“Thus, I have briefly given you not fiction! but a faithful narrative of facts in regard to conventual life, and an establishment marked by almost every form of sin, and yet making pretence of ‘perfecting the saints,’ by the free and gentle influences of the gospel of Christ.

“Query 1st.  What is done with all the money?

“2d.  What is done with the rich vestments and jewels?

“3d.  Where do the priests get all their brilliants to perform high mass and adorn their processions?

“4th.  Where does all the hair of the saints come from, which is sold in lockets for high prices as sure preventives of evil?

“5th.  Whose grave has been plundered to obtain relics to sell to the ignorant.

“6th.  Where does the Romish Church obtain her surplus righteousness to sell to the needy, and not give it like our blessed Lord, ‘without money and without price?’

“7th.  Who is responsible for the fanaticism that induces a young female to incarcerate herself?

“8th.  Where is the authority in reason, in revelation, for such a life?

“9th.  What is the average length of life?

“10th.  How many die insane?

“A young lady lately cast herself from the tower, and was dashed in pieces, being led to do it, doubtless, in desperation.  The convents of this city, of the same order, require the same entrance fee, $2000.  Of course, none but the comparatively rich can avail themselves of this perfection of godliness.

“Who will say that this mode of life has not been invented in order to cut short life as rapidly as possible, that the $2000, with all the rich diamonds upon initiation, may be repeated as frequently as possible?

“O! how true it is, that Romanism is the same merciless, cruel, diabolical organisation, wherever it can fully develop itself, in all lands.  How truly is it denominated by the pen of inspiration the ‘mystery of iniquity,’ especially that part of it relating to these secret institutions, and the whole order of the Jesuits.”

The editor of the “Christian Union”, in his remarks on the above, says, “Already the fair face of our country is disfigured by the existence here and there of conventual establishments.  At present they do not show the hideous features which they, at least in some cases, assume in countries where papal influence and authority are supreme.  The genius of our government and institutions necessarily exerts a restraining power, which holds them from excesses to which, otherwise, they might run.  But they constitute a part of a system which is strongly at variance with the interests of humanity, and merely wait the occurrence of favorable circumstances to visit upon our land all the horrors which they have inflicted elsewhere.