She clasped my hand, and told me to remember God, and the eternity which awaited me, and the judgment of that other, final world.

Oh! if there be a heaven and a purgatory! a God and a judge! if I sink to perdition, one alone is to blame.

He told me he had power to forgive my sins; that the more completely I obeyed him on earth, the more blessed I should be in heaven.

Yet I have heard him lie, and seen him set aside the rules of humanity and the laws of God! Mary's Bible tells me 'to keep holy the Sabbath day.' Yet, from my childhood, I have seen our Priests at mass on Sabbath morning, and at monte and cock-fights on the evening of the same day! And I have seen them take from the widow, as the burial-fee of her husband, the last cow she possessed.

I saw these things, and I said, there is no God, or he would not suffer such as these to minister as his chosen servants upon the earth.