The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-07-11
Popery the Grand Curse of Chris
tendon.

/. Rome's Spiritual Curse.-lst, the
number Of martyrs for whose blood she
mnst answer is computed at $4,000 600,
and the number of votarics for whose
souls she must answer is reck oned at 6 :.
750 000 ID, Had the gospel continued
to advance as it did during the FIRST cen.
tury, bumanly speaking the millennium
would ere now have begun. What ar
rested it Popery. SO that if great
part Of mankind are still sitting in dark.
ness, instead of rejoicing in the light ;
end if multiudes of past generations
have gone down to the grave without
hope, on Rome rests tho Tremendous
guilt 81, What is still the grand enemy
of all cvangclistic agoncics-opposing
the friends OF the gospel in heather
lands, cxpclling them from Popish lands,
thwarting them in Protestant lands in
n word. frustrating, in various ways, the
efforts of our Bible, Tract. aud Mission.
airy Societies throughout the world
Pupery. Thus so long as Popery con.
tinucs rampant, Gods servants are work.
ing at fearful odds And hence il fol.
lows, that the shortest way to hasten the
triumphs Of the Gospel is first 10 unite
for the overthrow of its mightiest foe.
II. Rome's Moral Curse According
to the most authentic statistics there are
annually in Britain four murders to each
million Of Inhabitants while in the Papal
States, there are l23 murders to each
million. From. Il late Parliamentary re-
turn it appears that iu the jais of Great
Britain there are three and half Po-
pish prisoners for one Protestant prison
er, in proportion to their respective pop
ulations. In Ireland the vast proportion
of the prisoners are Papsts. even in the
most Protestant counties. While cycry-
Where. as is the Popory, SO is, as gen
cral rule, tbs fulsehood, dishonesty. pro.
fame swearing. turbulence. &c, Of the
community 1t is. therefore. respectful.
ly submitted to all advocates Of prison
reform. ragged schools. &c that to put
down Popery would be to dry up the
chefcst source of evils they are coutcnd.
ing against; and that to attempt these
objects and neglect it, is to attempt to
drain few of our moral sewers, while
the chief source Of pollution that sup
plies them romans untouched.
III. Rome's Socia. Curse list. By
dcmorali2ng it cccssarily degradcs aud
impoverishes Hence how few papists
rise to wealth aud distinction in com.
parlson to Protcstants what vast pro-
portion Of the formcr are hewers of
wood and drawers Of watern to the lat
ter and how striking the social con.
trast between all Protestant and PopiSh
towns, districts, and counties %, For
the same reason, Popery is the great
parent Of disease In the city Of Rome
the deaths actually exceed the births
and from the retarns of the Census Com
missioncrs Of ls5 it appears that on the
day the conSus was taken, III every 209
was sick in Counaught, and in every
lO6 in Munster; while in Protestant
Ulster there was only / sick in every
432 Sd, For the same reason art and
science commerce and manufactures. owe
their well being, and almost their being
to ProteStanism To tho Exhibition of
1851, filled with the fruits of Protestant
enterprise and genius, Spain coutd only
send her crown jewels, the relics Of de.
parted greatness. While recently there
was not one foot of railway, in the Papal
States, there is said to be 10000 miles
of railway in the United States And
1t is only few months since gas light
was introduced into tho City of Rome.
On the other band. in the four years cnl-
ing 1852, the shipping tonnage of Bel.
fast port increased 81 per ceut, while
two attempts to put on single stcalp'er.
in the splendid bay of Galway have fail
cd. The commerce and manufactures of
Protestant Britain are the worlds won.
der and Protestant Ulster contains
large portion Of tho trade and four.Gths
OF the manufactures of ireland There
fore the P"plsh question comes home to
the interest Of every manufacturer, mer-
chant and trader in the land. But for
Popery,how much greater would Europe
have now been-how much greater Brit
ain-how much more prosperous and
happy the mass Of our entire commuui.
tyl
". Roule's Financial Curse.-It is
eFident. from the foregoing facts. that
the pecuniary loss occasioued by Porery
to the nation is incnlculable Even to
form an idea Of it, one would need 10 cs.
timote the loss to the community, posi-
tive aud negative, cntaiIed by every pris.
oncr aud paupOr Rome has made, every
vice and crime which Romc has caused,
and all the police, military, law, prison.
poor house, and other expenses occasion.
ed by Popcry. For instance, the poor.
rates OF Ulster are frequently as low as
six'pence in the pound, while those of
ConnOught aud Munster are often five
shilliugs and six shillings. It is notori.
Gus that large portion Of the prison,
police, aud poor expenses Of Glasgow,
Liverpool, &c, are caused by Popery.
What untold sums Popish Ireland has
already cost Great Britain Positive.
ly, the nero grants aud advances to that
country have been immense and, mega
tivoly as being by its turbulence, disor-
der, &c, constant drag on Britain.
Nay. to estimate fully the financial curse
of Popery, one would need first to con-
sider the wealth of Prctestant and the
poverty of POpsh lands, and then try
to calculate the prod;gious prosperity the
nations would now have reached had
they always been Protestant Yet these
enormous financial evils every man in
this nation must more or less sutf5r.-
The Bul,Oark.