PRIESTS,
WOMEN, AND FAMILIES,
TRANSLATED FROM THE EIGHTH EDITION
OF
LE PRETRE, LA FEMME, ET LA FAMILLE.
BY
J. MICHELET.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY THE PROTESTANT EVANGELICAL MISSION,
5, RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1874.
EDITOR'S PREFACE.
When it was first proposed to publish an English Translation of thisadmirable work, its gifted Author wrote to the Translator to thefollowing effect: "This work cannot be without interest to the peopleof England, among whom, at this moment, the Jesuits are so madlypursuing their work. Nothing is more strange than their chimericalhopes of speedily converting England."
Indeed, their intrigues and manoeuvres were thought at thattime—1845—to be "chimerical," even by many who were forced to joinin the Jesuit Crusade. One of the Bishops, directed by Dr. Wiseman touse the "Litany for the Conversion of England," replied, "You may aswell pray that the blackamoor may be made white." He was ordered toRome, and six months' detention there quieted his opposition to theJesuit schemes intended to "bend or break" his country.
In presenting a New Issue of "PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES", we meet awant—a necessity—of Society. The CONFESSIONAL UNMASKED, which sofaithfully portrayed the Romish and Ritualistic Priest, and which wasso unjustly and illegally suppressed by the violence and intrigues ofPriests and those whom they "directed," was too plain in its utterancesfor general reading. Its testimony as a WITNESS was and is ofthe highest importance; but we fully concur with the Author of this"work of art" that it should not be disfigured by the portraits ofPriests.
The following Illustrations are a proof that something ought to bedone on behalf of the deluded creatures who, under the pretence ofbecoming the "Brides of Christ," are subjected to "indignities" andcruelty, not tolerated anywhere else.
"ARTICLES OF PIETY;"
OR, INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE IN ENGLISH CONVENTS.
This engraving is copied from a Photograph, Published by the Society. For a description of these and other "Articles of Piety," see Oxford and Roman Railway. Price 1s.
Instruments of Torture are now practised upon Nuns in Romish Conventsin London and in all parts of the country.
The Romish "Articles of Piety," named on the next page, were bought at"Little's Ecclesiastical Warehouse", 20, Cranbourne Street, and at theConvent of the "Sisters of the Assumption of the Perpetual Adoration ofthe Blessed Sacrament," London.
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