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REFORMED ROMANIST

SEVENTH ADDRESS

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PROTESTANTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Men and Brethren in Christ Jesus!

This is the seventh time we address you — the seven fh that we invoke you in the name of our common Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.

The objects of our entreaty are infinitely precious : the souls who are ithe slaves of sin — the immortal beings who are ground down under the i fatal yoke of Pagan and Papal darkness and superstition. This spiri- tual despotism prevails not merely abroad, but at home — not alone among the myriads of the human family who inhabit the uncivilized portions of the globe, but among our own kindred race, who dwell in the fairer divisions of the earth, subject to the milder sway and domi- I nion of Britain and America, and the other parts of Christendom, still 1 enslaved to the chair of the Man of Sin— dark, cruel, and unforgiving. The slavery of Romanism and the slavery of Paganism are both alike, jxcept that the/ormer is worse than the latter, and suffers by compa- rison. The one bears the semblance and profession of liberty without, vhile within her folds are the torture, the rack, and the prison — con- science lacerated, and Christ crucified afresh. In Paganism are found ' he idol, the image, the god. In Romanism are set up the very same :reations of man's uneducated reason — these creatures of the handicraft )f men. The world by its wisdom now as of old, knows not God eter-

* The /ourf old object of the Society is : — 1. To protect Priests who abandon the apo0- of Rome. 2. To protect and educate young men originally intended for the priest- in the Romish Chiurch. 3. To disseminate Scriptural and Anti- Popish instruction. To reform Romish Priests throughout Great Britain, Ireland, and foreign countries.

nal. It is only in the Book of Life that that saving knowledge of Him is to be obtained ; and whoever seeks her rightly in that book, shall cer- tainly find her. The Lord Jehovah declares this truth ; and every human being of His is bound to obey this voice, speaking to us in His Holy Word ; and woe be untp us, if we do not follow the heavenly man- date— the blackness of darkness in' the bottomless pit shall be our por- tion for ever and ever !

Beloved Brethren! — In contemplating the state of the heathen and Christian population oye^ the surface of our planet, the mind of the believer is overcome with wonder and amazement, when it observes how comparatively little progress the religion of JESUS has made over that vast extent of territory in the long space of eighteen centuries and a-haif 1 One would almost conclude that the description of the 4positle, in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, is as applicable to the ignorance of our race in the nineteenth century, as it was to the inha- bitants of the world in the first century of the Christian era. Vice, sin, and idolatry, with all their concomitants, are almost universal ; and man, created after the image of his Maker, is still the slave of depra- vity, sunk' ih- the sinfulness bf sin !' The population of the globe is estimated at Nine Hundred and Ninety-three Milltoni^, Nt>fETY-NiNE Thousand, Eight Hundred and Seventeen;* and yet how sniall a fraction of this almost countless mass of human beings "i's* even womm«//y Christian ! And how -fewer still of this IViad- tion, whose souls are born anew by the creating influence of the Holy GfldsT! It is written in the Statute-Book of Heaven, that th« knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters the sea ;f that His Word shall not return iihto ' Hirh^^Void j • but it shall a6- eefmplish that which He pleases, and it shall jirosper in the thing whereto He sent it.J This is the decree of tht; Eternal— of Him who made the worlds : but oh! how little have His subjects, for whom the decree was written, and to whom the command was given, " Go ye into Ai/L'the world, and preach the' Gospel' to e^e;*^ creatur^^ obeyed thb Inw and voice of their Creator!

■ God works by means ; He has gifted man — has conferred powers on Mtti, to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. But alas ! the gifts and powers are dormant,' and half awake to do good, and wicikedness and \-ice ate the chief enjoyments 'of man. The' true glorificatiou of God is shut up within specks of earth ; and the being intended to represent his

* Weimar's Statistics, t Hab. ii. 14.

Maker, and to proclaim His praise from shore to shore, is little better than the zoophyte or grub-worm in his native element. His light is no better than darkness visible, and, like a flickering beacon on the boundless expansive ocean, only exposing the dim interminable waste of waters, and leaving beyond our vision lurid untried regions for human enterprise. and civilization.

Among the instruments discovered in later years to spread His fame, may be enumerated the Press, the Steam, and the Magnetic Telegraph. These agents might preach in their language, and convey, with vivid flash, the words of eternal life to myriads, who are yet dead and unborn to God ; but they are seldom employed for that sacred purpose ; they are more in use to promulge tidings of discoveries in the fields of Mammon, and to signalize the savage carnage in mortal conflict.

Protestant Brethren ! — Such should not be our character in this use of arras. We should toil and strive for the evangelization and con- version of the world, as if the period of that blissful epoch depended upon ourselves — and trust and pray, as if the bloodless victory depended on our God. To work is ours — to bless is God's. The catholi- pity of the Gospel shall be only accomplished by the universal use of Christian weapons, and modern discoveries may be made the happiest instruments to promote that holy consummation.

Here, brethren, stand! Survey your enemies' territories, and mar- shal and command your forces. See the emissaries that are to do your Maker's will, and to subdue an illimitable empire, hitherto untrod by Christian soldiery. In the foreground we place

MISSIONS.

It was the wisdom of Deity from the beginning that these should, divulge the attributes of Jehovah, and He sent forth His first-begotten and only Son, with the message of salvation, to recreate and animate :he dead in trespasses and sins, and to clothe them again with the spot- ess garment of immortality. He was the first Missionary to bruise the serpent's head, and^e shall be the last to sit down in His dominion, vhen He shall have gathered into it people out of every kindred, and ougue, and nation,; and all the host of heaven, earth, and sea shall 3in in one universal, endless chorus to the *' Lamb that was slaiu to eceive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and lory, and blessing;"* and the agents of His will shall be kings and riests unto God, and reign with tlie Redeemer himself for ever and vQTy in an unbroken lii^^ of everlasting dominion and endless inheritance.

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With these promises and that prospect before us, how can it be ac- counted for, Brethren, that we are only half awake to the cause of Missions — Missions to the Christian and heathen world ? Idolatries abound in both these great divisions of our species ; and yet the efforts to effect their overthrow are circumscribed and pusillanimous. A mis- sionary spirit is rare amongst us, and labourers are fewer still ; and the hand that should be opened liberally to sustain and constrain the work, is shut up with the vigilance of a worldling's care and a miser's grasp. Antinomian licentiousness, lurking and entwining itself in the Church Protestant, poisons that very source of fruitfulness, and dries up the fertilizing streams that should flow from that living fountain of benevo- lence. The grace of God produces fruits of righteousness in the he- Uever ; but the lust of mammon manifests a flickering and dead faith, and exposes the withered members of the niggardly, hypocritical pro- fessor, to the gaze of the least acute spiritual observer. Oh ! for more love to Christ, more love to God, more love to man. Then, instead of earth presenting to our view, as it does now, an aceldama — a surface of mixed and jarring elements — we should bask in the enjoyment of a godly jealousy, and vie in the productions of a celestial paradise. Popery, whose generosity abounds to overflowing, produces zealots, bigots, mis- sioners, and crusaders, and fires them with incentives to attempt any enterprise whatever for the extension of her dominion. Her failure in her ambitious projects, to circumvent the earth with her superstitions, is clearly attributable not to her apathy, but to her wrong faith. Not taking the Book of Life for her infallible guide, she mixes truth and falsehood, wisdom and wickedness ; and hence her footsteps are marked with blackness and blood, wherever she has sought or obtained the pre- eminence.

Let us, then, Brother Protestants, from this day, commence a new era in our religion. Instead of apathy, let there be henceforward love ; instead of deadness, let there be life ; instead of parsimony, let there be bounty ; instead of frugality, let there be^berality ; instead of sloth, let there be industry ; instead of barrenness, let there be fruit- fulness ; instead of doubt, let there be confidence ; instead of fear, let there be courage ; instead of slavery, let there be liberty ; instead of death, let there be life ; — and, consequently, all things shall be ours — freedom, peace, plenty, civilization, prosperity ; faith shall triumph, and all the ends of the earth shall glory, and see the sal tion of our God.

The events of the past year have brought to ^ur knowledge reco of the Creation that have been obscured from our view for ages, ere

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Christianity had set her foot on earth and exposed her purity to the unhallowed touch of man, fallen and degenerate. It is only now that

CHINA

is emerging from her long night of darkness, and the myths of Fo are giving place to the news from Heaven ; that the morality of Confucius is yielding to the Gospel of Jesus, and prostration before the inanimate idol of Boodh is being superseded by the spiritual worship of the Triune, Self-existing, Eternal God. The Shamanism of China, said by her chronologists to be her ancient religion for 3,000 years before Christ, which has its foundation in the worship of the stars and other remark- able objects of nature — the morals of Confucius, founded in Deism 500 years before the appearance of Emmanuel at Nazareth, and em- braced by the Government and learned men of the " Celestial Empire," are being supplanted by the wisdom of the God of the universe. The Bible of heaven is now dimming the fables and traditions of man ; and the Emperor, who calls himself ^^ holy son of heaven,'' ^^ sole guardian of the earthy and father of his people," will, ere long, acknowledge himself the worshipper of God incarnate and the disciple of Jesus. The Sun of Righteousness shall soon arise on that eartlily dominion, and with the illuminations of His sacred oracles shall enlighten the millions within that mural territory, who are living in the obscurity of original sin and primitive ignorance.

Here, then, Protestant Brethren of the world, is an en- terprise before us — the most noble, the most exalted that can occupy the intellect of man. It is as high as heaven ; as lasting as eternity. It is the evangelization of three hundred and seventy-five millions of people ; the proclamation of Redemption to about one- third of the whole human race — the population of China !

It was only on the 29th of August, in the year 1842, that the Em- peror, before his ancient southern capital. Nankin, at the command and in consternation of a British army, signed a treaty, by which he ceded the Island of Hong Kong, and free commerce with five of his principal seaports to subjects of Her Imperial Majesty, the Queen of England : and from that day to the present, what a moral revolution is taking place in the Empire among his servile subjects, through the dissemina- tion of the Word of God ! 1 That absolute monarch of the " Celestial Empire of the world," who had hitherto treated all monarchs as his vassals, and had listened with disdain, in his southern court in China, to all envoys from foreign kingdoms on missions of commerce and in- ternational law, is now compelled to hear from his own kinsmen, senti-

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mcnts from the city of Galilee ; and the sound of the trumpet, which lowered the walls of the proud ancient Jericho, is now likely to be no less effectual to humble the mural boundary of China, with its innume- rable embattlements, and to penetrate to the very core the purlieus of her impregnable fenced cities. The Chinese custom, which hitherto has prescribed polygamy to the nobles and mandarins, and a numerous harem to the Emperor himself, and permits the peasant to yoke his wife and his ass in the plough together, shall be changed by "the Gospel of God," and the manners of the Christian shall supplant the habits of the brute.

The Jesuit, John Adam Schall, or Tam-yo-vam, a German, born in 1591, at Cologne, was the first missioner of Rome, in the year 1620, who commenced his labours in the City of Se-gan-foo to propagate Roman Christianity in China. He was a man of brilliant talents, and employed them all until his death, in the advancement of Jesuitism. He assumed successively the office of astronomer, courtier, warrior, artist, mechanic, and a mandarin, under the title of Tam-yo-vam, and after the death of his patron Emperor, Shun-che, died in the imperial prison at Pekin, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and forty-sixth of his mission, miserably disappointed. The superstructure of so many years, built on a Christless Gospel, no more abiding than the ** baseless fabric of a vision," crumbled to pieces at his death ; and that corruption of Christianity never afterwards made progress in China, until the cession of the island and five free cities, when the Jesuits revived their designs for the propagation of their faith.

Protkstant Brethren ! it is now for you to say this year, in 1854, under the guidance of Omnipotence, whether Popery or Protes- tantism shall prevail in China ; whether the countless miUions of that encircled portion of the globe — in that paradise — shall continue to worship the image, or adore the Saviour ; whether Christ or the crucifix shall reign within her walls.

Honesty in religion, as well as honesty in morality, is the best policy. Tam-yo-vam and his followers did evil to promote religion. Let us do goody as the followers of Christ, and His religion shall take possession of the hearts and affections of that vast people. Schall continued to disguise the Christian religion in a Latin service, and blended it with necromancy and astrology ; and he held, that it was a sufficient qualifi- cation in a native to be made a priest, if he could merely read Latin, without understanding one syllable of its meaning. He did not teach the native, in his vernacular tongue, the wonderful works of God ; though he was permitted, strange to say, by Pontiif Paul V., in a

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General Congregation of the Vatican, to celebrate mass with the head covered, in compliance with the custom of the country, and to translate the Holy Bible into the Chinese language, into the erudite, not the vulgar dialect, for the use of the literati. Yet it does not appear that the Jesuit Father ever authorized any one to undertake that translation ; and, consequently, neither the vulgar nor the literate then enjoyed the benefit of that decree.

Benedict XIV., a wily statesman and canonist, by two Bulls, in 1742 and 1744, revoked the edict of Paul V., and reduced Popery in China to the form that it wears in Europe, lest the novel ceremonies and the Vulgar Bible should immerse his bark.

Now, Brethren, let us from this day, with these lessons from history - and experience before us, wage war with the enemies of China. Let us (this year send one hundred Missionaries to her territories — even Great ;Britain and Ireland might of themselves raise that contingent for the war — and let us prayerfully and manfully bombard Paganism, and Po- pery wherever she appears in that continent, with the living Word of the living God — the rod of His strength ; and they shall fall beneath ts sovereign power. This will be more than requiting China for her ifea — a beverage which our own millions have drunk for ages.

Already are the towns, untrod by European feet, giving way to the nfluence of the sword of the Spirit ; and the insurrectionary movement Fith its secret mine, has frightened the reigning monarch, Keen-Fung, roni his imperial city, to seek refuge at Gehul, among the Mongols in Partary.

Oh ! for an Apostle, with the perseverance of Tam-yo-vam, who lade a first attempt, now to preach the true Gospel to the trembling lonarch ! He might convert the Emperor to the faith, and thus cause im to tranquillize the empire under the superior healing sway of the rince of Peace. Be assured, Brethren, if we do not now commence id prosecute this gigantic work in earnest, with energy unprecedented,

ome, which wrestles for the dominion of the world, will anticipate us ;

id if she once sow the tares in the field, the seed of the Word will not

rthwith destroy them ! It is easier to restrain the sower's arm, than

root out the seed that he has cast into the ground — to prevent evil,

an to eradicate it.

At home, in Ireland, she is diligently striving for the mastery. ,j,|. ound us we see and feel her strength ! We behold popery in

A.YNOOTH — popery m the school — j)opery in the workhouse — popery

the jail — popery in the army and navy, by land and sea — popery in

! wayside — and, for the first time, we shall behold popery in the year

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tbis day commenced, in her Irish University, under the auspices of a convicted slanderer and infatuated pervert, drugging emasculated youths for the priesthood in the United Kingdom, and for all countries within her pale, with the quintessence of her abominations. And, finally, we shall mourn the captives of popery in the dungeons, which she has already built aud prepared for the victims of her In- quisition, UNLESS THE BRISTLING ARM OF BrITAIN, RESTING ON

Jehovah's might, shall put forth her timely strength, to

PULL DOWN and CONSUME HER ASPIRATIONS FOR COMPLETE SU- PREMACY IN OUR MOST GRACIOUS AND BELOVED QuEEN's DOMI- NIONS.

Experience has taught us, that education, to be prosperous and popu- lar, should be in the language of the people. Through this channel il tlows with undisturbed freedom. Let it, then, run by this course intc China. Let the Protestants of our empire, or of the world, establish i Christian University this year in Canton, or if practicable, ii Nankin or Pekin ; and from her walls streams of secular and rehgiou! knowledo-e may arise, which shall water that garden of earth, and fer tilize its productions for eternity. In this way the formidable difficul ties of language may be more easily overcome, and the natives put int( possession of our best works in art, science, literature, and religion The annexation of China to Great Britain by these ties, if it should no be perennial, under our respective sovereigns, yet it must be everlastin; under the dominion of our covenant God — the King of kings. Such school of learning as this design, would not be too great for the Eas India Company to undertake ; and if successful, oh ! how infinite woul be her acquirements, and how rich and endless her praise in all th world ! !

THE HOLY LAND.

Despotic power and superstitious influence have reduced this ^' Lafi of Promise'' — from Lebanon to Egypt — the most fertile of countries i the old world, to the degradation of barrenness in the new, and infeste it with pilgrims and robbers : and its chief city, Salem of the ancient under the rule of Melchizedec, is perhaps less civilized now as Jerus; lem, under the Pacha of Damascus. Papists, Jews, Turks, Greek Armenians, Abyssiuians, Copts, Nestorians, Jacobites, and Maronite differ little but in name, under intellectual slavery. In that once ho city, modern art and science are uncultivated ; and her unpaved street begrimed with dust or mire, present no appearance of progress in tl march of civilization. There, the gloom of idolatry seems to hg

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taken up her abode, and primitive Christianity to have winged her flight to heaven. The Mosque and the Anchorite have displaced the Temple and its spiritual worshipper ; and hosannas to the Son of David no longer tune the harps of Zion. The Bible, the enlightener and civi- lizer of the nations, has not yet found free course there ; and hence her 25,000 inhabitants are steeped in semi-barbarous habits, and far behind in the knowledge and practice of acquirements derived from Revelation. Here, then again. Missions, rightly directed, might have been applied with more success for the conversion of Syria and Palestine, if art and science had accompanied the Word of Jesse's Son. All these should go hand-in-hand. They mutually help each other ; for the ivio former tend to strengthen the faith of finite man in the Divine original of the latter.

We have embraced this view for the amelioration of Asiatic Turkey during the past year, in consequence of a communication received from the British Consul resident in Jerusalem, dated January, 1853, in which :he expounded a plan for the establishment of a Protestant " English iCoLLEGE AND HiGH School" in that city. In it all Israelites are to tbe educated, free of expense, in ancient and modern languages, and sci- entific improvements. Students of this College, as in other countries, where successful experiments have been made, would be the medium of general knowledge and intelligence to their kindred tribes in their fa- herland, and in continents abroad. To that foundation we give our nost cordial assent and support ; because it is self-evident that similar fleets will be the result from the same cause.

IRELAND.

To borrow an argument in favour of this project from our own land, e will adduce the following statement. In the ** Ancient Citie of the [i Vibes," commonly called Galway, in the West of Ireland, the Irish and dialect of the Erse language are generally spoken by the native popu- '.tion. By the census taken in 1834, the number of Romanists was 2,117; the number of Protestants was 1,003. So far back as the lirteenth century, there has been one Parish Church, St. Nicholas's,

Galway ; and yet, after so long a space of time as 500 years, there lis not been another Church added to that solitary number in the i Irish ; while the Romanist population has increased prodigiously, and

ere are now thirteen mass-houses for the performance of the corrupt irvices of the Church of Rome in the " Citie of the Tribes" ! !

The cause of this lamentable fact is, partly the abortive attempt to bPorm the natives by an unintelligible tongue, and partly by an indifi'e-

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rence of their teachers, constiiuted by law to accomplish th«u^ eiihght enment and reformation. This we believe to be the true reason fo the facts above recorded, and the figures represent their accuracy. Th district of Claddagh, a city suburb, contains a race of human beings some of whom we have seen; last autumn in a state of nudity, not moD civilized than the aborigines of New Zealand. This people are not t( blame for their savage and deplorable barbarity ; for if they had beei addressed and instructed through the medium of their Erse dialect, an( the pure Irish understood by them, they would long since have been a ripe in knowledge and refinement as any other human beings in th( Island of Erin.

Under the auspices of the present admirable and excellent Bishop o Tuam, a blessed reformation in morals and religion is now taking placi among these people, who are slii^ewd by nature ; and we anticipate thai the men of Claddagh will, in half a century, not be inferior to any othe race in Europe. Commerce, and intercourse by sea and land, will com plete this work, rightly begun in education.

This statement, then, establishes a principle, that to convert a nation you must first address tlieir judgment and prejudice in their own Ian guage ; and the natural principle is clearly elucidated also, by the gif of divers tongues on the day of Pentecost. The conversion of the na tives of Raratonga, and of other islands in the Polynesian groups, con firms this truth, and establishes it as an axiom for our future guidance Language is the key of the heart-^the universal picklock of the humai edifice, under every phase.

THE PRESS.

We tender our most humble, grateful thanks to th-e press— the perio dical newspaper press— ^ for the magniloquent and mighty aid whibh'i has rendered to our operations during the year 1853. lu the year gon by, the press of the world— of Europe, xVsia, ilfrica, America, ahi Oceanica — has contributed to the promulgation of our principles, ani to the dissemination of that seed which we have laboured to cast'upO] all the earth, through the instrumentality of this Society. Prayer cfti fructify it, and God alone can sanctify it with His blessing.

We have issued from our Society, since the commencement of our la hours in the year 1844, 308,360 copies of our publications, all of whicJ testify, more or less, against pagan and papal bondage; vvhilst th6^^ proclaim to sinners Christ CRUCIFIED, and justification by fAiti IN Him. Our priest's letter and Converts' Proclamation, w have published in four languages — Irish, French, Italian, and Englis

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varied slightly according to the circumstances of each people, and have freely circulated them wherever . .these languages, are spoken, . by. means of that mighty engine.'^ {i^tbyhD h'>\p'"*^pr ^'^ * /'^'rfrr^of IpdT .^io-f/l!^ Among our publications is the

^[im. 01 FATHER GAVAZZi TO THE IRISH Pimvrluol

— his of itibiife' ^liveried in the Rotundo of Dublin, in the year 18'^2? This gift, we believe, is invaluable to Protestants and Romanists : because, while the papacy exists and this world lasts, it will 'be-l"^k standai'd^— 'ah imperishable v/itness against hfer abominations^— ^aii'd the mere quotation of the Father's authority is an extinguisher, an end' to Romish controversy, and an economiser of time to both. The May- irtooth priests quailed before him, and were sileftt anxl dumb as death. ]|t is,' therefore, a Treasure, only' less valuable than the Reformation litself. ' -'-^^ ^'-^^ ono/1 oil o) g'jfD/i'jifj t/oii 'jii .lijiT-inA

- We have constantly Veceit^'tepotfsW^av&^iTSTmsSibn'ih A:i^e^

i'since his arrival in that Continent, and the sai^ or greater amazement

sseems to have been produced on the' American mind ^s oii that of the

iBritish Isles. Wherevet he* went his efoquence triumphed, and his

antagonists have been silenced' and confounded. A scheme had been

long hatched by the priests in the United States to exclude or extract

:he Bible from their federal free schools ; but this prince of orators has,

vith his flashing orations, so exposed their 'vrily tricks, that the States-

■Tien see clearly the plot against their liberties, and hare tlnqnivocally

leclared in favour of retaining the birthright of heaven. .

The Old and New World, therefore, owe an everlasting debt of grati-

ude to Father Gavazzi ; and if he be permitted by' God to revisit oti^

hores, we should, one and all of us, who are advocates for the Bible,

'ay him a tribute of homage worthy of the cause — worthy of the man,

lio is indisputably the greatest of all living orators.

In the providence of God, it was the traffic of indulgences that caused

lartin Luther, the Augustinian monk of Erfurth, to burst the bands

f Roman profligacy in 1510, in the pontificate of Leo X., and made

im convey the ivhole Sacred Volume to his fatherland — to Germany—

le world. It was the tyranny of Pio Nono, and his false profession of

berty of conscience, that caused the revolution in Italy in the year

:^48, the bombardment of his own imperial Rome, and raised up the

arnabite monk of Bologna, to act as Chaplain-General to the forces ;

'st, to the papal armies by the Pope's appointment, and secondly, to

* Priee Is. per copy ; by post, Is. 6d.

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the revolutionary, to preach to the Italian nation that liberty of con- science, which Pio Nono then, like a second traitor, denied to his subjects. That revolution expatriated Gavazzi from his beloved penin- sula, to seek a temporary home on the island-mistress of the seas, and here he found the "pearl of great price," which had hitherto been con- cealed from his mind by the fabrications of mystic Rome. He dis- covered ** the riches of Christ," divested of fable, in that Book ol books which is the bulwark of British greatness. That revolution, begun amid the clank of trumpets and the boom of cannon, the loss oi property and the slaughter of brethren, the murder of Bassi and the excoriation of popular priests, has at length converted the heart and vision of Father Gavazzi, and borne him up to a lofty and sunnv eminence, from which he looks down, undismayed, on mysterious Ba- bylon. From the platforms of Great Britain and the pulpits ol America, he now preaches to Pio Nono and the followers of Antichrist that faith which he once laboured ardently to destroy. He is nou conferring good for evil.

It is not for us to sketch the already eventful life of Gavazzi, and t<: contrast his fearless toils for Christian freedom with the arduous com- bats of the German Reformer. That duty shall be work for future his torians : but it is at present clear to us to perceive, that the Monk o Bologna, like the Monk of Erfurth, shall have a name to live, even ir this world, when temporal and spiritual petty tyrants, with their de tested memorials, shall have ceased to exist, and the grovelHng crea tures that did them obeisance shall have been loathed and forgotten.

May God preserve Alessandro Gavazzi to the day of redemption, anc receive him finally to Eternal Glory.

We remain. Brother Protestants, till death.

Your devoted and affectionate Servants,

THE DIRECTORS OF THE PRIESTS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.

New Year's Day, 1854. 16^, Vppei' Sackville-street, Dublin^ Ireland,

Dublin: Printed by Oborob Drought, 8, Bachelor'e-valk.