This is how I began my lecturing, not that I ever intended to do so when I left the sisterhood, but the Roman Catholic system drove me to it, and now I am thankful that it did, for I can do more good telling my story than I ever could by being a Sister of Charity in the Roman Catholic sisterhood, or by being a nurse caring for the sick. I love to aid the poor, suffering sick, but I feel that there are many nurses better than I could ever be, even with my experience, but there are, indeed, very few who live thirty-one years in the sisterhood of the Roman Catholic Church, and live to leave it and tell their experiences. CHAPTER XVI. MY "ADVERTISEMENT" IN THE CATHOLIC SENTINEL. During the spring and early summer of 1916, an election campaign was on, and the issue was very apparent. The patriotic citizens were determined to elect American citizens to office who would uphold the American principles. I was talking several times each week, and evidently something was hurting, for the _Catholic Sentinel_, published in Portland, which is the mouthpiece of Archbishop Christie, printed a fine "advertisement" for me in its issue of June 8, 1916. There has been many comments on some of my statements regarding the activities of the "Knights of Columbus," and this article from their own paper will substantiate what I have said: A. P. A.'S FEATURE "ESCAPED" NUN Former Sister of Charity Appears on Anti-Catholic Platform. BIGOTRY RUNS WILD Protestant Churches Are Placed at the Disposal of Miss Schoffen. Portland is a hotbed of religious bigotry. While the rest of the world is storming Heaven for peace, the "patriots" here are doing everything in their power to stir up religious dissension. To this end they are using Miss Elizabeth Schoffen, a former nun. This unfortunate woman was for 31 years a member of the Sisters of Charity of Providence. For 17 years she was a nursing sister in St. Vincent's Hospital here. She left the order four years ago as a protest against having been transferred from Portland to Vancouver against her will. The order paid to her or her representatives a considerable sum of money in recognition of her services. Some months back she went on the lecture platform, billing herself as an ex-nun. The public did not flock to hear her in any great numbers. Her audiences consisted for the most part of that undesirable element in this community who would revive Know-Nothingism and to whom that which is vulgar and salacious carries an appeal.