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“VOL, LX.
. UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
quisition. in ihe United States ! . Ohorrible! Let
_ Us cite his own word and since he a appeals: to us
on the subject. we shall endeavour to satisfy him
“6 Jesuit.”
tien “¢ The Ingnisition”’ in the United States, and that
a Southern Bishop has orders to that effect.’ Facts have
. recently transpired, which are awakening this com-
munity to a sense of their dan
i—as a March-
| or fourth person, whom
Beman catechises those who’ assemble there on the
subject of their religious’ feelings ; and pronounces]:
the sentence
of dumnation on all those whose creed |
diffe
rs in any material degree from his.*-The third,
sed, proved to be
a Canadian; who professed the ‘catholic Faith. » Ups]
on this acknowiedgment of his belief, the Rev. gen-
Jeman, in perhaps, would cull a spirit of
christian ppekiess, candour and <tr uth, proceeded
to charitably inform the Canodian, that he most as-
r suredly would ae ‘to Bell, if he did not renounce the
bedlam and a strait j
What can he mean ?—But let us give him our an-
swer, lest he should induce-others like himself, to
give credit to his words. We.-have, indeed, found
one already—and he, no less a man than the editor
of an Orthodox paper in Albany, favorably dispos-
.ed and very anxious to hear more from him on the
ubject.
Well then, We * the Jesuit," positively deny, that
‘it has been determined by t to establish the
‘Inquisition in the United States; We, ** the Jesuit”?
deny, moreover, that any Southern. ¢ or any other
Bisbop has orders to that effect d more, We
** the P yesvit *> defy G. or any other man to pro
either one, or the ther.--Consummate, ridiculous
nonsense ! :
VERY CURIOUS.
: From the Jesuit, -
We ta: ay with pleasure: to-day before our readers
-the minutes ofa conversation, whieh have been fur-
nished us by an obliging correspondent, and that
assed between acertain Rev: Nathan S. S. Bemin,
who, it appears, is the minister of ‘and attends the
first Presbyterian church in Troy, a a res-
Pestable pious lady of the same éity w 3 yet,
atech bunens bat who, we are given i vanertan
soon be nally received into the rch.
will
v ceive toweo tht is account, ae it serves to "shew
the good effect produced upon a healthy, and well
- disposed mind from reading correct and not lying
statements of the catholic religion—and from exa-
e@ given you:
seek.and you shall finil—Matt, 7. 7. she sought and
was re warded for it t— Toppy vom ay you have
s of the conversation|
that there
n som other adjacent towns a
Wien then, will the godly refur-
This sect is called
the Finnyites! rom the nan
le impostor, an insignificant driveller of a lawyer,
who lived some few years ago in the vielnits of
tertown, New-York k--and, who; we ytd. beyvan
to prepare himsell’ as preacher of te ‘wen, yt frst
putting away his wife add then ing her.
Tie litle women devoted to him 2 abut R oine and
jtica say his first wife was ugly, possibly in temper,
and therefore she was set aside. A short time alter
this, he set out upon his mission and dogtnatized in
tica, Rome, Albany and Troy, menacing hell ‘and
Mi His ro-
Yul. ‘hated the-pope, because
not sancifon his separation | froin his lawful wie, Ca.
thering of Arragon—-Let y this
untry | beware how they poi
rambling hollow, unprine cipled fellows.
of ths blustering ranter, the most_r
rous bisatry has bern excited and still ‘continues,
we are told, against catholics wherever they are
found.- These Finny? tes are a motley brood of the
eir chief, we learn, was
warmly atrawized by the Rev. ventleman of whom
we chall n speak—and who fame rabidd imbibed
at once all his religious principles and entered into
all is views.
The following arethe minutes of the conversation
mentioned above
th
my cousin Miss. Maria, '-——, to attend with Not an
ening meeting at the hens se opie Rev. Nathan
Ss. Ss. Beman. When we arr there, we foun di
the meeting was what is ‘ealled among the B
ites, an enziove, or inguiry meeting. Tha
?
the Most. absolute manner
at
€\the testamen
“tthe c
pos:
last “Sabbath evening I was,invited by
atholic ehureh, and asserted in
at the members of that
church are idolatera,
jany prayers to the saints, ag to
Ashe did not seem either to
to frighten (he Canadian out of his
—Mr. “Beinan left him and interrogated several
n their turn, and at length came to me, an
asked me whether: T professed the religion of Christ,
to w erdin ative. He then
asked the following question 5. inas
co unvince,-
faith
and in the habit of adiresing| 8) answe
Auswer.—No, Sir, ‘Ror.to change my bel lief,
Mr. B.--But you must change it before you ¢
be saved, fur you are in a lamentable state of dela
sion.
Si Answer.—-That ‘ie precisely what I think of YOU, |
Mr. B.—You are too much bigotted to your be-
of to judge correctly.
—And f th Sir, that the epithet bigot
ink,
comes ‘trom you vith a peculiarly bad
Mr. B.—'That k is not just, “ever ry body,
[fnows that i in my “sermons Igo not dwell on doc: ,
ry and Tm must confess I never heard you preac
any | doctrine a ats .
r. Bu ny rate J will pray for you,* tha it
your heart’ may be changed, and that you may sce
nd and abandon your errors
~ Answer.—-1 think it ‘would become you to
nounce your -own Srrors, before you require the:
t and most numerous church in
n! ne as.
recollect, the same order in which they are written,
with the replies ?
eman.— What faith do you profess
“Ans nswer. That which you have just denounced,
the catho
Mr,
Be
The catholic! f think it impossible for
any person to be a sincere christian and belon, ng to
that chureh. :
—The thousands of eee eminent
for their piety and talents h have been gross hypocrites.
Mr. B.--If the ey professed to believe i in that (ait th
they -must have been. I cannot conceive ho
lightened mind can believe i in such absurd doctene.|
Answer.—Yet, if they did not, they, any in-
stances, carried their hypocrisy to such
to die rathe
to be untrue.
$
an extent, a
r, B.—The catholic chure} as ‘always been |oP
guilty of the most cruel persec
si
Answer,-—It is impossible for ‘the catholics to be
guilty of more cruel persecution than that sacrile-
gious traitor John Knox svasiin founding the Presby-
tern churn. | in
--The catholic clergy will not allow the
bibie to a read by their member
Answer.—Th hat’ w to be false—the catholic
priest in this city has “dis tributed about three hun-
red testaments.
Mr, B.--Whatever you may say, I flatly deny that
your clergy allow their members to read the scriptu-
es. I know of instanc he cont
Answer.
formers
. tha t the moder
are indebted tu the cath aie church for. the
the scriptures ani ths anthority
of acatholic coundil ‘for a knowledge. of what books
are authentic and inspired,
Ar. Be deny the. catholic church preserved
the peripin
seer. Phen history i is a lie.
qr. We meet with many falsehoods: every
where.
Answer.--Of that Tam fully sensible ;
with such things even in those
we meet
tracts, you tuke so
re But the. biblo bears internal evidence of
its truth.
—-Martin » Luther could not diseaver that
internal cvidenco so clearly, for he rejected several
"| bo pks,
Mr. Be —None but tho Epistle of St. James.
Answer.— You are mistaken, Sir, 1, uner rejected
the epistles of St. James, and St. Jude
the Hebrews and the book of Revelations: and some
other reformers still mo:
Mr, B.—I think any einai person who will read
t must perceiy nd be c ee that
curse of God is there pronoun “on the cath
lic church and the final judgm ntnow ha
‘Answer. ;
cover fo “gue thin wT feel inclined to think the
curse will fall in another qua
ow you can belive it to be the church
of Chie Te cannot unders
Answer.—It was the only ‘established chureh far
1500 yess after our Saviour.
Mr, B.—That ‘proves nothing to the present pur-
e.
Answer.--Only that God was asleep, or on a jour-
ney for that space of time : fur he had promised to
build a church that should endure forever. and yet
neglected to fu'fil'a promise that was to operate im-
meri ately and fer that le ength.o
—-What! (coloring with pious “indigna
tion): ‘Did you ¢ cote to teach m
er than renounce doctrines they believed * WwW
face!
e old
the world, to yield op their faith and. consciences ‘to.
your privat e judgme
This is as faras ‘can recollect the amount of +
conversation, although I have perhaps omitted many
hings that were said by both of us. - Mr. Bem
style of speaking on. that Beension | wag a Kind of dist
cu ‘
church ev n at the expense of
}great and repeated violations of truth and christian
charity artieularly when addressing the Can adian .
t his conversatien with m
rewinding Shey “(the false charges) were deni
ed’on the spot
JANE M. E. S—." {
havo frequently been astonished that persons. who
g the mediation and merits of’
ange B ane aninte to ray for them; should
ir own undes
might per humility, where we
have been, tempted to believe there was. inconsie\ency and.
arrugan Err + Miscen,
a
MONASTIC ESTABLISH! MENTS.
o- Tnstituifons, like all other human institu
, dogener ted: into. abuse,"as
¢ bat thet tyranta, whether’ ‘Linge 0
who rthrew: them, would have overlooked
their corruptions had they not been tempted by their
wealth. But while the revenues: were administered
with discretion, their vices were at tleast concealed ;
the tribute of external homage
religion, and the Benedictin
rie
tabic e miserable lazar who was laid at hig’
door, supplied a dink i in the chuin of benevolence,
which seems n in those’ States w
have provided no "substitute from their own funds. —
All nations and all religious experience the succours
aud the-hospitality or te Monks of ernard.*
f» however attached to his
and ora
allowed to- ‘doubt whet her the ‘soldier or the jcotton:”
spinner, the present inhabitants of the forsaken ng
astery, converted into a- barrack of manufactory,
ntribute more to the bappines of the rounding,
region, than the learned, hospitable. wind charit able
Rehgious. And w.
| ble dissipation: the frivorous ivmniie or.a
the useless industry of a gr { proportion of those
females in old inhabited countries, whoin the exist-
ing cireumstances of sneicty destine to a state of ce 2
libacy. he cannot refrain from a comparison:
the Grey Sisters (Sours de Charite)' who mix iin ‘the
active walks of fife, but with-higher views, and for
Law
_| nobler purposee.—Pauts on the Poor
‘
n Lon n—The' calen dar for the nest Old :
Bail ee Seasons, Presents a fearful list
T here are 284 prisoners for tria
a Newgate,’ Londons at present... there are 272
wale ands 178 female: prisoners ; ten ‘of whom,
seven males, and three females, are under sentence
of death. ~~-Dub. Reg.
Decrease of crime in the Co. Kilkenny.-Oh Mon
day last the Quarter Sessions for the Klikenny dis-
trict commenced: at Kilkenny--and the criminal’
business was zone through by four o’clock in the
evening. there having ben frateen pis of fant
only, set up tothe Grand ! In form
sessions the number have been fron eighty to one
hu ndred, ~—-Carlow Post t,
rol have | heard you preach several times, .
h
which”,
may be reasonably ~”
on
when he considers the cuntempti- .
t
of crime *