TEMPORAL power; while it puts on the ill-contrived mask of Religion, to compass atrocious purposes! From the middle of the eighth century, has it claimed dominion over all men; over all civil powers, and over all governments! "A priest," says one of its writers," is as superior to a magistrate, as a man is to a beast; and the pope is as superior to a potentate, or any chief magistrate, as God is superior to a man. He who prefers the king to the priest," continues he, "prefers the creature to the creator."*

In another vision, the holy apostle beheld this ferocious power shadowed forth under the symbol of "a strange WOMAN, DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS."

This sanguinary power, which we have traced to Rome, has, from its rise, worn the mask of religion, like her twin brother, Mohammed, and has drenched the fields and cities of Europe, Asia, and America, with human blood! Papal Rome has shed the blood of fifty millions of Christians in Europe! She has shed the blood of fifteen millions of Indians and Mexicans on our continent! She has shed the blood of fifteen hundred thousand Jews, in Spain, and in other nations! And she has shed the blood of two millions of Moors in Spain alone! Thus, has SHE shed the blood of SIXTY-EIGHT MILLIONS, FIVE HUN

*Stanislaus Orichovius, in his book, The Chimera, p. 90. Bishop of Lincoln's Popery Pernicious, p. 27.

DRED THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS, in propagating her religion, and extending her power! And, O merciful Father in heaven, this does not include the millions of their own people, and her enemies, which fell in her crusades, and wars, and massacres! Here, thirty millions and a half would be a moderate calculation! Thus, Rome papal has hurried into eternity, A HUNDRED MILLIONS OF THE HUMAN RACE, by her bloody religion! IS SHE NOT DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR SPECIES! No other nation, no other founder of a false religion, has ever shed so much blood, or caused so much suffering, and lamentation, and woe, on the face of the earth! And has she repented?

The Jews bewailed the murderous deeds of their forefathers, as they decked the tombs of the martyrs of their nation; and declared that, had they been in the days of their fathers, they would not have done their deeds!

We have discovered no such symptoms of pity and penitence, in this predicted power, the modern Antichrist. Its motto is," semper et ubique eadem. Always the same in all times and places." Hence it has never revoked these bloody decrees. It has never penitentially declared that its forefathers put these millions of human beings unrighteously to death. It has never even apologised to the human family for these massacres! So far from this, it does stand boldly and unblushingly forward, as the

advocates of all that its fathers have done. And it maintains, with desperate and heaven-daring pertinacity, in the name of Almighty God, that dissent from its dogmas, is HERESY: that HERESY is as the sin of murder! Hence it is an article in its creed, occupying a high and conspicuous position, that the church must put "HERETICS" to death for their religion! This article is avouched, and unblushingly, and loudly proclaimed by her Doctors, such as St. Thomas, Bellarmine and others; by her councils, such as those of Constance and Trent; by her popes, such as her Bonifaces and her Innocents; both by their decrees, and most revolting deeds! Hence the unrepealed law stands to this day in Rome's Code of Laws, under this title," De heretico comburendo concerning the burning of the heretic."— And hence, the laws and regulations of "The Infernal Inquisition," which stand out in bold relief, before all the world, not only unrepealed, but never even disowned,-never even disapproved! Unrepealed!-Disowned! Disapproved! No, no. Oh! merciful King of Zion,--in thy pure eyes, even under thine awful majesty, is "The Inquisition, the infernal Inquisition, even at this day, in full operation in Rome, and under the patronage of Pope Gregory Sixteenth!!! What a mockery! "His Holiness," and "the Chief of the Infernal Inquisition !!!"

And, in thus warring against " heresy," it wars

against liberty of conscience; against civil liberty; against the liberty of the press; and against popular education; and thence against the happiness, and dearest interests and rights of mankind!

In the great and final day of judgment, all that have been murdered in cold blood, by this Antichristian power, shall be congregated before the great white throne, to confront this long and bloody line of ghostly despots, and all their followers, and when every lip of every martyr and sufferer in this countless "cloud of witness,' shall utter in a peal of loudest thunder, their accusations, and the sentence, then,-and not until then, shall it be known, how much Rome was the enemy of the human race-how many murders she has perpetrated-and how many souls were hurried into perdition by her cruelty, and her sorcery, who has for ages and ages been "drunk with the blood of the saints, and the martyrs of Jesus Christ."

And, hence, my Christian friends and fellowcitizens, in warring against this gigantic power, we are not warring against religion, or against any Church; or against any man personally. Against any loyal division in the glorious army of THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, we war never! Against any man, personally, we war not, we contend not, but for his salvation! We are doing a duty which every Christian man, woman,

and child, is bound to do to God, and man-to his country, and the Church. We are " contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints."

We are taking up our line of march, and forming in our position, in the army of Prince Messiah, who rides forward" on his white horse, followed by the armies of heaven, all clothed in white, conquering, and to conquer."

And, while patriotism and charity give no quarter to this combination of unreformable conspirators against Christianity, and the rights and salvation of man, our prayers shall ascend to heaven for the men who are still under its pernicious influence. And even for the unhappy Primate of Rome, and each individual of his guilty hierarchy, will the devout Protestant offer as earnest, and as devout a prayer, as that which the good old Reformer John Craig offered up, in the pulpit of St. Giles, formerly occupied by the immortal John Knox, on behalf of the bloody Charles IX., king of France. We will implore repentance and forgiveness for each of them, who have not sinned away the day of grace; and blasphemed in the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost!

But leaving these painful objects, let me conduct you, my dear friends, to a more pleasing prospect that is held out in the brightening visions of the holy apostle. From the lofty point of revelation, the conducting angel directs our eyes