Be faithful to the principles of our holy religion--be faithful to truth--to moral virtue--be faithful to God, before whose awful tribunal we must all appear, and render an account of our lives.

It would be mere wantonness to throw yourselves into the hands of our persecutors.

Reserve yourselves; for the continuance and the sustainment of our blessed religion; but if you should happen to fall, by the snares and devices of the enemy, into the power of those who are striving to work our extermination, and if they should press you to renounce your faith, upon the alternative of banishment or death, then, I say, banishment, or death itself, sooner than become apostates to your religion.

I shall retire to a neighborhood only a few miles distant from this, where the poor Catholic population are without spiritual aid or consolation.

I have been there before, and I know their wants, and were it not that I was hunted and pursued with a view to my death--to my murder, I should rather say--I would have remained with them still.