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property wlieu they die. Some may ask, why are 
Catholics so anxious to have god-children ? It is not 
only that they may make proselytes to their creed, hnt 
that they may, hy such good works, have a large amount 
set down to their credit in the acconnt-hook of heaven. 
Though we know not that they go in this country to 
the length of abducting children from their parents and 
their homes, as Catholics do in other lands, yet it is not 
the want of inclination that prevents such steals, hut 
the fear of consequences. All creeds, when sincerely 
believed, prompt to efforts of conversion ; but 1 know 
no creed so determined, whetlier by fair or by foul 
means, upon making converts; or, as some one says, 
perverts. Catholics may think it hard to have the 
words of Christ as addressed to the Pharisees applied 
to them ; but their own unwarranted acts provoke the 
application and make it true “AVoe unto you Scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land 
to make one proselyte ; and when he is made ye make 
him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” 
AV e can easily suppose that the Catholics of Trinidad, 
when they see this language, will be indignant and 
enraged ; but we regard neither their indignation nor 
their rage; but we ask them, is it not true that the 
highest ecclesiastic of their communion in the land will 
not solemnize any marriage between a Protestant and a 
Catholic, unless it be agreed that all the children are to 
be brought up in the Eomish faith ? Have the}" not 
often taken and re-sprinkled children that have been 
sprinkled already in the Established Church ? Has 
not the liomish Archbishop declared, in harsh terms 
from the pulpit, that none can be saved but Papists, 
that all belonging to other communions when they 
die must go to hell, and be for ever destroyed ? Sucli 
cruel bigotrv is the same now as in the davs of 
Alva, as in the day of the Pievocation of the Edict of 
Nantes. No ! Popery is the same noAv as it has ever 
been — cruel, bigoted, blinded, and blood-thirsty. That 
it has not changed through the lapse of enlightened and 
