Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-08

! ridiculous spectacle to see these men ny.
! ing from one passage Of Scripture to
another, pouring forth volleys of words.
and uSirg furious gesticulations. Inese
last public discussions are allowed, be-
cause, by the defeat of only a school
master, the interest Of the church suffers
little. Yet these disputes often work up
a spirit Of inquiry. The Cclporteur,
however, is the most efficient enemy thai
Rome can have, for he carries the bible
wherever he goes: and if the priests had
the power, he would soon be consigned to
the cells of the inquisition.
1t is easy to speak of these things in a
room and in the pulpit, but it is a toll
some task to wander as the Colportcur
does, year after year, untiring, from house
| TO house, among those who often hate or
deSpise him. In one house he NAV be
kindly listened to and in another received
with all due Difference as a passing tray
eler, only, perhaps, to be turned out afje
his mission is known, and thankful tha,
he escapes so easily without getting the
room-stick for bis trouble. Or, perhaps,
he is forbidden TO appear in the village,
and compelled TO scckanothcrplac where
his fame has not yet reached. Or, as he
goes along his acquaintance hail him and
makes themselves merry by calling lin
all sorts Of names. Occasionally, the
dogs, because their masters are good
Catholics, as if inspired by the mother
| Church, JOIN iii the cry against him.
The Colporteur requires to be as wise as
the serpent, as well as innocent as the
dove. The great ann is 20 induce the
Catholic to read the Bible, and then he is
converted. Those Catholics who frequent
I ten changed to Professionalism. that the
nc;ghbors said that there must be a trap
hr which those who went, were made
! protcs. ants. Many who came used 20 be
told. - ,lo not 90 u that great house, for
your religion will be taken from you. s"
/ Oneof the ColpOrteurS tried another meth
Od Of converting. lie went about the
country as q dealer in young trees, md
where he could not speak of religion, he
carried on trade by this means be be-
came well acquainted with the religious
opinions Of the people. These convcrSa-
ton; he noted down, anl they viii here
after beustfll to other Colpolte'rs. There
IS more going on in hat country than is
known harc-there is mI,'ch dlsSausfac-
ton fjit hv the people with ."e present
system cf religion and with the ~. SIS.
The WORK, however, ig arduou2, for Rome
has hcel adding strength and stability 10
It's :nI%~.Ne foundations for centuries, and
now appears TO defy even Christ himself
Eut, although the Roman Catholic Church
liaF present. q fortress eIitlering with de
lensiYe weapons, God can lead on his
weakest servant to victory, and the Grandc
L.gnc Mission is 4 proofof this. The
work about eighteen years ago began in
Canada, and We need 10 other proof that
the work Is Gods, than the fact that il
sill exists. If it IS hot. we do net wish
to enlist Your sympathy in is behalf:
Eu, we believe it to lie 50, and therefore
It i yoGr york as much as ours.
\ tx years ago, q servant giri in BoS-
ton, received bible from a lady, and
from reading !, became fayoraI,lv dis
posed towards P:UtcStanti-gn. Her Ia
reH.s were laio aware Of this: and fearful
OF hC: becoming 4 hcgccjc, thought it re-
ccSSary 10 remove IL Canada taking their
daughter with them. The bible was hid
away; bat after a while she found il
a5aln, and lis contents spoke to her con-
science and heart. She ttlt that there
vas something in Christianity not pre-
Seltcd by the Catholic religion. and she
prayed that God might send some one to
explain II. For years Size prayed and
Wepi. So taat he. children dcIqdinelK re-
marGcd, jhat their mother had cried
enough oyer The bible to make 4 stream
that would tHTu mill Now mark the
hand Of Providence. In Switzerland.
(Whilc this woman in Canada was read
ing her hibic,) there lived a young lady,
whose only thought was the pursuit of,
phantoms of pleasure. Soon behold her a
widow following the corpse of a husband.
Then struggling to save beloved child
from the hand Of death. Afterwards be-
hold her carrying provisions to the poor.
and the conSCiatlOnS Of religion to the
inmates Of prisons: and at last bidding
adleu TO her weeping friends This lady.
Madame Fellcr, arrived in Montreal, and
to relieve the wants Of the
poor, and to teach the Young: bat she
found every door shut against her. She
went to st. John 5, where she was op-
posed by the priests, and almost driven
ont Of the town. She then came to the
Grand Lignc Mission. There a door was
opened: and in the garret of that loo
house, she opened a school where about
a dozen children were taught. In this
God directed these two events.
thus these two persons We're brought
alike to work among the Catholics Of
Lower Canada.
This little school seemed very insig-
nlticant affair, and yet it created much
excitement. Madame Feller taught her
pupils to read in 4 fifth part of the time
required in the Catholic schools. and in
obtained the renown of being
a sorceress. This opinion was so well
grounded among the people thereabouts.
that having once lent her cloak to a poor
woman, her family on her going home,
were 50 alarmed that there was no peace
until the cloak had been put out of doors,
fearing that it would bcwitch them. In
Il short time, however, the school was
taken out of the land. Madame Feller,
while reading one evening TO her scholars,
was startled by crash of a pane of
glass. On looking round she perceived