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| oyerdone the thing. The blood of the innocent
man whom she has delberate?y murdered. win
| cry aloud throughout the whole Protestant world
against the deInoniacal spirit by which the church
| II actuated. Those who have till nov entertained
| the opinion-which we for long time were anxious
TO enteraln-that the progress of civilization had
considerably modified the prosecuting spirit of
popery, will now be convinced of their er,nr IN a
conviction win be forced upon them. that their
charity was at variance with the fact They can m
longer resist the force OF evidence in support Of the
position that the church of Rome is just as deeply
| lmbued with the spirit Of persecution az ever
The great cause of the error which prevails so
| largely in this country with regard to popery ia
that We do not see it in its true light. The Church
OF Rome is on her good behaviour in Great Britain
She is not herself. She is not allowed to show her
self in her true oolors. Here she is kept in due
subiection What she is, therefore with u.s. is very
different thing from what she would be- were she
mistress OF her own actions Why does not Popery
act in London it does in Florence Is it because
the difference III the latitude of the two places makes
dlierenee IN the character Of the system Assur-
euy not Inc reason why prisons are. not full to
fepletoh WIN persons charged with the crime of
reading the Scriptures is simply ths-tbat the
Church OF Rome Is not in the ascendant here Give
her the same power IN London as she possesses in
Florence, and we shall have Protestants DIVING in
their dungeons in the metropolis because thev have
been found with copy Of the Bible in their nosses
sion, just as we have seen the poor Madiai expiring
under the effects of confinement and hard labor, In
one o the cells Of Florence. 1t will be great point
gained when this view Of the real character of Poperv
shall have made its way to the minds of those who
were not prepared forts reception In this way the
1nartyrdom Of Francesca Madiai viii be of unspeaka
.Oe service to evangelical truth.
The Death OF francesca Madiai, brought about by
the slow lingering process of close confinement in
an unhealthy dungeon, and incessant hard laborof
all deaths the most appalling to contemplate-will
ere vile feeling of intense horror throughout the
CIV 1zed world. Martyrdom at the stake or on the
scaf,sd as IN days of yorc, when Popery, being in
the ascendant in oar own country, kept Smihfeld in
pergatual blaze, Is not nearly 80 formidable as ~
duly death for more than six months to which the
pa ,or Ma 5lal were subjected. So sat in reality the
Church Of Rome instead Of becoming less cruel h,s
OF late refined in her cruelty. Yet this Door pious
ma never for one moment wavered in his resolution
lie shrunk not from the certain death which stared
him in the face. He met hs doom with
neaSness Of conisssor. The future was
not only disamed Of all terrors to his mind.
ont was argayed in the most ladiant Ines
This was the fruit Of his faith So far as
nature was concerned, his position and the prospect
oa diss outon, must necessarily have be N appalling
y eweo through The usual medium, therefore, Che
llse OF francesca Mada must everywhere excite emo
tions OF mingled indignation and horror. Even some
OF the Roman Catholics themselves must we ara
snre, shudder at what their church has in this case
done. 1t will infiict heavy blow on popsry II il
a momentous fact--One pregnant with me sning It
VIII do more and go farther to open the eyes of the
pubic to the real character OF the Romish church i'm
the second half of the nineteenth century than wears
OF discussion on the theology Of Romanism, or of
thousands OF volumes written the Protestant side
OF tie controversy And never let the great fact be
forgotten that what popery has just proved itself to
be IN Florence, II y everywhere And il the fruits
manifestations Of the system are not of ths same
kind the modification is to be solely ascribed 20 the
restraints which the civil institutions of the country
impose upon it.