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POPISH LOVE OF THE TRUTH.

POPISH LOVE OF THE TRUTH.

In a village on the North river, not 100 miles from New York, in March last, a clergyman while preaching a funeral sermon for a Christian Irishman, who died in the triumph of faith, observed that scripture commands us to confess our faults unto another and enjoins mutual forgiveness and reconciliation, but that no man can forgive our sins against God; that therefore we must confess to God himself and pray to him for pardon through Jesus Christ. Some Roman catholics, after they left the church, reviled the preacher as a liar, &c., threatened to brush-bait him, and one, with his gun, threatened he would shoot him. One of them in a dark night, threw a stone at a gentleman whom he took to be the minister. It missed him and cut the head of a little girl who was passing by. The ruffian pursued the gentleman, and while rushing after him to the door of his house, he fell into the cistern from which he could not get out, therefore he stripped off his clothes and put them under his feet.

In that purgatorial pit, where there was some water he remained some hours till he was almost frozen. He then bellowed lustily, and the gentleman, with an assistant, hauled him out, and gave him a suit of dry clothes, and helped him home: thus rendering good for evil. The minister said nothing about popery. Why then did they rage? Does not this fact speak volumes on the persecuting and intolerant spirit of popery?

CARDINAL JOKE BY A ROMAN PRIEST.

ONE of the popish priest of New York, has for some time past, as is currently reported, been confined to his bed and room, in consequence of not having complied with the commands of his own craft, by the requisite abstinence during Lent. One of his brethren desired an Irish papist to carry a verbal message to the priest who was tortured from the tips of his fingers to the ends of his toes with the racking gout. The unthinking creature fulfilled his commission, and delivered the following suitable memento. "Mr. **** sends his compliments to Father ****, and advises him to eat less, and drink less, and to fast and pray, as he does; and then you

CARDINAL JOKE BY A ROMAN PRIEST.

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will not be troubled with the gout!" The rage with which Father **** was filled could only be vented in language. By Saint Patrick," said he, "it is well for you that I can not stir hand nor foot, or I would kick you into purgatory at one toss, you Frightened out of his wits at the priest's denunciation, the Irishman quickly returned to give the other waiting priest who employed him, an account of his doings. He pacified the terrified messenger by assuring him, that the threat of Father **** was of no importance: as he had not his vestments on, and as the gout was inflicted upon him for penance for his sins; while he was doing that penance, he could not act as a priest.

HOLY WELL AND ROCK.-Near the village of Bin, Ireland, is a small well about twelve or thirteen feet in circumference. Around this is built a wall about eighteen inches in height, and nearly as thick. You may see on Sunday mornings dozens of poor deluded priest-ridden slaves going around this well on their bare knees and counting their beads. They place, every time they go around, a small piece of rag on a withered white-thorn bush. This they do as penance for venial sins; but before they conclude the penance, they make a kind of finish at the rock which is near the well. The rock is very large; and they go around this also on their bare knees. They have to get off their knees every time they go round, to place a small stone on the top of the rock for the same purpose as on the rag bush. There is also a small track in the rock to this they pay great reverence, which they signify by bowing each time they come opposite to it. They say, that St. Patrick having knelt on this rock, he left the track above mentioned, by his knee.

JESUITISM.-A priest by the name of Jose Maria Alpunchey Infante, visited Texas not long since, in the garb of friendship, and then addressed a letter to Santa Anna, that he had learned enough to convince him that the Mexicans ought rigorously to pursue the war against the Texans, who should be vanquished by all and every This letter was published in Mexico, to stimulate the zeal of the people against the Texan heretics.

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N this tribunal the most infamous scenes that have disgraced the world's history have been transacted. It was instituted in the beginning of the thirteenth century, for the purpose of completing the extermination of heretical pravity from among mankind. Its introduction and establishment constitute the most awful demonstration that could possibly have been given of the apostacy of the papal church, and a most unequivocal and dreadful proof of her anti-Christian character. Anything more abhorrent to justice than the procedure of this tribunal -anything more revolting to humanity than the punishments which it imposed anything more at war with religion than the spirit which it displayed-anything, in short, more entirely destructive to the peace and the happiness of mankind, than its existence and operation, it is impossible to conceive. It did not seem enough to the profligate ecclesiastics who sought to become the masters of the world, that they had imposed restraints upon liberty of thought, and induced an almost universal midnight darkness, and gained the implicit reverence of almost all the princes and the nations of Europe; there seemed to be some formidable institution still wanting in their system of degradation, by which their unhallowed triumph, wheresoever it was not fully achieved, might be completed, and which might seem like some mighty giant standing at the gate of the gloomy edifice which they had reared, and frowning destruction on all by whom it should be assailed. This institution they found in the court of the inquisition. Organized for the avowed purpose of punishing and exterminating heresy, it came, in the course of a few years, in consequence of the extensive interpretation which that term received, to take cognizance of everything which the inquisitors thought proper to regard as a crime. It was heresy to reject even one tenet which had been sanctioned by the councils or the court of Rome; to read an interdicted book; to be kind to an ex