Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 237
"Romanists themselves, furnish conclusive evidence
that the moral code of the order is most infamous.
•, But to return to the subject of Roman schools:
you have alluded to the zeal they manifest in building
up institutions of learning. Let me remind you, these
, institutions are considerable sources of income to the
church. There is a nunnery near Bardstown, Ky.,
located on a farm of several hundred acres, 'the number
of whose female boarders,' says Dr. Rice, in his
lectures on Romanism, 'has averaged from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty. The charges for each,
including extras, would not be less than one hundred
and fifty dollars. The annual income of the institution
is not less than fifteen thousand dollars. The
outlay is small, since their provisions are mainly
raised on the farm. Almost the whole of this money
is earned by the nuns; yet they get no part of it.
Their coarse fare and clothing is all they receive. By
the degradation of these poor women, the clergy are
enriched; and to make slaves of them, was their object
in so shamefully deluding them. Some of the
nuns are employed as teachers, some are house and
kitchen servants, and some labor in the fields !'
" Without murmuring, they do whatever the prie ts,
their masters, bid them do-and that without the hope
of pecuniary reward. In referring to the nunnery
near Bardstown, Dr. Rice remarks: 'I know not how
others may feel, but it appears to me, that every
Christian, and every .American, should set his face
against those prisons, where females are incarcerated