sense of your great dignity as such, as well as with the importance of your mission--glowing with active zeal for the spiritual and moral elevation of the nations of the earth! you must become men full of love to your calling--burning to secure the happiness of your fellow-mortals!--men full of holy ardour to establish the rights of all your fellow-citizens without distinction--full of holy ardour for the bringing in of the reign of righteousness and brotherly-love among all the children of men; men full of ardour to exhibit your convictions in your actions--to turn your words to truth and actual realization, that all men may become brothers--as the children of one Father. In obedience to your calling, you must become such men. But you are not so at present--you are the hirelings of the Pope! Yes, you are hirelings, without a feeling of your dignity as men, or of the importance of your mission, although you call yourselves the chosen, honoured, and consecrated servants of the Lord! You do not glow with zeal for the honour, the moral freedom, the welfare of your fellow-citizens; you even grind down the bourgeoisie and peasantry, who number in their ranks your parents and their families--by whose sweat you are supported,--and anathematize them when they raise their heads, impatient of Romish interference with their consciences. You feast, while they are hungry; you riot, while they pine! Is this falsehood? See here a bishop with 40,000 annual dollars (£6000)--religious institutions with incalculable wealth, and not far from them a poor weaver, who can barely earn five silver groschens (6d.) weekly for himself and for his family! You are not filled with holy ardour to spread abroad righteousness, truth, and light--although from desk and pulpit you deceitfully proclaim, 'with us alone are truth, peace, civilization, education, and moral freedom; we are the trusty friends and guides of the nations; it is to us men must commit their faith, in order after earthly toil to become blessed!' Far rather do many of you labour, some consciously, others unconsciously, to promulgate superstition, darkness, and spiritual bondage! You will say to me,--'Bring proof, bring proof,' and proof you shall have, an hundred-thousand fold:--_the fruits of your words and of your actions!_ Look to your own consecrated class--what _corruption!_ Look to the nations--what _misery!_ 'A good tree cannot bear evil fruit.'' The corruption of your consecrated order is the fruit of your soul-killing servitude to your superiors; the misery of the nations is, for the most part, the result of your oppression. The pressure under which you yourselves languish, is fearful and unspeakable, for you have been robbed of freedom in the exercise of reason, will, and affection. You are slaves--and therefore wish your fellow-citizens to share your bondage. Your spirit lies enchained by despotic bulls and edicts--the unfettered flight of thought is restrained by curses. Your reason is the