Roman Catholic "Freedom."
THE old story of your ox and my bull is repeated in the Romanist clamor for what they call "Freedom of Worship." They would not allow a Protestant to have a church or a school if they could prevent it. And here is a specimen or two of the way they allow freedom of worship to their own people. A pastor in the country writes to us:— "About a year ago a woman came into my family as a servant. She was unable to read, knew nothing of the Bible, and was all her life in the Romish church. Of her own accord she came in to family worship, and loved to do so. Sometimes she would ask my wife the meaning of certain passages she heard from the Bible, expressed much interest in them, and said they did her good all day. After the lapse of several months she returned to the city for a visit. When she came back she appeared to be in much trouble. That evening she did not come in to worship; and I remarked to my wife, 'E. has been to see the priest.' The next day she informed my wife that the priest had positively forbidden her to attend family worship. She said that she told the priest 'that it did her much good, gave her all day something to think about.' He refused to yield in the least. And under the threatened inflictions of the penalties of the church, this poor woman was denied the 'freedom' of hearing the Bible read, and prayer offered to God. "Near me lives a Roman Catholic woman. She had never seen a Bible in her father's house. Reading and hearing something of the Protestant faith, she procured a Bible. In a subsequent interview with the priest she informed him that she had a Bible. His reply was, 'The devil is in it; you must put it into the stove.' This she related to me herself." Such facts as these are of constant occurrence. They will not be denied by any truthful priest. Freedom of worship is not allowed to the poorest person in the Romish communion. But they make the greatest possible outcry if their priests are not permitted to invade our unsectarian institutions to teach their doctrines. It makes all the difference in the world whether it is your ox or my bull that is hurt.—N. Y. Observer. CHRISTIANITY, degraded or perverted into the service of this world, is found to be unfit to do even this world service.—Bishop Harris.