Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

70 DANGER IN THE DARK,
of this boasted Republic! and with a whip of scorpions
scourge heresy to the gates of perdition! ,*,.,. ."
Who then, will dare question the supremacy of the
pope,---or deny the infallibility of the holy, apostolic
church! The impious tree of liberty shall be scathed
by the vengeful lightnings of Rome, and shattered
beneath the crashing thunders of the Vatican! What
a triumph, to see impious Protestant sects humbled
in the dust and made to kiss the ground at our feetI
Then let them who dare, denounce our faith; or wag
their tongues against priest or Pope! '*' oil< ~ oj« So
fiercely burns my holy indignation, scarcely have I
patience for policy-yet must I use policy-and study
to catch the nearest way, I may feel daggers, but
must not speak them, Like the innocent flower let
me look, though I bite like the serpent under it.-
Aiming at great ends, it is weak to scruple about the
means !-A Jesuit must frame his face to all occasions-and
if need be, wheedle with the devil! oj« .. '*'
'*' ,. Protestantism is a tree whose roots have struck
deeply and whose branches extend afar - sheltering
heretics and promoting the growth of' heresy-'tis a
baneful Upas, throwing a deadly shadow Ilpon the
mother church-causing her venerable walls to molder
and her consecrated altars to crumble. This GOd-provoking
and heaven-insulting tree must be felled-and
that it sprout no more, evel'y fiber should be eradicated
from the earth it encumbers-that root and branch may
be together cast into the fire, and consumed by the
fierceness of Almighty wrath l '*' .. '*' '*' It may cost