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BIGOTRY OF PAPISTS. 



I married a couple a short time ago, and 

 afterwards found that the priest had been un- 

 wearied in calling upon the woman who was a 

 professed Protestant, and never ceased to repeat 

 to her their opinions of heretics, till, with the 

 persuasion of her husband, they prevailed 

 upon her to be re-baptized, and re-married by 

 them in the nominal profession of the Catholic 

 faith. And I was assured by a Swiss gentle- 

 man at the Settlement, who had married a 

 Catholic from Montreal, that some months 

 after their marriage, one of the priests called 

 upon his wife, and told her that it would have 

 been better for her to have married a heathen, 

 than a Protestant. A heathen, he said, might 

 be converted to the Catholic faith, and be 

 saved, but little hope could be entertained of a 

 Protestant. These circumstances prove that 

 Popery, as it now exists, at least in this quarter 

 of the globe, is not contrary to what it was in 

 the days of the Reformation. 



Christmas is again returned, and appears to 

 be generally known amongst us, as in Europe, 

 only as a season of intoxication. Will not the 

 very heathen rise up in judgment, at the last 

 day, and condemn such a gross perversion of 

 the supposed period of the Redeemers birth ; 

 the knowledge of whose name, they have 



