Let them do this, sir--free Protestantism from the golden shackles which make it the slave of Mammon, that it may be able to work--do this, and depend upon it, that it will then flourish as it ought; but, in my humble opinion, until such a reform first takes place with ourselves, it is idle to expect that Roman Catholics will come over to us, unless, indeed, a few from sordid and dishonest motives--and these we were better without.

I think, therefore, that the present Reformation Society is unseasonable and ill-advised, nor do I hesitate to predict that the event will prove it so.

In conclusion, sir, I am sorry to say, that I've seldom seen one of those very zealous clergymen who would not rather convert one individual from Popery than ten from sin." "Why, Clement, you are a liberal!" "I trust, sir, I am a Christian.

As for liberalism, as it is generally understood, no man scorns the cant of it more than I do.

But I cannot think that a Roman Catholic man sincerely worshipping God--even with, many obvious errors in his forms, or, with what we consider absurdities in his very creed--I cannot think, I say, that such a man, worshipping the Almighty according to his knowledge, will be damned.