The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1853'

facts
afraid to meet any man that knows these
enable en_oe Igo
impudence, even - peat as it is, wonid
lnao.
to stand before au enlightened audience ; roiistortass
heard his church shown up in the way his Ow_ ni.d; be is
themselves expose it, he could not come fe:ro.;cosioo
afraid to meet any enlightened man in public u.r,
3lezerai says, writing of the sixteenth century • hie
Point and became so public as to render them fo!
The disorders and vices of the clergy reached, tilet,i'eassi
the hatred, and contempt of the people. teries sidl!`,
churches were without pastors, the monas cbtcllf.
monks, the regular clergy without discipline, "'ofrebaTi
and holy houses in ruins and changed into den! frigbta.,
The bishops fled from their dioceses as if they vel`looos°.
solitudes. The amusements of Paris and the occui,
the court were their usual occupation. yb `big
Again, what is said of the monks and nuns
same St. Bridget : fiords".
e_
The doors through which the sisters are pleasesletn° at nigh.,l;
entrance to clergymen and laymen are open
and therefore such places resemble rather houses I."
than holy cloisters. t
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People imagine, when they see a nunnery, shut og
very fine building—" Oh, they are holy Pe°ple, iu the
altogether from the world ; they would not 111,,,,1n to.
giddiness of the world :" just as if there cannotb°,lolo4,
acted within the four walls of a house as dia %tree?'
as horrible scenes as in the middle of the ope:L fottir.
What is the reason these nunneries, these /itv7 poll
cations, are walled round just like so many gael.si„ce of
tell you. I will show you now, from the evse''ith
priest named Hogan, who was in c,onnection
Church of Rome as a priest for 25 Sears,—lt •t, sucts
sealed way. The first extract I
you why these places are walled in and kePL,,,,
rente, who was secretary to the Inquisiton.
in Book 3, chap. 28, article 2, and edition, 1817 r-
" That when he was secretary to the Inquisition,!„„ca,lltio;ti
was brought before that tribunal, who directed a cf„":4
of beguines (nuns) and had seduced nearly all of thou 0 star
(Sensation.) The above is taken from " ilegan„,Oof 31r.
neries." One more extract from the eviden'"he vet;
Hogan. While he was educating in Maynootl. _
Protestant young lady, who went afterwards to_to,eteji,esi;
give is taken
ftftfii-10
States. This lady became a pervert, and 111°1'1 laic,
tered into a convent, and he preached the serrniod bee
introduced her into her noviciate. After she,,, tit
in the convent some thirteen months, she wr°`,,' des
begging him to come to her, as she wanted to
him.
ass, nce 5!
"I sent for you, my friend, (said she) to seed rac6das
before my death. I have insulted my God, " o1„1 fat
family. * * * * I gave her such advice 2-,o Fe" oe•
the capacity of a Romish priest. 1 advised be',; va,'„cre
the bishop and consult him. "I cannot do i,t; ,ana
"My destroyer is my confessor." I was silent. 0 ?
to say. I was bound by my oath to be true to at'_, pie.;
(Profound sensation.) That is upon the evidencee:ci of the
Hogan, who is now living in America, at the bohs:cir,
legal profession there, and looked up to as a 5°5,, CI)
able and able advocate. He has deserted t'" titers
of Rome ; he has found out her abominatioas ;ewe4l.%
his experience ; and yet Englishmen will be dee,,wl,l°4,
the apparent sanctity of four walls, built like a Y' ?len,
fortifications erected to conceal—aye, 112 Y clef The7t,
—to conceal the infamies that exist within the'• and) of
are concealed the victims of surpliced seducers ;•deoce
when we have this placed before us up on the Olio 'rag
honourable and virtuous men, we turn our ble gO.l
do not believe. None of you know whathe 11:5e thyi
on in any of the convents. I say,
if t
the Church of Rome a priest, regularly Sitting in pare:,
sentry-box, called the confessional, who is reallY cr,
minded man, he is the greatest miracle that the
of Rome can produce. (Hear, hear.)
" Vice is a monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs but to be seen ;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face, 0.0
We soon approve, admire, and then embra a1)0
I hold in my hand a prayer-book, called th?o, `l3;
Companion." Dr. Cahill says to his congregatl°,
sides the Bible you have the Key of Ileav,e°'
your other manuals,"—l suppose the " Daily
included. Now, there is not a Roman Catholicio fo
head, of any decency, that would dare to e°lllite trif
and read one single page that I could point o'!„ tha
book ;so horribly indecent and polluting is 1" e V
the tile
they were to read it they would turn as red as, ate t"h,
in which Cardinal Wiseman is bedizened- jt >D'o
the
quotation ; any one can purchase the book.
"Daily Companion," p. 176,177, the prayer-,--
Church of Rome. of
My dear friends, I now pass on to the reigu, jo Iv
beth, merely remarking that, Dr. Cahill, bot",i told
pool, at the Concert-hall, and also in Birkenhe'-'o'o da
audience, " Don't you see (said he) lam going ake tirele
wordc s e forab
day, month by month, and year b year to sill,
umtythceounreitgnrY ;Of he
.',oe
N.; be 0 o',
on to Elizabeth, and rate away upon the pers re
and the
Diary.
never seat;
r her sr
we must acknowledge were perpetrated uncle „bat .1
but he dare not refer to the horrible atrocitiesciere
curved upon the black fields of Smithfield; he Rd tbejoi
recount the tons of human flesh that were r(totreb
by the bigot Queen and the emissaries of the garso
Rome. He dare not recount to his hearers„ tt'ilk
,cite
that sent our glorious martyrs into heaven, an lace bej-0
for them crowns of martyrdom. He dare not Pared tll'e,o
his audience the rivers of blood that were P°hooe6t/f0
those black fields. No 7 Dr. Cahill has not thei
rate itseo
place before his people the real truth. t tell ti.),••4
the persecution of Elizabeth, but he will noone
that when Elizabeth was on the throne . ,rora
1
morning there was an account in England thist
14, 000%0
city, namely, Paris, 40,000 individuals, men, tby ellelot
children, were massacred in their beds, and dies°
IX., a Popish bigot. He would not te
po 01
ll ‘31.15
there was Di-ScnnaL MO
wno celeuratnA mat norriutel °cAJSCI re 3S° Ad
victory gained over her t" w,,-,t t.l)„,'"
e los. No ;
back all these things, yet he would "P -fich
to be as meek and quiet as possible under s,-bst
cumstances in England. He would not tell the `c0,10;;
Pope had the audacity to send a bull into tboos°
and to denounce Elizabeth as a bastard, and to P Pan fe
anathemas against any single one of her sitbjet.
Catholic or Protestant, who dare obey her- ,P'loA,Pric
Elizabeth was to look on and not do anYt,lll;ll;ooPrii
Popish subjects! I believe if Elizabeth had livets,e-aia. 011
she would have acted differently from what su sole'ips
had the dictating of any system that should be - /cop.
for the purpose of getting rid of Popery, what 1
04
would be this, and Ishould do it to-day, as wellisStale'
beth's reign.—l would go to the Secretor)" o'
order him to give me half a dozen of the,,,,jetei
line-of-battle ships that he had in ifer. co 00
fleet, and pack Cardinal Wiseman, illfic,riesl:4lo
hat, all his • paraphernalia, and all the '(,osei,
them, and send them off to Rome- • gle'
and loud cheering.) Then, Dr. Cahill
into ink the
language, and in abusive language, too,—for,t ho hadrosi
great powers of abuse ; I never met a man yet t0,,40
same power of abuse as Dr. Cahill--comraellev",
ge
about the horrible war and rebellion that to'',oooo
on in Ireland during the reign of Eli
tells them stories that, if they were true, sd;
blood run cold in any man. But he keePs ";foce.
own side of the case ; he dare not place that he post etti
he dare not tell them that Pope Gregory tbeee,
and that Clement the Eighth gave an indulgell4 itsteid
written to the priests, and to all those ensol'ea th
rebellion, to fight against Elizabeth, the law •g ; 0
of the conntry. He would not tell them thlawtto 6
the same indulgences were granted both t°;061.,01,,,'",
soldiery to fight against Elizabeth as were grist7ooV,
out and fight against the Turks. And yet till, A',041
in O'Sullivan's History of Ireland,book4e',lo'
thfab
other things he (Dr. Cahill) goes on to tell as '1,13 escioxt
W ate.
a thousand pounds offered to any one who °
10 ' e ts'
fi ,se
that the Bible proved infant baptism- e rot
if you are an honest man, you ?'"? dfn
thousand pounds. (Laughter.) And whiore;s"cflits
infant baptism, beyond all doubt, from Scriyed 0
P-11'°1
own Bible acknowledges that it can be Pro ~, „
bicis h 4 e ,
ture ; for in the index of the Douay Bible " for Y•th
- p
my hand we have the following passage '--„nuated
tism of infants see St. Luke, xvii, 10, co these do
John, iii, 5." Now, Dr. Cahill, eitherq Old t
prove infant baptism or they do not. to airepcolef
neither you nor your church had any riglitilootodog,
people to these two passages for a proof °Liro-ard,
and yet you have the dishonesty to cone ',"floy 01,0
this thousand pounds, and now you wor,''
hear, and applause.) I now come t°. `. Pie i- s
V
portant part of Dr. Cahill's statements ttie
(he says) are liars when they say
,that t°o' i‘i,";
scribed by the Church of Rome; wilegkliagoie/i°'oo
Roman Catholics are prohibited from re tell. s' if tie of
without the permission of their priests 'vecab;t
according to Dr. Cahill. Now, then, Pr' and ,
are falsehoods, why would you not conle tiltelet pet
our clergymen—why not before an etal.ga
come forth and establish that which ;•e'gion ,ece
reiterate that the Roman Catholic reatbel eminfiVio
votaries to read the Scriptures, unles,%t assotre, ort,.
ten permission from their priests. leoicoestrae,,
prove, but before I do so I must notiiiill,o odic let'e, f
in the Mercury of Oct. 25th. Dr. '',:00011 `ti,1101) its
this subject, and the proof he gives`,
from the Bible; one said to be an ei'artiol, this
• ed
written by Pius VII. to Anthony 31 sir that asf•
Florence. The extract is insertr, pa be VS 'git'e_eY
the most mutilated condition. V,i OW, a co', thy
ought to have expressed it clearly a_.;11"„sl, allectare"
over immense passages in the ortP-Tite os
ll° of
exactly such as suited his purpose' obie stoehe
"Adaquo :-- •
Of had b°qelevenis jilt°
time when a vast number 0. ircula to, to
grossly attack the Catholic religion, ar f, a so ..cite"s
the unlearned, to great destructiond be e•
~ of ele
exceedingly well that the faithful shou.
10'"
reading of the Holy Scriptures." a) lu .00 fr°
Dr. Cahill (the lecturer• explaiit__Quotats 410
words " to the destruction of souls- 01140",t1s
Bible continued owes fitjelf
ces ity 0
" For there are the most abundant sOtr.... -
so
be left open to every one to draw frorrry_t2;rl;tcb I.
,C.l' to
and of doctrine ; to eradicate the e
.r° „ti
disseminated in these corrupt times.' 7, gr. lit OP
from them, _ e we
Ste
The passage from "to draw
b) t'
stated that Dr. Cahill had opiat _ore, do
no (let, „t c 0
quote : fleeted, asY" of 10"
" This you have seasonably ethe language
•
lishing the sacred writings 1n • SW
suitable to every one's capacity call,'"
.1,
• 31`CarthY) -ur, Vre
your ,
There (continued Mr. t 0 0,
rtli that base.o fn
leaves out :
how and set fa.tr,cte4o,
"Especially when Y
on swhi being eNn.,,rof aOO6ll,
added explanatorytnotes,very
pi,ossible dane,c,sf on
Holy Fathers, prec,udes
titer. from the lavirs
you have not swerve
ord erne
the constitution P"
blishie •
be qr 6
train of the Index
a 'hid ot •
subject by Benedict XIS'., .s
bee cte
Cahill held the book in 11 , t,.ib,
Now, Dr.
bottom of the leaf, o! ei-ofi
ass
the passage at the. the ,
honesty to read that at the top 77" the pert" ape
to read the Scriptures except with da.
the priest, which is as follows :
and to g°,ifig
"To prevent and remedy this abusfe ,he tea„ 00, p
error, it was judged necessary to ferf,f`thesclia ook,
Scriptures in the vulgar languages Yiri!lif.`;`,l" b it
mission of the pastors and spiritual 10°
appointed to govern his Church.' _
He had not the honesty to read„ fold
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through those " explanatory notese,o_,7.,,iictioostoli:_,P.
extraordinary differences and
_2l;-the es 10°,4,0
Doctor says there are 16,0 eFer prove ()Ilea go c:,'o
version, but wont come forwardatoy ibleil3;•, 91 0,20
will show you an error in the DP
Irefer to y. ?me
in the note on it too. First, _ Leh
blest
faith, Jacob, when he vi

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