The Romish “Articles of Piety,” named on the next page, were bought at Little’s Ecclesiastical Warehouse, 20, Cranbourne Street, and at the convent of the “Sisters of the Assumption of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.” (London.)
Such instruments of torture are fitter for the worshippers of Baal, than for the worshippers of God; and a person using them upon cattle would lay himself open to a prosecution by the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.” Both the parties who purchased these articles are intimately known to Mr. Robert Steele, the secretary of the Protestant Evangelical Mission and Electoral Union, 5, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C.
Christian reader, it is your duty to testify, on God’s behalf, against the _blasphemy_ and _cruelty_ of Romanism. The _Maker_ and _Preserver_ of man is the loving _Father_, who gave His only begotten Son to die for us, and thus make atonement for our sin.
The second engraving is headed, “Iron Disciplines of the Church.” There I read:
“Saint Liguori, the Doctor of the Romish Church” (and an author strongly recommended to the nuns and monks under Father Ignatius), “commends the use of _Disciplines_ to the ‘True Spouse of Christ,’ thus:
“_Disciplines_, or _Flagellations_, are a species of mortifications strongly recommended by St. Francis of Sales, and universally adopted in religious communities of both sexes.”
Then after a minute description of some fifteen of the instruments of torture, I read these words:
“Were such cruelties perpetrated upon the _heathen_, all our _Christian_ churches would resound with appeals to the sympathy of the people to come to the help of the sufferers. This would be commendable. Why, then, is the same course not adopted on behalf of nuns, who, as Rev. Pierce Connelly says, ‘are not only slaves, but who are, _de facto_, by a Satanic consecration, secret prisoners for life, and may any day be put an end to, or much worse, with less risk of vengeance here in England than in Italy and Spain’?”—EDITOR.
[18] An extern is a boarder, or associate.
[19] See Appendix A, and B, and C, where some Romish literature used is reviewed.—EDITOR.
[20] Father Ignatius has himself described this service in his book entitled “Brother Placidus,” and records, in connection with it, a wonderful “miracle,” which he declares actually occurred in his monastery. It is hard to understand how any person outside a lunatic asylum can believe in such a “miracle”:—