Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN 'I'HE DARK. 21
the presence of saints, to breathe sentiments so profane,
and fraught with such deadly poison ~ I marvel
that God, in his anger, did not smite you down!
Think of it, were you in Rome, and should dare to
utter such things, your life would pay the penaltyand
that by slow torture, upon the rack, or amid
blazing fagots!"
"Much reason, then, have I to be thankful that I
live in a land of greater freedom, where such horrid
cruelti s are not tolerated."
"Yet, infinitely better, no doubt, would it be for
your poor soul, if there were 1 ss religious tol ration
in this country."
" None, but the most fiendish human monsters,
could inflict such tortures as you speak of."
"It is done only in kindness, and prompted by the
purest love for the soul."
"I pray ever to be delivered from the embrace of
such love; scarcely could savage barbarity equal it."
"Millions, no doubt now in heaven, bless the
flames kindled by holy inquisitors, as the means of
their salvation! for the fires that consumed their
bodies, conquered the infidelity of their hearts. .All
good Catholics pray that the time may speedily come
when the church will have power to establish the holy
Inquisition in America."
"Heaven forbid, St. Evangeline, that I should live
to see that day!"
"Well may such heretics as you say so!"
"Why is it, if you can, do tell me why, our reli-