SPIRITUAL TREASURE

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 33.

SPIRITUAL TREASURE.

For the low sum of One Dollar in favor of the Cathedral of Montreal, the purchaser will have the benefit of the following advantages: 1,048 Masses a year for four years; 145,133 Communions; 323,808 Ways of the Cross; 515,464 Rosaries; 16,372 Masses heard; 4,300 Strings of Beads of the Sacred Heart; 4,600 Offices of the Holy Virgin; 720 Breviaries of the Precious Blood; 100 Salve Regina, chanted by the Trappists, and several thousands of other prayers, such as "Remember . . ." "Pater," Ave, etc., and once a week the spiritual profit of 7,000,000 of Ave Marias by the confraternity of that name.

Seen and approved, EDWARD CHARLES, Bishop of Montreal.

We do not believe that Protestants generally have any conception of the actual prevailing sentiment among Romanists as indicated by such an offer as this. But this does not distinctly set forth the engagements which are most abhorrent to the Protestant mind, and which are made less prominent in America, than in other lands. Romanism in these United States vastly modifies its outward manifestations in order to lessen the antagonism between it and the intelligence of the community.—New York Observer.