------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Errors, when reasonably attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details. Corrections made to the text are summarized there. French passages did not include diacritical marks (with a single appearance of ‘ç’ on p. 54), and are presented here as printed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: C. CHINIQUY] FIFTY YEARS IN THE CHURCH OF ROME. BY FATHER CHINIQUY, THE APOSTLE OF TEMPERANCE OF CANADA. AUTHOR OF “THE MANUAL OF TEMPERANCE,” “THE PRIEST, THE WOMAN, AND THE CONFESSIONAL,” “PAPAL IDOLATRY,” “ROME AND EDUCATION,” ETC. FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY, NEW YORK. CHICAGO. TORONTO. _Publishers of Evangelical Literature._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY REV. CHARLES CHINIQUY, ST. ANNE, KANKAKEE CO., ILL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATION. TO COLONEL EDWIN A. SHERMAN. Allow me to mention your name the first among the many to whom I dedicate this book. I owe this to you as a token of gratitude for your help in my researches after the true murderers of our martyred President Abraham Lincoln. I found you as wise and honorable in your counsels as our country found you brave on the battlefields of Liberty. TO THE ORANGEMEN OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA AND NEW ZEALAND,[A] this book is also dedicated by the humblest of their brethren. Orangemen! Read this book: you will not only understand Romanism as you never did, but you will find many new reasons to be, more than ever, vigilant, fearless and devoted, even to death, in the discharge of the sacred duties imposed upon you by your love for your country, your brethren and your God. ----- Footnote A: L. O. A. B. A. BOYNE L. O. L. No. 401. Montreal, 20th Sept., 1878. This is to Certify that Bro. C. Chiniquy was duly initiated into Boyne L. O. L. No. 401, and is a member in good standing, and we do therefore request all Brethren to receive him as such, whereof witness our hand and seal hereto affixed. MASTER No. 401.