The Romish Hierarchy has reduced the Gospel teaching to a system of usury, compulsion, and oppression, profanely--prostituted religion to a revolting Jesuitism,--and, instead of promoting the improvement and the reconciliation of mankind, maintains in all their bitterness the antipathies of nations, and, kindling civil war, (look to Switzerland and other countries!) debases human nature by hypocrisy and vice. It is the Roman Church which has to rend so wide asunder the yawning gulf which separates the higher from the lower classes, the ignorant from the educated, the poorer from the richer portions of all European nations; and it is she who is daily making that gulf still wider, by dint of Jesuitism and priestcraft. In order to escape from utter ruin, the overwhelming evil must be vigorously, resolutely met,--in compact phalanx. The nations--and above all the German nation--ought to call a free ecclesiastical convention, composed of laymen freely chosen, and of honest priests, to sweep away for ever all Jesuitism and priestcraft--to establish freedom of conscience on the ruins of hypocrisy--to purify religion, and to show the Church her actual calling, imposed upon her by the spirit of the times, and the exigencies of our people--namely, the reconcilement of the higher and the lower classes of humanity--the reconcilement of the nations and the peoples of the earth, by improving and ennobling them--by universal love and freedom. By our regard to our neighbour, we shew forth our love to God; for we are told by John, that "If a man say I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar." Arise, then, men of Germany and of France; men of Great Britain, Italy, and Spain, arise! Men of Europe and America! let us unite with our governments in the noble enterprise! To the work, like men--the work of peace and freedom! The hour is come! let us break the yoke of faith and conscience--drag down lying priesthood and the Hierarchy--annihilate disdainful Jesuitism, insulting God and man--and usher in the glorious reign of truth, and light, and righteousness--of virtue, of freedom, and of love! Let us usher in the true reign of Christ upon the earth!