Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

'DANGER IN THE DARK. 41
"Not in this world, Mrs. May; what it may do in
the next, I pretend not to say, but confess myself
unwilling to trust for salvation in another world, to
that which works badly in this. Romanism is, and
ever has been, an unmitigated curse; a blight and a
mildew upon the earth; a plague-spot upon the bosom
of Christendom I It is a gigantic system of religious
fraud, which has wrapped whole nations in darkness,
and crushed the hearts and hopes of millions I and
Jesuits are its secret agents, who e business it is to
work in the dark, and forge cbains for the mind.
Th yare the emissaries of the Pope of Rome, sworn
to carry out his despotic aims; they are everywhere
traitors to God, and the enemies of mankind; to serve
the Roman pontiff, they would blot out the sun, and
enslave the world I"
"Come now, Squire," said a little, fat, bustling
man, something larger than an apple-dumpling, and
quite similar in figure, who had been dozing during
most part of the preceding conversation, "are we yet
to believe all the ghost stories our grandmothers used
to frighten us with when we were naughty boys ~"
" You've certainly been dreaming, Mr. Wimple,
and waked up before your nap was out," replied Delmont,
facetiously.
"Hold a moment - I want to know if you really
believe any more in the tales about the Inquisition,
the St. Bartholomew massacre-the torturing and killing
of heretics, than in old wives' fables, haunted
houses, witchcraft, or graveyard apparitions ~"
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