CH. IV.] AGED AND INFIRM POOR. 



which Protestant worship is performed, and he 

 tells you, " for my Protestant poor I have col- 

 lections made in the churches, and I know not 

 what passes in the other places which are called 

 churches." Be it observed, that he and his clergy 

 are in possession of the altars, of the parsonage, 

 of the churches built by Catholics, in possession 

 of the tithe levied upon the Catholics, or of the 

 glebe and property in ancient times granted by 

 Catholics. 



Let us suppose this same property in the hands 

 of a Protestant layman, he would entertain some 

 feeling of charity for a Catholic tenant. He may 

 be charitable, and it is his interest to be so, be- 

 cause his family succeeds to this property ; but 

 Protestant archbishops or ministers, who have fa- 

 milies to support, know that the day after their 

 death the family is obliged to quit the archbishopric 

 or parsonage, that the revenues of the benefice will 

 not be burdened with settlements or pensions for 

 their families ; and during their life, the fathers of 

 these families will think more of them than of 

 their flocks, and we must admit that they ought to 

 do so. 



We must say, that the minister of religion, when 

 he marries, loses that character ; the ministerial 

 office is merged in the paternal, one, and the father 

 of the family, calling himself a clergyman, is un- 



