Truly the heart burns at the thought of such an outrage on every law of nature, on every principle of Christianity. Can that be Christianity which can resort to such expedients, and can depend for its power on such an instrumentality? Men may admire Jesuitism as a beautiful and well-adjusted machinery; they may be acquainted with individual Jesuits, and entertain a great respect for their talents, their acquirements, their mild and gentle manners; but let them look at the great broad facts of the system, at the cruel and oppressive apparatus, which is brought to bear on the conscience of its members, at the absolute crushing of all individual principle and conviction, at the early age at which sanguine youths are entangled and enslaved; and then let them decide whether it is possible that such a system can have the most distant connexion with that glorious liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Does not the Gospel fill men with joy and peace in believing? Does it not elevate the soul to sweet and holy communion with God? Does it not purify the heart and make the conscience sensitive to sin? And can that be consistent, I appeal to any Roman Catholic, with such a system as that of Jesuitry, which seizes a young man at the age of eighteen, strips him of his property, isolates him from his home, deadens his conscience, closes against him every possibility of escape, and then sends him forth into society, the thinking tool, the acting instrument in the hands of his captor? CHAPTER IV. MORALITY.