Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 205
" Doubtless! and that very thing, is a terrible argument
against Popery: a- religion that so hardens the.
heart and destroys natural affections, cannot be of
heaven. Your kind forbearance toward me, as a heretic,
only proves that the blinding superstition, and
the vindictive and sanguinary spirit of Romanism,
has not struck in upon you so deeply as upon most
Oatholics."
"Say rather, that my forbearance toward you, is
owing to my weakness, and want of fidelity to the
Ohurch and to the vicar of Christ."
" I glory in such weakness and infidelity, as makes
a man, a man I rather than a beast or a demon.
What, but a beast or demon, could see his wife or his
child, in the merciless hands of bloody-minded and
relentless inquisitors l Yet there are in Rome, husbands
and fathers, that have turned informants, and
dragged their own wives and their own children, before
that infernal spiritual court, to suffer chains, imprisonment,
the dungeon and the f~ckI Among Catholics,
you are one of a thousand, whose humanity is to
be trusted when Popery's in question; those who
adopt the monstrous faith, rarely resist so long and
well, its blighting and withering effects upon the
generous feelings and noble impulses of the heart.
But enough of this: now what about these unfortunate
boys 'i"
" I care not."
IIThey may be susceptible ~t least, of some improvement,"