother, I fear nothing. . .
** for I know you can refuse her nothing."

We ask all men, to whom God has given a spark of
Christian intelligence, would such language,
in the mouth of the thief, have been suitable ?
Would it have pleased and honored the Holy
Virgin? In one word, would it have obtained from the
Saviour this answer : " To-day shalt ^ihou be with me
in Paradise ?"

Roman Catholics who read these lines, do you not
understand that each of these words, if they had been
spoken by the thief on the cross, would have been
blasphemy— an outrage on Jesus Christ, and an insult
to the Holy Virgin ? But see, now, without any ex-
aggeration, the sentiments with which your Roman
Church wishes to inspire you ! . . . You know that
these are the very words which she makes you learn
by heart, that she makes you read in all your books,
and iuat she announces to you by her priests, in order
that you should address them to Jesus Christ !

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Let us go OQ and suppose that after this languagd
was addressed to Jesus upon the cross, the thief, speak-
ing to the Holy Virgin, had said to her : " Oh ! Mary
" the refuge of sinners, you are the only foundation of
** my hope, and my faith ; you are the gate of heaven,
the consolation of the afflicted, the salvation of sinners 1
" It is through you alone that all the graces and bless-
** ings of heaven descend upon the earth 1 it is by you
" alone that all errors, heresies, and sins are destroyed
** in the world I Whilst your son Jesus has for his
" mission, to cause the inexorable justice of the Father
*' to reign in the world, it is your part to execute mer-
*' cy. . . . All those who put their confidence
** in you, and invoke the all-powerful aid of your pray-
'* ers, will be saved ! The arms of your son are always
" raised to punish and crush the sinner; it is yours, I
" know, to pre ent his avenging arm from striking.
'* I see that your son is angry with me ; I feel that I
*' have deserved his wrath ; be pleased then, O, Mary,
*' to appease him, and ask of him grace for me ; for
*' I am so guilty that he will not listen to me if I speak
" to him ! I put my salvation in your hands, I make
" myself your child, your servant, your slave. Regard
" me with compassion, since I deplore my sins. Cause
" him to remember you are hi<^ mother, a nd by that
** title you have full authority over him. 0, Mary, my
** hope and my refuge,! throw nyself in your arms; save
" me!"

f3*?y

'i$ih^^-^

■■Y.-^ii", ,.'i>':*.tyiAtAiS*^

language
jf, speak-
h ! Mary
iatioa of
f heaven,
'sianera !
ad bless-
is by you
iestroyed
LS for his
iC Father
cute mer-
)nfideace
our pray-
re always
5 yours, I
striking,
el that I

0, Mary,
' me ; for
if I speak

1, I make
3. Regard
s. Cause

by that
Mary, my
rms; save

Once more, we ask of the brethren of the Roman
Church, would not each of these words, in the mouth
of the thief on the cross, have been blasphemous
against Christ; would they not h^^ve been an insult
to the Holy Virgin ?

Would the humble Mary at the foot of Calvary, have
received with pleasure, these insipid praises ? Would
she have felt herself honored by these sacrilegious
prayers which the Roman Catholics repeat every day ?
No, a thousand times no! Never^would the '.Holy
Virgin at the foot of Calvary, whilst the blood of the
great victim was falling drop by drop from the cross,
h-we consented to have heard herself called the salva-
tion of the worldf the hope of sinners, the gate of hea-
ven; she would have repelled with horror, these words
of blasphemy, she would have replied to the thief : —
" Ah ! wretch, if near him who atones for the sins of
"the world, covered with his blood; a witness of his
" patience, of his mildness, and of his love even to
" his murderers, how can you doubt his pity for you ?
" If I am his mother according to the flesh he ^ my
' God, he is my Saviour as well as yours, by his grace.
** You do not know then, that it was to seek and to
" save sinners that he descended from heaven ; that
" it is for sinners that his body is broken, ,his head
" lacerated by the thorns, his hands and his feet
<* pierced by the nails, and that it is from love for

gjjffl^g'^

aai

^* sinners that his blood is flowing, and that he will
" soon expire 1 He has spent his life in calling sinners
*' to himself. To the greatest among them he said :
'* ' Come to me, and you shall be consoled and par-
" doned.' His wish was to be with sinners, he was
** called the friend of sinners. Do not fear then, to speak
" to him, for he is your most sincere friend ; see the
" marks of mildness and love which shine through the
" blood which covers his face. It is he alone who is
" the salvation of the world, the refuge of sinners, the
*' gate of heaven. It is* on his name alone we must call
" in order to be saved. Your want of faith in his
" mercy and love for you, causes him more suflfering
" than the nails which pierce his hands and feet. In
" order to obtain the grace and pardon you need, ad-
:< dress yourself to hinij and to hm alone j for he only
"is your true friend, your brother, full of affection,
*' your father, full of love, and your merciful Sayiour.
•' Speak to him, then, yourself, and go hear from his
*' mouth the sentence of pardon which is already written
" in his heart. ! But cease to insult him, and to insult
" me thus, by thinking that I can love you more than
'* he loves you, and that I can be more compassionate
» towards you than he is himself 1"

Let not our dear brethren who are still in the bonds
of Romish super8tition,be deceived by the idea,that that
which would have been unsuitable and blasphemous in

1 1

\t he will
ig sinners
he said :
and par-
3, he was
i,to speak
; see the
ough the
le who is
ners, the
must call
th in his
suflfering
feet. In
leed, ad-
he only
affection,
Sayiour.
from his
Y written
to insult
lore than
issionate

he bonds
that that
emeus in

! 1r' luoutli ol the pciiiteut thiet',is altogether suitable and
christian, to-day, when Jesus is in heaven. For our
Lord, although in heaven, is as near to every sinner
lo hear and pardon him, as he was to the thief on the
cross; his ear is no farther distant from the mouth of
the sinner, who,to-olay,asks grace from him, than it was
from the crucified thief; his heart is not less kind and
compassionate, to-day, than it was at the day of his
f death; poor sinners are not less dear to him, to-day
than then. And he has no more need now than then
to be, as it were, forced by his mother, to pardon the
penitent sinner.
The penitent thief had no need of an intercessor to

touch the heart of Jesus Although the mother

of the Saviour was there present, he had not even a
thought of addressing her. He understood thnt Jesus
was his friend, his Saviour, and his God; and he did
not deceive himself. ... He put in Jesus and in
.lesus alone, all his hope, and he was not disappointed.
He spoke boldly to Jesus as one speaks to a friend, to
ft dear brother, and he did well; for it was thus, as it
. '3 still thus, that Jesus wishes that we should spenk
to him.

And to assert tliat Jesus has more need, to-day, thim
he had then, to be urged and roused or appeased by
» his mother, in order to hear from sinners wlio return to
j him, would be a childish absurdity, if not an awful
blaspbeay.

■""#

Wheu Gud, :;i bis great mercy, opens llie eyes uCa
lioman Catholic to the errors of bis church, the first
sentiment which be experiences is one of unspeakable
joy, for the favour wbicb he has received. Ibit the
second thing, wbicb strikes bis mind and beirt, is u
feeling of astonishment at the facility and sort of sin-
cerity, with which he bad received and believed, as
incontestable truths, errors and superstitions the most
palpable and anti-christian.

Now the error which is dearest and most deep-rooted
in the heart of the .ioman Catholic is, that the shortest
and surest way to be heard by Jesus Christ, and to
draw upon us a look of bis mercy, is, not to speak t(»
bim, directly ourselves, but to get some of the saints
in heaven, that we believe arc most dear to bis heart,
to speak to him on our behalf. In order to supi»ort thi>*
error, all the modern theologians of the church ot
Home assure us, that Jesus, being the Holy of Holies,
it is quite natural that he should listen with more
pleasure to the voice of one of the elect in heaven,
than to that of a sinner, such as we all are, The church
of Rome then assures us, that the saintf in heaven,
tv'homl address, will bear me with more pleasure, fa-
cility, readiness, mercy and love than Jesus Christ
would do.

For if the church of Rome, returning to tb{.> evan-
gelical truth, which Hbe liHc ^o lon^ a>rgott-n, should

^ilV 1

•' l0V(

" so i
'• tbei
•' easi
•' for
• tber

mnc

'' seeii

• Jesu

Jesus,
fbo G

In s
case t(

Ifth

uande

would

St. Pa I

"excel
'' Lord
(Philif
'li'plort
^liip of
l.mgua
would
have al
'<i)wer
iiopos \
would 1

^*^

t eyes of a
), the first
speakabk'
But tlie
lieirtj is H f
vt of sin-
lieved, as
the most

lep- rooted
e shortest
;, and to
> speak to
the saints
his heart,
)port thi>*
diurch ot
of Holies,
'^ith more

heaven,
le church

heaven,
sure, fa-
lls Christ

lit? evan-

iO* V« .r^ «<• I . *

'< >(

say lo the sinner: "There is no saint in heaven, wlio
•■' loves you su much as Jesus Christ ;. there is no ear
" so attentive as his, to the voice of our repentance •
" there is not in heaven a mind or a heart, more
" easily, or more mercifully touched wuh compassion
■' for all our miseries than the soul of Jesus Christ
" there is not a person in heaven, who can have' so
- much pleasure in hearing himself invoked, and in
' seeing himself approached l,y the penitent sinner as
^ .resus:- the people would put all their confidence iu
Jesus, and in Jesus alone, and would address him a«
the Gospel directs.

In short, would it not be the height of folly i„ ,„„
case to go ,0 any but to Jesus, to obtain anyfavom-;'

If he Church of Rome, instead of losing herself, and
-ander.ng away into foolish and vain traditir.

>■ I a 1 , And I count all things but loss, for the
■'cxce lency of the knowledge of Christ Jelus, my
< Urd ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things'-
Plulippa.ns, :i chap : 8 verse.) If. Uying aside tl,»
' •Pl".a...e sophisn. which form the U of ZVl
M> "f th. .saints, the Church of Home would hold the
l-.f!u«ge of Kvangelical Truth, her people everywh e
--IJ kno«-, tiuu in Jesus and iu JeL ,,lon Z^-
"a-all ,h. treasures of mercy,:of love, and of .
-wer of God ; their thoughts, tht-ir hearts, and |
'."pes would .urn towards Jesu. and Jesus a o. e '
-"<• know H,on , ha, the power, tl,« u„u.cy and,,

/^f FoRu^ are aiwavs active, always eftlca-
rrruTiiSa^ways-at t.e service of U.e
r2nt si»ner. He. people would "now at t^
Le, that these treasures of the mercy of !^; SavK,ur
who is both God and man, are mo-opoU^ed by no
body ; that they are not the property of any sa.nts

articular, but that they are the treasures of every
Lner who has liberty to draw therefrom alone, h..
i"pentance, love and falUi.

.. Whatsoever ye shall ask from ray father in ray
name," said Jesus Christ " shall be given you.
After such a declaration from the very l.ps of the
Saviour, how can we believe that it is necessary for
one to address the saints, in order to propitiate h.m?

For why should Jesus Christ, in heaven, ^e less
ready 'to listen to me and to pity me, than St. Peter, St
Paul, St. Mary or any other saint, to whom I might wish
to address myself. Can the humanity of St. Peter, St
Paul or St. Mary be more perfect than the humanity o
Jesus Christ 7 Why should this be ? And where shall
we find reason for such a monstrous dactrine ? lo
assert as the Church of Rome does, that the saints
being nothing above us by nat..re. and having bcQu
sinners lilce us, know better our miseries, and ought
10 sympathize with us, more than Jesus Christ, because
l.e is incapable of sin, is to deny the humanity a» well
as the divinity of the Saviour, and to deny the gospel,
which teaches us that Jesus has, not only known and
understood all our miseries infinitely better than all

.•1 4^ .1.^ Inof f.trthincr tho

^j,p a-AJnt^^, but also imid even to iho In^t farthin

<r. tlio

ilftbt of our sins, and washed tlieni away in hia blood.

How would Jesus have been able to bear eur sins
upon himself, how could he have charged himself witb
our iniquities and paid all that was due to the justice
of God, without knowing them perfectly, without com-
prehending their number, their nature, and their
malignity? But above all, how could the saviour ot
the world have undertalren to pay the debt of our
iniquities, if these iniquities had not excited in his
mind, a degree of sympathy, of compassion, and of love
of whicli all the saints together are incapable?

Once more, let us forget, for a moment that Jesu^?
riirist is God ; let us suppi^se that he is only a man,
.did let us fix our thoughts on this human person. We
:isk, can we find in the sacred scriptures a single
expression, which would lead us to think, that, as a man
jrsus is less kind, less patient, or less merciful towards
Its, thnn St, l*eter, St Paul or St. Mary ? And, more-
over, in order that I may address myself to one saint
ill preference to another, 1 must have reason to
believe, that this saint will be more favourable to nu-
lian he to whom I have preferred him. To address
myself to St. Mary, for example, in preference, to Jesus,
and to ask this woman, blessed among all women, to
-peak for me to Jesus Christ, 1 must believe that she
will hear and answer me, more surely and more quickly
than. hi'. For from the moment, that I believe that
Jesus will be more favourable to mc, and more com-
passionate to my miseries, than Mary or any other
•^nint, T would go to Jesus. Xothing more simple nnd

more natural, and for this very reason, nothing more
powerful than this argument. Well, plain good sense
as well as the gospel tells me, that if Jesus were only
a man in heaven, he would be there, as he was upon
earth, the most compassionate, the most loving, the
most chu liable, and the most influential of holy
men. An., consequently, (always supposing that he
is only a man) even then I would address only him in
my prayers. It is in this man Jesus that I ought to
put my greatest confidence ; it is from this 7nan Jesus
that I should expect the promptest aid ; it is to this
mati Jesus that I ought to speak with most faith and
pleasure.

And the most ignorant, as well as the most learned
of my brethren of the Church of Rome, will be forced to
confess that I am acting wisely. They could not but
confess that those who put their trust in saints, less
kind, less influential, less merciful than my saint
protector and friend^ Jesus, would, to say the least of it
be deficient in wisdom,

But would any one dare to say, that the holy hu-
manity of Jesus has lost any of its love, its mercy, its
influence, or its kindness ^towards the sinner, by its
perfect union with hia divinity ?

Xo|! It is impossible that any Roman Catholic would
dare, designedly to utter a word so wicked and sense-
loss.

Well, it is, nevortheless, what all Roman Catholics,
unconsciously do and say, each time they shrink from
speakinc to Jesus GhristJ'^nder tb.e nretext that he will

J more
sense
re only
3 upon
ig, the
f holy
that he
him in
ight to
I Jesus
to this
ith and

learned
reed to
not but
ts, less
■ saint
St of it

Dly hu-

[•cy, its

by its

; would
[ sense-

tholicg,
k from

hft trill

to hear I If u .3 poss.ble that>a„ i„ aeave„ love, .h
ana hears us wUh pleasure, it is still more possible a„,,
more certam that .he God man will listen to „s ,vi
pleasure, and answer us in his infinite mercy

It .s then inconceivable folly, to leave the Go4 ,„<„,,
to shrmk from speaking to the God man and to distruM
the God man, m order to address a man and to put all
our hope in a were ;/m/i!

But this folly becomes an inexcusable crime, an
abommatiou, an act of idolatry, when this God man h.s
descended from heaven, to teil ug himself that ho 1.
<^r,fnend,ourl»oU,er, our Saviour, our advocate, on

W/, our God infinitely good, infinitely merciful, and
inhnitely kind.

OHAPTER IV.
^ K VKl'L L ULASIMIEMIES OF THE CIIMK u uf KOMF
IN REGARD TO THE HOLY VIKGIN AND JESTS

CHRIST.

i-'IRST BLASPHEMY.

'' If the tiesh Of Mary was the flesh of Jesus, how chi.
- the mother be separated from the sou in his kingdom V
'• fhMice It follows th... the regal glory must not only be
"considered as commuu to the mother and the ^on/bu'
''even the same.' (Glories of Mary, chap. 1st. pnge

bECO.ND liLA.Sl'UKMV.

u J;,tbeLo>-d has divided it; he has re«erv^^ -
.. k nX of justice for himself.and he has granted the
a k „f dom of mercy to Mary. And St. Thomas says,
..SieHoiy Virgin, .hen ^''e -nceive the .v,
a Word ia■her^vomb, and brought him forth oblaine
u Z half of the kingdom of God, by becoming queen
. of mercy, Jesus Christ remaining king of jnstice.
(Glories of Mary ch»p. 1st. page 28.)

THIRD BLA3PH1MY.

.. Lo- , thou hast given to tliy son thy justice, be
.. cause tho; has given to the mother of the king thy
^ercy." (Glories of Mary chap. 1st. Page 28.) And
Mi impious idea, that the Holy Virginis more mercifu
and m re tender towards siHners than Jesus Chmt ..
"peated a thousand times in this book of the " Glorie.

"^Tthe'lirst of these extracts, we hear the rbuvch
„f Rome, assure us, that the glory and the power of the
Holy Virgin are equal to the power and glory ,.l .lesus
Christ. In the second and third extracts, the Kom.sh
Ghurch, surpassing the first_ bUsj)hemy,_slmw^s^^^^

7tM3' book was' written by an Italiau IJishop,

„,X'l'Lignori, who '-s been added to the „n,nber o
the saints. It had also been approved of in themn oi

crnonizltion, and so by all the foP-Xc, w "Suo
Rome-the English trans ation from which we quote
i,«« T^rPfixed the approval of Arch-Bishop Hughes oi
New' York, given shortly before his aeatu.;

Jesus Christ, stripped of his mercy by God the Father
for the benefit of the Holy Virgin. There only remain
to Jesus Christ, justice, punishment,fire, hell! Mercy
which at first belonged to him, has passed to his
mother!

In truth, ■ ave tlie great infidels— Voltaire and the
other leaders of his school, been more insulting to
Jesus Christ and the Holy and most blessed woman
who became his mother according to the flesh ?

fouHtii blasphemy.

''Ahasuerus, when he saw Esther before him,
"affectionately inquired of her, what she had come to
•'ask of him! ''What is thy petition?" Then the
''queen answered, ''If I have found favour in thy
"sight, oh king, give me my people for which I re-
"quest;' Ahasuerus heard her, and immediately
" ordered t' > sentence to be revoked. Now, if
'■' Ahasuerus granted to PJsther, because he loved her,
" the salvation of the Jiws, will not God graciously
''listen to Mary, in his boundless love for her, wher
"she prays to him for those poor sinners who re-
" commeud themselves to her ?," (Glories, chap. 1st.
page 30.)

If the Holy Virgin could shed tears in heaven, would
she not weep when hearing Jesus Christ compared, in
his love for us, to the wicked Ahasuerus, in his love
for his wife? What grief and what consternation, in
lieaven, if, as the Romish Church says, the saints can
see all that passes here below ! What grief for the
mother, nnd the dispiplos of the Saviour, to ?ee so

..any millions of souls, deceived by the Popes of Rome
taking away from Jesus his crown of mercy and love,
for the benefit of a creature )

FIFTH RLASPHEMY.

.. If a mother knew that her two sons were deadly
..enemies, and that one was plotting against the Ufe
..of the other, what would she do but endeavour m
.. every way to pacify him ? Thus, Mary is the mother
.. of Jesus and the mother of man; when .he sees any
» one, by his Bins, an enemy of Jesus Christ, she cannot
..endure it, and makes every effort to reconcile them.
(Glories of Mary chap. Ist. page 71.)

Thus this Saviour whom the gospel reveals to us, as
.ood, mild, and compassionate to si«nm, so as even
lo shed his blood for them-this Saviour, who loves h.s
murderers, who pardons them, and prays his Father for
them, saying, " Father forgive them for they know not
whatthey do ; this Saviour of whom John says ; Behold
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the
world" the Romish Church represents to us, as Aahng-
the sinner with a mortal hatred 1 A ^ ccording to the
Popes, his reconciliation with his »u.ml brother, be-
comes possible, only because Mary interferes to recon-
cile them 1 It is not from love for «9, poor sinners it
13 not from compassion, kindness, nor free grace that
Jesus pardons us, and becomes reconciled to us ; it is
from love and obedience to his mother 1 It is thus that
the sublime doctrine ofthe mercy, and infinite mve of

«K

Rome,
a love.

deadly
the life
rour in
mother
ees any
I cannot
1 them/

U3, as
as even
)ves his
Either for
:now not
" Behold
IS of the
as hating
ag to the
ther, be-
to recon-
linners, it
jrace that
us ] it is
thus that
,e love of

God to fallen and sinful mau, is entirely travestied,
lessened and profanely destroyed by the Romish
Church! And she calls that honoring the Holy
Virgin ! If it is thus that she loves to be Lonored, she
ought to feel herself highly honored by the Jews when
spitting in the face of our Saviour !

SIXTH BLASPHEMY.

We read in the 2nd book of Kings, that tue vvist<
''woman of Thecua said to David ; " My Lord f had
'^ two sons, and for my misfortune, oue has killed the
['other; so that I have already lost a child ; justice
' would now take trom me my other and only son,
" have pity on me a poor mother, and do not let me be
-deprived of both my children." Then David had
'compassion on this mother, and liberated the criminal
1^ and restored him to her. It appears that Mary offers
' the same petition when Gi)d is' angry with a sinner,
who has re-oursc to her ; Oh my God, she says tj
him, I had two sols Jesus and man : man has killed
"my Jesus 'on the cross, thy justice would now con-
•' demn man, my Lord, my Jesus is dead, have mercy
'' on me, and if I have lost one, do not compel me to
- lose the other also. Ah, God, assuredly, does not
'' condemn those sinners who have recourse to Mary,
"and for whom she prays." (Glories of Mary chap.
1st. ]»age 73-74.)

These Hues which we copy, verbatim, from the

e«leU»leU IComau Catholic book. " >"« *>'-;^^

arv •• prove that the Cburcb of Rome wishe,, not
i;V\tUeHo,yYir.lnshouMbeauinte.ee^r

advocate between «s and .Tesus m -^J-'J

...oreove. tbat sbe sbouW be ^^ ^^'^^^^^'^Z
.,. ..I Ooa tbe Fatber-tbat wb.b .^^^^^^^^^^

.,f absurdity -\ -^'^^^;,, J \,.Uroued frou.

rc:■:^::;r-.er;pe.or...ro^^^^^

;i,eFatberisabouttos,aytben.urderer.eeUs
te.rm bim of bis wratb. And, as one may eas.ly .e

bTnoiy Virgin demands ,vace -^ P-dou from
Eternal Father for the sinner, the -^^f"^^'^'"
resus-it is not in the «am., or for the /«.« of Jeus
lies it; it is not in t..e name of the -ood.^^^^^

,„s flowed from calvary, '^^-^ ^^« -•=''\' ^j; ;„„
wrath of God the Father, it is on account of her owi
vviathot uou ..^,.i,f which «/,<• experienced

love ; it is I '-ause of the g) lej, wuii.

in seeing both her sons dead

With this monstrous dootnne, .t i» plam tu
Gospel is a fable, Jesus Christ is no longer anything.

The Virgin Mary is all in all ! '• '•

■ tlie enemy (

Lord, how ions wiUt thou permr
ternal S^on to defile the earth, vn

thy

,h her blaspaeiuifS'

n'iea of
les, not
;sor and
en, but.
between
5 height
ioctrine,
ed from
ed liini !
irs -, he is
^in Mary
ling that
J seeks to
easily see
1 from the
)f his son

of Jesus,
ood which

avert the
,f her own
?:qjerienced

n that the
; anything.

leray of thy

((

i U

and deceive the pooplft redeemed by the blood of
Calvary ?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMY.

" Justly then, does St Lawrence Justinian call her
'' the hope of evil doers, since she alone can obtain
their pardon from God." (Glories of ..fary page 83
chap, 2nd.)

EIGHTH BL ' ■'PHEMY

" God did not destroy ma fter his fall, because of
" the peculiar love that he bore !iis future child Mary.
» And there is no doubt, that all the mercy and pardon
'' which sinners received under the Old Laws were

granted theji by God, solely for the sake of this
'^blessed Virgin." (Glories of Mary chap. 2. page. 81.)

All the Prophets, all the Evangelists, all the Dis-
ciples of Jesus Christ, without a single exception and
Jesus Christ himself, have assured us that it wag only in
the prospect, and for the love of a future Saviour, that
the blessings of ancient time have been given to man-
God himself, speaking to Abraham of the Saviour that
should be born of him, assured him, that in him all the
nations of the earth, should be blessed. ... We were be-
lieving till now, that the brazen serpent raised in the
wilderness, the sight alone of which healed the sick
who looked at it, was a figure of Jesus Christ and of
the pardon granted to all those, who turn towards
him, their hopes, their aflfections, and their hearts.
-t was of thi.q that JeHus himself assured ns in St. .John

•50

..vcs the express '''^^ pu^l'c ' ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^

opinions of the Prophet , of the Ap ^^^ ^.^^^^^

OhrUt himself. Accoi = ^^^ ^^^ ^,^,.

of Rome, there is no do.M ut aU ^^^^ ^^^^^^,,
,lon, obtained under the oW

,„,e.yforthesakeof Jjaryl ^^_^^ ^_^^^^^^ ^„, ,,

Let us hope t^at tl ^o ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^_

„vil, and that our b'^'l'^"" '\ , eaches, will
,,M„g what Uasphenues ^^"^ J^^^l^lJ^ ^„ j,,„ th.
,,ia,ara.v from it with horror, nd e ^__^^

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t„e Son hath etern; l>f<- <.^

^^-^"'^ NisT.i m,^s^■lIEMV,

u St. l5onavent..e remarks ;'-' '^^^^^ „„, ,,
1 M Uplmld thou art angij
. lamented and said, Behold ^^^ ^^^^^,^

.M.ave sinned, there .no t,^^^^
. hold of a,ee ; >^-a«s M^ " ^.^^^ ^^^ ,>„„,,,

. world, lint now, if '"Od is o U.n

.,„ndMary undertakes ^M-tec 1 • ■

.. ,ue Son from punishing hmi, and. a^u, an..

,„■ Mary, chap. Hi., V- 1^3) ^,, ^,^ ,j,„„„,,

The Holy spin.. Jj-^ ;l_ ^ „„,„, „,

Jesus
ishops

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;ranted

out oi"
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es, will

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ht hand of
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?brpws, th<»

same spirit tells us of our Saviour "He is able also
to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by
him, seeing he '^ver liveth to make intercession for
them. (Hebrews vii. 25.)

In the first epistle of St- John chap. 2nd. the same
Holy Spirit by the Apostle tells us ; '-I write unto you
*' that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
" advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
" And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for
*' ours only, but also for the sin? of the whole world."
{I. John chap, ii, v. 1-2.)

The Evangelist then assures us, that Jesus Christ in
heaven, is earnestly interceding for sinners; he is
always engaged in asking mercy and pardon for us, as
the price of the blood which he shed upon the cross — of
the grief which he endured and the death which he

suffered But the Church of Rome does not

believe on this Saviour, who is constantly interceding
for poor sinners. The new gospel of the Popes, only
tells us of a Saviour always offended, and in wrath
against the siuner. The Saviour which she offers to
her people, after having put aside the merciful Jesus
of the gospel, has his arms alway" raised to crush and
punish the sinner. And she assures us that if these
awful arms have not crushed us under the weight of
his wrath, it is not from tiic love and mercy of Jesus
Chrigt, but from the love and mercy of the Holy Virgin
ihnl we escape ! ! And tho«o frightful doetrinos are

■r ggi'»--ii«g:- ^

eallert ■' the (Horics "f Mary !" And those who arc
horritiod by these detestable doctrines are call <1
heretics ! ! !

Lord have pity on thy people and save them Iron,

the hands of those, who would lead them in the ways

of error !

TENTH BLASPHEMY.

•Mt 's related of Oorialauus, that when he heUl
Rome be3ieged,all the prayers of his friends and of th.

u citizens could not induce him to withdraw his forces :
u but when his mother Yeturia came to entreat him
a he could not resist, and immediately raised the siege.
'' Hut the prayers of Mary are as much more powerful
u vvith Jesus than the prayers of Yeturia with her son
.« as the love and gratitude of Jesus to Mary exceed
- those of the son of Yeturia for his mother.' (Olorie^
of Mary chay., vi page 208.)

Does not one feel his heart broken with grief and
his soul struck with fright, when he hears the Popes
of Home compare Jesus Christ to the ferocious
Oorialanusl That perfidious and wicked church de-
grades our Saviour, she covers him witli contempt,
she makes him insignificant, always armed with a
whip pnd rod, in order to raise her new Goddess, her
modern Saviour, the Virgin, upon the alter of the Son
of Ood !

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lUoLherof the Church of Home, the darkue^^s which
surrounds you is very dense if you do not see, by these
comparisons of Jesus with Corialanus,by that supeority
of love and mercy of a creature over those of the Sou
of God, that they have put you out of the limits of
Christianity, and that they have carried you on, even
to the abyss of infidelity a.*d idolatry. And if the
blasphemies which you have first read, and which are
copied from one of the most approved books of your
church, do not sufiice to show you, that in the Church
of Rome, Jesus Christ is nothing, and the Holy Virgin
is all, read even the Glories of Mary, chap 9 page
293, and you will find the following words, " Where
there is no wife, says the Holy Spirit, he mourneth
that is in want." " This wife is certainly Mary, with-
" out whom the sick man suffers and mourns. So,
*' indeed it is, since God has ordained that all
" graces should be dispensed by the prayers of Mary ;
" where these are wantini? there is no hope of mercy,
<• as our Lord signified to j^t. Bridget, saying to her,
" ' Unless Mary interposes by her prayers there is no
" hope of mercy.' "

Brethren of the Church of Rome, if these words do
not yet sutfice to show you the perverse and wicked
doctrines of your Church, read at page 298 •' what the

sun does in a year, the moon does in a month.
' Hence, our relief is sometimes more immediate when

((

54
.U,e„an>eofMaryUiuvoUea.tUauwheuwe,uvoUc
utheuameofJesus,"(«hap.9page298.)

Let us compare the words of Kome, with the word of
rod aldwewmseetowhatabyss the popes tnake the
(,od, an* we w salvation m any

:::rrLe is Mother .a.e under heave,.,

Cthat of Jesus, giveu among men. whereby, we

must be saved." (Acts, iv. 12.)

,f the Church of Rome tells the truth when she

,,hat often the name of M.try accomphshc,

:;::; 12;:, thanthename of .es„s, thenthe

Tospfl lies, when it tells us that there is no othername

than that of Jesus, by which we can be saTed. . • •

Betw eu the doctrines of the Roman Church and he

aorpel,as we see them.there is an unfathomable gul -

Tre i the difference between darkness and hgbt the

m tan e between hell and heaven-Rome is the n.ght,

rgoielistheday. Rome is error, the gospel ,s

:!j..Lmeisthesi.Uoferror...ng;^^^^

Stsirsedi:: re Z^ Vho hear her, when
ells them, •■ often the name of Mary accompU b

.. more for our salvation than the name of Jesu..
ZL gospel enlightens and saves the p^^ple -ho
nstentoftwLuitsays. . There is no other nam.

taau ^li^

U;»* nf .TfieinSl

V.y which we can be saved

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and the
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ow Rome
her, when
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of Jesas.
people who
jther name
id"

BLKVe'NTH BLASPHKJWr.

" it is related by brother Lee, that he one© saw a
'' red ladder, upon which Jesus Christ was standing,
" and a white one, upon which stood his holy mother,
" He saw persoas attempting to ascend the red laddei ;
" they ascended a few steps and then fell ; they
* ascended again and again fell Then they were ex-
'' horted to ascend the white ladder, and on that he
" saw them succeed, for the blessed Virgin offered
*• them her hand, and they arrived in that manner safe
" in paradise. St. Dennis the Carthusian asks : who
" will ever be saved ? Who will ever reign in heaven ?
'' They are saved, and will cert£.'.nly reign, he himself
*' answers, for whom this queen of mercy offeru lier
'* prayers!" (Glories of Mary, chap. viii. page 279.)

After reading this history, which is perhaps tlio
most complete compendium of all the blasphemous
doctrines of Rome, upon the worship of the saints and
especially of the Holy Virgin, how is it possible not to
understand and avow that the tendencies of the Roman
Church are completely to destroy faith in Jesus
Christ, to degrade the Saviour of the world and to
prove him inferior in love, in power, and in mercy to
Mary ?

In this despicable story, the Popes and Bishops of
Rome are showing us Jesus and th« Holy Virgin, each
on tb

a it\n nf a la/lrlat* ivViinli T<AO/il<cku ■fi.yM

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heaven. Quite naturally, those ^vbo wish to go to
heaven, run to the ladder of Jesus to climb it These
men have, no doubt, heard of the love of Jesus for
sinners; they know without doubt, thai this merciful
Saviour has so loved them, that he has delivered him-
self up to the death, in order to have them with him in
heaven. Who knows even, if these good people have
not learned some where that Jesus has said to sinners,
u Come to me : call on my name, and you shall be
saved. ... I am the light and the the life. .

I am the way~I am the gate of heaven-no one can
go to heaven, to my Father, but by me," &c. &c.
Attracted by all these things, and resting on the idea,
that being the Son of God andGod himself,when he calls
them to him, he will be sufficiently good and strong to
aid them to climb ; they go then to the ladder on the
top of which is this Jesus who calls to all binner^
" come to me-"

But what is the disappointment of these poor people
who, when they have climbed to a ceriain height, feel
themselves swooning, and so weak that they run
the risk of falling 1 Probably it is then, they call
to their aid, this Jesus who is on the top of the ladder.
But, lo 1 he is deaf, and does not hear them ; they
beseech him to stretch out his hand to them . . . but
all is useless, he sleeps probably, for he does not pay
any attention to them. So, then these, unfortunate
and exiiausltju, laii lo iu« ^luuuu «xi i,rJxu-«.;

gu to

These
isus for
lerciful
Bd him-
[ him in
le have
sinners,
shall be
fe. .
one can
&c. &c.
Mq) idea,
I he calls
irong to
r on the

sinners

)r people
ight, feel
hey run
hey call
le ladder,
im ; they
, . . but
3 not pay
[fortunate

oaf? kilt

they are not discouraged, for they really wish to cliuilj
to heaven. Behold, them then again climbing ; and it
is always by the ladder, on the top of which is Jesus,
that they wish to go. See how^ they try to rise to the
top and reach even to the Saviour. But again behold
their strength fails; behold them exhausted, quite
overcome. Ah ! they had hoped that this Jesus, whom
they believed so good, so compassionate, and so merci-
ful, would hpve assisted them !

Yes ! if this had been the true Jesus of the gospel,
Tvho had been there, on the top of the ladder, he would
certainly have assisted them ; he would have held out
his hands to them ; he would have even descended to
meet them in order to assist them to climb. For Jesus,
the Saviour of the gospel, he runs after his sheep, he
puts it upon his shoulders, he brings it to the fold. The
Jesus, the Saviour of the gospel runs to meet hi«? son
who was lost— he presses him to his bosom.
But it was the Jesus of Rome, it was the Saviour,
fashioned by the Popes and Bishops of Rome, who was
at the top of the ladder. Well, this Saviour, this
Jesus of the Romish Church, when he does not sleep,
turns a deaf ear to them ; he appears not to see the
deep misery of the sinner , or if he beholds it, it is to
feel supreme disgust ; on seeing them, he prepares to
chastise them, he raises his arms to strike them, and
put them out of his sight; he is there, the Saviour
after thf- rnMnn<.i« o*' t<'M*i-»& "« ^i-- *-- -p *u ' ' i

--- — „ — .... s., ,5.jii,t*^ ^4^ i^^ lup ui toe iduuer,

by which thes« meu wish to climb to heaven , a vciy
little assistance on his part, would bring them up to
him ; but the Jesus, the Saviour of the Church of the
Popes, has hands too white and too pure to touch, with
the tip of his finger these wretches. He respects him-
self too much to notice such rabble ; he sees them
then, fall and being bruised at the foot of the ladder
without caring the least in the world.

Yes, ODce more, behold him, the Saviour fashioned
by the Popes, such as the Church of Rome herself
paints him, in her famous book of the Glories of Mary ^
But after having seen with what sovereign contempt
the Church of Rome represents the Saviour of the
world, let us see what marvellous power, what love
and what mercy are attributed to Mary.

<• Then they were exhorted to ascend the white
" ladder, and on that he saw them succeed, for the
»« blessed Virgin oflfered them her hand, and they
" arrived in that manner safe in paradise. Who will
"ever be saved? Who will ever reign in heaven ?
" They are saved and will certainly reign, for whom
.» this queen of mercy otfers her prayers." (Glories o

Mary, page 279.)

These last words neither need explanation nor com-
ment.

Every Roman Catholic whose heart is true and
honest will easily see that in his church, the Saviour
whom they preach to him, cannol bej tue

{

a very
up to
of the
1, with
,s him-
3 them
ladder

hioned
heraelf
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the gospel ; he will see that as much as the Saviour of
the Popes is a nullity, a Saviour without charity,
without any care for sinners, so much the more the
Virgin IS exalted by her power, her compassion and
her devotedness to the salvation of sinners ; he will
see, in short, that Jesu3 Christ, is insulted, unre-
cognized and dethroned, in the Church of Rome foj
the benefit of the Virgin. - And by the grace
of God, our brethren of the Church of Rome will un-
derstand that this church is as much the enemy of the
Holy Virgin as of Jesus.

But it would be necessary to write many voluQjes if
we would republi6h all the blasphemies, offered by the
Church ot Rome, in her worship of the saints, and
especially in the honours which she renders the Holy
Virgin. .....

We think ,we. have written enough, with the
grace of God, to open the eyes of our brethren of the
Roman church, to the deplorable errors, which form
the principal basis of the public worship iu their
Church.

May the Lord, in his infinite goodness and mercy,
give to each of our dear brethren and friends, who are
yet under the yoke of Roman infidelity, the same grace
which he has given us, and lead them to the feet of
Jesus Christ as their only hope— their only salvation—
and their only Saviour.

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