the world at large, that the Jesuits had the most learned cardinals in the church of Rome, more than any other monastic order, and with all their intrigues they could never get a pope in their order as others had, and never will obtain one. It is a common saying in Rome;

"Non date le chiavi a Jesu,

Perche non vi le rendera piu."

in plain English it is: "Give not the keys to a Jesuit for he will never return them again."

Before I conclude I will give a short description of the essential evils of the society of Ignazius Loyola. Their essential principles are, that their order is to be maintained at the expense of society at large, and that the end sanctifies the means. These principles are utterly incompatible with the welfare of any community of men. Their system of lax and pliant morality justifying every vice and authorizing every atrocity, has left deep and lasting ravages on the face of the moral world. Their zeal to extend the jurisdiction of the court of Rome over every civil government, gave currency to tenets respecting the duty of opposing princes who were hostile to the papal creed, which shook the basis of all political allegiance and loosened the obligations of every human law.

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Their indefatigable industry and countless artifices in resisting the progress of the Protestant religion, perpetuated the most pernicious errors of popery, and postponed the triumph of tolerant and christian principles. Whence, then, it may well be asked, whence the recent restoration? What long-latent proof has been discovered of the excellence or even the expedience of such an institution? The sentence of their abolition, as we was passed by the senates and monarchs, statesmen and divines of the church of Rome, by the pope and of almost every civilized country in the world. Almost every land has been stained and torn by their crimes; and almost every land bears on its public records the most solemn protest against their existence. The evils of Jesuitism arise not from the violation of the principles of the order; on the contrary, they are natural and necessary fruits of the system; they are confined to no age, place or person; they follow, like the tail of the comet, the same disastrous course with the luminary itself; and in consequence, not this or that nation, but humanity, is startled at the reappearance of this common enemy of man.1

I would recommend to the reader, who wishes to have all the minute particulars of the Jesuits and Je

MIRACLES OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

I cannot conclude my volume without saying something for the edification of the Roman Catholics; I say for their edification, for nothing is more edifying to them than the miracles of their saints, as a display of the holiness of the church of Rome. They I trust will not think that I speak in irony or ridicule; by no means; I will merely state them as they are. Therefore, I will say nothing of the feather of the angel Gabriel; neither of the bottle of the Virgin Mary's milk; nor of the tears of our Saviour, which are preserved in the chapel of the Scala Santa in Rome. I will say nothing of the holy house of Loretto, where the Virgin Mary was born and brought up, and in spite of its dimensions of thirty-two feet long, thirteen broad and eighteen high, it was in a miraculous manner transported in the air with

suitism, Edinb. British Encyclopædia; and Encyclopædia Americana; Mosheim Eccl. History; Harleian Misc., vol. v. page 566; Broughton's Dict. Works of Robert Hall; New York Evangelist for 1831; British Review, &c. But above all I would intreat every Roman Catholic to read Pascal's Provincial Letters, American edition, and he will learn the doctrines of his church, and the Protestants ought to read it in order to know what they are.

its chimney and belfry; and according to its history, it was several times borne aloft through the air and deposited in one place after another, until it was finally located on the spot where it now stands, and remained for the last six hundred years without a foundation; for the account of it is sold in Philadelphia, and can be read by every pious papist to the edification of his immortal soul.

Neither will I speak of St. Viar, whom the Spaniards venerate and invoke, and whom the pope has canonized for the usual fee of a hundred thousand dollars, and at the end it turned out that St. Viar never existed. That the grave-stone which was found with the inscription S. VIAR, does not say St. Viar, but Prefectus VIARUM, overseer of the high ways.

Nor do I intend to make any remark on the holy relic of the handkerchief of Sta. Veronica, in St. Peter's in Rome, upon which the original impression of our Saviour's face is seen, or of the numerous Ave Marias and other prayers which I once said to that handkerchief, I am only sorry to say, that I have at last found out that all my Ave Marias were for nothing, for Sta. Veronica never existed, that her name was formed by blundering

and confounding the two words vera icon (true image,) which the first contrivers and impostors usually wrote on the paintings of the Saviour's image.

Neither will I speak of St. Amphibolis, who, according to the catalogue of saints in the breviary was bishop of the Isle of Man, and fellow martyr and disciple of St. Alban. I am happy to state for the consolation of the Roman Catholics, that St. Amphibolis did not suffer martyrdom for he never existed; he is a saint risen by mistake. This Amphibolis, though reverenced as a saint is nothing more than a cloak, which Alban happened to have at the time of his execution; Amphibolis being the Greek word for a rough cloak, which ecclesiastical persons usually wore in that age, just as the Romans called the cloak of senators and other distinguished persons, toga. (See arch-bishop Usher.)

To show the Roman Catholic brethren that I do not intend to ridicule, I will say nothing of Sta. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, who, on the twenty-first of October, are adored in the following manner: "Permit us, we pray thee, O Lord our God, to venerate with unceasing devo