No, as soon might you hope to find healthful and vigorous vegitation under the deadly shade of the BоHON Popery and civil liberty cannot co-exist.

UPAS.

CONCLUSION.

THUS has an attempt been made to present an authentic and candid statement of the facts respecting popery. The votaries of this corrupt system will doubtless cry out, that this is all a libel, all false and malicious. But as they hold it right to lie for the glory of God and the interests of popery, and as the denial of a statement of facts in regard to their system, will doubtless be deemed by them essential to the interests of popery, it is to be expected that they will deny whatever can be stated, however true. But who will believe those who license pious frauds, and say one thing when they mean another. The statement is true and can be substantiated, let papists deny as much as they will. They deny that they worship a bread god when they worship the bread in the eucharist. And the evasion by which they make good this denial, is, that when the bread is changed into the body of Christ, as they suppose it is when they worship it, it is no longer bread, and therefore not a bread god. Still their eyes tell them it is still bread, and therefore must be bread and god too, and a bread god. But with their system of prevarication and deception, they can deny or affirm any thing they please. But in this age and country of light, who will be dupe enough to believe all that papists tell him, even against the testimony of his own senses?

It remains, then, for the inhabitants of this land of freedom, to say whether they will yield themselves to the cold and withering embrace of this system of moral corruption. Shall popery be welcome to our shores? Shall it rear its serpentine crest over our goodly heritage? Shall our children be sent to its halls for instruction, our daughters be committed to its sisterhood of impurity? Shall our charities be poured out to nourish this scorpion in our houses, which will, as soon as opportunity presents, requite our kindness by the thrust of his fatal sting? Shall the dungeons of the inquisition ever darken these vallies and plains? Shall the fires

of martyrdom ever gleam in our horizon? Shall the souls of them who are slain for the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus, ever cry from under the altar, against this blessed land, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell in these United States? O, my soul, come not thou into their secret, unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united. Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.'"

Will it be said, all this is idle fear? It may be, but if it prove so, one thing is certain. It will not be so through any lack of exertion on the part of papists to support and propagate their faith in this land. We already see and feel the fruits of such exertion. A society was formed at Vienna in 1829, called the Leopold Foundation, for the purpose of raising funds to propagate popery in this country, by supporting missionaries, founding cloisters, monasteries, seminaries, &c. This society raised in about a year, nearly fifty thousand florins, between thirty and forty thousand of which have been remitted to the diocess of Ohio. The popish chapel at Hartford, Conn. is said to have been paid for by the Austrian consul. If, then, popery does not gain the ascendancy in this country, it will not be for want of effort on her part. What, then, shall be done? Here the answer returns, which was suggested in the introduction. We must not persecutewe must not assume carnal weapons-we must act in entire consistency with the gospel we profess—but we must be on the alert we must pour light upon this kingdom of darkness-we must inform our population of the wiles of this enemy of man-we must endeavor to protect our own families and friends from the contagion-we must leave no corner of the land where popery can hide. And while we make these efforts according to manifest duty, we must look unitedly and importunately to HIM who will yet be inquired of by the house of Israel, and who has never said, seek ye me in vain; that He will be pleased to pour out his spirit of light and truth; that he will shorten the reign of error and delusion, and that he will hasten the day of glory, when Zion shall arise and shine, her light being come and the glory of the Lord being risen upon her, and when Satan shall be bound that he go out to deceive the nations no more for a thousand years. "Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly." Amen.