BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS FROM MY CONVERSION TO THIS
DAY—MY NARROW ESCAPES—THE END OF THE VOYAGE THROUGH THE DESERT TO THE
PROMISED LAND.
The marvellous power of the Gospel to raise a man above himself and give
him a supernatural strength and wisdom in the presence of the most
formidable difficulties has seldom been more gloriously manifested than
on the 3rd of August, 1858, on the hill of St. Anne, Illinois.
Surely the continent of America has never seen a more admirable
transformation of a whole people than was, then and there, accomplished.
With no other help than the reading of the Gospel, that people had,
suddenly, exchanged the chains of the most abject slavery for the royal
scepter of Liberty which Christ offers to those who believe in Him!
By the strength of their faith they had pulverized the gigantic power of
Rome, put to flight the haughty representatives of the Pope, and had
raised the banners of Christian Liberty on the very spot marked by the
bishop as the future citadel of the empire of Popery in the United
States.
Such work was so much above my capacity, so much above the calculation
of my intelligence, that I felt that I was more its witness than its
instrument. The merciful and mighty hand of God was too visible to let
any other idea creep into my mind; and the only sentiments which filled
my soul were those of an unspeakable joy, and of gratitude to God.
But I felt that the greater the favors bestowed upon us from heaven, the
greater were the responsibilities of my new position.
The news of that sudden religious reformation spread with lightning
speed all over the continents of America and Europe, and an incredible
number of inquiring letters reached me from every corner. Episcopalians,
Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, of every
rank and color, kindly pressed me to give them some details. Of course,
those letters were often accompanied by books considered the most apt to
induce me to join their particular denominations.
Feeling too young and inexpert in the ways of God to give a correct
appreciation of the Lord’s doings among us, I generally answered those
kind enquirers by writing them: “Please come and see with your own eyes
the marvellous things our merciful God is doing in the midst of us, and
you will help us to bless him.”
In less than six months, more than one hundred venerable ministers of
Christ, and prominent Christian laymen of different denominations,
visited us. Among those who first honored us with their presence was the
Rt. Rev. Bishop Helmuth, of London, Canada; then, the learned Dean of
Quebec, so well known and venerated by all over Great Britain and
Canada. He visited us twice, and was one of the most blessed instruments
of the mercies of God towards us.
I am happy to say that those eminent Christians, without any exception,
after having spent from one to twenty days in studying for themselves
this new religious movement, declared that it was the most remarkable
and solid evangelical reformation among Roman Catholics, they had ever
seen. The Christians of the cities of Chicago, Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, etc., having expressed the desire to
hear from me of the doings of the Lord among us, I addressed them in
their principal churches, and was received with such marks of kindness
and interest, for which I shall never be able sufficiently to thank God.
I have previously said that we had, at first, adopted the beautiful name
of Christian Catholics, but we soon perceived that unless we joined one
of the Christian denominations of the day, we were in danger of forming
a new sect.
After many serious and prayerful considerations, it seemed that the
wisest thing we could do was to connect ourselves with that branch of
the vine which was the nearest, if not identical with that of the French
Protestants, which gave so many martyrs to the Church of Christ.
Accordingly, it was our privilege to be admitted in the Presbyterian
Church of the United States. The Presbytery of Chicago had the courtesy
to adjourn their meeting from that city to our humble town, on the 15th
of April, 1860, when I presented them with the names of nearly 2,000
converts, who, with myself, were received into full communion with the
Church of Christ.
This solemn action was soon followed by the establishment of missions
and congregations in the cities and towns of Chicago, Aurora, Kankakee,
Middleport, Watseka, Momence, Sterling, Manteno, etc., where the light
of the Gospel had been received by large numbers of our French Canadian
emigrants, whom I had previously visited.
The census of the converts taken then gave us about 6,500 precious souls
already wrenched from the iron grasp of Popery. It was a result much
beyond my most sanguine hopes, and it would be difficult to express the
joy it gave me. But my joy was not without a mixture of anxiety. It was
impossible for me, if left alone, to distribute the bread of life to
such multitudes, scattered over a territory of several hundred miles. I
determined, with the help of God, to raise a college, where the children
of our converts would be prepared to preach the Gospel.
Thirty-two of our young men, having offered themselves, I added, at
once, to my other labors, the daily task of teaching them the
preparatory course of study for their future evangelical work.
That year (1860) had been chosen by Scotland to celebrate the
tercentenary anniversary of her Reformation. The committee of
management, composed of Dr. Guthrie, Professor Cunningham and Dr. Begg,
invited me to attend their general meetings in Edinburgh. On the 16th of
August, it was my privilege to be presented by those venerable men to
one of the grandest and noblest assemblies which the Church of Christ
has ever seen. After the close of that great council, which I addressed
twice, I was invited, during the next six months, to lecture in Great
Britain, France and Switzerland, and to raise the funds necessary for
our college. It is during that tour that I had the privilege of
addressing, at St. Etienne, the Synod of the Free Protestant Church of
France, lately established through the indomitable energy and ardent
piety of the Rev. Felix Monod.
Those six months’ efforts were crowned with the most complete success,
and more than $15,000 were handed me for our college, by the disciples
of Christ.
But it was the will of God that I should pass through the purifying
fires of the greatest tribulations. On my return from Europe into my
colony, in the beginning of 1861, I found everything in confusion. The
ambition of the young men I had invited to preach in my place, and in
whom I had so imprudently put too much confidence, encouraged by the
very man I had chosen for my representative and my attorney during my
absence, came very near ruining that evangelical work, by sowing the
seeds of division and hatred among our dear converts. Through the
dishonest and false reports of those two men, the money I had collected
and left in England, (in the hands of a gentleman who was bound to send
it at my order) was retained nearly two years, and lost in the failure
of the Gelpeck New York Bank, through which it was sent. The only way we
found to save ourselves from ruin, was to throw ourselves into the hands
of our Christian brothers of Canada.
A committee of the Presbyterian Church, composed of Rev’s. Dr. Kemp, Dr.
Cavan and Mr. Scott, was sent to investigate the cause of our trouble,
and they soon found them.
Dr. Kemp published a critical resume of their investigation, which
clearly showed where the trouble lay. Our integrity and innocence were
publicly acknowledged, and we were solemnly and officially received as
members of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, on the 11th of June, 1863.
We may properly acknowledge here that the Christian devotedness, the
admirable ability and zeal of the late Dr. Kemp in performance of that
work, has secured to him our eternal gratitude.
In 1874, I was again invited to Great Britain by the committee appointed
to prepare the congratulatory address of the English people to the
Emperor of Germany and Bismark, for their noble resistance to the
encroachments of Popery. I addressed the meetings held for that purpose
in Exter Hall, under the Presidency of Lord John Russell, on the 27th of
January, 1874. The next day, several Gospel ministers pressed me to
publish my twenty-five years’ experience of auricular confession, as an
antidote to the criminal and too successful efforts of Dr. Pusey, who
wanted to restore that infamous practice among the Protestants of
England.
After much hesitation and many prayers, I wrote the book entitled: “The
Priest, the Woman and the Confessional,” which God has so much blessed
to the conversion of many, that twenty-nine editions have already been
published. It has been translated into many languages.
I spent the next six months in lecturing on Romanism in the principal
cities of England, Scotland and Ireland.
On my return, pressed by the Canadian Church to leave my colony of
Illinois, for a time at least, to preach in Canada, I went to Montreal,
where, in the short space of four years, we had the unspeakable joy of
seeing seven thousand French Canadian Roman Catholics and emigrants from
France, publicly renounce the errors of Popery, to follow the Gospel of
Christ.
In 1878, exhausted by the previous years of incessant labors, I was
advised, by my physicians, to breathe the bracing air of the Pacific
Ocean. I crossed the Rocky Mountains and spent two months lecturing in
San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, and in Washington Territory, where I
found great numbers of my French countrymen, many of whom received the
Gospel with joy.
Under the auspices and protection of my Orange brethren, I crossed the
Pacific and went to the Antipodes, lecturing two years in Australia,
Tasmania and New Zealand. It would require a large volume to tell the
great mercies of God towards me during that long, perilous, but
interesting voyage. During those two years, I gave 610 public lectures,
and came back to my colony of St. Anne with such perfectly restored
health, that I could say with the Psalmist: “Bless the Lord, O my soul,
thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
But the reader has the right to know something of the dangers through
which it has pleased God to make me pass.
Rome is the same to-day as she was when she burned John Huss and
Wishart, and when she caused 70,000 Protestants to be slaughtered in
France, and 100,000 to be exterminated in Piedmont and Italy.
On the 31st of December, 1869, I forced the Rt. Rev. Bishop Foley, of
Chicago, to swear before the civil court, at Kankakee, that the
following sentence was an exact translation of the doctrine of the
Church of Rome, as taught to-day in all the Roman Catholic seminaries,
colleges and universities, through the “Summa Theologica” of Thomas
Aquinas (vol. 4, p. 90), “Though heretics must not be tolerated because
they deserve it, we must bear with them, till by a second admonition,
they may be brought back to the faith of the church. But those who,
after a second admonition, remain obstinate to their errors, must not
only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered to the secular power
to be exterminated.”
It is on account of this law of the Church of Rome, which is to-day, in
full force, as it was promulgated for the first time, that not less than
thirty public attempts have been made to kill me since my conversion.
The first time I visited Quebec, in the spring of 1859, fifty men were
sent by the Bishop of Quebec (Baillargeon) to force me to swear that I
would never preach the Bible, or to kill me in case of my refusal.
At 4 o’clock, a. m., sticks were raised above my head, a dagger stuck in
my breast, and the cries of the furious mob were ringing in my ears:
“Infamous apostate! Now you are in our hands, you are a dead man, if you
do not swear that you will never preach your accursed Bible.”
Never had I seen such furious men around me. Their eyes were more like
the eyes of tigers than of men. I expected, every moment, to receive the
deadly blow, and I asked my Saviour to come and receive my soul. But the
would-be murderers, with more horrible imprecations cried again:
“Infamous renegade! Swear that you will never preach any more your
accursed Bible, or you are a dead man!”
I raised my eyes and hands towards heaven, and said: “Oh! my God! hear
and bless the last words of thy poor servant: I solemnly swear, that so
long as my tongue can speak, I will preach thy Word, as I find it in the
Holy Bible!”
Then opening my vest and presenting my naked breast, I said:
“Now! Strike!”
But my God was there to protect me: they did not strike. I went through
their ranks into the streets, where I found a carter, who drove me to
Mr. Hall, the mayor of the city, for that day I showed him my bleeding
breast, and said:
“I just escaped, almost miraculously, from the hands of men sworn to
kill me, if I preach again the Gospel of Christ. I am, however,
determined to preach again to-day, at noon, even if I have to die in the
attempt.” I put myself under the protection of the British flag.
Soon after, more than 1,000 British soldiers were around me, with fixed
bayonets. They formed themselves into two lines along the streets,
through which the mayor took me, in his own sleigh, to the lecture room.
I could then deliver my address on “The Bible,” to at least 10,000
people, who were crowded inside and outside the walls of the large
building. After this, I had the joy of distributing between five and six
hundred Bibles to that multitude, who received them as thirsty and
hungry people receive fresh water and pure bread, after many days of
starvation.
I have been stoned 20 times. The principal places in Canada where I was
struck and wounded, and almost miraculously escaped, were: Quebec,
Montreal, Ottawa, Charlotte Town, Halifax, Antigonish, etc. In the last
mentioned, on the 10th of July, 1873, the pastor, the Rev. P.
Goodfellow, standing by me when going out of his church, was also struck
several times by stones which missed me. At last, his head was so badly
cut, that he fell on the ground bathed in blood. I took him up in my
arms, though wounded and bleeding myself. We would surely have been
slaughtered there, had not a noble Scotchman, named Cameron, opened the
door of his house, at the peril of his own life, to give us shelter
against the assassins of the Pope. The mob, furious that we had escaped,
broke the windows and beseiged the house from 10 a. m. till 3 next
morning. Many times, they threatened to set fire to Mr. Cameron’s house,
if he did not deliver me into their hands to be hung. They were
prevented from doing so, only from fear of burning the whole town,
composed in part, of their own dwellings. Several times, they put long
ladders against the walls, with the hope of reaching the upper rooms,
where they could find and kill their victim.
All this was done under the very eyes of five or six priests, who were
only at a distance of a few rods.
At Montreal, in the winter of 1870, one evening, coming out of Cote
Street Church, where I had preached, accompanied by Principal MacVicar,
we fell into a kind of ambuscade, and received a volley of stones which
would have seriously, if not fatally, injured the doctor, had he not
been protected from head to foot by a thick fur cap and overcoat, worn
in the cold days of winter in Canada.
After a lecture given at Paramenta, near Sydney, Australia, I was again
attacked with stones by the Roman Catholics. One struck my left leg with
such force that I thought it was broken, and was lame for several days.
In New South Wales, Australia, I was beaten with whips and sticks, which
left marks upon my shoulders.
At Horsham, in the same Province, on the 1st of April, 1879, the
Romanists took possession of the church where I was speaking, rushed
toward me with daggers and pistols, crying:
“Kill him! Kill him!”
In the tumult, I providentially escaped through a secret door. But I had
to crawl on hands and knees a pretty long distance, in a ditch filled
with mud, not to be seen, and escape death. When I reached the
hospitable house of Mr. Cameron, the windows were broken with stones,
much of the furniture destroyed, and it was a wonder I escaped with my
life.
At Ballarat, in the same province, three times the houses where I
lodged, were attacked and broken. Rev. Mr. Inglis, one of the most
eloquent ministers of the city, was one of the many who were wounded by
my side. The wife of the Rev. Mr. Quick came also nearly being killed
while I was under their hospitable roof.
In the same city, as I was waiting for the train at the station, a well
dressed lady came as near as possible and spat in my face. I was
blinded, and my face covered with filth. She immediately fled, but was
soon brought back by my secretary and a policeman, who said:
“Here is the miserable woman who has just insulted you, what shall we do
with her?”
I was then almost done cleaning my face with my handkerchief, and some
water, brought by some sympathizing friends. I answered:
“Let her go home in peace. She has not done it of her own accord, she
was sent by her confessor, she thinks she has done a good action. When
they spat in our Saviour’s face, he did not punish those who insulted
him. We must follow his example.” And she was set at liberty, to the
great regret of the crowd.
The very next day (21st of April), at Castlemain, I was again fiercely
attacked and wounded on the head, as I came from addressing the people.
One of the ministers, who was standing by me, was seriously wounded and
lost much blood.
At Greelong, I had again a very narrow escape from stones thrown at me
in the streets.
In 1870, while lecturing in Melbourne, the splendid capital of Victoria,
Australia, I received a letter from Tasmania, signed by twelve ministers
of the Gospel, saying:
“We are much in need of you here, for though the Protestants are in the
majority, they leave the administration of the country almost entirely
in the hands of Roman Catholics, who rule us with an iron rod. The
Governor is a Roman Catholic, etc. We wish to have you among us, though
we do not dare to invite you to come. For we know that your life will be
in danger, day and night, while in Tasmania. The Roman Catholics have
sworn to kill you, and we have too many reasons to fear that they will
fulfill their promises. But, though we do not dare ask you to come, we
assure you that there is a great work for you here, and that we will
stand by you with our people. If you fall, you will not fall alone.”
I answered: “Are we not soldiers of Christ, and must we not be ready and
willing to die for him, as he died for us? I will go.”
On the 25th of June, as I was delivering my first lecture in Hobart
Town, the Roman Catholics, with the approbation of their bishop, broke
the door of the hall, and rushed towards me, crying: “Kill him! kill
him!” The mob was only a few feet from me, brandishing their daggers and
pistols, when the Protestants threw themselves between them and me, and
a furious hand-to-hand fight occurred, during which many wounds were
received and given. The soldiers of the Pope were overpowered, but the
Governor had to put the city under martial law for four days, and call
the whole militia to save my life from the assassins drilled by the
priests.
In a dark night, as I was leaving the steamer to take the train, on the
Ottawa River, Canada, twice, the bullets of the murderers whistled at no
more than two or three inches from my ears.
Several times, in Montreal and Halifax, the churches where I was
preaching were attacked and the windows broken by the mobs sent by the
priests, and several of my friends were wounded (two of whom, I believe,
died from the effects of their wounds) whilst defending me.
The 17th of June, 1884, after I had preached, in Quebec, on the text:
“What would I do to have Eternal Life,” a mob of more than 1,500 Roman
Catholics, led by two priests, broke the windows of the church, and
attacked me with stones, with the evident object to kill me. More than
one hundred stones struck me, and I would surely have been killed there,
had I not had, providentially, two heavy overcoats which I put, one
around my head, and the other around my shoulders. Notwithstanding that
protection, I was so much bruised and wounded from head to feet, that I
had to spend the three following weeks on a bed of suffering, between
life and death. A young friend, Zotique Lefebre, who had heroically put
himself between my would-be assassin and me, escaped only after
receiving six bleeding wounds in the face.
The same year, 1884, in the month of November, I was attacked with
stones and struck several times, when preaching and in coming out from
the church in the city of Montreal. Numbers of policemen and other
friends who came to my rescue were wounded, my life was saved only by an
organization of a thousand young men, who, under the name of Protestant
Guard, wrenched me from the hands of the would-be murderers.
When the bishops and priests saw that it was so difficult to put me out
of the way with stones, sticks and daggers, they determined to destroy
my character by calumnies, spread every where, and sworn before civil
tribunals as gospel truths.
During eighteen years, they kept me in the hands of the sheriffs, a
prisoner, under bail, as a criminal. Thirty-two times, my name has been
called before the civil and criminal courts of Kankakee, Joliet,
Chicago, Urbana and Montreal, among the names of the vilest and most
criminal of men.
I have been accused by Grand Vicar Mailloux of having killed a man and
thrown his body into a river to conceal my crime. I have been accused of
having set fire to the church of Bourbonnais and destroyed it. Not less
than seventy-two false witnesses have been brought by the priests of
Rome to support this last accusation.
But thanks be to God, at every time, from the very lips of the perjured
witnesses, we got the proof that they were swearing falsely, at the
instigation of their father confessors. And my innocence was proved by
the very men who had been paid to destroy me. In this last suit, I
thought it was my duty as a Christian and citizen, to have one of those
priests punished for having so cruelly and publicly trampled under his
feet the most sacred laws of society and religion. Without any vengeance
on my part, God knows it, I asked the protection of my country against
those incessant plots. Father Brunet, found guilty of having invented
those calumnies and supported them by false witnesses, was condemned to
pay $2,500 or go to gaol for fourteen years. He preferred the last
punishment, having the promise from his Roman Catholic friends that they
would break the doors of the prison and let him go free to some remote
place. He was incarcerated at Kankakee; but on a dark and stormy night,
six months later, he was rescued, and fled to Montreal (900 miles).
There, he made the Roman Catholics believe that the blessed Virgin Mary,
dressed in a beautiful white robe, had come in person to open, for him,
the gates of the prison.
I do not mention these facts here, to create bad feelings against the
poor blind slaves of the Pope. It is only to show to the world that the
Church of Rome of to-day is absolutely the same as when she reddened
Europe with the blood of millions of martyrs.
My motive in speaking of those murderous attacks is to induce the
readers to help me to bless God who has so mercifully saved me from the
hands of the enemy. More than any living man, I can say with the old
prophet: “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” With Paul, I could
often say: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are
perplexed, but not in despair: persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down,
but not destroyed: always bearing about in the body the dying of the
Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus, might be manifest in our body.”
Those constant persecutions, far from hindering the onward march of the
evangelical movement to which I have consecrated my life, seem to have
given it a new impulse and a fresher life. I have even remarked that the
very day after I had been bruised and wounded, the number of converts
had invariably increased. I will never forget the day, after the
terrible night when more than a thousand Roman Catholics had come to
stone me, and on which I had received a severe wound, more than one
hundred of my countrymen asked me to enroll their names under the banner
of the Gospel and publicly sent their recantation of the errors of Rome
to the bishop. To-day, the Gospel of Christ is advancing with an
irresistible power among the French Canadians from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Oceans. We find numbers of converts in almost every town and
city from New York to San Francisco. Rallied around the banners of
Christ, they form a large army of fearless soldiers of the Cross. Among
those converts, we count now twenty-five priests, and more than fifty
young zealous ministers born in the Church of Rome.
In hundreds of places, the Church of Rome has lost her past prestige,
and the priests are looked upon with indifference, if not contempt, even
by those who have not yet accepted the light.
A very remarkable religious movement has also been lately inaugurated
among the Irish Roman Catholics, under the leadership of Rev’ds.
O’Connor and Quinn, which promises to keep pace with, if not exceed the
progress of the Gospel among the French.
To-day, more than ever, we hear the Good Master’s voice: “Lift up your
eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.”
Oh! may the day soon come when all my countrymen will hear the voice of
the Lamb and come to wash their robes in his blood! Will I see the
blessed hour when the dark night in which Rome keeps my dear Canada will
be exchanged for the bright and saving light of the Gospel?
At all events, I cannot but bless God for what mine eyes have seen and
mine ears have heard of his mercy towards me and my countrymen. From my
infancy he has taken me into his arms and led me most mercifully,
through ways I did not know, from the darkest regions of superstition,
to the blessed regions of light, truth and life!
From the day he granted me to read his divine word on my dear mother’s
knees, to the hour He came to me as “the Gift of God,” He has not let a
single day pass without speaking to me some of His warning and saving
words. I have not always paid sufficient attention to His sweet voice, I
confess it to my shame. My mind was so filled with the glittering
sophisms of Rome, that many times I refused to yield to the still voice
which was almost night and day heard in my soul. But my God was not
repelled by my infidelities, as the reader will find in this book. When
driven away in the morning, He came back in the silent hours of the
night. For more than twenty-five years He forced me to see as a priest,
the abominations which exist inside the walls of the modern Babylon. I
may say, He took me by the lock of mine head, as He did with the prophet
of old and said:
“Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the North and
behold, northward at the gate of the altar, this image of Jealousy in
the entry. He said furthermore unto me: Son of man, seest thou what they
do, even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth
here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the
door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then
said he unto me, son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged
in the wall, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I
went and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable
beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the
walls round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the
ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood
Zaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand;
and a thick cloud of incense went up.
“Then said he unto me: Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of
the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his
imagery? for they say the Lord has forsaken the earth. He said also unto
me: turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than
they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord; and,
behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
“Then said he unto me: Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he
brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the
temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and
twenty men, with their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their
faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
“Then he said unto me: Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light
thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they
commit here? for they have filled the land with violence and have
returned to provoke me into anger; and lo! they put the branch to their
nose. Therefore, will I also deal in fury; mine eyes shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; and they cry in mine ears, with a loud voice,
yet will I not hear them.” (Ezek. 8.)
I can say with John:
“One of the seven angels said unto me: I will show unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the
kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of
the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornications. So he
carried me away into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a
scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and
ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in
her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and
upon her forhead was a name written: ‘Mystery, Babylon, the Great, the
mother of the harlots and abominations of the earth.’ And I saw the
woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration.”
(Rev. 17.)
And after the Lord had shown me all these abominations, he took me out
as the eagle takes his young ones on his wings. He brought me into his
beautiful and beloved Zion and he set my feet on the rock of my
salvation. There, he quenched my thirst with the pure waters which flow
from the fountains of eternal life, and he gave me to eat the true bread
which comes from heaven.
Oh! that I might go all over the world, through this book, and say with
the psalmist: “Come, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he
hath done for my soul.”
Let all the children of God who will read this book lend me their
tongues to praise the Lord. Let them lend me their hearts, to love him.
For, alone, I cannot praise him, I cannot love him as he deserves. When
I look upon the seventy-eight years which have passed over me, my heart
leaps for joy, for I find myself at the end of trials. I have nearly
crossed the desert.
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Transcriber’s Note
The many errors in the text have been corrected where it is reasonably
attributable to the printer or editor, or where the same word appears as
expected elsewhere.
Where the issue can be attributed to the idiosyncrasies of the author
or the era, the text as printed has been retained. Punctuation is
frequently missing at the end of sentences and especially paragraphs,
and has been supplied here. The use of quotation marks is also erratic
at times, and where the voices can be followed, they have been
disambiguated.
The Table of Contents had several errors in pagination, which have been
corrected for accuracy, with no further notice here.
The details of each correction are noted below.
p. xii Appar[a/i]tion of St. Anne Corrected.
p. xiv on [r/t]he Virgin Mary Corrected.
Magnific[i]ent Prairies of the West Removed.
p. xvi is name[d] Vicar General Added.
p. 5 the mo[f/s]t interesting Corrected.
p. 11 beau[ti]ful French hymns Corrected. Line
break error.
p. 14 my parents sent me to an excellent Added.
s[c]hool
p. 17 man[n]ers Added.
nothi[u/n]g Inverted.
the monks of the mon[a]stery Added.
independant _sic._
The infa[i/l]lible pope assures Corrected.
p. 18 [“]Propter Added.
p. 19 tra[deg/ged]y Transposed.
the gentle pres[s]ure of a hand. Added.
p. 20 d[i/e]spair and anguish Corrected.
p. 23 Forgiv[i/e]ness Corrected.
co[u/n]dition Corrected.
bless[s] Removed.
p. 24 implac[i/a]ble Corrected.
p. 25 several thing[s]. Added.
p. 26 in whic[e/h] they came to my memory Corrected.
p. 29 those pol[l]uting questions Added.
p. 30 The misfortune of Mr. B[e]aubien Added.
p. 31 prece[e]ded Removed.
p. 38 two or three min[n/u]tes Inverted.
p. 50 I am a[ /p]pointed to write an address Added.
p. 68 degrad[a]ing Removed.
p. 69 to make _asses of every one of us_![”] Added.
p. 76 is fed with the ph[li/li]osophy of Transposed.
heaven
p. 77 The “Memoirs du [Conte] Valmont,” _Sic._ Comte.
p. 78 the relig[i]on of heathen Rome Added.
p. 81 had taken her form an[y/d] features Corrected.
p. 82 I ha[v]e spurned the idea Added.
He was at the s[r/a]me time Corrected.
Yo[n/u] are right Inverted.
p. 85 But the greater n[n/u]mber of students Inverted.
p. 88 a disguised i[h/n]fidel or a hypocrite Corrected.
our co[t/l]leges and nunneries Corrected.
p. 90 While looking a[s/t] that spectacle Corrected.
p. 93 to be so easi[i/l]y deceived Corrected.
p. 103 Pro[s]testant Removed.
p. 105 such a h[u/i]gh] fabric Corrected.
p. 108 obedien[e/c]e Corrected.
p. 109 relig[i]ous Added.
p. 121 prostitute?[”] Croix denies it, but Added/Removed.
Ligouri affirms it.[”]
[“]Utrum liceat Added.
p. 123 gravit[s/e]r Corrected.
p. 125 recipiumtur _Sic_
recipiuntur?
p. 132 privile[d]ge Removed.
p. 134 beli[e]ve Added.
p. 137 h[e/a]beat Corrected.
p. 139 k[n]ees Added.
p. 141 IMPURIT[IT]IES Removed.
b[v/u]t Corrected.
p. 142 understood by them?[”] Removed.
p. 146 De[l]saulnier Removed.
p. 154 present[ni/in]g Transposed.
p. 157 Christ[ai/ia]nity Transposed.
p. 160 saf[te]/et]y Transposed.
p. 167 I[t/n] plain French Corrected.
f[u/a]ilure Corrected.
p. 172 idola[rt/tr]y Transposed.
p. 175 marguill[i]er Added.
co[n/u] Corrected.
p. 176 marguill[i]er Added.
p. 179 I had not[ not] traveled Removed.
p. 187 a[s/n]swered Corrected.
p. 204 univer[s]al Added.
p. 207 beefstake _Sic._
p. 213 exc[e]ption Added.
p. 214 [“]and I do not know Added.
p. 219 remonst[r]ated Added.
p. 225 demo[m/n]strated Corrected.
p. 229 confess[s]ion Removed.
p. 230 to[ to] me than Removed.
p. 232 th[ie/ei]r Transposed.
p. 234 C[a/o]nstantinople Corrected.
p. 255 or a chalice [t]o celebrate Added.
p. 257 traf[f]ic Added.
p. 261 BON D[EI/IE]U Transposed.
p. 263 breth[er/re]n Transposed.
p. 272 and yo[u] will see Added.
p. 288 coun[c/s]ellor Added.
p. 296 the venerable priest s[s/a]id Corrected.
p. 300 scar[c]ely Added.
p. 306 mil[i]tia Added.
p. 307 h[a]unting Added.
p. 309 men that[ that] I may tell Removed.
p. 310 to visit my penitents in g[oa/ao]l Transposed.
p. 314 said: [“/‘]Your perfectly good behavior Corrected.
p. 323 inte[a/r]est Corrected.
p. 327 convales[c]ence Added.
p. 330 in her power![’]” Added.
p. 338 glasse[e/s] Added.
p. 340 Jno / John Corrected.
p. 346 prohib[l/i]tion Corrected.
p. 349 disappe[a]r Added.
p. 352 re[s]pectful Added.
p. 366 most most monstrous imposture _Sic._
p. 376 ben[e]fits Added.
p. 377 s[n/c]hool Corrected.
p. 386 Kamour[a]ska Added.
p. 387 your country and you[r] God Added.
p. 389 sat[e/c]hel Corrected.
p. 391 you[n]g Added.
p. 392 K[o/a]mouraska Corrected.
p. 394 [S/T]he next Sabbath Corrected.
p. 398 He knew to[o] well Added.
p. 420 irre[r/s]istible Corrected.
p. 434 had given me i[m/n] in my country Corrected.
p. 439 vivent sa[i]ns s’aimer Corrected.
esp[oi/io]nage Transposed
p. 445 a new Sodom[?/!] Corrected.
p. 450 Cha[p]ter XLIII. Added.
p. 451 sever[e/a]l Added.
p. 459 caused me to[ to] choose Removed
Golia[t]h Added.
p. 460 like an adder[”] Added.
p. 463 brandy to[ to] the public squares Removed.
p. 481 I had once pushed[ pushed] him Removed.
of any such [s/c]ases Corrected.
p. 485 is it possible th[r/a]t my church Corrected.
p. 486 my mental agonies when reading[,] the Removed.
Holy Fathers
p. 489 Mat[t]hew, Mark, Luke Added.
over the rest of the church?[’]” Added.
p. 490 fond of wine![’]” Added.
that[ a] new arrow Added.
p. 500 My first tho[n/u]ght was Inverted.
p. 511 that can befall a ma[u/n]. Inverted.
in the world th[e/a]n the waters Corrected.
I will sooner tell the[e], ‘go my Added.
child,’
p. 513 any treasonable plan to ru[i]n our Added.
country.
my good bishop[’]s opinion Added.
p. 516 much better, I think.[”] Added.
let every woman have[ have] her husband Removed.
p. 521 [‘/“]My dear Chiniquy Corrected.
p. 527 tyrant to with[d]raw Added.
p. 532 I can hope to poss[s]ess the confidence Removed.
p. 535 I was not a little su[r]prised Added.
Your unfor[e]seen exit Added.
p. 538 among those unfor[e]seen obstacles Added.
p. 539 our bea[u]tiful prairies. Added.
p. 540 every one of the first emigra[n]ts Added.
to dir[r]ect your attention Removed.
p. 541 It soon became necessa[r]y Added.
p. 543 You[r] malice against Mr. Chiniquy Added.
p. 552 “I will do better,[”] Added.
p. 563 Bishop O’R[a/e]gan Added.
hanging Bishop Va[n]develd Added.
p. 564 more agre[e]able to your views Added.
p. 565 Bishop O’R[a/e]gan Corrected.
p. 567 see such men in you[r] company Added.
p. 572 in her co[/n]ception Corrected.
p. 573 ‘immaculate in her conception.[’]” Added.
p. 575 Bishop O’R[a/e]gan Corrected.
p. 578 Is that correct?[”] Added.
p. 603 Chi[b/c]ago Corrected.
p. 609 I wa[a/n]ted to consult Corrected.
p. 618 to the cath[red/edr] of St. Mary Transposed.
p. 624 It seemed [f/t]hat God had forsaken Corrected.
p. 625 and soon disap[p]eared as a vision Added.
p. 630 EXCOMM[R/U]NICATION Corrected.
axiom had it[s] accomplishment Added.
p. 634 I had left the[ the] most honorable Removed.
position
p. 642 a den of th[ei/ie]ves Transposed.
p. 647 of your iniq[n/u]ity and my innocence Inverted.
p. 650 your unjust sentenc[a/e] Corrected.
p. 651 that frat[r]icidal combat Added.
erection of w[h/i]tch I have Corrected.
the Roman Catholic hiera[r]chy Added.
p. 659 “‘If it be so,’ said Terrien, [“/‘]we Corrected.
cannot
the priest LeBe[i/l\le Corrected.
p. 663 in charging me so little [t/f]or such a Corrected.
service
p. 664 have already fallen at their feet![”] Added.
p. 666 and said, [‘]Philomene what are you here Added.
for?’
[“]‘Oh, wretched girl!’ Added.
p. 669 those Protes[s/t]ant Yankees Corrected.
p. 671 liberties in the United S[i/t]ates Corrected.
p. 684 the second wi[i/l]l nearly Corrected.
p. 686 Protestants were massacre[e]d Removed.
p. 687 again[s]t the flag of Liberty Added.
p. 693 Surely nothi[u/n]g could be more Inverted.
pleasant
p. 695 The una[min/nim]ity with which Transposed.
p. 696 defend ourselves[.] Added.
p. 701 usu[r]per Added.
p. 703 o[r]ther Removed.
p. 704 [“]Till lately Added.
p. 707 Promised Land[?] Added.
p. 708 what is Christian[i]ty if not Added.
[l/i]f God, in his infinite love Added.
p. 712 “[‘]Does it not Added.
p. 717 “‘Oh! No! General, no! no![’] Added.
p. 722 ‘Mrs. Sur[a/r]att>, will you Added.
p. 723 going to St. Aloysin’s Chur[o/c]h Corrected.
p. 724 after their di[o/abolical deed Corrected.
p. 735 The 4th of April, 1865, the priests of _Sic_ 14th
Rome knew
p. 736 But we were absolutely unw[l/i]lling to Corrected.
be
p. 741 I am no[r] more excommunicated Removed.
p. 743 of putt[t/i]ng an end Corrected.
p. 749 such a thing.[”] Added.
p. 753 the same altars.[’] Added.
p. 756 O’Regan i[t/s] here publicly accused Corrected.
p. 758 the recantation of th[a/e] unfortunate that/the?
girl
p. 761 Oc[o]tober 13, 1851. Removed.
p. 763 t[eh/he] following lines from him Transposed.
p. 765 two or three witnesses.[”] Added.
any one.[”] Added.
p. 767 the very men who publicl[l]y trample Removed.
p. 768 the bishops have placed [e/o]n my Corrected.
forehead
I need yo[n/u]r testimony Inverted.
p. 771 ‘My God![’] My God!’ Removed.
p. 777 a good and faithful priest.[’] Added.
Prot[t]estants Removed.
p. 780 'said to Mr. Dunn[./:] Corrected.
p. 781 to gi[y/v]e me a written assurance Corrected.
p. 782 in time for the Chicago train.[”] Added.
p. 784 GI[E/F]T Corrected.
p. 787 by that disguised Protestant?[’] Added.
p. 788 but a poor miserable priest.[”] Removed.
p. 792 what would become of me[?] Added.
p. 795 the pardon—of[ of] my sins Removed.
p. 796 Christ gave to his disc[t/i]ples Corrected.
p. 802 [‘/“]For ye see your calling Corrected.
p. 803 refused to leave[ leave] Rome Removed.
p. 807 do not beli[e]ve in purgatory Added.
their own bread and butter.[’/”] Corrected.
p. 810 [“]Let every one Added.
p. 820 the Presbyterian Church of the U[u]nited Removed.
States.
p. 822 my colony of Illino[i]s Added.
p. 823 the following sentence was [o/a]n exact Corrected.
p. 828 sticks [o/a]nd daggers Corrected.
p. 831 turn the[e] yet again Added.
p. 832 for my soul.[”] Added.
Jord[o/a]n Corrected.